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London, England, 1819-06-27 00:00:00

ESEDIAIk; YES.

When this trial was called on. Mr. Holt rose, and mode
an applications to the Court that it might he permitted to
stand of ei on seeennt of the absence ofMr.Seij. Hallnck,
who was tetaiewd for the plaintiff, but was then unable In
attend, io conxequeuce of an eugagemeut iu the Court of
Kiuz'a Bench.

Feseinueyer.--My Lord, 1 Lave already been
brought up to. lee From +Ulu tines' er.hil e uu this at3air, And
I Wee expended upontds 011;01. in it.
'tie chief-Jubilee.— IThtt %%ill, of course, me your ow is
COUVellittnCe.— SI re,etiuso cr.—Then, toy Lord, I Jourr
that the trill do now proceed.

Mr. Holt then went on, and stated it to be an action of
Deepens against the defend4lll4 for re )))) ving aid taking
away a quantity of irou gaspipee, to the amount in value
of 5001. and 41 po mirth, from the premises of the plaintiff•.
The plaintiffs were, Mr. Dia', Mr. Piceini, Mr.
lii-
rhardsuu, arid Mis. Thecrelosia White, all shareholders iii
the Greenwich and Deptlited Gas-light Company. The
vleifendaimis acre, Mr. I)tisco,an officer of the Jlarshalsta
Could; Mr. Stephen .11ittl, an auctioneer; and Mr. Fes-
seiner) er. The eircumetances on the present
aetion at ose were these;—Mr. R. Dodd, an engineer,
icablislied some time ago a joint &lock company of pro-
prietois, called !..its Greenwich and Deptfoi II (ias-
light Company ; mid was employed by the C ,mpany as
their engineer and principal surveyor. In the fintlirranee
of the work, a piece of ground was taken at Deptford,
upon which docks and other works were constructed; mid
a large quaiiiii y of iron 'nor'., fin:tidied by a foundry in
ntallordshire, were depoeited upon tlw 'netnews. Shortly
after.leswe ye r,eisme the defendants with all eXt4CII6OIIIIIIIII
the Mai slialsea-court, issued against Mr.1)01141, at the suit
of the defeerdatit Feveioneyer, and swept a way tIIe whole of
Thew iron pipes. the 'property of the company, to the
amount ash 4001. aat4l which they sold afterwards for half
the uncut . Ile then called Mr. Ralph Dodd, who stated
I ttttt self to he all em;iiteer of very esteunive practice; aed
deposed to the facts as stated by the learned eouotel. He
added, that the es crution tinder w1,i4:11 the property of
the ! u company had been taken away, was isseert against
himself only, at the rilit of the defendant Feeetwateyer,
with whom he hail ali " usoctileil aceotilit;“ but that he
himself had no int. rest whatever ill that properly, tieing
merely the eisinlovid neent of the company.
one.esatuterel by Mr. Sergeant V sualian.—Pray. Mr.
Dodd, ei ill you he Lauded euoogh to 1111'01111 113 a k ether
or riot diet e air any other ehare•kelders of this 3111141 ()gas
..41;a0/1113 Uf yours besides the plair this Not that have
~aid their subscriptione. Oh! bet when a man sense' ibes
to a joint stock company, quo know he wittertakes, and no
doubt yuu hair a long list ut these subscribers Muria yoit
These ate.ci stay other entree. rs; but, as I said berme,
they have not paid ally mon. y upon their 11111111111. IV a, butt,
Mr. Dodd, we must have a better answer than this; play
