Star.
London, England, 1819-07-10 00:00:00

LEEDS,

Application for pecuniary assistance having beeil
made yesterday evening to the Committee of the
Workhouse, by a person desiring to emigrate to Ame:
rica, the Board came to an unanimous resolution',
that they have not power to comply with any such
application.

Monday last, as two little girls, named Sarah and
Rachael Gardener, the former nine years old, and the
latter only seven, were sitting at their father's door,
who is landlord of the Nags Head, at Battersea, a
mad dog ran Up to them and bit one in the cheek
and the other in the hose. They were subsequently
bled, but notwithstanding all the usual means were
resorted to, symptoms of hydrophobia increasedinith
such rapidity that they died in a short time after.—A
mad dog, supposed to be the same, passed through
the town of Wandsworth, and on his way bit several
dogs ; but fortunately Goff, the constable, shoe him.
Thursday afternoon, as John Fitzpatrick, one of the
labourers employed in clearing the rubbish at the
house which fell in Market-street, St. James's, was
front of the building, a large chest rolled off one of
the Boors, and falling upon the poor man, crushed
him dreadfully. He was carried in a state of insen-

sibility to St. George's Hospital.
Friday sennight a most melancholy circumstance
occurred at Halsted, near Chelmsford, to SAMUEL
Guc, about 12 years of age, youngest son of Mr.
Joii Gm?, of the Ship Inn, irS that town. The yotitlt
was at play with some other boys in a loft, at Mr.
WA LFORD'S brewery, which is over that part in which
large casks are deposited to receive the beer as it is
brewed, and which is generally tanned into thenm
from a trap door in the loft. The trap door had been
left open, as the men were about to commence the
filling of a VI-hogshead cask, the head of which Ilap;.
pened to be directly under the trap door in the loft,
when this unfortunate youth slipped through the
trap door into the cask, which caused instant suffo-
cation. He was got out with all possible expedition,
but the vital spark had fled, and every endeavour to
recetver him proved ineffectual.
Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, T. Trend,
one of the Bow-street Patrole, while on duty near
Hornsey, stopped two men with a cart,
containing four sheep, supposed to have been stolen.
On his way with the men and cart to meet his brc-
ther patrole, one of the villains felled him to the
earth by a tremendous blow on the head with a large
stick, which nearly rendered him senseless. -W hQe
in this condition, they inhumanly drew-his cutlass
and inflicted several desperate wounds'on his head,
&c. The two villains escaped on hearing anothtr
patrole coming up, leaving the cart and sheep behind
them. 'frand now lies in a dreadful condition from
the injury he had received, and strict search is being
made for the offsuders.

DARING ltoasaay.—On the morning of the 2Fth
ultimo, a pane of glass_ was cut in the shop• Window of
Mr.Monnier, clock and watch-maker, Southampton-
street, Strand, and the thief succeeded in carrying off
two watches, a gold and steel chain, and a silver
watch-case: This daring act was effected at the
' public hour of nine, while Mr. Monnier was at break-
fast in a hack room. Next morning' a 'paper packet
was found in the area, containing the steel chain and
the following polite Note,* written on a slip of paper.
We insert it literally :

ntox A' num).

" &r--having made as mast a f poisibly Could of them
gritty 'Watches and Cue ihave sent yea back this Chain as i
Could get nothing for it and i thought it was of co use to any
body but the owner i have sent yon Back,'" an ornament for
your window So no mute at present froditohr humble Servant'
" calve Ma WHIN YOU CAN."
UNION HALL—Wednesday' a gentleman who sta-
ted his name to be Atkinson was brought to the Of-
fice in custody, and examined before T. P. VA Nee, Esq.
charged by M. Rotaner, of the Surrey Theatre, with
having on the preceding evening behaved in a mo't
disorderly manner in the Theatre, during the per-
formance, to the great annoyance of the audience
and interruption of the performers. Mr. Atkinson
admitted the impropriety of his conduct on the occa-
sion, and said he had been spending the afternoon
with a friend, where he had taken a glass too much,
but expressed great contrition for having created a
disturbance; and on his promising before the Magi.-
trate not to be guilts. of a similar offence, Mr. Ito,
ratter, on the part of 'Mr. Dihdin, consented to waive
any further proceedings: the Magistrate, however,
fined Mr. Atkinson ss. for having been intoxicated,
which he readily paid, and was discharged.
COURT OF it ROUICS 7i:6—Yesterday Mr. James
Yallop, of ('harks-street, I larper-street, Kent-roar',
master-baker, was summoned before the Commissio-
ners, to chew cause why he refused to pay 21. Ss. to
Philip Howe. The following are briefly the facts of
the case:—The plaintiff is keeper of a chandler's
shop-in Brandon-street, Newington) and dealt largelr •
with the defendant for bread. His customers .have
for some time suspected that the loaves were not the
weight commanded by the Statute, and one person
at length ti ied the question, and found them much
deficient: in consequence of which an information .
was filed against the plaintiff at Union Hall, and he
was convicted ; but not being able to pay the penalty
a distress was levied on his goods, and in consequence
he suffered much, both in his credit and business—
The present proceeding was to recover the amount
of the penalty and costs so awarded, on the ground
that the plaintiff had been innocently led into error
by the conduct of the defendant, who, as the baker,
ought in justice to be responsible.
The defendant said, his bread was always the
weight required by the Act; and he made it a prac-.
rice not to send any bread out of his house which he
had not previously weighed. If the loaves were af-
terwards knocked about, or damaged, so as to be
made lighter, he was not responsible for dm; and
he hoped the Comntissioners, as tradesmen, would
dismiss the complaint.
On the other hand, it was urged, that this was a
new sort of defence which the bakers had adopted;
but although their bread. might, when pulled full of
steam from the oven, be found weight, yet when it
came to be exposed four or five hours to the wind
and sun, it would be found very. deficient.
The Commissioners said, that whenever the seller
of bread was convicted, the baker, in every such car,
was liable to the payment of the fine. The plaintiff.
it seemed, had been regularly convicted, and they
unanimously agreed that his claim was well founded,
and accordingly adjudged the baker to pay the whole
sum, with costs, in a week:

