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• Pr - 7 7 4. ..., f {FM I 0 ' : . 1 • r, !., . f ', 1 i • ir = . . , . 4 I :4: 4 , 11:‘ I ' 6 ' k • ; i. 1 INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP CHANCRRT, AUGUST 17. OoaDON V. GORDON. The Loan CHANCILLOR, addressing Mr. Rose, in- 1 gaited if he had any further observations to make, with respect to what passed yesterday,. relative to this case? Mr. Ross said he had given the case his most se sious consideration, and the result was, that he did not think he could give any new feature to it, and therefore he would not occupy any farther the atten tion of the Court. The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed in reply, that his judgment of yesterday should stand. PRACTICE OF THE COURT. ; Mr. Witscra begged leave to make a motion to confirm the Report of the Master respecting the pay ment of money, which he described as necessary to be done by two o'clock this day. The Loan CHANCELLOR—L cannot, Mr. Wilson, do so t• for my part I cannot see why this Report was not made long ago. Mr. WiLsom said it arose from the great number of papers it was necessary to read. The LORD CHANCELLOR—I cannot think it was owing to that, but to the want of attendance on the part of the Solicitors. This had become a subject of great complaint on the part of the Masters, and he was determined to put a stop to it. It had now be come frequent to let those - sort of motions stand over till the very end of the Sittings, when they were made as of course—and henceforth his Lordship was detet-, mined not to hear them, and accordingly refused the' motion. TUE SEDIPORI) ctittaily. • The ATTORNEY GENERAL , in rising to-mention this case. observed, that he did not think it necessary to again trouble the Court with any further observations. .The LORD CHANCELLOR accordingly ordered the case to stand for judgment on Thtirsday morning. The time for closing the Sittings is now settled for Monday, the S3d inst. at which ume theAcsountant General's Office will close also. WARWICK ASSIZES, AUGUST 9. IVA U. RUSSELL. This was a prosecution for publishing one of Hone's Parodies about 18 months ago, and was put off from the lait Assize to the present. (It will be recollected by our Readers that Hone had been tried for three different Parodies of the same nature in London, and acquitted). At the defendant's request,, before the trial commenced, the witnesses were with drawn from the Court. MI% CLARKE, in opening the case for the Crown, observed, that the Defendant was charged with iu tehding to bring the holy Litany into contempt, and to excite impiety and immorality, by ridiculing it in a certain- parody, called the Political Litany. in which were contained proC.ine remarks on the Divine Ser vice, &c. . C. L. Barber, and a person named Harley, moved that they had bought the publication of defendant. • Mr. Mott, the Registrar of the Dean and Chapter or Lichfield, produced the' Act of Cniformity-fsom the Archives of the Chapter, in order to compare the Litkny as by law establishel, with . the Parody. Some trivial objections were made. The Defendant then' addressed the Court, in a speech occupying a considerable space of time, and with great fluency, in extenuation of his conduct.— Hb sand that he owed the preser.t prosecution to the ingratitude cf a man he had befriended, and that his arrest was founded in spiteful motives. Ihe original printer had been acquitted by a London Jury ; and it could not be guilt in the accessary, that was not gizilt in the principal. The publication was merely ; it was a . popular way of sheaving popular sentiments. His Lordship, in his charge to the Jury, observed, that in his opinion the parody was a libel ; and the Jury found a verdict of Guilty. 