The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-07-17 00:00:00

r MORGAN V PRIOR. This was an action on a Polity of Insurance on the ship Nathan, at and from Liverpool to the coast of Africa. The defence set no I.y the Underwriters was coniralutent The vessel sailed (runt Liverpool in the early part of ISIG, and on November s;la of that year her Captsin wrote to his owner, dated Cape Coast, in whica he stated all well; that be was about to leave that coast tossuediately, and hoped to complete his voyage in ten months; and in the meactinte he should take every opportunity of writing to England. This letter was received by Jones, the owner of the vessel, in May or June, 1817, but nothing more was beard of the Nathan from that time up to September, on tie Gth day of which month Junes wrote to his agent to effect an insurance on the Nathan for 10601. in addition to the sea fur which she had been pre. ; THE 'lout; it; tired ; and it kipitifeta that hi itherward. .tared, that he considered pia ship at this time fecco• siderably nut of time. Infoitalition was afterwards received • f ihe less Of the ship, awl application was made I. tie defendants, who bad saderwrittee the pm Vey to the amount of 2501. bat they resisted ea the ground that at the time of effectiag the policy the underwriters ought to bare been informed of the let ter received in Jane, remising frequent information, and that no information had afterwards been re ceived. Jones had In the interval become a bankrupt. and his assignees brought the prfsent action. The piaintiff called persons acquainted with the African trade to prove that at the time the insurance w.s effected the ship was not oat of time. and the Jury found a verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages 2501. —Costs 401. PO PJCE. -...MM••-. BOW•ATRIRT.—ALLIORD FRAM) UPON Tile Nom- LlTT.—James Phillips, an elderly man, of very te sinctahle appearance, who for many years kept the H. tel, one of the ptiecipal fnos,at Exeter,was brought before Sir RICHARD RIMS yesterday, in the custody of Taunton, one of the principal officer., charged by Mr. VeHoven, Secretary to the Lord Greet Choosiest lalo of England, with having ,fratalniently obtained sums of money from a great somber of-noblemen, ten der the pretence that he was authorised to • receive " Coronation Fees." The prisoner woe apprehended bv Taunton, upon a warrant under the stattialkor oh t doing mosey under false-pretencee e the snit of Mr. Fellowes. Mr. Fellows s.a.e.!, that the defendant !trig the trial of her late Majesty in the House of Lords, and fur some time iobsequent, held a subordinate situatiiin in the office of the Lord Great Chamberlain, from which he was dismissed for some irregularity soon after the King's Coronation last year. He (Mr. Fel- !owes) immediately after the opening of the present sessions of Parliament went to the Continent, where he bad been residing until within these few days,'when be returned to the duties of his office, and was inforM ad by Lord Gwydyr, the late Oust Chamberlain, that complaints bad been made by Lord Delameriand . other liPblemen, that a moo, pretending to have aithority (rots the Great Chamberlain's office, had been collect. ins. sums of mover from Peers, ma coronation-fees, he having a book with hi, *gimped with " G. IL" and Lord Great CiUdsjserlain's office," in gold letters. Lord tiwydyr n#orsify felt extremely indignant at such a practice, serried on with Lis supposed sanction and authority, aid his Lordship desired that imme diate steps might be taken to put a stop to it, and to bring the offender to justice._ Inquiry wee made, and it was discovered that the defendant was the man, and that with the book alfuded to, he bad been to up wards of 60 Peers, and collected Money. No such thing as a coronation-fee was known or recognised in the office of the Great Chamberlain, nod the defend ant had authority or have to collect Mosey un der any plea or pretence whatsoever. The fraud, pro bably, would not bare been discOvered, but that some noblemen, thinking it a very extraordiPaty circum stance that fees acme and two guineas should be soil. cited in the name of the Lord Great Clpimitain of " Gerydyr. • Taunton, the officer, stated that Wapprehendel the defendant at his house, in Crown.strett, Westminster, and upon asking him if he had a boOk with the names of Peers In it, be gave op one which witness bow pro duced. This was a book bound with fine white skin, and on one side the words "Lord