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The Statesman. — 1810-01-03 (London, England)

EMI. Riots% ELREN, Esti. of Lynn, ere appointed  ,id  A Keeper at Tottenham Park having to kill a deer the other day, and having singled one out, shot of its hind foot, and the doer through the head, with the same ball : the deer had lifted up its hind foot, awl was scratching its head at the time the keeper fired. Mr. King, of Swan-ham, lately killed a Galloway heifer, not fed on artificial food, which weighed upwards of 75 stone (of 14 lbs.) and from which was taken more than 13 stone of fat.  - - - On Monday morning, and yesterday morning, Mr. 11.ora, of MausGeld-street, POrtland.place, with his usual liberality, distributed alms to up. wards of 200 pour women, by way of New Yeas*s Gifts. State of the Barometer within 36 years.—By the Register of Mr. John Mills, of Bury, it ap. pears, that on the 12th of Jan. 1773, it was at 28. 25.—0 n the 11th of March, 1713, at 28.-On the 20th of Jan. 1791, at 28; and on the 17th and 18th of Dec. 1809, at 28. Died on Tuesday, the 19th of Dec. at Fring, in the county of Norfolk, after a short indisposition, Thomas Dusgate, Esq. a gentleman well known for his extensive concerns as a land owner and farmer, most sincerely regretted by his family and friends, and by whose death the poor will experience a great and irreparable loss. Lord KINNAIRD'S splendid mansion in the vi. cinity of Grosvenor.square, with the who'd of its costly furniture, Collection of Pictures, Library, and articles a veil) is let to Lord Pawsaarrox for a terns. A numbet of persons in the parish of St. Mary10-bor were defrauded) on Saturday, by'a man who brought them Two-penny Post letters, which, when opened, proved to be blanks. The fellow. had stamped them so as to have the appearance of coming (rota the Post-Mice, and had directed them to such houses as had the occupiers' names on the doors, On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Sutton, an elderly woman, the wife of Mr. Sutton, cuaeh-painter, of -Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, put a period to her life by hanging herself. Mrs. S. had been to church in the morning, and had gone through her occupations of the day as usual; in the after. noon she appeared to be drowsy, and retired, as the family thought, to bed: Mr. S'had not missed' per' ten minutes, when he haitened to her bedroom, but she was not there, and art immediate search was made out of the house, when a stable. door, behind the premises, was discovered to be locked, with the key inside; the door was broke open, and Mrs. S. was found hanging, by a small' cord, arid quite dead. No particular reason can be assigned for her having committed thistunhappy deed of suicide. On Sunday afternoon the body of a young man was discovered floating on the surface of ttlas,New River, and from some papers found in his poiket,.. appears to have been a clerk late in the employ oil Messrs. Meux and Co. From the putrid state in which the body was, it is presumed it must have lain in the water a consilerable time.  I  rte STAIWSIWA I ,rilt
The Statesman. — 1815-08-09 (London, England)

SIMI DE.-Oh Saturday an act of suicide was committed by a domestic of a high official personage, at his residence in the PhCeasit Park. The unfortunate man effectually perpetrated the deed by cutting his throat with a razor. No cause can be assigned for this rash act.—(Dabliri Correspondent, Aug. 2.) Venison in the North of Ireland is at this time so reasonable, that a prime bum( of the first quality does not sell for more than three pounds, not the price of one good haunch in London. A most adlicting catastrophe occurred on Saturday se'nnight :—Ats Mr. Parkes, of Holly-hall, near Dudley, was in the act of breaking the flint of a fowling-piece, for the purpose of shooting some crows off a rick on the premises, his son, aged about fifteen, very incautiously stood at the mouth of the piece, whets a spark catching the priming, it . went of, and lodged the contents in or near the heart of the unfortuuala youth, and caused his itnme, diate death. Yesterday the Loan NT %von, ordered the price of Bread to be continued ni 110. the quartern loaf of wheaten, and 10-0. hossehuld.  !S4_.:. ~ ...  MANatOtt-HOOst.—Yesterday, John Gibson, the drivel of the hacknev chariot, No 386, was brought before the Lome NI alfutt, to answer the complaint of • lady named Iladhrook ; first, for demanding one shilling beyond his lawful fare ; secondly, for violent and abusive language. The complaint was confirmed by two other females of respectability. The Defendant being called upon for s refutation of the charge, denied in the mast positive terms, having used the language attributed to him : the ad.. ditional charge of a shilling, he felt himself justified in evicting, having carried two other ladies, beside the Clomplainant, iu his chariot. The Lotto MAYOR reminded him of the late Act of Parliament, by which such. vehicles are " compellable to carry [/tree grown persons,' withoutany addition being made to the regular fare." Of this clause, however in. the Act, the Defendant affected to he wholly ignorant, but his plea was of course disallowed. He was fined in the penalty of 40s. and costs; one half for the insolence he had betrayed, and the remaining half for the money he had extorted beyond the regular fate. Qt.)
