The National Register. — London, England, 1818-07-26 00:00:00

Tilit COUNTV .11 SIZES. WILTSHIRE. ,_.,, . _ Mr. Joiotice Park and Mr. Justice liarron;L arrived at SA. li4bury ou Saturday last, and opened their commissions tor the assure iu the county •of Wilts. On Nlotidity they con,- cii-oresl business ; Mr. Justice Itsirrosigh presided at Nisi I- Las, and Air. 3n:sliver Park on the Croon side. The grand jury having !seen scorn, use Judge addressed them to use following etfeet :- . --They were assembled in the C.trader of a grand • inquest for the county, to exercise one of the most important &actions that could belong to the members of a civilised sotiely. lie was sorry to obsen e, that leaving tilready gene three tittles on this circuit, his ex perience did not furnish any previous instance of so large a calendar of offences. There must, therefore. have been a considerable anywise of crime in their county, although not of Bic deepest dye. As Magistrates, they were tieces*arily /teen:tinted with the roles and nature of abut proceeding in which they a ere about to he engaged. 'there was, however, one cams to which it might he proper for him to advert; it Was that of a litishand unit oife committed for the saute felony. Upon look at the depositions, it appeared to him very donbtful which of these too persons had done the guilty act ; bet if they were both parties In it, the woman was not legally answerable ; the law presuming in her favour that she acted ander the contritel anti by the coercion of her husband. That was a point, huaryer,on which, it they experienced any diMeolty,they might refer to that conrt for investigation. He should be happy to exteod whatever assistance they might stand ht nerii ot, ant:oat:lt' he might remark tfeneralty. that their duties could not be more clearly er snore explicitly de ecribedthan they werean Ilse oath which had been jest taken. There was one ri. - ettiossranco in the present calendar, winch he eonld nut observe withoitt feelings both of surprise and un eitoiness He lead alluded to a circumstance of a similar nature on a (critter occasion, and he now liund in a calendar clsixty eases, one full third were of persons tinder Of) years of age, seine of them, indectl.ia extreme. youth. Hu ars wholly at a loss to what cause to ascribe so melatirholy a fact. I'erisaps that.systent of National glitscation, according to the doctrines and pi iucipll s of the Establi-heil Church, which did so snitch hoiloor to Coe wise and hem velem persons who promoted it, hod not yet had time to produre all its Irene-lickl effects among the younger classes of society, and Ito cherished hope that it %could ultimately operate its restrain this early depravity. The isrogtes of such an improvement must be greatly assisted by the increased means offended to the public of attending places of religious wordnp. He had no reason to doubt the excellence of the disciptiite which wits maiti • tamed in their county gaol, or to believe that the prisoners did not receive all those atteritions seine's were proper for them in their sitention. They could not, however, pay too anxious a consider:Jim' to that subject ; and lie should recoil'. memt it to them to satisty their ntindsre.specting it by ocular demonstration. 'llse crand jury then retirad, anti in a few minutes found several tulle bills. 1 . 1104 t. which %ere tried on Monday sere not of any peculiar or genet al iniertst. Willidin Woodbridge was the 14,1 prisoner placed at the t , or,ositl indicted for steaiiog nine-pence halfpenny from the till of the Post-otlicc at .`!4:11, sham, lie bring employed as a letter eat tier at that othe e. In the course of the evidence it apps aced, that the pristoitcr had been engaged in this capacity obout live years, during ohich time similar depredations had been committed. Fur the purpose of detecting the offender, the precaution was at length taken of fixing a particular mark on the mency placed in the till. 