The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

2.)4 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. THE PORTSMOUTH BANK. Tug A•NIGVILN IN 11111 NCITLR OF MINCIIIN • A.t) 11IHE01 1 , BANYIAPTI. 7.4. Cotten %meted, Ilan wa• the petition ef the almignee* of tlu• book praying 'that time proeeedinLa tinder a e.m.nsoi..bni of bemi!temiptr%, ohicit i•Sued nn tile 10th of N.meemober otigltt be 114 posited mint Ilia Lotthimip'e `.•rrerary of Bankrupts, until an application *Weis at i.l l •4ivil to lie tim.mmie to time Cowl of King's Bends *as 5ir m.01...1; that Almotbes coomismiom . might home ageia•l flit imimk opt. on lire4lellli.on of emedm• tel ; end Mot pm ueremliogr outlet the fir.t eanumik•ian to the conrld•siunrra InVief li.e t•Cenini, if they should this:it it note+•ter. ?ifs. Home raid. it vas his ditty to interrupt his learned trieint. As A patios, was pregrittr,l tu hi. Lordship to tet t .. v.-4.dr 1111 A r •ustoist•iott with rosts, hr could only look Al lids petition ass ors.itunste of the assignees to get rid of t 1 e petition oi h.. client. Mr. iTnistagise said, if' it was a wianceoirre, he and his learned friend (Mr Cfolle:i) were the 'culprits, as it Na• I i 4coeto-ol loy their lithice. The ber.l Chasm Ilur.—l will hear this petition, nt the same thwe beating lu roy wind that throe is smoothes ti- Ito . / pending. Mi. Colien stated, that the petitioners were clown as signees by creditors who had debts against the bankrupts to the a 1111 l not of 31,0001. and npwalds I that there were moat importaiit piaci...lines taken under the commission ; that their rad be yet 10 private merfiega of the commis islones S, be•iil..s psi flair ones, and the ha: dooms hail paasvol all filch examinations. The commission issued no the pa 1111011 of M • ssrs. Mardis. 111311 A, bankers in Loihkiii, and the assignees In might an action to securer* debt dote to the estate; it teat tlie•l al tli pTCAVIII assizes (or &what'll , - ta., before Mr. 114' on Graham. Them the deleiclant taiaml a iiirstion as to the validity of the The learned Judge was of opinion that there %,14 , 1 3 good petitii 11l ill creditor's delft, bat thu petitioning creditor's MI lilityr Ming privy to the arts of bankruptcy committed by Ihr bankrupts, they cool', not hold, as 31essrs. Alastei cos weir answerable for the condact of their solicitor, sold the Jury returned a rerifirt tor the defendstit. tileC....ourt Kit g's Deur gi ud a new trial, it it mild tot come fit: 1:14 9111117 j and B a r o n or rpiuiun th.l 11w acts of bank I mitre it it is nut good as to Messrs. Maatermans, yet be was de,. hay wool() be good gh to any other petiliiming re eili•or, sod urcourse vt'ouill by valid as they. n fated in Mr. Mq•rod. He had the affidavit of Mr. Midge, the solicitor of the assignees. 111.11ith sat lit 111, that his clients had emend into ,not ratio far tiM sale of the real and prrvonal estates of tie bank• rii;:ts;'4ll.l had 'cruised mortgage% from debtots to the !molt opts' ralute• ; also had .reCti% ed several sums Ircon oilicr deform', ail they had brought artitms tar Ike. ogimserv, but winch were abati d by fliy mark, atd dud URI', ibis asalgoces, tad assets 'coheir hands belonging to the bankrupts' estate. amount. Is: to 3".,(:001. lie ( the learned centsel)conl/111115 coeireise . ;my them; mute list tilt 11140 Oat hisshooed tiSe Ih,• pidirial power wktelt had b, cli plaruil in his lauds, and grant 'lie prayer at lb petition ; and , iii his opinion, 11:4 re was not lane that could be so p• 'Memos to the ends tf Jtist:ve as snpriseshig the commission. Mr, - 34 0 1,1; 10 w tidiuwtd, Mr. Hart, contract for the petitioning creditors. !Homo, re.tirtninua, maid liiN chi 116 nCI r t eddy to submit to no, .rvtirr his LendaUip aright please to woke fur the Itructit of tre tretlitio Mr. Hetet •Aid, he wan certainly rnt great illColllllo' rit cre by the n..y this petitiek hail brell brought no, as 1.!, in hi• It•fl hut been nerv. d with it, although the. HS. p;g1,01, were :.o.t;4•11 with the red lo ittierreile the emit :whim He held in ills band the albflavit °rune of the assign. e., matte in January , last, in which he swea'S that Le eld .h .t believe there was • gaud petitioning definer's debt. The Lord Clianeellor.