The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-07-14 00:00:00

LAu' INi';LLIGENGI :. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, jtr.r 11 Sittings at Aisi Prins before Lord ELLENIIIO. ROUOJI, al Guildhall. naitiosom, GENT. V. WOOD, VIZ. This Nat :us action brought against Mr. Wood, ss She it) . of hliidlc.ex, for having made a false r e tort' to j writ in executi.,n, for haring returned 'tuba bona. The w tit directed the Sheriff to levy on the goods of John King, better known by the appellation of Jew King, to the amount of 17001. T. circumstances attendant on the case were! brieff . , these. By a judgment obtained against J.,tin Kind, the Plaintiff had heroine the creditor of that Gentleirran, In the sum of 17001. and for the recovery of %filch the above-mentioned writ In execution had issued, directing the Sheriff to levy to that anioutit on the goods and chattels be. longlog to Mr. King. The writ was executed Oa VII 11th of A pril last, and a return made of Walla bona. The Plaintiff strongly baipecting that mill "was aTalse return, and that the goods, &r. in the house in I%l*ton-street, in which Mr. Kong and Lady Lainshorough, his . wife. resided, were tae property of hir..King, brought the pre. sent action to recover compensation in damages for seen false return. Several witnesses were ambit:4 by whose evi. deuce it appeared, that Lady Lainithorough and John King resided in the house in Norton-street, which was superbly furnished, inclining rather to the antique and grand than to the modern anti fal shionalale; that the dittitig-room was nearly sur rounded by bookcases, tilled by hooks of variotil Islet's, avid of .beauteoes appearance, anti tho' -*ln of which property he thought was worth upwards of 20001. It e at proved by one John .Norman,, who give most coniradictory and absurd history of himself. .stati..g, that in 1806, he lived with Lady borough, King's wife, as her housekeepers.cooks &c. that he then left her, and kept -a public- . house, in Chandosatrect, fur about a . twelve, esuntit ; atter which ho kept a lodging-house in 'Pimlico fur about a twelvemonth ; and leaving that, kept a Look-shop for about a twelvemonth ; was then tafitkey at the Fleet for about six mouths ; th‘i kept a house in the Strand fur &hula a year, which he " let-out in lodgings by the night to single men ! who sometimes brought their wives'!" after which be again emigrated .to Pimlico, and " took a house of the landlord, whose name be had forgotten, it being so long ago! which, were his statement within a mile or two of being true, would carry him on to the litter end of the year 1812, which has yet two, years to come ; sad he is now, in 1810, a laza yei's clerk, uo. aleebt, a very useful one. This zentleinan, late a bum-bully, &c. &c. proved, that Lady Lainaborough, in 1806, bought all the furniture, books, &c. in the house in Norton. eirt•et ; aml the greater part of which furniture he saw in the house a short time since. The verso!' of whom most of the furniture was bought, proved, that• Lady Lainsborough had purchased it of him about the year 1806. 'roe writ was 4:Xl`CUtal in April, and in May last an inventory was taken, by the threetiont of the Shliff, of the books, plate, &c. in the Itotise iofiorton street, •in which Lady Laiusbe. rough and Me. King kid been accitsturnett to re aide. The furniture was estimated at 3071. and there were books to, the number of 1108. but as to the value of which the bookseller's deputy, who took the inventory ) could not even give a guess I ELLesizonotrou, in his charge to the : Jur ) , ela , niiied minutely. the nature of the cvi, device that bad been adduced, and the points w 'slick they had to determine. They had to doer tnitie whether the Sheriff was liable to make good • tise..l-st which the Plaintiff had incurred in coose. . quetre' of the return to the writ in execution of Relics bow,. if . such return were or were not falce. jt had. been proved, that the furniture, bunks, &c. had hewn purchased in 1806, by Lady I Lainshorough, the wife ut Mr. King, for whom no .separate claims had been set up, nor bad it been endeavoured to show that the goods belonged to au) other persen than to