The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-22 00:00:00

CASTLE V. STRANNICK.

This was an action to recover the amount of the
damage done to a vessel called the Sybil, in con-
sequence of the negl,:ct and mismanagement, as was
alleged, of the defendant, who is tLe harbour-master cf
Margate .
Mr Platt and Mr C. Jones were for the plaintiff, and
Mr yliesiger and Sergeant Channell for the dcfenddnt.

Mr PLATT said that the plaintiff was the owner of al
schooner called the Sybil, and the defendant was the
harbour-master of the port of Margate, appointed by the
directors
under an Act of the 52(1 George 111, when a
new company was formed. By this Act the moment
a vessel entered the port the power of her commander
was completely taken away, and vested in the har-
bour-master, and any disobedience of his orders su
re-
jected them to heavy penalties. The law with
gard to harbour-masters, and their liability, was similar
to that of the Cinque pilots, who were liable to action,
if, from ignorance or neglect of their duty, they caused
damage to ship or cargo, and they might be called upon
to make good the damage so occesioueil. The damages
in the present case, were laid at 500/., and be had no
doubt, after the evidence he should call, the Jury
would think him entitled to a verdict.
William Cook Willis deposed that he was master of
the Sybil, bound Irons Hartlepool to Margate, with
conk.. At three, a.m., on the 17th October last, 11(
put into Margate Harbour, and proceeded towards
the
pier. The defendant inquired of him how much
the vessel drew, and he told him eleven feet two "ler
Inches,
and the defendant then told him to moor off'
e, gave him a
the,v, h lighteh:
he pillar,said,
da,n
contained, attl:e
the rules amtih Pi hies,
nearregula-
tions of the harbour. Witness thesiimoored his veswl
fore and aft, ce tr the Red R2ver, t
Royalint Williamb iev %s.etrc3a,mbears. lAt t
°
p.m. on the 19th,
t
r( lied heavily into the r
( from
harbour.. TT aYI:bGi al
tel:lllraedtel:ebaesneen(3l
aground, but she fleat:
reilly•! tedd with the tide, and, after she
Ited, her,
he defendant to move

the Royal William, in order that the Sybil
tnig.t le more out of the sea and wind. The
lefendant sa'd he could not then, but would by-and-by.
W:tness's vessel was then aground and making water,
Ind he did not move the steamer, and witness said it
cas a shame that the bottom of his vessel should knock
out. Soon after this, the Neptune, a Dutch vessel, ran
in, and came alongside him, and dropped Ler anchor
riggingt oo eo no,
fso t teh at she h .
'1 er oduend a
ren
dand
nt
and carried
Ira away h
mater
rof the
Neptune
ct cet
erco,o, r
andnc an d
weretehdsel
slackened
knt him
nrt
cocadsttleahnceekvdeents
osheils,csutrtmeoitgohhreitningpslt,
pitched
hb soonue td
la'feteorbjt
to the starboard, and the timber heads fell out, and the
Sybil was pitched on her broadside. They began to
unload the cargo the day after she capsized.
By Mr. THESIGER—Had sailed in the Sybil before,
but only as Captain during this voyage. Never was in
Margate harbour before.
Win. Hunt has heal a master mariner, but is now a
merchAnt at Margate. The cargo of the Sybil was
consigned to him. He considered the vessel a very
prop: r one to sail as a collier. In his opinion the
Royal William ought to have been removed a-head
When tLe wind blows from N.W. and N.N.W., the
water within the pier increases four feet, and decreases
as much when it blows from an opposite quarter.
Timetliy Pike, a mater mariner, stated that be
knows the Sy b.l ; had a voyage last summer in her as
captain. She erformcd it very wall to Hartlepool and
back. Knows that she had undergone repairs in Mar
gate. Had a conversation wiih the defendant after the
acci,'ent, and be said he was sorry for it. Witness
should have purchased the Sybil but for this accident.
Welit a voyage in her on liking.
George Lynch, a seaman on board the Red Rover
on the 19th of October, stated that tic Royal William
was moored in a part where steamers did not
usually lie. There was no difficulty in moving her
Wm. Mitt, a seaman on board the Sybil, stated that
if the Royal William had been moved further a-head,
the Sybil could have got off the sand-bank art the
soft mud.
George Gude, a shipwright, stated that he had sur-
veyed the Sybil, and found that it would take 2201. to
put her into repair.
TeSEsIGER addressed the Jury for the defence,
and called several witnesses.

