The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-22 00:00:00

•To us EDITOR sr THE SLITESALIA:

Grimsby. Ort. 15. 1612. I TO TUE EDITOR OP TIIE STATESMAN.
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Monday last Mr. DRARAILD'S account of our Elec. will feel baltpy on being informed, that this beaul-
tion, I trust you will give room to the annexed copy ful structure is no longer to be neglected, and that
of a letters which I have just written him, and its rapid decay is likely to be immediately arrested
oblige an • ; by the hand of the mason; an adequate fund having,
01.1) at length, by the authority of Parliament, been pro-
sided for its support. In consequence of which the
repairs hare actually commenced, the workmen
having begun, and made some progress in amending
the footway ; and I have the pleasure of being able
to add, that the pavement is not only being amend-
ed, but very much improved by the expedient of
raising it three inches, or so, which will enable
all passengers of the ordinary height to have an
uninterrupted view of the water, and consequent-
ly of whatever ma,y. he on it, of which they have
hitherto beeu depeived by the parapet having, in
point of height been so unpleasingly formed as to ob-
struct the sight of most of the passengers. It would,
however, perhaps, have been more convenient to
the public, if one side of the way had been -finished
before the other had been begun, especially as it will
probably take two or three of the dirty months to
finish the work, although there seems to be about a
dozen hands employed on it.
Now I am on the subject of the Bridge, I cannot
help expressing a hope, that the City, who have the .
sole care of it, will never again permit the Bridge to
be so unlighted ,as it often was last winter. For, if
that should happen, it may be as fatal to me in the
passage from my Chambers in town to my residence!
io Surrey, as it was to my neighbour Fot.t.err_s of-1
Garden-court, who having spent a winter's evenittsil
with some friends,. south of the Bridge, and havjng,
probably sacrificed, rather freely to the rosy god, 1
Bacchus, in his way back to his Chambers,
it happening to be a very dark night, and there
not being a glimpse of light on the Bridge to
gnide him, it seems he traversed the foot-path
by the houses on the west side of the road, and
instead of passing over the bridge, was led under
it; for on his reaching the end of the pavement he
came to the stairs from whence, as it was high water,
he slipped into the river and thus passed the bourite 1
from whence no traveller returns. I asp sure you!
will pardon my mentioning this so particularly, on
my reminding you that the premature'deperture of a
Lawyer is of more importance to him than to the
Parson, or, indeed, tiny other description of persons,
inasmuch as whenever he, quits.his tenement of clay,
whether agreeable to him or not, he is, by common
consent, very charitably consigned to the dominion
of his sable highness the D
Your's,

TO MR. DRAKARII.
StR,--The state of the Poll at the Election for ,
11th Borough, on the 6th inst. you have correctly
given, in your Paper of last week, as well as the
substance of the speeches of the newly-elected Mem-
hers, and the whole of Mr. C. T_ txsivsoN's speech ;
indeed, so correctly is the speech of this latter Gen- !
tleman reported, that one would imagine that it was
REVISED by him before it was sent to you. Mr. C.
TENN VSON came, to Grimsby, professedly to canvass
for Sir ItOnv.RT flenov, he accordingly accompanied
him during part of his canvass ; his Father's agent,l
arid most of those few ho could influence, gave their
votes to Sir ROBERT enily. Mr. GRANT (lid not
enter the Borough, having been in Scotland when
Parliament was dissolved, until nine o'clock of the
morning of the Election, and before five at night he
was returned by more than four-fifths of the whole
nuilitier who polled. I leave you, therefore, to judge
which of these two Gentlemen it is Mr. C. 'rev-
sTSON's intention to attack, and what probability
there is of success ; I can only say, that I beliere no
one was t irec returned to Parliament who had more
the !warts of his Constituents than Mr. GRANT ; and
after forty years' experience in this Borough, I can
venture to assure you, that your fears for its future
tranquillity are perfectly groundless.
I am, Sir, &c.
The total number who polled,, 263.
Fur Mr. Grant, 210. Sir R. lieron,l92.

