The National Register. — London, England, 1821-04-01 00:00:00

102 FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED, T. Lewis, Ger:tuts, near Gee Cross, Cheshire, cotton spinster, from March 31 to April 2/4. BANKRUPTS. W. Ayson, Macclesfield. Cheshire. cotton spinner. Solicitors, Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow Churchyard. J, Buckland, Newcastle Street, Strand, carpenter. Sol. Mr. Jessopp. Cliffisrd's inn. T. Al!sop, Gloucester, linen drapers Sol. Mr. Bowyer, Cook's Court, Carey Street. M. Vaughan and C. Appleton, Liverpool, straw bonnet manu f tcturers. Sol& Messrs. Blackstock and Co. Temple. .1. Mason, Liverpool, linen and woollen draper. Sol. Mr. John, Palsgrave Plato, Temple Bar. J. Sloper, Bath, baker. Sols. Messrs. Slade :and Co. John Stteet, Bedford Row. T. lactionagli, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, wine merchant. Sol. Mr. Chitty, Chmeery l.ane. T. Ashcroft. Liverpool. timber merchant. Sols. Messrs. Adlington and Co. Bedford Row. J. Clarke, Worcester, coach proprietor. Sol. Mr. Becke, Devonshire Street, Queen Square. G. Backhouse, Kendal, V, esttuorland, ironmonger. Sol. Mr. Wilson, Furnival's Inn. DIVIDENDS. April 15, P. B. Jones, Birmingham, manufacturer-14, B. !hot. Graecchurch Street, tavern keeper-7, S. P. Stager, Maidstone, dealer-7, W. Elgar, Maidstone, grocer—l 4, .1. Hardwick, Mill Street, Lambeth, engineer —tat, J. Webb, New Sarum, victualler-20, IL Gower, St. Austell, Cornwall, linen draper-7,'l'. and E. S. Foster, Yalding, Kent, malts:Lets-17, T. Samson, Lynn, coach maker—St. G. Dann, Linton, Kent, butcher—l 7. T. Smith, I.aurence Pountney Lane, merchant— il t, J. Wilkinson, Cockermouth, common brewer-17, R. Hart ley, Ripon, York, mercer-17, T. Morris. Bristol, linen draper —2O, D. Phillips, T. Wray, and 11. Baker, York, merchants—. 21, J. R. Battier and J. J. Zornlin, Devonshire Square, Bishops gate, merchant—June 5, A. Bruce, J. Brown, and G. Scott, London, army clothiers. CERTIFICATES to be granted April 17. H. Berthoud. Soho Square, bookseller—T. Frost, I.ittic Titelifield Street, coachntaker—.l. Miles, High Holborn, linen thapc7—.l. Williams, Bishopsgate street Without, linen draper --W. Preston, Dove Court, Mansion House, bristle nmerchaut— H. Liverpool, haberdasher—W. Marshall, Regent Street, statuary—J. Shorty, Croydon, coal merchant. LIBEL OX THE QUEE.V. CITY AND COUNTY OF EXETER ASSIZES. Guildhall, Monday, March 19. LIBEL.—THE XING V. FLINDLLL. The information charged the defendant with having published a scandalous and malicious libel against the Queen, contained in the Western Luminary . , of July 11, 1820, in the following words: "Small a woman, who is as notoriously devoted to Bacchus as to Venus—shall such a one as would, if found upon our pavement be committed to bridewell and whipped, be held up in the light of soffering innocence, and enthroned in our hearts on the prostration of our boasted principles? " Mr. Serjeant Pcll brit fly stated the c,o , e for the crown. Proof of publication was then adduced, and the learned serjeant said this was his case. Mr. Coleridge rose for the defendant. He would not justify the passage which formed the ground of this in lbrination—it was an intemperate sentence; and if the defendant would have had him to justify it, he most have sought another advocate. The e idence of crime rested on the intentimi of a party ; and if he could bhew them from a train of circinustances that Mr. Flindell hail no malicious intention, he would be entitled to their verdict. Mr. Serjeant Pell rose to reply. He could not con ceive how the jury were to consider the defendant the innocent man represented by his learned friend. Ott that day when her Majesty was surrounded by dangers that almost reached her life, the defendant had describ ed her as abandoned to the utmost profligacy; a fit in mate for a prison, and deserving of a degrading puish mein. inflicted only on the most notorious criminals He would call their attention to the strong language of the libel, and leave it with the jury to say if were nut of the foul, infamous description charged in the informa tion.