The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK, JULY I.—We still continue without any de-
mand for Hops. The accounts from the Plantations are not
4uite so favourable as they were, and corisequently the Duty is
down to 120,0001.
MAIDSTONE, JULY I.—We cannot discover any substan-
tial improvement in our Hop plantations during the past
week ; we certainly have in many situations more ver-
tnin, and the plant generally shews a great want of sap.
—The branches have but little head, and they are very
,fine
and spindling; upon all 'the' strong bine the piping Joints
for' blooming are further apart than ,is usual ; upon the
whole they have grown but little since this day week. We
have observed honey-dew in a great many gardens, and the
'appearance of blackness upon some of the strong bine. The
white mould certainly increases: Taking into considera-
tion the great reduction in the plantations, the large breadth
of the Hop lands last year sown with corn and planted with
different vegetations, and which we are now convinced can do
but very little, or perhaps nothing, with the want of manure
and usual management, together with present appearances,
lead us still to beieve that the duty in a certain quarter must
be muth overrated.

A SKELETON.—On Friday last, as some' work-
mien were ploughing in a field belonging to Mr. George Fowlc,
situated about a quarter of a mile from Kits Coti House, the
ploughshare was impeded by something, which had repeatedly
been the case before, and the men'having a desire to ascertain
what was the obstruction, they commenced digging, and a little,
below the surface found two stones about six feet and a half
long, and two broad, lying lengthways, upright, but rather
slanting, between which was a. skeleton, in nearly a perfect
state. The skull, teeth, and, two of the vertebrae of the neck
were quite perfeci ; on being exposed to the air they soon
crumbled into dust. The body lay directly east and west, and
at the bottom was a stone which lay fiat, supposed to have been
occasioned by the pressure of the earth above. The soil is very
chalky, and tb this is attributed the excellent preservation of
the bones. The stones appear to be exactly similar in quality
to those of Kits Coti House, and it is conjectured were placed
there about the same time that monument was. The skeleton
is doubtless that of some chief slain in the battle fought here
between Vortimer, King of Britain, and the Saxons, which is
said to have happened about the year 454. In that battle it is
related that Catigern, brother of Vortimer, and Horsa, brother
of Hengist, the Saxon commander, in single combat slew each
other, and in memory of Catigern a monument of stones was
there erected by the Britons, and which is now vulgarly called
Kits Coti House. The lovers of antiquity will be glad to learn
that a gentleman, who has long made researches into the early
history of this part of the county, is now engaged in taking
drawings of these curious remains of former ages, and through
whom, it is probable, we may shortly be enabled to lay before
our readers some further particulars.—Olfaidstoite Jowrnal.)

. We are sorry to hear that there has -been a
great mortality among the grouse upon the WestmorlanaMoors
this season. The shepherds find them dead in great quanti-
ties ; with scarcely any flesh upon them, but the cause is
hitherto unaccounted for. The late dry weather, too, has been
extremely unfavourable to the young broods, so that it is-ex-
pected to be the worst season 'ever remembered.--(Kendal
Paper.)

OLD BAILEY.

The Sessions commenced this morning before Mr. Justice
HOLROYD, and Mr. Justice BURROUDH.
IMPORTANT CASE OF RIGAMY.

