Star. — London, England, 1816-01-12 00:00:00

- . - SURREY' SESSIONS. ALLEN QUI TAM HADLEY. This was an Appeal from a conviction of' two Ma gistrates under the act of rarliament for selling coals, deficient in measure. .. Mr. LAWES having' stated the case on the part of the prosecution, detailed the various ways in which frauds could be practised, and stated that coal mer. chants were like son wine merchants they had heard of, who advertised 13 to the dozen. in this manner the present defendant had dealt with Mr. Comber on the present-occasion, and. while he bargained with him for five chaldrons, which should contain at the usual rate 63 sacks with the ingrain, furnished him coals which, on being remeasured, were found thirty bosheis or ten ''sacks deficient. This would hardly be believed, but lr4 would prove it to the satisfaction of the Bench, when there could not be a doubt they would sustain the conviction. William Turner Comber said he lived in Camber well.. -tie order'ed coals at Mr. Hadley's, West =ulster. No specific quantity was ordered, but only what the premises would hold. Three tickets were delivered to the witness by his servant • maid of the quantity furnished, the witness not being►► present at the time they came in. He was afterwards present whcu they were'remeasured by two persons from the Stirrey Meter's Office. The deficiency was 10 sacks out of the 63. Richard Rippers superintended the remeasurement. They produced 53 sacks, or 159 bushels. They ought to have been 189 bushels. Mr. SPANIELS, in support of the appeal, then ad dressed the Court. Rev i/ua &quits'', it could not be Mr. Hadley's fraud, and the law which imposed on coal merchantX provisions to which no other merchant was liable, held out also protections to them, which if not complied with, took from them their respon sibility. The Act required that the merchants should not be deprived of the control over the coals, whereas it appeared that the cargo in question had been all shot into the prosecutor's premises, which, by the bye, wanted the sanction of the presence of the master, being untenanted, and entrusted entirely to the care of a servant-maid. Now the act expressly provided, " that no such coals shall be remeasured to the effect of ascertaining the whole quantity. after more than on sack has been shot on the premises of such purchaser, any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding." Mr. RANDLE JACKSON, the Chairman, conceived this clause of the Act of Parliament conclusive, and the Appeal was therefore affirmed. Mr. SeAssiE dim submitted that this. ase having been bpiit and divided into parts by the qui lam in.- forme. Nilo lies content with one coaviction, had so is::tmed his C;. se i v ;••• • k. .iViCtiOnS instead of one, that was oppressive and irregular, an I that iOl t the Court would visit this case with more than common DOSCS. The Chairman ordered him to take the allowaace of the *even appeals, with £2 costs in each. 7ARQL:II4AR646I V. WEBBER AVD THE REV. HR. ROW LAM) MEL. This was ate Appeal from a rate fixed by the parish cf Christchurch, within which parish the defendant's chapel is situated, by which Mr. Farquharson com-' flained of the Overeeers of that parish for not having rated that Chapel conformably to the other property in rue parish. • Mr. Isfeeate stated the case on the part of the ap pellant. 'lire question had been twice already under the consideration of the Court, but on account of a detect in the notice of the appeal to the persons con cerned, they would not allow it to be gone into. The appellant once more brought the question bef.ire the • . Court. He had given 'orrice of his appeal to Mr. 'Webber eed Mr. Hill, the former of whom was one of the Trustees for managing the Chapel,. And the other r. as its Minister. The objection was, that great profit was made by it ; 81000 or £l2OO a-year, and yet it was riot rated for a single sixpence. He was quite astonished on what ground it could be main tained that the property was not rateable, when he looked at the case of the King and Agar, in which it was held that a chapel was rateable property as well as any other ; and Lord El'enborough there beta, that though the money there collected might be very properly expended, the mere fact of receiving money tor the pew rents made it rateable. If used for an or %nary o. secular purpose, it would be clearly rateable, why not so for a spiritual purpose ? •That it yi,:hled profit in a spiritual sense, his Learned Friends would not de:iy, and it would be for them to chew the aneneit of the profits so derived by them. It is not err ugh that in any one year. as laid down by Lord Ellenborough in the case to which he had alluded, to ..rew that the profits are absorbed, land did.pot cease t.. be valuable on that account. The *appellant cetrie,e‘w before the Ceirt with less chance of success than toNoerly ; !ir wanted the abilities of . Leae.,:.d Friend Mr. Spanker, who, strange as might seem, was now thirsted on the other side.