The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-31 00:00:00

StATt:SMAN,

charged for carriages shilling per heed Womb Writ.
.Id. for waraboata-room, and $d for perteries;--
With regard to the charge far carriage. oxtortioniste
so it was. he bad; be feared, no weedy before" the
Magistrate. Indeed, be bad been told 0 the Coach,
office, that they bad a right to charge What they
pleased for carriage. By the Porterage Act. boweVer.
discharge allowed for any distaste not exceeding a
mile was 13d., and though there meld be no epteption*
that the dietaries from the inn to 'Cliange-alley *as
less than a mile, the sum of Bd. bad bait demented
' and received. . I
The defendant eXtered into no . spleikation et app
logy. but allowed that there *as in overcharge In the
porterage. . ..
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Mr. Aldermen i*.
rxweitaxs •
oise, ttakilitat It had now
become so universally the practice to eovercharges
of this description. be should tilWatfr-hilet the fall
penalty 'allowed by the act, red therilitAndearoar, at
!else, to give some cheek to these floss ; and he
-cordingly convicted the defandaat .. s full penalty
'96. sad Ss. vista. 1 •
iedesdast received the convistion with much
. free; aid immediately paid the pa-
seity, the w . f Which, by the dales of-hlr. Bond,
was directed' 'paid to the poor of Os parish la
'which the officio* was committed.
••• A precisely similar case with respect to an
overcharge in the porterage of game, from this same
inn. occurred at the Measles-house on Wednesday,
when the defendant was convicted in tilt fill penalty
Sad costs. The Magistrates in the city., as we have
mentioned more than once before, are deeiress of lend-
lag every assistance in their power to prevent th,se
impositions. It will be the fault of liberalities there-
fore, if they are longer submitted to.
Bow STILICZT.—Newry Daley, a youth onIT 13 years
of age, was yesterday brought up, charged with steeling
18 sovereigns, the property of Harriet Hatton.
The father of the prisoner, Is a painter and was employed
la the house of Mr. Stevens, an auctioneer in Lamb's Con.
dolt Street, with whom Harriet Hatton lived as servant.
The prisoner was also occasionally about the house as
tasting his father. The prosecutnx on going to her
room on Monday last, found that her box had been bro.
ism open and her savings, consisting of 18 sovereigns,
stolen. Information was given at this office, and Sadler,
one of the conductors of patrol, suspected the prisoner,
and making enquiry, discovered that be bad purchased
two pair of pistols at the ibop of a Mr. Jones, a general
salesman, in Broad Ser.*, St. Odes's, for 41., and two
watches from is watchmaker, unwed Maoris, in Moore
*reel, Seven Dias; WA. 2s. both of which purchases
were paid for in soy es. Sadler took the bay Into
custody,- and the young • linquent, on being questtooed
confessed that hi bed st n the sum mentioned from
the beret the•pwaeoutdit. When asked what he had
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reprimanded by the ..agisi... -;
he said, in his defence, that the prisoner cams to Lis
shop with another boy, and said his nutter, who lived
just by, had taken a tancy to a particular wet* that
fiting in hie window, but, having broken Ilia i•g, be
could not come for it himself, end' therefore bad sent
for it, that he (his muter) might examine it. He left.
C., the price of the watch., and returned a;sin to say
that his master approved of and would peep it. The
other boy bought a watch for 11.25., which he said he
bad got in Christmas boxes. Barnet, the Jew, positively
denied the transaction spoken of by the boy.
The prisoner was remanded.
Ma RLIOROUGH STRZIT.—• Yesterday, Emma Douseli
was brought before the MagistrAte, charged with
having robbed her master's house •of sheets, Dean'
terrines, towelling, /cc.
Mr. M'C■ltagan, landlord of the Cock Tavtvii, Brook •
Street, Hampstead Road, stated, that the prisoner came
into his service about three weeks age, land during tha
period he found that several articles of his property bad
imperceptibly vanished. He very strongly suspected the
prisoner, and had her taken into custody, but nothing
was found on her to confirm his suspicions. He then
promised her perfect forgiveness, and not to prosecute
her if she would acknowledge having taken the things,
and bow she had disposed of them. This she accordingly
did. She told where she had pledged them, and that she
had destroyed the duplicates.

