The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

. LAW LVTELLIGILIVCR. COCILT OF CHANCERY, Du. 17. PARKINSON'S LUNACY. Mr. 1111 F A 1.0 applied to the Court tototspend the new ointoission of Lunacy which was about to issue against :•Ir. Parkinson. a gentleman of Lancaster. The Learned Counsel said, be was convinced his Lordship would nut think Mr. Parkinson a fit object for a Com mission of Lunacy : the fact was, he was subject to a nervous agitation which bad been greatly increased by the it.suing the last Commission, on which the return had been satisfactory to his Lordship. Every advan- Lige might be hoped for from a little del; before the granting the new Commission. which was at the in stance of some of his pretended friends. The Loan CH ANCELLOR said he would read the af filavits himself in the course of the evening. Mr. lirst.trobserved, that it would depend entirely upon the affidavits whether this was or was not a case in which a commission should issue. Mr. Haar remarked, that the pretended friends, lt.letdfo by Mr. Heald, were Mr. Parkinson's sisters, with whom be had lived on terms of the strictest friendship all his life. Mr. HEALD said this gentleman had married, and his wife being in a family way, his sisters asked his Lordship to put an end to the marriage, in Order that instead of his children having his property, they (the ais.ers) might have it. The Leap ettascst.t.on desired to have all the ne ret.sary documents laid before him for his consider s tins. .• COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dcc. 17. 11111 XING C. DUNPitr This was an information exhibited by the A TTORN ET• OnNettat., chaiging the defendant, who is one of the voters of the Borough of St. Ives, Cornwall, wi It wil ful and corrupt perjury, giving his evidence before a ;;;;; 'hoe of the House of Commons appointed to ex amine witnesses in support of the allegations of bri bery, contained in a Petition presented by Walter Stir ling, Bart , against the return of Mr. Oraham and Mr. Evelyn. the successful candidates at the election in 1820, for St. Ives. The defendant swore that on the Ist of March Mr. Raise, the agent for Mr. Evelyn, when he canvassed, titre voter., said, " There is no time to be lost, if you do not vote fur Evelyn and Mr. Oraham, you will not get arty thing." He also swore, that a conversa tion ensued at a dinner given on the Ist of March, at the house of Mr. Heise; and that it was stated arrange ments had been made to pay the voters what had been usually paid. He farther swore, that a number of voters came to the door during dinner time, and de sired to have tickets for beer and refreshments, which were delivered. _ _ The ATToartev-GerranAL called Mr. Halle, the stfeist, and a number of witnesses, who deposed that the defendant in the above particulars had sworn falsely. M r. II ARRISON, fur the defendant, addressed the Jury, and stated that the evidence given by the defendant was substantially true. The learned Counsel pro ceeded to call his witnesses, who were numerous, and the examination continued until half-past ten o'clock. The Arroatter-OttogitAL then replied, and at half past 11 o'clock, the Judge commenced his charge to the Jury, which wasAnished at half-past 12. The Jury then hund the defendant guilty. The trial lasted fifteen. -hours. OLD BAILEY. -am Yesterday Henry Tea was put to the bar, on an indictment, charging him with feloniously taking from tie till of his master, Mr. S. Prestwidge, grocer, of Drury lane, a half-crown piece. The prosecutor stated, that having had reason to str.pret the honesty of the prisoner, he had directed a gentletnan who occasionally assisted hint, named Taylor, to watch his conduct, and on the 16th of No ve!...her be left his house in companv'with his wife, to spend the evening with a friend. Theree half-crowns were privately marked, one of which was afterwards found upon the prisoner. The prisoner made no defence, and the Recorder put it to the Jury, whether there was any necessity to sum up the evidence. They did not think it neces sary, kind immediately found the prisoner Guilty. POLICE. Jaw.. MANSION-norm—Robed Plant was brought be' Fore the LORD MAYOR, on a charge of having stolen 23 Fair of gloves, the property of Messrs. Plaits, in