The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-29 00:00:00

]34 FRO.II TrESD.4Y NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. W. P^TWOhi, Leadenhall Street, home dealer. 11. White, Gracechurch Street, merchant. BANKRUPTS. F. Evans. Cirencester. Gloucestershire, corn dealer. Solicitor, Mr. Bevir, Cook's Court, Lincoln's Inn. C. Kent. Manchester, shopkeeper. Sols. Messrs. Adlington and Co. Bedford Row. .1. Burr, Hales Owen. Shropshire, iron master. Sols. Messrs. Long and • o Gray's Inn. S. P. MA:old, Worcester, hop merchant. Sols. Messrs. Car. dale and Co. Gray's Inn. .1. Hirst, Awklcy, Yorkshire, iron founder. Sol. Mr. Lever, Gray's Inn Square. A. J. Smith and I. Shepherd. Brierley. Ctaflbrdslure, iron masters. Sok. Messrs. Tooke turd Co. Gray's Inn. .1. Child, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, bostwright. Sol. Mr. (•hancery Lane. E Hannum. Crown Court, Threadneedle Street, insurance broker. Sol. Mr. Hutchison, Crown Court, Threadneedle St. .1. P. Firnistone, Wolverhampton, iron master. Sols. Messrs. Ili ks and Co. Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn. .1. Coales, Earith. Thintingdonshire, liquor merchants. Sols. Messrs. Long aid Co. Gray's Inn. P. Warren, Warminster. Wiltshire, mealman. Sols. Messrs Lowden and Co. Clement's Inn. .1. K. Smith, Farnham. Surrey, upholsterer. Sols. Messrs. Fisher and Co Furnival's Inn. W. Fowler, Staines. Middlesex, linen draper. Sok. Messrs. Fisher and Co. Furnival's Inn. DIVIDENDS. April 30, H. Longhorn and W. Brailsford. Rucklersbury, mereliants—May fo. W. Ilebdin, Leeds, A. 0. llehdin. Parlia ment Street. Westminster. and J. Browne. sen. Leeds, merchants —l4, 1. Powell, sen. Windsor. tailor-20. J. C. Lasater and .1. K. Casey. Liverpool, merchants-14, E..lenkins, Picketstone. Glamorgan hire. miller-111, C. Coupland. jun. Leeds, R. and E. Counl..nd. Iltinslet, Yorkshire, and E. Coupland, Salford, Lancashire. spirit merchants -17, 11. W. Baldwin, Liverpool. merchant-14. G. Seaman. Ilishopsgate Street, linen draper-14, G. Pugh. Sheeme-s, linen draper. CERTIFICATES to be granted May 14. H. Bellott. :Manchester. cotton manufacturer—R. F.ggleston. Great Driffield, Yorkshire, plumber—J. Thomas. Carpenter's Buildings, London Wall, merchant—S. Stead, Huddersfield, corn factor—R. Jabot, Birmingham, bookseller—B. Terry, Doncaster, oil merchant—W. V. Bethel. Liverpool, merchant— W. Thorpe. jun. Bath, linen draper—W. Colyer, Middle 110 w, Broad Street, St. Giles's, boot maker. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • COURT OF KING'S BENCH. MONDAY, APRIL. 22. TOP. KING T. WIRATCHBULL, TOWEL, •RD PARTRIDGE. This was an indictment forn conspiraes. The defendant, Captain Knatchbull, is son of the late Sir Edward Knatehhull, and brother to the present Baronet of that Mille, Member for the county of Kent. The other two defendants are attorneys, residing in Nicholas-lane, in the City of London. The indictment charged them Milli falsely and fraudulently representing to Me--t 4. Stone home and Co. w ine merchants, and nt-o to Thomas 11 . Ore 11, crifr,eslintise•keeper, that he, the said Captain Knatchtwll. rins entitled, under the will of his late f ether. to a I. gary of 3001. ; and also that they did falsely assign and ar t over the j same to Messrs. Sioneli,,me nod Co. in order to *mance them to delay proceedim , Rain.' Captain Charles Knatelthull for 4331. the amount of two Bills of Eselinnee liver doe, ac cepted by iti.u, they well {thou ing that the raid leeney of 3001. hail been ail eauly paid to the said Captain Chat let Kit itchbull. The Lord Chief Jmtice in summing up the r y;p nre to Jury, olssereed that the proceedings in Chancery acitimt the let ecutor4, iif witch the daendaids Fnwel and l'artriil,z.e had spoken, were certainly art lite. Th....tau. t rut in their lever al,o to Charlet Knatehhuil, tint they had recoyeled on. se hundreds of pound.; more than John Kiintehhull retied, was equally lintri.r. and it wa: for the to say Whether those fal‘e hoods were uttered for the ft •iiiilutent our ri•le meolioned in the indictment. Out the evidetwe there could he no reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant Charles Knot clittull. TI a Joiry ortheil for about taenty minutes, and on their return found a serdirlofgnilty against the defendant. WFDNEgIAT APRIL. - This !wine the first day of Easter Term, the Judges took their seats as usual. The Lord Chief Justice presented the report of the Marshal of the King's !froth, made in pursuance of an order of the Court last Term. Mr. Jones stated, that he had personally resided in the prison .since last 'ferni, sleeping out of the walls only one right in each week. ila.ing got rid of most of the wm k nit n employed in making the necessary preparations fur Lis constant residence. he expected shortly to be in Condition to reside within the pi isou with