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LAW IN I'ELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCF,I,LOR'S COURT, JuLv 9. CONTEMPT OF COURT. M4SSRTT V•. ARDEN, EVERETAPF, AND ANOTHER. "t tits cage came before the Court, on a motion by Mr. WINGF,rat.D. pr4yitig that the defendants might hr committed her a contempt of the Court. hi December, ISIS, a hill was filed in the Court by the defetolants, for the specific performance of a contract ; and soon atter the plaintiff obtained an injunciion, preventing the parties front pro . - ceeding in an action at law against him. That injunction still continued, as no answer had been put in, notwithstanding which the plaintiff was, on Saturday last, arrested by an officer of the name of li)bhin, belonging to the Palace CuOt, and was kept for sortie days in confinemems.— The defendant, Mrs. Arden, was' told that the plaintiff would certainly move the Court against her if the persi4ted; but she still went on, and insisted on his being apprehended. lie was. dis charged, on giving sufficient bail for the rent due by hint to the defendant. Of the facts of the case theme could he no doubt, as they were admittO in the defendant's answer, without any eircemstances. Tne \TICE-CHANCELLOR did not see how a question of committal could be urged . against the Sheriff's Officer, tie being a poblie charac ter, and oily acting in discharge of a Public duty. Mr: PARKER, for the defendant, contended.tha.t she coldti not possibly have any sinister motive io view, as she was merely the executrix ot- de ceased husband., The vlaiotiil had been arrested for nio,iey due to i.er as rent since December last, When the injunciion was granted, 41)11 site had eVery reason to believe he 1V143 about to quit the Ft -noses without p,iyior her what he,owed. lic had - sold . off !he (!t his furni.ur,.which consrmod her in her beliet of his intentions. The VICE-GnANcELLott—Are yot► instructed, lOr—VVitigfi,ld, to press for die coi:►cnitral ? Woo it hot be noich better. to let the plaintiff be discharged on her !plying to hin► all his costs, as site lia. no right io the properly, being merely an executrix ? Mr WINGFIELD said, she.had the estate for life. He had positive i,strucions to move for her be hug committed. Slic knew quite well what she was doing, and surely a person acting in such open coutt opt of the Court ought not to be suffered to piss %volt impunity. The VICE • CHANCELLOR, after some observa tions from Counsel, suggested, that the better way for all parties in , his opinion would he, to allow the case to stand over till next seal, in order to give an opportunity of settling it amicably out of Court, it being in the mein time intimated, that unless some amicable arrangement was ef fueted, the Court had no other alternative but to commit for a contempt. lit (163 suggestion Counsel acquiesced, and the case stands Over. OPERA-HOUSE. WATBRS V. TAYLOR. Mr. nourr.u. moved for an order of the Court imtler the following -ciicum'stances :—By the co venant tooter which Mr. Waters had the proper• ty. he was specially bound to insure the Opera- , riwt..e for the stint of 24,0001. and he was to do in the (UMW of Mr. Taylor, or of Mr. Hid low,tys trustees, Seijeants Lawes and Marshall. Fai:ptg to do this, An application was made to the Court by Mr. Taylor, who complained that the full amount had not been insured. The Court gtahted an order for that being done, but it 'had sioce appeared that Mr Wa ters insured the whole in his own name, though bound by the covenant to do otherwise. Mr. Taylor, having sold his share to Mr. Waters, had no right of course to insist on the property being insured in his name; and lie therefore now applied to the Court that an order might be made for the names of the two trustees being inserted in the policy of in surance. The Court granted the order as rayed far. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 9. 411iddleses adjouraed Sittings after Trin;ty Term before the Chief Justice and a Special Jury. • JOURNEYMEN COACHNIAKERS' CONSPIRACY. THE KING V. WILLIAM CONNELL AND OTHERS. This was an incite' went against 20 persons, con nected with the coachmaking trade, for a conspi racy to raise wages, and make regulations touch ing the trade in general by unlawful combinations. One of the defend:tuts, named kVin. Penrose, since the indictment was found, had died. The follow ing persons were put on their trial :-117m. Con ;tell. a journeyman coach-trirnMer, working with Mr. ste - yeusoti, a coachmakcr ; George Stephen son, Win. Thatcber, Thomas IVildey, the elder, Ridiard Palmer, master coach-smiths; David Vince, John Carwardine, Abel Brannan, Richard A Ider, and Sydney Thomson, journeymen coach smiths ; Richard Windorer, James Langshaw, John Stevens, 'Thomas Cux, John Moody, jour neymen coach-trimmers; James Field, Jahles Doke, and James Clarke, journeymen coach spring-makers. The defendant, Thomas jun had not pleaded. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. CUR.* tiEY, Mr. HOLLAND, and Mr. PLATT. Mr. SCARL6TT and Mr. F. PoLLoct. conducted the tictenee of the master coach-smiths; Mr. 1 4 4:AiiRYAT and Mr. CHITTY that of the journey men smiths, and spring-makers and trimmers ; awl air. DENMAN that of Wm. Connell. Mr. GUI4NEY stated the case with his usual per spicuity. lie said, that the persons named in the indictment had been selected from an im mense number of those who were engaged in the dangerous and extensive conspiracy charged against tile defendants, on account of the prono - part which they had taken in it. The object of the conspiracy WaS as mi3chievons as could Well be imagined, and in it• operations was only to tie hounded by the extent of the whole trade of coach-tuaking. In sul;stance, the charge the dettolatus was, that of conspiring by uniaNftil combination, to restrain ihe master co,:ch-makers in the lawful exercise of their trade. The coach-making trade consisted of several brancbta. roach-makers, harness-makers,paintere, smiths, and spring-makers, in some of which the defendants were employed. le the spring of last year the conspiracy broke forth in full operation, but it appeared that the plan of it had beet, laid two years since, by a society cilling themselves " The Benevolent Society of Coach-makers," formed tinder pretence of relieving the aged and sickly members of the trade, bet in reality for the purpose of regulating the trade, an d compelling masters to submit to the combined power of the journeymen. This sm iety was formed on thy 26th of February, 181(1, and solicited the patron age of hit Royal Flightless the Doke of Sussex. In order to disarm the master coach-makers of any suspicion of their designs, they had studiously ieserted an article in,their bye-laws, to the effect " That no tourneyman should in any way con►- hine against his employers." This was intro duced as a fundamental article, but was in fact pot fat ward, in order to deceive the masters. — Whilst they put forth the ptetended rules of the society, they had in tact another set of rules, taloor were really to he acted upon, and those were to be kept in protound secrecy by the mem bers of the society. These rules were printed, hut not t he least remarkable part of their pro ceedings was, that these articles were without a printer's name. The grand mover and leader of this conspiracy, was the del - endue:, William Con 'tell. By the secret rules alluded .to, a grand Committee was to be formed for superintend ing the affairs of the society, the members of which were divided into three classes, citizens, subjects, and people, the candidates for which ranks respectively, were, to render themselves eligible by a strict conformance with the midi of the society, and penalties were to he imposed for any disobedience thereto, besides degradation to the lower rank in case of defauitf and in the case of an incortigible offender, he was to he turned out of the society for ever, that is to starve, because such was the influence of the society, that he could get no employment in any part ot 'the kitte dom. The Grand Committee was to have a su s ' preme po.ver over The Society except as to the funds ; there was to be a General Secretary (Mr. Cantrell) and Divisional Secretaries of Districts, who were to act as spies upon the conduct of the Members of the Society. If a proactibed man should happen to get employment in any part of the country, such was the power of the London Society, that they could compel the master so of fending to turn him off. There were instances of the exercise of this lower. In one case, a coach maker at Bristol had employed a proscribed man, and Mr Gtiiittil had told him that if be not immediately cease to employ the offender, be (Mr. C.) had 20001. at his command, and he would set up a coaciunaker against him in. the town, and ruin hini, by compelling all his workmen to leave his employment. Among other articles of, the Society was one, that a journeyman who should serve any master but an honourable master, he should be liable to a penalty of 10s. Gd. per day. By an honourable muter, was meant a man who employed none but members of the Society; and lby another article, any forem,an of a shop in the country who betrayed the secrets of the Society, was liable to a fine of 20 guineas. Anotheraob ject of the Society was to prevent masters from taking Tore than one apprentice to every six men. In short, from first to last, the object of the So ciety was to keep a monopoly of the trade in their own bands, by ovetaweing the masters to a com pliance with their regulations. The master coechmakers were not blind to the effect, which the formation of this Society produced upon their Workmen, who manifested a great deal of dis content ; but still no overt acts of the conspiracy were yet exhibited. They were, howe►er, in hourly apprehension that some burst would take place, without being aware from what cause it proceeded; because the operations of the society were kept profoundly secret. By the merest ac cident the plans of the society were discovered.