The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-03 00:00:00

POLICE.

MARYLIMONZ Orrice.—Janies Jamieson, a soldier of
the Foot Guards, was brought up yesterday, from the
watch-house, charged by Lewis Cordoue,• before JOHN
RAWLINSON, Esq. the Sitting blagistratr, with atte.npt-
ing to extort from him some money end a gold ring, un-
der a threat of a nameless nature.

The statement riven in this ease was nearly to the fol-
lowing effect :—'l he prisoner had given Cordone, who is
an olat•man. living in ,the service of a lady in Portman-
square, into the custody of the watchmen, charging him
with an act of extreme indecency. On this charge he
was consigned to the watch-house, and it appeared he
was so overwhelmed with horror and amazement at the
villainous accusation, that he was totally deprived of ut•
terance, and was unable, from the agitation of his feel-
' inns, to deny the charge. On the following morning,
hot , lie communicated with several of his friends,
and :Ur Harmer the Solicit4r, attended in his behalf.
The prisoner, who for a few minutes was the accuser,
stated io a very equieocating tone, that he had met Cm,
done near Tyburn Turnpike, who proceeded to act to-'
wards him in a very disgraceful ar,d indecent manner,
and then tied across the fields; but in about a quarter of
an hoar after he again made his appearance near the gate
entered into coneetsation with him, and was instantly
given in ch;.Ne oldie watchman.
Cordone most solemnly protested his innocence, and
said he was proceeding through Oxford-street, when the
soldier came up to him, after following him some dis-
tance, and with a dreadful oath said—Now he had him
he"wotald not let him go, and began to handle him
roughly, swearing he would give into the watch-
man's hands. lie asked for what: in a very great
alarm; and the fellow i:stantly rejoined, accusing him
of a nameless offence, in language the most abominable.
So horror struck was be at the accusation that he ran
off, but on recollecting himself he returned in very great
agitation, determined to give the fellow into custody.
The soldier, who was still there, came up to him, and
With the utmost effrontery renewed his infamous charges,
concluding by offering him his liberty on giving np all
the mosey he had, and the ring on his finger. On re-
fusing to accede to any such terms, and on calling out
fur assistance, the soldier dragged him some distance,
and finally gave him in charge at the watch-house.—
Cordone, in conclusion, distinctly denied ever having
seen the soldier before, and firmly protested the man bad
sworn most falsely.

Same nitwit's of respectability attended in Cordone's
behalf, and proved he was a man the very reverse of what
was alleged ; that his whole lire was marked by propriety
of conduct ; that he never was before accused ; that they
did not believe the accusation; and that he was in Ox-
ford-street on business for his mistress, and was close to
the Atop to which be was going when pounced upon by the
soldier.

This evidence so completely turned the tables, that the
Magistrate ordered the soldier Imo custody, and Cordon
was discharged. He then stated on his oath what we have
before given, and upon this and the other concurrent testi-
mony, Jr Litman, the soldier, was committed for attempting
to extort money.
It was subsequently statmi to the Magistrate that the sol-
dier had made similar charges before, which he had been un-
able to prove.

TRAM Es-PoLice.—Yesterday John James, Joke Par-
ker, and Willians Stevens, three seamen belonging to
the Zephyr, were brought up for re•examination, on a
charge of felony and setting the ship on fire.
Robert floss, Master of the Zephyr, repeated the tes-
timony before given: that, on the 16th of June, on the
high seas, an alarm of fire was given by the prisoner
James, which afterwards wascliscurered to have arisen by
the prisoners going with a lighted candle to stdal from
a puncheon a quantity of rum, Steven', on the morning
after the tire, told witness that he went with a lighted
iandle to steal the rum, while the two other prisoners
were on the watch; in the act of drawing tr, it dew
over the candle, and the Spirit room was in a minute all
in a blaze.. The witness Wilier stated, that it was with
the greatest difficulty the ship was eared.

Two other witnesses corroborated the last witness's
' testimony.
Gillman, en officer, deposed, that when he took the
prisoner Stevens into custody, the litter acknowledged
having broached Om cask :Mist the fire was an accident,
and he hoped he sisould opt Ins lismge4 for it. -• • l.

