The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-12 00:00:00

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Oitatm*Mll of tOefiesdaresi and Disco, ascending abrupt
le,frarmi:theohaces, eu4 at once shooting their alpine
'IMO!, alto, litt.elosda., They, an ,thickly ce'uie
Si ilk siriti!* !Milts in Moir, by An darkaitti
11141011 :PC1P,091,14. eery lam and titntolinst
through their gelid coati,_ jAet we are convinced, of
Alitir-nmtmc•,-;,Thtse raigognin on„gradoally lessen-
Oa view, until, et length, they seem to
.ssuite
02.0440 PlO•Pnction- The surface of the. Way.
pt it covered , entirely ,yrAtk Arms otice, interspersed
Mith,,bitg,e bona t• maprof them allow, moving slow!
hi, and igaiesticeliy
,backwArds ajtd, forwards with the
'flowing and receding tides. More than 40 sail of
'Pregolsodmen wore dispels eti AD And down;, some,
Ukwoacielves, ipchored to. jOe-Asergs ; others,moriog
111,.the will of the ice, ip .whkch they,were beset.—
Lookiog inwards, there is not a stream of weer, tp
by peen within, the compass of, the eye • , all snowy
plains in, the midst of whichlnnamersiglejnrgs erect
their beery heads. The fanciful shapes these,assame,
4. fold, their beautiful shades, ever changing with the
movomeat of the solar rays, produce a rant delight-
,effect. fit: • yr.— _
"The astronomical observations being, fielalaod.OP
'fibs 20th, we cast off into a stream.of water ;, but
,the
ice wars. _heavy that we could make but little prof.
until the 2d instant; when a strong smith...not
brenesprong op,whic.h opened to us a fine channel,
leading tissoegb the ice to the northward. By the
4th, oirgelies sod the shale fleet were safe, its clear
[water to the northward of this formidable barriore7-
Oor prospect is again, fair; bat, es the whilers are
' almost at the ne plug ultra of their latitude, we are
preparing oar dispatches, end, if the wind" sod
clear sea continues, wi may, perhaps bid them
fennel to-morrow. . . .
66 The climate, since our arrival, has been ref.,
markably one ; for a fortnight in the first part of
June, we had the thermometer .below the freezing
point; bet for the most part it_ has ranged betweep
35. and 45„ sod at mid-day I have seen it upon the
top of an ice-berg, above 80. Thick fogs continu-
ing for days, is tOe most unpleasant westber we
have experienced ; but, according to the whalers, we
bare been, this season, extremely fortunate In that
respect.

" The little communication we hive had with the
shore enables me to say very little regarding the in,
habitants. At different times, however, they have
come off in their canoes, and a week ago they
brought off a canoe full of their women. They app
peered to me an honest, well-behaved people ; they;
are dressed io seal skins, and cot, in the whole, bet:
a wretched figure ; they are, nevertheless, very
cheerful, and when our fiddler began to scrape, they
fell to dancing with great delight, and in the even.
ing departed, much pleased with the entertainment
they bad received. A Missiooary, David Crania, about
00) ears ago, wrote a small History of Greenland,aud
a mission sent there by the UnitasEratrum.-in which be
gives, as far as I am enabled to judge, a plain, honest,
and sensible account of this poor people, to which,
I, therefore, refer you, convinced you will be well
entertained. Hitherto, oar voyage has been attended
with little interest, inasmuch as we have seen little
Wore than the common objects of a Greenland voy-
age. But, on the other band, we have ascertained,
by our superior astronomical observations, that all
the land we have seen is most erroneously laid down
lo the charts I the greater part of the coast being ac-
Wally 140 or 180 miles more to the west than they
Ste laid down ; and we base been sailing on those
meridians which, io the chart, are supposed to be
copied by land. So far, the voyage has not been al-
together useless; but henceforth, every mile we run
will be marked with importance: we shall be ex-
ploring seas and lands which have not been seen by
Europeans since the days of Davis and Baffin, those
intrepid and persevering navigators who, bad they
possessed the means for prosecuting nautical disco-
veries that the preoeot scientific age affords, would
Dot have left the objects of this expedition to be ac-
complished by their posterity.
