The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-15 00:00:00

MRLANCIIOLY SUICIDE.

An inquisition was taint last night, at eitlit o'i lurk, be.
e SpEO.7Oll, Esq. Coe oiler, Ni the litre TINTS 11,
Mitre court, Flett.street, on the Misty or Mr. Thomas Holt
Crtrs.ii, a gentleman of eunanlemble literary acimerements,
roo wetly master of a Dowding AfaliTnlYt "'TAT KrtiTTille,
NOV Itamplouslsire, who put an end to his c.a.leuce uu Writ-
'motley Hight list, by clittime

Mr. Flimsy Gregsult,llw brother of the tirreatted, of' ex-
amined. He said, the dee, ased bad beta' me for
two years, and some time ago was cuttlined to a .trait
waielepat : he was 30 yeas of age.
Verdiet—" Cat his throat fa a Stole of lasoi.ity."

Two unemnntinily beautiful chargers, a pre-:ent
from the PRINCE REPENT to the Emperor Al.t:X.
A N DLit, wire RlNpved at Hull lest wed:, with se.
veral tither capital horses, fur St. Pttershiiigh.
Yesterday moriiiiivr, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, as a fartnei!s cart, loaded with grass, was
goiog along Oxford-lit:vet, it was followed by a
ber of children, who wrre plucking some
flowers that were mixed with the grass. The driver
frequently warned them away, which they Blue.
garded, and at length one of diem, a tine little
gill, in attempting to reach tip to the cart, was
thrown under the whtt-I and el u.lied to death. The
timer (lo whom ono Illeine ceolil lie imputed), was
•nprelientleil and lodged in tile watt-11-house, :ind
the child's body taken to a neighbourtvg
house, for a Cori/in-l.'s linr:ust.
130ROUGII CoMPTER.—This prison, which has
SG nOeii come tinder the eye has
utelergone a thor,-tigh tepair. It sous visited yes-
terd,i) by Alderman J. J. SMITH, mul other City
the excellent ity, Hurl some
Ladies :1 the Sucirtt of (fir entle :uwier whose di-
rection so Nil.l.llllble e changehuts been w;ought
111 the divitpithow. sail Insighris of the female ,in.
moires in Newg le) 1 hey r;.l-trell'ird their e"ire
arvistartion at iur uu,n e, sue IS, IMO the (libel-
slime adivrd Nlr. LAW, the keeper, towards the
Irismieru. The Wen women ore 11.1%, confined
vweilt:igesn,tawi kept
iiLub t t ot
hies
Citylittitry• el •
abouti .loy
5,01 e
otioli

LAPP INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHAnCI.I ORN COURT, Wersilpftgl4,
fa:DATA MAT U. '

OPERA-HOUSE.
W %TER'. V. TAY LOll.

Mr. MALI) sowed, mai he had • motion vs,
make °to behalf of the Defendent, moire, •1.,
laseing cirruinstatscs• :—Ab.sut a vein, hoick ihe
Defendasst took exceptions to the Master!, Wes's;
to three items, amounting to 8;6434. which lie al.
It.vred the Plaintiff on hecotoing the litirclistsvr .4
the Opera-house, a. elicUUllbrattleeti MI the propert's.
They were asgueit before Ks Honour, and be •I-
lowed them, and ordered that the Plaintiff should
pay the 8,5451. into Cann. The Plaiistiffispisealed
from that decision to the Lord Chancellor ; nod of.
its being heard before his Lordship, the leading
Coutssrl for the Defendant (Sir Samuel Rots Ifs',
now no more) understood his Lordship to have con-
finned his Honour's order; but the litgistiar did
not thin{; he was authorises] to draw tip an order sU
that ',licit which inside it necessary for the De.
frudant to again apply to the Lord Chancellor; and
on Slturday last his Lordship gave Ilia juilgusent,
coofirinitig the decision of his Honour, and
retied that the Plaintiff should pay the stint of
8,5451. into Court *Ohio a mouth. The onset.;
application was, that the Pleissulf should hr or-
dered to pay the interest of that sum into Court at
the 'saute Uwe; and when he had door an. 11111;
nine-sixteenths of the intisresi should be paid out
of Court to the Defendant, that bring the isrsipot7
lion of the Opera-house he was entitled to belare
the sale of it to the Plaintiff. He (the Lear:se/)
Counsel) bad also to ask his Honour to older the
Plaintiff to pay the costs of the present applicatisni.
Mr. ROUPFLL fo lowed on the same side..
Mr. BARBSII, Counsel for tlw Platutilf, *aid, he
Was instructed to cowittot to the motion. except the
hitter part of it, which asked for the cost., and lie
opposed it on the ground that if the D resident
had used due diligence, the application wrivsl.l have
been unnecessary; fur whets the Lord Chancellor
confirmed his Honour's decision, if time Dsfessdamt
had asked for the interest, his Lordship sould have,
granted it as • matter of course. _ .

