The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-11 00:00:00

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a blacksmith, had liven sutl,..; astd a judgment
obt tined agritist him, whitb jobliged him to ab-
scond. At this time he ocenpied, a small cottage,
the property of the Defendant, who, is a Magis-
trate for the comity, and a gentleman of fortune.
IVhen Roberts's goods were said off, the Sheriff's
011ieer took the key of the house to the Defen.
dant, that he might see the fixtures. Roberts's
wife went to the public-house, and was forced to
• crave the aid of the parish. .
• Mr. Ilitchins, the overseer, who was one of the
party against whom Mr. Harkin; tenant brought
the action of yesterday, resolved to replace her
in her house ; hu. the D•fentlaut had placed a man
named Itetlieg. in the house ; Mr. Hitching, how-
ever, bteke open the door, and put some when
matters of furniture into the house, and desired
the woman to stay there. lii the mean time Mr.
Beane, the Magistrate, had arrived, mid forcibly
• turned her out of possession. Mr. 11. the Plain-
tiff, insisted she should go in again, and as Mr.
Bean:: had placed himself in the door-way, he
pushed Past him to get into the house. In doing
this he brushed against the Defendant, .who imme-
diately ordered him to he taken into custody ; and
as no constable was near, be declared, as a Ma-
gistrate, he could make any one constable, and
ordered a bye-stander to take Mr. Ilitchins into
custody. Ile then ordered him to be conveyed
to his own house, where he sat ass& Magistrate on
his own ease ; but thinking afterwards that that
was perhaps too much, he.. next day carried. him
before his friend Mr..l.larben, as anethet Magis-
trate.

• These facts being proved, 'the Learned Judge
held that as ltobtetes tertaa-ey was not expired, it
was illegal to expel his wife from the possesSion of
. the cottage, and the Plaintiff must have.ii verdict;
at the same time he recommended ty. the Jury to
give damages with discretion, and proportiptied.to
the injury.
The Jury found for the Pliititiff, Damages 001.
As a counterpart. to this action, the. Defendant
Beane had indicted Hitchins for an assault, in
which his witnesses swore that Hitchin* had rushed
past him with great violence, .and had. thrust his
elbow into ibis ribs. .

The Jury found the Defendant Not Guilty.
There was also a, third action by 'Mains-
against Beane, fur not setting out his tithes, of
which lliteltins was the iinpropriat.or. In this ac.
tien he also recovered. There was also an indict-
ment against liarben fur provoking a challenge.,
which was put off on the absence of a matOriat
witness.

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...MNDEtt STORIE

Thursday se'nnight, Newcastle wag visited
lost awful storm of thunder and lightning,
itanied by a torrent of rain, and a great
ty of hail. During the whole afternoon,
was. very eelosse and sultry,. distant thunder

!ard in the south-cast ; about half past five,
the storm reached that place, and continued about
an hour, during. whieb time the flashes of light.
ning followed each other in awful and rapid succes-
sion, accompanied with such tremendous thunder,
as threatened to dissolve the town, and

