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LAW INIELUGUNCE. coultT OF KING'S RENCti, ApRIL 20. CRIMINAL INFORNIATION. SIR FRANCIS IIi:C.V. KR V FH NCIN LIOLY , 'KE, AND HENRY H.)L.Y.,KE JA tivis utn , etl to' a chit to spew cause why a rtitn!hal ioformaiion si,ould not he filed against the def,,,L4olN rin 'he tollowing facts bet fort it 111 the of 1,01 client : Some :hue slice thv first of the defendants was examined as s witness oU a trial, 011 thr warranty 3 horse at Strif,ril, in which the plain. iff was it,terested The eti,letice “hich he g ave on that oceßsion die .v forth the following observation afterwards from the deponent---" I was • sort V when yoa d the word thought, it alninit choked you." 'his did not appear to excite soy aogry teetiocs at the time, bar the deponent some time tiflet aids being in the town of Wolverhampton, was addressed by the second defendant, who told him that he had the honour &f brine t . .t. bearer of a letter from his torother, which he d• livered. It ran nearly in the following terms ; —' 4 The ex pri-ssions you have used of rogue—robbed me of 2001.—and that the word thou j ght nearly choked mv,..tequire explanation My btorher, a Lieute nant in the army, wai . s on yore, for that purpose— otto rwive you will please to appoint with him a time atrt• ;dice to meet me," .‘ at;:l (is the de ponen hclieved was aided) give me satisfaction D. poor nt reartioe it, denied having made use of the laognsge hoptped to bln ; hut the bearer of utes•age said fie had nothing to do with that, and demanded whether lie isc;ai!fl give his brother the satisfaction required I He replied, certainly_ not, a•id that it could scarcely he expected he would. Mr. If . Holyoke upon that raised his 114 d a ibecatening manner, and exclaimed aloud its vrreet, where the conversation ti,,d been " You ate a blackguard, and a coward :" repeating the same expressions in another part of •the town, at a very short dis tatoe. Ile Also wish.,..l to leave a written paper, for ti-e piopose of 'wooing the defendant et an hut the innkeeper would not receive it.-- O•her tic's sere set intik in the affida%it, with a view to st'ew that the parties had continued on good terms for some time atter the first offensive I.ad been CHIFr JU` , TICE gave the opinion of the Court, tt.A. was a more fit Case fur a Giand lintec. in the nießn time s• !tie common friend sh, if,terpose het Wt CI) the parties. The npplic,t!Lm was therefore not acceded to. II.1131:AS coRPUS. IvNrtaLL moved tur a vtrit of Habeas Cor ne .o bring up a men of the name of Itothebo t ;- , now confined in company , with several • )5 , 5 . 3 i Dorche.ter Gaol oil a•ehatge of smug -1.11 The atlidAvit set forth that he WAS in rind) , apprelie , Sioll of being impressed into the .• rf, Cr amt to the West ladies. He ,em s, ate , t hat the oily ground for the corn via3 the mrie striemein of one of the • aium.rs of Excise. A r:de eta. granted to .flow Callse why the writ I t o; issue, an eugAtemeht having hten y ea,rer?•l lovas tor ate security of the depo r',-• whether or not the writ tie gr 4 :.ed. tlispostd SHORT v. NeCARTIIY. "4"14 a 11101 1011 by Mr. SCARLFTT for a rule : to s;•em ranse why a new trial shot& not be ~!rnli~ed ii T his case, vt hick was tried before the r , Jtisfice - at ihe lasi bitting. at Guildhall. It t: , ilia , . it Was an action against fei.dant, a solif itor. for negligence 01 in. t ‘ .e b:isitiess entrustrd to bid, touching of N teeercion 730 t stock ; and e' I .toceedi,,,4s :tete recently detailed in this COURT.rcfused the rule on the ground of vettlic), blo granted it on the statute of sis six ye*rs had elapsed before the plain tiff his acjon, KING V. SIR SHERIFF PARKINS AND OTHERS. thoved to postpone the further itt :hi, case, which stood its the perettip ts-i,y paper, on account of the necessary absence ct 11,t , Sol:cifor-General on the State Trials, and Isoist:d t. els Lot.dships would appoint a convenient hen , Is•-st Leirned Gentleman could attend, and e named the 3d of May. eav ~e C, , URT declined decidiog at present, but thar it they complied, it must be with notice to 011 the other ()Attics. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Arnn.2o. RADICAL DINNER. OTTBY V. WATSON. Mr. KNox opened the pleadings, and Mr. Ser jeant (..'n:si.ow stated the case. ThiS t%as an action brought to recover the ex pence of I dinner given to Mr. Hunt for his con doct ni Manchester; the dinner was to be given Ly the Sons of Liberty, at 6s. 6 , 1. All went on with his approbation. Thisilevrood gave the order with hint, and therefore it he intended to vi ew d that, tic should have pleaded in abatement hdd not done so, and therefore the evidence would Dow be gone into. Mr. Donne, clerk to Ottey, recollected Watson calling at she Crown and Anchor to bespeak a room for the Committee, and on the 9th or 10th, Thisilewood and Watson ordered dinner for 200. he tickets were to he is. 6(1. each, of which Mr. () try was to have 4y. 6d. The defendant admit ted the order for 200 persons, but sAt he did not know of the remaining hundred, and would not pay it. cause was undefended, and di Jury gave a verdict of 381. 455. OLD BAILEY. EXTORTING MONEY r.TNDt a es INFAMOUS THREAT. William Arnold, (s soldier, aged 20,) was capi• I , llly ludic eft for assaulting Thomas Allison, on the 3.1 o f April, and caking tram his person by Vioiesicr avid threats a U. note. The prosecutor deposed that he resided in the les vice of Surteis, Esq., Ls Montague• sqoare. an Sunday, the 2d inst.. be was return• the home from Hslkin-street, through Hyde-park, sho►►t 8 o'clock in tl►e evening, when he was oyes taken by the prisoner at Gros reuor give, tvho Suddenly turned round and Said, " HO‘t7 do you do ? 1 think 1 know von, Sit ; you live, 1 believe, in Baker-street, or sonte whet e thereabouts." Witoess replied that he was mistaken, tor he re sided a' No. 31, Monta 2 oe.square. To this the prisoner rejoined, " yes, 31 ; why you are the very man I want." Witness answered, with surprise, " Want me ! NVhat can you want with me ?" The prisoner said, it was concerning that letter he had sent hint. Witness asked, what letter ) and the prisoner said, it was the letter he had sent him, inviting hint to come and spend au evening with him. Witness denied all knowlidge of such a - document ; but the .prisoner told hill it would not do, and said to him, " tell you what, it you don't come down, I'll croup you" (!sAye burn imprisoned). Witness said, " 1 suppose 'its money you want," and g ice him a shilling. The prisoner exclaimed, " D--n your 'shilling," and kept following him on, using the most shanle tol until he reached his master's house. Winless them sail to bun, " There is the house in which I live ; I ant not ashaMed to sh o w it yoo." The prisoner upon this said, " be sa tisfied that you do live there, and I'll see you go iw too." Witness was just going in, when he said to him, " Now, I'll tell you what it is ; if you give me a one-pound note, I'll never accuse you of such a thing again." Witness said, he had not got a note about him ; but the prisoner •old him to go and borrow it of his telloav-servants ; but he told hint he could not do Oita, but would meet him the next day at half-past 12 o'clock.— Fie agreed to this, and went away. Witness was so alarmed and agitated at the monitor, as well as whet, he got lot° the house, that he was utterly unable to, speak. His reason tot fixing half-past 12, as the hoar of tweeting hint on the following day, was because the family were going to the co.ottry an hour sooner, and he thought in the in terkt he should have time to acquaint the Police officers. The family, however, delayed some time, and while the carriage was at the door he saw the prisoner at a short distance waiting for him. Wit ness telt excessive tear and agita ion; alit!, in the hope of getting rid of the prisonet for ever, he went to hint and said, " Now, it I give you; a 11. note, will you ever cone nigh me again ?" Ti,e prisoner replied, " Certainly never," took the note, and went away. Witness thought he had lost sight of him for ever ; hot on the Thursday following, a dirty-looking boy cause to his master's house with a letter, directed to " John, the tootmar.." Witness told him Jo',H . was out with the carriage, but desired him to come again in an hour When that' time had expired the prisoner himself came and said to t im rather angrily, " I sew you a letter an hour since, hot you worthd not read it—there, take it now; go in and read it, and then come out to me " Witness went in and read the letter, which ran thus : " Sir,—The money I received from you I have wade rather free wi;h, in .drinking, and have stay ed too long from, my regiment. I fear I callow join it again, but roust go into the country, and something thetefore must be clone." After a short time witness went out to speak to the prisonet, when he was accosted by two other men, habited in soldiers' great coats. He asked what they all meant by coming there, tocharge hint with so loul a crime? None