The National Register. — London, England, 1816-08-11 00:00:00

AUGUST 11. Ileverend Algernon Peyton, rector of Doililington, and Thos. Orton, Esq. two of his Majesty's Justices fur the Isle of Ely. w e re r spondents.—lt appeared from the conviction, and the evidence adduced in support of it, that the offence with which Mr. Newstead stood diarged, was, the collecting together a e6n g reg•ation or assembly of persons, and preaching to them, otlyrwise than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of Eagland, in a field which had not been licensed. This was Mr. Newstead's crime; it was for this, that the re verend rector of Doddington caused his fellow-labourer in the work of reformation, to be apprellembal ; and that he and his brother Ntagistrate convicted him in the iti:nost penalty which the Toleration Act imposes! Against the legality of This conviction tile. Newstead appealed. After several ob jections had been taken to the form of the conviction, by Mr. Newstead's counsel, and which were over-rn:e , l by the Court, Richard Vince, servant to Mr Peyton, saver that he heard Mr. Newstead preach in a field at Doddington, on /Sunday, the 7th of April last; Belt he preached contrary to the liturgy of the Church of England ; and that there were more thou twenty persons present. On his cross-examination, he admitted that lie did not know what it seas he preached, whether it were a prayer or a sermon ; it was something, but he knew not what ; ii.ed that he knew he preached contrary to the liturgy of the Church of Eugland only becnuir he had not the Prayer-hook in his hand! John Lane, another of Mr. Peyton's sl mints, corro borated the testimony of the last witness, but he would not swear that there were twenty persons loresent.---Me. !Sevin, Coin-el for Mr. Newstead, submitted to the Court, that the prosecutors had not made out their ease. The Toleration Art requires that the place where any congregaticii or assembly shall meet, at which there shall be present more than twenty -persons, hesidcs the family and Kerrants of the person in whose house such meeting hall be held, shall be certified and regis tered. In order, therefore, lie contended, to render a religions meeting unlawful, according to the provisions of this Art, there. 'ust be present twenty persons of a particular description—of • certain class --twenty, exciusire of the family and servants of the owner or occupier of the place of meeting ; but, for aught the Court knew from the teatimony of the witnesses, (one of wl could oaf swear that there were:2o persons present,) the congregation might be chiefly composed of the family of the owner of the field. Re (milker contended, that tafirld is not a place which required registration : the term "place"of meet ing is used throughout the Act; and, in the 11th section, that term is explained, and defined to be, a place with doors, bolts, bars, and locks. As therefore it did not appear in evidence, that there were twenty persons present of the pa rtienlar class required by the Act, and as a building., and not a field, was contemplated by the legislature, he contended that the convic tion was unlawful, and must be quashed.-1 he Magistrates, however, confirmed it: and hence, Mr. Newstead became lia ble to the penalty of thirty pounds, or to three month.' impri moment. A case was demanded, on the part of Mr. New stead,' fur the opinion of the Court of King's ilcnch ; but the prosecutors having proposed to abandon the prosecution, and engaged not to enterce the penalties, the friends of Mr. New stead withdrew their application, haring obtained all they could desire. The question of right, however, betweeu the lector and the preacher remains undecided. 'WILTSHIRE ASSIZES. These Assizes commenced on Monday last. After a charge from Sir J. A. Park to the Grand Jury, Mr. Scrjeaut Pell ap plied to his lord•lpp, to order that the sum of . 