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SPOkrmo imurtoszecz. SISURY RACES, (LAST DAY) THURSDAY, MY 7.. i Lord C. Sonwrset's White Rose, lOst. beat 1401Egrestwatb ;raker to Hedley, 9st. 111 b. two miles, 50gs. MR Hallett's Jewess beat Mr. Rush's Tinse-kaiipil4 1111m;allik three miles, 50ga. Lord Charles Somegset's White Rose, Isc. iggb. i le a si r. F . price's Knee-buckle, 10K. 71b. New Mile, 9.5g5. Handicap Plate of £50.--.Heats the New Miles Mr. Biggs's Rosario, 4w. old. 10st. 101 b. - . 1 a Ld. Egremont's Brother to Hedley, syn. 10st. Mb. 3 2 Sir H. Lippincott's Cbaise-and-One, tyrs. old. lOst. 2 II m r , price's Knee•buckle, syrs. old - . . lir. g r . Cope's b. g. Nettle, aged • -.- • db. NANTWICH RACES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. The Town Plate, value dr 30, for Horses that Dever won tint value, at any one time (matches and sweepstakes exceptaill, Charles Smith's (Esq.) b. c. Phlebotomist, 4yrs. *ld a beneral Grosvenor's b. Lby King ilLtdad, syn. old • LAW INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS. yesterday the Right Honourable Sir WILLIAM sear prOceeded to the adjudication of the following .• case The Good Agreenient, Hoarens master.—This vessel, laden w i t h coals, bound from North Shields, to.Londw, was captured on the 13th of February last, by a French lugger privateer, who took all her crew out, and whaf'artieles-illey pleased, and (after w i ng h er cables) it'iandoned her. 'llls .was a claim of salvage Kt up by the crew tit - the gun brig Charger; and by. persons be longing to the Galloper Light-house, for bringing her into Har wich harbour. The Court was of opinion that it was a recap ture by the gun brig, because the Freuchmen would not have abandoned her, had it not approached, and accordingly pronounced salvage to be due to the crew thcruof, and sot. as a maw aeration to the persons belonging to the Light-house. COURT OP EXCHEQUER, JULY 8. THE RIND V. SCHOFIELD. This was an indictment to recover penllties under the statute, from the Defendant, a maltster at Ux bridge, for using a room for malt, not entered agree ably to the Act of Parliament. The penalties, for different days specified in the indictment, amounted to upwards of 10,0901. and it also contained addi tional charges, for the removal of malt into the room in question, in three different states of vegetation, amounting to a large additional sum. The SOLICITOR GENERAL having stated the case on the part of the prosecution, Two respectable witnesses, one of them an Exami ner General of Excise, and the other a Supervisor of Excise, were adduced, who concurred in stating, that, on a day specified, in consequence of suspicions en tertained -by them, they broke into the room in ques tion, which was net only not known to the officers, but was concealed, and required the drawing of a secret strinp to discover the entrance. They there found, on tile floor, and sticking against the walls, particles which they knew from the taste, and from inspection, to be malt in three enfferent states of vege tation. They found no sacks, however, nor any quantity of malt. Mr. SCARLET, for the Defendant, set up two pleas : first, that he had entered at the Excise Office five different rooms, of which the present was one, there being only four others in the view of the othcers, un less the temporary separatiori Of one of these four, by a partition reathing only to the chin of a moderately sized man, could be esteemed a total division. Se condly,he purposed to adduce evidence to sheer that the room in question not only was not used, or meant to be used by the Defendant, for the purpose of malt ing, but that his servants were ignorant of its ex. istence, and that it was intended as a place where potatoes might be kept by him, free from any risk of their being stolen byhis servants. Three servants of the Defendant were adduced i n support of the latter plea, all of whom concurred in declaring that they were present when the officers forced open the room in question.--that nothing was found in it but the refuse of barley straw, and that on' sweeping the room not above a quart of different ar ticles were collected, consisting chie fl y of mice chew. ings, &c. but in no instance of - a single complete grain. After an address, in reply, from the SOLICITOR GE MAL, The Loan CHIEF BARON declared the alledged entry of the room a complete farce, it being essential to the entry of a malting room that it should not only be entered, but be known and open to the officers.