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. . _•_,,-,-‘-‘9l . O w tAN .. 1 `0."....` • ~..... /./ i . }• . : i'r t . '" — ll' i r (1 th . p -t .. .. •.1 ' A' 'e ' 1 AAAAA...0 440 e-7-"Alt k-- 91 / 4 A. t. ), • %,...,,, O l' 4, I. • . • . • . . • 1 LONDON, THURSDAY ; MAY 22, 1823. .. NUMBER 5678 " The Caen Jar which HAMPDR.N fell in the Aisfd, aid SYDNEY died on thi. Serf/fold!" . PRICE SairgN PENCV. R. GIAWER's EXHIBITION of PAINTINGS is NOW OPEN, 16, Old B on d- s t ree t, o pp os i te PR. -Idinittonee, Is —Catalogue, 6d. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Alen 21. Iher room ; but when she got a candle she saw her mistake. ' She expressed some serprise, and her children becoming alarmed, began to cry ; upon which the man said " !lush ; hold your tongues," Wit made no other observation. He fiat put down the trunk, and saying he must go for his breeches, went out; and she followed him, and saw him go into the house which was afterwards burnt, by a small back door which had been for a long time closed up, and the little yard, to which it was an outlet, used as a dust hole. The back of her house adjoined the back part of the ' house that was burnt. Knowing then wi!ri he was, she said, " Oh! you are the baker," and almost at the same moment, looking up, she saw clouds of smoke issuing from the house. He returned in a few momeute with his breeches, and she said, " why, you did net tell me there was a fire; how was that ?" lle nrade no reply but " hush !" and he and the lad took tip the trunk and weut away. She saw no mo: eof him until now. The prisoner was the Caine man. Witness in • short time after his departure and that of the boy, heard the cries of Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs for assistance. At the request of Mr. ADOLPIIVS, and With the consent of Mr. [saws for the prosecution, the callieg other evidence was postponed until Scturday peat. M•al.noeoung STREET.—Yeltefday WM. Acres, the driver of one of Wallis 's coaches, was charged n irk har ing obstructed the way for 20 minutes in Piccadilly, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Wallis said, that Acres was his wean', and be had given them all strict injunctions not to block up the VY' The MAGISTRATE convicted Acres in the penalty of 40s. and costs. . HATTON OARDEN.—Yesterday Robert Ayres, the dri ver of a brewer's drag, appeared to a summons, charged by William Rosser, Esti , of 7, Co mining place, Penton ville, with careless and negligent driving. Mr. Rosser deposed, that about three o'clock on the preceding afternoon, as he was returning home in his gig, accompanied by his wife, on endeavouring. to pain the defendant's dray, going up Pentonsille-hill, opposite Winchester -street, the fore-horse of the dray crossed the road, so far that the horses had projected over the foot pavement and prevented his passing; there was a Leap of stones on the road behind his chaise, which lie bad passed, so that he could not back his gig. Mr. Rosser called out as loud as he could to the defendant, who was on the opposite side, to go and lay hold of his fore horse by the bead to prevent accident ; he disregarded what he said, the wheel of the dray got entangled in that of the gig. Mrs. Rosser jumped out. and fell on the heap of stones, and escaped with a broken finger; Mr. Rosser leaped out, and escaped unhurt ; but the chaise was overturned and broken to pieces. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 40 shil I ling', and 4s. lid. costs. names was affixed to it, and no one of the petitioners was under twenty years of are. Mr. HUME deprecated any impediment •to the pro:- gress of the Bill. Mr. F. BUXTON expressed it as his opinion that, hi . - fdre the House proceeded with the Bill, the petitioners should have an opportunity of considering its tendency, and of being heard by Counsel on its merits. Mr. ELLICE concurred in the same opinion. lie ad ded that the House was now proceeding against the' weaker party, while the Combination Acts, which all al lowed were of the most oppressive nature, wore suffered to remain in full force. The Spitalfields Acts were con ceived by the petiionrrs to afford to them a species of protection, and the evils of it they did not yet see. The manufacturers might, if they deemed those acts injurious to their interests, remove their capital to other part', and carry on the business without employing one map in Spitalfields. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Huskisson) would consider n heftier he could our, without opposing any ohstructions to the progress of the Bill, allow time to consider its !mita, and let the peas Goners know winAter he meant to rcusove the Acts against combination. Mr. HALDIMAND said that the silk trade in Spi talfields would be destroyed in the coerse of a few years unless the present injurious Act was r. pealed. - He thought the Resolutions of the weavers, which he sa pnblished in the papers, con'ained the strongest notions of polaical economy that he ever heard. The Hon. Member then read extracts from the Resolutions, and contended that the person who drew them up made out a better case for the repeal of the Act titan the K'. Hon. Gentleman who intro.:uced the preant Bill. lie saw no reason for delaying the progress of that Bill, and he was sure the petitioners themsi;yes would lureaf.er acknowledge its utility. Mr. RICARDO said he did not vet hear one single ar gument to alter the opinion which be before expressed. He was firmly convinced that the Bill which was intro duced was a measure of general utility and of particular advantage to tile journeynten as o ell as to the master mann f cturers. If the former law were a good one, why ha. it not extended to all parts of the kingdom? Why.was it not proposed to egatate tit , trade of bakers and other trades in a similar manner? lie could not see any ad vantage that would arise from delaying the present Lill': and he asked the lion. Members for Weymouth, and Norwich, and Coventry, whether if the Bill were putt poned to another Session, there would then be an end of all opposition to it? Delay was in his opinion of no use whatever. *IIIHE PICTURE of the TRIAL of the late QUEEN, by Mr. UEORUE HA YTER, Member of the Academy of St. Luke, in ROMP, &c• &c.—Mr. T. H. CAUTY respectfully notifies, that having paid a large sum of money 'or the right to exhibit this GREAT HISTORICAL Pl - TIJRE, thesame is mow OPEN to the Public at his . Rooms, so}, Pall-mall, from Ten till dusk. Admittance, One Shil ling. As the limits of an Advertisement prevent an adequate •description l-ing given of this extraordinary Picture, it will here he simply stated, that it contains upwards of 300 figures, of which IS9 are Portraits. those Priaees of the Royal Family, and every Peer and Person of distinction in the Picture hiving sat to Mr. Hsyter, whose rank as a Por trait Painter will, it is trusted, excite public curiosity to• wards the Exhibition. Pursuant to the King's warrant, the Puisne Judges of this Court sat to-day, in an apartment of the Guildhall, Westininster, for the purpose of disposing of busioess re maining from 14st Term. FLEMING V. PRATT AND OTHERS. This was an action of trespass, tried at the last Nor folk Assizes, before Mr. Baron Gamow\ when a verdict was found for the plaintiff—Damages, 201. Last term a role nisi was obtain.d for setting aside the verdict and obtaining a new trial, on the ground that the damages were excessive. The case was this: the Plaintiff was a publican at Yarmouth, and the defendants were officers of the Mayor of that town. In the a utumn of last year, the plaintiff gave" an home" to his friends and acquaint ances. Amongst the company invited was a Nliss Lydia Simmons, a young lady of fortune, who was plaeed under the care of a Clergyman's widow in the town. The young lady's friends, thinking the plaintiff's house ao improper place for her to visit, remonstrated with and advised her not to go; but she accepted the invitation against their wishes. Application was made to.the Mayor to interpose his authority to have her taken from the defers lant's house, and upon the facts being stated, the defendants were deputed,by written authority, to take the lady' , away. On arriving at the plaintiff's home, a London Attorney's clerk interposed, and demanded whether the defendants had an Habeas Corpus ; but being told that they had not, he threatened them with an action of trespass quare clausuni fregit. The officers upon this withdrew, and shortly afterwards the plaintiff sent the young lady home to her friends, and the pre.ent action was brought. The question now was, whether the damages shove mentioned were exceuive, under the cir• curnstances? To the PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GIATESMSN. Beg leave respectfully to inform you, that it is not I my intention to offer myself as a Candidate to supply the Vacancy which has occurred in the Direction of your Affairs in consequence of the resignation of your late worthy Director, Mr. COTTON. I embrace this opportunity of returning city grateful Thanks for the very fhtterini reception I have experienced during my Ccnvass, and which will encourage mn to perse vere in soliciting with greater seal and attention your fa vourable Suffrages on a future occasion. 1 have the honour to be, Ladles end Gentlemen, Your very faithful and humble t. - HENRY ALEXANDER, 2,, Upper Harley-street, May 21, 11323. -., The Court, after hearing Mr. STORKS against the rule, and stopping M. CADIPHILL in support of it, thought the verdict not warranted by the evidence, anti therefore made the rule absolute f.or a new trial. Niu Prins Sitting:, before the Lord Chief Justice and Commas Juries. HOPKINS V. NEWELL. 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EADI respectfully calls the attention of these LP Maimed, to its peculiar and effectual method of cure, tad although he will not presume to pledge infallibility in every description of case, yet as far as home aid, assist ed by medical and surgical experience can be applied, be promises a speedy arid permanent restoration.