The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-21 00:00:00

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DLitt: CC AT VAL ALIALL Tlsomas Biali,

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one of the principal proprietors of Vauxhall-gardeas, attended
at this onice In prefer a complaint against William and John
Creed, brothers awl lineo•drapes, of New-street, Covent-
garden, mud Edward Lancaster, woollen-draper, of Tavistock.
street, fur hnving given very great and general olTeace to the
company oo Mond.iy night.
The three defendants were, upon presenting themselves to the
Magistrate, K. J. Chambers, Esq. dressed like shopkeepers._
When at Vsusball, they had green um kkerchiefs. round their
necks, and wore coats and trowsers which in cut and colour
corresponded with those ornaments.

Mr.*Bish stated, that at 11 o'clock the defendants entered
the gardens, and showed at that moment a disposition to insult
every body. They hallooed through the walks, broke through
several companies, knocked of the hats of gentlemen, and
adopted in every respect the conduct of the theatrical heroes
whose example had operated so much to the injury of the lower
orders. There were many persons of distinction in the gardens
at the time, and the chiof proprietors thought proper, upon learn-
ing tit it the defendants were persevering in this scandalous
course of amusement. first, to send Mr. Simpson, the superin-
tendent, to expostulate with thew, nod afterwards to place them
in the hands of the police. Mr. Simpson's interference buying
produced no other effect than that of exasperating them to a
more o:Tensive line of conduct, the advice and threats of the
officers were laughed at by the three gentlemen, who continued
to perform the parts they had selected to astonish the pvealic in,
until they were collared and dragged out of the gardens to the
watchhouse.

Hill, the officer deposed, that by the direction of Mr. Simp-
son, he followed the defendants, and saw them insult several
gentlemen. There were other fellows int the gardens, who wit-
ness believed, were of the tame party, and constituted • very
formidable gang ; but when the defendants were disposed of all
order was quickly restored. Oar loan appeared in a Highland
dress, and having attracted notice by that singularity, and by •
very close imitation ot the Toss and Jerry school, ocoasictially
drew • dagger, to the terror of the ladies, and brandished it in
a most theatrical manner. This gentleman became as quiet as
the rest, upon hinting that the proprietors were determined to
remove all blackguards, itness added, that the defendants
told him they went to the gardens to have a lark.
Mr. Chambers expressed great indignation at the conduct
pursued the defendants, and highly approved of Mr. Ilisli's
determination to bring such offenders to justice. There were,
he observed, two courses to be proposed—tlie one was a pro-
secution ; the other a flue, upon pair) of prusecation, and a public
apology in the newspapers. Either of these would be satisfac-
tory, but one of them was indispensably necessary, as well for
the sake of the proprietors as of the public.
Mr. fish niche lie should proceed upon the suggestion of tie
magistrate, and the defendants declared that they were ready to
comply with the mild alternative proposed by Mr. Chambers.—
They had, they avid, drank too much wine.
The pimprietors merely demanded, that in order to pre-
vent a prosecution the sum of forty shillings each should bo
paid by the defendants, anti that the apology should be signed
upon the spot, This being done, the money was sent (Alto th•
committee now sitting for the relief of the famishing Irish. Mr.
Bish declared that the proprietors had determined to leave the
gardens most vigilantly w atched, and to punish every parson who.
disturbed the company.

Nate AND GENEROUS ACT.— l'ilesclaF-werk, being
his h ih-yearly rent-day, Thus. Strickland, lity. assem-
bled his tenantry at :nzerah,_wherc they parrsik of an
excellent dinner, and alter the cloth was d awn, and a
kw agricultural !VIVID:HIS were drunk, T. SltiCkland,
Esq. rose, expresse I himself to the following ',moor':
--•• Gentlemen), it is the liist time I have lave had ti a
pleasure ors IneeliilX toy tenantry on arch an occasion ;
Soil I do in-sure you I am highly gratin d at seeing you
all around me, and it shall always be my ende.,Y,Jur to
sh, w you ev,ry possible indulgence to make y
lintable. I am thorougi.y convinced you 11.1%C used
every ex:rtinii, during the depressed state of the times ;.
and from the various reports I have read, and from my
own local knowledge. L well know th t the distress of
the agriculturist is great. I have, therefore, given ordete.
to my agent to driw iris pen across all arrears due to me
previous to last Christmas." The heartfelt gratitude of
the truantry, for this noble act of their generous laod-
hod, expressed in a manner which mule the ancient
nail re•eclw. This is an act which need* no comment,

