The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

R THE grATESMAY, oricer'isnment, and in corroboretion of this statement th.v made a solemn declaration before Mr. Serjeant ittintlington, one of the Magistrates for the county of Sussex, that they never had made such a commu nication. A great many of the respectable inhabi tants of Brighton, to the amount of 30 or 40, met to gether, and came to a resolution stating their opinion that there never was a more respectable individual than was Mr. Wigney, the gentleman alluded to, and that there aas tin authority for 'supposing that his credit wai otherwise than good. Air. Wirers So licitors came to Landon, to know who had been the means of publishing this advertisement to the world, and the people at the Statesman Office imtnediately produced their authority, and it was foend that this advertisement, which they had put in, was accom panied by a letter purporting to be signed by Brooker sod Colbatch, which stated, your name upon it (producing a letter)—is It of yost hand-writing ?—No. is it that ef any person in your Office, or of any one authorised by yoo ?—No. (By Lord ELLENBOROUGU, C. J.)—You are wholly a stranger to that to which it refers?—Yee, my Lord. • By Mr. Aoroi-r.—llaie you known Mr. Wigney long ?—For some years. _ Need that advertisement, and say whom you think is meant by the Mr. Wigney there mentioned?—f certainly shook' think it meant Mr. Wigney, the Prosecutor, but 1 should not know what was meant by the term blanket,. Mr. Noy, Attorney at hew and Notary, sworn. Q. Do you know the Defendant Joseph flip ? A. Yes, 1 do. Have you seen him write?—Yes. I have seen him write, but have not had any correspondence with him lately. Look nt that letter, addressed to Mr. Lovell, and say in whose hand-writing do you believe that to be? —lt is Mr. Hill's. " Be pleawd al/ insert the attnve in the Stemma of Friday. the hish<it there .Itouhl be ronno, if not Smorday, the 13th. or .11Innnay. the 1.50, aid if pov•ible lei it he iu the front. Mr. Colnntrh o ill he in I..wit on hlond.t, alien he %ill call Iliad pay you for the Ithertion. (Sig , ,ell) " BROOM:ft and COLBATCH." se P. S —Mr. Fleet, the Jditor of the Drishton Mudd, re rosuriesitied your P.ipet." Look at that other letter, purporting to come from Mr. Bicktielt—do you say' the same of that fetter?— Yes, it is the same hand-writing. It was evident, by the post mark, that this letter had came from 111 oil, and I have a vast num ber of witnesses here, who will prove to you, that this letter and the other letter, together with the ad ♦ertisement, are all in Mr. Hill's hand-writing, and you yourselves will be convinced it is the same hand waling that runs through the whole of them. Be sides which, I will prove to you, that the seal which is upon these letters, and which has an impression of what igmeaut to be our Saviour's head, is Mr. Hill's seal. I wilt show you that the seal which came to the Sialesman Office, w as a large seal, and as such, one of the woikmen there took it elf and gave it to one of his children to play with. These are the prominent cir eumstances of this infamous transaction, and as this is a case of indictment, I do not open for any thing like damages, but I have no doubt I shall prove the vise aR I have statrd to you in every respect, and if ou find that guilt attaches to Mr. Hill, it is not for me to say any thing about the punishment to be inflicted ;—that will be left to the Court upon a future occasion. I will now proceed to call my witnesses. Mr. %Vigney was sworn and examined by Mr. As. )0I Q. You reside at Brighton ?—A. Yes. Are you a partner in the banking-house there ? +—Yes. What ire the names of your partners ?—Stan ford and Vallances. In what part of Brighton is yodr banking-house situate?—[u Seine-lane. Is yoer own residence there, or only the bank fug.house ?—I do not reside there, but we carry en the business there, the house being my own pro- PeNT _ _ Sleitte-lane Is a small lane with a few house?— Very few ; it communicates from Fast-street to the Stein; Mrs. Fitzherhert's house is there. flow long hare you been in partnership with that house?