The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-17 00:00:00

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sure sign of public wealth, taking advantage of cis.
cumstances. The decline is now a proof of the sane
wealth realizing its profits, and seeking the channels
of improving commerce. The Loans, however, and
the necessity for them, under such circumstances,
sadly puzzle the Courier.
The state of moral depravity, the worst effect of
poverty and idlenesi, to which some, perhaps too
many, parts of ,the country are now reduced, is
strikingly exhibited its the following statement:—
On Monday last the Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the County of Essex commenced et:Chelses.
ford ,before an unusually full Bench of Migis.
(rates. The number of appeals entered was up.
wards of thirty, the traversers Were four, and the
number of prisoners charged with various petty
offences amount to nearly fifty ; and cunsequendy,
notwithstanding the judicious arrangement of the
Dem.:. List Session, of proceeding to judicial bail.
ors, early on the first day, the business .of the
Quarter Sessions, which a few year. since seldom
occupied more than two days, now presents the
prospect of affording employment for the whole
week. The great and growing extent of the busi.
ness, says the Chelmsford Paper, which has dis.
tinguished these Sessions for the last two years,
seems to continue with unabated tendency to increase
the labours of the Magistracy. The state of the
other counties is not very different from that of
E.sex. This increase of moral depravity is not
easily reconciled with the flattering accounts in the
Treasury Journals, of the improved state of the
lower classes. The extraordinary exertions made
to clear the streets of the miserable wretches who
present themselves at every corner, by the exercise of
humanity, or the enforcement of the laws, bate, in
some degree, ameliorated the condition of the Me-
tropolis.

The PRINCE REGENT certainly does not open the
Session of Parliament in person ; nor will his Royal
Highness return to town en soon as was expected,.
Probably his stay at Brighton will be protracted until
February.
The Committee for the Relief of Distressed Sea-
man have given notice, that any persons who may be
cent, or come to London after ibis day, soliciting re-
lief, will be returned to their respective parishes.
Another smell defaulter has taken flight. Mr. W.
R. RUDDICK, Chief Clerk under the Treasurer• of
the. Ordnance, has absented hims•tf, nod he is report-
ed to be deficient upwards of 15,0001. exclusive of
triune GOUOI. for Property Tax, which came into his
hands as the Collector. . Ile had given security, bet
owing to his having been suspended upon Mr. Burr's
delinquency, end afterwards restored, his Bondsmen
demur, alleging that they should. have been called
upon to renew their !sonde when he was permitted to
resume his duty. Mr RUDDICK took his departure
on Saturday last.
.The father of the late Mr. Rove was a Nonjuring
Minister in the comity of Kincardine.. Ile wsanever
on the establishmeht of the Church of Scotland, nor
was he in circumstances to affoid hie sou any other
than the common education of the parish school,
where the only science taught was Cocker's Aril&
odic. Young Rose was an apt scholar, and was
soon more distinguished for his knowledge of figurer
than the exciseman, or even the Laird's factor. It
was this practical and useful knowledge that recom-
mended
im to the humble employment of a Purser
in the !Wish Navy, of which he lived to be the
Treasure: Ills father died many years ego, leaving
a widow And a dasighler in eery indigent circus-
stances; *Cr was it till his son became Secretary to
the Trowel', that he learned an application had bees
made, by untold friend of the family, to place them
on the charitable fund of the Scots Exchequer!--
This, however, was rendered unnecessary, by the
bounty of the Secretary, who immediately settled a
small pension on his mother sod sister, as io duty
bound. The latter still survives him. Unlikermost,
Scotsmen, Mr. Rose had no predilection for his na•
tive country, which he never once visited since• bit •
first emigration. Ile wisely preferred Ilsmpshire tr
the lluro of the Mearns, and the verdure of tb•
New Forest to the russet heaths of the Grampians.
Siftings appointed in Middlesex and London before.
the Right lion. Sir YrcaniGrese, Kest. Lord Chief
JustiCe of hie Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, in and after Ifilary"ferm, 1818:
TERM.
MIDDLESEX. LONDON.
Saturday Jan. 24 Monday
Tao/silly' Y 9 Saturday • it
, Thursday Feb. 5 Friday Feb.ll
AFTER, TEAM.
Viiday Feb.l3l Saturday Feb.l4
ITALIAN BANDITTI:--Lieotenent-Col. snails
and Captain Gonnou, R. N. were attacked io their
way to Naples, between Terracina and Foodi,' by
banditti, on the evening of the 112th of December.--
The first act of the villains was to-fire upon the poetil•
lion without precious. warning. Ha Yell mortally'
wnomled; theft. proceeded to rifle the tra-
vellers, sod took from them their watches, money,
&c. The banditti were divided into two parties, one
of which was immediately 'active in the attack led
rubbery, while the either remained in reserve at
short distance ; and their number was so coosiderable
that Lieutenant-Colonel Maim end his companion
mast be considered as owing their Hoes to their being
unprepared to offer, any resistance. They suffered
little personsl violence, and were allowed to pie'
; taking their wounded servant with them.

