The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-03 00:00:00

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BETWEEN A tt!iTIiCitIAN.AN AN ENGJAVISIAN,

(From the Amerire2 tYr.,teen Citirie'ri:]
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.ietfortlity two women, named Elizabeth Iceertl
KeOntnuctil'cev
and •Mar,y Adam, were examined on a charge al
,o.lwdi,tahntdhethire clothes,
other
a boytlre oartn)eouat
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hiyldeareresn
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is)toeya I
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aboutlg tw
four ucr
I eighteen months, belonging to a labenrieg; man in ! ler, an Englishman
ILJniotreourt, opposite to St. And
I rew's ' Church, ! branch between the l'Jni'led S' .c.°'rni'''''Y'
liolborti-bill, on Sunday morning last, and both were.,.' a'sd Fort hianisncli.at a sejoe.
...i. .4atts Saline-:;altWel,,, '
111 kin°. . . a
I committed for trial. 'Messrs Allen and ' '' -'••
s, 4 -stop t that oiav;:,
I • butter cite el •
. rc into a conies
Fiat IN Guerra,-tear.,-A. woman named Hester .tion which led to a.ve. sr • • re.,,
Qaerety, servant at a late house of ill-fame, No. 18, i Laming the
name,
nattLa ri:nc; reuronire. ...V,;;.
in Cutter-line, Cheapsitle. was brought up. for exa- : other, Fuller asked Aliett,if itii,. ri.e..sitiente of cash
ntni•kianis a :u
minatiou, charged. on suspicion of being the person ; anxious for a ear with Cagle )el
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Iwho set fire to the premises ;in consequence of which, ' liw,y 7:cr warm fur zeal.' 1.'0111: said AillP,ll.iiii.c.'ll
~not only the house was burnt to the ground, to the la;. ; for one Englishman could. l't '1.'1.-nec.g•l '''S't.
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danger and alarm of the whole neighbourhood, but ' tuckians Allen thought f . ' •me heighsliman • '1 -
one, if not t::•o lives were lost. :drive nou,, uot
1 one Kentuckian, and was willing a •
• Lhe charge was brought by a Mr. Lure, who re- each was present, to have the tliiitelesi',,, s oft" of
sides in Gutter-larne • and the circum'stancos were as ' was willing also, but-it must be I
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follow :—About one yesterday morning the neigh- ' able way :he would fight i•,,01t with pistols st d're'
bourhood was alarmed by the cry of fire, and imtne. about cove pace apart ;to which Allen • aa;
Y I 1% RS :ige,,,- ~..„
diately afterwards it was found that the flames had Fuller finding Allen in earnest, said. he thought'
it
spread throogh the whole house, and every thing-from ' too savage like to stand so near to each ,
otJer, ai,u
I the cellar to the garret was in a blaze. Two unfor. IproposeStliat theshould
y choose s^ • A •
,Lcra,..s, arid lake
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I tunate persons, the one named
•'tVatson, who had distance ten steps aeon. This proposition nas a-re, I
been rider for a commercial • house in the 'city, and to, and the prelininfarks settled : hut Folk, s'aid In(
the other, a woman of the town, named Story, ' had a wife near Pittsburg, and before they.fiigtt hee
' both of whom lad taken their lodgings for the would go aside and write aT,. - litres t h '5l. :: %. o. er, so that if
night cu the second floor, roused from their any aceidenstilnould happen to I inn, she might koo, it
slumbers by the flames %stria entelopod them •He went and returned in a short time d for .' - '
9 , • • •, • 1 rea y action
jumped, in a state of- nali-ediness, from the win- . The combetents then took the pl • • * •
aflaasEgned them
isdow of their apUrtment into the street. Story was and at the word, they both lired dE n' '
san u or fell liar. ..
I killed on the spot, and Watson sits-carried- to St.. ing received the ball of his aataginiist on his left br9east4. ,
I Bartholomew's Hospital, so desperately hurt, as to but not appearing to be much- •;.uaet be proposed i:tk—,:
i leave no hopes of his recovery. Immediately after , inig ainnther round. They.. then proceeded to fire,'
this pnfortimate occurrence, the Prisoner, who was upon which Fuller fell a second time, and.deulined ;
known to have been a servant in the house, was ob ' lighting any more amt. was.foued to • -
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.have skewed
served in the street with a bundle of apparel in her . the second ball in his breast, within alt. nch Of the •
hand, which she said had belonged to the persons who , first. Allen was serari.ed -to foal that the bulls:had;
leaped from the window, and that she was going to not taken erect, and suspecting some stratai:.ini, lie:
carry them to the Hospital. She also said, that the i protested he would kill Foper on the soot„uuless-he
house had been set on fire by a woman of.the town, : would fight again, or acknowledge.hiniself a coward..
