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

OCT. 16. im y pains been taken, the testimony of thousands of respectable men, who have nu political bias, aril very many, who are here called high party men, would have demonstrated that there was nothing to justity even the appearance of the military, much less tuilitar7 execution. Vail 1 contemplated the arduous task of contending against a barrister, numerous attornies, and another, whom l will not rame, I should have felt too diffident ta have undertaken it: but as, from the justice of the . cattse, and certainly not from any talent of my . own, 1 have hitherto borne up pretty well against m y antagonists , I do nit despair of maintaining toy ground, and bringing the ete, to a just and successful issue, notwithstanding every obstacle." " Your sincere friend, JAMES 11A101E11." TO THE EDITOR. s4l‘,--I trust you will excuse my troubling you with two or three short extract* front the statutes concerning the dory of a Coroner in taking an inquisition ; as un reading the proceeding. at Oldham, as set forth in your paper, it evidently appears that Mr. Ferranti, the Co. roller, is acting both against the letter and spirit of those it ill rotes : is. Slat. of Ed. 1., cap. I, see. I.—" The Coroner, upon the oath of the Jars, shall inquire if they know 'there tile per -60.k was first sla.n ; a hctlier it were its a house, field, and aho were there. Likewise, it is to be inquired aho were culpable either of the net or the force, and who pre seat, and of what age they be (if they mall speak and hive discretion); and as many as skull be found culpable b) the inquest shall be cominitted to gaol." her. 2.—" if any be appealed as principal, they that be appealed of the force shall be attached also, and kept until the principal be attaisited." 3d lien. V 11. cup I.—" Every Coroner. upon view of the dead body, shall inquire of the person that bath dune the death or murder; also of their abettors and consenters, and a ho were present when it was done t and the names of the persons so present and found shall enroll and certify." Cap. 3.—" W hen one is slain in the day-lime, and the mur• derer escapes untakcii, the township that 61111011 it shall be amerced, and the Corom r shall inspire thereof on the view of the body deittl."--6 V in. Ab. p. Y4B, 219 t c. 50. Now, as evidence has been adduced at the Oldham Inquest, which i •cd and identified several of the Yeomanry Cavalry us being active in the never•to-be forgotten Ititli of August, at Manchester, as well as those who actually gave the fatal order fur the charge, are, according to the above•mentioned staves, equally guilty with the man or men who actually inflicted the wound oil John Ices, for such rnions used' the force referred to by the first-titenti 111 l ed statute ; and by die statute of 3d lieu. VII. were the aim:tuns and consenter, to the atrocious act ; conseiprently the Coroner was bound to receive the evidence so produced by Mr. Her.' suer; and his refusal to take the sante subjects his con duct to be called in question hereafter by a superior tribunal. _ . Yours, &C. A CONSTANT READER. The following is a correct extract of the case in Plowden's Reports, to w • .ich Mr. Harmer has re ferred on several occasions in the course of the Inquest at Oldham:- 6• 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 Justice of the King's bench ; Sir K. Townsend, Knight, Serjeant at I.aw ; W. Simons, apprentice, and the Queen's attorney, in the Marches of Wales, and h. flow. den, utter barrister, of the Middle Temple. and others, being .1 itstices of the Peace, Etc. In that ease, divers periams were indicted fur killing a man, viz. some for giving the wounds whereof he died, and others, fur that they were present, aiding, comforting, and abetting the others to commit the said murder. And they who gave the wounds to the man, and killed bin), had That and escaped, and the others were,brought to the hay. 