The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-02-21 00:00:00

LAW INTAUIGENCE: lishment of the Hospital School was bound . te s Defendant, who is the Commander of atiilerchant vessel. - When these boys have been maintained for several years, and educated at the expense df the Hospital, they are invariably bound, out to the sea service,. in order to their becoming able seamen, and the indenture contains a covenant . (the performance of which is secured by a bond, in the penalty of 501.) that the boy shall be kept, during the whole term of his apprenticeship, to the sea service. In the present instance, the boy remained in the service in which he was bound by the hospit a l fo r six weeks only, but was then taken away from it, and bound apprentice to an engraver. These facts being proved, the CHIEF Jusricc very strongly reprobated this abuse of a most excellent institution, and left it to the Jury to give such damages as they thought right, when they immediately returned a verdict for 501. the full pe naky of the bond. . , . w 1 COURT OF lEllt mew, y ea ., --" at ?nu LING V. raItIABON Vol 110011119 1 . Mr. Peitz stated; that this was an indictment against tie Baron, for a most abominable nuisance he had set up in the fields, behind Whitechapel. He had literally stunk out all his neighbours, by boil ing bones, and collecting a compound of all villain ous dwells: the putrid carcases of dead horses, stink ing horns and hoofs, sal volatile, and soap lees, were all congregated, each in its highest pitch of per fection, were all collected, to the - utter destruction of the comforts of the neighbourhood. lle was in a condition to call multitudes of witnesses to shew that even passengers who came within the effiuvia of the factory immediately unloaded the contents of their stomachs; and some workmen in a house near were literally driven away [rote their work, unable to stand the shock of such a mass of putrefaction. Ile had also a specimen of some of the liquid, which he would uncork, to convince the Court and Jury that he was not overstating the thing. [The Jury shook their heads.] He said, then he would not assail their noses, but he would give them ample evidence of the dreadful nuisance of the Baron's manufac tory. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL here interposed, and admitted the manufactory had not been so well con ducted as it might have been, but promised that in future the business should be so managed as not to offend the neighbourhood, and offered to bind' his Client by a rule of Court, to conduct his factory in a mode to be prescribed by a skilful petson, to be mused between them. Mr. Nome consented, but said be mustl e ke ave -.. te. • dict of guilty, which was, after some observations, agreed to, and the Defendant was accordingly found Guilts, subject to the above agreement. BOLDING V. LAURIE. Mr. GARROW stated, that this was an information against the Defendant, a respectable saddler, residing In Oxford-street, seeking to recover certain penal ties from him for having employedus a journeyman one Samuel Mansell, he not having served a regular • apprenticeship of seven years to the trade. The ac tion was founded on the statute of the sth of Eliza beth, a statute so well known to the Jury, it would be unnecessary for him to detain them, by stating the nature of it. He could not however forbear stating his wish that this statute was either repeated altogether, or amended lb such a manner as to ren der it more effectual; that it was at precept ineffec- On Fr id a y the Directors of the Chamber of Coin teal to obtain its object, he could adduce no stronger merce and Manufactures of Glasgow took into their a proof than that Mr. Laurie had once before been consideration the Report of their Committee, relative convicted for employing this same man; and whilst to the expiry of the East India Company's Charter. the law stood as it did, that the Plaintiff, if success- They came to several judicious Resolutions on this fun, would only recover au insignificant penalty, and interesting subject, the object of which is to obtain, be saddled with his owe costs, it would be worth the for native capital and enterprise, that share of the masters' while to leer the expense of defending them- India trade which, in consequence of the inadequate selves if pressman; as these unapprouticed men means of the Company, is now enjoyed by foreigne rs. worked for so much less wages than regul a r men • • Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded would. The declaration charged the • Defendant en the - Abasis of these Resolutions, are to be immedi with having employes liftmen twelve months, name- I „ „ • -,- reoared and presented before the approaching ly, from January to December in the last year and t g e 7 " ' ' • 1 • e' ... scuselowl. the penalty was 40s. for each month. . ''' Samuel Mansell was then called—he elated, that Cirr Bestrius.