The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-01 00:00:00

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Mr. Nelthorpe, of Temple.placei Blacokiefonr-istatropost-roarlipayieig:
on his way through St.
day, los) his pocket-book, containing, among *the(
papersle i meld ivaatieul ye wtewo n
drafts
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silent, and had be-en but a short time in the shop(
when one James Lesils entered, and presented the
two drafts for payment. The clerk in his hurry did
not question him how he became possessed of them,
but immediately gave them to Mr. Nellhorp. Leith;
hoe ever, was taken into custody, and 'conveyed td •
Bow.street. He stated himself to be a carver and
gilder, residing in Chapel-street, Soho, inhere he bad
lived for twelve 'rears; and the account he gave of
the drafts was, that he picked' them up in Leicester.
square, in which place Mr. ..lvettliorpe had not been
in the course of yesterday. The drafts were in the
same state as when Mr. Neltborpe had been robbed
of them, and perfectly clean ; whereas at the time,
as the Prisoner said he had picked them Op in !Ai-
-1 tester-square, a heavy shower of rain had just fallen;
and corisiquetstly the drafts must have been dirty,
had he picked them up in the street as he described.
Lack, the patrol, was dispatched to ascertain if the
Prisoner was the person he described himself to be,
which was form) to I,e the case. • On searching his
te.itietice, he 'found three pocket:books, and brought
them to the, office, but neither of the proved to be
Mr. Neithorpe's.
Mr. Hume prdered the Prisoner to be detained.
MARLItOttOUGH-STREET.—A Clergyman, whose
name we forbear to mention, was brought to this
effice charged as a medicant, with having entered info
several shop's and asked alms. Ile appeared in the
lowest state of misery, of about the age of 50 years,
• mid described himself as having filled several respect.
able as Tutor and Curate in this colantry,
to the West, Indies, in Flanders, and on board of a
man of war. Ile said he was ordained Deacon byr
the Archbishop of York, and, Priest by the Bishop
of Winchester, and that he suffered much ham ill.
nests ;. but that being unmarried, he hoped yet to
procure come situation in which lie could earn means
of subsistence.
The Magistrate expressed much regret on baring
unable to offer any permanent relief to a Geollerain
of so respected a profession, whom lie was much con.
cerned to see in such a melancholy situation. He re.
commended him to return to his native county, from
which he had been absent 12 years, and offered to
remit him iii the usual manlier. The unfortunate
Gentlimaii consented, and' lie was conducted to the
House of Correction in Clerkenwell, where he Will
remain during this week.'
Hannah Welsh, Ul) was rather elegantly attired,
was charged with robbing Capt. George Simpson, of
the East India Company's service, of a quantity of
linen and apparelt upder
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circumstances :
'the Prisoner officiated as nurse amongst the mast
respecable class of females, and she les recom.
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11 mended in that capacity to the !Ay,. P""4
Simpson, who wns lately returned from the Indies.
Slit, was engaged iu her service on the Sib of March,
but it was soon discovered that she would not trait,
and she was dismissed for repeated inebriation. It
was soon ascertained that' many valuable articles of
apparel were missing. and Thomas Foy apprehended
the Prisoner. At her lodgings several trunks filled
with linen apparel, tee. were discovered, with differ.
Par marks, which left no doubt of depredations to a
con,iderable extent having been committed in other
(amities, by virtue of the Prisoner's employment.
Many articles were identifiedby Captain Simpson as
kis property.
The Lady had been much harassed, she wee after a
difficult labour delivered of • still-born child yeller•
day morning.
The Prisoner was remanded to give ether pewits
who had been robbed an opportunity of comieg
forward.
FIRE -- Monday morning, between eleven and
twelve o'clock. a Are broke out at the house of Mr. Jolter.
blacking manufacturer, Somerset place. Hackney-road, which
in a few hours destroyed the whole interior of the premises By
the prompt arrival of the eogioes from various parts of the me-
tropolis, ;lad the exertions of the firemen, the adjoinieg pre-
mises wen, saved, and the dam a were subdued. We ute'sorry to
add,that lgro persons were harried in a slineitiag ;passer, wisely,
Mr. Joato's mother amid daughter, the latter only thirteen years
of age; they were observed aphing from the premlseS wi h their
clothes on lire. Tstey were burned abuts+ the face, sea.- and
hands, in a manner too dreadful to de'.erihe. They were con-
veyed to St.liattlioloineveillo,pital, het the Suwon, gave very
little hopes of their recovery. The fire is stared to hams ori-
ginated in the following insulter. Mr. Jones had some latch
melting in a furnace in a shop at the hack pan of his how,
which was to be used fur slopping up the corks of blacking bui-
lt, s. Toe two *info innate persons happened to have lirslked
into the *hop, tie tO•li it boiled over, and produced suck an ex-
trusive II tee. that it sei lire to their clothes; some of the W-
hig pitch fell upuu their per,ons, and reduced 'them In the
dreadful state in which they now languish is the mold lade-
scri itgony.

COURSE OF FACIIAN.G
Amsterdam, 37 IR 9 U. •
Ditto, at tight. 36 8
Amsterdam, 11 8 c. C.
Ditto, at sight, 11 3
• Rotterdam. 11 9 2 U.
datitsrp. II 1L.% inn.
Hantbargli. U.
Altnaa, 34 8 4i, U.
Paris, 3 days's s• 24 33 U
I.)itto, 24.,5.; 2 ,
Isom-deans. 91 50.
Frank on the ‘l:iine,ll3 ex.aso.
Madrid, • 40
fre. 40_ •
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-nitilidaroSO •? •t 1a we.

IE, TV ESDAY, *MICE 31‘
Leghorn. )t
Genoa.
Malta, 51
Venice, 14 70
Naples. 431
Palermo. 130 per oz.
Lisboa . 581
Oporto, 59
Rio Janeiro 67fr
91 l Cent.
Cork. 9. per Cent.
Agin of the Bank or. Holland.
PurtuATl Gold, in Cunt, 41. id.
per oz.
,flutd, in f3are.4l. ld. •
New Dollop, si.
Sliver, in Barrotantlard,s..l.l

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