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 hint, yet . they are the principals in the second degree. viz., in respect that the others who struck the man and killed him are principals in the tint degree, by reason of the act of killing him, and these n:hers who abetted them and are present are also principals, but t st in the second degree only, and in reset:et at the first act; tar 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 .be found guilty, and afterwards the others who are indicted thr giving the stroke and -killing the man s!..ould be taken and arraigned, and it should happen that they were acquitted. as it might be, then I would know your opinion what shonkl 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 from it :tor, they said, that when many came to do an act. and one only does it. and the others are present abetting him, or ready to aid him in the fact, they arc principals to all intents as much as he that de..s the fact; for the presenceof the the others is a terror to him that is assaulted, so that he dare. not defend himself: for if a nun sees his enemy, min of his ser vants coming, to assault him, and they all draw their swords and surround bin, and one only strikes him, 6o that he dies thereof. now the others shall with good reason be adjudged as great offenders as he that struck him: for if they hail net sheen present he inight probably have tie:ended himself, and so have escaped; hut the number of the others being present, and ready to strike him also, shall be adjudged a great terror to him, so as to make hill, lose his courage mu{ despair of defending himself, -and by this means they are the oecasim or his death. So that their pre ys nee is the cause of terror, and tenor is the reason that he receives the wounds, and the wounds are the cause of his death. And then, inasmuch as both together, viz. the wounds and the pre sence of the others who gave the wound at all, are adjudged the cause of his sleuth, it follows that all of them. vat. those that strike, and those that are present, are in equal degrees. and each par te:es of the deed of the other. And the fact .fts to him that is d:atl, and as to the punishment of it, (although it congas cf two parts,') yet in law it is without a division • and notwithstanding there is but one wound given by one only. yet it shall be adjudged in law the wound of every one, that is. it shuil he looked upon as given by him who gave it. by himself, and given by the rest by him as their minister and instrument. And it is as much the deed of the others, as it' they had all jointly holden with their hands the club, or other instrument, with the wound was given. as if they had altogether struck the persist' that was Plowden's Iterorts, veil. I, p. 97. a. 96. Accounts received from l'untigal on Friday morning state that a quarantine of 30 Eby+ on all vessels front Cadiz, Gibraltar, &c. was enforced by Uinct umeta Pro bLuatation, Ott the tdat THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. On Friday a Common Hull was held to declare the Election of Alderman Bridges. About one o'clock the lard Mayor arrived, amidst expressions of disapprobation. The cry of lire wis raised as he passed through the I lull to the Court of Aldermen. In the absence of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the ceremony commenced. The Sheriff's, he said, declared the election had fallen on George Bridges, Esq. Alderman and Wheelwright. and John Thomas Thorp, Alderman and Draper, to be retunied to the Court of Alder men, that one might be elected Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. ( Loud applause.) The above names haring been returned to the Court of Aldermen, the Lord Mayor Elect, the late Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, Aldermen Waithmati, 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 ruin. He then said—Gentlemen of the Livery, I beg to return my most sincere thanks for the honour done me. Alderman Thorp, said it was not his intention to trespass long on the attention of the L ivory. He expressed thanls for•returnin ,, ° him to the Court of Aldermen. He bad been in the North of Ireland, for the benefit of persons under the care of a Society of which he had the honour to be 'Governor, and did not hear befbre last 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 stollen. (Cheer 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. I.IIITAiIUA' TE.4. The regular establishments for the manufactory of intuition tea-leaves arrested, not long ago, the attentian of the public ; and the parties, by whom these manu factories were conducted, together with numerous vend ers of the fictitious tea, did not escape the hand id...jus tice. The fraud of manufacturing sloe and white thorn leaves Minim imitation of tea, which hat beets drank by the public as the genuine bet entre of tea, is compa ratively harmless,-when compared with the fraud lately detected, of titanufacierihg real genuine unsaleable tea dust, into tea, by means of a process which renders the article absolutely deleterious to !width. In proof of this catement, we give the following facts: A