The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

. • . • , • . • • • I • • • '*ll I 0 , I • • • • I 0 t.,1 • .:. STAT ESNI A I4Z. L'UBLIC bINNER AT BIRMINGAMit I i ' '' . LAWINTELLIGENCE. __....;...... . . .:—...i.— . . On Saturday last, the first of Angier, the Orders . • ,-- COURT OF CHANCERY, Annan 10. hs Council finally expired. To celebrate a day of ! eA:PARTE PA RROTP, IN THE MATTER or PARROTT. such Importance to the manctfactu ring and commercial . This was an application on the pert of the bank interests of the kinedom, a 'numeroas and respectable party of the inhabitants of this town and neighbour- rapt, to have his commission su p erseded, on the grounds that there was no act ,of 'bankruptcy, nor hood dined at the Royal lietel,Turouant to notice; any petitioning-creditor's debt. Thome, Arestoon, h:sq. in the Chair. 1 Sir Sxsvezt. Rosirssr and Mr. Honer, having ar .A sbmptuous di rirrer,vas provider!, the tables were gued the case at considerable length on the part of decorated with numerous appropriate devices, and at : the Petitioner, and the upper end of the room was placed an emblematic I 11r. A. . I sot and Mr. MONTAG u, having argued the .1. 1 peleting in crest:ins, by Mr. Lint's. • ! case also at great length on the part a Mr. Foote, " The sudden revival lac -commerce at; the expira- th e petitioning Creditor, tion of the Orders in Council," . was theitstect to be , The. Lona Cuxectssopeseid, this was a qu estion represented by the Artist. - ' • • ! involving points of Welt importance, both to the After the cloth was removed, the following - t - twists ' bankrupt and the petitioning cre ditor, that he should we: e given, and drank with, ripple uses t i not think of coming to a' Goal judgment upon it, " The King.':—" TilotPrince Regcnt."—" The Queen aid : w ithout I floral Family.' —" The Constitutiop."..._.. Th e in mill Pinvy."—" Lord Wellington arid the Alliid Foccet in thti Pe. ,sal and • ; firer givew it full ' and attentive peril consideration. to the whole of the affidavits, iiiealla.”—.4, May the refecet r o e of the °M ers in Conoelltotito ' and evidence on both sides. His ,present impression means of estahlitAing permanent friendship between (*eat Uri- • of the matter, howeter, might be acceptable to the tan and the United Stales." . ; The Csiaramas rising, then said he, should pro. parties. From the• case submitted 'oir the part of pose the health . of a man, to whole we owe more ' the petitioning creditor, h is Lordship could net but ; see that he considered himself as a creditor of the than can be expressed ; of a marl whe bas rescued Isis country from a system or erroneous measures, , bankrupt's, to a very large amoun t, to far back as the year 1795 ; and that his claim , after all p a y . fureaded on erroneous documents,„nduk h o es taught i ments made in extinction of it, amoun ted p rinci t ial and the Legislature of th a , country, that iris not the Co- : 'atrial interest, nor the !4hippilig inters*, ivio fatal interest' to considerably more than 50001. The case sticks on which Dreamt has-well nigh split, but the of the territrupt,on the other band, amounted to this — Manufacturing interest, on Which the prosperity of I that as far back as the year 1795, he, in satisfaction England deposit% It .is the health ofd siiin . . , 0 0.) i „... , . , , of a debt due by him to the petitioning creditor, over an estate belonging to whose character.. it is in vain to lavish words, for it ! grante d ' a 11/4..gage meridian sun, . him' together with a bond, and warrant of attornt o y, has burst upon his country like the. which blesses whilst it dazzles the wor m . "It is the :to confess judgment upon the bond : and that he health," said Mr. AttWood, "of a. an, the Orit . also granted to the present petitioning creditor a in all our hearts, the man of the people, Henry ; power of attorney over his whole other effects of 1 every kind, that he might collect the same, and di- Brougham." vide them among the bankrupt's creditor:. That in This was drank amidst the loudest bursts of ap-1 i pursuance of this power of attorney, Mr. Foule col plause, for several minutes ; when they had subs ided, I lecteci the bankrupt's effects, and an agreement was the. Chairman read a letter, which he received f rom entered into by him and the other creditors of the Mr. Brougham, wherein that Genitalia', expressed i bankrupt, by which they agreed to release h im on the gratification he felt for the mention of his name,l at the late town's meeting, and