The Sun. — London, England, 1815-01-14 00:00:00

OLD Bli 1 LEY. CHARGES OF MURDER. - '''Vesterday,Yoserph Akerman was indicted for the wilful murder of John Southcombe, on the 22d of Oct. last, 'by driving over him a• certain mail coach, drawn by four horses. • The prisoner was the coachman of the Bath mail coach on the day in question, and left the Pot,odice at about ten .minuter after eight 0"4:lock. On their arrival at the 'two mile and , a half stone, the guard heard a violent crash, and on looking forward, he saw a cart overturned, nod' a man lying on the road. He called to the (loachimin to stop, 'and the Mail was pulled tip at the Hand and Flower public-house, about eighty yardsfrom - the spot where the accident happened, from whence assistance ..was'' sent to the man. —The Exeter and Worcester, mails were imme diately before the Bath mail, and they were all going at their usual rate of eight miles an hour ; their lamps being - lighted. - Upon .subsequent in quiry, it turned out that the deceased and his bro ther were driving' towards London, and that, as tie brother stated, they were di lying on their proper side when the mail coach came in contact with them, Which , overturned them, and the hind wheel of the snail went over the body of the tie ceased. The coach, at tie ente of the accident, was on the wrong tide of the road. The deceas ed d ied in consequence of the injury: which he sustained. • Upon the part of the prisoner, Walter Mansell, Esq. and the Rev. Henry Breton, were called ; 'and from their testimony . it • appeared, that the 'Lath mail wits driven at a very steady pace ; that 'there was plenty of room for the cart of the de ceased to pass ; and that the accident wasakca .sioued by u sudden swerve of .the cart towards the as if the,wrong rein had been pulled. They described the conduct, of the prisoner to have been attentive and proper, and in no ways negligenk or careless. It was so dark that they could not tell whether the coachman was driving on the right side of the road or not'. The guard, after 'the •cident had happened, called' to the coachman to " drive on, and never mind." A Gentleman, named Warren,. who was walking on the foot pat.h,. said the coach was certainly on the proper side, and that there was room for two carts to have passed beyond It.. Jr was further, Raved, that the deceased and his brother were tipsy, and were incapable of driving. They bad . been seen by one of the Ratumersrnith poachthen, .a short time before the accident, driving on the wrong side of the road. Mr. Baron .WOO/9 summed up the evidence, with a remark, that, in his opinion, the Offence Imputed to the prisoner did not amount to mur der, although,, if the Jury tvere of opinion that the conduct of the prisoner had been negligent or careless, or that he had been driving on the wrong side of the road, at the time the accident happen ed, they might find him guilty of manslaughter.-- ' 11is .Lerirtiship particularly'adverted to the conduct Of the Guard, who had so inhumanly called out to the coachman to drive on after the accident had happened, and reprobated such cond u ct i n for cible terms. , The Jury withdrew, and after an absence of a touter of an hour, returned with a verdict of— Nut 'Guilty. About five minutes after the Jury retired, the officer, appointed to attend them came back, and. informed the Court,' that " the Jury would Hot go into the room beeause there was ou fire."--- (.4 burgh ) The Court desired the Officer to:lnform the Jury it was not in their power to relieve them. Robert Penton was indicted for the •murder of hiS wife ) •by striking her with a chair. It Jilt peared, from the evidence, that on the night the blow was given, the prisoner and his wife had company; and quarrelled very much, espe c i a lly t h e deceased, who threw a knife at her husband, ainl swore she would break every thing in the room. After • the company departed, they had further words, and lie threw a chair at her, which broke three of her ribs; and her arm. She was sent to the London Hospiial, and there languished till the Sunday following, when she died. The whole of the evidence aganist the prisoner.was•the declara tion of his wife after she thoughtshe should die, which was that be .had thrown a . ' chair her, which had caused .the injury under which suf feredshe .; but this 'declaration wits accompanied by an