The National Register. — London, England, 1814-02-27 00:00:00

14 which he insisted that the whole was a contrivance of Lady Pace• val's to create a public ferment, awl atlerwards to withdraw herself, and throw the %t hale Maine em Milford, who was to be her dupe and tool, and stand in the gap ; and that alter the mischief WWI none, he was to be stigmatised ai a madman, and the whole biame of the transaction thrown upon his shoulders. He then Merited on the letters which had been produced, and iivisted that she had shown herself to he in a systematic co-ve of WA ling, on the subket of the Princess of Wales's atlair. Wally of the letters and paragraphs being . evidently inictided to rtistie;s the feelings of an Illustrions Character. The learned Counsel insisted, therefOre. that the Jury could not convict the defendant of psoinry qun the oath of Lily Pereeval, where they had each sworn differ ently, especially as all the probabilities of the ease were with the defendant. Mr. Phipps was then called, and exmined by Mr. Curwood, and lie d'rectly contradicted Lady Percev:,i as to what passed at the in. terview bet ween then] ; for having peisnatled him a long time to simply say the letters were forgerie, without tnrther explanation, when he strewed to acquiesce, she took him hv the hand, and sLin lie was the saviour of her and her family ; and that her son woad, in a few years. be high in administration, when he should be pao ided tor. Shea then bid her son take hint by the hand, and vow eternal fliendship fot him. The several letters of Lady Pereeval were then put in and read, Lady Anne Hamilton was then called to contradict Mr. Pi;ipp•, but, on cross examination, she stated, that Lady Perreval hail it , a r guilty of gross breach of confidence, in writhr4 to Mr. Phipils in her name, contrary to her sentien Lord Ellenhorough, in ‘11:111111i:ft Ur, %it a' 1)1'0e/ 0414T'. to advert upon Lady P.'s conduct, when *he Jury inlcir.ip;ed his Lordship, and said they were satisfied wiliont trolibilng lair Lordship, aad im mediately found the de lenihnt----Not TrIE NATI - ONAL REGISTER. ~~: --. . sATuRn \y, FE lIRUARY Cr! V. 30,:V1A This was an act'on broneht by the ) hintiff, who is a ro , :•cr i i Ox f ,rd-street, to re( over '251. du: - : to him by the defti.dam, whrst! t r; de or profi:ssion did rot Appear. The dc:timdant, it appearcl, hirt owed the sum (IA aril for this se-4 w is, at 'A suit, res!cd. It, ho ever, afterwards appeared, that he had paid 11. on Rec omit. The Attorney- General read a letter from defendant to plain tilt; in which he threatened him with a prosecution for a v:.:ratiou• wrest, and stated that plointilfwould not only lose his debt, bi.• would have 601. to pay. He also adverted to his having '..ecr, arrested by Oki Goddard, the King's milkman, iind to his not having 1)7341 him ft single farthing, and expressed his deterniinati , n not to pay one halfpenny of the plaintig 's demand, and reminded the plaintitrof the passing of the late Insolvency Act, by which he cc.uld piy his creditors by three months imprison:lu nt. The delivery of the goods having been proved, a verdict was found for plaintiff—Damage, Lord Ellenborough then desired that the defend int's letter might he preserved by Mr. Jones, the officer of the court, obterving, if the le lendant applied to t.tke the henetit of the act to which he had alluded, his release might not be so speedy as he anticipated. COURT OR COMMON PLEAS, Fk7B. 26. SLANDER. DAY V. NFALE AND WIFE. This WM an action to recover damages for islanderons words, Jedged to have been spoken by the wife of the defendant to the prejudice and ijury of the plaintiff. The plaintiff, it appeared, had married a Miss Hardaere, who, previous to her matriagy, and subsequently thereto, hasi kept a boarding-.school. At this school a person named Marsh, resident at Tilbury, in Essex, had daughters there. In the month of No• vember last, the wife of the det'endant went to Mr. Marsh's house, and said " I saw Miss llardaere knock down Elizabeth, your daughter, and heard her say—curse you, he revenged of you, it 1 can't on your father." In consequence of this representation, 11r. ltiatsh, after Christmas. took away his children from the school ; and Miss Hardacre. having been married to the plaintiff subsequent to the utterance of the words, he brought the present action fur the injury, which, as her lin , band, he alledecti lie had sustained. Mr. Marsh proved the utterance of the writs in question, and declared that he bad taken two of his danubter's flout Mrs. Day's • school in consequence of the statement which had been mule to him. He bad had it in contemplation to take his eldest daughter away from the school previous to the communication with the wite of defendant, in consequence of his having learnt that she had been sent to spend an evening at time hon=e of a fakir! of Mrs. Day's ine tote her