Star.
London, England, 1824-02-23 00:00:00

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'LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET-MAKERS
SOCIETY, for /very Description of CABINET FURNI-
TURE, FEATHER BED and MATTRESS MANUFAC-
TORY, N 0.71, Oornerof LEA DE NH A L L-ST RE ET, London,
poposise Akigate Pan*, Ream Mostar Om.s. •
Society of Cattinct4dakartrespecefully inform
tht Public lltat they still sontinue ,the above Establishment,
the Week- of Indastilous "Mechanics Who have large Families,
them Manafeetumid Ankles in the Cabinet Line of the
best Wielonanship, and IP -pper thao any House can do in London,
there bells no Other peat wired en the Goods but the bare
house ans)..other aspen wit;aw• • time wlli be udikiently
ta-
dsSed with hatingensielsiittiesoolyggient for themselves and families.
• 'This Society was June 191'8, consisting of 20
- also 411washor elf their Viines and Families,
aupouoted tam ,TbeAtocat likpophsc now receiving Support through
the Means Of this 125 Meeharnics; adding the
namherast and ii . .
The Society and digit F,wasillae beL.leave to return their sincere
thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured
diem with their .tirdess- and Recommendations, and• shall always
reel happy in their endeavours ,to give future satisfaction; at the
same time solicit a Continuance of their Benevolence, whereby'
they may he enabled to increase the Number of the Society.
Ths..following Articles are inserted as a Specimen of the very Low
Prices, all warranted.-.-Ready Money only.
Full size Mahogany feu pest Bedstead, lath bottom £3. ISs.-
Full size tent Bedstead Xl. 65.-Bordered hair .Alattress to fit
Xl. ls.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends £5. :U.-Feather Bed
108. -=Ditto, free from dust and smell,lfull size £3. .10s.-Siz
japanned Chairs of any description in oil £l. 65.-Best do. Wash-
hand-stand Mis.-Dicos, Dressing • Table 165.-Hearth Rugs 14s.
feetitkte,tbest of btaWers X 4. 45.-Tbroe-foot mahogany
Pembroke Table 41. .18s.-Three-foot ditto on pillars and claws
£3. 165.-Mahogany Dressing Table XL-Ditto Bidett, best
01. 45.-.lDitto Box Glass, 8 drawers, best British Plate 155.-
nitto ditto RI. Si-Ditto Sahli Glass, large size, commode 35.-
Ditto ditto .s.-Ditto ditto ea.-Ditto ditto 125.-Tray Stand 7s.
-Long Mangan/ Thy Ills.-Japanned Book Shelf 71.-Tea
Caddy Ms.-Music Chairs-any pattern as. 6d.-Eight Mahogany
Chairs, covered with horse hair, brass nailed £6. 65.-8 ditto ditto
£6. 155.-6. ditto ditto X 7.18.-8 Trafalgar ditto £B. 11s.-Ma-
hoganef Sofa to match £6. 10..-Ditto Couch £7.10x.-Ditto ditto
£8.105.--Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, on turned legs,
banded in rose-Wood AIL 155.-Set of Mahogany Tables, two Card
and Sofa, on pillars and claws £l2. 125.-Ditto, the best that can
be made-to order or pattern £l6. 10s.-Straw Palliasse £l.
Tent *Bedstead and furoitstre 154.-Bambsso -Bedstead and
Frenehelliptic..tap, with drapery and fringe, £B. 10s.-Five-foot
mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with French draperies,
lined all thrones, complete, An. 10s.-Five-loot ditto ditto
Xl6. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, with cornice, of a superior make, 416.10 a.
-Ditto ditto, with gold cornice elegant drapery, £20.-Draw-
ing-room Curtains,,of the best Marine and Chime, Stied fur window,
£6.6}.-Ditto ditto el. 71.-Ditto, of a superior. and. elegant style
of work, £lO. 10s.-Drawing-room Sofa X 6 6i.-Ditto 467.75.-
Ditto X 6. ds.-Horse-hair Cusbiona,eack6u6d.-Common do. 4s.
W. THURNELL, Agent.
COUNTItY DZALtRS SUPPLIVX

Goods packed free-of expense, except the• n. aterials, and sent to
all pasts of Great Britain.and to the East and West Indies.—Cap-
tains fitted out, and Merchants supplied with Cabinet Goods for
Exportation.
o.* Apartments Furnished at a few boars' notice, and
Houses in two or four days.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

FIRE IN, WATLING-STREET.
THUILTZLL V. SEAUKONT.

