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i i g.•O . • ADMIRALTY SESSIONS-Ocs. 17. MUTINY ON BOARD THE INGLIS. ArCOND DAY. _ . . , • EPORTS. 60eRT:OF 111119fOli BENCH, OCT. 26. i 4 •: • ~...-7 .-rh6SlGniall V. HUNT. This seiion i e 3.1..,ht00f polo recover the value of several crates of • l..elting honks. width had beta supplied to the defendant. Senna eitoe...es were called, who proved the delivery of the bot tle', but tu.e of them admitted that they were not of the best descrip tion. Mr. 11 r s t .addre , ved the Court in defence, and stated that he should ro‘ t ,!:at t he honks were not equal to the sample, and that they were t a utk anything. He then adverted to the excellence of hie Medi u*. owl said that lesther hbeked with his blacking sever cracked; in f‘vt. he had then a pair of shoes. on which had been cleaned with his t.l.v. k.nc, anti they had worn out five soles, and be yet expected them some time longer. The defendant kept the Court in a roar of us hter.tiuring the time he was stating the excelleneeof his matchless. The following witness was then called: Thomas Davis, examined by Mr. Hunt—Have been four years in your •ervice. Was formerly turnkey in Ilehester Jail. Remember the el..intiff sending you some bottles; he warranted them good. The ti.st he sent were good; they were filled with blacking and piled. Re. flotlllheT a person coining a second time, and your giving him a 5e :04.11 order ; they were sent, and were very had. They bunt as we took them up. One half were broken. They were not bottles similar to Jute we had before had. I sent to plaintiff; he did not come that 'lay but next morning. We refused to take them in, and they were It tt in the yard all night. There was a good dad of snow during the i. , A i.t. 1 went to Mr. Passenger the next morning, and he veturnad hh roc. I told him that they were not so good es the sample ; they ,vetc ordered to be taken away, and the plaintiff said be would net tab Oat •o, as he had no room in the warehouse. Plaintiff cane five or ski timee afterwards. and requested me to have something to drink. I did go once. He said he would give me something handsome if I mai " shove the bottles off." I tried two of the crates, and they proved very bad indeed. [The witness produced some of the bottles- They re leaky. They were filled four days since, and it has all leaked out. I was offered, a month ago, some bottles at Bs. a crate. I would not dive any thing for these, The plaintiff sent another waggon load after vartis—they are in the yard now. erou-examined—l left Ilehester gaol for lending pooe debtors mo. ner ; left Mr. Hunt's service, about a year and a ace; was not **painted with bottles until I west to defendant's. Lord TrXTZMDEW asked the plaintiff's Counsel if he thought be could recover a verdict after evidence of this description The Learned Counsel admitted that he thought his client's chance of a verdict very bad, and he would therefore submit to a nonsuit. The three other Judges of this Court were sitting in the Bail Court for the dispatch of the arrear of term business; nothing interesting, however, occurred. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Ocr. 27. lELSALL V. XARIWORTE. Mr. Sergeant MEREWITHER appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant WILD! for the defendant. This was an action for the recovery of the value of a promissory note of 2001. accepted by the defendant, and received in the canoe of business by the plaintiff. It was urged, on the part of the defendant, that the bill had been fraudulently obtained, and that due diligence had not been used in making the necessary inquiries respecting the age and capability of the defendant, by whom the bill was accepted, and that the plaintiff bad given no consideration, either in money or cr edit, as be did not take the bill as a liquidation of the debt between him (the plaintiff) and Mar. shall, the drawer of the bill; but that the plaintiff held it merely as Security until that amount should be settled, and continued to press for a settlement of the debt due to him from Marshall, by whom the bill in question had been passed into his hands. The Jury then retired, and, after some cocsideradon, gave a verdict tiN the defendant. The Judges took their seats at ten o 'c lock precisely, and the Jury were then re-sworn, and the prisoners placed at the bar, in order that their trial might be proceeded with. C. PHILLIPS then proceeded to address the Jury on behalf of Lally, Rose, Jordan, Wills, and Harrison, in a speech glowing with eloquence and power. It was, the Learned Counsel said, his duty, at that crisis of the case, to offer such obeervations as had occurred to him, on the evidence offered in support of the prosecution, and thosonduet of the persons on whose representations the prisoners had been put upon their trial. It would be idle, if even he were to attempt it--to conceal the fact -- that this cuss had produced the highest possible interest, and the deepest anxiety in the public mind ; and that the result of the Investiga tion was anticipated with a feeling the most intense. He did not all re gret the circumstance to which the Learned Gentleman who stated the case the preceding day had alluded, relative so the notice which bad been taken of these proceedings by the public press of the cower,. The public press had reared its bead to crush oppression and tyranny ; and so long