The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-05 00:00:00

SLTRY SESSIOSS, Dsr. I.

T

. 'These Sessions commenced this day before a very
tai Beach of Magistrates, Mr. Harrison in the Chair.
The Clerk of the Peace read the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed at the last Court, to consider of the
necessity of making certain alterations in respect to
_the appointment of housekeeper of the Sessions'
house. The Report recommended, that the vacancy
which will occur at Christmas, be tilled up by a male,
isertead of a female, the office being at present exa-
ct:tea by a Mrs. Slee. In consequence of this recess-
nusadation, (01. llaitskell proposed Mr.Charies Taylor
a♦ a proper person to fill the vacancy.
. * Mr. R. THORNTON proposed Mr..lohn Bone, and
one pf the•other Magistrates proposed Mr. W. Willis.
These several names were put to the vote, and on cast-
ing up the numbers there appeared
For Mr. Taylor - - 11
Bone . . 111
Willis - 111 •
The CHAIRMAN then declared the election to have
•fallen on Mr. Taylor. That gentleman was then call-
ed in. and informed of the election having fallen on
him, and be was expected to be prepared to take upon
himself ile office arChristmas.
The Court then proceeded to try the several tra-
verses, and other cases of misdemeanour or felon:es.

Tne IMO •. COSTILbOW •ND XIX OTIIPRII.
_ _ _

This was an indictment against the defendants for
a riot and osiault on Caleb 'tilt, one of the toll-collec-
'tors orf Waterloo-bridge. The prosecula stated that
tte.fiefendants, on the 29th of August, nhunt half-past
twelve in the night, came to the !batty side toll-gate,
and demanded to be passed through without paying
'the toll. Tilt refused to allow them to pass, on which
they became very abusive, and threatened him, but at
lellgth paid the toll. When, however, they had got
on the bridge, they repeated their abuse, and Tilt re-
monstrated with them, on which Costellotv struck him,
'I violent blow, and. S. Cestellow,.a relation, Sullivan,
Hi7gins, and-two others, beet him with their umbrel-
las. The patrole, however, came to his rescue, and
• the whole were then lodged in the watch-house. ..
• Hunt, the patrule, confirmed Tilt's testimony, as to
'the aisauit by the party. Only sin of the defendants
-• appeiretl, and the Jury fount them guilty. '
. The Cornv, after censuring Very stronglytheir con-
. tintst,•,and Cantering on the necessity of protettin pub-
Alts' titters, sentenced Costellow to be imprisoned it
iillyri,Ailld the other defendants each seven'diii.
414'
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handkerchief, the 'property of J. Hebb. This'
' s i very afflicting caste,, the prosecutor being father
.111 pf die riu.oer. The ense/was eleurly proved, and
J • raunfortunate parent wished the Court to send his
to the Penitentiary. .but in consocrieure of this
: tot being the first time be had been at the liar, the
urt was or opiniqu.jt were better to send him Out of
torilee tentry He lin tretefore ordered to be trans-
%Sven. Y4O/* '
, I ildses .co.r. trek found' guilty of stealing three
11; etflaskijpitie the shop of Messrs. Dowses s, of
4tio git, shoemakers. The prisoner was employ.
el ' the gas pipes, and took that opportunity
.
or
,ig the pruperty•-iii his basket. He was
- i
ty. " .
'.
IrsOil recommended' him to mercy, it
dielikflar
. as his having a wife and three chi
4.
sad Court, in ceasideraticm'of this fait, scathe@
him only teak months Inepri*Onnient in the House
eviereetioa, Rad to be kept to bard labor.

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LONDON SSSSIONS.
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Yesterday these Sessions commenced before the
•Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, Iteetirder, Aldermen Meg-
nay, Sir C. Si. Hunter, and Ansley.
The :tecn►der, after giving the Grand Jury some
instructions with relation to the case of minty, con-
gratulated them on the comparative thinness of the
Calendar of the present Sessions.
On the names of the gentlemen summoned to serve
on the Petty Airy, one claimed to be excused en the
grounds that he had only been married the day be-
fore, and was by no means in a fit condition to de-
liberate npon a Jury.
The Court seemed to he startled at this novel ob-
jection, bnt npon a moment's consideration. they al-
lowed it to be a good one, and excused the indi-
vidual.

The following is a %Timm:try statement of the state
of thr Calendar of the present Sessions.
London. Michllesea.
Housebreaking U --- 4
flurglary 1 --- . S
Forgery " • • U -- 1
Uttering forged notes 1 II
Highway robbery . .

