The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. covRT OF KING'S BENCH, TUKan tv, JAN. 12. LIAIALITIf OF All'TOltitilF.S. PACE W. ARIOIIV AND COLES. an action In unalit Ily Mr. Page, inspector of military mot es to the East IC.aa Company. iigainst Messes. Alapry mid Coles. solicitors, tar ueglect iu Me cooduct of lain' Loonies., as enmities. It appealed room the statement of Mr. Scatlett, that Mr. ll' age, whit had soma ;weenies y transactions in a Soap Manu factory with Mr. Stephens, hail ended them by . taking a warrant of attorney fur 4001. trout Mr. Stet ells, with stay of r aeration ford months. The may of execution expired on its 18th of June, and Mr. Page thereupon gave his aetornies, Ainnry alga COWS, WINS to proceed against Mr. Steveus. The T.1(111111r mode in snelt cases is to sign judgment, sue out execution, anJ select an officer to make the levy. All this wai Clone by Amory and Coles, on the lath of June 1 they Stleele4 an uti'.cer of the came of %I alkins, and sent him to mike a ICS, al Lillie Chelsea, whet e Stevens carried on his rstrap Manufactory, and at 21, (we think), Judd Street, Ttranswick Square, where Stevens resided. 'fins officer reverted to Amory and Coles, that all Stevens's roods were 'moved flout Judd Sticet, that the excise sere in his mane fattory at Chelsea, sad tent he was also in art towa of rent for the preinkee which he held there. Every one of these stale. rueuts were tal-e : lie had not removed his goods f Judd :Slier% ; he had not suffered front an extent at Chelsea ; and he st es nut in arrears for tent of his manufactory. Mr. Page foiled out that the officer had deceived him, by the broker to .the landlord of Stevens's manufactory calling upon hint some tew days afterwards, and telling him that he had made a dis triss on the geoids found in Stevens's manufactory, and that lie was ie Mug to pay the overpins arising from the articles sold to him, (Mr. Page) *horn he falsely considered to be Stevens's partner. This information let Mr. Page Mon • secret ; he limed that the Excise was tint in at Chelsea, and that at Vie time when the officer's return was made, no rear was iu as rear by Stevens. He coinntunicated these circumstances to his affinities, whose duty it was, the writ had expired, lather to issue another writ, called an alias ficri facia, or else In have ruled die sheriff to make a trim a to the former writ. Neither of Meer were done. By neglect of the former measure, Stevens contrived,as twofold be shown iu evidence, to dispose of all his property, unlisted Mr. Page Eating a sixpenee of it ; and by snivel of for latter, all means of redress were lost as against the Sheriff. This statement was fully corroborated by Mr. Page's wit. 'leases. Mr. Gurnee, for the defence, coiled Watkins, the officer ; hat before his examinatiote Mr. Seal It'll snggested, that as Ties-is. Amory and Coles were entitletliu au action agaiiist hire for Nrciert, in the event of a verdict being obtained against them, it would be requisite to give him a general elreAs. Messrs. Amory and Cule immediately offered to gave ease. He stated that on his going down to Cueleea, lie found the premise. , locked up, and a padlock on the door and a her across it. Ile win inhumed by Mr. Frier, the landlord, that this wee the isitig's lurk, stud he therefore did not force um entrance into the premises, as he conceived the excise to be In Wine Min. He clambered on an old tree, and looked through a broken window, but could nut discern ally property within. He next went to the rxeisemau in Riley Street, -Chelsea, who wets not at home ; lie, however, saw his wife. bet shit would nut give any informs. ion. His evidence .Velito corroborated by his two followers; and ?.U. Gurney was going to call witnesses to his character, when Mr. Searlett said, that it was onnecemary, as lie did net to intend to impeach it. Mr. Wintleyer arid, that he had never, to the best of his recollection, espressed approbation of the conduct of the delved:no., Amory rod Coles; if lie had, it was mese cis itity, and meant nuthitug ; lie might say "it was all right," bet nothing more. Crum examined by Mr. Scarlete—Allowed that he was the gentleman alluded to in a letter produced, whom Mr. Amery was to meet at " Philippi." When lie met Messrs. Amory and Coles, he was sent to report, and not to judge. The defence here closed, anti Mr. Scerlett replied. The Chief Justice then 1111101attl nit the evidence minutely, and directed the jury to lied a serdiet fur time plaintiff, Willey were of opinion that all; negligence had been cum milted 'tied by the defendants; but if they were of a different opinion, to give the defendants the benefit of it. Verdict fur the plaintiff—Dainages 1251.