Star.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

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LLNES TO MR. RICHARD TURNER,
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ON 111$ JAPAN LIQUID BLACKING.
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Tho' the proud soni of China their boastinp discover,
. • Ana the Japanese prate of their ekgant Jet, .
1 . Be now all their egotist sophistry over,
Poe both are by Tuns= in loveliness beat :
I Their Jet is surpassed,
And to nothingness cast,
Their highly-fam'd Blacking must lowly knock under,
And Tv:wee* alone of the world be the wonder !
These sons of the East long unrivallel had carried
The palm of their excellence over the world,
Britannia attempted to foil—but miscarried,
Till TUNES'S high banners she saw were unfurled :
Then she echoed to Fame—
" To Ttrasma's great name,
Let all other men low and coolly knock under,
And Timms alone of the world be the wonder!"
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ASSIZES.
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ANCASHIRE ASSIZES, AUGUST 22.
Mary Yates, aged 32, was charged with the mur-
der ofher female bastard child.at Great Bolton.—
Not Guilty of the murder—duilty of concealing the
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birth.—Mary Bodin, aged 21, a good-looking young
i woman, was also charged with the wilful murder of
her male bastard child, at Manchester.—Not Guilty
of the murder—Guilty of concealing the birth. Both
the prisoners were sentenced to imprisonment for
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sir months.
William Stanley, aged 33, was found Guilty of
having burglariously entered the house of Samuel
Clarke, at Preston, and stealing gold and silver coins
and Bank of England notes to the amount of £BO.
William Hear, aged 17, and Jacob Butler, aged
22, charged with having robbed William Thomson,
6n the King's highway, at Manchester, of a pocket-
book, containing 1.:35 in Bank of England notes, were
ir, found Not Guilty, the prosecutor not appearing.
The following 19- convicts were then ranged at
once at the bar, to receive sentence of death: Charles
Mawdesley, for rape ; Daniel and William Fitxpa-
trick, fur highwny robbery ; Barney 31'Loughlin,
John Henshaw, William Ceames, Christopher Thomp-
i I son, John Borrows, (on his own confession) Thomas
Brooks, Robert Redman, Jonathan Crabtree, Thomas
(naves, and William Stanley, for burglary; Thomas
I Dawson and James Sprout, for horse-stealing ; Jo-
seph Wilkinson, for sheep-stealing ; Richard Wright,
, Thomas Bradley, and William Ratchford, for stealing
. in iydwelling house above the value of 40s.
I , Mr. Baron WOOD addressed the prisoners—" Yon
have severally been convicted of most atrocious
crimes, for which yen stand there to receive sentence
of death. Althoun• h all your offences are capital,
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i th,v vary in their complexion of criminality. One of
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64 you is convicted of a rape. This is an offence of the
most heinous nature, and in your case it is accompa-
Lied with ninny circumstances of aggravation. It
Appears that you not only were bent upon gratify ion
your brutal inclination, but that you used the poor
woman in a cruel and inhuman manner. The Jury
who found you guilty thcr•ight fit to recommend you
to mercy. Th- it reconur endicn may be taken into
consideration, but I can give you no hope that mercy
I can be.shewn to you. (llis Lordship then made some
app
ropriate observations on the other classes of
. crimes.) Any circumstances of alleviation that may
be found in your cases will be taken into considers
tion ; but whether his Majesty may extend mercy to
any of you, it does not become me at present to say.
I recommend it to you all to repent of your sins, and
by penitence and prayer to prepare for that fate
which may possibly await you.'
Hairy husking, convicted of bigamy, was sen-
tenced, in consideration of his good character, and
his contrition, only to six months imprisonment.
The co:ton spinners are still in custody for want
of bail. Their trial for conspiracy is traversed till
ii next Assizes.
• MONMOUTH ASSIZES.
CIVIL SIDE.
1 WIANVOnD AND OTHIRS V. unnostoit.r.
I. This was an action -brought by Messrs. Harford
1 • and Co. who are very extensively engaged in the
iron trade in BriStol, and in the county of Monmouth,
against Mr. Richard Fothargill, an iron-master and
a ilingistrate in that county, for allowing a fraudu-
}elk ejectment to be secretly brought agtunst him of
terrain mines and lands which he held of them in the
above county, called the Sirhowy Iron Works, with-
out having given notice of such ejectment to them as
Lis landlords, as lie was by law required to do;
1 ; • vlereby the plaintiffs were, unawares and without
tl:e slightest previous intimation, dispossessed and
driven from their property by the grossest-abuse of
10 4 thrre means, which the law of this country holds out
for ti,e recovery of its subjects' rights. The circum-
stances of the case were as follow :
The property the defendant held of plaintiffs was
i of great value, and the defendant wished to treat for
' , ' a renewal of his lease at the expiration of his then
I . term, and actually offered the plaintiffs L'‘./.000 per
• . annum for a further term therein, which they re-
I fused ; and on the expiration of the old lease, plain-
%i tiffs went to take possession of the premises, when,
instead of such possession, they were met receiving
by Mr. Fothergill, a man named. Cunningham, for-
t merly a practitioner of the law, a Mr. M'arrand, his
attorney, the Under Sheriff of the county, two bai-
-1 ;" liffs, and several other persons, when Mr. Fothergill
11 informed plaintiffs that lie could not gibe them pos-
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session of their estate, as he had already given it to
the Sheriff for Mr. Cunningham, and they were in-,
formed that the Sliej.-F was proceeding to put Mr.
Cunninfilinm. into possession of the lands ; and on
plaintiffs being informed they could not resist the
1 I Sheriff, they retired, and the day concluded at Mr.
I Fothergill's works with much rejoicing, firing guns,
and distributing sale among the defendant's work-
! I people. The plaintiffs, as may be conjectured, were
altogether astonished, when, upon searching the pro-
per oflic,e in London, they found that the writ had
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been isvled on a confession by Mr. Fothergill, as
tenant tf the premises, to Cunningham. By these
means Cunningham obtained the possession of the
• property, which he immediately agreed to let to Mr.
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Fothergill's sons, and the parties continued in posses-
sion until they were put out by the legal proceedings
adopted by the plaintiffs.
These -facts, which were commented ou by Mr.
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