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The Statesman. — 1820-08-11 (London, England)

CUTTINO.—BIee4or Reisnqek, aged 48, was charged with having on the 15th of June wilfully, maßciously, and unlawfully eat Reginald Charlton with a poker, with intent to murder him. Mr. Lose opened the ease to the jury. It would be proved that the prisoner had threatened to (fa sortie strioas injury to Mr. Charlton before she had struck hits, as charged in the indictment. The cause appeared to have been that Mr. Charlton had distrained urn her father for rent. Mr. Reginald Charlton lines at Moto-hill, parish of Wart ; the prisoner lives at Letterford ; her father had been tenant of witness's, and witness had occasills t 1 distrain his goods on the 13th of May. The ptisonee lives, not with her father, but with Mr. Phalirring, to whom she was housekeeper, about a mile from witness's. On the 15th otJune last shows west to see Mr. Pickering; sit with him in the, kitchen, past 10 or IS minutes; observed the prisoner moving out and in 3or 4 antes. Witness proposed to ge, rose from his seat, and put on his hat. Mr. Pitkering proposed setting him on his way home, and west for his own hat to the kitchen window. At that umlaut witness was suddetly struck and knocked. doesits be felt a particularly sharp blow on the back part of his head; he became senseless; when he recovered his senses, be heard Mr. Pickering say, " Hood (Md, woman, you have killed the man!" she said, iti true Scottish dialect, " De'l ha'e them cases, for 1 have lout wished it ; but he's nae dead yet, for he's sprawl. ing." He with difficulty turned round his head, and saw her, he thought, lay down the poker. Mr. Picker• lag helped him to get up and to move towards the Jobe. The door was shut. Mr. Pickering called for the assistance of his men. Witness, by clinging to the wall, got to the end of the house. His head was boned up with a silk handeechief. The wound was Weeding most profusely; he was washing the blood nosy with his hands from both sides of his coat. He walked home, having declined going on horseback, or in a cart, for fear of Irritating tift wound on his head. When be got home, he felt particularly ill : he was hist from loss of blood. lie was confined to bed for upwards of a week. His hat was cut through. Mt. John Pickering, when he bad turned round, saw Mr. Charlton lying on the floor. He could nut distinguish the noise of the blow from that of the fall. Heim* the prisoner standing at the fire, and the poker in bee band. Mr. Charlton remained senseleis about a minute. Witness said, " You have killed the man." Sho mode no reply to his hearing. He swore that he beard nothing. She never mention:4l any thing to hint bat that she had to pay money. When be had rebelled her after he had returned, she said she was su.ry for 14 but she could not help it ; she felt in a passips for what he bad dune to her. His carter had carried array her father's goods beture the distress, at bur Creas4 sambaed by Mr. WiLLlAllB.—fler face was not in the same way after Mr. Chat-hoe was down ;it bad teen turned towards hiss._ He bad the poker in Con*. (Here he produced a very solid and massy poiler..) She had been 9 years and a half his house
The Statesman. — 1823-11-28 (London, England)

GLASGOW SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE SPANISH REFUGEES.  (Ir ROll Tug GLASGOW IRIS Passe.) A number of poor Spaniards with their wives and children are flying to this country for protection from the fierce cruelties of their tyrant; they are houseless, moneyless, friendless— they are Far from the land their souls ador'd, From happy homes and altars free— Their only talisman the sword— !t Their only spell-word—Liberty ! They have fought for the freedom of Spain and of men—they hate been sold by French gold and Spanish treachery—they litter been cheated by false hopes of British succnur :—and they now fly to us, poor victims of unparalleled perfidy and endurable oppression, for liberty to live, and bread and water to subsist upon. Several gentlemen in London have formed themselves into a Committee to relive them, will the gentle. men of Glasgow co-operate with them? All ponies are sup. porting this subscription. The Coe rier on the one side, and the STATSSISAN on the other—thee people of Glasgow never subscribed a penny for the Sipanish cause, will they abut their ears and their purses to the melting cries of the babes of the murdered brave—of Riego's distressed, deserted, desolate family—of the poor women and children self expatriated for liberty ? We ha re mentioned this ease to a few gentlemen of Glasgow who immediately subscribed their names to a subscription paper, which we shall keep in our office until a Committee be formed in Glasgow for this truly Christian and patriotic par. pose. We will publish the names of the generous individuals, whose hearts may warm and eyes welt for these poor foreign. era, in our next Free Press ; and we call upon the other newspapers of Glasgow to cooperate with us, and to insert lists of the subscriptions, gratis, in their columns. We believe they will cheerfully do it.  RPANISR PATRlOTS.—Yesterday a Committee, composed of gentlemen of the first respectability, assembled at the British Hotel, Cockspur Street, for the purpose of promoting a subscription for the relief of those Spaniards who have been compelled to seek in this country an asylum from the vengeance of the restored Ferdinand. The committee, after consulting for some time as to the best means of effecting the object which they have it view, adjourned until Monday next. Colonel Jones, of the titenadier Guards, who was in the Chair, received communications from Earl Spencer, and other distinguished individuals, approving of the proposed subscriptions, and expressing the strongest sympathy thr the unfortunate Spaniards. - -  Another unfortunate member of the Cortes, Don Manuel Saint de Burnage, Ex Vicar of the Parish of Cazeras in the Archbishopric of Toledo, has fallen into the bands or the Royalists of the present day. As he voted for the removal of the King to Cadiz, and the appointment of a Regency, the only crimes for which Riego was tried and put to death, there is little doubt of his being equally sacrificed. His only ciance of escape arises from his bearing an ecclesiastical character.