— Sometinei a little falling out was an increase of af fection, and thus it seemed to be with the Reverend Gentler:.. The last time the case was before the: Court, t ..it Rev. Gentleman published a pamphlet, which LetivAight was remarkable for nothing so moth as a want of candour to his Learned Friend. The Rev. Gentleman, however, had now made a convert of his Learned Friend, and had availed himself of his services. For the piety and exemplary conduct of the Learned Gentleman he had the highest respect; but bow the money which the subject of the present ap peal was expended by him, made no altetation on the question, which was barely a point of law. Mr. COWYN here called the appellant to prove the notice of appeal. G. Springsouth was accordingly called, and stated that he served it upon Mt. and Mr. Webber, at their:dwelling-houses. Me. cOaIIYN contended it was not a notice, not being. addressed to them individually. Mr. NOLAN proposed to - examine the witness to this • fact, and accordingly put ibe 'question to him, if the notice delivered was not addressed to each ? Mr. Come objected that this could be proved by production of the notice itself. which they &hoold bave been served with notice to produce. Mr. SPALMIC also contended that the only use of w notice was to certify to the party that there Was some. thing demanded of Wa s which was not lave done, the notice being adamant to no , mai, bet simply run ning in the third person. Mr. LAW= and Mr. SMITE, for the parish; coa tended to the same effect. Mr. NOLAN and Mr. HEATH contended that tby notice was suficient•i When Mr. JACKSON, the Chairman, entertaining a decided opinion it was not, the appeal was dismissed, but not with costs, as the legal objection had super. seded an enq'iiry into the merits of the case, which invol►ed a question of great importance. • OLD BAILEr. Yesterday John Sherlock and Richard Wiltshire, two add, the oldest not 16, were indicted for stealing, on Sunday the 17th of December last, two yards of Woollen cloth, value 12s. the property of Caleb .Trewick, privately in his shop. The prosecutor keeps ,a second-hand clethei-shop, No. 11, Church-lane, 'St. Martin's, and on the morning of the day men tioned in the indictment the prisoners knocked at his door, aad it was epened to them by the prosecutor's brother, a little boy not ten i years old. They pre tended that they wanted to sell an old coat, and 'forced thee way into the shop : . Sherlock placed his back against the counter and availed himself of that position to take the cloth in question, in the view of the witness, and wrapped it op in the old coat he brought for sale, and suddenly pretending to be in e• berry, he and his companion went away, promising to come again another time. The little boy gave the alarm to his brother, the prosecutor, who had then just risen, when pursuit was made after the prisoners, and after a great deal of difficulty trey wete secured about two hours afterwards in Round-court, though not without considerable resistance. The Cam BARON told the Jury they must acquit the prisoners of the capital part of the charge, the witness having actually seen the theft committed, a circumstance which removed the idea of privately . stealing ; but left it to them to say upon the evi dence, whether they were guilty of the single felony. The Jury, after considering for some time, found both prisoners—Not Guilty. • David Willis,- another juvenile depredator, not 15 years old, was indicted for a similar offence, in steal ing a piece of cheese, value Is. 6d. from the shop of William Lockwood, a cheesemonger in King-street, Park -street, Grosvenor-square. The fact of privately stealing was distinctly proved, but the piece of cheese found in possessiou of the prisoner not being proved worth more than