The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-25 00:00:00

-THZ NATIONAL REGISTER

FIBER SOCIETY MEETING.
On Tuesday Tuesday the seventh annual meeting of the East
London Auxiliary Bible Society was held at the London
Tavern. The meeting was very numerously -attended
pat ticularly by ladies.
Lord GAMIER took the Chair, and after a few obsees:
walnuts on the excellence of the cause in which the
meeting was engaged, proposed that the Secretary should
read the report. which was accordingly done.
The report commenced with assigning the cause which
prevented the meeting being called -sootier, which it
stated was owing to the ever-to-be-lameuterl death of the
Duke of Kent, who was the patron of the Society, and
the constant chairman of meetings. and the precarious
state of health of the Duke of Sussex, who had readily
agreed to become the patron of the society, but was un-
able to attend as chairman of the meeting,
The report proceeded to state the great success which
the exertions of the society had Bern attended.; that
Alice its ,commencement 6‘.!.561. 19s Sd. had been re
ceived in aid of its object, and i I=6 bibles distributed;
and mentioned, that an association had been lately
formed for the distribution of bibles, in the parish of
Shoreditch„ by Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, that was
likely to be attended with the greatest success, and it was
hoped would stimulate others to an i 11l nation of her bene-
volent example. The report then entered into a long
detail of the proceedings of the British and Foreign
Bible Society ; and-also of the Bible Societies formed in
different parts of the world, on the plan of the British,
and influenced by the eisample of this country. From
these details it appeared that the circulation of the
scriptures is rapidly increasing in every Christian country,
and that great efforts are making to extend it to heathen
nations. The extent of the efforts by the circulation of
the bible, made by the societies established in Russia,
was remarkably striking, upwards of 400,000 copies of
the scriptures having been printed there in thirty-five
dill'erent languages, for distribution to the subjects of
that immense emptre, anti the heathen nations adjoining.
After the report had been gone through, the secretary i
read a note from Mr. Buxton, enclosing a donation of
ten guineas.—A note was also read from Mr. Byng, M.P.
A po!ogising for his absence.
Mr. ROBERT HUIMIRET MARTIN moved, that the
report be received and adopted. He said that he con-
sidered the highest honour the city of London, the
greatest in the world, could elljnyj was to support insti-
tutions for the promo.ion of tel and morality; and
it tallest be a delightful reflection to Englishineu, that
other nations were receiving the glorious light that was
sent forth front this. It had been well said of thi i
country, let misery abroad draw on liberality here, and
and the whole nation will answer the draft. Every one
may do something, and if all exert the means Gud has
given them the aggregation of good will astonish.
' The report was adopted 1111.1111incis!y.
Resit: let ions of thanks to the patron of the society, the
Duke of Sussex, and tile President, the Earl of altilleY,
and the Vice Presidents, wete also carried unanimously;
as was a resolution for adding :\.lr. Charles Grant to the
number of Vice Presidents.
Tnanks were then voted to Lord Gambier by accla•
111211011 j alter which the meeting separated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
ruestuv, MARCH II).
IIIrORTANT POINT QF PIIACTI•E.

On the 1,91 d Chancellor t into (;unit, he proceeded
In give hill deciiiiini on an application made by Mr. Se ar oder,
a hizlsly retpectable citizen of London, fur 1. n e to tile bills,
or priniecute any other proceediaig in prop rid prikone, v 4 Minot
the assistance of _

This gentleman, a few days :ince, addressed his Lordship
at considerable length, contending that no point of practiee
could super►ede the right of the subject to appear in all his
Majesty's courts of Jlestnce.
The Lord Chancellor in giving his decision, declared that
the application of Me. Sdavoiler retpored a hat was contrary
to the practice of the Coat t, abide his Lordship considered
part of the low of the land, and a hich had been acted upon
by the most learned men that had ever presided there. He.
then proceeded to refer to vai ions authorities, itroonot
a hich aas one during the Chancellotsl,id of Lord flarwick,
in 1121, where, after a bill had been filed, it w. s ordered to
be taken off, and !kit the panties should pay all e petters.—
The same course must now be pursued in the case of 111 r.
Schroder.