be candid now, and du nut deteriorate your own company
thi•as ay c—Then there are twee of the, sort you mean,
that's the hest way of shortening lisp Cl3e. Will ,uu swear
that no re aii• airy others %--No. I sill nut; bat at the•
same time I will am swear there we no others Which do yea
call the principal among you r —Why. in the cotenne.sie.aaent of
every concern there must be a principal, and I W. 141 the principal
in this. Whet! did ;nu cease to be eu r-1 consider myself se
still; but nut in *Lis action though ! You must bear that in
) Pray. Mr. Dodd, be knal enough to inforni
us who, and what, is Mrs. Theudoeia White ! (Here the Chief
Justice iesktil whether there had not been severed modems nestle
in last term to ascertain who this lolly was ; and he was informed
by the counsel that there had, but Indent, without success.) Mr.
Sergeant Vaus;luve repeated his question t Who is she. Mr.
Dodd r—Why slieekit widow. And then and where slid she
authorise you to put down 21/ shares in this company in her
name ?—ln ruy own house. Del she give you any authority in .
writing %—No ; 1 asked her to subecribe, and she said Ltinglit
put her down for go shame, and at the same she paid a deposit
of 3 per cm:. Will you swear that ?---No; I will not actually
swear it. What will you du then %—Why, you see there had
been money transactions between her husband and 11111; anti I
believe I owed hint about tool. !Do you mean to tweer, Mr.
Dodd, that she ever paid one farthing to this undertaking of
yours ?—.lliere was money which I owed to her husband, and so
the deposit .wee charged to that account. I lave you any 110C1.1.
burnt W slaw this money nuncio-eon %—No; l have uu docu.
merits. Then it appears that she neves paid, one farthing to it,
nor ever put down her name as a subscriber ! Witness made no
answer. .\ nd nosy has Mr. CAristoptice Ilicharthrin (ano-
ther of the pluintiffk), in point of fuel. either paid or put down
his name !—Why, there was money I owed him too.—We duds
am to know what you uwe, Mr. Dodd; you may he in debt to
all the world fir aught I know.—l beg your pardon. sir ; I al.
eats paid every man all my life. It seems, however, that you
had not paid Mr. Richardson ?—Nn ; but then I hadgiven him
credit for the diem in this company ; and that's the same thing.
you know. Ito ;ou nut knout, Sir, that Mr. Richardson returned
your shares, and refused to receive them as vane for your debt ?
so, I do not; 1 seta them by my WWI to his attorney; and I
understood he received them. Now, Mr. Pectin, what i. he
He is a shareholder, and is, bodes, a pro letup 'e sort of secre-
tary, or clerk to the company ; and he receives Iris instiumione
from me. Can you tell used one perion who ha: actually tiers
,toy part in the wit:mating. excepthig yourself I,—Oh yes
there are meny geroltinen at Deputed who have taken great
pains about it ; but you know n• person but an engineer can tic
tionjtatrnt to do much in it et preset:. The plaintiff, Mr. !licks,
has often isaor down and Inektel at the wor!ts, the same as any
other gentlemen might. Looked at the works! and you call
your superb soa-light company, do yon, Mr. Dodd r Upon toy

