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I - i ' ' _NORWICH, DECEMBER 4. • Saturday our Corporation convened a very hasty " Meeting, for the purpoe of presenting the Dukes of YORK and WELLINGTON with the Freedom of the City, on their return through it from Lord SUFFIELD'S.— The intention got wind in the course of the day, and in the space of three hours only, nearly 400 Freemen bad signed the following Protest, which it Was intended to have delivered to the Corporation, but the business was hurried through before it had reached them. On the Sunday morning the Dukes were escorted to the Cathedral by the Corporation, and on ascending the steps, the Protest was pre sented to them by a Freeman. As soon as they left the. Cathedral the loyalty of the People again vented itself- in shouts of ' g GOD save the Queen; and the noble strangers retired into an adjoining school room. 'Under the Corporation escort they reached their inn, greeted as they went along by incessant cries of el Queen ! Queen!" • core or THE PROTEST DELIVERED TO TUE DUKES OP TORE Alm veirwsicrom. " We, the undersigned Freemen of the City of Norwich,enter our stroagcst Pretest againit the grant of the Freedom of our City to the Dukes of York and Wellington, as contemplated by the Corporation. "Ist. Because their whole political career has been com pletely ih opposition to the rights, privileg es , and independence of our country ; and because of their obvious -attachment to a military despotism, rather than to the laws and authority of our glorious but insulted Constitution. " 2. Because of their violent and indecent opposition to her Majesty the Queen—an opposition which appears to have ori ginated in malice, and which has been characterized by every thing disgraceful to them as men and as Englishmen. 3d. Because by far the larger portion of the Freemen of the City concur in this estimate of their character, and because it is at once hypocritical and unjust to present to them a scenting tribute of gratitude, while the feeling and the sentiments of the inhabitants are not merely not in accordance with this tribute, but in decided opposition to it." LAW LYTELLIGENCB. ! COURT .OiICINQ'S' BE:CCM - DECEMBER 6. • . Pill LEY V. BALL. . !r -1 S was an action broUght for words spoken by tlte defendant. - Mr. GURNEY stated, that the. plaintiff was a re spectable farmer in Esser. The defendant had been employed as bailiff. In a conversation he hid with Mr. Heath, he said, "there is as much difference be tween Hogg and Philby as between a Christian and a savage. Many a poor man has been seut.out of the country for less than Philby . bas done ; for he caught a sheep in the lade and asked me to kill it; but I refused. He is a thief, and I can prove it.— Mr. Stalibrass sent three rams and three ewes, and he took one of the rams and placed it in his own shop. I saw one ram on Philby's premises, and I am ready now to swear it before a Magistrate." Noah Heath proved the words the defendant used in his presence. Mr. Anoisinus addressed the Jury for the defend int in mitigation of damages, describing the espies 'ions to be made by an angry man. He bad not the least intention to justify the words. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 40s. REES AND OTHERS V. RIGHT. This was an action brought by Dr. Rees and ano ther Gentleman, as assignees of a bankrupt's estate and effects, against an attorney of this Court, for-al leged negligence la omitting to withdraw the record in a former action brought by the plaintiffs against a defendant named Clarke, whereby the plaintiffs were put to the expense.of £3O, the costs of a nonsuit, oc casioned by the absence of a material and necessary witness, who the defendant knew could not attend on the day the trial took place. The facts, as above *stated, were clearly proved, and the Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, £3O. The CHIEF JUSTICE said, that this verdict was likely to do a great deal of good, and he hoped it would. He was clearly of opinion, though he did not say so to the Jury, that it was the duty of an attorney to see with his own eyes, or those of his clerk, every witness he intended to call, before he suffered a cause to go on trial. His Lordship had suffered a great deal of inconvenience from the omis sion of this necessary duty. The Court rose a little before three o'clock, the Chief Justice being summoned to attend a Council at Carlton Palace. OLD BAILEY. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Dee. S.