Several pawnbrokers attended and produced the pro-
perty pledged by the prisoner. As they refused to give
it ap to Mr. Al•Callsgau, unless be prosecuted, he tune
wished to proceed.
Mr. Dvea said. as he had made so very irspropeta
promise to the girl, and tbereby induced her
to confess her guilt, lie had completely put a stop to
the case.

Mr. M•Callagao said, when he made the promise he
was not aware of the prisoner's real charaCter, which he
had since found was a most abandoned omit., She having
robbed every house she hid heed in, and !soaped in ft
crow bar, and aided by another person, broke open the
door ; forced the old lady into the street at that owe-
useable hour, and took forcible possession of the house,
which he had kept ever since.
The statement of the Learned Counsel was fully
proved by Mrs. Hance and other witnesses.
Mr. ALIAS', for Mr. Harvey, stated that Mrs. Bunce
had laid claim to the house as her property, and she
hail lived there for two years without paying his client
any rent.
The Jury found the defendant guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to pay a fine of 2111. with leave to speak to the
prosecutrix, and to enter into his own recogoixances to
keep the peace towards Mrs. Hance.

VORSHIPSTRIET.-••FURIOUSLY DRUMM—The driver
of one of the Roitnenton stages, No. 4773, appeared to
a summons before Satovitt Ttvvroau, Esq., for furiously
driving, on Thursday, the 23J of January instant.
Mr. Patterson, a gentleman of great respectability; ap-
peared against the coachman, and stateitAnot the tirisr
of Redford's coach and the defendant,iffsie
Their horses were in fall gallop, in order Wipes, each
other, and to the best of his supposition they, were
ing at least at the rate of eighteen miles an heat. :••Ft
ivas really horrible to see them, and he thought it a defe
to the public to prosecute both the coachmen for this
offence. The defendant kept the right side of the way
and did not cress, like the other driver, .

Mr. Tviveunn convicted loins in the mitigated penalty
If 50s. and costs.

Mr Patterson being entitled to a moiety of the penalty
desired it might be given to the Mendicity Society, and
it was given accordingly.
The driver of the other coach did not appear, and
another summons was We'd against hiss for liladay
Drat.

Miring HALL. —Mies day, a common informw, mimed
Giorfe Wise, was brought before L. B. Mug's. Esq.,
fir final examination, charged with having obtained
dire@ pounds under false pretences from a Mr Lowndes.
a coal-dealer. It appeared from the evidence, that on
Friday lama lboshel useasmie was seised and taken from
alie cart of the complainant, under the pretence that it
, was an imperfect one. Tbe following day the prisoner.
accompanied by another nian, called at Mr. Jaowndes's
and told him that an information had been
•kidged, and summons issued against him by order of
the magistrates of Marylabonne•office, for having in his
Reiser,ston an illegal coal measure : the prisoner said
that in the event of a conviction, lie (the complainant)
would be fined a penalty of 20/. Wise 's companion then
Meted that, notwithstanding these proceedings, the mat-
ter solgbi yet be arranged between them, without going
before the Magistrate*, if 111/. should be given between
him and his partner. Lowndes expressed bis inability
y ,se much, but at length this stain demanded was
reduced to St, which he agreed to pay the next day, and
in the interim the complainant mentioned the di cuts-
stakees to a friend, who advised him how to proceed,
and accompanied bins to the place of meeting. The gri•
soner and his friend we, e punctual. and three sovereigns,
two of which had been previously marked, were :witted
over to him by the .00esploinant who expressed a wish
to me the information that had been issued against hi.
The prisoner immediately dress, forth two papers from
his pocloist, and tearing them to pieces, said—" Now,
Mr. Legend's, pongee I have cancelled both the inform•
alio@ and the munitions. Ile was proceeding to walk
of with tint three sovereigns in his pocket when the
complainant's friend. who had witnessed the transaction,
seised him by the collar, anti in the struggle to get
away his companion escaped. The threes sovereigns
were found on the prisoner and identified by the come
plaioant.