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objects of the try owes so many blessing.. There are doubt eis I
rent. This other more efficient causes for this suspension, (kg
eh bas most th4disappearaecteef the ,etallictetrenci, Willie's
the United the 'alio tel width Gni its vepriadellitiee'sluidish it
overrun's to
edit blinds, is so difficelt f the Atyisdomtofthoetr
opetnotive f
no part of preserve a dilp or
empted to be those unsteady ndardstof regulation 0 aril left, to
o.s
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ls,that some of divine. : 4
I the servitude •-••••■••••--.
lof their Civil Whetter the Fonds fall or rise, the fioctestioo is r
set.), similarly with the Courier en infallible proof of the advancing --
she Americas prosperity of the country. The rise was lately a

' packet, with Mails from biSawb* in eight days.'
JANAIL—SeIIed the slavGiory, fled Cape.
Picket, Us the Riscro-.-Came down from the Riser
.10411 remain, 'the TArly Campbell, for Madras and
icntia, and. lb. Trittewbase, with convicts
for New %oath Wales.-4severel vessels have gone for
. Kainsgate for sbelfpf• •
POSTINOUTH, JAIS:I6.—..The Elisabeth, Beate,
frOm Faintoeth for Chatham; and. Grace, Davy,
from Cowes, bale brought ep at the Motherhank for
safety.
f • MARGATE, JAIL 16.—Arrived in oar Roads, Sod
Nis Proceeded for the River, the brig Letteras, of
and from Colitis for London ; rho the ship, Glory,
and Cape. Packet ; • Ufa brigs Peace, Graves, and
• nerveal others.
RAMsOaTE, JAN: litkCatrie here for shelter
inseral sestets from the-potty&
Noirn SHIELDS, iltoi.-Arriv.d in our Ronde,
this morning, th* fftebmt, **too. from Memel for
London, all well.
LIVERPOOL. JAN. IL—The Harriet; Bragg, frail
-• John's, New BronsWick, Inc Liverpool,
the 7th inst. in lat. 50. • to-- 29.
'only

spoken ow •tong. The
Bertha, Boson, from Savannah for Liverpoolosilled
D. V.—Yesterday passed the Margaret,
from Charleston for Liverpool.
GRAVESEND, JAN.. 10,—Arrired the Sir Henry
Stantope, Boyce. from Cape Coast; Providence,
Consists; from Seville; Slily, Jerson, from 'St:
Michael's; and Galen, Tracy, from goston.--
sided the Medosy. Wright, for Madeira and Ben.
gal; Des: Freres, Elliot, for Havre.

DHOST-LANE THEIITRE•-•=The dramatic piece of
The Children in the Wood, so successfully modelled
am the popular ballad of that name, was played at
this Theatre last night, when Mr. 11. Joirairum sp.
peered, for the first time, in the part of Walter.—
This character is a specimen of what may be termed
the tragedy of low life, and is perhaps more difficult
of delineation than any king or hero ever called into
existence by the breath of the poet. BANNISTERS
excellent performance of the part is still remembered
by most persons who frequent the Theatre; Mr. If.
JOHNSTON, therefore, has to labour under all the
disadvantages of comparison, but his Walter was a
very succe.grui prr,rt, abounding with midges of
great spirit and energy. KNIGHT'S ilpathy a good
substitute for Smarr ; and ARLEY, as Gabriel, gave
as an admirable drunken scene. Mrs. BLAND, who
played Josephine, is the only one of the original cha•
rectors that remains.

