The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

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• ~1111;..W4au.1,-Feadi the owner of the, brig Colina, and
&a,p'sam 'qi„eesson, the master' Of " that vessel, were
bioughtitifitefOre -the• LOrd Miyor and Sir Jelin
cart., for re-examination -upon a ;chargo.of .liitiing con-
spired together to sink. the,eeid brivfor-the purpose of
defraading the Alliance. Ilarine Insuratice Company,
With .Whom ' Vessql WaSitfared. 'S'eviral gentlemen
lediineetetrwith the Shipping-interest inthe'City cwere in
attendancb 'in the Justice-rnorl4: to • listen :to the 'pro-
qcedi.Pgs- ' 1,, • ...•
• Mr. Clarksen arid Mr. Bodkin-appeared-as counsel for
the prosecution. The • priSeubr Read was represented
by Wontfier. '• -' -
Clarksim, addressing the ;Lord Mayer,i said he
had to infoirecr his Lordsb,ip that, since the priseners had
been before Mm,"tlieniaSter of thebrig Celina—the pri-
soner Simpson—had made a statement in reference to
the lOss-Oftheoveisel in quotas 'i' :Statement-Was a
general, OfiQi.WhiCh (Mr. 0104.1 son? not-then in a
condition to.lay before his Lordship: It was eiton,gh for
him to say that it: niterially affebted the priSOner-Read.
The statement went the • length of 'showing thethe loss
of the brig was wilful—that it was after:Sonic:delibera-
tion, and by arrangement, shetwas lost— and -that,-:the
circumstance took place at -the instigation of the prisoner
React On the preVions eiatniriation, Mr. Wontnee ex-
-pressed his determination to apply to the-Judges, in order
that the) prisoner, Read :might . be :allovied to . find
bail. If it was still Mr. rWontner',s resqution to do so,
he (Mr. Clarkson) would feel it to he his ditty to submit
the statement, to which Ire had referred,' before the Lord
-Mayor at the earliest possible moment."l If; alter Mr.
Wonteer. saw :the natereof, thefstatement -in, question,
he should feel.it to, be his, te, make, an application to
the Judges, are, of mine, Might do SO.-. Hi now begged
his Lordship would` remand the-prisoner to such a day as
Would enable him to complete the :case,' se as that the
prisoners might be committed fel- trial at, ,the'. Central
Criminal ceurt, at the ensuing sessions.
Sfr.'Wontner. expressed a hope that the-rental-A Would
be to itti early day, as it might,benecessary, after hear-
ing what the nature of the statement referred_ to was, to
make inquiries- respecting it. -
. After a shOrt conversation, the 'prison-era-Were ordered
to be remanded till three o'clock on Saturday next;
The depositions-taken-on the-last day of the -examina-
ti,on•were then read Oyer by ,Mr. Goodman, and the witi•
nesses bound over to prosecute. •
• Onq Of the witnesses, GeOrge Gardner; clerk to Read
andtPage,-of Ipswich, said-that-the gentleman who came
into his employers' counting-house, - with- a newspaper
containing the loss of the brig, was Mr. Taylor, : ship
owner, of Ipswich. • • , .
Mr. Win. Henry Mess, a clerk in.the Ship Regiatryl.
office :of the 'Custom-house; produced an office copy -
of
the registry of the brig Colina, dated .sth January;
1841, showing the ownership of the vessel to be in the
prisoner Read and his partner. ,
The'prisoners were then remanded till Saturday.
TREATMENT OF MR. BARNARD GREGORY -IN isTEW.