—Yesterday, at a special Assembly of the Corporation, the honorary freedom of this city was unanimously voted tobe presented to his Royal High ness the Duke of Yuan, and to his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. This morning (Sunday) those two illustrious personages arrived here from Lord Sur vtzLo!s, at Gunton, at the house of the Rev. D. Timm and, after breakfasting With him, attended Divine Service at the Cathedra; from whence they proceeded to the Angel Inn, in the Market-place, where, after 'being first waited upon by a Deputa tion, his Royal Highness most graciously received the MAYOR and Sheriffs, and a very full attendance of the Aldermen and Common Council. Mr. Steward ALDERSON, in the name of the Corporate Body, and of` the City at large, delivered an appropriate speech on the occasion, in the course of which he emphati cally observed upon the deep sense of gratitude which the Cititens of Norwich, in common with their fellowiccitiritrythen,. experienced towards the Noble Personages 'he had the honour of addressing; the one. for• having planned, and the other for having executed those glorious achievements which rescued tlicir country from the handt of a despot, and spread urii4erial peace throughout the world. The Royal Dpke..and the Hero of 'Waterloo, had the freeman's oath admfblitered to them ; and afterwards expressed their 'acknowledgments in terms worthy of them selves and honourable to the character of this ancient and populous place. They partook, with the Mem bers of the Corporation, of refreshments prepared for them ; and all present had the honour of paying their personal respects previous to taking leave. The Royal Duke and his Noble Friend, immediately after the ceremony, entered their respective carriages, which were waiti.ig for them, and proceeded on their journey into Suffolk. Yesterday, these Sessions commenced before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR,'Mr. Justice BAYLEY, Mr. Baron GARROW, the RECORDER, COMMON SKR JEANT, &C. Mr. BOLLARD, on the part of the Post-Office, moved that the recognizances of E. H. Alderman, charged with extensive robberies, during. his em ployment as a Clerk in the Post-Office, be estreated into the Exchequer, he having been admitted to bail, and absconded. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, that the application ought to have been made last Sessions; he might le called, and his recognizances nbw estreated. Janres Anderson was indicted for a burglary in the house of T. Saunders, with intent to steal. Mr. Saunders Is a tradesman in Whiteehapel; and on the night of the 14th ult. a watchman saw a light in his cellar, and lifting up the flap, saw the prisoner below, with a light in his hand; he was taken, and a crow-bar, a phosphorus box, and other implements, were fciund in the cellar; and it ap peared that the bolts had been wrenched from the cellar-flap. There was no part of the goods in the cellar removed.—Gmftr, Death. An article respecting Finland having been inserted .Sam uel Jones William Dunn, and Wilrsam Grady, in the Swedish Newspaper, called 1 1 / 4 :ya Extra Post en, were in dicted for breaking and entering the house and the said article containing most injurious attacks of Lucy Watkins, widow, and stealing therein a both on his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the watch, £2 85. in money, and other property. Rbssias and on the Russian Government, the Lord Mrs. Watkins, who is an aged person, keeps a Chancellor of Justice filed an ex officio information grocer's shop in Shepherd's-market, May-fair, and against Nlr. Imnelius, the Editor of the said News- on the evening of the 21st ult. Jones called at the paper, for a libel. On forming the Jury for trying shop, and desired her to send two pounds of green the cause, Mr. Imnelius chose as one of the Jurymen tea to the house of a Gentleman in Curzon-street. his Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and as this Suspecting that the order was fabricated, she sent, choice could not be accepted, without a sanction from and learned that no such order had been given. In the King, his Majesty, on the 20th of October, was a short, time after, the shop-door was opeped, and pleased, by means of a Rescript addressed to the five men walked in. Two of them went straight to Lord Chancellor of Justice, to declare, that he con- the parlour at the back of the shop, while the other siders the nomination of the Crown Prince, as a three remained examining the shop. One of these Juryman, to be, in the present cause, contrary to who entered the parlour took a-watch from the the very spirit and meaning of the Constitution, mantle-piece, and one of those who were in the shop since, in every country where the laws are the safe- leaned over the counter, and took out the till, which guard of public liberty, Princes, placed to watch he emptied of its contents, consisting of £2 Bs. in over the execution thereof, cannot, without endan- silver and copper. Mrs. Watkins and her son . a gering liberty itself, personally take part in the ap - of 15, were the only persons in that part of ;.he plication of house, those laws ; that on those occasions and they made an alarm, in consequence of where the King himself takes his seat in the _Su- which the fellows ran out. A Gentleman's servant, prenie Court, in . order thefit to act as a Judge, he who was in the kitchen, ran up, at hearing the noise, judges at least according to the prescribed laws, and and -pursued the thieves, who were taken.