The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-08 00:00:00

I', Tu [SPAT. THE LATE QUEEN'S PROPERTY. IN ii AUSTIN. Mr. SOODZN called the attention of the Court to this case, and said that a sum of 1,3001. remained to be paid to Mr. Roper by the executors of the late Queen, and the cystitis was, by whom and out of what fund it was to be paid; The sum originally borrowed of Mr. Hoper was 2,31101. Mr. Bai . said, that the estate at Blackheath bad been settled on the late Queen for life. Mr. Sconere said it was settled on her for life, without any power of anticipation, and at her death it was to devolve to any person she might have appointed. Mr. Babb , uhmitted that the appointment to Mr. Hoper must take priority over an appointment to a voluntary appointee. He thought that a mortgage ought not to be paid out of the general assets, for that fund ought to he for the benefit of the especial creditors. A married lady could only charge debts on her estate by appoint men t , met the difficulty was, whether that could operate against a person whoa's, *special appointee. '!be Vica-CnertcemAte.—Suppose there bad been no appointment of the property, to whom would the fend then ge ? Mr. SHODEN.—Tbey would remain in trust for the resi duary legatees of the testatrix. The Vica-CtiancgLioit.—Who are the residuary le gatees ? Mr. Suotren.—They are not stated, but I think they are the Duke of Brunswick and his immediate descendants. The Vecitel uanexbitia said, that if there were ito resi duary legatees, there would be a difficulty in maintaining the appointment against the general creditors; but if there were, the general creditors' right was thus far excluded. It was clear that, by the appointment, Mr. Austin was en titled- to any. seeping that might remain after Mr. Hoper's debt was paid ; but then there was a question whether other creditors were not also entitled to have their claims liquidated? Mr. SVGDIIN said, he would take the order for paying the surplus to Mr. Austin, and that the Master be directed to inquire whether there were any other creditors. Mr. Hebb said, that the only doubt on his mind. was as to how far the Queen, being afeme covert, was at liberty to art under the eircom.tances. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that the decision of the Court wonid not exclude him from urging' tiiis point on another °erasion. Mr. SCCDRN said, it was quite clear that the Queen, when Princess of Wales, being a feme covert, could not create creditors. Mr. BELL said, that in the case of a fcme covert, the piety could take only by appointment. He could not press 1s point fultber he was well aware. Tte lice-CHANCELLOR said, that while under the re striction of aferne covert, the Queen of course could have creditors: so it would be extremely difficult to raise the question. His Honour ordered that it he referred to the blaster to inquire what property the late Queen Caroline tied possessed of; who were her creditors; and whether there was any subsequent appointment to that made in fa rJur of Mr. Austin. Mr. BELL did not think there was any subsequent ap pointment. Mr. SUGDEN said he was convinced there was not, for the fact was admitted by the executors of the late Duke of Brunswick, by the executors of the late Queen, and by the agents of Prince Leopold, who were all ready to come for ward if necessary. Mr. Bete said there still appeared to him to be a diffi culty in the case with respect to the other creditors. • Mr. Sunosst observed that Mr. Bell Has going from one difficulty to another, as if he wanted only to keep the whole fund in Court. Mr. Bect said that the general role was to inquire whe ther there were any other creditors. The VICE•CHANCELLOR said that the Court could not depart from the gener'al rule, for there might be parsons ititerested who were pot represented in Court. After a few words from Mr. Stooge, Hie HONOUR said that he would send the case to the Master, with directions for him to make a separate Report npon the several points. and that such Report 511011141 be hid before the mister of the Rolls for him to mike an order thereon. His HONOUR, asked what the whole amount of the pro perty was? Mr. SUGDEN said abont 50001. 1 he Vtcs CiLt NCSLLOR —Then the surplus, after the pay ment of Mr. Hoper's debt, would be some provision for this youlur man. KENT ASSlZES.