The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-02-24 00:00:00

~•: . • 111. s-~++•~+--~ . t, *rebel. of OW; 'that there was an account due to them if -Ike , Opera-house concern; but, on the (whole, he tither believed the bills alluded to in the Defendant's affidavit, were granted in satisfaction of interest, tic. on old claims, which had not been paid when due lie also proved that the bills hi ques ton,, previous to their becoming due, had been hand ino by his house to Mr. Stone, liquor merchnt Pa.nton-street, and had been paid to Idol by t a he' Defendant. Lord ELLENDOROUGII said, this put an end to the first charge. . 1 1 In support of the secmid charge there were pro duced is o notes of Signor Tramezzani to Mr. Tay lor, for 1001. each, granted in consideration of an advance of his salary, dated 3d December, 1809, laud Bth Jan. 1810, payable four months after date. On his cross-examination, Mr. Taylor, however, admitted that a memorandum addressed to the De fendant, directing him to pay to Mr. Glossopp 2101. i on account of bills of his (Mr. Taylor's) due to Mr. G. on the 27th March, was hi his (Mr. Taylor's) ' hand-writing. Lord ELLENnonotrcti observed, that neither in description nor amount did the notes of Signor Tra mezzani apply to the bills mentioned in the Defend ant's affidavit, while the bills specified in the memo randum under Taylor's own hand, which could not possibly be the notes of Signor Tramezzani, which were not then due for some time, corresponded in every particular. Two of the four charges, there fore, had failed, and a third was not strongly sup ported. The only one, then, which remained, was that as *the 71. 7s. and supposing it to be made out, his Lordship should, unquestionably, have no hesi tation lit'inetructing the Jury, that, in such a multi plicity of transactions, any thing supposed to be wrong., in so trifling a matter, ought to be imputed to error. Mr. Gonaow, in the absence of the Attorney.. General, expres-ed his concurrence in this sentiment, which he hoped would never, in his time, at least, cease to be the distinguishing characteristic of a Bri tish Court of Justice. The Jury immediately found the Defendant—Not Guilty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KINGI'S BENCH, Fri. 29. OPERA HOUSE. . • i TILE KING V. READ. The Arroetsay-Gastaaaa, on the part'of the pits ‘ ' secution, stated ihis to be an indictmeut exhibitedo_ William 'Taylor, *sq. of the Opera House; agaiistit the Defendant, Alexander Read, charging him . wit: Wilful and corrupt perjury, arising from meraineliiii:, and resentment, in consequence of his ha vin g been' unable to get from the Prosecutor what he wanted, disappointed in which he had sworn certain tithe alfids vita, in order to get the ,Prosecutor, Mr. Tay lor, removed from his situation of Manager of the Opera House concerns. The Prosecutor was well k. own as tine of the Proprietors and Manager of the Opera [louse, and the Defendant was a gentleman Whorn he met with out of employment, whom be originally engaged, in the years 1808-9, iu the ca pacity of House Steward to the Opera, at, a safari . Of 2'ool. a year ; whom he afterwards raised to *gar 'situation of Cash Clerk., at a higher .salary; bet, • finding hiM, not fit for that situatiou, he had been on' tjaat account obliged to reduce to his old salary and' situation..,. For this offencelhe,Defendant had de-` eared he-Would be revenged on the Prosecutor, and, as far WO him lay, he hid kept his promise. For while theProsecntor, Mr. Taylpr, was engaged in disputes in Chancery, with other Proprietors of the Opera House, and while it was even disputed, whe- ther he should not be removed from.the management Of the Opera House concerns, the Defendant, in or der lo terve Mr. Waters, the Plaintiff in those suits in Chincery, to injure the Prosecutor, Mr. Taylor, and, to convey to the mind of the Loed Chancellor that he was an unfit person to be Manager of such a concern, had made affidavits in which he swore that the Prosecutor, Mr. Taylor, had given orders to him, as Cash Clerk, or Receiver for the Opera- House, on a varimy of occasions, to employ funds arising from that concern in payment of his, Mr. Taylor's, own private debts. '1 he Attorney-Gene ral proceeded to state the parts, of the affidavits first made by the Defendant, namely, an affidavit sworn by him on the 2.Stit January, 1811, on which the different assignments of peavey laid in the indict ment were grounded. These - consisted, first, of , the two payments of 781. and of 7-11. to Messrs. Skelton and Stones, stated in the affidavit to be li quor-merchants, in Panton-street, near the Hay market, and to have been private creditors of Mr. Taylor.