The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

OLD B.IILFI SP:SNI().VS.

Vneit4 and Ted,6B, two young men, were capitally
irotivted fur ass:tulting William Storks in the hiag's
highway, and violently taking from his person a watch.

The robbery took place in the night of the 49th
.ialy last, in It' irk-lane, netlinal-green The prose-
cutor observed a nnmher of suspicious characters had-
sited together in a knot, and being warned by the
watchman hr crossed uv. r the war. lle was however
followed. and Smith snatched his watch fmm his 54.
The evidence against the other prisoner, Tubbs, was
so slight, that the Court did not think proper to call
upon him for his defence. The Jury found the pri-
soner Smith " Utility of stealing from the person, not
'violently," and acquitted the other prisoner.
The sentence of transportatior for life was immetli-
at,ly passed upon Smith by the (7onsioN Senaasnr,
who was at the same time informed, that the rest of
the gang might, if apprehended, receive a mare severe
punishment.

During the trial a gond deal of laughter was ex-
cited by the examination of a Berman witness, who
soemeil to have very little regard fur the decorum or
decency to be preserved in a court of justice. While
titular examination by the Court, and while proceed-
ing in a long harangue, he was interrupted by 31r.
Amotews, Counsel for the prisoner. The witness,
who spoke broken English, immediately cried out in
a loud tone, and assuming a threatening gesture, •• I
did not speak to you, Sir." After some difficulty the
Court obliged the witness to proceed, anal he several
times asked. •• Who am Ito speak to?" When the
trial was concluded, and the awful sentence was pro-
nouneed, the dead silence which usuall♦ ensues was
in:errupted by the Merman callNaß out. mad holding
up the prosecutor's watch, •• Who is to have the
witch, nay Lord lie •diately received a severe
reprimand from the l'ourt, and was told in Inture nut
to he quite so officions.
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Mary Roland was charged with stealing a silk
handkerchief, value Is. and also • pound note. the
property of James Robertson, from his person, on the
lilth of August.

The prosecutor, a seafaring man, said, hr had been
that day to a cricket-match, where he acted as waiter,
and was on his return home, through Drury-lane,
when he was met by the prisoner. Witness then
swore that she stole his silk hantli,erchief and the
money.

The womaw in her defence, said, the prosecutor had
give■ her those things.—Guilty.
&NM* was indicted for stealing 3s. 6d. from
the person of Henry Knowlys, on the lath of August
Knowles said he lived in Thornhaugh Mews, and
was at the Orange Tree public-house on the night of
the 13th Angest. He sat in a box in whirl' there was
no one hut the prisoner and himself. When he went
in. whiten had 3•. GIL in change in his pocket ; the
ptisont•r sat next to him. In a little time he missed
the Motley, and 'inspecting the prisoner, hr sent 1.. e
a constable, who upon making a search, found the
shillings with the prisoner. The prosecutor idew-
tified these shillings as his property, from some pri.
tate marks which he had on them.

The constable confirmed this statement.
The prisoner was found Gui ly of Steu!ing.

POLICE.

Ocit.Duatt..—Singoilar act of Insanity in St. Se-
polders's Chards on &twiny Inst.—This Justice Room
was crowded at an early hour yesterday, by numerous
individuals of both sexes, to witness the examination
of the person who bad created great alarm and confu•
siun in St. Sepulchre's Church, on Sunday evening,
by firing off a pistol in the middle aisle during Divine
Service.

1 he prisoner, whose name* is Daniel Kranling, is a
fine looking young man, about 2.4 years old ; he was
'try respectably dressed in black, and conducted
himself with every appearance of mildness and pro-
p:iety.
Previously to hearing the evidence, a young gentle.
man of the name of Rhenius, clerk in the I e of
Messrs. Pasehe and Co., foreign merchants, No 10,
Crosby-square, a friend and school-fellow of the pri-
%Jeer, was sworn to interpret, braiding being a Ger-
man, and unacquainted with English.
The history of the transaction was narrated by a
person of the name of Cumber, a smith in Fleet-street,
who stated that he was standing in the aisle near the
pulpit. about a quarter before seven o'clock, when he
observed the prisoner come from the rear of the pulpit.
pot on his hat, and pulling from beneath his coat a
pi-tol, walk down the aisle and discharge it towards
the .rgan. This evidence being communicated to
the prisoner by his friend. be mildly said it was cor-
rect, but desired it might be added." after first dis-
persing about some of the printed papers," a copy of
•hich we subjoin :
THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION
Spokes of by Daniel the Prophet, that he shall stand
in the Holy Place, is THE ORGAN.
It is the Image of tie Kingdom of Antichsist.
THE MUSIC. The
B A BY L 0 N Beast.
I • II • 111 IV • V • VI • VII VIII
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('umber, immediately on the firing, secured the pri-
&Kir, in which he was assisted by Pike one of the
b ...dies, and be was taken into the Vestry-room, from
whence, after being searched, he was conveyed to the
C-supser. Diligent search was subsequently made by
Mr. Haskins, the churchwarden, and the beadles, bat
to mark or trace could be discovered to shrew that the
pistol had born loaded with ball.
ib. prisoner, when asked what object he had .in
tl ia rash act, replied, that he might succeed, as be
had succeeded; that his plan might be known to the
. *urld;,the papers he had (MIAOW contained it in
putt t they were far too small to explain It ; be
fitwever, explain it more fully to any person
wk;) understood the principles of music. The plan.l
• wan4lhat music is the Atitichrlet, which is against
Meilfitssa is to be punished, and destroyed by lire.
story of the wanderibge wf this unfortunate
• sy• WI man was told with muck feeliitg by his friend.
Me. itlainius, mho stated that he was the sot of t re-
spectable merchant at Konigsberg, in Pruesis; and
had base as dicer is the Prussian army. and always