Ss 6d. the Jury, under the direc-1 tion of Mr. Justice LALLAS, found the prisoner guilty only of the single felony. William Johnson, a boy of the like tender years, was' , indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Denney, on the King's highway, and violently taking fiom her per son a silk shawl, value 12s. her property, at Bethnal' Green, on the 4th instant. The prosecutriz could only prove that the shawl in question was snatched from her shoulders about half-past seven in the even. ing, but by whom she did not know. The prisoner was taken into custody by some of the spectators, but the shawl was not found upon him, nor was mere any other evidence given of his guilt. Mr. Baron RICHARDS therefore dii,cted the Jury to acqbit him, and he was acquitted accordingly. Another indictment was preferred Agaiost him for a similar offense, in stealing a shawl from the person of Sarah, the wife of John Bond, in the same neigh bourhood, on the evening of the Sd instant, but the evidence being equally defective, he was again acquitted. George Cartel was convicted capitally of e bur glary, in the night time, in the dwelling-house of William Cole, of No. 5, Seacoal-street, Limeliouve, on the Sd inst. and stealing therein several articles of wearing apparel. Thema" Dom, Robert Raw* alias Corailly, and John Farthing, were indicted for burglarinusly break ing and entering the dwelling-house of James Poole, a tailor, in Everett-street, Brunswick-square, and stealing therein six yards of brown cloth, value £5. It was proved, that on the 15th of December the pro secutor lett his shop, about half-past five in the even ing, it being then not quite dark, in order to wait upon one of his customers, leaving his shop door latched. As he left the house, he observed the pri soners lurking about the street, but not suspecting their intentions, he went about his business. Two of the Bow-street Officers were at this moment watching the motions of the prisoners, and soon after the prosecutor disappeared, the prisoner Rawley opened the prosecutor's door, went into the shop, and presently brought out the cloth in question under his arm, and was walking off with it down the street, when he was met by the prosecutor, on his return home, who immediately recognized his property, and giving the alarm of 411 Stop thief," all the prisoners instantly fled with precipitation, and Rawley in his flight dropped the cloth. They were pursued and overtaken by the prosecutor and the Officers, and carried to Bow-street Office. Mr. Baron RICHARDS charged the Jury, that there was some doubt whether this was a burglary in the night time, as the prosecutor said it was not quite dark c ben he left his house ; but told emu, that if they should think the case was not made out as a burglary, it was a stealing in the dwelling-house, of property to the value of 40s. if the evidence was believed. The Jury found the prisoners guilty of stealing in the dwelling.house, to the valoe of 405.; a verdict equally penal in its consequences. A reward of Fifty Guineas is offered by Messrs. Coosa arid Co. Surgeons, of Charlotte-House, Black. friars-road, for the discovery of the Author of a Let ter sent to the Medical Board. We have,seen it; the language is that of a Quaker, and bears the Walworth Post-mark, dated June 23—a more scurrilous and in vective instrument we have never witnessed, and hope, for the honour of the profession, it Will not prove the effusion of a Medical man—if so, it must arise from a grovelling jealousy at seeing a Society , of independent Gentlemen, of the first . respectability, 1 appropriating a large portion of their time in alle viating the distresses of individuals, who may have consulted men ignorant of the profession ; we are at a loss to conceive the cause for such a libel. Perhaps scone of the author's patients have experienced relief from the Medical Board. We are authorised to state, that Dr. COOP= and Co. are consulted by all ranks of people every morning until Sine o'clock, and .from twelve till eight precisely. ~_.,v e a d n , d 'a u nd it 11 upwards oi lie went and found part of thip o a t r " ti h ti j ou t : eits, POLIO!. to Par house at . f t r h on ere t tv a a n t d e ba e c j lt th ce o l f lar sti to t w s n p , i i wooden peg in the sple 3 n and p o en e cask, there, was a trantity of liltior taken u himirmou Hoots—Yesterday Sara see:, the ma sou .ther, And Sarah Jachon, her daughter, here brought, , ect ti i : e t y el u y .e a l p it p t l o ted a *fore the Loan MAYOR, and underwent a. final era upon guaging, was found to be two police officers, and as his se . spiener n iminauon, charged . by the parish officers of Bishops to with intent to soiree a female child, of three limn of age. The particulars of this case have been W the il p ne ri s s s o i r m ier m s they both lodged, in searching 'already detailed, as far as it regarded the conduct of r the two women already named, whose owe account, 'however, formed a considerable chain of evidence.