The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-06 00:00:00

TRIAL BY JURY.

FIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY DINNER TO COMME-
AikkRATE THE ACQUITTAL OF HORNE TOOKE
AND HARDY.
Yesterday about one hundred gentlemen assembled at din-
ner at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, to com-
memorate the fifty-first anniversary of the acquittal of Home
Tooke and Hardy. Dr. Bowring, M.P., presided.
When the cloth was removed,
The Cnarastv propo*d, as the first toast, " The Sove-
reignty of the People. In doing so, he said be proposed
that toast first, because the multitude were not made for the
monarchs, but the monarchs for the multitude.
In proposing the health of " The Queen," he expressed a
hope that the Sovereign who was placed at the summit of
the Government of this great empire would cause her reign
to be marked by a desire to consult the happiness of the com-
munity over which, she ruled.
The CHAIRMAN said the next toast was " Trial by Jury."
—(Cheers.) He would observe, in offering this toast to the
assembly, that all experience had taught mankind that very
often great events arose out of discouraging circumstances ;
awl the history of man could point to as many results of
great importance arising from light Causes, as could the his-
tory of philosophy for its most valuable discoveries.—(Hear,
hear.) What the discovery of attraction and gravitation
was in the world of matter, the importance of trial
by.. jury was in the world of mind.—(Hear, hear.)
It was the victory of political philosophy that gained
for the peQple of this country that glorious pri-
vilege which they knew so well how to value, and
which they would never surrender.—(Cheers.) The
great institution of trial by jury was an invaluable boon to
the people, and was so regarded by the enlightened portion
of the community.—c Hear.) It was that battering-ram
which protected individuals against tyrannical penal laws,
and which eventually broke them down.—(Cheers.) With
these observations, he begged to give them the inviolable
privilege, of " Trial by Jury."—Drank with all the honours.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said he had
now come to the great toast of day, the object of which
was to bring back their recollections to bear upon the me-
mory of those great and immortal men who, in the dark days
'of dagger and persecution, had braved the storm, and were
preptitid to suffer all the consequences of penal enactments in
the great cause of public liberty.—(Cheers.) Removed as
those whom he now saw around him were from the times in
which those illustrious men lived, they could scarcely appre-
ciate the many hardships, vexations, and persecutions they
underwent in their efforts to assert a great principle.—(Hear,
hear.) But they endured all those because they were sup-
ported by pdblic opinion, and. with that, to back them they
were prepared even to " walk through the valley of the
shadow of death," rather than abandon the position they
had taken.—(Cheers.) But the present age was beginning
to do them justice ; the future would certainly do so, because
time ever came to the aid of the grateful recollection of the
~virtuous and patriotic.—(Cheers.) In the present day there
was no doubt on the public mind as to the positions which
Sydney and Hampden should occupy. in the estimation of
their country.—(Hear, hear.) Inquiries had been made
as to whether Cromwell should have a statue ; but
be the result of that what it might, no man could
deny a statue to John Milton, for he was enshrined in the
hearts of the people, and regarded as deserving of a place
amongst the best of men, both by Parliament and by people.
—(Cheers.) On the death of John Milton, a certain writer
said that the fame of that great man had gone out like the
snuff of a candle, and left no agreeable odour after it; but he
(the Chairman) begged to say, that so far from the result
verifying that assertion, that "candle" had illuminated the
whole world, and the memory of it was held as sacred as that
of a consecrated saint. He (the Chairman) had made
those observations in order to show that the people of this
country were not slow to consecrate the memory of the
great who had passed away, and they looked with a deep
and fervid intent upon those who still lived, and who had
been associated with them.—(Hear, hear.) There were some
few in that room who still well remembered the memorable day
they had this eveningmet to commemorate, and who had taken
a part Tit the proceedings then going forward ; and it would
be the boast and the privilege of the youngest now in this
'room, to be able to declare, at a future day,;that though they
had not the good fortune to live in the times of Hooke and
'Hardy, and those other illustrious men, they at least could
say those who had mingled with them were not unknown to
them; and that they hung with delight upon the accounts
they had heard of the manner in which these great men
bore up against adversity, had struggled with the waters
which were about to overwhelm them, and had arisen from
the ordeal invigorated and resolute.—(Cheers.) Such he
trusted would be the conduct of the young men of the pre-
sent day at any moment when the liberties of the country
should be imperilled, or tyrannical laws be attempted to be
enforced. Lo cheersr)
Mr. Pannywascalfedlapon to speak to the next toast, which
. was " The memory of the three juries who, in 1797, accquitted
Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwell on a charge of high treason, and of
Erskine and gibbn, the able and gratuitous counsel of the
accused." In rising to propose the toast, he said he felt
honoured by having been chosen for the performance of so
agreeable a (Nay. - He had only been attending those meet-
ings for a few years, but he felt convinced that a more im-
portant public, duty he could not discharge, and he also felt
gratified for the mannerin which he had always been received
at them by those who now surrounded him.—(Hear, hear.)