The VICI-CHANTELLOa—" Tfie best .4, will
he to embody iu the Lord Chalicelloo's older that
the interest should he paid into Court with tl
principal sum, and th it the Defendant shall have
his proportionate part paid out of Court to Mat ;
but this cannot be done without it is by the con.eut
of the parties. you certainly are riot entitled to
the costs of this application, Mr. Heald, as you
might have made it ono. cestoiry by mentiosaing the
intere.it to the Lord chancellor."
Mr. BARBER said, he would consent on the part
of the Plaintiff that the pity went of the illtrfrOt
should be embodied w the Lord Chancellor's
order.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR—" Be it ro."

Hir Honour war occupied the remainder of the
day in Drrrieg motions, of no interest, except to the
parties concerned.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, IVEsTmiwrrut,

FRIDAY, M•Y

CONSPIRACY.

THE NINO V. KINNIEIL, LEVY, and V/001.F.
_ _

The Defendant* were ibis day brought up foe
judgment, in pursuance of the order of the Gttirt.
Mr. Ss:ARIA:TT, Counsel for Woolf, stated, the
he had to put in two afliilavits, which contained
very important matter, as fur as the verdict of• the
Jury was concerned. Those affidavits were swum
by persons totally unconnected with the parties, and
arose merely from a desire to further the ends of
public justice.
l'he affidavits were then put in. "the first was
that of a person, who called himself Jidni Thomas
Roberts, altid who was desctihed us u liitiningliam
dealer, residing near Smithfield-harts. The dein/-
tient swore, that, on the Tuesday evening, when the
first day's proceedings in the Defendsot'v tri:.l were
at up end, he saw Mr. 11 ironer, one of the ftdicitors
for the prosecution, elder into conversation Kith one
of the Jurymen, w Court, :t:4l that he coutiouttl
in conversation with him for fevers! mittutt% That
the next morning he attended the Court, and saw
Mr. Adams, the other §,.hcitor for the protrcuotou,
in conversation, for some time before the trial be-
gan, with a Juryman, but whu:ther he was the same
whom he had seen iu coati-en( e with Mr. Eldruser
he could not ray.
The second affidavit was that of a person who
styled himself John 1'110111:14, of the II 'o.lles-road,
hay salesman. Ile deposed that on the ►rcond
morning of the frill!, lie saw Mr. Adams iii c"tives-
sation with one of the Jurymen, before the Chief
Justice came into Court.

Mr. GURNEY, for t.te. prosecution, +toed tha he
way ready to exhibit affidavits in atrostr to those
which had just been read.
Mr. SCAIILLTT argued that he had ito tight to
answer these supoleintstital affidavits.