neknowledgment that they were both intoxi uted at the time, and that her husband was not to lame, for she had provoked him to do What he did. Mr. Baron ,WooD informed the Jury, that under all the circumstances it was impossible to find the spun guilty ot 3 murder, with which he was charg, eel , the. whale was the effect of int ox i cat i on, mixed with lialousy aneno evidence but the declaration of the deceased, which,, with the ,ac knowledgment accanipanying iL, clearly sheaved the prisoner had no actual mnlice in his mind. There WAS enough ) however, to s'onviet the pri• totter of manslaughtce. The Jury, without ['eluting, returned a verdict of Mak4staughter. Catherbie Towaer yea t.nex! put, to the ,bar, to take her trial on an indictment charging her with the wilful murder ot.ter o prisonur is only ` l9 y'pai:s of: ige, and of ~n teresting countenance. She tsppeared at- the drelised in deep mourning; and seemed much affeeted with bur ;iv, lii situation. Patrick Prendergasif deposed, that he (lid belong L a Ow ;I'ol ; on the .ith ,of Dece m b er 1 4 ., t lived in Flai-row, St. G..sorge's.; between: tb...a nr e A , i, • d foar < h 8) o'clock on that day, in: had occasion to go to 7 the dk rj ry of the house; there was another •• pi ivy.ado m ,..... LI ; to the next dwelling-house .adjoining- that in t ie , teas --it wars sep4it'alell by Ta.sreall parti tion, lie heard the door of the other Place Open, so nle.perott mine in ; he their heard a great a, of a person ill distress ; this .conti nued ft-air r five qihtuteii-. did not know whv the erson was. next heard the crie's' of a child, Lyo or three time re p e i;ted s , and innnediately after wards he3rdsotatthing drop into the eesspool,whielt he sii , m) „ ( i - t e .) be, th e child, and theti 4 faint cry, its nose, as if struggling-4ov breath, li e went :nut instantly, and approached a riling which se p ara ted the two yards, Lie 'waked Over, and heard a noise.' He then went into his landlord, Mr. Rhode, to whom he communicated what had happened, and having learnt to whom the privy belonged, he went to the house along with Rhode. lie saw there a good ninny women about a mar.gle ; asked who was the woman who had just been delivered ot. a child in the privy Ile was answered by a woman, Who pointed to the prisoner, and said, " That is the woman." Witness asked the prisoner hovi she crone to put the child in the privy ? She denied putting it in privy, but said it was in the privy. The privy was searched,, and the child was found. James 'Farrel, who heard of what had occurred, jumped over the - fence, which separated the yard in which the prisoner was from him, and caught her in the privy. • He asked her what made her throw the child into that place, and she denied that she. bad done so. 1 - le. conducted her to her mother's in the house. She was then. put to bed. IVitness saw the child found. George Nicholls, a nightman, found the child in the privy ; it was a female child, and dead. John Oliver, a, surgeon, was then catty' ; and, after a minute examination, which was of a na ture it is needless to detail, the result of his evi dence was, that the prisoner might have heel, delivered without previous warning, and when in the situation, which it was 'presumed she was in, at the time her moans_were heard. An officer produced some articles which had been provided for the child by the prisoner. SeVeralWittleoses were called; who proved that there had been no attempt at a concealment of the prisoneeti pregnancy; and in other respects the innocence of the poor girl teas must clearly proved. The Jury, without waiting to hear the case. summed up, pronounced her Not Guilty,. to - the satisfaction of a vary crowded Court; The following were capitally convicted John Reeves, II years of age, and James' Rolle, 13, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Benjamin Hughes, and sterling two shawls, his property. • Richard Jaws and Witham Jones, for • privately stealing in the shop of Edward Taylor, two gold seals, his property. J antes Donahoe, for a Jan - glary in the dwelling-house of Frauds Gibbons, and stealing a piece of biairlet cloth, value Ss. his property. 