—l hare carried on the banking business for nearly 20 years. Rod you occasion to be at Lewes at the last Sum trier A ssites ?—1 had. Did you see Mr. Joseph Hill there ?—He was pointed out to me for the first time. You had business there which related to a prosecu tion against two persons ?—Yes, against two per sons at Brighton. _ _ lie appeared there as their Attorney ?—Yes. Upon what day did the Assizes at Lewes end Upon the 9th of August. Did you see Mr. Bill at Brighton after the Assizes were over there ?—I was at the bank when the same man Nho had been pointed out to me as Mr. Hill, came in to change a 51. note; it was one cf our notes, for which he wished to receive in change notes of the Bank of England. You are a native of Yorkshire?—Yes. Had you been at any time a dealer in blankets ? No. Had that term found its way on any of your notes? —Frequently. That word had made its appearance upon many of your notes when they came into circulation, and you found it upon them when brought to your house for payment ?---Yes. Did ynu on Saturday, the 13th of August last, re ceive a letter, purporting to come from Mr. Bick nell ?—Yes. Is that the fetter you received (.boxing a letter) ? —Ye... Did you prepare yourself accordingly to obey the summons in that letter, and to come to London ? I was at breakfast, and as was customary, the pest• letters were brought to me ; among those received tsat day was this letter : as I was bound to secrwy was meditating how I should manage to account to my family fur my sudden departure, when a friend of mine came mining in, nearly out of breath, with the Statesman Newspaper, and said to me, " DO you know what is in the Newspaper ?" What did he say as to that paper ?—" Your cre• ditors are called together." (Showing a Newspape►)—ls that the Newspaper containing the advertisement you allude to ?—This is the same, and there is the advertisement in front of the paper. I know the Newspaper because I put my own initials en it. Were Messrs. Brooker and Colhatch, of Brigh ton, employed generally as yoer Solicitors ?—They were. lind you given them any authority to insert that advertisement calling your creditors together ?-- None %liatever. Having sett, the advertisement, I presume you did not come up to town ?—No; I went immediately to Ness's. Brooker and Cnthatch. There was no cross-nomination of this wittress. James Swan, the printer of the State:eta* wows paper being sworn, corroborated the facts statod in the indictment. Messrs. Brooker and Cantatas 'severally proved thnt the notice was not inserted by them or with their knowledge. •James Bicknell, Esq. sworn and examined by Mr. Abbott. • - Q: Yd4l -are Solicitor to his Royal Highness the RIC 4, tit --A. let 1 will trouble you be look at that letter which his Mr. SCA nLETr—May it pi se your Lordship, Gentlemen of the Jury,--I am instructed to my, that Mr. Hill owes no personal hostility against Mr. Wigney, whom he believes to be a very respectable man, and that he was instigated to this business by certain ptisons. I think that after the evidence which you heard it is impossible that you should not give a verdict against him. I shall not &Olin his Lordship and icon with any further observations. ELLENBOROUC;H, C. J.—Gentlemen of the Jury, you have beard the evidence, end from what pined, and from your own knowledge of the nature of libels, you cannot hate a doubt, bet that this a libel, sad one of the most injurious nature. Yoe will diorama Led the Defendant ;silty—Verdict— hate on Thursday night, or early yesterday morn ing, the house of Lily Loui.a Manners, on Wirt. bledon-common; was broke open and robbed of conbi deralrie property. s _ . . . i l Goer-aut;nr.