regretted that h is nu- Payment of a certain composition . In this way , the merous professional engagements prevented his being bankrupt contended, the debt now claimed on by the present at the dinner. "It is impossible," said Mr. I Present petitioning creditor, Mr. Ferule, had been B. " that I can ever forget what has passed; and to satigfied in full, and had been released ; so that the the last moment of my life I shall be ready to lay it arrest, and consequent imprisonment of the bank down in defence of what is the highest interest and rapt, by Mr. Foule, upon the judgment which had honour of the country." Ile stated his conviction I been so released—and which arrestaud imprisonment that an accommodatimi would take place with Awe. constituted the act of bankruptcy on which the pre rice, when she was apprised of the conciliatory mea- sent commission was built, were false and unjust, and ftdres of our Government. could not support the commission. In this latter ar. The CHAIRMAN again rose, and expressing the high- gement his Lordship was decidedly of opinion t h e respect for the manly grandeur of Mr. Whit- bankrupt was correct, if it could be shown , t hat, est bread's character, and fur his long and eminent ser- through any act of Mr. Foule's, or through an y vices and incorruptible virtues, proposed " the health pretence to which he had lent the sanction of his of that honest and enlightened statesman, Samuel mine, the other creditors, or any of them, bad Whitbread," which was received with long and been induced to accede to the composition. It mat reiterated bursts of enthusiasm. These applauses tered nothing though Mr. Foule and Mr. Parrott were were repeated and almost increased, when a letter both aware that Mr. Foule had no intention himself was read from Mr. NVlritbread, expressing his con- of acceding to the composition ; if he allowed his sletion that a permanent and honourable peace may name to be used as a colour, through which to seduce yet be expected. any one creditor to accede to the composition, he ' The next toast was " the health of a Nobleman, could not afterwards set u his own deceit, from who," said Mr. Attwood r ' t adds lustre to a long rhteter motive he might have practised it, as f r om aerating him from the obligation to which equally line of heroes in the glory of the English history, of might have been seduced by his ex a Nobleman whose rank is the highest in England, With those whir and whose virtue is equal to his rack, who has never ample, he had by his own act, or by his own con deserted the people, and who can never desert them nivance, subjected himself. It was a circumstance, The Duke of Norfolk." ' too, worthy of observation, that Mr. Parrott had The health of this Nobleman was received with assigned to Mr. Foote the equity of redemption of the warmest tokens of respect and gratitude. the property over which he had had the mortgage,' The heelths of those Members of both Houses of and that without specifying any particular sum in Parliament who have assisted the Deputation, were consideration of which the equity ogredemption was thee drank ; after which a letter from Lord Moira assigned. Now his Lordship had no hesitation in was read, expressing his Lordship's good wishes and sayrng, that in his time, the acceptance of such an the pleasure he received from the revocation of the assignment would have implied a release, en the part Orders in Council. His Lordship was unable to at- of the person accepting of it, of all further claims, teed the dinner, but had sent a flee buck for the oc. on account of the mortgage debt ; else why were elision, from his Park at Donington. not the amount of the balance due, the value of the Mr. NI4TPHIAIi ATTWOOD proposed the health o f estate, &c. specified ? At all events, he was satis fied, that if in such case, any debt was still insisted " The lion. Mr. Ward, and may he be the successful on as being due, the right to redeem could not in that candidate at-the next election for Warwickshire." — event be foreclosed. Lord Thurlow had no doubt This was received with great applause; and Mr. held, that after a foreclosure of a mortgage, and the Spooner rising to give the health of Mr. Al. Attwood, sale of the estate, a mortgagee might be intitled to expressed his complete coincidence in that gentleman's hopes. In Mr. Ward we should possess a Repre - bring an action for such further sum as might be due sentative who would be really acquAnted with the fo him ; but this was to be done, not