The National Register. — London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

41, 346 IHI.►I UESDAY NIGHT'S GAZErrs. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. W. leildtn, Live,pool. merchant. BA N KRUM'S. J. Lee. Charles Street. llorcilidown, lighterman. Solicitors, Kle,.rs. Kirkman and Co. Cannon Street. W. Dodson, Camberwell. bricklayer. Sol. Mr. Ilewitt, Token house Yard. .1. Ells wood. Witham, Yorkshire, clothiers. Sops. Mosses. Choke and Co. Chancery lame. W. Whittle, i theta ise W. Burtwhittle, Beantin s ter, Donet. tanner. Sol. Mr. NVrtalit, J. Doug as and D. Itucsei. elect Street. draper. Sol. Mr. ,Jaines, Buckle abuty. 11. UnderatioJ, Cheltenham, builder. Sol. Mr. Bowyer, Gray's Inn Siiimre. Barron, Kyr,: Street Ilill, Leather Lane, bricklayer. Sul. 31r. Newbon, Great Carter I.ane, Doctors' C 011111101126 DIVIDi.;:s DS. Nov. 30, J. King. Tunbridge, carpenter-23, S. Wectch, thkorge Street, Commercial Bowl, liatchtf. linen draper-21. J. Clyde, Chaid, hire, groctr—n, J. Wa lliml not, junior, Chard, Sumer.etshire, groctr—t2, E. 'frond, Churchstautiton, Devonshire. coal inerchant—!..'6. W• Armitage. UrPertliarPc. Yorkshire, cloth merchant-18, F. Pothonier, Corporation Row, Clerkenwell. did:tiler-In, J. Boyce, jun. Wan doid, Yorkahlre, collet manufacturer-19, T. spencer, Gray'. Inn Lane, Itires7 atablc keci.cr- -43, T. Barnett. Kendal. corn merchant-19. 1. Fowbb and .1. Preston, Torquay, Devon Mire, and J. S. Prow&e, Botolph I atm.. London, mei chair W . Ras bottom. o.d • bant, Lanc.whire, machine maker-30, P. Hooper and 'l'. Bctlw fool. Bartholomew Place, Bartholomew Clue, timber merchant. —ii, T. Leuds, Gerrardt, Cite-hire. cotton spinner —SC, 11. Ttiontp•on and T. Nlaww, Bow, liutlierhithe, wine merchants. . _ ..... CERTIFICATES to be granted Nov. 10. S. William., Mincing Lane, brokerww.l. Locegruire,Cranham, GlaaucesterMire, tia al her dealer—J. Sunman. Strand, apother..ary— C. Lino", St. Thona.as a Bccket in the Cal; Suweat, grocer—T. H.avis. Nlitainies, stationer—G. Lloyd, Canada:l'6nd Street, lklarylebone, brewer—G. 'ticker. Dav !abb. Devomhate, builder Warwick, Warwick Hadl, Cumber/and. banker—T. Heighton. Davies Street, Berkeley SIMI! C. saddler—W. Colson, pi ewee ele. greecr—W. Vincent. Old [toad. Stepney. rope maker Itou. Tottenham Court Road, niercleane—id. Ittglaiol, Liverpool, merchant. SIR HUDSON Wit E AND 11.111()N vtl LAS CASES. Our mailers arc aware that Count Lis Casts w;:s ioduced by his attachment to the late Emperor Napoleon to ac • pally him to St. Helena—and those who have mad " A Voice from St. Helena," will imt target the cruelty and brutality with which he was treated by Sir Hudson Lowe. The Count's son, forgetting that cowardice and cruelty are usually the imuates of the same breast, has attempted to provoke him to pl tee himself in such a situation as might have enabled a pistol-ball to have done a share of justice, which the law liorbids—Wesuljoin the account given by the junior Las Cases, as well as that which appeals trout the Gallas! Major General himself : OcTOCcm, 23, 1522. 7.1 v DEA. Fat EXT),-1 deem it requhite to make a COIIIIIIU. 1,e41101. to yOll. on the instant. relative to an occurrence in I was concerned; and I Audi proceed, Withollt further preface, to enter on the subj.et of it. • Yesterday I met Matur-Gen. Sit Hudson Lowe, in Pertain:4ton Green, as he was about to cuter a hickory coach, when on al tercation ensured, during which I struck Imo 'tern.' the shoulders with a horsewhip whieti 1 hell in my hand. Having thus chas• ti,ed him. 1 instantly presented my card, but he thought fit to arrow it away, wido ;.:t ttogning to read it. Upon this h tendered him a secunu address, anti alierwenls a third, all of which he in Ilk: manner tinew away. Ills servant maid. however, who had by this time come oat of the house, picked up my cards, and carried them into his re salence. when the hackney coach e:rove off, and 1 proceuhrd on soy way. Yew per , oris but myself and my to arc fussy acquainted wnti the cruel I•rovocations which I mace received (null thus man. During our detentien at fst. lichen. we were arrested in the most brutal stunner. :old subsequently keit in Clam: confinement during one loofah. 6N .telA, and treated precisely like criminals.