The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-02-07 00:00:00

0' . • , LAW INTELLIdENCk. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fza. 6. THE XING •• VIGON. ThP Defendant in. this caw was called on to re ceiv the judgment of the Court, having been con victed at •tne last assizes for the County of Keat, under the -following circumstances :—The Defendant is a butcl:er at Maidstone . , and he had entered into a i contract to supply the troops in that district, with n good and wholesome meat, from 2:,th of Sept. 1810, to 21th March, 1811. Within this period, it an peared, that he had ()nee supplied the troops wilt bed and unwholesome meat, and for this cd . ..tze he was indicted, and found guilty. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, it would not he necebEi ry for his Lordship to read his Notes of the case. The Commander of the District had found. it. to be his duty to institute the. prosecution in question;. ' and, by the verdict which had been obtained, and the effects of it. he was happy to think the end of the prosecution had already been answered. The ex pence of such a prosecution, their Lordships mug be aware, fell heavily upon the IMendant, so much as to amount to a punishment fully adequate to the offence. The end of the prosecution was to satisfy the soldiers that every attention, should be paid to I their comfort 'and accommodation, and the*.Corn, ma ding Officer of the District was satisfied that this j end had been attained. Lord ELLENsoooveit said the Court could hot know what punishment would be adequate to , the of fence, or to the protection of the public against similar offences in future, , if the notes of the trial were not read. . Mr. GuatiEv, for the Defendant, submitted that his Client having been chaiged with one solitary of fence, .the eapences already incurred were punish , 11161111suffitieut for that of uhich he had been guilty. Ile trusted, therefore, the Court won'd fall in with the humane iodination of file Learned Fliend, the Attorney-General, by allowing -the Defendant to remain at large on his birn recognizance. . The Arrownwt-Crsow. agreed that the justice of the case would be best answered by this arrange ment. The Defendant was accordingly liberated on his own recognizance, to come tip for judgment when upon. PARISH CHILDREN. Mr. PARK moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed to a person of the name • Of ditch, cop inanding him to bring up the brills* of- nitre poor children - hek-igin t , to the pwrish of St. peorge?, llanover-square. he moved - this under a special Act of Parliament of the Wilt of the King, by which certain trustees for the pool of that parish were empowered to bind out the pariah childrro. sp. preutices to various trades, kc. The rule c:.irdreti In qnestion were sent upon trial for six months to a manufacturer at blanches- r; but this . ierson be coming insolvent in the interim, the chi:- en bec.nre chargeable on the parish, and the pari h officers, without any previous intimation t ) the parish o¢ St. George's, Hanover-square, coming a burden on the them off their hands. ..r. present application was 11131 facturer, residing in Westm srtisement, went to M; b I the children to his same length of time the pm not discover what had beck gentlemen of the parish very their services, and went dor their own expeace, and there bad carried them into Westm, they proceeded to Mr. Birr' children, but he refused to •return to town, the Solicitor order of the Trustees, wrote demanding the children haul taking any notice of this ale was sent, to which he returns Yenning to give them up, on . special vestry was held, snd go and demand restitution of . Birch, iu person. The messengt but his application was as former, Mr. Birch still persist it was sworn by this person. too hard worked, being ern! tory 15 hours out of the 24 ; tl and, worse clothed; and, stances, the parish were compel sent application. Lord ELLesatonouen observed, that cei : 1 ‘ the work was too severe for children of that the eldest being represented as only about 14 P 14.4 std .1416.44905bii) asked, whether had made any claim for any expenses he _ incurred, or whether he detained them upon that pretence ? Mr. PARK replied, he had made no such claims • observing, that the better course to take would b e to grant him a Rule to show cause, in the first in stance, to be heard before a Judge, at Chambers • as, from the period at which a return could be ob