-2dly, A payment to Mr. Glossopp, on the 27th March, 1810, of 2101. in payment of bills of Mr. Taylor's then due to him.— 3dly, A sum of seven guineas received from Mr. Barto Valle, for an ad mission to the Opera during the latter part of the sea son 1809, applied also to Mr. Taylor's private use. —And, 4thly, A payment of 2001. which, together with a sum of 18101. drawn on Mr. Taylor's account out of the banking-house of Morland and Co. was paid over to Mr. R. Hill, on account of a demand 'which he had against Mr. Taylor individually. That the D fendant had not acted under any mistake in swearing as he had so done, was apparent from this circumstance, that Mr. Taylor, in his affidavit in answer to the Defendant Read's affidavit, put these allegations of his in their true colours. As to the sums paid to Messrs. Skelton and Stones, he posi tively swore that they were payments made on ac count of the Opera concern, Skelton and Stones not being liquor-merchants in Panton-street, as sworn by the Defendant, but mercers residing in Chandos street, Covent-garden, who had been in the habit of supplying the Opera-house with articles in their line for many years. This statement it might have been expected, would have put Mr. Read a little on his reed, and would have taught him to look around and 'see on what foundation he stood. He was not contented with his first affidavit, howerer, but he swore a second, in which he re-asserted what he had `originally deposed to. With the nature - of the debt to Mr. Glossopp, which constituted the second charge against him, the Defendant was as well ac quainted as Mr. Taylor himself was. It arose from an advance made to Signor Trameszatti, in part pay ment of his salary, which did not become due till the May following. It therefbre must hive been known to the Defendant, to hare been a payment on account of the Opera-house. The third charge' being a sum of seven guineas received from Mr.! Barto Valle for a free admission to the Opera-house, during the latter part of the season 1809, and which the Defendant had sworn was a joint property, it would be clearly shown was equally unfounded with the others. The sum thus received was for an ad. mission under a debenture of 501. per annum, which was the private property of Mr. Taylor; and the Defendant could not have been. ignorant that it was so, it appearing from a list of free admissions, which it was part of his duty to examine every opera night, that Mr. Barto Valle's name stood in the class of i debentures. In the fourth charge, which regarded a payment of 2001. in addition to 18101. paid on ffit. Taylor's private account, to Mr. Hill, it would be shown that the' Defendant was equally unfounded as in all the others. So fir from any, order having been given by Mr. Taylor to Mr. Bead, to pay 2001. on account of the claim of Mr. Hill, the fac- was, that 30601. had been set aside, and placed at the disposal of Mr. Taylor's bail to answer all de-1 maids on that head, so that 2001. in addition to so , small a sum is 18101. could- never have been neces sarily drawn -on'that head from the Defendant. The etas - its of the Defendant, whioh enume rated a great variety of mieepplicatibns of the funds of the Opera-house, in addition to. those on which the assignments of perjury Were laid, were given in evidence, and went proved to have .been regularly s r, orn before a Master in. Chancery. Mr. Taylor was the Material' Witness to prove the. different assignments of periery, 'Re to each of which his testimony, to a greeter or smaller degree,. sup-' ported the iittlicameut. 