JUNE V.

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word it begins to burn very blue (tau irbter). Were not then
ton pips placed on that ground at Deptford by your order
No, they were not. By whose order, then, were they placed
there ?—I really don't know.—Do you not know that they were
claimed and taken away as your property by the defendants
Deism and Binl, fur money that you owed to Mr. Fesebnieyer ?
—All 1 know is, that the man there (Mr. Faenmeyer), to whom
the Company did not owe a farthing. saved my son with &Chan-
cery writ, and took away the property ! Du you not know that
Pieria, your secretary pro lezeizxn e. told the defendants that the
pipes were your property, and tiley must not take them away ?
Oh dear, no! Ile would have been very faint) to tell Mein any
such thing. Now, Mr. Dodd. did not you sell die clerkship of
this soppustal company to this Mr. I'iccini fur 450!.?—N0;
told him if he would take a e--itain number of shares, my in-
terest should be used to procure the clerkship for him. And did
he take any chants as )out call them ? Yes, he did ; and paid the
money for them too. The roceiptt for 250 L are in (limn. in-
deed ! and pray where did you meet with Mr. Ficcir.i ?—Whv,
in all new undertakings there must be allurements held out to the
public ; and so a secretary was rulverusal for in the newspapers.
Aye, and so you allured Mr. l'iceiai by your advertisement ; and
then you nse him as another allurement, or a sort of decoy-dud:.
as well as •asm. pro tens" (The witness was very angry at the
tam " decoy-duck,' and appealed to his counsel for protection,
but in vain.) This transaction of taking away your pipes threw
a damp upon the soncem; did not it Mr. Dodd ?—Yes, certain •
ly. Aye; and it will go near, I presume, to put the gat out en-
tirely.
Cross-examined by the defendant Fesenineyer—When I call-
ed at your house, Mr. Dodd, did not you give me two Stuart's of
1251. each, in this alleged company. in oianderation of a sum of
money which you owed me?—line the witness begged to ex-
plain to the Court that he had owed Mr. Fat MT:Yet 4 little nio-
' ney ; and that on the occasion to which lie alluded, he came into
his -house in a finisits manner, and asserted, that if he did not
instantly pay him, he would take hum before the Magistrates at
Bow-street, and charge him with having robbed him ; and that.
intimidated by this threat,lic had foolishly given hint the two
*hares of which he spoke.
The Chief Juatice.—And when he haft your house, did not you
humid- at* go to the Magistratet, and complain that a person
had come into your house late a foram and had extorted money
from you ?—No, my Lord.
ClOiS examination continued by Mr. Fescorneyer.—Did you
not tell ton at the sante time. that you had employed Mr. Short,
a stockbroker. iu Threadnalle.street, to sell to shares for Mrs.
'floodobia White, and that inabout 7 days you should be able to
pay me the remainder of what you owed me, out of the proceeds
of those shareo—The witness did not return any direct answer,
thought the question was repeatedly. put ; he replied merely by
attempting to describe the manner in which his debt to Mr. Fe-
ienmeyer had arisen, but the Cotart would not listen to it ; armlet
length theChier.lustice told Mr. Fesenmeyer, that he thought
he might spare himself further trouble.
The witness was then cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Onslow ;
in the comae of which he said, lie did not know where Mrs. The-
odosia White now lived; nor liad he seen her for the hut six
months; neithcr could he say whether she was still living.
31r. Barley, the Attorney fur the prosecution. was next called
by the Court, and asked concerning this lady; but be had never
seen her, nor did he know any thing at all about her.
A number of other witnesizes were afterwards examined. Among
others, a Mr. Edmonds. landlord of the gravid front which the
pipet were taken away, who had let the ground to M r. Dodd, and
always considered him as ids tenant ; he knew nothing at all of
any of the plaintidi, except Piceini, and he beard him say
he was very much disappointed in this speculation, anal that
he fearel he should never get his 2501. again.
J. Wnlbv, partner in the house of Bankcs and Co. imnfounders
in reutriirdshire. proved, that the pipes were ordered of them by
Alr. IJald, on account of the Greenwich and Deptford Gas Light
Company. lle knew nothing of the existence of that company,
however, nor had lie ever implied for parnietu : the pipes were
charged to the Galway he beliered, but he bud nut his books
with him.

When the evidence was concluded,
Mr. Sergeant Vaughan spoke at some length, and concluded
by observing, that the title of the esitlbe should have beep '• The
Greenwich end Deptford Gas Light Company or a net, way to
Fety old el‘ bts."
fhe Chief .14:stice told the Jury he bad no doubt their !Mr.&
had long been made up as to "horn the property belonged ; ur.d
they instantly found a verdict for the defendants.

COURT OF .CHANCERY, SATT:RDAV, JVIVE 19.
pier Nettie WA LER V. GOltn LIVERPOnI..
The Solicitor General row to submit sr enetion to his Lord-
ship in this cruise; o two he was interrupted by
Mr. Jltrrtiu, who oloweved, that perhaps his Lord..hip
would nit be troubled se kir tike risotto!) at a I, it it o.is
:allowed to isteoil over for a few du3s. lt was act ordingly
ordered to bland over.

TIIE I•ING, 0% TIIE RELATION OF THE ATTOENEY•GE.
FERAL O.IIIE CITY OY LONDON.

The Lord.,chancirdor nn a former day rnisited an Injunc-
tion, on the application of Mr. Wetberall, to resttaita the
defendants from electing a wharf and embankment on the
shone of the River Thames. at Milbank, on the g. amid that
it.wooid be a great pisidic nui,ance, and ohqstut the free
pits...are of the r. Vl' r.
. _

Mr. Horne noo moved ths• Court to delimit • the injunction-
hods in support of his snot ion, read the affidavits of Mr. Net,
sou, the deputy wa:er bailiff to the Corporation of London,
and several svher individuals, the contents of n hick vent to
slew, that the u hart intended to be erected %soul& iscsissasi
of ofierieg any obstruction to the navigation of the river, bit.
prove-it, and be a mailer of consideroble convenience to tbe
owners of the crafts on the river.

