Star.
London, England, 1822-11-22 00:00:00

ILCHESTER JAIL.

COCRT OF BING% BENCH-THIS DAY.
JUDGMENT.
THZ KING V. MEWL

On the fudges taking their seats this morning, and
v !:en the usual motions of Counsel had been disposed
the above defendant appeared on the floor of the
Court to receive its sentence.

Mr. Justice BATLEY then addressing him, observed,
that he had been tried by a Jury of his country, and
convicted, upon clear evidence, of unlawfully putting
upv.: the head of a prisoner in his custody a blister,
also placing on him a strait-waistcoat, and confining
in a solitary cell. This prisoner, the Learned
Judge said, was a very young man, named Gardiner,
nho had been capitally convicted, but that sentence
lud been commuted to eighteen months imprison-
ment ; the prisoner had been guilty of many offences
in the prison, but a certain line of conduct was laid
down for the reguhitiou of a jail, and it appeared
the punishment which had been inflicted upon the
prisoner was most certainly illegal. The defendant
had put in affidavits, and had been recommended to
mercy; and, through the whole of his life, he had
been proved to have acted, in various situations
where he had the charge of prisoners, with the most
exemplary humanity. It was evident he had suffered
much in mind, and had lost his situation ; therefore
the Court, taking all the circumstances into con-
sideration, would via him with a much milder
punishment than would have been inflicted, had
it been repeated ; but he conceived this was the
only solitary instance ; and as it was likely he would
:ever fill the situation of jailer again, the punish-
ment he was about to pass would, he trusted, have
the effect upon other jailers not to deviate from the
regulations. The sentence of the Court is—That the
(:,:endant pay a fine of Fifty Pounds to the King,
be imprisoned until such fine is paid.

defendant then bowed and retired.

Tester Jay, James Griffin and William Griffin, who were con-
victsd at the late Assizes fur Kent, of a riot at Canterbury,
and of burning a man and his wife in effigy, because the wife had
been a witness on the trial of nineteen smugglers for cutting and
m:intinv, were brought up to the Court of King's Bench for
iudgm• :it, and sentenced to be imprisoned for six months in the
j..il at Maidstone, and to give security fur their good behaviour
1.. r five years, themselves in £5O, and two sureties in .4'20 each.
The conduct of the Mayor and Magistrates of Canterbury, who
refused to grant warrants, was strongly animadverted on by the
Solicitor-General, in praying for the judgment of the Court.—
Irillitrat Gibson, convicted at the last Cumberland Assizes for an
sscanh on Revenue-officers, upon the borders of Scotland, was
also brought tip for judgment. The assault was of an aggratated
nature ; bur as the defendant had suffered six months imprison-
ment, the Court sentenced bins to four months' imprisonment in
the notice of Correction at Carlisle ; and to find security for his
good behaviour for five years, himself in forty pounds and two
sureties inetwenty pounds eacb.

EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT LlvEßPooL.—The shop
cf Mr. HOWARD, jeweller, of Paradise-street, in that
town, was broken into some time in the interval be-
tween Saturday night, the 9th, and Monday morning,
the 11th instant, and articles of jewellery, amounting
:a value to about £l.OO, were stolen. Information
vas sent to the Police at Manchester that the men
had perpetrated the robbery were suspected to
he gone towards that place, and on Thursday Mr.
Lavender, deputy constable, apprehended four men,
li. Macdonald, J. Rowland, J. Smith, and J. Adams ;
upon the three first of whom he found various small
articles' of jewellery. They had been seen together
on the. Liverpool road on the Tuesday, in a very
dirty and. comfortless state; and no doubt is enter•
tained that they were concerned in the robbery.
Tuesday, the curiosity of the good folks of Eling
and Redbridge, in Hampshire, was excited in an
unusual degree, by a troop of Lancers escorting a
carriage drawn by four horses,with three persons in it.
Report said it was an outlaw, for whose apprehen-
sion a reward of five hundred pounds had been of-
!eyed, and who had been concerned in smuggling
in the neighbourhood of Christchurch, and that he had
been Exchequered for the amount of £23,000.
Friday se'nnight, as W. Davies, head gamekeeper
to Samuel Peploe, Esq. of Garnstone, in Hereford-
shire, was in the act of shooting at a wild duck,
the barrel of his gun burst close at the breech, and
some part of the metal struck him on the left eye so
zeverelv, as to totally deprive him of the sight of it,
and his left hand, which was upon the guard when
be fired, was also dreadfully shattered. He was con-
veyed to the Hereford Infirmary, where his hand was
obliged to be amputated, but he is doing well. The
gun was a single barrel, and he had shot with it
many years.
Yesterday, an Inquest was held at Guy's Hospital,
before T. SII ELTON, Esq. Coroner, on the body of
Patrick Fitzgerald, a bricklayer. He was employed
cn the building, No. 11, Bankside, formerly occupied
by Mr. Bishop. The pattywall of the premises was
being taken down ; the deceased at the time of the
accident was standing 40 feet distant from the wall,
w:ten it unexpectedly gave way, and forced a scaf-
folding-pole from its position, which falling on the
head of the deceased, killed him on the spot.—Ver-
clict—il Accidental Death, and a Deodand of 55."