The National Register. — London, England, 1816-12-23 00:00:00

YOUNG WATSON. in4elligenee has as yet been received at Bow street, respecting young Watson. Vickery and Ifven der still continue their searches on the coast. !llama it will be advisable not to relax the efforts which arc making for the apprehension of this young man ; for if In London, there is no doubt, when the fever of pursuit Is over, that he will attempt getting to America. A report has been circulated that a gentleman, a Quaker, has been heard to declare that young Watson did not shoot Mr. Platt, but that the person who com mitted the foul crime was a man in sailor's attire. This report on enquiry proves to be ercpneous. The Lord , Mayor sent for the gentleman in qaestion, and he de clares that he never made any such observation as that attributed to him, nor did he know any thing except from hearing of the circumstances attending Mr. Platt's misfortune. We are happy to state, that Mr. Platt is recovering suAlly from the effect of his wound. It has been de termined not to cut for the ball. If the ball retains its spherical form, it may work out of some other part of the body with:out aerating this health of the patient. It is expecte4 the Lord Mayor will have made up his mind on Monday to commit all the persons in cus , Cody in the city, on charges ef being concerned in the late riots, for trial, on charges of being principals or ac cessories in the felonies which were committed. It is now asserted, we know not with what truth, that the description of the person of young Watson is very inaccurate. We suppose that the error, if any, has been as usual on the side of deformity : that he has been made much shorter, much plainer, and much shabbier than he really is. Indeed one paper says positively that he has no mark on his right cheek, and that his appear - a•:ce is more than commonly respectable. Anger and hatred are terribly liable to deform all they touch, and foolishly publish to the world as a real likeness what, in fat, is but the false image presented by the distort in medium of prejudice. Be this as it may, Young Watson still evades pursuit. Bishop has returned from his mission ; and although every thing promised very fair, he was not in the right scent. By some persons it is believed that Watson is not three miles from London, and that he is under the protection of his party, many of whom, it is said, are sworn to secrecy ; mean time several persons going about their lawful business, or in quest of employment, have suffered much personal in convenience, and it is probable that many others may yet be apprehended. In fact, in country places every stranger, not an old man, who males his appearance, is suspected to be the assassin of Mr. Platt ; and should he proceed on his journey before mine host has satisfied himself respecting his birth, parentage, and education, the hue and cry is raised out against him ; the report of his narrow escape is circulated as quick as the mail can carry it, in the direction of the route of the stranger; and all being thus put upon the alert, the probability is that other travellers will be stopped on their journey. The letters received en Friday by the Lord Mayor upon the subject of the riots amounted, in postage, to about 51. Tuesday a few individuals assembled at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, and, under the specious appella tion of the Electors of Westminster, voted an Address to Lord Cochrane, full of compliments to his Lordship, and teeming with abuse against almost every other pub lic character in the country. The Address, and a string of Resolutions of similar tendency, were of course una nimously voted. The framers of these precious docu ments have made the notable discovery, that Lord Coch rane's recent imprisonment was a breach of the privilege of Parliament ! Among all the precedents which they have examined, we should like to know if they met with the case of u Member of Parliament sealing the walls of a prison in which he had been confined in eonscqueni.e of the verdict of a British Jury ? The Dublin papers last received state, that at an Ag gregate Catholic Meeting, held on the 17th, in that city, a resolution was proposed, confirming the resolu tion of the Catholic Prelates of the 26th of April List, in favour of domestic nomination, and strongly recom mending the adoption of such canonical proceedings as may be most likely to obtain that object. The result of the ra,eting is not known. It appears from accounts from Glasgow of Tuesday se'unt, that not the least attempt had been made to disturb the public tranquillity. A proclamation has been published by the Lord Provost, and a large sub scription raised the relief of the distressed. Mr. Whi tbread has thrown open his Manor of Car dington, near Bedford, for public coursing matches during the season, highly to the gratification of the neighbouring sportsmen. A • PertY trot a DECEMBER QS. wan employed to execute a work by which he would cleat not less thou from 11. to 15,0001. Lord Ellenborough summed up, and the jury retired to dc• liberate. After consulting' for more than an hour, they re• turned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 2501. being. 