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London, England, 1822-10-05 00:00:00

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Yesterday, being. Friday,. this 'gilt to
custom, held its sitting at *lfitehairl„. avails
great lack of business. : . 41
, AINSWORTH ID BUTiNftiC, 7 .
This was an action of asseittprir,for'goods sold aisB
delivered to the defendant. Pleathe-Jatter's non-.
liability, on account of his nonage. • • • •
The plaintiff's cage wasconducted kygtr.itatootlo!
The substance, of it lay in is narrows compass. Ti*
plaintiff, a coal-merchant, had hee.ii 'tar some time
supplying the.. defendant's father with( coals. This
latter is, a bake' jit Fleet-market: • On: the llth of,
January last; be milt in two 4ialdrunir #id a half;l
amounting to £6. ss. wItiol) be cliarged to
stfie son.-7„
It was to recover this sum that the pre:teat action was
brought. The Learned Counsel said, that when be,
had proved the deliver./ of the goods, and that a redo.'
sonable price Wittgliciaursed for them, he, needed no
rnore,to entitle to a verdict.
.A carter of the plaintiff was' then called, who
peived -the delivery of the'g,oods on'the day in clues.,
don. at a baltet'A shop in Fleet-market, which had
'1 Butler" over the d.
. Another witness, Mk in the trade,swore that there
was a reasonable price charged for the coals.
This was the plaintiff's case..
Mr. FLANAGAN, e contra, stated that the strength
lof his case lay in establishing. tbcdefeudant's non-
liability to the action, on account of his being under
age. He would chew that the defendant's father was
the responsible person, that he kept the. shop, and
that the son had no share in the concern. Another
fact he should also prove—namely, that the plaintiff
had been hitherto dealing with the elder Butler, which
at least raised a presumption, that it was with him
this present transaction was conducted. It was not,
true, 'however, that the coals delivered on the day in
question, had not been paid for.
•' The defendant's father was then Called to speak to!
the facts opened by the Learned Counsel. He con.
firmed his statement in all its material parts.

Another witness spoke'to the fact of the defendant's
niece haying taken a share in the concern.
The plaintiff's Counsel briefly replied.

The Learned JUDGE then summed up. The ques.
dons for the Jury's consideration were threefold :
whether the coals had been delivered—whether the
defendant wa liable to pay for them—whether, as-
suming him to be a minor, they were " necessaries,"•
in the legal sense, to fir upon him the responsibility ?.
In his own opinion, the Lase was rather for 'the de.
fendant. This conclusion the hearneJ Judge said he
had come to, from a consideration of the circum.
stance of the plaintiff being in the habit of supplying
the defendant's father before with coals.

The Jury, after some deliberation, found for the
plaiutiff, as to the damages sought, V. ss.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, an Inquisi-
don was taken • before JOIIN WRIGIIT UNWIN, Esq.
one of the Coroners for Middlesex, at the sign of the
Bose and Crown, Caswell-street, on view of George
Clifford, aged 13, who destroyedhimself under the
following singular circumstances :
The first witness. Mr. Bonne' Williams, a surgeon,
dlvosed to the cause of the boy's death,which he said
was evidently occasioned by hanging. All the means
of resuscitation were used for nearly two hours,
without any effect. He had no previous knowledge
of the deceased.

Mrs. Ann Bocock sworn—l am housekeeper to
Mr. W. Vase. On Wednesday last, between one and
two o'clock I bad occasion to go into the cellar for
some water, when I saw. the deceased twisted tight
in the jack-towel, and' in x kneeling posture ; I was
terribly alarmed, and shrieked out for assistance,
when my master and one of his men came down stairs.
—The deceased was released from the towel by my
master after much difficulty. I then went up stairs
and ran for medical assistance. The deceased was
between 13 and 14 years of age. I have heard be
had often before put bis.head in thetowel, and twisted
himself round till he was quite giddy, but I cannot
state this on my own authority.
CdttoNEr,—Flare you any reason to suspect that
the deceased intended his destruction?

Witness—Certainly I have not. I think it was
done accidentally. He must have twisted himself
round till he was senseless, and so lost his life.

