The Sun.
London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

Abraham Abrahams, Judos Solomon', and Abra-
ham. Salmons, three Jews; of notorious bad Ora-
tarter, were indicted as accessaries before the
fact, in a burt;lary committed at Sheerness on the
30th of January last, in the dwelling-house of
Abraham Abrahams and Wolf Myers, pawnbro-
kers in that town, of which offence three persons,.
of the same persuasion, named Abrahams, Ball,
and lincliee, were capitally convicted at the last
Assizes, as principals.
The trial of this case lasted until a late hour on
Friday evening, and excited very general interest.
The principal witness against the pris.oners was
13ackee, who had received the Royal pardon ; and
his evidence (being' corroborated by a long chain
of circumstantial evidence) clearly bronght•home
the charge against the pt isoners„ They were found
guilty, and received sentence of Death.
Sat.tiday after,o the .`sizes cnocloded,
and no case of gtneral interest is either Court
occurred ou that (lay. Junges left Maidstone

for Lewes about four o'clock, And this mornin.:
the huskies:3 of the Assizes for the county of Sus
sex commences.

'CAMBRIDGESHIRE ASSIZES.

BEFORE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE DALLAS AND JUSTICR,

BURROUGHS.

Thomas Weems was capitally convicted for the
murder of Mary Ann Weems, his wife, o►)
Friday, the 7th May last, in the parish of Wendy,
in this county. The particulars of the horrid deed
for which this prisoner was tried we detailed
fully .at the time. About a year and a half ago
the deceased swore a child to him, upon which he
,w,as apprehended, and compelled to marry her ;
Weems left his wife immediately atter, and got
work at Edmonton, where he became acquainted.
with a git Ito whom he promised marriage, and cq,
enable himself to fulfil it, he resolved on gettin g
rid of liis wife; accordingly he returned to God.-
manchester, and under pretence of taking his wife
to live with him, they set of for Edmowon ; big
on the road from Wendy to Royston he took leer
into a field and murdered her. 'site prisoner was
executed on Friday last.

YORKSHIRE ASSIZES'.,
FALSE IMPRISONAIENT IN A MAD-HOUSE.

HORSEMAN V. F. BULMER, REV. W. BULMER,
BELCOMHE, MATHER, ItIATTERSON, AND SCOTT.:
This action excited very great interest, and col-
lected an immense crowd of spectators, who nta-
nifested their sympathy but too strongly. The
court apartment is perhaps the largest and Ole
most commodious in the kingdom_; yet such vras
the crush in all its avenues and passages; that Ole
witnesses could with difficulty be got to the rit-
ness-box, notwithstanding the frequent orders of
his Lordship to clear a passage for them. The
counsel-table presented a fearful array of Coun-
sel : Messrs. Seijeant Cross, Williams, Holt, and
Vernon, for the plaintiff; Messrs. Scarlett, Roine,
Set-jean( flullork, Tindall, and Starkie, for the
defendants. His Grace the Archbishop of 'York
sat by the side of •Mr. Baron NVood. The trial
lasted trout 11 in the morning till 4 next morning.
Five of the Special Jury appeared ; for the rest
a tales was prayed. Benjamin Johnson, lic'sq. was.
fore-man.

Mr. VEnNoN (M.P. furl son of the Archbishop
of Yolk) stated the pleadings. It was an action
Of trespass, committed in taking the plaintiff,
Miss Jane Horseman, from her ti yelling-house,
and imprisoning her in a Innatict asylum ; and da-
mages ts•ere claimed for exposure of her charac-
ter, and for ttte excruciating agonies of mind
which she had endured. All the defendants
pleaded the general issue," Not guilty."
Mr. Francis Buliner, the father, the Rev. Wm,
Balmer, the son, and Helen Scott, entered a jos-.
titiciuion on the record, that the plaintiff had
been lunatic andsinsane - and that they, her near
relatives, had conve?ed her to the Lunatic Asylum
for the purpose of working _ • r care and cure.—
The replication stated, that they had done it of
their own - wrong %vithopt cause. Dr. Beicontbe
and Mr. Mather entered a justificatioa, that the
plaintiff had been lawfully put in their custody for
• her ewe and cure.—The replication was, that
they had done it of their own wrong with-
out cause. Mr. Matterson entered a justi-
fication, that in forcibly conveying the plaintiff
from her dwelling-house to the Asylum, he had
acted so in order to effect her care and. cure, be-
ing lunatic and insane.—The replication was, that
he had done it of hisi;own wrong without cause.---
Her•eupon issue was joked.
After the examination of many witnesses, pro
and can, none of whom could establish the fact of
insanity, the Counsel for the plaintiff (Mr. Ser-
jeent CROSS) addressed the Jury in the following
manner

