The National Register. — London, England, 1817-07-28 00:00:00

Jinx it sine thons.toil !moods, out of which four or five went twwit• hrotimr. _ . - 'jr. Searlett then addressed the Jury, and observed that his Learned friend had said, the Jury were now called on to declare the guilt or innocence of Mr. Dunkin of a cap•lsl intent 0. Ile denied that position. It Willa not necessary that, to find a verdict for the defendants, the Jury should find I)tinkin guilty. It was sufficient the Jury should think 111 r. I)iinkin not ectirtiy innocent. Thr Jury would have a very dith•rent issue to try, if the issttewere the (reshot, of lift or death to Mr. Dunkin. This Lad been held ill a cas, tried before the late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who in an action brought by the assigneess of a bankrupt, whose Louise had 44.P0 burnt down in Sc g4te-streei r and who had himself been tried and ucgoitty,l, on a charge cf argon, at the Old Rally. The Lord Chief J ustice then told the Jury, thus it was not necessary that they shotial unit a case of abso lute guilt against the bankrupt ; it was sufficient they should the caw as equivocal, and that would be sufficient to cantle the Fite Office to a verdict ; and in that case the Lire Oilier did obtain- a verdict. Ili, Learned Friend had wise contended,. that :15r. Dunkin hail no motive, as he was in a most flourishing state of trade, and had a coi.siderable excess of p. operty anus r lii, debts. lie (Mr. Scarlett I should contend the very emstrary to Le the fact; that so far (ruin 11:S bring flourishing, Ills atlhirs oiled h tve been embarrassed. His father, in 1814, left him 40041.; by his fire in 181.1, he lost 10001.; he then built a house which cost Into 60091., arid another ti WA was estimated at 1,.',001.; he had in•en rt•hbed of 5001. by an Irishiman ; and be hail, since Itilt 1 , trade 20 trips ;n Fraiiee.emoLimoc, as he stated, business stud pf.•astire. Learned Couust•l theta proceeded to eo 11111 l ent, as eon sidutable length, on the inipi ott.thility of the testimony giccn lry ti,. Dankin ; and obsei veil, he should call es idruee to priive it teas not impossible but that he might himsellhave tied his own hands ; and further, lie should spew that lie had vat Jed materially i i his account at diff'it•all times ; if he should do this. the Jury would be bound to find iii sir verdict for the defendants, w'.l6tnit l u cking to what might be the eon queitees to any indivitli.rl oil a fultice day. 'l'. Robertson, a fireman, belonging to the London Tilsit ranee Otiice, foond some plate, which he now pi °deceit.. on the morning after the ire. Whilst turning ;yrs the rubbish he found the plate scattered on the third fluor of Mr. Cock ei tun's house. Cross-examincd.—.The plate was found between six nod seven o'clock iu the morning. Several men had been (MI that pal t before the willies. picked the plate up. S. Larkin lives at ?Jr. Cu.•kcrtun's, was alarmed on the night in question by a noise in the street; heard Mr. Mink in's voice rowing down frmn the roof, but but did not see him. Heard hint say. t'oekcrton, Coekerton ! Are , file get up or you will all be htient lie was at this time on the top of the roof. A quarter of an hour after this alarm there was nothing to be seen but !monitor hi the trout of time house. Mr. Dawes had heard of Mr. Dunkin's hand; being tied, and knew that it was impossible far a person to do it himself. Lind Ellenhorongh observed it had been prove d that this was possible. It was scarcely worth while to go to proof. If, however, it was to he given it must be given de judo— plr. Dawes here eahibited the mode in which it seas done . ] Mr. J. Harmer saw Mr. Dunkin in the King's Bunch Pri son on the lath of June, the Saturday after the tire. Wit ness then asked. him how he came by the Napoleons which were taken from the safe. lie said he had :a) from a money changer in the Valais Royal; the rest be had from Lieut. De Cree, who is gone to Anie rieit—no number was Illent ioned.— On another occassion Mr. Dunkin told witness the parties (meaning the thieves) had been with him about five minutes, when I heard the watchman go his round-1 think it was half past tsets e. One man was sitting en me ; the other man said," I have got it," and went down stairs.