—" A woman devoted to Bacchus as to Venus."— t was false ; he would confidently assert it to be an un founded libel. lie did not find itt any of the charges which had been brought against her Majesty, that she was " notoriously devoted to Bacchus ;" he had indeed heard the filthy whisperings that were abroad, but he treated them as they deserved. " Shall such a one as would, if found on our pavement, be committed to bride well and whipped, be held up in the light of sulfa:title, innocence?" "'here was a coarseness here—a degree of personal bitterness that did no credit to the heart of any mat:. The contrasting her Majesty with her daughter, iv thie same paper, also went beyond any thing of hu ntnn he had ever heard. The learned seijeant made some further observations on the libel, and con eluded with enforciog upon the jury to find the defend aiit guilty. judge in his address to the jury, principally di rt CIVIi their attention to injustice of prejudicing the pub lie mind a , ,minst a person charged with an ()Hence. The (Settee of the &fetid flit was precisely of this description —and it was his duty unequivocally to state, that he considered it a libel. The jury deliberated a few minutes, and returned a verdict of guilty, hut strongly and imaniumusly recom mended the defendant to . the clemency and consideration 01 the crown. The judge said, that he should take care that their recommendation should he made known in the proper quarter, On Thursday es•euingJohn Icrin. Eq. of Roe-head. left Huddersfield, soon alter seven o'clock, mounted Upon a spirited horse, and, as was his practice, was riding at lull speed. When lie bad got about two miles and a half from Huddersheld.:mt his way home, he met a horse and chaise travelling with company from Leeds to Huddersfield. The night was not particularly dark, but the violent speed at which he was riding p o bahly prevented him I .liserving the approach or the vehicle and his horse, which took the wrong side of the ro.d, coming iu coidact with the other horses, he was disown by the concussion from his seat, and fell with his head agaiiist the corner of the chaise, with such fatal violence as tooccicsiou his ium.edtate death. TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER 4SSIZE ELLIGENCE. -4110- SUSSEX. froastram, M A Rot 26.—The rr , izes for this county cn 1111 l tented here to,luy before the Lord Chief Baron Richards, on the Croon Side, and Mr. Baron Wood on the Civil Side. in the Crown Court the ealender contains tiS prisoners 30 of whom ore cloaked with capital offeiices.— On the prisoners;, Ci,il Side there sire ri causes entered, tour of which ureexcise provectitirow for u•saiiilts, &e. The assizes arc not expected to finish before ‘Vediresdity evening. CIVIL. SIDE. PAUL. V. DIDDLE. This was an action oil the case against the defendant, for riding his horse against the plaintiff's wile, when in come quence of the injury she had sustained he was put to great expense in her rare, and was if...prised of the comforts of her society for the space of several months The case wasla substance this :—The plaintiff was n cloth worker, in a large way of business, residing in Coleman street, London. The defendant was also n native of London. and described rer ii gentleman m respectable circumstances. In the month of July last, the plaintiff 's wife being afflicted ith rheumatic gout in nice of her wrists, was sent to Brighton by her husband, for the benefit of sea bathing,. She took lodgings for a fortnight, in ireat Ritssell-street, in that town. On the 25th of July, site was returning home in the evening, about eight o'clock, in company with a young lady, named Bevern, lifter a walk, and in crossiog the street, near her own bodging,, herself and companion acre knocked down by the defendant, who, riding on a gal low ay, at the rate of between seven and tight miles un hour, rode against and separated them, the horse's shoulder coming in contact .with the left side of Mrs. Paul. Mks "Severn sustained nu other ildury than a little friglr., but rs. Paul fell senseless a ith her face on the ground, :Old when she was raised slit was cart led to her lod,,ings in strong hysterics. Medical assistance was Immediately procuredA but her disorder turned to complete lunacy, and it was necessary to resort to the straight waist real, and, in a complete suite of mental derangeinent, she aas delivered of her first child, of a hieb she was far advanced in pregnancy at the time of the acci dent. Six mouths had completely elapsed before she was restored to saint y and health, during which period her hus band had been put to extra expenses of medical and surgical advice, that and dry-nurses, &c. amounted to &l.