Star. — London, England, 1821-04-26 00:00:00

TIIVATRES. Drtuni - -LaNE.—Public curiosity had been excited to a considerable degree, by the announcement of al Tragedy, as forthenming at this Theatre, from the pen of Lord RON. The Tragedy in question has already been before the Public in a printed form. The bills of the day. announced this circumstance, and con tained also a paragraph, bearing the shape of an apology for certain liberties taken with the text, in the adaptation of the Piece for the Stage. The title of the Tragedy remained unaltered, namely, Marion Micro, Doge of Venice ; and is founded on that in teresting portion of Venetian history, the conspiracy , in whic'h the Doge of that name took so conspicuous a pant; and by the failure of which, his life was sa crificed to the outraged laws and policy of the State. The characters were cast as follow : Marino Faliero (the Dote) - - Mr. COOPER. 13:rt.v:cits Fali:11 (his nephew) - Mr. Thompson. L. , nt and Senator) - Dlr. Foorr. Be .ni . t.tai (Chia of the Council of Ten) Mr. Powei.L. Isracl Berteccio Mr. WALLACE. Philip Catentialy Cons irators Mr. 11Kosti.sr. I ho p lino :%Ir. hinar.thrh. I;ertrant • Mr. IIia.NARD• Angiolina (Wife to the Doge) - - Mrs. W. WEST. • Marianna Miss Smixuson. For the advantage of those who have not had time yet to read the Tiagedy, and are unconelioue of the historical incidents on which it is founded, it may be necessary to say that the plot rests upon a conspiracy against the Government of Venice, which was entered into by the Doge in 1355, in consequence of justice having been refused him for an insult offered to the character of his wife by Michael Steno. The conspil racy is ripe foe exeeution, and the bell of St. Mark's has actually sounded for the onset of the conspirators; but the want of resolution in one of the conspirators, Bertram, induces him to seek the preservation of the life of Lioni, a Senator, of his acquaintance. To Lioni he imparts a caution not to stir out until he comes to. give him notice that he may do so with safety. "Lioni thereupon contrives to wheedle him cat of the best half of the secret—then secures him, and by bringing him before the Council of Ten, which is forthwith convoked, the whole scheme is revealed. The rebels are taken and executed. The Doge is amerced of his • dignities and possessions, and , decapitated, and his wife goes into a Convent. To render the Play :It for Stage representation, many of the soliloquies are entirely omitted, and the conversation between different characters of the Drama considerably abridged. Nothing, however, was introduced into the Piece represented last night which is not to be found in the original, and sufficient is retained to lengthen out the performance to a pe riod of upwards of three hours and a half. Like the rest of his Lm dship's productions, this Piece abounds in beautiful imagery, lofty thoughts, and language finely poetical. Still, however, at is by no means a Piece calculated to retain possession of the Stage, though it will always excite admiration in the closet. The scenes are too long, the incidents are not drawn sufficiently close to prevent that degree of heaviness and languor pervading the whole, exhausting to the patience and good humour of an audience, and so dangerous to the fame, as well as the more substan tial comforts, of an Author writing for emolument, and perhaps subsistence. Had such been the situa tion of the Author of this Piece, we are persuaded' the patience of the audience would have tired last night long before its conclusion. :the-name, reputa tion, and fashion of its Noble Author, however, car ried it through triumphantly, the attempts of the malcontents—feeble in the extreme—being soon over powered and put down by the applause of the well affected. The exertions of the Performers were highly creditable to them. Mr. COOPER supported the cha racter of the Doge, into which, indeed, almost the entire strength of lse Piece is'thrown, in a manner which wilt add much to his already rising reputation. He was particularly effective in the scene in which be is introduced to the conspirators by Israel Btr- Sued°, in his enumeration of former friends and com panions, now doomed to fall victims to the conspiracy, of which he was thus become the head. His reply to his nephew's observation, when the conspiracy had been detected, that: a moment more and all had been stricessful— e Thai moment would have chang'd the face of age, This gives us to eternity !" was finely conceived and expressed.' Again, when before the Council of Ten, and urged to state the reasons whit!: induced him to conspire the overthrow of the State, his answer; alluding to the insult offered by the Patrician Steno to his wife— " A spark-lights up a flame; A single drop will make a cup o'erflow. My cup was fuU already!" called forth the loudest applause; and his conclud ing anathema on the Venetian State on going to exe cution, elicited the most unanimous approbation. Mrs. WEST was highly interesting in the Princess Ang,iolina. We have never seen her to more advan tage than last night, in her appeal to the Council, and