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London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

JUBILEE.

A Coed of Common Council will be field. to-
morrow, at when dim subject will be
taken into consideration. The following is is copy
of the notice to the Members of the Court

Eta—Yon are desired to be at t Came of Common Conn-
ea, at Guildhall. on F►iday scat, hc*s the tilt day of Sep-
tember, tall% ut eleseo of Cie cluck is the foreuoun to take
iuto consideration the propriety of ealebratiog, in a portico-
hr rusuuer, A • emery of the A, cessioo of oar
preaeut most gem urea Sovereign to the Throne ;it in the
day on which be eaters the liftieth year of his reign
THOMAS NEUSOM.
We have made the following extract, 'elating to
this subject, from Cottold's beingr an
Abridgment of the Records in the 'lower of Lon-
don, by Sir Robert Cotton, a work frerinentiv re-
ferred to by Hume. in his History If
•' The Parliament holden at 11.4. stininster the
fifteen of S. Hilary, in the sae-acrd-liftieth year of
Edward the Third.

" In the fifteen of S. Hilary, being Tuesday,
next after the conversion of S. Paul, the year
aforesaid, was the first day of the Parliament ; at
what time the Noble and Puissant Richard, Prince
of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Paul of
ter, together with the Bishops, Lord*, Jiinice.,
Commons, and others, suromosiod to this Parlia-
ment, assembled at the Palace at WahriminAtr,
the painted chamber, sherd the Prince. sitting in
the King's own place. in the absence of the King,
being partly disea.ed, the King sent thither his Let.
ter, patents to the said Prince to begin the Partite.
meat.

" The Comm4sioners, or said letters patents
made to the said Prince : After the reading of
which commission, the Ilishopof St. David's being
Chancellor, at the enmmiadinelit of the said
Prince, then end there Peesid.tit, continued the
•aid Parliament until the next day, at nine of the
clock in the morning, for that divers of the Lords
and Corn woos were not then come.

"The next day, the Mince, Bi..hops, Lords and
Commons, assembled in the place aforesaid, where
the said Chancellor began his long oration with
S. Paul, viz. Libenter suffertis iesipieutes, and
applied it, that being wise, desired to hear him,
the contrary.
" He proceeded with Scripture, as that every mes-
senger, bringing joyful news, is welcomed. Th-reby
proving that he should be so, for that he brought
joyful news of the King's good recovery of a dan-
gerous sickness.
" By the which he ■hewed that God loved the
King, and realm. The King, for that, year diligs
eastigo. The King, by the Psalmist, saying 1....r0r
due sitat vatit abundant in leteribus, and thereby
sheweth, that, fur children, no ehri.tian Prince W 714
so happy ; and coatirmeth the said huppiiitnis I.
the above saying, Lt *ideas fans "horsing, ehich
the King saw.
"That God thereby loved the realm, hr proreil by
the recovery of so renowned a Prince, and that his
recovery, to he the fiftieth year of his reign, the year
of jubilee, the year of joy, for that hr world there-
by impart to his said subjects, us well spiritual as
temporal, or bodily comforts.

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" He then, by the similitude, that if the bead
be. wood, and some particular part of the body
diseased, that the said infected member can re-
, c ire no virtue or mike from the head, inferreth,
that u 3 the King being the sound head, and willing
to chew grace and favour to the subjects, the mem-
ben, the infected with vice cannot receive the same;
■ud, therefore, persuaded mirth as would be par-
takers thereof, to conform themselves thereafter by
having love, without which, he proieth by S. Paul,
'that nothing could avail."

Tuesday, there was a roweng-twitch for twenty
inners, between Baoriesost, a waterneun of Bank-
aide, and Wurtasty, a waterman of Three Crane
Stairs. They started at half after Are, and rowed
from the Old Swan. London Bridge, to the )141
Swan, Chelsea. lisoottsom took the lead. mud in
a short tiase distanced his entagonist, and wow the
wager.' -
From the high prices at which the !abided pro-
perty of the late Sir noose K WRI:131111 has biseu
&spotted of. there is reason to expect the dividends
of his effects will be urger then at first apprehend-
ed. On Saturday last there was another sule frt.
part of his estates, in 36 lots, which produced the
stun of 4.2,5651.—Am0ng these a farm •in Seething
and Kirsteetl, of ifio acres, produced 7,,9001., and
61 acres, with an orchard. 6lol.—Four inclossires stf
land in Brooke. containing it) acres, fetched 1,56111.
—.Kiruna Hall. 17e1 mitres (snbjecr to au putgoistg
1;1 111. per ouse.), was kaucked down at 83501.; awl
a piece of pasture land, with a small plantation of
young oaks, iu ail itl acres, sold for 3151.—the
general product of sale about Mill. per acre.