whose whose name she knew,—whom she had seen before, i Fuller rather than smelt posider again, would sailistie
—who was, in the. course of the evening, twice intro- ,to any thing. Ills jacket was then ainbuttonnel, sort,
duced to a room on the first iloor,—and who, the : to the astonishment of the beholders a. llutch tilaniet.
second time, set fire to the apartment, and ran away.l*as discovered in eight folds, and one quire of paper::
She discovered the Ere shortly afterwards, and found ! opened and spread unifier. the blanket, both het wen ,
the whole house in flames. The circumstance which i his waistcoat . and shirt, and upon lifting ep 314..
attached suspicion to her was the mysterious account i.blanket, the two balls were found, haviog pew..
she gave of the woman whom she alleged to have set I.trated through the eight folds,,of the:hlainkut), and.,
fire to the house,' but of whose name or residence i were lodged on the paper. Itia_breiest, .uptitish-
, she could give no account ; and the apparel, i standing the fortification, was very much •bruised .
i consisting of the unfrirtunate Story's gown, and :.and bleak, and he appeared coosi4erably,-iiijured.---
j Mr. Watson's breeches, found in her possession ;1 Allen received no. material 'injury 1 the first 'ball
and which could not hare been taken from the I struck. betayeee his feethartd the second grazed the
I room Where they slept, after their desperate at-1 skin, on the side
.of the, bead. And thus ended.a:
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tempt to escape without- the most imminent risle-iflcentast which proved„the iisperiority of the Kentuc-.
not the moral certainty—of destruction to the •pbr.. i-kian, and. ceposed. -thatioasting, imperioasltingli,
, son who Should Venture to go there. •It-also appear- man to, ateroalsotatemet and, disgrace. And i-t
ed from the evidence of some young men, .friends of,-highly probable, from his. own.story..and •cOUriset,.
i the unfortunate Mr. Watson, that when they parted i that this setaeFuller:is employeeLto do businness kir:.
i from him on the preceding evening, he had rnonoy in..,; the•Brith,h by
.theyesterq, country and.emoegst,the:.
!his pocket, and a watch in his fob, with gold chaintlntlianal.Thefsubscribee-was 'the Secuedief44.44;
and seals. The Prisoner in her defence stated, Abet I leavanal is -willing to.asttest the tryth of. tIK, faits,
she found the clothes in the street, after the parties : aboye stated,
~,tte.irenisse,:pin liis away lhotaa,,zythic,l 4;
i had jumped from the window;' and supposing them- 00-Bettsh.C,Cteekvio;the
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'to have been-thrown out, she took them up, to carry •k*ii OW t 511,41, Pi%
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them to the owners, then taken to the Howital., No •-•,.,- ...... .•-. .. . . ie ... ,
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appearance of dirt, however, was on the garments, a 1.,, e- • • . . , ...1!"'"47,q•-•:: ~,;...e.:.,,... •, _ •411'
l though the street into which she stated' they were -*: ;
) - "*.a. `l -thilpot";
Yes t er--fly. - ee.Tlllitc.l.o.tc p.ace.oo e pit,
A . thi
i thrownb
was deeply covered with mud, after a day of' ••••
I the Uxbridge fl'oad,. where :Veld/far:id .Coupe toughtr
heavy rain ; and they must have unavoidably- been : .
.1a fevi'weeks.since, *, . -.-
trampled on by the crowd assembled. •
• • I The first .battle between 14114.aiiinct. Ca' itselsiter
I The :vlagistrate couceiving there was no positive . ~. , • .
lasted 424 minutes' *lid dad not acrid mueb Intnse-
{ evidence to bring home to the Prisoner the charge of I.
ment. Lancaster commenced' the Combat wider. a'
ordered the Prisoner to bediid smsse.
arson, • . disadvantage, by a hurt iii.the thumb, eruklie never*
BOW•STREPT- ''
-I turned the odds, which were two. to one agamst him
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'esterday,. between 11 and 12 o'clock, as two ;et setting-to:• * Holloway belifitia man ivituJut niuch
females, genteelly dressed, were passing the end of i n
i hurt, ... • •
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the Mall. opposite the Queen's Palace, they were i Baldwin. seconded the:sinner, ana,tiropiel trA
very rudely accosted by a main with a large open loser.
