The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-09 00:00:00

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THE STATESMA,
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The publicans in the parish of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, have formed a resolution which they are now
acting upon, of watching alternately by threes, to
prevent depredations in the parish; amongst the forces
is Gregson, the pugilist.
The murderous instruments, the maul and ripping
chissel, of which so much has been said as to the
murders at Ratcliffe, were brought from the Shad-
well Office on Tuesday, and deposited at the Public
Office, Bow-street, by order .of the Secretary of
State.
The Magistrates of the Public-office, Bow.stveet,
were principally engaged during Tuesday and yester-
day, in the investigation and private examinations,
respecting the nefarious practices lately deticted at
the Admiralty, the Navy Office, Greenwich Hospi-
tal, he. Mr. CALMER, the Secretary to the Admi-
ralty, and other official Gentlemen, attended during
the proceedings. One man was under examination
six hours on Tuesday.
NOTTINGH JAN. s.—The extraordinary mea-
sures resorted to by the Corporate Body of this
town, seem to have hae little other effect than that
of makng the frame-breakers more cautious, and,
if possible, more systematic in their operations : for
they wait the opportunity of the occasional absence
of the watch, they enter a house, break a frame, er
frames, with wondrous expedition, and, before an
alarm can be given, without manifest danger to the
person who might give it, the signal gun is fired by
the commander, for immediate dispersion. From
only three frames being broken in this town, and its
immediate vicinity, during the early part of last
week, some people flattered themselves that the mis-
chief was subsiding; this opinion, however, has
proved fatally incorrect, for nine frames were broken
on Friday evening at Basford, two miles from hence;
and this morning, at about six o'clock, two lace
frames were broken, in one of the most populous
neighbourhoods in this town. When the depreda-
tors had done the mischief, they discharged four
pieces in open defiance of the Civil Authorities, and
quietly dispersed.
About fifteen months ago, a horse-d"aler, named
Matthews, lost a quantity of bills, on his way from
Waltham to.a. foluat Stamford,
.which he advertised
without effect. A *short time after this; 'a -person
named Stricksoe, perish-derk of St. Martin's, -who
had previously been in very distressed circumstances,
was observed suddenly to have arrived at a compara-
tive state of affluence ; for instance, very soon after
having applied to the parish-officers for relief, allege
ing eetrente poverty, he took a tripto London, where
he treated a promiscuous company (not more than
one of whom he is said to have known at the time)
with a sumptuous supper awl wine, at an expence of I
twenty or thirty pounds. From this and similar trans-
actions, Strickson became an object of suspicion ;
and, on the development of some additional circnm. I
stances, he was accused-of having the lost property
in his possession. A confession ensued ; from which
it appears, that w hilt Mr. Matthews was takteg off
his hoots in the kitchen of the Coach and Horses Inn,
in St. Martin's, bills (amounting to 3001.) which he
had deposited in one of them, and whichhad escaped
his memory, dropped out, and were taken up by
Strickson.
On Saturday last, at Tittleshall, in Norfolk, Capt.
George Heste, and his brother Charles (two of the
younger sons of the Rev. Dixon Iloste), were out I
shooting, when the gun of the former accidentally
went off, and unfortunately shot his brother, who in-
stantly expired on the spot.
The Dividends, payable at the Bank, may be in-
creased upwards of Ninety Thousand per Cent. in a
single day, b; the purchase of a Ticket or a Share in
the present state Lottery, combining ad
two
vantages on-
' known before in so few Tickets aa 12.,000, with
Prises of 200001. &c. he. which will be Drawn at
sine o'clock, on Tuesday 3dorniug, the 21st inst.

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COURT •OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JAN. 7.
THE UNIVERSITY or CAMBRIDGE V. BRYEIL
The ArroasEv-Gesc,RAL, for the Plaintiffs,
stated, that this was an action brought against the
Defendant, as the publisher of Mr. Fox's work, for
not having delivered at Stationers' Hall, a copy of
that work, for the use of the University of Cam-
bridge, pursuant to the Statute. There WAS no dis-
pute as to the facts of this.ca4e, and the Wiwi wae.
L brought for the purpose of trying the question, w
as
titer, under the Statuta„Anne, that could be enz
force(); and as the point re vet itself into a mere
question of law, he prOposed that a special case
should be reserved for the further consideration of
the Court.
Mr. PARK, for the Defendant, acquiesced in this
proposition, stating it to be a question of immense
importance, for that in,some instances, namely The
Encyclopcedial the copies of that work to be deli-
vered to the EngliSh and Irish Universities would
amount to 30001. ' Tbis, to be sure, could make no
difference as to the law ; but, as it might be the in-
tention of his client to carry further than the Court
of King's Bench, he wished it to be turned into a
special verdict.
Trd under the direction of
he Jury acciingly,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH, found a verdict for the Plain-
Itiff—Damages 61.65. (the value of the wolf to be
delivered), subject to a special Cast, upon the un-
derstanding that it should be afterwards turned lute
a spacial verdict, if the Conyt slteuld be of that
opinion.