'On his 04u-examination, however, he admitted that 'he ioold. Dot Swear that' he had not granted an order to the Defendant to pay the 2001.1 n the fourth' charge, to Mr. Wright, to be by him paid to Mr. Hill. The 30001. in the hands of the bankers, placed at the - disposal of the bail the action against him by Hill, be siesiiibeitedd". from fund's heldng td the Oreva-housareencer? Mr. *ones, a partner of Sketton ansit "tailed, who provedtthat he ~dimly trier business as Mercers in Chanties-1e had been is the use of. serving tf' OLb BAILEE • On Saturday, Benj. Hitchcock, a letter carrier, ' was indicted for taking two Bank of England notes, of one pound each, from a letter which he was en trusted to deliver iu the course of his business. The ' facts being distinctly proved, the Prisoner was called on for his statutes • when be stated, that he aas in :had health, had a large family of children, and was appVehensive at the time he had committed the crime tehich had been proved against him, of being seut to prison, a circumstance which would have been at tended by the loss of his employment, and, of course, be the utter ruin of himself and his family. He professed himself willing to make what reparation be could to those he had injured, and handed some Bank notes to the Solicitor who had been employed to prosecute him. A number of respectable persons gave him an excellent character.—Guilty, but ear nestly recommended to mercy. Callicott, the vender of quack medicines, in Ox ford-street, who was convicted at a recent Old Bailey Sessions, of feloniouely disposing of forged stamps, with which he labelled his bottles, was found Guilty on a similar charge—subject to a point of law as io his former case, which has never yet been promulgated. After the above case had been disposed of, a Lady, named Frances Lisson, who had been out on bait, was placed at the bar to take her trial on a charge of larceny. Her appearance seemed at once to surprise and interest the spectators ; her dress was tasteful, though plain; her figure elegant, though emaciated; her manners highly -polished ;. and her countenance, which had once been handsome, bearing the deepest impression of anxiety and grief, the result probably of that menacedittfurny Which, in spite of nature and education, accident had placed before her eyes. So powerful was the sympathy which she created, mere. ly by her appearance, that almost every individual of the more gentle sex in Court wept. When, in a scarcely audible voice, she pleaded not Guilty—the fountains of her own tears appeared to have been ex. bausted. Mr. BoLtswe, Counsel for the Prosecutor, pro ceeded to state that a person of the name of Aran del, had, about four years since, come from Glou cestershire to reside in London, when he entered into the service of liankin and Co. as an account ant, and having been obliged to give up this employ. ment on account of ill health, had set up some time since in business with his wife, who was a worker of muslins. Mrs. Lisson called on him on the 24th of January, which was on a Friday, and having in formed him that she bad been recommended to deal with him, desired he would bring some goods of a certain description to her house iu Ashbey.street, The report that Mr. EsoraLE is going to America, is without foundation. Ile bad actually been offered, as' we stated, very flattering terms, such indeed as would enable him to obtain as many thousands iu the course of a twelvemonth as he is likely to receive hundreds during the same period at Covent-garden Theatre ; but he is wisely content with moderate advantages, and the comfortable security of Old Eng land. The illness which detained Mrs. SIDDONS at Hall, was not of so serious a nature as has been repre. rented` It was a cold and hoarseness, which fora day or two prevented her performing, but was not accom pauied by any alarming symptoms. The Rev. &BYNUM ALDRED, a Dissenting Minis. ter, from the High Peak, in Derbyshire, appeared in a boat upon the Thames, on Thursday last, dressed in a white linen robe, with his long hair flowing over his shoulders, and announced that the seven vials mentioned in the Book of Revelations were to be poured out upon the city of London. FATAL Dutt.—On Friday morning last, a meet ing took place at Castle Connor, near Ratline, in the county of Roscommon, between Mr. o.Joster, and Mr. Y. attended by their respective seconds, and a vast number of spectators, when, on the first fire, the latter was struck in the forehead, and in stantly expired. Tho origin of this unfortunate al . - ! fair we have not learned.