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London, England, 1813-12-13 00:00:00

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COVRT OF CHANCERY, DECEMBER n. o
FINAL JUDGMENT. held upon the body of-Mbses Merry, who was mur-
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area on Wednesday_Morning, in the horse of BER-
THA OPER.I-110U42.—WATERS V. TAYLOR.
NA R n Calm, Esq. in Kennington-lane.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, OR Saturday, pronounced
• Mr. Cohen dcposed;. that, the deceased had lived
and very elaborate and fie,
tnal judgmentears in this interes
occntinged
pi nfith hire( dope years, as servant. Upon the night of
much of the time and attention of the C urt. acrimoni caushat for y bad
the 7th, wiwitness went to bed at twelve o'clock,•where
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-The Court was -crowded by the periormers and he lay till he was disturbed, at four, by one of his fa-
amateurs who told him a gun or pistol had beeti.just cis-
SirS. Rosneev, and Mr. Center, in conclusion, forcharged,
the defendant, together with the long reply of Mr. followed the report. Witness got up immediately and
HART, fOr the
went down to. the kitchen ; the door communicating
plaintiff,
froin the lower part Of the house to the garden was
His Lordship premised his 'decree by observing,
locked, as usual, and not being able to open it, wit-1
that the painful task of dissolving the copartnership
ness went by another door into the garden, and upon
in this concern had been forced upon him by the par-
looking at the kitchen window, found that the shutter
ties themselves, who had most obstinately persevered
had been • ,red from its hinges, a pane of glass taken
in their discord, and thereby rendered the progress
. out. and .: ~ ;re leadieg to an alarm bell broken. In
of the performances wholly impracticable, since the
plaintiff,' owner of seven-sixteenths of the Theatre, this evellea the deceased usually slept. The witness,
with a mortgage of near £6OOO incumbrance upon upon looking in, saw the deceased lying on the floor,
' the remaining nine shares of the defendant, had no apparently dead. He called a watchman to his assis.
twice, and wear into the kitchen, where they found
concern or voice in the general Management of the .
concern, or contracting with performers or otbers for the deceased bleeding at the right temple, and com-
the use of the Opera-House, although, by the articles pletely dead. There was also a quantity of blood on
the floor. The witness had given a pistol to the de-
of copartnership, the concurrent assent of both par-
c
ties was stipulated for by the contract on all occa-
eased, some time ago, which was found in a field be-
yond the garden, the morning after the murder.—
sions,. and particularly in employing perfbrmers, as
, Witness picked up a short walking stick upon the pre-
well as the expenses of new pieces, none of which
miser. He also found a coat which the deceased
pieces was to incur more expense than three hundred
usually wore, in thegarden close to the kitchen window.
pounds, a sum in the modern state and taste of the
times, wholly inadequate to the representation, for a Sarah Mitchell deposed, that about a quarter before
twelve on the night of the 7th, she saw the deceased ;
season, of some pieces of interest,' little as he knew
of such matters, and censured as he may be fur his about that time the deceased went into the garden and
discharged his pistol, as was his custom ;—he then
want of taste or judgement in such exhibitions; nor
could he tell whether five or six thousand a year or i returned into the house, but did not reload his pistol,
season were too much or too little for the merits of not having powder and shot. About four o'clock in
Madam C. !alani. The new Trustees, Messrs. Const i the morning one of her young mistresses called her
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and Laten, having utterly refused to act, and the con-
p, and told her she had heard a noise in the kitchen;
I witness went down, and saw Mr. Cohen in the kitchen,
tinual violations of the deed by Mr. Taylor, from the
day of the date thereof, together with the ielusal of and also the deceased, who was lying on the floor.
Mr. John Revans, surgeon,of Kennington-lane, exa-
Mr. Waters to accede or assent to any act in contract
mined the body of the cleceased, found a woend on
pursuant to the covenants, render the further conti.
l part the riht le, on a line with the
nuation of this copartnership quite iMpossible ; of I
of rb he
it of ower
the eyeo ;f he opegnedtem the head, and found half
course it now stands dissolved, as the first prayer of i
a musket
. ball shout four inches in the brain.
the bill demanded. The next prayer was for an ac-
count, which Kas a matter of course Do such a disso-
Wilful Murder against some person or persons un-
lution, which was the result of the acts of the parties . known.
themselves, and not of the Court in forcing it upon
them, whether the same were a limited concern or at
pleasure, or like another Theatre en the opposite side
of the Haymarket--a perpetual tenure by lease re-
newable for ever. It must he treated like all part-
nerships where the same be,ame quite impracticable.
The sale of the concern must iilio be decreed as
prayed for, to pay the plaintiff, as well as Mr. Har-
ris, of Covent-garden Theatre, and the other in.
cumbrances upon the Theatre; but previous to the
sale, an inquiry or report of some sort should be made
of the estimated value of the concern, since it would
be absurd to decree an absolute sale of property not
valued at any price whatever. The s,le shall take
place as soon as possible; and as Mr. Taylor stands
removed from,the general management of the House,
a new Manager was of course prayed for, and to be
granted ; but this was -the most difficult question to
be considered, and on that consideration his Lordship
promised his sentiments in the course of three or four
days.—Upon the whole, his Lordship pronounced
judgment for the plaintiff.

