The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-09 00:00:00

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bed. On another itectesitm he sent witness to an optician's tol-
fetch a loadstose which he had bought,
he got to the shops witness found the loadstotte cone to ti;
guineas. When the Prisoner hal got posses 4 It of the steer, ere,-
asked witness whether it would draw his hvt
There were some passages near wltne.ev booty., and the psi.
SOPS( asted wbether the movie would 'Law ter
people Inrou.4
the wall. At another time the Poisoner wanted to make s
ry
with the Inadstone, and asked witness if it were pnaihi,.. 74;
was setnetimes affectionate, and sometimes world treat
.with the greatest contempt. Tile Prisoner seat fora law set in
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defter up a stattemera to the Duke ot. York, but the I ,Iry
could make nothing of it. The c,atelustott of alines:a.tridit tor,.
that the Prisoner was deranged. altbotielt not outrageous. Tie;
s desire.
Prisoner left his house at witnere
GeorKe Vicary lived at 33, Georgsastreet, Cheliea. Ise Pd.
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sneer lashed at hit house, and came in Apt il,lnlBl7xe:eisiiirticiiiii.,
ed there until the present occurrence. The Prisiuter wss see,
irascible; nod at ace time he was in a very great tote heatu,e'
his daughter had not carried a tea-spoon up. Witness thought
he had something particular on hi, magi,
very civil, hut was at titers its n vent gage,
Mr. Buz, a surgeon, considered the Prisoner nu certain poi's%
in all insane state of mind, and he had seen hint at:nost every
day. He was particularly insane on th • point of his retiteeet.
lie frequently made use of Ibis expresaio.,—that he ts:„ twee
down by the oppressive hand of the Almighty. On the wane
Of religion he was also deritited. Ile had no doubt but the
dentugement Ives unieigned.
The Rev. Salisbury Cotton, the Ordinary of Neweate,tiod
hfid frequent opportunities of seeing the Prisoner, and believed
that aims certain points lie was inane. lie thought incorrectly
of this crime of which he had hero guilty. He always kept
himself tot of from all ether pi isonery. and said :h.,1 b. was
urg.d by the spirit of God to commit 'hi, act. The
web a Fatitlita, and Vonsideted himself impelled by sn irre„,
sistible power. •
Mr Brown. the keerer of Rewrite, proved that the Pease.,
was insane when he entered N etvgute n the lath of Apritlast.
At Ire o'clock 4r. Justice ilavt.c.v proceeded to stun up the
evidence, and at six o'clack the Jury' retire t. tine iv tunic
hour found him " Guilty of the offence emoted to hire; the
dial he was in a state of theotal deranged-sea when he catas
witted it."
A young rrenchtnan, of Mast respectable connexians, ww
irraligited tor a-smutting mad it monesite..witto .1 drawn 6 t sote
the Abbe Mathias. a Ronan Catholic Cl..reyinit.t, ah le
...error:ping the service of the Mass at the Spanish Aoulataittloes
Chapel. on Sunday, the 15th starch last.
Tee Rev. Clergyman stated the nature of the assault, as ue
tietaileol it at the thee.
The Prisoner, out being called upon for his defence. saide:s
" Jly defence is, t at he reftwed loied.moister the S.,ennnestta
me, us he ought to lase done; nod this was a e Wichita art, fee
which he deserved a die ; as there is no etw inn this commit&
punish him for amebae act. Ito it into my owd hands."
air. 'Scher, as Casarel for the Prisoner, called a number of
persons to establish his inainity.
'rite Gentleman who paid the Prisoner his allowance from his
friends in Framer of SUL ler month.. sliced his belief of his de.
enticement for the lea two or three years. Ile had made a
scrim's attempt to induce this Gentleman to beliese that be could
live upon air.
The Lady so here the Prisoner lodged for the last 13 months, ,
proved the following extraordinary conduct its his mode of its.
ing; for some weeks lie confined .his diet to bread (a annul
yeast) and waver—then he would live for weeks on fowl, eating
twenty-one per week—then for a time on oranges -dual olk oil-
cakes—then on boiled dour and water—then on the juice of
pounded grass—then on the juice of pounded roses—thee in on.
boiled peas—then on boiled ones, eating each day, so much le
three pecks of shelled ones, and one peck of them with the
sh •Ils--sometimes changing his diet to mutton. of which ke
would eat six pounds a day. De had also a variety of suits of
iron armour made, weighing 21411 e. each, which lie used to try 1,
ron at the brazier's, and say that he would walk in them My
leagues a day. tie had also art iron crown. and a highly glished doable-edged sword, about right feet in length.
' avowed his intention of leading forty millions of men at exllo
pate the Barbary States. The iron snits of armour for biota
and a horse, were produced in Court.
A number of medical and other witnesses deposed tolls loth
nay; and after an able charge from Mt. liarun Ganaow, the
Jere. after a short coarsultation, and without leaving the bet,
returned a verdict of Acquittal, on the ground of tarsal de•
rungement at the time the Prisoner committed the act.
Mathias Maker, a young mats of youthful, but very weeded
appearance. who stands indicted for !shying forged a tleed.aitlh
iatent to defraud J. and T. Ward, and who has been remanded
from Session to Session, in order to ascertain his Pate of rod,
was brought to the bar by no less than three attendants. Rio
beard is of considerable growth he wore a strait-jacket. and,
in addition to his hands being manacled behind, it was found
neretwary to chain him. His appearance altogether was terrific;
he staresl wildly artonud him, and on the attendants placing his
at the bar, he exclaimed—" Do you want to murder me? I
have been starved. You have kept foe a month a Wand eatisg
any thiag. Are von going to give me the hacco ?"
Mr. Shelton then read the indictment to him. and asked him
to plead.
The unhappy man did not pay the clightest.attentioa to my
thing that surrounded bin).
Mr. Justice Ben,ev addressed him —Mathias Maher, Wed
to me. You are called upon to say, whether you are guilty se
not guilty; if you don't pleisti--:
lirisoner.—They have been going to murder me for these lat
seven month,.
Mr. ALI es. observed, that he aas ipso raced by the law of
humanity and the .Lawsof Englitod, to pruve that the Prhneer
mssa.ersenlyotciaullathceondeviidtienenceto.ta.ku his trial, lie sheukl, therefore,
' Several' witoesses were ehamined, some of whom stated their
belief that the iusarittY of the Prisoner was real,aad others that
it might be assumed.
Mr Att.av tees about toadderes the Jury, bat they did net
think it necessary. and after a few observations from Mr. Joke
HATLF:If, they prunont.ted, that he Owed nude by the malaise
of God.
Thomas Davis, Thomas Ward, Thomas Sn ift, Patrick
Clarissa Nara Downes. and Win. Brown 'ever ily pleaded
guilty to having forged mess iu their possession,. This subjects
them to 14 years transportation: • •

