The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-24 00:00:00

II nu of 'lt ced TO THE EDITOR OF THE fITATESI4A,I. ! of Go om- CHURCHRRYCOLLgGR, PRTERSFIRLD. MR. FRITOR,—We have all been much pleased with the manner In which you have exposed to the Public the state of the neighbouring Borough of Peterrfield, and we hope that you will loon have the gratification of seeing a complete change in men end mess there. You have justly remarked, that a system of cerreptien end of usurping the rights of others always leads to a thousand disgraceful and dishonourable practices. The troth of the remark Is ielf•evident ; bet es you have produced instances from the political history of this place in support of it, I will add another, not less glaring nor less worthy of Indignation than those which you have already communicated to your Readers, as I think things of this nature eight to be held up to public censure and reprehension. Mr. Boot:muses enquiry into the state of Charities Ass spread a general spirit of enquiry in every place, bet no where more than et Petersfietti ; for observing, that he succeeded, in some instances, in correcting very shameful abase., the inhabitants thought that they, aloe, might be not less (originate, though time and their own supineness had given a sanction to the ibis maasgemeet end perversion of the objects of their principal Charity, which was truly discouraging; and I r eally think, notwithstanding ti r.Banuou•st'sgreet success induced them to feel considerable hope, yet had not 40 individual stepped forward, they might, per baps, now, soder his auspices, and with his assistance, they have begun with a prospect of the most bene ficial ressi•s downing upon them. They knew of nemberless abeam, bet which sank into insignificance before those that I hear have been everted, is con. fusion, from the Trustees, whose defy it was to protect and encourage this noble Charity, and to see that its fends were properly managed, and the ioteo lions of the b lent Founder carried strictly into elect. I will end rto sketch for you the his tory of this excellent Institution as shortly es I cats, that you may see how much it has been neglected and abused, and rendered subservient to the most corrupt aid unconstitutional purposes:— About a hundred years ago, a native of the place, Mr. CHURCIItit, who bad been an East India Mer• chant, founded a school, which is called " Cherchet's College," for the education of PI boys, who were the sons of inhabitants of Petersfield, and who were to be boarded, lodged, anti clothed, and to be taught mathematics end navigation, and placed oat as ap prentices in the East India Company's see-service.— From the death of Mr. Covacetzu the Khool was managed very well—the boys were lodged in the College, and well taken care of; bet about forty yet,s afterwards, the ancestor of the present PA TRON of the Beresegh was made, I believe, a Trustee, and Wog desirous of conciliating the r towns.peopie, with a view no doubt to the in• Monica which his descendant now so wholesomely and constitutionally *Remises there,he obtained an Act, of Parliament to alter some of the directions of the Founder, in order that the boys might, if they chose, be apprenticed oat to any trades at home, and not be obliged loge to sea against their inclinations. Ile was not disappointed ; the scheme fell in with the views of the people at that time, and it gained him greet popularity and influence. I have not beard, that during his time the concerns of the Charity were improperly managed, except that, in most instances, the sons of thole only who could promote his Par liamentary influence were admitted inter the Institu tion. On hie death the management of the College devolved upon his eldest son. I will not dwell much upon the state of things doting his edministration, for the recollection of it must be most painful to every feeling and correct mind. Suffice it In say, that this Gentlemen e it'd the defies of Trustee, Treasurer, Steward, end Visitor ; that the boys were neglected, the mastership a sinecure, and she College occasionally let out into lodgings. So many offices combined in one mao, you must naturally suppose, could not fail to distract his attention, and to render him unfit for performing correctly the func tions of either; and yen must also espect to hear, that these abuses caused great dissatisfaction amongst the towns.people. The manner, however, in which the College funds and income were manag►d was still a secret ; but I was told the other day, that it Cow appears, from the Chancery suit which the in habitants have began with the Trustees, to have been moat shamefully careless and improper; that a great deal of money, more, I believe, than 15001. were allowed to remain with the Acconalsot-Genetal for upwards of ten years, without putting it into the Storks, by which the College has lost all the interests and profits which this sues might have made by a prudent management of it nay, indeed, it is even said, that the Tr valets did oar