'the prisouer Was Ills. rays eel taking a part of it ite a clandestine manner, and a 1. ‘..t ooh oas 111. r 'ow found 'upon his person. The _jury pronottneed a verdict of guilty, and the Court, in col i c- to testify its reuse of the extreme (twofer Sc all the :onfitlence of domestic seciety, arising Irons the offence of :rrs.ints rubbing their masters, ionnvoliately seitteuced the cri:omer to be tiansported fur seven years. W 'than% Jones, aged 18, and William Jerkins, of the slate age, a rse indicted on three sev...al charges of stealing two mart and gelding, the properto of William Clements. Wiliiam Clements deposed, that he lived near Bristol, and •Isas he missed the horses in rptention on thetOth of Aptil last, I•i company a ith-a friend, he went the next twos snug in search . of liiens, and at length traced the gelding to a public house at /21tal:on, its Wiltshire. The two prisoners %vete iu the 11011 Se, at.ci the Isittiluril having cousnomicated his suspicions to him, he Linked at the gelding, %Illicit lie fosind to be Ins own. lie Anew it immediately, ,havin4 bred it himself, by the mat it of a kick which it had received on its off tore !eg, and by a blaze ea ate fin elicad. Thomas Head proved, that the prisoners offered the gelding to him for solo. The price asked was twenty guitteits. They es fro away, and retortted a Olt the animal in the evening, vo pi:aux to part with it fist !rt. He took tile prisones il:t0 cm body at a plare called Etna,. Ate objection was taken by the prisoners' connscl, that as there was tot proof of the original taking in this evidence, .1 niere pii‘sessiutt in a differeot comity could Soot he legadv admitted as a proof of a fresh taking ; that being the only peiaciple ms whirls felonies could LIU Hied in other comities them those in which they were comieitted. In this case the horses Mfrs a alleged to have been taken tit llristol, anti Weer - I scores eel in 1% itishii e. _ fir. Jamie , Park thought there was no fonantation for that' objection, %Melt he said had tiers; tp,er-roduit by all the Judges of England on a siniAar point *elks - red to their eutt,i. ricrrtiun. William Bramble. aced It )earn, seas capitally ..... , onvieted of o tru i mx us sloe dwenitig•tionse ur Wulliaus I))cri at Kings !pit; 411 /lir rottnty of Wilts, RI goincas in gold, 31. in wow, and on. r at tides, Oil the Yath May last. )uutliful r Wiwi/ ii4l, it apperi ell, runts ibell to enter the itsioss,e whilst ha family as r , • .11 Chtlfell, anti after rezaolig !titian If its the rantry, as%ay the 111i),C5 y tic,erst.csi its the indict ssismt. It ii 44 1%111'4 upon Him 31101st 4 lic:ack on the ~,e . , !re.lingni.n./Piag, at a place situate at six dlatallee f!-,.us the 'Mite of the prusectitur4 The jury tumid him lie manifested na 9tynnitotais uf alarm or penitence, nor at. ItAtpletl any kind of slufehro. CIVIL SIDE. WETJDT. DATC:AELLON AND eIIAPNIAN. The plaihturt i.r twofer, re.iding ne4l Weapon?, and paid 4 thb..sse. to ate *Wt., Of thy tirtesitlaot Batchelor in Sep. ICIIIIIICO Lt:!. A !Air I* 4.1 InaNy 'kelt, at that place, and tit • Na., invited to witness It a•Dtertdinntent* at the humor ri .laiiiig ‘vi+ ll a large an.. • ,11.40 , 4 litn•rally oh ilk, the f,tortizit • ..1 the cum:mi., • ..tut" iht I , mseittene akonnbllnVt: polised relnD•t• •• 411 c .' r Whtell was in 1110i41.,::., the 1•1.41:21,ti WAS com• .ok 4 411%6 or muddy and aced:•*.itt:a hoer, by She vlitc:ng u pistol rt hi3.brvi:at. Ile WAS t!it.n THE NATIONAL REGISTER bedaubed witithe mixtbre of coot and oil,ro which was added a varnish of pat Ming ofieroartis c•iii•lneted to the pump, he was drenched from head to foot, apparently in the vain expectation of porifjine his ',cretin from the unseemly effects of the for m er aliplica . !on. Fin this itsjury he nine sunlit for comPensaluin us a Coca 1 of Justice. Amelia Wet,, the only leitile3t called, foaled, that the was the sister of the miff was a oihices to the traits. action complained. of. Her evidence, however, only seem to diselote the lam of the will-Haze having Atitisc,44ntly taken place between the families, add In a vindication of the ladies from the suspicion of having been at all surprised by the power of that ale which, had completely mastered the un derstandings of the gentlemen engaged itsthis affair. . It was he - re agreed that a smiler should be taken by con sent for the plaiutiff—Datusges 30s. DORE 1/. ANTRUM'S. This was an trctisn brought by the plaintiff apinst the de fendants, Sir E. Antrobus, Bart. nod Coatis Trotter, Esq. mentors of the late Earl of Peterborough, to recover the expebces incurred in conducting the funeral of that noble man, and' was set down ou the special jury list. Thiee special jurnrs, however, only attended, and a tales was there. fore prayed on the part of the plaintiff. The pleadings bay. big been opened,. by which it appeared that the plaintiff 's claim amounted to the sten of 3,0011. of which, LOOM hard bei.n paid into Court,- Mr. Sergeant Ptil stated the gent ral cir cumstances of the case. The plaintiff was a personengaged in a very extensive line of business in the city of Bath, where the late Loud. Peter. baronet' had fur sometime before his death generally resided, Ile died, however, in Jnue, 1811, at his seat at Dantsey, distant front Bath abont 2foinites. Upon this oecasion ap plication was made to Mr. Dore to undertake the 'opera.' teuilance of the fienerid one mode of minimal magnificence.