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Limon-
Rau..--011 Friday G. Allen, traveller to Mr. To ter,
a blackiog.nranufactorer is the bowlers-ma.% was
up, charged with embendiog various sums recels?el by hits for
%I r. T, ; bat (Wing to theabsence 4:f the Prisouer's Attorneys
the case a as !referred.
FUSE AT WM GROTTO Polltic-itoost.—About two o'clock
on Friday morning anthills of fire was Rived in Lant.+treet.
Borotigh,and the back part of the Grotto public home was dm
covered to be in flames. The family wete immediately rowed
by the watchmen, and narrowly escaped suffocation in analog
their way from the house.. 'l'he fire burnt forimuly until the
arrival of the engines about three o'clock, and communicated to
an adjoining house, which was partly de.trayed. Water was
with dialraii, Kocaredond it Was not till five o'clock that the
dameteiwere sobdned. The back part of the Grotto was de-
molished, and other parts of the house materially injured.—
Various articles of furniture were thrown from the windont
into the street, and considerably damaged. It ham not yrt hes
acertained whether the conflagration was occasioned by accident
or deign. The circumstance of repeated attempts having bees
made to destroy this betiding by fire. is already know n to the
sad seems to justify the suspicion that the uudiscoveral
incendiary is ant unconnected with the late affair.
Paterson's Rood Book scarcely contains its
names of more places than are to be found in ad
List which BUM has published of the Prizes he sold
last Lottery, and their various destinations. It is
to be had gratis at his Offices is town, end of his
Agents in the country,' end is really (at least la
those interested in Lotteries) rather an amusing do.
cement. .

COUlt.:l7. OF EXCIIA
Amsterdam. 37 0 B. 2 U.
Ditto, at iigbi, 36 6
Amsterdam. 117 C. F.
Ditto. at sight. 11 4
Rotterdam, 11 8 2 U.
Antwerp, 11 10 ev
Hurlbut:et. 31 0 24 U.
Altima, 34 1 214 U.
Paris, 3 days's sight, 24 10 U.
Ditto, 24 1; 2 U.
Boardeaux. 24 10
Fraukam thehlaine.ll2 mind.
hladrid, 40 erre:lse
Cadiz. 39; effective
Bilboa, 40
, Seville, 39
Gibraltar, 35

NOE. FIUDAIr, M. d.
Leghorn.
Genoa, 474
Ma,ta,
Venice, Y 5
Naple,s. 41
Palermo. 130 per no.
Lisbon . 511
Oporto, s;i
Rio Janeiro. 65}
Dithlite. 1k) lier Cent.
Cork. 10 per Cent.
Agin of th, Bank ors Holland.
Portugal Cold, in Coin, 4L is.
per Oh.
GOl.ll, 11) Bars, 41. le. C.d.,
New Dolby's. 3s. 6d.
Silver.io Bars.standard, 1" it.

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