The National Register.
London, England, 1822-06-23 00:00:00

TIIE KING v. KNATCIIRI'LL AND OTHERS.

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The defendants were found guilty of a conspiracy to defraud
Mr. Worrell, or Bond-street. by representing that Mr. Knatch-
bull, who is brother to Sir E. Knatchbull, the member for Kent,
was entitle(' to receive property, which, in fact, he had received.
The Common Sergeant and Mr. Plstt were heard in support
of the application for a new trill. They contended that the de-
fendants bail not been convicted rightly. There was no in-
ducement to commit the crime of which they were convicted,
because they had nothing to gain by it.
The Court said the conviction, as it stood, would render the
defendants liable to severe punishment, and, as it was a case of
considerable interest, they should take time to consider their
judgment.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
FRIDAY, JUNE. 21.
UR RE (SA ACKSON, CLARKE, AND BROOKS.

Mr. Sergeant Vaughan moved for a rule to show cause why
the names of Isackson and Clarke, two attornies of this Court,
should not be struck ollr the rolls, and why a pi rson named
Brooks should not be attached, lb.. contempt of Court, without
having been admitted. The learned Sergeant grounded his ap
plication for a rule upon a long affidavit, which detailed the
proceedings of a trial that took place in this Court on the 12th
instant. It appeared that a publican residing in Bow-street
brought anactionagainst Brooks, to recover a aunt of money that
had been deposited in his hands bydhe attorney to the publican.
—The latter, it was stated, had intrusted Brooks to bring an
action for the recovery of a sum of money, which sum was re-.
covered and paid into his hands, and to get it oat of them the
publican brought this action. Brooks pleaded in defence to
that action, that he was not an attorney, and that he was but the
clerk to Mr. Isaackaon, in which capacity he had received the
money and paid it into the hands of his master, Mr. Itiaackson,
and that therefore he was not liable. In answer to this defence,
evidence was called for the purpose of proving that Brooks had
for years acted and done business as an attorney, in Broad-court,
Long•acree, where his name alone appeared upon the door, and
where no person but himself was ever semi acting, and that lie
was the only person known by the witnesses there for years,
and always known as an attorney. In reply to this case Isaack-
fon was called for Brooks, and he swore most positively that
the offices in Broad-court were carried on by him, and that
Brooks was only his managing clerk. Some evidence was pro-
duced to prove that Brooks had been the managing clerk to
Clarke, the attorney moved against, until lie became bankrupt.
♦ document was put in evidence which was en appointment by
tke publican of Isaarkson for his attorney in the case, and pur-
ported to have the signature of the publican_ A variety of facts
came oat in the course of the cause, however, which weakened
the testimony in behalf of Brooks, who, it appeared, was the
rester of the house, and was the petitioning creditor as well as
assignee to the estate of his pretended employer, Clarke. In
fart, sufficient was known to induce the jury to believe that
Clark« and Ismickson were the mere names under whieb Brooks
carried on business as managing clerk, and that they had no
real share in the business, hot merely lent their names to him
for the purpose of enabling him to act as an attorney of that
Court. Time affidavit charged, that the document, purporting to
he an appointnii nt by the publican of ISIINCL von as his attorney,
was a forgery. The Court, however, ordered that part of it to
be struck out, as they had no power to try the fact. The
learned Sergeant submitted that a rule should be granted to
stew cause why the two attorneys, Isarickson and Clarke,
almuld not appear under these circumstances to answer the
interrogatories put to them, and why they should not be struck
olt the rolls, and, as against Brooks, why he should lint be
attached for contempt.
The Court, after having beard the case at great length,
granted the rule to show cause.

