The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-02 00:00:00

278 Inqued coaliumrd from paget7s.) minded the soldiers to tire. I beg to say, when Captain Oakes arrived I considered myself under his command, and if he had given the word of command to fire I should not have heard it, 114 he was too distant from me. I re gale d my men about ten initiates after we arrived at Cum berland-gate. 1 gave them a pint of beer each. I saw the soldiers tire in the air. butt I could not tell any parti culler individual that fired. The whole body fired.—l was mot at all alarmed. I saw the stones come from the wall, at the corner of Park-lane ; (nicks came from all parts of the wall. I taw bricks pulled down bon' the wall in Oxfold-street, by the people, and also in the inside of the palisades of the Park. The stones were thrown to the right and left of Crititherlanahs eeeee t dr.!) , came from all quarters. The firing did nut commence until a consoler able time alter we we were assailed with bricks and stones —I think about seven or eight minutes. I did not see the hrat shots fired, as the firing commenced near Tylown gate. My party were pelted before Capt. Oakes's patty e. tived. My men did not fire before Captain Oakes's came up. I cannot say that my men fired at all, because when Captain Oakes's party came up they were so hater mixed that I could not tell which fired. I have mounted guard at the Horse Gnarls ►ince the 1-ills, but I cannot tell on what day. You may know by referring to the Roaster. Mr Blakie suggested that several persona were waiting outside who loonght they could identify Mr. Gore, and he would submit whether they should nut be permitted to have a view of him. all. Adolphus said, if Mr. Gore was sent out to be looked at, he hoped lie would be protected, otherwise he would a 11.1bie to personal insult. It would be a moral assassination to send hint out without protection. The evidence was then read over, and Lieut. Gore signed it—and bowing to the Jury, he departed. Ile left the house, we believe, immediately after. lie is a tall hambiottie young man, or pt eposse-sing appeal slice. William him!, the snail woh one arm, who was also examined on Wednesday, was called in, and again ,wor n, Ile began with saying—. 1 ti•el notch aggrieved that, although the person to whom 1 etauld swear was in this roam, I was not pet mitted to come in and face hint.-1 have seen a person in !Ina Image today, whom I can swear to he the Man who shot Honey. I can swear that he was the man that tired the pistol, the contents of which I can not say whether they were meant for me or Honey. I saw hint in this room through the window. He was sitting near about where 1 am now, either in this chair or the next to it." SAM. Green sworn.—l have been examined before.— I have to-day seen the person whom I iota* shot Honey. I saw hint at the door, and 1 saw kiln come out from this room. When this witness finished his testimony, it being 11 o'clock, the Coroner adjourned the intim st until 2 o'clock on Monday next. FROM TUESDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS. R. Alarmism Love Lane, cloth factor. Solicitors, Messrs. 'Smith and Co. New Basimt,thall Street. .1. Ashton. Knutsford. Cheshire, veterinary surgeon. Sole. Messrs. Blackstock and Co. 't eniple. W. Greenhou-e, Duillow, tanner. Bois. Messrs. Clarke and .Co. Chancery Lane. A. W. Jones, New Brantford, com merchant. Sole. Messrs. Tonne and Co. Craven Street, Strand. T. Bedford, Bristol, stationer. Sols. Messrs. Bridges and Co. Red I.ion Square. R. Seaton, %Yentbridge, Yorkshire, cotton spinner. Sol. Mr. Blakelock. Sergeant's Inn, Fleet Street. J. P. Hillary, Mark Lane, wine merchant. Sols. Messrs. Reardon and Co. Corbet Court, Gracechureli Street. J. Bell, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, victualler. Sok Mr. Jones, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Uwe. CERTIFICATES to be gnuded Sept. la. J. Stocks, Aldersgate Street, saltsinan—G. Fowler, Culltunp ton. Devonshire, hosier—S. Hardwick, Birmingham, builder— N. Menet, Worcester, brewer. DIVIDENDS. Sept. I, W. H. Tucssly, High Street, Southwark, iron liner chant-12, J. Garton, Kingston upon Hull, lighterman-25, 'l'. Little, Newcastle upon Tyne, linen draper-19, W. H. Mar shall, Holum on Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, miller—lB, W. Kirk and W. Broughton, Loads, merchants—la. M. Fisher, Leeds, merchant-20, T. Stammers and W. S. Button, Sudbury, Suf folk, and T. Odkin, Colchester, Essex, luilkrs-19, W. Twin, Sheffield, plumber. On the Ilth instant, a curious fish, supposed to belong to the species known among sailors by the name of Johnny Dory, was found entangled behind the pailing of a