The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-04-07 00:00:00

-T \ - ... 1.,,,N..... •••,, HOL'B2 OF or, Aram& ROYAL ASSENT. At half-past three o'clock the Lortlcnalecet.Lon , the Earl of SnAMSOURT, and Viscount 111gLvILLE. appeared with to Commission from his Majesty, and gate the Royal Assent to the following Bills:—The Commercial Intercourse,the Husbandry Horse Duties, the Irish Attorneys' Fees Regulation, the Irish Witch craft Law Repeal, the Oramponnd Witnesses Indem nity Bills, and to a variety of private Bills. A message was ordered to be sent to the Commons to request leave for Sir Manaseh Lopes to attend the .econd reading of the Orampound Disfranchisement Bill. Mr. WHIM from the King's Bench Office, pre sented Extracts and Copies of certain. Records of con vietiton, pursuant to their Lordships' order.—Laid on the table. The Innkeepers' Rates Bill was read a third time, passed, and sent to the Commons. ROMAN CATHOLICS. Viscount SIDMOCTII presented a Petition from the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church, of St. Petit% Westminster, against the Catholic Claims. — Laid on the table. The Bishop of LONDON presented similar Peti tioes from the Clergy of Sien College, and from the hector, Churchwardens, and Inhabitants of the parish of Christchurch, Middlesex. The latter, the Right Hey. Prelate stated, teas signed by 2,000 persons. — Read and laid on the table. Viscount SIDMOUTH presented a Petition against the Catholic Claims from certain Parishes in the County of Stirling.—Laid on the table. The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY presented Petitions to the same effect from Hitchin, in the County of Hert ford, Sutton Colefield in the County of Ilrarwick, and from the Royal Burgh of Dumfries, in the County of Dumfries in Scotland.—Laid on the table. The Earl of DONOCOHMORE held a Petition on the same subject, from a most respectable body of Cler gymen, not of the Established Church. They overe, in fact, Roman Catholics, and objected not to such a Bill as that which had come before their Lordships,but to some of the provisions which it contained. That objection was the same which be entertained, and would, he trusted, be removed by the alterations which their Lordship,' would think proper to effect in the measure. The Petition was from the Roman Catholic Bishop and Clergy of the County of Limerick, than whom there could net he a more respectable body in existence. As the Petition was against some parts of the Catholic Bill, he should beg that it be read at length. The Petition having been read, The LORD CHANCELLOR was understood to object to the description given by the Petitioners of themselves, as the Roman Catholic Bishop and Clergy of the County of Limerick. The Earl of DONOUOHMORE could not conceive how any doubt could be entertained of the propriety of a person exercising the function of a Bishop calling himself by that name. The power of Ordivation was the touchstone by which the character of a Bishop was . to be known ; and it was a fact, that if any per sou ordained by a Catholic Bishop, afterwards chose to conform to the Established Church, he became at once a Minister of that Church, without undergoing any fresh ordination. This hail been exemplified in the case of the celebrated preacher, Mr. Kirwan, who had become a Protestant Minister after having been ordained by a Catholic Bishop. This proved that the character of a Catholic Bishop was acknowledged by our laws. The LORD CH NICCELLOR had never meant to deny the character of a Bishop to the individual men tioned in the Petition, or that he had a right to exer cise the Episcopal functions. He only objected to the phraseology of the Petition, %%hitch represented him as the Catholic Bishop of Limerick, for it could Not be a►.mitted that there were two Bishops for Limerick, any wore than for Liloucester, or any other place.