The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

.4' 44 Lances having come to the knowledge of the defendants that his character was neither so respectable nor so re sponsible as they had been taught .0 Ireliave, they wai!ed upon him to request that he would give them security for half their debt, promising to Corgive him the remain der, and that in consequence of his refusing so to do, they were obliged to take away the lime for which they had not been paid, and for which they had no apparent prospect of recching payment. On this state of facts the plaintiff brought his action of trespass. Mr. Gurney, in addressing the Jury 14 the defendants, admitted that the trespass had been committed, which would entitle the plaintiff to a verdict, but he would put it to them what damages they would give him under the circumstances disclosed in evidence. He animad verted in strong terms upon the conduct of the plaintiO, and contended that one farthing would be liberal da. nuges in such a case. _ The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found their verdict for the ph ' 'lL—Damages one farthing. NORTHUMBERLAND. MALICIOUS CUTTING. FRIDAY, AUG. i4—George Main, aged 59, was charged with having on Ole £3d day of May last, mali ciously cut Isabella Man, his wife, with intent to mur der her, in North Sh elds. Messrs. Losh and Cresswell conducted the prosecu tion. The prisoner h►d no Counsel. Mr. Losh stated the circumstances, which was not fully proved in evidence. The pi isoner and his wife had heel' married upwards of 30 years, but for some time they had not lived together. On the 33d (lay of May the prisoner came to the house of his wife in the even ing, as she was shutting her doors. On seeing him she cried out " murder." Ilelael hold of her, stretched her ' on a table, and repeatedly attempted to cut her throat.— She held her hands op to protect her throat, and he hands were cut. lie afterwards said that he was exr tremely sorry that he had been prevented from potting her to death. The prisoner in his defence told a long story of his family quarrels. I'V lieu he had come home fron► sea, his wife seemed to lie happy to see him, and he was happy to see her. lle wanted oily to live peaceably and coniftirtably, but she would nut let him live in peace.— On this night he wanted her to let I stay with her and Le convintable with her, but she would not. Ile was 1-1 list . essed and deranged in his mind that he knew not what I.e uid. Ile had no witnesses.—Guilty. /~ Poi( ce. --... MANSION HOUSE. Disturbance in Me Catholic o:wt.—Bight to charge Abney for admission. The beadle of the new Roman Catit.ll - .1 C.iapel, in Moodields, was summoned by the Lord or, int the complaint of Mr. Bromley, a re spectable ci:uzen, oil a charge of having cumuli:led an assault upon him during the N.formance of the service. Alr. Bonnley stated, ant on the afternoon of Sunday last he went to see the ry.r.• Roman Chapel with a child of his. Ott entering tb.e door, he was beset by persons with plates, who demanded a contribution in a manner that was not customary in such places, and he refused to give any thing, particularly as he had no intention of staying, but merely wish d to see the interior of the budding. Ors his entering the Chapel, a person de mandeu three-pence for his admission there, and inti mated, on the demand not being complied with, that the complainant had the alternative of going out, if he did not choose to pay. The complainant answered, as it was a place of public worship, no one had any right to make such demands; he therefore refused either to pay or to retire until it suited him. The dispute occasioned a crowd of the congregation to gather round them, when the complain.„ ant's child expressed that it would be suffocated by the ii heal, and the complainant accordingly, unwillingly ele vated is in his anus. This circumstance appeared to rouse all about hint to a most sesious ferment. They were mostly of the lower class of Irish, and spoke sharply in their own language to the complainant. The organ was stopped, and all was at a stand. Whilst he was thus surrounded, the defendant came up to him, and presenting his mace of office, first desired the COm. plaillatit to pay the money asked by the seat-keeper, or to go out, Toe latter refusing, the beadle seized him by the collar, shook him, and dragged him forcibly out.