The new Welch Order, report says, will consist
of the following Noblemen and CPIIiIPIII,II, besides
the Sovereign and two of the Royal Dukes:—Mar-
quit of Anglesea, Viscount Bulkeley, Earl of Cardi-
gan, Viacoant Dungannon, Sir Welkin Williams
Wynne, Bart. Lord Milford, Earl Powis, Lord lien.
yon, Lord Gwydir, Lord Dv nevor ; Prebend of the
Order, the Lord Bishop of St. Aaaph ; Chancellor,
the Lord Bishop of Bangor ; Registrar, Rhys Jones,
Erg.; Genealogist, IL Richards, Esq. ; Pursuivant,
Dersids, Gentlemen Usher, &c. at the disposal of
the /Carl Marshal. Ribband, light green, edged with
white. Motto, " Creautur fortibus et bonus"
CANNINO, PRESENT PARTICIPLE OF Tilt VERB
CAN.—The word Canning is evidently the present
participle of the verb Can; and signifies one's being, .r
at lest endeavouring to be capable of doing any
Airing from any motive. It is a term quite exploded
by every genuine English writer or speaker. In
Ireland, however, I believe, as well as in Scotland, it
is, with a very slight alteration in the spelling, still
retained. The word Canny, particularly in the
Scotch acceptation of the word gives its full messing,
though someere of opinion that its proper sense is more
clearly specified, when, by changing the a of the
original word into u, you read Cunning for Canning.
The word Canning' not malty years ago, signified
just the opposite of Castle; end never, surely, in the
military sense, did Cannon more threaten Castle's
overthrew, than Canning, in the verbal sense,
threatened the destruction of the noun Castle. Yet
to variable ate the living languages, that we see these
two anti-thetical terms admitted st last of Hearty equal
import; and the one stack so close under the other
on the same page of the Court Vocabulary, that you
are surprised to find on reading d. onwards, how
euctly the leading twin-syllables of both words form
their common anagram, a word not indicative of
cleinliness—Ca, Ca. But the scavenger cheers him•
self with the Scotch saying—" Where muck is luck
is; that is, where filth is wealth is.
Miss KELLY, made her first appearance at the
Dublin Theatre, in the part of Albino Illanderille,
In The Will. The genuine talents of Mies KELLY
triumphed completely over every difficulty created by
the character of the piece. tier Louisa, in the
Melo-dramatic Afterpiece of the Deserter, was as
perfect as any thing that can be imagined. It
was superior even to her Albino. In the Play she
introduced a ballad, in which she accompanied her-
self open the harp, and in the Afterpiece she sung a
remarkably pretty song. Both were encored. Thus,
in one evening, did this accomplished actress display
her tragic, comic, vocal and pantomimic powers, and
it is no euggeration to say, that never was success
more complete than her's—never were applanses more
rapturous—never were they better deserved, or more
gratefully acknowledged.
A Correspondent, who keeps a register of Copilot
Prizes and by whom sold, assures us that in the last
It years there have been only 12 Prises of £30,000,
and that BIM, the present Contractor, sold no less
than ESGUT of them : this is another proof that
" Fortune favours those .zeho favour him ;" indeed
in the last Lottery which contained Three Prizes of
X 7,0,0001. (about two years ago) Bisu sold them ali t
In the 'very last Lottery be sold in Shares Three
Prizes of £lO,OOO each • and as the present ',witty
contains Three Prizes of £30,000, besides 97 other
Capitals, where can we go with so great a chance of
obtaining them as to Btsii, the Contrsmor who
seems the fs enured Agent of Fortune to disperse leer
ric:ies to the Public at Curnbill and Charing•croms
London, and by his Agents in the Coming.
AFFAIR OF HONI/UR.—Saturday a meeting took
place near this town, between M—w P—ass, Esq.,
end C—ss, Esq. The parties discharged
three pistols each, when they left the ground, fortes
merely *ilium receiving any injury.—(Sligoiomlo

raerildl4o better 'l* the copy wf fort140.:11111110
• •-•• 1!. Attorney-Giaeral :—] s
have recently conlesstokyotteloimmotte
for Gods Commandment% -as •drrieelirhi'lliki Ot

chapter of EsodairinaiVii" an)
-.• s
religious feeling, usually Imbitted
education; and had this acknowledgment
licly made on yonv emertatointo
tioss• of Lg. Oliver of the Public,
rather your Christian bretbriin, *old
dated to consider you as thorough)
the discharge of that important
basing vice and exalting virtue,

