Star. — London, England, 1821-05-30 00:00:00

THEATRES. COVENT-GARDEN —A new Tragedy, entitled Da mokand Pythias, was produced on Monday night at this Theatre, with eminent success. The following are the principal characters: Dionysius - - Damon - Pythias Tr. Ansel-T. ;Nlnearnrer. Mr. C. Krantz. }icias (Father of Pythias) Damocles - - Cal Anthe - - liermion - - Mr. CHAPMAN. Mr. F.GERION. Nibs LANCE. Min Foorig. The plot is founded on the memorable and well-known story of the two devoted ft lends, the one of whom generously pledged his life for the other, whilst the latter as generously redeemed it. The brat Act opens with the political disorders of Syracuse and the marriage of Pythias and Calanthe. In the second Act, Diony sins, hitherto General of the Republic, is proclaimed King by the recreant Senate—opposed only by Denton, whose arm is withheld, when aiming the dagger at the tyrant, and he is con signed in chains to a dungeon. Pythias, at the altar, and receiv ing the hand of his bride, bears of the disaster of his friend, in terrupts the ceremony, flies to his dungeon, and obtains from the tyrant permission for Damon to visit his wife and child, by offering himself as the pledge of his return. But six hours are allowed. Dimysius, in di:guise, visits Pythias in his dungeon, tells him he was an inmate in the tyrant's house, and had thus learned that Dionysivs had barred the return of amon, in order to take the life of Pythias, and that a vessel was ready to save his life. The solicitations of Calanthe and his father are added, but fail before the sense of inexorable honour. Damon sees his wife and child, and is about to depart, When his freed-man tells him that he slew his horse to prevent his redeeming his pledge, and thus save his life. But an accident throws an equestrian tra veller in his way, whom he dismounts and succeeds without scruple, and arrives at the critical moment when the axe was Lased over the neck of Pythias. The Tragedy now closes with- I out bloodshed. The two friends were admirably represented by Mr. MACREADY and Mr. C. KEMBLE. Mr. ANZOTT' represented the tyrant with ability, and a rnarkid: justness of discrimination. Miss DANCE acted' her' part very feelingly. MISS FOOtE also played well,l and spoke the Epilogue gracefully. The Prologue', was spoken by Mr. CONNOR. The Play is said to he a joint production—at least thus far: a Tragedy writ • ten in Dublin by a Mr. BANHAM, was put into the hands of Mr. SuslL, from whom it received material alterations and additions, and, in fact, assumed the form in which it was acted. SADLER'S WELLs.—The very excellent bill of fare for the present week cannot fail of producing good houses. The new Ballet of The Jovial Millers rises in public estimation, and Wuxi NsoN has been engaged Six Nights more and appears in a new character this evening, and during the week. Previous to the celebration of his MAJESTY% late birth-day, he received, at Brighton, a superb plum cake, from the City of Chester, which was nearly four feet in circumference, about half a yard in thickness, aid weighed upwards of sixty-five pounds. This singular present to Royalty had on the top the regal arms, surmounted by the inscription of " GOD save King GEORGE the Fourth." The Commissioners under the New Street Act, have allotted a piece of ground in the Regent's Park, opposite the Ciescent, Portland-place, to those unwise persons, who, without adequate cause, engage in duels. The place is indicated by a board, upon which is in scribed—" Rubbish may be shot here!" DUEL.—On the 2d instant a meeting took plaice at Br ussels, between Major Baron S. late of the 7th Dragoons, and Mr. W. A-14 formerly of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), which had nearly proved fatal to one of the party. The ball of the latter Gentle man perforated the Baron's coat, waistcoat, and shirt, grazing the breast in a direct line with the heart. The affair was afterwards amicably arranged by the interference of the seconds.. The cause of the meet ing originated in a dispute which occurred the night before at a Ball, respecting a Lady, to the honour of whose hand both parties laid claim. SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday, the neighbour hood of Lambeth-road was plunged into extreme consternation by an explosion equal to the report of artillery. It appears a lad named William Coefield, residing in Joiner-street, had amassed about half a pound of gunpowder in a blacking-bottle, and whilst amusing himself before the door in laying a train to some wild-fire, a