The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-05-31 00:00:00

COURT or pi ANTEI This being the 6rst day of Trinity Term, the Judges, waited upon the Lord Chancellor in Lincoln's Inn Hall, according to custom, after which they proceeded in pro -, cession to Westminster. His Lordship took his teat at about one o'clock. GLADITTN V. BONNER. This was an application on behalf of the defendants. Sar..la and Anne Bonner, to dissolve an injunction grant ed by the Vice Chancellor; it also prayed that they • might be at liberty to enter up judgment. His Honour had restraiirEd the defendants from proceeding with their action of ejectment on the ground that thereby the merits of the case could not properly be disposed of. It appeared that the testator had bequeathed the whole of his estate to his son, but determined that nobody should enjoy his property who resided in America, he provided, in case his son (who hal then served in the American war and married an American lady) should at any period dwell in that country, that then all the rents and profits of the premises should be received by Trus tees for the use of his two daughters, so long as the son might remits there, and no longer. The circumstance against whi,;ll the testator had thus provided actually oc curred: for Thomas Bonner hsving contracted debts to a large amount, was induced to quit this country for America, in consequence of a warrant being issued against him for sho o ting at and wounding a Sheriff's officer. Previous to this, however, he bad granted va rions annuities on his estate, and the annuitant creditors having got part of the proper'y'veated in the hands of a receiver, tinder the authority of the Court, refused to comply with the terms of the will in favour of the daughters, who, on their parts, immediately brought an action of ejectment to recover possession. To restrain the trial of this action, the plaintiffs filed their bill in equity, and ob'ained the interposition of the Court below. The Loon Csivicci.tors expressed his sincere Wish, if possible, to remove this unfortunate family out of the at mosphere of the Court of Chancery, where they had been con testing their rights ever since his Lordship was a school boy ; an.: Mr. 'rho. Honner's great-grand-father was ;slain tiff in the cease reported in Ist Vesey, by which be was en tirely rulied. He desired exceedingly to prevent his suc cessors from falling into the same predicament, but they seemed strongly bent on running a similar race. His Lord ship remarked on the singularity of Prohibiting this gentle man from residing in America (to which country it seemed he was attached from early associations). when the terms of the will rid not prevent him from living in any . other. His Lor'shlp had oo doubt that by the action of ejectment, the merits could not be tried, but then he thought the course of proceeding to he adopted now, would be to send it to the Master to inquire. and state whether the ladies had, under the present circumstances, a prior interest to the annuitants, tthich would also include the other point, namely, as to whether the gentleman was actually now residing in America. ssing stated thus much he would further consider the case, and deliver his final judgment in a few - days. S/VPSON V. RANDALL. The defendant in this cease being about to present a peti tion of Appeal to the House of Lords, applied for leave to r'eposit the sum in dispute in Court, there to abide the issue, in-lead of paying it over to the plaintiff. It was contended tile' by the adoption of some such course as this, the plain tiff, if ultimately entitled thereto, could not be excluded from his right for more than a few weeks, whereas, in the event of its being lodged in his bands, previously to the Appeal being heard, if it was afterwards decided against him, it would in consequence of his needy circumstances be diflleillt to recover it. • The Lon D CIILNCELLON begged to consider the probabi lity of payment to any one in the course of a " few weeks." There were, he said, 116 Scotch Appeals pending in the /louse of Lords. Of English, Irish, and Welsh (the latter were by far the least lovers of litigation) altogether, from about xlO to 2,30. For the disposal of these cases (inde pendent of those which were rapidly accruing) not more than three days in the week were allowed at the mast, which his Lordship calculated would be sufficient to hear about 36 ' eases in the year. The last ease which had been decided And crimpled five days. and the one at present before their ' Lordships would, in all probability. exceed that period.