The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-10 00:00:00

T 1 1 E STATESMAN.

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.n I It Is thought my many,-that there is a deficie
Monday evening a great disturbance took place in
of food in this island; a 'Roden, which the high
,prices in a great degree justify.or maw., Man also
the boxes anti lobby of the Lyceum Theatre. Mr.
, think that fish, fresh andsalied, is a wholesome and
. Spring, the box-office keeper, called in the assistance
i nutritious diet for all classes. If both these notions
of two constibles. . In the confusion the police-offi-
be well founded, the second is a great palliative, if
parties had their clothes torn !
not an adequate remedy, for the first of them. There
tecierrsaagisl.ssie:eletigtohf -tthweo of the ringleaders who had '
endeavoured to force their way into bores that were is fish enough in the sea, and the sea encircles these
either completely filled or the places taken, and who.e islands;-.-what impedes- the catching of them, arid
I. not being able to accomplish either, stood at
their tweedy and liberal circulation through the coon.
doors and pri vented other persons from passing,th try ? • This deserves some conoideration,---and it re.
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: were taken into custody. They were brought, toA,..i quires not a little. The occupation of fishing is well
office, and ungerWent ah examination before Mr' soiled to our insular arid maritime habits: it has some
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' difficul ties of eleme rit ,—some uncertainties in its lime-
READ; one of them had lost .one side of his dolt,
with a pocket containing a pocket-book and other" cation—it partakes somewhat of adventure and chance.
1 properly. Their friends attended, andstated . . ab is a quickly perishable articli; and salt, which
that • '
Fl
the Prisoners and three others had been drinking at 4
will preserve it, is almost prohibited, by the high
the Bolt-19-Tun iu Fleet-street, and had drank nine . charge
of duty in most cases. To promote the catch.,
trig of fish, a sure and ready market must be secured.
bottles of wine, and attributed their violent conduct
to inebriation. In this Metropolitan district, with so great and
They were both ordered to find bail for the assault*
dense a popihation,. in a circumference of 30 miles,
on the officers. ' ' almost every possible impediment to the trade and
Monday evening an officer observed three boys in
sale of fish is established byly. From Grave law, custom, psend torescrip- l
Iligli Holbore, the eldest only thirteen years of age, tion, privilege, or monopoly.
Wirdsor, one small and inconsettient spot only is
and the youngest eleven, attempting to rob several
persons, and at length saw one of them take a silk lx' for the market and sale of fish. The da
iivey,
haudk
it to erchone ief from
the theothe pocket r
bays of a
the Gentl
fficer eman,
went and
though beginning early, is not long enough to go to.]
• market and. to return to dinner. Woolwich and
of ; o
seize him, but he ran off and made his escape: he, .
Blackwell, Chelsea and Battersea, must attend at !
however, secured the bey who bad got the handker- ! Billingsgate. The fish that should and mig'st be
chief and the other boy. They were brought to the
above office, nd
caught, and the perloas who desire to buy and catett 1
at reasonable rates, would, if they met in this single !
Gentleman attendeunderwent an examination. 'The
d and identified his property, .1. 'hey nook, block up the whole street and district of
%ere committed for trial. • ' which they are allowed only a few feet, privileged to
• William Smith, the owner of 'a boat, was 'charged
assist in starving them.
by Mr. Thomas William Hodson, with refusing to
These things require te be explained, and proved !
take him.from Chelsea to Wandsworth, although he I
o be proper or inevitable, or to be amended.
plied him.
He was convicted in the penalty of twenty shil-
lings and costs.
M A RLBOROUGH-STRF.ET.
A man, who stated himself to be Captain
Mitchell, and attached to the navy, underwent an
examination on Saturday, on the charge of basing
defrauded Mrs. Best of Great Russell-street, Blooms-
bury, of sums of money, by giving her false cheques,
where he had no elects. Two other charges of a
similar nature Were exhibited against the Prisoner,
and he was remanded again until next Monday. ' 1
Le Turc, the person who produced a knife with
a threat to the Magistrates of this Office, was brought 1
up for re-examination. Ile had no other excuse to •
offer for his outrageous conduct, than that he had I
been the object of much persecution, and had sought
redress. A person in the. Office represented to the
Sitting Magistrates that the Prisoner had been coeds
dered insane at times for many years, although 'he
occupied a situation as French teacher. It was also'
stated that he had respectable friends in the City.—
The Magistrate remanded the Prisoner for another
week, remarking that be was not a fit person to be
at large, and his friends would have an opportunity
of appearing at the next examination.

