The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-26 00:00:00

Tim STATESMAN

Under who avtitority do you pi), over these fees
to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's. Bench ?
Because I conceive the Lord Chief Justice entitled to
them.—WllY do you conceive the Lord Chief Jus-
tice is ENTITLED TO Tut FRESIOF 'AN'OF-
FICE NOT HELD BY HIMSELF ? Ile has the
appointment of the office, and if he chooses to up;
point A RELATION to it, who receives the fees, he
accounts for ittTO HIS SON ; his son was NOT OF
AG E tialw time it Was eseented in Ewan La w's name
his son was underage, but IIE RECE( V El) IT FOR.
HIS SON; his son .being now of age, I ettecute it in
the NAME OF HINSON; and my office requires a
great deal of attendance and a great deal of labour.
Ml the records are entered by me, and abstracted
for the Judge against the Cause comes on. I attend
him to upon the circuit, and it, is necessary he
should hive a person to assist him upon that occa-
sion. le= 'cute the office FOR THE SON, now he
Is of age, an l have an order to execute the otlice.for
him as his de,mty.—Do you receive that order from
the son binaself, or front Lorough
FROM LORD ELLENBOROUGH ; the son
. ABROAD now, or I should have it from himself.— I
AND YOU CONSIDER THE SON TO BE.THE!
M A RSII AL OF THE KING'S BENCH? ' YES, !
I DO ; I hold myself ANSWERABLE TO THE!
SON, who is the officer, but PAY IT TO LORD•I
ELLENBOROLIGH in trust for the son.—Xou have
neither salary nor emolument of any kind beyond
the tt)01. a-year you have spoken of? None at all";
last year, on account of the number of Causes,
must be a little more than that ; but I believe with
that it win not average Sobl. a-year. I tent my re-
turn, as Marshal of the King's Bench last year to
the Judges.—DO YOU ACCOUNT FOlt AILVY
PART OF THE PROFITS YOU DERIVE
FROM TILE OFFICE OF MARSHAL OF TILE
IKING'S BENCH? Ido NOT account fur a half-
penny to any person, and it is an office of great

risk."
Gentlemen, judge now for yourselves. People
of England, judge now between Sir Francis Burdett
and this Mr. Jones. I will add but a few words
by way of explanation. Mr. Jones sometimes calls
himself the Marshal qf the King's Bench, and, at
other times, Marshal of the King's Bench Prison ;
but he no where calls himself a JAILER; while
Sir Francis Burdett does call bim a Jailer, in point-
ing him out as the person with.whom the Lord Chief
Justice participates in emoluments. You, Gentle-
men, will be able to decide what weight ought to be
given to this distinction, suppose the word Jailer to ;
differ essentially in meaning from the word Marshal,!
as used in the present instance ; but, I will just
show you what is the real nature of Mr. Jones's
office, taking my description from the Law Dic-
tionary itself:—" MARSHAL OF TILE KING'S BENCH,
who bath the custody of the King's Bench Prison in
Southwark. This Officer gives attendance upon the
Court, and takes into his custody all prison's com-
mitted by the Court ' • he is FINEABLE FOR. HIS
ABSENCE; and NON-ATTENDANCE IS A
FORFEITURE OF 1115 OFFICE." And yet
Mr. Jones is, in the report above quoted, said to
have asserted, in evidence, that the son of the Chief
Justice, while an infant, and while asroad, wait the
Marshal of the Kitig's Bench!
I shall say do more. Judge you for yourselves,
Gentlemen, between Sir Francis Burdett and the
person who hes accused him of promulgating false-
hood. But, I cannot let pass this occasion of ex-
pressing my hopi, thut all those, who have publiThed
the letter or Mr. Jones will, at least, publish the
above evidence given by himself on the subject.
In my next I shall crave your attention to matters
appertaining more exclusively to this county ; and,
in the mean while I remain your faithful friend,
Rolle), 42d Oct. 1812. WM. CORBETT.

