Star. — London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY. Yesterday morning these Sessions commenced be fore Mr. Baron GRAHAM, MI. Justice BEST, and Mr. Justice RICHARDSON. The number of cases to be tried this Sessions, as set down in the Calendar, is 402, and among them are four cases of murder, three of; forgery, 25 uttering bad notes, and two for stabbing. Geo+ ge Orford and Peter Tyler, charged with break ing into the house of P. Hardwick, and stealing va rious articles of the value of 40s. upon being pot to the bar, pleaded guilty, notwithstanding the admo nition of the Judge. The prisoners were taken from the bar, and the plea of guilty recorded. if: Fisher was capitally convicted of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of W. Summersby, and stealing four gowns, and other articles. John Bates, a victualler, aged 57, was indicted for feloniorisly, wilfully, and maliciously setting fire to his dwelling-house, with intent to defraud the Treasurer of the Sun Fire-office. In other counts he was charged with intending to deft aud various other persons. The ca,e having been opened for the pro secution by Mr. HOLLAND, the first witness called was'' Richard Lawley, who stated that he resided in Love lane, Ratcliffe, and knew the prisoner in June last. The prisoner was then the owner of a house called the King's Arms, in High-street, Shadw•ell. It had been a public--house, but the license having been taken away, it bad been shut up since the pre ceding September. On the evening of the .sth ofJune last, witness W3S passing the house in question, when he saw fire issuing from it. He immediately pro• cured pick-axes, and wrenched the door open. A fire was discovered burning furiously in• the bar. This was, with some assistance, extinguished. It was then perceived that there was also a fire in the cellar un- ' derneath. Au entrance was effected, and a lump of something burning was found there. This was also extinguished ; and, on a farther examination, it was observed that the kitchen was on fire, and that it had bur nt up through the ceiling and partition in the bar. Mr. S. Jamieson saw the fire on the night in ques tion, and near the partition in the bar he perceived some staves of wood, which appeared to have be longed to casks. On searching the houie, he found that there were no sheets on the bed, and that the blankets bad been left. In the cupboard in the back parlour he found some -pieces of paper, which ap peared to have been set fire to, and some sparks were, when he saw it, still remaining. The bar was so far distant horn the parlour, as to render it impossible for fire to have communicated from the one place to the other. A bundle of candles was found tied up in the cupboard, and were partly melted. There was very little furniture in the house, and that not of a ♦aluable kind. Cross-examihed by Mr. ADOLPH us.—The prisoner's house had been shut up since September. There had been a petition, signed by the Churchwardens and others, to the Magistrates, for the license of the house to be renewed at the next license-day. Robert Gwillim, a Police Officer belonging to Shadwell-office, corroborated the previous testimony. He believed the prisoner and his family lived at the house in question, but he did not know whether they slept there or not. Randall, a fireman belonging to the Sun Fire-office, was present on this occasion, and made a statement similar to the previous witnesses. When the fire was extinguished, he w eat to a house belong ins to a Mr. Jones, at Stepney, and inquired for the prisoner. Bates was there, and witness told him that there had been a fire at his house, but that it was now extinguished. The prisoner said he would go with him, and they both went together to High-street. On the way, the prisoner asked him if he had the key of the house? Witness replied in the negative, and said the door had been forced open. Wells, another fire man, who was present, asked the prisoner if he had been in the house that night, and he answered in the affirmative. Wells then observed that the prisoner must have the key; the prisoner, as if recollecting himself, said that he thought " Mrs. Bates had it. " Matthews, a watchman, proved, that when the door was forced open, it was Lund to have been bolted and barred on the inside. • Joseph Greenaway, a fiieman belonging to the Sun