The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-06-21 00:00:00

.) L4lr INTELLIGFAVIL COURT OF CHANCERY, Joss 20. PRIVATI MEANINGS. _ _ His Lordship has not sat publicly on either this or the preceding - Tuesday, ;minimally 12 o'clock, being occupied in disposing of a case of some important* in his private room. Air. Hatton held in his hand a petition from Richard Street, the plaintiff, in the came i• which Priscilla Street and others are defendants. TM object of the present application was, to prevent any intercourse be tween his daughter, a ward of the Court (to when a legacy of 400/. had been bequeathed, by her gebeiie father) and a young man named Horatio Reeves. a druggist, at Exeter. Richard Street. the .reputed father, stated in his petition, that the girl wee only li years and Are months of age; that she was the only child, and that be had always treated het with the greatest kindseis; that iedepeadent of the legacy of 4CO/., she bad great expectatioss at the death of tiot petitieser. Ths petition the. watt es to stale, that the mother, Priscilla Street, em of the defeadants, had acted very improperly in favouring the yeuug mates addresses, and in endeaveari or to promote bit marriage withter daughter. That the petitioser rte rnonstrated is the impropriety of such modest, awl expressed his unalterable determination sot to commit to such a connexion, or to permit any sub marriage to i4ke place. whereepos she (the defendant) locket bereeif sp. together with her 'asst. Is bin (the plass, rigs) dwellieg-hease, and refused him soy elotrsoes thereto; and in order to prevent his daughter from being carried off by the mother's lid. to was obliged to keep watch both day asd.sight. He bad made all applicatiup to Hems, requestieg him est to makeaay inch attempt. but the young man had expressed his deternaleatios to carry his intentions lets effect by every unease is his power. The Learned Ceassel saW • that as this was the cue of a ward of the Court, sod es this marriage would be most prejudicial to her Ass tare efpeetatiese, be bad no doubt bat that his Lori ship would grace the object of the pedtioo. by leaning his injunction. The Loan Cnatecettos suggested that Mr. Horse should tab as isjusetios apical the Lady who locked the girl up also. Mr.flioaua acquiesced. and As isjunctiona were aecorangly issued. cOnTaierr OP erten?. Mr. Trotter, a person of gentlemanly sprigging' and who bee in the same matter bees several times he. fore the Court, was this day brought up on Babette Corpse. This gentleman bas been committed for al. 'reed contempt, we understand, sines the month of November last, on the motion of the plaintiff, is two distinct bills, the one is the matter of Trotter ad Trotter, the other in that of Thompson sad Trotter, for refusing to answer to certain interrogatories put labia, touching matters Involved in those causes. Ye. T. ter was brought up some time back is oho enotetitor the officer of the Marshal of the King's Beech spoil • writ of Ashes& corpse, in order to argue against his ow committal ; bat the merits of the ease could not then be entered into, and Mr. Trotter was ordered to be brought up on the following Saturday. Unfortunately, however, the tipstaff of the King's Beach, conceiving that he had performed his duty by delivering over his charge to this Court, had retired, and the difficulty that then promoted itself was how to dispose of the prisoner. The Lord Chancellor was applied to in the emergency. sad Mr. Trotter was again ordered iato custody. The prisoner, upon his being brought into Court this day, held two petitions in his bud, I. which be complained of circumstances, stating, that the officer into whose custody be was ordered, bad by force carried him to the Fleet prison, without any war rant to the warden of that gaol, imaged of the King's Bench ; sad also of the informally attending all the forme throughout the proceedings. The Lord Chan cellor over-ruled these objections, at the same time offering to defray, at his own cost, all ebarges attend ant on the informalities of which his Lordship maimed himself the origin, In sot intimatiag to the officer that be was to remain is 'neediest'. The prisoner was re speeded to the King's Bench, and ordered to be brought up on Tuesday next, is order that the other petitios might be beard. iltntitAT V. al.LiaToN. In eensequesce of having received the certificate of the Court of Ring's Bench, stating the opisioa of that Court that the defendant bad set infringed the plaimdfra copyright by the performance of Lord Byron's tragedy of Marino Rehm, at Drury-lane Theatre, the Court dissolved the injunction, and ordered Mr. Murray to pay the mots. The Loin CnAlecaLuna you shortly after two o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.