'The defendant will remain upon bail until neat Tele, when he will be brought up for judgment in the 'Court of King's Bench. , CORNWALL ASSIZES, BODIIIN, AUGUST to. Thomas Hynes was put to the bar, charged with uttering a seditious libel. He was a man of wretched appearance, who owned that he could scarcely read. Ile said he had committed no crimes and knew no thing about pleading. Being asked if he wished to put off his trial till the next Assizes? he replied that ; he had no bail, and consented to be then pied rather than return to jail. Mr. Szt.wva Counsel for the prosecution, then evened the ple adings. He stated that this prosecu tipn was instituted at the desire of the Magistrates of Penryn, where the offence had been committed ; and they bad acted with wisdom and becoming energy on the occasion. While other districts of the kingdom were agitated by seditious publications, without number, the peace of the county of Cornwall had not been disturbed, perhaps because those vile productions had not yet been circulated with impunity among its loyal inhabitants ; and it was to protect them from sq impure a contagion, that the Magistrates deemed itu duty incumbent on them, za put a stop to the evil at once, by bringing the present delinqttent for justice. It is not given to man to look into the course GI time, and to predict what events may happen at a future period—but if such proceedingi be tolerated and sedition be allowed to stalk openly through the country, in the persons of such tools as the prisoner at the bar—if June' be not alive to the preservation of the best interests of society, by upholding the laws and exercising a necessary sev.rity upon these illi terate agents of guilty authors, who keep in the back ground, reap the profits, and leave them to their tate, there will an end of all order and government, and revolution must inevitably ensue. This is the first case in the county of Cornwall that has been Ephraim(' to a British . Jury, and too much praise cannot be given to the Magistrates of Penryn for setting so laudable an example, which will no doubt be followed, should an occasion offer, by those of every town in the county, The pamphlet of which be had this day to complain was not written in the free spirit of fair discussion, but was a malignant libel on the Church, the Clergy , the Government, ev en on the Royal Family itself, and calculatect,to eac ite animosity against all that is good or great in the Empire. dirt Uren, the younger, saw the prisoner on Mon day, the 25th of Juge last, in the meets of Renrye, crying various pamphlets .for, sale. He purchased one, paid penny for it, marked .it with his name, and kept it by him ever since. [Here theoopy was put in and teat bit vie 'for bear, for obvious reasons, to quote a single sentence from so infamous a publication.l The prisoner offered in his defence a license signed by the Commissioners of Hawkers and Pedlars, which, as he contended, authorized him to sell any kind of publication, in• towns, and from house to house, in any part of the kingdom, provided the 'titer's name were attached. • The'Learned Judge explained the law of the case, and emphatically touched upon the disorders which at this moment distract various parts of the kingdom, and which, he said,' had been fostered, and greatly aggravated, by such mischievous publications as the present, and the means taken to disseminate them. The Jury found the,prisoner Guilty of selling a seditious pamphlet, and he was sentenced to six months imprisonment in Bodmin Gaol. Atli9t.lBT IS. John .Egien,.aged 28, James Wolfe; aged ' and George Wofe, his son, aged 30, were charged with the wilful murder of Isabella; Young, at Herrington, on the night of the 28th August, 1815. Mr. WILLIAMS opened the case to the Jury. Isa bella Young had been in the service of Miss Jane Smith, since, Lady Peat, a Lady of great opulence, and of singular habits and manners. One of her sin gular habits was to have only one female servant in her house. Miss Smith had been from home for a week previously to the murder, and had left Isabella Young in her house at Herrilgton, a village four or five miles from the town of Sunderland. Isabella Young had been alarmed the night before this fatal attempt; she had heard the bar removed from the door, and in consequence solicited a neighbour to sleep with her on the night of the 28th of August, 1815. Her solicitation tailed ; but that neighbour heard her bolt the door at ten o'clock. Another neighbour found her about two o'clock next morning -murdered. The house had been set fire to, but the fire had not reached the part where she was at the time she was seen, and dragged out. That the mur der had been committed by some persons or other would be proved, therefore, .beyond all controversy. He would now state to them the evidence which af fected the several prisoners. John Eden had been a soldier in the Durham Militia, which marched into Newcastle on the 26th of August, the Saturday be fore this tragedy. it would he proved that he was absent from his regiment on the night