The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-04 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

have nut visited the island ; shall do so probably to-
morrow. During the tyfottg, •tit* Chinese boats suf-
fered dreadfully ; upwards of two hundred of them
were totally destroyed, :•nd, at a moderate computation,
two thousand of these unfortunate beings, of both
sexes, v.-ere consigned to eternity amidst those waters,
upon whose surface they had lived for generations be-
fore. Al t every 1 se in Macao was wore or less
injured, and an East India Company's ship dismasted,
lying in Macao Roads."

the briOstrst touge :—thei: dress is adotned by rib-
bons, and glitters with tinsel that might look be-
coming, even on the boards of our mighty thestres.-1
:tnil yet, on consideration, we think that even the
chimney-sweepers begin to feel the influence of the
time. Yes, it is certainly set The clantotir of their
stomachs is mu longer linshed by Mrs. Montage's be-
nefaction. The iniektness of their looks is on the
wane. They are no longer the happy mortals that they
were wont to he. They have become unlike--
The inhabitants of the earth.
The grins with which they demand a reward for their
melancholy tnovements are scarcely of this world ; avail
the music which they, once a year, degrade fr its
sublime elevation to please us mortals on the
earth below, sounds heavy and monotonous ; its
ateakenittr spirit is gone: the orchestras, es en at the
minor theatres, may surpass it.
This is but a mournfal tertnihation to an article on
the month of May, and yet we do not know how to
amend it. Were the plasures of the time still pr. -
sent, perhaps we might have catteist a spirit from the
sports : lint we have hail to speak of joys no loner in
existence ; and the recollection of old days rotates open
us with a more sorrowful feeling than if they had
never bees festive and gay.

L.IIV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, M►Y S.

TIII: KING r. HINT AND OTIIERII.--Mr. Justice
Ilavt.Ev entitinited the reading of his Report until
three o'clock, when not having finished it, the further
proceedings were adjourned until Friday morning.
Mr. Thomas Well., who has several times applied
for hearing to their Lordships, appeared up the floor
of the Court, and entered into a very incoherent state-
ment of real or suppose I grievances. '1 he • ffeet of
this gentleman's addr.ss wan to impute the etitne of
perjnry to certain indit ideals of respectable situation
in society ; and he was informed by the bird Chief
Justice that the Court could not I:sten to such default.
tory enatier.
Afi• r he had b cu repeatedly desired to state the
nature of his W 1111) put in an affidavit of
fearful extent, declar:ug that lie was a ruined man if
any ;:ccident beryl it. He sul.-iineetly entreatol, that
the Court would be pleased to :v.sigt) him proper Conn-
/a I, in order that his case, which was of the highest
importance both to hintse:f and to the launch, might
be fully investigated.
The LORD CHIEF Js STICK thought that Counsel
had already been requested to look into the matter.
He would read the affidavit; and if there was any
thing which the Court could do, and ought to do, that
should he done; but the Court could not listen to de
-
Mutation. '1 he plaintiff might apply again in a day
or two.

THE KINO r. JOHN SHEA 1.-Mr. MARRTATT prayed
judgment agrinst this drfendant, who had been con-
victed upon an indictment for obstructing the revenue
officers in the performance of their dnty. The defend-
ant wi.s sentenced to four months' imprisonment in
Maidstone gaol.
''''irraie /Lure in ihirtai. Ihnsoreas.—The prisoner in