The toast entrusted to him to propose was one which might
easily have fallen to the lot of some one more competent to
do justice to its merits than he was. There might be some in
that room to-night who still preserved a vivid recollection of
all the painful circumstances attending those extraordinary
trials—who had witnessed the anxious attention of those
-three remarkable juries while they were addressed in the
powerful and forcible eloquence of the Attorney-General
of that day, who called the accused " those great
State criminals."—(Hear hear.) The excitement in-
separable from all the circumstances attending these
trials—the crowded and concerned audience by which the
juries and the prisoners were surrounded—the excitement
arising from the naturally intense anxiety that existed in
the public mind to know what fate awaited men who were
on trial for their lives—the excitement of the able counsel
who defended the prisoners, and who denounced, as odious
and infamous, that law which would jeopardise the lives of
men by what was called " constructive treason"—(Cheers)
—instead of having laws so plain that no man could mistake,
and all might shun the breach of—(Cheers)—that state of
excitement which even amongst the jury was so strong, that
when the foreman came into Court to return his verdict, he

mild scarce articulate it, and when he had done so, fainted
away—an unprecedented circumstance—but thereby stamped
that verdict as the result of a state of insecurity to the liber-
ties of the people the memory of which should never die
away—(Cheers)—the excitement attendant upon the
fact that Erskine and Gibbs, the prisoners' counsel, had de-
fended them gratuitously, as if to say there never was a time
when a lawyer could do anything for nothing.—(Laughter.)
It was not even all these circumstances combined that made
him look back with pleasure to the result of these trials, but
it was the additional one, namely, the assertion of that great
and eternal principle for which those men had risked all to
uphold.—(Cheers.) Men of the present day were so much
rbsorbed by other matters, and had given themselves so
little trouble about this, that one would almost imagine the
I•
*dole lived under the very best form of government it was
,possible to have—(Laughter)--and he would venture to as-
sert that even the present Government had not yet deemed
the consideration of this great principle of importance.—
(Cheers.) However, he would beg to remind this meeting
that if those assemblies were to be of any real value, they
should net only express their approbation of the men whose
memories they had met to commemorate, but they should also
never lose sight of the necessity for upholding the principle
those men fought for. Yes, there would be no use in their
meeting there unless they were resolved to follow up the
assertion of that principle, and to adopt the example of those
great men who had fought for it so bravely, even unto the
very threshold of martyrdom.—(Loud cheers.)
The toast was then put from the chair, and hailed with
all the honours and protracted applause.
Mr. W. J. Fox was called upon to propose the next
toast. He said he had been anticipated in a great deal he
had intended t 9 say by Mr. Parry, in his very able speech.
He concurred with bim that -if they meant to carry out
their object, they should not only do honour to the men, but
to the principle.—(Hear, hear.) The men were bound up
with the principle ; and though the men whose memory they
bad met that night to honour mere no longer living, yet
there were young men rising up around them who, like Mr.