tained to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, the Term would be expired, and the matter .must stand over Until the next Term. Lord ELtiononounit observed, that the best cause this gentleman could show would be, to send up the children, and that would preclude - the necessity of his coming up in person. Mr. VAR& said, the object of this gentleman was to have these children bound apprentices to him ; but to this the perish would net consent ; and if the Court would think proper to grant the Rule, they would un dertake to send down a special messenger to see it properly seised: A Rule to shim cause *is accordingly granted in the terms required. Mr. Serjeaut Laws moved for a B.sle,'calling upon the Corporatiowof Abingdou, in Suffolk, to show cause why a Court should not be held for thcpur pose of nominating and swearing in two Bailiffs for that Corporation for rho ensuing year. The charter under which the Corporation was formed, required that the Corporation should consist of two Bailiffs, ten capital, ensUasenty-four inferior Burgesses. that • they . q ...ruld psoceed to the election of the two Bai. • This cm the 10th of September in every year, .and' that those Bailiffs should be sworn in before; their A a►. the 'Mt .§TA' predecessors, or last Bailiffs, on the' 29th of Sep.' tember. In the presetirtitsti•the election was held, as true', on the 10th of September, bat no meeting of the Corporation took pla. until the Bth day of October following. when they proceeded to swear in the Bailiffs, against whom this application was made; and the Learned Serjeant contended, that by the terms of the Charter the Corporation was bound to swear in - the Bailiffs on the 29th of Sep tember, and at no other period, otherwise, as the .Bailiffs were to serve the office for twelve months I fiem the term of their being sworn in, they could not pr .“reed to swear in um Bailiffs for the next year until the Sib of October. This therefore being contrary to terms of the Charter, he contended the election was wholly void, and they must proceed to a new nomination. But ; • ! Lord ELLEN ROROUGII observing, that the words were " to be sworn in lrfore their predecessors or last Bailiffs," they might still be sworn into office before the last Bailiffs, and the rest of - the Court acquiescing in his Lordship's opinion, the Rule was refused. Tne KING V. WOOD AND °VIERS. These Defendants were brought up for judg ment, having been convicted the Sittings after last Term, before Lord Ellenhorough, upon an indict , men instituted by the Corporation of the City of London, for a nuisance, in obstructing the naviga tion of the River Thames at Northumberland Wharf, by mooring a number of coal-barges beyond the usual limits, the partice!frrs of which case we have given given in our report of the trial. After hearing the ArroneeY-GemenAt. for the prosecution, and Me. PAUK for the Defendants, 'rho urged the right of his clients under a grant from . rlhe Duke of .Northumberland, to moor their craft outside certain boundaries. 1 • Lord ELLENBOROUGH asked, whether there wis any objection to try that right upon an issue? . The ATTOIOIEY-GENERAL answered, that the Corporation of London denied the existence of such a right altogether, and, therefore, on their part, he could not consent to an issue. After a few other observations, the Defendants were discharged upon their own recognizance in 5001. each, upon the understanding that they were to abate the nuisance forthwith, or abide the future judgment of the Court. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fes. 6. SiUlags al Nisi Frills, bef,re Lord Chief Justice MANSFIELD, Westminster. SMITH V. PINCH. This was an actiou to recover compensation for damages done to, and fixtures removed from, a Louse la••• `v rented by the Defendant. , Mr. Seriettut VAUGHAN, on the part of the Plain ,tiff, represented him to be the proprietor of a range of houses lately erected at Chelsea ; and the Defend ant, he said, was a lady who leased one of them Lrom the The latter was a Lady of fa shion lident, and had altered part of the rposely W I accommodate her taste. .ith a brick wall when thy a . _w. when is she had injured, by fence, with which she , she had also erected iso by veling bricks Ise at thiarther ei .all likewise, all tend , le Lady had likewise Inds, lest " the sun too striegly." These )), iron clamps, which, leaving the tenement, led appearance. The ;lied that the marble Ind the floors