the whole of his family. The report of the state of the convicts was read, as sista!, a' "se commencement of Term. DEI2IIV AND GIBBS V. CAVPUFLL. The Solicitor General moved for a rule to sinew why an attorney of the Court should nut pay to a Air. Campholl application was made on the affidavit or Mr. Campbell. stating. that be was a prisoner in the King's Bench at the suit of Messrs. Derby and Gibbs v. Camp bell. Having Lien recommended to the attorney to obtain his discharge, he paid into the hands of that gen tleman 2:01. in order that be might pay It over to the plaintiffs in the artioc. He was expected to retro with the diACIIIITEe of Mr. Campbell. hat lie never did return. Several letters had been written, calling upon him to cc torn it, but he never had returned it. Tice Court granted a rule to chew cause. THE RING a. HOLDER. _ Me. Sergeant Cross moved for a rute to anew cense why the dr &infant should not be admitted to bail 011 a charge of manslaughter before the magistrates at Lancaster. 'flue teamed Mu igeant moved this upon affidavit, stating that the deft tolatit was unable to pay the expert( e of the writ of Habeas Corpus to bring him into this Court. The circumstances were these:—The defendant was sitting at a public borne in Manchester, when a person, who had misbehaved, was turtivri out. The prisoner as• aided in fur ii iii g hint out. A midi assembled in Ore street, and the person turned out of the house went away, lint the deceased IA erivcci a blues front the prisoner, which °car Moiled his death. Judge Boyle) asked whether there was any provocation. sergeant (;101 1 / said, the ptiwner, standing on the steps of r door, received a violent kid, Judge Be.t.—A kick in the Lancashire way. I have se►n those kicks The Cuero gr.mted the role. THE NATIONALREGISTEIf THE KING V. J. A. WILLIAM:. In Hilary Term a title was obtained by Mr. Scatlett, calling upon the defendant who is editor of the Durham Chronicle, to *hew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for a libel on the Church of Dur ham. Mr. Brougham un that occasion showed cause against the rule, and this day Mr. Searlett was heard in support of his application. He said his learned friend expected to induce the court to discharge the rule,first, mitt the pound that no particular person had been libelled ; secondly, that the statute of William required that some person should be set forth as the ■vowed prosecutor, in order that the court might know against whom to award costs. His learned friend had actually entered into a justification of his client. lie had said that it would be extremely bald if his client was not allowed to censure the conduct of the Church of Durham, which had been called an Augean stable by Barnes, a writer in the early part of Queen Elizabeth. To the latter observation he should only say, that the Augean stable had been cleansed by the reformation. With respect to naming the prose cutor, the Right Rev. Prelate, the Bishop of Durham, was not ashamed to avow himself the prosecutor. It was unnecessary, in support of a rule for a criminal infor mation, to p t out the person libelled. The Lord Chief Justice said, the court were of opinion that the rule ought to be made absolute. It was accord ingly made absolute. THURSDAY, APRIL 95. The Court were occupied during this day in hearing ar guinents for new trials. AIIIIOTT V. TOURS. Sergeant Bullock moved for a rale to set aside the verdict in this cause fur the plaintiff, and to obtain a new trial, It was an m aim, for breach of promise of marriage, tried before Mr. Justice Bayley at York. and the learned Ser geant moved on the ground of perjury on the part of t wo witnesses, also excessive damages. The plaintiff had lived servant with the defendant, and left his house in the faultily way. The breach of promise of marriage was proved by two sisters of the plaintiff, who satire the plaintiff could neither rend nor write, and the defendant was thereby pre chided limn putting in a letter purporting to have been a rittett by time plaintiff to the defendant. The letter was represented to have hero written by one of the sisters, under time dictati .... of the plaintiff. The learned Sergeant said he had an affidavit proving that the plaintiff could write. Time Court granted a rule to shew cause. FRIDAY, APRIL 26. THE LING V. J. R. manor, Esq. Mr. Taunton was heard this morning in support of the rale for a criminal information against the defendant, a magis trate of the county of Carua►von. 'f he learned Counsel addressed bnt a few observations In the Court. Time Lord Chief Justice, giving lodgment, observed, that having looked at all the affidavits, the Court were of opinion the a hole of the charges were satisfactorily answered.