The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-15 00:00:00

STATES M k N.

Joseph Mills, private in the same company, said he we
on duty at Buckingham House; seeing the prisoner wa•
going over the paling. contrary to orders, be attempted
to prevent him, but he endeavoured to force his way. and
conducted himself violently, till be was taken into custody.
The prisoner said he came into the green part, in which
is the Canal now cleaning, at the end near the florae
Guards; many beodreds were in the Park, who entered by
the cattle way. He was proceeding home, and thought it
no harm to go over the pales at the end next Buckingham
Gate, when the sentry run up and struck him a violent
blow above the eve, which stunned him. He recollected
nothing more till he saw his hat in the Park, and the sol-
dier holding hint by the leg to fling him back over the
pales, into the Park again.
Mr. RATNSPORD —Was it Mills who struck you so rashly ?
Yes, Sir, and I was afterwards dragged a prisoner through
the Ahnonry, and all the low courts and alleys to the watch-
house; but I found bail.
Here a gentleman, who did not give his name, butt who
said he was himself a freeholder in Westminster, stepped
forward, and said he met the soldiers taking the prisoner to
the watch-house; he offered to become bail for his appear-
ance,observing the officers all knew him, but they refused ;
ultimately he was accepted, and now he attended with him.
He was sorry the military had so ill-treated him.
Mr. Wnrre—The Grand Jury will sit in a few days,
and be can indict the soldier; the military have no right
to act as constables ; there were constables in the Park,
and they would take charge of him if they were called

upon.
Mr. RAINS/ORD—We will not hold the soldier to bail
for this. If he is not forthcoming, and a true bill be found,
there will be a warrant issued against him.
Mr. Shirley—Your Worship, C would feel disposed not
to press the matter further, although 1 had been so ill
treated.
Soldier—Your Worship, this man cannot prove what
be has asserted ; he beano evidence, and hisaccount is false.
Mr. WHITE—It is absolutely necessary that an indictment
be preferred, it is of public importance; it would then he
proved whether the military are justified in assaulting the
King's subjects.
Mr. Shirley then expressed his intention to prosecute,
add the Magistrate, with this understanding, dismissed the
charge.
MARLBOROUGH STRERT.—Elizabeth Coady, Catherine
Fitzgerald, and habella Sullivan, were yesterday finally
examined, on suspicion of havi attempted to extort mo-
ney from an old man, named Thomas Barnes, whom Fitz-
gerald enticed into a house of ill rime, in Maynard Street,
St. Giles's, kept by Elizabeth Coady.
Oar readers will recollect that Barnes was found on the
pavement, under one of the windows, in a state of insensi-
bility, on Tuesday, the 231 September. and was conveyed
to Middlesex Hospital, where he had been ever since, un-
able to attend. lie was; however, brought to this offi..e
yesterday in a hackney coach, being still incapable of walk•
lag, from the injury he received in the fall. The deposi-
tions taken by the Magistrate at the Hospital, the day after
the transaction, was read over to Barnes. and lie said it
was correct. The substance of it was as follows :—The
day already namedlit came to town from a village in Suf.
folk, and in passing along Maynard Street, he observed
a young women standing at the house do r in slayn trd-
street ; she invited him in, and he went up stairs ; she then
demanded some money from him, which he refused to give,
upon which she called some persons to come up ; a young
*and an elderly woman came up, and they repeated the de-
nand for money, which he still withheld from them. Bei-
lag greatly alarmed, lie ran to the window, threw up the
sash, and called for a constable. They persisted in asking
for money, accompanied with dreadful oaths. He went to
the window again, but could not recollect whether lie or
they forced his legs out : in his fright lie tried to escape,'
and hung by his bands some time until be fell.
The Magistrate directed him to look to the bar, and
say if the prisoners were the persons of whom he had
spoken.
The old man declared be could not undertake to swear
they were, his alarm was so great at the time.
James Turner stated that he was a shoemaker, living at
No. 5, Maynard Street, and on Tuesday, the 23d of Sep-
tember, he saw the old man hanging out of the second
door window ; Catherine Fitzgerald bad hold of his hands,
Itithough she was endeavouring to prevent him falling.—
She cried out," The man will be killed." lie soon fell
down on the pavement; witness was the first person who
reached him after the fall.
Susannah Perry confirmed the old man's statement as to
his entering the house.
The evidence not being strong enough to commit Coady;
she was discharged.
Fitzgerald did not deny the fact of baying taken the
old man up stairs, but he said the money demanded was
only for the room. He bad been seated by the fire some
time, complaining of being tired of his day's walk,•before
a word-passed respecting money. She then remarked that
if he wok a ferncy to put himself out of the window, it was
not h9Pfault.
Sullivan remained silent.
Mr. 11 irrentssoN, the solicitor, attended on behalf of
the r a ish.
The parties were bound over to appear, and Sullivan
-and Fitzgerald were fully committed fur trial.
Thomas Seymour, habited as.* sailor, was re-examined,
cba-ged with having stolen a light drab coloured great
cost, the property of Mr. Henry Turner, solicitor, Prosser-
street, Rathbone-place, Between three and four o'clock
in the afternoon of Saturday, the prisoner went to Mr.
Turner's house, and after ringing the bell, to which' the
servant answered, he said he was the conveyer of a lettar
from a Captain who was lying at Blackwell, whose vessel
had justarrived from Bengal. Unluckily be had lost the
letter, but he believed its contents were to apprise Mr.
Turner of .the arrival of some goods which had come by
the ship from the East Indies. He then requested the
servant would convey the message to Mr. T. The story,
learning a plausible one, the prisoner was permitted to
Inter the hall until Mr. Tauter was made acquainted
'with it. While the servant was relating the prisoner's
tele, Mr. T. heard the outer door close. He immediately
tan down stairs into the street, and caught the prisoner as
he was endeavouring to escape with the great coat in
-question, which Le had taken from the hall.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
NIART-LA•HONNE.—Yesterday a woman, named Mary
Weston, with a child in her arms, was charged with a
felony in the house of R. Barclay, Esq. the banker, 37,
Devonshire Place, Mary-la-bonne.
• Elizabeth Perry, the housekeeper, stated, that on Satur-
day afternoon last, between three and four o'clock, she went
up stairs into her room, and presently an alarm was given
that the house had been robbed, and that the thief was
in custody. She returned down stairs, and found the pri-
soner in the hands of Brant, the beadle, with a shawl in
his possession belonging to witness, which he said lie had
taken from the prisoner, who must have sneaked down the
area stepsomil have proceed to her-room, and from a closet
therein stole the shawl now produced.
Samuel Brant, beadle of alary-la-boone, stated that he
saw the prisoner in
.the area of Mr. Barelay's house; he
also saw her go into the house, and on her return he stop-
ped her, and demanded what business she had there 1 Site
said she wanted to get her boy into a school, and wished for
the recommendation of Mr. Barclay. He took her down
the area again and searched her, when he found under her
arm a hhawl, which she declared was her own property.—
He alarmed the house, and the footman coming down, the
prisoner said she had 'asked him' for his master's reckon)
wentlation.
The footman deilared% had never seen the prisoner
before in his life, until he saw her in the castody of the
beadle. She was committed.
LAXIIITI STttazT,—lt may not be generally known

