Star. — London, England, 1816-12-11 00:00:00

F TOE LATE RIOTS. FURTHER PARTICULARS. f es perchT the LORD MAYOR received a letter from a bout HO miles from London, informing him, on Friday last, a young"man , in all respects an the description of young Watson, and having trance of a person who had travelled a con , distance on foot, called into a public house and obtained refreshment. He expressed a an xiety to see the latest London papers, and he had perused them. he expressed much dis , at the result of the riots. He slept at house in the same town, where he appeared anxious about an account of the riots, and servant whether there were two ways out louse consequence of this informasion, tomer, the City Marshal, quitted London by it last night, for the place whence the infor , came. At a late hour last night no tidings had arrived of si of this rash youth. Some progress has been made in tracing the his •of the proceedings of the father and son during twelvemonth. Before they left their residence ;-street, in the Strand, about a year ago, alter was so embarrassed in his circumstances be was obliged to press all his patients very for the payment of their bills. Having suc in procuring his money, he removed to Tot •irt-road, and thence to the neighbourhood t.square, Somers' Town. He did not, , inform his patients of the place of his resi. nor has the motives of his concealment been awn. There can be little doubt, however, 'arose from distress and poverty. Indeed the and his son decamped from their residence at _....quare, a few days previous to the meeting Spafields, without paying the reat that was due • them. What became of them in the interval • transpired. It was conjectured that young had been up all night previous to the meet in company with Preston, as both of them ap intoxicated on that day. Old Watson is said e nine children, who, according to his account, distributed in different parts of the country among and relations, but he refuses to tell where. He not to have seen his wife since May last : , as we stated yesterday, is in the country, and with a relation. lad who was brought from Whetstone some ago with a pistol in his possession, underwent •r examinaton yesterday at Bow-street; but no evidence as yet appearing against him, he was Various accounts have been stated of die losses of lifferent gun-makers in the late riots, and indeed appear to be greater than was at first believed ; (though a great number have been recovered, yet are so damaged as to be almost without value. of the fowling pieces, which were worth 40 or , have become unsaleable.—The stocks of have been rendered useless from the injury _ by their being used to break glass, &c. Mr. Platt's state of health continues as it was. He ;swimmingly ill, but the ball is not yet extracted. Yesterday Mr. GRUM ES, landlord of the Northum wind Arms Coffee-house, Clerkenwell.green, ap plied to the Sitting Magistrates at Hatton-garden for vice how to act, he having been applied to by some chill Committee of the Spafields Meeting for liberty Wave their Petition in his Louse for the Public to sip, but whether to refuse them or grant their re quest depended on the advice he received from the Magistrates. The Magistrates declined giving any advice, but told him he was perfect master of his oss house, and might act as he pleased. Die following letters passed between Viscount SID• elm and the LORD MAYen, on the subject at the late Riots (Copy.) " Mansion House, Dee. 4, 1316. 'MT Losta—Allow me to express my graceful acknowledp nets fur the able and very prompt assistance afforded by your l.edchip in aid of the etvil Poser within the city, which so conduced to the suppression of a most daring outrage, not thus opportunely checked, might have led to con• tore ,alarming.—l bre, Etc. (:ignt.d) " MATTHEW WOOD. ;lit Hon. lord Sitlinotab, Secretary of State, &c." (Copy.) " Whitehall, Dec. 6, 1816. Loan-1 have to acknowledge, with many thanks, the ' your Lordslop's letter of Monday last, in which your is pleased to tipress your thanks fur the assistance af that day cu the Civil rower in the city of London, by Your Lordship may be assured that I had the —lon in giving every aid in my power to the Ma ths city of Loudon, and particularly to the exemplary your Lordship in putting a stop to the tumultuous „titan proceedings which disgraced the MetropoUs on that and in restoring order and tranquillity.-1 have, &c. (Signed) SIDitoVTII. The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor." SEEFF/ELD, DEC. 7.