The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-16 00:00:00

'l'lt I 11. t)CJA N 1 LS TUCK 1::R. [From thr L reter Post] At our City Srrttoos, held Oil 11011,1ily last, before the Til ttut, 11 ( itilay, 1::41 Ilecoeder, and theJudices t•.. the i its. (dm ii. lii r was ts led for publisliluA lilds yhemous Idlo•l, in 11,.. form of a Parody tot the I . :tied:lig ;coil it it it lib ferling• of deep gratitude for the pine and rttrrlivt stilitiidistrat mil of OUE law , , we have 14 OA , I'OllV tiv•ll. lit was 111 1 111,tlialt 4 alteru yr& tried and eon -0 let, .1 fdr pobli•limg Libel, and I wit further in met sid! , t, of a s mildr a ;tare art mill tdonliiii; Will. —ll hell ie.:), et fir ea.es, ros,,t et far Ed it tn,!tlu lioos ttili not List long—and till ed oder the sett:Olivia! , Of 411.1Chca to Cie ssors%ip td find and the service 14 int Clio. iii, is mint(' to ober,• i• little fir lot ;,.t.lo.ii lon to lilt ell:11. an I 111 i; t os tit le.y applies to VIP turning t.II I, lit.4l;i• .1 .ri of the si nice Ireli rompris - • the , I 1::•dtit:;:el swum dr) of IteliAlim, which curly imp..,•io,t, n.,i.• readeled most dear, and ot Melt, as tie ,(ee(*: l to our t 1111(11.0o, tic ltepe We ale imparlim; lit them de .iles Uf !likir finale till., and lition nr are it:minor! it, Ibem the mil suit' rriunds of ss and ed nal 4 ,1 'jailor , — 'lost b.i,e must be the miial that timid a amonly io iiifkedlt eutdt cur to :1a Nu II 11't-• iliah for -I.ededl,. the 14..A11.:gt• of Ibis WWI. 11 49 11 6 , 111 lit t‘ ,: it foil ed w lilt closes! m inuer ail tbrywsuous..f 1111. C techt,lll; and the am-tent, 111 sdt ad of ded.aiditi; the hist (mill , of C'lurli,nity,andthe ((Mies df a tAiristiaii, set foe lb. io Iday,ua,:e sul2dif, nud impiou.• the eilmliirt of a rioninc lii a Minister +it tile Crown. Twit it dieliOrd the hoot, style, aid htifptial:x of tile l'rded, the 'let. l! ondosents ; and the Loud'. l•t a, re, adapted In the purpose —and That !wittier it p un the minds of the jury - . or of any could doubt it main of the intent:nu 111 the utopia all. Cial its tendency and elf; et was to tiling the sei t ice id the Churillt and "chitin' itfelf into ridicule thud contempt. r. Tanen:Al and Coleridge conducted the piosectition. The prisoner defecile I himself. Mr. '! ` sacred staled flit : I st. to Ihe jilt) ill a very clear and impressive speech—he li...doted out toe rir.rartcr and neressaiy effect of the libel • at nil staled that it boas from the character of the act done. tar tha libel. toe joss were to .Mdpeuf the i•io-ot or tie yobli,hvr tail Olt oith tvliateter he alight • littnint to st..lt t ere hi:, utt a ii.tilives the jury had not hia4 to flu. lit titiveiteti In )Ir. Cot': I,:tie! tidy, of 1;91. 01 - 111 t It, he explained, h:til not as v.e.. ertobeilvdy mippoaeds j, Oehl to the jury any .Mt,, that ill an crimhial cases that of jutigilig !ht. il*C11:141:111CC:, anti Itayilig to het het tie lintel was lit the Chas artrr imputed to it, and the de f admit was guilty of i ndoi,hing Tlie was their proved to have heea norchased at the to..deiniont's shop of the defendant himself t—and the Prayer to tilt' mioil) of the Dena aril Chapter, under the Act of Uniformity, whit the ((real Seal appendant, writ I) I lititoceit.---'lAiis closed the rase on the put of tile proSeetl eleessed li:s o Is.. not 111 trouble the Catot to Ohi reading the libel, and it to as (lauded to the jury . , lout leg ir..d. The der edam than addretaed the Court in a lone and mann:r to loch deserved a better c am p.. —li e pr o fewil Iris vo arm attachment to Rt.! CliriNthrit 11:41said,had tie 1".11` jui . c lied. lie idim Id have pahlislied an etteellt wink - , it a chrap form, in deft rice of it, lle did not Ray a wind in defence or the libel itself—but merely contended that I lone hat .iig been acquitted, the 01iriaal publisher, it was hard to s. Leto hint, the mete vender.