Star.
London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

XING'S BENCH-THISDAYr

MARY ANN CARLILE was this day brought up to
receive judgment, for the publication of The Apple-
dis to Paine's Theological Works. The sentence of
the Court was, that she pay a Fine to the Crown of
Five Hundred Pounds, and be confined in Dorches-1
ter Jail for the space of Twelve Calendar Months;
at the expiration of which she is to give security, her-
self in £lOOO, and two sureties in £5OO each, for her
future good behaviour.—The prisoner was immedi-
ately taken into custody by the tipstafr.

Our Readers are aware that Miss Carli e s brother
and her sister-in-law, are already confined in the
same jail of Dorchester.

COURT OF CHANCER L NOVEMBER 14.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE COOPERS COMPANY.

Mr. HART said, this cause originally came before
his Lordship some time since, on a very litigated in-
formation, which was filed by certain parishioners of
Egham, in the county of Surrey, against the Coopers
Company, as Trustees of the estates for the support of
the Charity-school of Egham, and against Doctor
Jeans, as Master of the school, for having removed
the said school from tht spot where it originally stood,
and for having made several alterations in the alms-
houses attached to the school. In answer to that in-
formation, Dr. Jeans stated, that in all the altera-
tions which he had made in the school and the alms
houses, he had acted under the authority and with
the sanction of the Coopers Company. His Lordship,
after hearing the arguments on the information, di-
rected Master Cook to inquire and report respecting
the alterations which had been effected. Master Cook
accordingly made inquiries respecting the alterations,
and reported, that some were abuses, but, at the same
time, approved of others as necessary. When the
cause came on for hearing for further directions on
Master Cook's report, his Lordship ordered all the al-
terations which a ete considered unfit to be reformed
under the direction of Master Cook. All the abuses
pointed out in the report of the Master had been re-
medied, and since that time the school had been con-
ducted by Dr. Jeans with great propriety; The
Learned Counsel then stated, that he was now in-
structed to move his Lordship upon a petition of Dr.
Jeans. The petition prayed that it might be referred
to the Master to inquire what money is due to the
petitioner for the repairs and alterations which lie had
effected upon the school at Eghain, under the sanc-
tion of the Coopers Company also that it might be
referred to the Master to inquire whether girls, as well
as boys, might not he educated at the Charity-school
Egham?of and, finally, that the Court would direct
the arrears of the annual sum of thirty guineas, with
interest, since the year 1807, to be paid to the peti-
tioner out of the funds of the Coopers Company.—
He had omitted to mention another prayer of the pe-
tition, which was, that Dr. Jeans might be permitted
to send in a scheme for the future regulation of the
Charity, for the approval of the Master. The original
scheme of 1708, on which the Charity proceeded, al-
lotted Ss. per week to each of the almsmen, and a
stipend of £4O a-year to the Schoolmaster. This ar-
rangement continued to exist until 1750, when the
income of the Charity having increased, the Coopers'
Company formed a new scheme, by which the sum of
4.5. was given to each of the almsmen. But the new
scheme, instead of giving the Master a specific in-
crease of stipend, directed that he should receive an
annual gratuity of thirty guineas in addition to his
salary of forty pounds per annum. Dr. Jeans, in his
affidavit, stated, that this gratuity was promised to
him on his election to the office of Master to the
school. Dr. Jeans, however, could only obtain the
salary of forty pounds from the Coopers' Company,
who refused to pay the gratuity of thirty guineas.—
To some persons who were accustomed to deal in
thousands, the• sum of thirty guineas might appear
very inconsiderable, but it was a matter of importance
to Dr. Jeans, to whom the arrears of seven or eight
}ears were now due.
Mr. HoRNI here observed, that Dr. Jeans had never
received the gratuity on any occasion. He also took
that opportunity of observing, that the same appli-
cation which Mr. Hart was now making was made
on motion in 1817, and refused by the Court.
Mr. HART said, that when the application alluded
to by Mr. Horne was made to :he Court, his Lord-
ship considered it premature, and refused it on that
ground alone. The Learned Counsel then read the
affidavit of the clerk to the Coopers Company, in
order to skew that when Dr. Jeans vias elected
Master, he was given to understand that he was to
receive the annual gratuity of thirty guineas, in ad-
dition to his salary. The affidavit set forth, that when
Dr. Jeans was chosen Master, some of the Gentle-
men who were present informed him that in addition
to the salary they believed a gratuity had been
granted, but that it was contingent and depended
upon an increase of rents. After the motion of 1817
had failed, and all litigation between the parties had
ceased, Dr. Jeans again applied to the Company for
the payment of the gratuity. Upon that occasion
the Company informed him that they were willing
to pay him the gratuity, provided the Parish of
Egham—that is, such persons as chose to meet in
Vestry—would consent to it. In consequence, a
Vestry Meeting was called to take the question into
consideration, at which only seventeen persons, some
of whom were informants in that cause, attended.
Dr. Jeans, after fairly submitting his claims to the
Meeting, quitted the room, and left the Vestry to de-
cide upon them. The Meeting was divided in opi•
nion, but the majority, nine out of seventeen, was in
favour of Dr. Jeans. The scale was, however, finally
turned against his client by a ruse de guerre which
proceeded from a quarter whence he (Mr. Hart)
should have little expected it to come. Mr. Rosser,
the Solicitor of the informants, who was present, in-
formed the Meeting that the Company had suspended
Dr. Jeans for neglect of duty. This piece of infor-
mation, which was totally false, had the effect of in-
ducing the Meeting to reject the claim of Dr. Jeans.
Mr. HORNS said he felt it due to the character of
Mr. Rosser to state, that he made the representation
alluded to upon the authority of a paper, purporting
to be a copy of an order of the Company, which was
given to him by an agent of the Company.
Mr. HART said, that Mr. Rosser might have stated
that fact in an affidavit, if be had thought proper.
The LORD CHANORLLOR Raked what the Vestry

