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The Statesman. — 1821-04-16 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST. At five o'clock the Jury was assembled at the Lambeth Workhouse, before Mr. Jernmett ; and thirteen Jurors having been sworn, they proceeded to view the body, which had been disinterred and pliced in the bottelsonee. hey were accompanied by Mr. Hyde. a surgeon at Lambeth, by whom the body had been exatuined, hut it was in too putrid a state to admit of I more than an external observation. The following witnesses we.e examined : Elisabeth Elites, wife of Thomas Elkes, of Bloxam's buildings, Lambeth, deposed, that trine weeks back she applied to Footman, a chittiney.sweeper in her neighbourhood, for a boy to sweep her chimney. In half an hour afterwards, Bush, Footman's foreman, brought John Thorp, the deceased, and desired him I to go up the chimney. The child was aliout nine or ten years of age, and seemed to be very poorly. The child went up reluctantly a short way, and there stopped. Bush struck him with a strap. Another apprentice, named Lane, then came its, and Bush desired hint to take the strap and follow the deceased, and not be ashamed to use it. Lane' went np the chimney, and witness heard a noise as if one boy was passing the other ; but she heard no noise or scuffle. Bush then took the deceased by the leg and pulled hint down from the chimney, striking his head against a shelf as he came down. He then took the child by his leg and'arm, and threw him across !he room upon the boards with great violence. The boy got np, but did not cry. Witness said," !or] Christ's sake, Mr. Bush, you will kill the child-1 you will murder him:" Ile replied with an oath, " I wish I could." Witness then said, " for God's sake, return hint from whence he came to which he replied, " No ; his brJther (meaning Footman) was not to lose six guineas by the scoundrel, for then he would go to the Penitentiary." Ile then ordered the deceased to get on his slices, and while he was doing so he struck him with his brush and strap on the loins, adding with another oath, " that he should go up another chimney now." In all this time the boy never uttered a word or cry. They left the house, and in about a quarter of an haur afterwards, witness heard a boy crying " Sweep!" in Footman's chimney ; she believed it was deceased. In two or three days subsequently witness met Footman on Dulwich-hill, and said to him, " Dear me, Mr. Footman, in what a manner Mr. Bush used that po r child in my house."— Ile replied, with an oath, " I wish he had killed him." Mr. Charles Hyde, the surgeon by whom the body had been examined, was then called. Ile deposed ' that be bad examined every part of the body, and that be had nut been able to discover any marks if violence which, in hls opinion. could hate occasioned death. There %sere some sputa on the head, which ha oonsidered were produced front a diseased. or son sea*. There sras no freetttre of any of the bout. There.wais aleciate um each knee. and on each elbow. which he believed was common to all young chimney -There was alba a wound in the leg : it
The Statesman. — 1821-02-26 (London, England)

YEARS.—On Tuesday last, a MO named James Matthews, wit., resides at St. Agues, Cornwall, WAS apprehen led on the information of a person named Simon Pryor, who resides at Reilruth, and who charges Matthews with the Murder of a man named John James, who was his (Matthews's) brother-in-law, 16 years since. The following circumstances have been stated by Pryor on oath, before the Rev. Hugh Rogers, one of the County Magistrates. In 1504, Pryor was employed as an assistant labourer, by Matthews and James, at a mine called Crown Dale Mille, near Tavistock, in Devonshire. One night Pryor and James descended by a windlass into a shaft of the mine which was about 242 fathoms in depth. Whilst there, they bored a hole for blacing, and Pryor was drawn up by Matthews. James then laid the watch to the train, and called out to his comrades to pull him np, as it is usual with miners on such occasions. Matthews and Pryor wound up about 5 fathoms of the rope, when Matthews kt go the windlass and desired Pryor to do the same. Pryor refused, oa which Matthews threatened to knock his brains out if he did oat. Pryor again refused, when Matthews struck him on the right arm with • pick hilt, which famed him to quit his hold, and James was precipitated to the bottom, and had his scull so dreadfully fractured that he died two days abet. Pryor told the facts to his b:other, who was a smith on the mine, and to some other men, but they contrived to keep him in a small room behind the smith's shop until a coroner's jury had returned a verdict of accidental death. lie was then induced to cone'sl the affair, on the ground that Matthews had a large family. Pryor had never seen Matthews front that time to the present, but he said that he was so distressed on account of the concealment, that he could suppress the circumstance no longer. Matthews has been committed to 114xlinin gaol, in order to he trans omitted to Exeter fur trial at the ensuing assizes. On Wednesday se'nnioht an inquisition was taken at Charwelton, \orthasuptoothire, on view of the body of John Clarke, a wealthy farmer, who resided at Cherwell house, in the same parish, and who, on the preceding Saturday, was shot at, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, as he was cutting hay from a rick near his dwelling-house; the shot shattered his left arm in such a dreadful Ilial4Orf, that amputation was necessary, but with very little hopes Id his life, from the great loss of blood he had enstained, the great artery of the arm being entirely severed by the shut, and he died about four o'clock on Thursday moraine, After a very long and minute examination of witnesses, a most respectable Jury returned a verdict of Verdes against Philip Haynes. whe had before been committed to Northam,too pet osier Lord Ellenbarnagles Aet.—We understand She primmer was servant to the deceased about two years ago.
