The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-01 00:00:00

A UGUST 1. ESSEX SUMMER ASSIZES. CHELMSFORD, .irLy 29. Before the lion. Bann* GARitow arid Special Jiva s. SAIITH V. L.1.8F.E. This was an action of tre.p.wr ogaint the dtfendant fir pulling down a shed belonging to the plaintiff, situate in Epping. Mr. Gurney, Mr. Sergeant Lawes, and Mr. %Valford, con ducted eta pl.iinutra case; and Mr. 3farryat and Mr. Chitty thr tleectttitit's. It appeared in evidence, that the plaintiff, from being an hum. hie journeyman carpenter, had, by his industry and good conduct, become a 'neuter carpepter in a small way. lie had obtained permission front the Lord of the ltlnnor to erect a sited and sink a saw pit on Inuit of the waste of Iluinaultforest, of about in or. I t rods in length, in consideration of his surrendering to the lord a small piece of Land in his possession. The defendant, who is a man of considerable fortune and substance in the same neighbourhood, being disratiatied with this slimmed encroach• meat upon the waste, in the year 1816 attempted tortnnove the plaintiff's shed, but then failing in his purpose. lie renewed hit pn.ceetlings in the year 1917, and with the assisrancr of a hce.ve• and cart, aided hy other persons who complained of the alleged encroachment, pulled down the piles wire) supported the .hod, which was itself demolished in the end. For this injury the present action was brou•rlit. It was contended in defence, that the nlainriff had no right to enter into any bargain with the Lord of the Manor, to the injury of other claimants of the waste, and that ennsmn••ntly tie sup posed trespass was justitiuble, in order to remove the emnuach. Mr. Baron Garrow, in his charge to the Jury. remarked, that if the defendant had been disposed to dispute the supposoil en. croachment in a Court of Law, he ought to have done so with a rich man, and not the question in a armpit with a man in an inferior station. it appeared to him that the defendant's con. duct was completely unjustifiable, and consequently that. the plaintiff was entitled to liberal damages. T:te Jury found fur the plaintiff—Damages 150 L SAXE V. SAME. This was an action biiiiiesaMePEintiff of the sante de.' fendant, for assaulting and falsely imprisoning him for the tpace of three hours, on a malicious and unfounded charge of felony. The slime learned counsel conducted time ISC. It appeared that, pending the last-mentioned action, which was a remanet from the last assizes, some of the fenses and.gatisi of Hainault.fore.it being out of repair, the plaintiff was emigeyed by the deputy steward of the forest to do the necessaryinsinus, and for this purpose he was authorized to cut down soma ti nher in the forest, which he did accordingly in the month of ()auks last, in the most public manner, drawing the timber to his pre irises for the purpose of preparing it for the object in question. The defendant, not knowing the authority which the plaintiff bad received, discovered the timber on the premises of the latter. and, supposing it was stolen, went before a Magistrate, named Layton, and laid an infarinat'un again,t the plaintiff for felony, and under the defendant's representation of the case the MagL trate was ioduced to issue his warrant for the apprehension of the plair.iii The defendant directed the offflaz who wat in trusted with the execution of the warrant, not tuapprehentl-hisa until six o'clock on the following, morning..when he hins.eff could be present to see the plaintiff taken into austorly. The plaintiff under these circumstances was apprehended in the morn ing about six o'clock, the defendant hem.; pear:int, and taken before the Magistrate, who, hearing the plaiatirs atatemeat of his case, dismissed the complaint as being prdbctly groundless. The defendant insisted that the Magistrate should detain the plaintiff in custody until the ease was represented to the Com missioners of Woods and Forests; but the Magistrate rejected the application. Under these circumstanees the present action was brought. . . . . _ . Witnesses were called to show that the defendant had a reason able and probable cause for the act «wmlained of. It appearA, however, that almost all the witnesses ivere friendeof the defeat am, and had assisted him in pulling down the plaintiff's shit', which tancituted the subject DI the last action. Mr. Gurney replied on behalf of the plaintiff with his usual The Jury. efter h?aring a very eloquer.t charge front the letrnel Judi;-. fund a verdict for the plaint.ff—Damages &rd. There was no case worthy of notix in the Crown Court to-day, the busintas of which finished this evening. BUCILINGIbIiI+IIIRE ASSIZES, JULY 28. ATROCIOCN AMIAVIT WIT! INTENT TO MURDER. The fnliowing 11141, %Well 114+ earned great infere.4 from its peculiar atlfoel ty, rime on this mot, ning bef3e crowded Con t. 5.