— other gentlettiets, who were present, and interfered in behalf of the complainant, were likewise ejected in the sante matiner. For the assault which had been eomuutted upon 16111011 e complainatit claimed the inter. feretice of his Lordship, not as a private, but as a public matter, and to show the parties they were not justified either in exacting money for admission, or in forcibly expelling any one who conducted himself peaceably in a place of public worship. Mr. J. H 'liege, of Princes-street, Finsbury-square, stated that lie went on Sunday afternoon to the entrance of the Chapel, whets Le saw the whole of the affray, which he described much in the same manner as Al r. Bromley had done. Another winless corroborated the statement made by the complainant and the last witness. He had himself contended for the right to cuter the Clsapel without pay hug, and, we undetatood him, was ejected. The Beadle in his defence, admitted that he had turned the complaittaut oat, bur. it was as touch to pre serve the peace as any thing else. The fact was, that the founders of the chapel had an outstanding dein, which they wished to pay oft, for which purpose they were under the necesaiiy of raising some money at the doors. The complainant had certainly been told that unless he paid the regular lee he could not be allowed to realism there, and on his refusing he had certainly been loot out, but with no more force than was actually tie ecstasy. He contended that he was perfectly justified in acting as he had dotty, particularly as it was to preserve the peace of the chapel, which had been broken by the conduct of the complainant, whom he charged has'ig acted indecorously. THE NATIONAL REGISTER Several of the assistants and of the congregation came forward in support 'of the beadle. None denied the" principal facts of the case, that money had been dei manded, and that the complainant had been turned ou on refusing. Since it was curiosity and not religion which took the strangers there, they saw no reason why the visitors should not pay , for a comfortable beat, if it were provided tor them. They asserted that the com plainant and his witnesses had brought the whole upon themselves by . their indecorous conduct. This Icd to a warm altercation between the parties, in the course of which the beadle declared, that if he caught the first witness at the chapel again, he would turn I out ni the same manlier as he had done. The Lord Mayor was decidedly of opinion that no one had any right toexact money in a place of public worship. The way to preserve the peace was not to turn out per sons who did not choose to submit to exactions in the manner it had been sworn the beadle had turned out Mr. Bromley. But as the latter brought the matter for. ward on public grounds, and not for the personal assault, he would probably forego a prosecution, if the satisfac tion of an apology were offered. Mr. Bromley said he was perfectly willing to accept of a wrißen apology properly worded. The Beadle pus •ely refused to make any apology white% er. The Lord Mayor then ordered him to find bail to answer for the assault which had beeh sworn to. Tile Beadle having no one present to bail him, was given into custody. AI A R LBOROUG H STREET. Doom's(' Cmit.nosts.—William and Maly Tom linson were brought before G. Farrant, E,l. chatged by me parish officers of St. James's with leaving two chil dren exposed in the street, and deserting them, on the 20th of June, MO.—Mr. Rice, solicitor and vestry clerk, accompanied the parish officers, and it appeared front their statement, that on the day named two infant children of the defendants' (William acid Francis) were left by the mother and another woman suspended front the knocker of the door of Mr. Knight, of Great Marl borough -street, in a basket. The parish took charge of diem, and placed them out at nu rse at Wimbledon, and until within a few days their parents were not known.— Bitt the natural ties of parents to their offspring were not quite extinct in the mother, whose frequent visits to her children as their aunt excited suspicion, and on enquiry being set on foot she was found out to be the motha.