The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-12 00:00:00

Flask.—No. your Worship. I will not be swore. I
feel no inclination to injure the prisoner, nor do I see
any necessity for my being sworn. I have never taken
an oath in she coorie of my life, and 1 mu totally ipso.
rant of the nature of the proceedings.
Mr. CONANT Dow wished her to understand, that her
refusal to be sworn would give rise to a suspicioa that
she wan sof/sainted with the circumstance of rho pi.
soner s having a wife and family when she married hes;
and if that could be proved, she would be liable to be se.
verily punished.
Flask.—My finsiily,Sir, le very respectable; sod I as
prove thlt I did not know of the prisoner baring beta
married before, or that Mrs. Raynor existed at the time
my :Berri age took place.
Mr.. Ir. iyner here denied this, whit that Flask very
well knew it ; it was told her at Lord Salmon's, bates-
fortunately she could produce no'fsrther evideote to that
effect. The prisoner bad even supplied her with vim
articles of apparel, &c. belonging to her (Mrs. Kayser),
and marked in her name.
Mr. CONANT said, that if Flask perverted in her
refusal to be sworn, he woutd commit tier to prison. :Vie
notwithstanding still refused to he so.
Grist deposed, that on harlot en interview with
Flask she acknowledged that she was married to the
prisoner, and tits aware that Mrs. Rayner was briar.
Oa hearing this, Flask reluctantly received tlie hook
and on kissing it, stated that she had been married to
the prisoner at St. George's Hanover-square, last Felwo
are, in the preserve of two witnesses, straiten, who
hid been married before them.
The prisouer, who appeared rather tulles daring the
examination, was delivered into the custody of Slander,
llae gaoler, and remanded for a week.
Grist received tenanted**s to summon the clerk of the
parish, and obtain ether necessary videos". Flask in
the meantime was bound over in the tam of 401. to Iv
Iry at neat Sessions to give evidence.
', . LANSZTH 8 .—Now VAGRANT LAW.—Foursero,
mho gave their nanms, Dee/ Bailor& /rms. Bearset, S.
!brooks and Wm. Etas& were brought up in custody
of Freeman, Brown sad Fester, :diverse( this establish.
meats, who deposed to having apprehended them yester-
day morning playing at "pitch and toss." in a mere of
waste ground in George-street, Spitallelde. The print-
ers were committed for one month eath to Agog Isketr
in the Howse of Correction.
UNION-HALL.—Seventeen of the inhabitants of the
Mint were summoned by L B. Alloys*, Beg It appeared
that by an ancient Charter, from which the Mint Liberty
,tisrives its privileges., it is exempted from many local
Acts to which the surrosading parishes are selojected.
The inhabitants, concluding that this exemption ope-
rated more extensively than the Magistrates admitted,
relived to comply with theparocliial regulation for light-
ing the streets, which are constantly left in darkens in
coasequence of this prejudiie against the Statute that
binds the neighbouring counties. Hall and Weave.
the officers, harlot, in their rounds at night, fond the
'behoves in the Mint were sot lighted, reported tire
Skonenstance to the Magistrates, and were ordered to
I the tenants of each booses u were so com-
pletely kept in the dark.
The seventeen defendants said, that they had followed
the example of their neighbours, who were content to
remain in a state of darkness, cod never fancied the
light either of oil or gas to assist them in going home
at night, col observed that they only wanted their
liability to be decided upon to adopt the necessary
plan.

The Magistrates th io fined the 17 defendants 2s. rob,
and costs, the Act being imperative: intimaing that,
with respect to the other ishabitants, he would not prrss
the immediate observance of the Statute, but hoped an
arrangement would be 'auk amongst the inhabitants as
speedily as possible to prereot &smother application.
An 'ideay man, amid Davis. was brought op ems
waaraist. ekargistg lint wile hoes( oersted his wife
and family fer the petted of two years. Snow, she tea•
stable. who approlleadai.biai, said that the parish had
suffered much from the desertion, and that itr. Davis
was performing a Dramatic character in a field sear Wei-
worth, where he said he was at " home" to a vast num-
ber of spectators on the day he was distarbed for the
sake of the parish.
The Magistrate ordered the defendant to a roues
exercise at the Bristos•mill.

DREADFUL Swam—Last night an iquisitimp was
taken before THOMAS STIRLING, Keg. Coroner, in the
Board-room of Middlesex Hospital, on view of the body
of Mr. Francis Cranstoun, aged 40, who pat a period
to his existence, as &toted in our paper of yesterday.
The Jury, after a abort consultation, returned a verdict
—" That the deceavd cut his throat whilst in a 6t of
temporary derangement."