The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-21 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

These Sessions commenced on Tuesday, at Guildford. before the
Right lion. Lord Middleton and a numerous Bench of Magistrates.
A great deal of County business was get through that day, but nothing
occurred of an interesting nature.
The Court was occupied nearly the whole of Wednesday, in hearing
the appeal of Farquharson v. the Pariah Weer. of Christchurch. for
not asse:sing the Surrey Chapel to the poor 's rate. of which chapel the
Rev. Rowland Hill and Mr. Webber are the trustees. This well-
known appeal has been contested by the same parties in every session
that has been held since the Midieummersession lalt.—Mr. Farquhar-
son, the appellant, now conducted his own cause, and atrenuousty
in-
sist on the liability of the chapel to be rated, enforcing his argu-
ments by various Acts of Parliament, and dwelling particularly on the
decision of the King v. Agar—Various objections were taken by Messrs.
Nolan. Spankie, and Lawes (who were retained thr the Parish Officers
and Chapel Trustees), to the notiro of appeal, and proof of Messrs.
Hill and ‘Yebber being the Trustees; but these objections were all
ovcr.rided. and Mr. Farquharson then culled as evidence a Mr. Ili.
chanlson, who deposed that he was steward, or receiving door-keeper,
at the chapel; that the yearly sums paid by him into M. Webber's
hands, on account of scats, was 7011. exclusive of a half-yearly collec-
tion, which produced about 1301. more; making the whole revenue of
that establishment about 24311. Out of this came the whole disburse-
ments, including the payment of preachers. organist, door-keepers,
lighting, cleansing, repairs, et.c. Witness was of opinion, that Mr.
Hill derived no profit front the concern; and that as to Mr. Webber,
he was a loser of tool. r annum.—Upon the evidence of this witness
Mr. Farquharson rested his case.—Mr. Lewes was then heard in be-
half of the parish officers; who, he stated, had no other wish than to
do what was right and just between the contending parties.—Mr. Nolan
next addressed the Court on behalf of the Rev. Rowland Hill and Mr.
Webber; strongly contending that by the evidence it was clearly estab-
lished that the Chapel was a losing concern; and that, no beneficial oc-
curatioa being proved, it was not liable to he assessed to the poor rate.
Hie Court gave as its opinion, that the Rev. Rowland Hill ought
nut to be rated; but that the rate must be amended, and Mr. Web-
ber must be assessed on a receipt of 6761. being the balance of the gross
receipts paid for seats in the Chapel by the witness Richardson, after
deducting 451. one year's salary for himself. —Mr. Farquharson is to
pay Mr. Rowland 11111 his costs tbr endeavouring to procure his assess-
ment. The determination, we are informed, is not final, but will lead
to another appeal, and to some ultimate derision, in n superior Court.