God is the Lotto; but, unhappily,
has proved that you do not observe all the corntemselli
enacted by the Almighty. It is enjoined,
aia. /5. ‘• Ye shill do no uffigitteousness in jade.
went : thou shalt not respeellhe person of the poor,
nor honour the person, of the mighty : but kr,
righteousness ihelt thou jadge thy oeighbour."—;—
This part of GOD'S Statute Lows yoe have ac.
Jenny disregarded, wherefore public confidence in
your ability to discharge the duties *leeched to
your official character is necessarily weakened : wee;
hausght yes any longer flatter yourself that passive,
lesbmission will be shown to your opinion, Hone.
tions, or acts; since, in all these palpable fallibility,
has been detected, inasmuch as they are directly op.
posit, to the ancient standard of all Judicial Sta.
totes, namely, that Divine Code of Laws given by
the Omniscient to the most honourable and faithful
Legislator, 'Moses, for instance. That act 'of yours,
the issuing Ex-Offi:io Informations (a practice you
vainly endeavoured to vindicate), by which many un.
fortunate persons hare been and are still immured in
prisons, to the injury of their health, derangement of
their worldly concerns, and the ruin of their family
comforts, is positively repugnant to the ancient, and
consequently highly-respected 3..wiah Liw (it was
made before the Protestant Religion was established);
and as before mentioned was ordained by GOD hinvielf.
In the 7th chap. of the Gospel by St. Joise, 51st v.
is this question: " Doth our Law judge any man be-
fore it hear him, and know what he doeth ?" It may
be observed, that this delicacy of implicating the cha-
racter of an individual in those days, arose net from
that charity which thinketh no evil of his neighbriur ;
for the same religious end learned persons to whom
this question was addressed, had a few minutes be-
fore expressed their sentiments concerning the lower
class of society of those days, rhos " this Pe"ples
who know not the lea-, :Ire accursed:" hut merely
from regard to the Law Sta'utes of that nation.--
Thus, Sir, it is minifest your deeds have not ac-
corded with those of your predecessors in judicial
authority as to your practice of filing Er-Officio In-
formations: yet may some analogy be all wed to subsist
between your conduct and these lawyers in other re.
spects ; perhaps the following quotation may empties
the similarity—you will find it in the Testament :
" Ye pay tithes of mint, anise, and commin, and
have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judg.
meta, mercy, and faith—these ought ye to have
done, and nn( to have left the other undone." You
will, no doubt, Sir, startle at this deterioration of
your official proceedings, but the allegations have
proofs positive to sepport their veracity. Your late
prosecutions of Mr. lloste, although not a very bril-
liant deed, was nevertheless, done in the face of day,
and manifested to an observing nation the partiality
of your judicial conduct, in stretching forth the arm
of your authority to seize on a poor printer, for
hiving published a two-penny Parody, that his needy
family might be supplied with a dinner by the pike of
his wit, whilst you suffered a similar offence to pass,
unnoticed in an Ambassador, who fares sumpt•nosir
every day, at the cost of the public treasure. Your
severity, Sir, towards the needy critic reminds your
religious brethren of a verse in the Proverbs, " An
hypocrite with his mouth destroyetb his neighbour ;"
It is added," but through knowledge shall the just be
delivered ;" nor will the verdict of an intelligent Jury
beforgotten while Britain has s single champion left to
defend her nobleConstitu:ion. You a ;firm, that you felt
it your duty, as La*Offirer of the Public, In bring for.
ward this prosecution to defend the Form of Worship
established by Law in the reTgli of CHARLES It., by
which part of this Statute Law, the guilt of treason
against the State, ateaches such persons as shell pro.
fine this lawful form of Common Prayer, called the
Liturgy. From this declaration the erroneousness of
your opinion is discovered ; for you very improperly
imputed the crime of blasphemy to the satire, as'
though the criticism wls levelled at the formulary of
the Public Worship of Goo, whereas every unwire
in politics laughed while he read the Since:triers
Creed, at the lashes of sit given to a junto bear.
ittg authority ; and wistfully considered who the
persona- could be that were the recipients of
the flagellation. Persons whose understandings aro
occupied in the study of the Holy Smarter's, are
mostly zealously attached to the reverence of them,
observing their sacred ptlecepts with the strictest at-
tention, rather porting with life sometimes than
wil-
fully transgress any of its statutes or injunctions.—
When such devotees to the Bible make use of any
particular portion of Holy Writ, as thst me.
morable ItPrOiDier, MA UT! Pi LUTHER, did 'part of
one Psalm, the word of Goo is not profaned. but
merely converted into a mirror, by which the hideous
image of ertor is redumhersted upon the vision of the
observer. In imitation of which the following pas-
sage, taken from the Gospel by ST. MATTHEW, may
be serviceable in refracting certain trails of part of
the existing Legislature—" Woe unto you blind
guides who strnin at a gnat (a ludicrous criticism
called a Libel) and swallow a easel (approve of tad

