The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-22 00:00:00

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than he had dale; '-ood.Mr. Molls ,/as equally de-'
getting of notice for his very indefatigable exertions
in Ake •raesev. The ChassFellwet then, .said, that_ he
could not de,titiftiatt*hi. thin be had now done, for he-
could not Art/tit leap over the general eccoents
of the Court. ' king over all the ca4e, he bad evia
dente enough as to the case to afford him ground to
give it a 61p1 detlialtnt, after.the eiiiltelke the parties
I,ador '
14; 11 ollirtonJtj of #fid.eibg In ttkeir behalf.
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1 X considerable ratline. of, the titne 'of the kill
Ins "scowled itt beariog the .eaceptians in this ,egfiel
nib; Honour sistil.sainetely through the atcowste, 1•
t;
order .to paderstand the, point.' in jpsee. Hi
served; thlt the Master of.thotiPlls tied decreed t o '
sum of OR POOL to balder, t 4 Abe. representative M
Antony de Manpon, 17,0001. of which ‘bad beim,
since paid—that as !if the reaßillog 51,0001. the
Mister (ttoilai).bed • reported it to be still ape, end
the qaestion for' Alm to deteimine was, whether that
Report sax conformable to the decree of the Master
-of the Rolls. Having underatond the chief point.,
he 'reqUested that the exceptions Might eland over till
toamprrow, and he then left the Cocci.

• WILTSI,I4BE. ASSIZSS. •
Ter.,lrstio PAP and Mr. Jostled Baftiouour
*tilted et Salisbury on Satoiday lattr and owned
their Geermijeurlons for the• Assizes of the:Crewel of
Wilts. On Monday they commenced business; Dir..
Borrough presided at Nisi Print, and M.
-Jostle* Park on the Crown Side. .
.The Grand Jury having been sworla;' the Jody .
addreseed them to the following effect ;—They
assembled in the character of a Grand Inquest fnv
the County, to-evercise one of the most important
functions that could belong to the member. of a civi-
lized society.. lie was sorry to observe, that having
Weedy gorre• three times on this Circuit, his expe-
rience did not furnish any previous instance of's'•
large a Calendar of offences. There Must, therefore,
have been a considetable increase of crime in their
county, although not of, We deepest dye. As Magi-
strates, they were necessarily acquainted with the
'rules and nature of. ,that proceeding in which they
were about to ire-engaged. There was, however,
one case to, which it might be proper fo him to ad-
vert ;it was that of husband and wife committed
for the same felony. Upon looking at the &pod-
lions, it appeared to him very doubtful which of
these two persons had done the guilty set ; but if
they were both parties to it, the woman was not le-
gally answerable; the law presuming in her favour
that she acted under the controul and by the coer-
den of her husband. That was a point, however,
ee which, if they eaperienced any difficulty, they
.might refer to that Court fOr investigation. He
ihould he happy in emend whatever assistance they
Might stand in need of, although be miglit remark
generally, that their duties could not be more clearly
or espliritly described than they were ht the oath
which had been just taken. There was one dreamy
stance its the present Calendar which he could not
observe without feelings both of surprise and corpora-
, nets. He had alluded to a &miasmatic: of a similar
nature no a former occasion, and he non found that
in • Calendar of 60 cases, one full third were of per-
sons under 20 years of age, some of them, indeed. in
extreme youth, Ile was wholly at a loss to whet
cause to analyst so melancholy a fact. Perhaps that
system of stational edoestion, according to the
doctrines and principles of Established Church.
which did so much -:honour to the wise and
benevolent persons who promoted it, itati na yet
had ante to produce all its benevolent effects amobe
the younger classes of anciety‘ anti .he cherished a
hope that it would ultimately operate to restrain this
early depravity. The progress of such so improve.
meet most be greatly assisted by the increased meant
afforded to the Public of attending places .of
gine. worship. lie had no reason to doubt the ea-
rellenee of the discipline which was maintained in
their County Jail, or to believe that the Prisoners
did not receive all those attentions which were pro.
per for them is their situation. They could not,
however, pay too anxious a conviderstiou to that
subjest ; sod be should recommend it to them to sa-
tisfy their minds respecting it by ocular dentonstra.
lion. . .
The Grand Jury Olsni retired, and in a few mi-
nutes• found several trpe.bills. Thom which were
tried en Monday were,aet of any peculiar or general
ieterest.

