The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-11 00:00:00

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Yesterday theNO liostdod selsrons coinmenced in the
rank of Kim's. teitig4 GA!Alit!, before 'th6l Re-
corder and Aldeimen'y '
Richard Buckle was indicted for ,hiving • intim-
fully in his possession a ceriafocoppeiltill,"the same
being the property of the King.
Mr. KNAPP, Ott .the part of the Proseeetion;stoted
the case. The Prisoner resided 'in Green Arbour-
court,• in the Old Bailey, where he carried oft the
business of a copper.smith._ In consequence of in-
furroetion being
.received of his having concealed' in
quUntityof King's stores, Mathews and
Harrison, the Officers, were dispatched with a search
wairint, 460 upon arriving at his house and ,ac-
quainting hint with their business, he reedlly cot tent-
ed' to give them every satisfaction they reqiiired.—
. Having searched the upper apartments of the bhuse
and the forge most minutely, they expressed a wish
tb search the cellar and 'some recess which were
represented to be beneath. To this the Prisoner'.
objected, but the officers, determtued upon the ful-
fillment of their duty, forced their way doCin when
having reached the cellar, the Prisoner took up a
large iron crow and threatened to knock Mathews,
the officer, down, if he proceeded further. The
th real, however, did not deter the officers from Pro-
ceeding in their ezaminition, and upon advancing to
a recess or dust hole, in a distant part of the cellar,
they found the copper, charged in the indictment as
ithe King's property_ _

get(nt-is RDEN.—Thb-rslao
.of. a tidy being to
be,brought up yesterday tor examinstion.on a charge
of forgery, attracted a great crowd to the office, but
the Magistrates recessing a certificate from the Sur-
geon. of the-Hottse Of Coffection, •witere she is con-
fined, stating that she was so extremely ill that she
siald notbe removed without endangering her life,
the further essmivation of the case was postponed
for a few days..,..
Mwy :Ilan:boil, a middle-aged woman, was
brought up in the custody of John Hutt, the officer,
and examined on the following charge:—About two
o'clock that afternoon, :Mts. Aim Carr, who keeps
a house in Charles-street, Hatton-garden, came home
from market, she met the Prisoner coming down
stairs with a small red trunk in her possession, which
she knew to belong to Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, who
lodged in her third floor, and suspecting it to be
stole, she began to question the Prisoner who ske
wanted up stairs? The Prisoner answered, " the
lady above stairs Mre.-Carr not being satisfied
With this evasive answer, prevented her going out, and
called down Mrs. 'Jones ; Mrs. Jones came dowif,
and seeing the' trunk in the Prisoner's possession,
claimed it -as her property; and challenged the Pri-
soner, Whom she 'never saw before, with hating stole
it out 'of her back room on the third 'floor, which
opened on the lobby, the key having been left • in the
door; Hutt the officer being sent for, took the Pri-
soner Intiscuitody. and conveyed kee to this Office.
The trunk contained various articles of women's
wearing apparel, lace and worked tippets, caps, '
frills, a veil, thread case, bracelets, gold breast-pin,
&c..

The charge being proved, the parties were bound
over to prosecute, and 'the Prisoner was remanded
for a second examination, on suspicion of having
committed other similar offences.

erisere-e went by the name of Breen, but admitted to the ca-
dger* bleepprehensilm, that his Illtfnpmps ICeltei. -
After .bsta had.ondergiine a private .evamination, he *limit;
IfkiLte# to the Mouse of Cnrreclicin in Cold-bath-fields. • •
Ifirkanari was diso dlicovered tnncralment, and
coalishted, hut hod since. keen admitted an evidence..
resdi in last..spontb,, Adidas, the Aces., rind Mr. rpthergill,
tuts:lke partirti in' he bank, visited the House of Correction,
the Prisoner voluntarily confessed to them that he stole
* bank-notes and bills out of the parcel, having taken them
Opt between Newport and Bristol. and that he fa toned tlb box
dgrfin r, and covered it with the canvas bag, as before, to pre-
ntit diseoitery, till it rettehed tendon. f)n the day lifter the
tpkberj hie gave the note* and bills. to Hickman, at her house,
who cogtrived to circulate some of the notes in Bristol ; but she
toesMiveapoObensitre of befog taken lath custody, and conceal-
ed,heraitilid-Hatb. The pnund notes which he had kntrusted
bprwitltre,buried hy ope of bee silughteri a deep hole
it the garden attached to kir home, and so remained till the
math3aly fbliowing ; they Ivete theittkOg np, and found to
be in a very damaged Otte,. but he resolved to bring t hem to
London, to make the most of them. lie agreed with I I
to follow him to London, to assist him, which she accordingly.