•%e:;411.ert.111 , of dktinction were pre sent, among Nbo.n c noticed L0141 . 14 . 11 - 4.:1 . , Lslid NAISCUI, Lord Arendt, I. &e. Thomas a_e4 2fi, was capitally indicted for having wiltitlly, itianeiadnis, and itniass full) 'stabbed and ent Elizabeth Foal,. spin •:yr, on Feseva.l part 4 of her neck and boils, with loilvlll In 111111111. r. Thi to ..sere seve ral oilier comas, charging him with having .tabbed and cuther mien, 10 do I Pf some grievous bodily harm. The follow Mg i, a trail sketch of the case as detailed in evide n c e , it nppc:rrtJ that the pat ties rived in the pari•lt of Burnham, Blocks. "Iliat on Monday eveiting, the Ist of March, the prowentrix tl'Al sill ins alone in the Itiiii , e about eight u'elot k, her father haviue Colic 1 . 0 111 hoot , ' ; that the lot :toner, Nlitchell, w hom , loe hail known trout It. , infancy. and who hail lived , ervatrt with her I.ailier, came to the door and k worked ; on lier enimioing ‘1110.14 .s Illete, .he wasaaßtVeted " Turn Miteloo II," ou lush .Ite eptmeit the door, and admitted him. lie rt quested to. have a tile and a pair of hinges, n Melt she gave to him,. but he said they would not do, unit iloat he moot !luxe a larger pair : she searched for a larger, but could slog find any, on which ha said he knew there were larger, and she again looked. While co Jui,,e, that felt a sen•ation as if Ale ism% shot, and fell down, The candle went out, and vildie on the g d she felt a rotting at .hisi neck and throat, no which she et ied out " Mott deo" in a retitle tone, and said to the pri soner, •' I never injured you." He threakmed her to be quiet; her cries, though feeble, brought a Mos. Lowell, who lit ell in the next house, to her assietance. Mrs. L. easily gait.ed admittance, and while groping far • the pro secntrix, came in contact %%Oita man, whom she load hey hold of and Dolled to her husband for assistance, who wa. pi occulting to the spot with a light ; the wind blew it mit, and while truing back the man disengaged himself and escaped. Pi reign's to this, however, All Lovell asked the penitent' Ix. who was hlttding on the floor, if it was her father who beat her tan watch the itr(r.reettit. answered " Nn, it is 'F. , 111 314o:hell ;" on which the pi ot• er exclaimed, '• How du y nit know it i, Tons Aliteltell," it it was quite dark at the time, and Mr,. Lovell said, y ou harm betrayed }outwit* by your voice. 'floe prnontea, however, at we hat e before stated. escaped. prose. cutely was then taken by Mix. Lovell to bet moat uncut+, and a surgeon was sent fur, who dressed the WOIIIIIIA and she recovered ; one of the wounds was eight inches to length and two deep. The prisoner then absconded, and was traced through Reading to. London, wbcre he was takCit•lnto custody. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Jude, Dallas summed tip the evidence milli a reut per spicuity, and the Jost) , ;titer a !bolt CMIAIIIII4 timi pro nounced a verdict of Guilty, and the Judge immediately passed thu awlitl sentence of the law, The prisoner doting the time of the 1641 behaved 1 . 111 R very indifferent mariner, and *lien he WWI (wind guilty, and while the Judge was pronouncing sentence, lie ap ptirred quite callous, wad was taken in the poi Imigititni pot( a. MANSION-110U4Z. On Friday a rereon of gendernenly appearance and address re cn tested the Chief Magistrate's assistance under difficulties against which he had been long contending. Tim object was to obtain charity, or the means of working agaiest etarvation, which the petitioner said was rapidly pressing spin him. The applicant, who appeared to be 35 or 36, had, by his own staternent r entered hi, Majesty's service at a very early age, as Ensign in the 27111. or Enniskillen regiment of the line. He had served in Egypt in every campaign, particularly in that engagement in settle!' Sir lialph A bercrom by lost his life, and he obtained the rank of Lieu tenant in the field, and was presented by the Grand Seignl9e with v a gina medal, counterparts of which wrre conferred upon the efficers of that army tee tokens of gratitude for their services. In the war that followed the treaty of Amiens, he served in the ends regiment of the line in the no/en of Germany, where efforts were made by the British army under the orders of General Lord Cathcart, to rescue the Continental dominions from the power of the enemy. Subsequently tee Lieutenant was obliged, from the pressure of a domestic calamity, to dispose of his comininion. A combination of unfortunate circumstances, unnereseen and in evitable, compelled him to ewer the service in a aituwian but little adored to his habits, education, or choice. lie entered the 44th regrment of foot as a private soldier, and in that humble ' and laborious capacity served it, the whole Peninsular war, up to the period of the ratification Of the treaty at Paris in 11114. In the course of the campaigns this poor wanderer served in the fun lowing battles and sieges :—N'imetra and ltoleia, Talavera, Bu taco, Almeida, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Echalla, Onhien. • Thouloese, Elves, Ciudad Rodrigo. bethsjos, Burgin . , Painpe luna. Upon the terminetion of hostilities, his regiment, which was a td battalion, and a mere skektnn, from the rigour and variety of its services, was disbanded, and he was di icheiguel.