—Costs 400. Ct./mous AlkirCDOTlL—Gretua Green has never been more diatingitished than within the last two or three weeks, having !Mtn visited by a very eminent legal nobleman, nearly 70 years of mgt. in company with a female who has brought I • several cl.tldreu on! of ibe pale of wedlock ; which female, with the assistance of the established joiner of the place, he married. His Lordship uavtllrd from laUadall in die garb and heuil•dress of a 'rotate. The object ul this very extra ordinary step was to legitimize the ( +news, o f ibi s connex i on , who, according to Scottish law, cease to he bastards on the marriage of the parents at any time. Illy L 111161141 formerly signed eel lain certificates un the spot, to give his children the advantage of the conduct pursued.—Pie Noble and I.earesed Lord has children by a fernier marriage ; and, of course, this singular proceeding eau by 110 envdiss interfere with their English rig:its, whatever it may tin with their ticottWi. The Birmingham Gazette contains the following particulars relative- n it,, above ma siege :—" lu October Lord Erskine •rellred cilia, accompanied by Miss Sarah Beck, the present Lady Logone, by whom he had several children out Of the pair of wedlock. He was dressed in fashionable female attire %jilt large Leghorn bonnet and lung veil. Oa die arrival of the officiating Vila:et of the 'lemple of Hplien, a/A 1.011 . 1.1111• dire w off dreu, and opptered in propels possoun, end ti.. o•oal ceremony being guar though, the pal ties were deelari d Iwni and a ile ! His Loll dship aga in pil l 0 ,, hielewaU vestments, and NUJ on the point ul takina hrs depai in. e, when his u l, die lion. Thomas. Erskine, made leis appeirianc. in a chaise mid four; but the knot was tied, and stonily ; At e , the new man ied euopir Muse ort. he Wide a alma* 35 s ear. add; tLr noble bridegroom neatly 70." The following i• related of the Es.l 01 Bridge. water, at Ashridge Castle, 111 ar 11,11IVI HO- Ne Lord Mks 01..51.11 a claw ,rileit, and srl'lle• permatiliy The hi.' day we- ~h,„ lide Lord mink a 14pe1deli to dloio.ig 1,l tier thins•, said, "We will have poor a "ale llt reat:vir ; veil' them to the Leslie. and I wit: employ said pa) them all." proposition (we owed nut s”) was catiied unanimously. Hit LOrdslilp's pay gives perfect satisfaction, mad there will be ert% !Oplllol to oven to COMB. E NATTONAT. REGISTrU Poucr.. GUILDHALL. RIOT ON PROCUAIMING Tilt SIM.OIII, BY .1n.%.,, , %,1 SOVTNl clivrs Disci et.gs.—A lanient.ible instance of the effects of infstowion and religions enthusiasm was exhibited at this office on Wetlne,.clay. damned Sibley and Nlaria Catherine Satire his ss ife, &motel Junes and hit son, a buy of tell years old, 'hinnies Jtm'•s, John Angol, ThonissSmitli, James Dodd, and Edward Slater, a boy 12 years of age, e rrs brought up from the Conipter, by Beaton and Gibbon, officers of Cord a oilier.' Ward, who had nit!' cleat ditfieolty, end at the hazard of their own li•es, resulted the pri.onets from the fury of an immense tomb, in Badge Row, Cannon Street, about ten u'elnek on ‘Verluesday morning. These deluded people were. it appeared, disciples of the lately famous Joanna Southeott, of whom one readers beard no much two Or three yearn ago, and conceived themselves directed by God to pm nelaini the coming of the Shiloh on eat t 6 ; for thin purpose they assembled at the went c mid of the town, in order to enter the only gate of the great city (Temple Bar). thrmieli which they marched in procession about nine o'clock in the marnitig ; they were each decorated with a white cockade. and 0 - 01 e a small star of yellow riband on their lett bi oasts. Sibley led the procession, bearing a [Hazen trumpet mita ned wish light blue ibands, and the boys cari ied each a small flag of bine silk. In this manner they proceeded through Fleet Street, up Ludgate Hill, and along St. Paul's Church Yard, to Budge Row, a great crowd followed them, increasing continually an they proceeded. Having arrived. se they supposed, in the middlo of the great city, they halted, and began to perform their criemonies. Sibley sounded the trumpet, WO iliutlalmed the second coming o r th e slaw', the Prince of l'eace on eat th ; and his wife cried out aloud, "Wo win! to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the ermine of the Shiloh." 'f his cry was repeated several times, amid joined in %%ids a loud voice by the others in company. 