The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-17 00:00:00

TE!g STJ M tt'.': i • ~~ •'L. - - biscoueuitn*. lasuzia.- —..— le mre s .hriaar ,:wooltritt Rai inteir. - . Ih. , Threasset Ode& thee Wilkes an settee Waugh' ki a. tredelawhmea at Gilleoletedegb, -. 14, mover : dessert agaiastO prom else hid** a surgeon and imothawaryi id** town; -for the the plaintiff!s deashow. by• Old& she had iieflOsot . daulster's mashies, by hero*, coming prepaid.. Teo Coosa, said that the young wo o ' void was one if ievestibitdrtn.aadho deseantesl with great fe*lblgi as. OM earOoge of de. Mother, who now *Ought her - cut before a ;My.' • • • The young 'Ohms, Elie. Maley, was then called into the r witnistei bait: She Shia' dressed genteelly, led lookeil Intricsdne - Sita:statitni follows :—My mother lives at.thinaborintirb. •••Sie dielsikl flax. I lived with her. lem now turned tip an of are, and have been for five years aiqttain4ed with the defendant. He livid at Oainsbrirough; and atreidelthe 'es a medical that left tAtinsbornugh four Yeah ago, and how lives In London. I . went with bite to London, at his tugger tibn. I first went to - Retford with bile, on a - doittdo; boric, is tint Median of • IBIL " He was . not then goingl it London. I-went with tillti,at bis olio desire, and was to VW; as big sister. Retford it't,lght miles from Ositij-' borough. •We arrived' at 'the Whitilimulni 'at eight i o'clock. • Wbct.' we, mote withinllea : Miles df Belford, ', . he said thi.fleettldiestibm* but we were man and Wife ; l'retilled;theltroultlisobit two bed-Timms were orde red . H i Ptudd,ye*'4l.4l4 no Mori till yapper was ordered.:- He importided one teallosC . Ritii tb 'steep in my' aoin-:.:.„, to ObealdFuty - bed; Mid be gave tne his word a honor' be would let get Icto - bed.' lie.oria reading a ticiok; add; tort Is head At odd 44.44041 gin bellied theCur taio Mil undressed . I wan. f atigued tad got to sleep. At' twelve IFeitsditt awoke 1)1, liddlig bite lobed. He took me beak to.litnehdrongb Pelt ' maining, and I went to. My mother * WO ditto, - about a'fottojabt'ilter, betook in" t°""itttill°oirla. boat 20 mallet' off,' whirewe'stop-' peal a*day.ritold-tny mother I *sat to see Mr friends in the twittery, bed she did not - Ifo e w 'env other. - lie canto pregnant, and lay lit at Stattettrd. Mr %Abet did nor ttion'twas with child. He ptiraletter lo ' the post olficr as if a lady wished for The' as 1 compadiou, sod 11 . went 14 Stailllftitd: I morbid' after four months, aimi . Mi. Snow renloved from Galoshortingh to 'Londoe,mit:', took me with him.' My mother thbught I had got a id-' tlt &don as a dress-maker there. AIL Snow' paid fur my lodgings. I was a year in London is lodgings, and he r}-iced me there. His wife is likely *lced. • , Justice Patin to Mr. Dmatax—Are you not doing io jury to morals. rather than guarding them, by exposing the young woolen's profligacy ? Here &Wynn:es faintod, and was carried ant igGite This J y Itint—tpor y oung lady. lam very sorry ler r, .hut's room r9roOlgate case I hardlyever hoard. Mr. Minim •t-rhink of her Moihei, my Lord. • a loviii-4 do not think.* more wicked act than se ducing a young woman hardly °Mini in the catalogite of lanw‘alitica ; bat ainOther who takes no more care of thMewel, a daughterly virtue, has no claim to consider ation. .1 wish to stop this disgusting recital altogether. It was then *greed to withdraw a Juror. • The JUDGB—It is •.virry wise r esolution. Now I may say. 1 should have uonsuited you, Mr. DIIIMAN ; her =o ilier does not appear to have lost ber services, as, from ber own aroma, she was defog *Rhein her mother's . know ledge of the L way in which sbd spot her dins. : LIUNTINGDONSIBIAE• ASSIZES. Thomas, firrixit was pot It; iMbit.iirsichirged wi th tie tnurder of his wife, Ain trrigllLa• Parent. WM. Bril knows the prisoner; thin oiglita previous to the 10th of February slept hi his hoes* On Sunday eyeeing he went to bed about ft o'citick; betweeo 5 and 6.1'10 morning.be heard Oniof tII children Crying for fie-Mother: Wright - eem out and called o u t , " Bridles, net op.!' . Whin.witeera caMe.doko, be found tbe•cdald7 fen dress4indatiadieg round the L Ore, one or Iberia cry. ini,:: piisouee 'Ws§ not . there. ' On going out be Observed the deceased) TegwAiltino..yordpf die doori *thee . on f ]]ter fiee.tiith , . _eh 'Mb aide of the, head. The body 14 across to. .4v.,t , i 1 1 ,144 0 4 sett