— Jung 20. THI LINO V. COLLINS AND OTIISILS. Mr. 01711 Di Er proceeded to addrow the Court on be h Alf of Mr. Hills. He followed the Solicitor O analysis of the evidence, which be oentended all proved that the defendants bad 'acted bona fide in refusing the license, and with the best and purest intentions.— Ap to his own client, Mr. Mills, whose character bad affrays stood far above the breath , of suspicion, there, really was no pretence for imputing a corrupt motive, as the whole case against him consisted in his 161111 h i.ig given his vote with Dr. Gaskill and others vilest Mr. Meek. Here The I.oan Cum Jurrtca interposed. and said that the Court were satisfied the case ought to be sebsuitted to the consideration of another jury. It seemed very possible that the verdict was influenced, ■et by the evidence In the cense. bat by prejudices derived from other sources. There was no proof offered of any corrupt motive. except with reference to the house of Mesa and Co. and the jury having mtcatived the existence of this motive, there was no other impulatioa ea which their verdict could be sup ported. Mr. Justice BATLEY was also new eonvinced of the propriety of a second trial. In the earlier part of the argonaut be bad eatertalned doubts on the subjects but these were now entirely removed from his naiad. There were circumstances in the case which, at first. eppear4 liable to sasplcion j bat they were satisfse eerily explained by the evidence. The LearnedJudg• roared kw* a ■irate revive 0! several points of +b. evidence. and concluded by esiiriting hie opinion the the rale should be made absolute. Mr. Jamie(' HOLIoYD shortly expressed his concur- - - 1 I. i ‘ 1 . . I p .: . r. r• 1 • ~I 1 e r 1 ; ' r, i .. , • ; . 1 ! • i . i I i 1 I . ! I , ; . . ' 1 • .' i i l l % . 1 ...',,.. • . . I/ . .., of the i By il 'fk MI o'c i . t i % , . 114 1 ' l ‘ an. the the AP ale ilj ,1 IV 1 i ' s SS a.ll MI ibl 1 1 ; sal it , t• Ise • 1 se de ' off so I , - i es oil • . . p• i It ar kg ', k 1 1 1 i op t ' so • ' co n* se i , S • i 1 le ; k, . i t 1 ' 40 ih, relies with the Lord Chief Jostles and • SIT. 'JO Bayley. Mr. Justice Bast had no hesitation In saying that justice required that the case should be investigated anew. He bad once entertained suspicion of the coa disci of one of the defendants, Sir Nathasiel Consul. new se more; but it was doe in the survivors of his family to state, in a most explicit manner., that this suspicion existed no longer. As to the other defeed ants, there was not a scintilla of proof of tbesorrnr motive imputed to them. They had acted with a view to prevent the multiplication of bosses for retail. ing spirits—aa object as beneficial to the commuoity MI could be imagined—and not from any malice to Mach, or any absurd wish to extend the custom o( particular brewers. The rule was accordingly made &beeline for a new trial. TUX XING G. II XNATCIBULL, 3141. AND °TIM. The tardier argument le tbis ease was beard to day, upon the question wbetber there should be a new trial. _ .. Mr. Anot.rnos was beard on the same side with Mr. 0 , against the rule. , Mr. STOII3, who was of Counsel for Mr. Knatch- WI. declined saying any thing. Mr. COMMON StRGIUNT and Mr- PLATT were beard at considerable length on behalf of Messrs. Powell and Partridge, the other defendants, and contended, that as there wu the complete absence of all corrupt or dishonourable motive on *sir part to imilneoce their conduct in the t aaaaaa tion which gave rise to the prosecution. it was a case la which the Court ought to grant soother trial; in order that the facts of the case might at brut be mom folly considered. The Court said, that, considering the serious eon sequences which might follow the conviction to Messes. Powell and Partridge, If the verdict were aUowed stand, they would take further time to consider the evidence as reported by the Lord Chief Justice. SUMMER ASSIZES. ROSIE CIRCUIT. Before the Chief Baron Sir RICHARD RICHARDS, pad Mr. justice PARK. Hertfordshire.