401. beyond the sum paid into Court. FRIDAY, DEC. 20. JONI r. antis. This netion was brought by the plaintiff, butler in the family of General Morgan, against the defendant, proprietni of the Eclipse stage-coach, running between Colchester and London. to recover a compensation fur the breaking of the plaintiff's leg. ' • • The Attorney-General, in opening the case, observed, that of late years a complete change had taken place in the mode of travelling through the kingdom; formerly, those who wished to proceed with more speed than ordinary, hired post chaises, while the more steady part of the community went in stage-coaches, which journeyed at a convenient anti regular pace; but now post-chaises were out of fashion, ex. cepting with a few individuals, who valued their own lives and those of the King's snbjeets; and persons who were de. strona of travelling in great state, and with the utmost cele rity, intrusted themselves to vehicles which undertook to pass over the distance in the shortest possible time. On the Col chester road there was a violent opposition between 'the Eclipse and the Times, and, Incredible as it might appear, he believed that one of those coaches had performed the jour ney of Sl miles is the short space of 3 hours and 18 minutes. The plaintiff was on his way to London, to visit a relation, and mounted the Eclipse at Brentwood. in Eases, as it passed through that town. The horses there had been changed, of course they were of uncommon strength and spirit, and at the first start a part of the harness broke, which occasioned a short delay; a second time the coach set off at bill speed, and the reins, as would be proved, being extremely rotten and unfit to be used, gave way, and left the coach and pas. sengers at the mercy of the horses. They draggad the ve. hick with the utmost violence against a post, and by the eon. cos/non the plaintiff was thsown trout the dickey, and his leg was so dreadfully broken, that the bone protruded not only through the skin, but through the boot he wore. Ampotatiou was in consequence necessary: and for this injury, perma nent in its elects, the plaintiff had a right to expert a liberal compensation. John Jones deposed. that he was brother to the plaintiff, who was an outside passenger by the Colchester coach, be longing to the defendants, on the 31 of Arrest last, he got up at Brentwood for London. and the witness saw him set off. John Clarke said, that the defendants hired di, it startles at Brentwood of hint. On the 3d of August he saw the Eclipse changing horses at the Swan ; the horns were play. ful as usual. One of the wheelers broke a part of his har. ness ; he did not know whether one the leaders did the same. After the coach started it made a stop, and the witness went to see what was the mater. He found a soling woman coming down, and the witness eanglit her in ►is arms; the roach was jammed against the post; the accident was owing to the breaking of the reins. He saw the plaintiff against the opposite post ; people were 'wing. WI his boot, and the blood was gushing out, the hone protruding through the boot. He was no jatige of horses. He did not know at what rate the coach travelled. Cross-examined.—He said, that the part of the harness which broke was a chap belonging to the collar: ono of tho wheels was about five inches higher than the other. Lord Ellenhorough observed, that •according to the evi dence given, there appeared to be .oeli ea insufficiency iu the reins as to render the defendant. liable. Mr. Topping said, that he should not attempt to controvert that point. In answer to a question from the Jury, his Lordship added, that the main and only question was as to the fitness of the reins to the purpose for which they were used. Mr. C. Butler, a surgeon, at Brentwood, had been called in to attend the plaintiff; the antic was completely crwhed, and the larger bone of the leg was forced through the beet. The leg was cut off on the joint opinion of three medical men ; the witness charged 20 guineas. Samuel Jones proved, that the plaintiff had given 221. hi. for a shaped leg, and John Jones that ill. Ss. 11d. had berm paid for expenses at the Swan at Brentwood. The Attorney General indicating that his ease was closed, Lord Elenhorough observed, that it was necessary to show more distinctly that the plaintiff's leg was broken in er:se quence of the driving of the coach against the post. It was impossible to go upon conjecture. The Attorney-General submitted, that the inference could not be resisted; the plaintiff was upon the coach, and taken op with his leg broken after the accident; be, however, called a witness of the name of Davis, he saw the plaintiti on the dickey of the coach, and spoke to