The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-11-21 00:00:00

FAIRS ANb MARKET

had formerly been
he left his house I
(be watehisai
told him to take ..
not say what he Oar/
hie's staff out of b;
take him I will,"
and was in coast,
it .was sot.titl thee..
eaten Of 1U et me.
The prisonir "wild f
in St. Pasl's elliarchl
if them addressed the
they, and entered -
ther, &c. till they
expressed hie regi
:t en
about., where the .. rinii, .
wished him to gi. ...... hhe .. . house near Finaboey,
square. This he declined, and on his turning a different
way, at the corner of the street, the proseeutin laid hold
of his arm, and said he should not go that way, he,basi
other matters to inform him of at the watch-house. He
asked him what he meant, when he hesitateCoud eigtlitl
he asked, him, would be go to the public honee.offirsog
him, as it Were the alb:woad re, either to accompany hiss
to the pullic house. or be taken to the watch-hoses.—
He offered no opposition to the titter, and it was not till
they got there that he knew the nature of the charge to
be made against him ; and upon bearing it stated the
Isl
prosecutor. Ida passion overcame his ream., au he
immegliately struck him. The pro:ecetor reuses the
blow, the marks of which were visible by the black •
be had received. Towards the conclusion of his ad
while speaking. of his own siteation. with regard to
wife and tangly, and bow dieadful such an accusal
In, 140 14 feelings, be became visibly affected evitil
tea 11.,.. Air ! •
The 'ceistable of the night stated that the pn
seemed extremely surprised, and indigaist, witnit4l.'
heard the charge stated.
• A gentleman accidentally is the sew: .
prosecutor, as baying once bees is the eitsplej itt
a friend of his. He was discharged in co .
of getting 4rnik, and using the most .homes
- ' -- - „es he had since heard be was
‘,.ANW Mansfield '

language ; .- n.vey
had chareclew. Me also knew atpl,
.o bad.
heard hint speak of the prosecutor in the same man-
ner.
The prisoner stated that be was known to nutty res-
pectable persons, the Alderman drained him to 'semi for
any one of them.
An officer iras Oen dzsatelted, and sbortlynflamr• art&
returned with Or. Briscoe; printer, No. NI, Whltarrobr
street, who deposed that be had known the prisoner for
the last. twelve years, gave him a most excellent: cha-
racter, and thought biro the last man he should hay.
suspected of such an offence. tie knew his wjkand
family, and teas in the habit of seeing him. Okimaiisces
two or three times every week.
Mr. Rainbow, Copper.-plate printer, barn esptidi
in esti-
mony to the character of the prisoner, pito wasi
consequence, discharged.
Bow SITBAST.—Honano AND CRULL U6lllolllllL—la.
formation was yesterday afternoon rectivedat the dice
of two of the most horrid and cruel macaws probably
that ever were comonittoil,, on the peamb of Prdward
Needle and his wife, toe Western Tamogibegato Keep.
era, near Aylesbury, Bucks. The eiresinseamen *bleb
' led to the discovery of the horrid deeds are as feibw :
—The above dcseribed persous were about siatplears
of age, and 11;o1 kept the above gate for a number, of
years, except with a very short interval, in conseqoeve
of new farmers of the gate. and were highly respected by
all who knew them. They' were brutally onnidered
either late on Taroslay eight, or, as the general belief &.
early yesterday morning, as when their bodies were'
forted. they.were not Amite cold. The last persons wise
saw them alive have not been discovered. At six yeet
terday 'uprising a baker was passing through the gx
iiith bread, on horseback, he found the principal gate
open, 'which he did not wish to piss' through, lay
through a side gore, to proceed to the village of Brought.
ton,. and supposing Me. and Mrs. Needle to be asleep.,
avoided disturbing them, and went throagh.tiselr. 'gar.
ilea. It was the custom for them to leave the gate open
for the Aylesbury coach to pass through, whea they had
not any parcels, message, &c. to give the coachman.