—(Mayo Paper.) A larg e-decked lugger, laden with contraband goods, having, on the 13th instant, been discovered in the Downs, and chased by the boats of the Lively, cutter, in the service of the revenue of excise, and having been hoarded by one of the said boats, the crew of the lugger attacked the officer and cutter's I men, and, after beating them severely; took a pistol from one of them, and fired it at him, wounded him in the hoad, and threw him overboard.—A reward of 5001. is offered for the apprehension of the „offenders. A few days since, as two men confined in Breck nock prison (one for horse-stealing, and the other I for safety, not being right in his mind), were sitting together, a dispute arose between them, when the mad who was a little deranged, very Suddenly took up an iron bar, and struck him such a violent blow on his head, that cut his skull open, and he expired in a few minutes. The Forests of the Spessa - rt and 04enerald have re- Northampton-square, on the following Morniug ; he assented, and called with a box of goods, accord ing to appointment. He was shown into a room without a fire, and shortly afterwards Mrs, Lisson came toiffin. She looked at some articles, aid ad: mired thein; but observed, that the room was cold; and taking up a parcel of the goods iu her hands, went into a room where there was a bre, he fol lowing, but observing when he got into the room, which she bad reached a little time before him, that she was employed putting some article into a chest of drawers, in a hurried manner : his suspicions were excited by this circumstance • he did not, how ever, say any thing, but proceeded to display his muslins, &c. and Mrs. Lisson bought articles from him to the amount .of 31. ss. fid. When this pur chase was completed, he proposed to show her a ruff similar to that which she had bought ; but on search. leg for this, he perceived that it was missing, as well as some other articles he thought he had brought with him. He then mentioned his supposed loss, and -Mrs. Lisson desired a young lady who had come in .to the room, to search for them where they had been ; the search, however, proving ineffectual, Mr. Arundleleft the house, returned to his own, whelk he again searched for the articles, on the presump .tion that he had not taken them from it - but nit finding them either, he immediately proceeded to tke Police-of f ice, Hatton-garden, where he got two war rants,one to search the Prisoner's house, and another for her apprehension. The search for the property provedineffeetual ; but the lady, who, though ab sent from home, made no attempt to conceal her self, was taken ; but after an examinatiou before' the Magistrates was held to bail, her securities en, tering into very heavy recognixatires. Her now coming forward, though it was in her power to ab scond, Mr. Holland admitted was a circumstance much in her &yew. He understood, moreover, he cently been tile theatre of some sanguinary conflicts. A corps of 4000 troops having been sent to discover the haunts of the Brigands, divided themselves into small parlibs : some of these, after repeated attacks, but with doubtful result, having penetrated very far, came to a small encampment, defended by a ditch, and with three pieces of cannon. While the troops were preparing for an assault, the robbers, who *eve both bold and numerous, rushed out, and 'Stade So fierce an onset, that they bore down all be titre them—the troops fled, leaving behind them two pieces of cannon s some colours, and 250 killed and wonnded. The process of distillation has derived the west _....., ..._ said, that a number of persons et iligh rank were now in attendance who would give her an excellent character ; but notwithstanding all this, if the case were duly •msade out, it appearing that the Prosecutor could not be actuated by any sinister motive, the Jury would, however disagreeable it might be to their . Tr, perform theirdety, and bring in a verdict of guilty. - Mr. Arundel was the,n examined, and gave evidence ro the above effect. In Cross-examlnation by Mr. ALLEY, he said that after he had left Rankin and Co. he had been em. played in .a house, 30, Cheapside, which had failed while ' - had , been for the last ' ha was there.; he I _, _, . :,, , ~__-- hich surprising advantages, is France, from the applies- mks employed by t i t elteti of Warwick to ‘. _ tion of recent discoveries relating to the laws of heat .. the aceoanta of _a