POLICE.
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G L'ILDIVIALL.—On Saturday, a charge, of a very
singular and alarming nature, was investigated be-
fore the Sitting Alderman (Sir NI ATTIIEW BLON. m)
this dad. An errand boy, belonging to a Mr, Den-
ny, a stationer, in Barbican, was charged upon
suspicion of having robbed his master, and set fire to
his house in order to conceal the theft. On Wed-
nesday evening last, Mr. Denny and his wife went to
a friend's house at Islington, leaving their house and .
their children to the care of a charewoman, who was
in the habit of working for them ; the Prisoner was
also left at home, and was observed to go up and
down stairs frequently to the back parlour, on va.
rious pretences : at last he gave the alarm of lire, and ;
ran up to a lady who lodged in the second floor, to
inform her of the accident, but on retiring he locked
her in ; fortunately she got out by another door, and
with some other people in the house, proceeded to
the back. parlour, which was so filled with smoke,
they were not, at arst, able to discover from whence
it came. At last it was foond, that a chest of draw-
ers in one corner of the room Was on fire, and some
clothes It contained consumed ; one of the drawers,
in particular,. was much burned ; and it was after-
wards found that this was the drawer in which Mr.
Denny had kept a pocket-book, containing Batik-
: notes and cash to the amount of 201. distinct from
his tither monies and which was only knowuto him-
self and wife, and the Prisoner. The pocket-hook,
with the notes and cash, had wholly disappeared,
and has not since been traced. The Prisoner then
went to Islington, to acquaint his master with what
had happened ; and when examined the next day, by
one of the City Police Officers, denied most posi-

A few days since the Norwich Expedition Coach
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was robbed of bank notes to the amount of 5001.
The greatest precautions possible have been taken to
guard against such an occurrence, a boy having been
made in the coach-boy under the driver's seat, in
which a leather bag, fastened with an iron bar and
rings, for the porpoise of containing parcels which
were frequently sent from the bankers in Norwich•
to their correspondents in London. It is called the

tively that he had called any where in his nay.—
However, it was discovered that he had been at Isis
father's, in his way to Islington; and some other
prevarications casting a suspicion upon him as the
thief, the matter was brought before a Magistrate for
investion.
Woasuir-sTnErr.—Thomas Norman, apprehend-
ed on %Vednesday last on Ealing Common, armed
•ith br If double barrelled istols, who, with

banker's hex ; keys of it were kept by the bankers in
. . .