—Yesterday a Court of Common lie served his apprenticeship of fi ve years in the coup - Couucil was held at Guildhall.—The Committee for and he bao worked nearly a year as journey- General Pirposts presented a Report relative to re try,beilding the State Coach, which was read ; ind on man, when he Cams to town, and was employed by Mr. Laurie ; for the first eleven months he w as em- an amendment, it was referred to the Committee to 6 ployed by him he did nothing but make horse-Olothsi advertise to repair the present State Coadh —The girths, rollers, and sometimes mend bridles. Bridle- Coal and Corn Committee presented a Report reco m- Cutter was a different art to saddlers, but saddlers mending the appointment of certain gentlemen to he generally sold bridles. In the Month of December Coal and Corn Meters, in trust for the city for four be was employed in making saddles for the East years, in case they should so long continue members India Company—his seven years would be completed of that Court, when they were appointed accord in the present month. When Mr. Laurie engaged ingly as follow :—To be Coal Meters—Mr. Za him, he did not ask if he had been an apprentice, chary Langton, Mr. Richard Dixon, Mr. Robert . be only asked him what sort of work he could do? Kirb y , and Mr. Edward White; and Mr. John Mr. Ilsouonam said, the question for the Jury to Bickerataff, to be a Corn Meter.—The sum of 30001. consider would be, whether the Defendant did in was unanimously oted to the Treasurer of Bride-, fact employ Mansell in making saddles ? and if he did, • well and I3ethlem l spite's, as the gift of the CoOrtl whether he did so knowingly, and willingly breaking towards building a n w Hospital for the reception of the statute ?—Tbe difficulty of getting journeymen lunatics in St. George's-fields. saddlers to work was well known—a difficulty Another proof of the ardour with which literary arising, he would not say out of a combination, but research is now pursued, or literary curiosities sought a joiniug, as it was called, of the journeymen, to after, occurred at KING and LOCHEB'S Auction Room, oblige the masters to give them the wages they had on Saturday ; a small 'Tract, entitled 6 ' Erposkio demanded, amounting, in some cases, to 7 s. per Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolum Apostolorum adi'apam day. This had obliged the masters, not from incli- Laurecium."—Purporting to be printed at Oxford ' nation, but in self-defence, to employ men who had in 1468, was sold for ninety-one pounds! not served a regular apprenticeship. In the present ei .. AttENTAL INHUMANIT].-otl Wednesda7 last, case, however, Mr. Laurie had not employed an ig- John Tubb and Rebecca his wife, were indicted at siorant person, since Mansell, as appeared by his the Middlesex Sessions, at the suit of the Parish of St. I evideuce, had worked at the business near seven Pancras, for inhumanity and cruelty to their child years. If these actions were encouraged,. this rem Th e evidence upon the trial, however, only would not be the las; by many hundreds which the went to affect the conduct of the female Prisoner , Court and Jury would be troubled with. The jour- against whom it appeared, that she had frequently neymen, however, unless they were wise enough to' exposed two of her children to the inclemency of the desist, would be the persons who would ultimately' winter, without food or raiment • and that, on one . have diost cause to repent, as th ey would call at - occasien, the nearly strangled them with a leathern tention to themsplves•, and them wore clauses is the limp, to peasant the doleful cries of their unhappy same statute which, for conduce•such