The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-10 00:00:00

400 tficript- LONDON. MONDAY, DEC. 10. Three o'clock, p.m. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday last.—They furnish us with the singular fact of the Ultra Royalists and the Liberales having united, cvidently ter the purpose of obliging ministers to resign. This junction, though extraordinary, would prove beneficial to the public, if they could obtain the complete establishment of the Liberty of the Press, so boldly attacked by ministers, by two ob- Losious "injects of law now before the Chamber of Daput;es, and the object of the coalition is, to in duce the government also to aid the cause of Chris tilinity, by assisting the 'persecuted Greeks. On these two important points, the people are decidedly tv:th the opposers of ministers, and it is therefore I:6ped, that they will triumph over those who have so deadly a blow against the Freedom of the Press. The Chamber of Deputies did not meet un. til Monday, when there was a very animated dis cussion. The question before the Chamber was the proposal by the ministers, of the new law, to which we have alluded, on the Press, including the estab lishment of a Censorship for five years; but the de bate turned principally upon the King's answer to the Chamber; which was strongly condemned, by both the Ultras and Liberates, who, on this occasion, as in voting the address, coalesced. The pl:ncipal speaker who attacked the ministers was M. Delalot, an ultra, who unmasked the unpopular schemes of the King's advisers in a speech that made tn::cli impression on the Chamber. The Keeper of the Scals attempted to answer him in an impotent speech in which he spoke of his loyalty and his sacrifices, though it would have puzzled him to have shown what either had to do with the question, General Donadieu, and several other members, attempted to s:•eak, but were interrupted by the President, who was accused of partiality. The Chamber was quite tumultuous ; and the ministers foiling to carry their measure, the Chamber postponed its future meeting until Thurtday. It is stated in the Paris papers Russia persists in demanding two guarantees against the excesses of the Turks; the military occupation of Wallachia and Moldavia by a corps of Russian said Austrian troops, and that of the Morea by an other corps of English and Austrians. The Madrid papers of the '23d ult. mention that the pestilence in Barcelona is sensibly diminishing is violence. A great ferment prevailed in the Spa nish Capital, by a Message addressed to the King by tl.e Cortes, stating that the town of Cadiz bad re fused to receive General Baron Andiila, whom he sent thither in the quality of Governor of that port, and the Political Chief !Kari°, who has recently been appointed to supersede Don Manuel Jauregy. An address was agreed to, in answer to this message, thanking his Majesty for his confidence in the Cortes, and assuring him of their faithful co-operation to maintain inviolate the public liberty and the Royal Prerogative; and that they will, without delay, take his message into consideration, and prove Limit determination to omit nothing towards the con solidation of the Constitutional Government. The Junvention between O'Doni t ju and Iturbide for the pacification of Mexico, wa , known at Madrid, and some conceived that it ori i ;inat,:d in a plot to remove the Royal Family of Spain from Europe.—A con spiracy :las been discovered at Malaga. The Go vern°. put himself at the head of a detachment to sur r rise the conspirators in a house out of the lily. They refused to open the door, and fired throng!. tie; windows. 