PREROGATIVE COURT. WEurvoner, June 19.
IN THE GOODS OF HIS LATE MAJESTY.

he gne•tion otyirriarlictien, in the en.* of the ,oi-disaat
Princess Olive. this day nudes went a solemn argiiment of
five hours. The Court was crowded to extra., and was
attended by the lady, who came into Coort richly dressed.
Dr. Dodson said, that his learned friend. he thought,
bud fully rstahlinlied the points far which he contended
on a formes day. Without wishing to detain the Court,
he should add some farther ohnervoitions in a cane of so
mach impels tatter. Hia learned friend had almost
cierdly made out the proponition that the King, of this
country lead the pottier to make their will, and dinp.ine of
their private estates. both real and personal; and having
looked into the be.t text writers on the iiihject, that doc-
trine WWI contirrued. The first was Cilear, our of the
oldeat text writers, who laid down that every per-on, as
well an the King, had that power. Swhiburtie, on Willa,
laid down that every pet son might make a will, unless ex-
per...sly under legal prohibition, 44 lunatics, rind
persona godly of 110101 ions clinic.. The King of the
realm he could not find prohibited under this general
desetiwien ; the pa ineiple applied to et's), Permit', of
%liiiever rank or station. This could be ti need as stan-
dard law from the :Saxon Heptarelty nod the Norman
Conquest. Dr. Dodson asid it was the 11141 oteiret 01

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oh trace, both on the part of his I d friend end
himself, to proceed in the most respectful way to Isis Ma-
•jesty in support of the royal dignity. Tliey requested the
King's Advocate would point out a way that was more
respectful. 'foe King's Advocate anti Proctor, they con-
tended, had full poweis to appear atilt deleuil all cases ill
which his Maje•t '4 interest was colter' tied.
Dr. Hags' iril followed on tie same side, and, after
going over the authorities cited and relied no by his
learned friend, he dwelt upon two wills made by Henry
V. The first was a private will, before his von was born,
and other after his birth. By the second will the Dukes
of Bedford and Gloucester were declared executors and
trustees; but the Earl of Warwick, as in this case, was
appointed his son's protector.
Sir C. Robinson (the King's Advocate) appeared under
protest In the
,j,,r,s,tictioli of the (7ottrt, and contested the
proposition of his learned friends on lite other side—
namely, that the reigning Nfaiiareli of this country cotild
be cited by the authority of this Court to appear person-
ally, or by proxy, to any process instituted, w;tle a view
of making him it defendant. 'the Court was not hound to
take notice of this application, further than it concerned
the prerogative of the Crown. 'Flue paper, if it was a
real document, had been kept hark for 40 years in the
hands of the patty, and HMO no living evidence could be
brought for ward as having witnessed or attested it. It
was to be supported upon the mere evidence of rnmpsri•
UM of hand-writing, whirls was in itself inadmissible
There was it 1111 l ething so soars ellous Itr the whole history
of this person, that it was considered altogether iurredi•
Isle. This ambiguous paper• as lie should lei in it, referred
to no specitio property of his late M tjesty, ...,ver which
this Court could give its operation. Suppose this Court
were to give effect to this itedrument, by what ;toner
Could it be carried into exe;:ition ? the King could not be
sued upon the decree of this Court, and the, efore no fruits
could be directed from this Court's granting probate.
Dr. Adams followed the King's Advocate, and ron-
tended, that this party had no oilier remedy but as a
matter of grace and Inertia from the Crown, or by pcti•
lion to the Court of Chancery. Was his Majesty to be
, ailed upon to deliver tip, and bring into this Court, all
scraps of paper relating to his royal father's property,
whirls may be in his possession ? These were the conse-
quences of this Court granting its citation, that whale* sr
disclosures were sought to be made must be brought be-
fore this Court, and through this Conti before the eye of
the public, from thence to be discussed at tea tables and
in coffee house■.
Dr. Lushington replied. This paper, according to hill
learned friend, if admitted to ',lobate, could never be
carried into effect ; because, in contending with the
Crown, it was placed under this disadvantage—it should
not be granted. Now such was the melancholy fact, that
whoever was opposed to the Crown iii contending his or
her individual rights, would always be opposed to the
greatest difficulty, if not utterly borne down. But where
privileges, as in this case, were contended for, equally
valuable with those of the Crown itself, to think that these
should be subjected to all the subterfuges of the law.
when, if the Cs own acted with a view to principles of
justice, be should think it would convent to the ilial of
tuts cause. He hoped his individual rights should never
be opposed to the power of the Cu own.
Sir J. Nichol said; he should !A.. time to consider the
case, and give judgment on the neat Court day.