poor woman, having purchased an ounce of green tea, was struck by the lively blue colour, which the be verage made of it assumed, an pouring into it a tea spoonful of spirits of hartshorn. This person (a char w ttttt an) being in the habit of frequently partaking of tea in other houses, where sire went to-work and being constantly in the habit of adding a tea-spoonful of harts horn to 11. e tea-beverage, without having obsessed that singular appearance, which her own tea-leases produ ced, made a complaint to the grocer, front whose 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 tes.leaves to Mr. Aceunti.the Chemist, 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 a fair tradesman, to enquire into the fraud • committed upon him. lie consulted sowe.of his friends, who received their tea from the same - quarter, aixl it became evident that the diatolical deceptions practised in this br inch of com merce were much. greaser than was expected. The poisonous tea had all the appearance of the leaves of genuine Ilyson; but it was noticed by the chemist, who examined the suspected samples, that a portion of the leaves, wheti infused in boiling water, became speedily resolved into a lime powder, and that pan of dits -*lone remained in an entire state, so es to make it possible to recognize the vegetable structure ; and this led to the opinion, that the tuasuifacturer of the poison oue commodity had employed the Just of Hysois tea (the sale of which forms a regular business with many tea brokers) and moulded it, probably by means of a small quantity of mucilage, into a compound, pos:essing in every respect tie external characters of ge 11111 l le Ilyson tea. Pus fraud may, therefore, be detected, by merely throwing the sophisticated tea leases into warm water, which instantly causes them to fall into a litie powder, which speedily Fettles to the bottom of the vessel. The infusion, when mingled with liquid ammonia, affords a might blueish green colour, indicating the presence of copper. But the presence of this metal may be snore strikingly rendered obvious, by mixing two parts of time suspected tea leaves with one of t h e nitrate of potash. (-ialtpetie), and throwing the illumine lino a crucible kept red hot in a cuunuom tire. The %%bole ante vege table matter of the tea will thus become destroyed, and the copper remain behind, its c bination unit the alkali of ins saltpetre. If water, therehite, lie rowed into the crucible to dissolve the 11140.9, the IlfebtlWe of °optics will be imminent es tibly muttered obvious, by the admixture of liquid ammonia, which imparts to .the distil a beautiful sapphire blue colons. Ur. Accuut, in his treat, rmarls that the toper . 331 employed for colouring tea is in a state of carbonate, a•id not as verdigris, 'which he states totally inapplicable for its Cauthilent purpose of giiing a bloom to the u leaves. We •iced nut remind our readers, that all pre• pilfll.loll7 of Capper are deadly poison. FROM TUESDAY NiallT'S G.IZETTE. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. W. Hyde, llowfirrd Buildings, Fenehurch Street, merchant, from Oct. 2 to Oct. 16. BANKRUPTS. T. Harding, junior, Ilvlston, Cornwall. grocer. Solicitors l‘lessrs. Price, Williams. and White, Lincoln's inn. J. Gaulton, Nlilhome St. Andrew's, Dorset, victualler. Sul. Mr. Pearson, Middle Temple. W. Watts, 31anchester, calico print seller. Sols. Clarke, Richards, and Nledeall, Chancery Lane. M. Middlehtirst, Wigan, Lancashire, shopkeeper. Sol. Mr. Ellis, Chancery Lane. Cuming, Hoehampton, carpenter. Sols. Messrs. Lutdey and Son, Copthall Court. W. Metcalf, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Fields, 'lnca draper. Sol. Mr. Jones, Six Lane. DIVIDENDS. Oct. 211, C. C. E. Wilby, A. W.. and G. Bellair-.. Leicester, bank e rs -27, G. I'yer, Newiant, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper-- 'AI, E. I folder. W bile. Heretordshire, auctioneer-27. Wla Ito), Stratlbril en Avon. Warwick, coal trader--29. W. Heal, Brad ford, Wilts, innkeeper-21 ,A. Veysey, Exeter, habenlashet -16, S. Johnsen,Skinner Street, Finsbury Market, cabinet maker —9, J. Howitt, 14'hiteeross Street, charcoal iiter•thant—J.4 G. and G. Evans, High Street. Southwark. hop-merchants—it., W. Dean, Broad Street, Ratcliffe, common brewer-47, A. Young. Stamford, I.incoln, CO/WWII) brewer-30, J. Carr Coventry, shag u manfacturer-30, W. White, Coventry, victuaker-50, It. Ab hott, Coventry, mercer—Y/5, J. Anthony, Clev next the See, Norfolk. grocer-46, C. Grinsted and J. !.aultarn, Horsham, tiumex. bankers—Nov. t, J. Lacy. Whitby, Yorkshire, ship builder-2, U. Hoyt', M'incliester Street, merchant-4, W. Cow.. droy, Manchester, letterpress printer-6, J. Turnbull, J. Forbes, It. A. Crawford, and D. Skene, Broad SE•ect. City, merchants.