The National Register. — London, England, 1819-12-12 00:00:00

. DEC. la LAW .lIEP9RTS. COURT OF KlNG's BENCH, AT.LtAiEII) LISKI....—MACIRONZ V. MURRAY. r• i i r e t -o-. ...ma M • N • /•0 • 4r • • • i • • • olaintilf, an officer in 1 0 moo the and son of a merchant in the city, against :he defendant, to recover damages, for a malicious libel published in the Quarterly Review, No. 38.' The plaintiff, it appeared. was in Paris when the txpiikion of Murat front the throne of Naples was decreed by the European Powers. The plaintiff on that occasion was sent by the Allied Sovereigns in quality of Envoy, to itegociatc with Murat for his surrender of the throne. He was instructed by Prince Metternich to offer hint d passport, with liberty to proceed to any put of the Austrian dominions. Murat refused in give up hie claim, rejected the terms offered, and was pre paring to co 11111 l etice hostilities in Calabria. The plaintiff delivered the passport to Murat, not withstandini4 reiu,al to Accede to the terms 'imposed ; and soon after gave information to Capt. Baster, the British officer on the Naples station, to enable him to inter cept him, in his way to Calabria. The inforntition, however, came too late, and Nlitrat was not detained.— The plaintiff some lime after published an account of the transaction, in a book which was examined in the Quarterly Review. The article charged hint with treachery, high treason, and intimated that he teterved an ignominious death. Mr. Bell, in supliort of the plaintiff's case, contended that his client was enti.led to large damages. The defendant pleaded a iiititication. The only evidence was the two boolsa. Time Solicitor General made an appeal to the Jury in behalf of the daendant, contending that the illegal libel was afair comment on the acts of the plaintiff, as detailed by himself. The Lord Chief Justice left the Jury to say whether the defendant hail published a fair continent or not. The Jury without the least hesitation, found a verdict for the defendant. The Duke of Wellington sat on the Bench doming the ti;,il. WRIGHT v. CLEMENT. This action was brought by Mr. Wright, the well known agent of Cohbett, against the defendant a publisher, in the Strand, to recover a compensation in . damages for an injury alleged to have been. sustained by the publication alt false and malicious libels in Cobbett's W,!ekly Political Register The first libel was sold by the defetidstit oit the Bth of March last, at his shop in the Strand. It referred to a letter signed W. Cobbett, which had appeared " the Times," and intimated that the said letter had been cumin ttttt cated by a vile wretch. It also threatened to hold him up to the horror of mankind. The above, in toe opinion of Mr. Hansard, who had known Wright and Cobbett, applied to the plaintiff.— The semi i libel contained a charge 0 forging a letter, supposed to have beett written by Cohhett, of being a Spy, and causing the death of a man. Mr. Hansard proved mat the letter was in the . hand writing tit Wrn. ()dawn. It was written in. the 10th Ire May, 1808, front Hoary. John Paul, alto wasemployed iu Hit I to investigate the accounts between Wright and Cotilieu I, knew the letter to tie tile liana writing of Coitheii. A Mr. Jtckson also &posed that at was Cobbett's hand writing. 'Fite letter in 1411eSt14/11 was prod' ced at the Hustings, Covent Garden ; also at a Meeting held at the Crown and Anchor, and stated to be a forgery. Mr. Scarlett, for the plaintiff, dtserthed this to be a foul attempt to deprWe a respectable person of his g urnl to justification Has atteuipietl, and he called upon tale jury ear gate all the naina,n.s laid to the decla ration, namely, 50001. Mr. Adolphus, tor the oeiendant, called witnesses to prove that Mr. CI, mem a t e onlers to his servants not to sell Conbetes Retosters. The Jury, tinder all circumstances, found a verdict for the plinitiff—annages boo!. OLD 11.1ILEY: FRIDAY, AEC. la—Richard 11Jrhonr was put to the bar, charged with stealing silk handkerchiefs, ribbon, lace anti •tockings to a great amount, the property of Messrs. Todd and Co. ; and Charlotte Smith for receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen. J. Morrison the first witness stated, that he was a partner in toe firm of T.tdd and Cn., aid that the prisoner had been