as a press continued to exist in. the land (and England would be deprived of her character for liberty if it were abolished) he sanguinely hoped that its power would be exercised in the detection of error—the prevention of tyranny—and the succouring of the injured and the op pressed. such was the being, end, and aim of the press of England, and such, he trusted, it would fearlessly remain to the end of time. Al. though these were his sentiments concerning the public press, he could not, at the same time, help joining his Learned Friend in deprecating the publication of any statements calculated either to excite prejudice in the public mind, or to defeat the ends of justice. He was satisfied, however that the gentlemen whom he had the honour to address, pos sessed minds incapable of being influenced by prejudice, and . that they would discharge their important, their solemn duty, with impartiality,- and according to the evidence adduced before them, and on that alone. He could not but congratulate the unfortunate prisoners—for unfortunate under any circumstances they must be considered—that they then breathed the pure atmosphere of an English Court of Justice, that they were tried before British Judges by a British Jury, who would not eon- Oct on ex-pane statements, and without the fullest and most deliberate consideration, and that punishment could not be inflicted on them with out their having been first heard in their defence. He could not help observing on the difference between this tribunal and that mockery of justice, the Court of Inquiry, held on board the Inglis. Hers every allegation must be proved—there persons were decreed to undergo tor tare the most abominable, on an unsupported charge, at the discretion ef the judges of this precious " Cuddy Court," who, on their own showing, possessed neither mercy nor humanity. He agreed with the proposition of the Learned Gentleman who conducted the prosecution, and who discharged his duty as an Advocate with equal ability and humanity, that wholesome punishment was absolutely necessary to the proper discipline of a ship ; but then he differed with the Learned Advocate on the nature and character of that punish ment. The Captains of ships had, undoubtedly, a right to en force proper discipline among their crews; but then, it was to be remembered, that in doing so their own conduct should be irreproachable. The compact between the captain and his crew was mutual, and it was as imperative on the one, as oa the other, to observe it. In the navy, punishment was never inflicted without full and fair inquiry ; but it was, as it appeared front the details of this case, widely different on board merchant ships, where the Captain was raised to the situation of an aristocratical despot and tyrant. The same obligation which bound a crew to obedience, by the saute principle also bound the Captain to the due observance of humanity and propriety of conduct : and should the latter violate his duty be was answerable for all the consequences which might flow from his own misconduct. This was no idle theory of his own, but would be found supported by the im mortal Locke, who so beautifully and so truly explained the compact width bound all descriptions of societies together. Was, he would ask, any such compact observed by the Captain of the bele, or did not thee high and cruel minded plebeian,as soon as he quitted theßritish shores, lay aside the obligation imposed upon him, not only by social law, but by the law of his country, and convert himself into a most heartless and Memorable tyrant ? The prisoners were charged, the Jury should un derstand, with conspiracy and mutiny, but had not their severe rulers themselves, one and all, acknowledged that the prisoners bad been perfectly obedient until the cruelties exercised towards then) had rendered their situations absolutely intolerable and unendurable ? Goaded na ture could no longer submit to ouch provocation as they hourly received —such indignities as were daily practised towards these men ; and was it, therefore, extraordinary that the result which had taken place daps petted ? It was gratifying to him, and it would, he doubted not, bee equally gratifying to the country, to know that this peassenties bad nest been instituted by the East India Company, and that this voyeanble body of British merchants were absolved front the public odium which must attach to those who brought forward so initialise, so unjust a char The prisoners were accused of having oompited as subvert the se of the ship, but did not the evidence oared in agree of the accusation rather establish a foul contbination,ordisseaselbleimirderacy on the part of the officers to ill-use, oppress, and imitable over the men under their control, whom, by their inhuman, their mandalous treat ment, they drove to a breach of that compact, which Might to have bound the whole ship's company together ; and if a ear eporary in subordleatien existed, • he would ask whether that boubortil union had net been induced by the conduct of those whose duty It was to have reserved discipline ? He had said that the prose- Mien had not been instituted by the East India Company, sad he much doubted whether the owners of the vessellwere, In truth, the pm* who had brought the ass forward, inasmuch as the conviction of these mat would stale all further inquiry, and save the Captain and his of& eas harmless from