The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-24 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. '

him if the indorsement was in Clarhe's bantl-writint-
Ile looked at the indorsement,aud also at the figures ever
it, and said it was nothing like Clarke's band waiting.
Nis nit,: was also of the same opinion.
Cross-examineil.He did nut know that Clarke was
in the habit of writing dicerently, nor that lie had a
•• fall some years back, whit% affected 116 band-welting.
Thomas Goldsmith was/Mainlined on the trial in the.
Common Pleas, was afterleards arrested, and sew Mr.
Brooks on the 9th of Menet in Co'dhotis-fields prison.
On that day he saw Mr. Brooks and a Mr. Clarke (an
attorney) come from the timernor's house, when the
former person said to the latter—" My life is at stake ;
will you swear that that is Clarkel (the prosecutor's)
band-writing en the back of Ilse cheque. Clarke (the
attorney) replied that that was impossible as he halt ne-
ver seen it since the trial. Brook'said "I suppose you
know what I have to inform you ?" and Clarke said he
did, and that be understood ihat he (Brunk') had de-
stroyed the cheque; and added, that he hail seen thr
prosecutor with lam very often, who stated that if
Brooks had not destroyed the chequif, and *veld show
it to him, he should he able to swear to the preserutoe's
writing. Isaacson and atufther person came up at that
moment, and they, with BroOksr retired to a corner of
the yard. After a lapse of a few minutes, Brooks again
came to the witness, and 141," Any communication
which you may have to ukke might he made to Mr.
Isaacson; for really," lie added, sin to' agitated in
my mind that I don't know what lam shoat: '•
William Clarke' the prosecalor, was next called, when
Mr. Sergeant Paid, objected, at very cimsiderable
length, to his evidence being received. Mr. Justice be
•Blanc, he said, bad held at the Salisbury Assizes. that
an interested person whose nigte had been forged,
could not be a witness to prove the forgery, *either
could be be a witness to any. fact, through the medium
of which the forgery could in the slightest manner be
' proved. The prosecutor. in italicise was most certain-
ly interested; for if he could invalidate this receipt, he
would, not to say destroy the prisoner's life, but at once
(shake Brooks's evidence in the trial which be (Brooks)
bad coining on against him next term.
Mr. ALLEY answered the objection, and endeavoured
by a long argument, and by citing many cases, to chew
that it oculd not be maintained.
Mr. Justice PARK gave' It as his opinion,that the prose-
cutor, in this case, being an interested individual, his
evidence could not be taken.
Joseph Beckenham stated, that the prosecutor dealt
with I.• I employer, who is a brewer; be one day accom-
panied him to Cold-batlidields prison, and heard a mil-
lion between him and Brlleks. Clarke was re-
, quested by Brooks not to attaind the examination
I Bow-street. Clerk said he would Wt, provided mewl
was given to him to pay the lac expenses. Brooks
ezreed to do this, and put 1501. into witness's hands,
501. of which was given to Bill's •jthe Attorney) bro-
ther, and 1001. Clarke bad himself.
A letter ad tressed by Brooks to Clarke was then read ; it
was in substance. to request the interferesed Clarke In his
behalf, " as Hill (he said) was deterwitsed on Misr his
life."
- Another letter was read, addressed bp, Blade to Birdit:
Birnie, stating, that be was indueed to -ballads, that hp rind
been deceived with respect to the receipt in auestiuti. and
that he should never be happy If he took ao insocent Mrs'slife away, cad therefore begged not be called upon
GyWer
to prosecute the charge agsiust Brooks,
A Clerk of Messrs. Hodsot t Stirling's, proved that Brooks
banked at their house, and that on the 'Mho/ December last,
be paid imp check for 10t. drawn by the prisoner in favour
of Clarke.
Mr. Hill, sun. tproved, that he was protest before Mr.
Justice Best after the trial, when the prisoner said, he bad
destroyed the cheek.
Here the case for the prosomiloa wee closed.
The prisoner addressed the jury at, great length, and
then called siestral witnesses; um* of %loom, named Tee-
ner, $ clerk is II r.isaacsseelOthe - swore that he w

tWee'llwistwirriliTttrner) and • Mr. Arthur:wits
►appened to he io the °thee at the time. This fact was
corroborated by Mr. Arthur. A num►er of witnesses
gave the prisoner au excellent character; and, after A
long investigation, which did not terminate until ten
•clock at night, the jury unhesitatingly returned •
verdict of not guilty.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesrertlaii, this Court was occupied the greater

Una cr part
the day with cases of ooiotvrest whatever to the public.
The following case „as one of that odious names
which necessarily excludes its disgusting particulars
from our journal.
James Crookcy, a wretched man, advanced In years.
and of rather respectable appearance, was indicted for
an assault on John Liger, with intent to commit an abo-
mioable offence.

