The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-05 00:00:00

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

This Magazine seems of. late to have been
gradually assimilating itself in the style of it§ ar-
rangement to a Daily Newspaper. We have first
a leading article upon some grave, and solid sub-
ject of discussion (such as the spirited one on
," Pauper Lunatics" in the present number)
next, an appropriate quantity of lively and mis-
cellaneous matter—witty, fanciful and otherwise':
and lastly divers little abridgements of scientific
diScoveries—skeletonS of Reviews ; births, deaths,
marriages, and curiosities, such as corpulent
mushrooms measuring eight inches round the
waist, or sad details of gentlemen who have
broken their knee-pans in stumbling over cherry-
stones or orange-peel. In the fanciful line the
Magazine this month is somewhat deficient—the'
", Ship Clergyman," .however, a sketch 'profes,
sedly drawn from life, will furnish matter for an
amusing. extract ; for instance
. _ .

A ship--rlergyrnan is, in fact, a kind of negative orna-
ment : something like the figure at the head, of the -ship ;
there is an air of propriety about the appOintinent, but
little opportunity is afforded fora display of utility. Indeed,
our clergyman is in every way a victim to naval discipline.
The sailors follow up their exclamations with-fearful exple-
tives, and pass on, unzebuked by their, reverend .pastor.—
The fault rests not with our subject. Let him, however,
commence a lecture in condemnation Of profane swearing,.
and lie would have to contend with the shrieks of the boat-,
swain's whistle, and she "'Sway away, there !" from his
mates. What then ?: He must endure the evil in silence.
He must " compress the God within. him," and if he
cannot pray with, pray for, the whole ship's company. He
may, it is certain, treasure up all the enormities of the crew,
and touch upon them with a tongue of flame in his Sun-
day's discourse—he may lay forth 'in the most odious
colours, the vice of evil-speaking, even though the -captain
be not notorious for his courtlylgvres--he may, it is true,
levelkis fire at thisin of drunkenness, and at the. red nose
of the purser--the reverend , gentleman may. fulminate
against fornication, even though a hundred nymphs from
the neighbouring sea-port make a part of his auditory—
and such they always, do, whenever the vessel bears se rich
and gentle a freight ! The reverend-orator may doubtless
scourge every creature in the ship from the Admiral to the
loblolly-boy; but, alas ! can human courage dare so much?
Ought he, compelled to live with, tigers, to venture to pull
them by the whiskers ?
• Indeed—after, we trust, a very patient and comprehen-
sive view of things, a view in which we have anxiously
pondered on all the harmless creatures and engines to be
found in either civilized or savage society—we conscien-
tiously declare, we know not a more unoffending, a more
innoxious compound than a ship-sermon. These discourses
form striking contrasts to the 'ceremony which they pre-
cede : they are generally delivered at the bottom of the
quarter-deck companion ladder, where, on
.the pulpit being
"'doused," the soul-cheering liquor is instantly
.served
forth—the prayer, " May the.peace," &c. is directly fol-
lowed by the, pithy order " Pipe to grog !"• and,those of
the congregation who have providently hidden their cans
under the " church" benches, are in a moment ready to
receive their liquor. The sermon is generally from Blair
or 'Tillotson ; all the vigorous passages expunged, With a
few original emendations to mystify; hiatus bonatiuscriptis
frequently occurs, but Jack has not the bitterness of criti-
cism. •These lectures are, in truth,'reore pleasant, as they
are less comprehensible ; ship-sermons, like, gloW-worms,
shine most in darkness. Let us not, however, deny, that
our clergyman is sometimes wholly original. He some-
times produces a fine soporific manuscript, with laudanum
into the very paper, and bearing in every line a
poppies disguised as letters—a volume, the leaves
worked
ofet l
of which are no sooner parted, than we sympathise with
the covers, and yawn likewise !