— The parties might gather from this statement what chance they had of their cause being disposed of in a " few weelis." COURT OF KING'S BENCII, MAY 30. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. JESSOPP moved for a criminal information against two Suffolk Magistrates, one of the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for that county, for an alleged, cor rupt interposition to prevent the execution of a warrant f>r apprehe...;ing a person, against whom two indict men::: for petit larceny hal been found. It was alleges! -that after the indictments in question had been returned, an application was made for a warrant to apprehend the off as ler, and the warrant was granted, but the justices (laestion forbade it to issue, on the ground that it would be time enough to put it in execution a few days h -fore the ensuing sessions. The only motive imputed ftr this conduct was, that the alleied offender was a la boarer in the employment of the Chairman of the Ses sions. The affidavits omitted to state that the snpposed felon had absconded, or would not La forthcoming by tt.e time he could, in the ordinary course of events, take his trial. The COURT, under the. circumstanc-N stated, thought there was no ground for this extraordinary interposition: There was nothing to raise a seasonable presumption that the Alagis'rates were influenced by a corrupt motive. For any thing that appeared to the contrary, the person agalnst whom the indichnetts were found, would be ready to take his trial at the ensuing sessions. The ut most that the party now applying was entitled to, was a tna.lcitue to the sessions to issue a Bench warrant for the apprehension of the supposed felon. There was cer tainly nothing established on which to found a criminal information.—Rule refused. DEATH BY FIGHTING. THE KING V. S. FEATHERS. Mr. RUSsEL moved for a rule to strew cause-why the Magistrates of Worcester should not admit the Defend ant Jo - bail, who had beeu committed on a charge of manslaughter. The Learned Counsel stated that two persons, named Roberts and Matthews, had quarrelled, and they went out to light. Roberts was a pugilist and be Was reluctant to fight, but the persons present urged them to the contest. The)• fought seven rounds, and Matthews was killed. Roberts and Samuel Feathers were then contmit.ed on a charge of manslaughter. The Learned Counsel made the application on the extreme poverty of the Defendant, who was u nable to p a y for the Writ of Habeas. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—Have you an affidavit to state how Feathers interfered on this occasion ? Mr. RUSSEL—He was one of the seconds. The Loan Cuter JUSTICE.—On the affidavits it ap- Pears Roberts was unwilling to fight, but he was prelsed by others; stad as Feathers was one who seconded them, time Magistrates may probably . have reason fur refusing bail Be cant of interpose. It ts quite clear, without the interposition of others, teis melancholy ssecideut would smut have happened.—ltale refused. RUMNESS Of THE _COURT. :Le LORD Cuter JUSTICt said, it was important to !,et on with new trials, the Court would therefore take i‘-e Logsdon and Middlesex new trials at the earliest op- I s-.rtonity. At any moment of the day Counsel might ~:Isect to be called on to argue new trials. THE SING V. H. O'MEARA. Tide application to tile a criminal information agaisat Mr. O'Sleara for a libel ua Sir LI. Lowe, which stooC tor further argument, was this day called as it stood in the paper. fdr. C. PHILLIPS said, the Solicitor-Oenerdi had re . quested him to say it would he a great convenience if the Comet would allow it to be s:racivorthe paper, and come on as a motion. . • 1)L ' ly , ther TIN KING V. WYTVOIIIIIK. The rule for a criminal information against the coro ner of Salop was also called on in course, after Air. Jar tics Best had retired ; but The Conß•r declined taking it in the absence of that learned Judge, who tried the case of murder to which it relates, and directed that it should stand over till another day. It was finally arranged between the Counsel, that it should be brought on to-morrow (this day.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAT 30. SITTINGS IN JANCO. This being the first day of Term, the Judges came down in procession to Westminster. Ray, Esq. having succeeded his father in the of fice of one of the Prothonotaries of this Court, took his seat, after having observed the forms usual on such an occasion. The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Richardson were absent from continued indisposition. PALACE COURT, FRIDAY, MAY 30. DROWN/NO V. Till COUNTIDIS Or °LANDAU.. Mr. MANGLES stated the case. It was au action brought by the Plaintiff against the Noble Defendant, to recover the sem °LS/. 