The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. NVESTMINSTER.
THURSDAY, APRIL '2(l.
Mr. Brougham and 1l r. Denman came into Court
this mornini‘, soon after the Lord Chancellor had taken
his twat, and were addressed by his Lordship in the fol-
lowinz: words:—" Gentlemen, I understand tier Ma-
jesty the Qiieen has been graciously pleased to appoint
yo►: her Attorney-General and Solicitor General : you
will please, in consequence, to take yonr seats within
the bar, next to Mt. King's Counsel." The two learnt d
gentlemen accordingly took their seats as directed, and
were severally asked t.y his Lordship, pro pima. if they
-had any thing to move; after which they withdrew to
the other Courts, where the saute forms were gone
through.

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'COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL.

LIREL—THE CENOTAPH COMMITTEE.
NOTAI.I. V. CLEUENTit.
Mr. Searlett stated his case to the Jury. The plaintiff
had to complain of a gloss libel which hail hero iiaerted
bs
the defendant in his pap r, " the Ousel yer,", reflecting on
the plaintiff's c i.iracter, and on those of the oth,r
iudici-
duale whit coma itutcd the Committee, as well a- on r. 31.
W eat I, the architect, imputing to them fraud and imposture,
gni) charging them with appropriating to their own use the
funds of the sidiscription lor erecting; a Cenotaph the
theroory of the late lamented I's litresCharlotte. The lilt( I
was inserted its the foi in of a letter signed Investigator.—
r. Seurlett was preparin: to prove his ease, whets
Mr. Adolphus, fur the defendant, said his client was most
ready to 'dead guilty to every part of the charge, except
ha% ins wilfully libelled Dr. NOttall. The plaiiitflf had
declared his object was not pecuniary damages, hut the jus-
tificatimi. A. far as that object could he obtained l> the
defendant's declaration it was now On:tilted ; the defendant
was not in a condition to 1)3) heavydriimiL., 6. Ile was
ready to consent to a verdict tor AI. and Gists, and trusted
the plaintiff would accede to this proposition.
The plaintitracceding to this offer, a verdict was entered
accordiugly.

WARWICKSHIRE ASSIZES.
Ann Hestrey v..ae charged with the murder of her
mistress, Sarah Dormer, of Ashow, near Warwick.
Eliz. Dormer said, she was the ihnighter of \lr. J.
Dormer, of Ashow. In the evening, of the murder,
the witness, her eldest brother. her two sisters, and a
Mr. Hinde, went to Mr. Alridge's, at Thickihorn ; they
returned a few minutes past seven. Iler another made
tea, am! the prisoner waited on them.—When they
went ont they left her mother, her father, Mr. Harris,
two Mr. Brays, and the prisoner in the house. NVhen
they reiiirmd, she perceived the prisoner in the passage,
'very much agitated. NA IllleSS asked her if any body had
been there. She answered nobody. Oa the floor of
the passaße witness observed souse drops of blood; they I
were smeared, as if some one had atientvtott to Wiiie
them up. She asked the prisomr what she ita,l In. it
doing. She said nothing. She asked her to mop it up.
She .did so. Witness then asked her where her mother
was. She said she was gone towards Ashow. Tier
sister Harriet called " Mother" repcaiedly, but getting
no answer she asked the prisoner where her mother was.
Site said, about ten minutes ago she went into the gar•
den to et some cucumbers. Witness then went up-
stairs. 11cr mother's room door appeared shut. Her
sister Mary followed her, and its a moment she heard
her scream violently, and cry out, " Oh, my mother is
murder is murdered ! my mother is ommet id 1" Witness
ran to her mother's room, and found hor mother dead.
There were drops of blood in the passage, but she did
not observe any on the staircase.
Mary Dormer, aged 14, corroborated this evidence.
The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty,
when sentence of dewh was passed upon her. She was
executed on Thursday. She was about 2:.! years of age.

