The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-03 00:00:00

PO LICE.

RORER f ROBERTS.

Man Lao it °eon .sa ii CET.— Robe's is was conveyed i
from Nen-gate to this Olice, in the custody of Foy,
At ten o'cluck yesterday morning, where lie under-
went a private examination of three hours. The
doors v, ere closed, and, from the secrecy observed,
me are lint enabled to give our readies the exami-
nation in detail. The Waite t of ilea enquiry was
twofold ; the first was to identify Roberts as the
wan who had broken out of pii.tm, and this havine
been done, he was tormented for trial, and will be
arraigned with D. A ris, eha will be indicted as an
at cessary after the fact. The next °hied was ti►
enquire into the letters and papers felled on the
Prisoner when a epretivieled. It turned out that
these letters and rapers involve many other eersons
iii a comiceiiim with Roberts in the Bank forgeries,
some of whom are in that situ ition of life which
placed them above siiseicien. The Prisoner was
conveyed back to Nc‘s sate in a coacli, atnidst a
considerable CtieCtilirse iii People. lie has setreatel
mock in alibearance since his first coninii..ment.
GUILDIIALL.--A person named Band, who stated
Meisel' to be a clergyman, yesterday exhibited a
complaint againt a young mail melee! Loa), a clerk
in the house of Mr. Osborne, in Basingliall.streer,
charging him with an assault.
The Complainant addreaseti the worthy Alder-
man on the bench in a degree of solemnity and
pompositll highly impressive. Ile speeered there,
he said, to make a charge against the Defendant at
the bar, for assaulting liiin in the most mit tageons,
unjustifiable, unprovoked, and cruel manner, on
the preceding day. Ilis liminess was of a secret
nature, and it was his invariable practice never to
treat wiiiifassy but pritmipals of those houses his.
ditty reqeireditiin to visit. Ile went to the house
of Mr. Osborn,., in the hope of seeing him, but was
imposed ulnae by the IMentlant, who assumed the
title of the master ; and after heating an explamitiou
of his business, instead of treating him with that
respect and attentien his importatit functions de-
manded, he kicked him out of the counting-house,
and not satisfied with that unseemly conduct, point.
ed him out to a crowd of gentlemen as an impostor
whom lie had just kieke.l not, Ile (Mr. Bond)
II:locked and astoniabed at this new iiisti;i, iiiiinedi.
atly went up to him to demand an explanation of
bis %surds, observing, at the same time, that he
would eerta:nly indict him for the malicious and
brutal violence he had already received. The De.
fendant, however, instead of being intimidated by
this threat, iestatitly atvatieed towards him, and
with his clenched fist, 'the knuckle of the mid.
die finger protruding a considerable distance be.
rand the adjacent joints, struck him an awful
and sanguinary blow precisely on the obtuse an.
gle of the left cheek Lamle, and there inflicted a
painful as well as a dangerous contusive, to the very
great incouvenience and alarm of the Plaiiititf, as
well as to the imminent danger of his life ; fur had
the blow been struck with the saints terrific vio.
hence onc.eighth of an inch neater to his temple or
his eye, instantaneous death trust have been the nag.
tural and *irremediable cousequence. He would
wish the Defendent to know, that it was a matter
of no trifinigimportance to str4e a clergyrnau ; it
was a crime-which at all times called dowse the most
aigosoue piiniihment, which would no doubt in the
present instance be fully experienced. The worthy
Alderman would no doubt recollect that lie was the
accredittd agent of Sir Richard Curbett, now a le.
bother in the East India House, whose Case was
well knosen, and for whom ho was apphiiited to
collect sulosetiptians to carry on, with vigour, a law-
Suit now pending in the Court of Chancery. It was
to teilteit Mr. O-bornc's ail ftie this purpose that be
called at his house,' when lie received the linear.
rantable maltreatment he had described.
When Mr. Low was called upon for his defence,
ho probovineed the Complainant an arrant impostor,
confessed that he had kicked him, and was about
to state his reasons for such conduct, and the ag-
gravation which had been given to him, when the
worthy Alderman observed, that there was no pro.
vocation which could warrant his striking another
individual,' and taking the law into his own hand.
If lie had any compleitit to make, it should have
beets made before a Magistrate; the Defendant was
therefore highly culpable in breaking the peace.
Mr. Low said, Out he lad kick (a/ Mr. Bond,
and was ready tie abide by any conscq ueuces that
blight result from that proccediog,
- lie was immediately ordered to find bail to an.
seer for the assault.
Mr. Bond then observed, that it was his wish to
have comproniiseal the affair ; but, from the come.
rimer and pertinecieustaess of the Defendant, he was
resolved to prefer an indictment. .
A curious scene followed, its which Mr. Low
started, with the utmost horror, front Mr. Liuutul,
wbn came near hint, remarking that lie would nut
be contaminated beehis odious teach.
M A veuer-nol:se...\etertlay. Seymour charged
a young man with lieving, the precedieg evening, cut
• his is ateheribbe,!, and rubbed him of. a phi seal
and key..•,`,The parties, it appiee-ed, were boils at.
tached to the Ca6tOiti..lloll6o Volunteer corps, the
Pro‘eintor as (11/2112eet awl t,he Prisoner as a psi_
ii`' 1,.' , .
ratel t. p.r...„,trotrtisra.s out ye_ exerci,ing,
and; on hi return,. severe , of the diuneners and
fifers went to drink 4, dmlt Or„kShire, Grey public.
house, in Thanks-street,, where the Prisoner, whir
was al, ost a stranger to them, joined company.;
they. all became .intosicated,: but, in the middle of
the :r jrillity, the .Prosecutor niissetlhis seal and key,
he Imm...dieted), charged the Prisoner, who was
'marched, but the propeity *Wilt not (Mind no !inn.
As the l'rosecuter adduced up erideuee ,tu. fix the
a rinte.pli the Pri:iiiper, he was iliaehargell.,
A carpenter, uf p# it,tpu 4) f Bret4ter, [storied iip
his ticigb 6 ir.., s4p4*, *01440.4We . ft:poking object,
wit om be charged *it h. bar ing, , elgvcn.0101#111.1" uge,
cabbaged the atfections.e,fhia wife, w ho haul, elope.l,
arid li,ved thins iti.a stat...,- ut oeulobitruige with his
rivet. . .
The lona Mairottextireicul some surprise at the
Lady's choice", as' the rarpcntur had greatly. the
advantage in'peirit of aplicaiuritcc,, II.: encurireil .tifV,
the eiimplenting party, whether tiiiwislied to have id :4
Myr rib restored to him ? The hi15641C1.2115%eit..1,.
eisoureil no melt desiie.— but it • 61104:Iced 1.1
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