The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-09 00:00:00

POLICE.

OVILDIIALL.—Yesterday Richard Note was it•onght
before Alderman BitOWN, on ihe capital charge of
haring absconded tsben under a commission of hank-
roptey.
It appeared that the prisoner was a feilmonger re-
siding in Tutsley-street, and that a commission of
bankruptcy was issued against him in 1820, to which
he did not surrender. At the third meeting a parsec%
appeared ou his behalf, and requested further time,
stating hits to be coniaied from sickness. The •Inert-
inr adjourned to a ((udi day, ;Theft no bankrupt ap-
prated ; and at two o'clock that day he was proclaimed
in. he nuts' manner.

Mr. ;;OLLAND and Mr. WILLIAMS stated, thnt the
commission to which the prisoner was charged with
not having appeared, was void. intismucli as lie was
at the time the conisuission was taken out, an tinceriii•
c.,:eil hank:mitt, aml co,:sequently was not compellable
to appe.tr to a-.y subsequent commission.
TCNaNT, a solicitor, admitted, that In 11111 S, a
commission of bankruptcy was issued against one IL
Nutt, a saddler, of Sourbridge, but he called upon the
Counselforthe prisoner to shett-tdsol-lase• ItlFSt.afas
Ilsesame-man.
Alderman HaowN expressed Isis opinion, that_ this
prosecution could not be sustained, inasmuch as it
was illegal to adjourn the Meeting after the third day.
when the creditors were hzrund to have sat op anti(
twelve o'clock at night, and to have made the prod' t-
!nation at that Lour. On these grounds he discharged
the prisoner, without receiving the evidence of Vs!
prior Commission,•irbiehseould also have exonerata I
bum.
lIATTON GA KDiN.—.Yeaterday CUL Grey was
brought ap, charged with being fn the area of
Mr. timilon's house, in Ely-Pis:Zsat moroln..r.
About eight months ago, this fell foged in a
stable loft in the sane place, where he had lived up-
wards of a fortnight, a moil sumptuous manner,
by robbing the ; antries and larders of the ailloioin4
houses at nights, of jiints of meat, puddings, pies,
Fac. He was thew senteueeil to six months isisprit3n-
inent.—Thu prisoner, who was only discharged fro.o
Neweee about a fortnigh• ago, immediately com-
menced Lis usual mode of li viog, by taking possession
of an empty house. and poaneing at night un the lar-
ders in the areas'of the adjoining ones.—The prisoner
was remanded, to enable the inhabitants who bad beets
robbed to appear against him-
LA.I:II.t:TH-STREET.—Yesterday a Jew, named So!o•
moo .1/gers, was brunglit before Mathew Wyatt, Esl ,
the Sitting alagistrate, for a second examination ott
the cLarge of stabbing his nephew, 0. Myers, with
clasp knife.—Freeman, the officer, produced a certiti-
cate from the surgeon who attended the unfortunate
young. man, which stated that lie was in a very els 1-
greens state; and could not possibly be moved.—The
prisoner was remanded till the fate of the young watt
is kno•vn.

Yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock,
some, daring ruffians, by means of acrow bar or uth:r
implement, •luring the absence of the nightcoustabhv,
who had gone home to rest, br.ike opro the dour of
Shadwell Watch house, and liberated fire prisoners
confined there, two of whom on charges of capital fe-
lonies,

The East India Company's ship Thomas Orenvi!le
arrived at the new auciturage in Bengal on the 3001
of Sept/other.
PEDZSTRIANISM.--on Friday last a lad, 15 years old.
undertook for a wager of ten pounds, to ruo from High
Ilaldea, to Tenter,:en, and back, a.distance of 7 miles in
the space of an hour, which he performed with ease in
forty-eight minutes.—On Monday, the ISth of Fehruarf
last, an elderly man, undertook fur a wager of twenty
pounds, to walk twenty eight miles per day for six dap,
which lie completed on the Saturday following; going
and returning from Heading-street to Tenterden, a dig-
lance of 7 wiles four times each (lay.

RRCOLLErT!! lIAZARD anal C Shared and Soli
the following Uspit4l+ on the First Dly of Drawing:—
No. 4417.......... t 2000 Mill 2301
283
4.303 .. 300 No. 336 2OO
•.• The Second Day of Dras inn will be next MUMS-
' DAY, the 14th of MARCH.—The Wheel Is extremely Rie;;,
end contains F011.3t, of 20.01Xi1. with others or X.ontli. I,lntot.
&c. All Money, and Not Two Slinks to a Poise. The
First-drawn Next TIICRSDAT will r.crive
Tickets and Shares err Selling at IlAzatte and Co.'s OA
Evablished and Fortunate Meets, Exebaor'e Gate ;
211, Coruhill; and 3.71, Oxford-gtreet, ('senor of Swalteu,
oreet: and by their Agents in )111 the principal Country
Towns.