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London, England, 1820-02-21 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

C:OUItT OF KING'S IiI.NCII, FEr. Is.
CASE OF LI 11F1...—RIUSIBOLD v. CLEMCNT.
This action. which excited some interest, CJitele on for
trial this wonting. The action was brought for the re
cosery of a compensation for the injure luck the plain-
tiff sustained, in consequence of a libel inserted in •' The
Obserser," newspaper, of winch the defrud.u►t is pro-
prietor. The defendant first pleaded Not Guilty. and
atierwards entered :a justified% too, stating the account to
Ire true. •10 this a replication was tiled, denying the
truth of the account; and upon this point issue wa•

joiortl.
Alf..ticarlett and Mr. Chitty conducted the plaintiff'',
and Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Dowling the defendant's
case

si appeared in the course of the trial that the
was contained in AU account of some proceedings at
Guildhall, u► which the plaintiff had been suns ttttt ned
by one Brdfoid, to produce an account of a distress
which he had levied.
The account given in 44 The Observer," in several
instances varied from the actual proceedings. and the
Chief Justice stated to the Jury, that the plaintiff must
recover. The question would be as to the quantity of
dan►ages.
The Jury required leave to withdraw,and, on return-
ing, gave a verdict of 3UI. dan►ages.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
Friday, Feb. 18.—John Itithery was indicted for
killing and slaying Thomas Cookley.
W. Boddy deposed. that he saw the prisoner and de-
ceased on the Ist of February, in the workshop of Mr.
Jones ; prisoner was blowing the bellows and holding
an iron in the fire ; suw them striking it on the anvil ;
saw the prisoner push the hot i at the deceased, who
then struck the former, and a scuffle ensued.
Henry Povey confirmed the above evidence.
Henry Povev, the tither of the last witness, saw the
prisoner and deceased struggling ,• the latter had hold of
the former by the throat. The deceased gave no notice
that he was hurt. They all then went into the hav-loft.
The deceased went down into the yard, and wit tieNc told
him if he would not go to work to go h . He never
knew a mute sober or humane man in his life than the

prisoner.
Thomas Brady, a student at the London Hospital, saw
the deceased at the hospital on Tuesday. There was no
appearance of blood about him. The wound appeared
like a burn, done by a hot instrument ; it was a quarter
of an inch broad, and was just above the groin. It had
penetrated quite far enough to occasion the inflamma-
tion which caused his death. Did not see any part of
deceased's clothes burnt. The intestines bore marks of
a dreadful scorching. Witness hardly thonaht it pos-
sible for a matt to stand on his legs so many hours after
he was wounded.
John Reed deposed that he apprehended the prisoner
at his work, the next morning. He seent.ti much affect-
ed when he heard of the death. He pointed out the
iron he had used against the deceased.
The prisoner in his defence said, he had desired the
deceased to take the irons out of the fire ; deceased
laughed at hint ; he struck him with one of the irons,
not meaning to hurt him. The deceased struck hint
again with the hammer, and to began the scat l'.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner au excellent cha-
racter for sobriety Dud humanity.
Baron Graham I up; he could not account for
the death of the deceased, brit by supposing he had re-
ceived the wound while scuffling.—Verdict—Man-
slaughter.
Charles Elliott. a boy aged but nine years, was in-
dicted capitally for stealing six handkerchieff privately,
from the shop of Mrs. Martha Blakeman, on the Bth of
February inst.
The prisoner set up the defence usually adopted by
the most hacknied thieves.—He was going rather quick,
he said, along Oxford.sireet, and saw another boy,
exactly of his own size, run very swiftly before him.
Immediately he heard the cry of "stop thief," when
the boy dropped a parcel ; 1w (the prisoner) picked it up
and cried nut " you hare lost your silk handkerchiefs.'
The boy instantly turned mend and desired him to keep
them, when at the moment, an officer came up and took
him into custody.
Mr. Ju.tiee Richardson summed tip the evidence, and
the Jury, with little hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty—Death.
illiam Smith was capitally indicted for stealing two
cows, value 361. on the 9th of February, the property
of William Moires.
Mr. Baron Graham addressed the Jury, and the pri-
mmer was found Guilty—Death.
Robert Smith was capitally indicted for assaulting Ed-
ward Weller, at the parish of Shadwell, on the 14th
January last, and taking from his person a silver watch
his loop erty.
he p banter was found Guilty—Death.
Twenty peraons were put to the bar, ..nd pleaded
Guilty to the minor offence of having forged Bank of
England notes in their possession, This plea subjects
them to fourteen years transportation.
Tne following pleaded Not Guilty generally to both
offences, and remain to lw .tied :
William Rose, James Grifiths, John Curtis, Samuel
Bryant, Daniel Lucas, Charles Hunt, and Aurae
Corns. !!
The following were indicted for the capital offence of !
uttering only, and also pleaded Not Guilty :
Charles arris, Stephen Gull, lA'illiatts Jennings,
and John Smith. The latter pleaded to four indictments.
la-sides a fifth for stealing goods in a dwelling-house,
value 101. and upwards.
SATURDAY, FM 19.
BANK PROSECUTIONS.
This day, Mary Hurd, alias M 'ry Davies, and Joint
Palmier, severally pleaded guilty to the minor offence of
having for d Batik-notes in their pos.ession.
John Smith s ood indicted fur having, on the 261110 f
January last, uttered a fogged lols note, with intent to

