The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-08 00:00:00

7'HE NEW GARDEN ROBBERY ACT.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
An Inquisition, which bad been adjourned from Friday last, was
on Tuesday afternoon resumed at the JoHy Oratdeners public-
house, Peascod-lane,, Windsor. before •FAINISS liar, Eery, the
Coroner for Berkshire, on the body of Thomas Cooper, a young;
man who was shoclut week by Mr. William Blowsheld, a market
gardener in the neighbourhood, whose grcunds at the tote, in con-
junction with two others, he was in the act of plundering.
Till the passing of the Act, rendering it a felony, in the close of
the last Seision of Parlitment, the staling of garden produce from
the grounds while growing wasaccotuned a trespass, and was only
punishable by a brae equivalent to the amount of damage done,
or, in event of non-payment, by imptisonment. The inadequacy
of this punishment was severely felt by the market gardeners, of
whom there are many In this county, and whose grounds were con.
tonally being plundered by gangs of lawless fellows, who,
emboldened by the smallness of the penalty, sad calculating
upon the probabilities of escaping detection, bad at last attained
to such a pitch of insolence, that it was no uncommon thing
tor the plundered party to be taunted, by being shown some of the
fruit procured by the depredations of the-preceding night. In this
mannet the deceased man happening to meet Air. Blowsheld in the
street, not quite a tottnight back, insulted him by pulling some
apples out et his pocket, and holding them up exclaimed. " Bete,
you old fool, will you have some cheap apples." The deceased's
family have long borne a very indifferent character In the neigh-
bourhood ; two of his brothers have been transported. and he him-
self has' repeatedly been convicted of robbing orchards, and for
other petty depredations.
William Cooper, labourer, the•fatber of the deceased, stated that
on the night of Saturday week be went to bed about too o'clock.
About two hours afterwards lie heard the deceased open the street
door, and go to his own r,om. Ile groaned very mach, and in
consequence wit:teas and his mother went to him, and inquired
whet was the matter ? lie answered that be bad been abot. and it.
quested a Doctor might be sent for, which was accordingly done.
Witness observed several gum-shot wounds on different parts of his
son's body, and from which the bloctiwas Bowing. Mr.llolderness,
the surgeon, soon after attired, and• examined and dressed his
wound,. At subsequent interview which witness had with his
son, the latter expressed his conviction that 'he was &dying man,'
and after -so saying. lie, in answer to witness's inquiries, stated,
t that " he went over into Plii Witeckey's, meaning Blowstield's,
garden, with Thomas Field, of Datchet, and another man who I
worked at Slaughter's, in Clever parish, and that a 'man suddenly
came upon them from behind an apple tree, and caHed out—who's
there ? They did not answer, hot turned to run off, whet die man
Fred upon them, and wounded bin :ered. one or his companions "
Mary Cooper, the mother, corroborated this evidence, and in ad-
dition stated, that on the Sunday morning Fiefil called upon her,
and shoot l the wounds on his arm and side which he had received,
and which be said he got dressed by a surgeon at Calobrook.
Mr. lloklernese, surgeon, had been called in to attend the de.
ceased ; there were nearly 70 shots- in different parts of hie body.
Witness attended hint till the time of hitaticath which he was of
opinion was 'caused by the effusion of blo4
,linto the cavity of
the chest, and trythe inflammation ofthe heart and lungs, both pro-
duced by the gun-shot wounds boded remised.
Mr. Blowatield, the markerzgarskner, • after being 'cautioned ta
say nothing that might criminate himself, was neat sworn. • Ile
stated that' he resided in a cottage on the garaes..and that his_
most valuable fruit having been continually plutidered, he deter-

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mined on keeping a watch; and on the-nigliof Sstunlay week he
saw three men gathering apples from a tree, near the centre of the
garden. lie called out to them to desist and surrender themselves,
telling them that if they attempted to move he would tire upon
them. They, however, ran off, and he fired his gun at them
when at a vhstance of about forty yards. tie was not aware that
he had wounded any of them till the following morning.
This being the whole of the evidence, the. Coroner summed it
lip ; when the Jury expressed a pretty general opinion that the
case was one of justifiable homicide.
The Coroner said that was the opinion be himself entertained;
but as the Act making the robbery of iontdens a felony had been
but recentlyy• passed, and as it wan by at Act that the deed of
Mr. illowtsfield was, if it all, .to be justified,, he should prefer ad-
journing the inquiry till he could procure a copy of the ,10..
Aecordingly•the Jury adjourned from Friday till Tuesday last,
when they re-own:Waist she tame place.
The Coroner, artefact:ming to the object for which they had
again met, produced the new Act, which was passed on the bib
of July, and keratin operative from and after the Ist of August last.
After reading the Act, the Coroner Stated that the case being a
new one, lie hail, for their and his own satisfaction, taken the
opinion of Counsel thereon, and which he read to them; and in
winch the Learned Counsel had stated, that, under the circum-
stances, he was of opinion that, by virtue of the recent Statute,
the firing upOn 'and killing the deceased was an act of justifiable
homicide.
The Jury, without healtatien, returned a verdict to that effect.