soap-maaufactory, in which s and evaporation. '1 hie improvement, which has been hi Lordship was ceaterned : he did not know his Lord attended with such beneficial results in the southern ship sally, he was employed by his Agent, Mr.: provinces, was introduced by EDW. Antes , of Mont- 4 ' pelier. The foundation of -the process. consists in 'evacuee of her hating received from a Miss tiewick i De . Mrs. Limon had come to his shop is coo• heating a great part of the wine to be distilled by the' vapour of the spirit which rises from the copper ;and soca& Dumber of cards which he. had commissioned that person to distribute. . lie had never sold on hii making this vapour pass through a series of vessels alrarnitiation at' RattnnoGerden, that his tafe had. kept coat by water, which makes it deposit its aqueous helped flies to pack the box he took to Mrs. Lissoteia particles In such a manner that the proof spirit thee the *lest before be went .there s . he had packed it Wm% is condemned in the last cosier. Thus, instead of self t h e le • l e west . Th e names of the Macaws b ea tt og 6614 110 r at first to obtain a spirit of Rine' Ake had-assisted him in his . search for his property. tees degrees of strength ((trench), from whence, by , were not on the back • of the Bill which bad been , suite/maim applicat:ons of heat, they ebtniiiedllPiri‘• .fe ou dd ri th o G lu m Jory, ha had not brought .theaal of different destees of strength ;by the present mode" .._,...,,,....,.,______, ~._.. ii ,_ , _,,_ ....s ..„ t in ( .... et. 1 they obtain - ,in the fi rst process, spiiitilif say strength ri ti 7 nes T i rmu setwo `47; her ' { : s ; a 7 si w as " 4 " e - eeideeee '7, ..1 which may berequired• The Armee *bit was ( Nal e - . Id tia . r -_,wg y did you not 1.—.1 did, not think" heated 'twicv 17,tiay,; the still heaosillll. br Mr., i t o An.in, cattle Uated eight. times en* 4a }cif. AV' may . ' 1 Mr. At xvp—Whet ;•Totizn• *a story yon ..as t w n itr• :dne it ' it ' ith ree l tsecoA sPi ttk riS s-ef from th 4bg e., fwe 'satistA ly . and"S'it.ffirße-_ o f i h i l t o es e t 4 latt sibss ll T e ld eh be r : 4 " l4 l . 44 , o ; .ke '. tie t i r em -°wu aim* _mod • fonittas of the.lailasar; it halt aka abil i *P° Bl "" u3 * • ' - . saealtit - ta as treat oi l La. r ' Mr:'Axt,iir-.4 olir ~t . ; thee they vantage, that tke spirit prepared 494 Ml*. -www‘aall . . . _.,.. resew r eps. ...4 Opera-houst for a empyreukatic taste._ 4ins ea as th at et .any . "Mgr . . - . ••• . . ... . .• " . k • • . . . .•• . , ' ' . ..• , • .. . ~ - • . . . ... . . s ' ....... . , A ., _ AiraS siiL ... _ ._=zt:2g: igtk w ai biii gta ijg i .." - . ' this Shijiiiiini'Yon had a trio** ~prosecution in Mr. AUDIT—And you never complained of any one lusting robbed you at a Police-office ?—No. Mr. ALLwr—Yon never complained of your wife er mother'having robbed you The Prosecutor, however, on being questionedby his own Counsel, said, that he had got an Offi cer from Marlborough-street, not the Hattoniarden. Office, to accompany him once to Chelsea, wher e hi s wife happened to be, in order to search her person for two memorandums of some value which he sus. petted her to hate taken out of his pocket. Non withstanding this humiliating confession, be conti. nued to support a most disgusting effrontery, which he had exhibited throughout the whole of his exami. nation, unabated. To other questions put by Mr. ALLEY, he answer. ed, that he haft not taken an inventory of the things he had brought to Mrs. Lisson's, although it was his usual practice to take an inventory when he carried out goods. Mrs. Usson had not told him that the reason she did not like to stay in the nem nithouttha fire, was, that she had had a cold and sore breast. ;Ir. ALLEY—Of all the persons by whom yea have been employed you have not brought forward one to vouch for the correctness of your conduct while in their service 2—A. I saw a respectable per. son in Court just now who would do so, but he is gone. Mr. Joseph King, the Prisoner's Solicitor, dee posed, that he had heard the Prosecutor, his en mivation at Hatton-garden, positively and repeatedly affirm that his wife had assisted him to pack np the articles be carried to Ashby-street the night before tie went there. Mr. John Lukin, partner to Mr. King, deposed to I th e same effect. - Mr. Justice HEATH—Gentlemen of the Ju yr ; it ap. nrsto me that this business need proceed no ei.ther. There are other witnesses ready to appear for the 0- soner. Among them many noble persons; who would state her character to be perfectly pure; but the Note cutor, whose testimony is in itself ext.emey having been contradicted by two re-ten'able and en. biassed witnesses. I think you can have uo hesita tion in acquitting the Prisoner. The Jury rose to a man, and without the least pre vious communication, each seemed desirous of usurp. ing the office of Foreman, and assured the Judge of their entire acquiescence in what he had said.