. ,
Stealing in a dwelling-house 0 S
}lour-stealing 0 I
Sacrilege 0 1
Immerge% IV SO
Bigamy • • 0 I
Reeeiving ati•lsn goods 0 —. 4
Meeting from tbe person... .. $ 21
Embezzlement. I I
Misdemeanor I V
Fraud 0 -- 0
Perjur) ... I --- S

T0ta1.... 39 106
The following was the state of hi, 31ajost):'s g4Ol of
Newgate on the Fit of December instant :-
31ales. Females.
Conviets tinder sentence of death 43 (1
--upon whom the judgment of the
Court has been respited
under ',emote., of transpor!.‘ 'ion
for life
for fourteen years . . .
for seven years - 31
Prisoners Undrr sentence of imprison-
ment for felon) anti niiittirtornnrs . . . 93 s-- 13
Committed b) Commissioners of Hata-
• 2 0
Vor trial at the present Session . . 160 —39
Admiralty Sessions
Fur the Assizes

T0ta1.... 310

POLICE.

Bow•-!meat.--Yesterday Furdkarr, a
young lad, wa. bronfht before H. Ilirnie.
charred with the rubbery described in the following
statement.

During the night of last Tuesday. se'nnight, the
printing-office of .Ir. Dal a printer in bombard-
street, Whitefriars, was entere.l, and a desk in the
reading-room broken open and plundered of 13/. in
bank-notes, and ills. in silver. .1 new blue coat be-
longing to one of the compositors, was stolen at the
woe time from the composing-roosas. Yesterday
sionnight Darts a patrol. apprehended the prisoner,
on suspicion of being concerned in the reserve of pri-
soners front blarsden the Marlhorongit-street gaoler,

and tsarist ascertained where he lived, he went to his
lodgings, and found a new coat and a quantity of.
silver. He asked the prisoner where he gut this pro-
perty, and he said he found 13!. his, in notes and
silver, and the cost wrapped in a parcel together in the
Strand. Davis thinking this an extremely inspro-.
bable story, questioned bins as to what he had done i
with the money, and he said he hail been robbed of
part of it by a fellow lodt:er, and that he had paid a
id. sots to one Chambers, a siopseller in Broad street.
St. Hiles's, for some clothes. The officer then ascer-
tained, by dint of inquiry, that this identical note-had
sabseventle been stopped at the Bank by order of Mr. 1
Davidson. from whose desk it was stolen, with others.
to the amount stated. The coat found at the pd.
piner's lodgings also proved to be the one stolen EMIR'
the composing-room at the same time.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
DAR! N 0 11111 D ATROCIOUS STRRIt I' ROMIRERT.
JoscpA Wootton and William Bullock, two most no-'
.
tozious characters, were examin-d on a charge of !
assaulting John Hall, Esq. (the Ilanoverian Consul), '
of No. 5, Russell-square,-oh the highway, and taking
.from his person a gold watch and seals, his property.
Mr. Hall deposed, that about six o'clock on the
evening of Friday, the-lath of Noveusber, as he was
*awing the end of Charlep-street, Drury.latte, he frit
himself pushed from behind, and imagining it was
aeon person who wished to pass him, he stepped aside,
but was at the same moment asset in front by another
azim, and pushed into Charles-street. He was en-
deavouring to retreat, when Ise received a tremendous
blow on the side of the head, rchirh forced bins against '
a third fellow, who called out " Hollua, what are you
after ?" and at the same moment snatched his watch
from his fob. Witness wade a rush at him, hut at
the moment he was about to lay hull of him, he was
seised by a dizziness from the effect of the blow. and
sunk to the ground. In less than half a minute,
howenr, he recovered and pursued the ruffians, but
hid only gore few .yatals. when another blow was
aimed at his face' with a stick, but he caught it on his
atm. He then thought it prudent to retreat, and
when lie reached Drury-lane, he ((mild that he was
covered with blood, which was still streaming from
his head.- Finding that he was seriously wounded,
he submitted his head to the inspection of a snrgeon,
and it was discovered that a part of the scalp. about
the size of a crown piece, was torn up by the violence
of the Mort, and the skr " 'Where
l
a 1 large Islet* cbt but of
dated by the Officers
Was itoletr from him ; _
`swearing it to be his property
bint;ielfM tlie prisoners, but
receliett; le had no doubt '
robbing 'MM.'
illaislotent,"tlie patrole. ,
were apprehended -1 It tosseequenee
Hatt, lad the watch be produce 4
trisliikr- flu non.
i' 'the prisoners were ,
I
of onli
Turay da teat. whet
adduced.

