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London, England, 1813-01-16 00:00:00

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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. •
yesterday nine prisoners were tried, one of whoM
Yesterday a Court of COrninos Council was held was capitally. convicted, ins..t Grant, for being at
a G i I ldhall, at which -
' large before the expiration of the term for which
The LORD MAYOR stated, that :he had convened ; was ordered to be transported.
the present Court in compliance With a requisition Seven were convicted of felony, viz. Eleanor Tem.
.which.he bad received, signed by several respectable linson, for having in her possession several forged
Members if the Court,.to take into consideration' the bank notes ; J. Cad well, for stealing five pieces of
most efficient measures to be adopted for the purpose timber ; W. Davis, for stealing 70 lbs. of pork ; S.
of protecting the interests of-the City and Port of , Watkins, for stealing two pair of shoes ;B. Rogers,
I..osiOon, in the discussion which: is expected shortly for embezzling certain sums of money received on at-
V) tike. place in Parliament, on thesubjectof,the Re- Count of his employer ; and J. 'Brett and Lewis
ewal of the East India Company's Charter.. . Green, for stealing a pocket handkerchief. .
Mr. QUIN rose, and in, a tong speech, strenuously - T. Anith was indicted for setting fire to his house
tuPPorted the rights of the East lidiaCorlipany tO in lqewgate-sstreer, with intention to defraud the'
an exclusive Chatter. He 'alluded' so the danger Atlas Insurance Office. This case, which 0=044
hich would arise to The Constitution, should the several hours, was one entirely of circumstances.—
rown lie a'lowed to seize on the government and-pa- The prisoner was a woollen.draper in Newgate-street,
ronage if 111,Ra—commented at considerable length and on the night of the 10th. of November, his house
n the Letter of the Ea,' o Buckinghamshire, of the was discovered to be on fire, and burnt with great to-.
,th instant, and concluded by moving a scries of Re- pidity.. The fire broke oht about two in the morning,
''lotions, embraciiiii all the pot.:: (it his speech. I and began in a little room called the sky-light par. 'Mr. Taonv.seconded the Resolutions, aad declared lour, behind the house. The circumstances to affix
)his opinion, that the privilege for which the out-ports guilt upon the prisoner were, that he had dismissed
ere now sea-king, if obtained by them, *ould prove about a fortnight before the shopman, who always
I ighty injoiious and ruinous to them. I.le-eutered slept in the house, and had also sent away his son on
net, a statement of the number of persons employed . a visit to his grand-mother. That same night he
onstautly by the Company, the aggregate of which ' also left the shop about eleven at night, and spent his
• as 27,000, and upwards of 100,000 persons in Lou.. ! evening at a club, from whence he went to another
• in wereinterested in this important question. I house which he had in Houndsditch : and he also
Mr. JACKS suggested, that from the lateness of the i took with him the house-dog which
.was kept in
• our, and the importance of the subjear, it Would be itNewgate-street. A few days laefore the fire he had
citable that.an adjournment of the debate should . bought a gallon of turpentine, eight pounds of pitch,
ake place.---(Cries of No, no, no.)—Mr. J. then ob- :!and two links sawed into four, at a shop where he
eived, that when the population of our Indian pO5- I did not usually deal, and he had also bought two
ssions was estimated at 0 millions, the patrimage 1 sacks of shavings. After the fire, it being discovered
.• as more than two millions annually; the population ! that,: he had so lately purchased these combus-
as now 60 millions, and supposing the patronage to ' tibles, he was asked what purpose he had them for ?
ave increased in proportion, it would now be up- At first he denied having any, but being pressed, ha
• ards of six milliOna annually. This was a patronage admitted that he had them, but said he had a house
ufficient:to enable any Minister to overturn the Con- at Bow—that the turpentine was to mix with paint, in