It. . tie then went !Ind calle4 asslAeye. • ~ . . Elisibeth'PliMaps • lives le 'Farrel *Fen. About six clock on the m orning. o f thetenyilar, Abe won to pr O' goner's house. It bring deak, sho.pasied the eocpte,,but turning round observed it:. Sa IM laf dremt!, one . hand on her body, the other stretched nut ;.sbe was without a ran : 'and blood lay near her head and at her feet, Abort Iwo yards frees her was found a Cale-knife. one 'of half *dozen keptisy the prisoner in a drawer, and which - had formerly lieerflorrowed by witness: Mr. Boiraley picked It no, and - give it to bey ; ithejaid .ii 'by the - corpse" 'Which She belpmrio.caery into the law , e ily ouli - whince it was taken by Halkthe eonetable,....o,t l a question .by 14e Jodie, • squaws said. sbe had galled. the preceding day and found idie•prisoper fondling his ckildren. One eat oil his kamosnother stood between his legs, and the • *bird was - . elimbing up • the chair he sat on. - She his known Weight att-itts latawife 5 years. Went Itf by baphaised - te See theistAosi the dar. •'Prisorter 'blade do •a, tempt ow ids 'oltifille Orfund" fie bad•giVeithlinkeift. wound two iinebelt Ibbis.'diAtcside of bpi Tiede.. i t Welk told he had dose O L •Itinantlfs, the sarroo :attiodea. kith al.:tint a had 1 spw.ifiuseveriday; be ne ger Spike unless li spoke to Wall Ito wia- Tory. low.; about a fest. ttight .before •be seemed .to:ovjoy good spirits; in the o pi n ion of wi•uess, thokeifecislmos be dropped by the &erased ; latterly•be has acted very diffdrentty from bis firnver behaviour ; eight week* limb lu4 Saturday she c alled,. when he appeared likestininsensible tote ; 'found Vet tin his knees fietpg tbentii, rfittbilig his hinds, 00 erylpir . `!. - Ort :MY heart! Oit heart' Will j times gut s i of , nil lade*. His - wire' Stood .by with a child to .hie arms . ; Witness reasoned - with itint, and gat bite. into "the 'Mints.; be then took off if.a all .clotbes. except breeches. shwa, and stockings; mid bdometedi to wash his hands and his heir!: a basin with water was brought Lim 12 ; he o said he , wou ld have cleasit a ints•sed. ifektia Mort - y'lock ; he washed his hands, avid MOO - des'bed the water on his Doily; witterieshints lie 4visido Whit right mind, amF knew not-wbat hdlas:dalligildwinfir told ber he'ds. qqes, nd comical. irsotipareittilii - *bat he baa for oftee. inert), erns a . - On 1.4)4 *iiiiid t 4. at ~ She said he by no meattoilt4ired. now as ho eyed est. 40,' . William Johnson is iettrycon,nod resi des at Prtetbal rough. .On the 10th ••• of Tact February he wept to Weight's house. and found the body of h s nil,' . Iyinte Mt the bed, with a large wound in the neck, six, iticims lotiji. and three deep; the windpipe was c ompletely „cot through, sod must Anise. o ccasioned immediate. death, • Mr. Johnson tbee,:letechnical "terms, gave bis reasons whv, in his opinion, the detested coald not herself have indicted the wound. About six .wgeki previous to the murder, he bad been sent for, aod found tha prisoner ha given bintklf a slight wotind on the liana. lie limit p( ed 6 to in a vary etelanciAly state of Tilsit, and was opinion he kg iv net right from wrong. About a fort night Otte O'sright• aod bis wife called on Mr. Johnson at Peterbor.iiigh, when tin:tatter requested. that tier' li at broil might be admitted as as out patient sn i t e Dispen an y, %viand ► was optuplied With ; theistic scented anxious about hie health. ' • • • Williaru•Wfigke is heotlniv to Om, ,priscmer. Ile was at his h 0u . g .164 evening heinre the.eatormuate affair ),roes,.hap- Ile awl•Ms wife ware togetbei; lie . bad a book. --'• • • - po bit hand .readi n g prayers, which. Us wife repeated after him : l Ilia b 4s . ll44•liiin .bow be w.s? lie said he did not know , it. olltlay in his heart and rad! The afterseito ef eta% dpi 1 went.into Me. ,i'darls'o hate, sue. heard a, ros'iletteoise, hut saw nobody., :rewards egos, jug- feet akOn tO the harn,..aint • AheacA L my . brother's. voice come from kite maw; 1 1 ,P 7 Od., "sila alaY , 1 ga4o - rl. I geiti ;s:, 4e.in,ro-itsjoigitt :.Ithen asked him how tie erne to 419, tn.?, Me waiyLhe.did not know„until. after , . lie bad done.it.. Witeate,Mid litety done. hie Mother's• wt•rk far hita•l• by splik :40_4. it . likuts.elf ; be PcPpied ~~a y ., a~aaSia~, •t. ,~::., :.n•s. , 1~ ........... —....._. . . stilt Mt itakt.alibyeldbliffilesffit4abthifi l ithliglite Me roal the grease with a bollkin his hand. . .o 1 son arty kitten dieGidethlthlfe lar i cA•ll . ." Af lihked u i s lablit Is hh #r*, t i ; ifei lion li • at e rflistit lll fr r ! "41r fier i tl ig yi l ltelevel_ hie . 