— Thus thmern upon the world, a 'sellout pension or reneuneramin of any kind for what he had done for his country, he enciervonred to obtain the precarious subsistence afforded by attending schools as, an assistant. In his search lately tor a situation of that kind, he had unfortunately failed, in coneequenc: of the great multitude of applicants who were, perhaps, ai needy and more eligible than he was, but who could not be more zealous in attending the duties of any situation by which the means of an honest livehilood couid be obtainueL Under all these circumstances he had presumed to wait t!perettie Lord Mayor, in the hope that, as his Lordship was the friend of those who deteard idleness and dependence. some opportunity might he afibitivd to prove that an unturtunate soldier was actuated by an honest and manly principle. The Lord Mayon expressed some eiirprise at the great extent of those unrequited bervicee. took peculiar interest in die poor soldier's case, and assured him that if he procured testimonials at his conduct from those under whom he had served, a supporting inn should not be wanting to him in the hour of ad .:entity. applicant was extreuutly grateful. He was ready to pro cure testimonials from Sir E. Paget, Colonel of the USLII, Ana from Sir J. May, of the royal horse artillery. He would embrace the moat menial employment by which honest bread could be ranted; wee ceinceioue ut his inaaility, from early habits, to fill a lalsoriou.s situation as well as welly others; but his assiduity should compensate for other deficiencies. The Lord Mayor gave him the means of present support, and re-assured hie hope, by stating-mat tee elute would be lent lei fare Lord Palmeraton BOW STREET. WEST END FAIR. — In consequence of the outrageous daring scene of disorder, robberies, wounding and ill treating a numher of persons, at Weet End Fair, near Hempstead, on Menday evening, and dune,: the night, an miditionel number of consta bles belonging to the ah ive (Mice, o well as (Aliens front Patton Garden +Mice,. were. ordered to attend for detecting and appre. ' bending the offs lidera. A number of time inhabitants of Hampstead were sworn in as special constables by Mr. Cartwright, the Magistrate of Hampstead, to awist the regular policeon Tannay evening. Notwithstanding• the increases number of the police, they were not equal altogether to cope with the villains, who asenabled u alAilletOUS bashes, armed whim bliedgeoes and otaer weapons, aaing in a floored:ming and outrageous claimer than on Monday. The ruffians-were divided into gang), and were esti matedatmoreehan.l3o. Not satisfied with obtaining me pro • party, they beatend otherwise inahreated the persona Of their ItlCLign3. Money was not sun:tent ; they deprived those who came under their grasp of even their w-. wring apparel, and left them nearly naked. Hats, shoes, coats, handkerchiefs, all were considered as booty by these rapacious wretches. Nor were the disgraceful scenes of riot and plunder continril to the lair. Sind• lar acts of violenen and depredistion were practised in the lien e and no the roads in the vicinity. The police, by great exertion, and at much personal risk, succeeded in securing nutty tai tacse isiareants, the strength of two gangs; one of which unnamed of about a dozen.. and the other of &taut nu hey apprehended them in the booths. ThCat: gangs on e'v'ednestlay under went an examination before Mr. Hicks, but as ninny of the persons woo had been attacked were unable to attend, ail the evidence against them has not yet been collected. The examination occupy - al the Magistrate till S o'clock. The smaller gang, coasting of 11, were first put to the bar. Their names ere, Willeun itrookes, William Burke. Henry Lovell, Edward Cannily, aV Album Merit, James Smith, l'homes Howlett. eVillieni Pa aetiger, John Head, Henry Hancock, and Joni') Smith. Thos. Ilunt, a constable of flatopnvtul, being first examined against them. gave a general description of then conduce at. the fair, in robbing, knocking down, stripping, and beating, the weak and defenceless, wish every aggravation of inhumanity and brutal outrage. James Friend, a plumber in Chelsea, gave an recount of the treatment lie received at their hands. lie walked with a friend to Weet End Fair, about 9 o'clock in the evening of Tueneley. As he was passing a field near the fair, he was attacked by a gang, amounting, as he thought, to 17. The first person that seized him by the collar and arm, he was confident, was the prisoner Cassatly.. The witness was then knocked down with a bludgeon, and received a stab on the right side, which fortunately was not dangerous. 