Mr. PLATT replied.
Lord DENMAN summed up the evidence, and the
Jury after deliberating about half an hour returned a
verdict for the plaintl—Damages, 751.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT—HuNrixopoN, MARCH TO.

James inglett, aged 94, was indicted for feloniously
killing and slaying Elizabeth Harlots, by administering a
quan,ity of arsenic.
The very venerable person who stood charged with this
offence has for many years carried on the business of
farmer and " cow.lecch," and in the latter character is in
the habit of administering medicines to various kinds o
cattle. His great age and his I Jng acquaintance with
the healing art have caused him to be regarded with
much respect among the simple people of his neigh-
bourhood, where his character had hitherto ken unex-
ceptionable. The deceased, who lived in the village of
Houghton, near this town, was taken ill during the last
year, and the parish apothecary used all his art to restore
her to health, but in vain. About Christmas the prisoner
was called in to see her, and he immediately administered to
her a dose of liquid medicine, which made her very sick and
caused her great suffering, but she got better after taking
it. On the morning of Monday the 11th of January, the
prisoner ghee her a cup full of a similar medicine to that
which he had before administered to her, and which bad
made her so sick and ill. The deceased got much worse
towards night, and from that time till her death she was
constantly sick, and suffered excrutiating pain, with almost
intolerable thirst. Early on Wednesday morning, January
11, having taken some opium pills, she fell into a quiet
doze, and soon afterwards death's friendly band put an end
to her sufferings, and she woke no more. No suspicicn
was then entertained of her having died any other than a
natural death, and in due time she was buried. When
she had been ten days in the earth, however, various
rumours got abroad respecting the cause of her death,
and the County Coroner directed the body to be ex-
humed, and a jury to be summoned. Two surgeons examined
the disinterred body, and found it in a generally healthy
state, the organs being sound and free from disease; but
the stomach and bowels were very much inflamed. Sub-
sequently the one infallible test, tt.e reproduction of else
arsenic itself, left no doubt that the deceased had taken
that dreadful poison shortly before her death ; and all the
symptoms attending her last illness indicated that she had
died of that poison. Verdict—Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE observed, that all the ends ofjus-
tice would be answered by its being publicly stated and
known, that if any person whatever presumes to adminis-
ter medically a deadly poison, and death ensues in eons*.
quence of rashness and gross negligence on his part in the
use of it, he is guilty of manslaughter. It would be a
useless cruelty, at the time of life which the prisoner had
reached, to inflict upon him a sever.: punishment; and as
he bad been in gaol already six weeks, he should sentence
him to be further imprisoned for one fortnight.
The venerable old man, who seems to possess many of
his bodily, and all his mental, faculties unimpaired, raid
great attention to the case as it proceeded. His respect-
-111 demeanour, silvery hair, and mild countenance, created
a strong impression is his favour in Court, and the trial
caused great interest.

N R 711 E RN CIRCUIT--YORK, MARC, 20.
Peter Foden was indicted for riot and seditious con.
spiracy, and pleaded Guilty.
The prisoner had been indicted with several otittr., who
are now undergoing various periods of imprisonment, for
the outbreak which took place at Sheffield some time ago.
lie had escaped from his bail, and has only been takes
into custody within these three months.
Mr. Wiumgs, for the prisoner, pressed on his Lord
ship's notice the altered state of the country, and hoped
that mercy might, without any evil result, be extended to
the prisoner, who was sincerely penitent.

