The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-25 00:00:00

THE STAI'ESMAN:

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Dem, Fee. 21.—Came down from the River; the
Metcalf, Ceres, and Princess Charlour ;Val(

NEW TAXES:

ie of les,
Dist indiamen, and remain.—Arrired the Perseus
and Plover sloops of war, from Sheerness, bound to
Portsmouth.

A Schedule of th**New Tithes; ptoposed by the
Chancellor of the tlebetieer towtrikralting a sum

PoßTsmouTu,. Fn. 4i.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Clinker, from Halifax, With dispatches, in 21
days.—Sailed• his Majesty's ship Conflict, fur the
Downs.--Catata into harbour, his Majesty's ship
Sultan.

of 5,000,0001. es part of the means to defraithe de.
ficiency arising from' the discontinnance of the In.
come Tax, has been printed. The following is an
extract comprising those which chiefly affect the mass

of our Readers :
HOUSES.
Fur every inhabited house or tenement of the yearly valued
rent or d. and under 101. a rate of 2s. in the pound.
W`i 11. and under 401. 3s. in the pound.
0(401. or upwards, 4s. in the pound.
SERVANTS.
F. 447 person keepiing male Ser

•vautS, to pay

Lbw iNpar.legrzia
COyaT OF KING's tii.NOH# FRB. 91.

for eal

91.AN1,P11.
CURRY v. SMITTI.
This was an action to rerovei compensation in
damages, for slanderous words used by the Wen-

dant.
The Plaintiff, it appenrd, was fernier!), the
ke‘per of the Straiford Coffee-houeei iu o%ford.
street, at which the Mary-le-Letitie Club aseetobleil,
and which, in fact, belonged 'to that Club. The
Defendant, who was an occasional Tisiter in the