Od Tuesday afternoon a poor wretched woman named.
Cattwine Girlie, went into the snip of Mr. Palmer,.
linen-draper, iiiiiAlushridge, under pretence of pureha..•
Ina half a y .rd of cheap muslin, and whilst the slitp.
mot were otherways engaged, contrived to conceal int e—
ral yard, of diaper under ht.!. clothes. On her leaving
tile shop one 01 the shit:nen perceiving her rather bulky,.
followed her to the d and stops her wnli the diaper.
SAC ou her knees and implored mercy, stating that
she was compelled Ly distress to commit the act. By
tills time a constable art iced and took her to watch-
hastened her in, and left her. 11l tile evening the
cotis.ahle aiming in set the watch, found her supended
wills her shawl ty the neck from one of the bars of her
prison window. She was still wala,. and every means
used to restore her. but in vain ; ttie vital spark had fled.
A coroner's inquest was held on the body, and 'a person,
of deplorable appearanceiclaimed her as a sister; said
they had lately come from Margate to London; that their
way of obtaining a livelihood was very precarious; that
the deceased frequently quarrelled with her, and. neon
the whole, the Jury were hismanely unanimous-1 hat
the deceased came to her death by hanging herself its
fit of lunacy. •
• Ott Sunday morning Mx-Thomas (holey, about 19
years of age, clerk in a solicitoes oflitie in the reitipie.
Mok a boat limn the old Barge-house. to bathe in the
river Thames; on getting into the middle of the river
Ile stripped t.ff his clothes, and beini a good within: t he
plunged An, and was instantly seised, it is supposed.
with the cramp, and he immediately stink. After a lapse
time the body was rcked up, and carried home to
his disconsolate parents, in Paradise-row. Lambeth, for
the el)(4)llt.r's i :guest.
We regret to stale, that a poor old woman, abed 74, was
druNaeil on Thitistlay night, the 14 tit inst. w 11.1.1 in bed,
in the kitchen of a respectable eitntru tesitlitie in (40-
10n-Strvel, Dublin, in consequence of the vaults halm(
flooded, by means of the ghat rub,. Tate Maier rose to
neatly ti te Seta high in the kitchens of this house, The
&crisped hail lsveJ upwatiii of 30 )ears with her niustar.
Many houses, in different p iris of that city, were flooded
oil Tbusstlay Men attinsiltt tuataurt.

Silsstg SntrUignut.
HOME CIRCUIT.
HaRTFORD, JULY 18.--:l'he Home Circuit corn
mowed here to.tlay he4are Load Chief 11 Richards
oat the civil side, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Park on the
crown side. Ln the cause list there are 14 cases catered
for trial. Tile cr i 11l Mal calendar contains 17 contiant-
nt,nts, few of which are cases of any cour 11l il y.
CIVIL SIDE.
MOORE V. FISHER AND ANOTHER.
This was an action of at-satilt and lake imprisonment.
The dtteridants ple.ffied--Ist, The general issue, Not
titilty—and 2.1, .1
hey justified the alleged false
tttttt ent, lair that the plaintiff was guilty of riotous con-
duct, and therehire it became necessary to charge him in
costr.dy of one of the defendants, a constable.
dlr. Marryat (with whom was M r. Chitty), stated the
h!IUfUH'S cis.. 'rhe plastitiliwas all itinerant pro% ision
who hawked bacon, butivr, and groe‘riesr,
adout the country in a cart. The defenuatit was
a country sltopkt ever dealing in the same articks, and
carrying on business at Statisted, in this county, and it
hal taken offence at the obtrusion ill the plaintiff
into that town, who presumed to sell his commodities
at a lower price. Ist the month of Ft:hilarity last the
parties met at • put:be-house iu Stansted, wilco some
*lke/cation ensued, and there was mutual abuse, the first
provocation being given, as was allegtd, by Fislier, the
.deFetidant. The plating dare:netted to shoot the defen-
d:lm, but it did ton appear that he tvas posscrseil of any
iiistrument calculated to carry . ael a threat
into tx;cu-
tiot. A constable (the other ) was how -vi
sent for, and the plaintiff was 1 i.,iiasitn put into the
cage, where he was kept fur the and liberated it, xt
morning, before the case was suintsitted to a magist.ate.
These were the general features of the case.
Mr. Sergeant Laws (with whom was Mr. Watford),
conducted the delendaiits' case, and called witnesses in
support of the plea of justification, for the purpose of
snewmg that the plaintiff 's coodlict was so turbulent as
to require the interposition of a constable, and the Collie-
Tient imprisonment.
The contradictory evidence went to the Jury under
Cie learned I ud6t's direztions. and they tumid a tetdicl
for the plaintill---llatnages 51., specially declaring that
each pary was to pay his own cons.
'1 his was the only case worth mentioning. In the
Cuutt lilt business was wholly destitute of public
tatertst.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
INCHESTER, J u LY tI7 —Last night the Judges
poilittd Wl' this circuit, Sir J. Brirrougn and S.r J. Iti-
courdsoii, arrived in this town. Tate COllllllOll Jury
causes were tried its.tlay.