Great Chamberlain's of fice," with "G. it ," were iwpres3d with gold let ters; on the other side this inscription appesred— " Coronation Fees. George IV. 19tb ofJuly, 1821." Within were the names of about 70 Doles,ldarytesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons, to most of whose names the sum of 11. Is. was affixed. The tame of the Duke of Norfolk appeared to be at the head of the list, and the last Nobleman who had entered his name was i Lord,Stowell. The Earl of Harrowby and some others of his Maksty's Ministers appeared among the number, anti Mr. Feilowes stated, that the book would have had the honour of the L rd Chancellor's name that morning, but that the de'endant was prevented from waiting upon his Lordship by the visit Of the officer. Sir R. Blame said he was extremely sorry to see a man like the defendant in such a sheaths", especially as he knew something of his family. lie was ready to bear any thing he might hire to urge in answer to the charge. Mr. Phillips said, be thought it altogether an ex traordinary charge, and denied that 'he bad been guilty of any fraud. He had been told that it was a custom from time immemorial, to solicit donations from the Peers of the Realm alter a Coronation, and as he fowl a large family, and conceived be had a right to do so, he had set about it, thinking that if any thing was to be got, he might as well have the be. wait of it. Sir It. BISNIL observed, that no custom, hOwever ancient, could sanction a fraud. The defendant said, he bad committed no fraud.— He had the thing fairly .end openly. There was no die. guise, no concealment about it. Lord Harrowhy had expressed his entire satisfactioa at it, and won dered he (the defendan') had not commenced sooner. Sir R. Mame said, the sanction or approbation of Neblenten after the thing was begun was no authority, no justification at all. The money which be had re ceived was undoubtedly obtained under false pretences; h e h a d represented that he was authorised from the Great Chamberlain's Office to collect it as fees,whereas no such fees were in existence. The defendant said, he Made no representation that he was asthurised to collect feet. He received any thing that wan given him, as a donation, and considered it entirely optional with the Noblemen whether they chore to eutet their names Of not. Sir R. BUMS mid, be must have obtained the money by such a represeetation, for it appeared on the back of his book. Tlia word " Fees," and the letters (1. it.. gave it an appearance of autho rity, and he had no doubt that , Noblemen who had given him money had dope so under the impression that be was paying a fee. mad not mak ing a gift. The defendant add Mr. Fellowes had once told hi. when he was in the office of the Great Chamberlain. soon after the Coronation. that if there was any thing to be made he might as well bare it. N. mem ,This Mr. Fellows. most positively denied; and said Is was well koowo that the taking of • fee coder ant pretence, by any person in the office, would be follow ed by instant dismissal, Mr. Fe Howes added, that Lord Owdydyr, for the honour and dignity of his high office, was textreenly envious it shield be known that the defendant had net been authorised to receive theee sums of motet, and his headship wished to attend the Magistrate on some other day to give his own de nial of the fact. Sir R. Itteet e, after some further conversation, com muned the defendant for re-exandelation on a future day, when Lord Owydyr and some Noblemen who bad paid money to the defendant will attend. HA rroN-li.t a nex.—Yesterday a than in the service oralr. Baker, a bricklayer, residing in Clerkenwell close, was charred with carrying away abut a bashel of ashes from the lunge, No. 31, Cociptuo.street, Clerlienwell, by which the contractor to the parish (Mr. Sinnott) was ilefran The foreman to Mr. Sinnott stated, th it on that corning he saw the defendant with a horse and cart, in which was about a bushel of dose that he taken front the above-named house, which is is the limits of his master's contract; be paid the parish 500/. a-year, and the dust was his property ; besides the above sum be was paying for the services of two men who were v. 11004214 en the look out for men called " tensing dustmen," who commit such eaten. sire robberies of the dust, that his master suffered great lanes is the course of the year. 