persons, fermi! lllottwtcu, 10E3.2-I.—Arrived the Flora transport, -
muosesitl,girtioslsh(elopserer:ptenicoenefultoil:tetpir iiititie
to
the
pro.
with stares, from Deptford„ bound to Ireland. 5
ID
7 dicta
- ..- .610, pensities• of the Plaintiff.' 1 This Imputation pro. -
. ,T.ausaorru, FEn. 24.—Put in leaky. the Dutch 2 f,„,j,, each se 0 diced such an effect. upon the minds of the mory.
till Marie, Smit, Master, from Newcastle to Boor- 2 ditto - 6 0 g ditto . -
13 0 le-bonne Club, that they deprived the Plaintiff of
. ,
defr#4. sod must' unload to repair. 7 0 9 ditto - -
8 0 10 ditto
-0-- e
ale
tervants
bban
in.
retained
sae
ora tthhee
injuryCoffee-hawse,t arid he had thus, indepeedent of
- - 14 0
' 14switerror, Fta. 23.—The General Broth, from 5 ditto 9 0 II and upwards -
livery .'";
I house,
this port for Amelia Island, arrived at Cork on the itiiirii.iitty' v,thltrifurols:ahlrlrttucilltuouptro:lyiavenrdyi,ffothreemai ersytesrubceb
asebr'avcahnetloour: Gone to his personal chewier, sustained
considerable pecuniary losses. • An action of a Simi-
10th inst. ;on the 13th picked up two boats, with 1
. a further sum of 51 her nature, against two other persons, who had used
epithets equally offensive, was tried in the Common
the heir of ow Ocean,. Potts, of Boston (Lincoln.; '
By every person Veping horses—for each horse,
HORSES.
£lO 10
shire)oehich'vessel :bed struck on the Smalls, and 1
li
4,?F:.:ll::::::::::::°leh.eli....fSerorinvai;:ryifse4 /0 I 6 Servants,:- if in
Pleas, and damages were recovered. The words it
Su* soou eftersthe crew got into the boats, in which 2 each ses 0 3 -
114 appeared,thasame
namewemeantreofthe
Daesfeanpdpal applicable ble
and toii a
da
..opisii.rsi orian:edo dl
-80 6 - -
jq
they hid been two days in great distress. One of S - - 90 7 - -
Me Csjain's ions:was lost out of the boat before • - -
And if the proprietor belaobacoheglor, 51.-per centaur additional in a mistake as to his identity.
D ...
coming alongside the General Brock. . un the amount so chargeable.
'vafias bona, ur in training for racing, 51. Lerd EssrenotiouGit, in summing up the poi.
, (knee, observed, although it diet not appear that
thi every horse to let to hire, 54. •
• Theffgrernia,Lioyd, sailed from St. John's, New: 1
ed lnd i the nwuer of such race horse be a bachelor, 501. per any malice teas intended towards the Plaintiff, and
found, for Halifax, Ilth D•cember, was dismast cantons additional upou the duty so chargeable. that the words complained of were uttered under
taw &my other liorae or mule above IS hands high, 11. 126.—
the 28th, • off Cape St. Mary's, and put into that port
it.lne Everyr,4s- mthiest
jakuery;
tyoetsaays itnojewrtyahtardlabmeeagnessusttiateineid4aiitntwina.sit' fears
horse used in husbandry, above 13 hands high, M. 6d.
to rettair..
The .siun,,Pyle, from Shields to London, founder- ' Others are rated very low. rY'
CARRIAGES.
ed near the Nora eu .Meuday.—Crew sated.
1 Carriages with four wheels, by every person keeping them,
I entitled.
I The
Jury found a verdict for
The Susannah, Johns, from Fore •to Neath, to pay for each : the Piaintiff--sDee
merges one shilling, costs 40s.
has put into Penzance with damage, and it is sup. 1 - - £2l 5 - ,C 9.9
posed must discharge. 2 - - 23 6 - -
31 ASSAU I.T. -
- 7 e 5 - o -
93 cALLowA sr V. nincooll.
4 - - 27 8 - - 25 , This WAS an action of assault. The parties both
And for every additional body to he successively used on ! reside in Monmouth-street, the Plaiutiff being a
the same carriage or pair of wheels - - 11 0
And if the owner bee bachelor. 501. per cent. additional clothes dealer, and the Defendant a lather, or
upon the amount so chargeable. custom solicitor, for a next- door .neighbour in the
On carriages with less than four wheels, for every such
- 17 0 same business, Mutual quarrels had;arisen betweert
carriage drawn by two or more horses -
For every other . - - - la o. these candidates for public patronage, whicb.eirded in
For every additional body - - - 5. 5 , the Defendant's casting certain offensive Matter from,
t These do not include tax-carts upon which the duty is
,
much lower. ; lib nose upon the Plaintiff 's coat.
For every carriage kept for the purpose of' being let to I The object of the nction being declared to preserve
hire without horses, to be used therewith by any coach- ' the peace on both sides, it was proposed and agrtmed
maker, &c. where such carriage shall have four wheels 50 0
For every carriage of four wheels to be let to hire with ; to, that each should enter into tecognizences tukeesr
horses, by any postmaster, &e. - - 16 0 the peace towards each other.
For every coach, diligence, carman, or chaise, with four
wheels or more, used as a stage coach for passengers 20 0 1
.
DOGS. Treat:Aar 23. .-,
For every greyhound, pointer, setting-dog, or spaniel, PLATTE V. BARIUM'.
each - - - - 110 This was an action of much important* Ste the
For every hound, !archer, or terrier -
I IS Proprietors of Theatres, &c. as well as to the mu-
For every other other dog - - - 0 12
For every pack of hounds, not exceeding 20 couple 40 0 sisal profession generally. The Plaintiff has been