—Thursday, July 18, at Hertford. Buses.—Moaday, July 22. at Chelmsford. Sarrey.—Mooday. July 29, at Guildford. Susses.—Saturday, August 3, at Lewes. Kan.—Wednesday, August 7, at Maidstone. POLICE. MANNON-110C11.•—•RRPOILTRD PLAGUE IN LONDON. Yesterday Mr. Crocker and Mr. Calomel', COONIIOII COROCIIONR for Bread-street Ward, waked os the Lord Mayor sod showed his some newspapers. in which an account was published, leaded.—" The Plague," end stating that that scourge bad wade Its appearance In one of the hospitals; that use patisat tad died under decisive apprentices; and that is eossequesee the hospital had bees closed, and all par: sons except medical mos carefully excluded. TM. statement was followed in the papers which loade b s by an account of the dreadful ravage* the plague Is sow making in Algiers, which I. nearly depopulated by it. The Association doubted the edict, and the gentlemen stated that most extensive terror bad boa' excited. Such was the sensatios created both is Mee City and at the west end of the town, that of people bad packed up their tbitigs is p for Sleet. sad some had actually lied. The Gentlemeu meetly requested the Lord Mayor to aseertaki without delay whether dies was say truth le the statement; that if there were any &se dation for the report the proper measures might be taken; and if unfounded, that it might be publicly contradicted to pat a atop to the alarm it bid crested, which was rapidly increasing. The LORD MAYOR agreed, that Is time should be lost IS ascertaining the true state of the feet is a mu ter so eerie's% sad immediately sent one of his Mar shainien to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and smother to St. Thomas's, to make the necessary enquiries of the medical gentlemen. The Marshalmen son returned, aad reported that they bad been assured by the medical gentlemen that they never knew the Hospitals more free from iifee does diseases. at this season of the year, nor fevers less prevalent ; nor had they beard of any thing that could have gives the slightest foundation to such a report. The LORD Maros expressed his surprise, that say of the coodsetors of the public press shbeld insert a statesest so alarming without inquiry into its troth, especially as a very little trouble would is the present case be sufficient to auertale that the report was totally devoid of foundation. The report may, perhaps, have °Restated from the circumstance of a passage through St. Bartholomew' Hospital. wileh bad been long a thoroughfare, having been closed recently against the public, or to all who had sot business with the hospital. Some persons have probablo been unable to account for the gates, which were usually open. having bees suddenly closed. but upon the supposition that some contagious disorder was in existence. and have concluded that the disorder was the plague. Bow-ivaler.--Dtsunnss.—A venerable looking man, named George Smith. wee brought before the Magistrate charged with stealing three volumes el Sterne's sermons from a book-stall. The evidence was •oclnsive against him, a little boy left in ears of the stall basing ake■ him in the very feet, and de tained him a considerable time without farther as sistanee. The prisotter, in answer to questions pat to him by the Magistrate, said he bad for many years kept a respectable sbcool, first in London and afterwards at euvrtsey ; but, of late years his eyesight had failed him. and his affairs bad is consequence fallen to ruin His friends had for some time contributed a little to wards the subsistence of himself and his wife, but &beat fifteen mouths ago his wife died, and big friends be coming wearied of him he had been subjected to priva tions of every kind; so much so that ►e bad frelnestly passed days together literally without fool : and be .seared the Magistrate that sheer hunger lad driven him to commit the crime laid to his charge. The Magistrate expressed much pity for his sites ,ion, sad remanded him for a farther ersssiaatioa to morrow. On Thursday last (Isol inst.) the doors of our city prison were tbroin open. there sot being a single pri Der under eonfisonsaat.—(fferefbrif Anneal.) 'AITSMAN. SCOTL4ND. New lovasnom.