—Various histances of insanity were metitioned, such for instance, as her desiring her batty snout after it was born to be Bums on the tire, and jumping out of lied in her straight waistcoat to effect that object. It alleged in age' avat ion of the defendant conduct, that when the accident happened, be still continued riding on at the same rate, until several spec tators excluived, " shame ! shame I" and that he ought to be knocked oft his horse for riding at such a rate round a corner; but it appeared that he stow its soon as the rapidity of hi- horse's paces would admit, but there was IM evidence that any solicitude fur the misfortune was afterwards ex pressed, The ph.intilf made out a clear claim to the amount of 344. independeetly of the " quod consortium ami sit." Mr. Marryatt addressed the Jury in mitigation oh damages, and suggested that the lunacy under which the plaintiff's wife laboured, was au het editat y complaint, hastened by the natural alarms attendant ou pregnancy, and not to be attributed to the accident %shalt was the supposed cause of action. No witnesses were called for the defendant. The Jury after deliberating. about a quarter of au hour, found a verdict for the plaintiff for 3 01. only. CROWN 6111E.-•-11ANC OF CNOIAND PROtiCCUTIONII. Hannah SeWry and Margaret Rice pleaded Gildty in the minor (offence of kimoingly having forged Bank of LEN/land !LACS in their possefeinm _ Chalks liarhow, a man of respectable appearance and of cultivated mind, %%as indicted for a burglary in the do el ling-hour of Tirtn..s Harrison, at Rye, io the night of the 10th of January List, and bfraling silver plate and, other urtielcs' above the value of 101. Mr. Turttin conducted the prosecution. It appeared that the prisoner, a ho lodged at No. VI, Bartietton reel, Lambeth, Surrey, was seen at the house of the prosecutor. who keeps an Inn, on the 10th ofJanuary. On the morning of the 11th it was discovered that the house had been burglariously entored in the night, and the property in question stolen.— Next day, in consequence of suspit any, the prisoner's twig. Was in Lambeth were searched, and almost all the articles stolen found there, together with various implements of house breaking. The prisotier addressed the Jury at comidcrable length with great Ingenuity, and in a Kt) le far sup.rior to persdits usuzilly brou.dtt to the bar of JUliliC(.. lle said that the articles in question had been given to him by a petsuo who owed him money. The prisoner's dialect ans rather exotic, but i.e was stated to lie a native of Scotland. The Jury, under the leurned J udgc% direction, found him Guilty —Death ; but the pro.ecutor recommended hint to mercy, TL ESDAY, M %RC. 27. CROWN SIDE. swat OF-ENGLAND PROSECVTIONS. John Crawte was indicted for knowingly having la his possession three forged Batik of England notes for the payment of 11, each, at Ditehling, iu this county, on the Mb of December last. The facts proved against the prisoner were these ;—ho was a person in Bee habit of attending fairs. On the llth of December last he was at East Grinsted fair ; a farmer hail had his pocket picked nil that day of about 301. in Bank-notes, at the Swan Inn t the mist - met had been one of the company in triad' the robbery was effected, and suspicion failing on hint. he was traced to the White. Lion public-house, where lu• was found in company with another man, who was one of the wituesse4 in support of this prosecution. The farmer who had lost his money, and a friend who was with him sent for a constable, and in the mean time