sea-fence, below Dunmore harbour, Scotland. It must have got into this situation dur ing high-water. When found, the water had left it, and it was heard bleating like a lamb, which it continued to do till the fis:ier who first made the discovery killed it. It was carried to Dunmore house. It weighed 42 pounds, was three feet long and 20 inches broad, The colour of the fish was black, with large whitish spots on the sides, without any scales; the eves as large as those of a horse; the mouth quite round, without teeth ; and so large as to admit a man's hand freely ; and round the extre mity of the mouth is a folding of the skin, resemb ling a swine's snout. The belly only was fat, and and the flesh resembled veal in taste. A person from the West Indies described it as a native of that country; that he had many, but none nearly so large Sinking of the Liverpool and Tranmere Steam Packet.—On Friday winning List, when this packet was just leaving the pier -head, fur Tranmere, it was discovered that the boiler, il•oni whence steam is emitted, had become red-hut, arising, as was pre sently tbund, from its having been emptied of water The passengers already on board were all iinme d4tely disembarked, without the slightest accident having happened to any of them ; and some appre h•asion:s being entertained lest the vessel might take fire from the extreme heat of the boiler, she was scuttled and sunk alongside the pier. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER glfsfstg gintelligence. SURREY. CROYDON, MONDAY, AuGusT 27.—B•NK PROUST]. rtoNs.—William Wigditle was capitally indicted for felo niously uttering, iu true, a forged note for 51, purporting to he of the Governor nod Company of the Bank of England.— There were other counts in the indictment, charging him with it like offence. - . Robert Shearing called and sworn.—Stated he was a horse dealer, and was at Kingston fair on the 13 . 11 of November I ed. lle perceived the prisoner walking through the fair and entered into conversation a ith him. fhe prisoner said, he wi.hed to purchase a hone nod cart. After some bar gaining the a fitness sold him a nurse for 61. 10i. The prisoner paid the motley by giving two 51. notes, receiving the differ ence, and giving an address to Princes•strect, llorselydown; nest morn.ng the witness ascertained that both the notes were forgeries; he instantly repaired to Horselydown, but no such place Ils l'.iaces•streel was to be fuund ; hoarser in a few days witness met the prisoner by accident, and he promised to meet witness at a house, where the business was to have been arranged, but the prisoner never came near the place. Witnets gave information at a I'ulice•ollice, and face, the Union-hall officer, succeeded in apprehending the prisoner. John Painter swore that the prisoner endorsed the notes in his presence, and had the address mentioned by the last wit aess a ritten in them. _ Mr. Lees, the dunk inspector, proved the notes to be for geries in every respect. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, proceeded to cross-examine and recriminate the n ituess Shearing, but nothing that could be of any advantage to him was eluci dated. He then proceeded in a most energetic manner, to protest his innocence of the crime bud to his charge, Mr. Justice Burrough summed tip die evidence, and t 2 Jury found the prisoner Guilty— Death. FATAL Puct sm.—Cooper, the gipsey, who fought with O'Lvary, surrendered before Mr. Justice ltiirrough to take hit trial. The whole of the evidence produced before the Coroner was guile through, and the Jury fraud the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter. Mr. Justice lion ough immediately pronounced sentence of sit mouth's imprisonment on him in Horseinunget-lane Gaol. CIVIL SIDE. CROYDON, AUG. e7.—Gaineg and others v. tang lands.-1115 was an issue out of the Court of king's Bench, to try, first, whether the signature to the warrant of attorney, bearing date ilith April, 1821, for 2141. 13s. purnorting to he signed by the p aintiff,Thotnas Gurney, was false and forged; and second, whether at the time of the supposed execution of the said warrant of attorney the sum of 001. was advanced and paid to the plaintiff by the defendant. . . This case excited conaiderable interest. It lasted from from ten in the morning until seven in the evening. The Common Sergeant, Mr. Chitty, and Mr. 'ninon, conducted the plaintille case; and Mr. Marryatt, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Sergeant 'faddy, the defendant's. A A great number of witnesses were examined on both sides. The prominent circumstances were these :—The plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Gurney, is the son of the Rev. %Valiant Gurney, Rector of at. Clement's Danes, and the defendant is a widow, carrying on the business of a car penter and upholsterer at Epsom. In 182 u the plaintiff set up business as a schoolmaster, at Epson), with a small capital. The defendant had furnished his house, and he owed her 1601. 