John King. If the pro. ,party were purchased by Lady Laitisborough l still it betiiiii ; ed to Joan King, as she was his wife, except 'it were ,heist that she had some distinct and sepa. rate claim of right to the property. No such claim had been set up, and the property was liable to . the ' payment of King's debts. It had also beewatated, that when John King* was discharged by virtue of the Insolvent Act, in 1806, he had 'stated its the Schedule which that Act required, that " he had no effects whatever, and that a hatever effects he may have had, hail been delivered over to his Assignees under the Commission of Bankruptcy issued against him Iti 1802." How that Schedule had been 'suffered to pass, he knew nut ; it had been proved that about two and a half years ago, that • there were goods, books, &c. in the house in • Nortou.s.treet) inhabited by Mr. King and Lady • Lainsborough, his wife, worth upwards of 20001. It had also been proved that else' greater part of the property was in the house a short time after it bail been purchased, in 1806, by. Lady Lainsbo.. rough, the Wife. If •they determined that the return was false,. that the goods were King's, and nughetolieis . been - laied on, the nett point for I. • them' to decide Woad be the value of the - property in the linnet) at the time of the execution of 'the writ. 'The goods had been estimated at Sor. and there were upwards of 1100 books, it the o erth of which they must arrive as well' as they could., Ile knew nothing that had come out lit the 'ecotone' • of the evidence, by which *they 'could 'Area their judgment. The books keit be valuables of they might he worth next to nothing ; seine ienritS, seight be wurth 30 ranch,' ant others might:not, 1,,; worth a shilling a voinMe. •Tho Jury consulted-for some Altitites, and re-! turned a verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 95.0!, POUCAT GItEgN. • Thin Wa , an action , btsmtglit to recover compen , Britton for work and labour jierfutreti by the z PlaintiftP4 sirs, . as .C.lsik to the Defendsat,„. Me:GA sub!! 'stater!, t h at the young Stirs • been coined by 'the Dcfcsoilint au wilds fur four I. . •T"`T mpgnpmqpumPpritr,r7.,+ar , wf fit , SUMMON: years as a clerk in his counting_houses for which he prontised to remunerate the youth, by paying him reasonable wages. The , young man went to* , the situation on the Ist of Ixtiumy, in 1805, and remained till April, 1809, Orli ; fur some trivial offence the Defendant discharged•hira at a moment's warning, without giving, sod in fact refusing to , give b u n any salary. The youth had continued in the situation about i 0 weeks, suit since the ac lion had been commenced, the Defeadant hail paid into Court the stun of 401. but that Was not enough to cover what the lad was reasonably worth. lle thought the lad could not have less than one guinea per week, and he should call, and eventually did call, persons who had been and still were, in the counting-house of the Defendaut, to prove, and who did prove, that the Plaintifi's son was worth the salary he had named as a rem o ve. ration fur the services he had performed fur the Defendant. No other defence was set op; than that it was not usual to give lads much, and sometimes any salary for the first two - or three years service in a inereantile The Jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiff of 651. and 4Gs. costs, which sum Included 401. paid into Court. SIR RUPERT GEORGE AND OTRERS, V. TAYLOR, VQ• This was an • action against a ship-owner, for nonperformance of hiaeontract. The Defendant had hired the ship • Commerce, to the Transport Board, under a penalty of 5001. for non,sea.wOr thiness, ur othet failure of performance. The ship was sent out in April 1807,1aden with provi,. ‘ sinus ; she "me obliged to return shortly . after,. front the leaky,state in which she Wei. rueinl at sea. The provisions were damaged to . tlieloseini of more than the penalty of the hoods., birtahta are. Lion was forced to restrict itself to the penalty,... •:. Witnesses were called lei prove kliensaterial We. Mr. Taylor made -no defence, and the Jury• ac . : c or diugly fetti4 a.verdict fur the rlaintiliDts: maps 5001. , • ROLLS