spark communicated with the bottle, and the contents, we regret to say, literally shattered his right hand to pieces. He was immediately taken to the Hospital. Parents are highly culpable in suf fering their boys to tamper with such - fatal materials. Last week, as Mr. J. Gothard, the grandson of Mr. J. Gothard, of Hunslet Moor Foundry, was amusing himself in shooting at birds in an adjoining field, his fowling-piece went off, and he received the contents in his head, just above the left ear: after languishing in a state of insensibility for about half an hour, he expired. Thursday evening, as two Gentlemen were return ing from Mitcheldever to Basingstoke, in a gig, the horse became restive, by which the vehicle was over turned, and one of them killed on the spot. ILCHESTER, MAY 21.—About three o'clock, Mr. ESTCOURT, Mr. MUNDAY, and Mr. PHELPS, the Com missioners appointed by the Crown to inquire into the conduct of the jailor, and the state of this prison, arrived, and, in the-presence of the HIGH SHERIFF, the Magistrates, the jailor, and his officers, Mr. HUNT, Mr. HILL, the oldest debtor, and prisoners from the different wards, proceeded to open the Commission, which was read over, by their clerk. The Commis sioners informed all the parties of their intention to proceed immediately to the investigation, and re quested all those who had complaints to make, to furnish them with the particulars without delay; and requested the SHERIFF to assign a disinterested, im partial, and discreet person to attend them in going over the jail—it being their intention to do so with out loss of time; and Mr. BUNTER, the new task master, was immediately appointed. Mr. HUNT then stated that he had already preferred charges, and had adduced evidence before the Magistrates, which lasted fourteen days, and to which the jailor made no defence, and wished to be informed if he were at li berty to prefer the same as well as additional charges, he being prepared to do so. The Commissioners ac quiesced, and Mr. HUNT was requested to reduce his charges to writing, and furnish them with the same to-morrow morning, when they proposed to proceed to the examination of witnesses, and prose cute the inquiry for which they were appointed. The Court then adjourned till eight o'clock to-morrow, and the Commissioners, accompanied by the task master, proceeded to look into every department of the jail. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 29. 1111 SARI. OF WESTMEATII V. THE COUNTESS OF WESTMEATH. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this day in this case. It was a motion on the part of the noble plaintiff, praying for an Injunction to restrain the noble defendant from levying on his estates in Ire land, the amount of an annuity granted by him Co. the Countess on certain conditions. His Lordship, in the first instance, read over the principal allega tions in the Bill, and then proceeded to remark on the various parts of the answers put in by the defend. ants, and 'on which the most material points more immediately rested. The present Bill, he said, was filed by the noble plaintiff against his Countess and several others, some of whom were her trustees; and it prayed that two indentures, the one bearing date the 18th of December, 1817, and the other the 18th of May, 1818, might be delivered up to him, or that they might be set aside; but in the event of his Lord ship being of opinion that this could not be done, it proceeded to pray that the Court would decide what sum ought to be paid to the Countess of Westmeath, and the other persons named in the pleadings. The present question, he observed, did not come before him on the Hearing of the case," but on a motion for an " Injunction," and, as he had before stated, referred principally to two deeds, which, it was con tended, ought to be delivered lip or cancelled. On the part of the plaintiff it was contended, that if the' ' deeds in question were not delivered up, they ought, at least, to be cancelled, as they had been obtained by undue means; while on the other side it was as strongly contended that they were void. Under these circumstances, he had only to observe, that his ob- , servations would be confined to the nature of the deeds in question. His Lordship then noticed the various covenants in the deeds, which he recapitu lated. Among them were the - following r—That of £OOO per annum so the Countess, in the event of her surviving the Earl of Westmeath; that, relative to the disputes unhappily existing between them, the agreement to live