The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

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I,4lI6A+Elt. Atift'ES.

ANOVItIIIOPs LETTERS.

William Wilton was indicted for haring felo.
niously written and sent a letter, without any
name being subscribed thereto, threatening to
take away thu life of Thomas Schoiheld, of
Mosten.

' The ATTORXXINGENXRAL stated to the Jury,
that the Prisoner ,was charged with a capital fe-
lony, which was made so since the 7th of the late
King, which makes the crime of sending a letter
without a name guilty of felony, without the be-
nefit of clergy. More threatening language to
murder could not
,be desiribed than was to be
found in the letter. The Prosecutor had served
the office of overseer for a number of years, and
had given such general satisfaction to the parish_
inners, that they hail voted him a silver city.
Thomas Seholfield said, he was steward to Mr.
Hilton, of Penington; he served the office of
overseer nine-years ; it was three years since he
was in office; yeti the 29th of A pril last, when •he
'sent to the Ohl flack Boy Inn, at Manchester,
the house he usually put up at whets in that town,
the landlady gave him a letter, which she had re-
ceived by the post, directed for him; it proved
not to have any name to it ; the contents of it
were chargiug lien with having done a Diameter of
bad•art3 to Mr. Penington's tenants, anti to ei,e
parishioners, while he was overseer : telling him
to rectAlectsthe death a bad character had tried ;
.Ibd that before the cock crew thrice, as it did to
Nett, lie might be no more; and not to besur.
prised, w,lien begot home, if,his wife told bim his
property nos burnt. It was written in the most
low and abusive language; the direction appeared
to be by two hands, and it was sealed with shoe.
maker's wax; he believed the writing to be the
Prisoner's.
The witness underwent a long cro‘s.examine-
lien by Mr. SCAILLETT-110 acknovi !edged that
he had not seen the prisoner write hut once, and
that was 12 mouths since ; acknowledged that he
did not make any .charge against the prisoner till
the 26th of June, although hr received the letter
the 29th of April, and as he knew the prisoner's
writing ; his son was iii Lancaster Castle before
he made the charge ; denied knowing that the pri-
'.sener was employed to investigate his son's ac-
counts as overseer.

Jonathan Scholfield, the son of the other wit-
ness, said, he knew the prisoner well ; he saw
him write a note on the 7th of last April ; end se-
veral times besides, and believed the letter his
father Ited received to be the writing of the pri-
soner.

Thomas ilitchin and Ralph Ryder deposed,
that they had seen the prisoner write vveral
times, and believed the anonymous letter re.
ceived by the prosecutor to be the writing of the
prisoner.
The evidence being concluded for the prose.
cntion, Mr. SCARLET took an objection to the
indictment, upon the ground that the whole of the
letter was nut set forth in any part of it, but
merely by paragraphs or venteiices ; and they
being unconnected, therefore the meaning of the
letter was uncertain, dnd he contended that did
not amount to a threatening letter to do any thing
by the writer, but merely cautioned the prosecu.
for to be careful of certain evils. The Learned
Gentleman cited Lloyd's ease, in Mr. East's Rook,
page 112, from the Herefordshire Assizes, on a
reference to the 'Judges ; and on account of the
whole of the letter not being set forth, the Judges
held it to be bad.

Judge CHAMBRE thought there was sufficient
to go to the Jury, being of opinion that the
words " beware of destructio►►," amounted to a
threat.
Joseph Thorpe, a schoolmaster, said, he had
known the prisoner from a boy, considered him
an ingenious man, being a good mathematician ;
they had 'often been employed in working prn-
blems together, and sat close together when writ-
ins. The writing of the letter had no resemblance
th the prisoner's, and had no doubt upon his
mind that it was not the prisoner's writing.
Three more witnesses who h.td fur many years
known the prisoner's writing, were of opinion
that the writing of the letter had no resemblance
to the prisoner's.
Judge CH.tMIRE, in summing up the evidence,
observed that he never knew writing worse proved,
and the Jury found him-,Nut Guilty.
The prisoner was discharged at the bar.