—Matnaroxe, WEDNESDAY. CROWN SIDE. Joseph Dell the younger, was indicted for the wilful mnr der of Joseph Bell the rider, his father, at Deal. on the 16th of April, Ly shouting him through the body with a loaded gun. E v idenee was adduced of the crime charged, bat the pri soner on being called on fur his defence, betrayed an un• c u ns.ionsnes- of what was passing. There was a vacant atnpidity in his rotinteitante, and his gestures were those of a person bereaved of intelligence; alien Mr. Agar. the Go vernor of the gaol, interposed, a-ml expressed his belief that the prisoner was not sensible of what was passing, and in firmed the Learned Judge, that during his confinement he had Lad frequent similar aberrations of mind. • Mr. Sergeant ONSLow said if he had known this fact be fore, he shout not have suffered the prisoner to be pot on his trial until he was in a fit state to make his de fence. The risitins. Surgeon of the gaol, Mr. Wbatman, was then called. and stated that he had strictly watched the pri soner, an I bad reason to think that he was not at all times sane. He was row directed to examine the prisoner. and gave his own opinion as to his present state. Altordingly he went into the dock, felt the prisoner's pulse, and ex pressed his conviction that his present state of body and tripod rendered him incapable of understanding what was passing, or of making his defence. His pulse at that moment was 135. Upon %Inch, • Mr. Sarfreant ONSLOW sail that but one course orpro reeding was - open—namely, to discharge the Jury from giv ing any verdict, and Postponing the case until the next gaol delivery. This was not a matter of frequent occurrence, hat lie. had no thiubt of his authority so to deal with the case. The Jury were then discharged from giving any verdict, the prisoner was reminded to gaol, and the recopixances of the witnesses respited till the next Assiies. liilliaas Donallaa. alias Donally, was iodleted for the wilful murder of Bridget Douallan, his %%ire.. at Chatham, on the 19. h of September, 1518, by drowning her in a Mr. MARSHAM (with whom was Mr. Claridge) stated the ease for the prosecution, and called several witnesses who deposed to the following facts. In. the year 1816 the prisoner, who had been previously a soldier, was brought as a deserter from Porchester gaol to the depot of the 98th' Regiment (to which he belonged,) at the Isle of Wight:— The regiment being then in Canada. he, together with his' wife and chiWreo, was sent to America ; atuf in 1818 he re turned to this toiletry, and was quartered at liromptOn. In September in that year he was billeted at the Duke of York public-house, and a bark kitchen, to which was attached lied-room, was ass;gneil to him and his family. 'His silk (whoiwis represented to be a very repectahle women) was then in:an advanc-d state of pregnancy. On the owning of the 19th of September the deceased was missing. and the , re _ 2• - • THt iIATEBMAN. pastimes. - being asked hy the wife of a srjeint - Who 4. abroad what bad become of her, said she lead gone oft with %soldier of his regiment, and taken 31. with her, and her clothes, leaving him but 15s. He then proposed to the ser jeant's wife. who was preparing to join her husband at the Capeof Good Hope, that she should cohabit with him. She treated the proposition with derision, and told him she had no doubt Ms wife would return to him in a day or two, knowing her to be a woman of correct habits. He,however, said be would be d—dif his wife would ever he seen inChat ham again. On the same day the serjeant's wife agreed with the publican to take the apartments which bad been occupied by the prisoner, who was let into possession of another room in the house. Upon examining the prisoner's bed there were stains of blood upon the bol ster, the sheets, and the ticking, which was said not to have arisen from natural causes. This eircum sluice excited no suspicion against the prisoner. and he re 41alaisd in the house for a week after. Immediately under He wisdom of the room was a well. In a few days after the domed was missing, it was observed that the water was tainted and unfit for use. At the end of three weeks something was discovered in the well which excited curiosity, and a man was sent to examine it, and the result was that the body of the deceased was brought op in a state of nakedness and pu tridity. No marks of violence were discernible from the length of time the body had lain In the water, but no doubt was entertained other identity. It was admitted on the part of the prosecution that nothing would turn upon the nakedness of the body, as it was the practice of the lower orders of Irish to sleep in that state. At this time the prisoner had left Chatham. having been discharged from his regiment, and no traces of him could be obtained. In the year 1819 a private of the 2d West India Regiment. 