The Statesman. — 1823-11-10 (London, England)

WOODS' STATEMENT.  One readers will recollect a story of an attempt to murder a Mr. Woods. at a house in Manchester-buildings, by. John Thaetell, as it is believed, ai•ted by Joseph Hunt. Mr. Woods has published the following statement of that  time mita cc* : • " Oa the morning of Monday, Oct. 7th. about a quarter before seven o'clock, a man, habited as a journeyman carpenter, about five feet eight or nine incites high, of dark complexion, and with large black whiskers, called at Mr. Woods' residence, and stated that a lady of the named Brese, with whom Mr. Woods was well acquainted, was desirous of seeing. him upon some important business, at a house in a street in Westminster, the name of which be • did not know, bet it was a street just beyond the Horse Ouards. Mr. W. Was not satisfied with the account, and q'eatiooe4 him as to the cause of Mrs. Brew being in Westminver; she resitting at Kensington ? His answer was, hat she was stopping at a friend's house, and wished to see Mr. W. that morning as she was going out of town. Upon this M.. W. accompanied him to Manchester-build• logs, where he stopped at No. 10, which Mr. W. immediately saw was not inhabited. The door being ajar. his serpicions were awakener! that all was not correct, and he desired the man to step in, and tell Mrs. Brew, that he (Mr. W.) was there. The man entered, and having pro•eed-r1 along the hall or passage as far as the back parlour door, Mr. MIAs saw John There!) spring from the back parlour and strike 'he man a heavy blow, which knocked him tA jai great violence against the opposite wall. The man hallooed out something which Mr. Woods did not distinctly tindeistand, brit to the effect that Thurtell had dtistikra his man. Mr. W. immediately retired, nut runr•ing. nor related by J. Thortell, as it is stated by some of the Newspapers, but walking at an ordinary pace ; and. on looking back from the end of the street, he saw the messenger st the door of the house gazing after him, but not attempting any pursuit. Upon this Mr. Woods waited On the son of Mrs. Brew, and was informed by him that tbat lady had been for three weeks in the Isle of Man. What follows is very mysterious. On hls return home he found the following letter, which had been left at his residence by a man of shabby appearance, almost immediately on his quitting the house with the messenger. " DIAR Sta--An unknown friend informs you that there is a writ oat against you for 161.: keep out of the way till after Friday next.' 64 In the evening of the same day he received the following letter also:-MONDAY ArTZRNOON, 4 o'cr.oce.--Sta —1 am happy to inform you. that an unknown friend of yours es settled the action. which you where about to be arrested for this morning fur 161 and costs : therefore you have no (secedes to make yourself uneasy about it. I understand you are indebted to a Mr. Otixens for his interfreisee in this ungentlemanly art. 1 am, Sir, yours, 4
The Statesman. — 1823-09-16 (London, England)

PROM TIM CONSTITUTION.) A correspondent in Mallow sends us the followinte:— " Last nicht, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a large party of Whitelsoys proceeded to the house of Mr. Franks, between Kildorrery and Rork mills; on entering, the house they demanded scans or money, both of which being refuted, they instantly put out the lights, and cont. menced the work of destruction. Old Mr. Franks received two hells through his breast,and young Franks and his mother had their brains literally beaten nut. Thus have three respectable unoffending individuals fallen victims to the savage brutality of those devils in human shape: and why have this (tinily been sacrificed, to glut the vengeance of those infernal ruffians? Truly, because young Mr. rranks, about four or five months ago. bronght to justice a fellow of the name of Sheehan, who was convicted and tranttpotted ! Who will now venture to say, that the peasantry have returned to peaceful habits ?—who will now he duped by the humbug of their giving up a few stand of nnsetviceable arms? Surely, the loyal and well disposed will take the alarm, and unite together, to secure the little that is left, of safety and property in the country. by thew diabolical miscreants. Let these concerned look to it!