Star. — London, England, 1821-11-24 00:00:00

1301411)ZD egAnc w e copy the following from the Nortakh Mercury, }coi We l ed this morning : 0 have just received the following letter from our w orthy County Member: it relates to the abstrac 01' Wheat from under the King's lock, Whitt we we e the first to bring under the public notice, in a 'pt, a few weeks ago. We then , recommended, sad we ar e persuaded it would be well for the Agri clitoral Interest, if a genentl survey of the ware. under the lock was instituted To FRE EDITOR OF THE NORWICH MERCURY. I s n —ln one of your Papen of this month, t h ere was an al . bon lo de to a fraud that was supposed to have been committed go the eo n of Yorkshire, respecting bonded Coen. The same „ re b i d prviously reached me from another quarter, and I v r e d o Mr. 110111430 N for information. The fact, as stated, is —lt was occasioned by neglect on the part of the Col lector d E xc ise, though there does not appear to have been any w i nce in the fraud. His pay has been suspended, and worts taken, which, it is hoped, will guard against a recur w t h e practice.-1 pm, Sir, your obedient servant, • EDMUND WODEIIOUSE.'" SPORTIAG INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING. retro:ton Hounds meet on Monday, at Caxton Turnpike ; y e asoday, at Brampton Wood; Friday, at Abbotsly Downs. The Fast Essex and Thurlow Fox.hounds meet on Monday, p e aky Wood; Tuesday, at Bulmer Plough ; Thursday, at Sasstead-street,near Cavesidish ; Friday, It Gol Grove. The Woseestershire Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Chillington; Iraq, at Emboli. The Cheshire Hounds meet on Monday, at Weaver 1101; N r o b ie sday, at Mitobell ; Thursday, at highway-side; Satur do, it die Fox and Harrel. Sir Richard Pukaton's Hounds net on Monday, at Twem kesCiliervday, at Overton Scar. Su lkomas Stank-i's Hounds meet en tifonday, at Morton ; Wolatelay, at iluotun. Park ; Friday, at Thornton Common. Lard Anson's How& meet on Monday, at Kirkby. CUNNING OF THE FOX. At the Golden Beat tun, Reading, a young fox had. a few wan since, been taught to go into the wheel and turn the jack. After be had thus officiates' for some time, be escaped, and re vised his native woods. Herr be met the fate common to his ▪ s• 3 • was pursued by the hounds, and in his flight ran &ugh the town of Reading, reached the inn, and springing swathe half-door of the kitchen, jumped into the wheel and re word his occupation, he the very place where he had been brought IN by which means he saved his life. PEDESTRIANISM. Tsar/ se'nnight, West, of pedestrian celebrity, undertook Saslow to run ten miles in the hour. wbkit be accomplished, at Ash, Sandwich, without modem:in any distress, ih ikons tuinutea 41.0 Wednesday morning a !uel was fought between vroGenrlemen on Bagshot Heath, which proved fatal to ou of the seconds; in consequence of his standing too nee his man, he was shot in the left side, and died ia two hours. The unfortunate man has left a vie and child—they are, however, provided for. CHARLES DAwsoN, Esq. of Charles Fort, has re duced the rents on his estates in the county of Lime- s Ifr ties, oat 1 w• rick, more than one-third. The Rev. G. Moons, of Wrotham, has handsomely deducted 20 per cent. (amounting to nearly £500) from bis tithes, due at Michaelmas last; and we are happy to find that this laudable exataple has recently ken followed by the Hon. and Rev. F. Non., who deducted 15 per cent. from his Nettlested tithes. The Pr. Dr. Wiu.is, Vicar of Vs'ateringbury, at his late tithe-day, made, unsolicited, a deduction of 10 per test. from his ti the composition. Geese were sold last week in the Dublin market, at 101 each ; and turkies at a sovereign a score. Some idea may be f' rmed of the immense resort of Irish labourers to this country during the time of the tartest, from the circumstance, that one of the pas sengers in a Manchester coach counted no less than 284 Irish labourers on their return home, between Viarrington and Liverpool, on one of the last days of October, when the harvest was nearly over. The Louisiana Advertiser of the 20th September, sap— , . Along the frontier State of Louisiana there is at this moment almost every species of smuggling carried on. Slaves are brought in by the dozen.i elide our vessels are coasting along the shored ot Africa to prevent their departure." Last Sunday evening, a beautiful lunar rainbow vas visible for a few minutes in a south-west direc tion from Perth. The phenomenon was likewise seen etlinross, much about the same time. The variableness of the climate of Great Britain has never been more remarkable than of late. On die 2d instant, at six in the morning, Fahrenheit's 'thermometer stood at 601 degrees, and at the same hair on the 4th of July last, it was only at 52; so Oman one period in the middle of the present =m em it was 8i degrees colder than in the month of November. On the night of November 1, at York, the minimum of the thermometer was 49 ; on the Eight of theed of July last, it was 56 ; being 13 de grees colder. On the sth of November, at tire same bout in the morning, the thermometer was at SO, being 19 degrees colder than lour days before. The cascade and the gravel walk, at the east aid' of the Serpentine River, exhibited a curious appear ance on Sunday morning last. The dykes had given tray next Keusingten, and the torrent of water be eline so impetuous as to overflow the banks, carry ing with it multitudes of Saws. Boys were seen catching carp of six pounds weight on the gravel walk and sloping lawn. Guttman, Nov. 22.