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clasp-knife, in a position as if he intended to cut TORO AND "JOyES. . ,
them down ; they screamed out,. ran away, and This battle, which waCiViiide. for a stiliseriptioe.
i escaped from him into .Pimlico. He then went up to poise on the ground, excifell Much attiMtion:
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a man wino had the appearance of ayorter, near one lasted one boor and twenty-minutes, and was effi.it''.
of the seats, and in a more direct manner attempted Leamei-
y contested:* -Jones 'had sillier-kr? feegtllDot'
to stall Him, but who also avoided the attack acid' :i A
or,'s reputation as A fighter made hiT, the.4l
escaped from' 'him. A gentiemae who had been an l
1 vourite. In the- first rounds, -Jousts Coiallitially.
observer of his 'outrageous conduct, watched him lunged in at fast -fightiog, and Jiits"inere open.
into the White horse publie.house inn Pimlico, and planted on both sides, but the rounds generally. era:-
then went in in search of a peace officer, and found ed to the discomfiture *of Ford, who reinter tr-,.
Nicholls, belonging to the office inn the 'Park, who., mendous falls. Under these fli,adiantsges, Ford';
went there, and took him into custody, and under a amines courage never forsook him to the lASI reed;
pretence of treating him wills some lamb chops and his longth did not give him Much :Idea's:Age in placing
ale' got him quietly across fhe Park to the Otlice, hits,
but he executed manly: lie ii,it, also oliere'ed
I where* he underweitt-an examination 'before Mr. to a man of real bo•tnin, seed Jones ,4:-ire mere tre-
,Ca wan. It appeared- that a soldier oh duty Itt the rnplideu.; civss.butturks atO hip-falls than ever the
Queen's guard, observing the Prisoner's outrageetts eelebrated Jem'll..lcher did in ant tee the. 11. threw
conduct, had taken the knife from him. Thu ac-
Ford in Iwo instances. frrin as high as -his breast;
count the Prisoner gave of himself was, that his but the latter, either gh ofteil stiiiii,ed,.hored in at
name was Erasmus Hooper, and that he had been action ni at the cnormencement of the ((indict .
on,. .
an Officer in the Navy; which proved to be correct. Strength was ultimately served, Irot Ford's (rends
',.There also appeared uo donht.thtt heiras deranged:
, resignedthe combat. • ft., was bq Id 2/ both errs,
Up was ordered to be detained..- • -' with a face hit to piccei, arid his body serionst, in.;
MA It I.I3OROUGHST sy.ra.: ' ured by falls, yet heb..ggcal trial after II .al, (ratan
•e-
Thomas Ganaca2 was Aimed. with stealing twelve was absolutely necessary to carry him away, to piti.
'watches and two .timeepieces from a, youth of the ; vent fatal consequences. Jones. was also much p
name of Jones. It appeared jii evidence, that Jones, I nished• ,
.and Croplev the
who was the apprentice of. a watchmaker, in Clerk- i Richmond seconded the winner, .,
enwell, was sent with theeirticleriai tpieetibh to some ' loser. •
' tific one %ick
shops, for•delivery, when he was met by the Prisoner 1 A third battle, and a truly scum ,
,a,
in the street, who stated; thet: lie was on Newly for , lasted twenty minutes, seas fought between two, es
the time-pleces,..which .a Geutlemen was waiting.for. , in their teeus, of the Nlospic tribe,:
k Oir in diction
The unsuspecting lad gavethem.oueof his possession, , The next amusement was. a Inane k, .
upon the faith of the Pasotei's istfiry ; who also hiii•.. More intelligible, a bull-bait: 'Phis ,
was for a silver
naged, by netifie'e; to .get•po stession-i4 the whole'a f collar, annd
some of the first buffers ever turned et
the Watclses. The youth, howereri followed_kien;..the bull exhibited in their wa'y, and kept the n. :
II and finding he did not go to the. lace he supposed, fianny• till desk. The collar wasbrOught.to,a wrangle
gave an. alaren,..when the Prisoner was secured.—
Fully committed for trial.

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Eliza (Morahan), Lein' q 4147
Ntrightly (Soilierlant), to, ,
Prrthgifre flenderson), Van-
dee end Pert,' •
LFITII and Btawlem Wharf, ,7.
King OSorts. ;(41AlilbuItoPV
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Lnnton and Berwick (Plow •
fog 1
HIGH WATIti
Morning,

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Oa Astirrik last, ;he prism's's% on beard -the
,Oatedfoid, s.i..,nr whom had heat put on reduced
Laildwanije td make good sion4 -damage they ha.'.
, committed in cutting the ship, became very clamorous,
And al last• psoceetied to outrage ; some had the an-
ciadty IQ attempt tpjush aft to seize the) arms, but.
I .yetre irame4ttoly,repelied, and one wounded. Ga-
-1 sermon.t, have trol.ved that all damage done by titsprisonertftsl4l...... 'he mad* goat ikt putting the whole
(It& i'. w 'it Ts done',; ow' ari4O6ed, .-rations, . vial
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