BOW-STREEL—On Saturday, about twelve o'clock,
as Wcstcote, one of the patrole belonging to this
Office, was passing through the Piazza, Covent-
Garden, he met Bird, a suspicious character,
who had a large bundle with him, which contained
seven lean turkies. He said he lived on Croydon
Comion, had bred the tutkies, and was taking them
to market to sell. He afterwards said, he had them
from a man, but he could not tell who he was. A
poulterer who saw them observed, that from the state
they were in, he was of opinion they had been taken
from a roost. The prisoner was therefore committed
for another examination. In about an bout-after he
was.committed, a man, who was in company with
Bird at the time he was stopped, called at the Of.
• fice, and requested to see hint, when lie was taken
into Custody, and on him were found some SOUL'S
and a poulterer's knife, in consequence of which he
was also committed, but to a different prison. He
I said his name was J. Blake. Bird is known by the
names of Stunnel, Jay, and Kanal ill. The turkies
are suspected to have been stolen Irem the neigh-
bourhood of Hammersmith.
John Morris and Sarah, his wife, were charged
with forging and uttering an order to receive prize-
money? with an intent to defraud the Commissioners
of Greenwich Hospital, and were committed for fur-
ther examination.
IV. Webb was charged with stealing four broaches,
the property of J. Edwards, on the 30th of March,
1812. The prosecutor stated, that it had cost him
3E70 in pursuing him ; in the mean time, part of the
property had been in. Mr. Lane, the pawnbroker's
window, in Holborn, and directions were riven not
to dispose of it ; but not being able to get the thief,
lit had been sold. He was fully committed.
HATTON-GARDEN.—S iturday Jaws Harrison and
,i James (Advert, -late timber-merchants in the neigh.
bourhood of Hatton Garden, charged with having a
great quantity of stolen property in their possession,
: were brought up for a third exarnination, before Mr.
Lt cu, the Sitting Magistrate, when the following
additional charges were brought against them :
William Jewry, a carpenter, residitig on Back hill,
! swore to six pair of window frames and sashes, his
• property, found among the wood brought from the
prisoner's premises, and which were stolen out of a
new built house of his, which was untenanted ; they
j were set in lime and mortar, and worth about

At the Manor Court, at Mkefield, a trial lately
took place, which has contributed much to elucidate
the canse of the great failure in the crop of onions in
that neighbou hood. A famous dealer in onion-seed
had stocked the whole country with seed, just int-
ported from Holland, and stated to be of a superior
quality, but which had been sea-dipped, and conse-
quently rendered not worth a farthing. The payment
of a balance due for some of this infamous trash was
resisted, and, after a trial which lasted some hours,
and in which many respectable witnesses gave evi-
. deuce to the worthlessness of this seed, the plaintiff
was cast with costs, to the great joy of .a numerous
Court, and particularly of the gardeners, of whom
numbers were present. It appeared on this trial, that
most of the growers of onions in the whole district,
from Selby to Hointloith,- had been duped by this
pretended excellent seed. The seller, if the De-
fendant's statetnent is any, thing near correct, must
have cleared some hundreds of pounds by this honest
transaction.