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY sr.
JOURNEy MEN CO. CHMAKERS' CONSPIRACY.

THE KING V. WILLIAM CONNELL ANO OTHER&

This was an indictment against twenty persons,
connected with the coachmaktng trade, for a conspi-
racy to raise wages, and make regulations touching
the trade in general by unlawful combinations. One
of the defendants, named William Penrose, since the
indictment was found, had died. The following
pet sons were put en their trial :
William Connell, a journeyman coach-trimmer, working with
Air. Stevellson, a e.Eichinaker ; George Stephenson, NN
iitiam
Thatekr, Thomas Wilder,lhe elder, ltichaxd Palmer, master
coach:4mM'; David Vince, John Carwardine; Abel Brannan,
IlielardAtda, and Sydnefilsonsson, journeymen coach-smiths;
Rickard Vandover, James Langshaw John Stevens, Thomas
Cot, John-Moody, journeymen coach-trimmers; James Field,
James Drake, and James Clarke, journeymen coach-spring-
makers. The sltuendauat, ThortuteWiltley, jnu. had not pleaded.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. GuItNEY,
Mr. BOLLAND. and Mr. PLATT.
Mr. Scarmart arid Mr F.Potcoot conducted the
defence of the master coach-smiths; Mr. MAILAYAT
and Mr. Crum that of the journeymen smiths, and
spring-makers and trimmers; and Mr. DESMAN that
of William Connell.
Mr. Guastey stated the case with his usual perspi-
cuity. He said, that the persons named in the indict-
ment. had been selected from an immense number
of those who were engaged in the dangerous and
er.tensive conspiracy charged against the defendants,
0,1 account of the prominent part which they had
taken in it. The object. of the conspiracy was as
mischievous as could well besimagined, and in its
operations was only to be bounded by the extent of,
whole trade of coach-making. In substance, the
charge against the defendants was, that of conspiring
by unlawful combination to restrain the master coach-
-makers in the lawful exercise of their trade. The
coach-making trade consisted of several branches,
coach-makers, harness-makers, painters, smiths, and
spring-makers, in sortie of which the defendants were
employed. In the spting of last year the conspiracy
broke forth in full operatton,.but it appeared that the
plan of it had been laid two yeats sine, by a society
calling themselves " The Benevolent Society of
Coach-makers," formed under pretence of relieving
the aged and sickly members of the arade, but in
reality for the purpose of regulating the trade, and
compelling masters to submit to the combined power
of the journeymen. This Society was formed on the
26th of February, 1816, and solicited the patronage
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. In order
to disarm the master coach-makers of any suspicion
of their designs, they had studiously insetted an ar-
ticle in their bye-laws, to The effect " That no jour-
neyman should in any way combine against his em-
ployers." This was introduced as- a fundamental
article, but was in fact put forward in order to de-
ceive the masters. Whilst they put forth the pre-
tended Rules of the Society, they had in fact another
set of rules, which were really to be acted upon, and
those were to be kept in profound secrecy by the
members of the society. These rules were printed,
but not the least remarkable past of their proceedings
:vas, that these articles were without a printer's name.
The grand mover and leader of this conspiracy, was
the defendant, William Connell. By the secret rules
alluded to, a grand Committee was to be formed for
superintending the affairs of the society, the members
of which were divided into three classes, citizens,
subjects, and people, the candidates for which ranks
respectively, were to render themselves eligible by a
strict conformance with the rules of the society, and
penalties were to be imposed for any disobedience
thereto, besides degradation to the lower rank in case
of default ; and in the case of au incorrigible offen-
der, he was to be turned out of the society for ever,
that is, to starve, because such was the influence of
the society, that he could get no employment in any
part of the kingdom. The Grand Committee was .to
have a supreme power over the Society, except as to
the funds ; there was to be a General Secretary (Mr.
Connell) And Divisional Secretaries of Districts, who
were to act as spies upon the conduct of the members
of the Society. If a proscribed Iran should happen
to get employment in any part of the country, such
was the power of the London Society, that they
could compel the master so offending to turn him
off.. There were instances of the exercise of this
power. In one case, a coach-maker at Bristol had
employed a proscribed man, and Mr. Connell had
told him that if he did not immediately cease so em-
ploy the offender, he (Mr. Connell) had £2OOO at his
-command, and he would setup a coachmaker against
him in the town, and ruin him, by compelling all his
workmen to leave his employment. Among other ar-
ticles of the Society was one, that a journeyman who
should serve any master but an honourable master,
should be liable to a penalty of 10s. 6d. per day.—
By an honourable master, was meant a man who
employed hone but members cf the Society ; and
by another article, any foreman of a shop in the
country, who betrayed the secrets of the Society,
was liable to a fine of twenty guineas. Another ob-
ject of the Society was to prevent masters from
taking more than one apprentice to every six men.
In short, from first to last, the object of the Society
was to keep a monopoly of the trade in their own
hands, by overawing the masters to a compliance
with their regulations. The master coachmakers
were not blind to the effect which the formation of
this Society produced upon their workmen, who
manifested a great deal of discontent; but still no
overt acts of the conspiracy were yet exhibited. They
were, however, in hourly apprehension that some
burst would take place, without being aware from
what cause it proceeded; because the operations af
the Society were kept profoundly secret. By the
merest accident the plans of the Society were disco-
vered. In the month of February, 1818, a farce),
. directed to a Mr. Williams, a coach-maker, had beery
sent by a stage-coach, •to Reading, in Berkshire; but
no person of that name being resident in that town,
• it was deliVered to Mr. Brown, a coach-maker of
that place. This parcel contained a letter, in the
hand-writing of the defendant Connell, addressed to
Mr. Williams,. informing him, that he enclosed in
the parcel copies of the two sets of rules in question,
for his perusal; that the secon4 set, already descri-
bed, were the private amides, upon which the So-
ciety were really to act. In that letter were the fol-
lowing expressionsta We are now preparing for a
turn-out in London ; and as the fate of the trade in
general depends upon the fist encounter, it is ne-

