The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-13 00:00:00

Tpu STIKIIWAN.

Mr. BRouoIIAM then addressed the Jury with
- --e--. . considerable eloquence; and the ATTOHNEYA; ENE..
SPECIALCOMMIssION, Hoesalsonaze-hstre,Fsa.l2. en, in reply.
The Court resumed their proceedings under the , Mr. Justice Le BLANC summed up the evidence
Special Commission, this morning at ten o'clock,and with suitable comments.
The Jury having then retired, after an absence of
an entire fresh Jury having. been impeenelled,.
Charles Gird was put to the Bar, divested. of his r half an hour, returned with a verelict of—Acquittal.
irons. The overt-acts of treason charged against the ! During their absence a new Jury was sworn, and
Prisoner were amply, that being a liege subject of the : John Quigley, another of the prisoners, was put to
King of Great Britain, he illegally and traitorously the bar.
Airroesiesr-GereettAL, in opening the case,
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entered the Prentiiservice,in the Isle of France, and . The
continued therein for six, months, and that he wore ; observed, thatthe charge against thia Prison
men er was
the uniform of a French soldier. I nearly similar to that preferred against the al-
. The circumstances of the case were shortly stated ; ready tried. He felt it his duty, however, to state;
to the Jury by the AttoruelZenerai, When the fol- cir
cumstances in conduct, sub-
! seqoent to his entering into '
thesis reach service,
lowing witnesses were called.
John Lowe stated, that he Was a seaman, along,' which,-. although they would not entitle him to a
with the Prisoner, on board the Iphigenia frigate, .at verdict of ecquittal, might 6perate in another place
the time she was captured and carried info the Isle in,his favour. He then proceeded to call his wit-
of-Prince by a superior French force; He had heard ! negses to Support the charge.
-the Prisoner frequently say he was an Irishman, and ! Michael hl'Fabb, a seaman belonging to the
'often heard him speak the Irish language to his coun- ' Magicienne, was a shipmate of Prisoner's, aend,
trymen on board the ship. -Shortie after the crew frequesitly heard him say he-uas an liishmath. '
had been landed as Prisoners of war, the Prisoner had J. John Baker end Clikles CaiWell .were shipmates:
a quarrel with some of his eotintrymen,'veith whom ,of Prisoner's, on boardthe Iphigenia. They heard
he wanted to fight. He was, howevere prevented, ' him say be was an Iriihoin, were with him taken
and then began to upbraid them (or their cowardice, !prisanersinto the bite of France, and subsequently
saying, " they wece a parcel of cowardly reepls„and -saw Init.-Opposite their prison in a French uniform..
that there were ehouglr of theist° fight the Whole peo-1 John Low, steward of. the Iphigenia, saw the Pri-
ple on the lilatid.'.' - The Prisoner theteran .cniV oftsoner areased in the French uniform, in the Isle'of
the prison, and witness:did.not • see him ontiratrouti,France. .lle addreesed him, and said " John, lam
six weeks afterwards, at Port . Louis, where, ere met i astonlehed to see yen iithat dress ;" upon which Pri-
hiM in the streets at.libertyebut apperently 'ell--wit- I soner cried, and said, he was very sorry for Whim-
ness himself being guarded hy.a French centinel, and I self, but that he had gone into the French service. in
Igoing with some money to another prilien, from cap- !the hope of getting a woman, named - Margaret
tains lambert and Curtis, to relieve' the prisoners ; Coombe to live with him. Ile finally dectarati his
therein coefiued. The Prisoner was then deessed in ! intention to escape as soon as he could.' Witless
a French uniform, but; in about six or eight days i frequently met Prisoner afterwards, and on every
afterwards, he-met him' again as he was going upon 1 o&asion he expressed his regret for his offence, and
the same errand, dressed in a French canoueer's uni- rat One time asked witness to carry a letter to his chi).
form, a sword by hie side, and a French national i thin (Capt. Lambert). This, however, witness de-,
cockade in his cap.. liesew him frequeutly •after- ' clined doing, as'he had been charged by. the Captain
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wards in the samenniforro, opposite the ptisun gate, to receive uo messages from persons in. Fretich uni-
and on one occasion he put his hand t 9 theliilt of his. forme. Witness bore testimony to the former good
sword, as he thought, in a menacing manlier,: whilst character of the Prisoner. . • .