COURT, JULY 14. E ROLL AND CO. C. HORADDO. • This important cause, involving property to We amount of 60,0001. was decided yesterday by Sir Ws.. GRANT, after hearing Sir A. Piouerv, Sir SAMUEL Rontfir.lr, Itoill4gy 'Mr. O'Deoir, and many other Counsel. '="'• • It appeared from the plentliito, that the Defed. dant, a great maonfiteteret, had, in the centric Of pecuniary dealings with the Plaintiffs, his bankers, deposited title deeds of 4 copyhold estate, accOni raided with a note in triting; to the futlowing effect :—" I send you these deeds as a coftateral security for Arctou's and my bills." This Arc. ton drew bills previously to the deposits made,. ammo Norwood to a great amount, which Nor wood indorsed and discounted with his bankers. There were also bills of Horwuod in elicit hands, 'distinct. from those drawn by Arcton, and the great point was to ascertain. the extent to w hid' a hen or ecisst,:: table mortgage was created on the depos4. • Har wood and Acton arc both. dead, :and since the de. ecat,• of the latter, his executors have. paid . of the . , amount of the bills which he orignially drew in l'fav9iir of Ilorwood, and they claimed a lien for so much on the deposit in the banker,' hands ; but the bankers said that the deposit was given as well for payment of theirgeneral balance es for debtS , ' antecedently due, and therefiire rcfosed.• His Honour decreed, that the surety; in all easel of deposits, was entitled, Upon paying Off the swiss I IN had engaged for, "to stand in the situation of 1 the creditor paid by him, and therefore that Arc "ton had zi licit on the title deeds in' the hands of the bankers fur the debt discharged ; and that the :Plaintiffs, 'the bankers, had alio a right to a fur ther lien upon the title-deeds for such Sum. as were due at the time Of the delivery of the depo. sit,• but not. beyood 'that for a general balance:— These points'ato of great consequence 'to 'corn. mercial. melt. . • • --- CONS'S:TORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS. . . LOVZIWI 1. -LOT EDEN. Thu was a proceeding fors divorce, instituted by E. L..Loveden, Egg. M.P. for . Shaftesbury, agaitvit,his wife,_ on the ground fpf criminal • coil.' versifies with Mr. Barker. The principal facts have been already before . tito public, on the action -brought against Mr. Barker in the Court of King's Bench, in which.. no da: , ;triages were recovered ;• and this day the Eecledas. tical Court proceeded to give sentence on the Lion of divOrce,• having heard the evidence and Counsel un the preceding (curt 49'4 The Lammed judge (Sir w . Sry) entered great length into the evidence, and observed, that though it did not positively state any. actual .com l missies of the rant of adultery, yet from the ge4 neral conduct of Mrs. Loveden and Mr. Barker !: the particular circumstances and Attiationt it ap: peered they were frequently . . fouud in, would tify the conclusioo in the mind of the Court that, those opportunities were not thrown away upon- them, and that an adulterous connection did sub. sist between them, and had, on those occasions,. been repeatedly gratified. • The Learned Judge instanced a variety of cir 4 cumstantes, particularly that of an intercepted letter of. Mrs. Loveden's,of too indelicate a na4- . tore to be read in evidence,. but which he deemed it necessary to moment upon its support of this conclusion, and l?rofeascd himself not entirely 1 / 4 ... • norant of the laxity of modern manners. On what ground the action in the Court of King's Bench could have failed, whether from negligence iu the Plaintiff or his agents, or from what other cause, tie would not . pretend to say; but from thp whole of the evidence . Oat was given More him, he was clearly of opinion that the fact Of adUltery WAS sofficietttly established to en. title Mr. I.eivedeti restudy 'he sought, foa: the repeated vicilitiolis of his honour anti tic ltappineal, and ph:minuted far the diVdree eurdiitol. • Thureaey, I , llPctl °veleta' the •LORD I 'litkeoei end tiheatri, /0. tierit' end l uut s Coin ut,COatutialict aitt ihtt 'St ( Ts. . - were. . • • • "1MP.1r!. 41, 1•• •"^s - ESTMINSTER-S ESSiONS, JULY 13. —dm— • William Walsh was indieted for an