The National Register. — London, England, 1823-03-03 00:00:00

~.I OF -7 • Y 6 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCIT. nin.so‘Y. veo. 21. INDICTMENT FOR PERJURY. 9 111 E KING st. tlluMAtl 111(iNOLD, ESn• Mr. Scarlett staled, that this was an indictment for perjury against the ileferallii, tabu wns the oriAimil founder of an insti tution called the rarwich Union I memoirs! Siwiety. In this lie acted fur several years fl.l Secretary. Ile sifterwards, hat in;; been removed from his situation is the Norwich Ass° , Lain'', became the founder and projector of it clew society, called the National Union, citified cm iit Dridge-street. Bluclariars, in opposition to the Norwich Union. 'fhis indiclotetat fur perjury arose nal cf a bill feted by his Co-Trustees and Directors of the National Union, unda r the deed or associution, by which it was n:rectl defendant should invest 10,000$. capital un the part of hint, the said Thomas Ilignold, to be invested in Government Securities. Tho se% e val Directors and Trustees lending their moues and responsibi lity, this hilt wit tiled in Chancery, calling un the said 'Too n e* lli4ostd.l to make good these conditions; In %% - hick defendant put ill his answee, tictirmt that be had ever stipulated to till vanec sunk sow of 10,0001, 141 that if ally such clause bud b.vn introduced into the deed, it was that the said defendant had been deceived and huposed on by the introduction of such clause. 'lice bill further averred that the deft nilnut baying It ten repeateilly•calleil upon. to invest the said 10,0001. or to give Ste prosecutors an iimleinnity for such their , egamtedly promised to bi t e or to Orb soot' indemnity to them his Cu-Dire, tors And 'f rustees. Tito defendant, in Lis answer, denied these applications to lam, and also that he had ever made suds pr •s. Upon these avermerits of ilefen thatahe several assignments of perjury were laid ill this in dictment. _ _ _ Mr. Scarlet( proceedett.—lf the Jury thought the defendant 11.411olootered under any reistwke or misconception, it was far irons tile wish of tire prosecutes that they should find Ilion guil ty ; on the other liantl, they could not do otherwise, if upon Iris alieviiia4 that these averments were utterly false, and that de fendant was wilfully and corruptly perjured, they would say so by their verdict. The hill and answer lacing produced by the proper officer were read ; some variations were remarked by the goolieitor- Ceueral, for the defetadant. The case that went into Ilto evi• deuce of Mr. John Mulder, ■ulicitur to the associstion, a ma terini witness, being ailment in France ; that ho wan Suet! is London two days before the indictment was last called on for trial, but had returned, and was now Living at a place coiled Saint Saturant. The evidence of Mr. Wilkia:or.. clerk to Hunter, was sub 'to...stilted to prove that defendant wes present when the several clauses of the deed were separately discussed, that th.tetelatit proposed several alterations and interlincationa, which were introduced preparatory to the execution : and that'll Witness's opinion defendant could not he otherwise (lain cognizant of the clause resretiog the 10,0001. to be invested by him to form the funds or the society. The Sulieitur General addressed the Jury for tire defendant. The Jury nuUnt feel the pendia sensation whielo he experienced from the apprehension that the interests of his client in SU int . liortunt a cane sarould antler from any inadequaoy uu lois hart; ►ut he load no choice left ; and, as he his torief, he should to tie: utmost of his faculties, ahfeud the curiae which he was retained to advocate. The learned Sulieitor-Ceneral, in answer to to allusion to the Norwich Union Society, made by Mr. &Arica in opening the ease, said, it was very true that the tiefentlitid had been the originator of that Institation. and might boast that lie bad pro jected an Estatilishment, which, on account of its usefulnt sa, its rvtent, and prosperity, had, at the present day, nu equal—en