— The pretence of keeping potatoes too in this room raknown, as it was alledged, to the Defendant's ser vants, was unworthy of an answer, and only tended to aggravate the offence committed. . It remained, therefore, only for the Jury to estimate the degree of. credit due to the witnesses for the prosecution, who were persons even in the higher reveaue departments, and who were only called on to make surveys when improper practices were suspected, with the statement of the witnesses for the Defendant, all of whom, in many particulars, contradicted each other. The Jury found a verdict generally, for the Crown, and after a few words, the SODICITOR GENERAL agreed to restrict it to a single penalty of 2001. COURT OF KING's BENCH, JULY I. Calm% v as LA MINT. The Plaintiff, who is a flour factor had sold ten mks of &stir to one Lee, for which the Defendant Promised to pay, he having recommended Lee. The sole (atzstion in the cause was, whether the flour had ken told at one month's credit, or for ready money? The Defendant culled for the production of the Plain 's waste book, wherein appeared an entry of 44 ten, 'ads of flour to Richard Lee, at 601. per Laurence ' La Hunt." In this entry there was an erasure, where the word per was inserted. Two of the Plaintiff's clerks swore that there was the same word per" originally written there, and. t hat the Plaintiff had taken it out on account of a blot, and written per again. They could not, how ever, tell the meaning of the word per in that place, and it appeared that there were other blots in the book which had notbeen so scrupulously scratchedout. On the part of the Defendant, Lee was called, who said that the corn was sold at a month's credit, and hiss De La Hunt, who n- --.caged the business for her brother, said, that she called ?II the Plaintiff and in; sPected the books,-and one month_was written in the Place where theivord per appeared now to.be inserted. The Jury found a verdict for .the Defendant, the action having been brought before the month had ex pired. The Plaintiff being detected in an attempt to ex- Flint to his witness the meaning of the word 4 , per," • while Mt, *Wow was eirapfnint him, his own Counsel, Mr. PARK, requested him to retire from the Court. • PARKER V. REILLY. The Plaintiff in this case is a respectable merchant in the City, and had occasion to send out a vessel to St. Croix, to take out, and bring home, a freight ; and employed Mr. M'Ghie, a broker, to find him one. Akccorciingly he did so, and engaged with the Defen dant for the brig Peggy, burden about 200 tons ; and stipulated to pay 3001. outward, and an equal portion for the homewa r d cargo ; h ut w h en t h e char ter-party was made out, agreeable to the broker's me morandum; he refused to sign it, alledging, that the Plaintiff was a litigious man'; however, if he got Messrs. Quinton, Dick, and Co. guarantees, he would comply with his original agreement. In consequence of this refusal. on the part of the Defendant, the Plain tiff was obliged to charter another vessel, of a greater burden, and to fill her up he was under the necessity to ship •• furnaces, potatoes, iron-pots, and pilchards," which became a dead loss ,• independent of which the Plaintiff paid 1001. more for the subsequent charter, and it was for this amotint that he was advisid to I bring this action. These facts were proved by the broker and the Plaintiff's clerk ; when the case was referred, as to the I , gumshoe of damages, to Mr. %LLANO j but in the mean time, a verdict was taken for the Plaintiff , for 1001. GREG•RY in PARKER This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, who kept a library at Brighton in the year 1802, against the Defendant, a Quartermaster in the Army, for various trifling articles furnished to him and his wife, amounting to 71. Against this debt, the statute of limitations was pleaded—but during the intervening period of Mrs. Parker's returning from France, which she had left, her husband had written two letters, acknowledging the debt. These his Lordship thought sufficient to remove that case from that