The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-17 00:00:00

home, his lioa. friend was but w4siing time and strength in opposing it. Ilia lion. friend had done mu c h i n th e cause or reduction and retrenchment—more g ood to the country than any inan who had s4l iu the house for the last 420 years; ;11141 he 1A0411.1 llot 1141 V.! 11111 waste time by try ing ;it what lie could not at tain. lIUMPI withdrew his amendment. A uu•nn'ser observed, Lord Londonderry was receiving a Lager income than the royal duke:; lie wis'ued to know if the noble margaii would give the excess to the public? Lard L(,NI)ONDERRY was not prepared to answer flint question, not expecting it would be put. M... 1111,;;11F. then tirOpfiSell, amendment, that the salary of the Duke of York, as co iiiiii ander in chief, should be reduced luotir It; guineas a day to nine guineas. This amendment svaallegith e4l • Seveial resolutions were agreed to, and the house re sumed. Itrport oil Monday. l'he other tillers were. theta disposed of, and the house adjourned to Monday. FROM TUESDAY A7GII7"S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS, M. Richardson, Kiikoswaltl, Cumberland, butcher. Solicitors, Messrs. Lowden and Co. Clement's Inn. B. Colley, Postnliall, Shropshire, farmer. Sol. Mr., Bigg, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lanc. Griffiths, Swansea, linen draper. Sol. Mr. Price, Lincoln's T. 'Mattllin, Daley, nail ironmonger. Sols. Messrs. Collett and Chancery I.anc. ii. Copley and W. Hhit, Doncaster, ironfounders. Sul. Mr. Bottye, Chancery Lane. W. 'ninon, 11'esthromwich, Stafilirdshire, coal master. Sol. Nr. Whitaker, Broad Court, Long Acre. S. Virtue, Great Yarmouth, inaltster. SJIs. Mes..srs. Swain and Co. Old Jewry. W. Mitorsoin, Scarlmrough. banker. Sols. Messrs. Kcarscy and Co. Bi..hoissgate Street Within. .1. Knight, Ilulifax, Yorkshire, merchant. Sol. Mr. Beckett, Earl Street, Blackfriors. If. Poole, Leeds, grocer. Sol. Mr. Scale, Inner Temple Lane. I'. Herbert, late master of the ship Thalia. merchant. Sols. Nessrs. Osbaldeston and Co. London Street. Penchurch Street: J. Wears, Exeter, currier. Sol. Mr..Nlullock, Gray's Inn. _ _ TETE NATIONAL IitGISTER _ DIVIDENDS. April 6, W. Wilson, Shad w ell, master mariner-6, 11. Foster and W. G. Sharp, Ila , inghall Street. warehousemen-6, .1. I leimning and E. liamblow, Bishopsgate Street, jewellers-16, C C. Doorman, Wellclose Square, su,iiar refiner-6, 11. Stewart, Worcester, wine merchant-2, M. Lawlcdgc, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, upholsterer-2, J. Graham, Birmingham. linen draper-8, .1. Hartley, Manchester, grocer—V..l. W. A. Snuggs and J. Walley, Lime Street, merchants-5, W. Kidd, Newcastle upon Tyne, linen draper--1, .1. Ford, Glocester, pa tent woollen yarn manufacturer-4, P. Alathews, Ilagley, NVorcestershire, maltster-4, W. Wright, Bellbroughton, Wor cestershire, mercer-10, C. l'ratt, Bishop Weannouth, Durham, coal Cope, Bridgenorth, grocer. CERTIFICATES to he granted April 2. J. Jones. Mount Street, Lambeth, linen draper—F.. Kay, Shell:cid, merchant—l. Cooke. Gnaw, Durham, banker—J. Richards, Exeter, cabinet maker—G. Winter, Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, de.der in harness--J. Robinson, Nicholas Lane. merchant—R. %Velister, Bishop %Veen) 1111 l tli, merchant— .l. Myth, Newcastle under Lyme, draper—J. 11. Lloyd's Cofke House, insurance broker—J. Park, Fent:Lurch Street, merchant. Zane pitelitgence. ESSEX. CHELMSFORD, MARCM 11.—The assizes for ibis county couHnenced here this day, before the I: en. Mr. Baron Graham. On the crown side, the business is likely to be heavy—already there arc 73 coo tttt itt many of which are for capital offences. The entry of civil causes is expected to be unusually short—there are but venires brought down, and not more than half the causes are expected to be entered for trial. NIAKCH business on the civil side corn. menced this morning before Mr. limns %'ood. Six cases were disposed of to-day. The only case worthy of notice was WILLIS R. THE REV. SIR II B. DUDLEY, BART. This was an action of special arum/psi', to recover the value of certain tanning stock, agreed to he taken flout tile plaintiff (at the valuation of two appraisers). as the outgoing tenant of a farm called Mickley, tie.ir Bra(lwell, valued at 981. lbs. The defendant had paid into court the-suns of .571.105. lout. upon the general money counts. \l r. Marryait and Mr. Chitty conducted the plaintiff's casv, and Mr. G 7 and Mr. H. J. Stephen the defen dant's. Tile whole case turned upon the construction of the lease granted to the plaintiff* of