" You will, doubtless, be curious to know the
*pistons of those on board respecting the success of
the expedition. The fact is, that owing to the de-
fective charts of these parts, and to the imperfect
reckonings of the old navigators, no rational opinion
can he formed. The existence of a communication
between these Straits and the North Pacific Sea is,
therefore, quite problematical. At the same time,
there is certainly nothing to countenance a conclu-
sion of its non-existence. You will not be surprised
in this view of the matter, that we are, generally, san-
guine.
66 When, my dear .1 I shall have another op-
portunity of writing to you, is as uncertain es the
fite of oer enterprise: should we find a passage in
the direction we are now pursuing, we shall most
likely ourselves be the bearers of the event ; but
airfield we he foiled, we shall try to effect one by
Iledson's Bay, and then it will be extremely probi-
ng that, by the time you receive this, I shall be
writing to Igo by one of she Company's ships."
• •a. July 9. lat. 74. 6. N. loft. 60., W.
sesicely finished my letter before a thick
F.Ag,coio4; oo,,ood\i; Abe. warping, we found our.
MOO twreisessdad laws of ice and bergs, amongst
110)011,w,,e,alillceotinee,, . The foggy weather contri.
Avast greatly to the dissolution of it, god we have,
this gaming% abundance of open water, but the
stagy weather jtill continues. We shall, if possible,
"Rot,oor diapetcbes on board one of the London ships
this evening."
July 25.
'Coitt °.:ll4E' the did
i$ dispatches
in,go away
,t 4 my list dale. Since then we have
maito_litge progress, 1)6 at length, by dint, of great
ff.! "A
ezfrifon,we have, rc,c,ted tat . 1 . and Dog. 80. end.
leveled a fairer proipeit of
f ileion. ting ger
I• ' • being
ther,coptinges extremelyfrrspereble, seldom se
low Hs tttefreeiing Point I. lAi day time. The fish.'
•
r,si!!i, who brave come oft as fay as our:et/ea, gre
theleablis fast. We are here sgrrounded by'
rivlOgei [have bad the pleasure of seeing 'begs in'
' t4iWitse."
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Thirsdey eight last, it a late hour, a Villain con-
trived to eater the.hoose of a Lady, situate in the
Church-yard of the Tabernacle Chapel, Totteohain•
court-road, in which she is placed to logic ifterthe.
establishment. Without disturbing the lady, he con-,
laved to pack ep the whole of the Olt!, 'ltc. wish
which he was leaving the place, when he was stopped
the property in his possession, and likewise a
crow-bar and other implements of boose-bteatiog.

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Autaall4lll4.ltee-i--Qe Satteglae,,e.segemq, cif the
!WMe of jOfffilif Lfictiti a Ilftak *Pets ot _age, Who
formerly heisteged ,to Os 3d hattelioss. of, the 90th
legimmit of loot, but now on ost:prosinuer ;
sea Cpliege„ !es charged yrio.the, ourctec.o( Mary 1
Ann 1111.,nice, is whom be ,was married Octet ter) 1
yeateeince ay Cite's,* (hurt~.. She is represented
tribe,eltput *7 yeare..of mgt;, lus tall, and,seerned to
be,a woman of preppsfessiog eppeo vatic... The follow.
iog,are thecireumetameesas relent/44y 'toehold Clark,
witheesed, the transaction, and Maybauk, the
c'otratetilit ofthe night : . .
•
... The dotteition of the. first-mentioned pingo Ares
taken kefnrn .W,. 4.: A. Witte; Esq. one of the
llae-
gistrates of Queen-square Police-office, in the m-
imics Pr
Richard Clarke, basing been duly sworn, stated,
—",l lice at,No. 1, Jekse-row, Clialsaasould am a
tektor. Last eight, between thri h uri..of ,sie and
eight, I was stoodiog et the gate of towropes-covet,
litod the wife of Prisoner wu talking witb,a :Mr..,
Rom, ,who Utrecht that yard ; .1 was et a disionceef
me yettl 'Pa bait behind them, AIWA* Vosoner
standing by his wife's right side, sabeet a yard
from her,, .04.ths, other women wee Mantling with
her back against the gate-post. The .Prisoner was
arAiliin his Haifa of beisigliven to drunkenness, but
talked with e mild 4oice. His wile replied, that if
she were so given, it was owing to his driving iter,trri
.eira,all,die for his benefit. .1 saw lir p•ispeorfut •
his right baud to the right side of his waistcoat ter a
6444, end kept fumbling about with Ms tend, tied'
pelthowt ,ppraking to his wife, . he, rushed between
Mit Ross and bar, and I saw the Prisoner make a
Alotent plunge Selina his wife en the stomach with
lila hand. Tbe, blow. could be heard. I saw some. I
thin .his beiid, but what it was I cannot tell.—
lineirdiatety his wife received the blow, she stagger.