— In the month of February, 1818, a parcel, directed to a Mr. Williams, a coach-maker, had been sent by a stage-coach to Reading, in Berkshire. But no person of that name being resident in that town, it was delivered to Mr. Brown, a coach; maker, of that place. This parcel contained a letter, in 'the hand-writing of the defendant, Connell, addresst d to Mr. Williams, informing him that he inclosed in the parcel copies of the two sets of rules in question for hig perusal ; that the second set, already described, were the pri ♦ate articles upon which the society were really_ to act. In that letter were the following ex pressions :—" We are now preparing for a turn out in London ;- and as the fate of the trade in general depends on the first encounter, it is ne cessary that the whole , farce of the country should bear down upon it, in order to insure its success. In case of its being successful, we propose to turn our attention to the country, and attack one place after another, mita the whole trade in each town respectively is brought under, when we shall put the private articles in force, and then we shall go on inure comfortably, &c." This letter, together with its accompanying documents, was afterwards transmitted by Mr. Brown to Messrs. Hopkinson, coach-makers, of London. In the mean time the society went on in maturing its plans, by enlisting under its banners all thejourneymea coach makers in the kingdom, in order, by one simultaneOus effort to bring the masters to terms. Pre. paratory to the blow which was to be struck, a printed letter, signed " An Enemy to Intolerance" had been clandestinely lett at the houses of different master coach-makers throughout town, containing a list of the demands or requests of the journeyman, which demands were of a nature highly injurious to the trade.. Some of the masters, influenced by terror, acquiesced in these demands, but others manfully resisted them. The author of this circular, it would appear, woe Mr. Connell, who, it seemed, had endeavoured on repeated occasions to induce sonic of the masters to become members of the Society, with a view of engrossing the whole trade to themselves to the exclusion of the fair manufacturer. lu the spring of last year, the plans of the Society being ripe for action, the first open manifestation of their design was by corrupting the coach-spring-makers, and on the 1411 of March, all the persons en,l,eg,d in that branch of the trade in London struck, and icfused to work any more - ; and,' but for tic molly re- . -sistance or tile Masters to this overwltelthing con spiracy, the whole of their trade must have been destroyed. The Learned Counsel said, that he h a d a volume of evidence to lay before the Jury, demonstrating the guilt of the defendants. This was the outline of the , case which be had to lay before the Jury ; and he was persuaded that-they would have no hesitation in coming to that ver dict which should consign these conspirators to the just reward of their enormous offences. Witnesses were then called to support the pro secution, amongst whom were Mr. Brown, of Reading, and. Messrs. William and Luke Hopkin son, the coachmakers, of High Holborn: The evidence of the' latter ,Gentleman, which was given at great length, tended to spew in the clearest manner, confirmed as it was by the do cumentary evidence already alluded to, the guilt of Connel, Vince, Carwarden, Brannan and A bier. Before any other evidence was offered, the de fendants' Counsel severally interposed, and ad mitted that it was impossible to resist the weight of evidence adduced, and therefore, without fur ther occupying the time of the Court, they would consent that a verdict of guilty in each case should be recorded, trusting that this step would be met by the prosecutors with corresponding lenity. Mr. GURNKY, on the part of the prosecution, said he was instructed to sty, that in consequence of the course now adopted by the defendants the prosecutors would forbear. (with the exception of one) to bring them tip for jodement, on condition that the liability to hr Gilled up should hang over their heads in lerrorent, as a security for their tntote good hehavi wt.. As to the defendant cannel), no hopes of forbearance could be held out. Mr. DeNNAN followed, the example of his Learned Frictids in Sorienderitig his client Connell to a verdict of Guilty, feeling that as the weight of , he case was against him, it was impossible to expect that the Jury would come to a different conclusion after they had heard the whole of the ease. lint he indulged a hope, that after the heat of feeling upon this subject had sulisided, the pro secutors would be disposed to lot bear • carrying the extremity. of ,the,lantinto effect. The CHIEF JUSTICa said, that the Learned Counsel had exercised a. very sound