her admonition to her husband, to lay down his life in a manner worthy her deceased father's friend. Her parting interview with him, was also loudly ap plauded. WALLACE, as the chief Conspirator,. had bat little to do. In the early part of the Second Act a number of printed bills, of which the following is a copy, were showered from the Gallery into the Pit and Boxes: • " The Public are respectfully informed, that the represents tion of Laid &fames Tragedy. The Doge if Venice, takes place in defiance of an Injunction of the Loan CHANCILLOS, which was not applied for until the remonstrance of the Publisher, at the earnest desire of the Noble Author ' bad failed in protecting this Drama front its intrusion on the Stage, fur which it was never intended." — This notificatinn,bowever, passed unneeded by the audience, and, at the conclusion of the Piece, the, Manager, Mr. RUSSELL, came forward amidst loud applauses, and addressed the audience to the fol lowing effect: LAMS AND Gifermette—Out of respect to the legal pro ceedings now pending, the Proprietors of this Theatre forbear to announce a repetition of this Tragedy at present, but flatter bemselves they shall be able, in a few days, to name a night for i:s secnild representation"—(4pp‘ausek Mr. Russeee then gave out Mother and Son for a second representation this evening. The Methodists are now raising subscriptions to convert the (iipsys to Christianity. In a late report, they say,' We have been running to the ends of the earth to convert the Ileathen,while this body, which has subsisted among us for 400 years, and now amounts to 18,000 ptaisons, has escaped our notice." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BING'S BENCH, APRIL 25. - - - The Judges met this day at Westminster, and pro ceeded to hear motions for new trials ' and to dispose of other causes remaining in the paper from last Term. PULLING V. TUEICSR. This was a motion for a new trial, on the ground l of a. misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge who .tried the cause. It was an action tried at the last Devon Assizes, brought by the assignees of a bankrupt, to recover mosey had and received by defendant under the following circumstances. It appeared that the bankrupt, on the 13th of Decem ber, 1816, executed.a conveyance,of his property for the benefit of the defendant and two other creditors. The bankruptcy occurred three years afterwards, and the assignees conceiving the conveyance in question, to be an unfair preference given to these three cre ditors, brought the present action. The Learned Judge 'at the trial told the Jury the question for their consideration was, whether or not 'the conveyance was made in contemplation of a bank ruptcy ?. If such should be their opinion, then by the statute of James it was an assignment fraudulent in its nature, as regarded the rest of the creditors, and therefore void in law. The Jury, under this direc tion, found a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. MOORE now moved to set aside the verdict, on the ground that the evidence did not warrant the assumption that at the time the said conveyance. was ma le, there was any contemplation of an act of bankruptcy. Mr. Serjeant Pau. and Mr. GazzLes supported the verdict. The Court, after hearing the arguments, were of .opinion the direction of the Learned Judge was righi, and that there was no ground whatever for disturbing the verdict.—Rule refused. • FARTHING V. BONE. This was also a motion for a new trial ; it was an action tried in. the West. Th.: plaintiff sought to recover compensation in damages from the defend ant, a surgeon, for an injury, sustained by ignorant and unskilful treatment. The plaintiff, who was a carpenter, had the misfortune, whilst following his occupation, to fall with a scaTold and building, and to be buried in the ruins. He was taken up dread fully bruised and maimed. The defendant was called in to afford professional aid, and was of opinion no fracture of bones had taken place. He treated the man accordingly, but made no progress towards a cure.• Other advice was called in, when it appeared that the leg bone and ancle were fractured. Wit nesses were called, on the part of the plaintiff, to prove these facts. On the part of the defendant, evidence was called to prove that the cure was not delayed by any improper or unskilftd treatment on the part of the defendant, but from a scorbutic taint to which the plaintiff was subject.—Verdict had been for the defendant. _ _ _ _ _ The Cum JUSTICE here asked if the defendant would undertake to pay all expenses, if the matter went no further? Mr. Sersant PELL, for the defendant, said, his client had no objection to release the poor man irom all expenses. Mr. MoottE, the plaintiff's Counsel, admitted the defendant to be a most humane man in his practice, and his client could not attribute more than error in judgment to him. With permission Of the Court, he would consult with the plaintiff on the subject, and take his instructions as to dropping further proceed ings, if their Lordships would allow him to mention the subject on a future day. The Court gave permission for the Learned Counsel to do so, and the subject stands over for the present. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday, Thomas Elliot was indicted for inter-" marrying with Jane Taylor, his former wife, Honora Elliot, being alive. The prisoner was dressed in black, and was of respectable appearance. Thomas Vann, a Police officer of Worship-street, apprehended the prisoner about four or five weeks ago. Witness told him that he took him tbr bigamy, and the prisoner laughed at it. John Brady, a hatter by trade.—He knew the pri soner, and was acquainted with him in Ireland. He proved the marriage of the prisoner in Ireland, eleven years last May, to. Honora Smith. He also proved that she was now alive, and had seen her about half an hour ago. Cross.examined.—The parties were married by a Mr. Riley, a Catholic Priest; at his (the Priest's) house; but it was not a private marriage. He (wit ness) did not steal into the house, but got in by his two feet. Being asked how muck money he got for appearing this day as a witness ? he said he got no thing, " not even the two guineas which you (ad dressing the - Counsel) obtain!" He came from Ire land to push his fortune the same as another. Other witnesses were subsequently examined, who proved the facts of the case, and the prisoner was ul timately found Guilty. T. Smith was indicted for stealing 801bs. weight of lead, the property of J. Cromwell, affixed to a certain building. Mr. Cromwell, a farmer at Hammersmith,. proved that the lead in question was stolen from a barn be -1 longing to him, on or about the night of the Bth of March. T. Close, a young lad, swore that on the night of the Bth of March he was travelling with a horse and cart, and stopped at the Chaise and Horses public house, at Hammersmith. When he had been there a short time, the prisoner came in, and forced his con versation upon him, and asked him if he had any objection to earn ss. by carrying some lead to Lon- don the following morning? Witness never saw him before that night. After some conversation he agreed to take the lead, and the prisoner then desired the landlord to let witness have a bed, and said he would call him at four o'clock in the morning. He was nut called, however, till six, and then he put his horse to, and went with the prisoner to an adjacent lane, where the latter took some lead from a dunghill, where it was covered over, and put itinto the cart. Witness then drove away towards London, and when he ar rived at Kensington, two constables stopped the cart, and took the lead and witness into custody. The pri soner at the time was not with the cart. Cross-zzaneined.—Witness lives with his mother, who keeps a rag-shop in Old Bethlem..She does not purchaseuld iron and lead. Witness was sure he bad never seen the prisoner' before that night.- He had I left town that night to go to Windsor; he left town at nine toselock, to go and look aftera friend of his, who had not come home in time. The promise of five shillings induced him to give up the Windsor journey. Mr. Drinkwater, landlord of the Chaise and Horses, swore, that the last witness, when he met the prisoner at his house, shook him cordially by the hand, and they conversed with all the familiarity of old acquaintances. In the morning, the witness, Close, went towards the lane, with bis horse and cart, but the prisoner was not with him then. Witness afterwards saw the cart drive away towards London, and in a few minutes the pri soner came: in and said, " Is that young man gone?" Witness suspected something wrong, and sent Officers in pursuit of the cars. • The Constables deposed to stopping the cart, and said, they saw the prisoner walking about three-quar ters of a mile behind it. They took him afterwards at his own house. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Close was af terwards called by the Court and severely reprimanded. BRISTOL ASSIZES. The trial -of John Norwood, for the murder of a young woman /lamed Eliza Balsum, excited the greatest interest in the neighbourhood of Bristol. The first witness called was Samuel Fry, who de posed, that in January last he was present with Joseph Fry, Thomas Barnes, and the prisoner Norwood. Did not see Eliza Balsum. She was down at the foot of a hill, about SO 0r.40 yards from the place where they stood. Prisoner was on the brow of the hill. Heard the girl cry out "0, lam killed !" Heard Barnes say it was a shame, but did not know what it meant. Barnes's words were, "It is `it shame." The words were addressed to no one in particular. Saw Balsum running up the bill a minute afterwards, but did not know who used the expression " 0, 1 am killed." Went to see, and found Balsum. This wit ness afterwards said he did not know it was Balsum. It was starlight. To a question from the Judge, how he came to say that he saw her running up the hill ? he replied, that he looked towards the brook, but saw .nothing. The cry proceeded from the brook. It was not a stop hill upon which they stood. • Thomas Barnes sworn.