statute—Mrs. Parker hav ing been one of the parties who had assisted in con tracting the debt in question. • Verdict for the Plaintiff, 71.105. MALL. V. ODNER. This was an action brought ►y a relation and part ner in trade, against another, for payment of nearly 10,0001. for goods sold and delivered. This sum the Plaintiff sought to recover by virtue of a judgment obtained in the Court of King's Bench at Quebec, and also upon an account previously signed by the Defendant himself. A point arising as to how far this judgment could be deemed final, a verdict was given in behalf of the Plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court, to be afterwards argued upon a special case. MIXER V. GEORGE. The plaintiff was a cloth-factor in Basinghall-street. I and the defendant a wool-dealer and factor in Alder- 1 maubury. This action was for goods sold and deli.] vered. Mr. Alner, being in distressed circumstances, applied to a relation, a Mr. Waisted, who advanced hush money, and paid off a considerable part of his debts ; in return for which, the plaintiff executed a deed of assignment in his favour. 4 bout this time, I Mr. Alms sold to the defendant. George, a parcel of goods amounting to 13001. and it was, agreed that the receipts for the various payments shOul4 imply, dial they were for money gratuitously received, so as to elude his creditors. This being concealed from the assignee, this action was commenced for the payment of the whole amount. On the part of the defendant, hooievb, an account war, produced between'the par ties, wh4rein a balance of 201. was struck, in full sa tisfaction of all claims and demands, up to the 23c10f December, 1807.—Plaintiff non-suited. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY S. 1 SHUTER V. WILKINSON. Mr. Serjeant ,Listes described this case to be an ac tion by the Plaintiff to recover from the Defendant al sum of £l5. 16s. 9d. being the amount of brokerage due to him, for a quantity of staves, purchased by the Plaintiff from a Mr. Marsh for the Defendant. The: Learned Serjeant said that the customary rate ofi brokerage for the purchase of staves was one per cent, and this was all the Plaintiff demanded. He added,' that he should prove that staves were always bought through the medium of a broker. Mr. Thomas Coxhead Marsh stated, that on the 24th of December last he bought a quantity of staves of Mr. Wilkinson, which were described to have been the property of a person named Baker. He was asked by whom was the broker's commission paid, and he I answered, by the sellers always. He had bought these staves at the rate of 251. per ton, and lie had treated with Mr. Wilkinson only, as he (the wit-1 ness), understood such goods were in the market for I sale. By some means or other it appeared that the Plaintiff had been employed as a broker, in bringing the parties together on the Exchange, and the staves were paid fur by a bill on Mr. Wilkinson at three months, the usual credit given in such cases. Sir JAMES MANSFIELD said he could not see, from the evidence, any thing that demonstrated that Shuter had been employed at all. He had done nothing by desire of Mr. Wilkinson, neither did it appear that he had been employed by the other party, Mr. Marsh. Mr. Serjeant LENS said it was always the practice in the trade that staves should be bought and sold through the agency of a broker, and that such a prac tice accounted for the observation just made by his Lordship. The ordinary way of sale was by a bro-' ker who negociated with the vender, and not by the principals themselves. Sir James Mansfield said , . that all Shuter had done, appeared to be-, that he had persuaded Wilkinson to buy the staves of Mr. Marsh, l without having any authority for so having dune. Mr. John Evans, a merchant, was examined.-• said he...vas accustomed to employ brokers, and neVer transacted the lousiness of selling staves without a • broker. He was asked what he thought Shuter had done—" A good deal !" was the answer. Sir James Mansfield said that it had been admitted on the other side, that he had done nothing. Mr. Wilkinson had given him no directi6n, and it was evident there was no treaty between him and Mr. Marsh ; all that the plaintiff had done was to bring Mr, Marsh and Mr. Wilkinson together on the 'Change. In order to make out the case, it ought to have been proved that Shuter had been employed as a broker by Wilkinson ' and that had not been done.