—A few days age, a mew contriv ance, by a respectable tradesmen is tows, ter propel jag vessels without the sid of steam, sails, or oars. was pablicly exhibited for the first time. It (mambo. of a beat of about 28 fret keel and 9 feet beam, hail: on purpose, and fitted with light paddle wheels, whit!. are operated upon In urine ways by eight men, and made to revolve with coasidenble spied, so that, in the first trial, and without any previous practice on the part of the men, the boat was paddled across to Holeasbergh in iffy miontes—a distance, we believe. of six miles, and brought back i■ about an hour. To those who. like Mr. Owen, deprecate the substitution of steam machinery for hums. labour, this contriv care should come with peculiar recommendations.— The present contrivance, amongst other modes of ap plication, might be advaatagoonsly employed, we think, in cases where vessels larger this row-boats are necessary, yet where the expense of constructing and upholding steam machinery is impracticable, or in more qualified terms, would not pay. We are in formed, however. that the proprietor sod projector aims still higher. sad intends trying his vessel as • passage boat between this and Glasgow, for which Ferro.' It is fitted up with a neat cabin, and other ac commodations foitbirty or forty persons; aid he an ticipates segues from the low rates at which be can afford as take pasongers to whom speed of convey anti, sach so is feud with most of the steam-packets, is a misor object, and übsorvisat to the mere attrac tive one of econuy. Of the result we may have oc casion hereafter to speak, bet meantime we wish him all manner of success.—(Greenock Advertiser.) Penn.—The dryness of the air on Thursday was greater, according to the hygrometric formula of Mr. A.dersos, than it has been observed here on any for mar occasion. with suitable instruments. While a naked thermometer stood In the shade at 78 degrees, one covered with moistened cambric was so low as 60. The difference amonating to 18 deg., indicated that the air was so partially charged with humidity, that it could have retaned is the state of vapour more than doable t►e quantity of water, which it actually held io solution. Tho a/operation, estimated by means of two inetra meats of great delicacy, lately invented by Mr. A. wu at the rate of 1.50 th of an inch per boor from three to six o'clock p.m. Mite evaporation were to proceed at this extraordinary rate during the whole month, it would ausount, In 30 days, to about 14 inches, of perpendicular depth. The low temperature of the sight. however. which (for reasons Mr. A. explained is a paper read before the last meeting of the Literary and Antiquarian Society) always attends a dry slate of the atmosphere, must reduce it greatly below the calolatioss; insomuch, that it would probably be rated too high even at a third.part of what hes been stated. actual evaporatios for the past part of ilte present mouth being only 2 I.loth inches. At the great Dumbarton fair the week before last, the supply of cattle was one-fuurth shorter than usual, purchasers, expecting a farther decline in the prices, stood off. However, on Wednesday. a great number of south country buyers bad arrived, and business be gan and west forward with alacrity. The light cattle were in great demaid. as they travel well, and sell readily whop fat. Three-year-old quer fold from 31. to 41. 45,; and heifers from 41. to 71. lie. a-bead.— The advance since the last Sbaodon market would rem from Is. to 10s. a-head. The demand for large state was limited. Two-yaw-old stota from . Argylishire, according to their condition. sold at from 21. 10s. to 41. 71.11 d.; three-year-old heifers brought from 4/. to 51. Ose lot of sixty good beasts, between three and four year old, lit 13e.; and prime beasts brought 61. The whole stock was sold by four o'clock on Thurs day. The fair was, upon the whole, mush better than was expected. Menet. Joss 6.