Star. — London, England, 1819-11-02 00:00:00

~ ~. 3. t~ A• I. I , i usual, by the proper Officers of the Court. We never saw his Lordship in better health or spirits. He seemed peculiarly attentive to the very splendid im provements which have been made in the Hall dur ing the long vacation, and which unquestionably render it one of the most elegant, commodious, and advantageous Courts in the kingdom : indeed, to those who have formerly seen its old appearance, the vast improvements appear scarcely credible, espe cially in the very short period which has elapsed since the last Sittings, and during which they have taken place.—The motions before his Lordship were of no public interest. • The Vlca-CrtaNcELLoa also this day resumed his Sittings, but there was nothing heard peculiarly wor thy of notice. There was a very full attendance of Counsel and Solicitors in both Courts. . Note, atd not for his own address. He' Lssed a Note at the house of Smith in the .ingust. ;wer to a question from Mr. Baron Woon, said, that he did not ask the prisoner to address of the person from whom he received He said his.own name was Jones. Mr; Baron Wood summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found the pri soner Guilty.; but very strongly recommended him to mercy, Thomas ArDerrnont was indicted for having ut tered a forged £1 note on the 20th of October, he knowing the same to be forged. William Bullock deposed, that he was shopman to Mr. Senior, a linen-draper, in Great Portland-street, Mary-la-bonne. On the day mentioned in the indict ment, the prisoner came to his master's shop and asked for some calico. He agreed to buy a remnant, value Is. 9d. and offered a £1 note in payment for it. The witness gave the note to Mr. Denbigh, the brother. in-law of his master. Mr. Denbigh thought it was a bad one, and took it to Mr. Senior, who was up stairs. When the witness received the note he asked the prisoner for his name ; the prisoner men. tioned a name, but witness could not recollect. what; it was only a word of one syllable, and it began with aB. Ile said that he had taken the note about an hour and a halt before from a servant of Lady Page Turnei, on account of a debt which that Lady owed him. When Mr. Senior and Mr. Denbigh came down stairs, he repeated the same story. Mr. Senior then proposed that the witness should accompany the prisoner to No. 47, Harley-street,*where the prisoner said Lady Page Turner liVed. The prisoner con sented to go, and on the way to Harley-street he fre quently asked the witness to give him the note, but he would not alloiv it to go out of his possession. NVlien they came to N 0.47, in Ilarley-street, the pri• soner rang the bell and a man-servant came to the door. The witness made him acquainted with the cause of his visit, and asked him whether Lady Page Turner lived there? The servant said that she did not; he added, that she did live there two years ago. The witness then asked the prisoner how he came to say that he received the note there? The prisoner replied, that he said he had received it in a letter which was subscribed " 47, Harley-street." As they were proceeding back to Mr. Senior's house, the pri soner seized the witness, and attempted to get the note from him. He did not get it, and some pas sengers coming up, the prisoner was secured and taken to Mr. Senior's house. When there, the priso ner said, that he had received the note from a man named Paterson, who lived on the other side of West minster Bridge. Mr. Denbigh and Mr. Senior confirmed all that part of the last witneses statement which related 13 whet passed in the shop. Plank, the officer, stated that he was sent for by Hr. Senior to take the prisoner into custody. He knew his name to be M-Dermont. He said that he lived at No. 4, Reeve's Mews, but ott inquiry, that statement turned out to be false. Richard Glover proved that the note was forges : After Mrs Justice FAUX had summed up the evi dence, one of the Jury said, that it was the wish of ' , some of his colleagues, in finding the prisoner guilty,.' to recommend him to mercy. Mr. Justice PARE observed, that they must deter-' mine that point amorg themselves, but intimated, that if they should resolve to recommend the priso ner to mercy, they ought to state the grounds of their recommendation. 