The Statesman. — 1821-10-10 (London, England)

MURTHOUGH O'BLANEY.  MURDER.  On Thursday evening, about ten o'clock, a man named Sayard, a shoemaker, residing at Bamford, in Essex, was apprehended at the Castle publichouse, at Gravesend, charged with having stabbed a person named Ballard, and who died the followieg day, in consequence of the wounds be had received. An inquest was held on Friday, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against the prisoner. 'Onlffitarday as examination took place at the TownHall, Gravesend, Deborah Smith, of Shadwell. Essex, deposed, .that on Wednesday last she went to Rumford statute fair, and when in the market-place. where the fair is held, she was accosted by Daniel Sayard, the prisoner, who, after asking her how she did, inquired whether she had received any letters from him ? She answered "No ;" (she had received one, but did not wish him to know it.) He then asked at what time she was going home ; to which she replied" it was of no conseqaence to him." She then left him, but he followed so las to keep her in view during the whole day I She was with a party of friends, and met with: the deceased about four o'clock; she went with the party to the Rising San to get some refreshment. it being the last public-house on their way homeward. They left there soon after eight o'clock, and she wail:rod arm-in-arm with the deceased. When they came to a four vent way, and while she was wishing the party good night, Sayard brushed by her and the deceased, and took the road that led to her home. When she and Ballaid bad proceeded about a quarter of a mile, the prisoner seised her by the arm, at the same time saying he wished to speak whit bet. The witness said " she had nothing to say to him, for she had done with him." He still pressed her, and by Ballard's advice she went to him. His object was to persuade witness to walk with bins. which she refused, whereupon he grossly abuse..) her, and Ballard, seising him by the collar, toil hint he should not use her so. A fight then commenced between the prisoner and deceased, when Ballard knocked Sayard down ; in. a second round they fell together, and on dais!: the deceased knocked the prisoner down again t be then exclaimed. • Mary, I am murdered--minty entrails site ostp—rue, or be will smudge you." Witness and deceased run, followed by the prisoneta till they tante to the gide of a mall garden belonging to a cottage. where Ballard fell exhausted, the winless calling out " Murder !" Tae inhabitants of the cottage caide and assisted Ballard into their house; at the same time Sayard was standing in sight, and witness estelai " that is the villain who has murdered him," and he immediately ran away. The cottager' not Isavin room for the deceased, he was removed in a cart IJ a neighbouring public-house, where he lingered its the most excruciating agony till Thursday eveniat, six o'clock, when he expired. Ots Sunday, Sayard was removed from Gravesend to Chelmsford gaol. At his examination on Satur• day he appeared much affected at the sight of Deborah Smith, for whom he is said to have formed an attachment—(Km/seater Gazette.)