remained in the room to prevent the prisoner going away before the constable arrived, deterining however not to disturb him, unless he attempted to go away. Shortly afterwards the prisoner ruse from his seat, as if intending to have the house. when he was stow and told he was suspected of the robbery. He cheerfully sat down again, and express ed his nil:iiigneAt to wait the at rival of the constable,— There was something however in his maune•r that excited suspicion, and a small bundle, tied tip in a handkerchief, dropped on the dour from the seat where he sat, and from the exact spot. The friend of the farmer who had lust his money, immediately picked the handkerchief up, nod supposing that it contained his notes, instantly seat elied It, but found that h• was mistaken, The handkerchief, however, was round to contain no less than en forged 11. Bank of England notes, and two forged 31. notes of the Andover Danl.. The note► were centupled together, RA If they had been put into a Iwndkerchinf in a great hurry. the wafflers swine, that the hauditett.hief not on the seat when the prisoner rose to go away, and that there was nobody in the room but himself from whom it co old have fallen. The person uho appeared to have been at the some table in company whir the prisoner, swore that he knew nothing of the handkerchief or of the notes, and there was nothing alleged in prejndice of his character. The Lord Chief Baron summed up the evidence in 11:o. case for the Jury, and left it for them to consider whether there could be any doubt that the charge was brought home to the prisoner. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the prisoner not guilty. CIVIL SIDE. There were four Special Jury Excise prosecutions ap. pointed for trial to-day, but when the patiliels were called over it seas round that a full attendance of Special Jut y. men could hot be had, the Grand Jury, many of minim had been summoned as Special Jut tots, not having finished their business. In all the eases, however, seven or tight gentlemen appealed, lint the counsel fur the crone , alter consultation, declined praying a tales in any, and %ids. thew the records nun: next assizes. 110/I , IIAM, AI Alt CII ((hr.—George England, i t Seall.nti, belonging, to his Majesty's ship Severn, employed nu the stuagling prevent v. sets ice, was i.nlicted for the us 1'..1 nittrilet iilJtim•pli Swain, :it Ilastiuga, on the !Silt of Match inst. by shouting him thromi, the holly with a pe4"l, loaded with ponder and bail. a.' primmer tl>n staud eltar;,ed on the coronet', inqui,ition fur the like murder. The interea ts Melt this sass has excited on the toast, purvetelaily iiiiiungq the (WIN mei), is scarcely etc hible. Mr. Adolphus, in tin impressive a.id temperate address to he Jury, opened the cense fur Ow prosecution. The witnesses for the mosecution were nine in number, almost all of them being labourer?, fishermen, or mariners, and they gave their evidence in a manner perfectly free from pr'judice or bias. The case disclosed against the prisoner by their respective testimony, was to the folios' rug eacct On the morning of the 13th of March, between nine and ten o'clock, the boat of the deceased, a fisherman of Ilastings, had ju I conic in frum sea, after being out the preceding night, and aas in the act of being hauled up by a a bulbous to the beach above roll water mark. A partner or, assistant of the deceased, named Tassall, had his back against one of the sides of the boat, and steady ing it on its keel, whilst the windlass was hauling it up, allot the prisoner, one of the crew of the Severe, came up, and said he must watch the heat. Tassel' said, "he so goad as to stop until the boat is above full," meaning full tine mark. The pri. tamer sa;4l, " no, I is ill search tem." Taesell rejoined, " now do stop until the boat is above full ; for if you get on board I can't hold her up." The prisoner said " no, bo simile] search," told itumediately stepped into the bunt. At tl • nt the deceased came round 1111111 the other side of the boat, and asked Tassell w Ilia was the matter I The latter told hint, that in consequence of