The Lord Chancellor, after hearing Counsel at consider-
able length on the goestion, appointed Tut day neat fur tic
fiurtirdecicitrir of the case.

CONSIST ORY COWtl', JUNG 29.
CUREOUS sCIT.---I.OIID BAUM; V. LADY 11AWHIC.

This was a proceeding not nsual in the Consistotial
Coml. It was a jachition of maraiagr, Monett by the
Higtit -Hon. Lord Hawke against Angtista Elizabeth
Corti, calling herself his wife. He exhibited, in the first
&stink of the libel, that his was in no way mars ied or
united to this drfrisliteit, win in the year ltiOO, in divers
places, fi.!sely and maliciously boasted that she was mar-
ried to land Hawke, whereas in fart no inch marriage
was aoletnnizell between them, and being stetinnoned to
cease boaitisig, she dad not obey. Lord Hawke, therefore,
pia,. d it might he moved in that Unlit, that lie was fret,
and in no way married to het ; also that she might be com-
pelled to desk( from boasting, and pay the costs of snit.
Lady Hawke gave in a plea, by which it appeared that
rise brats age Loral Hawke, who was a widower. Poi,' I"
adilres•cs to her, and consented to he unsorted. He weld
with her to his Piortor it, Doctors' Commons to obtain a
licence, and left her its the carriage. On his return he
informs d her he had obtained a Special Lerner. The
same evening the marriage was solemnized at his Lord.
ship's 1101144: iu Psik-lanit. lie assured her it was Wiwi.
mutt according to the rites of the Church England, by

JUNE 27.

Priest in holy orders, with a proper licence. From
!sit to ISIS, they cohabited as lawful husband and wife.
Lady Hatt le !levelled on the Continent with Lend [lan kr
a, his wife, received letter,' hunt him a, Lady Ha% ke,
and took mire of his chfldu u n.

Sir ►l'nt. Scott, wader lite above eircumetances, was of
opinion that there was prima facia evidence of marriage.
Ile at the same lime had La doubt what Ike case vaund
be ill loorabi, if I. rd Math. 0151 that the supposed
rfleSt WAS not a l'ait,4 in holy os del*, and the ia►tutrneut
ha licence. In the c.ese as it than *tend, he wag of oid.
Mon the libel could hut be admitted. It was accordingly

