The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-28 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

MR: PERCEVAL CONFIGTED. thcr went to see him, was Informed the patient wet recovered,
and gone to work with his father, who is a thatcher.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,
Tilt TAU NTO 'I COVILIM3
• Taunton, April it. C. st kiLCII, Serpa*.
—an.—
In the debate iii the House of Conimons, on Wed. Phineas Adams was a private in the Somerset Re-
Imlay se'nnight, on the question of Military Flop &ea, and his case is consequently known to all
Ping, Sir F. Burdett adverted to the case pf Phineas the officers belonging to it. All the inhabitants of
,':dams, who, it will be' recollected, deserted from Taunton well know the case, and most of them ac•
toe Somerset Mi!itite.--was apprehended, and Ma- tuilly visited Adams while he remained in his ex•
. mitted to the jail its this toe u, iii consequence, and traortlinary state• All the Medical Men of Taunton
I:minified in a surprising stale of total inscncihility, saw him in that state. Lord Poulett, the Lord Lieu.
from the 26th of April, 1.8 11, to the 29th of Au- tenant of (lie County, also knew of the case, and
gust in'the same far, counterfeiting, asit is alleged,: very humanely addressed a letter to some eminent
such insetisibi!its i fur the purpose of avoiding pu•-• Medical- Gentlemen in the town, requesting their
tiisliutentoutsl procuring his discharge from the regi- ' opinion on the case ; they accordingly examined the
ee of to which he belonged. It will Ire further recol- man—tried experiments on him, and sent a report to
lecied, that having remained in this state for this ' his Lordship on the occasion. The scat of H. P.
et triturdinary length of time, and after having under- Collins, Esq. the Member for this town, is within
g me, within that period, a variety of operations of . one mile of llickenhall, into the Poor-house of
mite RW3E-exquisitely painful nature (if. they were felt : which parish Adams was latterly removed, and Mr.
at a.l), he, on the 26th of August, received his dis- . Perceval could therefore, with the greatest ease,
• . charge from the regiment; and, to the astonishment ! have obtained from that Gentleman an authentic
id the public, within-a few days after receiving such : statement of the facts. We take it for granted, that
discharge, recovered his animatiqpi•and assiste,l his Mr. Collins was not in the House of Commons when
father in thatching a rick in thetteighbourhood of this debate took place, or he would, of course, have
fileketthall, seven miles from Taunto', at which corrected Mr. Perceval on the occasion. We could,
pace his fattier resided. The statement of this case besides, furnish a thousand affidavits of the case, if
nos given in our paper of the 18th July,.lBll, at , required.
which time Adams remained in this extraordinary state;
amid the/ account' orhis recovery, and 07e. cistern- . A Coroner's Inquest sat yesterday at the Rising
lettuces attending it, also appeared in this pap& on I see, Mount-mews, Oxford-road, on the body of a
the 12th of September folloeing, amid was copied, we , child four years old, the son of a Mr. Fenwix, who
believe, into most of the papers in the kingdom. met his death by suffocation. It appeared by the
Attriough it would be an extremely difficult task to evidence adduced, that the room had been newly
persuade any one, out of the many thousand per- plastered, and a Charcoal fire had been kept to air
sons who were eye-witnesses of the case, that .it ; the child was friend dead in the morning, and it
Adams's state was not a feigned one, and that his ;' was clear that suffecadmalrom the charcoal had been
;native for submitting to an ordeal so prolific of mi- i the cause.—Aceitknessi Pesnh.-
s ry, as that he experienced, was any other than Cu ate us Mia teperestiote et Tertvis.—At the
the one stated ; yet, whatever doubt we may enter- late Assizes fOr the County of Dublin, Patrick
fain en the subject, it in no degree affects the main
O'Carrol was indicted for highway robbery. Wm.
fact of the event having taken place as described.—
Hunter swore, that O'Carrol, after having cat him*
The public may, therefore, well judge of our asto-
with the stroke of a pistol, seized his surtout and ex-
nishment on perusing the answer of Mr. Perceval to
I claimed " y vied bloody thief, you must vied me this
Sir F. Burdett's observations on Wednesday se'll-
coat." 2
night, wherein the former is reported to have said,
" That this story, which was said to have happened A Dublin Paper of the 21th. lost. says, " The ex•
at Taunton, had been afterwards enquired into, and cellent effects of the stoppage of the distilleries have
was found to have no foundation in fact. It had
been felt already. Oats, which ware 35 and 36 shit-
falsehood on the very face of it ; and those whose Hugs per barrel, have fallen to 28 shillings, and no
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bu.ittess it was to enquire, had found it so." If we purchasers.
judge from the file of letters before us, we may con- On Friday se'nnight, about eight o'clock io the
-elude, that not only have hundreds of our readers, evening, a small barti or cowhouse, with a hovel ad-