titutionand one he could never consent to see order to paint that house—that the pitch was to pitch
aced in the Crown. a gutter in the cellar, and the shavings were for
joir $, Dixon said, he was most ready to give his lighting the fire. In answer to this it was proved,
oice in favour of confining the export trade to the 'that the house at Bow had been painted but the month
.sit of London ; and so far he could agree with the before; that the gutter in question was lined with
' esolutions; but there were many subjects embraced lead, and required no pitch ; and that his servant
ii them, on whith he could at.preeent give no opi. used penny bundles of wood to light the fire, and
ion, and he tbereftwe trusted, the Court would not that there was plenty in, the house. In answer to
pressed to a decision oil the question that day. this case the prisoner grounded his defence on the
Sir. R. C. GLYNN agreed with Lord Buckingham- following circumstances .—that his shop was well
. ire, that the merchants of this country had a right stocked, and therefore he had no need to defraud the
. as much trade as they could enjoy, without injury office—That his circumstances were good—That his
,i' other national interests; but he maintained that character was good—But that his wife was in the
se interest; of the country were opposed to the pro- habit of being intoxicated, and therefore she had pro-
.ositon which Ministers were expected to submit to bably been the occasion of the fire. He called wit-
' arliametit. He spoke at some length in
,favour of nesses to all these points ; which being done, the
E
re. ast Ihka pothpany.
Learned Judge summed up the case with great mi.-
Mr. WitOrilatatr thought that Court ought not to !lateness, when the Jury returned a verdict of—Not
. ecide on .rx parte evidence. He did not understand Guilty.—TheCourt wasexceedingly crowded. Smith
is proposition, likely to be submitted to Parlianient, is a man advanced in years, somewhat corpulent and
nould go to take away all the power and importance wears powder—his premises in New,gate-street, which
f the East India Company. If the transfer of the -um' destroyed, were insured in the Atlas Office (ac-
. fort trade to the outports would injure the City of, cording to the evidence of their Secretaiy) to the
indoo, and also the outports themselves, then it amount of £2600.
ould be their duty to do every thing in their power
• keep it confined to the port of London. He, how-
ver, bad not yet made up his mind on the subject,
arc could he make up his mind till he had further
formation k and he thought the ooinion of that
..:art would have little weight, .if it were then et.
ritstetke 41 the Administration of the country nn Lt
• el, that It had come to a deterraination on that on
iiich it could.not be competent to decide. The nio-
,ipoly of the East India Company, he would say,svas
. h n one as no one would think of making if it were
st already
,made., lie was against coming to a de-
ive opinion, till they bad more information before
. ..
. He. was Lot favourable to' the present Mi-
isteri,' • and would do any thing in reason lo displace
em, but he would not seize on this question for that
rpose .as some seemed disposed to do, while they
ietl.—o you have 91.0 to push this, and you may
Tpend upon it they must go.'? He was not moved
• these'arguments which were now urged with great
armth by those who formerly complained of the
onopoly.. He then noticed the conduct of the city
s embers, who hai so readily pleii3ed themselves to
pport the friends of the East India Company. The
,induct of the Directors he also noticed. They had
en for proceeding with cahriness and somprehen-
• e deliberation, but had nevertheless seemed tole.
bly warm, and when cue had risen who chffered
om them, he was immediately opposed ; and at
'other place the same Gentleman had not been inn;
cued to speak, us it •Wis stated that it was a • public
eeting fOr a-private purpose.. Mom a variety' of
servations, he again recommended it to them not
slily to come to a decision, and moved, as an
Mendinelit, that the Court should wait for ftirther
formation before they Cline to a decision on the

