The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-08-18 00:00:00

LAW IN I ELLISENCE. CoVRT OF cif *NCI RV. Ann. 17. Th. prin....P..4s in thy Clout Ms di) IWO Wally %. id of pe.hi.c Golionv r. comnoN. Th. Loan Cu tmcrt.l.oot agkorl M. km. wt.tber L. Md nn) luithor obb.os I ..1 , 4 in Ingit• in tho ra.. of (.o.dnn v. th.ollots, 'nor what bad pied )vs tardoa IN.. QOM, he led Risen the salikurt she fullest crt,.4l. , nttinn in his pu•er, and sew nothing snore utuh I.• r• stwe. 'Et • L01:11 CHANCELLOR let the judgment at. ti %hid. I give yesterday. Mr. Wilson then requested that his I,oo.hip would ally.• idol In make ■ motion. for confirming the Alweiht Report. It was n►cessary in hive Ibis motion made before two o'clock, as the olice * .pf the At roomiest-General would be shot then. ' The LOUD CDANCELLOR.-1 will not hearill; I vent to knew what reams presented the Mister's Report Iru•m hing prncor►d Intone? Mr. M :vox said, he believed it was owing to the great ns.n bur f papers in the case. The LORD CHAPICILLOR.-1 knew it is owing In nn each thing. It i s e c r ogi on od solely by the non• atte►danre of the Solidifies. The Masters ore oblig►rl almost slaty, to complain, that they cannot get the luridness of the Court done, solely limes* Solicitous will not attend. Applications of this sort are made generally at the teriniestion of the Sittings I•efet. the long totelino, and I know they are mad• solely for she purpose of get .•.'g payment of the costa. I will tint hear one of them, unless the strongest g►oseds asp shows for my doing an, and these grounds most be stated out alidavils.—Motion refused. In the case of the Bedford Charity. the Loon Cots scahhoft slid, lie should give his judgment on Thursday. The whole of the asy was occupied till live o'clock, In bruit% Bankrupt Petitions of no public import. SURREY ASSIZRS, Arc. 16. THE SING V. JOHN STETENA AND OTHERS. This toss au informatto• filed by bis hisjesty'R Attorney•Generil seeinat the Defendants, for eb outwit's an 01lire, of Etrise in the esecetion of big defy, in apprehending the brit Defendant, John Strern., against whose perann be had a worm., in ennsegvence of his being enable to pay certain pe. nattier interred by his illegal proceedings i• his trade of a ens TD. snaker. _ _ • _______ The Promicotor stated, that having been fora eery long how in smell of the fret Defendant. for the above stated rats*, be at length head him, tee years .go, by the aide of his nett, neer the Cannon Tavern. in the lit•rnegh. Th. appearance of the D.f.t ging at Prat attracted his attention, and i lentkinc mote neatly, he sew that he (himself) was ' po.rord nut by the second Defendant, who was a broiler of the first; end John Stevens then sidled Mt hoards behind the horse, to avoid being seen.— The wetness however went op to him sod steered Mee, es he thought ; _bat en attack was then leads by the rather tact Defendants and the sorroneding mob, murk had whored en the occasion. The Defend. ant. .I , hn Steven,, opposed greet resistance, and, ace,,rding to the •itnees's *coolant, Mt him In fear pI rya on one hand, end seven places on the (attire, end finally, by means of the other Defendants posh lag the mob against the witness, was enable to esrape Ile was afterwards, however, takes with hi. tronfect.rstes. O. the wi nets being oss.emainineel by the Cost. Mni 4 intl EAST ..nd Me. COsITN, for the defence. he wiltrittsd that be had not shown his bitten hands to Mr Mayo., the inl:citor for the Egoist., nor had he felt •cession in apply to any member of the faculty for mrdivel ae,istance. Ore other shortest was called for the Crown, who, in part confi.ased the fist witness's Statement. he CON•40:1 SELMAN'S then add Li the Jury for the defence. He contended that the accusation anted upon the solitary and unevaluated testimony of one *tines, ; the ridiculous and romantic accounts of the now er of bites nn whose hands tendered his testimony hyperbolical to obtain credence in the minds of a Jeer. Mt. Coisvm Gllowed on behalf of the third Ds. fenrisnt. A best of witnesses were Called to prove that the first