as they were o ff spr i ng , when exposed to her unnatural barbed adopting, inflicted penalties far more severe on them , ties. The Jury acquitted the husband, but fated than those which, in the present case, they were en- the wife guilty; when the Coast senteuced her to forcing against the masters. six. months imprisonment in the House of Correction. Lord ELL'ENBOROUGO said, this wp an action on The body of Mr. Jackson, who was drowned at a penal statute, whether a politic one or not, it was Spa lding some weeks since, was found ou Wattles entitled from the Court and Jury to a fair constac- day last. The incidents of this unfortunate main's lion ; and he could not advise the Jury to ceentemet life have long been before the public, in a small pam a combination amongst the journeymen by eneourag - phlet. He was a respectable tradesman in Ireland at lag the masters in the breach of a positive statute. the time of the rebellion, and was three times taken He PDS not in favour of the statute, but he and the out to be executed by a gang of lawless desperadoes, Jury were bound to see it obeyed. With rereect to ' and whether the Defendant was a willing offender, the is often rescued by the King s.troope. Jury would my whether be bad done all he could to DARING OUTRAGE.—A gentleman, named James, Inform himself of Mansell's real situation. A man residing in Villiers-street, Strand, was yesterday forenoon attacked by three ruffians, near the top of must bedonsidered as a willing offender , who shuts his eyes against information. Th e d ec l ara ti on was Water-lane, Fleet-street, in the most barefaced for the penalties for twelve months. It appeared, ma nner, who attempted to take from his breast however, that for eleven mouths of that time, he pocket a pocket-book, containing Bank-notes to the worked only on horse-clothe; the last month only amount of 1501. Mr, J. seized one of the fel ld was he employed in making saddles. Should the lows by the collar, but was obliged to let go his ho from a blow he received in the mouth from oess.ot Jury, therefore, find for the Plaintiff, they would find only ore month's penalty. the gang that knocked him to the ground. The The Jury found for the Plaintiff and mo n th ' s p e- villians, finding themselves then frustrated in their salty-406n object, ran down Water-lane, and although closely --. 0 0...... pursued, contrived to secrete themselves In .posNb of COMMON PLEAS, Fos. le. the houses in that vicinity, which it is well hariern • . . onzsivwscw novella; o. wiriest. are the places of rendezvous .for those despond* This was an enquiry before the Lord Chief Justice characters. One of them was a short,lusty mita, • to assess damages far the breach of a covenant con- and d ressed in a blue cloth frock coat, and the ethers tanned in an indenture of app r e nticeshi p , b y which wore drab coloured coats, mad. 44 the appear race William Findlay, oue albs poor boys on the estab- of geollomtp's VlN`in't FEBRUARY 20. KAY V. STUART. This was an action brought by Mrs. Kay, the, keeper of a lodging-house, to recover of the execu tors of an unfortunate Gentleman, named Russell, 171. odd, alleged to be due for board, lodging, &c. It appeared that Mr. Russell, who had been long, in a bad state of health, went, on the Bth of June, 0110, .from his lodgings, with intent• to visit, by appoint ment, a Mr. Vaughan, and another friend, at Tot teridge. Not reaching his friends at the time ap pointed, they became alarmed, and made enquiry after him, but they heard no more of 'him until a month after, when it was advertised, that %Pendent= had been found drowned at Barnes, describing the marks ou Ms linen. Mr. Vaiighan went down to Barnes, and found it was his unfortunktb'friend. He then sealed up his papers, and without 'divulging the melancholy tidings to Mrs. Kay, asked what the de. ceased was in her debt. She said he had paid her all ; that was due on the day he went away. Afterwarffs she made a demand of 171. which was resisted by the eaecutors, because it appeared she bad charged for fire and other artieles,'said to have been sup plied during the absence of the deceased, and when in fact he was dead. She was offered 131. but re fused to accept it. That sum was tendered into Court, and, under all the circumstances, the Plaintiff was nonsulted. The Judge finished the Sittings in this Court, and discharged the Jury. . sd-':: •d 2? : .. • rtstfti titlift*COVr&b OLD Berttr; 20. it ober! Menu and John Pantos were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of James Rod gers, and attemptiug to steal some handkerchiefs, on the 21st of last month. The Prosecutor is a linen-draper, in Piccadilly, the glass of whose shop window the Prisoners were detected in cutting, for the abovementioned purpose, ea the morning of the aforesaid day, at seven o'clock, by the vigilance of Nicols and another Bow-street otficer.