the British Officers were playing hell in • court of Captain Lambert deposed; that he saw the Prisoner
the prison ; but he acknowledged that ..th Prieettee '
,with others of his crew in-French uniforms. ' While
appearedto be in a state of intoxication..: 1' _ the Prisoner was in his ship, he considered him en
. Thomas Westlake, another seamen or ' Ipjilw eipert seaman, and .his conduct was uniformly cor-
-Elia, proved that he heard the Prisoner say he was a rect,
native of Pretend, and was brought up it ler. 'Ue ; ; Lieutenant Grimes certified also, that fie was an '•
saw the Pelletier at large in a French nor • -aid excellent seaman, and always the first to fly to hise
Oa one oecasion'said, jeeringly, 'to the wit .who duty, where his services were wanting on desperate~i
j was in prison, 44 thatit 'would be better fet 'lnto be occasions, cutting out or otherwise.
on boardship baking the Caption', bread than fez Captain Davis and Captain Willoughby also bore il
'vain in prison," hut assured kiss that he cold re- testimony to the excellence of his former character. I
main where he was for some tried. OS ! his crosses I Mr. BROUGHAIO) .ii) commenting on the evidence,'
antinationhe said he had never any .seri quaerell.exhorted the Jury to consider 04 the Prisoner; at- !
outi(l
with the Prisoner; but he had charged Mm w steal- though he appeared in a French uniform, bad assum. l
ing some of Capt.. Lambert', property., • ed that disguise, not With the intention of aiding and
Elizabeth Westlake,-wife of the last witness, and abetting the enemy ; but for another purpose, which .
who was a Prisoner also in theisle of 'France, stated, his own confession had disclosed. -1
that before the Iphigenia st radii to the French ship of The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply, remarked, I
war, the Prisoner said he hoped they would betaken, that if such pretexts were once admitted, tie conse
and' when she did actually strike her colours, he'ob- quences Nereid, be truly dreadful, as every man who
served that he was very glad, and that •he would go felt disposed to act in defiance of his allegiance,
ices tie French service. The witness was suffered tol would plead precisely the same excuse.
go to market, at Port Louis, ganteded by a centinel, The LORD CHIEF BARON having summed np the.
and emit five or six weeks after • the . rt,higenia sir-eevidence, the. Jury found the Prisoner Guilty—
rendered, she met the Prisoner in the'market dres,e,d. Dealls.;—but strongly recommended him to mercy.
as a French soldier. She met him again afterieirde,, -. Adjourned at ball past five till to-morrow (this
and drank-along with him and another worturn;''aind, dity).:
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'that she mid for the liquor they bad had. On this oc-
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casion he jeered her about her imprisonment, and said' Some extrabitilttary higbtides are expOcted to take
she was not so fast as she should be., Ile distinctly
•place during -the- pretreat year, particularly those
told her then that he was in the'French service, upon I which Will occur on Friday and Saturday next; an
which she remarked that there was hemp spinning for the 15th and 16th of March, and on the 13th Oil
him and many more. • - Awe. These tides, eppOcially the March. flood, are;
On her crosa-examination, she admitted that she , sufficiedtly ttoesiderahle to, cause inundation, and!
had some difference with the Prisoner ',bout some': mere particularly so, if. feeocrtd by-the winds. ,1
property of Captain Lambert, which. she—saw him The Grand Jury threw out, five. Rifle of Indict,
take, but denied that she_ had ever suffered the 'Pr6•.mentsbrought
.14,y 'decanting Scciety agallyt butcberi'
esuer to take any liberties with her. ' -
; f9r seng !morsels of meat to the. labouring poor ozi i
Raptain Lambert, of the Iphigenta, stateti„..thai.. the Situday, morning..' By. the ev'tf euce, of the ap
when hisship was taken, lie exhorted all hie Ceetr to:.Whona they hire,to detect this crying sin,lt Weems&
kiwoid,followigt the example of mar it..41-4-oOuro, clear that ,the,poor people Who Were thug proVided
trymen„tu traitorously deserting„ ei,tAe reeiitC}i'ser,e With., a Sunday ,dinner .warkett 011neer midnight on
:vice, Redid not take particular notice tharthePek. ahe,Saturday, and that they were
eervid befere ten
sorter was one of the persona present. Hefrequetttlyfit'cleckin tbe,furenoon. It was also clear that the
saw the Prisoner, after he was Merged, in the French meat-tat unsold on the Saturday wOuldlaot in many