1 1 ;14 411 11 1ri •• death, he ippisatred nlthrot;- th.`'eletatlalaed 'or igr: - lAN head anti& Iseeirt . .' 'r "! ' •," ''' -- 5 i '' ' ' ' 11111440 1 5. Other evidence arathitalutifiest toPrOth the unsettled, i g Mi. llces - 1 4 __ _ state Of mind - of aliti stria:Met, . at, i 'after all. Olt 1161 't yi the mcadaN Ittnnane address free, the Mgt to the Jury, *bite Mita'. f; tag itiptudently 'ported witislis roil** • • ; -- sr v.. ...,,_ aunt op the eVidettea, ifter`hhout threaMialites"wionfail- netttly'thei ease was not withiu the elanrel....Valliscts tation, s verdict of 0 NOt Guilty, being , - trittif th e Mete Ni" Ottall'• der was committed, in a deranged state ofnihed," Wks Charles ralkan, abouta b 3 years of age,Vai iodieted retarned. ' ' ,• - — " g i n " — ' * ' ' - ' 'tbelifith year of his late Majesty's refill (I7S7y by itrik- STAFFORD NISI PRIUS COURT, Sums 14. WE hilt' On the head with an trots erow-har.. Ihis case m.sits TO vas sasowv ow araotonn....llll 610841 tea- excited considerable interest. involving kis it did, an iUs NINGIIIII4. WAIT.. T. iteCii. coney into the mysterious death of a reepe,ctable. miller, This was sit -action of trove by Sir (*corgi Jutting- after a lapse of 35 yraia. The Coast wee crowded to ham, the proprietor of Stafford-cantle and of large a ces% estates in its vicieity, &Oast the defe ' odint, a timber- • Mr. Knox openeilthe rase for the prosecution, and re merchant, in the borough of Stafford, to recover the quested the patient, impartial, and discriminating atten vales of au ash tree, and two alders, his property, which f i s a of the' Jury to the m ysterious cue wldeb was not bad been wrongfully converted to the defendant's ale. the subject of investigation. About 33 veers deco. the The following are the circumstances out of which this Oldie mind stDoleLester bad been greatly • agitated, hy , action arose.:—ln December last, a prim, calling him - the death of Mr. Daniel Holt, a respectable miller, who self the Hon. James Stamp Sutton Cooke, arrived in bed lived at IstldtU, hear that town. The deceased - 0e Stafford, and laid claim to the estates of which Sir Ueorge suddenly missed from his family, and so traces coulelin Jataiaghuut and his istedeassal" have been In posses s ion found of him, until about the end of a fortari night his bode for more than a century , on be half of his brother, to was-found in the Riv e r Comae, in the psh of East whom he gave the title of -Lord Stafford. He loin in- dylantl. Upon examining the theybod marks of injwry terested a number of th e populace in his cause by the were visible upon the Lead, and prevalent .opiutort boldness of Ilia me asures end the liberality of his pro - was, that Mr.. Holt died a violent death ; and down to aims. He appointed gamekeepers to the manor of Fin& h oo d . resent hour soch Was the belieflo the neighbour bridge. in which Stafford-castle is situate, and hY a Tilt probabilities of the ease, stroogly supported Mummers obtained a few bones' possession of the castle that opinion, for had the deed been a suicnie, the marks ltseif, which is usually open to the inspection of thing - o' l .l4oca on the • head would be uoaccountahle. The rious. Notices werelsaned on the tenants of Sir Ueorge ir re somption was, that he had been first murdered and Jerningbam, requiring . them to pay their rents only t ' Ithod thrown into the river. After the lapse.of thirty- Mr. Cooke, the authorised agent of his brother, and five years, which west have swept kway half the race of threatening thentwith distresses if they should refuse to moulded then living, it was not liely that there ebould comply. In order to induce them to attoru to the new he many witnewes now alive to give any account of the • claimant, leases were offered them at low recta, on the transaction. A coronet's hiquest had berm summoned on payment of a preualuns, and a day appointed to receive the the hoek..sartewasafees e a „ m i ne d. a aa ot h er persons h a d routs in arrear, half of which only were required in eon- seen the remains of. the deceased; but of all these but sequence of the pressure of the times. Oa these repre- one individual son-teed. The corimer. the jory, the sur sentatiens, Some