13231. ly. 2d. taken from the person of Samuel Mewman, (charged with forgery) at the time of his apprehension, should be delivered up to him, to enable him to employ au attorney and counsel in his defence. His lordship refused to MI der. Samuel Flower was iedicted for highway robbery on the per son Of John Dutch, on the 9th of July last. The prosecutor, John Dutch, stated, that he lives at I)crvizes ; that on the 9th of July last, about seven in the evening, as he was walking from Hishops-Cannings towards Devizes, he saw the prisoner lay ing on the ground apparently sleeping, he had a little dog which barked, and the prisoner rose up and walked with Dutch, tell ing hint he was also eoing to Devizes ; when they came near to a pubic-house at a place called Shepherd's Shore, the pri soner proposed that they should drink together at that house, and they had a pint of beer each ; they came out of the public house together, and went but a little way, when the prisoner drew a stick out of the hedge, and soon after, as the prosecutor was lookitig to the left, the prisoner struck him a blow on the right side of his head, which knocked him down; prosecutor rose on his knees, when the prisoner struck him a second Wow, and fell on him, saying, " If you do not deliver your watch, I will stab yon." Prisonsr had lust his stick in the scuttle, and rose from Dutch to pick it up ; the prosecutor then got up, !fired prisoner by the collar, and cried " murder;' they both fell, and prisoner heat proveenthr about tho head till he was quite blind ; knocked him down again, and said, "If yo open your mouth again, I'll stick you." Prosecutor then said, • For (]od's sake, spare toy life !" Prisoner took prosecutor's watch out of his pocket, and ran off across the fields, leaving him blind mid neatly dead. The sleek was produced, completely smeared with bl:ml. The landlord having received inform tion of what had happened.went with several other pers o ns to the spat ; Dutch was carried back to the house quite blind ; and John Weston, Jall)e. Rudman, and sonic others, found the prisoner concealed in a tieid of vetches near the spot, with the watch upon him, He was then apprehended, after much re sistaeee, and threatening to stab the first man who came near him, but is which he was happily prevented.—Guilty—Death. John Lampier, Robert sheargold, John Herbert, and John Sly, were eeyitalle convicted of divers burglaries; and James l'aicta and Edmund Bath, of a highway robbery. Satnael Siewman was put to the bar, charged With forging and utter ing a bill of exchange, pun orting to be drawn by and It. Holt and Co. of Roeedule, directed to Messrs. Willis, Percival and Co. of I.on dun. Mr. John Bannister, a partner in the house of Phipps, Biggs. and Bannister, bankers, at 11'anninster, deposed, that on the nth of May the prisoner came to their balk at Warminster, after bank-hours, and requested him (the witness) to ensh four hills. After some con versatit,n, prisoner left the bills, and yelled again in an hour ; prisoner said his tisane was John !punt, of Frome; that he had taken a cottage within a qdarter of a title of his friend Mr. Messiter, the hanker, who woald have cashed them, but he issued no larger notes than those of ii. which prisover said woald nut do: that he was employed by Simeon and Co. and Bannister and Co. to buy up cloths, winch he thought he could do te neater advantage by paving ready money for them. 51r. Beenieter Nave him the cash, and he went away. 