The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-15 00:00:00

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COTTON.-.-fhe demand for Cott.* bas been near.
ix reaspe..tied„, chiefly on account of theneperted oes
trn.tve sate by the East India Company. 16th inst.;
ol* however believe that the qu entity vi ill h liceitid to
fitXX) hate= Sews, 1000 hales Benda, 200 hales
Aarlots, 15 Niles liourboo. The purchases of Cot•
ton mile., our last report ere--. 100 Pernams 2a.
20. IV.; 30 toperlor Priaranhates 24. 0P..; :40
`;•.,414 114(1. to 15441.; and 9.00 Bengali BFI. to
the whole were for exportation.
t:,DGAII..—The depression of the prices of Sager
list week, had the effect ef materially improving the
slefoun•l ; there was a great lucre-our in the number
of perehasers, and Omagh the riles were. sot eaters.
%fee, y.t the request. was steady, and mote busi-
ness tieing than for some time past the prices were
wit haat Initiation.
CO.FTES•-•—The Coffee market edrauced 2s• to 33..
I•vt week. Only one public sale was brought, for,
ward ; Ake whole.werit off briskly at the improve,
meat see have mentioned; after the sale the request
fey privet''• contract appe.red considerable, and 'Op
request since has contineed to increase. . .
Tuaaeco.-..Tobacco is heavy, and purchases atey
be made 4d. to ld. per lb. lower. The stock has
ennsillerobly.inetessed.
150111)novisioes, axe...Theprices of Beef and
Pork Rre little varied ; the shipping demand appears
already to he pettially felt. Towaids the close of
fast week there was a‘grest revival in the demand for
Butters: several extensive speculators appeared at
snorkel, sod purchased largely; one of the reasons
assigned for the haying was, the weather having some
appearance of frost; the prices are considerably
higher since oar last, but the trade have not par.;
chased freely; the latter are of opinion, that Ike'
present rise wilt be only temporary.
FILUIT.—The public sale of Fruit was chiefly;
taken in, on accoent of the low offers made; the,
whole, we believe..since have beers taken •by the,
trade. The declared resold price we believe is—
Dottrel? Mascatets, 81.81.; common, 61. 155.; Blooms,
61. ; Jordan Almonds. ISt.
By public Sale, 99 pipes Currants in Trieste
peckase, being the entire parcel just landed. 51. 7s. to
61. 81.; 40 barrels Carabourna liaisius, 705.-200
drains ditto. 60s. to 615.-150 half, 135 quarter
chests of 'Turkey Figs,withdraen.—t7o drumaditto,
40s. to 414.-31 barrels, 5 half barrels Prunes,
withdr.twn.
Hasse,- FLAX, AND TacLow.—Tallow continues
subject to great fluctuations ; the market is heavy.—
In Flea or Hemp, there is little variation.
SPICEL'i--The request, for Spices is very limited;
the market is expected to be heavy, until the sale by
the East !Witt Company takes elage.

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MK NE R RANDALL.
The long expected match betwerri these first.rste
before of the Mt, and which will eiciti more interest
than has keen known for many years, was made at
Itlr. Fran-klin's en Tuesday night; and is thousands
are pending already upon the match, we tarnish our
Wooers with the articles, subject to some trivia el•
iterations, by way of putting the document Into tug.
Usti.
Articles of agreeinsiet, October 13, Ifils, entered
lute at ranklin's, between John Randall end
Edward Turner, to fight fur the sum of 1001. aside,
on Tuesday, the Ist of December. The battle lobe
a stand.vp one, and half:mioute lime,—to take place
in • 24 feet ring, arid the said Noce to be named by
Jackson. The distance from Loudon not to be
less than 25 miles, and not to eiceed 30 miles : each
man to choose his own umpire:—and a referee to be
eppointed by Mr..lsckson, whose deiition, in case
of dispute, obeli 114 while of the stakes
to beintide'relod 'it Mt. 'Franklin's ; bdt iY 'either
Turner or Kanded wish-to intreasi the sum tolool.
aside, the siiid•iiscreatle to be Mille on the 24th of
tfovemher. Mi. lotatiklin to plate the strikes in the
hands of Mr. Jackson,' or whom he Shall appoint.—
To fight at twelve o'clock. • A deposit of 20i. tilde
Is ;Armed in the hands of Mr. Franklin, but if the
whole of the litotes of 100 gainer's ere not made
good at Mr: Franklin's eis the 10th of November,
'the whole-of the deposit to be fmieliall.
/Sighed by BAITER aml FRANKLIN.
Randall but his Own money down, sled Mater,
.Tamer's erode, cevered for bins.
A second snatch for 100 guineas, ploy or pay, bet
two only *posited, was made far Randall to fight
Scroggint far 100 goblets, within three mouths after
his combat`•Olth 'rinser. • This roma was made in
consequence et the backer of Remain telling fifty
roma. that liandeft wee both fights.
• The battle between Martin, rtw baker, and Cyrus
Davis is off, the torte, basing paid (titbit.
The money•bitireen the scientific Wes and Isle
of Wight 11•11,4 tor 100 pious, wiilles deposited at
Oliver's on. Tbersday, to fight oe the 29th inst.