— What slid inure tended so augment tors cruelty, was my health being at that time in a very precarious state. Irons the drums iho.Liced by a tropiesil viiniate upon a constitution suturally weak. Phis eras repre,enteil to or Hudson Lowe by the plipecians, who explicitly tinkle known to him that it was essenualty neves. sary to the recovery of toy health. that I s! wild be allowed to return to Europe, that I might receive the benefit of my natal air. Stiehl a measure, hot:ever, would have been so durst op. positiori to the secrecy in which he was desirous of envelopniL till the proceolings oil the island. Ile demanded of Mr. U. 101earts, an °Metal report upon the slate of my health. Mr. ri•Aleara, who uniformly contructed himself towards every woe ed us as I..ecanie a Own a honour and humanity, delivered in to tor 1 'orison Lowe, a report witch was dictated by hit conapiatice; b it the Governor peeved deaf in every representation of feeling and of both and my father ;owl myself were ordered olr to the Cape of Gar d Hope, where we were detained as irisaaers for a even months, owing to the in: tructihns furwanled by Sir Hudson Lowe. This captivity. coupled with the separation from his fa. roily end his coantry, the mental anguish that succeeded. the wtiik state of lita.to and the age rat my father, have been the soirees Of those infirmities under which he now labours, and which will continue to hear him down to Ida grave. Alice our departure from St. Helena, Sir Hudson Lowe pro ceed...l to unproy those rheas's, with which he was so conversant, to b;aeken my tathees character and render him an object of sus ineton to Napoleon and the French officers on the island. Among whet things lie staled to General lietrand that Could. I.as Cases had confessed that himself and other attendants upon Napoleon lord esertet every endeavour to roan hint (Sir Itud.on Lowe) in the opinicri of his captive, by to make him regard the pe.son and the actions ot Ste tliadaon Lowe ** throng!. a veil of blood." Winn spenkibil o. my father. er his departure, I hare been intinuted, anti buitbvett that hc hot unfrequently coupled alai Ms bunk, the epithets ut •• that—rascal, that—lying uhl taacal, Count Las Cases, ev. It is nu: inioussible for a man ulliouttur to speak dure.la•cttblly ui ahoutir„ but. to buts cases, he uni • fernly protatJaixsit... upiniun to his tau. and never during his _ loeurittnue tacit nauseous details. of which I could extend the calt , nFue od igfisithns, would inure a. w you a. they are truly painted to toy mina ; mod 1 du not hetitaw to avow, that the ►cic ulijett ot my vela to England was to counsel :fir liodwn Lowe to atford theatu..tacuoit lurthe witicit 1 here Ilium s6ettliAl ; being cuiniLied by redeetion upon his pieviuu tonJuet and chancier. that lie would have recount to legal pro re...thugs If I sent law achatttuige. 1 duertioned to put upon him toe gmate.t pubic nowt' that could be otlered to a htutlewass, ciineei‘ mg two that wif could procure for tee the ..t.t.taethin I • eagerly deaired. 1 a1t..11 uerntr-ate the resent st..tcaetnt by ft - mailing, th.t • se- THE NAT, • . • REGISTER . tam who vindicates art'itutte of an aged, Ock, and honoured tither, °lily Itt;tl;s a molt ' gaited duty imptsed upon him, and in ,o Acting pursues the lath of hot our and of rectitude. 1 am, my dear Sir, yours most sincerely, &r. Oigheil) 151. liAllieN EMAt DE LAS CASES. P.S. Soots after the oc.:urretice took place. I wrote to Sir 11. Lowe to intone hint, that if lie would give his word to act like a man of honour, 1 should always be ready to answer to him. An evening paper published tile following state- '• About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning lea, Sir Hudson Lowe had ordered a hackney-ehasse to the door of a house in l'ad tlington Green. and was on the point of entering it, when he was ruttely ran against by a young titan of slight slant stature and inconappearatee, who, instead of niantlesting any concern at what occurred, inmiediately exclaimed in a foreiot accent, .