Tobias Burke was indicted for intermarrying with'lllarian
Bruce, his first wife (Mary Butler) being then living.
.The following witnesses were called by Mr. ALLEY, for the
prosecution :
Elizabeth Butler stated, that she resided at Cashel, in Tip-
perary. It was her sister Mary who had married the prisoner.
At about the latter end of May, 1815 the ceremony took place.
He stopped for nearly a week ut her father's house, previous to
the marriage.. 'Dr. Wright performed the ceremony. The pri-
sonerand witness's sister were both of the Roman -Catholic re-
ligion. He represented himself to he a Roman Catholic at the
time, and always joined in the ceremonies of that religion,
especially of the rosary at prAyers. Tile prisoner had said that
he had a brother Thomas who was a Catholic priest at May-
nooth College. The marriage was celebrated, and the pri-
soner had a part of fifer sister's fortune. He went away alone
with it. Her sister Mary and another sister went to Dublin
after the
_prisoner, in consequence of receiving a letter. More
than a year afterwards, the prisoner returned to her father's
house. Her father was now dead. The prisoner failed in busi-
ness, and 201. was given to, him by her family. Her eister Mary
was now living.
Cross-examined.—Her father was a leather merchant. The
prisoner was a publican and grocer, and kept a public house
at Dublin. At the time of the marriage she was about sixteen
years old. The marriage took place' between five and six in
the evening. ' -
Julia Butler, sister to the last witness, confirmed her testi-
mony. The prisoner always assisted at the rosaries ; she pro-
duced a mass-book, in a leaf of which was written the names
of two of her sister's children by the prisoner. She was pre-
sent at the birth of one of them at the prisoner's house, at Clon-
mel. She went to mass at, the thee she was with the prisoner
at Clonmel. She resided with him for five months.—(A paper
was handed to witness)—She could not prove the prisoner's
handwriting. ,
Cross-examined.—She was very young at the time of her
sister's marriage. She believed she was about 12 years old..
Before the prisoner came from Dubliri, she never saw him.
Her sister was at Dublin at the time. Her father and all her
family, were Roman Catholics. The marriage took place,
about nine o'clock in the evening. -She thought that it was
about that time.• She could not tell.how long, the prisoner re-
mained at Dublin,. at the time of 'the marriage. It might be
a week. The marriage was performed by the Rev. Di. Wright.
She did not know whether any other -Priest was there. She
had seen the mass-book produced in the hands of'her 'sister,
Mrs. Buike. • Orie of the children-was born at Clonmel.
Re-examined.--She was now 19; andthe marriage was Cele-
brated seven years ago. She could not rightly tell at what
hour the marriage took place. She'thought about nine o'clock.
The next evening a.party was giver', and another Priest, Dr.
O'Brien,' was then invited. It was dusk, in June, when the
marriage took place. • -
• Alexander Bruce lived in Upper Bedford-place, Russell-
square. He knew the prisoner at the bar. In the latter end of
October; "1820; he received a note from the prisoner, to which
he paid no attention. In December he received another note
from the prisoner, and he met him in consequence' at Gray's-
Inn Coffee-house. The-prisoner then told him that he wished
'to marry his daughter. Witness refused consent until ,he
knew who and what he was, and whether he could make an
adequate settlement. He never saw him for 14 montht after-
wards, and never gain his consent. The name of the &Righter
alluded to waillarian Bruce.. [A certificate was here' shown
'to- witnesq lie procured it from Dr. Strahan, of Islington,
and 6 had since received some letters from the prisoner. [A
letter was here handed 'to witnessi He had received that
leiter, andit purported to be signed by the prisoner.' He never
.
returnedany, answer to it.
Marian Bruce was then called.
• Mr. Anemplus, for the defence, objected to the witness
being called. She being, the lawful wife, as he contended,
could give no evidence.
The Court overruled the objection.
Marian Bruce' daughter of the last witness, proved that she
was married to die prisoner at Islington Church on the 4th of
December; 1820.
(The certificate of' the marriage between the prisoner and
Marian Bruce was then read. It was signed " G. Strahan,
Vicar.")
The case for tbe prosecution was here concluded, and the
prisoner was called upon for hiS defence. He said, " All I
have to say is this—that I was,made drunk, and entrapped into
the first Marriage. I am and always was constant."
The fallowing witnesses were then called :-
- Thomas Maher lived at Monro, in the county of Tipperary,
and was a fanner. He was a Roman Catholic. He knew the
prisoner at the bar, and was sponsor at his christening. He was
christened by Mr. Edward Jordan, parish minister of Temple-
derry : that minister was a Protestant. The prisoner's uncle
was a Protestant, and the prisoner was always considered to be
a Protestant. lie knew the prisoner for 12 or 13 years after the
christening, continually. The prisoner never attended mass,
and he always thought he was of the Protestant religion. Once
