The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-04-15 00:00:00

DM'S OP IifICAINGIUM. (rasa vas imams roar) allowing piece sigreasHessiew is takes festal phew Post w►is► say, it ►as ta►es it frees a l hastshirs Paper. It is sarlotts; sad the AI ° horror, that It sews est after the" Far.l ye's F►isid." However. lit us ass it grit, I observe upon it. _ e Doke of flockingitam's audit on fdoaday liberal redaction of 20/. per cent.. wu m-do ram, mod a bawdiest, Maser provided for the' . His Ormes health was drank .n: h tits lo . fee4ags of eithosisms. tad every symptom ado manifested by Aio numerous toseatry.— 'nor on address was votodia his Grace !It GRAB!' TWB MIS 01 SUCIVIXIMIAN. &C. Lord Dike,—We, your Once's Mows at Ay. wilts mighbouritood, beg your acceptance of clot thanks for the liberal and Nohlernaolike t we experienced at your Grnoe's rent receipts ism by the reduction of 10/. per cent. from Which will better *sable es to meet the pre. s. We also thank your Grace for the assu rer* at as eatirtainment to which your tenantry 14Nr• were invited at yonr mansion it Stowe , had the honour of dicing with your Grace at intones table, that: besides the reduction we 'Tient, shook: the times retake it, you will ',tuber redaction to enable your tenantry to ma May your noble example be followed by the a sad Gentlemen throrgert the kingdom. and ,eviaced Old England will still be a happy and Pg eoeatry! r Grace's old tenants sad yeomen prey fir you family, that you may lin many years to sajoy ad prosperity. May your yeomen always be apriag forward in the defence of their King nary! " We remain, r brace's mast obedient and bumble 'eremite, " YOUR. OLD TINANTRT AND Amy, April t."—/flarfter Express. " farther rederetioa" is the thing to look at ! s is intended to be we do not know ; but, un. to the whole of the rent,we well know, that by r ibis time (Peel's Bill continuing) there will 'ew of these " Old Tenantry" left!—What a that the country will be made "flourishing." diction of rents! No redacting eta make ars flourish without a reduction of taxes.— , these people will "prey," it seems, for the t fatally. The Grenville family would net )Id quid of tobacco for their praying. It is iag people but peyiag people that they wait. to " spriseing forward is defence of their corner;" let the fools take Care Of Mint. let them take care of the little Of any) capi b Ire left; and not pester their heads about tag and country, who have plenty of persons care of them. Let this " springing," Yee spring en upon the ploughing and mowing; hey have, at the end of the day, any spring them, let them spring on upon the ter* °traces nay sugar a-day is the home of the farm of 400 We believe, however, that the far greater thews will spring, not "forward," bat Lock sit, at soy rate, spiv out of their farm. — dens will, doubtless, have concluded, without from us, that not one single renew or Yea any thing to de with Ilumbeg inset sautes? Have these people no names?— Old Tenantry and Yeomanry" is an odd signalers. fe short, the whole thing terrible puff, Intended as a sort of set-off the " Farmer's IFife's Frisnd," which, bow s produced, and is producing an effect that no I bombers will ever do away or diminish. HE EDITOR OF TIM STATESMA.N. •Your paper of the Stb inst., came into my sterdav--observing a statemeot of the amount Attorney's Bills, for actions brought against dred or Cnonty of Surrey, (as I am no law s not certain of which,) however, as I am an nt of one of the d:•.triets, in some way or other se, I mast pay my share towards repairing the in the houses of those who refused to Monti to the acquittal nfonr persecuted Queen. Who plied you with the statement, ought to have t more of the facts which are well known.— re in yonr remarks, as Editor, a reflection at respectable body, called Quakers, in which tot atrree—Of one of the parties alluded )ave a little knowledge—l mean Mr. A more peaceable and gentlemanly man does in the County of Surrey. Were he to know said, I hare no doubt but be would be able to ritat he was not the promoter of these Law '—What must other nations think of a Govern-1 tl.kt will tolerate such things? (it winds reform- I :ball be glad if any of your correspondents, faros the Public, how many items are paid, (in II%) out of any one County Rate.. The demand neon the parish for so much to be paid to the ter of the county ; this generally goes out of collected for poor•rates ; then the cry is, howl ills high are the poor-rates.