The Statesman. — 1812-09-10 (London, England)

LETTER TROD BALTIMORE, DAM) ON WED WESDAT MORNING AT NINE O.( tocK.  " The. Gentlemen referred to in iny letter of yesterday, pref. rred remaining in prison to being hailed out, nuder assurances Af protection from the t'onstituted Authorities. A regimerit of i...f.ihtry, a company of artillery, and certain troopers were ordered out, A detachment of thcmob surrounded the escort of the rientlemen M thejnil...wounded several of them with stones as tl,ey were starching along the street, and struck seseral others 37 th ascended the steps), while the greater part of them coedrued about and in the house of Mr. WAGNen, destroying the furniture and the iellernal work of the hailding, throughout the day, without the least molestation.  " After dinner I stalked out to Howard's Park opposite the . which was surrounded by a large concourse of people.— Erigadier-General Sinus= and the Mayne were walking about apparently anteater-Ned. The eonstant cry of the mob was ' blood for blond.' No military appeared, although de-I.ehroents were paraded in tern, which a little before sue-set *sec unloved to Os dismissal as being unneeenery; and, within an hoer frees that time, the mob, without resistance, entered the jail and forced the door of the apartment which contained the entlemen. Mr. DANTIL Mranat presctted himself before 'em with pistols and they drew hack—the Gentlemen then JAed forward, ami many of then, succeeded in effecting their '=cape uabort. General LIP MAN was inhumanly murdered, and etvcral were desperately wounded. Mr. Joust Twonrsow, beaten to a mummy—wan of his arms broken in two places, and olio deep indentures In his right cheek, continues barely to exist. General Lest, with a fractured seen, was take. to the Hospital, but it is hoped be will survive his wound, as well as Mr. GEOII/Ge NV mai versa, and another Gentleman, who were terribly beaten. 1 l•ave beard of none others much isiured. In the course of the afternoon Mr. Hansom put his head out of the window and proclaimed, that they were trearherously 'rot there to be ussmaered. " General Lrgeaw is the idol of Montgomery, and serious eoaiequences are apprehended to result from his murder. It *IS reported yesterday morning, that an express had gone to Motgoalery for an escort of six hundred horse--and consider. lag that the General—a Member of the Legislature, and several si their most distinguished citizens, were in imminent peril, it is impossible to predict the consequences of these excitements. " Mr. Taoism), was taken about in a tart last alght—and this naraiolts at half-past nine, it he be alive, is to be tarred and feathered, and paraded through the strcets--de prevent which I eats hear et no measures taken. Trumpets, have beers I"wiagl ands atlenith, about belt & troop at hems.-11  party of artillery without uniform, and a company of {gantry, 'Hemet either uaiforta or arms, lave appeared, and, it is said, are going out for exercise au the !olassess.  "-Thefollowing (ineosoplete) list, extracted from tie Whig, contains the names of the thstietsea above referred lost—Wm. Schroeder, John Thoupsoo,
The Statesman. — 1812-01-11 (London, England)

FLINDT V. CDOCITT.  This was also an action. upon a policy, on goods from the port of London to Archangel; and the interest was averred to be in merchants at Riga, domi. cited In Russia. The 'thence was granted to British merchants and others. The loss was by capture at sea by a French privateer, whO carried the vessel into a Dutch port, where vessel and cargo were coneemned and confiscated. Mr. PAnK, for the Defendant, cnntended, that although the license recognized a voyage to an enemy's port? yet the parties interested -being also alien enemies lit was not in the contemplation of his Majeety's Government, in granting that licence to British merchants, and others, to extend the liberty to trade directly with au alien enemy. Lord ELLENBOROUGII, however, was of opinion that as his Majesty had a right, in the exercise of his prerogative, to grant licences to trade to an enemy's port, he had equally a right to permit the trading with an alien enemy. 1 The Jury accordingly found for the Plaintiff, subLject, however, to the question at law which was pending in the Court in some similar cases.  The Duke DINFANTADO, who is a Prince of the Blood, has the most splendid establishment in equipages and servants of any Ambassador to the Btitish Court, siace the voluptuous period when the Comte DI: GtriGsE was the resident Minister in England for the Court of France. Thursday evening, as a party of the patrole be- , longing to the Public Office, Bow-street, were on duty in Islington, they observed two men go into a public-house, whose conduct they suspected to be improper, and supposed they had been at the public-' house to meet a person, to sell the contents of a bundle, but were disappointed. When they came out of the public-house, the patrole stopped the man who had the bundle, and asked him what lie had its it ? lie replied some linen he had been getting from a 1 washerwoman. This did not satisfy the patrole, and they_told him they must see what it contained. They I found in it shoat two hundred pairs of silk stockings and gloves ; upon which they took both the men into custody, and on inquiry the stockings mid gloves proved to have been stolen from Mr. Barlow, a hosier, on Fish-street-hill, and the man who had the bundle, to have been his porter. When he was taken into custody, he offered the patrole 501. to let him go.