The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-05 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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To THE HON. JOHN FRED. ROBINSON, M.P.

SlR,—Whether to attribute the assertions made in
an article which appeared in the Courier Newspaper
of the 12th inst. (under head of The late Riots) to the
Editor of that Paper, or to yourself, I am wholly at
a loss, although it has been given to the public appa-
-1 rently by the former.
Seveisl days prior to its insertion, I sent an ocher.
tisement to that Paper, contradictory of a report
which was then much propagated, ♦iz. " That you
had caused my son, who was killed by the firing
from your house in Burlington-street, on Tuesday,l
Ithe 7th ult. to have been privately interred; and that
you had also wholly defrayed the expences attendant
upon that unfortunate occasion."—Now, Sir, you
must know, as well as I must know, that both those ,
assertions were wholly and equally void of founda-
j tion.

The advertisement contradictory of this report,
, was sent several days prior to its appearance in the
Courier Newspaper. Having been for a considerable
time confined almost in a state of total blindness, I
had no opportunity of seeing the publication until
yesterday evening, th►t in which my advertisement
appeared; wherein, at the very same time, I also
saw the article to which I allude, that under head
of " The late Riots."—Now, Sir, my advertise-
ment had merely for its object, to contradict a report
of a very fatse and injurious nature with regard to
myself: but the article to which I allude, evidently
has for its object, to involve, in the strongest degree
of guilt, the conduct of the unfortunate persons who
were killed by the firing from your house in Burling-
ton-street. No man can possibly read it, without
drawing the base inference intended—" that the per-
, sons who lost their lives upon that occasion, were
actually and actively occupied in breaking into your
house."--It is impossible to mistake the imputation
designed throughout the whole of this article, evi-
dently calculated to sanction the necessity of having
taken the lives of the identical persons who were at
that time killed.

When I figure to myself, that I behold my son,
who within two hours before parted from me in the
bloom of youth and health (and who had scarcely
been a moment on the fatal spot), then laying pros.
trate in the last gasp of death, and hear a rode
soldiery calling out—" bear away the bodies !"
what must be the agonizing sensations of any parent
unfler such imaginations realized? They were mine
—and not those of the writer of that article.

Convinced, as I was, that my son in no manner
misconducted himself upon that unfortunate occa-
sion, could I have conceived that such base iiisiooa-
(ions would have dared to make their appearance in
the very face of the strongest evidence so diametri-
cally opposite, and of which the Coroner so re-
peatedly expressed his conviction.--Ilad the writer
of that article confined himself to giving cautions, it
mould have been very laudable advice, and of which
there could be no reason to complain ;—but not
' satisfied with the forfeiture of two lives wholly tin-
connected with any riot, the ashes of the unfortunate
victims are, with a degree of barbarouit triumph,
trampled upon in the grave, and a revival of the most
painful sensations excited—by adding the basest ca-
lumny to the most irreparable injury•
. .

With regard to yourself, Sir, if the insinuations
contained in this article, have in any manner
been sanctioned by you, I mast say—it very ill
accords with the sensations you so strongly appeared
to labour under when referring to that unfortunate
occurrence in the House of Commons.

I am, Sir, your very humble servant,
4, Denmark-street. April 20. 1815. T. M. VIZE.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, /1/4 r 4.

The adjourned Sessions were this day held at the
Sessions•house, Clerkett well-green, before Mr. Mai n-
waring, the Chairman, Mr. Serjeant Runniogtoo,
Mr. Watson, and other Magistrates, principally to
hear an important Appeal relating to the appropria-
tion of Poors' Rates, and Expences of Parochial Ap-
plications to Parliament.

HEAD AND ANOTHER AGAINST THE TRUSTEES OF TIIE
POOR OP HACKNEY.

Mr. Serjeant BEST, for the Appellants, stated that
the Trustees of .the Poor of the Parish of Hackney
had induced several persons in that parish to make
an application during the last Session to Parliament
for a local Act, for compelling the landlords of
houses within that parish, let at and under 201. per
annum, to pay the poors' rates for such property—
that such Bill was disapproved by Parliament, and
was rejected by the House of Commons on the third
reading by a great majority ; and that the, Trustees
had, on November 28, 1814, ordered that the ex.
pence. of that application, amounting to 19171.35.8(1.
should be paid out of the rates for the relief of the
poor. Against that order the Appellants, who were
independent inhabitants of the parish, hnd appealed,
as being an order violating all the principles of the
poor rates, and equally unprecedented, illegal, and
corrupt.

• Mr. Serjeant VAL:GUAM, for the Trustees. con-
tended that such order, although contrary to general
law, was authorized by the particular local Act for
that parish.

Serjeant RUNNINCTON, ns a Magistrate, then in-
terposed, and stated, that the poors' rates were a sa-
cred fund which ought not to be appropriated to
any other olrject than the relief of the poor, and
that clauses were inserted in all local Acts autho-
rizing the payment of the espences of obtaining
them out of some public fund, and that the inser-
tion of those clauses indicated that, even when Acts
were obtained, those charges could not, without such
authority, be legally paid out of any public fund,
and that therefore the charges of applying for an
Act, which was refused, could not be so defrayed, hut
must be paid by the individuals who so thought proper
to apply.
_ _

the -CHAIRMAN and other Magistrates unanimous-
ly concurred in this opinion, and the Appeal was al-
lowed without the Counsel fur the Appellants being
required to reply, and the order made by the 'l'rus.
tees for the payment of such expences out of the
pool's', rates of the parish was- rescinded by the
Court.

At Brook-green fair, the wife of Green, the Po-
lice Officer belonging to Queen-square,. had her arm
broken in consequence of falling out of a swing.