A very high tide occurred yesterday. The Thames ••
overflowed its hanks, the water rising so high as four
feet, and for several hours inundated Westminster i
Fall, the sitting-room in Oliver's coffee-house, the
passage of the house of Commons, and every dwell-
ing-house contiguous. In the passage leading to the I
Bouse of Commons an engine was worked to check I
the rapidity of the currant ; and in Westminster Hall, I
the water being four feet in depth, a waterinan was
employed witls,his wherry.
Sunday se'nnlght, about half-past five o'clock, five
•illains entered the dwelliug-house of the miller at
Balm-mill, near Clackheaton, and robed him of I
rear 1501. they were immediately pursued, but we
are sorry to add, have yet escaped.
INQUEST.—On Monday an Inquest was held at the
Rope, Bethnal-green, on the body of Isaac Cole, a
young man, aged 16, who shot himself on Saturday.
Air. Searle, surgeon, deposed, that on Saturday,
between one and two o'clock in the morning, he was
Sent for to see the deceased in a one-pair-of-stairs
room. He found him with his head shattered to
pieces, by the discharge of a gut], which was lying
by his bedside. J. Carter, a watchmaker, stated,'
that the deceased was his apprentice ; that about •
half past ten on Saturday night the deceased and he
were together, when he left him to go to his bed-
I'MPM, and the witness at the same time went to bed.
About half-past twelve he was awoke by a noise,
when lie procured a light,' and went into the de-
ceased's room, where he found him lying upon his
bed, and weltering in his blood. They had not any
quarrel, hut parted friends. The deceased was of
sound mind, and never was suspected of being in-
sane. From the whole evidence it was thought that
the deceased had been playing with the gun, when it
went oil accidentally.. Verdict—Accidental Death.
There is now living in the parish of Tippermuir,
about five miles to the North-west of Perth, John
Bay, aged 107 years, in very good health. He was
born in the parish of Gask, bred a farmer, and now
resides on a small pendicle of land belonging to the
Earl of Kintioul, by whose bounty his wants are
supplied. He is married to a second wife, but his
children are all dead. He can walk ten or twelve
miles a day. In the course of his long life he scl.
dom tasted spirituous liquors. He remembers, in the
year 1715, cariying ammunition to thu King's army,
and of seeing a cannon dragged by 16 oxen and two
horses.

On Siandly evening last, at eight o'clock, Mr. Ro-
bort., one of the Common Councilmen of the ward .
of Farringdou Within, was stopped in Gutter-lane,
Ci.eapside, within a few yards of his own house, by a I
gang of genteelly dressed men., olio of whom put al
bandkercnief to his mouth, while two laid hold of
each arm ; they then took his watch from his pocket,
and made their escape into Cheapside.
Monday seionight a person at Durham had hit
howl shattered to pieces by the bursting of his gun,
which he had foolishly charged with powder, well
wadded, and' water, in order to stun, without kill-
ing, a parrot, which had escaped, and was Hying
about.

Mr. Wesley, a pedestrian of much celebrity, yes.
terday undertook, for a wager of fifty guineas, to
go half a mile in two minutes ai:d ten seconds,
on the road from Hounslow to Hampton. He ac-
e() nplished the task in two seconds within the given
time. •

On Tuesday the election of Members for the
comity of Huntingdon took place, when Lord
Ili ichinhrook and N. If. reilowes, Esq. were
spin chosea. The festivity usual on such occasions
terminated a melancholy manner. A man of the
name of Pettitt, a glovn. near Kimbelton, in de-
scending from the dining-room at the Fountain Inn,
appening to miss a step, fell from the top to the
bottom of the 4tairs, and fractured his skull so dread-
fully that he Wad instantly.
CUM) liTitteetmo.—Tuesday two children, one
four years .old, the other five, belonging to Mr.
Ilemit•rson, of Kensington, was decoyed by an el-
derly female from the place where they were at play
to Kensington. Gardens. The unfeeling offender
there took them among the yew trees, stripped both
naked, and ran off with their clothes. The cries
of the children were heard by the gardener, who
found theni exposed to the inclemency of the wea-
thur in one of the walks. dating thrown his great
coat over them be coanyed both to tbeit discoaso-
late parents.
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