—Guilty—Dedh. Robert Blackman was indicted for stealing lace and other articles, to the value of 1001. from a per son named Cunvin. The Prosecutor is a travelling dealer in lace, silk handkerchiefs, ribbands, &c. Be ing about to remove from Drury-lane, where he lodged, to Chandler-street, his wife, who appeared as principal evidence on the present occasion, en. gaged the Prisoner, together with a person of the name of Lake, to move her goods. She accompanied them to her new abode with a female acquaintance, of the name of Thomson, who left her there. The witness shortly after went out herself, and before she could return, was taken up on a charge of pas sing bad money, and conveyed to the watch-house. When intelligence of this circumstance reached her lodgings, the Prisoner and Lake left them, for the purpose, as they professed, of going to her. Some time afterwards Lake returned, and took away a box containing the articles mentioned in the indict ment, assigning as his reason for so doing, on being interrogated by a son of the Prosecutor, a boy of 12 years of age, that he was apprehensive it would be otherwise taken by the constables, who were coming to search the lodgings for bad money. Some time after this, the Prisoner returned also, joined by , Lake . ; they accompanied the four children of the Prosecutor to the watch-house, whither they were conveyed by the constables, who, on searching the , lodgings, had discovered so much bad money as would justify the committal of Mrs. Cunvin. She was committed, but in a short time enlarged, when having missed her goods, she obtained a search-war rant, and some of her handkerchiefs being found by Gilmor, the Officer, at the lodgings of the Prisoner, he was taken up. Lake could not be found. Sir GEORGE WOOD, in charging the Jury', ob. I served, that there was' no evidence of the Prisoner's' having stolen the property ; that a part of it being found in his possession, proved no more than that he had received it from L ake, knowing it to be stolen•, and as there ices no count in the indictment, which charged him with having received stolen goods, he must be acquitted. The Jury accordingly acquittedhim; and his Lord `ship directed, that a new indictment should be pre ferred against him as receiver of stolen goods. In the course of the trial, the Prisoner being asked from the Bench, whether he had any questions to put to Mrs. Thomson, onwof the witnesses who bad appeared against him, be said, that when he had seen her in company with the wife of the Prosecutor, she was intoxicated. This assertion offended Mrs. Thom son very much, and she offered immediately to make oath, that she had never been in that state in the course of her life. Clysrlotte Thorpe was indicted for stealing A look. itvg-glass, and other articles, the poverty of John TMs looking-glass had been stolen from Mr. Bai ly's house in March last, and was pawned in the June following, by the Prisoner, at the shop of a Mr. Hadenborough, with whom she had been accus tomed to deal. Here it was discovered by the Prose cutor, and the Prisoner was In consequence appre hended. When called upon for her defence, she said, that the glass had been bought by her husband. Several witnesses, who had known her a longtime, gave her an excellent character. Judge BAILY,• in charging the Jury, said, that the fact of the person who was said to have sold the glass to the husband of the Prisoner not being brought forward, though -an • unfavourable circum stance, was, nevertheless, in his mind, counterba lanced by her having pledged, it with a person to whom she was known, and in her own name. By the long interval between the theft and the finding the article, and by the circumstance of no other