'I lie crowd was by thin time immenne, every avenue was stopped op, and time passage of Carla amid Carriages rendered impossible. The mob began with laughing and shooting at thenediniseraldr deluded people, and at length proceeded to pelting them with mud and every sort of missiles they could procure I they, on their part, being most of them stool young men, resisted ; the tight became general and tremendous, the nags were turn dawn, mid Sibley and his associates will, dith. malty preserved, by the exertions of the othcern, from falling victim* to the infuriated rage of the innb, and conv••yed to the Compter. Their appeinance,vshi:n put to the bar, bespoke the dangers they had guile through ; the men had all been coned in the mud, and Sibley bore evident marls of violence in his face. Ou being called upon by the Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Bridges, to glee an account of their contltiot,in thus disturbing the public peace, Sibley, with so air of authority, directed the Whets to he silent, and, adilressiter the Alderman, said, lie 'evened there was not time for him to cute► into the particulars of the miskion of (?oil to him. He had been commanded by a voice, throtizti toe boy Stater, to announce that the Prince of Peace was come upon eat th. He was commanded to proclaim the second contiog of Shiloh, in the Sallie manner, find with the sante authority, AS John the Baptist bad proclaimed his first coming. This proelanratiou lie was to make three times in the titie.st of the cleft cii), by the sound of the trumpet. He and his companions a ere obeying the command. of God, and lit so doing had conducted themselves peacably, and interfered with no one, when they were attacked by the mob. He was procee - diag to explain the nature of the visions with which the koy had been favoured, and Ms wile was raising her voice to bear testimony to the let of the Shiloh being no earth, whom she said she had in her arms tour times, when the Magistrate interrapted them, and observed, Ow? It was evident, if they were nut insane, that they we l e now t tinder a strong delusion, and pointed out to thew how snitch better the, would have been employed in pursuing their grantor avocations, thaw in beidg the rarwe of public not. and en. 'lowering their own perioatl, recommending them to desist from any repetitions of their gouda ab•urdtttes and drlis. Pions. The men in reply saiJ, it was right they should obey God ; but they would do uhatever the Magistrate directed, and decist front auy forilo•r prni.l.lmAtiim, demi tug him at the same time that nevrrWvles• the Shiloh was come. IYue Alderman said he would not rely on their protest, and shoidd detain them all in custody till they could procure him some better assurance than their own words for their peace able demeanour in future. l'hey were meters difigly conveyed back to the Compter in two coaches to protect them from the mob ; one of the men on stepping into the coach, mibuttoned his coat, displayed his yellow start and placing his h tad tan it, proclaimed shad that it was God's colour. The male prisoners are journeymen mechanics, and ap_ peared to be simple, deluded, hot peaceable men. Sibley, the leader, is a watchnsanin Coleman Street Ward. They were brought up again nn non stley, when Sibley was again the spokesman, and, in reply to the ISiagistrate,who inquired if he had ever becu In Bedlam, said, the gentlemen might laugh, but be sees nut mad, but had rest ;,gourd the but. siness thoroughly before be was convinced lie believed the Bible from cover favorer, and eo ld point out the prophesies which were now folfiiiing. He then went into s lung rhap sody of nonsense respecting the visions with which the bey had been favoured by Cod, a n d declared he bad witnessed miracles performed by hint. lo the course of his lout; ad• (lees), lie quoted the iciiptates very fluently, anti conesided by refitting, in justifientien of his belief, to the pessage in whirls it is said," iu the latter days your old 1114 . 