The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-16 00:00:00

POLICE.

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• Alionow.-.F410.—+ sporr wpoolorioo_by
atv.. A. Stiluralititl Jew butrVer,
tii"*Wolti be:.bad been ell*, TN%
forging, or' 60014' kio*ing it to orpi,
a elstek his ilitYsiter Or 1 my.
...thetoyotilit tlite.)ieck, ard.tlieleati of its
Wog werbiliarnd iiitd the baiiiter's
elett ttittd, that the ifailitent.wisainade to a lady.
The Prisoner absconded irnmetlialfly afterwards,
itherstdift+on• having attached to him, he was
411ted,"'aridT apprehended at Bath, when. there
heirs' foutid on his person about 1201. in hank
111101, 161 d. among others a 501. and., 4411., batik
mete, being two of the notes giro in piyalerit of
the check iii questitto• .
Mr. Gdittettoifistel for thb Prisoner, contend-
ed for his client's enleVitfent, on the ground that
no evidente'.*ltideVer had been adduced C 4 proye
that he was, guilty 'of either`the forgery or uttering,
the check. Mt. Alley, for tl4 prosecution, hew.
ever, insisted that the Prisoilet was a principal ;
and that the womatrivho had lived with him ss.,ts,
merely an initriment in his hinils. In this ups:
nion the Lord Mayor coacurring, the Prisoner
*as committed for trial. • •
All the notes, exceptAlte'4 and 501. Ones,..,
which were to be identified alaitie trial, acreid.i
stored to the Prisoner. 1
An information was filed by a person of the
name of Wills, against Messrs. Russell and Ma 47,1
erness, coal-merchants, for a penalty incurred.by
them under the Cbal Act, in furnishing coals With.,
out delivering along with them the coll.ancter'S
ticket.
'The information stated, that the Bank otnE
laud had contracted ait h Messrs. Russell
Mackerness deliter at the Bank 310' challioni,
of coals, pool measure ; hut that thittlefendapts,
contrary to their contract, had del4ered the sanin
iquautitx wharf measure, making a dillefence
against the Bank or no force than 68 chaldrons.
The present information, however, was only fur
.the penalty incurred by nut deliveting the nieto's
,ticket along with the coals.
Mr. ALLEY, for the Defendants, contended,
I that the information was defective, and must fall
to time ground, in consequence of an omission of
• the words, as well for the informant himself, 66 is
for our Sovereign Lord the King ;" one half of
the penalty going to his Majesty. He needed nut
Ito enlarge on this point, as his Lordship, after
consnltiwg with Mr. Common Serjeant, had 're-
'cently found so, in the informations filed by-Mr.
Vague.
Mr. BARRY, for the prosecution,_ on the other
hand argued, that the Coal Act difecent from
ill ether Acts by which penalties Were enroll:v(1,
Inasmuch to a discretionary power was by that
Act lodged in the Lord Mayor, either of aw:irii-
ing the penalty, one half to the informant and the
other half to his Majesty, or of disposing of it
otherwise, as he should think proper.
The LORD MATOft was of opinion with Mr.
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Alley. The information was in consequeock.
quashed.

