The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-06 00:00:00

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7111 r. JAM 1;.91A YkRB, called io, and exaaildcdo
Iva aift *Maithal of the Court of ExcheAttori
ors.

• -• De Yoe execute the duties of that office in per
psis? No, entirely by-knell' • '
You have no ditties whatever 'to perform half,
what are• discharged by de*sty ? I perfurM ao.
duties. If .1 had to take a person into custody tort
• very • Large sum of Money, I might choose, to!
prevent accident, to dis it myself.
you might do it'hy deputy ? Yes.
. how many years hare you been in the office?
Elver since the year 1781. '
. During that time have you ever performed any
duties in person ? I have not, except attending
once, and walking before Mr. Pitt, as Chancellor
of the Exchequer.

!TNEI STAI.TarbfAN.

11041 GS.

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MANSION Houss.—Yesterday, a young welisan,
,named Largess, was committed:for trial, ort 101)0
cion of robbing her mistress, a Mrs. Benjamin, of,
41Ylikess-plaae, or lea notes.
Guiumtatr„—LYeale'rilay, a .lefetts, who keeps,
tg1414-alicip hi PAticosit.lanc, was examined berm-
'.u,A Sitting' Alderman, on a challis of buying a
ciliantity of glass, in the form of a lens, from per.
setts who had stolen It from Mesta. Pellet and
Given, of St. Paul's Chirch.yard. The Defendant
said she could not tell frOm whom she .had received
it, and that she had given a fair price for it.
The Complainants were ready to swear to part of
the property, and the Defendant gave it up. She
was then discharged, with a caution not to buy any
goods in future of persons she did net 'know.
Woasin INSTR. err.—Yestertlay, John Norris un-
derwent examination, charged with stealing several
baskets of peaches from the stand of Mr. Adam
Paul, Market Gardener, in Spitalfields Market,
which fact being sworn to by several witnesses,
who witnessed .the robbery, and caused the Prisoner
to be apprehended, he was fully committed to New-
gate fiir trial.
UNION 11Ar.r..--John Kemble was brought be.
fore the Sitting Magistrate; by one of the night
Constable's, on suspicion of having in his possession
a Westphalia ham, which was stolen. It appeared
that the Prisoner wai stopped by the constable near
the water side, on Thursday night, between ten and
eleven o'clock, with a sack across his shoulder,
which contained the ham in question; when asked
what the sack contained, he said chips, meaning
nothing ; the constable's sense of feeling, how-
noir, convincing.hiin this was not a correct state.
metit, he insisted ow examining the sack, upon
.which the Prisoner throw it down, and endeavoured
to run off, but was prevented. Upon the ham be-
im produced, the Prisoner' told the Magistrate it
:was given him by a friend, belonging to the ship
Antelope, who knew he was fond of a relish. On
being desired by the'Magistiete to send for the per.
son who gave it him, he said, that was impossible,
as the ship sailed immediately after he came on shore.
This account not satisfying the Magistrate, ha fined
him 40.. under the Rim-boat Act, which not being
prepared to pay, he was committed to the House of
Correction for one month.

NAVAL COURTI.MARTIA L.—On Wednesday last,
two Courts alartial,were held on board the Salvador
del Aland°, in flamoaze, for the trials of two of the
warrant officers of the Talbott Capt. the lion. A.
Jones.—Menihers of the Court, Rear-Admiral Sir
T. Williams ; Captains Linzee,. Sir Home Popham,
Sir J. Wood,' bliKenzie,* Wolfe, Broke, Dick,
Warren, Nash„ illteman, and King, 'Mr. East.
lake, jun. Jndge.Adioeste.--Ar. William Skinner,
the carpenter, was• first triad, an`n-cbarges of ab.
senting himself without leave for 48 hours, drum.
kermess, and of having defrauded a seamlsn of his
money. Captain Jones (thd Prosecutor) having
closed the evidence in support of the two first
charges, 'acquainted the Court that the witness he
hactintended to call' on the 'SJ, bad absconded, in
consequence of whldOir kfautd offer no evidence
upon it. The cluisigi bf dra mess alone was
adjudged to be In paep'red; rtoilitid the Priioner
sentence() to be severely reprimanded.—Mr. jetties
Weir, the gun rter.i'lwin deb' "tri4 afoi basin* :be.
hayed with disrespect tat his superiey
.01fiCero.ivid
for disobedience 'a 'orders. The were
proved, and My. .Weir sentenced,: sto be
and mulct of three toofitini..!,gay. The PO.
soners called on Captain Jones (Fax 41ntracterst- but
offered nothing in defence.

A large quantity of Colonel CONCRETE'S shell
'rockets, to be used against troops in the field, has.
just been sent to the army in Portugal.
I/Ataxia, ROBENT.—Friday. morning, abotit four
j o'clock, a fire was discovered at a house near Air_
'street, Piccadilly, which was under repair, and
'which was supposed to be wilfully done by some
,persons unknown. ‘Vhen the fire had 'kindled,
tome robbers gave the alarm, which put the neigh.
botirs into great consternation ; they then broke,
open the enjoining house, which is occupied by Mr.
Newman, jeweller, and forced the panne! of the
shop door, and stele'gold sesils,and diamond rings to
the amount of upwards of 1501. while Mr. New.
Man and family were putting on their clothes to
escape font the devouring element. It is supposed.,'
from the vast quantity or wood and shavings about,
the premises, that the robbers set fire to the shop.
Fhere has been a gang'Of these desperate villains
lurking about the prentiseslor a month past.—We
understand the watchman that guards the house is
taken pp on. suspicion of being concerned, as an
accomplice in Om robbery.
On Wednesday a fine girl, three years old, laugh-
ter i.f Mrs. flossy, in Leicester-street, Swallow-
'Milt, fell out of the two pair of stairs window,
and was spiked on the railing : she was conveyed to
the hospital, where she died the next 'day..
A battle was fOught oh the furnpike-road leading
to Coliihrook, on Thursday,. between A*o' stout
men,' John Ilayward,, lkiiggotier, 'and Phi4p
Conlehni•tt, a coachtiett,•in consequence of a pub-
lic-honse quarrel. After fighting forty-five !Mantel,
Coultitdril received a blow on the side of the head,
above the temple, which brought hiqk to the ground,
and he- never rose again. The iteceased was ap.
parently winning the battle when the accident hap.
pealed.
Wednesday, a man of ite. name of Mullet's, a
journeyman barber, in Great Earl-street, Seven.
dials, cot his throat in a dreadful manner; but stir.
gical asiistance being at hand, the wound was sewed
up, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. lie
had lately collected trifling sums of money from the
trade, which he had pot to improper uses, and the
dread sof being detected is supposed to have operated.,j
'so stronsly ou his mind as to have dean him So the
rash' et.
A few nights since a soldier of tlio74th regiment,
:oa leave of absence at Liverpool, eats shot in the
calf of The kg`, while standing nearithe dour of his
residence, in. Gilbert-street. The iehol broke the
two hones; he was forthwith taken to the infir-j
many, where he suffered amputation. Nothing',
had beet discovered as to the cause of the authors j
of such en airoctpui attempt.