—Admitted ; but was ! to the poor, would they be so much ? ratio have the power in these eases were to do a'r. the public would be nenefitted ; but what expected from such men as theginmsaker?— thlse who sent him, (I don't mean the Maxis were very much driven, when able to find no! erten to go to oppose Reform. 7, April 12, 1822. A. B. C. choted like lobes, what this Mr.ll SWST E a has to Id to see how he would male it oaf, that he was sof gee of the law affairs above alluded to. The Attor eould not brinsthe actions-Ulan,' his authority. way have asked him for that authority ; but, is Mr. rut 'itch a simple man as not to know the costae of his giving an attorney such an ameaerityt We st this pLin quest ion to him: Does he think it HIV vieinage should be put to such charges as a punish 'muse it did not rise and figftl, to prevent a few iglus lo his windows from being braktn? immediate surrey is to take place for the most • situation to erect telegraphs between London !'°oath• A communication from the Aduiirrlty :cumuli takes place directly. and each station is the superintendence of a astral officer. niovset.e vra woo/sec.—A correspondent ti es that Vyse, of Ladfate-street, is vending thorn hats, of the new fabric, upon the same priociples as the celebrated Messrs. Todd and D the terror of the trade aid the London Leghorn trchants. Tb. followiale Peddes was Ipfatewlimi Is the Nesse of Cowstess es the 11th Meek task by Mv. Wedehesee. Anther for the Oesety of Node& As the esliost of it is generally istreetleg.. we Save hies ladeeed to give it iseertios. snmalsiai that we de sea esewhies *smite, reepeseible is. say maser fee the eilligiole eosteined is it:— TO TIM C 0341101111 1101/11101 II SOWS OF GROAT OIIT.IIIX, &0., SIG xow AISS/411140. " The humble Petition of t►e moderaigsed.ooo lo Pro fession with the Pee* called goakers, of tk. Parish of Margaret's, is the City of Westminster -- " Shimoda—That an illiterate female, who bad arrived at the great age of betimes seventy and eighty years, died is the year Bights.. Hundred and Fathoms, to whom year Petitioser h a joint heir, and that a penes who was, and had bees her active wet, did privately, aid whilst she micas her dying bed, prepare sad make a will, purporting to be the will of the said female, wherein the said agent illegally constituted and tsp. pointed himself a joint executor, sad a residuary de visee with two other persons (all strangers in blood), Se the said female, to a property concealed Roder a residue, to the amount of fifty thousand pintails. excluding the rightful heirs at law of the deceased from say share if her property, with the exception of a small legacy to two of them. " That a Trial of Biectniest was (Int institated with a view to amid the said will, and that the isms was tried in the Court of King's Beach is the year 1815, when, from some very important °missiesa and irregularities io the phi:realism analog est of some persons cos awned for the plaintiffs, a verdict was given for the defendants. " That a probate of the aforesaid agent's will was afterwards/raated in the Ecclesiastical Court, Doctorii . Commons, solely on es-parte evidence, there having been no allegations exhibited in behalf of the plaintiffs. " That in consequence of the aforesaid agent Laving presumed illegally to make himself an heir to the said female, your Petitioner bath been a sufferer to the amount of one-fourth share of fifty thousand pounds. " That your Petitioner bath reason to believe that other persons have bees injured and defrauded by agents illegally making themselves heirs to testators, and that the increased practice is recent, and brought into action from the example of your petitioner's case. " That it appeareth to your Petitioner, that the suc cess of the defendants in your Petitioner's case bath operated as an example for similar fraudulent and illegal practices, even in the principality of %Vales; as it bath been communicated to your Pe4tioner, that within a few years only several instances have occured where agents and other persons ha►e made themselves devisees under wills they were employed to prepare, and that it is stated, that such illegal prateoes bad never been known to have taken place there before. That in the County of Radnor, two of those frau- dulently obtained wills have been annulled in the Court of King's Bench, solely on the ground of the illegality of any person making himself an heir to any testator; and that the County of Radnor was under great ferment and alarm at the discovery, and that it bad caused some testators immediately to examine the wills they had