Ma. Entroa—ln justice to the character of a respectable man,
:Mr. Wrigglesworth, who has been. shamefully maligned /in the pro-
ceedings against an application for a new trial, decided last Thurs-
I day, 1 am induced to make known some facts to the Public,
through your means, which the rules of Court forbade being re-
ceived in evidence. It is a lamentable inconsistency, that while
the affidavits in support of a rule are.sifted and canvassed, replied
to, and opposed by counter-affidavits from the opposite party, the
affidavits of such opposite party are precluded from disproof. The
speciousness of their connection, the grossness of their falsehood,
the infamy of the characters making them, may be capable of com-
plete exposure by.evidence, but not a word will be received. In
this unequal conflict, the artful or dishonest replicant is almost
sure to prevail. •
In excuse, it is said, that if affidavits in reply were suffered to
bt disproved, there would be no end to affidavits. But this is a
bad excuse. It need nut be so. If some little additional trouble
be required for an examination whether affidavits be true or false,
it ought not to be grudged. Substantial truth and justice ought to
be the paramount object of all legal investigations, not facility in
getting through eaent ur rid of them.
Mr. Wrigglesworth became a witness in this cause in the follow-
ing manner :—On the morning after the trial in the Pleas, last
July, a Mr. Edward Bottrel entered the County Fire Office, and
informed one of the clerks that he called in consequence of having
just seen an account of the trial in the newspapers. He said, that
soon after the fire, a man whom he knew, of the name of Brad-
shaw, had applied to him, and asked hint to make out false invoices
for the Thurtells, as of goods sold by hint to them, offering him 30
per cent. on their amount for doing so, which offer he had refused.
He wal in consequence introduced to me, when he repeated this
statement, and added, that Bradshaw was a man in bad circum-
stances, and for a sum of money would, no doubt, come forward
and ptovc the case against the Tisurtells. I treated this tender as- I

