The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

W the three latter alum. slam:emus. The wlmle of the are ft re, and the enemy. without troops., cattle., ca vas ty, or orl' ed.! e, t defend this capital, to *Melt place the hberatiug :witty is etlveueissk. CAA. PievoLETT, Chief of Oen. Staff. [iced quarters, Sombrero, &c. ATTS.CI( O' TIM. NVoncersTen Sun day se'nnight, between one and two o'clock in the morning, as the London end Worcester mail wits Stocketichurch-hill, two men came out of the wand, and threw large atones at the guard and coach. , man, some of which hit them on the head, and one passed through the window ; they then got upon that' part of the coach on Which the guard. sits, and demand ed the bags; tic guard immediately snapped his pistols at them but they both flailed in: the pan ; Ott' fel lows, hoter.i.' , .'er, quitted the coach,• and as they were moving , tf, the gnarl discharged his blunderbuss at th e m. When the coach arri‘ed at Oxford, the rftssen gerr signol a paper testifying to the proper conduct of the guard on the occasion. The Rockingham Advertiser contains the following parre:, , raph :—" The Commissioners of the Leeds Water works have forted Their attention fo' the extinction of' fires ; and with that view they have promulgated a plan which, in their opinion, will be moth more efficacious than the sinking of fire-plugs. The plan is as simple as it is important. On-the appearance of a fire within the range of the serving pipes of the water-works, they !`quest the inhabitants td ctg doWri to the serving pipes through, thereby allowing the whole body of water sent Myth from the works to flow freely into the welly trade by digging for the pipe," Notwithstanding the cfefaltation of the angst', in the Custotn duties, aniounfing' to 257,7531. ; there ties been an increase of the Customs in the quarter since the Soh of April, of 58,0381. In the Excise, the increase fa the quarter since the sth of April has been 350,2741.; 'ilking a total increase of 408,3121. In the night of the lat. inst. the house of the Swedish Con sul &enlist at Copenhagen was robbed of an iron cheat.con tinning upwards of 107,000 crowns. Fortunately, however, the chest WO dbictriered limpet's - 11 the heat morning, con tealdefinider St heap of stones. . Matthias, Maher, fbr forgery e Lena de Caseanx, ter stabbing I Catholic Priest; and David Davis for shooting at Lord palnierston, who were acquitted at the Old Bailey Semitone, •it the ground of inanity, hat ;ordered to be confined until his Majesty*s pleasure eliould be knew's, have been removed to Bethleheth (;capital. • On Ttitstilsp, as M. Seater, Of flirt/ice, was passing through Fleet Street, be Was hustled by a gang Of` thieves, Who rut his pocket-bunk oft of his pocket, Containing bank notes to the amount of 1781. with which they got clear off A dreadful fecideat occurred on Wednesday evening, Pear the end of fifteen Street, in the King's Road, Chelsea, by a single horse c h at t% in Which were a gentleman and two ladies, coming in conrafht. xjth the carriage of Lord Spencer Chardon', by which the een‘Tbnitin and ladles were thrown out with vest violent., and one of the ladles so time', hurt, that she died in &bout two hones after the accident. The gentle man had his leg broken, and the other lady received a violent contusion. ' His Lordship escaped witkont injury, but his carriage *as ainch damed. An attempt was made about one o'clock on Saturday morning to ov , :rturu the Liverpool mail, on its descent down Nochley Hill, on Es way to town, by taking off not less than five different gates. and ylacieg them at two hundred yards distance across the road.—Fortu natley the only accident was falling of the Votses ; not an individual *et hart. Four,proprietors were in and upon the coach. Thirst tempt its supposed to. have been by a gang of housebreaker., who have for come time anzunitted various robberies la end near Whittle bury. Wednesday an inquest was 1,46 at the Mitre. Upper-street, Is Lngton, on the body of Mr. Knight. a venerable inhabitant of that street. It applited, that the deceased had spent the evening preeed ing his death with some friends in llolfiorn, and retired about eleven being quite sober. About to o'clock he was found by the watchman, in a speechless and insensible state, lying at the corner of a street rear St. John's-equine, in which state he was