Star. — London, England, 1802-09-16 00:00:00

G 1,8 •UGUST 22. having lately feen, with Come furprife, in public prints, tome moft falfe and wanton attacks on the condult of his Royal Highnefs the Duke of KENT, fince he was appointed Governor of this place I truft that you will not refute to admit the following ftatement of faas from an old Soldier, who has for many years been a witnefs to the tranlaaiuns which have taken place in this garrifon. Previous to the arrival of his Royal Highnefs here, from various caufes unneceffary to relate, a molt extraordinary relaxation of difcipline had for foire time prevailed, and the drunkeimefs and li. centioufnefs of the troops had arifen tb a height not eafily to be believed. The ftreets daily (warmed • with drunken foldiers, who often infultedand the inhabitants, particularly the women, writ the moll brutal and lawlefs violence. A general want tf regularity and 'Uniformity was confpicuous in almoft every point, op which the exiftence of a well-regulated army ilpends..-- No general rule was obferved, either in drefi or difcipline, and both officers and foldiers were in the habit of appearing publicly, dreffed as the fancy of each individual diaated: His Royal Highnefs, on witnefmg the (late of the arrifon, refolved immediately; however un gracious the :a& might appear, 'to check the li centioufnefs of the troops, and aridly to enforce his Majefty's regulations for the drefs and difcipline of the army. • The neccffity of caking Tome revere examples loon occurred. On feveral foldiers of one of the regiments being conviaed and fenteoced to receive one thoufand lathes each, for ravifiting two Spanifh women at noon day, in the prefence of tome hun dred fpeiclitors, who were prevented from affifting or rekuing them by the bayonets of lonic other foldiers, his Royal Highnefs, to mark his abhor mice of fuch proceedings,andto deter. others from Inch fcandalous outrages, which had but too frer gamily occurred, dire6 ed the puniihment to be inflilted by the taoftlie drum; a mode only nfed with notorious offenders, where peculiar feverity is intended. This example loon had its effea I • To• check the drukennefs among the brook., which was exceffive, his Royal Highnefs direaed e that a number of the lower clafs of wine-honfes, which had been a receptacle for every fisecies of vice and debauchery, Gould be (hut up ; and po ' fitive orders were given toprevent any foldiers pearing is the greets, who were not cleanly and uniformly dreffed s a regulation that has highly contributed to reflore that fobriety and regularity which are now fo remarkable in the garroo. It may not be improper to remark, as a trait of his Highnefs's difintereflednefs in this par tieul2t,Aret the chief 'emoluments of a Governor here arife from the tax on wine houfes, and the duty on the wine confumed in them, which, by this saesfore of his Royal Highnefs, has now decreafed towards due halL • By -the-indafatigable zeal and attention of his Royal HiShnefs, he has, fince his arrival, affeited change in the appearance, difcipline, and regu- In*, of the troops,. which molt forcibly lirikes cvery perfon who ma witoefs to the former Rate the garrifon. The inhabitants alfo, inaead of being oppreffed in any fhape, or obliged to conform to any paxti• agar or ndiculons mode of drefs, as has beenmoft falfely fated, now enjoy a degree of freedom and protoaion feldom experienced before, his Royal Highnefs, Once • his arrival, having abolifhed a number of oppreffi” and impolitic fees of office, which tended t 0 impede the free trade of thisplace; and, contrary to the pra&ice of moft 'former Go vernors, he has enconraged and countenanced the trial by jury, and the civil adminiftration of juf tice in all cafes where the lives or property of ci vilians were concerned. The enclofed charge from his Royal Highnefs to the Grand Jury, with their anfwer, which I will thank you to infert, will fofficiently confirm what I have here fated; and his condna during the whole of the different trials,wherein he fat as judge, has molt ftrongly impreffed every intahitant of the place with the higheft opinion of his judgment and humanity.