know of it until the ATTORNIT-C/ENERAL filed the bill against them. I was also told, that there is a balance of upwards of 16001. outstanding in favour of tho College on the account of a former Trustee sod T . who died 17 years ago. Could this large balance have remained so long unknown to the town, if the Trustees had had the goody/ the College at hart; or would it have been showiug more than proper resp►ct to the memory of their deceased re lative, if the present Trustees bad come forward at once and declared the state of hijaccount, and re. quested the town to investigate it, as they knew nothing of it themselves, bet would cheerfully pay whatever deficiency might appear on such investiga tine ? Nothing of this sort, however, ever took place, and bet for the Chancery snit, this balance would never have been known. When I heard it, I Was very sorry, though I never liked the conduct of the Trustees, and I wes almost inclined not to be lieve it, but my enquiries coafirmed the truth of the report. These are not the only abuses which have been saf. feted to exist. The poor boys have long been turned oat of the College, and deprived of their board and 10 441, under a pretence that the Charity could not tilE STATESAIAN, seppoit the Imposer, thoegh it is evident toe real amis. was, to admit the Master's schola►s into the College; for, it is said. much less Man half the in come of the Charity is sufficient to meet all the pre sent espences incurred on account of the School ; and sorely it must be so, if I em correctly inform►d, that the income exceeds 6001. a year ! Soch a sum endoebtedly is equal to obtain all the adventurers for the 12 boys which the kind Founder of the School intended for them. Again, in under to snake the College as ocelot as possible to the Trustees, the di. fiction of Mr CHUNCHER that the boys shall be the sons of inhabitants of Peterofield has, in numerous instances, been disregarded; and the sons and nephews of men, strangers to the town, admitted on their lebmitting to sipped the infieence of the Lord of the Borough ; whilst others, whose fathers were more sturdy and honest, have been 'spelled the School on oho sole ground that their fathers would not take a part in the farce of ■n election of Rep tatises in Parliament for the Borough, which is now sod then ' inhibited there, as you know; or because, es in a late instance, the father of a boy was employed as a workmen by a highly respectable individual in the town, who dared to vote according to his conscience, and gave only hslf his vote to the Borough Patron, as they cell him, and the other half to au iodependeut Candidate What ma think of ail this here I forbear to tell you; I will only sly, that we are disgusted end indignant at it ; and we sincerely hope the Lotto' CHANCELLOR will take care to see that Petersiteld shall ' advantages which so nceleot en Institution is calcu lated to bestow upon it, by Trustees who live miles from the place. and seem to think the Institution see. fel only so far is it promotes their own interested and selfish purposes, sod who therefore neglect to husband Its resources; to watt!) the improvement of r perthe bcoloytshinagwid end fo see lld lodged that and lhe y bo a a re ri P le r rin i.d lhe7C it o h ll p eg ro e, 1 according to the directions of the beneficent Folio ! der. Your feelings most be in onisnn with ours. We look forward with ennidence to the visual, convinted that Justice and Truth must prevail in the end, end that this cause will be crowned with the same seeress which that of Winchester has just obtained, and that Churches'; College will again be placed in a situation to prosper and tiou,i,h, A iIA MPSII IRL FIIELdOLDLR. Ilnabled.,o, Jul) Ti. ISI9. 7 lIE HARVEST. The h I will commenre nest week en the Else: roast, wh;ch is at least three weeks earlier than last seer. The hay h tie Ches Lire is nearly fiddled : the crops are exceedingly ebunalatti. Wheat pro. aim an excellent crop, and is is a very forward con. dition. Otis and Ruley lottk estreviely sell. Thus there is the brighest prospect of plenty both for was and beast. An ear of Oats was polled on the 11th inst. near Limerick, arhieb appeared in lamiant as to induce 11l Gentleman to count the grains, which amounted tai the enormous number of 330. The Plymouth Telegraph says :—" A more genial shoos than the present is not within the recolloctios of our oldest inhabitants. The hay ha I,a super abundant one, is nearly competed ; the corn is well kerned and waits only for the sickle; the orchards, escept in a few partial cases, tees with apples, ■nd the whole country is a pre fort garden, where each ',Rotative prodoctiou vies with each in the richest fey. Citify. The promise of Olchards is most scapicioes, and some very hoe fish his,, beers sisterly caught by the drift nos, Ind disposed of in our markets at eight ponce per dozen. The h t will be very abundant this year in all p la t s of %Ho. In Castile greet atrandance is ruin. loos to the farmers, for want of the means of trans ! port. Estrart of a letter, dated Bambergla, idly 18 : " Noteithstaading the severe measures adopted by the Prussian Government to prevent any cornmeal, cations letting abroad on the subject of the revolu tionary machinations lately detected, it cannot fail that within, short period Ithe Public will be in pos session of important intelligence relating to lbw, as even the Pressian official Ga:elic confess,., that they 'stead throughout all Germany. At Berlin, M. JAW'S, and many of his scholars, are said to have been arrested ; bet the real seat of the conspiracy will probably be discovered is some of the newly-acquir ed provinces no the Rhine, and in that of Westphalia, w here, according to the private letters, some evidences of a mutinous disposition have already been mani fested. If the affair, after all, should turn oat less formidable than had been supposed, after the ovate does intimations of the Berlin Gazette, it must be owned that they are rather calculetrd to encourage than to pet a stop to undertakings of the nature al leded On Wednesday Viseoent blet.vrt.t.E arrived at Sheerness in the Admiralty yacht from Woolwich, attended by some of the Members of the Admiralty and Navy Beards, for the porpose of inspecting the improvements soaking in that dock-yard. In the afternoon they proceeded to Chatham on a similar inspection, when they monied to town. Ryer:moues IlieonT —Yesterday the RECORDER made a Report to his Royal Highness the Patna REGENT in Council of the following ce raids en ler sentence of death In Newgate, via.:—Jrhn Law .r, for burglary ; Benjamin Noble, Mary lit men, Join Bader, William Henry Bird, Sarah Ring, an I Henry Phillips, for stealing in dwelling-bosses; S. Lyon and E. ten', for stealing goods pi.vately in a shop ; Sarah Whittle and T. Alabaster, for b o on. breaking ; and Samuel Solomons, for highway rob berg.—When Benjamin Noble was ordered for m ention on Wednesday neat. The others were respited daring his Royal Highness's pleasure. The usual condemned Sermon will be preached in the Chapel of Newg.te to-morrow. Wednesday night Mr. John William, of the Hemp stead-road, returning home from Hampstead, at about half-past 1I o'clock, on arriving at a bye put of the road, three men rushed out upon his, who knocked him down, kicked and beat hi■ oomercifylly, end ombbery him of 18t. 1.4 W I.VTELLIGENCK. --ow-- COURT OF CHANCERY, JOLT 13. CORTI, AIM MIMS V. CLAIIIaZ AND °TIMM Mr. Met stored, that the Injuncticn granted by the Court, for (he purpose of restraining the Defend ants from palling down a certain sluice •t itje har bour, called Scott'. Float Sluice, should be dissolved . Ile contended that the Court had no jurisdiction here, as if the sluice in question was • public nui sance, then the parties had their remedy at law; hnt this Court was not the proper quarter whence relief might be esperted. Mr. St. GDEM followed nn the UT* side, and quoted a number of anthnrities from the 7th Gen. I. doss n. words, to show that application ought to be made to a Court of Law, end soot here. The ATTORNEY•G . . in support of the In junction, contended. that If it were dissolved. there would be 7 or 800,0001. worth of lend ruined, by being everdowed. The Court had always ezercised the poser of protecting parties against the commis. Sian of trespass; and were that not done bore, con sequences would be reinnes to the pireira. The party applying for the Injunction being dissolved. might hare recourse, in the first instance, to a Court of Law, but they had not done it. The Court had uniformly held, that where a nuisance wsa shoat to be committed and which would t•k• place before an ectlain could be tried, then it would interfere end prevent that nuisance. lie was confident that the Court had jurisdiction, and that it would be propel!, applied here. _ _ • LORD CDANCFLLOR ordered the Mt to Ire sent to a Joey to try, first, whether this slake gr I a ;mirk nakeney, and if they foetid it was so, thee to try whether it was a noleancei in 1812. The Court rose at one o'clock. COURT OF RING'S KLNCO. Jci.r f. lIREETT AND CO. V lIILLAN AND CO. This was sn action sirinst the I)•bndsnts as corn• non carriers to recover the s•lue of Gslbs of carbi nes', estimated at I 141. Inst by (heir negligence. It aill be recnllerted that lasi )ear (his rags• was tried before the Chief Justice, chess a verdict was fooled for the Defendant, contrary to the directions of the Learned Jade in point of low, soil a new Mal hay. ins been granted by the Court above, the cause •aW cam. swan. Mr. Marital, Mr. Carney, and Mr. Comyn, con. ducted the Plain.ills• case; sad Mr. Scarlett and Mr. Tindal, the Defendants'. Theca* was this—ln the month of March, 1816, the Plaintiff', who are dry•tatters in Lundun, re- Myer' a letter, signed " J. Worth)," from Ewer (having been in the habit of dealing for many years with a person of that name, a dyer of that city ), de- siring to know the priena cf cochineal. This letter was answered accordingly, sod ba the neat post they received an order to send to Mr J. Worthy, by the Elect, Mail. of which the Defendants were pro. prletors, 65Ibs. of cochineal, together with an invoice of the toots. ‘Vithnot comparing the hod., riling of this leiter which with the letters they hadpieen in the habit of receiving from their customer, Mr. Worthy. they made op a parcel containing she quantity of goods ordered, and directing it " J. Worthy, Elmer," it was booked at the Defen,lsitts' Ace to Igo by the Mail. The coach arrived at Carter on as. toldsy .