Defendant • al theamaolued, not ihreassielter, and a s s th. other Defewdents only Interfered as far as .naives of homantty dictated their insistence. Mr. 4eljesnt Opisiow (oho was assieted by Mr. Neaten, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Noise, sad Mr. Bel repli d. T: e Joey. after retleisos a considerable Inglis of tie., found all the Defesdants—Nof This trial lasted from tee in the owning WIC three in the afternone. O. of the Mimes Bennett, of Covent-print Unite, .as ',trimmed in o gig, on Thera', last, w►ice making an morales from Brighton le tbe Devil's Dyke with a party bloods, by which accident she was mach bruised. E'er) arrangement has been made by the Surrey irlscitorac, to prevent any disturbance from arillog at the Mewing proposed to be held on Seaningtenn common on Monday nest. As the Ipswich end Norwich grown was on its on Monday morning, in Ipswich, about two miles on the ether side of Colchester, it was Week hi' lightning. which set fire to the waggon, and communicsied to some barrels of.genprinder,, which blew op with s dreadful 'anima's'', in cows,- gestice of which we regret to enderstand some liter were Inst. The rlriv.•r of one of the Brighton stage.cosehet, end Use driver of the Worthing c.•icb, underwent esaettnstit•rrs far improper driting at the Bench at Ow T 01011460, iiria..'on, on Monday last, when the f,rmer was fined 51. with 40s. coils, and the latter 101. pith 40s. costs. These Ones, it is hoped, will have II sitataty effect with the stage-coach whips lemee,lll. An old fellow died lately in Paris in a Mate of the etched apparent indigence; hut after his W avily u r ic found more than 80,000 Imes in filter hidden in his cid pallissm. vi t. e:i n t ieu s t s , gold soil TRIALS FOR CRLLINU PROFANE AND SADIIIO IVIRMAGS. 4.4 4 11L`ii. Att. 9. tux r. Rt"..41:1.1.. . Thin wee a proe.calion fur publishing one of llone's 1 Parodies shard 18 enviina ago, and *eV. put off from iho 1... t Aks's• to the prromt.—[l' will be rein'. levied hr no, 11 elirte Aka: Mute had been stied for glue* didereot Parodies of the same nature is, Lon. tin', and acquitted.)—At potentlatit's request, be fore the t,i4l commenced, the witnesses were with drawn from tho Court. Mr. Pearson. of London, was Defendant's Solicitor. %Voider and Caddo were 1 alto stared to be in Court. I I Mr. CLAMOR: opened the case for the Crown, in' 1 which he oh d that Defendant was chariot! with ; 1 intending to 'seine the Holy Litaoy into contempt, 1 land to excite impiety and immorality, by ridiculing' it in a reglala parody. called the Political Litany. , . in which are contained profane resat its on the divine: Iservice, &c. C. L. Barber, end a person named Hoary prover, 1 that they had bought the publication of the Do. 1 (trident. I Mr. Most, the Registrar of the lea soul Chap. ver of Licltheld, produced the Act of Uniformity from the archives of the Chapter, in order to com• 1 pare the Litany, as by law established, with the, ! Parody. S..me i.isill objections were made. The Defendant then addressed the Court in a 'porch occupying a considerable space of time, and 1 wish great fluency, In extenuation of his conduct. I / Ile said that he owed the present persecution to the ingratitude of a man be had befriended, and that his arrest was founded in spiteful motives. The original Printer had been acqoitted by a Loudon Jury ; and it could not be guilt it, the accessary, which was not guilt in the principal. The publication was merely ley/battle—if was a popular way of showing popular sentiments. ilis Lemoyne, in his charge to the Jury, 'Worm!, that in his opinion the parody was a libel; and the Jury found a verdict—Guilty. The Defendant will remain upon hail until nest Term, when he will be brooglat op for judgment io 1 the Court of King's Bench. CORNWALL ANSIZI.S, Ave. 10. Thomas Ilases was put to the bar, charged with altering a seditious libel. He was a man of wretched appearance, who 'weed that he mild scarcely read; ratter wild in his look and manner, and, an coming into Court, said he had committed no crimes gad knew nothing about pleading. tieing 