Star. — London, England, 1818-08-04 00:00:00

1111 i . the Tc of cap eh( the ra ltl of of no thi it foi of ha I no a to gcl be • ) it Fr al fo I he ' 1 nc ae Si , I tl .1 1 • • t • .( I 1. 71 L. .• I 1 , ASSIZES. DOECIIESTER AssIZES. DonGE FAGO AND ANOTHER. 'this was an action against the Propieetors of the Auxiliary Mail Coach fiom London to Exeter, for the loss of a box containing . goods sent fro= Mes L—s. Todd and Co. to the plaintiff, of the alleged value of 1'167 14s. 10d. Mr. CASBERD opened the pleadings. Mr. Serjcant PELL stated to the Court. that the .:ase was not likely to occupy much of their time, as there were two points only upon which it rested-Ist, Whether the plaintiff knew of defendants notice, that they would no: be answerable for the loss of semis above Cu value, unless paid for accordingly? Ind secondly, whether, even if the plaintiff knew) )1 such notice, the defendants had not been guilty of gross negligence. in which case their notice would tot help them. lie stated that the defendants were the proprietors of an auxiliary mail coach, and that it was their duty, as such, to have a guard, not only for the protection of the Mail, but of the property of the passengers. There was no . guard. If there had been one, the loss would not have happened. - Mr. Justice Pette--" The point of no guard will not much help you." George Fisher proved. that in April, 1817, he took box to the Bell and Crown coach-office, from Toddand Co.'s directed to Mr. Dodge, Sherbornes to go by the Auxiliary Mail Coach, and that he paid 2d. for booking it. He said he had never read the board with the notice, but that these was such a board before his eyes in. the office ; that he had seen it often and often, and that its effect was that thee P roprietors would not be answerable for parcels lost drove E.,5 value, unless they were entered and paid For accordingly. Mr. Justice PARK—" That point is gone." • Henry Maskell was then called, and proved that he was the coachman when the box was lost ; that he heel driven the coach about a week ; that there was no guard when the box was lost ; that there was a guard for three or four months in the winter time, and that there has been one ever since. Mr. Justice PARK—" We frequently shut the sta ble door when the horse is lose" - The plaintif f was non-suited. DURHAM, JULY 31. SIDE.--DEFANIATIO'S• ASTON P. GEORGE. Miss Aston, the plaintiff, keeps a boarding.school for puns ladies, in Durham ; she brought the pre sent action` against another Lady, Mrs. George, for defamatory words used by her. The subject excited the Utmost interest and curiosity in Durham for more than trirelve months. The many reports and surmises which it created were every where the topic of con versauen. It was supposed to have been di posed of last year by a niexeuce, but it revived with in-• ceased vigour. Eatly in this week Friday was fixed .for the important trial. The town was for several clays excessively crowded with the multitudes burn-, big with curiosity to witness the discussion. Nine o'clock wire the hour of meetiar in the Court. About half-past seven ,the street leading to the Court was covered with Ladies and Gentlemen pressing forward to the scene of trial. It rained the whole tierre till nine, yet it repressed not the ardour of curiosity.— Vrivate carriages and post chaises drove up inces santly to the Court door. The door is never opened till the clock strikes nine; the impatience of the very ereepecz,able crowd was therefore very great. In the service and for the accommodation of the fair, Gen tlemen are inventive and courageous. About half past eight, a few adventurers scaled the front wail up to the window, or rather climbed so far, for they Lad neither ladder nor rope. A window was opened for the Lalies below, through .which they contrived to make an ea:rance. Thus the Court became crowd ed to esces: before the door was opened. Mr. Justice llevi.xe was ebliged repeatedly to threaten - fines before the Counsel got admitted. A trifline case of debt occupied the Court for a few minutes, and occasioned much impatience among the spectators, none of whom had easy seats, and' few any tolerable standing room. Aston and George were at le:lgth anuounce. i . Of the Special Jiffy, at the head