with reference t trade and manufactures of his constituents, and wouldo the sum for which the estate might have been sold as affording evidence of the balance due—but ,on mistake a Birmingham HATCHET for a Shef f ield a.tzos. The following is a copy of a letter from proof of the value of the estate; and his Lordship. Mr. %Yard to the Chairman I— • was certain, that if the mortgagee continued himself •• Seymour-place, 3nly 18. to hold the estate, Lord Thurlow would in such case " Des, Sto,-1 am extremely flattered and gratified by the have been of opiuion, that in these circumstances, tiention of my name in the resolutions which accompany your the mortgage debt was foliy discharged. Ills Lord obliging letter. It a ill always give me the ;mr ites! pkasnie to contri o ute, in however slight a degree, to ;inmate the interests ship proceeded to go through the evidence on both of It roam:haus. conceded as those interests must always be with 'sides, again declaring it to be his decided opinion, as the commercial Km", sod Prar'PeritY of the skate mariee — to the law of'the ease , that if Mr. Foul. had lent and I only I mein that te was not in my power to contribute more pike:sally towards that great object, for the accomplish. hie name, so as to deceive any one - creditor, into the meat of which we are lloichlerlramael'solelY to the zeal, pent-' belief, that, in acceding to the Foule's example, he himself was composition r he was scraper, and astonishing talttats of Mr. Dronghatn. only followin g Mr. e t sha ll tw obliiged to be a great distant from Dirmingisato on the day of the-dinner, or I Shook!, with the utmost pleasure, i also bound by the composition. His Lordship should accept tne invitation with which the Committee have honoure d ' read the affidavits carefully, iu order to satisfy him arc. " I aim, Dear Sir, very respectively and truly yount, self of this fact. s •' J. W. WARD." Mr. LEACH agreed in the law as laid down by his The Chairman, Mr. R. Spooner, and Mr. Potts, i Lordship, and was content to take an issue to try after their healths beiag drank, severally addressed i the fact. the company, joining in tire congratulations of the f Sir S. lt...oseseest hoped his Lordship would deter day, expatiating on the necessity of a trade with mine the case without any issue; and America, and hoping that ail _ differences would be his Lordship said, he hoped he should be able to accommodated. do so. . i We are truly sorry that we have to notice another addition to the black catalogue of attempts at assas which hat e lately been made in this country. Indeed they cannot be viewed by the rekTting mind without exciting the utmost alarm. On the 6th in- etant, about two o'clock in the morning, Mr. Wallis, ! surgeon, of Loughborough, was called up, under a false pretence, to attend a woman who was said to be in labour', and on his opening his front doer, , some villain discharged a pistol at his head, which fortunately missed him. He had presioUsty re ceired a letter, threatening his life, but bad taken fit) notice of it. No reason can be assigned why the life of Mr. Willis should be attempted ; he is de ;scribed to urns-a very peaceable and quiet sort of a gentleman, of very domestic habits, and has not the least knowledge of having done any thing to crimes aie energy of thivdeseription. A very tibentivestedd of-stiteet'itintdred guineas hes been offered for the discovery of the.person Otto wrote the letter, or - he who fired the piitol ; and we hole such an iniOtous utsioupt will not long remain unpunished. . GLORY!—A poor honest tar, or rather the re mains of one, now at Bristol, eahihits a mangled, mutilated abridgment of a human being :- 7 -he has buried an arm is Bengal — one jpg in the .Ocean and the other. at the Cape of Good Hope—and he is lately come to bury his heart (which is still as sound as a biscuit) in •Old,England,•his native land !—,This retniiali us of the limb-lopping ravages of war in the circumstance of foul. sailors, at the tremendous siege , of Gibraltar, in 1482, w ho lost seven leis. by a single shtit I—fired by (now) our good and faithful allies the Spaniards;--e -siege whioh lasted three years, seven Months, and twelve dayal—when the rock was so nobly defended by the brive,Elllidt, oc red-het ball memory! A number of boys were appreheodotOo Sunday; morning last, in the fields.about Islington, found by tb,,alicers gambling. Their posters or parepti at tst in -their behalivpsoutisoiliihe',ltiagiat of to watch their morals and preven4 Italai Similar offs*" il4 'UM.. -They vier,. ace. dismissed. . . teyal Artiller , POLICE. • . —.43.