" Leave not a wreck behind r
The deluge of rain and hail that fell, speedily in-
undated the streets, and must have done conside-
rabic damage in the lower, parts of the town. The
injury done by lightning is very great, as will ap.
pears by the following partieulars.:—
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A ball of electric matter entered the house
of Mr. D. .Settoti, in Prince's-street. it first
struck the chinitsey.top, which it threw down,
partly into the house. It then followed the direc.
tion of the chimney into the sitting parlour, in
which were eight persons, dashed part of the tea
.equipage on the floor, shivered the bookcase, and, '
proceeding towards the door, which was fortu.
nately open, burst, with a dreadful-explosion, fol.
lowed by.six small ones, but, fortunately, injured
no person seriously. Two Ladies were slightly
strnck, one on the side of her head, and the other's
mitt was singed, and the arm a little affected; a
gentleman of the party was also slightly struck on
the fare. The electric fluid then communicated
with the bell wires, which it melted all over
the house, following them from room to room,
in an upward direction, tearing up the flours, &c.
in its passage ; it broke the glass of a clock and
stopped it, shivered three bed poles, and finally
passed out at the upper part of the house. In the
different reums 21 squares of glass were broken
and forced outwards, and in one of the rooms
Mr. Sutton had a must pcnvidential escape, being
.there with the intention of shutting a window at
the time it was .struck. The oxydation of the
bell-veims. has produced au effect beautiful be.
rind description. Immediately after the mil°.
•sion, the sitting-room was filled with smoke,
attended. witb .such a strong smell of sulphur,
as tendered it dangerous to remain in the room.
The door jamb of the adjoining house was also
torn off. The. lightning also. .struck down a
...Chimney and entered the•roof of M: Tlumble's
.dwelling.house, near .the Forth, and at the'
same time shattered one of the pillars of the trout
door, cemmatuicatiug with anti 'destroying: all
the wires of the hells in- the first and se' third Stn.;
ries ; shattered.the stock of a pipits. the kitchen,
also the window shatters of three rooms; sinking
the paper, add tossing about the lime (rum the
tops of the windows wherever the corn.'
municated ; then burst out of •tl& back staircase'
window, with a dreadful explosion; the
discharge of a cannon, and filling did 'dietreht
towns with black•sulphureolis smoke. • Providen-
tially none of the family were materially hart.
Mrs. 'Noble was deprived, for a few minute's, of
her hearing, and experienced a numbness in one
arm ; one of the servants was slightly scorched in
one hand ; Mrs. Ilawks's house, next. Jesns6tol,
was struck ; and the works of a gold watch,
which was, hanging up in one rooms, acre meted,
and considerable damage dune to the walls, pic-
tures, &c. The lightning set a bark mill, near
St. Andrew's church, on life, but fortunately it
was extinguished without much damage, except to
the wands undone beani. Here we cannot omit
noticing the alacrity with which the engines be.
lungiug to the o.ilitary depot on the Town Moor
were brought to the spot, accompanied by a num.
her of .autive limit's, all of whom strove to excel
each other ;n rendering assistance.

On the same day, the house of Mr. Usha, at
Preston, near North Shields, suffered materially
by the lightivng, h entered the chimney, and
made its way to a front room on the ground floor,
where it damaged 'some of the furniture; it then
'broke the partition bctwikt the room and the kit.
chen, where it struck one of Mr. Usha's (laugh.-
(era to the ground, and severely burned her neck
and arms; it then shattered another partition in
its course to a back kitchen, whence it forced its
way out of the house through a strong wall,
which, it considerably rent and damaged. A
lamb was struck dead, amongst many others, be-
longing to a butcher of North Shields.

Thunder-storms appear to have been general
throughout the country, and in different parts
have been attended with serious consequences, as
will be seen from the following articles :-
1 On Tuesday,, a violent thu►ider-storm, accom-
Tallied with rai►t and hail, took place at Alnwick ;
life fire entered the honse of Major Castles, and
shivered a bedstead to pieces, tore the wall in 'se-
veral places, and completely demolished the bell_
'wires ; a servant maid was in an adjoining bed-
room, but escaped unhurt.

Oa Monday se'nnight, a storm passed over Be-
verley ; the claps of thunder Isere tremendously
loud, and the lightning uncommonly vivid ; the
rain poured down in torreots. During the storm,
the house of Mr. Daniel truster, in Laundress-lane,
was struck by the lightning, which shattered the
top of the 'chimney, then penetrated the ridge, and
proceeded down thegarret wall into a lodging-room.
After passing some space down the wall, it struck
the bedstead, and shattered it in a wonderful
manner. one of the castors being driven into the
landiug adjoining. Mr. Foster had providentially
gut out of bed a few minutes before. The elec-
tric fluid then passed into the kitchen below, and
was attracted by a pair of. tongs, hung in the cur.
ner of the chimney, leaving a sufficient line to
ma -k its progress. The whdle of the glass was
drivels out of the chamber window ; and,
.of It
scoares in the kitchen window, only four were
left; the casing of the window was entirely taken
away, and the plastering damaged in different
placvs. Mrs. Foster, her grandson, and maid-
servant, were struck down iu the kitchen, but re-
ceived uo material iejury.

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