him. He went over the previous circumstances in the same manner as the other witnesses ; when the coach came against the side of the road •it broke a pile that supported the path-way, an ran against the wall; one of the wheels was raimml about 18 inches, and while the plaintiff was endeavouring to jump down, the jii k of the coach threw him forward about two yards or more. He could not swear esactly whether he attempted to jump, or whether he was thrown off by the violence He could not say positively it' the plaintiff made any attempt to jump. Lord Ellenhorough was of opinion, that the last witness had proved enough to go to the jury, Mr. Topping for the defendant, complained of the intiam. matory address of the Attorney. General, who, by his own Ingtinity, had made up fur the deficiencies of his ease. He contended that the injury sustained by the plaintiff was to be attributed to his own imprudence in jumping ur attempting to jump, while all the other passengers who kept their seats, were In perfect safety. The plaintiff had trusted to hi, ac. tivity, and in the act of jumping off was caught hold of by a woman who sat next him, which turned him round and (seem sioised the misfortune. Mr. Ellis, a ►hop titctor in the Borough, deposed, that he sat dim eetly behind the coachman : ut first starting, the horses appeared rattier unmanageable, and the coachman pelted them in with some violence ; one hors o was not mister eon trout, and the dri• pulled the other towards I' THE NATIONAL REGISTER LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT Or KING'S BENCH, Tinauomr, flit. 19. Spreial Juries. /PITTA C. CHAU MERT. The plaintiff, according to the statement of the Attorney- General, is a respectable young man of good connexion!, who, retinas to f'orming a matrimonial connexion, was &luso otis to embark a capital of no inconsiderable amount in a trade that promised to make a suitable return. Ile was at tracted by 1111 advertisement in a newspaper, which required a partner iu a lucrative concern; but upon inquiry he found that it would not suit his purpose. The introduction he then obtained, however, brought hint acquainted with the defend ant, who for many years had carried on a prosperous trade as a tanner of morocco leather, at Bermondsey. Chauniert was at that time desirous of retiring from business, and pro posed to floc plaintiff, to engage in it, making it a condition, precedent to the sale of the good-will, that be should join a Mr. Roberts as a partner, who, though formerly a journey man at wages of 12s. a week with the defendant, had, by the defendant's account, saved large sums, and was filly capable of ;advancing a sufficient capital. The plaintiff liked the proposal, and offered to lay down 4,0001. and to obtain his lather's bond for three wore, provided Roberts would also add T,OOOl. to the joint stuck. Roberts professed his readiness, and the defendant gave repeated assurances that lie had ample means of doing so. This statement afterwards turned out to be untrue, and for the misrepreseutation the present action was brought. It was agreed that the de fendant should lend the new partners, besides their own ca pital. 6,0001. at 5 per cent. taking rare, however, to obtain 2,0001. for the good•w ill of his business, and to compel the plaintiff and Roberts to take a lease of the premises fur 50 years, at the rent of 2501. The payment of these sums he secured by mortgage, and by a warrant of attorney to confesa a jndgment. The arrangements having been concluded, the plaintiff married, and the auto of 1,6001. was laid out in the repair of the premises in Bermondsey. Some time after wards he was well surprised by a demand of 5001. by the defendant, as a debt due to him from Robert, which Roberts was unable to pay. The plaintiff discharged it, on an as surance that it was the last: but a short period had only elapsed before a further claim of cool. against Roberts was made by the defendant, who, it now appeared, had only in. veigled the plaintiff into the partnership, that this capital might satisfy the creditors of Roberts. Under such circum stances it could not be supposed that the business would be successful : Roberts never had snore than 2,0001. in the world, and that was swallowed up by his debts, so untrue was it Cs:it be was able to advance 14 capital of 7,0001. The defendant load not neglected to secure his own interests in all ways; for finding that the trade, which had been very advantageous to hint, was failiug, lee entered up judgment on his warrant of attorney, took out execution, and was at this moment in pos session of the premises. As to the ineasnre of damages, per haps no specific amount could be proved; but with these facts before them, the jury would not deal out compensation with a sparing hand. A Mr. Butler was the first witness, but he only spoke to a preliminary interview between Spitta, Clllllllleti, and Ro berts, in which a capital of 20,0001. was spoken of as neces sary for