--- BOW-STREET. • The house of Mr. Munro, boot and shoe-maker, Wien's . Bro lki w A n i :: f's 1 11. ) 1; :i ii : a l) : t; e '..( in ue t . he 7 1 . was indicted for in St. Martin's Church-yard, .bas been twice robbed . the wilful murder of Isale•lYa M‘Guire, a child of the age of seven years. Th e Lim- ' circumstances of this case were of an extraordinary lately of boots and shoes, and other property The Prisoner was servant to Lieute ita ,i t and bore.a most eeemplary good cherac'er to a considerable amount. Mance and R. berick, belonging to this Office, received private in-. nature. formation respecting the robbery, and, in conse-.; W e b ber, quenee, apprehended a man of the name of James in the regiment ; some thins, however, had b aa Bull, on whom they found a duplicate of Lamb, the . stolen from his master's closi r., and he ivat suspected for of the theft. Ile absented himself all the night o f Serjeant. pawnbroker, in Stanhope-street , Cl a re-market, :the 4th of April, and on the morning of the sth, e s a single boot. The pawnbroker denied receivin g the early as between five and six, he came back t o t h e pledge from a man of the name of Collins, who had boot in pledge from Bull, but s aid the y took it in barracks, and wakened a person of the name of ffecot, with whom he had lived. After son • p re ,„ but one leg, which was the cause o f their takin g in Je tiary conversation, he told him he had committed a single boot. Collins was, in c onse q uence, a pp re- limi m ust be hanged, and desired to heeded, and he proved that he pur chased it of Bull for a crime for which he be taken to the guard-house. Adam Little, six shillings. Mance and R. Limberick , , learning i i Major there, received him into custody, and desiring that a man of the name of William l lf Donald was I concerned in this and other robb eries, the y laid to speak to the Serjeant in private, he then told Mtn; in a that the last night he had murdered a little gi r l: I in wait for trim, and while they were waitin g I public-house in Little Catharine-street, Wanield The Serjeant desired him to state further particulars. ! came in, but seeing Mance he bolte d out, runnin g lie said, that getting over a stile, which led into a i down Catharine-street with the grea test swiftness.— :lane lie saw the child at p 1 ty, who cried when she The Officers "Stop called out Stop thief," and several I saw him ; that lie then took the child iii his arms, a n d persons endeavoured to stop him, but in vain ; when ` with his linger and thumb strangled it. As soon a s 1 he got to the entrance of Exeter 'C han g e, the man iit was dead, lie carried it under his arm for some die. I Idressed up like one of the Yeomen of the Quards, . tance, and laid it on some stone steps in a place he belonging to Polito's exhibition of w ild beasts, endea. descri b ,loes s ed. was called, who found the child in the Toured to secure him, but he knocked him down a nd i passed on into the Exchange, where the crowd co l. place where the Prisoner described he had left it • 1 lected was so great in consequence of the alarm , t h at and the Surgeon stated, that by the marks under th; Ihe was prevented from moving on, and in the mean throat, the child had evidently been strangled in the time Mance and It. Limberick came up. He made a manner described by the Prisoner. desperate resistance, and it was some time before he 1 The Prisoner could ascribe no motive for this act; could be secured. On searching him a new centre - but told the Serjeant he had no malice against the bit with two sharp angles, supposed to be so highly child, and could not tell how he came to do it. tempered is to be capable of cutting any thing, and i Mr. Ccawnoo,_ as Counsel for the Prisoner, exa. making an aperture large enough for a man's arm to mined as to whether the Prisoner might not be Is. pass through, was found upon him. On his being ' bouring under a temporary derangement of the brain, ...taken into the strong room in the Brown Bear.pub- from the improper use of mercurial medicine. lie-houses where James Bull, above alluded to, was 1 The Serjeant said, lie knew the Prisoner had a& confined; he knocked him down and beat and ill - ministered mercury and laudanum to himself without treated him in a violent manner, and swearing it was 1 medical advice, but he did not know in what quan. him who had given information against him, and I titles. conducted