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

refused licences; he had no book with the transcript of the statement respecting these houses. It was not a matter of Inquiry among the magistrates, that if one li cence was to he discontinued, which it would be proper to suspend. On the 3d of September, Mr. Seller and Mr. Cotterell were requested to go and look at the pre mises. lie was present on the 18th, in the year NIG, during the whole of the meeting. lie heard Mr. Seller and Mr. Couirell make their report respecting the stile of the house. They stated, that his tap-room was large and commodious. lie did not recollect that he said the man who managed the tap-room had been discharged- He did not recollect they said the machine for drawing the beer was removed into the liquor shop. They stated that Mr. Meek was ready to make any alteration in the premises the magistrates required. He did not know they said he was the most respectable publican in the parish, but they said something to that effect. After this discussion, and before Ike skew of hands, Mr. Meek was called in. He was not asked about the man who had the care of the tap-room. lie was not required to make any alterationi in the premises. Witness did not know whether lie uttered to produce his brewer's and distiller's books. oikred to prove his trade in spirits was less titan in beer. Sir N. Conant left the room after the discussion. The petition of Mr. Meek, of the Green Man, St. John's-lane, hr the renewal of his licence ' was read.— The petitioner stated the circumstances un der which he bad tarried on his business. lie stated that his licence hail been withheld without assigning any cause. lie attlibuted this to some misunderstanding, and expressed a hope that an invest:oMo might take place. Ile prayed at the satin.' time to have his licence ri.newed. Several housekeepers, and the Minister of the parish, certified Mr. Meek to he a person who had always con ducted his house properly. Mr. Ilullah was then called back, and being again questioned by Mr. Sea Hen, he said Mr. Wigrant told him that Barclay's people would repent interfering with their trade. Re-examined by the Solicitor-General.—He said he did not leave W 'grim and Co. under a charge of defi ciency in his accounts. He did nut Inhere Mr. Wigram dismissed him. He did as sonic great men do—he re signed. There was a deficiency in his accounts of 36!., but he had a balance to receive when he left them. Mr. Wigram insinuated something he did nut like, and he gave tip his book to Mr. Lucas. Mr. ‘Vigrani called agaiii, said, he could not recollect that he dismissed Mr. Ilultalt, but lie remembered say ing he should not collect for them any more. The Solicitor General addressed the Jury on the evi dence of Mr. Hullah. It was for them to decide between the statements of Mr. Hullah and Mr. Wigrant, recol lecting that the first was a discarded servant. Mr. Scarlet, in reply, expressed sonic surprise that Mr. Lucas had not been called to contradict Hullah. Lucas had a conversation with Hullah, and he could have proved what that conversation was. The principal charge against the magistrates was, that they conspired ss ith certain brewers to deprive Mr. Meek of his licence. It turned out that a brewer might go down to a magis trate' and recommend him to grant a licence. '['lira Lord Chief Justice summed up the evidence, and told the Jury, that nothing but proof of corrupt motive on the part of the magistrates ought to induce them to find the defendants guilty. At eleven o'clock the Jury returned, when they deli vered a verdict of Guilty upon the last count against the defendams.—The trial lasted eleven hours. FRIDAY, MARCH 1. STEED V. WHITCHURCH AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the assignees of a bankrupt, named Rood, against the defendants, who are large brewers at Salisbury, to recover property to a large amount which they he had received from the bank rupt, with a knowledge of his insolvency, and whilst he was in contemplation of bankruptcy. It appeared that Rood, who lived in Iligh-street, Portsmouth, spe culated extensively in public houses. lie was proprietor of a number of houses, and the defendant having sup. Rood beer, took mortgages upon nearly all the property Rood became a bankrupt in 1820, ane the assig nees baring reason to believe an undue preferen c e h a d given to defendants, and that they knew Rood was ad vancing rapidly to bankruptcy when they took his mort gages, brought the present actum. A number of letters which passed between Rood and the defendants were put in and read in support of the case. It appeared from this correspondence, which biassed Jong before the bankruptcy, that Rood was not punctual in his payments, and frequently in a state of emliarraisinetit. It also appeared that the assignees could nut collect property enough to work the Commis sion, the al fairs of the bankrupt having been so despe. rate. After the cause had proceeded some kngth, the par ties agreed to settle the question. Tue plaintiff:: were allowed a cer.nct for 20,0001. damages, and the d .fend ants were not to give up the mortgages.