of them made any particular answer to this ; but one of them observed, be (meaning the prisoner,) must leave his regiment, and go into the country ; he must t' , creore have otherelothes, and four or five pounds to keep hint until he got em ployment. Another said, " Something Mlist he dune, for now we've got you (meaning witness), and you must come down." Witness then pro mised, that, if the prisoner would meet him the next evening, he would have really fur hint a suit of clothes, anti be should also look up what mo ney he could. He then gave them a shilling to di ink, butt they d—d his drilling, and he gav 9 them three. They then all went away. Witness could not swear positively to the two other men he saw on this occasion, but be .saw the name of one of them in the papers of Wednesday- His name was Thomas Dwyer. Witness next morning inf orme d Pyall and other officers, together with his fellow servants, ot'tbe transaction, and means were taken to secure the prisoner at night. The latter came at the appointed hour, accompanied , Liow e v er , by three other persons. The officers w ere i n waiting at a public-house, and, as soon as the prisoner made his appearance, Witness desired one of the servants to give the officers the signal, while be himself desired the prisoner to g 6 t o t h e public-house, where be would give him a nice suit of clothes. He did so, and I'yall coming up at the moment, witness charged him with having extorted from him a 11. note, and he was secured. The other three men fled upon the instant, and escaped. Pyall and others confirmed the testimony of the prosecutor. After the prisoner was taken in charge he never denied the accusation made against him, but continually said it was another that bad led him into it. The prisoner made a long and disgusting .de• fence, the details of wide!' were not only wholly disproved, but totaily improbable. The Jury, without . hesitations, found the pri soner Guilly—Death. The Court wished it to he intimated to him that Ise was in a most awful situation, and recommended hint to prepare for the worst consequences. The following were also capitally convicted : Henry Roney, fur stealing privately in the shop of Benja min Hoyle, a pair of trowsers, value Ss. Alexander Fraser, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of James Chit, and stealing two silver salt-spoons, &c. John Bellowrs, for stealing two silver-watches of Edward Rowland and david Brees, in the dwelling-house of Evan Ellis. William Mail, for stealing in the dwelling-house of George Skillicorn, two O. Bank Notes. Edward Roberts, for stealing 131. in Bank Notes, three watches, &c. the property, of John Roberts, in his dwelling house. THE LONDON GRAND JURY AND THE STATE PRISONERS. The Grand Jury for the City having gone through the busioess of the . Sessions, brought in their. last bills in the course of yesterday after noon ; and hiving delivered'them, the Foreman read - from a paper the following Address "Tba London Grand Jury having heel% refused admission to that part of Newgate wherein the Stale Pris,iners arc now confined, and conceiving that they pusses an uliduobted I it ht to visit the prison ill every pat t, hoc to state this their im pression to the Court ; and, unwilling to compromi Se that which they conceive to he their right, they rr-pest►t►tty hot lout; da.uu how Ltic Court, the r 4ivilr g e of gulag over the whole of Newgate, which they believe has never hitherto been questioned." The Common Serjeant observed, that Mr. Brown, the keeper, had a most awful responsibi lity on hit hands, and be could not say that, in rettosing the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury admis sion to the places in which the persons spokeo of were confined, that he had acted improperly. The consequence might be very setiaKs it they were admitted, because the prisoners might make a rush, and by it attempt an escape. He (the Com mon Serjeani) was confident from Mt. Brown's general good character, that he could not have any i:oention to insult the Grand Jury, he was only doing that which he conceived, and perhaps very properly, to be his duty. lie (the Common tierjeant) could not therefore say, that the Grand July had a tight of admission. The Foreman observed,'with great submission and deference, that as the Grand Jury they nad a right to inspect every part of the Gaol of Newgate. _ . Mr. Common Serjeant—Are you Magistrates, Geo'!erne') ? Foteman—No, I am not ; but I claim my right as one of the Grand Jury. The Common