The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-29 00:00:00

COMMON .11. Y-=-111:INDERSON V. PLATT.

This was an action against die defendant, for a nuisance, in
ohstrneting light and air, by which the plaintiff's pretelses
were rendered dark and unpleasant.
Mr. Scarlett Mated, iliat the plaintiff was a genth•maa aho
hail seen a onsiderahle military service abroad. Abunt two years
ago he hail returned In England, and purclia:ed a plca.mit vot-
tnge near Tuinbain Cleo). In that situation he expected to
pass the remainder of his (lays undisturbed, lint it m pared the
defendant, who occupied an adjoining house, hail nu desire to
let the old soldier rest. The bad. of the plaintiff's house corn •
minded a fine open prospect, and the defendant bad erected a
statue, which had the effect produced by the curtain of a
theatre. It entirely excluded the scene. To nhate this nui-
sance the plaintill• brought his action. The law said, no man
for his interest, should deprive his neigiibour of light and air.
In this instance, it would appear that the nuisance as no ad
vantage to the plaintiff, consequentl► the Jury would nut let it

stand.
The learned Judge Aug:Tested that this question might IN
better s,ttled out Of Court, and the counsel on Lot'. sides ►ub-
mined

The Judge this slay disposed of all the causes on the paper,
and adourjned lo January the 2.1, at Guildhall.

SECOND %RIES' MONDAY.
NI,YII.IND V. IIU'.sEY A NII PAI.NII It.
This wa. an inquiry to as•e•r the (1411Idges to which the
plaint id*. who was a pauper in the workhorse of the pa-
ri•h of Illsimsteasl, in Kent, was entitled for an 'mink and
I:sl•elssinri‘onestent committed on him b) the defendants,
the former of which was ovrrveer of the poor of the pa
ri•h, and the latter master of the palish woi Isholse.
Oat:ey stated, that he VI sl., a pauper in the
•.; • woiklion.e %lilt the pi:timid% They wire
wn-
Iduyed, with doer 0111.. r A, its ile4triii2 wave' un the road
aisle. 'the hoists of wok in October were from st vets its
the mottling till five in the 4.vessing. On the 7th October
they all Icit oil usi.talse at half paA rants o'clt ck, fur

which they were reprimanded by the defendant Hassey.
The plaintiff said he was near 70 years of age, and not
able to work as long as a yalliig Mail, but would work
(ruin eight o'elork till tour. Hussey said lie was a saucy
rascal, and should work as long as the youngest man in
the hunse. The next day the plaintiff worked from seven
to live, as usual, but on the day later ( Wednesday) did
um go to work. On that evening witness saw him in the
rage, the place where felons and other prisoners were
kept till they were sent to Maidstone gaol. There was
no fire in the cage, nor bed, but some straw on the floor,
which Was brick. There was no blanket or covering 41.
any kind. Witness brought some porrage from the
workhouse. Palmer went with hint to let him in. The
plaintiff said to Palmer," I low long do you mean to keep
me here, yi' villain ?" Palmer said lie did not know.
So I liornby stated, that on Thursday, the Inili of
O. totter, lie saw the plaintiff in the cage through the bars
here was no glass in the window. Witness went, at the
piaioliirs desire, and brought him a great coat. Palmer
went with him, and let him take in the coat. 'the plaintiff
trembled and shook, and seemed very ill. Whets lie gut
coat, he laid thrall on the straw im the floor. Palmer
saw the state he was its, and gave hint nothing, but locked
lino up.
itlr. Butler, the pari•li surgeon, proved his having
located the plaintiff for chronic ilieumatisin after lie was
discharged; it might have been ceased by the cold to
which he was exposed in the cage.
The case for the plaintiff closed here.
Mr. Adolphus addressed the Jury at great length fur the
(bivalents in mitigation, but called no witnesses.
TheJui y. after a short consultation, returned a verdict
for the plaiiititi—Damages