Bi st.t.psgate-street, haberdashers, &c. The shopman of Mr. Platt stated, that the prisoner, •s few days since, brought a quantity of goods, accord ing•to order, from Messrs. Stock. Cooper, and Watson, "linen-drapers, as their porter. There was a quantity of gloves on the counter where the prisoner set down his load -and - untied it. After he bad put up his wrapper. the witness discovering that two parcels of gloves were gone, desired him to untie it, when time 23 pair of gloves fl.ll out. It appeared from the statement of one of the firm bf Messrs. Stock, Cooper. and Watson, that the pri soner was their porter, but had been for some time lurking about their warehouse, offering his services v the man who served them in that capacity. The porter, it appeared, had patronised the prisoner, and accepted his services to carry his loads, whilst he re galed himself at a public-house.—The prisoner was lolly committed for trial. 'Man LBOROVGII-STREET.—Saturday evening. about ssaven o'clock, a fellow of decent appearance, who was observed lurking about the shop of Mr. 'l'. Edwards, woollen-draper, of Gerrard street, Soho, had the au dacity to open the shop-door, and steal a piece of cloth. liit'evas pursued and apprehended near Coventry-street. • He was brought to this Office, and committed to New- vie for trial.• rs•vroN.thanest.—Edeupor. Leonard was brought tip from Clerkenwell-watch-bouse, charged with titter ing a cnunterfeit soret.eien, at a snuff and tobacco shop in . tioswell-street, kept by Jane Shore. She was yet/sanded for further ezatuination, %then the Solicitor the'Mint will attend. 'AN se 'gelato!: was charged with tendering a coun-• sovereign at the shop of Charles Ilienible, tiltifier, corner of Charles-street and Leatherlane.— Slie"was also remanded until tte Solicitor of the Mint, es:: attcad. I:141102f HALL.—Yesterday, inconsequence faltrelitUr roar on Sunday night in Worcestet-si. , Sontinfrotk, about the hoes. of the American Prophet John Det*r, that singular person was brought before the hlaglitrates of this office. The Prophet said, the cause of the disturb ance was, that he had refused to get out of his bed to preach. The witnesses informed the Magistrate that the Prophet bad made some proselytes, who were actu ally about to leave the country with him, and accompany him upon an expedition to the Holy Laad. 4 The officers who apprehended him had two or *Kw times in the course of Sunday evening gone to dui-Cuts. in Worces ter-street, and• dtipersed a large chore:cadet% that had ,assembled in the room approptiated to preaching. One man, a shoe maker, nali*Mooke, has actnally sold off his stock and furnitupt:' which were worth SOU ; he has allowed his boafd to grow, and goes about preaching and making converts. Another tradesman, who was most induttrious, and attached to a wife ant - seven chil dren, .prOposes to lease them all and go toJarnsalent.— His beard is also becoming indicative of his iptendon, and he sleips as the otitera do, whoa,: struck by the Pro phet, with his clothgo on, Mr. CHAMBERS said be expected to balm hoard that the Prophet was on his .way to Jerusalem, The Prophet said, s only , waited for a Tent lac ves sel to set sail with his brother Cooke and nine others of his brethren. Upon being questioned as to his ind! he • - illose men -•-• Jucisit to leave their — leonine', said he did not t a p--a higher higher power took them. Cooke, the shoemaker, stepped forward', and told the Magistrate that he was determined to follow his brother Decker to Jerusalem, but that the parish should sutler do inconvenience, for he should take his son with him upon his pilgrimage. He said they should not preach again where they had been so much abu s ed, but should remove to a house near the National School, in Saint George's-fields, where they should preach till the day of their departure. The Magistrate assured the Prophet' that be should be committed if he preached again without a license, which he might have next Session fur tourpence. He also observed, that the parish officers would take care to prevent their being burdened with the families of any of the unfortunate men who were mad enough to neg lect their business from such ridiculous enthusiasm. He then discharged the Prophet. Decker, it appeared, load baptized seventecin persons since he commenced his labours in St. Georei-Oelds. • At the Kilmainham Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday last. William Atkinson. who was indicted for enter ing the window of Mr. Woodhurne, in Portobello, with intent to steal, pleaded guilty. On bis Lordship (Mr. Torrens) being about to pa.s sentence, the pri soner addressed him as fellows : • My Lord, yon way as well transport - niem-1 will never do any good in this country. I have no employ ment, and if I get out I will be soon here again." Transported for seven years. PROVIDENTIAL Escaez.