discretion in adopting this course—a discretion most favourable to his client, aAi which would have the effect, in some degree, of relieving him from the pressure of the case. It was impossible, after attending to the evidence, for auy man to doubt what the re sult of the case would be if it went to the Jury; and his Lordship could not suffer this occasion to pass without observing that if the master coach makertrhad fallen into the plan proposed by the conspirators, they would themselves .have been guilty of a great offence and a high misdemeanor; because, to confine this trade to a certain class of persons, so as to enable them to pay their work men such wages as they might demand, and to exact from their employers such prices as they chose, would be the, most .unlawful combination of which any persons could be guilty. A verdict of Guilty was then recorded against each of the defendants. OLD BAILEY. FORGERIES OF BANK-NOTES. Upon the arrival of the Judges yesterday morn ing, the tour following persons were put to the par, charged with tittering, end having in their possession, divers forged and counterfeit Bank of En'gland Notes, well knowing them to he forged, viz. Owen Roydon, James Rabnett, Esther Bevan, and Mary Deal.—They all pleaded Guilty to the minor offence. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. _ . Francis Roxburgh, a man of respectable appear ance, was indictedon the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, being charged with killi ng an d s l a yi ng Charles 'Coe on the 2d of June last. The case, en tie part of the prosecution, was opened by Mr. Rs Y NOLDS. John Paul, the first witness, stated that he was clerk to Messrs. Hinton and Co. in the isle of D ogs . He said that on the evening of the day i n question, between five and six in the after noon, he was proceedi ng a l ong H o lb orn west ward, that very tear Brownlow-street, he saw an elderly gentleman crossing the street from the north side ; at the same time he saw a man on horseback, who was the prisoner at the bar, riding up against him, and kuock him down. At this moment the witness exclaimed, " Stop the rascal !" the horse's head was immediately turn ed ; witness ran np to the prisoner and said, You brutal rascal, how dare you to ride over the Gentleman i" The prisoner answered that it was the man's own fault, and asked why he did not get out of the way On this, the crowd which collected round the spot became in dignant ; and witness insisted on the name and address of the prisoner, who at first refused to give it, appeared indifferent about the act he had done, and wanted to get away. Prisoner said, he knew Mr. Francis, a linen-draper, who lived close by, and Mr. F. immediately came out of Lis shop, and gave the prisoner's name and address. The deceased was taken into the shop of Mr. Corbyn, the chemist. The witness said be was sate that the accident would not have happened if due caution had been used by the prisoner. On his cross-examination, be said he was sure this affair happened about twenty minutes before six o'clock. Mr. Joseph Wood, assistant in the shop of Cor bps and Co. chemists, in Holborn, remembered the deceased having been brought in. He was sure it was about half-past four o'clock, because a quarter before five was the time of their drinking tea, and they had got their tea when the man was brought in. About ten minutes after the prisoner came in, and said if the deceased bad been struck down by him, he was sorry for it, or words to that effect. , The deceased in a short time was able to answer questions put to him : be complained of a pain in his head, and said he did not know bow the accident happened to him. Witness made the deceased swallow a small quantity of camphor time was a tumour in the Old Gentleman's head, of which he did not know the cause. He was not in any respect woundt.d. lie laboured under a di:ficulty of breathing. • Mr. il..l:,rgpn, a strivon, who attended the dc ceased after he was brought home to his house "; Redford-row, said, that a t Gist the dece oic " seemed not to know .how he met the ac eidearl but he afterwards said, on th e suggestion of. his wife, that "he was knocked down in the We er ' and. got his death-blow. XVitness stkid the id ; mour in his head was occasioned by a blow, 04 that the blow was the cause of his death. M r ' Morgan said he used to attend the deceased be' fore this accident, and that some time before t"' had been. in a fit, in consequence , of having taken a great quantity of gin. Mr. ALLEY took two objections to the idle' meat, which had been framed upon the Compel Inquest ; but Mr. Justice U OLRoYD over-rul e d them. The prisoner being called on for his defence' solemnly protested that he was unconscious of tike accident, not having seen the old gentleman He expressed his deep regret at the occurs - epee . . The following witnesses were examined in b• IS behalf : Mr. Josiah Platt, Chief Clerk to Mr. Jostig e , Best, was passing through Holb o rn, o n the 2,1 of June, and saw the deceased on his back in 0 2 1: A el street, as if in a fit. His lips were c losed, 01' 7 be appeared convulsed. He was lying crosswoY.: in such a sinration as he could not have • been 10," he been knocked down by a horse. Mr. Francis, linen-draper, also saw the decease d lying in the street, as stated. Witness heard a noise, and the cry of " stop," wl,k , n h e sa w lb a prisoner trotting on a pony, but who immediate' ly stopped of his own accord. John Turner and James Moore, drayrnen;s 3l ,i they were passing by at the time, :ind s a w the 0 . 