'shed if he wished to put off his trial till neat Assizes, be re. plied that he had no bail, sod after some hesitation he consented to be than tried, rather than return to geol. Mr. Seim est, Counsel fur the prosecution, then I stated that this prosecution was instituted, at the desire of the Magistrates Pomo, where the o f. (nee had been committed ; and they bad acted with wisdom end becoming energy so the oe. elision. While other districts of the kingdom wets agitated by sedition pehlications without amber, the peen of ski gamy of Cornwall had eat km disierbed, perhaps because those vile pnriaatimsa had not yet bees circulated with impeoity gams its loyal inhabitants ; and it was to protect rheas from so imps» a melee's, that the IWagistralse deemed it a duty incumbent on them to plat a stop to the veil at once, by bringing the present delinquent to justice. It is not given le man to look late the course of time, and to predict what events may bap. pro et a tutors period ' • bet if such proceedings be tolerated, and sedition be allowed to stalk openly throogb the country in the persons of sorb tools as rho P r i s oner at she bar—if Juries be not olive to the preservation of the best interests of society, by sp. holding the laws and exercising a necessary severity epos, these illiterate agents of guilty asoinss, oho keep in the beck.ground, reap the profits, and leave them to their fate—there wilt be an end of all ordor and goverameot, and revelation most inevitably eo sue. This is the first case in the county of Cornwall that has beets submitted to a British Jury, and too much praise cannot be given to the Magistrates of Peoryn fur setting so laudable an 'sample, which will no doubt be followed, should se occasion offer, by those of emery town in the county. The pas. pfilst of which he had this day to complain was net written in the free spirit of fair dismission, but was a malignant libel on the Church, the Clergy, the Go. vestment, end ens on the Royal Family itself, and calculated to excite sinuosity egaiest all that W good or great in the empire. John Uren, the pioneer, saw the Prisoner on Monday, the 'lBth sf Jose last, in the streets of Pen. ryn, crying venous pamphlets for sale. He per. chased see, paid a penny for it, marked it with his nese, and kept it by blower since.—[llere the copy was put is nod read.] The Prissier offered is his defence a limn signed by the Commissiessers of Hawkers sad Pedlars, which, es ho contended, authorized his to sell any kind of publican's la town, and from house to boon, la any pert of the kingdom, provided the I Prima's same sere attached. Ti. Learned Jedge addressed the Jery in a most eloquent speech, is which he explained the law of the case, and emphatically tosebed upon the disorders which at this momeot distract varies, parts of the kingdom, and which, be said, had been fostered and greatly @greened by such mischi pablicatioos, and the mean, taken to disseminate them. The Jury friend the Prisoner Guilty of senior a seditious l'asoplilet, and he was senteraced to sit months' imprisonment in Bedsits gaol. Lately, at the feet of Sith-rhaillion Benrannoch, Iwo master Wt.'s, of the wastes of Donald 3l Donald, etas Donald Roy Cethanach, aged 01, sod William Campbell, alias William Roy Crupach, sited 79, courted a beautiful virgin of the name of Elizabeth MiDonald, alias Lisidls Rob, aged 69, sod cm the night of the 2141 of July last the latter eloped with her to Ratings!, where they were serried by the Rel. R. 111`Donald. The other Weer, bearing of fail circumstance, immediately followed the NM'ss with a strong party on horseback, bet to his great grief anti di.appoioteoeut, 'waved ton late to pr the union of 'he enamoured couple.—(Gler.gow Orr ) TIM STAIT-SI4AN. POLICE?. -....--- CUIUM A LL.