The Statesman. — 1815-12-28 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—A imp. named Settee, . !Their impunity, and the public loss, are included in the wire ors tradesman,io Ewer-street, St. Saviour's, Look at Ireland, Mr. Coseerr, the land country. o „ • 'of; - the simple rule,they that are not bound to show rca. attempted' to put a period to her existence on dbrist.• 'sone for what they do, and from what they do there mas day morning, cutting her throat In a shock. Potatoes, where they are the principal nourishment !is no „man big meaner. She was taken to St. Saviour's work+ of the great mass of the popolatiockand say, if'yon i Now this system of secret derision. I contend, is house, where she continues in a. most dangerous can, that they are a debilitating, degrading, and hi. es false to policy as it is inequitable in principle:— state; pecuniary distress is the reason assigned for , sufficient food for men. Were not many of the The proper sod of punishment is example; but how committing this desperate act. supplied where forfeiture is indicted, but no , An extraordinarlburglary was committed at Stan.' victors at Waterloo fed on Potatoes ; heed can you is this , the ~. . ~1 offence hnputed r—where sufferer is set adrift on way, Essex, on Thursday night last. The brew. say, that because from their infancy they were L: the world, crying out, that untried, unimpeached, house of Mr. D. Cowlin, of Brick Stables Farm, was on what you are pleased to denominate a cased, aria , end unconscious of a misdeed, he is mulcted of his broken open, and a large breoing copper, together worse than useless, root, that they were destitute of all, and banished from his house, and the exercise with a washing copper, stolen therefrom, with which courage, or unable to handle. a musket, or wield Aof his calling. Is not.tho lesson of justice here in- the thieves effectually made their escape, withomt sabre ? No, no, Mr. Commrr, all thee* tMnge ire. vetted, and proof furnished that no innocetice is se. alarming the family. .. , 'against you • they as stubborn puts, War bid do. care from the hand of oppression ;ether than that 1 We are requested by Mrs SMILAX ,ante Secretary fiance to all speculative coniradidiOns ; sad-Clearly, punishment pursues the guilty alone. ,of the Eagle Insurance Company, to , that Po. demoastrate, by the most convincing of 'all evidence Prom contemplating the bad effects of this despo. licies expiring at Chastain may be renewed within . mil —the evidence of experience and of facti, that you thin I have turned, 'hl search of 'some good ones, 15 days from that period, * Bieber in Cola or pee greatly err its • deprecialiag that very vocial, drat rosy be compassed hy it—but in vain ; consider- Haymarket, where Annuities are granted and per. . .. economical whoiefiami; I and nutritious rod—lhe int it likely, that public houses may sometimes chased, be- and every descoltion of Life and Fire ilo. Potato,. -, , . , come so disorderly as to reqiiirOpsedier means than surauce effected on the .most equitable term ...sow.. Premises I am, Se, yew very bumble servant, theme of a legal prosecution, to put a stop to them ;N.B. An allowance for Rest of destroyed -
The Statesman. — 1815-01-26 (London, England)

HARWICH, J 25.--Arrived the Berrnfoy picket, with a Mail and passengers from Holland.  Tie Susan, Dodd, and Juhn ---, from Dieppe, are irrived at Havre.  Dasghter Alida, Dart, from. London to Nond, pet into Dunkirk Reads the 19th instant pry leaky, and was run on shore the following day rani nearly full of water, cargo landing. T:ie Coronae, Reay, from Malta to Hamburgh, s arrived with a heavy average.  A letter from Milan, dated January 7, says, " It is with impenetrable secrecy that the Commission proceeds, which has been appointed to try the cons ;rators confined in the Castle. But what is notorious and certain is, that they are accused of a plot csinst the present order of affairs in Italy. It is slid that their crime is proved by their papers and correspondence, vo.ich are partly in ciphers and the r‘qt in. sympathetic ink. We are assured that Gen. Nava.t ND Clime at one period from the Isle of Elba, 1:•,g. a Al field a meeting with some of the persons up. The report runs that Gen. BELLOTI, one 1f them, has attempted to commit suicide. At the nriont I,f my closing my letter, I learn, that last r.ght, in couiequence of preceding arrests, Colonel VA:mtce was again taken up."  A final Mee• ing of the Catholics took place at 1.-rd feiNam.t.'s, on the 17th, when Mr. SIIIELS' and me other Petitions were rejected on a Report Lon' the Committee, and the following Resolution, rri.posed by Mr. O'CoNNELL, agreed to :  " rho we do renew our earne4 Petitions to the Legislature f t.e torn ;In 1 unqualified repeal of the Pennl Statutes which a.tri..be usat degrade the Catholics of Ireland."  [t dehate took place on this vote, and on a divi! upon the propriety of introducing...lw ward i; uncpralitied"- in the Resolution,lroli appeared— For Cic ite•olution 9—Against it 3.—Lord
