The Statesman. — 1812-02-08 (London, England)

MANSION-HOUSE '• Jr: L Yesterday J. bob) charged with stealing a iiiil of exchange for the payment of 351. llis.. from a than owned Knight, who had entrusted him te get it digj counted, was remanded, by the Loitivaswoa, for farther examination, until. he. AWOL' consider whether he ought to be committer, for felony or fraud. -1 Henr.y Friest, a hackney-coachman, wile charged With stealing 351. 15s. from a man Assinedannnell, [ under the following circumstances .s=-111he• Prisoner had procured a man, named Won*, to blithe purchaser of a hackney-coach and: horses,' from. the Pro; secutor, for which he was to receive eh agency.'. He 1. retired along with 'the Prosecutor to the Black Horse, in Aldersgate-street, and contrived, during conversation, to ease him not only .of his agency money, bat of the whole of the purchase-money, . aid then decamped. lie was fully committed for trial. TUE LATE bloanens.--Yesterday Hart was dig' charged from his confinement, on suspicion of being concerned in the' Mars and Williamson's•mnrders.— Albion was seen in the company of the suicide Wir- 1 1 limns on .the night of Williainsons' murder, atthe 1-Black Horse public-house, New Gravel-lane. / They retired, and went to the King's Arms, where Alblass left Wiliams. To prove the Let -of 'Alblass going I home was the subject• of many investigations, and the examinations terminated in the complete discharge of Alblass from confinement. ! Hart, in the first instance, was examined at the Thames Police Office, on suspicism of being accessary to Marrs' mqrder, in consequence of a tool behig found in the house, supposed to belong to his employer. On this charge he was acquitted, from .the respectability of the witnesses, who proved that Mart was in their company, and at borne, at the time of the murder of Marr's family. After Hart's 4.discharge, it unluckily •for him happened, that on the evening of Williamsou's murder he was inff4ilocated, and when the officers were searching for i disorderly characters they discovered him sitting at ,the door of his lodging, which was opposite to the Pear-tree public-house. Hart was again examined ' by, the Magistrates at the Shadwell Office four times 1 and 'afterwards delivered over to Whitechapel, Raj nothing criminal appearing, be was discharged, on( der an assurance he was forthcoming on future in.,, i quiry.  ' The Endymion and Fortunee frigates have not 'been successful in their search after the. French vessels on the 30th None of the forgeries on Greenwich Hospital, with which Gaoler stands charged, are cognizable by any Statute as.a capital offence, and therefore, hp wi,l be tried only upon the Statute of rands. The fistic amateurs are much employed in discussious relative to the late do betwixt two inconsiderate millers. Much leaf net! discussion has tak,pn place to persuade the flat party bets must be paid, do or no^ do ; but it will bee difficult matter to inculcate this doctrine as a matter of right. Muck knock-itox.n argument had been used on the occasion. On the 28th of June, William Bob* Vurlton Bennet, Esq. was brought to the bar of the Supreme, Court, at Calcutta, and tried for the raur6rof Tukoora Kulleefa, on the 21th of November list, at Daup, Daup, in the. district of Rungpore. The evidence for the prosecution being gone through, the Jury, after a short deliberation returned their' verdict-Manslaughter. Upon the verdict being recorded, the Prisoner was directed to pray the Iserieflt bf cle4cy, which being done, the Cute Justice, after a very suitable stud pathetic address, sentenced the 'Defend! ant to be imprisoned in the gap! of Calcutta for six months, and to pay elm of -100 rapees. . ! Tuesday afternoon.aboit two o'clock, two houses (which have been in Chancery for several years past) in Great Wild-street,' Lincoln's-inn-fields, occupied `by a chersemonger, fell down' with a tremendeue i crash. An elderly woman who resided in the second Boor, who bad been troubled with a rheumatic complaint for several months past, and was bed-ridden, on hearing the will cracking, immediately screamed ! out and alarmed the other lodgers, who fortunately ran np.stairatime encugh to save •her. The furniture I'ef the inmates was immediately thrown out of the {windows in great confusion, .and. two ladders were. ` placed in Ironed ono of. the houses, by which sere-. ratof the inmates made their escape. An. adjoining, bonse, occupied' by Mr. • Martin, boobtseller, re-' kffleived much damage. Yortuuately there were _sac; hives loot.  • "On Tuesday sc'nnight, a private in the Militia, , having 401bipint4 afitrlough, returned to.bong [?ton, I in the county of Derby, after an absence of about lAwo yeah:* 'rushed with -anticipated joys, which , he expected soon to realize in the company of his ' wife and children, he approached the " oft frequented spot" with eager expectations, but to his astonishmeat and mortification;' his wife informed him she isadtormed a new connection, and "had no further accasien for his services ; that she had set her affections on another man, who she preferred, and by whom she wet pregnant, and *therefore refused his embraces. The husband finding she was serious, and I.all remonstrance to recover her was unavailing, he! sold this 'faithless rik„to her new amoral* for 10s. 6d. and delivered her in abetter. One penny was re. '• turned of the purehaie money, for luck. After the., ceremony, the bells of the village ivere rung, an*, so satistind were the new couple with the.transactiona' I.that they made the ringers a handsome prveijt,c.  7: -BIRTHS, .._ r On Tuesday last, the Lady Of Gilbert West, •amigon *PI daugater. n.LIA, On Monday, la Norfolk-street, the Lady of CaPLAINNins I die Royal Nosy, of a ebb.' Lately, the Lady of Newtsn Diekepson, )::sq. of a daughter rfnlay se'nnight, the Lady of Isaac L. Goleta*, Esq.. Spitaltsqoare, of a son. ' , -...eti", Irv/ •