of the tenants actually made payments, a eons, all were tired, except one pemon, to give evident* and receipts were given them for the sums. In the mean open a transaction so niviteriosts mid importscit. tiny:, Mr. Cooke proceeded to employ men to fell timber This witness, Edward' leadbrote, said that be saw the, on several parts of the domain, which they did, attended body after it was taken from the wmer—was present by a rabble, and in the whole felled between 70 and SO when it was examined by the surgeons; and the head t rees . Although a band-bill was issued, lied served on o f the deceased had such visik l e injuries visible upoo it, all timber-dealers in Stafford, not to purchase any of rendered it probable that the unfortunate titan bad 'hems these trees, the defendant and others became possessed of some of them, and obstinately detained them from the murdered. "William Leicester, fhe principal nitness to peeve the owner. confession, was then eaantined, and lie deposed as fol.' f ' The defendant in this action was one of tbe persons lows :—I Lave known t'ee prisoner these twenty years: . who were thus deluded. It was proved that two alder I have oever qaarrelled with him. It, tween six and sr trees and one ash-tree, cut on thellsods of Sir tieerge ven•years ago I met him at the Fleece tap, at Culchester. ihroinghani on the dth of January in this year, sure It was between six and seven in the evening. He was conveyed to his premises, and that he refused to deliver drinking a pint of porter, and I was drinking a pint of them up when demanded by the agents of Sir tisoree &l l rter. He came in and eat alongside of we directly. Jerninghatn. The value .of the trees was proved to be ere:were t great many people passing backwards and 21. lbs. forwards in the room. lie asked me if I did not know The Learned Judge, in his charge to the Jury, es:- old Idr. Holt. Ile said Mr. Hutt was killed at-the Bloc pressed his strong reprobation of these proceedings. — rig; *thit he (the prisoner) ha I bees drinking with bim Wbe the party promoting them was, or what his claims th e re, and theft he (the deceased) west out at the dead of might be, he knew not; but it was impoadble not to din- g i ld, and sat down to sleep on the.steps atoirtg up to, approve of the course which he had taken. That morn- be d 4. Sinythie'e house, which adjoined the Hlue hot that log he had himself received II paper addressed to him (tlic p r loner ) and one Roger 3lundsey took ito iro9, respecting this claim ; if the party had brought it per- crow, and bluncluyaent up to him and leeched the annally, he should. have known how to deal with Rios i deceased on che s ted'. Tbe prisooer ailded,'' iht I. did mit as this was not the case, he had immediteely cool- not do 'it; but I helped to pas lion inuk {sack, end tattled the paper to the flames- = . To try a claim of right, dragged him into the Cellat of the Ries Pig. The blow , it irrauld be enough to cut a twig or take "way . a clod killed him, and we aekteted h i m is the old.poachWey in of earth ; and therefore this system of depredation and the Cellar. We Theo wept, and Were forced to .go and violence wit eutirely without a:cue!. Tha.pnly doubt get i tack or two of naw-ditttkitiitdp, the blend, I. in - the case was, whether the conduct of the defendant help ed $. se taj k a laiookedf s Jast we could not did not ge e, to felony :to this point the evidence did d o ` . 1 . tire prisoner said, that,staihmt time be lived, cati: guitar come, but it was extremely near it. It was right w l , oga 4 •Usoacd, 4:Jodie. Ile did •rweeterilone what be the people of this towu should be mai*. that it trees " . cif, thelsody after Wards. We were boils as sober ai, were wrongfully severed one day, without a shadow . of ,I sm s o w. i,ta,ibio ' to n wife twee weekaafter. The. excues,_aod taken away the next, the parties wins lent, cerise weats mile from the river- I told Sir. Hill, land themselves to such a taliiog would have to owner at lord 9f the Fleece. two !years ago of it. lam not the prosecutor of this indiciment. The prisoner met rue ft., felons in ano th er Court. The Jury found i Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages ter lie had been.to. the JpstiCes. lie stopt me in the' 21. Iss. street, and asked sus if 1 would have souse beer. I arid " No." He said "What you have said about'Holt has lit— a. ~ - This w asniso en actitip of *over by