The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-25 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

'MIDDLES= SESSIONS;

Weingss was indicted for unlawfully,
110 for 60 sake of lucre, having in his possession a
queywity of parchment, the property of Charles
Douse a►ul Richard Peacock, law-stationers' in
Chancery.lane.
Mr. GusiNgsr opened the case on the part of the
Prosecution.

Richard Peacock said, that he was a law-stationer
io Chancery-lane, fn partnership with Charles Douse,
and that he had no other partner. Having suspect-
ed an apprentice that they had, of the name of Hill,
of robbing them, lie went to the house of the Defend-
ant, who keeps a book shop in Bishop's-court,
Chancery-lane; ho told the Defendant that he sus.
peeled some of his apprentices, and named the name
of Hill, informing him that lie had been informed
that the boy had been frequently with him. This
the Defendant denied. The witness then asked him,
if he had ever purchased any thing from the boy
Hill ; upon this the Defendant said that Hill had
frequently come to him offering articles for sale,
when the Defendant uniformly told him that if the
master of the boy or his father would come to him,
he should purchase them from him, but that he
would not purchase any thing from boys; the Prose-
cutor told him that he was perfectly right, as it ope-
rated as an inducement to them to steal. The Prose-
cutor immediately applied for a warrant ; Limbrick
was the officer who executed it ; when they came to
the Defendant's house and explained their business,
the Defendant said that he had no objection, as he
had no parchment but what was at the door; the
officer then went, up stairs leaving the Prosecutor be-
low ; at the bottom of a basket of foul linen the
officer found a quantity of parchment, which was
sworn to by Mr. Douse and Dlr. Peacock as being
their property.
Limbrick, the officer, corroborated the statement
.of the Prosecutor. lie stated, in addition, that in
going to the Office the boy cried much, and said that
Mr. ‘Vemyss had asked him to bring him some
parchment. Ile never gave different accounts of the
business.

Joseph Stevenson Hill proved, that the first lime
be went to the shop of the Defendant was to purchase
A book which the boy paid him for, and told him
that a fellow apprentice of his, he being an appren-
tice with Messrs. Douse and Peacock, would call
for it. The Defendant then asked him if he had any
parchment, to which he answered in the negative.—
The witness had repeatedly since furnished the De
fetid:tut with parchment, for which the price fixed by
the Defendant was 18d. per pound.
Mr. Peacock and Mr. Douse sworn, that parch-
ment such as carvers and gilder. purchase for making
size of was Is. per pound, while that which was
found in the Defendant's possession was worth 3s. 6d.
per pound.
• Mr. ANDREWS addressed the Jury in behalf of the
Defendant, and adduced a variety of witnesses, who
stated themselves to ba law-stationers, who had been
in the tre of selling to the Defendant pieces of, parch-
meta at the rate of Rd. per pound ; also several
witnesses who had known the Prisoner for (be last
four or use years, who gave him au ezcellewt cha-
racier.

• , Mr. GURNEY replied.
The CHAIRMAN having recapitulated the evidence
to tip Jury,
The Jury immediately found the Prisoner—Guilty.

The following notice has been posted up in the
City :