but a large portion of the public also have felt the .1
oining, situate
utmost astonishment and indignation at so extraor- Tate, Esq. at Borleigh, by Loughborough, was
dinary a falsehood polluting the lips of a British I burnt down, and shocking to relate there happened
Statesmane—at so scandalous an expedient for silenc- j to be a cow and calf In it at the time, which were
lug an argument—at so mean and ungentlemanlike both nearly reduced to a cinder, by the effects of the
a denial of a fact which is notorious to thousands of fire.
persons of all ranks and descriptions, from the Lord The Guards have all got their new regulation caps.
Lieutenant of the county of Somerset down to the They are higher in front than the crown, and the
lowest labourer. But Mr. Perceval is not merely front, which is semi-circular, is protected by a brass
content to express a doubt as to the accuracy of the rim. In the centre is a large plate of brass also.—'
Vatemeut—he not only affects to disbelieve it, but un- We cannot point out the utility of the regulation, ex-
qualifiedly asserts, that having heard of such a case cepting that the caps are better for the glitter of a
through the newspapers, he had caused enquiry to parade.
be made, and found that the whole statement was Pteesreetersm.—Mr. Barnham, a Gentleman of
without foundation—that there was no truth in it— fortune, yesterday morning, undertook for a bet of
that it was altogether a fabrication—a mere trumped- ,' 100 guineas, to travel on foot from Oxford-street to
up story to amuse the public. Heaven defend us 11Tatling End, near Beaconsfield, and return, 36 miles,
as the good folks say here, What will the man say ,in five hours. Betting was much in favour of time at
next? What kind of information is it upon which ;starting ;he did eight miles in each of the first two
this Minister is content to ground his parliamentary ' hours, and had eleven minutes to spare when he had
statements? To hate been misinformed, is next to accomplished half the nitdertaking. On his return
impossibk ; besides, he had made it his particular to Southall, lie halted at Mr. Holt's, much distressed,
business to enquire, and the result of his anxious but he continued his labour, and resigned when
enquiry for the truth of the story enables him confi- within three miles of his journey's end, unable to
dently to inform Sir F. Burdett, in the face of the proceed.
whole Reuse, that his account was totally false—to A Countryman, not many months ago, in one of
taunt the Hon. Baronet upon the inaccuracy of his the Courts of Justice at Guildhall, while being ar-
information, and to sneer at him for his credulity in reigned at the Bar, made a certain reply (which need
believing such stories! " Sir Francis (says Mr. Per- not be named here) to one of the loquacious Count.
revel) might with ease hare ascertained whether the sel, at which, though the Court was convulsed with
story had or had trot any foundation." Very true— laughter, the Cotinsel felt as derogatory to his pro-
but Kr. Perceval had the same facilities, and, hay_ I fession, and, in his retort upon the Countryman, re-
ing so much more doubt on the subject, ought at commended him (rather ill-naturedly) " to be
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least to have been more particular in his enquiries- very careful how he threw squibs amongst combusti-
'l'he accuracy of Mr. Perceval's information (if he ble matter ;" to which the Cousatrytnan very good-
really bad any) will, we dare say, be remembered on 1 naturedly replied, 46 Why, an't please your Wor-
some future occasion, and if he had not obtained any, ship, I that& ye for your advice, but I see nothing
I
his reputation for veracity cannot appear very enviable. combustible here, except your big Wig."
The notorious I .-e is Goldsmith, who, until very I
Boxtas.—The looked for match between Ford
lately, edited a Newspaper in Paris, under the con-land Dutch Sam is done with, on the refusal of the
trout, as all the Newspapers are in France, of Bona- I latter to light Ford, who was weighed by Sam's
parte, and who has now the happiness of having Mr. friends and adjudged too heavy. Another match,
Perceval for a Patron, addressed a letter, dated the however, of equal importance to the sporting world,
1 titti inseett, to Mr. %Veleh, a respectable !!urgeon I has been made at Gregson's, and will be ratified this
(A' this town, in consequence (as he sly%) "of a con- evening, between Maltby, the•conqueror of Young
siderable sensation in the country, excited by a sub- Cribb, at Thissleton Gap, and a young Shropshire
jcct which .oe:tit-red in a debate last night in the farmer, catered for by Gregson, of thirteen stone and
house of Comm .ns," and desiring, as the Editor upwards, who has won many hard contested battles. 1
of a Ministerial Paper, correct information from The fight will take place next Tuesday.
Mr. Welch on the subject. To this demi-official
Ma. JUSTICE HULLER.—The Learned Judge, being
airdlieatiots fitsefollowitig answer has been Merited :
OM elm Welch circuit' previous to opening the assizes
sta,--LI reply ,your request concerning Mine:Ls Adams,
ai at C—, attended Divine Service. When the hottest
soldi, r Iseloegii:g to the First Somerset Militia, whose ease has f