—Before this time they had secured his hands and blindfolded him. H. Harr:Amin, the person who got in at the fan light, stated, that he found the (rout door locked, and the key withinside. Witness Law ,%ir. Dunkin on the following Monday ; %Olen, bekre Mr. Alderman Cox, Mr. Dunkin teen said, " If the dog had hero loose, le might have torn you to pieces." Mr. Mackay was at Mr. Dunkin's on the night of the fire ; the back premixes towards Shaftesbury-place were abut awl fast. . . Mr. Gurney replied upon this evidence. which, he said, did not at all attach to the plaintiti 't. case. Lord Elleithorough summed up, anti the Jury, after retir ing (or a quarter of an hour, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 50241. ss. tici.--Costs 40.3. The rise occupied the Court from half past fline in the murnior till eight in the eveuiug. The Court was crowded to excess throughout the day. THE YAME V. THE IMPERIAL FIRE °wintry. This action stood exactly Ott the same grounds as the abo%e. It w:is agreed drat a veritio fur tir take!, for the amount of the policy ow the stock in trade, subject to a proportionate tinnintiti. n, lint for the whole amount for which the house sas insured, us it was ulloned to he a lota, loss.—The verdict therefore u :la 323:0. on the stuck, and 20001. on the bowie. Another action was brought by the same plaimiffs against the Hope Fire Office, to recover IttUUI. being the• atootita lit the policy ni'insurutice on the household furniture. The de fenclants pleaded that they were not liable, Mr. Dunkin Ifav• ts:c effected insurances at she time us ith other offices. Lord Ellt , sthorottgb said, that as the office had received the tot cciii, they had made tin 1111.11VC! N'eidiet for the plaitifili3-I).sittages, 10001. A fourth artiolywas brit tht against the F.agle Fire Otter, upon A loitiley r.I tit-or:tare tar 5.101. In lhts cause nu wool were addoeeel that the had received any notice front Dunkin, :teem. tog to th. it printed conditions, that hr Ltd .trecteut any Incurative with at y colter °thee. Mr. Scarlett said, that the deicadatits taxi opposed the upon a moral ob j ection. Lord Elienhorottgli observed, that a moral o'..jection had nothing to do with a point of fact.—The action could not br maintained.—Nonstuttd. Clstrn-vecst.tsva.--11 appears that the female convicted of the dhoti' crime at the Old Bailey Se..desso, leer a short i)e ti, el " 311'1111(A and fretted" her hour npuu th e s t age , al .,t pe t rol meil several tist.re at the tittle 'theatre its the Ha)111.11 ket ; since which she rosined a connection with a geallealaik in F.Aliee, and left that place some lime ago preparatory to her ace •hement in this conntsy. The child she was el, livered ut flied; and noon the account of her receiving a lar 4 i. 36111 from the anove Foreigner, she stede the ehdel alluded to, in ord.!. to Ilium %%qui it to France, to impose It on the re puted father a► his own offspruss. TTITI N, """` 'tux TREASON. The trial - of Andrevli•Kinley, accused of bring implicated in the alleged conviorey at Glasgow, and of having admi• Metered illegal oaths, to the disservice of the State, too► place before the Iligo Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Saturday la.st. The prineipal wituee for the prosecution was John Camp bell, who, on being asked if lie had received any fee or ie ward for the evidence he was to give, answered, " he had t he had made an agreement with Mr. Drtlntmond•, the Advo• cafe Depute, by whit-it he was easered a paysisort for himself and his wite out of the kiligdoin, Olt sufficient means to sup pot I them in ft foreign country." Them- hopes alai promihes of 'enumeration Lein; enex pertedly acknowled.zeit in Court, the Judees would not re ceive his evident-v, ded the eihet wit nesses being found intaifficiesit to suppoit the (-barer, the Lord Advocate express. ed disappoitittneLt at the tutu which the evidence bad taken, anti left it to the Jury to return a verdict of Not Pro ven, which, after a few minutes consultation, Wry accord inly did. • The Lord Justice Clerk then addressed the prisoner nearly as follows : " Andrew Alt Kinky, in consequence of arlat has paned this day, a Jury of your country has returned a verdict of Nor l'roren. You have bes . .r. duly tried upon the iiinst patient invessigaden, and the Public l'iuseeutor has net, urea this oce.,.iion, prodiuted ashler:ice to find you of the char-fig in the in,ti.tment. The evidence hat been unsatisfactory; hot Woking to your own declaration, and the minute given in by your Counsel, the rennet is a proper verdict. It leavei. however, a mark upon p.m character