borne an excellent exemplary moral character.
He (Mr. ithenius) was his school-fellow, and they
corresponded since he (%tr. It.) had been in thin coun-
try. Ile nnderstood that Mr. Kr.tsling hail bee I in
town, althe Angel Inn, St. Clement's, about six weeks ;
hut it n•.ts 110 i till a we• k aq.,, that he received a note
from him, saying-, that he (the prisoner) had great
events to communicate, which would make him happy
in believing. lir called upon him subsequently at
tl•e Angel Inn—found him very much agitated ; he
then communicated to him, in an incoherent manner,
that he had found out all the secrets of the Freema-
sons, that he had written to the Duke of Sussex four
letters on the subject, and had also had an interview
with his Royal Highness; and he expected, from the
manner in which he had been received by hint, that
all the organs and musical instruments would be de-
stroyed by the Freemasons, they knowing the secret
revealed to him, that musi: is Antichrist, and must he
destroyed. lie said h could never regain his peace
of mind till he had made known this secret to the
world, and when that w is (Lo-, he was ready to abide
all conseq • and undergo the penalties of the law
of the country.
Other proofs of the prisoner's disordered state of
mind were adduced : it was stated, that while at Ito-
Lague, he burnt near 1000 sheets of music, and re-
fused an athantageous situation of itinsic-mastrr,
which had been offered to hint, with a salary of VOt,o
fra ICS a year.

Since his arrival in this country, he had been for
days and nights together without eating, drinking, or
sleeping, and s'J strongly was Isis mind impressed with
the act he had determined to do, for the purpose of
calling public attenti.sn to .':is grand secret, that he did
not go to hed tinting the Saturday night previous.
When searched at the Vestry Bosun, which he re-
sisted with much indignation fur some time, his pnrse
was found to contain lb or 241 ducats in gold, and
some silver; two one-pound Bank of England notes
we.e also fouutl in his room at the Angel Inn, hang-
ing up carelessly over the chimney Blass.
'f he fact of his insanity being thus established, and
certified also by 31r. Boy. the Surgeon of the Comptt r,
it was determined, with the eonseut of his f hods,
that he should be removed to a pl.n•r of proper re-
straint under their care, until he could sate ly be re-
stored to his parents.
This being communicated to the unfortunate young
inn, he espr. stied himself mnm•h obliged to the Ma-
gistrate, 31r. Alderman Seholey, and. bowing respect-
fully, retired very quietly with his friend, Mr. Rite-
aims, and come other gentlemen.
_ _