rkcite.l such considerable sensation in the country ; 1 am sorry 1 Welch curate came to the passage in the Te Deans, ,
it i not in my power to give Comm a correct statement of his tae. r 46 We believe that thou shalt collie to be our Judge,"
dial treatment,tas he nap under the c.sr.., during his conlihement
he turned towards his Lordship, and, as he con.
to I ,e prii.cm, of the permit] who superintends the medical de-
aeuf ; auj Ihe to inform you, that the first time I had au eluded the sentence, made hint a most profound
o,,e.trt-!tety n seeing him, was about twelve weeks from the bow.
time he ti, eine. or appeared insensible; at which time it was ! .
a liemp.ed to :u...ke him respire the Nitrous Ox yd Gas, but it .
: STEALING Dean Bontes.—On Saturday se'ntlighti...
hat not the. etlect of rousing bun front his state of insensibility, lat an early hour, a number of persons assembled in
or priMacing any other 41.0. I had been informed he had re-
, hip,. !,,„tprod„ced Streatham church-yard, drawn together by the curs
CCIVed a fall from some stairs or stir,
h odiorrhage from his nose and ear ; an insemilnitty coming ou osity excited by the disturbed state of the grave of
in a fcir days afterwards, I thought it probable it might have T. aid 4. Lei, who were executed on Monday se'n-
etost.a some
impropriety
pressure on the brain t therefore I stated there
could be lei or ill elfeet in reflecting the scalp, to night at llorsemottger-lane, for highway robbery,
et ti1:111C whether there was any depression of any part of the whose bodies were afterwards interred in Streatham
ermiiiiin, hut this was not then dour. Dui, however, the prate- church- yard. Oa searehing the grave, it • was disco- i
tic; and mode of treatment which hid been used to recover him,
pr i%ed bielfeetual, he was permitted e, he carried to his father's veretl that the bodies had both been teken from the
re.i lure, which is about Wing miles from Taunton, when my coffins, and conveyed away.
lie!er, with is* riergeou (to "nom sour letter was addressA. 1, ;
We are desired to contradict from authority, ea-
was desired to visit him. He attended him, and after exam's- • s
in him, he; 1:3 stated to Adams's father and mother the proprie- ' rious paragraphs which have appeared of late in dif-,
t, of retie ting the scalp. to be coavineed whether there was ferent Papers, stating that the Marquis of Suet) had 1
. any appaarautv of fracture or arpnition, to account for the
I Isensime *tate in which theirs u oar. The father, without he- a bet depending on the rapidity of his journey to
•itaiimi eurnei.ted ; and the morning following I accompanied . Ireland, as there never was the slightest foundatien
my f alter. and reflected the scalp. Many respectable people at
I. e• same time encoded to wituess its etleCt. During the whole for such reports.
I.me or the operation he never spo'..e a word ; but while under • Isirrtvritnere.—At the battle of Minden, a corps
the anmediate influence of the knife, he appeared i.o. a rigid of French grenadiers, commanded by M. De Sr.
S'Ate; while at all other ti.aes he apkeured as limp as et dead.— e, . being
Aft; r the scalp was reflected, tho perleraniura maim back part 2-116 Lit 9 Po
ex set,' lose battery that carried off
..t. his limul, to a small extent, aopeored of a differeureolour, whole files at once; Sy. PERES. wishing them not to
le which I applied eae rogiur ; durint which.lio land.: iit groanim•
3 fail hack, rode slowly in front of the line, with his
t:.» ,e, and appeared to have his fret forced test against a boar
t TAP bottom 4 the bed, But not nudiugauy fracture or de. situff-hox in his hand, and said, " Well, my boys,
lee e , the scalp was returned. without preceeditig to the what's the matter, eh—Cannon? Well, it kills you,
iiperation of invoseing him. After this, be continued is tbe it kills you that's all my boys-osestch on and never
...,,e state of iadessibitity for a fortnight, wheal he bad Isis dm- .
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__ you, 4
fr. from the rititoellt l and its two days after, when sly btu- wind t." , .. •%. . . -, • i . :-,'• .'. 1- ,-;. :.,:.i
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LAW IN7 ELLIGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY, Aran.27.
nil-MARKET THEATRE,
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In this case theEnTn'os CVi tt.trEAt,t,N.
o n yesterday oh-
served, that it was a petty thdatrical war which he
icould not terminate, since he knew not how to ma-
nage this or any other Theatre in this Court, and of
course would not further interfere in the matters of
the petitions, but leave the parties to their own scram.
bles:—No order.
WRIT OP NE EXEAT REGNO.
COLEY 0. LIPPEN.
Sir Sisttat. Rositt.Lv moved for a writ to enjoin
the DAendant not to quit the kingdom till he gave
I security to the Plaintiff for a sum of 90001. a ba-
!lance of account due to the Plaintiff, on the credit
of goods by him shipped for the Baltic, upon an ad-
! venture or speculation in trade, under the agency of 1
the Defendant, who was about returning to Russia
without giving security to the Plaintiff for that sum.
—N otion granted.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Anut.27.
THE KING T. PUNCHER AND IV [TS.