The Derby Militia have received their route
for Norman Cross; they left Ipswich yeiterday
morning.—Theßslresitnent of the German Legion
arrived at Woodbridge on Tuesday.
A resrectable tradesman in the neighbourhood
of Goswell.strcet, has undertaken, fur a large
sum of money, to walk ItO miles in three suc-
cessive days, on the north road, limiting himself
to twelve hours each day. lie starts at an early
hour on Monday next; several bets are dependiug
on the issue.
Saturday morning two fine boys, apparently not
more than six moklis old, supposed to be twins,
were left at the door of Mr. D. a gentleman reit!.
ing in the neighbourhood of Battersea. The little
foundlings were tliscoverl by the -gardener fast
asleep, carefully wrapped up in blankets, in'a neat
cradle, and hat•inF with them a quantift'`of listen
of different descriptions. They have been adopted
by Mr. D. as his own.

•• L. .4.
As the Parish 'Church at feeds was undergoing
tome repairs, the' workmen found a stone coffin,
containing a complete skeletun, and the bones or-
two other human subjects, under the foundation
of the Church, near the entrance to the bell.
chamber. The coffin has been cut out of a solid
block seven feet long, by a foot and a half deep ;
its interhal dimensions aro six feet three Inches in
length, abbot twelve inches deep, and betvieen
two and three feet wide. the stone which formed
the cover bore no inscription. From the skim.
tirm'in which it Isla found, it must have lain la
that place ever since the Church was erected; pro.
hably more than years. The air was so corn.,
bdetely excluded, that the bones remain as
sad entire as if later interred.

VTAtIitMAN.

VISC9OMI4 WttlitNeMilt;

mac"
Sir An tall* Vittr.tatisir...-rrhli
now Viscount WELL! Ng son. Let as bee 116 w
other Public Officers have l'cen rewarded :4--
EARL llOWE.—Tblidistinguhhed Admiral, id the la of
June, 1794, gave the lest great blow to the Revointionars
fleet of France : he coartmeaced the distraction of the Nrench
Marine, and may be said to have laid the fatiodation of our
present earl! superinrity. Previous to the battle he aas an
Earl, aid was never raised to a higherdigrity.
EARL. ST. VINCENT—ID Fehruiry, 1797, with n very in-
ferior force, attacked the Spanish Fleet, defeated Rad tap:
tared a plat of ita-raised to the dignity of a Viscount for this
service
Lean Nat.sox—for the Batik of the Nile, one of the
' greatest exploits in Naval History, and 11 hich formed a new
confederacy against France, was created a Baron. Far a
second victory, that of eanasseriag Denmark in a day, be was
raised to the dignity ofa Viscount.
Sir H.. Aaracaounte—famed Ake for humanity Ana
valour, for talent and good fortune, after a series of services
died, in the hour of victory, a Baronet. Ili' heir has beta
honoured with the dignity of a Baron.
1.0 RD HaTCHINSON---the fortunate survivor of that glo-
riosas day, was ennobled with n like distinction.
SIR SIDNEY Staten—the defender of Acre. the psi to
stop the career of Bonaparte, was then, and still is, a

Stet Jona Mot:ma—whose immortal name trill ever rank
amonpt the ant of heroes—no national monument to perpe-
tuate his victories.

SIR 315113 RTVART—the Ivern of Maida, was on that tier
memorable day, and still is, Sir John Stuart.
Lunn Du CAN —for the glorious victory of Camperdown
was made a Boron.