part of the stolen property being found in her possession, he was of opinion, therefore, that they would acquit the Prisoner which they accordingly did. Williamßarley was indicted for stealing a pair of silver sugar tongs, and a silver tea-spoon, the pro perty of Richard John Millington. Mr. Millington is the proprietor of a coffee-room in this metropolis, into which the Prisoner walked on the 23d of January last, and ordered tea, which was provided for him. He bad but just arrived from. the country, where, as it would appear, he had ins-. bibed notions as to the principles upon which the London coffee-rooms are managed directly the con -1 'Yerse"of - the reality: hf hnegined, that instead of having to pay for his beverage, be was entitled to remuneration for having been at the trouble of swal- 1 lowing it, and, in consequence of This erroneous' conception, as soon us he had done so, pocketed the part of the appurtenances of the tea-board above mentioned, and decamped. The waiter, 'however, who entertained theories widely different from his, followed him with great diligence, and having been successful in the pursuit, delivered him into the hands of a Bow-street Officer. Guilty of Larceny. Afars Banker, indicted for stealing four brushes sad a pair of 'sheet*, the property of Adam Le Roi l was Acquitted. Joseph Day and J. Woodstock were convicted of stealing a basket of asparagus, the property of John May. Afrcheel and Cedierfee Dujfe,y were indicted ter 'stealing a blanket, and other articles, the property ofl Mr. Edward . Wilde, of FeatheebtOne-street. The Prisoners are an Hibernian man of war and - t o b t . e ruse who had takes np their qua rters in a io se , kept by the Prosecu tor, for the purpose of 'accommodating occasioned visitors of . this metropolis, on receiving a given price for the nor el his apartments. Mr. and Mrs. Duffey had agreed to pay, for such portion of this tenement its they were to occupy, three shillings and sixpence per, week. Now, Mr. Duffey wits somewhat addicted to a foible, not, very uncommol in his country, if We may give credit to report, of among the members ofl OP • .r.: •, • ' • li • •• • i • ' his profession, namely, that of over zeal in his ship of the jolly god ; the eonsequence'of this w that, at the end of three weeks he had got into an with his landlord a whole half-guinea. This p q! bly he would have borne with more fortitude that evinced by some persons in a similar situation, 1 the funds destined for more press:4 occasions I been absorbed by the same propensity which 1 caused the arrear to accumulate. in this postun affairs, Mr. and Mrs. Duffey went into a commit of ways and means, in which a resolution was pas s that Mr. Wilde's blanket should be mortgaged, the purpose of procuring a supply for the service, the ensuing week. Mrs Duffey undertook to ca, the resolution into effect ; but, with all possible gard to conscience, borrowed upon the hlsiiket , the small sum of one shilling, with a view to a to , easy redemption. The transaction coming t o ears of Mr. Wilde, he felt dissatisfied with the am sure which had been adopted, particularly as his Ilion had not been asked ; but, instead of doing he would have done, had he been a Member of f position, trying to get the peccant fivanciets out, had them put in. . The Prisoners were Acquitted ; Mr. Duffey, of ° ground that he had not been the actual taker of blanket; and Mrs. Duffey, because she was bell to have acted under the iulluence of her lord master. POLICE. QUEEN-SQUARE. Another examination into charges of fraud bited against Hemmerson, with several aliases, his wife, took place yesterday. It appeared that Highams, a sort of dealer, a soner In the *rich, had given Hemmerson 141, pledges amounting to 691. and which intrinsi were _worth double the sum. Solomons, a Jew, received these pledges of Highams, and he paid 751. ; but as Solomons observed, not in virtue of property, which was merely placrkin his posses for safety. Mr. Solomons agreed to give up I property' on receiving 751. of the tradespeop, whom it belonged, which was done. Mr. C ol houn has used every means to get' baCk the tral people's woperty, and he has accomplished I a great measure. The female was remanded 1 week. . -. 