The Statesman. — 1815-08-22 (London, England)

PENGUIN.  REDUCTION OF THE NAVY.  But had he been like the heroes of antiquity, he would have died a Grecian or Roman death, so we  were told upon his first abdication; and, if he had, an event would imbe been lost, more wonderful, more illustrious to his glory than any of antiquity. We are told so 114IW again,—that lie ought to have died by suicide. And that he has not followed their urgent recommendation, is undoubtedly very mortifying to these enemies whose je4lousies, and whose fears, and whose irrational antipathies nothing else will appease. But it is not because be is less than the heroes of antiquity that he has not do ne this deed: it is be• cause it is greater, more worthy of him, that he should line; that he should triumph over all circuits. stances by invincible calmness and equanimity ; that he should prove that he bats more than an empire in the res•urces of his own mind ; that he cannot be overcome by indignities or w rouge ; that he keeps his faculties serene and free, open to the beautiful and majestic leenery of nature; to the society of those brave and heroic friends who have not by force been hindered from accompanying him; and to the events, whatever they may be, which Heaven still reserves for him. Its his studies he will find comfort; in the recollection of his great energies, satisfaction.  If it were held necessary that such. man should be hatetfin England, it is most certain that it was quite necessary that he should nut continue to be seen.— But whether upon that motive, or in compliancewith the Confederacy, those who can act on such viewi and principles are far unsuitable to direct the coon. cils of a great, free, high-spirited, and still—as to a very large portion of the people, how long irritated and deceived soever,—a generous nation! Such the fate for a man like this (even judging by this weak and most imperfect sketch), such the fate prepared for him by the Ministers of England, in the nineteenth century of the Christian Ara; and by some expected to be adopted in Parliament !
The Statesman. — 1815-11-14 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY EV EXT.—A melancholy event occurred on Saturday, the 11th instant, in the neigh. bourhood of Truro. About eight o'clock in the morning, one of the sons of Mr. Bassett, of St. Enoder, a fine young man, but who has for a considerable time laboured under a temporary derange Surcloe.—Friday morning, Thos. Watson, a serleant in the West Middlesex militia, put a period to his existence by hanging himself in the stable of the Ship public-house, Earl-street, Bristol. Saturday a desperate act of suicide was attempted to be committed by a respectable Clergyman loglg. ing its Great Suff.,*lk-street, Charing-cross, by cut. ting his throat wish a razor. Derangement is sup. posed to be the cause. Through timely surgical assistance, hopes are entertained of his recovery. Friday night, or early on Saturday morning, the shop of Mr. L. Elias, tailor and slop-seller, in Dock-street, Deptford, was broke open and robbed of 14 suits of clothes, several pair of shoes and boots, several silk handkerchiefs, a silver watch, plated candlesticks, &c. Sunday night the counting-house of Mr. James Jones, New Gravel-lane, Shark..ll, ace broken open, and robbed of three pounds its copper. The depredators exerted themselves greatly to open an iron chest, in which property to a great amount was deposited, but without effect. BRIGHTON, Nov. 13.—Last night the Toomns packet strived from Dieppe. Owing to a heavy gale of wind from the south-west, the boats could not put off to land her passengers, nor the packet put in for Newhaven harbour. She was therefore obliged to ride out in the roadstead. Early this morning it blew a roost tremendous hurricane, accompanied by torrents of rain, which has elicited the most painful apprehensions of every one for her safety. At ten o'clock, the packet was not in sight. Auother sloop is now in the roadstead, and tier situation is seen ith the utmost distress. The dreadful swell of the sea, with a lee-shore wind, excludes all possibility of rendering her any assistance from the shore. Twelve o'clock.