marriage, where she was put to sleep in a room in which were two grown hop:, • FEB. 27. Sir V. Gibbs slimmed. up the evidence, and left it for the Jury to con.ifier whether the c:aise of the removal of the children from the school of Mis. flay arose from the imprOper circumstance al it!led to by Mr. MaiM'. ri•specting his eldeAt daughter, the marriage of Tics liardaere, or the word. imputed to Mrs. Neale. The Jury Wind a vri - diet for deCendailt, on the ground that the plaintiff had sustained nu loss frcam the eireumstahce imputed to the iteichdaut. • OLD BAILEY. On Tors&iv, the Si s , :inw ended, vi hen sentence of death was passed HA:tenet., for stealing goods in a dwelling hioisc ; Smith and Joseph M.lrc.c", for a like offence . Almdiam Levy and Charles Hal ding . , ro!,ning Win. WooOnouse .Iclin Morris, and 711 ,. )•e - Solonions, for burglary ; Fms ler and lima) Widfi., fir a lie offence; Atoll ew Roke and tirorge Thatcher, for steali:!g grit , '“ pi ivatt ty in a shop; Wm. Sturniao, for settic.g. tire to his thsellieg-lii-use ; Decry French, fur rptorniog iron) tranvortation; and M.try Gray, alias Carney, for piiyately stealing in a shop. Six were ordered to be ti'ansported for life, viz. Joseph Williams, Thomas Ymith, John Brown, John Niglitiora!e, Charles Alatilie.y., and Samuel Lyons; live fir 14 years, viz Timmas Smith, Lucas, Mary hOitiol• Jo l ul raw H, anal John 11meliam ; and (21 Wl :even year., viz. Joines Hare, Goodchild, Hannah 11.fsvic, Mary Thomas Williams, George Hedges, Elizabeth Flee. rivm, Di . obk, Stanes, Ann Turner, alias Ake's, John o.renau, Jame! Manche, Widiani Haag*. -James Ingram, Thomas ticown. Ismel Davies, Wm. 1 i-!royd, Chtlicrine Smith, John Smith: I) , dun: &iota, and Jilin Cardon. rive were- 01 - deleil to be imprisoned in the Howe •of Corructiom for (bile vrA., and Pin teen for six calendar niontlt; six to be Impl'i scot.l Ia Nevet:;ate for varior , ; period. ; sixteen were ordered to lie 1 1 ivatfly %%hipped ; nine jodgintnts rcipited; awl charged by proclamation.--Sessions adjonrned to 20th Apt i 1 ticxt. ACCIDLATS AND OFTLNCES. WI AstrivG.--I\fr. Romstnis's window., in Cheapside, which htive so frequently hien assailed by the City Backe, were again &thick ed tm Saturday right week, and a penny piece was dashed through a pin of glass ot the value of t 1. Ms. The shcpinan perceived the pently piece come from a hackney-coach which was passing, and immediately followed it, and, with some difficulty, he ;rot the door open, when he accused two gentlemen ss+o were in it of having broken the window. They. Imwevet, denied toe charge, and called to the coachman to drive on and cut the young man's eves out. The coachman did whip his horse., and also cut at the shopman several time.. lle finally escaped, but the number of his coach was obtained, A Solicitor yesterday ap plied to the Sitting Alderioan at Guilrlhttll for a warrant to apprehend she coac`intAn, but the worthy Alderman would not grant a warrant, a', he conceive.l, the assiitill had burn committed by tho shopinatt in stop ping the coach ; he wt,nld, however, grant a summons. This the Su• lit:nor would urn take, but declared leis intention of indicting the e,tachittan at the Sessions. Mr. Romanis, who has suffered much in his purse by these zatacks, saspects a conspii acy has been formed against he followine are some nd-litional particulars relative to the end ef Miss Levitiia Robinson, of "%lanchrster selected, from a minute detail, inserted in the Manc'esster Esclemee Her :-- Miss L. R. at 11:e time of her disappearance, war. twenty yearc end ten months olrl ; 511 C was on the eye of nia:::iar %ell Mr. Holrovd, a sorgeon of MarsCht'll• ter ; the harms had heel) tout up in the church (she being under age nod without pereets), and the enotials were to have been sb'ensuired ti.e:Nalt of January. On the evening; of the 16th of December, Mr. H. crime as tioraf to we his atli:lnced bride, and was left alone with her ; the family retired to lied. On the following:morning it was discovered that she had left time lion-e, and on the table was found the bete, and which created great alarm in the minds of her relatives,. who in dcdare it not to be her hand writing. A•eentlemen who had mar-ied one the sister:, iminediateiy waite d' on \!r. H. and was ti)111 by I , i;n, in substance, persisted in before the Megisarries ;. " I resolved upon the desperate alteroati e of bring convinced of her before inarrilee. On Thuraday, December 16, I discovered, ith horror, 'lout my fears were reelized—l iminediattly taxed her with it ; in answer to which •he asserted her innocence with-consider able vehemence." The protessioiial men who exatoil ed the belly of the poor girl, after it had floated•upoithr water, from an inmersion of fif:y-two days, gave a clear testimons - Uf their being :i:m truth in Oil diabolical calumny, On Tuesday the It, the ronait.s of dm fair