Star.
London, England, 1830-12-16 00:00:00

LAW REPORTS.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dry. lb.

TIM KING V. AIHAHAMS.
This was an indictment against the defendant for wilful and corrupt

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Per)nry-
Mr. C. Wria.rasts (with whom was Mr. Platt) stated the case on
the part of the prosecution, from which it appeared that the eircum-
ilstances out of which the prosecution arose were as follows :—ln May,
1828, the defendant called opon the prosecutor in this cue, a person
ilnamed Jacobs, and purchased from him watches to the extent of 451.
In the course of the same day he made two other purchases of watches.
one of which was for 231. and the other for 271. For the entire amount
the defendant gave bills, which, when they became due, were all
dishonoured. An action was consequently commenced fur the
recovery of the amount of the bills, and the cause was set
down for trial on the 19th of October in the last year. On the 13th of
that month the defendant took out a summons, calling upon the pro-
secutor to show cause why the trial should not be postponed, anti in
support of his application to the Court he made an affidavit in which
he declared the whole transaction to be usurious, and that he did not
receive notice of the dishonour of one of the bills, namely, that for
451. The trial was accordingly put off until the 20th of last January ;
but in the meantime the defendant became a bankrupt, and his brother.
in-law, who was likewise his uncle, was the petitioning creditor and sole
assignee. The plaintiff only recovered under the commission one shil-
ling in the pound; whereas had the trial gone on, the sale of the watches
being a bona fide and honest transaction, he would have recovered the
entire of his demand. The prosecutor, under all the circumstances of
the case, felt himself bound to institute the present prosecution.
The commission of bankrupt, the bills, and the affidavit made by the
defendant, were all put in.
The prosecutor, Jacobs, was examined, and proved that the transac-
tion in question was an honest and fair one, and that there was nothing
whatever of usury in it.
Upon his cross.examination by Mr. TALFOUP, the witness admitted
that he had been twice tried at the Old Bailey, but that he was
acquitted. These trials, however, took place 30 years ago. He was
not now a watchmaker, but was a jeweller. His house was once searched
for stolen goods, but no property of that nature found upon his premises.
This search was made at the instance of the defendant's wife.

A clerk itt a watchmaker's, in Fleet-street, deposed, that his mas-
tees premises were entered, and a quantity of watches stolen, and
that a search had been made respecting those watches at the house of
the tor, at the instance of the wife of the defendant.
r. Tatrona, who addressed the Jury for the defendant, but
called no witnesses, contended at some length, that the defendant,
in making the affidavit in question, felt himself justified in bing so,
from the nature of the transaction between him and the prosecutor.
The Jury shortly consulted, when they found a verdict of guilty.

OLD BAILEY, Des. lb.

(Before the RICoaDZIL.)
Thomas WAlliseor, aged 414 a porter, was indicted for stealing 171 b
of apelter, the property of the London Dock Company.
The prisoner, it appeared, was in the service of the Dock Company,
and the property having been found upon him, the case against him was
clear.

He was found Guilty.
The Recorder, after commenting with proper severity on the heinous.
ness of his offence, sentenced him to two months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction. _ _ _

Edwin Robert Randall, aged 18, a baker; John Morris, aged 18,
a slater ; and Isaac Simmons, who appeared to be about 36, and who is
a Jew, were indicted, the prisoner Randall for stealing three silver tea-
spoons, a gold ring, and sword-knot, the property of Ann Randall,
his mother. and the prisoners, Morris and Simmons, for being saes-
series after the fact. _

The MetCIItTIX stated, that on the 26th of October, she mined the
articles sprained in the indictment; and on the 31st charged her son
with having stolen them. He said, " Don't make a fuse about it, you
shall get them back ; Bill Page will tell you all about it." She for.
bade her son her house.

The boy Page, a pot-boy, stated that the prisoner Randall had told
him, on the Slst of October, that be had three silver spoons to sell, and
having met the prisoners Morris and Simmons they adjourned to a public
house, the sign of the Fighting Coeks,where Randall gave the parcel to
Simmons, at the same time stating that he had stolen the spoons from a
jeweller, and not from his mother at the west end of the town. Wit-
nets told Mrs. Randall of the matter, and the prisoners were subse-
quently taken into custody.
The Jury found the prisoners Randall and Morris Guilty, but acquit.
ted Simmons.

The RocoaDza sentenced Randall to seven years transportation. and
the prisoner Morris to be whipped, and imprisoned for six months.

POLICE REPORTS.