O/Utter° are in the inetropuos many houses tor the sale of
liquors, kept by persons calling themselves Woolcombers,
who Leveler a considerable time exercised all the privileges
of ►,icensed Victuallers without having a license to do so.
They invariably plead their right to keep open public-
lionises without any license, and say they are authorized so
to do by virtue of an Art pissed in the 35th year of Geo.
111. cap. Itl-1, entitled'• An Act to enable Woolcombers to
exercise tea 'es in any town or place in Great Britain."
This Act states that in consequence of the many uses ma:
chinery is put to, a great number of Woolcombers had heed
thrown out of employment. It therefore authorised ani
person who lied served an apprenticeship as a Woolroniber,
to set op aro, exercise any trade he may he " apt and able
for, without *ha I t. suit or molestation whatsoever, for, or
by reason of their using such trades."
The above are toe grounds of the Woolcombers' elaiti.
The Magistrates, however, decided otherwise, and ordered
informations to be laiil against all such persons who ex.
ercised the calling of a Licenied Victualler without
licenses.
Samuel Walters was the first person informed against;
he keeps a public house, without any sign, situated near
harbour Square, I .!ron ate rci .1 Road.
The Magistrate said, he felt it necessary to convict the
defendant in the fall penalty of the 201. for selling beer
without a license.
31r. Unman, the Clerk, then read the clause which 'Moss
defendan's to ay?eal. by giving instant notice, and entering
into the requisite recognizance..
A 31r. Benjamin Bright advised the defendant not to
appeal, as lie said the Woo!combers' Act was imperative;
he had bed, be said, end advice on it before. Mr. Bright
said he was a woolcouther, and the lit st who opened a house
of this description (in Spa Fields, we understood )
It is singular, that the Act under which the def ndast
was convicted was passed in the name Session as the. Wool.
combers' Act, by which he thought himself authorized to
act as belied done. .