The two Defendants were brought up to receive
judgment, having been convicted at the lest Assizes
for the county of Devon, of conspiring together to
procure a Stamp similar to those used in stamping
wrappers of paper, and of imprinting said Stamp on
certain outer sheets or wrappers of paper, thereby
defrauding the revenue.
The sentence of the Court was, that Puncher
(who was the master) do pay a fine of 1001. and be
imprisoned in the Gaol of Exeter far t‘selve calendar.
months ; and that Watts (the servant) be imprisoned.
• in the same Gaol fur nine calendar months.

GORDON r. LOVELL •
Mr. SCARLETT applied to have the judgment ar-
rested in this case, in which a verdict had been found
for the Plaintiff, with one shilling damages. Ile
moved this on two grounds, first, that the offence
for which damages were asked was stated to have been
committed on an impossible day, or on a day with-
out a year ; secondly, that the verdict was taken ge-
nerally on all the counts, and might be supposed to
extend to a count were special damage was alleged,
as to which, however, no proof was offered.
The Court being against Mr. Scarlett on the first
point, he said he should then move to: hare
the terms of the verdict amended, by the exclusion
of the count for special damage. After that was
done, it would be in his Client's power to remove
the case by error into the Exchequer, there to
abide the issue of a case depending there, on the
point, whether words which would not be actionable
if spokw, become actionable in consequence of be-
ing written.
It being the practice, however, that this should be
done by Summons at the Judges' Chambers, and not
by motion in Court, it was recommended to Mr.
Scarlett to adopt that course of proceeding, it being
understood that the Plaintiff should net be entitled
to enter up judgment in the mean time.