—lle had entertained some doubts on the question of cost., but upon a more minute enquiry, he was convinced the [unseen ulna was the effect of malevolence, therefore the rule ought to be discharged a ith costs. The rule obtained by Mr. Scarlett was consequently dis charged with costs. CARTWRIGHT V. WRIGHT. Mr. Denman applied for a rule to set aside the nonsuit in this c a se. It was nn action against the defendant for the publication of a libel in the Book o/ Prowler% The pub lication was alleged to be a gross libel on Major Cartwright, copied firm the writings of Mr. Cobbett. TM re was an omission in the declaration, and the plaintff was ntinsuited. Mr. Denman now contended, that the omissi iiii , in a legal point of view, did ant deprive the plaintiff of his right to maintain the aetimi. The Court were of a different opinion; they considered the ognissiou fatal to the proceeding, and refused the ap plication. JOHNSON V. DI 111.1 Elf AND OTRERI. Mr. J. Leans said he had to :apply for a new trial in this action, which was tried at the last Manchester Assizes, and a verdict found for the defendants. The Court intimated that Judge Best wa• absent, and RS the papers in the cause were not ready, Mr. Evans had better bring it in when there was a full Courts Tue motion accordingly stood over. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. DSII ILL v. STALLARD. This was an action fur an assault. The plaintiff, who is a wine merchant, having become indebted to the de fend:int, a tailor, for clothes, the latter, after some inef fectual applications for payment of the amount of his account. sued out a writ against him, and proceeded with a sheriff's offirer to the plaintiff's house in Bond-street, fur the purpose of executing it. Upon the dour being opened, the plaintiff, perceiving the defendant, rushed up stairs, pursued by the latter, and ran out on some leads, where die defendant took him. On returning down stairs the plaintiff made an effort to extlicate himself from the custody of the defendant, who thereupon seized him by the collar, and shook hint viclently. lie then led him out of the house, and gave him tip to the officer, with another shake. The plaintiff, however, contrived to escape from the custody of the officer, at a public.hoase to which lie had taken him, by obtaining permission to speak to a gen• tleman in an adjoining room. It also appeared that the phinitiff had been heard to express his expectation that this acti..n would he the means of his obtaining terms from the defendant, to whom lie offered something in the pound upon his debt. The defendant called no witnesses ; and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintid—one farthing damages. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. MONDAY, APRIL 22.—Solomon Myers was put to the bar upon a capital indictment, charging him with coning and stabbing George Myers, his nephew, with intent to kill and Ilstuder him, and in other counts with intent to disable him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. George Myers sworn.—He lived in London-terrace, Commercial-road. The prisoner had formerly been to trade with hint, but the partnership was dissolved about three years ago. In March last the prisoner preferred a complaint before& magistrate against the wife of the wit ness, but it was dismissed. The day following the!pri. goner went to the house of the witness, and k noel: Mg at the door, called out " thief!" and used horrible threats. The winiesa opened the door and immediately received a stab in the right side, and on leaving the door, another wound 41 the hand. Wituete had not spoken at this time, nor did he know with what instrument he had been wounded until his wife picked up the knife. The prisoner ran away, and witness was carried in doors. Cross-examined by Mr. Broderick.-.-Did not chat. lenge his uncle to fight; nor did he strike him till afu•r he was cabbed,—He nescr declared he would hang his A number of witnesses were examined and coofirrued this evidence. For the defence Abraham Myers, the father of the prosecutor, swore that he heard the voice of the prisoner, and went op to the door. Saw the prosecutor open his door, and strike the prisoner over the head with a large stick, which he threw down, and then struck him over the face with his fists. The prisoner was much beaten in the face, particularly over the temple. About a oti trier of an hour, the prosecutor said he was stabbed. NV imess said," Why did you not say you was stabbed beore ? Did not see any blood on his linen. Had heard the pro secutor say he would go twenty miles to hang his mode. The prosecutor once attempted to hang himself. IVit ness looked at his son's breast ; there was a wound but in blood. Could not say whether the wound had been re cently given. There was blood on the back of the shirt but none on the breast. Mr. Justice Parke, in comtnencing his charge to the Jury, observed, that this was in any view of it a most melancholy one ; they