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had all others from the connexions u. _
give or promise anything, and this piece of evidence re,,
ground. He then told me be had 'hewn the account of the tibia
to Ik. Wrigglesworth, who had been the manatee at btemr%
Margraves, and who, upon reading it exclaimed—" Now thharnie-;
der's out! This accounts for Snowden's sales, whith;;always
puzzled me;" he lidded, that Mr. Wrigglesworth, who was a very
intelligent man, =hose accuracy I might depend, could prove
the whole of the on. This, of course, led to an interview
with Ala Wrigglesworth, and I found him all that he war described.
A word now, on the affidavits of Snowden and Margraves,which
to my utter astonishment, the Court bas declared to have " corn-
pletely answered " that of Wrigglesworth. Now is it completely
answered? In these affidavits there is a long parade of denials of
things not affirmed, and of averments which are nat disputed, and
some immaterial circumstenats are answered, but all that is mate-
rial is evaded or admitted. The sum and substance of Wriggles-
worth's affidavit is, that Thurtell's purchases of goods from Todd's
snd Leaf a were clandestinely sold to Margraves, through the
agenty of Snowden, and that the invoices on the (tale and thi! re-
sale were alike. Is any iota of this denied? Does Snowden deny
that he sold those goods to Margraves, as agent for l'hurtell?,--
No. Does he venture to swear for whom, if not fur Thurtell, he was
agent?—Nn. So much for Snowden, for the present. Well—Do
Margraves deny having bought the goods "of Snowden, as agent ?"
No. Do they not, by the copies of invoices which they have deli-.
raced* cParokorate eetsfirm all that isanetarial in Wriggles-
worth's affidavit?. UhdoebtedlY they do. The silence of Snowden
to the above most important averments of Wrigglesworth is tanta-
mount to a full confession. This fatal silence was strongly and re-
peatedly remarked upon by the Chief Justice, while the affidavits
were under discussion. How he came the next morning, when de-
livering judgment, to pass it over as he did, I confess myself unable
to explain.
The affidavit of one Taylor, that Mr. Wrigglesworth is unde-
serving of belief on his oath, for which bold assertion he gives no
reason, is too contemptible to merit further remark. Affidavits
of this description are procurable by the infamous at a few shillings
each at any time. Many of this tribe of swearers have been with
me, offering to turn upon their employers, if I would pay thecae.-
1 have tee letters now before me, from a fellow of the name of..
which state, that " under certain conditions," he
could put me in possession of important information. I saw this
Mtn in jail. He told me that he had been employedhy the Thurteile
on the former-trial--that they had not paid him as they promised
....and that several firemen were engaged to .swear efalsely against
us: that he knew. of owo men who would prove everything I
wanted; but he Intimated 'that he must be relieved from his
then distress, and he asked me if I•woukl appoint him a fireman or
an agent to the office? I refused to give or promise him anything,
or to have anything to do with him. Rejected by .me, this man
now swears again for his old employers, and affirms that he saw a
quantity of bontbasines in the suing of Thurtell's premises, a fact
which is denied by every one else.
Titeobloquy which was lavished upon Mr. Wrigglesworth by a
Learned Serjeant, who is rather remarkable for his latitude of
speech, I think was creel. Mr. Wrigglesworth .is A family man, •
and has always moved in respectability, and formerly in a higher
sphere than at present. He came forward without fee or reward,.
or the request, or the promise, of either, to further the ends of pub.
lie justice. Are not these ends likely to be defeated, if men cannot :
become witnesses without being held up to public scorn? Is it
generous to destroy the fame and wound the feelings of a man who
is forbidden to speak for himself? I have made inquiry in the
City, and find that MieWrigglesworth's character,stands high. Mr..
Kitson, in whose employ he now is, tells me that be has known him,
and respected him, for twenty years; that before he es gaged him be
inquired of .Ir. alargrave as to his conduct • with him. Mr. Alex-
grave said that no fault could be found with his integrity and-moot. .
conduct, and that be should be happy to promote his views in life.
I cannot close this letter without noticing two propositions in the
judgment of the Learned• Judge, in which the interest of the public
appears to me very materially compromised. One imputes an
propriety in indicting the Thurtells and the rest, for. a crime, while
an action was pending between one of the parties and the prosecu-
tor; bow is this impropriety made out? Do not all jurisconsuks
agree that the trial of an offender ought to follow the offence as .
speedily as may be, so that the facts may be fresh .in recollection ;
that the witnesses may be forthcoming; and that 'punishments,
when necessary, may succeed to the crime, before the impression
which it has created on the Public shall have been forgotten ? If.
an action fur debt or damages between panics were a bar to.an in-
dictment, offenders, on detection, would frequently raise such ac-
tions to prevent a prosecution, or to gain time, during which a witness
might be got out of the way, or to induce the prosecutor tp corn- ,
promise ; or, if an action were already subsisting means woold be
found for protracting it, to delay or defeat a prosecution: I cannot
conceive any one good reason for delaying the course of justice on
such an account, unless, indeed, in regal dto the prosecutor. He lays
hineself open to suspicion and observation in high the suits;
and no doubt there have been instances where base characters
have instituted criminal charges to intimidate a creditor from pro.
seeding in his suit. But these cases are few. • They are always
viewed with ample jealousy, and they are open to exposure. They
are cases of rare exception, whiffs afford no reasonable grounds for
delaying the regular administration of crimuud justice. Will any
unprejudiced man say, that the ends of justice would have been
served, if we had left the Thurtells to the free exercise of their
practices on the Public, until the final disposal of their claim upon
the County Office?
The other proposition broadly affirms that neither perjury nor
conspiracy in witnesses are sufficient grounds for a new trial. Ac-
cording to this doctrine, if a case be got up against a man by false
witnesses, and a verdict be thereby obtained against him, even to
the alienation of his whole property—and if, in the interval between
tilt verdict and judgment, the sufferer be able to bring to justice,
and convict the false witnesses, the corrupt proceeding is yet to
stand good—the false judgment is to proceed ; he is not to have the
benefit.of a new that, but be must sink under known and proved
perjury and conspiracy ! I submit to the dispassionate judgment of
the Public, whether this subjugation of property to the power of
fraud...tad perjury. is not really appalling ?
We know to our sorrow the proverbial uncertainty of the law.
We know that, according to the mode of trial In England, the farts -
and witnesses intended to be produced, are kept as seclet as puede ag,„
ble, until the hour of display in Court. How then We defendant
instanter to disprove perjured statements, and expose unworthy wit- •
nesses, if such appear. He cannot—a verdict must go against bitna
' and if, upon proof of the misdoaig, he be not allowed reliefin a new
trial, is he not rendered thevictim of legalised injustice? •
The reason assigned•for refusing to grant a new trial, upon proof
of perjury and conspiracy in the witnesses is, t' at it might encourage
false accusations of. witnesses. So flagrant and positive a wrong is
to be committed to prevent the chance of another wrong. Ansel-.
cellent reason, truly ! But has it never occurred to .our Judges
that by rendering a verdict fraudulently procured immovable, an mat
conragement far more alarming is given to getters-up of fraudulent
cases—and to desperate men to become. their false witnesses? What. .
care men of a base description for the ultimate fate of their instru-
ments, se that they get a verdict and costs ? Into what uncertainty.
is the possession of property thrown by the above encouragement?.
thus speak of evils which I have suffered under. As repro..
senting the interests of nearly 40,000 persons of property, I coat.
plain of the jeopardy in which that property is placed by the .above
.doctrines. Already are the crimes of incendiarism and fraudulent
claims increasing in an alarming degree : and it anything be done to
.give them further encouragement, the sooner hire Insurances
be put an end to the better; for the injuries done to life and' pro-
petty by wilful fire, will then outbalance the value of the indemnity
of insurance to honest saffarers. I am, &c.
J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT,
County Fire Office, London.
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