—Plaiatif Eoßsuitcd. - • • 4.* . • Nit ?. •RAGE JR.ELA • The following statement we copy Tabula% e onk the Dublin Eveing Part of the sth instants, lilliirlope the circumstances are exaggerated ; hut hovvever this may be, it demands, and we hope will receive from Government, the most serious investigation, ~ DUBLIN;JITLY 4. 44 We turn with pain from the subject of forei;v affairs to one of a domestic nature, calling, we think, for the speedy interposition of Government. Weliinne to state, upon unquestionable authority, that on the 23d of last month, some men, %Tomtit, and chadren, assembled about a mile from Newry, to dance round ' a bonfire, as is customary on St. John': Eve; when in the enjoyment of their old and harmless amusement, the poor people were anacked by a number of men, armed with muskets and bayonets ; one young man was killed, and others severely wounded. There was a person arrested at the time, charged with taking as active part in this shocking outrage, but the assailants attacked the house in which he was secured, and were in the act of burning it until he was set at liberty. " The Magistrates of the town and neighbourhood of Newry, with a becoming spirit, and indeed as they ought to do in the discharge of their duty, have come ! promptly forward, and, after stating the foregoing facts, have offered a reward for the apprehension of ' the persons concerned in this transaction, and in this the Magistrates are seconded by a number of respectable resident Gentlemen. The proclamation also states= i " There is good reason to conclude that the above.; 44 mentioned-outrage wan committed by persons, some " of whom are supposed to be associated in yeomanry 46 corps." This circumstance makes it doubly in . cumbent on Government to institute a strict invests= gation of this unfortunate affair ; the more so, as the yeomanry in the same district are accused of the at tack upon the Excise Officer and the Queen's Bays near Ardee. In our notice of this affair in our piper of l'hursday,-d-licacrinduced us to omit any men tion of the yeomanry, but in speaking of it the Drog heda paper has the following : " We are concerned to find that this wanton out-' " rage against the laws of GOv and man, was perpe " trated by yeomen, whose bounden duty it was to " support the Ring's officers ; it is fiirther lainentablc, i" as they were men of unimpeached character until " this unfortunate business took place." The affair at Ardee, alluded to in the above state. ment, was detailed in the STAR of Thursday last. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Yesterday Richard Walters was indicted for stealing 91bs. weight of iron, the property of Mr. John Vidler, the Mail-coach Contractor, with whom he worked. In consequence of information which Mr. Vidler received, that the prisoner was in the daily habit of robbing him, he procured an officer to watch the pri soner when he left his work; which he accordingly did, and on him were found the iron in question. On searching his lodgings some more iron was fOund, which Mr. Vidler identified as his property. The prisoner did not deny the theft, but said he had not taken any thing else, and only took this iron to make a child's carriage. He was found guilty. Mr. Vidler afterwards recommended him to the mercy of the Court. John Saunderr was indicted for receiving, knowing it to be stolen, 101bs. weight of iron, the property of the said Mr. Vidler. Mr. Vidler stated, that he had been continually plundered at his manufactories both' in Millbank. street, Penzance, and Aberdeen, of tai quantities of iron. No man had suffered more from such losses. Suspecting the defendant, who lives in the bourhood of Millbank-street, and keeps an old iron shop, he procured a search warrant, which two offi , cers executed, and there found the iron 'produced, which he knew to be his property. The officer who found the property, and who was also in Mr. Vidler's employ, swore to its being his master's. He admitted, that the defendant very readily allowed them to search the premises. He found the iron in a bag with a considerable quantity of the same material. _ ... _ The defendant's Counsel rested his Client's case on the