in their employ as shopinan. Wm. lianthiedon was then called. This was the. most material witness in this case. During his exami nation he frequently set the Court in laughter. lie stated that he had lodged in the same house with the female prisoner, and haying occasion to conic home OM day, he went to her apartment for the key of his door, when nu one answered him ; lie went up stairs to look through a broken window Into her room, and SJW the other prisoner, whom she slid was her cousin, take several silk handkerchiefs front his bosom and give them to her. lie then went out and came back in a short tune, when she showed them In him as a present she had r. 'Tired f her cousin, just enure from the cotton ) itu o she said site had po l io:J.l%ns was nit Tues day, anti ilie n. xt Sunday lie, the prisoner, came again and nroo tt lii tuo mizeti ot silk stockings, which lie 'spne witiltas hien s.tiv her cut the minks oft with the scizutos the first thing; witness was watching them on the stalls a lt this while, when she called him down again to snow him what she hail got as a present. lie advise: her in take care of the t dicers, for they were like Woo.' hound,. She replied, "Oh, lei Taro, alone fur that." . 1 nest' proceedings went ou fm hie weeks, the prisoner lit lit ing stir Sit.lrik go4,di white gottig mi his masters'. seat d,. Ottilie '27th Ndlentber site ap plied to him to take up a board in her floor, to hide the property under, which be refusetl, saying he might be • . • • .._ THE NATIONAL REGISTEit implicated. He then resolved to trace the primmer when he came again, which he did, to Mr. 'fold's, to whom he delivered the marks, which had been cut off, And which he had picked up in her loom. The rest of the evidence went to move the properly to De * t „„ 3 ,;,..."„2,ni and the Jury, without hesitation, brought them its Candiy. The Common Serjeant assured them they might de• Pend on leaving the country. Moses Lyon, a Jew, was indicted for feloniously dis posing of, and putting away 20 pieces of counterfeit coin for Is. each, at a lower rate than the same did import in were coined for. Mr. J. Williams said he was a coach lace-maker, and resided in Bloomsbury. He had received informat• that the prisoner was in the habit of selling had coin at _a cheap rate. Accordirudy, on the day st- ^(1 in the indictment, he appointed to meet him, and they met iii George -street, Binoinsbury. Two of f icers were watch ing them. The prisoner told him that his charge was ss. for a score of the shillings. Ttie witness had provided the amount for hint in marked imeley. I , i goim : along. George-street he pie this to the pri s oner, and in return the latter gave hint a roll of paper, containing twenty newly coined shillings. officers i. , .iiiediately came up and took him into custody. Maillment, an officer, confirmed this es idence, and Mc. Powell, of the Mint, proved that the shillings were all counterfeit, and of the same die.—The prisoner was found Guilty. The officer being asked by the Court what he knew of him, said, that he had been supplying all St. Gdes's with bad money for more than six months past. Elizabeth Gaze, a respectable young woman, was indicted for stealing two boxes, a remnant of printed furniture, two books, a single spur, a shoe-hortr, four spoons, rise storicing , , a cup and saucer, and an old pair of pantaloons, the property of W. G. Wilmer. This case, which turned out to he one of an extra ordinary and vexations nature, lasted several hours, and excited great interest. The Jury would not trouble the Recorder to slim tip the evidence, but immediately pronounced her—Nut ~ol~ce. MANSION HOUSE. KIMIL6OI/DINAIT CASE OF UTTERING, .I , OIIOLD NOTES. Ou Friday two youn•t (hem named Gatlin and Eistep, were charged with uttering forged notes in the shop of Messrs. Flint and Co. haberdashers, of Fish-street-hill, .knowing the same to be forgeries. Henry Lee, a shoputaii in the firm, stated, that 011 %Vednesdey evening, anoot six o ' clock, a 111411 it the dress of a waterman Caine 1010 the shop and purchased a silk handkerchief, and a pair of stockings, itt payment for which he tendered a 11. note (which he took from a roll of notes) and received change. As soon a.. WJLeflthill was gone, a woman cave to 111111 and lootr.tht some stockings of the same