— I hot it was the within' who 114:111l to be pride re.; ttttt sible--and that ili.s was the indent of Mr. Fox's Lilo 1 Bill, oil which he chiefly hat tins If :11 ex pr....sly : said, that, in rotate the jury elioult not be required to hod the defendant gully merely on liroof of the rat t Dr 1111111iC1:11011 1111.1 Of :he itellsal asi flora h. It tit the ticeot- that the jot y mere 10 tak.• tido ttro• tot tottdrtitl;oo all the 4.:f(l.lllVtlat•Cer, and pat ticu -1 rly the intent of the di leodaid, and l.hat they weir ea - by 1111% Art to give a special verdict Ow) (iilil ll 11111 11 , boiling the Look iti•lf tii . he libel, hut him, the pris r, not guilty t —and tupport of Wis hr relerieil to (nod trail) a loot extract lima a work of hir Richard batikwher. tarnierly at Sherd! of .joindosi,)—until iie rctcired to !tie opinion of the Recorder bitwelf, as evil' , ,st.l in the II ou•e of Commons a few weeks since, in the rase of :11r. !Without..., a lien Stoddai 1, pub lisher, it al let go flee; he do el,. 1•11.1 till hi, luus 11l 61 . 111 ' 11 'd live linititlat mid his hei, g' Clippie, 11110/1C la act his livelihood ill any other is dy, The lift order, in a clear tool impartial idatentent, ex plitmed to the j4ry, that the whMt iviestims for lb , ot tor try oar, whether 1 , .e ion it a( in it..elf and the drfriitlont pubisic d it —1 Icit the sale was proof of the pith. lc!ation —and that id: the eh-trailer he the ',did they were tu junge--that the tiler! of Mr. Fax's 11.11 tons, 'nerd. ttr kuvc . ;t the jut yto give get11.1 . :11 verilictr., in all vabef C acs, :11111 the) v. cre hot to bail a vetdit l of guilty merely till Ow het of polication nod the I' the ....ow m h o thutt•tl to the Book by the indict mem, b..t to ere to judge of the a lmte Char;alef and tell- A , uey the N. 4, and no w het . ner it WAS it libel Or c o t.— lls tint %kill the tterottchtitt'b nrole.siotis of hi- immit rhol In. rut' for id; v, the :levy had nothilut to do; th.o. they were to judge of h. intent by his acts ; that i the jury timught ha; bud circulated to the world die! %inch was calettlamil td bring religion arid the service of the church into entitempi, he att.. giill:y of the ise2enee charged Indictment. The Kt:C.lliter vointeti out the fatal elf.cts of ritii.mling and villi• lying religion and its forms told expt..:,eil Lk clear conviction Mitt the book in ipit..-tton was an iispioi.. and Wiwi/in:thou , libel, The jury retited for an hoar, end returned with the verdict ofguihy. The priT•oner vs. turn tried 011 up indictment fin . a libel, and it: -0 f.atpl goat:. 'fhcre acre two indictmenti , pending him, Open whis.li Inc w;os not tried ; and yesterday ninming. the Reorder, io impre,i.ive ri:ttencel the def.:whim to an inipriontiimt 01 hint month, in • the et:y gaol, fur the tdasplieninii , libel, and sr) months more for the sedition.. libel ; and at the expiration of that time to give scritritics fur Ms good behaviour, himself in I ',oh, and two other ten -suns in each; mid to be futtner imprd-oned until be..:11 lecurity shall be given. OLLI , FRIDAY, ZAN. 14. BANK PRUSLCUTWNS. The fnflowing prus•.llt:t. s ere brotyla op, and pleaded Filthy to ihe itooor off nee, of having torgt•ti their pn,sessiou, kluwilig them to he forged Bucknell, 11 ood, J ones :Nle:vin, 1l tlltrui erowne, James Carry, Junes CliWky, I leery Jotitimm, *Me. Wright, lid‘%Atti Willi.tot Gowan, alias THE NATIONAL REGISTER. - - - • ---- Itichard Iledlev, James Bryt to, Ann flail, Vary Kelly, Sarah %Yaks, and C.alliet iartin. The (ollowitig pleaded Not (kith) . :—J(11111 Parsons. John Storey, George SVtlliaiti Sall, .las. Gaffney, Sarah