— It was natural thet he •hould accept this offer, as it not only involved a very con-dilerable profit, but furnished the oppor. ttinity of displaying his skill in a very peculiar branch of his business. lie was sure the minds of the jury would not be unfavoloafey prepossessed towards the claim of his client, merely on account of the extent or apparent enormity of his demand. The question depended on the nature of the con. tract, and on the fact of the wok undertaken having been performed. The payment 015 large portion of the debt into Court excluded trout consideration every point except the bare reasonableness of the vat ions items of which the plain tiff's demand was comp-twit. The sum now disputed waslool, and as all attempts at an mineable adjustinesit of this MI. let dice had unfortunately failed, his client had been driven to his action against the ext cutors. h would appear in evi deuce, that Mr. [lore received Iris first instructions Ott this subject fi om an intimate friend of the late Lord Peterbolaugh, 3lr. Smith, who informed him that the fennel was to be cow ducted in no ordinary way, and that he must exercise his own judgment the preparation of it, on u plan of adequate splendour. le addition to this, it would be proved that Mr. Colitis Trotter, one of the executors, personally attended the funeral, and mast have been aware of its nature, and the ex pense which it necesritrily involved. lie might remark also, that although the bill was sent in immediately after the fa neral, no objection was made to the charges it contained for a period of six months. The defendants had not. therefore, beet' very suddenly sti tick with the excess of the demand mane upon them. lie would state, also, a ithoot fear of con. tradictiou, that the celeisiony lead been conducted in every respect with the most perfect order, and in strict confurmity to the general instructions which had been received. Tht: prucessiou had pii•-seil over a space of two miles, and if it ties thought right in this manner to consult the dignity of an English Earl, the disposition to defray the cost ought not to be wanting. It the remains of the Earl of Peterborough were not to lie deposited in the grave without all these ac companimeets of eratic:etir, The beret of heraldry, and pomp of power," the common pi iliciples of justice requited that the burthen should fell on those alio succeeded to his property. It was probably their elegance and taste which bad been the cause of so sutierb a display of Infidel ornament, and they t not shrink . fitnio the consequences of their gratification. worth' beg to draw their attention to one single point of the hilt, an tl.ie fairness of which they would be tailed on to decide; because, if the justice of that charge should be established, it would serve to indicate the merits of the whole iiiquiry. A AVM of betweeit 1,5001. and 1,8001. I . Jriiing put of the whole i demon', was on accuent of the furnitlise an I decorations provided fur the occasion of the deireawd Latt's lying iii state. It appeared that it was deemed necesseiy, as a last token of respect to his person, to ado'', this stale town ait h every costly a openange imitable to such a pm perse. lie would not enter into any minute description of these decorations, which would come with more audio' by from the aims saes ; and conclude therefore by assurilig the jury, that although this inquiry wool(' probably engage a considerable portion of time, nu effort had been spared ou hie part to geuetalize it as much as possible. Da; id Itioisi it was the first witness called, and stated that he had exted as assistant to the plaintiff in s et oviding for the fluidal of Lord Petro nereligh. had lino eite,a;ett that line of business foe 11 yeues previously, and had inspect. ed the items of the plainlid 's bill alien it was osiginally made ant. His Lordship died in June, 1811, nod the funeral cei e monies were un the largest and must expensive "male that he had ever witnessed or heard of. The body lay in state for two or three days in 4 large room most aplendilley Mr. Trotter was present, and tee witness could testify to the due execution el eve.ry or der that was given. The state room arts of large dituenaions, ;mil was I:nng with superfine bled: cloth fCOIII the ceiling, the flour being coveted with second binek cloth. Between 70 noel 80 wax.liglos were kept burning, 11 which weighed above a poised each. The hotly was placed on a magnificent platform, ornamented with festoons of lnatk satin, and sun mounted with a 'lonic, hoed inside and outside with a ride black velvet, mid cover e d cc nth ostrich ;dames. 