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uniform. , . enueaileip sweet till Monday, and that the poor
. , Captain Chrtis, of the Magicienne, elso.frecitumtly are thus ab to Et a joist at a cheap* rate. The
, saw the Prisoner in a French uniform ; he erknow-i Grapd Jury, ih e true spiritof Christianity, threw
ledged that he had frequently saluted him and' other outlhe Bills. • '
officers, but he was' inclined tie think the-tyspktt he,. tiesszow-lloust!--Yeiterday 77ion:as Jaffrey:
had -strewn was insincere. •. . _Was charged before the Loan MAYORwhich having
The case,for the Crown being closed, thelirlioner' married a Second wife,' his first being Still lieing.—
was asked if he hid any thing to say in his defence.., The Prisoner was chargecl -by''the ',officers of the
Upon which he entered into a detail of the circam- parish,he heirship- to,they coMplaining, that he had
stances of his case, endeavouring to impresibpon-the deserted his first Wife erith:two children, echo had
'Court and Jury a belief that he was indexed to put become chargeable to.them ; that since that, a second
on the French, uniform, not from
.disloyal Motives, wife with a child, had claimed the same privilege;
but with a view of 'escaping from the island, 'and also jahat they got the certificates of both marriages froln
of endeavouring to administer to the comforts of his 1 the parishei where the ceremonies were performed,
countrymen in captivity. Ha attributed to the• fe- and both the wives attended. The Prisoner did not
male witness examined, malicious- motives foi 'the deny his guilts he -nthed to he sent to sea, but the
evidence she had' given, and more particelaily her officers said the parish was determined to prosecute
assertion, that he had robbed his Commanding Of- him, as an example to others. He-was accordingly
ricer, in consequence of his having discovered her in fully committed to take his trial. .
an improper situation with 'a French Officer. He A Mra.kcLel-,-. On the south wall in Streatham
put it to the judgment of'the Court, whether amen, -church there is a Monument with the following in-
,who had fought and bled in the service of his noun-` scription :—" ELIZABETH, wife . of Major-General
try, whose father was an old.yeteran soldier of fort/ HAMILTON, who was married near 47 years, and
years service in the army, and two of whoß hiothetit never did one thing to displease her husband !"
were now at this, moment serving as officers in de- New potatoes were eaten on the 14th ult. in the
fence of their country—would desert that king and ' house of Mr. JAMES newel, farmer, in the parish
.gountry to whom he owed allegiance from duty and :of Crawfordjohn. They were produced irt a hot
affection. He left them to judge of his conduct from ' bed, and were 'as largo• as a crow's egg, and well
the circumstance of his returning home 'to take his tasted.
trial, and indignently re I
jecting the offer of going to A Lucas Fatour.—On the 14th of last month,
Old France, made to him when the island capitulated. ; as Mr. Smithson, of the Edgeward Road, was.pass-
Martin Ryan, a seaman in his Majesty's service, 'i,itg by Charing Cress, he was alarmed by the popu-1
who was a prisoner in the 'lsle of France; deposed ' lace. crying Out 4$ A Iliad Ball," mid on turning his
toehe'humane conduct of the Prisoner to Ills eons= head he perceived an enforiated animal clbse to him,
trymen in prison, which he was enabled to 'do by, i and.the onlyway to avoid him was to turn into some
being et large. Witness had tendered Mililame halite.' The first that ofkred was a Lottery Office,
m'oeey,• not knowing what countryman he. was at' and after recieverhig himself, he thought, as he had
the time,: bit he .rejected it with disdain, sitYing„.l never purchesed. a Ticket before,-it might be a' cu-
that he.required no reward for relieving•his fellow- ! clone method Dame. Fortune had taken tit tors hint
creatures. • He stated emphetically, that the Prisoner into her lap ; he accordingly purchased:Two Tickets
did all in his power to disseade the English etriseeers , one Number,: and was rewarded with 2,0001. as it
from ilettp.rtipg to. the French. cause. '..-. '.'l '. 1 proved a 1,0001. prize.—On reeeiving,his money yes-,
1-41,04,„ t„ Orin'"? of the rehigeelle;.filik'Oet terdily,he bought two more Tickets inthe Lottery to
the P atinier- Was` alWays a. wilting,' teirdijirerklog . be drawn NEXT Te EWA v, and said,'*lrithri,knowe
man, aid ever desiretit of iatiitylig his4Oifieitth . butl'asay befrigkfoned into 40;0001:4 st %V DU•oa 2
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HIGH TREASON.

