Star.
London, England, 1823-12-13 00:00:00

SIR GREOORY PAGE TURNER.

A Commission for incr
iringinto the state of mind of
Sir Gregory Page Turntr, Bart. at present residing in
London, was opened yesterday morning, at the Gray's.
inn Coffee-house. At ten o'clock precisely, Mr. Whit-
marsh, the senior Commissioner, took the Chair, when
eighteen Jurors answered to their names, and were
sworn. Samuel Mills, Esq. was the foreman. The
points of inquiry' directed by the Commission were—
whether Sir Gregory Page Turner was of sound mind,
and able to manage his affairs? and if so, whether he
had alienated any lands, tenements, &c. whilst in that
Slater. aadneat,.who was his heir ?
Mr. WiIITMAIRIM then addressed the Jury, and, after
Stating to-them the objects which they werensummoned
klr, added,- that h am deemed expedient by the Lard
Chancellor and the different Counsel engaged in the
*atter. that the Jury should inspect the houte-in Villieb,
'Sir Gregory resided, in Bedfordshire. Their first duty.
,weeld be, therefore, to comply with this suggestion.
algidWould leave it to them to arrange when and in
'whit manner they Should. proceed.
• Seveteld the Jury inumated a desire to be excused
ftem-the troabletifprireseding into Bedfordshire. and
Mid that it would be :efficient foe the Majority if a pelt
Stilt' went down and reported the result to them.
Mr. DSlUlAitt on behalf of the petitioners. stated that
the Lard Cleisoeßor's Oltenia, was imperative, and that
Skolo4.oll4llo,itould be exdosed from rang
'down.-
: -Taltat riadlii edit the Airy agreed to, meet at Sir G.
Pa e TurutiosiiouseouTuesday nacenings:at tea o'clock..
• .-::-
Pa
Gisrat Commiastattita stated that; a solicitor
'Wo 'Trident! them over the premises. •It.was necessary
fdr , 'its to apprise then! that the furniture, arid . parti-
eularly the contents of several large boxes which would
hasittireitted to them, required their minute attention.
• TherCamt Was then adjourned to Friday next, at nipe
O'elocke ....
.
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IFINTRI -CIRCUIT.
catLatsrpitto, DE.clitismt it
• lip irs Caschfals,. aged 18, and Mantas ;Vickers, a
horstAOraler, were indicted, the former for stealing, and
the latter for receiving, knowing it to be stolen, a mare,
the property of Mr. Thomas Weeks, of South Lam-
beth. The facts of the ease were these :—The.Prisoner
had lived servant with Mr: Weeks, who is a builder, for
a month and a few days. Me then absconded, taking
with,him the mare. in question, a cart, and harness.
Aker some difficulty: the horse was traced to the pox
session of a butcher in the neighbourhood of Chelms-
ford, who had bought it of the prisoner \Vickers—the
pithoder Wickert having bought it of Catchfale at a
Ng low priee. •.: -
-Under all the -circumstances, the jury :acquitted
Wickers, who produced several respectable persons to
speak to his
.tharecteirr but found Catchfale—Guilty,
against whom the capital conViction was recorded...
The Learned JUDOS made some severe animadver-
sions an the conduct of Wickers, in purchasing a horse
from such a youth without due inquiry. -
Mary Dane was indicted for the wilful murder of her
illegitimate male child,aV.Chadwell, in this county, on
the 21st of July. ..,. . : ''
It appeared in evidence 'that the prisoner was sister
to the wife of a soldier.beloneng to the 12th regiment
'Of foot. On the seventh •of ..isity the regiment em-
barked from Chatham to Titbury Fort, where they
kwere 'bedecked. Oa. the meta from Chatham the
plower had the epPearanee of a pregnant woman. She
was unable to walk, and Complained of.the jllting of
ithe.baggage-waggon. . At Tilbury Fort the married
soldiers and their wives were in
.the habit of sleep-
ing in a room appropriated to , them ; in the night,of
the 21st of July the prisoner was extremely ill, and was
attended by her sister; next day; a male •child was
found in a privy belonging to the barrack*: 4. l'i'
.. asfoit.id.,
and, in cutler to detect the mother of it, the' *nip
quated expedient was resorted to, of compelling the
women in the barracks to touch the body.. The prisoner
and her sister touched the body, and immediately, after.
wards both went into strong fits. No satisfactory proof
was given that the child was bora alive; but there wei