'the platform oas also friuged with selse t, and behind it was placed a transparency, in which was set the acideventent of the deceased. Theta was also some smaller transparencies in the room. Several banners and escutcheons were raised in differ rut places, and eight m u t es were kept constantly in ascendence. 'llw coffin was curried with the richest crimson tieisaa velvet, on which were elso inscribed the Earl's arini.riat bearings. The pall was the liallASOMeSt the witness bad ever soen. Mr. r. Trotter were inesent tit e. days before as well as during the tanerel. 'Cu some they objected ;is slut being good et iiiii Alt. Tilt! praVri%ii , ll COMINICJ Of a !Wane, sews n coaches. C4eti dirge . .? e y six horses, one chat tut and t o ur till' the cier;4- awn, inb 11 by sit Mess, eight mute*, two feather. .:Ist •. nirty airy pages, and a grand page out horseback, beetle., tim coronet. The plain tarsals jou duceu in Court area . ;jet:tett, as lint being sufficiently hand. lento for Om hew; 'Lod gotd estee were secosilingly pro- JULY 26. tided. It Wilt necessary to send for the Roemer i art of tliesw things from L.mion. (Here the is illlnsA %vdA tAall,l, , cd as t o the price Of porticolar items. moo of which l shot.. !.t were not vainly' at too high a rate.) It was not flit. pract.ce to re turn the o.al.intry articles provided on .iieli an oceasiou to the under'... or, but they became the perquisites of the clergy - Moll au.; the dhiltestieth Certain snips were ordered by Mr. Ward, the sits ward, to be paid to particular individuals in lien of these perquisites. 'Die clerk of the parish received 101. the motes 21. each, the mule link( r, for his persen,.l trouble 1 and assistance st the solciiinizaiiim of the cocoon, 2SI. unit wi.iiess Mutsu :f 101. Several Ititiipiket were pnssr. by the procession in its o .. to the church. Hatbands and scarts Iwere always Jive,' i , those who wore them on these occasions. 'nine of ?..e s..rvatits received one, and loose two lUitli of clothes. Cross•exarni.:t by Mr. Casberd. —Witness was no longer engaged in the business of nn undertaker, but travelled tot a house in the wine and spirit line. An interval of about tea days occur te d between the death and the funeral of Lord Peterburongh. The distance between the church and the room :in which his Lordship's body lay in state did not exceed. by the nearest door, mote twenty yerds ; but by the grand entrance it might be about 200. The pro; elision, Loweve•. took a circuitous course of two miles, that it might be seers by a sufficient number of spectators. 11e recullee•ted that foe On e article alone, the silver gilt nails of the coffin, Sal. had been charged. They were of a yellow colour, and their 'it, bee he was ignui alit of. Joseph Barnes, a labourer, deposed, that he had made ::.e shell, and the oak coffin, in which the remains of Lord Pe. terborough were deposited, and his charge fur the timber and labour was 101. 85.34., which Mr. Dose paid him: part of this he paid to a man who assisted him. Here it appeared by a reference to the bill, that the cliargz WWI about 101. to the defendants. Susannah lemmuin, housekeeper to the late Lord, described the dress of the body when laid in the coffin. It web corn. posed of satin and the finest cambric. 'the servants, whit were vine in number,-rereived two suits of clothes each. After some additional e% idence on the %aloe of the different articles, as this inquiry appeared to be almost indeterminable.. Mr. Justice Iturrough earnestly sec mended a reference t•' sonic gentleman at the bar, svho, as the witnesses had been brought in great numbers, both (Min Bath and London, migist immediately proceed in their further examination, and decide on the general merits of the accnnnt. This suggestion, after smile reluctance, was acquiesced in by the part:es, and the Wrote case referred to Mr. Abraham Moore. Nothing took place on the Crown side of the slightest pub. tic interest. WEDNLADAY. John I.awes was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the house of Mary Steevens, in the parish of llishopstone, on the night of the lath of April. 1817, and stealing therefrom 66 guineas. This trial occupied a considerable portion of the day, and depended upon very peculiar and circumstantial evidence. Mary Steevens, an elderlywoman, and a widow with four children. 