—On Tuesday afternoon, the no torious Powell/slime was apprehended on tl.. Loewe read. by Mr. Patrick Mackay. A warrant bad been issued against Wallace some days before, in cons*. gasses of which be disappeared: He again ventured to visit the West Ward, use of his principal haunts ; and leformation having been seat to the officers, they set oat in search of him. Mr. Mackay. however, went on a little before; and, on observing Wallace at • ,distance, he hurried through Dndhope nursery, in order to intercept him. Wallace having observed the 'Seers, walked leisurely out of the road. and was just passing the house at the north side of the nursery, 'hes he was seined. The presence of some ioditi duals deterred him from using violence; and the offi cers having come up, he was conducted I. gaol. Hundreds asesesbled to witness the captive's march ; and when be had reached his destinatios. a loud " burrs!" rose from the immense crowd in front of the Tows-house. After uadergoiug an examination, he was committed to gaol. Pal/OMM ReCAral).—Our readers, on reference to our j 1 of that period, will find that Aegis Mae. timid was seatesced at last Circuit to seven years trausprtatioo, for an assault. The Jury by whom he was tried petitioned his Majesty for an alleviation of t►e pasiskistost, bat so answer having arrived, he was on Thursday to have been sent off to the hulks. About olio o'clock of Qte preceding day, however, he effected his escape from prison, through a sky-light, having re moved the grating, which was secured by a padlock, sad deiteeLded by a rope iota a close at the back of the jail. On reaching the ground be ran off with all speed, knocking down or pushing aside every person who happened to be in his way. He threw off his bonnet and shoes when loaning down Bridge -street, appar ently to lee his speed, and bounded along the bridge like • deer, no one offering any interruption, and be has not since bees heard of.—(faverners Joirrast) An official retort toTin order of the Come of Commons of the total population and number of persons receiving relief from the poor rates in four parishes in the county of Sussex, states as follows the parish of Northiam, total population according to the last census, 1,358; number of paupers, 636. Salehnrst population, 2,121 ; paupers, 1.1162. liarwarsh population. 1,937 ; paupers. 1,1156. Ma)lield population, 2,695; pauprs.t ' 1,391. rhos the nuuther of paupers exceeds more th a n half the amount of the whole population in each of these four parishes. A forgery was discovered at the Bank yesterday inoraing, to the amonat of . 6,0001. ; It is said to hare men committed by a clerk to a Stock-broker. aid who nas been absent some time. IRELAND. floweret, Aim 15. --- On Thursday a scene of quite a novel character took place at Ballydonoliee, in the County of Waterford, contiguous to the fair dace of Windygap.—Nottal Greene and George Grate, Esqrs., two Magistrates , of that County, nude, an emergency that did net admit of seeding a long dis tance for a Coroner, held an Inquest, at which they had a very respectable Jury, epos the body of a young I mass named Darby Mulvey. of Rallybeaeon, in the Comity Tipperary, who had died in consequence of a very barh muse beating, which be had got at the last fair of Windygap. The inquiry was long and miaow: and the Jury found a verdict of IVilfal Harder against ten persons—among whom it is sufficient, to our p resent purpose, to state, that there were two men named Butler ..nd Duggan, charghl as the most prominent in the mortice. 'l'here was a cast crowd of persons, of whom the great majority was of very de. cent appearance, consisting of well clad men, with fe. males of their families. on good pillions, behind them: the corpse was removed from the house in which it lay. placed in a very ifecent coffin t.,r lawmen.; the Jury had been discharged; and :he Magistrates sept. rated le opposite directimas, diverging from the spot. slut ail this apparently peaceable conclusion was sitv ed,i• five minutes, by some of the friends of the lie..eaoe I who proceeded deliberately, bet with* &grog of ex pedition which the a eatber greatly accelerated, to the destruction of the ketoses of the Boilers and Ouggsn, which were very close to the spot—closer, we believe than any others implicated in the charge—these they set fire to, and in a very abort time reduced to rains, with whatever furniture and articles of tha: kind they coa:ained ; the Butlers and Duggan having some tine previous left the neighbourhood. This savigeretalia tion, by bringing the war ions the eserny's eetustry, occurred about two o'clock in the afternoon--itail we have not heard that it excited the people of llallydu noboe or Windygap to arty act eves of mistsece.— (Clownicl Herald.) Heal) OFFICS, D1'111,174. JUNI 19.