when witness was going to mass the prisoner was in his com-
pany. The prisoner was christened in 1794, and at that time
he was but two or three days old. '
Edmund Burke, brother to the prisoner, lived at Springfield,
in the county of Tipperary.. He was older than the prisoner.
His brother at the bar was' brought up in the Protestant re.
ligion. He was at Cashel at the time of the supposed marriage
. of Mfss Butler, and was at Butler's house at the time of the
marriage. On the Sunday preceding the marriage'witness saw his
brother, and on the day of the marriage dined at Butter's house.
It was late in the evening. He could not say that his brother
was either drunk or sober. He heard James Butler (the father)
say he would send for the priest, and that he wished to give him
one of his daughters. Witness forbad Butler to have any thing
to do with him, as he was a Protestant, and was not a man fit for
his purpose. They drank hard, and played at cards for two or
three hours, and then sent for the parish priest, and his coadjutor.
It was Dr. Wright, the Catholic priest, who came with his as-
sistant. They came, las Witness supposed, with the intent of
marrying the prisoner. They sat down and drank hard, and then
called him, and asked him to comply with the Catholic church,
to become a Catholic, and go to confess. The prisoner said he
would not. His brother was not then sober. Wright then
came out and declined marrying them, said he would have no-
thing to do with them, and would go home. Witness desired
his brother to get up, and come home to his mother's house, at
a place about 15 miles off. The prisoner stood up to come ;
and then Biitler stood up; declaring that neither witness, the
priest, nor the prisoner should go until they had parted upon
good terms. They then sat down to drink again, and they all
got stupidly drunk. lie saw no ceremony of marriage per-
formed by any one. He went away somewhere about one and
two in the morning, quite drunk. His brother was also dan-
gerowly drunk, and came out with him. Hp found the prisoner
was unable to walk. He did not go to Butler's house again for
three years. , He did not know how long his brother remained
at Cashel. The next day but one, he saw his brother at Temple-
more, which was about 17 miles from Cashel. The prisoner
then said he would go home to Dublin. Witness believed his
brother was then in the grocery, wine, and spirit business. It
was, as he understood, his own business.
ross-examined—He went to Cashel to look after a' mare
which had strayed.' That was his only reason of his going
there. The prisoner wrote to him to come to Cashel to find the
mare, and told him to meet him at his first cousin's house in
Cashel. He found him in the street, and the mare was at
Butler's. Witness and he went to Butler's, and fell to drink-
ing and card-playing. He didnot know his brother was staying
at Butler's house. He had then no more notion of a marriage
than he had of going home in a boat from this place. For
many years before this he had lost sight of his brother. He
would not swear it was seven years. He was very young at the
time. It was the straying of the mare that brought them to-
gether. Witness's mother was a Catholic. At the time of the
prisoner's birth his father was dead. The mother was always a
Catholic._ He, was sure it was on Sunday, June 11, that he was at
Cishel. He remained at Cashel until 2 o'clock on the morning of
the 13th. He could not get his brother out. He was asked in
to take a little refreshment, and he got stupidly drunk, and his
brother dangerously drunk. They kept playing at cards, and
drinking all the time. He thought it best to go away at last,
lest he should have, been turned out.. He swore positively
that he never gave his brother away in marriage, neither on the
11th nor 12th of June, nor at any other time, to neither Mary
Butler or any-body else. On the night' of the 11th of June, he
went' to bed at Butler's and breakfasted the next morning at
10 with, the family. de was at the time neither sober nor
drunk ; he might be betwixt and between. He dined with the
family, and was not sober. then. He dined at about 10 o'clock
at night ; lie had nothing to eat in the mean time, but plenty
to drink. He never saw Dr. Wright until the Monday morn-
ing. Dr. Wright was now dead. Witness had a brother of the
name of John. His brother Tom went to ,Maynooth College.
Toni was not at college. kle did not know whether Maynooth
college was a Catholic establishment. He could not swear that
Tom went to Maynooth college. He did not suppose lie went
to any college at all. Tom was the only one among them who
knew Latin. Tom was now gone to America. He left his
brother, who was dangerously drunk, On the street, and desired
him to go to his cousin's. On the Monday his brother was
locked up with the young women in Butler's house, playing
cards, and he could not get a sight of him above once or twice.
He never heard that his brother Tani was expelled from May-
nooth, and never said so.
Re-examined.--Witness's father was a Catholic., His two
brothers, Denis and John, were Protestants. Tom was a Pro-
testant, and took Denis and John underhis care. In all the time