'f he defendant and others In his trade ale. carried on this plunder in a great extent, for the pnrpcse of irking the ashes with lime to make them have a blue appearance, and which is used in pointing . houses Witness had seized the horse and cart whirls the defendant had, and co-i. veyed it to the Green-yard. and he on the part of his master must press fur a conviction in this ease. The Magistrate having referred to the Act, said that as the charge had been clearly proved, the law was Im perative, and he must impose a hoe of 101. it being the first offence. Mr. Baker, the master of the defendant, prayed for a mitigation, but was isfarnied by the Magis trade he had no power, and advised Mr. Baker to pay the fine, otherwise the horse and cart would be sold. • Mr. Baker paid the fine, and said it was a very re vere law to inflict sock a heavy penalty for taking about a bushel of dust. Maur-tea-nose a.- Keeinskey alias Rosenberg, a (widgetr of rather genteel appearance, was charged before the Sitting Magistrate, RAWLIXSON, Esq. with being an impostor. Mr. Schofield, a beadle, irclonieg to sfary-le.b.inoe. said that he apprehended the prisoner on Sunday last, on the steps of Welbeck-street Chapel, while be was presenting 1 papers to Individual, going in, and after a long straggle lodged him in the watch house. The prisoner, it appeared, had for some time past been living by drawing op memorials, in. to the No bility sod personages of rank, and statioievery de scription of falsehood to obtain marine fie also, it appeared, made a kind of geedrupk composition of blasself, for he assumed en infinite variety of charac tus4 his fertikeiTsgiaation never left him et a less for tales to soft or corenpood with h e charicie s i. It appeared his case fed-oldergese a most minute inns . - tigation at the Mendicity Society Office, and the officers lifter the iavestigation, pronounced him to be a most accomplished impostor. He was handed over to the Sessions, and convicted u a rogue and vagabond, but the Society's officers proposed to him, as he had procured a regular pass port to Russia, be being a-native, to go there, or if he did not approve of that, to remain here, and undergo his sentence Of two mouths imprisonment in the Hour of Correction. This latter coarse be preferred, and on being liberated, - commenced his old trade. His papers were read, 'and among them were found lists of all the Nobility'and persons of rank of every de scription, from every nation, resident in the metro polli, and tlto the same of each was the result of his application. Mt had wilted upon the Polish Nobility, describing himself as an invalid officer of cavalry, and on every other reppective representatives of all other nations, as a reduced veteran. Most of these applications were not made in vain. He had I letters in different languages, all being ap peals for charity. From the French noblesse he ob tained many solid marks of their humanity by de. scribing himself to hare been a Captain in Bona parte's celebrated Legion of Honour. He eonmermeti all the distinguished engagements he had been in, mid also stating he remained with the Legion until the last. All these stories appeared to have bee. drawn- up with considerable ingenuity. The Rev. Mr. &nano, a Russian clergyman, at tended on behalf of the prisoner; but ait hearing all these circumstances related, he said he hod been meat egregriessly imposed upon, and the Rev. Oitsuleman -onounced him to be a complete adept. ne Secretary and other officers of the Mendielty Society attended, and produced documents in their posaetsion prowing the allegations against him. The prisoner protested in French glut he had no knowledge of the English tongue ; bot made rather an awkward mistake to the amusement of the auditory by exclaiming to cue of the witnesses, - Sir. you are wrong," in most excellent English. He was com mitted to the Sessions. Four wretches, all young men, were brought np by Staples belonging to this office, charged with a vile offence. After three wit had given their evi d.nce in support of the etarge, which we abstain from enteriug into, the wretches were fully committed fur trial. Queen-suuaes.—.-Yesterday, Moms Long was charged by Sarah Hempson with stealing a time-piece her property. The prisoner, it appeared, bad entered her shop about sin o'clock in the evening, before, at the usouient she had stepped out. On her return, she saw the prisoner there, and asked him what be wasted ; aid thinking all was net right, took held of him ; wben the prisoner. who bad got the piece nutter hie coat, placed it on the sh.