The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-01 00:00:00

NOV. t. the name of the owner of the property was essential, and if so tt was essential that it should be given correctly. i The CouRT again called Mrs. Stowe, whe stated, that she had known Mr. Campbell as John,Campbell. but she had also heard him called Graham Campbell sometimes. Mr. CURWOOD now observed, that whatever he might have been called, here was a probre of a will to which he had sworn, and in which, by his own act, he was called John Graham Campbell. If this objection had not suggested it self, there was another which he intended to have made, but only in arrest of judgement. He thought. however. he might as wall mention it then. It was to the wording of the indict ment, which described the house as be "prowl J. Campbell, Ice. Now, he maintained that this expression was equivocal, and that the terms, " the p .. pe,sy tpl," &c. should have been ii,,ed; for a house might be belonging to a tenant, and yet the property of any other person; and if the house was held as tenant by the prisoner, the offence of setting fire would not be a capital one. This description of the property he therefore maintained was not a sufficient one in law. Mr. BoLLAND ro4si to replv.—llis observations on the second objection were not audible where we sat. In reply to the first we understood lion to contend, that the way in which the name was given did not vitiate the indictment. They had proved that Mr Campbell had been known by the name of John. and his having been left property as John G. Campbell could nut effect the legali.y of the former de scription If he, Mr. Bolland whose name was William, had been left property, and was t.escrihed in the will as Mr. Henry Bulked, it would not invalidate an indictment in which he should be described as William Bolland. Ihe learned gentleman was proceeding with this argument, when Mr Justice PACK (sset: , ed, that although the will had onl♦ mentrioied John G Campbell," yet in the probate Mr. Camonell acknowleiftecl the addition, and filled it up with the word 4: Graham." Mr EC/LLANO sad he was nut aware of this circumstance before, and had therefore nothing further to oiler upon that objection 11 , fr. Justice PACK then observed, that his leeesed brother Baron Wood, having a doubt on the subject*, toe oi jection, he would reserve it fur the opinion of the .2 fudges; as also the other, which Mr Ciirwoied had ma , The evidence for the prosecution ring now closed, the prisoner w..s called upon for her deteuce, but did not offer any übsercairon tier counsel ca led the followhig witness: • Anne l'ajne knew the prisoner for t years and a hale Saw her the five days before the burning of the house. She noticed her incoherent manlier of talking he told witness she was much troubled in mind, and would certainly make away with herself. She complained particularly of the con duct of her husband. Witness asbeo her to see her lius:.and, but she refused, and said she would never see him any more. Witness firmly believed that she aas not right in her mind Se had brio e this borne an excellent character. Mr. Justice PAac summed up the evidence, upon which Ise cummented at some length, and the Jary. atter a very short deliberation, returned the following verdict --'• N guilty, being at the time in a state of mental derangement " This verdict, if not set aside by the decision of the twelve Judges, favourable to the ob , ectiuns made by Mr Curwuod, subjects the prisoner to imprisonment fur life in some asylum for the reception of insane persons. During the whole of her trial, the prisoner (who. as far as we could judge from a slight glimpse of her features, appears about 28 or 50 years of age) stood at the bar in a slate of great dejection. She held her handkerchief to her face for the most of the time, and scarcely once held up.her head, or seemed to regard what was passing round her. At her re moval she wept much, but nut aloud: indeed, her whole de meanour indicated a person labouring under a deep melan choly and dejection of spirits. She wasordered to be detained "Iliadic King's pleasure be known (that is, until the decision f the t 2 Judges should he given). In the course of the evening the Grand Jury came into Court, with the last of the bills which had been sent to them. The foreman presented a paper in the name of himself and brother Jurors. This shortly stated, that the Jurors had visited the gaol of Newgate, and were perfectly satisfied with the order, regularity, and cleanliness observed there. They were then discharged. On Saturday John Trapp was indicted for feloniously secreting a letter, containing a 501. and 401 Rank of Eng land-note, which letter had come to his hand in consequence of his mom) meet in the General Post Oakes There was sieond indictment sign gist him, for having in his pose•sion the stolen property. The Clillit permitted him to pleas' so the second indictment, Is hich subjects hum to transporta tion fur seven yetris. ..