ADVANTAGES
nall-poxlateiy
Amogst observed
VACCINATION.
this
town (Newcastle), the following instance of thiprophy-
latic powers of the cow-pox has come to our knOwledge.
several cases of small-pox
A married man, aged 32, living in a court, in Newgate-
street, who had undergone variolous inoculation inhis child-
hood, was affected with small-pox in its confluent form.—
Numerous families inhabited the same court, all of whom
had undergone vaccination bat a girl, eight years old.—
This girl, .on beholding the dreadful
,appearance of the dis-
order, shortly afterwards sickened,• had the eruption in a
similar manner, and died. A young man aged eighteen,
who was following his daily occupation in the same yard,
and who was frequently exposed tO infection from passing
the door from which the infectious odour was exhaled, con-
veyed the effluvia to his own home, whereby his sister, the
only individual in the family wherein vaccination had been
neglected, received the infection'in the same unfavourable
manner .as the one from whom the contagion had first eina-
need. These cases, with many others that have been.oh-
served, sufficiently prove that ;perking who have submitted
to the vaccine test.are more safe than those who have even
undergone•the natural inoCulation.-- Tyne Mercury.
AN ANECDOTE.--When, last year, the con-
troversy bet Ween the Rev. Messrs. POPE and MAGUIRE was
advertised, a Mr. S., of Cork, had such a contempt for the
understanding of the Papists, that he was perfectly con-
vinced that POPE would triumph over his Popish antago-
nist; Under this conviction he left 8., and came up to
Dublin to enjoy Mr. PerE's anticipated victory. The
first day, he was not a little astonished and terrified; but
though on that' day Mr. POPE made a bad hand at argu-
ment; he was decidedly very eloquent. However, every
day things were becoming worse, and every evening Mr.
s: returned home more Sorrowful than before. The result
,9f the discussion preyed upon his intellects, and fits of iii-
'sanity betrayed themselves, during which he' imagined that
while the rest of his body continued perfectly Protestant,
his right leg had been converted into a Papist by Mr.
MAGUIRE. Home he went, convinced that MAGUIRE
had succeeded in metamorphosing his right leg, anttmaking
it completely Popish. His friends attempted to reason
with him, but thero was no driving the idea out of his
mind. They, got physicians and divines to endeavour to
relieve the poor man's mental disorder, but all their efforts
failed. They watched him night and day, and paid him
those. attentions which a man in Such a melancholy condi-
tion required. Lately, upon a • very cold night, he was
found in bed with his body well covered with the bed
clothes, save and except his right leg:: His brother, who
discovered him in that situation, remonstrated with him—
observed upon the extreme severity of the 'night, and re-
marked that he might get cold unless he covered his right
leg. " What," replied he, "do yOu think I could cover
that Popiskrltscal?—no, not r, let the renegade suffer
what he may from the cold, he shall never get under the
clothes with me,"

The Grand Juiy haVing concluded that part ofi
their duty which consists in the examination into du '
evidence of the bills laid before them, do present
that in consequence •of the lamentable increase of
crime in the metropolis, the business of- the Grand
Jury has likewise. -increased- to such a magnitude
that it is scarcely pOssible tbr one body of gentlemen'
to discharge their arduouS Atities in a manner be-
coming its impoetance.
The Legislature has already interfered to lighten
the labours of- those appointed to' try offenders in.
this country,',and they therefore present, that it
absolutely necessary that two Grand Juries should
sit simultaneously for the dispatch of business at each
Sessions, the, one to decide upon cases of most im-1
portance, 'the-Other to examine into cases of assault'
and petty larceny.
The Grand Jury deeply lament the number of
cases which have been brought before•them, of boys
of the most tender age being accused of petty lar-
ceny in the shops of pastry-cooks and others, the tetnp-
tati on of whose 'inviting boards within reach of the
hungry child .they hare' been uniblA to,resist ; and
they cannot help thinking that -to` the injudiciOtiS
conduct of some tradespeople in thus exposing their
goods at open windOWs, and in many cases even
without the limits prescribed by law, may in a great
measure be attributed the alarming increase of
crime which they have had occasion to remark. A
starving boy begins by snatching a roll or cake from
an open window, and proceeds from step to step till
he ends his career on the scaffold. They lament
that the law should
_be such that they were obliged
to find a true bill against two children, for stealing
one penny bun; and they strongly recommend 'an
application, to the :Legislature to revise the law of
petty larceny, and that the Magistrates should be
enabled to proceed in a summary maimer against
such offenders by public or private whipping, or so-
litary confinement only, which modes of punishment
they strongly recommend to the. Magistrates to in-
flict more frequently upon offenders of that descrip-
tion.

