The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-19 00:00:00

J 111.44..
galueicatioas, Orders,

(WILMA LL—A number of Italians, to the amour
ten, consisting of Louis's, Rosettas, Andreas, Dor
and Stephanos, men, women and children, most
whose m rnanarg were Grandi, were brought up yesterdw
before the sitting Magistrate (Mr. Alderman Brow
and were placed at the bar, the males within the r •
the females in the front of it, charged with assam
rioting the previous evening, at the house of '
I'airfax, the Horse and Groom, Hosier-lane.

By the account of Fairfax, the landlord, it ai
that a large party of Italians, among whom w
prisoners at the bar, assembled at his house
o'clock on Monday evening, bringing with them
gular professor as a fiddler, and an old woman
sixty, an amateur performer on the same insti
Dancing commenced about nine o'clock, am
noted with unabated vigour until near twelve,
which time, it being then the hour for closing the
he went np to desire them to desist ; he dill m
to turn them out, but said they must leave off tit
and if they chose to take refreshments, and have
or so among themselves, he would allow them
another hour. The Italians, however, pi
dancing to singing, and insisted on contittuin.
amuseusent. Twice Le put out the lights, ant
they relit them. lie howeversuceeeded at last I
ing the ball-room, and locking the door. 'flit
which had originally consisted of 30 or 40, now
to separate, and many of them went away. 'l'l
soners, however, who, it appeared, were all of
relations, either by blood or marriage, with 01(
Urandi, the progenitor, at their head, would nut
but secured their retreat into a hack romn,and
at defiance. The watchman on the beat
'length sent for, who brought an assistant
him ; mild words and entreaties were at first
but nithout effect, and the party being too
to be encountered by a couple of watchmen.
irdorc.ment was obtained. and a regular sir;,
laid to the back room, which was at last entered
s:o.n, the prisoners generally making the most -
resistance, and fighting and beating the wal
with pewter puts, which the females of th(
handed to them from the shelves. Rosetta GI
it girl scarcely eleven years old was described as
particularly active among the females in furni
this sort of ammunition. In this affray two
bottles, contaicing each two gallons of !Num
broken by some of the prisoners, who finding
selves nearly overpowered, commenced their re,
upon the landlord, by setting all his spirit
running, till the back room was overflowing wit
About a dozen pewter pots, bent into all maw
shapes, which were produced, and about hal
lumber of watci.anen, with black eyes or I
beads, bore It simony to the violence of the ca
which did not terminate till near three o'clock
morning.

To assist the prisoners both in law and Tani
scarcely any of them speaking intelligible Engl
solicitor attended on their behalf, who on th(
examination a Fairfax, got him to allow ti
room had been rezularly engaged by the pai
twelve o'clock, for dancing, and an hour after
fresbments, and wished to have it inferred that
commenced th • riot, by attempting to break
party be:ore the time agreed on, and forcibly
the fiddles, and turning the old lady fiddler out
room.

Williams, one of the watchmen, who bore nn
violence ..a his countenance, corroborated the
lord's statement as to the outrageous conduct
prisoners, to its fullest extent ; upon which the
Alderman suggested to the solicitor, whether ii
be for the interests of his clients, that he (the
man) should proceed further in the business.
ready to do so, if they wished it, bitt he fear
consequence would be, that he must hold them
bail. Upon this hint, rermission was request(
they might be allowed to withdraw, and try to
their differences; all the parties retired accoo,
The Italians, however, like good tradesmen, w
driving a-ltard bargain. The difference with th
lord .vas a matter of account, and son settled,
old Louis (frandi's undertaking for the payment
for the injury sustained. The value to be set
the bumps and bruises of the watchmen took
longer time to ascertain, and a positive and obsi
stand was made by the oil man against payi
office-fee (Is. each) for their discharge. There
however, no alternative between that and finslir
for the whole party, he at length submitted, a,
prisoners welt set at liberty.

