The National Register. — London, England, 1821-04-09 00:00:00

w. , SURREY ASSIZES. - KINGSTON. APRIL 7.-I'he assizes for this county finisha here this evening, about 7 o'clock, itid ended the Home Circuit. Both courts bat this day to try mi.. stmeis. Mr. Sergeant Litres asssisted in clearing the town-hall. The business in the civil aide was very heavy, and was not disposed of until a late hour on Friday evening. BARNARD V. AUSTIN. This was an action Mr a nuisance, in erecting a steam boiler with a high shaft, the smoke from which was alleged ul be injurious to tl.e plaintiff and her family.— It will he recollected that this cause was tried before, at the last Spring assizes for this county, when a verdict was found Ibr the defendant. The plaintiff had obtained a new trial, on the ground that that v. rdict was a A ainst c% idence and the direction of the learned judge, and the record was time broti,:,ht down a4ain. The trial lasted from nine o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock in the evening or 'rhino ,y, when it was adjourned till Friday, and at five o'clock in the evening of the latter day, the jury, after hearing a great intuit ber of witnesses on both sides, found their verdict fur the plaintiff, with nominal damages. mews 6108. BuiIt:MARY AT ENGLEFIRLD GRBEW...4. Lanandl, Jesse Sangwell, Charks Smith, and J. Weston, were indicted for burOarionsly breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Elizabeth Green, widow, at Egr.aiti, in the night of the vnih of March, and stealing a silver tintiff.box, a silver clasp knife, a murmur picture, ,wo pearls, a gold ring, and other articles, her property. — This case excited very general interest, from the darilig eirc 1111 l stances of the robbery. The evidence airilist the prisoners was precisely the same as we gave in our last. The facts implicating Smith and Weston were the finding a purse on the Milner, and three guineas on the latter. Mrs. Hamilton could nut swear positively to the one or the other. Smith's I.dullady said, she had seen such a purse in his possession time weeks before the robbery WAS com mitted. The Lord Chief Baron summed up the evidence with great minuteness, mid remarked upon the deficiency of the evidence against Smith and %Veston. There was certainly a strung case of suspicion against them ; but a jury of I.faiAiisitien Wire not to deal with mans lives upon mere suspicious. 'l' lie jury immediately found Smith and Wesson not guilty, and La Wk. II and Si tgwebl gutliy—Death. The learned judge then passed the awful sentence of death, and feeinninended the prisoners to make the most of the very short remnant of their lives, fur they must expect no mercy at this side of the grave. The prisoners begged hard for their lives, Inn they were told not to delude themselves by any hopes of mercy, but to prepare for a speedy execution for their Cllollllons TOE KING V. R. clement:a. This was an iiiiltetnient against the defendant for Iran dnlcitly Gnat Aunt, the wife of W [Mani llodkisson, a buckram saltier, on the '29lh of Septem her, 1819, the sum of three pence, by falsely pretending that he was employed by the Rev. V. J. Abily, to col lect subscriptions fur the St. Joni' s Bible Association.— It appeared in evidence that the prisoner had, for a con siderable time past, been living by frauds similar to that which he now stood ch,,rged, and had collected in 11111311 of two pence and three pence a t a time, no less than !Otto!. by pretending to poor people that he was empiii)ed to coliect such subscriptiois for the St. John's Bible Society, of which the v. Mr. Abrly was a leading member. The jury tinder the learned ;ledge's directions, found him guilty. The Lord Chief Baron, afti.r commenting upon the wickedness of the driendant's conduct, said he should go to the titmoot extent at the law in punishing him, and accordingly s.nicitced hint to transportation for seven ytafS. BREACH OF PROAIL,E OF NIARRLIGE. ‘ytts B. B:iAY. At the assizes for the colony of %Vartvick, there was an action hun,i ht l.y .he plaintiff in this cause to recover a compensation in uaittaBes Mr a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff, El:zabeth ILi I s , is a young woman in a I ble but respte;ahle sidiere of life ; the deiendant is a fanner, residing at Kenilworth C ase, and in good circumstances. The plaintiff went to live with :11r. 11 , ay, as his scr vain, at