The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-17 00:00:00

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together for some time; that afterwards they resorted
to the Key in Chandos-street, where they had also a
private room. That, on another occasion, Mrs. Boyd
was watched, and seen to go into the Key in Chan-
dos-street, whereupon Mr. Boyd, her .husband, im-
mediately went there, and caught his wire comb*
down stairs, when she exclaimed, " now did yost
suspect me?" to which Mr. Boyd answered, '4
have suspected you some time." It further appeared.
!in evidence, that Mr. Boyd obtained a verdict of
2001. damages against Mr. White in the Court of
King's Bench. On the part of Mrs. Boyd, a plea of
recrimination was put in. The evidence on the part
of Mr. Boyd having bee* read, the Counser on
the part of Mrs. Boyd, stated to the Court,
that not conceiving any part of the defence of-
fered by Mrs. Boyd to be supported by the evi-
dence examined on her allegation, he should not
think it right to detain the Court by entering into the
particulars of such evidence. The Judge, thereupon,
in giving sentence, stated, that there was full proof of
the adultery between Mrs. Boyd and Mr. White, and
the husband was entitled to the remedy which he
prayed, unless the defence set up by the wife would
prevent it. Two kinds of defence have been set up,
recrimination and inattention on the part of the hus.
band, neither of which have been made out in the
slightest degree, I can hardly express in terms strong
enough the disapprobation of the court at the sort of
defence attempted to be set up. ,
,The husband ap-
peirt. throughout to have conducted himself with
greaViropriety, and I must pronounce fox tba
sepa-
ration its prayed. . =•
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• POLICE;

The LATE DREADFUL FIREti.diMEEIQA.

BOW-STREET. . •
Henry Gender, late Clerk in the Navy Office,
after his private examination pn Thursday, was fully
committed for trial, charged with six 'forgeries and
with obtaining money under false pretences. forgeries,
he landed. at South Shields, where he. was an entire
stranger, it is said he had but three pounds
,about
him, and that he intended to settle thereabout,
to keep a school. When he was taken, he had but
one pound. On his first seeing Adkins he burst into
a flood of tears, having knowir him under different
circumstances, and continued in that state for above
an hour. He had in his pocket a petition to the
Prince Regent. . ~. •
Bill Thorby, who was apprehended dear Bishops
Stortford, for being at large before the expiration of.
his sentence of transportation, was examined on Sa-
turday. Captain Read, the Superintendent-of live
Hulks at Woolwich, stated, that the Priiimer.
escaped from the Prudentia Milk, on the 15tis
March, 1805. He was committed for triat.
Rirhard Waddle, who was brought frbra'Hythe a
few days since, charged with assisting the escape of
French prisoners, was-admitted to bail.
Henry RusFell, alias Charles Chalmers, 'was.
brought to the Office, charged with various acts of
swindling at the Bath Hotel, where he kept a car:
riage, and while he lodged at a China-shop in Mor-
timer-street, in the same style. Ile has lived as au,
upper-servant in families by fall)* characters, for the
purpose of lear.:tig their connections, in which he
was detected at General Cuppage's, at Shooter's-
hill. He was committed for trial.
UNION HALL.

We hive already noticed the dreadfril fire which
happened at Richmond Theatre. The American
Papers still present us with melascholy.details of this
lamentable misfortune. It was resolved in the House
of Representatives to wear crape for one mouth, .in
mourning for this calamity. Five hundred of the
youth of Philadelphia assembled, to devise 'the most
suitable and becoming method of expressing their
sensibility upon this tragical event. They resolved,
as a testimony of their respect for the Gentlemen
from the State of Virginia, belonging to the medical
Class of the University of Pennsylvania, and also of
their sympathy with the mourners of Richmond, that
they would join in a procession from the University,
to humiliate themselves in the Temple of Christian
Prayer before the Almighty. As a mark of their
sorrow, it was agreed, to wear a crape• on the left
arm on that occasion, and for one month after; and
it was resolved also, " that as, amidst the general j
gloom 'of the late calamity, many splendid instances
of disinterestedness and heroism claim their sincere
respect, and ought to excite their ardent emulation,
I the meeting deemed it proper to transmit to their
afflicted countrymen of Richmond a durable moat'.
ment of their participation in their grid, which may
serve as a. lasting memorial to record such generous
! sacrifices for the imitation of the youth in America."
It was, therefore, farther resolved, that a Commit-
' tee be appointed to procire and transmit to Rich-
' mond, to be placed in the Church about to be erect-
ed there, a tablet of marble, suitably decorated, and
furnished with an inscription which should express
their sympathy with the surviving relatives and
friends, and their respect for departed beauty, depart-
ed honour, and departed excellence. Scarcely any.
thing more affecting can be imagined; a more en-
dearing picture of national virtue it is difficult to
conceive.

