The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-11 00:00:00

INis LAW INTELLIGENCE. COrRT OF KINWS IiENCII.--JAN. 10. London Adjourned SlttingS before the Lord (lief Justice and Common Jnrie4. VELDON V. HALCOMVP. This was an action for money had and received. Mr. lituixgr stated the following facts to the Jurx : Tt.e plaintiff in this case was a Captain in the Ealt Iniia Company's service, and hail intrusted •the de fendant. who was a mercantile agent, resident at ISt. Helena, in the year 1:s09, with 120 bolts of Mengel canvass, with directions to sell them by public auction at a price which he limited, hut if the canvass would( net fetch that price at St. Wiens', be wan to send it to . Mr. Amion, the plaintiff's agent at the Cape of 6004 Hope. Eighty bulls of conrass were sold al...reeably to the plaintiff's direction, hut th? remaining 'lts; inst-ad of being sent to the Cape of flood !lope. were, by the defendant, sent to a Mr. Hale, au a;:e.ft of Ms own at Rio Janeiro, and sold there. An arcomit s stating the proceeds at 121/. ss. 211. was ren dered to the plaintiff in 1:s10, and an order given to recriee the money of Mr. Ilale, in England, but the plaintiff hail never been able to find Mr. flak au I had not received a shilling of the money. I rider these cirrettnstanees the plaintiff brow: h' this actioli, tk l re cover the amount of the It) bolt., of rativa , s from the def-mlant„ as he had complicit with the ti:m4 of the plaintiff in the mode of iliripo‘'itz of it. the plaintiff's instructions, dated May, I ntitt, m l the ac . count sales, flitted 45th Aug u , t. 1,410, w..ry put in. as also a letter of the defendant to the plaintiff, dated Sept. 1, I Slit Mr. MANITATT, for the defendant, contended that plaintiff's instructions had been complied with, it being necessity for the purpose of gating the canvass admitted to entry at the Cape of mood Hope that it should pass for Portuguese property, and to that end it had been shipped by the defendant for Ri o J a neiro, to be sent from thence to the Cape. lie admitted that Mr. Hale, to whom the canvass, with other goods of the defendant, was consigned, had never accounted to the plaintiff, nor paid met the proceeds to Mat, but neither had he paid it to the defendant, and therefore if the plaintiff could claim for tile canvass from the defendant, he submitted that the form of at tion should have been trorer, anti not money had and received. •he Cuict Jesrucc said, he had great doubts nn the subject, but as the case presented itself, there did not appear to be any thing to leave to the Jury : he should therefore nonsuit the plaintiff, with liberty to move to enter a verdict for 1211. ss. 2d. the amunnt of the balance claimed. Ile considered, that if the cans-ass were tent to Rio Janeiro on its wnv to Mr. Amion at the Cape of tiood Hope. under the plaintiV4 direct:oats, it was so sent for the purpose of evading the Navigation Law-, a nil the pl.tintiff could not re• rover. If it were sent on accunut of the defendant Ba/r.onhe, then the burin of action ninth' be undoubt edly *rover. MICR'SIeR r. • Thig WAR an action for looney paiA , anti for work anti ialipintir dime. Air. Ca3tritet.t. led the plaintiff's case. The defend ant, a master sugar-baker, en t rati the plaintiff at 4 - s. per nee!: as u boiler. After the parties had been some time tot., I I:er, a Jew, named Samuels, also a servant to the defendant, charged the plaintiff with having rot hell his master. The plaintiff was carried to the Worship-street: hut, even were the Jew believed, the Illalzistrate doebted, anti the plaintiff was dischargetl. The Jury, :11r. tatty hell said, n until 110 doubt suppose that the mater r. joiee.l io the inno cence of his servant, and took him forthwith again Into Ms house. Not so: he discharged him u:oni the spot, refusing to pay the lialanee of wages this' to him: and for those arrears of wages, for a mouth's wages in lien of due warning. and for rertain monies expend ed by 'the plaintiff on behalf of his master, the whole amounting to about the pres e nt adjou was brought. The learned l'aitusel then proceeded to state, at much length, the various claims set forth in his account. The month's wages the plaintiff would ertkle himself to by proving the enst of the trade. The an ears were for the price of three days' labour ; the plaintiff having been disehar t .:etl on a li'ednestlay, and b .sing only received payment up to the preceding Sa ta.day 1 lie items of each laid out were manifold: b'ood, lime, trestle, and butter, used in preparing the s r, ar: candles to light the house, brooms to sweep, anti ps to wash it; the hire of a 11. d-chamber for the accommodation of the plaintiff; and a sum of 21. 