—A bridge across the Junction Navigation of the Arun and Way, near the Com ?asses, between this town and Horsham, was washed hay yesterday by the flood of heavy rains (although lice the summit level), and a man, who had been with cattle from Blackwater to Hor sham, returning was the said bridge, was unfortunately drowned.-- At Kingston, the Thames has overflowed the turnpike toad between that place and Ditton. Thanes, Nov. 21—The storm of Friday night last appears to have been general throughout the western part of England, and in some places considerable da mage has been done. It commenced in this neigh bourhood at about half-past ten, with one of the most tremendous showers of hail we ever witnessed, accom par.ied with thunder and lightning ; the wind at the lame time blowing a ga!e. SeVeral houses were corn odor floode.l. It visited Bath an hour or two earlier. Le shower of ice at Dartmouth included ragged Pieces of two or tin ee inches long; one actually mea sured four inches and a half. Among its effects in Brat neighhourlrood were from 2500 to WOO panes of east broken. LAW nfriLLzIENcR. •i . • Imm. • a• COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER W.. TAIIIBETT V. VESSETT AND TENANT. M. HEALD this day applied to the Court to dis- Wive an injunction which had been obtained to pre vent the sailing Of the ship Apollo, and which ap peared in this Paper at the time. It will be remem heed, that the grounds on which the plaintiff ob tained the injunction were, that the ship was not sea worthy, and that he would be rendered liable for the repairs that had been done to the vessel by the defen dants, who had dissented to his continuing Master of her. The Learned Counsel stated, that that injunc tion had been granted on an er parte hearing of the case; and he had now to state, that the plaintiff had, or would be indemnified for any loss he might sup pose himself liable to, and consequently he had no right to interfere with the vessel. The plaintiff, as a further proof of the justness of granting the present motion, he should state, had previously applied to the Court of Admiralty, and obtained security for t any loss he might sustain—a circumstance not men tioned to his Lordship at the time the injunction was obtained, and whit); he could not account for, as it was a circumstance that, in his opinion, ought to have been stated; but the most material fact was, that the defendants had, from the application that had been made, suffered great detriment in a pecu niary point of view. The vessel was one of the first class, and rated as such at Lloyd's; she had been freighted by the East India Company, and had taken past of her cargo on board. ' Tuenty-eight persons had taken their passage in her; but the consequence of the application had been, that the East India Com pany had objected to her proceeding on her voyage, and a considerable number of persons had declined going in the vessel. Affidavits had now been filed, rebutting the charge that the vessel was not sea worthy, by three surveyors and several ship-brokers, the Captain, Mate, and Midshipman—the latter of whom alleged, that the vessel had never made more than two or three -inches of water in tu-enty-four hours. Under these circumstances, he trusted his Lordship would not continue the injunction. Mr. Ducirwoetit followed on the same side, and took a similar hue of argument. Mr. HART contended that the injunction had been properly granted; and stated, as a reason for not mentioning the application to the Admiralty Court, in the former hearing, to have arisen from its not bearing on the case, and therefore it had not been mentioned. •It bad been stated, that the defendants were willing to indemnify his client for any loss he might sustain ; in fact, it had been, to use their own words, stated, that " they had, or would do." Now, this was all he wished Or required from them. Let them do this, and he ivould be satisfied ; but, until this was done, he certainly would submit, with de ference to the Court, that the injunction ought to be continued.—Mr. BAYNES argued to a like effect. Mr. HEALD replied, and enforced the necessity of dissolving the injunction, on similar principles to those be had before urged. Mr. HART said, he had just received a note, stating that his client had been served with a bill for the ex penses the defendants had gone to for repairs; and also an intimation that they should hold him liable for hi. quota of them. The letter to which he had alluded had been sent for, and would be in Court in half an hour. The LORD CHANCELLOR- 44 Take that time, and I will then state what I think of the matter." Mr. HART having got the letter, stated, that if it was wished, he would verify it by affidavit. Mr. HEALD said, the letter was written on the 4th of October, though it had not been put into the bill filed by the plaintiff. ' Mr. HART said, if the defendant; would undertake not to call on the plaintiff for the amount of the ex penses, he should be content. Mr. HEALD said he would not advise them to do so. The LoRD CHANCELLOR took a general view of the cam, and concluded by giving it as his opinion , that , `under all the circumstances of the case, he ought to dissolve the injunction. Mr. HART then gave notice of a motion for a re ference to the Master, in order to secure the plaintiff from any liability. Mr. HEALD said, when that motion was made, his 'clients would be prepared to meet it. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the Gentlemen were very respectable, and he thought if the £2,000 for the repairs were paid, there would be no necessity for going farther until the return of the ship. Mr. Heat.o—c. My advice is, that they all set off in the ship together for the East Indiea." The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I think they had bet ter all go in the ship together to the Eastlndies than stop in the Court of Chancery, in England r The injunction was then dissolved. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 0. The COURT was occupied the greater part of the l day in passing judgment upon persons guilty of of., fences against the Excise and Customs Laws; and va rious terms of imprisonment wese imposed upon them, according to the nature of their offences respectively, None of the cases were of general interest. THE KING V. ISAAC COX. GENT. Mr. Serjeant PELt. prayed the judgment of the Court on this defendant, a respectable solicitor of Honiton, who was convicted at the last Assizes for Exeter, before Mr. Baron Graham, of a libel pith lished in the Devonshire Newspapers, upon a young man named Charles Norman, a student of the Mili tary College at Sandhurst, and a son of Colonel Nor man. The alleged libel contained a statement of circumstances, tending to impute to the prosecutor gross and barbarous cruelty in putting to death a favourite mare, his property. The prosecution had been suggested by the heads of the Military College, for the vindication of the young Gentleman's cha racter, who was in danger of !ling expelled from the seminary in consequence of the imputation con tained in the libel. Affidavits were put in on behalf of the defendant, in mitigation of punishment, from which it appeared , that the transaction m hich was the subject of the al leged libel, had excited a great sensation at Sidmouth, where it took place, and prompted Miss Ann Barbara Wright, an elderly Lady of that town, and a Gentle man named Barrow, to employ the defendant profes sionally to inquire into the circumstances of the case, and adopt such proceedings as wale calculated to bring the prosecutor to punishinent for his supposed cruelty. The defendant, in putsuance of these in structions, took down in writhig the statements of ieveral eye-witnesses to the transaction, and amongst others, of the prosecutor's grooni, and, after submit ting the case to Counsel, and fiudinly, that there was no law which could reach the offence, he, under the direction of his employers, inserted in the Excter Flying Post, a statement of the circumstances, with out mentioning the prosecutor's name, With a view of exciting public opinion against the practice of I stich cruelties. The affidavits tended to exculpate the defendant from every improper, vindictive, or malicious motive towards the prosecutor ; and, on the contrary, went to sliew that he was influenced by the most praiseworthy feelings on behalf of the brute creation, and with an intention of warning the Public against so atrocious an example of unfeeling brutality. inc defendant was admitted to be a Gentleman of irreproachable character, and who, in domestic life, was a pattern of filial piety and fraternal goodness. The CHIEF Justice suggested, that probably the parties would go before the Master? Mr. ADAM (with whom were Mr. ERSKINE and Mr. JEREMY) said, on behalf of the defendant, that his client 'would be most willing to adopt , the suggestion of the Court, but this prosecution had already sub jected him to such an enurmous expense, that he was in no tondition to pay the costs of the trial. The par ties who had employed him had left him to his fate. The case then proceeded. The defendant's Counsel addressed the Court on his behalf. Mr. Serjeant PELL spoke in aggravation. The COURT, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, sentenced the defendant to pay to the King a tine of I:50. THE KINU V. JOHN WATSON AND OTHERS. These defendants, John Watson, Richard Grear, and John McMahon, were brought up to receive the ' I sentence of the Court, having been convicted, at the I, last Assizes for Lancashire,_ of assaulting two Excise Officers, in the execution of their duty, at Liverpool., They were sentenced to pay a fine of £5O each, and to be imprisoned for one month in the Middlesex House of Correction. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. NOVEMBER 23. DAVIS V. THE SANK OF ENGLAND. Mr. Serjeant Leas and Mr. Serjeant ONsLow now appeared to support the Rule obtained on a former day in this Term, to shew cause why the verdict which had been given for the defendants in this case should not be set aside, and why there should not be a new trial granted. The Learned Gentlemen contended that on the special matter which had been disclosed in the affidavit, the Rule must be made absolute. They were not able to meet the case at the first trial, as they should be now, if the Court would permit a second investigation. The plaintiff had certainly been taken by surprise at the trial, but even admitting that he might have expected from the terms of the notice some examination into his banking accounts, still it did not follow that he should have been able, at such a short warning (for the notice was given on the 22,1, and the cause was tried on the 23d of July), to explain the cause of every particular entry which, in the space of nine months, might have been made in his banker's books. lii the bill of discovery, which the defendants had filed in equity, there was no in terrogatory so adapted to the circumstances of his case, as to warn the plaintiff of the point which af terwards influenced the Jury at the trial. The ar rangements for the tiial had all been made previously to the receipt of the notice from the defendants, and no man could be expected to be prepared at one day's notice for a long and minute investigation into his banking accounts. As to the argument that he might have suspected his brother's forgery in March, and that he did not take any step to discover it till September, the Learned Serjeants contended, that though it might be charged against the plaintiff as negligent conduct, still it did not go to the real merits of the question. Lord Chief Justice DALLAS — " On the one hand, all that has been done by the Bank in this case has been properly done; on the other; the plaintiff must be acknowledged by all to have been placed in cir cumstances of a very distressing nature—circum stances that must alike home to the feelings of every one. We must not, however, decide on our feelings; we must take care of the interests of the country, and administer strict and impartial justice, according to the circumstances and the principles of every ease. I thought it my duty to state clearly to the Jury the law of the case, that, if they had any doubt, the plaintiff might have the benefit of it; but if they were of opinion that there had been a wilful suppres- . sion of knowledge on the part of the plaintiff, they must give a verdict for the defendants. The Jury thought, that, under the then existing circumstances, they could come to no other conclusion. Those cir cumstances are now explained by the plaintiff, on the Rule for a new trial; and the plaintiff asserts, and apparently with some force, that he was taken by sur prise; for otherwise he might have given the same explanation then which he now offers in his affidavit. His attention had not been drawn to this circumstance by the bill in equity, for that contained no interro gatory as to the £l5O, alleged to have been paid in his name into his banker's. It has been supposed that be must have known of those forgeries in March, which he concealed till September. 11 he did so, his conduct in that particular was not correct. He was• situated most unfortunately. It was his legal duty to communicate his knowledge to the Bank, but the exercise of that duty appeared to be, in effect, leading his brother to an ignominious death. That was the peculiarity of the cage. It did not even seem like a question relating to the ruin of one of two individuals, but we must judge of it as if it were ; we must in this case regard the Bank as an individual, and ask, on whom is this loss to fall? The fact that the plaintiff, must have known of the forgery in March was pressed on the Jury by my brother Bosanquet, and I have no doubt it weighed powerfully with them. If the plain tiff did know of that circumstance, he would now be perjured. The affidavit is full as to the plaintiff's belief that the money was paid as his brother's share of the housekeeping account. On the whole, there fore, although 1 approved of the verdict at the time, I now think that there should be a new trial. I should be very unhappy if ultimately there should be any doubt on the subject, and yet I cannot, as a human being, blame the plaintiff for wishing to save his bro ther from an ignominious death." The other Judges concurred with his Lgrdship in making - the Rule for a pew trial absolute. o rit T OF KING'S BENCH—THIS bAilt LIBEL ON LADY WROTTFSLRY: TIM KING t, •SHACKELL AND OTHERS: On the usual routine of business being disposed di Mr. SCA RLETT moved the judgment of the Court on SHACKELL, WEAVER, and ARROWSMITII, the printers and proprietors of the John Bull Sunday Paper, for a libel on the late Lady WROTTESLEY, of Staffordshire, in their Paper. The defendants suf• fered judgment to go by default. It will be recollected that the John Bdl Newspaper was in the weekly habit of corn menting in the grossest terms upon the Ladies who then visited her late Ma jesty the QUEEN, at Brandenburgh House. Some of the family of the Hon. 11. G. Betmerr, M.P. were in the habit of plying their respects to her late Ma. jesty, and John Bull opened a battery upon the me mory of Mr. Bennet's sister, the• late Lady WROT• 'MUM, who was the mother of a very large family s and who had been fOr some years in her grave. • The defendants put in several affidavits, declaring they knew nothing of the paragraph. _ _ _ Mr.Soractroß-GENERAL then addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment, urging that the dco fend.ints never wrote the paragraph; and, on theft hearing of its libellous nature, they made every apology and reparation in their power. Mr. SCARLET? replied, in an eloquent speech, and Mr. Justice BAYLEY delivered the judgment of the Court on the defendants, which was, that WEAVEA pay a fine of £2OO to the KING ; and be imprisoned Nine Months in the King's Bench Prison ; and Shackell and ARROWSMiTH to be imprisoned, in the same prison for the term of Nine Months, and also pay a fine to the King of £5OO each. The whole to ' find sureties to keep the peace, themselves in £5OO, and two sureties in £250, for five years. There was a considerable sensation of applause on the sentence being pronounced, which was instantly checked by the Court. The defendants were given into the custody of the tipstaff. Between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday nights the shop of Mr. GEORGE PAIN, boot and shoemaker, Ballard's-lane, Finchley, was broken into and robbed. of several pair of boots and other property. The coach-house of Mr. THOROOOOD, in Acre-lane, Brix ton, was broken into and robbed of a leaden pump and pipe, several bridles, saddles, horse-cloths, &c. Thursday evening, about nine o'clock, as Mr. GEORGE THOMAS, of Mitre-street, Latnbeth, was passing through the New Cut, he was attacked b r two men, who knocked him from the footpath into the road, and in an instant plundered him of his watch, with which they escaped undetected, though pursuit was immediately made after the villains. What makes the robbery more daring is the early hour of the night, and as several persons were passing at a small distance from where it took place. A Barefaced Robbery !—Yesterday as a well-dressed elderly woman was walking along St. Giles's, a fellovt snatched her spectacles off her nose, and ran off. A servant, near Limerick, wrote to his Master, in Dublin, that he had secured thefire-arms, having sent all the pokers and tongs to the barracks! As a constable was conveying William Atkinson, a boy about 15 years of age, to prison in Dublin, on. Monday last, for theft, the nimble young rogue slip ped himself out y his coat, of which the constable had a fast hold, and made his escape. The Serjeant-Major of the Royal Marines at Wool. wich Barracks states, that Cadman, who was executed on Wednesday, was Clerk to the Adjutant of the Royal Marine Batta►ion at the battle of New Orleans, where the unfortunate man was wounded. The following is the copy of a letter addressed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex : " November 43, _lB2l. " Ginensurx-As it is evident that a large body of the ems lightened and respectable pan of the. community are decidedly against the severity of the present Criminal Code, and more especially of that part which relates to the punishment of death for the Forgery of Bank Notes, it has been thought desirable to call a Public Meeting in reference to the cases of the penoni under sentence of death for next Tuesday ; and the undersigned request you will have the goodness to call the same." An Inquisition was taken on Wednesday before J. W. UNwIS, Esq. Coroner, at the Angel Inn, Ed.. mOnton, on the body of an old man named Patrick Wall, ostler at the Rose and Crown Inn, at the above place. It appeared that on Friday se'nnight the main road near the bridge at Duck-lane, was rendered to tally impassable by an immense flood to the depth of four feet, 'which communicated to a ditch of great length and depth, that emptied itself into the River Lea. The inundation was caused fi orn the late rains, and the. coaches and waggons were obliged to go round a mile before they could get on the other side. The ground floors of several houses were knee deep in water. The deceased was it Tottenham about sir o'clock in the evening, and was on his road home when he was overtaken by a milkman named Tit• marsh, who was on horseback, and he hying near the deceased, he invited him to ride behind him, which he agreed to, and mounted. On their arrival at the flood they were met by a cart loaded with hey in the middle of the water. 'Die horse which they rode shied at the cart, and the deceased slipped oil into the water. The impetuosity of the current soon car ried the unfortunate man away into the ditch ; he was heard to cry " LOKI), have mercy upon me!" but in a moment he Was lost. His body was picked up about a mile beyond where he , fell, and had been carried under several arches; his head was cut its se veral places by being knocked against the brickwork of the arches as he was carried through. The unfor tunate man had resided at Edmonton for the last forty years, and Lore an exemplary character. He has left a wife and five children. Verdict—Acci dentally drowned. Last Tuesday Another £30,000 was Sold in Shares by CARROLL. No. 11,406 was the lucky Ticket, and the fortunate Holders may receive their Money on demand. This reminds us that the very last 130,000 Consols was also Sold by Caaaotr. ; and it is confi dently anticipated that, as CanauLL is so peculiarly fortunate in Selling 00,000 Prizes, that Another will also be Sold by him, before the close of the pre sent Lottery, at his fortunate Offices, 19, Commas : , and 2d, OXI/ORD-sTIiZET. .~ .