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defraud the (iov Nor and Cotnpany of the Bank of
England. There w 61.3 also another charge for the same
offence.
Mu:. Ann Appleby stated, that she keeps a hosier's
shop at No. 13, Parliament Street, Westminster; recol-
lects the prisoner coining to her shin, on the Wilt Jan
lasi, and asking for a pair of gloves: the pri oiler's hand
was so large, that coo.tilerable daft:silty was found in
lining it: the prisoner also purchased s other arti-
cles ;the value of the whole was between 21 and 31.; the
pris. tier offered a WI. note in payment; wii less gate
the note to her daughter to go and procure change.
ill a few minutes her daughter returned, without be-
ing able to procure change, and gave the note to the
primmer. Stir afterwards went out again lip the same
purpose. M'hilst Miss Appleby was out the second •
another nun came in, who said that he hail come fur
a pair of stockings, which he had purchased in the
afternoon, but wit cfl he had left, because the witness
could not change him a 11. note. He now paid for the
goods in silver. This person observed to the prisoner,
that it was a fine nie.bs. The prisoner replied, it was.
The Malt SIWII left the shop, and immediately afterwards
the prisoner followed him to the dour, telling witness
that he can'd not wait. He desired the goods to he sent
after him, to the White Horse Cellar, and said hisnanie
was John West. The address was given in the sweet,
as the prisoner was in such haste logo, that the daughter
of witness followed hint to learn it. l'he note was found
to be a forgery. The following day a person called for
the goods and the change, saying, that be waste carry
them to the George and Dragon. Witness refused to
give the goods to the person who called,. bass afterwards
sent to the George and Dragon, and ascertained that
the prisoner was not there.
Attu Appleby, the daughter of the last witness, con-
firmed the testimony of her mother.
Thomas Pace is an officer, belonging to Quieen-square.
office.—Recollects bring scot for to Mr. Mansell's
house., on the 26tli January, where he met Nita. Apple-
by. A tul. note was shewn him, which was the one
now produced. The next mnming he was sent for to
Mrs. Appleby's, and witness accompanied Mrs. Apple-
by's servant to the George and Dragon, Jerinyii-street.
The servant carried souse goods with her. Witness
waited near whilst the servant went to inquire for the
prisoner. They then went to the White H rse Cellar,
but the prisoner was not to be found. On the 3d of
February witness received information that a person re-
sembling the prisoner was in confinement at Tothill-
fields prison, under another charge. Witness took Mrs.
A.Appleby anti her daughter with him, and they idea-
tified the prisoner immediately.
Marryat resides at No. 21, Wilson-street, Fins-
bury square. This witness proved that, upott a previ-
ous occasion, the prisoner had attempted to pass a hi.
note at Isis shop, but left the shop hastily, upon suspi-
cion being displayed, without taking either the pnr-
chased goods, or the change of the note. He here gave
his address John Wilmot), Edmonton, and said that hie
father was a well-known person i.o that place
The showman of the last witness gonfirined the above
statement.
Peter Perry, a Bow Street officer, proved, that in coin •
patty with another officer he apprehended the prisoner
fur another offence. In handcuffing the prisoner his
hand was found to be so large, that witness suspected
him to be the person who had attempted to pass the note
at Mrs. Appleby's shop. The prisoner had been des-
cribed at the office as a man with a hand remarkably

large.
Mr. John Lees, a hank inspector, proved the note to
he a forgery.
Mr. Charles Phillips, a cashier of the flank, proved
that Lis name affixed to this note was a forgery.
The prisoner made no defence, and called no wit.
nesses.
Mr. Justice Graham summed op the evidence, and
the jury found the prisoner Guilty.

Dr. Nlounsey, of Chelsea College, was not upon die
best terms with his wife; and to pass the lime, they
often amused themselves in quarrelling ;—not amiss itt
cold weather, as it is found to save coals. ate Sunda,,
the doctor walked to Fulham, where lie was engaged to
; but io the evening beheld a thunder-storm,
with a continued torrent of rain. No sort of carriage
was to he had hut a re tttttt -hearse, which he engaged to
go by Chelsea. The storm having at length abated, the
lady was at the window when the hearse drove up to
the door. " What do you meant" the said to the
coachman. " I have brought the doctor, madans."—
" Thank God !" was the reply; " now he is as he
should be." The doctor, shoving out, and finding him-
self upon his legs, shook his cane at his kind half, with
this retort, " You jade, I shall live long to plague you,
I hope."
A young man on the point of marriage was drawn for
the militia in Lorraine. In despair he applied to the
Count de Mitry, captain of the regiment, who in cots.•
passion gave hie word that the service should not exceed
one year. The term expired, the captain explained to
the colonel, and requested the man's discharge, which
the colonel flatly refused, as he said the subject was an
excellent soldier, and did credit to the corps. Neat day
he was surprised when the captain waited on bun in
the soldier's attire, knapsack and musquet, with this
address: " My colonel, as the word of a gentleman is
sacred, and I have pledged mine that this man only shall
serve for a year, here is my commission of captain,
which I resign, and ant ready to svrie in his place "
The colonel with shame and amazement signed the
discharge.