po LICE.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday, two men, named Half and Barnett,
were brought up for examination, on a• charge of
having attempted to pass two forged *roe shilling
tokens, purporting to be those of the Batik of Eng-
land, at the shop of a pastry-cook, en Laclgate- hill,
the preceding night. They were remanded for far-.
ther examination on Friday.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
OUTAAGE.—A respectable dressed man, of the
name of Crosslin, who stated himself to hold a situa-
tion of 5001. a-year, was charged with assaulting two
young Ladies, on Monday night, in Charlotte-street,
Rathbone-place. It appeared by the statement of
the Ladies, that they were rudely accosted by the
D?fendant in Frith-street, Soho, on their way home,
at ten o'clock, and they were obliged to solicit the
aid of a watchman to rid themselves of his imperti-
nence. When in Rathbone-place he again overtook
them, and followed until the Complainants arrived at
their residence, in Charlotte-street, when he made a
forcible entry with them, and conducted himself as a
libertine would do in a bagnio. There was no one
in the house but the servant, until the young Ladies
arrived, and she ran out for assistance ; and on en-
tering the house, one of the females had her clothes
literally torn from her back. Previously to being
taken to the watch-house, the Defendant struck one
of the ill-used females a violent blow in the face. lie
was held in sufficient bail to answer the complaint at
the Sessions.

Tut VAUXHALL BRIDGE CoMCANT, AND MEssas.
WHITE AND SoDn.—This was an inquisition taken
beforelhe High Bailiff of Westminster, and a Spe-
cial Jury, on Saturday last, at Milbank, on the re-
quisition of Messrs. White, timber merchants, who
claimed under an agreement from Messrs. Bentham,
to have the exclusive right of depositing their timber
on upwards of eighteen hundred feet of the
shore of the- river Thames, between high and
low water mark, from Lord Grosvenor's late
house, called Be!grave-house, to the house of Messrs.
White, above the scite of the Vauxhall-bridge, and
also the use of the bank, or wharf, to the same ex-
tent: of this shore and bank, 635 feet have been
twit by the Bridge Company, in laying and landing
materials since the commencement of the works, and
for which Messrs. White claimed upwards of 16001.
as a rent,and for damages already sustained by them,
and 3351. per annum for the time to come, so long
as the same should be held by the- Company.
Mr. MARRYATT, on behalf or-Mtssrs. White,
stated the nature of these claims, and called 14 wit-
nesses, who proved the great benefit that had result-
ed to the Claimants from the use of the part so oc-
cupied, and that they had been in the habit of re-
c•iving several hundred pounds from persons laying
and landing timber and materials, and as wharfage
rents; the witnesses also spoke to the reasonableness
of the sums demanded.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, in a most argumenta-
tive and able speech, on behalf of the company, de-
nied the right of Messrs. White to any of the privi-
lege' in question, on the ground that no persoW
could, except by grant from the Crown, hammy '
exclusive right ,of depositing, or staring timber or
materials within the bed of a navigable river, aud
the bank being a public foot-path, no person could
lay and continue any thing thereon, without being
subject to an indictment for a nuisance. This doc-
trine, the Learned Serjeant illustrated by several
cases, without calling any evidence—the Jury with-
drew, and in a few minates returned a verdict, that
Messrs. White were neither entitled to any compen-
sation for the time past, nor the time to come. By
this decision the company have not only saved a con-
siderable sum of money, but prevented all future
interruption from parties conceiving themselves en-
titled to privileges similar to those claimed by Messrs.
White.
According to tables published in the Almanack of
the French Board of Longitude, the population of
the French Empire amounts to 43,937,144 souls.—
Of this number, it is supposed that '2B millions
speak the French language, 6,453,000 the Italian,
4,063,000 the Dutch or Flemish, 967,000 Breton,
and 108,000 the Basque. The population of the
States connected with the system of France;in which
number are included the kingdom of Italy, Switzer-
land, Spain, the Confederation of the-Rhino; &c. is
estimated at 38,141,541 souli.
From the general call for a' new system of Police,
our old watchmen, like Ministers, are at present very
apprehensive of losing their plates. Some of both
parties have long enjoyed very snug sinecures,
and it is full time there should be a new regulation.

