The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-07-27 00:00:00

• - • -• • • ; • .." 41;* On the nut ite called again;' When he Scrthat it wee prolfaide the first entry •OPthillgh was town. made b y R ose n bef or e hit . left home that morning; heard Mr. Prete making enquiries concerning'* bill and that the twit , were made on the loth, but the forged in his name for 10,0001. and which he nal not heading o r the4 f ar left net. On t hi s „g ems t h e allowed to see without the 3 concirrAirce N Of a proles- Jury (amid a verdict for the'Defendant. tonna . I potion, whose opinit!in De .Titatet ;expressed himself anxious to take. He called' the %neat day, JuLv 2j. and saw Parry; id the heist': nothing 'material oc. artuascirr tre cox!. curred : he never eel Parry afterwardc.‘ • • The Plaintiff IRS a plumber, and brought this ac- Mr. Guilt was pretreat at the'Ebove coierersatiosi 'finer to recover 501. 19'. being the amount for which ' and went with • Parry'to makel . the transfer. tie Defetulant, an autiuneer, had sold a quantity, of (mind 570 puttcheeds of rtirn,loo pentlieohs of gin, Plaintiff's pictures. The Defendant had paid a sum , 117 pipes of wine, and 45 puncheons of brandy, all of money into 'Court, sad the only question was as of a hich were traosfarred to MT. de Taste. He to the sum the -Defendant was entitled toa . retain for presented the order for these goods tollr. de Taste 4 the expellees; he , had retained.3ol. The sale con- who said, he had been grossly debeived by Parry lit tined 191 pictures, only 83 of which were Plain- the whole of their transactions: - When the business titfis ; and he contended that he -was /only liable to was complete, he inforMed 'Paget that Parry de. ids proportion of the expellees of the sale. I sired him to say he could give no rnoreruns, but bills. G. Stanley, clerk. to Defendant, iwoio, that the Witness never saw Latham during this time, and additional Isidore@ were put in the sale with the ap- : was desired by Parry not to mention, the transaction probation of the Defendant, and that it was abso- ,to him. Saw, Peek enquiring about a forgery of lutely necessary to put some good pictures with 11,0001.,' Parry expressed a hope that neither Peek them to attract buyers, as he ' ad never seen a worse ;.nor Mardall would prosecute, as he believed De collection, He preyed the sale of the pictures, and Tastet would not. Parry informed' -him that the that they bad bee. sold for 501. 19s: i he also stated ,I puncheons of•rurn were purchased for Mr. DeTastet, tat the charge of advertising was 1`21.; of cant.' with large sums put into his hand by that gentleman, lopes It. Is. Oa being asked how the catalogues but had not been transferred. • 'were framed, he said the person went to the collec Henry Bagster, who had been ~c lerk to Lathan% tsar, and by guess and itiventioA put the names of . mid - Parry. They beeline insolvent on the 14th of the different supposed artists. i Janesrye as he had since learned; on the 16th 'flee defence was, that there was au agreement that Parry disappeared, and he had not seen him since. Defendant should have 301. as his recompence, what- I The runk was at the 'Lonclon Docks, sad ands part sore the peke might be At which the Sautes should; of the general capital of Lathier and pin' Itbliadt sell Defenclant being unwilling on any other condi. ' no' distinguishable marks -ab Out it. Oeld, , that tious to sell such an indifferent collection. about 100 ) 0001. had been pat into Parry's hands 'to Mr. Dwerman swore that Plaintiff came to him, ..purchase rum for Mr. De - Tastet. The brandy and told him that the Defendant bad agreed to sell was not purchased for Mr: Do Tastet, though he his pictures. Witness told him not to be too salt- thought it might be with his money; far -Parry-at guine, and said he supposed Plaintiff expected to ; that time might be said to receive all his money from get 3or 4001.; Plaintiff replied, that he expected to IDe Tastet. The gin was transferred the same day get 7 or' 8001.