acr doubt that the prisoner was. thelnother. "..
'Vie Learned JUDO* told the Jury that. Aar alatt
leave the capital part of the ease oet of their.eremitlem:i
ation, there Win% no' proof that the child was born aliires
his Lordship lefi it to them to say, whether
. 'of concealiag the birth was made out--whethed
?ism
' . Ares dead or alive, made no difference as eec
chit iiihistion. - •
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The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the muhier, bdt
Conti het guiltia(coecealisig its birth of the child.
• The.Cousur seute)med the prisoner to three months
Impriemaient. .
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The annual Smith= t;ll22lr2a2sstonsts Cattle Shevrcota:
rneneed hi Sant.en's Yard, Goteellttreet, yeiterdaf.
The cattle that sseteeXhibia4 4.01 r4r,WPVsict :090,
4 former years, and the coops was, litecO. mete Dar,
rectous than-oa any preceding occasion. The Doti of
Ornminuttite, . Sir Jima ibteausaii,'"i' iiseSt2 of the
ging agricelteristt, vire: ptpept; )1,94 likeir df
pooh and 'Mrs Cots are expect it 4 tkf 0 "Ulip,
L . suet blander. ' Tswenereis- sok litibisefik*-iifert
turd into the clutrionetder.
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MURDER OF M.R. 11101 FORD.
COMISSION7.I)I74us pArAwr.
Coramoroko, Faubame—John Pallet, the Fisc;ner
Committed under the Coroner's warrant for the com-
mission of the above atrocious offence, arrived in town
last night. He was brought from Neeiport in a chaise
cart, with Kidman. 'who was examined as a witness be-
fore the Inquest, and the constable and jailer qf New-
port..lies hands were confined with handcuffs, and his.
.person was otherwise secured. Throughout the journey
he exhibited .a mixture of harcleeed 'villainy, and a
strong disposition to avow the deed. At length, as he
approached Chelnieford, the latter feeling prevailed ;
,-elthougirdtere was min uo manifestation of meet for
what he had done. He toad! several declarations which
betrayed the real state or the fact; and on arriving in
front ofthe Court-house, which he at once recognised
as the place of his trial, he expressed a wi di to see Mr.
Hall, the Attorney for the prosecution. Mr. Hall was
at the Saracen's Head Inn, and immediately came out,
and went to the side of the cart on which the prisoner
sat. The prisoner then addressed him, and said, is Mr.
Hall, there, is no use in denying it ; I murdered Mr.
Murnford." He then wencon to detail the particulars.
He stated his previous hostility to Mr. Mumford for
having pounded his rigs, and hawing him fined ss. for
being drunk. On the night of the murder be was on the
road when the Walden coach arrived, and heard Mr.
tlumford's name mentioned ; he then resolved to put
his sanguinary intentions into execution, and went to
a place which he described, and cut the stake which
he afterwards used to effect his diabolical purpose.
Mr. Mumford, who was a very small man, 23 years
of age, and extremely short-sighted, proceeded down the
lane towards his father's house, and with a stick which
he had burrowed was feeling his way ; when the pri-
soner first saw him he had advanced some distance, but
he soon overtook him; he was then about to strike the
fatal blow hut his heart failed him, and he desisted;
Mr. Mumford heard some person near him, but 'from
the defect in hii vi.ion, and the darkness of the night,
he could not see who it was; lie, laiwever, asked, in a
tone of alarM, ig who's there ?' the prisoner made no
answOr, but stood still, and withheld his breath;. Mr.
•Mumford then again. went on; and the prisoner, by a
short cut through a field got before him, and stood by
a .gate, ready once more to' strike ; his heart again
misgave him, and he again desisted ; Mr. Alumtord
went on to the spot in which his body was first seen
by, Mr. Smith, and thither the prisoner followed. him,
and made finally a desperate blow. at his head with
the bludgeon, which knocked off his hat ; with a se-
coed &low he felled him to the ground, and then, by re-
,peated strhkes, litaially smashed his 'skull to atoms.
-Having accomplished his 'dreadful purpose, be retired
a short distance frunsthe scene of slaughter, and re-
solved to run away; but„overpewered by the conscious-
