The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-08 00:00:00

t - 06 tor .IZ4ILE INT;::LLIGENCE. LANCASI ER. Tlit . csuAY, At:G. 29. KMi PRIES —C.toKE AND ASOTIILII 1,. TINsLFY, The Atturne.t. tieuer,il (Mr. Sett'.left) came tioin the ether Court to %lute this ,ilse, which was au action to r. cuter the value of a earl was - nailed to L4l liol.lllll, but Alleged to be uusound. The pi:4l,6G were horse-dealers, anti the de friidat a fsruier. Ihe horse in quetti w had been given to the iu exchange for a lilly, *aloe 251. Mr. \lrllianu, for tilt defenduut, ►loatl,y cooteaded that it was utterlt incredibie that two hursetica:ers could take a horse troili a fanner that wits out perfect) sound. To be a piper or a roarer w as or was 110( a defect, according as it titiOil be the result of disease or trick. milet for the plaintittk— Diuunges 251. FRIDAY, AUGUST SO. HARRATT AND ANOTIIIIR V. BUXTON. The Altorney-Central applied to his L witship in this case, to stay juilginetit until the 4th day of ne%t term, upon the de fendant paying the money into court a a t h is a fortnigui. It was nut for the sum immediately depending, but for the conse• quencrs, which would he quite ruinous, that the defendant was anxious to hate judgment s laved. An allidat it would iu the mean lime be prepared, a d his Lordship would Ora tleei.ie a holier a rule to show cause why 'lure should not ba u be* should be grauted. If his Lordship ilia not accede to this upplication, jud g ment mould be s ued Out as this day, upon the tutu:lin:dials of the assizes. 4 he Loru Chief Justice g. anted the rule. CLEGG V. CtiONITO ,—SEDL CTION. 31r. Will:anis opett,..l the pieui:ings. Mr. Searlett stated the ease to the jury. This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover by your verdict compensa %too in damages for au injure of a very serious nature. The relation between toe plaintiff and the object of the defendant's seoutniun, upon which this action is founded, is that of mas t.:r and servant. list a 'Jeerer relation, which in this case is that of brother and sister. ti jury is acciettowed to consider as a great aggravation of the Injury. Yon will find that Miss Clegg very early lived with the plaintiff, who oustained towards her the relation of a parent. She lost her father stay early, and het mother when she was six years of age. Iler brother, the present plaintiff', was the only one to protect Ler, as well as two other sisters, who lived with him. Miss Clegg lived with her brother till the unhappy occasion which gay e rise to this action. Her brother, the plaintiff, married a cousin of the defendant. An uncle of the defoulanee too married an aunt of the piaititiff. These connexions led necessarily to frequent and familiar intercourse between the parties. When she was at the early age of 16, the defendant proposed p tying his ad dresses to Miss Clegg. It seems that she felt a suspicion that he had been attached to • sister of hers who was married.— Olt that account she rejected his aderesses. Mr. Crompton then applied to his aunt by martia4c, and her aunt by coesan gaiuity, to iutercedc with her. Site represented that lie was a man of fortune, that ire professed attachment to her, and that she stood iii her own light refusing Wan. Miss Clegg's scruples wus oaereume, and she accepted hint es her honourable lover. ISIS the marriage was repeatedly fixed, and the def.:tidal', rt eresented that he wee prevented from having the bans pro claimed by her not being of Nee, and the imposeibity of hav ing the consent of her parents, which, as the law then stood, was necessary. In these circumstances he succeeded in what appeared to have been his object, and obtained posseeeinn nut only ut her affections but of her person. When she become pregnant, the drf umlaut thought lit to change his tune, and give reasons why he would not perform 1.. s promise. It may b. asked wits it is brought as an action for seduction, and not for breach of promise of marriag e. The reason does no dis honour to Miss Clegg, It is, t h at the defendaut has ',W— alton I say the hardheartedness—to say that the reason fur not performiug his promise is, that he can Krieg evidence that she was connected with other men. A more foul and a more elag. derous imputation, if her character is known to her family, axe never cast upon any woman ; but for this reason it is .thought fit to subject her to exami.mtion in that box. ;Bias Anne Clegg et:peered in the witness-box. She ap peared genteel and respeotalfle, but the deep and lined main cooly in her countenance gave her looks the apnea:epee of age far beyond her years. "2:11. Lord Chief Justice.—This action will not prevent another action by Miss Clegg, for breach of promise. Vi ould it not ':e better to r,C,r nll matters between the parties? Mr. Soarlett.