The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-02 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN..

Samuel Dunker, the buok.keepe•r, said, that
about a quarter before five o'clock on Tuesday,
he was called by Sarah Horn, the chambermaid,
to go into the room where the deceased had been;
I put to bed. On entering the room, he found the
1 deceased lying on his belly at the foot of time bed ;
a napkin wan tied round his neck, and his heath
was bush nd ef I from the be•d-eiust, about half a
yard from the flour ; the deceased was cold, and
quite dead. The witness was without a knife in
hi* poilet, and he cal.ed np one of the helpers
belonging to the stable, who cut tile na,►kin ;
a mums sent for a surgeon, :mut his assistance was
of no avail. The deceased hail mentioned to the
witness, belote lie went to b,ll, that he intended
tog° by the Liverpool coach ; but he afterwards
said he would gu by tile Glasgow coach in the
morning.
Mr. Star, the Surgeon, found the deceased lying
on his belly, quite dead'kje had tied his white
cambrick handkerchief to towel, and fastened
the sanse with a noose round his neck, fixing the
knot under his left ear. He examined the body,
and found every appearance. of strangulation, and
was satisfied the deceased hid beta strangled ;
witness conceived that the deceased, who was a
corpulent man, had retnained on hi* knees at the
lower nart of the bed, until be had suspended
himself front the bed-post, whets he fell, and by
ins struggles had accelerated his death. The
witness expressed his opiiiiiiii that the decuused was
insane.

Wm. Loden, P.sq. Solicitor, of Gray's-inn.
square, deposed, that he condic:ted the affairs of
the deceased; saw him about eleven o'clock out
Monday morning, at the house of Dr. Hume, its
Lower Grocvenor-street. The deceased was Wks
in a state of mental derangement, occasitmod by
the embarrassed state of Isis atfairs—he au consi.
dered in so dangerous a state, that Dr. Hume and
the witness thought it was dangerous to leave hint
by himself. In the evening witness called on Dr.
G. at the Bull and Mouth, with several letters
which he had received. Ile was shewn into the
room where he slept, and read the letters to him.
Inconsequence of these letters, witness advised Dr.
G. not to go to Scotland, and told him he alight
remain concealed from the bailiffs in London.
stud composed than he hAtl been during the day.
The witness bad known Doctor Glasse LG years,
during which Doctor Glasse had ruined a line for-
tune. The. witness bad no doubt of his insanity.
He had Intim:ally exclaimed, 'fake me to prison !
I have ruined my family ! 0, my wife and chil-
dreu! with many other exprLisions, which left
no doubt of the deranged state of his intellects.—
Dr. Glasse had been appointed Chaplain to the
Lord Mayor Elect, and witness understood Dr.
Glasse had written a strange letter to a City Oifi.
cer, in which he said ho was compelled to become
au exile.
John Knapp, waiter to Mr. Winans, the
ke,•per 01 the Bull and Month, deposed that the
deceased appeared much agitated when he came
into the Cuffee-ruum His hands shook, and he
rustled out, unite lie was taking refresnment, to
speak to the Cle.k in th • Coach-Office. The
witness thought the decess, ti was mad, and made
an observation to that eases, to one of his fellow.
servants.

The Coroner left it to the Jury to say whether
the deceased was of insane mind *ben he destroy.
ed himself. The July immediately returned their
verdict—lnsanity.

If Mr. 'AMISS HOLKAA, sit Fe.sex-street, in the
Strand, who assures us that he is an old and taut
'minifying servant of the Coven t-Garden Theatre,
will do us the favour to reperuse Tug STATES.
MAK of Wednesday last, of which he complains, in
the following letter, ho will there discover, that it •
is not the case of Andrews the Bill.sticker, but
that of a " Yuung Gentleman" who was " seized
" and searched, and had his pockets rifled with
" brutal ferocity," which we have promised to
detail. Of the case of Andrews we know no more
than that he was seized, imprisoned, and di :char.
geal. With respect to the reason assigned by Mr.
Houma, for his Right to interfere, by seizing
dndretes, and delivering him over to Mr. Satz.
non, another old and wet ungrateful servant of
the Theatre, we are not sulficleotly clear-sighted
to comprehend how Mr. Ilowses's services to the
Theatre can bare conferred on him, either under
the piazza, or any where else, a right which is
nut possessed by any other of the liegesehjects of
our Sovereign Lard the King, namely the right to
seize an individual in the street without a warrant,
when t.ot actually committing a breach of the
Mayes. Of this assumed right of Mr. J. Moors,
we anticipate an investigationla ifitettaiaster
Hall.
TO THE PROPRIETOR.; OF THE STATERMA N.

GstemastEm—Soeing in your Paper of last
night a promise to lay a statement before the Pub-
lic, concerning the particulars of the taking up of
Andrews, tho bill-sticker, and in that promise you
mention it was done with brutal ferocity, I beg
leave to state the facts as far as I am concerned :
Being that night at the door of the Theatre, I was
informed there was a man delivering out Bills,
tending to inflame the mite!, of the Audience ; al-
most immediately he delivered one of them to me,
in consequence of which I took him to lite hos-
door un the Covent-Garden side, and gave him to
Mr. James Brandon, who had him taken to Bow-
street; after that, I was done, and if an improper
commitment followed, the Magistrate was to blame
not.me. It may he inquired by what right I in.
terfered ? my answer is, I have been a servant to
that !louse some years, and should consider my.
reif a very ungrateful ose, had I not taken the
steps I did. As for any ill-treatment, at to vio-
lence, I taw none whatever. To prevent misre-
presentation is my only motive in troubling you
with trigs tetter. Your's, respectfully,
JAMES HOLMES,
Essea-street, Strand.

Nov. 1, 1809.

There is said to bs a strong English party in
Copenhagen. A request has been forwarded to
all persons residing in Zealand to give up their
plate, dr.c. the Government agreeing to giutrantes
its 'value.