establishment, wills which no other, either in Oils Lim:dont or in the world, could vie—lie contended that Mr. Ilignuld might honestly believe that the agreement was not to advanee but to guarantee, and in this ease lea statement would be honestly made. lie read a minnte of the Direciora, iu which the term guarantee" was SITU. d to the transaction, and which- he in traded to prove. With respect to the denial of applications bring made, the Jury would hind, if grey compared the bill the answer, that the question put was Cenied iu terms properly, and that the difficult) arose Amu confounding a techtleal point Iva!' the substantial moils of the answer. There was nothing in the world more distressing than to be compelled to answer a bill in Chancery ; hardly anything should conga! him to du it; for there was a great number of technical niceties on which man might be innocently entrapped into seeming perjury by mere reliance on his legal adviser. On lb.: whole, be put it to the Juryo% hetber it was rot most imptateilde that Mr. Menotti— a geutlenitui advanced in years, and a fair and honourable chin eac.. r—would commit a great crinao when he !:new the means of curtain detection were in the Mauls of his enemies ? In wino quence of the Sulieitor-Gencrul haring, in Lis ad• dress to the Jury, stated facts of winch he did not ofier proof, • Mr. Scarlett insisted upon his right to reply, which was op posed by the Solicitor-General; but his Lordship droided that rrki. had that ri;bt. 31r, Searlett having replied, 111i* Lordship recapitulated the evitenee..very minutely, sod said, if the Jury were of toi • thut the defendant did know. iu,ly and wilfully tannistit perjury, their verdict moutt be guilty --oot it' th e y should be of opinion that the averments in the de fottloit's answer %%ere untrue, but thin he, tit the h ue he swore to thew, did nut think them untrue, their verdict must be for the defendant. The Jury immediately found a verdict of—Guilty. 1.113E1.:4.—T11E KING o. lIIINItoW. This was an indictment against thu defenda n t for publishing obscene and filthy pas ages, in a work tolled the lianshkee Mayas Ulf . • . . kr. Gurney was Counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Phil lips for the ilMenitant. The publicariou was proved by a witness named Regnold. Mr. Phillips contended, on thu part of the ilefenditnt, that the prosecution would may give more publicity to the work. The Jury found tire defendant Cuilt, of publishing uhaceno language iii the book produced before them. TUEADAY, Ells. 2:i. Till: KING V. lIIDAVN AND AN,ITIIER. This was an indictment e.sinst the Rev. W illiam Robert Brown, late Rector of Little Clackton, in Essex, and Mr. George . llutchinsou Whitehead, Solicitor, of Little Cork street, Burlington-wardens, fur haring iu ISI9, entered into s con spiracy to rhea and defraud Sic Colin Campbell of (10,101. It appeared, from a great man of evidence, that Mr. Brown applied to Whitehead to raLe money fur hint by the rile of a freehold estste, which hu pretended to possess in the manor of Creel Holland, in Essex. The necessary inquiries were suede by Whitebesd, and upon the assurance of the latter, that • &ma fide conveyance could be made of the property, Mr. Wet of Lincoln's Inn, as the Solicitor of Sir Colin Campbell, I ,cauie a purchaser fur six thousand pounds. The deed of THE NATIONAL REGISTER' conselunce was czecused in November, !hit). A part of the money was nppli,xl to the re:lt:minion of annuities to Brown was liable, and with the rest of the money, anionoting to 7O 1L the rev. tier( AIM absconded. It was then disco vered lud the estate conveyed in the deed never futon:et] to Drown, but was the properly of bin 141 r. Cole, a gentlenun of kre,e bourns, in Ow county of Essex• The Solicitor-C(11ml, ns COllll4ll for lir. Whitchead. con tended Ilmt Whit, head nun not n eriminul pnrticipator in it. A grail number of witnesses gate the titletitiunt, AV kitc hen'', nt eseellent chanicter. The Chief Justice summed up the evidence, Rod the Jury, tit half post nine o'clock, without any hesitation, found 4he defeldants Guilty. PUMA", run. 2s. nEttLsa..cit r. ywrrrxr. Thia rues an action by the etch known Mr. De Derenger, to recover crimper:436on for his sett ices in r..rpect of a 110U46 in Corothillor which the defendant bought a 11'11110 and sold it wain. 