the consequences of Moos, to which they was be, yond all manner of doubt liable, for their Inhuman nestment of those par fellows while in a foreign land, and at a distance from the ear of British justice. Could there be &doubt thit if any ma of themes without being called at for his defence to the &Veld ,. agaimit ici g. were so go before • jury of his' country her that a mod* would be warned is his favour ? Certainly an tisk Jury would tolerate smith less metion t such barbarity. The lassiged Camel then poseeiei to cameo on the evidence of Captain Dolmas and has and asked whether the savage catchy which these pr am had enereismi. would be embattled to in the head which - gave birth to • Nasal...be, bad he acted with the same *plumbic, the same demoniacal rigour, would never have had a boatswain toldresit between him and death, at the moment a deadly blow was aimed at the life of that great hero. whose achievements must be coeval with the name of Great Britain. He (Mr. Phillips) denied that the Xing on his throne had power to inflict punishment in the 8111111101 that it bad been I indicted by Captain Damen and his oaken; and that which weskit not be tolerated In the Monarch, certainly ought not to be mosliensl In persons holding the stations of such men as the witness is this saw The learned gentleman, in conclusion, observed. that be tithed not to be understood as rejecting proper discipline: on the amtnry, he thought it ought by all means to be encouraged and enforced, bus ass with either injustice or cruelty, as in the present instance. Navies again called the attention of the Jury to the nature of the dory against the prisoners, he sat down, observing, that be was sen rimed the Jury would deal with the evidence of the use with strict 1111 partiality. Mr. Clarkson followed on the same side. He said, after e very able manner in which his Learned Friend (Mr. C. Phillip s) dressed the Jury, he should trouble them with few observations, MIN. fining himself to such points of the caw as had been left untouched, se I had been but slightly alluded to, by his Learned Friend. The Clewed for the prosecution had taken great credit to themselves for not /saving capitally indicted the prisoners for mutiny. Ha (Mr. C.) amended dist I If they were guilty of conspiracy (which he denied ' ) they seafront of mutiny. There was not the slightestwidens to thew that tho on the Bth of June, on the part of the men, was the result ;f ro = previously concerted plan. Tim won idows, the contrary, that the very reverse west the het, and that the prisons acted i upon the impulse of the moneest when they heard Lolly atomenbs murder and calling he aishisses. If the object of the nom had been to obtain possession et the used, what was there to have r . ..Lai don from carrying their design bite szoestien As to the Wiwi sem& on the Captain, it had not been proved by a single witness. All/ ems general observations on the evidence adineed IS the pat of the posse. i aides, the Learned Counsel menemsloi in severe elms at the maim in which the prosecution had been ennisseed, awl wadded by calling on the Jury to acquit the priewtersom the grand that neither the charge conspir acy or imisben bad been proved spine ;hem , He t ea the following witnesses t John Bell stated, that he was a semen on board the Inglis on the last •gage and on the former one. when Captain Dudman was the flat mate. Remembered Evans receiving three doses lashes. Ths slates of his back after the punishment appeared like a piece of beef almost rotten. A soldier threw a ball:e4 rope at Lolly, who went aft to Gard. nes ' ' the fourth mate, to complain, but nothing was done to the soldier. On a subsequent occasion a soldier mode a complaint to Mr. Mowatt wisPeedwil a beck which he had lest, sod Mr. owatt called the fore top men aft and said to them ‘, which of you b. -a pinned this bock." Wyatt then took Rose by the collar, and dragged him aft; he ordered hint to be put in irons, which was done, and be afterwards received throe doses. Read and Clifton were put in irons, and kept at the rudder head for a fortnight; Herrick and Smith were kept in irons a fortnight for stealing water; remembered Roue, Thompson, and Berry, being flogged; there was no Court of Inquiry held previously; they were punished by the order of Mr. Coles Capt.Dudman was pre sent at the time : Roberts was flogged at Whimpoa ; he received 3 doeen lashes; when brought down to receive the punishment, the skin was torn off his wrists by the rope with which he was confined. On the Gth of June the Inglis was off the Cape; the weather had been very bad for a day or two before, and it was as much as they could do to set close. natal isgs.ssils. The state of the weather prevented the performance Of Mims Service on that day. In the afternoon heard the cry of a boy evabud. He immediately went on deck, and was told that the boy Bowes had been sent on the spanker boom and fell overboard. It was extremely improper to send such a boy there in such weather. The boy was drowned, the sea running so heavy at the time that it was impossible to save him. Mr. Palowatt then ordered Lally to bring the trysail aft on the quarterdeck. One of the crew did something, upon which Mr. Mowatt said to Lally, " You d.