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London, England, 1816-01-30 00:00:00

THE KING v. WADLEY.

The defendant, in this case, had been convicted lt
the Gloucester Assizes'of disturbing a religious con-
gregation. ssernhled at Ncwnham, in Gloucestershire.
Mr. icnvis, in the course of last Term, obtained
a Rule in arrest of judgment, en the grounds that
this was a prosecution, founded on the 52.1 of the
King, chap. 155. which provided, that any pet son
charged with ciisturbi,g any religious cingie.;a-
tian; shotld, in thc• first instance, be taken heore
a Magistrate, who, if lee should consider the come
plaint as wt.. 11 f should cr,'.l on the dafelid..
ant to enter into recognizances of at'so, to appear and
answer the complaint at the next General Qa xter-
Sessiont ; and in case of his not, fi;v:i•ig such security,
to commit him ; and it at the Sessi ,ns he should be
found guilty, he should then pay a tine of £4.1. In
the present case, the prosecutors had 3CM .ved the
proceedings by certiorari from the Quarter Sessions to
the Assizes, where the defendant was found guilty.
Mr. Jervis since moved an arrest of judgment, on the
grounds that the Act of Parliament confibed the jui is-
diction to the Quarter Sessions, and took it away twin
the Court of King's Bench; and therefore, that the
certiorari, in the present case, ought not to have gone.
Mr. ABBOTT was now heard in support of the con-
viction, and cited several cases, in which it had been
held, that unless there was a specific clause in the
Act, negativing the right of a superior Court to grant
Certiorari, that right still remained, although the ju-
risdicuon to try tire offence was given to the General
or Quarter Sessions.
The COURT, after hearing Mr. CAMPBELL on the
same side, and Mr. JERVIS and Mr. TAuteros in sup-
port of the Rule, decided that the right to grant s
Certiorari in the present case, laid with the Court, and
that the conviction at the Assizes was a good con-
viction. The Rule, in arrest of judgment, was thew,
fore discharged.

Mr. GArrav, Town Clerk of Exeter, has had a
noble legacy of about twenty thousand pounds lett
him by his friend, Judge HirArn. The Judge for.
merly filled the same office of Town Clerk himself.
There is now In the neighbourhood of Sherton.
Mallet a most desperate gang of house-bleakers-
less than six houses have been recently attempted and
broken open, in that town, and property stolen there.
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from of great value.
Sunday evening, between six and seven o'cl )ek, as
Mr. GRANGER and Mr. CAPE, of Lombard-street,
were returning to Landon, in a post-chaise, they were
stopped on Blackheath by two footpads ; one of them
held the hews, while the other sobbed the gentleinen
of their cash, notes, and watches, and bath were maned
with pistols.
Bow STREET.—Yesterday an impostor, calling him.
self Captain Anderson, who had undertaken to col-
lect subscriptions in the parish of St. Ann's, for a
mast distressing case of a widow and five children,
and receiving money from several benevolent indivi-
duals on the above pretence, was committed to
Bridewell, till he found security for his
future good behaviour.
QUEEN-EQUARE.••-.Yesterday Tlemar White- ants
Koaiy Beau, underwent a final exmniodttfin!)efor.:
COLQUHMIN, Esq on suspicion of having been con.
corned in the robbery of the Windsor coach. He
WAS fully-committed to Newgate for trial.
MURDER.-••• 0.1 Saturday night last, Thnmas Pace
and WM. Garner, apprehended William Edge alias
Bank:, for the murder of a woman he had cohabited
with for some time, by beating her with a dog-chain
so violently that the woman lived but a few ituurs
after. An inquest was held upon the body, and a
verdict of Murder was given by the Jury, when the.
prisoner absconded. He was taken in Great Peter.
sweet, Westminster, at work in a smith's shops and
sent to Maidstone for trial, as the murder was coat-
_ witted at Greenwich.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JANUARY BS.