Sir .n. oAcnrit—altacked a superior force, took two
ship‘, lost wilAing, at this ,anie time watched Ferrol, pre-
vented
the junction of the (-mint 's fleets; was brooght to
trial, disgraced b) Ministers, bat not dishonoured in tne pub-
lic opinion.
Sir ARTHCR W Et.LasulT.—This officer advances into the
heart or Spain, proceeds roslily, sufet a himself to be deceived,
is ignorant of the force and condition of his antagimisi, is at-
tacked, loom every fourth man in his army, retreats, and in
one day he is raised to the dignity of n Viacom!!
Many other comparisons might be made; we might bring
forward the nnmes of Rodney, Drake, Han lie, and even the
great Doke of Marlborough, but we base produced enough
to occasl'n inquiry ; men swat begin to examine these matters
more minutely; they will perhaps endeavour to dln over,
whether Sir Robert ('older bad a brother a Nabob, or had
an unconstitutional preponderance of baronet interest to sup-
port bin 1 I —( Dublin Evening Post.)

• CIRCUIT' INTELLIGENCE.
0011,11114, SEPT. 7.—The Circuit court of
Jnsticiary was opened here, yesterday, by the'
Right. HOR. Lord A nm.t D
The only criminal business before the Court, at 11
this plat'', was an indictment wins( Joan Park-
ington, late servant to William Scott, shepherd, at
Brooniholinshields, for child murder. The libel
charged the murder at common law, and also un.
der the Irate statute, that she concealed tier being
with child during the whole period of her preg.l
nancy, and did not call for, and make use of,
help or assistance at the birth, and the child was
found dead. The Advocate Depute passed from
the charge of Murder, and restricted the indict-
ment to the conclusion •under the Act of Parlia.
mcnt libelled on. .To this extent, the PaniieU
pleaded guilty; and, being convicted by the ititi
diet of a Jury, was sentenced tb three months' filltri
prisonment. - •
The following is from another Correspondent -
Dtsa jalts, SEPT. G.— The Circuit Court opened.
here this day, by the 'tight lionontable Lord
AIIUtDALF., and proceeded to the trial of Juan
Purkington, accused of child murder. As this
is the first case it hick has occurred under the vie*.
statute on this head, passed in March last, a short
account of the case will serve to explain the new
law.

The trial proceeded in the regular waY, bj
Jury, the usual method of receiving a petition for
banishment being ht Id inconsistent with the new
Act. The indictment was laid on the common
law, viz. that the Prisoner had actually murdered
her child ; and likewise, by way of alternative,
on the statute, that she had been guilty of con.
cealing her pregnancy, d.tring the whale rent'.
nuance, and had not called for, or made use of,
assistance al the time. cf her tklivery, and that
her child was found dead. (The act holds it the
same thing when the chill, as often happens, is
missing.) The act, I rif.`4), cap. 23, founded upon
these suspicious circumstance?, the presumptioli of
murder, even ulthdtigh no marks of violence ap.
pi ared on the body of the child when it happened
to be found, and on this presumption punished
with death. This being found too rigorous for the
mere presumption of murder, was softened down
into the practice of atluwing banishment. At the
'same time, d proof of actual murder was, and
always will he, punished capitally. The statute
of
,March last hassepealed the statute 1690, ant
cnacfld, that the concealment of pregnancy, and
failing to call aid in the lath, when the chill shall
be found dead or missing, shall themselres consti-
lilie a crime, and be punished with imprisonment,
for a time not exceeding two years.
Tho LDTOCATE DEPUTE conscsitedto pass from
the charge of murder at common law, and to re.
strict his char to the criminal arts enumerated in
the statute. ro these last the Poisoner pleaded
guilty ; and the Jury having found her :Italy, in
terms of her own confession, the JUDGE, 111 consi.
derails's of the imprisonment already suffered, and
of their being no reason to suspect more against
the Prisoner than the culpable act in the new sta. i•
Lute, and also the present being the fint instance
under the new law, in virtue of the implied powdrtl
bestowed by the statute to mitigate the statutory
punishment of two years, sentenced the pricineft
to be confined in the gaol of DoinfritANcysittill.i
riod of three months.
a • I
Counsel fur the Crown, James Simpson,.
Advocate for the Poisoner, John Reid, Esq: A' -
weak. Agents, Robert Murray and William
cordon, jun. Writers, in Dumfries.
- -On Wednesday evening last, Chester and its
neighbourhood acre visited with a trensendoas
storm of thunder and Vining, accompanied with
rain. At or near Perkfiotou, where it appears
to hive been most violent, a ball of fire descended
the chimney of Robert Arden, while himself odd
family were sitting in the house ; the electric Reid
providentially took such a direction, as to leave
every individual unhurt. Two tows, belortgin
to Mr. Shaw, of Tarporley.hall, were sttue
dead by the lightning while grating in the
u were also seven sheep on Beckley Cosmos s
and a large poplar tree standing between Tatpor:
ley and Peckforton was struck : and split lute k 4.11
numerable pieces. •44 - • •