William Woodbridge was the first Prisoner placed
at bar, -and indicted tor steeling nine-moire half.
peony from the till of the Post.Qffice at Ale*sham,
. beteg employed es a letter-carrier.st that Odin.
the course of the evidence it appeared, this the
Primmer. had-, been engaged .bs this copeck', *bout
five years, daring which time ulmilar depredations
had been comititted.• For the purpose of detecting
the offender, the pteceetion was -at length takes of
filing • particular mark on the money placed la the
•till. The Prisoner was discovered taking apart of.
it in a clandestine manner, and a part of it was like.
wise friend upon his person.
The Jury pronounced a verdict of Guilty, sad the
Coed, in order ta testify its sense of the extreme
claimer to all the confidence, of domestic society 8,6.
ing from the offence of servants robbing their mime's,
immediately sentenced the Prisoner to be transported
fur, MN en years.
William Jones, aged 18, and William Jenkins, of
the same age, were indicted on three several charges
rrf stooling two mares and a gelding, the property of
WiWaas Clements.
William Clements deposed, that be lived seer
Bristol, and that he missed the horses in question on
the 10th of April lest. In company . with a friend,
he went the next looming is 'search of them, and -at
length traced the gelding toe Public-house at and.
ton, in Wiltshire. Th. two Prisoners were in tho
house, and the landlord having cornmoniceted his.
suspicions to bin% he looked et the gelding, which be.
found to he his own.- He knew it immediately, hew.
ing bred it -hiraselft by the mark of a kick wkleff it
tied received on its off fore leg, and by a bleu on its
forehead.
• 'Themes Head .proved, that the Prisoners offered
tbe.goldleg but for. sale. The :price asked was 'IQ
• seine's. They went airsys sad reamed with the


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""IPPilft"7oV"Riqtit. 'PrPfsiVl to 141k6,1,0)"..4*'
VI. tie took the Prisoners kilo restouy ate plea
called Hiverley. •
. An 4 • tipn .Ib.t.ii,ttlyet► by, thollti•oft!lie -Cmen•
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go. I there *lb no 'proof of the, rigitsittsking
in this. vidaftee, A 'WM prusessiotg in *Vitriffmt
county cotitif not be *kale admitted as ihabf of 2
fresh taking i• that. beiiitithe well priociple ow Which
felonies could beltieCatethen Weblike than those
to which thee ore% glikiiiii4d. An. this cam Ike
ahn":ll:llfeeernie..Colierkleded ioli base.l9l• Itlibeen.ll token
i...,• Bristol,.
Ms. derke. Plat' thidgit,t-therit- Ws, neribitida:
Sow br tlecobjeminn4 tebleChe neW had beon etato
ershed-les. till the Jodnentsfriliglaeriatelos libpilos pallet
referred tti, lali! gatioi4fgflllo-* gtfdif,'rtft##7 it
-., Wigh"."Arambk; WM...114 Yigr :Iriforatt."t
cotivjcted.,of 'steeling iis liter 'detellitsg- ate a Wo-
Dior. illinirtol,4l`thai' eottety Id dna, 113 (19
net.! in gold; 31. in titan; and niktif ottio're4 in the
WA. May lest. ' This rya iabfel celPtitAted, it op'.
peered, cant Used to 'uteri hellowie.whilst the family
wyme..et church, and 1414. yegylirfg biosself in the
pantry, carded away the pinperty disccibed in the
IsOictteent. It was fatted ition liiii stint .foot
lit4iti oh tint siscreeding motoing, ato piewenituate
it alt miles distance from t he hoeshef the ProseCator.
the Jetty fogad him, Godly.. - •.! 4.'
.....,1110,11Mnifested no syneptoma of Matto or penitence,'
Oprlitltitiepted any kind of detente.
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'On the Civil Sig/VIIIPM were bat 15 risme *Pt
lower for trial, three of which were •Speciel Jetty
Atietetr. .These last stertpostponed till the (*Bowleg
dey,,,und the fog oterTwerte,wijittle ipiptortance except
to see parties interested. Oise case, that of an action
for in assault, excited some alerrinient, bit'nlll be
Teen to have led to no revs materiel motif. ' .
WIIIIII 0. 1111AT.CMILLOR AND teliallAN. . 1
• The 11141104 is • farmer, residing neitieWlsWryil
and paid his addresses to, the sister of the! Defe,,d-
ant Baichellor in Setneatier last. A fair Is intamilly
held et that place, and the Plaintiff as.fkins'iled to
wiinesa its entertainetenti at the houinbritii fatulth
brother-in-lave. - After dining with • lifsgrpitty,
and partaking liberellrPf ale, the filfikfill of !he.