-veiling, when a person called at the coach. loffice in that city, and asked as hether it hid not, brought a parcel directed for Mr. Wurthy,. and be. tog answered in the sifirmative, he desired to know , the 'mount of the carriage, and was told it was 16s. Id. Ile they said he should send for it the neat morning. On the following morning. being Sunday, the same person met a !shooting man in the street, ; aimed Whitfield, and desired him to go to the coach. nice, and bring sway the parcel directed for " J.; Worthy, hatter," which had come by the mail from London, giving him the money to pay the carriage, ; and promising him a trifle fur himself, whilst he waited outside in the street. The man sent to the coach-office accordingly, but having made some mis take in the description of the parcel, It was not then delivered. Ile then went back to the person in the street, and Immedastely returned with a more atm. rate description of the parcel, which was forthwith delivered to him, upon paying the carriage, and he took it to his employer, who gave him sixpence (or 149 trouble. It turned out shot the Mr. Worthen, with wham the Plaintiffs hail been in the habit of dealing, had mot given the order in question, and that the whole transaction was a fraudulent connivance of a person named Bennett, a man who was not forth ' coming, and in no condition to pay for the cochineal. Under these circumstances the p•eaent action was brought, and the question was, whether the Defend. ants wets liable for the asis-delicery of the goods in question. On the part of the Plaintiff, it was contended that the Defendants' common law liability was sufficient for the maintenance of the action, they having neg. lected to take precautionary steps, in order to see that it was delivered to the person for whom it was intended, as was manifest from the manner in which they gave it nut of their po ion, there beingenoegh to mite their sespicion, that the person who applied for it at the office had no right to receive in Fur the Defendants it was contended, that there was a oofficient delivery of the parcel according to order ; and iliAt in all events the Plaintiff.' own neg ligence in not taking care to direct the parcel rro. perly, and being satisfied that the order for the co. chineal was genuine, exempted the Defendants from liability. The Cuter JUITIrt charged the Jury, that by the Law of England in this particular case (founded upon mach mote ancient law, namely, the Civil Law), a carrier is liable to answer for any loss occasioned by his negligence. The reason for that law was this—athat collesion might take place between the carrier or his see viola, sad other persons, so as to defraud the ow tier of thegoods entrusting them to his care; sad sinless the law imposed such a check on the carrier, no man would trust big goods in his hands. This role of law was clear and of long standing. Undoubtedly of late years a practice had obtained on the part of carriers of restricting their responsibility, by notice that they 'said not be answerable for losses beyond a certain amount, and Courts of Law bad sanctioned such re strictions by their decisions. In the present ease no question arose of this kind; the single rim being, whether the Delendaots had been guilty of such nee• ligence as broaght the COPP wl!h the tenors' rale of law ? It appeared to his Lordifilp that they were clearly lisble under the rircamstances of the OUP,--. Had the parcel been, in foci, delivered to a person of the name of NVorthey, undoubtedly the case might require a different consideration; hut if the Jury were not to 6nJ a verdict for the Plaintiffs, no atlin would he safe who entrusted his goods to %carrier. The Jury found their verdict fur the Plaintiffs— Disuses 1141.0 SiliiN in ASSIZKS. HERTFORD, Jtur The Mewing Pastiness. rimed with capitol re. lollies, pleaded - Guilty, wit. Wes Pitts. for berchary in the theelliepheese of Themes Hollings's/111h, fat c i ot.eeel, its this minty • snit Richard Doffed and John Dickenson, fur a IMP offrtire, al Brseehin. They wren humanely urged by the Learned Joke to t►tract their ply's, but they obstinat►ly persisted in declaring their guilt. upon which Wenn , of tleath was immediately passed upon them, in a very im. pensive mann►r, and no hopes of mercy were held out, the wretched convicts being men of desperate and abandoned habits. FORGED PAcsr.S. Daniel Gilbert, alias Vowney, James Gilbert, allot Downey, Mary Tucker, Hai Tracker, and Mary Granclurd, the two toiler Pre being children under 11 years of