Star.
London, England, 1805-11-21 00:00:00

GEORGE MICHAEL DANTZ.

In our Report of the proceedings in the King's
Bench. on Friday, November 8, we Rated, that arti-
des of the peace were exhibited againit Geo. Mi-
chael Dart: ; but that the Court, confidering that
the ExhibiLor was in no bodily danger, rejedtcd the
application.
Mr. ERSKINE this day applied for leave to file a
criminal information apinft the Defendant. The
Learned Counfel faid, that he lamented the clime
of which Mr. Dantz had been guilty, could not be
punifbed in a mote fevere manner than by an appli-
cation to their Lordfhips for a criminal information.
The offence of the Defendant was a continued fy Item
of extortion. The Court was already aware that
Mr. Dantz had been concerned in pecuniary tranf-
affirms with Mr. Benjamin Ferrara, which involved
him in difficulty ; and he applied to Sir Manaffeh
Lopez for afTifiance. The Defendant was fupplied
with what he at flea required ; but in confequence
of his repeated unreafonable demands, lie was refuf
ed any further afliftance. Mr. Dant:, it appeared,
had before fignified his intention of quitting Eng.
land, but afterwards abandoned his defign. Os ac-
count of the refufal of Sir Manaffeh Lopez, Mr.
Dantz wrote the following letter to that gentleman :
Sit —As I have now made up my mind not to quit my na-
tive country. and as yourfamily have brought me to a prifon, If
you do not compel your family to at with foes honour, f am
determined to pubilfh your whole pedigree, and every thing eon
eerning your family. and about the money I have lent to your lif-
ter. When lam ones refolved, all the powers on earth, not even
Hill kith, were it Let before me, should deter me.
(Signed) *. G M. DANTZ."
As no anfwer was returned to this infolent and
threatening letter ; and as Mr. Dantz found that it
was in vain to endeavour to make further exertions,
he wrote to Lady Lopez, Rating that he knew well
the keret, of the faintly, particularly thole concern-
ing herfelf, and he would immediately make them
publicly known, if he were not fupplied with a cer-
tain fun of money Elated in the note. This, how.
ever, failing of [was, he told Sir Mandeb, that as
he had mired a numerous corps of volunteers, at
whole head he hitnfelf was placed, his charater
mould be defamed, and every man in the body
fisould treat him with contempt. In confequebce,
the Defendant procured a number of verfes to be
written, highly &Idling on the character of Sir Ma-
nareh and Lady Lopez. On being told that an ap-
plication would be made to the Court, he told Sir
Manareh that he did not care for what he faid to
Lord Ellenborough. He could not tell him he was an
honeft.atan, for then he would tell a lye. It would
be jun the fame to Sir Manaffeh, if he were fworn stn
the Old or the New Telloment. Not content with
what he had already done, he diftributed in Ply-
mouth, and its neighbourhood. 'a paper, entitled,
" Plymouth Queries, or Mordecai, Wife, and Fa.
mily," which commenced thus
Was not the wife of the Rabbi. in toe^-'

of Ply-

moutts,a woman of bad charatler
0, Does not the tier of the Rabbi's wife live by proakution
and does not the mother of the Rabbi's wife lei hit through the i
Rivets of London 1"
After this he publifbed this Advertifement Ex.
traordinary, in further defamation of Sir Manaffeh
Lopez
Loft or Brayed, a (mall boar pig. lately fent from New Rom-
ney to Weltotinfter ; is fuppofed to have gone to Plymouth ; re-
markable for the length of his note, which he fuTers with impu-
nity to be puliLd. 1 ikewife an aid fuw, his wilt, who bas lately
been tricked out at a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood of Mon.
mouth-Brett. Whoever will bring the fame to the whipping
poi in London, mall receive the award of a pail of bog walh."
The Learned Counfel hoped the Court, under
thefe circumtlances, would interfere.—Rule granted.
MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES SARTON.
Mr. GAR sow moved for a criminal information
spina this officer, for endeavouring to provoke Sir
Hugh 1)i11un Malley to fight a duel. It appeared,
that the Defendant and Sir Hugh Dillon Maffey had
had force penuniary tranfaSions, in which Sir Hugh
confidered the conduel of the General difhonoorable,
particularly refpeaing an annuity of Lady Maley,
and wrote a letter, in 1802, to General Barton, in
which he Rated, that his underhand tricks would not
pats. The General, however, at that time, was not
apparently irritated by this language, till Sir Hogh
Dillon Malley was going to Bath, in July, 0104,
when he was called upon by Lieutenaht Colonel Bar-
ton, the brother of the Defendant, who told him,
that on account of the impertinent letter the General
bad received from him, he Po longer confidered bim
'let the light of a gentleman, and defired him, if he