aggravated assault on a gentleman named Redhead, residing in Bedford-street, Strand: It appeared that the Prosecutoewas walking gilds: some *leads &tient Greek.street, Soho, 'on the sight of the tfith.stilii July, 1809, rind being in a merry mood, they werttl laughing very heartily, when the Pristniers whir was a watchman, addressed them in the most bru-1 tal language; and on their replying, he tame Ur and struck the Plaintif f a viuleet • blow on the breast and knocked him downi He afterwards conveyed the whale party to •the watch-hoese, where some propositions were made to settle the: Riefler with the watchmen by giving them mousy, but the parties,'feeling themselves aggrieved, refused to comply with the demand. They were then tie. sired to leave the watch-house' as there was no charge against them. This, however, they de. dined until a charge was made, and. on the ensu ing morning, on the subject being brotight before the Magistrate at Bow-street, the conduct of the watchman was highly, reprobated, and a prosecu. lion recommended. •The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the tonrt sentenced the Prisoner to—one month's im. pritonment.. Neessaifisie T.tbs, one of those disgraceful wreteitetrybe lave. of late become so numerous ' about town, was put to the bar, charged with an assault on Frederick Tongue, a lad about 14 years ut age, • late in • the service of the Marquis of I Blattdford,, with intent to commit an unnatural otti:oce. The indictment alsh contained, another ' mont,thirging him with indecently exposing him. 'sett, it appeared that thn miscreant made the ob. jeet of his brutalfty:arutrk • but was fortunately detected - by line of the Marquis of Blandford's ifetvente, benie the perpetration of the horrid borluile; .104 secured. itkverat persons, among whom were his father end - nte'lher, gave hidt a most excellent character. es Fill was convicted of the latter count in the indictment, and in consequence - of his good cha. • - eacier, - only sentenced to three months imprison anent; •- The Prisoner was about 21 years of age, and )(eel appearance. of seac Mitayettiiita was convicted of stealing a pew, ; ter twit:Pions' 'the , +Britannia pitblic:house s Bee,. wick.strent, Seltif.'-i-Sesiterked,*tu to Oteen (haft: iniptisoeMertt •• • •-• - Margaret Medleg, a woman, tif. ~eccnt p= •pearance, was alto convicted of stealing a piece ttf satt beef from a butcher in the Strand, name 1. Parr; the meat was fond secreted hetwee s n kik legs, ,in the shop of the: tresOciltor.' , 4irp. leui t s en t e nced to be iinprisoned Are° moths,. bioitsk an old offender. , •• , ~ • • , STFALING A bEAD 80DY.,. • Wattage Webb; gitiveakigger, • pales of . St. ere tile,. Hanoier-squ are, .sioed",iiiiliebid.,foy stealing the body .of a young :Walden: from rho. 'chorch.yard of the said parish / . on the ,moriiing of the 21st of ',Jane. • Mr. A MET; for the proseentto . n, , stated case, which, he said, was 'peculiarly aggraVated• front the'circuinstance. of the Prisoner• being. tie person to whom the care of the church:ysed was . entrusted. In Jane, a young lady, about 17 years , of age, named Elizabeth Lane, an apprehtlee td Mrs. Bayne, a twilliner 'in Albemarle.street, died of the•meailes, and was conveyed in a hearse to the berialgroond of St. George's for interment at eight' o'clock in the morning of the 21st. She was followed by Mi. Bayne and - three fkiends to a mourning coach: On their arrival at the church. yard, after the usual service being performed, they sate the lady deposited in• the 'grave; but being much affected, they did not wait to see it covered . with earth. As they proceeded towards home, a: ' boy 'followed them, and said a body had betsW 'stolen from that churchyard very recently, and advising them to be careful that a similar fate diA . , not befal the person 'they had just buried. To this intimation Mr. Bayne paid no attention in the first instance, but on reaching home his sugpiciotts were rouzed, and he immediately returned to the church . yard, calling on his way for Mr.: M'llaughlin, the sexton, and a watchman named. Carter. On.examining the grave in which Miss Lane had been interred, near which the prisoner, stood, they observed that 'it Well very much dill, l tnrbed. • Mr. Bayne then desired the Prisoner to "eon the grave l. whicyhe refused ; but upon Mr. M'Laughlin'initsting that the request should be 'emptied • with, he stepped back a few paces, seemed much alarmed, end 'fainted. On recover. ing, Mr. Itl‘Laeghliii interrogated him as to the stale of the wave. ,lie listed him if the tiody was .in the coffin ?. and he answered in the negative.