Star. — London, England, 1809-06-24 00:00:00

&ir IPetkaa2NClr. . . Prisoner was lying upon s lacier in hiseatin : he ap-1 peered as if he had been intoxicated, but he was then: sober. He was removed to the Audacious about an hour before the boy. The boy was removed for the sake of being immediately under Mr. Irvin's care, and witness attended him until his death, which took place on the 14th November. Witnesi was present when Mr. Irvin, three or foer days before the boy's death, took down in writing his declaration. From the first moment of his attendance, the boy expressed his con viction that he would die of the wounds ; and he ap peared to be under the apprehension of death when he made the declaration. Here Hr. Irvin was desired to produce the written declaration to the witness, who identified it, and said he saw the deceased, who could not write, sign it with his mark after it had been read to him. It was then read by the Clerk of the Court, and was to the pur -1 port following : " 1, Richard Wilson, boy, aged about 13, belonging to the transport ship the Friends, was, on the Sth of November, Isos, I stabbed slightly in the belly with a dirk, by Captain John Surlier ! land, in his cabin. I lifted up my shirt, and chewed him what he had done ; but he followed me into a corner of the cabin where 1 • could not get away, and he staboed me again." Mr. John Irvin, Surgeon of the Audacious, con firmed all the evidence of the preceding witness. . Both this and the former witness were cross-exa mined at some length, the former by Mr. KNAPP, the , latter by Mr. GURNEY, as to whether the wound of the intestine had been sewed up before it was returned ,to the abdomen ? whether that was not a necessary d• Operation to the safety of the boy's life ? and whether k had not been acknowledged that some accident had Occurred id enlarging the 'orifice of the wound ) for ' the purpose of returnink the intestine, which was sup. posed to be a principal cause of the fatality. BOth answered that the intestine was a good deal swelled and inflamed, by exposure so long to the external air ; drat - the wound of the intestine was so extremely -Small,. they conceived it unnecessary to sew it up; that hid the wound been larger, they would have conceived such an operation necessary ; and that they had heard‘of cases where it' had been successful. But to the best of their skill and judgment, under all the' circumstances, they considered it unnecessary, in the preset, case, and, that no accident whatever, bad pc curred in the operation to increase the danger from the original wound.' Mr. - it-Tin was asked by Mr. ICititee, whether; 'in consequence of the agitation_ of mind. in which he found the prisoner, he was nqt under the necessity of • prescribing for him ; and whether the medicine he prescribed was not of the same nature he would have otdered for a per Son la an insane' state of mind. Mr. Irvin answered, that he certainly found the pri soner in a state of fever from agitation of mind, and , [that the same medicine he prescribed would have been also advisable in a state of mental derangement; but _ he saw no Such Symptom. Eight witnesses were examined on behalf of the prisoner ; all of whom spoke of him generally as a humanegood4atured man ; against whom they had never lipard before any imputation to the contrary, Sit NAtisfaitosE summed up the evidence, and the urter a 'very short consultation, returned their .verdiev-mOtsilty: • . Sir WILLIAM Scorr then, in a most feeling and im pressive manner, addressed the prisoner upon the enor mity:and cruelty of the offence of which he had been convicted, advising him to make the best use of the 'short interval the .offended laWs allowed him before he Shitiird bet' riuMheie4 4 ivich the dead, in. making his., .pence, repentance , with thai 'lnfinite Jul:: fiat which could alone make those allowances' for his crime human justice•could not; and then pstssed upcn him the.awful.sentenco of the law, which was, that he • hohanged' on Monday next, at Execution Dock, and body afterwards delivered to the surgeons for sreOion: • • The unhappy man, who has a wife and five chil dren, retired from the bar greatly agitated, and so overcome as to require the support of the attendants. He is about 40 years old.. . At the rising of the Court,Sir WILLIAM Scow sig nified to the Sheriffs that thO elocution must necessa rily be deferred until Thursday nett, on atcount of the ' state of the tide: _ • _ _ _ - ApretilitALDl Xiattibiet, . . >. • Yesterday the Sesame itannienced at `}lie Old Bailey, before Sir -Watmuitt3oorr, President, and Sir N4sx Goss. • ... . ‘ ' • John Sider/aid s t oo d capitally iadicted for Aril fur murder if William Richardsoa, boy ofttltitoeitn. years old * on thiStit of l`rtibeti.ilst, h ori board a British: transport,sshipi natifectsthe Pliends, of 'which the prisone! - AwasNaptain, in,theaiverTagus,and with in thetunadifOan.pf,the,high o cours ot,Admiralty. eieCninsroptimi Atiiintaati ul ated, the case onthe partuf thetriAtti: -"*" . ` • Arhe..fitit iiiitne ) sottillid:iliff John Thompson, a Negratillarinen; who Axing Sworn and examined, by t } fSA!W ir cl: riNSAI , , stAtedt that he was a sea aan on halt )Friends, in , tte . Tagus , at anchor abdui'alidie . thllistion e on h "sth of November ; thht Re ?lett' been, 'abut a month previously, engaged byeherprisoner, in lisbenl. that et( the day above • stated, the Captain and Mate were on shore, as were i also the XWO other seamen belonging to the ship's crew, and Po person left on board but himself and the deceased, a boy of 13, Who usually attended on the pritarier. About eight o'clock in the evening, the Captain 'came on board, and immediately went down to his cabin, and called the deceased down to him.— In a few minutes afterwards, the deceased came upon deck, and told the witness to go down al which he did. The Captain asked him,how ircould, be lip, na,,nd to keep , watch on liia*ifcleffik iiigbt,llie Mite . and the ,other tiko. seamen Wr en there ? The witness Answered he could -keep watch - until twelve e'Clock ; to which the prisoner agreed, , desirtOg the witness to be sure and callhim at tiadve l Lxnit sp the mean time, not to suffer any boat to come alongside, without letting him know. He then desired witness talc° on. :deck, and send dawn' the 'toil ;'which he dici l2 .4caboat five. minutes, twitnessdleard' the boy - cry oth loudly to him, calling him by his tutainJack Theithpson. The witness did not . so down imthe. , diately, for he supposed the Captai n only, beating 60 hil t :: 3.1 . uteal. The boy continued •to *call out sevettiL times loudly; and at last the-wit/best weer down t . .ancksaw the Captain standing Over. the boy,• with: a naked. dirk or dagger in hiihand„ which- be waved' to atid . fre, 'and the boy lying on ibecabin floor, who immediately said to the witness, " Jack Thompson, looirhere ; Captain Sa therland as Stab bed. me ; and 'immediately lifted up - his shirti and'' shweci. him a hkeet:li?%, wound upon the left side of '. his bellY„ nearlisgroin, andhit.entrails hanging out. Thefrisozieriald nothing at the moment. He heard what theloy(iiiirls4 and on the . witness's turning alt t. toleay.E.theitabin, the prisianer said to hins.:.... *I Jaelt ? .lJmcir..l./aspe done wrong." The witness, wl;O:sras, ;a ikorgt three .minutes in the cabin', 4n svieitiVa I kncni very 'well, you have ;" and imme diately relittnetrOpon, 'deck, and .hailed the nisi ship to himildli_ch ~vo the tliraibetttrinsPettelor assis taring 'Vedic:fit:tante alongside, With the Mate and twifin4a3O. ;:hersialte:witness told That had • hap pened. They would not venture down to the cabin, butleetthit *itatiiit liiiitb them, andirent Orkin' hoard theft - Obi - tenet; fdi a• surgeon, but4Caddinift . get one there.. 'They thee reseed back to the prisoner's ves eel, :ad found that in the mean time ;be Mate had come on bawd. , The Elizabeth's men then rowedtei./. the Audaeitituifiii a surgeon 4 but while' they were. gone, the prisonee insisted on the witneseeptitting . ' hire. 011,- Ace e .