—On Tuesday last, a man was engaged in cleaning a window on the third story of the Hibernian Hotel, in Dawson-street, Dublin, and had placed a chair outside of the window for the purpose of standing on it ; the bank of the chair rest ed against the upper sash of lbw ; winslowkbut just as he stepped on the chair, the sash gave way with his weight, and the chair and the window lash fell into the area, whilst he, in his fall, bad the presence of mind to catch by the window-stool, and succeeded 'in getting in at the window unhurt, but greatly terrified. His escape was almost miraculons ; had he fallen %l id! the chair, it is more than probable that he would have been impaled on the iron railing in front of the area. Thomas Baugh, alias Buff, was apprehended at Wed nesbury for stealing hr.oss from an engine house; and on Saturday se'nnights as an assistant constable was conducting him to our county gaol, he effected his escape when within about a hundred yards of the pri son, and although pursued Upwards of two miles, he was lost sight of at Rickerscote, and got clear off.— Ile is an old offender. FlRE.—Abort half-put eleven o'clock on Sunday se'nnight, the front range of store-houses, at Messrs. K. Steele, and Co.'s ship-building yard, Greenock, was discovered to be on fire, at the eastern extremity, in a portion of the range occupied as a hay-loft. The de structive element spread with sneh rapidity, that in less than an hour, and before the water engines could be brought into action, the buildings, as far as the centre gate, embracing- a range of about 70 feet in length, were enveloped in flames, the toof falling pro gressively as the fire advanced. Fortunately, its pro gress was decisively checked by the gable wall at the gateway, otherwise its ravages would have been much snore extensive, from the quantity of combustible matter contained in the premises. • On Friday morning sums persons hearing an un usual noise issue from below the grate belonging to the road sewer near the Angel-inn, Old Bridge, were attracted to the spot and upon digging a hole in the road, they discovered that the sound proceeded from a fine sow, which fell into the river, from the back of a house in Claverton-street, Bath, on the preceding Friday, during the high water, and was supposed to have been drowned. It appears that the animal had Boated down the stream under the southernmost arch of the bridge, and guided by the powerful instinct which pointed out the only means of preservation, had effect ed an entrance into the mouth of the sewer, whence it proceeded under the turnpike-road to the place where it was discovered. For the apace of a week, during which it had no food, it had to stem the torrent of mud, sand and water which patios through this channel to the river. The poor animal was, however, extricated, and is now fast recovering. DRCADPUL Screroe.—An inquest was held last week at Linwood, by Mr. Bunyan, Coroner, upon the holy of Thomas Bean, aged 57, who cut his throat in a fit of insanity. The cause was represented to be an apprehen sion on the part of the poor fellow that be should be turned out of a house which he ant! his son had built at a considerable expense of labour and money on the parish waste. Having suffered the quit-rent to fall into arrear, the parish-officer had peremptorily called upon. 