- Plaintiff then said Defendant had ; that it was bought ; he did not know that any of it been to see his pictures, and had, en looking at' was Da Taster's. If any person had asked him for them, said to Plaintiff, that " good frames did not IDe Tastet's rum, he should have mid, he knew no make good pictures ;" and on Plaintiff asking him to ; thing about it, as all the rum was • Latham's' and pick out the best, Defendant said he had better send Parry's. From October° till the time of the benk. them all, as they wcoild help one another. Plaintiff ruptcy, not more than 13,0001. were doe to Latham also expressed great satisfaction at the Defendant and Parry from different houses. having promised to put some excellent pictures Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD said, the transfer was not st amona ~, them. He also said Defendant had told him made in the, contemplation of bankruptcy, nor a that the expences of the sale would be 301. I voluntary act, but done under the appreheuslen of Lord FaxectronouGu told the Jury, that if they prosecution. believed that there had been an agreement, it made ' • Sir J. Masseter.o, in his summing up, said, that an end of the question : but if they were not of that Parry, who was aware of the crime Which he had opinion, they were then to consider what- Defend- committed, could contemplate nothing eke- thaw ab. ant deserved for his work and labour. Ile had to , seriding, or an act of bankruptcy, at the time of the discover names fur 83 pictures, and had afterwards transfer. It was a voluntary act, for there was no to make a speech on each; and gentlemen of the long evidence of any threat of any kind. - • robe could very well judge what 83 long speeches I The Jury in a few minutes returned i• verdict for deserved, particularly on bad subjects. if the Jury I the Plaintiff, for all the goods ezeept .576 puncheons though theie was an agreement, they would find of rum. for Defendant. If they were of a contrary opinion, they would give the Plaintiff an-adequate compen sation. • • • .The Jury found a verdict for the Delendaate COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jett 26 , cARP.ALL v. DR TASTES. This was an action brought by the assignees of Latham and Parry, to recover '576 puncheons of rum, 200..purscheons of gin, 117 pipes of port wine, and 45 pencheous of brandy, transferred by the bank rupts to Defendant, in contemplitiarrof bankruptcy. The first witness called was; Mr. W. Mardall, who swore, that in January last (the 14th day), in con-. sequence of some information which he received of a forgery upon himself, he went to the house of De Tastet, in-Broad-street,. accompanied by Mr.-Gorst they saw Parry and De Tastet in conversation to gether : he told the cause of his errand, namely,. that he understood 1k Tastet hid rt - bill draten on his (the w itness's) house, for T 2,0001. by Latham and Ferry : De Tastet said he had.such a bill ; and that these had been another for 18,0001. which had been paid by Latham and Parry, on the ground that the witness was anxious that the hills should not pass through the Beak: .Mr..Nlardall said, the bills were gross forgeries,. for he 'had never made-such accept ances. De Tastet then -said to Parry, ." How is this ?" Parry replied, it was a mistake, for the Bills were drawn upon another holm with similar names. Witness said this was false, for there was no other house. of the same name in. London, and there were no branches of his own house. He then insisted upon seeing the bill : 1k Tastet then opened • a tin case, but net finding it, withdrew into an ad joining room, an i was immediately followed by i; Parry and by Mr. Williams (he believed), one of the clerks. They staid out nearly half an hour, which 1; made, Mr. Gorst himself very impatient. dr. a- JULY DIANDFORD V. DE TASTET AND OTHIRS. Mr. Serjeant BEST stated, that this was an action brought by the Plaintiff, as administrator, against the Defendants for the sum of 30001, which they had acknowledged to be due to the inteittate. I He then proceeded to call two witnesses to Prove the baud-writing of the Defendants, but they did not appear. They were then called upon their stsbNend, but still did not come forward. The Learned Serjeant then said, thit these wit nesses were, one of them, the clerk of the Defen dants ; the other, brother of one of the Defendants: their testimony was kept back, and he could not, therefore,-go op with his case, unless the handwriting was admitted. This - the. Attorney for the D,:fendants 'vistaed 1 t0.d0.. . . Mr. Serjeant ilrsfusaisi, under this very manor• dinary circumstance of a respectable merchant hold ing back his clerks from delivering their testiosiny, he must be nonsuited. Nonsuit accordingly.