Fire-office, proved the production of the policy of insurance by the pris. nor, on the night in question. Ilere the policy of insurance was produced, and being read by the Clerk, it appeared that the whole amount of insurance effected upon the house, stock in trade, wearing apparel, plate, &c. was £2lOO. The candles found in the cupboard were also pro duced. They seemed to have been partly melted. Jame; Toplisc, a surveyor, employed by the Sun Tire-office, stated, that after the fire he went over the house to make a valuation of the property, and be found that the property in the house included in the item of £lOOO in the policy, was worth £ll5. Under the item £5OO stock, property amounting to £9:71.8d. was found ; and under the item £lOO lot plate, pro perty amounting to 1.:9:75. was only to be discovered. The prisoner said he had lost a portmanteau, con taining plate of considerable value. The prisoner's wife also stated the same fact. —Griffiths, Esq. one of the Magistrates belong ing to the ShadwellPolice-office, proved the fact of the license being taken from the prisoner. It was not Aso suspended in consequence of the ill-behaviour of the prisoner, but of his wife. The case for the prosecution being here closed, the prisoner was called upon for his defence. He entered into rather a detailed statement of the facts of the case, and asserted, that on the evening in question he was at his house in High-street at about eight o'clock, that he was called for by appointment by Mr. Jones, with whom he went away, and did not return to his house until called upon by the fireman, at Stepney. He was much surprised at hearing the fact of his house being on fire, and immediately went away with the firer.-.an. The following witnesses were then called for the defence : Elizabeth Ryder stated that she had been lately occasional se: rant to the prisoner and his wife.— Twelve months ago she was a regular servant. Upon her leaving, another was hired. The fire-wood used in the house was always kept in the cellar, and can dles were put into the cupboard in the back parlour when intended for immediate use. There was a fa vourite cat in the house at the time of the tire, and after the fire, it was found to have received a burn on its back. Cross-ezarnined.—On the day of the fire she came to the house to see the prisoner, and to agree wit him whit time she should come to dean out the house. The prisoner said he and his wife were going. away for a short time, and witness was in the mean time to remain in the house to takeocare of it. Wit ness, after she left the prisoner's service, went to live with Mr. Jones, at Stepney-causeway. Ile-examined—The prisoner and his wife only lived in the house. The fastening to the front door Was a bad one, and it was the prisoner's custom when he left the house empty, to go out at the back door, leaving the front door bolted and barred on the inside. Ermined by the Comm—While she was in the prisoner's service there were always sheets on the beds. William Biddulf lived next door to the house in question ; on the evening of the alarm of fire he went into the house, and saw something burnt in the cup board in the back parlour. An hour before people had been in the house with lights, but in his opinion, the fire then in the cupboard could not have been more than a quarter of an hour burning. The paper in the cupboard he thought must have been set fire to by some persons after the door bad been forced open. Cross. examined.—He did not see the candles in the cupboard ; his attention at the moment was taken off by a pair-of pistols behind him. He saw the cup board at some feet distance. From the appearance, he thought that the paper had been burning only about a quarter of an hour. Examined by the COURT.