The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-30 00:00:00

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The Loan CILAOLCILLOIL was iiigaged the, whole beforc the Loac Jdevollo charged with touringthe
morning is the investigation of the business of Lord flee of-Magnay end Pickering, I.9pefrouincfacturers
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Portsmouth. His isorthhip eat isr bis private room, of a 4,„atity of paper.
with closed doors, a-practice has •of t".! Mr. Pickering, jun, deposed, that the Prisoner
frequently prevailed. We 'er Webb came into the couotingrhouse in bliiitieu.
court, Cheapside, on Thursday last, and ordered ken
reams of the best writing dewy payer, to be made up
for,blessrs. Getty anti Field, who were in the habit
of dealing largely with the Prosecutors ; a carter, he
r added, would cell for. it. Soon after the carter ar-
rived, anti the paper was delivered without hesita-
tion. The Prisoner Webb, however, had previously
arranged with the carter; that, upon coming to take .
lap the paper, he , U.3S to receive It for Ganyind
i Field, while, instead of taking it to their house, he
was to drive with it to the house.of Robert Searle,
No. 7, Lottg-lav,,where he rues also 4i9 meet him.—
The carter obeyed.his iustructions,
.and,opon reach-
ing the house of Searle, he found, Webb: w, -wchieg,
who assisted in taking. the paper into the house, A
discovery having been made of the aircutnstenee, on
Friday evening a search was madii.,at. the house of
Searle, hi Long-lane, where ware. foetid -trine reams
of the : paper, made up and directed for Alessrs.
Getty and Field. Searle was immediately taken in-
to custody., and his brother and Webb: were secured
lat twelve o'clock on Friday night. From -the do. .
itumeuts found in the house of Searle, and in eke
'.possession. of the Prisoutre, it:appeared that a sys.
tem of depredation to art- eitteot bad been -
going on for a considerable Ilona Receipts to the
amount of 201. for paper ,sold by, Webb were found.
The Prisoners were remanded ~fits st final examine-

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Samuel Solomon:, a youth not exceeding Wasp
yeah of age, was charged by a Mr. .Cohen vita
divers acts of theft. and robbery. • He did net,, on the
'present occasion, specify any particular charge for
the purpose of prosecuting, understandiag dart the
father of the boy was also in Court, ready-le-pre.
fer charges equally serious, and more shookiwg2 tlans
'Any he could name. The father of the, Primmer,
who is a housekeeper residing in •Wkiteebe,pelf-thea
made. his. appearance. He stated, that for fia' con-
siderable time past, his son had exhibited marks tof
the most shocking depravity ; he had- pursued a •
system of robbery and plunder in the house siminely
to be credited, and that ha ilmd- stain •reasen to
suspect he was deeply coaneeled gees ot-
thieves.
The LoaD.M Alta R ordered kirk&
a few days, and to be kept confined atittit-**."

They . to the _
but o, ring. that vvaa in hip ruder',
they knocked at the , )r, and, undo! 'po-
tence of enquiring ahout a cottage that was to let,
succeeded In getting into the garden Colonel
Made it precipitate retreat inte fife house;, aqd the
bffieets would have followed him, but Miss Dicken.
Son, seizing a musket with a bayonet fixed, Which
!ay Qn the ground, put herself in a posture of offence,
and,. placing herself between the house and the
Colonel's pursuers, forbad their approach.. The Pro-
secutors' effidavit slated, that she pushed tbibayonet
at them—pierced one of them quite. through the
side of his waistcoat, and 'exclaimed, "
seize yon, I will run it into you." It added, that
shy d-r-d the Constitution, the Government, And
all *tin, and swore Colonel 'Gordon iihould never
Oly the penalty.; that not satisfied with this outrage-
esti proceeding, she desired to see the warrant, and
upon ite, ing,sboTa her, she snatched it out of the
offices's, tore it, add. trainpled it tinder.her feet.
'The ofoOrs at, length overpowered her, and forced
their way into the house by taking oat the kitchen
sash-wirsdow, but they found the Colonel had scaled
the ropfoknd made Lid escape through a neighbouring
cottage. The account Miss Dickenson gave was very
different : she said she was in the garden with the
Colonel, who weroupusing himself with gardening ;
he. had brought with him i% musket, intending •to
shoot some.cats who preyed upon his flowers.
When the officers obtained admittance,. she .knew
not who or what.they were; but she obs:!rved the
Colonel instantly vanish. She speceeded in getting
into the house before the officers. She said she
offered no obstruction to the officers ; on the con-
tras'', she called to her maid-servaut to open the
door, and allow thent to,search the house. They,
however, would not wait, but brdke open the win-
dow. She. said their conduct bad been rude in the
extreme. If it was considered that in what she had
done, sha had been. guilty of any offence, she re-
gretted its and threw herself upon the mercy of the
Court.:

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gow-sTnEsr.—On Saturday morning, thiedlinrk,
;were brought to the Office by Bittkojee paity..4o
patrole, charged with haring a vatietiof stolen
perty found in. their possession.• Wers'
apprehended on Friday the.:pey:ote.k.,
.Kingalend-road, in.acart, •in which wail a-tope:oC'
'oracle, of property, which had been ;tiger% -frore
different houses where they huJ been for" the purpose.
of selling fire-wood, and had pilfered the different
articles: In the evening they underwent another
examination, when enquiries having been made in
the course of the day, the owners of the stolen pro-
. .perly and payouts Qf the boy's attended, when it ap-
pearrne:that the boy who was the ringleader, who
actually stole the property, had escaped, apd..tlust
.the Prisoners had never been coueerned in tig•si-
milar trarisaction,
Mr. Boom:, at the rope-rt.:4 the parties, .dis-
charged tberri, let .amt wittiest e,..eoitabje admo-
nition.