bleed; let us luirk peivily far the innocent witholt
meet let at swallow them op as the
** grate, '
*those that go down fate •Tfisr Wf i '
tubs', nee (Ilkolvd.iasoo
-Walk itiff.
• and *tab; theill
jr their 'inN. '''gb
greedy of gain ; *MI
• thereof." Suet. per.
rewarded (by (:o-
rm of Gird), to
hearted; distressed
titan int} the pit
1.4 been lifeled by
of eineatien ac trai-
h were. thitts blood.
hounds, are screened from punishment,- its having'
aided the Government in destroying fattier'. Suet;
Mop *tight not to be—this•is saying let ns do flit
that good may come, whim, condemnation it jut.
Sir, it is obvious to every person who reads
with aiderstanding, that the .additsment an-
nexed to the last quoation from the Gospel by
St. M ATTSIEW, canalot be properly -dlesspresinated
a Parody ; we Banister, .Srdhd Pteellistgewe even
Mult4 Chancery, would able to demonstrate
Om the word libel is a prophanation of the term
gnat; or that the epithet reducer, ig a more ludi.
craws appellative than the mime camel. No, 181,1
sir; you may depend on the 111491J1011CP of the writer'
when she affirms that Holy Writ is not now the ob.
ject nr subject parodized ; but the lest of the comps.
rired—those blind guides, the van guard of the Bri-
tish corps, who have erred from the straight path of
rectitude, which alone leads to tree glory and lasting
peace, and base desperately swerved, by rushing
heedlessly into the broa3 road of war, waste, and
want, which is well known to terminate in 'starchy
and ruin. The sarcasm alludes to these blind trade's
of the nation's phalanx, who have arbitrarily mulct
them of their rights—the flatlets Corpus Act, and
consi4ned • y C rcular Let.ers, sirni:ar to despotic
Carers Blanche, to dungeons or strong those
worthy C.,Anipions of the Rear, *silo have hail the
hardilan, d courageously to sound an alarm, and peti-
tion their Commanders to halt and call a Council
for ltetrenchmeot, or to Reform the St4ff.
A ItliA Dun OF THE BIBLE.