LI VE RPOUL, TUESDAY EVENING.

Wind, N.W.—High Water, 4?. nt. p. 4.
Arrived the Iris, New, from New York ; Carl and Robert, Orts-
chid, Danuic.
Sailed 4tb September—liavannah Packet, Ramsay, for Quebec ;
Sener.a,.l4ovely, New York.
sth:—Roscoe, lisrgresves, Calcutta; Hercules, Marshall, New
York ; Criterion, Rice, Portsmouth, N. II.; Indefatigable, Smith,
Pernarnbucco ; Canadian. Udney, Quebec. •
6th.—Helena, Krine, Wismar; Vrow Helens, Oreeven, Ant-
werp ; Stokkey, Copenhagen ; Ceres, Vink, Ostend.
Air the Port—Two ships and three brigs, at 7 o'clock.

Our Cotton Market is very dull, little doing, and prices rather
lower.
Our Corn Exchange was not an well attended today as expected,
and the few sales which were made were at a reduction of 3d. on
old ‘Wheat, and 6d. on new ; and in Oats 2d. per bushel on old,
and 3d. on new. The !Rutted closed .VIP2J heavy, and more sellers
than buyers at our quotationig
CORN-MARKET. Tuwata*C• SEPT. 6, 1025.
DRAIN. P. d. a. d.
Wheat per Bushel 701b.—English (old) - 9 6 a 10 3
Ditto (new) - 9 3 a 19 0
Scotch 8 3 a 10 6
Irish (old) - 7 0 a 8 4
Diuo Now V 2 • 9 9

nreign. free - 8 3 a 8
Ditto (in bond) . 4 0 a 4
Canadian - 7 5 a 8
Oats par Build of 451b.—Irish Potato (old) 211 a 3
Ditto (new) - 3 3 a 3
English,Scotch&Welsh 3 U a 3
Common 2d. a 3d. lower.
Barley pee 661b.—English . 5 3 a I
Irish - . - 4 9 a 5
Malt per 9 galls. • . . . - 86 a lii
Oatmeal per 24015.—English - - 28 0 a 30
Irish - - - 24 0 a 26
Flour per 2240b.—English - - 52 0 • 34
Irish - 24 0 a 26
American per INlb. - 24 0 a 20
Dantric - - 0 U a 0
Foreign, free 0 0 a 0
Beans par Quarter—English - . 46 0 a 49
._ _

—t;ngt
Irish
Foreign
Peu per Qeuter— English, White
I)itto Grey
Foreign -

44 0 • 46 0
00a 0 0
-00 a 0 0
00a 0 0
00a 0 0

IMPORTED FROM Tnz 30TH AUOVIT TO TYE STD OP
SEPTEMBER INCLUSIVE.

Foreign - 2,468 qrs.
Ireland - 8,5:41
Constwise . 413

Total - 11,501 qrs.
Flour:
Ireland - 70 aka
Coastways . 55

Barlei :
} °reign

Coasiways

- - We qrs.
418

Total - 928 qrs.
Bans

Coastwise - 1,043 gra.
Pease
Foreign) - 123 qrs.
Coastwise - 32

Total - 131 aka.
American - brie
Oats;
Foreign . 5.10 cp.
Ireland - - 5,329
Coastwise - 220

145 qrw.
Oate,anl :
Ireland -M Ida.
Coutways Gig

Total - 1,253 las.

Total - 0,09'J qrs.
EXPOLITED IN T 1
- . 1,516 brla.

HE SAME PERIOD.
Beans . .

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

lib qrs.

The Lavinia, Brooks, has arrived in the Downs, she sailed from
the Cape the 9th of June, 1821
SHIP AERIVED AT THE CAPE—The Atlas. Hunt, from Lon.
dot) the sth of June.
The Britannia, Bourke, was to sail for London on the sth of
July.