'hie allegvil Mat he had conAderahlar skill ie planning and improving houses, and that lire defendant, who bought tient to suit hnd m.rreed to givo bins a third of tiny profit on the Loose in Till:MIMI, thy interest in whirl he had purelosed for 2501. tad aril.' ut 5;01. It, did nut. bourcver. appear tint Mr. Dv Bur. ryes hnd reu.tered any enieivnt ser vice on aetount of the Moire,- and the memorandum mid letters relied on mooed rather to relnte to some schema or partnership in a hihiliCSO to be earriod on opou the pruntiiies, tow to any purelinse of the hulls° for safe. . . The Jury found a verdiut for the derenriaalr OLD IMILRY SiSSIOSS. Hoeueirr or T 411; rxrran COACH. William 'l'houtas (a r;:irieittble --- Ix:leh;;Vian dressed in black) and John Baker were indicted for stealing a parcel, containing VOO promissory notes of 11. each, 40• hl. nuts, and 3:8 ii. motes, the property of Messrs. Sparks. and Co. bankers, at Exeter. The evidence for the prosecution has already appeared in the Police Hewn*. 'fine prisoners, when called no for their defence, both declated their innocence. Ba ker, the guard, putt in a written defence. in which he alluded to the fact, that be was the lint to give informa tion to the London hankers of tile robbery; and adverted to the anxiety which he had from the first evinced for the detection of the Offenders. •He adiritted that he was culpable in takinp the parcel From bus coat in which it wastrwn, and putting is to the seat of the corichaii— His defence also reveserned that he (Baker) had had so many upporumi n ie. to escape. and yet lull not attempt. est it. Ile had made a second journey to Exeter before he was apprehended on &his charge. A *rent variety of witnesses for Baker were elated 40, character and us fact. h was pruned . that Biker ex pressed great anxiety when it was known that the psrcel was lost. That same night he went to tiatikey's, and acquainted them visite robbery ; the next' mdrning hr went again, and was not apprehended until long aline optently. The witnesses to characwr spoke extremely favourably of him. The maser of the coach .had tra velled twice from Exeter to rice the prisonei a character. 'the prisoner Thiusuas called no witnesses either to character of. ' Toe Jury ac9ritletl Baker. trtuffnimil Thomas guilty. l'unsuAY, bk.U...t3.—At the ~hunt/ of the Court 15 females, and upwarilibuf 60 wales were arraigned at the 43ar. Eras/awn lissuitztiuern—SainnelDittellin, a man 010.111001. W.sll pill ill the Ivor, oil an indtcuueat charging him with hating frluuimisly conlverieit to his own its_ the slim of 1(151. the properly of 11is ettiployers,,: Messrs. Perkins and Heath. enaraters, of Fleetsstreei, Oil the 31st of January last. The prisoner - hail been brimaht to ibis country by the . fa may of rite prosecutors, who had entertained such an idea of his integrity that he' was employed 33 their confidential messenger, in winch situatiuti he sibotiont possession of the money in spies. cal, haring bent scut with a check to the banlitia, house of MessS. COX aril Bitlthllttill fur the optotitti.--. Ots his return he pretended to hate lost the money, and war very impudent, in coopmteoce of winch he was oischarged, and sultsreptehtly pointed to Litelpool, whew he at length confessed the crime, and premiend a. cousierible pan of toe propel ty. The case was clearly: pr o soi i , and the Jury, Found the prisoner Guilty. Uinta& Claike was Milieu:it 1M stealing a (.rite quan tity of properly. lieloogiii, l to ills employer, Mr. /11111, 011 Fillil4treCI•11111. • The prisoner and his brother had been for a lone time io the set vice, coofidebtially, of Mr. Flint. who having suffered Intriein and 4reere :033e3 trill beitia able ID • the istiatalera, was at 'coatis inthiceti to swore, the ptisoner. Ile Went to his loilxiites, Nu. bj, Cot. tahwroail, in coitmaity with a frieitil, and Tusimestity lire (dicer, and found there silk shawls, Lice, 'arson, silk handkerchiefli, * lrish linen , mid money to the onioutit of 'Dail. The goods were all ideunfied by Mr. Flint as his property. Several witnesses spoke highly otthe prisoner's presi , one character. -4eut the Jury fintod him Guilty, and she Court sentenced him to transportation for 14 years. WaDiEnssir, Fait. u6.