The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-24 00:00:00

1" 'Die Jury, under the learned Judges dirLetions, found Mr. and Mrs. Gude not guilty of the several assaults alleged to have been committed on the 24th of April and the tith of May. They found Glide guilty only of the disseisin and expulsion on the 24th oS April; acquitted all the defendants of the assault nu the &tit of Ma y, and found Whitehorn, Franklin, Thornton, and Jordan, only guilty of the expulsion and assault on the 24th of TILE KING V. THORNTON AND OTHERS. This was all indictment tyaiiiSi Thomlon, White. horn, Franklin, and Jordan for the assault commit ted on Dye on the I:3ilt of April, and he being a the man who was pot into posses ion of the moiety of the house abovementioned by Mr. Hall. The facts being clearly made out as ahmementioned, the defendants were found Guilty. TILE KING V. JAMES lIALI.. This was an indictment against Mr. Hall himself, fur escaping from the custody of a constable of Margate, who had apprehended Ii in hiun upon a warrant to give sureties to keep the peace towards Mr. and Mr. Gude, whose lives he was alleged to have threatened. Mr. Gurney and Mr. Abraham conducted the prose. ocon, and Mr. Andrews the defence. it appeared in evidence, that between the 24th of April and the 6th of May last, Mr. Gude found it necessary, iu conseyience of the i violetit threats of the defendant towards hintselland wife, to apply to a magistrate named Bfys, to hold him to bail to keep the peace. The war rant was granted, and a constable having executed it, Mr. Ball made his escape Irons his custody. The war rant was directed to the constable t3l . M agate, and it appeared to have been executed by an assistant constable; upon which Mr. Andrews submitted that this was a fatal objection. Mr. Baron Graham thnueht the objection not tenable, bin sattl he would reserve the point. The Jury, snider the learned Judge's directions, found the defendant Guilty. In the Crown Court there was no case of interest. MAIDSTONE, MARCH 21,-111 consequence of the pressure of business on the Crown Side for this county, Mr. Sergeant Lawes and Mr. Taddy successively sat toalay, in the Anabaptist. Chapel of this town, to try prisoners. From the same cause it was announced, that tsl r. Baron Graham, who presided on the Civil Side, would to morrow assist Mr. Baron Wood in trying pri soners, and leave the remaining causes on the civil side as remanents until the next assizes. THE KING V. WORTNINGTON AND OTHERS._ D;isvva7;liiformation filed by the Attorney Gene ral against Wm. ‘Vot Ellington, John Ilart, and several Whet defendants, for an assault on John Smith and Ed mund Paine, on the 7th of March last, at Deal. lie prosecution was conducted at the instance of the Board of Excise. The only defendants who appeared to take their trial were Wm thington and llart. Mr. Sergeant Onslow, Mr. Marryatt, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Delany, conduced the prosecution; and Mr. Common Sergeant and Nlr. Adolphus the defence, res pectively ';or each defendant. The facts proved in evidence disclosed a case of no inconsiderable enormity against the defendants. It ap peared that a man named Brown, who had been an Excise officer, having been dismissed from his employ ment, im consequence of gross misconduct in taking bribes to conceal &tenders against the excise laws, circu lated, from motives of revenge, a list of persons whom he thought oper to designate as informers against smugglers. Many of these persons were unconnected with the practice of informing in the way imputed— amongst others were Joins Smith and Edmund Paine, who appeared to be industrious fishermen of Ikal. On the 7th of March last year the defendants seized John Smith in High-street, Deal, and dragged him into the King's Antis public house, and after threatening his life brought Mtn out, stripped him to the skin as far as the waistband of his breeches, fastened Iffin to a Capstan on the beach, tarred him from the head to Ins middle, and covered him over with feathers. lie was then fastened to a cart, and dragged round the town, the mob continu ing to apply tar and feathers to his body. Ile was almost blinded with the tar, and suffered the greatest possible croelties and indignitiea. In the pmgress of the cart round the town, the mob met with Edmund Paine, another of the persons proscribed by Brown as an infor mer. Ile was Hung neck and heels into the cart, and buckets of tar were heaped upon him, and he also was covered with feathers. In this manner both the unhappy men, in broad clay, were exhibited round the town, the cart bring drawn by the mob, who cheered and shouted in their progress, heaping upon the men the fllOit oflen +he execrations. At length the police intehered, and the unfortunate