Sir George Jer oinglottn, to v,.ecciwer the value of ftees felled under the same tircnessiapena an tbose . witlch gene rit cause. .. • • fhe defendant in this ease was an . innkeeper residing in Stafford, on who'll' a hand-bill, warning all persons to refrain from aiding lr. Cooke's proceedings, had beau served. Two persons employed to watch on behalf of the plaintiff, traced four ash trees, and the tops and h ea nch'rs of the fifth, tO the yard of the defendaot. he deutantletl these la 4ir Ueorge Jerningliam's name ; bu t the defeadantsaiflt, they were not his trees; he had given Ur. Cooke liberty tOplacethem in his yard, and he could not_suffer them to be removed without his order." The witnesses replied w thit they knew nothing of Cooke, but that..they insisted on haring the trees, or the defendant must Ate answerable for their detention. He still hok• ever refused to deliver them, and they were left in his possession. The value of the timber was proved to be 11.18. Mr. TAUtitoN, for theftlefendant, submitted that nd hehnd teen guilty of no. cenversion, as he merely r etaie *the goods till the owner 'should establish his right to itpnesses ossene them. He was dot booed to .Ituoir thai the w were the - au thorised :agents of - Sir George Jerningbam, - aodthe ow* might et *ay anksespient pert* have Woo . them aw.ay, 1 the learned Juno: ruled shat, as the original taltins of the trees was wrongful, Sir. George Jerninghtun tu!glit: proceed to recover them againstany one wbe ho the dile de-7 nt ID Parsvion, tvitlioiti..a.demand. The condtict.Of fendaat was not,„nspially considered, so bad as that etfilier defendant, in site.taat - ,ceose ; bathe bad leak himself to . . the inegtajOyi .ostatootis coOtct of :others.,:aml bip past beer_thp neeces of itte - fary. . ~ anool , ,e verdict for the plaintiff.--Damagee Ila. ii. • ~ ii S i b * lii t .0 t he ' Sheriff of Sta ff ord, inquisitions iviie ar , .vs of inquiry in casee arising out of the _ .af -Mr. Cooke, in each of which he of ass ilesPire. • • CHELMSFORD ASSIZES. • • T aft-ICING V. JAMES , FULLER. This was ad ihdictment against the defendant for a frond in obtsining a geld broach, balfa.crown,, a bottle of currant wine, etird other trinkets, from Thomas Plume, under pretence of obtWning foe him the honourable poit of guard to the Warwick coach. It appeared that the prosecutor had placed himself un der tlie ton of the def-nlant, noted for hisharmonions powers, fur the purpose ef perfecting himself in horn blowing, in t:,e hope of being. an eligible candidate for the - office of mail-gnaw d. TIM terms of entrance did not appear, bat it-was said that the prosecutor in a short time was enabled to Mow a h horn-wit grea t etlitct, according totliit Clatisietit phras e . By way uat the defendant het& out to him Aim prospect of an appoint wientitith Hors , the coach proprietor, with %how he seal great influent., and promised to use his patronage. 'in ?Vattern.' Mtn . the nest vacancy in the guard depart ment:: • %Hating obtained possession of toe property ' intlitticheiditbnge,• the defendant made off, and it was dietkiStatki 'that 'lsis' opposed patronage was a mere a toi sa t io :. ; .t..; - /.1 . .......: ... . . It .4iisgelgested'ln.defeteetliit the prosecutor WU $ most in . iftil pupil, fort at the expense of a Grp, put my life in (ranger." Cross-examined. —The priaener lf believe has lived at Colchester ever since. lie DAM ian away that 1 know - of. Elizabeth Buckingham, depoted, that her father for merly kept the Blue Pig 4j (291Cheart. She had seen Bolt there about half-oast eight of the night lie was lust. Tbe deceased had come there with two bad women. Did not see the prisoner there that night. There was a grating to the cellar where her father kept beer, Wood, and coals. The door was never left open at night. Thinks there was a door within the grating. Never heard that there was a body found there. John Storrix knew the deceased. Remembered bis being lost. Saw hint the night before at the Blue Pig. Me alkyd witness to drink with hint. There were women with him. The prisoner was not there. Knew the pri soner from his infancy. The dour of the cellar was ne ver open at night. The Learned Judge here interposed and expressrd his .opinion that there was no case to go to the Jury, but for the satisfaction of the public mind, he would leave is fur their determination. Mr. Jasaor said he had a body of evidence