—the bloody tragedy is but commenced." Another Correspondent states, that after shooting Mr. Franks, they attacked Mrs. Pranks (who hail unfortunately been for some time past deprived of her reason) with a far of iron which they found in the house. They then proceeded to ettaak the son, Who defended himself for some time by holding up a chair, but being overpowered, they murdered him also with the same iron Isar, which they then forced into his mouth and left stuck there. There was a female servant in the. home, w o crept under a table, to avoid a similar fate, but whom they did not molest farther than by placing a guard over her, while the horrid deed was perpetrating. Onr Correspondent at Fermoy, after relating the portico-1 ors, and expressing Ms abhorrence, which all good men mute. says:— '• That the patty were disguised in female attire, and that on entering the house, they demanded arms. but before waiting a reply, they commenced the work of destraetion, which was almost immediately finished. The face of the elder Mr. Franks was greatly disfigured, the son net so much. but his brains were Amid him, and the mother, whose bead reclined on her sod, hid a mark on her temple, and a black circle round tier neck ; the latter was occasioned by the monsters having strangled her with a handkerchief, in which her arm was slung. Every gentleman of respectabi• lity for twenty miles round, on hearing the dreadful pa►tica. lira, hastened to the place, and in the most earnest and persevering manner endeavoured to gain any clue to the perpetrators of the horrid deed. It is worthy of remark, ird is a volume in itself, that not one of the peasantry came near the house daring the day ! !"
The Statesman. — 1823-08-08 (London, England)

WEDNESDAY. CROWN SIDE. Joseph Dell the younger, was indicted for the wilful mnrder of Joseph Bell the rider, his father, at Deal. on the 16th of April, Ly shouting him through the body with a loaded gun. Evidenee was adduced of the crime charged, bat the prisoner on being called on fur his defence, betrayed an un• cuns.ionsnes- of what was passing. There was a vacant atnpidity in his rotinteitante, and his gestures were those of a person bereaved of intelligence; alien Mr. Agar. the Go vernor of the gaol, interposed, a-ml expressed his belief that the prisoner was not sensible of what was passing, and infirmed the Learned Judge, that during his confinement he had Lad frequent similar aberrations of mind. • Mr. Sergeant ONSLow said if he had known this fact before, he shout not have suffered the prisoner to be pot on his trial until he was in a fit state to make his de fence. The risitins. Surgeon of the gaol, Mr. Wbatman, was then called. and stated that he had strictly watched the prisoner, an I bad reason to think that he was not at all times sane. He was row directed to examine the prisoner. and gave his own opinion as to his present state. Altordingly he went into the dock, felt the prisoner's pulse, and expressed his conviction that his present state of body and tripod rendered him incapable of understanding what was passing, or of making his defence. His pulse at that moment was 135. Upon %Inch, • Mr. Sarfreant ONSLOW sail that but one course orproreeding was- open—namely, to discharge the Jury from giving any verdict, and Postponing the case until the next gaol delivery. This was not a matter of frequent occurrence, hat lie. had no thiubt of his authority so to deal with the case. The Jury were then discharged from giving any verdict, the prisoner was reminded to gaol, and the recopixances of the witnesses respited till the next Assiies. liilliaas Donallaa. alias Donally, was iodleted for the wilful murder of Bridget Douallan, his %%ire.. at Chatham, on the 19. h of September, 1518, by drowning her in a Mr. MARSHAM (with whom was Mr. Claridge) stated the ease for the prosecution, and called several witnesses who deposed to the following facts. In. the year 1816 the prisoner, who had been previously a soldier, was brought as a deserter from Porchester gaol to the depot of the 98th' Regiment (to which he belonged,) at the Isle of Wight:— The regiment being then in Canada. he, together with his' wife and chiWreo, was sent to America ; atuf in 1818 he returned to this toiletry, and was quartered at liromptOn. In September in that year he was billeted at the Duke of York public-house, and a bark kitchen, to which was attached lied-room, was ass;gneil to him and his family. 'His silk (whoiwis represented to be a very repectahle women) was then in:an advanc-d state of pregnancy. On the owning of the 19th of September the deceased was missing. and the
The Statesman. — 1823-12-11 (London, England)

