The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-24 00:00:00

P.OTHONELL AND PARKINS tr. DLMANI.

This was an action by the Lae Sheriffs to recover from
the defendant 1701. the amlunt of a Lid bond, given by
him fur a person »tned Leigh.
!Ur. Glancy stated the case for the plaintiffs.
Mr. Gaslee, for the defendant, said the defence of his
client was infancy.
To prove this fact the register of a parish in the extreme
part of Yorkshire was put in, and the entry of the defen-
dant's baptism was read. The uncle was also examiued
who stated his belief that his nephew was not yet 21.
The Chief Justice thought there was no doubt in this
case, as to the proof of infancy. It might not he srrictly
honest fOr persons under age thus to deceive the world ;
but the law threw a shield, and very properly, round
infants, and persons must take care with whom they
dealt.
Verdict for the def.•ndaut.

The followini; excellent letter, has been publicly
rubleessed to the freeholders and inhabitants of the
County of Noriol!:—and we give it, because in its
main points, it is equally applicable to every other

county.
BROTHER FREEHOLDERS, AND INHABITANTS !—Ye,
who have hitherto been foiemost in addressing and peti-
tioning the throne, and the tun Houses of Parliament
when your liberties were in danger.—Ye, who have been
the beacon to all England fur assembling at County Meet-
end in the language of loyalty, but with the spirit
of freemen, boldly to state, and intrepidly to assert your
rights; why stood you now aloof? why—is it like
cosi-opt Borough, under the influelice of an oligarchy, ye
suffer oilier comities to wrest our you the long worn, and
proud palm of the Whig county of England ? The path
is still open to you ; and if among the aristoc racy, a por-
ion of i hembe insensible to the dasigcm that 11% oil them;
if they preler -their homes, and their pleasures to the
(loth sof their statism, aid air. bet onie degenerate and
debusill ; Icase them to become the victims of self-re.
pro:tell, and to the obscurity which shades the abandon-
ment of trust, and derilection of principles. Among your
ranks will lie found- men amply fitted to supply their
!daces, and whose call will be impel ativ e ii; the Sheriff
to convene a County Aleetiog, where delinquency will be
made known in the list of absentees. Let the farmer,
who finds his labour unproductive and luiprolitable—the
Bade/usts, who fees, the want of the farmer for Isis cus-
tomer—the mantifectilier whose goods are warehoused,
loom the diminished demand in the home mai Acts, divest
them-elres of prejudices, and they sill he convinced the
true cause of a general depres=ion, lies in the canker of
nm overwheliiiiiig toxaiion. Unite then in a sesolutiou,
(lerlaratary of the evil, and petition your Representatives
(when Ministers shall allow thesis to assemble) to institute
au immediate enepiiiy into all br.noclies of the expenditure,
and t espocially that alising out of the Milan Coin.
mission, in well as those int:Hired in the prosecution of the
late moo eel:demoted trial of the Queen Consort ut these
scalars ; endangesing iii its coma eine tees the stability of
the throne, unjust and juju' ions to the high Pe soiiage
accused, and subversive of all morality and reverence in
the people to the monarchial psi tof the constitution. In
your petition to the House of Lot ds, express firmly your
conviction, that nu nic•lsinet Floirt of re.josothing iii the
L.HUIgy the MOW: of Queen Caroline, as Queen Consort of
Geosge the Fourth, and giving to tier those appendages
belonging to her Royal station, can allay that excitement
now pervading the 1416011. Alid it in your loyalty to
yon Sovereign, you vvi.ti to address the lissom., einem-
ber eIObIiIDijUDAH:S " King can do wrong." But mark
sit tingly your rcptobatienof those evil doers (his Minis-
tei s) who in all their arts of mal-administerieg Isis Go.
v (Aliment, in words and in deeds, ate ever seeking to
shelter thetwo Ives from at roast notional responsiliality, by
Royal Pei summit 4e in their lit cac:ies of the
Vspisiiisitieni. Already have two counties wiS/cll to Nor.
fulls the go bye—iiiisteii then to your post at Nor wick 1 I
piedge myself you will dud there the stoutly Patriot Colin
—that undeviating ft iend of freedom, of just-see awl the
Lie s.

lice. 20, 1820.

A FREEHOLDER.

Ana kle of the laic Judge Go.d:L—This uery excellent
Ju•lse was of a very humane disposition, and when he
went the Circuit,, it was Willi extreme reluctance that
he kit any condemned criminal for execution. After
the trials were over at an Assizes where six malefactors
were ser,enced to death, when the paper was laid be-
fore hint to strike. off the names of those he might think
woiliiy of mercy, he i d a reason why the sentence
should ue intii4ao:(l in the first. second, &e. till lie had
stiveit his pen acros4 the names of live; when he came
In the sixth, he said, I can sec no 600 l r:ason why
this man should not emit r according to the law ; but,
poor fellow, lie exliilated a very woe ilk countenance—
tie scents as if lie ilint'i like to be ;" and his tunic
a:ely received the merciful scratch.
FATAL ACCIDENT...—M. Nailli, the ceielirated Buffo
at the OpCia. ii:11 a ViCilal last Thursday to a &cecinal
ateident, occasioned by the explo.ion of an ootoclate
hoii.r at the mime of a frivittl in Paris. M. Naldi was
toitather vvith his wile aunt tlatizoter, at the
re,,itlenee of M. Gaieia. Al. Noir!' would as,im in some
culimuy [raee.s. and ilJti the intro:fence to close wait
pincers the conductor of the heat. Tie exi,lusom in.
stantaoeutisly ensued, and the cover separated from the
autoclave and Lid his cranium open, and struck him
dead upon the spot. M. Garcia rvceived a severe wound
00 the head, but not dame ruts. Al. had with-
drawn Crow the st.!go 1%,0 tromilt PL° ; anti in his
youth wia, allowed to Lc out: of the lust Llutias