The office was crowded by a number of most respectable
licensed victualler., who expressed great anxiety to hear
the Magistrates' decision, and appeared much gratified
when they heard of the conviction.
informations have been laid against two more houses of
the above description.
UNION Haar..—Yesterday a young man of respectable
appearance was placed at the bar, charged with having
stolen a gold pin from the person of Lewis Isaacs.
The, complainant stated,•that about nine o'clock the
previous night, he was walking along Union Street, South-
wark, when the prisoner rushed upon him and instan-
taneously grasped a gold pin which was attached to the
frill of his shirt. He held him until a watchman came up,
to whom lie gave the prisoner in charge.
The accused, in reply to the charge, stated, that on the
night mentioned he was walking boat., and observe I the
complainant, who appeared to be intoxicated, standing on
the pavement in Union Street. On his near approach, the
complainant ran up, seized him by the neck, and charged
him with having stolen his gold pin. Ile assured hint of
his innocence of the crime, but the complainant held hint
fast, and two watchmen owning to the spot, he was con-
veyed to the watchhouse, where the coutpleinant still per-
sisted in the charge before the night-cormable, and lie, the
defendant, was consequently kept iu coolinetuent during
the whole night, the crime alleged against him not being
a bailable offence.
Me. CHANIBIERS asked' the complainant If he teas sober
at the time he at:rutted the younir man of stealing his pin.
The complainant declared that he was.
'the conitable of tie night, to whose watchhouse the
defendant Was consigned, stepped forward, and the malt
having been administered to hint, swore that Mr. !spats
was drunk on the night in question; and notwithstandieg
the repeated declarations of innocence egged by the young
man, Isaacs insisted on the charge heirig "booked," and et
OvUtSe he (the constable) was obliged to detain him, snit
bring the matter before a migistrattr.
Rice, the officer, spoke to the respectability of the youmg
man, who he was convinced, would not commit such an girt
as imputed to him.
Mr. CnAMBIRS asked the complainant whether he was
certain no other persons were near him when be lost lois
pin ?
Mr. Isaacs said, that no one but the prisoner robbed

him.
One of the watchmen, who led the defendant to the watch-
house, proved that the complainant was very much is
►iquor, and in giving charge of the young man, he (the
watchman) observed two suspicioue looking men knee
Isaacs. and run off, but he insisted that the defendant sues
the man who tore the pin from his shirt. On search{ ng
the defendant on the spot, no such pin as described to ha re
been lust was found in his poisession, neither was it to .;be
found on the ground where the accused stood when he it as
charged with the robbery.
Mr. CHAMBERS expressed strong indignation at the
conduct of the complainant, is ',ringing forward such a
charge against a respectable young man, who in cons&
inence might have been deprived of his 'character and
liberty, for an offence of which there was not the slightest
grounds for charging. him.
The rilagisirate.—lVho and what are you. Mr. heads?
The complainant.-1 am a musician in his Lloyd
Highness the• Unite of Gloucester's band.
Mr. Cuaatexes.—Then I shall take care that your' cos•
duct shall be reported to the commanding officer of your
regiment ; and before you leave this office you shall pay a
fine of ss. to the King fur being drunk.
The young man was of course discharged, and the
musician sneaked out of the office after having paid Or;
fine.

BIRTH.-0a the 11th Instant, at Bourne House, in Kent, the Lady 0
the Rev. Edward Smyth, of two daughters.
. MARRIED.-11v special license, on the 9th instant, at Ditton Park, the
Hon. Peregrine F. Cult. M.P. to the Lady Isabella Montague Scott, daughter
of the late, and sister of the present Duke of Burelench.
On Tuesday. at Kenstogton Church, the Rev. 'fhoinas Henna, Vlcar of
Kensington, to Frances Henrietta, oldest daughter of the late J. Delaileld,
Esq. of Canipden Hill.
On Taesday, at St. John's. Hackney, Mt. O. W. Harries of Trowbridge,
Wilts. to Mary, eldest daughter of Jesse illoaldsusith. Esq. of the above place.
On Tuesday, at Sutton, Edward Soaks, Esq. to Mary. daughter of Hobert
Huggart, Esq. late of Beckenham. Kent.
As Paris. on the 6th instant, at the British Ambassador's' William :deare,
eat.. sots of Robert Patten, Esq. of Westport, Ireland, to Charlotte, eldrrt
datighter of Major Philip Stewart.
DIED.—On the 11th Instant, In the 91st year of her age, Mrs. Lydia Hip
ginbotharti, Assembly row, Mile-end, relict of the late Mr. iliggmbothiur,
formerly of the Strand.
On the 13th instaitt.at Portsmouth, Wm.Tarner, Esq. aged GI.
Ou the 11th inst. in Hlghbury. place, Mrs. Pryce, widow of the late gdirard
Pryte. Esq. of Merton. Surrey.
On the 11th inst. at her alb :r's house. Endeld, in the 41st year of her age.
Sarah Plomer, widow of the late Mr. Ueorge Allen, and daughter of
Patesball, of Enfield and Feneburch-street, London.
Qii the 13th instant. at Cross-street, Islington, aged 31, Easanns, wife of
Mr. John Cheap,jan.
On the 14th inst.,at his house, in Piekett-place, Strand, Mr. Edw.llenneth
in the bath year of his age.

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