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Mr. Hall's head was still bound up from the °Meet
of the wound.
MANLBOROCIIII-ATUITT.---RF:SCUE GANG.--Witiems
Ilerdey,• yoeng man, was brought up in the custody
of John Fursman, the °Ger., on suspicion of being
concerned in the attack upon Marsden, the gaoler, and
the rescue of the five prisoners. Foreman stated,
duals consevarate of information be received of the
prisoner having been men is the company of Stanley,
and others, now in custody on the charge, ten minutes
previous to the attack being made, he proceeded to
an eating-house in Middle-row, Holborn, where he
apprehended the prisoner. He had been before in
custody ; he did not deny having been in Stanley's
company, but denied the knowledge of the rescue
going to take place. He was remanded till Friday
next.

Palace Corny, Entsseranti, Dec. I.—A CRUISE
it•Tft tORIIINARY.—A case of very unusual nature
came before the Court on Tuesday. Some sailors,
who had been discharged from the !diadem, at Ports-
mouth, having reached this city a few days ago, re-
solved to take a trip along some of our principal
streets, in one of our hackney coaches. They ac-
cordingly embarked—and had proceeded so far that
the coachman deemed it hecessary to descend, for
the purpose of receiving flesh instructions. Hie seat,
however, was immediately supplied by one of the
passengers, who darted through one of the windows
—when the horses were mule to fly like lightning be-
fore the wondering eyes of the. coachman. Having
proceeded with the greatest speed after his vehicle, he
was in time to discover it at a distance, overset in the
endeavour to lead it up to the fine broad flag stone*
in Picrartly !'lace. Ile was also fortunate enough
soon after to seise one of the sailors with his whip in
his hand—and this man wan now brought to the bar
of the court. lie bad little to say for himself—im Ire
bad merely" he said, " sprung out at the hatchway.
when he found the vessel overaetting." Ile was fined
20s. for the share he had taken in this ,:fair. It was
resolved, however, to remit the fine, on account of
some rirennistances—and he was called bark to the
bar—but it was discovered that the money had been
at once paid—and he was gone. In a few initiates
after, I -ever, he came bark to the door of the of-
fice, basing his arms filled with bread, cheese, tat% to
regale, lie said, his fellow prisoner.
We under.tanil that Dr. Itifilmert has discovered in
Shetland that rare and interesting mineral, the native
!mydrade of magnesia, which had been found only at
Hoboken, in New Jersey. The specimens brought to
Edinburgh were, by several mineralogists, mistaken
for white tale bust Dr. Ilihhert being persuaded that
it differed materially in the nature of its ingredients
from common tale, submitted it to Dr. Brewster, who
ascertained, by an optical analysis, that it was the ea-
tine hydrate of usaguesia, and confirmed this result by
a chemical examination of it.
It has been usual for the Members for time Borough
of Beverley to give a bull to tare town for the purpose
of being I sited. An application was made to H. L.
Fox, Cu'. by the electors, to comply with. the usual
citation, which that gentleman, much to his boopur.
gernsed. In his reply, he said, that any thing tin
which lay in his power, either to promote their amuse-
ment or their interest in any way, he would listeu to
• with pleasure ; but that he had the honour and credit
of time borough too much at heart to promote so bar-
barous a diversion.
*own 51raorm.—A most barbarous murder was
committed at a place called Mogan Highway, on
-Timidly night. Is was observed on Wednesday
morning., that. the house of a man named Simon
Rogers, who lived alone, was not open at the usual
time, and at length an entrance one effected, when
the, unhappy man was found dead iu his bed,
under which• was some sheaves of reed (straw used
fur thatching, &c.) partly burned, and which had
• been placed there evidently for time purpose o: sitting
tire to the bed and the house, in order to consume
the body, and conceal the horrid deed: Happily, we
trust, fur the purpose of justice, the ruffians by shutting
the door, prevented time access of air, and caused the
fire to go ont. On examining time body, It was found
that a sharp instrument had been forced into the
mouth and down the throat. so as to cause the death
of the unfortunate man. The house was rifled : but
t se chief object of the villains was a number of gui-
neas, which time deceased was well known to keep by
him, and which he was in the habit of spewing and
bopatiog of whenever hr drank freely, whirh he some-
times did. Every exertion is making to discover the
perpetrators ; who must have hren well acquainted
with the habits of the deceased.—( West Briton.)
Rossetti. or LORD AVERDICIN.—On Friday evening,
as Westcott, the flaw-street patrole, was with some of
his party, in lower Brook-street, Drosvenor-square,
they observed four men with a barge and cart, following
Loral Aberdeen's carriage, making several attempts to
cut the traces of a trunk which was listened behind
his Lordship's carriage, and which contained sone va-
in side propesty. They at 'took succeeded. la cops.
rating the trunk, and avere about to pot it into the cart
when the alarm was given, on which they ran off. 'Two.
of the fellows drove the cart down a mews, where they
were stopped : time others escaped. 'The trunk was after.
'wards found on time road. Thie is 'carte* of robbery
-*Melt is termed deafens,. or /tithing for game. The
two fellows in custody were taken to liarlborookh•
street, where they gave their. names Stevens, alias Nash,
and Chas. Wilkinson. Its.Lorilship's valet, and other
persons gave evidence against them, add they were or-
dered to find good bail; in default of which they would
be conitnitted nnslee the Police Art.
Mr. Lewis liennindtt, fortneely an eminent grimier in
Lincolnshire, died a fats days ago in that openly at a
eery advanced age.. It was front an hospitable Joke el
this worthy two s, that Dr. Uoldssuith took the hint of
nustakl of Mr. Hardened, -

