The National Register. — London, England, 1823-02-17 00:00:00

64 en... 'I7,IO.NAL auk I! PIP= 1 '~ *: . SC:ififEr MEtT.NO. -. On Monday last, the County of Surrey Meeting was held at 'Epsom. The High Sheriff raceitiled the temporary kilobit , * at twelve o'clock. accompanied by Lord King, Lord Ellesiborowals, Sir Thomas Torten, Mr. 0. Bennett. the Comely Members, Mr. Itlaberley, Messrs. Calverts, anal several other gentlenien a rank in the comity. The HIGH SHERIF? opened the 1/114111.11s of the Meet int by reading the Requisition in pursuance ref w hit b the Meetieg was convened, and lie entreated an impartirl hearing for all who should address them. LUTA KINO then commenced by proposing the Petition to the Meeting. He expressed the pleasure be felt at seeing stick an assembly, and considered it a good omen for the ultimate success of the great rptestion of Parlia mentary Refurtn. The great evil tinder which the country .groaned WAS taxation. The skill, talent, and industry of the country were now the same as formerly, but the bur dens whirls oppressed them were four times as great.— Every wise told I •st mast had predicted what had ne coned t bit the p ing mischief of the iitlinisters bud ruined every thing. His Lordship, then, at considerable length, descanted upon the state of the country, and enu merated the evils which affected it. Hut statements and arguments cot responded with those in the Petition. v.hich kW nosed. Mr. I.secit seconded the Petition. Mr. CUBSETC said, lie entirely concurred !tithe peti tion, so far as it went, lint he proposed the addition of the n arils Parlisseriantary Refute.," without which )eur pc- Whiners can see no hope of that equitable adjustment with lewd to the public debt, and all contracts between plan and man, Which is obsoletely sary for the de fester of the reentry against toreign-fues, and fur the pa r•emount severity of internal tranquillity." Mr. SVMNaN.alttitl COnxi.irrabie opposition, declared dint dissent fount the petition. Lord ELLI/4501101.:Gli also declared his dissent amid Interruption. At four o'Lleek the questionwas put by the High Sheriff and there were ealyAve dissentients from he .petillan, us emended by Mr. Colibett, which was declared by the kligh Sheriff to be carried accordingly. The petition was then ordered to be signed by five gentlemen in behalf of the Meeting (as the High Sheriff, though ready to authenticate the business of tl e Meeting, declined signing.the petition), and they broke tip at four o'clock. It rained in torrent• throneliont the day; the Meeting era• nevertheles; numerously attended. SOUTHWARK MEETING FOR REFORM. O t Tuesday last a most numeral's and respectable Assisting of the Electors of Seuthsvask took place at the Town Hall, in the Borough. • • 'F.ie HIQH BAILIFF said, that he had butted his precept, duly appreciating the character of the Electors, and he trusted that oone but those who had a right to vote would ,nresent themselves to the meeting. life. BLACK moved a Petition for a Reform in Parlia ment, and for a Reduction of Taxation. • litmyritu seconded the motion. Mr. ELLis did not •potove of the petition in many respects; but as he admitted the necessity of a .Parlia mrotary Reform, he shasid not propose ewy Amendment. Mr. CALVZRT said, that when first elected their Kerr swntative, he circlet ell that Representati k ves should always obey their constituents, and lie Last always done se; but at the mime time his opinions had always coincided with Ilivirs, and never more sincerely than at present. Sir:Runner WirsvON said, if the House of Commons were retained, and identified with the people in interest and feeling, could so many wrongs be left not eilressed— could so many wrongs be committed? With such is posse of Commons could despots, confederated In hatred of liberty, have mocked our Ministers and oar mediation ? ,Cuithl the King of France, who bad drank au deep of the cup of misery, ortinittgled with the fiats of experience-- conld lie attempt to use the power to which he was re stored, to crush the liberties of Spain. and insult the /Government of England, %shirt§ rested on resistance to the abuse of power ? They had Peen a Home of Commons list acquiesced in every measure of Government ; lent notch was the mOnstions 'mime of the meditated aggres sion, and so powerful the reprobation it excited, that liberty triumphed, and Ministers were impelled to its defence bye people determined to make every sacrifice for the freedom of Spain and Europe. (Cheers.) Our Ministers now stood our the height which the support of the people was calculated to give to those in power. We bad only to take advantage of the spirit of the people by repealing the Foreign Enlistment Bill, and sending per hops so si l o, *lilt two or three thousand stand of arms to Spain. 