—Verdict, thus the influence which the presence of the King Guilty, Death, against Dunn and Jones, and Grady might probably cause, should he endeavour to take acquitted; but he was ordered to be detained. an advantage of it, would become less detrimental •These prisoners formed pat tof the gang of thieves to the rights and interests of an individual ; but a who were rescued from the custody of Marsden, the Juryman, who, although with the law as his guide, gaoler of Marlborough-street, on their way to prison. t judgesnder more extensive views, and who is bound Mr. Bar• a GARROW, in his charge to the Jury, at the %aisle time 'to follow the dictates of his own explained, at great length, the law of the case, ex conscience, eiercises . teo important a jurisdiction over pressing it as his decided opinion (and he did not the xights and privileges of his fellow-citizens, not to tbrisk it would be questioned) thatthe charge against gibe, .cause to an apprehension that liberty itself the prisoners amounted to the crime of burglary.— weld be threatened were the principle to be adopted, thalsa•Prltite'orthe Blood could be called upon and ,He then observed, that he had been very particular in pointing oat the law of this case; because he at* itlinilinan; and, lastly, that in the nomina tion oE hil Rtrjal Highness the Crown Prince at a wished it to be known to the'numerons gangs who were now carrying on this species of plunder, that if Jua i tnr ev ibe Xing cannot' bat see with satisfaction they entered the house of an honest man , aft er dark, pififlicly paid to his Royal Highness% son- with a felonious intent, though only the lifting of timenti, arid his love for liberty. The defendant in e latch, they were as much guilty of a capital offence this Catite,'placed under an ex officio information, flies as if they forced the door with a pick-axe, or any to a Firinte, who, from the pledge he has already other instrument. He thought it of the last import ,* yen to - the Swedish Nation, has inspired him with i ance that this explanation of the law should be pro the most unlimited cnnfidence. In entertaining such mulgated as extensively as possible. a confidence in the Prince, the defendant is right, but is wrong in the form ; for if the defendant could re- Jams Reeves and Joseph Jones were in dicted for ' tuns his Royal Highness the Cron Prince as one of assaulting G. S. Tucker on the highway, and taking the Jury, the plaintiff, from the'like reason, mi g ht, from him a watch, seals, &c. Mr. Tucker was on future occasion, also call on his Royal HighnesN passing along the Strand one morning in e ra w as to bent' Juryman ; and thus, what at least in appear- last, when he was surrounded by a gang of eight or since, would in the former case bear the stamp ofgrace ten fellow's; amongst. whom were the two prisoners. and 'protection, would, in the latter case, produce One of them pushed him against two ethers, who Oho a . cottrary eilect, and might degenerate into seized his arms, and Reeve's drew out his watch arid whim", 'or wea k en t h e po w e r aaci es. handed it to Jones. Mr. Tucker secured them , in an undue spite of the efforts of the gang, who beat him se cacy of the law. • . • vetely. Jones had the watch in his possesgon. — Guilty, Death.—Aged 17 and 13. James Hunt, aged . 16, was indicted for a high way robbery. J. Jerome, a•workman, at the Mint, was walking along loeman•street, Goodman's-fields, about six o'clock in the evening, when he was attacked by a ' gang of young fellows, the foremost of whom was the prisoner, who thrust his head in his stomach, and snatched the watch from his fob. Witness, in pur suing him, was knocked down and kicked by the others, but he finally secured him. Verdict, Guilty, Death.—The Jury recommended him to mercy on raccount of his youth. Mr:Baron GA meow orderei him to remain at the Bar; and observed, that, although it was his duty to give to the recommendation of the Jury all the weight which it so well merited, he- was. bound also, In . mercy to the prisoner, as well as for the sake of .the Public, to state, that he had better not indulge in any sanguine hopes of mercy, for the Metropolis was now in such a state that his Majesty's subjects could not walk in safety through the streets; and the ne cessity of an awful example was never more strongly felt than at the present juncture. The prisoner was then taken away, utteting ana themas against his prosecutor. Joseph Colvin, for assaulting John Welch on the King's highway, and taking from his person part of a gold watch-chain, three gold seals, &c. value 20s. was also capitally convicted. The following were convicted of felonies, viz.—G. Willis, for szeAing a silk handkerchief from the per son of J. Turner ; J. Williams, for stealing a pocket book from the person of J. Clough ; R. Graham, for stealing two gold seals, from the person of H. Gore; and Humphrey Clinker, for stealing a piece of flannel, value £5, the property cf W. and J. Dew. E. Brown was charged with forging and uttering a certain promissory note for the sum of £2O, with intent to defraud J. Hicks. It appeared•the prisoner had obtained £3 upon the bill from the prosecutor, whom the prisoner lodged with. The note purported to be the acceptance of Mr. Wilson, of Richmond.