The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-02-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

ITATTON-G A RDEN.—Friday Charles Poulles., a shoemaker.
came before the Magistrates at this Office, and made the follow-
ing grievous complaint of the cruel and barbarous manner in !
which be had been used on the preceding evening at Mother
Red Gip's, in • Camden l'own:—He stated, that on his way
home from Highgate to town the preceding everaiag. he caged
In at Mother Red Cap's, in Ciaroden u, to rest, and have a
pint of beer ; be sat on a bench, near the tap-room fire ; there
were three or four men in the room, all straugers to him, hot
two of them, be learned from Mr. Young, the landlord, were
constables ; that he had no conversation or dealing with either
of them ; lie got op from where he sat to light his pipe in the
tire, and in the interval between his standing and sitting, one of
the men pulled the eel hot poker out of the tire. and placed it
on the bench ; ma his sitting down upon it, the excruciating pain
he was in made kiln jump up and err out wad piteously. which
rai'ed their laughter. and they made a jest of him ; having oa
only a thin pair of unlined breeches, and no drawers, about a
foot in length across both the thighs of the breeches was burned
• out, and the same length deeply burned across his thighs, into
the flesh. Ou his demanding the cause of this wanton and crud
treatment; he was laughed at, and answered by the ban *he
" did it. that it was only a Inrk ; and that although there Were two •
constables in the room, they refused to take the chary, hakes
: he gave them the man's name and the charge to westing 4se
not itnnet'---

ilanarwiminser vows., thiriff•trit
f to
write dosin,..torther with the charge, and delivered I tp
the cotistableS, buThlia jftetinitted the man to eseape; that in
the greatest agony be reacheif home, and having a wife and two
' children to maintain, was now rendered unable to work for
their support.—The Magistrates ordered him a warrant tar the
'constables.
NIARLSOKOO6II.IITRIFIR.—An extraordinary case of bigamy
was heard at Ibis office on Friday, before It. USEER, Esq. at
the snit of Mary Loy, the seeond wife, against John Jewett,
otherwite Cox. The Prisoner, as it turned out, was an Mee-
; Innate child, who took the name of Jewett from his father. He
married the widow of a naval officer some years ago, and in
November last he married the Complainant. The father' and
mother of the second wife knew the Prisoner had another wife
, living; but as he was a minor at the Wit marriage, and had
been married in his father's name, be was christened again the
day preceding the second marriage, and the father and mother
of the bride stood sponsors. This second baptism was to give
the Prisoner his mother's name, Cox. It was urged also, that
. the first wife was not married in her own name, so order that
; she might not lose her widow's half-pay. The Magistrate re-
i mantled the Prisoner for another examination.

The Ministerial Prints have treated the American
Embargo very lightly, and consider it as a policy is-
jurious only to that country : we are by no 111PailS of
the same opinion. At the commencement of hosti-
lities, the Americans possessed a great temporary ad-
vantage, and the captures made by them, before our
cruizers and blockading squadrons reached their sta.
dons, gave a great balance of floating property in
their favour. A change of cricumstances has pointed
out a new line of conduct to be necessary. Men are
wanted for the army, for the defence of the coast,
and for ships of war now fitting out; all the hands
embargoed may thus be dispo,:ed of to advantage ;
but there is also an obvious effect of great national
policy which it is intended to produce—the establish-
meet of manufactoi ies sufficient to render them hide.
.pendent of this country in many valuable articles of
,consumption, fur which purpose they may be in-
duced to invest their capitals, with every prospect
of adequate remundation.
A poor man, named Morley, a working potter,
lately took a house near Cobridge, in the Stafford-
' shire Pottery. An immense heap of
.hot Owl, cin-
ders, and scraps of printing paper, bad been for
some clays thrown at a distance of twelve or foustein
yards from the Itous, rather below its level ais ;ri
a direction between it and the paint front- %hid! tbe
wind blew with great violence, on the day and eight
•of Saturday : this heap had been on fire, with con-
siderable flame, for eight or ten days. On Satur-
day night, the .2,9. th of January, the noisome vapour
proceeding front this mass of fire had worked its way
into the cellar of the house, and ascended to the
chambers wherein this wretched family had laid doWn
(except one) to rise no more! Suaday afternoou, a
relation of the deceased, by means of a ladder, en-
tered through a chamber window ; a stench, the
most horrible that can be imagined, contaminated the
whole house ; one of the children was lifeless, the
rest of the family showed symptoms of life, but were
in a state of complete insensibility. Every aid that M-
edical advice could suggest, was administered: but the
man died in a few hours; the woman and one of the,
children remained in a senseless state until Tuesday,ll
when they expired. Of this family; consisting of a
father, mother, and three small children, the youngest
only two years old, bas survived.