damaged, tement. The. Learned iient had a right to da itted on the premises, ;ngs in the garden. lie of new materials, but my might deem a suf ;ed by improper wear ims on the customary the removal of fixtures, iges ; and also on a co between the parties, :essly stipulated that should remain on her quit- iposed that the amount ascertained by a Gentleman Me.Serjeant VAUGHAN IMMedi de Jury returned a verdict for to die award. P. EAGAN. -ri bed this to be an ac of an account due to AK the Ant _ was a master tailor ; Brennan was formerly ~ a nd had been discharged without a pi . sett it, therefore he commencer/4h° present action for recovery of what he claimed as due to him. Bridget Eagan, sister of the Defendant, deposed, that Brennan had been in her brother's employ up wards of two years, during which period he had an engagement weekly, at the rate of oue pound thir been paid On her she was on ac (he Plain -411f ao tz, receipt of wages, a journeyman might commence an action for the whole amount of all that he had ever wrought for. The sum, instead of being only five pounds, in this case, might have been as properly twenty or thirty pounds, or for the sum total of tm () years' wages ; a master would be placed in a most uncomfortable situation were he to become liable for every sum for which he had not a written dis charge.to produce. The Jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiff— damages 51. The LORD CUIRF Jurrice said the Jury 'night have returned a verdict for 201. with equal proprety. " • EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE..----DOW SHAM (Norfolk), JAN. 30. Never was the interposition of a Special Providence more particularly exemplified than in an occurrence on the afternoon of Monday last, in this i town. The circumstances of the accident are as fol low :—A. pig . , the property of a poor person, had ' fallen into a well twenty feet deep, and a person of the name of Samuel Ilall, a chimney-sweeper, of feted his services to extricate the animal, and reso httely descended into the well, by means of the cre -1 vices and intetstkes of the surrounding brick-work, when the whole ponderous mass of bricks and rub ! bi-h gave way at once, and immured him. This awful catastrophe took place about held-past four, and no sooner was it known, than a vast concourse hastened to the spot. By the assiduous and energy getir endeavours of about twenty, actively employ ed, humanity was gratified, about sine o'clock, by witnessing the object of their search extricated from his subterranean prison, and, except some slight bruises (the consequence of the pressure which . hedged him in), unhurt. He was found in an erect posture, inclined to the side, and so slight was the injsry, that the attendant surgeon deemed it even unnecessary to let blood ! The man was so far reco vered as to be able to repair to the spot the next morning, to eye the horrid chasm. He relateP that the sound of the several workmen above was dis tinctly audible; his respiration was not so embar rassed as might naturally be expected; and that he was able to release one of his hands to adjust his nectcloth, which would have strangled him, and clear away part of the sand and dust from his few., which would otherwise have suffocated him. With the exception of a short lapse of that period spent in a kind of stupor, he was perfectly sensible. The height of the superincumbent earth was abocit ten feet, ay( his safety can only he phi ;featly attributed to his upright attitude, thus lessening thi surface ex posed, and the loose nature of the soil al;owing, in some measure, the escape of the air ; to v, iticia might be added, the concave tendency the whole super : stratum. IA hoax has been t dayed off -: ; ;.tinst a worthy Di vine of Plymouth, the ._:rcamstances of which are said to he as follow : - 1 letter was received by the 141. Gent. dated fro.a London, importing to be written by a friend of a Lady of rank, at the point of death, who had ^ran struck with the religious writings of the Divine, and much to have him to attend her. It enclosed a check on a banker in town for fifty pounds. The Rev. Gent. set off in a post-chaise, and, on his arrival in London, drove to tha house to which he was directed, but no ouch par son as the writer lived there, nor any where near; he then drove to the banker's, who disowned keep ng any account, or knowing the writer. Upon this he sent to the NobLman whose name was on •the frank, but his Lordship had no reCollection of bar b'',' franked the letter. The Rev. Gent. returned to Plymouth minas the expenses of his journey. Jews.