Wednesday night a fire la-akc ant on board the
Leonidas transport, Capt in CI Ar, lying off Red-
house; Dtptford, wl.ich raged with such violence sh it
in a few hours the vessel was burnt to the water's
edge. Six of the crew were on bo ird, and did all in
their power to stop the progress of the flames, without I
effect. The vessel was in ballast, but the Captain and ,
most of the crew lost all they possessed, from the ra-
pid and alarming progress of the fire. The cause of
the accident cannot be accounted for.
Saturday afternoon, an alarming fire broke nut in
John-street, Chelsea, which threatened destruction to
the whole of that newly erected place ; but, form.,
nately, by the prompt exertions of the surroundhig
inhabitants, the tire was extinguished, but not before
the whole of the house, in which it commenced, with
all its furniture, wassionsunied.
following dreadful accident happened at Old
Buckenham on Thursday se'nnight :—A little girl,
eignt years of age, daughter of a labouring man of
the name of Blackborne, being employed by a farmer
to keep the birds from a field of elm, took the child
of a neighbour named Moore, to bear her company ;
the weather being cold and wet, they collected smile
stubble and made a fire in the field, which the youngest
going too near, her clothes caught fire ; the eldest
park her in her arms, and fled with her to a neighbour-
ing watering-place ; with the motion they were both
soon enveloped in flames, whereby the youngest was
immediately burnt to death, and the eldest, although
able medical assistance was obtained, survived only
till the following day.
Early in the morning of Tuesday, a private sol-
dier in the Derby regiment of Militia. was found
dead in a cow-house, in the parish of Duckland, near
Dover. It appeared upon the Coroner's Inquest,
that the deceased had been drinking at the Cherry
Tree public-house, in Buckland, on the preceding
evening,.and had partaken* so freely of the liquor, as
to render himself incapable of reaching the barracks.
Verdict—Died by Intoxication.

Edward Canard, of Sidmouth-street, Gray's-inn-
lane Road, swore to eight pair of window frames
and sashes, his property, which was part of the stolen
property found on the premises of the prisoners;
these frames were nut fixed in lime and mortar, like
the last, but were taken out of a new house in Har-
rison-street, where they were locked up ; they were
worth about 131.

William Simpson, a carpenter, residing at No. 5,
in Compton-street, Clerkenwell, swore to several
planes, saws, and other tools found on the premises of
the prisoners, to be his property.
Mr. William Daws, timber merchant, of Long
Cottage, City-road ; Mr. dairies Clare, of Northamp-
ton-row, Spa-fields, cabinet maker ; Charles Butford,
upholsterer, of Hinton ; and Giles Bird, plasterer,
of Perceval street, Pentonville, whose yards have
been robbed, and the stolen property found on the
prisoner's premises, consisting of several pairs of best
mahogany bed pillars, Honduras planks, Spanisis
wood,nd flooring planks, were all severally bound
over to prosecute, and the prisoners committed for
another examination on Wednesday next, when they
are to be brought up to answer fresh charges.
MANS ros- H OUSE.—Saturday, J. Valby was charged
with stealing a quantity of indigo, the property of
Messrs. Mac Taggart and Co, in Mincing-lane. The
prosecutors had tor some time back missed a quan-
tity, and though every endeavour was made by them
to discover with whom the deficiency arose, all their
t efforts proved in vain, till at length they communi-
cated the business to one of the City Officers ; who,
finding that the prisoner had at all times access to the
warehouse, searched him, and found sundry pieces
concealed about his clothes, as well ac inside his hat.
He was committed for a further hearing.