—file Jury ac cordingly gave a verdict for 20,0001. NETTS •. INCE. The Solicitor General stated the case for the plaintiff. Ile said the plaintiff and his wife had been in the service of the defendant, who was a g.ntleman that had ac quired a large fortune during a long residence in India. The plaintiffs' services appeared to give the defendant perfect satisfaction down to the month of °eel:artier, when they were dismissed, and the defendant two or three days after applied to Bow-street pollee-office for a warrant against them, out a charge of having stolen some trinkets. A warrant was in consequence granted, and the 'dames residence searched, but none of the articles alleged by the defendant to have been stul from I • were Memel. The plaintiffs were brought in custody to the defen dant's house, who was informed by the tillicer, that after the most diligtmt search, he had not been able to dis cover any of the stolen property. Ttie defendant still persevered in charging the plaintiffs with the roblyery, in consequence of which they were taken to the watch. T.I:IZ NATIONAL REGISTER house, it being then Saturday night, where they were kept till two o'clock on Monday, when the defendant attended in support of the charge, and after a full inves tigation before the magistrate, the complaint was dis missed. For the injury sustained by the plaintiffs, from this wrongful act of the defendant, he now sought com pensation at the hands of the Jury. John Bleksley, a Bow-street officer, stated, that he was sent to search the plaintiffs' residence on a charge of their having stolen souse trinkets fron► the defendant, did not find any of the articles he went to search for.—The plaintiff and his wife, and a little girl of the name of Jane Plume, accompanied him to Mr. I nee's house. It was then ten o'clock on Saturday night. Ile told Mr. Ince that he had not found any of the arti cles he was searching for, but that he found several other articles that might have been pilfered, such as tea and sugar and mould candles. Solicitor General intimated Isis willingness to take a verdict for nominal damages. Mr. Scarlett, fur the defendant, consented. The Jury, by the Chief Justice's direction, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Dameges, One Shilling. GREIDORY ♦. SMITH. This was an action against the defendant to recover 371. the amount of a tailor's bill. It appeared that the defendant, who is a coachtnaker in the Ldgware•road, had been in the habit of giving orders for clothes for himself and family. llis son, who drove a tilbury, and was one of the youths of fashion, was allowed to call upon the plainlift to adorn his person. The bill in question was for fashionable apparel made (or the son, and the question was, whether credit had been given to young Smith or his father. It was proved that the father in one instance gave an order to supply his son with a suit of black, and under all the circum stances a verdict was found fur the plaintiff—damages for 371. OLD BAILEY SEBSIONS. MONDAY, FEB. 25.—W. Pegg was capitally indicted for violating the person of a female child, under ten years of age. After the evidence, which was of a nature we cannot report, had been gone through, Mr. Justice Best said, it was impossible not to have perceived hours ago that the evidence must fail in pro ducing the conviction of the prisoner; hut he (Mr. Justice Best) had thought it better that the time of the court and jury should be consumed, than that it should be said a case of tins importance was prein timely stopped. His Lordship ordered the prosecutor's expellees to be paid. The Jury then returned a verdict of—Not guilty. 'There were no trials of any interest 011 Tuesday and Wednesday. THURSDAY, Frs. 28.—John White, a respectable lonising matt, aged 42, was indicted for fraudulently and by false pretences obtaining a large quantity of goods from Messrs. 