The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

(.27s ( //wed continued from page *75.) mended the soldiers to fire. I beg to say, when Captain (takes arrived I considered myself under his command, and if he had given the word of command to fire I should not have heard it, as lie was too distant from me. I re galed my men about ten minutes after we arrived at Cum berland-gate. 1 gave them a pint of beer each. I saw the soldiers fire in the air. but I could not tell any parti cular intlivideal that tired. The whole body tired.—l was not at all alarmed. I saw the stones come flout the wall. at the corner of l'ark-lano; bt las came front all parts of the wall. I saw bricks pulled down from the wall iii Oxford-street, by the people, and also in the inside of the palisades of the Park. The stories were thrown to the tight and left of Cumberland-street; t h ey came from all quarters. The tiring did not commence until a consider able time atter we we were assailed with bricks and stones think about seven or eight minutes. I did not see • the first shots tired, as the firing commenced near Tyburn gate. My party were pelted before Capt. Oakes's party arrived. My men did not fire before Captain Oakes '8 •cattie up. I cannot say that my men fired at all, because when Captain Oakes's party Caine top they were so inter mixed that I could nut tell which fired. I have mounted guard at the Horse Gnat& since the lith, but I cannot tell on what day. You may know by referring to the &testae. Mr Illakie suggested that several persons were waiting outside who thonght they could identify Mr. Gore, and he would submit st hellter they should nut be permitted to have a view of him. Mr. Adolphus said, if Mr. Gore was sent oat to be looked at, he hoped lie would be protected, otherwise lie would be liable to personal insult. It would be a moral assassination to send hint out without protection. The evidence was then read over, and Lieut. Gore Sigurd it—and ing to the Jury, he departed. He left the house, we believe, immediately after. He is a tall handsome )oung man, of prepossessing appearance. William King, the men with one arm, who was also examined 011 Wednesday, was called in, and again sworn. Hr began with saying—*. I feel much aggrieved that, although the pet SOO to whom I could swear was in this room, I was not permitted to come in and face him.-1 have seen a person in this house today, whom I can swear to be the man who shut Honey. I can swear that he was the man that fired the pistol, the contents of which I can hot say whether they were meant for me or Honey. I saw him in this room through the window. He was sittiug hear about where I ant now, either in this chair or the next to it." Sam. Green sworn.—l have been examined before.w- I have to-day seen the person whom I know shot Honey. I saw hint at the door, and I saw hitn come out from this room. When this witness finished his testimony, it being 11 o'clock, the Coroner adjourned the inquest until 1 o'clock on Monday nest. FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS. R. Marsman, Love Lane, cloth factor. Solicitors, Messrs. Smith and Co. New Basin hall Street. .1. Ashton, Knutsford, Cheshire. veterinary surgeon. Solo. Messrs. Blackstock and Co. Temple. Ws Greenhouse. Dudlow, tanner. Solt. Messrs. Clarke and • Co. Chancery Lane. A. W. Jones, New Brentford, corn merchant. Sole. Messrs. Toone and Co. Craven Street, Strand. T. Bedford, Bristol, stationer. Sohn Messrs. Bridges and Co. Red Lion Square. R. Seaton, Wentbridge, Yorkshire, cotton spinner. Sol. Mr. BlAcelock, Sergeant's Inn, Fleet Street. J. P. Hillary, Mask Lane, wine merchant. Sole. Messrs. Reardon and Co. Corbet Court, Gracechurch Street. J. Bell, Doanshire Hill, Hampstead. victualler. Sol. Mr. Jones, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane. EfITI FICATF.S to be granted Sept. 111. J. Stock-, *.ltl_s vote Street, salesman—G. Fowler, Cullump ton. Devo bruin—S. Hardwick, Bit.ningham, builder— N. Mence, Worcester, brewer. DIVIDENDS. _ . Sept. 1, W. H. Tuesly, High Street, Southwark, iron Niter chant-le, J. Garton. Kingston upon Hull, lightennan-26, T. Little, Newcastle upon Tyne, linen draper-19, W. H. Mar shall, I loline on Spa Wing Moor,Yorkshire, miller-18, W. Kirk and W. Broughton, Leeds, merchants- 18, M. Fisher, Leeds, nicr - hant-26, T. Stammers and W. S. Button, Sudbury, Suf folk, and T. Odkin, Colchester, Essex, millers-19, W. Twigg, Sheffield, plumber. On the 11th instant, a curious fish, supposed to belong to the specks known among sailors by the name of Johnny Dory, was found entangled behind the pailing of a sea-fence, below Dunmore harbour, Scotland. It must have got into