'imed Thompson, who was stationed in the Island of Barbadoes, and had been a serpent in the 98th, in the year 1816, when the prisoner was received at the depot to the Isle of Wight, hap pened to pick up at the guard-room door, a piece of an old news-paper, containing an account of Mrs. Donallan's murder by her husband, which brought to his mind the conviction that the prisoner was the man. In the month of March, 1822, Thompson happened to be quartered at Clan morris, county of Mayo, in Ireland, where the prisoner then resided. Being on ditty one day the prisoner passed the barracks, and he immediately recognised him as an old comrade. They fell into conversation, and Thomp son asked him how Biddy and the children were. meaning the prisoner's wife. The prisoner became much agitated, and answered that his wife died, or that he had buried her (which the prisoner could not say), at Chatham, in 1818. la a day or two Thompson communicated his suspicions to. Captain Smith, and in consequence of his information, he and two other soldiers were sent by the Htmbotrahle Denis Brown to desire the prisoner to attend him. The pri soner being informed of the message became again violently agitated, and expressed a wish first to put on a clean shirt, which be was incapable of doing without a•sistanee from extreme perturbation at the communication which had been made to him. Upon his appearing before Mr. Brown he was sent to this country to answer this cloarae. The pri- , soner stood for trial at the last Assizes, but in consequence of the absence of material witnesses his trial had been post poned. Two circumstances were admitted robe favourable to the prisoner—first, that within a week after his wife was missed, he had drank of the water of the well ; and, secondly, that he had made no attempt to escape' when sus• picion was attached toliim. The prisoner, who was without Counsel, cross-examined several of the witnesses with acuteness, but nothing was elicited tending to relieve him from his perilous situation. He handed in a written defence, wherein be solemnly pro- tested his innocence. In a few words, which be audiessed to the Jury. he earnestly appealed to them, if it was pos- . sible that he could be guilty of any violence towards a wo man by whom he had had two children, anal who had ac companied him through England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and America, in all his campaigns. He hoped the Jury would strictly examine their own consciences before, under such circumstances, they would find him guilty of so atrocious a crime. Mr. Sergeant Oxstow recapitnlated the evidence, and left the Jury to determine three qnestions— first, whether they were satisfied of the deceased's identity; second, wile thee the prisoner was the author of the death ; ant!. third, whether the deceased carne by her death in the manner charged in the indictment. The Jury deliberated for some time, and found the pri soner Guilty—Death. The prisoner being called upon in the usual manner to say whether he had any thing to argue why sentence of death slionld not he passed upon him, again solemnly de clared his innocence. Mr. Sergeant Osstow then passed the awful sentence of the law, and ordered the prisoner for execution on Friday morning next. lug young Man ; and was; moreover, as we base alre.dy stated, a sworn broth-r of Tdtis Foy's. It so happened, however, that on the very day after Tom Foy had lost Otis money, Larry Cleary eppeard to be pilling in wealth. He bought himself an entirely new suit of clothes, mar ried the servant maid at-the !led Lion, got drunk three times a day and repeatedly displayed twenty or thirty sovereigns eta time. Tom Foy now began to think that his suspicions were true, and be thought it was impostible he himself, whilst taking hie drops of drink, might have met with Larry Cleary accidentally and base given him the money to take care of—" Bekase he would have trained Larry wid a thousand pound untoald."