The Grand Jury reflect. with indignation upon the
attempt made to discharge them, when they pub-
licly in' Court declared that they had not completed
what they hereby declare and present to be the
most important branch of their duties, as well as
their undoubted -right and privilege,—that of visit-
ing the county prisons and making their presentment
to the Chairman of the Sessions concerning all
things which they deem worthy of notice or observa-
tion; and they declare and present that the Court
has no power or authority to discharge them, until
they unanimously declare that they have completed
the whole of their arduous duties ; and that to dis-
charge or attempt to discharge the Grand Jury be-
fore they have completed, the visitation of the pri-
sons, or any other branch. of 'their inquiries, is not
only an infringement upon their undoubted rights
and privileges, bilt,is likewise contrary to law, and
wholly invalid and•inOperative.
• The Grand Jury deeply lament that any mem-
ber of their. body should be so unmindful of his
duty to his brother Jurymen and to the country
at large, as, from a selfish wish to get rid of his
public duty in order to return to his private occupa-
tions, to inform the Court that the Grand Jury had
completed their labours when the most important
part of it remained unperformed, and to request the
Court to discharge the Grand Jury. ~
The Grand Jury have examined minutely into the
state of the House of-Correction and the New
sort, and are glad to observe the order and cleanli-
ness which prevail through every department.
At the same time, they cannot help' observing,
that the New Prison seems to be wholly inadequate
for the purposes for which 'it was built, in point of
size, in consequence of 'the larnentable increase of
crime. They are of opinion, that as this prison is
particularly set apart for the safe security of per-
sons only accused, but not convicted of any crime,
opportunity ought to be afforded to persons
of respectability to obtain a separate apartment.
They are likewise of opinion; that those who have
never been convicted of any crime at any time ought
to be kept separate from those who haVe before been
inmates of this or any other prison ; and they regret
generally, that upon comparing this prison with the
House of Correction, it appears that the prisonets
who are in the New PriSon only upon suspicion are
not-in so good a situation as those who have been
convicted, and are undergoing imprisonment
.under
sentence in the House of Correction.

The Grand Jury cannot help thinking, that in
the House of Correction, if possible, almost too
much attention is paid to the comforts of the of-
fenders, so as nearly to deprive imprisonment of all
its terrors.

The classification in this prison seems to be judi-
cious; but the Grand Jury remark that there are no
female prisoners confined in solitary cells,—a species
of punishment which they wish to be more exten-
sively- put into practice. They do likewise further
present to the Court, that where boys are sentenced
to imprisonment and a whipping, that they should
not be whipped till immediately before their dis-
charge, by which means the dread of that punish-
ment would be held over them,. and their friends
would'have an opportunity of observing the punish::
ment they had undergone.
The Grand Jury do further present, that they
have examined Robert Gourlay, a prisoner confined
in the House of Correction, as a suspected lunatic,
and beg to recommend his case to the consideration
of the Court, that if upon examination he should be
repoited to be no longer a dangerous lunatic he
should be discharged, and that if he still is a lunatic,
he should be removed to an asylum where he may
have the opportunity' of proper assistance, and re-
medies to effect a cure applied.
The Grand Jury having 'now completed their
arduous duties, and having made this their present-
ment of the several matters and things which they
deem worthy of the attention of the Court, offer
themselves to the Court to be discharged.