this situation dur ing high-water. When found, the water had left it, and it was heard bleating like a lamb, which it continued to do 011 the fisher who first made the discovery killed it. It was carried to Dunmore house. It weighed 42 pounds, was three feet long and 20 inches broad. The colour of the fish was black, with large whitish spots on the sides, without any scales; the eyes as large as those of a horse; the mouth quite round, without teeth ; and so large as to admit a man's hand freely ; and round the extre mity of the mouth is a folding of the skin, resemb ling a swine's snout. The belly only was fat, and and the flesh resembled veal in taste. A person from the West Indies described it as a native of that country ; that he had many, but none nearly so large Sinking o/ the Liverpool and Tranmere Steam Packet.—On Friday mottling last, when this packet was just leaving the pier -head, for Tranmere, it was discovered that the boiler, from whence steam is emitted, had become red-hot, arising, as was pre sently found, front its having been emptied of water The passengers already on board were all imme diately disembarked, without the slightest accident having happened to any of them ; and some appre hensions being entertained lest the vessel might take fire from the extreme heat of the boiler, 4.0 was nettled and sunk alongside the pier. THE NATIONAL REGISTER Caw Intelligence. SURREY. CROYDON, MONDAY, AUGUtat 27.-4IANIE PROMO/. agdale was capoully indicted for felo niously uttering, as true, a forged note for 81. purporting to be of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eug There were other counts in the indictment, charging him with like offence. Robert Shearing called and sworn.—Stated he was a horse dealer, and was at Kingston fair on the 13th of November lasi. Ile perceived the prisoner walking through the fair sod catered into conversation with him. The prisoner said, lie wished to purchase a horse and curt. After some bar gaining the witness sold bins a horse for 61. 10s. The prisoner paid the money by giving Iwo M. notes, receivin4 the differ ence, and goring an address to Princes-stieet, florselydown neat morning the witness ascertained that both the notes were forgeries { he instantly repaired to Honelydown, but no such pl ice as Princes-street was to be found; however in a few days witness mot the prisoner by accident, and he promised to meet witness at s house, where the business was to have been arranged, but the prisoner never came near the.place. Witness gave information at it Pulice•otficr•, and Pace, the •hall officer, succeeded in apprehending the prisoner. John ['Alder swore that the prisoner enthused the notes in his resell' e, and had the address mentioned by the lust cc it- Mato written iu them. _ _ Mr. Leet, the Bank inspector, proved the notes to be for geries in every respect. The prisouer, on being called on for his defence, proceeded to rross•examine and recriminate the witness Shearing, but nothing 'bat could be pinny advantage to him was e l uci. doted. He then proceeded iu a most enerotic manner, to protest bit innocence of the crime laid to hit charge. Mr. Justice Burrough summed up the evidence, and tI Jury found the prisonerGuilty—Death. FATAL Puna LISSI..—COOper, the gipsey, who fought with O'Leury, surrendered before Mr. Justice Burrough to tube his trial. The whole of the evidence produced before the Coroner was gone through, and the Jury fond the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter. Mr. Justice Borrough immediately pronounced sentence of nix mouth's imprisonment on him in Itursemonget.lane Gaol. CIVIL SIDE. CROYDON, AUG. 27.—Gurney and others v. tang lands.—This was an issue out of the Court of King's Bench, to try, first, whether the signature to the warrant of attorney, bearing date that April. 1821, for 2141. 13s. purporting to he signed by the plaintiff,Thomas Gurney, was false and forged; and second, whether at the time of the supposed execution of the said warrant of attomey the sum of 501. was advanced and paid to the plaintiff by the defendant. This case excited considerable interest. It lasted from from ten in the :twang; until seven in the evening. The Common Sergeant, Mr. Chitty, and Mr. Turton, conducted the plaintiffs' case; and Mr. Marryatt. Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Sergeant 'faddy, the defendant's. A A great number of witnesses were examined on both sides. The prominent circumstances were these:—The plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Gurney, is the son of the Rev. William Gurney, Rector ufSt. Clement's Danes, and the defendant is a widow, carrying on the business of a car penter and upholsterer at Epsom. In 1820 the plaintiff set lip business as a schoolmaster, at Epsom ' with a small capital. The defendant had furnished his house, and he owed her idol. 9s. as the amount of her will. The plain tiff had become embarrassed in his circumstances, and on the deft infant pressing for payment of her account in the spring of the present year, he. with the consent of his other creditors, gave her three bills of exchange for 501. each, payable respectively three months after date. These bills having three months to run, it was alleged that on the 16th of April the defendant, accompanied by her son and one of the persons to whom she indorsed one of the bills, went to the plaintiff's house, and prevailed upon him to execute a warrant of attorney in hen of the bills of exchange, she undertaking to take nu the bills when they became due ; that the plaintif f agreed to do so, provided the defendant paid down 50'.. in cash, which was to be included in the warrant of attorney. — The defendant accordingly paid him WI. and he exe cuted the warrant of attorney in question for 214. 13s. including the expence attending the same. Li two Oily* afterwards the defendant entered up judgment upon trie warrant of attorney, and took out an execution against the plaintiff's effect. When the sheriff's officer went in, the plaintiff declared that lie had never executed :.my warrant of attorney in the defendants favour, and that if she had any purporting to be signed by him, it was a forgery. Upon this fact being solemnly stated, a motion was made in the Court of King's Bench on behalf of the plaintiff, by the rest of his creditors, for the purpose of having the warrant of attorney delivered up to be Can celled. On that occasion the plaintiff solemnly swore in his affidavit that he had never executed the warrant of attorney in question, and that the signature thereto was a tiogery. lit this affidavit lie was joined by several other ueputienis. who swore front their kitowledge of his hand-writing that the signature was a forgery. On the other hand the defendant and other persons swore so lemnly that the plaintiff had executed the warrant of attorney, and had bet a paid 501. as above stated.—Upon these contradictory facts the Court of King's Bench directed ibis issue to be tried. The substantial issue was, whether the warrant of attorney was or was not in fact a forgery. The first witness examined was the Rev. W. Gurney, Rector of St. Clement's Danes, father of the plaintiff, who deposed that his sun is now, he thinks, 27 or 28 fears of age. lie is a school-master at Epsom. Ile set up an academy there at Midsummer. 1819. Witness taught his soil to write ; brought him up till he was 14 years of age. Witness himself kept a school till then.— Alter that time Ills sun went to Sohmsquare sc'tool ; lie is perfectly acquainted with his son's hand-writing at the warrant of attorney, now produced, he is perfectly satisfied that the signatures are not his son's hand-writing. lie has no hesitation in declarma upon his oath that it is nut his son's performance. He calls his perform because it is done slowly, and with the appearance of Minstar!). His sun is nervous and always writes Cross-examined.—After his son left school he became clerk in the Invalid-office, in Craven -street, where he staid until 19 years of age. The pl ' fl' was afterwards in the coal business in Grafton -street, Newman-street. He was married before the age of gl. After a lime he retired from business. The fact was, he became hank. rapt. Witness is not sure he took the cointnission Oral against his son ; he thinks he did not take it out. Upon recollection, he thinks hestruck the docket against him. His son got his certificate about two years afterwards. He was not long in business as a coil-merchant —say a few months. After that he went to reside at No. 310, Strand. His estate paid no dividend. His debts did not amount to more than 2,0001. The plaintiff lit ed a year and a half at Epsom. Witness does not know that his debts there amounted to 12 or 14001. Edward Thomas Bolton, brother-in-law of the plain tiff, Robert Durham, secretary to the vaccine institution, Golden-upiare, Mr. Scott, an engraver in the Strand, and several other witnesses, swore positively that the sig. natures to the warrant of attorney were nut in the hand writing of the plaintiff, but forgeries. Miss Scales. a young lady who lives with the plaintiff and his wile ; Amelia Falk, a servant of the plaintiff; and John Blaber, a fooduoy of the plaintiff, were called do prove that at the time the defendant, her son, and the indorsee of one of the bills, called upon the plaintiff, on phe 16th of