The Assembly of Magistrates at Banatloe 114“
declined all propoiitions for introducing Mr. Nat's
Bill into any part of their county, and have adjoutmed
over for three weeks, without coming to any other
Resolotion than the motion of adjournment.
The Special Commission for the County Tippe-
ravy will close this day. Twenty•seven have been
convicted capitally—of these fourteen took defence,
and thirteen pleaded guilty. Fourteen were acquitted.
The Special Commission was opened at Clonmel
on Monday, the 15th, before Lord NORDURY and
Baron Gaonor. On that morning Andrew Alseist
and Mesta: Neal were put on their trial, under a va-
riety of indictments—nine in number, but all con-
verging in the single-point of robbing Mr. J. Dudley
cf his arms, on the 6th of December, at noon day, at
,Knocka..and being aiding and assisting a person
unknown, in snapping a pistol at him with intent to
Will:— Both prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced
to Death.
A letter from Clonmel, dated on Tuesday, states,
that twelve persons had been sent froth Rosa** fo
Clonmel for trial, among whom there were three
snost respectable Gentlemen, Messrs. Egans and
Crotty. on treasonable charges and conspiracy. On
Tuesday four .of them were 'brought forward' for
trial, who were most honourably acquitted, and the
chief prosecutor, an informer, named Dyer, commit-
ted for perjury—the other prisoners were liberated
without a trial.
The mail.coach which left Dublin last night for
the Enniskillen line, was attacked near Lismtillen,

situate about three miles beyond Dnnalteughlin, by a
numerous gang, who commenced -the attack by a
'.regular volley, and, after the discharge, the person
having the command distinctly gave the word-
-14 prime and load !" The guards defended the coach,
Itc. so long as their ammunition lasted ; but, over-
'powered by numbers, could no longer resist. One
-of the guards has three gun-slot wounds. They
carried off the entire mail and aims, robbed the pas-
• aengers, and, we understand, all the luggage which
the coach contained. The fellows had placed three
drays across the road to stop the coach.

The ship Eliza, of Dublin, J. G. Wafritineo, (a
foreigner) master, sailed from Portsmouth in August
last, botind fur Halifax, where she arrived early in
December, having experienced a most tedicins pas.
sage. About a fortnight after leaving Spithead, the
Crew mutinied, and would have taken the ship, bad
they not been prevented by the passengers, who were
. fortunaely well armed. This circumstance rendered
it necessary to bear away for the Azores, and the
ship got into St. Michael's, where her crew were
s ifely landed.

Vice-Admiral TICICMORE has been appointed Go-
vernor of Newfoundland. and Commander in Chief

of his Majesty's ships on that static a ; where he is to
reside until the term of his command on that station
expires, without returning to England in the winter
season, as has been the custom hretotore.
The following extract of a letter from Jamaica will
give our Readers borne faint idea of the effects of Ile
storm with which than island has been visited:

aII'ANIM TOWN, NOV. 17, 181:.
46 I wrote to you about ten days ago by the Jalouse
brig of war, giving you some account of the tremen-
duus calamity- with which we have been visited, but
it is out of ray power to give you any idea of its ge-
neral effects, for it appears to me that there has been
nothing more destructive since the great cartkquake
of 1652 ; from all the narrations I have read of that

visitation, the description comes nearest to the ac-
counts we still daily receive of the destruction of the
coffee plantations in the mountains, by. the massy
pieces of earth giving way, with the standing coffee
trees upon them, and even in many places, of wood-
land, a thing which could never have taken place
bad not there been several concusuicns of an earth-
quake, which were sensibly felt by many people 1
have seen, towards the end of the storm.