conveyed to St. John's watch house, dazed sluing in one corner of it. and no further atten tion paid bids until the next morning when they were preparing to leave the watch house' when finding him still in the rune state. they searched his poclets. discovered his address. and had him cot e-yeti home ;•+ pit. Semple, e surgeon, of Islingfen, Was sent for. whose aid was inefficacious. and he died in a few henna afterwe4s. The Jury appeared highly incensed at the officer fur permitting him to retrain all night without rendering him every assaptanee its theit power. tut theopinioe of the surgeon was, that he died of a fit of apoplexy: end thimgh tarty medical assistance might have prevented k is di ss olution so soon, he could not positively say it would. The Jury, after expressing a wish that the ease might be made as public ne possible. Ts:tumid the following Verdict—Died by the visitation of God in alle of apaplesty I and added, at the same time, the Jury earsnre recited their verdict without expressing their indignation at the want of attetttion manifest on the par: of the seperintendett of C..e watch of the parish of St. John, Clerkenwell; in pens tting the deceased to remain ten hours in a state of insensibility wiffiout call ing in medical assistance. An inquest was lately held at Great Bolton, en the hotly of a new h rn fee ,sic inf a nt, when on the testimony of a surgeon and Om the Jury brought in a verdict of wilful niurderagainrt 0r.... Mary Yates, who wee thereupon 4-committed to Lancaster Castle. on Tuseday'evening, as the Preston oath was coming up Bridge r.rett, Nlanclietter. three children were crossing over the street, tied a cart also passing, and another cart standing, when two of the chit -41; 7t:l got iinfortaately entangled in the wheels of the coach and were killed.—Thejery were satisfied, from (he evidence before them, that no blame wilinesee attached to the coachmen, and found a verdict sesortingly.• Tucson) , 'night, about eight o'clock, Mrs. Henr;atte. Lamb, of Thiel...street, Piccadilly, was stopped in Grosvenor-dace, by two men, who demanded her money ; one of them presenting at the seine time a large knife. They robbed her of a half sovereign and two mix. pelves. &Isobel' bonnitand tieentter, after which one of the infilans had the cruelty to knock her diiwb. and they both ran away. Tutsciwy.rit6ht a young wimuut, of fashionable opproneftteit ae eomproatel by another (mune. went to the Theatrical eltnplirnise i in the Hayniarkpi, &Mudd frte.BankstliehttidisAYsthlwtit eitimarrifed bans ehgenentiy. and their ft iends being tinprepanel to receive them. their *trete boingainexpectsd, they were in want °tithed, and would thahlt her te.atipply then) with one, ul,ich acceded to; but in the morning. ere malotig their eppearence, Mrs. it. Went o the apart. m birds meet, wool emote the had flown ; liming taken wit h them a set e,• ; .. ki g a ;,ps, a pair of sheet, and a platen:, of feathco frvpi the bed. NATtONAT. !MG-STEM LAW INTI LICENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER ; Mkt 20. TUE ATTOUNSV 610.11 MAL W. MALIN!. The Suliciiur•lienrt.s stated, that this was au information tiled by the Attortie).(ienes aktinst the defendnitt, fur Karin/ in him pocsea•ion 14 large quantity ot• vegetai•lr pow der, mode limn scorched peas and beans, resembling coffee, and intended to be sold as sun, contrary to the atamte of the 4:1,1 of the King, whereby he berawe liable to pay a tine of 1001. The proper ordeer from the excise attended and proved, that the defendant Lad regularly entered himself as a dealer its tea, entree, choculsste, sc. and had entered two rooms in Nurthnnibei land alley f ronelimelo•stree t, fur roasting cotes.. Two years back, lie Had entered himself, in like form, as having two rooms fin rousting cotree in Crown-street, Streit J. 