The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-12 00:00:00

POLICE.
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THE S'I'ATtSMA.N.

Bow•sTßEET.—Yesterday morning, as Nichols
was passing through Charing-cross, he observed a
man with something bulkey tied up in a dirty cloth,
and having a suspicion that the contents of the bun.
die had been stolen, followed him into Cockspur-
street, from there he returned, and entered the Park
by Spring-gardens, when he asked him what he had
got in his bundle? to which he replied, nothing.—
Nichols insisted on searching the cloth, when ha
found a very handsome plate coach-glass, supposed
to have been stolen from a Nobleman or Gentleman's
coach.

He was brought to the Office, and underwent an
examination before Mr. BIaNtE, the Sitting Magis-
trate, when he said the glass had been given him
early yesterday morning, by a man, four miles on
this side of Croydon, to make a shilling or two
of it.

He was committed for further examination.

Mr. Bird, of Gray's Inn-lane, was convicted for
shooting night-soil from his cart early in the morning
of the 9th of December, in Park-lane, opposite the
premises of Lady Caroline Darner.

A similar offence was committed at the same time
in Grosvenor-square.
UNION-llALL.—lsabclla Hewitt was brought up
for re-examination, charged by Mr. Scholey, of Pa-
ternoster-row, on suspicion of being concerned in
stealing two silver gravy spoons, six table spoons,
and two silver waiters.

The property was taken from the sideboard in the
parlour, on the 22d of December, at which time Mr.
Scholey was in Ireland, and the spoon.; were pledged
at different pawnbrokers, in the Borough, on the
same day.
_ _

The s;airers were offered for sale to a silversmith
in the Borough also on the 2ed, whose shopman
purchased them for 71. 15. ; at the rate of ss. 10d.
per ounce.

The pawnbrokers spoke positively to the Prisoner
as being the person who pletlged the spoons; and the
silversmith to his belief of her having offered the
waiters fur sale.

The Prisoner denied all knowledge of the transac-
tion.

She was fully committed.
Ilsrros.o IiDEN. •••••• Thomas Fisher; a running
dustman, was brought up in the custody of John
Limbrick, the officer, and charged with represent-
ing himself as a Police Officer, exhibiting his gilt-
headed staff, and clearing the street of Cow-cross
of hawkers and dealers of earthenware, fruits, and
others who exposed their wares for sale in the street,
without his permission, in order to extort money
from them.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, IdN. 11.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 11.

COLE M. MILLER.

Mr. SMITH opposed the discharge of the Defend-
ant, first, on the ground of informality in the ser-
vice of notices; and secondly, for having omitted
in his schedule the name of Mr. Hannam, a creditor.
The Prisoner denied that he owed Mr. Hannam,
who is an attorney, any money whatever; but it ap-
peared that he had employed a Mr. Colville to act
as his attorney, and that Colville employed Hannan),
who put in bail for the Defendant, and, transacted
other business, which made hie a claimant on the
Defendant's effects.

Mr. BALLANTINE, for the Defendant, described
the contract as between Miller and Colville to be no
more than a conditional agreement, by which Col-
ville was to receive a present of 501. if he performed
the service expected.

Ile was asked by the Magistrnte, by what aiithori,
ty he presumed to set as he did ? Ile answered, by the
same authority they exposed their wares for sale—
they had no licence.
Ile was remanded.

James Madden and Fdw. lonn:;, were brought
up, in custody of Win. Read, sett. on the following
charge:— •
It appeared that the Prisoners went into a baker's
shop, in Bagnigge Wells,- and in the absence of the
YOUNI WoOMU ulso served in the shop, emptied
till
of its contents, in which there happened to UM*
more money than a sixpence and a low hatfpenew.—=.
Elizabeth Farnham, the young woman, bearing the
noise of the till opening, ran into the shops and saw
the Prisoners both run off, and
,she gave the alarm,
and they were pursued and brought back in custody ;
on searching them, the 6d. was found concealed In it
piece of bread, on the person of Jas. Madden, and
which ad. was identified by witness, Elizabeth Farn-
ham.

The charge being proved, the Prisoners were fully
committed for trial.