—from the little I have heard 11;11 tern or this ease, the step that is lo4etl to be tAkrn by this ►.rtitton is a most hotpot oil one, mod most novel in its na tut r. N uy imporiunt mitten; ni.ty take place if the coin foilsman is superseded, and also if it is not. . Hand tor op ail the• petition., fi.r it i k oisressary I should lie in posses sion of all the 111CA:1101011 111 e? etlolo/o. 1, howl %t o r , van . not help ►eying;, that I doubt nliether the arts of batik ►aptry will t the eonuni•sion. 1 will read the pt tionv end the affidavits this evening, and *lye yua my stonily!) to-mos/ow morning, tor it is a matter 4 r great romegiu lure that it should be immediately knostu whether the enuanission isle toe otplorld or not. .Further consideration postponed. CON‘I3TORY COURT, Tollx..lcLY DEPRIVATION OF A CLERGYMAN BY THE ARCHBISHOP Of , 1r ORK. ma 4oroao AVD tNif Il' LEY V. MEIN)*, ci.r. it c. This was is suit at the instance of Johu Brailfurd and George 11 hitley. eknoelsrordens of PisteleyrbraJge, to the prrish of 'Alison. and &aver of York, nitaimut the !tor. %%aline! %rerun'. clerk. curate of the perpetual curacy of Puteir)-Ist idce al'oreraid, fur hi+ profligate tits and ennver-, siti.mi. the to nut of drunkenness, null ae„leet of bus LWOW 1111114.4 The &feud:int had been upwards of thirty years curate or nacho •twatee, alai the articles admitted tip. just hiat that he hail, to seseral 'ears past, been addicted to gross, babiosal, aid ritessice drunketiuris - had, at disease uuus Arra &uses o perfrirming Disuse set vice in the. chape! of Patelr-hridges—hact. in the same chapel, and elsewhere, uttered itulrc rut s impious, .profisiie expressions--and had Mao at senate) *elites refused to pee farm tile duty belonghs: tu in. curacy a hen required. Ihe l urid, were fulls posed Sty mast rcspes table v.liarrscs, inhabitants of the cis:Trio . , and others. No &truce was tarred. )114. istrishrop addressed the Court in a shard but eln dartit spercii, with great energy and feeling s , arid concluded by posoismiicisig arsil declaring the said Wiltirsen Neesam to be alturoher usitit and unworthy In serve the =id perpctuisl curist) . ilf PUll'lr bride s and fur his crimes aud isarticee aforesaid, decreeing Hire to be deist iced of the said curacy : and the same, with rispect to the said William Nersom, to aa all intents and purrs*, in law wiratsuever. rz.c Snapp, Lieut. Henderson, and the Thistle, Lieut. Hagan, which were eoulmissioncd and fitted oat for the supprection of slave, trading on the coast of sailed from Portsmouth on Monday, THE NATIONAL REGISTER. CAMBRIDGESHIRE ASSIZES. Tlic3e Assizes commenced on Tuesday. before Chief Justice ailhis and Justice lturnmgh. Thomas Weems. ivai indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Ann Weems. his wife. on Friday, the 7th of May last. in the parish of W.mily, in this county. The particulars of the horrid deed for whikil uiis prisoner was tried, we detailed fully at the time, About a year and a half ago the deceased swore a child to him, upon whiiii he wa.e apprehended by the parish officer:, and com pelled to marry her ; Weems k 4 his wife immediately after, and got work at Edmonton, where he became acqtueinted with a girl to whom lie promised marriage, and to enable himself to fulfil it. lie resolved to get rid of his wife; accordingly he returned to Godinancheater. end under pretence of habit; his wife to live with hint, they set off fur Edmonton ; but on the road front Wendy to Royston, lie took her into a field and murdered her.—The wit nesses having deposed to the chief facts, the following voluntary confes►ion, which was made by the prisoner while in gaol, was put in and read ; •• Alter I had been at work with Mr. Andrews about a month, I gut acquainted with a you.ig woman, named Maria Woodward. I represented myself as a single man. After icing acquainted with h.•r I dews-mired to marty her, and to murder toy wife. I Rest tkought of cutting her throat. In three or four days I thanked my mind, and determined to hang her.— This day week (the Monday premding the murder) I lett Edmonton for God munches-tan—On the Friday morning I left Godtnanclaister with my wife Ito Edmonton• about sor b o'clock. After walking fours teen or fifteen milts, she complained of Is. ing Meal. I asked her if she had not some toast in her pocket, which she did not eat for brehlefast, and she ;aid she had some. I said to her, if you will go in the lield and sit down and cat the toast. I will take a nap till the coach contra ❑p. We sat down together, and she began to eat the toast. Soon after she la-gan to eat the mist, I clasped my hands found her neck, and said, •• now I ant going to he die death of you." I clasped toy hands round her neck, mil stock toy two thumbs into her windpipe. She said, Oh, Lord !" and that was all the noise she made; and I pressed her with my thumbs till she was dead, which was in about tire minutes. I then took the garter oil' her leg, and tied it round her neck ; 1 then put her into a ditch, or more like a drain, put sonic grass over her, and then left her. 1 then intended to go to Edmonton, and go to the clerk of the parish to pot the Lantos in, and be mar. ried."—The prisoner, being asked if he had any titia.g to say to the Jury, stated the bud terms on which his wife and himself had lived; that she swore herself p•egnart by him, but never was ; that she hail rubbed him of money, and also of his watch, to give to another man whom she 14 . as atcq nutted with, and that lie could not live with her. That he got acquainted with the young woman at Edmonton, and wished to many her; but he whe could not whilst the other wife was living. It then came iota kis head. and lie determined tomurder her.