Boekeridge, au atm of Marylabooneiiolfice, proved
that no Information hail bsso issued at that °dice against
Mr. Lowodes,

Mr. ALLart observed. that a clear cue of obtaining
money tinder false pretence, had bees proved against
the prisoner. asd abordiagly held him to ball for the

SALI or Mal. DONATTY'S EFFECTS.—On Wednesday.
the leasehold property of this unfortunate person war
said at the Auction Mart, by the order of George Mettle,
Esq. as administtator on'bkialf of the Crown. On this
occasion were very numerous assemblage, composed of
those who were induced from curiosity to be presentond
others who conceived ii.je proper imp ,rtunity for ad-
vantageous speculation. At the commencement some
interesting discussion took place as to the validity of the
title of Government, in the event of an heir to the es•
late preferring a claim; but these objections were over-
ruled by the auctioneer. Mr. Orchard, who detailed the
illegitimacy of the ill fated woman. the .nature abet
connection with the late Mr. Dontlty, and tlje purchase
of the reversion from the relatives named in his will,
•• explanalen had the effect of substantiating it,snd
ing all attempts of demander' the value; the es.
insisted of three- hum, Il'he first, a meesnage in
:fp street, Strand, occupied as workshops by Mr.
, the caller, tenant at will, at 351. jierannutn.itild
ter:a of 53 years,froin Midsummer last, at a groans!
of ;I 18s ; thii product:4llW. they next, a hoour
4 on an eneapired lease of 31 years. in Great Sur
greet, Black ,Ftiore Road. by Estwtrd Conduit,
. at • tekt47 vetrt-PRoot-t*Wtlitt donated had a
of 63 years from Michaelmas ?Zit,' • subject tri a
j rent of twelve guineas, obtained 69t$. the third,
..use held at a peppercorn rent. fOr S9O years, front
August next. occupied by Mr. Cowley. \o. 1;0, Drury
Lade; who holds a lease of 33 years, from Michaelmita
last. at 50 guineas, was purchased er 5001. These are
mere considerable stone than have lately been realized
brain hammer for similar concerns. The imosehold
Wafture was recently sold on the premises were shr re-
eldld, and .which, with the Froduce this day, 5001.
placed in the heng Annuities, received for her valuable
,pictures, by Moriand, thi interest and fetus dee; proves
i4bee fortune not to have exceed 30001. which has been
magnified by various reports to nearly five times that
mount.

In the afternoon of Saturday last, the inhabitants of this
city(Csaterbury) near the Abbots' Mill, King-street, end
the adjacent streets, were greatly alarmed by a report, ac-
companied with a great shock, which at first was supposed
to be the echo of the blowing up of a powder-mill, the effect
of which hue been experienced; the cause of the alarm was
fora long time unknovin, but at length It was ascertained
that the men who are employed by the proprietors of the gas
works, had incautiously placed a kettle of lighted coke (used
at this season of the year for the purpose of thawing the
pipes, and thereby ceasing a 'greater flow of gas to the
Writer), near the foul air receiver, and the plug being
drawn, a quantity of hydrogen escaped, which communicated
with the lighted coke, and was the effect of the combustion
of the gas, and the severity of the @hock. The windows of
the Abbots' Mill suffered materially, although upwards of
40 rods from the spot, es well as the lamp which is placed
sear the bridge. We have learned so other accident result-
ing from it, except the alarm it created.--(ffentisA Chron.)
. .

On Wednesday evening a young lady shout 21 years
of age, 'laughter of a deceased Naval Officer residing
With her mother in the vicinity of the King's road,
Chelsea, attempted to pat a period to her existence,
by swallowing a considerable portion of deleterious
drug.•• Her mother found her in a most distressing
state,, from the effects of the poison, and sent ionised'.
ately for medical assistance. A great quantity of the
poison was removed from the stomach, and although
the unfortunate patient is still in a very weak state, she
is in a fair way pf recovery. every endeavour was used
to discover the cause of the unhappy young lady's dread-
ful intention, and at length a number of letters were
found, proving that a Correspondence of an affectionate
kind had passed between her and a young man ; one
letter was found addressed to her cruel seducer, in
which she• reproached him for deceiving bet by his
flattering promises. after accomplishing her ►uin. This
wax succeeded by the most marked coldness on his part.
She concludes her letter by declaring .that death is far
preferable to being Pn outcast from societ.. This letter
was in the most affecting though reproachful
manner. It is understood the young lady possesses
considerable literary talent, and is the authoress of
I works under a feigned name.
As two brothers were working in a chalk pit toge-
ther, at Ramsdell, near Basingstoke, one of them went
on the top of the pit for the purpose of removing the
earth, that it might not mingle with the chalk when it
should fell in. In this employment he continued for
isonie time, and knew nut that his brother, who hail re-
Mained below, was under the chalk wall,which had been
•considerably undermined. Loosened by the frost, the
•elsatkupoo which he was employed gave way. and be
fell with it to the bottom of the pit ! This person was
not nine t hurt by the fall; bat, on recovering from the
shock lie looked round, but in vain, for his brother.--
He, alas! was buried beneath the mass of chalk which
had fslleo. It was a considerable time before the body
could be discovered. and wises it was diggeil out, a most
shocking spectacle was presented to the beholders.--
The bowels of the unfortunate man were literally crush.
eil out, mad every part of 141 frame was dreadfully man-
, ea. The verdict of the Jury was Accidental Death.—
(Sowthainptos Chrom.)