Mr. W. Wasesworn.—l am a butcher, carrying on
business at N 0.149, Goswell-street ; the deceased was
my servant, and had been in my employ about
eighteen months. On hearing the screams of the last
witness I ran down stairs, and found the deceased' in
the cellar with his - head in the towel, which was
twisted very tight round his neck. He was 1)/ng
with his face towards the ground. He was quite dead
and cold. The deceased was often in the habit of,
twisting his head in the towel, and had often been
warned against it.
_Cows sa.—Had you any reason to believe he meant
to commit suicide? Witness replied in the negative.
John Kinnard, servant to the last witness, sworn.—
I went into the cellar with my master, who took the
deceased out of the towel. He was:on his knees,
with his hands hanging down. His head was in the
towel, which was twisted, very tight round his neck.
My master Could not release him without taking the
towel off the rail. The deceased had been missing
about half an hour. He was quite dead when he was,
found. The deceased had been in the habit of twist-1
ing his head in the towel in a playful manner, and I
had often told him he would do it once too often.
The CORONER, in addressing the Jury, observed,
that it plainly appeared the deceased was in the habit
of trying experiments of this description, and it was
quite evident that he did not contemplate suicide.
The Jury consulted for some time, and returned a'
verdict—That the deceased strangled himself by ac-
cident, and not with the intent to commit suicide:

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One of those disputes, too common in the Caba-
rets of Paris, was submitted on Monday to the Police.
A quarrel having en sued. between two men, who had
drank seven sr eight bottles of wine, they came to
blows, and one having a taste for the little finger of
his adversary, bit it off at the upper. joint. The
biter was condemned to three months! imprisonment,
26 francs fine, and to pay the expensey amounting
to 300 francs.

He was then fully camitted for trial on this and the two
former cases.
Thomas Dabney wits committed on a charge of having stolen
a watch, the property of George Harris, a waiter at the Queen's
Arms Tavern, Poultry.
Guiconatt..—TWo *amen, named Join Wirers and Aim
Lacey, in the employ of Messrs. Hale and Co. brewers, hs Red
Cross-street, were brought up yesterday before Sir JAMS Sataw,
charged with felony Bader the following circumstances:
Mr. Lynn, a partner in the firm of Measly. Hale and Co.
stated, that for a considerable time past they had been subjected
to great depredation in the article of empty casks, and to such
an extent bad this practice been carried, that he bad no basins-
don in saying the loss of the firm, in empty casks stolen during
the last year, amounted to 1,200 i. The prisoners were their
servants, and from private information received, were suspected
to be extensively engaged in these depredations °sold in conse-
.quence they had employed an officer to watch their proceeding!.
Clinton, the officer employed, followed the prisoners, whe
were sent out with the dray, during the whole of Saturday; he
saw them deliver beer at different places, and take in empty
casks. Ou their return they drove to the London Workhouse,
Bishopsgate-street, where each of them took from the dray two
casks, which they ruffed within the gates, and then drove off.-
On their departure he went into the yard, and found, in addi-
don to the four casks so left by the prisoners, one other, which
bore hlessrs. Hales' mark. The porter, In order to conceal them,
had y fled a quantity of baskets and basket-heads over the casks.
There were other similar casks, but these five only bore Messrs.
hales' mark. On Wednesday he was employed to follow the
prisoners' dray again. After delivering beer at various houses,
and receiving back several empty casks, they stopped on their
return at a brewhouse in York-street, Church-street, Bethnal-
green, kept by a person named Clark, where they deposited four
other casks, and drove off without them. The officer went into
the brewboule, and saw a person, whom he since learnt to be
Mr. Clark, receive the casks from the prisoners, and roil them
to the back of the premises. John Purdy (who was also placed
at the Bar with the prisoners, charged with receiving the stolen
property) was working at the copper when the prisoners brought
the casks into the brewhouse. •

This was the case as far as Mr. HAMM, who attended for
the prosecution, thought it necessary to go into it for the present.
Clark, it appeared, had also been apprehended, but after a most
desperate struggle, had succeeded in making his escape from the
officers. His premises had since been searched, and a seizure
made of no less than thirty one empty casks, the property of
Messrs. Hale and Co.

There being other instances in which the prisoners had been
watched, and been observed to deposit empty cask; at different
respecting which it was necessary to make further in-
quiry, and hopes being also entertained, that Clark, the receiver,
would shortly be secured, the prisoners were remanded for future
examination.