Lady-day,lBl9 ; its a lay mouths alter lie began to pay very particular attention to her,aild at length pro. tamed fur marriage, and to settle ;tool. a year upon her. This priiiiiisc was made at several tillirs, and :n ia cseuce of several persons. Plaintiff had acquainted her friends with the prm mak of defendant; and defendant had also sent Mr tile w ttttt an's father, and made the same pro. po,a Is to him. Plaintiff continued to live with defendant, and became pregnant. She weld homily, and preparat tons were made for the wedding. Plaintiff fixed the of ()Luther, and this the 30d1 of the same moult., or the marriage. put off the marria,e unl the lot lowing Nlimitay, but in the interim sent plaintiff word that his friends disapproted of match, and therefore he could not lulfil his promise. Tuts disappointment to plaintiff was such, that it produced tymploilii of prema ture latgitir, amid on the ndlowing monolog site gat e birth to a Stlll-LW:I dl4:d. that lie was worth 'spas arils P.alutia was about 21 years of age; defendant was 60. 1 tie daluays were laid at 4,0001. 11`itnesses were then railed to prove the pla'nt;ff's case. Air. Denman tirade all eloquent appeal to the jury in mitigation of tholazes. Al r. Sergeant Vaughan spoke on the part of the plain tiff. The jud g e summed tp, and the jury returucd a verdict --Damages V.Sed. %Inn WPWI THE NATIONAL REGISTER LANCASHIRE. GILL V. AUSIttsY.—.GRIM CON. This was an action at Lancaster Assizes, S iturday setinight, to recover a compensabon in dam .eei for the seduction of the plaintiff's wife by the deiendaot, a gen . tleutan of Slirripsh.re. A similar action, bottle''t by the same plaimitt, who resided at Bryngwyn, Montgo meryshire, was tried at the last Assizes, when the Jury expressed themselves satisfied, atter hearing the plain tilrs ease, that there %vas no ground for the action, and the plaintiff". Counsel chose to be nonsuited rati:er than have th e opium of the Jury pronounced aeainst his client. It seem., lionever,. that the plaintiff was not satisfied with this decision, and determined to take the opinion of another Lancashire Jury. Great curiosity .had b, en excited, and the Conn was t xeessively crowded. Mr. Scarlett callad many witnesses, after which Mr. Justice Lest " Gentlemen of the Jury, do yon wish to hear Brother Bullock fur the defend oit Jury.—" NO, Inv I .ord. it will not be necessary; we are Toe sat.slieil with what'e have heard." Mr. Justice Best.—" There never was a clearer case. Nothing like adultery has been proved, except by one witness, who has related one of the most improbable stories that Was ever interned " .NJ r. Sea►lett, after consulting hi, client, rinse to be nonsitited, rather than have the verdict of the J ury on behalf of the defenil.iitt. Th; 1)1,1'11,111 tv.l3 nonsulted. SO.Nl:lil:sE'l:s i l lki ASSAULT.—PADYIELD V. LUNE. The defendant was a malt of property, retired from business; -snd the plaititill a bie , Aer. The assault took place oil the sth July fast, and was of a very tinkitt na. (UN. According to WIC Of the witness. sit occupi ed an hour and a halt. The life of the plaintiff was ex posed to imminent danger limit its ellects; and doubts were expressed by a surgeon who save evidence that he never would reenter. A linger was tracnired, and one of the small bones of the shoulder briik Ai. In the de fence the Gionsel adduced the plea of violent irritation, or 60111C111111g, as he termed it, approaening to insanity; but the Judge, itt suaillling up, informed the Jur!, that madness, supposing it to have existed, was no answer to a charge nt a cit il suit. Upon a criminal "Marge it might be otherwise. NVith respect to damages, they were the peculiar province of t;te Jury; but under such circumstances, it was the stiff. rings of the plaintiff that sv.is to give the isie.nitsre of dania6res; and if a defendant who had so nits orducted himself was thin able to pay 111 purse, he 11111 St pay lit person. Tins was a case of so aggravated a nature as to require a lull and adequate compensation. Verdict lor the plaintiff-I)aniages One Thousand Pottihls. A letter from Vienna dated the 16th, says— We learn from Passau, under the date of the 3d. that a secret association has been discovered there. among the workmen of the dillerent trades, who meet regularly among the tombs of the Old Capu chin Convent. About thirty of them have been arrested ; and