if this

For some time. past the Grand 'Juries o.
county have been so weak in enforcing their
urn
doubted right to visit the. county prisons, and have
so far neglected their duty, that a prevalent opinion
has gone abroad that they had, no right to do so,
and that when they have visited the prisons, it has
been merely under favour from,the magistrates: The
magistrates have for many years resisted, and in
most cases successftilly„ the exercise of that privilege
as a matter of right; but in order not to bring the
matter to issue, have alwayi discharged the Grand
Jury as soon as they had concluded their inquiries
into the bills laid before them, and before they had
n opportunity to exercise their right; and they have
then been inforMed that an order for their admission
has been sent to the gate of the prisons for the gen-
tlemen of the late Grand Jury, who are thus obliged
to accept
_admission to view the prisons as a favour
which, before, their discharge, they could claim as a

right.
It must be.fresh to the recollection of many, that
when a.late Grand Jury did visit the prisons, And
'observed matter which tber'deenied worthy to be
'reported to the Court, they-were informed that they
could not embody their opinions in the form of a pre-
sentment to the Court, as they had been already
discharged, but that they were,at liberty to enter in
a book kept for the purpose. of recording the obser-
vations of visitas, any thing they considered worthy
of notice. :
A great deal of odium has been cast upon the
Grand Juries of this county, for the manner in

•
which they have performed this part of their duty;
for having suffered the Court to grant that as
favour which they could claim as a right. The gen.i
tlemen of the present Grand Jury resolved that theyi
would this time exercise their privilege as a matteij
of right: therefore, when the business of deciditiml
upon the bills preferred before them began to drawl
to a 'close, a discussion arose amongst theniselvesi,
whether they wete hot liable to be discharged asl
soon as they had 'returned all the bills ;. but the.pre-i
veiling opinion was, that they could not be..dis-
charged until they appeared in the Court. fort
that purpose, and their foreman informed tiler
Court that they had completed all the busi-,
!less for which they were called together: However,
to make assurance doubly sure, they determined toi
retain in their hands all those bills upon which not
prosecutors or .witnesses had hithertb appeared, asi
well as to preserve their authority till the morrowd
when they intended to visit the prisons in their cor-
porate capacity, as to give -those prosecutors who
had not then appeared another day to do so.