—Under this impres sion, he set an inquiry on foot ; and, in answer to the pies. dons put to him, Larry Cleary declared he found forty eight sovereigns tied up in a /could stoc tng, on the pavement in James-street, Haprarket, the very night Tom Foy came home drunk. Tom Foy could not gainsay this, and, there. fore, be held his peace; but he afterwards learned that Larry had accounted for his sudden wealth very differently to others, and be would not let him rest without coming b;- ' fore the Magistrate. To one person Larry bad stated, that hr found the "stocking full of sovereigns" concealed under a brick, among the new houses in Co:kspar-street ; to an other, that he hail received it from a "young lady" of his acquaintance, who told him she had " picked it ' from a Frenehniao, whilst lie was paying his addresses to her one night; anti to a third, that he bad received it as a fortune with his wife. All these things were stated by Tom Foy and Lis wife with much eloquence before the Magistrate ; though not without continual interroption train honest Larry, who de clared that he had told these various stories merely to so [iffy impertinent curiosity ; bat that be had in fact picked up forty-eight soverfigns in James-street, as aforesaid. " lion Azattoirst," said he, " put the money in me way for the good of me, and . ' shall keep it, with the blessing of 00D. in spite of all of ye, may be." He sail farther, that he had spent twenty•ninc sovereigns out of the forty eight ; but, when asked to detail his expenditure, be could unl; account for about Si. The Magistrate t him be hail no doubt Tons Foy's suspicions were trite: and Tons Foy, turning to him, said —" Here, Larry, now I'll tell you what.—An ye'll give me up what's left of it, I shall forgive ye what's 'rut, an d the injury ye've done to me." " Is it give it up, Tone Foy ?" exclaimed Larry.—" An what's to become of me eatraeleter then ?—'Faith I'll lave nothing bat honesty behind me, die I% ben I will, if I was hanged this moment." He was committed for further examination, and an of ficer was sent to his lodgings to secure the remainder of the cash. MARV-LA-BONNE ()rms.—Yesterday, Hint. Barnes and Thos. IVoodward were brought up by Staples and Buck ridge, the officers, charged with attacking Barnett, a Jew, putting him in bodily tear, and robbing him. Barnett stated, that in the middle of the day of Tuesday, he was cou'infr along Lisson Brave, Mary•l4 bonne, poems ing his avocation, when the two prisoners suddenly rushed at him, knocked hint down, and after giving him souse tre mendous blows, marched off after robbing him; Woodward, as lie was going off, snatched his hat, and placing it on his [mid, retreated. The Jew, on reror o •ring hie feet, par r sued them to the Tunnel of the Regent's Canal, %here the ruffians bad taken fuge, and requested the restoration of his property, but Woodward, who appeare I to be a man of extraordinary strength and stature, seized biw, and dashed him into the canal; he, however, succeeded in getting ashore. when the ruffian was stain about to immerse him in the water ; but on his imploring him to spare his life, lie threw hint on the gronnd, and loosed a large dog, from the onset of which, and the brutality of the prisoners, lie was obliged to make a hasty retreat. On subsequently ap plying to this Office, Iluckridge and Staples were de spatched; having been informed the offenders were navi• gators working on the canal, they instantly went there, and found they were in two barges, which they instantly boarded; on in iking known the nature of their errand, an attempt was made by other navigators to cut the barges down the stream from their moorings, and if this had been done, the barge in which the officers were would have been completely destroyed, but they produced their tire arms, and threatened to shoot the first man that attempted the desperate act. This had the effect of compelling the fel lows to desist; Buckridge then, after a violent struggle, secnred Barnes, Out Woodward, on being dragged ashore, fought with great desperation, until Staple's tripped bum up, and haii•lcuffed him, fastening him to the other prison er, face to face, and in that way brought him to the offiee. Barnes had the Jew's bat on his head—no other property was found. • 1, " The Magistrate said, he was sorry to find the navigators had in that district latterly practised the most shocking ez tesses, imagining, he supposed, their overpowering strength was thir protection, bet in thi instance a lesson might be taught that the law was too strong for them. They were both fully committed to Newgate for trial. .HATTON-6ARDEN.