The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

. John Paulett assisted the last whores in slatting the
property. on Mates's preutiset, and agreed with bins as
to the es lusatelsi
*eq. a Magistrate at Shadwell, said
that Hatelleiellisence had been taken miay shoot
twelvemonth Owe. This gentleman, however, added,
without beingsaked, that it IV:1S nut ill consequence of
any misconduct of the prisoner, bat from some insgro-1
prici c of some one in his house.
'ibis was the case file the prosecution.
The prisoner, in his defence, disclaimed alt know- 1
ledge of how the fire originated. Hr said the Ma-
gistrates haring withdrawn his licence, be was reduced
I to considerable distress, and that Ise had partly agreed
with a wan from North Shields to take the house off
his hands at a valuation. While this was in progress
a friend*, Isis, a Mr. June's, who was also going to
enter into the public business, requested lie would go
with him to See the Sampson and Lion public-house,
in East Smithfield, which he (Jones) was about to
take. The prisoner and his wife went with Joins,
and remained out until about half-past 12 at night,
when the first notice he had of the tire at his house
was the appearance of the firemen calling bins at
Jones'. jour. He had no interest in setting lire to
his boos, fur he had hopes of getting. his licence
again, and being aisle to set up in business the nest
year.

- Elizabeth Ryder had lived as servant with the pri-
srnn•t for nine nionilis. %Vituess knows his house
well. The tin•-Wool) n•as kept in the cellar. She was
there tae day of the fire, and the morning after.—
Reneriiilmrs seeing a cat, whose hark was burned a
good deal. She hail observed thi. at heroic the lire
took place, sod •an• no marks upon it. She 1131`1P
tioneil this rirettenstanre to Rose. one of the firemen,
on the •pot. When the primmer and bis wife went
our, this' timidly went throngh the hack door. The
front slim, hail a ha.! iastening to it.
liy the Cos:ay.—There were always sliiwts upon the
pismires heti. The cupboard was men with the
flour.

Manilas said, hr iive.l orxti!o..t. to ILtti.s.

Ile oar in thehour the of the tire, hut lie
fr thv amiteaeative of the paper. in the
ettplio,,r,l that they had been set tire to after
he lieliv!e eittereil the tiowie. h 110 rt*A.
141 so for •this opinion, lint bemuse they looked as if
they were recently burned.

Robert J.oles knows the prisoner. Iritness keeps
the S.itni—on and Lion pnbli bow.e. in East Stuitio-
field. I:ate!, rased to I:Ste hint some directions about
the public business before hr fot lots, it. Itensew.
hers the :ills of Jut.e ; he nool his wit• called upon
Hates by app ' thirty ; they were to Inert SWIM
brokers, amt gss altogether to the Saoti•son awl Lion.
They kit limes's house about Is Of-past eight. Bates
came out by the bark door, alter i.e had fastened the
front door after them; they all went to the Neptune
puhlie-I r, hot nest meeting the brokers there,
they went thence to the Ship, and boally to witness's
howl.: they were sitting down to supper here, when
the firemen rank. to say Bates's lest sse 11. j!, on fire....
When the alarm 111% given, 3lrs. Bates fell into hys-
terics, and was so ill that she was listable to accom-
pany her husband to the house at Shadwrl!. his
witness gave the prisoner un excellent Ammeter.

Elisabeth Jones, the wife of the last witness, cen•
firmest his st.itemeot.

The landlords of th,• tw•o puhlir Low•es which
were Token of both s►rore that Bates w•a. at their
homes At the tint: %tetra, r n the night of the sth of
June.

John lielly, an aneti n 'Sr,i said, when Kite• was
in treaty with the titan from North Shields, he was
about to get NOW. for his ill of the home.
Takintr away his license, however, greatly lessened
the .1 hie of the property. In Itereinher, 1317,
Kitt- 1.; Are 310/. for Iha lease of the boo +r, and
he Lid out a considerable sum in repairs besides
un it.

John Row, the tirenian, Amine,' that the girl
spoke t•i him about the piolo.ibili!y of the cats har-
ing carried tire on her back, by which mans the pe,
per% in the cupboard mi4i.t hime been ignite,'
116,.ve a dozen mo,st respectable persons r:ive the
pri,ouer a good eh orieter.
31r. Justice lIEsT sumniNl up the evhlenee to the
Jur, at great length, anti advised them, if there were
any doubts on their minds, to is the prisoner the
benefit of them.

