The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-23 00:00:00

NOir. isasF, so long protracted , and so afflicting to one of the partie s , ought to be decided witlmin delay. Oii should day by day to arrive at that deceaon. Of this ease it might be said in the ostract, that it was reproach to eltiakiiti.. tration of justice in our Cirorts. It had presented, then, a apectai•le peculiarly affecting. A gentleman who bad passed with honour through the highest "awes of ingest me?, Willi his wife, the hei t ess of large estilev,lying"ist eentinedierit, in penury mid distress ; lsiniudf, at the saittellitte,Vlti Itie'e , „ye of Lein; dein ;veil Mr.ii Mike, vshich rd. lo w ei,i?.en, had ra net" ell neon him ;--This doted Is' I to Mint, 11..11 a Aeci.sion might to 'fie . 'gle t :l l . wi t :, all pos•iale speed. lie toad mot known tie cafe s ` 4tii he w as refere,.,l lus v0'11111'11 . 14% lie ha I now read, and fro it which, mid froth the plqui . ints on bo:li s, conducted with the grea afetilty„fie Eri s tid‘iv to give hisilecided gave nem eery greet dsifer froin his learii , el brother it lio spoke I.lw 't lie fll.t scaninent lie felt on en; eying Wes • 'der-nail was that of respect i„, his CUIISIIIIIIgie aoiltly allti high his COllduct miner Ilial period, his respect was converted i the profoundest vetieraiimi. It was, 11144(d:ire, with lode.. Vain that he now differed from him. the learned timoi. then toot, a rapid view of (lie principal points of the Lase, and gala. nilliont entering particularly into the conduct of parties, or the terms that 4i:tonged In them, that he adopted every sentenee of his neoilier :tole lad conviocing sp ieels. The term be had used, when lie charm.- terized Morgan's conduct „ candid imposision," was one of the happiv•t terms lie hail ev r heard in an. court, and the most applicable in this place. His learisesi brother, Wood, had said it %%Ai not likely Sir W. Lewes had been deceived. He nail been a flartister and Alderman of London. it vas by sin Illt•an: clear, that a liar raster, mi derma'', a man in' talents and e‘perietace, cools' .10! be easi,y imposed en by his own iitiorney. It should lee rerollected that he was disitesseil awl confiding ; and distress and confi deuce are the very cireitinstalices that expiiiie a Mall to lira_ position. One great lesson taught by this ease was, 111•1 uttoriiies and solicitors, however Illuy may shape and rover their proceedings, will 1w called to dert.lllll ray a court of equity. Another lesson firm 11 W • i!te nere.s,l) ceiling in a third person in oil 1111114del • of illi• nature be tween a gentlemaii and Ins attorney. lie concurred in tlie order of his brother Graham. "Elie only leg's, usa he kit was, that it had not gone far enosigh. Ile should a,sh ,hat tar money shook' be forthwith paid to Sir Watkoi Lewes, et• suitable relief for the dishes. and privation of .0 lung a period ; but lie joined in tordcrifig that the Money be paid into Court Within a certain period. The nisi 11.1) oI u.•%1 lei .ii was theii fixed on for paying the tent and 'minas into Court. Mr. Agar rose ho ask whether they were not entitled to Snake 'rests in the account of reins and profits. Mr. Iliron iham.—You hid better taLe the order now as it is, mid not embarrass it by any illnision to tin Om Sitllll iu the proceeding. After sum' curroiltation, it wis agreed to take the further steps in the cue in cousideranon uu Sdtitiddy nest. iTORRII) EVENT.—We copy the following horrid catastrophe from The Leeds Mereory of Nov. 15 :—•• In our paper of last week we stated, nun Oln Nlonday. the 5d inwt., tour persons were found dead in a poor cottage, at a place called Dean-lsom.e, in tee parish of Stainland ; that three weeks before tiley had lost a daughter, who died of a malignant fryer, in consequence or which m e neig hb ours hall been afraid to visit them; and mat the overseer in 11.,ohi e z a l, ice the neighbourhood of !Wilily. to which place this unfortimate tawily bdontorcl. had neglected to atfonl them either relief or a.asistainee, and that it was generally believed that they all perWit3l of famine And disease. Since tint time we have received ;mother letter titan our cone: pondeut, in answer to certain inquiries we addressed to in which tne following further particulars• at the perusal of which the blood curdles in our veins, are communicated :—When .lo.cph Tweed, the lie:id of the family was found, says our wriespontlent, he was laid upon his bed in a miserable chamber, with in inhint child two years old. who, like himself wad a ►ifcks, corpse, clasped in his anus. Hid Willi Will laid deal in the lower room upon the hearth, having divested herself of every article of clothing. with one