The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

• • THE LAIR GALES. ‘,Y • rifIcADYN. GALE AT NIATCASTI.E.--Eitij 'on. Sa -1 wrtley nr4Fning last, Newcastle and the neighbourhood •vere visited by a treinenduous gale from the westward A blast at once so powerful anti continuing so long►, as not been known here 'for man years. Greater pact of two new houses in New Bridge-street, in this tcovn was blown to the ground by it. A stack of ehim rfes fell on the roof of a house in Johnson's eildre, on the New-road, and by the force of the fall removed a bean, Oval its situation, which struck the head of a poor woman named Brown, upwards of eighty years of age, who lived iu . the garret, and killed tier in stantly. 'Her grandson, a boy about nine years of age who was in the same bed, escaped unbolt. Sinch.was the force of the gale in the iteighbourhoodi r All - Saint's Church, that small pebbles were blowesKrough some of the panes in the windows exactly as if they bad been shot. In tl►e garden of Hugh Harrison, cie the Leases, several yards of wall with rails on the top were blown.over. We undertand that the Metho dist Chapel, at Kenton, which► is now used as a school, bid the roof blown off, and two of the windows blown in.. In Gateshead, also, part of the front of a house came into the street with great violence. A stack of chiinnies fell, and broke the roof of Mrs. Ludlow's house, in Back-lant, and lodged in the garret, which was fortunately boarded, 01 the Misses Ludlow, ho slept in the ro►nr beneath, novo have been killed- A window in Mr. Price's glass manufactory, fronting -the river, was blown in wholesale, and forced to the end of the *pertinent. Between four and five o'clock in the morning, J. Dobson, servaut to Mr. A. Free man, of the Windmill-hills, fell from the mill wand, about 30 feet high, on a granary two stories high, and thence to the ground. He was taken up appa rently dead, but medical aid being immediately pro cured, there are great hopes entertained of his re covery. By the fury of the wind many wills in the neighbourhood broke away from their brakes, and several wands, sails, Ike. have been destroyed, or more or less damaged. The top, and two of the wands of Boldon Mill were blown off. We hear that a new , mill at Northallerton was blown down.—(Toe Mer.) : Witrrenavzst.—The weather for several days past has been unusually tempestuous, hut until Friday night no damage had been sustained, either along this coast, or in our harbour. Early that evening it began to blow a strong gale from the south-west, but before midnight it bad increased to a hurricane, and continued with lit- tie abatement until Saturday evening. The smack Ho nest Miller, D. Cain, master, came on shore behind the North WO, where the vessel was immediately dashed to lie:es, and of the crew sad passengers, amounting to 18, only one man (the master) was saved ! The moment the vi soi struck, the master got into the punt, in which ' e t►as _thrown by the waves against the railing of Messrs. Brocklebank's building yard, to which be clung, and where the receding surges left him. Notwithstanding As extreme exhaustion he succeeded in climbing to the card, and by that means saved his life. Only three of the dead bodies have yet been found. One of the crew was the brother-in•law of the Master, but of the passen ;di itinitt)g We believe is known. • On Siilsy the North harbour was literally covered with floating fragments of bulwarks, sterns, Btc. carried away the preceding night. There was at least 150 ves sels in the harbour, and all, we may venture to say, have received more or less, some very material injury.— Amongthe latter, we may mention the Henry, of liar rington, which broke from her moorings in the Old Quay tier, and was driven, though loaded, anddraws 13 feet of water, close upon the battlement at the foot of Mark-lane. The Hero also broke away at the same time, and to prevent her being driven into a s►milar birth they scuttled her by opening► the how port. In the course of ' the night the glass of the old light house was broken and th i s light extinguished. The Triton, Beeden, in the dreadful gale of last night, off SLltee's-head, lost her how-sprit, stern boat, anchor, and cable. In this condition they were exposed to the frightfi►l storm until three o'clock on Saturday after noon, when she went on shore about five miles to the sa►►tl►ward of Bootle. _ _ . LIMERICK, DEC. I.