'tile horse of the Governor was wow, lel, as well as some of the soldiers, The conspirator, then made a sortie ; four of them fell in an instant, pierced w kit wounds; six others, of which two were wounded, were made prisoners; but their Chief, an ex-military officer, seized the Go vernor in his arms, and would have suffocated him in the 11.4, if he had nut been relieved by prompt a•sistame. The officer was spared by order of the Governor, and conducted to prism, LAIV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, DaC. 7. SAVAGE V. JONES. The plaintiff, a tradesman, brought his action against the defendant, a captain in the army, to recover the amount of a bill fur shoe& and boots delivered to the de fendant. The defence was, that an attempt had been made to charge Capt. Jones for what lie never received. The proof of delivery did not accord with the dates in the bill of particulate of the plaintiff's demand, and the Jury found a verdict fur the defendant. THOMPSON V. MILLS. Th's was an action to recover 111. for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff is a mantimmaker in Oxford. street, and the demand was fur au expensive velvet pe lisse, trimmed with sable, made lot the defendant's wife. The defence was, that it was an article beyond the condition of the wife of the defendant, a master baker; but the Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict fur the plaintiff —Damages 171. ss eon v. VEAL, GENT. This was an action of trespass, to try whether Little Abingdon-street. Westminster, is a public thoroughfare. The case of the plaintiff (which was conducted by Mr. Mai ry at t and Nll. Chitty) was, that A hingilim-st set, being in the natiore of a cal de sac, leading no where but to the whati'sof individuals on the riverside, it could not be consi.lmed as a public thoronotaie, %%idiom ■u original dedication by the el mind landlord fur that purpose. Mr. Gurney and Mr. Gasclee ached upon the tact, that Little Abingiliiii-street, for near 70 years, had always been used by the public who had vccasion to go there ; and that, Milt c the year 1771, it had been paved and lighted by the Commissioncrs, appointed by Act of Parliament at that period. The ClsierJn,lire said, that the Jut) , bad to determine win ther the locus in gao had ever been dedicated to the public, and a bellies tile public had used it as a thorough fare. The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Is cysts 40s. subject to the opinion of the Com t, Nom a poiut reserved. MOUES V, P4kltY. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 1001. ac cepted by defendant, and endorsed to the plaintiff by a person named Hudson. The ha nd-wi iiing of the pat ties to the bill, and its , were pi need. Mr. bitiney, fur tile defendant, said, that in the present case the defendant received a gold snuff-box, charged at 91 guineas, a gilt watch, at 65, and a tut toise-sliell box, chat ged guineriii, as part of the amount of the bill iu question, another accepted by the same party for 971. He would call Mr. Hudson, and expected to be able to prove, by hi; testimony, that the articles were not %war half the sum charged for them. Mr. Hudson was tin n called and examined, lint The Chief Jo•lice said, the di fence was lin t made out, and tht July tumid fur die plaintiff, for the amount of bill and OLD DAILEY, SATLHDAY, DEC. A. ALLEGED FORGEHY OF A WILL. Thomas Saxe:b)e, a man ur most rr•pectable and vene rable appearance (70 years ut age), was this morning put to the bar, to rake Ins trial before a London Jury, upon an indictment charging him with making and forging, and atierw Ards littering as true, a certain n ill and purporting to be the last will and testdun lit of 0111a5 ROlOl5Oll, dr ceased. . The prisoner haying been arraigned, and pleaded Not Guilty, and the duty having been ass urn, Air. Broderick upeut-d the indienuciii, which comprised several comes, tied Mr. Adolphus proceeded to detail the circumstances to the Jut y. The crime imputed to the 'insulter, he said, was 1114: of intending, by fui get)+, to duptive those (ma iled b) law to the succession of the property of which the late Mr. Thomas Robinson had died possessed, or their light. It was neither his duty nor inclination, lie said, to lead the Jury one step towards a COIIOIIIIIOII in this case, or to utter a tenni' k in aggravation of the facts which he should subunit to their consideiation in evidence. The circtiorstatiet it which led to the present proceeding were thee:—ln the year 7.15 there lived al tinll a gentleman of the :lame of Thomas Rubinson. lie was a ildellelol, abolll 214) ears tit age, pmseased of very considerable 'nos perly, (nn 15 to lar,taxtl. Being a bachelor, he lived with his mother iii law. This lady was a widow at the time his father had 11141 nett he r, but she was nut his inu tile'. Upon the death of his father, Mr. 