of her giind-children, who was still alive, stretched upon her body. The daughter of these wretched parents, who was lg years of roused probably from the stupor into which want and sickness hati plunged her by the dying groans of her mother. appears to have at tempted to make her way down stairs. but her cnieebled limbs re fusing to peiform their office, she had fatten, and when found, her corpse was laid stretched upon the stairs with her head downwards, and one of her feet locked against the stairs and the wall. Tao (lays after this horrible discovery, four eoffins, provided by the ovee,ceer, were sent to the house, and the balsa at use demised being plmod in them, they were put law a bear.e sod cart, and conveyed to Dean head chapel, where they wet e interred aiihout any inquest being held over them, and without any invectigation whatever having taken place into • the tircuinstances of their death.' tVe have felt nto be our duty to lay these he.trt.n•nding facts before the public, and we • now callopon tile magistracy and tile coroner of the district to dis charge tl.eirs." The following fatal accident is another example of the folly and danger of using cantles in coal-mines :—'flic workmen in the coal pit in the Newton-green, at Ayr, lately went to work with candles; when the fla•ne of the candle of one of the men who wa. working apart from the rest came in contact with inflammable gas, and by the explosion the man last mentioned was killed on the spot. Another man, who was working in another part of the pit, oil hearing tile ex plosion. instantly ran to the place from whence it proceeded, to assist bis Idiot/ sva&nen, or to see if his two sons who were at work near the spot w e:e sti ; and fie also was surlbeattsl to death. The two tams newever, and the other workmen in the pit, escaped urdittr.— We arc infonned, that this coal work is amply provided wail vaulty lamps 't +Old Coat the circunistati:e of candles hein instead of laiaps,. roceedtdfromtheworkmentllemt•elvesineautioastyprelcrring the caddie light to that emitted from the lamp. The - friends of dr, young Gentleman alluded to in the extraordi nary paragraph which as lately appeared in the Papers teopied from The liridioi Mirror), have ceinttatlich.tl the sou...them as either fabulous or o exiiggentted in the most ridiculous degree. Aver. ' hand some 083 tictlainly been acquired, aid that too uneler very singular. etrotruistam.ls. and it has !'then to the possession of a Nightly educated and most amiable young man, who happens to be in perfect health. The poor enthusiast. Madame Krudener, continues to be hunted from state to state. The French papers say she has left Fribourg, by order of the government of Haden, and gone to t'arlsruhe. liar suite, with the rexccidion of nine persons, has been dismissed. Scot-rim gannt.e. it Inn dood-ohirk, on the sett iwarli of the rim tit-cast coast .11 File,/ipposite to Kingston ns, ther e has hes II recently discovere d it mass of beautiful mai ule, wkich pie: 1410 y wooled Ittruish oboe, iris for building the three largest cities in the empire. The mat rile is of .1 11. ep silt, r grey colour, decorated with "IPA shells; mid so delicately nestle Ithitt d in the composition, AS if Millie Skilettl artist had losetiai d aliged them. fire :tarot.. after being polisired, l oos ou a rieliii.•a and In infancy unrivalled by any hf the admired Marbles of Scotland, and has been held, by conyetetit judges, to equal iu excellencosof colouring sad effect some of the giant ambles of liut utly, Iltneocc aunt Eg)vt. THE NA.TIONAt REGISTER. , TRIAL BY BAT'TEL. In case of an appeal of 'insider, if a ballet is fought, th'e combatants meet bare dMaded and le:re-hinted, the appellee otitis his head *haves', the appellor as usual, hut both shall be dressed alike, They !sleet at sunrise, and fight with staves of one tinniest sit the end. y first take the oath altainW awl sorcery. If the appellee be so tar that he cannot is, will slot light any longer, he shall he adjudged to be banged immediately ; and then, as well as if lie oe ksllrJ ill oat tel, Provideime is deemed to lias e de trfuffileil ill favom of the tenth, and his blood shall be altaint et Btu if lie kills the appeliam, ur out snaintain the light fruits sun-rising till t h e. stars appear in the eueilill4, lie $ll4ll he stespaitti il. So also, if the appellant bee iiiii es recreant, and pronounces the horrible %old of c,aren , lie shall hie liboyan Icvm, . ; and the apps lee Shad recover his damages, and shill be for ever quit, not old) of Use appeal, hist lit all inslietinents likewise of the saner of fence. There are eases where the appellor may counter plead, and put the appellee front his trial by babel: these a. e vehement presumption or sufficient proof that the appeal is I. lie or where tile appellor is ler 11, or above 110, years 0, age, or is a WOlll4lll, or a priest, Of a pus v, ur , 15.11), of Loinloo, because the peacelul liaints of the chi. w ere sisppused to unfit them for uatiel. The reason give.) in Ilie mil law books for this steamy WOCeedilig by duel, Ihrinsliesrii itself the strongest ground by %Melt the appelce's si lit might sometimes be defeated. 