Parry, stood as it were in the place of those who were gone,
and had the same duty to perform.—(Hear, hear.) He
(Mr. Fox) was, not present at those trials during that event
ful period, but lie remembered it well. He was living at
Norwich at the time, and the news of the acquittal arrived
is that Own on the day atteslit was made known in Lon•
den. It was announced in one of the churches while a clergy-
man was in the act of delivering a discourse ; and it was
bailed be a psalm of thanksgiving, that could not have been
surpassed in the loftiest cathedral, or by the grandest aspi-
rations of consecrated eloquence.—(Cheers.) He remem-
bered well that at that time men who, in their own locality,
were esteemed good and virtuous men, were regarded as
seen of very different character at the seat of Government—
as if the change of place changed their character; and they
•were dragged from their homes and their beds without being
permitted to put on their slices, as if there might be some•
thing treasonable even in contact with those articles.—
(Laughter.) Tooke, and those who were tried with him,
were very near being hanged for saying that the Govern-
ment was corrupt ; and yet, in a little time after, the same
bxly reformed themselves, and in a way, too, that most
eorruptAbodies effect reformation.—(Cheers, and laughter.)
The speaker next alluded to the discussions that had ap-
peared in the public prints about certain statues which were
to be placed in the new Houses of Parliament; but he
trukted that the time was coming when the people would
have a Parliament that would not be held in any palace in
which there should not be a statue erected to honest Tom

lElRTdg.—(Loud- cheers.) He next adverted to a speech re-
poqed of Lord John Russell upon his receiving the liberty of
Edinbuigh, and commented in a very humorous strain
upon fits Lordship's expressions, to the effect that he was
anxious to give the people extensive immunities, but that
be wished to do it " constitutionally ;" but he (Mr.. F.) con-
tended that no extension of the people's privileges would be
worth having while they were still compelled to submit to
ecclesiastical tyranny, or be servile to a monarchy. He
coneluded by proposing the toast, " Radical reform of
all abuses, and a fair representation of the people of
the British empire in Parliament,". which was drank with
load applause.
Mr. TAYLoit proposed the " Memory of the martyrs. who
suffered in Scotland in 1794," which was drunk in solemn
silence, and which was followed by several other toasts,
and the company separated, after having protracted their
sitting to a late hour, and spent a very agreeable evening.

DUTCH PAPERS.
unfavourable, is
AMSTERDAM', Nov. I.—We are happy
to announce that
the herring fishery, which was at first very
raw so productive that there is no record Of so
'at Scheveningen, in the month of October, as this ear.
fewer than eleven vessels have arrived since they 24th. No
of
October, bringing, in all, 647,000 herrings.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 3. —Among the many measures adopted
by the Government to procure from abroad a supply of pro-
visions to make up the deficiency in our crops, especially
potatoes, is the following :—" His Excellency the Minister of
the Colonies informs the merchants that, by the King's
authority, orders have been given to the Governor-General
of our East India possessions to encourage, by all possible
means, the exportation of rice to the mother country, and to
take care that during the year 1846 Dutch ships, the half of
whose cargoes, at the least, consists of rice to be imported
into the Netherlands, shall be admitted free into all the little
ports of Java, to exempt them-Ist, from the payment of
export duties on rice, or to cause it to be returned to them if
thfiy have already paid it; 2d, from the import duty on the
sacks for the rice ; and, 3d, from the anchorage, convoy, and
harbour dues. The captains of ships are only bound to give
security to the amount of their dues in order to insure the
importation in the Netherlands.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 4.

"
TICEHURST.—THE SEEM-TIME, nicking.
is How over ; and the farmers are very busy in st PP,ng
stacking the poles, carrying the bins off the gardens, thrash-
ing, ploughing, and sowing wheat, for which operations the
weather is highly auspleious. Where potato digging is going
on, but very few sound bulbs are obtained ; and are selling
92 Bd. and }Od. per gallon in this locality. So scanty is the
supply, we are at a loss to tell from whence our seed potatoes
strei.to cane. Turnips are I. 6d. per bushel; flour is hi. bd.
per gallon.--Dover Chronicle.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 5.
THE JANE.-SALVAGE.