evening, the liti.
About eight o'clock on inn&
I instant, a most shocking and baYrbarous metes was
WEST.WINSTgg SigSSIONS, Oct. 24.
; committed hi the Liberties of Ruddington, Nos& ,
esseesies- '
RIOT AND ASSAULT.
Patrick ALI/tray, a wounded soldier, stood charged . liamshire, upon tilitieffituorrita:/eirnossedtrele:dedingthferitriebtioi:
with having riotously assembled with divers other : tinghain to Loughborough, on the body of T. at.
persons, on Sunday, the '29th of :tone last, at the Denson, the driver of Messrs. Pettifor'sasuins;
house of Henry West, whose person he assaulted, I wsegon. The sir '
I was found 011 the road besmeared •• • whiten
in an endeavour to promote peace on his premises. I purpose byes large cloven oak hedge stake,
the .29th i unhappy. • sufferer,' it smeared had been 1 .4
The Prosecutor keeps the Cheahlre Cheese pub:ie.! with blood. TS
house in Pimlico. On Sunday afternoon,
rthrtmeli the fence into a
i found (while alive) weltering in hiii blood, Is(i'h‘livag
day of June, he was alarmed-by a sudden uproar of wheren Icrawil.
i violent cut upon the bead, and his scull fracte asik
grass 'field
tongues iii his parlour, and' on running to the door,
he saw thirty or forty Irish labourers, stripped nakea
to the waist, amusing themselves with boxing in a'! totally deprived of sense and the power of speecTe '
surgical assistance was immediately
kind of promiscuous manner. . Amongst these men, 1110 wits conveyed to the town of Ito dI" r -14 i,
1 t ingdm, weer.,
he saw the Prisoner at the tar, who was extremely) procured, but to
An inquest was taken On the body on the 13th day.__.es abled from performing himself. Aecomeany i tie the I
fore T.-Weir:me Gent. Coroner, and a respeclabl
anxious to promote in others what he had been die. I no purpose, as he died about I`2 o'clock next
The Jury,. when no evidence appeared, that could lea
men, were a couple of women, who set up during
the strife of fists long and lamentable howls.
in the smallest degree, to a trace of
of the horrid act :—a verdict was therefore given of
•
landlord bolted his head in at the door, wiwn the the perpetrators
intruders gave it a severe squeeze between the pilaster
and edge of the door. Ile then ran to the window Wilful Morckr against some person or
persons an.
Eti
and leaped in and rescued a forlorn glish damseli known. A reward of 1501. has beets offere.. Ato any
whose mouth was stopped by two Ilibernians from Person who can give such information as may lead to
the conviction of the morderers.
A lecturer upon the" ors of memory," rtpi.mly
squalling. A whole battalion of fists were then Rp.
advises his pupilo, at the first step towards acquiriur
plied to his body, and he was compelled to evacuice .
his system, invariably to recoiled w hat•they hear.--
his own dominions, and call in a corporal with a
Mrs. Glasse, in her " Art rsf Cookery," begin
61e of men, who dismissed the meeting by the point
of the bayonet. The Prosecutor carried out the
Mrs.
receipt fur making a hare-pie,thus—" Cesce
"
Prisoner by force in .his arms three times, for his
thirst for battle kept him liugering ou the field even a liare.
after the hopes of further conflicts were over. At
A very flue Intliaman, called the Lard MUM'.
this time, however, a tall Irishman rallied and dis-
ton, was a lea dsys since launched at Rotherhithe,
armed one of the soldiers by a *le with his foot, and
amidst the joyous acclamations
of an admiring crowd,
knocked dewntinother with the bent-earlof a musket. among whom were several peewits 0 distinction.—
Ile was Ilinittd Guilty. . In reply to the high and merited compliments peke to
Mr. Welsosr the M istrate being informed the illustrious Chief whose name the ship hears, ale
, ag,
Long Wellesley commenced a neat speech, in which,
that the Prisoner was wounded in four places on the
however, tie was very soon interrupted by the ar.
memorable field of Busaco, and that he had conduct-
rival of -au express, informing him of the pitiful fact
ed himself with extraordinary resolution and. eon-
•. - . .of s Lady haviug been seized with illness, act
rage against the enemy of his country, was solem- laid,n we regret to add, with symptoms ratter
ent, as to sentence him only to 14 days imprison- .
alarming to her friends.
meat.--With this case the Sessions ended. I
1 A east-iron bridge, on a new plan, is now rea,rd
• for public inspection by Mr. Haeledine, in front of
his foundery, at Paskynaston, where it forms a new
object of attraction and wonder to toe visitors of
Llangollen Vale and the Aqueduct. This snivel-
dous loidee is constructed for the purpose of being
erected at Rosier Ferry, over the Dornoch Faith,
and will connect the counties of Itoss amid Suther-
land. It is a single arch, of 150 feet in span, the
main. ribs are three feet wide by two and a half thick,
and the road-way is supported by them in tozeness.
The deeign is by T. Telford, Esq. and the abutments
are building. hy 11Ir. Simpson, of Shrewsbury, asil
Mr. Cargil, of the Caledonian Canal. The voile
structure will exhibit an admirable union of strength,
combined with elegance. There is every reason us
expect the work will be completed in three or four
mouths at farthest. .
Dr. Burn, in his history of Westmorland, relates
an. anecdote of George Hilton, Esq. of Lleethaee wire
was a professed adherent of the exiled House of
Stuart, and drew his sword in their cause during the
Earl of Mar's rebellion, in 1715. This Gentleman
was pardoned, and lived to a good old age, in his na.
the tillage. He wrote a regular journal of his trans-
actions, in which the follewing •paragrapli appears
recorded with much nairete :---."' On Solidity 1 vowel
to abstain from three things, during the course of the
ensuing.week, which happened to be in Lent, eiz. the
society of women, eating flesh, and drinkiug wino; .
bet, alas! the fraility of good resolution! I broke
them all ; kept company with a girl at Soudside, ass
tempted to eat the wing of a fowl, and got trunk at
Millthorpe."
This day the General Sessions for the City of Lon-
don, commenced at Guildhall, before the Hight lion.
the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the iher'ffs, and a
bench of Aldermen, ftr the trials of assaults, me-
et' leak s ast! en

detneatiors, and the hearing of apt
Wednesday the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, atel
Gaol Mliverv, will commence at Justice 11:111, in the
Old Bailey, for the trials of felonies, whicirate +Try
numerous, a great many of which are canital of.
fences.
Extract of a letter from Shetland, of October 13--
46 The state of the weathA. of tate has been and stil
t a dry day, Wife a

continues most alarming,

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