'Die appeal and U jai try matte' were allowed hi cases %here there Was 411 ahsence of all usrect proof as to Use ',crews who had COAL milted the crime in qucsunn. Fur instance, a murder was perpret sat eil : the author it a, mak now : 11. being next of km In the inirdereil person, presented tiiniself, and swore Chit C. D. hail eu iiiiii Stied it : C. D. denied it; there was no prim'', out only positive affirmation on ttttt side, and positive denial oil the oilier. In a case or this d tilesdty , where de tertian seemed impossible by hntnan means, the stiperstition of sine forefathers slept in with a remedy; they conceives', that it' the tWu owls, the appellor and the appellee, were fisirty pitted against each uffier, without human aid, and sin der the soli invocation of the Divine stivernitellileilee, then Providenre Itself would interfere, Anil by the result of tee eomoat furnish 4 vertitet sae they termed it) which shuniii 'punish the guilty and clear the innocent. This then being the illative of Ilse proceeding, it seems clear that in all cases where either direct pro,:l' conlit be adduced tita, the ace:used was euillieeteil Willi the came, 0r where, in the abseisce lit direct proof, sufficient ground of suspicion Aline limit colla teral evidence to afford nutter for ail indictment, then the pessuu charged was not to have his trial try battel ; or, iii oilier words, the interposition Of Braves it As slot lit 111• itecessarilw invoked, where lisillialt szig4eity tent:lst unravel the knot \1 tiellies Ilsu present ease of 'llturaitois copies under this deseripii is the great point to he detailed: cud , prism furie, we ca ull si ills express an 01)11 i iiii that the verdict or a Coroner's In q uest, sill the silbseilllelit hotting of as Grand Jury, though ilsey this not :1111011111 to inisilive proof, at least supply the other leaps site in a cuunterelea—ibe existence of " vehement suspicion." - . - Besot" , the bully which on the very face of this proceedin. , most hie merlons to every reader, namely,' that .• right shoul d follow might." there ale other ,thsturtlities which must tend to make It equally imps ataule to an enlightened age. For in. ' slatite if 111. app. is, the 'slams; 01 the '.lend person awl 111 Just indignation should proceed against his murderer, yet tt she sl 1,1 111.111 . y before the appeal comes into CUIIVI, 11,u she can have no redoes against the slayer ut her nisi Itusinintl, u srduse , iu the eye of our legislators, out Mall was as good as 41111111 cl ; 411(1 as she was taus supposed to have .aketi competisalluil into her own Mien's, site was not entitled 10 teem% e any from the law. Again, though, the appellee, if fauud y would oe out of the reach ul pardon from the Cron ti, yet the appellant might sell his il f e to him for any % Inch he chose to ask. Tlllb last IllUde it 111411'8 I,fe like That ut all o• or a slurp, was a remnant ut the must liatharuas ages, and is IL/ he fnuntl among many tithes M . :Vries,' and Indian savages. A reprieve, during pleasure, has been received at Derby for George Weightinan, one of the prisoners convicted of High 'freason. oran Oohing lately arnved from Batavia. among his other extraonlittary qualities is de,bribed by his keeper; as the link dust seiniraics the blow from the numan species I Woof. La, the wtiter of the Weekly silt:a t e:Med The Black Dwarf; Was been ser ved with toe following notice from Air. Litchfield, dated Nov. IL (sr,' Take no;iee, that tae issue joined in this prose. corset will be tried at the sitting of Nisi Prins. to be holden by adjournment. after this 'Ferns, in and or the city of London." otti 'Lac y AND I: Lux D.—We lately mentioned that a bill of indictment had been found at the Old Sessions against Iliiritrn perimns for eonspimey and fraud, by opening counting houses, and pretetaiing to be merchants. by wined ineani they had obtained pro. ,t eiy of various persons to the amount of one hundred thousand poulids:—The tidlowing arc their names and residence s .