'Ph; Jury retired for about a quarter of an hour,
and they found the prisoner Not Guilty.

I'OLICE.
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lITTIMING /ORURO NOTta.

M'l' 4Nsysx -Horse decent-looking female, far
ails-a-red in pregnanev, nith an infant at her breast
and another child at her aide, slag brought up at this
office, and underwent an examination on a charge of
having uttered a forged Bank-note at the shop of Mr.
blaeglew, linen-draper. This u-as the second person,
within a %trek, who was brought before the Alagistrate
ley Sir. Macglew, charged is 'oil having utts red forged
n stes a: Isis shop.
V. Cross, the shopinan of Mr. Marglew, stated, that
the prisoner went into their shop on Friday eve ling
Last, anti bought drapery t., the amount of 16s ; in
payment she tendered a 11. note, which the witness
instantly perceived to be a forgery. The prisoner
gave her name and address, James, No. Id, Windsor-
terrare, tity-road ; but on its being intinsated to her
that an Oliver would be sent uith her to ascertain whe-
ther her statement teas trite, she showed &disposition to
make her escape, which was prevented. She afterwards
confer-ed that it was nut her address that she had
giren, and said she had-no house.
Mr. Maillew said, that he interrogated the prisoner
as to the manner is' %vias is she became possessed of the
te. She gave, various accounts, with with-h he de-
clared he was nut satisfied, and told her she must tell
him the truth. . She at length, after souse hesitation,
I conkssad that &se hid heen deserted by her husband,
who had left her totally destitute, with her two
chit-
siren, in the state she then it as that she hail been
s•verelY pressed by want, and could not obtain sue-
tient relict, and that whilst she was in that situation
a wan had met her, who sold her s sme forged notes;
s
tia nt she gave hies three shillings and sixpence fur
each pound note, and live shillings rot those of a larger
amount. 0.. its being intimated to her that she would

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be dell*eted over to the hands of ibe law, she said
the knew the consequences, and was happy she should
be disposed of iri some way or other, And seemed very I
indifferent as to what w.is to be dune with her. She'
said she had no tegnlar home, but Slept any where.
Markwell, the splicer; who was sent -for to take the
prisoner into custody, stated, that he searched her,
but found nothing upon her person except a few half-
pence. In her boson, he found three night caps, which
she said belonged to herself and children.
Wm. Leeds the Bank Inspector, declared the note
taken from the prisoner to be a forgery in every
respect.
The Loan Mayon asked the prisoner if she wished
to say any thing ? She replied she had nothing to say.
Upon being questioned, she stated that the account
she had given of herself to the prosecutor was the
truth. She had two more children, bat they were old
enough to take care of themselves, and were well situ-
ated in another part of the country.
The prisoner was remanded fur further examination
at the reqne.t of Mr. Booker, the Bank Solicitor, that
the Bank might hare an opportunity of enquiring into
the rase.

A youttx man, named %Verdun, wa4 charged hy Mr.
'fucker, stationer of Budge-row, with having elnbez-
sled the sum of 32/. I Is. Id. under the following cir-
cumstances :

Mr. Tucker stated, that in April last the prisoner
called at his bowie, and told bins be could get a great
deal of business for the house, and would undertake to
serve it at once. Witness accepted of his services, and
the prisoner sold a considerable qnantity of goods, for
which payment was received. Witness then offered
him 40s. a week for his services ; but the prisoner de-
clined, desiring him to wait till he sold to the amount
of SPIV. and then a proper estimate could he fu.m.4.1
of his worth and activity, and an adequate remunera-
tion could be mask. Mr. Tucker did not °Vett to this
proposition, hut he found that the most correct return
hail not been madeloy the prisoner. and on that account
made a narrow inquiry into his conduct. Ile ascertained
that the suns of I Is. 4.1. had been paid by a linen-
draper, in firm Surrey-street, into the bands of the
prisoner without being accounted for, and he accusal
him of having feloniously embezzled the same.
A clerk to the linen-draper stated, that the prisoner
sold to the house a quantity of paper, and delivered a
bill of parcels with it, amountiag to the MOO of 33!.
7s. M. Witness settled the account, having deducted
two-pence a bundle, and taken t•tf a discount of Ms.
There then remained a balance of :Lit 1 Is. Id. The
prisoner took I.W. in linen-drapery, and witness gave
him a banker's draft fur I;I. I Is. lo,:iug the balance
of the bill of parcels.
The pris.mer said he was not a servant to hlr.Tncker,
and could not therefore Collie within the operatiun of
the act under which he bad been (-barged; be also de-
elated that Mr. Tueker had agreed to consider it a
debt. Ile was fully committed.