A few days ago a large eagle was shot near
Craston-bank, by Joseph Foster, Esq. of Newton
Hall, It weighed upwards of nine pounds, and
the wings', when they were extended, measured
from point to point above seven feet ; it has been
preserved by Mr. W. Resyo of Ainwick.

OS THE HIGHT OF ELECTION.

FROM TOR NORM ICO COCKIER.

HONOURED as are have been by so large a por-
tion of the rank, wealth talent, and respectability
of this great and opulent county, we should ill dis-
charge our duty in return for such independent, and
truly flattering patronage if we did not at the pre-
acut crisis, when a dissolivion of Parliament is so
near at hand, raise a warning voice to the free and
independent Electors of Norfidk, as to the choice
of their future Representatives, fOr on the selection,
which they are about to make, public observation
will dwell with no indifferent gaze, as it has long
been very generally acknowledged, that the County
of Not-161k is the strong fort of Constitutional liberty.
The abettors and minions of corruption would hail
the fall of this bulwark of freedom with vile and
unhallowed applause. But there are even among
Tories, in many parts of the United Empire, men
of sensibility and comprehension, men of deep re-
flection and extensive inflirmation, who regard the
County of Nortidk, as the peculiar seed-plot of
Whiggism, and who, conscious of the important ad-
yaniages to be derived from an antagonizing princi-
ple in Governatent, look upon this county as one of
the great mounds for arresting the progress of des- '
potism ;—such men have not hesitated to declare
their wishes, to see the head of one ancient Whig
family restored to those proud representative honours,
which his ancestor so recently enjoyed, and which
are so justly and gratefully appreciated by our pre-
sent Representative, as being far superior to any
titles Kings or Princes can bestow.
If the animating principle be not fled, the inde-
pendence isniferred by great wealth must render the
possessor a far more eligible rzpresentative of this
opulent county, than a person who, with inconsi-
erable means, appears to posses not that stifficientd
firmness of character, to resist the smiles and seduc-
tions of that mighty conjurer, Lord Castlereagh.
But not to dwell longer on these preliminary
qualifications, let us briefly review the parliamentary
conduct of our present Representatives, and then
come to those conclusions so indispensable for Electors
to draw previous to a dissolution of Parliament.
Our political opponent is acknowledged to be a man
of amiable manners, and of unexceptionable inte-
grity, in private se jactet iu atria—but if
we look upon him as describing a larger circle in his
parliamentary orbit, we shall perceive more super-
&les, but no solidity. His first fruits were visible
in his support of Suspension, Gagging, and Indem-
nity Bills; and one of his first political acts was,
to set aside that Trial by Jury, to which he has
since professed so inconsistent an attachment. Ills
vote in this respect is quite at variance with all the
solewn mockery displayed at a county meeting. In
the new Parliament some vainly imagined he would
turn over a new leaf. be no longer led captive by
the courtesy of Lord Castlereagh, cut • Brugge
Bathurst, and cease to be a chorus-laugher at the
unfeeling jests of Canning ; we still however find
him fighting in the ranks of this memorable trio ;
we still find him swelling the ph edits, with which
the many rend the skies, when they alternately sip
the oil and vinegar of Castlereagh and Canning;—
we find him dosing amid the drowsy effusions of
Brugge Bathurst, or bewildered in the contusion
worse confounded of Vansittan. In the first Session
of the new Parliament we find him voting for a
grant of 10,0001. a year to the Duke of York, for
performing the instinctive duties of a son—duties
which derive all their grace from being unbought.
In the next place, we would direct the attention of
his friends, as well as of his adversaries, to the con-
duct of the Ministerial Representative of this county
an respect to the Catholic question ; it is confidently
believed that he had professed himself favourable to
Catholic Emancipation previously to his admission
to the Senate ; but finding himself in a dilemma,
from the strong prejudices ot• his Clerical adherents
on the one hand, and his aversion to offend the
Catholics on the other, he took a diagonal line, and
paired off! ! !
Lastly, we come to the Manchester Tragedy, and
here we would willingly close the book of account,
in which the transactions of the 16th of August are
inscribed in churactL rs of blood—
Lest the morn behold so foul s oisht
As *Quid blanch forever her rosy light."

Suffice it to say, that this inamorata of Ministers
voted against all inquiry into these horrid transir-
tions, and thus effectually precluded them from ever
reaching the vaunted land of promise, where the
Trial by Jury was to redress all grievance, and fur-
nish a panacea tir all disorders. The matter was
(it was said) in a course of investigation, but Lord
Castlereagh raised his draw-bridges, and the Whigs
were excluded from all scrutiny and discussion, and
the nation from all explanation and satisfaction on
the subject. That this ministerial enthusiast should
support the lute Bills which tidlowed as corollaries on
the heels of the Manchester tragedy is quite natural
iad consistent; but it behoves this great and epu-