...NCR gip EARLY Da-
limeeenr.../blikirumeessirdlepers of age, was yesterday.
Impaght uy troll itmetmedefellis of Se. Andrew's, Holborn..
*bit ;164de 'llillided, with team streaming
tin bar Ileithlfrilithhet be no practised In vice, •
wrrdliff
re w ne,seagite left to mitre her from utter distraction
A the Penes of the Magistrate- She had fed from
kik aerate in 'associate with plikyoekets and women of the
• limit abasderied'descriptioe. Tbe7sight before her father
met her walking Ns unmet in the lasSeteg• of dminkamess,
and pee cher& of lie meths wetairbousai fee Setailerese
of trying what would he .dens by beinglng barbells ...Mr
Worship. Tbeffasistrate lemellinChic Wier did Mali
tend so far as tojustify him la origissitdeir her to tho Home
of Correetios. ile. however., °tiered her to be locked up'
la solitary eoaliaetneet ill three 'clock, when, after a suit-
able admonition, the was dilly to bee parents.
Quaan-SQUALL.Merk H . . William Watts, Joseph
ce
Faller, and Thomas Brown, were charged with a burglary
Ailitd robbery, in tbir dwelling-Mese of J. A, De Reimer, Esq.
Wo. it, Buten-place, Neneerowt, St. Pancras, and Charlotte
Ileigield, with being accessed? alter the feet to the robbery.
- The osplere-of this gang of desperate characters was ef-
fected shoat seven o'clock in the.morelag of Thursday last,
.by Cooper. Handley, and Parm, of Weak*, at a.hoese In
castle-street, Long-acre, where Herd lodged, and embers
they found a plated wine funnel, gilt inside, fourteen silver
spoons ,•f different sorts, a tortoise-shell snuff-boa gold
mounted, end a double plated penknife: In a hole under
out of the boards of the door, beside the fire-place, was
'bead a piece of ciepetting, containing a complete assort-
-men of beemehresking implements. Between the mattress
and the sacking of the bedstead, was found a small silver
eau, es due lid of which was a rained impression ofe head
of QUOINS Mao, with the initials Q. A., containing thirty
silver reorestors. eash hearing ontiespression corresponding
with that ea the lid of the essauthe bellow of the seat be-
ing stamped with the letters T.K. At the top of the stairs,
'outside the room door. stood a gingheet umbrella, very, wet,
which had 'been set to drain.
Yesterdiy, they were brought up for re-examination, and
the cabers having ascertained by InqUiry that the house Of
Mr. De Reimer had bees brokers into and robbed on Thurs-
day monde& that Gentians attended yesterday, and !des-
tined the plate found where the prisoners were takes. the
snuff-box and the penkvife. with some ether small articles,
as his property, and as bating been olden from his beetle
on the morning in question. His cook. who first discovered
that the house hod been broken open and robbed, when she
'came &inn stairs about seven o'clock that moinlng,llkewise
attended, and identified the umbrella as befogging to the
house-maid, her fellow-servant.
It appeared that the robbery had Walked se ionsidemble
(defame along the wall which divides lbw badi yards of the
houses in Heston-place from those of a Mt of houses in
their rear, and, deserodise by elieetrley late the prosecutor';
pre,nises, had forced out the screws of the fanteeing of the
sash of the Mack kitchen window, end borlag a hole in the
shutter large enough towbar a alto's am, they had drawn
back the bolt which fastened the shatters. They then took
down ao alarm bell, which warl'hung th the scullery door,
and opened it, sod ceding out a passel °film door leading'
from the back kitchen into the palate, had free tetesS
to the front kitchen, and up malts lell• tr,...,1n
which all the drawers were found to Ise. rableased.
A ellissol and a turn-screw, fogad witildingibliMilikalimp
In Herd's lodgings, on he % mmeleggifilleillefilemmellie M
sa . the ash and sill of the lie eta/
erlodiew.sesid.also en
the hitches cupboard door, gooegoantd erectly to corres-
pond.
They were comqdtted al Wal. aid the partial; hound
over to Prosecute end glen eildersee ; but they *ill be
brought up again on Monday their, by which time it is ex-
pected that evidence nal be forthettudeg ter stbstantitte
other charges against them. .

311:1.LINGAZ ICorsnstr FAIR.—So wretched a P.ir
has not, these forty years, 1qv:111144i in this town. The
'ripply of Black Cattle, Horses, and Sheep, was in•.
unease, and of the best description. Boyer• atien,t,,,
hi great number., yet comparatively few sties were et.
reeled : even three few were forted, and sold much tr.
der fir.t east.—The prices were ■s follow :—rit. Four
year. t I ituttideks, from s'. to V.—Three and Font Yew
old Heifers, from 4/. to 61, Vat Cows. from sq. to 71._
Two year old H►ifers and Bollocks, front 211 S. (*We.-
Excellent two year old sheep from 14i. to 2.l.r.—Hirses
of a gand description were rw brisk demand, hat from
the degenerate breed now in this eonntry, the old Iris;[
flint-r and Weida Carrier cool I not he had—H&j
Colts brought from 261. to 35L—Pigs wcre merely
tuinai in price, and fell considerably—Wool sold troA
13s. to 14s. 31. per atone. Time prices of Cattle as 1
drain are nearly at the standard of 1;60, when Land
set at 7to 15s. per acre. In fact. the prices now given
would not warrant any.prudent Man in giving more 6..4
15s. to 211,. per acre fur die best land, A11)90104, to ti.s
nett, Ito is often obliged to bold it, at 40 and fifty All-
nags.