apart, the pi ovisicn to be made for tie children, in The event of an amicable ar ranement taking place between the parties subsequent ly, and for any increase of children that might take place in consequence ; the covenant relative to the powers of Mr. Sheldon to raise (in the event of the Countess not finding it convenient or advisable to live with the Earl) a sum adequate to the maintenance of herself' and her children on rent charges ; the covenant rela tive to the children being allowed, in the event of a; separation, to be under the guidance of their mother; and that Mr. Sheldon should be'invested with power to raise a sufficient sum for the maintenance of any children that might be subsequently born. This deed, his Lcrdship observed, contemplated a separation ; and the question was, whether the deeds were, or were not, to be null and void, in the event of the parties coming together; or whether they were to be suspended only, during the time of their separation, should they afterwards come to an amicable arrange ment ? The separation, however, it appeared, was only to take place in the event of gross abuse, or ill usage on the part of the Earl towards his wife; and, after some observations on the law and equity of the case, he said, the difficulty here was, that the Bill was not filed by the Countess of Westmeath to have the deeds carried into execution, but on the part of the Earl to have them delivered up, &c. Now, look ing at all the cases that had taken place, which bore any relation to the present subject, he was firmly of opinion, that there was no law that would warrant a husband and wife, in entering into any agreement, to absolve each or either of them from their duty as parents. His Lordship then adverted to various cases which bore on the question at issue, and remarked, that it was difficult to dispose of documents of the nature of the present. It was true, that in the policy of the law the deeds in question might be void ; but was there anything in the present case to prove that they might, or might not, also be void in equity ? With this view of the case, he thought the most pro per course to pursue would be to send the case to a Court of Law, where its merits could more properly be decided on ; at the same time leaving it open to the parties, after the issue had been tried, to again apply to the Court. If the deeds were in themselves worth anything, they would enjoin a suit in the Ec clesiastical Court. Mr. BLARE said, there was'a suit now pending in that Court for the restitution of conjugal rights, ...hick the Countess of Westmeath meant to meet. A short conversation ensued, at the close of which the LORD CHANCELLOR made an order in the terms above stated, directing an issue at law to be tried ; at the same time refraining from disposing of the ap plication for an Injunction, until that was disposed of. SCOTTISH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. Peter Wallace, John Robertson, John Shaw, and Wm. Smart, were tried at Perth for assault and rob bery on the streets of Dundee, when the Jury returned a verdict finding them guilty art and part of theft. Their Counsel moved an arrest of judgment, on the ground that no sentence could follow upon a verdict for a crime not libelled in the indictment. On Mon day last the objection wad ably argued at Edinburgh, by Mr. URQUHART for the prisoners, who was fol lowed by Mr. SHAW and Mr. IVORY on the same side. After hearing Mr. MENZIES against the objection, the Court appointed Wednesday to give their judg ment, to which day the Court adjourned.—On• Wednesday the Court accordingly met. All the Judges were present, and delivered their opinions, unanimously sustaining the objection, on the ground that sentence could not follow on a verdict of guilty of a crime not libelled in the Indictment. After a suitable advice from the LARD JUSTICE CLERK, the prisoners were dismissed from the Bar. Mr. HERSCHILL is appointed one of the Commis sioners of the Board of Longitude, in the room of Dr. WOLLASTON. Mr. LusutuovoN, of the Treasury, in reply to a letter from C. M. &mum., Esq. M. P. has signified that farmers will not be prevented from wetting un saleable barley as food for their cart horses and other stock. At the late Uckfield Fair, when, as usual, a nume rous company of farmers dined together at the principal inn in that place, not a single bottle of wine was drank I POLICE. Town-11A LL, SOUTH WAR K.