B
haft I)
tlun ity to czttact
pilot blished by Mr. GUEST,
,c fur road, several rs
..ssr-
-6 EgTONI AN M Ent
is• •
lariert *very Mamlay
bib completed.
LETTERS IV. o.
GUEST'. OBSERVATIONS as
curiog the GOVT.
From time immemorial to the pretest
Pg. sad others, have been prebeut log to
bir specifics for the Gut, several of 0
hoed to succeed to a certain degree ;
gbe Public, as well as the loveston, they ,
jsicause 11110 e of them would care the Gaut ,
mach. Isvers person who has witnessed the
Goo owl know. that those alt.i are subject
Koss. are alas liable, from various ac

tockill with it in the more vital paw.; v.
cash/ Illsikier. however safe or certain
be itinllll4ll god consigned lei oblivion el
feet r entre nineteen oat of twenty afjhru
in the head orwvinneh, if the twentieth

theessestrarv, if the circumstances were t,
called a regular bred Meltical
nineteen oat of the mtitft went %, to limer,
of Torment, and then die. the friends •
selves with having done evert thing in ,
gaieseing in the ipmal routine of temporising
if l sun not misinforme.i. the Facult . st -
to the old plan of procuring trinpfiritr,
leave tbe rest In chance, with the convict'

certainties* ti kiddie relief, It is ti
to be wished, that instead of pining .
are thus edified, they would prose the
alfections, by nutting themselves neepsii
saßly and invariable aim., of the
with in fifteen years and upwards, ha
solitary instance in those worst of all complaints. Gaut in the
Head or Stomach?, even whin they envy been deed 'red by
their Physician in itieutashle : a few 'simnel in these cases, I
have generally sand eaosigh to scout my purpose, a hicks has
made me differ with almost all the world, except those ahn
lave been convinced of the truth of my opinion, that Gont in
the 3tonmen in less to be apprehended than many other ,facto
of it. The Public then may be assured, that any Medicines
may be used at all times as a pr..reutative, and in every stage
or Gaut withe:Derrell safety i earl, in man% instances. the Pills
alone have Annual° succeed n ithout the Lotion, thrisga
when the pain Is great, I would always adsifse the ale of the
Lotion.
The truth of the forisraing observatiath I have almost daily
confirmation of from namertm. Aledieal t ientlemen, saw prat-
tising with the Gtiesteniim, Medicines, who smash mill. far-
nisi% me wills facts • soda. I think the follow hog, its 'Ciente
frosts Mr. Liuntt,s Surgeon of eminence in Readies. to trio
Medical friend at Bath, a very strong reeamineti,si, I
shall conclude these oberyaticar with a faithiLl transcript of
the origia.d, as sent tome :
" I am filly co .vinced the Gnesteniati Medi tars are valu-
able discoveries, and may he applied, not Italy with ti.e al-
most safety, but with good success in ever. stage oftlie Gatti
and on every part whirls it attacks A few day. :re. as old
hint of mine was attacked with Go* its the stomach; at 4
ed o We such violent yiattillags; that the wand. se earliest%
Its Either, would not stay on the stomach. I ordered the
Oregonian Lotion Si, he rubbed on the stomach had belly far
fltd
'its minutes, and was happy to find it produeed the dewed
relief. I have only to add, I wi•lt I had knows, of the
elkiewiaian Medicines earlier, Oa 1 was ol.lieed in quit a .try