— lie, however, did not mean to oppose the receiving of the Petition. The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table. Adjourned till Monday. LA IV INTEI.LIGENCIf. VICE CII MELLOR'S COURT-FRIDAY. IN THE MATTER OF HOWARD AND GIBRS, Mr. WhamAnsi', on the part of certain creditors of the bankrupts, applied to the Vice-Chancellor, for permission to have two petitions, which were presented in this bankruptcy, put at the head of his Honour's Paper of Bankrupts' Petitions, and to have tbem car ried on together; he said an application bad already been made to the Lord Chancellor, for the purpose of haring the proceedings under this commission, deli vered up to the assignees, which his Lordship had di rected should he done ; and on his applying. to his Lordship to allow these two petitions to he beard to gether at as early a day as possible, he desired him to ni ate the application to the Vice Chancellor, and to coniinunicate to him, that had it not been for the pres sore of circumstances, he would hare felt it his duty to have beard these two petitions together at an early dove _ _ _ Vica•CnANcw.on.—Let them stand at the head of the Bankrupt Petitions; I think it propable that they may come on on Saturday (this day.) You bad better ~;ilte notice instantly to the other side. Mr. ilawr.-1 have a brief in one of those petitions, and I think, that whenever that petition comes on it depend entirely on facts, and it will be difficult to ban the facts on both sides prepared so as to have it Leatd on such an early day. Mr. Wnerstaastt.—lf the parties should not be leadylby that time, your Honour will allow the petitions to stand until the parties should be ready. VieIt•eMIANCELLOR.--Certainly ; let these Petitions I.- put at the head of the Paper. ?damson tx Huta Lir E.--Captain Frederick Fitz t Ilreoce.ion of his Royal Highness the Duke of Oa. r.nee. trill shortly lead to the hymeneal altar Lady A Igusti Boyle, daughter of the Karl of Glasgow. At the Shrewsbury Assizes a poor man was plain- Cif in a cause as the heir-at-law ass estate at Elles mere. He sued informs perrperi.r, and .seceeeded. There are no less th.in two Luodred and seventeen pri o•lers for trial un the Crown side at the Assizes t., W. rw7l'ks lire. THE ST. lIOMR CIRCUIT. SUEEICY LENT ASSlZES.—Encerros, Arm, 1. CROWN SIDE. SANK 0! EKObAND PROSiCtrnONS• Mary Mears was acquitted on an indictOsent &saw ing her with having forged Bank of England notes, knowingly, in her possession, without lawful excuse. Ann if was convicted of a similar offence, and received sentence of transportation for 14 years. William Groves and Ckmentina Rebecca .Vires, who severally pleaded guilty to indictments for a similar offence, received the like sentence. The following unhappy persons received sentence of Death for uttering forged notes, viz.—Themes Mayers, James Stevens, William Jarvis, and Henry Ethic Edward Price was indicted, under Lord Ellen borough's Act, for cutting and maiming John Cold man, at Ewell, on the 26th of December, with intent to murder, or do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. RYLAND, who conducted the prosecution, called several witnesses, from whose testimony it appeared, that the prosecutor, who keeps a public-house at Ewell, attempted to turn the prisoner oat, whilst In a state of intoxication, when the latter attempted to stab him with a knife. The prosecutor, in trying to ward off the blow, received a trifling wound is the thumb. No previous existed bete een the parties. Mr. Baron Woon charged the Jury, that the offence hardly came within the meaning of the very severe Act upon - which the indictment was lountled.—lle Jtir found the prisoner Not Guilty. ratk P ARLIAACIS ~- _ . .* . MURDER AT PETERSHAM. Richard Wigirp, a watchman, of Petersham, was indicted fur the wilful murder of Itobert Knight, on the 2sth of March, by shouting him with a gun loaded with shot. The case excited a great deal of interest. Mr. TURTON conducted the prosecution, an.l called the witnesses, who stated the transaction nearly in the same manner in which it had been already represented so recently to di:. public. • The prisoner was s man of respectable appearance, was deeply affected, and received x most unexception able character from an immense number of gentlemen in the neighbourhood, who spoke of him in the highest possible terms fur humanity. 