aNTEF b.fcr SESSIONS, Thursday, Aprill3.
KING ♦. MITCHELL.
Mr. AWennn stated that the indictment charged the
efendurit, that he being a malicious, seditious, and ilLaiis•
its..P.al person, did, on the foto h of October last, in ameetiag
beld near Ht;ifas, maliciously and uiliawfully speak to,
and in the prewar. - at Jivers liege subjects of our said Lard
the King, then and there assembli d, amongst other things,
foefolhos sedii ous .4-dt, %hick air contained in the
second euuot (aba b cumprises the whoie of what is stated in
the o►ber town.):
46/Our inllll9olltV the happiest and nattiest tinder the sun,
s stow a disatace to the e)e of Heaven, on account of the
• utgled cat caul of the men with a Inch it is flit tl. IN /WI,
✓te./are we to do ? Are we to petition the Pratt.. lie_i tit?
rbat would be useless, becata- he lea. (11.111kell the Nl.,it-
eltester im.gisi rates Art..o . Are w. to pent iiii; the House
of Conieuuir• No, that would h • its. Irs•. Retire•:. 111101
that noun; ih,u4 is in.p.A. r. "let 11,11/111/1 11111 COI
rapt bud) 10 dl/,p151111. 10 I.- br
absurd. r as ivrt; a•i. it let rt•fulnk itself, se loch
would he- like pas ing s r iii to give hack the loupes ty 111
bad stolen, and he liam.ed. t)I there would he tn. ancut
revaiutioti its &Octal:flint, C.•I. Ilai tun a part tit his pi
and giving ;di the pour .1 bill:1'110111u., (tom the ier,, t 5,,,u•,
of the He•ttot it.. the Crakes of Norfolk, and the I. lILW 1111 nib
Cerlaiuly MI there might ; but how titan) at tsar ',Lola.,
Imputation vs oula b to 'wilted by it ? It has been made
law then a n4liti al debt should he Mem, eit, mid that is ILOO
millions; but as or can repeal sonic law., why should we
not repeat ibis I Anti it um: be r pealed, if the n hole
sunk to the buttons of the se.l. Hut I allubl out dept ivr the
poor a don. nod alto 111114/ 111111/) to the 1.11114, of
of tbri..; I. mil 1001. 10, !,iii I a Ire w.th ur mead, slr.
Cubit .. re Amodio :.)ste 111 s .d nr 1- 'need,
and floe- .• .1.;v.. amass.. /0 1111.111WIIICS AlOlllll be
made to i• , p
Mr. it on, air. the ens'• I 1... •jut).
The hiss nttoee call, Jolt.. 'ryas, who sia.d hr
is connected a ith " 'I tines" newspaper. He attended
a public wectios at bkircont-unior, near lialifaz, (or the