—On Tuesday a motion was made in Chancery, to dissolve an istjunction, restraining Mr. 11V1Mums, 1111 author, from publishing a work enti lled " Parochial lAw." It appeared that the' De fendant fifteen years ago composed the work for a Ifirm; of booksellers, to whom he sold the copyright. At the expiration of fourteen years, daring which the statute of Anne secnres copy-right to en seethe*, and no longer, Mr. Williams published a new 'MOM -of the work, under the belief that he could acquires new copy-right, exclusively his own. The booksel lers then obtained an injunction, and it became a question whether Mr. Williams had, or had net, the , tight to publish the second work. TIN LORD CRAM.. Mum found, in the agreement between the parties, at Mr. W. had assigned to the bookselhers ail right L and title to the advantage arising from the wed, !for ever, and being of opinion that the " hjhr ever gave the Defendant in) claim to ritny.peritici, hit bordeltip refuted to junction. IttOt it Itite in- • 4SSJZES. • HORSHAM, Attncil 23. Jame Burnett, wife of a publican at Lindfield, in this county, was indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Lee, a pauper servant, and the indictment charged the murder to have been committed by a series of cruel beating, and refusal of proper food and aliment. One of the witnesses, who was a fellow-servant with the deceased, did not appear at the trial, having gone out of the way, and was called on his subpana. The evidence adduced in support of the indictment was as follows : J. Everest, the overseer at Lindfield, stated, that the deceased was a pauper belonging to that parish. At Lady-day, 1813, she had been put out to service with a shoemaker in the parish, of the name of Shel ley. She staid with him the year, and the next year she was sent to the Prisoner's. She staid with them until February, when she came back to the work house in very bad health, and in a few days died.— He could not say the cause of her death , but she came back very much out of health. Once during the year she ran away, and came to the poorhouse. Mrs. Burnett, the Prisoner, came after her, and she Cross-examined by Mr. SCARLET?. was sent back. • Thomas Shelley, a shoemaker, at Liedfipld, Q. How long is it since you bare seen Mr. Ilill de write?—A. I don't think I have been concerned in Posed , that the deceased lived with his family from Lady-tide 1813, to Lady-tide 1814, during which any business with him for above a twelvemonth. Have you had occasion often to see his hand- date the gi rl was in good health ; she was not a very writing? — Yes, I have seen letters and pap's, pass- good-look ing girl, nor very 66 randy in her mind;" in e but she did things as well as she was able, and they t , between us in the way of business frequently. You have no doubt it is his hand-writing ?—No had no fault to find with her. doubt. Charles Cox, a labouring man, lived near the Pri- Is that his usual manner and character of. writing? sonar. He was at the house one day, and saw'the —Yes. I Prisoner strike the deceased with a broom one or two hard blows, bat be did not see any ill effects There is no disguise, Is there ?—None at alt. from the blows. Francis Lear examined. *William Potter said, he lived within 20 rods of Q. Are you acquainted with Mr. Joseph Hill th e the Prisoner's house; he knew the deceased : she Defendant - ?—A. Yes, I have known him three or I was not a very healthy looking girl, and as the cold four years. „weather approached he observed that she lost flesh Are you acquainted with his haitil4writing ?—Per--1, very fast, and appeared to become very much out of fectly well. , I health. Look at that letter to Mr. Lovell, and say whether I Charles Wattford, a higler at Lindfield, who- was you believe it to be his hand-writing l—l have no in the constant habit of going to the Prisoner's house, doubt of it, I have seen it before when a person p ull ' i deposed to expressions used by the Prisoner relative ed it out with a parcel of letters, and I said " that (o the deceased. is his hand-writing." Robert Martin, on the 6th of August, saw the Is that letter which is signed Bicknell Ms also ? . Prisoner beat the deceased. He afterwards saw her I have no doubt it is. with a black eye, but did not know bow she came Cross-examined by Mr. &ARLO?. Q. How long is i t bin" you saw Mr. Hill write? !by Sia t. rah Stanley had seen the Prisoner beat the girl —A. Last November. once with a boot. Upon what occasion ?—lt was upon some brief Wm. Topping, surgeon to the parish, stated, that he was writing. he attended the girl when she was brought to the Was lie your Attorney ?