Maw s tow-u nos z—A young man, r.amed Entry, was brought before
the Lotto MAYOII charged with having wantonly smashed a head.
load of images, eh:property of an Italian manufacturer of nodding
mandarins and other curiosities, named Antonio Beishassi.
_ _

The prisoner, it was stated, came across the servant of the Italian
sculptor on London Bridge, and seeing a large board on the man's
head, containing a number of images, some of which moved their
beads and others their jaws, determined to have what is called a go
at the whole batch. He accordingly threw himself into the attitude of
a fighter, and made a swinging blow at the property. Just as the'
poor Italian was calling out " Buy himages !" down tumbled all the
stock in trade in a thousand pieces.
The Loa* 111•Toa said he supposed the defendant was drunk at
the time.

Almmo who witnessed the scene, said that the Italian, who had a
sort of convulsive movement in his jaw, which made him wag it as some
of the images wagged theirs, was going on very quietly, when the de.
fendant appeared, and eyed the whole concern in a very suspicious
manner. kith* Italian supposed the man's curiosity very likely to
make him a packager, he stopped. turned round, and said, " Buy
itimages I" upon which the nodding family began to move and shake
themselves, to the astonishment of everybody. The defendant then sud-
denly flung his Begat the board, and destroyed all the muscular energies
of the" himages" in an instant; after which be walked u(f with his
tone in his cheek. Laughter.)
Tb, Loan MATOIII asked the defendant why he treated the poor
fore pot with such cruelty ?
The disdain said he did not know what he was doing at the time.
He hammed to have taken a drop in the morning with a friend, and
when be got into the air his head became quite dimy on a sudden
he saw the Italian carrying a number of young Italians, for they wen'
all shaking their heads and jaws at him, and he was so fright., that
he tumbled up against them alL—( Loud laughter.)
The Loan Mar on.--Very well. It may have been great fun to
you, but you must pay the man foe the damage you have done.
The Italian said the " Ithnages" were worth 12s. to him. They
were peculiarly formed, and were capable of being moved by the least
breath of air.
The officer who had taken the defendant into custody said the charge
was most exotbitant. The servant of the " scalptor` had said that he
would be satisfied with 3s. for the batch and the blow; bat as the affair
became more interesting, and the compassion for the broken heads In-
creased, the price was raked tole, and at last nothing lase than Is.
would answer.

The defendant said, that dl the money he had in the world was
threepence, and that be was willing to sire, and to take his chance
upon the town for his dinner.
me. Hemet said that the heaps were sold for little or nothing, but
those that shuck their heads &Idled mote money than those that
did not.
The Loin MOTOR observed that the shake of the bead, no doubt,
shed the ptioc. lie bad seen the Mahe of many a bead that contained
sis little.. As a greet deal. (Loud lat4bter.)
The him& of the defendant having Weed a camproutise, the peaks
tubed far the pompom of adding Me mum.

MAiLionottein-avairsT.--The office was on Tuesday afternoon
crowded with pawnbrokers, wbo assembled to hear the decision of the
Magistrates in the ems of Byers, the informer, against Messrs. Chaffers
and Mills, pawnbrokers, of Greek-street, Soho. It appeared that the
informer had laid several informations against the above Srm, for tak-
ing in pled- without asking ,the necessary questions, as to whether
the party pWging was a housekeeper or lodger, and the place of resi-
dence. A rule Nisi, however, having been obtained against Mr. Hoe
by Byers, upon a subject connected with the latter information, the
whole of the eases were adjourned till the result was ascertained.