GUILDIIALL.---,Yesteday C. 11. Wakefield was
brought up a second time, charged on suspicion of
robbing his employer, Mr. Cooke, of Crown-court,
Cheapside, of a quantity of silks, cabinets, shawls,
handkerchiefs, &c.
The Prisoner, who had been in the employment
of Mr. Cooke ,-levee mouths, was suspected of beieg
concerned in a theft of an extensive nature, disco.
vered to have been going forward in the warehouse
of the Prosecutor for a considerable time; and it
having been ascertained that the Prisoner cohabited
with a young woman in Fetter-lane, search was made
at their reputed lodgings, but they had removed.—
After tracing them, however, to a variety of places,
they were at length discovered in a house in Castle.
lane, in the Borough. Here Mr. Cooke discovered
several of the articles missing, and the Prisoner was
taken into custody. Many of the articles were re-
stored to Mr. Cooke, by the female companion of
the Prisoner.

The Prosecutor, however, since the first etamina.
tion, having made son►e fresh discoveries of a serious
and extensive nature, the Prisoner was again re-
manded.

Serjeant PA LitElt said he could not attend to any
contract of that sort, as it was corrupt and unlaw-
ful ; and without saying whether Colville or liannam
ought to be admitted a creditor, he adjourned the
case until to-morrow, on the first objection, namely,
irregularity of the notices.

We are sorry to announce the loss of the under.
named gallant Officers:— First Lieutenant JUAN
MARSH, of the Royal Marine Artillery, killed at
Fort Erie, Canada, on the 4th of September, 1814,
by a rifle ball. Second Lieutenant JAMES I'. FURZER,
of the Royal Marius Artillery, killed on hoard his
Majesty's bomb Volcano, on the 30th of October,
1814, in an action with an American slap of war.
Their death is much regretted, and his Majesty's seq.
vice has suffered a great loss.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. O.—Another alaim of fire was
given a few nights since at Sidney College, which
seems the destined seminary for strange coafiagra.
tions ; strong suspicions are entertained that this
ignition, the third within the short period of a year,
was not an accidental event; three espulsions have
recently taken place at this College, but upon what
grounds has not yet been declared.

Lort‘eviTv.—The 31st of December a poor man,
named Jonathan ‘Veeldon, died at, Tibshelf, in Der-
byshire, in the 102 d year of his age, who retained
his faculties to the last. lie had resided about 70
years in the Peak of Derbyshire.
BBNJAMIM HALL, Esq. (the Representative of
Glainorganshire) has purchased Ilensol noose and
Estate, formerly the magnificent seat and, favourite
residence of the late WILLIAM, Earl TALBOT, who,
it is said, upended 60,0001. in improving and beau-
tifying this tauch.admired place.