" Painful as it was to him, and still more pain-
ful as it must be to the Jury, he felt it/his duty,
now at midnight, to call for their attention, while
he again addressed them for his unhappy client.
They would find all the defence to be only what
a tv~tt;ess hail stated, ' the ,grOss exaggerations
of the Bulnters.' I'he Learned Counsel for the
medical men wisely jud4ed, th„t the less he
said
upon their conduct the better, and there-
fore satisfied himself with Ditto to Mr. Scar-
lett: The Learned Serjeant then proceeded with
great ingenuity and eloquence .to reply to Mr.
Sosirlett'is observations. The defendants might
have easily ascertained front the plaintiff who
advised the action.' But they never once saw
her
then
since
isl:tjureeestrtped from their keeping. If a
dozen hitn, was he to proceed against
them separately, and to give one the benefit of
the friendly evidence. of the other ? If that
had been done here, they would have heard a
great deal of the base spirit of litigation which
multiplied actions so unnecessarily. lie Was not
hound to detect the motives which prompted die
flagrant wrong done to this unfortunate Lady ;
but if required to point out their sordid and selfish
motives, he could do it. Old Bulinet' had got the
feeble old mother in his house, and virtually in his
custody. Ile would ask the Pulmers and their as-
sistants, why the poor unhappy daughter had
not seen the face of her beloved parent
since the hour when she was &rigged from
her bed to be immured in a madhouse ? The fact
was so. What was the motive ) It had been
admitted that the plaintiff had not been insane.
The whole evidence granted this, except that of
the gratuitously garrulous Mrs. Clarkson, who
must have been out of Court, and beet! ignorant
of the change in the market since she had pro-
vided her evidence. Upon this ground he confi-
dently claimed their verdict ; the plaintiff was en-
titled to it. This Lady had never, from the day
she was so dragged away, received any thing
from the Bulmers. No friend could sec her,
no letter could be seta to her ; nothing could
be done respecting her. without a Buttner.
If the evidence given on the other side
had proved her the most drunken of mor-
tals, he solemnly protested that it was nu justi-
fication, but the whole was but the variegated
tissue of the exaggerations of the Bulmers. Pro-
bably she did drink laudanum ; so did many must
respectable Lassies. People diAot set about and
sell their husbands' razors the iOstant they expired.
She, indced, had razors, but instead of cutting off
her head, she only cut off her nails with theni.—
With the scissors she made • no attempt upon
het ture,a A lil4, Bat the JrlAy wue fUrther to

•
believe, that this Ladp, 3d adtlicted to
and so determined to find instruments of seit. at
struction, had, for the last fifteen months,
of pure spite to the Minters, drunk ttct
ous liquors, and tlid not cut her throat'
notwithstanding this unbounded spite, she
ab
gliPub
no action till now. No; while there Was
met of hope of reconciliation,_and of access
mother, she abstained from coercion. Ve
the exposure of that day would have the efi'ecC.
ii
As to damages, the measure was the injutY
to the plaintiff, and not the aggtavatioi)
elation of the case of any of the defendanti, cis
compared to the other. -" I crave at Your bon.
e,
ample reparation for an unhappy etfilictedlia(ol
deprived of the society of her mother, deriv'ed.
the menus of subsistence, disgraced !;sr tslsg ,;.°0 t
potations of-madness and inebriety, made sleell—io
by agony, and her sleepless hours called t°_,:rest
tress her insanity, wounded in all her te•"`"7-1,"
feelings, injured- for .eser. Gentlemen, 'IC'
nice
that you will not weigh the damage's in Yell
scales." st
. Mr. Baron Woof) summel lip the evidenceo
great length, and the Jury, after having relit'lxtei
deliberate for a few minutes, found their vet"
for
.the. plaintiff—Damages, &01.