Paley, Ann l'ritelier, and Ann Elizabeth flare troth!. Wirialit Paley was indicted for the capital offence. Ile visaed to it'ead to the minor ilietice„ but this the ought um allow, as the offence cc id' svilich tee tVil6 charged tv IS for hating knowingly uttered lorded notes, aild no for It :vine, th.m in his possession lie then pleaded Not t 11 AltGi.: OF N1U111)Elt. Joseph Kehoti cvas iii ;ivied for we wilittl murder of NV ii ham Torisey,oit the I December last. I,l'Wisiti hushes deposed, that on Vac evening of the Jay mentiotted in the nulicttuesit, he, together with his partner lite deceased, et ere timing a coal waggon along Cit.,iielos-st reel, which at that tone %vas obstructed by a dia , i-cart belonging to t oe prisoner. The deceased at tempted to p ass with his iiai;goii,anil in doing so turned toe cart of the poisoner aeli,ss the road. 'llse deceased proceeded alotie; the street, and was lollowe.l by the pri soner, who knocked him Mot ii Willi the fore-Parer, and was ill vOilScipi,lice tun over, 4101 tits death lit cross-examination, the witness allowed that at the time wileit the waggon of the deceased struck tile calt of die prisoner, many I.ersous colic iced theitiels es in danger, and cried out, ".Irott have nearly killed a mall." James German is:posed, iltat when ine ;,ireirleist hap pened he was going along Clialid(4,;! ft:11. 'There Wits a 11111illOC W g;101) oil sue side the sited, :oil a dust car bcl,ulingto the pri-tservii the other. lly this means the road was blocked up, and there was toot room for :smatter call to pass. .111 e dust earl was standing :shoot Murieeil 111;:lies froto the ,4t: rye 5101 W. Sullw col moon to Anse might hate been made had the cart been moved nearer to the tom pareilictit. The decc.,sed, who w as .also di iv Mg a WilAgoll, WCIli towards the dust cart, and addressiog the in:boner vivify, rerpsested litin to move the cart. The prim tier reinsert to do so. A stage cinch titan cc ho %vas present attempted to naive the horse of the cart, when the prisoner knocked hint down. liven getting tip, the coachman asked who had knocked loin down. The prisoner replied, he Wunsch was the man, and if lie wanted any more he ituldtt Caine 11110 the street. The coachman then went away. ,TIIe I" ist)er then went to his mast., and fastened rte head clown us the collar. This done, he openly defied any twelve persons in the. street to t00..e either his cart or horse. At that moment the deceased drosc his horse slowly on. The wheel of the waggon touched the wheel of the dust cart. fly this accident the horse of the (lust cart was witted 11110 the middle of the street, and the. cart was backed into the kennel. NO mischief was (lone to the cart---issaiiy persons was then Coll, Cird to the spot, The waggon proeceded along the street about thirty yards. 'Fite prisoner, not waiting to pot his horse to right, fol lowed the wa,, , ,;0n, and swore he w 9 .ild knock die dri ver down. AS tile hind pare of the waggon was passing the tore horse of another waggon, the prisoner shut by them, and . caine behind the deceased. Prisoner caught deceased by the Jell shoulder, and as the latter turned round, the former gate him a violent blow upon the temple, and knocked hint under the horse's head. The rimier of the deceased endeat pored to st4p the horses. Fite horses did slop for a moils:on at that tune; and a: that time ijee prisoner, who was but a yard (IW/110,116;01r have coved the deceased, if 14, had attempted it, This, however, he did not do. I)etteaseet's partner then re monstrated with the prisoner, and was iu his turn knocked down. Tue horses pissed over the deceased. Other witnesses col rotenrated the Amy e evidence, and the Jury having consulted tagether for a few minines, protiounceel a verdict, finding the prisoner Guilty of I,l,,dategltter. l AlANSI.Aucirro l . Thomas Uropliy was I ict and slaying ins w le, Catherine Brophy, on tile Ist of I)ceeastser last, by str.kitig, beatiog, and casting her 1110bli tI.