--Popul ir indignation was most strongly excited at this office, against a middle-aged man ,of respectable appearance, of the name of Shepherd Ino S tailor, residing at 14, Baynam-street, Camden-town, who was charged with indecencies of a nature too revolting to admit of description upon the persons of five ehildr. n, the eldest of whom nas only eight years old, and the youngest not five years old. The children, who were present, attend. ed by their parents, gave evidence nearly similar in each case, and which left no doubt of the guilt of the prisoner. It appeared that he bad decoyed them into his house by presents of fruit, cakes, &c. anti there took the improper liberties now charged against him. The officer stated, that the conduct of this fellow had become of late quite notorious in the neighbourhood of his residence. • The Magistrates expressed themselves fully satisfied with the evidence given, and ordered his committal to Clerken well prison, for the misdemeanour, till he could give bail for his appearance to answer the charge at the sessions, himself in 40/. two sureties in 291. each, and to give twelve houirs' notice of bail, On his removal from the office to be locked up, he would have met with summary punishment icon] the crowd col lec ed, but for the protection of the officers %Ponsnt p STRUT.—Yeiterday James &ratford, charged ' with robbing the caravan of John Kelson, the travelling doctor, nas brought before Samuel, TWYPORDi Mrs. Kelton, the doctress, appeared and stated, that on the 7th May last she found the prisoner in the van, who on seeing her Jumped down and ran sway. She found the drawers broke open, and a bag containing 126/. in silver, and a silver watch, also a quantity of wearing apparel, were 'gone. Part of the property was found in the prisoner's apartments in Stewart Street, Old Artillery Ground. The van was stationary at the time in Unicorn Yard, Blackman Street. The prisoner was committed for trial at the next Surrey Assizes. Union Hat.x.-=-Yesterclay, six well dressed girls of, the town were brought before L: B. &LIN, Esq., charged by the officers. who attend at Vauxhall Gardens, with having loitered about the neighbourhood, in company with' hack. ney coachmen, waternwn's apprentices, and thieves, for the purpose of picking up and robbing any gentleman who Might leave the gardens in liquor. A fellow nawed Ed. togrds, was also brought op, charged with having called to the girls to escape when. they were taken•into custody, and with having.assaalted,one . .if the-officers. The officerastated, that the proprietors of the gardens having determined that all suspicious characters should.be removed from Vtexardens and the vicinity, gave directions or that:effete.; intl as several robberies had been committed . , by the w0w:11 ... 0f the, town who roamed about Vauxhall, themitnestes took ttli the prisoners, who % in the cont• . patty described alirri; and Otte of Whom there was very good reason ter believing had runbed a gentleman of :at sovereigns. All the prisoners were sent to Brixton Mill, which they acknowledged they bad often visited before. Since the gardens have been opened under the present menagement, it has been ascertained that npnards of I,OIM offensire characters, who need to Toiler in and about that place of amusement, bars been apprehended and committed. Quitmi-ectuanx.—Yesterday, at one o'clock, the neigh bourhood of Orchard Street, Westminster, was thrown into greatest confusion, by the streams of a female, pro ceedingthe from the house, No. tI in that street. An iminense iv:ihilist'e of persons assembled round the house, and the cries of " Murder !" and groans increasing, information nes instantly conveyed to Gilmore and other officers of Queen-square, who proceeded to the spot, and immediately entered the house. On going in'o the back yard, they found a poor young woman lying on the stones in a state of insen sibility, weltering in her blood, and she appeared to have been dr eadfully beaten, %bleb they understood had been administered hr her husband. A surgeon was immediately smt for, and he pronounced her to be in imminent danger. and advised her to be carried immediately to the hospital, which was accordingly done, and the husband was secured and carried to Queen-square police office. Mr. Mar«laral. a clerk, and Gilmore, proceeded to the hospital, to take the unfortunate woman's &position, but she was unable to speak. She spat blood, and appeared dreadfully injarel t appears that the prisoner returned home yesterday, and repruached his wife with wasting his motley, and that she had sanctioned the visits of another man in his absence, On which he knocked bes down, beat and kicked her in the most cruel manner, an 1 left her insensible on the ground.