—The.lury bound •he prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered to be executed on Friday itsurning.—'flie prisoner was in tears during the whole trial. A French Paper asserts, which is not remarkable for its accuracy, that at a late entertainment given by the Prince Regent, there was a plate of peaches that cost—ifly guineas ! According to letters from Paris, the Duc de Riche lieu is about to take up his residence at Odessa, the place of which he formerly was Governor, and which is partly indebted to him for its present state of prosperity. lie has written to the superintend ant of one of his estates there, to prepare every thing for his reception. By private letters from Liver pool it appears, that the trade of that port is assum ing considerable .utility : more than •10,000 bales of cotton were sold in the course of last week, and at an advance of Id.-to l id. the pound. We understand that the Russian frigate Kams el.atka, commanded by Captain Golovnin, which sailed from Portsmouth •in t•'te month of October, 1817, f o r the purpose of staking► discoveries in the North Pacific Ocean, is on ber return to Europe, and may shortly be expected to arrive at Spitbead. A correspondent informs us, that a turkey-cock nt Auchincruive, having lately shown an ardent de sk* for hatching, was repeatedly prevented; but at length succeeded in securing a hen's nest, contain ing a dozen of eggs ; and being allowed to remain in peaceful possession, brought out four chickens, the rust of the eggs, as• is supposed, having been bad. .• He was most attentive to the duty he had taken. upon -him when hatching, and afterwards evinced the strongest attachment to his young pro geny, and on their being cruelly taken from him beueme extremely dejected. :Since that period his spirits have rather revived; and as he still shows all the desire in the world to be busily employed in his favourite pursuit, it is bored he will not only be gratified, but will be ultimately more successful. On Wednesday last a match at cricket was played at ftlureliwood, Hampshire, between eleven single and eleven married women of that place, which was won by the former by a considerable number of runs. Thousands of spectators assembled on the ground, amongst whom were some of the 'first respectability and fashion, to witness this singular contest. EYTRAOUDI!IARY t: a nzit.—it la the custom 1U Russia to place a corpse un the night before the initial in the chtereh, where the Priest, accompanied by a chin-Wm., is alblifirli to prsy. It once bappotted iii a vAlage, on such an occasion, that to I!.e amazement of the Pliest, the corpse suddenly nro.e. came out of tie coffin, and matched op to him. In vain thr Ytirst trinkled lum with a quantity of holy water ; he nes seized, thrown to the groasid and keno:. 'lll,ii story Na. Slime.' on die fol lowing as.lotiog by.tlie test if et' dim 6tvr. who bail el rid into a etir•ler and concealed Idiom If lit positively Sailed, that after ins perpetrated the crime the dead man laid himself down ii, the eaten again. Ile was lound tio. Noliudreould conceive how 11.11 , minder could base beet, rusamitted. At length eller the lure of many yeses it nas discovered. % rotilser, oho among many other cornea confessed this also, had slipped in the dark into the chin eh, pot the corps. aside,and taken his place in the coffin.— After iierpetrating the crime, he Nati pot et ray eking again inArder, Ind then retreated, 'Odium biting pet: cetera. The motive of this. morale, was haired to the rt itU r occmionad bl as old istanal. AUGUTS 9• Further Particulars of the kite ea - tenting lingerq R. Pryor, the your mutt who stauds charged with the forgery on Mesnrs. Mrtin, Son, and Etsghes, of King man, Cheapide, is o remarkable in person, dress, and manners, and so well known among the different officers in the city, that it is scarcely possible he should escape. if diligent search be made alter him, unless he has al ready left the country. It is given mit among his acquaintance, that a letter has been received from him, dated on board a vessel, under way Ir Liverpool, hound to America; but other circumstances lead to bllipl. cunt OW lie is still in Lon/lan. Messrs. Martin and Co. lifee beet' stogillariy unfortunate in their clerks ; the individual Wilton Pryor succeeded defrauded the house of nearly 2,0001., which was discoverer! by Pryor, and this circumstance placed him so high in me confidence o: Messrs. Martin and Co., that not the slightest suspi cion was entertained against him till the moment he ab sconded. One of the putters having discovered, upon inspecting the books. that the account of the individual in whose name the bills hail been