The National Register. — London, England, 1814-05-08 00:00:00

THE NATION T, REGISTER. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The Cont is of Law yesterday atlizrded nothing of public interest Or importance. The indictment preferred against the persons charged to have been implicated in the fraud on the Stock Exchange ha* been removed, at the imstutire of the prosecutors. to the - Court of Bench. The defendants have all pleaded Nut Guilty ; and the trial will be brought on, if possible. at the Sitting after the present Term. CONSISToRY COUNT, DourOßS' COMMONS. FRIDAY. MAI 6. EWING I% IV r:vr!.FY —This w;ls a cause of nullity of marricre, brouvht by Mo:1!;:i against r''r:p:eis Wheatly, her husband, for the want of a ;i.Tece duly luid a•td , -I:taitte.l. The crse eathe before the Coi:rt eu 1;:e admi-sion ot . I!;t , ennsistinz of a nom ber (it artic'e, eiraged lieatlev with falsely describing himself on Forming the licence, and %vith a fratuluit nt :dterati.;n of the tittie pi evion• to tl:e solemnization of the marriage between the parties, which took ph re on the 19th November last, at Maryle bene. In the 'Recline the lady's name a.; spelt Ewen, instead of Ewing, and Mr. Wheatley corrected it Ewing. It was contended on the part of the la We that this alteration %vas made with a fraudu lent intentiett, and therefore the marriage was nail and void. The Court (Sir Win. Scott), after recapitulating the val ions arti cles in the libel, was clearly of opinion that there was no frintl in tended by the party in this case, and therefore rejected the Mr. Gifiard, the barrister, having spoken disregpertfully of the Rev. Mr. Gurney, Rector of Tregony, in a room aii . inining to the Committee-root,' of the Treuony disputA election in the House of Commons, and imputed to him the crime of petjuuy, Vlr. Gurtiey, jun. son of the Gentleman, took an opportunity sub6Nneotly to horsewhip said Gitlard, in Chanctry-lane.—This summary way of taking the law into own l.:inds being contrary to all le4al rules, the Court of King's Bench on Thursday consigned Mr. Gurney. jun. (notwithstawlinz the provocation given) to the custody of the NArshal of the narsh.;l-ea prison, fou six mouths, amid at the end o f that rime to enter lain rceo::,nizaLee. in 5001. and two sure tics in :?501. each, to ii.cep the peace for five yews. POLICE'. UNION HALL. -- Osborne, H.sli , JOIIV4, and Whiffen 9 who have been some time in custody on vat ions eiewges of robbery, were ex mined yesterday on a eli.irge of borgiary a Louse in the City-road, into which sorve goods had been pot prrparatiny to a sale. The prisoners were recognized by a rung %rowan yr the na me o f Smith. ;is having been at the door of the hone iu aptcAion with a horse and cart on the morning of the rohhery. She saw them put come bilge bundles into the cart. A watchman, who sow them, observed they were about no root, but refused to intevropt them as they were not on his beat. A cart, which had been found in the prisoners' possession, was also proved by the young woman to be thMt she had seen at the door of the bonse.—The prisoners were remanded, and the watchman who had acted so reprehensibly was ordend to at. tend. MaNstox-not.:st.—William Farrow was yesterday charged with having improperly appil.priated to his own use the amount of a Bill of Exchange tor 159;., Well had beet* entrie:ted to hint by a re spectable clotlitactor iu Wood-street, Choapsidc. for the piii.pose of bring dkeolinfril. the charge was preferred under the Einbezec :tient Act, which was pissed in the 52d of the King. to prevent bankers' agents, or others, flout misappropriating valuable securities deposited in their hands, for special purposes, and is the first which had been made under this Act. The offender was held to bail to take his trial for the misdemeanour. On Tuesday last On. 1,77 i, drawn a Prize of 4.000/, likewise No. 7,768 entitled to TEN WHOLE rfrceirrs in the Next Lottery, were both sold in Shares by PInnING, & Co. No. 1, Cornhill, and No. 3, Charing.' ross ; the farmer in One Half and Eight Six. teenths, the latter in One Quarter, Three Eighth , , and Six. Six tenths ; and it is not improbable bnt the 15,00 a which will belong to the First drawn Prize above 17! NEXT Tuesday. May 10, will else be sold at Old - livy's Lucky Corner, Nu. 1, Cornhill, where 'tickets and Shares continue on sale, warranted Undrawn. On Friday List, a shocking accident happened at Newbury : a young' n was in 'be act of brill a cannon, when it unfoitunately burst, tit.d ab drem.::ully shattered his AO, as to cause his instant ticatb. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. MAY 8 No doubt now remains of the total loss of the licenced chip John Palmer, Captain R. A. Reid, on the 9th of March, off the coast of Portugal, oil her homeward bound passage from India. The subjoined may be depended upon as a correct OAt of the pa,%co gers on board at the time the lamentable event took place :—Mro. Edwards, her two sous and two daughters, Miss S. Colebrook, and 1116 s Armstrong, from Bt.ngal ; Masters H. and F. Weeke, front the Isle of France ; Col Wade, late of his Majes.ty's Bth tiragnotic, Mrs. Wade, Lieut. 'Wade. and three clii!dren, who, soon after the fleet had crossed the line, quitted the Henry IVelie4ey, and went on board the Palmer, for better accommodation ; Capkiti Cann:roa . and Mr. Paulin late stvoinl Officer of the Didna, exeliangiog bju hs with the Col. and fami!y.—(M. , rn;..4; (hronic/e.) On Wednesday, between twelve and one o'clock, two old hones in Lornbard.street, Mint, in the Bereugh, fell down with a trent dons crash, Four pei.,uns were by this terrible accident—two rnen, a boy, and a girl. These unfortunate creatures were literally bruked to mu nroies, and were with gloat difficulty got out if the rith!iish : three others were much hurt, an'l taken to the hospital. The ii ses fyid not been r-paired for a considerable time, 2111 like many others in the Mint, w re maul .lering with age. A serion; ;:ffray rook place at Plymouth on Monday last, The Plymouth Chronicle of Tue day says —" Five office's, two biangiug to the Mayo Mili!ia, t wr, to the R . ,yals. and the other a Poi twines;-, together with several sol tiers of the Mayo Milja, we untierstanl, are implicated in it, and uie!er examivation. Some severe vconii.ls were received during the affray, which comtnenred n-ar Frani. t et plare, ithri was not tertni;iated but by the interposition of a part) the East Norfolk Militia " A shocking accident oceured on Viursday. at the :Jew Lord's Cricket-ground pnbi ic-ho:i.;e, Mary-le-hone fi •Ids. The landl idy of tile house had occ,e,ien to Use a small quatrity of gunpowder, and whilst in the-act of taking the same from a p iper, contaning a pound weight, a spark from the fire catight it and it went off with a great ex plosion. The hndl ley, her sister, and two li , tle girls who were in the room were serieusi burnt. ThLf two Fortner are in o daneerous way. The explosion broke every pane of g!as., ut ;l:e room and also set it 0 11 fire. Durele the rejoicings at Scattier:melt, a oolv having proce•rd severa' swiyeelq, one of them hurst, aid aim •st took the .high of a young in in from the body he died six hours afterwards. On Thursday afternoon last a melancholy event hanpened on the river, at Willingham Reach. J. B. Tooke, F.r.ci of Norwich, aud a few friends, were sailing on bOard that gentleman's pl..asure baree, when Samuel M-iton, his servant, by some accident fell overboaht, and :;tal . . In the human lesire of saving the poor man's lite, Mr. Tooke in eatitly plunged into the water alter him, and had at one time succeeded in bringraz him close to the shore, hut exlviusted win* exertion and the weight of his clothes. la• lost hip hold, and must him sei fineviribly have perished, had not Robert Osborn rescued hen fron . hie dat:gerous situation. The same man afterwards brcuaht Mete-ties body cut of the river, whon every means of resuscitation were Wed in vain. Thomas Bryan, a miner of Bilston, Staffordshire, in a fit of drunk enner.s and jealousy, stabbed his wife with a carving knife, on Tues day se'imight, of which she died. Bryan is committed to Staffird ga , d. At the Chester Assizes, Peter Mather and jame.i Gibbon obtained a verdict with two thousand pounds damages against a Mr. Peter Bailey, for maliciously prosecuting plaintiffs on a charge of bur glary. At the Gloster Assizes, on arraigning a person for forgery, it was discovered that the principal evideice (R. Payne, Esq. of Weils, had that morning been found dead in his bed !—The prisoner wss, course, discharged. BIRTHS. At Broomhall, the Countess of Elgin, of a con. At Taplow House, Bucks, the Hon. Mrs. Great-11, Esq. M. P. of a daughter. DIED. John Alcock, Esq. Lient.-Col. Commandant of the Princess Charlotte's regiment of Loyal Southwark Volunteer Infantry. At Charlton, after a long life, devoted to the service of his country, and in his 73t1 year, Lient.-Gen. Sir W. Congreve, Colonel of Artillery, and Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory - . Mrs. E. Barwis, aged 100 years, relict of the hate J. Barwis, Eq. of Lancri4 Hall, Cumberland. At his home in Great Puitney-street, Bath, in his MIL y ear, Alcvander Hood, Lord Viseonut Bridport, K. B. Admiral of the Ri Vice-Admiral of England, and a General of Marines. "I he title devolves to the Hon. Salute' Hood, 111. P for lieytesbillf grandson of Viscount Hood.