The National Register. — London, England, 1820-04-23 00:00:00

134 9 , 4 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. NVESTMINSTER. THURSDAY, APRIL '2(l. Mr. Brougham and 1l r. Denman came into Court this m ornin i ‘, soon after the Lord Chancellor had taken his twat, and were addressed by his Lordship in the fol lowinz: words:—" Gentlemen, I understand tier Ma jesty the Qiieen has been graciously pleased to appoint yo►: her Attorney-General and Solicitor General : you will please, in consequence, to take yonr seats within the bar, next to Mt. King's Counsel." The two learnt d gentlemen accordingly took their seats as directed, and were severally asked t.y his Lordship, pro pima. if they -had any thing to move; after which they withdrew to the other Courts, where the saute forms were gone through. . _ 'COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL. LIREL—THE CENOTAPH COMMITTEE. NOTAI.I. V. CLEUENTit. Mr. Searlett stated his case to the Jury. The plaintiff had to complain of a gloss libel which hail hero iiaerted bs the defendant in his pap r, " the Ousel yer,", reflecting on the plaintiff's c i.iracter, and on those of the oth,r iudici duale whit coma itutcd the Committee, as well a- on r. 31. W eat I, the architect, imputing to them fraud and imposture, gni) charging them with appropriating to their own use the funds of the sidiscription lor erecting; a Cenotaph the theroory of the late lamented I's litresCharlotte. The lilt( I was inserted its the foi in of a letter signed Investigator. — r. Seurlett was preparin: to prove his ease, whets Mr. Adolphus, fur the defendant, said his client was most ready to 'dead guilty to every part of the charge, except ha% ins wilfully libelled Dr. NOttall. The plaiiitflf had declared his object was not pecuniary damages, hut the jus tificatimi. A. far as that object could he obtained l> the defendant's declaration it was now On:tilted ; the defendant was not in a condition to 1)3) heavydriimiL., 6. Ile was ready to consent to a verdict tor AI. and Gists, and trusted the plaintiff would accede to this proposition. The plaintitracceding to this offer, a verdict was entered accordiugly. WARWICKSHIRE ASSIZES. Ann Hestrey v..ae charged with the murder of her mistress, Sarah Dormer, of Ashow, near Warwick. Eliz. Dormer said, she was the ihnighter of \lr. J. Dormer, of Ashow. In the evening, of the murder, the witness, her eldest brother. her two sisters, and a Mr. Hinde, went to Mr. Alridge's, at Thickihorn ; they returned a few minutes past seven. Iler another made tea, am! the prisoner waited on them.—When they went ont they left her mother, her father, Mr. Harris, two Mr. Brays, and the prisoner in the house. NVhen they reiiirmd, she perceived the prisoner in the passage, 'very much agitated. NA IllleSS asked her if any body had been there. She answered nobody. Oa the floor of the passaße witness observed souse drops of blood; they I were smeared, as if some one had atientvtott to Wiiie them up. She asked the prisomr what she ita,l In. it doing. She said nothing. She asked her to mo p it u p . She . did so. Witness then asked her where her mother was. She said she was gone towards Ashow. Tier sister Harriet called " Mother" repcaiedly, but getting no answer she asked the prisoner where her mother was. Site said, about ten minutes ago she went into the gar• den to et some cucumbers. Witness then went up stairs. 11cr mother's room door appeared shut. Her sister Mary followed her, and its a moment she heard her scream violently, and cry out, " Oh, my mother is murder is murdered ! my mother is ommet id 1" Witness ran to her mot h er's room, and found hor mother dead. There were drops of blood in the passage, but she did not observe any on the staircase. Mary Dormer, aged 14, corroborated this evidence. The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty, when sentence of dewh was passed upon her. She was executed on Thursday. She was about 2:.! years of age. aNTEF b.fcr SESSIONS, Thursday, Aprill3. KING ♦. MITCHELL. Mr. AWennn stated that the indictment charged the