The National Register. — London, England, 1816-12-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT or. CIIANCEItr,. ..tTunDAY, DEC. 21. - - CI.ANI)ESTINE Mann' %Gr.—Sir Artlini Pigott, addressing the Lord Chancellor, soi I, he trusted the rigour of the pre aientseason, :tut! the rerittjar s ituation of fllrs. Bazeley would sufficiently apologize for again calling his Lordship's atten tion to tie iittlije.i of her petition. The lady had. on a former din, petitioned his . Lordship for a sum 4110001. for the present relief of her necessities. She stated, that she hail one infant, eizlit mouths old, and was likely soon to Itecome tae mother of another; that she was destitute of the means of proeneinz those comforts and enjoyments, or even the ne cessaries of lire, her situation xsupoired. Lord Chancellor —" Take halt the money." courrr OF KING'S BENCH, FNIUAY,'DEC. 27. Special Juries. THE 19.X0 V. JOHN BARNARD J4r0094, AND ALEX. COHEN. This was an indictment against the defendants for perjury, in having• on it trial of Thinnitson cud Foreman v. Barnard Jacobs, opon a hilt of exchange, sworn falsely as to the par ticular place in:which the bill was accepted. Mr. Gurney,. on the part of the prosecution, stated the Cafe. Mr. Topping. on behalf of the dtfendant, took au ohjee lion, in point of law, f dal upon the statute of King Wil liam. Tbe evidence showed that one of the plaiutitfe in the criginaksuit-had died before the trial, and no suggestion had been catered upon the nisi pass record, required by the sta tute. Py contmon law the suit was abated by the death of one of the plaintiffs; hut the act had regulated this point otherwise ; consequently., as no suggestion had been entered, there clothl he no action, and no perjury in that action. This objection was considered fatal by Lord Ellenhorough. and the defendants were both acquitted accordingly. TOE KING V. ROBERT ROPER. This was an indictment against the defendant for wilful and corrupt perjury in an auswerto a bill filed by certain persons for a discovery in the Court of Exchequer: I:.e answer was dated the 19th of December, Il+oB, and was sworn before Mr llaron Wood. The facts proved on the part of the prosecu tion were these. The defendant and two other persons, of the names of Hucks and Price, were owners of the ship Which in the year Idit sailed to the Smith Seas on a whaling voyage ; at that time she was insured to the amount of 3,0001. She proceeded to her destination with a letter of tuarene, and an her return borne captured several prizes on the coast of South America : somenf considerable value. In ceder, however, to secure them, she was obliged to reduce leer crew of English sailors, awl to take on board some Spaniards, found in one of the prizes, in their stead. When off the coast of Peru, the Saanierds rose upon the rest of the crew of the igilant; and after killing the mate. and wounding some others, succeeded in carrying the ship into a neighbonring port. Intelligence of this es eat reached Eagiand by the 24th July, 1807, by means of a letter written ley a man flamed Joliet Anderson; one of the seamen of the Vigilant, who made his escape from a prison of Carthagena. This letter was trans mitted by the person to whom it was addressed to Hacks, one of the gamier., and it appeared that the defendant had also become acquainted with the contents, fur hr immediately pro ceeded to insure the ship .i,tool. beyond the amount origi nally underwritten when she left the Thames. The signa tures of the underwriters were obtained on the representa tion that:the owners had ascertained that lip to July, ISOti, the Vigilant was in safety 'at the Galapagos Islands. It being asserted, that soon afterwards the ship bad been lost, actions we re brought against the insurers, and one verdict was reco vered. In the mean tune, however, suspicions were enter tained that the owners of the Vigilant were acquainted with the loss at the time the policies were effected, and a bill in the Exchequer for a discovery was filed, and on the answer given to it by the defendant, Roper, and Hocks, and Price, the other owners, the perjury was assigned : the defendant there denied " that he, at, or at any time before, he effected the said policies, underwritten by the said complainants, or caused the same to be effected, knew, or was informed, or had any