—ln consequence of the 1 termination of the charge against Mrs. Harmer, Mr. Bunny, the Overseer of St. Olave's Parish, waited yesterday on the friends of the deceased, and gave up possession of the premises, which he had held in the King's name since the fatal catastrophe. Mr. !Walston, of To3ley-street, London-bridge, was ; charged with violently assaulting a boy, thirteen years old, named J. Flinn. The complainant said, he was playing in a waggon with the defendant's son, when the latter fell out accidentally, and he im- : mediately ran to his father, and said he (complainant) had thrown him out ;upon which the prisoner seized him by the ears, and, having suspended him some minutes, suddenly dropped him on the stones. His head and body were contused by the fall, and he had been so long suspended that his sight began to fail. Again he lifted him up in the same manner, and again he dropped him on the ground, and was about to repeat his barbarity, when a man rescued him from his violence. The defendant endeavoured to ! skew that the boy was impertinent, and that he had' only shook him, but he completely failed. Mr. Alderman Starr( observed, that an assault of the most wanton cruelty was made out against the de fendant; but thought it would be better if the de fendant would make some compensation to the boy's. friends. If this suggestion was not agreed to, he should send the case before a Jury. The parties then retired and settled the matter. MA RLROROUGH STREET.—DA RING OUTRAGE.-- A case of an infamous and cowardly attack upon some respectable females and young men, and which, ,to use the words of the Magistrate, is almost too bar barous to be credited, came out on an inquiry into the conduct of William Etter, a street-keeper, pre ferred by the young persons in question, one of each sex appearing, with black eyes and bruises. it ape' pealed by the statement of the complainants, that they were walking two and two on Sunday evening, on the Bayswater-road, when the females were in sulted by a group of gentlemen's servants, about ten in number, who dragged the females from them.— One of the young men, whose sister had been forced from his arm, remonstrated, when one of the ruffians , knocked him down, and another stopped the shrieks of his sister by a violent blow on the eye, and after wards throwing her into a ditch, and literally strip ping the clothes from her back. The attack upon the unoffending,.seven in number, became general ; part of the ruffians keeping off the spectators, while the others ill-treated the complainants. A witness, who was a stranger, corroborated the brutal beha viour of the servants. Ewer, the street-keeper, who is employed at the New Bagnigge Wells Gardens, Bayswater, was charged with the fellow who first began the assault, and Ewer seemed to know them all, by shaking hands, &c. On their way down the road, the person charged, having the arm of Ewer, gave a counter-charge of the young man whose sister was torn from him, and he took hold of the street keeper's other arm. Ewer's advice was to settle it, and not go to the watch-house, telling the young man injured that it would cost him much money and trouble, and his better way would be to pay a quart of rum, and settle with him (Ewer) for his trouble. The young man spurned the offer; but when near the watch-house, the street-keeper and the assailants went into a public-house together, the former re-, fusing to take the charge to the watch-house, as he said he knew him, and the servant gave an address in Montague-street. The Magistrate, Mr. MA IN. WARING, observed that such men as these, who had been sworn in temporary constables, were sapping the very principles of the Police, and this, in addi tion to another case lately before him, was truly shocking, and tended to the disgrace of the respect able Police Officers. The Magistrate desired that a warrant should be made out against the servant, who gave an address in Montague -street, although there was but little hopes of finding him. Ile rather sup posed it was an attack by thieves, to cause a diver sion for plunder. The young persons went in search of the offender, and for the present the case was or dered to stand over. HATTON-G A Rastc,—Yesterday, Thomas Carter, a journeyman shoemaker, who lodged at a house in Leather-lane, was brought up for final examination, charged with firing a pistol, loaded with powder and leaden slugs, at James Beeson, of 18, Cross -street, Hatton-garden, with intent to murder him, or do him L some grievous bodily harm. The following is the F substance of the evidence : James Beeson sworn.