The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-20 00:00:00

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THE StATESMAN.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
HICKS'S HALL.
Tuesday, September 19.
Edward flush was convicted of an assault
'upon Themes Fowler., There was nothing lute.
resting in the case, and the Court sentenced him to
two mouths imprisonment itethe House of Correc-
lige.
Edward Dearlove was indicted for an 'assault
aeon en unfortunate Paphian nymph, named
Jane route.
The prosecutris stated, that about 11 o'clock
at night on Good Friday last, as she was stand-
ing'at the deferident's door, he came oat of his
Ileum, and, without any precious provocation,
knocked her down off the steps with a violent
blow, by which the back part of her head was
dreadfully lacerated:
The defendant, in reply to this charge, attempt.
aid to throw odium upon the character of the un-
fortunate prosecutrix, and stated that the injury
site received originated in accident ; for having
been very riotous at his door, he got out of bed
file Hie purpose of endeavouring to get her into
OM house ; but when he laid hold. of her arm with
rtbit intention, she slipped from his bold, and fell
',upon the ground.
' The prosecutrix denied the troth of this state'.
merit; and the defendant having no witnesses to
sustain his defence, the Jury found him. Guilty ;
when the Court sentenced him to pay a Inc of 201.
James Deadman, a young man of very respect.
able appearance, was indicted for a most brutal
assault upon Mr. John Rudd, his step-father.
It appeared in .evidence that the prosecutor,
who had been a respectable butcher at Fulham,
married the mother of the defendant, whose fur.
mer husband was a market-gardener, residing in
the same neighbourhood. This union seemed to
displease the children of the first marriage, who-
were seven in number, and they touk every op.
portunity of rendering themselves obnoxious and
troublesome to their mother and stepfather. Rw
pouted instances of undutiful behaviour on their
parts had occurred antecedent to the transaction iu
question. On the Bth of December last the pro-
secutur had been at his own dwelling, where he
carried on his business, when he was sent for to
the house inhabited by his wife, where ho found
the defendant and two of his brothers abusing
their mother in the most disgraceful manner.—
Their undutiful conduct was not evinced merely in
the most opprobious language, but as soon as the
prosecutor entered, thu defendant seized hold of
his mother, with the intention of throwing her
down, and would have so treated her, bad nut the
prosecutor rescued her from his hold. The defend.
ant then turned upon his step-father, and after
aggravating and insulting him with the Nest her.
rid imprecations, seized on bun by the thrust, and
Won his fist between the neckcloth and the jugu.
lar vein, which forced the blood to gush (runthis
ears and nose. The prisoner then seized a brass
'handlestick, with which he commenced an unmer.
Will attack upon his head) and did not leave an
ins/ square of it without a severe cut or come-
AM Not content with the mangled figure his
tither thus presented, be ran into an adjoining
room, and caught hold of a poker, threatening
'that be would completely put an end to him.—
This intermission of the outrageous treatment, af.
the prosecutor an opportunity of eflecting
escape. In this unmanly and inhuman beha-
viour, the defendant was joined his brothers ;
but in consequence of their subsequent contrition,
and amended manners, they were forgiven by the
prosecutor ; and it was not even until the defend-
ant bad frequently since December threatened to
put an end to his stepfather's existence, that the
latter was induced to commrure this prosecution,
(rout an apprehension of the most dreadful conies-
gamic= from the defendant's threats.
The defeudant did not attempt to set up any ar.
gement: to palliate his. conduct. It was eigued,
however, on his behalf by Mr. Coast, as some
excuse fur his mad conduct, that the rights of
himself and his brothers and sisters were invaded
by their mother's husband, who had been bound
by their late father's will, to take proper care of
her children's welfare, which had become very
precarious, in consequence of a stranger being put iu
possession of all their father's property. ThcJury,
however, found him guilty ; and the sentence of
the Court was, that he should be imprisoned six
months in the House of Correction, and to find
sureties to keep the peace, himself in one thou-
sand pounds, and two wales in five hundred
pounds each, and to remain in custody until the
seem should be found.
A most respectable young gentleman by birth,
&Swiss, named. Austin Ribeauplerre, and a clerk
in the house of Messrs. Gordon, Marphy, and
Farrell, was put to the bar upon an indictment,
charging him with an assault with intent to com-
mit an abominable offence upon the person of
Harvey Morris, a private in the East London
Militia. It appeared, however, in the course of
evidence, that the Prosecutor, elm is one of those
,pests of society who blush at no atrocity they
can commit for the purpose of exturtieg motley,
had Met-with this gentleman in a state of intozica.
lion in the street) on his return from a convivial
,party at Canonbary House, and thinking him a
groper object for his infernal purpose, charged
him in custody with the watchmant
The Jury, before the trial was gone through,
found the Defendant Not Guilty.
The Earl of Tuasav attended the fortnight fair,
at Skiptun, last Tuesday, and expressed much
pleasure .t the flourishing state of this northern
cattle mart, with the exception of London, the
molt extensive cf any weekly market in the king-
dom.
A very splendid Fete Champitre was given on
Friday, at Frystone, the seat of R. S. Muses,
Esq. to all the people of title and distinction in
that part of yorksbire. For some weeks past,
artists from London have been employed in making
preparations for this entertainment ; and, during
the whole of Thursday, carriages Were repairing
in every direction to this gay scene of fashionable
fascination.

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MADRAS, APRIL 1) 1900.