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shown
Sir Wm. Gerard's fox-hounds have vep
good sport the last: week. On. TutsdaYthermet, at
Acton Pastore, found imediately, and ran their for,
after a sharp burst of 2,8 mintites, into a' rock near
Nevison's Leap, when a favourite hound, 'Nimrod,
dashed into the crevice after Reynard, and gotgsoetfairit
into the rock that he could not extricate himself, ~n4remained there from twelve o'clock on that (Ist. till
eight o'clock on the Wednesday evening followilq,
when he was happily relieved by a party of colliers,
who.were sent for express by Sir William, and who
iwere obliged to hew the solid rock away to
him, when he was found with his head down firmly
I fixed, and his stern up nearly perpendicular, and is
i that situation was barking at the fox—Nimrod, on
1 this. occasion, has proved what the game , , -,. •; -
! bred fox-hound is equal to, for he was ~ ,

worse fqr what he had undergone, tiro .ic , •
with the pack on the Thursday morn;: ~,1
first hound that seized the fox, after a 12:90 THII

Haw Park.
FAstit,y ROBBERY.-A most extrarordinary bur.
,glary has r,ecently been perpetrated in one of the
home, coUnties. Its the_ dead of night, a gang of
ruffians broke into the seat of an elderly Gentleman
of considerable sonsequeuce, and stripped it of plate,
cash, and the Lady's jewels, to a very large amouut.
Suspicion falling upon a fellow of desperate chute.
ter, he was apprehended, and warrants were issued
foi 'securing otlieft ; but on the examination of the
fprmer, it appeared' that the Gentkmax's own Son
had• leagued hiMself On •this occasion with the band of
robbers, and, in consequence of this discovery, the
warrants are said to lime been recalled, to prevent
any farther disclosure of this singular transaction.
Su scum—Late on Tuesday Light, or early yes-
terday morning, Mr. Marshal, one of the King's
Yeomen of the Guard, put a period to his existence,
by hangirig himself, in the King's Guard Chamber,
lin St. James's Palace. It was his turn to da the duty
of ileeping in • the'Gtvard Rim bn Tuesday night,
and he entered the. Guard Room_ at Ilia o'clock on
that ditty. At ei"ht yesterday Morttiog,"the man
who atlEndr tire—Yetrarn 'fount' the usual doer of
qatrance fastt and , receiVing no answer to his call,
applied to R ihn has keystef the fauns, Ind
she entered from the opposite side of the Palace,whem
the Maids of Honour reside,• 'When thedeceased wits
discovered hanging by one of the sash lines. The
body 1411•5 perfectly, cold,: and he not having been on
the bed, it is supposed he did the rash at+ soon after
•he entered the room ow_ Tuesday night. lie has be-
longed the corps between 24 and 535 years. Heins
been for several item in
,a low, desponding
Way; bordering 'on insanity, aid he discovered-evi-
dent symptoms of if an Tuesday afternoen, so muck
so, that one of his-brethren-did some of his duty for
him. •