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Mr. AnoLenua.stated the case for the prosecution.
The prosecutor, a private in the Yd Regiment of Foot
Guards, stated, that he was on duty in the Park behind
the Admiralty, on the 15th ofJuly. The defendant came
up to him about a quarter past nine o'clock; he inquired
the hour ; witness told him. He then said,. I wish it
was later. lie jingled minty, or what sounded like mo-
ney, in his pockets. He then went off about fire yard..
Be wade a step and returned. Here the witneu detailed
the particulars of the assault. The witness seized the
prisoner by the breast, and said you are my prisoner.
The prisoner attempted to get away. Let tae go, said
'be, and I'll give yon any money. The witness called
'out for assistance, upon which be heard a voice behind
saying, " soldier, do your duty, I shall bring you as-
sistance." In a short time three persons cause op ; they
froved to be Lord Melville, his Lordship's butler, and
ootman. Witness learnt that it was his Lordship who
desired him to do his duty. Lord Melville sent for the
tierjeant of the Guard. Hecate', up, and the defendant
was taken into custody.
The witness was cross-examined, bat nothing material
was elicited from him.
Serjeant Robert Jones was next examined. He stated
his having been sent for, and having taken the defend-
ant into custody. He put several qnestions to the pri-
toner ; the prisoner denied the oharite. He admitted he
offered money to be let off, but said that be found him-
self in a dreadful predicament, and wished to get away.
On his cross-examination, this witness said that he
bad heard of the ease of the Bishop and the Soldier, but
there were no new regulations entered into in the regi-
ment in consequence of that cast. The prosecution was
instituted by order of the Colonel.
Thomas o:isdail, a constable, took the prisoner to the
watch-house; he searched his person, and found some
beet halfpence and some papers in his pocket.
Here the ease for the prosecution closed.
Mr. ANDS c a addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri-
soner, in an ingenious speech. Ile admitted that the
prosecutor gave his evidence in a fair soil candid man-
ner. He acquitted him of any evil intention, bet he put
it to the Jury whether lie might not have misunderstood
the object of the prisoner. The duty at which this trans-
action took play., WAS immediately after the meinorable
and abominable case of .a Reverend person—a case to
which he alluded merely for the purpose of observing,
that after that disgusting transaction, every tnan of spi-
rit attached to the Onards, must have felt indignant at
any thing approaching to personal insult. It was under
the influence of those strong and respectable feelings,
doubtless, that the prosecutor acted ; but be acted has.
Lily—tie brought a groundless charge against an indivi-
dual u ha, all through life, supported a charaeter fur in-
tegrity, and .for strictly moral and even religious cos-
due:. A mow., of respectable petbuns were in Court

reidy to infnrat thole t•
—Seer ral uitotNCt wogs*
atibe defendant. 3100
Linda n bins upwa►ds of
of hint nut only de a mass
Tbr (*HAWAIIAN laid,
that ,such came tttthe r
pied the attention ofels,
jury Issal ad...platy to p
drone of the procert
be, wrrn• bound to Grid
The jary retires' 'En _ _
a verdict of

SURREY SESSIONS.—W
TRIAL OP MARSRALL•—IItaI Merskiel. alias Moore.
whose ease some time min excited an
Hall 011iee, came en. He is a piing
appearance, and not were than IS yr
motivated, that be rodeo v mired to .
high rook awl fortune. He. was tried
It appeared. trove the evidence of Ut
that on the day after the prisoner
paying a hackney cortchitinn his fare,
the strong room et Union Hall with •
port of a pistol was beard, and a
roam. The pistol was taken nut of
felons, who said hu had got it front
lons hail been so ►trictly searched, L
they could have taken is the pistol
proved to belong to the watch-noose.
that he had stolen the pistol,—The
The Climes's* said, he understood
Into the history of the prisoner, which
to hear ,• tblicly.
Hall said, the prisoner's character
the worst that had ever come before •

.his befog the son of a gentleman of
• butler, and his mother was a poor t
dificitity supported herself. Toe prisoner
nod his habits, from his earliest years, le
prayed, his propitosity to thieving being
Rehire he was thirteen years old, he
transported for seven years ; -but,
muted to Imprisonment at the Nolte
the public, after a confinement of live
first set, after passimg the prison door.
his mother, friitu whom lie stole deep,'
and he had packed up f. orteat mere
Soutesett--Transportstlon for see,