MURDER OF MR. MUMFORD. Fora o'CLocii.—The Grand Jury have just returned rto Court with their last presentment. . The Foreman, addressing his Lordship, said, "My Lled, we have gone through all the business which was •iii before us. It has, however, just come to our know - letlsre, that a most atrocious murder has been committed within the county, and as we are anxious to do all in our power towards having justice rendered upon the party guilty of it, we will, it your Lordship pleases, continue sitting, or adjourn over to such time as your Lordship may . think fit, fur the purpose of remising the indictment which may be presented before ns. We would suggest • orir re-assembling on Friday morning, if the arrangement Inert, vonr Lordship's approbation." Mr. Justice Pant replied, that before he gave an answer to their communication, be wished to confer with his Learned Brother. His Lordship then retired for a short time, when, having returned, he addressed the Grand Jury G .ntlemen, I believe it is unnecessary for me to repeat to yon, how anxious my Learned Brother and myself are to lend ourselves in any way whatever which may be most tr.efni in furthering the ends of public justice. Neither need I tell you what pleasure we derive from the zealous and hearty co-operation which we have received from you ; a co tree of conduit which reflects the highest credit upon you individually, and is most essential in a public point of view; for so long as the administration of the law is sane ioned by the presence of Gentlemen of your appearance. there is a security that his Majesty's wisdom, in . issuing these special commissions will not be frustrated. With regard to the particular case to which you have called my attention, I have to apprise you, that I have just learned by accident that the Coroner has not taken his Inqnisltion yet, amt that therefore there is no ground laid for you to proceed. If that Inquisition had been returned to us. we should hare felt it to be our duty to proceed upon it, unless our business was imperatively required in another place by &certain day. It is, however, more pleasant that all acts should have the sanction of the Grand Inquisition of the County, and therefore I accept of your offer, and in the name of the County have to thank you for your attend• snot and the zeal which you have shewn in the discharge of your penile duties. Gentlemen, I shall desire that an admonition be sent to the Coroner without delay, that he • &nay be able to return the depositions into this Court, and that you may not be called here uselessly on Friday snorni ng. Foreman.—Then it is your L2rdship's pleasure that we alonrn over to Friday morning, at eight o'clock? .14r. Justice Peac—lf you please, Gentlemen. This most atrocious murder has excited almost as leneb interest here as its twin-brother deed of horror Ind provoked in a neighbouring county. Mr. Mumford was a very respectable inoffensive man, well known /n this town and its neighbourhood, and was generally respected. •
The Statesman. — 1823-12-18 (London, England)

LIMERICK, DEC. 13 —SPECIAL SESSION'', UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT.—These Sessions were held on Wednesday. and Thnrs.l,y. at Ittailikeale.—Mr. Blackburne and Mr. liollantl, uitle the following Magistrates were present : —T. P. Yokes, Godfrey Marty, O. M. Mailmen, George Massy, J. S. Browne, jun , Itrv. O. Vincent, Major Sullivan Alf, d Furlong, Itubt. Peppard, J. F. G. Massy, and %V. It Yielding. Thos. Heffernan, schoolmast-r, from Kilfennv, was convicted for being absent from his dwelling, and sent forthwith to Cork for transportation. Heffernan was a grert writer of Rockite notices, and of bail character.  Nineteen persons 11114'wete ont on bail, for rioting in • publie house inltenkeale, were discharged, after a salutary admonition, from the Beneh.  Thirty others were trie,l anal arrrittell. Mr. HI. WKIIURNIC repeited the oh,4errationg lie made in Limerick, revecting the non-attendance of the Chief Constables.  The Court adjourned to the 13th of Jan. next, to be holden at Limerick.  John Lscy and Patrick 1 ynch, who were convicted on the 27th of October last, at Six mile bridge, with Cornelleus Keliher, and thrill others. for attacking and violently treating J. Cashin, caretaker to D niel Find, Esq. at Craaroe. ncar Tells, were discharged in opn Court, on Monday after a long address from Mr. Illackburne, hi which he dwelt with great force and elognenct on the clemency shown by Government towards these roe 1, and the reasons which led the Government to commute their sentence.  