of whom was Mr. LAdiOTON, M. P. only three appeared, of whom Jolt e WA Rug, of. Hilton. Castle, Esq. was foreman. The rest were supplied by a Wks. Mr. LITTLEDALE stated, this was an action brought by Mary Aston, the plaintiff, against Sarah George, the defendant, for clef trnatory words uttered Sy her. l The defendant pleaded in the first place that she was not guilty, and secondly a justification. Mr. SeAttLerr said, that he was now to address them for an nufortuaate and most deserving young Lady, who, up to the commencement of this ques tion, was most highly and mos t deservedly respected by all who knew - her. She was obliged to come into that Court to vindicate her character. The repara tion of the wrong done to her character, and not damages, was the object of the action. She had been injured in that part of her character which no da mages could compensate, and which, once injured and unredressed, irreparably ruins the female cha racter. He lamented very much that he was obliged to address them on this subject. He had trusted that the defendant was sensible that she had acted under some illusion, and would willingly acknowledge her error. Whatever might be the result of this action, the ruin of one at least, if not of both of the Ladies, must be the consequence. By coming into that Court, he saw from the audience which surrounded him, that they were about to make themselves the sport of idle, and, perhaps, malicious curiosity. To the last moment, therefore, that it could be available, most heartily should he hail any prospect of a pri vate arrangement.--(Mr. TOPPING, who, with Ser jeant HuLLcec, was for the Defendant, rose and whispered s.nnething to Mr. Senn LET T, who then proceeded.) —Ile had stated to them, that vindica tion, and not damages, was the plaintiff's object ; he therefore willingly acceded to the proposal of his Learned Friend, to take a verdict for the Plaintiff, and nominal damages, £lOO. Mr. Justice BAytev.--1 am very well pleased at the manner in which you have disposed of the case. We understand that the damages had been laid at £2OOO. The circumstances which are reported re specting the origin of the action, we feel ourselves bound in justice to the parties to withhold, both be cause we can have no security as to their.correctness, and because to prevent their getting into general circulation- must have been a principal cause of the abrupt termination of the trial. It was obvious that disappointment chagrined every heart and saddened every countenance. Un willing to believe that the charm was gone, the crowd literally stuck in the same impenetrable mass' for hours afterwards ; but the perfect inanity of the subsequent causes at length dispersed them. ceows SIDEr ISIOAMY. Thomas Sparrow, aged 40, was arraigned fter Bi• ,gamy, and pleaded, first, that he had married Mar garet Cook, his present wife ; next, he was not guilty. Mr. COOKSON opened the case to the Jury. The evidence he had to lay before them would establish that the prisoner had married Ann Potts in the year 1804, and while she was still living, that he had married Margaret Cook in 1817. Nor did he do so through mistake, for tie openly traw,acted and avcr7.-- ed this singular proceeding. Both wives he had married in the same church of Monkwearmouth, and with both successively he had lived in the same street in fittnderland. • Upon proving these facts, he must call upon them to find the prisoner guilty. The Sexton was the first witness. He swore to the, handwriting of Kennicote, the Parish Priest, who had extracted the tec'ord of the first marriage. But he • had not himself compared the extract with the regi ster; therefore Mr. Baron WOOD refused to receive this (locator:rat as proof of the first marriage. This same Sexton swore, that a Thomas Sparrow and a Margaret Cook were married on the 2fith of MaT, 1817 ; but whether the Thomas Sparrow were the prisoner at the bar, or the Judge upon the bench, he, could not tell. Mr. Baron WOOD pronounced this the lamest ease that he had ever known. Several witnesses were called, who proved that the prisoner had lived with Ann Potts, and called her his wile ; and that he now lived with ?Margaret Cook, and called bet his wife ; while Ann Potts was not only living, but standing