—Thursday morning another took place on the new burying ground, but up by the appearance of the dragoons, the barracks, who, passing up Broad-lane, about, ten, were followed up Crooks-moor-way by the whop of the populous assembly. In the about five o'clock, though it rained inces , a few hundreds again assembled in a field ; after an hour they returned to the town. A ale alarm was of course excited, but there no acts of violence committed. The Mdgistrates used every precatrion to preserve the peace of inhabitants. The Sheffield and Rotherham troops JAlry were on duty. fohn Mt - twill, of Shtfseld, tailor, has been corn. t,) York Gaol, charged upon the oath of luaus IMAM STUART WORTLEY, Esq. '‘ for that he Joi' Btickwell, at Sheffield aforesaid, on 4 inst. (there being a great mob and riot there, the Riot Act having been read us required by was one of the said rioters from the beginning said *lot, and also continued amongst the said for more than the space of one hour after such Amatien was made ; and the informant having, a !Magistrate, ord,red a person into custody for dispersing or going to his own home when re. whilst the constables were conveying him to rown-hall, the said John Blackwell called out to mob and said,' Never mind, my lads, to-morrow be our day,' or words to that effect." -; - EXCHANGE, DEC. 11.—We have had no fresh #4is of any Grain since Monday ; but in noose • of the exportation of all Grain being permitted •, the Wheat trade was heavy at Momby's Barley is also dull sale, and Oats Is. per ler cheaper. In Peas, Beans, and other articles is no alteration. LAW INTELJJOENCE. COURT OF CUANCERY, DECEMBER 18.. CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. BAZELY IN THE MATTER OF LATELY. Sir ARTHUR PICIOra said, be hoped his Lordship would not think it too great a liberty to ask him to receive a petition from Mrs. Barely. He telt a dit acuity in making the request, as the' Lady had re fused to sign the settlement, as reported by the Master, to secure her property. The nature of the petition he had to present was only to ask for a fur ther sum for her maintenan:e. The LORD CHANCELLOR---" I don't know how I can refuse any petition from her. I have had an in terview with the Master, and the settlement is going on in a way that it makes no consequence whether she signs it or not."—Motion granted. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday William Anderson was put to the bar in dicted for the wilful murder of John Levi, by inflict ing certain wounds upon his body with a knife. The case for the prosecution being opened— Richard Hollier was called, and deposed, that he was a goldsmith and jeweller by trade. On the 9th of November last he was in company with the de ceased at the Cart and Horse, Sutton street, Clerken well. Between eleven and twelve o'clock that night the prisoner came into the public-house: witness had remained in the house from seven o'clock to that time, but had taken very little liquor; he had been playing at cards the greatest part of the time. An- derson came in, and said " I will play any man at cards for £5." Witness was pointed out by two Of three persons to play with him, but he declined.— The prisoner was a little affected by drink, and said to witness, " Why you have no money I suppose in your pocket." Upon this witness was a little offend ed, and said that he would play him for £5. The prisoner said he would only play for a shilling and something to drink. They sat down to play at cards, but were interrupted by the landlady of the house, who said she would have no cards in her house at that time of night. The prisoner remarked (alluding to witness's watch), " You will be drawn before you get home." At this witness laughed, as well as .Levi, and the former said, 8 4 I am not afraid of your drawing it." The prisoner at this addressed the de ceased, saying, " I will play you for X 5," and accused him of not having any money in his pocket. Levi said, 4 4 D—n y—r ey—s, I will produce ses in an hour." The prisoner said, " I know what sort of chap you are, and I will bl—dy well lick you."