1111DDLESEX STASIONS, JAN. 13. BAST. COIN: ' Daniel Connor and Michael Stapleton were put to the bar, charged with uttering counterfeit six pences. There was a second count, charging them with having counterfeit money in their pos 'session. They were both found Guilty upon each charge, and they were . severaTly •ordered to be imprisoned one year, and to find security fo'r two .years after the expiration, of that period to keep the peace. John Judge, a well-known and desperate fel low, was indicted for uttering a counterfeit :Eigliteen-penny..piece, and for,baving other coon terfeitßank tokens in his possession at the same • time. He also was found Guilty on the - clearest testimony besides. it turned out that. he had made a violent resistance to the Officers, and assaulted one of them., He was sensenced to. one year's imprisonment in the House of Correction; Cold bath-fields, although lie .solicited hard to,be sent to Newgate, which the Court peremptorily re t used. CHARGE Or AsSAITLT. Joicp4 Limy Elliott had two indictments against hirn. . One for assaulting James Pain,• who styled 'himself a headborough of the parish of St. Luke, Ohi-street, . and the other for assaulting Dix Moore, who gave the like description of himself. Mr. WALeoao stated the case on the part of •the prosecution, wh er ei n •h e observed, that in both charges the aggravation was.vety great, in asmuch as the defendant being a publican, and therefore. more called upon to preserve the peace than ordinary persons, he had not only broken it, but assaulted those whose ditty it was to keep the peace and prevent disturbances. He called the two prosecutors,r who ..:swore in support of their respective charges, - as did two witnesses, whom they brought in their aid. They were severally cross-examined by Mr. BARRY 'on behalf of the defendant, wherein they admitted that the parish did not support them in these prosecutions, and that one of them was a little intoxicated. He then addressed the Court and Jury,for the defendant, a t cons id era bl e length, wherein he a dmitted that officers of justice ought to be protected in the execution of their duty ; but if officers of justice abused their authority, or acted diametrically opposite to it; then he main tained that they deserved punishment infinitely more than. other individuals ; and he' would un dertake to'sliew that the prosecutors in this in stance were men, Whose conduct,..Upon the occa sion in question, was of that descriptj un its „ vm dd induce the Jury to give that verdict for his client, as would convince the Court, that, insteizd of be ing prosecuted,• he ought to have been the.pro secutor. • Witnesses were called, who gave such testi mony as to verify completely the Counsel's asset... Lion for, without waiting for the Learned Judge to slum up the evidence, shay said, with otiv voice, they were Cully satisfied, and brought in a verdict of Not 'Wily, On both indictments. COUNTERFEIT COIN. Catharine Mato- and 4nne Miller were next pnt to the bar, charged ul3O With Ul tei in; eonnterivit sixpences. - They %%Tye both (mold Gui/iyi uild as Mille Miller had other bad moneyins her posses. skin, she was sentenced to one year's imprison. ment the Ijouse of Correction, anti the other prisoner to six-months in the same gind. Any Wilson, for uttering base Bank Tokens, t' as eOuvicted, and sentenced to six months im prisonment in the saint: place. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 1 1 1ANSION-LiOUSE. Yesterday,, a number of bakers were brought before the . Lord Mayor, charged with buying Hour from the millers at an advance of 33.1)0 sack be yond the market price • and making correspond ing rettlrly4o-0 his Lordship, at the rate of 655. when.the price was but 60s. sack. The Lord Mayor said, it was impossible to regulate the,price ofbread, while- such a system prev.siled. The price must -be a bona Ale one, • and not 'Condi tional. This principle he was determined to ;Ict upon, and punish the defaulters to the utmost ex tent. They were, at present fined, otil) in the mi tigated penalty of 20s. each. GUILDHALL. FORGED MOTU. —Yesterday W. Manner was brought before the Sitting Magistrate (Sir JOHN EAMER), charged with having in his possession several forged Notes, purporting to be Notes of the Bank of England ; and further, with utter ing the same, knowing them to be forged. Mr. IZ AYt the Solicitor of the Bank, attended the examination. Joseph - Herbert deposed, that he keeps the Plough Tavern in West Smithfield. O n Friday- evening, the prisoner, in company with two other men, carne to his‘house, and asked for a glass of rum and water. They drank it, and the prisoner tendered a 1/. Note in 'payment. NVitness did nor. like -the appearance of the party, and be asked the prisoner to put his name on the Note.