—l hey e no objection at all. After a ofee,iderable patter and consultation between the parties, Mr. Heine said he was happy to say that all parties con sented. The Lord Chief Justice.—And Miss Clegg t Mr. Scarb.o.—} es. A verdict was (Ati for the plaintiff—Damages 1,0001. sub ject to a reference. The reference was to Mr. Jas. Cbeetharn, el Clough. The assizes closed past two; and the Northern Circuit .terminated precisely six weeks from its commencement, being at least a week shorter than the circuit has been any summer for these 6 years. This has been a maiden assize, none of the convicts being left for e‘eention. The High Sheriff has, in consequence, given glovcs—ttlat is, 5 guineas to the Judge's alter. tests. POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE. A watchman, nait7edPT.iilips, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having beaten his wife most unmercifully, sometimes withja cudgel, and sometimes with his fists. The witnesses, who came lorward to swear to the facts, mentioned that the dreadful treatment the unfortunate woman remised front her husband had wade her subject to occasional hts of insanity. tier case was pecit:iarly hard, tut it appeared from one act which she had committed—that of marrying, the defen d mt—that her intellects had been in a stare of disorder before she had any reason to complain of his unkindness. Upon entering the Justice-room, she had sue of her children in her arms, another was carried by one of the loud women who reside its her neighbourhood, and it Deemed to be much in need of that assistance which the pouter's situation presented her from giving. She looked wildly about, and sobbed. From her account it appear ed that the defendant, to whom she has been some years married, was in the constant habit of at ',king and kick ing her; that he had the night before beaten her with a brae stick ; that she had often been kicked by him into a state of insensibility, out of which she was recovered by the attention of those who pitied her. She believed Lis iISLCIII7OII was to take away her lift s fut be began Ilia • "de N ♦'I'IONAT. IRTER cruelty without the least provocation, and left marks upon all parts of her body, which would nut easily dis appear. Cue poor woman then stooped !ter head, and exhibited some desperate weak int her shoulders. The defendant said she was his plague, and 110 l Itis wi;n. tit had been deceived. She was the tv:le of another man whets ►he married Min, and of course had no elaint Upon lent : he admitted teat he had uruek her, but he excused himself upon the Kroutid that she fumed her way into his presence and made demands which he had nu right to listen tit—demands fur tile support of her eltilt:ren. Otte of the officers here stated to the Lord Mayor, that the miserable womm was the erre or a person con• fleeted with the police idiot, she married the ce.ennalit, but that the double tie was nut the conseqiience of any vicmsts propettsny upon tile part or the womaii, whose intellects were always subject to laps. s, and is 110 was not aware of the offence she was co nnnn Ming when she con. bellied 10 b, come a bigilllllll4. • .1 lie complaihant said, that whatever objection the defendant 1111211 l have to her, he ought at least to Stl purt her children. Sloe was is riling to work like a slave, out he deprived her of the power to u oik by hit dread iul :marks 1111011 her. The Lord layer said the case was a very lamentable one. As for the deftinlant, lie wal .1 brute who did not destine to liace the society of a woman; and with res pect to the pain woman, no individual who had come before him during his mayoralty . Wit more deserting of compassion or protect in. She tea l talloccied herseit to punishment at the criminal bar by au act, of tne im por,m.ce of which she ilia not seem to he commits, Dort had thrown upon her first husband the terrible ohlseati..:i of giedig a livelihood to her cloldren by another niati. 'rite orb:oda:it declared that lie would inn supply a halfsiellisy towards the support of the children. The Lord Mayor ordered that the fellow should be detaiiied m custody to give securities our ke.pitig the peace towards the complainant. The cotuplainant's distress was indescribable. She did not know to whom to look for a shallow,. tier first hus band Is extremely pmw. Her secolul refuses 10 peeolill what Ile is morally hound to do. She canton look to the parish for support, the officers being itisaole to render astivtatiee„ except they first determine to 'intuition a mall fur 1101 ColliributillA to the support of children who have no natural claim tqxm him. The poor creature received some temporary assistance from the Lord Mayor, Who desired her at all views to apply to her parish. Even a conviction for bigamy would be preferable to tee coudition in which she was now