The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

touching certain allegations of bribery during the last general
election foe the borough of St. Ives.
The Lord Chief Justice ordered the defendant to be remanded
in the custody of the Marshal of the Court, and come up again
for judgement on Monday.
THE KING W. WTAVER AN$ OTHERS.
Judgments on the defendants, for publishing libels on her late
Majesty, and others, in the Oohs Bull, was postponed until
next Term.
FRIDAY, FCC. S.
Serjetint Hullock moved the judgment of the Court on
David Ridgway, convicted at the Leicester Assizes of pub-
lishing a 'seditious lihel, viz. Garlile's New Year's Address
to the Reformers. The defendant bring placed ou the Moir,
Mr. Justice Holroyd read hi, note of the trial.
The affidavit of the defendant stated, that be had been put
to great expellee by the prosecution, and was reduced to
great poverty, and that he bad a wife and five infant chil-
dren depending on him for support.
The affidavit of D. Ridgway, nephew of the defendant,
swore that since the bill was found a circular hnd been sent
by the Secretary of the Constitutional Association (the pro-
secutors in this ease) stating the law of libel.
The affidavits of Peter Turner and others, residing in the
town of Manchester, giving the defendant a good character,
were al-n read.
Mr. Brougham addressed the Court, as Counsel for the de-
feudant, in mitigation of punishment. In the conduct of the
prosecutors the defendant had found great cause of com-
plaint. The indictment was originally found at the sessions,
but removed by the prosecutors. Thee was nothing that a
Manchester Jury could nut have tried as well as a Lancaster
Jury. Had the defendant been tried at Manchester, all the
extra and unnecessary' expense incurred might have been
spared. The defendant hail also to complain of another
hardship. Their Lordships had heard the affidavits of David
Ridgway jun. and it si as almost unnecessary to arse tine ob.
servation in proof of the indecency of the act alluded to.—
No affidavit has been put in to answer it, if any answer
could be given, because the parties dare not perjure them-
selves. Bow then stood the mailer t—These prosecutors,
who were su lender of the law, out of pure love for the due
administration of justice, bad pot fur' h, through the medium
of their Secretary, the law of libel in a manner which must
have been pr. judicial to the defendant on his trial. It was
clear they were endeavouting, whether they know it or not,
to prevent the defendant coining into Court before un un-
biassed Jury. Whilst they were circulating attacks on per-
sons guilty, as they supposed, of publishing libels they acre
endeavourio.; to convict the defendant of the same earner.
—lt was a rlanderous attack, until the defendant was found
guilty ; and the mischief was, that it was addressed ltl the
peruses whom they were selecting as a Jury to try the de-
fendant. He was persuaded the Court heard this with in-
dignation, and that it would weigh with them in the judg-
ment they should pronounce.
Mr. Serjeant Hullock addressed the Court in aggravation.
The Conn, after hearing the Learned Sergeant, ordered
the defendant to come up again au Monday to receive the
judgment of the Court.
THE KING V. IOLIIII.

