The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP rim STATESMAN.

Ste,-1 tun in the habit of frequenting a public
company of highly respectable tradesmen in my neigh-
bourhood, where there is much discussion every
evening upon the evidence of the preceding day,
in support fee it hes hitherto tutu gives.) of the
Bill of Pains and Penalties, as furnished by the Se-
cond Edit' of your independent Journal, and have
paid minute attention to the variety of circum-
stances sworn to by the first witness, Theodore Ma-
jocci, and to those of the amiable young Lady (Made-
moiselle Dumont), who was last under examination.—
There is certainly much corroboration in their testi-
mony as far as it 'oes, and their evidence is also con-
firmed by several of the intermediate witnesses upon
oath ; but what is the nature of their testimony, and
what is their impression of the sviiction of an oath ?
" tie that imposes an Oath makes it,
" Not he that for convenience takes it,
" Thorn Inpw C.lll any man be said
" To break an Oath be never wade ?
" Hum MIAS."

ant a quiet family man, without prejudit.e, and
not hi :sstd by party on the one side, nor led by cla-
mour on the other, ant am all adeot.ate for truth and
justice in every case; but as I lind that the measure now
pending in the high l'onct of Parliament, be the ye-
cult waled it may, will be a very expeusive, as it has
hero a itt.,s! disgnsting opriation, anti as poor John
Bull will, at all re's:, here to part the cola on both
tittle, I submit most humbly to the learned gentle-
men in support of the Bill, that they would best con-
sult the so id and vms.'llrliu:vd interest of the coun-
try not to perseve..e is it any further upon such Tees-
tionabia evidence as they 11..ve up to this period oaf,
produced, two! ere ‘,/ • tthivh,f;.o,:s the ritararier tj•
the peed, a, actma t el. 41 tO cdit.
The matter, to speak the troth of its origin, is
merely a domestic or family quarrel, and any inter-
ference of Parliament, such at by the present bill,
cannot by possibility ohs any good, but must in its pro-
gress, be productive tif notch misishief, kith as it re•
gartis the moral as well as the political character of
the rountr), and in its teintination may affect the
interests ot the t rune as ivj trionsly as those of the
People. I remain, 1f r.

Your tons:ant Rratler,

feemtbrark, Sept. 2. 1P24.

J. P.

The Queen on Situ day was followed in her progress
through the city by an immense number of thieves,
who committed the most daring depredations amongst
the gaping multitude, who ..oilted from all quarters to
obtain a glimpse at her Majesty. In Fleet-street one
lientletnan was r•lihed of his pocket-book, containing
notes to the amount of 4140/. Complaints have been
made at the Pollee Offices in the City of other robberies
to a large amount. besides the almost incredible bar-
vest of uatches, ate. which was wade by the light-
fingered tribe throughout the journey.
Attempts have to- some time been making to circu-
late counterfeit vilv.•r coin to a great extent through
the country. Last ore,, through the exertions of Mr.
Evans, the keeper of liridewell, and Mr. Osman, the
police-officer, a cask of base coin. weighing 11011119.
ass discovered is a coal-shed, is 31eadow-street, St.
Paul's, Bristol. It cootalnetl pieces of metal, cut to
the s're of shillings stid ,ixpettre., and finish.d ready'
to take the milling and die ; and there is no doubt
that these counterfeit pieces, representing nearly 900/.
of god coin were intended fur circulation in the Fair,
whirl' began there on Friday last.
At Edinburgh on Wedtie..lat, owing to previous in-
formation, a portmanteau, containing al), ve SI/. 10..1
of
of bad silver, was 'wired by the ocers of I olive, front 1
a carrier, and lodged in the Police Office. It was 6c-1
titiously addressed, and•sevetal endeavours were made
to procure it from the carrier, but there bring a guard
from the Police, it did not sneered. 1

