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I t , j. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COVET OF CHANCERY, AUGUST pt. CmF. ime, Xrit, attended*. LORD €IIIMICELLdR I this cur,* nine o'clock; in hia - prtrate chamber, and; 'Was sworn in as one of the Jud g es of Wales, vice ADP. Mau= Esq. • IN THE MATTER OF TH E REDFORD CHARITY. c' The ATTORNEY GENERAL said he was instructed to request of his Lordship that he would allow the' petition in dais ow to be put in his Lordship's paper for an early' day. The petitibn, according to the sug !ration of the Court, now embraced all the parties utterested in the Charity. After the long discussi on which had table place, it was not •the intention of Conasel to again address 'his Lordship on the suit jeect. What he had therefore to ask was, that it might be - put 'in . Ms Lordship ' s per pro forma, to enable the pars mil:wroth; jpdgmentraf Ole Court. The LORD C HA NDILLOR-••" Let it be put in the parr for Tuesday next. ~ _ ICINORTOR V ,KI*VISTON. • This cause was heard before the Loan eneecur Lost on the 20th ultimo, in which the Earl of King stain complained of injuries he bid ,sustained from the Countess Dowager of ,Kingston,' his mother, as so plate and hooks, for having ulled down a certain b u ilding; called a library, near the family seat, also for .having cut ceetaie woods called Gurtinaclutha • 144 Brigewn, on the said estate, entailed on his Lordship, and for having written a certain letter calculated to induce the creditors of the said estate to ,call its their mOney, and also relative to a certain sum of A:23,ooo.:which was raised on the estate, and which bad not been properly expended. The bill alio complained that certain old and ornamental trees had been' cut ,n the demesne and woods adjacent, and that the plantations had been over-thinned, &c. After a bearing of two days and a half% the CHAN-. lIELLOR was pleased to dismiss his Lordship's bill with costs, as to all the complaints, except as to that parti of it which sought an account of th e timber cut in; the demesne, and in the woods connected therewith. The CHANCELLOR referred it to the MASTER to . in, quire and report what timber, &c. had been cut in' the demesne, and the woods connected therewith, re serving to the hearing the final decision as to what parts thereof were considered as ornamental, and within the protection of the Court. SUSSEX ASSIZES, LEWES, AUGUST 11. MURDER AT BRIGHTON. Edward Broadbent, a private soldier in the 90th regiment of foot, was indicted for the wilful murder of William Watson, a serjeant of the same regiment, by shooting him with a loaded musket, at the parish of Brighthelmstone, on the 29th of June last. This case produced considerable interest. When the wretched culprit was put to the bar, he excited' feelings in all around, very unusual on similar occa sions—pity and commiseration. He appeared deeply affected by a sense of his dreadful situation, and his whole demeanour was highly creditable to him, con sidering the nature of the crime with which he stood charged, and the inevitable certainty of his fate.— Agitated with grief and remorse, he stewed to re gard the doom which awaited him.as a just retribu tion for the *dreadful crime into Which he had been huiried by an ungovernable temper. HIS mind ha rassed by the, stir of conscience. he did. not even affect a composomwAtich most W b.-"peak , the-teek ings of his heart. Viten called apps fprliis Aglaia the arraignment, ha esclaiined in a pathetic, and woe-, begone manner and gesticulation, " I am but too guilty—l am guilty, and it would be only adding more guilt to my conscience if I were to say otherwise." Mr. Justice PARK urged • him to plead not guilty, and take his trial, suggesting to him the inutility of the course he had taken, if he expected any mercy. The prisoner shook his head with affecting signifi cance, and repeated that he was guilty - anti expected no mercy. Upon which his plea of guilty was recorded. .The Learned JuDnr, however, again entreated him to plead Not Guilty, and requested the Common Serjeant, who led the prosecution, to speak with and recommend him to retract his plea. The COMMON SERJEANT accordingly conversed with the unhappy man , and after a great deal of p er suasion, prevailed upon him to take his trial.