-...-. Jahn 'loath, antis her clerk in the Geneial post-office, was convicted on charging hint with t.eereiing a lett , r containing a5l. note, toldrisse7l to a gentleman nurned 11 eller, ~ N 111111.4 ut Ninth Crab, in Kent ; and alio a second , indictment, eh'irging him with stealing a letter containing tne halves of two 101. note!, addressed In W. Lamb, Laq. of Wiestliogisiirth, near Redford. There were four other charrs ag.mot him, which %sere not tried. GLASGOW, OCT. 2G.—James Wrtdoe, alias the City Orator, alias Blue Thumbs, alias Blue Jamie, UM apprehended for a contravention of the Statutes, crying on the streets, selling seditious and inflam matory papers, and animadverting on theta in very offensive language. Wlndoe has perhaps changes his mode of procuring his livelihood as often as the celebrated Carew " changed shapes." In this in stance he has become a not only to increase his respectability, but that by being popular, it in creases his " ways and means" of procuring aqua viler, his chief end. His figure, gait, and phiz, have as mien drollery in theta as the celebrated Liston's, and he is as well known at the public offices of this city and the neighbouring towns, as that pers-)itage is to the Londuu theatrical amateurs. He has it A areti ai a vender of spurious peppers, dye stu.is, obscene papers, witty obsLrvutions un marrt.l. 4 .s, lit-pv(4;6111, dying declarations, speeches on radn.!i ne ui „ z ; and mis not ualrequently made as many imiverts m his thoory of the buni•iits likely to accrues i, t fr nu ehea,,, w make, " the mad of at at; new friends have Lr th,ir decorated sea& .1 f,, , 11 14 titlil•! W 0.5 IA hi tll eit. ot• ;1i bo , 1? ..• ; 1. r t,t. tlt sat into t ditch jti A hl. Ull ills ntunt Iru.o I.A;tC4III6IOU. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. RIGHTS OF WOMEN, Much having been said of late respecting Female Reformers, the following authorities will prove that female rights have been greatly infringed:— Lady Packinutim returned two Members to Parliament. —Brady on Bisrrongho, 3. Ap. By a collection of Hakewell'a, in the cue of Catherine a. Surrey, the opinion of the Judges was, that an limner eied woman having a freehold might vote for Members of Parliament. A woman may be an Overseer of the Poor —for this we Gave a recent authority.—See the King v. Stubbs, 2 Tenn Rep. 39:3, A woman was appointed Governess of the House nfCor rection at Chelmsford, by order in Court.-9 Ld. Kern 1014. _ lu the Mirror of Justices, • woman Is said to have been a Justice of the Peace. In the last chapter of the Romans, verse 1, one Phoebe Is called the ***** ut of the Church. and held some eccle siastical office. 'deaconesses are mentioned in ancient Councils, when baptism wits by Mono Mon. Lady Broughton was Keeper of the (latehonse Prison. The Minister of Clerienwell was chosen by a majority of women.—t Geo. 2. • Women may be guardian+. administrators, executors, and can execute pOWPI'S of attorney. Woun•u have held by military tenures.—Bloant's Terme*, 47. In 1'eg0,215, there is a grant of a eaole to a Lady. Time awe of Champion at the Cot onatiou of George I. way in a Woman. _ Toe office of Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench was ;trained to n Wonsan.—SllOW, P. r. The other of High Constable ha► been borne by • Wu min.—Dyer, 2+ , 5. 'Clip law 4110% Women to be even Qaeens: her Nl4 jests Qnren Catoline was left Resent and Croardian 01 Ibis Realm. Tot celebrated Anis Countess of Pentbioke, Doi set. bold the hereditary other al ~ueritP of 1V41%1:11.)rlAn.1, and ilcere.stil it in pesos at the .I•e•ze+ at Ali f .:elty, And sat co. the Mitch with the . No'i., W.. i.ew are Patr^ns of ('hurches: they have 1)011a: ores, nail there they a►e is Ordioaties ; they .iie risitatilr or hn .ri,oriationv, which are circa sarra # aid Ih y 4Fl' ie gardril in law as P4r/1011%; 111411 y N kkkkkk vries had them lieloio the liefarinatitoi. W •a, in IIVC( 11 4.11y,11.1V4 - 414 , 11 a.100r.1 to 2i. (12 tiro W net v at I ail I•r 4bovi• authorities are ark Imo ,Ig , il. In .iit old edition of the ii•sta . itetit. to the year I;i7 4, .1 ‘V , .111..11 is called a 4iiiisitt of the Chi .n•h. And it is noun loos* that Quakers all. , t WIPIUeII 4. 