—On - the 26th of January ' was standing at the four cross-roads at Hanham. Sa muel Fry and Horwood were present. It was about eight in the evening, and star-light. Thebrook - was about 37 or 40 yards off, and there is a public path across it. They were standing above. Saw that young man (the prisoner) wave - his atm (wit:fess here de scribed the act of throwing); but saw nothing in pri soner's hand at the - time'. In the twinkling of an - eye afterwards, heard some one fall down heard a splash. About ten minutes afterwards, prisoner told witness not to speak of it. When he heard the splash, witness said, "There's some one knocked down in the bottom:" said this loud enough for pi isoner to hear. A week afterwards saw prisoner, who called witness "a de luding son of a —," for mentioning what he had seen. Another time prisoner challenged him to fight. When he heard the splash he looked towards the brook, but could see nobody. Heard the cry or scream of a woman, and could distinguish the words " 0 Lord r Prisoner was then looking towards the brook, and wit ness said," it is a shame—you have knocked someone down in the bottom." Saw no stone in prisoner's hand. Ann Fry, about three months before this 1-::,opened, heard the prisoner Horwood say, that if he saw Eliza Balsum with another man be would be the death of her. Witness was at a public-house with Norwood, Eliza Balsum, and others, the Christmas before this happened. They were all friendly at that time. Saw prisoner pull out a bottle, and heard him say that was what he had to fling over Eliza Balsum. On her cross-examination, she said she had seen them dancing together afterwards, and on good terms. Sarah Balsum, mother of the deceased, was the next witness. Remembers the night Eliza came home.— ' Could not recollect the day of the month ; but it was towards the latter end of January, between eight and nine o'clock. She was in bed at the time, and got up. Her daughter had her head cutand bruised greatly, on the right side over the eye. The eye was Hack. She wasvery sick and vomited, and continued so sometime. Dressed her head with a poultice. Took her to the Infirmary five days afterwards. On Christmas night Eliza came home about nine o'clock. Heard some body running fast. Her daughter cried out, " Mo ther, open the door, and let me in, for John Horwood is going to burn me all to pieces !" Witness heard him threatening ; heard him say, " The first time he could catch her, he would smash her bones all to pieces r Witness looked out of the window, and asked why he threatened her child that way ? Hor wood swore by his MAKER that " he would kill her, and those that did take her part!" On the Tuesday following witness came home with something like grease all over her clothes, and next morning they were all in holes.—ln answer to a question from the Judge, she said she knew•Horwood by his voice. Brooks wps talking with prisoner a few days before he was apprehended. Witness told Horwood that he would be tried, and perhaps hanged. Hor- ' wood replied, " If she does not die there (iu the In firmary), when she comes out, Fit be if I don't kill her !"--The above facts were supported by the evidence of several other witnesses. The senior surgeon of the Bristol Infirmary deposed to the state of the deceased whilst under his care, and gave his opinion that her death was occasioned by the. wound inflicted upon her head. The deposition of Eliza Balsum, taken while she was in the Infirmary, was here put in and read. It stated that John Horwood had frequently made inde licate and improper proposals to her; that she had constantly refused to yield to his solicitations ; " in consequence of which the said John Hnrwood had several times threatened. to murder her ; that about Christmas last, Norwood met her near Hanham, and flung a quantity of oil of . vitriol, or some other li quid, over her, which burnt her clothes; that since ' Christmas, Norwood had frequently way-laid her, with intent, as she believed, tp kill her; that about the 30th or 31st of January last, as she was walking in a lane near Hanham, she, saw Horwood, at a dis tance of about a yard from her, in . the lane ; upon which she ran home to her house, and alarmed her family, who came out, and he ran away; that ou the following day, in the evening, about eight or nine o'clock, as she was walking with a •person whose name she does not at pesent recollect, she saw the said John Horwood a short distance from' her; he swore at her, and said he would kill her ; an d then immediately took up a stone and flung at her e which struck her on the head, and she tell down ; aqd in formant does not recollect anything further." When -- ~~r _ 1. this deposition wls read, In the presence of Ilorwo o d, at the Infirmary, he refused to ask the girl any goes. tions.