efendurit, that he being a malicious, seditious, and ilLaiis• its..P.al person, did, on the foto h of October last, in ameetiag beld near Ht;ifas, maliciously and uiliawfully speak to, and in the prewar. - at Jivers liege subjects of our said Lard the King, then and there assembli d, amongst other things, foefolhos sedii ous .4-dt, %hick air contained in the second euuot (aba b cumprises the whoie of what is stated in the o►ber town.): 46/Our inllll 9 olltV the happiest and nattiest tinder the sun, s stow a disatace to the e)e of Heaven, on account of the • utgled cat caul of the men with a Inch it is flit tl. IN /WI, ✓te./are we to do ? Are we to petition the Pratt.. lie_i tit? rbat would be useless, becata- he lea. (11.111kell the Nl.,it eltester im.gisi rates Art..o . Are w. to pent iiii; the House of Conieuuir• No, that would h • its. Irs•. Retire•:. 111101 that noun; ih,u4 is in.p.A. r. "let 11 , 11/111/1 11111 COI rapt bud) 10 dl/,p151111 . 10 I. - br absurd. r as ivrt; a•i. it let rt•fulnk itself, se loch would he- like pas ing s r iii to give hack the loupes ty 111 bad stolen, and he liam.ed. t)I there would he tn. an cut revaiutioti its &Octal:flint, C.•I. Ilai tun a part tit his pi and giving ;di the pour .1 bill:1'110111u., (tom the ier , , t 5,,,u•, of the He•ttot it.. the Crakes of Norfolk, and the I. lILW 1111 nib Cerlaiuly MI there might ; but how titan) at tsar ',Lola., Imputation vs oula b to 'wilted by it ? It has been made law then a n4liti al debt should he Mem, eit, mid that is ILOO millions; but as or can repeal sonic law., why should w e not repeat ibis I Anti it um: be r pealed, if the n hole sunk to the buttons of the se.l. Hut I allubl out dept ivr the poor a don. nod alto 111114 / 111111 / ) to the 1 . 11114, of of tbri..; I. mil 1001. 10, !,iii I a Ire w.th ur mead , slr. Cubit .. re Amodio :.)ste 111 s .d nr 1 - 'need, and floe- .• .1.;v.. amass.. /0 1111 . 111WIIICS AlOlllll be made to i• , p Mr. it on, air. the ens'• I 1... • j u t ). The hiss nttoee call, Jolt.. 'ryas, who sia.d hr is connected a ith " 'I tines" newspaper. He attended a public wectios at bkircont-unior, near lialifaz, (or the THE NATIONAL• REGISTER purpose of taktog a report for that paper, on the 4th of Ot tidier last. Heat a the defendant address the people. — A fief sums observations 011 U loyal deClaril Soo a hi, is had adepted at Ilablav, he went on to slate, that Ott y wanted to destrov whoredom and bad ptiueiples, and not bad mess ; but if the , were oppressed by bail principles, they would desi toy had men and tsrasits, rather 01°11 be oppressed by them. Mr. Mitchell then went oil and said, " Our land, once the noblest nod happiest wider the suit, is tom a disgrace to the 01. of I leaven, on account of the mangled carcases vt itli It is Is tilled. What thrum are vet t" do? After sayiu it would he useless to petition the Prince Regent, he proceed( ii as follows:- -. 6 Ale we to petition the Hose of Commons? No ! that would be still more uteless. Redress from that house! the thing is Stuarts sihle. To petition that co. rupt body would be worse Man absurd ; it w 'mid be worse Oa. , asking a thief to glee hat k the property lie had stolen, and he hanged." Mitchell Oleo paused and turned s mold itpois his assertion, mid recoils° , h dcd they should 10 . Obst's Val MISS U rue illels made b, Stilleben idiom taking the i atonal from the Corin thian column, and also about Col. Rot toil, which introduced the follow in..; But, 1r ! there would be a great resolu tioit in taking part of Col. Horton's proptrty, , and iviog it to the; , and a small portion from the Itedflll de, the Cokes of Norfolk, and the Fitz illiams." Ile then re peated. " 0 hut there would be an awful revolution," and said something about the Mods, which the wiliness said he he did not take any note of ; but some time after, in swooning sip his asgument, he said, Certainly there would, but thrum loin many of our mai vitas; poor would he relieved ?" Wit sit Fs said that Mr. Mitchell was here called to older, lle said also something about a telanding system, to thus effect, that