'Unless the grounds were stated, recommendations would not be received. The Jury found the prisoner ,Ocilty, but recom mended him to mercy ou the ground thiit this was his first offence. Mr. Justice PARS saki, he would report their re commendation ; but there was no proof that this was the prisoner's litst offence. He did not, however, mean to say that it was not. Ja:nrs licrrisen was charged with having uttered a forged 1:1 note on the eth of October, be knowing it to be forged. It appcarai from the evidence, that psi the 9th of October, the prisoner entered the shop . of Thomas Bulding, a haberdasher, living in Clipstone-street, Fitzroy-square, and bought ksilk handkerchief, value 6s. in payment for which he gave Mrs. Bolding a £1 note. When asked for his address, Mrs. Bolding understood him to say that he lived at No. 5, Cock spur-street. Mr. Bolding thought the note was a bad one, and went out to spewit to a neighbcur, telling t he risener that be was going fur change. N'trhilst he was gone the prisoner left the shop with out the handkerchief, saying that he was going on to Portland-place, and that he would call for the change when he came back. Mr. Bolding returned shortly after the prisoner had left the shop, and he followed and overtook the pi isoner going towards Portland-place. He brought the prisoner back to his shop, who, upon hearing that Mrs. Bolding had gone to No. 5, Cockspur-street, as the place of his abode, said, that he bad not given that address, but, No. I, Cannon -street, to which place he offered to accompany Mr. Bolding. Mr. Baron Woore summed up die evidence, and pointed out to the Jury the facts which were favour able to the prisoner. After a few minutes' consultation, the Jury re turned a verdict of Not A few days ago, the Shuttle Coach, from Preston to Halifax, was upset on its return into Yorkshire, between Tadmorden and Burnley, owing to the linch-' pin having come out; by which accident a person of the name of Dunhill, of Merfield, the only passes-' ger, was killed on the spot. An accident of a most serious nature occurred at Fetcham, between Leatherhead and Guildford, on the night of Saturday last : 240 sheep were left in a field by a farmer at that place, and the next morning no less than 200 of them were discovered to be suffo cated, having been driven into a mud-hole in one corner of the field by a drover's dog, which had, it is supposed, kept them there all the night. The dog l was secured : not one of the sheep were bitten. Wednesday, Mr. CAMERON'S curious balloon, bear ing the name of Meg Merril es, and exhibiting the figure of an old woman, 30 feet high; ascended from the east side of Piershill Barrack-square, near Edin burgh ; and after rising 200 or 300 feet perpendicu larly, descended in the stable-yard, oil the west side .of the Barnwell* . —. , . ~ ... • . , ~ ( • 1 . 1 1 • , 4 .. i Mb, e - . - 1 ceived the Note ! _atid not LAW INTELLIGENCE. r*ver passed a Note at tl ( , -- month of August. , i COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 1. In answer to a questim i i This morning, pursuant to notice, the Sittings in ' Mr. Smith said, that he d this Court commenced. Soon after ten o'clock the . give the address of the pers • LORD CRANCELLOR Caine to the Hall, attended, as the Note. He said his ow usual, by the proper Officers of the Court. We never I Mr: Baron Wood sumsr ; .1 I 1 4 f 1 4 . • I I SEIWEANTS' INN lIALL,OCTOBEIt 30. COMYN V. HILL. This was an action of covenant upon indentures of apprenticeship, in the usual form, executed between die plaintiff and the defendant ; whereby the latter covenanted, amongst other things, for the service of l his son•with the former for the full term of seven years.'• l'ne defendant's son had absented himself, and'continued absent from the plaintiff's service be- • fore the term Of his apprenticeship had expired. To the declaration there were threecleas. The first two were immaterial to the present question; and the th,ird stated, that the defendant's son had stayed with the plaintiff until he had attained the age of twenty ol:e, and that then, the indentures having become void, he quitted his master's service. To this plea thorc was a general demurrer and joinder in demurrer. :VI:. ABRAHAM 'Was heard in support of the de rra.rrer, rind maintained, that an apprentice, nut bound under the authority of an Act of Parliament, may avoid his indentures on coming of age ; but the question here vas, whether the father, having cove nanted for the service of his son, as an apprentice, is liable in an action fur the breach of the covenant by the km? _ _ . Sir CHARLES ASBOST (Chief Justice.)—" I am of opinion that the action is maintainable against the father." _ _ _ Mr. Justice BEST.—" Who would take an appren• tice if the indentures might be avoided when the ap prentice came of age, unless the father or guardian becomes responsible ? There is no doubt that the action will lie."