—l live at No. 18, Cross-street, Hatton garden, and am a boot and shoemaker ; the prisoner had worked for me about twelve months since ; when he left me, I was in his debt about 21. 17$. 6d. About one 'o'clock in the afternoon of the 17th of this month, the prisoner came to my house ; be was let in by • Elizabeth White, my servant ; I was in the par lour nursing a child ; she came and told me there was a man in the passage who wanted me • I came into the passage with th e child in my arms, and met ;he prisoner, who told me to give the child to the girl, as he wanted to speak to me ; I did so, and he said go into the yard ; I proceeded along the passage towards the yard, and the prisoner close behind me; as I entered the yard I heard the report of a pistol, and felt myself struck with the shot on the shoulder, and one fell out of my sleev e; on look ing round I saw the pris oner throw away the pistol, and stand with his back against the wall in the passage. I asked hini what it was he bad done? Ile answered, " You may take up the pistol and shoot me." I believe the pistol now produced to be the same. [lsere the pistol, or rather blunderbuss, was pro duced, it was about ten inches long, a thick brass barrel, having a muzzle as wide as a wine glass.] James Jones sworn.—l lodge in complainant's house; I was in my apartment, at the time stated, when I was alarmed at the report of a pistol; I ran down stairs and found the prisoner standing in the passage, and a pistol lying on the floor about three feet from him ; hesaid," You know why I did it." Edward Read sworn.—He is an officer belonging to this Of fice ; being sent for, he accompanied the last witness, and found the prisoner standing in the passage ; he saw the complainant wounded in the face, and the marks of the shot in the shoulder of his coat; witness took the prisoner into the parlour and searched him. Witness asked the prisoner why he did it? he answered, " Because Beeson was a rogue, and he deserved it." Witness asked him if he did not expect to be taken? he said, u he thought nothing about it, for he had cheated him out of his money." The pistol then produced was that be received from the last witness. Doctor Skinner, who attended'the complainant, was not examined. The complainant gave his evi• dence with a greafdeal of reluctance. The parties were bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial. The throats of two valuable draught horses, be longing to Mr. W. HART, of South Frodingham, Yorkshire, were cut during the last week, whilst out at grass. COURSE OF Amsterdam l2 14 C.F. Ditto at sight 12 11 Rotterdam... l2 15 2U. Antwerp, ex-mo. 12 10 Hantbnrgh 3B 7 21U. Alton 3B t '2 }U. Paris, Sday's sight 25 80 U. Ditto 0 6 15 2U. EXCHANGE. Gibraltar-- Leghorn Genoa 43) Venice Ital. 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'lle •tuovritt3.,:e inctttii duals were natives of Birmingham, and had for 501111. 1,,,,s Sup. plied the London and provincial markets with forged nei n through the Instrumentality of a third person, who hart been ity. prehentled in London by Foy, the Bank Officer, with form notes in his possession. Upon his confessitm the above parties were apprehended, and thel- premises seatehetl,in which war found 610,000 in amount of forged notes, with the ph.. which they were struck ; and, upon his testimony 'St . Agg been admitted as evidence lor the prosecution) they were victed at the last Warwick Assizes. On Thursday night LA, the three wives, and fifteen children of the itnie , ppy men, wes t allowed to visit them, and to remain with them some few home prior to their dissolution. The scene was truly beatt-rending; the children were all under eight years of age, and in order se prevent them knowing their fathers' unhappy condition, it was impressed on their minds that they were indisposed, and surest! die. The.poor creatures, thus ignorant of their parents' fate, it the most affirm manner said, " 0 father, you will soon h e t o ,. ter," and en witnessing the fears, requested their mothers to seal for a doctor. Airs. !Ansley fainted, and remained insensible upon the knee of her husband fur more than one hour. en the I appointed time for separating them .from each ether, they were obliged to be dragged from their husbands' arms by aerial for te . I and the sight was truly distressing. On Friday mooting tlstv !were brought on the scaffold. Batkin, whore grief 64 ova. whelmed him, begged that lie might be allowed to give the fatal signal to the executioner. A handkerchief was given to him fa that purpose, but after they ware all tied up, and tie prams were gone through, he continued prying, and declared that he could not die. On beinkrequested by his fellow-dill - execs Mt le keep them in suspense—continuing to hold the handkerchief his hand, ilingley, who was next to him, snatched it front hi grasp, and exclaimed, " We have lived lige men, and le t us di e so," and tbrew the handkerchief on the ground—the deep standy fell, and in a few minutes their sufferings were eMed. A Moxstrn.