DREAMT,. Stream—The 'eleetrittlaid has prevailed in the
atmosphere. during the present season, to an alarming, degree.
• On %4 ednesday, in titamfintl, a vast•column of dense, black
cloudi was sem to ascend in the west, presenting a frightful and
uncommon appearance. (In Sunday, at half-past twelve, the
neigaboarbood of Cmwland was visited by a tempestuous storm
of thunder and lightuing—the latter, in its course came in con-
tact with two vriliow urea, by the ;Gad side, leading into Post-
had, The hest of these it strict at the root, and broke it across
In two places, and druye the bark off, and threw the earth from
itsroot over a ditch by•whlch It stood. The'other, at about YO
yards distance loom the former, alms struck with such force that
, it is as dashed into splinters, and many of its pieces were thrown
Ilion great distance; some of them nearly 130 yards from the
spot. In continuing its course nearly cast, the storm came in
contact with a mare. and foal, on the farm of Mr. Fterard,- of
Portland ; both of which were struck dead by its violcuce. The
shepherd of the above gentleman was, at the saine time, on
horseback, in the fieldshis dog was struck down, and lay some
time before he recovered; his horse was stunned, and nearly
fell.
CAaLtst,rs, JUNI 6.—Yesterday- week, about six o'clock,
P. M. a dreadful storm of thander, accompanied with the great.
est deluge of rain and bail ever remembered, took place in the
neig bourhood of Greenhaannerton, near York. •In a very
short time the water in many places was from three to four feet
in depth, and pieces of ice wens picked up, which measured
three inches in circumference. Its progress appears not to havg
taken in more than twelve miles. A bone WM killed by MC
electric fluid, near Bortseghbridge.
LIFDA, nog S.—The thuader-storm of Sunday last wag use.
tremely violent to the south-west of this placer between four
and live O'clock, a young woman at Gildersoene, while to toy-
ed in some domestic concern, wt.* struck by the suhtile Bind,
and though she etthibited no esteem' marks of injarv, she aet
maimed for nearly half an hour in a state of suspended animas
tion, and it was not till Tuesday that. her lift could be
proacianeed oat of danger.—At Pudgy Lew Town, W. Balm-
forth, a boy about 14 years of age, who had sought shelter un-
der a wall, was struck down by the lightning, and so dreadfully
scorched that a nnmber of holes were burnt in various parts of
his body ; on the left side of his bead his hair was singed as eft
lighted candle bad been applied to it, and his clothes were perfo-
rated as if snail' shot had been tired through them. For, some
time his life was considered in imminent danger, but ander the
assiduous care of Mr. Waibliuger, the surgeon of Fuloeck, he is
now considered in a fair way of reoavery. It was• observed
that la both the above Gates a strong, sulphareonsessell prevailed.
On Friday last, a most dreadful tempest of thunder, light-
ning. and hail, with a hurricane of wind. visited the parishes '
Parson Drove and Gedoey Hill. fh• wind took off the roof of
a barn belonging to Mr. HI ate.—The windows of the Bottle
and (Bus public-house, aot far distant, were skittered to pieces. I
Of 150 panes of glass, wily 15remained whole. The hail was
I the largest ever seen in that part of the country. The lightning
I split a barn down the middle, wherein was . poor man thrush-
ing ; I or fortunately got out, and saved his life. The church
windows, at fiednev Hill, are almost all broken. And at Wal-
pole, about five miles fro.n Wisheach, the house of mgr. Girdle-
stone, farmer, was shattered almost to pieces. The lightning
entirely destroyed the furniture of twotrooms. A gentleman is
the house was struck down, hut received no material injury.
One fanner has a crop of beans cite close to the ground by the
hail—to all appearance as if it bad horn cut with a knife.
On Wednesday last, the inhabitants of Derry witnessed the
Most extraordinary storm ever remembered in that part of the
couatry. About three o'clock the sky began tutus% er, and the
atmosphere 'became s heavy and dense, that respiration was
found difficult in the streets. Several flashes of lightning were
instantaneously succeeded by loud peals of thunder, which pro-
claimed the storm to be at hand. In a feat moments the rain be- t
gan to-descend in torrents, or rather then Heavens opened, and •
emitted one continued sheet of water, which deluged the streets !