—Dr. E. is eolguited daily et No. DS, Dean-street, Soho, by patients of both sexes. Country letters meet respectable attention by retero of second poet. NO PECIFIC was ever brought into use by the Profeidors of Medicine, to equal PEEDE'S Celebrated thud Incomparable Flancit ['furs, for the speedy, safe, and *fie etual CURB of o.settaiu disorder, in all its insinuating forms, and the fraf Ignant and destructive Ravages it . daily makes on the man Frame; but, happily, these Pills Care In so short a lie e, and in so safe and easy a manner, as to warrant him us : Ouch fell confidence of success, that NO op irate Disease shall be left in the system. These Pills art I sold In Boxes, at Its. Od.,nt eft, Ligaorpond-street, Lon t; but should it be preferred, the Doctor engages to Cure tat Disease for a stipulated sum, or return the Money; so tar tif there be No Cure, there will be No PAY. I I; A. The Itch Cared without vsekkar K , uointiar, by sTM Mies only, price This was an action on the case against the defendant, for the negligence of his t in driving a sage coach, whereby the Plaintiff and his wife were upset in a gig at Barnes, in Surrey. The defendant offered no defence; but it appeared that after the accident happened he had proposed to pay fur the damage done to the plaintiff's gig, and for the surgeon's bill in curing the injuries which the plaintiff and his wife bad sustained; but this offer being refused, the action proceeded, and now The Jury, antler the learned Judge's directions, found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Illl• lIIIIVLET V. BATCIII4.L. - This was an action for shooting the plaintiff's mastiff dog. The plaintiff was a coach master at Mill-bill, and the defendant, a butcher, of the same place. Proof was given that that dog in question was shot by or through the defendant's means. I n mitigation of damages, it was proved that the deceased deg was in the habit of realtna the defendant's meat, and also of committing various trespasses of the same nature in the neighbour hood. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 51. POLICE. flu ILONA LL.--Johnoon Gillingham WAS brought up yes terday before Mr. Alit. ATKINS, upon suspicion of being an utterer of counterfeit coin. The prisoner had called several times in the course of the last week at No 5, Poppin's-court, Fleet -street, kept by a man named filor,arty, for the purpose of hiring a furnished room that was to be h t fur a single man, and at one of these calls had left with fiforiarty's wife a hand kerchief and a pair of stockings to he washed. lie fetched them away on Tuesday and gave a sixpence in payment, which the woman discovered the instant he was gone to be a had one. She went after him directly, and go' sight of him going into the R A Lion public-house, in ti:e Court. He offered very to idily to change the sixpence, and gave her another which proved to be as had as the former; this she of course refused, and Dale, the landlord, bearing thedispute, and the prisoner saying he hail got no other, offered to give him two sixpences fora shilling ; but the shilling produced by the prisoner proving also to be bail, Dale suspected him to be a common utterer, sent for an officer, and gave him in custody. On searching him, in a,lddition to the had silver he had offered, a bad half-crown was found in his pocket, and four other counterfeit ones, apparently fresh from the die, in a lea ther purse. Gillingham slid he was very drunk at the time, and all he remembered was picking up the purse in the street with the whole of the silver in it. The ALDERMAN could not he he trooght to credit this singular piece of good luck, and remanded the pri•toner, that the Soli, itor to the Mint might attend at a future examination. Bolf-STREET.—Yesterday John Collie (the occupier of the house burnt in New-street) underwent another exa mination, before Sir Rich. BIRNIK and Mr. Illissittai, on the charge of wilfully setting tire to a house in White cross-street, in Sept. 1611. Mr. ADOLPHUS, on the part of the prisoner, examined Mrs. Gibbs at considerable length. William Gibbs give precisely thesame account of the fire as his wife had done. The only furniture he ever saw of Louie's, the prisoner, was a few old chairs. Two or three mornings after the tire, witness saw the prisoner at the Eagle Fire Office, and understood he came there to claim his insurance money. Heard one of the clerks tell the prisoner that if he came again he would have him taken up, upon which be went away, and witness never raw him again until he was in custody. Mr. Beethans, the Secretary to the Eagle Insurance Company, produced the policy of insurance effected by John tiottie (witness could not recollect the person of the prisoner), in which he was described as a baker and pastry-cook, and the house insured was No. 196, White ' cross-street. The insurance was made on the 9th of September, and the tire took place on the 24th of the same month. The lease of the house was insured at 120!., the stock in trade at 420/ , the oven at 601. and the household furniture at Mt, m 3 king a total of 7001. A few dsy after the fire, a claim was made, as be believed, by the prisoner, and an inventory presented of the goods, Rce. alleged to be lost in the fire, with the value affixed, amounting to 3SSI. 3.. 