—Jastiss Mackie, an elderly man s was indicted liir stealing a pair of diamond ems drop,. the property of W. 1 - 130011. Mr. Haytlint is a jeweller in Compton-steel, Soho, and some time ago he met the prisoner, whom tic hail formerly known. in better etre tttt istauces,. in a state of extreme distress hi the street. lle took I home, anal employed bites to keep his oveoutits for wine time. and at lenath took him regularly into bis service as his coo. hdential clerk. In 4nausr last, a lady mimed Rowe, ordered a pair of air-ring drops, the price of winch, when finished. was 871. These were sent home by Inc prisoner, but Mrs. Rowe, in a fete days expressed a desire to hate another pair maile,as those were toultrae. 'lbis Mr. Haydoti agreed to do, and sent the prisoner to leach the others from Mrs. R. bin when he returns lie said, Mrs. Rowe knew a lady who 'winkl take them from her, and M r. N. was to make a similar pair. as agreed upon, by Christmas. When Christmas arrival Mr. Haydn.. discovered that the prisons' had received the large drops from Mrs. Rowe, and hail pledged them at the shop of Mr. Wove, 3 pawnbroker 111 Charlotte. -- street, Fitzroy-squire. When taxed n ith the Ida, he admitted it, but said he had 4001. coining to him in a few days, and would make every thing right. Upon this representation Mr. (Laudon stoili•red him to ari at large, Inn lie MA' vr returned mud lie was apprehended. The defence of time plisoitei consisted in attacks upon the character of his waste', fur which there did nut ap. pear the smallest foundation. fie was finitHi thl Court, in ender to mark its sense of the ensile, and the . loci of the prisoner, boils before and at his trial, immediately seitienced hint to transportation for 14 years. THURSDAY, FRB. U7...1):111iC1 'Griffiths was indicted for feloniously recekitil batik notes to the amount of 1291., the limpet) , of Thomas MgKennon, knowing the saute to have been stolen. _ Mr. Al' Kennon glated, that he is an 'oil and colour manufacturer. On the:lath of Novesubcr he received iegl. 145., among which were a 1001., a COI., and a 51. note. ROI home about seven oclock in the • etenina, a little the worse for the wjne he had taken, he met a WOlll3ll, awl OCCOtilllZllliVli ler to her lodgings in Chapin:in-street, Conntiereial.rOad ; he {lad been there bli. a few moments when the 4vmato suddenly leftihiai, and he Own missed OW v 1 i.le of his money. lie give in the n(111)1161 - of the notes the lnxt g al' 114 Bank of England, and in Arndt a month afterwards the . 1001. note was paid ill. Tinsinisoner was apprehended on the loth dr Janitiry. Mr. Robertson, Irndlord of the King and Queen pnl'lie homes, in Citainuau-street, deposed, that un the evening iu question, about eight o'clock, the prisoner and - a WOlllOllOl the town, wearing a t en whi t tle. came t o his house, and the prisoner said to a man who was there, 64 Game alcinglick, it is all rig.ht." They went away treatiwr. Inc WIIMOU enactly answered tile tieseriptiun of Cite one who rol,iied Mr. M‘liennoii. Howard Lewi, a chitties salesman, in Cable-street depu..t•d, that on the !telling of the arils of November, the pri•ouer came to Isis shop with a girl in a red whittle. Tote prisoner !mewed a 111UI., s WI., and a 51. note, and haying asked witness the taint of them, for he said he could not read himself, he offered to lay out the 61. note if witness would change the other two—this the witness refused to do, and they kit the shop. Wilms, sitipectinv all was not ri*ltt. he followed them, but lost them all at once in Mortuary-lane. He then gate in infantilism to the police.