The:turn STomm.—On the night of Friday the
Vith ult. about a quarter past ten, a storm began at
. Port Monteith, of the most vivid lightning and loudest
I thunder, recollected by any who witnessed them. It
was attended by a slight earthquake, felt by the inha-
bitants in bed. About half a mile east, on the top of
an eminence over which the public road passes, Mr.
John tirahatn, tenant in Choillemuck, and his horse,
were knocked down Gum the lower and south side of
the road into the middle; and Sir. Graham sustained
a curved wound of nu great depth, au inch and a quar-
ter long. Mr. tiraham had seen himself and horse en-
compassed by a pale blue flame, ascending his breast
with a rustling noise and a strong smell of sulphur.—
The flame continued upon him, and he was under the
necessity of rolling himself in the mud to extinguish
it, which he at length eft...tied. In the morning it was
discovered that an oak, near the eastern verge of the
domain of his (race the Duke of Montrose, had been
struck with the lightning, which had broken several
of its upper branches, peeled off the bark on the north-
east side, from top to rout. the breadth of four or five
inches on the average, and sunk into the soil, which
lit.tore up and scattered.
JAMES WlLlwx.--Just at the moment the unfortunate
may. Wilson, who was executed at Glasgow on Wednes-
day, was thrown off, a false report got up in the centre
of the crowd, that " the dragoons, the dragoons are
coming," the right and left wing eangot the alarm, and
the flight became universal. Here a scene of confusion
ensued that baffles all description ; some were bending
their course one way, some another; all passage was
conipletely blocked up, and men, women, and children
lay commingling together in heaps,like swathes of bay;'
the tumbling and trampling one over another, the be-1
seeching of the women, and screams of the children,
were truly appalling. Many were seriously bruised, and
a child, we are sorry to say, hail its brow dreadfully la-
cerated from the trampling. Wilson was above sixty
years of age, shout live feet eleven inches in sight, was
a stoat man, anal was a stockingmaker by trade, but,
being a sportsman, he sometimes repaired guns, pistols,
Etc.; he had a vice in his house for that purpose, which
Its says was the reason the radicals assembled there for
screwing on their pike heads. He never conidersd
himself guilty of high treason ;he appeared imaffersni yo
religions instruction ; the condemned sermons preached
the two preceding Sabbaths in the jail seeined to arouse
him at the time, bet were soon forgot. ilia final part-
ing with his wife, daughter, 10.4 throe grand children
on Tuesday, Wilt truly affecting; as he expected to be
hnried in Struthaven, he gave them directions net. his
funeral. Wilson's family, consisting of his widtai. sod
a Janette!, with tive children, are left in great distress,
the prisoners in the Nervgate of Bristol were re-,
.moved on the 23th ult, to their new quarters, situated
near Bathurst Basin.

NAUTIC.,IL INTELLIGENCE

The Gotha, Setter, of and from Bermuda to Dew,
rara, sprung a leak on the 6th July, in lat. IV. I„,tr.
55. and filled with water. The crew were taken free
the rigging on the 9th by the Eeho,Cloodmanson, fr„,„,
Hatuburgh to St. bonus.

AIIIETTISDAM, SEPT. 1.--The Vrow Alberdin,
Schmidt, from Petersburgh to Rotterdam is tawr
lost on the Western Bank of the Texel; part of the
cargo saved. A vessel, name unknown, was sera gas
terday morning, distnasted and full of water, and
since been towed into Terschelling: she is said la bt
from Petersburgh.

DEAL, Sarr. 3.—Last night, dnring a strong
northerly gale, the schooner Forsoget, Monwinhel,
and from firemen to Messina, with stuck fish, eau "
the Goodwin Sand : the vessel, we much fear will te
totally lost. The whole of the crew, and part of the
cargo and materials, caved by the Deal boatmen.
Hum., Auo. 31.—A letter received here from Lei&
states the arrival, at Dundee, of the Princess Charlotte.
from Davis's Straight's, with seven fish, and part of
Brother's blubber, about 145 tuns.

VIIIRCLA SPOKEN WlTH.—Liberty, of Hnll, fur QIN
bee, lar. 46. 20. leag. 57. 50. by the Collin., Wood,
arrived at Newcastle.

By rifer of his Royal Highness the Commander.ir.
Chief, a detachment of the Life Unards were stens/4
at Storey's (late, St. James's Park, yesterday morsisr,
to . scort his (irate the Duke of Wellington, and 456,
Peers to the House, and protect them from a repetitka
of the ill treatment which they hare repeatedly es•
l.erienred from the popniate.

Two smuggling - Is, lad, n with toharra, bare
recently been taken on the coast of Ireland, he the
•:sppt o, Captain rutoridge, the cargoes of whirl' are
estimated to be worth at least 12,6011/.