From the LONDON GAZETTE of. 4ug447.:

„ pre.
At the Court at Carlton-House, the 031 ,of July, • ,
sent, his Royal Highness theiPrince Regelit in Cou";;ince
It is this day ordered by his Royal Highness the
'Regent in Council, in the name and on the behalf of leis
to
jesty, that. the Parliament, which- stands prorog'l6.,ce
Tuesday, the t2dth day of August next, he further
rogued to Tuesday, the 2d day of November next.

Irar-Qffice, Artg. 6. .11!
tpth Regiment of Light Dragoon —Lie ut..7. Wakefici""0
,;01/
Captain of a troop, by pn..etiase, vice Maur, wil""`s4
Cornet C. L. Cuzuberleti4e, to be Lieutenant, 6y Pti"-'
ice Wakefiel •
t3d vltegia,fnit ofd. Foot—Lieutenant M. Barlow, from Calf :):1'
85111 Fo ,t, to,he Lieutenant, vice W. Peurfatber, %‘.s°
changes, receiviou difference
• -- ;got, to I'd

6th Ditto—Ensign M. R. Grey, from half-pay 53d Four' ty/
Ensign, vice T. D. Wood, who exchange;, tcceivit,l3
to"
sth Ditto—Captain R. Walton, from half-pay 39th ..°`)ti
Paymaster, vice H. W. who exchanges. toy
Ssth Ditto—Ensign C. Macdonnell, from the dsth Foe., ,
Ensign, without purchase, vice Nixon, promoted.
55th Ditto---Geutlernan Cadet A. Butler, from the IZ"Pmar
litary College, to be Fusi n, without purchase,
dannell, appontcd t the 35th Fot. ot
92d Dittu—Eusign W:Boayly, fromo half-pay 43d Fool,
Ensign, vice 11, Skinner, who exchanges.

Crown-Office, ding. 7, 1819.
Member returnei to serve in Parliament. 20.
City of Edinburgh—The Right Hon. Wiiliam Dl3llu

BANKRUTTCIES SUPERSEDED. proi
W. H. Hayward, Manchester, cotton-spinner--L"
Manchester, grocer.
BANKRUPTS.
J. Rob -.1„; .1 - sept.T6clA4

. tcohinson, Liverpool, joiner, Aug: 25, and nai'Lls•
one, at the George lan, Liverpool. Attornies,
well, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Blaclstock and Co. Yr
I'. Waterhouse, Sedgley, Staffordshire, nail-factor,nrtni
at five, 10, and Sept. IS, at eleven, at-the LittletolEii;os,
Penkridge, Staffordshire. Attornies, '
Chancery-lane; and Mr. It. Homer, Sedgley. site'
W. Hopwood, 'l'. Hopwood,, Hopwood, jun. and Jl,'"giff,
wood, Horwick, Lancashire, bleachers, Aug. 25, at '.1510,
at ten, and Sept. Is, at 12, at the Eagle and Chiln,..ie
Wigan, Lancashire. Attorney,' Mr., W. Norris, .0""
street, Bedford-row; and Mr. R. Gaskell, Wigan.
J. Briefly, Manchester, dyer, Aug. 23, '4, and Sept-0 ,!'"0,
nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Atto”ri.ies,
Sharpe and Co. Manchester; and Messrti. Milne 3'4'
Temple. ft
•