—No. workhouse; she had a wound on the aim which she What had you to do with him 1-1 had business said was occasioned by being kicked gown stairs; to call on him. , she had also another wound in the fgla, which he Was that the only occasion you saw him write?, thought was a neglected chilblain. II constitution --I have seen him write a ho. nred times. , was very debilitated, and she was of an irregular What are you ?—A brush-maker in the Femur I habit. lie could not say she died of ill-treat i For what purpose did Mr. Hill seed for you 1— ! swot. lie got hold of me. I On this evidence the Learned Judge directed the On what (11.1 lie get hold of you—has he done yen ! Jury to acquit the Prisoner, who returned a verdict any harm i—l do not know that be has; I can state of Plot Guilty. the case to the Court. if the Court wishes it, 0111 Joseph Stevens, an old man of 63, was indicted day w hen he met me in Fleet ,4 treolt l4 .'begged ell . for the wilful murder of Solomon Young, by stab. me when I got the lime o destroy it. bing him with a knife in the side on the 15th March Mr. Scaacerr.—Th' does not quite satisfy me last. that there is no differ ice between them. '' The Prisoner and the deceased were both paupers Lord ELLENSORO an.—There is this difference" in Seaford poor-house. On the 15th of March the that the one wishes the other to do a very wrong i deceased was sitting en the table in the common thing, and the ether resists it, and states the fact. I room, making himself a new smock frock. The Eight Wu- other witnesses were called, who all prisoner came into the room Intoxicated, having two bitably proved the hand-writing of the Defendant and herrings in his hand, which he wished to dress at the the impression of his seal. Four other witnesses fire,. The deceased's night-cap was hanging on a were ready to be sworn, but were not called, the chair before the fire, which the Prisoner threw away. Court being thoroughly satisfied as to the fact sworn `this produced a slight altercation between them as to to by the first witnesses. After which the libel in : there being room enough or not, when the Prisoner question was produced and read, which we have at..l dabbed his herrings in the deceased's face. The de ready detailed in the speech of Mr. Park. On Mr. I ceased upon this gave the Prisoner a push, who having PARK observing—" This is my rase," Mr. SCAR, : his knife in his hand, with which he had just dressed LETT rose on behalf of the Defendant, and willing& i his herrings, made a blow at thedeceased, which un attempting to deny the facts, he urged some objet. I fortunately struck him on the side and penetrated be tions upon the several counts of the Indictment es le I tween his ribs. He was put to bed and died in .two the time of laying the offence, which Lord Eta.ess i days ; bat before he died he expressed hit conviction aonoucat instantly overruled by observing : When "! that the Prisoner had not intended to do him the in ever the libel came, it was by. this Defendant's pro. ! jury which had happened. curenwut,—he set fire to the tsatin. Although it had , The Jury found him Guilty of Manslaughter, and not gone off for a month, it Was be that eel fire to I h e was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. the train. The Assizes concluded this morning. WATBRFOItII, MARCH 17. The King against Jeremiah Shea, for the wilful murder of Mary Crowley, at Woodhouse, in this county, on the 12th July, 1814. Aune Crowley was mother to Mary Crowley, de ceased •, two men came to witness's house on the 12th of July last, between the hours of four and ire o'clock hi the afternoon, while she was suck ling an infant at her breast, one of them armed with a ' blunderbuss, and the other with an old rusty gun ; tfte fist man that came into the house was the Pri miner at the bar, whom she took to be a friend, or neighbour, as he asked witness in a friendly manner when he came in, " what she was doing ?" she an swered, 44 not much ;" he then pulled a blunderbuss from under his coat, presented it at her breast, and desired her to give up what arms she had in the house: witness said there were no arms in the house but an old gun, which he should have ; there was no person in the house with witness at this time, but her son, a hey about sixteen years of age; she