'Cliruer and Co, wholesale woollen drapers, in Aldermanbury. It appeared, From the evidence of several witnesses, that in July last the prisoner went to the warehouse of Messrs. Turner, and said ite understood that they were manufacturers of woollen goods, and as he had been appointed to the situation of colonial purveyor, he wished to deal with them, and should give them considerable orders. lle gave them a card, on titil;ol was written, J. White, Colonial Purveyor, No. '29, Bow-lane," and stated that he held the appoi 11111 l ent through the interest of the Duke of York ; that if Messrs. Turner chose to supply the order, they would find it worth their while, and as a proof that what he represented was true, he :hewed them au ins (lice of goods which he had been purchasing from Messrs. Townsend and Brown, in Cheapside, and said he would refer Messrs. T. to those gentlemen, if he should conclude any bargain with them. The next day an order, signed "John IViiity," was re ceived by Messrs. Turner, to deliver ttic goods which had la,eit selected. They then thought it ',toper to inquire at Messrs. Townsend and Brown's, who said the prisoner had bought goods of them to the amount Of between 3 and 4001. and he was recommended to them by a person of high respectability. In two or three days afterwards the clerk of Messrs. Turner called upon the prisoner, and in some conversation the latter said that he sent Ins goods down to Chatham every three months, and that they were examined and passed in two or three days, and the money was remitted to hint immediately by the Governor. Upon the faith of all these representations, Messrs. Turner supplied him with IiVOOS to the amount of more than I sul. W. Hill, lisq. chief clerk to the Treasury, Capt. Bart ley, stall' captain of the depot at Chatham, and another gentleman, were called to prove that the prisoner held no office under Government, that he had no authority to procure guoda for the Colonies, and that them was no such situation as colonial purveyor. Mr. Broderick addressed the Jury for the defendant. The Common Sergeant summed up the evidence, and the Jury Mond the prisoner Guilty. lie W3b sentenced to seven years' tr inVOrta,iol7. THY. ISKIDGE•STREET SOC/Ent P. CARL/ LE'S SHOPMEN. FRIDA r, NlARcu I.—This evening, at five o'clock, a Loudon Jury were sworn, and alier a trial of no interest the lour shoputen of Catlisle, Windy, VullipleW, Biltklay, and a man wnuse name is unknown, were put to the bar, charged with publishing a seditious libel, and the Jury were charged won the delivery of the prisoners in the usual mainlCr. Air. Adolphus said, he understood that Vamplew, who was first ma the list for trial, W4lllllllderellded by Coun sel, and as llolm 5, the second in rotation, was to have the benefit of the talents of his learned Mewl, Mr. Pren• dergast, he was willing to take Holmes first. Mr. Murray, the lion. Sec., whispered something to Mr. Adolphus, who iotutediately 11,11‘1" But as Vain plew is first on the list, illy Lord, perhaps it would tie better to proceed with hnu, though 1 snould have liked to have had the first case defended by Counsel.' 71 Vamplew remained at the bar, and the others were removed. Mr. Adolphus then stated the case, and Mr. W. Payne, clerk to the magistrates at Guildhall, produced the pamphlet, which had been left in his care. Robert Duke swore, that he purchased the pamphlet in question from the defendant, in the shop, 55, Fleet. street. Cross-examined by the defendant.—He had received a pound in money for his trouble in purchasing this pam phlet, and for several attendances. He called in the morning first, and defendant said he had not the book. Witness did not say on that occasion, " Why, you are not so timid as to give up already, are you i" Defendant—Have you read the pamphlet? Witness-1 have read part of it. Defendant—Has what you have read produced any evil effect upon your mind? The Common Sergeant-1 cannot permit that question to be received. You are not charged with producing any evil effect upon his mind. l'honsas Jamings, a clerk in the office of Mr. Murray, the solicitor, produced a copy of the placard which ap peared on the window of Carlile's shop the day after the apprehension of two of his shopmen. When the libel, as it was set out entire, had been gone through, the officer was proceeding to read the different portions of it as they were set nut disjunctively, when The defendant said he thought there was no necessity for occupyinz tile time of the Court by reading the tie:- junctive portions of the libel, when the whole had been already read. The Common Sergeant said, he would not