he was in Butler's house, he saw no marriage ceremony. Tkbis
Burke was an elder brother of the prisoner. He had known
brother Tobias constantly, excepting for 3 years. He was alwq:
a Protestant. Witness was a Protestant, and had.always be
so. John went to mass, but he believed him.to prisulPut
a Protestant. The prisoner had gone to mass sometimes
of curiosity only. He firmly believed' his brother Tom never
was at Maynooth College.
John Burke, also an elder brother of the prisoner, 100°61 .0
him to be a Protestant. When in Ireland witness went '
mass. He lived with the prisoner at Dublin, after the or
posed marriage. .The prisoner lived, at: üblin for about three
years.
hiedthter
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r.. Cross-examined.—There was child; which wassa,
the infant of the prisoner's wife. He did not, know li
was the prisoner's child. At the time of the birth of the ai,
he was not in Dublin. His brother Tom went to,Ameries ;
his own freewill and consent. He never said to Eliza Butle
or any. body else, that his brother Tom was educating for
priest in Maynooth College.
Re-examined.-:-He believed his brother was a Protestant
clergyman in America.
Martin Murray knew the prisoner about seven years in nub..
lin. He professed the Protestant religion, and alwaYs had
done so as long as he knew him.
Mr. An or.rx us, for the prisoner, now maintained that There—the
was no evidence to go to the Jury,. inasmuch as to prove
n,
second marriage no witness had been called but the Y'9°
woman, who, he contended, was legally married to him, an
could not therefore be a witness against him. To support-ha
argument he cited the 19th of Geo. 11. ch. ,13, an Act framed
for the purpose of restraining the encroachment of the l'aliist%i
Mr. Justice HOLROYD thought there was -very maters
evidence to go to the Jury. ,
Mr. ALLEY urged that the evidence for the defence ought
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not to have'. been given at all, because the Court had no Pow'
to decide upon. a case of-nullity of marriage.
Mr. Justice H-OLROYD would reserve the point, if requisite',
Mr. ALLEY proposed to .call back a witness to contradict trn
evidence for the defence relative to Maynooth College. Tan
Court, however, would not suffer it, because+ it was on a quests
collateral to the issue.
• Bliza
Mr. ALLEY then proposed to, prove, by recalling
Butler, .that Edmund Burke gave his brother in mariwa
This the Court allowed.
Elizabeth Butler swore that Edmund Burke took the Pr''
-soner by the hand, and gave him in marriage to her sister Marl;
Cross-examined.—Dr. Wright married the parties at about
six o'clock. Dr. Wright-did not leave the house until the tor'
nage was celebrated.
Julia Butler swore to the same effect...
Mr. Justice HOLRO YD summed up to the Jury. There Were:
he said, two points to be considered-Ist, Whether the firs.
marriage was celebrated ; and 2dly, whether the prisoner wri
a Catholic, or had represented himself to be so at the time. ,p
he 'were a Protestant, then a point of law 'would probably
arise.