- GRAYSON J . QUICK. • I The was an nation for voids spoken in defama tion of the Plaintiff.. The parties wore ship-builders at Liverpool ; and in January last, the Defendant, at a Coffee-house there, frequented by foreige. Cap- Ileitis and others, slandered . the Plaintiff nearly .in `the following language :—" Charles Grayson knows. no more of ship-building than that fire, nor his 'lather before him : he has broke once, and will break again : he has no more-timber in his yard than , he can curry eu his back : if you have any regard for , the lives of your men, do not have your ship . re paired by him ; for he soldom refits a ship that does not go to the bottom: many families <melte be laid at his dloor."—These words were fully proved ; . but it I-did not appear shoCaor-4ioseogo lost easulta tag ; . 1 Plaintiff from this slander. Mr. Serjeant ',Les, for the Defendant, - allowed that the words were-highly blameable, and not to be , justified ; but said, that they were mere idle splene , tic expressions, never meant to be believed,, and which it was impossible could be believed, is the 1 . nourishing- condition of the Plaintiff was well known at Liverpool. They were spoken not long after an election, which divided the whole town hits angry I parties, and had never been repeated. He. should not excuse the language, but it was not injurious to the Plaintiff, nor could be so. . . He called no witnesses. . • , Sir blmrselecu observed, that the words were ' fully proved, and were 'highly wrong. No special damage had been shown in ovidpnce ' • but the, law implied damage, when words were.spo ken against a man, in derogation of his professional character, on account of their direct end certain lendeacy. It was for the Jury to estimate the amount. of such damage,' in this and similar cases. The Jary, in a few minutes, returned. a verdict for Plaintiff -Damages, .1 :came opt....and.iaid :could not be found, and desired the witness to call next day : this the witness refused to dO, - and if he recollected right, he said something about a police officer. Wil liams then went away, and Mr. Parry came and re quested Mr. Gout to call next day; who, however, informed Parry that Mr. 51a rdall was determined to see the hill before he left the house. The witness then went in to Mr. de Tastet, and ow Parry in the passage. De Tastet told witness that he was a deter-. mined man, but showed him the bill. The accept. ance was for twenty-two thousand pounds ; it was a. gross forgery, being a very bad imitation of his alip. nature. As soon as he glanced bis eye over it; he told De Tastet, in the presence of Parry and Wil- 4 liams, that the whole was a gross forgery. De 'Tastet then turned to the foriner, and exclaimed in great agitation, " Parry, what have you done with my property ; where is my rum, my gin; and my . brandy :" Parry answered it was all safe in his possession, and proceeded to mention several quart- CAN of rum and gin, which Mr. de Tastet said oubl net cover the affair, and requested Mr. Gent. to accompany Parry, as a broker, to see a regu lar transfer made.--Parry stated that he had. .);500 puncheons of rum, and 200 puncheons of gin, %%Well might be transferred. Mr. Gorst agreed to do it, and went out with Parry.- Before they went, witness obseilved that great care ought to be taken in lest the other Creditors might be ittjur 'll Parry rip their house was perfeet- , witness remarked to De Tasset, arry's idefiwas to make .false pro- said; his phkseensed to be to make ;. the country. Not One. Word passed., 1, who was at that time out of Friday sennight, a child a Mr: Rickirditsolght's,,' pf Creech St. Michael, near Taunton, about' 19 months old, having walki►d a . nififibour's house, unperceived; was at length Missing, ind pis found in the well, which was eighteen feat deep ftirat-the top to the surface of the.water, bat fortunately a beard, part of the cover of the well, had fallen ih' pteviously, and the infant Was fiui.nt . lyiut on ita' back mime board, swjauniug on thi water. If wa; immediately got up, without the sfiglitain)etY: • I Lb. transfer, lest th rd ; upon which •Pa ly, sfirent. The Viet - be tlinuglit Pad '• 0.,: DeTastei s i 4 fu"" and leave the respecting Latham, II • • PO LICE. GutaisAti.