did not chnofe to give his brother fatisfaaion, to be-
ware how be quitted his houfe. He, hoe-ever, law
nothing of the Defendant until his return from Bath
on the reth of October, when he was again waited
upon by the General's brother, and again received a
fitni.ar mefTage. He then told Colonel Barton that
he was not confcions of any mileondua, but that he
declined giving the General fuch fatisfaaion as he
required. About a week afterwards, he was pro-
ceeding through Bond-ftreet on horfeback, when he
beard a perfon calling out to him to flop—but Sir
Hugh Maffey knowing it to be the Defendant's voice
reluaantly turned at the fecond Commons. On the
General's coming up to him, he laid, " I have been
ling in fearch of you—you are a villain, and a
fc undrel ; and I defire you would give me fatisfac-
'ion for the infoknt letter you fent me." The only
enforce which Sir Hugh returned was, that he would
leek fltisfaelion by the interference of the law ; and,
being fearful of railing a crowd, he trotted away
with all convenient (peed. A few minutes after-
words he was again annoyed by General Barton, wha
called after him, " Stop the old rafcal and thief I"
Lord ace?: aciaouGH" I think the Colonel has
kept his word to Come purpofe. For the preferva-
tion of the public peace, we muagraut a rule to thew
carafe."
THE LIAO V. JAMES AND BENJAMIN RADER, AND
RICHARD LINIAN.
This was an indictment tried before Mr. Baron
GRANAM, at Bodmin. during the left affites for Corn-
wall, and the three Defendants were found gusty of
an affault and riot.
It appeared from the Judge's notes, taken at the
trial, that one Glaines, a Serjeant of Marines, along
with fome of his men, had landed from a boat, and
were proceeding in fearch of a deferter, John Radar;
when they came to Lenian's, who kept a pu'olica
hoofe in the town, they enquired for the man they
were looking after. and found he was in the town.
The three Defendant: came up with between twer-
ty and thirty other perfons in volunteer uniform,
fome with their mnikets, and others with their fide
arms; they fhouted and hooted the ferjeant and his
party, and Lenian called out, " the devils are corn.
ing," alluding to the prefs gang. as they thought
proper to flyte the Serjeant of Marines and his men ;
and even when he produced his warrant, they rc-
fetid to acknowledge it ; and, although the deferrer
was within their power, the Defendant, along with
the other perfons prefent, would not let them fe.
cure him. They then became very violent, (wear.
ing the Marines fhould leave the town, and began
to treat them with fo much violence, that the Ma.
rines were obliged to make their efeape, as fall as
they could. Before they reached the jolly-boat, the
Volunteers fired leveret (hots after them, and they
heard the balls whiffliag over their head: ; when they
gained their boats, upwards of forty (hots were fired
at them, and they narrowly efeaped with their lives.
It farther appeared, that the day on which this tran4
altion happened, was a feflival with the Volunteer*
of that town, and they had been celebrating it pre-
vious to this frame in the morning they had been fir-
ing at a target with ball: and, at the time when
the diatubance took place, fevers, of them had their
pieces loaded, and alfo a quantity of ball cartridge
about them ; it alfo appeared, that one of the De-
fendants fent a gjrl home for forty rounds more.
The joint, and feveral affidavits of the Defendants
were put in; they went to deny lane of the fatts4and
(often down the whole tranfaltion.
John Radar alto fwore, that he never had been a
defence.
Thomas Hill, Efee late a Captain in his Majefly's
ecd Regiment of Foot, but now the Mayor and
Chief Magifirate of Bodmin Town, alfo made an
affidavit on behalf of there Defendants, whom heee-
prefented to be honeft, and hard work.
ing men, with large families, and of remarkable
good charauflers.
Mr. Serjeant Lams addrefred the Court on their
behalf ; he obferved, that although they were blame-
able in a high degree. yet, he nulled, the Court
would diftinguiffi fomething in this cafe worthy their
Lordffiips' conlideration, in mitigation of pundit-
aunt. This tranfaaion was not a premeditated one,
but the ad of a mete moment. As to the (hots fired,
that was done to intimidate the Serjeant and his party.
and, by no means with a view to the flightea mifchief
or injury to any one.
Mr. EAST and Mr. ERMINE followed on the fame
fide ; the latter Gentleman hoped the Court would
fee a difference in this cafe from that of fraegglers,
who were armed put pofely to refit} the laws of their
country ; but theft Gentlemen were in a laudable
fervice for their King and Country.; and having been
fomewhat heated at their feftival, having arms in their
hands, and, from the great odium which exifts againft
prefs gangs, however miftaken it may be (though, he
was happy to fay, this prejudice was wearing away
every day), and through a falfe notion of the liberty
of the fubjeuft, they, at the moment, invcluntarily
acted in this incautious manner.
The Sotacirot Gassaaa, for the Crown, could
not fee any thing in what was urged by the Counfel
for the Defendants, which could at all go in mitiga-
tion of poniThanent ; for, inflead of aiding the laws,
as their duty Ihould have pointed out to them, they
were aaually violating them.
Mr. PMTS., On the fame fide, obferved, that it was
with deep regret he beheld men who took up arms
originally, in the honourable fervice of protecting
their country, violating its laws in fo great a degree.
This was a deliberate, premeditated, and fyflemane
warfare; they regularly preffed the marines down to
the beach, who were not, by any means, there on the
impreft fervice, but came to recover a deferter. It
could not efcape their Lordfbips, that this was a plan
againft the feamen, to fpal the bell blood hi the
country. If filch were their military fetlivals, they
were much better celebrated 44 in the breach than the
obfereance ;" if, like the feaft of Attica, they were
to old in blood.
Lord Ea. esaaos.ovais--61 Let them be committed,
lodgment on Thurfday
nanextit.bjought up again for

?P1 [IMO V. T. MIS W. FOND.
Thee Defendants, rope.makers near Plymouth,
were brought Bp for judgment, for *Gutting a con.
liable in the execution of his duty, he being ordered
to &Arch their ropewalks on account of fome
clout being tote, rained that frauds were committe
in their premitcs. The Court ordered the Defend-
ants to be committed, and brought up for judgment
ou Monday next. [hum over.