The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-01 00:00:00

Tilt RINE r. )JuRIIIS.

This was a prosecution at the iustanec of the (•,•31m;-
sioners of Customs, Against the defendant, for eAshaNg.
who was the person that gave the signal as mentioned
in tile first trial. A great part of evi.leuee that %I us goer
into was similar to that of the other two causes : and
the Jury, without hesitatiun, found the defendant
This offence is prohibited by a particular .'ut of Psr-
liament,uhich subjects the offender to ► penalty of lOW.,
and twelve mouths imprisonment.
The defendants, in all the aboie case., %I I: l .• brought
op (if found) to receive judgnietii, nest Tenn, to the
Court of King's Bench.

PHILLIPS r. ti.vrt4.

This was an art. biought by the assigni.e. of Mr.
Mamie! times, a bankrupt, aaginst Mr. Richard Gates,
the father of the bankrupt, by which they sought to re-
eoVer various household furniture, stock, cattle. and
effects, which bail !wen taken in execution by the de-
fendant, under a judement nhirh had been ulitaißeil
tinder a warrant of attorney gismo by the hankrupt to
bis father, the elefentLint, for securine a sum of money
which the defendant had advances! !Ili son. The plain-
tiffs, in this action, had to snake out that this transac-
tion betucen the father mod tie son was a (rand, or an
undue preference to the rest of the bankrupt's creditors ;
hut, failing in this, a verdict was 0%i-it for the de-
fendant. The defendant had Fivril lit.!ire that he meant
to dispute the bankruptcy of his son ; hut this was made
dut satisfactorily to the Jury, who cstaldislird the com-
mission, and the Judge certified, that the plaintiffs were
entitled To costs, incurred in proving the bankrupt•
under Sir Samuel Roluilly's Act.

PIRATES PUNISHED.
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(/ROM THE NALTIMORE 111011111411 GAZETTr, MARCUS.)
John F. Ferguson. Isaac Allister, John Jackion,
William Murphy. Isaac Denny, Charles Weaver. and
Thomas O'Brsen, all convieted.of piracy., committed on
the privateer La Irresistible, with which . I thrr ran
away from Margarine, while their Captain (Daniels') was
on shore, were yesterday sentenced to death, by his
honour Jatige Bland.
They were then remanded to prison, loaded with
chains, to await the execution of their awful sentence.
Two of the criminals, it is said, having been coerced
into the commission of their crime, are recommended to
the merry of the President.
The fate of these unhappy culprits will, it is hoped,
check the progress of that barbarous and impunstive
plunder. whirls isas so long spread danger and death
upon our seas, corrupted onr seamen, and dishonoured
our country.
?Cacti 4. —Last night nineteen criminals made their
escape from Baltimore County Jail, and at the time our
paper went to press hut one of them had been taken.