QUO WARRANT°.
Mr. GURNEY moved for a rule to shew cause, why
an Information in the nature of a Quo Warranto
should not be directed to the Honourable Henry St.
John, calling on him to shew by what authority he
exercised the duties of a Capital Burgess of the
Burgh of Wotto►► Basset.—The ground of complaint
was, that Mr. St. John was a minor at 'the time of
his election, and that 'by the Constitution of the
Burgh all Capital Burgesses ought to be sworn in
immediately.—Rule granted.

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SA LEg, •
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• It. Nee satknit.
TO-MORROW, A ptil Slpi_k6o, at One *Tina. at SBB
N W Xi. 4. ' Pntlifittgton
XT EEN actitO4 useful cmur and 11'AG(101 Halts Ls, in good condition, taken off the Oxford Bi,
Waggon t a 6-inch wheeled `waggon t a V-inch road (Into ; ;„,
nrid•ltnrse carts I harness for twelve htiriesi•and Maltby nig,,
articles.
the above itteth attention of anggortimasters. fanners,
men. hackney coot k-ninstess, and when, Os they are Nati
with solely on arrount of redlining the waggon-.
'rote viewed the morning of tS de, midi sold without reserve.

To Gentlemen, Town Carmen, Wag , und Oaten.
By Mr. DLER,
On THURSDAY, April 3t), at One .1.1 .1"14 " the per'
of Mr. Wrangle, Town Carman, Eashion-street, Briek4.l.-1
Svitnltields (retiring from Ro.iiins),
WIGHT active, useful, large-sited CART.
12.1 HORSES, in good condition; Five Tow n Corwin 64,4
Lnek-under Waggon, Harness for Eight Cora
Stahte utensils, &c.—Also the LEASE of r eapiad
STABLE, room rat lo Horses, corn nod hav-hilfts over ditto'
ith usher cutiveniesiees I held for an unexpired term 4
gran, at the low rent of 181. per annum. thin,
The above merits the ;Mem ion of Gentlemen, Metrhant.ik
being un eseellent situation for a Warehouses
The whole to be viewed one day prior to the side, when
tat..x..es may lte had nn the Prentiss!'► and of Mr. Sadler,
his Repository, Goswell-street.

Revioitory, Puhbory-squme.
By Mr. HULL.
THURSDAY, April 50.
SEV F:R AT. well-bred seasoned HUNTERS', ma,
tees of high weight. I alai S 111114! Strong
cordition, mid fast tridtert4 .evrrot rails of Condi, Ilaroti,t,e,
Chariot, niul Curt-irk Gridlogg, of ditfr.ent rotours ; ...roe ,111.
gte ditt..; 'event! good Gig Hfirsrs, oerfrolv Oniet in harnon,
and fist troorrs; some very :ever llnr.rs, 14bieh have tin,
rode oit h troops; alld Ladies' llorsrs ; g rat tvailv rn‘
Geldings:m(l Mares, fit for roorltine,, or,d•roa. lor • , pu d.ch;timi
ite. Also several hrtudsome Gallo rays, Ponies, &c.

Valuable Topogras
By Al essrp. K and 1.0( 'H
At their Great Room, Iti, Kina-stt.et, Covent Knden, the mid.
• die pi' 0w.% t Jlil.

rr HE very valuable (3lLkit:l', late the Property
of Stafford Squire Baxter, 11. q. fun, der;.. ;
eirimpri.ing, one of the finrat collection of II ibtoo ical and Top.
itroloairool Rooks ever «offered to the public.
Timely notice of the Days of Sale w ill he given.

simorEit's HILL.
TO BE SOLD.
•
E LEASE (%ith immediate possession) of a
JR very commodious FAMILY M od CON
TAGI, attached and detach:•d office-, good oideru,
Ma*, grapery. and melon ground, shrubbery, pleasure ualkt,
mu.t tastefully laid nut; fi.ll pond and large ire bathe, %%,ilt
I enclosures of meadow and unsiure lam!, containing together
abmit 53 aeres, most beautifully situated at Sbooter's;leiti ; udy
eight miles from
Tube viewed only b* Tickets, and further Particulars knows
by applying to Adam Murray, Surveyor and Land-Agent, J,
Piekett-sinert, Temple-tar (if h letter) povt-paid).