ed balk (Inwards me, and reclaimed, 'Oh my
God, I NO (nerds's(' : will any body take the knife
out of me?' She then fell down, end repeated the
same went'. I saw the blood streaming down from
her, The Prisoner stood with his bands down, and
said he was not going to run away, and that any
man might take him that liked. The Prisoner was
taken into cestody, and I understand his wife was
taken to St. George's Hospital, and that she died at
five o'clock this morning."
The Prisoner having hoard this evidence delibe-
rately read over to him by Mr. Miller, the Clerk of
the Office, the Magistrate, Mr. WHITZ, asked him if
be wished In say any thing respecting this melancholy
occurrence?

The Prisoner replied, with perfect coolness end
apparent indifference, '6 I would not wish to say any
thing at present"
MAGISTRATE.—Then his committal most be made
out, Mr. Miller, and he most be brought up again
after the Coroner's Jury have sat—say Tuesday—
for re-examioation. The Prisoner was then removed
from the bar.
The MAGISTIATC asked Maybank If the knife bad
been found ? Maybank answered in the affirmative,
and produced it, saying it bad been found and brought
to him by a woman named Harrowby. It is an old
dessert knife, with a white handle, the blade of
which is shoot five inches long, and much worn, per-
ticelerly towards the point.
Richard Maybank, constable of the night at the
watch.hoese in Simmonds-street, Sloane-square, gave
the following account of the transaction, as far as it
bad come to his knowledge:—
About eight o'clock on Friday night the Prisoner
was brought to the watch-house, and without the
slightest promise or suggestion, the Prisoner admitted
having committed the act with a knife, which he had
thrown away opposite the Three Crowns. He said
his reason was, that he saw something in his wife's
conduct that he did not like. Maybank then locked
him up, and went in quest of his wife, who, he un-
derstood, had been removed to Dr. 'l'urnbull's, in
Sloane-square. On his arrival there, he discovered
that the Doctor was not at home, snit he in conse-
quence ordered her to be taken to St. George's Hos-
pital. The wound was sin inches long, from the
abdomen upwards, and nearly the whole of her in-
testines were protruding through the wound. The
cries of the unfortunate creature were too sp.
palling to be described. She was taken to St.
George's Hospital in pain the most escrociating, and
every thing that skill and humanity could suggest was
done for her, but she did not long survive. Daring
the time Maybank was at the hospital, a woman,
named Harrowhy, brought him the knife he had pro.
dined bef•-re the Magistrate, which she had found
near the spot described by the Prisoner. He then
returned to the watch-house, end before he produced
the knife to the Prisoner, asked him whet kind of
a. knife it was he had perpetrated these with ? The
Prisoner replied, that it was a long knife with a
while handle. Maybank then produced it, and
showed it to him, and the Prisoner said, " I am
sure that is the knife, and now I em happy !" He'
was then locked op for the night, and in the morn-
ing, it being understood that the infortinate wenn*
was dead, preparations were making to convey Mai
to Queen-Rem for examination, where he arrived
in a coach about two o'clock, attended by Maybank
and other persons, followed by a great.crowd, prin.
cipally women, who were so enraged at his diaboli.
cat conduct, that, had it not been for the Officer's
precaution in procuring a coach, they would most
probably have proceeded against him in so summary a
manner as to reader further enquiries useless.
While be was being conveyed to the Office, he stat-
ed, that he overheard a conversation which took
place in the Coach and Ilorses public-hoese, betweeo
his wife and a man, with whom he strongly soaped.
ed she had indulged in act of concebineney. in the
course of this conversation she said she would ge
home with him (the Prisoner) to 1, Exeter-street'
(where it appeared they lived), and wait with hint
until he was asleep; and then she would get op 'and
return and continue with him (the person with whom
she. held the conversation) all night ; end that be,
the Prisoner, having a knowledge of her iddelley6
was determined to thwart them in their criatioal
• views, and hence be had resolved open the colunale•'
lion of this barharoos deed.
It was ofsir mentioned, that .11.11 had conteinplatedl
the performance of the horrible act for nearly a fort'.
night. kit .ibeot„fiite feet seven or eight !aches
high, and very far from being well looking.