—Y.st rude, 1111 inlerysling •aang unman 4,1 telocinbte supParnnev, uith en infant in her arms, applied for the Magistrate's advice and as. *Wince ander tits following circumstances ;—A short time since, at the instance of the parish officers of St. Bride's. were she was ILeto rhergvable, she hail swoon the child ito Ler arias. to John Watts, a master enopyr. in Sboe.lane; an order of filiation was then made, directing him to pay ss. pe► week far the main. (encore of the child ; fhb ►be bad received fur • week l ot two, bet latterly it bad been dropped to 31. per week ; she had in couseqeenre applied to the parish officers, who told her it was all they received from the father, that they thought it quite enough, and would not i•terfere further. The father, site said, was in a good way of business, had four sea at work now, and rented a house in the pariah of 501. or 601 a year. lie bad seduced her ander the pro. ! sise of marriage, sad they bad been out asked at Darr+. Mr. Alderman Slum said this •as an ettraordin. sty rare, it was not for him to rotation the order of filiation, it had been settled on the lodgment of two Magistrates, and ought to be enforced. A messenger was then, sent off to regoi►e the attendsnee of the °mum, and shortly 'fierier& Mr. Smith, of i)or. set.street, the Vestry Clerk of S'. 'mimed on their behalf. Upon being Wormed of the nature of the applies floe, he replied. he knew the young women, Ann Chown, very well. She bad made frequent epplicse lions to their Board on the 'object. Erery enquiry had bees made, sad though the father of the child had been represented as a master tradesmen, the Over. seers were costumed that he was a poor man, and nut able to pay more than three shillings per week : 1 sod they were of opinion, from the character and conduct of the girl, it was as much as she deserved.' Mr. Alderman SmiTil said, It was not now the question of amount: that has been settled by the l I M•eistiates who made the order of filiation, which I had not been appealed against. It was the duty el l the Perish Officers to enforce that order, which they had the power of doing. Ile mould not allow the Overieerit to defeat the order of the Megistrares. After some further conversation the Art of Per. limpet. .19 h (lee. 111. cop. 68. was referred to, from which it appeared, that in case of non.rompli once with the older of filiation, one blegistrate, oo the complaint of the Overseers might commit the re poled father to hard labour for three months in the cosmos gaol, or till payment be made, and so on for any other default of payment. I The Alderman allowed the complaint of the Over : eters was necessary, bet thought, upon proper re- I presentation, they might be summoned before the Magistrate and compelled to make the complaint. Mr. Smith replied, the Overseers were satitfied,aad bad no complaint to make. The Alderman said, be should certainly take the advice of the Legal Officers of the City; the eider of the filegistratn most he enforced. UNION-114LL.—About seven o'clock on Monday *setting a man went into the watch-house near the ' tell.gate at the Surrey Theatre, and enquired for the eight constable, to whom be said be had something very important to communicate. Mr. Ascott, the watch-bosse keeper, was the only person there, and he informed him that the constable had not yet ar. rived, bet was every moment expected ; the stranger I (apparently somewhat disappointed) again pressed ' the importance of his communication, which induced &colt to question him. At first be seemed mach effected, but laboured vainly to costeeal his emotion, sod after a low minutes pease, he esildeely lam a murderer-1 We committed agreet COON and deserve to suffer !" end then be sunk motionless into a chair. Ascott endesvoured to compose him, and when be bed revived a little, desired hint to state explicitly the business that had brought him thither; when the stranger said his same was Wood, that he was s native of Leicestershire, end had in his youth formed a very strong attachment towards a young we. man of his own age, named -- bat for wMOI reasons they broke oath@ courtship, arid he woo 10111 after married to soother women. Me did not see the first object of his love derive the lime of his marriage, ger till after the death of his wife, which hallowed I soar two years ego, sod then he was induced to ewe quire after her, and foaled she was still living aid