he did not wish to take from the poor widows and or phans their small enmities. kilos was cross examined at great length by Mr. :Mitchell, bat nothing transpired to vat s the account lie had giveti of the language used by the defendant. Mr. Edward Baines, jun. attended the meeting, for the purpose of takin a report for the " Leeds Mercury." lie proved the words is nielt had been sdateil by the last witness, and stated mire fully that part of Mr. Mitchell's speech which related to the fundlng system. lie observed," that the tuitional debt was a thousand mill' ; but which, us his friend Knight had observed, having been created by one law, they might pass another to repeal it, mid it ought, (continued Mr. atilt - hell) to be repealed, if the whole was sent to the bottom of the sea. This whiten( was truss-examined at great length by Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell then addressed the Jury in a speech which occupied an hour awn a Ealf its the delivery. lie admitted that he had travelled a good deal for the purpose of advoca t the cause of reform, aed that he Mid attended meetings ' , snivelled for this purpose in different parts of the. kingd he mentioned Wolverhampton, Sheffield and other places which he had visited for that purpose. But his motives were pure. Ile had twin objects in view in his itinerating, firsts to assist in procuring a radical reform, w Melt he then thought, and still thinks, was the oily means of relieving the burdens under which the people buttered. Ili. se I object was to prevent the people having recourse to violence. Mr. Mitchell contended that the circumstances of this prosecu tion not having been iii.tituted by she Attorney or Solicitto - - (leiseral was a presumption that what be had said was not consideied us de-ervior legal attimativersitto. lie then adverted to hi, connexion with Oliver, alai hail been introduced to him i.s a s honest man, and he had no reason., (luring Isis Mies course es ith him, to suppose to the coutiary. Mr. Mitchell conclude - a his speech vi ith uvfursl jug the Jury to dismiss from their minds all imp, ,iOll6 which had been made to his prejudice, and to he governed io their verdict solely by the evidi 'ices The defendant called %% knaves, none of iv hoot took any notes. of the speech of Mr. Mitchell, and they professed to remember it very Ins fectly ; but they all stated that they had some rerollee lion, more or less distitict,of several of the expressions spoken to by the a itnesses on the part of the prosecution. The Jury, after consulting together a short time, found the defendant guilty of the seditious language, but acguit led hiss of the conspiracy. 111 r. 'Maude, on the part of the prosecutor, recommended Mr. Mitchell to all the lenity which the Court could show him, consistent with their duly to the public. The magistrates re tired to deliberate opus' the judge ment to be passed upon the defendant : after remaining in consultation about ten minutes, they rut tinted into Court, and the Cliairinait sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned, in the Castle at Yolk, six mouths, and at the es pit 'slims of that period to eater into his own itecogni xebec of 'lOOl., and two sureties of 50/. each, to keep the peace fur two years knitter, and to be further imprisoned until such security was given. 1 EXECUTION OF MAGE.VNIS. CHESTER, APRIL 15. The fearful sentence of the law was executed upon Nlag. , nnis this day at noun; and we have a few pal ticu lars, «birh may, peslllll/14, he interesting. )lagennis Wdi a matt of strong capacity, but mieducati d. 01 his early litr little i. know with c. 