by them, and many persons bad discovered attempts at the sarne illegal imposition. '• That it appeareth to your Petitioner, in • cause at the Summer Assizes bolder' at Cork in the year eitrbteen hundred and fifteen, before Baron George and a Special Jury, that a will made by an agent of the testator, going to deprive his family of the said testator's property, Ivan annulled, on the ground of the illegality of ao agent, or person making himself an heir to a testator; and that The instructions for making the will (in this case also) ctsuld not be produced. " That it appeareth to your Petitioner, there was no precedent on record prior to the year eighteen hundred gni fifteen, where a will made by a person, who was an heir under it, that had been disputed in the Ecclesiastical Court, and allegations exhibited, which had been con firmed ; or any decision in the Court of King's Bench, or in the Court of Chancery, that went to the establishing of such wills. " That it appeareth to your Petitioner, the practice is one which the wisdom o(our ancestors the Romans held to be so dangerous and unjust, even at the direction of the testator, that they enacted a law making it death for any person who made himself an heir to a testator, via. " Lee cortielia qui se scriprit hereduni, quamoi s dirtaote Testator puma capetali officiator:* Whichlaw, it doth not appear to your Petitioner, bath ever yet been repealed. "That it appesreth to your Petitioner, if such prac tice is once established, it would prove highly thing,- tons, from its placing persons who prepare wills, in a situation of great temptation to commit fraud, and by its holding out powerful inducements for the formation of conspiracies for the committiog of frauds on the illi terate, aged, and infirm ; and at a time too, when they . may, from a series of afflictions, be incautious and indif ferent as to temporal affairs, and in a state incapable of comprehending, or of detecting such impositions. " That it would frustrate the due administration of the law, inasmuch as it would preclude the evidence of the person who prepareth the will, and deprive both plaintiffs and defendants of evidence on very important points, such as they could not supply from any other quarter. So that what wool.' be a source of security to the fraudulent, would operate as an instrument of ob struction to the recovery of the property of rightful heirs or legatees. " That your Petitioner bath marked the rapid pro- gress the example of his case is making, with the deep est feelings of regret, and is anticipating with the ut most solicitude the direful effects it is calculated to pro duce on the rightful heirs and legatees, so fatal to the peace and happiness of families, and of the community In general. Do, humbly, most solemnly, and tly implore, that this House will be pleased to take into. their most serious consideration, this momentous subject; and enact such l►ws to prevent the case of their Petitioner being made an established precedent, as to their wisdom may seem meet. And your Petitioner shall, as in duty bound, pray, &c. (Signed) " EDWARD OLLETT. " Margaret's, Westminster." CALanowtax Atrimum..—.The sth Asni y Fes • Oval of the shove excellent Inatitutioa was held on Saturday evening in Freemason's Hall. This Society has for its object the cluthiag and educating the children of Scotch parents who have died or bee. dis abled in the service of their country.—At 'clock Sir Charles Brant took the Chair, in the absence of kis Royal Highness the Duke of York, preveeted leading by official busine■s. The Chairman was sup. ported by the Right Hon. Lord Stowell, Sir W. U. Heir, K. M. T. and several other distinguished per. sonages, together with a numerous and respectable , company, many of whom were clad in the Highland costume. After the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman proposed the health of their President, the Duke of York, which was drank with loud cheers. In the coarse of the evening, 30 of the boys supported by the Society piraded the Hall sod received much applause. The company. entertained by Messrs. Collier, Broad , burst, and others, did not break up till a late hour. L.fir COURT OF SESSION, (FIRST DIVISION.] Tinoweatre CASS 111 ASUICIIILTCRISTS. As the following tem seems to esta►lish a principle important to landlords sad (enters, we think proper that it should be made public. Two penes, possessed, as tenants, the farm of &emirates, lying in the perish of Stewarton. Ayrshire, beloagieg to C.I. Somerville NacAlestee of K . As they