The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-27 00:00:00

iNTER.ESTING CASE TO MANUFACTURERS.

GLASGOW. SEPT. 20.
POWER boosts. The following case, which was decided
in the Borough Court on the 15th inst., is of considerable im-
portance to Steam Loom Manufacturers, and we believe has
been the first decided .since the late strike. Messrs. Alex-
ander Brown and Co.'s engagement with their workers was to
`give them either a fortnight's wages or a fortnight's warning,
winch is customary in the trade. One portion of their workers,
namely the dressers, having -struck,' the weavers were, in con-
sequence; of no use, and the mill was shut, up. The weavers
brought their ectionagainsf the Company for a fortnight's
wages, and the following is the result:—
ELIZABETH M‘FAELANE v. ALEX. BROWN AXD CO.
The defendants being called, appeared., and stated that the
plaintiff's claim was for two weeks wages, during which their
manufactory was stopped from - working, owing to the recent
,
strike, or combination, among the dressers; anti that, as the
proprietor* of the mainifactory could not eontroul or prevent
the said combination, -and the consequent stoppage th
-nuichinery, the plaintiff must anbmit to the loss of wages, as
the defendants had to submit to the logs 4 work for the said
two weeks.
The plaintiff answeretl,..ar.d contended, that by the regula-
tions of the manufactory, the masters were bound to give n
fortnight's warning previous to turning oft' the workers, or try
pcy wages for that period.
The BAILLIE having heard the parties at considerable
length, said he found it admitted that the machinery, at which
the nlaint:ff *as emploYed, 'was stopped in conseqnence of'the
combination among the dressers, fellow-warkers with the
plaintiff; and decided, that the regulation as to giving warn-
ing . does not apply to the present, case, and therefoie as-
softies (acquits) the defendants from the preecut claim and
decent.