placed, beati; destitute of comfort or hope. QUEEN-SQUARE. Wm. Calhdine, a soldier of rue Coldstream Guards, was coarsted wit h a most outrageous assault upon a gen ttematt named Stsuford. It appeared that the complainant was walking up Lower Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, about eight o'clock on Thursday ev • g, when heating the voice of a female crying out as if in distress, he flattened to the spot, where he Mond the prisoner ill treating a young woman in the most sirutat manner, beating her, ura4e.ing her along, and endeavouring with great violence to fusee her so quit her grasp of some railing by which she held to peseta herself nom being forced mt. Ile desired the prisoner to let the young woman go, which he did, and then finding that she did not beloag to the prisoner, but that the latter nevertheless persisted In following her, he also walked alter her to the house of her lather-in-law. As Emu as the young woman was let in, and the door allot to exclude the soldier who endeavoured to force himself into the house with her, he turned round upon the coin plainam, and asking him with ass oath what right he had to interfere wish hon, commenced a most furious attacjt upon Imn, rarikisig hint several blows in the lace, of w Inch she complainant still exhibited the lutist un pleasalit impressions about the eyes. Tile statement or the complainant was supported by the testimony of the young woman, and also of her mo ther, who let her in on the evening in to:stion. Toe prisoner, by way of defence, threw out insinua tions to the prejudice of the young 1N0111411 . 11 character; and said the assault on thecomplaioatit was provoked by some expressions which the latter addressed to him in allitslon to a late seambiloui affair. He was ordered 101'001 brit, rod committed to Tuthill fields prison tor want of sureties. BOW STREET. CAUTION TO GamesTeas.—Mr. Issaacs, a solicitor employed w behalf of some persons brought here some time ago, from a gaining house in Pall Mall, wailed on Friday last upon Mr. alittsltull , tor the purpose of nuk ing some inquiry connected with the case. Ihe worthy ittuOstratc, alter answering the inquiry, slid he was glad ol this opportunity of mentioning puts. licly something which he thought would be extremely important to all persons in any way connected with gaoling houses to know. Tile new Vagrant Act, among its other provisions, enacted, that " all persons found betting or pl ling at any unlawful game shall be deemed rogues and vagabonds, within the 101 l iuten► and mean ing of this statute, and shall Ise liable, upon conviction thereof, to be committed fur three months to the House of Correction, there to he kept to limit labohr i" and if any persons, be they whom they might, were again I sli t Ix lore him, who had been detected in gaining, he should certainly deal w►th them under tins Act of Parliament. A Mr. Johnson appeared on Friday before Sir R. Rir nie mod 111 r. Minshuil, to answer to an information pre ferred by a gentleman, named Biglesworth, for having given a false character to a servant, by which lie had for feited the sum 01401. and 10s. cots. Mr. Alinsoull said, that if the defendant pleaded t r,:uilty he must psy the penalty, slid their was an vitd of the case; but if he chose to withdraw that plea. and let the proof be gone him. he would then, in ease of con viction, have the privilege ohm appeal to the Sessions. Mr. M. then rcad the clause of the Act giviug the ap- diladowl iiuss . peal, and left the defendant to pursue what course be NJ r.Johns..to said he n•as its the wrong, and he should make no itt,.mpt to ev,,de the itetwity„thhott; t h he WAS xtrestody utilised to the thJgnir.ste tor !twitting out We law to Imo. Ile o.od the penalty and costs, QUI. los , and was di.. charged. Sir K. Mollie said, he could not help 'earning that th e m a g istrar,s h a d no power of 'init.:ming the Ide for had they such a discretion, it would cettainly have been exercixed in this case. SERIOUS ACCIDeIiT.- , --Oil Thursday morning, about eiesen oclock, as N1r..1 E. Striith, of 13, itizw.street s Spring.gardens, was driving up in the Strand in his gig, the horse took tight when onsusite tile Crown anti An. vita Tavern. ran immediately on the it.g stones, and opposite Little Essex street, thee gig came against a post, %%inch tote it to pieces; the t latts broke, and Mr. S. g nu his scream were thrown our most violently, and to a cousiderable tits:dace. 'Mlle Servant was severely hurt, and taken up and conveyed to Mr. Powell s, surgeon, in Surrey street, Strand. Mr. Stunt:, we are italll to twy, received but trilling injury. The horse set oli ut foil speed, and run his head conti.letely tistough in ThoutJa's (s.i..erstrtitit (111(1 jeWelicr, 211, Straiten win. thaw, and then lel' on the stones, apparently Itkiess for sonic time. Bova° tl. DemLitail.