The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

THE

ealletritiiiii sneaking scoundrel, so igat be fin ptelty
of time to defend himself, bad he betralltilioed t 'ad,
having received the blow iivriris eye, lie clapped his hand
to it, sad sneaked off like a dog that has he
hra tal.
quoth Mr. Peter Freestone. tt 'Jr
John Tompkins bitterly denied having dew *things
imputed to him. Peter Freestone asked Win if be would
deny haring written letters tb his wife. John Tomp-
kins dared him to produce such letters. Peter Freestone
replied that he might have produced them bad soot
emery one of them ended with •• commit this to the
flames as soon as read." John Tompkins said it was
all:a dream. Peter Freestone declared it was all too true,
and—
The worthy Magistrate dismissed the warrant. He
bad no doubt, he said, that Mr. Freestone bad cause for
his suspicions, and John Tompkins had no business to
go peeping about his house, and trifling with his feel-
logs • env admitting that he had 'no real ground Tor
those suspicions.
MARLDOROUGH-STRIDT, SATUDDAT.—The sitting Mt-
istrate (J. them, Esq.) was occupied upwards of two
hours in hearing petty assault cases, in which persons
had engaged, on returning from Christmas pieties.—
The worthy Magistrate not being disposed to hold them
to bail, several were fined 51. for being intoxicated, sad
others bad only to pay the customary fees.
Some laughter was excited in the course of the day
the Icing of two persons, in the shape of paying for
tb.lrswn discharges, who bad been stopped by the
watchmen while taking borne their sr et property. Ous
of them,s rug-maker, was taking home a rollofsarpetimg
from his employers at half-past ten o'clock, to fit some
rugs to the pattern, when be was stopped by a watch.
man, who detained him and the parcel on suspicion.
'Fite man's account being confirmed, and no imputa-
tion therefore applying to the case, he bad, in addition
to the privilege of sleeping la the watch-house, to pay
the fine of is. for his discharge before the Magistrate.
Another man, a draper, was taking home a piece of
iffieth to Ills own house, when he was stopped in a similar
ostemer ; -he left the cloth until this morning, and gave
Ns address. On inquiry the correctness of his 'menet
was ascertained, and he was told all was right, and that
leo was discharged on the payment of is.
' The draper, addressing the Magistrate, said— O
property ?"
The Magistrate replied, that the watchmen *OA'.
strictly in the discharge of their duty in stopping per-
stelis carrying bundles of such a description at tam-
itrashle hours, and that be must pay the usual atiaftge
of one shilling.
The draper complained of the harshness of such a
decision, and said that unless a man could be detained
Mr stealing his own goods, be thought it rather singular
that he should be mulcted for a discharge fee, for
taking them home. He paid the fee and left the office.
Uniosi-Hate.—Saturday, Joseph Spencer, a butcher
of Bade celebrity, was charged by Mr. Cotton, with
emenalting him at the Kings Head, near the
aril Castle, on Friday evening last.
appeneed that the defendant, who is well knows
sweat the begin tribe, was extremely sexism. to eater
We a listieeliemst with the noted Josh. Hudson. but
Wing. aliiirS a higher opinion of ilk owecepa-
Milder ' persons to whom he bad applied to
losimii• re, he witnessed with extreme regret
the sr IN was likely to follow. cr,
011 lied es maids spotter at-
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As,
msetieiseler erthowN, g's ' • sem-
her et were ow, and vociferoosly
WWI miesiimm, tedifideally. ir pet dews their Vivo
sitioso, to stable him to 'wan the rig against
C. 1141 pememed eppeent. Mr. (knoll had the temerity
to rremonstrate_ Spell/28f OD the decisive manner is
shish he sees the doomed, and for that levels he was
sever* Mid by the aimbriagialr. Wha 000
eagammeehresey merseeesd is iteetitheet,
wilt tin meet immeshes Sleet and was may re-
streleehhees revise his Meese all prowess le tbs
remainder of the cempany by the oohed 'Caeca see&
ral watobeites, who, with seek slithatity tarried hire
cif to the watehbosse. Spencer was tatablo to plead
any other cacaos but iatosication. bat the Magistrate
being of *pinion that his intention was SD SOW into a
contest with Hodson. ordered him to list mmitissile
keep the pest* towards all his Majesty's ilogoisibloalea
but more particularly towards Jog). Hada" and .10
default of his finding such sureties, he was oeusenitted
the House of Correctiou at Brixton, for six months.
CORONERS' INQUESTS.

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Dikes recto Cots.-00 Saturday, an laqulsltioe was
held before T. STOMAS*. Seq. Coroner for Midcleeex, at
the Begird Roos OM& Oilea's Workhouse. at the bishuses
of the Cherehwardees of that parish, to esquire into the
MIN of the death et lois Gray, who wee stated to have
peekhed la seassipeaee of being improperly exposed to
Me ibileselosi at weather, on Thursday eight last, by
ewe of the inferior parochial oM cars of the perish of Bt.
Paul, Covent-garden.
The watchman, patrols, and night-beadle, weri exaseleed,
and proved the fact of the man twin toned in Duire'remeet,
in • state of insensibility.
The Parochial Mews of Covent-gardee. wise Weeded
the Inquiry, examined Iffr. Bartlett, the Isretch-hosse-
keeper. They asked him whether there had not bees gene-
ral orders given by the Overseers to* beadles and watch-
men that the greatest attention should be paid to persons
found la the deplorable state in which the dens sed was dim
covered, without regard to expel= or trouble. Mr.
Bartlett MAW that sash orders had bean gives to every
watehmem, beadle, die.. The Coroner state. list the de-
ceased was found In a very deplorable state la Dee's-eoeit,
and was very properly conveyed to Covent-garden *star.
house. where Mr. Bartlett and the Beadle did .9 Is their
toa m
powerto relieve the =fortune After Ihr wu able
to state who he was, lied wherell
Drury-lane, and being refused •to his lodgings,
wu left by Bothell, the beadle. on thiseeps if the door.—
This conduct on the part of Bethell wee illegal. it was en
(Area= In law, in his (the Coroner's) opinaq watiiintlng to
manslaughter. The condition of the sate man wu
such, that It was impossible he weld nd the inhu-
manity of Bothell in leaving him exposed to the severe and
most inclement weather, bad been the means of =tolerating
his death. The law was, that where the death of one of
his Majesty's subjects had been accelerated, through
the Improper though not malicious, conduct of another, the
offence was manslaughter ; and If with malice, It amounted
to murder. His (the Coroner's) opinion was, that flethell
ought to have taken the deceased back to the watch-house,
when he was refined admission into his lodgings, or to have
conveyed him to some place, where 111 would nave received
that treatment his unhappy coedit."' so inset required,
and not to have left him exposed to a severe ;rest ; when
but a short time before, he had been recovered from a state
of insensibility In the watchbouse.
The Jury retired for about half an hour to confider their
verdict, and misread the following:—., That the deceased
died through a natural cause; but that his death Wu
greatly accelerated by the neglect of James asaholL, the
night beadle of the perish of Curent-garden.
The COIIOI4IIII said, that the parochial divers wit.
Giles's were deserving of thanks for their atteaLteit cad
I imams y to the unfortunate deceased. •