Star.
London, England, 1830-02-02 00:00:00

RESUMED INQUEST ON THE BODY OF

RICHARD HEMMING.

An account has been given of the finding of the body
of a man named Hemming, who was supposed to have murdered
the Reverend George Parker, in 1808, at Oddingley, a village
near Worcester. It was then stated that an inquest on the body
had been summoned, and that it was adjourned till Friday. On that
day the proceedings were resumed, when, after hearing several
witnesses, the Coroner adjourned the inquest till Tuesday (this day).
After the examination of five or six witnesses the Foreman of the
Jury made a deposition to the effect that such evidence had been
'adduced as induced him to believe that Thomas Clewea, of Od- i
dingley, farmer, had a guilty knowledge of such murder, and that
the purposes of public justice. he verily believed. would be fur-
thered by the commitment to prison of the said T. Cleves for
further elimination. Mr. Bass having sworn to the above, Thos.
Clewes was ordered to be brought Into the room, and he was made
acquainted with the contents of the deposition and the purposes of
it. He betrayed not the slightest agitation or alarm. He protested
himself entirely innocent of having in the slightest degree been
privy to Hemming's death ' • and when told that be was about to be
sent to prison, he said he should go there without any fear as to
the result. A warrant fur his committal was then placed In the
hands of two constables, who immediately proceeded with him to
the county gaol.
Ibis is altogether a strange case. The Rev. G. Parker having
obtained, for his electioneering services. front the late Duke of
Norfolk, the Rectory of Oddingky, near Druitwich, took posses-
sion of his living about the year 1800; and, what is anything but
unusual, quarrelled with his parishioners immediately respect-
ing tithes. Being a Westmoreland man, therefore, probably,
like all mountaineer., obstinate and determined, he resolutely
fought the good fight tiU 1806, caring equally little for the lova or the
enmity of the parishioners, and disregarding all warnings to take
care of himself, when one afternoon he was shot at front behind a
hedge, and afterwards despatched. The murderer, there is little
doubt, was Richard Hemming. a jobbing carpenter, instigated,
there is every reason to believe, by the stimulus of a purse ut fifty
pounds subscribed by the farmers. But the singular part of the'
business is that Hemming. who bad been seen about the place
shortly after the murder, was hnm'eU murdered ; and his bones.
with the foot rule hr used to carry with him, his shoes, &e. have
been found in a barn. occupied at the time by Mr. Thomas Clewes,
use of the farmers who was examined on Friday last, and has beta
committed for further examinant:lo.
It would seem that the intention to shoot the parson was no
secret is the neighbourhood. Several witnesses depose to cinver-
anions to that effect; and, what is singular. Captain Evans, a Ms-
&rate of forty years standing, who died in May last at the ad-
vanced age of 84, appears to have been one of the loudest io his
threats of rtU the tenanu. John Perkins, of Sale-green. Crowle,
deposed, that about three quarters ut a year before Mr. Parker's
death, be was in Capt. Evan's parlour at the Oddingky Church
farm, when Capt. Evans, speaking of Mr. Parker wad the tithes
of Oddingley, said Mr. Parker was a very bad man, and there was
nobody in the parish, excepting the witness, that agreed with bias;
land said, " Curse him, he is a very bad man. and there is no more
berm in shouting him than a mad dog." At Later. 11108, after
the Meeting, at which the Overseers aCCIMUIS were passed, there
was a dinner, at 'which were present John and Thomas Clewes,
Capt. Evans, George and Henry Rinke., Mr. Hereon, John and
William Barnett Mr. Jones, Mr. Marshall, and witness; Captain
Evans in the &air. Capt. Evans gave the health of Mr. Parker
left-banded, and all drank it but Mr. Hereon and witness. who
was called a .Jacobin for his refusal.

The Mercers' Company, with its usual liberality, has,
'during this inclement season, voted to the Mendicity So-
ciety, among other Institutions, fiftyguineas, in addition
to their Annual Subscription of ten guineas. We trust
that their example will be followed by other public bodies.
We understand that the Mendicity Society distributed
yesterday nearly 500 meals to the perishing poor—to
many of whom clothing would have been given, but their
stock was totally exhausted on Saturday last.

MR. OWEN.

TO THE PROPRIETORS AND EDITORS OF THE

STANDARD.

GENTLEMEN -It was this morning only, by ou.. of
your brother Editors, that I was informed of your in.:ive
in the Standard to me, relative to the reason which do.
tarred you from continuing my addresses to the different
classes in society.
In reply, permit me to thank you for the space which
you have already allowed to them in your Paper ; and to
express my sincere regret that any Gentlemen should be
placed under the necessity to write such a notice, con-
trary to their feelings and of their great permanent in-
terests. The object of all my exertions is to relieve you
and others of my fellow-beings from the necessity of
being controlled by any such unfavourable circumstance.
Your obliged Friend,
ROBERT OWEN.
49, Bedford-square. Feb. 1.1830.