—John Aleyer, run away ; John Kenncare. Alartin's lane; Thomas Keyse, Weyne.hall, Edmonton; Henry Lee, Btiinal-green-litne,Snoretlitch; Lewis Levy. l.'re.cott.street. Goodman's-fields ; Joseph Leigh. or Lee. late of Bucklusauty; Joan Leven, gore to India; William Leigh, or Lee. gone to India; Mostly Woolf, Salter's-hall-court, an.. Man.ell.street; Samuel Jacobs, Bury.street, .Vary.le-lionne ; Henry Weiller, King's Bench; William Talbot, George-Yard, Loin. awed-sueet ; George Newman Hardy, King'. Bench. LI.Mk HICK, No'. 3.—A atoir PAINIVL Cass.—An tho rime. Cn.xtu, of the name of 1% Hurley, brush maker, had his family for some weeks alnirted will. fever. Tot , poor man and his wife took the complaint some days since; bat so terrified were the neighbours by the malignity of the, disorder, that the poor et onion. although attacked her. sell, was the only attendant on her afflicted husband ; %slum melancholy to rt late, he died, his %vile got op. shaved and washed hum, and, lying !WWII, ex pied last Satin day by his side: They were carried through our streets yesterday et ening and interred iu the some grave. They have left lout children, the youngest all infant torn Gone its mother's breast, and the eldest in the fourth relapse of levee. LL - re DEse NTS.. —ll i• ulivay% an object of coati sits to know what over:hoes of the descrmilasit , of remaikable met.. A Nuremberi paper gives the tidlot%ing itiformat. respecting the tinily of Luther ; —Luther himself, though he married, as is known , a min, died without posterity. 111. , brother, %%hat rcumiueei in the village of .Vier:., in Saxony, where he was left se% end sons, of one of whom there still exist Iwo descendants. The wile of tie first h. es in a hamlet with her mu, who is eriieptic. Slie and her 1111 , 6.111 d are is the greatest distress. The other is engaged in a rus tic oceripat hut. iu :mother hamlet. It hile tilt' Germans, theteliire, celebrate solemnities in honour 01 Luther, they stiller Ili , family to struggle with poverty im ohm:wits. 'I lie 'subscription to the Oratiil Canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow is at length completed, and the work ha now commenced. POLICE. -op 3,5 m. GUILDHALL Fin Es.--Tuesilay iklessrs. Roller and Chamberlain, pro. prietors of the Red Lion inn, Aldersgate-street, were tann- . . mooed to answer the complaint of the beadle of the Ward of Aldersgate, for refusing to pay die legal reward for the ex. tiul•tiun of a fire in their premises. --The Beanie observing on Saturday senniglit sparks issue from a cl t i tttt ley in the ited Lion, proceeded to bring an engine, as is usual in such eases, and another was brought by sonic of the inhabitants. lire, however, proved of 110 trivial a twine as to render the assistance of the engines tinnecessary. It was on this latter ground the defendants resisted tine• payment of• the te wit d.—ou reference being had to the Act of the tith of Gat). 111. cap. 78. it was tumid to be there enacted. " That if• there shall be seen in any house or premises, sufficient tire to create danger and alarm, it shall be the duty of tile proper Otheria, or of • any other persons, to bring an engine or en gines fur the extinction thereof; and 4)11 a certificate being produced of the sank', signed by the Alderman and Depoty of the Ward, and attested also by two respectable inhabitants, the persons bringing the engines, whether they play or our, shall he entitled to the proper reward."—A certificate re gularly sigurdaud attested. :recording io the statute, nas put iu 11 the iicudle.—An hiliabilatot of the Wald prove d, that there was tire in the chimney, though 'of a very trifling na- • titre.— The Magistrate observed, that however trifling the tire first appeared, serionv consequences might have resulted from neglectitrg to check it ; and he was of opinion that the treadle had done no inure titan his duty, and was therefore en titled to the reveal ei. Mm. Butter immediately paid the sum daunt:a, 11. as, mud costs. UNION-HALL. BRUTAL ASCAULT.--iliCTlßelii:aley, a watchman in r Ises parish, was ou Thursday charged by William Painter, the night constable of the same parish, with beating Judith Buckley his wife, in such a dreadful tarot:er that her life is despaired of. _ , . I'44nm:said, that on Wednesday night he was on duty ► when About seven or eight persons came running towards him, and begged him to come immediately to the prisoner's house, or molder would be committed. fie went directly► And found a mob of about lOU persons assembled in front of the house ; with much difficulty he forced himself through the crowd, ant got.into the house, where he found the prison— er's wife lying on the ground nearly covered with blood, and bruised in a dreadful manner. She has not been able to leave her tiled since. Buckley was coinitted for want of bail. • • Tuesday r , seniug as Mr. Durant, a tradesman,oftted Croat Street, Borough, was