— The children were passed to Lambeth parish, where they belong, and the defence of the parents was poverty. They were remanded to St. James's workhouse, until the woman who was with the mother of the children can be brought forward. foosey, who stood charged with defrauding a tnaltster at Faritingham, in Kent, of a quantity of malt, pretending that he was an agent to Messrs Satchel! and Co. brewers, was committed to give 24 hours notice of bail. iidaTON•GAILDED......CHIDD STEOLINItOD Saturday, Martha Dowd. a young woman about 22 years of age, & was finally examined, charged with stealing Louisa. the daughter. of Mr. J. Smith, of Queen Street, Clerkenwell, a child five years of age. About half past seven o'clock on the preceding Sunday evening the prisoner was seen by a young woman to beckon the child to her from where she was 'Wang at her father's door across the street ; the child went to her, and she took her by the hand and led her along Percival Street and Goss/ell Street Road, where she took the child up in her arms, and was walking very fast towards Islington; the child began to cry, and desired her to put her down, as she wished to go home: the prisoner shook her, and told her to hold her tongue; the road was full of passengers at the time, some of whom noticed the behaviour of the prisoner to the child, from which they suspected she was not her own, and she was questioned; she said die child was in her care, and that the was taking it home ; but the child, on being asked, said she did not know the prisoner. that her name was Louisa Smith, and that she lived at 2, Queen Street, which was in a contrary direction to where the pnsoner was going. On the prisoner being searched, they found several pawnbrokers' duplicates for frocks, &c. supposed to be stolen from other children. The pri soner was committed for trial. BOXING. ..m,.11 The battle between Dick Acton, the fighting craftsman, and Ned Evans, the brick-maker, took place on Wednesday last, fur 20 guineas, on the Watford road, and although the rain fell in torrents, the road to the field of blood was thronged with drenched atnateurs of all sorts. Acton is a promising pupil of Eales, and the brick-maker, who had floored all bdure him, was upon such gt.e.l terms with him self, that on -lie evening belbre fighting, he sent a a polite messai,.: his antagonist, for an undertaker to measure him, and have the box ready. Eales and Paddington Jones seconded Acton, and Toni Oliver and Scroggins seconded Evans, who was backed at and 6to 4. It was a good fight of three quarters of an hour, and from the rein and dirt it was nard o tell them apart. In isse Ist round Evans, who was rather the heas:est, rushed upon his adversary inipetuau sly and run him down. Y. There wt 4 , gout, 'wady, and Nun tilheng. Seveisl blows were exchange,' in ' l y, anti both went tliwn. 5. Evans had a mj,lit ..dvautage, and blacked his adversary's eye, but ite receive,' u lv..vv rt,:urn Ulan tile jaw, and made 110111! Grintan" free-, A. a.a yes thrown to a dose. Even on Evans. 4. Evans received a dr utder-ul . in the mark, and he broke g.otmd to recover himsel . .; but In- adversary awake to his r . lir tress, went up to lit a;. , itv i flo3reu lion by a muzzier. 7. There wa. figh mig front exertion, but strew ' Mt gave 1: " on ,0.0. ig 8. A Nid equal lit:lig round, and Acton was 71!;tra 9. I)...iti.My t tuVut • of livalu, whir ~.t Ins lush' ig t, by a BC‘il bit upon the nose, wi-en urup , .d Lid eltanly. 11 was all :•1 favour of Acton of this, as Evans had all the fight L:ken out of h:m, and niny bum' up to become receiver genera,. In the 15 - h round Acton was piping, and Strogi,:ns ^ng out to his 114P11 " oi •;" the watch-word from E:lts wt.," be ready," and so he w: 4. Evans was met by a flui.l hit on the front of the bead, wit,. 11 spoiled Win, and A- mu won the bat- 7 e in linutuuutlb . 279 MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT, .m.mONID In the most forward districts, wheat harvest com menced about the 13th, butjenerally it will be full ten days later, and in the north, September will rather be the harvest month. The quantity of straw is said to be large • in most parts, but from the spring and early part of the lull er being unfavourable, and the subsequent beating down of the corn by the rains, the wheats have received consiilerabls damage, and, it is now said, will not prove an average crop, with the additinsal misfortune of the quality in all parts being more or teas deteriorated by the uiseases consequent upon sucb seasons as the present — mildew and smut. Barley, pulse, and tares, are expected to be full crops; oats more generally ligiu, and the hay harvest, northward, has been also light. After-grass universally plentiful, from the rains which fell last month, benefiting equally the turnips and potatoes, both which are now protnising crops. Of the hops, accounts vary so much, that they deserve little attention , the fair. est presumption may be, that the crop will be fiat as large as at present estimated. Live stock of every kind con• tinues in the utmost plenty, every where fully equalling . the demand at most reasonable and still declining prices. %Vool very (lull in sale in most parts, in others