—A Humburgh Paper; received by the last Anholt Mall, contains the following article :-- « We, Charles, xe. Prince Primate of Frankfort, &c.—Whereas the Jewish Community in Frankfort have, by oar former Decree of the 7th of February, 1811, and by our subsequent Declaration of the fith of November, 1811, been released from the peculiar imposts and taxations, &c.: Whereas since that time our Constitution Patent of 1810 and 1811, relative to the total Equalization of Rights of the Jews, have been completed : the said Nation is henceforth to enjoy equal privileges and rights of citltenship in common with the Christian Citizens. All former restrictions anti disqualifications are b 7 this Da cree declared null and void ; and it is decreed, that the Israelite Nation shall have, in judicial pro ceeding and administration of justice, the same rights its common with all other Burghers of this city." A boat belonging to his Majesty's ship Tremen dous, lying in Gawsand Ray, in attempting to cross the bridge between the Island and Mount Edgecumbe, on Tuesday Morning, was upset during a squall, and we lament to state, that three of the boat's crew pe rished; the remainder, with Captain Campbell, of the Tremendous, who was in the boat at the time the i aosidestt 4toppessell, •woe* picked up, after remainingi • i I 11 l 1, 4 , f 1 i ? , . . ri , , , i • . •,1 . '• • 1 i . . • • . i • • • • • • 1 I 1 • • . . • . . • : 1 • 1 • . ~. • I. : '1 i 1 . .. •• 6 1 .• 1 • • .." . • s O ' lf . . i 't I i •' ','..- ! 1 r • • • • it 4 • Oa hes- r; bUt tnts tersoe ue- ion' the ye a BO4. The latter was 1 interim, the chi' , ' , en bec.nte s ion and . . plishlitent, and had alt risk, and the parr h officers, itimation t ) the parish I St. th' . emi: =rposely tck t accommodt , in lo .. d with a brick v are, advert;sed them ab -j.,. .., .• ‘1" ,K, i.AW • this she hat L. i Mr. . . , =menial fence, wi - sen behind ; she had s made, •- -. ottwi-man i ' ,an tof s Asio :, fixing it also by rell Vestmortan. - .. ad seeing t • ... sd a wash - house at th •n Manch. and' c 7• ;ie fr o m ed into the wall likew his own factory. For I , had • premises. The Lady lie pans t. Veorge could m g I fix es for Venetia! less i beco . them, until tvroi blinds, sh very atit•ly volunteered ' of should visit her face too stri lit dow o Manchester, at w ted with the wall by iron ell ' 1 there learned that Mr. Birch w ved on the Lady s leaving t ' 1 Westmorland ; from thence , hole front a mutilated apps !f a .e t also complained that ' r. Birch's, aml demanded the I -e „ eu dto give them up. Ott their' eth .labs re chipped, and the tit aC 'tt Plaintiff's stateent. solicitor r Se c St. George's, by coot ed, that his Cl a nt had wrote a letter to Mr. Birch, or th - injuries committed on it back ; but Mr. Birch, not m as the re vat of the railines in th r its application, a second letter ed no e total value o f new n aturned a peremptory answer, ' r verdi such as the Jury migh p oss an a y terms. Upon this a t price for materials damaged by it I s sod a person authorised to ear. He fotintled his claims on t ion of the children frotn.Mr. slating laws venous of the remov messenger accordingly went, ordering a r air of damages ; and s as fruitless as any of the ant express! ' ntered into between persisting in his refusal; an herein the Pla iff had expressly sti erica, that the children we 11 improvements - hatever should remai g employed in the manufa ling the premis 24 ;that they were badly ft Mr. Serjeant • Ernesto proposed tha nd, under all these circu of the da mag es mild be ascertained by e compelled to make the p of the Court. at observed, that cerfa To this prep 1 Mr. Serjeant VAUG '.;• were for children of that . atelyconsenlikl nd the Jury returned lit,od as only about 14 . ..' s lthe Plainti • subject to the award. p asked, whether Mr. :; t ! DBE NO. E.tGAN. . any expenses he might ate! Mr. Sestraat Su described thi he detained them upon that tion to recover 51. balance of an at 1 the Plaintiff.. The fendant was a a to had made no such claims • I Brennan was formerly his journeyman, tter course to take would b e discharged without a proper settlement, the De- Plaintiff, Ay, and his final his men one an iountr— ill wages required engagement weekly, at rue rare 4.111 ctue pou n u mar- teen shillings. , Ile had seldom, however, been paid the amount, fully, on Saturday night. On her cross-examination, she warmly said, that she was not turned out of doors by her brother on sic- ; count of her being too viell acquainted with the Plain- : tiff—that the welt awity because she had received no •0) .