bad paid up their rent prior N crop 1821, the landlord eatertained no suspicion offing,. and bad taken oat too sequestration, bat the s•oek and crop stood of metres hypothecated flit the renter crop 181 h Oa the night between the tt►,tind 6th November last. in or sic tenants of neighbilitring farmeassembled at Cemegatn, along with the family of Bla tacksmen, when the whole livestock, coasistiog of thou twenty bead of cattle and berme, were chtedestllNly driveller In lots to planes! eoseselatent. The Bete, which rh omboid untbresheds and *early the whoa isetblug idi plemeats, and the greater part of the furniture; werl also carried off. All this took place at midnight, of. before 4 o'clock in the morning. Several corn steaks still remained is the yard ; but, oe examiaier them, it toned out that they had been peerioesly threshed, mod built op la the form of stacks of notireshed eon. At Ant, the parties who had assisted the tenants Judea tbat they bad bee, present; but the landlord hating aseertaiaed their names, a precogsitiun was take, before the Sheriff, mod the fact of their having boss present, and of the clatehtstine abstraction of the stock (ally attoblished. But these parties still withheld all lefonmatitte as to the disposal or places of coacesloient of the live stock. The Precognition being laid before the Lord Advocate, his Lordship ' ,lined to prosecute at the Instance of the Crows, thinking it a ease which shoald more properly pro ceed at the instance of the private party. A summary complaint was therefore p d is name of the landlord, with concurrence of the Lord Advocate, to the First Division of the Court, craving their Lordships to tied, that the tenants of the farm of Croesgates bad bees guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy, and that the r ceomplices who assisted thew were alders and partakers thereof; u and to declare the whole parties infamous, mid incapable to pass upon inquests or anises, or to bear witness in judgements and to is flict such ether punishment on the defender., by fine, imprisonment, banishment, or transportation, as to your Lordships may seem suitable to the *Beare ;" and to lad the whole defenders, conjunctly aid lly, liable to the landlord Ia damages equal to the rent, and in all the expeests. _ _ _ At moving the complaint, their Lordships seemed to entertain no doubt ofits competency, and of the whole conclusions being relevant. They therefore granted • warrant for apprehending the whole parties com plained of, so as they might be brought to the bar to undergo an examination and find bail. On being apprehended under this warrant, the whole defeodere immediately joined in granting security to the land lord for his rent and expenses, so that he did not consider himself called on to proceed farther with the criminal conclusions. From these proceedings, how ever,it numbs Inferred, lst,that when a tenant,althongb set ander eeptestration, privately and clandestinely ab streets his stock,so as to disappoint the rightof hypothie, and deprive the landlord of his right, this amounts to the crime of fresaaleat lostakruptey, and may be prose cuted before the Court of Session, and punished in terms of the Statute 1696 ; and, 2dly, That those neighbours who assist the tenant in clandestinely car rying off and secreting the stock and crop, are held to be actors art and part in the crime of fraudulent bank ruptcy, and as such not only answerable to be punished criminally under the act 1696, but also personally liable to the landlord in the rent and expenses in name of damages. T Tli 13S. (7110* THE WEST BRITON.) We are concerned to find, that by an oversight the following observations made by the Rev. Mr. Walker, at the late Meeting of the Owners and Occupiers of Land at Bodmin, on the subject of Tithes, were omitted in our report of his speech. After his ob ions on rent, the Rev. Gentleman said, that lie could not omit submitting a few remarks lan the subject of Tithes, which, as at present col lected, were a great grievance, and especially taken in kind, they were particularly injurious ; as they were to their bestioterest as Christians, by their tendency to break in upon that spirit of peace and charity which is the essence of Religion and the bond of Society. Hear !)