FIR E.-011 Toilr.day tii.tht a tire br ike nut in St.
John-street,(;:eikeowell, on the premiJes of Mr. Helms,
air extensise 'sorrier and leather dyer, which in a few
hoots connoted tits, and injured the premises of two
tradesmen iittjoinitig. The oplistMaiits of Isiiiiittort and
Clerkenwell were retiring to rest at the hour (I I 0...1.,ck)
when the flames were first discovered issuitig, to a ire
tnendous colti.ate,, from the roof of C. henna's pre
anises. Toe Glob-.• and other engines soon urr;ved, and
by three o'clock on Friday morning. the rasaging elettict,t
was extinguished. 'Pie property destroyLd is valavd at
some woos olds of ;moods.
Fine IN KIRBY STREET, HATTON-GARDEN.—AbOOt
Iwo o'clock rtit Titur•day morning last a tire broke out in
the house of Mr. Halm, x 7, Kiihy.,reet. It 55 as wi It
the utmost difficulty that the taiiii!y escaped, even in
their night clothes. Mr. naiad saved his toe chAtiren,
in an Amos! miraculous manner, by lUreing his way out
at the top of the house, and then gained to a leads)
the adjoining houses. l'he other branches of the family
also wonderfully escaped by making their way thrttA.,
intense smoke, out at the from door. Toe whole of
the furniture and other valuable prol.etty is reduced to a
heap of mills ; indeed nothing remains of the house
except the bate walls. From the activity of the firemen
it,eadjoining houses received very little,. The fire is sup-
posed to have origniated in the hack room of the second
floor, but of this we are riot by airy means certain.
JuvesiLe LIBERALITY —OW Saturday last, at the
breaking tip of the St. Giles 's Isiah Free Scowls for the
Mr slimmer holidays, when it is usual for the boys, who
have tickets of men., to receive the liqle pecuniary pre-
miums, the MOMIOr annowiced to Mr. Finit'gall, that
the children had deterniitted oil the 'previous day to pre-
sent him wow the whole apitomit of their little premi-
ums (189. 2,1.) for the fond for the relief of the sutlering
Irish, which they accordingly presented. Upon 11d1atr-
tog it appeared that the act was the simultaneous olio!.
itig of the boys, who said that they could not hem r
acknowledge the boom), which educated them, than by
c.intriuuting Irmo their little store, to swell Me sum oh
British, liberality towards the connections oi their hmiltes.
Nlr. Finniaan was denoted to present this subscription to
the London Tavt.rit Committee.
liddth to Faversham and /tack —Mr. West, the petits..
tiodertook to go moot Bromley to Faversham and
slid back, a distance of 70 miles. in 16 hours, for a bet
of 100 guineas. He started at eight o'clock on Sunday
evening, arid did the first W miles in three hours and a
half, and after taking refreshment, he proceeded on to
Faversham, arid arrived there its seven hours and a
quarter (33 wiles). The pedestrian stretched himself on
a bed, and started back. After doing three miles in half
an hour, he left himself •32 miles fur the next seven
hours. He performed rather more than four miles and
a hair in each hour, and had something more than hour
antlis to do in the lass hour. He won with three 'lli'
Mlles to spare, but touch distressed. Captain Allan
was the umpire.