— Olen tasked him, if it. teas,. in the grave ? to which he replied lo,the Attire') at i ve: lie was int. , mediately ordered to open the grave, which he did' with the assistance of another man; antl.abentitt3 inches below•the aurface of . the earth, a sack was .ttiseoveredorhich, on examination, was found to cothatn the tiodruf Miss Line, tied with curds, feet , and 'neck together, and 'mangled in a most shucking manner. 'rite) , then dug to the coffin,' whiell'they found open,:and the shrottd folded up,' and laid in the bottom. Having theft ascertained the guilt of the Prisoner, ' who had been four years . grave.aligger in the parish, they laid the body again in the coffin,* and .consigned it once more to its resting place. •The prisoner was then secured, and the parish-officers very properly set (a foot the present prosecution. . Thostatement was most clearly corroborated by several witnesses, • and the Prisoner was found _ •. ' ~1 .. ~~~; 1 10 • • .! , POLICE. ' • -.6.... . • Mkasibtrilottst. —Joseph Clete was examined on the charge of having stolen from. the Ware. houses of Messrs. Bousaeld and Co. a very large ,quantity of goods; • Whet are calldelops l which tte . fe ;Timed by' Golf and 'Friend to' his deposit. ---- - -.llltr theft was clearly made out, the gooos. sworti to, and Ku Was fUlly committed for trial. : 'Betr:s•rttEix.-:-Yesterday a woman wait brought to Hie Offile, flofged with attempting to defraud!he I:FT - :, Pireetoir of' the County 'too Officaof fin inisqlvt , 7f! • .• 6,f. 1 , se t ' . ~,,, i 7 (,i, 1 mmaig ! ...e !,• ~...~. ...~, q "'" • I - . It appeared that the Prisoner had applied at the ' County Fire °Mee yesterday morning, with,* letter purporting to be vs ritteu by Earl M o i ra , recommending the brother of the Prisoner to their. relief, in cuilseattence of the injury he had ex. • pectFT4 , stlite' five which happened some timi einte Conduit-street, when he wat aktistint in the capacity of a Corporal in a Volunteei. Corps: • In uttothit paper attached to the letter . ; :wis.a lista( the different Offices which had sulk ,scribed. •• Mr: UAW!. of the County Fire Office, sus: pecting shi"vias en impostor, sent for, and gate tier in enstotly of Lavender, who, on her saying she received the letter from her husband. wi n s Was waiting at the Crown public-houses, ac re, be . Went there, and saw the lanalord, %fhb acknowledged knowing such persons, but said ne ith e r of them were there. Etientlei waitet about the door for some time, and at length a man , who answered the description, walki n g about near the door. The officer asked him if lift name was Moore? he denied it, but acknowicd 4 ed his name was Bird ; this, however, answer,. ing the description the officer had received of his name being John Bird Moore, he took him into custody, and conveyed him to the otlice ; wh e a i after an investigation, it turned out, 'hat ies:elat of his being the husband of the woman, he was the young man whom the letter pretended to re : present as having sustained the injury at the Art , hr conduit-street, and as hailing died some thus shit.* at St. Allan's. The Prisoner was committed for farther muds P Mtion. Wo RS 111 e-ST It EET.— , - lel terdar APS/Mc' fir. ; kelt, a notorious house-breaker, apprehended it Manchester by Mr. Nadia, of that place, was examined at this Clace. He is charged with committing a burglary itt the. .huuse of hire. Smah, in Gutter-lauec 'Cheepside l abOit ; Aght months licit; an steilkingiilk to the itaieunt 110001. When appreheitactl!he had foaded and all matinee of implemmits for homie--.641.9. He is further suspected of burglarjes:io thqcitenty of Middlesek. He was Committed for re-exiiiiiths. • w .. • Lion. , y; Limtaxlfacti...4t. number of ladies' of easy virtne"wlerd . bronght up by the Saperinte t odait itY Patroio, 'in St. George's-fieldi they *etc Sat to the County Gaol tOr . trace monthlor • H (lUSWISIMAIR Kg TS• ~~: • . •-I( 1 ' i' - * q. •;.1 .1 4 2 —raw" , ' 9 . M1T11F1R49 , 41 11 bY, 1 9.