on tiptoe at the door of the Court at that moment. Other witnesses prov-' . cd, that he had repeatedly declared that his first wife , was a w—e, but that his present wife was a decent lione , l woman. The Jury found a verdict of Not Guilty. The Counsel for the prosecution applied for costs in vain. The prisoner was immediately discharged, and 'left the Cann. He is a very athletic and strong man. He proceeded homewards without a moment's delay, and while he strongly and cordially sliwk by the hand such friends as met him in the street, he was by no means sparing of his comments on his own conduct. " My first, wife was a worthless b —r, while she lived with me I was not a day comfortable; since she left me the has broke: all my windows, and got 16 warrants out against me. If I married a second wife, no man can say that I did it for money. She had not a shift on her back when I took her.— D—n me if I did not cover her with my smeck frock ; yet she is as good a wife as ever man had. WICKLOW ASSIZES. At the last Assizes for the county of Wicklow, Philip Lewin stood indicted before the Honourable Baron Guottort, for the murder of Thomas Lewitts, his father. The circumstances that led to the apprehension of the prisoner, his conviction, and execution, were fee:. Ott the morning of the murder a woman met the prisoner, with wham she was acquainted. He was dressed in a dark-coloured coat, and wore white yarn stockings. In about an hour after this meeting she was going, np the same road ; she heard cries of distress, she advanced, and saw a man striking ano ther man on the ground, but did not know the person inflicting the wounds. Being apprehensive of ap proaching alone, she applied to a woman living on the road, and also to a man, and directed them to where the man was lying. As they came up they saw a man with a large dark coat, and white stock ings, running away, but did not see his face; arriving where the body of the man lay, perfectly dead, they discovered it to be the prisoners father, with his head beat in in three places. The man brought by the woman said, "It is either Phil. or Pat. that has mur dered the father r While standing•there a boy came up, and on seeing the body, mentioned to them that he had just met Phil. Lewins running up the road ; that Phil. had asked him if he had seen a man run ning before, with a light-coloured coat? To this the boy replied lie had not, and walked on. The prisoner continued to run, the boy looked back, and saw him go into the gap of a field, and almost im mediately return, and continue running. Being asked if be could point out the gap, he replied he could ;. accordingly the party repaired there, and after three searches, found a pistol, with the pan down, the stock broken, and loaded with powder and ball; a pursuit was made, and at the distance of about four miles, the prisoner was discovered by his white stockings in a field, covered, except his legs, with furze. When the prisoner was discovered he was asked what brought him into that situation ? He replied, that he oweci his landlord 1:60 rent, and then when lie saw the crowd, he thought they were bai liffs coming to arrest him for the debt, and that, there fore, lie was in the situation they found him. This was the only defence made on the trial, which was negatived by the landlord, who declared, that though the prisoner was indebted to him, he had no cause to apprehend an arrest at his suit. The priso ner was instantly found—Guilty. Bawn Gum, in his address to the prisoner, after conviction, endeavoured to arouse him to a sense of the atrocity of his offence,- aggravated by the fact of that being the murder of his father. The prisoner, instead of paying the least attention to the Learned Judge, merely said, " They stole my lease—William stole it, and gavl it to him, (mean ing his father), and lie gave it up to Mills." He received the awful and dreadful sentence el death without emotion, and retired from the Court still speaking of his lease. Frequently, previous to his execution, he was at tended by the Bev. Dr. Porter, who (as he does in every case) exerted the piety by which his character is marked, to bring the wretched being to a sense of his awful situation—of religion he had no knowledge —a prayer he either