'the bill (the sub ject of tne present indictment) wits endorsed by Montgomery and Co. merchants, of Liverpsal. and .Inc;, Fox, and Co. bankers, of Man chester. Mr. John Warren, clerk to Phipps and Co. Of Warminster, owroborated the evidence of Mr. Bannietar. John Ashton proved that the signature to the bill was not the hand-writing of either el the part ners in the hoax of lick and Co. of Roehtlale ; the acceptance by Willis, Per+ id, and Co. and the enclors - nemt of J. Montgomery and Co ..ere severally proeial to be forgeries. Mrs. Messer:l., of Frome, mad, that the prisooer bad iteplied at the bank of Mr. Messner, on the kth of :kitty, in the timmtb,l% for ca s h for the fan hills, which was refused ; she knew of no person of the name of John hunt at Fronice— The prtames was newest from Frome to Warminster, Trok bridge. and Lath. Mr. Wm. Gv.nclry, a banker, Ciiippehluan, gave prtsoner THE NATIONAL REGISTER. a bill on Robart.:, Curtis, and Co. in London, on the morning of the loth of May. The prisoner afterwards got a tool. Hank of Eng land note for thiF at the bank of Roharts, Curtis, and Co. which was tbund on him when h. was apprehenthal. The rrisoner calltal three witnesses on his behalf, who swore that they saw the prisoner in Lon don on the ~th of May. One of then'. named Green, who knew the hand-writing of the prisoner well, said that the endorsement, J. Hunt on the hill, wit; not the prisoner's writing. Hi.; Lordship summed up the evideiwe, and the Jury returned a verdict of—Gm/Yl. The prisoner declared before God and the Court, that he had never seen Mr. Bannister or Warren before he saw them at Guildhall Lon. don; but added, that it would be idle Mr him to deny but that he had some hand in the transaetion : he said, that the person who connnitted the forgery and passed the bill was in another country : that if he was allowed time, he could get the signature of T. Hunt, in the hand-wri ting of that person, exactly like the endorsement on the bill, accompanied by an affidavit, accoanting for the whole of the transaction. The sentence of death was then passed on the prisoner. The heating of this trial occupied the Court nine hours. YORK. The case of Elizabeth Watt, late of Rot well, for adminis tering poison to her sister, came on for trial on Friday se'n night. The prisoner is only 17 years of age. It was a ;inlaid circumstance in this case, that the most material wiiiiesses were persons nearly connected with the prisoner, a sister and a young brother: it was with the utmost di:lieulty that answers could be obtained from the tbriner to questions, the tend( 'icy of which was to criminate the prisoner, who had no Counsel. The Judge took great pains to investigate the circumstances of case ; but the proof was very conclusive. The Jury, after retiring for a few minutes, found the prisoner—Guilty ; and his Lordship immediately passed sentence of death upon her, and expressly stated, that the sentence would iiiesitably be exe cute-1. A cause for seduction from the neighbourhood of Doncaster, Ite% ill, v. SatterLitt, %vas tried ut the late Yuri,. Assihes. Yet-diet thr the plaintiff 3001. PROVINCLILS'. Several manufacturers from Nottingham and vicinity, driven from their !muses by the LniWitt --, are now settled at Tiverton, where upwards ut lOD men and boys Are at work, preparing machinery• for the manufacture of stockings, lace, ai.e. Three narrow boats, laden with the broken lace-frames be longing to Messrs. Ileatheote and Roden, lately set ott from Loughborough, on their route to Stourport, ti whence the river Severn and the licisiol Chi I afford an easy C 1111 l mind cation pith Devonshire, the place of their ultimate destination. Several of the NYUlislllell also embarked for this new settleine t on board the smile vessels, and wore are preparing to ibllow them. We understand, that in Lanarkshire, Glamorgankliire, and other counties, the idea of employiug men half-work, or two thirds work, has been acted upon with much advantage; that is, fur a manufacturer, or any other person employing labourers, who tinds he has only till employment for half or two-thir.ls of the number he formerly employed, to continue employing the • whole number, but only at lialfolay wages or work, or two thirds; by which means, though the men will not be abll to earn so much wages as formerly, they will still not be totally destitute, or throw a out of habits of industry. At the list rent-dal., held at Northallerton, the Earl of Hare wood