Fairfax, the landlord, was then rallell, and ini
by Mr. Alderman Brown, that be should f. .el
duty to represent to the Alderman of the.ward I
propriety of his conduct, in letting out his liot
parties of this description, and he did not doul
that he might set his acconnt 'with losing his
in future.
• thtiOs!-:laut..—Tlie investigation of the "
OUDiN•alr. OCCIMR6111.10," which we stated e.eett
in our paper of Monday, excited yesterday such ,
ortli nury Intel444WD the undertaker was brougi
in enstody.od **kale Of slaking away with the
of the colivieteil firkin, Lee,' that the Ace and
avenue laadlor. to it, as well as: he neighbourhood
.1.0 ai.e.usceire were at an early hoar
.he morning besieged by itumeuse eroirds: The

- - -
Sir John Mimeo, Redgitt; Mit 0. ifia
. . • , .
t tbi loss: imins.tion was conducted ittlerijahnne
go strates, and J. peer, Req...RigliSheriff "Mine,
The undertaker was a man of width arid 'respiagigg;
e Ma • IS • .16 win,
or brief,
vtofirdriledbfe:
of die- name of George Candick, who bait iongtiketi
tetvibei.ideizi
some years the 'ligation of carpenter and' mid
e anima. in Red Cross-street, Southwark, and who. hts tilled f„,
to the county gaol of 'Surrey. The particsahres
honed in our previous account were yesterday gift is
wer overt
hs
ee
nrt
tha
aes
evidence; in addition to which, Jatne "If
. 1. ntioa, nbe
scniolietififeoai
p than a °mem stated that be bad gone in search of the bogie(
eve slept bee, which he found upon a table fa' tbe disacel•
labours room of Mr. Brooks, of Blenheim-street', and'under the
unprofit- knives of some gentlemen who would soon have taws •
nt such a it matter of difficulty for the friends of the deceased is
don."
extraor- recognise. it. This difficulty, the witness himself is
1 not ex-
some degree experienced, fur the body had already
ririnct of
dergone considerable change, bat there were some mutt
that he of tattooing upon the arms, and others arising Goa •
'WUs fel- the pressure of the.ropes.upon the neck and arms alibi
I-sticker, removed all doubt of identity. Witness yesterday es.
ersevere, amined the body which lay at a public-Loose is 'At
dington,.
ourhood neighb, and Was satisfied that the 'gamma*
rrom the
had made was correct.
iterview, John Wilson, a patrol, stated that about lialf.ptst
tecaei'thi by
ii M
the
el left the ten on Tuesday night, he observed a coach stop el
tuusnit
ec broughtkkswh who ryas
out
asAf andat helpedessriseatsdb into h
hortytl a person G w
el .ty, a large basket
mount of n7.a
ominicos c
most of couch. The coach then drove off at a quick rate to.
Tsterday
wants Blackfriare-bridge, where he lest sight of it.
Brown),
rail, and On being, asked why he had not inquired iota At
ults and particulars of the coach scene, 'he replied that the
Thomas respectability of Citnolick prevented hies. In half
an hour he saw enuslick return.
appeared The defendant made a long reply to the charge
were the against bins, the substance of which was, that the
about J body in a shell was deposited in a shed at his house, '
'em a ee• and he had every reason to beiieve it would remaia
a nearly 0,", safe. On Tuesday evening I.e had gone torn-et'
trument, a friend at the Globe, in Fleet-street, and remained
Id coati-
there till half-past eleven o'clock, hut on Wednesday
s, about ;morning, when he went to deposit the burly in the
e house, l'oollitt, he found to his sitter astonishment that it wig
soot wish zone, having been stolen, as he conceived, in the
iddling ; ~,,arse of the night, by some of the body stealers. who ,
'" a song lice in the neighbourhood; and when he, found that
to ItaY ow, he did not like to give publicity to the eirenni-
leferted stance.
rag that 'fire Magistrates did not appear at all satisfied wlth„
rid twice their explanations, and they ordered the defendant rip
in clear- rind responsible bail for his appearance when calW
le party. upon.
began Mention said that this body was the fortieth he kr
The Pri- rescued in the course of his services. r
•
of :hen'
Id Louis As Dr. Palmer, of 'fam•vorth, was a few days siert
t depart, returning from Polesworth, in his gig, he met with air
I set him accident, not more extraordinary in its nature tins is
was at its results. On arriving at the summit of Armitage
it wit!' Hill, his horse, a very spirited and powerful aslant re-
st used,
cently broken into harness, took fright at the whim ;
lo large
