The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-24 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTINGDON, MARCH 21.

THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND BURGESSES OF THE COR-

PC/RATION OF HUNTINGDON V. GARNER.

This was an action of debt on a by-law, brought to re-
cover the sum of 41. lOs., being the defendant's propor-
tion (he being a burgess) of an assessment made by the
corporation upon all the burgesses stocking certain com-
mons, for certain charges, poor sates, tithes, and other
expences incurred by the Corporation in sespeet of the
commons.

After hearing the case, which was an unusually dull one,
the Learned BARON left it to the Jury to say whether
the rights of common of the burgesses had been exercised,
time immemorial, according to the by-laws of the Com-
mon Council, or according to the regulations of the legit
jury.
The Jury found their verdict for the defendant,—viz.,
That the rights had been exercised according to the regu-
lations of the lest jury.

LANCASTER, MARCH 20.

Thomas Buxton, Mary Ann Buxton, Erasmus
_Web-
ster, William Webster, awl Benjamin Wild, were in-
dicted for wilfully and feloniously causing to be inserted
in the Register Book of Marriages, in the parish of Man-
chester, a certain false entry of a certain false matter and
thing, relating to a pretended marriage, in the words
and figures following :—" Thomas Buxton, of this parish,
farmer, and Elizabeth Hickson, of this parish, spinster,
were married at this church by banns, with consent, this
tenth day of June, 1828, by me, Peter Hordein, officiating
Minister. Thomas Buxton, Elizabeth Hickson. Witness—
Mary Ann Buxton, Benjamin Wild."
There was also an indictment against all the defendants,
charging them with having unlawfully conspired to cause
the banns of marriage to be unlawfully entered in a certain
book, and to be published as the banns of marriage between
Thomas Buxton and Elizabeth Hickson, as being both of
that parish (Manchester), when in truth and in fact nei-
ther the one or the other bad ever lived in that parish.
On the first indictment no evidence was preferred, and
the prisoners were tried on the second charge.
It appeared that the young lady, Miss Elizabeth Hick-
son, on whose account her friends had instituted these
proceedings, was the niece and heiress of Mr. Wilson, a
merchant, residing at Warnford-court, London, and Port-
man-square, and resided with her mother at Stenson,
about four miles from Derby. The property she was en-
titled to exceeded forty thousand pounds. The prisoner
Buxton resided near the residence of Miss Hickson ; Eras-
mus Webster is an attorney at Manchester, his brother is
a sheriff's officer, and Wild keeps a public- house at Hang-
ing Ditch, Manchester. These persons, in conjunction
with Mary Ann Buxton, had formed a plan for carrying
off Miss Hickson, and she was to become the wife of Bux-
ton. Webster, the attorney, was promised 5001. for
" generalline the thing." With this sum he promised to
pay various debts ; and when asked if he would not get
himself into a scrape, he said that Miss Hickson had pro-
mised to e'ope with Buxton, and that they would not
" catch a weazle asleep." About eight o'clock of the
evening of the 9th June, when the elopement took place,
Miss Hickson left the residence of her parent, under pre-
tence of taking a ride, and joined the prisoners, who had
provided a carriage and four horses, and accompanied
them to Manchester, where they were married the
next day. The young lady's friends pursued the par-
ties immediately after the elopement took place, and
traced them to Wild's house, at Manchester; and Miss
Hickson svas taken from Buxton and his sister, and con-
veyed to Stenson's. After these facts had been proved,
evidence was called to prove the charge laid in the indict-
ment. For the defence it -was stated that the marriage at
Manchester was legal, inasmuch as the young lady had
willingly consented to become Mr. Buxton's wife. The
proceedings had not been commenced by the wish of Miss
Hickson, but by some of her rich relations, who had
thought proper to separate her from the man from whom
she had declared, at the altar of her God, that she would
never be separated except by death.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up, and clearly showed,
in doing so, that, in his opinion, all the parties were
guilty.
The Jury consulted, after a trial of eight hours, for a
few minutes, and then pronounced a verdict of Guilty
against Thomas Buxton, William Webster, and Erasmus
Webster, and of Not Guilty against William Wild and
Mary Ann Buxton.
The Learned Junsz then sentenced the three prisoners
to be imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for the term of three
years. . .

The sentence appeared to astonish every person that
heard it.

This trial closed the business of the Assize'.