His Lordship, after taking time to peruse the deposi-
tion., sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned one year
and nine months, saying, he could not make any distinction
between him and those who had already been convicted

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—Dim, Mißem IL
Ik/try Hoskisson was charged with shooting one Ro
bert Harvey, a gamekeeper of the Earl of Chesterfsid.
The C( roner's Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
egAinst four rersons, namely, Hoskisson, Eames, Staley,
and Adey, but the three latter were admitted Queen's
evidence.
These fur persons were inbatitants o a large and po-
pulous plee,r called Newell, ul,ich is in the heart of
the coal district cf Greasley, Swadlincote, &e., about
thre.2 miles from Batton, and elate adjoining Bretby
Park, the scat of the Earl of Chesterfield. On the night
of Thursday, the 4th of February, the four persons origi~
nally charge.l were drinking the allowance of ale given
them by their employers at a public-house, and remained
so doing till about hair east ter, when they all went away
together, one of them hiving been I card to say that ho
should like to hate a hare. They proceeded to Lord
Poaching, when the
aClliCeaflineludr'dsclrantt fok r tplialeeep.—lolsaensolfAughter—Sentei
Transportation for Life.

POLITICAL SUMMAIti( OF THE
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Post of this day, alluding to Mr. Wak-
lev' recent speech in the Commons on the New Poor-la,
.64w
~,, :...._.• We do net believe ti.at the landed aristocracy
of England tsc capable cf contemplating the condition of the
poor with anything but the most anxious &site to do
o hat is most condtie:vc to the bettering of that condition ;
but we think their judgment may have been abused by a
filse philosophy; and they may have too little cantuted
the simi lti du Wes of common sense, common experience,
a-:d common feeling." Tie Morning Chronicle thus com-
ments ou Mr. Senel'a letters on Pusetism, and his late
pami hitt addressed to Dr. Pthey :—" We must say, that
as far as we could see, the appartnt object of them was to
beget in members of the Church of England a predilec-
tion for the doctrines of the Church of Honer.
But he has sten the error of his ways,
tells us that ho moans to eerive no iitt"tmenof
from the Apostolic Church, except through that
o branch
d adieu to
it which is the Church cf England. He b ~, whit&
list aßomanime
he nvecation of Saints, and the long
alludes to the late
for he
Air Newman clings." The Times tbuswas
cat
,s.
Ilona
Pet," 1, er ebeter— t Every
argumentad jdrd
uu ter the feet of Ministers,
ucti inff •o fell tack upon- but
.abwis
was a
desire to improve
aj:sliejtaliotti,stliheatil itiande
pr:ocipPle of the change in h 1
thismwas no: the fact—that the ob.,
the Inca al condition of thet
Everybody knows that
10
stop
what Sir Charles
hlourfr, and rescue Lim from
his alleged habits of p_rovidfnee and dependence.
•'t of the law was really
ice
th:
' ofiinnvflaionns arPe attributable, and by the
‘IG,I t
hr ir a burden, under the pressure of
from said te be stating them in the face."
ruptcy s.
In discussing this subject we must
of the New Pcor-law,
Adver.
The Morning
tv.l th C
, i ia vain t
byo
, idvai
ear:
observes mind the monsteri _ Q
ora4awl_to
ever bear in m
:3:clid bank
whichremoval o yit.iahnflsti::l ,blebsl:w
only w.ol—li:ce.ar, n' ssPoceke it: ever
all Poor-law
• monster evil is tue-at I't - '
.ion.
or laws and factory laws, wl ich arc mere pallia,"
teous:urs-:,;:ugscwtldiiisch Can. effectively .I.te' removede(
fording to the labouring population the freest access to the
grand staple of life—food. All else is mu, trifling and
heartless speculation on the endurance of the labouring
classes."