The I sale of Improved Irish Wool took p'2,,
a fete days ego at the Fanning Society concerns in thi"-.
lin. The pricer rated from thi. to 34. per pound. •
Carmarthen Pant Thursday. exhibited a tolerably
food show of CatIKWIs sale of which was considen.
We, het at .very. leek . The Horse Fair was but
indifferent.
Cononeit's Iseittrit —Tuesday evening an inqne.t
was held at the Black Cap, Carode• Teen, before
Thomas Stirling; Fig. and a respectalde Jnry, on the
body of William Benson, who was Wiled last Sunday
evening, by being run over.
ft appeared from the evidence of Thomas ileckerif4
Esq. of Bedford-10am-, Russell-9litre. that on the even.
'ono- meetiiiiheil be was retuning to town (coin Hamp-
stead in a post chaise, the property of Mr. Kent, of
Southampton-rasa', Bloomsbury, and that on the entrance
Camden Town the post boy, in trying to pass a one
se chaise, increased his speed front his ordinary pace
pi from pis to seven, lurks as hoar, to between nine and
US miles; by which means the bosses coahl not at an
'mutant be brought up, and the unfortunate Benson she
was employed in sweeping the crossing iititurdistely op-
posite the Britannia, was knocked down in the middle
of the way. The postillion uses every endeavour re
avoid the eniefortene which happened, but too late—fer
before the horses could be stopped, the deceased fell and
was run over. •
This state---t was corroborated hr several other ri-
sen, toe cir

t e in e n t
special& Gentlemen, who saw the circumstance at the
instant it happened. all of whom ag.reed that no blame
could be attnbated to the postillion. a hose conduct
appeared to be most correct, for as soon as he v..*
enabled to stop, sad learnt the sad mishatune, vrept
like a child.
Tile deceived was instantly carried to the house of 31r.
Roberts, the surgeon, living nearly opposite to where
the dir Ur,

It appeared in 'eidetic' that the deceased had for •
king time Moored seder a state of muttsl derange.
rent, and had previously mad* an attempt mien his
torn life litteking a boat shore Vannhall.bridge, pi, g
est in•tbeiiver,aad plunging himself into the water,
•list was fortsnately rescued by a waterman, who rook
him eat, and conducted hire home; he had also been de-
tected nfth razors in his passessios frequently, the in-
strument with which he perpetrated this anfortutipe
act. On Saturday week last !the. fiefette was very
and requested deceased to shave in the same room with
her, to which he objected, and retired to another room,
where °be indicted a wound nn the lower pert of his
body. Medical assistance was immediately obtained,
the wound sewed up, and hopes were entertained of his
recovery; the wound was followed by slight notifica-
tion, but nothing to occasion death. The deceased was
of a very weak (restitution and lingered for times days
after the commission of theact ; he eipireden &Sendai,
last, 53 years of age, 35 of which he haeLbeen ishcs
situation, in the receipt of fitiOi. per annum, and 2s. 14.
for every bond be filed up, and he would sometimes have
from 20 to SO a day. The fees are about to he abolished,
whirls preyed much en the deceased's mind ; and the
evidence of the impose went to show that he had la-
boured under an unsound state of mind for four months
past. during which time his actions and per aortal ap-
pearance strongly indicated derangement.
The Commas addressed the jury, saying, such cases
as this seldom COMO before him; be had heard of persona
jumpieg out of first and Ite011(1400f windows. when i•
a state of deraegement, but the present case wet redly
horrible to think of—the whole of the evidence west
strosg ly to prove iiisasity.
The jury returned a verdict—" that lie idtrilmsmiiied
'front a wound indicted by hiniselt vehostim • elidersl
.niental derangement."

(FlllOll TUILSDAT'S GAT. CI EL.I
COMWition in the Cardiganshire afi ilia, signed by the
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cardigan—C.A. Pritchard.
Esq. to be Captain.

MARRIED.
De TJesday. the 19th inst. at SL Peal's, Covent-garJea.
Robert Selby. Esq. of York-street. Covent-garden. wins'
merchant, to Catherine, only daughter of Mr. J. Jackson. if
Bedford-street, Corent-garden.
On the lath of Marcia. at Penult. Ideeteusnt Stuart Car-
bon, of the gUth Bengal regiment. eldest sou of the Rd‘. Dr.
'Stuart Corbett, of IVortley. Yorkshire. to Charlotte, third
dat.ghter of the late T. Britten, Esq. of Suffolk-lane.