revision to believe, &c. that the said ship called the Vigi lant, was not well and in safety at the latter end ofJuly, Ides, or that she was then in expectation or danger of being totally lost," &c. On the part of the prosecution, it was charged, that this denial was untrue, and that the defendant, before the date of the policy, July 31, 1807, had seen the letter of John Au- derson, giving intelligence of the capture of the Vigilant. The fitst part of the evidence against the defendant was documentary, and consisted of the bill, answer, and policies. Mr. Col tttttt m Sergeant, for the defendant, took several objections, on the ground of variance between the record and 0.! evidence, but they were all over ruled by the Chief Justice. _ . . —....., Mr. Lavers, an insurance -broker, who effected the policies, proved the instructions received from the defendant, that the etip was well fled in safety at the latter end ut Jnly, 1816. Two months before lie effected the policies in question the defendant had applied to him tlir that purpose, hut he could nut procure any signatures on account of the absence ut any tidings of the Vigil:int. Witnesses were then called, who brought home the know ledge of the loss • to the defendant previous to the date of one of the policies for 1,0901. on the 31st July, 1831. Several witnesses swore to an acknowledgement by Roper that he hat effected a policy on the Vigilant after he knew of her fuss by a letter of John Anderson. Joseph Price, who was part owner of the Vigilant, :mil had also swisrn to the answer on which the indictment was founded, was se- Ire! ely cross.exantined by the Common ''et To Common Sergeant addressed 'beim yon behalf of the defendant, commenting on the little credit doe to the wit nesses in support or the peasorrittion. He called two wit. messes in order to show that previous to the e,.ecting of the policy the defendant leitl learned front the supercargo and mite of another South Whaler, that the Vigilant was well and in satiety sit the latter end ()linty, 1806. .Itioiney•tienet al replied ; and after a patient slim. o op by Load Elle tiboiltogl , , the Jury found the defend ant guilty, The Court did not rise till past seven in the evening. SATURDAY, DEC. 28th. THE RING V. J. W. HARI EV. This WIE en iiiilictsittlit for petjury, and it wia a‘giznerl upon the swearing of the defendant, to it deht of :011. before t, "ssioLers. Qn the hanktuptcy of persons of the names of Reynolds and Kend dl. It appeared, that between the bank• rupts and the defendant, (who formi ly was a banker at Itovhfort,) there had been eomiderable money trans.tetion.,, and three accommodation bills for 31101. each. It was al edged on the part of the bankrupt, that one of these had Tilt NATIONAL RF,GISTER. been but the deleiliNuf. in opposition to the testiowdy of sever.il witnesses, persisted bcluie (:onvoissioners, in de nying the (Act, and took his oath particularly that it was due. The evidence on 'Hie trial to-day, principally went to prove fist the debt was not due, in consequence of the payment of the bill for SUM. Several wit lIIPOWS deposed to the Cie, and to the oath taken by the defendant, notwithstanding the ad mooition of the C4ll ttttt issioner4. It appeared. however, that the defendant hid some reason • to believe that the debt was doe at least, on some other act-mint. The Jury therelert found, that this defendant had falsely sworn, had nut Au sworn uilfully and corruptly: a verdict of aciplittal was consequently recorded. E.lltL STANHOPE. The funeral of Earl Stanhope took place on Tuesday last. The corpse was interred in the fatuity molt at Cute vetting. The ceremony was Conducted with the utmost pos. slide p'aiimess, aurceahly to the ilirectious in the Noble Lord's will. Thei c were neither hearse nor mourning coaches, but the body etas carried to the grave. The chief mourners were his sou, the lion. Col. Stanhope, and his son•ln-law, Mr. Taylor. It war attended by Lord Holland, Lord °motley, Mr. Jekyll, Mr. Dyer, the !try. Ilr. Cartwright, Mr. !..tone, Mi. Polhill, Mr. Mori iy, Farley, &r. Ity the noble Earl's will, dated in 1405, he appoints ten executors, viz. Lord Holland, Lord ()ratifies', Joseph Jekyll, Esq. George Dyer, Esq.. the Rev. C. Wy% ill, Dr. Goods% In, the Rev. John North. David Stone, I.lsq. the Rev. Dr. Gregory, and the Rev. Mr. Robinson. 