A decent- looking young man, apparently strongly agitated,
was brought up as disorderly. He had, it seems, been mar-
ried just five months, and last Wednesday his beloved wife was
safely delivered of a fine chopping boy. On this unhappy dis-
covery of his wife's frailties, the passion of the deceived husband
broke all bounds, and he had conducted himself with a violence
bordering on insanity. On first entering the room after the dis-
covery, be was so intensely affected, that he went into a violent
fit of hysterics, in which state be remained upwards of two hours,
and he bad since been so dreadfully agitated in his whole be-
haviour, that his landlady, partly for his sake, as well as for her
own personal quiet and security, found it necessary to give him
in custody.
Sirjastes Suaw treated him with great kindness, and upon his
promise to refrain..from going to the house, at least until his wife
should be in a state to hear his reproaches without danger to the
lives of herself and offspring, directed him to be discharged,
George Massey was folly committed, charged with trying to ex-
tort money from a respectable man, of the name of Lockwood.
tinder a threat of charging him with unnatural propensities.
Alr. Array, who was in the Office upon other business, ob-
served, that if a person made an infamous charge against another
for the purpose of obtaining money, that, although be did not ob-
tain it, it was a transportable offence.
Bow.senater.-IWilliens Canoed', the driver of a hackney the-
: riet, appeared on a summons before Tstosus HALLS, Esq. the
dicing ALgistrate, to answer to a charge preferred against him
tu:repeant Join Brooke of the 3d Battalion of Grenadier
s, for obstructing hind in the execution of his duty, and
making use of the most vile and abusive language towards him,
in allusion to the late infamous affair of the Bishop of Clasher.
Brooke stated. that on Wednesday morning last he was crith
an escort of eight privates, conveying six prisoners en the road
to Chatham; and on crossing the street at Charing-cross, the de-
fendant, without any necessity, there being sufficient space on the
opposite side, drew up against them, and forced them to break
their ranks. Witness remonstrated with him, and the defendant
then made use of the abuse complained of.
The defendaht, in answer to the charge, made a long unintel-
ligible statement : and asked the Magistrate if it was feasible to
suppose as ho* that he should use that there sort of language,
when has had two/mole Ladies in his coach? and was proceed.
ing in similar jargon. when the Magistrate stopped him, and re-
marked, that he had heard sufficient to convince him of the de-
fendant's bad conduct, and should convict him in the penalty of
eos. and costs.
Quzets-settsins.—Hassy Jaelkisu, a hardy young urchin, not
mere than ten years of age, having been found wan about
Milbank at a late hour of the night, and confessingdthtite had
run away from Fulham Workhouse, was sent back thither one
Alay„,last week from this Office. Yesterday morning Thomas
Simons, a watchman of &. George's, Hanover-square, found
him in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, about a quarter past fivi
o'clock, peeping into the areas of several houses, and took him.
before the Magistrate at Marlborough-street, who on being in-
formed of what bad passed on the former occasion, ordered him
to be brought to this Office spin. Simons farther stated, titek
when be arrived at Fulham with his charge, he learnt that kbi
little vagabond had been Isrotight back front Windsor only t*O
days before; and that it was his constant practice to steal whiter.
ever he could lay his hand on, and Ikea on the first
to creep out through one of windows of the ;legusemkhotimaniZ
and abscond. The young delinquent was emanated to Tallith-
fields Beidewell is a vagrant, for one booth.
David Isniins and Thanes Proud were charged' with stealing
a trunk, containing a quantity of wearing apparel and other
articles, value ten pounds, the property of. Louisa Owen, in
the dwelling house of Mrs. Nowsell. • •
Jenkins stated 'that he was not present when the,things were
stolen, but they were broutht to him by a stranger to sell, Ind
be took them to Mr. Turpbes, who•took them from him, and be
then went away with al which be found on.the table.
Proud said he knew nothing at all of the matter ; be wee aeci.
denteUy hi company with Jenkini When .be was taken.—Thei
were fully committed for trial • • . •
hiaav-ar-Bolnen Ornes.--Yesterday, a lid rely it years old)
was charged with wantonly stabbing John Eekweeths .2. ...t.
The young man stated, that while the workmen et
buildings, Regent's Park, were at' breakfast, he .pre-

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