The confusion this occurrence created in the church
is scarcely desvibahle its the hurry and crowd to get
out. Numbers were iii n down and trampled upon;
several children were 11.:rt, and slue was taken to the
Hospital with its collar-bone dislocated ; hut nu lives,
we hear. were lust.
51s s•ion-llocse.—A shirt time since, the silk-
warehonse of 3lr. Green, of Wuod-street, Ulteapside,
was broke open and robbed of silk goods, &c. to the
value of upwards of HMO/. It appeared upon exami-
nation of the premises, that the robbery must have
been well arranged. and enn.lucted upon the most in-
denious principle of depredation, as the doors were
eprived of their fastenings without alarm to the
neighbourhood. and the goods were collected front se-
veral parts of the premises, and must have been re-
moved at the same moment, through, it has been sup-
posed, the medium of a cart.
The morning after the rolthet y bills were firm-
lated, describing the nature of the property that had
been stolen, and offering a reward of lOU/. for the
apprehension of the robbers.
The police have been ever since frequently employed
in the endeavour to make discoveries, but nothing ap-
peared in the course of their inquiries or search that
led to a probability of detection of those concerned,
until a day or two ago. when Leadbeater. the Marshal-
man, by the merest accident, got into his hands a piece
of ribband, which, upon calling to Isis recollection the
descrip.ion of what had been stolen from Mr. fireen,he
believed to be part of the plunder. The manlier in
which the ribband canoe into his possession was rather
singular. He had dealt with a re-pro:Me tradesman
in the city for many years, and Mrs. Leadheter having.
while giving orders for some necessary articles at the
shop, been asked whether she wanted any ribbaud
which could be sold cheap, a sample of it was pro-
duced. A bad debt was assigned as the cause of the
cheapness of the article; the tradesman bad no snore
suspicion that it formed part of Mr. Green's plundered
stock titan Mrs. Leadheater entertained, ',who shelved
it to her husband as a piece of goods that was worth
what had been demanded. Ihe tuarshalman, upon
seeing the ribband, innnediately went to Mr. Breen,
who instantly identified the ribhand as part of the
property stolen out of his warehouse ; upon which the
saarshalutau proceeded to his tradesman and learned
fins big, the name and address of the person who
bad expressed a wish to sell a quantity of the article.
The consequence was, that a female of rather rt.
epectahle appearance, named Woodman, was taken
into easterly, and brought Lefore Mr. Alderman Hers
a sTr, who sat yesterday for the Lord Mayor.
A witness then stated that the prisoner, who resid-
ed near her honse, applied to her about a week or a
fortnight before Bartholomew Fair, to purchase some
ribband. which she said could be had at a very cheap
rate. The prisoeter sold two yards of the ribband to
a lodger isv the house for fourteen-pence, and two
yards to her for a shilling. Some days afterwards the
priseaer called stain, and was anxious to dispose of
more ribband. Witness did not herself want any, but
she told the prisoner that if she would leave some with
her, she would try to dispose of it. The prisoner did
do so, and witness took the silk to the shop of Mr.
Leadbeater's tradesman.

Mr. HARMS* attended for the prisoner, and asked
Mr. times whether the rubbery could have been sons-
milted by a wonign
Mr. (Freon said he had every reason to suppose that
men most have been the perpetrators.
Mr. Alderman HATRATC said, be should pestpooe
the exatuingtior until Mooday next.

Sir John kill. of Hawkstone. who is now In the
Aghtieth vise of hi, hoc., is Otlit one of the keenest
allretasen in Shen/1414re. illiitt;tre the hinds with all
' the spirit of path, is mashy- itrst in Ilse kid. sal
tear times out of in at the death.

DI 1G0.V0.11 ETRIC.I b 3URrE Y.

We learn from a northern correspondent, that Dr.
M'Culloch of Blackheath, has been in the Shetland
Isles all this summer, by order of the Board of Ord-
nance, bring associated with the tritrottometrical sur-
vey.untler the lute lleneral Mudge, and continued by
Captain Colby. 'I he leading obj at of the survey
is to ascertain the specific gravity and density of the
earth at the stations, and in the circuits where the
Zenith Sector was placed, for determining the ex-
treme northern point of the meridional are begun by
the hoe lieneral Roy. and now continued fr .uo Dun-
non to Balta. These corrections are required to
determine any eventual errors arising front a devia-
tion of th plumb line. and also the local influences
capable of affecting the pentlithnu, as used by Dr.
Uregury and 31. Biot, and more lately by Captain
Mater. The whole is connected with similar observa-
tions, carried on for some years past, on the nieridoval
are in question as it pas-es through England and
Seotland. This etlert on astran ~,,, ical instruments was
first noticed by the French and Spanish astronomers in
South America, and applied by (Jr. Maskelyne to the
prohlem of determining the earth's density It is treat
eil of at full length in Baron De Zarli's work, and the
necesity of attending to it was strongly urged by the
late lamented Ur. Pis astir. The conduct Lathe Board of
Ordnance, in selecting Or. Al'Culloeli, for an investi-
gation of such importance to seitst.e, dest rvcs the
highest praise, and is an earnest of the attention they
have paid to the due and art ur.:te execution of this
important work. Dr. M'Unllolt is farther, we are in-
formed, extending his uhrarratinta so far as to fur
geological map 44 the Shetland Isles, which will lie
added t • the general geologi.-al and mineral nap iit
Scotland, in whirp he bat. made All great projess, and
we understand, it ill be shortly published by
the Moan! of I leduanea, in a form corresponding with
that of the mys now pithlithing under their inspection.