•p-hoard, aid said lea did not mean to take it auty. Her son then came up to her eesisinnce, and the prisoner was secured. The prisoner said Ise went into the shop for the lon4 pose of buyinc goose moat He had coax to town pee larder front Settierseteisite, with only Ave pewee 14 is!et pocket. The hf Pest rate cateerved, It wan radar ea istredlikk. 'Airy for hies to COlllO to tore with only five rare is his pocket, and thee go into a hntchrr's ahoy to bey Toone raw meat—The prisoner was accor.:in g l f COW. Thou Bryce rummo 1. dto this office Mt• Soil% for refs 1• gto pay m his fare. The coachman de. p )sed 'hat he took M:s. 3:pith fro,• linitzhtsbri , lz e to Sloasr.strret„ for which he demanded one shi,l ne. aid one shilling return fare, which she refused to p.y. The Mag:sgeate, hnerever, told the genOeman %an sttendrtl far Mrs. Smith. that the rare the rottrhmais demanded was correct, and therefor • Mrs. Smith was ordered to oar it. with the PIC pewres )es•vr'ay morning, R. Martin, E.q . M. P. ram. t o fillet Sic , and bad a long intervie % a ith th. 11,_•i•- trates. fie ha 1 a printed etpy of the hill which he hail ' , telt , berm/ht. before Pailiament, for inflicting punishment on oenp:e for cruelties to animals. The Magistrates told him that the Cock-pit, in nitwit s' eel, fl estminster. w;ierr pew animals, of every do. s eeipti u n, were tortured by %Tv; of amesement, for many years, is Dow likely to become a place of war. shi t ► I for that a Birth 'dist Society has applied for it, in order to convert i: into a chapel. This info,. mat;nn seemed to give him great deficit,. UNION•HALL TURANCIC • T V•I:X11•1•te Gea pa,a llisb and .Ir. Taylor, two of the princi pal prnpietors of V.tothall-earden., arion,ip,i at thi; offire tn ' , refer a complaint again.' Willi:Ho and Joloi brothers and linen-Jrawrs, and Ndirard Lan. easier, woollen-draper, for Ita%ing riven very great ♦nd g 1 offence to the co pa - y on blonds, nig+ r. The three 4kb-intents were. nnnn pr►sentinx them. .eves to the Magistrates, It. J. CilAmmtain, Fog. drys• led sh .pkeepers. When tt Vatasha;l. tLry had green neck, tehief. round their neek•, and ware coats and trowsers in rat and culotte correspoinled with those ornament,. Mr. liisis stated. that at 11 o'clock the defendants entered the gardens. and allowed at that moment a di•pnsition to insult every body. They hallooed throng,' the walks, hrolth thrnagl► several cotapanie•, knocked off the bats of gentlemen. and adopted in every respect the conduct of the theatrical herae• whose example had operated so much t.. 1 the injury •.1 the lower orders. There were many persons of bit. tinction in the gardens at the time, and the chief pro prietora thought prnp,r, anon lesinthg that defra• ants were per:mei:4e in this seatidslous vstrse of amusement, first, to spoil Mr. Simpson, the superio tendaut, to expos elate with them, and afterwards to place them in the hands of the police. Mr. Sietrinn's interference having produced no other effect than that of exasperating them to a mare offensive line of few'. duct, the advice and threats of the tams w►re Laug! , - eli at by the three gentlemen, who cantinutil to if;• form the pare they had selected to astonish the pa.). lick in, until they were collared and dragged oat of the gardens to the watchhouse. Ilan, the officer, deposed, that hr the diiertion of Mr. Simpson. he followed the defendants. and saw them insult several gentlemen. There were nth r fellows In the gardens who, witness believed, were of the same pa►ty, and constituted • veil f o roldsh'e gang ; but when the defendants were disposed suf. disorder was qnieltly at an end. Oae ntaxampstared in • llighl*nd dress, and having attracted notice hr that singularity, and by a very close imitation of the Tom and Jeer!e school, occasionally drew a dagger, ter to the terrot of the ladies, and brandished it ins nio.t theatrical manner. This gentleman became as qu.e; as the rest, upon finding that the proprietors weralple termined to remove all blackguards. Witness as e !, that the defendants told him they west to the gards-s to have a leak. CH•AIRCIS exprempd great indireation at the conduct pursued by the defendants, and highly ap proved of Mr. Bisn's detertninalou to bring such offenders to justice. There were, he observed, twt courses to be proposed—the one was a prosecution: the otbrr a fins, upon pairrof prosecntioa, and a pnbl'e - apology i• the newspspers. Either of those would be satisfactory, but one of them was indisprnsaidy necessary, as well for the sake of the proprietors as the public. Mr. Bids said he should proceed upon the env.