—The present mode of collecting tithes was also injurious to the receivers ;—for it should be recol lected, that there were numbers of Clergymen who had only small livings to support large families ; and who had conflicting duties to fulfil ;—if they gave up what they deemed their legal right, for the sake of peace, they were, perhaps, resigning the only means they possessed of educating their children, or providing fee their widows and families, should it please Provi dence to call them from this state of being. But though he highly disapproved of the present mode of collecting tithes, he felt himself justified in saying.' that foe Clergy of England, notwithstanding a few exceptions, were not, injgeneral, craving. He would go so far as to say, that the new and fro proved system of husbandry now in practice, could not be carried on, under a rigid enactment of tithes. lie himself knew a farmer who had paid 1000/. in the purchase of an estate, and who had shortly after laid out 1001. more in the improvement of it. Now, if they supposed the estate to be worth 401. a year, when it was purchased, the tithes payable on it, at three shillings and sixpence in the pound on the rent, would be worth 71. By laying out the second 10001., the farmer had not gained even legal interest for his money, though he hadjdoubled the vs lie of the estate :—the Tithe owner, however, might claim another 71. on the improved value, leaving the farmer but 33!. as a return for the expenditure of 10001.—Oa the whole, though he had ne►er heard of any plan to be substitited in lieu all', present sys tem of tithe laws that was not objectionable in some particulars, it was still his most anxious wish that some fair measure of commutation might be discover• ad, which would establish a lasting peace between the Clergy and their farishlooers, and tend to the better encouragement of the Agricullural Interests of tLe nation.—(Loud applause.) 1.4 W iNTISLLIOSNCE. ~. • -. rail... 4 COURT OP EMITS DILSCH, Mini IS. .' +HR STITUTIOEAL ASSOCIAMM. Tat king CUSSES'S MUSKAT, stn louts ggirit.t4 NONbUlt N WAIN, AND /WWI mummies At an t hoar in the morning - the. Comm wee Wowded to , *cm. As men as the Lone Corso doo dles took! is seat on the beach, the cote of" Tim King o, rray sad others" satin called on by Me. Ats• soy?. ne Special Jaren anstmred to their rams, bet nip encased encased by both parties az the gemmed of orient llopidoest. A calea was prayed on. behalf of the pemsecutioa, and four comma jerors introduced idle the box. The special jurors sworn were—John Leaeh t Edward &ghee. Wet. Whitworth, Thomas Peas, J. Scott; Thomas Todd, end Thomas Parker: the corn. men jorers—James Pommel% nouns Eichm.lso% Richard Wilms, and John Trigge. MMus. Scanner, DINSIAN, and EVANS, appeared es Colffialel for the prosecution ; sod M . Onatinv, TaNDALII, and Aboirus for the defendants The hay being sworn, Mr. Evans stated. the so. smote of the charge. The ittbcttnent alleged that the defendanta, being evil-dlsposed persons, end Jr. signing to usurp several of the prerogatives of the King, and to bring them into contempt, to sabrert public justice sad the liberties of the realm, and to op. press certais individuals, and to extort from them money, goods, and chattels, did conspire to threaten, to 'indict, lad to indict, divan of his Majesty's subjects for the publication of pretended seditioes and treason. able libels, they (the defendants) nut being personally aggrieved by the pretended libels, nor being required 40 give evidence respecting them, nor holding soy of. See under the Crown ; and also, that they emisplred to extort money, goods, and chattels from certain person., ander colour and pretence of abstaining from further proceeding against them, and for su abstaining to pm. ceml. There were various overt acts of the conspira• ey laid in 1 counts. There wes also a count for administering an unlawful oath ; counts for extortion without laying the conspiracy ; and a count for impro perly compoasding prosecutions to the prejudice cl public justice. Mr. ScseLrry opened the case, in a clear and im ressive speech, and stated, that the defendants had been guilty of that which, if done by the Attorney-Li-. sera] himself, would have rendered him liable to he pediment. He informed the Jury, that the evidence h was about to offer, would prove, that Mr. Murray, i concert with the other defendants, had presented, and, in seine instances, threatened to present indictments, against different individuals, and had abandonel them, or forborne to present them, on those indi viduals submitting to the terms imposed by this Socie , y. IS one case fsf. Lad been obtained from a man Ram-.t Atkinson, in another 561. from Mr. il'arilell, the Edi:o of the STATESMAN newspaper; and in other instances If, . prosecutions had gone on because the persons indicted refused to submit to the proposed terms. Ti.., Learned Gentleman dwelt with considerable force or the dangerous tendency of societies of persons unkdow. sad irresponsible, usurping to themselves the (ow.