The National Register. — London, England, 1819-03-21 00:00:00

11 COURT OF REQUESTS, CARTLIS-STREIT, Lucas- Telt-SQUAite, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. W ESTM I NSTER ELECTION. Inflame* snow The plaintiff stated, that he was hired, with many others, by the dtfentlatit Bond, a Bow-street officer, on' Mond.A , morning. March i, at a pulilics.hoitse, in Adam street, Adelphi, at 5%. a day ; that they were directed by Bond, to station themselves at the hoot of the hustings and to sing out "-Lamb forever," quid to hoot and hiss Mr. linbhoose and his ft iends, and if struck lo hit again. That he was so employed on Monday and Tuesday, but had not been paid. To prove his case he called John Moore; but the" Court•findUig that this witness had also summoned !kind tinder the same circumstances, were advised by their clerk not in admit bins as an evidence, and the summons u as dismissed. MILLWOOD V. BOND. The plaintiff stated, that he was engaged by Bond, the officer, on Saturday morning the 27 tit of Feb. be tween 1 I and 12 o'clock, to hire 25 men against Mon ' day morning, fur the three remaining days of the elec lion, at ss. a clay each, and himself to be captain of that g ang , at 7a. a day, and that the Saturday was to be included as a day for himself, that aceorditigly, on the Saturday and Sunday, he did collect the torn as lie was directed, and assembled them at the hustings; that the Anders given to Bond to him, were to parade the men about in a gang between the hustings and the *nadir!, throughout the clay, but to at .tion them in the Irmo to wards the close of the poll, and to out " Lamb for ever," and to make as much noise and confusion as pos sible, to prevent Mr. Hobonse from being heard. Question by the Court.—Have emu brew paid ally part of the money 3 1 Was pa i d cos. on accomit, by Bond, st ho promised to pay me the remainder on the Monday following the election; but he did ant. By the Court.--Then you have had no more? Yea; Captain Prescott sent or one by one of the tin ti of my gang, to the Brown Bear, in Bow-street, un Monday last, to receive 51., which he said he would not trust Hand with, as he had had 2 7 1.., the Tuesday to pzy the men with, ftir whizli he had Bond's receipt, and Bowl had had 21. more for biunelf besides. Capt. Prescott then paid tre Bs.,and told me to Alletke Bond pay me the rest, and to tell that to the Court. The defetulant, Bond, admitted the transaction, but said he hail !scot- the plaintiff ..sell. The Court sedered .the defendant. Botiii,.to ray the balance, 13s. and costs, arytbitl aauotith. MOORE V. EVND. • The plaintiff Stated, that lic sc ac hired liy Bood on Sunday the 25lti of' Ft:in-nary, iu t Lea qertition, at Periyis .sine-vaults, in the Ads Iphi, viii. manyotherpersons, at Ss. per day, to assemble at the same house next morn ing, which they did, and Bond directed them to go to Covent-garden, and place titemselses in the front of the . hu4tings for the day, and sing out, " Lamb for ever," and it hiss and hoot when any hotly cried out for Hob house, and if any body gave loin a punch on the head, they were to tut them apin ; and iviiria Mr. flobliturse spoke, tki.hiss and hoot to prevent his being heard ; that after the dose of uhe poll they were to return, and he would pay than. Baud did uot came till between 7 and 8 in the morning, and said he hail been as a great 111311 y cuffee-houses to look for the enutuaitwe-mats, who was to provide e motley, hot could not find him uolesa he went to his house, which he did not like to do, as it would . not look well. Question by the Court to Bond.—Who was that per son Dlr. Hodgson, the Clerk, interposed, and said, that was not a question fur Mr. Bland to answer, as it would come before the Il.atse of Cututnotis ; and .using as hr did, ha (the Clerk) was bound to protect Bond. Bond told the Court that the Co 11111 l ittee-man of Mr. Lamb •who promised to pay was out of town, and he could nut get the money. Plaintiff continued—Bond offered them on the Man. day night a shilling a-piece in part, and From;sed the remainder on the Tuesday morning. " We did not take it, but said we would tali.: thetwo days together. Ile said lie should hare the nirailey ready, and we 'Melt have it be• fore we went in the morning, or if we liked, take both days tovether at night. Bond ordered or to be at the same public bense in die morning, and go to the.hus tings as before; but he did not come to pay us as he promised. Going - up to the htistings we met hirn ,. he said go to the liu.:t.ngs, and I will pay you to nigbt. After the poll we went to Per ry's, and waited there till ten o'clock at night, but he never came, and I then sum 111:ined him." Bond admittedelita iie knew the plaintiff, And that if . he had gone to the Brown Bear on, Monday last, he would have been paid Inv gentleman if the Cutuatittee, who attended there foribai purpose. By the Court to the plaintiff.