Mr. Justice BATLEY had left a reprieve for Mr. Wil-
liams, the solicitor, who was under sentence of death for
forging a deed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday a foreigner applied to the LORD MAYOR to
interfere (as we understood him) with Mr. Rothschild, in
order to induce that gentleman to come to some arrange •
merit in a case relative to four Prussian bonds for 1,0001.
which had in the course of business passed into that
capitalist's hands, but which had been stolen in the island
of Jersey about twelve mariths ago.
The statement, which was accompanied by a variety of
documents, was to the following effect:—

The applicant was possessed of some Prussian bonds for
2501. each, which he kept locked up in his bureau. One
day upon returning home he found that the bureau bad
been broken open, and that some thief bad taken
away four of the bonds. Who the thief was he did
not know ; but he wrote to his agents on the sub-
ject, and the Ministers of Police on the Continent
were, as soon as possible, informed of the robbery,
and an inquiry was instituted. It was afterwards as-
certained that the stolen bonds got into circulation in
England, and they were ultimately traced to the Stock
Exchange. Mr. Rothschild was written to, and re-
quired not to pay the dividends as they came due upon the
bonds ; but a dividend was paid by that gentleman, not-
withstanding, and even a second dividend was not refused
to be liquidated. The applicant was aware of the delicate
nature of the situation in which a contractor stood in hesi-
tating to pay dividends to those who presented bonds on
which money was due, and applied to Mr. Peel, who
wrote to Mr. Rothschild, to know whether, under the cir-
cumstances, any thing could be done for the legitimate
owner. To this Mr. Rothschild replied, that there was
no proof that the bonds had been stolen, and as they were
made payable to bearer, lie did not consider himself justi-
fied in refusing the dividends to the person who presented
them, It happened that, amongst other securities, the
bonds came, in the course of his large money transactions,
into Mr. Rothschild's hands. The applicant considered
Mr. Rothschild responsible to him, as that gentleman
had received notice that they had been stolen. The
matter bad ken mentioned in the most public man-
ner, and the Times newspaper had in November last
alluded to it very fully, and stated that it had come
before •the Committee of the Stock Exchange, who,
lipwever, declined to act upon the occasion, so that it re-
mained in stafu qiw up to the present moment. Mr.
Rothschild had certainly shown his readiness to abide in
a Court of law the result of an investigation, and had di-
rected his attorney to learn whether it was the applicant's
intention to proceed for the recovery of the bonds; and as
tliey had passed through five or six respectable hands,
of applicant should decide upon pro-
ceeding in a dourt 'oe Astice," he old elect ; bet the
applicant would prefer an arrangement unattended with
the expenses of litigation ; and lie thought that, at all
' events, Mr. Rothschild was bound to refuse payment of
the dividendi on the four bonds in question. That gentle-
man had, upon an occasion where some bonds were stolen
frern issued notice that lie would not pay the divi-
dends Gil' thei.,-E,.4 the !east tl,,at could be expected from
Mini arias, that.he'Wouid likewise unto otbert...."
The Loan MAi;it said lie considered
situation' with-regard tei the topm, a very peculiar `On'e.
Without proof of the rabbe4 of the kinds he (the Loll.'
Mayor) did not know how the amount of the dividends
could he refused upon being applied for by respectable per-
bons, who, no doubt, took them in the course of honour-
able transactions. But no man was better able to judge
;:); than
'll Mr. Rothschild
1.400010 the applicant to hold a
. • , Il
•
uthst,hi'td, would,
I)trileo e r
occasion. 6a: .c2tl%Vinth the highest tlegiee of propriety
Tt is, as it appeared, quite a matter of indifference to
Mr. Rothschild 'whether,' if the rinse` by brought Into 4
Court of Justice, he or the alpiicant wo.,;!id obtain vet,.
diet, as, if he (Mr. Rothschild) should be worsted, lie win
have an equally strong action against thirespectahle man
of whom lie purchased the bonds.

A Mosaic Roman pavement, of considerable
ext,i)t, 2yd in fine preservation, has been discovered in
ii.
the Orden of I. Evq. of High Wycombe, three
feet below the•surfac
the liitorien of the
Hundred of Deshorough, • mentions a similar discnied LA
having been made in the grounds of the Earl of. SHEI,
1301111 NE, in the same vicinity, about 60 years since.
Devonport Telegraph.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Whitehall, March 21, 1829.
The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Lieutenant-
Gmeral Sir Henry Fane, G.C.8., to be Master-Surveyor
and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Angus-
tus Fitzclarence to the Vicarage of Mapledereham, :thus
Maple Durham, in the county and diocese of Oxford, void
by the promotion of Doctor John Bird Sumner to the See
of Chester.

Kensington-Palace, March 21, 1829.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has been
pleased to appoint Richard Jones, of Leamington, Esq.
to be his Royal Highness's Surgeon.

Office of Ordnance, March 21, 1829.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain George Spiller,
from unattached half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice
Simmons, retired on half-pay. Dated March 12.

Crown-Office, March 24, 1829.
}MINERS lIRTURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Launceston.

Lieutenant-General Sir James Willoughby Gordon,
Bart. G.C.B. of Niton, in the Isle of Wight, Quarter-
master-General of his Majesty's Forces, in the room of the
Non. Pownall Bastard Pellew, who has accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds.

Borough of Newport (Cornwall).

The Right Honourable William Fitzgerald Vesey Fitz-
gerald, of Somerset-place, in the city of Westminster,
President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of his Ma-
jesty's Navy, in the room of the Honourable Charles Great-
head Bertie Percy, who has accepted the office of Comp-
troller of the Household to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED,
John Friend, Bristol, maltster.