—About six o'clock yesterday a most tremendous gale of wind commerred at W.N.W., and continued with unabated violence till four o'clock this morning. The tide rose to a most alarming height; the damage in the river must have been roe enierable, as almost every vessel in the harbour suffer ed in some degree. Several chimneys, particularly in the Old Town, were blown down, and great damage, has been done to the roofs of houses. A back house,' four stories high, near the old gaol, was completely thrown down by the falling of a chimney, and a wo man and her infant have been dug out of the ruins on the ground floor, quite dead. Some of the other inmates have had their limbs broken, and more se verely injured. There is not a street, lane, or passage, in that part of the city, that dues not prison some effect from the storm. The small craft in the long dock presented a la mentable picture; some sunk, others without masts, and altnost the entire quays are knocked to pieces.-- We fear there will be a melancholy account from the lo►ater part of the Shannon. A great number-of ships' boats knocked to pieces and wrecked. A boat belong ;Jo Somers, of Baycastle, swamped at Coonah, and ter.persons were drowned. The owner gist safe to shore. A small sail-boat, with coals for Adore, is also on shore ; it is supposed the crew are lost. Seveial boats which were laden with corn came up the river This morning, having thrown their cargoes overboard to save the lives of the c►ew. The bullies of eight men and two women ate now lying at Coonah Point, and several others are reported in a similar way on the banks of the Shannon, the roof of the city gaol, received considerable dapage in the storm last night. Tbe Waterford Mail, loin Dublin, did not arrive in this town till sii o'clock ; on Saturday, three boors late, we suppose this was . in . consequence of the most tremendous storm which we recollect for a lung time. Aiu►cst every house in this town has been. stripped, more less, of the slates ; however. we are happy to state, that no material accident has occurred. Se •eftil trees hase been blowo down, as also some cabins, anti a number of corn and hay stacks. The poAaxoes hire be much injured by the rain and floods. • Wednjsday nightor early yesterday morning, Union Chat el; Compton terrace, Islington, was broken into and ►obbed of the clock and two brass lamps. Sun -44y ijloiton Acade►t i y Chapel was rubbed also of a en/lA*lld two bras 4 • • 't L.4lv _ ~0(741 6 . 4 44415YcL cpv at OF Ktticrs 6 .9 i I •• Middlesex Sittings after Stichaeltnes Willi taitlibill Chief Justice andiroominem Jams' ir. wormer .0. CLARKS ANa • °TOROS.. This ..was an action of. mover bytthe ese‘uttrok of a. brass-fouader,. late of Clerkenwall, for tierteatiftects alleged to have been converted by the defendants. `. -Mr.- BROUGHAM and Mr. 0117 TY • conducted the plaintiff's case, and ,Ur. Nous.. and Us. W mai-ILAN the defendants. t•..: .! • The testator haring made a wildibd-appointed the defendant, Clarke, hair-dresser by trade, a particular friend, his executor, deposited it in his hands.. Some time after, repeating of what he had done,. be desired the defendant to givehim back Isis will, which be dined doing. Upon which the testator made a second will, read it to the defendant, and appointed the plain-, tiff, his wife i .. sole executrix. and shortly afterwards died. Notwithstanding this the defendant obtained probat of the first will and proceeded to act as execu tor and sell the estate and effects of the teatatator and dispose of them as the will directed, though - tile plain tiff entered her protest. The other defendants, selioi were brokers and atiltioneers, were the persoolt.Our ployed to sell and act undcr,the probat. The questiotil was whether the action, under these cirontustances i ol would lie ? The Cuter JUSTICE said there was no doubt of it, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff, suhject reference as to the amount of the damages. ' THE KING V. CATHERINE SOLOMON. • This was an indictment against the detembint, a Jewess, for assaulting. another Jewess of the nacre of Hannah Benjamin. The case was totally destituteof interest, and the defendant was found guilty, WILLIAMS U. ROWLAND. This was an action of assurnpsit, upon an agree meat, to deliver up to the plaintiff the aide:aw aes of runaway apprentice, who bad served part of his titue with the plaintiff, in the business of a tailor. _ _ . Mr. Gunser and Mr. Comm conducted the plain tiff's case, and Mr. C. PHILLIPS the defendant's. There was nothing of public interst in the case, and the Jury, under the Learned Judge's directionsjound their verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, 60/. