The National Register.
London, England, 1822-08-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

MAGISTRATES OF THS MACCLESFIELD
—At a petty session held by the magistrates of this dis-
ti let, nn Monday last, a discussion took place as to the
right of solicitors to examilie witnesses, or to appear
beiore tile magistrates, in ally case dependitig before
them. Some uwutus aito Edward Stracey, E.rl, pro•
pus. d that an order should be made tor exclittling SoliCi-
lors (rain such practice, to wttielt proposal it is said
that two magistrates acceded, and aii order was made and
submitted for the emleurrelice and approbation of the
justices. Sir Joint Stanley, Bart. and others, however,
dissented from ii, and the order was never attempted to
he enforced until Monday last. At that meeting a case
of settlement came oil to be heard, between the town-
ships of 'ldling Fee and Mottratn, when, upon the smi-
emir lor (tie littler lOWltillip 111111111{ a question 10 a wil-
lies; oil a cross exammatioo. Jlr. Stracey d•rected the
witness not to auswer ally question 1101 poi by We B.:11C11,
and LAO that lie should not allow atiortie)s 10 :Melt' and
uul questimis for any party in cases which cattle benne
hint as justice. Sur illiiiiStanky said, he lor 011 e would
not suoscribe to Illat doctrine; lie Was conviliced the
practice was productive of much public advantage A
conversation passed between SA* Julio Stanley anti Mr.
Stracey, in which Mr. Stracey said he hul 'well insulted
by a professional that it WAS lint 11.111:11
for attorneys to act as advocates at the other sessions in
the Comity, dill lie would ilthiefe 10 the order he had
signed : he adowed, however, emit the order only ap-
plied to those magistrates who had SlAiled 11. Sir Joint
Stanley stipporied the practice UllOll the ground Gil ltd
utility, and of its being continuo usage. Be did 111)1 con-
ceive that Mr. Stracey's having been insulted by a pro-
fessional gemleinan was a suificient ground fur making
an order which went to the eXClUsluii tit the profession
front a long estab.ished privilege, and to the deprivation
of suitors of the advantage of legal isSitlatiCe. He wished
it to be understood atid generally known, that thought
Mr. Stracey should fortod it as to isiniself, solicitors
should have hit (Sir John's) permission to anewl to cases
which came before him. It would be a great hardship
to the public if piolessional men were excluded, and
parties were to be denied the benefit of their assist-
ance, in cases of charges made against individuals, or on
trials of settlements, where the justice of a decision de-
pends often oil the cross-examination of witnesses. Some
further ColiTersatiOn followed, but it was desultory, and
the matter rests as it is for the present.

Robert Bennet, who was convicted at the late
Suffolk Assizes, of wilfully selling fire to the premises of Mr.
Downing, of Meths, iu that county, on Saturday last. was exe-
cuted, pursuant to bis sentence, on Saturday last, at Ipswich.—
The number of spectators was not so great as on former occa-
sions. Rennet was • strong powerful man six feet high ; be
took leave of his family the Thursday before. A mistaken
notion seems to have possessed him that the world would
regard bib dying words as evidence of his iniso-once. He spent
some time in prayer with the clergyman ; and after he ascended
the scaffold continued in prayer to tinned' ; after which he ad-
dressed the people —" Gentlemen, I am as innocent of this as
God in Heaveu—l was no nearer to the fire when it happened
than my own yard." He then said to the persons on the scaf-
fold—" God bless you all and pray for sue." He was then
launched into eternity. This dying assertion, when compared
with his own declaration after bis examination before the ina-
gistretes, when he observed to Cayfor, " you know we did it,
sad I shall be banged for it, and you ought to be hanged as
well as I : and the strong circumstantial evidence on the trial,
must confirm any one that this wretched man died without a
proper sense of his situation, end that to the last he was obsti-
nately wicked. We sincerely hope that his fate will be a
warning to deluded men, not to destroy property by such wilful
and wicked acts. After hanging the usual time the body was cat
down and delivered to his friends. The prosecutor, Downing,
was recognised amongst the crowd, end was t'o violently as-
sailed by the populace. that but for the interference of the
sneriff's &beers, L..- might have suffered serious injury.
A shocking ocenerence took place at the house of Mr. Cuttill,
merchant, of Lincoln, on Tuesday last, by which a highly
esteemed servant lost his life, and a kind master end most
worthy man is plunged into the deepest distress imaginable.
About two o'clock in the utonsing, two female servants who bad
got up to wash, bead some persons as they believed, attempt-
ing to get into the house ; they immediately alarmed Mr.
Cuttill. and his servant man ; the young nun coming down
stairs first, the women urged him to go and call his master
again ; lie accordingly went up without a and met Mr.
Cuttill, who had armed himself with a swrrd, coining nut of
his rotas ; hearing somebody in the passage, Mr. Cuttill de-
manded who was there, and what they wanted t hut receiving
no answer, and being fully impressed with a belief that thieves
had got into the house, and that Isis own life might be at that
instant be in jeopardy, be rushed upon him and wouuded bins
in the body. The young loan died on Wednesday morning
about four o'clock ; he was 21 years of age, and had lived vith
Mr. Cuttill from his infancy • his father bad also been • great
number of years in Mr. Cuttill's employment as a meter. lie
could not account for nut being aide to 111116 Will his master when
he demanded who was there; he said he tried to speak, but
could not. It appeared he had lost his presence of ruled at
the moment. It is impossible to describe the agony of mind
Mr. Cuttill has been suffeving under since the fatal accident.
H ckinan, toe gaslight 1113/1, got a stvere Hoorcr oil
his return nom the tigitt un Ttimiay. bistne ude had
entrit.ted him with a gig, but however sober, he can
surer hie fist or an anal much better than a mad, and
making a mistake through bring clicked in the nob with
the grape, he rail on the wrong side the push lie was
as senseless as from one of Neate's hits for more than a
quarter of an hour; and his companion is too ill tube
ressioved Irons liamptiiil
DARING Roßasay.—Oit Si n lay last, some villains
entered Itie Iwo.e of Mr. H. Al iller, of ThJnees.strert,
in th... abscuce nit the Lanny, send were at church, unit
ticeampesi with all the Wilily Hate, wultuist le. vtug
the least trace by which they could be &sem us ed.