-around. aru,eret K nsley said, she resided in the same house with the prisoner and the deceased, in Nottinteliant C;ourt, Sikot's Gardens. Site remembered the former coining home, on the night mensioned, between twelve 4111 one o'clock. Tilt det.srased was in bed, and there was a chill of torce . sears old in the room. Soon after he entered the aparsitient, witness heard some words and noise, all suspecting lino to be in I dolor, she feared something would happy o. NV ittitss d a heavy tall tti on the flute, at. t shortly after a cry of " murder." She went into the room and found the deceased on die 11 .01. Sin! r ?Jelled out her right hand to witness, and said, the prisoner hail dragge:.! . her out of tied, and she had fallen oil her end was much hurt, These was some blood on the floor.— The prisoner stood 01: bide on the landing-place, bu did not say sue word. Wittiest asked toe deceased, %she:titer sit: might not be atleeted by the pains of lahtnir, being su far advanced m pregnancy , she said tot, but she had uo dOlllO the ViuleliCe bile stud rr perieuerd would brurd, it out. She bled I cry touch, witness at length pot boa into lied, and called up the landlady. Tile bleeding iisereased, and the • deceased requested her to shut the door, tout not stiffer her ltusb...od to wi,itess such a settee. Witness caw tier death approaching, and called for help. 'file prisoner soon after entered the room, and seeing the sitlietton in which his mite was, he offered her scows drink, tore his hair, cried, and sand he weitild remain with •• tits own old woman." The landlady hail, nurinz the time iiroCtileil the Beadle and Cotnitanle, woo came into the rlO/111 And tonic the prisoner into custody. 'Five drceaseu loaf about. Once quarters of 411 hour after the WIIiICSS entered the ro . was intoxicated when he caitie home On the molt mentioned. Ile scented deeply affected at what 111.1 iotppeesed. The prisoner protested his ,hanocence, and said the unfoutiaate death of Ina wife lasulted from her own passionate conduct in getting •ut of bed, and billing against he betlstrail. and then ou the floor Hee:Med sever II witnesses to give him an excellent dtarach.r for Mr. Justice linrrnugit summed up the evidence, and :will the Jury, after deli!)eratiog a few minutes, nininceJ the prisoner Not Guilty. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Ann Hodgkinson Was indicted for feloniously stealing in the dwelling--hou . .ie of Win. Baker, a tallow-chandler, in Torrey-street, a quantity of candles and other articles. _ _ 1 be prisoner had been recommended to the pro. secuter as a valuable female servant ; two days afi e r she had been in his service she told her master that he was robbed night and day, and that he had thievesla his house. Mr. Baker commended tho girl for her supposed fidelity, unit asked upon whom her. saspit ion fell ? She mentioned the servant of a p ,oenticman who lived in the house; also Mrs. Payne, a respectable lady (a lodger). The prose cutor,having suspicion that all was not right with respect to the girl herself, sent fOr a constable, who searched the premises, and tOund not only a large quantity of candles, concealed under ashes and dust in the lower part cf the house, where the defendant had access, but smut) property belonging to Mrs. Payee. it was supposed she had put the candles in a situation convenient fin . removal, and that she h . ad artfully endeavoured to prejudice her masier against the initiates of his house, ohs better to cover her own dishonesty. The