M. Liufout, Leeds, tea-dealer, Au 7,. 23, and Sept. ""pie
eleven, at the Sessions House, Leeds. Attornies, Mr.
Lett, Cloak-lane, and MT. M. Bentley, Leeds. A id
J. Dawson, New Windsor, cheese-factor, Aug. 10, 1,1,01
Sept. 18, at ten, at Guildhall. Atrornies, Messrs. wr-te
' and Co. Reading • and Messrs. Few and Co. kielific`
street, Covent-garden. stuP
ri W. Jewell, Henetta•street, Covent-garden, carver,
,cy',
14, 28, and Sept. 18, at twelve, at Guildhall. A11.°1!1
Mr. Phillips, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Cefil*
B. J. 'figment, Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 25, 27, and "c 4.,
is, at eleven, at the Office of Messrs. Avison and
Liverpool, and Castle-street, Holborn. ies
G. 'Jones and J. Borrow, Bristol, 'coil-merchants, Aug'o4,
17, and Sept.-18, at onc, at the, White Hart Inn, 13125,d11
Attornies, Messrs. Stocker and Co. New Boswell-
Carey-street ; and Mr. J. H. Frankis Bristol. 10:0
W. Rrid, sett. Rosoinoud-street, Clerkenwell, watch•Ma efo
Aug. 10,.21, and Sept. it, at ten, at Guildhall. Attar°
Mr. J. Scargill, Coppice-row, Clerkenwell.
W. limes, Hatton-garden, tailor, Aug. 14, at ten, i'ja.sf
eleven, and Sept. 18, at ten. at Guildhall. .A.11°3.'7'
Messrs. Terrell and Son, Guildhall: , sto
J. B. Blandiord; Poole, innkeeper, Aug. 17, at foUre,'"A'atie
Sept. Is, at ten, at the Old Antelope Inn, Poole. ,'
flies,Alexander and Co. New-inn; and I'/.*
Parr, POole. - 18 0
R. Archhelt, York, corn-factor, Aug. 24, 25, and SeP.',,s4§'
eleven, at.the Etridge's Hotel, York. Attorniss, Yrors•
Bell and Co. Bow Church-yard, Cheapside; and lug
Brook and Co. York.
J. Appleton, Sunderland near the Sea, skip-owner, AUK
21, and Sept. IS, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney'
Brumell, Church-passage, Guildhall.
[Dividends, &c.. to-morrow.]

044
At the Derby Assizes Nathaniel Halton, of 1 „it
Mills, was convicted, of a most ferocious 004
upon a game-liceper, whose nose Hutton actlia.,is
hit of, besides other ill-treatment, of so sevefrj,
kind- as nearly to cause death.bellab;:i
doting his trial, with great ,insolence, and 10".,..
vehement speech in his defence. He w'io selto
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment, and to •
kept to hard labour.
Donnelly and Cooper have gone to Irelao4
exhibit at Donnybrook Fair, which coloW"Cli!.
on the 27th of Angust. The above heroes 110
Manchester in their way, in order to ircAt I iso
sporting circles in that neighbourhood
specimen of their scientific acquirements.

BiTITH.
On Friday, the Gth inst. Mrs. Charles Druce, of nil liter
square, of a son.

On the 71h inst. at. Niarvlebone Church, by the L°r d to
shop,of Landatf, the Rev. NV.Clitye, of Westhorpe, 15'7,t15011
Juliana Elizabeth Emma, eldest dattelitcr of of
loch, Esq. ot; Harley-street, and of Faulhburn Hall, iiss4
On Saturday nierning last, John Armstrong, 5"..1„,i5ci1)
Kentish Town, to Maria Jane, eldest daughter of
Sandys, Esti. of the saute place.

DIED.
On the sth instant, Mrs. Helen Phillips, wife a raptai ll
James Phillips, of Rotherbithe, in the 66th year of her ;geb
On Wednesday, at Alvingham, Ntr. George Coxon, „0
21. His death was occasioned by drinking cold water W"'
in a state ef perspiration. rfe•
Monday week, at Gainshorough, in .the prime 0. •T
the hydrophobioi, Mr. Knapton; upwards of two inontbsool
he was playing with a small dog in his own house, the an:i3dl
seized his lip, and not any symptoms of the direful W 2,00
was discovered until yesterday fortnight, when he b"
raving mad, and expired on the next day.

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