— In the coarse of the day he was h10 , 11(11t before the Magis trates, who felt indignant at his conduct, and remanded him for further examination, his wile nut being expetnetl to recover. She is a fine uoking young woman, about twenty-two. • • . Yesterday Mr. Thos. Aldridge, landlord of the Ship pub- He house. Charles-sire'', %Yestietinster, eras convicted in the mitigated pen tity of 40s. for having supplied ettstimen with liquor et half past 11 o'clock at nix ht. THE ACCIDSST AT BILLINGSGATg.—Tt is now ascertain. ed that this melancholy occurrence was not so great as at first represented. The hoist-guns and buoys, as stated, cer,. tainly gave way, and, from the geaerat eproar and confu sion that prevailed, 'AI persons, souse very intoxicated. front their anxiety and harry to got into the boats, were forces' by the throng into the water ; and it has since ascer tained, all of those, by (Welling the ropes of the lighters, sncceeded in saving their lives, although many were very 'severely hurt. Fonaeo NoTes.—At the late Liverpool Sessions,a sonny vomit,' (Jane \l'Carol) was atlnitted of a charge of having forged notes in her possession, in whirls they were found under the following ittrentnstgeters : —About six weeks agO she cause (tom Ireland in the packet, in which also came passenger a John Aleaghan, who entered into conversation with her, in which lie, with apparent confidence, tout her that he had a small packet wilts him, which he was afrai I would he taken from him on his arrival at Liverpool, as he %Yes susw-ctesi of being a stnotrgler. Hr prevailed on the young woman to put the parcel into her pocket. The search ing officer discovered the packet, which, on being opened, contsined 339 forged notes, purporting to be of Messrs. Dohson's ilsoldersfiel.l of one guinea each. She ins , meiliately pointed out the owner, an•t stated her indncement for taking charge of the packet, not knowing its contents.— Meaghan dented this statement, but hoth were secnred.--. I nformstion was procured which entirely cleared the young women from suspicion, and on the trial Neagh an was found guilty, anti sentrnc•d to three years' imprisonment wits hard l.sbour. The Court suggested that some compensa tion should be made to the young wool 111, and 3lass.es. Doh son's clerk gave her el., to which tt:e ,flavor kintly aided twat! more. On Monday morning last, a man of the vitme of Month Hty. weaver in King's Street, Leith, invited a Mr. Mafia% joiner there, to his house, in order, (as the former pretend ed) to communicate with him about the purchase of some property. Hay asked his friend to walk to Edinburgh with . him, and to be the bearer of 2001., at the same time request ing a receipt for that amount, which was granted. He then retired to another apartment, under pretence of bringing the money, when, on his return, he appeared, to the aston ishment and•horror of his friend, with a laige rook's knife in his hand, with which he made a desperate blow at Mr. M.'s breast. Forte : ately be parried it with his left arm, which was, however, severely lacerated, and struck Hay a blow, in order to retreat the more effeetnally towards the door, which he found locked, but the key in it. Ile got it open before Hay recovered from the blow, and gave an alarm, when Hay was secured, and conveyed to the police . ethce.—(Scotch Paper.) On Tuesday morning last the dwelling house of Mr. John Newitt, of Weony End, in Chatteris, suddenly gave way while the family were in bed ; Mr. Newitt, los son, and housekeeper, had a most narrow escape. It apper.rs that the house was one of the oldest in the place; the gable end of which, being lofty, gav,t• way, carrying with it the bed of Mr. Newitt, and that of his housekeeper, who slept in the adjoining room. Mr. Newitt fortunately felt the bed sinking from under him, and crept out at the foot; had he attempted to have got out at the side, instant death must have been his fate, or had he been one minute longer on his pillow, destruction would have been equally inevitable. as a large beam fell across the head of the bed, at the mo ment be crept out at the foot. Some of the falling mate rials struck Mr. Newitt on the head, which strolled hint for a time. Providentially all the three inmates escaped without injury, in a state of nudity, into the garden; where some neighbours cane quickly to their assistance, being alarmed at the crash of the falling wall. the effect of which aomt•what resembled the shock of an cartlitplake. It was a large brick built house, and had been in a decayed state foe some time,—(Bury Gazette.) BIRTH.—On the 7th inst., in lisrlerstreet, the Lady of J. Lautour, Esq. of a still-born daughter. MARRIED.