Serjeant observed, that the ques tion %vas not before the Court, and he couLl not give them an authority to visit those places. ,Ivry—We claim it as a tight. Mr. Common Serjeant—Mr. Brown has a most avettil TCSpoll ,, ibility placed upon him, Mr. Brown—My Lord, I only refused the Gen ilemen admission into the places in v•hich t h e State Pri,oners are confined. Mr. Sub• Sheriff Turner—Mr Sheriff lt , ,thwell, my Lord, has been consulted ilium the snhject, and he has given his hill concurrence to what Mr. Brown has done. Forentau of the Jury—We beg leave most re spectfully to protest against the power exercised by the Court. Mr Common Serjeant—Well, Gentlemen, the question is not beforr the Court. It Mr. Brown has acted wrongly or improperly, you have your reniF:dv ; you can try the question. The Foreman said they should do so, and with drew', Jury proceeded to inspect Newgate trtoq Ininniely, but were not permitted to enter the place% it whir), the Slate Prisoners are confined. Shortly atter 7 o'clock thry entered the Cutitt, and the following presentment, which wms real by M. Choke, the Duputy Clerk of Ar- i'iil~;l~S :-- " The London Grand Jury respectfully beg leave to pre sent to the Court, that, in their opinion, the alarming in crease of crime in the Metropolis, especially amongst the juvenile offenders, is to he chiefly attributed to the very ina dequate state of Newcate Prison, for the purpose of classing the prisoners according to their various degrees of crimina lity; thus boys and girls, who may have been committed for some slight misdemeanors ' are forced to associate with the basest and most hardened felons, and are consequently re turned upon society (when the periods of their imprisonment are passed) in possession of all the theory of the most prac tised offenders. The Grand Jury, therefore, earnestly implore the Court to give their most serious and immediate attention to this deplorable state of Newgate Prison, and to adopt such measures as shall effectually remove this great discredit from the Metropolis. • " The Grand Jury beg leave respectfully further to present, that it, the exercise of their duty they have been refused ad mission to that part, of Newgate where the State Prisoners ate confined; thus the rights and privileges which have hien handed down from their predecessors to the Grand 'July, have, in their humble judgment, been infringed. (signed) "CEO. ALLEN AYLWIN, Foreman. " Grand Jury Room, April 20, 1820." After which the Common Serjeant observed to the Grand Jury, that for the latter part of their presentment there was no foundation whatever. The Grand Jury had no soch right ; in that, theretore, they were mistaken. It was a custom which from time to time had been allowed ; but he denied that any such right existed, or that he Grand Jury ought to interfere. The Body of Magistrates and the Court of Aldermen had the power of regulating the discipline of the prison ; but it was quite a fallacy to suppose that the Grand Jury had . any such right or privilege hand ed down to them ; it was, in fact, merely given to sub() Grand Jurors, or others who went there for public or beneficial purposes. He concluded by repeating, that no such tight had existed, nor did it now exist. 1-Ie then discharged the Jury with thanks for their services. FIRE AT HEREFORD COLLEGE.—The persons mentioned in our last as having been apprehend ed on suspicion of setatig - fire to the College were Mr. Harer, Organist of the Cathedral, and his brother, who had been on a visit to him for some weeks : on the evening of their apprehension a verylong investigation took place before Colonel Matthews and other Magistrates ; when, from the prevarications and contradietoty accounts given by the accused parties, they were committed to the County Gaol for further examination. This was resumed in the prison on Wednesday, and again on Saturday; their final examination took place yesterday. " The Magistrates (says the Hereford Journal) atter a long and patient inves tigation, with the assistance, of legal advice, not deeming the evidence sufficient to support a bill before a Grand Joey, they ware discharged. The strongest circntustances against them were the contradictions in their statements whilst under examination, for which, considering the distress ing and peculiar situation they were placed in, much may be allowed, and now that they are re stored to society, we sincerely hope they will quickly recover the, estimation they formerly en joyed, and be received with the consideration and kindness every liberal mind must feel their unfor tunate situation deserves." Mr. Hayter has been organist of the Cathedral nearly three years, is a young man who ranks high in his profession, and has been caressed and esteemed by all who knew him in Hereford. It may be remembered that when the first attempt was made - to set fire to the College, the Hereford Paper stated that the file would, in a shorn time, hare burst into a most destructive flame, but for his active and judicious exertions.