NguEZN-EQUARE.—ALLEOED INRUWASITY Or THE NEW Po-
LICE.—Mr. ()Radon, the printer of Rupert-street, Haymarket, ap-
pend before. Mr. Gazooniz, the sitting 'Magistrate, to makes charge
against the new ppoo for their treatment of a boy in his employ. The
ease excitedconsiderable interest.
Mr. Glindon stated that his boy had been to Deptford to post some
hand-bills on Tuesday last, and not returning home, near the New
Cross turnpike, he was knocked down by a man, and robbed of his
money and shoes ; that he afterwards walked to the Waterloo-road,
without his shoes, when he was taken to the station-house, and locked
up until the next morning.
Mr. Gazooatz wished the boy to state the circumstances himself,
when Mr. Olindon said that he was not altogether right in his mind.
Mr. OEIOOIII inquired what charge Mr. Glindon had to make'?
Mr. °linden answered that he had none against the police constable
who took the boy into custody, but against the general inhumanity of
the police, particularly in keeping the boy all night without cause.
Mr. Dowling, the superintendent of the L division of police, now
stated that Mr. Olindon had been before the Commissioners of Police,
who, in consequence of 111 r. Minden expressing dissatisfaction at the
mode of inquiry instituted there, wished the matter to be fully inves-
tigated before the Magistrates and as the charge now made im.
pugned his (Mr. Dowling's) humanity, he was most anxious that all
parties should be heard fully. The facts were, that the boy was brought
to the Waterloo station-house, very much intoxicated, and without his
shoes. He directed that every attention should be paid to him, and even
had him removed from the stones to • boarded part of the station-house,
where be was laid down, and a rug placed over him. He was kept un-
til morning, as it would have been cruel indeed to have turned him out
the moment he got sober—perhaps three or four o'clock in the morning,
when he would not have found his master's house open to receive him.
It was quite evident that the boy had trumped up the story of the rob-
bery at New Cross, as several respectable person. were present, who
would prove seeing him with his shoes on in the Waterloo Road, where
he was described as " very drunk."
Mr. Glindon appeared satisfied, and made no reply, and here the case
ended.

It is rumoured that it is the intention of his present Ma-
jesty's Ministers, in their grand work of retrenchment, to re-
duce the salaries of the Magistrates at the different police-
offices 2001. per annum each. There are at present 27 police
magistrates at the nine different police-offices, at a salary of
8001. each. Should this reduction take place, it will be saving
to the country of 5,4001. per annum.

During the greater part of yesterday morning the metro-
polis was enveloped in a dense fog, and at variows periods of the morn.
in the shops in the principal streets were enlightened by the gas lamps.
About nine in the morning, for the space of two or three minutes, the
density of the fog was such as to approach very nearly to total dark.
ness. To see across the street. although there were gas lights in the
opposite amps, was impossible.

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The thirty-first of this month is an anxious day for the
Army and Navy, as after that period the pensions of widows will be
placed on a new and more confined footing. None will then be
payable unless the officer has been married one year, and has served ten
years on full pay.
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Saturday, upwards of twenty persons were committed to
the Sligo gaol, on a warrant issued by John Gore Jones, Esq. a ma-
gistrate of this vicinity ; they are, we believe, charged with ribboniam,
or entering into secret sworn societies. Several of them belong to the
parish of Drumcliffe—the rest to the neighbouring parish of Ahamlish
Lady Duncannon is at present very seriously indisposed at
Sidmouth ; Indeed so much so that it has been considered advisable to
send for the medical gentleman who usually attended on her Ladyship
during ner residence at Pilltown, Ireland.
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Barrymore is busily employed in furnishing business for
Harlequin and Columbine, at Drury-lane. Farley is equally on the
alert at Covent.Oarden.