-As the trial respecting the title, &c. of the Earl-
dom of CaAurnan has excited math Interest amongst
the public of late, a Correspogen) ',shies us, that
Major CAmetzt.r.i.of the 3d Foot, or 13utfs, son of
the late Joule CAumnrx.t., Esq. of Newiield, Ayr-
shire, Scotland, grand nephew and', heir of line to
the late. General Jesus mventeentlt. Earl of Ce_Au-
even,• and fourth Earl of LINDSAY, will certainly
succeed to the title of Earl of CeAurunn, in right
of his grandmother, Lady MARY LINDSAY, sister
to thit great and gallant Nobleman, who married
DOUGAL CABSPDELL, Esq. of Glensaddle, Argyllshire.
A few days since, in digging clay.on the' grounds
of Mr. Hobson, of Heaton, near Hackney, a large
fossil horn was discovered, which measured nine feet
two inches in length : it was of a semilumi form,
tapering towards one end, and hollow for the'gfeat-
est part of its length; its dinmeter at the greatest
I end was about eight inches. We understand it is to
be deposited in the Museum of Mr. James iowerby,
author of the British Mineralogy...
l;. FORTUNE. TIIIING.—AIR old, woman, called
Murphy,. well known about Bedford-square and its
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nog bustrhOod, as carrying a toy-basket, and also as
; a prophetess, who was iu the habit of amusing the
servants in hoe walk With her pretended predictions,
was detected in the act of stealing a silver tea-p 1
• which lad charmed her in the hot's,' of Mr. Ram-
selt.„ Various articles`fuld before been missed, and
the fortune-feller was suspected ; but she had not
predicted that a snare had been laid for her. J;stice
destined her to take her trial it the next :Old Bailey
Sessions: •
; . Three -robbers- were on Monday committed from
Queen-square Office. for various robberies. :Two of
them it appears have been in the habit of, deice: di ;
;Areas in baskets with cords tied to them, in vehich
they were drawn up by .otheri after they_ had po
I sensed themselves of their booty.
The late Horrid murders in ltateliffe-highway and
Gravel-lane, upon the unfortunate families of Jilmut
and WILLIAMSON, having Justly caused considerab:e
sensation and alarm throupouf _the Metropolis and
elsewhere, the Nobility, Gentry, and others, an
are taking the necessary precaution in protecting
their !`amities and property from the outrages of suck
determined villains, are partieelarly ,recommossded to
furnish themselves, or confidential servants,,ivith wea-
pons suitable fot their defence, from HARM( Gni.
and Co.'s, No. 6, Prince's-street, "Leicester-square,
which are to be obtained of the exact ratto n aside
by them for, and most approved byy the Boisstreet
Officers and other Police. •

SCOTCh SlitdCKS.
Mtme,a's Wharf. • derived. -SOL
Eclipse (Taylor), Leith I 10,Jaa. Ifo Feb.— Pt A. 'l'
Leith Packet {Marshall), do. I 9 16, 4, Pt A.
Urn' and BEawica Whart.
Commercial (Ilishett), kith I 111. 1 16, —3,P. Pt
Britannia (Brown), Berwick 19 16,

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HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS PAY.
Morainic, 41 minutes after 3. I Limping. 3 minutes after 3.

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MARRIED.
A few days since, at Cheltenham, D. llPCarthy, Esti. t° M 3.
daughter of R. Power, EN. M. P.
Mondayt at Mary-le-Bone Ciarch, ,B. Burgess, to Mar.'',
daughter of I. lletttin, rsq. • •
Glllll,leosaf ri'atvdiastO4e kat, tllut.lta6:3lshertg,ee'sl44..;•sthlredahtiginhterilloffaMsrt.. r 1;11
tan, of Old Gravel-lane.
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M.
OnoFy toa
rdiclayilaspt,.
faort Is.ante3cninigtng.Sussoa,- Pi•yd, 'wife of J.
Mrs. Bwinner, relict of-the late T. Soinnerton, Esq. of
Newcastle. • -
Lately, need 16, tlltabeth, yonnicit daughter_ of B. Fi'.7,kr"
%act,' has.: of tioianerunt,,ball,

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