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did, They went to a woman who resides atthlertiti's Canevfma,
fields, who was recuniatendid' t a her by a Motion:lf Richmanl'i
as-a person who could diipase: of tire mates ; and they gavd bed
notes, to the amount of 6KC fur that purpose. Abejr. sod gloat'
bf them, and said she had uttered them at a liaeri-dra per s, is,
Uld,itreet-roods and at another in Suos.treet, in tbe•pmeh
some linen-dravery. This was proves by the liac.n-drapers,
'they afterwards met two •en this pohlie:lsonse.in Porpitil.:
lane, of the names of Edwards and Marsh, to dispose of same •
note.,, bat they received nothire froy theta. . :.
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. Last Augrst, a Mr. Butre,, a dentitts of the Kent-read; if
into company, at Paris, with a rerson who called Wastes( ci‘p,,
tail, .1•Onson, of whom 1w porches it one 51. mite of the Man.
rat:th Batik, ani four Usepstniv Ithak-notes for 54. each, for
the purpose of making a profit by them; a sth that vies be
ode' ett them for sale Ito several money-changers In Paris, bet
they declined the offer, and said they would only porchase•
Bank of Logland notes. On his return to England. heroin
them to a man of the name of Cris tell, to dispose et. All then
notes were part of those stolen ftom the Swansea mall. About
two or three mouths sinee Me Prisoner• called upon a- woman of
the name of Porter, who then understood hint to be the guard
Of the Monmouth mail-coach : he evaalred for her hnihnittl,ntio
ryas then not at home; hr then' asked. permission to gll into a
room fog a short time; she sliotrid liin iota oar,, medisuou after
he called Sirs. Porter inia the mina, eel de i'vnd to Isir a
small paper parcel, desiring her tp take' great oak of It, as it
cons:lifted Batik moos to the amount of YOOl. While she Was in
the room with bins she ohservcd him 45' have a great number of
other notes, tunny of which appeared 1.• se tom; he told hour bf
'fad taken the notes in the course of his trade. Milne* t day Ise
called agnity, and gave her a 51. note to get changed, teflin
herwhitt 'she bought she was to have for her tronble, only id
give him the change ; she got the ante changed at a listen asst.
per's in Old street-Toad, for a gown piece. The Prlsonerealled
upon her again in a short time after, when ,he got another no‘
changed for him at the sameshop; and after that she gm another
51. note changel for him at a Nuen-draper's in Sitiestreet, but
he never called for-the change. Site took a,pueel,•stippoted to
contain Bank-notes, for him, to the White Horse puldte.stoue,
ia.Portpool-lane, where he met her; two men were with War;
Ile told her to give the parcel to one of them, andlo take ease
that nobody saw her do it; she accordingly handed the parcel
to one of the men privately.
I The Prisoner confessed to* Mr. nstisergill, dart he Was guilty
of taking the parcel, but said he. would have returned it, bid
''could not get it back from Hickman, at whose instigation he
took it. At the time he wished tu• return it, there were oat
20t. of the putts disposed of. • • - -
' The notes uttered by Mrs. Porter to the linen-drapers were
proved to he part of those stolen in the parcel. Some oft*
stolen notes, consisting of those of the Monmouth and Chepstow
hanks, have been, traced to Mr. Nichols, 'w.orgecto dentist, who
received them of one Crouch, to take uin some bills for him, he
having accepted them, to enable Crouch to go abroad to pros,
cure Some teeth. Crouch said he had the Paths •froin ti nrdn et
of the name of Butler, who told him he tsohght thnoisiss Via* . -
J. Hickman confesses that about It or 1.5 .moattis since, tith. ".
Prisoner came to her house, and bad sordietronversatino with '
her daughter, who communicated t'. her what had .passedttss—
tween them; and after that she agreed" to, go. tss Bristol to et,
some notes changed for the Prisoner. ne. scare her two pareell,,. •
each contal.ting noteslti the amount of 2tIN. Witco she Of Hi
Bristol the banks were shut. The Prisoner then. o/d hertheliail :
no time to stop, as he must go with the mail, which was,erttine- -;••
off immediately; oval tai- he gave ber a parcel Contilida '''
1 notes to the amount of 70W. and took from his portent olk* •••••:
notes to the amount of 551.' which he said. she /night penis • A
tol, hot it must be done io the t ourse of that day, as the .7,.
bury would be found out on the Monday following in tan • ' `•
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She after that passed' a variety of the notes at a smother oftho
in Bristol. Oa her return home at night, she and her. • • s,.
Lug a hole in the gardenosod buried the notes that the lls • .7..2.
an opportunity of getting changed. Hand bills being pit
soon after, describing her person as haying pained, the'ss . . 4:.
stolen from the mail, she went to Bath, and used th. ....
Meat. The Wanner called on her there, and the wen with
him up to London. • • - : . . . , , •
The Prisoner -win fully committed for trial, and the linnims ;
bound over tt prosecute: . , k,