— The .9tl'ence having been committed in the City, they weic taken hisfor4lhe Lord Mayor. NI edr..o4;-•-m-senve men were digging some earth out of a hrirk-rield in Grove-road, Bethnal-green, one of them found I a human skeleton in irons. InquiTy has since hew made, and'. there Is no doubt that it is the remains of one of the merderers, Richardson or Conway, who were banged and gibbeted on Bow Common, abort forty years ago. for the murder of two butchers, of Whiterbapet, of the warm* of Veuables and Rogers. • Bulk the bodies were stoleu from the gibbets.  '  -'n1117"
The Statesman. — 1810-04-25 (London, England)

STATESMAN.  " Lando*. ISeb Nib: 1714 01 wised in Lbrd 11. Yrrsan6, as Les aparnaeits siLl:eisaer lloosvosatel. that Scotland " is Irish all over; but the people hors give as opinion, though It is easy to learn they look for a change." And The Post says— " This of itself is sollicieot to sbew the connection* and par" titipation."—.... meaning between Mr. Rot= O'CoNstaa and A &Tatra O'Cormon. now is this male out) but by the conclusion, that a man necessarily ap. proves of ever)/ thing written to him by a near relative or intimate friend L If any person is to' be deetoo4 guilty of treason upon such argil. ment as this, and If Sir }IRENE'S BURDETT is to be held up as au abettor of traitorst because he has among his friend* a Gentleman so made out to be traitor, then it is true, notwithstanding all this writer, or any other writer can say, that England is no longer worth preserving. The extract from a lyiag history, with which The Post concludes, coots Nor prove that Mr. It. O'CoNNou was " one of the self.convicted conspirators transported to Fort St. George." In short it proves nothing but the worthlessness of the writer of that history.  FRENCH and DUTCH PAPERS, the farmer to the  18th, the latter to the ntl, have been received this morning, Extracts from which will bo found in a subsequcut column.  The following Article appeared in the Morning Papers this day, and we need only refer to the Statesman of the 2lst instant, fur the opinion wo then expressed on the subject ; for we did conceive the report of the speech to be the act of some officious friend of Mr. %MUFF Wool), as we believe no such speech was magi: before the breaking up of the Meeting. , "Mr. Sheriff WOOD havingstated at the dinner, at the City of London Tavern, on Thursday last, (according to the report in several of the Morning Papers) that the two Civil Magistrates, whom be met in Piccadilly, on .Sunday, the Bth slant, thought proper to say, 64 that if the people did not disperse, they would order the troops to charge; but that threat was not executed, on account of his promptly telling those Magistrates, that if they attempted to hue such an order, and any death ensued, he would indict them for murder," we think it in. cumbent on us, as the two Magistrates alluded to, positively to assert, that no such conversation passed between the Sheriff and ourselves; that we never did entertain or express an intention of ordering the troops to charge ; and that Mr. 'Sheriff Wools never did use to us, or in our hear. lug, the threatening language stated to have been promptly used by him in reply ; and further, that his interference did not in any respect prevent any measure which the Magistrates, assembled at the Gloucester Coffee.house, thought proper to adopt, from being enforced and carried into complete ex. ecutiott.  "
The Statesman. — 1815-02-24 (London, England)

HORRID MURDER.—The following most horrid transaction took place un Wednesday se'nnight : —A man of the name of T. Cosgrave, who resides in a small court in Cheapside, has been n observed for some time past to have lived o Yen bad terms with his wife, the neighbours having frequently heaid Cam quarrelling, and she has often expressed is reluctance to cn home, for fear of being beaten by her husband. Between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, a man walking along Cheapside, was surprised to see Cosgrave standing at the end of the passage where he resides, with no clothe: on except his shirt and night-cap. On the man's approach, Cosgrave immediately begged his to alarm the neighboorhood, saying that he had just strangled his wife and eat his own throat. The man being much alarmed at this amount, procured two other men to accompany him, and all three i• turned to the place and entered Cosgrave's habitation, whom tail found lying on the bed beside his wile, who was quite dead.