- lion of the Magittrate, and the defeadlitidechurd `that they were ready to comply with the mild alter a• live proposed by Mr. Chambers. They had, they said. drank too much wine. The proprietors merely detnsaded, that in order to prevent a prosecution the sum of 6t. should Its pail by the defendants, and that the apology should be signed upon the spot. This being done, the money nas sect off to the Committee now sitting for the relief of th e famishing Irish. Mr. Bish declared that the fro -prietors were resolved to have the gardens most vi tautly watched, and to punish every person 'Who ti.s tubed the company. r • Ssocnoro CATASTROPLIc—On Thursday •oraiag last, (11th inst.) as Mr. Gilbert Hayes, with his son, parkAreepers to• E. P. Meadows, 13 , q., of Conhult Park, were shooting deer, the farmer had just kill..d one, when his son went to him for the purpose if stabbing the animal. In giving his gun to Isis lath, r to hold, the bat end pitched on the gronnd, the ph. r immediately went off, and lodged its costents in 112.- body of the father, who fell down and *spired instundy. The deceased si as between 50 and 60 years of age, sod has left a wife and young family On deplore his loss.-- (ffinehretcr Journal.) At St. Botolph's, Blshopagete. ea the lath inst. Sarnorl Bytes, eldest son of Mr. John Curtis Bytes, lienley-upo; - Thames, to Elizabeth Barbet, eldest daughter of Mr. J1111."4 Barbet, of the Old Artillery Ground. Oa the 23d ult., at St. George's, Ifeaover-square, Mr. R. T. Claridge, of New Bond-street, to Elizabeth, ouly eldlu of the late Wm. Green, Esq. of Old Bond-street. Yesterday, at St. George's, Ilseover square, Vernon Dolphin. FAq. of klySerd, In the county of Olocester, in Mary Ann, only daughter of the late Thomas Payee, Ellh of ristasoo-house, in the county of Salop. DIED. Os the DM last., at his house to Bolton-street, Daum twee, Bae r , aged 3d. Oo the 7 th last. Mrs. Gaughan, of Upper hlitehas Com tism*, aged Si. On tLegth fist. at Walworth, Mr. George Transit, late of Dover-plate, Kest-road. : SSW. Mated. hod Published at the 04. Y. n The fillhTlitillkir and " Tux CONSTITUTIot . Ppper. No. 907, Strand. by R. WARDELL. LLB. 1 ' ellieseakallons, Orals, Ity. ars rttrosaue .2 •Nro, • 1 - 41 S. , . , ' MAPOLEONT lA' EXILE; OR, .4 VOICE FROM ST. HRGE.V.d. . . . COT SAUCY &AMARA, SSQ. NIS EATS SUROItaX.I ' —.1 0 .---- ...;. • We give some farther extracts front this interesting' , work. We call it interesting, ID despite et, iii , judgment. or rather the low and implacable mega: of the Times. That Journal (which certainly is don" ing, in its old age) has this day a coarse attack upon MP O'MEARA, and upon the great man that was the sob,ect of his hook. We do nor wonder at that.— O'lleatta has insered io his book a passage from NAPOLEON'S mouth. relative to some venal Ea glialt J I, which is supposed to be the Times—sap rased so, by itself; and O'Meana has, besides, coop Abated the unpardonable offence (unpardonable with the Tinges) of sympathising, and teaching the 'Dation to sympathise with the injured PRISONER or Sr. IiCESNA. Our limits do not permit us this day to dissect the article to which we allude. But to morrow (or the first day we can find opportunity) we will offer some remarks upon this mean and malig• want proilection.—To retain, however, to the work hefoce us—Napoleon had been speaking of the Bri tish connection with China, and observing that If he were an Englishman, be should esteem the min who advised a war with China to be the greatest enemy to England,in existence. "You,' said be, .. would is the end be beaten, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow." •• In the course of a few years; added be, " Russia wil have Conitantinople. the greatest :part of Turkey and all Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken place. Almost all the cajoling and flatter ing which Alexander w prat ' Wined. me was to gain t my consent are thin, . I would not consent, foreseeing that the equiti , of Europ e . would be de stroyed. In the natural eof things, in a few years Turkey must fall to Russia. The greatest_ part of her population are Greeks, who you may say are Russians. The potters it would injure, and who could oppose it, are England, France, Prussia, and Austria. Now as to Austria, it will he very easy for Ramis to engage her assistance by giving her Servia, and other providers bor &zing