4ompany retired, and, to:censeqience sifts metbing
-that passed relative-los the Inie affair vane was in
progress, the Plaineff,with compelled to dei ' a 'glass
of muddy Nod mediciied beer, by the Menacing net
'of placing 4 flifig,l at his breve. He wei thee lee•
daubed with a moisture of soot and oil, to-which was
added .a varnish of ppt liquor., Being, afterwards
conducted to the pumps be was drenched from head-
to foot, apparently in the "vain eapectition.of puri-
fying his person from the.unseemly effecis of the
former application. For this injury he now sought
for COMpIIII44I/04 in a Court of Justice.
Amelia Webb, the only win: called, staled, that
she was the sister of the pi ,inti and was a witness
to the transaction complained of. vier evidence,,
however, only went to d solo., the fact of the mar.
Aye having subsequently taken place between the
families, and to a vindicatioo of. the Ladies from the
sevicion •of having been at ell surprised by the
Power of that ale which had so completely mastered
the understaadings of the Gentlemen engaged in this
affair.
It was here agree,' that a verdict shogid be liken
by comet fur the Plaintiff—Damages 4011, . . , •
EXT'RJOHDIVARY KSCAPE 4ren 4.1
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LIENSION or .r• Pitl,soNE
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• On the St instant, a man namedm
John :d4a - I 1
prisoner. who oils confined in Tothill-fields Psingfei
on a charge of fraud, in obtaining nineteeeeeml
posed Illok of England Notes,, by moons of fated
representations, froni s Gentleman named Joseoll
lay,. of Richnwil, escaped from Mr. Pople; ad
under.keeper of Tot hill.C.lds Prison, al.he was con:
'eying him and another prisoner to a hackney-coach
to Marlborough-street Police-office for final e 111111111144
tion. .Bond it* ivell•known duffer, ant (*gained thn•
money In the equal duffing style, by petting upon
Mr. Tay goods *MOb he t retesided to be orcosset..{{
ably greater ,ealue than he sold them for, .whein ft,
fact they were made to deceive,. awl of .no value set
all, Bond escaped wit of the hackney•coach 10'
So ellow-istreet, Claford-atrept. lit gm fit/lowing
manner ;-.-The street was being piped, oued , the
coachman drew tip his horses for the .porpuse of
tenting hack.. Mitt. l'oplepot his head. throogh one
of the windows, end was asking the coachmen the
cause 4.1 the Wet:option. and Bond at the same time
threw himself held f _prettiest ititotigh the adapt wins
dos, and with much deaterity turned a somerset and
fell upon kit feet ; he rowed' as fast as be could, and
Mr. Pople not
.being able to leave his other Prieoher
to pursue him. he escaped. No tidings wfrelieerd of.
Bond until Saturday lost, when inforpiation sapg,„ee,..
milord in town that he was•lerbing,ebout Ditchete
end Windsor. George Pople and, Alfred Pople4 olS.'
errs of Queen-signior, were wtot,eq, apprehend him,
sad on Swards/. eight they .4.isiitl Bead ist,the !lots,
sod Ciroom pentieAnote• at Dascbett, and took him
"into custody. It beingiste et night the officers pot ,
.Bood to bed in Iback room on the second door...tad
took his clothes into as adjoitrioe room its *bleb the) I
slept. Abost three o'clm k seat morning they were
ache by the noise of a window in the Prjsunpi'a
room shutting, end immediately went in
.learn the
Cause. when, to their weal surprise, they, ow Buittl'
as .a distance of several fields ftoni the treat, 141*
shirt only, rooming as fast as he cooldt• bairitig
leaped from the oitieloia, A height of sear 20 feet...,
They retailed him immediately (they fort...4lldt
slept in their clothes), wid after a chace of three
Tiles, over hedge, ditch', and fields, they Ant oithilo
a hundred yards of him, 41111 ihr,111)11T1 to shoot hito
if he did not stop; he continued ruorbitte. still
firedet and missed him. They fired a second time,,
and wontided byes on the cap of the knee, he retold
thins proceed no further; they brotteht him to ion,
don on Monday, owl gate him into the custody 10:
Mr. Nodder. the Keeper of Tothill-fields .Prisoti....,.
The Magistrates have appointed tnorkrirrri's for his
esamination at Msrlbotough.strver Police-office. -
The accounts of /the slate of the harvest in almost
every part of the Crinrineut are of Ms most gratify-
ing kind. The crops in France, Italy, G..reteny,
Russia, and Poland, hold out thh best promise of
proving net only nub/rant, bat of an eacelleot
qualityg i