improbability of the icon having been bought. with a knowledge of its being stolen, of•whkh indeed no evidence had been adduced. The behaviour of the defendant when the officer came to search the pre mises, was a proof of his innocence. The Chairman observed, that in a question of this nature, the Jury must be satisfied before they could convict, that the defendant well knew the property was stolim. If they were not satisfied that he bought it with a guilty knowledge, then they must acquit him. In fact, there was no proof before them in what man ner he became possessed of it. The Jury, after consulting a short time, fould the defendant Not guilty. John ?halts was indicted for stealing a silk hand kerchief from the person of Mr. Hebaen, a midshi2.. man in the Royal Navy. It appeared, that the prisoner was seen by a per son to take the handkerchief out of the pocket of Mr. Hebden—that person accordingly informed Mr. Heb den of his loss. This happened at St. James's while the guard was relieving. The prisoner was in corn pany with three other men, they all immediately re tired. A pursuit was had, and the prisoner was of terwards secured, and the handkercharf found in his bosom.. In his defence, he said that he picked it np ; but the fact of the robbery being clear, the Jury found him Guilty, and ihe court ordered him to be trans-, ported for the term,of seven years. John Freeman was forl.nd guilty of stealing a poutid of ham, ready dressed, from the shop of a restora teur, in New-street, Covent Garden, and sentenced to be cor. • .ed aneistastb. , • • • ONLY Einar DAvs TO DRAV.—Six Twenty Thousands, besides Tens, Fives, Twos, Ones, and Five flundreds ! &c. A Ticket at £22. 6s. or Tic kets to any amount, may be had at Honwsav and Co.'s, and shotilti' the Purchaser chuse to return the same, after the neat Day's Drawing, (if undrawn) may receive £23.65. ; after the Fourth Day £24. 6s. ; after the Fifth Day 5e2.5. 6s. ; a profit of r 3 in each Ticket to the adventurer. A chance so valua ble has not been inesented to the public for many. years. Tickets and Shares are selling, warranted undrawn, at HoasNay and Co.'s, 26, Cornitill, 62, Charing brush and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough. ED1TC.47701.1 OF ri!E POOR. We matelot; that an end will be pot to the discussions on atthject, by a letter abounding in the meet irhportant facts, re cently sent by Sir RICHARD Palmate, Sheriff of London, t, G. CONICS LAN., Esq. of Bristol; in mph , claim Queries of the latter Gentlemen, midi...wed to the former. the corre spondence dab= the attentioe of every one who feels an Inte rest in thewefi-being of Society, and will we trim lead to some decisive and prompt rnewituts foe the Valeta education of the Children of the Poor. • -- • e. cuaiIIERLAND, ESC} TO SIR RUM. PHILLIPS, ONE Or THRUIERIFFA OF LONboN. 31R-s.-When on my late visit to London, you sur prised me with a view of the prison of Newgate in a state of cleanliness that would have revived the de parting spirit of a How Ann, I inked you some ques tions relative to the state of the literary acquirements of the generality of the prisoners, and if it was com mon to find amongst these of the lower orders a knowledge of reading, wi king, and accounts ? that time you were so mach engaged in taking the amount of the poor women's pledges, distributing clothes, and noting the desires Of such as wished to take their children with them to Botany Bay, as not to be able to find time to satisfy my curiosity. I suspected, however, from what' I saw, and have indeed long suspected, that we owe many of the evils our criminals produce, to their being in a mate of ex treme ignorance, and as many well meaning people here were found, at the time we attempted to establish Lancaster's schools in Bristol,to entertain the directly opposite opinion, and to think that that sort of edu cation led to the increase of criminal actions, I have been desirous of availing myself of your knowledge of the characters and habits of the prisoners under your care, from observing how intimately you seemed acquainted with the different interests, and how kindly you endeavoured - to ameliorate their condition as far as was compatible with the discipline that secures their safe custody. You will therefore greatly oblige me and some friends of mine in this city, by stating what is the average number of the prisoners confined for criminal cases who have had a decent education, and if the majority are even able to read, ollowiig me to MOLL jivLlulour reply, as nothing can, in my opinion, be of more importance to the community in the present moment, than the decision of this momentous ques tion. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, • (Signed) . G. CVSUIERLA!.D. Bristol, June 14,1508. FROM SIR R. PHILLIPS.TO G. CtrUBMLAND, ESQ. DWI Sin—You do me justice in supposing that I have not been inattentive to the state of education among the numerous criminals who till the prisons of the metropolis. I have always considered that the' result of such an investigation would afford a certain criterion by which to decide finally on the question, Whether the poor ought,er ought net lo be educated ? end I . have therefore bestowed a constant attention to ;his subject since I have had .the honour to till my present office. The first opportunity which presented itself to me , of forming some general conclusion, on the subject; was by means of a memorial addressed to .the She riffs, signed by 152 of the crimina's in Newg,i:e-4 these 25 signed their own names in a'fair hand. %an. a bad and partly illegible hand, and the reniathil, 101 were marionen (persons who sign with a cross having never learned to write. '` On - another otiewsipli having applied to. the various . : excellent institutions which exi".t in th's ,xnet: 0p014., for a supply of Bibles, Te _Emus, and Religiotts. Tracts, to circulate in the-various wards, and thereby: to enable criminals to take advantage of the idle. hours spent in a prison, I found, cn suptrintending .. myself the distribution of these books, an almost' se.. . neral indifference about the receipt of them. On. in r - . quirt' it appeared that as few of the priscners conid read with facility, and as more than half of them . could not read at all, a large majority were altoge. : Cher insensible of the uses of such presents, and were - totally ignorant of the nature, died, and end of religion • ittrY! I have often interrogated a gronpe of these per sons as I have seen them standing together in their yards and wards, and I have found generally that about three in ten unite the qualifications of reading and writing, and one or. two others in every ten, able fo read, bat unable to write. . At the present time, - of the men in.the condemned Oils,• ender sentence of death, five can neither read nor write; and the three women now under the same sentence can neither of their' either read or write. I have thus answered your, questions, and I have no doubt but, on the average, the same state rf igno; ranee will be found to exist in ether prisons now, and in Newgate at all other times. I shall forbe ir to s if yf the conclusions which cannot fail to he drawn these facts—but I should hope they will tend to sfiake the confidence of those who oppose plans for the general educatiim of the poor, and thus in due time lessen the number of . unfortunate persons • Fuck coinuir CRIMES in perfect ignorance ra t4H, , LAWS AND OBLJOATTONS OF 11001631, AND IN TVGN TAL AB.SENCit OF AbL MORAL AND RELIGIOUS VEILING; '. I am, Dear Sir, faithfully, your obedient servanti-' ~. (Signed) .-....-- -.. ..a. PiIILLIFii. 5 ... Briase-street, June 29, 1806. . • ECCLESIASTICAL aItd_ACADEMiCAL PROMOTIONS. (Apes:), JOLT •70.--Tble day the Rev. George Hanon, of Magdalen College; and Rev. Samuel Smith, Canon of Christ Church, B. 1). were admitted Doctors in Divinity, Grand Com pounders. The Rev. John James Watido, of University College, M. A. and Student in Divinity, was admitted Bachelor and Doctor to pivinity. Rev. Thomas Speidell and Rev. John Nett, of St. John's Col • lege, M. A. and Students in Divinity, were admitted Bach( lore in ' Diviz.ity. The Rev. William Loh., of Queen's College, B.A. was admitted Master of Arts, Grand Compounder. The Rev. James Mentor, of Magdalen Hall : Rev. Paid Leie and Mr. Charles 'Fulton .Blieke, of Queen's College; Rev. The. mas Ninon Itiagden of Magdalen College ; her. Wm. Ha rr y Edward Beatineh gad Rev. uharl.s Paimcr. of Christ Chirch,, a l e, were admitted Masters of Arts. 1- < '.—... THE COURSE OF EXCHA A NOf. 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