3.1. In the whole. This he declared to he the amount of the actual loss he had suffered; but being required to verify it by affidavit, be reduced his claim to 2421. 3d. The claim was rejected by a Committee of Directors. The defendant never en forced his claim by action, and they understood he had absconded. Elizabeth Brookes, of No. 1, Shrewsbury-court, White eross-street, deposed that a quarter before 12 o'clock on the night of the fire she was sitting up for her husband, and heard a knocking at the door ; she tiptoed it without a candle, supposing it to be her husband, bat saw a man sod a boy with a trunk between them; they were both in their ishirt sleeves; she thought It was her next doo r ne i g hb ou r, a Mr. Cromely and his sou, the former of w h om s h e h a d beard cm:telling betore,and she suffered them to come into IMpERI.AL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.WEDNESDAY. Kr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the linen mainsfacterers of Scotland against any alteration in the laws relating to the Lined Trade.—Laid on the table. Sir W. LEMON presented a petition from the inha bitants of a parish in Coruwall,against the Duty on Coals carries! coastwise.—Laid on the table. Mr. MANSFIELD presented a petition from Leicer ter against the operation of the Warehousing Bill, parti cularly as it regards Woollen Cmods.—Laid on the table . A petition was presented from Poole against the Slave Trade.—Laid on the table. CURWEN presemeil a petition fram the agrirnl tgists of the county of HachHugon, complaining of the low price of Tallow, and praying for relict—laid on the table. The !Immoral)le Member presented a petilon to the state effect from the butchers of London.—Laid on the table. Lord LOWTHER. presented a petition from the mer chants and woollen manufacturers of Kendal, praying for a repeal of the duties on foreign wool.—Laid on the table. Mr. D. SYKES presentel a petition from the ship owners of Kingston upon-Ilnli rewecting the duties on East India Sugar.—Laid on the table. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT. Mr. PAuutry presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Barnard Castle against the Insolvent Debtors Act.—Laid on the table. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a similar petition from 3.000 of the merchants and traders of the city of %Vest minster. The Hon. Member stated tfeat a meeting bad been called on the subject, and the general opinion was that the Insolvent Laws 01Ifilt to be assimilated as clost - IT as possible to the laws relating, to bankruptcy. They also wished that there should always be meetings of the creditors, as in bankruptcy cases. f lie House, he oh d, would be surprised to hear that, from the Ist Feb. to the Ist March, not less than 3000 individuals had taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Ile den.e I that there was e-n eagerne,s on the part of tradesmen to give credit ; on the contrary, lee was assured that they had the greatest difficulty in guarding themselves against persons who wished to get into debt only for the purpose of afeerwards becoming. Insolvent.—Tlse petition was or dered to lie on the table. Mr. LAMBTON presented a pillion from the inhabi tants of a Parish in Durham, against the Stare Trade.— Laid on the table. 'fife LORD MAYOR pre*ented a petition from the Silk Manufacturers of Sudbury, against the Silk Itlanu facturers' Bill. Mr. C. CALVERT %dialed that mere time should be allowed to the Silk Wearers to consider the measure. Mr. RICARDO thought the Bill extremely n;es sary. Mr. W. SMITH supported the petition, which was or dered to lie on the table. Sir T. ACLAND presented a petition from the Agri culturists of a parish in Devonshire, complaining of Distress, and praying fir relief.—Ordered to he printed. The 1100. Member presented a petition from the Agri culturists of another parish in the same county, against the Coal Duties.—Laid on the table. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a petition from the In habitants of Bristol against the Duty on Coals carried coast wise.—Laid on the table. Captain WEMYSS pres..nted a petition from the Agri eniturists of Fife, praying fur an increased duty on Fo reign tAllour. The Hon. Member presented another petition from certain persons in the saute county, in favour of the Stamping of Linen Bill.—Laid on the table. Mr. HUME moved for certain papers relating to the ease of a person named Butcher, whom he represented to have experienced oppressive treatment under the Excise Laws in Scotland. The WILD ADVOCATE said he would not oppose the motion, for the papers theinwires woul i afford the b►st answer to the allegstionsuf the party in question.