would not or could not say—not even the Lord's prayer. To the pious exhortations of the Reverend Clergyman he replied, " they stole my lease." He had been of the Catholic religion, and about fourteen years ago read his recantation. Pre • suming he might wish to commune with a clergy , man of his former persuasion, Dr. Porter mentioned 'to him, if such was his wish, the Parish Priest should be sent for—he declared he wanted no clerzyman." On the morning of his execution, when his cell was. opened to bring him forth, he was found lying on his str aw—when his irons were taken off, he as sisted as if to prevent his andes from being injured. Being informed it was time to ascend the stairs to the execution room, he walked up firmly, and when the rope was put about his neck. which he felt with his hand, it produced no sensation or alteraticn in his countenance. Doctor Porter went on his knees to prayer ; the culprit also did the same, but not with the same view. He found fault with his cap being too low down. It was raised—he was 75 ket from the ground, and an immense multitude of spectators before him. This had no efiect—" William stele my lease, and Tom Lewins gave it up to Mills," was frequently repeated by him. The clergyman did evety thing that religion end humanity could sug gest to brill , * him to a sense of his situation ; it was ill vain. He was asked, would he say whether he was guilty or not? The reply was, " said enough, and I will say no more; I die a m ember of the Es tablished Church. Let me down easy, and do not give me a h trd chuck." He then said to the Cler gyman, Will you promise to give my body to my friends r—Tne promise was made, and the question as to his innocci,ce or guilt repeated, but received the saute answer. Whim he went out on the bars of the gallows. be sat down, and endeavoured to hold the rope. This being prevented, and standing up, the platform fell, and he was launched into eternity. After hanging the usual time, he was let dbirn into his coffia, and sent to the surgeon for dissection; , and after haying been opened, on the promise of the Rev. Clergyman, it was delivered to his friends. The t following day his body was numerously attended to thezrave. MANCHESTEIL SESSIONS. Thursday Janses Haden:, Wiliam Sinit4, Joseph Whittaker, John Gambell, Ridiard Haney, William Irwin, Patrick Barrett, and James Turner, were tried for a riot and assault on the beadles of the town. — It appeared, that on the 10th July, in conseqnenceof the number of persons assembling at Mr. Pollard's factory, near Ancoats, application'was made to the Police for assistance. Fora- beadles went, but find ing the crowd, then about three hundred, sa nume rous, they agreed to return. As soon as they turned tht y were shouted at, and when they had got about fifty yards from the crowd they were assailed with stones from before and behind. When they had got about two or three hundred yards off, at the White House, they were again attacked with stones in great numbers. The beadle advised them to go home about their business, but without effect. The slicutings con tinued, and as the beadles turned their faces from the mob, they were again attacked repeatedly. The number had now increased to seven hundred. The beadles going towards Ancoats-lane, were attacked in the same way. They reached the King's Irms, where they remained some time; but finding the mob, gather round the house, they with difficulty got. Out at the back door, and took shelter in the White Hart public-house. The throwing of stones increased, and in many instances the beadics were hit.. A stone, aimed at one of them as he was going into the V, hite Hart, struck a young woman, ani nearly killed her. Notice having been sent to the Police, they remained here a short time, whn, finding that the windows were breaking, the beati7es escaped out 4, the back door, and got into the Robin Hood, in Newton-lane; this was about half-past eight; the mob amounted to about two thousand. They stayed here till the Ma.. gistrates, Police, and some of the military arrived and during their stay there the mob had increased to about three thousand. The object and cry a the mob seemed to be, to get the beadles turned out .of the public-houses, that they might fall into