The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-22 00:00:00

hog you to take your eyes, for a little, from
iTatv),or and 13-Igium, and to cast them on the other
aide of the Atlantic, where you will gee what is
much more dangerous to England than is the army
I.l' Napoleon, numerous and brave as that army may

be. . • I am, &C.
Botley, 17th Mays 1815.

WM. CO BBETT.

L 4 INTN,LLIGENCE.

COURT OF RACIIRQURR, MAY ta.

• " ;DEFALCATION.
Tilt ATTOUNST•GSMINAL e. OGLE.

This was a proceeding by fleri faddy against
C..lnsiel Ogle, to recover 12,3561. due to the War
art moot.
l'be SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, the question the
Jur) had in try would be very short and plain.—
Colonel Ogle war. employed to levy men for his Ma-
jcsty's service, and he was to receive payment for
-every man delivered at Chatham barracks. De re-
relied considerable sums from Government, and it
became necessary that his accounts should he re-
turned to the Secretary of %Var. It appeared in
those accounts, delivered in 1800, that there had
been ovcrchirges, and it was necessary the same
slould be examined' by the Secretary of War. A
timid oas entered into by Col. Ogle, the condition
'of which ots, that three months after the state of
the accsoits should he declared by the Secretary at
War. COl. Ogle should pay the balance; anil if he
did 4.f, rot it, all costs and charges for law expences
should be struck off. The charge in the fteri facius
nut, that hP did not pay the balance at the end of
three mouths, and all the Solioito.t-General had to
tto was in,sely to read the declaration of Lord
Viscount Palmerston, the Secretary of War, and
c!ains a verdict on the Defendant's bond. The
LesituAl golicii,n• then read Lord Palmerston's de-
claration. It stated, that his Lordship havinces-
amissed the accounts of John Ogle, Esq. relative to
Mollie:: advanced for raising recruits for his Majesty,
foltid the balance due to be 12„356405. Id. The
Jiw expenres amounted to 5561. which, added to the
'Walser, made a total of 1'i,91%1: le. Bd.
Henry Elliot, Eq. Private Secretary to Lord Pal.,
merstoo, proved his Lordship's hand-writing to thol
declaraliots above Stated:
The Jot, found • Verdict for the Crown, to WI,
amount of 12,0121.

TILE XING V. ATEIPIIEN rrocx.sowxat.
This was an ixsueb.etween the Excise and the De.
ferdant, a considerable =lister at Weatherfield, in
Exiles, to recover upwards of 70001. which he was
charged with fraudulently keeping back, when it
was payable for duties on malt. It was alleged that
the total of sums so kept back amounted to 41,0001.
but the Crown only sought the sum of 70001. which
had been awarded by an inquisition taken at
Chelmsford.
Counsel for the Crown contended, that they could
show, by as many as thirty witneiles, consisting at
supervisors, officers of the exam,. malt.de.alers, and
others, that the Defendant had, by private fraud,,
termed run-wettings, withheld the Shove sum. In
order to make out the case, the witnesses were
examined as to the number of days each wetting of
malt would require throughout the year upon a fair
average. It was established at sixteen days.—
Tito D feinlant had taken, in some instances, twenty
and Twenty-one days, and they charged him with
ascribing mere time to each wetting than belonged
to it, and also that more cora had passed through
these wetituzs than had paid the duty. It was
proved, that there were such running wettings, by
most of the Excise Officers; else, that a seizure of
one floor of malt ensued, but it was retorned, and
it did not appear that any prosecution followed on
that occasion. The Defendant called about thirty
witnesses to prove, that no unfair practice had pre.
Tailed in his malt house; however, the Jury having
retired :leer two hours, found a verdict for the
Gyms n—Damages, 71561. 17s.
This, on the whole, was one of the ostsst extra.
otdtnary causes which has happened during many
yew's. The, proceedings commenced on Monday
morning, and it was necessary to adjourn every
evening Jiffies o'clock until this day. The Jury
were exhausted, end one of, them, on Friday night,
informed the Jndge he was se ill, be could not remain
insider in the,,box. ft ikatipposed that this decision
• win check the frau4s which have been practised lately
in and Norfolk on the excise, to the amount of
300,000 L

A few nights since a most daring robbery wag
committ 11 at the house of Hudson, F..q. at
Watton, near Hertford. The thieves succeeded iu
carryi.ig off a quantity of plate and other property
to a considerable amount.
A hair-dresser, of the name of Dove, who kept is
shop in part. with a person of the name of Ellis,
at the corner of White Hart-yard, in Drury-lane,
dropped down dead is a hair-dresser's shop in
Clement'a-lane„ on Saturdey afternoon. He had just
entered on a visit, and seating himself, fell back and
instant!), ex vired.
The following advertisement appeared in the Edin.
a burgh papers of Saturday, the 13th:—" Foetid)
early this morning, in the north shrubbery of Logi*.
gown, g man's leg, with a grey worsted stocking.oe.
ito and a shoe witb nine nails on the sole of it. The
ewoer will have it back on payment of eeriness, as
the advertiser is no anatonsist2'

A Petition to his Royal Highness 1414tatioa Rt.
cotwr has been presented in behalf of Niailmlll Fels-
nine, now under sentence of death for altstiptiog to
!ninon the fannly. of Mr. Tustmax, of Chitoery-latie:l
It is aslil that some circumstances have treaspired of
a n Ittire to fawner e sitpposition 9f her innocence. ..
‘Vii stated a few days skim that a person of a rit-
sped/dile appearance applied to Mr. Owns for his
interference respecting her sister, tyke, else alleg
web improperly detained in a private toad-house seer
.% ; the Magistrate, howiler, not having any
jorlsdi o, referred ben to a Judge, who would
giant a Habeas Corpus. On Satarday thane.,
&cal who sip* the certificate of tie laded'
sai.ity,-ofttrect to go iota a full ixplanstlitin of
no,iness, stating that the hatisOd of the lady wee at
Magi,. rate .for the carat. 0 Middlesex ; bet Mr..,
Ilesswic cot this matter: i short, by saying—the:
fornsle, when slis, . ' , bins, mentioned a*
themee tiger. iss ~ • , necessity Wit.
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