reduced the rentals of his numerous tenantry, from 15 to 30 per cent. It is also worthy of remark, his Lordship made a return equal to the above for the last 12 months, to the great relief aids tenants—an example worthy of tatiun. Lord Althorp, on tearing town last week, fur au absence of sonic mouths, set an example in his domestic arrangements worthy flue imitatioo of et toy Nobleman and Gentleman who can shoed lt. llis Lordsaip discharged not a servant, but allows them all board wages, diteetiug them to go to his estates in Northamptonshire and Yorkshire, where they are to be al lowed milk, potatoes, .x:e. The stable boys and other menial ' servants are to be sent to school, to be instructed at his Lord ship's expense, until he returns. It appears that the Rev. Mr. Vachdl has obtained a verdict of upwards of seven hundred pounds, as compensation in da mages against the Hundred of Littleport, in the isle of Ely, for the injury dune to his property in. die late riots. MAIDSTONE, Aeu. 6.--The following observations upon the plantations a*e made nom au autual survey which took place during the last week. In Susses, where the land is cold. there is very much fire-blast, and even the best grounds are much in jured by the same cause; also where the bind is in a grossing state much vermin and honey-dew are obser% ed, and in some places mould. The Weald of Kent is in the saint state as Sus sex, and the remaining parts of the county exhibit much tire blast, 11101thi, vermin, and honey-dew. which leads to a con jecture that the crop will not exceed 3-Iths of last year. In many places the hop-grounds have been laid completely under water in consegnence of the continued heavy rains ; and where this has bean the 1:410!, the bound' leaves have turned yellow, and fallen otf. The Worcester growth promises to pay rather more than last year. FATAL PEDESTRIANISM.—Wednesday last, Mr. Graves, aged 21, landlord of the Lamp Tavern, in Bull-street, Birming ham, undertook, ficr a is tiger of 2UI. to go from that place to Walsall and back in three hours (being altogether a distance of Is miles). On his return, and when about three miles short of completiag his task, and within 3.3 minutes of the time al lowed, he was unable to proceed any further. He was jimme. diately conveyed to the Hands worth tavern, and medical aid was obtained, but to no effect ; lie died on Thursday morning. FATAL Pucitasst.—A few days since a hale young man. named Ammison, a collier, about 22 years of age, having been drinking Mr some time at the Swan public-house, in Lane-end, StaffOrdshire, with coureanion of a like description, a quarrel aru.e at a late hour, and die parties proceeded to fighting. In the conflict Ammison received so much injury, us. added to intoxication, reduced him to a helpless state. in which condition he was put ha to an outhouse or pigstve, and survived hut a short tune.—The other was committed to Staebid Gaul fbr mai:- slaughtsr. Evan FErECTS BI'LL-lIAITING.—An Inquest was held Oil the 27th ult. at the Cot lam in Ifalingten, near TOiIICA3. on the body of W. Barnett; who, while:nu:tiding u bull-bait. on the day of the races, received a wound in the breast. from the infuriamd animal, which caused his death.—Verdiet. That the said W. Barnett came by his death by moms of a wounakreceived fonn the horn of a bull. A few days since, G. Allen, a small fancier at Shrophani, who had for 641111:: time past been in a low delamnifing state of mind, was Maud drowned in a pit near his own house. t of his sons, who lived with aisl hail long watched his father with bmeat care and tenderness, and had been at work that morning in a held near the pit where his father was thund, was at the same time missing ; and, as no tidings could be irivca of him, some apprehensions were at length entertained by his friends, that he might I are seen his father in the act of gaming into the water, and in attempting to save him, have lost his own hie also; and on examiaing the field where he had been at work, they per ceived the Motmarks of a pcoon who had apparently been running in the direction o f the pit in question : this determined . them to search, of me son near t7ie :Tat just lame when they found the laid:. fathe. had Inen takers out. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Aug. 6. Foreign-0./fee. Aug. 6. The Prince Regent has been pleased to appoint the lion..Joha Meade to he his Majesty's Consul-gener a l i n S pa i n, i n the room of Sir J. Hunter, deceased. Whitehall, Av. 6. The Prince Regent has been pl..ased to constitute and appoint Capt. Sir T. Lavie, K.C.R. to he Governor of the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich. His Royal Highness has also been pleased to tionstii)ite and appoint R. NiAve, Esq. to be Secretary and Register to the Com missioners of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. W. o.txr.Y. of Stroud, Gloucestershire, trove-owner, from Aug. 10, to Sept. 28, at Bristol. W. lI ERRERT , scn. of Llanidloes, Montgomery, flannel-manufacturer, from Aug. 3, to Sept- 21, at Guildhall. it a N ne l2t hi U re P , T d S ra . per, S. KERSHAW. of Oldham. B 1 Aug. 16, 23, Sept. 17, at Manchester. Atts. Milne and Co. Temple. R. Sum', of 'Tipton, Stallindshire. iron -muter, Aug. 16, 17, Sept. 17, at Shitfnall. Atts. Price and Co. Lincoln's Inn. IL BECKE'PT. of Dorking, Surrey, grocer, Aug. 16. 17, Sept. 17. at Guildhall. Mt. Mr. Lindsay, St. Thomas.street, Southwark. J. FIELD and J. WOOLLEY. of London, merchants, Aug. 10, 20. Sept. 17, at Cmildhall. Atte. Richardson and Co. Bury-et. St..lanies's. T. LANE. of North It Rey-street, upholsterer. Aug. 10, 17, Sept. 17, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Pearce, Salisbury-square. J. WILLCOX, of Aleiniondsbury, Gloucester, dealer. Aug. 9, 13, Sept. 17. at Bristol. Au. Mr. King, Serjeant's-inn. T. WitrrEirousE, of St. Albans, Hertliirdshire, Staffordshire-wart:- dialer, Aug. 10, 20, Sept. 17, at Guildh‘ll. AK. Mr. Downes, New-inn. J. WiLsoN, of Bromptnn, Yorkshire. linen-rnanufactarer, Aug. 10. 20. Sept. 17. at GuildlialL Att. Mr. Ilodgson, Bucklersbury. R. LiTTLE and J. H. BLAIR, of Birniingliam, gun-makers, Aug. 19, 26, Sept. 17. at Birmingham. Alts. Swaine and Co. Frederick': place, Old Jewry. P. SAMBELL. of East Stonehouse, Devonshire, merchant, Aug. 19. 20, Sept. 17, at Plymouth-Dock. Att. Mr. Makinson, Mid. Temple. W. and 11. Al t; Nno, of Upper Thaincs.stoyt, rchants, Aug. 17, 24s Sept. 17, at Guildhall. Atts. Blund and Co. old Bethlem. J. R. and T. WALTON, Of Bread-street, factors, Aug. 10, 20, See -17, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Walton, NVanifoul-a. l'hrogmorton-st. J. B. SHARP. of Queen-street, Cheapside, warehouseman, Aug. 13. 31. Sept. 17, at Guildhall. Atts. Lowe and Co. Soutlituupton-build ings, Chancery-lane. A. SHEPLEY. of Heaton-Norris, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, Aug. 19, 20, Sept. 17. at Manchester. Atts. Longdill and Co. Gray's-inn. W. SiEu, of Nayland, Suffolk, victualler, Aug. 20, 21. Sept. 17, at Ipswich. Att. Mr. Toms. Copthall-court, Throginorton-street. J. HALLOWELL. of North Shields, ship-owner, Aug. 9, 26, Sept. 17, at North Shields. Att. Mr. Watt, Cushion -court, Bread-street. L. C. BARNETT, of Nottingham, upholsterer, Sept. 3,4, 17, at Not tingham. Atts. Allsopp and Co. Nottingham. W. S. BEc of Bilsion, Staffordshire, dealer in iron. Aug.l6, 11. Sept. 17, at ShiffnalL Atts. Price and Co. Old-sq. Lincoln . --Inn. J. 11.0. r.. of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, ribbon-manufacturer, Aug. 21. 22, Sept. 17, at Nuneaton. Att. Mr. Constable, Syinond's-lun. J. NVATTs, of Manchester, draper, Aug. 26, 29, Sept. 17, at Mau- Atts. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane. J. J. BARNAHD. of Boston, and Shirlsxk Quarter, Lincolnshire. han ker, Sept. 11,16,17, at Boston. Atts. Exley and Co. FurnivaTe-Ina. DIVIDENDS AT GUILDHALL. Sept. 3, E. Batt and Co. of Witney. Ox.forti, hankers, Aug. 27, C. Ilannner, of Bristol, timber-brokers. Aug. 51, C. V. Colwell, of Grer.t Russel-street, linen-draper. Aug. in, 11. Cooke and D. Prince, of Colemar,-stmet. inere'nants. Sept. 14, J. West and T. J. Culliford, of Great Winchester-street. ta- Aug. 31. T. C. Edwards, of Leicester-square. silk-mercer. %. L. Curlrwin, of King-surer, ovent-Garden, tailor. Aug. Cl. G. Taylor, of °unread, Kent. paper-maker. Aug. 31. W. Harticastle, of High Holborn, bookseller. Aug. 27, J. Page. of Kedbourn-llury, lferttbrd, duslcr. Aug. 21, R. Pocock, of Rtdbourn-Bury. Hertford, miller. Aug. r";', C. Hessen, of Prospect-place. LambetO, insurance-bro Aug. 27, J. Hawes, of Tooley-strkcA, Southwark, poulterer. DIVIDENDS IN THE COUNTRY. Aug. 30, A. Laidlow, of Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, at Kingston. Sept. 2, P. Neale, of Kington, Hereford, tailor, at Kington. Aug. 30, C. Stevens, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, linen-draper, at New Aug. 29, D. Gray, of Bootle, Cumberland, tallow-chandler, at White. haven. Aug. 30, S. Joseph. of Gosport, Southampton, slops Aler. at (import. Aug. 30, K. Petmell, of Kingston-upon-Hull, woollen-draper, at King. stun-upon-Hull. CERTIFICA'rES, Ann. 27.—J. 11. Allen, of Oxford, druggist—. R. Horner, of Newbury, Ilerks, bargemiaster—J. Mathias, of Harm t'ordwest, banker—S. Itingsell, of Poplar, painter—R. Hodgson, of Northallerton, surgeon—J. Ansley, of Star-oourt, Brcatl-str-vt, met. chant—W. Allanson, of Castle-street, Holborn, silversmith—G. Su_ renne, of Dean -street, Westminster, goldsmith—A. Martz, of Wap, ping -Wall, marchant--'r. Herring, of Huddersfield, York, saddler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. .I...Woodhouse. sem andp.of Bristol, anutimanufact W. Leeman and Co. of Whitechapel. G..fohnston and Co : of Lancaster, in: J. Butler and Co. of Birmingham, manufacturers. J. 11. Burgess and .1. Latham, of Birmingham, merchant& R. Walker and Co. of Liverpool, merchants. G. flew and T. Stubbs, of Liverpool, wine-merchants. J. Davis, of Great Queen-street, and J. Harris, of Princes-Ftro4. Drury-lune, surgeons. J. Martin and W. Longfield, of Manchester, boot and shoe-makes& Crarw.—lt k a circumstance not to be Seconnted far, that wlian the price of wool has fallen to what it was nearly - 20 awl when manufacturers are not able to Rile em. Igo -puma to their workmen, the sellers of cloth and the tailors in toss a, keep up their prices as if the article reluainatl at al* prices it brought six years ago. _ - - • The seizure of malt, occasioned by its !wine protected by hoards from the damp of walk, to which we have adverted in a former paper, was fully investigated by the Magistrates at Bath, on the 19th July, And w ith that candour and impartiality which .4) singular a ease required ; and their decision coincided with our expectations. it was clearly proved, that the boards in question had been placod in that situation for nearly fifteen years; and the right of protecting the malt from injury by this or anv other means was shewn to be ircontrovertible. The Bench were also of opinion, that it never was the intention of the Crown to prove the ruin of any one who Wright, by accident and without intention, subject himself to its penalties; and that if malt was in an improper situation for gauging it, it was the duty of an exciseman to point nut the ci.ctonstance, give time for the alteration : but in this case, a man who knew his business entail have mcasm et( it accurately as it stood. An order was made to return the same to the owner, and to pay all costs. Tuesday hi the Consistory Court, Winchester, se•denee of divorce was pronounced brtw.'en Ceps. .ud Lady Honot Eii7;thttil Heater Harvey k ttaii k htro of the nut of Unv.ni). on the ground of adultery with Lien'. Usher. Cal t. Ituryev married the Lily In ittnct, being ihra a Cqt..ll'outlgate, alid had :Jae daughter by La. 4