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 6. BEER AND 0711ERS V. WARD. The SomCITOR-GENERAL stated this to he ;eke directed by the Court of Chancery, respecting the le gitimacy of an individual now deceased. The . Jury were to determine upon the evidence whether William Cotton, the lunatic son of William Cotton and Rebec ca Webskr, bad been born before or after the marriage of his parent!. The question was one of considera ble importance to the parties, first as it respected the purity of blood of a branch of one of the moo en: dent families in the kingdom, the Cottons of Shrop shire ; and, secondly, as it regarded the amount of the property in dispute. which bad been estimated at about 200,000/. The Jury would conceive what might be the length of the trial, when lie informed them that the person whose legitimacy tit bad this day to prove, bad been born in the earOwiesseas e es o f the last century, and bad died some years ilnce. Mr. Rowland Cotton, the grandfather of the kinetic, and married in the year 1701, and in 1126 entered into a settlement with his eldest son William, by-which, the large family estate Wasentailedocebisson. The settle ment which had thus been made, was to be divested, if the sun should ever marry without his father Row land's consent. The son was at that time on terms of the closest intimacy with the late Duke of King ston, and soon after the making of this settlement went abroad with the Duke, and visited almost every Court in Europe in his company. They did not return from this Continental tour until about the year 1736 or 1737, soon after which, it appeared William Cotton had privately married Rebecca Webster, by whom he had a large family, the eldest male branch of which was William Cotton, the lunatic. This marriage bad been privately celebrated, in consequence of - the par ticular proviso contained in the above-mentioned set tlement, and it was kept concealed from Mr. Rowland Cotton for some years, William Cotton having taken up his residence at Cuckney, near Thoresby, the seat of the Duke of Kingston, and having represented to his father that be was on a visit to the Duke ; a cir cumstance which seemed corroborated by the fact of their long and close intimacy. In the year 1746 the father became acquainted with the marriage, and scented, by a subsequent deed or se:tlement, to have been reconciled to it ; fur there it was recited as having ot a trred some years Billie, and a variety of provisoes were therein made fur the children of that marriage, who there mentioned by name in the order of their birth, William, who was afterwards unfortu nately deranged being mentioned first. When he (the Solicitor-General) spoke of the lunatic, he should have informed the Jury, that the misfortune of lu nacy did not fall on that individual until he had at tained his 34th year, before which period he had al ways been recognised as•the lineal hair of Mr. Row land Cotton, and had exercised as midi the rights which belonged to him, besides which he bad been named as the heir in all deeds which had been made subsequent to Mr. newly II Cotton's discovery of his son's marriage. When tEe Jury considered the pe riod at which that marriage liid been celebrated, they would recollect that it had taken place before the Marriage Act passed, which had now rendered many ceremonies and a certain publicity necessary that at the time in question were considered superfluous. It was to this circumstance that the difficulty of fully proving his case might be attributed. He would show, however, that Mr. Richardson, the clergyman of the parish, bad regularly christened all the children, end that gentleman would produce the parish book in , which it would be seen a distinction had been made between legitimate and illegitimate children. That distinction had not been extended to any of the family of William Cotton, sen. who were all marked as legi timate children. The legitimacy of William Cotton.' jun. the unfortunate lunatic, had never heenquestioned until after his death, and the death:othis second