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BOW-STRIBT.—DII9IIIIO4I .011
the persona who were nu Tuesday
Holm in Pall Mall, were again brae,
was to have attended for diem, but
another place.
John Clete, foreman to Mr. Green,hl
printing HMO roulette cards, by ordor
StotrweveliesersAted emit
bill.to Monk.
M. Hamm regal* Lis former
neged the Madistrates to bold the deft
twilit. months, eider the old statute,
upon the Vsgraol Act.
Mr. Hatmeefused to do so, and .
teed upon the last named wholesome ,
The prisoner Thomas then stepped
M had hoes in the house befoirt
been.th►re Mt three minutes when the
Kraut ho owed him money
sad being tuna' distressed I _
I stith smelt relsetimce.
Mr. liatte.—New did woo gig in?
Thomas said be went through *lO
.stairs without any interruption. MA
ism, he said he wm smiler of costs'
world not %minim Ale same of Ow
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Si It. Iltaeric—Did you evottrryour hand at any
other occupation?—as &Reporter to a newapaper, feriae
stance. •
Thomas.—No; I wish Iha I I hate net pleat
tient. lie went on to say, be thought it extremely Med'
he should be consigned to a prises fur saucer assidestot
visit.
The Magistrates asked If any other of the primordial
had any account to give of thetuseives?—No one mg
swered.
The officers engaged in the caption. aileleclared IhM
they bad no doubt whatever that the prisoners were ea-,
gaged is playing at an, lawful game.
Mr. HALLS—These Orson, were fused at this hose*
under circumstances, which, in myjadginent. are nails
@efficient to warrant the officers in the conclusion which
they upon their oaths declare they have formed opou the
subject. It is not necessary, in my *pintos, to prove
that any person was actually at play. if it is proved
that gaming wee going on. I regard all persons p t
as participators in it. There are, undoubtedly, different
degrees of guilt, which I shall take into caneideratios
in adjudging the punishment. The hopes ofslospreeeet
and the prospects of the rising generation are, in am,
instances, hiatud by these iniquitous practices, and it la
indeed high time that they sere pat-a stop to. There
is another circumstance, too, which renders the thing
more obnoxious—it is an importation from a foreign
sountry brought hero for the dehassmeat and ruin of
Me. The worthy Magistrate then took a review of the
stridence, and said—" Under these circumstances I con-
'old all the prisoners of playing at an unlawfal game.
and de therefure adjudge them to be rogues awd wage-
beside within the fan intent and meaning of this Act of
Padiament. My judgment upon the defendants is. that
Jails= bit imprisoned two months in the House of
ilmwection, there to be kept to hard labour; that Monk,
Iffinned Browo,lle Melee, and Marc, be imprisoned each
*ants moths; and Abe remainder of the defendants for
Ns mouth each."
rr. Haawasi iensediatiely advised the defendants to
eippealio the Seseiuno—a atone which they determined
is adopt, and in the coarse of the day, they put in bail
for their appearance at the Sessions to prosecute such
appeal. They will of oen:se be at large *tail the deci-
sion at the Sessions.

UNION HALL.—Yesterday, a man, about 50 years of
age, of respectable appearance, named James Cooke
Clarkson, was brought before L.. B.
charged with having fraudulently obtained the sum of
1001., fro.' Mr. John Anderson, under pretence of
procuring for him a clerkship in the revenue.
Mr. Anderson stated that on the 14th of July last, be
-put an advertisement in The Times newspaper, offering
a drowse. of 1001. to any person that would procure for
the advertiser a pertumnent situation. On the following
slay, the witness revolved a letter from the prisoner, ap-
pointing a meeting at his house in Burtuo•placc, New-
tngton. The witness then detailed a series of coorri-
canOell by which the prisoner had found means to get
html. from Liu►, under pretence of procuring him a situ-
ation in the revenue tkpartutent. He lied gone so far
as to produces pretended note from lord Imwther, and
a forged copy of an appointment from the Treasury, but
be had not allowed thent to remain in witness's hands.

The witness afterwards received a note from the pri-
soner, stating, that he was obliged, bons his desperste
orcesslties, to bare recourse to the wheys expedient fur
relieving himself. god promising. that. he would settle
all is the course of six months with • the witness. A
postscript •aided, " I ant just leaving teem .for the
wont ry.
The Magistrate inqnired if any ache letters were •in
court ?
• gr.Amosasots, said that be had the whole of Ike tor•

exaspit
equally atti.
, a jaestiaa (ma ._
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. Totally totter hook lb* pitiooto;r ;lazing tbel ins:
of this latter.
.. lass tau here at a staff :of 40 of a wino+ too
y the signature t dater Jolm,lljaarimwf ,141. 4, (.a-
rt. wito sas said to ho;Ast 4141104111 of tfie pri-
. wu seat for. sad wpwa hi* lastiaseay tothe Lat.
gm !Kismet was saatimittell -faiNtsial at ilto Bristol.
)adzes.
• • '• •
.`4111% liao‘lili raper. and begged tbre
—'- ...e Astit was a c4te that ~