'Fliat would be all that would be necessary on the part of this co 1111 l y to secure the blessing of a Itepre. acidosis e Guyer ttttt cot to Spain, to Portugal, to Germany, mod t• Italy. (Lurid shunts of applause.) Mr. IlLacit moved, that the Petition should be signed Itv the High Bailiff umbelialf of the meeting, mail that the Members be insti meted to incrust it to l'srlbuticitt.—Car vied twat t i ttt misty. The thanks of the meeting were then voted to Mr. Cal vert, Sir Robert Wilson, and to the High Bailiff*, for his proper conduct in the chair, who severally returned thanks, and the meeting separated. MILAXCHOLY SHUPWIRECIL-Oli Sunday nigh., about ten o'clock, the snow Perseverance, of Lynn, Samuel Johnson Jackson, master, coal laden, from Shields, wean on shore in a strong gaIe,E.S.E., amongst the rocks under Busker Hot outs, about lour miles south ad Whitby, where she became a total wreck; when, melancholy to relate, the maser, , Lawton, Richard linker, James Temple Turner, and John Stevens, sea men, were all drowned. Tne remaining part of the 7 „ crew, John Jackney, Wdliaut Bit', and George Peeps, were washed from the wreck amongst the rocks, anti • 1 / 4 succeeded in getting to the clot]; and, notwithata:tding •• the darkness of the night, met with a narrow path eel - 'dont frequented, except by some poor people who go down to get coals it a small seam in the side of the chlf.• .13y that means they reached the house of Mr. 'l. Petty, fainter, who humanely took them under .his care tor tls night, gate them lodgings and dry clothes; and, thotigh nearly exhausted from fatigue, they are now per reedy recovered. Nous ut the drowned people are yet fantod. stElt COURT OF KING'S BENCH. IIONPAY, I MUMMY le. MR KING 0. ISRAPL LANGLEY. The Solicitor-General moved the sentence of the Coart oa Ibis defendant, who was indicted for an escape, and assault upon a Sheriff's Officer, •ho arrested him for a debt due to the Crown of 101 penalty, wider the Excise laws j the de fendant tiering suffered judgment by default. LLI GENCE. The defend - act pet in a pctitimi to the Court, throwing him. self on the mercy of the Court. Is a foreigner, with a wife and nine children, who are dependant on him for support, that he has bees imprisoned since September, and by Unit swans is reduced to great poverty and distress. The Solicitor-General stated, that he did not object to a mild sentence ; and admitted that he bad since paid the 101. This was, however, a very violent assault, by which the officer's face was est, and his person mu Al injured. Mr. is...tire Bayley in passing sciatic., sham Id, that the Court admitted the defendant had esoressed his sorrow for the aflame, and took into consideration the imprisonment of the defendant for eight weeks and three days, The states." of the Court was, that the defendant should be further imprisoned three months in the House of ,Corroetion, and to give sureties lee his goad behaviour for one year; himeeW in 2W. and two ethers is 101. each. VIP ICING o. CORE. The defendant was convicted of an assault upon an officer of the customs. He put in an affidavit, stating that the assault artier out et a general '<tulle between the officers of the cus toms and other persons. The Solioitor General observed, the defendant did not deny that be was engaged in the amuggling t aaaaa ctiou oet of which the lt arose. Mr. Justice Bayley observed, the defendant bad pleaded guilty to the assault on Moses Newton, a custom-house officer. The Court senteeced the defendant to be imprisoned two months ia tha House of Correction at Eseter, to Sad two sure ties for good behaviour for three years, himself in 401. and two tjasbejasin 101. cook, and-to be committed to the emotody of •tbe learehel of the Marshals** in pursuance of such reotenoe. LIBEL ON AN ATTORNLY.—THE AIM: V. 10111 'Arr.% The defendant was convicted for a libel on George Ellis, an -attorney of this Court, to bring him unto hatred and contempt, _lid tanning the said libel to he posted up. The defendant co tended be was convicted on insufficieet evidence, and moved a new trial. Ile pretested agaiost the evidence, and moved a new trial. Ile protested against the evidence of the prosecutors olerk, and requested to hand in an affidavit he had made. Mr. Justice Bayley asked if Mr. Gurney would be satisfied with sureties to keep the peace. Mr. Garvey answered la the negative. Defending proceeded with greet intemperance to urge, that this MU a oonspiraey, accompanied with subornation of eti. deuce. The Lord Chief Jostioe demanded if the defendant Ind any thing to say in mitigation of punishment, as there war, so ground for a new trial. The defendant pat in an affidavit of transactions between him and the prosecutor, with a view of showing that be bad been ill-tteated by him ; and that such ill-treatment had pro• yoked the libels. On the part of the proseentioa, several affidavits wee* also Jun in in aggravation. Mr. Jo:mice Bayley, after severely admonishing the defend ant for his conduct, passed open the defendant the sentence of the Court, which was, thattlefeudasit should be imprisoned fcr three mouths in the King's Bench Prison, and