1111.4411. %V trE Sewsto.—The scandalous and illegal prac tice of husbands selling their wives in upon market, with a halter round their necks, under the vulgar notion chat they thereby get clear of their obligation of maintaining them, has of late years been too com mon. In many recent cases, this abominable conduct has been punished with laudable severity. The proceeding, however, is not quite so modern as is generally supposed. Au instance is mentioned by Lord Coke, in which a husband endeavoured to dispose of his wife by deed, and it may, perhaps, amuse some of our readers to see a translation of it from the original law Latin : Know all 11111.11 by this present writing, that I, John de Cameys, son and heir of Randolph de Cameys, of in, own voluntary will, have assigned, and set over Onto William Paynelt, Knight, my wife, Margaret Ile Cameys, daughter and heire.s of John de Gattesiten and ■lse have given and granted, released, ■nd quit claimed. to the said Wil liam, all the goods and chattels, which the said 31ergaret has, or in future may become possessed of, and also, whatever I possess of the goods and chattels, of the said Margaret, with their appurtenances, so that neither I, nor any other person in my name, shall in future claim any interest in the said Margaret, or in the goods and chattels of the said Margaret, with their appurtenances. I will and grant,and by this present writing confirm, that the said Margaret shall be and temain with the said William, duriog the pleasure of the said William. In testimony wbettor, I have to this present writing affixed my seal. Lord Coke calls this a " wonderful and unheard of grant." SIR A RTIIUR PIGGOTT'S WIL eminent Barrister's Will was proved under 14,0001. at Doc tors' Commons, on the 27th ult. by his widow, Lady Piggott, to whom he has left nearly the whole of his property, and appointed her sole Executrix.— bequeathing to her as many boobs us she may choose to select from his Library, be gives the re mainder to his brother, Elphinstonc Piggott, in trust for him to divide between his nephews, and after wards gives his brother power to dispose of his books at any time he may think proper. To his clerk, P.... Brian (who served him without any other salary than that arising from the clerk's fees, fur upwards of thirty eight years), he has left only 101. for mourning. Sir Arthur Piggott wa, a native of Barlradoes, and was buried privately ut Eastborne; he was tether of the Bar, senior Beneher of the Temple, Attorney-General during Mr. Fox's last and short administration He was representative titr Arundel on the interest of the pre o. Duke. He was considered to be a kind ina.t.r, and a staunch oeposer of the slave trade, having sent Out manu missions to some slaves th.t were bequeathed to him a ti:w years since. We Lope that his Execu trix, ..ady Pigv,ott, wiil utu..r some provision fir his I tug tried anti faithful old clerk, who is nom uvariy 70 years ut age, and who hits saved but little to sup p.,rt him, owing to his master s pruct;ce icing on the decline for several of the latter years of his life. An elegant silver cup has been presented to Mr. William Beck, hosier, in Harwick, by the journey. men stocking-makers, of that town. They have been induced to testify their regard to Mr. Beck in this respectable way from the zealous manlier in which be defended them against the attempts of the other hosiers in Harwick to reduce their wages at a time when the depressed state of the trade bad, independently of a further reduction of their wages, involved them and their families in extreme priva tions: by Mr. Beck's exemplary conduct, in not only allowing his own journeymen undiminished wages during this unprecedented dullness of the hosiery trade, but also giving them full employment, while in other manufactories their work was limited to a certain extent (which had the tendency to in duce the other journeymen to stand oat, in order to keep up their wages at the same rate as those allowed by Mr. Beck), together with the assis scree they received from public generosity, they were enabled to defeat these attempts, and to