description, :Or w men Si it aisll pani a 11. note, and rec• ived Inc change. Ai inc note Sin: len the ahoy the onnirsa ohaeri.d utr 'dimmer (,auto, had (VOW 111 at the SUM(' if illt• the wattnuao, aaking for some su.ckirigs at the %wont, coulter: n being 111 S 1/0011lee to sell that article no Called him over to hit sow. The Irrisoner came, puff itasegt a pail of stockings oi . lilt Sjins: icier' ph 11111 os the waterman had - I lie 'mits mentioned (wing all of the sawe Hass in boyme the same articles, and CO kkk /kk g 111 together, excited the suspicions ul the witness, who ins; ei ie. the note minutely, and suspecting it to be a forgery, h,e placed a guard at tile door to piety's' the 141X/11 , 1e escapite., and sent for an oiliver. As s—on us the pr.sn- Orr untierstias what was going • OrW4 01, hr attempt. dto 'Audi out of the door, and make his escape, but at• i desperate struggle, he was prevented, and searching hint lOs. oil. was found iu his posssssion lie *sts dhe was a wale ritiait's eppi eii tit e. and Odd kvii the note froin a gentleman in payment for de late.— The rir.tsmi lie did nut pay , for the articles us ',dye! wat, because hr wanted more change. Its toaster's name was Halt Igloo, and he lived at Si. Canicritte's. 41 r. Thomas ktint, jun. cotroborJted toe statement 0 last witness. An Inspector belonging to the Bank of England proved the note to he a forgery in every respect. The prisoner made the same defence as to the shopinan. The prisoner Elstep was-charged separately The former witness, H. Lee that about half an hour alter the prisoner Garrat war taken to prison, he saw the prisoner Elstep come itito the shop, and suspect ing him to lie one of the same party, he mentioned his suspicions to a fellow shopitian, and watched the pri soner; when seeing hint tender a one pound note, he went up to I , and took it out of his hand. Seeing the note had the same signature as the other notes, he had the prisoner taken into custody. The account which he gave of nimself was, that he was a journeyman cooper:and lived with his 11110' her a No. 14, Snow's-fields, front whom he had received the note in change that morning. He afterwards said, he had received it front hr r about a week since : he was a single nun. _ _ William Hughes, a shopmatt to Messrs. Flint's, said, he went to the residence of the prisoner's mother, whom he Miami as chi ected. Ste did 111)1 recollect having aieert her $O.ll a note in chauge latterly, she had some u•ne since given notes iu clieige to him ; she said he was a orrictl man, and did not reside with her. The limpet..tor of the amies roved the ito , e to be a fontery In every respect, as were those ita-red by the ,V - terma II and woman, Ttt y were alp exceetlia tt iy rXVellieli, an much an, liiat it wa-4 supposed that rum, not u Bank Itt4 l .ector could lit tee, theta.---The prisoners %%err remmitltql , or tea 'her TOWN HALL, SuU fiIWARK. du Friday a labouring snail itainvd Fagan or Hagan, ireiuding In Deptford, came to the Justice-men, and - 309 gave information that one of his children had been stolen from him under the following eircurnctances : Ott ‘Vednesday last his wife, whilst walking through the Broadway, near the Greenwich-roar) accompanied by their little Itoy, about three years old, was accosted by a decent middle-aged woman, who asked her for a pin, and accompanied ner, chatting a considerable put of her way home, when they were about to part, the stranger pressed her to take a glass of rum and shrub, which his wife at first refused, hut at length consented to drink, • and they repaired to a public house for that !Purpose. Whilst they were in the pubiic-house, the woman took great notice of the child, saying it was a beautiful boy, mid asked how many c hil rest she had, to wmets she auswereci that she had three. The %%moan then called! Mr a pint of purl, for all of which she paid ; and its it was then near Muir o'clock, she expressed her truss Vb. g uess to go to London that night, and inquirW if she knew any place w here she could lodge. His wife having recommended her in a souse its Newaitreet, and leaving given brr her own address, accompanied with err-grim that she woulitcall on her next morning before she cams tf , town, ivent home. Next ongoing, a little after ten, she cause, and told his wife