the firm in question, by which it appeared that he had covenanted to expend and lay ow in the last year of his tenancy the straw, &c. pro duced front the crops in the last year. The subject of the plaintiff's claim was the straw, &e. produced in that year, which it was allt- , ed the defendant had agreed to pay for when he quilted the farm, but Mr. liaron Wood was of opinion, that the case for the plaintiff was concluded, by the terms of the covenant, and therefore directed a nonsuit. CROWN 8101. William Arthur Brett, a young man of respectable appearance, much depressed by his awful situatitit, was indicted for forging a cheque triton the banking -house of Messrs. Sparrow and Co. of Chelmsford, purporting to thawit by Mr. Thomas Andrews, in favour of Messrs. Chapman, Stevens, and Wood, for the sum of 2101., (fated the Iotll October, 1821, with intent to defraud the said Messrs. Sparrow sod Cu. Mr. Andrews and Mr. Walcotd condttcttrl the prose cution, and Mr. l3rodrick and Mr. Law the defence. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner had been clerk to Air. Andrews, attorney, of Cogeeshall, who transacted town business with Messrs. Chapman, Ste vens, Ind Wood, attorneys, in London. Mr. Andrews banked with Messrs. Sparrow and Co. of Chelmsford. On the Toth of October last the prisoner presented and received the money for the cheque in question, no suspi• mon being then entertained of its aeIIIIIIICIICO. lie had artfully written a letter, in the names of the payees, to the banking-house, acquainting them that a clerk of the former would call for the money on a certain day. From respectability of the prisoner's appearance, no suspi cion was entertained. Tile furery, however, was soon , s ~~~ • _ ~ _ f T' afterwards discovered; but the prisoner himself, in the month of November, made hi:: appearance at the office of NI env's. Chapman, Stevens, and Wood, and confessed in w. Stevens the fraud which he hail committed, de g that he was tired of life, and insisted on surren dering himself tops:ice. Tile prisoner had indorsed the cheque with a receipt for its amount in the name of Williain Stevens, there rein•! no person of that christian name in the house of the payees. This was a►gued as all objection, which the learned Judge reserved fur the consideration of the twelve Judges. . . . The prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with hia situation, made no defence. The case went to the Jury tinder the learned Judge's direetimis, who found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy, on account of his previous good character. _ _ BANK OP ENGLAND PROSECUTION. MARCH. I4.—W. Turner, a man aged 22, (described in the calendar as a seaman), of resucctable appearance, was indicted Ibr uttering, on the 2d of February last, a forged Bank of England note, for the payment of 51. to one William Millar. at Stansted Mount-Fachet, know ing, it to be forged. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Gurney, Mr. Sergeant Teddy, and Mr. Holland. The prisoner was without counsel. .• _ It appeared in evidence that, on the day mentioned in the indictment, the prisoner was conveyed front London LO Stausted Mount Fuchei, by the Norwich mail.—lle inquired at the ionise of Mr. Millar, the postmaster of the place, who is also a publican, for a letter addressed in into as the rider of Messrs. Jones and Son, of Lon don. Such a letter was found and delivered to him.— The prisoner then ordered a supper and other refresh ments, which amounted to 9i. 6.1. and tendered a 51. note stn paynymt. The publican not having change, a person of the name of Pavit, who was present, said he could give change, and accordingly put down fire sove reigns, and upon receiving the note, he discovered by the feel that it was a forgery, and snatched up his sore reigns again. The prisoner was detained and searched, and no money was found upon him except two penny worth of half pence. Next day he W. 1 ,1 taken before a magistrate, and the account he gave of the note was this —he had received from Messrs. Roblin, the auctioneers, of Covent Garden, a cheque for 3'21. lOs, upon Messrs. Ransom and Co. of Pall Mall, the bankers, in the course of some business he had done with the former, and re ceived for the elteve a Joh note, and the res► in gold and silver; that he had changed the 031. note with a person naunt! Hussey, residing at 33 or 39, Tornmill street, Smithfield, who gave hint the 51. note in ques tion, and a draft for 41. odd, on a Mr. Smith, and that he was emoloved as rider carrying patterns for tlr. Palmer, of B Hatton Garden, and not for Jones and