spending his evening at the k'atk Coffee house, in the Borough-road, a Mali, dressed in sailot's chitties, solicited charity. Mr. D. refused to give into any ! h ing, and desired hint to quit the room; he then went away unmet ing. • A Shari time afterwards he returned, went holitty tip to Mr. D. laud charged Min with assaulting him on Manday night, in a calMage held at Peckham, with all intent to coonnit an ainamitsahle crime. Nll D. requested that an might he sent for, and collared his accuser; who proposed to him, that if he would give him a sow ut money be would hush the matter up. May. the Otticer arrived, and Mr. 1). insisted that a:I parties should go before a Magistrate ; and they ac cordingly atteaded before Mt. Serjeant Schou, at the above Odice. The man said; that his name was Mr. 'fliompson, that he was a sailor, and had served under Lorti Ehtlioulli off Algiers ; be repeated the charge, and persisted Itt the truth of it. The circtuustance was 114 suunur known its the neigh bourhood ut Ntr.l).'s resid.•nce (where he has been for hi yea.s), than the °dice was tilled with respeetairl.., tradespeo ple, who t 4.11 c to speak in hit timer ; many of Mem tendered their evidence to prove, Matsu the tune when titeUtiellee was said 10 be committed, Mr. D. was at his own house; and 0 0 1 , 1 . 3 s t a t e d, that tiwy had transacted business with hint at the very thile mentioned. Ott being closely questioned, Tli.anisson admitted that he had no other illeililb of obtaining a livelihood than by ; that he had heeti a pauper it Lambeth Woo khouse anti ran away about a fortnight ago; and that for the last week he had every 111411 t slept in the open air. The Magistrate said, that he was perfectly seas.. tied that the accusation was au infamous attempt to extort money. Ile should therefore commit Thompson, and order him to be brought up ou a future day, when Mr. Durant would adopt proper measures to punish him for his nefarious at' trm t 3lontlay Mrs. King was chard by Capt. Cook, the proprietor of a cmuiderable number of houses in St. George's.fielcs, with keeping house of ill-tame at No. I, Alarket-curet. file Captain said, that he had cleared a whole street (Gun-street), which, betore he purchased it. was occupied wholly by bad characters, without a farthing ex. pence to the Par6h, or a single indictment. The magistrate ordered Mrs. King to find buil; which not being able to uo, bile WaS cote. muted. Capt. Conk also charged a man with one arm, nantLd Richer, wits threatening. during the complaint against Mrs. King, to cut his throat the first opportunity. to kick him, and to use other personal violence. The Magistrate ordered Richer to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards the complainant. TheComilless of Aloermathv, whose death we announce in our present number, was the early friend of the lamented Pt M. cess Chalk/tie ; and is most probable that the shock to her kelings, on receivin(the ititediaeuee of her Royal Highness's death, following the ellcet of the dreadful that hap• petted in her own faintly brought on the p.cuuture labour to which she tell a v lei mi. The following is an extract of a -, letter trout which relates tine fatat'vveut : " ilolkhatn , Nov. tan s 1 817. " About three o'clock on. Friday morning. at this place, Lady • Albennarle was taken wit:i the puns of pretnatwe Loam'', and in 17 . limns from her first attack she was n cerise. Slit:had the best me dial assistance. all of which, twin Ut O4inning. declaral use. ICS,. Tile miscarriage was followed by such ckhilitating circum stances, toat nothim could save her, and sne expired:a near nine o'clock on Vriday evening, proJsing• 11;:r Imshaud's hand ac long as sit: could it t taut had at IALA Just power. , of utterance enough to pra., God to pour (town his blessings upon the head of her MAIN, ulna tLusa of all her children, and immediately breathed tee Lest. Lady Alhermarle WWI about 4'2 yetusoul, or laud:: in 'ter4f Out ut 13 clultiren which s'ae had, there remain Li to deplore her lobs." , H o ikh am Rothe, at the time of t'ais melandialy event. was felt Oi company, anna.g wilout were tom,: of Lord Albermiul.fs deareal friends. . Siquiprd .Ifercrtry of la-t week Notwithstanding the nattin:3ll.lll , nlity (which was felt, we will venture to say. es scvitrely here its in any town in the kingdom on its hist inottiul4titu). the uuutrd carnival of a bull running on Lie 13th of Auveinoet, *34 not forA•one yisterdity, but was ptir,ted with all the tumultuous glee winch is usual in this characteristic sport of c;tainford. whilst we consiim this para.traph av the intset ; but us faithful Clite : „ nicicrs of thew:inners of the nines, we must not utuit its"•