'dainty ; but h , • lids left a sue • Inuit of considerable telietli in the bands Of the Rev. Mi. Armistead, whirls will speedily be itultittited. •fi,e pro duction of this document hat' occupied Inns almost wholly since lii. conviction. The father isiol mother at Mugellll444 w. rr at Ilse Established Chinch ; the man himself, how ever, apptiktr, by a statement he has pi otnulgated, to have been, dining a lung time, the class-leader of a 'octet) or Methodirts. About flute yt als !lame hr art ived at Stock , poll, hum Ireland, and foiluu ell his 01461141 calling 44 3 we aver. His restless disposition, 114/11112V1.F. soon led hint to jnia one ut the Rodical societies 14411111.11 in the vidiiiity of Stockt one Ile• attended the set HSI iiSlllll, 41141 .peedily became all 41'11V14 rekinser. Ati v i lo g coll a t 'slia4ll44ll, Magennis lett the Court the 111141 pi•heel 11111111boutl; out the certainty of drat•, ptuthici d, iu this Conine at Ibe saute 114,, a cunsi'lritibu• in 1114 tltale4llolll, He subscquently became esti emety iretine.d. On Flimsy, after lariaint; the condemned s. room, die 11111111 moats look 'lre sacrament, and slept u II last I.lglit iii. mug he It'fl iiiiiiii 1114: uirutuu, 11114 eOlll - 14 4 011111 11 w We torention. Was 1111/111411 , th.,l the Itilati; shotsia br pubbsittql. About half 11431 11 br uas euttoll,•lt.l lb the cell of Rind•. The sm. •ie e.sas .Foil mitt dttrelt.g ; they •.k 11451.14 41 Into .1, , Altti,etottiN ieyea teal lilt' declarai...,, 1;4 1 %Lila 111110 cent. Alter quitting Eruct. hr• visited l'tlellor, who,e executiuu for burglary will eliw•Uy take place. Mellor maintained much of Iris wonted fortitude. lie then re. maimed for some minutes in a yard of the poison, in which several ol the Radicals of Stockpor t woe confined ; they s l, o k h an ds with him, but with weal indifference. Ra vi . Icy, one or Ilse irt . ollll orators, was then Mamba: e d . " ewell," and "g 1 b)e," writ the only %surds that passed. Magennis then signed a declarative, that neither Peas-11a, Hi nee, • his brother, James Magennis, wet e ssere•‘.lll. • to his allellllll upon the life of the lurch, and declared he was ready. A fro minute• berme 12 o'clock the Bailiffs of the City shei ills demanded the body or the Armlet ; and tender an escort of the 71st regiment he was conducted to Glover',.. stone, where he sprang into the vast, and with the same escort was cual•i . est to the city gaol. I)iiiing the whole of the distance, Ms eyes were• steadily fixed upon a Ne•w Testament, %%Melt was Wit into his hands by Mu. Keeling. At the Ilion of the city caul lie re•cucnized a Wall, and shook hands ‘sitli hint. He then remained about three tom tel sof an lima in the• chapel of the pris o n, where he played atth Ut. Keeling and the Oi dinar ) , ;110 1 at te❑ minutes past shoe lie was brought on the dim,, attended by Mr. Keeling and the Rev. Mr. Wiliam The exemitionei then atritirsi the rope It) the beam, and he again Joined in prayer with the Ordinary; but there did not appear to lie that attention to his devotions which had e kionsly cha racterized him. His eyes wandered with a took .1 Mail ferenee over the intiltttmle below. Ou being tied up, he expressed his intention of making a spring WM n the drop fell, but was sathsiss ill IRA do so. The exe mtioner then left him ; and be shuttled his intention, by moving his hands, to address the crowd. was 61.4111 y ob tattled ; all that he said, how"ver, was, " Good-by, gen .. ilemen ! Farewell, farewell, my It :ends! farewell!" The cap was then drawn over his fare, and lie immediately gas , the b i 4 „ B l by throw mg down a 1E411(1km - thief. The platform sunk, and in less titan two minutes he was DO DISTURBING A REI.IttioUS CONGREGATION.—At the Comity Session' , for Oxfordshire, holden on Tuesday last, before John At ky As Wris,ht, I:sq. and a Mil bench of Ma. gistrates, an indictment nits prefer' , d and tried against four peisons of the names of Thomas Baylis, Itenj . iniiis Baylis, John Willis, and William Adam-, for unlawfully distur!dog a conxregatimi of in oti•stant dissenters, assemble LI fur divine worship at a villwAe called Filkiin, in the ner_fabourhood o f Bamptum It appeared in evidence that the eon; egiition )which usually assembles on Slonday eveninp), had far several mouths past been greatly annoyed by the riotous conduct of the defendants, and divers other prisons, who, on these occasions, made a practice of collecting in coin, derable numbers in a close adjoining tile building in winch the preacher and his I riends