The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-06 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

James Stevens was yesterday charged with at.
tempting to pick the pocket of a gentleman in the
'City.. As, however, his accuser did not appear, he
Was about to be discharged, when an Officer recog.
ntsed him to have been tried and collticted of a shill.
latoffence some time back at the Old Bailey, and to
hate ' attsfilly received sentence of transportation►
for seven
.years. This punishment was, however,
commuted for n short imprisonment, on condition
of his entering into the 83d regiment of foot, an al.
tentative which he gladly accepted, and enlisted ac.
.cordingly. As his present appearance in London,
therefore, could only be attributable to desertion. he
was sent to the Savoy prison to 6e forwarded to*his
regiment.
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GLIILIMALL.
ltathaaiel Aurora, a Hungarian, was charged be.
fore the Sitting Magistrate, with stealing a pair of
black silk stockings, from the shop of Mr. Buller, in
the Poultry. A man named Da►, who was deliver-
' ing some coals at the opposite house, observed the
Prisoner mit the stockings into his hat. On leaving
the shop he was pursued, and overtaken in Guildhall
Passage. Mr. Boller proved the stockings to be his
property. The man was remanded for further ex-
; aminatiun.

Extract of a letter from Cadiz,' July 14, 1812.
" The disagreeable task of announcing to you the
death of our dear friend B. S. ll —k, falls to my
lot, he met his death by the falling of a bomb. The
enemy on the other side of the Bay have erected se-
veral mortars against this place, from which they
throw shells, which annoy us very much. It was at
first believed by the engineers, English as well as
Spanish, that they could not possibly throw shells
to such a distance ; but these mortars are made on a
most diabolical coustrection, and thrcar shells an
extrenoly great length t many have entered the
town ; they are loaded with lead, and weigh from
ninety to one hundred awl sixty pounds; tit a
very Jew burst. Your poor friend was struck by
one when in bed ; it broke through the rr4ofeu OW
roof) and two floorings, and shattered his body to
pieces. You well know the strength of our houses,
and can therefore guess with what force they must
, come, to break through sometimes four floorings.—
C---s tower (or turret) has been struck by one,
and nearly knocked down. Moat of the people living
near the Puerta Tierra (land gati) and Puerta de la
Mar (sea gate) have fled to the Campo (an open place
on the uorth.west); in fact, all the people areeedra-
!.vouring to get to the west, where as yet no bombs-or
shells have fallen; however, I am confidently Wort-
ed that one was thrown clean over into the Caleta (a
! small hay on the western side of Cadiz, an extreme
distance indeed from where the mortars must be fix.
I ed) about three days since."
Cass. CON. EITRAORDINARY.-21. Gentleman,
i who was upon very strong terms of intimacy with
another, whose p.ceniary means were more ample,
availed himself of.an offer of the loan of a sum of
money made by his friend. The obligation did not
operate with all the effect that might be imagined-
-4 for as the intimacy became more and more close, het
I who had experienced this warm test of friendship,
`whether he acted from a foreknowledge of calamities
'lnto which his friend might be plunged, and was del
itermined, like Hawksworth's guide, to do
.that
1 which appeared to be,evil, for the purpose of pre-
; venting that which was really so, or from any other
! rational motive, took away the wife of his friend.
He was followed by the injured husband to Cumber-
!land, where he had retired with his sentimental fa-
vourite. A separation immediately took place be-
-1 tween the two lovers, at which the distress that ap-
peared in. both was inexpressibly severe, notwith-
-1 standing the presence of the wronged husband. The
conclusion was rather extraordinary; and is perhaps
unproceedented in the annals ,of Crim. Con. The
, friend of this ungrateful man refused, though urged
by. his relatives; to institute an action to recover•
compearatlon, and did not even demand the money
!'borrowed from him. He argued thus :—" My wife
was inestimable, go money can restore to her her
[ virtue. . My friend has been compelled to break
1 through the' bonds that tied our heart's together.; the
loss toLliiitt of my friendship, and of her who was so
irresistible in his eyes, is sailiciently.great ; I shall
net accept that money. which I could no longer cou-
sider as any thing but the earnest of my own dishy
Hour."


MARRIED; •
Op Slturday last, at Wolverhampton, Mr. Marla Stewart.
or BaMain-halt. Surricy, to Ana, second daughter of Jobs
Wi F.sq. a Bilston, Staffordshire.

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DIED.- i
' At Chelmsford, on the hilt tilt. after* short but painful ll-
ness, in the. Yid sear of tor age, Mi.t.s Charlotte Thornton,
youngest daughter of Mr, ?Inwood% Mai ore and Propriew
of thelVindoor Theatr, The itiithrar urbanity of ber disp‘si-,
titan, and thersinnWeetrid pork* of her manners, ensured the es.*
teem of, idl while she lived t and. the Christian pace with
which she end itted the extreme of stifkrlstx, during her last ill'
riess, heighteoed the. unfeigned sorrow excited by, her prom"
titre derAw_ ._ ' • "
On Thursday. last, in Geer • Postammoetare,•Blei.
Elisabeth kliggon,..widois•- of .ttie late -Res. Thomas "Iliggon,
Rector of lagestrie, Stattimdshirm . -. .
On Tueldnriasts At Kew, la the flOth yeat of bis age, Robert
IluAter, Ent.
ph Friday -Iltt:- itt bis' Mir leer.- at his father's house, in
glaneisat , Piccadilly, Robin* ablest soli of Lord gibed
hitt • ‘ - • ,t. •
Oat ,4. isitisrgslettrd, Sarah, the wife at Mr. Gervas Tien-
miles; of "Ittittlnellain. Vise had been marfied
'lO Feats, and iliodisahadiantowria Mantis year.
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