from their examination, it appears that they had gone so far as to form a kind of secret fraternity, by which they were pledged by mutual defence to the last extremity, everywhere and under all circumstances. They were bound by an oath, in the taking of which they drank out of a skull. Some of thent had da:7gers, and they called them selves the Black Brola.o es. The Madrid papers of the 16th contain a report from the Minister Ihr Forejgn A ffairs to t:ie Cortes. The ratification of the treaty with the United States for the cession of the Floridas is announeed, and Spain is stated to be at peace with the Barbary States ; but the principal part of the report relates to the affairs of Naples. Explanations are.stated to hove taken place between the Cabinet of Madrid and the Allied Powers, which, though not yet ter. minuted, have already produced, on the part of some of the Cabinets, the positive assurance that they do not mean to disturb Spain, nor to interfere in any way in her domestic affairs. Extract of a letter from the Dominica Chronicle, Feb. 11 :—" The ship Kale, of London, Captain Itudge, on her return from 13erbice to Halifax, was scuttled at sea by the crew, who had forced the Captain, some time before, to leave the ship in a boat, with very little provisions and no comp:ass, at a great distance from land. They also put in the boat his wife and two children. one two and the other fhur years old, a passenger of the name of Meredith, and a coloured boy, who acted as steward. This happened about eight o'clock a.m. It is pro bable they must have perished that day or night Eight of the crew are here on trial ; the landed near the Mole, and had taken and divided among • them two chests of money, which were put on board at Bcrbicc, in return for the cargo of provisions she had brought from and shipped there by the house of &Ache and Co." A sporting gentleman in the ne; g labourhood of- Staines, who rides at 17 stone, has undertaken, for a bet of ;V., to ride au English MSS trout :.staines to the Crown Inn, at Reading, a distance of `2l! miles, in three successive hours, within a month of the present time. The rider is to give 12 hours' no tice previous to starting. Bets are two to one in favour of time. Porter, the Northamptonshire pedestrian, ha woa his match for 50 guineas against time, of running sixteen miles in two hours. He went ten times round the race course, making 17 miles in one hour and 56 minutes. _. ~. ~1 t - . • • • . Tog BOX I NG. The match between Edward Granger, the Farn ham, and George a West-countryman, took place on Thursday morning, in a meadow belonging to Mr. Stevens, at Shottcsbrook, on the confines of the counties of Oxon and But ks. The men had cleared their way to provincial celebrity in many turns-up, and if not scientiac enough to figure in London ring, bravery was not wanting in either of the men. The match was for forty guineas, and Granger was the favourite at 5 and 6 to 4. In the first round both were too eager in making play and in throwin g away blows ; they got to a close and both went down without injury. The second round lasted twelve minutes. and tarsal the men?* atdour. They hit out ut each other until the ring ens len in slam 4 liter•houre, and neither would go down. They dint gaged themselves from three difletent closes, not being awake le thr weaving system. where the loan of one of liandall's hands weld have been serviceable. Granger had rather the best of the munal, but he was at length dropped by a hit on Adam's apple in tint throat, which produced many pantomimial gestures.-6 to 4 ost Gillan. 3. This was nothing but a fighting rotes. Soma sound bits about the ears melted the wax and predated swam a dime fioni both. Galan was hit down in one of those Grammar olator castors. s, aid 6, were comparatively tame rounds; but it was evident that Granger's li g hting was to a certain extent put on one side by the hit in the throat in the second round, and in this he was thrown a stunning cross buttock. 7. This was a game round, all in Gillan's favourond it finish , ed by Grar , ; , , er. beib g flowed again. 8. Gillan ' , cecina a heavy chance hit on the left eye, which stopped out dayli g ht, and he staggered down with it. 9th. and last round, won Galan the fight in 39 minutes.