—Two of the light-fingered • gentry, Thorieoif t right and Wittiam . Farthhzg, were 'yes terday ehargedloritiisflaiNg into the pocket - of Mr. 'Benjamin Parke,. Ate Saturday evening, and stealing a silk pocket hantikerailet. Mr., Parks stated,, that as hewed passing up the Strand f lietireeh St. Clement's and the New Church, he 'saw the Ptisotterti lietnediately behind him ; he felt their' touch his pocket, and suspected their intention was to.rob him ; inconsequence, he was very can ' Roos, and used every diligence to frustrate their in- Illation. 'He hid not goisetar, however, beforethey eentrived to pick' his - pocket of his handkerchief. He, soon missed it, and the Prisoners too, and imme (Middy went in search of them. In his course he filet two Officers, to whom. he mentioned his loss, and !after some search, he found the Prisoners, and had them taken into custody, when his handkerchief, to. Other with . five others ) were found in their pos -1 session. • The offenceleving been committed without the pre cincts of .the City,. the Prisoners were ordered to be taken to Bowietstet ; from whence, after an mini 'nation' they were committed for trial. . Cherke Jordan was charged by Mr. Hughes, of INVatworth, oa se ipielon.ef having received eight pigs PerhiCh had .beep stolen on Sunday night from Mr. I .4laghes'a yard. H. stated,- that in the coarse of linaday niehtaeme• person or persons got into 'his ,yasih Vote sesierat locks,- and stole eight pigs; he traced. the.pigs (104 la cks Beai and Ragged Staff, iA Whitecross-street, wheys be found them, and on ask. j ;rig the woman who had left them there, she said the Prisoner had said they were his. A young man in the Office said, he had seen two lads driving the pigs into Whitecross-street in the morning; the Prisoner was not then with them. I The Prisoner, in his, defence, said, he had lost some pip,, and that heWent to the Bar and Ragged • Staff to look at those which belonged to Mr. Hughes; but he denied that he said they were his. There being no direct proof of the Prisoner's he was discharged. • • r damsel, of Amazonian height and limbs , was ehargedby the Clerk of Newgate-market, with hav ing assaulted and abused him, in the most outrageous I way, on. Satunlarevening last, while in the meta tion of his duty. This lady, it appeared, had long been the terror of the Mallet, and had kept in awe all the gelds of inferior strength. On Saturday she had taken rather more than a quantum sulficit of the cordialessence of juniper, and, in the-height of her paresysm,. she attacked Plaintiff, seized him by the probocius, and vowed that she'd pull off his calves head ; she also threatened to pull out his pluck, and make garter's of his intestines; and to these eloquent effusions she added otbers of a. more shocking de scription. Her confinement in the Compter, how , ever, for two nights, had completely cooled the ef fervescence of her fury, and she yesterday expressed I deep contrition for her errors, attributing them solely to the libations of:gin which she had impru i dently drank during the slay. The Complainant having no desire to prosecute, the offender, after a proper admonition, was dis charged from " durance vile." Bow-sTacE'r.--rVesterilay Joseph Mason was brought to the Office;from St. Clement's Watch house, charged with violently assaulting and attemp t ing to rob Samuel Jones. • The Prosecutor itated, thine was returning home on Sunday night, wbed he was - attacked by Three men in Pickett-street, just before he got to his own house, who knocked him down, and began cutting , open his pantaloons close to his pocket, which he had no doubt was for the purpose of robbing him ; he called for assistance, and a watchman came up, and two of the men ran off. • • Michael Honan, a watchman, said, he went to the assistance of the Prosecutor, in consequence of his Calling out, and found him on his back, near the en trance to St. Clement's Inn, and saw three men Upon him. On his approaching, two of them made Of, but he succeeded in securing the Prisoner, who pas one of them. The Prosecutor not having lost any thing, and nothing having been demanded, the offence was only deemed a violent assault,_ and the Prisoner was or dered to find bail to answer to it. M AILLBOROUGH•STICEST.