— The course of the poor victim's feelings now took I different tone, she sunk down in her chair, burst into teats, and was obliged to be carried out of Court. While it would be difficult to say whether pity or in diguatiou predominated in the breasts of those who had witnessed the last stage of her unmerited suffer if judge from her • lugs—sufferings which, we may appearance, it is btit too probable will soon cause her to become an inhabitant of that dwelling" where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at. rest:" MENT OF liontEs.—The many instances that are presented to the public eye of the inhuman manner in which this portion of the creation is treat-. ed, demands the serious attention of- the courrnauiti at large.—That4oble animal, the horne t which ren-, ders itself useful in every occupation, is, by the eb; duracy of some men, destined to the tenacious pas sions which invariably haunt them; perhaps, by the apparent - obstinacy of the animal, or through the master being so devoid of knowledge as net to com prehend his temper, he - is involved in continual fear, and generally feels the severe and irresktable force of the lash. Men who have the care of horses in the country, by their irrational behaviour, treat them is the most brutal manner, just by endeavouring to ini tiate in the mind of the animal every rhodomontada expression their impenetrable head contains, and to make him act subservient to all their capricious no tions. They very often (in a defenceless state) writhe under the lash of inebriety, combined with vatoral depravity, and unable to retaliate justly upon these austere wretc+es, have been obliged to relegate the unnatural usage they have borne, by a forced compliance with their insatiable desire. The sagacity that Divine Providence has infused into the mind of a horse, is in a great variety of Instancss v ry pro minently delineated : they are placed under the care of human nature to be dealt with leniently, and net to feel the revengeful arm of exasperation for every trivial offence. No ; after performing the laborious toils of a day, they ought to be cherished under the fostering hand of care, and feel the welcomes raise of gratefulness for their past labours ; th e y , lrimr s h o uld in their e th pi ierat of all the farmer's weaitn, dawn of life, experience that social happiness which must certainly be congenial to their minds. how elated must their feelings be, when they find the toilsome duties they have gone through, raise them to a pre-eminence above others, iu the estimation of rtlieir keeper; though bereft of the power of utter- L ance, it cannot fail to rivet tliem in gratitude, for the r beneficence the kind hand of philanthropy bestows upon them. On Wednesday, the 12th inst. a battle was fought at Wickwar, Gloucestershire, between White, a coal-carrier, and a labouring servant of Mr. Whit b, of that place, for a wager of. 35.—Tbey con the former throe comL , . _ adjust i l, tinned fighting morwikop an hour, when gave iu, and returned to his house, a distance of -more than three miles ; during the same night, hoe ever;lse was seized with convulsions, became insets- Aible, and died on the Saturday following. Upon ;opening the head, it was found that a blood-vessel had given way upon the brain, and which appearsd ~to have been occasioned b y external injury.— diet, Manslaughter. Sunday evening, a person named Stom a was ap prehended at• Lincoln, and,, after - an examination be fore the Magistrates, was sent off in custody to Leeds, where he is charged with having murdered a young weasels. He lately, scud as Master on board a Tana toiling from Lincoln to Leedk. 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