that she sad kin very core. fortable where she had sent her to, sent for half a pint of gin, which She paid for, although much pressed by his wife not to do so. - Whilst they were droll:Mg the gin she distributed a few halfpence amongst the children, who immediately ran out to purchase something for their money, and in the interim she took her departure. In about go mioutes afterwards the eldest child returned, and being questioned concerning his tittle brother, said that he had been met at the door by the lady, who gave him sixpence to purchase more cakes, and undertook the care of the child iir the mean time. Search was made for her, btu in vain, and the poor woman was half fran tic for the loss of the child. When the father returned home at Hight he made inquiry through the neighbour hood, and learned that a person answering the descrip tion had been 9een ou the Lower Deptford-road; he pursued through Rotherhit he, making inquiry at the likeliest places to gjin Mformation, and he received in form:: 'km that 'he had stopped at a public-house near Doekhead, but iri•!e no great delay, and here he lost all trace of her. She was dressed in a brown cotton gown with yellow spots, red silk shawl, and black bonnet. A few days ago three robbers broke into the house of Mr.- Currall, at Wood-Green, and plundered it of silver spoons, table cloths, wearing apparel, and several other articles. They entered at the back of the house, and just as they had packed up their spoil, the family heard a noise, and one of them sprung a rattle. The villians rats off with the utmost pre cipitation, and utithrtun.itely escaped At sonic distance from the house they disencumbered them.. selves of some of the property; but their persons are known, and they are likely to be discovered— One of them was a lusty fellow in fail- eluthes. Another of them left the mark of his toot on the earth, which is •hort and remarkably brt.ad. ROBIWKIES.—An extensi"e robbery took place one night last week at Edmonton The house was stript, and even the lead curried ()ff. One man is in custody, and several others are supposed to be im plicated. Tuesday night the hair was cut irons the manes - and tails of several horses at Bow Farm; and there have been many burglaries committed at Hernsey A naval gentleman's lodgings at Dept.. ford were broken open, and his watch stolen. The villians were in the act of carrying off his clothes, hut being alarmed they left the latter behind them. Several London house-breakers are supposed to be coinmitting their depredations in villages near town, of whom the road patroles we hope will soon give a good account RIOT AT CAMEIRIMIE.—FritIay the election fur the Borough of ambridge took place. The candi dates were, Col. French and Mr. Adeane. Col French, after polling for about half :Oa hour, was duly elected, and afterwards chaired with the usual formalities. Until dark the town was quiet, and the people drank the election ale with propriety; but about live o'clock a mob assembled before the inn where W. French put up, and from hootings and yells proceeded to demolish the windows of that and the neighbouring houses. The contests between the special constables and the rioters were frequent and severe, and were carried on principally by torch light. At eight o'clock the Riot Act was was read, and the members of the University wets ordered to retire to their respective colleges. The order, however, was not complied with until very great disturbances took place between them and the townsmen. Large bodies of constables, with. flaming torches, continued to parade the streets until ten o'clock, when all seemed perfect Several of the rioters had been taken in .s Thursday, as Mr. J Clarkson, to. • the - . Ordnance Department in the citadel at . hod just taken the place of a workman in making a slight alteration in the draw-bridge, at the entrance of the citadel, from Drypool, the bridge being drawn up a short distance, the chains gave way, and the bridge fell upon Mr. C. with such violence that his head and thighs %sere nearly cut• oft', between the two parts of the bridge, which were closely wedged to gether within two or three inches, so that the point of a handspike could not be got in to separate therm. Mr. Clarkson was aged 58, and formerly a mastu. builder in Hull. • . lS