'him to pay it, together with a sum which iteowed him individually and the inability to meet this demand visi bly affected the man's m;nd. From the agitated syrup- touts, charge was given to two of his children not to suffer him to go away from them, and they therefore slept in the same room with hint. He got up about four o'clock in the morning, and in answer to a question, said he was not well, and went down stair*. Soon after, a noise of something falling being heard, the elder child ran down, and found her father lyint on the door with his throat cut; and dead. Ver liet—" The deceased was parish-clerk anti pin.ler, a itiperior ht: bourer, and bore a very excelb.st character. . • " - , - cif Avow .> . . w . _ . L. L. ~.. ADJOURNED INQURST ON JIR. SLADE. - - limllesiat, at two o'clock, the hey *et aecordiog to aliansagest, at the house of Mr. Fountain, the fdarqueenel Granby, in Percy -street, Rathbone-place, to resume their inquiry into the circumstances which led to the melancholy death of the above gentleman. The first witness examined was a gentleman named T. R. Este. residing in Portman-place, who stated. that shoot nine o'clock on the 29th of No'rember, as he was passing through the Edgeware-road, he saw two females, apparently women of the tows, looking at some jewellery in a shop windoeLL be bad scarcely passed by when. he again saw 'them roaming towards a stage coach, the driver , of which wag gin his box, and invited them to get tantalum a ride which they they did. The man the y rapidly till be passed through the tollindiklmiihea he drove still more furiously. In a few ihttintiro he (witness) heard shrieks and screaming, and, conceiving that as accident hed.happosed he run back, nod the first person be met told bint•tite Sego had overtnensal. Some little dis tance on he saw enraird of twenty or thirty persons; amongst them be noticed one of the prostitutes that rode with the driver; she was covered with mud and appeared to be fainting, he should conceive she must have been -seriously injured. `Another woman came up, and was much disfigured, she seemed also to be labouring under considerable agitation. A few yards on laid the deceased, coffered with dirt and bleeding. Witness asked him if he was much hurt. and be com plained that lii. bead and body bad been much hurt. Witness and so me other persons lifted him ap, and carried him to a gentleman's house adjoining. A surgeon was sent for, and a gentleman, au assistant to Mr. lityan, soon af.erwards attired, and dressed the deceased's moulds. Witness, its soon as he could, proceeded to the stage-coach, and saw " Notting-hill" on it, bat before he could take the name, the coach man mounted the box and drove off. He could not , iee the exact colour of the coach body. There were lamps along one side of the road, and witness' was perfectly sure that if be was driving the coach lie could have seen the deceased's chaise. The coach man's language was very offensive, and he certainly considered his manner of driving to be very reprehen sible; but it was nothing noire, speaking generally, than all the coachmen on that road were in the daily habit of doing. A Juryman here suggested that Thomas Stratford, the person who was supposed to have driven the coach , on the night of the accident, was in attendance to give evident*: but The Coroner declined calling him, lest he might be criininated, and he could not legally be examined. Richard Saunders, of the Edgware-road, wheel wright, was alarmed by a noise in the street, and on going out saw a horse rush by, dragging the frag ments of a chaise at his heels. The deceased was then lying against the railings, and, in answer to wit ness's enquiries. he said he was very much hurt, and that he feared hit leg was broken. He said be was buckling the belly-band of his horse at the time, and that he called out to the coachman to take care, but be paid no heed to the caution, and ran him down. The stage was one of the Bayswater coaches, and the tnah whi drove it was not the regular driver; the wo men call him by the name Of " Tom," and witness is sure he should know him again. There was light enough for him to see, and room to pass Mr. Slade without touching either him or his gig. Mr; Appleton (a Juror) —The road is 14 yards wide, and six carriages could easily pass abreast; on this occasion Mr. Slade's chaise and the stage were the only vehicles on the road. - Charles Reeves, a watchman, saw two women on the box ; their names are Sarah Dixon, and Carty.