Our expectation of returning peace and tranquillity in this county has been somewhat diminished by several late occurrences. Amongst others, we learn from a Cor respondent, that, oo Sunday evening last, between eight and nine o'clock, lights were perceived on the mountains near the new barrack at tilanisheen, where a detachment of the 311th Regim-nt is at present stationed. Piquet, and patrols from this party, accompanied by the police stationed at Olanisheen, were on the alert, as usual, anti searched several bonses in the neighbourhood, but without discovering any thing irregular amongst the inn] ttos.— About two o'clock, however, on Monday morning, the  sentry at the barrack perceived two or three men approach inr, whom he challenged, and receivieg no answer, retreated to the•door, and called the guard, who, on turning out and pursuing, ssw about twenty men running away, and getting inn) a large wood at Caitle Oliver, into which it was impossible to follow them with any prospect,of success; but it cannot be doubted that these men had it in con:enipla,ion to surprise the military, whom they supposed to be but very few, in the absence of the patrol.  On Sunday night last, an alarm was given to the military on duty in Newmarket, County Cork, that a murder was committed in or near the town. A party immediately proeeeeled in the direction of the bridge, where they fmnd four men in their shirts, whotti they took into custody, but at the time the account came eh, the body had not been found; it is supposed they threw it over the bridge, which is a considerable height.
The Statesman. — 1823-12-02 (London, England)

SPANISH REPUORES.—The Spanish General Quiroga, suited in town on Sunday. Mina is expected from Plymouth to day, or to morrow ; and Valdes, according to bibraltar papers rPceired yesterday, hail taken the cabin of the British ship Tula, bound to England, for himself and family, and had sailed from that port.  WIDOW or TKO MURDERSD RI Eoo.—On Saturday last, at %meeting of the contributors to the late Spanish subscription in this town, it was unanimously agreed that the sum e Fifty Pounds should be offered to the widow of the patristic martyr, Riego.—(Lirerpool Mercury.) The money subscribed at Exeter 'for the Spaniards, is expected to be transferred to the fund for assisting the Ureeks.  Mr. Clarkscn, the indefatigable labourer in behalf of the African slaves, was last week at Chichester, and a meeting took place at the house of Mr. James Hack, in the Bast Street, when a Committee was formed fur the parpote of preparing a petition to Parliament, in the next &ssioas, for ameliorating the condition of the slaves in the British Colonies. J. Burton, Esq. accepted the office of Secretary. Mr. Clarkson's account of his travels in this benevolent cause, and the success he had already met Kith, excited considerable interest.—(Brig /iron Herald.) AMMER IN VRISTION FOR REMOVING POISON FROM Till Stonaen.—The iVottiaghans Review, after stating the account et as experiment by Sir Astley Cooper, at Guy's Hospital, • with a newly invented instrument employed to remove a quantity of opium from the stomach of a dog, adds the:following:— "We are informed that Mr. H. P. Ward, of this town, has for some time had in his .possession a somewhat similar instrument, of the utility of which we are happy to give even sore decided proof than the experiment of Sir A. Cooper, viz. its successful application, at the request of Dr. Payee, for the remossi of a quantity of laudanum from the stomach of a woman at Snenton, near this town, labouring under its normstie influence, in whom the relief was as complete as in that of the dog. Mr. R. K. iliams, wthm assistance Mr. Ward, found not the least difficultyi In t its application of. This occurred on Wednesday the 19th ult. and it is satisfactory to Mate the woman is perfectly recovered." A very se ou ris addition, we understand, is ab out to be Made to the A d Taxes of every householder, by an inmate in the duties on inhabited houses. Accord inc. to the Act of the 43d of Geo. 3, these duties "are to be assessed ea every ishabited dwelling house, which with the household and other officers, yards, and gardens, therewith occupied, shall be of the annual value of fine pounds and Upwards to be charged on the occupiers to the fell and just Yearly net et which the same is worth to be let. houses rated to this tax at 51. and under 201. pay 4s. 6d. in the Potled; at 201. and not 401. at 2e. 3d: in the pound; at 401..aul all Aber., 2s, 1041.—(Bristol Mercury.)