LAYTON e. NORTH.
Sergeant Pell said, tots was an action brought by the
Maiiiiitf to re‘over damages for the injury Wuxi* lie bad •
suetalited, Ity lIIS 114VIar0 men forced to quit his I;.4.iii;.;s
by the deteittlatit, and it was a cutc,e in which ite don not
...obi but that a tie iul lesson wool(' be ,ten to the
keep.ers oi the lodging-lino:es at the waterlog pl .c,
The plaintiff is a clerqiiim, a magisi rate, an I .1 in tried
who some time sii:ee, in constri.woce of the dine s
tit ins lady, went lor Ott 11,..nefit ul the ai and sra-b
to South a ptoa, where, in an evil h..ur, lie took 10(14-
hags at the noose of the iiefeialatit, a tradesman in that
town, at a rust of 1001. per annum. Here he resided
with his family in quietness, until it was deemed tiects-
sary by the defendant to repair and paint the house,
V/11011, .15 NI fB. L,ytoii s healu► was too delicate to beat
the etircts of new paint, the plaintiff went over with her
to the Isle of ‘V fight, tint the defetutant. who did not
wtsh at that time to Ime such todgers, impact! to let
them the aliartnlellt•: for one whole year alter their re-
turn, %%met/ mid; place on the 4th of July following.
Noon after tins, one of me Royal Dukes visited S
anyttni. and the defendant, perhaps conceiving that lie
could get a higher price tor his thew ly-eitiltellistied
i:igs than he had ae,reicl for, or mat It *mild he to his
advantage to get rid of ii s lodger, conitio-need a series of
a. tacks Nom the platurtii, for toe 'impose of ob;i,;ing
o quit, and a•tupted a hoe u. conduct toWall:a luny
which hu language could ..ilequately desc,ibe. The de.
iendaiit's lihst attack was by taking oil the knoci.er of
toe street door, which oblir.ed all visitors to hammer
wilt their fists for admittance—an intolerable insult to
ime in the haait of receiving visits boat p.rsons of rank.
deklid alit ioliowed this op by cutting off all ►he
Lolls, an t ales. Layton was suljecketl 1,. the tolgar dei
vto of the hnu,ehtltl, oil hearing jet k
tile loose ••.'ire Sr:.cii ;Welly to ring lOr her servalti.
lie ecru wont na :31' as to ran= • the admission of the
eo ils, watch cottlo only be 301,
bv mews of a cinis•ahle. He successively deprived the
I oily of all tacc:ssary Co:Achihßtlet 5, and succeeded,
U series of insults mid atiilt.yauees, iii brit rug the
froin the lutlginits. and it was,pr the 'Win.) sustained I.•
Cnthequence that the lattt•r now 11.,11 it In recote,
wages. They must be aware hoar touch the Li. ;kilo,
health of a lady must he injore.l by her hating be. ti
in a continual state of feverauy sues insults and allot)).
iJi‘Ct.it; but the plaintiff only a4k.cl liar sack teutpc.ate
datwrges at, with the COM. would lIIC
such conduct could nut be it:prated wit►
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The ptaintiff's son was called, and he proved the pin-
e+, al facts of the annoyances; lute raet of nu•hr tak tin; till
the knocker, rutting Islay the hells, whereby Mrs.
t•rn was obliged, w not ill, iii o II op tile stri.u.t•
fro ti the bottom of the house, aad Acts:rot the sigh t. •
occasion, to call and bawl nom the i..it oi the bu t•nai ti*
vie house, belure any aitestitatike could be uluaitied.- .
Tee stan-carpet and tile if wt re alio talc •'I up,
Lot hy a sert.s of allachs of ►his nature, the
was ouliged to take a•la•Lier fudging at an r • u.
tv 1401. per ►nnum, the mat Si Lain ih, qu:tition
1)- ..11 tout.
Toe plivtician who had attended no Mrs. I.') to),
c• .1 d, that that lady lied been greatly Outwit back in
..ealth lay tile UCalWelll 11 finnan she had reef-he:l,4,nd

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the witness advised, for her safety, that she should be
removed to other lodgings.
Mr. Adam. on behalf of thedefendant, said that the
restiAal of that noisy announcer of company the knocker,
was really a thing of winch a sick lady ought nut to
complain, neiiitcr ought the plaintiff to have been angry
that. in the dog-days, the carpet been taken up, and
that he had a clean washed floor to walk upon instead.
The Jury should apportion the damages to the incon-
veniences sustained, and that was too trilling to be worth
mention, much less to be made the ground of an actiort
like the present, for the only thing which deserved to be.
lat all considered as an inconvenience was the removal of
the hells. They ought not to take into account the ad.
ditional price paid Inr the lodgings, which the plaintiff
was obliged to procure after his removal, as these lodg-
ings had the advantage of being situated in the most
fashionable partof the town.
Justice Burrough, in charging the Jury, said, that
nothing could justify conduct so gross as that of the
defendant to a gentleman of the tank of the plaintifl, nor
could any one be allowed to get rid of a lodgcr by such
means when lie might think he could get a higher price
from another person.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—lla•
mages,. 501.
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