this ease was an Rzeize 'Meer in the Cantiridge divi-
sion, and was convicted of having defrauded two poor
persons, named 31iIht and Forteseue, each of the sump
of 16s. Mills anti Fortescue, as dealers in tea and
coffee, were obliged by law to take out an annual
license for their traele: to receive the money due for
such licenses had been part of the duty of the prisoner ;
and he had induced Mills and Forteseue to pay Yea
the amount, on the pretence that he had already paid
it, upon their account, into the proper °Mee.
The prisoner, in his defence, put in a written pip%
in which he declared his innocence of the charge optui
which hr had been convicted; and stated, that he Md i
actually, in many instances, so paid the license-milliti
iii advance. lie had been dismissed from his Anse
tion, had suffered imprisonment during 131 days, Me
had a wife and children entirely depentlent spun hint.
The Loan Colls, Jl'Blllll reminded the prisoner,
that be should have thought of his wife and children
:4e he committed the offence of which he bad been
guilty.
' • Ur. Justice B tYLiT said, that the crime of the pri-
soner WAS aggravated by the circumstance of the cow
fidentie situation in which he had been placed ; and
the sentence of the Court was, that he shoed be trans-
ported fur seven years.
TDB KING r. WALTERS A x a ornete.-31r. Serjeant ,
Pau. prayed the judgment of the Court egoism these
defendants, six in number, for a riot and assault at
Brrdgewater, of which they were couvicted last Assizes
foe the county of Somerset, before 3lr. Justice Bur-
rough. The transaction arose unto( hostility towards
Turner, who gave evidence be.;
against it..bert Walters, for
;rise Laws,. of which he was
to pay a line of 201. A ffids-
ma of pnalidument. string the
A the defendants.
addressed the Cote on behalf of
the cireunfstances of the casel
and adjudged as folloWs :
and Mary tioese should go atl
respective husbands entering into ,
;their good behaviour for two ,
pay to the King a fine of 101.,
the good behaviour of himself
'himself in 5111., and two
_.- his wilb to he insprisoned in
Detester gaol fur three months; Charles Ct.llins to be
i risoned for one month in the same gaol, and to en-,
I IF q his personal recognizance in MU. to be of .
ltiaviuur for three years; and Joseph Rossiter ,
n Rae of 51., and enter into security for his
r for three years, himself in 501., and
is in 251. each.
1
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY I.
fr ' y r. !int Ltd:co.—This was an action brought by
**net of two coaches, running to Rye, to recover
'tolls which he 110 paid by compulsion to the
nt. It appeared that toll had been received
y e defendant on the 31st of June, 1819, for some
drawing one of the plaintiff's coaches, and that
s,*
on their return with another coach, on the sante day,
the toll had been demanded, which the plaintiff was
obliged to par to avoid being stopped. '1 he question

argued was, whether the same horses dram ing a dif.
ferent coach were exempted from a second payment on
the same day, by the 44th George 111 —Thi‘ being
:)rovht before the Court by a demurrer to the dada.-
ration.

Mr. Serjeant TADDT Was Counsel for the defendant,
and Mr. Serjeant I.IO3ANQUET for the plainti'r.
Mr. Serjeant 'Norm- r► as heard in replylk hen
The Causer ►!etermined that the ease cited by the
plaintiff's Counsel governed this in principle, and that
the exemptions contained in the 24 George 111. had
been re-enacted in the 49th, and therefore gave judg:
anent for the plaintifr.

Dunux, Arum 26.—0 n Saturday, an inquest was
' held on the body of Robert Lilly, of Little Longfoed-
, street, before Alderman &Aral' JONES, City Coroner,
and a respectable Jury. It appeared in evidence, that
the deeeased had been a respectable citizen, who, by
honest indultry, had accumulated some thousands of
pounds, and was the owner of several homes in this
eesti i
t 0:
city. About seven years ago I* portioned kis only
daughter in marriage to a Gentleman who held r....
spectable situation in a public .e. Al eat four v
ago his affairs became greatly deranged, and he o
aputnd intoth: a hour liam
Courts
set, he betweenns s en that
n pr
i>,,,,
upwards of three years, and when
scarcely
he
attemptedt
vent Act, was arcely worth a pound
follow his business, but hi re he was again disvppointed.
All these circumstances preyed severely on his mind,
and be was constantly complaining of the badness of
the times, and lamenting the loss of the property
he possessed. On Friday morning he made trio or
three applications, in all of which he was disappoint.
ed ; he returned to his lodgings in the coarse of the
day, and after having been at home for some time,
sent for a gentleman in the neighbourhood, to whom
be gave his keys, anl. I 5.,141
his Itrart was broken, and
he would nut be lung alive. Shortly after be was
seized with a violent vomiting, which terminated in
his death. While this evidence was giving to the
Jury, Surgeons Ireland and Osborne opened the hotly,
and examined the stomach and intestines, after which,
being duly sworn, they returned a written report, tha:
his death was occasioned by arsenic. It was pr,,erd
by several witnesses, that the deceased had always
arsenic. by him, for the purpose of killing rats. .The
Jury immediately returned a verdict, " That he
cause by his death by ha, lug taken arsenic."