—l am, &c. /ROM THY GIBRALTAR CHRONICLI k /111DAT 1 JULY 30, 1302. ( W ARM SESSIOSS. On Wednefday, the a 1 ft July infant, purfuant to public notice, a General Seffions of the Peace and Gaol Delivery was held at the Public Court Houle of this town, before his Royal Highnefs EDWARD, Duke of Kent and Strain% Btc. &c.' &e. Governor, and EDMUND NVOIST, lEfq. D. J. d. &c. his Majefty's juftices striped to keep the peace for the Paid town and terntory. The Court being ailembled, the Royal Charter read by the Clerk of the Arraigns, and other for. at nn opening the Court gone through, the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, Pint' man), &us SNIT% i Jona GLIn, nAsir Low, 11011117 and MATTIS'', Cowen% JAMBS ESSLII, SAMUIL *WATKINS, JOHN Callielt, E. HANSE L VIAL", and JOH" THOMAS GAWMIIIi *es, vv.: (worn in, when his Roy fflghnefs the Governor addre ed. them as follows s • Gentlassi el the Grand jam Thisbeing the kit time 1 have had- oeeallon'to kaput* 7% together, it Is with reel pie:Aire I weeitetim preteph fay to be is reffeaahly competed • ' " As none of yes have hitherto had tbe inning my failamma arm the adasiailkasimi ll A . B, 4fil tr:e, I conceive it to be my da l ntala 4 i i piece Ids the reedineft with which] gem roone r tFA the we their force to the .of my knowledisamtaAl fidw, whenever the Par 7* ihal lferin I fau= rems P e t le NUS obliged co 'Warm fiinble a 7 -0 my imty as that of calm man yon..easydscoma to roe stymies to a eife...M which I yea will but-too meek reafon to bring toew , to tatike, what crimes *w ar to be peat h i or . aer that they may take their trial mending tot days at oar "untry. At the fame thee, It Is not without real fseidadion Um I ma enabled to,semark t that there is at satin inhabitant . • df this plialtbsife name will appear bcfoie year. Hioreve+ amid there have occurred to your knowledge any crimes„, for which the offenders have not yet been brought to iti!uct. , am_„ to remind you, that it is y our bounden duty to Prelent i au therein concerned, without favour or partiality. " Having fidd thus much upon aiminal matters, I have alto to call your attention to fame arrangements for the police of this town, which it has been intimated to me as .neceffary to be adopted for the general benefit. l'hde are the eflatillfhment of certain regulations for cartage, poiteragc, Bihar', cleaning the facets, and the better goternment of the bakers, butchers, and venders of AIL " I am fentible, from your knowledge of the place, and. the infatuation of which you molt be matters, on the feveral fubJeCts, that none can be fo capable as yotafelves of fuggelling a remedy for the *bores in theft points, of which all more or lets complain. It is therefore Your fentiments I now call for, trusting that you will people cothlng to me for the better conduaity of thefe objeda of pollee, but what it will be both my duty and Inclination to (import. " You will now retire. Gentlemen, to proceed upon the invenigation of the bulinef s immediately before you • and, after taking thereon the neceniry information, you will re turn, without delay. fuch bins as you than find true, or other wife.* • To which charge from the Bench, with permif (ion, the Foreman of the Grand Jury returned the following Anfwer : • • " 'May it pleafe your Royal Higlusefs, le The Foreman, and the other Gentlemen who compote the Grand Inqueft of the prefent SALM, beg leave, ih the fin-, eadt amour, to 'retu rn their grateful khanks for the very kind,affedtiono:te, and fadsfadort addrefs delivered them from the Bends by your Royal !fishnets, and they beg leave to af fare your Royal Highnefs, .with the greateft relived, that they will take the garlic& opportuaity of making a preProtment to his.lslajeirs on tie fubjedswhicislosit-Rwial High. nefareessaupe,ol to their atiistions and which .appear .fo fa biary for the good government and pollee of this serf 04 its territory, alfurlog your Royal HiOnefs, that ilk*, sact every Geeafion for. the public Witty: titer lbe hilOppl!‘ fife every allitanaln their pima. The Grand Jury retired With a bill of indiament againft Pafqual Galliarchni and Valentino Ragu letti, alias Pafqual Dare, alias Dere, for privately and ftionioully, on •the night of the 9th day of May lail, healing, taking and carryint &MT, in, the warehonfe of uty'lamei Hepper,. a (insanity of printed cottons and : 'ntiriliti. of the ?Slim of pool. fterling s .of the s alci'chattas wf One Henry Dtmdridale; .one William ThOmPion ,l Dundertiale I . and after going *through the nece'f fary examinations, they .returned with the bill found again& both the prifoners. The bill of indictment was gni read and inter preted to the