PEDESTRIAN:ISI4.-01i WrdileStLy lasi, „I ToWM•
head, the Sussex tietlestrian, undertook to walk 50
Dell U Ck ants and nail* forward', in a field al the Cow.
g:PC, near N.rweastle„ in 13 hours, which task he per.
twined six th. t littlys Wititio) the given lime. He walked
one mile, forwards, nine and a half iiiidittes, and one,
backwards, in twelve ininutes and 5 seconds. Aml
the same field, on Thursday night, at tell o'clock, B
M'M commenced Inv arduous task of walking one
Wile and one pole every hour, for Iwo successive Itours.

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The following is an extract of et letter from Val-
, paraiso, dated Vith March, from a midshipman of
! the American ship Franklin, 74, giving the particu-
lars of the melancholy catastrophe which we briefly
notiud in a former paper:—
" You must not expect any amusement from our letters, as we
are all very much dejected on account of a dreadful accident that
happened last Tuesday. Lieut. Perry. Dr. Du Puy (a gentle-
man that came out with us), Midshipmen Robert Ma.ahall.
John Creamer, Robert B. Coffin. Edward Preb4e,, R. Pinkham.
and three men. lett here in our first cutter on a gunning party,
to Kintera, a place 20 miles from here. Next morning Mr.
Pinkham returnal by land with the melancholy news of the loss
of the boat and all hands, except himself and one of the men.
He relates that they got down there about three o'clock, and
found a most tremendous surf breaking Iran the shore, and they
did not like to tick it; but a midshipman to whom I had do-
scriued the place (having been there before in the same boat in a
calm time) insistal upon going in, saving he knew the place; so •
they depended upon him. As it was blowing very fresh right on
slishe, they steered direct on, under short sail; a sea struck them
and carried them along some distance; a second sea struck them.
and onocked tiem broadside on, and rolled her bottom upwards.
As they were all good swimmers but two, they all got hold of
the boat except orte of the men that could not swim : lie laid bold
of alarshall's coat, and it is supposed they went down together.
Cretrwr, t'reble, Du Puy. and the other seaman, whose name
was Reed, after sti ugghng • long time, sunk alongside of the
boat. Tile rest tried tor tae shore. Perry, Pinkham, sad Coffin
went together a great way ; but as Coffin, who was very small,
could not swim well in the surf, Mr. Perry Mope to assist him,
and they were bout lost together. Pinkham, who swam on,
finding lie could nut be of any as.istanee to them, got on shores
but was twice carried off by the return of the sea.3oo yards. and
then thrown up again. At length he got a foot-hold in the sand,
and when the water left him, he ran and got clear of it. The
name of the man saved was lit'Daniels ; he got upon the bottom
of the bout, and held on to Du Puy to assist him ; but a sea
struck hint, and washed him off. As he found that the boat did
not drift in any more, he swain from the shore, but was carried
oil tour times, and was then so weak that he could scarcely stand.
Mr. Pinkham, who was on shore, waded out as far as be could,
and held out an oar to him, which he laid hohl'of, and was
dragged to the land. As soon as they had landed, the Spaniards
maue Pinkliani exchange pantaloons with them. The seamen,
who hod lost his shoes, and every thing else, four,l a great coat
that had drifted ashore, but had a quarrel wi:h one of them to
get that. Towards evening he saw some of them sharpening .
their knives on a stone, and as he was alone (Pinkham having set
oft* for the ship ottliait, without shoes, and scarcely any clothes).
it alarmed him very much. He made the best of his inty into
the country, where he concealed himself. About midnight be
left his hole on his way to the ship. When he got a chart distance
he stopped in a sable, and spent the night. Pinkbain walked to
Coocon, about 12 males, where an Lnglishman lent him clothes.
and got him a tna. He got to the ship next morning, having
travelled 40 miles-12 of them on foot. There area great many
who narrow), escaped going on the party; they a.ked nie. but I
refusal. Many otners intended going, but were prevented by
sonic trifling circumstance or other, such as the want of powder
and shot. 'There are some Englishmen living near there, who
say that the wile I landed we had a narrow esrape,as there never
was such a thing known before. An English boat, with eight
men, attempted to/land wine time ago, but were all lost. Mra.
Stewart is very much affected, and the Commodore also; he
stied tears. and apeeared to feel it sensibly. lle said if they had
been killed in the defence of their country, it would not have
been to bad ; but to be lost on so trifling an occasion he thought
was dreadful. Mrs. Stewart went on shore last evening for a
abort time. She was dressed in mourning, and showed great
sorrow ; indeed it is sufficient to make any person feel so-I have
scarcely seen a smile since. There were two of my inemmates its
tae number, and they were all uncommonly fine officers, cer-
tainly amongst the manes' on board, and were universally be-
lovas. As soon as the Commodore heard of the accident, he got
a whale boat, and sent a lieutenant and doctor down, to see what
could be none, mind if any thing could be saved, but they returned
without the least article. Several of the officers volunteered to
go and look tor the bodies, and the Governer sant a guard to:take
care of any thing that might come on shore. Yesterday we
hoisted our colours half mast, and every vessel in the harbour
tint the same, melaling an English frigate and all the Chilean
squadron."