-41 Irish son of a b--, what are you doing there ?" Lally spoke up, and said, " I hope, sir, there are as good Irishmen as Englishmen on board." The Captain told him to bold his tongue ; upon which he (Lally) said " Who can bear to be called an Irish son of a b--." Capt. Dudman immediately ordered his grog to be stopped, and Lally said, " You may stop it to boudoir." The Captain immediately ordered him on the poop, sad directed the master at arms to put him in irons. When the irons were brought Lally said, "He was a British subject and would hinder any person from putting him in irons if he could, as he had dose nothing." The Captain called for assistance, and the mate r boatswain, and gunner came and put Lally in irons. Witness walked away, and presently heard Lally sing out murder." The principal part of the new were below at the tine; on Idly calling out murder they one and all rushed on the quarter deck, and from thence to the poop; Wells, Cole, and Murray, were undressed when they came upon deck; Har rison was at the wheel; Captain Dudman came forward with a drawn sword, and some of the crew asked him to release Lally, and said that there bad been too much Bogging and punishment on board &beady, and that the crew would not stand it any longer, and that they wished b know by what law they were punished, martial or civil ? and the Captain replied, D--is all taws ; I punish by a law of my own, sad aoa as utterable for my conduct when I get boon." The Captain at -fils agreed to shoe Lally until the morning, and that then he would a court of inquiry,and that if Lilly were guilty he would punish him; sat morning,while reefing the top-sails, beard the word passed for Lally, end he came off the topsail-yard, and went down the mainstay to the fees. castle, but remained there, and did not go aft. Mr. Mowatt went lbw *aid, and told him to go aft, but ha would not. Capt. Dudman then said that hs was sorry for what had happened, and that he would behove batter to them foe the future, and the men then went to their duty as usual, and nothing farther particular happened until 23 days after, when they got to St. Baena • they then had a double allowance of grog served out to them. The Ca ptain went on board some of the other ships that night, and afterwards some soldiers came on booed; the soldiers loaded their muskets, and fixed their bayonets, and the prisoners were taken out of the ship. On the 2d of July, the Wes= of lit. Helena Game on board with some more soldiers, and asked the sew ifahad any complaints to make as but soon as th ey attempted to the Governor said if he had his will he would shoot one-half of and blow the other half overboard. Six of the crew were Gonad after that. The punishment was inflicted by the boatswains' mates of other vessels, and Captain Dudman stood by and said, you are flogging mutineers— do your duty. The Captain and officers were in the habit of using the meet disgusting language to the crew, and the general treatment they nceival was brutal, violent, and savage. • Croas.examined by Dr. Losntstoros.—Had received his wages fur the present voyage ; never was Bogged in his life. Starting is a cons.. mon thing on board ship with a rattan, but not with a thick rope. The crew have a right to complain to the Captain when threatened to be started; none of the crew did so; they knew it would be useless. Whatever Captain Dudman said the dicers always stuck to. (Loud Laughter.) By a Juryman.--The prisoners conducted themselves in a seaman-like manner before the Bth of June. Never heard the crew threaten to bring the Captain to trial for his conduct towards them. Henry Hammond was then called, and females were ordered to leave the Court. As soon as they were gone, the witness stated some lan guage made use of by Mr. Mowatt to Rose, one of the crew, of a most disgusting nature, accompanied by an assault of a nature that we cannot describe. William Robson was next called, and proceeded to state various acts of cruelty on the part of Captain Daman towards his crew. Mr. ALLEY objected to this mode of examination. If the Captain had ill-treated his crew, the Courts of Law were open to them. The question the Jury had to try was, whether they had not been guilty of mutiny ? The Learned Counsel had no right to call witnesses to justify their conduct. The Learned Judges consulted together, and while they were doing so, Mr. CLARKSON, with considerable warmth, said, my Lord I shall call no more witnesses': that is my ease ; I have plenty more ready. The Learned Judges requested Mr. Clarkson would proceed to call them. Thomas Moody, an officer of the Thames Police, was then examined, and stated by the desire of the Magistrates be went to Capt. Dudnian, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, and told him that the Magistrate re quested his attendance to give evidence against the prisoners; upon which Capt. Dudman asked him if he had a summons to compel his attendance; and on his sepiying in the negative, Capt. Daman mid, then I shall not go. Witness said, why then what is to be done with the primness; and Capt. Dadaists replied, Oh d—n them, do what you like with then. Mr. CLAllllOlL—This is my Mt OD the part of the prisoners. I have several more witnesses In attendance, but I will not mil dress. Dr. LOSIIIIIISTON then rose to reply at half-past lye o'clock. The learned gentleman observed that these who had conducted the deletes of the prisoners bad no reins to complein of the cum perused on the present scasien, en the parte the peasseedea, as every lades& had bees given