furged was considerably overdrawn, directed Prvor to write to hint on the subject/ and desire him to remit the money for a bill of ttuet, about to come doe in a few days: the letter was writtol. aceonlihaly; and on some pretence that tie was going towards the Post-office, he undertook to put it in ; the letter, however, was never sent Pryor ah,conded shortly afterwards, and 01) breaking open ins desk, a gennitie bill, that had ben paid by the house sometime before, was Mond, which, it appeared. had been used by Prior as a copy to torge from: the body of Coe bill was filled imp in the halt&writing of a clerk, with the common ink, and the signature and endorsement were written with the shining black japan ink, both which circumstances Pryor had carefully noticed to his imitation. The for geries, it should seem, were committed in their own ermottog.hoose, as a small bottle of the japan ink was found Pryor's desk. To account for the expence at which he lived, he gave out that he had gained 5.0001. in the lottery; and, latterly, that he had received a large sons upon the death of hi. father, all of which is sow ktviwit to be untrue. It has been re i •ifiried that his t.i titer, who resided in the country, and bad some small properly in the f Is, was defrauded by his son, si Ivo 1) room (I his signature to a power of attorney to tratis. - er tit:: stock, under pretence that it was merely an andirons , to receive the divider/di, and that under that power lie convened the property to his own use; but, upon in quiry. there is reason to believe that the accitation is unfounded. Such, however, was the belief among his friends that he was a man of property, that a very • •- 'nate acquaintance of his had nearly iiictirred a loss of sante amount through his credulity. A day or two after Pryor nail gout off, a bontinaker to whoni Ice owed be tween VOL 341(1301. se nt his servant to the person al/tided to, for the purpose of learning when he Would be its town: indignant at the thought of his friend Iseing ilsos hunted for, he asked the man if his master was afraid Mr. Pryor would not pay lion, and offered to give hint a check (or the amount himself, if he would take off 5 per cent. Tne ratan, however, declined, having on authority from-his master. The next day the master applied, and was willing to ta' e off the discount for the accommoda tion, but was told he was a day too late: the secret had transpired in the hue g i iii , sod the gentleman, cued. Ins money. It is not conjectured, that Pryor has made up a purse, or carried much property off with him, as he coottoued his expensive habits up to the an , 'tient of his absconding, and within the last five weeksgave a dinner to several Itiends at a respectable tavern, which cost him upwards of 401. The amount of the forgeries is said to be upwards of 8,0001., 2,5001. of which is reported to hoe taken place within the last It months. Bills to tne amount of 7,0001. have been a:ready paid by the house. Advice. from the Cape of Good Hope, dated May 10, were received yesterday. They communicate information of another irruption of the CaiFres, who, by the last accounts, were supposed to beans pletely repulsed, to the number of 30,000 men. They had cmssed the river which divides their ter ritory from that of the Cape, and were committing the most extensive depredations. Orders had been issued to compel the military service of the ants of-the adjoining district, and all the horses had hcen put into requisition, in order to «o.ip a portion of them as cavalry, the species of force best calcu lated to repel the attacks of these dastardly t..t mischievous invaders. The Club of Female Reformers at Stockport, among other regulations, have resolved, that net more than twelve Ladies shall speak• at the same It is apprehended, if this severe restriction on the tongue is not taken otl; that it will occasion a revo. biliun in the Mb. GREAT PIOLON MaTr:ll.—A match for 250 gui neas a side, betwcen three crack ►hots from Oxfor‘.!.. shire, ugainit three of Buckinghamshire, took place on Wednesday morning on Finchley Common, from a trap 21 yards !'rout the gun—charge onliniiied. The Oxfordshire party killed 51 birds from li as fol. lows: Mr. ()wen killed 19 from 21, Gik-s 17, and George 15. The Buckinghamshire party.killed 49 birds, namely, Mr. Hutchinson, 20, Ferguson 17, and Holt 12.—Mr. Holt hit every bird, but lost five, which died beyond the 100 yards' boundary. Clarendon's history contains the fidlowing noti.•e of a Sir Charles Woiselv of former times.—" (the Dee of Buckingham, who was: accused of treason). intended. on such a day to in in Stidl i ora - shire, at the house of Sir Churh a Wolsely, a get,t 1, - man of great eminency in Croinwell's Council, mi.l . one of those %rho had been writ by the House of Commons to persuade him Iv accept lle.. :I'rcten rnit. the title of lives!!--Vol. iii. p•. b l T•