CURIOUS FACES t O:;NECTED WITH THE PRO-
SECUTIONS FOIL Till. PAROHILS.
A Correspondent says, 66 I understand Oat ure.
'Joust to the application to Williams, the winter, at
Portses, to print the Parodies, Messrs. Nlottloy at;cl
Co. some respectable booksellers and printers, at
Portsmouth, were applied to (cut the purpose, and an
order was offers d to them to print rso less a number
than ten thousand.
0, e nailc enemy. that to catch a Saint
Will saint, oust boil thy hook
• But they were not to he ensnared, and they very
prudently declined the order. An order was after.
ward. given to poor Williams, but with t his remarkable
difference, that although the order to Messrs. Mot tley
and Co. was for 10,000 copies, the one to Williams
was for 250 only; but small as it was it was suffi-
cient, and he was caught. If any Mr. Oliver should
'lse et the Wilma of all this, it shoUld be recollected
,that the Parodies which were printed—by Williams
got into cirettkation, and that lie is now tottering (bot
without beinz entitled to the smallest osessu r: of eons.
miseralion) for the publication, and that upon the
same and no better grounds, the Habeas Corpus Act
has been and is still suspended.
LADY MORGAtes FRANCE.-..-II most be extremely
gratifying to all liberal minds to learn, that notwith-
standing the ferocious attacks of numeroos Critics in
France and England, a Third Edition of this Work is
already called for. We hesitate not to repeat, that
it is a production of great national utility, and has
powerful claims on public attention and encourage-
ment.
Died, yesterday evening, at his house in Wy nyett.
street, lilington-road, of a rapid decl:ar, in his 371 h
year, Mr. JAMES SwAN, jun. Printer. lie has loft
hn affectiowe widow and five infant children, who
d pended upon him for support, to deplore h's pre.
mature loss. Hews. highly and deserved . esteemed
bt all who knew him, and his conscious introgrity
end confidence in the will of Heaven Prod lad him so
support his most trying is--di-position to the end a ith
patience, fortitude, arid rerignatioss.
1 Fifty.seven of the parishioners of St. Olive's,
Southwark, were yesterday summoned at the Town
It 411, for non-payment of Poor Rates. They were
principally journeymen. Their plea for not having
paid the assessments was, that they could procure no
employ. .Further time was allowed them by the
Aldermen. Sort% and Eamco.
CORONER'S LsoUE‘T.—reiterday an Inquest was
held at the Vestry Room of Wapping ‘Vorkisout.e,
on the body of a man unknown, appeariog to be
about fifty years of age, who was foetid dead,
wrapped up in a quantity of hay in a deal boa, which
was brought in a boat by two men to Mr. lloare'vl
wharf, as related in a former Paper. It appeared,
that there mere no marks. of violence on the b,clr,
and it had not the appearance cf ever having beeq
interred. The Beadle washed the body, sad bad it
conveyed to Wapping Workhouse; he understood
that several packages of s similar description were
sent there to be shipped. The Jury concluded, that
most probably it was a subject iutended.for dispoto.
tion ; bat having no evidence to move by. labor
source the deceased came by Isis death, they reto(4l,
,
a Verdict of Found dead. • ; •.mi
ROBBERIES AT DULIVICIIO—TiItINdIIy evrrtis
valuable sheep of the Merino breed, was-akolisi. .0
of a field at Dulwich, belonging to Mr. ilatikolib;4l
Gentleman of property. It was not slaughtetl. '•
on the spot (as usual), but.it was carried away alive.
When the rubbery was discovered, the marks of the
footsteps of two persons were traced from the field
to the stables of a Gentleman (Mr. Croft) in
the neighbourhood, wbiah were broke open and
robbed the same morning. There was the trace of the
wheels of a cart from Mr. Croft's stables to the bot-
tom of the hill, where the marks of the footsteps In
the field also appeared. The sheep was supposed to
have been carried away in the cart, with the pro-
perty stolen in Mr. Croft's stable. The cart wit
traced nearly to Peckham..