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Happy Return, Sanders.m, from Arthur,
,0
Lirerpool, was stranded on Knock John, is the whit,
Sea, the end of t ktoller.

The Ann, l'ibert, from St. Prtershurgh to Br;Itnl,
put into tirinishy 39th tilt. very leaky, sod with 10R. 0(
rudder, and part of her cargo thrown overheard, having
been on shore on Falsterbo Reef, and also un the Lin,
won and Ore Sand.

The Minerva, Jordon, arrtvM at libll kens Memel,
sailed 19tli ult. For thole or font days previous there
had been severe frosts; and now+ it* in the Hatt
Burmese, Nor. 35.—After the severe frost. we hare
had for souse time, a complete thaw has set in, with, s
11. winds, anal if it shonid continue for sere dap, 0,,,;
River will be entirely cleared from Ice.
D.I.NTZIC, NOV. lb.—The Henry, of Newcastle, Sea?".
is on shore at the month of the Vistula, but expected ,d
he got off if the weather continues favourable. 'rite fro t
has set in very intensely. •
Hamlett, or. 3.—rite Brognsbergh, Ragan wily
coal, from Shields to London, lies been brought isle
this port by a Salvage boat, in 0 leaky state, baring
been run foul of by the Polk, of N. Shied.. yestenlm
morning about 5 o'clock, 'between Haudsey and the
Shipwash.
N ewe %STU, Doc. 2.—Dnring the late gales, the sf,
phis. of South Shields, it is feared foundered at .ra.
The Industry, Wiglians, of South Shields, was lost nem
Lowestoffe. The Friendship, Dunkin, of South Shields,
was lost near Harwich, and the Joseph, Robe, was lug
near Cromwell.
SCARI4I(O., Dec. Catherine, of this pert,
Thornton, from Sunderland, arrived at the Pier Ileatt
last night, where she broke from her niourings, and
sunk.

DART:4OIM. Nov. 30.—A lIIIIrVer has been held al
tiro Bremen brig TelentachVager, waster, which sr.
rived here 2-ith inst. from the ilavanuah, hound to Ifr.
men, and a sufferance taken out to lamd the cargo.
R%E, N. 30.—Two caski of French iiisar %ter.. Iv,
terdav picked tip near the entrr nee of this hi thostr, inaikr4
LB. N0.\0.3 and 3.

31em,_Nimble, --, not lost. as reported yester.lsr,
—the account was in the Liverpool Paper.