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CORONER'S licenser—An inquest was holden a few
days ago, at the Rose and Crown Tavern, Ch tirch.street,
St. Gaya's, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. coroner for the
county. on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Sheehan, other.
wire Mason =This investigation took place at the in-
stance of the parish officers of the united parishes of Ste
Giles's and St. George's, Bloomsbury, to whom it was
reported that the deceased was left a widow some time
ago, with a property amounting to about 3,0001. and
about a fortnight ago, it is stated, she was induced to go
with the friends of a young man named Mason (who
had, for several months, endeavoured to obtain her con-
sent to a marriage with him) on a party of pleasure;
that she was plyCli with spirits, and, in a state of sw-
ami-dation, site was also induced to marry the young mart
at IVooketch church. The 'writhes officers being in.
formed of the anove circumstances, requested Mr. Stir.
ling, the coroner, to hold alt inquest on the hod y of the
deceased. A respectable Jury was in coon quence, sum.
mooed, and the following es i•lence was add .ced:—Mr.
Nl:cii el Carroll, of the Dose's Head, Nlonanotath.criurt„
kit -sv the it ceased, who died on Sunday, the gth inst.
Sue res'iled at 22, Churcii-street, St. Giles's. On the
second day of Gfrettwich fair, about a fortnight since,
the deceased went nut with a Mr. and Mrs. Boyle, who
lived near to her, and a NI r. Keleher, as he utnderstood
to Greenwich for. He was informed that the deceased
was made druntk, and in that Stale married to a young
man 113Illed N 1.1•011, at Woolwich. The 13 iyles teturited
it) towtt with the deceased. She refuelled borne at two
o'clock A. M. out the 2d of June. She was very ill, and
cited a few days afterwards.—Nlary Litinders, niece and
servant to the deceased, stated, that the deceased left
home nit the second day M Gre •invich f.it, dressed its
silk ,and Caine home at IWO on the Sunday morn.
itg tollowine, ill jut old dress of Mrs. Boyle's, and ap-
peared to be deranged she looked quite foolish. She
w is in bed .11.0111 an boor inter she returned home, and
at eight o'clock in the same !miming, Mr. Boyle gave'
her drink out of a small phial ; and at ten o'clock she
was seized with Se,, con:Mord at intervals in them
till she died on the morning. 'rite deceased appeared
very angry with the Boyles, and expressed her dislike
toward, them ; she spoke very incoherently. Her arms,
legs, and thighs were bruised.—Mr. Edward Watkins,
surgeon, King-street, Salto, Was called to the deceased.
fie opened the body it, the 1.n-settee of a number of pro-
fessional men. Titere was neither wounds 11111 bruises
sufficient to cause her death. Tutor was an ell'o.ion of
blood on the brain, caused by the rupture of a cease! --
lie could not say What produced the rupture; violent
exertion would proloce it, or utinsal exertinn.—Thos.
Kennedy' sworn —lie is landlord of the Rose &Crown,
Ciiiirch•sireet, St. Giles's. lie is nephew of the de-
ceased's late hush Ind, and guardiall to the child she has
left. lie was told she was going into a fit on Sunday
afternoon. lie went to her, and asked her, " What is
tile miner, Mrs. Suet:halt?" Site replied, that she did
not know; butt they had forced hquor down her throat
at every public-horse no the road. She frequently raised
ter hands, and exclaimed "Ott God ?' and then be
observed that there was a bruise on her arus.—l)ennis
Doan, 27, Church•street, St. Giles's. He lived with one
deceased, w Ito was Ills aunt. Recollects the day she lea
the house, was in perfect health. He went to odic Half
Moon, iu Portpool-lane, on the Saturday night follow.
Mg, about I I o'clock, and saw \I r. Boyle, and asked
him if he would pettnit him to see his aunt. He said
ye`, and directed him :o a bed out which his aunt was
sitting; she was vomiting at the lime. He asked her if
sae had been married ? Site said yes- He asked her
where? She said at NVoolsvich. Ile asked her if she
would come home, and she said she would, and einie
home in a hackney-mach, hot appeared very down-
marital. She had a fit Oil Sunda% afternoon, nil fre.
qeuttle • berwards till she died.-Rev. J 13. Saunders,,,
curate of Woolw:ch.—Appl.cation was made to him on
tile 31st of Alay, to in trry tote deceased and Mr Nlasoit.
l'oev were titariied by heence. He performed the ser-
vice. Saw the deeeas,4l silting, before the cereinotty in
the vestry, for about five minutes, with her hand to her
head. She then waked to the altar. lie did not ob-
serve if she had hold of the arm of any one, as she
walked front the vesay to site altar. She was much em-
barrassed. If she had been intoxicated, or if he had
any idea of it, he certainly would not it Ise married the
parties. She was married in the name of Elie. I)evane.
—Archibald Bartleniati, Hiatt-street, St.Giles's, surgeon.
Olt Sunday evening, June 7, he vet.s called in to attend
the deceased, at eg, Chnrcit.street, St. Giles's. He ins.
dersiood bile has been poorly smite days. Site eseaplain.
eel of vomitting, and pain in hie head, with heaviness
over the eyes. Drinking more than usual, and 11w heat
of the weather, might, with slight exertion, also pro.
duce the same effects. Only one dose of medicine was
administered to the deceased, probably from negligence.
Tulare were two bottles of medicine on the shelf, with
IA els on them, as if they hail beets prepared by a clic.
!Inst.—Mrs. Boyle SWOril...Sle lives its Ctturcit street;
was acqttainted with the deceased, being neighbours.—
On Wednesday, eg.h of May. the deceased asked her to
go to Greenwich lair, as site was go:mi.:off with Mr.
Nlason to marry him. and a Mr. Keileher. and Mason,
hi a coach to IVonlwicit ; and on their arrival there, she
slept that night with the deceased. ;Mason slept its
another room. Oa the follow Ing morning, She (wit.
ness) came to town, leaviug the deceased at lodeinas:
and, at the deceased's request, sent her hushatid down
.to be present at the wedding. He went "how') to Nl'unl-
with on Thursday, and was preset at the marriage ots
Frelay. The deceased drank no spirits. 'lois match
had been going on for sonsi months, and they were to
have been married six months ago; and the licence was
then to have been lie coroner, its sommin;
up the evidence, Said that the marriage was a mere nut.
lay, as it appeared that it had beets efl..Tted, not only by
perjury, but that the deceased was (Marled ill a flee...tents
natne.—ln about half an hour the Jury returned a ter-
ct—'• Died from the rupture of a blood.vesscl ; but
there is no evidence before us lO decals hew the tltilane
was occasiutted."