— There was not sufficient proof tendered to support the charge ; and the Jury, under the direction of Justice BAYLEY, acquitted the prisoner. J. Cooke, Eastnell, alias Heat Veld, and H. East hell, alias Heatifficld, were indicted for a highway robbery. The evidence called, proved [hat the pri soners bad been drinking at a public-house at Barnet, I with the prosecutor, R. Foskett.. After they had taken more liquor than could do them good, the landlord turned them out of his house ; a fight took place in the street, and Foskett lost his hat and a La. note in the scuffle. . Mr. Baron GA RROW thought there was not evidence to subitantiate the charge of highway robbery, and . the Jury acquitted them ; and, after a severe admo nition from the Judge, they were discharged. . • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. • Yesterday Jacob Sizmnr,lindlerd-olthe Coach and Horses, Turnham-green, stood . indicted for assault.? ing P. Beaver, C. Galley, P. Tyronie, and J. Men-, tague, four Italians, on the 26th of September. Galley was going along the Toad, with a box . of hardware, which he hawked Anti; and Met the other prosecutors, vrFo are likewise hawkers. They. told him how ill they had been . treated on the .road, by persons who were prejudiced against their country men, in consequence of. the Italian witnesses against the Queen: They offered their goods for sale at the door of the defendant, 'to some persons assembled there ; but they were attacked by the hostler and se veral others, and the box of Galley was thrown upon the pavement, trod upon, and his goods broken and destroyed, to the amount of £35. The defendant came out of the house and. struck Galley behind a most violent blow. Two Gentlemen passing, endea. voured to intercede in their behalf,• but were them selves threitened, and obliged to leave the poor fo reigners to theirlate. One of the Hammersmith coaches 'coming up, the Gentlemen appealed to the coachman and passengers to interfere for the Italians ; but the coachman's reply was—" ll—n them, set them under the wheel, and I will ride over them." . Witnesses were called to shew that the Italians corn mitted the first assault upon the defendant's.hostler ; and that the defendant merely endeavoured to pre vent a riot before his do - or. The Jury, however, found the defendant Guilty.—The sentence was that he be fined £6O, with liberty to speak to the -prose cutors on the subject. 'Mrs. Beer, who no sooner learnt that her husba.id would be proceeded against, than temorse sup:r seded every other feeling, and she was almost tracted ; she begged and prayed for his release, but to no avail ; she had gone too far to retract, and the law, she was told, must take its course. "rne fen - la%e prisoner acknowledged her guilt, and begged hard for mercy, while the author of her guilt maintained a sullen silence: Mr. Alderman BIRCH regretted tlnt; he had no power to assist her; the charge was one a character which could not be permitted to go ),:a. punished.—They were fully commited. TOWN'TALL, SOUTIIWARK. SEDUCTION AND ROBBERY—Yesterday, 'G. Beer and Mary Elspeck underwent an examination before Mr. Alderman BIRCH, charged with robbing the house of P. Young, Esq. in Alfred-place, Newmgton Cause Way. The female prisoner, who seemed much affected by her situation, had lived in the prosecu tor'S family for five years, and, till within the last six months, had always conducted herself in the most exemplary manner. About that period she became acquainted with the other prisoner, who imposed hint: self on her as a single man, although he was married to a very amiable young woman,- by whom he had a family ; he continued to visit her for a length of time on the footing of a sweetheart, and promised her marriage•as soon as he should be able to.arrange his affairs, which were much out of order. By such means he so wrought on the poor girl's mind, as to draw from her, in various suMs, no less than 1:24, being the produce of many years hard industry. At length, it was remarked that property was daily miss. ing. In the meantime, the wife of -Beer, who had long noticed her husband's neglect with concern, took an opportunity of watching him. It then oc curred to her, that many valuable things which he had lately - brought home could not have been come by honestly ; she. then examined some. bed linen, and discovered the prosecutor's initials. ~- Filled with jea lousy, and the hopes of bringing her rival to puniih ment, she flew to Mr. Jepps, a friend of - the prtsect tor, produced the property, and invited then" td search her apartment,, where a quantity of decanters and bed linen were found, all of wilich the prosecu.. tor identified, as. having been. stolen from his : house; On further inquiry, it was discOvered that Beer, to please his unfortunate victim;• . atid silence her scru ples,' had- caused banns ofmarriage to be inhlished f although he never intended to go through the cere mony. On this information the prisoners were prehended ) to the sretw(altliovgh temporary) joy. of RECORDER'S RETORT. Yesterday the RECPRDER made his Report to MAJESTY in Council of the following prisoners, cz.. pitally convicted in October Session last, viz. Thomas