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StAttLe:mituou-sTIVRT.IrIIT.
Bier, Nair Ni.vr, En. Sinks; .11agistrizte.
. DELICATE INQUIRY.
Sire. Ptipakee. late :11.ss Gannitt..;, wits bre ;lit
tie to undltgo a third private exe:c•i o a
c urge of forgery preferred against >sr by Ir,
Kiwis. This, like tht others, was a close coocisir ;
ni at lent every thing ib the power of the Magi.-
mate, was done to make it so. At three o'clock,
Plunket iss introduced by a private door,
dressed in deep mourning, attended Ifj her Soli-
citor.
Mr. ALLEY, Couniel for Mr. King, addressed
the Magistrate as folln.vs
Sir—lt gives sae situ:ere pleasure is being :title
to communicate to you. that, in the case of Mr.
King against Mrs. Plunket, that lady has at lett4th
done that, which in justice she should have dune,
and which is coinpletely satisfactory to I.llr. Km:es
feelings. The lady's friends have now come for-
ward, and adopted those measures, which, it is Mils.
cerely to be regretted, had not teen liken ',mg
since. Some reoresentations have gone forth to
the public, prejudicial to the character of Mr. King,
with regard to this case, which were extremely pant-
fill to his feeling*, and diametrically omtos to to a
true statement of facts; however, as Mr. King is
now satisfied to forego any further proceedings, I
have only to conclude, he expressing the satisfac-
tion I should feel, could the recording angel drop
a tear on the whole occurrence, and blot it from
the tablet of events."
Mr. N LVE said, that, as Mr. Kiiig had come to
the resolution of foregoing ani further proceedings.
ho could only. of course, discharge the affair alto-
gether; however, from the statement* subinitted to
him, he could take no other view of the trrurac-
lion, but that of a ciant;:fai felony. From his
observations, be was inclined ts thmk there had
been soutethia4 likt. tampering, but the fact had
not come to Ids knowledge ; but he WWI hapn to
find it had been Amicably adjusted, withont pie
ceeiling to revere niessures.
Mrs. Plunket seemed much affected, sod its
tears; she did not spe:.ls, 'snit deeps • curtsey to the
Mag grate, on his ordering her recogoieances to U.
quashed.

LANCASTER ASSIZES. - • - • •
MiCiNTIIOI.IB LETTERS.
Milian Wilsou was indicted Tor having feloniertWia
ly written and relit a letter, without any name 644.
ing subscribed thereto, threoteuing to take away
the life oh Thomas Sclaoltield, of Masten,
The ArroeteLe-Claseitat. stated to the Jiiry,
that the Priwrist;r was charged with a capital les
luny, which %vat made so since the 7th of the bite
Yileg, which makes the crime of guiding a lettcr,
without a mime, loilty of felo•), without the be-
nefit of clergy. Vlore threatening language to
murder could not lie described than was to be teuud
in the le:ter. The Prosecutor had served this
office of overseer, fur a [instiller of years, and had
given reels general satisfaction to the pariritioteris„
that they had voted him a silver cups
Thomas Scholfirld said, he war steward to Mrs
Hilton, of Peuington ; lie served the office of mier.
seer nine years ; it was three years rince he was ist
office ; en the ‘29th of April last, when he emit to
the Old Black Buy Inn, at Meochester—the lonise
he usually put up at when in that tower—the (mud-
lady gave him a letter, which she had received by
the post, directed for him; it proved nut to have
any name to tEI the content. of it weir charging
him with having done a number of bad acts to Mr.
tenants, and to the parishioners, while
he was overseer ; telling him to recollect the death
a bad character died; and that before the cock
crew thrice, as it did to Peter, he might hr uo
more; and not to be surprised, when he got home,
if his wife told him hie property was burnt. It was
written in the most low and Abti%ive language the
direction appeared to be by two hands, and it was
sealed with shoemaker's was; hr believed the writ.
ing to be the Pri.oner'r.
The wither& underwent a long cross-examinalino
by Mr. SCARLET:—He acknowledged that he had
not seen the Prisoner write but once, and that was
twelve months since; ackuowiedgeul that he dttt
not make any charge agaiust the Prisoner till the
tGth of June, aithough fir received the letter the
egth of April, and that he knew the Priocier'a
writing ; his son was in Lama-ter Castle hefore he
made the charge; denied knowing that the Pri.
loiter was employed to investigate his sows ac-
counts, as ()veneer, said did not know it now ; and
that, upon the Prisoner's report of his son's ac-
counts. his sou was sent to Lancaster Cattle; the
reason why he did nut make the charge mower
was, he wished to get all the itiforesstion he con!:!;
he kept the letter a secret the day he .rec,ived
and did not Mention-it toasty bedy; *heti he saw,
the Prisoner write, twelve monthi since. be did Doe
see what he wrote, and then he was ebitut two or
three yards distance from Mra, end did nut brow
what lie was writing stout ; denied having raid be-
fore the Magistrates, that the reason for his nut
making the charge sooner was, he expected lie
would have made an apology.
Joii.ithan Seholfteld, the son of the oilier wit-
ness, said, be knew the Prisoner wi ; he. saw him
%rile a note on the 7th of last April, and revecal
times besides, and believed the letter his father had
received to be the writing of the Prisoner. •
Qn his cross-esamisistion by Mr. Cools, he de.
vied that the Prisoner had been employed to eke.
mita* his accounts; but said, he sod others « had
put themselves in that position.” end it was in con-
sequence of them he was sent to Lancaster Castle,
for not giving up his books as over-e« r; ,leveed
having said that his lather woold settle the Prisoner
fir saying his accounts were Mr.tig : but sclin-w..
!eked he had said wit certain other psi sou would
10011 Inflow hint to Lancaster Castle, on account of
the letter his father had received;" never saw a
lime to the letter, or any taken off; boil written
with the Prisoner for two days together, an settling
Ins areinint..