111,6A1l eh eaio dream', 41111 your young men see visions." Being asked what place of worship he attended, he s relied his church was hie nen home, 3, Goods Yard, Upper iYliitectoss Street, there were about 30 of Arm who suet these I,equentiy, to read the Bible and re i Cr-Yrlit' Coll.lllAliti% oh the Lord. lit hail tiow received command from tioti to desist lions any Welber proclamation ; and if the Prince Regent weer to collect all the money in the world, mid lay it at his feet, lit da ed not to do it ; the Maxististe might therefore re., three would be no repetition ut their pies bow yonder!. lee this declaration he was joined by his wife and the reel of his associates, who all declared aloud, that they dated and hoe plocred any further in this tiesinois. On this assurance tin them parts, they were discharged with a suitable adiounii iou trout that. worthy Alderman. F.vrarimtrirreastir APPLICATION RESPT.CTING TF/E IMED MAYAlL—Fridaty, nearly lit the close of the examinations at dos Justice Maim, William% a relievable Member of the Court of Common Council, and :in Attorney of the ' Mayor's revert. amd he had to apply toll's aorship fur his tooter:Um agatmt the iiolent conduct as the Lortl Mayor of London. and his :ire aervants. v,ho hail turned him out of the .%lattaiun 11Duse ti It us mu, dicta:several tinter. Aa the nature of the App111:4(4 011 must JAN 11 appear to his worship to be eery eattauttlinaiy, lie would take the liberty to explain the whole circumstance* of the cw. I an, said he. at: attorney of the Lord Mayor's Conti. and In • that capacity hum a part of his Lordship's household, and have a seat at the sword-bearer's table; I also have occasional business to transact at the Mansion !louse, and have a particular drawer assign ed to soy use there. This situation. I have held more than iY years. and originally purchased it of the Cournion Council, for upwards of weed. It is, therefore. my freehold for life; I have also a right of alienation. Thus rimming:eel. I have a clear and indubitable right of egress and regress to the Mansion House, and of enjoying all thelprisileges uniformly attached to the office I have purchased; all which rigats, tiering the long period of twelve years. and under the intiyoridtiee of t*elve siuxeeeive aldermen, your worship enurgst the number. has.: never in any instance beep questioned. The pre. sent Lord Mayor, tiff what reasons or on what grounds I an at a loss to divine, has thought proper to deny those rights, to refuse my claim to a seat at the *word-bearer's tabs, apd to expel me from ' the Mansion House. As I could not tamely submit to this °hurtle lion of my just rights. I offered the best peaceable resistance in my power, whereupon his Lordship called up his sin servants, who, by . his order, lie hintself aiding and encouraging thorn, forcibly turtiod me out of the Mansion douse.' This violence has been Repeated throe several time". I think it proper not to forego the claim of toy tight, and intend thereftwe to proceed at the usual hour. 5 o'clock, to the ,larieion House, and take my scat; and I ern advised, and do now apply to your worship, to rent me the assistance of two officers to proceed with ale fir the purpose of protectiag ih the exercise of' that right, as ;ell to be witness thut I commit no breach of the peace. The application may he novel and extrarodinary, hot as my complaint is against the Chief Magistrate of the city. your worship must be aware that i have no other tribunal to which I can apply except to the Sitting Alderman in this Justice Room. Mr. Alderman C. Smith.—This is a very unpleatun thing for eve magistrate to be acting against another, and it wouldlre saiU mom , extraordinary to employ the officers of the city against the laud. Mayor, its chief magistrate. If there be any dispute between his, Lordship and yourself respecting the rights of Me situation you hold, that appears to use to be a question of law. in which it would., not be proper for me to interfere. His Lordship may consider this Mansion !louse to be his house, and that you have no right to enter there Without his permission. Mr. Williams.—! should be very unwilling to pre , s your wet tor to any unpleasant proceeding; whatever be your decisimi I 'thrill bow to it: it is enaugh for me that I have made the application. With respect to actions, I have already commented ten against las Lordship and his servants; but all; I. Sir, during the did' tedirms delay of the law, to he kept, forcibly kept, out of my rights? it is not a rompeesation for datnages that I apply for from your harls, buts rastitittion of my just right. As to the refusal of the Sheriffs, to provide dinner for his L o rdship's lionseluile at the Ses• sions, your worship 'nixie see that has no bearing upon the questior. Mr. Paine (the Clerk to the Atagistratee) suggested. that the MR.,e eion-lieuaetbeing the house of the lord Mayor, Mr. Williams might be committing, a trespass in entering it. in which ease his 11.47n6h1p had a ri g ht mallikr 7,101111$ I. compel him to retire. As there would be a Court of Aldermen on Tuesday, he