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

YoRK, J. 12.—Jame Hay, Joseph Crowther, and
Nathaniel MO, were tried for assaulting, putting in
fear, and taking from the person of James Brooke, at
Htiddersfield, in the West Riling of the county of
York, a promissory note; for the payment of money,
namely, the sam of one pound, and some silver and
copper coin, on the night of the 29th klovetrher last.
HJames Brooke lived at, Sheepridge, in the par ;sh of
uddersfield, near Fartovin.: he is a poor man. Some
men came to his house on the nigl:t of Sunday, the
.20th of November last, about ten o'clock ; he was
standing outside the door, near it ; the night was
dark ; one or two of them asked him, if he had got
a gun ? He told them, he had not, nor ever had.
One of them said he knew Brooke had a pistol : wit-
ness said } had one, but it was good for nothing.
They forced Brooke into his house : they had pistols
in their hands, and threatened to shoot him if he did
not give them a afi'l note, or a guinia note ; he told
them he had none ; but they said they would make
him 'find some ; shoved him into a chair, and told
him to'look into the fire, which he did ; prisoners
then went up_ stairs, and Brooke gave the pistol to
one of them. Children, 'who were in bed, screamed
out, op which prisoner Hay held pistols over their
heads; and said ifs they screamed he would lilow their
brains out. They then went down stairs, and Hay
insisted on Brooke opening the cupboard door, where
his money was: he desired his wife to open it. Hai
said if he would not open it, he would shoot him. Hay
tool; the money out of the drawer, told prosecutor he
had a r. 4 mind to blosi his head'off for telling him
'such a lie. They told prosecute!. and his wife' to
keep within doors two, hours. There was a watch
hanging by the clOck in Brooke's house when the
prisoner went in, and he did not see it after; priso-
neri had 'handkerchiefs' over their faces. (It ap-
peared from the evidence of Joseph 'Carter, an ac,
complice, that' they changed theit handkerchiefs, and
put thew en iu different directions alter each robbery).
Brooke had no doubt of the prisoner Hay being one
of the men, but he sad he had rather not swear to
him. The above facts were confirmed by the testi.
!worry of Joseph Career, an accomplice, and strength-
ened by the evidenie of two other witnesses, to whom
the prisoner had applied to. joie them in the system
of plunder, in order (as one of them expressed him-
sell in the language the prisoners used to them) " to
receive a property te• better their circumstances, by
Ibreaking houses and pluridering.7 The iccomplii.e
being corroborated by those persons in their testi-
mony, and the examMation of prisoner• Crowther
having been put-in and read,. after two witnesses had
been called as to the character of Hay, Which, pre-
vious to these unhappy times; they stated to be good ;
the Jury, after a short consultation, brought ip a ver-
dict of Guilty against-the three prisoners.
The trials now clospd ; after which two prisoners,
David 'Woodman and.Jaria Smith were arraigned upon
an indictment for burglary ; but Mr. 1341.1tKE said, he
trusted•that as the ringleaders of these deluded men
were already executed, and several others were under
conviction of capital felonies, they wriuld see the
error of their ways, and that by the punishment in-
flicted; and about to be inflicted on those convicted,
the race and tranquillity of the country would be
restufecL The prisoners were Ibtretcre acquitted, no

testion.
Mr. Alderman Biacir and Mr. Alderman Hay-
-1.11: spoke in favotir- of the East India Company.
Mr. QUIN rose to reply ; bt:t the impatience of the
Diat to adjoins) was so peat, that Se could'oi,t
ikeed. It was finaiiy. agreed to adjourn the disi
ission till Monday se'nnight, and the Court instne-
li'tely brae 'up. . •

A curi:pus circumstance.--The Ticket N 0.11,6431
yesterdat a him: of £5OO, was 5.44.1 in shares
Evros :—the san►e number, a few yeas ba..k,
u draWn a Pr'w,e of re 20,006, and likewise shared
Evrox.

Aa untried pedectrian has engaged for a wager of
10 guineas to ptrforin' the wonderful task of ten
m one hour. on Monday next, on Sudhnry
rri mon, and to give Carte§ the pugilist, a mile at
ing.
4. very unfortun&te event occurred at Cambridge
the evening of Monday 4'1111713M. Mr. William
ci:et, grocer, in bidne;-vreet, went into a room at
Beep Inn, when a dispute arose between Wu and
il;I:rn Flack, which-occasii ned a.challenge to fight,
d :lie parties immediately adjo,uned to the garden ;
en, a;:or glitinst• a short time, stocker lei t down,
arently much hurt; iu Consegnehde of which he
a corveyed to a 'rot.rn, and surgical assistanceigt.
diately procured ; but the tnif&tunate man 'ex•
d in gbout three hours, a melancholy instance of
fatal effects of intemperance.—A Corooeifs In-
es~t was held on vier' of the hcidy,.When ine 7!lry
ned a verdict of Marrdaughkr.—Flack is cour-
ted to the town-gaol fcr trial attlie nen 49izes.
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