This was an action brought by the writers, o --ners, 'and
crew of two smacks, named the Benevolence and the Friends'
Goodwill, to obtain a reward for alleged salvage sereites
rendered to the schooner Jane, of Rochester, which, oil her
vovage to that port from Middleborough, with coals, on the
29-th of May last, was off the entrance of the Swin, inthe
Thames, and early in the morning of the 30th, the wind
blowing hard from the N.E. by N., the weather densely
thick, with heavy rain, grounded upon the East-flat of(the
Barrow-sand. She was descried by the two smacks, which
came up to her assistance, and eventually the schoonef was
got off the sand, and carried safely to Sheerness. The negotia-
tions which took place between the master and the asserted
salvors were matter of dispute between the parties, and
the subject of very contradictory affidavits, the parties who
proceeded against the vessel contending that the schooner
was, in fact, abandoned by the master and crew; the owners
alleging that those parties; after their services had been
declined, took advantage of the accidental absence of the
master, the
.jolly-boat having got adrift with the master in
it, and obtained possession of her, employing expressions
calculated to intimidate the crew, by inspiring them with
the apprehension that the vessel would be lost. The ship
was arrested for 250/1 the vessel, cargo, and freight being
worth only 800/.
Dr. LUSHINGTON was of opinion that the vessel had never
been abandoned by the master and crew ; that the pretended
salvors had taken possession of her without the slightest
authority from the master • that the act approached as
nearly as possible to an act of piracy as any case which had
come before the consideration of the Court ; and that the
claim had been supported by false swearing from the begin-
ning to the end. He pronounced against the claim, and con-
demned the pretended salvors in the costs.

THE MARY ANN.—BorromßY.
This was a suit by Messrs. Good and Rigg, the holders of a
bottomry bond, against the brig Mary Ann, and against
certain parties claiming to be mortgagees in possession of
the ship, and also against other parties claiming under a
charter-party. The owner of the ship had become bank-
rupt; the ship had been sold under a decree of this Court,
and the proceeds amounting to 1,0841. 10s. 6d., had been
brought into the registry, as well as the freight, 6701. 16s. 2d.,
making together 1,7551. 6s. 6d. Out of this sum wages had
been paid to the amount of 3021. 3s. 4d., leaving a balance
in the registry of 1,4531. 3s. 2d., subject to other claims for
wages and pilotage. This amount was insufficient to dis-
charge the various liens upon it, consisting of the bot-
tomry bond, a charter-party, and a bond in vendition
for 4501., executed at Yarmouth early in 1843, which had
priority over the other liens. These conflicting claims in-
volved the case in some confusion; but the immediate ques-
tion resolved itself into that of the validity of the bottomry
bond, which was given at Buenos Ayres, where the vessel
sustained considerable damage, and the sum specified in the
bond was incurred for repairs, namely, 6701., the interest
stipulated in the bond being 25 per cent. In opposition to
the bond, it 'was contended that Messrs. Dowse, at Buenos
Ayres, to whom the bond had been given, had advanced the
mony as consignees and agents of the owners or charterers,
on the personal credit of the latter, without the contempla-
tion of a bottomrybond, which was an after-thought. The
case was embarrassed not only by complicated accounts, but
by the fact that in her long continuance abroad, from July,
1843, to September, 1844, the vessel performed some inter-
mediate voyages, which raised a question of bottomry law
hitherto undecided—namely, whether the bond was valid
when it covered disbursements in such intermediate voyages.

Dr. ADDAnts and Dr. Cuwris were heard for the lond-
holders ; Dr. HAGGARD and Dr. HAItDDIG for the parties in-
terested in the proceeds.
The reply stands over for to-morrow (this day.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
The following is a correct and complete list of the sentences
passed upon the several prisoners at the recent sessions of
the above Court.
The following were sentenced to be transported beyond
the seas for the periods to which their names are appended :
For Twenty I ears—Richard Hodnott.
For Fifteen Years—Solomon Lyons.
Fourteen Years—Charles (regory Maynard, Daniel John
Garrett.