'I hey tore his elontea, win robbed him of aIL Bank note. 'Thomas ('Doke. a printer, in Long Acre. itlentitied the prisoner William Burke as one of the depredators. Ilioltard Hinds. one of the lar 4 , , er gang, was charged aid, assaulting ivi 1 wounding a Mr. Clarke. who appeared to give evidence agiunto Mitt. Set eral others of the larger gang were identified by mow whom they had attacked or plandereil. Those of the prisoners against whom clime were brought by proper witnesses were ,cemented. The rcst mere renuukted tar another. esansin.cian. Thursday the investigation was restored before Sir N. Conant and Mr. Brenton. Nothing can bit compared to the scenes described, but an enemy's army let levee to plunder the defence less inhabitants of a compered town.. A young titan, who had been extremely ill treated. amended to endeavour to identify wine of the wretches in custody, who attacked Will robbed him. however, there was very little chance of sticed.,t, as the villains blindfolded his eyes to prevent lilt swing them, pushed hint into a pond in a field adjoining the fair. and then dra,;ged him titroitan it, rohinal huu cf Lis hat, his bouts, 247 watch, and handkerchief: their treatment of him was so barba taus soul cruel, that he expectili to be murdered before he escaped trout them. They ptialkel ariother gentletuan into a ditch, after inflicting upon him every kind of indignity, and rubbing him of all ins property, even to his boots and hut. To a thud gentleman they showed even a more gratuitous inhumnnity and cruelty. 'They robbed hint of all hit property. beat him, and is thug could not draw out' Iris boots, cut them oft A fourth wits not only beaun and robber{, but stript of his clothes mid left in a s ate of umiplete nudity. The asulanty of the It:lnane "was increased, and their three rendered irresistible fity numbers and concert. They were funned into gangs, and committed their robberies or barbarities at die iustigatioa and mules hie guidance of acknowledged leaders. They serrated to have a segular orga nization, and to act on a previously arranged plum Their leaders were respectably d-esed from the trusts of former deprettatinar. They were all sinned with bits:lll4ms, or other more elective weapons. The hatter, ilthey nutylrecalled so, of the gen:* win> are in custody, appear to be of the lowest deseription—the most desperate out-casts of soeiety. Ainoag them are velars. men of colter, Jaws, and gipsies. The ranee presented a curious assets,- • binge of complainants to be contsonted with these savages. Many of them had been wouNkel, bruised, and ntaimeet home were lame, ar,d sonic half blind. There is a long list of wounded still unable to attend. It is fortunate thst there is none on the list of killed, though some are niusirg. Sortie are 101 thbligCrOUSl7 wounded, that fears are entertained for their life. The menglit ch - individual, wits no protection t a soldier of the Life Guards, six feet ni ; ,..11 and along in proportion, lad no chase, but came off bi lased. Townsend, the officer, was pr es ent at the office, end declared, that during his practice of 40 years he did nut recollect sum a nunneruus assenniluge of thieves, arti such dazing aid ostrageOus conduct. Henry Iltincock was identified by - Lieut. Edmund Daises. of the Royal Navy, who stated, that on Monday eveletog he wait with his brother to West End Fair. Between 9 and to o'clock he was attacked in a held by about 50 per ins. The t uttians oontriticil to mule his mouth, so that tic was unable to call fcr assistance, and bewail rubbed of his list and the v./site-tits of his packets. Tney separated and drove bun from his biothsr. tie - WAS sure the prisoner was oa.: of the mob who violently os..bultot And rolibtxl Mr. %Walter Oakes, the brother of the last witneie, appeared with a bandage over his right eye. He confirmed the statement of his brother. and also identified the prisoner Haacwck. Joieph I tnaianuel. a young man, wag iisndfied at the dtioror passage of the office, as bet:ig one of a gang at the fair on Alan day night. flioinas Lunnis, a dealer in milk, of LitticCarter-lane. Doe• tor's Comaioni, stated, that on Monday evening he went to W est-end fair, where he was attacked by o gang of Stine 60 men, tinned with sticks, they kuock‘sl him down, and most cruelly beat