—Did Bond tell you to go to the Brown Bear to be pairlf—No, he did not, fur I had not seen him. Did you know that youlhould have gone there to he ;mid ?—I did not. The Court ordererl.,Bond to pay the amount of 10s. and costs in invinth, to yei.ich Bond weed. • On Friday tnornin :Jr. Ritchie, Master of the . Cly Clo, Liierpoolraler, WAS enrried into Glasgow a !n lice Concha mail coach. He %%Ts appa • a:all/y . 1'4* health until the time when the coach was starting froin Hamilton, when he gave a loud 0ccc...44, pact iLtl on one of the passengers in a cra yoned hate, and it is their opinion that lirc v a7t firmly e..t1..c.t. THE NATIONAL REGISTEIt. jATELLIGENCE. KENT—LENT ASSIZES. Mack "17. CIVIL SIDE. MOW AND ANOTHER v. iIiATLETI-OLERE. ~•• .. , This was a case of rather a singular nature. It was an swum) of trover by thc.plaintifsi as eiturchwardetis of the parish of St. John the Baptist, Matgate, against the defendant, as rector of that parish, to terorer the value of certain black clot* which had been put tip in the parish church in respect to the memory of the UV 'Princess Charlotte of Wales, but %%Illicit the defendant had couverted into his own use by haring it made up intocoats,wahrtcoats, anti ot:ter articles of apparel. The plaintiffs' case was cnuducue•l by Mr. Gurney and Mr. Chitty, and the defendant's by Slr.Cornyti and Mr. Holland. It appeared that the plaintiffs, as churchwardens of the parish in question, wishing to ' , ay proper. respect to the memory of the late Princess Charlotte, had pur , chased a quantity of black superfine emit and cassia mere of a woollen-draper at Margate ' for the pnrposst of covering the pulpit , the reading desk, and the commu nion table of the church, Mono! the time allotted for politic umlauting upon that melancholy event. The emit cost 37/. us. 9,1. a nd WjS nailed to the l.laees above mentioned, where ii remained for weeks. At the end of that time tile plaintiffs sent for the woollen draper to take down the cloth again, and give them tale of its then value to be solaced to the account or the parish. 'rile defendant, however, having been sti prised of the intention of the plaintiffi, took steps to appropriate a portion of the cloth to his own use, the remainder of which was divided between the clirk and the sexton. The defendant afterwards employed tile Satre woollen-draper of whom the cloth hail been oriel it:illy purchased, to make him a coat, and other articles of cltnhioe, from the cloth so taken and convened. Some seemed to have -arisen in the parish in C 4111• itypience of this act of the defendant, who was charged be report with having stolen the clout. He was alter wards applied to for the purpoae of accotintins to the parish for the amount of the cloth taken, but having declined all commitatication with the plaintiffs, in con srqwenee of the coarse imPtitatioa cast upon hint, the present action was brought. The defence set 11) was, that it was the general ens , tom of all the parishes in the kingdom to allow the rec.or tc take a portion of the black. cloth pot up in churches on the occasions of Public and private mount ing, and that in all t vents such was -the custom of the particular parish in question. Mr. Justice Bayley objected to the evidence of general co.toin, but allowed evidence to be given. of the CUStODI Of the particular parish. Witnesses were then examined upon this latter head, but their evidence went to chew that in two instances where private individuals had put up black cloth in the church, out of .respect to departed friends, the rector, the parish clef k, and the sexton had been allowed re spectively to take a portion of