Orifoners, to which they pleaded- r • Not Guilty. [Here the Evidence of the Trial is detailed.] The evidence for the Crown being clofed, and duly interpreted to the prifoners at the Bar, who called no witneties in their defence ; The Deputy Judge advocate (Mr. Ntroarr) ad drefred the Petty Jury from the Bench, as nearly as could be eollefted, to the following effect : " Golden= of the Jury, * Previous tow funning up the evidence now before the Court; and entering into fueb legal explanations as may be re gulate for your better information and Government, I true I than not be' considered as -unneceffarily trefpaffiog upon your attention, by endeavouring to imprefs upon your minds the na ture and extent oldie very important duties you have been rum mooed to the performance of. The trial by Ivry, Gentlemen, is a priwhich guillim the &id& Cones front that of der nat ions and It matt over be a fount of pride, **wed a. teenritli to every individual under Britilh allegiance, that neither his liberty can be abridged, nor his perfon futelea ed to punithment, without the unanimous COSCUTTOICC of twelve upright and impartial men, indiferiminatdy taken from the clefs of hislellow-citisens. .To this high truft, Gentlemen, pm are now called ; and yen are equally bound, by your duty ' to Goo, and to Society, for the faithful performance of it.— This you have pro:ailed to do under the tiered folemnity of an mob; and I am folly convinced that you all equally feel a dif psfitioo and refolution to perform it with that ftrianefs which Ohl mature of the offences ftibmitted. to your cognifance may figs to demist As a man of integrity, a Juror ought feri may to coolider the indifpenfable duty owed by every indivi dual to that feeiety of which he forms a part, and for the fees ritymsd prefervation of vild i ch an laws are ettabeated ; and that be cannot•confelentioidly isogon Ilmfeff of this obligation, but by contributing every thing in his power to the due execution of thole laws, by which slope the home sequin:me:its of ii- Miry can be prowled foist the rapacity of the plunderer, and (Wily be prevented from Maggot into its primitive Rate of rude and uncultivated beloberil • m. The object and intention of punlentent are neither to 'reintay an evilmalready committed, nor to biladt pain on the individual oftuder. tot to pdt k out of the power of a criminal ten do further injury to today, and to deter- °diem by *ample; *oils the perpetration of MON' offenders; for, although it may net be potable akogether to Prevent theennudidion of crimes, yes it is the common intereft of namikind.to endeavour to render them lefs frequent in pro -1 portion to the evils they produce.. Robbery is an offence not only spine the party robbed, but againit the public who are, therefore, entitled to profecution ; and, in this light, the inter ! poet* of a mittahen lenity hems a motet futons& Wog cal to the public good, by tending to infpire vice with the Sat; teeing hope of impunity. For, altbinigh, as a private individual, a man may difpenfc with fathhilloin for tie 'uteri he has re ceived, yet he cannot remove the sweaty at example, oar abeogpte that right of puoiatment, WM& beloogs ma to any eoe in partieslar, but to fokty in general." (The Judge now proceeded to Rate and com ment on the evidence.] The charge' being unitised, his Royal Highnefs the Governoradded or Gentlitnai of the fury, • After the very able numnsi which Mr. brogan (who, ass Lawyer, Is math bettleoelsailmi with nide Ago& than I can be prefolsmiliti be) Ms funned up the evidence to you, and explained the bah It can hirdly be micelery for me to add any thing to ids filatenume, except that, if you &all fee the finance reafou whioner for doubt br heatation as to the fidliciency at the reefs bifippbet at lb. bedlam, you are tO retake% that you silk to has ft the foie ef mom." ' The Jury then retired, and in about half an boor returned with a verdict of Guilty againik both the prifoners. • Upon which hie Royal Highnefs the Governor proceeded, in a folemn and imprefllre manner, to pals fentende is follows 411 , 01'40 at the Bar, - .1,, • „ 6 6 After a _patient and attentive hearing on the part of the -Gentlemen anointed to at upon your trial, ytrit have been deelart by them to begudty 9C off= ws of En have missend iknA pitFl pontiluneni. In f o doing, they here merely acquitieiltbensfelves of an indifpen gabble dotty ;• and it , new, therefore, only rensaim for me to ,perform a painful part of mine, tq pro : nuuncingthe awful fentenee of, the , layi, which Li; That you be taken from this taut to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place O fi x onttoo, there to. be hatiged•by the leek until you are head."