The following Letter was lately stint to Messrs.
CLARKE and Soms, Booksellers :-
64 Gormestutif—About the latter end of the year
NOT, as the writer of this was passing through Lin-
collet Inn-square, he y
in a Bank of England note
for 301. folded up, and lyg on the ground, at the
bottomof the first stone steps, as you come in from
the Strand. In a few days after, passing the same
way, he saw an advertisement offering a reward of
five guineas tq the finder of the. note, with direction
to apply to. Messrs. CLARKE and S'oxs, the corner of
Portugal-street. The want of money, in au un-
lucky moment, tempted him to pay no attention to
the advertisement. For this one falsestep ho has suf-
fered many a sleepless night and uneasy hour; he most
earnestly begs forgiveness, and as some atonement
(having now justly acquired the means of refunding),
now sends to Messrs. CLARKE .and Sous 301. toge-
ther with four years' interest; and he most earnestly
beseeches them to acknowledge the receipt of it in
the Newspapers, in a line directed to on the
day next but one or two on receipt of this, and he is
sure that their respectable characters will prompt
them to return it to the right owner with all conve-
nient speed. Their compliance with the above will
much oblige a mind who will be really distracted un-
til he sees the receipt of the above acknowledged in
some of the Papers.

pX. X.
" 301.—Four years' interest to Dee. V, 61.—Total
Mr. LANCASTER has been lecturing in Kilkenny,
and was attended by a most respectable audience.—
The Oamonn Family distinguish themselves by their
benevolence and attention to the subject of Educa-
tion without bigotry or proselytism.
The C'ondso states, that Marshal SOULT has lately
had a narrow escape from being taken by Z.U.DEVAS,
who, with a party of Guerillas, had taken post in
the neighbourhood of Seville, from which -SUULT
came out in his carriage to take an airine:, but, when
within musket-shot of the ambuscade, a shepherd ap-
prizing him of his danger, he escaped.
Tuesday evening, between eight and nine o'clock,
a lad, abed 16 years of age, passing along Bishops-
gate-street, and carrying a bundle of linen he had
been to take from a Gentleman's house in Leaden-
hall-street, WAS mother in Kingsland-road, to wash,
was shoved down in the street by some thieves, one
of whom snatched the bundle, and made his escape
into Houndsditch.
The Portsmouth Sessions will be held there this
chiy, when Capt. Crofton, who is in custody at that
place, will be tried for robbing Mr. Bu tnaultv, and
several other persons, at the Crown lnn.
Tuesday night, about six &clock, owing to the
carelessness of a lodger, a dreadful fire broke out in
the house of Mr. Oakley, perfumer, No. 6, Glass-
house-street, which totally destroyed the same, and
considerably injured the houses of Mr. Maynard,
oilman, and Mr. Hodges, shoemaker, adjoining, be-
fore it was extinguished.