'Awes deposed, that he had lived servant with the de fendant upwards of twe years. He attended to the business in Nurthnniberiand-niley. lie was a coffee toaster. He constatrffy roasted peas and beans, and ground them into powder: When so growl the powder very much resembled coffee. Senietimes the sweepings of the coffee were thrown in among the peas ane•bealis. He carried out this ponder to several grocers in different pasts - of the town. On ernmexamination he said, lie never sold any of the powder alluded to as ender ; it was called American Vege , table powder. The Lill. produced (entitled, " Vegetable Powder, being a uliolesoine and nutritious breakfast, mann faettired oily by %%Manus,- at h. 2d. per 1b..) applied to a different powder to that lin had been describing. The latter powder sold as • • Vegetable Powder," was made of Indian wheat and peas roasted, and ground together. He bad seen some bilis for the American Powder, but never saw any powder p=ked up in them. Another servant, named 'f. Jones. cosiffimed the testimony of the preceding witness, an .1 deposed, that he had taken (identities of the powder to Mr. Palmer, in Red Lion-street, Whitecliiipel ; Mr. Gray, in Bisliopsgate•stieet; Mr. Hall, in Gravel-lane ; Messrs. llowen and Holmes, in Rateliffe: Highway ; and to several other_, J. Richardson, an excise -officer, deposed, that in Decem ber, 1817,0 n the premises of 1114 defendant in Northumber land alley, Fenchotrch.street. he seized four sacks, five tubs, and nine pounds in paper, of a mixed vegetable powder, re sembling coffee. The quantity ground was 134171b5. He also /wised two sacks containing 11791h5. of whole peas and beans ! roasted.—Among the latter were some grains of coffee.— . Samplbil of the articles seized were then swells to by the wit. 1101E_ J. Laweedepoted, that the articles proctored were cinch as he was in the habit of mauulacturing while in Mr. Moline employ meat. The Common Serjeant for the defendant, contenderlobst lie was not subject to a penalty, as he hatT not sold the article as cLthc, bet as" Vegttade Powder." Ilse Jury found a verdict or Lite Crown—Penalty 1001. VIC ATTORPItY-GIIGNERAL V. F. WARM This wassu information filed against the defendant ; ehtf is a respectable brewer at Leicester, which imputed to the dc. feutlant the offence of bclng a vinegar maker without a li. cenee; the having 3950 gallons of vinegar in a certain un eutered storehouse ; and lastly, with selling the said vinegar without paying the duty upon it as siich. It appeared that the defendant had in 1612 brewed a large quantity of porter, which he placed in a store vat to improve by age. in 1816 this liquor became sour, and unfit for use as porter. It W4ll in conseqnenee suffered to remain there until it became more sour, and was then sold to various grocers as augur, being in quality (vat to what is sold as vinegar under the title of No. IS, by the regoltr manufacturers. 4r. Jerell maule an ingeniou► defence, and St desire.. with a view to future argument before the court as to the liability of the defendant to all the penalties sought to be recovered, a special verdict was taken from thy Jury, which Was " That the defendant brewed liquor in question as por- ter, but that upon its becoming sour he yuld it as vinegar, without paying the duty or taking out a licence as is vinegar dealer." The penalties recovered amounted to 5401. TICE AtTOIINEY - GERER.Itt V. PALMER. This was an information filed by the Atturney4jeneral against the defendant, which charged hint with being a dealer in tea, with having iu his possession a iseautity of sloe leaves, and white thorn leaves, fabricated into imitation of tea, whereby be forfeited 101. for every pound weight of sneli imitation. 'there wete other counts, charging the offence differently, to all of which the defendant pleaded not gniity. Mr. llauncey stated the rase to the Jury. The defiendant was a atom. in Red Lion.street, Whitechapel, and received from two pe►►oas, named Proctor and %Hos, the ingredients mentioned in the indictment. These two persons engaged others to furnish them with leaves, which, alter wide:going:l certain process, that he would describe, were sold to anti di auk by the public as tea. The parties gathering the leaves which were of the white and black thorn tree, were paid at the rate of 2d. per pound for the produce of their laboiir. These Waves, in order to be converted into no article resem bling black tea, were fnst boiled and thee baked upon an iron plate; and when dry,- rubbed with the hand, it* order to produce that curl which the getittii.e tea bad. This was iu fart the most wholesome part of the opt:ration, for the colour, which was it to be given to it, was to he produced by log. wood; whether this was au injurious ingredient or not, he did not know,...buf hulielitned few ofhis auditors would wil lingly drink an infusion of that dye. With regard to the green tea, that was iminalacittied in a