Themlav, about a Titterer past twelve at noon. during
a violent sioren of thunder and lightning, accompanied
with a treinenolcous shower of hall and rain, the electric
fluid entered the lioc.se of .1I r. firmer of the
Harpsichord liatlemc, St. Clements, ftitford. It de-
'wended the chimney- into tine parhisir where tfardi-
ner, his wife. and seven children were sitting, and drove
one of his daughters. Abu at live years of are, air oico the
room, a space of six or -even fret, %%filch much scorched
both her legs and lII.e Fide of her up to the bras!. Mr.
Um:liner was thrown down, and striven with great rio-
lenre against a table. The eleetrie fluid mend; a cradle,
in which was a child, and tiara the cradle down, but
the child escaped unhurt ; it passed in an horizontal di-
reetion from the pin, on whirls the cradle swum:, to a
brad in the sash frame of the window, thence to an iron
bar, and the hinge of the door, the case of which it
carried away, and escaped lortween the hinge and the
door. Another ball enter -4 the house by the window
into an upper room, and carried away a landscape, hang-
ing near the window, to a considerable distance, and es-
caped by the window. after driving the sash frame and
cornice swat'. Two trer. 1.1 the front of the !maim were
struck, the fork of whido oas rue i torn from the bo-
dies. The little girl is its a fair way of recover'.
Tattoo, Sarr. `l?..—lletween three and font o'clock on
Tuesday morning, a fire broke out in the spinning nianu-
factory of Mears. Plummer, in Mill-lane, in this town,
and though the engines were promptly brought to the
spot, it was found that every effort to save the building
in which the fire originatid, must to unavailing; as
from the nature of the machinery and the quantity of oil
used in the working, the flames spread with ralololity,
anti raged with fury. Fortunately the night was per-
fectly calm, and a pipe of oil was, by great exertions,
got out of the premises before the fire readied where it
I-ay, or the consequences would probably have been fatal
to a number of old houses, which are situated between
the factory and the churelt. The exertions of the per-
sons present hanpily confined the flames to the premises
in whit+ they commenced, which were entirely con-
sumed with the whole of the insehisery, and a splantity
of wool.—lt appears that the tire originated in the for-
lowing mantle, :—The late drought having compelled
the persons belonging to the factory to work, when the
accumulation of water in the reservoir was sufficient to
set the machinery in motion, some persons were engaged
in spinning at a late honr i a the night. The foreman left the
pmelisesahont midnight, when all was safe; but a woman
and two girls continued at work, until two o'doek, when
It appears they fell asleep, leaving a candle burning,
which set on tire irk part of the machinery, and speedily
the whole roans was in Raines. Those whose careless-
ness had orcusionsed the disaster, as err only rendered
conscious of tliek dreadful situation by the heat, which
had become inentrable, just in time to acre thearselves
from destruction, part ot their clothing being scorched.
—We understand the premises, &r. were insured nearly
to the full amount of the loss sustained.

On Thursday morning an alarm of fire pervaded
Chichester, in consequence of a vast column of smoke
issuing from the roof of the Rev. Mr. Hunt's Chapel,
denominated "the Independent Chapel," in Chapel-
street. Assistance from all parts immediately arca-
annlatesi and the various engines, both pnhlic and
private, bring in excellent order, (which reflects great
credit on Mr. Km. Mitchell, superintendent) were
applied s.i"Pmisiptly and effeetaally as, in 40 minutes,
to subdue all apprehension of danger. This place of
worship 14 slltialM etilligunns to several large snap and
eamile inaoisfacturies. malt-boems, the guile spirit
store, and the extensive premises of Messrs. White
and Son, cabinet-makers in Crane-lane, all containing
ankles of a combustible nature ; the latter of whirls
was within 211 yards of the fire In the direct course of
the wind, and was its such a precarious situation as to
excite the greatest anxiety.
Ent soca° Si,?. 24.—A new plan has Keen pro-
posed, and we understand is about to be tried, in the
pavement 'of out streets, many of which are at this
mu rent in very great disrepair. The ramie bow 'lug-
gestesi is, to lay a rail-way, If it ran be so called, of
stone, inserted in the causeway, the stones to be abort
twelve inches broad, and cub four feet in len'lrth,
with a thickness smihrient for their strength. Of these,
two roads smut be laid in each street, for the eonve-
Elem., of passing ; and the dimenition of friction is
so great, that horses of their own accord Will soon
learn to use them. Persons who have ever traversed
the streets of Milan, Winch are all furnished With
these rail-roadi are spite aware of the comforfikey•
afford, to tisiose whd travel la carriages, which less
along the sheet without noise, without shakldg,
asd with the'greateet rapidity. If bd Ibdifi
•to answer here, mach 4.lpense may be aid he. eg
the °thee parts of the Stroet, willoh wIW in ro
the more expensive workmanship as is neoft fit! ir
bestowed 's& many of them.