13. lid. paid for King's taxes. A uumbrr of witnesses were then called; but the ea..e established was so slight, that the plaintiff's , preferred a 'sunsuit to trnstin4 his client in tt.e hands of the jnry—Plaintitf nonsuited. In addition to the county meeting's which have l• t •ic been called for 31inisterial purposes, we find that one fur the county of Chester has been convened at a ter . , short seotiec for Thnrsday next, as if to take the ' , warty braurpries...and 44voti essonggle • *table 414. (!nation, not to be obtained by a mote regular pro cess. By an intimation. however, signed by Lords Crewe and Grosvenor, and several other Gentlemen of weight in the county, it appears that 31inisterial ex litiuu ill be opposed by independent zeal. Al- Luling to the vague declarations emanating from such v.auggled meetings, unaccompanied by any notice of I the late procemlings against her 31ajesty the Queen, ofl the abrupt and hasty prorogation of Parliament, at a season which peculiarly called for its counsel and ad vice, or of the present distressed state of the country, appear, say these Noblemen and Gentlemen, to imply approbation of the conduct of Ministers, " of which conduct we feel it impossible for us not to disapprovi." Since the Fashion of Curling the Hair has heroine so general both to Ladies and Gentlemen, it may mit . . Le amiss to point out its danger in destroying that elegant ornament a fine head of hair. The use of the Iroas make the Hair harsh and dry, and it loses allifi• ?..,time lustre and elasticity. To counteract this, Avz• m:ssoN'al:urling Fluid has long stood pre-rinioentt.and ;ts general adoption by the Nobility raises it above. any imputation of Quackery. By using it after 1.47 1 / 1 1_g. it makes the Hair soft and 01ussy as silk, and kelp, Curl firm in exercise, in dancing, or walking is itt weather. It oleo preserves it from falling or ckaiagiteg , colour to extreme old age. And in order to proteit the Pahlie.against imposition, thi Proprietor intends taking., out immediately a Patent (or the Invention. k~ ~ t \ - " • f g 6i tee : PUBLIC G,YLCE, BOW-STA esterd ay Peter brotte to ' Byrne was brought to the office, al.. underwent an examination before Heorge Minsbull, Esq., the SitH tiog 3lagistrate, charged with an attempt to commit a. new species of fraud. Mr. Charles Palmer, of Mitchell-street, City-road, stated, that between twelve and one o'clock yesterday, as be was passing through Holborn, when he got near middle-row, he was accosted by the prisoner, in company with another man, the prisoner holding something in his hand, which he could not distils. gaish at first, but at length discovered it to be a watch chain, with two seals and a ring attached to it. Prisoner declined showing them to him then, bat asked him to go up a private street, which be agreed to, suspecting t h e prisoner to be an imposter. The latter thee stated, that he was in distress, and wanted to raise some money ; that he would sell him the whole of the articles a great bargain, at 305.: he took the ar ticles to look at, and soon discovered, as he had a knowledge of gold and 'metals, that they were not gold, as represented by the prisoner, but of base me tal, and not worth two shillings ; lie told the pri souer he would take him to Bow-street-office, when the prisoner's companion asked to look at the arti:lcs, which he refused to comply with; the man then made a desperate snatch to get it, but did not succeed. 'I lie prisoner was committed fir want of hail. LAuueru-s•raser.