• What do you mean, Sir. by insulting me ?" •• Do you mean to ill: Lilt ice?" 114,111 t you I" replied Sir Ilud uti l.uwe, Why, you ran directly up against me!" The young person pc rsisting. however, to talk in the same strange manner ai it hardly in his senses Sir Ilualwai Lowe. without regarding him. proceeded to step into his carriage, when lie felt that a stroke had been made at him with a small whip by the young man. who instantly withdrew out of his reach. Sir 11. Lowe having an umbrella in his hand, turned round and pursued him with the intention of striking him with ir e when a second IMILSOII, appa rently an Englishman, and a bystander, suddenly sprang for ward between Sir Iltidson Lowe and the young man, and forcibly prevented it. Sir 11. Lowe, finding himself thus oriented, re turned to the carriage. and was in the act of stepping into it, when the young person cane forward, with a cars' in ins hand and Sir It. Lowe tak.ng nu notice ut !inn, die card was tlit own into the carriage. and hutau ly flung back. without being even looked at. sir 11. Lowe had not at this time, the slightest knowledge or suspicion who the young man wits. and cooed not conceive him to be a gentleman. tin his return to the house sonic time after. Sit 11. Lowe found that two cards had been picked up in front of the door, and on them was written the name of Baron E. de Las Cases. Dug tavern, Iloly wellotreet.— This young man bad left St. Helena, a mere boy. between five and six years before, and was not in the least degree recognix-ble by S.r 11. Lowe. It was afterwards ascertained, that both the young man mud the per on who had interposed to protect him had been lying in wait near the door for sonic time previously. and esen called the preceding day at the house, to require for Sir 11. Lowe, refusing to leave their names. Sir H. Lowe now feeling it had beau a premeditated attack upon Irian, arising out of tire performance of his public duties—viewing also the trea cherous manner in which he had been assailed, without any previous nonce being given of the name, quality, or motives of the aggro surs--aitti having ground to betieve the whole to be the el et of un unprincipled combination, made an immediate Cominunication on the subject to Government, and to the proper legal authorities, which led to a warrant being issued tor the appiellensioa ut the 1.•:41 Cases, who Inas bIIICC dwappeated." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT O 1 CHANCERY. FRIDAY, ROY. I. The Lord Chancellor cause into Court this morning about 20 minutes aftei ten o'clock, to hold the lint Seal before the Term Tull: AT 1110RNE1 -Gl.l%lNAl.—'• I..ere is • gentleman unend ing its Corot, pursuant to its order, made by your Lordship, previous to the commencement of the long vacation. Ile has married a young lady, a wrist of this Corot. That order was made in consequence of an siiplication Of the guardians of the lady. Mr. Hart appear. foe them now, before your Lordship. Toe motion, on the circumstances of the case, as they were then stated by Mr. Ilart, was, that a gentleman of the name of Ben. net sliou,sl forthwith restore to her guardians a young lady wl he had prevailed upon to elope with him, on the of August last. for the pus pose, it was then presumed, of marriage, which purpose has been s IL:cleated. 'the young lady ' II guardians (he said) were Sir Win. Pilkin;ton and Min diddle Tutthel, Esq. Mr. Bennet bad dined with the family of Mr. Tullnel, of which the young lady in question was one, on the Ilith of August ; the young couple distippear,il shortly after diluter; they were area iu the afternoon in a gig together, but were now gone at:holly knew whither. Mr. Bennet had tindered psoporals of nisriwe some time previous to this event, but which proposals were rejected by the guardians.-- The order was, that Mr. Bennet should return this)dung lady to her guardian, Mr. Tulfisel, forthwith, and that lie should ap pear in Court un the then lint Seel (this day) to answer for the ematempi." This day Kr. !fait appeared for the guardians, and said, " I am iustructed to state, tun the part sit the guardians, that this ,;entlernan is • person of untsceptionahle chancier, against VlllOlll the &vanities's Lave no desire to press any thing fur the contempt." Mr. Attorney General—" Ilp is, my Load, of equal rank in life wills the lady herself ; and his taller, a iu in of fortune, has come forward sod is willing to do what is right on this micasion, and the guardians do not press any thing against him." The Lord Chancellor,—" I desire to hat c an opportunity of reading the affidavits in the course of this evenitsg." Mr. Attorney Gcneral.--The affidavits verify the facts as li base stated them to your Lordship; and this gentleman is ready to snide by the ostler of tlie Court." The Lord Chancellor.