ness of his villainy, lie became as it were rivitted to the
spot, and had not the peWer to move one foot before the
other, his eyes being' still directed towards the body of
his victim. • In this state, is a retired part:of the road,
he remained till Mr. Smith came up; he saw him ap-
proach the body and ride away; but still he did not
move. Once more he essayed tnescaise, and.to quit the
dreadful; spectacle,. but he' could nor • resist' the polarise
to again approach the laidi.tfiqd, WitifOirt_deterifirning
exactly on what he should du, he took it upon his shoul-
der, throwing the head behincli.and was earrying it in
that way when he was detected.- I,t-does not appear that
Mr. Mu mford made 'the 'sliettit
.'resists, iTidted,
ciunpared with the paioner, he Was tittestiy iiicapable of
coping with sech knAorigoeisr..
. Ou being. leitii4sil lihep-monerh.ad but 2s. 4.d.. int his.
pocket, and this, it is lieliiwett.betoOkirom ihe pocket
of Mr, Mumford, who, it appeats,.:barf.rety little cash
about him. His broiher lent him ss...before he left
'London, part of which he spent in soup previoes to his
letting on the coach, and with some-of what. remained
'he bought a few oranges, and then gave a trifle to the
coachman—so that he -could not have had more than
two or three shillings, about him.
On the prisoner being eatidisoted to the jail he .sheaved
'considerable apathy., .11i' was immediately double--
ironed, and placed in a cell under a proper geard...,oa
his way from Newport he spoke. as if he were aware.
that his doom was sealed. He however expressed great,
indifference its to what might come of his soul hereafter
—confining bisapprehefisions rather to what was likely
to happen. to his body on his death. He...bad evidently
a great dread of his body being anatomised, and spoke
of this with undisguised horror. lie acquitted Kid-
man of having taken any past in the dreadful deed.
Kidman, however, remains n thetown closely watched.
The profligate conduct i
of the prisexier has long been a
subject of animadversion in the neighbourhood in which
he lived, and his aged mother often expressed the
greatest anxiety as to his fate. She also tried, but in
vain, to check his career of guilt.
• Chelmsford, Friday, half-past six. u.
At a latebont last'night, all the witnesses who were
,examined berme the Coroner, arrived at the White Hart
Inn, in this town, and early this morning, Mr. Knapp,
the Clerk of the Arraigns, prepared the indictment.
• At tee o'clock the Grand Jury assembled in their
,room, pursuant to adjournment, and very shortly after-
wards the witnesses on the back of the bill, seventeen
in number, were swore in Court by Mr. Wells, the crier.
The bill was then taken before the Jury, and the wit-
sesses were called in. At eleven the Grand Jury en-
`toted the Court, and announced that they bad. found
..a true bill against John Pallet, for'. Murder." -
It was imagined that the trial would take place fil-
mediattely, but the depositions not having been returned
;to the Learned Judge, and some prisoners still reaulin-
, ing to be tried, Mr.Justiee Esau qsolved fo.take: sire
I car the first Alm' Ltortoonowroormng, the"opit-•
.nesses were dared, to' be in attendapfe iteOrAlutglY.
.The prisoner, unae his arriv has obtai,ied 0.11‘0.11011
of some money, pad, bas
.easjslti/ed an .4tt,orttly,. pad.
Counsel. Mr. BeODIUMEsipq m der
conduct die.prtiseerasots,
'end Mr. Ji.s.sorhos been iraine4 fqr the encr-
The prisoner fiersisti that, F4ditiatl teqi him the knife
*Cut the stick, and ibitJaeifriea,e4hir# of *Mr; Mra'
feseces.,haeing,gOne dos a ,latte.‘ 11* laikl maintains
his tames. s, and only' (Wits- OW:INF boa, jpojt be
!Ova. to hi! friends, that he ot3y,k! Vits#l,iri bis,parish.
.....1;410,-* a jouot rnao,ok.moser; about
tWfRi7-twO /firs• nark :ko.ver 'rita
IC4aPlain the jail been.eagaged hini some
lime. •.
TO clothes witiCh the .assumed' iiitiaderer.artitf at
the sime:cri 9taierpetration ,of the.haurd . • diedi..
'seen traosioitted here, and are fOinccf ivi"th *Os
The Apierican. Captains Supercargnes it line
Have ptotisted vgatnst the *ci-
f :the 9LittlinerGenetal• tegardiarthe flrdei. fn
tin ii additional &mks. on Ametidait pro-I
gakelidr sticlV 4tissels }Ws-
' l'erintriAitheseadditionil chargef.