„ere 'hi * e 1.1.1011. -
..rtif bristliest the present action apinet
..rendiski, CI-ilirman of the ogle _Assurance
,Arropeoy,, oe a polity effected opals the stock, &c.
44 (remiseit belonging to the Plaintiff, situate in '
:street,•aod known as the Metropolitan linear.
'rho pleas w*, first 4 that the 1-laißt'ff had so in.
Wilk i and tt, that be had adult.) caned the
peewits” to fie 1111041@d lig Ire, err the 434 of May,
!Mr. Toreros opefied the Plaintiffit case, ohserv.
set Opine the ;Inviter her of the sitoation of bit
Clifot, who, without V:0 fliektett metive 10 iso Corn '
eli4ll4lon, by'the plea dose the record ant dosed
' With a erica of the foulest Met 61666a5, eft* his
liffri.' •It ircliud be &sir/ estadfieked, that* *aloe
dile prow/41)**4014 si4i fat*grond thrusts,'in.
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1 SoPket, and directly ' Pier tihe Ire, in the certificate
merited by the '1 he heti received from the
ClOellynian, iiii *.watclent and othets, the
highest teitilhetilliSS Kr favour. Ile called the fol.
lowing wituestes t..ii.'
George Polhill bid been abirprisati to the Plaintiff;
bed , that he had WO/Aar Sholoifel the stock
'sold b ' lots si various Attest the last isle*Mei In
r>ii2 ...
the eat rt or 1511, and at that times or nod
`afierwitras4 a Mr. Davenport *as in treaty for the
co.naining stock and the fixtures on the premises.—
The value was about 13(X)1 , consisting of china.
Otos, and ear: hetiwase. The Wiz tar was opened il
July, and counters, desks, dra %frt., k... were pot
up, as well as tiro very large stoves in the cellar, by
whir), the apartments sere warmed, besides others.
The fittings up were not confined to i he ground floor,
but estended to the first and secood, where were
also lookin2.glasses of the value of shout 6001. The
witness end a Mr. Leach bad kegs of the back-door
premises, and Mr. Mist of the front. who was fre-
quetel) there. The witness was in Fleet-street at
about aeon, on the day when the lire took place,,tho
2341 of May, 1817. The room the Plaintiff chiefly
occupied was a room on the third floor, nest Salis.
burv-court, where lie kept his books and papers. In
a closet there was a hos of coals and some shavings,
used by the porter for lighting the fire.
Cross-essolined.--On the day after the fire he wag
seen by Mr. Bootlace. The lonking.glasses were
not included in the 1:::001. his estimate of the stock;
he had not said that they were, but that they were
worth 5001. The witness had been in the Pltiotiff's
service eleven years. Plaintiff lied formerly been in
liartnership with Mr. Abbott, but Most faded in 1814,
1 iind escitelisheil the Bazaar two years sfterweirds.—
: There had been two sales, at which many of the ar.
tides were bought in, end many not put up to auc-
tion. The Bazaar was closed in February 1817.--
The witness often went to the premises, where there
were some pieces of candle, and a number of phos.
photos bottles in earthenesre. which had been left
unsold. On the day of the fire the witness had gone
' to the Plaintiff's room from a (loader to half-pest 12
I to !peak respecting the non.aptetenietit of an account,
but he was not there: all Gen was bate.
Thomas Wagstaff pr..ved that the value of the
1 stock in Notembir, 1816, was 20001., and after the
last sale there remained about 14001. worth of pro.
perry orr the premise,. The fitting up of the B.
gear lied cost more than 5001. wages nod ort.of the
wieterlals.
An account of the stork was produced, wide set
by Polhill from the books tiflhe Plielntiff peeeiees to
the fire, not including looking-glasses. All were on
the premises at the time of the fire, according to the
torideoce of Polhill, who was recalled to prove tie
account.
Mr. James Davenport, an earthenware manufac-
turer, of Longpore, in Staffordshire, stated, that
very shortly before the fire be was nogociaiitig for the
purchase of the Plaintiff's stock, an account of which
heel been taken by Polhill; he left town before it
was finished, but having seen a rough estimate, he
1 4llielPd 25001. for it to the Plaintiff. lie thought the
bargain would hive been a good one ;at lease, be had
I seen enough of the stock to know that he should not
I
be doing wrong. The Plaintiff required 38001., be•
sides a further sum for the lease. Soon after the
witness left town he heard of the fire, or he should
! have returned to renew the treaty.
ICrostsezamitted.—llis partner had been assigoest
under a Commission against the Plaintiff, and the
witness was a creditor to the full amount of the sum
he offered; but it was agreed that a certain sum in
cash should be given to the Plaintiff.
Mr. Woodhouse, Solicitor to the last witness, con-
firmed his evidence, in some particulars, relative to
!the treaty. It had been agreed in September, 1817,
that the Commission against the Plaintiff should be
aoperseded.
Wibert Rood proved the value of the futures put
op for the Bazaar : the wood-work only cost, more
than 4001.
Mr. Justice BATLEY, in this stage of the cause,
put it to Mr. Scarlett, who was oo the other side,
whether it was meant to be said that any part of the
property had been clandestinely or otherwise rsk•
moved before the fire?
Mr. SCARLET'''. 'towered in the negative, adding,
that be meant to show that the property was not
worth what Mr. Davenport had offered.
Mr. Justice Basses observed, upon the improba.
Welty of the case, that a man possessed of such a ses
lwable property, and so insured, should have wilful-
ly consumed it by fire, and risked the discovery of
a capital offence.
Mr. SCARLEn replied, that that was not a matter
of fact; but of reasoning: it was for the Jury to
drew their own conclusions, sod to judge of what
presumption of guilt existed.
)• Mr. Justice BATLEY thought defences of this kind
iby Insurance-offices impolitic, unless stronger grounds
of suspicion eaiated than were yet evident.
Mr. Jobo Duddel, an oilman, saw the Plaintff at
about eleven o'clock on the morning of the fire; they
agreed to dine together, and after wards toga to Wy.
combe to look at a house the witness had proposed
'that the Plaintiff should take from a Captain Rush.
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lieg,that it was not so bad as one that hsd hc-p- net! at
wereltke Bazaar in Fleet.street. The Plaiiciff was ea.
tremely anxious to go to Fleet.street, line the witness
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