The l ()Wu, however, over-ruled the ultiection.
Their Lordships expressed their determination to
receive all the affidavits that were made on Mint•
day last, when the Defendant's Counsel gave nu-
tter that they meant to file new affidavits.
Mr. (uawEY then put The sffi!!.;vit
the 12 jurors, who sat on the trial, who
swore thut they had no communicatim, diiect nr ;
direct, with Mr. Harmer or Mr. Adams, dun,:,..;
the two days of trial. 2. The affidavit of If.
11.irrner, who deposed that he had not I uttered into
coversation with any of the Ju•ymen. 3. Tue affi-
davit of 11r. Adams, who deposed to the same ffeets
4. Tue affidavit of a Clerk of the Bank of England,
who stated, that he was in Court, with Mr. Ilan.
fuer, gathering up the bunk notes and other doets-
tni.ots he hal protinced, many %titillates after t:.e
Court had broken up, and the Jury had disprostd;
and he was confident that .Ir. Dal men hid nut
entered isito cutiversai.on with may of Itar Jurymen.
S. The isflidavn of Mr. Hititner, who deposed that
he had made itiqiiiry at the Over* where John
Thomas Rohetts and John 'Donuts, were dcperibcd,
in their aflidavna, to reside, and that too such et..
sots were known o:ere. G. The atlidaveth of time
todontluals, iiho were will acquainted with the re-
spective tioglihottilionds its witch John Thomas
Roberta and John MOIII3I were rand in live. alto
depored that ittcv never heard of such persons, twit
believed that they did Lut reside in the plaets

scribed. 7. The affidavit of Mr. Harmer. in which
11e deposed, that he had caused inquines to be 1
made at the honking-home of Messrs. Bosanquet,
*mil Co. where Woolf kept his cash, as to his money
transaction., ft the last two years. and found
that they amounted to 70,0001. in each of this,
years.—(This affidavit was put in to rebut Woolt's
piro of poverty, and to chew that his creditors bad
oat utterly ruined hum, as Ite had asserted, 'wrote
the orn.ecution was cominenced4-8. The laths.
sir Mr. Harmer, who deposed that be never
aorlioriswil ally paragraphs, prejudicial to the in-
wrest of the Defendants, to lw married in the jour-
till with which he was o'llm-ord. That he had
directed his editor to reject an such paragraphs—
and that he believed his tujuociion had Leese strictly
complied with. No paragraph oil the subject had
appeared ill the paper except that which merely
shoed that the. Defrocked. hail been held to bail.
The affidavits having been ead
Mr. SctatErr was heard ant behalf of Woolf—
Mr. Comment StaJBART, for Levy—and Mr.
Da MAY. for Kinnier.
Mr. Guems:v then addressed the Court, aggra •
mitten. lie dwelt with great severity on the con-
duct of the *Defendants, in endeavouring to mix.
lead the Court by the production of affidavits that
were manifestly false.
Their Lordships having consulted for a short
time—
Mr. Justice Bairtu proceeded to address the
Defendants. He observed that tory bad, after a
a most minute investigation of their case, been
convicted of a most atrocious conspiracy, by which
they had frindulently got into their hands property
to a large amount. They had afterwards applied
for a new vial.—bat the Court were of opinion,
• that the gronsids which they stated were not of a
ustitre sufficiently strong to warrant their interposi-
tion. This betels, however, had been derived
from the application—it had caused the Court to
look with scrupulous attention to the evidence that
had been offered at the trial, and on which the Jut y
returned a verdict of guilty. Having thoroughly
weighed that evidence, their Lordships were unam-
Otously of opinion, that the verdict was a most just
and proper one. Whet the full extent of the
fraud sm., the Court hail can means of knowing—
lint distinct evidence was given at the mu, that
frauds hail brim committed to the amount at
34,0001. The Defendants had stated in their affi-
davits that they were married men, and had large
famtlie.; but this only aggravated their guilt, snice
the ties of husband and of father ought to have made
them doubly careful trot to commit any act that
could reflect tliogroxe on those wino were so nearly
connected with them. Levy in his affilLiva had
pleaded poverty, and stated that he had been a
• bankrupt. But in • letter to one of his corm-
sposidetits, which had beets given in evideuce, he
adverted to cowsiguments which he had shipped for
India, and spoke confidently of an expected profit.
It Wit clear, therefore, that funds existed tome•
where, on which In could lay his hands. Taking
all the cite tarices of Ow case into consideration,
Ilse Court adjudged and awarded, that Kiernier
should he imprisoned in the gaol of Ilcheoter, for
twe Yen"--that Levy should he imprisoned its the
gaol of Gloucester for two years, and pay a tine of
5.000/.—and that Woolf should be imprisoned for
two pans in the House of Correction. Coldbath•
held., mid to psy a Ism of 10,000/...—and that the
two hitter be imprisoned until their lots be paid.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT,
PIUDAY. NAT 14.