The Jury found a verdict of—Guilty. e
On the motion of Mr:ALLEY' the witness Edmund Burk
Thy
was ordered to be ,detailled, to- be inflicted for perjury. T„
witness was accordipglyiplued in confinement, and the 131,1
now before the Grand, IJAry

SESSIONS.,
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1•' •
'PERJURY.
Yesterday John Kneiler was indicted for wilful and corrtri
perjury committed by him in an affidavit filed- in the Court at.
the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the month of November his
Mr. COOPER and Mr. Bnoixunicx• conducted .the pros°.
Lion ; and Mr. ANDREWS appeared for the defendant.
that
Mr. COOPER, in a very able address to the Jury, stated
the defendant was,, in the month of January last year, a Pr-f
soner in the King's Bench,. and that it was the_ misfortane4),
his client, -the prosecutor in this case, to be chummed µ'ihim in the same room ; • that the prosecutor (Mr. Willian3
Hayward Vincent) availed himself of the offer of the de-
fendant to assist him in arranging his accounts while in Pn;
son, previous to his claiming his discharge as an insolvent
debtor. That Vincent was discharged under the Insolvent
Debtors' Act, and returned to his native place, SudbuAry'
in Suffolk, wit& soon afterwards, he was joined by the le:
fendant, who, resided for several weeks at the. house of t
prosecutor, and then returned to London. But after Kneller
arrival in London he sent in the month of May last Yeald
several threatening letters to the prosecutor for the purpose
extorting money from him • and among others he sent on
in a feigned hand, with the name of Hawkes affixed, i 0
re-
commending' the. payment to Kneller of a sum of money,
prevent his exposing the prosecutor's. conduct to his credit
whom he had defrauded. To these applications Vincent par
no attention, and in the month of. November last ,the defeit:
ant filed a very long affidavit, in•the • Insolvent Debtors' Cour,
charging the, prosecutor with having, while in the King s
Bench Prison, transferred various property to his brether,
,
Philip Vincent, and among' other things a note for 204,
upon which note the act of perjury was principally fixed. 0
Learned Counsel stated,.that he would prove that that note, s
confidently sworn to by the defendant, had been paid by the
prosecutor to his father, a farmer at Waldingfield, near Sudbury'
about two years.ago, in' part of payment of a large debt due to_
him, and consequently that the defendant could not have seen al:
note handed in the King's Bench, several months afterwards,t
Philip Vincent.; indeed, he would prove.that Mrs. Vincent, I,'''.,
mother of the prosecutor, had had the note for 2001. in her con-
stant possession for the last two years ; and he would acquaint
the Jury of the reason why it remained under her care instead octi
that of her husband—it was because her husband was blind, an
nearly eighty years of age, and she therefore took charge of v 5
luable papers and documents belonging to him.—The Leal=
Counsel said, he would prove the -letters - threatening the PZO
secutor, to be in the. defendant's hand-writing, including
the
the one written in a feigned hand, and subscribed witi!_, „
name of Hawkes; he, would prove 'that through the iaLsif,
swearing of the defendant, the prosecutor was re-examined
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the Insolvent Debtors' Court, recommitted to prison in JanuATA
last, and sentenced to remain therein for three years fromth
date, and in doing so, he looked with confidence to the Jury
for a verdict of guilty against the,defendant.
The Learned Counsel then called Mr. Yeo, an officer belong-
ing to the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors Mrillia°
Hayward Vincent, the prosecutor, Philip Vincent, his brotherj
Mary Vincent, his mother, Daniel Turrell, John Hardy,
Albion Cooper, who completely established his statement. ,e
Mr. ANDREWS, for the defence, made an able appeal W t;:e
Jury in favour of his client ; insisting, that notwithstandifig.ro
great length of the affidavit,- on which the present proseetgl
was founded, the indictment against his client mentioned only
twenty-four crimes thereof as being false and untrue. He then
called George Lander and John Lander, first cousins to
..t
defendant, and : Somerset, a bailiff's follower;
their evidence did not in any degree disprove that for the Fry
secution. •

Mr. COOPER made an eloquent speech in reply. lit
The CHAIRMAN swonmed up ;. and the Jury, after being
of Court ten minutes, returned with a verdict of—Guilty.
The trial lasted the whole of the day.

ROBERT ALEXANDER, the Editor of the Sell:
tinel, whose incarceration we formerly noticed, was, t 10;
(Saturday) liberated, in consequence of a. Bill of SiitsPelLg
and Liberation passed by the Supreme Court, on his
sufficient caution for Mr. BORTHWICICS claim against biro'''.
( Glasgow Chronicle.)

COAL-MARKET, JULY 3.
Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. oa
57 Newcastle - - -30 s Od to 39
Sunderland • - - 6 - 2tls Od to 40s u

BIRTHS.
At Sedbury, near Richmond, the Lady of Henry Tower/
Esq., of a son and heir. wife
On the 24th at., at Grangebill,,Sotland, Mrs. Reid,
of Captain Reid, R.N. of a son.

MARRIED. A 01-
Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Richard
phus Musgrave, Esq., fourth son of the late Sir James Mtl.„.
grave, Bart., eßarnesby Park, in the county of Gloucester, "'
Katherine, second daughter of Colonel James Lowther! , the
On the `29th ult. Robert Robinson, Esq., younger son of
late General Robinson,. of Denston all, Suffolk, and nephew,
of the Earl of Powis to Clementina Constantia, third daughtei
of the. Rev. Richard Bingham., Incumbent of Gosport Chap
and Prebendary of Chichester.

DIED.
On the 22d ult., at her house in South-street, Chelsea, 313*
Peachey.
On the 26th ult., at Camberwell after a long protracted
a late
ness of nearly six months, most sincerely regretted by,
circle of relatives and friends, Mrs. Mary Glossop,. 01
nigh Holborn. Hit
On Friday last, at Acre-lane, Brixton, Mr. James. 44,6
Stopforth, of Little Newport-street, Leicester-square, in
55th year of his age.
On Sunday evening last, at Park-place, Teddington,
the wife of Colonel Sir Robert Arbuthnot, K.C.8., Coldstre'"
Guards. of
On' Monday last, at Lympstone, John Williams, Es•q*
Sowden House, aged 73.

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