410,ros A l, that on the night in question she was awelte by hearing noire resembling that of a person rummaging in her drawer s , and perceived a tall - man walitmg through her mom. She was much alarmed, and called nut •• Who be you, and what do you want 1 e answered," Be quiet, or I'll blow your brains out." He had in Lie hand a lantern, with a candle burning in it, and wore a dark great coat. There was a great deal of money consisting of guineas. half guineas. and seven shilling pieces, which she kept in her chest, but the exact amount of it at the time she did not know. It was left to her by her husband in order to provide for her children. Being cross-examined, she admitted that she received assbaauce from the patish at the period of the robbery. Her daughter rind another woman were it the hotise.and they all went to bed at the same time. after fastening the doors and windows. The woman who lived with her was named Fanny Perring, and was placed there by the gentle men of the parish. Her own weekly allowance was 3d. and a quer tern loaf. She paid no rent for the bowie. as it had been lice hus band's freehold. the could nut say whs.ther the trisoner at the bar was the znun Sill! saw in her ruo:n, although the 1110:711 share brightly. Ite-examined.—She got up when he was gone, found that the money had been taken away, and a wiudow forced open wide enough to admit the body of a man. Sarah Steevens, the daughter of the last witnes , ,, ars next called, and corroborated the teettamny of her mother in all its material circumstances, with the addition that she also saw the man de scribed, and Llieved him to be the prisoner. She had teen him hemieruly before, but bring ignorant of the name, had heen suable to give any informatian to the magistrate until he ass apprehended iu Aprd last, twelvemonths atter the commission of the robbery. She, and lien her mother, had the management of the money left them by her father, and she knew the exact amount of it at the time it was carried away. Thirty guineas of it had been lent to a person of the mime of Lodge, who had returned it in the March preceding. Ferny Perring also saw a man, as above described, rats through the outer chamber in which she slept, betwecu the hour. of 12 and one at night. He had on a dark great stoat with sereral capes to it, as of a caddy complexion and study hair. She mss suite sure is was the prisoner at the bar having frequently seen Lim before. They got up attar he war Bone, and went to one or too neighbouring fanners, wno Caine to their hence and witnessed tl.e state or the window. She ince the prisoner ois the road in company with Mrs. Lodge about two months after. He &mated her, but :hey had no conversation. Gros-examine.—She had known the prisoner's person for some time. bur was ignornnt of Lis rxsue. She had Own'., 'tilted. that if she sltnald see hitt again File Ci.Uid rc utrnise l. im. She had liven in the habits of ob , evving him at the niectii.g.how e. rlic , e he assisted in per arming the smirk. She 'villa not dis:.ncily re:()ltct. but her belief was thar she did not see him there after the tebberv. She could sol mnly lAF:lar diet she had Lever expressed her belief that it %was anoi.et rcrsm, or that she bad ever said td:e had hid her head under the heti-eluthes when she perceived a Ittranger in her chamber. Richard Curtis. a tithingman. in consequence of informati to which Le had se:cis-al, r.pprchentli si the prw...er in April last. lie found hit.i in gaol et !Indium. in Cornwall, and knew hist as haeirl formerly beta laeour. r in nie pr.rirls of hishopstune. %V. Swaine, Demur Clerk of the Peace for the county, knew the prisoner's, person. Ile had hten, previous to April, In 7, in the ha bit of teeming parish relief. and working on what was tolled the aft moviiich sir itied the doing jobs for dlifercnt farmers in succession. In use e outdid April of last year the pri.oner crane :o hint hand somely dressed, basing briote generally warn a shabby bark great coat. He . protluer:d two"winewas,• and said he came to pay the feel of an expired trevgdst.nee to keep the peace. which for himself and :sureties amounted to ii. 194 He had a purse with more guitnas in it. and likewhe paid the fees of another rc...gnizance which lad beta respited. Ile saw hint no more ur.iil. w.. 1) taken ir.to custody. The in honer was a married roan, and bib wife kit Bishepstehe a short time after his disappearance. The prisoner in his defence merely threw him (if on the merciful consideration of the Court. obierv:ag that he h been additive to pouching. the consequence of which was that his frier.ds bad become his fees. Air. Justice Park 6:mulled 11,1 the evidence with Jreat accuraey and minut.n.Na„ ...1 the remark, that it was a ease of eats% me Unto:tome. A tloubt had bee n sttir:;ested whether this charge b.! rs.is.t.".icied by the preiznt thlictateht, on the ground that.