desired her son to go up to her bed-room, and bring down the gun; nod just after telling this to her son, the second man came in, pushing in before him her two daughters, who had been churning in the dairy ; deceased begged of them for God's sake to allow her to go shut the dairy door, es the pigs would get in, and spoil the cream, which they had been churning ; Prisoner desired her to stay where she was, and gave her a blow of his blunderbtiss on the neck, which cat her in a most cruel manlier ; deceased exclaimed, "Oh I you puppy, you have ruined me ;" after deceased had said these words, Prisoner rested his blunderbuss on the breast of the 'deceased, sod lodged the contents of it in her neck, whets tilte instantly fell ; witness cried out, clapped 'her leads, ran to her dying daughter, and begged of fter to speak to her acted mother before she ex. pired ; detteaved strove to say, "Oh ! mother, lift 'me els 1 0 deceased did aftd live for three seconds 'diet t4ie not stile fitted; "titer mate, sifter Psi- * ~ . • .1 sonor had murdered her daughter, struck him with bis gun on the shoulder, turued. him out of the house, and asked him " what made him sla so ?" an d seemed so terrified at Prisoner's conduct, that" he could scarcely go away from ,the house; witness had , not the least doubt on her mind, that the Prisoner at the bar was the man who murdered her daughter; boner never took his blunderbuss from witness's breast until he shot her daughter. On her cross-examination, she said, the melt•whe. attacked her house remained in it for about half a n hour ; witness was very much alarmed all the time; first thing was done, a man came is and presented a blunderbuss at her breast ; this caused great terror in her, to be sure; she was afraid of her life; was a weakly woman ; the men were disguised—their faces blackened ; never saw Prisoner at the bar before the time her daughter was murdered; did not know well what she was about at the time of the transactiee, she was so much terrified ; heard that there was are. ward offered by the gentlemen of the county for the apprehension of the murderers of her daughter, b u t did not want a penny of it; Prisoner was taken she believed since Christmas. Jane Crowley, daughter to the last witnPss, r e . members seeing the Prisoneroftan at Mr. hi'Gai►e's house, working as a stone-cutter, but did not know his name; had nu doubt on her mind that the Pri. sorer at the bar was the man who murdered he t sister. Thomas M'Gwire, Esq. a Magistrate, knew the Prisoner at the bar, he worked with witne, as a stone-cutter about eight or nioe months before the murder was committed; witness had Prisoner and another man apprehended on suspicion —he black ened both their faces, and put large blue coats on them, to make them correspond with the description of the appearance which Mrs. Crowley, mother of the deceased, gave of the two men who came to her house on the 12th of July; before he brought the Prisoner and the other man to Mrs. Crowley's, he sent a messenger, that he might not take tier by sue. prise, to know if she was ready to see those men whom he had taken? she said she was—he them brought them to the house, and Prisoner was the first whom he brought in sight of Mrs. Crowley, and her daughter, who declared that he was like the man who murdered the deceased, in his size, figure, and lips, but that his face was not so much blackened when he came to her house; he ►hen ha.i the second man brought in, and they said that he was nut like the man who committed the murder. Several witnesses spoke in behalf of the Prisoner, when the defence closed, and the Judge briefly sent. med up the evidence. After four hours deliberation the Jury fused the Prisoner Guilty. The Ce tr BARON, aftera most impreedird tow. nition, an admouitiow that affected the Geri, lit". rally, to tears, proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law upon the convict. The Prisoner more than once interrupted the „ledge's remarks by protestations of innoce6;:e. heard she sentence almost unmoved-..he beard - it au. flounced in a manner that struck horror into•erery breast but his, that he was to be hanged by the neck at the usual place of execution on Monday next, %ilk the ordinary accompaniments of dissection, kc. c. and no effect was observable, bet that he prayed earnestly, yet coolly, " that the gates of Hearers might be shut, and the es °./Woven to him, if he know more than his Lo rdsl Wp 04e murder for which he was about to suffer."