Son, as directed on the letter he had applied for to the postmaster. The case for the prosecution consisted in a contradiction of this statement of the prisoner, shen•msx that he had a guilty knowledge of the forgery. Mr. 1111 l Robins, connected with the house in Covent Garden, was examined, lie admitted that the house had had a transaction with the prisoner by the name of Harrison, (knowing l ' by no other name), in the sale of a reversionary legacy on the death of a woman aged 45. The purchaser of the reversion paid a deposit of 161.16 x. and after deducting Messrs. Rollins' lees, &a. a balance of 1 11. Os. 64. came to the primmer, fur which they gave him a cheque on their bankers, Messrs. Hansom and Co. A clerk from that house proved that the cheque was paid in gold, and a sixpence. Two persons Of the name of J. and Joseph Palmer, both livin,g in Biek-hill, H itton Garden, denied having any knowledge of the prisoner, except by the 114111 e of Harrison, and that he was never employed by either of them as a rider. The occupiers or the houses Nos. 38 and 39 respec tively, in Turninill-street, Smithfield, proved that no person of the name of Hussey, to their knowledge, ever lived in either of those houses. The prisoner, who descrilred himself as a nitive of one of LIM 13ritish colosoies, repealed the same story he load toll the ma g istrates, strenuodsly urged his ignorance that the note was a forgery, and expressed his incapacity to distinguish between .1 genuine and a forged note. The prisoner had applied oil Monday to postpone his trial until this illy, in order to procure the atte n dance of witnesses to establish his innocence, but nobody attend. ed in Ins The case went to the Jury, under the directions of the learned Judge, who left it to them to say, whether, under the circumstances of the CaV, the note had been tittered by the prisoner with a knowledge that it was a forgery. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the prisoner gmhy—dcath. Richardson was indicted for wilfully and maliciously administering to Susanna, the wile of Thos. and Mary flacon, a certain deadly p tisnn, called copperas, with intent to kill and murder them, at Deb den, on the Lith of January last. Before the examination of the first witness for the prosecution Was closed, the counsel for the prisoner urged the propriety of establishing, ill the first iits•ance, that part of the indictment which charged the prisoner with administering a deadly poison. Now he appre hended that copperas was not a deadly poison. - Mr. Clm, a chymist of Chelmsford, gave it as his opinion, that copperas was not, properly speaking, a deadly poison ; and that the stomach would reject a dose sufficient to produce d e a t h, b e f ore i t cou ld have that effect. Two notices, if dissolved in liquid, and retained in the stomach, might produce very serious conse voices, but he was out sure it would occasion death. Dr. John 117addeley, a phys.cian at Chelmsford, gave it as his opinloo, that two drams of copperas would produce death. Out his cross-examination, he admitted, he was con. fo.miliotr verditris with copperas. Ile was ignorant that copper did not enter into the compostlims of copperas.— The learned physician's evidence W 43 4 little confused and uusatisac tory. • . _ Mr. Baron Graham being of opinion that the eviden ce as to the deadly property of the drug alleged to have been administered had railed, directed an acquittal.—Thrs Jury found the prisoner not o noilty. E‘l CASTLE. FIRING AT A TARO E.T.—MANst•AuGHTER.—Mr. Thus. B a rnet was indicted for the o,l3lldill%iller of J.u. Miller, the \Varkworth carrier. Mr. Cookson, for the prosecution, stated the circum stance of this case as detailed in the evidence. \Vin. Ilindhan , _th.-1 am a carrier from Alnwick, and was coming to Newcastle on the north turnpike road with James Miller on the morning of the 22d.linnary., When we gut to the Moor edge, about eight o'clock, we heard the firing of guns. Miller continued with one a considerable time, and then went on to his own caits ; the horses were frightened. I saw him afterwads lying dead on the turnpike-road. James Laidltr.-1 live at Jesmond. I was coming in a cart across the Town Moor into Newcastle, between eight and nine o'clock in the taunting of • the 2541 Jan. last. NVhca I was about 200 yards from the Bull's Park, I saw a man on the western part of the Park pre sent a gun and fire. I saw two other men with him.-1. only heard one shot. They were about 50 or sixty yards frotu the wall, and about 30(1 from the road. 1 could not see distinctly etiongh to tell who the people were.