• t wages. • On the part of the fendant, it was offered to be proved, that be w in the habit of paying his men constantly On Sa r evening. i Samuel lie ' nd Gilbert Berne, one an apprentice and a journeyman of the De- i swore, ey saw wages given to the Plaintiff, r but could not positive about the amount.— , .' Berne swore t he always received his full wages ron the Sate -evening, providing he required them: The • tiff lad been turned away, and neither of the *pant* were present at his final reckoning. - 79, 0.1 Fbe Lonn am ./orrace, in summing up the ,fie t 0 the J *4 aim 'Pis was a most egret's- (Unary action r where no accounts were kept qf, r disbursements, nor papers signed acknowleging the POLICE. UNION HALL. James O'Neil, David DePrimal, and Ann Ala: hunt, were charged by Patrick Cranney with rob . . hing him of three one-pound notes and sixpence, a pocket knife, and a thimble. The Prosecutor is a Greenwich pensioner, and had come to town in ot. e of the Gravesend boats. On coming on shore i i went to 41 public-house in Darkhouse-lane, uhr, r „ the Prisoners were. The two men entered int o conversation with 'him, and represented themselses as seamen, said they were in great distress, a 441 h a d no money. The Prosecutor immediately ordered some grog, and treated them all. Tl , ie lt . ,t a i f f t u e i r .q w u n ar d ns. went to the Joiners' Arms, Joiners'-street, T oo t i , street, where he gave one of them a dollar', and de . sired him to order something for dinner. The / dinner, consisting of beef-steaks, soon made its sp. pearance, which was moistened by a • City bf porter and gin, but on the bill being brought, the Prosecutor, on seeing the beefsteaks eitarged, reminded the Prisoners of the dollar he had given t o one of them to pay for them. This was denied; a quarrel ensued, and whilst they were - pushing the Prosecutor about, they contrived to empty his ' pockets.—The notes were in an old pocket-bo o k / which, after having emptied of its contents, on e of. the Prisoners threw on , the fire, they were impel ; ately recovered, and theknife beilg found onone, the thimble on another,, and the notes and sixpenea I on a third ) they were all fully committed for trial'; GU I LDHALL. Foßctivt.-1171lia;1Sew --- 071 and John Clon er were brought up for final examination, charged %ail uttering false and counterfeit Bank of England non; knowing the same to be forged. The Prisoners had been apprehended, in conse quence of their suspicions_ appearance, by Hawkins, a City Marshalman, Skinner -street, and taken to• the watch-house. -Upon them were found a coasi derahle number of counterfeit Book dollars aud tokens, together with about ten pounds in good mo ney, and.other articles. They, were remanded when first brought op t for further examination. Since which time five persons hive appeared' with charges against them for uttering forged notes. Mrs. Rom sey, the wife of a publican:in Clerkenwell, swore that the Prisoner, Cooper, in company with another man, paid her a forged tw,q-pound note for ,orne. ligggr they had been drinking, and that she gave him the i change. , Mr. Thomas Williams, a pork-butcher it rW,bite-cross-street, proved that Stewart passed - a forged noti ivon Mm, on the 2d of November, la payment of ,11 . spring of pork. Mr. Price Jones, a grocer, itt..the meigikbourh4od of Finsbury-square, proved that Stewart.paised a r two -pound note of the same description, upon. him „also! ? on, the:l9th of October; In eirchase or ten hhillings worth of gro ceries. ' Me.'Sampton, an ironmonger, in Nesvgate. street, proved- aliO that Stewart passed upon him another of the same sortrof notes, in purchase of fif teen shillings worth of,knives. Aud „Mr. Romanis, a hosier, in Cheapside v osoved that ,Cooper passed another note of the same lo.indon „the 10th of January, in payment of two highl-eaps antra . pair of gloves, which articled were'Yound upou'ilie - PrironerWhes apfrrehendbil:'' . . • They ware fully-committed for trial. kmost daring robbery was committed on. Thurs day morning se'nuight,.nent Line°le. Jletweem six and. seven o'clock., whgni,K Avasquitelight, -a pri vate soldier of the Squtli j l.itteolu Militia, named Thomas Walker, mho was jotirneyinion