victims were extricated from their peril oni Situations. Mail sustained Considerable personal cadence, and for many days were absolutely the tar, winch got into their eyes. To this day Smith had lost the use of one of his eyes. The Common Sergeant, for the defendant Worthing ton, said he must submit to a verdict against t client, reserving such topics as might he urged in mitigOon of punishment when brought up ffir judgment. • Mr. Adolphus, for Hart, called witnesses with 1t view to the mitigation of punishment, to thew that he was nut as criminal as the other defendant. The case went in the Jury under the learned Judge's directions, and both defendants were found Kui THIS SING V. PARISH. This was an information by the Attorney GAeral against Thomas Parish, for offering a bribe to Thomas Green, a seanun employed on the Co33t, blOCkade, to neglec: his duty in giving information against the defen dant, so as to forward the landing of utieustomed si • • . The case was clearly made out in evidence, and the Jury found the defendant Guilty. John Wright, the Bristol pedestrian, commenced his undertaking to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours, last Wednesday night, ut eight o'clock, on the Bowl. ut Sheffield, .~~. , THE NATIONAL REGISTER INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARcu The Hon. George 1)e Blaquiere, a Major M the army, came up to be heard on his petition to be discharged, and was opposed by Mr. Pollock, on behalf of Messrs. Emery and Coles, *tunnies, who were hollers of the insolvent's acceptance for WI. It appeared by the evidence that Mr. Blaquiere had been in the habit of accepting bilis of accommodation for a pesson of the Mille of Dowling, who always pro vided Mr them till the last bill; but he because insol vent befote that was due. Major Blaquiere immediately communicated Dowli4s insolvency to Messrs. Emery and Coles, who were the hollers of the bill, and at the same time stated his own inability to pay it, and re. quired 15 days time, which they agreed to give, and imitle a memorandum in their books to Mat effect; after which they arrested him, three days before the expiration of the sttpulated time. Major Blaquiere on being arrested, immediately sent to Emery and Coles for all explana. tion, who said they had heard that he was about to leave the country. Ile then offered to pay the bill, but they refused to receive it without costs, and Major B. was advised by his crednars to gaits time, by taking defence , to the action, which he did; and after tney had obtained a verdict he brought a writ of error, which formed the ground of the present opposition. It also appeared that his debts amounted to 6,3851. and that he was making ariangements for the payment of all his creditors, none of whom opposed his discharge but Messrs. Emery and Coles. It came out in the evidence, that the lady with whom he lived was not his wife, although she appeared so its the eye of the world for many years; but that cir cumstances of a peculiar nature, connected with the property,prevented a marriage. This lady, it was stated, had an income of &fol. a year, besides a considerable reversionary property. Major B. stated, that the carriages, respecting which he was examined, were this lady's property, and not his. Mr. Heath, who was counsel for Major Blaquiere, submitted to the court that the vexation had beets on the part of the detaining creditors, as Major 131.aptiere had been advised by several other of his creditors to act as he had done. The Court said the writ of error could not be over looked, though the circumstances thn. gave rise to it must be allowed in mitigation. it was a striking fact, that no other creditor opposed the insulvent's discharge, and it was also a circumstance in mitigation, that the detaining credi ors might have had their debts and costs guarantee I by a cognovit ; still the Court were bound to notice the writ of error, but would wit visit the insolvent with severity. The judgment of the Court was, that he should be discharged in three mouths from the date of filing his petition. Mr. Heath said, he would propose two assignees to whom no objection could he made—Lord wythr and Mr. Leslie, who were both creditors, and interested in the welfare of the insolvent. They were accordingly appointed. DEATH by ExPLostox.