" In one part a rock, the size of a large house, has
been moved a considerable way, which could never
have been done by the wind. In the neighbourhood
of Hope River, the appearance of the country is en-
tirely changed. I have not been higher than just
above the Botanic Garden, but I am told at Hope-
well, and the adjoining plantation called Betersfield,
the ravages of the tempests have been very great in
some p 1 ices, not near to rivers, springs have burst
gin like volcanoes, ilral some small ones have ao in-
ereand in sre as to throw down stones large enough
to destroy the buildings beneath them ; and what is
more extraordinary, one actually burst out at the top
of a ridge, and poured forth a torrent of water ; in-
deed the plantation is ruined.
Si At the head of Yallab's River, not half a mile
from its source; the Jamaica Spa, which is under the
charge of a Committee of the Assembly, and on
which we had caused to be erected a solid and sub-
stantial house for its preservation, is now buried 20
feet under ground. The land in that neiglibouthood
is now so broken and rugged, that a great extent of
road must be given up, as it cannot be restored; and
a new one made on the opposite side of the moun-
tains. On' the other side of the Island, in the
George's, the poor people at Ball Bay have been in
the most dreadful situation, several of their houses
being swept away, with every thing in them, nothing
being saved but their lives, and all the sugar and
coffee being washed into the sea. One poor man,
Gillena, the cooper, is since dead of a broken heart.
One friend of mine has lost seventy tierces of sugar,
nod another forty tierces of coffee. Seven tierces of
it,tfee I had then, were fortunately shipped a short
on:e befog", and I hope ensured, for the vessel and
cargo are totally lost at Annetto Bay. One person
who is gene over to see his property, writes to me
that the sea and river rise to such a height, that in
some places at the mouth of the Bali Bay River, the
water was thirty feet deep, and in no place less than
five. Since the storm, the hooping cough, which
tad been very prevalent before it, but was giving
way at Bunts* Wood, has broken out again with
snore violence, and lour or five children have died of
it: But yet this is nothing like the losses of others.
One estate has loit thirty negroes in the storm, and
eight or nine negroee were buried in their houses. We
therefore have reason to be thankful when vie sots.
pare our lakiefottdOca than of others."

' SPORTING.'

STATEMENT et the ODElton the DEW sad OARS
STAKES, 1617.—fact.
DERBY.
Taken-10 to. 1 apt e. by Walton, oat et Penny Tnanpat.
Taken—ll
to
to 8.7., hatdea,Parisbro Arm" "lavaira.
Is tot apt Firwatuner, brother to &Ltd&
16 to 1 apt any other.
OAKS.
6 to 1 ape Sister to Raphael.
to 1 apt Sister to Crispin.
10 to 1 apt say other. •
OATLAND STAKES, FIRST CLASS.
3 to 1 apt Wanderer,
4 to 1 apt FIER) di Pats, p. p.
THE ROYAL HUNT.—Friday morning a remar-
kable fine leer was turned out near Farnham, which
went off with great swiftness towards Burnham, and
crossed the Bath road, through the enclosures, to-
wards the Thames, which is crossed near Surley-
Hall. On landing, he ran through the meadows,
,and passed the Cavalry Barracks at Spittle, towards
the Long Walk, in the Pirk. • The sportsmen and
hounds made their way through Eton and Windsor.
The deer gained rest in the mean time, and the chace
was resumed in the Long Walk, when it made
through her Majesty's enclosures, surrounding her
house at Frogmore, and afterwards made towards Old
Windsor, where he crossed the Thames a second
time. The huntsmen and hounds passed along
I)atchet bridge, and came with the deer on the
Common, when it ran towialls the Magpies, crossing
several rivers, which annoyed the young sportsmen,
who were unacquainted with the fording places ;
and who, consequently, were frequently immersed.
At length it took the country to the right across
Hounslow Heath, to the left of Bedlont, towards
Busby Park, and through the fields to Hampton,
where it was taken, after a run of excellent sport of
upwards of three hours and a half.
On Monday se'nnight the Hertfordshire and
Essex foxhounds, after each had a severe burst, had
nearly run into each other at Man-wood, which, how.
ever, WaS fortunately prevented by the skilfulness of
their whippers-in, and the high discipline of the re-
spective packs. The former found in Birch hanger
Wood, and pressed their fox into a drain at Oates;
the latter on Takely Forest, who lost near Matching
Green. The Hertfordshire turned off near Wade's
Mill on Wednesday, when they soon found, and.
after a sharp run of an hour and forty minutes, killed
their fox in a high style.
Lord Althorp's hounds meet Thursday, at Snnrs-
comb ; Friday, at Marston Wood, each day at half.
past ten.—The Duke of Grafton's hounds meet Wed.
nesday, at Preston Park ; Friday, at Fureen Field, at
half past ten e.r:h day.—The Oakley hounds meet
tomorrow, at Marston* Thrift; Thursday, at Res:-
ton ; Saturday, at Swinstead Wood, at half past tea
each day.—The Hatfield hounds meet Saturday, at
Warren Gate, at half past tea.—The East Essex fol.
houeds meet Thursday, at Boreham Cock ; Satur.
day, at Marks Hall.—Lord Derby's stag hounds
men Wednesday, Addington.—J. Maberley, Esq.'s
fix hounds meet Thursday, at White Hart, God-
, stone ; Saturday, at Limpsfiehf Common.—H. Jol.
1 f;:e, Esq.'s lox huunds meed Wednesday, at Reigate
Heath ; Saturday, at Redstone House.
Fool Bet LL. —A grand Football Match, similar to
that which took phee at Ettrick, on the 4th of 'De-
cember last, was played at Newton Stewart, on the
14th and 13th inst. by nearly all the young men of
the parishes of Penu;ngham, and Minnigaff. During
the long, but friendly struggle, there was displayed
many an extraordinary exertion of agility, and many
a surprising fat of athletic power, that would cer-
tainly not have dishonoured the most renowned per-
former in the Olympic Games of Greece. Among
the Nobility and Gentry who honoured this revival
of pan old amusement with their presence, may be
mentioned, Major General Sir J. S.
—MON MAX.
war,. of Heron, Bart. with Lady Henox MAXWELL
and family ; Lieutenant General Hon. Sir WILLIAM
STEWART ; Hon. MONTGOMERY G. S. STEWART, of
Grennan, with Mrs. &inviter and family ; Enwann
BOYD, Esq. of Merton Hall ; W. M'CAA, Esq. of
Barnshailoch ; Major M•Yie, of Bargally ; Dr.
STEWART, 01 ILirkcowan. The interest taken in the
game by Sir J. H. MAXWELL, and Mr. BOYD, contri-
buted much to the good order maintained, in keeping
off from disturbing the players the greatest multitude
ever remembered to have been seen in that quarter of
the country.