to sbow the utter, impossibility of the prisoner having any thing whatever to do With the supposed murder of Mr. Mt, :beshie the improbability of the evitience.of the witness Milled to ptore a confession. Johns erlande.r, brother to Mrs. Buckingham, corn borrjted the evidpnce of the preceding nitnesses, when The Learned Junta again interposed, and expressed his opinion that there was nothing to atfect the prisoner, , but the strange story told by Leicester, ohich, even it probable, was rebutted by incontestible etidence, that no . ber t 'cO l it ee less " Hie " lasii4PrdP"ship4 to rep capitulated the : leading circumstances of the case, and the Jury immediately found the.prisoner —Not Guilty. • tit six o'clock ,tp,the evening the Assists ended. None of the capital convict, were left for egecntion, but the four soldiers of the 4ltli regiment, for the rape at Nearly an hundred peOiddi were collected for the unhappy victim of their brutality. The health of the Lord - Baron was greatly' amended on Saturday evening, and it is expectod his Lordship will be able to resume his judicial unties at Maidstone. is' ...En plat, . . Oppattupier , !VA bone Ask Dili shown; tell, to, and behold! the Solicitor and the cum: - , staPte denied-that this Meted man was Mr. Stamford, the svhom they wanted, or any thing like lain, fur 'WO Air. Stamford was a little puny man, and the corpse hiders them , is of such stature as to require a coffin Mx feet three inches in length! Brit Ins object at pre- - i sept sves to submit, that dead or not dead, the lasi depusi- - aloe of this Winless was legally available fur the prosece: don. If he were teeny aiallochich they denied, for they • heileved if to be a inerei on'rivance, then his former de oeition was receivable in PVitirllCe; if he were not dead it was equally admissible, could they establish at the trial that his absence was a surreptitious arrangement to dt feet the pufpoes' of justice. What he wanted, therefore, was, for the Magistrate to produce and take doe care of this witnesses fernier depositioa, that it sloald be avail able iu I Court of Justice. Mr. A DoLgum who was Counsel for the Prisoner, said be did not care whether the us as was dead or not, th e pertieular circumstance was quite new to hies. But to what depositions did his learned Friend allude? He had no recullection that any bast been taken. • Mr. IL:0111NT and Mr. FITZIPATitICK (the Clerk) said that a depesition yeas pot on the hooks, hot it was not signed', the . eitamination not being at the time closed. • - Mr. Aeltostees said, that it was no deposition without signature. The blauts - resTa belleved that it was, and that it was sulfa cleat to prove the deelaaatioit of the party. • Mr. hte:e remarked; that by the statute of Philip end Mary, the depOsitioas taken in the presence of the parties sere evidence, whether signed or not. By the nay, where, he asked, was the Prisuut r line ? Let him be produced. A constable went forth, ant) returned into the room • with Mr. Needham, srlio is a person of gentlemanly ap .pt•aranee and middle age. He was fashioeahly dressed. Jordan, the et:mistake, was sworn, respecting this wit ness, who seas said to be s' dead alive. His evidence was as follows: —" I. went to the WWI ' S hoes-, in Ni rtis Street, Cavendish Square, and saw his wife, and upon I lay oath, the man she showed me dead, was no more like jibe witness Stainfunt we bad here on the former day, than black is like white.—(Aleget is she office.) • bli.Cope,thesolicitorkraa likewise examined touching the same ',obi, and he said that the eiPIeSS (Stamford) was a little man, and the •idead ten . on shewu him lay very tall us a coffin. • Mr. ADOLPLIV6 rentipded Mr. Alley, in the presence of Mr. tineear, the* the latter, op the former occasiug.. adatted that the Prisoner hod indorsed this ha ; scStamford and Co." in his (Kinnear's) presence, at' the time, and that Kinnear had taken no pains to ascertain at the time whether he did so by the due authority of nay body. ' Mr. Am;et left his Learned Fared to take the benefit 'of this adin4siou. Mr. A Pousiies said, the maoner of signing bills, ,where the parties wertha Prissy twit, :eras not new. It w the old Banker's caw in 1 ps. Mi.