As soon as.all the'bills except these last had been
decided upon, the surprise and indignation of those !
gentlemen, who had; as
_already mentioned, deter-
mined to do their Whole ditty, lend assert theirrights,
can be easier imagined than described upon one of
the gentleinen of the Grand Jury present rising, and ;
informing them, that as they were about to attend
the Court, with the bills disposed of, he should in-
form the Court that there only remained with the
Foreman those bills upon which the prosecutors
had not appeared, and should request the immediate
discharge of the Grand Jury. To a person thus
determined to act in defiance of .all justice, can-
dour, and honour, thus unmindful,of his oath as a
juryman,, and who, upon being taxed, admitted that
he had practised a trick upon his brother jurymen in
having persuaded them to get through all but
the non-appearance bills,. that the Court might dis-
charge' them before they had an opportunity of visit-
ing the prisons,lt niay, readily be supposed argu-
ment was useless, and the Grand Jury proceeded to
court. As soon as the bills, upon which the Grand
Jury had decided, had been callect over in court,
• the person to whom allusion has been made address-
ed the court in the manner he bad threatened,' The
L Chairman immediately demanded these non-appear-
' ante bills,.and told the foreman to endorse them
with the words " no appearance," and that he should
then discharge the Grand Jury :. upon which the
foreman informed him that it was the wish of the
Grand Jury to preserve their corporate capacity till
the next day, that they might visit the prisons in
i their capacity of the Grand Jury of the county. The
3
'Chairman, however, then • informed him that they
!could equally visit the prisons on the next day, and
'that notice had been already sent to the, respective
governors, and again requested him to endorse the
bills. When this ceremony was gone through with
all the bills but one, one of the gentlemen of the
Grand Jitry requested the foreman,. not to endorse
that bill till he had made a'few observations, and be
;then addressed the Court to the following effect :--
" I .cannot let so extraordinary a proceeding as
the present pass, by without raising my voice, as well
in my. own name as in the name of my brother jury-
men, to protest most solemnly against an attempt to
abridge our most undoubted rights. To the the-
grace and shame of the county of Middlesex be it
spoken, I believe no Grand Jury has ever come
forward to have the question of right to visit the pri-
sons determined, and a great deal of public obloquy
has been heaped upon them for-the negligent way in
which they have discharged their duty in this parti-
cider, or omitted it altogether ; and I regret that it
seems that some few of the gentlemen of the present
Grand Jury are desirous of evading this important
part of their duty. It is, I believe, an established
fact that county prisons are under the superintend-
ence of the Grand Juries of the respective counties,
a fact, the truth of which no county but this has ever
attempted,. to dispute, and which is sufficiently prov-
ed by this—that legally every proposed alteration or
amendment must or at least ought to emanate "from
the Grand Jury, as the representatives of the county,
and actually does so in every. county but this. I
solemnly protest against any, attempt being made to
discharge..the Grand Jury in the middle of their bu-
siness, and before they have concluded that most im-
portant branch .of their duty, that of visiting the
county gaols; and the Grand Jury shall not be any
longer deprived of any of their privileges,' or hindered
tit the execution of their duty, for want of one of their
members coming forward to assert —"
The gentleman_ was here interrupted by the indi-
vidual who had first caused the discussion demand-
ing why one gentleman should address the Court in
the name of the Grand Jury, (probably he thought
the whole jury ought to speak together), and re-
!resting the Chairman to put the question to the
jury whether they wished to be discharged, which
having been done, there were about three or four
cries in favour of being discharged, to about fourteen
or fifteen cries of " No, no," from those public
spirited gentlemen who preferred their duty to their
convenience. The foreman having then endorsed the
last bill, and the same gentleman who before spoke
having, again protested against the legality of the
proceedings, and the validity of any discharge the
Grand Jury might receive, and a few other gentle-
men having.addreised the Court to the same pur:-
pose, the Chairman, though the numbers were so
greatly in favour of not'being discharged, commenced
the usual fo2inula with which Grand .Turies are dis-
charged; but turning round in answer to a question,
informed the Grand Jury that they might visit the
gaols the next day, and record any observations
they might think fir, as the Grand Jury of the county;
thus most clearly signifying that, notwithstanding
any thing he might say to the contrary, they still
were, and. would still remain, the actual Grand Jury
of the county *till they should have completed the
whole of their duties.

The Grand Jury accordingly visited the county
prisons on the next day, and recorded their observa-
tions in the book at each, and upon their return to
the Grand Jury room,: drew up their presentment;
as, however, the Court was not then sitting, they
met on Thursday for the purpose of presenting it,
when they found the Magistrates not sitting in the
Court but (being what is called county day) in the
private room; they, therefore, sent in a message to
the effect, that they wished to present their report ;
after some delay they were admitted, and were ad-
dressed by the Chairman, who told them that they
had been discharged, and he could receive nothing
from them as the Grand Jury ; and that the Grand
Jury had no right at all, even before their discharge,.
to visit the prisons; and that even if he, chose it,
he could fling their report into the fire. .However,
after a little debate, he said he would look over it,
and see if there was any thing in it worth attention.