liliLMlALL.—Yesterday a middle aged man was
brought before 34..11(11.m5:in . ' I south, by Lead-
beater, the Manhalman, n•hu had typrehestled him on
a warrant granted a fortnight .qlo, tot a charge of
forgery.
The prisoner, it appeared by the evidence of Samuel
rocks, of Bagnio-emort, Newgate-atreet, agent to Messrs.
Lea and Butcher, carrt-mannfacturers, had been em-
ployed by that firm to sell goods on commission; mach
confidence hail been placed in him, and so desirous
were those gentlemen of giving him every respecta-
bility in his transactions MI their account, that he was
permitted, when necessary, to draw bills in his own
name upon the parties to whom he made sales, in the
same ma .ner as if he had been a principal in the4rm.
In the coarse of these transactions the prisoner gave
is as at-count of goods sold to 31r. James Gregory, of
How, to the amount of 49/. Its. fid. and paid into the
firm for the same a bill draw? by himself upon Ore-
gory, and purporting to be aecepted by the latter, for
the above sum, at two months' date.

Snb.rgn.•it transactions having created suspicion
that all was nut right in the prisoner's proceedings,
inquiry was made as to this bill, w 6 a it turned out
that no such person as Mr. James tiregory was known
at Bow ; and upon the bill bring exhibited before the
Magistrate, Mr. Corks swore to his firm belief that
the whole of the hill, acceptance amt all, was in the
hand-writing of the lorisoncr.
The prisoner, at his own request, was remanded till
Monday week next, to afford hiin an opportunih•, if
p..ssibl to rebut the charge.

oRPRIP STRUT —ln consequence of information
received at the office. Mr. Itetill issued a warrant yes-
twilay for the apprehension of .hoghno Goold, of New
Inn-yard, Shoretlitelt,.a dealer in p.satphlets, for pub-
lishing a printed paper, entitled, A Whelp Lost!"
the same bring a scandalous and seditious Hive] against
his Majesty. The man was soon aiterwartis brought
to the office, and the sale of the paper duly proved.
lie was told by the Magistrate the contents of the
paper were a gross nisei, and he was then as!.ed what
hie had to say in his defence.
Ito .14 stated that he sold this and other publieat"
as th►y were sent to him from turner and other per-
sons, and that he was sorry for hi• offence.
Mr. lievill said, he should call upon him to find
sureties, hintself in 100/. and twJ sureties in 50/. each,
to answer this libel, and also to find further sureties
that he would erase to sell these libellous publications,
but in consequence of his expressing regret, anti his
present behaviour, he would permit bins to go at large
on a p►omise of his appearing at the office to-morrow
morning with his sureties, and that in the mean time
he would cease from the ask of all seditious publica-
tions. Gould promised he would du so.
Yesterday Sheriff Parkins was summoned at this
office for refusing to par a penny toll at Shoreditch
Turnpike, on the day ht. went to preside at the Mid-
dlesex Meeting, held at the Mermaid, at Hackney, to
address the Queen.

Deputy Pullen attended instead of Mr. Parkins, and {
Mr. Williams, •he Attorney, attended on the part al
the Lessees, to support the information. The defence •
was, that air. Parkins, beinc a public officer, and out
public duty. was exempt from paying any toll. Mr
%%Milan's maintained the information. It was laid
under the local act, commonly called the Ilollywell
street Act : and if the King himself passed through be
WAS liable. If It had been even laid under the Oen,-
ral Turnpike Act, no one would be exempt, even the
lt,.ya Family, unless they were going from Palace to

DIED.
00 Tuesday last, Alfred. the third son of Mr. Ws.
Lettaarti, surveyor, of Parson's-green. Fulham', %giddiest:.
aged II years.
Os the 10th fasten'. at his h lose. in Upper Raker-street,
Alesartlse Rots. Esq. of Crotuarty. North R t ;filo.
Os aitiwday, the 9th instant, after a loog and severe ill-
seas, sersh. the wife 01 Mr. Jobs Hell, of Frith-street,
oe IVO Nitta', at Chle:lessee. is his 50th year. Joiat
Quwasedi., 1s of his Uniesty's JasticA4 of titePeaee,
saida Deputy lieutenant fur the County of Stusez.

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