The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-09 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Wknx ems sr, AUG. 5.
Ex-porte GEORGE TURN La.
Sir S. Rnmilly presented a petition, on affidavits, from e •
persons, praying for a writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed to
Preston 1101114, the Keeper of an Ass lam fur homilies, near
York, to bring up the body of George Turner, who we'
there imprisoned miller preteace of being iu a stale of
derangement: it appeared that George Turner, a man some-
thing beyond the middle age, had come to London w ith A
view of publishing sonic religions winks: having done so a:
considerable expense, he was returning again into the country,
when he was arrested by his son Alexander Turner, at Bee_
usingliam, and by him, with assistance, conveyed as a mail-
man to the place where he is now confined, where he has re-
mained since October last. Soon ;diem arils, the other friends
and relatives of the unfoetimate man heard of the outrage,
and required that Alexauder Turner should set his Culler at
liberty. lie was written to upon the subject, and replied
that any body might take the old man away from Hureby's,
provided a debt doe front him to Alexander Term r, exceed •
ing 1001., were paid. Subseiment ennuuunicationts wets
by which it appeared that Alexander Turner confined lu
father because lie either could not, or would ant, disilinr;:-
the demand, and not because he was subject to insat.!ty.
was Sworn by the persons applying, that they had lung known
G. Turner, and that he had never r %White any symptoms
derangement. It was also stated in the iiffidavits that ap-
plication had first been made upon the subject to kr. Just ic.s
.%hboit, afterwards to Mr. Justice Holroyd, and finally to
Mr. Justice Bayley, who went the Northern Circuit, when ho
Was last at York; but the latterJoilge, on hearing the affida-
vits, did not think tit to grant alleakuscorpus that the unhappy
man might be brought before hien.
The Lord Chancellor asked it the facts now disclosed were
all before Mr. Justice Bayley.
Sir S. Hominy answered in the affirmative, as far as he was
informed; the case Was one of extreme hardship and injustice,
and well merited serious inquiry.
The Lord Chancellor doubted whether he could interpose,
after the Judge of the Assize, the proper person under statute
it Car. 11. had refused to grant relief.
Sir S. Romillv added, that it was very unfit that the sanity
of a man should be tried merely upon affidavits; the indr-
vidual ought to be brought up in person for esamination.
The Lord Chancellor still thought that be could not inter.
pose ; if any new investigation took !three, it ought to lo!
before Mr. Justice Abbott, before whom the ease was first
brought. He apprebeuded that the Court of King's Bench
would decide the question of sanity upon affidavits. His
lordship, however, consented to read the original affidavits,
and state his final opinion on sonic future occasion.

