The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-30 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

Messrs. Woolley and Farlange astared the Magis-
trate that they themselves were perfectly sober. Mr.
French, however, they admitted was very drunk.
Thomas Tiller—•• Beastly drunk, your Worship."
h was true, they continued, he was sadly intoxi-
cated, and they were d:•sirons of getting him into a
h:tcknry-eoach, hilt he resisted ; a parcel of loose
women got about them, and the n Richman came up,
and the disturbance began ; but they denied having
attempted the rescue of their friend; and they as-
!tried that the complainant did not give thent in charge
till he had taken nearly half an hour to consider of it
at the watch-house.

After much further conversation, these two gentle-
men were lined one shilling each, and diecharged ; and
Mr. S. U. French ordered to find good and sufficient
bail to answer the charge at the Sessions.
M Rl.llO ROI: n -ST T.—Yrsterday Sdrah Skeet,
underwent a third examination, charged by 'James
Allen, a farrier, with intermarrying with hint, her
former litsshatid brine still alive.
The pri,,uner's sister attended to give evidence
against her of her first marriage.
The prisoner confessed to the second tnarriage, but
said that Allen knew of the existence of her iotshand
at the time, anal spite sauced biro to prosecute her,
because .he preferred firing with her first husband.
The prosecutor "aid he knew of it a few weeks after
the ceremony.
The Nlaeistr ire, 11. M. Oran, Esq. condemned him
lunch for not having pursstml the proceedings at an
rattier period, anal intimated, that were the prisoner to
he found guilty .4 the offence by a jury. the punish-
ment would be hitt trilling, whets the citeunistances
sof the hte.h.ind's conduct were taken into considera-
tion. Ile remanded the prisoner for a further hear ne.

NAUTICAL INTIELLIGENCS.
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The gsther, Butterfield, from Gibraltar, was released
from quarantine at Plymouth on Wednesday,
The lonia, of Bristol, from Si. Andero to Minimal,.
arrived there on the lOth ult. after being captured by 1
privateer, wader Attigas's colours, and carried into Old
Providence, where her carp was takeli oat, and she wad
given up on the 26th of July.
The Prince of Orange, Priestly, from Sunderland.
was driven on shore on the Brambles, on Frisley night.
bat was expected would be gut off after discharging part
of her cargo.
The Margaret Jess, Kieth, from Dundalk to Bran
theite, struck upon a rock near Donaghader, on the 24th
but was got off with trifling damage to her fore foot and
rather leaky.
The Georg?, Holland, was driven on shore os
on the 23d. ult. and abandoned by the crew, who an
at Croastadt on the 25th.

titsaavran, Sur. 7.—By advice% to-day from Tan
Bier, it appears that an Algerine squadrnn, consisting of
two corvettes aid a schooner, passed these Straits to the
Westward on the 4th inst. A corvette of 24 guns, stood
into Tangier, but immediately rejoined the others and
made sail.

Soveuastros, Sara. ft—The Prime of Orange,
Priestly, from Sunderland with coal, ran on the Bram-
bles, last night, bnt Is expected to he got off by dis-
charging part of her cargo into lighters.
Toannuonnv, Sam to.--On the night of the leth
inst. the Trader, of this port, M'Kennon, dragged her en•
chors and drove upon a rock iu Loch hiingary, in the
Wand of Mull, and bilged. She is now full of wati r.
and it is feared will be lost.

A Copy of the Roll of Freeholden of every County
in Scotland, as last made op; certified respectively by
the Sheriff Clerk of each County:—

Freeholders.
I—Aberdoensbire... itlll
I--Argyll 64
3 —Ayr l7tl
4—Rant 57
S—Bere irk l2
6—Hate.
7--Calthuess 3l
8-11selmannan IA
U—S rontart)
10—D1 esbartoo 43
ll—Dumfries

11—F;d1abargh. 174
13-4:lgln
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I. Forfar . 114
10 IlakAtuglon

Freeholder..