simile. His first Isms returned with increased force; he visited her, a reconciliation was easily elected, and he intended to marry her when a decent time had elapsed. his intention be communicated to her friends, who had no objection to the match, and, with the consent of all parties, a day was Geed for the celebration of their nuptials, when a circumstance unexpected and dreadful, at once ended the oegociations, rendering him an object of horror sod reproach to himself, end of teem. tie° to society. A soldier, who was quartered in the town, bed, it seemed, succeeded in gaining the leffiectioss of the young woman; he took her t• public places, places, walked with her, sod emoted professedly her admirer. These attentions of the soldier rooted his jealousy, and inspired him with as otter contempt of IN woman, whom in the first ebullitions of his pee den be determined to sacrifice! With Ibis dreadful intentinn he repaired to the shop of a shoemaker, and bitrosted a late wog king knife, which be sharpened $ a very keen edge, and then placed himself in am. hesh near the residence of his destined victim, whom he anon saw, and after upbraiding her with Ingrati tude, plunged the knife into her body, just under for left breast, and gave her I other wounds in the neck and arms till she was poise deed, he then threw the body into the river, near the Stnne•quarry.— After the perpettarinn of the deed he lied to !Wain titer, bet entail obtain no rest ; his imagination perpe. (rally becught the murder before his eyes, and even in sleep the bleeding (gyre his victim stood helot* bits. flaying wandered about a year throelh flitfre. ent pests of the cowry, daring which he •aperieneed the greatest torturer. be arsiaml in town for the very purpose of giving himself up to the Ministers et Justice. The unfortunate man was rid in close custody by Ascots, she rnt,k cite that he should net have any means by which he could make any attempt on his life, and yesterday tnn►ning he was brerseht to this /Ace and essmined before the presiding Magistrate, B . A LLEN , E.q. lle sppesred perfectly firm and re.iitieJ, sod his courostivi 11 a I taken do*ii is writing Mr. ALLEN asked hilt if the body rf the ynang woman w .1 ewer found? to which he rriilieslohlt ho had braid it stag. bat *as afield to be lnquisitste, as it might betray him. lle oat cammitied to Ow coati:l(ly of the Keeper of the Haste of Correction. II •rseringri.lane, till a messenger ran be gent to Leirester triskis •nqui. tier. The Prisoner is oboist 30 years 01J; the de. ceased nos at tho time of her death 28. HAMM; TIIE ►TAIL. now.sTßEET.—Y•gtef day John Goodman, alias Bond, was brought to the office by llifitop, the nffi. cer, and underwent in easnsinsiinn before ROMANO flume, E-q. charged en suspicion of robbing this E iinbergh Nisi' in the ~nth of May last, of Wok notes to the amount of 11001. It eppeared that on the 1 5.6111( Mly ha , fl preel was pet into the tiliebersti Mail, vowelising the holm of Book of England notes to the amount of 11001. principally in 11. notes, there being five of 21. sell five of 51. each. On the arrival the mail•enach at Newcastle, it was esarained, to ascertain if the (.arcels were core rectothen the shore described parcel was missing Tee agents of the Cdinburgli Bank were so incautious an not to wait the acknowledgment of tho receipt of the first parcel, bet sent a parerl with tha other halves oi lb. Bank •notes on the following day, which is as also mimed on the arrival of the mail-coach at Newcastle. Every possible exertion was made so discover the robber, brit in vain. A great teeny of the notes had been in circulation fora number slyest. in the North of England. so that they became ragged and *Metal -1 ligible, end it was therforr found necmsary to lend' thew to the Ilaula of E %laud to have then el. changed. Yesterday four of the stoleo joined together 11. notes of the shove description were paid Into the Bank of England fur new notes, by a person named Bond, and on the clerk Issoing fear new 11. notes is earhang• for the four old MOW 4lad note., and calling for the risme of Bond, the Pt isccner answered to it.