- The prifoners were then taken from the :Bar, and the Court adjoorned collie following day,. GiLERKENIVELL SESSIONS. ... rrliaxitta. Hiczs's HALL.—The following cafes perhaps . s,s extraordinary as any that has lately occurred, fence it is feldom that we find an infant to have been aolen for the fake of itfelf, it generally being done with a view to plunder it of its cloaths. Yefterday EliFakth Salnten t a woman of very refpeaable appearance, was indicted for rcuiving, knowing them to have been " Bolen, feveral articles of child's wearing apparel. Although the india ment waafrimed in this way, yet the fat% of the cafe turned upon haling the child itfelf. Elizabeth Impey, the mother of the child which "was Bolen, gave the following account of the tranf aaion:—She laid the was wife to a labouring man, and at the period in queftion lived in Red Lion market, White Croft-area. On the 22d of June, abont feven o'clock in the evening, a man came up ftairs in her honfe, and anted in which rains Mrs. Impey lived t She fetid the was Mrs. !Misty. He then went into her room and fat down : he faid he came from Mrs. James, and asked her how the did, and how the child was ? Mrs. James was a lady who lived in Finfbury-place, and hwd been charitable•and good to her.i—He added that Mrs. James had fent him to fee-whether. the Was dif treffed. He asked her if the had get any coals, and any • bread ? She told him that the had atienals, and but very little bread: Ha then faid that he. mull take her•to a neighboit44 Out& 4thitfealtd give her fometbing. She had at ehattiniePaid in ' a fortnight and four days. • She howe•er Went with bias; and took her baby in her arms: they went to I the fign of the Red Crofs. He Lard the td aid not: go interthe tap room, for that , wouldtbe t 66 warm for her. They went up Rails; he looked into one I'OCMI and did not like that ; at lati he fat limfelf down at the Joor of another room, and •the fat '-down by him. Th ey hall two pints of ale lege aher. , He then told her that the lady he same from hacticat her eighteen-penee,aal gave it her, telling ber to go and buy tome bread and Coals; aind when the had done le to return :tiff him when gave•her the money and.fold her .to' go, -he Sid; "Let me hold the &Id till you eon* back, you need not be- afraid of. troiting The; I live surfed many filch little ones—l have had Teveral of my own." She accordingly gave him the child, and went to bny the bread and coals. When the teturned, the found, the man had gone off with her child. She (earthed about all thatclay, but could not recover the child. She went to Mrs. James's, who told her the bad tent no man, nor knew aught Poi the child. She was then perfitaded to apply for a - warrant againft Mrs. James, but the Magif erates at Guildhall refuted it. A Mrs. Dickfon, who lived in the fame houfe with her, then per folded her to go to Mrs. Salmon, and tell her of the accident. She accordingly went to Mrs. Sal inon's ; the found her in bed with a child lying on her arm, but the hid no fufpicion of its being her child. Mrs. Salmon told her the had lain in the Wednefday before ; and that the dared fay the witnefs's child was in the Foundling Hofpital; tel. ling her alto, that if the would content berfelf till the (Mrs. Salmon) crania get above, the would en quire after it for her. She went a fecond -Unt to Mrs. Salmon's with a Mrs. Atterbury ; the child was then in bed with Mrs. Salmon, and the refuted to let them fee it. They went again with Ray,. the police officer, and brought the child awaY . This was three days after the child was loft. lYfrX. Salmon lived in Cooper's-gardens, Hackney-road; the did not know what the was, but the had heard that the eolleaed the rents of ninety houfes. Being examined as to what paged at the time the child was taken away from Mrs. Salmon, the confeffed the was in fuch confufion at the time that the could not diftinaly remember. Sarah-Atterbury faid, that on the zad of June, Elizabeth Impey, and one of her neighbburs, came to her houfe, and told her of the circumftance of Impey's lofing her child. She went to fee her the next day, and learned that