—He had seen no sparks in the paper which was burnt in. the cupboard, but he understood that the fire had been taken up by Gwillim the Officer. His opinion, as to the time which the burning of the paper occupied, was formed upon both what he saw, and what he understood. He saw no fire on the paper, and from what he saw, he could. not tell how long the fire had been extin&ish ed. The paper was only partially burnt, and he thought if it had been burning long, it would have all been burnt. Robert Jones, a publican, stated, that he was now landlord of the Sampson and Lion public-house, near the Tower, but he and his wife then lived in a private house in Stepney-causeway. He had known the prisoner for 15 years. On the night of the sth of June, when the fire happened, he called upon the , prisoner at about eight o'clock, by appointment, to . go to the Sampson and Lion, witness being then in treaty to take that public-house. He went into the back parlour, where he found the prisoner. They presently went away. The prisoner let witness Rut at the front door, barred and bolted it on the inside, and then came out himself at the back door. The' witness, the prisoner, and his wife, all went to the Sampson and Lion, and remained there till about half-past ten o'clock. They then came out to go home to Stepney . -causeway, but it rained hard, and they went into the Cock and Neptune public-house, and afterwards into the Ship, and stayed there until about half-past eleven o'clock. From thence they proceeded to Stepney-causeway. At about half-past twelve some one knocked at the door. They were surprised to hear it at that late hour. They then understood that the prisoner's house was on fire, and the prisoner immediately went out. From eight o'clock, until half-past twelve, the prisoner was in company with witness, and never left him. The prisoner had always borne an excellent character. Cross-examined.;—The prisoner and his wife were to have slept at home on the night in question.— Mrs. Bates, on hearing that the house was on fire, went into a fit. Elizabeth Jones, wife to the last witness, corro borated her husband's testimony. William Burnett, on the sth of June last belonged to the Sampson and Lion public-house. The two last witnesses and prisoner came into the public-house on that night at half-past eight, and remained till twenty minutes past ten. Examined by the COURT.—He was sure it was on the night of the sth of June last they came in ; and he was certain they went away at 20 minutes past ten. He was sure of it, because he accidentally looked at the clock when they went away. Mrs. Hamber, mother to the last witness, corro borated her son's evidence. John Austin, landlord of the Cock and Neptune, and James Dodd, landlord of the Ship, proved that the three persons mentioned came into their public houses on the night in question. • John Kelly was, in 1819, employed by the pri soner to sell his public-house and business. The sum of £3,200 was to be given for it, but no bargain was struck. He also purchased a lease of the house in question for the prisoner on the 24th Dec. 1817, and paid £340 for it. The house was then shut up. John Rose, a fireman of the Sun Fire-office, was at the prisoner's house on the sth of June after the fire: the fire in the cupboard was discovered before he arrived. He saw some paper there partly con sumed, but from seeing it, he could not form any opinion whether it had been burning a long or a Ishort time. It wholly depended upon the quantity of air which got to the paper whether it was con sumed or not. He saw a cat in the house. There was a small hole burnt in the hair on the back, as if a spark had fallen upon it. Several witnesses were then called, who gave the prisoner a good character for honesty and integrity. Mr. Jasttce BUT summed up the evidence. The Jury raked for about a quarter of an hour, and brought in a verdict—Not Guilty. The prisOner is a respectable looking man, and conducted himself with much firmness during the trial, which lasted four hours. WORSHIP-rram.—Yesterday, Mr. Sheriff PAR.. KINB was summoned at this Office for refusing ta pay a penny toll at Shoreditch Turnpike, on the day he went to preside at the Middlesex Meeting, held at the Mermaid, at Hackney, to address the QUEEN. Deputy. PULLEN attended. instead of Mr. PARKINS, and Mr. WILLIAMS, the Attorney, on the part of the Lessees, to support the information. The defence was, that Mr. PARKINS being a public officer, and on public 'duty, was exempt from paying any toll. Mr. WILLIAMS maintained the information. It was laid under the local Act, commonly called the Holy well-street Act; and if the KING himself passed through be was liable. If it had been even laid under the General Turnpike Act, no one would be exempt, even the Royal Family, unless they were going from Palace to Palace. The Magistrate thought it svai a case of vast importance, and was doubtful whether the business of Mr. PARKINS was of a public nature. The decision was postponed to a future day. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. John and Hannah Bunning. stood indicted for an assault on their sister, Jemima Jenner, on the 19th of June, in Molyneux-street, Edgware-road. The case was somewhat extraordinary from the near re lation in which the partierstood to each other, and from the conflicting evidence produced to the Jury. Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the case on the part of the prosecution. The prosecutrix, a witfok, in decayed circumstances, nursed a child of another brother, W. Bunning, who occupied . the lower part of the house in which the defendants resided. The prose cutrix having been sent fol. by the mother of the child on the evening of the assault, had no sooner opened the door than she was violently assaulted by the female defendant, had one of her teeth beaten out with a brush, the blood brought from her face, and was otherwise much bruised. The father of the child, her other brother, ran to the spot upon bear ing the noise, when he %vat thrown down by the de fendant, John Bunning, as he endeavoured to *sepa rate the parties. These facts were sworn to by the prosecutrix, her brother William, and her sister-in law, Elizabeth Bunning, all of whom deposed to the wantonness of the assault on the part of the le fendants ; although it was admitted that there had been much ill blood, and of long standing, among the parties. Mr. BARRY, for the defence, called Sarah Bun ning (niece of the parties), and Jane Brookman, an elderly female who lodged in the house, who both swore, in direct contradiction to the other witnesses, that the first blow had been struck by William Bun ning, the brother of the defendants ; and that the prosecutrix had pulled the female defendant by the• hair, and tore her cap off. The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury found both the defendants Guilty. The sen tence of the Court was, that J. Bunning should pay a fine of I:5, and be bound to keep the peace for one year, himself in the sum of £4O, and two securities in £2O each. The female defendant was fined 6s. Bd. and her own recognizance taken to keep the peace for one year. Mary Potts was convicted of an assault upon K. S. Young, a collector of rates ; and a second indict ment, for a similar offence, was preferred'apinst the prisoner by Bright, a headborough, both in the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-Green. It, appeared that the defendant was in arrear for taxes, and that the plaintiffs had been employed in their office to distrain for 12s. 6d. due. They stated that the de fendant at first refused payment, but had afterwards given them the money. 1 1 Mr. BARRY, for the defendant, stated that the plaintiffs had exceeded their instructions; and a wit ness, Mary Japp, was called to prove that the plain tiffs' endeavoured to carry from the premises h- bed in which the defendant's children slept; and that Young put his arm very indelicately round the waist of the defendant. The Jury, after a short deliberation, found the pri soner Guilty. Sentence—For the assault on K. S. Young, a fine of £lO ; and for the assault on Bright, a fine of 40s. DARING OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.--Yesterday, while a number of seamen entered Piccadilly, on their route to Brandenburgh House with the Address to her MA.MTY, a most respectable young man was surrounded by a daring gang of thieves, one of whom instantly snatched his watch and seals and ran off. He was directly secured, and the property was found in his possession; but the gang again came up, and most wantonly assaulted the young man, and rescued the thief. The whole of them then rushed off into the crowd, with the intention, no doubt, of perpe trating similar outrages.—A great many persons were robbed of their seals, watches, and handkerchiefs. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS.—Tuesday evening, a young Lady, of the name of RITCHETT, on a visit to Mrs. BLOOMFIELD, of-Hatch-place, Lambeth, accom panied that Lady and a party of friends to the Co burg Theatre ; and, on their return, Miss RITCHETT being left in the parlour alone, her shrieks alarmed the house s and on the servant going in, her clothes were on fire, and her hair was literally burnt off her head. The servant promptly threw a table-cloth she had in her hand around her, but the sufferer, who is seventeen years old, is not expected to survive. The fire must have caught her muslin frock in front, as the lower part was not burnt. Thursday, an inquest was held "at Cottenham, Cheshire, before JOHN INGLE, Esq. on the body of W. Wilson, a shepherd's boy, who, having missed, one of the sheep he was keeping, ascended to the top of a windmill, in order to look over the fields for it. The Miller returned shortly afterwards, and not being aware of the boy's situation, set the sails in motion, which crushed him in several places, and caused his death before he could be got home. A Coroner's Inquest was held on Tuesday se'n night, at Newton St. Cyres, Exeter, on the body of a child that had been killed by a pig. It appeared in evidence, that the mother, a poor woman, went to Exeter market, leaving her three children (the eldest about five years old, and the youngest, the unfortu nate sufferer, about a year and a half) in a field at play. During her absence a pig was seen mangling the child in the hedge-trough ; and when it was re scued from its dreadful situation, the voracious ani mal had eaten off the ears, and horribly disfigured the arms and vne of the sides, but life was not ex tinct ; the poor child survived but a few hours.— The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. Tuesday se'nnight, as John Davis, bricklayer, a sober, industrious man, was working at the top of a chimney, at Christchurch, Hants, the round of the ladder gave way, which precipitated him backwards to the ground, by which fall he was so much injured, as to occasion his death on Thursday morning, leav ing a wife and six children to lament his loss. - . Thursday, a man, who with others, was looking at the bear called Martin, in the King's Garden, at Paris, availed himself of a moment when the keeper turned his back and jumped into the den. He was instantly torn in pieces, and almost wholly devoured by the ferocious animal. Mr. R. LIGHT, of Fletchwood, being Rut shooting with a party of friends on the Ist instant, his gun, which was an old one, burst in the upper part of .the barrel, and his hand having been extended too far, the top of his thumb was carried away. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HOUNSLOW RACES —The account of the Hounslo w Races, in yesterday's Paper was incorrect. trcter. mans was not entered, and consequently did not start GALLOPPINO.—A sporting match over Can , n. bury-flat, Surrey, took place on Tuesday, in a r-ice o 1 eight miles, between the two fastest galloppin ponies in England, viz. Mr. BROWN'S Lancaster, aid Mr. JAM E5'S Coracutter. The ponies ea: 6 (A i;a stone each, and they went off at the rate of a rail:, la two minutes. Lancaster having won everything be started for in Lancashire, he was b icked at 6 to 4, At the four miles, which was done in Mix minutes and forty-nine seconds, the ponies were neck and r neck and pulling ; Lancaster gained ground at the beginning of the eighth mile, and won the race, wi-7. out either whip or spur, by about thirty yards, in teen minutes and fifty-eight seconds. One hundnd and twenty guineas was refused for the winner :tit:- the race, as was also 100 guineas for the loser. PEDESTRIANISM.—BIGNIORE, a youth, under I years of age, ran sixteen miles in one hour and fic-;-- five minutes, on the Bowling-green at Diss, in folk : in• the course of his task he had to turn t:Le corners eight hundred and eighty-two times. BOXERS.—The money was made good on Tuesday night for the battle between David Hudson and Me:- tin, which will take place in the middle of Octobar, for 100 guineas. This is the only match on the tapir. The system has become so much of a trad a; one, that it is no longer a trial of courage a 1.1 hood ; and the Gentlemen who patronized the have not only left off backing the Boxers, but they do not attend the exhibitions. Stimir SHOOTING.—The meeting of the Acrotlr mcntarian Society, on Monday last, was vet y attended, and much science was divlayed by the best shots, Messrs. 'l'. Dorcut..4, Dom.