The National Register.
London, England, 1816-12-23 00:00:00

YOUNG WATSON.

in4elligenee has as yet been received at Bow-
street, respecting young Watson. Vickery and Ifven-
der still continue their searches on the coast. !llama

it will be advisable not to relax the efforts which arc

making for the apprehension of this young man ; for if
In London, there is no doubt, when the fever of pursuit
Is over, that he will attempt getting to America.
A report has been circulated that a gentleman, a
Quaker, has been heard to declare that young Watson
did not shoot Mr. Platt, but that the person who com-
mitted the foul crime was a man in sailor's attire. This
report on enquiry proves to be ercpneous. The Lord ,
Mayor sent for the gentleman in qaestion, and he de-
clares that he never made any such observation as that
attributed to him, nor did he know any thing except
from hearing of the circumstances attending Mr. Platt's
misfortune.
We are happy to state, that Mr. Platt is recovering
suAlly from the effect of his wound. It has been de-
termined not to cut for the ball. If the ball retains its
spherical form, it may work out of some other part of
the body with:out aerating this health of the patient.
It is expecte4 the Lord Mayor will have made up
his mind on Monday to commit all the persons in cus-
, Cody in the city, on charges ef being concerned in the
late riots, for trial, on charges of being principals or ac-
cessories in the felonies which were committed.
It is now asserted, we know not with what truth,
that the description of the person of young Watson is
very inaccurate. We suppose that the error, if any, has
been as usual on the side of deformity : that he has been

made much shorter, much plainer, and much shabbier
than he really is. Indeed one paper says positively that
he has no mark on his right cheek, and that his appear-
- a•:ce is more than commonly respectable. Anger and
hatred are terribly liable to deform all they touch, and
foolishly publish to the world as a real likeness what,
in fat, is but the false image presented by the distort-
in medium of prejudice. Be this as it may, Young
Watson still evades pursuit. Bishop has returned from
his mission ; and although every thing promised very
fair, he was not in the right scent. By some persons it
is believed that Watson is not three miles from London,

and that he is under the protection of his party, many
of whom, it is said, are sworn to secrecy ; mean time
several persons going about their lawful business, or in
quest of employment, have suffered much personal in-
convenience, and it is probable that many others may
yet be apprehended. In fact, in country places every
stranger, not an old man, who males his appearance,
is suspected to be the assassin of Mr. Platt ; and should
he proceed on his journey before mine host has satisfied
himself respecting his birth, parentage, and education,
the hue and cry is raised out against him ; the report
of his narrow escape is circulated as quick as the mail
can carry it, in the direction of the route of the stranger;
and all being thus put upon the alert, the probability
is that other travellers will be stopped on their journey.
The letters received en Friday by the Lord Mayor
upon the subject of the riots amounted, in postage, to
about 51.

Tuesday a few individuals assembled at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, and, under the specious appella-
tion of the Electors of Westminster, voted an Address
to Lord Cochrane, full of compliments to his Lordship,
and teeming with abuse against almost every other pub-
lic character in the country. The Address, and a string
of Resolutions of similar tendency, were of course una-
nimously voted. The framers of these precious docu-
ments have made the notable discovery, that Lord Coch-
rane's recent imprisonment was a breach of the privilege
of Parliament ! Among all the precedents which they
have examined, we should like to know if they met
with the case of u Member of Parliament sealing the
walls of a prison in which he had been confined in
eonscqueni.e of the verdict of a British Jury ?
The Dublin papers last received state, that at an Ag-
gregate Catholic Meeting, held on the 17th, in that
city, a resolution was proposed, confirming the resolu-
tion of the Catholic Prelates of the 26th of April List,
in favour of domestic nomination, and strongly recom-
mending the adoption of such canonical proceedings as
may be most likely to obtain that object. The result of
the ra,eting is not known.
It appears from accounts from Glasgow of Tuesday
se'unt, that not the least attempt had been made to
disturb the public tranquillity. A proclamation has
been published by the Lord Provost, and a large sub-
scription raised the relief of the distressed.
Mr. Whitbread has thrown open his Manor of Car-
dington, near Bedford, for public coursing matches
during the season, highly to the gratification of the
neighbouring sportsmen.
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PertY
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DECEMBER QS.

wan employed to execute a work by which he would cleat-
not less thou from 11. to 15,0001.

Lord Ellenborough summed up, and the jury retired to dc•
liberate. After consulting' for more than an hour, they re•
turned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 2501. being.
401. beyond the sum paid into Court.

FRIDAY, DEC. 20.
JONI r. antis.

