The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-11 00:00:00

OCT. 11. a ny pains been taken, the testimony of thousands of respectable men, who have no political bias, and very many, wl:o are here ladled high party men, would have demonstrao that there was nothing to justify even the appearance of the military, much less wilitare execution. ...Had I contemplated the arduous task of content:ing against a barrister, numerous *tunnies, and another, whom I will not name, I should have felt too diffident to have undertaken it; but as, from the justice of the cause, and certainly nut from any talent of toy own, 1 have hitherto borne up pretty well against my antagonists. 1 do not despair of maititslning my ground, and bringing tile C;M: to a just and successful issue. notwithstanding a ray obstacle." •• Four sincere friend, JAMES HARMER." TO THE EDITOR. -...ax.., trnst you will excuse my troubling you with two or three short extracts from the statutes concerning the duty of a Coroner in taking an inquisition; as on reading the proceedipgs at Oldham, as set forth in your paper, it evidently appears thst Alr. Ferrand, the Co. loner, is acting both against the letter and spirit of those statutes :--viz. Stat. of FA. 4., cap. 2, sec. 1.-4 14 The Coroner, upon the oath of the Jury, shall inquire if they knew where the per son was first n h.-titer It were in a braise, ticld, &c., and who were there. Likewise, it is to be inquired aim Mete culpable either of the art or the Ante, and atm pre sont, and of what age th..y he (if they can speak and have discretion) t and as many as shall be ba u d cwipuble by the /ropiest shall be committed to gaol." t...." If any he alive:oyd es ptincipta, they that be appealed of the force be attached it and kept until the principal he uttainted." 3cl lien. VII. cap Every Coroner, upon stew of the dead body, shall inquire of the permit th.it 11..111 dom. the death or murder; also of their Kiwi tors and ennienters, and vs ho were present when it was 41 • ; and the names of the persons so present and found shall enroll and rertlfy." Cap. ''When one is shin in the day-burr,and the inur deter escapes awaken, the township that bUtierrt 111 shall be amerced, and the Constar shall inquire thereof on the v.ess of the body dead."-8 Vin. Ab. ji. 248, 2194 c. 50. Now, as evidence has been adduced at the Oldham Inquest, which proved and identified several of the Yeomanry Cavalry as being active in the never-to . -be- . forgotten )6th of August, at Manchester, as well as those who actually gave the fatal order for the charge, are, according to the above-mentioned statutes, equally guilty with the man or men who actually inflicted the wound on John Lees, for such persons used the force referred to by the first-mentioned statute ; and by the statute of 3d Hen. Vii. were the abettors and consenters to the atrocious act •; consequently the Cormier was bound to receive the evidence so produced by Mr. Har mer ; and his refusal to take the same subjects his con duct to be called in 'question hereafter by a superior tribunal. Volllr . f. &C. A CONSTANT READER. The following is a correct extract of the case in Plowden's Reports, to which Mr. Harmer has re ferred on several occasions in the course of the Inquest at Oldham:— " A report of certain points, which were ruled at the Sessions, held at the town of Salop, on Monday, the 9th of July, in the ist year of Queen Mary, and continued all that week before Sir T. Bromley, Knight, Chief intake of the King's bench ; Sir R. Townsend, Knight, Scrjeant at Law; W. Simons, apprentice, and the Queen's attorney, in the Marches of Wales, and E. Plow den, utter barrister, of the Middle Temple, and others, being Justices of the Peace, &c. In that case. divers persons were indicted for killing a loan, viz. some for giving the wounds whereof he dint, and others, for mat they were present. aiding. catuterting, and abetting the others to commit the said murder. And they who gave the wounds to the man, and killed him, had 11-d and escaped, and the others wercbrought to the bar. And whether they should be arraigned or no was a doubt, and was moved to the other Justices by Bromley ; for he said to them, that although they who were present and abetting were princi pals, as well as those who struck the man and killed him, yet they are the principals in the second degree, viz., in respect that the others who struck the man and killed hint are principalsin the first degree, by reason of the act of killing him, aid these` ethers who :.b steel them and are present are also principals, but that in the second degree only, and in respect of the first act; fur if the others did not kill the man, then it the others who were abettors and present should be now arraigned, and it should happen that they should lie found guilty, and afterward., the others who are