* A ifte;.seos Aye ;that Caw reported . by Henry Blackstone, ant it wit decide* to he the aims for: ems" "! ' ' " • Mr. Anot.rnerse— , " moo, it warnot; Lord Kenyon and Lord. Thiirlow give strong oeiniens upon it in the House Of Lords, bat they were overrated in the ultimate 'lee; - eion. Thousands of signateres were put upon the bank -ere bills discounted at the time, to set them afloat, - with • *cognizance of all parties. he *Mr...ALLEY said, that notwithstanding committal.. fished to add'another charge: it was upon a bill of 3ISI. purporting to beer the eignistere of Mr.* Jerin tine," House Agent. 27, Carnberland4treirt, New-road, who 'View nothing about it: . The:priaoner was then fully committed for trial. :About eight o'clock oa Wednesday eight, a wontanc apparently between thirty and forty yeers• of ige, wen into the llatellffe Arms, ie Turncalt-alley, and baying sat down, requested . Mr. Lac, the landlord, to warm her half a pint of ate. *S r. he bad l osnething in her apeor, anti heat- . i M ng a so noise. Lee demanded to know what the had there ? She replied. pothipg, and seemed anxious to 'mold observation; t4lis; induced him to question her Iliore cionly, and atlast 'tuning doe n the apron, a fire femalechild appeared in view , quite .naked! Some inquiries naturally followed, (rout which it resulted; that her name was Elizabeth; the wife of Thomas Mamtield. Of Newhall, near Burtomupor-Trent ; that - she bad for some time resided at New Radford sepitrec from her husband, and was in the habit of going about the canary, pith a basket of tapes and trinkets. As she was coming home, about hale mile on this aisle of tiamston toll bar, she was taken iselaiseer,sand defitered herself ef the infant in a lane, .13y the assistance of a man who crone by. she got to Gamstumbridge, and there met a woman; who helped her forwent to the Tient bridge, where her Ltskct was left at Mr. Riches dee.— Conceiving herself able to reach. New Radford. site had travelled forward, Ind turned Pito the Ratcliffe Arms ii)r a little refreshment! Titus ended her e x traordinary tats. The child was ‘ telceo care of, and was soon after, aluo , with its mother, cotaveyest, in a sedan, to St.litory's work house. List night, the H.otiter was very stout, and ex pressed her intention if leaviog the workhouse; anti go ing house —(Nestringham Review of Friday.) tirsaTusn..—This week has been remarkable fur bar ing had three tarifa& in succession—Tuesday, Wednes *del", and Thursday. Sunday had been cold. and the lat ter part of blonday very wet. On the former *ley theie bad been a fall of snow at Edinburgh, and on the latter diore efsteesett ilins ;ea, h owever , appears Yo - hare b M roken up lathe Sound, andeives us hopes of unite gent al sveat4er. The s iatterpart of the weeklias been rather mild. 'l lie quant)te of Iwo Wien here, since Saturday last, is one 11/th of an inch. Strand, Merck 15. TWISMOMETER. I SAIONLIVIR. O'clock. o'clock, at night. March b 33 43 . 29,38 !sir 9, to, M. 20 49 17 . 1 7 76 It; dY , 11, T.....• 36 4 7 12, •36 6 9 i$ 30.12 Fair 13, Th. 36 ' 25 4 . tiPuo3 14, F 48 . 111 , v. 21 soutly . 43, ,44 oAdy I ~ t4RL UMOUGH-STREer.7 - -Satufday. Mr. Ellice Need• ham, who. stands charged by . Mr. Kinnear with has ; in passed upon him, in certain alle,getl mercantile trans actions, several hills of exchange, which were afterwards dishonoured, and witieh (according to the prosecutor) hore.the names of fictitious mercantile firins, in Jenks and in the metropolis, this day underwent a final exit- Mination. Bat a curious discussion arose before the Liu eitaMs nsa entered upon. • Mr. A.Ltsv, upon entering the _private room of the informed sir. CON Arf.T (the Magistrate who heard the cal that rather an extraordinsey circumstance had . occurred since the last examination. It was is the re collecii9n s$ the Alsgistriste that souse of the bills • passed b y the Pris.nuer npon. Mr. Kinnear,.bore, in the shape of acceptinces atid indorsements, the name of. " Stamford.!' Tills Mr, Stetufard had Iseemezatalued o rs fotmer ern. PIPIO 9 a 9f 14 Prils o P.e! , su4. halt sworn thas.the naafi. upon tie bills was not is his band-writing, er ssudktaeil Do3o.—On the 13th iost. 10 Manebtanne-agreets Mr!, ‘I. Bizeit, aged 83. Oa Friday, the 14tit inst. W. Hersthll, Earr•or Noyfoa street, Middlesex Hospital, aged 81. On the 13th inst. at his halm, Pleasant-place, pasha', Mr. T.llarkworth. aged 114, ajtaards of 30 yari ashes', Apothecaties'-hall. . • , . Oa Saturday last, at bite honso at Mardtgay, ;. Alrk in the 73ths year of Ms kg!. On the 4th last. at'Wetithaiv, pear Ttrtatol, of a rapid de cline, la his 28thiteltr, Hruyilyedetiek Haaat, lane nn . En sign ill hiss dtateaty'a goaitinstrit ar the ftt.ll Capt. we b. — :1-0.15:1520=t,m Landon 4.444 , MV, P.01.1!