winch nothing but a lit; of rectitude will wipe olt: You 113Ve had a full. fair, as d im partial tried. It must show the anfegtravl of a British Jarr. cud 111U4 lenve upon your mind a conviction of the twurity-and happi ness of the people of this country—it shews that the Laws tatead to their protection. You now return to society ; have no more secret meetings. either by bonds, oat'ls. rr ingagementt. Abstain from such practices. and 1:o such charge can come against you aikido. Hold cut for the future to your relive countrymen. that the laws allbrd protection to der pen Ollb of !:re subjects. and charge them to hand down cur happy corro-ittrion unimptired to tae latest porterity. Ily your f ttu-e life, Justify the verdict of the dory. If you have been misictt by wicked trim be determined to live for the future in Cie paths of honesty, sobriety, and ‘irtrw." Ilefore leaving the bar, the prisoner addressed the Court as follows : _ • " itly Lords, I am not in a eapseity to stand. from my weak state of ho:ty, to return you my thanks in a Inng speech. but I thank your Lordships. end the Gentlemen of the Jury, for your unwtaried at. nt ion to this longaad arduous ras; t also the I.yrd Advotatc, fur his kindness to me during the time of my impri-onrnent, in admitting ire friends to visit me without restnunt: To my Counsel my feel ings will not allow me to express myself." Tile prisoner then howtil to sLe Court and retired.—The trial lasted from Line o'clock in the morning till ten at night. We understand that all the persons confined in rdiubur g h Castle, on charges similar to those preferred against Andrew 11PKinley, have been liberated. BOXING AT Moritsi.e liustsT.—Two of these scandalous scenes, ha the disgrace of the Mugisteicy, were, on Wednes day, selfered to be exhibited at the 1111011' place. 'I he Cr battle was for thirty 'Moves, between Painter, who was best by Oliver, and Sutton, an athletic Black, who beat Robinson the Black, pt Doncaster, last year, but who had never exhibited for any prize in London helm c. Painter was seconded by H. Cribb, and 11. ILI men :Ind Sutton was .CCllllllell I.y T. Owen and T. Jones. To follow them from the Ist to the 4elli round, which ended the tight, would be tediums, as Painter was so reduced that Ile I'ollld wake no hits; and Sutton's backers most prohanly owe victory to the generalship , of Tom Owen hissiceoud, who not only spurred him by wia ds, but sometimes pushed him. Tiee tight lasted forty-three minutes and ten seconds. Huth men were most severely beaten the Black, who bled but little during the tight, bled copiously front the head when put to bed. A screed tight took place between Reynolds and Besanco (a Jew), but it did not prove, upon the whole, so good a tight as the above. Reynold.. had the worst at going till, but he got in at his adversary at last, although be had length aad vu- rote open him. R?yumlds was blind atter 111.:111illig more than hour ; lie desired the application of the lancet, which was appiied, and he wan cleverly in one hour and twenty-five minutes, or at least lie fought up hill two thirds of the time. The Jew at last resorted to tumbling about, but he was finish ed by a right-handed bit nosier the ear. Pencstm les:sm.—Me% ens at three Weiner: on Wednesday afternoon, linalb completed his task of walking 500 nodes in 23 dayb, being two hours within the time allowed him. Crisp, the Paddiegion bricklayer, also completed his most extraordinary iiedettaking ef walking 2bo mites backwards It set cu days, at half past fear o'clock on Wednesday alter noon, being .t the bate of AO miks a day, and which task lie has performed in six- days mid 2:: hours anti a half, being an hour and a halt' within the time allowed han. A ruhbern to a e.o.isiderable amount has been effected on the Live' pool Inch pa less through Litchfield on its route to London. 'lle parcel lost 11'cli a box, containing 4101- rA au I don bloom. A HobnEn !DOT rtAn, AND uts ACCOMPLICE WOVNDT.D AND TAKEM.—Tbc following has taken place at Hull t--One of the workmen of M. H. Gleadow, ship builder, having occasion jo look over the premises. was greatly surprised to find the outer door of the countinghouse open, Aral Aso the window of small lark office, with an inside wooden shutter. the latter of which wee lifted up and bat tened to the top of the room. On his precasting into the counting house. one of the closet e...;,irs was oleo inns forced open, and several keys taken away. A late,: and a smell chisel, belonine to a chest that stood under the countiug-house steps, and which, it appeared, had been btoken open. were also found on the counting-house , floor, with which the front end closet doers had heal poised.