The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-25 00:00:00

Aheatlees nape.to,be called over three tines,
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flllef,fielO_was ordered 40
.he disckarged.; Ip‘eNer,
they aftetas directed that he,alMuld find ,bail 1p ao.
swer any c mge that might he prefaced "Omit him
at the Sessions, himself in 1001. and two sureties in
•
SOL each.
The Act of Parliament under which .these charges
.kaTe been brought forward is commonly called Mr.
Veceeval's Act, having been brought in by him during
the time be was Chancellor of the Eichequer. It h
entitled, 49 Geo. 111. cap. 126, being an Act for the
father prevention of the sale and brokerage of offices,
Under this Act, persons buying or selling offices, or
receiving or paying money or rewards for offices, are
made guilty of a misdemeanour.

A Court-martial was held on board the Impregnable,
on Thursday (18th inst.) to try Mr. Higginson,
mid-
jsbipman of the William and Mary yacht, at Dublin, on
_charges of drunkenness and improper language to the
,'tstScer of the day, on the Ist of January last. Three
Courts of inquiry had been previously held, and the
:present Court-Martial, at which the Hon. Sir A. 1.
pocbrane presides, is ordered by the Admiralty. The
Court adjourned yesterday (Friday, 19th inst.) at one
o'clock until this morning, when the prisoner will
enter upon his defence.—(Plyntouth Chronicle.)
The Abbe Mably used to contend, that the class of
society in which he found the greatest number of" re-
spectable men," was the hackney coacitmen.—How-
ever oppussive the times, be said, they preserve a per-
fect freedom of soul ; they support their rights
with their fists ; and say on all " proper" occasions
the most abusive things to all that fall in their way,
without respect to rank or sex.
Friday night, a little before seven o'clock, as one
of the Bath coaches was coming pown from London,
the off wheel came in contact with the near wheels
of the Cheltenham coach, which was going to town.
-The concussion was so great as to overturn the former
coach, which was full inside and nearly full out. Au
unfortunate woman, on whom the coach fell, was very
much hurt. Several others were more or less injured.
The horses of the Cheltenham coach, which was not
upset, having broken the pole from the coach, ran off
therewith, at full speed, but were stopped at Colebrook
turnpike. The Cheltenham ceachutta, we hear, was
most seriously burt.--7(Batit Journal.)
We regret to state that Mrs. Mountain, whose pro-
fessional talents have excited much admiration, has
met with a very serious accident. On Friday evening.
as she was returning to Hammersmith by the stage-
coach, she was overturned at Brook Green, and had
,the misfortune to break her right arm, and received
some severe braises on the head. She was immedi-
ately taken to Mr. Bawling's, a surgeon, in Hammer-
smith, who set her arm and put her wrist io, which
was li:iewise dislocated. We have, however, the
pleasure to add that she is entirely free front fever,
and is going on extremely well.
FATAL. ACCIDENT AT KENSINGTON.TiIe young
gentleman who was killed at Kensington on Sunday
evening last, by being thrown front his horse (as is
supposed), was yesterday owned. The advertising
that his linen was marked with the initials "A. 0."
led his friends to a discovery of his lamentable fate.
His name is Archibald Douglas, the son of
Douglas, Esq. of Dorset-street, May-fair. It was sup-
posed that be had been robbed and inhumanely
beaten, from the circumstance of his seals and keys:
being missing, but his watch being left in his fob, and
his purse, containing six sovereigns, remaining in his
pocket, it was concluded that the former were lost at
the time he fell from his horse. It appears that be
dined on Sunday at a gentleman's house near Rich-
tnond, and left for town in the evening. A Jury sat
on the
Es
q.
last night at Knightsbridge, before Thos.
ig
Coroner ; and there being no witness to
prove bow the accident occurred, they returned a ver-
dict, "That the deceased's death was caused by a
fracture on the skull; but bow the injury was pro-
duced, they had no evidence upon which they could
determine."
Yesterday morning an accident, which occasioned
considerable alarm, and might bare been attended with
dangerous consequences, took place in the house of
M. Mortram, fire-work maker in Westminster-road.—
It appears that one of the boys employed in making
composition stars for rockets had placed a number of
them on the fender before the tyre to dry, a most im-
prudent measure, and set fire to one of them, which
falling amongst the others, the whole exploded, by
which a little girl was much burnt in the back, and
so frightened that she ran to the window of the first
floor, but Was prevented jumping out. The boy es-
caped up the area with his jacket on fire, The neigh-
bours were now much alartned, fearing the fire might
spread to more combustible matter in the house, and
so on to the workshops of Madame Hengler, the cele-
brated artist in fire-works to his Majesty ; but, through
the activity of the workmen, who ran into the adjoin-
ing house for buckets of water, further damage was
happily prevented, or the consequences might have
been dreadful. An accident of a shocking nature, it
will be recollected, occurred about three years since,
in the same person's repository, when two men were
killed by the explosion.
ExecuTios,—Saturday se'nnght, James, alias
Big Wll, left for execution at Cardigan, underwent
the dreadful sentence of the law, in the presence of an
immense concourse of spectators, who seemed very
much affected at the sight, no execution having hap-
pened there for 20 years. He ascended the ladder
with a firm step, and from thence continued admonish.
ing young people to beware of sin, and lie prayed for
upwards of three quarters of an hour in a manly
voice, and very affecting manner. Ile acknowledged
the justice of his punishment, and confessed that he
had stolen 601. from a person, for which another man
being suspected, be signed a letter to acquaint the
loser of his guilt; he also confessed that he stole four
horses from the county of Cardigan ; but from whom
be could not tell. His inducement for coming into l
Cardiganshire to steal was, because a fortune teller
had shown him in a glass the church he was to be
buried at, which had a spire ; and as no church in the
county of Cardigan answered that description, his dad
was Satisfied that be should not die there. He made
three desperate attosats to break prison; when he food
he could not get off, he began to be penitent the Sant
day before his execution ; and throdgh the anemias
ofi,•the
Clergyman, he became very resitened-and reli-
git us, and•declared he bad been guilty of almost every
crime except murder.