—Judgment for the plaintiff. : OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday, Benjmin Johnson, William Jackson, Jehn WeLb . , and Mary Aim Cm, A were indicted for feloniously 4 uttering Forged Bank Notes?with intent to defraud tlJe Governor and Company of the Bank . of England, they It...owing the said Notcs to be forged. The prisoners pleaded Guilty to the minor offence of haring forged Notes in their possession, si-hich subjects them to trar.sportation, fcr the term of fourteen years. Jae. cs Sti;b6s was indicted.for feloniously uttering two Forged one-petind Notes, one in August and one; iipSoptember. Edward Smith deposed, that he keeps a public }muse, called the Spread Eagle, in Charlotte-street, &Eddie:xi; Hospital. About the laueoend of August the prison:: came to his house with a bottle, and a;..keil for half a pint of rum. The prisoner "received t!:e rum, and tendered a £1 Note in payment there of, and asked for change. The Witness gave him ISs. 6d. in silver, and 4d. iu copper. The witness then allied the prisoner for his address, and lie gave the name of Jones, No. 12, Pitt-street. The witness wro:e that address upon the Note, in the presence of the prisoner. Immediately after the prisoner re ceived his change, lie went away, taking with him the silver, and leaving the halfpence behind. The v itness paid away the Note, which was soon after returned by the Bank as forged. It was returned from the Bank before the SOth of September. About seven in the evening, of the SOth of September, the prisoner came again to the witness's house, and asked for half a pint of rum ; he had a bottle with him then. The prisoner said he could nut pay for the rum unless he change for a Note. The witness said, that he could not give the prisoner change ; but, upon looking at him, he recognized him to be the person who had given him the forged Note in August. He then told the prisoner that he could give him change, and asked him for his address.— The prisoner said his name was Jones, and that he lived at No. 4, Charlotte-court. The witness gave' the jnlsoner a pen, and be. wrote the same address upon the Note. When the prisoner returned the Note: to the witness, be (the witness) said it was a fined one, and sent his brother-in-law, Robert Palmer, to see whether the prisoner lived in Charlotte-court.— iPalmer returned, and said, that no person of the name of Jones lived at the house the prisoner had mentioned. The witness, assisted by Palmer, then attempted to take the prisoner to the watch-house. When they liTid proceeded a few paces,.the prisoner broke from them and ran away, but be was stopped by the watchman. Cross-examined by Mr. Aft/a:lN.—The Note which the witness received froth the prisoner he gave to his wife, and did not know how she disposed of it. Peo ple sometimes go away without their change. He did not, on the 50th of September, ask the prisoner write on the Note the name of the person from whom he received it. The prisoner wrote no other name but that of Jones. Charlotte-court is near the house of the witness. He could go there in a few r. mutes to discover whether the prisoner had given a true refeierice. Thomas Bank said, that he lived at N0..1(2, in illtt-streei t Middlesex Hospital. He never knew the prisoner. He never lodged in his house. William Smith stated, that he occupied the house, No. 4, Ckailotte-court, for the last seven years ; dur ing that time the prisoner never lodged there. The plisonet, inhis defence, admitted that he was at the house of Smith, on the 30th of September, and that he offered a I.3•Note in payment for some rum ; bat he denied that-he knew it was forged. He was a tailor : and 'he received the Note from a man who told liim that his' name was Jones, and that he lived -at N 0.4; Chatlbtte•eoott. lle said that Smith asked iota fot the name of the person from whom he re- POLICE. MANSION Housa.—Four men, named Brookes, Broome, Stewart, and Harrison, were brought up by Harrison, the Marshalman, charged with having robbed the house of Messrs. Longman, Hurst, and Co. of a great number of valuable books. Mr. HAR MIR attended for the prosecution. Mr. Brown, a partner in the firm, stated, that he had received information on Saturday week that there had been three men watching about the pre mises, who were of very suspicious appearance.