—On Thursday last at St. George's, Hanover square, S. Y. Benyon, Eaq. of Ash Hall, In the county of Salop, and of Stratton-street, Piccadilly, to Caroline Eliza, eldest daughter of John Tharp, Esq. of Chippenhain Park,. Cambridgeshire. On Thursday, at St. John's, Hackney, R. (lichens, Esq. of . Peckham. to Jane, second daughter of the late Westgartb Snaith, Esq. On Thursday. the 7th inst., et Totteridge Church, the Hoe. Captain Granville George Waldegrave, It. N., eldest son of Admiral the Lord Radstock, 0. C. C., to Esther Caroline. youngest daughter of the late John Paget, Esq. of Totteridge. Herts. Oa Tuesday, the bth inst., at Atherston. Warwickshire. Stafford Stratton Salter, eldest son of D. Sailer, Esq.. of Atherstone, toNiary Ann Wright, only daughter of the late iti. Wright, Esq., of Eatou•hall, Staffordshire. -- • - On the sth August, at Maryletanne Church, W. Donaldson. Esq. of Uttletso, in theCousty of Dorset.to Charlotte,daughter of J. Petrie, Esq. of Welbeck•street. • DlED.—Lately. at Sheerness, Edward Quin. Esq.. mall years eouneeted with the public press of the metropolis, sad formerly a member of the Common Council. On &today. Aug. 3, at her house, at Highgate, Mrs. Mary Robertsoa, aged W. At Atte.. aged 110 years, Mrs. Ormsby, relict of the ' Mr. Isaac Ormsby. • ( London : Printed and Pidill.hed et the Office. Nn. Strand," b), R. WARDELL, L.L.O. Proprietor. POLICE. blaststox House.—George Palmer, the hook keeper, of the Blue Boar Inn, Alt Lode. was summoned before tike Loan. Malms on a charge of having refused to deliver' p trcel when demanded. Mr John Tindall stated that he received advice from - a friend • at Malden, stating that six geese had been sent to, him and would arrive at the Blue Boar Inn. Witness sc.: cordingly went at the proper time and asked for the parcel which had• arrived. for bun from Malden, by the Malden c tacit. be believed. The - defentiant looked at the way bill of the Malden coach, and said no such parcel'had arrived, but gave himself no further trouble about the matter. Wit. nets went away, but afterwards :received positive informa tion that they had been sent to the Blue Boar. He got them Ultimately, but they were all spoiled. The book keeper treated the charge with great indigna tion ; said " the man" should have asked fur the proper conveyance, which was by a caravan, and then he'd have 'em; but be only disked for a parcel by the Malden coach, and they had no Malden coach at that office. The LORD Mavoa said, supposing Mr. Tindall had only asked for the parcel arrived by the Malden ceac;t, it was the duty of the defendabt to have examined every convey: ance from that place before he garb an answer. These men, in the coach offices, were in general careless, as well as insolent; and his Lordship, as an example to them, fined the defendant ten shillings. Mr. Tindall was advised to proceed against the innkeeper for the recovery of the value of the six geese spoiled in consequence of the negligence. Bow STDRRT.—I men Arriitts. ThomtwFoy and Lau rence Cleary, two stout Irishmen, and sworn brothers, came before O. It. Missoci.t., Esq.. on Wednesday night, to request that he would be pleased to settle a little hig of a difference between them. Tom Foy strongly suspected that Larry Cleary bad robbed him of thirty-nine sovereigns, and Larry Cleary declared that he knew no more about them titan the childer that is to be born 'next year. On the 7th of July, Tom Foy, by lows lucky chance or other, received thirty sovereigns " in the bright gold," and some odd silver, of a broker in the city; and having re• ceived, he " of coorac, took a few drops to drink."—How long he was . taking 'his drops of drink he could not tell, woe tchcre he took them ; but having taken them; lie went home to his place inliedfordbury, laid hiinself down on his bed, anti fell fist asleep. When he awoke, be felt in his pantylooc: for his money ; and not finding it, he asked his wife—" Mary, jewel. how much • money did yen take out of me pantyloons ?":—" Seven and sixpence," replied • Mary. —" The*, be the powers!" said he. ** the thirty-bins so vereigns is clanegone sore enough !" What observations "'Mary jewel" Made on receiving thit doleful Intimation, dirt not appear. but they suspected that their friend Larry tie try knew something ab tilt it ; and - they agree! "to say nothing to any body for a bit," not doubting but if Larry Limy win - (14 nein,' Providence would make it appear, Nowt-Larry Clary' was then a bachelor, Ind occupied ludgivir sin 'rutriFtry't house; he was a honest, hard work- - iC a • . - . • , ~7 ' f -, . eif • • V r . 1 . 11 . ts i•