--The vessel has just run ashore, at ebb tide, on the West Cliff, opposite Bedford-square. Instantaneous assistance was afforded to the crew, by hundreds of persons flocking to the spot. We are happy to say, the crew were all saved, and every humane attention paid to their distressing situation. She proves to be the Julia, of Elsinore, Captain Tuomeson, bound from Bourdeaus to Copenhagen, laden with wines. The Captain, finding that all his efforts to get out to sea were useless, resolved to cut his cables, and the vessel run on the Cliff, without being dashed to pieces. On Friday morning, about five o'clock, a fire broke out in the issuer quadrangle of Winchester College. NVe are happy to say that no life was lost, and 'that no material accident occurred.  COAL M A RKET, Nov. 13. Shia. at Market. Ship Bold. Price. 56* Newt Ale .... 444. ge. to 59,. M. 5 Sonderluod ... I . . 46.. 641. to Mk. OIL  • To the CHANCELLOR of the
The Statesman. — 1815-01-28 (London, England)

TRALEE, JAN. 17.—Lieutenant navid O'Keefe, of the Kerry regiment.—This unfortunate Gentleman, whose conduct for some time past manifested the strongest symptoms of mental derangement, has termire.ted his existence in such a manner, as folly proves the state his mind must have been in, whilst ' the manner of his death is sincerely to be deplorA by every Chlistian. The commission of an act of suicide has hurried him into eternity ; n Coroner's Inquest having found a verdict of murder against him, fur having, on Tuesday last, shot a man of the name of John Sullivan, a process sever, whilst in the act of serving him with one of those orders of law. At the instigation of his family, he fled for the purpose of secreting himself for the present, which he probably would have effected, bad the situation of his mind enabled him to have pursued any rational kind of conduct; but labouring under a degree of insanity, which mnst have been et,6siderably augmented by the death of the unfortunate man whom he shot, he committed a similar act towards himself yesterday evening in the neighbourhood of Tullarees, about 12 miles from this town, and, by a pistol-shot, put an end to his life ; as the circumstance which led to the death of Sullivan was likely to beeome a subject of legal investigation, we considered any notice of it, heretofore, would be premature.—(Kerry Erening Post.) On Wednesday nig'it a great part of the plantation of young trees, on the ground of ALEXANDER MURRAY, Esq. along the road side, from Netherstreet, Finchley, to Mill-hill, were cut down by some miscreants. They were all left on the ground, not one having been taken away. The PRINCE REGENT has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr. HENRY ALEXANDER, of Cork-street (the Partner and Successor of Mr. WATIIEN PHIPPS, and Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary ft); Diseases of the Eye), to be Surgeon-Oculist to his 'Loyal HighIIeSS:
The Statesman. — 1822-12-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—A Mr. Thomas, a respectable solicitor, west into the Langhouru Coffeehouse, Frochumb• , yesterday morning about leo o'clock, and retired into the frost room, first floor. ordering the waiter to bring blot a pen and iek. The waiter on his retorts found hint lifeless: in his absence be had drawn a brace of pistols from his pocket, with one of which he bad shot himself dead; the other was by his side loaded. The Vor.iner will hold an inquest On the body this day.  WINTErt A t•sae i Ob • Matosroxi. Dec. 15—These Milan,, will coalmine/ here td-morrow. It is expected that Mr. justice Bailey will arrive here at ahont t. n n'cltwk In th. Thominr. sod that he will immediately premed* the County IN, for the purpose of opening his Majesty's commission ; meanwhile tt Is ,apposed, that Mr. Baron Graham trill arrive at hie lodgings: their Lordships will then attend Divine Service ; and a considerable degree of internt is excited, in expectation of Um circumstance of Mr. J„,. t ee Bayley's delivering his sentiments q the Braid Jury open the expediency of the present extra Cirmit and the Kent Assizes may well and strongly support Ai impression (scarcely admitted) which the Rue: (.46. der, iloold am bat prodace, even upon the mind of Mr. Baron Graham. Here we have a Calendar that hm seireely been equalled, perhaps acre, exceeded by the commission of crimes in the same limited period May months). We present nor readers with Me folloiriox summary, with feelings of the Serpent regret fee then. unordinary Lemont lotion it exhibits:— Felimy;69—Barglary, A--Murder, 4--Catiing zed Al aiming, 2 Highway It olabery.s--Itape, 3 —Bl,,,,kies, Crime, I—Threatening to Eral, I—Peeehing, smagglieg, I —Misdeinemomare, V.—Horse Stealing, 3. Assaults, k —Uttering Base Coin, 2—Assaulting ofieem in the exercise of their ditty, 2-Itrefirt sr goods hear. iog them to have been stolen, I—Obtaining ander false for eteects, 4—Refining to assist th• 64 Constable of Canterbury in the mention of bio% g —Total, 118. I This Calendar, we have moo" to belie,,, led is the Omni records of Kest