13s. for a machine, furnished for the Countess's daughter. lie understood the defence intended to be set up was, that Earl Gleogall was at the time living, and that the action could not be maintained against the Countess. Francis Sewell deposed, that he was In the employment of the Plaintiff, and remembered perfectly well making the machine in question, which to the best of his recollection oc , empled 1$ days in making. The bill of particulars was here put into the hand of witness, who spoke to the several ar ticles, but could not value them. Mr. Pursey stated, that he was acquainted with cabinet work, and that the charges in the bill were fair and reason able. In 1819, witness called on Lady °length. and saw her Ladyship, and informed her that he came from Mr, Browning with the Bill ; she said in reply, that she consi dered the charge too much, as Mr. Browning said it would not come fo more than 21. or St. Cross-examined by Mr. Tnessrree.—Witness, although he did not know the nature of the machine, yet he was quite sure the prices were moderate. Mr. TIIESSIGER addressed the Jury for the defence, which he said his Learned Friend had rightly guessed. The Countess of Glengall 'Auld not have appeared in Court that dny, gut that she was obliged, in consequence of the number of demands made against her, to throw the protec tion of the law around her. Her Ladyship had paid many —very many—bills of the deceased Earl, which she had no right to pay, and it was not until the demands multiplied, that she was obliged to have recourse to a Court of Law.— The charge in question, however, would have been paid bad it been moderate, and that it was not worth more than 3/. would be proved by a witness he should call. If be proved this, and proved that the Earl was alive; and living with his wife, (then the verdict must he for the defendant. The Leaned Counsel stated, that from the present distracted stale of Ireland, the rents could not be regularly collected, but he had no doubt every debt would he paid. Thomas Henry Jehnston produced the certificate of mar riage between Lord Cahir, afterwards Earl of 6104111, cud the defendant. Mr. 3!anningliam, formerly in the service of Lord Glengall, deposed that he Inid resided with the family . up to the time of his tle:ttli. The Earl and Countess lived together up to the time of the death of the former. Mr. MANGLES replied.—llis Learned Friend had stated many things which he had not proved. It would have been more to her Ladyship's honour if she had paid the small debt id question. The plainti ff from I sit uation in life could not be aware of every family connexion of the Earl of tilengall's family. The Judge (BURTON MORRICE, Esq ) summed up to the Jury, and ohseried, that this was one of the clearest rases that ever came before him. An action could not be brought against a woman for a contract when her hus band was alive. This machine was for children—Whose children? why the children of the Earl. The plaintiff should have made inquiry; the contract was clearly with the huNkted, and the verdict must be for the defendant. Verdict for the defendant. POLf CE. -4 MANSION-MUM—Yesterday a case of much import ance to manufacturers and pawnbrokers, came on before the sitting Magistrate, Alderman Cox. Mr. S. Sadler, a respectable pawnbroker, was summoned to show cause wry he refused to deliver up without payment of the mo my advanced, a quantity of silk, alleged to have been illegally pawned. Ihe complainants were Messrs. Kendal and Co., silk manufacturers, of St. Paul's Church-yard. From the case made out by their solicitor, it appeared that a quan tity of silk had been given to one of their workmen to work it up. He accomplished the task, but as soon as the silk was saleable, he pawned it in the finished state, and absconded. The Solicitor submitted that the goods had been un lawfully pawned, and that the pawnbroker was bound , to return them without the payment of the mone y .