less questionable and in a more demi nctive manner—he meant destructive to the constitution ot those 'by %shorn it Was drank. In this part of the business if appealed, that the leaves, after haring been pressed and dried, were laid tipsy sheets of copper, where they reeeiHerl their colour front au article ktiottn by the name of Dutch pink, some of which (a powder of u yel. lowish - Issue) s he held in hi. hand. Otte of the compoueut parts of this powder lie iniderstood to he whites /cad ; but to this he would not Wedge himself. The other article lINc4I in producing the appearaisee.of the floe green bloom which Has observable on the fine China tea, Has, however, decidedly a deadly liaison I He alluded to serdegris: it appeared, b was added to the Pastels pink In orderits complete the opera lion. EA feeling ut horror seemed here to pervade the whole • Wirt.) Ile muted lie ellonitl be aisle to ttace to the pose. AeolAttio of the tleandant sotbs. svetsist of the commodity he had been describing, Pm} it so he should entitle the CYO% n to promities amounting in The whole Its 5401. a . by no means Jai ge. when compared with flue enormity ot the uttellee. 'l4i.su facts having beets proud in evidence, the Jnry found a verdict against the defendant for 0101. being the fall amount' of the penalty. MI If A V .616- J. Prentice, 1.. Holmes, and W. Clarke, submitted to %er. Mein for the Crown; .1. Orgy enhntiut d to a damages f-29!. I (*filbert and Vowel! to one of 1101, a vertiitt was tikatid - a.rititist J. Orkney. a grocer, in Shadwell Hiult-,:treet, for 701.; against J. Horner ; of finiosi•stitet i Southwark, for 2101. ; and against W..l7tierlirtg, of Rini-street, Tower hill, fur 701, COURT ; OF KING'S 11/..NC11, Alnti . nar„ MAYIB. THE KIN:: V. JONFAH MEHEEHON, £SQ. Me. Wyld mated to the dory (whirls was special), that this was an iiidictmelf against the defendant, Who was a Magis Irate ; and who, not regarding his duty in suds a character. and in vinlotion of all his sacred funcitons, did licensee cue Thomas Wright to keep• a co alehouse, well ksinirlow that lie was a most improper person to keep, such house. There were seven other counts in the indietesent i which charged the defendant with busing similarly conducted Win edf in several instances. Scarlett, in open.ng . the ease to the Jury, begged Ara if any of them that were then on the Jury sherd& have served' on Saturday, that they would forget schat- had pissed on that day. After sonic very impressive and, eloquent • re marks on the superior advantages whirls tlse' peoplc of this country, as compared with every ether part of the world, possessed in the administration of justice, from the highest officers down to those of themost humble character) and, after having particiderty described the important duties, as well as high trust and confidence which were reposed in the ma. I gistrates, proceeded to state ' that the charge against the • present defendant, who had twiddle office of a magistrate. was that of having corruptly abused the Inuctinne of his sacred sitnation. He then went on to Observe, that among other duties devolving upon the defendant, vas that of grant- • int licences to public-houses. The Learned Gentleman observed, that among the ma chinery of a well-cooductedoovesnMent, was that of a ma i gistrate,whoyeceived no pay from Government, but who was eutrdsted to act upon his own feelings of integrity and honor, but who was called upon by the Government and'the peoples to discharge his duty consciditionsly, and thereby be svote,d obtain the applause cf those around him. It was the peels r liar province of 'a magistrate so eitttated, to take care that the public were not led into snares by the appointment of ins- • proper persons to keep puislic-hoeies, and thereby ratio; them, instead of receptacles for refreshment and acconseda. Lion, schools cf indecency, immorality, and every vicious pro pensity. The Learned Gentleman warned the jury not to find the defendant guilty, unless the ease should be made out by the most eons ludic evidence. The defendant had, for many years, been a magistrate for the County of Middlesex. audit was not in one solitary instance that he had deleted his duty as a magistrate, but In several instances in the years, 1815 and 1816, even after he had received the fullest informs. lion that the houses were kept by higfily improper persons ; amongst