—On Monday last, at one o'clock, a coroner's inquest was held at the General Abercrombie putihe-horse, 111ackfriars-road, before T. Shelton, Esq. coroner for bunion and Southwark, on the body of John Morgau, who was unfortunately killed ou Friday by the sudden bursting of a water tank. After the Jury had taken a view of the premises, the following evidence was adduced :—Thomas Mees, one of the workmen employed by Messrs. Grazebrook and Co., iron masters, near Stourbridge, stated, that the deceased was sent up to town for the purpose of pintinv, the tanks together, about 16 months since, some part of the Outs they were employed by the Westminster and Nortoo lalgate Gas Companies. This is the South London Gis Company, in Wellington-street. A crack appearing in the plate of the tank, witness and deceased were ordered to mend it ; there was a crack in it helbre, which was repaired by a wrought iron patch. but the crack extend ing higher, a larger patch was procured, and they took the old one ott, and walker/ it w•th the new to fasten the screws in the right places. After placing the patch to the batik, they secured it with a prop against the wall, which held it water-tight. Witness and deceased then proeeeded to drill the remainder of the holes, when, on putting the seventh pin in, the hoop gave way, burst, and instantly dropped MI. Winless said to the deceased, "Come away; it will burst," and ran from it a short distance, w hen he and deceased mound again, in order to secure the hoop, and out reaching the tank the deceased climbed up the side, for the purpose of Mints frig sonic dirt in, to prevent the water flowing, when witness again requested him to conic away, observing, " it will surely burst." At that moment witness was stooping to pull away the hoop, when the tank exploded, and he was carried to a distance of from 15 to 11 yards by the vio lence of the water. (in recovering himself he looked after the deceased, and found hint among some unither about 30 yards' distance. He was nut wen dead, but insensible, and bled profusely from the cars; lie died soon after he was taken into the General Abercrombie. Witness could nut say what caused the accident ; it might he occasioned from the pressure of the water, which caused the plate to crick, and the hoop to burst.— Mr. Robert Mono), one of the principal proprietors, was then examined, who said, that the weight of water in the tank was 752 tons. Ile then described the tank, ud said the plates were considered suaicient to bear the easy weight. The loss is very heavy to the contrac•ors, Its the terms of the contract were not fulfil:ed.—Mr. Evans, sorgeoa, was of opiaion, that the deceased died of a rupture of a blood vessel on the brain, which might be caused by a severe sudden concussion or fall.—The Jury retired, and, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of—Accidental Death. _ _ DuaL.—A meeting took place early on Monday morning in a field 3t liernall, near Hounslow, betwet M F. It. M—u--y, Esq. and Capt. The misun derstanding arose on Swintlay- night, aiiJ the cause ori ginated respecting Mrs. ‘V --y, late chrre wrie of a noble Lord. Mr. M. was wounded in the hip in the second tttc, but nut liaztatua.ly, the Lvll lid net luJge. frj The congregation of a dissenting meeting-houv, situated near the sea beach at Troon, Scotland, met wi►h a singular impediment to their egress from the place of worship on Sunday the 10th inst. During the sermon the tide rose to a very unusual he►ght, and surrounded the building. As the congregation occupied the upper story of the house only, this overflowing of the watcr.s was unobserved till they were abut to retire, when they were rather sur. primed to find themselves completely insulated.— The worthy clergyman had no other alternative than to commence another discourse, and by the time it was brought to a conclusion, a number of carts, &e. had arrived, by :limns of which the congregation were extricated from their unpleasant situation. On Tuesday last the men belonging to the Pre ventive Boat at Kessingland seized, at sea, an open yawl, with 120 kegs of spirits, which were carried • to Sonthwold. The crew of the yawl were taken, and are sent to gal Last Saturday week the church of Slype, between Ostend and Nieuport, was struck with lightning, and entirely consumed, except the bare walls.— W e learn also from Groningen, that the lightning struck the steeple of St. Martin's, and set fire to it. A Welch clergyman applied to his diocesan for a living. The Bishop prort:::ed him one; but as the parson wag taking his leave, he expressed a hope • that his Lordship would not send him into the in. terior of the Principality, as his wife could not speak Welch. " Your wife, Sir !" said the Bishop— " What has your wife to do with it, she does not preach, does she ?"