I tight of the poachers, supposed to be concerned
in the murder of Colonel &arum's gamekeeper,'
were, on Saturday, fully committed to Gloucester
gaol for trial.
Last week, a serious rencontre took place in the
woods of the Earl of DARNLZY, at Cobham, Kent,
between nine of his Lordship's keepers and servants,
and n desperate gang of five poachers, when, after a
severe struggle, the poachers effected their escape.
During the night of Saturday se'nnight a dog got,
into a field belon•Aing to Mr. Jarrett, butcher, of
Maidstone, and worried and tore, in a shocking
manner, a flock of fine fat sheep, One sheep was
driven into the river and drowned, and the othersl
were so mangled and torn, that Mr: Jarrett was un-
der the necessity of killing 20 of them the next day.
A few days since, as R. ANDRIWS, Esq. of Peters-
field, was returning (room shooting, with his servant,
while getting over a hedge, the stick on which he
stood gave way he consequently fell, and broke se-
veral of his ribs. He languished till the following I
Saturday, and then expired in the seventyoeventhi
year of his age.
The neighbourhood of Tipton, was, on Monday
se'nniglat, alarmed by the collecting together of save.
sal hundreds of colliers. About two o'clock the mi-
litary quartered in Wolverhampton, were sent for,
sad a troop of the 9th Light Dragoons, and a de-
tachment of the Berkshire Militia, immediately pro.
needed to the spot, accompanied by the Rev. A. B.
Haim, and were met by the Rev. D. Lawn, ano.
ther Magistrate, with a military Wm from Birming.
barn. The colliers had not committed any acts of
violence, and they all not oaly professed, but evinced
a disposition of acting in the most orderly manner,
by dispersing, after being reasoned with and desired
to do so. The motives for their collecting, they. said,
was to resist a further drop of sixpence per day in
their wages, by their charter masters. A satisfactory
arrangement was made with tale an they are a-
mused to go* opfk•ymeat.
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