ileliteel practice in this townefeandilie Hiker of repeated at-
tacks of the tient/ • -sie C.lei,
44 groggiiiihrigt,
; Read Mg. ' .. - "T. LAMB.'
OnsußvAimairs opt 'MP CLIRF. OF RHEUSIA.
• The disease !shred Rbellowitizte, is In a general received
' point ofyientell fend% allied to (lout, thatafter ter positive
insertion of tie inittlibiiity of the Goesioniho Med.ciae, te,
that more foratidetle disease, it might be lastly concluded,
that there was little or mining 141 for me to say thereon ;
tin order to eualve those whoo a,e affiieted to form an 'Ti-
for theniielves, and more esiecialt. fur the informatina
isf those %Ova may unfOrtinaiely be Putting with thew die-
' tressitie pains, which almost al ways succeed a free nee of Niel-
fury, ati.i whit's c,rngitute :I di.teane cm a hie h little has WAD
ishA or written by Nletiiral Ptaetitionerv, awl indeed/int lit-
tle has been dune fir the goad of mankind t Mt htiug4l, ferns
their own hasty geld impruiest manner of Introdtieg Mee..
that le.the system, they are the ostensible causes of all these
imelanchoty evils —This I call Mercurial (Lemuel sm. Mr
the cure of which there is not to this day. an. Medicine
tenon btit the Guestonian. a cirentnotance indeed; that has
frequently surprised me, and more particularly to, when I
have contemplated the indescribable torments more especially
atlesdantoo thin particuliar description of Rheumatism; and
I. it nut surprising. that among the ouinerens host ,if Plirsi-
clam, Chymists, Surgeons, and •Alititherliriest a irt wiilcb
' this visit opulent city and Its viciyily abouddv, not one IS to be
found, who pas.e,ses mil certain means of relief is any of
their disbrders, more than i.e the Gout teelf t yet they itave
amused themselves and the public, by making some distiac-
tions in the diserre,such as Acute Rheumatism, Shen of R hen-
matism, and Gout, Rhenination, to which I beg to add Mee;
carnal Rheumatism (this for the-information of all); hut-when,
is the utility of this tlistiisctiosi, unless attended nigh some cer-
tain method of tire/ I.4fortuna Rd v for the comstie.iity, 'tech a
hleisiog seems at piesent v, ry fai distant. I ~/ ake,,,/,,„4,;
ty, only bectette tri-e'reat men. Slob all their elastic adven-
t:ages mid medical menet beg, being theinatlves Isetbriect,
will rather let their patient billk in silent tnitei $ to the past.,
than suffer an) plan but one of lb. Ir own adopting t . he re-
tailed to; for was this nut the fact. could 1 %fitness such
daily proofs'in the numernas emaciated objects who seek ~,e
as a last resousce ? and happy ant I to sus, they seek me not
in vain, evert under all these distdvatuagn.s. I a ,iiii ; 'a, some.
I war more no the hutuireds I ewe arcuusliy, after hay lug heat
diseqnrecid the diftleretit Rospitalv, but that I have sr., card a:
fee seek striking eases as moot convince; which canes I here
protest are absolutely gi‘mi a Whew neemiusiseilistunent, and
with the strictest adherence to fic •• Abets Italic p .tarot
then, ao more than the Gout..• e It hut oh the eats:
trail, receive instant ettselllM illillt toi a very short
time, by a Pr*" Nelibr et ifiars•
iiale,2‘
Tue necessary 40%40 a. Jim amply detailed
the
the directions %illicit" a y etety' deseripti n of th
Goestemian Medicine,