--• Ile was afterwards stopped, taken into custody, end benoght to the Office. On his person was found two 201. and owe 101. Bo c k ants,. (lie of thr 201. notes pulses to bays been issued last titturdsy in eschang• for the old • notes, part of those stolen, and it is *speed that the other 201. note and the 101. note sr 111 prove to bs the fame. On Mr. BS Mt calling spnn the Prisoner to give se serpent of bivotelf, be said he ass an independent man, sod Bishop, the Am., admitted, that be be. levied bin to be worth several thoossod parotids. lie Will COMlllitled for fettbor lIIATTON•OARDEN.—III oar Paper of Timidity last we gave ao accosot of a young woman applying for, awl obtaining, • lodging in George.cowe, Aylea. bury.street, Cletkenwell, where morn after she was delivered of an infant. We also detailed her subs,. "tient extraordinary conduct up to her being placed in the work.bowe. flaring seffirirntly recovered her health, she was on Saturday last egemined at this office. Several witnesses werommined, amongst whoa were the landlady of the house where she lodged, bee fellowelodger who follo•ed god stopped her. and the man who took up the bag. These persons cor• roborated lb. principal facts of our former statement. The husband, a sae of respectable appearance, who seemed meth effected, also atteneeti; from hit state. ment it appeared that his wife, in consequence of • so. IMP hurt abehad formerly received in her hoedowns a limes deranged, end by enel.l no utberwile account for her !ravio l i a comfortable borne, and acting in the estreoadinery manner she hail done, Is, by sup. posing she acted wader the intleence of the thunder to which she was subject. The MAGISTRATg, ender . all the rirrensataores, amid his would admit the 'ardor. innate woman to hail, on her husband's entering into a recognizance for 501. and finding two boosekeepers Ito join him in ?A each for her fatere appearance.— ,'The husband 'groggily solicited him to take his sece. l aity for the whole seen, seeing as a reason the de plorable state of his family, one child buying died I since his wife left her home, and two lying at present is a slate of imminent danger. His oesidenc• w.s in Yorkshire, er.d he had no acquaintance with any boaaekeeper in Loudon whom he could legates' to become bail. The MAGhTSATt said be most tin. (witty rommisersted bit unfortonate situation, bat he could not depart from the regular tour.* of his deity ; whenever he and his hail were reedy the %infer. wrote womln might he discharged, bet till then the must remain In bee former custody. SPARRING. The last benefit this seasoo took rtiee at the Pees Court yesterday, fist the benefit of 11. Ilartn , r. The Coon was well attended. e..nsi.lering the °lioness of London. The little setting-to exhibited was at follows: R*MDAL and lIOLT.—This was the but match, sod stthoogh Randal's natural gifts gave him the best of it, yet he had not it all his own way; liuit's fine science gave him some points, and be stood maufaill against Ibis smashing operator. Harmer sod Belcher made as excellent set.to with mutual advantages, end it was impne•ible th,r t i,e science, and petlicolaly in giving, could be better displayed. The openiitgset.to between Filmy Lennox and Mason, and Om, between liircrer and SJeun, Richmond and Shes , est, and Cropley and I:dwaidr, I afforded much 'pert. The close w4s bitween two stout young country. men, who ate wove thin ems the S o arer farrier whom 4ledten beat. They, however, did their best, sod pelted amity unmercifully at trac:i nther. Btte, whom Cr.roor heat in his maiden ti;ht, (Sit tented to fidia k, the b!srk. is I:.e e ring as Cy. Davis and the Irishmen on 'r ueolsy nest, fur a purse, which the black arrep!od. Eti:it no the ICA ta•t., at hi. t.. igiert. Wiamere..trett. Cater. iliats•aquare, the Liaty ISh•tr, H. P., 21th lint, eta MARRIED. Os tlaelnit Cr.. John Grerosonl. to forotnet de oglo.r of thr Reg. Charles Rattle. of % Dot,rt. Wird, Piloted. and Publi-bed b, 11. PPRIV.% n U.. {TAT. 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