would advise My Williams not to press his present application to a Might /elegise trate, but state his complaint to the whole aseeinbled body of the Magistracy. Mr. ‘Villianis—With great submission to lour Worship's legr.i adviser I contend, that the Mansion-house is the Lerd Mayor's (melee quoad her. It is the house of the Corporation. The doors mug be kept open at all times far many public purposes ; considerable beisi• nes: is done there regarding the cockets ; public justice is admi nistered there so that it cannel be eonsidered as the rrivnte house of thc Lord Mayor only t brit, Sir, my tight of entry there is ia fact acknowledged by the Lord Mayor himself. siho has putieipated and is participaing in the money taken out of my pocket fur the purchase of this place. My application for pecuniary redress, I know, must be made to the t'otirt of Common Council : with the Court of Aldermen I kave nothing . to do. 1 have already said. I am not desirous of pressing a dec ision ; if your Worship thinks it necessary to consult the Court of Aldermen before you choose to I shall bow to that opinion, and roam. Magistrate.--Certainly, Sir, I do no: in scan a case as this thank it right to act solely on my own opinion and shall thetefure seadult she Court of Aldermen at their meeting on Tuesday nest. Mr. thereupon left the office. BOW STREET. STAGE COACHMEN —Tuesday George Archer, the Ariver of the St; oilitaatei stage•ee.ieli, was ue.oight before Richard Birnie, the sitting '.ll , eistrate, charged with forcibly looking horn Mr. Francis Dawson an umbrella, and roisbe bavioni to him, as his lase. Mr. I) Jerson reside , on Brook Green Terrace, Hammer smith. On Thursday week lie bad OCCAA on to go to London, and gait upon the outside of the Stroud water I. gage cruel', drove by the prisoner. Out the coach arriving at the New White Horse Cellar in 1 1 ,ecatlilly, he alighted from it, and gale the prisoner a shilling, which is the toistinuary charge. The prisoner insisted upon having sixpence wore, which Mr, Dawson declined giving. The prisoner became extremely abusive and insolent. Mr. 1)AWs0111 requested bins In go limn the street intethe roach Mike, and if he was infOrOlt , 4l were 111:11 hr had a right to demand mill take Is. Gd. be wool.' then give lain sixpence nature ; this did not avail ; the coach man eonti sssss •il laic impudence mid scurrilous abase. Mr. DAWOO tendered him his name and address, which he treated Kith contempt, and refwed to give his name and madras' to Mr. Oswson, and forrib;y took from Mr. Dawson his tits brella, 41111 rode off with it. The primmer was about to he proceeded against on Tors .lay for stealing the umbrella ; thh, •abamiont .i, and IS was Cully ictefl iu the mitigate 4 pellaity of 20s. and 5.. costs, stonier the Act or Pat hauteur for regulating an d lIIIIIII4IIIIg this imposing set of then, (the attli (ieo. 111. cap. am, ) . _ .► fella,/ ImA been defranding !Pcetall it4l kites by pretend ing to be a pnAtinan, and denrering fabricated lettere, ire which he rrerived the po.lage. lie was on Tuesday examined and remanded. TilitEATe:%l•6 I.VeTERII.-011Tite‘lky the tint and Cool:- tcsa of Nlortort attended bethrelllll noon , Sitting Magl4lrate, F.l e!tiliblt a euoupid.ut orator' a ohne or toe ;wile of Rohm Griersuto, (roue whom the Collo! eta hail creeivrtl two threatening letter!, to extort a Alllll of poultry lions her laJyahip. l'irkery the,ulficyr %%a .livatelleti i•!t wdaidsat to Irdee nut and apple Item' him. Ile it it.:l in vightt during Ittemlety to Intel I) i )))) dud dl•dr nn Wean, airy mottling atilt nu better Slll'eP l, !.; but ill the atientoun he loot so, . rerstlii, and to - might loot to toe othry, a6it,.rr the F.tt I 69.1 ))))) 'rpm ul Morton al.o repotted; awl 31t. Mine toctog lis Allyntiatlev, File 1 . 1/1111 . 111i11i.111 plibuticr yoototeoyeti. Ile I'IIIIJF kably cool nod cull. ett.(l, 'flit ins.iiir? , a 1.1 . MOl - 1011 being sworn, stated, that fill la.t r• ening. between 6 and 7 trylock..hy rt - relyril (at her I Wimpole.strytt) n letter It) illy tviovennv rq. ~.1.1te••441 to In by ihe title of Loth 11:41toy, ditto, Jun. i. 1, , ". Ili, sine d *• Itutnit tialer.ou ;'• and Nlostelav corn yhe itretred antolter letlyr by thy I, 4•1 11101 Thu, 'utter sal. elate.* Jan. 11, Iltl9, anti .I;s.‘ •• t . the C1.11111,-S Sidled, that loth !11. I 11 - 41C11/I.g 1 , 1;• • osage , ,iii to bath Ilse letters, by , ....I - 1y in the lase, shy cumille real berfwif . to be in ei rot tldoger lieit li. i‘oo• et, au' bath areal It/ 41 , vecliel4111,4iItt slid applchtud.