1 OLD BAILEY, JAN. 11.

CONSPIRACY. This day the Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced before
Patrick Leeson and Itichard Gardner were both ln
_r. Baron WOOO, Mr. Jnstice DALLAS. the Recommit, &v.
indicted for conspiring together to defraud,"iind with John Paul was indicted for stealing two pieces Pfeilk haw_
kerchiefs from the shop-window of John Smith, haberdasher, in
defrauding, Mr. Christopher Hawe, a publican, in Ratcliffe Highway.
Swallow-street, Piccadilly, of the sum of 601. it
as lithweast p givenoianno;vltdenceiittokar twiasn the
etanintlnntgh of
Stehpetts bper last,
half-past six in the moiling, be saw the Prisoner repeal pint
Appeared that Leeson had signified that he had a sum
of money to lodge with soma person who would take the door, which exciting his suspicion, be wutched closel)s
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care it, and that hp laid down on. the table a sum of rodw7:nsahewardtts: pane
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money, and the Defendant Gardner counted out pi ,eed there. Witness instantly punned him, and Priseper ohs-
chief, aud on the cry of stop thief, a patrole stopped Prisoner .-
11'261. to all appearance. The Prosecutor immedi- serving he was detected, ran otf,- and threw away the kandker
atety took it up in a bundle, and put it in his pocket. Guilty.
He never counted the notes himself, and gave the Carl Plumberck, a Dutch sailor, was d for burglarious-
Defendant Leeson a receipt for the sum. In some Iv breaking out of the house of 11. Harris, on the Shit li of De_
days after, when he had occasion to go to his bureau cember, having Pl'evlaaillY "aka therein a gold and a inset'
to take out some money, he took theabove-mention- waTtceh.Prosecutor stated, tLat on the day aborts-mentioned the
ed parcel for that purpose, but -to his astonishment
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day, when
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tto could
found that it contained instead of 1261. only 061. and,
when Leeson next called he acquainted him therewith: him 351. Prosecutor Vtoll that, asked him to stay the night is
Leeson,. however, persisted in declaring that the sum
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was 1261. and that he expected Mr. Hawe would be -and
soper
accountable to him for it. Mr. H. resisted the claim, ' bed is which Prisoorr
and had Leeson and Gardner apprehended upon a time
in natcliffe neat e
-highway, Wh be exchange the
charge of conspiracy, and ordered to find bail for watches for other articles. He was then secured, and by the
that offence, which they forthwith did, and were magistrates committed for lA—Guilty—Death.
discharged. Leeson then brought an action for his !
otitis: We tfi I.eladruhg. iliwuasuseinodficArnlgriustnerealing fear Bank-
money, which was tried at the Sittings after the last The Prosecutor stated, that Prisoner was his 'basin= its
Term, and obtained a verdict against Mr. Hawe for ;Tamil-street, wesunirater, and suspecting that Prisoner ex_
the amount of his claim, together with costs. On ire
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iones histly by sroYmewoott!iltd. airds:rhiliis77c; fer.
this occasion the Jury expressed themselves perfectly was induced one day, on observing the key of the Pris.oenue'rl
satisfied that there was no foundation for the charge box left in it, to open the box and examine the contents, among
3%.eh_ich he found seven_ notes, four of which witness. bad am,
against the Defendants, and brought in a verdict of !Marked, and put in a his till, subsequent to the-time of his
Not Guilt!). having paid Prisoner any salary. %liners sent for an officer,
who took the Prisoner into cnitody, and searched his box,
where be found seven 11. Bank-notes, and some silver in
pocket-book.
Prisoner confessed to the officer that he had taken the money
from the till by a shilling ut a time, and had afterwards obtain-
ed notes for Item.
Prisoner in his defence said lie had obtained the notes ho-
nestly.
Another shopman of the Prosecutor, who was called on the
part of the Prisoner, proved, that ou 24th of November be had
received 51. in notes, from his master, which be afterwards paid
re the Prisoner on acconnt of his brother, who was a tailor, is
whom witness stood indebted, and who had requested him to
pay such money to his brother, the Prisoner.
Several witnesses gave the Prisoner a good character,and even
the Prosecutor allowed he hadnever known or suspected his
of any thing dishonest till the'titne he had above mentioned, and
should have no objection to admit him again into his service.
Mr. Baron WOOO symmed up the evidence, and told the Jury
they must besatisfied the Prisoner had stolen the notes athiciip
describerl in the indictment. If, as Prisoaer had alleged, be had
stolen silver and crammed it for ootes, that did not amount to
the offence with which he stood charged.
The Jury, after retiring for about a quarter of ap hour, pre-
nouoced the Prisoner Not Guilty.
Stephen Reynolds stood indicted for privately stealing, on the
3fl of January, ten pair of stockings, the property of John Ride,
—Guilty of stealing, but not prisittely, and recommended to
mercy.
John Brown was convicted of feloniously. stealing one port-
manteau, value 10s. fire towels, value ss. and twelve bottles of
wine, value 31. the property of Wen. Hunt Micklefeld.

CAUTION TO VANILIEC—On Sunday last, Mr.
and Mrs. Shearay, of Bethnal Green, sent to their
garden for a stick of lterse-radish, and the servant
brought in a root called pope's-root, which exactly
resembles horse-radish, end was unfortenatety used
instead of it; they both found themselves very ill
that evening, and next day a medical man was called
in, who declared them both dangerously poison,d.—
la this deplorable sitaatloo, they have bees ea
since, and their death is hourly expected.
Mr. Blissett, a gentleman of respectability, wag
found dead in his bed on Tuesday last,attbe Black
Horse Inn, in Salisbury: It appears, that after rat;
tiring to his bed-chamber he took such a quantity of
opium. as to cause the fatal catastrophe.