him ; they efterwards robbed him of his watch, her. and handkerchief. The prisoner denied ledng at the fair. art/ said lie was in his master's house all that night; he had then left Its master's who is Air. Itufale,thoomilmry, to take some thing, to the Master of the Rolls in Chancery Lane. and he only came to the -etfice to see Noose person —ltts master sits-events Came to the office and ollerod to teal hull, hut he sae intiamed was not a bailable offence, er.:iipt belay a .ladge. Friday, the men who were examined li:fore Mr. Bernie, on Tuesday, were re-examined before the Unit Nlagistrate. Richard Harris and Samuel Dielienson were admitted to bail, they. giving a satisfactory twavtint of theuiselees, and respectable bsil kin; offered for them— Qs Walter was found due -- skirts of two good blue coats, and whiebno doubt hal been torn ordifferent coats, being both fmm the right side, and differently heed. Nu person whishad been robbed or iWweuuted attend"l to identify them. Ells was, therefore, committed fur trial, on a 'charge of stealing the two skim. the property of some person or petioni unknown. He will be betiag!it to the tate - again to gireahose persons who have been robbed and iliareated at the lair, or tit to.: ang:thourliotal ui it, an opportuuity tel seeing him. GUILDHALL. ........ SINOULAI ANIIRXTEXIIIVC FokortiY.—lnfmination was prefared on Wednesday to the Sitting Alderman, Sir James Shaw, respecting a singular and extensive system of forget), which had ben carried on for sonic length of tone or. Mekttl... TllO4llll Martin. SM. and llughes, warCilallWt ire r, of great res. pectability, at the corner of Cateaion Street end King Stree. Quayside, by a young man of this of Richard eryor, wins had lived several years in their employ as a cuniklential clerk.— Promshe factatlisclosed. it appeared unit Niger, from the nature of his cmployenentonecissmity became acquaint :4 with the con. (vials of the Louse, and the names and psrticulart of thu accounts of the ii.minas fur whom they did businest and availing lie usea' of this knowledge, had at several times forged bills purporting to be drawn by Mr. Hugh Gaskill„ an extensive manufacturer at Wigan, in Lanciothire, for whom Ales:sr. Martin and Co. were agents, which he pretouded to have reerivz4 from the country, and which were without any suspicion accepted by Messrs. Martin in the regular course of business, and returned to I'rynr, for the purpose of b, in transmitted into the country. These bills he innwodiately endorsed in this mini: of Hugh Gaskill, and got diliontintesle the respectability of the acceptance ensuring their easy begociation. How long this iniquitous business lead been carried on, or by what ni:ons it was at last th.tected, did not transpire, but the amount of the less,. Ate.crs., Martin haring paid nearly all the Mils. before tLeuistvvery, was said to be be• tween mai n,coul. - Pryor having abscond:3, Mr. Willis, solicitor to the house. nuclide., to i refer the charge against win, preparatory to ether thing him, and offering a reward tiar his a yreileubiJn. One of tile bills so forged, was produced, dated August t 4, 1819. las 5t.01., at three months, which Mr. flualphry Ballard. bd. broker, Cilange•alley, deposed, that he had discounted for Pryor. and tie endorcement, •' Hugh tiwskill," was on it when brougft to him. This bill had subs...vim:lf barn disc...mutat at tile Bank otEngland. . Sur James Shaw exprersed himself satidied clmt sufficient evidence hail been produced to warrant the apprebensioa of the offender, Out it is fLarail that be malready out or Ike country. Two other bills of the same kind are Mill out, one of then: fur 5001. is now due, and ilea in rl:e• hands do respectable broker, !Messrs. 51a:tin übj,xtin3 to pay the game. on the grou-d that, although the acceptance is genuine. we endorsement. a: - .1 the wholit.of Oa bill, with that ex 1e is a forty. case is novel, and lawly to bea.astra sub,i6e. for the il.aniion sof a Court of I.aw. The offender. is well•knonn as a dasher of the Erie order, at all pi .ces of publicaaniseintot and resort about inctrvelis, and althou4:i wit!ioot any ♦iau!e ireinvs but his salary ass clerk, kept hit horse, luwl oisehambe.s in the Tcuiple, utd ie.. living at the rate of a. Last I,ousu. & y car. Pmfessor Playftir, w!to hart been ahr some tittle past in a dt.eliniagstate of health, died at los houre in Forth Street, E.littlil,rgh, on Tues.lay inorn. , l4 se'nnight. l!is death is universally regretted. No man ever perhaps deserved or enjoyed a larger shaye. of the public:esteem. By the world at large he was respected fur his great and various acqttirements, both in literature and science, whila to the circle of his private friends he was, in a peculiar manner, endeared, by his mild and unassua)in;47