— He accordingly took a pen, and wrote upon it, 'Morse.- Witness said if that was his real name, he must,also beg of him to add his Christian one to it. He then wrote John,' and witness' having given him 19s. in change, part of which he marked, the prisoner and his companions departed. The-note he took from hint he also marked, and, having strong suspicions of its genuineness, be employed two or three • persons to watch the party .after leaving his house ; while in the mean Time he went himself in search of an officer. The prisoner and his companions were closely followed, until they arrived at the Gold House, Creiflen-lane, where • they went in to ask for some more drink, and no 'doubt to cha nge ano th er note. A t this moment, the . Officer arrived with •Mr. Herbert, and upon the approach of the former, the party recognised him, and.two of them instantly made their escape. The prisoner *as now observed putting his hands towards his pockets, and presently . was.-seen throwing a parcel ornotes upon the ',floor ; He was secured, and the notes latind on the ground were marked by the Officer. The - Soliditor of,the Bank proved the several. notes to be forgeries. Upon being called upon for his defence, the prisoner denied that he was the person who had received the change of the note at the Plough ta vern ; neither 'were the notes found upon the ground at the Gold-house, at all in his possession. These farts,, hOwever, were contradicted by Mr,, Herbert, the officer, and another witness. The Solicitor then advised the prisoner, if he wished to prove his assertions and innocence, be had better make knOwn his companions. This the prisoner at present declined doing and in order to allow him time to consider the policy of making such a discovery, as well as to enabl e th e S o li c i tor of the Bank to institute a proper investigation, the pri soner was remanded for another-examination. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday H. Dormer, a lad under 12 years, was finally examined, charged with stealing a sil ver table spoon from a saucepan at the house of M r. Maddison,Manor- placd, King's-road, Chelsea, where he had been at work with Croft, a running dustman.. In that part of Chelsea there. - is no regtilar dustman ; and the pilsoner, wit 9 is a fa therless boy, was, employed by Croft. On - the .2d of this month they were taking away dusdrom the house of the complainant , ,. a- silver sp oon be ing l e ft i n a saucepan at the hack-door, the pri soner took it, and his mother next morning sold. it for Bs. to Collive, -Watchmaker, Paradise - row, Chelsea. Croft the dustman, and Collive who bought the ,spoon, .attended, as , well as Mrs. Maddison ; she .expil!ssed a desire not to pfose cute prisoner, 0» acconnt Of his riuth ; but. the Magistrate said it Wa2 her duty to proceed. Craft, the boy's employer, - said he told him he fotind the spoon in the dust.--He was fully committed. HATTON-GARDEN. Thomas 41exander, a tallow-chandler, from Stoke Newington, - appeared to a summons, on in formation, charging— him• with a fraud /tit the Excise, by his •delivering the officer a wrong de • claration, wherein he stated, that the candles spread were 20, instead of which, on examination, they proved to be twenty-two. whereby he con cealed 360 candles from the officer. The defend ant pleaded hard in mitigation of the fine, alleg ing that the .offence was not. wilful. He was fined. in the penalty of 51. and costs. H A Y COPY or ii.LETTER FROM GENERAL D. LAVAYSSE TO GENERAL PRTION. " gston, "GeNeaat.,—One of the Kin perior.s Jamaica who enjo ri y the confidence of your Excellency, and with whom General Hodgson had the goo d ness to m' ake me acquainted at Curacoa, has already, without doubt, apprised .you. of the object of my mission, as well as of the paternal and „liberal intentions of our beloved Monarch Louis the Eighteenth. " You, General, are too much distinguished, and are . of too dispassionate a mind, nut to ap. predate and to Ertl the difference %Odell exists be tween the order o f things fi xed:by the restoration. of Louis XVIII. and that wineh is now called the ancient system, to wit, that which the des