'rite two last gentlemen are dead. To the s e executors, after a few legacies, he leaves all his dispo sable property. It will be recollected, that on his separation from Mr. Pitt, on the conviction that the system lie was par siting woold bring min on the country, his family preferred the patronage of the Minister to the paternal roof; and he hiss been frequently heard to soy, that as they hail chosen to be saddled on the public purse, they most take the• ciniseqiiences. lie wished them all to devote themselves, as he had himself done, to SOllll . useful calling, by which, when the fatal day of public calamity, whichlic foresaw, came, they might seen re independence by, their own personal ingenuity and labour. They are, therefore, not mentioned in the will, Ina they are all entitled to certain snots by the marriage settlements, and the Iw...seat Earl Stanhope succeeds to the family estate, worth 11,0001. per annum. On the 11th of December, at .16 minutes past five o'clock, Mr. Stark, Astronomer, of Augsbur=ll , observed a globe of fire, which, not only in colour, butt in diameter, resembled the full moon. This globe made its revolntiun from the east to the south with so much rapidity, that in eight seconds it reached the meridian, and in six more seeondi was lost in the sontlf west part of the sky. It drew behind it a waving tail, about three times the length of the diameter of the globe. The sky was coveted with dart< clouds. 1 : 1 - 0111 00011 till In minutes past five in evening, the barometer had ,:Alen one line; the thermometer was four degrees above the freezing point. MODERN MlSER.—Lately, at Merton, Cheshire, in his 78th year, Johii Wood, a hatelielor. His niggardly disposition did not permit him to *fly the bounties of nature, o Welt I'rovi• dente had placed within his reach; and he latterly denied himself the common necessaries of life, that he might add another guinea to the heap t two days prior to his decease a neighbour called in to visit him, and was surprised to see him eating a row potatoe. " John," said he, " why do you eat your potatoes raw? I think they cannot prove very pa latable to a person of your years." " Oh! 111/II," (tooth John, " this is as sired do an apple." Alter his death, hi+ nephew dud heir found three hundred guineas concealed in an old oven, the door of which was made up with loose brit ka, and bad been newly plastered over; the newness of the plas tering led to the happy discovery. 'flue nephew's name is G. Ridgway, and he resides in Macclesfield. RATING DISSENTING MEETING HOUSES.--It will be recol lected, that at the late sessions at Guildford, an order was niade for rating the Rev. Rowland liill's chapel, towards the support and maintenance of the poor of the parish of Christ. church; and, on an inspection of the receipts and profits derived from the chapel, the magistrates fixed tiT6l., as a fair slim upon which the building ought to be rated. Mr. Web ber's name, as treasurer of the chapel, was accordingly in serted in the next assessment, and a sum of WI. Iss. was charged. When the overseer applied to Mr. Webber, that gentleman refused to pay any thing; upon which refusal Mr. Meymott,, the solicitor, who is vest, y clerk of Christchurch parish, applied to the magistrates at Union-hall for a sum mons, to be directed to Mr. Webber, calling on hint to up pear, and show Cause why he refused p,a ment of the sum assessed ; and why, if he continued so to r( inst.', a warrant of distress shocild not is , ue. Thorsday was the day named in the summons tbr Mr. Webber's appearing._ After waiting the rental time, Mr. Webber not attending, Mr. Meymott pro ceeded to prove, by the evidence of Mr. James Bransdi 11111, that the rate had been duly demanded of Mr. Webber, and that lie refused to pay it. Trmighton, the beadle, ako proved that lie served the summons on Mr., K gibber. This proof having been gone through, Mr. Meymott applied for a war rant of distress, which the Magistrates, Mr. Evauce and Mr. King, granted. We understand the defendants have de rbued their determination not to pay till they have the opi nion os the Court of King's Bench on the subject. It will be recollected that a short time since four Resurrec tion men were held to bail at Union-hall, on a charge of forc ing their way into the. dissecting room at St. Thomas's Hos pital, assaulting two of the students, and cutting to pieces two bodies prepared for the purposes of lecture the follow ing day. idav Re'onight, about six o'clock in the evening, four men again found their way into the dissecting room, and destro) eel two bodies, a male and a female, before they were discovered by the man who has the care of the room. On seeing them he immediately sent for a conqable, but before the racer arrived, the offenders had made their escape out at a window, and over the bark part of the premises. PARING BUROLARY.