A (' ITA -'
MESSiti. CURItI I met (70: Sorygenns, latd
in his Ntaiesty's 'rewire, deathly". the st bully a odd
to pease a *Mete in-tance w here ilvir M-diriwe arid hietimd
of
('ore hate f.litert of t:te desired reed. The practici• of
many year% in 1.11: partieulat hr.uich of tack prohmi,,,,, bets
not eives rise to Ofle ansoce. said Case.
They continue al direct their studies to the treatment and
cure of Venereal Complaints. nud that lierangement of t*
St-tens, which hi the consequeoee of tar peroictuus .m 4 waste.
Cul effects of a habit long and asset unhappily par urd liy
youth of both sexes, In the one it a ill be finalist to be the
unfailing source of barreanett ; the other lune its minet." fa-
tally developed to them by is distressing stair of debility,
which. it not timely remedied, terminates in impotence. rhesg
are its remote nod ulti•natr cirects, while Clia-uthplions. Loss
of Muscular Power, and enrioet Nervous ('ntoplansis,usuallG
characterise the earlier •trites of thia military trite. Of per•
sons lationhing under 41sd disorders incident to such a habit,
their tiesiiiient h simpleprisfil ha- never proved trosttereslui
• in thelreatmcot iota Ilbgt likorious,and smirk extended prac-
tice. In the most °lntimation' complicated C.1%.1. of Vene-
real 'arenas'', -uch as ()Ipap‘thill{ ill the Urethra, Spongy
Imreseences. hart Tunl I swiss Vlten, limptlons, Se-
mliki Weakliest, Wefts, as aka
. IT ugt tat to,
Whether recent or or long ofirraMn, nod which have haled
the skill of otherrractstionen, nre, by their present haprosed
pliorof treatment, effectually Aid permanently cured, with-
itidtbe pat hitt suderiug Ilw e ix.piteiat lig path stud „Liming hr.
inigrliage %hid* frequently-ffillows'the application of the its
uar caustic. In the caul* trikority lean exclusive practice
hi this metropuliti,outGersu-est•vs of Strirtures have been:sad
are daily sower their care, the total eradication .if which are
erected by a sat*, eerrithi; Amt expediential mode ..f pracdee,
.open,„, to am, fusel in adopted. Taw weakens, relaxes-
doss, and deliiiity proceeding Fenn thit complaint, .re fee-
dil,y removed, and the pallebt restored In sound wit vignroas
*With. where the &haat IS. for y eon eti.ted, a mo-
lter perseveristre in their resioratrie 'elm-dies, after it Stric-
ture has been &tato) ed. is imiispensalitv ruttuisite to revive
iiistultuisaulseringtpasks of Uhl, and to re-animate the Caesar
•
Garrie nod,co. may be ehn•wited by either <ex
with the grrosest delicact , secrecy, and honour, at their
home. NA. 10/. Hatton (Virden.
potter*• in the Country art remietted•to slate the particu-
lars of their case. age, and general !whit 1.1 thing, el e, dm.
eselissiKa teipit4tice forostdvie: mid medic* Ms when the
Wine *9ll beret* of tent to ant part of tle • kingdom. To en-
sure that wcrecy so essential to thcit Liking, the pott-
Am sr letters muy, be added t she :‘•c.hit:t for medicine.
;$79-107. Hatton tianlen.

itlitl36N.: Maid and Phlllidlted tov D. Loy te.t., tot
thassawe Otrhca, N, FON",Pitt.

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ttract from a Pam.
rEST. of N°. 9, ('''''t
era' remarkable 1.r0'r...
IRWIN F., which oe
dad Thersday mail tue
LND V.
ma MEDICINES for
st peeled, men of lean:-
to the public iormesera-
ahlrh indeed wrre rat.
; 1.01 unfortunate!) for
hey have All died away,
13ase is Abe head or 1.1).
✓ed the progreab Of Ibi
subject to it in I'm eyte-
idental causes, to be at-
; and that any new dig.
stain in its effects. weuld
out, even if it should ef-
arnietrd with the Goat
it'll' died: whereat', ow
'e reversed, Sad it hat it
tieal Man, should milk'.
Ter out a Certain ketna
s would console them_
in their power, by ac-
pseisint remedies; for,
still confine themselves
rs ease by °plant, and
Firtiess that -there is no
therefore most devoutly
; over the friends who
le real ilicerity of their
tainted e'lle the. perfect
Gatirmaiaa SI k
Ire never failed in one