.•
EFFECTS OF A BAD •FLooR.--AnacCident
of rather a singular nature occurred at the.hOuse of Mr.
Thomas CrMuther, of King-Cross, near Halifax, on Fri-
day. Mrs. Crowther was rocking herself and child near.
the hearth, when one of the flags gave way and precipitated
both of them into the cellar, by Which one of the mother's
feet was crushed in a .dreadful manner, and the infant's
arm was so seriously lacerated, that amputation.was con-
sidered necessary. A female neighbour, alarmed By the
shrieks of the woman, ran hastily into the house, and leap-
ed into the cellar, with the intention of relieving the suf-
ferers, whereby she caused a cbmpound fracture of one of
her own legs. The house had only been built two years.
Leeds Intelligencer.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, Nev. 3. - -
THE KING a. CROOK AND OTHERS.
Mr. ComT opened the pleadings. It was an ine
dictrnent for a conspiracy against Thomas 'Watkins,
Thomas George Weston, James Crook, James Mil-
ler, Thomas Langdon, and John Langdon. •
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that the charge,
which was of a very serious nature, was, that the de-
fendants entered into a scheme to defeat the objects
of the executions issued against Mr. Weston's goods,
the effect of which had been to throw the burden of
the debt upon thesheriff's officer, for misconducting
the process. The Jury were aware that the only
means of enforcing payment from a reluctant debtor
was by obtaining judgment, and afterwards issuing
execution either against the person or the goods of
the debtor, which execution was carried into effect
by the officer who had a warrant directed to him for
that purpose. Any person who endeavoured by
fraudulent contrivances .to frustrate the. execution,
was guilty of an attempt to interfere with the ad-
ministration of justice. Mr. Weston was a convey-
ancer; he had chambers, and also a handsome house
in New Ormond-street, in which lie had a gond
library, a great quantity of excellent furniture, some
of which was of the most ornamental kind, an
abundance of wine, and plenty of all those things
which men of fortune have for their ease and
h
comfort. . There had been an execution in his
at the suit of some other plaintiff. The
defendant Crook, . being a person in whom the
under-sheriff of Middlesex had confidence, was
the broker employed to .make the sale of goods on
these occasions. Upon that execution the warrant
had been directed to the defendant, Watkins, a bailiff,
now dead. Watkins and Weston entered into some
agreement, the result of which was, that Watkins
should remain ih possession of Weston's goods.
After this arrangerri\ent, a considerable quantity of
fresh goods was brought into Weston's house, so
that by this execution the property, instead of di-
minishing, was increased.' Whilst Watkins remained
in possession, a writ of execution against Weston's
goods, at the suit of Machin and Debenham, auc-
tioneers, was lodged in the Sheriff's-office, on
which a, warrant was granted to Sweet, the officer.
When one officer is in possession of the goods of a
defendant, and another writ of execution against the
goods of the same ,defendant is issued, a rule pre-
-1 sails in the office that the officer to whom the warrant
on the last writ is directed shOuld deliver the warrant
to the
,officer first in possession. The object is to
prevent an officer finding, fault with, !or becom-
ing accountable for, the acts of the other officer.
Sweet received this warrant, which, was to levy
5671, odd, .on Saturday, January 21,..1826, and he
soon learned that Watkins was :in possession : so,
in conformity with this rule, he sent the warrant to
Watkins, !who received it at about.l2 o'clock of the
same day, and returned word by the man who brought
it that it was all right. Sweet therefore gage him-
self no further trouble about the warrant, but went
out-of town about other business, and did not come
back until: 11. o'clock at night. He was then sur-
prised to find that the warrant had been, shortly be-
fore his return, left with his wife. He thought this
so extraordinary that he immediately went to Weston's
house to make enquiries, but he found the housa
quite shut up. Early the next morning, be went to
Watkins, who told him that. all eras. right, that
Crook, the: auctioneer, had a claim under a
bill of sale, 'and if it should turn out that
there were more goods, than would satisfy that claim,
they would of course, go towards his execution ; but
as that was not the case, he had sent back the war-
rant. Headded, that nothing had been,
_ or would'
-be, removed. Sweet afterwards saw Crook, who
told him he had. made over the bill of sale to the