-44.a4dellkas surance of his resignation. , PO LICE. I 11 0 W •RTREET. —ln the month of October last, Mr. Pans", ssf Salisbury-street, was robbed of jewellery goods to a end. derable amount. A forei.ner in his employ, of the name d Rene Settler, absconded about the time sit the robbery. which caused him to suspect his being the robber, and he accaidingly adsertised him and the properly. A few days afterwards Mr. -Lazarus Isaacs, a Jew, culled on him. and informed him that he had been called in to value smile diamonds. which answered • the description of those ndveruised to have been stolen frost biro; and he took Mr. Parsons tip the house at Israel Levi, in Paianthstieet, a jeweller mid salesman, where the doom ds were, Levi having sent fur Isaacs to value them, In troweling , ' of Ins eye-sight being hail. The man was there .p ho wantid to sell them; and on INanes ohgerving that thei Wit leered the description of those ads," ti.ed Its Mr. Patois, as Wahl; beret stolen from his:, the mai; ran out of she house and esc•metl•—, He hod Alro iof•rel brilliants and other jewels, %shirk tlie twig sale. Mr. Parini met Rene Scoler alb+ dais sins-, in Chandoestreet, and took him into etotod3 ; and no Isis being crammed, 14401 and Levi attended, and identified him as being the man who had .ql4egJ the property for bttier 'upon which he was cionsnittedsrgewillste Ca trial. • Mary Hudson was charged ity 4 Maidenent with 'bet m a coiner of counterfeit silver. He went with Dictums to her residence in Downe's-huildings, Siaithope-street, add found her' ih she act of colouring counterfeit shillings and sisperetes and rulshiug them wish her fingers. She was using quick silver and cream. Oa the table in the hock parlour where she was at work five I:steels of counterfeit shill.rgs were found, and alto sixpences. Chore were Also on the sable a buck-tull of quick silver. out a spoonful mid n hiss of unction. She said a mat employed her to colour them. She was comMitted. James 11'16htnim was charged with taking illegal iniorsares in the State afrbottgli the witnesses positively ,%.70 re to the fart, Mr. Alley attended and raised wauessesswils most ,alistai•tocily proved an alibi. The Prisonei was of course discharged. Cnioline ()Sinnott was charged with robbing* Gentr ( " 1 "" 1 , 751. and 21.11. Lank-note ; part of the stalen prnpertt. was trace d t‘. Ls her posse-siun, ha rate. changed It at Mr. Lloyd's, n linen draper io 0 . 4 ford-A reel,' on the ilst or Yid of November hisl, in the purchase of a shawl for three gutheas, and tome pairsa stock Wigs. .1144* was cabin:third for further examination. . . On 'rhetrsdny a men, genteely dressed, in passing through Rosemary-lane, dropped down and instantly expired. ale wks previously.observed walking uP and down both sides of the way very deliberately, and apparently without any commotion. The body was removed to the King of Prussia publicohoum, and from thence conveyed to the bone-house, where it now lies to be owned. IllEp. At his hotise, Twickenharn•lodge. Middlesex., so Victimcd dal , evening, 6. l'lntekralt..Eqq. nod 47. On the tid inst. In the Retreat, %nth Lambeth , aged WI. Mr R. Gregory, eldest ion of the isle Mr. I'. Gregory, of the Stock Exchange. On the 44th inst. at Merton, Richard, third son of Richard Prier, Esq. On the 18th inst. F. B. M inward, Esq. Fellow Commoner d £maaoel Cambridge. At Seaford, no the 18th inst. Eliza, wife of Major Oliva', Royal Home Artillery. At Walmer. on she 18th inst. aged fi, Mrs. 'llla.son, irifeof Capt. It Matron, It. N. 7=17": yet i.oti Dom • Primes/ v A 04••sultie . , by D,'Lovith, Al Sresssran Orrice, et. Fite vale. Rh 60." T" THE V The I en ril hl T" Co UN' As' ru could I au OI I)1 end a.at trptaar Ail w plied, at Natio it Chapter G°' In fel ded t 44rerf, E. El is 11 0 1011 unyrer4, PRIZE T ahirh E II.", 11. ke! 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