— He cited the case of Makepeace v. Harker , to show that it had been held that when goods which had been en trusted to a servant to manufacture were pawned, the pawnbroker was bound to return them without payment, of the mbney advanced. Mr. Sadler stated that the person who pledged them with him bad represented himself as a small manufac turer, and he (Mr. Sadler) had some reason to believe the story to be correct. He contended at great length the pawning was not illegal as against himself, though it might be against the workman. Alderman Cox decided, that this was not an illegal pawning within the meaning of the. Act. To compel a pawnbroker to deliver up the goods, it was necessary to they should be proved to have oeen stolen, or if pawned by a workman, that they should be prove d to bare been pawned in au unfinished state, or under such circum stances as to raise the inference, that the pawnbroker Inuit have believed that they were not the pawner's pro perty at the time he took them in pledge. In the case of Makepeace v. Harker, the goods pawned by the ser vant or workman, and ordered to be restored, were in an unfinished state; but here they were finished, and pawned under circumstances which might reasonably in duce the pawnbroker to brlieve.that they were sent by ohe of those little misters who were so constantly com pelled to have recourse to such means of raising money. The pawning was a serious offence on the part of the workman, which rendered him liable to a fine of 51., to forfeit treble the value of thu goods, and in default to be imprisoned for three months to hard labour, and to be whipped at the discretion of the Magistrate. The manufacturers must seek and punish the workmen with whom they intrusted the goods • bet the worthy Alder man thought it would be the goads; of injustice to es tablish a precedent sgainst the.pawnbruker, or strip him upon such a case of the money he had advanced. The worthy Alderman dismissed the case. The Solicitor for the manufacturers still expressed his conviction that be was right in his law, and served Mr. Sadler upon the spot with a notice of action. Mr. Sadler said he was dealt with most ungraciously by the manufacturers in being worried with a law suit, when he might prop-rlv have refused them a sight of the goods, and prevented even the present cosh plaint. The Solicitor for the manufacturers denied tbit Mr, Sadler had an y claims on the ground of courtesy, for if he bad not shown the goods, a sight of thew • procured by means of a _ said that a seareb-warrant would no t have been granted in this case, where there was no ground tor compelling their restoration. The complaint was dismissed, and the mannftentrer went away threatening to have the question decided by a highei; tribunal. flosy-s .—Yesterday, Ben. Doggett, charged on sus piclon of thii murder of Mrs. Donatty, was brought up to be discharged. Mr.lisxxs, the Magistrate. remarked that in consequence of the prisoner's assertion that he was In duced by the ill-treatment he experienced while on board the Marquess of Hastings, to fabricate the confession of the murderin hopes thereby to get sent home, he (Mr.lialts)had made Inquiry on the subject, and had learnt that the prisoner was certainly punished while on board the ship, but not ithmit maniSest erase as he had struck a superior officer, i and was for Chit offence sentenced by a Court of Inquiry, in stituted on the °cession, to receive three dozen lashes, a punishment extremely lenient, considering the nature of the offence. The Prisoner was then taken from the bee, and after hav ing been divested of his Irons, was set free; he directly joined a number of his acquaintances, who were waiting for him in front of the office, and strange, to say. amongst them was observed" Jack Ketch" and his Assistant; the former jokingly congratulated Doggett on not meeting him in his andel capacity. NUISANCISS IN TIM PARR: Several vagrants were brought by the party of Patrol stationed - to prevent nuisances in Hyde Park, charged with having been found lying about sleeping in the grass ; one of them who was remarked for committing.several acts of gross indecency, was sent to the tread-mill for three month, and four others for one month each. The Patrol stated that since the Park had been cleared of the set of wretches who of late infested it for the most vile purposes, the number of respectable persons who frequented there had consider ably increased, and since it had been generally known that the officers were in attendance to preserve order, it was thronged all day long. MART-LA 30:042 OFPlCE.