9s. as the amount of her bill. The plain tiff had become embarrassed in his circumstances, and on the defendant pressing for payment of her account in the spring of the present year, he, with the consent of his (Titer creditors, gave her three bills of exchange for 501. each, payable respectively three mouths after date. These bills having three mouths to run, it was alleged that on the Ifith of April the defendant, accompanied by her son and one of the persons to Whont she indorsed one of the bill went to the plaintiff's house, and prevailed upon him to execute a warrant of attorney in lieu of the bills of exchange, she undertaking to take uu the bills when they became due; that the plaintiff • agreed to do so, provided the defendant paid flown 501. in cash, which suns was to be included in the warrant of aunt ney.— The defendant accordingly paid him 501. and be exe cuted the warrant of attorney in question lor 214. 13s. including the ex pence attending the same. In two days afterwards the defendant entered up judgment upon tne warrant of attorney, and took out an el‘eCUtioll 4gainst the pl efT•ct. When the sheriff's officer went in, the plaintiff declared that he had never executed Lny warrant of mummy in the defendant's favour, and that if she had any purporting to be signed by him, it was a forgety. Upon tins fact being solemnly stated, a motion was made in the Court of King's Bench on behalf of the plaintiff, by the rest of his creditors, fur the purpose of having the warrant of attorney delivered up to be can celled. Ou that occasion the plaintiff solemnly swore in his afli lavit that he had ties er executed the warrant tof attorney in question, and that the signature thereto was a forgery. In this affidavit he was joined by several other deponents, who swore Irons their Knowledge of his hand-writing that the signature was a forgery. On the other hand the defendant and other persons swore so lemnly that the plaintiff hail executed the warrant of attorney, and had been paid 501. as above stated.—Upon these contradictory facts the Court of King's Bench directed this issue to be tried. The substantial issue was, whether the warrant of attorney was or was nut in fact a hugely. The first witness examined was the Rev. \V. Gurney, Rector of St. Cleniei:t's Danes, father of the who deposed that his son is now, he thinks, 27 or '2B Yeats of age. He is SCheol-illastcr at Epsom. lie set up an academy there at :Midsummer, 1618. \Vinoess taught his son to write; brought him up till he nas 14 years of age. Witness hiwaril kept a school till then.— A >ter that time his son went to Suho•square sense'; he is perfectly Semi: Moot unh his son's hand-writing at the warrant or attorney, noW produced, he is perfectly SallsMd that the signatures are not his son's hand-writing. Ile has no instiation in declaring upon his oath that it is not hit sun's perk ))))) ance. lie calls his perform ance, because it is done slowly, and with the appearance of 41141110 U. His sun is nervous and always writes qtackly. Cross-enamined.—After his son left school he became clerk in the invalid-office, in Craven-street, where he staid until 19 years of age. The plaintiff was afterwards in the coal business in Grafton -street, Newman -street. He was married before the age of 21. After a time he retired from business. The fact was, he became hank.. rupt. Witness is not sure he took the commission out against his sun ; he thinks he did not take it out. Upon recollection, he thinks he struck the docket against hint. His son got his certificate about two years afterwards. He was not long in business as a coal-merchant —say a few months. Alter that he went to reside at No. 310, Strand. His estate paid no dividend. His debts did not amount to more than 2,0001. The plaintiff lived a year and a half at Epsom. Witness does not know that his debts there amounted to 12 or 14001. Edward Thomas Holton, brother-in-law of the plain tiff, Robert Durham, secretary to the vaccine institution, Golden-square, Mr. Scott, an engraver in the Strand, and several other witnesses, swore positively that the sig natures to the warrant of attorney were not an the haud writing of the plaintiff, but forgeries. Miss Scoles. a young lady who lives with the plaintill and his wile ; Amelia Falk, a servant of the plaintiti; and John libber, a fuotboy of the plaintiff, were called to prove that at the time the defendant, her