Mr. Tyndall moved for a rule to chew cause why the Co-
roner of the county of Middlesex should not strike a Special
Jury for the trial of this indictment, a former Special Jury
having been quashed.
This the public will recollect was an indictment preferred
by the Constitutional Society against Mr. Dolby for pub-
lishing the Yolttiaal Dictionary. An objection was taken
to the Special Jury, on the ground that the Sheriff, Mr.
Garrott, by ss horn it was struck, wasone of the Constitutional
Society, and consequently a prosecutor. Ulm' a challenge
of the array the Jury was quashed.
The Court asked if the same Sheriff was now in office.
Mr. Tyndall ;answered in the stilt motive.
Judge Bayley.—Take a rule to shew cause.
Ex parte Rios.
Mr. Botch moved for u rule to skew cause why Mr. C.
Murray, an attorney of the Court (who is the uoturious Se-
cretary to the Bridge.street Association) should not pay
over certain monies received front the Court of Admiralty,
having newer accounted fur the same timing ten years.
Mr. Molloy several times interfered, stating that the mat-
ter was still toefore Judge Best, at Chambers, but the Court
would not ;allow him to interrupt the learned Couasel.
Judge Bayley, addressing Mr. Botch, said, you are at
liberty to make an application to the Court, as other gentle-
men are; and you must nut be interrupted.
Mr. Botch then stated, that he grounded his motion on the
following transaction:—Au American ship was taken by an
English cruizer, mot the own. rs petitioned the Admiralty
Court fur restoration. Mr. C. Murray was employed to coo.
duct the proceedings. As the agent of the owners ke re-
ceived test rat thousand pounds out of the Court., and had
never accouiat sal for the same since I WO. Letter. had heel'
sent, but no an wars returned, and when his employers met
him in the it, eet he gave evasive answers. De had papery
in his possessioat a Mich the pal ties were desirous of obtaining.
Judge llayley.—Doesy our alli tacit state he is as employed
by your client as atturat•y I
Mr. Botch.—Yes, my Lord.
Judge flaalroyd.—And that he refused to account for
money received?
Mr. Rotch.—Yes.
Judge Bayley.—Take a rule to shew cause.
Mr. Murray Dieu wished to address the Court, statiug
that the matter was still before Mr. Justice Best, at
Chanabe. 5.
Judge Bayley bring obliged to notice the repeated efforts
oh Mr. Murray to contradact the learned counsel, said, " It
is extremely improper that silly gentlemt n who is an attar
ney should interrupt the proceedings; and if this intermit-
lion was allowed on every cx parse application, the busiuess
of the Court (valid tun go on."
Air. Mut ray thru sat down.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 6.
SINGULAR CASE—James Fleet Cover was brought
up to he hevrd oil his petition to be discharged, and was
opposed by Mr. Norton, on behalf Isaac Itist, a cre-
ditor for 14.391.
Mr. Norton stated, that the insolvent hail for several
years carried on the trade of a cock jobber and of a
dissenting minister. In the yQiir 1810, lie became the
pastor of a religious congrev,ation in Suffolk, of which
Nit.. 111,1, the opposing creditor, who is a farmer, was
a member. For our years the insolvent continued to
dispense the word to his congregation in Suffolk, during
which time he was received with the utmost confidence
in Mr. Rist's family, and became his adviser. Mr. It.
having saved 10001. out of the profits of his farm, the
insolvent, in the month of June, 1815, advised him to
facial it in the funds, which was accordingly agreed to,