ispasi

wbte~i4llMPlitd her; " .01. iheartS would, Lower v.
do him good yet, although be Lad been butted ep is
hwe chases."
A wish caper from Wooleich attended, to :also joie
oustosly the prisons, for baring deserted a eon by hie.
first wife (the very kit woman he had married, sod
who is now supposed to be dead.) The prisoner lawns*
swore to the place of his settlement, by wlsiols rimers-
steam the dese►ted child will become chargeallle to the
parish, there was ne debsand "port his person for his
newly-charged oftener.
Since the kit evautitsetion, the " house. erpor" of
the prisoner get the turn-nut from the second nite. *ha
has possession' of the house, aid has placed her ion Isy a
former Massed in the shoe hop. the first wife basins
voluntarily given up ell claim to the goods and chatter,
as well as person, of Mr. Day.
The first wife admitted that she had married another
OM upon hearing that the prisoner bad married
woman, and declared that she considered hers.. i tiosti ft. it
by all sorts of law in doing so. The I, .... ..-Leriws"
then went up to the bar and began to upbraid the ptti
soner aid) his baseness to so unity women. lle
and she was soon after seen slipping some t....,ney into
his heed, which he closed and put into uis pocket. tit
WOO then taken off to prison.

Coitorrag's itrouger.—An inquisition was
yesterday tveaing, at the Cross Keys. Weetwor
Wisitecbapel, before Mr. Cowie, jne. (who officiste.l as
Coroner is the absence of his father), on view of the Ip.oly
of Abralsam Jewell, aged 93. who put,a peri•ol to his
existence by hanging himself with a cool, shout tea
&dock yesterday morning. from the railing of the stair-
case of the aforesaid house, where he bad bees a LAI,Er.
It was peered by a person who had known hire for the
last forty years. that he bad been twice raring mad.
and that he was latterly in a very low f:topoo.tior, osre,
quite childish. and almost bedridden. The .1.1 cc, there.
fore Is ithout hesitatios' returned a voulict of —I n.aoity.
Tie Good Old-Fatildotsed Lottery basis.* Dra win.; :Vert
Wanarattav (30111 ox-conga). when 61 sell% 8; Cll.
to distribute sooty Soar Friends; several or 111.• fin io
Prizes, six.:—Three of 211,01411. , Two r f 10..gtd. Tuo of
3,0001 Three of 7,0001. Teo of I.IIJOI. Re. te. nll dotting
la the White!, In addition to No. 11331, a Wier of
Sold la Shares by them in the last Lottery, at titer Grataato
Mew, A, Cornhill. and ISO, Oxford-streoc.
Hallam D I Co. respectfully remind the Piddle, that a Lot-
, tery omen, good old plan. same as thirty ears hark, beg as
Drawing NexT WZDISESDAY. OD which Day all the roliow•
log Capita:a may he drawn, (as there are no FilM Prlz,s)
Three of so,oaut. Two of 111,001. Two of 3,1104. Titre,. of
2,0001. Ten of 1,000. betides One linudrei more Prize. et
SOW. 3011. and 2001.—Hazano & 01.1-INtaNihhea
Oelces. Royal Exchange Gate; 26. corabitl; a 311.01-
I ford-street, where was so:d Three ['liars of 7,0,000 r. in the
Last Lottery and preceding Contract.

MARRIED.
Ott the 91st Inst. Henry. second son of Edward Hodses.
Esq. of Claphfun-comuton. to Mary, yonage.o daughter of
Robert Podm.re, of Clayton Psiory, In the county of su•
sex. Esq.
On Wednesday. the 15th inst. at Orotna-creep. Wiliam
Fraser, Esq. town el-rk, of Gr.•et flritninl, in t eeoanh'
of Idneolst. and of London, solicitor. to 'Ws: Jour Herd-
wit*. of Norfolk-street, Stilted, Loodon, e'!d of Bisetley.
Yorkeldre.

DIED.
On Saturday, the tilth inqatit, in (ireV rumut•street,
hit way from Scotland to CCLitt'', Dr. Alex••.der
age 4 42,
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years, f ace. It will be Ti. parishcl.-rk of tit. •Slaty's Hanel,. Woolwich. a,..
r pass or a geotletaan of tendril with the register of the prisourea marriage ti:it
,1 • rat stealing a pistol. his first wire.Interest at Union e
lien and another macre. Ehzahrth Doncater, the second. wife stated that she
rs 6 retitled at 40, Chtpel.criart. Suuthaarh. Slit was roar.
re..hi eon fled
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canne4 ill tlotenlt.itybirosti,ielisri:.:LpfigNeonoimPrecison
lwribrif, 'escipi the clerk (Mr. (ode.) and MetAßor.
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