had to do with the question ? The Vestry there was
assuming a power almost paramount to that of the
Legislature. It happened now, that no important
' question, either political or otheryise, could be agi-
tated, but a Parish Vestry must be.called to decide i.
Mr. HART replied, that it appeared to him that t7;e
Company were unwilling to exercise a right which
undoubtedly was vested in them, without the appro-
bation of the Vestry.
The LORD Cu A Iff:SLLOR said, the Company either
held the funds for some trust, or for their own benefit,
and in either case the Vestry could have nothing to
do with the matter.

Mr. HART then proceeded to contend, that if it
should appear that Dr. Jeans was not entitled to the
gratuity, still he had a right to call upon his Lord-
ship to direct that the Company should augment his
salary in proportion to the augmentation %%Lich had
been made to the allowance to the almsmen in 17.50.
With respect to the prayer of Dr. Jeans to be allowed
to furnish the Master with a scheme, he would merely
observe, that if it were not granted, the Master would
never receive any scheme, or at least none upon which
he could act. The order directing that the inform-
ants should submit a scheme for the approval of the
Master was made in 1819, since which time two
schemes have been submitted to that Officer, both of
which he had rejected. lie understood, however,
that since the present Petition had been filed, a new
scheme had been submitted to the Master, who, in
consequence of the informant's delaying presenting a
suitable scheme, had refused to take it into consider..
ation until his Lordship decided upon the Petition.
Mr. SHADWELL followed on the sante side.

