The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-07 00:00:00

C ERTIFICAT E S.-1u u E tiri.

J. l'...ekee. Painswiek, Clout:ester, dottier—G. bring,
yard, Lombard-sweat, merchant—J. Parry, jun. Ilattrld•street,
i;o,..kell.s,rett, rectifier of spirits—:ll. Commons. Falmouth.
innkeeper—J. liawkins,„ 'P. Morris, and W. ConAuble,
buiidera.

IliaTtitt Es icwerton.-1144 PlymoPHl Telegraph Par :--
e have had to touch more than mice on this painful topic,
and we are again impelled to revels to it. Whatever may be
the read cause, it is too tree that the mania has taken deep
hold of the population of this port tool the iii•ighbotiring parts
orotund, large portions of which have re.olved and are re-
solving to become inhabitants of the Attie' lean land. During
the past and the present week in particular many !hive cm.
barked, among oats rs, Mr. liorsibrook, a woollen.mansifac-
turer, from the neighbourhood of Tavisinek, who is said to
have taken the whole of his establishment, consisting of 10
men and apprentices, and four women, ter the avowed pur-
pose of cakrying on his future concern at Pitshurgh, the Bir-
mingham e f Aineeiva. We could menthou oilier names, which
the public would hear with some surprise. A silversmith a
Plymouth is employed alitio,t from morning to night in for-
nishimt the emigra”ta-with gold and silver in eachatige for
Bank eapertand were we to state the amount thus exchanged,
and which thenceforth may be considered as totally lust, as
well as the posieSSOrS, to the mother country, it would b?
quite evidence enough, if any be wanting, of the spirit of
einieration."
A Jew, named Levi, sentenced to death by Ilia Assize Court
of the Upper lthiue, was executed on the lath sit. in the
market Place at Colmar. According to the costinn or his re-
ligion, he was conducted from the pi I !on Cl the jOare of pit.
nishusent with his head covered. The Chief ltabbi did not
leave 101111, till ha had given him on Vie ceatfold a long exhare
titiou, to which the culprit weenier! to listen with murk emo-
tion. Levi himself took oil his s hies, lit•foie he presented hta
headheadto the fatal knife. ‘t hold ttecont-
Innied him. easefully removed, immediately after the exccd.
than, even the smallest trueea of him ;'they then placed his
lode on a bier, took it oil their 41°81410r%, and inueettiled to
the •ccmetry of llorbourg, Rhino half a league tiara Col.
mar, a bete thcv buried it. The out of the ice-, a you man
of 19 ser.r! Or Opt., who lucid been condemned to drAli av .13
ac campfire, has ratuet%cd a .4-spite. The crime was murder.
Av. &tinny ard was apprehended at Dull last week, ard
underwent an estie.:nation before W. W. Ilultoii. Esq. at the
Ilrmion Home, twine charged with a sti one suspicion of
Captain Clarke to sink the brig Vi t. ntls belonging
Lonilim, in the Last Sea, Falsterlsosn, is, Citttober Ltst„
on her pan:ay. to London, loath d wits, baits, suet' r, .Yee. Flo
was attire-,.0, 111 to LOll4Oll, k r diale.c of a Dv, g.
officer, for further ex.tmittatiott. Diligent seises:li is m *Eng
to apprehend Captain Clarke, who lute alibendt,l
eetintry, •

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, liolnAy, jeNE 1.
IliX KING. V. J. MI:MI.110N, PW.

Mr. Scurktt moved for the judameut of ill.. Court upon
the dettnlaut,who inunethately btu:A up in ti unt of the Jury
box.

Mr. Justice Abbott then proceeded to rend his notes of
the first trial, %lg.—that upon which 31r. 31crceroti was
etarged with linvilig anrnplitinmsly applied 9211. of the pa-
r;4ll money, to the payment ut• the bill nfeosts of Dann and
I'rnshland, 116 soiit•iuns,tor contittetim.: his defence, upon in-
rl:ctoients I.,eoivasly preferred again., his,. The facts of
hi% e beef, so recently detaile•l in our columns, that
it mint a -our we •heuld retorat then'.
read'aig (f this I:coort occupied au hour and a quarter,
ea.d al the eutsclo•ion.
r Ir. Scarlet t another iui ictunent agotirt4t
defendant, the roeLciliorga upon which, he reguerted
c. eht also lie r••a•1. _ .

:`•lr. Justice Alatott then read his report or the trial of the
tlefeild.int tit he si emu( inilietinent, v.hieli imputed to him
t'.e oflenec of granting licences to public houses improperly ;
trmi -which he \la, also found guilty. .
The rerort been gone thiongli, the flefenuant was
it:keit, %%nether he lonl any affitios its to submit to the Court.