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MAIDOTONI, MARCH 18.—The Lent Assizes for
this county commenced here to-day on the Crown Side,
before the Hun. Baron Wood. On the Civil Side the
bos:ncss does not begin until to-morrow. In both courts
the business is holy to he heavy. The goal calendar,
contains a fearful list of offences, in point of number,
there being no less than 176 lo Nutters for trial.
The Dahl; of Eng:and have but one prosecution,
which was disposed of to-day, as follows:
James Goodwin was indicted for knowingly uttering
to Francis Porter Molloy, at Chart neat Sutton Valence,
on the ti of January last, a forged Bank of England
note. fur the payment of 51. with intent to delraud said
hank.-I.t appeared in evidence that on the day above-
-1 mentioned, at seven in the morning, the prisoner went
to the Buffalo's Head public-house, kept by a person
named Molloy, and tendered the note in question, re-
questing chauge to pay for abont 3s. fid. worth of liquor
he had drank. The landlord said he had not change,
hut upon tho prisoner saying he must go its trust, or
something of that kind, for the liquor, lie produced the
change, gave the prisoner Misr rosereigns, and the rest
in silver. A person in the house named Edw. Chamber,
seemed to know the prisoner, -And addressed hint by the
name of Jew Goodwin. The landlord asked the pri-
soner if his name was James Goodwin. and he said it
Was. The prisoner stayed a day or two afterwards, pay-
jug fur what! e bad to cat or drink. Go the 24th of

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January the landlord had paid the note to his liquor.
merchants, Ilessrs.Prentice, of Maidstone, and wrote
the name of James Smith 'limn the back of it. On the
6th of •February, Messrs. Prentice wrote to the laud.
ford, acquainting him that the note had been stopt at
the Bank of England as a forgery. A description was
then given of the prisoner's person, and in two or three
days afterwards he was apprehended. Whets the con.
stable asked him if his name was James Goodwin, he
said it was not, and that his name was Body. Before
the magistrates he admitted that his name was Junes
Goodwin, and said that he had taken the note in ques-
tion and three others of a person named Wilson, at
Biddenden Fair, in November, in payment of some
pieces of silk handkerchiefs, and that he had paid away
three of them to Mr. Thomas Wood, of Lydda in tins
county.
Alr. Wood was now examined, and said, that though
he had known the prisoner for sonic years, yet he had
never received of him in any way three 11. notes during
the last or the present year. He had not seen the 1,4.
natter for the last twelve months,
In order further to confirm the alleged guilty know.
ledge of the prisoner, it was moved that he had uttered,
on the Sd of Deeember, another forged 51. note to the
wife of a publican, Maned Barham, at Ileadcora, in
this county. At that house he had paid a small reek.
oiling, amounting to 6d. with the note then tendered,
and received the change. Tne prisoner had been in
trouble before on account of selling contraband goods,
and was stated to be a silinggler
An inspector from the Bank of England, proved that
both the notes were forgeries in etery particular, and
had been struck off the same plate, and were of the
same date.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, but called
one witness, who gave him an excellent character.
Mr. Baron NVood summing up the evidence, and the
Jury found the prisoner amity—death.
Matti 19 —The business of the Civil Side cont.
menced tmday before the lion. Baron Graham.—Tho
whole of the day was occupied in trying the three
lowing causes, all of which arose out of the saute sub-
ject of litigation between the parti,ss.
THP. SINS V. RICHARD GUDE, GENT. AND OTHERS.
This was an indictment against Richard Gude, Gent.
an attorney of the Court of King's Bench, and one of
the clerks of the Crown Office, Mary Ann, his wile,
Wtlliaw Whilehorn,John Franklin, A maths Thornton.
Robert Jordan, 'Thomas aientiOt, and Brockman,
or violently disseising and expelling James Hall irons
the undivided moiety of a freehold messuage at Margate,
to which he was entitled as tenant, in gavel-kind with
the defendant, Richard Gude, and for assaulting him tan