issue of a gentleman and his dogs from an adjacent lust.
n. a re-
vge was and went off at full gallop. Every effort of the groins to
arrrest his progress was unavailing. A little farther es,
ere,) by
t the read is bounded by a deep and precipitous stone pit,
violentarclfiuen
very inadequately fenced, and at this time, one of rite t
le party rails was unfortunately deficient. No sooner hoof die tr
Grandi, horse arrived opposite this breach in the fence, thaw he
as more abruptly quitted his former track, made directly for it,
•niahing and after pausing a few seconds, sprang with &desperate
0 stone leap into the pit. In the descent the shafts of the rig
or, were are supposed to have broken ; and Dr. Palmer thus to
them-
have been precipitated headlong from the carriage, Woe
revenge
it reached the bottom; the circumstance to which, ander
cocks a
Providence, he probably owes his escape with life. Al-
ith gin.
nner of though momentarily stunned by falling wttli his brad
against a stone, he soon recovered his consciouseers,
alf that and went to the assistance of the groom, wino lay, asp,-
broken rently lifeless, at the foot of the precipice, but was r,oen-
contest, Nally found to have sustained no serious injury. The
kin the horse was stretched on Iris back, with the upon
)fig
at the further end of the pit, where he probably aiighted
on his descent ' • as no trace of the passage of the or on
nguage, the buttons ofthe pit was perceptible. Incredible as it
1"5119 a may appear, the horse escaped wholly unhurt: int
le cross- haul the carriage. with the exception of the shafts,
that tlie airy marks of violence
.npon it. Dr. Palmer, al-
arty till though screechy bruised and shaken, was sutticiestly
• for re- i well to accompany Mr. Fowler, (who witnessed the ar-
the bad cident) on foot into Polesworth, and to return borne the ••.
u the same evening in that gentleman's gig. The perperare
p color iseptst of the stone-pit cannot be less than fifteen or
seizing sixteen feet. Dr. Palmer. who has since suffered mooch
t of the from the effects of the shock, is now nearly recovered.
It is somewhat singular that, three times within fire
narks of weeks, Dr. Palmer has been thrown with great violence
e land. from his gig without suffering material injury.—(Stafr
t of the
fordshire Atkerteser.)
SHOCKING SUICIDE.A most awful instance of SR'
worthy
icicle was committed in Dodbrooke, neat Kingshrides•
Alder-
it would on Friday, the 14th inst. Mrs. Richards, a very re-'
He was spectable widow, who had for some time past been in a'
need the
desponding state of mind, put an end to her existence
by cutting her throat; she divided both car.itid
ID all to arteries, and died before assistant.* could be procured,
red that
, She was found weltering in her blood. What nob,
to settle this circumstance snore melancholy is, the same pens,.
idiug',Y' on Wednesday, the 2241 of August last, cut her tnrsllS
were for
he land-through
the windpipe and part of the swallow; but,
from ear to ear with a clasp knife, completely diridiak
upon the skin and assiduity of the medical gentleman who'
it of 31. attended her, she perfectly recovered. Beius' thaw
set upon
baffled in. her first attempt, but determined on self-de,
k much structioss. she procured a razor on Thursday, which
bstioate w
she carefully concealed until an opportunity offered for
ingthe her purpose, and on the following day went in a 1041 g"
bringre
ing-room at the upper part of tire house, and perPe•
trated the (torrid deed a second time. No real maw
and the can be assigned fur it; but reports say it is a lore.airso6.
MARRIED.
afortned •
At Waleot church, Bath. on Monday last, A. Male, Egg-
it his of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, to Charlotte, datighlse.
the ins- of the late. R. More, Esq.
oust to
W
On the pith instant. at St. Giles's-in-the-fields, J. D.
Someisfinl.l.lr:
04 but vey, Esq. of Wiveliscombe, in the county of
license Fanny, second daughter of the late W. Dyne, Esq• o
cola's-inn-fields,
DIED.
Rill's- • On Saturday, the Sth inst.. at Odell. Castle. nest
tess of Egmont. m At.• s
NZ.
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&Nicely in the Slab year of her age, the'Rlght • lion. Isabella,
It extra- At his residents; POrtland-pilee, on the ag, not..
ught aP kiasos, Rim..aged as. •
e corpse ••••••••
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