On the mormata of thursday about three o'clock, the
maid-servant of the Rev. Ur. Beckwith, curate of 'l'd-
E.soc, was alarmed by 3 noise at the window
of an apartment below, and looking out, she saw the
body of a wait about half way through the sash, and
he was then pushing himself in the remainder of the
way. Mr. Beckwith was ~t that nine io London, on a
visit, and the only man in the house wur the parish clerk,
who sit pt there. The servant went immediately to call
bon, and having informed him of what she had seen,
desired that lie would get tip and protect her and her
mistress. Site then went to Nlrs. Beckwith's chamber,
and had no sooner communicated the terrifying intent-
genCC t“ her, than ilia courageous young lady took a
loaded pistol in one hand, and a candle in the other,
and dvs:ring the servant to follow her, went down stairs.
When came to the room into which the fellow had
entered, she walked boldly in and saw him cowering
down m one corner. She presented the pistol at him,
and in a menacing tone told Mutt that if he moved, or
otfLred any resistance she would shoot him instant iv.—
By this time the honest parish clerk, who probably
fearing that his ancient bones would stiffer from being
esp .seil to the cold, had waited to put on h.s clothes,
c .me shivering into the room, and seeing the triumphai.t
pasture of his mistress, he advanced with more coo&
donee, and Mrs. Beckwith still standing by with her
pistol, the clerk and the seivant boan,i the thief hand
and foot with cords. He was the next day Liken before
a magistrate in the neighbourhood and coinmitted. Ile
had, it appeared, lilted a five barred gate from its hinges
and brought it across one or two fields for the purpose of
using it by way of ladder to enable him to reach the
windows.

A little before four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
an &el:antiv dressed lady was obserted walking in a de-
jected state in the Birdcage-walk, St. James's-park. She
looked at several of the trees with apparent earnest-
ness, and seemed quite insensible of the object of the
mob who followed her, till she arrived opposite Story's
gate, when she took a handkerchief and made it fast to
a tree ; but finding the bough to which she attached it
was not her height, she untied it again and fastened it
to another much higher. She very leisurely tied it round
her neck in the pros:nice of a large crowd of men and
boys. who all the time watched her [notions; and spring-
Sig forward, twisted it round in such a manner that the
w.s entirely raised front the ground, and would have
be..ii s rangled had she not immediately been cut down.
—She then abused those around her in the grossest lan-
guage, saying, she was by birth Lady Carrington; that
the King and the Duke of York had known her, but
by oppression she teas deprived of her rights, and kit to
wander forlorn and friendless. Site was, however, re-
cognized to he t woman well known in St. Jamet's ; she
had been sipported by a noble peer, in splendid equipage
and dignity, only a few years ae.o, and through some
fault afterwards abandoned ; since which site has been
seen about the streets, Irequeutly in a state of despon-
dency. A constable took her to the workhouse, until
she can be got into Colic proper asylum.
AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.--, Salmisy se'itniOt
the corpse of an old woman was 101/11d tear a farlll-
- in the muir, a few miles from the village of
Miry. The body being unknown, the circumstance
was pmelaimed, on the following sahbath, in the parish
churches of Beith and Dairy, in the hones of discovering
smite trace of the unfortunate individual's connections
A little Loy, the son of a tanuer in the neighbourhood,
oil coming home from church, remarked to his father
that the woman's plaid was " tine° like his granny's."
The farmer, ratheralarmed at this information, hastened
to the spot, and to his utter grief and astonishment, dis-
covered the corpse to be that of his aged mother. It
would appear that she had left Iverue with the intention
01 visiiitie, her UM, and that, either overcome by fatigue,
or misled by the darkness of the night, she had lost her
way in the muir, and perished with the cold. When
found, site was in a sitting p store on the side of a
hido k, and had an orange, partly eaten, iti her hand.
V A PRESENT.,..-A gentleman of AlalleilCSlCl, a few
days ago, received through the post-office a packet, the
charge I n which was iI. 14s. Mil. Oa being opened it
was found to consist of a gown, value about which
at+ is sent from the neighlirittritood of London, by a err-
s it to whom he had rendered service, as a present
for tits wife. It is supposed the packet had been ;it tit
) a servant to send by the mail, and that the matt, not
the distinction, bad ih glut he was attending
to the nittitietiont Ili sending it by post.

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