The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

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FILILM/LNTART DOCUMINTII.
' There has just been printed, by order of the House
of Commons, a " Supplemental Appendix" ill the Re•
port from the Selest Committee on Poor Rate Returns.
It occupies nearly 2:50 folio pages, and gives an account
of the sums received in every pariah in England end
Wales, four Poor Rate Contributions since 1616 to 1821,
inclusive; and they are the returns referred to in the
Sri et Committee's Report, which we have already pub-
lished, Sept. 5• At the end of the Supplemental Ap•
peadix there are summaries of the amounts levied in the
different counties of England and Wales; but the sums
total constitute what may be of general interest to tho
public. They follow:

Sustmaatia Of ENGLAND and WALES, in the years end-
, irg tise 25th of March in each, year.
ToTat. or 11'..staLlteD.--:1816, 5,494,7891. 55.; 1917,
6.656,9821: 104.; 1819, 7352,0891. as.; 1819.
7,186,6131. 195.; 1120, 7,0203651. ISs. ; 11'21.
6,674,9381. ?it.:
Totit; or traits.-1816, 230,0521. 2s. t 1817,
253,9431 'l9s.; 1618, 618,7141. 17A. ; 1819, 330,0911. 75.;
ti 20, 309,8901.17cr 1821,284.3111. 13,.

I; ;Li No ToTa6.-1616, '5.724.8401. 7.,; 1817.
6,9101.9361.9..; 1515.7,870,8041. 2s. ; ei9, 1,516,7051.
6s. ; 1 421►; 7,330,2561.155.; Lai, 6.9591,2491.15..

Th•ae totals will be found to differ, in a trifling de•
tree, from those printed in a preceding part of the Ap
pendiu, where these parishes were not taken into the
Account that had not made the Returns.

A terrier deg, belonging to Mr. Watkins, was taken on
Friday to London by his servant, in a dose covered cart;
and was left tied no in a yard, near Grosvenor Sqaare
that evening; In tie night it broke from its coafiees
meet, and'eame home through London, and was at its
master's door, in Arnntlel, the next afternoon. Saturday,
t distance of nearly GO miles.—(BrightoaChtox.)
At thi City SesSions, yesterday, before the Worship-
ful Recorder, a case wbkla excited coosideraVhs
.iotreerleria tried. and oectePled "Ilse toilet 'from I 1 its
the morning until 5 o'clock in the evening. It was a
criminal information against Stephen Byrum Gaul%
and William Glover, the Proprietors of the late Lime-
! rick rciegroph, fur several false, scandalous, and ula!i-
-' cinus libels, published in various numbers of that paper.
Every point that ingenuity could adopt, and every ap•
parent legal objection that could be started by the ire-
versera, was taken advantage of, but the able advocacy;
of the prosecutor's Counsel in support of the case,
o hick a-as clearly and satisfactorily proved, was suffici-
ant to bring some conviction to the parties; who, after
a most suitable admonition (from the much respected.
Judge, pointing out the enormity of the offence, and
complimenting the prosecutors, upon public ground%
for their conduct in bringing the matter forward for the
decision of a Jury, sentenced the tra to be con-
fined six weeks in the gaol, to pay a fine to the King of
sth!. each, and to find bail in 1001. and two sureties of
fifty pounds each to keep the peace for the space of se-
ven years.
The Jury has been locked up since yesterday morn-
ing, without agreeing on an assault case, in which three
Journeymen Coopers are the aggressors.—(Limerick
Chroo.)
INFANTICIDE.—A Coroner's Inquest was held Ott
Tuesday night, at the Union Public house, John Street,
Oxford Street, before .l r. Stirling, Coroner, on the body
of an infant found in the privy of 31r. Ellis, ajeweller's
house in the seine street. It appeared by the evidence
that a woman named Elizabeth Saunders, came into the
service of Mr. Ellis, a few days ago, and on Monday
night, Mrs. Elia haring gone iuto the yard, observed
spots of blooil, and told the circumstance to her husband.
51r.•Ellis immediately procured a light, and discovered
the body of a child. lie instantly suspected the woman
who had gone to bed, and accused her, and at the same
time sent for Mr. Kerr, a surgeon in the neighbourhood.
She denied all knowledge of the child, but confessed
she was very ill. Mr. Kerr discovered that she had
been delivered. The child was conveyed to the work
house, and the woman to the Infirinary. Watson, a
nightmao, who searched the privy, stated that imfound
the child quite dead, with a handkerchief tied tightly
round its neck. air. Kerr gave it as his opinion that the
child was born alive, and the Jury brought in a verdict
of Wilful Murder against Eliz.Saunders. The Coroner
issued his warrant accordingly. She is about 30 yearn
of are. It appears she took great pains to conceal ber
situation from Mr. Ellis, by stuffing her clothes.

The folios ing melancholy affair occurred in Tower-street,
Reven Dials :—An old man, named John Constantine, and
Lis sort, had a dispute about some family instter, and th 3
quarrel become so great that the son in attempting to turn
his lather out of the room, pushed him down stairs, and he
was precipitated from top to bottom. The poor old fellow
was taken up in a lifeless state, end although he received
every medical attention, he died from the injury he received
iu the fall
ArrameTcri SUICIDL—On Tuesday lest. between the
hours of 3 and 4. a genteric-dressed middle-aged person
was observed walking to and fro on the bank of the New
River, near the Sluice-house, Islington ; in a short time he
plunged into the water, but was fortunately rescued by a
Mr. Oliver. an inhanitant of Islington, and two other gel-
tlemen, to a senseless state, by wnom he was conveyed to
the nearest public-house, and every effort was used to re-
store the unfortunate gentlemsn.which they succeeded in do-
ing in shout half an hour; and when he was sufficiently re-
covered, he gave the following account for attempting sn
rash an act.—fin stated his name was W— C and
that lie wis a collecting clerk at an extensive sugar-baker's,
in the vicinity tor ‘Vellclose-square, in whose employ he has
been several years; that having recently become acquainted
with a Woman of the town (who' frequents the Adelphi
Theatre), he had expended a considerable SLIM of his own
and likewise of his employer's money, on his fair Milwond ;
and that, dreading an exposure, his feelings became so brit-
rasied, that he had determined to put an end to his miseries
by committing an ILA of suicide. We understand Mr. Oli-
ver waited on the employers, and one of tnem attended, and
promised every thing should he arranged to the eourateetis.
faction of this middle-aged George Barnwell. --