himself in such a violent manner that he 1 The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up the sri. was double-ironed and hand-cuffed. On searching 1 dence, stated, that the mere atrocity of the act itself the lodging of a woman in Little Catharine-street, ' must not be considered evidence of insanity, other. with whom he cohabited, part of the property stole n 1 wise the most guilty criminals would escape ; and from Mr. Munro, on the 18th of July last, w as 1 here was evidence much too slight to infer any de. found, and also a number of implements used in 1 retirement of mind. house-breaking. Yesterday M‘Datiald and Bull un- 1 'rhe Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, and he re • derwent an examination before Mr. NARFS and Mr. ceived sentence to be executed on the Monday. BIRDIE, when Collins, the man who has but one CIVIL NIDE. leg, was admitted an evidence. Mr. Munro identi- THE KIND V. J. HILL. fled the boots, &c. found at the -pawnbroker's and This was an information against the Defendant for in M'Donald's lodgings to he part of the property , a idi ng the escape of three French prisoners. The stolen. Bull and M‘Donald were fully committed ' facts against the Defendant were as follow :—The for trial. - boat of the Cybele being cruising o.: Boulogne, saw an open boat within three miles of tne herbedr pad dling in for the shore. She was found to contain three persons, who, it turned out, had escaped from prison, and on the stern of the boat was legible, though nearly obliterated, " W. Kite, F..lkestone." Kite was a fisherman at Folkestone, who had then lately died, and Mrs. Kite being examined, staled that she had sold the boat a day or two before to the Defendant Hill, for 111. and he paid her for it the morning the boat was missing, but did not say any thing that he had lost it.-- The value of the boat was proved by.the Custom-house Surveyor not to be more than 51. Mr. BOLLARD, for the Defendant, contended, that this evidence was too slight to convict the Defend ant, inasmuch as his boat might have been stoles from the beach ; and with regard to his giving an ex• tra price, he might want it for other purposes, per haps not strictly legal. But here - was no proof, not the smallest, of any connection between the French prisoners and the Defendant, except that they had been found at sea in a boat bought by him. The Jury retired for some time, and then returned a verdict of Guilty. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mary O'Connor and her daughter were brouglit up, and underwent a second examination, charged with having in her possession a quantity of counterfeit coin, resembling dollars, shillings, &c. part of which were in an unfinished stare, with stuff for colouring, whit,' were produced by Hancock and Hutt, the Officers. She was convicted in the penalty of 21. for each dollar, according to Act of Parlia ment, having the same in her possession. They stand committed on several charges for uttering ; to be brought up on a future day, several persons being to appear against them. SATUO.DAY, AUGUST 8. Wu. Coley and Frances his wife, were for maliciously shooting at and wounditi Godding. Godding deposed that he lived with- a fi Beakesbourne, in this county, who having sheep.frequently stolen, employed the with! a Man of the name of White, to watch on between the 18th and 20th of April. Befi light they saw a man and woman come into and chace the sheep, endeavouring to drive into a corner; upon this the witness, who w with a double-barrelled gun, came frog► his emsmalment, and told the Prisoner to surrender himself and go with him, or be would shoot The Prisoner swore he would neither go, 1 render, and dared him to shoot. The then said he would stay by him till the and they. remained together for some time, Prisoner made a sudden jump at the witni pulliug a pistol from his breast, fired at the and wounded him in the thigh. White, tl man, fired his gun and wounded the Prisoi woman" at the same moment snapped a piste head of White ; she was immediately knock( but Godding being badly wounded, tin escaped. They were, however, traced, ant headed at Canterbury the next day.—Guiity , The case of Miss St. Julian, for a cons; extort money from the lion. B. Cochrane, moved by certiorari. The Assizes and Home Circuit .Lnished hey • SCO TC II SM_lCa S . Ittstr.rft's Wharf. if rricee. Saar. 'ifeshirc !Miller), Leith 1 113 Aug. s '. klipse (Taylor), do. 9 Aug. i2O, i• P. :onset (Cummings), do. 7 • lb, 10, A. 