— keg and two large bottles of stout. T he From the testimony of Sarah Jackson, on Saturday interrogating the landlady and other i irn last, it-was at length discovered who the real mother that the p risoners had been in th e habit - of the infant was, and this person having been traced nights pest of getting d• unk, at which ne m by the officers, she now presented herself to claim the a regular practice of drinking " Ml.C,.. : d i child as her offspring, and to account for its separa- and success to his stout." Witness eat don from her. She stated, that her name was Anne that he had missed &perry to a er)lisidsr. Ad.uni--that the child was the fruits of an illegiti- in different articles, and the cask priairctd mate connection with a Mr. Basely, in the parish of of them. They were committed to Nea t ,. Spitalfields, where that person had paid in a sum of money, which was to have been disbursed to her at the rate of Is. 6d. per week, towards the maidenanee of the child. This allowance was regularly paid to her for a considerable time, until, unfortunately, having a quarrel with a woman in whose service she lived, that person went to the parish officers, and by means of the most vile representations, her allowance was stopped. The witness herself was then thrown out Of bread, and she waited upon the parish officers to implore a renewal of their assistance for herself and child. The only answer, however, that they thought proper to give was, that she was 44 strong and healthy enough to support her child, and it she would have children, she must look to them herself." From this , dictum e appealed to the Magistrates at Worship street, to grant a summons, caking upon the parish officers to afford the necessary relief. Here, how ever, she was told she must abide by the decision of the latter, advising her to do the best she could, and refusing to investigate her application. Driven at length to poverty and distress almost to despair, she representeceher case to a friend named Davis, where the prisoner, Sarah Jackson, constantly visited. The latter appearing to syinpathise with her, offered tc take care of the chili, and being rather of respectable appearance, the witness at length consented, under an agreement that she was to see the infant whenever she wished ; and it was delivered to her in the most perfect health and condition. After this transaction, the again got into service, and her child was once brought to see ler. Seven months, however, had elapsed, during which time she had sought the child in all directions, as well by night as day, before she could gain the slightest account of the retreat of its cruel protectors ; and even this she had but learned through the medium of the public prints, a few days since, and by means of the discovery that had been been made of her own residence, by the officers of Bishopsgate.,'rhe Lonn MAYOR expressed his satis faction at the elucidation which had taken place in this distressing case, and said it only remained for him to obtain the assistance of an Alderman, to roe move the child to the patish where it had been refused protection. He regretted, however, that the base conduct of the mother and daughter, who had evi. dently contrived either to render the child an object of pity (the prisoners being venders in the streets), or to destroy it altogether, could not be so proved as to afford 'sufficient ground for a prosecution. After a suitable admonition. therefore, the two prisoners were dismissed. The mother of the child, in tears, thee besought his Lordship that she might be allowed to give it in care of her own mother, she being now in a state of comfort, and able to protect and support it. His Lordship said, that must be left to the decision of the parish officers, who, he thought, would not make an objection ; while he would also recommend an allowance from them for the child. The wretched old woman, Scott, on her way from the Mansion- House, was attacked in the rpost furious manner by at least an hundred persons, several of whom beat her most inhumanly, and pelted her so with mud, as to, render her an object of the most deplorable condition. After being followed in this way, amid the hootings and hissings of the multitude, she was at length brought to the watch-house of Shoreditch, in nearly a lifeless state. HATTON GAnnee.