The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-31 00:00:00

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ITATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday wn,. Wise, a well known character,
was eipprehnodvd by Hutt and Limbrick, and ender.
Wknt eramination being charged with having re.
costly stowed and robbed several mail-coaches of
es-large extent. Several of the most ma.
terial wrtnessys against the Prisoner not being able
to ntteml, the Prisoner was committed for re-ental.
nation.

' Loncivrrv.—Mr. Bowman, of Irthingtoo, acme Carlkle. hide
fair to rival the fame of Parr or Jenkin.4. lie lately attaint4
hi 107th year, having been born io 17tki : be has, iulgrosequeare,
lived-in flaw reigns, and declare.: it not impossible that h^ sho'lld
'LW a fifth. Ti e, indeed, appears to have assailed him in vain;
nor hate th • infirmities concomitant to age in any material de-
gree enfeebled his powert. Ile shaves hiu.self with ease and ex-
pedltion ; can read the smallest print Without the amistance of
glasses: has his hearing in perfection; sleeps soundly; never
knew an hour's sickness, sad, though n> enemy to a " cheerful
glass," trver remembers, bot twice, t: have been intoxicated
with liquor.- Of a hardy constitution, he can boast of :cans able
to contest the palm of labour with the most robust young men of
the distriet,-.whether it ist• in the of orations of ntuwing, hedga•
ing, threshing, hr.: during the svuster he actually employed
hiune f is daily breaking the ice with a spade in order to water
his cattle; 11A that he might not be Wieling-hit the byre in tie
interval. Walking over his grounds a few days ago along with
two gentlemen who bad visited him, they came to a runner.—
ith some difficulty his younger companions got across, and
made a moth's of assisting him; when Mr. B. oiling at the idea
that he needed help, leaped over with the agility of a grey.
o tae astoAshmeot of the visitors, woo. had th:.y nut
beheld it, could not have believed, that the stipple and etostit
frame of youth could have attended AO age, which, when attain.
ed, is regarded asa prodigy, tun tbtrigh clothed with disease
and inarmities. _ _ _

waar, of Powey, was tried at Launceston Assizes. for
the murder and rehber • of Isaiah !?alk Valentine. The Prisoner
kept a public-house in Dark, called the Jolly Baechus, from
whence he-tremor al, in November last, to the Rose and. rows,
at rowey. Tb, deceased, a person of the Jewish petwiesiont
was in habits of intimacy with the Prisoner. About the 16th of
November, two letters were addressed to Valentine Lthen is
Dock) by the Prisoner, desiring him to come down to
.Faviey,
• where betthe Prisoner) had some buttons, or guineas, to distant
of. Relytalt on this statement, Valentine accordingly went down
on the 19th of tne mete month; but on big arrival, instead of in-
treduciug Valentine, as he had proposed, to theneesons whom be
had stated Of dealing in cola, thy ,Prisoner cantrived to amuse
I sod deceive him, in various ways, until him/day evening, the
! sfita of Nostembpr, when, andertbe primer of taking him (t Jeri/
! tine) so Copt. r•st, he led him 4o a place or quay called the
Bread slip, Id Foamy, y, and pushed Win into the water, where he
lest suffocated, and them robbed Mar of itiOl. which he after-
: -wards deposited* in a heap of dung on hi. own premises. No
; doubt whatever could be enterta•ned of the Prisoner's guilt, from
a long bat strong train of circtimstasnial evidence; and after a
I trial of eleven hours' continuance, on Thursday last, he was
I found guilty of felony and murder, and sentenced to be hung at
r Launceston.
Captain Barclay's pedestrian powers seem to he hereditary,
for it is said that his father, who rpreseated Kinsardtneshire,
used to walk every Session of Parliamew fro Scotland to Lon-
don, dad. could perform the journey as soon as the ordinary
stars of that time. With so moth ease did he move, that be
frequently deviated from his direct road. in order to att;ati any
fairs which happened to be hold at the time. —He used to dress
like a plain farmer. and mingled freely in all the rural sports
usual at such meetings, particularly cudgel.playing and writ-
Hag,. mid won many a prize bat in his progress to the great
council of the nation.
Mo!in•u r, th.. Black, it oppears, is now -eesaissitriag in the
Isle of Wight, the Sussex heroes having (!ispensed with nita.
lot is there denominating hiiaself the floNt a the list of li)verl,
and by this kind of vaunting a Gentleman Isla Li i 1 •all to
be ready to match M ri against Cribb again. .or 9111 canvas, and
a challenge irons to Cribb, for a third comsat, for 900
guineas his actually been received b) the latter. 'ate
letter which bears the caal leaps expresses hope, fa toe part of
Molinetia, that as t'ribli has resigned fighting. ke wit consent
that the furrier :hall receive the title of Char.splom of England:
or should he obj ct 1p such proposal, he Mohnen:, is ready to
fight him agaia for the sum above stated, by his men; ioninr, the
time and pLice An answer wen I inniedi VI; retied by Cribb.
stating, that he had had no intention of fighting again; bet he
would fight him (Molineux) at a day's notice, for 3J) guineas
aside, and any stint etceeding it; and if that did not satisfy hint,
he would fight hips once a week, for a like sum. Cribb's knee,
which was very brief, was lent a week since, but filoliaeux's
money is not yet forthcoming.
On Sunday sennight, Ann. the wife of Samuel Smith, ,of '-
Magian, in the comity. of Derby, was safely delivered of a fine
boy. She was married early in June last, and • was Iltea, only
thirteen years.and-fotir months old. ,
Died, at Crowland, on Tuesday morning last. aged 75 yearli
Mr. Thomas I.'a friagton, faro er, of that place, an eccentric cha-
racter, leaviiig.hchind him a handsome property. r 1 few days
hefare hit marriage, which tot* place about a month since (after
is Ova anartalsista, Lasky:ming mid blooming widow, be gave or-
diert for h,tLatf,a aptl its-este-storm to be completed and -Welk
Lome to lira, previous to the celebration of his nuptials t—Mit-
posieg be should shortly molt taken. This supposition is now
fiiitaled. The honey/mama had scarcely elapsed, when the grim
tyrant flurried him away.
Sadler, the Aeronaut, intends visiting Dublin early in the stun-
mer, and is actually employed * the of a Balloon,
iir*hich be into its to start from Dublin on a voyage, Ito Lurd
kisowoichere 1
Oed live pound 'and other notes, of a pretended Bank.
etyl ed
the Wiudsarand Berkshire Binh, have hem; attempted
1g be passed by a ger% of ;yip** who have visited Bristol liar.
• •

, • -MARRIED.
Yegter4ls. it wt. George's, tlanover-stuare. John Ovules
Bristow, 'W.tV Soohih Ann, Odes! clantlteinf John Richard-
Km. Esq. of the fiet,3l Establishment.

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On the thh..io Argyle-a: eet, Alfred-Teton, Esq. lately
thp.eivil Service of the r.a3t India Company.
A. 4 Inverness. op the ISth instant, In the 49th year of her art
Mrs. Paver, widow of Dr. Was. Makluson frame.
On Sunday n last, athls house In Stamk•rd-street,Mark..
frisrs'aoad, Mr. Drub Reardon, of the Rink of EuSlandi
111441,
Studayt at Thorlow-place, Haellry.road, In her 69
h-
. yam: Mae Prsce, widow of the late Mi. Roy, of GrseerareWeek-
OaastiirdjtY last, Ann, the tides ei Revell
• tdasiOra
ReZZ-Lifi .
g. on Sunday knit, the Whir gaird.e. et hirEtili
of liomsbardnatertz • ea.ni oi . .
lAnoll)ON

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