• l'' .• '' '' to sink the'effo.l. per stone of Rill. • • • • Nefer. l :4•.4* 04`. la Qt.' 01.,1 Ilead of Cattle this day: INUttloat-.e. 84.1 {l O 64.. 01.1 Heitats • • 41G Null ,•._,4s; Shee .. 1 Witil i .b4ll i et!' 60 71 .."bit. I calvip and Latitb4 l -.. 610 ' 2su • • otipci...o.ll9tisto is, ell. 1 Pits • ()O.:oer 4 0 !I , ..^lie x 1,-411" MARKET. ! T.' . 91141Fit4 ; : * ..:'.1. ( 151. O. ;M. 1.1 91. Oa. Oct. . .* .• • eitp.ll!row.:o .... C. 10i. OA. ttY 31. 19, 04. ..• ims ..- •• .. 61. 03. At, 101. 0 , . 4 1 4 1. ~ • • . .... • ' TOAL NIA.R.KIif—JOGY p. ••.:• z • ' 1111,44111attet. Ships sold . r/i.t. . k eytaole lBl -4 91 ; *IP Ob.. 61., , ConOXVI'S INOW tide was {altdt yesterday. at-the Myrtle 7 tr ee.putalic-Itoese, Ka. ington, on the bloaly..of sassual Purvey,' en Artistlii Oleieland-ureet, whai - tret .his death se.. tnrning_ to ton4ult *4 a single i hortte._eliais' e. Ton ! ' dectased had dined at the, Wise of a filen& iv tie . iseleibOUihood, abosfss affie - d4tanA . crnu): *lnv(' the accident happened ; . on kis return at eight, be drove against some scaffolding and over . turned the chaise, by which he .was precipitates • against ji itirb-stone, and his head was shockingly cut. 'Chu deceased was removed to the public. tions.e t where . surgical aid • was administered ; bat.. he died un-Wednesday..—ilecidental Dfuth. Yesterday afternoon, about half past five o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at Mr. Rees's OitCloth•Manufa.ctory, in Little Titchfield-strret, Gltiat Portittid.street : the fi re was first observed by a little giil, who - perceiving clouds of thick katoke .bursting forth from one of the , windows belonging to,. tlie Manufactory, gave the alarm, and in a few minutes after the whole 0( the pre mises was enethaped in flames, and entirely de- • 'toyed before any of the engines arrived • the (premises extending back wards, fromi.ittlia itch. hold-street to,Riding-house-lane, and commuei. eating in the rear with Providence S;hapel, which run• in a parallel direction,• and the wind. being high and blowing strung from the south.west. likewise communicated the ftaines to foot houses iii Riding-house.latie, which, together with the Chad pel, formed an awful confiagration,..and destroy ed the-whole of the above premises before any 4timely assistance could be given ; but on the af j -rival of a number of engifies,.and goot supply of water, the firemen were enabled to subdue the devouring element, and prevent its extending raf ther. We are sorry to ohnerve, that a fora we man in Riding-house-lane, in endeavouling ttv save her property, fell a victim to the. flames; and another poor woman and her four.ehiidren V. Last week A quarrel arose betweet' two of the prisoners of war on board the Glory, in the Med way, which terminated in "blows,, when onc:'•.ef them was killed. A Jury has been hold oil Ake unfortunate deceased, who returned. their.verdtet --Manslaughter. The. survivor is bane commit• tool to Maidstone ga01,.. BIR.TII. On the 6th inmant, of a son, the Lady of the Rev. E ourcnier, ot Bramfiel DIED. tlliam At McAllen. in Sicily, in May last, Mr. Roheit Bishop. aged 19, late a Midshipman on board his Majeltie, ship Spartan, and second sun of Charles Bishop, ..k: 64 ' Doctors'? Commons. OnAlse ytith of Juhe, at Carehalton, Surrey , i n °limb year of I , ilitge, Captain Samuel Goddard, of the 16th, or Qttejoll Light Dragoons. In April bit, 0(a fever. on board the Walthamstorr East Indinmati, ou his passage from Bengal, Mr. J. T. Rod, jut ' eldest son of Mr. ltutt, of GuSwell- street, its the 51st yea "( his age. OR OK, STOC NAL Mt' ;ape, Cent. Red. 694 70e 70 • perA il it . Calt per Celli:IM; Olt ;pug. Ann. ife CS YESTERDAY. (Malian% a prem. India Stork 182} India Hoods 22 20 prem. .Exch. Rills 2 7 preen. Colsols for Ace. 701 71i Lottery Tickesel • -77 7-7-77" ' n • Os rrihted and Publighed by D. Lorgt.t., IliAtloutas Orstck 7. Fleet-street. .4. ~. I , „: I 4;4