--Rotert Bew,iet, one of the Patrol, lately attached so this o:Lee, was yesterday brought before J. Ilawlinson, E. ;111(1 underwent a second examination, charged with Avilfully and mali ciously shooting at and woutulin7, with a loaded ear bin-, \lr. Il illiaw Squires, of relltaimstreet, End. There being no material evidence to he them taken, that rhieh was taken down on the former eau inination was read over, and the pri:-,mer asked if be' hail any thing to say in his del . ..nee. and, at the same time, to be cautious of sayin:: any thilg to criminate himself, as whatever he sail would he taken shown. and appear as evidence on Isis trial. Ile stated that, on the morning alluded to, of his haying conimitted the offence for which lie then stmel charged, he, and some of his comrades. mask an appointim.nt to i n ert in the fieliis at Old Ford, in nyder to apprehend per sons who Were Is the act of shooting,• there dnring divine service on Sundays : that he went according to appointment, and on entering the field, saw his pro secutor discharge Lis gun, upon which he went up and disarmed bins; be, after delivering Lis gun, ran otr, upon which be (Mftisoner) put the gun to his shoulder, and told bins if he did not stop he would shoot kink and snapped it in order to deter bins from running. not !mowing at the same time that it was loaded, as be bad teen Lim discharge it not many minutes before. The Magistrate said, that all this might he some benefit to kin, on his trial ; but that here it was of no avail. as the case was so clearly proved agaiust aLd which, in Isis opiaioa, unquestionably came under LordElleahorough's Ai:, as he, as a patrol, had no power whatever of acting he did of disarming per lions ; that his regular ditty was laid out fur him, which was to patrol at II Igi wherever he was ordered by his Condttosae4 that. when oltslaty l be had no more power than any t eliman, except when toned upon by a sujerior to as.i-t on some urgent occasion, and that if he even had witnes.eil a person commit a wnrd.r, lie would not he justi%ed in shooting at him, except he had him in his custody, and that he medi tated an escape and was likely to effect it. Under all the circumstances, which, in his opinion, were of a very aggravated nature, he felt himself bound, in jnstice m the laws of his country, to commit him for trial.—The prisoner was areordinzly committed. 111 a Lnostovon-a TR Pt( re. PLOT.—The se veral prisoners who bad been remanded till yesterday, (with the exception of those who had been bailed) were expected to he brought op, and curiosity again bro‘ght many persons to the office, but they were not forth coming. The reason was, the depositions of the seve rai witnesses have been transmitted to the olio • of the Seer: tare of State fur the Home Vepartmeni, to he acted upon as the Law Ofilcers may advise. It is un derstood that bills for feloay, in rescuing, for a con spiracy to rescue, and for the assault at the rescue, will be found id the paesent session. Other evidence in corroboration of the testimony adduced has been received. a rstitilatti I OLD DAILY' SESSIONS. Htenwav Ronnear.--Joeeph Woollen and Milian. Bullock were capitally indicted, as stated yesterday, f-r taking from the person of John Hale, Esq. on the lOth of November last, a watch, chain, and seals, his property. The prosecutor is the Hanoverian Consul General, and resides in Russell-square. He stated, that on the day in question, he was walking up Drury-lane, about five o'clock in the evening, when a man came up and pnshed hint into Charles-street. Ile supposed at first that somebody wanted to pass, and therefore went out of the way ; but when be got the push, he received , a violent blow from behind, which stunned him. The :idtow cut his hat, and marks of blood were yet to be seen upon it. (The hat was here produced in proof of the fact.) At the time he received the blow, a man cried out " hollo, where are you pushing to ;" hind he then fou id that be lost his chain, to which was appended a horizontal gold watch, with his name in Roman letters, "John Hale, 1t. 4 05," engraved upon I it. Ile made a plunge at the man who bad the watch, but he was so overpowered by the effects of the blow on his head, that he fell. Ile thought that the man who cried out " was the person who had the watch, but from the state he was in he could not he certain. The per son ran up Charles-street, and the prosecutor jump ed up and pursued him, when a second blow was aimed at him, which he parried off. Finding himself now in dangerous a situation, he returned into Drury-lane bleeding profusely. Ile then went into a couk-sh..p, and got a surgeon, who dressed the wound en hi. head. When he recovered him-;elf, in a few days after, he went in search of a buy who hail wit seised the attack upon him, and had riven informa tion at the cook-shop respecting it. Ile succeeded in finding him, and weet with him to a public.house, the sip of the " Coach and Houses, in (treat Belton street, St. Hiles," where the prisoners were. The ; prosecutor did not go himself into the public-Louse, but