the cloth so put up. The general impression of the witnesses was, that such was the general usage. Mr. Justice Bayley, in -his address to the Jury, Lid it . down as the rale of law, that no permit had a tight to bang up what are called ornaments in the church, with out the leave of the rector, because the freehold of the church was in him, and he ani2,ht make his own terms for that leave. In general, where private itulividuais hung black cloth in the parish church, with the con currence of the rector, there was a kind of understand ing between thesis that the cloth became the property of the rector. .In the present case, however, liwre had been no bargain between the plaintiffs and 'he defen dant, .with respect to the terms whicit the cloth was to be bong in the church, and consequently the latter had 410144'0t to take any portion of the cloth, be cause by law he was notantiCled to take such a propene, unless by matter of ,arrangernent or xoecitient between the parties to whom it belonged. Under these cir - stances the plaintiffs were entitled to a ve:ilict for the valise of the cloth which the defendant had converted to his owls use. 'Lae Jury fourvi cur the plaintiff—Damages 151. CROWN SIDE. Joseph lin(pe, Thomas Smart, John Ward, and elkojamin Binning:tam, were indicted for borglariously , breaking and entering the dwellingliouse of Zehn Sprincate, iti the night lime, between the 27th and edit' of Octobcr, in the parish of Litittm, and stealing. therein, 22 pieces of Irish linen, a large quantity of tea and.to bacco, worth in the whole about t&01. Th e prosecution was conducted by Me, Pelvis and Mr. D. Pollock, arid Mr. Andrewe appeared for the prisoner Smart. The facts of the case appeared to be then :—The pro secutor was a country dealer, and kept a shop at Linton, and on the night of the 27th of October he and hie fa mily went to bed, after havifig taken care to fasten all the doors and windows of the house. In the morning one of his shopmeti got up at •the usual hour, when he disetntred that a bolehad been spade in the roof of the warebotwe, large enough to admit the body of a man, an d t h at t h e ph:perty above specified was missing. He also discoveretl.that the warehouse door was unfastened. Tliti alarm ,was immediately given, and in the course set the thc,. circumstances were discovered, which led to a sospirion that the prisoners and their accomplice Sum m: ra were the thievesoitid in the evening they were all „,, i , re h eti d e d a t Strew!. The accomplice Summers if. sel.ctrds turtieil Kiiii,...etuletace,and from his suttetueut trAiteit et; - -- • it appeared, that on the teGth of October he met the prk. Boners at ►he Red Lion and Star public-house at Sim n el, when it was propoard by Knipe that they should evening roo the warehotwe of the prosecutor, and the witness was invited to meet them at a place called Shci hold Point, in the road leading from Maidstone to lan ' ton, where the prosecutor resided, but he refused to go, s lying that he would have nothing to-do a ith the Um mil , . The following day they persuaded hint to assist iu t h e w art that night. The evening before they set ortt upon the expedition they met at hothouse at Snood. On that occasion Smart aik ed hint if he had any fire.arms, god be replied that he had a pistol, but that was wit hls own. Smarr salt, that that was no matter; upon which ►he pistol W 33 produced. at woman, named Lydia 'turner, who •lived with Somme's, slid, "Por God's sake, what are you going to do with that?" The pri soner Ward answered, "To shoot a man sootier than a own should shoot we." About eight o'clock the parties severally went out ow their read towards Maidstone, Suitimers taking with him a horse and cart, and they all jotted 1111 the road before they got to the first turop.ke gate. When they arrived near Kitt',: Cony House, the prisoner Stuart took a pistol out of the hedge. Th e y then proceeded towards the proseetitoes house, and at • about nine rods front his re•sndehce they took the horse from the cart, leaving one of the prisoners to mind hint, while he grazed. The others proceeded to poi on each other•cluthes,and having loaded the pistols with powder tli..y proceeded to the buck of the prosecutor's preniiies, behind which was Linton. chinch-y.4)d, and