POLICE.-

Bow-STREET.—Yesterday two noted smugglers
underwent a long private examination before Mr.
BIRNIE, charged with the wilful murder of a Cus-
tom-house officer, off the port of Deal, in the year
1507.—They were committed for further examiria-
lion.
A letter carrier and stamper, employed in the Ge-
neral Post-office, was brought to the Office, charged
with feloniously stealing a letter entrusted to his
care. It contained an inclosure of a 101. Bridport
Bank note. It came from the town of Bridport,
and was proved_ to pass through the Prisoner's hands
in sorting the letters. It was directed to a person in
Richmond • the note was payable at Alderman Cox,
Merle, and.Co.'s, Backers in London. The Prisoner
was committed for further examination.
On Monday an information came on to be heard
against Mr. Fisher, of the Strand, haberdasher,
charging him with not having written over his door,
or in a conspicuous part of the front of his shop,
" Dealer in Foreign Lace," as directed by the Act
of Parliament, by, which be had forfeited a penally'
of 501. he being duly licensed to sell foreign lace, to •
prove which a gentleman from the Stamp Office at-
tended.
Mr. PUGH attended for the Defendant, and sub-
' mitted that his Client had only been served with the
summons on Saturday afternoon ; lt was not a rea-
sonable time to answer to the information yesterday,
as he expected to be able to prove that the lace which
had been sold on Thursday,upon which the informa-
tion was grounded, was not foreign, but made by the
manufacturers in England.
On the part of the informer, it was contended that
this was not essential to the case, the charge being,
; that Mr. Fisher, being a licensed dealer in foreign
lace, had omitted to have it written up so in the
I front of his shop, as directed by the Act of Parlia-
ment ; but if it was deemed necessary to prove that
Mr. Fisher had sold foreign lace, or lace which he
had sold as such, a Custom-house Officer was pre-
sent to prove that it was foreign lace.
The Defendant's Solicitor persisting in his appli- 1
cation for longer time, it was postponed for a week. I
The Gentlemen of the Parish and two of the in- :
habitants on the spot of Herbert's-passage, Beaufort-
' buildings, attended to proceed with indicting the ;
house of ill fame kept by Mrs. Gibbs, where a Gen-
tleman cut his throat on Thursday morning last.— '
'1 Some beef tea and other strengthening things have
1 been administered to him by a spoon, and yesterday
he was considerably better, and able to talk a little
so as to be understood. Ile was particularly anxious
in his enquiries after the unfortunate female who ac-
companied
him to the house, completely exonerating
her from any knowledge of the improper conduct
1 towards himself, and that he was tempted to the rash
act from his circumstances being embarrassed. On ,
a Gentleman unknown to him, humanely offering his
services to endeavour to obtain a settlement of them,
he said it was not his own private affairs that dis-
tracted his mind, but he bad imprudently put his name
Ito notes for very large amounts, to accommodate a
very considerable house in the city, and he,knew they
; I could not honour them.
lienr,y Gibbons was charged with a highway rob-
bery in Hart-street, Covent-garden;in tieing con-
corned with several others in stopping and robbing
Michael Rowe of his watch, between; ten and eleven
1 o'clock on Sunday night, which was confirmed by
i Henry Gibson, an engineer, employed by the Gas
j Light Company. The watch was found in the Pri-
soner's hand, and he was committed to Newgate for
, trial.