DIED.
Oa Friday, the IMIt instant. at his lodgings, Upper Olo-
enter-street, Regent's-1)01k, Mr. John Debrett, formerly the
eminent bookseller In Piccadilly, and editor of the Peerage
and Baronetage.
On the 19th Inst. in Norfolk-street. Mr. O. Tralles, Pro-
fessor of Astronomy in the Ro al Academy, Rerlio.
On Sunday, the Itth inst. at Camberwell, Mr. W. Rona-
son, In the Ytth year of his age.
On the 19th inst. at Okingham. perks, Mrs. Jones, relict
of the late W. Jones, Esq. of Cockspur-street, Loudon.

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Lead,* : Edited, Priated. itakbilabod, at tbe 011 ea et
The likrairsamas" bad "Tae CONIMITUTIOSIcii:I6III4%
Power.) No. AV . 84ziad. by It. WAII9I4I#L. lig• T.
whole all oescaeoiaelaiwa, Mao. 44., ire requattaile
be addresict

notes, amen ne attuned, ouservrog that iiiii-iii-)I4Yr7-aslo.--;ter .74--'-n it- otter end Roberts, the surgeon, living nearly opposite to where
the charge. be thought, would bit more 7n• . . the disaster happened, and 3tr. Itoberts deposed, tliit in
il by way of live. Salmon bytagnocaewled In tram , ?petty. to
his opinion Benson died in consnattence of the wounds
544dt with whom the prosecutor end tipeot• wad/. hes'''. - 69464.- - it. • .41HP-•'' P• 1 ither gel' spore'itir !wail from the chaise hi .i c •goneover him;
•IWIlti:14 as ato oosingh to reaper . . . •, . k
orroborated his testimony to that fact.— nearly the -. skull being, fractured in several pL,CI S.
of the office' i►as '
id, was a married man with a famlly,tod ~....,„,s „,„_A• -111 ,„4„LP t, •-„L • • • elfire; • The Cdriver and• Jury, after vied nig the body, toas-
t goody, and
been a publican and failed. At tie time ii-ja;"'"”e''"' _Te •"T • - mooted stro*ly upon the contLict of post boys driving
zse last evening be cram perfeo, sober. r•
..... rmistmet;Are hit 6.7ii.a.. iibeltsho:A..,; tion 'Orb:rab, through the villag• es in the vicinity of
ran said the proeecator call, him, and of ti,27;„„.•,• • rnvc7carlio • • back coati LAlniloo, than they do, on a plain °pep road, where lbre
lee the prisoner tattle watelPhouse, bat did i ii,„ 'n 7.,,,„„_''0t he -•
al ease it Orr
s..Staie refused to . ..
be charged him with. He pulled a constr. a- 7.."''`'"'2,,,„,„„„, • , -,1 fii...; 1...• i'into c tad,,-.
of his pocket, and 1441, "ff you don't glii,73.47ry'lltactin le'i; gone•ilw th
• tarots a verdict of Accinlental Death ; ■red from the
11:le k , La. excellent altaracter given to the pnst-bny by Hr. Beek-
-1 The prisms., offered no oppeeition. lii'maa as'larir iir . scat! ikeiger atia a a'd la •cicafaa with end etheys,the Juey felt no inclinatioa to ievy a
iethseelitetreo
ivailt,mappoleto dm wattaladmismesaod al p. - et- there 411cd. " f fla jetta to nippLfecjapirsg
Iheele• . . ... --•.- rr .
. .• • p. at/ us iirept Ike promos
.
,
w sat .that.fbe peowirispf owe . v !‘• -f 1 , . tglowalg iiiik
acc'hi6dnbtkleaatidktall•ficawmf. k:iirtiaDyitatiirteg
s. 2g-ibii4"l": g Po23l44hossfsr.raPsli
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- •'- - " • strielli. held before 1d r. Sitaterivet, Uoroarr, and a Moist re-
red into conversation reepectitt* g.
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*lns jibnerybod, aayNeef. 411,,P. aArteltitountli•oterLaitceh,aNeiewmiliseastr..
hey got to Wood-street, when Ai it
regret that there was no house open timen. -o--- "? •••••• men' -.7 '-` '-
ch
they could get something to drink, and pregnane 7_,,, oasuthet it_sheasho
.71hd heio every iedel• blilsietexki.ertesteof thbeyDiust4iiitets
ifoogr Eix:misen,anoniothpeuttega
lower
rperpaietat to
I.,__L____' geoce the pnson w spur is t e meanw e.
go with hiqz to a blgna Pea, itu•origr i. ca.. w--.' ... ti,..T. . Lit op EARLY Da it" mil• he declined, and on his turning a different "621wm`"'"I"'—'66'''''''fir ---'-4N-'- - -- - . i•----i'- -' '--- 'r ' ''" . ''' .-- -