—" If you will band me the affidai its 1 will read them to-night." LLF.i AiNSWORTII. Mr. Wingfield said be was iustructed to make an application for the commitment of the rlefeadaiii, fur haring married a ward of the Court, knowing bar to be so at the time he married her. The bill was filed in Septeumer, at which time the martia,,te look plate. Affidavits bad been filed, in which it was sworn that the defendant meditated the fearing of the country. The learned COUDS4ei was proceeding to state the circumstances of the caw., when Tile lard Chancellor said. " Can I commit any man without giving hint an opportunity of being heard." Wiuglitld.—l think there are instances of commitments when it was sworn glut au individual meditated !editing the cuontry. . . . The Lord Clieorellor--I may mike out an order to restrain him from taking the infant with him. There will be no greet harm it be does leave the country prosidel we keep her here. Mr. l'epys.—l am afraid, my Lord, flint the order to reairaio would he inoperative ; lie will be gone to-morrow. The Lord Chancellor—l cannot help it. I will grant an order to reetrein the delerolaut and ell other persona limn raking the infant out of the liogdoin. sir. Wiuglield—Will your Lordship order the infant to attend ? The Lord Cliancellor.—Yes, I *indirect that the service of my mintilts shall be a good service, and that the de.endaiit thing the ward into Court to-morrow. If you can lind any proper peiaon to take care of her, I will make an order that forthwith, upon the service of Illy 111%111111 a, the defrndent shall deliver her up. Either you or Mr. Pow acm take tier. Mr. Wingfield—Let .111. Pepva bate her, my Lord, lie is the junior counfAl. She older nas thus issued. -~~~ 1(1111AKI)moN r. 01.1 F This was nn action to recover from the defendant the ralna of s Bail of England note, which bail been stolen (coin the, plaiatilC, and it was alleged to have conic improperly into the hands of the defendant. From the evidence it appeared, that the note was stolen from the plaintiff by a boy, named Geor4e Biggs, who was in the plaintiff's employ, and who hail since, with his brother Richard Biggs, been tried and con victed at the Old Bail..y, and both transported. . . A witness, named Jane Somerlield, deposed, that in March last, site went with Richard Biggs to the Rosemary Branch, St. Catherines's hill, where they not George Watts. Mellott( Biggs here gut Into trouble, and was taken to the watch-hoar. George Watts afterwards look the witness to the defendant's house ; she hail the 1001. the same now produced, in her pa session. She was instructed to ask Wolfe WI. for it ; she did so, but said it was a Bank Post note, and he would only give 501. She did ultimately take fifty sovereigns. He asked h er where she got t; she said she was an unfortunate gir . , and got it from a gentleman iu the city. He told her, it she got any more to let him have tbeiii. Mr. Smith, a goldsmith, proved having received the note in question from the defendant, for si.me Napoleons. It was also proved, tutu this was the note stolen by George Biggs. Mr. Denman commented on the improbability or the story loud i.y the plaintiff 's witnesses, mid the character of th• principal one, mid contended no verdict could be found on such evidence. The Jury found a terdict fur the 14,,inti6.—Dainages 1001 . —coma 30... NDITAICER V. BOARDMAN AND ANoIDIR. This was an action brought by a corn and Your factor to is cover a loss sustained by the improper di:livery or a quantity 01 fluor. it appeared that several sacks of flour had been ordered to be shipped oil hoard a vessel at Yarmouth. called the Wi biome, instead of which they were shipped on hoard the Irbul.',asts, roil never teat bed the plaintiff. The alleged loss by the wron4 shipment was .501. Several witnesses were examined to prove the plaintiff's The Common Sergeant contended that the plaintiff had an property iu the Dour to ramble him to suppoit the action, bur the J•cry, under all the circumstances, found a verdict for the plaintilG—Damages, 301. AINITII V. DAY. This action was brought by the assignee of a bankrupt, to recover a; I. for board and lodging furai►baJ the defendant by Holms, the bankrupt. The contract for hoard and lod.,ing was proved. The defence was, that previous to the bankruptcy of Holmes, a debt was the to Day, and it was agreed to set °lf one de mand against the other. It was