the man getting into the boat he could not hold her up; upon u hich the dr ecnsed mimed out board the unit, ;eel a tenth, ensued b.lween him and the prisoner. In the scudle they both tumbled out upon the beach. Vi hen the prisoner recovered his feet, he des w his cutlass and attempt, d to strike the deceased, who caught the prisoner's hand as the blow was descending, wrenched the cutlass from hint and threw it into the sea. The des ceased was completely unarmed. After the cutlass was thiown into the sea, the prisoner unbuttoned his jacket, and drew rt pistol, and took held of the deceased ag sill. A fresh scuffle ensued; Inc deceased se. zed the muzzle of the pistol with his hand, and appeared to be trying to prevent the contents from injuring hint, should it go off. In the midst o this struggle, three or four more of the blockademen (lb e Severn's crew) came dun it to the beach from the watch house, and two of them took hold of the deceased, one on each side. The deceased exclaiming with a loud voice that lie %mild go to the watch house with them, or any where else they pleased. At this time the deceased still had ludd of the muzzle of the pistol, and said to the bystanders, " see, tie is going to shoot toe," meaning the prisoner. The men who held the deceased said, " you must go along with us to the watch-house." The deceased said he would go the watch-house or any where else, The prisoner then extricated the pistol from the deceased's hand, and wentlround two or three of the persons is Ito cuclused the deceased, took berate aim al the deceased, and idiot hint through the batty, the muzzle of the pistol not being more than six incite , from him. The deceased exclaimed, " 0 Lord, I'm shut, stag. gered two or three paces, and instantly expired. The de. ceased was a much taller and apparently n much stronger inset than the prisoner. 'then ins co proof that there were any smuggled goods on board the boat of the deceased.— Indeed, it was mrt searched, for after lee was killed this Severn's men retired amidst the todignaut acelamatious of the populace. It was distiuctly proved that there was no attempt to rescue the deceased after he was taken into cus. Ludy. and that he himself did nut oiler resistance a hen seised by the Severn's crew. The prisoner, who appeared to labour under great anxiety during the trial, put in a a :aka defence, in which lio es. pressed his unfeigned sorrow for the melancholy eatastropito which had happened. Five of the Neeern'e crew were then severally examined, and they deposed most seleinely, that the discharge of the prisoner's pistol wets merely accidental; that, having suddenly released hilost If front the deceased's hold, lie stag gered, and on the instant his pistol ant elf. There ss several contradictions in the statemeet int each of the is it 11C11%1N1. some of wlium coutradteteil earl: tither. The Lord Chief Harm) summed up the caw, lie elmicrd that t.. ton... Chute mmdcr, it be an art of iieL. Altalice could out ho virotmed, tit:cl with uut maim': there was 110 murder. Tie Jury rctirod fur about half an hour, arid found the Pri'uner Guilty of Wilful Murder, both on the indictment and I Ite cornorr's The prisoner we: greatly agitated on hearing the verdict s :mil burst into violent grief, The Lord Chief Hamm then addremeil I.itn—" George Eng. laud, a verdict of Guilty has been passed nzainst you, nod it ji my deity to prolll/1111Ce the centence of the law, which I causuit avoid. Hat I have JUG dilliculty, in the face of the country', in saying, that I should 'mime lo ea ghrl trtliz verdict had been the other way. "At present, however, I most pass the genICUCe of than (Prisoner—" My hod, hove mercy upon me!'') " which k,. That you hr taken from lit n - 2e—(Prisuner—" Comide! . . I was in the execution of my duty.") to the place from whence you came, (Prisoner-- Gentlemen of the Jury, prit °torsi& r your vui dint gain-" mail from thence to the place of execution on Friday next, where you are to be hanged moil you use deed—cud way the lord have mercy on sour soal." Pukober-- ,, 01 Gentletnem of the Jury . , pray euns;d;r your verdici again."