cessary that the whole force 'of the country should
bear down upon it, in order to insure its success. In
case of its being successful, we propose to turn our,
attention to the country, and attack one place after
another, until the whole trade in each ft*t respec-
tively, is brought under, when we shall put the pi-
rate articles in force, and then we shall go on more
comfortably,' &c. This letter, together with its nc-
companying'documents, was afterwards transmitted
by Mr. Brown to Messrs. Hopkinson, coach-makers,
of London. In the meantime the Society went on
in maturing its plans, by enlisting under its banners
all the journeymen coach-makers in the kingdom, in
order, by one simultaneous effort, to bring the mas-
ters to terms. Preparatory to the blow which was
to be struck, a printed letter, signed " An Enemy to
Intolerance," had been clandestinely left at the
houses of different master coach-makers throughout
town, containing a list of the demands or requests
of the journeymen, which demands were of a nature
highly injurious to the trade. Some of the masters,
influenced by terror, acquiesced is these demaqds,
but others manfully resisted them. The author of
this circular, it would appear, was Mr. Connell,
who, it seemed, had endeavoured, on repeated occa-
sions, to induce some of the masters to become
members of the Society, with a view of engrossing
the whole trade to themselves, to the exclusion of
the fair manufacturer. In the spring of last year,
the plans of the Society being ripe for action, the
first open manifestation of their design was by cor-
rupting the coach-spring-makers, and on the 14th of
March, all the persons engaged in that branch of the
trade in London struck, and refused to work any
more ; and, but for the manly resistance of the mas-
ters to this overwhelming conspiracy, the whole of!
their trade must have been destroyed. The Learned
Coursel said that he had a volume of evidence to lay
before the Jury, demonstrating the guilt of the de-
fendants. This was the outline of the case which he
had to lay before the Jury ; and he was persuaded
that they would have no hesitation in coming to that
verdict which should consign these conspirator to
the just reward of their enormous offences.
Witnesses were then called to support the prosecu-
tion, amongst whom were Mr. Brown, of Reading,
'and Messrs. William and Luke Hopkinson, the coach-
makers, of High Holborn. The evidence of the lat-
ter Gentleman, which was given at great length,
tended to spew in the clearest manner, confirmed ks
it was by the documentary evidence already alluded
to, the guilt of Connell, Vince, Carwarden, Brannan,
and Alder.

