The National Register. — London, England, 1808-12-18 00:00:00

nrc. ls. INV quer to stay the outlawry ; and for the contempt. an attachment ua- issued. .Ir. H ill was arrested upon this process, :aid, in order to obtain his liberation, he agreed with Mr. Taylor's Soli citor to take 1,3001. for his demand upon Mr. Taylor, amount ing to S.UOU/. and the agreement iu question was drawn up. After Mr. Hill's fears had suhsided, or, to follow up the meta phor used in his affidavit, when the razor was taken from his throat, he began to think that he had dune a silly act, and insti tittedo ;apse in C d l i tancery to set the agreement aside, upon the groand that it was obtained from him while under duress, and that .he consented to it as the means of extricating himself (ruin the Osiers' moved against him. This was answered by saying that Ilk; MR was a very shrewd Attorney ; that be had pro fessed himself well satisfied with the compromise at the time of making theagreement, and turned to Tidd's practice, to prove there was•go,pircssity for witnessing the act of an Attorney, as caocerning Sisodelf, w hen under arrest. llama Wood said, the process of the Court had been convert ed into the means of advancing the private interest: of a parts. and not of forwarding the object fur %%bleb that process war issued. The Court, in the result, granted.part of the motion, namely, that the agreement should be made a Rule of Coon, bat that the proceedings in Chancery to set it aside. might go on. Of course, Mr. Taylor is oat beoetited;lsy the application. is the Sheil r s Court on Friday, a Jury was assembled to asses; datnaqs in a Crim. Co". Woods v. Niatthews. the Defendant is. a baker, in the Borough, the Plaintiff a shipwright, who, on coming home one night, was sur prised at finding his house closely locked up and his family in bed; and with the assistance of the watchman he forced his wav into the hack window, and found his wife and the baker fast asleep in the same bed. The watchman sprung his rattle, which aroused the lovers, who, leaping from their bed, fled out of the room naked as they were. The neighbours assembled, and interposed between the enraged shipwrights and the faithless pair, and the baker was suf. *red to return home to meet the friends.of his enraged wife• A conversation took place between. the friends of the,contending..parties, and a verdict of 301... was taken, the Defendant agreeing to drop his action for a debt due to him if 2001. POLICE. .....,Nllllllm. MANSION-MOUSE, TliritSDAYI DtC. 15. fellryw named Evans, was charged by a girl noted . Anne Ralph, for an assault, with intent to commit n rape. The Prisoner was a milkman, and the Prosecutrix had been hi, servant nearly five years. The poor girl, who appeared to. poAeFs a share of modesty and delicacy unhappily not very fre-. quein is her rank and situation, could scarcely be induced to ex pass the nature of the repeated insults and assaults bbe had sus tained from the Prisoner, while in his service, but fortunately without success iu his designi. She never huditild her mistress what had happened from July last, when the first attempt was made, until she left her vervlce, to he employed in the family of Air. Ledss iek, which the Prisoner served with milk. :Even there he contented to. persecute her, and to attack her even in the street, wherever he met l iter; and frequently ringing the street•door bell in.a violent meaner, io order to bring her to the door and more than once cisalki!g on the hall-door the words, " Here li ves a w — , A atm. Ralph' The pow girl complained:to-her mistress * and-told whom she mivected of this inseriptleh I and the Primmer, atter having sioleotly rang the bell one evening, was Owed borne to his own ohidente by one of the family, who remonstrated with bins upon his eoniluct, which he did not deny. Hestia, however, perse ‘ered, and on Thimdity evening last, renewed his attack upon the girl, who, by tbe.adviee of her mistress (who bad even ranted au Attorney to visite to the Primmer), bad him WWI into . Mrs. lodwick attetaled with the girl, and gave her testimony in support of the chard. . The Prisoner , Ewan,- retkneswiedged that the g irl had hem in hi; ,.. fa milY Vt . years, and sakd, th at he had been as fond of her as r s h e had been oof his oivq sklldren that at last, however, his fondness heeitne ne too' g;•eue; aill that certainly be' had taken lay isideceot liberties with her, foe which he was extremely ~, . ►' ...L _L-IL-1....--Jii.A -3.