—(Worcesfer Journal, April 19 ) -We are informed that one of the prisoners who led the Radical troops to the fidd at Huddersfield on the 3lst.ult., was formerly a C in a Re giment of hoot.—(Yorkshire Gazette,) Cherries and strawberries, in thumb pottler, new pOtatoes, and natural asparagus, were yesterday displayed tor sale it► the t ;rten.grocers' shops 01 Covent garilLe. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The Grand Jury have been sitting on the tinasuat large number of i.idierments wiLch have cobra before them ever since the morning of Tuesday , the llth instant. Soon after two o'clock e'yes terday, about 19 or 20 of the Gentlemen offvihe Grani Jury, with JOHN SIDNEY tlAwiuNs,.4sq•P at their head, came into Court, and delivered tag last of the bills on which they had decided; - Which bills having been severally proclaimed in the - usual way, one of the Grand Jurors stepped forward , anti addressing Far.Ncis CoNsT, Esq., ,the Chair man of the Sessions, said, " Mr. Chairman, hi oue, of the Grand Jury, 1 beg to make this present• meat to the Court ;" at. the same time band. , ing up a paper. linnyediately after which, J. S. Hawkins, Esq., the Foreman of the Grand Jury. after calling the attention of the Chairman to tik paper which he held in his hand, read there.trom as follows I am authorized by all the gentle men of the Grand Jury now present (with lbe exception of Mr. Fatey) to say, that they total dissent trout all that is contained in Mr. Facef Memorial, now delivered in." Mr. Furey.—" Mr. Chairman, I have made no memorial, that is my presentment, " pointing et the starve tune to the Paper which Mr. Const . belt , . , • 111 1119 hami, anti (rout whic h paper he pfuee,edetri to read as fullo , ,vs, viz.— " I, John Furey, of Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, one of the Jurors of our Sovereign hold the King', 'assembled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden on Tues day, the I nth day of April, 18-20, at Hicks's Hall, in and for the County of Middlesex, and duly sworn and charged (a make presentments, do think it my duty to present as fa• lows, vit.—That on the examinatiao of witnesses, who ap peared before this Grand Jury to support indictments against certain persons (about forty in nom ter), severally chat ged either with uttering or atte opting to utter (or pass), or else with Laving in their possession certain notes, which were produced (about to the number of one hundred and twenty), the same were, by the Bank Inspector, sworn to be forged imitations of Bank of England Notes;. because (as he stated) such notes were not printed off from any of the }dates belonging to the Bank of England, or on the paper used by the said Bank for the printing of their. ootes.--- Whereupon, imanswer to further questions put to Such In spector he repeatedly and distinctly stated. to this Grand Jur! to the follewing effect, viz. that each and every one of the motes which he had (so as aferesaid)sworn to be forgerieswere impressions (or copies) printed off from plates, with the exist cure of which plates he was previously and well acquainted, from having, in the course of his official inspections, (often esee ainined impressions from these same forged plates ; and all of which plates and notes be (the Inspector) understood, zed verily believed, to have been engraven and forged, in or near to the town of larmingham,in Warwickshire. tin more than one occasion, the same witness stated to this GrandJury e that some particular person (or persons) residing in or near to Birmingham, was very strongly suspected of being the cue graver and forger of such plates and notes; yet the further questions put to this and another witness, on tha part of the Bank of England, failed of producing evidence or informa tion to this Grand Jury, whether attempts had actually been made to search fur, and seize the tools and implemeuts and the stock of the engraver and forgers of the many notes which have lately been found in the possession of