The had been at Mrs. James's, and alto at Guildhall, to get a warrant againft her. She faid the was fure Mrs. James was too good a Lady to do fuel; a bad aCtion, and reprobated the attempt to get a warrant againft her. On the Thurfday the wieners went alone to Mrs. Salmon's, under pretence of asking whether the bad a houfe and garden to let? She fufpeaed that Mrs. Salmon had Impey's child, and the gave as a ground of her fufpicion, that Mr. Salmon had told her hufband his wife had mifcarried. fix months before. She was fure, therefore, that the could not fo foon afterwards have a live child. When the went to Mrs. Salmon's, the was introduced into her bed-room, which had all the appearance of a lying-in room. She was nurfing the child in her arms.;--The witnefs complimented her at being fo brave after lying-in, and :liked her if the ever had a child to live before ? She faid no ; not above three hours. The witnefs then faid the hoped. fhe would have better luck with her child than a poor woman the heard of, that had hid her child stolen from her. Mrs. Salmon asked her Vibe knew the woman ? She faid the was not acquainted with her, but the thould know her if she faw her. Ia reply, the Aced Mrs. Salmon if the had not heard of it ? At firit (he faid the had not, but afterwards the *laid the had ; adding, her child a Was a poor yel low little thing, but mine is remarkably fair. The witnefs rtplied, certainly, this is a very fair child for one new born. Immediately the law the child the knew it to be Mrs. Impey's, by tome lit tle fpots under the eye lids : the faid nothing, but took her leave. She immediately went to Mrs. Impey, and told her Mrs. Salmon had got her child, defiring her to content herfelf till the next day. The next day Mrs. Impey and the witnefs went together, and as loon as they got to the houfe they went up (fairs to the bed room, without wait. ing for any invitation. As loon as they got into the room Mrs. Salmon fcolded her hufband for let ting any body in, Paying they , had awakened her, and that the had not had to good a fieep fince the wai itiamed. She then eked what they wanted t The witnefs faid they had fometbing to fay to her, which perhaps it might be better for her hufband hot to hear : the laid there was nothing which the did not with her hufband to know. The witnefs She denied it, but refuted to lti s kitem fee it. 'They endeavoured to perfuade her, but . in, IrAitt. She defired ber . huiband to throw theiit *wit. !lairs ? and break their necks if they would ntvt go atv..y. The witnefs laid, there was no oecalion for that; for we will go quietly.—They accordingly want. At the bottom of the (lairs Mr. Salmon accelted diem, and faid, 4 , So you think my wife has got your child."—The witnefs replied, 66 lam lure it is Mrs. impey's child." This trancadion tanks' fame difturbance among the neighbours, who ga 7 thered round them. Some one faid, I faw her bring a child home in tare-tail of her gown the other night. • 1 heard it cry. and I know it was her, for I watched her." Mr. Salmon's daughter was prcfent, and they Paid to her, you .fec how it is, Heller, this is done to cheat you ; you will find the is a had *one."—They then went to the Police Office in Worthip.ilreet, and the Magi (Irate fent Rayy• the officer, back with them. He was a - _ long time before fhe would let them fee the child ; at laft Ray fent•for a Dodos, who infifted upon, its being opened. At this laft vilit they alfr) found the child's cloaths, which were Bolen with it.— Some parts of them were found hid between the mattrefs and the bed. John Ray, a Police Officer, Paid, he was &- reeled on the 25th o‘june, by the Magifirates at •Worlhip-fireet, to accompany the latt witnelfes to the defendant's houfe at Cooper's Gardens, on the listurtat,y Road ; when they arrived there, the maid Arrant timed veryaiviie to their going up :Oaks icit upon his • mentioning that he • was a Police Othcer,.they all, went up. On his entering thecroom where the defendant was in bed, he faw every appearance of a lying-in-room p white curtains to the windows and to the bed, and the defendant in a white bedgown : he then told the defendant who he vas, and what was his butinefs, and de fired her.tolliew the child to Mrs. Impey ; the de fendant . pofitively refufed, crying out that it was her child and preffing it very clofely inter arms. As the witnefs was not able to afcertain the fact, a