1101tTPIENN EXPEDITION.
A paragraph IseSlag appeared its oar Chronicle of Than,
day last, relating to the NOrthern Discovery Ships, Ishteit
expressed anxious' Metes for their safety and ultimate m-
esas, and sirsivooleg various plans towards ascertaining
their progresses poOltion, end affording them every assist,
ante i.. case it should be found Tapia-its. it it necessary to
state, that one probability oY their success in obtaining a
passage through some inlet vs the S. W. of Hudson's has,
towards the Polar See, is front their not having been Imard
of by any of the fishers from that part of the world. Ana
ther probability is, If the Archipelago of islands continues
from Marble Island towards Behrialr's Straits, so as to
have kept back the pressure or the Polar ice towards the.
south upon the northern parts of America, it may have af-
forded a sailing passage. Au sN danee'tralliei is narrowly'
circumscribed, and if Wends. shook. Or .cireamstasees kept
them more off lind, there was but little chance of Captain
Franklin hearing of them ; yet. at all the potrAilil had vi •
sited, or from whatever be amid learn, Awes wee at the
time he was on the coast, a clear open sea. Again, if they.
could not succeed in the first year in ffinitng a passage to,
the Pacific, they naturally would (rather than be discou-
raged by any apparently temporary Npedimenr; pass ano-
ther frozen winter where they wdre thus Stopped': Their
vessels are constructed upon the strongest
ing been express'y built for, and having carried each an IS-
inch morta► at the battle of A'giers ; they a: r. In addition,
strengthened by having about six feet of solid timber,
strongly bolted ea their bows, which are well fended with
the holt wrought iron; and an outward ciefeate all round
their sides, above end below their water mark, of a line of
strong plonks, a foot thick. to reskt tie concussion cid
pressure of the ice. Besides their original complement of
every possible necessary, the Nautilus transport, which sc.
compenied them as far as the lee. at the entrancetif Hudson's
Straits, there delivered to them above 20 additional chat••
drens of coals, with numerous bullocks. sheep, and hogs._
At the frozen season, the deer and other animals come in
great quantities towards the sea ; and when the' water is
open, there are the finest ash all along the Coasts ; these op-
portunities of gaining fresh supplier, inust he of the great.
est advantage to their health. We make these statements
allay those aliprebensions which the want of intelligence
from the expedition must naturally create.—(Soeivareprao
County Clsromicle.)

dosewilVshe rest of the-mosey, he said be pnrchased which t
some new clothes at the shop of one Bann. a Jew io "06
Monmouth Street, and the Jew seeing some sovereign' tote eat
in his Laud, invited him into a back parlour, prevail-4
upon him to send for some ruin, and finally toasted him %no,
to leave the remainder of his money` with him.(liarne,t)
for safety. He stated also, that II to for ato
noireitmy of L'N rent of
about his own•age, was with MM.,
.be purchased rented
`thy pistols and witches. rey St,
Mr. Jonee thilatikatuttle- for zefi.st
by the Makiiitrate; who stronily—ce need to uct tem of
in selling pistols to JAch a bey as the prisoner, Siithout yearly
making any inquiry. lie regretted that lte had no a house
power to inflict some punishment in such a ease. Mr. August
Munroe, was also reprimanded by the Magistrate; but Lai,
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