— Motion agreed•to. SPITALFIELDS ACTS. Mr. F. BUXTON presented a petition signed by 11,000 persona, lithabitaots of Spitalfields, against the Bill now in progress for altering the Laws relating to the Silk Trade. He said that the petition had only lain for signatures three days, when so large a nainber of Mr. W. SMITH said that all he wanted was time !, overcome the prejudices of the petitioners. In all 0t1.e7 points he held the 'ame opinioa with the lion. Melnber for Poriarlington. From the conversation which he had with many of those petitioners, he found thew to be reasonable, a.though prejudiced. Mr. STUART WORTLEY said that the urging the Bill was against the Standing Orders of the Hougts which required that any Bill making regulations trade, should be preceded by an inquiry before a Com- Inittee up stairs, when the parties in•erested would have an opportunity of being heard. He ag• fed iu tie opinions of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Huskisun) and of the Hon. Gentlemen behind ( slr. Ricardo and Mr. Ilildiin.wl), as to the useful operation of the mea sure; but he did nut think any disadvantage could ar:se from granting time to convince the petitioners that this Bill was fur their benefit. lie recommended that both' sides might be examined Wore a Committee •p stair', as was the case with respect to the regulation for ma chinery. and the somping of woollen cloths introduced into the (Vest Riding of Yorlcsliire. Mr. PHILLIPS admitted the inconvenience of the existing Act, but it was fur that very reas,n he ttes!rvkl time to be given for the due consideration of the tit w Mr. HUSKISSON said that of all the Ilonouralla tientlemen who gave their opinions on the Bill, no one contended against its principle. He often heard com plaints from tientlernen from both sides of the lionse, that Government did not take on itself the responstif ty of introducing new measures ; and yet when they had taken on themselves to introduce this measure, they were called on to delay it. lion. Oentlenten were de ceived, if they thotight delay in this case no slit be useful. There was no new matter in the present Bill requiring inquiry. lie appealed to his Bight Honour able Friend near him, whether while he was at the heal of the B..artd of Trade, this measure was not every year the subject of discussion at the Board, in the presence of intliiiduals on both sides? By pestponi-g the Bill to another Session, they would be only giv'mg an instance of their own weakt e4s. With respect to the observation of the Honourable Member for Coven try, tamely, that the employees might, if they did nut like the old law, have their business done in tike country, where they might also remove their capital, that was the very argument which showed the re.es sity of repealing the existing Act. When that Art was passed, there were no silk 'manufacturers in the coin try, except at Spitalfields; but by the ingenuity and skill of individuals, they were 'ma- established in many parrs of theconntry, which would engross the wh,le trade if this law continued, and the obvious conse quence would be, that Spitaltields would be entir,dy de serted. On all grounds, and after inquir;es, which be did not spare himself the trouble of tusking, he was tonvinced that lie was not doing an injury to any p ries by the measure be proposed, and he was therefore re solved to proceed, but without precipitancy. The re ferring the consideration of the measure to a Coro• mittee up stairs, and the postponing of it to am titer St salons, would lie thought be prejudicial, loo'h to 6.: manufacturers and petitioners. By the Spitallieine Act, when the nitiqer and the journeyman disputed shout the prices, the Magistrate, who knew nothing about the business, was to he called in to decide be tween them. He agreed with the Honourable Member for Coventry, that the lams against combination quired revision and alteralon. They applied to all parts, but the Act under consideration at pre s ent ap plied to one particular district, anti be ssuuid not be S.lf prised if be saw petitions from all other parts of Lae country against any alteration. Mr. CALCRAFT thought it was not admissible to proceed with the Bill without giving time for Consi dering it to those parties who were 'host interested.— These pettims did not understand the new useasurt a, anti it was the interest and the duty of the House to give thew time to see and feel that what was proposed was entirely for thrir benefit. To enact any tue,sere that affected to be for the interrsts of either without consulting them, was preposterous. If a new law were to be proposed, a diffsreu: enter-e followe I; but when the Hluse tires shwa re?-aling regulations under which those persons Ise thought time ought t.) be allowed them to discuss_ and understand it. RICE said that be was revesteil by a most reep•ctsbk manuf.eturer of silk in Ireland to say, that the petition was analopotia With. his views. Socii WAS the 3 Lvsety of the silk tua•:u:actuters io lrcl