19oltce.

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MANSION-HOUSE.
On Thursday last Mr. Crocker and Mr. Colman, Coat-
snort Councilmen of Hi rail.street Ward, Wailed upon the
Load Mayor, and 'hewed to Ilk Lordship some hiewspas
beers, in which au account had been published, headed
" The Piagise," and stating that that scourge hail made int
appeasance in one of the Hospitals; that one patient had
stied tinder decisive appearances ; and that in consequence
the Hospital had hero closed, and all persons excepting
medical men ratetithv exelatleal.
The gentlemen in gently requested his Lordship that he
would takesutlt means as were its his power to ascertain
whether therm was any foundation ia the statement, that,
It trite, proper measures might its taken; or, it'll tinned
'int to be unfounded, that such a public mints mitt tion
might lie given to the it njustitiatile mis-statenstat as n.sulsl
rill a stop to the alarm that was created by it, and winch
%Sat spreading Wit:l rapidity.
'the Loud Mayor said, that an immediate investigation
insight certainly to be made into so serious a matter. Ilis
Lordship sum two of the Saataildlall.ll, Fogg and Leivlbet-
let, the one to St: Thomas's, and the other to St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital*, with instunctions to inquire of the
medical gentlemen the tenth of the statensent that had
/mon published, and also of the state of the Hospitals.
k'ogg and Lee111110:er soon rettitised, and stated, that
Laving inquired of the medical gentlemen ci built places,
they hail been assured iu answer, that the Hospitals
nevi r mot e free, at such a pee infet.tions diseases.
nor were level. less prevalent than at the present time ;
nor had they heard or any tliiiig that could give the slight-
est foundation for such a typos E.
The 1....141 May or expressed his surprise that any of the
et:autumns of the public press should loses t a statement
hanght with such eats mi..- mischief as Illat cosuaplallleth
0.. Vll'llolll taking Cale that it wasptnpetlyauthenticated,
particularly when the truth might be sit ea•tly
to t:0 ur hall an hour, lay hiltini..g at thy Huspi-
tms spoken in.