—Yestorday this office was crowded by shopkeepers, in consequence of the apprehen sion, by Morris and Stowell of this establishment, of four young persons on the charge of uttering forged Bank of England notes. At one o'clock they were bronght up before Joust RAWLINSON, the presiding Magistrate ; they gave their names, William Bazil IVall, Charles Slltlie, Maria Clemente, and Frances Freeman; none of sue prisoners appeared to be above 15. Mr. Breen, of the York Arias, East-street. Mary-la bonne, stated, that on the 19th instant the girl Maria Clements came to his house very early in the morning, and presented 4 101. Bank of Eligland note, requesting change for a neighbour, Mrs. Slatter, whose name being written on it, the change was given. The note turned out to be forged. On Clements being apprehended, she pointed out the three ether prisoners. The prisoner, Maria Clements, stated, that on the 19th instant Frances Freem the other female prisoner, called on her a... 4 said that Charles Sythe wanted to speak to der. She went to him, and he produced a 101. note, and asked her to get it changed, as it was for his mother. She asked if it was good? he replied, it was. She then got it changed at Mr. Oreen's, and on return ing, gave the money to the prisoner Wall, who gave her ii,; it being understood that Frances Freeman was to have 19s, of it. after which they separated. Francis Freeman only said, that when the note was given Clements, Wall said, it was a.> good as the Beale Of England. The two boys declined saying any thing, and were re manded for another examination. Hatrox-Gannax.—Yesterday John Safer, a jonrney man tailor, was brought up from Kentish Town IVatch honm. charged on the oath of Mary, the wife of Richard Jenkins, with assaulting and beating her husband in mien a way that his life was in danger. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant that her husband and the prisoner were both married men of 4he same trade, and lodged in the Paine house, No. 9, Mansfield-place, Kentish Town. On Monday night,both being inebriated, they had a quarrel at their lodgings, and each stripped to fight; they fought a round, when the primner knocked her husband down, and when down gave him several kicks, and trampled and stamped on his body *Millie left him for dead ; her husband was car ried up stairsinsensible and put to bed.—Mr. Hemmingf, a neighbouring surgeon, was sent for, who bled him in four places in the temples anti both arms, but with out restoring sensibility, and he declared his life to be in great danger. The primner was committed to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail. On? Oliver Hopkins, of Toddiogton, and one Stephen Archer, of Dimbleton, have born committed at the Pub lic Office, Cheltenham, to take their trials at the Quarter Ses,ions, for the infamous practice of scribbling impro per words on the walls of houses. Cottorreas' lerQuerrs.—An inquest was taken yester , day, before J. W. Unwin, Esq. Coroner, at the Five Hells, Three Colt-street, Limehouse, on the body of a woman unknown, aged about thirty, who was found floating on Wednesday morning, in the river Lea, near Limebonse Bridge. She was observed on the Tuesday night wan dering for some time along the bank of the river near where the body was found, apparently in a dejected state of mind, which led to a supposition, that she had drown ed herself: but there being no evidence to`that fact, the Jury returned a verdict—Found Drowned. Yesterday, an inquest was taken before J. W. Unwin, Esq. Coroner, at the Grave Maurice, Whitechapel-road, on the body of Mary Skeggs, aged 50, lying dead at the London Hospital. It appeared, that the deeedsed came to the hospital on the 17th instant, having been run over that day, at Stoke Newington, by one of the fly vans, by which her legs and arms were broken, and she received other serious injuries. She lingered until Tuesday last, when she expired. Verdict—Accidental Death; deo. dand, 40s. on the van. • DREADFUL ACClONNT.—Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, a dreadful accident happened in Princes-street, Leicester-sqnare. A young man in the service of Mr. Rose, Hoot-cloth manufacturer, got upon a projecting ledge, for the purpose of cleaning the Royal Arms, in front of the house, when his foot suddenly slipped ; he was precipitated from a considerable height, and pitching on his head, was killed upon the spot. • • SHOCKING Arcs DENT.—Yesterday evening about seven o'clock as a poor labouring min was repairing the front of a house (dlr. Trim's). in Princes-street. Soho, the lad der on which he was standing broke in the middle at the second floor window, and in artier to save himself be clung to the royal arms at the first floor, which being made of cemeut broke down and . precipitated the unfor tunate nun on the pavement, wine's, chocking to relate,- dashed hs brains out HORRID Ceceur v.