'erthshire Henderson), Dun-, " dee and Perth i 8 I 13, —ip• b, • }UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TM bleeping, 26 minutes after 4. I Evening, 42 minutes SIA KILDA). On Monday Mg, aOd not before, by special Southill, In tedforikshire, by the !Irv. Frederica Hon. Willinin Woltlegrave brother to Lord Wald e g r ' lilinabeth, the eldest daogllter of Samuel Whitbread, Lsq. On the lthb ion. W. NeOilt, Lab otaninanding the N . East Indianian; to Oise Samnel.' -1. _ . . LOlll/N: Primed and Published n 7,, 1). [Qv; litiviresausi Owncs. 87. rteet-seed. ~~, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a person named John Stewart was charged before the Sitting Magistrate, by a Mr. Face, a Master Tailor, under the following circumstances : —On Saturday was a week, Mr. Face lost, or had his pocket picked of two Bank-notes, one for 401. and the other for 101. and on the Monday following, the 401,note was passed by the Prisoner to Mr. Peacock, a Woollen Draper, in purchase of three yards of woollen cloth. The Prisoner, at the time of passing the note, gave his real name, but gave a false addition, representing himself as residing in Norfolk-street, Middlesex hospital, whereas he re sided in Cleveland-street. The note was stopped at the Bank, the Prosecutor having advertised it and lodged a caveat there, and the Prisoner was traced to his real place of abode, being at no great distance from Norfolk-street, where he had represented him self as residing. _ _ _ Mr. Anormrus, for the Prisoner, pleaded the ex treme indigence of his situation, being a journeyman weaver out of employ, with a large family, as a pal liation of the offence be had committed; in appro. priating to his own use money which be had picked up on the King's llighwa`•. The Magistrate order rehl the Prisoner to stand Fully commlfted for trial. • I . GUILDHALL. Issot.vver DEBTORS.—Yesterday, Mr. Edwards, a housekeeper in the City, complained to Alderman SMITH, the Sitting Magistrate, of a violent assault, committed on his person by several of the Dabtors I confined is Newgate. llle stated, that he was sent for on Saturday by a Mall in confinement, who owed him upwards of WI. and accordingly went to the D2ltor's Side of New t gate. lie had not been long in the prison before he was surrounded by several of the Prisoners, and, to use his own words, was seized as by a lion, pulled down, knocked down, and dragged to the pump, I *here they pumped wator on him a considerable time. The other Complainant, who h i d visited it friend in the Prison, and was enjoying . himself over i a pot of beer, was served in the same manner. After, this summary mode of punishment, which debtors in confinement are often is the - habit of inflicting on : their creditors,,the injured parties endeavoured to find redress in the Prison, and as they did not sic , ceed, made application to tbe-Sitting Magistrate.— It vas .stated, that the persona who had ill-need :the GemPhallente would-shortly take the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' pct, and by that means es. ape. • - llte Keeper of the Poultry Compter stated, that 'in entrap i `, above description had jictett three isonment two • - in outrage of tbe above description had *nee sub- jected' three men to imprisonment in Neyrgate for two years. - The WoqiiyAsteslstm was. dOiroos.of seeing Mr. Nensari, flit Kei§ppt of N'iwgifi,stefOre tie pro - cee4l- - littgebesinets, 4d apptinu4 arvei: investiga- tion to take Plat* this day. " -••••.*: - KENT ASSIZES. :areal t i I lery, The dinar y ites taqt Aracter d baen ipectui ght of sth, es to the tame of ti p re , 'mitts; sired to ar;eant. desiring )Itl le girl. iculars. into a hen she a ms, and a 5000 as )me dig. place he [ll in the left it ; rider the ad in the this act; Clint the I it. aer, exa. >t be la. he brain, e. had ail. f without at quan. the yd. ! I r ict ot it"l her. f Lire ; and any de. Id he re. lay. , ndant for The .w :—The Int!, saw bnor pad. I contain aped from 3 legible, kestone." had times ed, staled ore to the Or it the t say ally boat was o be more 1(14 that a Defend. eel) stolen ing an ex• oses, per. ,roof, not he French they had a returned indicted rig Jamel farmer at :g had his ttiess, and the night fore dry o the field e them up IS as armLa is place of surrender hoot him. , nor stir. e witness morning, when the tness, and re witucis the other goner; the ;tot at the ked down, hey both ad appre- Yy. spiray to 13 ) was 1 . - %ere. aus , A, ~. u . P. ht• A. M. 6, p. Its nit nes atter • II 4 f'