'rhos. Robinson succeeded to all his property, with the exceptiun of an annuity or 251. per aauuut , which was charged upon the estate dutiug the life of his mother in law, and winch she enjoyed. A trout the begiuning tit May, 105, this gentle. man was seized with a disease which, in the end, ter minated his existelice. Immediately alter his death, his mother made the moil diligent search, in every part in the house, iii the t sptctation of finding 4 will. For a long time it was supposed lie had died intestate; but at length a paper was hound, on which acre written, in the litaid writing of the deceased, a meleoranditai, stating his desire •` that all the prupetty of which be should die possessed slitio.if be dedicated to Elisabeth Robinson, his Lite lathe r'a 'flits paper was sent up 1.• D o ef o ,s , Coo l in utis , and attaineted to he proved as the will or the deceased, eat') lit the itialith of June, Isls. Upon this document it appiat en that a se.' was ; hut, as it would lie 401,4i11, title ,0:1111 tie..• .e tio.ice was eerved upon Airs. tiohinsuit's Ltactue , }111110111.1:,lig that the Omit had de ided that this paper I:01111111UL io any sense be considered as a will, and that, unless a will or seine testamentary paper were produced on or before the Ph of September, uet ree would lie issued, declaring that ilie deceased had dt.•d intestate, and thin the next of kin would be admitted to the aelitliiiudratieu Lit the effects. By this decree; the mother in law, who was not the next M kin, would 01 course be deprived of the possession of the property, and till her views and hopes with respect to tue succession would he frustrated. In this One thins fllillllllt'd 1111111 :limos( the last liniment preveribed by tit• notice 111 11111.13. lion, namely, until the of September, witch Insole came hum Ilie hatals of Air. Sat(lei)y, illy prison -t, a paper, which hail been set full lit in the *lodic:lama, mid which w as to this t Elect a• 'the whole ut my property I Nish to give to my mo• they iu law, it him survives With respect to my uncle (who, it would scull:, laud been guilty ut some bail ewiduct, 1 hope she is ill be god to him alien she finds it ueeessary. (Ngued) " Ttiost•s Ituoisisos." This paper, wag tau piper which the prosecutors LONDON t -Pristed and Published by the Prolitieter.JOHN TW st the otlice,l6, Flat:lSt/044 when all Letters Se the Editor, (yogi paid) 11111 St Lt. addressed. THE NATIONAL REGISTER charged to be a forgery by Mr. Switch's, uttered by him at Doctors' Commons, for the corrupt purpose of gaiuing the property described for the nsother•in-law. S I witnesses we►e then called to prove that the sig. nature, " Thomas Robinson," was not in the handwriting of the deceased; but on cross-examination, they almost all completely neutralized their evidence by hesitations, amounting to admissions that might be in his hand-wri ting. One of these witnesses was observed, during his evidence, to keep his eye on the attorney for the prow°. lion, Mr. RuNhworth, who stood up opposite to him. Mr. Baron Gars ow ordered Rushworth to sit down. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, put in a written paper, in which lie reiterated the statement made in his deposition produced from Doctors' Commit'. —stated his perfect readiness on all occasions to meet his accusers, and added, that lie had now surrendered to take his trial. A great number of witnesses were then called, who not only swore positively to the alleged tidgery being the hand-writing of Mr. Robinson deceased, bid distinctly contradicted the evidence of many of the witnesses Ihr the prosecution—pi oved the friendly rennesion which subsisted between the deceased and Mr. Saslebye, and the fact of his having been with the deceased alone on Sunday the 3 th of November. hi addition to this, se. vet& persons of high respestability bore testimony to the unimpeachable liGnour nod integtity of the prisoner in all his transactions in life. The Jury now declared themselves satisfied, without hearing any further evidence, Mr. Justice Bayley perfectly concurred in the propriety of