April, it was dark, and that they did not stay long enough for the plaintiff to have possibly executed the warrant of attorney. Mr. Marryatt, in an able and powerfull defence, urged sOe improbability of the story told on the part of the fttintiff, inastnuch as it implicated no less than six persons in the crime of forgery without any motive whatever. tor, 1-1 e t m then r. call e d c s a a l l i t e n d m i t Ai M ire r ne Lje Blake, a ngl a n i d i r„ Hied, d o e i rc ie n u d i an th r : indorsees of the bill, and several other witnesses, the effect of whose evidence was to chew that the plain tiff had beets very much embarrassed in his circumstances; that the defendant, apprehensive that the bills would not be paid at miturity, called upon him to execute the warrant of attorney in question, by way of collateral security ; that the plaintiff ageetl so to do on condition of receiving the sum of 501. down in cash ; that this agreement took place before the 16th of April, which day the plaintiff self appointed to perform his engage ment; that a warrant of attorney was accordingly pre pared, merely for his signature, and that on that day in the evening the parties called upon him, when he ac- Oally signed the warrant of attorney. 4 " Long • be;bie the defendant's case was closed, there ing upwards of twelve witnesses reinaining to be called, thb foreman of the jury interposed and said, that their minds had been lung since made up, that there was no question to try, and a little before seven o'clock they delivered their unanimous verdict in favour of the defendant. BANK OF ENSLAND PROSEeDTION. Job Oving ton, a young man,. aged Id, the son of a respectable dissenting minister, was indicted for uttering to Joseph Mason, at Clapham, on the 26th of March, a forged one pound Bank of England note. The unfortunate prisoner, when called upon to plead, denied his guilt with the greatest vehemence.—He was found Guilty. The unhappy father was in court dining the trial, and on account of his respectability the jury recounnended the prisoner to mercy. CROYDON, Au°. 29.—The Assizes for this County finished to-day, and here ended the Home Circuit. CIVIL SIDE. RUDDER O. COURTENAT. This was an action to recover the sum of 401. the amount of a bill tun up at last Epson► Races, at the house of the plaintiff, who keeps the Spread Eagle, at Epsom. It was proved that the defendant, a lady going by the name of Mrs. Courtenay, put up, with her carriage, four horses, and servants, at the plaintiff's house during the race week, and incurred a bill of 401. in giving dinners, &c. to parties. She lived in a handsome dashing style, and was a great belle on the course. On going away, however, she forgot the ceremony of paying the plain tiff's demand, and the present action was the conse quence. There being no defence, the plaintiff had a verdict fur 4ul. HORNE 0. 'AIR AND ANOTIIER. This was another action against the defendants, as in habitants of the Halt Hundred of Brixton, to recover a compensation for the damage sustained by the mob to the plaintiff's house during the illumination for her late Majesty in the month of November last. l'he plaintiff proved that the mob had broken his windows to the amount of 21. Rm. for which sum he had a verdict. TOZALL V. BANKS AND °THEM This was ati action of trespass for seizing and carrying away GO loads of lime, the property of the plaintiff. Mr. Marryat and Mr. Tinton conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Gurney and Mr. Hutchinson the defend ant's. _ . . 3 he plaintiff was represented to be a professional gen tleman of great respectability, who had purchased some land in the Commercial-road, near the Surrey-canal, and commenced building several houses. Being in want of some lime, he purchased a quantity to the amount of 581. of the defendants, who are lime merchants, and they delivered it upon the premises, to he paid for out the usual terms. The defendants, however, for some misconception as to the plaintiff's solvency, thought proper to remove the lime after some of it had been used, because the plaintiff would not pay down ready-money, contrary to the ierii.s of s the bargain. On the cross-vxamination of the plaintiff's svitnesrer, it was proved that the defendants were induced to oe the plaintiff credit upon the representation that he was Foxall. the respectable clerk of the Vintners's Com pany, a gentleman of known property:—and in fact the plaintiff had been recently before this transaction dis charged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act: that he was no more than an Attorney's clerk, and not in circ ))))) - -stances to pay any large sum of money ; that CIICUIII