The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-17 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.
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LAO Din' LLIGENCE.
. COURT Or IOCCHEQUER, MAY 16.
TIIE: ICING V. STOCKMORY.

•'' • ' --41 from itTrisre, i hielaw eiltort time reduced them
to ashes:. .. • • 74 . ! . • • , .
.- WhOts capable 4 -Making •an enact relation of
scenes se' sad and- nielauCholy, and of presenting
them•to the public In the same manner that they ms-
co;red ? Which of us thought to•escape with life
open beholding such manifest signals of divine jus-
tke r As for myself, I remembered in those dread-
ful moments the-disastrous fate of the cities of Pen.
Outsells, and I was then persunded that the unfor-
tunate villages of Camarines were about to suffer the
same unhappy catastrophe. Terrible reflections, it
is true, but founded upon the immorality of manners
which had long been remarked in those villages. 1
In this dreadful situation, we called upon God,
In such manner as we could, from the bottom of
'• our afflicted and almost broken hearts, beseeching
him for pardon and mercy. It became completely
dark, and we remained enveloped and immersed in
the most thick and palpable darkness, comparable,
only to that which in the time of Moses was seen
in Egypt. From this moment reflection is at an end,
!advice is no longer given, and no person recognises
another. The father abandons his children, the
husband his wife, she remembers not her beloved'
spouse, and the children forget their parents. No
one thinks that he can assist his fellows, because all
believe that they are about to die. I
But as man, even in the most critical and desti-
tute situations, endeavours, by all possible methods,
I to preserve life, each one of us, for this interesting
object, makes use of all the means and expedients
that can be resorted to, in the terrible condition to
which we are reduced. Of what various and differ-
ent methods did not we who have escaped with life
I ruail otirsee:es, that we might not pejish at that
time ?-111 the bosses ne now found no shelter. It
was necessary to abandon them with all baste, in or-
der not to perish with them. To go out' uncovered,
was to expose one's-self to a danger not less imnii.
nest; because the stones that fell were of an esioe-1
mous size, and fell as thick as rain itself. It is ne.!
cessary that we may 'not die in the one or the other.
manner, to cover ourselves and defend ourselves aid
well as we can. We do so. Some cover themselves
With hides, others with tablei and chairs, others with
boards and tea-trays. Many take refuge in the
Bow.ernecv.—Yesterday John Howard, Samuel-
trunks of trees, others among the canes and hedges,
Burge, and John Hoare, were brought to the Office.
and some hide themselves in a cave which the brow
by Rethen, and charged by .him with attempting to
cf a mountain offered them. Those only of us sure , •
' commit several robberies in Greenwich Fair on Mon-
vise who had the good fortune to protect ourselves !,
a oy.
by one or other of those methods; bet those who i
The Prosecutors refusing to attend they were dis.
were in the open air, with nothing at hand with which
1 chareek •
they could cover themselves, almost all perished .or 1 te d".5'...
urenweet.—Yesterday Thomas Seatzer, who
`were wounded. ' •
1 keeps a public-house, in Angle.alley, Bishopsgate-
The horrid and. frightful noise of the volcano in, street, was charged before Alderman BRIDGES, the
creases to its utmost; the shower of stones and ' Sitting Alderman, with encouraging gambling, &c.
thick sand augments; the burning stones amid me- I Ordered to attend for further examination.
tents continue to fall, and in a very short time re- 'Thomas Dean was charged with fraudulently
duce to ashes the mast beautiful villages of the pro- pledging several gold cases and movements of watches,
since of Camarines. Could there be signs more . which haul been entrusted to him to finish.
epalogous tn.those that are to take place aethe last i Ilis Solicitor begged of theeelderman another hear-
judgment ?—The animals of the mountaiu desceud • ing, which was agreed to.
precipitately to the villages, to se: kin them . a se- . II A rro N• G A RDEN.—Yesterday Catharine Murphti
I cure asylum. The domestic animals run terjiited
and Mary Dieman were examined; plows/low sus.
with the greatest disorder and affright, bttering
pi ci on of stealing 441.1 n "Bartk;'etote-s, -41. 1 1 Fe thf., in
cries that indicate their approaching end. Nothing
silver, five shillings in copper, acid two shawls, the
I
interested us in those dreadful moments but the pre-
property of Elizabeth Read, a young
T woman who
nervation of our own lives. But, alas ! Divine jus- carries milk.
Lice has already marked and pointed out, with the . . •
hey were remanded for further etamination.
finger of omnipotence, a great number of victims
who are to perish in this day of wrath and fury, in SMASII ERS.
every respect similar to what we read in the Holy
M ANSI ON.IIO USE. Joseph Iladdison and John-
Scriptures were brought up on - a charge of uttering e Bank
Scriptures concerning the day of the last judgment.
of England tokens, well knowing the same to be
At about ten in the forenoon it ceased to rain counterfeit.
heavy stones, and each one endeavoured to remain It appeared, that on Saturday last as Mathews
in the situation he then was, waiting until the rain and Johnstone were taking their usual rounds in
of thick sand which succeeded it should also cease, search of persons who were not suspected of honesty,
or until some new and unforeseen calamity should i they perceived the two Prisoners in close conference
terminate the existence of us all. I together, and knowing them to be persons of no
We thus continued until half-past one in the at- ' very good repute, they were induced to watch their
ternoon, at v lace lieur the noise of the Volcano be- i mancenvres. They- observed them separate, the one
gall to diminish, and the horizon to clear a little, et . from the other, mid while one went into a shop to I
sight of which there was revived in us the hope of make some trifling purchase, the other passed on.—
life, which until then had been almost wholly exalt- : Johnstone having gone into the shop after the Pri-i
Iguished. At about two in the afternoon, it became setter departed, he ascertained that he paid for the 1
etitirely clear, and we began to perceive distinctly article, which he had bought with a 3s. token, which
1 the lameotable and dreadful ravages that the dark- he requested to examine, and on
seeing
it,at once
tress had hitherto concealed from us. We saw with discovered it to be a bad one. He marked that
terror the ground covered with dead bodies, part of piece, and then joining Mathews, continued to watch
whom had been killed by the stones, and the others the ingenious circulators several hours, during which
consumed by the fire. Two hundred of those pe. they passed several more pieces of the same descrip.
rishcd in the church of Budiao; thirty-fire in a siegle lion. Having at length obtained sufficient 'evidence
house in that village. The joy that all felt at having to support a case, they took them into custody, and
preserved life through such imminent datesers, was on searching them found several other tokens in their
in many instantly converted into the extremity of possession, all of which had been struck from the
sorrow, at finding themselves deprived of their rein- same (lie.
lions, friends, and acquaintances. There, a father I, The Prisoners were fully committed for trial.
Ends Isis children dead—here, a husband his wife-- :
7'homas Morris was charged on suilsicion of steal-
and a wife her husband, particularly its the village of • big a loaf of sugar.
Budiao, where there are very few who have not lost l • • It appeared that as Forrester and Ray, two of the
some of their nearest connexions. ' City Officers, were on duty on Saturday evening,
In another place, at every step one meets infra.' thei met the Prisoner with the loaf of segar in ques.
reerable other unhappy wretches extended upon the ttonin his possession. They questioned him es to
ground, who, though not yet deprived of life, are the manner in which it had come into his possession,
wounded or bruised in a thousand ways. Some with but not giving a satisfactory account they took him
their legs broken, some without arms, some with into custody. They since discovered that he had.
their sculls fractured, and others with their whole stolen it from his master's warehouse, hot the Prose.
bodies full of wounds. Such were the mournful oh- cuter not attending, he was remanded for altirther
jects that presented themselves to us during the re- examination.
minder of that afternoon, many of them died imme- I UNION.-II A LL.—Richard Hopkins teas charged
diately, and others on the following days, the rest re. with stealing a piece of Russia (luck from the bleach-,
maining abandoned to the most melancholy fate, ing ground of Mr. Kilbourn, of Carshalton, on the
without physicians, without medicines, and in want Ist of May.
even of necessary food. The Prisoner now underwent a final examination,
Your Your most humble Servant and Chaplain, when Carter, the constable of Peckham, stated that'
FR. FRANCISCO ARAGONESES. early on the morning in question, he saw the I'ri-'
Boner crossing the fields with a bundle; he stopped
him, and not being satisfied with the answers he re-
ceivedlo his queitiOns, he insisted•on examining' his
bundle, and on doing somtound it contained a piece
of Russia duck, value about 31. 10s.
' Mr. Kilbourti swore to the cloth es having been
stolen from his grounds a few 'tights before.
The Prisoner said he bought it *Of a watchman for
a guinea. •
• lie was fully committed for trial at the Aseizs.