." Nu my Lord," said the parson, " but she lectures !" Two persons are to be examined on Friday next, at the Mansion-house, for receiving goods on false pretences, to give individuals who have bac' de frauded an opportunity of coming forward to exhibit any charges which they might have to make. A short time since as a man was ploughing a field, about a mile from Trelowarren, Cornwall, the seat of It. Vyvyan, Esq. the ploughshare struck against an earthen vessel or urn, and scattered about a number of coins, which, on examination were • found to be Roman, many of them of the first Em perors. They are of various sizes, and, in general, in good preservation. The number found is up. wards of 1600, and the man who discovered them being ignorant of their value, sold them at a penny a piece to all who wonid purchase them. He has since become sensible of his fully, but too late to re trieve it- Many years ago a number of arrow heads were found in the same field. _ COLON E INQUEST.—On Thureday evening an inq teat was held on the body of T. IVilson, at the Golden Lion, in Leatlenhall-street, who came by his death by takina• oxalic acid. sold him at a chymist's by mistake for Epsom salts.—He was served early in the morn erg by an errand boy, with a blue paper, on which was written •6 Poison," which he thought to be wilts, and soon after expired in great agony. though Mr. Pugh, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, administered medicine to hum to neutralise the poisonous acid, which is used by dyers and for cleating boot tops. Mr. S. Briggs, residing with Messrs- Sheamian and Jones. having also sent to the same shop. the person was served by the boy with a similar article, but very tintunately he took but one third part of the quantity. whirr was neutralized by medicines administered by Mr. Pugh. The proprietor of the shop attended, and said lie was not at home at the tinte, and declared the boy was never instructed to sell any article, and he took the acid fmtn the drawer, in his opinion. for the purpose of pillage. After some remarks from the Coroner and Jury, the latter returned a Verdict on the body of the deceased Wilson, n that he came by his death by taking oxalic acid, which was unwittingly vended to him for salts."— Mr. Briggs is still in a very weak state. MIVIDEgF Os THE TUASITB—On r May morning between five and six o'clock, a most tremendous hurricane sprung up troth the N.N.W. Two coasters broke front their moorings. and coming in contact, tour men, that were endeavouring to right them, were thrown by the violence of the concussion into the stream, three of whom were drowned ; the fourth, more fortu nate, caught hold of a piece of spar that was floating, and was fortunately picked up by a boat from the notherhithe shore.— The survivor's name is lioniton ;of the three others, M•Darnal and ltobinion are known as having large homilies ; the other is a young man not out of his apprenticeship. Considerable injury is done to other craft on the River, but it don+ not appear that any more lives have been lost. The violence, unfortunately. has not been only on the Hirer, for in most parts of the metropolis contiguous to the Thames the eh!act of the Bile was experienced in the uurootng of houses, s eceping oIF the coping stones, de stroying chimney puts, windows, - tax. It Ilea not however. transpired that any personal injury has been sustained. As the sun advanced to the meridian time wind abated. DESTRUCTIVE AND AtAll.Ml FIRE.--On Thursday last between twelve and one o'clock, the neighbourhood of White- • chapel was thrown into the greatest alarm and contusion, in sot sequence of a tire breaking out in the very extensive sugar.houte of Mr. List, in Little Abe Street, Goodmon's Fields. The fire made its first appearance front the whale'', of the third story. and burned with almost int-nettle fury, illuminating the ulnae neighbourhood, and infusing terror and dismay among the sur rounding inhabitants, who wine to be seen running in a state of nudity, and almost bordering on distraction, bearing away to a place of safety the different portable articles cf their fermture, und other geode, which they could conveniently carry in the hurry of the moment ; but several of dams were eased of their incumbrances by the thieves, who had, in they ere wont to do on all such occurrences mustered very stronely at first on this occa• -ion, whirl: having come to the knowledge of Mr. Wyatt, the resident :Magistrate at Lambeth titreet, he promptly repaired to the scene tat conflagration, rind with the officers, and a partyct the Bow Street Patrol stationed in that district, paneled the streets all night to preserve order. T h e different timenginci were on the spot as early as could be CY pected, art-were well supplied with water, and skilfully winked, but all exertions used to conquer the tire proved itleortive, as the premise* with all the stock in trade, were reduced to a heap of smoking ruins. Tile nropriet it is insured in two offiees, but we could not learn to what amount or how the .`.re originated. The de/cling house of List, which is adjoining the sugar house wit, tire on Thursday. The engines ware LAW at work, and the ..itzutzt Lee casicactely intunlatoai,