The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Sta—Permit me, lotting% the atedioins of your widely.
circulated Paper, especially amen she professime of she
Law, to coatradict she foul aspersisers of an anowyesoes
writer is The 'forting Port of Saturday last, is a letter
addressed to the Editor of that malignant vehicle of piddle
abuse : it is asserted that the meeting of Law Clerks, cow.
'retied few the purpose of passing an Address to her Majesty,
was conspeeed chicly of boys and raggswiellos in no way
conisecied wish she law. I boldly wand &ewer; to give •
eompkte contradictioa to this mean and illiberal amertios.
So far, Sir, was this trots the fact. that I cats assert, from
scalar deasootieratioa, and without she fear of coolradie.
line, that that uneetieg was comprised of the most respect.
able sad indepeadent part of that class of the prefeseioa.—
Oa a armeee to the pages of the most respectable sod in.
depeodeat of the daily Press, it will be seen with while ilia.
tieceioa her Alajesty enwkarrodeel so receive their Address.
It being the only ear which her Majesty allowed to be reed
by the perils/Awn, sod to which she retoresed an Immediate
Answer. JUVIDIAL.
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LI W INTELLIGENCE.
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COURT OF CHANCERY, [Jimmies-lAA,
Wasotesaav, Nevessiota I. .

This was the first Seal before Term. •
The LORD CH A N CILLOIt came into Collet at
hislf.past ten o'clock, sad heard some motions, of
no interest except to the parties concerned. His
Lordship rose at a quarter past eleven o'clock ; and
was immediately waited oft iu his private room by
the ATTOIIII ET•G IN IRA L.

OLD BAILEY, WICIMISDAY, NOVEIIII6II 1.

CUTTING AND MAIMING.
John Scott was indicted. under Lord Ellentos.
rough's Act, for cutting Win. Thorne, on the 16ih
October last, with a kn►fe nr other sharp instru-
ment, with intent to maim or do him tame grievuuv
bodily h if Me
Burrow, • watchman, whose bait was in
Frith-street, Soho, proved, that on the inor ii iii gof
the day mentioned iii the indictment, about two
o'clock, he observed three or four men lurking
•bout the house of Mr. Charles Bell, in Fritii.
street ; he went towards them, and they walked
•way in different directions; he followed one of
them some distance, and on his returning to Mr.
Bell's house he saw amine in the area, and he heard
■ noise as if of the breaking of wood; he was
about to spring his rattle, when • man came nit and
waked him *hat o'clock it was; be replied. " About
two o'clock," and added, 66 there's a men in the
area;" the fellow replied, " We'll soon area you,"
and at the same moment he received a violeiit
Wow on the head, which knocked him dew'', and
he the., heard the men call to their companion in
the area to come sip, which he accordingly did,
and they all rail off in diffsreut directions. The
witness pursued after the Prisoner. calling " Stop
thief!" •ud did not lose sight of him till lie was
taken into custody. A bunch of skeleton keys
was found in the track in which the Prisoner had
ran, one of which opened the area-gate of Mr.
Bell'. house; and on examining the door !radii%
into the kitchen four gimblet holes were found
bored in it, and the panne' broken.
William Thorne. a watchman of St. Ann'., Soho.
deposed, that he hosed the cry of •' Stop thief !"
raised by the last witness, and observed the Prisoner
g towards him ; he endeavoured to stop him,
when the Prisoner, without speaking, raised his
hand and struck him a violent blow on the fore.
head with something sharp, which covered him
with blood, and almost staggered him. The Prisoner
immediately ran past him, and he followed spring-
ing his rattle, and never lost ►ight of him till Sea-
ger. another watchman, stopt him. He was then
taken to the watch-house. He is certain the Psi-
owlet was the man.

Robert Seeger, watchman of St. Ann's, heard the
cry of •• Stop thief !" saw the Prisoner
std took him into custody.
Joseph Mason, !patrol, came up just as the Pri-
soner was taken into custody, and saw him put his
hand behind him and drop something, which proved
to be a chisel and an open knife.
John Valentine Bridgman, house surgeon at Mid-
dlesex Hospital. attended IVolliam Thorne, and
dressed the wound in his head. It was a wooled
about an inch and a half in length, slid something
less than a quarter of an inch in depth. It appear-
ed in his judgment as if it had been made with a
knife, or slime siostlar Instrument. The knife
which the Prisoner had dropped, was shewn to the
witness. He said the wound was such a oue as that
knife would have inflicted.

On his crow-exeminsti 0000 by M►. A Dotnius, he
said it was not s wound that would endanger life,
or disfigure the man.
The Pawner in his defence said, that he was
coming down Frith-street, on his way home, when
the watchmen stopt him. There was not a person
in the street butytheas, and he made no resistance.
Two witnesses were called, who gave the Pri-
soner a good character.

The itecoanaa surnamed up the evidence to the
Jury, who, after a short consultation, found the
Prisoner Guilty.
John Charles Craft was charged with stealing
four flutes, the property of M . Goulding,
d'Almaine. Putter, and Co. music sellers, in Soho-
square. The Prisoner was employed occasionally
in assisting in the warehouse of the Prosecutors, by
which means he had an opportunity of committing
the robbery. The property was pledged at Messrs.
Hobree'r, Charing-crow ; but the proof that the,
Pri-oner was the man who pledged them not being
satisfactory, the Jury acquitted him. He was again
put to the bar on a similar charge. in which the
proof being more conclusive, he was found Gritty
of stealing to the salve of 391.
Henry Baker was inincied fur stealing a great
coat, on the 4th of Octuber last, the property of
Thomas Buckley Bond.
The Prosecutor left his horse and chaise in the
charge of a lad in Judd-sireet. Brunswick-opiate,
about five o'clock in the afternoon of the day men-
iiuned in the indictment; the Prisoner coming by
snatched the great coot, which was throw,' over
the horse, and ran away with it. The lad ran after
him, calling Stop Thief!" He was immediately
pursued and taken, but he had thrown the coat
down an area.

The above facts being fully proved, the Jury
found the Prisoner 4ailty.
The Ptowcutor recomtuended him to mercy on
account of the good character which be had heard of
him, but the Recorder told him he might have had
a much juvter character of the Prisoner from Mr.
Brown (she Keeper of Newgate), to whom he was
well known.

Charles Peter Norton was indicted for stealing a
large quantity of jewellery and bank-notes from
John Mainwaring, his employer. The Prisoner. on
being put to the bar, pleaded Garth,.
Mr. A !Are said he was instructed by the Prose-
cutor. that the Prisoner had done every thing in his
power to make amends for the crime he had com-
mitted,

There was a full ma•ket at Norwich on Saturday,
and • good supply of Wheat and Barley, the
former of which advanced gii. and the latter la. per
coombe. Other grain much as before.—There
was • large supply of Cattle as usual, cud the
sheeiwpens were well flied with •etearling*, chiefly
half- breds. Little varieties took place in price.

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