— After exchan g ing counter hits. Granger was thrpwn upon his head, and laid several minutes sense /4. His friends challenged the winner again for fifty guineas. It is confidently reported in the well-informed political circles, that a note has been sent to the British Minister at the Court of Russia to be pre sented to the Emperor Alexander, not only remit,- strating, but actually proteging against a Russian fleet entering the M cditerranean by the Dardanelles, for the purpose, as was alleged, of assisting in the common cause against the recent revolutions which have taken place in the South of Europe. A copy of this note was also presented by Lord Castlereagh to Count Lieven. The Ottoman Porte has also, it is said, protested against a Russian fleet passing the . Dardanelles. • Floes.—A fire broke out on Monday night, at tile house of Mr. B:iiitilioroug,h, profile painter, in Wyatt. row, Hanipstead.road, which was occasioned by tht boiling over of some varnish and other mixtures: The cottage which contained five rooms, was destroyed, and a youth who superintended the mixture was seriously Mom hi making his escape It was fortunate that the fire broke out lii a rOolit contiguous to the cottage, or the lives of the initiates would have Leen in great danger.-- Another fire broke ant atom the same time, at Mr. Mea dows', in Cal% era's Terrace, Paddington., which was occasioned by some clothes left to dry, being placed too near the fire. Tne interior was destroyed, bet most of the goods were saved." On Nlntirlay evening, as Miss C. Russel, daughter of Mrs. Hassel, Meard's-row, Fulham road, was preparing to accompany a juvenile party to one o. the the.ates, ber clothes caught fire, and she was ft/ tireaib'idly burnt that she lies in extreme agony, and is not t•xi.;:t.teci to recover. She was adjusting her bonnet at the chimney glass, when rite catearophe befel her, by her-111l1S1111 dress taking fire. The maid servant was in the next room, and hearing.her shrieks, she sitatchtg a counterpane from the bed in an adjoining room s ewe extinguished the flames by wrapping it round her; only the body part of the back was left; even tile front hats of her head was burnt 0 f, and the lace :nuch disfigured. =Co slay reining, about six. o'idock, the inhabitants of the Hamlet of Mile End New Town were thrown into the greatest alai ni and consternation, in consequence of a 111USt dreadful conflagration which broke itut.at the sugardinuses of :Messrs. Bartell and Grier, sugar whiners, in Come:II-street. Mr. B. was attending a vestry meet inu, nu l his men who attended the pans, which are fixed in safety on the ground, had scarcely time to exa mine what produced the smoke, when the flames burst from the upper part id the premises in the rear of the building with such vc Ir any , the they experienevd con siderable difficulty in escaping. :1 quaintly of sugar was. brought in in the morning in order to be clarified, at.d was placed in the front warehouses. The noels with some dawn liy, succeeded in J portieu of it. The engines helnlittillg to the different Mikes, with their usual alacrity, were suou upon the spot, and the tine-cock had been at his post; yet it n'a, rattier unfortunate that the very high wind tendered their exertions I,ss effectual. because as they played, the wind drove tile water in a Colltialy direction. and tlicy could not gel into the pre. raises till some of the men at cunsiderdble risk went personally to guide the p.pes into lute windows. &c.— The extensive warehouses of Messrs. Hanhury and Co. the brewers, being adjoining, ;vein arprehetwinti WAS entertained fur their saucy, altbougtt prots-cted by a strong party wall. About eleven o'clock this wall deft Ha opium Mein, and did consith.ratile damage, but tile fire men, it 1101.611 kept working the Cll4OllOl With the greatest • ilacrity, tire , elll,4 the Settles trout coininutircating w:111 Ilaubtir%'s premises, and they also succeeded in se‘ mg the clweiling-tiouse ur which Mr. Grice's fensin resided. The fire was not completely gut under until Wednesday Mrs. 6. Kiiight, of Firbeck, in Yorkshire, his crec.e.ll at her ow expette:, a new [Jamb es.tareh, rots the site of the old 1/I11.•••• 101.1 II I, 41 Ic'U lark.lolr t ireuthstalace during the period 01 rebuilaing, neither weuoing, burl. or c•lnsteffing occurred in the paris-1 11 The royal mercy Ihrt been extended to G. Enaland, the sailor ill the preverruhee scrvice, against w 1 the jury at Horsham found a verdict of wilful murder Oil cdile*dairiA4t. i