— He had no doubt but he could find them immediately. Coroner—Well, then, my chaise is down below, take that, and bring the ladies here at once. A summons was granted for them, and the watchman deputed to serve it. The witness Saunders re-examined:—He had been down stairs to see the persons in waiting, and the man pointed out to him by the name of Thomas Stratford, was the same whom i.e saw with the coach ou the night of the accident. There being no more witnesses at this period of the inquiry, the Jury and Mr. Davis, one of the assignees. under Kinner's bankruptcy, held a long consultation respecting the owners of the coach. At the request of the Jury, Thomas Stratford was called, and being informed by the Coroner of the situa tion in which lie stood, was asked if lie bad any objec tion to be sworn? He replied in the negative. lie then stated that he sometin;es drove the coach from Nutting ; lie did not know who the owner of the coach was; but the name upon it was " Samuel Kin ner, of Kensington." CORON ER.—l am rather shy of asking you any fur ther questions, nor need you say any thing more sin less you like. Stretford-1 have nothing more to say, Sisi. only .I was not the cause of the accident. Conoteea.—Who was then? Ansteee.—Why, I don't know; it was miserably dark and foggy. Ile then proceeded to state that lie gave the two women a ride, but the men who were with him were passengers. However, he subsequently admitted that these persons also rode for nothing, he having given them "a lift," from the Bank, and he afterwards de clared that the women were passengers too, and very fiequcntiy rode with him, although in the first in stance he was understood to say the contrary. He was afterwards asked who employed ind paid him? To the former he answered Mr. Kinners, and with regard to the latter, be declared that he never received any wages at all. Mr. Jonathan Wood, landlord of the Star and ter, in the Edgware-road, stated, that on the evening ,pn question, Thome Stratford, and another coachman whose name be believed to be Calvert, called at his house and had something to drink ; they were then suite i. Mr. Rovenell, who keeps the Yorkshire Stingo, proved that on the night of the accident s Stratford called at his house; he then drove Kinner's Notting Hill coach. and he appeared sober. It was now announced that the officers who had ,been sent for the women had arrived with one of them. She was accordingly iotroduced and sworn. tier name she said was Caroline Johnson ; her resi dence-was in Lissou-green till' eveiiing whet' 'lr. !BA& was killed she was waling along the Elsware- • _ road, and at the Stu aUd.Ba darter pablie-hat" Bayswater roach , * whieli Thomas Suit • she got up without bei•ig . asked by the 411 feet, Ifeeanse she wanted to go to Rayittlin pfteenter. On going throug h the toll-gitt , ---- got down to do something to the cots the reins,and on his getting ap ag a i n , dentally dropped the reins, the horses ph bigel ward, ind itefiire the driver could get h o g 4 again the chaise was upset, and he w as o ireiti box. nifty. was a chaise, bat witness dfij ii i until site was thrown off ' the coach. • Crospexamined—She went home at ereui; ; only objict in goi ng to Bayswater in s kt ,..l place, baring never seen it before i sh e . woo ;1 shilling for ter ride, and was satis6wil re sat by dark; 1 .was quite sob er , but lai r d semi ..stop," for did I se e any c h a i se or gig ; lewt : with that coachman b e f ore , an d ham e s at leti since; if Ihe had said I w as a regular , I often rode on his coach, it would set h e kw , known the man two mouths ; a femal e imam's , Dixon rode with her. Mr. R. C. Griffith, of Totted... cow/lad geon, stated that the d e ce ase d recahq , jury on the knee joint, and also Itlett titt%:, died from the sleets sof his.womeds Verdict—" That Thomas Stretford is nal Manslaughter--that.the coach and two horspe og property of Samuel 114iiiaer, so d are of the tkie -40/. are deoeland, and are now in they • Charles Corder, lioertArsper, of Charlotte-Imm, land-place, Saint 31ary4e•bone." ACCIDENTS Dv FIRE.