— He then challenged Levi to fight, but the deceased refused. The prisoner called for a mop, saying, " D—n him, I will mop his foul mouth out." He then took up a pint pot, and attempted to throw it at Levi's head, declaring that he would cut his bl—dy head in two ; but he was prevented. The landlady' endeavoured to turn the prisoner out, but I did not succeed. Anderson again challenged Levi to fight, but he refused. He continued the challenge, and Levi said, •' I suppose I must have a turn with you." The landlady endeavoured to dissuade him. The deceased went out first, and Anderson followed. The prisoner had his hands behind him under his coat. The deceased expressed a wish not to fight is the mud, but on some turf, which v'as near at hand; but the prisoner said, " No, d—n your eyes, I will fight here." They immediately fell to fighting, and they both fell : they got up aoti fought again : the second round lasted about a minute : they both fell again, but the deceased was uppermost both times. ,Levi got up, and staggered towards a grocer's shop, and fell into the arms of a man of the name of Hut ton, who cried out, 66 He is cut, he is cut." The deceased made a noise, as if he were about to faint away. The prisoner was all this time lying on the ground. Levi was carried to a Mr. Taylor's, a doctor, close by, and did not live more than two minutes. Witness helped to carry the deceased to the Doctor's shop. From the commencement of the fight until Levi died it might be a quarter of an hour. Witness, with others, went then in search of the prisoner, and found him standing near the same place where the fight took place, covered with blood, speaking to a watchman. Directly he came op he told the watchman to take Anderson is the watch house : saying, 44 He bas killed a man." No answer was made. A man of the name of Knight gave charge of him, upon the prisoner's saying, 4 8 Who will give charge of me ?" The deceased was a silver imith. Cross-examined.—Witness was acquainted with almost all who were present in the public-house but the prisoner. Anderson's head was cut by the fall he received on the ground; the deceased was always uppermost in the falls. Examined by Mr.JusticeßAYLEY.—Those persons who witnessed the fight were not so near as to be able to give the deceased any blows ' • no one could have cut him but the prisoner; both rounds lasted about a minute each. William Hutton was at the Cart and Horse pub lic-houseon the 9th of November : he went there, in company with Levi, about eight o'clock. Anderson, when he came, between eleven and twelve o'clock, appeared a little intoxicated. He corroborated the statements of the former sitness in every particular. No ring was made for the fight. As soon as Ander son had said, in answer to Levi's request to fight on the turf, 4 4 No, you b—g--r, you shall have n here," he ran up to the deceased. After the second round, Levi staggered to the other side of the way, and fell into witness's arms, saying, 66 He has cut mei— Witness asked, 44 Who ?" and the deceased replied, " The man." These were the last words Levi spoke before lie died. There were about nine persons wit nessing the fight. He did not search the ground for a knife that night, but did next morning ; he did not perceive any sharp instrument at that time on the grodnd. Cross-examined.—The prisoner came into the house a little in liquor, challenging any man to play at cards for £5. Levi went out before the prisoner. Two persons in the public-house persuaded Anderson not to go'ont to fight. Examined by Mr. Justice BAYLZY.—It was not possible for the prisoner to have taken any thing out of his pocket from the commencement of the fight to the end of it; and in the opinion of witness, the prisoner must have had an instrument in his hand before the fight, to cat the deceased, if at all in his possession. Daniel Parsonage also knew the deceased, and was in company with him at the Cut and Horse on ti.e • evening in question. e knew the prisone r, who came into the house abort a quarter before twelve o'clock. He confirmed the former examinations. When the prisoner was about to throw the phut pot at L-vi's head, the deceased said, ,4 No, don't do that, it will be a pity." At the time Anderson came out of the public-house to fight, witness observed that he had one hand h..hitid him under his coat ; on the second round wi:ness plainly perceived Ander son's left arm round Levi's neck, and with his right hand he was giving the deceased several blows about his head and body. but principally about the head ; Levi directly staggered to the other side of the way, and being discovered to be stabbed, he was taken to the doctor's, and he died on the counter. Anderson was lying on the ground, and a man standing by observed, AVhy, Bill, you hive killed the man." No answer was made by him. Cross-examined.—The deceased consinually re. fused to go out to fight. It was no unusual thing for one man to get another's head under his arm in a battle, it was what was termed fibbing among the bruisers. He had no reason to suppose that any knife had been used in the affray until the deceased lay in a dying state on tHis ground. Examined by Mr. Justice BAYLEY.