having j peel over the church-yard walk, they got into a small garden.next to the prosecutor's warehouse, the road which was only about three feet from thcground. The prisoner Smart then took some tiles from off the roof, sod having cut away the laths got into the ware. house, 311(1 was fntlowe•d by Summers and the rest of his companions. Titer remanied in the ;Realities about an hour, during which time they carried old• 22 pieces of Irish linen, three chests of tea, and a lame quantity of shag tobacco. They afterwards concealed their plunder in a hedge-row on the tarot cf a slr. Matson, on the road leading from Maidstone to Rochester. Suspicion afterwards tell upon the prisoners in cousequence of one of them having sold some of the tea, anal in the count of the Jay the report of the robbery hitting spread to the neighbourhood of Snood, the prisoners were all 'pre 'headed. The evidence of Sommers, the accomplice, was cor rohoraird by tli testimony of serval witne.we, who spoke to many particulars which he mentioned in the course of his evidence. case wen: to the Jt!:p under the learnrrl Judge's directiols, and they found a:I the prisoners C;ut:ty— Death. YORK; TUESDAY MARCH 9. Thomas Robinson was charged with stealing, on the 30th of January lag.. at Wetherby, the mail-bags, con taining the letters for Knaresborough. HarrAgate, and Rivicy; such bags being in the possession of a person employed by the Past-office foe-the conveyance of the mail from NVetherhy to those places. The trial occupied the Court from nine o'clock in the until about two in the afternoon ; but all that is matertal or interesting in the casemay be compressed into a narrow con:peas. At the time this rolthety was committed, the mail from Wetiterhy, containing the letters the above:main-ad places, was conveyed by a person of the name of Benjamin Dobson. These bags conta in e d both the bunnion and country letters. tin Saturday, the 30:h of January, about , half-past five o'clock in the mousing. Miasma received from 111 r. the Yost-master of Wetherby. four bags con taining the kiwis, which he put int...411e portmanteau used fur hut purpose, and fistetied it upon his horse, which wai standing at the stable door, about thirty yards fmm Mr. Hunsley's house ; being lame in his arm, he left the horse to get Mr. llonsley's servant to assist bins to put no his great coat. On his return s although he had not been absent more than two or three minutes, he found that the straps had been cut, and the portmanteau, containing the mail, taken away. • An alarm was in stantly given, and search after the robber commencad. In the course of the saute di.y, the bags, with the whisk of the letters- and newspapers, were found in a worst about two nide, and a half from Wetherby, called Noble Wood. The: letters had been opened. and Oil omiteitts taken out. The person who found. them t9ox .them the SJllle eveiiit% to the Post-office, where they ,were scaled with the valve dal.. and. forwarded • to thecr respective (testi na ion.. About three hours after the Mb bery had been committed, the prisoner was seen coming out of Noble Wood, anti going in a direction gaivarits Waghill, where lie was seen at a ipublic-horse, in com pany with a person of. the name of• Rhodes,. who again SAW him at a initalimhouse Mt Asktiam Bryan. near this city. The prisoner, upon tibia occasion, exhibited to Rhodes a goof., Bauk . poolsill,.and the half of So!. Bank-note, which he said were the fruits or a Chancery stilt, in which he had been successful. lie was then traced to this city, and (wind in a public-house, from whence he escaped, and endeavoured to conceal himself ins bay-chamber, in .adjoiningyeril, but was imme diately aim:ewes-eel t he same place was foiniii a pocket book. contaiiiing VOOI.- Bank pis t.btll, foto 41. notes. the half of a suf. Bank-note, and a great variety. of other bills and notes, to the amount of 5201.. The Bank post. big had been transmitted limn the house of Messrs. Smith, English, and Co. of London. to Mr. Henry Fisher, of Knaresl,orungltt and the hien country notes had been sent from Nintliallerton to the house of Wal ton, 0 -its. and Co. of Knaresburongli. These were prated London t a o nd baj : e ar been put into an d their t ne r ;caret er e s t‘ p e u ra rivar Ct ulna;