This was a prosecution against the Defendant, a
maltster, at Weathers:ldd, in Essex, to recover pe-
nalties of large amount for not complying with the I
restrictions imposed by the Act of Parliament in
making Malt.
The cause commenced on Monday morning, and
it was necessary to adjourn the proceedings the same
evening.
This (ley et five *WA the evidence for the
Crown closed, and Mr. Serjearrt PELL rose to ad.
dress the Jury for the Ddendant, whets the CHIEF
BARON again postponed the proceeding until to-
morrow.

Mr. Grimes, cabinet-maker, of Red Lion-street,
Clerkenwell, whose house was robbed on Sunday
se,nnight, whilst the family were at church, of a box
containing 2041. la Bills of Exchange, notes, &c.
on Friday evening received a letter by the Two-penny
Post, containing all the llills.of Exchange, but thos
rest of the property was withheld.
A few days ago, Mr. Oruaber, of Linton, was at-
tacked in a postrhaise by Iwo:villains, between liars-
ton and Ilournlrridge,'*ho . robbed him of notes to
the amount of. 201,;,...the rascals. were dressed as
Gentlemen, and :unit: ogfirem, after a little re.
monstrance from Mr. B. j poLLlely returned
,a one
pound note; and wishing •hint a ,good evening, de-
camped on the roail tavrar4 Chesterford.

• A splendid sword, presented by the City of Lon-
don to Lord LSLRESFORD, as a testimony of his gal-
lant achievements, veined 500 guineas, was yester-
day sold to Colonel L3teciu,►cc, at-Robitts's Rooms,
for. 75 guineas.,