. so as to render them impassable. A herring barrel was carried •
• down Linen Hall-street; a poor little ass which bail tamed Ito
back to the storm, in Queen-street, was so premed by the qua.- ;,
tity of rubbish tbrit caught ea the sheets of its car.that thews was
borne off its feet, and the car floated a distance down the street.
I
Next day, upwards of 60 loads annul and gravel were taken nit
at Ship-quay Itate, where the flood from several streets rested, •
and had funned a little sea. The rain rontinoed to fall for about
Milli] lei. and was occasionally intermixed with hail of an •
astonishing site, which broke many windows on the high grounds
about the city. Fortunately,'ffie storm did not extend tut into the
country, nor has much issjury been done, exceptrog to a fern
g irdens where the fruit trees have suffered heavily.
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BOWLER.—It having been understood that this of•
fonder was to have been exam;ited on Monday, at
I Nfarlharnugh-strodit Office, tbArcrowd which blocked
Ilip the avenues to get a sight of him, was very g::•at,
but the examination was postponed to a future day.
Mr. Burrows is a most intimate friend of 'he family
of Bowler. Depositi,.es of witnesses of the most
respectable character have been t , and they all
agree that Bowler ha been actually deranged at
times fee upwards of twelve months past, and was
violently affected in his head on the morning he com-
.mitted the rash act. The public, therefore, we hope,
will suspend their judgment upon this unfortunate
case, until the fac4s. and evidence shall be made
:known.

Saturday, between four and five o'clock, a young
nfan, after deliberately taking off his hat and coat,
by the Bird Cage Walk side of the Canal, in St.
James's Park, nearly opposite Queen-square Gate,
walked into the Canal. Some soldiers at the bar.
racks, who were observers of his conduct, immedi.
ately went over the railing and got him out. They
laid him on his stomach, and after a short time he
came to himself, but refused to give any account who
he was. lie was taken to a public-house, in Queen.
square, where he was a short time afterwards recog-
nised by his brother.
The Rev. Favell Hopkins, of Huntingdon, died
lately at the age of 87. Though possessed of consi-
derable funded property, he almost denied himself
the common necessaries of life, and had more the
appearance of a wretched mendicant than a respect-
able Clergyman. Walking one Sunday morning to
do duty at a parish church in Cambridgeshire, he
saw iu a field a scare.scarecrow; and, going up to the I
figure, he took off itt hat, examined it, and then his
own • when finding the advantage to be in favour
of the former, he thirty exchanged the °tie for the
other.
Last Saturday, a curious wager, for a guinea,
was decided at Cannon Hail, near Barnsley, the
seat of W. S. Stanhope, Esq. the bet was, that 20:
potatoes, in succession, should be thrown into the ;
air, and that Isaac Na) lor, oue of the keepers, shoot-1
leg out of a plain cylinder-bored gun, should, with
ball, make ten hits out of the twenty. The 2d, 3d,
4th, sth, Bth, Rth, 9th, 11th, and 12th, he missed;
the Ist, 7th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th,
181 h, and 19th, he hit, and won the wager.
A letter from a Gentleman in America mentions,
that, when Cooke was playing Prospero a short time
ago, considerable expectation was excited as to-his
adoption of Mr. Kemble's aitches. The facetious
knight of the buskin turned the tide of speeelation,
by whimsically altering the text to " kill all thy
frame with* plot-;ems,"—(plagues).
A pahte, of aatignithlans, agreeably to melee, 'tided. oa
the '..11 instant. to witness the openiug of several ows on
some land belongiqg to .1. N. Crtp_ps, Esq. situate about a mile
to the eastward of me of Hottingdeun. The Ishoutlers,
with their pie k-artes and shovels, elmoneueed their operations at
nine o'clock, and; almost at every inch of-ground. distalitied
the relies of departed valour,—supposed to be those of Roman,
soldiers. who, nearlyVAXlo years ago, fell elipiously in battle.
- Several oars were diSetweredi containing bones, which, for the
mo,t part, were in enicjined stale, and with the sligitest-tooeh
of the finger, crumbled into atoms.
.These urns, whit*, to Our'
view, aliptared to exhibit a miserable spectates of pottery,.
were, nevesibrikas, elsoildered by several western to he at rm.
elegant-description. The stelae was one of considerable inte-
rest ; and many a smite was ettreeted from oily observing the
patentees *Mb wields the various suppositions eaiertataed by the
arrospairians present as to thwrensaias het% Roman, &m ac, or
Danish, were defended mad resisted. No coins weve'disco.
We hope that the research will be cestisued a future day.