Ten Years—Henry Ticklow, Robert Collins, Elizabeth
Riches, Walter King, Thomas Smith, 25, Alexander Ridge,
George Britton, William Minchin, John Ward, John Davis,
Anne Davis, William Jones, 17, John Williams, 24, John
Jones, John Lee, alias Robert Dalton, Moses Isaacs, Mary
Morris, William Maley, Thomas Fountain, and Catharine
Allen.

Seven Years—Joseph Nicholls, William Thompson, Edward
Johnson, Mary Nokes, Cornelius Strong, Thomas White,
Robert J. Jackson George Maskell, John Thomas Beale,
Joseph Edge, William Henry Cousins, Robert Fitzpatrick,
Robert Newman, Johi Terry, George Doughty, James
Whiteman, Arthur Rowan Hamilton, John Sawyer, Samuel
Axford, Benjamin Henry Holyoak, Samuel Stevens, John
Wilkinson, alias William Chambers.
The subjoined is a list of those prisoners who were ordered
to be kept to hard labour :
For Two Years—Richard Collins, John Johnston, and
Thomas Lancaster.
For Fifteen Months—James Uggus.
For One Year—Joseph Coster, James Yelden, George Mill-
ward, Anne Chase, John Waite, William Surman, George
Carter, Mary Anne Brennan, Elizabeth Thomas, Frank
Fowler, James Bewes, John Williams, 18, John Hopkins,
Mary Bowron, George William Reynolds, Henry Davis, 38,
Samuel Williams, 27, John Turner, Edward Hodges, Joseph
Cherry, John Rome, Henry Taylor, Jason Jonathan Rome,
George Whintle, William Reynolds, Henry Marks, Francis
McCarthy, Bridget Smith, alias Thomas, Benjamin Crusell,
Henry Tarling. Jane Jury.
For Nine Months—John Baily, Timothy Meegan, Alfred
Duckett, James Reddington, alias Peddington, John Harri-
son, Matilda Palmer.
For Six Months—William Powers, Henry Bradley, John
White, James Cramond, Benjamin Brook, Charles Stubbing,
' Margaret Collins, Anne Fox, James Jeffreys, Thomas Mar-
shall, Alfred Carlile, RichardV Hibbert, Daniel M'Carty,
James Murphy, John Williams 31, Joseph Jaques, Mary
Anne Wilson, James Phillips, Thomas Field, Edward Spicer,
Elizabeth Clements, Thomas Walton, John Jacobs, Raymond
Emanual Enquitea, John Peyman, Hannah Collins, Cathe-
rine Barrett, Henry Lea, Thomas Brown, Caroline Evans,
William Grandon, Anne Smith, 17, William Hall, John
Dempsey, Michael Corbitt, James Robinson, Eliza Martin,
Newman Long, Frederick Stanley, Edward Copping, William
Baynes, William Parsons, Ellen Lewis, alias Edwards, alias
Evens, and George Martin.
For Four Months—John Ellis, James Young, John Smith,
32, Sarah Page, Edmund Rimmington, Edward Neely. Wil-
liam Pearce, James Knight, William Cousins, George Broad-
ley, Francis Gregory, William Ellis, Margaret Roberts.
For Three Months—George Bell, Ellen Smith, 18, Wil-
liam Lacey, Edward Sampson, Eliza Voules, Elizabeth
Lacey, Robert Burgess, James Davis, 28, John Furneux,
William Barnes, George Smith, 16, Mary Walker, 12, Han-
nah Coford, Ellen Gearing, George Andrew Gill, Frances
Brown, William Higgs, Daniel Deller, William Clark, 32,
Thomas Macrow, Charles Gibson, John Brown, 18, Richard
Bryan, Maria West, Thomas Higgins, Charles Jones, Thomas
Mills, Charlotte Mackie, Edward Bowers,- Robert Berry,
Richard Wetenhall, Ellen Connolly, and George Sydney
Heath.
A number of prisoners were also sentenced to different
periods of imprisonment, varying from a month to one day,
in Newgate.
The bills against the following prisoners were ignored by
the grand jury :—Henry Clark, William Duffin, Robert
Barnett, Alfred Barnett, Elizabeth Long, Martha Barnes,
Thomas Bridger, Anne Sinner, Christopher Harman, Thomas
Mooney, William Jefferys.