-te). hunt for- a doctor. Witness. ae - enr... diny AM* t4lhOre with tint... -The prisoner. went ,• to WibaifFsirlratratekt; hill - Could obtain -no surgeon. He walked about for z sonaleiree...._ .Witness asked him wh lisrgild,.gp eff,ea isoard , his. ship t The leatkijaiaf . ite44 o 7:l44:t_he witness . inightge.. and a 1k 741 4 11 n e° 6 4,4k, ilind,r 41.-- Brit •a! Pot-. talPitse„,„ ilic,' , elinft , lpA wx,,,*. bon the-witness told . whit z na. . i i iiiteitfct ..,..4,ll,,C,apptiu..then :came: back I I f wiffiioi ki ts gs.s.tct to ship, and. nn cornier= board. they t fdpild4lo.l two surgeons had .been there,dressed the SitotilidiOf the &Ceased, and put him te.bed.. He wae_removed.the next morning on board of the . Au dacions,,-a(*itie also the prisoner hid the witness.— At I • the' ire captaiiiSutherland canoe on board, after g. ' 414.41 so* the surgeon, the'Mate asked him what he *lin a o With such a weaver- ? The prisOner an- I sweeeshliewould never hurt any body else with it ;,-- . . . . and-el 'threw' the dirk overboard. After the wit- COURT OF ICING'S ZENCI4, )UNZ as. new-iris:Op beard the Audacious, he. heard the pri- . GRAVES V. WATERIIOUBR. • . song s say ,tia,the deceased he was very sorry for what I n t hi s act i o n R ear -Ad m i ra l G rave s was Plaintiff, he had done 4 but he did not hear the deceased make and the Proprietor of .the Swan with TWO Necks, any -aaittret• He heard him repeat his sorrow at Lad-lane, was the defendant. It was brought to tes;' anotHef`ne....TheWitness was on board the Auda. cover the sum of £2l .10s. 6d. . • ciout,.*.ai'i, this,...t.roy:died in nine days afterwards. A M r . C lim b ( t h e Attorney of Admiral. Graves), Tike..witriess-uuderwenta long cross-examination by stated, that oh the 26th of April last he was with Mr. icliaipiv,, bur said nothing to weaken, in the Admiral Graves, at his lodgings, No. 1, Charing- Jr.ulleSrdereChis direct 'evicts:lie, -. .. -.' cross ; that Admiral Graves was about to leave Lon- Mf . ,.. - I4eary_l3ligh,.. surgeon's • mate of the And:- don wit his family for Exeter ; that. the Admiral dot's; was next examined, and. star t ed, that on the-s'.h. told him be had taken a place at the Sinn with Two November lasts. in consequence of an application to . Necks, and that the coach as it passed was to take his ship; be went - Mk board the' Friends transpeat,be him up at his lodging. The Admiral and he were for twee*.nute and ;en o'clock aenight. Shelay-iit,the the inest part at the window, from seven o'clock in Tags, abeat,ll- , mile =fsotn the - Audacious„ and the. the 'eveniag until tiller eight, but no coach Snipped like distarseefrinvlaisbou. He fetind the:haplaelow, there: Nat day the witness accompanied Adiniral rollink . tipern - trigd, ant Itt:gteit'lvny, with.* wound ' • laPives to the Swan with Two.Neclfktp. hear .what. en thE i l.ft . side of his belly, near his .krein, through ' Ml.',Watethense'fiad id' say fit excuse for the iieeeetii. whitlitiairof .his intestines: were ' Much - protruded: ns,,the witness had been previously told by 'theplain-. One of tiftrri was penetrated tyke dirongla . , and .ancs . .., tiff that when he paid theeoich fire; Mt.Waterheifie they wounded - through it On , wing ,tlw state thel had expressly agreed tuliaVe hiM*lc'ett up at lids eii ,. .n. boy *as in, he . .c4rectly snot-fir Mr. Irvin, the chiefnaging. When they arrived' sit'llie above -rnentioned surgerpn of the Audacious, and in the ineantinielgad Ilan, the witness left! •Atlitiral ',Grates in .the coffee the boy removed :from die bed • int.!) the Captain' s I,teem, and -went' by• hintself•tts speak to -- the defendant, 73En, itt.d nsed every . ftleilpi to return the .protrudeda-uw:the subject, who up* ' , being tolOif - die'ilispfs‘ :r.!estin . c 5 imp the 4bi10n0 1 4 ,.. 111) t . without effect. Mr.- t tliitt he (the: defendant) Wit liabli.to ans wer ill 'NV; Irvin c a me o n based ,Abostetwelve. The ori fi ce of : ler laiitsitlgieet,; in . not, 'ordering-414 - Coach ; 4 to' 'o4l':*! !le wound was. about - half an inch long, and 4,ap- I Admiral Graves!tiedgings; 'dented tifih.4, 4 .. reared to have been iftee with - a dirk or digger.