sent in the officers, who brought out the prisoners, l and they were identified b:, the boy who was in the coaA with him. To he still more certain of their I identity, be had the pris.nters taken to another public ; !sense, and sent in the boy, who immediately recoz i . nisei! them as the persons who lead committed the ride ; berg. This occurred on the 2tl of December. The prosecutor here detailed varints particulars, to show that a %latch found on the prisoner, was the i same he n-as robbed of. ('ruts-exaolined b% 31r. snnrws---It was a foggy night, the gas was lighted, and there were several persons about the street. The boy came imme,nately to the cook's shop, anti st ►ted the facts of the robbery, and that the prisoners were the persons who had com mitted it. The prosecutor was confined about a fort night, in consequeoce of the injury he hail received. At his examination at how-street, Bullock said nothing, hut he afterwards stated that he had bought the watch in question. °eo', Margate, the boy alluded to, was next ex amined. lie works with his father, who Is a wheel- Wright, in Chairs-street, Drury-lant•. Hr knew the prisoners for neatly ryear ; he saw them often its coy)- , pany together: he has no &MIA whatever ps to their persona : lie n'tnembers haying seen Mr. Hale knocked down. On the evening in question he saw them come out tog-ether from the Coach and horses ; there Ira! a third person who stood in Drury-lane, and the witness heard hint whistling, Ile saw Mr flak come across Drury-lane, and pushed into Charles-street. Mr. Hale was struck with a little ash-stick, which Bullock generally carried; w•itneas often saw the stick be fore. The prisoner went away immediately after the robbery. Cross-examined.—lle was going for a candle to a chandler's shop in Holborn, when he witnessed the transaction: he was not tour:• than three or four yards distant when Bullock struck Mr. Hale; he remem bered that Bullock wore a black rout and top hoots; Wooten was close by. Wootten w,•re a black ur blue coat—he believes it was IlLtrk ; he had on brown paa talnons, shoes, and white stoekings • he to ik par ticular notice of them, fearing that he might he asked some questions; but lie knew them very weH, inde pen•lently of their dress: be forgot, if lie spoke to Mr. Hale in the cook-shop: be believes he did not ; he spoke to a waiter there, but did not think he hearth him: he mentioned the robbery to his father, and other persons he never said the prisoners were not the persons who committed it; he knows the faces of the prisoners perfectly well; he was found by Mr. Hale a fortnight after the robbery : he did not go to give information at Bow-street bcfore the prisoners were taken into custody, being afraid of their doing him some injury. Neither his father or mother told hint to give information ; he saw the prisoners drinking at the Coach end Horses, where his father used also to resort, he was brought up in Clerkeuwell l harity School, and goes to St. Diles's Church. When taken into the other public-house, he knew the prisoners at once. After Mr. Hale had made him out, he lived in the Commercial-road to be out ,f the way of the 1,14- soners, till they were taken. Jeremiah A:ailment, an officer, deposed to having apprehended the prisoners on the information he bad received from the boy. Ile found upon Bulhs:k the watch, which Mr. Hale identified. The witnesses proved that the watch was isii:teo altered since Mr. bale was robbed of it, bat there were sufficient marks by which it could be ;hu t:Red The .prisoners in their defence attempted to prove Lan dibi and called two nitnesses for that purpose, otse IA whom, a person named Farthing, bad been for. wadj sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for refelviag stolen goods, and the other, whose name i masll49lsers, indicted for burglary, but escaped. I . •Verslict—Geilty—Dcath.—Aged 19 ad 2.:1. • • Sluing, appointed in Middlesex and Loudon, before the 44341 Chief Justice of the Court of King's• Bench. ba Jail after Hilary Term, 1831 : sitinmesax. IN TERM. LoNoos. . Saturday, January. 