— The Jury accordingly being charged, The COMNION SERJEANT stated, in as short a com pass as possible, the case for the prosecution. It will be recollected that the prisoner, having been put under arrest by the deceased, for some act of mis conduct, on the day mentioned in the indictment, he was liberated to attend the evening parade in the Barrack-yard at Brighton, and that at the moment he got at liberty he levelled his loaded musket at the deceased and shot him through the body. The de ceased survived about 20 minutes, and the prisoner suneedered himself the moment the melancholy oc currence took place. The following witnesses were examined to prove the case : . John Shannon, a private of the 90th, stated, that on the 29th of June the prisoner was confined under arrest in the guard-house at the Brighton Barracks. Whilst witness was in the guard-room li saw the prisoner priming his firelock. It frequently happen ed, that when a soldier wanted to light his pipe, he flashed some gunpowder in the pan of his piece, to ignite some tinder ; but as the prisoner did not ap pear to be going to smoke, witness laid hold of his firelock, and asked him whether he was going to in jure himself ? He replied, that the firelock was his own, and he was not so mad as to injure himself.— Witness took the gun out of his hand, shook the powder out of the pan, and laid the piece down, at a 'distance of about four paces from the prisoner.— The prisoner never touched the piece until a non commissioned officer came to take him to the even ing parade, when he took his firelock with him. Examined by Mr. Justice PARK.—The powder must be very small to find its way through the touch hole from the barrel of the gun into the pan, the touch-hole being very small. Thomas Vizer, private in the 90th, stated, that the prisoner N. as put in confinement in the guard-house by the deceased, between eleven and one o'clock on the 29th of June. Witness saw him in the guard house, walking up and down in a very agitated Iran ecr, flinging his hands about in a threatening and pa:sonate manner, and heard-him say, "Iflgo to the evening parade this evening, it slndi be worse for Serjeant WatsoL." John Thomas, a private of the 90th, said, he had f ' • ' s . t t. :6 .. .'•,;51.g...! 4 '. ' r o• .: 0 ; 1 4:,.. :.. 4 . just left his barrack-room to attend th e. g Pa rade on the 29th of June, w hen he saw the prisoner coming out of the guard-toom with' his firelock.— Witness was standing six o r seven y ards from him. The deceased was standing in front of the company, with his back towards the prisoner, the latter being at the distance of about three or four yards frorrrhim. IWhen the deceased was in the act of turning round, the prisoner raised his firelock to his shoulder and discharged it at him. The deceased dropped to the ground, and exclaimed. ",My GOD, my GOD, I am ,shot!" The Scrjeant-Major came running . out from the guard-room, and asked, " Who was it ?" The prisoner answered, " It was I, •I am the man," and said no more, but surrendered himself into custody. Corporal James M'Cabe said, that he came imme diately to the spot after the gun was fired, and lifted the deceased up ; he died in about '2O minutes. Wit ness took the prisoner into custody, and in his way to the guard-room said to' him, " Are you not a ter rible man for doing such a thing as this?" The pri soner replied, " I urn not, for the serjeant was always tyrannizing over me, and I was determined lie should not do it any more." Mr. Isaac Silcotk, the surgeon of the regiment, stated, that he was called to attend the deceased ; he died in 15 minutes after witness saw him. The bullet passed under the right shoulder blade in an oblique direction through and through the body, and in its passage went within three inches of the tip of the heart. • The deceased must have been standing side- Svays, , from the direction which the ball took. There was no doubt it was the cause of his death. When each of these witnesies were examined in chief, the prisoner, being without Counsel, was asked if he would put any queitions to them, but every time he shook his head in a melancholy manner, and said,. 