The Statesman. — 1822-06-24 (London, England)

CORONIR'S IFNWRIT.—.USLANCROLT Suntue.—On Saturday afternoon as Wittiest was held before Thomas Stirling, Bag. Coroner for Middlesex, at the private dwelling-house attached to the brewery of Messrs, Maotell and Cooke, ale-brewers, Duke-street, Bloomsbury, me the body of John Cooke, Req. the second partner in the firm, who, on Maeda last, shot himself throagh the temple, and, on the Frisky nocintim followiag, expired front the effects of the wooed. The first witness eramined was Thomas Stone, an assistant in the brewery. He, in consequence of the illness of the deceased, slept in the same room with hint for above* week, and, on Sunday night week, went to bed, and was awakeoed about half-past two o'clock by the report of fire-arms ; he immediately arose, and trotted that Mr. Cooke had shot himself throagh the right temple; he alarmed the family, sailed Mr. Manton, and procured surgical assistance. The deceased for some time past. sieve the death of his wife, Ins been in a deranged state. Mr. Plumb, surgeon, attended him, and found that he had shot himself-through the right temple, and that the ball had passed through both temples from right to left, and fractured the skull oo that side. A dayor we after the ball was extracted ; there was not the most distant chance of his recovery. Another medical g.atleman proved the attending the deceased prior to his committing suicide, and described him as labouring under debility, and, from the derangement of the digestive organ., under temporary insanity. Mr. Mantel!, the other partner, also proved beyond any doubt, the insane state of the tiefor some weeks past. The Jury returned a verdict of Insanity. Ai VllltnenllZNT.)—The principal difficulties With which the skilful Medical Practitioner has to encounter, in preventing or curing the symptoms of the Venereal Disease, orignates in the absurd concealment of their real situation, which usually characterises the afflicted persons, and in the still wore absurd reliance which 'they too often place upon the boasted efficacy of some. UNIVZRIAL SPECIFIC which is eablushingly 'SCOOTweeded by the diaintereateil inventor, for the certain cure of this disease, in all its various stages, ramifications, and appearances. By the rational and considerate these
The Statesman. — 1822-10-15 (London, England)

BLICANS.—The following Important clanite in the new Licensing Act came into operation on 'Phursday last--" All persons keeping common inns, ale homes, or victualling houses, and retailing ale and beer shall sell the same in and fro,4 their houses by a ' full ale quart, pint, or half pint, made of pewter, eased ti t I standard, and stamped or marked to be of due sae according to the standard. either from the Exellel: er, or train emu, ei ty, town corporate baronets, or mar et-town, where au ale quart, pint, or h If-pint, us. e from the said standard, stsa: be kept for that purpose, and shall not retail any ale nr beer in any other vessels than such stamped pewter ale parte, pints, and half-pints. nnless each ale or beer shall have been first meowed in and by such stamped pewter ale quart, pint, or half-pint, in else pumice of the greet or customer purchasing the same, under pain of forfeiting fur every offence a slim not exceeding forty shillings (together with the costs of conviction), to be recovered within thirty days next after the committing such offence, before any two Justices of the Peace acting for the county or place in which such offence shall have been committed, the one half to be paid to the person who shall prosecute or sue for the seine, and the other half to the poor of the perish or place where such offence shall bate been committed. CauTtox,--I.lills of die late Bristol Tulsey and Taunton Banks, are freiptetaly passed to the nr:wery, in different parts of the country, A farmer, in the eeighbourhood of eirencreter, was lately lierosed en with Tolxey bills, for the paytnerd "f two ho Des; discovering the track iii time,ile was fortunate etiongh to recover his horses. •.. Lately, as r ;'emale of Winthorn wee bleaching strawbonnet-, the larimstope, which elm noel Re thatporpose, coinusuldeated to wi ow furze in the room, madits a few suicide* it was in a blaze. Tire consequence was, that live thatched cottages seers destroyed ; three others were (mare, but wee saved 4 thrsezertions of the inksblunt. 4.