31r. fternard Holt, of Claptcn, vc4S robbed of his
o:•ket-hook, containing more than 114.1/. in notes sad
cash, ote Saturday, in Parliament-street. Ile was w-
e.' in,setl by a gang of s 1 rtiffiaus, who kid his
arms up and cut his pocket-book from his side•poelot
his watch was also stolen ; but he had no power to
help himself.
Fifteen of the prisoners esti ally convicted at t'ie
laze assizes fur the county of Sussex. have had their
sentenres rommut..cl to transportation for life, and three
others to different periods of imprisonment in the Iluase
of Correction.

At the Chester Assises three prisoners were capitally
convicted and received sentence i:f death, vis.—Wm.
Dunne fur uttering Bills of Exchange, purporting to
be drawn by Jones and Lloyd, of Manchester, ;lon
Jones, Lloyd and Co., of London ; Ralph Jackson,
f'r a rape, and William Bit klington, for ruhitior and
selling tire to the house of the Rev. Archdeacon
Clerk.
Bow-syszer.---On Friday Admiral Frazer was sir-
rounded by a gang of villains in St. James's-square,
who pressed upon him very much, calling out "The
Queen." and at the same time making a eenfasime
and knocking off the Admiral's hat, when they res.
trived to rob him of a gold watch, chain, sad seek,
vf the value of 70 gnineas, with uhielt theyinsie
their escape.
'1 be only circumstance that occurred at the OfirP
in sonsequetice of the number of persons collected to
wituess the procession of the Mary-le-bone Address
going to the Qneen, was • yonng man brought by a
cow table charged with throwing mud at the carriages
as they returned from Hammersmith through Hyde
Park Corner. The prisouer acknowledged that his
conduct had been very foolish, and his only moth,
for ..sting in the way he had done, was because ether
people had done so. lie was ordered to gad bail or
be committed.
Als'sacs-Hovea.---Yesterday a young man of res-
pectable appearance, was charged with having stolen
from the persi.n of a Di ntleman, named Child, s
pocket-hook, containing a check of :AM and other
property, while the liueen was passing through the
City on Friday. The prisoner was remanded.
The trials for forgery and the tittering of forged nobs
are extremely numerous; five persons, of respectable a;.
Partner, have been convicted of forging bills of es-
change at Liverpool. Their names are Thomas Contrail,
Henry Houghton, James Smith, Jo`mi Bentley, and S.-
muel Kettle ; sentence of death was passed npou thew,
on Wednesday, by Mr. Justice Bayley, and to the firs'
two it was intimated that there were no hop's oral mi-
tigation of their ponisliment. In addition to thew pri-
soners, twenty-two received sentence of death •—eleten
were sentenced to 14 years transportation ;--ad thirty-
fo ir still remain for trial, all of whom are charged with
capital offences.

The trials for High Treason will commence on
Monday next, at York, before Sir Robert Dallas. On
Saturday the several prisoners in the Castle, who are
to hr tried, were served with a copy of the intLetment,
a list of the Jarors, and a list of the witnesses.
ToarLoots.--It was hardly to have been espe••tenl, •
tiwat these destructive engine,. should have been adopted,
in the prosecution of one of the most thriving branch.%
of business, in which navigation is now employed :
yet we are Wormed, that a vessel bas recantly been
fitted at New Bedford. bound on a new whiling
voyage, with an apparatus on board, for the purpose
of blowing them up. Torpedoes of an arrow form.
are thrown from a gun on board the vessel, which arr
calculated to sink into the body of the whale, lad
there explode.—(Boatoa Patriot.)

On Friday last, at Castle Carey, Somerset, John Peyto
Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, after a short ilht;so,.
in his 59th year. Ills Lordship is succeeded in his title
and estates by his brother, the Hon. Henry Verney.
On Sunday evening, at Fulham Palace, George Gor-
don Howley, youngest son of the Bishop of London.
In the frith. year of his age, John, eldest son of the
lion. John Spencer, and grandson of the late Doke of
Marlborough.
Yesterday morning, suddenly, at Peckkaat Lair-
Timoth) Brown, Esq.
Ina fit of apoplexy, on the Int instant. Timm Steal
ton Coles, Esq. of Bisingball•atreet, merriest.

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