4 , No." Being asked what he had to say in his defence, he said nothing, but shook his head in like manner. Mr. Justtce PARK, in his charge to the Jury, said, , it was always'of great importance that t he p roceed i lags in cases of this description .should be as public, and notorious as possible, it. being much more 1 satis factory, for the purposes of justice, that the groundsl' upon which the Court and Jury decided should be well known ; and.it.was, therefore, that his Lordshi p) was anxious that the unhappy man at the bar shoul have the opportunity of having his case fairly and impartially tried, by urging him to retract his plea 1 of gu'lty. As there could be little doubt of the re suit of the case, it would hardly be necessary to sum up the evidence, still less necessary for him to make. any observations upon it. Without making any fur- . 1 ther comment, it would be sufficient to observe, that the crime of murder consisted in taking awa* the life of another with malice aforethought. lherej could be no other inference drawn from the evid ence they had just heard, than that the prisoner was guilty of such a crime. The unhappy man at the bar seemed to have had a mind extremely sensible and irritable ; and because the deceased, in the faithful discharge of his duty, had put him under arrest, he meditated the fatal revenge which was carried into execution, as detailed in the evidence. The case was before the Jury, and they would.dispose of it accord ing to their consciences. . .. The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty, and he struggled with his feelings to preserve some degree of firmness during the solemn procesding which followed. Mr. Justice PARK proceeded with difficult* to dis charge the melancholy duties of his office,. and the tide of his own feelings, greatly excited by thq de meanour of the prisoner himself, frequently rare ,lized the power of utterance. Adverting tc the'. pri soner's unfeigned sensibility, he said he should not, aggravate the distress of his inind by enlargittg opon the enormity of the crime for which he was about to suffer, conceiving that le was duly impressed with a consciousness of the dreadful sin lie had committed; but in the language of commiseration and entreaty, he urged him to employ the few short hours left him in this world, in devout application to that tribunal from which alone he could expect mercy. 'His Lard ship pronoin,ced the, dreadful sentence, and ordered the wretched culprit for execution on Friday morn ing, and that his body should be .delivered over to the surgeons to be anatomised. The prisoner, during the Learned Judge's impres sive address to him, was dreadfully agitated, and at the conclusion he tell into the arms of the jailor and his assistants in a paroxysm of grief. The Court was crowded to excess, and never was sympathy so powerfully excited in a Court of Justice, in favour of a culprit condemned to die for the blackest offence in the catalogue of human depravity. CIVIL SIDE. TIIE KING V. PAGE AND OTHERS. This was a criminal information, filed by his Mi jesty's Attorney-General, against John Page and 15 other defendants, for a riot and an assault on one Charles Saunders, on the .27th of February last, at Selsea, near the celebrated watering-place called Bognor, in this county. It appeared by the statement of the Learned King's Serjeant, and corroborated by the testimony of the witness subsequently called, that in consequence of 'the prosecutor, who was a butcher, residing at Selsea, having recently before the riot in question, been sub poenaed to attend the Court of Exchequer, in a pro secution against one of the defendants, named Reeve, for being engaged in a smuggling transaction on that part of the coast near Selsea, a general detestation and hatred had been excited against him ; and in the evening of the 27th of February last, a mob of up wards of two hundred persons, among whom were the defendants, assembled before his door, broke his windows, and with dreadful imprecations would have :torn him out of his house, had it not been that he 'presented a loaded pistol to them, declaring that he 'would shoot the first man that attempted any vio lence towards his person. In order to excite a con tempt as great as the hatred they bore towards bim, they exhibited an effigy of the prosecutor, clad in all the paraphernalia of his trade, and adorned with a mutton chop in his button-hole, by way of bouquet ; which effigy they were about to hang before his door, when it was agreed that that exhibition should be+ postponed to a future day, in order that a party of smugglers from Bognor, which the Learned Serjeant remarked, was no less celebrated for an illicit con traband traffic, than for the fashion and beauty that resorted to it, might be enabled to attend, and wit ness the performance of that ceremony. In point of !9 1 f I * • • k,:vi 1 i, ~ • • .. :'F-4 : .; . ., ,,t • i t '. -•.