_xgCUTlOX.—Tucsdav escunig the Keeper of New.
gate received a respite for Tllolll4li Bradbury, staying his
exectatiott for a week, and on liVerltiesday morning-
the miler flee of the tuitintritiate men who were ordered
for execution by the • P'sitsce Regent at the Couticil tin
Saturday last paid the Fortin of their lives at the limit of
the Dditors' Door. IVe never recnd such a fact with-
out shuddering—nut one of these victims -of our san-
guinary criminal code had committed murder, the Only
crime which, by divine law, it is declared shall be
punished with death, and can human hive:Mon in the
eteenth century find no punishment severe enough
short of death!. Ihe idea that pithlie executions act or
terraren upon Ile spectators cannot weigh with any one
who has met the crowd returning from one of these
horrid exhibitions, for he must hare seen the undimi-
nished joke of ribaldry playing upon those countenances
which had just witnessed Cite binding of a set of miser.
able sinners into the awful presence of an eternal Judge.
Indeed we are convimied that the general leeliot amuse
who visit such scenes is that of commiseration towards
any one whip is dills deprived of life in opposition to the
declared law' of the Supreme Being. We hope some one
who has the power will pursue the subject of ameliora-
tion of our disgraceful code of criminal law till he re-
moves the opprobrium from our national character.—
Tisesday the numerous friends of the unfortunate itien
visited them in prison, and remained till three o'cl.,ck,
the moment appointed on such occasions for final sepa-
ration from relations and all others who are deeply inte-
iested in the Corot* those whoare to stifle!. - All the poor
creatures have acted, since the moment the Ordinary
told them what tlity were to expect, with great p.apri-
ety. Wright, who was convicted of a burglary in the
Itouse of Mr. Wilkinson, expressed an anxious wish to
see his prosertilm, who immediately called at the prison
and wa, ailiiiivert to the cell, where an aling inter-
view took place between them. Mr. Wilkinson had
used his influence to obtain a mitigation of Wright's
sentence, and went in the course of Yesterday twice to
Lord Stmouth's office, to learn whether any hopes
:night be entertained that extreme punishment would
not be resorted to. Upon heating that there was no
t hauce, Wright said he never had expected lenity.. and
that his only view in troubling his imusecistor upon the
occasion was the gratification of his poor wife, who kept
hope full before her eyes, while even the shadow-of it
did not remain. Jeacot and Albin were occupied in
prayer a great part of the day, and in listening to the
cons:dation given by some and the groans uttered by
o, hers of their friends. Ambrose was leas prepared for
the shock of the intelligence communicated in the Re-
conler's Report. He had been respired, and persisted in
declaring that he had never fired at his prosecutor. The
case of Bradbury, who was convicted of having tittered
forged notes, excited during the day the greatest iiitrest
at the Secretary of States office, which Dr. Comm was
summoned to attend, in order to furnish imelligeoce
upou the subject.
SHOCLISO Mu RDite.—On Whit-Toesday a fight took
place at the village of Twerton, near Rath, between two
brothers, named Wiltshire, of the adjoining parish of
Newton. Oue of them had been knocked down, and
the other was in the act of kicking him, when a man,
named Ashley, touched hint by the elbow, :,rid said
"Don't kick him for if you do you will kill him ;it is
a shame for brothers to be fighting;" at which Wilt-
shire turned round. and. vociferating to Ashley, with a
tremendous oath " knock your brains out, or any
one else who takes his part." instantly struck Ashley a
violent blow on his ear. who fell to the ground, never
to speak again, and after lingering till the following
Friday, he riled. The coroner's jury who as upon the
body returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against \Vilt.
shire, who has been committed for trial.
Ula Thursday afternoon a melancholy accident happened
at the ato:ith of the Don, b 3 the upsetting of one of the
cubic' ensploycd in the salmon &inn; there, and on hoard of
which there were four volition fishers, a woman, with her
two children she had taken out for trying the elliects of the
sea air in al;evirting the booping cough, and a girl about
thirteen years of age. The four men who were joining out
Fie coble through the breast b on the shlre, when a Ivavy
swell struck it. ali cid. deep in the water with the net and
number of people on board, nod ito alarm of rian;.7tr being
euven by their cries und shriek., en attempt was made to
a-s the cultic to the shore, hut unsuccessfully, 117 e ,-tteceed-
i,hr wave upsetting it, by which all were thrown into the
yea. The net, w hich was 'nutty nut, was immediately (hewn
iu by the avheriaCll on shore, by nhich means two of their
companion.: were drawn out, white a number of White
Fishers, is ho were accidentally near the spot, with the most
praise-worthy alacrity, rushed into the water, and succeeded
iv bringing the remaining pert of the unfortunate people to
I yid, two of the men, however, who had disappeared und. r
the cubit., not ulna af.ei some iwcrval of time, and the
whole seemingly in a lifelesy state. After a long peweve-
r owe in every endeavour w Inch the circumstances would
tatty*, or hninauity suggest, the greater pats of them were
restored. [tut we regret to state that Thom ma :chid, a
irespectaldu old Mall. /11111 JOl,ll Hay, a tourrg man of 21
rare triage, much regretted, also one of the children, about
six aloofly. old, were unfortunately past recovery.
ATrLSIPT AT MURDEN.—A few 1.11/1111'1:4 before nine
o'clock on Tuesday morning, the neightantrhood of Port-
pool-lane, Gray's Inn-lane, was throe n into the greatest
alarm from dreadful shrieks and cries of murder, pro-
ceeding from the house of Patrick Murray, a Llsiurcr,
residing in that street. Several persons assembled before
the "use. anti the cries of murder still amounting,
Thcituas Tinsum, a neighbour, weal into the house to