their hands. By the art ival of the Magistrates, the Cope stables were enabled tl apprehend - some of the mob who had been active ; the defendants were amongst these, and, with the exception of James Haslam, were all taken on the spct. Haslam was seen at the New Bailey next morning, when it was expected that the defendants would be brought up for examination ; and being instantly secognized as having been active in the mob, was apprehended. He endeavoured to prove an alibi ; but his witnesses contradicted each other so grossly, that no credit could be attached to their testimony. All the defendants hut James Tur ner were found guilty; he, it appeared, was very much in liquor. In summing up, the CHAIRMAN lamented to see these fine young men, who had not been described by the prosecutors as in any other instance obnoxious, and whose persons were all unknown to the Police as criminals, standing in the situation they did—their passions excited, and they led on to flagrant outrage, from the impressions they had received from wicked and dangerous men. In reference to what had ap peared upon the trial, he observed, that one of tho prisoners, a single man, was proved to be a turn-out, though in the receipt of eleven shillings per week ; and one of his witnesses, a turn-out also, a sia;le man, acknowledged that he had been is the receipt of lis. and that In: had earned so much, that after being out some tin:e, lie had money of his own suf ficient to dissipate at Preston races. He strongly iim pressed the necessity of their returning to work is bodies, thus shewing their determination to do their duty; that if they did so, they should be protected. He alluded also to the clear liability of the Late turn outs to all the penalties of combinations; requested those who had been deluded or fig:melted into sech practices to consider that they were promoting the interests of designing men, s'.l:o kept out of sight, and subjected them to all the misery of poverty and dependence. e o',lvz of Mr. TEA sir it, Frost farm, five miles from Clicburn, was beset on Saturday eight by six ruffians, two of whom, to gain admittance, con:- plained of having been wearied with travelling, and solicited a draught of small beer, which was alfi.rJed them by a servant maid at tie &site of her master. The other four of the gang rushed through to ant:- ther part of the house, and forced open the parlour door, which Mr. TEASTER had locked. They pro ceeded to bind him hand and foot, And taking the maid servant with them, they ransacked the pre mises, and carried off EV) and upwards, in no - ,es and money, ber.idcs what few atticles of plate they could find. £WE M4RICE2'S. Nr.wc :LIT Awn r.r.iDENHAT.t of rie 3. (By the Career.) Beef 7s 4d to 4s 4d Veld . ...... —is Od to it ti itluttua .d to ts sd I Perk ...... .cs Od to to 4 Lunb 51. Od. to Od. rracrz or HAT Avn CTRAI7 YESTEriDAT. D. wsitrarsarss. Hay ...S1 1C: Od to 91 Rs Od of nd to $1 ft al Straw Si 9s Od to '2l tt, od Straw 91 19s Od to Id Ifs CA (lover 91 Os Od to 01 Os Od Gyre, 91 Oci to 01 Os to HAY AND STP AW PEA LOAD. ft; YIELD. . to Xs tif Cover.. ..... f to 9 Os to 16 It , wcq O4 Ctt to S. BOPS. wow trOCIMIL Kent •Na to % Smtoz —....151 its to SOL e i Fate: Col at to rici o, Farrlasn —231 Oa to t3l t, PRICE Kent a los to 191 ON Susses 131 Os M lel Os Eviex Os to 00s Os Foreign 5l Os to 101 Os RAW Best IT2lfers and Steers (per _ . stony)....-23 Ed to Ss 10d Middlings ...2a 4d to 4s 6d r3lserp4inb—roll A, Os od to Shearlinots, It sd to DI 0 PRICK or TALLOW, SOAP, *VD C CSDLES. • St. James's Marta 4: Oti Ts..vit Tallowdated (lye Moho es 0,1 YeliOW Ruda ....._....50, GI Whiteehipel Market 4: Sd White ditto 7.1 td (per stone of Bib) Soap ditto 114 3 Yellow Sllp, 104s--Ifettlad, 11 es—Cerd, 120s—Fdas, nes Candles, per dos. tZs 6d —Moulds, us Od. PRICE OF LE4THLR7 ---- num, 50 to 56Ibs each 4 :td to Cid pub. Ditto, 56 to 6Glbs each .—. ......... —.25d to ltd Dressing Hides lEd to it'd Fine Coach hides Ikl to ?Id Crop hides, 7,5 to sOlbs or cutting ... lltd to std 1)i to 45 to 501bs "Cd to , 2‘ CIE Alin, 50 to sOlbs "le to :.241 Ditto 50 to 701bs 50d to .'.RA Ditto 70 to 801bs ....... .... ..... .... 104 to Z.ll Small Seals (Greenland) "3d to C'.'ll Large ditto ...... ...... ..... - .