EXTR %ORDINARY CASE..--011 Sunday morning, as a boy
was playing ut lungerford-market, lie found some fresh earth,
which he began to pick, and iu pulling up a rag, a bundle of
flannel followed, in which was the dead body of a child, app.
rently four months old. Information was give it to the parish
°dicers, and in the course of the day the mother of the child
was discovered. 'file account she gave was, that it died
natural death. but that the parish refused to take it in, and
she had nut the means of. procuring it a Christian burial.
The body lies for a Coroner's Inquest.
A kw ilaysago, at Bilstou wake, Staffordshire, as the bull
was being taken from the stake to the atalrie, he entitled oat
a man of the name of Joseph Gaunt, whom he attacked wis a
great rage, knocked him down, trampled neon him, tore or:
une of his ears, and gored him in so shocking It istanueras to kill
him on the spot.
Munnsas IN JAMAICA.— An extract of a letter from
Lucca, says—•' As Mr. A. M•Callum was lately acting in his
Magisterial capacity at the (*kik of the Peace's Office, him-
self along with Mr. Keys (the Ckik of the Peace), were shot ;
the former in the right breast, and the lv.tkr in the head, by
a white man named Donald M'Calitun, ins tier of a anent
drogher. it appears that the pet petrator of this hei ill deed
had a dispute with the Captain of his vessel, and on the Ma-
gistrate decid.ng against lam, lie deliberately tack the pistols
f his packet, and discharged them at the unketunate
gentlemen. lie was eliately apprehended, and is now
in safe custody.
DREADFUL Aecinerr.--Saturday sc'nnight the following
most lamentable and unfortunate occurrence took place, on Messrs.
llorrell's premises. in the second Back-lane, in Exeter. Three
nicm, Middlewick, Nicholas Eustace, and William Mulle-
n-sole, were employed in making a pit, for the reception of the con-
tans of a sewer. Middlewick having nearly completed an Wit. was
in the act of ascending the ladder, when he dropwd his shovel, and
on his returning ter Me same, nearly the whole contents of the privy
burst upon him, and caused insiunt suffocation. Ills companion.
Eustace, immediately descended to Isis assistance, and ere he
had got halt' way down the ladder, the noxious vapour precipitated
him to the bottom, and lie shared a similar fate. A mint mats,
William Finnemore, then went down, and he tell in ; and on a
person of the name of Giles Tozer, in the employ of Mr. G. Turner,
silversmith, being apprized of the shocking circumstance, he volun
Leered his services, aed he also teli from the ladder. Another ntaa
then went down, with a rope affixed round his body. who was imme-
diately drawn up in a state of insensibility ; in consequence of
which no others could be found to undertake the hazardous task of
descending thepit,until Mr. John House, of Exeter, pluntL:r, having
been informed ofthe melancholy event, instantly repaired to the spot.
and with that humanity width ought never to be forgotten, went
down the ladder and sus ceedc din bringing upthrec of the isefortunate
men, viz. Tozer. t'inneniore, and aliddlewick. and with Me assist-
ance of a person named 'Usenet]. (Mr. notaie being nearly canaust-
ed with his humane efforts) got up the other poor fellow. Eustaeo,
who, together with Middlewick, seas lifeless ; and every mesas used
for their recovery by several professional gentlemen proved ineffectual.
Finnemore and Tozer were immediately put to bed in at very 111.1-
serous state; and we are sorry to say, that on Monday morning,
about six o'clock, the latter breathed his lust, Laving a e.ife and one
child, in the most indigent circumstances, to lament its untiappy de-
ndse. Einnemore, we are ultimata!, still lies extremely ill. Tints
three individuals lost their lives, two of them in the cause of bu.
manity, in endeavouring to extricate. a fellow-creature from a pre-
mature death.

Cn Alondity aftatoon a report was in circulation in the Boron ;h
of Southwark, Chit au old man, named Sulliv..n, bud bee., murdered
be his wik, wLu is a nativi of Ireland. Grut numbers of persons
a7senihkd by the house in Mint-square. and sonic offeers w, re sent
tor. Theo. upon their arrival, tbund the ell: man with his head cut
u; en. and he in tell dangerous situation. I. be wound was intiictot
with a haiiiincr; she NILS la ecured, and taken to the watch house.—
Tl.e oils mar: fell on the ground instusible, when he received the
Wow ; ~ 60 years of age, and yet the cause of the outrage is stated
to be a lit of jramtsy. \ sbe WS& In Custody, she prot,:sted that
sheiwould serve him so again, if she 1V aS at liberty.
Account. hunt Philadelphia, dated June tni, state, that Montgri..
,„..ry minty, betwaen the (*mitt-house and Chuksburg., was vi.iied
by a iron,..Yous baihetorin on Sunday June 7. The hail-stones
mchrk in circumference. hog was killed by ou.. of
the ha-I stone, talliti; on his and the hacks of the critic were
lacer.ded w SCV4AtIy, the Wood tan do A a their

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.t. Mortraty. 111011411,vrortit. .1. Wethorell.
IV. Bonll4l. w 4 W. It. ittoltes. Parham. tdoken, Aug.
T. WWi::to•. Lescleni.tal-ctreet, Ismker. Aug.
V. Colwell, Gt. 1:m3:It-street. linentiroper,
W. Parrett. (!ld Ittustl Suit, nu•nitant. Nov. 7.
It. St:alley ialtt T. Weston, I.ower 'll3,ites Street, inns:xi:lsere,

l,•11 Ivy. I13:1*. Mll Stre►t. Ilisliopgate Street. oih.ian. Feta. 13.
na, km, late of Ton'ari•lge.,l.an'..els. Sept. 13.
11 Butler. 1, tt al.c.twingsbei -Priors, IV.aaick. hatcher. Aug. 31.
Brown A. G4.1.1*.e. kttc 4.1 Deptford, 441:d inercl;unt,e, Sept. 13.
J. 4.lleiltire mil J. Jo:insolt. bitrrel tagker.
Sept. 2.