enter into sure ties to keep the peace towards the prosecutor for fire years, himself in 5001. and two others in 2501. etch. TUESDAY, lEBRUARY It. SIR MUII,ON LoWE v. lelt, BARRY O'MEARA. The Solicitor-Ceneral said, be moved for a rule to show Cans why a criminal information should not lune against a person named Barry O'Meara, fora libel. Mr. Justice Bayley —You had better wait till the Lord Chief Justice come* into Court. VIE KING e REV. EDWARD PICTON, CLERK. Mr. Flannigan stated, that the Counsel on the other aide (who, with Mr. Scarleti) were not present. The Coon permitted this to stand over until the Counsel for, the prosecution should be present. (The Court proceeded to take short motions. Present Mr. Justice Bayley, Ilnlroyd, and Best.) At twenty minutes after eleven the Lord Chief Justice came into Court. The Solicitor-General renewed .his motion oo helmlf of Sir Hudson Lowe. The libel arose upon two volumes, published by Mr. O'Meara, entitled " A voice from St. Helena." The Lord Chief Justice asked when the book came out? The Solicitor-General stated, that the first editioo was pub lished last summer ; this was in a second edition ; thus there was a repetition of that libel before the public, and Sir H. was compelled to seek redress. He had to state that the de fendant wet appoietcd surgeon to attend upon the person of Buotiaparte, being still an officer in the British service ; but upon Sir Hudson Lowe discovering that he was attached to Napoleon, he was brought to a court-martial by that gentle man, and dismissed from his Majesty's service ; Sir Hudson, therefore, thinks that it was from feelings of personal resent ment that these insinuation* against him were thus artfully in ' trodneed into• the publication. In it Sir Hudson Lowe was made to espress himself very coarsely towards Las Cases and I °thereof Buonaparte'a Generals, which Sir Hudson positively. denied having used. He makes him call Las Cases " the Jesuit," &c. &c. and lie also asserts that Sir Hudson Low. wns desirous to shorten the life of his captive, These an chiefly pat into the mouth of Bunnaparte. " During the %hod interview this Governer had with me, he proposed to send yes away ; and although 1 gave a decided refusal, he persisted tilt he went away. No man ever saw such a horrid countenance." The learned counsel mentioned Ibis as one of a series of ma lignant falsehoods ,contained in this book. He goes on in another passage:—Major Thelsor, of the 52d regiment, came to St. Helena; and that be (Sir H.) assured Buonsparte that in the 53d regiment, no 1115411.4111 were to be found, and wished hint to adorn the Major to his confidence. Again Bunnaparte is made to say, " I never see that Governor but I think I see the assassin of Henry 11. &c. I should think him, from his horrible countenance, the hangman of the municipality of En gland. 0 look at the countenance--see the murderer of Pi ebegrew stamped on the countenance of that monster !" 1 The Court demanded bow they got evidence of O'Meara's being the author? The •fly the affidavit of his publisher. The Solicitor-General.—lfe (Mr. O'Meara) aomplsinnd that be wa confined to the limits of the French prisoners by Sir 11. Lnwe, bring detected in delivering a letter from Moonaperte, is a sauff•bua, to a Mr. Boyce ; and that he (Sir liaison) situation as surgeon to Nepskeee - The Lord Chief Justice said, the only difficulty wu, the lateness of the amnesties sot allowing tbe parties, as is the ease of Magistrates and Justices of the Peace, the opportu nity of showing cause against the rale Nisi during the same Term. His lordship did not know any other rule applicable to this ease, unless the rule was ed by the one party being an officer of high rank in his Majesty's nervioe, sad the other parte not beim( an ()Nicer at all, Mr: Phillips, counsel for Mr. O'Meara, ob d, there had been no less than four Grand Juries sat since this publication, and that the party might bare gone before them to Sod s bill of indictment. The Solicitor-General slid. no man could be mittlated by fairer or more honourable intentions Sinn Sir H. Lowe. Lord Chief Jurtice.—Take a rule to show cause—in the mean time some precedent may be found for or against the rule whirl, the Court has granted at this late stage of the sit • tinge within the Term. GAMBLING HOUSES. THE LINO N. RoGIER AND ANOTHER. Mr. C. Phillips moved •the Judgment of the Court on the defendants, found guilty of keeping a common gaining house. namely, No. Pall-sail, for playing the game of Roar st No:r. Mr.Corwood, on behalf of Mr. Rogier, moved an arrest of Judgment, on the ground that a gaming house was sot a nuis mace at common law ; and Ham that Rouge et Nair was sot as unlawful game, as described in the indictment. The learned counsel founded his law upon a dictum in Sergeant Hawkins. cap. 25.