The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-24 00:00:00

QUEEN SQUARE.—(Ems Day.)

DISTRESSED POOR IN W ESTAIINSTeII. —The. sitting
sigistr art was occupied a great portion of the morning
ig bearing the conrplaints of numerous poor fatuities,
whose wretched app ire denoted their extreme distress,
and the woeful anguish of their feelings. Amongst the
group wee a young man; about Its years of age. who said
le wee here err •Westuelnoser. and *ad been brewers op iv
groom, but having lost his situation about IS months ego,
hewas unable to procure any employment since. His clothes
led money were all gone, and he had been expelled from his
lodging. about a week ago, since that time he hesslept in the
rain and damp in the open air, and had on sustenance
eseept what people. who. witnessed his distress. chose to give
him He could not beg nor stealjand he was ton short to be
take* into the army ; he had offered himself to recruiting par-
ties, but they all rejected bite. A sergeant of tit. 94th ens pre-
wt. and he instantly enlisted this poor fellow, expecting tie
would be re:steed under the standard, in cons, quence of his
TM&
•.Mrs. T tompson, a lady from Sloane upsets, addressed the
Iwamoto cn behalf of a soldier's widow. whom she found iu
et *rest with her daughter. an interesting girl, whom she
Weight from Ireland, in expectation of (retina her roc. iced in
tie Royal Military Asylum. They were is extreme distress;
De parish refused to reline them. and Mrs. Ttiompson I indly
rive Mem shelter; bill the girl being ton old. sec petition Was
rejected, and since that she has been seriously indisposed, and
sothleg but starsatitm awaited them, unless they got relief
weep the intercession of the lime istratet The poor woman
said when she applied at the workhouse, the beadle
.ridiculed
her,lelling her to go to her Priest, who would eleteher hod
water to relieve her hunger. The magistratel severer* censure..
thebeadle's entuldel,aad ordered the clerk to write to the o ere,
tiff io her behalf.

At the last Court of ilnrglimote of the Corporation of this
City, it TM resolved again to petition Parliament In the en-
siles !Inatome, for the. repeal of the duty on coal. earried
reastways. It may he recollected, that in presenting the far •
wee Petition from this City, Mr. Lushingtnn observed, that he
seglimely joined with his noble colleague in hupinv, that his
Hoopoes :de Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
night 110011 find it l 'Amicable to releos.: their constituents
.imatlitsumetual hurtle*, consistent with a sting regard to the
reseal Interests of the country. From the prosperous state
'ef dm Revenue, combined with the inthoati 'of farther relief
ban taxation. held nut by the Chancellor of the Erehequer,
it tbe close of the last Sessions, there is now every reniton to
latielpate tl•e fulAlment of our worthy member's expectations.
'-freafitak arrow.)
The question, „is duelling, untl.-r any eirearnsfaoces,
jaatifiahie ?" was lately discussed in a debating snrietv ;
sad after a very kern and animated dehate, was carried-in
the Arinative. Ttro or, thr members elionsed the argil-
keiit so sralousty, that theY nliitnately retired and carried
iats• practice. One of the parties was severely
.111•41141:4 dlangerously, wounded.--(erlia6urea Ob-
.
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. St. notitanti• tv 11.t.—The place which -gives the name
la the.forthconsing novel, from the author of Waverly,
is la 4to he situated in one of the islands of the
la a statistical account of Scotland it is men-
that on the island of Ronan, situate oh iut twenty
Rapti distant from the north east point of Ness, there is
thapel 'dedicated to St. Ronan, feared round with a
amil-atall, This chapel the natives take good care to
listp very neat and clean, and sheep it every d iy. It
. 'tensing an altar, on which there lieu a hire. plink of wood,
eMalt.m feet long. Every foot has a hole in it, find in every
Vs there is a stone, to which the iiihabitAtts ascribe several
*WU OM of them, they ally, is c.hilient far proinotiug
rib delivery, and each stone ess its p. coli.tr properties.—
his Cintt4l, it is imagined, is sioustell St. Ronan's well,
mad
_veention Is made of it in the statistical siecounts ; it
Tentlartfore be presumed, that Cie stotr of the novel is cow
Iliad with superstition of the. Western Isl.'s.
Clan EICIANSIL—There appears to be very littlw doing in
%Market this morning, as there are.bot few buyers, and the
„M an rather lower. We have received since Monday
,__lfeerters of Wheat, 5,700 of Harley- 900 of English,
.116,100 of Irish Oats, tad 3.:00 sacks of Floor. The prices
litlreiste, however, 'must be quottd notnisiat ; tomorrow
• y the factors 'moot ioclined to purchase.
otts`°•"46Yolltht some thieves broke into the wash house
`Twos Crisp. the pedestrian, residing in Heil street, Pad-
ebbed it of thirty pounds worth of wet cl9thes,
Life, who is a laundress, had to wasb and get up.