11 !r. HOLLAND and Mr. ADOLPHUS were for the pri soner. '1 he case went to th:• Jury under the Learned Judge's directions, and they immediately found the prkoner Guilty of Manslaughter. He was sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment in the County 4iaol. SOMERSET ASSIZES: MeRDER. At the last Assizes, at Salisbury, agrious and MU Ham Cox were indicted for the murder of Joseph Strong, in the parish of Box,on the 25th of November. .1 he deceased was a pour man, who ri sided tit Kingssiown, in the parish of Box ; his wife tool; in washing, and Le was in the habit of going to and from Bath nit!' the clothes; he was on his return from Bath on the evening of the 25th of November, wilbia a quarter of a mile of his own house, when he was brutally murdered. That the prisoners were the per petrators of the horrid crime depended on the dying declaration of the poor man. Ann Norris said, I recollect coining in a cart with the deceased from Bath to Kingsd.own, on the 25th of November ; it was dark before we left Bails a short distance before we came to Kings own we turned from the new into the old road, which is by the aide of the other; the deceased was then out of the cart, and a little way before ; 1 immediately heard a noise, and became alarmed ; when a man jumped into the cart, and, with a bitter oath, demanded my money ; I said had none, or else he should have it; he said, give me what you have got ; 1 told him that I bad none ; he then demanded my coat and handkerchief ; I said I would not give it to him, and was going to crvl, murder, but he put his hands before my mouth, and prevented me : lie then drew out a pistol and a knife, and holding them against my head, he said he would blow my brains out if I made the least noise. Ile then jumped out of the cart, and said " Tom, there is nothing for us." I never saw him afterwards, and heard no other person. I then called master, several times, but received no answer. I listened, and heard him groan : I led on the cart till I came to him, when I found hiss, lying on his bark, and his head covered with blood ; he said, give use your hand ; ► tried to lift him up, but could not ; lie fell back again; and I then fetched his wife. Mrs. Strong, wife of the deceased, said that she asked him how he was on the Tuesday, and he re plied that he was very ill indeed. He said, " that William l'ox was the man that did him the injury." She said, "if you think pu are dying, I hope yon are happy " He answered, , 4 I urn as happy as a Prince; thank God for it !" Ile said this jest before he died. She was sent for about ten o'clock in the morning, and repeated what she has jest said ; he said he should die; he repeatedly said so, and was very sensible on such occasions ; he told her that the injury had been done in the old road, just at the spot where she blond him ; he did not state to her bow it was done, but that William Cox, of Afford, did it. [During the I fi rst examination of this witness, she became so over powered that she Linted, and was taken out of the c girt. She was brought in again, and again fainted; she was brought in a third time, but on neither of these occasions would she add another non' to her testimony. She gave the whole of her evidence very reluctantly ; it was supposed that grief at the remem brance of her hnshand's fate had deprived her of ut terance ; this opinion was pretty general at the time, till it was discovered that she was actually to have been married on that day to another husband, and that it was with the utmost difficulty that they procured her to attend the Court.] Joseph Bartlett said he overtook William Cox on a Sunday, while Strong was alive, at Batheaston-bridge,. as he was going from Bath to Kingwood. A Cotner; sation arose between them ; and the witness swore to certain expressions of the prisoner's which formed ground of suspicion against him. When thil evi dence was concluded, the Judge said t:oole was no evidence whatever to affect tiraciowst7ax, and directed that he be acquitted. liradoos Cox was then sworn, and gave Ptiitente which tendril to show that though he and his brother were near the shot, they ha./ no coi,vera in the wanks. V t - • • Mr. John Long, of bionkton-Yarleigh, deposed that there had been another man apprehended at Bath for this murder, and who was to be tried at the Somerset Assizes, on whom the suspicions of guilt were very strong. After a considerable time the jury returned a ver dict of—Not Guilty. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS. Yesterday these Sessions commenced before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Common Serjeant, the High Bailiff, Alderman J. J. Smith, and Sir Wm. Leighton. The Cosmos: SZRJII.OI7, in charging the Grand Jury for the Borough, congratulated them on the ex treme lightness in point of number and crime, of the Calendar for the present Sessions, the state of which dirt considerable credit to the police, there being but sixteen prisoners, and of these there were but three cases of felony, the remainder being common outrages against the peace. Daniel Jefferies, a youth of nineteen years of age, was convicted of having stolen a flitch of bacon, the property of Mr.Oram, a cheesemonger, in High-street. The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for one month, and to be once publicly whipped. Three lads named /Vaughan, Parsons, and Hogan, were convicted of haring stolen sonic lead from an empty house belonging to Mr. Pearson, 31, Fore street, Horselyduwn. They were sentenced each to be imprisoned one month, and to be twice publicly whipped. In the above cases the Court gave special directions to the gaoler that the ceremony should not be a mere matter of form, but that the correction should be ap plied in the most effectual manner, so that it might make a lastinl impression upon their memories. The Court expressed their determination to try the efficacy of the timely application of corporeal punish ment upon juvenile offenders, since mere confinement seemed to have 'lithe effect in arresting their career . f crime. and took them into custody. Oa being isi ft i le d o flambee of picklock keys, a dark leathe l rs, aad a elap bar, were found upon them. The Court sentenced Richard Josses to six and John Jones to three months impriseamset. On Thursday, a man who has a stand andel Ik e portico of the Pantheon in Oxford street, for th a w, of baskets, &c. *as indicted at the instants if t h e parish for a nuisance. Edward Francis, who stated himself to he gi §g Spector of Nuisances," said that the defendant had k w some time past occupied a stand under the pl ace l a question, to the great annoyance of foot pa llangen. He had been repeatedly told that be would be balky for nuisance, to which be paid no attention. ki cross-examination he admitted that the defendant kw been several times before indicted for the samesehnt and acquitted. The Jury returned a verdict 0f...4 Uuilty J. &nab, late a Serjeant in the Ouse, i b dieted for assaulting Serjeant-major Middisteaaf d o first Foot-guards. Serjeant-Major Middleton stated, that on them / mi ng of the 17th of December last, he went' to the sett% house, and saw the defendant them, who, as k e d him if he did not owe him, the Serjeant-Majer, a shilli ng —he replied, he was not aware that he did t uh e , d e , fendment immediately called him a perj ure d mesh a d--d villain, &c. and then struck Isis' tieleeihlme it the face, with a stick. Several witnesses teriskeestei the Serjeant's statement. The Jury immediately found him Osiky, aid tie Court sentenced him to 14 days imprisonment, is ths House of Correction, and to find sureties foy his geed behaviJur, for three years, in his own recognisance. LONDON MARKETS, AWL S. ~~ COTTON.—The business done in Cotton no Friday and Saturday last was extensive: on Mob.* t h e quest was checked by unfavourable accounts from Lis t ,. pool: since which this market has been in a livid state; the whole purchases by private contract ilk week not excreting 41W) bags. The %Vert India desni p. Lions sold at lower prices, the Sea Islands at a fusilier able redaction, the boweds supported the presioas go. rency. The accounts from Liverpool, received flit morning, continue very unfavourable; no business dsisg this week; the market changing from extreme 1t . ness, to total stagnation. Purchases of Cotton esa le made In both mark..ts congiderably lower. SOL+ 11-1 hr demand for Muscovades this wsek* hero very considerable, sail any good Sugars et WA. I nners have gone off freely at rather higher prices. ?Si forenoon a public sale was brought forward; it 1111110. rd of 423 casks British Plantation Sugars, Tobago sal l)emrrara descriptions, the whole sold heavily, bet th liarket cannot he stated lower. The Refined satin continues to improve ,• the request for export has hes very considerable, and, as few low goods appear at Dir ket, purchases have been made of goods deliverablenne weeks hence. Lumps have advanced Is. COFFEE.