The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-08 00:00:00

CONTEMPT OF COURT-WARD OF CHANCERY---AND

CONSPIRRCY AGAINST JURISDICTION.

This morning at the sitting of the -Court, Mr•
SHADvrgLL moved, on the petition of the nearest
friend of Miss. Ann Wade, a young Heiress and a
Ward of Chancery, now only seventeen years of
age, but possessed of an income of-5000/. a-year
in her own right, for process bf.contempt against
Charles H. Beaseley, son of the Rev. Mr. Bease-
ley, and hiS associates; for breach of an -order and
injunction issued heretofore, .to restrain the said
Charles H. Beaseley from prosecuting' his illicit
courtship with the Wa'rd. •
There were.previous and private considerations
and proceedings before the Lord Chancellor, to
prevent such 'unlawful intended union, when the
case was diScovered approximating to matrimony,
dr publication of banns ; and the order was so
full as to'prohibit. any further intercourse, either
in person or by letter, with the ward ;. but the
ingenuity of the ardent lover was found to have
extended to the facts now charged, of conveying
a letter through the maid-servant to the young
lady, and to the further charge of having offered
a bribe of one thousand pounds to one of the
Bow-street Officers of Police for his assistance.
and co-operation in gaining posiession of her
persOn, in direct violation of the order of Court.
The letter,was produced and read, couched in
the usual terms of love, with an invitation to his
arms. But an obstacle occurred to the present
motion, on the want of proof of the han&writing,
which induced the Lord Chancellor to direct.in-
qniry to be made for the late school-fellows of
Mr. Beaseley, where he was lately'educated for
persons to prove, hand-writing, or among his
tradesmen or those supplying him with articles of
necessaries, among whom the required evidence
could easily be found, and the motion to stand
suspendedior a very few days for that purpose.
His Lordship regretted this defect, and added,
on, this occasion, that ha,should chew many their
error respecting the extent of the jurisdiction of
this Court in such cases, since he felt inclined,
on the •verification of the charges in this Petition,
to hand over the same as- sufficient to ground a
criminal prosecution for a Conspiracy, to the At-
torney-General ; the consequence of a conviction
on which would subject the principal and his ac-
complices to punishment more serious and atilict
ing to the feelings of many persons than imprison-
!Went, or even transportation, nay, even death
itself—(we suppose-the standing on the pillory) ;
and ordered iliSpatch and diliirence to be used. in
proving the hand-writing, and the motion to be
brought on as quickly as possible.—The motion
was suspended.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DECEMBER 7.

GRIFFIN V. DOWNALL.

This was an action brought to recover 361. 14s.
for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff is .
a
haberdasher, residing in London, and the defen-
dant a milliner, at Liverpool. The goods in
question were proved to have been ordered by
letter, and to have been sent, part by the Liver-
pool coach, on the 30th of November, 1813, and
the remainder by the same coach on the 12th De-
cember, in the same year.
On the part of the defendant it was contended;
that no such goods as those, which formed the
subject of the action had ever been either ordered
or received by the defendant.
The facts of the plaintiff's case being clearly,
established, however, a verdict was found for the
plaintiff.--Damages 361. 14s.—Costs 40s.

THOMPSON V. DAVY.
This was an action brought by a tailor against
a man with about half a dozen Christian names—.
Thomas, Alfred, Henry, Herbert, Nelbourn,
Davy, for clothes furnished to hint.—=Verdict for
the plaintiff, 121. Is.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
ASS:WI:TS.
WITHERS V. LYON.
This was an action for an assault, brought
by the plaintiff, who is a labouring n►an, against
the defendant, who is'a brewer. The plaintiff's
• case was supported by nine witnesses, who swore
that the defendant was beating violently
-the horse-
which drew his one-horse chaise, near a public-
house, in Love-lane, from which the plaintiff
came Out and remonstrated with •him in gentle
language, upon 'which the_ defendant answered,
If you give me any more of your impudence I
will servo you as I have served the horse." The
plaintiff then said, '' You barbarous fellow you
dare not ;" upon which the defendant "struck Kt
him with the end of a Urge stick,'which he had
before broken-on the horse, and which Was pro.
duced in Court ;, the plaintiff received on his arm
the blow) which was, folloWed by two-others on
the head, whiCh caused the blood to spin out from
it. A scuffle ensued, when both parties fell to
the grieund.