I HATTONZMIDIN.--On Saturday, Mr. Blink.
itliattp, ut No. 40, St. Martin's-le-Grand, charg.
ed a yule( woman, named Elizabeth Hopkins,
with coming into his shop at different times to pur-
chase trilling articles ; one time laying down a se.
ven.shilling piece for change, she disputed the
'iontlnrss of the silver, whidi was made up to her
satisfaction ; and on her giving out of the shop,
swept away the seven-shilling piece which was ly-
ing on the counter. She visited the shop on Fri.:
day evening to purchase a hieing article, when
I.,AW tendered a crown-piece, began to dispute
eut the goodness of the change, and being more
closely watched, was found to have cutinterkit
silres in her month. Bring a welt-known eharae-
tist, Fhe was committed for re-examination.
.Elitha 4ariol, amen in years, was charged by
Hffet, the Officer, with having, in a held in the
Duke of Bedford 4 private road, misused himself
in the most indecent manner before yonng wo.
men and children ; being known to here disltlsyed
such propensities before, for which he hal been
committed, he was ouce more committed to sp.'
peer before a Jury. .
A, B, C, D, against the whole Alphabel.--The
Cabalists, who invented charmed affords, never-pe.
tended to produce such magical effecti as these
letters will produce on Friday Neat, the Day of
Drawing the Lottery ; for these letters being au_
nosed to certain numbers, will stand for .629,000.
CANTU', No. Si, Charing Cross, respectfully
twkes die liberty of requesting his Friends to mind
their P's and Q's before the Drawing, and then,
perhaps, there will be no occasion for such 6 luso
attention to them afterwards.
The pubjic.have roe some time past shewn an
eagerness to have Four Ticket, of a Number,
which the (Mee Keepers could nut deliver titclll,
owing to a regulation in the Bank, not to let the
Tickets in Class D be issued, until those in A,
B, and C, were disposed of. The Bank, within
these few days,listrs begun inning the Tickets to
the Office Keepers in Class D; therefore such
Ladies or Gentlemen as choose to bite l'w ~
Three, or Four Tickets of a Nnmber, may be
supplied in great satiety, at the Old gslahlished '
Offices of T. Bose, 4, Cornhill, end 9, Charing
Cress, till Thursday night.

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A few days since, is a young pregnant woman,
wife of a wheelwright, at Horsham, in Susses-,
was gatheriug nutria the neighbourhood of thst
town, she was bitten on one of her legs, a little
!above the foot, by an adder, and with difficulty
she avoided the poisonous fangr of another, which
pursued her some distance, across the field. The
poor woman, with her companion, another we.
I man, immediately set off fur their homes, a dis. MARRIED.
lan& of about two miles; but before they had On the sth inst. at St. Martin's in the Fields, Lies& W; H.
(kraus( rong, of tn;elstitfcbiment, to F,liaabeth, daughter of the
proceeded half the way, the venom of the reptile
had so generally affested the wounded female, that .tc—c Hu
in,l'Ests..of Goeerbiirseyill. , to Min Blooklev, of Am-
alie could proceed no farther. and the other w - ford Cottage. Cattle Carey, Soinersetshive.
in _ Captain Lutyens, of tar 11 Light Dragoons, and Private
man went to the town and provided a cart,
aecrrtary to the Commatuler in Chief to Miss &fair, of Kea-
ts hich her unfortunate companion was cotive3ed ~k,,i,,,,,. '
borne, but in such a swoin and inflamed state, On Satolday, the 14th instant, at Streatham, by the Rev.•
Edw. Bullock, John ksmer, jun. Esq. of Streatham. to So-
this' doubts were for some time entertained of phis, daughter of the Lite Richard Harris, Esq. of Esher.
het recovery ; she, however '. by proper surgical On Thursday, at Row Church,J. stark, Esq. of the Nus V,
assisbince, and after having miscarried, is now to MilikS. Brett, of Peckham.
declared convalescent.—There is a vulgar notion DILI):
among the peasantry, that if twenty persons At Flashing, on the 21st of September last, Capt. C. NV 10.
tosb of cis Majests'al7th regiment.
were present at the time an adder is irritated, Oil gni urda.s , rid.' 701 In
at the Dean•ry is Canterbury,
and one of the twenty only %as .in a pregnant in the /On year of his age, the Res. t' n. Bowys, 'A. r).
&tighter LON On:: Mt r-'-"----il • -..-----o.4oll4:6:A.taglistbs ,fik lie
st4te, that one abide would be bitten by the rep.-
DeanAt of that ctabetiledlsitrhali.di. Miss Ann Salmon, only
tik : etJ.W. Esq. of Bantsich, in the catalog Chester. A&
•, ii.,44-4001,10.-...1 , 7 - ...
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