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and the insolvent who professed himself an adept in the
management of stock transactions, came to town to
make the investments. Rist had occasion, some time
ago, to draw out a sum of 5001. and subsequently a
SUM of 2001. both of which transactions the insolvent
managed to his satisfaction. The insolvent soon after
came to reside in town, as minister of a congregation,
and Mr. Rist confided the sole management of the 3001.
he then had in the f Is to him, with which, and 2001.
of his own, the insolvent advised hiniihe had purchased
j an Exchequer Bill for 5001.
Mr. Norton here read extracts from a series of letters
written by the insolvent to Mr. Rio, from 1815 to
April 1821, in all of which, except the last, he gave
acccounts of the great success with which he was specu-
lating in the fonds, buying, he said for ready money, and
selling fur the account, and holding the stock fora secu•
rity, so that there could be no loss. Mr. Rist being sa-
tisfied from these representations, the truth of which he
did not doubt, that his money was perfectly safe, he
gave the insolvent an order on his cora:icon for 1741.
and remitted hint 1051. in the h of April 1819, fur
the purpose of increasing the capital that he thought was
in a state of rapid iniprovement. Fur so great was the
skill and success with which the insolvent stated in his
letters he managed the property, that in Jan. 1821, Mr.
Rist's capital amounted to 8391.
In one of the letters the insolvent told Mr. Rist that
he long wished to go to Liverpool and Ireland to f
mercantile connections in the former place. and in
lin, Cork, aml Limerick; and as he conceived personal
application was much the hest means of obtaining his
object, and wishing at the same time to consult economy
saltnuch as possible, he had agreA with the Evangelic
Society to go to Ireland as a Missionary.
The next letter o as written from Ireland,and informed
Mr. Rist thit the insolvent was succeeding in all his
objects, though he had ex:ierienced much opposition
front the ungodly, both in the pulpit and out of it. The
moral state of Ireland, he said, was truly deplorable, and
the people all appeared to be poverty struck.
A letter, written by the insolvent to Rist, in the month
of January, 1821, expressed his sorrow that fist hail not
sooner advised hint of his wanting 3001. as lie (the insol-
vent) had laid out all the money for the April account,
till which time it was locked up, as those trsaisactious
are never altered.
Rist, it appeared, was prevailed on to wait for the mo-
ney lie wanted till the settling day in April, immediately
alter which the insolvent astonished him by a letter,
stating the total loss of his funded propeity.
" It is with infinite grief 1 inform you," said the
insolvent, " mat in consequence of repeated losses, its
rapid succession, I am totally unable to make the pay.
merit you require, as the whole of my property, and that
which you entrusted to my management, are in the same
situation. My losses exceed 1,2001. but I have hopes ro
recover, if my circumstances are kept secret, as my eredit
is good on 'Change, having alwa.,s paid my differences,
though 1 could not ttet payment of those due to me. I
have now nothing but omit 1 receive from the congre-
gation."
Mr. Norton having called on the insolvent to aeknow.
ledge the letters to be written by him, put them in, and
closed his case.
Mr. heath, for the insolvent, said he would follow his
learned friend's example, and not examine, as certainly
no case had been made against him. It was evident that
the insolvent and Rist bad both been gamblers in the
funds together. Mr. ltbd continued the illegal practice
for years, when he thought it profitable, but now that he
finds it a losing bosine.s, he wait is to popish his col-
league for his share in immoral transactions, by which
he has lost all his own property.
l'he Court, after considerable time spent in mosso!.
tation, sat', as the accounts given by the insolvent of
the disposal of his creditor's money bad not been at-
tempted to be contradicted, it must he taken for true,
and by that account it appeared Oyu he hail specurned
with Rist's money with his consent, and had lost the
the whole of it, which wss no dinibt a very common
case with those who gambled in the fonds. Tne
conduct of both parties Was equally illegal, but it did not
appear that the insolvent had oblaitied any money by
false pretences, and it was not pretended that he had
concealed any property; the Court therefore declared
fiat he Was entitled to his discharge.

EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF llousx STEALING --The
stables of several gentlemen in the neighbottritood
of
Bexley and Blackheath, have latch/ been robbed of se-
veral valuable saddle and carriage horses. A few Mains
ago, a pair of carriae,,e horses were stolen nut of the
stable of the Rev. Mr. Frith, of Bexley. Thompsoti,
an active officer, and the coachman, instantly went in
pursuit of the thieves, and they traced them upwards
of sixty miles across the country without the robbers ever
having been seen on a turopike road. Thompson sue-
! ceeded in recovering one of the horses within a mile of
Oxford, in an nut of the way stable ; and the moment
the i i ))) al heard the well-known voice of old friend
John, lie turned round in his stall, and placed
his head on the shoulder of the coachman.
List week a desperate attempt at self destroctim was
made by Corporal Sharp, of the EGth regiment, stationed
at Water ord. Having been put under arrest while on
duty at the mails gult4l, and rearing the r. sort of the
court martial about to investigate the charge 4!antst
he contrived to load his musket milieu:6)oi. atilt to
attach to the trigger the lace of his boot with a loop.—
Thus prepared, he took the first opportunity. mi being
taken to the guard-roomof the barracks, of carrying Ins
dreadful purpose into execinimi, awl, leaning his breast
against the muzzle of his musket, discharged it by Mao,
in; the trigger with his foot !Tue ball, fortunately, did
not enter the ca‘iiy of the chest, hut glanced along
breast bone upwards, wounding him desperately, anti
carrying off part of his left ear. The unhappy man is
still alive, and is even expected to recover. li e friendso
21 years of age, and is a native 01 cork, where bas ns
• are said to be respectable..

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