— Upon taking stock it was found that a deficiency had taken place of nearly 40 copies of Todd's Johnson's Dictionary, each'of which was estimated at eleven guineas. The firm ascertained, after some inquiry, that several copies of that work had been sold at a very reduced price to booksellers in different parts of the town. Those.copies were traced to Brookes, who said he received them from Broome, and that Stewart and Harrison were in the business. Mrs. Popjoy, who lives opposite to Messrs. Long man and Co.'s warehonse in Shoe-lane, said, that on the morning of Saturday week, before seven o'clock, Ore observed a man walking about the door of the warehouse in a suspicious manner. Soon afterwards she saw two men come out of the warehou.e loaded with something which seemed like paper. She was not near enough to identify the persons. John Smith, a rocking-horse-maker, who works for the next door neighbour of Mr. Longman, said, that on the Saturday, as he was going to his work, about 20 minutes before seven, he met Brookes com ing out cf Longman's warehouse with a large green bag, out of which the ends of reams of•paper pro truded. Witness particular - 1r noticed the perion of Brookes, as he ran against Ob. Several yards before Brookes a man went along, loaded as Brookes was. Witness thought the circumstance very suspicious, as the. warehouse was not usually open at so early an hoer. He went soon after, accompanied by another mar, to the warehouse, found that the door was open, and that rtbbody was within. He gave information of the circumstance to the firm. _ _ . Thomas Huntsman, clerk to the firm, said, that part of his duty was to keep the stock of Todd's Johnson. Stewart, the prisoner, had been porter to the house several years, but was discharged in Sep tember. The warehouse was not usually open before eight or nine o'clock in the morning. The work which had been stolen was an edition of Dr. John son's Dictionary, edited by Todd, and was published in eleven parts at a guinea each part, or eleven gui neas the whole series. He had taken the stock at Midsummer, and in consequence of the information received from the last witness, he took stock again on the Saturday morning. He found that there were 9.5 complete sets missing, together with five sets of which nine parts were wanting to complete them.—, Fifteen sets of the work that had been stolen were without the engraving of the head of the Author.— Close to the outer door,,which was, found open, there were found two sets of the work tied up'ready. Mr. Bade, bboidseßen of Castle-street, near the Mews-gate, said, that Brookes came to him and said he had some of Todd's Johnson for sale, which he wished to dispose of for some person who wanted Money, and whose name he did not like to mention. He added, that he had sold several copies of the same work to different booksellers, whose names he stated. Witness bought eight copies, for which he paid him on an average five guineas and a half each. . Mr. Charles Baldwyn, bookseller, of 22, Newgate► street, said he had some plates of the head of.iohn sou, engraved by Clause!, and that Brookes purchased two of them. Mr..l. Dowding. of No. 82, Newgate-street, book seller, also purchased four copies of the work from Brookes, in one of which the plate of the head of Johnson, which had been sold by Mr. Baldwyn, was fixed. The work had been advertised with the head cf Johncon, and those stolen copies which had mot the head were incomplete. Mr. Carlisle, bookseller, of Holborn, bought four copies from Brookes for £9.:3. Cornelius Brown, of Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn fields, purchased two copies from Brookes, at the rate of £ 6 each, and also two copies of R obinson's Scripture Characters. There were some sheets im perfect, which Brookes changed for him. The latter was a work of which several copies had been missed. Harrison, the Marshalman, said, that he went to Brookes's house to apprehend him in consequence of information received immediately before that the booksellers in Paternoster-row had been robbed.— Upon being taken, Brookes, after some hesitation, an swered to the Marshalman's question as to whets he had got the Johnson's Dictionaries be had been sell ing ? that he had got them honestly. The Marshal man told him the books had been stolen the day be fore, and Brookes then told him he had got them from Broome. The Marshalman asked whether any body else was concerned ? upon which Brookes said that witness knew all about it as well as he did, and that Harrison and Stewart were in it. Witness went, accompanied by Forrester and two servants of the firm, to the house of Broome, who kept the sign of the Goat, in Cloth-fair, where they found Stewart and Harrison ; the latter of whom said before he was ' challenged, that he was as. innocent as the child un born.