Star.
London, England, 1819-04-19 00:00:00

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*sbesow morning. Saguelersitiazite' hit Wiaitiel
on the Roverera Magistrate, hut shad refused his
assent. The Meeting was called' by many respect-
able people. He then spoke agaiffst his Majesty's
Government.
James Connect, of London, was at Stockport in
September last, at his Either's; saw a public proces-
sion of from 1800 to 2000 of the turn-out hand-loom
weavers. Friday after, saw Bagueley and Drum-
mond, who came to join the others at Sandy Brow
on the lit of September; saw all the prisoners there;
confirmed the statement of Lloyd, jun. as to most of
the particular matters, and the approbation of the
populace to the most inflammatory party.
William Young, silk manufacturer at Stockport,
was present at the Meeting. Bagueley said they had
met so frequently at the towns mound, that delegates
should be at some centrical town—he believed Bir-
mingham—should draw up a petition, which, if not
attended to, the people must arm themselves, and at-
tend the National Convention. A requisition for call-
ing the Meeting was read, purporting to be for a
Parliamentary Reform.
R. Gee, of Stockport, was present at the Meeting;
heard Bagueley address the people upon the subject
of their lost liberties; he came forward to propose a
plan by which they might be regained. Towns
throughout the country should Choose two delegates
to discuss their rights at Birmingham ; not to wait
the tedious form, but carry the bill direct to the
Speaker's chair ; that if the House did not attend to
it, or refuse the grant of the petition, then the people
were immediately to take up arms.
John Horatio Lloyd, student at Oxford, was eithis
Meeting; three thousand and upwards of peoplewere
there ; saw Harrison,, in the chair, Bagueley, and
Drummond. Harrison first addressed the Meeting,
Bagueley spoke afterwards, and then Drummond ;
tool: minutes (produced them to the Court). Harri-
son spoke of the doctrine of ; Drummond
spoke of mal-administration of Government, increase
of the national debt only to support the Royal Fa-
mily; Drummond continued—" We have now not
only one Tyrant, but we have Commons, Lords, and
Kings!" Bagueley said—" I can do my duty, whe-
ther by a sword in hand or otherwise." Drummond
stigmatized the Masters of Factories, and told the
People tp rouse themselves from this pernicious le.
thargy. This was the last time they would meet to
discuss the question, and next time they must act—
Liberty or Death! Johnson began in a violent man;
ner, and spoke loudly—spoke of his long imprison-
ment, and said, that the next time they came must
be with swords in their hands—" Oh ! that I had a
sword large enough to strike off the heads of all the
tyrants in the land! Some I will name, Castlereagh,
Sidmouth, and Canning!"
The prisoners calledno witness in their defence;
but Mr. WILLIAMS, their Counsel, spoke two hears
and forty.five minutes.
The CMS/ JUSTICE summed up in a most impar-
tial manner. His Lordship observed, the question
was entirely one of fact; and he entreated the Jury
to dismiss from their minds all prejudice* against the
prisoners, and give their verdict on the evidence only.
The Jury, in less than a minute, found the priso-
ners Guilty.
The trial lasted from ten in the morning until tet
minutes before seven in the evening, when the ver-
dict was given.
The prisoners were respectably dressed, and con-
ducted themselves with great decorum. They con-
sulted each other throughout the trial; It was their
intention to have conducted their own cause; but a
'few minutes before the-trial. commenced, they solici-
ted Mr. WILLIAMS and D. F. Jos = to become their
advocates, and these Gentlemen fulfilled the task
with great ability.
The Court was extremely crowded throughout the
trial. Most of the Grand Jury and many oldie Ma-
gistrates of the County were present. Among the
Ladies in Court we noticed Lady STAIILZY HOOTOW
Mrs. BARRY, Mrs. COPLIT, and a great number Oi
Ladies resident in the city.

• Mr. WILUAMS, on behalf of the prisooen, had obser►ed that
the Newspapers of the County had prejudiCed the public mind
against them.