The prisoner Stevens, wbo est iwa chair. and was sup-
ported while in the Wit*, from the extensive burns on
his person, would have seid suutiting, but was advised
against It; the Other two prisoners .declined saying any
'thing in detract.% and the Magistritlt W.•
Iraq., fully euustnitted theurte -Senate. r.CIIA-tta;
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Yesterday His Excsfltithybartia Werther, Envoy Extra.:
ordinary aselltirsieter "Pleelpellentiary of- His Majesty the
Meg of Prassi s, joiatty with lie. N.M. Rothschild, and ac.
crunpauled by Mr. Hteen.lkintary:Publie, cancelled and de-
posited in the Hanka }island the satonot of 170001.. in
specie' bonds Of the prassien libnds.of 1822, negotilted by
Nr. M. Itotlisclifid,' London, in leg, being the first'
Half of ihe diet k the nidooSiOs of {Mathtbq
orsti.egy,i w....nsa 44. •4C4 . • ,

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• Wes Kmartm-•.Pnrsuent to a Royal •Mandate, thee
Judges assembled last wash at the henas of the
Lord Chief Justice Dallas, in Bloomsbary-square,
to determine the question of the Lord Lieutenant's rights
to make Knights, which has for some time bong suspend-
ed between the opinion of the Attatney and Solicitor•Ge,
neral of England, and that of the Attornoy and S..liaitot"
Boners! of Iretand.—The Chief Justice Dallas (thougls
in his uteri hous..) and Sir. Justice Richardson were una-
ble to attend through illness, but the other Judges
(unanimously, we believe,) decided in favour of the opi-
nion gives by the Attorney and Solioitor•General of
the Sister Kingdom, therebrcstablishing the right of the
Lord Lieutenent to the privilege in question, and whirls
we believe has been esercisedwithout dispute for more
than 500 years.
in our last we reported the unusual circumstance of
Presbyterian minister resigning his clerical charge, be-
cause-he bad ascertained that the Bible cannot be u.ed
as the only rule of church government. The Presby-
tery of Stirling having delayed proceeding in this mat-
ter until its nest meeting, how it will terminate, of
course, cannot till then he stated; bet in the mean time
we subjoin the following oh lion, addressed to Orr
Presbytery by- the Reverend gentleman in question, its
order to show how firmly footed leis reason of secession
appears to be:
51r; Shirreff said, he was well aware that, according
to the usual course of procedure, they ought to confer •
with him before accepting resurnation—sools a
course, be believed, was consistent with form, 'they
would. therefore do in it as they thought proper. Pie
was ready to retire with one or more of the nunobers,
and then terminate a matter that perhaps would not cc-
copy more than a few minutes. tie was, however, in
duty bound to inform them, that h would prove un-
availing, for there was not the smallest prospect of any
change taking place in his mind."—(EdinGurgit Star.). •