to them. The conduct of die primers bad been atom z to be justified, on the petted of the ill-usage the rheum from Captain Dudman—tbat was sot the question the Jury had to tur they bad only to decide whether or not the prisoners ware c s ri o ng f the charge preferred against them to overturn the discipline of the ship, and to force the Ca to re lease a mariner whom he bad ordered to be pat in tress. He would ask the Jury whether that charge had set been most distinctly and clearly proved spinet the prisoners. Anemia, this to be the fact, ha called upon the Jury to dismiss hem their Wade ell the be 'psis they had heard from his Imbed friends, who bed a Se d to *dr pollees rather than.their judgments; who had mode d &Way of &cat-o'-nine-tails, which they admitted had never been Ilea be pedalling the prisoners, foe the purpose of distracting their sondem lima do anal facts of the ease who had talked el the us-hmod4 Week sad hariterity of a practice that had ex isted In the trey ter the lest hundred yeast who bad made use of the most lawaramtable imissadare sheet die cesdnet of those who had imitated this presseatiss, ova to the agent of sdtisg that the lest bib it. Ilech, isilad r bed hese said abort the flea, - ea d d s V ed okermetanes was ati dwelt ore, dist the tears of the rispimahod net hem paid. l i e would ask the Joey whether, if they Wiese paid, it weak/ set ham been adduced ea a draunsumer to mop the month of the proeseuesso and whether his learned friends weld sot at once have said, if these men were guilty of the conduct imputed to them, how came you to pay them their wages Tbe non-entry of the transactions of the 6th of June in the log-book bad also been much dwelt upon. Th• reason wet, that such entry would have come to the knowledge d the crew, and in their state of excitement, would have induced them to fly into open resistance, knowing that by such entry it was the intention of the to bring them to punishment foe their conduct when they 2Ve ina arrived England. The Learned Gentleman then recapitulated a great portion of the evidence on both sides, and commented upon it as be pro. ceeded ; and in reference to the disgusting language alleged to have been used by the Captain and his officers towards the crew, sad it was constantly used on board every ship. The words were not meant in the offensive sense some persons might suppose, but were common exprea. done, (=stand used by sailers towards emit other. The Leaned Gentleman a vesth which lasted nearly two hours. by stating that if the Jury helloed the atom charged against the prisons to have been committed by them, there was nothing in the conduct of either the Captain or his officers that affirded them a justification for their conduct ; and he therefore left the case in the bands of the Jury, satisfied that they would properly dispose of it. Mr. Justice BOSANGIIIT then summed up the evidence, and com menced by stating, that in a ease of such importance be should not con. eider it a waste of time to repeat to the Jury the whole of the evidence on both sides, and to which be begged the most serious attention. The Learned Judge, at the conclusion of his summing up, called the parti cular attention of the Jury to tbe fact of an of the prisoners, when the disturbance first began, calling out to the men, are you reedy f again to their replying with three cheers. They would also sode . that when the Captain promised that a Court of Inquiry should be bold relative to the conduct of Lally, the crew said they would have no more Courts of Inquiry. These arcumstances, in his opinion, proved that a conspi racy existed among the crew, but of that the Jury would judge from the evidence, and if they entertained any doubt upon the subject, would give the prisoners the benefit of it. He had no doubt but that their verdict would be such as to satisfy their own consciences, and that they would perform their duty as regarded the prisoners at the bar, and also as regarded the public. At a quarter past ten o'clock, the Jury retired to consider their verdict. A little after one o'clock this morning the Judges came into Court, and the Jury entered soon afterwards. The Clerk of the Arraigns having called upon them for their verdict, the Foreman said that it was the wish of the Jury that he should read it, and which he did as follows: We find John Harrison and John Murray " Not Guilty ;" and we find John Lally, John Jordan, Stephen Rose, John Steele, George Wells, Samuel Coley John Car ter, and Morris M'Cannon, Guilty of riotously assembling and assaulting the Master, Capt. Dudman on the Gth of June, and compelling the o ffi cers of the Inglis to rele ase John Lally ; but, under all the circumstances, we recommend them to the merciful consideration tithe Court. • . The Clerk of the Arraigns then took the verdict as guilty, on the fifth, sixth, and seventh counts of the indictment. The prisoners were called up for judgment, when, Sir Christopher Robinson observed, that the prisoners - had been coo. victed of an offence that was injurious to the service, and marked with great criminality. Their own Counsel had not denied the general character of the offence imputed to them--they had attempted to justify themselves by imputing misconduct to their captain ; but very little evidence had been adduced to prove it. He hoped that the declaration of the law he was about to pronounce would correct the