bro ther, Mr. Evelyn Rowland Cohn), ultra the present defendant put in his claim as testamentary heir of .11r. E. It. Cuttos, who, so far from disputing the eitie of Cotton as heir at law, had actually during his fife taken on himself the duty of a Committee fur elder brother in the character of Iticnext .1 variety ut dutuuteutary and parole evidencessinjw 'ATbsx4l)l. ti.er. adduced, teo4iag .taAtettliegneral reputation of the marriage in the uolithhurhOod, aad the Cour at six o'clock „atlilurae4,sbs.loo.loF,cansidertitioa of , i , cane to-tuoreow. • , , . - 4 " Blr ESSIONS. -•. reverilay Join Chester, aged 22, was -put to the bar, on an indictment char.v.ing him with assaulting, on the King's highway, Ann Emma Grey, and taking front her person a reticule, two handkerchiefs, about sin or seven shillings in money, &c. Ihe proseentrix, in company with a gentleinan, was passing near Brick-lane on the evening in ques- tion, when the prisoner.. in company with four others, attacked them, and took the property from Miss Grey. The prisoner denied the vim% of the evidence, and called two persons to hio character. linilty—Death. The prosecutrix recommended the prisoner to merry on the ground of his previous good character ; and the Jury, on account o f hi s youth. Mr. Baron GAnitow took occasion to notice the very general mistake that existed of the Juriges having any power to extend mercy. No such power existed in any Judge. All that he could do was to forward the recom mendation to the proper quarter. Williorn Woolley, aged 20, was indicted for bur gloriously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of C. Ward, and stealing a tea-chest, &e. C. Ward stated, that on the 2d Nov., about twelve o'clock at night, he was atomic(' by the ringing of the bell by his bedside. He ran down stairs, and found the watchman in the passage with a man in custody. • '• Peter Sullivan, the watchman, deposed, that on go ing his rounds, he found the prosecutor's house-door open ; be entered, and a person rushed by him, who effected his escape. The prisoner endearnured to do so froth the parlour, but witness succeeded in taking him into custody; he had no hat on ; his hat was found in Mr. Ward's passage. Mr. Justice BAILEY examined witness as to hi certainty of the prisoner being the man he found in the house, Witaess perceived no mark of violence on the done; it appeared to him to have been open Erl with a false key. Ile had known the prisoner personally fur tour years. Dormant Vincent, a watchman, was on duty at Bow - - street; bearing an alarm of " Stop thief !" went to the end of Charles-street, and saw the last witness pursuing the prisoner; he joined in the pursuit, and succeeded in taking him into custody; he iii t not no tice bie:being without a hat, and when witness took him he bad one on; it was, however, claimed by a hackney coachman. He could positively swear that the prisoner was the man he saw Sullivan pursuing. James Bethel, one of the beadles of the parish. was within one door of Mr. Ward's house, and joined in the puisuit with the watchman ; he, however, did not sea him until he was getting out of a coach, into which he had got to hide himself. Witness lost sight of him about a minute before he was taken. C Hs likewise saw him either take a hat or have Corte- given to him the moment before his pursuers I OM" !It. Samuel Luck, a constable, belonging to Bow- Mreet, was present when the prisoner was taken into apstody, but he could not say if be was the man whom the watchman had been pursuing. The wan he saw running was without a hat, but the prisoner when taken bad one. A coachman claimed it, and took It. The ',earned Judge, and Mr. LAW (Counsel for the prisoner) cross-examined each of the witnesses at very considerable length. • The prisoner in his defence, protested his entire innocence of the crime laid to his eliarge. lie called six witnesses, several of whom had known bins fur many years, and who gave him a good character. Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up the evidence:— That a burglary was committed by some one, there could be no doubt : it was a question exelitsively for the Jury's consideration, whether the evidence ►ras sufficient to fix it upon the prisoner at the bar. The Jury retired, and returned ►with a verdict—Not Guilty. Mr. Justice BAYLEY in delivering the opiniim of the Judges on the case of Nowell Wilkiuson, and Jo seph Marsden, for stealing the arta' twinica, stated the grounds of that opinion as follows :—lt was consider ed that a person might have a temporary and special ownership in property entrusted to his charge distinct from the general ownership, invested in the real owner of the property so entrusted. Thus A. may be the ge neral owner of an article, and IL to tvhout he has given it may be the special owner for the time being, and if A. the general owner, connives at a theft of the property from 11. that is a robbery or larceny. In this case the fact of the intention to defraud the reve• nuedid tilt alter the character of the act. , The following Prisoners were also capitally con victed : William Hall, aged 16, for burglary, and stealing a pir of shoes the property of J. Draper William Percival, aged 29, for a burglary, and stealing a watch, &c. the property of (lanoline Frond. IC. Watts, aged 20, for breaking and enterin:: the dwelling house of Jas. Wright, and stealing two coats, value 31. . POLICE. A TTO X- GA RDEN.—Yesterd ay Joh;t Ade/Ton, a most 111 . Sper:ite character, was brouglit up from the watch:- house to answer the following charges:— Mr. Reid, of 35, Judd-street, was the first witnevs ex amined, and deposed, that between one and to o o'clock in the morning he heard a noise in the house as if rob -- hers had broken into it. lie instantly h=ot out of hed, and called the watchman from his hed-roots window, upon which he heard a noise as if the side of the house had fallen in. On Mr. Reid taking the night-light and looking through the house, he found a great number of portable articles moved front their proper places, and ready to-be tarried off; and on going:limn stairs, there were two plated candlesticks found on the staircase, which the faMily on retiring to rest, WI on :he drawing .room table. Mr. Jackson i a gentlentan residing in the house, cor roborated tho eviienee el the preceding witness in.every resprct,.aud added, that the noise heard by Mr. Reid proceeded from the prisoner's falling down stairs in his attempt to escape. - Two watelitsi - en stated their bring in into the how. bat toned the prisoner had tiersanpett *brunch a back window on the p round-Moor they along with the lino tsu witucases, tviloised hini.to Ike iiest ticuse, 77 nninbabited, atitnk -EfiTh=:7;l7-11-3111k.. „„ seer biliself in th e chirone* • "" 1131t ql'Aft ..The other charge preferred against tire • • pr liott,e is isoner M t d illit a irl y ;e le lnigl e; tl3 b tli n eri t il s h u ti t 7 b 4: :i cu s lt: tr k e agilitylnitle eveping •of lazy cheof Attders6e irloruentdr:adt, oanneitills°elis'elsrio:eatibtinliditetl4ll4Pet4l2tu R . u u ,a r s tid ar ie g Ansha n . street... Tin prisonevOilio is lift Ostler, 'was fatly on the first charge; aod.the witnesse s were - suit 1 1 - 4 4 7 the g as , now a:tring .4. cleikenuell true bill found against him. A ub IVo - tsin P-tilitifit.—Tbis . office was error(' d' ' ec ss pa'r titularly by' tenni lis; to belii i t h e . e• iaatattl: A. a woman, -who %tits broughl up bi,the 'parish 44 . of St. Mary, lalingfon, charged:llth inhau saa t tii. posiu4 anddesertiug her infant, quite na k et '1 he primmer on heiolg plated at . the Is ar 's law ' in great siitatiaii; and was 'perrititte'd 19; oforr trate, IV. BE& ETT. Esq., to sit &twit* the tem:daft Mr. Jas. Farley, residing at 11;0:1, dirah• lane, Islington, deposed that about steeds! em osh the evening of the 12th of Nov. laitt, foram mi ss , up Cross -street, Islington, when he heard theeepa infant, and on looking under his feet, hi o dell a child quite naked, lying on the eold pavese a e: immediately caused the poor little treataes ait i taken to the parish workhouse, where ev er y • attention was paid to it. Mrs. Slater stated that the prisoner wa in minim. auce of au old lady who lodged in her him ; sad oA the evening in question, about half-past seven o'clo c k the prisoner knocked at the dour, and inquired for tas lady in question, who was not at home ; she then sp. pearl' very ill and in a weak state. Witness bemire. ingly invited leer into her own room, and she toelf s scat by the fire; sue shivered with cold, and told twit. ness she was very unwell, and requested her timer 4 be sent fur. Witness put several tinestions It liwi s :o the cause of her illness, but she refused to erase he r any direct answer, only saving she was so