— ; Mad: ally: a/klieg/ern Iwiti 'the lile/thi l4l4 - 61 0it *• - The ink itinel: aae - aiigl:i . ci : have been perforated bj• a t ' Oit;thil the . 'witness ;tilled' the Ailiiiiial in, and .- • ' ?harp-paintedinsitument. ~Icieni tonvidnicesiaribt: his ask defenthentil.vtietlier he: had 'not eta Moths urgeoneto ealargethe orifice, witlannt which it; to Cake hint (the .Admiral)•upoir Nes:l hit ledgitrgt,'; was 'impassible. to Teturn the intestines'. This they ~ C haring.thoss, the defendint then Co*Ped'that he hod ad, and 4,,,,,r,,,..4...qp the external wound,' put on a agreed-to make. his coach step. at Charing-cross, - bif; d'essiOl,:R4theltirin bed, after - letting some blood, still :denied. havingheen eblti• tile ittirnbei:. of the Ad- - ehen they mettene.clu the Audacious ; s and ne;t morn- ''miral!s lodging :'. He - allo y itatid, 'that' tfiTeAleil o n ing at otrie,lCpeitt-ror the boy, and hadhim removed ' thnev i gaing the Admiral Was to haveliff tthrinatthe on bo . .frd 'tbe''Aaistagleus. 'He had asked the Captain %matt:ter Coffee-hottieFriec.adilly, where the coach now he came to stab the boy ?'andrile antwered,.that:•itakeit some step, brit findin:the Coach- gone he went !le had done it while in a drunken-fir, and said, bp Atthe gwan:with:•TWO . Necks,• and .ilp i rra his • repro should throvichialtk*undee the Mercy:atilt witneies 3 pining_ to the.. - Clerk: thd:disittptiiinttneiitT Ad'lniral hands. - Vary 3We-conversation .pissed. Vrntnehit - ' - 'Grav .tracletrattAkit ,ll the-derir said ii .iirai.owng to asked) ion r an mom. q itestions' ; - bet the pYitqner ittit : Mr. • aterlimise 4otlig tone4FrOvhr, -,ildtAdecting '') witngth. ~heir herd _lit sheut-i.snve . the liey l lllk • iliti atilt oriler fa the 7ctiticlilii: Itriprliftitat4 1 - I ' ll theridyy-brshottld 'save his own (.thepedidnittosy 'ffds:., but that he would keep the book ope n , until Tii;s ..eas tie anorsistgaftanifie satnialct eastivititrrhi . lllllEiral Graves could speak to Mr:Waterhouse, and The Coen was thee p.djettraeLl tq Taft Joy, July 4. '-•' a N..,;,' •.- . - Z 1 , 4 ..4 - • •4 - - • .• d 4 he 114 clislol AMU but Aiit‘ffaterhottse would —"I t h e P *or ta go. next night, without paying ITT thing rhor4 than he had already done ; &it this Mr. WaterhotiailioUld - not agree to, which viailthe' a -..-. cause of the present action.- Tie next witness was one Decock, the Clerk to Mr. Waterhouse, who said that he was present when Admiral Graves engaged four inside places, and one outside, in the Exeter coach ; that the coach was to pull up at Charing-cross, but that no number was Mentioned ; that his master stated it as unusual, but as the Admiral's lodgings lay in the way, he would make the coachman pull up at Charing-cross, when the witness understood the Admiral was to have some bne looking out for the coach. He proved the pay ment of the coach-fare, and admitted that he had kept the book open, but denied having ever said that the neglect was owing to Mr. Waterhouse going out of town. The coachman was then called, who swore that he received his written direction from young Mr. Water house to pull, up at Charing-cross, which he of course understood to mean. the Golden-cross, Charing-cross; that hemade a great noise to know if there were any passengers there, but the waiter told him there were pone. He shewed the waiterhis direction, but finding nobody of the name of Graves there, he drove away .. to the Glouce s ter C o ff ee -h ouse , after waiting at lea s t ten minutes at the Golden-cross. At the Gloucester Coffee-house he again enquired for his expected pas, sengers,' but being there equally unsuccessful, he ! drove off empty, except one . outside passenger, which he wasentitted to. : - Lord Ematusottonan summed up the evidence, and particularly dwelt on the testimony of Mr. Child, whom he represented as more likely to remember the minPtc.circßinatances and wards that passed between the plinititf and the defendant, thanAlcock the clerk, seeinghe had gene with the express view of hearing what the defendant had to say ;,that, if Mr. Water. houie did resist the Admiral's going for the money 