QUEVINSQUARE.-61 gatarday,- Whiting and his
wife, who kept a chandler's shop in Orchard-street,
Westminster, were brought up under the .10110w/11g
charge
It appeared that they hid* dtioilitonsin'llodger,
who owed about 18s. for rent, arfi wis then enthle
to pay it ; but being stied at the Ceijirttiriteilaestri,
an execution was obtained against ber;. The poor
woman was taken, pith ell her -privet"; •amongst
which was found a duplicate of a' which after-
wards turned out to belong to the werkbinee. She
was questioned how she came by it, when she said
that Whiting, her landloidt
,Was in the habit of lit t'
ing such things.
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Two, Police Officers heard, of the circumstance,
and on Friday evening went with a search warrant
Lto Whiting's house, where they were only a few mi.-
! flutes before one of the nurses belonging to the chit- .
dren's ward in the .workhouse Of St. Margaret's;
I Westminster, came in to offer tome children's frocks
for sale. The Officers then- took kW; with
',Whitings, into custody ;, they'
the house, aild found propeety to a conslderithle.
~amount, chiefly woolen's wearing apparel
.biloftging
to the workhouse.
, * The 'Magistrate expressed its, 9 oLbh irony at this
mpsle of, robliing the poor., qmd _cpmsnitted. all the
,partite; to take their trial at the ensuing Sessions. • .
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W. Lloyd, one of the stampers in the Starnp.Of-
fice, stated that he was on the spot at the time; that
the officers behaved with great impropriety ; and.
that they actually took• him into custody, supposing
him to beColonel Gordon, and kept him prisouer till
he was. identified.

Mr. SCARLETT trusted the Court would not take
the account given by the o 1 cers. to be correct. It
aright 'be supposed that a woman, when offended,
would avail herself of her tongue; it was a. weapon
she generally knew well how to manage ; but that
she should charge a bayonet against three Sheriff's
'Officers was too incredible a story for a Court of
Justice. Women whose feelings were wounded,
were 'differently affected. Some, under the same
circumstances as Miss Dickenson, would have faint-
ed away ; others would have screamed. It might-
be true, that she expressed her agitation by abusing
the officers, and treading upon •their warrant. It
was to be considered that she was in her own house,
and the officers had exceeded their authority. f
addition to that, it was to be taken into the account,
that, although the Colonel had escaped for that time,
he had since been arrested, and was now expiating
his offence in prison. For these reasons, he trusted
the judgment would be lenient.
Sir SIMON LE 131.,t5c read the Lady a suitable
lecture on the impropriety of her conduct. lie :ob-
''serred itgenerally turned out that tkose who railed
at the Government and the Laws, were per;ons who
forfeited their right to the protection of the one and
had violated the other. Taking every thing into
cimsideration, the Court ordered and adjudged' that
she should be confined in 'the 'custody of the Mar.:
shat of the Marshalsea for six weeks, and be then
'di_,rg, ed •
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with closed doors, a•practice which has •of bite Soil
frequently prevailed. We wonder It should eon,'
have been adopted by a person •of his Lordsbielv,
wisdom.. lifystaryandeecrocy, orergive rise to 90.4
joctiires Juana* atiorW preiod . AQ,IOI pbrilits
whose transactions die srlgadsiiit, •i*ovr,: than!
any effect which could ho.prodawast hi . tallcloBollll
and invostiptiou of chant in tbcface o the pribliC,
Besides this, it is a pl./Wife moat ungracious .in a 1
Briton's eye--it is of to. unconstitatiwcal *llia-
racter not to elicit expresoiona of dboipPriAllitione i
with resod to a department:if the .o.4wdoiilWatinn I
of justice, which-we are .. a,
.• 00: 11Vest. five as
puma sou** *deny bkjhisk ~• , •;11. . . .
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TILE KING V. 111111; . N.
Mr. Aradaitsy-Gtili „OJOS ; or, the judg-
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ment of the Court against! Atlr - r tiichenson,
' for obstriyitliag three Sh%
~. 4 - • 0. `and prevent-
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,mg their arresting a gen -..;r4 -.,1 • ' '
name- of John
! Gordon blocloir, forgli:
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~ ,:•;,e`,-,,' tips army—
j the same ,person whoa_ ' ! ;.• :•"itess, brought I
'an action is this Co r
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Louis XVIEL The ~; • • ..ertered judgment 1
Ito pass against her, hy . I. -'. I. appeared from
1 the indictreent,. and the • • ilia of the Prosecutors,
1, thit Colonel Gordon, Or "ono' aeons he had com- j
1 =hod against the ate, became amenable to the
Commissioners. in theiniii of 2001. For this penal-
ty a warrant was. given Thos. George, a Sheriffs;
' Officer 9 whrir bavinglirocitiod the luistance of Alex.
Ball and fronds Wittig, proceeded to the house 1
of Mks Dickenson, with *horn Col. Gordon lived.—.i
They were unable to obtain admission to the house, I
but observing. that the Colonel was in his garden, i
they knocked at the garden door and, undo! poi- I