Learned Chairman, in his address to the Jury, unserved, that this was a case of importance.. The depredations committed by servants in a simi lar way had extended so far, that the court felt themselves bound to make a severe example of or. fenders. At the same time the jury had to consi. der in, the case before them, whether the prisoner bad removed the property with the int( nt to carry it away. If they were satisfied that such was her intention, they would find her guilty ; if, on the contrary, they had not sufficient evidence to war rant that conclusion, they must acquit her. The jury considered some time, and returned a verdict of acquittal. PAssiNG COUXTEIWEIT SIXPENCES. Judith Connolly and Eleauttr.l3uckley stood in. dieted for ,a misdemeanour, in tittering false and counterfeit sixpences (knowing the same to be coml. terfeit) to Mary,, the wife of lictil,Freuell, and W. Stevens. - - - My. Arabia said, this was a prosecution instituted by thi,' Mint, who were desirous, in the execution of their duty, of checking, as much as possible, the frauds of those who went about tendering false and counterfeit money to publicans, calling for a small quantity of beer or spirits, and offering bad six. peaces. Connelly, in this instance, went into the house of Mr. French, who keeps the Globe, in Hun gerilird-u.arket. She called for half u pint of beer, and tendered sixpence it, payment of three half pence. The sixpence was tried and finnid bail. She gave another, which was good. Soon lifter the other prisoner Buckley came in and tendered u sixpence, which a counterfeit, and consequently refined. They were talking together in a way which induced Mr. French to entertain an ppinion they were tit terers of base coin. They were watched after they left his house, and Connolly was seen going into the shop of Mr. Stevens, a baker, in Northumberland. street, Staand. She called for bread, and tendered a sixpence, which was bad. At the same tune the other priioner, Buckley, was stand.ng opposite the shop in the street. " These people (said Mr. Arabia) co in gangs, because it is very convenient, the per son who utters shall le , ve the counterfeit coin with thou" who zemain outside the honse. If they are detected, and no bad money is found in their posses sion, it lessens the punishiumn."—They were both taken into custody, and upon tho other prisoner was tourti a sufficient quantity of bad ,roin to prove they acted in voncert. Mary French, wife of peter French, stated, that hit{ buslyind kept the (iloite. iu litingerford-ithir%vb Ou the 3oct Deeentl,er Buckley Caine win the house and asked lin a half a pint a porter. Sne tendered , ixpence in payineni. The vk fitness told her it was bad. Ihe oti.er whinier came alter she wa.: . gone ont, asked l i ar a hail a pint of Leer, aii!l tendered a tr, d sixpence. Mr. Peter French snouted Nis wife'sstatentent. NV Stevens, a bal.er, ill IN orthtintberlantl•street, depose t, that Couto Py came into 116 shop, and e ,be bad sixpence in payn.eot liar bread. She went The witness then obt , cretil both pr;soners situll?; toge ther oppo.:ite c. lie went out and told Con nolly she ha.l lwen a Lid sixpetitt! stir wedw,i to elidt;:se it. Tile wtille:,3 said (SO 0:.11 ouul,l out do— they were unerers of bad pviney,allll a constable should be scattier. Site endeavoured to slip away, %%, btu Pike, the c.msi itiL , oat her, end brought her a!lin iouk the oilier prisoner, and searched tier in the presence of the wittles•.. jsaac .j',ke, a constable, searched Connolly. He found in her possession (toe good shillin,„, three good sixpences, and two I.ence balli.voily in copper. In the pocket of the other prisoner he found tour shillings anti livedence hallpt nny in copper, six sixpences and sine V