•41 r x L. wri v itie4l4LW 0. win, !Ursa. Ity 11.-.3Virt 1 IPS oil "iszintmles***-1111Mie r zsgasiMartic 13SMA1 4 1 ' • • . • idiot 'lvor' qainified • kin:io : pinidhe 'email-gal ai • -•Ow-igilairtiOt 4itai.,e 44 boot i s iko i s no jt:gog,Dogle C4kok !MOO Ipcoany4AlikrAle lap* 1i!,,,a . . , .. .16 . 11Cip Ip. h i p! s i is i ss n a s s . 1 4 Oir•pflet W)f 10044-.olPtl 1 ,1 1 1 / e Il Art l''! 1. (. Is, huthmi4g-.401i:. \ r i no y . . 4 foctiv tont on lei. Nvh k use h lin 40T estof fol. • lot Or. (AO Einat nee One lone' na . intai atithiiile faits eablediboaTittain. '. ' • last , trot' —Se ii.tilit4rofgAit I thy err two Wow, og T ß i ss s u ssess . is as c wt.*, eau Jury, oh- adid there win nitottgor •ao, pol.ibtlity -of luntrqi laic nod $0 ths prowcutor Mu IF the' dai)y 140 of ow FiflenCe• re PAWN' calling; not bring quite asiatt.4 If AO. +lc" , and It cexer occFrid to hint to isk wbo• tit this Ant i , Oosivergeo their inquiries, espremwd a wish, f i:tti doteodani hid ill. inflortice of wkidi lie' bout, A see the d're4l g iro; 6'11(114 that the 'fooeral had not • -•,- -.--. k- :- , ......1 iviiih %it ortioirt* ind eOn• taken. ia.. end . the wife pronzieeti Owl' abould have ti.e'- _ : . ...4 i.„,sm. .... .,,,, AI mile lit 2A artilifdi TIVI IP i QA CqmitxoA- NUMBER 5623 EAST THE Court of Direct° Merchants of Engd diet, du hereby gire *dice, That the transfer hooks of he shut on Tuesday the 4th and opened again on Thurst That a Quarterly General will be held at their house it day, the Iflth Ma , teli next, al That a General Court of at their house in Leadenhal April next, from nine o'eloc evening, for the Election of play, for four years. And that the list of the wil4 be ready to be delivery 24th March next. FIST L T"' Court of Meech Merawes (If Ens lc do berth', gin Notice,. That the quirterle (tenet appointed to he held of the Wednesday, the 19th %litre! purpose of laying tiet;ire th Lion, a resolution of the Col December last. granting tt] the Madras Estabiiduner (30.0(X)) Bombay Rupees. upon the grounds therein st The report required by together with the document has been formed, are open 1 tops at this house. EAST THE Court rf Areel Merchants of Engld do hereto give notice, That they have received lows, viz.:— " To the Honourable the Company of Merchants Indies. " Honourable Sire, We whose names are u East India Stock, duly qua to make the General Quart which is to be held purpose of taking into con India Sugar Trade. " We have the hono " Your u "CHAS. TORRES, " M. NiGIITINOM.I., CHRISTOPHER COL] "H. sr. G. TUCKER, "JOSE •'London, 4th March, I The General Court apps the 19th instant, is thereto' ingly. HOPI: ASK NEW BRIDGE-STRI NOTICE is lierebv COLT itT of PROP' end upwards, in the Capita hclden at this house on - thir-rdpete of ELECII room or stead of the foil rotation, viz. :— EDW An BILKE. JOHN FARLEY, E . JOSEPH RANKING THOMAS DUTTON WILLIAM THOM N.B. The above Getia went. an eligible to he re- Notice is further given. be an Election of Five Au following Gentlemen. viz Mr. WILLIAM Mr. FREDK. W Mr. JOHN JAN • Mr. WILLIAM Mr. PETER RI • N.R. The above Gentle ed, but three of them net Deed of Settlement. The Election to comae o'clock precisely. IMPERIAI HOUSE OF LOB The General Turnpil Irish Yeomanry Corps Mouse of I:commons, and The Secretary beloul,►i tentiary of 111i:thank, p of that I ostitution. INSOL' The Earl of SHAF from the City of Waterf ors' Act. Lord ELLENBORO from asindiviilual raid and at the same time as Learned Lord, wbo unf the Act in question, wo the several petitiors la Act, and have taken hi' then something might t lied caused more misel that had ever before par The LORD (MANI Learned Friend (Lord his having given his the contrary, he had spoiled by the improve The petitions were o Mouse adjourned. HOUSE OP Mr. BYNG presente George's, Middlesex, Act ; and another Petii for a Repeal of the Dal Mr. PELHAM press ten' Debtors' Act, fron • - The Loudon Brid ge colleted to he committe The Sherif)** of the tar, and presented a p demos, anti Commons Council assembled, pr tion to bring in a Bill on the table. They Oleo presenter Bill to amend the load Sir T. ACLAND pr Ilfracombe, hr a Kr on the table. Lord BELORAVE of Ureter szeitat the the table. = ! I "`!`~~s