Medical Gentleman in the neighbourhood (Dr. Welton) was Vent fox; he, upon examining the de fendant, told the witnefs that her dory was altoge ther an imOfition, and defired him to examine the room (de ohe clothes in which the child was dreft when it wits Bolen ; he accordingly fearched, and found in the bed Tome of the (lathes, which were immediately identified by Mrs. Atterbury. and Mrs. Impey : they then obliged the defendant to (hew the child, which was immediately claimed by Mrs. Impey at hers : the witnefs then told the defendant that the mutt immediately come before the Magiftrate, and although the had before ailed the part of a fick-woman, who had been delivered but three or four days, the then appeared entirely to recover her health and ttrength, and could, no doubt, hove walked to the OEce, if it was not for the great crowd of -people which made it more advifable for her to go in a coach. The witnefs added, that without b eing a great intige refpeet ing young children, he could fay pofitively that that child - was more than three or four days old at the time, and that it appeared to be almoft starved when they law it; they were alritoft afraid it. woukl.not live till they , sot to the Office in Worthip-ftreet. Dr. Welton was then called upon, and gave his 'evidence in the molt clear and diftina matter ; 'bat at the fame time (hewing the ftrongeft feelings .of honeft, indignation at the horrid crime he had sated in di covering; he Paid, that when he came into tbe room,it had every appearance of the room of a &lapis esterawhand the defendant (creamed out, " This is one of the people come to take my child from me;" he immediately went up to her, and bid her not to be alarmed, telling her that he was a me dical man, well known in the neighbourhood ; he then fat down on the bedfide, and afked her, who had delivered her ? She (aid. the did not know.— When was the delivered ? Three or four days.ago. Where ? • She Paid the was taken ill in Rag Fair, and did not recollect the circurnflances. How did the come home ? She Paid in a coach.—Who ac companied her? She laid the came alone. The witnefs, upon this anfwer, being convinced that her Rory was a lie, and that no perfon could be fo inhuman as to fend a woman who had been juft taken in labour home in a coach unaccompa nied, told the Police Officer that the was praiti fing an impfition ; the more he examined her in his profdlional capacity, the more he was con vinced that (lie was telling lies, and that in fait (he never had had a child. He added, that of all the women whom he had ever attended, her conduit and converfation was the teen indelicate and dif graceful ; and that at length be told her that it was in vain for her to attempt to trifle with him any longer—the mull produce the child, and go before the Magiftrite. As foon as the Police Of ficer had found the clothes, the no longer ailed the part of the lyintin lady, but got up, and even pulled the bed out in order to look for Tome of her things. He then defired the Nice Officer to give the child to its mother Mrs. letipey. Mr. GLIDE, on the part of the deft *dant, oh jeited, that t he evidence did hot fupport the in. diament, which was upon the Statute enacted to prevent the praaice of taking away children for the fake of their clothes; it was manila that in this cafe, it was not for the fake of its clothes that the child was (tolen, nor did the defendant, for lucre of gain, as charged in the indiament, receive thofe clothes. The child was Rolen for Tome other purpofe, and the value of its clothes certainly ne ,ver entered into the coolideration of the defendant. h therefore appeared, that however immoral the as of the defendant might be, yet, what the law had made felony, the (tripping infants of their clothes, never had entered into her head. The Magiftrates having confidered this objeEtien, Mr. MAINWAItIMO Rated 10 the Jury, that as of all _cafes which could be determined in a Court, the molt melancholy was, when an innocent poi fon happened to be convilted ; the next affiliting cafe is, to fee a molt hardened and abandored wretch, like the defendant, whom every perlon its Court mutt feel to be guilty of one of the mitt • the objet! of Mrs.thiletots ,in appearing t have fill. cl la laid to bane been, that her Mae might enjoy coned raise property, to the eschtfian of Mr. tialosafil cluldrut by a tor• kk ma marriages is 'fftwhif 0-5.5116 . au Li. t