JURY CIRCUIT COURT, DUMFRIES

The Jury Court was opened at Dumfries, by Lord
Pirsttra.x.—The proceedinggs, both from the impor-
tance of the case and the distinguished eminence of
the Counsel, promised to be of the greatest interest.
The first cause, which occupied th. Courtsthe whole
of Monday, was opened by It. Wigham, Esq. in a
clear an d accurate manner. An outline of its his-
tory may be given in a few words. On the 28th and
29th of May last, the late John Hiddleston, of Kil-
roy, with a view of securing his personal property,
amounting to about £2,000, and his heritable pro-
perty, being half the land of Kilroy, to his natural
son, then and still a minor, otecuted, as to the land
of Kilroy, a trust deed in favour of Messrs. Goldie
and Threshie, senior and junior, of this town, who
were to denude in favciur of the boy when he became
of age. But as the deceased died an the 11th of June
following, and never was at kirk or market from the
time he executed the said trust deed, his brother, as
heir-at•law, brought, and his brother's eldest son (the
former having died in the interim,) pursued an action
before the Court of Session, for the purpose of reduc-
ing the deed List alluded to. 'The Court, after vari-
ous pleadings ca the subject, appointed the following
issue to be tried by the Jury :—Whether his death.
which happened thirteen days after the execution of
the deed, was to be regarded as the sequel acrd natu-
ral result of the disease with which he was afflicted at
the time of executing the deed, or of a disease that
had supervened? This was of course a nice and diffi-
cult question; and the Judge, in apprising the Jury
of its importance, stated that he only knew of one in-
stance in which a similar question bad occurred in
the Jury Court of Scotland. •
Seven witnesses were examined on the part of the
pursuer, but of these the evidence of two only was
deemed important, namely, that of the Reverend Mr.
Beattie, a Dissenting Clergyman, who proved he had
been sent for to administer spiritual consolation to
thesdeceased.on the 29th May, the very day on which
the deed sought to be reduced was executed ; and of
Mr. Dickson, Burgeon, who had been first called td
attend the dtdeasod in March, when he found him la.
bottling under. a 'coarPodnd •distemper, arising (ton;
an offeetioulof'liver, inflammation cf the bevrels,
and consequent dropsy; and Who gave it as his °pi.

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the symptoms, mentioned by Dr. Dicks", *Mr:om
any new or supervening disease.
Mr. JEFFERY now rose, and with his usual eloqience
and ingenuity, endeavoured to do away the force of
the pursuers evidence. At the outset he stated, that
the law of death-bed evidence had been enacted in a
rude age, and was but little suited to the enlightened
state of society. In former periods the Monks, ever
anxious to aggrandise the Church, frequendy haunt-
ed, for the worst of purposes, the death-beds of those
who had any thing to bequeath, and too often suc-
ceeded with men whose minds had been previously
enfeebled by disease or enslaved by superstition. It
was to remedy, or at least afford some check to these
abuses, that the present law of death-bed had been
enacted, and as in many other cases, a law well suited
perhaps to the circumstances of a former age, had
been suffered to remain long after the state of society,
to which it alone was applicable, had passed away.
Under such circumstances, he thought the Jury enti-
tled, even upon tolerable grounds, to take every op-
portunity to escape from the enactments of a law that
was irreconcilable with common sense. The execti•
tion of the deed was a dutiful act on the part of the
deceased, and the Jury ought to give the defender the
full benefit of every scruple they might entertain
upon a case of so much nicety and dubiety. lie
then called

Dr. Maxwell, who stated, that he went to visit the
deceitied on the 2d of May, at which time he did not
think his complaints of a dangerous nature; he pre-
scribed some medicines, and returned on the 7th of
May, at which time he found the patient greatly re-
lieved ; but when he returned again on the 10th of
June, the symptoms had totally changed. Ije be-
came much alarmed for his patient, and-was of opi-
nion he had bees attacked with a new disease, of an
apoplectic nature, not connected with the firwaer, which
ended in his death on the following day.
Dr. Symons, of this town, was then called, who
corroborated the evidence of Dr. Maxwell, in the
same manner that Dr. Shand and Mr. Thom had
done that of Mr. Dickson, the Surgeon who first at-
tended the deceased ; they had not attended the de-
ceased, but from the evidence given by Dr. Maxwell,
were entirely of his Opinion, that the deceased had
died of a new disease, of an apoplectic nature, and
that the symptoms first observed were unlikely to
lead to such a termination.