upon the Austrian dominions, reaching near to Constantinople. The only hypothesis that France and England may ever he allied with sincerity will be in or der to prevent this. But even this alliance would sot avail. France. England, and Prussia .onited cannot present it. Ramie and Austria can at anyiime 'deceit. Once mistre , s of Constantinople. Russia gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great navel power, and God knows what may happen. She quar ✓els with you, marches off to India an array 6f seventy thousand good soldiers, which to Russia Is nothing, snit a hundred thousand canaille, COSSACS and others, and England loses India. Above all the other powers. Iblit sia is the most to be feared, especially by you. Het adis diers are braver than the Austrians, and be has tie means of rsisidg as many as she p 1 .In braveic, the French and English soldiers are the only ones to fie Compared to them. All this I foresaw. I see into btu rity farther than ethers, and I wanted to establish a bar rier against Shoe barbarians by re-establishing the king dom of Poland and putting Poniatobski at the head of it as king ; hut your imbeciles of ministers, would riot consent. 4 hundred years hence, I shall be praised (enc.-nee), and Europe, especially England, will lament that I did not succeed. When they see the finest coun tries in Europe overrun and a prey to thole northern barbarians. they will say, ' Napoleon was right.' The Russians are beginning already with yen; I see that they have prohibited the introduction of your merchea , dize. England 18104. Even Prussia prohibits goods. What a change for England! . Under the - . Chatham. von forbade the most powerful sovereignits - tope. the Emperor of Germany, to navigate the Email. or to establish an extensive commerce at Ostend. thb ' was barbarous and unjust, but still von bad the power Ii prevent it because it was against tote interests of Rev WI Now Prussia shuts her ports against you. Whet • failing off! In my opinion the only thing which tate England will be abstaining front medal* in ' tioental affairs, and by withdrawing her army from 1 continent. Then you may insist upon whatever is maw sary to your interests, without fear of reprisals wade upon y our army. You are superior in inalithre Ivry( to all the world united ; and while you manioc yours , :( I. that arm, you will always be powerful, and be dreaded. rot hare the great advantage of declaring war when you like, and of carrying it on a distance from your home. By means of your fleets you can menace an attack upon the coasts of those powers who disagree with you, and interrupt their commerce without their being able materially to retaliate. By your present mode of proceeding, you forfeit all those advantages. Your most powerful arm is given up, and you semi an army to the confirmed where you are inferior to Bavaria in that species of forms. You put me in mind of Francis the First, who had a formidable and beautiful artilleryet the battle of Pavia. List heolared his cayal ry before timid i tins masked the battery which, could it have fired,would have insured him the victory. He was beaten, lost every thing, and made prisoner. So it is with you. Yon for sake your ships, which may he compared to Frandes batteries, and ;brow forty thousand men oft the coati. rent, which Prase's, or any other power who chooses to prohibit your tnanufactures, will fall upon and cat to, pieces, Wpm menace or make reprisals. " So silly a treaty as that made by your ministers tee their own country, l '• continued the Emperor, " was sM vet known before. You give op every thing, and gain nothing. All the other powers gained acquisitions of country and millions of souls, bat you give np colonies., For example, you give up the isle of Bourbon to the French. A more impolitic act you could not have mew mined. You ought to endeavour to make the Freseh forger the way to India, and all Indian policy. instead 0 pl icing them half way there. Why did you give up 1 diva? Why Snrinatn, or Nlartinique, or the other) French colonies? To avoid doing so you had nothing more to say than that you would retain them for the five yea s the allied powers were to remain in France. Why nut demand Hamburg for Hanover. Then y. -. would have an entrepot CO yonr manufactures. In treaties, an ambassador ought to take advantage of every thing for the benefit of his own country "I LAW I.VTELL,ItiIi.VGE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jeer 16. r 1 '. y i • y f y ~~