indicted for giving the stroke and killing the man should be taken and arraigned. and it should happen that they were acquitted, as it might be, then I would know your opinion what should be done. The other Justices above mentioned, after advising thereof for two days, held clearly that they might proceed with the•prisoners now at the bar, without any inconve nience arising trout it t ter, they said, that when many came to do an act, and one only dues it, and the others are present abetting him, or ready to aid him in the fact, they are principals to all intents as much as he that does the fact ; for the presence of the the others is a terror to him that is assaulted, so that he dare not defend himself ; for if a min sees his enemy, and 90 of his ser vants coming. to assault him, and they all draw their swords and surround him. and one only strikes has, so that lie dies thereof, now the others shall with good reason be adjudged as great offenders as he that stmck him ;_iise if they had not iteen piesent lie might probably have deteneljthiniself, and so have escaped; hut the number of thz other, being present, and ready to strike him also. shall be adjudged a great terror to him, so as to make him lose hie courage and despair of defending himself, and by this means they are the occJ:ssin of his death. So that their pre sence le the cause of terror, and terraria the reason that lie receives the wounds, and the wounds are the cause of his death. And then, inasmuch as both together, viz. the wounds anal the pre sence of dm ' , titers who gave the wound at all. are adjudge.' the cause of his death, it follows that all of them. viz. those that strike, and t:tose that are present. are in equal degrees, and each par lakes of the deed of the other. And the fact as to him that is dead, and as to the punishment of it, (although it consistsof two Parts.) yet in law it is without a divisien • and notwithstanding there is hot one wound given by one only. yet it dull be adjudged in law the wound of every one, that is. it shall be looked upon as given by him who gave it, by himself, and given by the rest by bin, as then minister and inetrument. And it is as much the deed of the others, its if they had all jointly holden with their hands the club, or other instrument, with which the wound was given, as if they bad altogether struck the person that was killed."—Sce Plowden's Reports, vol. I. p. 96. a. 9:. a. 98. Accounts received ficm Portugal nn Friday morning state that a quarantit:e of 30 tkys on all smelt from Cadiz, Gibraltar, &c. vs as enforced by Gott tunas; Pro clamation, on the Hidrult. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. On Friday a Common Hall WM held to declare the Election of Alderman Bridges. . _ About one o'clock the Lord Mayor arrived, amidst expressions of disapprobation. The cry of fire we.s raised as he passed through the Rill to the Court of Aldermen. In the absence of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the ceremony commenced. The Sheriff he said, declered the election had fallen on George Bridges, lisq. Alderman and Wheelwright. and John Thomas 'nog:, Alderman and Draper, to be returned to the Court of Alder men, that one might be elected Lord Mayor fin. the year ensuing. ( Loud applause.) . The above names having been returned to the Court of Aldermen, the Lord Mayor Elect, the late Lord Muyor, the Sheriffs, Aldermen Waithman, Thorp, and others, came to the hustings. The Lord Mayor Elect, walking on the right of Alderman Atkins, was received with loud applause. The Common Crier then called upon him to come forth and declare his consent to take the said office. Alderman Bridges, amidst loud cheering, present ed himself in front of the hustings, and was invested with the gold c isin. He then Will—Gentlemen of the I).very, I beg to return my mon sincere thanks for the honour done me. Alderman Thorp, said it was nut his intention to trespass long on the attention of the Livery. He expressed floozies for returning him to the Court of Aldermen. He had been in the North of Ireland, tor the benefit of persons under the care of a Society of which he had the honour to be Governor, and did not hear before lust Saturday of the proceedings of the Common Hall. He concluded by expressing his determination to support those principles on which he first offered himself to their notice. kChoer. ing.) The Hall was then dissolved by the Common Crier in the usual terms, and the people retired in the most quiet and orderly manner.—Fewer of the 'Livery attended this Hall than we ever remember on any former occasion. 1311 TA I 10.7 r W. 1.% -.....