of the 28th and morning of the 29th, and if the Jury would be lieve the witness, they would find that Eden called at that witness's house on the evening of the 28th, and told him, that he and two others were going to Herrington on a very disagreeable business, and spoke of Mi..s Smith's mouldy money. An idea had prevailed that she had accumulated money ; this had excited cupidity, and her retired manner of living ,gave hopes of gratifying that cupidity. Eden spoke of her mouldy money, and if the . witness shoul d be bel'eveAl, and he knew no reason why he should'not, they would find hint that night upon this very busi ness. Eden had been a keelman. I p the eve ling he had been in blue clothes ; nest morning he was seen neatly dressed, and having a. bundle (no unimportant circumstance), twelve miles from Newcastle; He had every appearance of having changed his clothes. On one occasion he said he could establish an alibi, and prove that_ he was at Newcastle ; there he certainly ought to have been; but he would be proved by the muster-roll to have been absent. Now he would pro ceed to James Wolfe. He had held a farm from Miss Smith s and had fallen in arrear with his rent. She had becorne displeased with hint, and got rid of him. It would be proved that he had afterwards, on many occasions said, he would 'be revenged, he was not done - with her yet. Ir addition, it would be proved, that in Decenisber 1814, on a-remarkably windy day, when a wail had been thrown down, and killed a man, a circumstance that naturally fastened on the memory. Wolfe mentioned to a James Shaw the wrongs and injustice done to him by Miss- Smith, and said that he would be revenged. To Shaw Ile re. !perked that it would be easy to rob her house. Next, as to George Wolfe, lie had been remarkably regular, jo his employment, that of a furrier, at Bishop - Wear - n mouth; but on the night of the 28th he was absent, and, when he returned on the morning of the 29th, he was particularly observed to have a black eye, and to have scratches on his face, as if dcne with nails. His first account of it was, " I was drunk, and fell in the streets of Sunderland." On another occa- sion he said, one of his children had been unwell, and he had risen to get some water for the child, and hurt himself. He was apprehended in Edinburgh, and a pocket-book was found upon him, which he said he had got from the family of his wife six years before. Lady Peat would prove this pocket-beak to have been hers, and to have been in her dwelling a week before the murder. Such was the evidence which would be laid before them ; they would weigh it with that measured consideration and that atten tive caution which it was their province to exercise ; and they would, he doubted not, come to such a con clusion as the evidence warranitti. The evidence having been gone through, Mr. Baron Woon matte several remarks on the various parts of it. The Jury retired about half-past two o'clock. It was then proposed to call another Jury for the other trial of murder in the calendar; but his Lordship re marked; that they could not by law proceed to ano. ther trial while a Jury were inclosed upon murder., It was at last agreed to defer the other trial till to- morrow morning at eight o'clock. At half-past tour o'clock the Jury retureed. Their approach excited a most visible sensation throughout the multitude assembled in Court. When the Fore man pronounced the verdict-Guilty upon John Eden, the general feeling could no longer be sup- 1 pressed. A similar expression was repeated uhen Guilty was announced as the verdict on James Wolfe. George Wolfe was found Not Guilty. A female, said to be the wife of one of the prisoners, shrieked in a most agonizing tone when the verdicts were given. The two wretched convicts stood unmoved. George Wolfe bowed hit head, and was scarcely able to utter " I thank you," when he heard himself Acquitted. The Amos then pared sentence of l]eath, and or dered them for execution on Monday. - ICRNT ASSIZES. Abrohalne, Judah Snientees, and Joe. Sokoto, vere charged with procuring. counselling. and hiring, D. Jacobs, John Ball, and Ardor: Burka, to com mit a burglary in the dwelling-house of A. Abrahams Wot Myers, at Minster, of which burglary the said. Jacobs, Ball, and Buckee, were convicted at the last Atlases. The principal evidence was that of Abraham Buckee, who stated, th'at the above priso-, ners hired him, Jacobs, and