By letters from Cebul of the 9th ult. we learn
that Mr. Elphinstone and his suite, after a stay of
seven weeks at Derah Ishmail Khan, filially quitted
that place en the 7th, and proceeded on their jour.
ney towards Fethawar. On their first day's
march, they were met by a party of horse, who
had been sent forward by Soojah ul Moolk, to re.
inform their escort. The Commander of the de-
tachment was also the bearer of a complimentary
letter from his Sovereign to the British Envoy, ex.
pressing in the most cordial terms the high satis-
faction with which lie had heard of his approach.
The letter was accompanied by a Khilaut, con.
silting of a garment of sold cloth, and some shin Is
of .the richest description, together with several
mules laden with ererT variety of fruit which the
country produces. litis pledge of the royal fa-
•our was received with suitable respect by the
Embassy: A tent was pitched on the occasion, to
which Mr. Elphinstone proceeded io state, accurn.,
partied by all the Gentlemen of his retinue, and
escorted by a company of infantry; he was there,
invested with the Khilaut under sfeu.de joye from
the detachment.
The intelligence received from the British
keel, wbo some time before had been sent on to
Pcshawain charge of a di.spatch to the King, was
most satisfactory and pleasing; the Vackeel him-
self had experienced the utmost attention and hes..
vitality; apartments bad been prepared by the
cemmand of the Shah for the accommodation of
the Eitibassy,,and a third party of hors•, amount.
-ing to NO, had left Peshaus, and might be ex-
pectkl to arrive in camp about the 12th ; every
thing, in short, continued to hold out the must fa-
vourable prospect to the mission.
At the date of the accounts to which we al-
lude, the Embassy was encamped at the entrance
of a pass near the small town of Potteians, three
marches distant from Derah Ishmail Khan. The
+cenery in that neighbourhood is described as re-
markably picturesque and magnificent: to the
-north:east and south the landscape is bounded
by a stupendous ridge of mountains, while a beau.
tiful valley extends for 00 or 70 miles ton ards the
west, as far as the high and snowy heights of
Sooliman ; in their next march the embassy. ex.
pected to cross another desart, and had accord.
ingly provided a sufficient supply of water and
provisions fur the whole party. On the iI th they
had to reach bosh K high, and in two days inure
to arrive at Kalah Baugh ; they there proposed
to halt for several days, after which they would
go on to Pesbawa, where they expected to bring
their tedious journey to a close about the 48th.
Sooj mb ul Moolk had sent on his army to At.
tack, where they were ordered to cross the Indus
for the purpose of chastising the rebellious Son. '
balloter Cashmere. It had been the King's in.
tention-to accompany his forces in person as far
as Attock, but On hearing of the approach of the
British Embassy, be had altered his purpose, and j
determined to await his arrival at Peshawa. 1

At the late Litchfield Races, General Monist:,
late Governor of Flubbing, Brigadier-Geseiel
OSTEN, Colonels SEEMS, KLETOR DE JOLT) and
DE L,tNUZS, prisoners of war, at Litchfield, were
present. The former, though of Dutch make, Is
of French origin, and wears the various insignia
of French military honours. The latter are very
fine men.
There will be a balletic! supper at Skipton, on
Wednesday, the 25th of October nest, under the
patronage of Lord and Lady IVRBLESDA LE, to'
celebrate his MAJESTY'S Act:et:slush There we
also he ordinaries at the. Inns.
Saturday's Gazette contains an Order in Coon.
cil authorising the Governor of the bland of Ja.
maica, and of all his Majesty's Islands and Culu.
nies in the Went Indies, to permit the importation
and exportation of various articles, prohibited by
a former Order, nithout paying a tonnage duty,
of not less-thati five Ili h s..i...ngs British, on payment
of the tonnage duty of six shillings and eight pence,'
current money of Jamaica, in consideration of
the dacieney between the above sums being
fully compensated by a rate of duties laid on the
prohibited articles by the Legislature of that
Island.

On Monday morning,abou t three o'clock ,the in.
habitants of. Liticolit's.lnii.Fields were awakened
by the alarm of fire, which burst from the south.
west corner of the square, and spread consterna.
tioo and dismay within the circtruference of a
mile. A .number of %vork-sbups and slaughter.
houses, in rear-yard, were discovertal to be in
flames, which rapidly communicated thentseives
to the adjacent dwelling-houses, that but for the
indefatigable exertions of the firemen must inevi.
tably have been laid in ashes. It is distressing to
relate, however, that nineteen houses in the small
square forming ear-yard, are rendered complete.
ly uninhabitable, and that the large pile of build-
ings composing Mr. Simmons's (the carpenter)
work-shops, some slaughter-houses, and stables,
were reduced to a heap of rubbish. A consider-
able number of horses in the stables, and sheep in
the slaughter-houses, narrowly . escaped being
!surto alive. The principal individual sufferer is
Mr. Sinimuns, whose property was not insured.
The loss of the other proprietors of the houses is
not considerable. •
It is impossible to describe the terror under
which the inhabitants of Vere.street laboured,
from the circumstance of the melting-house be-
longing to Messrs. Sadler being situated within
a few feet of the workshops of Mr. Simmons.
It had caught fire in many places, but was for.
ttenately saved by the unceasing exertions or the,
firemen and inhabitants. The premises contained
many tons of tallow and melted fat, which would
inevitably have destroyed the surrounding neigh.
boorhood.
The proximity of the fire to the new theatre,
Covent-garden, and the alarming extant of the
flames, induced many persons to apprehend that
that sumptuous edifice was doomed to suffer a si.
milar fate to. Olt of its predeamsor. -Immense
crowds were drawn to the ittot; whO seemed to
labour wider that isuproolos,, bat were soon con-
viorpd of their error.