maintain their usual, though small rate of wages unreduced. Sir Charles Weisely has obtained a certiorari, and removed the proceedings in the prosecution pending against him into the Court of Kings Bench. Thu writ was obtained on the affidavit of Mr. Pearsor, the Baronet's attorney. After the several explana tory matters as to the charge and so forth, Mr. Pearson " further saith, that he has heard and be lieves, that several of the niagistrstes in the habit of presiding at the General Quarter '.essions of tho Pence in and for the said county Palatine of Ches. ter, entertain strong prejudices against the said Sir Charles Woslely, Baronet, by reason of his having, in despite of his elevated rank and hereditary pos sessions, assadated himself with the labouring climes of society, and, in opposition to the magistrar.s and • other individua:s of his own rank in Cheshire.' assembled with the poor, to deliberate up .n the means which he and they thought would ne best calculated to rei:evc their di , tresse and redre s their gricvalice.:; and rats deponent further sa,th, !.at he verily believes that inattPrs of law of gr.:at difficulty and iaiportance wil: arise at the trial ot' t.ic said in• rlictinint, which it is essential should he discussed bc.:iire a Court of greater legal i.nowledge than that. which is ordinarily possessed by Nlagiurates, not having had the advantage of a professional e location and extensive legal experience; and this deponet t farther said', that for these reasons the said Sir C. Wolsely could not obtain a fair and impartial' trial it the rail Quarter Sessions of the Peace." Tun ROYAL MARINES.-...-••The Officers of the Royal ‘larine corps have been hitherto placed on equal ground, with respect to promotion, us those of the Royal Artillery and Engineers. To this situ ation they ,have proved themselves well entitled, and the services of the Royal Marines have been very conspicuous, and universally acknowledged is the late war. It appears, however, that since the peace some new arrangements have taken place, by which the two tiirmer corps are placed in a more desirable situation, thus destroying the equality that hitherto subsisted between these classes, to the disadvantage of the Marines. By these regulations as vacancies occur in the Royal Artillery and Engi neers, they are filled up by bringing in a Captain on half-pay, who is placed on full pay, the Senior Lieutenant promoted to the rank of Captain is pl6ccd on half-pay, and the Second Lieutenant is made First Lieutenant. We understand that the Subal tern Officers of the Marines have presented a memo rial to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,. requesting to be placed on the same footing, bi.t that their request has been refused. This distinction, we believe, has been made since the present Master of the Ordaanec came into office, but upon what ground we are at a loss to concaive. The past ser vices of the Royal Marines have been highly appre ciated by the country. Their present utility must be also admitted, tier if they be not necessary, why are they continued ? The distinction is rendered the more invidious by the particular state of the Royal Marines at the present moment. The pre sent Senior Lieutenant of the corps is of 14 years standing in that rank, and the Second Lieutenant is nearly us old in his rank. A few facilities to promotion, where it is so slow, would appear not. merely an indulgence, but an act of justke, A NARROW ESCAPE—(hI TilUrs(l3V 11-1, 3 lad of 14. year* .1 age, residing in Kok-square, ('ollege street, iirtsiol, observed an old Iron swisel gun ing about the house, and being tie-irotis of cleaning it, be pot tt:e breech into the fire, and seated himself lE:Core the noir. s'e to Wateit it. Ito a foss seetnids an explosion took place, and the boy t.lt himself woondttl in the (rant of his throat. Ile was conveyed to he Itifirm.try, where a table-fork, without the outlet) viva .tt Itaiullo, oas taken from the wotitisl, of the hots up I. t lie 'Hong , 'tweet' our Jill fist incite in lengrlt) tin log ,ern cis throat. The itti%, it s sa e . l ets it til passed het,‘ ern the. ,it great ,t!otHl.rossek on the tell side of he cork pow. be:•11 %. , r1 'ouch , laitta/e,I, or a lit• , 0 i s I L A ittliets a threcti.'n rills r a little .0 .hr list's t r to the 11 , it hate causrti, instant de:1111. As present, how, s yr, the :ad appears to ix doing vityll k bus It u is by no Mears out of