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THE KISIG v. Ledessue'o-..-e-The prosecutor in this CASA
was Mr. Wra. Mann wheereetteetaetted himself as living, in the
service of Lady
Shaetteatt4Wsho indicted the decadent, Mr.
James Lanebury, for an aasaitte;
Mr.. Wm. Mann depotald that he was butler to Lady Mac-
kett ; that he had heaped.tfeeesia:` upon Mr. James Lansbury
and nis wife, and sometimes even forgotten -his strict duty in
his affection for theca.
year ditty.
should not have forgotten
. The CHAIRMAN--These pie-were wrong, Mr. Mann; you
' Mr. Mann-I know it. Sir;' bat such is the weakness of our
nature that 1-did ; , end how water repaid fel-it? :lie met me
lately in one of the *Owes, and actually gave me a kick here,
Sir, said Mr. Mann, placinsirse hand upon the spot wherehte,
pour is supposed mosteenaltiVa, t ' - .• -
The CRAIRIIA4-.4)/4120:c•arrais.atipp,95iirbeforA:,thio 2
BIT. Mann—Yes, Sir ' ilewgtl atet:LlOSettiejeet of a 1
Art
letter.l wrote, end.doeta'rettethet it *vetoes younget ,matelie"a 1
kirk. witt; upon trinith I replied, th it, I Was. a- younger Mali
I'd wring his. nose ofrs and then 'he proceeded to the -offeasive 1
operation I balite stated. ,
CHAIRMAN—And was that all P
Mr. Mann—All, Sir I—Yes, it Instil— '. 1
etiAlltl{AW—l mean, did he commit- no farther.injury ? e
Mr. Mann—The injury to the part affected is nothing—my
mind—my mind is the thing affected. I indict him- tbs. the
wound he has intliV..4 on my senetbility.
Mr. PHILLIPS, who appeared as Coutntel for the defendant,
inquired of witness whether he was rot a poet ?
NVitnces----" If I'm *poet"
I don't know it "—(a loud laugh, in
which Mr. Mann joined). i •
Mr. PHILLIPS=--.." And yet you sheer it"—(a laugh.)---
Pray, Mr. Mann, did you not threaten in the letter to lam-
poon Lansbury !ti all posterity ? •
Witness—Produce the letter—l hare a cepv of it.
Mr. Pin teln Is not this a passage ,in It ?—" Execrable
hypocrite I—Sanctified Impostor I—lhave put you and your
friend Sal into scornful poetry f If ever a man could delight.
in seeing a biter bit—a trap-layer entrapped-a plotter en-
gulphed in the mesh of his own sophietrY, I enjoy that mourn-
ful satisfaction 1" •
Witness—lt is; but I insist on reatling,the- whoieletter.—
I'll not have my writings mutilated. I'll read every word of
it myself. .
[The witness here proceeded to read his epistle with strong
emphasis, accompanying it as he proceeded with commentaries
and' explanations, which put even the gravity-et' the Bench to
flight.' It ended thus—" Why do you keep the key of the
area deist? You know and I ran guess.—Mr. Mann here
nodded significantly to the Citair.-'-If you don't destroy that
key before my face, the very first person that appears about the
area, I'll have you indicted on suspicion."-1
The witness said that was his case, and-begged of the Bench
to recollect that it was not the corporal indignity, but the wound
inflicted on his mind of which he complained.
Mr. Pitt eters said, that as the affair had been so candidly
stated by Mr. Mann himself, be would not trouble the Jury
with any witnesses, but submit to a verdict, anti leave the pu-
nishment to the Court. Ile was quite willing to put it ore Mr.
Mann's own grounds, namely, the injury done to the ;kind,
and he would- ask the Jury, how ally of them wouldfcel \if a
poet of Mr. Mann's powers threatened to hand them tor: k to '
all posterity ? [Mr. Mann intimated that he had not tedilts'esd
the Poem.] No, but it would be found after his death, and it-
ffict on poor Lansbury a fated immortality—poor " Sal" ties
was consigned to " scornful poetry." Mr. Mann himseit
would say, whose mental injury was greatest, and mental in.
jury was all that was complained of, for the bodily affront was,
received on a part which Mr. Alann most properly conceived'
beneath the recollection of 4 man of genius.
The Jury found the defendant-guilty—and the Court, in con-
sideration of the strong provocation ,offered, fined him One
Shilling.
Mr. Mann departed not at all pleased at the compliment
which the sentence implied to his poetic powers. The case ex-
cited much amusement.
ALLEOED ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER.
Edward Jacobs was indicted for assaulting Charle3 Midland,
a police officer, in the execution of his ditty.
...From the testimony of the prosecutor anti a brother officer,
named Furlong, it appeared, that on the 11th of August het,
they went to Spitalfields at half-past eight o'clock in the even-
ing, to disperse a mob of boys, who were in the habit of. as-
sembling there, and by their riotous conduct disturbing the
neighbourhood. This duty they undertook by the direction of
the Magistrates. On reaching the spot they desired the boys
to disperse, but instead of being obeyed, the boys laughed at
them, and became more-noisy. Hadland then struck one of
the boys slightly with his stick and desired him to depart; but
this had no effect, and lie then struck a second and &third boy;
while thus engaged, the defendant came up, and struck him
violently on the head ; its in consequence secured him, and
lodged him in the watch-hoilae.
On the part of the defendant' several witnesses were &lid,
who descrihed the conduct of the prosecutor as having Bien
most violent. The fact wax, that one of the boys whom. he
struck, and on whom he infliettel twenty or thirty blows, in-
stead of one, end finally knocked down with his hit, was the
brother of the defendant. • The defendant at the moment hap-
petted to be sitting in his father's window, and on witnessing
this outrage he rushed out, 'and demanded of the prosecutor an
explanation of his conduct. This was met by a blow on his
own head, and it was not till he received this blow that he earn '''
mioed the assault imputed u. him.
These facts went to the Jurv, owl they, without hesitation,
found the defendant /Vet GeOte.
DISTURIVINC THE DEAD.
cit /4 71 Woodstock waa ind heed for unlawfully entering the
church-yard of the •parisl, of liornsey, on the 3fith of June
last, and digging a certain graVe with intent to steel the body
of a child which was therein deposited.
The circumstances of the case were these:--Two brothers of
the name of Powell 4(lde:ermined to sit stp all night in Bore-
sey Church-yard to Watch tile grave of a friend, and to prevent
the body being stolen. Soon after It! o'clock, as they were
eating their supper, they heard the sound of voices in a distant
part of the ground. They approached the spot, and saw three
men, one of whom, the prisoner, was actively engaged in dig-
ging a grave; he hod fail within ale inches of the coffin, anti
they heard the spade ettike egeinst the lid ; they instantly
rushed forward, anti one of atm attempted to seize him, but
lie jumped out, and his pursuer ftll in his place. The other
brother, however, was o 9 the, alert, and stieured him with his
spade in his hand before he got out, of the Church-yard. His
companions escaped altogether. hese facts, were proved, at
well as the circumstance of the child having been buried in the
grave, where the prisoner w.as at work; the same morning.
The prisoner watt found kloilth
and
sentenced to three
months imprisonment in the House of Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SINGULAR CASE.