—A fellow dressed genteelly in Hack, haslet* infested the fields about the Alpha Cottages and Lord's Cricks[ Ground, Mary-la-Bonne, and attacked and maimed females, dusk in the evenings. T wo instances reached the route la Fri. day and Saturday evening. The first was a young lady mama Jones, who was accosted in a familiar manner by the brute, but on her repulsing his addresses, be wounded her h i the arm wits sharp instrument, and mailed!: 'Saturday evening a nors e e r maid with two children was accosted by the same petwn, in d i e fields, who made a most wanton and indecent attack upon he; and afterwards cut her in the hip. Yesterday a boy, in endeavouring to get ttoM be hind a coach, on London-bridge, slipped, when ow of the spikes entered his neck, and before the coach could be stopped he was dragged a considerable ais tance. He was taken to a surgeon's, who dressed his wound, and thence to his father's, wile, keeps a chand ler's shop in Bermondsey, in a most I.itiable state. FitosT-BITTEN HAND.—The following case of a frost-bitten hand, is extracted from Captain PARRY'S Journal :—" His hands. presented a strange appear ance; they were perfectly hard, inflexible, colormess, possessing a degree of translucency, exhibiting more the external character of pieces of sculptured mar ble, than those of animated matter. They were im mediately plunged into the cold bath, where they continued for upwards of two hours, ere the flexibi lity was completely recovered; the abstraction of heat had been so great, that the water in contact with the fingers congealed upon them, even half an hour after they had been immersed. During the cold application, a considerable degree of re-action took place, attended by acute pain, from which the patient became so faint and exhausted as to necessi• tate his being conveyed to bed. In less than three hours, very active inflammation had supervened, ex tending high up the arm, and soon afterwards each hand, from the wrist downwards, was encine,l in a bladder, containing upwards of a pint of vi , ( 41 eious fluid. There were, however, three of the fingers of nne hand, and two of the other, in which lli!S ve,ica tion did not form; they continued cord, and perfectly insensible; and whilst arterial action was powerful, as far as the first joints of these fingers, the vmels of their extremities were in a perfect state of collapaon. During the emploiment of antiphlogistic remedies to reduce the inflammatory symptoms, various sti muli were used ineffectually, to restore animation to the fingers; when the inflammation began to sub side, a separation took place between the dead and the living parts, and eventually the amputation of them became necessary." MARRIED. At Porthester, en the 17th inst. Lieutenant Francis Gray, R.N. to Eliza, daughter of Mr. William Gray. Jan. 19, Air. Christopher Tatham, Surgeon, of Poplar, to Justina, eldest daughter of Mr. D. Dunbar, of the East India.road. Thursday, at St. Mary's, Newington, Surrey, Thomas Burn, Esq. of Southampton-place, Camberwell, to Mrs. Frances Maris Jenkins, relict of the late Rev. Dr. Jenkins, of Welsvorth. DIED. May 12, at Dorchester, aged 10, Francis John, only son of Major-General Sir Colquhoun Graham. May 6, at Aberdeen, Captain Wm. Gordon, late of the lit Regiment of Foot, or Royal Scots. May 26, in her 71st year, Sarah, wife of Capt. Dennis Butler, of Albany Crescent. Saturday, in Hanuver-street, Mary, the wife of the Hon. Col. Henry Kin g. At his seat at Newbrook, in the County of Mayo, on the 18th inst. aged 56, the Right Hon. Lord Baron Clanmorris. The title and part , of his estates descend to his Lordship's eldest son, the Hon. Barry Bingham (now Lord Clanmorris). Saturday se'nnight, Thomas Savage, about ten years of age, son of the late Mr. W. Savage of Sehay, currier : he fell into the River Ouse, near the Ship-yard at that place, and notwithstanti• ing he was seen to fall in, every effort to save bins was ineffectual Wednesday, at a sale of timber at Beech Wood, near Plym p• ton, one of the Gentlemen present, while stedfastly lookkig at a large tree, exclaimed," that is a fine and instantly expired. „-.- ~ ”,J .~.__ ~~