GATE.—Mr.. Wells, the .barrister, . appeared before the
Lord Mayor, for the Purpose of calling his Lordship'S
attention to the case of Mr-Barnard Gregory, and the
treatment which it was alleged
,that individual was suf.!
fering froin in the gaol of NesVgate. He knew nothing
whatever of Mr. Gregory personally, and he was only
induced to come forward respecting him, in consequent
of the statement which hadappeared in some. of th
public journals, as .to the conduct which had been
pursued towards him, in the gaol in, question. If
the- statement put forth in the journals referred td
was a true one, he must say, that the treatment frond
which Mr. Gregory was suffering was mere cruel than
*any he had ever read of, in connexion with the Bastile;
the enormities of Robespierre, or even the Government
of Algiers. The- Learned- Gentleman then read the
-statements in question, from . which it appeared
that Mr. Barnard 'Gregory was compelled to associate
With felons ; that he was denied the use of pens, ink,
and paper; or even of a black-lead pencil ; that
he : was not all Owed any. books to read ; that
he was not permitted to have candles, and was conse,
quently in darkness for fifteen hours out of the twenty
four ; that he was obliged to sleep on 'an iron bedstead;
with rope mattress and rug 'covering ; that he was only
allowed .the. prison . diet ; that he could only see his
' friends under the order of a magistrate ; and that al+
though a certificate signed by two physicians and four,
practical surgeons,.had been transmitted to the Secre-
tary of State for the.- Home Department, showing that
Mr. Barnard Gregory had.eince his imprisonment burs
a blood-vessel, and that if ..the preseet treatment was
continued the result would' be the death of Mr. Gregory
yet, up to that time, no notice had been taken of the re
presentation by the. Home Secretary, and the prisoner
was still treated in the- same manner and subjected to
the same hardshiPs and privations as heretofore. •
The Loin Mayon said that the Case. of Mr. Gregory
had-already been under the consideration -of the Magus-
trates of the.Citynf London, and the 'attention of the
Home Secretary had been called to it.,
Mr; Wells said that his rordShip mist- no' doubt be
aware that the prison discipline did not apply to personS
incarcerated in the gaol of Newgate on:account of libels'
Etna added that he was determined not to allow the matte
to sleep. 11e would either apply for a, 'habeas corpus o
the first day of term, or calla public meeting to addrel
the "Queen, who, he was sure,. cotild not be aware tha
one of her subjects was treated so unjuStly. ,
. The Loan Maven said he would take care the matte
should be inquired 'to,
NAR YLEBPATE. - •
William Crouch, the man charged with the-murder o
his wife; and against-whom a verdict, of wilful murde
had been: given by, the . Coroner's . jury, was brought
before Mr. Rawlinson -for further examination. On
being placed. at the bar' 'he appeared in a very weak
state, -and was "accommodated with a chair. He she
tears, and looked ...Much paler than when before the
Coroner. . .
The same witnesses having been examined before Mrri
Rawlinson as gave testimony. at the inquest, , I
tlizabeth Haines, whose evidence was additional, wag
called,
..and stated, that she' was -the wife. of Samuel
Haines, and- Hired at 7, Great Chesterfield-street. The
prisbuer and the deceased had lodged at her honse. On
Saturday he went-out to look for work. On his retur
he,was accompanied by: a man; she spoke to him, and h.
went out, again." lie returned a second time in-about a
hour and a half, and appeared in liquor.- She told
him that ,he was so, but he denied it. ,He talked
of taking a room, which she told him she thought
was let, and said that he was better as he was, artiS
wife had deft, him. • He then sat down, and said, " If it
must be done, it .mitst be done." ,She gave him some
clothes, and he said, " I shall never Want these,; shall
never wear them); He then opened the bundle, tookl
out ft shirt, and -said, " Here's a shirt to wear ! it has
lain-in-the box six weeks, and she was too lazy to mend
it or sew the buttons on." He afterwards` said, " Whys
the b— not she mend my stockings ?" HO
went-into-another room locked his box, and put the key
, into his pocket. Ile 'shortly. afterwards went away,
without saying anything.. On a previous•occasion, about
a fortnight ago,. the very night she had left hith, he said
he would lie in wait for her, and give her a -good hiding;
and if he had. had her there then, he -would cut her
throat with a raw, • . . •
The Magistrate, havine• asked the prisoner- if lie had
• . .•
anything to, say;the Wretched man merely replied, the
-Mother and-sister ()This wife had persuaded her to leave
liim:„ and that had undone : him. He had -been out on
Saturday drinking, and took more than he could manage;
The thought-Sof her leaving him had so wrought upon
his mind' that it -was more than he could bear. - He had
wished to: cut his own throat, but • the handkerchief pre-
yented it. , . •
Mr. BANTLINON—Have you any more• to say? Pri-,
soner—Nothing more. - - . •
Mr. ItalijaNßONThen you are committed to New-
gate;-te take your trial. • :
The crowdaround.,the,Court was very great, and it
was with difficulty that the mob could be prevented from
laying violent bands on the prisoner, both on his being
taken to and removed from-the Court.