the of April last.
The case proved in evidence was this :—The prose.
color, Me. Hall, is a wine-merchant at Nlargate and
Nle. Gude is a respectable atuunt y, and employed in the
Crown-office. Both gentlemen hail purchased respectively
the it:wrests of taro tenunts in gravel.kind, named Siker,
in a freehohl intase, situate at the corner of the High.
street, next the pier, at Nlargate, in the beginning of last
year. It seemed that each was engaged in two rival
steatn.packet companies, to carry passengers, kc. front
London tJ Nlarga
It was alleged on the part of the defandant, Mr. Gude,
that N 1 r. Hall had agreed that he, Air. Gude, should
remain in the Sale possession attic pieittist s in question,
the latter puyitut a lent for Mr Hall's un-lecided moiety
in the h0w..., and that acting upon this understanding he
had fitted up the Intuse, repaired and furnished it at nth.
utterable expence, and had sent his faintly down front
London to dwell there as a residence.
On the part cl Mr. flail, however, it was alleged that
he had refused in Atm Mr. Guile to occupy his half of
the premises, and had determined to resist the sole oc.
cunwion oil the terms contended for by Mr. Gude. This
latter, :tem% ink the understanding aboye-mentioned,
gave itireenints to his wile, during his absence in Lon*
don, not to permit Mr. Hall, or any other per.ons, to in-
wide into the house, and gave written Instructions to
four of the defendants to resist any such intention, and
promised to indemnify theni Mr any costs, trouble or ex-
peaces to which they might be subj,ct leoin obedience
of his instructions. On the eith of April, when Mr.
Guile was absent in London, the prosecutor, Mr. Hall.
went to the House for the purpose of obtaining posaessuni
of his undivided moiety of toe premises, and was attended
by a person named John Dye, whom he intended to
leave inn possession. Mrs. Gude was then on the Inc.
unites, and told the prosecutor her husband's instructions,
and recommended him nut in act as he proposed, Hon.
ever, Mr. Hall left his man in possession of one of ilia
parlours, took the keys of three toms, which he gate
to the man and realm ed same art:cies of furniture out
of the parlour men:iotted. Soon after Mrs. Gude collet(
in the assistance of the other defendants, and the matt
left in possession was by them turned out of the house.
—On the same day Mr. Hall brought a carpenter and
blacksmith to nail up against the premises a show.boardi
intimating that that was the office of the steam-packet
to which he belonged. Whilst the into were fastening
up the show.board, he got into one of the windows, and
was by the other defendants violently turned out of the
house, These transactions formed the subject of the fist
sets of counts. On the Gth of May folluwhig, being
Sunday, the prosecutor went to the house, just as NIG
Gude was setting off to Jinsgate by a stage-eoach which
waited 14 the 11001, anti when he ascended the 100110
stela which ascended to the door, Mr. Guile came out,
shutting the door after him, Mr. Gude advired him to
retire, or else he would do something, and after some
time held up his doubled fist. The prosecutor, in a lurid
voice, asked him what he would do. Mr. Gude said lie
should know hereafter, and dropt his arm i upon which
toe prosecutor retired. It as distinctly proved that Mr.
Gude was not present whets the first alleged assault was
counnitted, anti none of the 0111:f tit:it:Ml.lMS were pre.
scut when the second was committed. The prosecutor
had afterwards obtained judgment in ejectment Mr
his share of the premises and is now in 1/oaseliiloll Of the
Sallie.

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The Jury, under the learned Judge's directions, found
Mr. and Mrs. Gude not guilty of the several assaults
alleged to have been committed on the 24th of April and
the bth. of May. Tney found thick guilty only of the
disseisin and expulsion on the 24th of April; acqu►ted
all the defendants of the assault on the sth of May, and
found Whitehorn, Franklin, Thornton, and Jordan,
only guilty of the expulsion and assault on the 24th of
THE XING D. THORNTnN AND OTHERS.
This was au indictment :tont,' Thornton, White.
horn, Franklin,. and Jordan fur the assault commit-
ted on Dye on the 24th of April, and he being a
the man who was put Into possession of the moiety of
the house abovementioned by Mr. Hall. The facts being
clearly made out as abovetnentioned, the defendant,
were found Guilty.