Eaton, Thomas Hunt,, John Hughes, and Jan Pritchard, for highway robberies; Richard Sett, for mz!:- dously cutting and stabbing ; Martin Feeley, for burglary ; Charles King, for sending a letter without any name subscribed, to the Rev. Rodber, demarnilng money; Charles Grif fiths, for horse-stealing ; Daniel Gentle, Willisrn Reid, Soph4 Andrews, andlfary Leonard, fur stealing in dwelling-heases ; James Wilcox and Charles Goodwin, for home-breaking in the day time; Thomas Carr and William Sydney Smith, for high way robberies, in September Session. When Charles Goodwin, Thomas Eaton, Thome, Hunt, John Hughes, Martin Feeley, Daniel Geolfic, William Reid, and Rickard Scott, were ordered for execution on Monday next, the 11th of December. The others were respited during pl:'asure. At a late trial in the Secondaries Court, on a po'nt touching the soundness of a horse, the ostler ck posed as follows :—" I thought first it was only a bit of a cold, but I soon saw she had a knock-r e ader. She was what we calls a properjrt l / 2 er ; she'd a lit of -a run at her nose, but I saw she eat %very well, and drinked wrry well." Saturday se'nnight, a quarrel, which was attended with fatal consequences, took place between four men who were drinking in r , public-house at Kilyth, about eleven o'clock at • night. The quarrel is said to have originated in consequence of the landlord, Thomas Cuddy, having refused to supply them with spirits. In the altercation, the landlord, an old man, was knocked down—whereupon one of his sons, and a young man of the name of James Shaw, who were in the kitchen at the time, came immediately to his assistance; a violent scuffle ensued, in which one of the four men, named James Thomson, weaver, was 'stabbed with an instrument in the groin. He was removed to his father's house in Kilsyth, where he died -next morning: . Two men, James Davidson Cuddy, and John Shaw, both belonging to Kilsyth, have been lodged in Stirling jail,, on suspicion of being - Concerned in this sanguinary outrage. Neil Stevenson, another of the four men, was very se riously wounded in the side. He is at present at Kil isyth, and censidered . in a very dangerous state. ... Herrings, which have for many years deserted the - Boston Deeps in Lincolnshire, have this season again appeared in . such prodigious numbers, that 40,000 have.heen taken by one vessel in the course of a day, and they'have been selling in Boston at one shilling the hundred. • • DIVIDENDS to be nr ade in the COUNTRY. Dec. 26, J. Riad, Tipton, Staffordshire, iron -master, at eleven, at the Royal 'Hotel,' Birmingham. Dec. 26, J. Lytbgoe, I verpool, timber-merchant, at one, at the Office of Mr. Aviscm, Liverpool. Jan. 2, H. Mould, . Winchester, cabinet-maker, at the White Hart Inn, Ilartlubury, Worcestershire. Ike. 27, A. and J. Manifold, Liverpool, tanners, at one, at the o,:orge Inn, Liverpool. Dec. 27, R. W. Coupland, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, linen-draper, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Dec. 27, .1. Bracewell, Brarnley, Yorkshire innkeeper, at ele ven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Jar.. C, J. ilold,hlp, Chelten ham, glover, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Lkc. 29, V. Clutten, late of Halesworfh, Suffolk, brandy-merchant, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Halesworth. Dec. 27, W. and A. L. Prattinton Bewdley, Worcestershire, grocers, at twelve, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Bewdley. Dec. 30, J. Mus grav New Laiths, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturer, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Dec. 50, J. Daniell and J. Parry, Ristol, oilmen, at twelve, at the Commercial Timms, Bristol TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sett—You have for many years announced, through the me dium of your well conducted and widely circulated Paper, the Establishment of the MEDICAL BOARD, instituted by the celebrated DP. Courts, and assisted by eminent Surgeons and Physicians of nearly forty years' experience--31essrs. ConeEa and Co. request you will have the kindness to inform your Readers, the whole of their practice is now concentrated at Char. 1 1one House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road, where se veral rooms are appropiiated for consultation.• The object of this arrangemelit is, that every Case may have the opinion of • Dr. Coors& and the whole Board ; and in order that the Public may be apprised of the above circumstance, so advantageous to them, you will be pleased to insert this Notice twice a week for one month.—By Order of the Board, I have the honour to remain, your obedient servant, C. BELL, M.l). See. N.B. All Letters addressed to Sir F. C. Daniel (Treasurer), are laid before the Board the same day. Modica' Board, Charlotte nouse, Surrey. Nov. 6, lB2O. • BIRTH. Nov. 19, at Cobham Hall, the seat of the Rasta Darnley, the Lady of Captain Raderick Macneill, of the lst Life Ouards, of a still-born child. MARRIED. Nov. .10, at Glasgow, iennethAl:lCenzies, Esq. 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