Before any other evidence was offered, the Defen-
dants' Counsel severally interposed, and admitted
that it was impossible to resist the weight of evidence
adduced, and therefore, without Curtner occupying
the time of the Court, they would consent that a
verdict of guilty in each case should be recorded,
trusting that this step would be met by the prosecu-
tors with corresponding lenity.
Mr. GURNEY, on the part of the prosecution, said
I he was instructed to say, that in consequence of the
course now adopted by the defendants, the prosecu-
tors would forbear (with the exception of one) to
bring them up for judgment, on condition that the
liability to be called up should hang over their heads
in terrorem, as a security fur their future good beha-
viour. As to the defendant Connell, no hopes of
forbearance could be held out.

Mr. DENMAN followed the c:atmple of his Learned
Friends in surrendering his client Connell to a ver-
dict of Guilty, feeling th:tt as the weight of the case
was against him, it was impossible to expect that the
Jury would come to a different conclusion after they
had heard the whole of the case. But he indulged
a hope, that after the heat of feeling upon this sub-
jot had subsided, the prosecutors would be disposed
16 forbear carrying the extremity of the law into effect.
- The Cntze JUSTICE said, that the'Learned Counsel
had exercised a very sound discretion in adopting this
course—a discretion most favourable to his client,
',and which would have the effect, in some degree, of
relieving him from the pressure of the case. It was',
impossible, after attending to the evidence, for any
man to doubt what the result of the case would be,
if it went to the Jury ; and his Lordship could not
,uffer this occasion to pass without observing, that
if the master coach-makers had fallen into the plan
proposed by the conspirators, they would themselves
have been guilty of a great offence and a high mis-
' demeanor; because, •to confine this trade to a cer-
tain class of persons, so as to enable them to pay
their workmen such wages as they might demand,
and to exact from their employers such prices as they
chose, would be the most unlawful combination of
which any persons could be guilty.
A verdict of Guilty was then recorded against
each of the Defendants.

IEZARD, GENT. V. JOHN.

This was an action for words of slander spoken by,
the defendant, of and concerning the plaintiff's con-
duct as an attorney.

It was proved in evidence, that the plaintiff was
employed in adjusting the affairs of a tradesman
named Williams, who had compounded with his cre-
ditors, of whom the defendant was one. The princi-
pal creditor having called upon the defendant to pro-
cure his signature to the composition deed, the latter
refused to sign, and said " they (meaning the rest of
the creditors) are all a set of shufilers. There is one
Izzard that tails himself an attorney—he is no attor-
ney at all—he is nothing but a black leg." Being
asked who he meant, he said, " that fellow Izzard,
he has been at the meeting." In two or three days
afterwards, the same person called upon the defen-
dant, with these words written down, and asked him
whether he meant to abide by them, saying, that he
had shewn the paper to the plaintiff. He replied—
" You have done very right, for no honest man
would ever employ him." In consequence of this
slander, the witness had ceased to employ the plain-
tiff as an attorney.
Mr. E. LAWEIS addressed the Jury on behalf of the
defendant, and '

The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions,
found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages-40s.

THE KING V. JAMES RUSSELL.
This was an indictment against the defendant, who,
is searcher of the parish of St. George, Hanover-
square, for a violent assault committed upon the
person of John Stanley, late the sexton of the same
parish, on the 29th of December last.

It appeared that these deadly gentlemen. on the
day mentioned in the indictment, were preparing to
➢erform the obseguic4 of the dead in the church-yard

of the parish in question, when some warm alterca-
tion took place about a point of etiquette, which the
pposecutor had failed to observe towards the searcher,
in having, as was alleged, sent the body of a still-
born child to his private residence for inspection.—
High words arose, :Ind the terms lie and liar at length
formed the climax of the prosecutor's Rhetoric, which
produced on the part of the defendant a deadly blow
with his doubled fist at the sconce of the prosecutor,
who in his turn seized a pair of fire tongs which
stood in his office, and repaid the compliment will
interest. The defendant fell to woi k with redoubled
vigour, and probably would have finished his anta-
gonist, but for the timely interposition of the grave-
digger, who, against his own interests, succeeded in
rescuing the minister of death from an untimely sa-
crifice to. the searching influence of defendant's fists.
Mr. ADOLPH 11S, in his address to the Jury, treated
the case with a great deal of good humour and good
sense, but the assault not being disputed, the defen-
dant was found Guilty.