The evidence being closed, Mr. CoCEBORN ad-
dressed the Jury on the pan of the pursuer. Many
of our southern neighbours, (he said,) envied us the
possession of a law which the Learned Gentleman had

represented' as absurd and irreconcilable with com-
mon sense, at all events the Jury had nothing to do
with this. The Court of Session had called upon
them to try a fact. The Jury had the advantage of
knowing something of the medical Gentlemen upon
whose evidence the question hinged. .He was well
aware of the eminence of Dr. Maxwell, but he stood
alone, and his evidence, even iluncontmdicted, could
not be taketfas conclusive. This Gentleman had not
seen the deceased from the 7th of May to the 10th of
June, the day before he died, a period of more than a
month, within which many changes might have taken
place, in the original disease of which he could have
no knowledge. The disagreement of doctors, even
in the plainest cases, was proverbial, and to attend to
those subtle distinctions of names given by science to
the remotest modifications of a malady, could only
serve to embarrass the Jury. All the servants and
neighbours who attended the deceased, thought him
a dying man for some weeks. To them his disease
appeared the same from the first to the last. This
Was even his own opinion, and had been proved by
the evidence of a respectable Clergyman. So far
froth exhibitiag the tot por of an apoplectic person, he
had retained his senses to the last, and died with the
utmost tranquillity; his death had been gradual
rather than sudden, and his countenance, instead of
being flushed, was a few howls before deadly pale.
The burthen of proof lay on the defender, and unless
they could prove by positive evidence, that the de-
ceased had died of a different disease from that undct
which he laboured at the 28th May,*their case must
fall to the ground. This had been found impossible,
and under such circumstances, it was equally impos-
sible for the Jury to hesitate in finding a verdict' for
the pursuers. Mr:Cockburn having concluded
Lord PVTMILLY said, that as the case had been
argued with consummate ability on both sides, it
would not be necessary for him to detain the Court
long. He, however, entered into the evidence at con-
siderable length, and charged the Jury with admira-
ble impartiality.
The Jury retired, and as it was expected they would
be detained some time, it was agreed that the verdict
should be sent to his Lordship at his Chambers. 'This
was shortly afterwards done, the Jury deciding in fa-
vour of the pursuer.

Friday se'nnight, the body of William Brown, of,
Parnhill, was found in the River Aire, having been
in the water three weeks. Verdict—Found drowned.
We are requested to inform our Readers, that
Messrs. Coopatt and Co. Surgeons, of Charlotte-House,
Great Charldtte-street, Blaclefriars-road, have, in con-
sequence of their 'extensive 'practice, and for the ac-
commodation of patients at the West-end of the town,
established a Medical Board in Woodstock-street, Ox-
ford-street, a few doorr from Bond-street, where a
Physician, of 40 years experience, and a Surgeon of
great eminence, reside, and where all the Board alter-
nately attend, the'whole of whoin are .Members of the
Royal Calleget--that thousands hair been restored to
perfect health by their united talents is universally
acknowledged, many of whom had been discharged
from Hospnals, and otherwise improperly treated.—
They ate consulted at•Woodstock-House, Woodstock-
street, from Eight in the Morning until Eight at
Night ; and at the ;Cledical Board,. Charlotte-House,
Blackfriars-road, from twelve till eight in the evenings
—,-Mechanics have adiice gratii every evening from
sit till eight, at both honks, and on Sungay inorningi
twit twelve U. ).Vicsliq,'oorl.itaiict Co.
berto obsdrvts, they have no connection with any
odrer Concern, therefore alt leitirsiwtletii be directcd
to Charlotte-House, adjoining Blackiriar,ruad. '

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CANADA.

YORK (UPPER CANADA), BEE.
111. THE EARL OF SELEIRY AND
bill of indictment for a conspirac3
trade of the North West Company, and
the partners thereof, was found by the 1
against Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk
valier De Lori mier, Captain in his Mai,
ilapartment ; Captain Pro:ais D'Orsoni
the De Meuron Regiment ; Captain F 1
they, ditto ; Lieutenant G. A. Fauche,
*sant Frederick Graffenrad, ditto; Scr,
iritchie, ditto ; Captain Niiles Macdount-lf,
Cossaiiim Fencibles ; Lieutenant Alexander
Becher, late of the Royal Navy; Dr
Jahn Spencer, Donald Macpherson, It:
John M'Nab, Archibald Macdonald,
Bourke.
The indictment contained three
Illbongst the numerons overt acts the:,
supported by documentary and oral
following were particularly prominent,
ing and arming a number of diLbandeo
reigners); the entry of them, by lot ce
Fort William, in August, 1816 ; retaini
of the fort till May, 1817 ; sending ci;
the partners of the Not thWest Compan:
getting rid of the clerks, by subpona,
York at a period when no Courts
without inquiring of them whether t?
thing of the matters to which the subl
and without-ever bringing them fOrw,m
stopping of the outfits from gping
and the returns from coming to Montre.
themselves of all the books and paper
cern ; sending away the princ,l .ri LI
charge of felony, without exarni,-atiol,
having ever followed up that charge ;
sale by Daniel Mackenzie of the Noi
perty, obtained by his Lordship Ly mi
,nued duress; tampering with and del
North West" Company's servants, and
them in the King's name t. writing circa
the partners and clerks in the interior
vising them to abandon.their trust, allegin;
North West Company were ruined, •
their furs to Hudson's Bay ; taking
Fort Lake La Plnie, and the propert:
stopping the navigation, &c.
Upon this being returned a true bill,
General moved the process .of the Court
parties ; and Dr. Allen being present
raigned the following day.