WEST:IgINATER- COURT OF REQUESTs.
catrrurpgragaret ifarlircamiums, ;pie. i i .

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HILLIER V. thltllli..••4l6.lta: *kb> recover the
value of part of a Lady's. ark. idi,di4 not suit her ;
viz.—a gown, said. to have been spoiled. by Mrs.Harrit,
who had been employed by the plaintiff to snake it;
and the demand was made out in this way :—ten yards.
of certain silk and stuff, at 2s. a yard, being IL-25.4d.
for tri filming, and .ss. which had been paid for the making,
being together IL 7s. 4d. When the defendant was
called on to say whether she admitted the charge, she
indignant_ly denied the misfitting ; she never misfitted,
not..she • and if there. was any fault, it must be in the
plaintiff's figure, and not.in her abilities. Mrs. Hillier,
a tall thin personage, repelled this with considerable
warmth ;--her figure, indeed ! it was no such thing ;
she assured the Coen that the sleeves of the garment.
which should have been long sleeves, did not come mbch
below her elbows ; and as for the skirt, it was so shout
as to exhibit her legs se much, above the ancle as to be
anything but decent: as she did not'like to shew her legs,
or to have them shewn at the caprice of Mrs. brarris,
she hopei the tommissioners would 'artier payment of
her debt. Moreover she brought *winless, who had
seen the gown tried nn, and had beheld the display
of wrists and antes spoken of. Mrs. Harris, seeing the
Commissioners about to decide, and probably thinking
it might be againsi, her, ventured to hint that she did
not think that they were proper judges of her case; what
should they know about gowns, and the fitting of gowns:
however they dismissed the case, w;th an nnderscanding
that the contumacious dress-maker should alter the gar-
ment so as to fit Mrs. Hillier in a way that should not
subject her, to indecent erposures (perhaps they were
thinking of the Vagrant Act), without any fresh charge,
or'otherwie pay the amount.
nee v. TUCK.—The parties in this•case, and a wit-
ness for the plaintiff, were, as they described themselves,
" regular cads" at Charing cross—that is, they were a
part of that phalanx of nuisances who ply for the va-
rious stage-coaches at St. PAW'S Piccadilly, Grace-
church-street, etc. and who frequently, by force of arms,
run away with young and old Ladies, and, whether
they will or no, pack them off by the stages they are
employed for, right or wrong—sending a 'Kennington
passenger to Kensington, or a Richmond one to. Rom-
ford, and so on. This was not a case of that sort, but
for money lent. Mister ,Pice had lent Mister Tack cer-
tain monies, at Is. a time, till they amounted to the sum
of 11..55. (a plum to a ccd), and this too had,been done
to comfort poor Tack when his fortunes ran low, and
his thirst higis; when he was loaded with distress, and
coaches did not load at all ; and many was the " drop
of comfort" these five and twenty shillings had \pur-
chased for Tuck; but when (as the wheel of fortune
will turn, as well as a coach-wheel) Pice found himself
going down, and Tuck had taken his turn upwards, he
ventured-to ask the rising cad for his blunt, as he called
it. Tuck laughed at him, said it was all gammon, and
would not refund a farthing : he did not mind treating
him with a glass of blue ruin, but as to paying him any
thing, he would be ruined himself first. Thus denied,
'PiCe sbught legal redress, and Tuck .was now asked
• how he would pay -it ? but he only laughed—indeed,
if philosopher at all, he was a laughing philosopher—
and he seemed to bare been sacrihcing at his favourite
*brine, that of Bacchus, till he cared for nothing nor no-
body, and 'he almost said as much. The witness for
Pice was now called in, and he deposed to his having
heard the defendant, Tuck, acknowledge the debt,
when the Court instantly ordered him to pay it. This
etas like en electric shock to the laughter and gin-lov-
iag Tuck, who became sad and chapfallen, and hum-
bly begged for time to pay it, which being grarstect, he
departed the Court infinitely sobereth' - --• •

• • SPORTI,VG

• '7. -• s• •

The FA of Derby's Stag-hoonds meet as Tuned— ai at Cotter
. .
. .
hrn Common. .
H.lofiffe; Esq.'s foi-hounds'.ot Wednesday, at Boz-hill; Sa-
titirday.- at .Ketnel. '
Thikturry. Foz-bounds meet on Monday, at Riddlesdovra;
1/fiursday, at Batley Hill. .
v The Harriers no Monday, Wednesday. and Saturday, at Kennel
Sir B. Graham's Hounds niteet on Monday, at Hilton ; Widnes.
day, at Castle Hill ; Friday, at Waibill Top. ,
Mr. Littleton's Buck.honnds ou Wednesday.' at Saredon.