— I c me down immedb.tely and found a man lying dead tni the road. The time between my hearing the goes fired and seeing the body could not exceed five minutes. I saw no other firing. L'here were several people col- • lected about Miller's body. Geo. Scott-1 am eleven years old, I eome into New castle with milk-barrels ; I was coining in between- seven and eight o'clock in the morning of the 2'2i January last, and met Mr. Burnet and another young man on the parade g round, with each a gull. Tney were going towards the 'lowa Moor. I ant sure Mr. Burnet is the person; 1 think he had on then a blue dress: he had a black and white do 7 with him. 11. Cramlington, E-q.—l am a magistrate. Mi. Bur net was brou4ht to my house, I told him a man had • been killed on the Moor edge that morning by a bullet. and I asked hint if he had been firing with ball on the Moor. lie said he had. 1 asked hint where he was• standing, and in what direction he fired. Ile said he was standing near Fenwick's mill, which is nu Inc west side of the Bulls' Park. I asked him how their target W 33 placed, a n d he said it was fined on the wall of the Bulls' Park. I then remarked to them on the criminal want of caution in firing near a public road, where people were continnally passing. Mr. Hornet replied, that pas sengers would be sufficiently protected by the wall of the Bulls' Park, and that if a ball should overtop the wall, it would form a curve and fall so as to hurt novae. 'Toe width of the Bolls' Park is, about Cm yards. Thus. Gem town surveyor.-1 have measured the Bull's Park front east to west, and the distance is exactly 170 yards, I can't tell how far a musket ball will catty. Mr. Cramlangtou recalled, can:, three you's& mert • were brought before him. Mr. ‘Vihiass!.—Then, I submit, my Lord, there is no case fur the Jury, unless it be shown who actualiy fired the gun. la.taut:c fur any thing we know to rant i contrary, the teat of the party might oppose &Ste nring,..• and hare no inure to du in countenancing it t ban L have. Mr. Justice Baylev.—My idea is, that they were (trim; at a target—they were there tOr a counnwa purpose, and the act of the whole. licveral gentlemen gave Mr. B. an exceeirt character in general, aid for humanity and good nature in parti cular. His Lordship recapitulated the evidence, and observed, that he felt no hesitation in saying, that the firing at a target, when death might possible ensue, was au illegal act. The case was very different with so:i:iers, who used the exercise only in situations where no aveideut could happen. If the Jury were satisfied from the evi dence that the deceased met with his death either from a ball fired by Mr. Burnet or by any of his party, it wai their duty to find a verdict of guilty. %Volt regard to the observation that Mr. Carmlington had not cauticm ed him against criminating himself. that was certainly - the usual practice, but it was left to the discretion of this maaisirate. The Jury returned a verdict of--guilty, with a re. • commendation to mercy.—}le was discharged on en tering into recognizmces himself in 1001. and two sure ties in 501. each, for his appearance at the next assizes, to receive the sentence of the court. BOXERS.—The much talked of great match, so long desired by Martin, is at length made between himself and Randall, for the enormous sum of 1,000 guineas, to take place in September. Martin has his summer work cut out, as he is matched to fighi; Ab. Belasco (the best Jew fighter since Mendoza,) on the 7th of Mav, for 200 guineas, and fifty aide is deposited. The tight with Randall, made on Monday night, is of more interest than- any which could be made, and we have made the fol- - lowing extract from the article& of agreement : • Monday, March 11. John Randall, and John Marlin agree to fight in a'24- feet milt, a fair stand up bottle, half initiate time, for 300 guineas a side, and a bet of 700 gtruicas; 150 gainer:4 ive put down this day in tile hands of 31r. Blond; anti tl farther deposit of a side to be made good at 51r. Franklin's, on Tuesday, the 4th of J 4111? ; and the whole stake to be made 7ooil on Tuesday, jiffy •e, at Spring'. and Mr. Bland to be stake•hulder. The ;dare of to be maned by Mr. Jackson, and the fr4tlrt to take place on 'Tuesday, septemher 3. An it , ispire to be named by each party, and Mr. Jackson to appoint a referee. Slencit, N. 13.—1 f either party do tint- make good the atake9, et cording to agteetneut, the defaulter to forfeit at de pwit. l'he mGney was put down by the deputieß, Lunt rut ku:kenture presentiu the bulgy/oath -- I -' . .._. ~-. 87 ~~