Mr. William Davies, an officer in the army, was
opposed fur • &AVM schedule, gross fraud, and
for en!!! meting debts without proper means of pay-

lug them.
It appeared that the Insolvent became secuiity
far his nu} master to the amount of 4.0001. and af-
terwards negotiated bills to the amount of 1,800/.
At this time he had no other property besides his
commission, which was only worth 1,100/. The
bills were dishonoured. and Smith, the Paymaster,
became U,silyerits It wit stateil, that 111 con-
sequence of this transaction, lie lost his com-
mission, but he now denied it. Fle had bvers
remanded before, and now a ilafetence of about
?soot iu ISIS accounts appeared tells 1111114 has for-
mer scltedufe, which however was atlsuitird to be
an error.

Mr. Serjeant RUNT4INGTON ordered the exami-
Milton to hr postponed. to order that he may missend
his schedule.

&Mal IDeitelif were on Thursday brouelit up for
judgmeatt en the Conn of KIIIgN lirneh, and 1-.
trivet' sentence lot offences chiefly against the Cu.s

tan Isis.
The ship Wars, TRAteEtt, arrived in the Downs
frets J mimics, tails boarded on the 241 April. by the
Oronekn, JOLLY, • cruiser brlooginiz to Admiral
-quadrosi. Cope Nicholas bearilig, East,
angina about t2O le,gues—orerhauletl the pope's
awl nestled them politely.
The Anderson, --, from Hull for Quebec,
w.p.spolte on the 2'2d ult. in int. 49.22. long. 27. 30.
I...••riigrr4 :I:1 well, by the General Brock, arrived
of Liveroi of from Chailestim.

By the arrival or the Xlert, NORTON, at Bristol,
hoto Trinidad, intelligeth e ha• been received horn
that rl•tarter to the j 1,41 March. The four vreerts
unary, the &rocas and lelivt, linncottebe.
Jupiter. issil Maim!. With a reinforcement of trop
number of 750. to join the Nunn', arrival
..if the iidand the preceding dad•. It was uhilti-
stishd Cory *fluid proceed to Margaretia for orders',
.;id *kit itutitediately on their arrival * deteent
ernold be made on *owe part of the Spanish
The accounts of the blockade or Carupano and
Montana ore coheirs:led by illiV source; and Veil
little doubt wa. entertaiiied that they would built
•I:rrdtly fall into the 1111111.•dui the Patriots.

Extract ni ti lettr•r, dated ClirdeeNP, Feb. 20, and
Totted by any of Cadiz Early in this month
.Piton took place on the Apure between General
Xlnitit.t.i) and th- Insurgent General Data, in
which the latter 14 4.1 &levied with great lobo, and
re re itrd win The last dispatches from
aloitiLl.n are fruv. the town and river of Aleta, and
are oril akw dm% s after the battle with INIZ. Ile
tvag then moving un filiyaria, and entertained %cry
bill/L:11111e flipert.llloll% that hy the beginning of April
hr have penetrated as far us Angi.stura, the
of IluLtYsit."