age, wer• indicted for • Nod in obtainin; money Grim the Overseen of the Poor of the parish of IVarferd, Ly means of forged *eking posses, ■nd other instruments sieeessaryto Carry tb• fraud into execotiai. The offenders hod commenced their operation at Margate, and advanced into the heart of the country as far as Worenter, socressfolly prryill on the ere. dality of all the Patti!. Otliceisi in their route. Fro= thence they took a iinith easterly direction, and at lost made a toderrent in the jail of this county, hating imposed upon the Chewers of If ttfield by the like means, but their fraud was di.covered in time to pries vent farther impositions. The case Ca. made out by the cleareat.evidence, end the Prisoners were all found Guilty. The adults were sentenced to one year's imprisonment oat h in Ilse House of Correction, sod the jar. stile offenders to three months in the some Owe of t n.fiiiement. The Judges Irft Hertford on Tharsdiy esenini t Saturday (this do)) the C o mmission f or E sse/ will he pen. I at CtArnstord. We under.tiinil tt.at none of 1110 capital coosicts were loft for esecotioli. ABISIID(N, Jemr 19. This morning the Ostnid Circuit commenceJ at this place. Mr. Jostles Ilairoyd end M. Justice Richard. son entered the town at l l o'c'ech, serf op..ned the Commission. They goon afternards wpm. o cherch, accompanied by the Sheriff, John ti,w)er. E q . o itk the asset formatitiee. On their return Mr. Jestice Richardson took Isis seat in the Croon C Su, and Mr. Jostice Rolroyd presided et Nisi Prins. The Calendar ceav*ilhe acmes of 35 l'uanner , —al en ' usual number rbet the greater pert of them aro Is. boaters, charge/I with sheep stealing. No case et any general interest occurred oa 166(.101 side to-day. lair it% SEDUCIION. 30U11 KINSER V. TINOTII TORVIIVID. This wss an action brought by the Plaintiff against the Defendant, to recover a compensotien In di. maces for the injury which the former had sestained by being deprived of the terriers of Mary Kimber, his daughter, whom it was alleged the Defendant had seduced. The Defendant pleaded not guilty, where upon issue was joined. Mr. gIiFFIIERD opened the pleadings; and Mr. JERVIS I 'dressed the Jury on the part of the Plaintiff. The Learned Counsel said, that the Plaintiff was a respectable farmer, residing at Denchwortts, in the county of Berk., and possessing landed property to ibe amount of 30001. or 40001. The Defendant was elm a respectable farmer. residing at Weald, in the parish of Hampton, in the county of Osferd. The Plaintiff bad a wife and six childreo, three daugh ters and three sons: the eldest daughter was mar ried to Mr. Castle, a respectable farmer at Grove: Miss Mary Mabee was the second daughter ; she had acted as dairy.msid to her father, and was 'boat twaenty.sie years of age. In the month of September, 1515, she was on a visit to her cousin, Mr. Richard Butler, of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, and In company with him, her sister, owl other friend', she, on the 20th of Chit month, met the Defendant at Whicbwood-forest lair, which is generally attended by most respectable people. She ass not acquainted with „. L. , him, but an e nett seen bins once before: . he was also about twenty•sis 'tars of age, and he insisted upon walking home with her to Mr. Butler's. a dis tance of four miles. On the road, he es:teemed a wish to pay his addres , es to her, and obtained her consent to receive a ti-it from him, at her father's house the following Sunday week. lie came on that day ; a marriage was agreed upon, and he continued his visits 'boot once In every three ve.olta. Desch•orth was about ten miles from Weald, and the Defendant sumetimes cams on horseback, and animism on foot ; he was ales)s entertained be the Plaintiff and his wife, and received as the intended husband of Mary Kircher. Aft., some visits the De fendant behaved in a very improper mintier to her, but she resisted his en. reviles with the most indignant (peelings. Ho requested forgiveness, and Krum.-..l not to repeat such action.; she forgave him, bet he rested to visit her from that time. About Chi,ona., 1816, Mis Kimber was sai , h a Mr. and klieg spending a day or tun with a Mrs. Clinch, at Weald. On the evening of their gravel, the De tenant came in, and he with Miss Kimber and Miss Harris, being left in the room together, Miss Hat ris, with reference to his calling at Mrs. Clinch's. as it was seppo•ed, for the purpose of seeing Mise Kimber, nhaerred to him—" Now, Townsend, yoe hare been to see :Wm Kimber oiler, sod we wittier, base it in back n. d hite, as ifyoo deceive her again, she shall have part of your fortune." The (Mathieu& replied, " Ti ere CC4IIIIIBI for thm, 1 alwaat in tended to have her." And, in a sulmircoent eneir lail..n, he told ihli” limtber, that I.e nisi e I and is. tended to visit her again ; hut ate trfostal to receive him, sating, he bad he i ter sta y away, 'Wets he could hrh re t.s he nug'., to do, sad i .ten tel to marry hyr. ile ther cm:.ed to dl so, a...d it *as