allow the defendant to 'admit any thing which might prejudice himself. There might he some variation yet (Intersected • between the libel, as it was set out in the record, and the original pamphlet, and it was therefore to his advan tage that the whole should be read through. The defendant commenced nis address to the Jury at a little before nine, with au eulogy upon the trial by Jury, which had not yet been destroyed, which was almost the only protection now remaining to English men, and which, thank God, yet existed unsullied, its spite of the sophistry of paid advocates, and corrupt judges, and their endeavours to overturn it. He com plained of being prosecuted for the publication of theolo gical or political works, contending that free discussion on those points was the privilege and birthright of Eng lishmen. He entreated the Jury to interpose between him and his prosecutors, who, he said, dared not skew their own faces, hot had thrust forward such worthies as Murray, Sharpe, and others, to carry on their sanctimo nious persecutions against opinions which they dared not combat in an open and manly manner. He proceeded, and came to a passage, in which "the Constitutional Association" was mentioned, and was in terrupted by the Common Sergeant, who said, the Court knew nothing of such an Association. He went on, and in his continents reflected on the character of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, and contended that Carlisle had beets unjustly immured • in prison. The defendant, after many interruptions on the part of the Common Sergeant, having closed Isis address to the Jury, The Common Sergeant, at ten minutes to 1 t o'clock, commenced his charge to the Jury. He concluded at one o'clock, and at ball past one the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty upon the general count. The prisoner was immediately sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Giltspur-street Coupler, and at the end of that period to enter 11110 his own recognizance of 5001. for his good behaviour during life. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. MONDAY, Fan. 25.—Edward Shepherd and Jas. Smith were indicted fur the double offence of uttering, and hav ing in their possession, counterfeit money. Robert Hall, a waiter in the employment of Mr. Davis, a licensed victualler, living In Chelsea, stated, that the two prisoners came to his master's house en the 11th lust. and called fnr a pint of porter, in payment for which the prisoner Sundt tendered a shilliuz, which, upon examina tion' proved to be counterfeit. Mrs. Davis sent it back, and Slieplicri: gave another, out of which lie received the change. Both prisoner., on going away, went to the bar, and said they would have "something short," after which Smith gave Mrs. Davis a shilling, whirls proved to be a bad one. Mrs. Davis immediately scot for a constable, who took both the, prisoners into custody, and on searching thesis several bad shillings were found in their possession. Mrs. Davis corroborated the evidence. _ The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, and the Court sentenced each of them to be imprisoned for 12 mouths iu Newg.tie, and to find sureties for their good behaviour for two years. Anne Lewis, Mary Jackson, and John Davis, were con victed fur • similar oftener, and sentenced to a . like pte nisliment. Thomas Smith, an old man who has been for many years in the habit of stealing pewter pots in public houses, was tried upon -two indictments, for con ##### Wog the 'awe offence. He was convicted upon the clearest possible evidence. Tme Chairman (Mr. Omen) said, that he should adopt the plats of whipping for the crime of pot stealing gene rally. and begin with Mr. Smith, %lin had so mach expe rience in the line, and compel him to remember the last tobberi he had committed,—" The sentence of the Cunt t upon you, Thomas Smith," said the Chairman, " that you be, for the first offence, imp' isimed tno months, and well n hipped in the gaol; and for the se coml offence, that Jos be imprisoned tno months, and well whipped." The prisone r seemed nut at all uo fancy flit sentence. Last week a party ut the pour inhabitants of Win farthing, in Norfolk, assembled and went in search of thrashing-machines; they found only one at work, which they took and dragged by loud to Shelfanger, the poor inhabitants ut which parish dragged it to Diss, where they lett it; the farmers in the village promising they would use no more, they dispersed without doing any vie nee or mis chief. ..altuNia... ..,. -.