erroneous impressions imbibed by themselves and other persons. The Cowl were bound to award such a punishment as'would mark its °pi ' nion of the offence of which they had been convicted. At the same time it would attend respectfully to the recommendstlon of the Jury. In consideration of the confinement they had undergone in their way home from the Cape, and the Court being embus to enable them, as early as possible, to return to their duties, sentenced each of them to be imprisoned two calendar months in his Majesty's gaol of Navigate, and to pay a tine of is. each. Lally asked whether their wages would be paid at the expiration of that period I , The Court said they would give no opinion on that subject. The Court adjourned at half-past one o'clock, to Thursday the 4th of November. SURREY SESSIONS, OCT. 27. Geor , e Weston was indicted for stealing a 101. note of the Gloucester Bank, ;one franc pieces and Italian coins, the property of Mr. Ben jamim Johnson, a resident of Gloucester. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to be transported for seven years. John Wood, one of those fellows who hawk pencils about, was in dicted for stealing a silver castor stand, the property of Mr. N utting, at Camberwell. The charge was clearly proved against the prisoner, and he was found Guilty, and sentenced to be bnprhoned for sus calendar months, to be kept to hard labour, and to be once publkly whipped. Another fellow, named Bryan, a hawker, was obi !Mined foe steal ing a silver teapot, a mustard.pot, and a silver spoon, the property of Mr. Styles, of Lambeth. The prisoner • sent down the prosecutor's area steps, under the pretence of selling scouring p per, and, the moot being clear, he got into the kitchen, and scampered with the ankles above specified. The prisoner was sentenced to ids month's Imprints:mink irerbieb was added hard labour, and a public whipping neat the spot where the offence was committed. Jeremiah Mitchell, a glass blower, In the employ of Mr. Pellatt, -glass manufacturer, of Holland-street, Blackfrian, was found guilty of stealing some glass shades, and sentenced to be transported for *veer years. POLICE REPORTS. ciorr llisebeeh P er sists and _ M and _ Amer& Salmon were brought before Mr. Alderman WArTilMelf for re-examination, charged with committing a dangerous assault upon an elderly labouring man, named John Wiffie. Jesse Cheeterman, the inspector of the watch of St. Andrew's, Hol. born, stated that, as be was c misg down Holborn about II o'clock on Wednesday night, he overtook WOWnrs, who complained that he had been ill.used by some girls. Presently the girls came up, and began to push Williams about, but witness insisted that they should go on, and they accordingly did so. Afterwards, however, he saw th em cross Hamm to renew the Mack, neer the end of Field-lane. lesson cried Mnedee I and when wining' went over, he found Williams had seised FANO round the meek, sod bad torn her bonnet s but the blood was streaming dews Ye Sem as witness supposed, from the injuries which had been basted by Mmes. The latter at that time escaped ; but he secured Iloses, mg hoed it necessary to send Williams to the hospi tal, where he WI mid He understood the girls to say, that they bed mistaken Wale= for some other man. A certificate from the surgeon of the Hospital was produced, from which it appeared Williams is under treatment for injuvies in the bead, sod that he could DM now be moved without great danger to his life. The wounds are believed to have been inflicted with a street door key. Fenson, in her defence, said that Williams had interrupted and as. suited her, which induced Salmon to come to her assistance and give the man a love. She did not see her strike him. Salmon said Fcnson's statement was correct. Me. Alderman WAIT II MAN observed, that assaults of this kind some times occasioned death, and if such should be the result in this instance, the prisoners would be tried at the Old Bailey. He then remanded them till a further report should be received from the Hospital. Laustest-rrueirr.—lnfolmations were laid by two policemen against publicans, foe keeping open their houses during: Divine Service on Sundays. Mr. Oliver said he attributed the present charge to the circum stance of his having forbid a number of policemen who used to come there. They used to walk into his kitchen with the greatest freedom, and leave their great costs and capes with the servant, with strict orders that they should not be touched, and at last made his boas, such a convenience, that he was compelled to rid himself of them. The Magistrates, after some consultation, lined the defendant ls. and dbmiesed the information. The next was against Lie. Hallam, of Clay Hall, Bow. The po licemen mote that the house was open at half past four o'clock on Sunday evening, and the Serrice was not concluded until a quarter to Ave. Mr. Hallam said that his house depended entirely or. the summer trade, and the parties who came to recreate in his gardens. On the licensing day the Magistrate told him that fota o'clock was very fair hour to open his house, and he had acted upon that hint. He begged leave now to ask what course be was to adopt, as the service varied in duration sometimes over a quarter of an hour ? The Rev. Mr. MATHIAS was of opinion that if he kept his house shut till four o'clock, he did all the law required of him. The other Magistrates ce= in this opinion, refused to convict. and the in fatuation was Mr. Asia, a residing in Whitechapel-read, was charged bypenmen M 111, with having obstructed him in the execution hie duty. Tem the policeman's statement it appeared that Mr. &nib bola inteehred while be was about to desire a girl of the woe to • about bet business—for this he took him to the sta. des bless. hir. Sol* IS bdoksolled upon be his defence, stated that he 1104 poessoilog boo uhf Whitedtapel.reed late last evening, when he ab seiled tie paeans in is tooromation with a woman of the town.