From TILE LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 7:
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DIVIDENDS.
Feb. 1, W. Manning, Boston, Lincolnshire, straw-mminfactu-
rer—Jan. Sin, T. Sykes and W. Baker, Leeds, dyers—Feb. 10,
J. and J. F.N. iLtS, Leeds, inereitants--Feb. 17 W. 11-611, Wood-
bridge, Suffolk, butcher—Jam IS, J. Hain, Hampton,
sex, victualler--Jan. 29, J. Simpson and W. G. rairtsoul, Old
'Change, factors—Jan. 28, T. Clive and S. Itichardsonroken-
house-vard, merchants—Jan. 48, A. Salt and C. A. Beckman,
Birminghau, witte-merchratts—Feb. 9, S. Hall, Bristol, iron-
monger-- Feb. 7, W. F. Slenee‘Gosport, mercer—Feb. 13, E.
Itayder and J. !Medley, Newport, isle of W,ight, corn-dealers—
Jan. :;1, 3. Conley. Sheffield-, cutler--Jan. 24 S. Harrison and
tN. 11 irrimit, Manchester, hatters--Feb. 3, J.,Routh, T. Le Me-
snrier, and L. Routh, Austin-friars, nterchants--Jau. 21, R.
Mount and W. Roberts, Angel-court, merchants—Jan. 48, J.
Curtis. Snring-street, 'Mary-le-bone, tallow-chandler—Jan. 2S,
Ii• IVatting-street, Manchester warehouseman—Ja and T.
2St S•
!Hobbs, Southampton, milliner—Jan.milliner—Jan.u. itg, R. Rennards
Renttards, Kingston-upon-11u11, merchants.
CERTIFICA.—Jaw.
T. Barnes and T. Sefton, BlackrTESod, Lancashire, calico-prin-
ters —J. Alugnie, St. Pancras, dealer—W. Willock, Preston,
lancashire,woollen-draper—Z. Hiscocks, Bristol, draness—J.
Ingleby and C. Ingleby, Flint, lead-merchants—W. Barber and
R. Barber. Clitapside, warehousemen—E. Goldfinch, Canter-
bury, chemist—R. Peacock, Liverpool coach-maker—J. Green-
he, Tottingtnn, cotton-spinner—W. Stevens, Leeds, stone-
dealer—J. Bailey, Fry's-place Blackfriars'-road, tailor—ll.
Foster and W. G. Sharp, liastn;hall-street, warehousemen—D.
Stewart,l ;reek-street, Soho,,jeweller—K. Beeston and Mgo,
Margaret-strect, Casendish-uquare, milliners—T. Napier, Dub-
lin, merchant.
PARTNERSHIPS 'DISSOLVED.
J. S. Greenwood, 11. Matthew, and T. Greenwood, Rood-
lane—a. and R. Ainsworth and W. and S. Pennington. Halli-
well, Lancashire, bleachers,J. Atkinson- and J. Foxcroft,
Friday-street— A. Boardman, H. :Bureau, and C. E.
Parke,. Liverpool, milliners—G. Rew and L. Inkson, Adam-
street, Adelpht, tallors—.l. Finch and G. Arrowsmith,
ready-made-been w vehmisenten—.l. Jones and R.
Nl ing iryanott t,
Finsbnry-mnare, sorgeons— C. Spencer and T. Page, -
ham. lacommitufactiirces—W. Henry and S. Thompeaotie, Man-
chester, taanufa-turers—J. Townsend and J. Green, Birming-
ham, limem-fotinders—E. Hobson, T. Tood, and J. P. Hodgkins,
Birmingham, factors—G. Browne ant W. Burgess, Northamp-
ton, dealers in coats—H. Osborn, J. Ganby, and W. Palmer,
Bordesley, Warwickshire, gun-barrel-makers (so far as regards
the said W. Palmeri—J.Barker. N. D. Bishop, and E. Peter,
Serjeanes Inn, Fleet-street—G. Cotton and M. Johnson, Leeds,
merchants—E. Simeon, G. Myer, and C. Ogleby, London—J.
Wilson, J. Wilson, jun. and A. Wilson, Wood-etreet, Cheap-
side, ribbon-manufacturers (so far as regards the said .1, W
R.
Mitchel, J. Wreakes, W. Hutton, A. Hill, and R.
Marsden, Sheffield, merchants—J. Shaw, R. Jobson, J.Roherts,
and E. Eyre, Roscoe-place, Sheffield, merchants (so far as re-
gards the said E. Eyre)—J. Dinsley and J. Crosi, Leeds, mer-
.

SCOTCH
Mit.ts,a's Wharf.
Fifeshire (Mitier), Leitja
Prompt (Davidson), Leith
Marquis of Huntley (Martin),
Dundee
Dowitz's Wharf.
Clyde (Martin), Leith
George (Stracban), Inverness
Swift (Stark). Montrose
Resolution (Watt), Banff
LEITH and Hewlett Wharf.
Swallow (White) Leith
HIGH WATER AT LOW
Morning, 5 minutes after 9.

MICK!
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8 Jan.

ed. Sails.
11 Jan. —n, A. M.
19, —5, P. M.

16, -8, P. M.

12, -10, A.
14, -10, A. M.
19, -4, I'. M.
14, -.10, A. M.

12, -11, A. M.

,DOE.THIS DAY.
g. 21 iniautes after 9.

BIRTHS.
On the Sd instant; at Brighton, the Lady of Francis J. Jack-
son, Lsq. of a son.
Saturday, at Grange, the seat of J. L. Kaye, Esq. the Right
Hos. Lady A. Kaye, of a daughter. •
At Alverstoke, Hams, the Lady of Colonel Hodder, of the
North Cork Militia, of a son.

DIED.
On Saturday last, Miss E. Dick, aged 24, only daughter of
Its. Dick,
_of Acre-lane, Brixton.
On the sth inst. at Peckham-lane,Surrey, Mrs. Elizabeth,
wife of .1. Deleon, FAq. aged 29.
miaow
At Plymouth, Mr'. Byname, el She hie Mr. Prim Sy-
mo us, Merchant.