It Is gratifying to remark, tilt owing to. the small num-
ber of persons out of 'espial.; and the consequent de-
erase in the number of applicants for relief, the parish of
St. Margaret will only require a Shilling levy for the en-
toting quarter. The parish has not oaly got clear of the
heavy debt which long made a Ague in the parochial books.
but has now a considerable surplus In hand.--(Le(eester
tfironiefe.)
Yesterday morning, as Driver's Blackheath, Green•
wicb, and Deptford coach was passing along •Toulev-
street, in the Borough (the carriage-way in High-
street being under repair), when near the Maze.'
the off fore-wheel came off, .in conseqeence of the
liuch-pin slipping out, and the coach overturned
a fine young woman who sat on the box with the coach-
man, with an infant in her anus, was thrown upon the
pavement with great violence, and in the endeavour to
save the child, fell upon it—bOth were so serionsly in.
jured, as to reader it necessary to take Rim to St. Tito-
Hospital immediately; the coachman was also
much hurt. None of the other passengers received any
material injury.
Conosea's loonesys.—An inquisition was held yes-
terday at the Northumberland Arms, Goswell-street-road,
before T. STIRLING, Esq. Coroner fdr Middlesex, on the
body of Mr. Thomas Marries, a resectable single gen-
tleman, who cat his throat, with a razor, in his bed•
room. at his lodging, is the house of Mr. Brown, 31,
Spencer-street, Clerkenwell. It appeared from the evi-
dence that the deceased had laboured on ler a depres-
sion of spirits for some weeks. Verdict—lnsanity.
The body of Mr. Ahrl firiffiths was, Fatly yesterday
morning, by order of the Vestry of St. George's, Hans,
ver-square,aleposited in the earth allotted in the churlih-
yard for the graves of paupers.
On the evening of Friday week, a party of vonng men
belonging to Stirling went to bathe in the Forth wheq
the tide was ebbing, and although they could swim. tlot
strong receding current fatigued them so much, that one
of the party, Mr. John Paterson, found it necessary to
call to his companions that he felt exhausted, One of
them instantly swam to his assistance, and desired him to
support himself by laying hold ,of his shoulderstbis.he
did ; but the young man, who so generously endeavour-
ed to rescue his sinking friend, became so encumbered.
that he was unable to proceed, and both immediately
went down. In the struggle under water, Mr. Paterson
lost his hold, and the other being much exhausted, was
compelled to make for the nearest bank. We lament to
add. that Mr. Paterson, a promising young man, onlr
eighteen years of age, sunk to rise no more. His body
was not found till next morning.
On Menday last, two boys, on their return from school
at Tydd St. Cedes, stopt to.bathe in a silt pit, when being
observed to be in danger by a boy riding an ass upon the
road, he dismounted, and went into the pit with the in-
tention of rescuing them. He succeeded en saving one,
bat on returning for the second, he was so firmly grasped
by him as to be unable either to extricate himself or re-
lieve the object of his humane and courageous exertions,
and they were both drowned. The name of the little
fellow who thus nobly lost his own life in endeavouring
to save that of another, was Philip Brighton; thit of
his companion in death, Jos. Barker.—(Stamford News.
A savage assault was made on Thursday morning last,
in the village of Torry, Fifeshire, by two women upon
another of their own sex, an infirm woman, of 70 years
of age, named Margaret Ruthven, whom they had beat
most nontercifully with poker anitongs, in consequence,
it is supposed of the latter baying some days previous
craved them for a small debt they sowed her for bread,
which she retails. The poor woman's skull, legs, and .
arms were laid bare to the bones, by strokes from these
deadly weapons, and she was otherwise mach bruised.—
The matter, we understand, it under investigation by the
Procurator Fiscal of Dunfermline.

John Bullock, the pedestrian, Continues, with unabated
ardour, to pursue his task of walking 1000 miles in eighteen
days, at Mr. Hopkins's garden, in Lenton. He has ma-
plated 996 unites in sixteen days, agreeably to the following
statement :—Monday, June 9, 00; Tuesday, 63; Wesnes-
day, 64; Thursday, /0 ; Friday, 49; Saturday, 61 ; Mot,-
day, 70; Tuesday, 69; iVedaesday, 61; Thursday, 64;
Friday, 63; Saturday, 66; Monday, 56; Tuesday, 113;
Wednesday, 49; Thursday, 39.—(Nottisghan Rev.)
Tug FOUR HUNDRED MILES' MATClll.—Powell's match
to York and back, 391 miles in 5 days and 13 hours, has
been outrivalled by Mark Hawkins: the Lancashire
n, who completed his task of 400 miles in 5 days and
.12 hours, at balf•past eleven o'clock on Thursday more
ins. His progress np to Sunday night, the second day
•Ims been stated at 152 miles. He went 13 miles to break'
fait on Monday morning, and at two o'clock he reachid
the 200 mile-stone in sixty-two hours, In good health,
retuned back to Chid: to refresh, and arrived 165
• from London to sleep. On the fourth day be felt
ttrecb inconvenieoce from blisters on the feet, which
were relieved by iatrodnciny wonted through the blis-
taws. lie did 65 miles only this day, leaving himself
remaining divan,
Atb,Any be arrived
'clock in. the 'yeah
and appealn&,oonet
*oft, and' he travel
lie pair! Waited%