GRIMSBY, FEB. B.—A BIM from Bilsby, near
.Alford, this week came down to Grimsby, in search
of his wife, who, it seems, had absented herself
from him, a few days before, for cause unknown..
—After making every enquiry through the place, he
found her footsteps ; but her foot was gone,—and by
no means could be find where.—Usappoiuted and
disconsolate, he set °trier hour.: again ; when, to
his surprize and extreme happiness, he saw his dear
rib in the coach on her route from Louth to Grimsby
again.—lle immediately stopped the coach and seized
her, to the high entertainment of her fellow passen-
I gers;—end, after some little altercation about selling
her, ec. &c. she agreed to accompany him back to
13ilsby; nobody-who witnessed the scene being in a
humeur to give much for the lady, or to come up to
the reserved bidding. •
- An alligator was shot through the head at Ghaze-
pore by an Officer of the 67th Regiment, Which
was 29 feet in length, and seven in circumference.
In the stomach were found several half digested hu-•
man limbs, the heads of two children, and more.
than 20 stones—probably swallowed. in order to as-
sist digestion.
A silk weavers named John Urssulak, died lately
at Lemburg, in Prussia, at the age of 116 years.
Ile had had six wives. The last, who survives himi
brought him a son 12 months ago. Ile was extremely.
healthy and active,' and walked six miles the day be-
fore his death.
.It is stated, in letters from New South Wales, to.
the 10th of July, that most of the Missionaries who
tad been sent- by the Society in this country to the,
*South Sea Islands, had returned •to Port Jackson,
and not a few had commenced retailers of spiritueus•
liquors at that settlement. Some who remained at
Otaheite, itwas said, •had cousttucted a. s;pstillery,
land,
as the sugar-cane grew there spontaneously, a
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plucrative trade Was likely to be establisheirbetweeri
that hifiind dtia-,Port Jackson.
1 On Saturday afternoon, 160 punehastis laf French
'brandy were seized 'by the Officers of Excise, en ac-*
count of somedeviation from the terms of the licence
granted for the vessel in which they were imported.,
I The value of the brandy exceeds 15,0001...
I . Mrs. W--, resident in Defonshire.square, rase
front her bed a few nights since, and taking a loaded I
pistol, placed it under her left breast, and discharging ;
I It, 'the ball passed through her body, just under the
shoulder blade • she was not dead yesterday morning,
bat her life is despaired of.
The Austrian Governors in the Bannat and in Seta-
' vnnia have, it is said, been making experiments to
plant cotton in those provinces. The experiments
were attended with such success, that extensive plan-
tatlous
are ordered to be made there in the ensuing
spring. . • 1
The letters from Berlin state, that the 14th Ult.
which completed a century since the birth of Fiede. 1
rick the Great, was celebrated by grand fetes, in
which the Royal Family arid all the Public Bpdiesi
partook. This evinces a wish to ptomote a military I
spirit, and to chesish. tbe reculkilleA, et the. Pad"'
F.aiwasuesirof Prussic.. • ' -
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1 Friday morning, shout six o'clock, a disgrace.
ful scene took place in Smithfield-market. A man
sold his wife in a halter tor, the trilling sum of five
shillings and half a pint of. gin, to one of the Yen- !
men of the Guard to his Majesty. A practice so dis- I
graceful to the country, ought, surely, to be put a
stop to. . I
Sei.x.ts4 Weves.—As a proof that this practice
was not unknown to our ancestors—the singular
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deed, of which the following is a translation,;, was
The total quantity of wines entered at the Oporto , given in evidence on a question as to dowers- in the
Custom-house -in 1811, for foreign countries, was I reigii of• Edward. the-First :—.."•To all faithful chriS- I