—On Christmas eve a very extensive robbei v was effested by a gang of villains, who entered the hack of the premises of Mr. Hall, pawnbroker, High-street, Marylehone, and plundered to a great amount. Mr. Hall cannot possibly tell the amount of his loss at present; but the least is between 1 and 2,001. The villains effected their escape. Mr. Newsome, of the Old Bailey, was stepped soon after dusk on Tuesday evening, near the Alfred, Gray's-inn-lane, by two foot-pads, who robbed him of his watch, after knock ing him down. Several people were mock, : about near the place, and although the alarm was given, the thieses eseayed. DECEMBER SO CORONEws INQUEST. PONON--C IUTION TO CIIYMIS 1 S, DRUGGISTS,Ste. An inquest was held on Friday morning upon the body of Joseph Redwith, aged one year, the son of Mr. Itedwith, Irak ,-r, of Paddington. w ho died from the accidental a 1111 l tuition of a solution of arsenic, which was sold by mistake furGodfrey', Cordial. Mr. North, surgeon, No. 26, Molyncits-strect, Edgeware road, who open( it the body, in the rourse of his evidence, deprecated in the etrougest terms the improper use of God frey'. Cm dial, Dalby'a Carminative, Sy rep of Poppies, or other sleeping potions. He stated Met the mischievous con sequences arising ft ma the abuse of such medicines was in credible ; and t h at medical men were dully and hourly iu the habit of scent% the mist deplorable eilrkegoo•nern 'mane limas Mother:: administering sedatives very frequently, not for the nucleate of alleviating any complaint tinder which the child might labour, but to gratify their own idleness, by keeping their tinfortusiate infints iii a state of pernicio us drowsiness, the consequeaces of which are infinitely mess prejudicial to their yomig and tender flumes than many of the diseases in cidental to childhood. lie (Mr. North) said, that on Satur day morning last, between ten and eleven o'clock, he was called to attend the deceased, at the request of Mr. Pratte, chymist and druggist, King-street, Paddington. He attend ed the child immediately, and found all the symptoms upon it of having taken poison. lie administered antidotes, but they had not the desired effect, the dose bring too strong. The chill was in great agony until two o'clock the same afterni l it died to convulsions. He hail since opened the body, and found the bowels gangrened. He ass clearly of opinion that the death of the deceastal was necasimeed by its having had a 4p:entity of solution of arsenic administered iu mistake for Goilfiey's Cordial. Eliza Redwith, being sworn, said, that she was the dangle. ter of Mr. Redwith, baker, Mitcham-street, Paddington. lie was sent by her mother on Salm day morning, about ten o'clock, to the slurp of Mr. Pralle, rhyinist and druggist, king-mm.lr, Paddington, with a small phial, fir twopenny worth of Godfrey's Cordial; the was served by the altopmao, he poured it out of a large bottle which was standing in a row with many others : he tasted it three times before be helped her to it: she drank some or it as she was bringing it home: she thought it was very nice : site was very unwell after taking it, very sick, and vomited very much: she war' very unwell three days in consequence of having taken the liquid : she took it to her mother, and cave the eleceawd, her brother, a spoonfid and a half of it. He hart not taken it more than a quarter of an hour when he was in great pain, and all the colour left his cheeks; lice mother tasted the con tents of the bottle, unit sent her hack to the clivntist's with the remainder, to ask him if it was proper medicine. She went to the shop, and saw the person who helped her to it. When she asked hint if it a as the tight sta . , he did not reply, but spoke to Mr. Pralle, and poured it out of the phial, and filled it with sonic fresh liquid, which she took loiter mother. 