A daring attack was oriTuesday night, at
the early hour of ten . 11 a gang of thieves,
upon the Refs Mr. Vickery, mite (alt. Pant, Co.]
vent.gardeu, as he was passing dat end Of St. Mar-1
ritt's.courtaisat to Leicrister-Aiare. Ater giving'
hist a violent pub, 'fine of their-thins snatched hie
gold watch,_ with gold chain tiotr tire valuable seals,
out of his pike, and ran prvoiiito it; but, epos
the cry of r 4 Stn thief!" being rioide, he was par.,
sued into Bear street, and), with another Of the,
gang, secured and taken to the
fellow threw away the watch as _its he ikaa
tlicen„ and it was picked up by a iiiiiifiaioisalleist
the time.
Tuesday oight the hives* or tairs' 'to .mere at
.
a
Putney was broke open: The gobbet's Mitte red 6y
purloor ASIII4IOW on the grootadlicre, suit ifildifig a
poker in the roam, ninde use of it Ar hririk "en' a
pair of folding doors, which sierra tesr*iiel? and'
vented their paper to the l'utriier Wale.
They carried alf a eariely of aritickee;-io
wearing apparel, indalso a wrttitif desk
afterwards fouls& brain. irt-preciis atAufti,
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of the !awe. The thither not' hiving iiro
,sloy other than two cofn.
that they made opfectpfiate retritab silt tonal
of the batkiocof gardinsi4 stog.—ao.
volAt the house d the D. Chnkti,
oas entered and plundered of a number of

,Iftwou or ivevofts.
One of the porters of the Belle Saunge Ina was
fined tb.. anti -coats, on his own C 014011,40, Poem
overcharge oft 'tercel direr Ws Mr. Bartlett, free
flsartlism. I'h* caliargein the way-bill Iris lg. irks
Defeatlast &belittled a ticket, sald charged 1141
porterage Bd.
Alderman WArraikats said this well a great
fie hesitated whether be ehould not order the Pros
prietors of inns end cotches, In cases of this kind, to
be brou;lit before him for punishment. to the lore.
+western., however. the Prnprietor had made out it
legal ticket agreeably to the Act, and the Defendant
feloniously altered it.
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Mr. HARMER, for the Defendant, prayed the
mercy of the Cnert, which was bestowed. He on
di.missed, alter so edreenition Which be *ln tot-be
likely to forget.
'VNION• lIALt. Mn.h Morris, *ife of Capleht
Mardi, late of the /th hussars, attemted yesterday
before 'the Magistrates of this rate, to 'Miter k
charge preferred 'Oast her by Miss Eliza Johnsoft.
for assaulting her and threatening her with persoo4
violence.
Miss Johnson staled, that sortie months back tit
formed an unfortunate counesiost CA Captain Mars
rig, in Ireland. She 'etas eat snare that he *al
married man. She iccompanted him to England, and
was then visited by the Defendant, who 'bused her
in the mast virulent Manner, and tilertoed het by her
outrageons conduct. Since taint period Captain
MOrrts had been in Custody sererst tient upois
chatges prefetred spied him by ptristudifictrs, ti
whom Mrs. Morris hod apt lied for maintenance, and
for a considerable fives she (Gomplairent) had die.