A fire took place on Friday morning, about three o'clock,
at the premises of Mr. Barton, at North Frith, near Tunbridge ; a
coach-house and been, containing a large quantity of oats, were con-
sumed. It was caused by mere accident.
POLES AND FRENCII.—The French have stood from
time immemorial on an amicable footingwith the Poles; and this amity,
strengthened by political treaties, and incidental relations, seems to have
struck so deep a toot as to survive to the present day. One of their
kings, Henry 111. was elected King of ,Poland. Three of the Polish
kings, namely, the two Casimirs and Stanialaus Lassesynski, sought and
found a welcome refuge in France. Polish nobility, Polish statesmen
and generals, even some of their kings, were educated in France. In
mote recent times, the Poles fought and bled together with the French,
gained victories in their cause, as the French had on different former ee-
-1 elisions done in the cause of Poland. AU this influencing the commu-
nity in both nations, could not fail to dispose the minds of individuals
favourably to one another. The French testified their regard for the
Poles no less in their literary accounts of Poland than in their
various political concerns. The Poles, again, adhered so
warmly to every thing French, that, at different times, and especially
in latter days, the French manners took the lead in all good society, and
French literature became the model for the Polish. So striking at last
appeared the similarity of these two nations in the whole cast of their
minds, that the Poles have been called the /french of Ms North. As
revolutionists there seems to be sympathy between them, the French re-
volution of 1793 was followed by the Polish of 1794, and the French re-
volution of 1830 is followed by the Polish of the same year.
SILVER PLATE FOUND, AND CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF
TIRE Owsza.—On Monday evening last, a labouring man offered for
sale at Mr. Adams', goldsmith, Baxter, several ounces of silver, con-
sisting of spoons, Be. Mast of the articles had initials, and all a
crest ; and conceiving that it could not have fairly come into his hands,
Taylor, apace officer, was sent for,whe took the man and the property
to the Guildball,where he accounted for its possession in the following
manner :—llimself,wkb four others, had been at work removing a
hedge, the property of C. Milford,lfsq. in blatford-Isne,and at nogreat
distance from the house of that geodeman, and in doing which, about a
week before, they had turned out a quantity of other ; this they had
divided as evenly as their means permitted, (about 14 to. each,)) and
what he had offend for sale was his share, one of his comrades having
before disposed of that which fell to his lot, and anothet's having been
purchased by a comrade at a valuation mutually agreed upon. Taylor
thus furnished, was instantly on the alert, and within two bouts suc-
ceeded in producing before the Magistrates three others of the party,
as well ae the whole of the property, baring been fortunate enough to
obtain possession of that which had been sold, as well as the unsold
portions. The whole of the men related the same story, but were told
by the Magistrates that, even if use, their subsequent conduct involved
them in criminality, inasmuch as they had converted and endeavoured
to maven the property of others to their own use. However, in the
hope that it might be nothing worse than they stated, they were ad-
mitted to bail to be forthcoming when called upon. On Friday a gen.
dem= called at a printing.office in this city, and gave bio card—Capt.
Weston Phipps, It. N. as a claimant for the property on behalf of his
mother, now resident at Bath. He produced a copy of the following
hand-bill, which was printed in February, 1801, and mai) corres-
ponds with the description and mark of the plate found g
" Robbery.--Stolen, either on Friday night or Saturday morning
last, out of a dwelling-house in the Bonifield in Exeter, between the
hours of twelve and seven the following articles .--Forty table spoons,
12 dessert ditto, 14 tea ditto, 3 salt ditto, 1 pep boa .1 pair of sugar
tas a new brown calico child's gown. The plate is marked with the
family crest, a paw grasping a trefoil; some of the large spoons have
likewise the cypher C. P. Whoever will bring the above articles to
Messrs. Trewmans, Printers, or will discover the offender or offenders,
so that they may be prosecuted, will receive Five Guineas Reward.—
N. B. No greater reward will be oared... Abutter, 4th Feb. 1801."
GALLICIA.—LINEZRO, Nov. 20.—A double cordon
senitaire has been formed on the side of Russia and Poland,
and they employ the greatest rigour to preserve us from
the contagion. But it is still very doubtful whether cholera
is contagious or epidemic. In the latter cue„ all cordons
are useless. Several regiments cantoned in Gallicia are
commanded to form the cordon ; others are in march towards
Bohemia, to rennin there for now orders.
Hum COURT OF JUSTICIARY.--Thunday the Court-
met in the Court-room of the Second Diiision, when Lord
Medwyn produced his commission as one of the Judges, in
room of Lord Pitmilly, resigned, and took the oaths and
his mat on the Bench. Ther;after. the Lord Advocate
and Solicitor-General produced their commissions, and
took the usual oaths. A COMIIIiSSIOS from the Lord Advo-
cate was read, appointing John Cuainghame, James Ivory,
M. P. Brown, and J. S. Stewart, Esquires, his Deputies ;
and also naming Thomas Maitland, A. Rutherford; A. E.
Monteith, Alex. Wood, Graham Spas, John Russell, R.
Thomson, Robert Handyside, and J. Napier, Esquires, his
Substitutes.—Ellin. Paper,

sczNrILLA

A 1118 ASSADOR.

" In answer to this, I will not define an ambassador, as one of out
princes did,' homo peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicse musk,'
but I will say, ike."
blusta's Letters to a Prebendary, p. 159. note (2) 7th ed.
The author of the above definition, a part only of which is given by
Dr. Milner, was not one of our princes, but the famous Sir Henry
Wotton. Honest old Isaak Walton relates the fact thus :—" At his
(Sir H. W.'s) first going ambassador into Italy, as he passed through
Germany, he stayed some days at Augusta; where, having been in his
former travels well known by many of the best note for learning and
ingeniousness,—those that are esteemed the virtuosi of that nation,_
with whom be pasting an evening in merriment', was requested by
Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo ;—a book
of white paper, which for that purpose =Or of the German gentry
usually carry about them: and Sir Henry Wotton consenting to the
motion, took an occasion, from some accidental discourse of the Feast
company, to write a pleasant definition of an ambassador, in these very
words Legatus at vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendum
public, musk.' "
WALTON'S L(fo of Sir Henry Wigton, p. 123, Major's ed.