01 man on his hack in the street. if the horse of the prisoner had ran against him they mu,t hake see" it ; they thought he must have tallest before Oa horse had reached him. Mks Mary Wilson was also there. The ( l e. ceased was asked in her presence if he could tell how the accident happened, and he distinctly said 'he coal not tell. A number of respectable witnesses gave th a prisoner a most estimable character for homani l 9' Mr. Justice HotttoYD told the Jury, that th : 6 question they had to try was, wh e th er the P . soner, riding at a quick speed along the street , hid caused the death of the other through a a'ss't of due caution ; and whether by taking pt 4 'll, care, be might not have avoided the a ccid e nt. 11 that were the case, he was guilty. But all tha t depended on the evidence:of Paul, which, in scrag . particulars, was contradicted by that of othe r witnesses. The Jury, without retiring, found the ri" soner—Not Guilty. Wednesday evening some villains entered th t e Parish Church of St. Peter, at Sr. Alban's, will they robbed of two surplices, the pH fringe a the velvet on the th e go ld tasse l s , co' shions, and a large chest, containing parish paper.' They entered by working an aperture in the we's' tern side of the church. Yesterday the body of a well dressed man, sir posed to be about 28 years of age, rather short , was discovered floating in the river Thames ; was immediately conveyed to the Feathers on Nli? bank, where it remains for the Coroner's loquei'; a pocket handkerchief was found on his person , marked S. L. ; he is very corpulent, and from 1).14 dress it 19 supposed he has been a musician some regiment. ESCAPE PROM THE FLEET PRISO?i —A few niglit . ago Isaac Thomas, a debtor confined in the Fice Prison, contrived to break out of his room, and “ 7 escape by some extroordinary means over fil l roof of the prison.—He has not been Beard o f since. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, JULY 9. Amsterdam Ditto, at-Sight ll 14 Rotterdam ll 13 e. 1: 5 %, Antwerp Haroburgh Altona• 10 ;I l I T. J g i , Paris, 3 Day's sight 2s 0 i.Us- Ditto llourdeaux, ditto Prank fort on the Main • ... -1491 Er.Nlonel Madrid Cadiz l7l EtTe , G 4 ' l ` . _ _ ~ Ili'boa -. . ' 36i Drat . '" Sevilla Gibraltar Barcelona 'Leghorn Qettna... 454-Venice Ital. Liv. eti Malta... .. 5u -Naples 4O Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin. - .. . ..... 154. .... Cork ..... 15i per Cent. . Agio of Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent. BULLION'. • Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.9 is 0 per o s' New Dollars 0 5 0 Silver, In Bars 13IRTH. The Lady of Mr. Robert Walmisley, of the Parliament•O face, of a son, who survived hut a short time. ATARRIED. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Thursday, in Baker-street, 1 1/ special license, by the Rev. John Vane, I. R. G. Graham, 14" M.P. eldest son of Sir Janice Graham', Bart. of Notherby, t Fanny Caßander,- youngest daughter of James Campbell. Esq. of Ardkinglas. His Royal Highness the Duke of Yof 4 gave the Bride away, and her Royal Highness- the Duebeig of York was present at the ceremony.. " DIED. DEATH Or ADMIRAL CORNWALLts.—On the sth inst. died, at his seat at Newlands, in the county of Southampton,. tb il Hon. Sir Wiliam Cornwallis, G. C. B. Vice-Admiral of Eng: land, &c . The naval annals of this country are graced the names of few individuals who stand so pre-eminent at that of the late Sir William Cornwallis. Silence on occasions of this nature (as to any panegyric of the deceased), mall deemed eloquence ; in the present instance, the deep St! unaffected regret of numerous friends for private worth"-- 4 ' , 3 gratitude of his country, for many and very distinguish public services, rill add more to the posthumous splendor such a character, than sculptured urn or marble morturneo can, even with sufficient truth; hand down to succeeding ge . aerations. At Paris, on the ,2d inst. Mrs. Ratton, wife of J. L. It 3 t . ! ton, Esq. of Bedford-place. Russell-square. •n Thursday last, at his brother's house, Old Palace-yard, T. H. Harris, Esq. Commander of the Hon. East India Com pany's ship Prince Regent. LONDON: Printed 4,1. B. CARSTAIRS, 'of No. 29, Gre l ` Orniond-street, Queen-square; and published by W. 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