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Thr.ataa IFittchiti deposed. that he had wen the
Pm...tier write se vend tem.'', and was well itetio&tat.
eft with hie writing Hr brlstvelf the tistoa)snuos
letter swiveloy ttw Prosecutor to he the attitiux
of the Pri,oner. The Prosecutor first *hewed hi.
the fetter the bettitutin4 of J.i..r.
He was croot-exotoweJ by Mr. SCAZIAT.
He ackaooludied that he WAS a tensut of the

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Prostrates.; ileitis& baring said that be and the
Prosecutor went ikterasietvi en ban revenged of
the Prisons.r fer oessilies tbeProseeetor's sou to the
Cottle. and if eight espidd vet do, wassfesitould.
The ProvecutesAaesea wee vest to the for tot
deliveries In. books, ea immix of the poor, to
the Jusetets. • •

Ralph Ryder hal-known the Prisoner' for eight
• nr sine years; hail seen his write thnse• er four
tinsel; and. believed the writing of the letter its
'motion. to he his writing.
On his cresemsramioatioo by Mr. Cubs, be ae-
lainwledieel that when the letter was &hewn to him.
he formed no minim respecting its being the hand-
- writing of the Primmer, till he compared.it with
the wrltiog of the Prisoner in the parish books.—.
The Inter omeleded with cautioning the Prosecutor
to beware at destrieetimsi sad- to pray to God Out
- he Might arrive safely atlterael
TheAvidenee being concluded for the present-
, tion, Mr. ScARLeT took ae objection to the indict-
ment. oposethe ground that the whole of the letter
OW not set firth in any part of it, but merely by.
paregrephs dr seatehors ; and they being uncon-
nected, the meaning of the letter was uncer-
tain ; end he contended that it did not amount to
e threatening letter to do any thing by the writer,
Imre merely cautiouril the Prosecutor to be careful
oi:retain evils. The Learned Gentleman cited
Lloyd's cam. in Mr. East's Book, page Ilt2. from
the Rerefordshire Assizes, on a reference to the
Judged; and on account of the whole of the letter
set toeing set forth, the Judges held it to be bail.
Judge CUAMBRIC thought there was sufficient to
ge to the "hwy. being of opinion that the word.
. w bewarepfdeistructiost," amounted to a threat.
Joseph. Thorpe, a schoolmaster, said. he 11211
knows the Prisoner from* boy; considered hint ati
indittlions man, being a good inathematicium ; th..y
had often beau employed in working problems to-
piker, and sat close together when writing. The
writing of the letter ised no resemblance to the
Prisoner's, and he bedsit doubt upon his mind that
it was nut the Prisoners writings '
Chules Thorpe, the Constable who conveyed the
Prosecutor's son from Manchester to Latica.ter,
rad, that while be had kite in his custody, he said
et wield not be long fiefs re the Prisoner world fol-
low him to Lancaster Castle, for writing the letter
to his father; and that hircase was not so had as
the Prisoner's. 'Cho miters had been intimate
with the Prisoner for two years, knew his writing
• well, and wall of opinion the letter was not his a sit-
ing, the direction of whin; appeared to be written
two hands.
John Bra,kliaw. a farmer, said, the Prisoner
taught him writing and accounts; he had
known him fur twenty years; he knew the Pri-
senit'swriting as well as he did bis owns and the
writing of that letter had no resemblance or cha-
ranee et hie writhe!.
William Sharpies said. he had known the Pri-
meter eight years; they both were fend of calcu-
lations. and frirejpently compared each ether's
woltiao ; he eras di opinion that the writing of the
IssAer had no emestablaucts to the Prisoner's
Cneissa*, in summing op the evidence
Observed. that he sever knew writing worse proved.
and the Prey famed him—Yet
The Prisoner was discharged at the bar.