THE JUNO V. ;AIM lIALL.
This was an indictment against Mr. Hall himself, for
escaping front the custody of a consiable of Margate,
who had apprehended hint him upon a warrant to give
sureties to keep the peace towards Mr. and Mr. Gude,
whose lives hr was alleged to have threatened.
Mr. Gurney and Mr. Abraham conducted the prose.
cotton, and Mr. Andrews the defence.
It appeared in evidence, that between the 24th of April
and the 6th of May last, Mr. Gude found it necessary,
111 consequence of the violent threats of the defendant
towards hiniselfand wife, to apply to a magistrate named
Buys, to hold him to bail to keep the peke. The war-
/ant was granted, and a constable having executed it,
NIG Hall made his escape from his custody. The war-
rant was directed to the constable of Margate, and it
appeared to have been executed by an assistant constable;
upon which
Mr. Andrews submitted that this was a fatal objection.
Mr. Bayou Graham thought the objection not tenable,
but said he would reserve the point.
The Jury, under the learned Judge's directions, found
the defendant Guilty.
In the Crown Court there was no case of interest.
MAIDSTONE. MARCH consequence of the
pressure of buiitiess on the Crown Side for this county,
Mr. Sergeant Lawes and Mr. Taddy successively sat
toolay, in the Anabaptist Chapel of this tows). to try
prisoners. Front the same cause it was announced, that
Mr. Baron Graham, who presided on the Civil Side,
would to morrow assist Mr. Baron Wood in trying pri-
soners. and leave the remaining causes on the civil side
as remanents
TINE RIND O. wowratariarou AND OTHERS.

This was an information filed by the Attorney Gene-
ral against Wm. Wmthingion, John Hart, and several
other defendants, for an assault on John Smith and
mond Paine, on the 7th of March last, at Deal. The
prosecution was conducted at the instance of the Board
of Excise. The only defendants who appeared to take
their trial were Woithington and Hart.
Mr. Sergeant Ouslow, Nlr. Nlarryatt, Mr. Gurney.
and Mr. Delany,. conduced the prosecution; and Mr.
Common Sergeant and Mr. Adolphus the defence, res-
pectively for each defendant.
The facts proved its evidence disclosed a case of no
inconsiderable enormity against the defendants. It ap-
eared that a man named Brown, who hail been an
'Excise officer, having been dismissed from his employ.
went, in consequence of gross misconduct in taking
bribes to conceal offenders against the excise laws, CirCU-
lated, from mot:ves of revenge, a list of persons whom
he thought proper to designate as informers against
smugglers. Many of these persona were unconnected
with the practice of inhuming in the way imputed—
amongst others were John Smith and Edmund Paine,
who appeared to be industrious fishermen of Deal. On
the 7th of March last year the defendants seized John
Smith in High-street, Beal, and dragged him into the
King's Arms public house, and after threatening his life
brought him out, stripped him to the skin as far as the
waistband of his breeches, fastened him to a capstan on
the beach, tarred hint from the head to his middle, and
covered him over with feathers. lie was then fastened
to a cart, and dragged round the town, the mob continu-
ing to apply tar and feathers to Isis body. He was ahnost
blinded with the tar, and suffered the greatest possible
cruelties and indignities. In the progress of the cart
round the town, the mob met with Edtnund Paine,
another of the persons proscribed by Brown as an infor-
mer. He was long neck and heels into the cart, and
buckets of tar were heaped upon him, and he also was
covered with feathers. In this manner both the unhappy
men, in broad day, were exhibited round the town, the
cart being drawn by the mob, who cheered and shouted
in their progress, heaping upon the men the most Mien-
sine execrations. At length the police interfered, and
the unfortunate victims were extricated from their peril-
ous situations. Both sustained considerable personal
violence, and fur many days were absolutely blitided be
the tar, which got into their eyes. To this day Smith
bad lost die use of one of his eyes.
h e Common Sergeant, for the defendant Worthing-
ton, said he must submit to a verdict against his client.
reserving such topics as might be urged in mitigation of
punishment when brought up for judgment.
Mr. Adolphus, for liarkcalled witnesses with a view
to the mitigation of punishment, to shew that he WAS
not as criminal as the other defendant.
'Vile case went to the Jury under the learned Judge's
directions, and both defendants were found guilty.

TIRE KING V. PARISH.
This was an information by the Attorney General
against Thomas Parish, for offering a bribe, to 'rhomas
Green, a seaman employed on the coast blockade, to
neglect his duty in giving information against the defen-
dant, so as to forward the landing of uncusionied spirits.
The case was clearly made out in evidence, and ►he
Jury found the defendant Guilty.

John Wright, the Bristol pedestrian, commenced
his undertaking to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours,
Lot Wednesday night, at eight o'clock, on the Bowl-
ing•grean, at Sheffield,

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