—1 f the Court should be with his, be said, on those points, the indictment was bad, and jndgment mast be arrested. Mr. Platt. se counsel for Mr. Humphries, supported the same objections. :The Coon held there was so ground for arresting the judge ment. . . The affidavit of Rogier was then put in and read. The do possot said ho bud been prosecuted by the informer Wood ruff* for the sole purpose of inducing him to pay a large sans of money. None twit persons of rank had ever bees permitted to play at the bones No. 32, Pall-mall. Mr. Humphries put in a similar affidavit. The affidavit of Mr. John Woodruff* was also read is sup port of the prosecution The deponent stated that he'had seen the proprietors of tke house wio in one night 20001. Mr. Curwood sud Mr. Platt addressed the Court in miti gation. Mr. Phillips, in aggravation, said. within the walls of these houses there was not only drink to stapify the senses, but every other inducement to play. The peer and the apprentice might be seen together, and at these hells the worst passions were in conflict. whilst the demons who produced the discord stood around smiling and enjoying the trouble. It seemed , to be the cursed peculiarity of gaming that the darker the •horison of -Ike gamester was the stronger grew the stimuli's to ruin. Otte met of profligacy and imprudence led to another, until suicide covered the most wretched among men. Be had no personal feeling on the sohject—but he firmly believed, oa the deision of Court depended the question, whether rarest. in Mare might not have to deplore the eatinetioa of their hopes, amid the irreparable rein of their children? The Court being informed this' four ether prisoners, sanely. Phillips, Oldfield. Bennett, and Carlos, were also in waiting to res..ve judgment, ordered the whole of the defendants to be committed to the custody of the Mar►hal of the King's Bench. and brought op again tomorrow morning to receive seoteoce. __,lesitu•RY 12. Jurisdiction of Ike Borough Court of Requests. Mr. Hutchinson shewed cause against a role obtained by Mr. Campbell, to arrest the lodgment of the Court of Re quests of the Borough of Soathwark, this being • plaint for upwards of 51. reduced below that sum for the purpose of reeovering. The defendant put in an original demand deli• vered by the same phtintilT, amounting to above 11. which it was conteoded took the claim oct of the prim:fiction of this Court, which by Act of Parliameut could only entertain plaints not exceeding 51. Referred to Mr. Park to say, whether the original demand in this case exceeded 61. The court signified, that on Thursday it would take the Home Circuit new trials, and the following day the Western. The Master read the order of the Court, that the oMce of commissioner for taking affidavits ehould not henceforth be held by conveyancers, but by such only as .wero admitted attorneys. GAMBLERS. ludgmessi of the Court on Rogers, Humphreys, Oldfield, Ca►los. and Beinfel. The defendants being placed oo the Boor of the 000 rt, the Lord Chief Justice read the trial. Affidavits in mitigation were put in by Frederick Oldfield„ Richard Bennet and Carlos. Mr. Corwood addressed the canton behalf-0f the defendants. Mr. Justice Bayley, who delivered the judgment of the court, said, the court feeling it was the interest of the palilio to pot down these practices, did order and adjudge that for this offence, C. E. Rogier, do pay a fiae to the Ling of 5,0001. and to be imprisoned iu the House of Correction, Coldbatb fields for the term of one year. William Humphries, a fine of 2001. and he imprisoned two years. 0 dfield, a fine of 10001. and to In imprisoned in the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea one year. Bennet, a fine of 10001. and be imprisoned one year. Thomas Carlos, a line of 5001. and be imprisoned eighteen months in the House of Correotion, Cold • bat h-lields. The court also ordered, that the defendants do severally find sureties for five year.; themselves in 20001. and two others in WWI. each ; and further, that they be imprisoned till the fines be paid and sureties found. The court in this instance did not feel themselves bound, ceder the provisions of a late Act of Parliament, to order the defendant/ to hard isbour in the House of Correction, because the offence which led to these convictions occurred prior to passing the act. It was, however, to be understood, that of fences of this description in future would be punished aooord ing to the provisions of the said act. The defendant swere then milieus oat of court in custody of the tipstaff. THE KING T. TIE AEV. D. LEH is. Mr. Campbell on a former day obtained a rule to file a cri minal information against the defendant, a magistrate of the county of Stall'ord, on the ground that be had exceeded all legal jurisdiction, in committing a labouring was, named Bel lock, to prison. It appeared that the man had agreed to work in certain coal pits for his employer, who paid him his wages in advance.— He afterwards refused either to work or repay the mosey, and the Rev. defendant, believing he was justified in law, merit led him fur two months. ..1