-- He woe up to him, and his number, but the policeman, witireselluther omonsoy, mated ldm, and dragged him to the statics house, ant WWI him up. Mr Waxing' drought the deftness bud dawn the punishment on Idoeself by big rosiness with the polionneo. - end* iigelomhishelor he add set Niels wino for havingj bees buideemstupsi rill sm miumoillity damn Warms mild in the negadve, remmbilig diet the dehnint o Mbe bid teund thhiglo shiest to la dm mist, ought M lave made : 41 5:: to the Mixod 'ds int it he it se, be was certain of being M eshed, and be, lunamiet h soft number, the purpose Ise of laying his complist helm a lik#Oeste. ' . Me. WaLanis considered be hod acted improperly, and, 6 1.,,, r cautioning him respecting a repetition of his conduct, &Arnim/ t h t . cheer- Twists Poucz.—Mr. William Garters% chief officer of ill; k . tins West Indianian, was charged with a violent assault. Joh n s, u. MO, a ballast.heaver, was getting in a ballast lighter betscen 1; ; Autism and another began pum over the ballast in the barge, and si in the West India Docks, when the crew ~. slili t the former r: . f or c e d the water back , put the canvas aside. The boatswain s;:j Sinnett then bad some words, and afterwards the chief officer sci,,J a bucket and buried it at the complainant% head, which was cut ettei, ' Hetwas conveyed to a surgeon, who dressed the wound, and s a id t h ,: bet for his hat, which was cut through, itmust have proved fatal. Th, defendant said the bucket slipped accidentally from his hand in attempt. ing to throw some water over /linnet. Capt. lircnniem. and Mr. Bas.r.arrwras ordered the defendant ti, pay a fine to the King, which was instantly paid. John Neak, a seaman of the Charles Grant East Indianian, v,, charged with robbing Nicholas Taylor, belonging to the Hythc, E on Cowpony's ship, of seventeen shillings end sispcnce, which he wok out of his waistcoat pocket, and afterwards beat him in a very cm.; manner, when be demanded the restoration of his property. He ad. mined the robbery to a police constable. Mr. Ballantine cominittc,; [ the prisoner for trial. - --- Usiox-HALL.—Four young men, named 31111,, Thompson. LI. wards, and Jones, were brought up in custody from a house in Fryer. street, in which a number of stage-struck clerks, shopmen, and Apra. dces, were in the habit of congregating together, as their bins ex . pressed, to pl ay genteel comedy and tragedy, or in other words, r„ murder the _ _ _ . _ — ibis defendants expressed their sorrow if they had offended, and ph, raised in future to play in some house removed at a distance from WILD., so that they should not annoy or be annoyed. The Magistrate advised them to get out of Friar-street as soon al possible, which they promised to do on being discharged, and they wet, permitted to carry away their theatrical properties, consisting °Cunard., helmets, cuirasses, dresses, masks, &c. which had been scatted by tile police. Tows-max.—A Mr. Wes. Rhymer, was charged with asesolting several of the pollee and other constables, in the execution at their duty. Moat, a constable on the New Bridge, stated that. about half-past seven on Tuesday evening, Mr. Rhymer attempted to per from the City in his chaise through the arch of the New Bridge, past at. Sa viour's Church, when he was told that be must go by Joiner-street, the road by the arch being appropriated for carriages coming in the contrary direction, by the orders of the Lord Mayor. The prisoner made answer, that he eared not a d—a for the bore Mayor, and commenced cutting at him with his whip. He dashed on in Cummins, another constable, stopped the horse, and conveyed Mr. Rhymes to the station-house, where be refused either to give his addn.4l or send for any friend to be answerable for his appearance. Sir Jolty Pt natio said, unless he made satisfaction to the off fen, be must find bail, and give 24 hours, notice. The prisoner preferred the former, and being allowed to withdraw, compounded the affair at the expense of six sovereigns. SCINTILLA. The new beer shop opened at Eghsni, under the sign o! " the House of Lords,' takes its designation from the well-known pro verb of " as drunk as a Lord." 13y a statute of the 7th of Edward VI. there were to be only two taverns in every town, with a few exceptions enumerated in the Ant; among these London was allowed 40 ; Westminster 3; York II; Bristol 6 ; and Canterbury 4. By the act of the ht of William IV. which pasted on the Od of July, " For the more e ff ectual Administration of Jostler in England and Wales," it is enacted that the Sessions shall in future be held the ilea weeks after the 28th December, 31st March, 24th June, and 11th of October. Paws or GOOD BRIED.