—The public sales of Coffee early IN in week went off without spirit; the Jamaica and Dew rare descriptions nearly supported the previous priers; St. Domingo, Havannib, and Brazil met with as par. chasers, and the whole quantity was withdrawn tally Is. per cwt. under the late currency. The mute te., mains heavy at a small reduction in the prices. RUM, BRANDY, owl MOLLANDS—Tliahass market continues exceedingly heavy, no fortber.olo tion can, however be stated. Brandies and (Isere are still in the same languid state as far some weeks past. 0113.—8 y public sale .n Tuesday—l2 o teas Set* era Oil, sold 211. ss. and 21/. 10s.; a few lots 211. Us. and 221.-20 casks Sperm, 621. ss. a 6.V. 15s. TALLOW.—The market remains in the same state as for some weeks past, no reduction in the can however be stated—Town Tallow is to day void 50s. which is the same as last week. I I r We bare the pleasure to inform the public we )tars contracted with the Lords of the Treasury for a New Scheme of 20,000 Tickets, in which there will k the greatest display of Prizes ever presented to them. Ws have to apologize for the extra delay of a few dim occasioned by the arrangement of a Plan with tit Treasury, by which the Cost of Whole Tickets is ie tended to be Reduced to 14 Guineas each, Sixteesdn to Tv !NTT SIIMLINGS, and other Share• in proper. Lion ; in a day or two we hope to advertise it at fell length, when schemes at large may also be had at all the Licensed Offices as usual. J. & J. MIVEWRIGMT, 37, Corohill, 11, Holborn, 1114. Heyserkil SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.—A considerable Pensaties was excited yesterday in the neighbourhood of Pimlico, by the discovery of the supposed murder of a new-born infant, by its mother. The following arc the mow stances under which the discovery was made. A woe's, nearly forty years of age. residing with a laundres B s, is Little elgrave-place. Pimlico, had , fo r some past, beta suspected of being in a state of pregnaney, and was ac cused of it ; but at first she denied the fact. Saber quently, however, she acknowledged that it Was 90. 0 . 4 Thursday night, about twelve o'cloelc, a woman, 'sista confined to her bed in the house, heard some one stem in the lower part of the premises, and shortly after +r the reflection of a light in the yard. Supposing that there was nothing particular in this eircunistatice, too or tice was taken of it, until yesterday morning e.,rlr, sties it was discovered that the woman hefore alluded to, ss ill, and there nail a great alteration in her a ppearsam Suspicion fell upon her, and she was que stioned. blur' fused to give any answer, and an officer was sent isc. who searched the yard, and found a new-born female He fant, apparently of full growth, and a reinarhablyi" child. On inspecting it, he found a large coetusitia so the back part of the head,but no other mark of riokace. A surgeon was then sent for, and be and o ther ear"' enced persons had no hesitation in declaring that t".', woman had recently been delivered of a child. %ea refused to answer any questions, and confirmed to t rt worse in health; and the surgeon declared it n osldea danger her life to remove her. Some parish eonstah l l were therefore directed to watch her alternately, Pm she should recover sufficiently to he conveyed Isist e , s Magistrate- A Coroner's inque st will be held epee il'e body of the child. MARRIED. On Thursday, last, Dr. Warburton, of orwa. Bond-street. to Ann. eldest daughter o f JohnCllf Alterttl4, Esq., of by. Citillelh DIED. On the 3th in. at her brother's house. Newinan's-row• Lincoln's-inn-Gelds, after a short Illness, Mra. illateb aged S. On the 4th tilt_ at Barisedoes. whithar he had gone for 111 recovery of health, James Bowden, Esq., or 110 " 1:. 