- 13. F. Kendrick, Holborn. and G. Tyndale, Aldgate, itnas drapers-13. C. K. Jettet, Kentish Town, tanner. CEItTIFII . .VI'ES to be granted Oct. 46. J. West, Hichniond, linen draper—R. 'Popham, Dockhead, Bermondsey, linen draper--B. l'earson. Bilst on, Staffordshire, grocer and maltster—.l. Millward, Reildiell, Worcester, needle niaker—.l. Manchester, hat manufacturer—W. Collier, Brink:mt. I fevon, sail maker-11. Parker, Ellesmere, Shropshire, grue-r and tallow chandler—W. 'fadley, Southampton, carpenter. The Iledpole brig of war, Capt.). D. France, is arrived from the St. Helena station, after a passage of 50 days, having Id': the island on the 9th of Sep tember. She brought dcspatehes from Sir Hudson Lowe and Admiral Plampin, and a mail,—The .folluwing is an extract from a lettcr.:— .. St. fictena, dreg. 2.7„ . . . . . . " The Itedpule proceeds to England imme;liatcly. As ueithsr this vessel, nor the Dotterel, which waled before, has served lurwr than two years, it is supposed to he intended that they shall built finish their trim of service nn 'the home station. We under Land Bonaparte is in better spirits than he has bet ii tor some time ; his health mush as csitsl. Whatever others, of any rook or station, residing here, may affect to suite concerning him, be assured very little is ac tually known. He basso long imposed a secluded life upon himself, that hr appears In have knob obtained all the habit- of u confirm. d recluse. He had become so entirety abstracted even from the distant view of those whose duly it was to make a duffy report of his being alive, that it became necessary to inform him, that if he did not vo;taitorily fiffii,rl the officer on duty an opportunity to certify the tart required from him, namely, that he Ives,' alive,' their would be a necessity of the . officer's making a ditilv persootil visit to him for that purpose. Ile has store rehotefi in his on:.nnes , in this respect, and has been out of his house a little. The new himse huildimg for him is expected to he finished w alaiut Mop months. The island in generally healthy. The following singular advertisement appears in the Reading paper : w. 11. T. Several eentlemen having expresveil their inclination to ha come menthe is of chat troop, (to whom I ;hull ever he grateful for the honour they have dove me in plach:g me ht their head,) I um sorry to be under nit nerevvity of inforinin; them, that 1 sonnet ai rode to their %Wars, the troop, having for some time, exceeded their complimem ; an d l A inc c r Ig helps that Goorraannt may, Gyro:no/biog. Kith Me general feelings of the notion, not be under th, disagreeable necessity of further singes:Wing tarns I FULWAR CR %yrs. Captain, Vale of White Ilene Yeoman. eholion.houw, sip,. 30, 1819. Thursdny morning, Mr. Carlile , the bool-neller, accompanietl •by a gentleman from the office of Mr- ". Maude, attended at the Crown Office, fur the pur. pose of reducing the Jury appointed to try the in• formation filed against him by his Majesty's Attnr. ney General, for publishing " l'aine'4 Age of Rea son," when the following gentlemen were fixed Li to try the question at issue:--- Keil Black, Bread-street; B. HutcLinson, Clernent'sdane J. Hanson. Crooked-lane; Harvey. I.awreoze-lane : T. Kent. Poultry ; Andrew Lnwruan. hut:Men:Airy Tht:mas Oldham, Barge.; ard Winiann Huffman. King's arms-yard ; Faverner, Ciquvrlan. , teet ; Wm. Auicrsty, Tokenbuita L . yard; Riehard Chaabers. Dove•oourt ; John Cul/usu. street; Jolla Napier. lienchurch-sheet; Joseph Jahr°. ditto; John Younger, ireieent; Woo. Parker, Juhnatreet ; Daniel Eckettcin. College-hill . . On Tuesday morning,44 Mr. Crispe, butcher, of Maidstone, was standing at his shop, a part: idgo flew with much force against the house, and fell to the ground, but it imtnediately got up and ran down the yard. pursued by Mr. C. who caught it ; at that instant another flew to the same spot, which he also secured. It was afterwards ascertained that several more were fuuad•in different parts of the town, and it is suppcseo they were pursued by a hawk, or else the high-wind at the tune beat them down. Mr.. John Witney Parker is promoted to the rank of Purser. and appn.t.ll to the Salpho, vice Mach., int a sh. There had been no previous apputatmeut .Witbis rank for five years. +- _ -7..