had seen father arrayed against sou, brother, against brother, nephew against uncle ; and whatever conclusion they might feel themselves bothol ot come to, they must find that one party or the other had been guilty of deliberate perjury. His Lordship was proceeding to sum up the evidence, when the dory MG. mated that their minds were made up, and they found the prisoner not guilty. Eleanor Sleeve.;, an interesting looking young woman, was capitally indicted for maliciously and unlawiiiiiy setting lire to the dwelling-house of Joint Revett, of No• 13, Deer -street, Somers Town. Mr. Adolphus appeared tor the prosecution, and called the following witnesses. Eleanor Revelt is the wife of the prosecutor. The prisoner was a temporary servant of hers. The fire took place on a Sunday. On the day before she received a let containing a 201. note, which she opened in the pre .ence of the prisoner. The note fell upon the carpet, and the prisoner picked it up. The witness gave the note to her husband, who deposited it in a cash box between the mattress and the bed, and its the evening she and Mr. Revett went to chapel, leaving the prisoner at home. They returned about nine o'clock, and found a number of persons round the gate, and an alarm of tire was given. l'hey found the prisoner sitting in the Par lour, A gentleman named Balls, a friend of their's, was in Me house, and engaged in putting out the fire The prisoner on being asked how the fire orientated, said she did not know. She did not appear to be the least alarmed, nor did she move from the chair on which she was sitting. The bedding and fur:More were much burnt—the cash-box was found to has e been open, d, the uol. note was missing. Mr. kesett produced aod shewed the box to her, and said " you most know some thing of this." Mr. Revett said he would have every one in the house searched. The prisoner remained sating its the saute place. The note was not found. Whets the prisoner was about going to another room to he searched, she fainted. Toe papers in the box were burnt. There was a sovereign and some silver its i:, which were left untouched. The prisoner, when called on, said merely that she was innocetit. No witnesses were called for her. Mr. Justice Park sutnined up the evidence, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty—Death, but recommended her to mercy. TUESDAY, APRIL 23.—Caleb Salter and Michael Jennings were indicted for stealing a quart of rum, the property of our Sovereign Lord the King, from a barge called the Frederick, lying in t!le West India doels.— The prisoners were custom-house officers, employed on board other craft in the docks. They . were lotted near the liedtrick while a syphon was in one of the rain puncheons on board that barge, with a bladder nearly hanging to the syphon. The oche: officer who found this out said to Salter, " You have made a pretty thing 4.1' it; why did you bleed my charge? could you not bleed your own ?" Salter replied, " You have a d----t 1 sight to say about it. ' They were discovered letting something into the water, and soon after two b:adders nearly filled with rum, fitted with corks and strings, to tie round the hotly, were found its the duck basin.—The Jury acquitted both the prisoners. Edza Gaston and ,Margaret Marsh were indicted for stealing wearing apparel and other property, helooging to %Villiam Perkins, in the dwelling house of J. Day. The wife of the prosecutor resided temporarily, for the benefit of her health, at the house of Day, at Edmon ton. The prisoner lodged in the same house, but Marsh went away first. A new days after her departure, Col ston borrowed a coal hag to get somecoals in, and when she went out she said she expected a young man to call, and that she would be back soon. She never teturned, nor was the coal bag ever sent hack. Seon after Gaston went out Mrs.Perkins's clothes were missed. 'file same night the prisoners got upon an Edmonton sta le WO Cross, Acta live miles Irons Eineld. At that time they had some things its a small will c bag.— 'W hen they were taken about a week after by an officer in Port poodlane, London, several duplicates for liart of the stall properly were found, as was the coal bag which Gilston borrowed. Some of the things them selvessm l po w r e t r i e n a n l i s c o a n fo i o l tl iuti,iearttodo room, e d r i t s i c li t c , :• e r, ret i a sca p r i e u i ) i c ia . moos box, a dark tauten., and lb skeleton anti picklock keys. They were all entirely new implements. The Jury found Ut Woo guilty of stealing to the value of 395• and acquitted Marsh. otherd c % t l e . tl E a l p o r N t r i les articles t he aA properly P sa ß b l l L e c 2 0 ( 4 .1 f 1 haberdashers, in I:l;B:l:itn:.,kSl:4lwi7latt'sror'e'ailo6ili7hEa:tiga r 7,1 prosecutors for five years, as a porter, and the '2. The prisoner had been in t he em p lo y ment of thv r