afurloogit to visit his friends, was stopped by 'it° footpads, the bottom of Cross o'Cliff-hall, neer the tell-bar it the entrance into Lincoln, and after some little par ley, was robbed of 275. in money and a silver wa tch. The poor fellow, when first accosted by the rob ; begs, thought they were in joke, and said, " They surely did not mean tote) et‘poor soldier;" but be I was speedily undeceirodp,, by, On threaleaing Bpd boisterous behavjoo,r of the bighwaymen„and obliged to comply wit h their at.mandf ; immediately after which, he imprudently "AM fie should follow the robbers—whereto:pen ttlettinetere they Sri:mid - recent that, -and again turning upon him,roue itit them few ! cibly held him,. whilst the : other inhetnanly cat his I with a knife severely across the right. leg, in order to disable him from walking. Theyi, pen made oir i The wounded soldieVis not likely to continue lime from the cut, whiclN fortunately:did not . materialie injure the tendons." '• N Many, who will stulilenlie leap Intollargit'fortmen on the lath instant, from thearawing of.ttte smallest Lottery ever kiiown with 20,0001. priacsocill ha"' jocund cause long..to remember, that they effected it in the Leap-Year Month. GulNc.ts.—A schoolmasiei in the nelghbourtcod of London, who has lately published atlctionary, 1 in giving the meaning of the word GatinissOkes, that "itis an obsolete coin, formerly current In Oen try, but nownetireAy unknowt."- , The late horrid murders in Ratcliffe-highway and Gravel-line, upon the unfortunate" families of Maria and Virtu.tamso , r, having justly eauseld considerib:e 'sensation and alarm throughout the Metropolis and elsewhere; the Nobility, Gentry, and others, .who are taking the necessary precaseion in protestant their fatuities and property from the outrages of suck deiermined villains, are purficularly recommended to furnish themselves, or confi dential sea vants, with wea. :pons suitable for their defence, from iiinati•Gru. and Co.'s, N. '6, i ll'liiice'e4treet, - beicester-sqoar e, which are to be-obtained of the exact Pattern asmell by them foroued most approved,-by, the B o w-street .Officers andutheriPutici.,, half as hour in the water. On Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, as Thomas William Carey, a deaf and dumb young man, spoof Mr* Carey, of Crown-court, Liquor pond-street, was passing on the west side of Lin coln's Inn-fields, near the archway leading to Duke street, be was stopped by a villain armed with a dirk, with which he attempted to stab Mr. C. but Mr. C. gave him a violent blow on his wrist, which disabledhim for an instant ; ald some people ap- ' proaching, the villain ran off, Mr. C. not .116%i able to make the people understand what had ha ii-;, pened. . < To persons of refined taste, who can extract the I most delicious mental sensations from viewing works -a Superlative ingenuity and science, we most warm- I n te c c e erend a visit to' the British Naumachia, in street, Leicester-square, where a treat the lei* exquisite will be found, in viewing the Repre sentation of a Sea Fight, where the elements and vappel# Jtte represented in motion, performing the ma- .._ • natiWise,attendant on such an event, with a bril 4 *pc) , and effect far exceeding any representatioup 0w ...,, _ the kind befpre submitted to view, t - :Iv. en (if i - DIED. 'A dashing' buck, having ,just mounted a fashion 4 II ,se e psoy 110,_ tit d dealer , Jacob Boak, Esq. aged 71. ~ , i , Able great -oat trimmed with a profusion of fur,! 14tely,. d at lately asked au old Geutiernan how be liked hie nem Z.:: e 7 d 4 .7.,,,,, * k. n P s'a uj oi tef rd r a a v et se'rt r igii . il t lkick. t !f Upon my ',word, Sir (said he), I like It , a , r ,i t iss bot o oing v, ? gefi siey i , s sepa anu. ,_ ,_o < , e ter of the late Mr. Oxley, of Pontetuet, surgeon. the lc, for, :idolud Oxley, agvd S 2, ' toe seas and daug ,,- extremely, for ; it, / reminds me of a very excellent tort i)anutheorigtriecitn:oacst iron, Theol.bilub..loues, Fag. fable."--rtt iWiiit. it that 2" Mttinted the interroga- ~_. . ...;;...........;,,,..1,6 1. ,.. tor.—" The Au in the Lion's Ski/V. : was the au- t .coNDON: printi l — Fi a il t ,T h f„l4b y U. • 14 „,, u .. MI 1.. i sorer. I Sr% rnallAw 0/11 re.. Si, kleet.streei. s L a t itZ; rely, the Lady elf • Gutee, of Upper Baier.t.reet. of a daughter. MAKRIEI). - Ou Tuesday./ast, at Layton, is Esex, William Cotton, rsq. to ftaralt;ii:e only doughter of Thonas Lane, Log. of I a)to