%;,. •t, .. "/A , • .. ; :. ' • i. 1 . .,‘ • ) I : ' r . .., , .. : N„, i ),•‘ , 4 I . • 1 - f , 7,1 14 t • ... a . ra0014 2 ••• • • r fact, the peolt slot been eitartine4ln the Court of Eichelher, hut the outrages complained of had'been committed by the defendants, in the preient case, to deter persons from , appearing as witnes s es in any cases where thfy or their friends were proceedatlA against for their smuggling tiansactions. The Common SZRJEANT, for the defence, made an ingenious and forcible speech to the Jury, and after-I wards called several witnesses for the put pose of con tradicting those adduced on the part of the pro. sec ution. The Jury, however, after hearing the evidence re capitulated by his Lordship. found eight of the de fendants Guilty, who will be taken up to the Court of King's Bench for judgment after the vacation ; and the other defendants, eight in number, were acquitted, Tlit KING N. SOUTER AND HOLLES. This was an indictment against the defendants for a conspiracy to obtain the condemnation of a sloop called the Judith, William Williams, master, by falsely alleging that the said vessel was employed at Arundel, in smuggling foreign spirits. This was another of those infamois cases in which the Excise have been deceived by the mercenary statements of certain persons, for the purpose of in stituting informations in the Court of Exchequer for their own benefit, ar,d ruin of the unfortunate vic tims of their depravity. It appeared in evidence that the defendants had given information upon affidavit, before Mr. hod. dington, a Commissioner, that the vessel in question had been engaged in smuggling at Arundel, on the 26th of Sum, 1816. Upon this information proceed- 1 ings were instituted in the Exchequer, and the vessel was condemned. It turned out upon subsequent in-; vegigation that th're was no foinidation for the in-, formation, and the Excise being satisfied of the frauds' imposed upon them, made complete restitution to the injured parties, and di r:Tted the present prosecu tion. They were all found —Guilty. • ---,.----- Gut tam A LL.-Ctry HorsL!•—The Market-house, Fleet-market, being eenveniently roofed in, and co piously furnished with butchers blocks, bulks, and stall Awards, affording tolerable accommodation for sleeping, has become the nightly resort of the idle! and disorderly, and is so constantly occupied for the purpose of sleeping by that clars of society, as to have obtained among them the name of the. City by which title it is well known from Wapping Old stairs to the purlieus of St. Giles's. In consequence of orders given him fur that purpose, Harrison, one of the Marshalmen, accompanied by Murphy, a City night patrule, and assistants, promeded. abut one o'clock, yesterday mining, on a domiciliary, visit thither ; a general scamper immediately took place among the numerous inmates, .amounting to ne.:rly 30, nuns• of whom were made prisoners, and accommodated with less airy lodgings in the Compter, preparatory totheir appearance before the Alderman, ,where they were called upon to eve some account of themsefveS. The first was a journeyman hairdresser, ont of place ; he had been indulging himself with a walk of nine miles into the countil% and returning too late to get into his lodgings, retired to the I luiel as a ' matter of course. • • • .•: The second had been. bill' way. to Woolwich, ac companying the convicfs drat mere &iota:ea. Wed nesday night, intending to sleep at the-City Hotel on his return. The third, a poor plasterer, who had come up from Liverpool a i)sonth ago to seek work, but without success t hadaseither house nor home, and had gone to the Hotel from sheer necessity. The fourth, a pewterer's boy, in Spitalfields, made the Hotel his nightly residence as occasion served. The fifth, a butcher's labourer, who said he gene rally earned enough in the market in the morning to pay for a bed at night, but being quite out of luck that day, was obliged for the first time to sleep on one of his master's blocks. The sixth was very indignant at being thought a vagrant ; he was a labourer at tie water side, and got plenty of money ; but having