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purpose of taktog a report for that paper, on the 4th of
Ot tidier last. Heat a the defendant address the people.—
A fief sums observations 011 U loyal deClaril Soo a hi, is had
adepted at Ilablav, he went on to slate, that Ott y
wanted to destrov whoredom and bad ptiueiples, and not
bad mess ; but if the, were oppressed by bail principles,
they would desi toy had men and tsrasits, rather 01°11 be
oppressed by them. Mr. Mitchell then went oil and said,
" Our land, once the noblest nod happiest wider the suit, is
tom a disgrace to the 01. of I leaven, on account of the
mangled carcases vt itli It is Is tilled. What thrum are vet-
t" do? After sayiu it would he useless to petition the
Prince Regent, he proceed( ii as follows:- -.6 Ale we to
petition the Hose of Commons? No ! that would be still
more uteless. Redress from that house! the thing is Stuarts-
sihle. To petition that co. rupt body would be worse Man
absurd ; it w 'mid be worse Oa., asking a thief to glee hat k
the property lie had stolen, and he hanged." Mitchell Oleo
paused and turned s mold itpois his assertion, mid recoils°, h-
dcd they should 10 . Obst's Val MISS U rue illels
made b, Stilleben idiom taking the i atonal from the Corin-
thian column, and also about Col. Rot toil, which introduced
the follow in..; But, 1r ! there would be a great resolu-
tioit in taking part of Col. Horton's proptrty, , and iviog it
to the; , and a small portion from the Itedflll de, the
Cokes of Norfolk, and the Fitz illiams." Ile then re-
peated. " 0 hut there would be an awful revolution," and
said something about the Mods, which the wiliness said he
he did not take any note of ; but some time after, in swooning
sip his asgument, he said, Certainly there would, but thrum
loin many of our mai vitas; poor would he relieved ?" Wit sit Fs
said that Mr. Mitchell was here called to older, lle said
also something about a telanding system, to thus effect, that
he did not wish to take from the poor widows and orphans
their small enmities. kilos was cross examined at great
length by Mr. :Mitchell, bat nothing transpired to vat s
the account lie had giveti of the language used by the
defendant.
Mr. Edward Baines, jun. attended the meeting, for the
purpose of takin a report for the " Leeds Mercury." lie
proved the words is nielt had been sdateil by the last witness,
and stated mire fully that part of Mr. Mitchell's speech
which related to the fundlng system. lie observed," that
the tuitional debt was a thousand mill' ; but which, us
his friend Knight had observed, having been created by one
law, they might pass another to repeal it, mid it ought,
(continued Mr. atilt-hell) to be repealed, if the whole was
sent to the bottom of the sea.
This whiten( was truss-examined at great length by Mr.
Mitchell.
Mr. Mitchell then addressed the Jury in a speech which
occupied an hour awn a Ealf its the delivery. lie admitted
that he had travelled a good deal for the purpose of advoca t
the cause of reform, aed that he Mid attended meetings
',snivelled for this purpose in different parts of the. kingd
he mentioned Wolverhampton, Sheffield and other places
which he had visited for that purpose. But his motives
were pure. Ile had twin objects in view in his itinerating,
firsts to assist in procuring a radical reform, w Melt he then
thought, and still thinks, was the oily means of relieving the
burdens under which the people buttered. Ili. se I object
was to prevent the people having recourse to violence. Mr.
Mitchell contended that the circumstances of this prosecu-
tion not having been iii.tituted by she Attorney or Solicitto--
(leiseral was a presumption that what be had said was not
consideied us de-ervior legal attimativersitto.
lie then adverted to hi, connexion with Oliver, alai hail
been introduced to him i.s a s honest man, and he had no
reason., (luring Isis Mies course es ith him, to suppose to the
coutiary. Mr. Mitchell conclude-a his speech vi ith
uvfursl-
jug the Jury to dismiss from their minds all imp, ,iOll6
which had been made to his prejudice, and to he governed io
their verdict solely by the evidi 'ices The defendant called
%% knaves, none of iv hoot took any notes. of the speech of
Mr. Mitchell, and they professed to remember it very Ins-
fectly ; but they all stated that they had some rerollee-
lion, more or less distitict,of several of the expressions spoken
to by the a itnesses on the part of the prosecution.
The Jury, after consulting together a short time, found
the defendant guilty of the seditious language, but acguit-
led hiss of the conspiracy.
111 r. 'Maude, on the part of the prosecutor, recommended
Mr. Mitchell to all the lenity which the Court could show
him, consistent with their duly to the public.
The magistrates re tired to deliberate opus' the judge-
ment to be passed upon the defendant : after remaining
in consultation about ten minutes, they rut tinted into
Court, and the Cliairinait sentenced the defendant to be
imprisoned, in the Castle at Yolk, six mouths, and at the
es pit 'slims of that period to eater into his own itecogni
xebec of 'lOOl., and two sureties of 50/. each, to keep the
peace fur two years knitter, and to be further imprisoned
until such security was given. 1