- THE NATIONAL 11,EMSTEIL Sl3 sorry ; and, ifinaking an apology fa her and her mistress would satisfy, he was ready to du it; but he hoped the business would be carried no farther, as he was a man with a large family, hay M. , a wife and si.r children. The Lord Mayor told him, that his story, so far from pal.i Hating, highly aggravated the circumstances of his offence to wards a poor unprotected girl, of whom it was his duty,-as the father of a numerous family, to be the protector and guardian, instead of the insulter and violater. His Lordship therefore held him to bail, to take his trial for the assault ; and, at the same time, bestowed :Oust and . warm COMUICIOa ion on the tie • coming modesty, fortitude, and good conduct of the girl, and ois the kind and humane support she received from her present mia4 tress on this occasion. GUILDHALL, DCC. 16. Yesterday came on to he heard, the arguments on an informa tion lodod by Mr. Hague, an A ituroey, against Mr. Wood 4 fall, Printer. under the Act of hi, preent Mstjest . , " For L b . better ',revelation of treasonable, seditious, and immoral publi cations, ' which obliges printers, under a penalty of vOl. to re` gister their printiog-houses, to LAIL their names to all publica tions printed by them respectively, to retain one copy of each ,itittilicatiou so printed, together with the tnanusert pt. and to `write thereon the name of the person by whom they may tar mployed, that the same may be produced in evidence before& e agistrate, in support of any , information Itulged in such case. information in this case was brought by Mr. Hari* against Mr. Woodfall, not upon alleged grounds of any thing of a treasonable, Jeditions, or immoral tendency in the matter printed (which was a sort of eiiigmatical prospectus to a peri odical pamphlet, proposed to he published, re>pe,ctiog inn author of vermin anon, mous letters Idris have lately appeared in print, under the signature of .‘ An Eit,gliehteae," fillet:Ong oil the state of the British army), hot merely under an allega tion that 11 r. Woodfall had printed the prospectus, and had not Mil Ned his name thereto, as by law required. After hearing Mr. Wigley, ou the part of the informer, and ..Mr. Carney, on that of Witatlfall. the Magistrate was pleased to quash the information for the present, not upon the merits of the case, whirls were not argued, but pril, Pie upon the informality in the pleadings as urged by :ste. ;mtey. After the defendant's counsel, Mr. Curacy, and withdrew, Mr. Hague signified his determination to proccea with five other new iuformations against Mr, NVoudfall ; and Mr. Wigley, his Counsel, moved the Magistrate who now took the chair, Alderman Sir Matthew Bloxhion, for a fresh sum otorsto Mr. Woodfall upon another ground. namely, to cult upon him to produce the printed copy he was hound to retaiv i together with the manuscript, and the name •of the party who had employed him, under the penalty hf WI. upon default. Mr. ilsigue said, he had to propose an alternative which would free Mr. Woodfall from all farther trouble or difficulty in the case, if he would now make affidavit that he was not employed directly or indirectly by the Duke of Sussex to print this pa• per, or that the Duke of Sussex bad ao knowledge of the mat- ter, he would relinquish all farther proceedings against bins. Mr. Dillon, although he was uut of Counsel for Mr. Wood fall, yet, as amicus curie.. begged leave to observe, that al- , though his Learned Friend, Mr. Wigley, professed not to call for such documents as those stated fur his own information, %et it was obviously for the purpose of iullueneing the judgment of• the Magistrate, and to cull on Mr. Woodfall to produce es Wetter for his own critnination, in order to harass him by new info!. mations. lie could say, on the part of the illustrious Duke for whom he attended, that he could have no wish to interrupt the operation of the law, or to sanction any concealment that could have tech a tendency. Sir Matthew Bloxham, however, thougbt he could not decide upon the case, without the f l olle.t evidence being before him, au4 therefore agreed to issue the =mons for Mr. %Vomit . ..ll, as in ()- posed by Mr. Wigley. The farthrr heario was then postponed till Thursday newt, uoticeof which was to be communicated to his !loyal the Duke of Sussex, in order that be way attend. We would recommend to Carpenters, Builders, Printer's- Joiners, &c. a Business in the above branches, established up wards of fifteen years, in a central situation in the Cit y , which is now to be disposed of, the present occupier ;,Diu; 11110 auotheo line. immediate possession may be had. I'ni•tiri:iara be known of Mr. Roberts, Timber-merchwq, Rear llattou•garden, Ilulboru. I I w - c5x.: — .,w7:77/53,91072,911. , .... 1 _I••••