—lt being clear from these cir.-unistanceo, that a robbery of the premises: was in con templation. 11r. Gleadow, took immediate steps for :he prevention of the crir.to and the detection of the robber. Accordingly, Themes Arum, and another of his servants, were placed on I lutrtl in ambush melee cover of a shed, and near to the tool-eheet er,d the steps lead ing to tile intended scene of depredation ; the former annul with a well-loaden ;Arm, and the other with a stout iiludgeon. About a quarter helots twehe they observed two tuna couw trout the top of tne n ater-drek gate, and pi oceed across the ship-yard to tile 5..;01-01c1 - A, where they whispered, tagetber, and one of them tilled his pockets with such instruments as suited the purpose. and turned round up the counting-house steps ; the other dal the :aim*, and was following his companion, when Ac: n shouted net io them, " undo ! what do you want there ?" Unon this alarm. the latter immedi ately ran, and was trite -1y followed by the tallow who bad first gene up. Actin) then fired as they made for the tiock-gate, and was so sure in HS rini, that he hit Mon both; one of them dropped down hutartly dead. and his companian's aim was broken end shattered; hut he was able to remit as far as the crane upon South-end, where hr was stopped, and &Usual over to tits military ,onard. They valved to be two fellers nent...l llo t mra (killed) ucd desperate eliaeicters, only last week discharged from confinement in Hull tiro!. The billy of the former was lodged in the House of ('orrec don here. Mr the Coronet's Inquest, :u.t: the wounded wan is in cus tody at tile lairmary. T /CNA T. ItEarsTrit. V.l THF, PRINCE REGENT'S COURT. Thurstlay the Prince Regent held a Court at C::-Iton House. His Royal Highness held a Privy Connell, at which the Duke of Northumberland teas introduced, and sworn in Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nor thumberland, vacant by the death of the law Duke, his father. After the Council, was held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, in order to confer the ri band vacant by the decease of the Duke of Nor thumberland, Knight Commander of the Order. Previously to the Chapter, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland had an audienee of his Royal I k new, for the purpose of returning the insignia worn by his late Noble Father. The Knights Companions present at the Chapter, were— Their Royal Highnesses the Duke* of York and Cumberland, the Manmis of galishury. the Earl of Westnunclanti, Mantilla Clanden. ihe Earl of liardwicke, the Marqui s o f Ahrrcrin, the Earl of Pcsabroke, Marquis of Ilcnifoul, the Earl of Liyerpuol, and Viseteint Casilerrtagh. The ()freers were—the Bishop of - Selishnty, Chancellor of the Order, the lion. and Rev. tie Wan of Windsr, ltegistrar of tile Older; Str Isaac. licurd, Gat - ler King a; Amy; : anti Sir Thomas Tytwint, Black Rod. After the Prince Re,7ent, and the Knights Coln. pinions and Officers had proceeded from the private apartment of his Royal Highness into the Chapter room with the usual ceremonies, and had taken the it respective places, the Chancellor signified the niece Regent's ploisure in the name of the Soverekpi, for filling the vacant stall. Henry, Earl Bathurst, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, was then introduced and knighted, when his Lordship retired. The suffrages were then called, anti the Earl de clared duly elected. His Lordship was then received at the door of the Chapter Room, by two Junior Knight's attended by Garter and Black Rod, the same bearing the insignia. The Prince Regent invested his Lordship therewith, the Chancellor pronouncing the admonitions. The Chapter ended, Garter King of Arms called over the Knights Companions, and the procession returned in the order in which it bad beta made into the Chap ter Room. THE lIVONAPARTE FAMILY. The vnrion.4 numbers of the Ruonaparte family live apart from aft the nobility of Rome, and even from strangers who arrive there, the English except. it. Ifcr Royal Highness the l'rineeas of Walt s. shen she arrivtd at Rome, alighted iimnediately at RulEtielln, the pro perty of Lucien, at Tusculum, and of 'Odell, it is said, the