REWARDS FOR RESCUING PERSONS IN DANGER
AT SEA.
iii "4 hi,

dram, will come on before the Court of Assize iu H . to Lloyd's ..aye . ly voted, upon
coarse of this week. !the Iwo mmendation of their Committee, the following
IVe bear that the small number of !voices of the Ne- ! sums tom their funds, to reward parties for saving the
tberlands who still serve among the Spanish troops, in- I crews of vessels, at the hazard of their own lives, viz.—
tend to return to their owls country. I 00/. to boatmen at Yarmouth and liorlestott, for say-
;
Wince, Marcia 45 —Private accounts from Batavia, ing the crew of the Caton*, Stobie, from Dundalk to
of 221 September, 1419, say—" M. Moynards is placed London, wrecked on Cotton-sand, 11 March.
bere as a Commissioner of the Marine. There is a re- 501. to boatmen at Deal, and UM to boatmen at !tams-
;port of discontent prevailing here, but respecting which gate, fur saving the crews oldie Friendship, of Hastings,
I cannot say any tloirg particular or positive. It is cer- and the Flora, of North Shields, which vessels were
tain that several natives I ere in the neighbourhood hate wrecked on the °Godwin-sands, 3d ult.
been arrested and conveyed on board of the Nassau 301. to boatmen at Margate, for saving the crew of
gityrdstiip, where they are confined." the Ruby, of Newcastle, Hogg, from Cardiff to London,
Baeavia, Oer. 15.—8 y the latest accounts from the sunk near the Reculyers, 3.1 ult.
i.land of Banca, the corps of our troops which were sent 301. to the crew of the John and Mary, of Sunderland,
against the district of Banca lions was quite ready to for saving the crew of the Thistle, of Dundee, upset in
make itself master 1,1 assault, and without considerable I Sutton.wash, 3d ult.
loss, of the fortress trade there by the ,relwls, of beaus 30/. to Ramsgate boatmen, and 10/. to Margate boa:.
and other materials, which was in every strong pool. men, fee savitig the crews Of the Hope, of We} thouth,
tion. Contrary winds, and the low water thereby occa- and Vigilant, of Sundrrtanil, wrecked on the Goolisin-
sioned on the bank of Saenfang,un the Palembang river. sands, in December. •
hindered the largest ships from passing over it. At the , 51. 51. to two boatmen at Wivenhoe, for assistance ren-
new moon the whole expedition was in good condition t dered to the crew and passengers of a vessel wrecked in
the ...nailer vessels were in the month of the river, and January.
t':e ' irger nine to attempt to pass the bank at fall I It svi!l he seen, ht the following votes, that the sub-
moos, I scribers do not cutotrise their liberality, on such
Marren 15.—The plan of a new loan to re- 1 sions, to the reward of their own countrymen, nor for
deem the paper curteacy is neatly completed. M. Roth.- the saving of the lives of Britislr solo:recta only
chili!, of Frankfort, 'who is now here with some hankers I 25/. to the crew of the-Denx Scours, of Nantes, for
of this city, will arrange the whole. The paper currency taking out the crew and a passenger of the Friends, of
is fising. The plan is not entirely known • but it Sam Lancaster, Bragg master, which ship they fell in with
there is to he a kind of lottery of 260,000 numbers, at t at sea in the greatest distress.
100 florins, bearing 4 per cent. interest. This lottery is t 201. to six Frenchmen, who went from Dieppe on the
to he divided into 45 classes ; the tickets are to be drawn 3drilt., and, with the assistance of the Captaisis of two
in 25 years. Besides the prizes, some of which are rim -• Brighton packets, and the waster of an English nter-
siolerahle, the holsters enjoy the interest. The principal chant brig, saved the crew of the John aud Dorothy, of
is to be paid of the tickets drawn, so that those which Shields, wrecked olf Dieppe.
remain till the last year receive, in principal and in- 14/. 145. to some Guernsey boatmen, fOr saving the
west, 225 florins. ,grew of the sloop Rose Victoire. of Hotifleur, in Jan.
FRANIMORT, MARCH 21.—The King of Prussia has
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strictly Prohibited young men in public offices, and aloe A lady died lately at St. Jean, Cuba- aged 45
311 teachees it acallenlies awl schools, from wearing that, years, the mother ,
of: no less than thirty-three children,
ancient German costnme.—(DrtrA Pullers, Mire& 2911 i who were all baptised. lite father and twenty-three of
HIFIOVER, Mancit 13 —lt is now decided that the the children %sere alive about six weeks since.
long-Intended new organization of the inctutry shall •
take place in April next. The officers, from the Captains I We are informed, &zip& The Canada Spectator,
upward, ',derive an increase of pay. 'that a few days since, one of the Six Nation Indians,
The two Chambers of the Assembly of the States are at the Uruul Riser, shot a 'black woinan, after which,
reveled to adjourn in eight or ten days.• Several lin- he invited throe of leis friends to his house, made them
purtant subjects rot being yet ready for discussion, va- all drunk, aud set lire to the house and -consumed
yrdik CoMmittees w ill hr formed befoke the Chambers them. The Indians were holding a Council, and the
break up, add remain here to prepare 16ti31 for being laid result is nut yet known. It is stated, ds must probable,
befute the Chambers wkep they weet Hinin• 1 the 11.101Parf 11111 be shot nbu tett this savage act
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