'he bad already paid, or refused to return the fare, an action might be immediately brought against the des' feridant. . - ~..,• The Jury then tatiid. a verdict for the Plaintiff for the sum of £2l 10s. 6d. INCEENSON V. PARIS. . . This was an action to recover R 6 for the expences incurred by the Plaintiff in going to Chatham and Sheerness, in order to effectuate the release of the son of the Defendant, who had been impressed ; and was on beard a ship. The. Defendant's son being .impressed, the Plaintiff -had procured two persons to be received at the . Admiralty in his stead, and a dis charge to be granted by the Board of AdMiralty in his behalf, for which he was paid 16 gnineas a head, and it appeared that he had been a crimp and regu lar dealer in that way. For the Defendant it was shewn, that upon such an occasion all that was actually necessary to *be done, was, to procure a letter from the Admiralty to the Port Admiral, and that then the seaman would be immediately discharged. This the Plaintiff mast have known. . . Lord ELLnNBOROUGH summed up the evidence, and inclined to think that the spirit of the contract between this defendant, who was the father of the young man, and the plaintiff's father, who under took to obtain this discharge, was, that he should do every thing that was necessary to accomplish that discharge ; and that, upon obtaining that dis ' charge from the Admiralty, nothing more was ne cessary to be done to get the object of it his liber ty, than to have it transmitted to the Port Admiral where the ship lay, in which that person was, in or der to procure his liberation, and for the doing of which, the expence of sd. in transmitting a letter by post, would be sufficient.—" I must presume," said his Lordship, " for the honour of the service, that these things are transmitted regularly, and that they are regularly acted upon ; and that when a discharge is made out and issued from the Admiralty, no bar gain is afterwards made, with any body, about car rying it into effect. I hope and I confidentially trust, that when any person on board his Majesty's fleet renders, as the price of his own discharge, two *able-bodied men, and they are accepted as the price of that discharge, and the exemption of that. person from further service is ordered by the Admiralty on that account, he need not make any bargains with any persons afterwards, for the purpose of having carried into .effect that for which the honiahr of his Majesty's service is pledged. His Lordship 'doubted therefore, whether any of the service was necessary for whic h this Plaintiff sued, because the whole of 'it might have been accomplished by a letter, and so the elder ic it eason and his-wife might have told this Defeadant;. for, it , was ;highly probable that they 'knew the case.to be so., Or if the journey had beets at all necessary, i three days would have been abun dantly su ffi ct9totstead of which seven were charged, and the discharie itteanot,proved to have been has. tened.;: hut s there was .tooin fOr suspecting that it might have been delayed by the presence of this Plaintiff at Sliminess... The Admiral and his clerk were bound ,to obey the order of the Admiralty. The presumption was that they did so ? and he could "not, without proof, conclude that they did not. Both , the father end. the mother of the Plaintiff must be taken tbitnow theee c things, and then this charge ,4pld be au linpositioa. altogether on the Defendant ; aid ge" would be entitled to a verdict. But if the. Jug should . be of opinion that the Plaintiff's journey tp Sheitnent was.necessary, then , he would be entitled . to f a catfple &days, but not seven days expeace..., If they &night" ifttnnecesiarY altogether, then the ver dict shoul d be forthe,Pefendint. - •• . -., .-. • . The JurY,,after sc•Me consultatou v iOund* Verdict :for the Defendant. - • . • .. - . , • At. t comer, - bitoidiorr- rbgA,F. 3A4 4 3 , Bugogi4 l , AI* c f4W FTT oa :TR* • ssz.oou or TEViItIiSSAMY Ar ti raCiLMlLL• " This' eras an action hy,:thetil l ii cue: Corpora. "don. of Tew)rxisbury, ag - ai i nj9ll4 deferidaint...Dricknell, for the "tgll' of a quantitY.Or .10014 - ; him is 'Tewkesbury Market to Joseph Buckle,. a note-freo. but the owner of at - Purgagediouse w44instlut: Itcir cause was.tried ce crtouster Spring . 