son, and the indorsee of one of the bills, called urm the plaintiff, on the Huh of April, it was dark, and that they did nut stay lung enough for the plaintiff to have possibly executed the warrant of attorney. Mr. Marryatt, in an able and powerful defence, 'treed the improbability of the story told on the part of the plaintiff, inasmuch as it implicated no less than six persons in the crime of forgery without any motive whatever. Be then called Laurence Langlands, the defendant's son, Mr. F. Salmon, Mr. J. Blake, Mr. Bird, one of the indorsees of the bill, and several other witnesses, the effect of whose evidence was to chew that the plain tiff had been very much embarrassed in his circtimstanceso that the delendant, apprehensive that the bills wonlil not be paid at maturity, called upon him to execute the warrant of attorney iti question, by way of collateral security; that the plaintiff ageed so to do on condition of receiving the sum of 501. down in cash ; that this agreement took place before the 16th of April, which day the plaintiff himself appointed to perform his engage ment ; that a warrant of attorney was accordingly pre pared, merely for his signature, and that on that day in the evening the parties called upon him, whets he ac. tually signed the warrant of attorney. Long befOre the defendant's case was closed, there being upwards of twelve witnesses remaining to be called, the foreman of the jury interposed and said, that their minds had been long since made up, that there was no question to try, and a little before seven o'clock they delivered their unanimous verdict in favour of the dekaidant. _ . . BANK OF ENGLAND Paosectrrtorkr.—Job Oving ton, a young man, aged 18, the son of a respectable dissenting minister, was indicted for uttering to Joseph Mason, at Clapham, on the efith of March, a forged one pound Bank of England note. The unfortunate prisoner, when called upon to plead, denied his guilt with the greatest vehemence.—He was found Guilty. The unhappy father was in court during the trial, and on account of his respectability the jury recommended the prisoner to mercy. CROYDON, A uo. 29.—The Assizes for this County finished to-day, and here ended the Home Circuit. CIVIL SIDE. HUGHES V. COURTENAT. This was an action to recover the sum of 401. the amount of a bill tun up at last Epsom Races, at the house of the plaintiff, who keeps the Spread Eagle, at Epsom. It was proved that the defendant, a lady going by the name of Mrs. Courtenay, put up, with her carriage, four houses, and servants, at the plaintiff's house during the race week, and incurred a bill of 101. in giving dinners, &c. to parties. She lived in a handsome dashing style, and was a great belle on the course. On going away, however, she forgot the ceremony of paying the plain tiff's demand, and the present action was the conse quence. There being no defence, the plaintiff had a verdict for 401. HORNS V. FAIR AND ANOTHER. This was another action against the defendants, as in habitants of the Halt Hundred of Brixton, to recover a compensation for the damage sustained by the mob to the plaintiff's house during the illumination for her late Majesty in the month of November last. I'he plaintiff proved that the mob had broken his windows to the amount of 21. lOs. for which sum he had a verdict. FOXALL V. BANKS AND OTHERS. This was at, action of trespass for seizing and carrying away (it) loads of lime, the property of the plaintiff. Mr. Marryat and M r. Tinton conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Gurney and Mr. Hutchinson the defend ant's. The plaintiff was represented to be a professional gen tleman of great respectability, who had purchased some land in the Commercial-road, near the Surrey-canal, and commenced building several houses. Being in want of some lime, he purchased a quantity to the amount of 581. of the defendants, who are lime merchants, and they delivered it upon the premises, to be paid Mr on the usual terms. 'Die defendants, however, fur sonic misconception as to the plaintiff's solvency, thought proper to remove ille lltoe abler I , lllc Of it Lill iwetl because the plaintiff would not pay down ready-money, contrary to the terms of the bargain. On the cross-examination of the plaintiff's WiIIICSMF, it was proved that the defendants were induced to give the plaintiff credit upon the representation that lie was Mr. Foxall, the respectable clerk of the Vintners's Com pany, a gentleman of known property:—and in fact the plaintiff had been recently before this transaction dis charged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act: that he was no more than an Attorney's clerk, and not in circum stances to pay any large