UNION-11.4r.t..-:--George England, who has already
been examined and committed on charge of burglary,
was yesterday examined on a new charge, namely,
of breaking into the coach-house of Felix Whitmore,
Esq. and stealing the carriage glasses and lining.—
May and Goff apprehended the Prisoner at his lodg-
iug in Oxford-market ; neither the glasses nor coach-
lining were *found, but May discovered a morocco
card case on the'Prisoner, which was proved to have
beloeged to Mrs. W. and to have been left in the
pocket of the carriage. The Prisoner was coast:flitted
•I on this charge also.
I After his examination, he was locked up in the
strong room at tfie back of the Office till the time
I should come for conveying hini to the gaol. About
an hour afterwards it was discovered by Heron, one
of the constables, that he was goner. Heron informed.
Snow, and they jointly proceeded in pursuit Of him.
On investigation they found that he had 'broken his
way through a fotittetit‘ inch wall into the nest pre- , .MOST Mentsre OUTttaGe.—A most atrocious refs.
raises, where he escaped through "the common sewer be,ry-was etrlrtmitted on the night of Monday, the pd ;
into the street, nitheut either coat or hat, acrd with 'of Jan. at Mornington, the seat of James Brabaents, •
his irons on. The Officers traced him aftength to a Esq. within three miles of Drogheda. About half•patt
houl6 ii' Long-lane, at which his brother lodged; nod eight o'clock, as Mr. Brabazon was ,ret';-rning front!
here they discovered him busily emPloyetriti 'sawing his stables;to his house, accompanied by his coach. •
I off his irons. lie was'taken back to the 0111 Ce. Art man, several -armedinen, yell() had been concealed in
the time the officers entered the room the Prisoner%
..a shrubbery, rushed on them, knocised them down,
brother was assisting him in getting Off his irons,' and tied them.; they than proceeded to the house,
Heron secured hint, and he 'was bronitht up andrivltets-they entered the parlour, where Mrs. Urahazoss
7stotemisted, for re-examitatiou, charged with aiding was; •rebbed her other watch, rings, mid trinkets, .•
'felon escaping. 'stivitand then dragged Mr. Brabaton into the hoe ,e •to
MiAtieonoucti•sinct:r.—finti alias I.ZosinarVkite, compel him to discover where his money and arms
was yesterday charged With attempting to extort were.. They beat him with the butt earls of pistols
money from a respectable tradesman by means of the in the most savage -and brutal manner in the
following artifice:—Tbe Picsonert with a young'child face and on his breast,, kicking, treading oh
in her arms, attacked the Complainant (who is a him, and holding him to the bars' of the grate, to
family man) in the street, and with most scandalous make him discover money they supposed he had con-
' epithets charged him' With a sort of violation of her coaled ;" they had before that brutal treatment got
person, and leaving her in a. clandestine manner.--L-- above 2001. in cash, and above 4601, worth of
The Prosecutor took no notice of the first complaint, plate. 'They- remained in • the house nearly sit
I until he ivas attacked a second time, rind an endea. hours, 'rioting,' drinking, and fining shots. There
Tour made to extort money from him. The offender were only six men entered !he house, but two par-
said she had been married, but it turned out that she 'ties or gangs of four or live each remained outside,
is receiving from the Parish Officers of St. James's, one patty at the back entrance and another at the
at this time, 1.55, per week for three illegitimate. from door; they were all %veld armed with pistols •
children. Slie confessed herielf a street-walker, and and :brass blunderbusses. They appeared to be of,,
it was eiident her whole story was a base invention ! the lowest • order, and their conduct. was the moist
tn. extort money.—Tlie offender was committed. I brutal and savage, particularly after they had taken
MAIL ROBBERY. rscime spirits, wine, ke. The house was well armed.
• now-KTREF:T.—The extraordinary case of William Weller, ' and prepared,- but the family was most unfostuuetety
finard to the Swansea Mail, and thus employed to protect pub- taken by surprise, the attack being made at that very
tic property, but who was a short time.ollCe apprehended by