4s si 44 : 110 k when a case ; was reserved for the opinion of the Jukes of the CourttafetitiiyiWii Pleas, on t.wo points : Ist t whetherthbCd> ~ ptiratiop 17'eatitled to toll, .fomen sold iiiiiteniatik* ,a,non.neaik to a, otki"-freeman, bro ught and pitched there and sold in bulk? and 2tily, w.htkber the - 7 - -7 C`teiliiistgtiee 'of the huier .( 1r: Nate) -I:o4dg tky owner of a bnrgage-house, exempted - the seller (the defendant Bricknell) from the. payment of toll- r in like manner as he would be exempt in case the pi is chaser was a freeman ? This cause was solemnly argued several times bys fore Lord Chief Justice Mansfield and the other Judges of the Common Pleas ; and on the 21st mist, he Chief Justice pronounced the unanimous judg. ment of the Court to be—" That the selling by dm& pie is a fraud upon theanarket, and that the Calm: ration are entitled to toll in respect of tht corn so sold, iu the same manner as though bionght.toand pitched in the market, and there sold in bulk and thit r the purchaser being the owner of a brirgag/e house in the borough does not exempt the *let from his bility to pay toll." By this decision, therefore, the right of the Corpo. ration of 'Tewkesbury to toll of all corn and grain. sold in their market by sample, where neither the buyer nor seller is a freeman, is fully established. JUNE 23.—FOY V. GOODFELLOW. This was an action brought by the Plaintiff', who is a ship's victualler, to recover the amount of a quan. tity of fresh beef, furnished to the ship Willow, of which the defendant was Captain. ' • The fact of the goods being delivered on board the ship was fully proved ; but it, was contended on behalf of the defendant, that the owner of the vessel was alone liable to the debt, the goods having been fur nished entirely on his credit. A man named Griffiths, who represented himself to have been the owner of the Willow, proved that the goods in question were ndt only obtained on his credit, but were actually ordered by himself froth the plaintiff. He added that he ihoutehave paid for them but for the insolvency. of his circumstances, having just availed himself of the benefits Of the Lords Act. • q The Jury having n o alternative, found a verchet felt. the Defendant. LEVY V. LAWRENCE. ..„,•1 , r • ------- This was an action to recover damages for an assault which occurred three years since. The plaintiff and defendant were both shilelrea of Israel, and it appeared that some personal altercation took place between thr.m respecting their respective genealogy, but although disputes ran high, the de fendant had the grace to keep his hands off therplain tiff, who is nearly thrice as old-as himself. - Several witnesses were called on behalf ofthe tiff, but none of them could prove that any zssatat took place:—The Plaintiff was therefore non-suited EXCISE OFFICE, JUNE 2S: The Commissioners met at an early hour this 4ai t . to hear defended, and other causes of appeal, THE KING V. FOX. The defendant, Robert Fox, is a milkman and cow-heck+. la Newton-street, Holborn, and was charged upon information with being the Proprietor of Private Stills, incurring thereby the penalty of 2001. The evidence for the Crown proved, that a still was blown up at No. 6, Charlotte-street, Bkiomsbury, in the month of Janu ary last, by which a man of the name of Devine was killed. It was further proved, that the person so killed was the servant of Robert Fox, and that he was killed in working the still, in conse quence of his ignorance of its powers. For the defendant, witnesses were called with a view to Inca. lidate this testimony ; but, in the minds of the Commissioners, they failed; for, after a due consderation of the whole of the case, he was fined in the mitigated penalty of 1091 • When' the case of Fox was disposed octwo others were heard, and the parties, being connected with the above concern, were