The following prisoners were acquitted by the petty jury:
—Benjamin Hall, Jean Deemer, James Quested, Samuel
Wyndham Jones, Lewis Simmons, Jane Spence, Thomas
Mears, Robert Adlington, John Flint, Frederick Greenwood,
William Tapson, Thomas Smith, 52, Frederick Webb, William
Still, James Grant, Joseph Hempson, John Brown, alias
Thomas Wheatley, William Brackenbury, Joseph Tebby,
William Wright, Edmund Adolphus Hughes, Charlotte Body,
Ann Sullivan, Maria Locke, Edwin Locke, James Locke,
William Darling, John Guy, Elizabeth Fisher, Mary Gordon,
Alexander Atkinson, Rebecca Coleman, James Larkin, Henry
Stanton," Robert Ewings, Philip Ernst, Dennis McCarthy,
Raphael Garcia, Sarah Hughes, Thomas Blackburn, Eliza-
beth Perry, James White, William Whitehouse, Edward
Cramer, George Hughes, John Alfred Catton, Michael
Kerrigan, John Snazetl, William Richardson, David Rowell,
William Frith, Joseph Bryan, Owen Keefe, Mary Brown, 29,
Elizabeth Woodcock, William Scott, Matthew Henry Chil-
lingworth, Daniel Williams, and Janet Stewart.
The Court, at its rising, adjourned to Monday, Nov. 24.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.

A delicate-looking youth, of 16, named Ford, alias William
Rowe, and otherwise Caroline Foster, who appeared at the
bar in the attire of a young lady, and sustained the character
extremely well, was charged with decamping from his mas-
ter's service, with a gold watch, value 7L, two silver watches,
value 5/., and 10/. in money.
The evidence went to show that on the 28th ult. the pri-
soner was taken into the service of Mr. Webb, a silversmith
in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, as an errand-boy. In
two days afterwards he absconded with the abovementioned
property, and a reward was offered for his apprehension, a
description of the prisoner, as well as the stolen property,
being given in the handbills.
By this means a knowledge of the robbery was con-
veyed to Mr. Daniel Curran, a hatter, in the Black-
friars-road, who recollected having pawned one of the
watches for 2/., at the solicitation of a young woman
(as he supposed) who had been lodging, a few days
in his house, as Miss Caroline Foster, a milliner, and who
had taken a shop which she (id est he) was just about to open
in that business. This circumstance induced him to appro-
priate a portion of some money entrusted to him by his new
lodger to the redemption of the watch, which, on being shown
to Mr. Webb, was immediately identitied as his property.
Information was then given to the police, and the young
lady-gentleman, busy in domestic arrangements, and sur-
rounded by articles of furniture and kitchen utensils (newly
purchased to begin housekeeping with), was apprehended
and taken to the station-house. He wore a black velvet
bonnet, veil, and crimson shawl ; the falsity of a handsome
display of black (ringlets being well concealed by a neat
semi-cap. He was speedily unmasked, and possession was
taken of a trunk containing a quantity of feminine ap-
parel, including petticoats, habit-shirts, and a prodigious
bustle ; a variety of dress caps, and a large feather.
There were besides some articles of stock-in-trade, ap-
parently intended for the show-room department, and on
his person were found the bills of the different tradesmen
of whom the household goods had been purchased. Mr.
Curran declared that he never for once suspected the
prisoner of being a lad in woman's clothing, and it would
also appear that neither the tradesmen nor the landlord of
the shop had ever questioned his sex during his transactions
with them. It further transpired that the prisoner, after
absconding from his master, actually returned to the shop to
make some slight purchase, and Mr, Webb was so struck
with his resemblance to the lad who had robbed him, that
lie' privately persuaded his wife to show him into a back
apartment, for the purpose of eyeing him with a degree of
minuteness which he feared would be considered indelicate
on his part in the event of his suspicions being incorrect.
This contrivance was carried out, but as Mrs. Webb avowed
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The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and
Mr. TWYFORD committed him for trial.