—Did not see the prisoner pull any instrument out of his pocket. After the battle had been begun, he did not think it was possible for the prisoner to have pulled any thing out of his pocket s while on the ground the second time, there was a suffi:ient space of time for the pri souer to have pulled any thing out of his pocket, but the deceased was lying upon him with all his weight : in his opinion it was improbable but not impossible. William Knight was also at the public-house on the night in question. He knew the prisoner, and had been so acquainted for six years. Anderson came in a little before twelve o'clock intoxicated. Witness said to the prisoner just before the battle, " Bill, do not fight ; Levi has given you no provo. cation, and why should ycu tight ?" He replied, " D—n him, I will fight him." Anderson being intoxicated, he thought it of little use saying any more about it. When they were out of doors, the prisoner objected to going on the turf, saying " D—n you, you shall have it here." Witness, after the first round, saw the deceased fall, but never perceived the prisoner fall. They both fell on the second round, the prisoner being undermost. As soon as Levi was taken to the doctor's, Anderson was found in the same place where he was left, covered with blood from his face to his boots. Cross-examined.—The prisoner came to the public house quite accidentally, and in liquor; could not tell whether the prisoner had any thing in his hand or not, nor did he observe any peculiar action of his right hand. Examined by Mr. Justice Bavele..--Could not say whether he had a knife or not : prisoner had not a great coat on : could not tell whether his cuff carne low or not : did not see the prisoner take any thing out of hid pocket, and thinks he could not without his having seen it ; was certain, after they had fallen the last time, the prisoner could not have taken any thing out of his pocket, and stabbed the deceased. George Payne went about eleven o'clock to the Cart and Horse, but was not in Levi's party. Saw the prisoner come in about twenty miuutes before twelve, and thought him rather noisy and intoxicated : he heard somebody advise the plis'Aier and the de ceased to go out and tight. He thought the prisoner could, during the fight, have taken an instrument from his pocket. Cross-examined.—Saw no knife in the prisoner's hands before the fight commenced. William Knowles was landlord of the Sun-dial public.house, which was opposite the Cart and Horse. A man came into his house about a quarter past twelve o'clock, on the 9th November, covered with brood : he said nothing, but walked out again. James Hosier was a watchman in Goswell.street, which was close to Sutton-street. Saw the prisoner at the bar on the 9th of November, just as the clock struck twelve, leaning against a post at the corner of Sutton street. Witness said, " Iloilo, my friend, what do you do here ?" He replied, " I have been used very ill. A set of rascals have cut and beat me."l Upon being asked who they were that had ill used him, or which way they had gone, he said, " No, I cannot tell." Witness said, " Why, you are covered with blood and mud." " Yes," he replied," I am cut all to pieces." Witness asked, " Where are you cut ?" and he said, " Over the head, and all over." A man then came up, and said, 4 ‘ Here is your hat." The prisoner said, " This is not my hat ; take it again." Another man came up and produced another hat, which witness placed on his head. All this happened about twelve yards from the Cart and Horse. Wit. ness discovered a great quantity of blood in the street, and took the prisoner into custody. Examined by Mr. Justice Ilmtemo—Anderson's face and clothes were all over blood. Thomas Horn, keeper of Goswell-street watch house, proved that the prisoner when brought before him was covered with blood, in front particularly. When he came in, the prisoner said that he had beea ill used at the Cart and Horse public-house: that blood was on his breeches. Frances Rowland kept the Cart and Horse public house ; and was at home on the evening of the 9th November: she endeavoured to put au end to the dispute. Cross-examined.