these were the following esiollse Seven Stare, kept by T. Wright , the King's Aims; tbt Queen's Head; the Turf: and Slave; the Adaniand Eve; the Ram and Magpie ; every one of which, it would appear, had been kept by persons who allowed gambling, and almost every sort of excess. In the year Igt9, the Couduct of the persons who kept those houses, became so notorious, that the constable thought fit to make a list of then', and hay it before the magistrates at the. Quarter Sessions ; notwithstanding which, boo ever, they were all reticensed. Some of them were the property of me, leretrosi,and of others he received the rents. The LAsaried Counsel entered at considerable length into the eircumstaneis of the ease, and concluded by observing, that corrupt antniv)o were attributable to the defendant, for , no man would, act corruptly unless lie had a motive fur so doing. Mr. J. Underton, a desk in the office of the clerk of the . beace, preyed that Mr. Mercers)* was in the commission, anti ird been so for 20' 'Oars. Mr. J. W. Perry was head constable for the parish 'of Betlonel-green for the year 1615. Ile, accompanied by thd Headhoroughs of the parish, went round very frequently to inspect the conduct of the different public houses. Among others, he inspected most partientarl, the besets Stars, In' Fleet -street, Bethnal-green. This home was conducted in a very bad manner, by keeping. open till one or two in the morning. All manner of persons of the lower order, yonug people of both sexes, assembled there ; they were generally playing at cards, 20, 59, or 40 at a time. He frequently ri monstrated with the landlord. He found this to be the case I whenever he went round'. The house was open tinringdi vine service on Sunday. His remonstrances wele not attends:.ed to. He also visited the King's Aims, in et ores...street. • One Sunday morning . , shunt a quarter before 12. he folind I about 30 persons itsthe room, .smoking andel' inking, and 1 1 playing at shuttle hoard. Pie found the hone open sevelat tinsel during divine aerviee, mid people drinking. The 'mime was open very late at night, to 12 and 1 in the morning. Fregnently remonstrated with the landlord without elfeev. lie likewise visited the queen's Head; in Fleet-street; it was eondncted as 'sadly as the two preceding eases : gaming; hod hours, and open during divine service. He visited the linrk and Slave, in Erick -lane, it was as bad as the others. sdmetimes found it shpt meat night, as it' there was no co4le there. —They got iii with difficulty, and found no corn' puny below stairs; but afterwards, on going up'staiis, they , found 30 or 40 people, drinking and mucking. H, Kot.ods mission with iffficulty, bat perceived no gambling ; they, often wised pespte oat at late hoary, and whin- they wire going nut at the front door, the landlord was letting the pees' pie in again at the back; knew. Mr. Mercers:lM acted as a Magistrate. fire th parish. beim elite licensing day, in 6 epteinher, 1/ 4 15, !se was sent for by Mr. Mereeron, to hie office its Brick-lasie. Mr...Weizeros) asked him, whether Its hart any complaint "gainit victuallers on the next lirensi day? Witness said, lie certainty had. for he had found Mad of the publicans very disorderly, lie mentioned partiesdet the four he bad now spoken to; and Milted to Mr. Mercer,* what lie stated to-ilay. lie said, he thought their conduct' *55 eatiemely reprehensible, and that they•ssegrit to he sea fee ely ;washed far it. He added, that he TIMM report their Initere the Lies-using noar.i. Mr. Mcreeron npon'this toff him to be cars ful what he did, and not be Wigton., as his re. port might be the cause of these people losing their lieensters, and themselves and Nun's' be reduced to beggary. Willie,' told hint lie understood lie should have to take his oath -whets he came before the Magistrates, and that he would take Isis oaths correctly. Mr. Merceron replied, lie nowt send to We persons in question, sad admonish them, and that no doubt, he shoed.' find their cuseliiet better. Ile said, he shook' he on the bench on the licensing day. Winless attend: ed on the licensing day. Mr. Mereeron awl Sir D. Williasus wet e alone preseist. A question was put to witness by Sir D. Williams, how he found the morals sit the hemmed told I he had found them very' bad. but he had Mid an is._ v-rview with Mr. Merceroa, and Ant he hod i , rowisc.; 44) fit .•