—Here the evidence for the prosecution closed ; and the prisorer being asked in the usual terms what .he hid to say, replied, " I leave my defence to my ' Counsellors." It was unsuccessfully attempted by several witnesses to prove an alibi. The RICORDER then summed up the evidence in a most impartial manner. He explained the law to b e that if a person threw A stone with the intent only to inflict a put tial mischief, and death ensued, the crime would be murder. The Jury retired, and after remaining in &libel*. don an hour and 40 minutes, they came into Court at 'ten minutes afterive o'clock, with a verdict of Gar lip During the whole of the trial the prisoner paid great attention to the evidence, but without fetraying the slightest emotion of any kind. When the verdict was pronounced, he dropped a few tears, and put hit handkerchief m his face twice. The prisoner's Counsel then took an objectiOa t 4 the form of the indictment, which stated that the de: ceased bad lingered one entire period in one County, and also during 'the same period in another County ; whereas, it was contended, that there ought to have been two distinct periods specified. After hearing Counsel on both sides, the objection was over-ruled, The RECORDER then addressed the prisoner. H e observed, that after a severe and painful investigation, the prisoner had been found guilty of wilful murde r , and of murder under very aggravated circumstances. yt (ter remarking that the prisoner had been instigm e d to thPcrime by the refusal of the young woman to yield to his improper solicitations, and on the neces sity of restraining such passions as those which had brought him to the Bar where he now voile!, he con jured the prisoner to prepare himef for the presence of that JUDGE to whom the secrets of all hearts art known. The Learned Judge, then, in a faltering voice, and almost overwhelmed by the intensity of his feel ings, pronounced the awful sentence of death in the usual terms.—We gave an account of the execution of the prisoner in the STAR of Friday last. ironwood was 18 years of age. He was rather below the mid. *dles . ize, but stout and well made A hand of robbers had for some time past attested the frontiers of France ; their place of rendezvou s was the valley of Rivas, in Spain, at a short oistai.ce from the French territory- ; it was composed of 200 per sons, armed, but without any uniform. The band ravaged w hole villages, and visited every isolated place where they were likely to succeed. The rob. bbers have at length been entirely dispersed or exter minated by the Militia and inhabitants of the Pro vinces. Ow the 30th of last March no fewer than fourteen of these banditti were surprised at a farm. house ; they were fired upon, and all of them killed on the spot ! Thursday afternoon, a child about four years of age (son of H. Ball, labourer, residing on the Green ' near Gillingham Church, Kent), had been mining about a quarter of an hour, when his mother on searching fur him, discovered that the lid of the well had disappeared, and looking in (her feelings canna be described) she heard her child, who saw her die• tinctly, cry, "0, mother, take me up!" The ago. nised parent instantly alarmed some men employed in building stalls for the fair, whey Mr. Jarvis, of tle Five Bells public-hpuse, procured I)rope, went down, and brought the little creature up, much bruised, but not seriously injured. It appears, the child sup• ported himself above water by taking hold of the floating lid of the well, and by his hair not being wet, it is conjectured that he must have descended after the well lid. The well is above 100 feet deep. Tuesday, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred et Brighton. As a person named Cutlass, was driving a cart loaded with bricks past the North -street, end of Bond -street, a child, a girl nearly six years old, Amelia Ellis, of poor parents, in crossing from the latter, run against the leader of the two horses and fell, when a wheel of the ponderously loaded vehicle passed over her head, crushed it, and left a portico 61 the brain on the road. The driver made two efforts to save the child before the wheel reached it, and had not the clothes given way to the grasp of his hand in the latter, it is supposed that he would have been suc cessful. The poor fellow was dreadfully hurt at the shocking catastrophe, which was as sudden as s erve, and was neither to be foreseen nor prevented. Cora ner's Verdict—" Accidental Death, with a Deodand of ss. against the cart." Thursday se'nnight, two farm-houses, in the neigh bourhood of Coolyhenan, occupied by a herdsman and dairyman, in the employment of George Gloster, Esq. were attacked by a gang of men in searchof arms; from the herdsman they took a bayonet, and at the dairyman's house, not finding arms, they left an injunction for him to quit or prepare his coed against Sunday night, as they were determined the no intruder or stranger should be permitted to remain there. BIRTH. Friday, at Kilmaeow, Waterford, the Lady of the Ilen.si Rev. 4;eorge Bourke, of two. 3IABRIED. April 21, at Staple, Captain Johnson, R.N. to JCMinns IP coed daughter of Mr. Thomas Prior, of Staple. Saturday, at Woodchcstsr, Captain Baghott, 60th ner"" to Charlotte, only child of the late Colonel Slopef, DIED. April 15, Mrs. Jackson, of Hawkhurst t sitting by the 51 46 she burst a blond-vessel, and expired imwediately, age 13 5,,, Sunday, at Bath, after a long illness, Julia licoric e% """ daughter of the late Rev. 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