continued her conneetlem, with that Gendemon
She at peseta resided in the parish of St George's,
Southwark, and the Defendant occupied apartments
at no great distance from the same place. They fre.
queutl,y met in the street. end upon all such occ?.
'ions Mrs. Morris assailed her with torrents 4
abase, raised a mob about her, and compelled her to
Seek refuge in the nearest house, or call a backneb. ,
epoch, and escape her fury by driving away. About '
ten days ago, meeting her in the street, she caught
hold of her vieleatly by the shoulder, and abused her
in the *seal manner. She *es hunted by the De.
fondant wherever she went, an6considored that bet
personal safety was endatigered by such conduct.
Mrs. Morris said, that she felt towa4l the Con.
plainant as my ether female would feel ant„,, 404
•ler circumstances. Site had deprived her of he. hug.
,band, and had been the principal cause of herself at,*
family being reduced to so deplorable a state as to be
compelled to apply to a parish for subsistence. Sire
heel reason to believe .that _the statement was untrue
respecting the discontinuance of her connection with
Captain Morris. It was a sobject of inexpressible
morkfication tr. witness the sneandering away open a
Jr stsshkess woman, that property which (night to be
appropriated to the uses of his own family, wheat
want, were numerous. She could not repress Ler
ftelings, and wherever- or whenever she met the Com-
plainant, she would remind ker.pf the inneraerable
wrongs which she had been the means of heaping up.
PP her family. "!' !v .1.--`
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0 ,The MAONITRATRS lamented tie aaaaseeie and
deserted situation of Mrs. Morris, bet remiatkd her
)(bat she aunt not adopt such a goaded ,towards Miss
( boson as tended to lead to a breach, of the pease.
t
ider these circumstances, he should not then all
Ispou her to had aunties; the OfiCl4 Ehnuiti bold&
warrant, and brim the .parties before him if a similar
occurrence should again take place.
, • QUAas-staang.—Yesterday B. Doily was remand.
ad, eie a charge of receiving money for Misting in
serious regiment.. the period of his serving in the
Norfolk • militia not being ended until 1820. 111
punishment, if found guilty, is seven years trans-
, p rtati on.
. U. Griffin wee fully committed for robbing. dm
lodgings of M. ,A. Norris, at Chelsea, dariag.'boti
absence.
HATTON-GARDex.—Yesterday T. Graver, a Wt.
chtsc. resadisig• at Ne. 1, POer.stfeet, Sdtfron•hill,
appeared to answer the cremp4sint of --- Per,
• constable, on a charge of wanton cruelty to a sheep,
his own ptoperty.—The Defendant was convicted
i‘a the penalty of 10s., Ar in defasit of ilnllll4i4ta pit.
mew, to a nitiolles imprlsonastat is the Ikon of
.Gottection.
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~,,,i7Toapi AT SnAcsos.A. sisin of this titotie, el
/*cob 14401;-whe was yesterday breight to ilattet)t-
tulle pace, on a charge or vagriney,:being 44.10
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swing in the streets, without any vhitdnisesris ilf
isupport, or any lodging but aleepiig in Owa open air,
was sentenced to seven dexa4 itioptisOnnient in the
'loose of Correction in order to be passed taliis
,perish. Previous to his being sent to prison, hews,
secured in the back lock-up bruise of Ihp office.,
where, with a piece of black tape, he contrived to
suspend himself froin one of the iron bars of his witt•
dow ; the Prissiness in the neat cell hearing a kind
of guttural noisb, suspecting that some person was
hanging himself, gave the alarm, and William heady
sen. arrived in time to cut bim down, apparently
dead, burin iiiffiCiear time to preserve his life. Afiec
tieing recovereJf he•W is remoied td prison.
1 CORONER'S INQUEST.
On Tnesdny sight aq inquest wits held ra the Easley pi.w.
Ilrount-sireet:on tlie bldy of Jars !Tolland, ft eats 0 ar,
found Clowned in the Serpentine Kiser, an Sancta% . IV 6"
(ward 'Pit his or onliatniltay Might, nod called at the bore
of hib brother-in-law, Burleip,trirt, Strand ; he appeared toy
MelaactiMs, About one one o't4oek next day Ise ratted ups
his terser,
in illitiatroth.4-4weet. Mary -le-bestir. Moot thfret
two Geatlltmeti Were walking along the Serpentine, nod !Mow'
ink a 'hat to she. w tees-, ibey applied at the bentf-haUte. soul the
bay *Est Mtn id three ftbet grater. lid bad his wadi' lot)
Stuoe,... -VOrdieP-Fesild Drowsed. ,
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ititt'ss the Right Ho:L.IIAM fkkaand,
LAN yrainiona.
Oa (he 16th itisdit ltitgriat hi North tobrt, tilt of *j ht,
Clififten litannet;lt..,“. in MI 418111 rear.
tin dit ha; at Mr. K. Wilma, is•ek.
seller, Knyal Farhnoge.
OPI4II 5r 401..84 OAksll, its. in hi' FO4l. yotr.
Mi. t oiarJ, Leelcitone-kitiet, Ph /fl yof ea, futuitel Put k•
On the 10'h inct. in the 81st year of his age,rtisor Wattlos
tiaq, of Biora.r.refs, I.IIIIIOC sad nue of BiAsapbAgale street.
k On the Win krt. at. his hau'e I.lfonsley,"Wliddlcsex, in ins
,dstll year of Mil ale, Mr. Joseph' ftbpri.

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