Ball; to commit thebur , glary; that they afterwards deserted them m their 'necessity, and retained a considerable portion of the plunder. Enraged by this conduct the convicts gave such information as led to the apprehension of their employers. On the 'trial, a surprising chain of cir cumstances corroborated almost every material part of Buckee's evidence ; and the Jury, with very little hesitation, found all the prisoners Guilty, but recom mended them to mercy. The trial lasted seven hours. Before the sentence, the prosecutors, bathed in tears, also implored mercy for the prisoners. To this brief statement we shall only add Mr. Baron GAnnow's speech on passing sentence of death on the prisoners, who were visibly deeply alfected Ahrahani Abrahams; Judah Solomon, and Joseph Solomon, I am very much afraid that the severe la bours of this day have hardly left me voice enough to execute as I ought to do the remaining part of my duty. You have, after along and anxious inquiry into all the circumstances of the case, been severally found guilty, on evidence which I think it quite im possible for any man to doubt, who capable of rea soning, of the offence of procuring and hiring three unhappy men to commit a burglary in the house of your near neighbour. There is nothing more grati fying to me in theadministration of the criminal law, than to have the recommendation of a Jury, who! tried, and of those who prosecuted the convicted per son ; but I should most cruelly deceive you, if I did' not immediately tell you the view that I have of what my duty imposes on me in your case. Though the Jury and the prosecutoss have recommended you, I feel it my duty to tell you that I cannot, that I dare not, act upon that recommendation. • I say most cer tainly; that when I leave this place, you will be left for execution, and if mercy is to be extended to you, it must proceed from another quarter, and from a higher authority. 'One of the witnesses, who has re ceived his Majesty's most gracious pardon, and who has stated himself to have been addicted for a consi derable period of time to vicious courses, was a ready instrument in the hands of those who were planning to rob their near neighbours, whose habits were well known to them. You, Abraham Abrahams, planned the burglary— you went up to London to procure persons for the purpose—you arranged every thir.g, 'and held out the inducement. Another of you, to whom two of the burglars were sent, furnished them with the money with w hich they w a cre to be sent to the field of action. The other showed them the seede for plunder, telling them to go on to the execoti - nn of the plait, and when they were inclined to go Lack, you urged them to the commission of the crime, by assuting them the plunder would be more than they expected. Two of you waited on the spot, to take a part of the stolen property, and the other remained In town to receive the other part. Instead of bring ing the:e men to justice, you defeated her ends, and converted a considerable portion of the plunder, even up to this day, to your own use. This has been a most important trial to society at large, and my rea son for saying so, is the consideration that wicked men would not engage in burglaries, and other acts of dishonesty, if there were not persons to be found ready to receive and dispose of the plunder they may obtain. But this trial will read a lesson to accesso ries before and tiler the fact, that when they join in such acts, they do it with the halter about their necks, and that they can have no security while one of their guilty gang exists. The case may come home to them, who for months and years have indulged in fancied security; it will teach gangs, that there can be no honour among . dishonest persons ; and when they enter into a conspiracy against the public; it is only a trial of which shall run the quickest in the race to save himself, and hang his comrades in guilt; and it will teach them, that the best and safest way is to live as honest men.—lt is not for me to say how this case will be viewed by other persons. I shall re present in the proper quarter the recommendation of the Jury, and of the prosecutors; but, as far as my judgment goes, their recommendation in this, the first instance of the kind, since I have had the honour of being a Judge, will not be accompanied by my re commendation. I feel that I should not do•my duty to the public, if I did not leave you for execution, to be redeemed from it only by those who may be bet ter able than myself to watch over the interests of the community."