met, and by almost every speciis of noise and tumult, interrupting the reli_imis eAt ri ices of the worshippers. On the day mentioned in the indictment, in particular, so great w.,s the uproar, that the minister um: under the neet ssity of mope titling the service, and iequestin4 some of his fi lends to go out, and, if in ssible. obtain silence. Th e a tt em pt an., lion ever, inetlectual; the tumult nos ob stinately continued, and the con,regation nits obln_ed to separittc helot e 11w usual time. These facts hi tug fully es talihshed, the chaii matt proceeded to sum up and comment I upon the ev id e nc e, the bearings of is hi, It he pointed out in a very s.,tisfacluty manner. Ile Oleo explained the laws which allect the question, and the Jut v, alter a tew minutes I consideration, delivered a verdit t of Guilty agaiiist all the defendants. The not thy inagistrite next atidressed the 1 delinqueuts in a must impressive manner, pointing out the very seriotni tut tut e of their intent e, and informed tlwin that persons as,cuibled fur the exercise of their religious duties in the manner most agreeable to the dictatrs of their own consciences, were under the protection of the bins, and c ou ld not with impunit:4, lie tt,sturhed and ilarra•sed by the rude insolence of a tumultuous mob, Ile then pronounced the senteuee of the law, wined isitl•cts ini the defendants a fine of-101. and they were ientanded till •t should be paid. ALARMING , ACCIDeNT.—CIii Saiitlir ii.ni lung, about five o'clock, the Inhabitarts Ilea' the London I hisintal, \V hitt:chapel, were most wearifully ternfitql, their houses shook to the hnuida tam, the ;.lass in their w ii, 'lows bloke'', their furnitute tossed about, and Menisci% t s thrown out of their bed,; this, accoinpabieri with a most dreadful exphision, as if from a t °leant), or the firma of great guns; all was consternation, MI posing it proceeded front the shock ti au earthquake. All ran liaised into the streets, utuninatil of property, for .... . _ _ . . . _ ife purpose of saving their lives. Their fears, however, were happily soon ab.tied, ou learniiig, that it was caused by something of a combitstiole nattne having exploded iii the oil and colour shop of Mr. llolliwell, opposite the London Hospital, iu which, fortunately, no perstni resided. The house was completely blow ti from the foundation, and not one some left upon another; part of the timber of the roof, Hootio,r, bricks, and Idea, were blown as lar as the i lusliii I, oo the opposite side of the street, aid Ili cVisty miler direction. The adjoining honse,uccupteti hy Mr. Li!ley, u pork botcher, was so much injured as to he obliged to he propped up. A great part of the party wail fell tit on the loin of a bed, its which were :bate or lour children, but who luckily escaped wil..out any injury. The chuck was ro great that Mr...ittl Mrs Utley were dimwit out of bed.•—the furnittue vs :salmost all shuttered by being tossed about the house. We are happy, however, nit et:glary, to find that nu lises wire lost; there were no persons slept in the house Mr. Holliwell haviii a , locked up Ilia a hop d 134 ni I eleven o'clock on Saturday night, alai aunt boat* to his house in Red Lion Street, %V latechapel, where he lives, and has another shop, it is iitipossitiir to ascertain from what came the aren't:lit proceeded. Mr. flolliwell says, there were only five pouials of gunpowder on the premises, and this was secure Irvin lite. Alter the ex. plosion several utilities arrived, but no fire scar to be seen. Several pates of iLlass, and articles of glass and earthenware, in the neighbouring louses, were broken by the shock. The only accident we heard of, and which was bin trilling, happened to a boy who was passing the road at the tiitie,t•y 3 piece of 'loafer falhog upon him, and knocking low down. 'Ube home and stock iu trati. are dl; Thursday night souse villains broke into a new building belonging to 11 illitttu siuore, Esq. of 130 W Common-lune, Bromley, und cut the glass out of It large sashes, which they carried to, together with some carpenters' tools.