Dino not exceeding SO ditto - - - 60 0 a performer at Vauxhall Gardens several years, and
Ditto, not exceeding 40 ditto - - - 70 0 though engaged solely for his personal attendance,
GA RDEENERS.
! One Under Gardener - Ael 0 had, at a variety of times,
Two dito - - 2 0
! in common' with other
- I Performers, absented himself on the nights of per-
Under the head of Customs, the War Duties of formance, and Pent another person as his deputy, or
substitute, to do his duty. The Proprietor, there-
Customs, except on tobacco and cotton wool import.
ed in British built ships, are to be continued. The fore, finding it ndcesskry to check this growing evil,
soon after the coirmencement. of last Vansirall present duties and drawbacks on the exportation °of
-- tobacco are to cease, and it is proposed that the Cus-
son made a; regulation, stating, that me, Arita.
toms duty on tobacco Is to be Is. for every pound former who should hereafter send a depatity-abeol&
weight, besides an Excise duty of 3d. per pound weight only receive half the salary he had heretofore beta
04 I._ I the same paid, for every night be should continue Atli Prem.
.
_ . I rice. The Plaintiff refusing to comply with this re.
' Colonel Berkeley met with a serious accident a ' gulation, was dismissed, and this action was brought ,
few days ago, whilst following the Berkeley hounds, for the recovery of ten guineas, alleged to be duo
his horse leaped a fence, on the other side of which to him for his services for the remainder of the sea.
was a deep stone pit, full of water. The Colonel sots, on the_ following grounds, viz. That the Pro.
seeing his danger, instantly disengaged himself from prietor was not justified in making such regulation
the stirrups, and threw himself off on a heap of ; after the season bad commenced. And, secondly,
stones, from which he again mounted and pursued I That the custom of the place warranted him in send.
his sport ; but on return to the Castle, it was disco- ing a substitute whenever' he thought proper.
vered that he had fractured the small bone of one of The Noble and Learned Junes! was clearly of
his legs. Mr. Augustus Berkeley took the same leap, opinion that the Proprietor sena justified in dlscharg.
and fell in the water, but sustained no injury, the fing any Performer who should absent himself from
ducking excepted. his duty, for even a single night, without permission
SWIWDLIWG.—Thereis now going about town a gone of swind- of the Proprietor or Manager. His Lordship oh.
len, who, as they practice a perfectly new species uefrand, are served that the Plaintiff was doubtless, engaged
likely to he much snore successful than they hitherto have been, , , ,
unless the public he cautioned against their schemes. Their plan roe his own personal service, and not that of another
of operation is this: one or two enter either some shop or public person. ,
house, stating that they are officers from the Bank, come to es-
'
amine all the Bank-notes in the house, information having beenl In consequence of his Lordship s observations the
given to the Bank that the shopkeeper, or publican, had in his Plaintiff was nen-soited ; and hence this false plea
possession a a•,:nd many forged notes. They get sight of as many iof custom fell to the ground, to try the merits of
notes as possiule, and then taking the notes, they say, that after I L.
the information which has been given the owner and notes too •woich Was the sole object of the Defendant in this
mast go to the Bunk ; but on the rood the pretended officers action.
contrive to escape with the notes, leaving the owner to deplore I • .
his loss. Within the present week the gang successfully prac-
ticed this scheme. (It+ Monday last. one ill theta went to a Franc •. r. y '22.
chandler's shopkeeper in Orchard-street, Westminster, named 'WALKER a. I' ALETITORPE.
'
NtibiliiiK, who is reputed la be remarkably rich, and stated that This was an action for Grim. Con. brought by the
..ire had come to scarab for for:cd notes. W biting produced what
be had, and said that he had 231. more in the hands of Mrs. Som. keeper. of the Percy Coffee-house against se clerk in
merville,. his sister in law, in New Orchard-stmt. winch were the Exchequer Bill Office. .
also delivered over to the officer fur bapection. lie indorsed the a
at appeared that the Plaintiff W¢9 -now above
. notes " Sommerville," and putting the whole iuto his pocket,
said that Whiting must go with him to the Bank. To the Bank -50 yeare of age, and that he was originally waiter at
they went, where the man carried Whiting through several 0111- t a bagitio under Covent-garden Piazza, where I.
ces, when he said that as the proper clerk had not yet arrived, . married his first wife, the bar-maid of the same
'they would take some refreshfueut at a public home; and after I
I being there a short time, he went over to the Bank to see if the place; Iris second wife was nursery-maid to tlie first,
proyer clerk had yet arrived, but be never afterwards returned ' by whom he had. ti child geown'ap; and it whit not
to whiting! The same man, who is of the middle stature, and . ,
fresh coloured, with red hair and whiskers, neemnpimied by an- till his present wife became thtertdow of a person of