27. Tuesday, January 31). • Sit at 12 o'clock. "Friday. February S. I Monday. February S. •Tbariday. —S. Sat relay, '1 • AFTER TERM. -ITuesday, February 13. I Wadaeaday, Fab. 14. Sit at ball past 9 o'clock. .... var. BOXING. Two matches interesting to the spectators who ulna e ruffianing fighting took place at nimy. o'clock yesteth y morning, in a 20 feet stpiare, on the, grounds of 31,. Luken, at Fennel Farm. six miles from Leatherhea4. The first match was for fifty asi le, betreu (leo. F or d . who had milled his way Into notice by !Lome severe di m e work, and lastly with . Mir.s, the holy gypsy, and g ni Cringer, the navigator, who fought the game battl e with (Allan, in Oxfordshire, last June. Musa second o e Ford, and Harlon p icked up Granger. The ba c k ers of the two men from Hampshire acted as umpires, but as it was an off hand match, tnatle but a week since, tLe at. tendance was thin. At setting-to the men, over anxious to 4 . 0 in, threw their blows away, and got inm a cl ef s.., wh en a p a iio n wrestling watch took place, and both were down. 2. This round took a slice of thrif . fieel aca off b oth. Ford drew claret from his adversary's mouth, amid in re: turn he received a 10z.,:rer on the car, which softened ski wax and let out the claret, tine did he seem to like it. They broke their ground am! turned to again, when an eyelet give and take rally followed, and when ti re d t h ey closed and hail a trial at atearia7, which they net , harmless at. They let loose each wh..r again, and after a good piping match, they got to work again, and Granger was dropped forward by a left handed hit in tke nose, which let the wind in, and made him shake hie head. The round lasted 14 minutes, and both we re tno b distressed. 3. Ale.- a pause, a hit each was exchanged, e n d r ed was throWn a heavy &interact, which extracteta gra " a pavier working in 'tones. 4. F or d was evidently bent liv the fell, and after sloe. inn' his adversary's left eye, lad received another e mend which finished ..... _...... ..... 5 and 6. Ford was led to the scratch in a had state, unable to help himself—the lAN lost him the fight. Granger was the ints•t punished, as the only milling hit Foci received was on tile ear. _ _ T o k ee p the ganie alive, another fight was kicked op between a rustic ploughboy. whose face was about six *lndies broader than it as long, and a tailor front lia. siii , stoke. lie iras a sit the-head one that a shot would scarcely touch, au.l their attitudes atfor•led the highest filo. Pour pulley-liaitley round* took pine* without the appearance of a blow, and, in throwing, ;M Na tz li p as al ways under, and the rustic was ;MINIMS to hint there ; for the si•ennils could hardly ;get him oft In the fifth round, drew blood from his antagonist's nose, and the rnstiv put iris hand up, and looking significantly at it for some time, he made towards his smock-frock, and said he ili , l nut ands rstsod fightiog. It was for guinea, and five shillings to the loser. X.ICTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Jong' Pieter Jacobus, Wylie., from Amsterdaal to L oidoo, was on shore on the 3londersatiol, the end of last month, Litt it was expected would be got of, After discharging her earzo. FAt.moirii, JAN. 7.—The Pheasant, Banks, is not lost, as reported; she has put into Tramore Bay. neat Waterford, for which port she was bounil, with the Harriett, Banks, with which vessel she sailed in com pany from Swansea. The latter vessel, it is feared, has foundered, as a boat and some materials, marked with her name, has been picked up on the coast. Ncuar, Jar. 6.—The Anna, Ill'Clean, from Creetiock I.)r Waterford, with sugars, rum, and coal, got on a rock, on cut Ting this harbour, and is greatly damaged. Scti.t.v, JAN. I —The John, of Chester, Thomas, went on shore the 21st ult. while getting under %%Tick at St. Helen's Pool. and received much damage in her bottom. She is got off and hrought to St. Mary's Pier. The cargo, consisting of wheat and &or, has been all landed, a small part of which is &aniseed. '. On Thursday night, a porter, belonging to a gentle. man who resides at l'atriek's-hill, fell over the Quay, near the Leitrim-bridge, and was (Iron ned. Almost at the same time a your woman and her child, fell into the river at the Potttoe-quay-dock, when, afternsuch ex ertion, the mother was rescued from death, but the infant perished. These, we believe, make the num of deaths during the present winter, resultin limn the unprotected state of the Quays, amount to more than ten.—(letclligencer.) CORONER'S I NlQl'EST.