—An act of most atrocious ba►barity was recently committed at Yardley Hastings, a village to Northamptonshire. A poor man residing there, procures a livelihood by carrying parcels to and from Northampton, in which occupation he employs als dookies. Three of thee were as usual turned out at night Into the che►eh-pare, where they were found In the morning in the mostdreodfil agony. A monster had cut out the tongees of all of them, and Intlictedseveral stabs in the sides of two ! The Who- Wan wretch him, we are happy to say, been discovered sad apprehended. When taken he was nearly covered with blood, aimithe knife with which be perpetrated this act of unparal leled atrocity r..as found u➢on his person. The monster had preciously been in the habit of ;ceding the poor animals; nor , does lie assign no) molly, for his Coadast. r/ muse' OF CONVIeff On Friday last, about six o'clock in the evening, it was discovered that six convicts lying ander sentence of transportation in our Castle had contrived to make their escape. The turnkey on going into the privy of the yard, No. 4, observed a piece of wearing apparel tied to the top of the grating, and found, on further eternisa tion, that the seating of the water-closet, which is form ed of one large stone slab, and was bound &ern by iron , clamps, had been loosened, as if for the purpose of being lifted Go, so as to afford the means Co escape through a subtemineons arched tunnel, through which the filtb of the prison is carried off, under Skinner's-lane, to the ri. vet. On suspicion being thus excited, the convicts were counted, and slx were found wanting. The alarm was instantly given; but as no doubt could remain as to the route they had taken, and as egress by that route was deemed impracticable, it was supposed that they still re mained in the drain, and must oecessarily return the same way. lint they knew better what they were about, and by this time had succeeded in effecting their objet. The !tames of these adventurers, all of whom reeetrvil their sentences at the last assizes, are as follow :-1. Francis Mittel', who received a well-merited sentence of death for a burglary, at Stockport • 2. James B oon , a l to received a similar sentence , equally merited, for high way robbery ; 3. John Booth, oleatli, for sheep steal ing at Congleton ; James Brooks, death, for highway roabery ; 5. John Smith fur a burglary at Newton ; (the punishment of these dee hail been connuire 1 to trans portation) and 6, William Williainsonoran.portation, far a burglary at bliddletvich. Tlicirmode of alter fng their escape, and the difficnkies they load to sarinootrot, were as followst—About three feet below the sat of the wateecloset was a strong iron grating, one bar of which they bad sawn away to atlanit their p.ssage ; five foe; below was the lin t level of the drain, to Ultich they de scended by fraguients of wearing apparel ; this level is about thirty yards in length, aid tour fe, t high ; at its termination there was another strong iron gratin:, a bar of which it was also necessary to on taro igh ; when this was accomplished, they kt themselves down to the second level, a depth of ten feet ; and thence pro ceeded forward for about l 2 yards, which brott:ht the subterranean travellers three cr four yards beyond Vie base of the city walls. Here by same me tna or other, which for the present appear inexplicable, some bricks at the top of the arched tunnel were taken out ; and an aperture forced to the surface of the pavement, and rounded to a circle of about half a yard in diameter, E on whence the six convicts ascended withont annoyer'. e and without diflicalty, sod ran oil' in different eirectloos.— At this precise moment, liowev.r, messenzers were pro ceeding in different directions from the. Castle, :tad one was seized near the spot, another on the Itoodeye, , third in the Groves, and a fourth nu xt titurnng. le polnt most difficult of solution i , by what possible means they elleee 1 the aperture fi out tne tun! e, to the )u lace of the pavement. I'he sit , ject, it bwevcr, is snide g.ing the most severe investigati,oi the coo nt: 31agis,ca'ss. ESCAPE raost ins CITY —S mu convict under sentence of trantportatio t for be:akin ! : open the counting-house of 51r.Clobbe, contrived to wa ‘e leis etc ape from the city gaol on Sunday night last. A; nine in the evening, 111 r. Cheaters, the gaoler; locked him up in his cell, and every thing seemed a cared aid quiet at eleven, when he (Mr. C.) meat robed. Osilanday morning, between six and seven, it