—Yesterday, a girl of the name of Alicia Remelt, lodged informs ' Lions at this Office, against a warns, named Mary Anne West, under the following circumstances :—in• foment stated, that about the hour of eleven o'clock on the preceding night, she was employes' in nursing the child of Mary Anne West, in her (West's) room, in Meyl re-alley, when she (Mary Apne West), with out any provocation, violently assaulted co.oplaioant, and bit off part of her ear. The poor girl's ear exhi• bited a shocking appearance. The woman named West, is committed to take her trial fee the offence, at the ensuing City Sessions. An Irish gentleman. who east de Liverpool on Monday sennight, took his place in the Champion coach for London. Shortly after the commeeeement of his journey be sewed a bill for seventy pounds and eleven guineas within the lining of the coach, a, a place of security ; and on bit arrival at the Sass with-two-Necks, in town, was proceeding to take it back, when to his utter astonishment it was no who.e to be found. Being totally at a loss to account for any means by which big treasure could have vanished, having scarcely bit sight of the coach from the time he first entered it, he applied to Mr. Waterhouse. wit* unravelled the mystery by Wormier( him that the coach was regularly changed at Lichfield. Informa tion was immediately despatched to Mr. Duos of that city, requesting his assistance to recover the tummy; en Friday morning, upon examination of the coac►. which had gone three jouroies to and from Liverpool since the gentleman left it, the property was rowed safe, and has been restored to Lim.—lVolocrhantpion Chronicle.) MARRIED. On Thursday morning, at St. George's Church, If anover square, Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., eldest son .of Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth, Esq., of Woolley Pa►k, in the Coucty of York, to Ames, fourth daughter of Walter Fawkes, Esq., of Fernley Hall, in the same county. Oa Saturday, the lath lest., at St. Paoe►as New Church. Mr. Highley, of Fleet-street. to Miss Ann Mien, of Char lotte-street, Fitzroy-square, daughter of the late Mr. John Mien, of the Sifted. Yesterday morning, at St. Paul's, Shadwell, John Gonne., Esq., of BeHunele, in the county of Kest, and St. John's, Southwark, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Sensual, Galilee, Eq., ofElm-row. Shadwell. Yesterday, at Streatham Church, Frederick P. Ripley. Eq., of Vendee-buildings, Oray'a-lan. to Maria, aesond daughter of Josias NotUdge, Esq., of Rose-hill, 11 mei-, Suffolk. - - . Oa Tuesday last, at Softerley, Suffolk. Hooey Dodwall. Esq., of the East India House, to JAMS, Widow of Ike laic Henry Humphries, Esq.. of Lowestof. DIED. On the 17th lest., in her MTh year. Mary, wife of Mr. S. Manning, of the Ordnance. Tower. On the lath lost., Dear Hackney, Elisabeth, the wife of John Thorp, of Cheapslde. On Wednesday, the 19th inst., at his house at Denmark hill, Camberwell, Jelin Teanamt, Esq.. aged 61. PUG IN ARMOUR ; OR, TIIE GARRISON ALARMED. Whoe'er on the rock of GI has barn, A frequent assembly of Menhirs has seen; Assailing sorb stranger with 'Follies of stones, As If pre-determined to fracture his bones A Monks, one day took his turn as a stout. And "ening, his secret position *boat, A Boot caught his eye (near the spot that was plae'd). By WanasN's Jet Blacking resplendently grac'd ; And viewing his shade in its brilliant reflection, He cautiously- ventured on closer inspection. The gloss on its surface returned grin for grin. Thence seeking his new-found acquaintance within. He pok'd in the noel his inquisitive snout, Head and shoulders so far, that he could not get out ; Aod thus be seem'd cas'd cap-a-pee to his tail, In snit of high-burnished, impregnable mail ! Erect on two legs then, with retrogade motion He mov'd.--on the scatty impressing a notion That this hostile figure of non-descript form, The fortress might take, by manamere or storm. Now tiring his piece, in wild terror he bawls— " A kg ien of tier(/' are seating tke walla!" The guards sallied forth midst portentous alarms, ' Signal guns a ere discharged, while the drums beetle Ira% And Governor then, end whole garrison rem 'To meet the dread foe, in this minikin man. " A ,tan!—'tis a monkey!" 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