18,536 pipes and an half ; of this quantity were sent 1 tines to whom these presents shall come, John de I
to England 18,372 pipes and an half ; America,. 64
Carney', the son and heir' of Ralph de Cameys send.
and an half ; Gibraltar, 89; Galicia, three and an I eth greeting, ?
know ye that I have delivered and-vo-
half. In 1809, there were shipped for exportation luntarily givn u unto William P Pa nail my wife"!
53,458 pipes, of which 42,968 pipes were for Eng- Mirgira. de Campeya, the daughter and heiress of
land ; and in 18W, 41,358 pipes were shipped, of •
John der-thiteedens-hnd that I haee also given and
which 40,765 was on English account. graatad and do hereby release and quitclaim- unto
, On Friday, a person named Thomas Rochesier, the said William Paynell, all the.goods and chattels
was apprehended and brought to the Thames Police' witicitithe said Mirgaiet bath or may have, so that 1
Office, charged on suspicion of obtaining pods tinder neither I, nor any 'person in my names may a,t
false pretences. It is susp'ected that a most extensive' anytime hereafter; set up any right to the-said Mir-
system of fraud has been Tarried on, by stiverel per. garat, or her said goods and chattels; andldo fur.;
sons under the assumed names of Sciiiirtiad Palmer' thiregiveand 'grant, and by these presents confirm
M`Dougalt and 'Co: G. 11. Francis' and Son, and unto the said Margaret licence and afitherlty hence-
others. Rochester ii committed for a Ire-examtnafion, forth to be and remain with the said William Paynell,
together with George &sr, Francis and Juke at his will and pleasure. In testimony whereof, I
Salts, to-morrow. ' . • ' have to these presents affixed my aeal.".
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HOUSUREAKING.—Thomas Smith was on Satur-
day examined on suspicion of stealing a copper, cop.
per stewpan, and copper saucepan, and two fowls.
It appeared that the NIL Inn, Shooter's-hilt, was on
Sunday, the 9th instant, broke open, andt copper,
and several other articles, taken away. On' gnquiry
being made next day, a farmer's servant is the neigh-
bourhood said that he, on Monday morning, about
We o'clock, took up a copper,for,a man on the road
itukconveyed it for him to a brazier's in the London:
rea., The landlord applied for a search-warrant,
and Glennon was sent to execute it, and at the bra-
zier's found the copper the man had left there, which
the Officer took away with him, and desired" the
tradesman, who is one of respectability, shoe*: the
man coma againz to detain him. On Saturday. morn.
ing he came again, and offered a stew-pan and.sauce-
pan for sale ; and the brazier, on pretence of weigh.
ing the articles, detained him whilst he sent for Col.
lingbourn ; wire went instantly, but on his attempt.
ing to take him into custody, he made a stout• resist-
ance, and it was not till he received several blows
with the butt-end of a pistol that he was secured.—
On being asked how he came by the things in ques-
tion, he said they were sent him by his mother from
HertfOrdshire. The Officers, however, in the course
of their enquiries, ascertained that the stewpan and
saucepan were the property of Mr. Ward, landlord
of the Bed Lion public-house, Shooter's-hill, whose
house was broke open on Friday night; the copper
was that taken from' the Bull Inn ; and two fowls
found in the Prisoner's possession, belonged to a
French Gentleman, residing on Shooter's-hill, named
Molatte. The Earl of Moira public-house was broke
open a short time since, somas the house of ------
r Johnson, . 4eq. now Welling, whose butler .being
alarmed, got up and endeavoured to secure the vil-
lains, but was severely wounded in. the attempt; in
short, scarcely a house in the neighbourhood of
, Shooter's-bill has escaped being attempted within
these few weeks. It is suspected there is a nume-
I sous gang of depredators, and that the Prisoner is
, concerned with them. Committed for re-esamina-
tion.

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