iiitak les, on d charge of himself robbing the Mail of a parcel con-
early hour. This robbery shows how cautious 114/
taining hank-antes and bills to the amount of upwards of milies living in retired palls of the country oven to•
:dab fully intestigated on Monday. ' • be in these times, when so malty. ruffians stalk abroad,-
ft appeared-that in the mouth of October, 1813, a parcel con-
laining-notes and bills to the above amount, from tile house or undiscovered and unpunished. This gentleman is'
nearly SU years of age, and most bigirty respected
tore/awn Foihereill; and Mookhoine, bankers of Newport, in
Itonainalisbire, Was sent by the Mail, addressed to lilessrs.
Tkornton, and Frets.bankera in,.i.endon, in a box ; and by all his neighhoars, and adored by the. poor on his.,
to gunrd against suspicion of the value of its contents, the box extensive estates, yet no clue or trace eou'd this day
was put into accsarsecanvet bag, and difeeled to Mr. Richard be obtained so as to guide his friends to the haunts of
Fotbergill; a relation of OW of the partners in the bank tit •
Messrs. Joseph and Thos. Shce,'s, me chants, Lawrence Poolte. the perpetrators of this outrage..
ney-Itill, London.- It was boated a 'the King., wed ion, at I An unfortunate event happened last month nt
Newport, to be forwarded by the mail.
tellarrasin, in • the department of the Garonne, in
The box and canvas bag :wired-as directed, but without their
contents. . . F:tance, on the i7titsof• December, A familv pate.
the diseisify tieing matfe,'an expreis was neat nirta..l mitts, consisting .et four persons, -poisoned them-. • New pert, pottobery possible
~ . ' exertion was made tu recover the
prget:rty Laid detect thwbber •.
(selves :le eati that species of musnrui•ms found at
lckery, the Dow-street meth', se's.; one of tbeo&cersetn- the foot of the poplar tree, and which, in the idiom
pirvyeri dieberineei. Ile met stiskilte•Prisoser at Bristol, of •the corintry, is called hicalerada. The father of
. whit admitted that he was guard to the mail an Al:e ;)d of Octo-
.y
her. 1813, being the day after it she booked ter go td London ; the family, wn fortunate) had not dined at home
that-day3•WaS the only one who escaped the disaster.
'he also admitted hie havlbg teen' ttiteeircei,.abit that he saw, it
isesiveyed from the-ktek's /lead Inu.:at Netaport,-,to tit istol, on TY*
1144. wife, aged 4g... and his youngest son, only five
its way to Londou.
The. rriCrineiafte'r this was discliaried; Mid- absconded, there years old, were the first victims. Artie., three days of
sitferient evidoute then tordatade eastokr.— colic end inetetlible sufferi Jus w h ~fts died, not with-
V ickery, however, ptirsne4 his aturai ries,,, anti learnt that some .anding every possible.remedy. The poison operated
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hank-notes hp() been conceded during the ' iteek aftieihz rob--
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Env of the Mail, near Bristol, ante place &tiled Torfeidown- chi her so frightfully, that a few hours after her de-
bar, try a. vomit named itickniim, %hese. daughter the Pa- cease the features and form of her figure entirely
solver was particalarty intimate trek; see tinker wept .pipe . .
house and Found that the old wiSsoaubashAssonded Soon after disappeared. The infant died two hours earlier, and
theroitathvy.•
-r the action of the
poison eon the nerves the muscles
The Prisoner was a short time since discovered by Miklos,
and 10. nerves,. the $
theembers, was such, that before, death, the
the °aim, at the house of Jacobs, tt Doke"§-0
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body toot the farm.. of a muff. The other and,
aged elite years, whether the clOw of oil admi.
nistered to him had operated With a happier effect, or
whether be had eaten less of themeshrooms than his
mother and brother, was in a way that afforded some
hopes.
Wednesday on Inquest was held at Ponthill-Gif.
ford, Wilts, on the body of Mr. Henry Harding, who,
whilst walking fcorri his own hone to Mr. Spew-Pr.'s,
at Vonthill Farm, in company with a friend, cud-
denly exclaimed—" Lord have mercy upon me !
what a pain I have I" and instantly -fell with groat
force to the ground and sotPirod.. :Vottlict—Visilog
lion of Cod.

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