The French Papers give the following account of a dreadful
crime recently committed in the Commune of Hiroo, in the ar-
rondissement of Bergerac. On the Nth ult. in the afternoon,
three young girls, two of whom V. ere sisters, of the ages of 10
and tea dmighters of the Sieur Bonnet, had been to rase a
walk in the fittest of Biron. They were occupied in gathering
plants; when a man presented himself, who, w ithunt saying a
word, commanded them, by signs, to fall on their knees, and
pray to God, which in their fright they did! but he immedi-
ately drew trout his coat a cutlass, which he plunged into the
breast of the youngest of the sisters ; when the third, who is
not named in the prowl-verbal, ran away ; but the murderer
pursued her, and struck her three blows with his cutlass, and
believing her dead, returned to the first victim, whom he
found in the arms of her sister, who was giving her every as-
sistance. ; the monster stabbed the latter, and then disappeared.
The third, however, in spite of her wounds, was able to return.
The inhabitants, assisted by the guts d'ormes of the place, pur-
sued the murderer, and repaired to the house of a man named
Molded, who is deaf and dumb, but who was of a bad dispo-
sition. The father of Monteil said with a sorrowful air, that
he had nut seen his son since tb morning ; but he is suspected
of being the murderer, or of being privy to it. Strict search
is making after him, as he has not returned home.
BELFAST, Jute B.—The following is an account of a very atroci-
ous and brutal outrage recently perpetrated in the barony of Ennisa-
howen:—•• At seven o'clock, on Tuesday evening, the 2d inst. as
Norton Butler, Esq. of Grouse-hall, in the barony of Enninthowen,
had iplitted his house to go to a flax-kiln at a short distance from his
dwelling, four armed ruffians, who had been lurking Mr him. rushed
out from their concealinent ; when two of the villains took a deliberate
aim, and fired at so short a distance from him, as to prevent the possi-
bility of his escepe. He received a ball which passed through the fleshy
hart of the thigh, shattered the bone, and brought him to the ground :
at the same instant, another of the monsters, with a gun and fixed
bayonet, made a desperate stab at his body ; which Mr. Butler (although
fallen') warded off, and it was plunged into the smug thigh that the ball
luul perforated. poising into the ground some inches. In this horrid
situation Mr. R. grasped the gun, and, although in the agonies of
death. retained 116 hold ; when a pistol dropped from the bosom of his
murderer, who loosed his hold, and the narty made off, leav:ng him
piniontsl to the ground, and in possession of the arms. Mr. Butler
lingered until twelve o'clock that night, and then expired. He has
left a widow and numerous family to bewail his loss. N. Butler, Esq.
formerly held a Captain's commission in the Donegal Militia, and was
a Justice of the Peace. Ills services arc well known to the Government
during the rebellion. He has sulVered very serious losses from still.
fines; and his life has at last paid a rimsoin for his exertions in endea-
vouring to prevent illicit distillation upon his catatcs. This is the third
attempt upon Ins life within a few months, having had his horse shot
from under him, and a blunderbuss snapped close w his head by one
Maginness. and others, for whom large rewards have been offered; end
the same villain had the audacity lately, at Faughan, on a market day,
to waylay Mr. Butler, and present a pistol to his bresat in the market,
op ;:a easy. wh;ol; Lamle! as Kilning., and the murderer was allowed
to escape from among htuulrols, who heard and saw Mr. Butler foifow
him, crying • murder' repeatedly. This wane villain has been ad-
mitted to remain in the county, although notoriotely 'moan and ac
knowledging himself determidol to commit the emitter !"
Msesday an Inquest was held at the Greyhound, KenninOon-com-
mon, on the holy of Elsanur Saunders, f 2 years of Lli.;!, who Muer ,:er-
self. The deceased lived gi years wok in the family of Mr. Heath, of
Harleyfied.place, Kennington-common ; but a ridiculous rumour a
the world's being at an end on the tech inst. had such an diet t on her
spirits, that she grew melancholy, and exhibited evident marks of a
disordered mind. About seven o'clock on Sunday morning she Anna
herself, with a handkerchief, to a pipe that ran acroes the tailing of the
kitchen; in which situation she was found by her fellow-ssrvants,
Suite dead.—Vcrtlict—Tizat her death was occasioned by her own act,
in hanging herself, whea a state of mental derangement.
On Sunday night the`.cruse of Mr. Devey, in Surrey-square, was
broke open, and robbed Cl'e to the anima of L'itsOs with which the
villains got utf Lind:sir;

JULY 21.

HORRIBLE CONSPIR.ICI

The purity of justice is so essentially necessary to the
well-being of Society, that the remotest appearance of
corrupt practices among even the inferior agents, becomes
an object of deep and immediate interest. But should
those who are entrusted with the security of the lives,
properties, and even the morals of the people, be them-
selves incentives to vice, that they may share the fruits
of iniquity, and then betray the partners of their guilt,
to obtain the reward of conviction, or recommend them-
selves to their superiors, then does the ease assume a
character of mare serious importance. The injury in-
flicted on society by the inducements to crime which
these wretches hold out to inexperience, and the outrage
offered to humanity in subsequently selling the blood of
their victims, cry aloud for retributien. From time in-
vestigations now pending in the Police Offices, under the
immediate attention of the Lord Mayor and the Magis.
trates of Bow-street, there is some reason to apprehend,
that these observations are too applicable to several con-
stables and police assistants of the metropolis. It is suf-
ficiently manifest, that many of them have been long
connected with the mast notorious offenders ; whom,
Pcachum-like, they suffered to continue their deprada-
tims for a certain time, and then betray for the reward
of conviction. This breach of faith is, however, an act
of angelic brightness when compared with the "deep
damnation,' of other branches of the system. Not con-
tent with the profits arising from the ordinary sources of
depravity and conviction, they encourage inexperienced
men to perpetrate crimes; and these, after due indulgence,
they consign to justice, and obtain the reward of their
apparent activity and vigilance. These arc the persons
who stand so high in public estimation for their seem-
ingly indeffitigable exertions in the detection of guilt ;
and who have often commanded our admiration for their
ingenuity, and our gratitude for their enterprise. See
our Police Intelligence. The developement of this busi-
ness will, it it thought, lead to many discoveries still
more important, which, we fear, will unfold a tale of
horror, and draw down the public execration on the vil-
lains who could trade so deeply in the blood of their fel-
low-creatures, as to make the iniquities of their lives,
and the ignominy of their deaths, subservient to their
paltry views of avarice and ambition.