This netion was brought by the plaintiff, butler in the
family of General Morgan, against the defendant, proprietni
of the Eclipse stage-coach, running between Colchester and
London. to recover a compensation fur the breaking of the
plaintiff's leg.
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The Attorney-General, in opening the case, observed,
that of late years a complete change had taken place in the
mode of travelling through the kingdom; formerly, those
who wished to proceed with more speed than ordinary, hired
post chaises, while the more steady part of the community
went in stage-coaches, which journeyed at a convenient anti
regular pace; but now post-chaises were out of fashion, ex.
cepting with a few individuals, who valued their own lives
and those of the King's snbjeets; and persons who were de.
strona of travelling in great state, and with the utmost cele-
rity, intrusted themselves to vehicles which undertook to pass
over the distance in the shortest possible time. On the Col-
chester road there was a violent opposition between 'the
Eclipse and the Times, and, Incredible as it might appear, he
believed that one of those coaches had performed the jour-
ney of Sl miles is the short space of 3 hours and 18 minutes.
The plaintiff was on his way to London, to visit a relation,
and mounted the Eclipse at Brentwood. in Eases, as it passed
through that town. The horses there had been changed, of
course they were of uncommon strength and spirit, and at
the first start a part of the harness broke, which occasioned
a short delay; a second time the coach set off at bill speed,
and the reins, as would be proved, being extremely rotten and
unfit to be used, gave way, and left the coach and pas.
sengers at the mercy of the horses. They draggad the ve.
hick with the utmost violence against a post, and by the eon.
cos/non the plaintiff was thsown trout the dickey, and his leg
was so dreadfully broken, that the bone protruded not only
through the skin, but through the boot he wore. Ampotatiou
was in consequence necessary: and for this injury, perma-
nent in its elects, the plaintiff had a right to expert a
liberal compensation.

John Jones deposed. that he was brother to the plaintiff,
who was an outside passenger by the Colchester coach, be-
longing to the defendants, on the 31 of Arrest last, he got up
at Brentwood for London. and the witness saw him set off.

John Clarke said, that the defendants hired di, it startles
at Brentwood of hint. On the 3d of August he saw the
Eclipse changing horses at the Swan ; the horns were play.
ful as usual. One of the wheelers broke a part of his har.
ness ; he did not know whether one the leaders did the same.
After the coach started it made a stop, and the witness went
to see what was the mater. He found a soling woman
coming down, and the witness eanglit her in ►is arms;
the roach was jammed against the post; the accident was
owing to the breaking of the reins. He saw the plaintiff
against the opposite post ; people were 'wing. WI his boot,
and the blood was gushing out, the hone protruding through
the boot. He was no jatige of horses. He did not know at
what rate the coach travelled.

Cross-examined.—He said, that the part of the harness
which broke was a chap belonging to the collar: ono of tho
wheels was about five inches higher than the other.
Lord Ellenhorough observed, that •according to the evi-
dence given, there appeared to be .oeli ea insufficiency iu
the reins as to render the defendant. liable.

Mr. Topping said, that he should not attempt to controvert
that point.
In answer to a question from the Jury, his Lordship added,
that the main and only question was as to the fitness of the
reins to the purpose for which they were used.
Mr. C. Butler, a surgeon, at Brentwood, had been called
in to attend the plaintiff; the antic was completely crwhed,
and the larger bone of the leg was forced through the beet.
The leg was cut off on the joint opinion of three medical
men ; the witness charged 20 guineas.
Samuel Jones proved, that the plaintiff had given 221. hi.
for a shaped leg, and John Jones that ill. Ss. 11d. had berm
paid for expenses at the Swan at Brentwood.
The Attorney General indicating that his ease was closed,
Lord Elenhorough observed, that it was necessary to show
more distinctly that the plaintiff's leg was broken in er:se-
quence of the driving of the coach against the post. It was
impossible to go upon conjecture.
The Attorney-General submitted, that the inference could
not be resisted; the plaintiff was upon the coach, and taken
op with his leg broken after the accident; be, however,
called a witness of the name of Davis, he saw the plaintiti on
the dickey of the coach, and spoke to him. He went over
the previous circumstances in the same manner as the other
witnesses ; when the coach came against the side of the road
•it broke a pile that supported the path-way, an ran against
the wall; one of the wheels was raimml about 18 inches, and
while the plaintiff was endeavouring to jump down, the jii k
of the coach threw him forward about two yards or more.
He could not swear esactly whether he attempted to jump,
or whether he was thrown off by the violence He could
not say positively it' the plaintiff made any attempt to jump.
Lord Ellenhorough was of opinion, that the last witness had
proved enough to go to the jury,
Mr. Topping for the defendant, complained of the intiam.
matory address of the Attorney. General, who, by his own
Ingtinity, had made up fur the deficiencies of his ease. He
contended that the injury sustained by the plaintiff was to be
attributed to his own imprudence in jumping ur attempting
to jump, while all the other passengers who kept their seats,
were In perfect safety. The plaintiff had trusted to hi, ac.
tivity, and in the act of jumping off was caught hold of by a
woman who sat next him, which turned him round and (seem
sioised the misfortune.
Mr. Ellis, a ►hop titctor in the Borough, deposed, that he
sat dim eetly behind the coachman : ut first starting, the horses
appeared rattier unmanageable, and the coachman pelted
them in with some violence ; one hors o was not mister eon-
trout, and the dri• pulled the other towards I'