1 he deceased dr ew Worse, and d:cd about two o'clock the same day. Ann liedwith, the mother of the deceased, being sworn, said, that on Saturday morning, in consequence oldie deceased being troubled with a cough, and with lamina his teeth. she sent the last witness, her danghtcr, to Mr. Pi alle's shop, for two yennyw mile of Getlfrey's cordial, to still his cough and make him sleep. She had not given it to the deceased more than a quarter of an hour, when he was taken violently ill and very sick. She had given him the breast just atter she gave him the liquid, and she thought she hail dune wrong to give him the be east so sons after his medivinia fie grew worse, add she thought it was possible the elsyneist might have sent the wrong stuff; she sent her daughter back with the remainder to inquire, having previously tasted it herself, and could not distinguish any difference in the taste from that which she had purchased at one shiaina per bottle. Her daughter came hack with some trials stuff in the phial, but brought no auswer fitim the chymist, whether the stuff was wright or wrung. She, of cone's., felt satisfied that the deceased woe not ill in consequence of having taken impro per medicine. The child grew worse every five minute, and she was upon the point of sending her daughter again, when Mr. North, of 31°13room-street. emit ill. Fie said that he had been sent by ale. 11. Pratte, the eliviuist, to adminis ter en antidote to the deceased, Mr. Pralle'• assistant hay illg Accidentally sew a wrong medicine. Mr. North sent some medicine in a vet y short time, and she administered it as trisected. lie fell in strong convulsions, anti war in that si tuation when Mr. North celled aeaiit; he said that be would send some more medicine direttle, but the child died ill a short time after he left the house, before the medicine carte, ht convulsions. She believed that his death was occasioned by taking tile solution. George. Keridge, chymist and druggist, be ing sworn, said, that he had been eleven years in his profession. lie had been about a week an assistant to Mr. Peelle, of King-street, Paddington; he had many times lately occasionally assisted him in serving in the 'Map, Mr. Pratte having succeeded liim ia that shop. On Saturday mot g Redwith came into the shop and asked for two pennyworth of Godfrey's Cordial. He reached the bottle which lie served her out from the spot in which the Godfrey's Cordial originally stood when he was master of the shop, and which had always stood in that place when he assisted Mn. Pratte before. He tasted the stuff' three times before lie gave it to leer, and was perfect ly satisfied that it was the proper mediciae. About a quarter of an hour after Miss Redmitle came agaiu, and asked him if he had given her the proper stuff? Mr. Pratte was in ilia shop at that time, and he told him which bottle he had poured it from. Mr. Pralle told him it W3A solution of arsenic which lie had given to her. He fonud himself unwell, having taken some of the solution himself at the time he helped Miss Red with to it. He therefore took an antidote, which re covered hint. He' went to Mr. North, the surgeon, and requested him to attend the deceased iinmeiliately, and aetmainted hint of the unfortunate accident. The bottle which be helped Miss Resist itle wit of was halt' full, and the label was warn oil it. He believed that if he had nut taken medicine to connteract the effects of the arsenic, it might have been fatal to him. Ile was of opinion that the deceased's death was caused by a Solution of arsenic being administered by ants. take for Godfrey's Cordite!. The Coroner, in addressing Cie Jury, said, that the present case was a most linhattinate one ; the lives of Miee per• ono I had been in great jeopardy ; cute had died by the accidental administre of poison. He had been particular in exanein ' oko , the last wittiest', whose evidence he considered the must important. 'law taw had power to punish persons • ministered medicines without being qoalified; but it :IP, , that Mr. Ku ridge was qualified. They had nothing . with a civil action which might be brought against the mist by the Rarest& of the deceased ; it was for them tof of the crinnual part of the !malaria. There was no w ho I" ` 111 w 01 Z r Joust ho peaty() fr to vlo DI le city- h, doubt