—Levi said " I will give him a taste." Attempted to put the prisoner out, and not Levi. John Hutt, Officer, produced the clothes of the prisoner and Levi, which they wore on the 9th of November last the back as well as the front of the prisoner's clothes were bloody, but Levi's only in front : they were all stained with blood. In Levi's coat there were 19 cuts, in his waistcoat Ewe, and in the pantaloons . about three. They appeared to be done all by the same instrument.—(The bloody clothes were here displayed by the Officer to the Court.)—There was no wound except upon the head of the prisoner. - John Redgrave deposed, that on the 9th of. No vember last he was at the Hand and Apple public house. It was near the Cart and Horse. The pri soner at the bar was there between ten and eleven ' o'clock, and witness saw him eating same pies wit!: a clasp knife, and after using it he put it into his right hand waistcoat pocket. The prisoner was a watch finisher by trade. The blade of Anderson's knife was about two inches and a half in length. James lkow, , a young lad of nine years old, lived at No. G, Allan -street, Sutton -street, near to the.C.il and Horse public: house, and proved that some time ago (he could not recAlect .he day), thinking his fa ther was late, he went to the Cart :lad Hdise pnhlic house after his father. and heard two men taikiag about fighting. He did not see his lather there, and went to bed again. The father of the lad said, that on Saturday, the 9th of November, he did come h. me late, but did not know his boy had been seeking for him. Mr. Justice BAYLEY conceived that the lad could not be pressed fuither. It proved nothing. Mr. Taylor, the surgenn,lived at No. 74, Gnswell street. On the 9th of N,vember, at about twelve o'clock, the deceased was brought to him. After his death he examined the body, and found a cut on the head about three quarters of an inch long : between the mouth and the ear there was a cut, on the left side : there were two cuts across each other, called a crucial cut : there were other wounds upon the chest, on the belly, an.l on the hip. Upon the inner and upper pert of the right thigh there was a wound of about three quarters of an inch ir: length, and 4 n meta and a half in depth : on the opposite thigh there was a slighter cut. The wcun Is atmearei to he inflicted by a sharp instrument, ani he 114.1 no ,I.nibt but vie deceased met with his death by the incision (in the right thigh; the femoral artery w cot, and the de ceased, no doubt, died in cnnsequence. It would take about fifteen minutes, in hi; opinion; fur a person 'of bleed to death if the femoral artery were cur. The deceased had also a wound in the hand, as it he hat grasped a knife, and it was drawn from him. Sup posing the wound in the thigh had not been given to the deceased, he might have continued fighting two or three rounds without feeling the o her styinils. Could not tell whether they were all tight : band:4 wounds. The prisoner being called upon for his defence, sa;d that his feelings were so much hurt by this dreadful calamity, that he could not address the Court. Tne tears fl.iwed from his eyes, and he was enable to pea ceed.—No evidence was adduced on the Nit of the prisoner. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in summieg up, observed, that the most important point for ::ie crotts , 6:ration of the Jury was, had the prisoner at the connieelce ment of the contest with Levi any deadly instrument in his hand, with an intention of using it in such af fray? The law in that respect was, that it parties fought on equal terms, and the fight was not preme ditated, but arose from sudden heat and passion, if either fell by the hind of the other, the ,itf eice was not murder, but manslaughter ; but it the parties did not meet upon equal terms, and one took an un fair advantage of the other, the offence was murder. Again, if a man in the middle of a fight caught up a deadly instrument, which he did not before the contest intend to use, the battle having begun upon fair and equal terms, then it was only manslaughter. The material question therefore was, whether the pri. soner got the instrument in question into his hand he. (ore or after the contest had begun; or had he placed it in such a situation about his person as that he might readily draw it out when he thought proper ? The other two points to be considered were, whether I,,vi met with his death by the wounds indicted, and whe ther those wounds were given by the prisorler at the bar ? The Learned Judge then recapitulated the whole of the evidence to the Jury, and coeclided with recommending the Gen:lernen to lean against the prisoner only so far a► the evidence against him constrained them to dn. The Jury, after minutely examining the clothes both of the prisoner and the d.:ceasvd, consulted a few minutes, and pronounced the paisliier—Guilty. The prisoner, on bearing the verdict, began to wecp bitterly. The RECORDER adiressed him in a most awful manner, upon the enormity of the aim:: o wl.ich he had, after a most anxious and painful attention the part of the Court and Jury, been convicttd, and ordered him for execution on Thursday (to-:narrow) morning, and his body to be given over to the sur geons for diss-ction. He was supported from, the bar by the persons in attendance for that purpose.