potic Government of Buonaparte laboured to esta• Wish in France. ' • To,deceive, in order to auk - in - gide, bad be come for ten years ,the great sit eret and. the prin. cipal ItlcallS employed in the policy of that bate• lid and perfidious usurper. Exterated by the, wh o l e world, ah:andoned by the companions of his military glory, the fate of this demonizw, tat it he liopeti, will for ever furnish a lesson to those who exercise an illegitimate ant) . precarious power, and arc at the same time in possession of their senses. ‘c It requires no great knowledge of public law to enable us to perCeive the differeuce between the constitutional form of Government existing in. France, front any that has prevailed io that coun try since the year 170, • present Change is not What emigrants and rePuhlicans arc accustomed to call a Counter revolution ; the Bourbons have been long since restored to tile Throne of France. The Kings of Europe 'mule merit war, upon the .French people, nor have their armies achieved the conquest of our nation. The generous Alixander and his Allies, Laving entered France F to revenge them selves on a d e li r i ous tyrant, themselves presented a rallying point to a people long oppressed wider the yoke of au ex t ravagant and sanguinary des potism. " It is under Alexander that the wise, able and energetic characters, who have performed the chief parts in our revolutionary, history, have thought proper to enlist themselves. The Talley rands, the Dessolles, the Duponts, the Marmontss the Neys, the Bournouvilles, &c. &c. after lao_ bouring through tweuty years of revolution in aciii complishing the work of French liberty and'lnde ,pendence, are now the principal agents in tigttin building up the fabric of 'our Monarchy on tha„, bases of a free anti Representative Constitution : this Constitution it is of which Louis the 18th has a right to be considered the author and the com piler. - How powerfully, General, ought this cir cumstance to render -the name of its author dear to every true friend of liberty. Of what ' happY augery ought it not to be to our brethren of the, Isle of Hayti. . " Yes, General, it is - a philosophic gutg , new Marcus Aurelius, a new Henry'l'F. tt'h° I s now seated on the throne of France : believe me, 1 speak- not the language of flattery, 1 speak in the voice - of truth, in the voice of my countrymen' " To understand well the spirit which this day reigns in Frimce, you have only 10 fix your e Y es •On the list o f the Ch a mb e r of I'eers,.and the pri" - cipal authorities of the State. There you will iPe r ceive in th e Montmorencys, Rohm's, rcrigoric: Rochefonc a ult s , th e anc i en t Corinthian colu in i!. of the French Monarchy, mixed with heroic W I lars of a more modern order, the Neys, tbeSticlietsi the Manumits, Maloueta, &c. the recent tkleil dell of French glory and independence. • t t l a ie le re nt s s e , e „ a t i a l:is a e nd M ‘ e i n r , tu n e . :l , o l , la V e thelr Y ;e u ni v u i s ll , tendered themselves .. ; ;:tistrious amidst, the stool scenes . of i:r.;i. Revolution—yoa will ,see i bcgt worth 4 placed between the King and People, pit ' less the supports of the due prerogatives awl 1 1 jesvy of the crown, Lhan of national rights, iin' of publib liberty. " Read the constitutional charter and the Bct : of the existin g G overnment, and you w ill thei i of blind'and interested partizans, all discern bow, in contempt of the absurdcluniolii: Revolution has produced of good, of liberal Pr i ' ) ; ciples, compatible with monarchical habitudes, 113 been religiously-preserved. (0 " Reflect well upon these things, and sal i „ yourself, I beseech you, General, ' CertaiL! Louis the Eighteenth is a philosophical 16 7 one who, before and- at the commencement is the Revolution, was one of the most 2 0 ' 1 %, defenders of public liberty; the high M 4 : r . crates, the Comtuanders by whom he 'is sin e.., which th rounded, are almost all the children of that ~,, volution,. and hostile alike to ancient abuses 3 11 . ancient prejudices, These men have raised ofeirt selves by the Revolution to a level with the i me families of France, and are elevated by the s" ii means, and lifted up in' the snnte storms; it , v impossible that we, more than they, should "° sink into degradation.' . i " Say also t o yourse l ves, ' B uon aparte w" perfidious and cruel despot, who