wear-
ing large mustachios, was brought up from St.
MAELIIOIIOIIOII.BTREV7.—A person lily dressed,
Georgo's watch-
bonne yesterday, charged with creating c,diaturhance in Ebury.,
street, Libelsee, on Thor o d y
night
it appeared from the evidence of John Norman, an owner of
a van, that he was engaged b}` the t.exenclent to convey a quan-
tity of goods from 11,1 r. BuileeVe :.fie-rooms, noiborn,
yeater.4
. • - • -‘ , . , ,
day morning; anti that the aefendent directed him to proceed up
aid down a great number of sr.eets at the west end of the town,
to ilydo Park Coy.
Bond-street. The van was then dragged
alleging the goods were for a house that he had hired. Many
hours were thus spent without hi', I,e-Ing stile to dischesge the
him to drive
nitttir,.out`fhtoesdooefnetrod3abnot directed
hurthen.. About eight o'clock the a devil d..
t there he was ordered to return again
turnedoof from
ejB,trgue
cagede t taou and
otxrde
down
thee
wt on m
to the neighbourhood of Bond
g edvelTsl4mlB:trte:l:l3:wsitell'at:tith:Luinn: .ite'rth'}:seve:
Chelsea, where he- said he had
ant took a hackney-mach, and led the way for the van ; but he
any particular destination. 'At length he ordered the coach.
man to drive to Ebury-street,
o'clock at night. On knot ing at 0 (Icor Where the defendant
hired a house. When theykre,ached that street it wilt, ail" ten
alleged he was well known, the family 'denied having any at-
quaintauce with , him,. and the coachman finding he might be
'detained all night, demanded his fate.„ which the defendant re-,
/need to pay. Lie then gave himinto the custody of thc watch-
man, who also took charge of the) van, loaded 'with goads, and
they conveyed him to the watch-house. , The yeavv„ stAzutitg

On Wednesday, 11;ichard Garvey, of Roche's
Town, a lad eight years of age, was brought to
the County Infirmary', in consequence of his hay-
ing, two hours previously, got a plum-stone into
his windpipe ; he was in the act of cracking it
between his teeth, when it slipped backward,
and, by .a sudden respiration, was drawn into the
passage to the lungs, which produced a tendency
to suffocation ; but as the•stone remained length-
ways in the windpipe, he was able to breathe at
intervals without much difficulty. In this, state,
he was brought to the InfirMary, where Dr. Gro-
gan and Surgeon Thwaites happened immediately:
afterwards to arrive. In a fit of coughing the
stone got across the passage, which produced a
total strengulation, and not an instant was to be
lost in perfolming the operation of bronchotomy,
which consists in making an incision through the
skin, and then an opening into the windpipe be-
low the obstruction, so as to admit the passage of
air to the lungs; and although Mr. Thwaites lost
not a moment in performing the operation, yet'
before. it could be finished the boy was,apparent-
ly dead ; he, however, was so fortunate to to
bring about the act of respiration, the heart began
to bent, the circulation of the blood followed,
and animation WAS restored ; in a short time the
stone was extracted, and the boy now remains
in the hospital in as fair a way of recovery-As
each an o_peration would admit of.,—.{.Lime**
Evening _Pon.)

211 nlrDlt PARIK.--Testerday after.
noon, about three o'clock, two young Ladies of fahhionahle ap-
pearance WeTt taking an airing in Hyde Park, in the company
of their mothers laid were preeeeding towards the Serpentine
River by the how road, when two fellow's of decent appear.
ance, who had followed them for some distance, advanced to.
wards them. They not ilayingxthe 'coat auepicion of their in-
tention to rob them continued e direction in which they were
going; but On the fellovnt findingate opportunity, one them
ruched on ate of ihe young Lath& and tithed bee reticult, with
which they mu og

FUNERAL OP ?lit lioii. (EORCtit Pr:rem—The zeititris
of this lamented Officer were 'removed from „Richmond Bikt,
Taal,' DUbilli, 41,070 o'clock on, Baturtiti), and iotenefil with,
military tiontnira, ' The Band of the Queen's plplayed tbe bedMarch in Soul, &c.the body, aersited in a richly mounted,
coffin, was Owed in a hearse with whiteiplumes, arid drawn.
ratite
by six horses I three Officers ofsthe Queen's, walked at re fi4e
of the body, wearing black silk scarfs; part ot " the 'lte it
forlow4 4 the rear was brought utt by a numbtr of 0 xeve of
the Onnietin•in full arestunifortn, two and two, with ,vrilifc
D37/11,aluis and rivoill knot*. The 800. (gorge t:inel\ 444,,A
Richmond Barracics on the lbth inst. of h typhus feTtl. At
was the youngest.hther of the Earl of AyleefetrlL ‘ , * ,

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at, endiz," :says Selden, 'in his Table .Talk ,
showed hirnseif a good orator,' iyho; .lalving to
%V something to leis soldiers, (w lie% he 11,113 :,Q.
used: to 410,, male ilwin a speech to thi!' 'put.
,port:---tNV ha sharne will it be, yon.Engiist.-
min, that feint: b,ipnli good beef, lo•let those ;tit. ,
,c,olly Sligninitis beat you, tintt, got ththing b;:t
orallgef ttutl leMoilli,' " With this ive may' ell.:
the bppyth, trore. reinarlitibie (dr its Spirit that,
its elPgAnCe) adirrelSed by the 'eorintirtntlaiit of 'a
local regiment in tiinenThtre, to a lady; 6n.pre.
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