other man, went to Mrs. Kelley's, coach and Horses, Bainbridge- : the name of Willis that the 'Plaintiff's connection
street, St. Giles's, on the same errand, assuming the same dia-
with
Cam-
meters of onlcers front the Bank, and stating that they were sent her . I
Inman • he then kept her in lodgings at Cam.
by the Bank solicitor. She told them that s:,e had only txu. made den-town, and had one child by her before he mar.
op for the distiller. They took the notes and Mrs. R. .son to the
tied, she being at that time pregnant of another.—
Wank, and on arriving there, they sent the son to a public house,
while they went to the Bank solicitor, but they of course never , TIM was in 1801, when the woman was needy 30
?clamed.
years of age; and though her public conduct since
H9HRIBLE Scram—Friday an Inquisition was held at the
as mistress of the Coffee-house was proved to be toe-
Queen's Head. Covent-garden, upon the body of a man un.
known, bin whose name is supposed to he Clark Adams, who rect by many of the Plaintiff's male acqdaintaricre
-ens fouud the same morni about e o'clock ;meeting on the floor. a ist! servants, yet it appeared that'her connexion with
:with ha head upon the bed, his throat cut, and a clasp knife in
his ilea hand. It appeared that the deceased had lodged at this the Defendant, who was an intimeienegoairitatice of
house nearly three weeks, during which time he had showed the Plaintiff, and was inthe habit of visiting him and
strong syrnpiorns of km ttt il y, and stated that he was originally
a i his wife, 'began four years ago, when it was carried
raker, hut hnd incurred the displeasure of his relatives by pro- I
on at the Key, in Chandos-street, whither the
easing to marry a young lady to whom he was much attached. !
Ou Thursday morning he complained of being ill, and drank •Plaintiff's wife and the Defendant were in the lishit
nearly a quart of water. After this he went to the Brow n.llear, of going every Wednesday and Saturday morning
is Bow-street, where he continued several hours without speak- ,
ing and being co. sittercd an Impostor, a piece or paper was for nit hour and a half, and they were so regular its
written and presented to hiw, sating, that he would be carried
bet.re the magistrates if he did not give some account of him- their resorts to the Key, that the waiters and chain. .
self. lie a rote several incoherent words in answer, but wrote barmaids of that house, who call all their custorrrrs
something which conveyed to Mr. Mann, the 'Rodin it, that he by characteristic or feigned names, used to call theirs
skae been at the Queen's Head. He was consequently conveyed
thither he a Mr. Warren. and refreshments offered to him, which the market people, from the circumstance of their
alwa s coming on Covent-garden market days. It
he would omit take. Ile was put to bed, and found in the morn- y
me is the situation before deseribtal—Verdict—l inanity. happened, that one of these waiters had before lived
Stfrautto Itosorate.—As Grimaldi, the celebrated Clown,
was returning on Monday WOW from the Theatre, to his house at the Percy Coffee-house, and the parties were,
near the New flitter Head, he was stopped in the :Spa-acids by upon one occasion, watched into the Key by a porter
a fellow in the dress of a sailor, who clapped a pistol to his at the Percy. %Vitt% the exception of the Plaintiff's
head, and robbed him of a two pound note. The moment the __: .n
et and the commencement of his acquaintance
raw pad left him, he had recourse to a pantiorrimicof trick,
homediatey following him oo hishands and kneesataw him take with his second wife, and that tate of the wi,vpsFe9
up and put on a watchman's coat, and, in fact, he was the
gum rdiaa of the night. Grimaldi then applied to another knight proved he played at cards on Sundays, the Plaintiff
of the rattle, but who declined to set it agoing ; the enraged came before the Court without reproach : he was
clown then snatched Jarmo him, and sprung it himself. and the proved to be an indulgent husband, and to briva
thief in masquerade was soon taken from his beat. and placed in
the neighbouring watch-house, 'Thursday, he was examined, found comfort in the society of his wife and children: •
he had no suspicion of her long infidelity: the goiter
'surd committed for trial.

ROYAL AcADEmr.

LECTURIS ON ARCIITTErTURE.

Mr. Soanc's second lecture was delivered to an ex-
tremely crowded audience on Thursday evening. He
had, in the former lecture, made those observations
on houses for domestic purposes, which appeared to
him most useful to the students, and had exemplified
his references by drawings from the works of the
best masters. He now proceeded to make additional
remarks on the same subject, a few of which we shall
state :

The cube is the best form for rooms, and formerly
a double cube was consideied the- most elegant and
perfect; but that is really suitable only to great
halls, and other public rooms.
In planning a building, due consideration should
be had to the extent of the whole work, in order that
the measure of the particular parts may he deter-
mined by the strictest rules of symmetry and pro-
portion. _ _