• .Tlic lOul. note /laden indorser neat upon it very touch blotted. and a red.iiik mink. Air. Dye), front toe Hank of England, produced the 10111, note stolen f the prosecu►or. !'here was •a blotted indoraement upon it. 'foss note was ittemtlied by the progenitor, and the wuttess.•Lewis, steureit was•the saute the prisoner had uttered to him. Tut. prisoner was round guilty, and sentenced to be tramported fur .14 years. Ho returned from transports Lion only leo months ,12(1. • I'nis ptirolier was . the bat on the list for trial, and the Itectrisicr, alter a slum ain.iromein, proceeded to pass beinclicc on those prisoners coovicied during the Sm. shins, who had Nut already' received joslgineof..—'lhret" were sentenced to trans's...illation for idea 2 iUr &YMCA years; 16 • for keen. years; ~ to be imprisoned for rine year, and kept Lu hard labour; and I 4 tilt six months.-- Set eral mete oidered . ro tearer Mini-of imprisonment, some to be privately whipped, and salsas fined a blid.ing and discharged ; and pt ,tlle cases of two, jorlament was remitted I next sessions. The fulluwiD2 unhippy'perions (17 in number) were then placed at the Mir to reteire die awful - sentence of deaths—aoheit flaichinan, for house hreating in the • slay time; Mary Aurae Sloth, Kenny. Oaten and .16110 Henke, i.tr scaling jii dwelling-houses; .)% rthim Halr, for horse bleating ; James Farrier, William Harding,, John W alt,ei, James Aldridge, Thomas Gitson, alias Blacken, I len ry Serums; ,lolsit Davis, audJoseph EfOlftile, Tor borklaries; Henry Cocks and I salte.Davis, fur heAltway rolibeir; and Chaster Cleft, for uttering hirgoti Id. ismes t 'chianti •th'England.—Tne learned Recorder, its his exhortation to the In isouris, remarked that there was thie whose lam was settled beyond the possibility of a doubt. He - 4%y as was the td .. rice im W 4.0 In Wilt, and numerous as were the instances in iiich he was &m em have coninitued it, and , notwith 111 Ault lig repeated teal sii gigs from tile lea. lied and husliAtie inthridualit who men sat apron the bench, he had sot chosen to abide a trial, but, by a plea of guilty, had cortfesseil his guilt to she fullest extent. Be must not, t u icre foie. intitilge in the slightest hope of mercy.—Cleft was, of conrie, the ;whom allotted to by the learned Judge. ' lie Stied tears timing the address. TIE PEN&TkNI'lit Timmlay ,olu.ht a Coroner's jury woe empanelled at tne Peostentiaty, before Mr. Gell,Cormier for the city and liberty ul West windier, to intiumie into the cause of the death of Hum- Piney Attains, a prisoner, 34 years of . cee, who tame into the Peisitendary in June,'lB2l, and in. Conwelf„ who was received tu Jude, 1820, both of whom had been convicted of climes. The Jury • returned the fol lowing senile.. c—" We are of opinion that the deceased died ()Aural deaths.; but it is auras, )i tt ion so veiny smitten would nht die if they were allowed nitwit portion of meat and it is our wish and deuime that this our opi .tiiomi should log COllllll tttt icateel•to the Ditecturs of the Testitentiarmr, mu hopes they will take Mine steps to ob tain it." This'vertlict was sanctioned by t h e C oroner ,- ' w ho amerced to facilitate it as munch as possible. ,Ft r..--At 4 o'clock on Saturday utorniug, an alarm.. Ana fire broke mit ill the house of Mr. %Valls, a proctor, in Bell Court, Carter Lane ' Donors Commons; and before any assistance could be rifOrded, his house and' !Haverty was reduced to ashes. The fire then contend spiraled to the house of Alessrs. Adderley and Bon s Lir,:v:oetomd.rseishpaeainrritil,,s,acisn:lni:eocsrustvirianie7ur ir f e t t i .h r es uo ifis i i i e e time could be ob se, I ,in t e lte ps ot p h s e ss r honse isow . Messrs. Adderley and Box's were preserved, and carried to the house of Mr. Clarkson, of Great Carter Laneo--; The fire, at half-past three, was got under, cud ail the adjoining houses safe. moimmoinimiNNIIIMMII4IMINIIMINEms