_
The defendant answered in the Animal ivroml his Solicitor
bolded in several, svhielt were read by Mr. Barlow.
The first was an Affidavit sworn by the defendant himself.
and Junes Wilmot 1..1,11, of IVellutlitstesquare. In this the
defendant, for lane-elf, stated, fun. 211 years last past end up-
wards, lie had been a Justice of the Trace fur the county of
I liddlesex, and Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets ;
t..at for the same space uf time be had been a Commissioner
o :sewers for the Hulbure mid Finsbury division, and for the
';'oeuer Hamlets; and dill ing the last seven yearn had Leen '
a..;!;tally elected as chairman to the latter division. The MB-
• ins then went on to enumerate a variety of other respect-
aide elfiees which he had held : such as a Counutissiumer of
tee Land Tax, Commissioner of the Income and Properly
'tee, etc. and finally, that he had held the Miler of Ireasurer
to the pat ith of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, fora. space of
:41 years; the ditties of all which offices he had gretititon uly
erformetl. In consequence of the resolntimis of the vestry
of August 23, 1811, and not till then, he had felt hietwelf au.
thoristid to tette, into his accounts as Treasurer the sum of
4231. Is. 3d. being the amend of expenses incurred iu de-
fending prosecutions which had been instituted against him
to his official capacity. Ile then went on to state, that tronil
what had passed on his trial, he haul with as little delay as
possible. refunded the said sum of 9251. Is. 3d. to the use of
the pour of the parish, by causing the same to be paid Into the
Bank of England, m the names of Mr. 11. Wrightson and the
fume other 'Trustees of the poor of the said parish of St. Mat-
thew, Bethnal Green ; and that it having since been sug-
gested to him, that iiiterest ought to be paid on the said aunt,
te had, on the 2 Ali of May, paid into the Bank, to the ac-
count of the same persens, the further sum of 2191. I Is. being
the interest ter live years front the 23th of Auguist,lBl3.
Mr. Wilmot Lush confirmed this affidavit, so far as it re-
ferred to the pay meat of the sums in question.
A great eariety of affidavits were then read—from Geo.
Byng, Esq. M. I'. ; Win. Mellish, Esq. M. P. ; E. Cotterell,
Esq. and J. Wynn, Esq. Commissioners of Sewers for the
Holborn and Finsbury Division. 'l'. Mashiter, Esq. T.
Winall, Esq. Magistrates and Deputy Lieutenant* of the
Tower Hamlets; K. Heinle, Esq. auil fourteen other persons,
of the highest respect:ability, hohliug various official sitea-
riot's, all of whom spoke in untioalitiett terms of the humour,
real, assiduity, and integrity of Mr. Mereerou iu the various
offices which lie had
'These affidavits all applied to the first indictment.
'there was another series of affidavits respecting the se-
cond indictment. The first of which was sworn by the de.
**mutant hincelf, in which he stated, that the ale-houses in
which he was harvested had been underlet by him to respect-
able tenants, and that he could have derived no benefit from
their being improperly licensed, nor had he any prospect of
olptaining new leases. The remainder of the affidavits, which
were to general character, were precisely? the same as those
a!reatlymentioned, and were not read.
Mr. Topping rose to address the Court in mitigatiow of pit.
tesitment. Ile evil knew the situation in which he then
stood, and lamented the impossibility of rendering the de-
fendant ranch service, because, by the rides aid coulee of
proceeding iu that Court, lie was mot at liberty to call in
question the justice of the verdicts which had been retie red.
He could, however, olista ve, that froin the evidence on the
trials, It appeared that the defeedant had fur thirty years
filled the situation of TreaStlrer to the parish in questmo,
daring which time he hail eunducteut the testis' s
wake, gave rise to the present prost•cution, in a manner ,•0 as
to elicit the respect and approltaticti of the parishioner:,
111, Lordship wOlll.l 4.41 see that this parish, especially of late
ears, bad hero exposed to She meat unfortunate divisious„
nr. Nlerceron certainly had not clandestinely introthteed into
his acconist of the titarish audit, on the title of April Id 14,
Messrs. Dams and Cross!and's hill : for a notice of holding a
vestry to couside., among ether thiegt, Jo pay Dana an
('reueslatill's trill, had been publicly read in the parish church,
ea the 2f.tal of August, and the resoliatious passed at the vestry
acquitted hint of any clandestiae intention. Up to the oth
day of April no complaint lied es en made; and even then
nu one Cattle foram ul to ask N'llOtlivr Mr. M.•reerou itteaut to
include ties item in his aecouni. %I he money however had
Leen refiinuled eua illiert•Sl, a eireernstatuce which he hoped
would have sumo went la n itit the Court. As to the seroml
charge, flee of connote) liteee:a..l public-houses, the (leen.
was op( :I% Intl ..(1110vil trout the lions,. of Continuo's.
tiorons‘ltt ems &meee:ly ietr.udifeed contained the pith
end marrow of Me inilit•tment, ewe, ly, thus Cie detvudant
' was owner of the helium, mentioet d et the mdictunents t ant
lee was not the owner in such a ',ease as tsar stun the right or
pewee to put in whet tenants be pleesed. The charge in e tee
year rested um me authority ut a sleet,. constable. it' the
had bum.) so very glaring, surely some of the 1100 ves-
t!, 1111111 .• 11,4 11,IVV:010W11 something anent them.
• I'l C etuou *erjrant and Mr. hfli h trdsou followed en the
stole aide. The latter partieulialy dwelt on the circa: : •
ranee of the notice given with I cgArd to Dann and lios,l4ad's
Loral I...l.l.t.Negr:otan In :oe; ott:i ge (I to attend at
it N.si I i..s, tilt Omit ittnnn.leately rose, nod Mr. M er..
-ere, ss.,sordered to pit le might up again out Wednesday
lneloell tiny he aas •ontltte!4 'twat) Cllllll,its custody of the
Ipstatt., and `IC .1....:10V Bayley lrronouuced the judgtneu:
ci the i, tut t as

" Jost 1.11 Moro ion, you are to teroive the sentence of the
CoUtt upon two in.l.etnical, wll I.4ve !,een pretCrtLd
&Oust you. One ciente 4..11...vgA :164.ust yOU COM-