- The regular establishments for the manufactory of inutat ion tea-leaves arrested, not long ago, the attention of the public ; and the parties, by wl these manu factories were conducted, together with numerous vend ers of the fictitious tea, did not escape the hand of jus tice. The fraud of manufacturing sloe and white thorn leaves into an imitation of tea, which has been drank by the public as the genuine beverage of tea, is.compa ratively harmless, when compared with the fraud lately detected, of manufacturing real genuine unsaleable tea dust, into tea, by means of a process which renders the article absolutely deleterions to health. .In.proof of this atement, we give the following facts: A poor woman, having purchased an ounce of green tea, was struck by the Itvely blue colour, which the be verage made of it assumed, on pouring into it a tea spoonful of spirits of hartshorn. This person (a chai se • n ) being its the habit of frequently partaking of tea in other houses, where she went to work and biking constantly in the habit of adding a tea-apoonful of harts horn to the tea-beverage, without having observed that singular appearance, which her own tea-leatea produ ced, made a complaint io the grocer, from whine shop the tea was .purchased. This person, unconscious of any deleterious admixture, having paid a fair price for his tea, took a sample of the suspected tea-leaves to Mr. ACCUNI, the-Chemtst, who analysed it, and pronounced it to contain copper. So unexpected a result induced the vendor of the poisonous tea- eaves, whose whole support depended on the reputation of e fair tradesinau, to enquire into the fraud co 11111 l ittt•d upon I . lie coo:tithed some of his friends, who received their tea from the same quarter, and it became evident , that the diatolical deceptions practised is this britich of .com inerce were notch greaser than was expected. The poisonous tea had all the appearance of the leaves of genuine Hyson; but it was noticed by the chemist, who examined the suspected samples, that a portion of the leaves, when infused in boiling water, became speedily resolved into a fine powder, and that part of this alone remained in an entire state, so as to make it possible to recognize the vegetable structure ; and this led to the opinion, that the matinfactarer of the poison ous commodity.liati employed the dust of 1-1)500 lea (the sale of which .flints a regular business with many tea brokers) and hied it, ;probably by means of a small quantity of mucilage, into a computool, possessing in ea ery respect the external characters of geoutneHyson tea. This fraud may, therefore, be detected, by merely throwing the sophisticated tea leaves into warm water, which instantly causes them to fall into a fine powder, which weedily settles to the bottom of the vessel. The infusion, when mingled with liquid ammonia, affords a bright bliwtslt green colour, finy-hang the presence of copper. But the INTSCIICC Of this metal may be more strikingly rendered obvious, by mixing two parts or the suspected tea leaves with one of the tonne of potash, (.alipetre), and throwing the 111131101 e 11110 a crucible kept red hot in a common fire. 'l'ne whale of the vege table matter oldie tea will thus become destroyed, and the copper remain behind, in cunilainatirm with the alkali of 1114 arlipetre. It water, therefore, be ;mowed into the crucible to dissoive the was, the presence ci °tipper will be iucootr n vettibly rendered obvious, by the admixture of liquid ammonia, which imparts to the Hued a beautiful sapphire blue colour. Mr...lccutn, in his report, rettatuks that the . copper employed for colouring tea is in a state of cartxmate, and nut as renligris, twitieb he ewes totally inapplicable fur its fraudulent purpose of giting a bloom to the tra leaves. We mrd slot rrnitittl our trader, that all pre parations of copper are deaJly poison. FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. W. Hyde, Hoiden! Uuildings, Fenchurch Street, nicreL.tot, from Oct. 2 to Oct. 16. BANKRUPTS. T. Harding, junior, Helton, Cornwall, pacer. Solicitors Ile3sys. Price Williams and White, Lincoln 3 Inn. J. Gaulton, Milhorne St. Andre A, Dorset, victualler. Sol. Mr. Pearson, Middle Temple. W. Watts, Miutchester, calico print tte!ler. Soli. Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Medealf, Chancery 1311 e. M. Middleburg, Wigan, Lancashire, shopkeeper, Sol. Mr. Ellis, Chancery Lane. C. Coming, Rochampson, carpenter. Sole. Messrs. Luttley and Son, Copthall Court. W. Metcalf, Cranbottrn Street, Leicester Fields, Roca draper. Sol. Mr. Jonee, Sisc Lane. DIVIDENDS. Oct. 28, C. C. E. We and G. BAlairs, Leicester, hankers-27, G. I'yer, Newport, Nlonnioutlishire, shopkeeper—. 16, E. Holder,Wlitic, Herefordshire, auctiolieer-27..r. Stratford on Avon, Wairwick, coal trader-29, W. HC , II, Brad. Ihnl, Wilts, innkeeper-214, A. Veysey, Exeter, lisherilesner 6, S. Johnson, Skinner Street, Finsbury :.Racket, cabinet maker —9, .1. llowitt. Whitecross Street, charcoal merchunt—l 2, G. and G. Evans, High Street. Sloutliwark, hop-merchants--iii, W. Dean, Broad Street, Itatc:iffe, common brewer -27, A. Young, Stamford, Lincoln, oonanion brewer-30. J. Carr, Coventry, shag manufacturer-3n, W. White, Coventry, victualer-3u, It. Ai,. bolt. Cuventiy. mercer-2f, J. Anthony, (•ley next the Norfolk, grocer-26. C. Co-instal and .1. 