The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-08-11 00:00:00

POLICE•

BEFORE $lll. JAMES SHAW.
Gut Lou A LL.—A Mr. Russell,
& Gentleman of
the grave profession •of an undertaker) was yes-
terday stimmoned before (hi Migistittelifirnien
named Hate, a haekneyAdachmen; feriae pay.:
meet of a guittea,,heing the hire of his vehiclo 9t
attending the Defendant and a party of
shis friend b,
not to a funeral, hut to a convivial party at %Val.
'worth, ihOuf fix Weeks 'since.
-On the My when this dc'.! was ettntracted, the'
mono( melancholy .having spent his morning in:
perfotming:the last sad
.tifice to some of ..hie
frieuds and customers, and luring touch depressed
in spirits *by acting his part in thc tt solemn
!Dockery of Wet," 'determined to dispel the gloom.
of sorrow forthe dead, 'by a little cheerful
tome with the living.
Having accortlitigly,put off his sables, and de-1
posited hi:v/mils and nodding plumes in their
mertuary Wardiobe, 'he put on his holiday gar-
Minns, dressed hit face in smiles, and prepared to
set out with his family to a cheerful party at
Worth, • where the brethren of a Masonic Lodge,
" the Children of Content," to which he belonged,.
had agieverte*give theiriadies and daughters a treat'
and a hop. Mr.ltussall could have accommodated
his party in a.fieurse or a mourning-coach, to the
festive scene, but this might be thought " to smell
of the shop," and cast a damp on the tikirits of the
company; he therefore resolved to hire for the day
the " leathern conveniency" or (he Plaintiff, in
which he wet out for Walworth. Here the melon..
cbole scenes of the morning were contrasted with
the vivacities.of a numerous assemblage, determined
to banish ?two* and drive away care. The sable
bier, ilia the full-moutifed coffin, gave place to
string beeti,ihig-t-fall=motrnted board,„ groan.
ing under.the Weight of plenty, and stnoaking
with 4)( the luxuries of the season. Alums were
succoeded, by some two dozen of sprightly fe-
males, to hose "'silvery voices," and flippant
tongucs,might, in a few hours, at one forthe silence
of half a century. The funeral knell of the
parish curfew yielded to.the sprightly notes of the
,thoyew and the cypress were banished for
the myrtle and rose; the cheering goblet succeed.
dad plehtediui fettle; and the whole company,
atttitsedtd latitttre, joined in the merry . donee.
Mt. *Russell, 'whose morning mood Would have
been better.adapted for 4olbein's dance of death,.
now "tripped
. it on the eight fantastic toe" with a
.litifoni partner, 'Until four in the morning **lien
the riisy jingere& goddess. warned the Company to
defiant, and the Defendant retired to the Plaititifte
• Wilde, and was conveyed home in bang-up style..
lOndirtissino Ws charioteer, he told him he would
neitdiy and pay 'his master. This, however,.
he ftifiat to' do, and the present summons teat
etyma to refresh his memory. -•• • -
-The worthy Magistrate, after shortly -consider.
ing the merits of the case awactiod• fro the Plain-
tiff. ,
~
illaryofrilit. was brought to .this Witch Oersted
with otealieg in !the shop of 'Messrs. ,Vipcind and
Co. linen - ilrapers,• Ledgate-hill, 24 "yerds 'of
printed cotton.
It appeared, from the testimony of •one of the
complainant's shopmen, that the prisoner, accom-
paaied by svrouther women, came into the shop,
under the pretence
.of purchasing '
some small arti-
cle,
.ant ni atli onient when, she thought herself
tinitercelted; she' secritellesthelileCe of cotton in
queition.blitioith her.oost;''ina was decamping,
itli&she.ala3'lHtliiblir by a young'inan who wit-
rtilited..the ttittitiCittth; She was ftillYcgolumitted
fur • n,...,
,gdesitlitilserdesheri arid liosieri ten &fhb, con_
tetitteliee•cif 'informations laid against theta by Ex-
cite' alters, for having. Bandana* havilherchlift
and French gloves in deli Contrarit to
the Act or Parliament.. 'The go to were of cootie
forfeited, atiii`the Magistrates fined the borenclanti •
in the mitigated penalty of one-lialf of the triblb
value of-the different articles seized.
FORGING THEATRICAL ADMISSION'S,
• UNtots.MALL.—A yonng man, named Webb,
was ctvarged by Mr. Elkton with irresenting a
forged order of admission for three to the pit, at
the Surrey Theitre, on Thursday evening last.
Mr. Etlisten said, that the forgery was detected
immediately on the order being presented, it pur.
porting to be written by Mr. S. Slader, and it be.
'erg the title with him mato suffer any written or.
'dere to he given by any person except himself.
The Prisoner said he was a compositor on a
,Weekly Newspaper, and that he found the order
in the street, as he was going to his employment
on Thursday morning.
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Mr. Ellision said he had no wish to punish the
Prisonce if he would promise to endeavour to dis.
cover the writer of the order; the frauds of this
description which were practised upon him were
beyond conception, and he should in future be
obliged to prosecute with severity any person
whom he should detect attempting to repeat them ;
Mr. Saito.' prodneed to the Magistrate several
' fOrged copper cheeks, similar to those taken at,
the doors by personcen paying their money, and.
delivered to the inner doorkeepers, which had:
'.iiderr Veselnted at the thiors.
'• • After ancvere reprimand from the Magistrate,
'Mr.. Eifimun declining to prosecute him, the pri.
loner Was discharged. •
A new ship of 80,giins to be called the Cam-
bridge, is to be Wit at Deptford.
A few days-ago, a labourer, belonging to
lyalker's Lieie.house, Derry, All into tlme kiln,
shortly after the lime had been taken outland while.
the cinders at. the bottom were yet red-hot. After
leveret unsuccesifUl attempts by the bye.standeri,
he was at length drawn up, his clothes completely
hUrnt off, and his flesh in several jdaces literally
roasted to a cinder. There are no hopes. of* his
surviving. • •
. A greater" mortality has seldom Orem:red:in one
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amity, and in so short a time,, ex' fa Abet. of John
Harrison, of Bingham., farmer, turied,
iu little more than a month (and three of thorn' In
the short space oesi. days).o4ot,hi.-childri,n, of
the respective ages of three, nine,.cleien;tlsiriees,.
and eighteen. years of age, by.a malignoetfever,
which has been frblataht .is glut Solt :for petit
time. wi0,44 •td ti:4?&W.
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