—.:.....p0rd0zea 70s to 1004 Tanned Horse Hides . ....... ......... .......... 1;(1 to 124 Spanish Horse Hides. ... . —20 d 244 COAL MAR KET, !lacer. 3. Ships at Market. Sue Soil. Pries. Cs Newcastle 4(.4 3.14 Cd to 431 od 9 Sunderland S ?Rs ad to 37. od 1 Stone Coal 1 495 od to —s Oa 1 1 Cults 1 Sas Od to .... Di The Harvest has now generally cqmmenced throughout the kingdom ; and, thanks to Potosi nnNer„ promises to b a golden one. The Ehours of the reapc: - s mar be corsidered as commencing three weeks earlier thr :he usual time. Saturday se'nniFht, the Silver Arrow, Oren it the town Musse;trargh, was shot for on Links there, by the Royal Company of Archers. and gained by Sir ParntcK . WALKER, Km. who has gained same prize for three years running. - Crisp, the petlestrian, hal undertaken, for a wager of 201. to lOL 'to g 4: on foot 110 miles in twtray•foor successive hcors. He is start on Thuzzday thel3th ins,nt, at Etc in the afternotn, from near tae Mack Lion, Reoci6 g, to the Catherine Wheel In:, Henley, and back ; the distance tc be measured ten miles out. Cniextrr.—The Grand Sitigle Wicket Match i 2 LORD'S Graattd, between Mr. 0311ALDIMON, LAniinste and two picked fieldmen of Englui (Salmi:max and BAlLl7), % against Mr. Buz:, with any three Sayers of England, was decided on day in favour of Mr. BUDD re& BAIL. Mts. Rum. rivet Innings 2,0 145 • rirstkrirp 53,) It+ :4 Second Ditto 92 SO 3 . I n 2 1'.1.5 11 • -Mr. Bunn Avon in one Innings' sole the favourite at stertbg, but ind Runs. Mr. &Luso. to odds offered. • 3foll se night, at lloilestor.; in Staffordshire, the Lady of Su Os hlosiev. Bart. of a daughter. • Ttleutoy, the Lady of ,Capuin P. W. P. Walfts, d daugkter: At Airdlarnont, on the 22d ult. the Ls 4 af C.:.load Lantos; of Lamont, of a son. MARRIED. The g7tla JOT, at Ilfracombe, John Sommers r 1 it sitian in Ordinary to his Royal Ifighness the Dakrcf Clare:tee to Louisa Helen, tourer. daulThter tte 13te PJ,ton. DIET/. July 25, at Damfries, after a long and severe:ace, Yr.T.I. to Kerman, writer, aged in years. July 27, at Downer, Hants, Charles Brant. Mat:sfeld,thet o fant son of the Rev. John Mansfield. niday sc'hnieht, at Moffat, late cf the D=. Irks and other Theatres. Wednesday se'nnight, it Dungarrm, of a mbar fawn th Rev. John :11orrigan, Roman Catholic Curate el that ph $. Monday se'nnight , at Streatham , ht the 10th year 0111(1'4"s Emma Di try, younvst daughter of Sir Gcorr Blar:GW, L.-. Monday se'nnight, at Portsmoue , a yc.ng man, coaettcan ts Marks Lambert, of °Mom ficlise, consem.r.ce a vent bruises received, by falling from a gig in which i:: m:s kts a restive horse. BY HIS MAJESFV'S ROYAL. Lli,l'fli.RS PM Err. .14EARE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly lesiva for curing, its all Its stagy, tke VENEREAL V!> E. One “117 1 1 Pa Is It dose, ant the akin! of one 13,•‘. In a we's won case, witi coneince the patient of the Ce rtlit:, y n'' it i., recr,very. Nothing can be better contrived, were .a..., or ziell COtlVVilela titan this Remedy, for such as 1:e ol:i Erl to , ;12 loll* nice or to tea, as it reads no ees.fincture: VC! r,trant ef %MI and slaty years experience (in an ester:dye pvetiee) `surd that It will tffect,a Cure wlicn repez:ed Salivation rad eh inlet ' method: avail nothing. Fur the Scurvy and (cher Ottrouieg iiisordrYs. ti.is h . :id:eine has not Its parallel. rnoards of ELGOO persons' of Loth recd kwe two rid4o 9 7 "r elit °I. ab.-vo crawl ditor.iero, within the lac' eight years. Fwparriaad said by the Sule Proprietors, T. FAY LON and SCN, Mt...tivra of the Itr rat Cu!kgr Of 'iurret-m, at their throw. So. 9. P l ' Bridge.street, in Ernes co orty 2e. N. v.rh, ,htte !...ch.JO l . - • N.C. Two tub door? and !John' in the Pwraetv at gle... !:o are alga sci..! .1. , Areir ri.g.ontnuot,eries coy...s,lrerioes r the 1 ay Shop, 11.3. 0 ti , •rd.,trcet ; Mr. DiburoaC'..% Nat, Fish-street-ti ll,, near!) , eipco:te ,:he hlonament ; And . rl"° . Perinn in every omtWe.rable Town It. :rest *etain we, frehni. Adv'ex grant to rervonstaleng the above, or n:l.er of the I'M' r Tient' , Me.ileir ev. piuCC OF ST( Stock Reduced 771 78 Cons. 77t} ner Cent. 88-i 4 Navy 105 if Long Ans. 20; 11.16 .Ks llrVindaAS"K . - Omn. Exch. 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