1 Anliant. Horsham. Sussex, bankers—Nov. 1, J. Lacy, Whitby. Yorkshire. slop builder--2, D. Boyn, Winchester Street, merchant-1, W. Cost. droy, Jlancherte,, letterpress printer—d, J. Turnbull, J. Forbes. It. A. Cnswiiird, and H. Skene, Broad Street. City, mereliants.—. 13, F. Kenthick, i' , orn, and G. Tyndale, Ahlgate, linen drapers—ll, X Jones, Kentish Town, tanner. CEIITIFIC.kTES to be granted Oct. 26. J. West, Richmond, linen draper-11. Docklicad. Bermondsey, linen draper—B. l'earson, Bils:or, Staffordshire. grocer and maltster—J. Millward, Iteddich, Worcester, needle maker—J. Cohen, Manchester, hat manufaeturer—W. Co lier~ Brixhani, Devon, sail maker—lt. l'urker, Ellesmere, Shropshire. grocer and tallow chandler—%V. Moss, Southanipten, carpenter. The Redpole brig of war ; Copt. J. D. Eyance, is arrived front the St. Helena station, after a Fussago of 50 days, having kft the island on the 9th of Sep tember. She brought despatches from Sir !Judson Lowe and Admiral Vlampin, and a mail,—The following is an extract front a letter:— •' st. Ile I na, dag 27. " The Redpole proceeds to England immediately. As neither this vessel, nor the Dotterel, ss hirh 5 tied before, hits served longer than Iwo yea's, it is supposed to h.• intruded that they shall both litsish their from of service on the home station. We under lard Bonapurte is in better spb its than he has been for some tinvi his health mufti as I swot.— Whatever others, of any rank or station, residing here, may atfeet to state •coneeraing him, be assured vers little is known. lie has roo long imposed a secluded life upon hiluself, that he appears il/ h use ist length obtaitird all the h eh of a eositirmo it recluse. Ile had become so courtly abstracted even from the distant view of those whose duty it was to make a daily report of his tieing alive, that it became necessary to haulm him, that if he did not so uoitaroly afford the officer on iluiv an opportunity to certify the fact required from him, namely, that he was, alive,' thine Mould be a necessity of the officer's making a daily peisonal sisit to hint fur that purpose. Ile has shier relaxed in his mantic, in this respect, arid has been out of his house a little. Toe hew house buildionz fur him is expected to he finished in about nine months. The island in generally healthy. The following singular advertisement appears in the Reading paper : w. 1L T. Several gentl , men having expresved their inclination In lwenme mends.,, to . ,hat troop, (to whom 1. shalt ever he grateful for the honour they have done ru, iu glaring tine at their head,) . l am sorry to be tinder the unpleasant neer b i.ity of infonninz them. that 1 cahoot accede to their iv kites, the troop. haw ing for WHIt time, eget-tided their, amid. meld and ,facer ty hope time Gorrrnment may, by compl . , ,ing with the general Active (ithe nation, Not he trader the disagrccai.a necemity ofierther aui,• tenting teem ! (Signed) FULWAR CRAVEN. Captain, Yale of White Horse lie.ru:an. Chelton-honse, Sept. S, 1819. __— . _ Thursday morning, Mr. CarMe, the book-seller, accompanied by a gentleman from the office of Mr. Maule, attended at the Crown Office, for the put.. pose of reducing the Jury appointed to try the in. fin.mation filed against him by his Majesty's Attor ney Gov:ral, for publishing " Puine's Age of Rea son," when the following gentlemen were fixed on to try the question at issue:— Neil Black. Bread.street ; B. Hutchinson, Clement's-lane ; J. Hanson, Crooked-lore; Harvey, Lawrtnec•laner T. Kent. Poultry ; Andrew Lowman. Bucktetsbury : Thomas Oldham, Wirge.yard ; William Hoffman, King's Arms-yanl ; Fuverner. Coleman-stcet; Wm. Alderney. Tokennousc. yard; It ci..rd Chauthers. Dove-court; John Chitlins, Cullum street; John Napier, Fenchurch-stiect ; Joseph Jaw, ditto; John Younger, Cmcent; Wm. Parker, John-street ; Daniel Eckestein. On Tuesday morning, 's Mr. Crispe, butcher. of Maidstone, was standing ut his shop, a partridge flew with much time against the house, and fell to the ground, but it immediately got up and ran down the yard, pursued by Mr. C. who caught it ; at that instant another flew to the same spot, whiLh he also secured. It yeas afterwards ascertained that several more were found in different parts of the town, and it is supposed they were pursued by a hawk, or the the high wind at the time beat them atm.:. Mr...lohn Witney Parker is prom o t e d t o th e rank of Purser, and a ppointxl to the Sapph o , vice Mack intosh. There had been no previous uppolutraelts totthis rate 4,44 live yam. 4101 , S 3, •--.-~3~ ai 'S