The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-25 00:00:00

who was bleeding very snitch from a deep cut in hill
forehead.
The gentleman who had bailed her, said he was passing
' while the officer was taking ber to the watch•hoose, and
the indignant expressions of all around urged him to step
forward, and inquire.into the matter, when be was so much
impressed with the girl's innocence, that be at once became
bail for her.

A Lotaktiv.-01bcer, I think you have acted very wrong
in this holiness.
Oflicer.—:-If your Worship were but to see the whole of
the parties, you would be convinced of the truth of the
charge.
A r.neama sr.—How dare you say I would be convinced
by the sight of any party ? I have beard enough to coo-
-1 ince me that the prosecutor in this case, is the guilty per-
son, and that your conduct has been highly repreliensit le
It would appear as if you had been bribed to screen the real
offender from justice.
Officer.—Please your Worship. he is a most respectable
young gentleman ; his father keeps an academy ,over the
water.
ALDERMAN..--. 1 do not care if be is the son of a Prince.
Young woman, will you swear to the trutk of what you
have stated ?—I am ready to swear, Sir, that it is true.
The gentleman now said, that while the young man war
making the charge at the watch house, he cautioned him
as to what he was saying, when the oer remarked, " Oh,
never mind, you are not on oath."
ALOSKIIIAN.—The case is dismissed. Now, officer, I
shall represent your conduct to the Lord Mayor, who,
have no doubt, will visit It with exemplary punishment.
David Perry, the messenger at the Fleet, whose previous
examination appeared in our paper of Monday, was agaii
brought up, and the solicitors not having been able to trac,
the pretended Mr. Smith, nor to obtain any further infors-
'mutton tending to implicate the prisoner. they stated they.
would not oppose his discharge. The prisoner intimated
that be hoped he should have some acknowledgement that be
had been wrongfully accused, but this the magistrate de-
clined ; and be was then discharged. protesting that be
was wholly Innocent, and bad declared all he knew of th.
business.

MART-LE-BONE OlVlCS..—Yesterday Mr. John Lirnebee r
shoe-maker, of Queen-street, Eilgewsre-road. and his wife
appeared to answer a charge exhibited against them by
Mr. Luff, the father of one of their apprentices. W
Leff, the son, stated on oath, that on Monday last be and •
the other apprentice were calkd yip, to tea; that soon after
wards the light was taken out of the room, and his mistress
gave hint something in a mug which be took to be tea ;
on tasting it, however, he found it extremely disagreeable,
and the elder apprhntice having left the room, Leff fol-
lowed hint, and carried out the mug with the tea ; be
asked him to taste the tea, which he did, and declared it
to be peison. Leff then raided the mug, with its contents,
home to his parents, and, by his father. who swore the
liquid It contented was of the eolour Of pale Ink, it was
carded to a medico) man. This tientkman attended, and,
stated, that the mug brought to-him by Lutt senior, was
tea, but with a considerable portion of green vitriol or
copperas infused in it ; the effects of which would be, it
taken inwardly, a considerable degree of sickness, and ul-
timately consequences dangerous to the health or life of
the person who took it. Young Ltd farther swore that
on the Monday morning his mistress bad threatened to
give him something to drink, for which he should pay
dearly. On the part of Mr. Limebeer and his wife, a
young woman, who was drinking tea at the house that
evening, swore that the light was not taken out of the
room till after the epprentiars had received their tea, and
that the mug which was produced was the one which
held the milk, and that the tea given to both the amen-
tiles was of the same colour. Mrs. Limebeer also positively
denied, that she knew of any thing but tea being in the
cup, and accounted for the light bring taken out of the
room by its being necessary to look after the children.—
Mr. Litnebeer said. that the material infused tato the tea,
was used its his business, dist some of it was lying In the
shop, and accessible to either of the apprentices, and. the
the whole story was a fabrication got up to lame him.—
The Magistrates were of opinion, that as the case stood,
though it was a very extraordinary one, and they thought
the boy's testimony very much straiten, it ought to go to a
Jury. Mr. Leff said. be should apply to the Charity, is
eackinghannibire, which badapprenticed his son, to know
if it would go on with the case, for the purpose of cau-
l'calling • the boy's indentures.—allo further decision was
come to, and the parties left the Office together.
QUEEN SQUARE.—APPREHENDING VAGRANTS FOR THI
SAKE OP RENARD.--TGO Magistrates for the last two days
were chiefly occupied in examining witnesses in the hives
Ligation of the conduct of one of the dismounted patrol.
It appeared from what we could collect (for the investiga-
tion was private), that the patrol oe Monday last brought
a man before the Magistrates, charged with begging; that
he swore the prisoner went into a baker's shop in Totbill
Street, to beg for alms ; that. when he came out be placed
himself in the street in an impudent manner, and would
not permit any person to pass who would not give him
charity. The man was committed for a month, upon the
constable's oaths, which entitled him to a reward of 10s.
Subseqnently the Magistrates were informed the constable
had sworn falsely for the sake of the reward, that the mau
had not begged but be was exceedingly drunk, and. for the
latter offence Nixon's party, to whom Condie was attached
took him to the watch-house.
The Magistrates consulted together, and they were of
one opinion, that they were too often imposed upon by con-
stables and watchmen, interested in having persons com-
mitted as vagrants. The clerk was ordered to draw out a
statement of the case, and Nixon's party of patrol were
directed to attend at the Secretary of State's °lice, when
Ur. Itainsford intended to lay the case before him.
Yesterday morning a messenger from some of the inha-
bitants of Pimlico came for the assistance of the officer%
to discover the perpetrator of a depredation which had
been committed upon the property of the respectable
housekeepers in the vicinity of the it ive Fields. For some
days a report has been disseminated that a figure, which
at will has the power of transforming itself iuto any shape.
has been seen about tbe,fielde after dusk every
.night, and
in endemic+, garde's% peessing• Imp person who sp-
preaches. 'this had such an effect upon the females, that
none would venture out of doors after dusk; but by others
the Subject was treated with contempt, till Wednesday
night, when a shower of brickbats, stones, and other
missiles, was thrown against the windows, which were
dreadfully shattered, and it was with difficulty that some
of toe inhabitants 'escaped with their lives. After the
storm subsided, and persons could venture out, every
place was searched; but no traces could be discovered
from whence the stones, a:c., had been thrown. On
Thursday, about the same hour, there carne another
shower; bat so very fast were they thrown, that no idea
could be formed from what quarter they had come. The
constables anti watchmen were all called out ; every place
was, searched; every garret, garden, and even the roots of
the houses, but nothing appeared to have been moved,
and no person could be found concealed, which s'rengthened
the report that it certainly must be a ghost ; and, in order to
be better prepared for the next attack, the police were
sent for. •
Cooper,the officer, instantlyrepaired thither. Ile found
giteen-street had suffered materially in broken tt indows.
hut Ebnry-place angered most; there was scarcely a pane
of glass left whole in the hack windows, which parts
Elizabeth-place ; the back Windows of tl:e latter were
entirely demolished. Several valtiable pier glasses, furniture,
&c. were entirely destroyed, and some of the stones wi.i.:ll
entered the apartments weighed at least Ph. One child
was nearly killed by a stone. He had made a general
Board' bat in vain.
The inhabitants had printed bills placarded about the