—His LORDSHIP then passed Sentence of Death on all the prisoners, and they were taken from the bar in the greatest distress. SURREY ASSIZES, CROYDON, MONDAY. Till RING V. Joan STEVENS AND EITHERS. This was an information filed by his Majesty's Attorney-General, against the Defendants, for ob structing an Officer of Excite in the execution of his duty, in apprehending the first defendant, John Ste vens, against whose persoir he had a warrant, in con sequence of his being unable to pay certain penalties incurred by his illegal proceedings in his trade of a soap-maker. The Prosecutor stated, that having been for a very long time in search of the first Defendant for the above stated cause, he at length found him, two years ago, by the side of his cart, near the Cannon Tavern, in the Borough. The appearance of the defendant's . ' dog at first attracted his attention, and looking more nearly, he saw that he (himself) was pointed out - by the second defendant, who was 2 brother of the first; and John Stevens then sidled backwards behind the hones, to avoid being seen. The witness, however, went up to him and secured him, as he thought ; but an attack was then made by the other two defend ants abd the surrounding mob, which had gathered on the occasion. The defendant, John Stevens, op posed great resistance, and, according to the witness's account, bit him , in four places on one hand, and seven places on the other, and finally, by means of the other defendants pushing the mob against the witness, was enabled to escape. He was afterwards, 'however, taken with his confederates. One other witness was called for the Crown; who, in part, confirmed the first witness's statement. • host of witnesses was called to prove that the first defendant was the assaultee.--not the assaulted, and that the other defendants only interfered as far as Natives of humanity dictate,d their assistance. The Jury found all the ugendartts--Net Guilty. BOw-STAIET.--RollitNa TRIt MAlLYLattrl t: Alen Goodman, alias Bond, was brought to the by Bishop, the officer, and underwent anesan.i n , u : s ,., before RiCHARD BlRnla, Esq charged on sus, , lci ,: a of robbing the Edinburgh Mail, in the month of m .i , last, of Bank notes to the amount of £llO.l i t ~! peared that on the 15th of May last a parcel w as i , l ut into the Edinburgh Mail, at Edinburgh, di.ected t o London, containing the halves of Bank of England notes, cut in a E traight.line through the middle, to the amount of 121100, principally in Ll notes, the:e being but five of L 2 and five of t 5 each. O. it s arrival at Newcastle it was examined to ascer'...ti l the parcels were correct,' when the above detci:lx4 parcel was missing. The Agents of the EdinbLro Bank were so incautious as not to wait the acit:•.,, t , ledgment of the receipt of the first parcel, but paecel with the other halves of the Bank note s e „ tbllowing day, which was also missed, on the arri va l of the mail-coach at Newcastle. Every possible rt. ertion was made to discover the robber, but itav,..r. A great many of the notes had been in circelieic2 for a number cf years, in the north of tnglar,d, that they bad become so extremely ' L agged and a tip. telligible, from the length of time they had be e:l ; a circulation, as to be scarcely negociaLle, and t;„ er ,„ fore recourse was had to taking them to the Wo l k a England to get them exchanged for new notes. Y e , terday four of the stolen El notes of the a! )ovt ,d s scription were paid into the Bank of England f,rn at ones, in the name cf and on the Clerk at t! :1 Bank issuing four new kl notes is exchange Lt tr a four mutilated ores, and calling tOr the ii,t,,,e of Bond, the prisoner an,, vied to it. lie was af tu , wards stopped, taken into custody, ai.d lecuglitto the Office. On his person was found two Lti an t one 4.:10 Bank notes. One of the £2O notes rol l to have been issfted last Saturday in exchange bur tint old notes, part of those stolen, and at is expected f iat the other £2O and £lO notes will prove to be the same. On Mr. Br RN te calling upon the prisoner's give an account of himself, he_said he was an hide. pendent man, which Bishop, the OCT,ffie admitted, that her believed lins to be worth several thou pounds, bat4nowstwell AS.lohn Goodman,—lie