At the second meeting, for the present rear, of the
Cambridge Philosophical Society, on 31 ondav a anigh t.
several new Menthe-Ts were elected Fellows of tie be-
eiety. Afterwards a paper was r..a1l hy. the Professor
of Mineralogy, Or. E. D. Clarke, npotea remarkable
formation of Satire Nal. on. in Deveosbim The
Professor also communicated to the Socket a discover.:
which be had made respecting the sesprosed Alabaster
Soros, brought by Mr. Belzoni from, Upper &rept,
mod which he had found to consist of om,int .gral moss
of Al.rlgottite.
'The Rev. Mr. Cecil, of Magdaleoe Coilege, also
read a very important paper os the application of
hydrogen gas to prodnce moving force in machinery:
giving., at the same time, a description of an engine
for that purpose, which was exhibited to the Society.
H. Ilarvey, of IVickham Skeith, Suffolk, has pre
pared a model for direction posts, with painted letters,
which he states, gives light in such a manner as to be
legible in the night time, and retains that property
for several years.
We understand that after a laborious investiratino
into the circumstances of the case connected with the
charge against the person to %hum we alluded is
)(tar last publication, for admiuisterisg poison to a
! female, be was last night discharged on bail, for Lis
appearance at the next Assigns, to answer for tie
offence, which had so long formed the subject matter
of inquiry before the Magistrates of this Boroagh.
We refrain from entering into the particulars of this
distressing ease, (for distressing it is in every pulyt
of view), satisfied as we are that the purposes of
justice will he better answered by our silence in this
stage of the Waist's, and leaving the des elopement
of the facts to a judicial inquiry—( Leeds Mersero.
The article which appears in our last, beginning.
" A melancholy circumstance," we hare since learne4.
has not the smallest foundation in truth, it being tie
silly fabrication of sonic Miscreant, who, as a passport
for his lies, dared to implicate the name of a proles
sional Ueutlessan of great respectability, and that too.
under the forged signature of Mr. Wallis, a sorg,tes
of established practice, and unblemished reputation.--
But we would have this knave to know, that hi, ma-
nuscript is kept open for inspection, and if it so hap-
pens, by comparison, the band-writing should be sit
factorily traced house to him, he shall, in his ptoper
garb, be handed over, fur 3, urn to point her Guyer
at, ass—The comma* L—r of 31a.lfitld.—(erte
.luN rued.)
Uu Wednesday evening last several hundred of the
inhabitants of Southampton assembled, being the Jar
her Majesty went in procession to St. Paul's, and,
celebration of the event. exhibited a grand display of
tire-works; Majoeciti, Demont, &weld, Cuchi, au.l Kis
telli, were exhibited in ethgv, and the whole cenclnded
with a grand expl.tsion of the Green Bag.—(ll..rtssrm
Paper.)
Itemisa.—Spring and Oliver, anil Purcell and Marti',
are essatcbesi to enter the ring on the 20th of Feb""'uy
1311.
Pte;.-.Tsityrday ;minim .f_ fire broke oat in 11e
house of Mrs. Weston, !10. 5, -Ribg-street, hoe",
which originated from an oven in the kitchen. it bite
forth with ranch fury, and at length' commoinicated sritb
the adjoining bons,. Both bonus were much dastard'
,
bat the activity of the Gremie; and a good supply et
water. prevenG4 the rassigint of the devouring drawn.
ex tending father.
•
Latelis at St. Proems Church, Mr. Remosantri. of Mt:
drat, to miss Wallace, only tissghterfor Mrs. WOW. of
Pancras. • -
At Mt. Morpioslwess. Chespaide, by the Rev. Or._
„Val'
lope, , Rub. ot Liogsten. J stogies. to lam.
*l4 1% moat Unest, Rub, of Edginess-grew.

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ILO laid bare. 'there was RAO Marlor:mtstak;nribe Louse of .11r. liertlefsetle for an I . - Pff t:Vr. 1. -. 't DIED.
f his hat. The-watch now pro- inn, in the comedy or Mc *on* to Couver. The eir- l Oa ftnwtay. the $1 kat., at hit how, ea Forest-10, orw
hid been much altered since It enmatame kat tt ftithwes-slir. • Orspramkt; late one Peckham. laths nth xear of kW age. Robert Irirlett•Z.
; but he had no hesitation in ditto, poet a eputo.orreial kindles whwhasi mistalots his F.R. sad A. 6., asid oat orbit Majesty'slostion of tit
property. He bad ao knowledge read. awe Wilkes' the way I. the nearest Win es Pasiee- fore:4'l4ZZ eflibtftr-
rs, hot from information' be had' hew' Mr. 0. replied, that as he. was • striusiiitiiilk aenataboirsts...mettl."wilhitias smiesktroceileimbailik.Aateir-sts4vreas V.'
world show Wm kite way to a quiet respectable) pf
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lubt that they wet'? cobeented in romie entertainment fan man an 4 Leree.. dskt him was to lila Admiralt) .
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Oa *a list. at Ituthettiliba, limey, stpliPll.ol*
to itik own rethink?. The trareftee, bi the . ~ • sir.
ote, stated, that the prisoners and cohlihrate of ithinattiler,ishhismilWattactit Of Os ma R. fill th"...".14..t. in dahpriafier
y. the ad inst. at an residesee.
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t produced Vas 'found 'epos the ley lowiami for 1111010 stall Melees.- le Ilbe '. • ' '
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