" BIRCII. lll4Yon. A man in the dress of a sailor, was held to bail
o Mansion House, Oct, 24, ISIS. 1 for uttering the most violent and seditious expres.
" Whereas a number of Seamen have applied at the Man. SionS against the Government, in Pall-mall.
Sion 11 ,u.e for relief, stating that thry have served on boat d
QtiaEl9.9QtlAßE.—Allorg Clare 'vas brought before
he nee: ty', ships of .tor, and are out of employ, and a ithintt
in•ons of subsistence, the Lord May, r huq ,m,lered the follow. Mr. (7oxeutioue, by Gillmore, charged with having
ing Let of Pension. to Seamen of his Nrojeay'.B.Navy to he committed divers frauds. and felonies. She was tried
t eteialee iti t.,i, City, in ord..r that the i.rov Isom made by
Government for mot: 11 persons may be generally known; as well at the last Westminster Sessions for swindling, but
us that his Majesty's ship, ',redirected at this moment to receive acquitted, the Chairman holding that the " false
ail such :is ore fit for service.
pretence" was not satisfactorily established, and she
PENSIONS TO SEAMEN IN ISIS MAJESTY'S NAVY. ~ "
Every Seaman who has served in his Nlalesty's
£lO 12 0 W 35 only discharged on Sewell'''. Various charges
N:IVV for 11 year., one third of which as Able,l were preferred against her, one was for obtainiaig
will he entitled to a pension of
" loereasing evety year prow etsively,eintil it shall I tea, &c. front J. Norton, Smith-street, grocer ; she
athoont to 47 4 0 went there and represented herself to be cook at
" In .(14itiost to these Pensions he wi I receive 11 Queen-square and ordered tea sugar &c. be.
15.,. '2/4. for every year that he has served as a , , , ,
Petty Officer of thin First Closi, t het Aire, a per.
sides change for a 21. note. These things were sent
son aba has serving 14 year+ as a Seaman, amid I by a lad, from whom, on the road, she contrived to
10 Yeats of these rte a Petty Officer of the First
get the goods, with which she ran off. From a fish.
Class, will he entitled to lB 4 0
" If he has served 20 )ears as a Seamen, and 15 of monger, at Newington, she got a lobster, and change
for a 21. note, representing herself to be, agreeably
these as a Pcitv Officer of the Fittit Cla,s, he
still hnye a Persian of 26 12 0
" I orreask: in proportion to their set vitude, till it amounts to bee usual plan, a housekeeper, or cook to some
to 501. and upwards. respectable family in the neighbourhood.—Commit-
e By Otd,r of the Lord Mayor,
" FRANCIS 11011LER." tad for further examination.
MAA LIOROUGH-STa IdET.--Mr. wise, a pawn-
The poor man of the name of Richard Ifazoll, broker, was summoned to answer a complaint against
foreman of the labourers of Deptford Dock-yard, him, for taking more than legal interest. The in-
'
who unfortunately fell off a piece of timber in e. former was Thos. Rankin, and his witness, Alexan.
deavouring to cross the Surrey Clttial at the spot der Gow, who, however, did not appear, and this was
where the new bridge is erecting near Deptford, died the fourth information.
on Thursday last.
I Ott Mr. WILLIAM, the solicitor, asking the in-
BALLOON.—Last Tuesday a balloon of great . former, if the indisposition of the witness did not
height, elegantly adorned with many curious devices arise from drunkenness, and if that he was now not
in brilliant colours, and measuring above 36 feet in drunk in bed ?—Gow's wife replied, in much haste,
circumference, ascended from Mr. Player's grounds, ' that Rankin could not swear to that.
,in the vicinity of Ryde, Isle of IVight. An effigy of It was contended; that it was the humanity of the 1
a man, as large as life, was attached to the balloon, pawnbroker to let the article on which too much :
and so contrived as to descend (apparently at will) interest was said to have been charged, go out of ,
close to Ryde Pier, where a number of fashionable his shop, as more titan twelve months had ex.
spectators had assembled to witness the ascent. On pired since it was pledged, and Mr. Wise told the
the fall of the effigy, which five minutes previously informer, nevertheless, if he would produce the ,
had fired some gunpowder with a very pleasing effect, . ticket, and there appeared any overcharge, it should 1
the balloon ascended to nearly double its former be refunded.
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height, or about two miles, and continued with great , Mr. Williams prayed the release of his Client, and
rapidity, as the wind blew strong from the South the Magistrate consented, observing the thing had
West, iu a North-easterly-direction over Spithead, been carried to too great a length.
till lost at a vast distance among the clouds. The , WoßSllle-STREET.—Yesterday Robert Wright was I
charges! on the oath of Mrs. Susan Bright, with
I . robbing her of a silk veil, value 30s. Mrs, Bright
day was uncommonly fine, uud had there been less
wind, the balloon would have been visible for ti
wards of au hour. Floes Portsmouth the appearance
was going.nlong Shoreditch, about nine o'clock on
was grand. Smelly evening, when the Prisoner came up to her, it.
Sittings „pointed in Middlesex and London, be- and made n snatch at her bonnet, but he only sue.'
fore the Right Hon, EDWARD Lord ELl.ENnOmnrcll, seeded in taking her veil, with which he ran off; 1
Lord Chief Justice, &c. in and after Michaelmas she followed him, crying nut, "stop thief," until he i
Term, 1815. was secured by a Gentleman who happened to he

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passing at the time. Iti the course of the pursuit,
Nuv. 13 he contrived to give the veil to one of his associates,
thi who got clear off with it. lie was fully committed
Yfur trial.
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IT rON-G 111 DEN.—Yesterday Ann Morris, the
mother abbess of one of the nunnerie; in Shirc-laue,

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