- GLERKENWELL. ••; -
Henry Williams was :charged with obtaining money
on false pretences from several housekeepers. •
"The first case again Sf-the prisoner was that of a poor
woman named Hayes, who keeps a little shop in Peter-
street; Clerkenivell; Whose' son i a seaman, and went
out to. China in the 'Caster at the commencement of the
war with that. empire. The prisoner told the mother
that • he had been writing on'board the- same ship with
her soil, and• mentioned the-name of the vessel. He
added that'he had parted with Hayes about two months
previously, at at Ito Janeiro, and that Hayes had given
hini a parcel for his mother, containing two damask
sharils and a letter. He had 'taken the 'greatest care of
ihnipareel and having, been • steward. on board the
Amelia., which arrived, i&Livcrpool on the 16th March
• last, he thought there would have beep nothing to prevent
hiS 'removal of it. ' Thelressel had,boWever, no sooner
anchored "in .the 'doek 'Wan the- CuAtnm-house. officers
_boarded her, 'seizing the !parcel, .and refused. 'to giire it
unless I,ls. 6d„_Cust9whopse fees were • paid upon it.le
The poor woman, npeitiliis premising to _send, up tl
'Parcel
.by rail Way on, the 'following
.I,'VedM:s gave
o
:hitn-the money, which she Into° tip with difficulty.'-
parcel arrived,; and the • whole story -turned out, to be
fabulous.
The seCond. case Was that of Mr. James Alexander
Mathews, a glass niercThaf it, residing in the Dover-road.
'lbtut iipi,prioorititlgatiad: that Ins name was James
Edwards, and thatilie' Was s'econd steward on board the
Amelia, which had arrived, from the West- Indies on the
rirevioni Monday,: the sth, of last February'. 116 asked
Mr. Mathews if he had- not• a son in the colonies, • and On ,
his replyingin the affirmative, told nearly the Same tall as
in the); former case, stating that the parcel contained silk
desk, and parcels Of cigars. He
liandkerehiefs., a writing
was sorry to f!iforin gr. Mathews that the cholera was
then raging with great violence in.the district in which
his son resoled. The parcel was detained for.
,18s, Gd.,
,Custom-house fees.' This sum he obtained on the same
promise as in Mis. Hayes' case. They never heard -more
'of him until his arrest.- Mr. MatlieWs wrote to "Liver-
pool, - and was informed :by one 'of• the officers of the
doelcs, that, there: W. 13 ,nt, such ' ve;:sel , there as, the
Amelia, and he (the officer) regretted to say,„ that Mr.
Mathews Was only ens . of a large'number of London
konsekeePek who -bad been Made the dupe of some
swindler; as he Sad recblved a,large number: of ..coilimu-
nications' to. the same effect. -. • -
Mrs. Elipbeth 13rown, No, 2, Cockpit court, Poppin's-
oourt, Pleete-streef, deposed, that on the 22d of Decem-
ber the prisoner came to her, and asked her if she had
not Sonin the West Indies. ,She replied in the' affir-
mative, and he, made the same representation to her as
in the former case. regarding the parcel, and obtained
9S. 6d. from 'het but 'the' most cruel part of his -con-
duct was telling the peer oldwtiman that he had left her
son .dangeroitsly ill .of the yellow fever, which. grieved
her exceedingly. Mrs. Brown his •naute was
John 1 hillrps.- , •
'Tn4Y 'other 'li;Otea;-:Fartled '-nainSforth and
111i1404irettidi4fin.tlitel3ctrailglvatiatP..the:oriti
son in Sydney, and the other in New Zealand—deposed