scarcely eIIIP I , D r o as faithless and immoral as himself; ed in his policy any other agents than Such as "c, 4 b etter ha i ty , beets to have battled in our last entrenclimVs'o than to have negoaated with that Corsican .." ii knew not what it was to respect a promise. Ls l ,:,, t XVIII.. is a legitimate Sovereign, the descca 4 " . ",. of St. 14mis, and of Henry lv. lie emPlarl.iitu. -ther Government, supported treat with us ody men a honour, of iinr'! o , diced minds,' and w h o h ave , peOill", 111 b ot h iti They will nut li ut their writings and discourse. to the voice of men blinded by their crroris,otc soured by their misfortunes. Louis is the a ~) " r and the common arbiter of all his 64CtS. J• 4 us place all ciur confidence ir. 'lbis gens:ions, P 'triotic, anti enlighttmed Princz. , ice will coMei u ; our nicate touts the rights. t,'r French • subjects an d °' cause ..steo .l o os French citizens, a rift • certainly more log' , L r . than the 1::: - La7,1 csi being treated as criminal vii' barians, or Maroon negroes.' " Make these reflections, entertain this nion ° ; Logue, General ; impress your own conviction `), -the sensible men who merit your esteem • 'orn a ii i i . °' will at once entitle yourself to the ' a °- 3# most li n I . . to , ble ma • rks of your Sovereign's satisfacti on , of the gratitude of your country the 113 Y. and ho ' tians 11 ', % Jona we cannot • consider other t h eft French. " You soo n ,, , have too much penetration, too ,„ an understanding, General ; you know France i t , - well, to mistake this language for that of we': 4 , ness : weakness, is content to Menace ; the str ° ' — l or_ the powerful strik e an d crush whenever tli find their generosity disda ined ' i °° '' &c. &c. ' - DAUXIOW LAVAYS 6I _> _ , BIRTHS. d. / . 4 ,11 On the fith inst. - at Muuntjoy-spiare, Dublin, the u -- John '!'rant, Esq. of a daughter. ~; ~ o' EP' At Harc o u r t L o d ge, near Trim; I re l an d , t h e Law scph Lightburn, Esq. of ti eon. w a lker On 'Thursday morning, the wife of one Oldfield, ilyi r , ► l' ili street, Harrington, was brought to bed of three eh""'" 1) boy and two girls, who are alI likely to do well. _...----° or 1 This morning; Colonel Bathurst, - II A RRI ED. 1 4 son a the Bs uich 'to Lady Catherine Stewart, daughter o i f ho th p e gal c, Lortionderr,*. r Oil Pridsy,' the llthinst. by the Rev. Danic)e;tu t W a o d s ' Joseph Al cue k, of Roehampton, Esq. to Marl/. tn e :-n ng daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Pettiward, of Putney. • . DIED. f th . On the ttath of Jun e . at' Calcutta, Colonel Rea- e s ° llngal Establishment. Z d f ee' At Ferndun, in Cheshire, Charles Goodwin, E l q" a- l e l' :i On the 30th ult. at' Ashville, County of Arniag• i ',,i b , - laud, Andress' Wilson, Esti. for thirty years Surgeon " Maie>ty's yacht Dorset. a On SaturdurlastAide' , aged 69, Joint Pinney, Esi. -n t'r• Iwo' man, and Otie of th e eig h t Justices ut the Peace or }'. x' On Sund a y morning last, at th e Gl e b e o f T a ndet:agee , Carter, wile of the [tee. the Dean of 'Alan', Ireland. „ o rge 1 /n MundaY, after at, illness of tcel a few liners? ' . Edward Dale, Esq.. Banker, Lisa I Y poo . . ii'' . ..1 * 111 steOltrtliepQa7itintt,ofhtiteercttiteart;, a i t an tlr a f I ,A i ir ieu . d p, n d f in D:m p r o i , i , ; . c los t, ttl. Chester. CIP On Thursday last, at his house on SouthertabaYs Charles Wearg flotchkys, It. N.. aged 67. To ti ' llr h The same day, G eorge Coare, Egg; of Bruce-groYe , • ' hfu ll°l .o LYNN, JAN. 14 . --Lately died herr, aged 70, Wm., i. , wt.; who pursued the employment of a.Shoe- blast; in t a ion longer than the far greater part of the pre4ent lie so tants remmher. He was reported to be the illegitlcco to of a Nobleman, and his said that he would ticyc' n olo s anyoffers of pecuniary assis i tanee,which were secretly' for more thenhils ,by y hisea unknownrs b y h o P w a . "I ' ve " l " 4l inned• He was generally I.nown by the ,I tvi l tion of " Billy Boot 4 " by which familiar tltle his r ., e or was, almost entirely 0 1 rtlited ........;.......• . —.....r t• . .............0................--._!_'- 1 --- - -• parent ; but supported liimsd lov or e l 4 exertions in the hunrble enil' n vo ll , r t I c i i r ths i e n: os s rt ; lixt t r ri s): l r i j r. e ; :(1 1.0 1 s 1 1 1 ) ( 2 . 1 N: s.td:titltr:::ruSACCll:tiot7ii:v;:lit:l:Suc,