--Yesterday Edward Hughes, Edward Robinrea, and Ma Jeffries were brought up on a warrant, charged with violently and maliciously breaking open the door of the dwelling house of Wil liam Perry, of Islington-road, about two o'clock in the morning of Friday last, and with assaulting Elie complainant and putting him in fear of his life. It appeared that the prisoners, in company with three or four other persons, not yet in custody, were reterning home at the time above mentioned, from the Wool pack public house, where they had been at a raffle, and being in a state of intoxication, they wantonly, and in mischievous sport, broke open the complai nant's door, and also the shutter of his window. The complainant, on hearing his house broke open, got up, and ran to the door in his shirt, so see what was the matter, when the prisoner Robinson was pushed in by some of his companions on the com plainant, by which he was thrown down, and some one of the party threw a pail of water over him. The complainent's , daughter, a child nine years of age, who followed her father to the door, was so dread fully frightened that She fell into convulsion fits, and is under the care of a medical gentleman. The pri. soners were ordered to find bail to answer the Wednesday night the stable and cos( Thos. Wllsms, Esq. of Tyndale•plAce, 1,1 broke open and robbed of carnage glus man's livery, and other articles. ConoNErt's INClEST.—Yestrrd4y an I held on the body of WILLIAM CIL% ttLE. printer, who dropped down dead the pre near Turnstile, Saffron-hill, as he was work in St. John's-square, from 1 Crown -court, Shoe-lane : he has left A children, from whom he p tiled A roar ter before in good : - .ealth.—Verdict, I.).ed b l lion of Gon. BIRTH. In Dublin, the Lady of the kielt Lion. Sir Nl hou, Bart. Mauer of the Rolls, of •. sot.. MADRAS BATHS-111e Lady Of Thottms 14a daughtar —The Lady of Ge' rge Garrote, E. 9 of a Vizagaparum, the l.ady of Di. C. Rogers, of a dal cuff-crabad, tee Lady of Lieuten....g . L. Clarke. ja N.l. of a daegliter—The Lady at :'.t Hots. So Id a daughter— Ole Lady of Edw. ISlnorat. Lsq. of a 1 he Lady of Captain *Freeman, of a daughter Wm. AtTaggart, Esq. of a daughter—At t riche, of W. Richard, Estk . parrison hurgeon, of a ion— Lady of Captain -Plampron, oc the 7th Regiment At Pallanicottab, the Lady of Lieut. !I.:kering, Regiment, of a son—At Ramrod, the Lady of :M tat a daughter—At die Presidency, the Lally Agnew, of a daualmr—At Bangalore, the Lady o son, Barrack-master of that statiun, of a son ; the tenant-Colonel Wesh, of a daughter--..it of I.ieut. G. W. Budd, Fort Adjutant at that tad At Bellary, the l.ad', of Lieut. haiith, of the Ist of a daughter—The Lady of Wm. Sirupeott, Esq. —.Tbe Lady of Cap:ain Ranclaod, of his Nt.j,-..y's of a son—At S. cundrabai, the Lady of Lieu of a son—At Bangalore, the Lady of Captain I Chlcarole Infantry, of a sou.—At Ganjant, the pant Spry, 2d bait. 21st regiment, of twin buys. MAP MED. - Jas. Davis, Egg. Liam R. N. to bliss Baker, c county of Cork. MADRAS MARRIAGES....—At the Hon. S:rfras Charles Otway Mayne, Esq Captain of the tioi.. I Atlas, to Enema,, eldest daughter of the late Hen of the Hon. Comr.ny's Civil Service, on their NI ment—At Bangalore, Captain Crewe, Maj. 4 o! Mysore Division, to Miss Pearse—At Et:nary, r. uce Webb, of his Majesty's G9th regiment, t daughter of the late John Culloden, Esq. forme Captain Hugh Scott, Military secretary to his Commancter in Chief, to Ennua Jane, eldest dal Harris, Esq. M.D.—At Bar.galure, more, 2d bate. 10th regjnient, to Miss Denton— the Rev. H. C. Wilkes, Charles Fullerton, Esq. l Civil ierviee, to Sophia, fourth daughter of Mayotte, Esq. Madras Establishment—At Ganj W. Lee, Jamts Fitzgerald, Garrison Ssrjeant•M to Miss Elizaheth Paxton. DIED. At Clonal Captain Michael Ffrench, Soutl At liel,pland, Mrs. L'Eatrange, wile ot Capi of the ittli Royal Veteran Battalion. Dec. 9, at his mother's house, Edinburgh, Mr.' late of Demerar, fif.li son of the late Rsy. lx. Ai n liter of Foulden. MADRAS DEATBS—in camp at Akowlah, Jul Colonel eeorge Neale, commanding ski brigadl o At CWcaco!e, July 11, Ensign Charles Haetervti. regiment N.l.