% PLATrAtE, BELVILLE, BURMAN, S. DOTCIIIN, FISH, Itivicar„ and Captain FORMAN, when the latter Gendemas gained, by a smart superiority, the prize, an ele gantly worked powder-horn, richly ornamented with s )lid silver: he hit thirteen shots out of eightden, three of which were bulls'-eves, at the three several distances of 200, 250, and 300 yards, half-shoulder and half -rest; the target only thirty inches in dia meter, and the bull's-eye six inches. Major-General BEATSON, on a farm of 300 acres, at Knowle, Tunbridge Wells, since the year 18lS, says he has proved, that by light or shame piouh l •- ing, on a stiff soil with one horse, without lime cr dung, and without fallow, he can raise crops of when and other grain, at the expense of E,5 an acre, equal or superior to those of his neighbours, in expense, is lime, and labour of cattle, of 1.16 an acre! We are authorized to state, that Sit Faaucts Co- LOMBINE DANIEL, M.D. has accepted the appoiat meat of Treasurer to the Medical Board established by Messrs. COOPER and, Co. of Charlotte House, Great Char lotte-stt eet, Surrey.—Messrs. COOPER and Co. have frequently inserted letters from sarious individuals who have been radically cured, no: only of Ruptures, but of other dangerous diseases, too often deemed incurable by Professional Men, whose practice is confined.. The late Duke of cd ford unfortunately lost his lite in a few how., by a strangulated Hernia ; Mr. Mills, of the Km:- road, also lost his life in a few hours; Mr. SlPar man, of Mile-end, was also afflicted for many years, and was cured; and many, many others, %%lose names will never appear without their request—Mi. Johnson, of the Borough, who had been se en teen months under the care of several eminent Stir geons, with a most dangerous disease, and ssto,e fife was given over, as appeared by his Affidavit before Mr. Alderman Wood, then Lord Mavur, and whose case has been seen by more than one hundred Surgeons, was in a few -weeks restored to per:ect health. —Such are the proceedings at the Medical Board, Charlotte-House, Great Charlotte. street, Blactfriars road ; and Woodstock-House, near Bonct-street, un der the itomediate direction of Messrs. COOPER and Co. who are consulted daily from Eight in the Morn ing until Eight in the Evening.—Mechanics have ad ci Gratis every evening, from Six to Eight, and on Sunday Mornings until Twelve o'Clock. • 13 I RT • Monday, at Unity-place, Woolwich, the wife of James Thous. son, Esq. Royal Marines, of a son. August 24, at Lausavve Lady Georgiana Quin, of a son. Sept. 2, at Rockville, E ast Lothian, the Lady of Sir llama Trowbridge, Bart. of a daughter. Sunday, at liampstead, Airs. Spottiswoode, of Spottiswoode, of a daughter. MARRIED. Saturday, at Lambeth, Robert Hinrichs Gunnell, Esq. to Harriet, third daughter of the late Rev. John Lott Philips, d Hale, llanu, and Last Ham, Essex. Thursday, at Southampton, St. John Chiverton Charlton, Esq. of Apley Castle, Shropshire, to, Jane Sohia, only daughter of Thomas 'Merrick, Esq. of Bush-Hall, Pembrokeshire. Sept.?, James Manning, Esq. of Paper-buildings, Barrister at Law, to Clarissa, daughter of the lat e Wm. Palmer, R. d Kimbolton. Saturday, at Kingston, Hants, the Rev. Hiram Chambers, Missionary, late of Gosport Seminary, to Miss May, of Hyde- Monday se'nnight, at Cheltenham, Mr. Genet, of the Aryl Inn, Oxford, to Alin Neyler, daughter of Mr. Neyler, of be Plough Inn, Cheltenham, and late of the Crown Ina, Portsmouth. At Hamilton, on the 3d instant, Andrew Barrie, Esq. Sur geon, Royal Navy, to Miss Eliza Guy. DIED. May 3, by the upsetting of a boat, when employed on a sur vey of Algoa Bay, in South Africa, Mr. Robert Reed, of his Majesty's ship Menai. The sth inst. at Watford, Herts, in her 54th year, Ann, wife of Mr. K. Masters, surgeon, of that town. June 25, at Jamaica, Marmaduke Forster, Esq. of Brunton, Northumberlacd. The 7th inst. at Wickham in her 19th year, G eorg i an Jane, eldest daughter of Dr. 111‘DOnald, R.N. Thursday, from an apoplectic attack, at name, Oxfordshire, John Holier, Esq. Solicitor, of that place. Ihe 4tit inst. at Dunjeary, near Dublin, Mrs. Goodlad, of Wimpf.treet, London, and of Richmond, Surrey. La: t week, at Wrexham, the wife of Mr. Jeukina, mercer. One of the deceased's brothers met with a mehutcholy accideut about a mile fnan Os wetry, as he was driving a gig from thence to her funeral, the horse started, and he jumped out, by which he broke his :cg in such a di eadful manner, that the bone pierced the flesh. COAL MARKET, Sm. 13. Ships at Ma dirt. Ships Sold. Price. 63i Newcastle 53* 334 Id t• 411 &I 14 Sunderland l3 36. 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