The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

Tll2. 1.41313: MURDERS.
In cerseorerce of flit discovery of the articles in
the priev beleseieg to the house of Mr. Vermilloe,
as meitl,-neti in our paper of yesterday, the Magis-
trCes, sytth a view to Identify some of them with the
seieicle,limns, ordered Mrs. Vermilloe, John
lta-e: en, the sailltiniker, and Margaret Jewel, the
s.e•vser of el:, late Mr. Mare, to attend yesterday at
the :1110.weil-office, and give such information touch-
inA teem, as lay viithin their knowledge.
• M Vela-Aloe stated, that she had often seen
ten,v-rs 1.1 ti description produced before the Ma.
ist rates, but; she could not pretend to say that she
evi'r before seen the identical pair in question.
itteceming from the East Indies, used to wear
such t0t...5, is on board ship, and they generally had
them bef when last landing ; but she thought they
N% ere leo shabby for Williams to have worn when on
e'oore. !te was always very smart in his dress, but
,particularly so when itt the house.
John Harrison said, he had frequently seen the
trowsers throwing about the lumber-room in the Pear-
tree public-house, where seamen, on landing, used to
throw off their sea apparel, leposit their chests, and
their lumber. Ile could not, however, undertaVb to
say that he had ever seen them worn by Williams.
Ile might hive worn them, but he had never seen
them upon him.
Margaret Jewel said, she knew nothing of the scis-
sars produCed. Her late mistress had always used a
much larger kind ; and had she ever had those in
question, she-Certainly must have observed them :
and with respect to the part of the hussiff found, she
profussetl equal ignorance.
Mrs. Vermilloe also declared, that she had never
seen the scissors before.
Holbrook and Hewlett deposed as to the finding of
those articles; and both of them declared, that the
staff ,s on the trowsers were those of blond. Hewitt
predaced a calking-chissel, which he found in a
drawer in the lumber-room at the Year-Tree, with
the letters J. P. pricked upon it in the same man-
lier as those letters were marked upon the maul
found in Mr. Mares house. The other tools be-
longing to John Peterson were not marked in that
way upon the iron, but only upon the wood. This
stew discovery still more strongly confirms the iden-
tity of that fatal instrument with the house wherein
the suicide had lodged. The identification of the
sciisars re,nairts doubtful, until Catharine Stillwell,
the grand-datighter of the late Mr.Williemson, comes
forward. St* is ordered to attend this day before the
Maoist rates.

BURGLARIES.

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Yr, less than twelve houses, iu the parishes of St.
Jamea's and Mary-le-bonne, were broken open last
night, which is in the knowledge of the Felice.
Lord Ilarrowby's house„. in Grosvenor-square,
was broken open on Sunday night, as it is supposed,
by three fellows of suspicious appearance, who were
observe& late in the evening, lurking about a mews
at the ba. k of the house.
At aye t two o'clock in the morning, the under-
butler of Lard 11. who slept below, heard footsteps
in his master's dressing-room, and he immediately
rpng the alarm bell, and called the watchman, and
afterwards went up stairs with a brace of loaded pis-
tols, but the robbers had fled with a small booty of
silk handkerchiefs, and other trilling articles, al-
though
the room, contained many valuables. They
had effected an 'entrance, by getting through a'
wi.idow from the mews, and hming several holes in
a door of the house, by which they undid the fas- I
teisiags.
(Ay ilarewood's house, at the corner of Sey- 1
moor-s!reet, Portman-wire, was also broken open 1
oi Sa and night, ml rcbbed of plate, jewels, &c.
to *he amount of several hundred pounds ; but no-
thing has been traced, as in the former case,
T:t.. alke of Gloucester's house, in Grosvenor-
sqiiPre, was attempted on Friday night, but the
ti.iPves tied at the alarm of the porter.
'1'...? house of Mrs. Asslop, in Russell-street,
U'.,o-osbnry, was broken open, and robbed of plate
8,14 fir.liture to the value of 3001. The thieves got
in al tie back first floor window, and one of them
stood over the servant maid whilst the others robbed
"
the hoose.

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COURVI.I4 ASTI kL.-011 Thursday, a Court. Ma-
rtial ass..mbled on board the Gladiator, and proceeded
to try Jahn E4gar, seaman, of the Kite sloop, for
committing an unnatural crime with a boy ; the Court
was of opinion that the charge had not been sta.
cieely proved, and therefore acquitted the prisoner.
h s Smith, private marine, belonging to the same
sloop, area afterwards tried, for repeatedly commit-
ti.tg the same detestable crime, which was fully
proved, and he was sentenced to suffer death ; the
prisoner acknowledged the justice of his sentence,
and that he deserved to die. The following day,
Jean Taurnay, a black seaman, belonging to the
same sloop, wa tried on the same charges as the last,
which was proved, and he also received sentence of
death. &wage' Hvgins and John Pearson two
seamen, also of the Kite, were tried for indecent
and dirty practices; the charges were in part proved,
and the first was sentenced to receive 10 lashes, and
the other 100.
A great quantity of wearing apparel, handker-
chiefs, lke. were lately seized by the Intendant of
Police, In a house in the Peatneuck, LE•ith, under
ve4 sespicioas circumstances. It is conjectured that
they aro the fruits of various petty thiefts committed
in the''
A gi lonia' produce, which wa
laid tic in 1810, was 901
rated by auction, in atai
qiielico wiug failed to pay
Cotlmin
T in
come
of that
dation,
A I
John
of del
from I
and tl
fat her'
near '
ing.

:eepers, of Sheerness, has
pa.troling the street,
many nocturnal depre-

wed,
sung man of the name, of
stocking-maker, in a state
a violent fever, arose
inperceived by his family,
river Derwent, near his
he resided at Draycote,
drowned the next morn-

Alsighbourhoocl.
p.m quantity of colonh
'pier -nbargo at Berlin
last nth, and sold
:o of the reprieters hat
venal flu . -
e Habitats , honasiteep
to a rasolnevn of nigh
et pla.e, to inetvent the
ns the+ hays lat ly occur
few days sin a.you
t Amt.., by trade a slot
1
elirium, ()cession by
1 hishe,l at mideig , um
' nil
thr: w himself into e i
?l.'s house, with wh
Derby, and was fo d