—An unexpected and severe boxing took place on Old OA Common, arising out u: a duel challenge, when both felt nitwits its Inouye to appear. Toe parties, Mr. a medical stn. dent, and Nit:. a clothier. 'lite former chat. lenged, and they met armed, in consequence of a dos• puce Mann a mattiii dog. One of the seconds proposed an appeal to rattier 111111 66141, and these being tid disparagement in Wright, about 12 stone, me water noltle and 4.111011 were suleuitoted for the surgeon, who if report speaks true, acted as umpire. At all events • g.. 1 14111 L battle of twenty-sox minutes donation took place, mid the parties left the ground sah►ficd. Mr. It. won it, and Mr want of prior intuit:nit ion we can only v al e, titat boils displayed genuine cottage. C. led in use first pint of Ilse battle, bat in about the fourth round he was 0 'wed by a hr-op in the wind, which LOUIE off his tato. Hess, and as a tor - would say of landsmen, he was squranusil thrOU'4ll the fight. Both had ICVCIV I.ollilille but they pried loud friends, and lure only to use cooling washeb gold black briar root to take away count. sinus and black eyes. SOCIZTY 08 FRIENDS OPYORZIISISSIIS IN DISTRiSI6 0i 1 taurstl,y a mertine of the gentlemen helmipitg to tile above t•harity, was heid at the City of London Ta. Tern, 13ullopssate•atrert, to take into consideration the state of toe chari:y and its finaticce. The cbair was taken at two o'clock, by Mr. Doxett, who, 11l a most able speech, stated to the gentlemen the purposes for winch they were cjlh d ; and also in the coarse of his speech represented to them a general one line of the titling comireted with the society; 1111111 - .loilll appllCl.lollll had been made by foreigners, and tory hul sery generally been relieved; the nu inter had exceeded 150% the re.. het ing of wholti to a very great sum, and lie was sorry to say their foods were a very low 111,11•••••• Tne worthy chairman concluded his Silted* by ititreat• 'nig the subscritiers to vise their :4,ibutice to Inc object they had in view. Several gelltielittil addressed the ineetiii* to the salute [Geer; sod alter ilte usual results. buns had beet' carried rho meeting separated. - _ DARING ROillteßY —Friday night last, after the faintly hail retired to rest, souse thieves entered the house of Mr. Jones, coach spring manufacturer, of met, Sohmsqiiare, by means of lake key's. The thieves acted in the mist audacious mantier while in the house, and entered six of the apartments before they were successful in finding the place where the money was kept in an iron chest in an upper apartment. On en tering this they forced open the chat aud stole therefrom a considerable sum of money, with which they escaped. It has never been ascertained whether the cuckoo sleeps under ground or hides in the hollow of tine throughout the winter, or whether it be an emigrant to warmer climates. The subject of the present article in duces the writer to believe that the cuckoo remains with with us duri n g the winter. The event occurred in the neialsbourhoiel of Poruferry, in the county of Odwo. A farmer, of the name of Joins Thomson, of the town land of Ratallow, having his teen employed to clear away the back of an old ditch, bordering upon a rabbit Morrow, fond a cuckoo inclosed in forme and f0g.... Wilco tossed up by the spade, it appeared like • small truss of hay. but when opened out, and exposed to the action of the air and the heat of the sun, it discovered symptoms of life, and stride some struggles to get on 11l I feet, and almost immediately alter flaw off with rapidity. this occurred in that time of the year just apptuachiug to this songster's season, via. March. E X TRAORDINARY CIRCONSTANCX.—(I3/41M1a New York paper of the 3014 of July.)--Oar Monday the din instant, a small terrier clog was put oil board the sloop ilms Maria, Capt. Gardner, by tile owner in this city to be transported to Rhode Island, with a view causing ban lions thedreailtisl operation of the dug law. In the course of the day, there hating been a rough sea, the dog exhibited symptoms of illness, and appeared scarcely able to walk. In the evenins lie could not be found. and it was concludi.d hot he hail fallen overboard and was lost. Nolhing more was thoug h t of the view"' stance until Tuesday night, the SOth ult., when she steward having occasion to open a small porter locker, about two feet and a hall square) these found the poor animal alive. It is ascertained that tlio locket woo fasaeued on the eliciting of the Bat, and had not apin Wen opened till the 30111. The do 4 must therefore have hate heels confined a period of twenty two days withoot fond or drink. lie was, 01 course, much Clll4lClited, but now partakes of nourishment, aud a is thetaglit MUM. • r • - t . .J -