--Two children of tip of Booth and Leigh, were accidentally bell e d from the raiment of each taking fire, in the' of their respective parents at Lanewad mid ' Trent. During the dinner hour on Ftiday last, sam e dren brine at play in a school-room is the Tiger try, Pilgrtm-street, Newcastle-upon-I'm she of a little girl about seven years of age, the dangil of J. Jackson, of the Quay, Masos, ly use se; were set on fire. She was immediately em s * dames, and burnt so dreadfully, that she expired • the night in the infirmary. On Wednestky, two Coroner's Inquisitim held at Birmingham by Mr. J. W. Whacky — a the body of a young girl, between 13 and 14 yen age, who was dreadfully burnt a fortnight age 4 clothes taking fire whilst leaning over the she was taken to the General Hospital, elm tied on Tuesday :—the other was on a gill d years old, whose death was also oecasiosed 4 clothes taking fire; this poor child had ism Id its mother with another child, three years old, h house by themselves, on Sunday last, fur three and during her absence the neighbours were by their screams, and the deceased war heed dames, which were speedily extinguished; tie lingered in the Hospital in great aguny till T last, when it died. Verdict—Accidental Death Sunday afternoon a distressing circarestanee at the house of Mr. James Ray, liege:geared, Mrs. Ray, accompanied by her taro children, ru ' in the kitchen, when it appears, teed theta went perceived by her to a jar of gupowder stasalsgd by, and by some means which eanothe secosstall caused it to explode: The shock was so grate shatter all the doors and windows of the hete some of the neighbours going into the bonse,Mrs. A and her two children ware found on the floor speckle insensible, and dreadfully injured ' • they wen at in a coach to the London Hospital, where little are entertained of their recovery. On Thursday the sth inst. an inquest was WI Mavis Enderby, before Mr. Mastin, Coroner, o' of the body of !Joey Day, aged about six yew was so dreadfully burnt by her clothes talc* k the absence of her mother, that she lingeliti about nine hours and then died. The mother occasion to go to an adjoining parish (Hs ham) for some tnarketiogs, left the deceased viti younger children in a room adjoining the est tire in it, having first taken the precaution Ls* in, by fastening the door with a string to it one, which she locked. The little nofottusio trived to break their prison hare, and Moil was enveloped in dames, she rift back vigil* . other room, and partly pat nut the fire by herself against the bed, which fortunately es len, or in all probability the bed, together id house and inmates, would have all beet she then slipped the bolt of the lock door, and running across two large closes, a of a quarter of a mile on the foot road, to ote mother, and seating herself on a stile in a state d kedness, waited her approach. The mother, al sight of her, became alarnted and drew back; kel gaining courage, advanced to the stile, sod asked whose child she was, when she replied, mammy; you must not heat me ; Billy has set of fire." The feelings of the m other at this moment' be better conceived than described; is a state bor ing on distraction, she IA back the little snfferer, patiently languished during . the abore-mestiosedl clod, when death closed her sufferings. Veries ' cidentally burnt. The advantages of a visit to CARROLL'S 00,1 19, Cornhill, and 2G, Oxford•sireet, 6 were Wield exemplified in the pre,ent (eatery, on file ri 8. „ . Day of Drawing, when No. 11.486, a Blaney of £30.000 Sterling, was soh' by bite in Slot* is to be hoped that thi4 great success will bell& up be willyranotli fi er ntly c l os e .t3ol,elfon the 30th 00 Lot ----- MARRIED. John Nichol!. to Jane Harriot. te.aud 1111 Oa Friday last, at Penriee, 6 Ismorganshire..lol.' Esq., of Merthyrntawr. only son of the Right 110; Thontas Mansell Talbot. F...q . of Margant tad I /4 Castle, in the same Conntt . z M On 'ruesday last, at Ountorton, near Derby..--, Rristowe, )'sq., of Reesthorp • 1101, twat' Newark,: and of Twy font, near Derht • 10 N.,,r‘ tone, Melt" ter of Samuel Fos, Esq., of Oso..stou Ils:I. _____—_,/ daut:hter alit' DIED. At Stapenbill. Derby,Aire. in the 57th .ar i Joseph Peel. Esq.. late of Bowes Form, Mittel/eat London : Edited. Printed, and PublisheJ " Tie STATZSMAN" and "THE CONitiTliTieN.; PapCr), 10. WI. Strew!, nppdstlegf: by It. Willi/ELL, LL.13.. to whom addres all Orders, &c. are requested tu be sse. 4 . I, • 1 • . , „ j. A lac 1.