3119111111.. Early on the anornieg of the 6th 'nat., in Sew Dloittit' street, I ries P1e....111,30090 'ha Reet.,eged 70. Loudon Edited. Printed, and Pubilsnett at the OD& o f " TM' STATitill•es " and" Tilt COS 7, IUT1110" (# lll6l l Paper, 114. Synod, opposite tit. 4 leimest's 000'7 by R. WARDELL. Jun. 1.1.. It.: to wh , ,as a:t ot• cations, Orders, de. are requeoetl to be 3.14r...5et. ll' ESTMIAS I'ER .CESSIONS—APan 6. James Payee and l'aoadae Jortlaa, two lads about 10 years of age, were indicted for stealing two pieces of %\ owl from the Pagoda Bridge, in St. J.mies's Park. the property of George Morris and Co. Charles Tolley deposed, that he was e,0p,,ye.1 , his Majesty's Stationery-office, and ulplerve.: ,e pri. Boners getting over the rails with the pr • question ; he pursued them, when the prisoners not giving a satisfactory account as to how they Ca r in possession a it, he gave them into custody. George Morris had no t:ouht the property helanged to himself and partners.--Aluilty.—lmprisoned for e days is the House of Correction. ./4)/04 Ibtri iXON was indicted for stealing 301bs. weight of head, from the dwelling-bouseofMr. Wrsgg, of Pimlico. John Haines stated, that the house in question, which was at present unoccupied, had been several timer robbed of various materials, and that on the 29th of March last, observing that an attempt had been made to rut away some lead, he in compel! with his brother were set to watch. About 8 in the evening they heard a noise like a person endeavouring to get up the wall, and a short time after found the prisoner busily employed in stripping the lead from a flat adjoining the house. He gave him into custody.- 6nd:es 'I he CHAIRMAN said, in consequence of this being his lirst oitence, lie should only sentence him to three months' imprisonment. Skye's. and Smith, two lads, were indicted for steal ing a handkerchief frOM time person of Mary Campbell, a little gi. I about seven years of age, under the follow ing circumstances:— Stevens, who observed the little girl standing at her father's door, went up and told her her mother, who was waiting a short way down the street, wanted to speak to her, u "ten after site had gone a short dis tance, she heard the prisoner whistle. Smith imme diately came up, seized her by the shoulder, and snatched the handkerchief front her neck.—Trans ported fur 7 years. Cheats Si:mstruin, a respectable looking foreigner, was charged with having teloniously taken from the pocket of Mr. Hiding, a .11 , 1 E-box, Mr. Cross a silk handkerchief, and fr Mr. Spi nks a pair of gloves, in the pit of the Adelphi Theatre, on the 21st February last. John Shaw, a per,un employed in the Theatre, stated, that hearing that several persons had been rubbed, lie watched the prisoner, who he observed passed from one part of the pit to another repeatedly, and attempted to pick several persons pockets. An °dicer was then sent fur, who took him into custody, and conveyed him to the watch-house ; lie was there searched, and the articles stated in the indictment were found upon hint, and owned by the prosecutors. Mr. Cross stated, that he observed the prisoner re-, ratedly attempt to pick his p-cket of his handker chief, which he identified, as (lid Mr. Hiding thesnuff boa, and Mr. Spicks his gloves. 'I lie prisoner, on being cancd on, made a long de frnce, and denied his ever having stolen the property, or attempted to pick any person's pocket. He said he bought the articles of a man at a public-house just heftre he entered the Theat c, and that he did not go there till after half-price. He had lived in very re spectable situations, and Orough his confinement had been prevented from getting another. He concluded by declaring that the evidence of the witnesses was false. The Chairman, F. CONST, Eq. summed up the evi dence, and the Jury pronounced the prisoner Gwilly on three indictments. The Court sentenced the pri soner to transportation for life. Julia 'Minix Baynes, a pauper, pleaded guilty to a charge of having committed an assault upon John Kneller, one of the constables belonging to the Men dieity Society, by violently striking him a blow on the face, which knocked his teeth oat, and otherwise severely ill-treated him. 'I be prisoner had only been discharged the day preceding. He was sentenced to two mouths imprisonment in the House of Correction. Two boys, named Hoare and Streenron, were con witted of feloniously taking it shawl from Harriet Kerslake, on the Ott' of January last. The prisoners Were sentenced to be transported for seven years. Richard and Juka Jones were indicted as rogues and vagabonds. John Smith, one of the Bow street patrol*. mated, that bring on duty in Piccadilly, be overheard some conversation between the prisoners, " - r~ 1 • So a lop •V • I