subject to the rlseutuati.in that she had been forced to give uplift situation, and had then left it. From her sitaidiee witness thought that she most have either miacarried or have had a recent accouchement. The Overseer of the parish stated, that in erase quenee of private information, he, on the 14th of NO. weather, two days after the infant was deserted, s e . companied the churchwarden to the house of the lot witness, awl on going up stairs to the room oetapied by the aforestitl lady, saw the prisoner. He key/ her personally, having recommended her to the ser vice of a Mrs. IVaiker, where she !heed op to the evening- in question. He charged her with having de. serted her offspring. She at fir t • stun I/ denied it; hut on being told that the parish doctor was kreseet, she thin said if the persons present would withdra w, she would tell'the truth. The per ons, except wit. ness and Doctor Sinikin, then left the room, aid the prisoner then said that the child was hers, and that she had left her place, in order to lie admitted into the workhouse to lie in, anti was, as well as she was able, proceeding thither, when on getting into Cross-street, the pains of labour heeaute so violent, • the was come pletely deprived of her senses, and the child rave left the world as she was walking along ; she knew Mt what she was about, and went to the bonse is All* street. She expressed a wish not to be resod to the workhouse, but was told that could seek. cost. plied with. The master of the prisoner was in attendaue, tad stated that the prisoner had lived in his fa►:.ily fur the last three tomtits. During that time she bad eee• ducted herself with Ininesty, and complained that sie was for three days, while she was in the poordnue, iu a deranged state, brought on by threats of poi& went which she would receive when brought before& Magistrate, which he conceived very inhuman. This allegatio:l was stoutly denied by the bargee's and overseers. The prissoter, on being called on for her deliitie, could not articu!ate a word from agitation ; and eis of the olEcers was desired to hear what she had say, and to repeat it to the Magistrate. She athrit. ed the infant to belong to her, and did not loud leaving it i►► the street : but it was born when shout not in her senses. The Magistrate s.tid that the offence was one of that job Ulll4ll and monstrous nature that be sbaddend at fhe thought of it, and he was determined to 'midi her, not on her account only, but for an rumple to other inhuman women who might act in the utueber rid wanner. The offence was bailable. He therefore ordered her to fi:►d sureties, herself in 401. and is housekeepers in •2tll. each, and to give 24 hours sake to the vestry chile of the palish. The overseers said they bad no wish to punish her. The Magistrate bald taat the offence was of that atrocious nature, that he ►would compel the parish to prosecute. The overseer then offered to take her back to the workhouse till the bail was found. This the Magistrate refused, and the prisoner leo removi d from the bar, previous to which she embraced her offspring, which was in the nurse's arts, sod which drew tears from several women present, who pitied her situation. The followisg trick, executed by some clever rope in Inverness, is almost worthy of the moods of Bow' street:—ln tie dusk of the evening last week, a Isla came to the sloop of a dealer, and asked a sigit of hie wine. A cork was immediately drawn, Ind the customer, with the knowing smack of a conasisloore deliberately swallowed a glass, and pronounced it Very fair port, intimating his intention of o rdering a plan" tity. Ile next requested a eight of some foreign 1 0' rite. Some rum was ace.wditrgly drawn from &cake loatooled to hits, and sipped with equal aPPr° I)3II°I ' obliging ca.:enter then went off, promising to I I " — in a few i 1111.111Uire. When the merchant bad staid is his cedar till loss patience was exhausted, be prooet eh to cork np s.is wine, when he found that a bottle of small beer toad been very adroitly substituted in fln place. DIED. On the 11th November. upon his ;mute home (MOON" nada. for the recovery of his health, John o;ie. 14(1.9 C. !: Lain of the 9th Regiment of Foot. anti soo of , be late lbw"' Ogle, Esq.. of Eglingham, in the county of Nuttkieb er ' land, sitmerety regretted by all who knew him. 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