—Yesterday afternoon an in quest was taken in the Board-runt of St. Bartbolo tnew's Hospital, before Mostar. Shelton, I4sq., Coro ner for London and Southmark, on She body of 31ary Crewel', aged 19, who, (together nit!' Miss Leathes,) met her death by jutnping frum a two pair of stairs window, at the_heu of Dr. (,'wins, in Bedford-row. The particulars of this calamitous event hate already been stated. litany bets have been made in the City, that the holders of either or, all the Three £21,000 Prizes, to be drawn on the 2:1(1 instant, the day that Parliament meet, will have tinie to apply at the Lottery fltfire, and get the money that day for their Prizes, before the King's Speech is annonneed, and, of conrse, if the Drawing takes place any time before Three that day, it may be 11 , 1111 . , al, at least, Three of the Nine 1:21.0110 must he dra:rn in the first Five Minutes. The Jenne Charles, Niehardieg, from Ilambureh to Honen, font:tiered off Ameland the 16th nit. The Saxony, Johnson, from Hamburg)] to London, which wa‘ on 'hone on Lowestotfe Beach, was got of Tnesday, and carried to Yarmouth for repair. 1 Vto LEN T oc re tcc.—An affray, which was attended with daugerous consequences, took place at Kendal on Monday se'nnight, at the Elephant Inn. Three Irishmen (dealer* in linen), who were in the kiichen, after having drank a considerable quantity of ale, h 0.., came very quarrelsome, and at length one of thensl made an assault upon a peaceable townsman, who was sitting in the sante Apartment a violent scuffle en- . stied, and with the assistance of several young turn, who happened to he in the house, the three aggressors were driven into the yard. There they waited, thirst ing for revenge, till two of the young men went to the door, when'one of the Irishmen, named Henry Con- • nelly, brandished a large case-knife, and inflicted three very seriotis wounds on the person of Benjamin ' Stead. Fortunately the villain's knife did not enter a vital part ; if it had been otherwise, death would have been the immediate consequence. The villain immedi• utely fled, but was shortly afterwards apprehended at his lodgings by the patrol, and lodged in the black hole fur the night. After an investigation before the ma- gistrates, Connelly was on Thursday finally committed .! to Appleby Gaul, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, . _ charged with cutting and stabbing Benjamin Stead, London: Edited, Printed, and Pabilshed at the Ater of with an intent of doing him somP grievous bodily in- 'rag 1 /rikrool" , " 4 ' ; sod 'nut re"'"?" 11 "'" ur A ! , ainat the other two Irishmen there was no P r) .1 1 °' I".- B tland. *rPfelle lit.eigwars 4 ;" l ". by R. wAR13411.. Jun., R.: t• wham all Gee:- charge al .eged. atualcatious, Orders, Re. are requested to be addressed. Mr. Frederick Salmon, one of the house snrgeow, stated that he attended the deceased on her admission into the linspita), early on the morning of Monday week; she hail a set ere injury on the lower part of her hack, both her legs were broken, and likewise the bone ut the heel of Ise: left foot, and her body was othernise much mutilated ; sonic symptoms of the spine being injured appeared, and which was after wards ascertained to he correct, every thing which was t;aought proper was dune for her, but she gra dually sunk, and died on last Monday evening, of the extensive injuries she had received 4 , the deceased was perfectly collected up to the hour of her death. Verdict.--" That the deceased, in order to avoid tle flames, jumped smut-of a two-pai: of stairs wiudomm, whereby she receked the !mina' injuries of which she died. FIR E.--An alarming fire broke omit soen after eleven• o'clock, on Tuesday evening, at the cabinet tuantdas tory of Sir. Dowhiggen, ill Adam's Mews, Marries bone, which threatened much destruction. The pa rish engine and those of the ts.utsty and Sue arrived in the infancy of the flytues, and with a good supply of water the conflagration was confined to the noised fluor, and the workshops on the first floor, which were destroyed, and tit.. flames were :hen subdued. DIED. On Nlondav, the Fith lust. s,uldt•nly, at Lis house, in V:est square, lansiseth, highly twteetued and ►espetted, Lieut.- Colonel Ilandieitl, of the Royal Engineers. is the 43i1 year of his age. Oa the OM vit. at Pitfene. Atenaleenshlre. in Ma ;ad year, (ieo. Ferguson, Esq., of Pittenr. only our& inSt bru" iher of the late Jame., Fervson. M.P. fur that county. Oa the Valli ult.. at hie Itc;ogirp. ColletreAtreet. Camden town, Samuel Steven Upponterneq.. aged til, upwards of n ati!gfoa >tnd opottiocory to lit.losoeourporish. • • • •