been a long walk to communicate some important secret to his sister, 'respecting her husband, found his dOor locked on his return, and merely went to the Hotel to rest him self a few hours. The next, a merry fellow of a groom or helper at the Cross Keys, St. John-street, had gut very drunk, and on his return tome through the market, seeing them all so comfortable, sat down among them, and soon fell asleep ; he was very angry with Harrison for waking him out of his first sleep. • The eighth, a Greenwish pensioner, but in Uwork. house dress, had discharged himself that day from a workhouse, because the Overseers had insisted that his pension of 1:10 a-year should he applied in aid of his maintenance. He slept at the Hotel because he had not time to get himself a lodging. He had been used, he said, to sleep any how, and warn't par ticultr whether he was on a bed or not. The last, a man nearly 13 , 3, said he had been:a sea faring man, was in great distiess, without a home, or money to procure one, and craved the Magistrate's corripas , ion and assistance. Those in distress, or without the means of getting a livelihood were passed to their respective parishes, and the remainder discharged with an admonition. Ann Farmer,- . the woman who assaulted her husp band .so desperately, iu Chancery lure, was again brought up.—A ii rgl ther of the husband said, Farmer was so ill with. the rkettesalici, as not to be able to come up ; he -thelq presented the Magistrate With the following lettei,,whith was signed by Far mer, and written at'his reifutst " To the-Sating Alderman at the Justice-room, GuSdhall.— Sir.-101y wife having expressed her sincere-Contrition for the very violent assault. committed upon .me. and :ad I am npw in a fair way .of doing well, ll have uo objection to her being dis charged. At the same time permit me to request the same may be attended with a suitable admonition. I am, Sir, very re spectfully,,your most obedient servant, • •- . 44 Joust FAZIalt. ." St. liartholomew's Hospital, August . " • The Alderman (RoTtiwzr.l.) . saialitelvas at,a. loss to know what would be a suitable asitoonleion to - so violent a woman.: - Ite ) however, stfotionett 14 , s not to give way to the violence of her temper; Trhich'would otherwise lead her to commit murder, and bring her ;to the gallows. He also recommended her to be swore particular in future in discrimiaatingbetween other people's property and her own and not to pawn the goods of her landlady again, irsholiadany svNlt to remain in this country.aa.Theriseuer,avhb exhi bited none of the " sincere contritiou" attributed to her by her husband, was then discharged, habit . * fiat entered he her oini recognizance, m u imprisonment, to keep the peace towai-ds b in future: , - Eleanor Mir, .was brought up i n cu , ofioer i , charged with .hav mg broken th e s l of Mr. Fisher, of Newgate-street, and :oleo out of his.shop three fine gold seals, of £l3.—The shopman of Mr. Fisher p r saw, the prisoner, yesterday evening, r window—that she pushed in the glass, three large seals of fine gold, with which ted to make off. She was immediate] custody.—;One of the Magistrate's Clink the prisoner was considered not of sound she had done many extravagant things, the second Mayoralty of Mr. Aide% n.: was brought before him, for having p to the principal part of the property of England, which claim she supported al rather too noisy a manner ; she had been in service, in Coleman-street. The prisoner remained perfectly sile upon for her defence—she then assume, tant theatrical wanner, and said "1 ar coveted the proterty of another; it wa: but necessity induced me to commit thi nn the very point of starving. What What did I do ? Why I boldly seized a I did not take any pains to conceal might as well die by the hands of th, by hunger.—(Here she went into a lon argument to prove that a person in wal tiled in seizing the property of another , hided to the business of the Bank of Er glad to sec," said she, directing rather towards some Gentlemen who were Magistrate, taking notes, " I am glad hind writers here ; I must tell them t, 1817, when I was at the Mansion-bou_ state my case correctly ; and my speec Lord Mayor, was not given in full."--{ Alderman Roruwact.