was committed .for further examination. Wecfnesjay; afox, Whose - nunterotts depredations I had Made him are telsOr of the palish of Hoddam, was killed in a very singular manlier. Reynard h a d stolen into she > Minister s yard about nightfall, L s cater as usual for. hi evening repast, and was absei le d fighting a ith . a favfmrite dog, by the servant, who, seizing a hatchet ran up to them, when the fox mediutely made-off. The dog sprung after him end caught him several tirkes, but he as often contrived to disengage : himie;f either• by. dint of his superiar agility, or )lye sharpness of his teeth, hefore the man could reaclaTin. At last, howeVer, he was over. taken by the servant, who flinging the hatchet at him, hit 'hint dis.eseliaoOsttritosmed him. The dog then fell uron hint einegi-enoie,—and killed him. afternoon, as Mr. STILL, cow-keeper, of George- stt eat, Bloomsbury, • was driving a fine ccv and her calf along Tottenham Court-road, the old animal becaitie enraged at the barking of some dogs, and after to:ring two of them, ran-with treat 1... y along Tottenham-Court-road, twice tossing the owne, by which several of his ribs - were broken ) in ar.empt. ing to stop her. The 'vat objects of her vengeance were two Ladies, wh - o were so seriously hurt as to be taken to the Hospital ; the pesfm Cu happened to be passing at the Moment, and the sight of hisred coat. attracting the cow's attention; it Sew at blm, and gored him severely.— The en,raged animal wain length subdued, and safely lodged is a stable. Tuesday, as yoang . of the Talbot Inn, littoteter, Was about starting a gig, with his two sistete-init, front the New Inn, on Needwood Faint, the winkers came off the horse's head, and t.e animal set off at speed, The young man ran with it some distance, striving to stop the horse, when he was dirown, and the wheel went over him. He was re nuoved to the inn, and expired at two o' clock on Wednesday morning. The horse 'ran two min ft the Hanbury-road with the gig, when he suddenly stopped, and the ladies got out uninjured. Just published, by T. HARysT, of Blackfrian road, a Pocket Manual, being A few - Mirada Ad vice from the Medical Board, in a Lecture on 6e Lues N'enerea and Sexual Debilities, as deliver ed at Woodstock-House, and Charlotte-House, a March last, a Publication highly interesting to young Practitioners, and of importance to the vital interests of Society.—For the accommodation of Patients at the West end of the Town, a Medical Bbard is established in Woodstock-street, Oxford• street, under the patronage of Dr. COOPER, of Clop lotte House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road The Board is composed of Gentlemen of the fint talent, of nearly forty years' experience, all Member of the Royal Colleges of London and Edit:bulk, who are consulted daily by all ranks of in' lids with the greatest confidence. Patientsefilistrj with a certain complaint, strictures, erratic paint .eruptions of the skin, ulcerated throat, glandalr swellings s in the neck, nodes on the shin bones, to are diseases which arise from improper treatment — the afflicted are immediately .relieved, and 'WA cured, without confinement—Messrs. COorrn andCs are consulted at Woodstock House, from Eight lath' Morning until Eight at Night ; and at Charism' House, Great Charlotte -street, opposite the Ilec 'Rowland Hill's Chapel, from Twelve *lra EP and --xo where else ix London.—i-Mechanics have ea• vice Gratis every evening, from Six till Eig_itt, .beth:lionses; and on Sunday MOrnings until Tiv ll ", IST.JOck ! "--41.8. Ruptures of ye ats standing, ai d otgi inches in circumference, radically cured, Iv?. * out surgical operation. e 3 p r iv a te Eagrance,ltd Private Rooms,- for Consultation. • - MARRIED. On tie 1/th inatant, at the Friend's Meeting.-Houle , 5 . 6* wit& .Williant Tindall, Esq. of Artilleri-Place, Prleeillaolaughter of the late Richard Harris, Esq. of "I°' DIED. • August 4, at Ferntower, Coload John cf the Ato deenshire Militia. Last week, Mrs. Stevens, wife of Mr. Steven., cf GMk spirit shop, Market -street, Plymouth. She was in :be habN . , 01 bathing under the Hoe, and whilst in the water the surf cir. 6 her off her ley and threw her against the rocks, by whi lt ‘ r head was so injured as to cause almost instant death. 1116 H•WATER at LONDON BRIDG/C TO-DOOKO ° rning - - 7 minutes atter 1 Afterneon - - 32 trinted and published ny.i.svu Kurt; 1.4