—He seemed truly penitent. The Court was excessively crowded during the whole of the trial, which lasted from ten in the motn ing until four in the afternoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Susszx sat On the Bench during the whole of the trial. R. Simpson, S. De Wit,J. Lingan, Susannah Vil las, and W. rowers, were acquitted. This morning it was currently reported in town, that young Watson had yesterday afternoon been taken at the village of Ealing, in a public house, where it appears that a person of suspicious appear. ante had gone yesterday to take some refreshment, and whose appearance, although dressed in a smock. frock, answered nearly the description of Watson. The landlord secured and last night brought him to St. James's Watch-house. This morning the prisoner was taken before die Magistrates at Marlborough. street, when it came out that he was not Watson, but a person merely roaming about in quest of empioy. ment. He was of course discharged. John Richards, a watch case maker, residing in King -street, Clerkenwell, was brought up to II artoo garden yesterday, in the custody of Wainwright, the officer, charged with committing a must brutal assault on the person of Mary Slack, a woman with whom he cohabited, although he had a wife and child. The landlord of the house in which they resided, stated, that hearing a dreadful riot that morning in the kitchen, where the prosecutrix, Mary Slack, and the prisoner lived, he went dpwn to see what was the matter ; he found the prosecutrix lying in a seuseless state on the floor, which was covered with blood, that was flowing from a deep wound she had on the head, and which she must have received from the pisoutr ; it appeared to have been inflicted by a large China image that stood on the mantle-piece, and which he produced. \Vitae:: called assistance, and caused the prisoner to be secured, and then sent for a sun. geon residing in Northampton -street, who came and dressed the wound. Mr. John Beacall, Surgeon, of Northanapton-street, Clerkenwell, stated, that he at tended prosecutrix, whose life is in the greatest danger, he having but little hopes of her recovery ; she had lost near two quarts of blood. the prisoner appeared in a state of intoxication whilst at the bar. He was coin. mut e d for further examination until the woman's state is ascertained. town about ' h ' t on Feidaj *ng the de a ppearance able dicta , and ob t atraier he had I a ction at r house Ily ansiot the sery the house ?. I , Viontner, mail last T Lion came. At a late hi 6 apprehens Some progl of the pr; - last twelve e Catherine -s e . f at her %Val • rt he Was ly for the ;t ded in pro ti ham-court Clarendon. e weer, int . ( T Ce ; nor It •• de known. d ,tit arose for and hi ndon.sq; 'I Spafields, them. it not transi n anon had I L'4 g, in comp g ed intosti have nine distribute I n • nds and 11 'leases not e ' also, as 4 ing with a The lad w e• ys ago wit ; .other exarr /- sh evident th minded. ▪ Various ac • ~e different y appear ; 'a- a although rJ ;ey are so d ' , onte of the in. 7 guineas, 34 I, dtc. ha tamed by , ;lee *sly Cundoced uit each, if not thus tspeoces still mu td rio The Right 1-!on an (Cop) Io AMY 1 uultD— V °T. nelpt of your 1.1 e_ Loiship is plras i Wed on that de P°' e slirecdons. Past satisfactil frees of the tit have anions of your '." 1 • 11 ' selliaghlous pro cb a it, and in rest° e2l" tcbed irk wed part nest 1 h rt. biarnELD, meting took ad sni broken ui f die ban; ait past ten, :•ar• wily the wh , ir.g, abou mar sitly, a few . after an te n sosiderable • 'ee no act s 1, " ' ad used erei frs inhabitant cat I C 4 Valry we rad `An hlaclt .e;rrtt4 t y or nictiumun S elid John tAz:ee N 33 inst. the Riot a ) was (nit ✓; libe said tic .ci ' for more 11 " 4? Carnation a Magistra ehiprtsini ✓ — O4 ) !Ted, while ' r own.hal lug ' 1 mob • r and :lid I" ' e l be OUT ;IA c ; Z,o ttN .E xci roe:. ie iv4 . ls of at ntt of the Lin 0 01 t its. Bari 14 ittr cheat t ; t 1 I