—"l am sure amends now." Prisoner" I hope so; but the the; frequently make long mistakes—(A I the Bank of England, I may say, th place, I have something there which I am in great distress, and I have bee business. I was early attached to lea sons have done more in. that way, at. opportunity. I have written some j will read for your Worship, if you she commenced reciting a long poem interrupted by . the Magistrate, who poor creature in, her situation ; but sh, that whatever might have been her di should lay her hands on the propert , She was committed for seven day be passed to Westbury, Wilts, where The stolen property was restored to " MEN DK:ITV-OFF ma —Frequent co; been made at the above office by th, llighbury-terrace, that that neighbi listed with gangs of stout hearty me begging to any kind of work, the employ of the Society were ordcred vicinity and watch. They. appreh( .fellows, who were begging in the m, and conveyed them to the office in but they refused the relief proffered and preferred going before the Magi ton -Garden, who were so conviiced impostors, that they immediately From information received from varica country, it appears that sufficient obtained for agricultural purposes present system of indiscriminate al. up by the public, the.great object of of compelling the lazy to seek emplo, port, can never be expected to be real AWFUL CASE OP HYDROPHOBIJ rare but horrible instances of canine last Monday, at No. 1, Owen's-coin road. Harriot Locke, froiu Gloucestershi woman in service at a Gentleman's ' bury, was bitten in the foot by eleven weeks ago, at which time ai vant and the footman were each bi dog. Caustics had been applied to parentty to no effect. On Friday much indiirsed, and told the goo, whom she lodged,, that she thought s be attacked by a rheumatic fever. was seized with symptoms of ma creased in the evening to such a di the paroxysms, the exertions of six to prevent her tearing herself to pi were most appalling, they resemble note of a hound than any thing hum distinctly. head at the New 'River. lucid intervals, during which she sensible, and-quite aware of her awF most touchingly lamented to the - bad not been sent to the' sea-side perceiving that the heady of the , were covered with the foam fro, said, « she hoped it iiould not hurt them to take care, lest she should' the fit." - She would then cry, " on." The paroxysms would then repeated with visitations too dreg, four o'clock on'Monclay morning, —a most terrific and humiliating this sad end of 'one of the three hoped that every precaution has from the other two the attack of DIED. slr,3lr. Walker, of Ch es terfield, e l e 4 l age of 100. hitnyln, at Knightsbridge, James the Cheek of Sheiroair Dock-atd. Monday, 'Billie Rectory, Northcray, Rev. T. Moore; aged 80. On the in instant, at Albanarle-street, V. 111.8. in the 71st yer MAILS THIS Dsie.--sita. nos. Dublin • ' ' 0 I i Lisbon Waterford 1 1 France Guernsey and Amy 0 0 Haub: Holland 0 0 6 a:er Flanders 0 0 -n-Ita HIGH-WATER at LONDON DRI *ming - ' - Afterniwm - - - LON 1)0)1 ; Yriated and Published b) MX, T6Dviv-Da, nd her I lo a with havitg neat t' sk p • an d se4g h s":c ely ks - id chit ~ u s, a: 3 ! . .an pat 3.•• :3 if the tt the I:v.:. i p 1 subsc t . ' ent until cal;. red tever In-: 1,• as Lot pna.c.:y this act. 1 could I d 0?... on titt - :sethiep, the tnat...er, 1 he hangm an Ing and leat t i ant may be j er.) She ti.ea ngland. rr an angry „ sitting nett v. I to see the sh,.. that in the • they did etch, before•, --(A leat,ll.l e they will ort-hand hqs,l!).—A s hat tt right ~ I I (11,1. t to :en dnsen to , arming; few, nd few had .. pc:etry, whi c h 11 plensv.." . n, said h.. '...;!:for le ought •,, . listless, !, ty of an;.: 3 as. 3s to 111,:e54 e she came ,:, Mr. Fisher. omplaintsl he irll.4bitam. bow ice en, t.ll . xi to go into tended tun most open mar Red Liov-sq,u, d by the Sic' • ngistrates a 1 :ed of tifrir commixed arious pacts of • hands carat ; ; and whilst Levis-giving •. )f the Sooty,' ploy for than A.--One of madnessCK ire, Goswel estershire, a c.• s house nearr s llif her master; . mother ferrule • bitten by Coe o the bite, bat last, she was good woman at she was r. On Sor.dai aadness, , which iegtee, 6.t men were. pieces : her led rather the , near, an.; co , r. She ha.: e seen:el wful condit::r. bystander t t o be cirri. , persons r;... om her toe 3. rt them, and 1 bite them I NOW it is I return, tdful to des t:t• wltea site t g spectacle• persons bit cir • of • er n :e rat:rsh Dor, $4 Jy A a ' s Ua• ' •