Princess means to make a purchase. Lucien pays particular court to his mo ther, who is reputed to be vary itch. Ile is still desirous of proceed. ing to America. It is said, that after having been refused, upon his first demand to the Outline] Seentary of State, who referred lam to the Nlinisteis of the Allied Courts, whose detenninaticns have been made public in the Faigli h Journals, he immediately bad recourse to elm Cabinets of the Powers who signed the Holy Alliance. from whom he awaits an answer with great anxiety. Madame Lucien alone appears in public, and affects much gaiety and intlifrerenec. Her husband lives very reeind : he has tried to produce a mom:ilia tion with the Pope, hut he was received very coldly. Arcer ~ in gannato, said his Holiness. Lucien protested that the interests of re ligMn, and of his Holiness posonally, were not foreign to the views which had recalled hint to France. '• I am persuaded," said he, "that the efforts which my brother was about to make to rem er his power, in giving a lively impulse to the national mind, would have had no other result than the triumpth of republican principles, of which Ido net disenise that I Lave always been an ardent votary. I had a right to consider mys.lf as one of the first members to the fu ture denie,:ratical government; and convinced that the austerity of manners so conformable to the precepts of Christ, and of which year Holiness now gives as noble an example in the chair of St. Pear. is the moat solid basis of political equality. I should certainly have used all my influence to replace France under the empire of religi ous ideas." This little comedy did not experience all tl.e 6110.1164 that I mcien hoped from it, and they say that it was not represented a second time. Louis alone is visited by a part of the Roman nobility; but he appears to be more annoyed titan flativred by this distinction, and devotes himself entirely to the education of his son. The Princess. llorgliese, separated from her husband, nevertheless oceupirs a part of the palace and of the villa. Of all the members of the fancily she appears the most frequent. The health of Cardinal Fescfs has for some time been much im paired. lie experiences frequent lossea of blood, u.td:r witch they say he would have sunk, had it not been for the vigour of r.f.'s con. stitution. M SPAM rDe Sca — . rite evening before this lady" death, she enjoyed the fresh air of her garden, and sunk into le ei.m tlosleeentrer, from which sloe never awoke. I t i s a re im e e.a• able fact, that apprehending and tOreseeing thw catessid optic, she never, for some moieties previous tee her dissolution. hit se itielill3lloll to Sle:•p without dread. She intimated a we'd* that for three doss her corpse might be attended before be,iu for ever inclosed in its cotlin, and for three davS (11. tietiMice ofthe distressing circumstances reflection suggest. j.teie eie s taa iie Stael did not mitt the chamber ot r Titieleparied roomer.— This time t spired, the relies were deposited in a hearse, in order to react Covet by easy stairs. The son eontjeks !o sin one but himself the last Lid ditty of accompanying his ACE. tionee parent to her grave. They will not reach rivet be fore the II th day. 'flee day of the death of Madam.. de Steel was the anniveisary of the triumph of Air. Necker. Her plot_ vicious were -repaving fir her oxygessons air. when she breathed her last. The life of the infant of the Deicree.de de lietry is believe, el to have been psolouged half an hoot by means of the suite process. Colin isteowraTinsr Iltt.L.—The Art lately passed is dated the loth inst. torn, grain, meal, deur, and rice, may ire imported in any vessel from any country till the 14th of November next inclusive, ',unified sleet the impoeta, o f 10 alit tinting the same pet toil contituee tee he legal ler the late Act, 35 (ho. LII , cap. !Si. Ccrn, :sr c. WAlrletruled tor exportation only, may be emoted for I ...... e conseiniptinn.— •Itye.meal warehoused iu like :minder may be admitted to entry dirty free. A Cow Rl tii 1C1)1/0/ Lec.—One of the fore lees of* cow, tre pli.perty of Mr. Little, of Ilessentord, in Cori.w all, As accidentally broken some time ago, and Nlt. Little, heilg 1111WIli:ng to kill it, had the kg uninitiated jint nelow the knee pint, and the part be ing ',est. city heats d, a t .ad and wooden leg were braced on, and the poor allllll4lnuw **dal about, lies down, and riael with much facitit).