1 HATTOS-GAILDEN. Yesterday two young fellwars of the names Bird: 1w and Rile. y, were' brought 'lrby John ' officer, and underwent an exitAinatien, being c; -with picking the •pocket of a Gentleman •n evening last, as he was walking along Battle-t. I of a silk handkerchief.—They were fully commit I to Newgate for trial. VINEGAR IN NEUTRALIZING ARSENIC,.—t Newmarket First Spitng Meeting, 1811, Spaniar , Pirouette, the Dandy, and a colt of Sir F. mu's, died, in consequence of a solotiott of having been put into the trough at which the watered. Two horses (Reveller and Ceelebs) out of the same trough, but were recovered, believed, by administering vinegar to them, w' . said to have the e ff ect of neutralising ar s enic. b confirmed by an instance within our kno.wh a child recovered by the same remedy, who 1 cidentally swallowed arsenic. A repetition horrid scheme is happily prevented, by the expedient of introducing small fishes into the troughs ; but the fact of vinegar's being an to the effect of arsenic, appeared to us too imp not to be mentioned, especially as ibis not gt known, even amongst medical men. SPIRIT OF RESERVE.—The Count de Viry quired such a reputation for reserve, that cif most insignificant message entrusted to an , servants, became a mystery to all the rest. was ill, that was a secret of state. He ont slight wound upon one of his legs, and set. surgeon to examine it. Some days aftervards miler :.ccident happened to the other leg, ant' that under the care of another surgeon, so might not be known that he had hurts on bo legs at the same time. This my sterious rest, the cause of his death. Upon some person er after him, Ms Secretary saki, " Ik is dead, does not wish it to be known ;" and the King dinia said, when he heard of his death, " would have made a mystery of it i f he could.' Esticaartox —it is well known, that sett tisans and manufacturers have emigrated tr rice, from Lancashire and the West itidingol shire, but it begins to be generally undetitet they have not hitherto experience.the ad' they exp'eted to have forma in a Laid that I represented by the American Agents, as with milk and honey." To dissipate the prospects, by which the manufacture" of tl try have been tempted to seek a happier lot the Atlantic, the Churchwardens of Mattchestei lately published, In tile newspapers of that to" vend fetters addressed to persons resiclog chester,' and who are now chargeable to ti ship, by - reason of their having been deserted husbands. -,•-:,,: , --der•-• StOTC/I 8.113 ('KS. Miu.se e s 11IbtrE , Arrived. Sas. Marquis of Hornig' pdartin), 'h 18 28 Feb. do. • Eliza (Marshall). Leith • 13 23, ll' Fifeshire (M 31.1 iller), do. 16 • , —6, Stradunore (Martin), Dundee 18 0, 11, Prompt (Daticlson), Leith ~ 17 1 March, - Pilot (Sanderson), do. -r 18 5, 12. Fifer Packet (Sammy), Dandee 18 I, 8, DOWN E'S Wharf. Iffet c hleas (Baldwin) Leith 16 • 9 March, Eagle (Sutherland), Ihloatrosc 15 27 Feb. Swift (Ord), Leith tl6 110, Boccie's.* (Tod), silo. 116• ‘ . 1 27, —I , Luca awl Baow sex Wharf. 1 C a l e d on ia (Nisbet*, Leith • 110 ' 14g, —lO, 111.9:W • T/1 1 .AtER AT. 1. ... , 0N 110 M .....,....__.._....... .5 1 tw.h.e!rW°l%. Morino", 17 minutes alto'. 9. 1 Fireing, 50 ot' • MARRIED. On Wettiestlay last, Mr. George' Webb, o f Ludgate ° - I dg Mitts SlMlNtalsh, of Corobill. Aa the 100 Instant, at Mauldslie Castle, Lanarkshi 1 lumens Vershislilordon, Esq. of . Harperdeld, to toi At Meek lbstilete, J. IL itarchard, Esq. to Miss __—_—_____ DI W. On the 15th inst. in Russell-niggle the youngest Nolan, Fig, the'lgth inst. in his 9fith year, Captatn Joha '•N regiment, lately rlornett from Portugal• rUa : Printed turi—Puirliched hy tt. 1,01 • STATE/mai °incr.. 81, Flat-ttrert. troy • sws r arrear Possi- Ilan is but 11 bad h had ire of mittee assed i d, for ices of sle re: t only I Moroi to thd mea. its op 6 Ding as of (jr. out, he on tl-t of the e I iovEd d aiLil 1 eabi- es, and a pri. 141. for nsicaliv ew, had laid him e of the ssessioa up that ' sople to Colqu- trades- ml it in a ed for a ram of lan ILltt, g charged n Sunday Le-bridge, ommitted —At the Spaniard, SI ANn• A' arsenic they were bs) drank red, as is , which is tic. This %ledge, of o had se- m of this he simple the wa . er n antidote important generally ry had ac- t e ven the any of his ;t. 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