the businea : he heard the defendant say nothing re garding the means Roberts possessed of producing 7,0001. Edward Roberts, the person with regard to whose circum stances the representation was alleged to have been made, being put into the box, also denied that the defendant, in any of the conversations, had represented that his (Roberts's) affairs were flourishing, or that he could advance a capital of 7,0001. The defendant had never told the plaintiff any thin upon the subject. The plaintiff having no other evidence to establish the mis repre►entation, Lord Ellenborough directed that a tumult should be entered. KIIMILETON AND BAILEY V. PETO. inst. Mr. C. 7 seconds. Mr from with The defendant is the contractor with the Commissioners of the Customs for the erection of the new Custom-honse ; the plaintiffs were employed by him to make out an estimate of the expense, in order to govern him in the proposal he was to nrake pursuant to public advertisement. The whole (linea tion in the cause was, to what sum the plaintiffs were enti tled ; the demand was 4591. and the defendant had paid into Court Itol. The facts appeared to be the following:—The advertisement required that the proposals for contracting should be delivered in on the 26th of June : on the 24 of that mouth the defendant wrote to the plaintiff's requiring them to examine the drawings and specifications exhibited at the Custom-house, and to make out en estimate of the sum it would cost to erect the building according to them. The plaintiff, Bailey, with his apprentice, went immediately, copied the drawings, and employed themselves until the 20th ,of June, for 15 hours each day, in making the calculations 'Which required the utmost numneness and accuracy ; the; *ere assisted by two other persons la the plastering and ma sonry, and the * defendant and his clerk lent their assistance ; the former occasionally, and the latter almost constantly. It was understood between the parties, that if the defendant ob tained the connect, by delivering the lowest estiinate, be was to be paid liberally; but if his of f er were refused, he was to receive only 301. Mr. C. Barry, the plaintiffs apprentice, proved the theta above stated. There was an item in the plaintiff's bill for the board of the defendant and his clerk while the calms's- i tiona were forming. Lord Ellenbutough.—The plaintiff has no victnaller'a li license; that charge disgraces the bill. If the plaintiffs and their assistants were engaged 26 days, the sum demanded for each day would be nearly 201. The witness admitted that the plaintiffs had made an esti mate fur the defendant in InOtt, for Yunnonth Hospital, to the extent of 66,0001. for which they Lad charged only 201.; but that was made in the rough. Mr. Samuel Pavnter, Mr. Joseph Patience, &c. deposed that the claim of the plaintiff to 1591. was reasonable. The Attorney General, for the defendant, contended, that the demand was most extravagant, whether it were compared with what the plaintiffs had before received for Yarmouth Hospital, or with the - they had_ . ttgreed take if the de fendaut's neighbouring sportsmen. . Hospital, or wi th the sum they bad agreed to take if the de. thou', and the driver pulled the other three towards the side si A wa,:er of five pounds was decided on the 10th fendaut's comma were refused. He called Thomas Good- of the slay, and stopped the coach without more than ordi. • 11/ inst. that a pony, under fourteen bands he, the pro- ssin, the defendant's clerk , who proved that his master had nary concill'siall• Th e witness " W 11° th ili g to be "PPrebend - perty of Mr. John Cousins, of St. (] Myth, ,rses, should detected several errors of importance, to the amount (denote t•il ; but fonr or live passengers jumped doss n front behind, than 2, 0001. whether just before or just atter the coach stopped be pooh' by trot a mile within three minutes and a half, rode by ,tar. Ward lind Mr. Wright, two surveyors, swore, that not tell. al Mr. C. Way, whose weight is 10 stone i lb.—The they should have been glad to have undertaken the 'initiation Mr. Wicks, who keeps the White Hart at Brentwood, hod I. y completed the task in three minutes and three of the estimate for Is*. heard the plaintiff relate the circumstances of the ai•cident, li seconds Mr. Scarlet', for the plaintiff, replied, urging, that if his He said that a girl who sat by his side caught hold of bung ii , . Mr. Alley, the Barrister, is now nearly recovered G hie. Adolphus. clients, in consiiieration lithe defendant's disappointment in while be was jumping, and tented him round. The !manta the rejection of has contract, had agreed to accept only 301. bought the injury would not have happened but for that from the effects of the wound he received in the duel for their immense trouble, they deserved the greater kiwi a- circumstance, cud that he should otherwise have cleared the lity in remuneration when it was accepted, and the tientlant coach. ill •.. . . .. r..