this decision ; and said that, on comparing his notes with the speech of the learned eUIIIISei who had opened this case, lie observed that there was not a proposition which he had advanced ev/Wis he not had Jailed to support by evidence, or in schith he had not been satisfactorily contradicted. —lie was unwilling to interrupt the counsel for the pi sorter, however, as lie was desirous that lie should appear, nut that the unfortunate man had merely escaped trim the consequences of this indictment, but that he was en• titled to be reinstated in the sante honourable situation of life which be Lad held previous to his being placed at the bar. The Jniy s lid they were satisfied of the perfect inno cence of the prisoner, and immediately pronounced him —Not Guilty. Air. Shelton, the clerk of the Court, now stated that these was an indictment the perjury against the prisoner upon the same facts. Alter some hesitation on the part of the prosecutor to proceed with this indictment runt a future sessions, the prisoner, by the recommendation of the lest tied Judge, having been in custody when the bill was found, demanded to take his trial then, to which Mr. Ba -1.011 Garrow, however late the hour, expressed his wit. fineness to attend. Mr. Broderick, for the prosecution, now stated that lie should decline calling any witnesses, and the Jury having been charged, they again pronounced a verdict of—Nut Guilty. M r. Sergeant I fullock, on behalf of the prisoner, applied for a copy of the indictment, w lilt a view, it was under stood, to some ulterior proceeding, and the Court acceded iiiimeiiistrly to the rripiest. tontion Markets -..... CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, DEC. 10. Our market this warning was mast abundantly supplied with 11 heat from the coasts of Essex. Kent, and Suffolk, as well as with a large quantity from Scotland—it still continues of very inferior quality, for which no price is offered—the finest samples has mail purchasers at is. pet quarter lower than our last quota tions. The supply of Barley was large, which met with a very dull sale at a reduction of Is. per quarter. Oats, of which there is a tolerable supply. although offered at Is. per quarter lower, has no demand. Hour remains the same, but a reduction is expected by the ease of the market. In Beans and Peas there is no alteration. :ES OF OH .ster Measure MONDAY. 11. S. 5$ a 79 40 u 53 40 u 62 I 27 a 29 CLitItEN I l'ii11• Per W LIN FOR TI of Eight Buthe W /DM LSD. 69 a 74 40 u 53 40 e „a 62 27 29 I I1•' WEER, PRIDAr. S. s• 52' • 71 40 a 40 a 62 V 7 a 29 Old Wheat New Kcti Whrdt New %Imre do lt,e ardak, ur Buck Wheut tsli Iry Pale Malt feed Ooto tirew or Poland do. ew Tick Beam Old ditto New Pigeon ditto /toiling Prose Grey Prue Itapewed per Itt.t a 22 a 32 :36 u 63 16 u 22 1 21 a 24 1 21 a 25, 22 a 31 24 a %b 22 a 35 21 a Yli MI. a 331. 1 a 22 a 23 s:i a CS I f i a 23 n 25 VS MS a 31 24 a Stl 33 a 35 24 u Yti 1 /. u S:li. a 22 a 33 36 n 64 16 u 23 21 a 25 kV a 2j S4i a 31 21 4' tb S$ a 33 24 a 21 311. it 331. AVERAGEI4I I ./01 , 11;01iN, Per Quarter, of the Twelve Alai 'time District*, of ENGLAWD and WALES, fur the Week ending Decent Ger I, extracted fruits Saturday': Gazette. Wheat... 4 sh 11d i Barley... :144 Pd 1 Beaus Id .... vtll4 1,1 01t...—. 184 5,11 Iliti MARKET. MONDAY. DLit 10.—Our market was Fatty largely supplied with 'prime Boasts and Sheep this morning. Mr which there was asinall demand, except fur the but articles. Veal tool Pura Wet.: also plentiful, and prices were rather dearer than /AA *ea.— The We l lness in the llay Market was rely dull, and Hay and Straw what dart:lllv supported our last quotations. Clover. was rather "Vesper. 1'H111,,1': 01 Al LAT, exclusive ufibe Offal, winds consist s $ Head, e.istrails, and Hide r sod is worth about Id. pa lb.—Per stone or tilts. . slush/Lit. Fit IDA.I. Beef 4e 24 19 11:1 Beef I. St.l it. 3. EIJ .thiltun 2* 611 to :Is 10,1 ..tittui. S, Od to Ss 8J Lamb 0a On to 0, oil Lamb 04 0.1 to 0. I.lsl eal 4., OA to Os 0.1 Veal Ss 10d it. 4s S i Pork Ss 0I to 4. 6,1 Pork St 4il to 4* 4d Head of Cattle at maiket.l Head of tattle at Mai kit. Beasts and &DIM . 19,000 I !thee!) and Lambs 5 6 0 Pigs lid I t :oyes 302