WILLrAM SMITH r. THE EARL or
This wo a civil action brought by
Smith against Lord Selkirk for fake int
appearedlt _ in evidence that the
Under-Sheriff of the Western .
the bearer-of a writ of restitution founded
verdict of a Special Jury at Sandwich:. •
1816, and granted by the Sitting Magistrate,
ing the restoration. of Fort William to the
Company ; he was also the bearer of a
felony issued against his Lordship, Dr,
taro Matthey, and others, upon an information
oath before a Justice of the Peace. Mr. `•
to Fort William on the 19th of March,
produced his writ of restitution, with w?
ship refused to comply ; and when the
others were arrested by Mr. Smith, upon
for felony, his Lordship laid hold of him
him out of doors: and he was af.elwa,
close custody in the Fort ftnder a military
A circumstance which added rnnoh to the
nature of the offence, and which was
dwelt upon by the Judge in his charge
war, that whilst Mr. Smith vas kept in
fiaement, C'harles De Reinhard, thong},
accusation for murder, was at large, and
school, though nominally under the surveillance
one or two of hii former comrades. The Chief Jus-
tice also remarked upon another part of the evidence
for the defence, by which it appeared that the only
option left to Mr. Smith to obtain his liberty was
that of abandoning his duty, and breaking his oath
of office, by a promise not to stole* kord Selkirk.—
Mr. Smith, however, notwithstanding this proposal,
persisted in doing his duty, and was not lilierated
until the evacuation of Fort William by his Lordship
and hi. forces in May, 1812. -
The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a
diet in favour of the Plaintiff—Damages, Five H.
dyed Pounds, Halifax currency. •

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. R. knight, jun. is presented to the Rectory of s.\
ton Nottage, Glarnorganshire.
The Rev. Joseph Tweed, jun. to the Rectory of
Suffolk.

OXFORD, APRIL 17.
Yesterday the election at Oriel eLlle,ge c..meluded, at
the following Gentlemen were elected Plows :—Sarni
ands, 13.1. of Oriel College; Joseph Dorrifor.l, 13. A.
College • Jolla Wisher Awdry, B.A. of CLlfirt Church
Cobridie, of Mertnn College.

BIRTII.
Thursday, Viscountess rolir,rstot:e, of a daughter.
' MARRIED.
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Rev. C. F. Winnington, to Arabella Elizabeth, eldest
ter of Robert Thornton Heysham, Esq. Stsgenbue I'sll
forishire.
Ileory Walter, F.sq. of Limerick, hte Capt'in is
Dragoons, to Caroline, youngest slaughter of tilt late
Adams, Esq. of Kilbrer.

• DIED.
Aged 51, the Rev. VrdHaw Cwyinett Horniage,
of the Blinor Cano..s of Uttrucvscer L'a:hedral, and
Churehem,

The liev. Anthony i'Ync, Rector of Pitney and
Somerset.
Tuesday, at the Vicarage, Northtlert, Kent, aged
lotte, wife of the Rev. I'. G. Durham, curate of that ,
April Y, G. B. Walford, aged 17 years, and on the
Wallord, aged W, sons of the Hev. W. Walfoid,
Long Stratton, Norfolk.
fu Aliddle Gardiner-street, Thiblin, Pr. P.P. 111•Lonf,•61;n.
April 5, at Harthp, Captaih Spissifoith, of the Royal 0
.11u:nlay, at ilarssich, aged 57, s:rx. M:tetiolietigh,
Captain AlacslcnotiEll, ~: his !skittty's racket CaFtlereagi
Wednesday. Itt Somersoz-4reet,,l r!rtritun square, Lie'.
Celltmei Trotticis of.tirffia=tay 1'

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