urged on the part of the do ftntlant that nothing could be more harsh that. the endeavour made by the assignees to wake the defendant take for bin debt, a small dividend tinder the commission, and at the same time costivel him to ply the full ■mount of the debt he had contracted with the bankrupt. A witness, named Shepherd, stated that he was present when a eonversatien took place between Minis and Day about their respective debts. witness Marti a proposal made to net on' one debt a.tainst the other; but the bankrupt mantled a condition to which the defendant did not liCtede 'lime Joy found a verdict fur the ',Willa—Damages lAT. 10. The Lord Chief Joistice tried several common jnry enure... — The only ease affording the least Ilitrit ol was the following. ASHLING H. SMITH. This was an action to recover 921. fur 40 quarters of wheat, alleged to has t been purchased by the deleodar.t. It appeared 11,4 the curls was exposed for sale in the market. A pence moot., Ward off red to become a purchaser, at tiny shillings a but the plaintill not liking N ard, refused to let bins have it. S,lllOl bllaJlt time after said to the plaintiff, If yon don't like Ward, take 495. and you may insert my name." The plaintilf seceded to the propoiell, awl the corn was delivered-- In April the corn was sold, aril in May the defendant, Smith, send 11 and with a cheque to pay Cur it. The plain.so 's clerk smote out the receipt to Smith, on which Ward said it should have been made out to him ; and on the refusal of the clerk te alter it, Smith took up the cheque and went away, saying he would not pay it at all.—Under the above ciroumetances the action was brimeit, and the question was, whether Smith i.r Ward were boau)de purchasers of the corn. The Chief Justice, after the witnesses had been heard• ob. served, that there Maas no proof that Ward purchased the corn. The July found a verdict for the pleititilf. VHSESDA Y, OCT. SO. IHNIPSoN V. POGSOti. Mr. M tt stated, that this was an action brought by a tradesman in London lit recover 651. ss. on a bill of earbaogr, accepted by a shuttle:l lady of the was of Stanley, who. more her nisi:hat ge under the insolvent act, hail entered into a matri monial engagement with a Capt. Popo°, of the navy, a watt of property. The band-writing of the defendant being loosed — Mr. Scarlett, fur the deleodent, stated. that the bill was given to • Mr. k'olkoaer, a linen-draper, whilst the lady was in pinion, having been an assistant ate school, Alr. Fulkoner, pro suteitig neither to circulate or present Moe bill for payment ; 'mil the qumitiou we., whether the hueband was liable- fur the debts of his wife she being discharged ander the insolvent act. 'Choose James Gorwood, ollieer of the lesolvest Court, pro ducid the schedule and discharge of Charlotte Isabella Stanley. lit Om schedule was the article—.. 631.54. to Mr. Folkoner, linen-draper, 1101 Holborn, for which a bill of exchange was accepted Ira me:' Mr. Foll;olier, examined by Mr. !leaden,. -Witness is the (hewer of a bill, Miss Nutley, when she accepted it, was in . • 414:. '~i .. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. day the Lord Chief Jubilee hat at Guildhall, London, to divose of the remaining rause% on the paper. VEARVON v. Fittl.DING AND *NI:MIER. TI is was an action brought by Mr. Pearson, .against the de fendants, as proprietors of the Tooling and Mitcham coach, to recover a color( nsation fur the injury he hart teceited from the defendants' servant. The particulate of the CaPC were an fol. low : On the ut ening of the 21st of February last, 'don't set en o'clock, the plaintiff was returning to town, with his wife and child, in his chaise, and when arrived near the fie.t of London Bridge, lit °hairs ed two stages and four co g.l a furious rate down the hr t'ge• Alarmed for the salety of those with him, he drew up near the kirbstone, and stood still to let them pass. The first passed clear, but the second, which was the drew ant's coach, ta,Nlit the %heel of the chaise, threw it over, and broke it to pieces. The plaintiff and Mrs Pearsou were thrown out, and -eriously hurt. The horse, which was a very line one, ran away, and was so much in jured that he was oliliged to be killed. The defenco set up was, an attempt to prat c that it was not the defendants coach which did the iainage. 'fie Jury found a t:!rdict for the plaintiff.—Damages 20:1.