- dam of officers known to the law and constitution, and responsible for all their proceedings. Had this Sc. clety employed its funds in procuring information .r eff:nces, and then laid such information before hi , . Majesty's Attorney General, no one could have com plained of their conduct. if the Jury did not by their verdict put a stop to the Association, it would estah. lisp SS imprimatur of the worst and most dangeron' description. He then proceeded to call wit nt uses. G. Galloway stated that he knew J. B. Sharpe, and could swear to Lis hand-writing. The signatures tc the papers now produced are in his band-writing. There were then put in and read, the decal/sr issue by Mr. Sharpe, as Secretary to the Society, and the copy of the affidavit of Sharpe and another, deposit,- to Atkinson, a bookseller, in the London road, Flamini sold seditious publications. %Vm. A tkinson,a pamphlet-seller, in the London-ron4, was next examined. Heswore, that in March, IS2 I, !teem ted on a Judge's warrant,ohtained at the instance of Mr. Sharpe; that lie was detained in custody five dart; Mr. Murray insisting on the usnal full notice fur in. (fairy as to bail, although the Jude. considered that the hail offered by witnesses were sufficient. That a ne. gociation was afterwards entered into, in consequence of which he gave up to the Association a quantity of hook' and pamphlets which they considered to contain objectionable matter. That he then understood no further proceeding's were to be taken aga;ns' hint, but he was informed afterwards that he mu. pay 11/. for costs. That by pleading his poverty and his total inability to raise the sum, and attending at the Office of the Association, where be was introduced to the Sitting Committee, consisting of the defend/ate, nt length, the suns was reduced to 3!.. which In raised and paid to Mr. Murray. No bill of indictuseti hail ever been found against witness. Crossamatninvil by Mr. GCRNZY.—After being re. moved Irons Horsemonger Jail, Mr. Bradshaw might have been to Mr. Murray's 'Ave, and stated that nit mess was sorry for having published those works. et, 'Mr. Murray returning a second time, he told witness that he had . deceived hint, by steeling his publications tr the house of a friend ; went to Fussey's house, and bun the works there. Mr. Price accompanied Mr. Marra; this time gave up at that time some Black Dwarf. some copies of Medusa, a few Numbers of the Itepub• limn which he had for his own titivate reading, and not for sale. Witness believes in the New Testament ; but cannot say that he has never asserted the contrary. Re-examined.—la consequence of Murray's three' that ha would prefer a bill of indictment at Kingstoi Assiz :s. I paid the Mr. Wm. Bradshaw is a stationer. Offered hail fot Mr. Atkinson; has sufficient property for that pnrpose. Mr. Murray refused his ba;', not having had 4S hour. notiee. Called at the defendant's office; saw Mr. Sharpe there several times; told him that he had come to adjust the atflir that was between 31r. Atkinson and Murray, Mr. Sharp said the committee did not sit that day; h• t. the nest they did he would mention Mr. Atkinsou'e de sire to them, sad let witness know their determination; afterwards rereived a note feign 31r. Sharpe. who intro. iluced him to the committee. S;r John Sewell, Mr, Murray. and several others were there whom witoes• did not know ; called at the office several times before any thing final was arranged; at length it was agreed that the publications were to be given up, and Mr. At kinson was to pay the expenses. After Atkinson wtp released from prison, saw Mr. Murray in Wood. street, who told him the expenses were between eighteen And nineteen pounds; represented Atkinson'. poverty, sad on attending the committee again, Ste John Sewell Mr. Murray, and Sharpe, being there, desired witness to go into another room, and on waiting there some t, they agreed to take M. Mr. Murray pressed very minds for payment of the money, and unless it was soon paid he said toe shoohl go on with the proceedings. Mr. James Barstaw, a stn.ient of Grey's inn, know• Mr. Robert Wardell. Itetollects golng, about Easter • I y • r• I. hi U. 41. to 5 n• V nl I 6- at it • AC rt to • ta 1 n. ly eti rf• er or rr - I I. I • .„1 • • I‘. f. • • 1•.! 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