—When on his return from boating on Wednesday last, Lord Petre heard a hound as if running a fox ; his Lordship called to his whipper.in i and annelid that one of the hounds mks abeam, but, upon investigation, such was found not to be the cans, the pack being complete. On going to the spot from whence the voice et the bawd had been heard, it was discovered that a poppy (which, with others, was reared at Ingatestans.) had heel. heating a cab, and, to fee several hours, as the animals were lying within a at each other, bah so completely knocked up that neither of could make another dint. The cub died a few minutes after it was takes up by the whipper-in..—EseexHeraid. The " popularity" of the cemetery at Liverpool has in duced some individuals at Cheltenham to solicit public patronage in be. half of a similar undertaking in that town. At Liverpool the slate, In the cemetery already yield 8j per cent. In Manchester the sehemc has turned out still more profitably, 121 per cent. being the amount of the returns. If their burying grounds turn out thus profita bly. the Liverpooleass and the Mancunians will have reason to follow the example of the Clown in Hamlet,' and 04 sing at grave making." ' THE SPEAKER DRUMMED OUT OP THE lionsz Or COMMONS IT THE LORD MATOII4—" On the :11st of May, 1610. the Lord Mayor. with the citizens in the liveries of their se. veralc Companies, went to Putney, in their way to Richmond, and waited for Prince Henry waling down to Whitehall; the I Duke of Brunswick.) the Earl of Pembroke, and the Earl of Marne, In the barge with him. At nine o'clock in the morning tthley went The drums and fifes were so loud, and the can. piny so man, as Mr. Speaker thought not fit, after nine o'clock, to SO=in any business, but to arise and depar t " —(Extzact from the —See Brayley's London and Middlesex.") SUDDEN AND AWFUL DEATH. FrNIS the Limerick Chronicle, October !7. It becomes our painful duty to record one of the most afflicting and awful events incident to humanity that we recollect in this city for many years past. Major Hutchinson, of the 74th regiment, in this garrison, was following his regiment on horseback to the New Barracks yesterday, at three o'clock, in perfed health, when be pulled up oppo site a small tavern, on the military road. dismounted imm e di a t e ly i n great pain, and en tered the house. He sat on a form, only spoke a few words, and was &corpse in ten minutes i Great consternation was na. turally excited by this unexpected fatality, and a great crowd assembled about the door. The surgeon and a brother *Scar of his own regiment were immediately in attendance, but the most prompt remedies applied on the instant had no effect whatever. A courier was now despatched for the Mayor, and the chief magistrate entered the house in a few mi nutes after with his secretary and attendants, for the purpose of holding an inquest. Melancholy coincidence it was, on the way up, to meet the funeral of a soldier of the 46th regiment, poising by the very door where the deceased °Seer lay, the music was playing the dead march. A jury was then sworn, and the verdict was this :—" We Snd that Major William John Hutchinson, of his Majesty's 7dth regiment, died suddenly on Friday the 22d of October instant, by the visitation of Om)." The body of the deceased officer was removed at Eve o'clock, to his lodgings in George -street, to the care of an affectionate wife and bee l daughter, on whom this dreadful calamity has fallen as one of the greatest of earthly misfortunes. He had not left the presence of his partner and child half an hour, when death arrested his victim in the vigour of health, and extinguished the vital spark for ever. The scene:of agony and distress which bunt forth on the return of their beloved pro tector, cold and inanimate, to the fond arms of his disconsolate widow. may be guessed by that bosom which has a heart to Ebel and sympathise with the bitterness of her sorrows. Major Hutchinson served many years in the British army, " even from his botish days." He wan a long time in India, and in Sotto Ametica. From the 47th he exchanged into the 65th, of which he was senior major for several years, and about three years ago exchanged into the 74th, Major Stewart, of that regiment, going into the 65th. Major Hutchinson was endowed with many most engaging qualities of head and heart ; his brother officers esteemed him, and his soldiers beheld him with regard and affection. He was a gallant officer, and in Fr:- vate bte a perfect gentleman, of most affable and unobinudve deport ment. BIRTH, The nth fast. at Pitham.cremeat,Mastiass, Mrs. G. W. Wale• weight, of a son. MA SRI ED. The 25th instant. at Stantnors, Mkidlassz, Mr. It. Moises, of Bath. to Elise Sarab, eldest daughter of Mr. C. Pegier, of Staunton. DIED. At Greenlaw Howe, in Galloway, on the use instant, In the Seth peat his age , Sir Alexander Gordon, Km. Sheriff of the coonty of Kirkcudbright, and Colonel of the Kirkcudbrightshire Local Militia. The it6th Inst. Dorothy Barrett Leonard, wife of Sir T. B. Leonard. of Beihes, Essex—Tuesday last, at St. Margaret's Cheltenham, the Mo. Charlotte Juliana, wife of Col. C. &nitb—Tb; 46th inst. Jane. wife of T. Denison, Esq. surgeon, Stoes.street, Brdfordzearnwalle Mich inst. in Newington-place, Elisabeth Susan, only deter of die late G. Hart, Esq. aged 30—The 86th inst. at Maritimes Bests, in bar lb& year, Catherine, daughter of J. Stein, Le. of Terkitlace, :postasamimpan. Loupow : hinted rad rublished by Jour Meryl. Who 'ma"' Omer. 1,, Pirkru-plare, Tousple:Bri.