It was stated, on the other band, by two wit-
nesses for the tlefendint, who had seen his treat-
ment of the horse from the commencement, as
well as the origin of the fray, that while the de-
fendant %vas heating his horse, which was restiie,
the plaintiff came up, and using language too ob-
scene to be repeated, thrust his fist in his face,
.and to strike• him if be struck the horse
That• in spite of the defendant's remon-
strances, he-was aiming a blow at him, when the
defendant struck him on the knuckles with his
stick, when they closed, and the two blows were
struck on the plaintiff's head. The defendant's
groom corroberated this evidence ; but the Jury
haviilg considered the conflicting evidence, gave
a verdict for the plaintiff,.-Damages 601.

Powell, the fortune-teller, took • his trial this
morning before the RECORDER, at the Old Bailey,
charged, OR two indictments, with obtaining-ma.
ncy from divers persons by his necromancy, and.
was font;tl Guilty; to the general satisfaction of
crowded.ootlrt,

4n infa4lible girt out a Fire in a Chim•
ney.—Throw into the grate half a bushel of salt,
and stop up the grate with a blanket kept con-
tinually wet ; the salt will in a few minutes occa-
sion an explosion, which wilt bring down the soot,
and preyeut the fatal damages of fire.

OLD_ EillL.i. DEc •a .

John Lloyd was indicted for stealing a chaise,
value 401. the property of John Large.
The prosecutor stated, that on the 21 t of. tug.
1813, the prisoner-called at hii shop for asi igle
horse chaise, where he saw one That he thought
would suit him—and obServed, that he b'ad an old
one which he Wished to have repaired; If, the pro-
secutor thought it worth the. expence.7—Witness
Is tent'. tl
atnoet,he
wherel3 ackh pcs):11:
tLiii.:e,llsilialiesse,, in
He did
not think it was worth repairing. Tii about half
an hour after, the prisoner returned, and said, he
would take the chaise which llie had already seen,'
on trial. If it' were too heavy,- be declared
his intention of having a new one Wit. In ei-
ther case, the witness .was to allow him 61. for
the old chaise: Lloyd sent far
.the chaise the
same_ afternoon ; and, in the course of a week or
ten days afterwards, be waited on witness, and
stated that it would not suit him, at the same time,
he gave an order for the building of a new one.
The prisoner was perthitted to. make use of the
chaise in his possession, until the new one was
completed. Cn the 15th.df September, the wit-
ness received a note from Lloyd, calling on him
to finish the order as soon as possible. On the
Monday following, the prisoner sent a messenger
to say, that he wished to have the chaise next
morning. It was accordingly delivered to hint
-by one of the witness's men—witness bung
then in the country, and not having left any
order that it should be detained. The chaise
which was lent ought to have been re-
-turned—hat it was not. Witness, on 'learning
the prisoner's character, proceeded to the Black
Horse, in dray's-Inn-lane, where he found the
chaise be had lent, and he took it away with. him.
Next morning two persons, named Flack- and .
Pasle, (the latter the proprietor of the Black
Horse Livery Stables), came to his house, in his
absence, and stated that they bad purchased the
chaise which witness had lent to the prisoner.—
He never got the new chaise back. The pri
soner represented himself to be a Lawyer resid-
ing- in Syniond's-Inn, and the name of Lloyd was
on the door, where he supposed he had chambers.
Cross-examined.—He never complained of the
circumstance at any Police Office tid the prisoner
was apprehended.

•
William Yieston, the prosecutor's servant, de-
livered the chaise to the prisoner's. order. An uld
chaise was to have been returned, but he did nut
receive it.

, J. Paste, the owner of the Black-horse Livery..
stables, recollected the bargain between the pro-
st•cutor and the prisoner, in AugnsftWelve months.
Prisoner had an old chaise at witness's yard. He
remembered a chaise being sent to his yard, by
the prosecutor, for Lloyd. The latter used it for
a month or six weeks, as his 'own. lie then sold
it• to a person of the name of Flack, from whom
witness pen:has-et( it.
The RECORDER shortly addressed the Jury, ob-
serving, that as Mr. Large had recovered the
chaise he had lent, there was no proof to Make
out a fraudulent conversion of the property on
the part of the prisoner, who was Acqz;itted.