— They found her linen covered with blood; and Coivave's also; nod the unhappy wretee having repeated the same cm nem as before, a constable we. immediately sent for, and he was ukrn into custody without offering the least resistance or making any attempt to escape. The wound in his throat has since been sewed lip, but he has not yet been pronounced out of danger. Oh the Coroner's Inquest, it appeared .a evidence, that the decealvd Mary Cosgrave and her husband retired to bed ratkr late the preceding evening, but neither of them were at all intoxicated, nor did those who had been with them observe any quarrelling or disagreement between them. Some neighbours, likewise. who live very near them, declare that they, heard no kind of noise or tumult during the night. Dr. Vo:e, who had been sent for to examine the body, gave it as-his opinion that the deceased had suffered death by siraogulatiou agreeably to Cosgt:ise's • own account. All the witnesses agreed hat db. Peleoher cli•covered no symptoms of insanity, either in lug words or actie ss but conversed is a collected and reticent wanner.,' The Coroner's Inquest, after a lung and careful investigation, returned a verdict of—Wilful Murder against Thomas Cosgrave.—( pool Paper.)  SON, in the debate last night, admitted that the greatest difficulties existed, and that it was almost impossible to find their way out of them. Why then legislate In darkness ? The whole of the evidence on which the measure now adopted is founded is a mass of confusion, and only one side of the question. It is i now high time for the other part of the public to speak out, and show reasons for a contrary, a just, and a liberal policy. There was a Meeting of the Livery of this City yesterday, in Common Hall vsembled, to express their sentiments on this subject, at which the LORD MAYOR gave, as his opinion, that if the Bill proposed should he carried, it will raise the price of bread to SIXTEEN or
The Statesman. — 1815-01-19 (London, England)

MOM MONO.XY'S Thus have we before us the %railings of the sons and daughters of corruption. There is, you perceive, one reigning fallacy in all those attacks on the peace; that is, it is all along presumed, and taken for granted, that our situation, with regard to America, would have become every day better and better, if the war had been continued. New, so far from this being any thing like certain, it was not even probable, and %%as barely possible. The chances were all on the other side; the Republicans had not only resisted, but had repulsed, the onset ; they had followed up their blows with astonishing rapidity ; and even at the moment when the conclusion cif the peace was announced, intelligence came to hand that they had just driven our army and fleet from Pensacola, a main hold, whence our next attack was intended to have been made.  "If," says this trumpet of corruption (the Times), " our navy had struck some great blow ; if we had done" this, and done that, and done the other, then we might have made peace. But r:f we could do none of these: if we had failed in all our attempts ; it 'Aphid lost still more frigates and tleetys hat would then base been our situation ? maliguant wretches are senseless with rage. They are savage at the loss of their prey. You, who are an old hunter of wild beasts, may have seen something in the conduct of disappointed bears or wolves resembling that of these foes of freedom, who are now looking towards America, foaming with rage and roaring for revenge. It is impossible not to feel great satisfaction at seeing the murderous wishes of these men disappointed. But our satisfaction ought by no means to rest here. The great question with regard to the excellettee of really free Government has now been decided in a way that must inevitably produce conviction throughout the whole world. The fate of the Republic of France had excited great doubts in the minds of men, disposed to cherish liberty, as to the capability of that sort of Government to be carried on in practice for any length of time, especially if it had to contend with the difficulties and dangers of war. —The enemies of liberty delighted in representing real freedom as incompatible with national defence and independence. IVhen reminded of the Government of America, they smiled, and observed, that it might do very well as long as America remained at peace : but that her first year of war would crumble it into dust, and expose to the mockery of the world the vain theorists who had extolled it. In short, this was the point always laboured at :—That for a nation to be able to defend itself ill time of war against a formidable enemy, it must have an almost despotic Goverinneut and a standing army, with all their retinue.  [low bifirerPly will you, who have so long, so zealously, and co ably maintained the contrary, rejoice to bee that this position, co degrading to mankind, has now been fully disproved ! You, is your excellent publications, and Sir Francis Burdett, in  ~_  PO