utterers in the county of Middlesex, and brought before this Grand Jury, es aforesaid. " Under these circumstances I have deemed it my indis pensable duty, and do, in consequence, hereby humbly pray the Court, that the Justices therein assembled will, without delay, as far as in their power lies, cause the most energetic and efficient means which are known, and the laws will Id any meiuis allow, to be used and put in force for fully detect' tun, punishing, and altogether stopping, the highly illop l 4 practices of any such wholesale forgers and first utterer of forged Bank of England notes ; whereby the strung atld almost irresistible tereptatioa which such fist utterer" (acid inure especially so their emissaries dispersed through' out the country) daily hold out to distressed and ignorant pet — , sons, fur inducing theme° engage in the highly illegal awl mischievous tralticof buying and uttering forged notes, sennljt it is firmly believed, in a great measure, if not altogether* be put a stop to, because none of the notes which have conic before this Grand Juty appeared to be fast, separate, or hide' pendent acts of forgery ; nor did it appear from the evidea 6 adduced thereesi, that the persons indicted were likely t ier sons to have engaged in, or to have been able to have edeclc a , the forgeries of the notes, with the uttering or possessing es which they were severally charged. The highly-injurioa s effects of sect' a state of things on the murals ut the poperel; classes of seeney, acid the great bosses to which trad,swen 3 0 d others are daily exposed, through this contieued and vxtewle a issue and utterance of forged notes, induces rile confidenllf to hope, that effectual measures may he devised, and rat su practiee, fur entirely stopping the same. (Signed) " JOHN FAREY, Sens" An impressive silence prevailed in the Court during the reading of this presentment, as slag conclusion of which Mr. Coast opened and read a letter which J. S. Hawkins, Esq. the Foreman of the Grand Jury, had previously headed up to praying the Coma-that on account of age and iU fit mities he might he excused from attendance on any future Grand Julies. , Mr. CONST said, that the Court had trery position to pay attention to applications such gig that which Mr. Hawkins had just made, althOugb it was not within their - province to direct his nitalo to be struck from the list of persons eligible ( 0 serve on the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury alter wards inspected Coidbativ . fields` prison, tsi;h the state of t which they es' pressed their satisfaction. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, AND JUVENILE COURACP —Monday afternoon a decent di eased female sve observed walking by the river side at Chelsea, such a confused way as to excite suspicion thgt she had some design upon her life. At length st jumped ia, and sunk. A fad, named liumbletott , son of a potatoc-merchant in Drury-lane, obj beheld the act, immediately came op, aid seeitig that no steps wete taken for the preservation 01 the wretched woman, took of his coat and waist' coat,.and fearlessly sprang into the water to her, rescue. After considerable difficulty, he succeede 4 in getting the body to the' shore, where it oa f : laid,, exhausted insensible , on the bank, ti" some persons carried it to a neighbouring publiisi bourse, when animation returned ; and by the kin persuasions of several persons, she consented t°, return borne, but would not divulge the cause her rash couduct. The intrepid boy has receiv e d from the flinnatie Society the usual reward in 064 b cases. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, the flo ll. r and Rer. William Addington, second son of the I,oot count Sidnsouth, to Miss Mary Young, daughter of the 1 1 '.. t , John Young, hector of Thuipe, its the County I' 4 " . tbauipton. —.4•• MED. On the Roth ult., ° at .Port Si. Mary's, near Cadiz, afters' few days illness, Mr. Frederic (itella. •110. On Tuesday, the 18th inst., at his house in Lincol n's.' fields, William Dyne, Esq., in the 59th year of his ag,e• r eat LONDON: Printed byJ. B. CA itsTAIRS, of \o. S:), " 1 , 4 „ Ormond-street, Cincen-itinaic;,and published hi , 11 ,: v r SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Holton-street, at I'4' Office, No. 111, Strand ; where Advettisementuo (pu.t-pab;) must tildftw d. • , %I',Q ~~ ~ Y ' ~t f -„ . °n r. 7,nd ft)ty for. 4.4411 rig it Arm • toy of F irst;' I)A.' Iwo! 'Suq~ irti r Vori ti e C And 114,2 to tit) Vac', Sad In I Biel 19a.