l'one, Arnie. Vr. hr. o of the men kit for exert'.
tiou at the late County Assizes, were hanged this day
at Hallows-green, pursuant io sentence. Their names
were' Patrick Dnetwortli, i ;toothy Deashy, and Denis
Crawler. 1 hey hail heen convicted of burglary in the
house of a poor man somewhere in the west of the
county, from whom they took a few ragged clothes.
which were afterwards restored to the owner, and a
trifling stun of money. l'unwortb, who was from the
neighbourhood of Alan w, was much superior to the
others in his general appearance, which was rather
decent. He continued t.) read a prayer-book with
much attention on his wav to the place of execution,
and excited the astonishment of the spectators to find
him an associate in such a robbery. The others were
illiterate, wretched-loolOng seen, and joined very de-
voutly in the prayers which were read by the elerq-
men who accompanied them. Density was an old
man, who had, it appears, deserted his wife and six
children for some years. Crawley was very youmr.
The three were apparent)} very repentant, and suffered
their Lae with much fortitude. There are three others
for a like crime to die to-morrow.

Domes et peens axon Hot.
Thy how and pleasing sift.
SOCRATES, by his discourse on marria&n, so en-
raptured his auditor) with the subject, that tee married
men dew to their wises, and 41e belebelors hastened to be
wedded ; ind " The 14pectefor" has aimed, that the word
•• wife" is the rust agreeable and delightful name Is Were.
' The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the
desideratum of oar en:oyment. teeming not only with hap-
, piness on rartii, but ;g the mei itself to baronets's
with bliss hereafter.
Previous, however. to entering into this hallowed oblige-
, tims, it bummers an ineperstise deity, not only to regulate the
peasinhs, bet to el %Ilia the grosser nature front those im-
purities. whirls the ft•erlotn of derestrlctel pleasure may
hare retailed on it To the necitet of such attention are
attributable many of those hspiess inalsaces, which. while
they eicite Cie inomeisvration of the beholder, should also
imperal him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luxurious habits will efteminize the body--a residence in
the tropics nill relax the elastic filers—hot more especially
does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com-
promise-14e asteral dignity into a state of inanities, from
whence the 'goateed sufferer more than &obis the chance
of relief. To all such, urea. we address ourselves, offering
hope--eibern)—uinsmilar strengtle—felieity ' • nor will oar
advent-) appear trestionable. sanctioned astiley are by the
multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience.
The pais cares of married rife;, are sometimes disterbed
by the suspension of those !Austell, whieb concentrate the
nuptial wreath—tor the female habit is often eimillintiunally
weak—yet it cal he stresigttegned. and deficient eftergy im-
proved into functional power.
In every case of syphilitic intrusion, an well as is too?
relaxation tailor gamentive, , enegiedge err ability
to dire speedily. and *Rh effect. :smutty selleitems to
espel the unfeeling 'levy rk from the putties mi prestespe-
welly taken up, we desist,' from gementl priseiples with less
hesitation; and confident in our len honourable lateitrily as
Members of she College of Iteirgns. we refer gar sateen;
community of either sex (especially those entering into ma-
tri tat life) at once to our house. where daily alteedurs
Is given for personal eons:lifetime : and letters from tile
country are immediately answered; these must cumin
remittance for ‘• It ice and :Medicine. which can be foreardca
to any part of the world. howesur distant.
GOSH end CO. M. R. C. Surgeons.
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Oa Monday last. the Lad) of 11. M. Wardle, Esq. fey_
mouth, of a daugater.

DI MD.
Teredayeresing last. General Viten. formerly eidaeLife
Guards. anti brother t• Mrs. P. La Tosehe.
Ou Satan:ll,y last, in the tiOth year f.l* his age, the
Honourable Wilmot Vaughan. Earl of Lisbarse. 411:
Lordship dying unitterried, is someeeded in his title U es-
tates by his halt-brother, the Hee. Colour' Join Vai
On Tuesday last. at her father's horse in Upytart:i.
nor-street, Susan. the last surrlylag child of Jobe WIN".
Esq. M.P.

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a female, named Brace Tar
fore Justices of the Peace 1
las silence against the Exci
convicted, and adjudged It
vita wesd lint in mitigation
plawee 'awl contrition of th
II . WiLutaxa addre
the de nelsons, and
Thet'orar, taking an tl
into alitsideration, ordered
That Elisabeth Badman an
large/ upo6 their nipectis
theif personal security fort'
Trent Robert Walters to pi
to Miter-Into security far th
14 wife fur three 'Teri,
sueeties in 2;1. each, and 1