-11th prisoners were remanded. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, a poor miserable-looking fellow, who gave his name Henry Peers, underwent an examination, on a charge of robbery in the Pa r i s h Church of St. artin, Ludgate.—Robert Haggard, a porter, stated, that he was going to his daily em ployment, in Newgate-market, at four o'clock, yes terday morning, and in passing by St. Martin's . Church, he observed the door halt open, and the pri soner standing within the door-way. The dwarf iron gates outside were shut. He took no notice, but passed on a little Way, and then returned. Just at that moment the prisoner leaped over the iron gates, , and fell toxhe ground, and two brass vase ornaments slipped out of his hands, He (Huggard)_seized him directly, and secured him till' the watchmen came to his assistaace.—Walker, the watchman, who .first. came up and took charge of the prisoner, on search- ing him, found upon him four other brass vases simi lar to-those he had let fall in the. street, with the usual appendages for house-breakiug, and a tinder box and matches t —Snow, the beadle, who was called up by . the watchman on the first alarm, had exa mined the - state of the:Church, and from his evidence 7t appeared, that Mee prisoner must ha ve secrete d ituselr rA the-,Churcht dating the time of Divine Service, and remained undiscove were closed for the night—Th e to offer in his defence, and was gate for trial. AFFECTING CATASTROPHE~_ between one and two o'clock, a• his rounds in %Vhitecliapel, hi from the windows of the house ( linen-draper, opposite the Lc, sprung his rattle for assistance arrived the lower part of the in flames. llie most distressin: sibly be conceived, now present consisting of Mr. ORAM, his and thlce servarts, were shi iek upper windows of the house. bait" , of their escaping but th and no ladders were near, nor m nication W ith the adjoining how wife, and their son (a youth threw themselves out of a sec Mrs. GRAM was caught b- tll, ceived but trifling injury ; Mr. miraculously, without .any fr the son unfortunwly,had his tained other serious injury. As ORA:I recovered tileinselveithi children in the greatest agony. ricd to a neighbouring surgeon had been brought to the prerrn joining houses (occupied by and a Mt . ..J..1.'4:A Rus) were (—I t placed agninsi hGusc -f wants and seven of the chiielre rthe windows of the upper stori ' child was taken from the smoke rushed iq volumes from premises, and the servant-tnan, der for the purpose of, assistin children from the burning pi save his own life; to slide dow the little unfortunate creatures for relief, which no human pc': The agonized feelings of the ble to describe: they saw !11, forth their little hands, until tl them from their view. The ni neighbour's house, in a state I The father, frantic with the ag aloud for his children, but, a nocents, consisting of a boy sit arid a third Trine years'ef age,' While the neighbouri were a: QRAM, a gang of thieves sto derable amount. The engine! the premises,wert nearly destr house was occupied chiefly by out in a state' of nudity, and neighbours houses,- and stip They _unfortunately did riot is apparel, or any other proven, Ross was also destroyed, and n body of one of Mr. OaANt ' S CI was burnt), was • dng out of morning, burnt to a cinder. ' notfound yesterday evening. • retinesdry, Thorne, mond on of Leeds be fell into the Reservoh and was drowned. At Dalgety Manse, Ann Stuart Sc John Scott, Minister of Halgety. On . the 21st inst. at blinborgh, age sixty years servant to Mrs. Stuart, of In April last, at Malacca, Mrs. Milne, Missionary at that Settlement October 25, at Gondneston% Lad Lyons, Essex. Monday se'pnight, in the prime of Broadhurst, of Lane End. Her de she walked to Lane Delph on the 1 HI there, convulsions ensued, and she She had been married only a few we &MD= Duena—Friday senni; maker, who resided in North-lane, home ponce work which be had been Mr. Foord, of that city, hahlidecarcell when he was taken ill and shortly of se'unight, the eldest &BS of - a day-la Shirnal Pond, Loose, aged about fivc a bowel complaint, which in the cc his existence ; a few hours afterVrin about three years, likewise died; ant Saturday se'nnight, their youngest on also carried off by the same disorder. CORN MARKET, MARE CCIUMiIt Mat w I Snu I Ticl &sex 645 745 Oats Suffolk 64s 72s Norfolk Rye (New) 345 Ms Floc Barley 2Bs 405 Rap Malt 685 745 White Pau . ...... 365 445 Whi --, Boilers ... 525 56. Balt Grey Peas 465 525 Bri INCILLSX. 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