mending ; . notwithstanding, a fin.: sample from Vundietnatt's Land hls lately fetched the extraordinary price of los. 4.1. per lb. a price greatly beyond the hest Saxon or Spanish, air! a most encouraging specimen of production from that IllOn thriving and promising colony. The depression among the tenantry is at no rate mitigated by the pros pect of the wheat crop ; and some over anxious spccu lators go SO far, as to augur an i 111 l of foreign corn iii the ensuing year, an apprehension for which, at present, we can discover very little grounds, even should the crop on the ground fall considerably below au average. Time cultivators on the Continent are under a similar depression with our own, and prices sinkiit4 daily. Their crops have also been infected in a similar manner by atmospheric vicissitudes. The beautiful weather which we have bad for some time past, will prove immensely beneficial to the country. LAMENTABLE AGRICULTURAL CONFLAGRA TIONS. Tuesday last a large rick of new hay on the farm of the Earl of Bridgewater, at Nettleden, near Ashr.dge, liens, having become over heated, took fire, and horn ing with great firmer. soon communicated to an old rick of hay adjointott, and both were consum ed. ‘Vednesday, diUM: eleven o'clock, a fire b.oke not at Warner's Farm, Great Waltham, Essex, occupied by Mr. Thos. Mx occ..stoned by the over-heating of a stack, of hay, containing nearly fifty loads, and which stood a short distance from a barn, in which it continit oicated and did convderable damage. 'l' twi engines ar rived in time to.arrest the progress of the devouring ele ment, otherwise much more valuable property would have fallen a sacrifice. On Tuesday morning last a large stack of hay in the farm yard of Nlr. J. Brown, of Pudding Norton Hall, near kaltenham, was discovered to be on lire,. and hay to the amount of 2001. was destroyed. On Tuesday afternoon a very alarming fire broke out upon the premises of Mr. Richard Brettingbarts, Esq. of Mendham, Stan, near Harleston, occasioned by - hay being stacked in too greets a state. MOW sixty tons tit hay, with stables and sheds, fell a prey to the dievourim; element. 'lnc halt which had caught fire, was pre served by the timely aid of the engines. Ott Thursday se'unight, at eleven o'clock at night, in consequence of heating too sii)1C1111y, a destructive iitc broke out in a large and valuable hay-stack on the pre mises of W. MA9OIO, Esq. of Necion, Norfolk. Pre cautions had been taken to cut and fag Ant the sante, but from the quantity of narrow leafed plantain the hay con tained, the evil, it is thought, continued to augment, and finally threatened the destruction of 4401 worth of fine new and old hard land hay. A fire of a very singular but alarming description was occasioned at Camdown, Essex, on Monday last, from one following circumstance :—A person %%Mr held in his hand a bunting glass, directed a child to put a piece of parr :IA Mist a barn, opon which he brought the s , an's rats to hear in a manner which set the paper nit fire, when that part of the barn being much covered worn moss, the blaze was cot 1111 l tmicated to the th itch ; anti and thei barn with a stable adjoining were thas tit; illy consonted. The Rocliford engine arrived on the spot shortly after, tut owing to sonic defect it was rendcurl useless. A out midnight on Satnrclay last, some abandoned person set fire to a large hew heist-hovel, which was covered with a thJusand faggots and several loads of strap, in the farm-yard of Mr. iNin. When, of Threck ingham, Lancoltislitre ; priwideht , illy the fire betnt dis covered early, was prevciw,l spreading to the oilier pre mises. Tiiere is reaso.l in simpose the fire was the dia bolical act of an incendiary, in consequence of a divine which had arisen the day Wore respecting the employ ment of Irish labourers. An instance of the predVection of rats for strong ale occurred to an innkeeper of Stirling. lie had, about. six weeks rgo, placed on the fluor of an old malt kiln a 30 pint cask of ale, to bring it in a fit state fl , r bottling. To his astoaishinent, on going to the cask on Wednesday last, he found it nearly empty, for the cork was vilibled away to a small shell. which only remained in the cask. The innkeeper had fr;:quently seen the rats in merry groups, frisking and gambolling about an adjoining grannary, but never dreamt that they had made themselves groggy with his happy ale. 'Day had the sagacity to make a small hole at first, awl to enlarge it as required, for it did nut appear as it any of the ale had dropped on the door. - -ar '~ A fe"