—July IS, Lieut. !arises Waiker B At Ranmad, Mrs. Leonora Ficker—At Canna Ede, infant son of Lieut. G. Darlsig, his 111.. jest At Ceylon, Captain Fitagerala, cal his Majesty's Mr. George La Fontaln. after a short but very At VlZlF,:ipamni, the MLitt daughter of Doctor May t 4, onto trd 04 Lowther Castle Indiana to Madras, Margaret, the wife. of S. Parroch, nopoty. Mrs. C. Frit ae, wire of John Frieze, tie ltd batt. Sad see. N. h•—Mrs. Gag r, tigh birth of a son—At SL 'llotnas's,Lieut dertier, N. I.—ln Colonel Doveton'a camp, near AkMa, I cosh, Ist batt. x4th.regt. N. f.—Captain I. Kelm regt. N. 1.-1. Nicholson Watts; Esq. Civil sery patam, Fitzgerald, wife of Mr. Fitzgerald dint of that station, aged 99 years. A CHALLENGE. MESSRS. CURRIE and Co. Sur, his Majesty's Service, challenge the prove a single insiance where their nteJicine an have failed of the tleire..l effect. The practice this particular branch of their profit asiun, has r one unsuccessful case. They continue to direct their studies m tie cure of Venereal Complaints, and thr der•tn;;r tent which is the consequence of the prioress effects of a habit long and most milt inpil7 p .rat of both sexes. In the one it will be tumid to source of barrenness; the other Lave its ravages tat them by a distressinrstate of debility, w•hidt, medied, terminates i■ itipotence. These are ultimate effects, while consumption,loss of mut various nervous complaints, usually characterise of this solitary vice. Of persons languishing un incident to such a habit, their treatment is sin, proved unsuccessful in the course of a long, tabu extended practice. * ln the most obstinate and complicated cases don, such as obstructions in the urethra, span hard tumour., callous ulcers, eruptions, sentinai as also Strictures, whether re cent or of kt which have bailed the skill of other Praci their present improved plan of trelt mem effect neatly cured, without the ritiant suffering the and alarming Hemorrhage which frequently fo' eon oldie lunar caustic. ►n the course of their in this metropolis, numerous casts of S litter and are daily under their care, the total eradicat fected by a safe, certain, and expeditious mod toany other yet 'dopted. 'the weakness, ri `•a lily, proceeding from this complaint are speed the Patient restored to sound and vigorous he the debtlity has for years exi-ted, a propel Per restorative remedies is indispeustbly reqtvgte, beruig spark► of life, and to reanimate the cons Patients in the Century are requested to ate of their case, age, and general habit of living, 2 mittance for advice and Medicines, when the or sent to any part of the Kirgdo.n. To ensure that secrecy which is so esser.tial taking, the postage of letters may be added t medic :le, —Oth June, ' 809-187, Hattoo.hari complaint. • Thomas Roofe, a boy 14 years of age, was charged with striking William Heard, a boy of seven years of age, liying in Greyhound court, Holborn, a violent blow with his clenched fist under the small ribs, on his left side, on Tuesday last, by which his life is in danger. It appeared that the boy, who received the blow, was fighting with another boy about his own age, when the prisoner came op to him and gave him the blow above stated, which knocked him down speeCh. less, in which state he was carried to a surgeon, under whose care he still remains. The surgeon not being able to pronounce the boy out of danger, the prisoner was committed for further examination. SHADlFELX.—Yesterday Thomas Blunt and l'ilimrsd Morley were brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged on the oath of Mr. James Candles, ficenced bum-boat purl man on the river Thames, with hay.. in g robbed him of a large quantity of stout. The prosecutor deputed, that the prisoners were journeymen carpenters, and worked at a house in Shadwell, the back cellar of which he rented, and used for holding beer and Other articles etc had occasion to keep in his business. Yesterday 1•11G11 W A UK W LON Morning 15 mir. Afternoon • - - 48 miu •LONDON : Printed by Leval. KENT. 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