was discovers I tbst Williams haul taken his leave, and had left very visible marks of his progress. The felons' day- o in, is on the ground door; Williams's heidroom is sepa.ated too it by a strong parieion mall, in the centre of which is the fire place. To the lower part of the claims y the convict ap plied his labour, as the point most vultierablN'forsed out she bricks, and opened a Ei.o siege for la:interline the day room. through which hr meat hast. gone, jest *vie tilt fire-place. Arrived here. his next object most hare tr.ien to find his way oat of the pots Woos door, which was strongly locked; he had reconrae to a new stratagem; is supposed the fire was no: totally tone oat; an! col lecting the combustible mate; his in the place, be applied them to the bottom of one corner of toe door, at d set them on fire, by which he con•tuned to gre ot a portion of it as to allow him to creep under i•, a nl :•,) make Is • way into the felons' yard. Ile was still lin:looted by :he high boundary wall on the a )-th side ref the gad; bit his ingenuity, no doubt previously assisted by contri• vance and labour, proved equal to the emergency. There is a lower g ating window, an I another in a direct hoe abote it; with a long sweepone broil?, to the en I of whi h sea typed , d a large hnt,litr's hook fastened to a well-con tared tx pe. made of old linen, he monnt•sl the cross bats of the lower window,.and sus t king forth his apparatus to the higher nue, his hook fastened en has. and he then drew Idle e:i op without diiiizalty. He. e then his work was near)) c mtpirteil ; passing front the oatside of one window to anoth.w. which it air conti. Ow admit:ed, he stepeed upon the roaf of the chine?, nearly level with the a indoors, arid so :o the north h dary, next to the Infirmary. from which b drop ) e I outside, without difficulty or danger. It should ben ote.!. that this man was heavily ironed, each leg manacled, and connected with a ponderous chain ; toe latter he loft behind hint, awl one of the rings be ha I worn on legs; it was discoverable that some kind of saw had been applied for the purpose, but no implements of any kind were found after his departure. It is somewhat &inci ter, that Job Williams, implicated ii, and confined with him in the same prison for the same offence. made kis escape out of gaol about ti.rtc An inquest was held last night at the St. Luke's Head, Mercer-street, Lone Acre, oi the body of . Same! Bag nall t appeared by the evidenee adduced, that the de ceased lodged at 23, I%fercer- street, and was unfortunate ly a cripple, having lost the use of las right arta, which prevented him from obtaining a livelihotrd by soy other means tban by selling a few netts about the stilszts. Ile was the eon of a corn-chandler, aho allowed him a trifle per week, but net sufficient to maintain him, an I being. reduced to great distress, he became deject , d, and on his lan fiord going up stairs to esti him on Thut slay morn ing last, he - discovered him in bed weltering in Ins blood quite dead. It appeared upon examining the deceased, that he had inflicted a wound under the Irft ear with the point of a pen-knife, which had pierced the jugular vein, which was the occasion of his death; he was only 20 years of age. .Verdict—'• Insanity." Saturday se'nnight, about five o'clock in the afternoon , a most alarming tire broke out in a stable at Surgeons' Hall, parish of Fetten airn, in Fife, which, in the coarse of an hoar, reduced to ashes no less than 120 feet of thatched buildings. oliJrttea to Oat tame wont) 6are~een being rttendediby lsoonvetiienee to lb. &load, and rant. 'dented that it would be better to name a day for fur- Alderman Co:, MARRIED. On the 47th inst., at Oviandearte, near I3 , ighton, Natha niel Kemp, Esq. of Oa ingdeaue, to Augusta Caroline, se cond daughter ofthe late Sir John Earner. On Wednesday, the 28'h hod., at Witchiord. Cambridge shire, Mr. Joseph ltideal, of Union-street, Southwark, to Miss Cross, of the former place. DlEL).—Yesterday, in the 20th year of his age, Edward. second son of Mr. Toplin, St. Paul's church-yard. On Thursday, by the overturning of lis carriage, in his 10th year, Osgood Gee. Esq., of Lower Seymour-street. On the troth inst. at his house in Kensington-square. Ken sington, egad 7s, Mr. Wm. Marriott, many years a resident in Southampton-street, Cevent-garden: London : Edited, Prime& and Pobtisttrd, at t h e 04er of " Tea Brattoria:4." No. 297, Strand. by R. W ARDIgLi. 41..8. to Whom all . Communications, ()rays, *c. are rr i quested , t4 be Imblressed. W V