two Langdons, and they all assured him that Crook
urchased the goods„ and had a bill of sale on the
first execution, which the goods were not sufficient
to satisfy. A few days afterwards, Sweet received
a second warrant, upon another writ offieri facia;
at. the suit of •Mr. Town, an attorney. To both
these writs, Sweet, by the persuasions of Watkins,
Crook, and the Langdons, was induced to make a
return of nulla bona—that is, a return that Weston
bad no goods in the sheriff's bailiwick, and these
'returns the sheriff adopted. Mr. Town, however-,
was not satisfied ; he made inquiries, and finding
out something which, in his opinion, indicated freesa,
he brought two actions against the sheriff fos false
return, one in the Court of Common Pleas at his
:own snit, and the other at the suit of Machin and
Debenham in this court. The sheriff's ofticets
always give bond to the sheriff; hut where a plaintiff
:fancies himself injured by the improper execution of
the process issued at his suit, his remedy is against
the sheriff, who looks to the officer rind his sureties
for indemnity. On the trial of the first of these ac-
tions, Sweet was summoned as a witness, and he then
heard that evidence which he would shortly have to
repeat to the jury. The result was, that the sheriff
!ost the verdict. Mr. Town recovered a large sum
and Machin and Debenham afterwards, without a
trial, also recovered in their act*. The amount of
the money the sheriff had to' pay was about 1,000%
for the repayment'of which application was made to
Sweet. He had stopped nsmall portion of Weston's
goods, which had been sold, and produced upwards
of 3001., but for th'e'reon-payment of the remainder,
being a deficiency of more than 6001., he was sues
pended by the sheriff' from acting as his officer, tans
an action was brought againit his sureties. The
facts were, that as soon as Watkins received Sweet's
warrant, he acquainted Crook and the Langdons
with it, and they immediately concerted what was to
be done. It was agreed that Sweet should be kept
in the dark, that the warrant should not be returned
until too late to be executed or that night, and as
the next day was. Sunday, on which day the warrant
could not be executed, they had the whole time till
the Monday morning for their operations. Crook
would be proved to have said, 't They mint make
furniture.given
b) ,
haste, or Sweet would be in on the Monday morn-
ing." They packed up a' large quantity- of goods,
the whole of the library', 40 dozen of wine, and a
great quantity of vases and chandeliers; so that by
the Monday morning the house was stripped, and
wCabsrookv carriedh . andh
away, and the remainder would also have gone, had
theytb e greatestle ar ne learned that portion
the elf i d theen c e
not Sweet come at a very early hour just in time
to stop it. The jury would not be surprised whene
Watkins in the Court of Common Pleas,
the sheriff was cast, was the occasion of thye rozse
cution. It turned out that Crook had received
money of Mr. Weston ; 'so that having no clo.im, or,
at least, only a my small claim, upon that gentle-
man, he made a collusive bill of sale to the two
Langdonsi because, being the sheriff's broker, he aid
not like himself to keep possession of the goods.—
This bill of sale was made for money which they
never paid; and, under colour of it, goods worth
considerably more than 1,000/. were Conveyed
away as rapidly as possible. So Sweet was the
victim of the conspiracy ; he-and his sureties had to
make the deficiency good to the sheriff; and the de-
fendants were the criminals who combined together
• to defeat the execution. If the Jury.found that the
paities had acted their respective parts in this drama,
that they had taken their different shares in the
transaction, having in view one common object, they
.vould find them guilty. Weston had not yet
pleaded. He was understood to be a gentleman of
good education, and there was reason 'to hope he
vi-as not guilty, and did not know the object of the
other parties. Mr. Miller was a gentleman in Gray's
inn, to his. Chambers the books were brought, and
he came himself to the house for them; but per_ haps hie Lordship would say that those who came
y n
to assist Weston without knowledge of an inte
tion to commit a fraud were not •guilty, 'and there
was no wish. to press the case against such
ions; but if in the. course of the trialfactsPe..l
Should come:out that would press •
Mil-
ler, the jury would -find accordingly.
The office copies .of: the two '-ud.
Weston, one at the suit of Machin
and the other at the suit of Mr. Town, airy
against Mr. t
gments against
and Debenham,
r. and also of