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19—Kinrovi
20—kir1.evAbright 144
41—Lanark
82-I.iiilllll/tow fib
113—Naine
24--Orkne) ZOland 40
25-I'rebirs 'l
Y6--Perth WJ
47—Renfrew 146
24—Ross llll
29—Rntbergb.
3U—Sel/irk
81—Stirling 1. 118
3121-1421her1420 24

33—Wigtown

;••—• v einem! 7O
V.-,-4%inranfiar • 70

A farmer in the neighbourhood of Loehnsaben,Kept
a gadder, who not only had a great trick of wander-
ing himself, hut also delighted in piloting forth his
cackling harem to weary themselves in cireunanavi-
zating their native lake, or in straying amidst for.
!lidded fields on the opposite shore. Wishing to check
this vagrant habit, hr one day seized the gamier just
as he was about to spring into the pure breast of his
element and tying a huge fishing-hook to his leg, to
which was attached part of a dead frog, he suffered
bim to proceed upon his voyage of discovery. As
bad been anticipated, this bait soon caught the eye et
a greedy pike, which swallow* the deadly hook, not
Poly wood the progress of the astonished gander.
but forced him to.perform half a dew of sonenverset-
on the surface of the water! For sonic time the strap
gle was most amusing—the fish pulling, and the bird
screaming with all its might—the one attempting to
Ay, and the other to 'situ, from the invisib!c enemy
—the gander the one moment losing mnil the uret re•
gaining his centre of gravity, and casting between
whiles many a earful look at his snow-white fleet of
geese and goslings, who cackled oat their sympathy
for their afflicted commodore. At length vittury de-
clared in favour of the feathered angler, who, bowing'
away for the nearest shore, landed on the smooth
green grass one of the finest pikes ever caught in the
Castle-loch. This adventure is said to have cured
the gander of his propensity for wandering ; but on
this point we are inclined to b- a little sceptical—
particularly as we lately heard, that, at the Reservoir
near Glasgow, the country people are in the habit of
employing ducks in this novel mode of fishing. Ile
Cannot, to be sure, vouch fur this last fact ; but, in
the days of yore, hauks were taught to ba isp th.ww
woodcocks and fowl, and airy might not a similar
course of training 'nettle dna.s to brisg rep pikes and
perches ..--(11rf *fries CON tier).

Mr. J. Wilkinson, of Lento., near Nottingham, has
nos is his possession a beautiful oz. fur which he was
offered eat, when the animal was only two years old :
he is now four years nitl and weighs 1711 stone, and is
at this time raprtkly improving in hub.
ACCIDINT.—.4 very extraordinary accident occurs-ill
on Wednesd.ty morning at Spitalfe'ds-market. As a
large waggon containing a rhaldrun of coals, and draun
by her beautiful foie horses, the property of Mr. Bent.
coal-uierrhaut, fl'rsiminster, was unloading at a co I
shed, the waggon by some unforeseen means, ni er.
turned, and killed the shaft horse, worth forty an i sea',
esi the sput, rad likewise crushed a4se dog that * as it
Ing the font-waK to deatk, and ow of the men had.
• narrow escape.
Viet, Stier. 28 Montlar last a ,n R di4fessibg
roe* escorted in the honk of 'Mr. Willie*, Ayer. • -
chant, of this town, which has phr,ged it into tilt' 41' •
est melancholy. Jit.eph, the third stun, a most pct rosin t
and amiable moth, in his seventeenth soar, atter oteak-
fast that massing, onforosmitely eacetistsd the mast out
a vessel Iving in the river adjacent to the lovas«, tiitb
a small telescope; Rom which he felt down on the do E..,
and fractured his bead in so dreadful a manner a• t..
cause his death in a few hears* to the ioaspnessibir. grid
of his inconsolable fatnily.
MARRIED.
On Wedneadey, the V*, at M. James's, Mr. Nathaeit I
Tbsestoo, M ales Taber. &Water of Robert Taber. Esti—
Strooli.Goresi. liaminsnasith.

DIED.
On Weinnadtig. the /7th Inst., of as inllainneatioa in the
bowels, David Lowe. Medi_ of Ploetti Villa. Wesease4-pnalt.
On lb.llth led, al etalebeinet. Ask wand annanier of
C. 11.. Irina. Req.
Os Widnes& the !Mt Inst. Mc Robert Hellanit of
tie Ilnierini Cbnients-Cnesa. fonenti) 01
Justeralreet.
Os Stitilay. the lab lasti-AsiC of Me. Thome 7.
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