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ltesseßy ST A SERVANT.--Charles Robinson, the
young lad whose case we stated sonic time azo, as h ring
hero charged with robbing Mr. Laurie, the mapseller,
in Fleet-street, with whom he lived as servant, and who
Wig discharged for want of evidence, has been again,
taken tip, and the charge brought home to him, under
the lodowmg circumstances :—E irly on To sday morn-
MA, two chimney sweepers, a man and a Isoy, called at
Mr. Lmote's, saying they cattle from Mr. B own, of
Waterdarte, to sweep the kitchen chimney. As Brown
was Ilse chiitiney.sweei..r regularly entployed, the
man gave them directions in come and do the.iiib early
me Friday monolog. lu the course of the clay, however,
he (the shopinatt) accidentally met Brown, the master
chimney sweeper, in the street, and told him to serial his
man oil l'hurselay morning instead of Friday. Accord.
tly no that morning, Stanley Howlen, a lad about 14,
in the employ or Brown, mtended, and w title sweepiwz,
the chimney, found in the copper floe, which
Incited with that of the kitchen, a Sinai! raiiVaSi hag,
which he deliveted reiiately uh the Iran ile servant ;
0:1 its being opened it was found to contain 48 sovereigns
w is re coginz..4l by Mr. Laurie as the bag stolen
oat of the home at the time of the robbery.—
This circuilis.mice was kept finite q lie', and 011 Friday
morning Harrison was upon the watch as early as five
o'clock, en secure the two other chimney sweeper%, sf
they should attend, as they h „I been directed. Tney
did atteml, and were immediately taken into custody.
as was :I,lgo Cuarles Robinson, who w.is found WalehtH4
ells the other stele of the way.--.T. Scekins, the elder of
the two sweepers, stated, that Robinson met them in the
Strand, ott Monday, and told him to apply at 1111. e. L's. to
sweep time kitchen chimney, and to say they came from
Mr. Brown, of Water lane. He then told them they
would find a small hag with money in the copper flue,
and if they brought to him, he agreed in give them two
sovereigns for their 'nitrite. The prisoner was coinmitted
to N,Avgate for trial, and Scants bound riser to give
e-tilenee against hint.

The fear of not get inz married after the rit of St pt.
without a consideratile atl too to the preliminary iris.
ble and ceremony, has operated forcibly on the low:r
classes in this parish. for, with a view to get the im-
port lilt Witness concluded before the day nu which the
coos:ration of the Marriage Act takes tiller., an externs..
d n .ry number of Linos were publi•lied nn Sundae last
(18th nisi.) io our Cotlegiate anti P..tish Clitircii, Nia.%-
clitsier —The followntst numher of couples wh..
intended marriages were announced .—For the firs' ti
73 couples; second noir, 1.., tlord 43.

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