found guilty, and severally condemned in the full pepaky by de fault, viz, in the sum of 2001. each. But what rendered this matter of more interest and import-; ance than generally occurs, was the appearance of a gentleman tit the bar as a witness against them, namely, Mr. Serjeant Clayton, who was subpcenaed by the persons conducting %Ire pne.Pctition, to give his testimony. The Learned Serjeant did give Ids testi. !stony ; and after he finished it, and the causes were.at an end, he addressed the Commissioners. It came out from his starerntnts that being lessee of the premises in questi on under else Duke of Bedford, he had let them to a person of the name of Gage s vito represented himself to be a West-India Captain retiring frOns his vocation, and who gave a Most respectable reference, nerd Which reference accorded with his own representation ; that he there fore consideredhimself as safe in his tenant, and knew no mere of the subsequent occurrences till an information was to en' against himself, as the supposed owner of this private Still. . One of the three Commissioners presiding replied, that se in formation same before them ; that an imperious duty was im posed upon them; that is, they were bound to hear it, bi they thought that the Learned S.:rjeant ought to he satisfied' n the kn.- suit, especially when they stated to him, that they disnplisi.it, as they thought was their duty, on hearing the evidenceaddimet that they felt every respect for the Learned Seifeant, hat when matters came before them in a judicial capacity, however high end respectable the individuals were who were coneenied, ilsey mast take their fate, for they were not to sit there u eetpeoitHisoPPee; sons. The law was their only guide, and the legislative make. ',. dons osier Which they acted, was their authority. THE KING V. SCOTT. • This wah-an information fur the like offence, imposing hoe* - the party three distinct penalties of 2001. each ; but eo the app.. cation of tit: ir Counsel, Mr. Barry, the hearing was deferred. . till Wednesday next, the day appointed bf the Commissibnerk kir* • " • ' of the residue of the causes. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. ~. Yesterday, an'thifortunate veteran tar, named Cee.- ner, who seemed to have weathered many a bitter „ 41 storm, '.vas indicted. tor-stealing a cotton shawl, ii.. ' lue 10d. from a.public-house, in Covenv.kartienitrre'" ' property of Mrs. Mary I„tawstql- ' 1 ''. 1: • ... :::,„f The fact elfthe theft wus fully sustained by th e A ffit; .„.. lest :. . - IJVila The Prisoner being called nPoh o n i s oetenee j , timony Of twowitnisik ' made a powerful appeal•te the pity , df the -Learinkl.v Bench, by a recital of his glorious ca reer hi t h e htivall7. • , service. He stated. that he .lost,, 11 . iP i tin Streights of Gibraltar, on board *e t Awra:up the . fFigilty. t . a which formed part of a squadrOn'tder the dornm anf i l ' of Sit Sidney Smith. After •`this linftrttinate acct. denti,he *entered on board two othet•vessells . of4- 1 4t4e: spectively, as ship's cook,: ip bAtb, ofl.chielbi se p i's . .castaviay, and narrowly ; escaped Relishing by 4,46 m mingiwith one•arin. having been lately, A 4 O , 4 t Portsmouth, he came tip on'T4urVdaylait to 'n . don, for the.purpet4 of receiVing':AhrtheßYWA ty: e t c: ahead him, and haying failed on thatithiY iti iht e !b4., . , iect of fi ts miss ion, he retired, Atlthe 441commenciktint of a messthate,lO the public-house,,,iu coyert t-gaxdnu . ,..,_ where he Made rather' too free Wrth t his gm, and. • . un f or q ina r e ly too k • t h e s h aw l iii llikestiotity 44. 4 ~.. The latter part'of the story being WO -.„ ni,.'t , itheirttpuy i 9f . l,he evidence,for ~ sr ... ;4 4 1%; tf.e Jurrsvere Constrained to #R611.4 h isyvi t to 4 d,, , , j , .. .... The : Court, however; 'l4 r soosi gittio9. ot t t i l 911.er 1 Letisfertimes, "len tenciedhhl A+ ti"t'lle SliAt t p , 1) , . 16.! rn cn t • Of a fortnight's imprisonment, but admocis,:ed him' to veer clear of similar .crapes for the future. • __Lig.amita.LiGai.dirreirigilli' dilirkri;arri ,r~ . I 1