--7A blind woman, who bad separated herself from her husband, was charged by him with exciting a Hot at his dwelling; and she, in return, demanded of him a maintenance. It turned out that the man was of industrious habits, whose earyings did not exceed 30s. a-week. The woman confessed that she begged about the streets, and that ber daily income was from 10 to 125.1! . Carier,..w ha wecesavoiaect at this Orme last week, charged with robbing coffee-houses of plate, &c. and against whom many other charges are forthcoming, cut his throat on Friday in the New Prison, Clerk en welt, but not effectually. lie will be' re-examined next Saturday. QUEEN-seusat.—Saturday u baker, who lives in the neighbourhood of Pimlico, appeared here pur suant to a summons, to answer a complaint exhibited against him for selling his bread Considerably under weight ; he was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 3s. per ounce. The batch was deficient 150 ounces, the whole of which was given to the poor. An unfortunate woolen, : who went by the name of Matilda Stewart, and who had been endeavouring to get employment as a miniature-painter in Swansea and ether towns in that part• 01 the country,•hnt without success, destroyed herself last-week in Car marthen; by swallowing a quantity of laudanum . when in a state of Intoxication. tr.orsiterr.—The daughter of a Naval Officer, residing at Greenwich, eloped from her father's house on Friday lag with' a common'sailnr, and hai not since beta heard of, , A reward of twenty guineas has been Offered- for the discovery of the fair fn. 4itive. • wig" of James Duffy, a travelling bookseller ift Liverpool, was delivered of a fine boy on Satur day, the 17th instant, and was well enough on Sun day do the basin's' of the house, as usual. On I . upaity . night she was taken ill again ; and on Mon itory — wet delivered of a still c iner ,child tbaq. the , teiniii; The Inother and the two children a r e 11144 to do well. ANOTHER HORRID MiftbEß: two Or th ree o'clork, a on the • b o dy o f a r r n w i nags) committed about sho Y cki efit ag erd m aY ur m de o poor Labouring man, in.a field, between Locas. s t reet and the Foundling-hospital. . It is supposed the . de. ceased had been attacked, by some villains, 'Rod making resistance, they resolved - th murder him ; which horrid 'deed being perpetrated) they 'threw the body into a gravel-pit near theirlace.where,th e 'ma r , der was committed. • The body vas disoovere.lah eu i four o'clock, by. twolittirtirst‘ ' 11(4. 'head 'of the de. ceased was much teeritM, riti marks were founil on parts of it, supposed tirhe dime by an iron crow, or r some' such instrument. • The "precise spot oit whit* this barbarous act was committed was literally co. vered with the brains of the unfortunate man. Th u • body when. found was still warm, but life. was quite eatinct. The two ss ho first discrivered it ) collected I together the fragments of the scull, which, with the !body; they conveyed to an adjoining puhtirAouse.-- Three halfpence was all the money found in the pockets of the deceased. The body was soots owned. • Thefriends of the • deceased state, that he was a s Irishman, and intended shortly to proceed to his ow n country; and in order to defray the expenses of his journey, he had been for some time making littl e savings from his weekly wages. •It Was this small booty, it is supposed, which attracted the villains, and occasioned his death. The police officers are engaged in the apprehension of suspicions charac. tees. Lines oa a Monument at Afolliton Combe to the memory or Mrs. Sturm of * Sydenliam, and her daughters, who were unfortunately drowned at Chepstow, on Sunday* ' September 9.0, Mit, writ. ten by Mr. CILMPBELL,..AstiIor of the Pleasures of Hope. In deep submission to the hill abase, Yet with no common cause for , human tears, This stone, for the lost partner of his love, ' And for his children i•.stawiourner rears. One fatal moment, me o'erwhelmitig doom, Tore threefold from his heart the lies of earth, Ilia MARY, I'IARO'RET, in their early bloom, And her w ho gave them life, and taught them wank, Farewell ! ye broken pillars of my fate, My life's companion, and my two first-born; Yet, while this silent stone I ecru:eery-ft ' • To conjugal, paternal, love forlorn; - Oh ! may each passer by the lesson learn, Which tau alone the bteedi or heart sustain - (1N here Friendship weeps at Virtue's funeral urn), That, to the pure in heart, " to die is gain." • It is remarkable that they had attended the Church on that day, and beard a Sermon from Phil. ch. 1, vet. 21, latter part. •We understand, that Lieutenants James I'ettet, late Commander of the Sprightly cutter, whose me lancholy fate was mentioned in our paper of yester day, was severely wounded in the body, : by a muskvt. ball, when serving as First Lieutenant of the Cr.! berus, about three years since • and as he never cam. pletely recovered from the effects of that ‘4.ou:.d, I which injured the spine, and consequently his bead, his unfortunate end .may be attrienited to a momentary detirium arising from that cause, and net I to any dread of censure from the Admiralty, which, we unde s rstand, was not at all likely to happen. A few days ago as a poor woman of Barton-Upon.. Ilumber, named Metcalf, eighty-one years of age, was collecting manure from the road. near her. house, on passing three asses, one of •them viciously seized and held her by the arm for a considerable time. A gardener who was near, hearing her cries, rescued her from her perilous situation, and surgical assist , ance was immediately procured, bat on examining her arm, it was found broken in three p'ecei, and otherwise *so dreadfully lacerated as not to .admit of the bones being replaced.- She expired on Friday, after having suffered excruciating pain. . Mr. John Lace, Acting Master • of the Sabrina, was, on Saturday, committed at Portsmouth, for forging and uttering a Navy Pay Bill, of Licuiestant Hodge, of that ship, which he' paid to Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, of Southampton-row, Portsea, whet* he had been acquainted with a girl of the town. ISulcinE.—A man of respectabke apvea ance called a coach off the stand in Pickett -street, Temple-bar, ' on Friday, and desired to be driven to OxfOrd-streit. On the coachman arriving in the•street, 'he eequited. Ito what part he should. drive, but received no an swer, and on opening. the door the .perscet h,a4 cut his throat with a penknife su as to sevyr, the \tied pipe, and he was quite dead. He was: traced by r some docunients found upon him to he a' Mi.S. ,respectable young man from the neighbourheiid of *Gloucester. lie had been only a forthigltt tn. Lon.. don, end was about to comateuce - . business chemist: • A publican of Sutton.uport.trent. was la* .Ae. tected mixiug tobacco with bops toted-in 'brewing and fined in the mitigated penalty of 501. " •°' A bed of coal has recently been discovered at Kirby Moor; in -Littcolnshire. Mr.` , Thomson, •of Billinghay, owns a small piece of bad there, and being a York.shireman, and acquainted with the usual indications of coal in his native country, he was to. duced by appearances to have his land bored,' and at the depth of 18 yards blind coal, into which 'he bored four 'tor five feet, and fOundithetter agile went deeper. Men are now emplOyetl in sinking ; . it is hoped, the sanguine expectations of that nei,4l, bourhood will not be disappointed. Kirby Moor is between Horncastle and 'l'attershall, and about a mile from the River Witham. There was lately growing in a garden, at Stbur. bridge, a single potatoe.plant, the branches or-fibret from the root of which amounted to LOW:. • In a•house in Hexham there are now lising fire inhabitants, whnsP joint ages make 442 years---i The of 100, one of 92, two of 85, and one of So. The oldest (a female), is a great reader, and re*Js without spectacles. DIED. • On the 39t1 inst.. in the nduaneed age et 90, James 'Filrite. EN, of Bampstead , ist idd Imes. On the 96th instant, Richard Stert, F. of New Birlingtou. Street, afted 76. • On the 19 th tor. at Phillack Cornwall, is the 76th year °this age, the Rey. W. Hockin, 46 years Rector of Philliteh and tissithinn. On the 2.1 1 / 4 1 Inst. at Kennington, him. Cottle, wife of Va. Ps Cottle, of Broad-street, Cheap:6de. • - LON VON : erintgOopilP ib &wd 1" , IV Lorna. it OP • 4111111 AN Ovine& rteeNst-fei.