Mr. HORNE next addressed the Court in opposition
to the petition. He thought the conduct of the pe-
titioner very extraordinary. He now asked by petis
lion exactly the same thing which he endeavoured to
obtain by motion in 1817. After hearing all that
could be said on the latter occasion, his Lordship
said that he could make no order for directing the'
payment of the gratuities, but that the Company
must exercise its discretion on the subject. The Com-
pany had exercised its discretion, and had refused the
gratuity. He was surprised to hear his Learned
Friend dwell upon the circumstance of the Vestry
Meeting, which, as his Lordship observed, had no.
thing to do with the business. The Learned Coun-
sel next contended, that the first oisject of the peti,
tioner's prayer was already under the consideration
of the Master. That Officer was also the proper per-
son to decide upon the question of an increased salary-
to the schoolmaster. He denied that it could be fairly
inferred from the affidavit of the clerk of the Com-
pany, which Mr. Hart had read, that Dr. Jeans was
made to believe, at the time of his election, that he
was to receive the gratuity of thirty guineas. The
only Master who had received the gratuity was the
immediate predecessor of Dr. Jeans, and it -Ras given
to him, on the ground of his excellent management
of the alms-houses and the school. If the state of
those two establishments was compared under the re-
spective management of Mr. Jones and Dr. Jeans,
his Lordship would find ample reason why the gra-
tuity should be given to the former, and withheld
from the latter. In answer to what had fallen from
Mr. Hart, with respect to the delay on the part of
the informants to submit a suitable scheme to the
Master, he would inform his Lordship, that the pre-
sent petition was filed in November, Iwo. His
Learned Friends, therefore, had kept their brief in
their pockets for a year, and then came forward to
accuse him of delay in not presenting a suitable
scheme, although they knew he was precluded from
doing so, until his Lordship had decided upon the pe-
tition. That part of the petition which played that
the Master should inquire whether the Charity did
not extend to the education of female children, intro-
' duced quite a new view of the question. That part
of the petitioner's prayer ought certainly to have ob-
tained the sanction of the Attorney-General before
it was urged. The Learned Counsel concluded by
expressing his conviction that his Lordship would
dismiss the petition.
Mr. DUCKWORTH followed Mr. Horn.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that it would
become a question' whether the trustees ought not
immediately to apply all surplus funds in fulfilment
of the intention of the founder of the charity, by
distributing them equally among the objects of the
charity. It happened that trustees too often lost sight
of the object for which they were appointed, and
made the execution of their duty a source of favour
and patronage.
Mr. HART rose to reply, but his Lordship requested
him to postpone his observations until to-morrow.

The term of Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY'd imprison..
ment terminated on Tuesday.
The Navy Pay-office Cashier, announced a few
days ago as having decamped with £40,000, has
been traced to a ship bound for America, three days
after she had sailed, and a fast-s:tiling cutter was im-
mediately dispatched in chase of the vessel. •
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—For the last four months,
at intervals, the family of Mr. Dickens, residing in
Skinner-street, Somers Town, have been nightly
alarmed by the back windows of the house being
broken with stones, thrown by some invisible hand,
and although the maid-servant had been set to watch,
and other plans adopted, to trace from what place
the missiles were thrown, and by whom, nothing ever
transpired to form any conjecture who the invisible
assailant could be. On Tuesday morning, about six
o'clock, the family were still more alarmed by the
maid-servant calling out .. Murder Thieves !"
&c. which roused the neighbours, and the whole street
was in an uproar. On Mr. Dickens running down
stairs he found the poor girl in the kitchen .in the
greatest distress; she could not articulate for son.e
moments; at length she stated, that on leaving her
bed-room, a few minutes past six o'clock, she went'
down stairs into the kitchen to light the fire, and was
going from thence into the wash house in the yard,
when a tall figure, apparently about seven feet high,
with a most horrible countenance, stared her in the
face; she shrunk back with horror, and ran into the
passage; the monster followed and grasped her by
the throat; she struggled, and he clawed her face
with his nails, and then vanished over a high wall,
exclaiming, in a hollow sepulchral voice, " D—n
you, you are not the one I want F' She ran down
stairs into the kitchen and fainted away, in which si-
tuation she was found by her master. This, myste-
rious affair has excited considerable consternation in
the neighbourhood.

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.ON THE GUM CISTUS.

/ROM HAPPINEss:" A TALE FOR THE GRAVE AND

COVRT OF KINGS I3ENCH, NOTEMBER 14.

This morning the Grand Inquest for the City of
Westminster and County of Middlesex: appeared in
Court, and was sworn. The Gentlemen. after a short
but impressive charge from Mr. Justice BAYLEY, re-
tired to their jury-rooms, to consider of such bills as
might be laid before them.
THE NINO V. SUSANNAH WRIGHT.
This was an indictment at the suit of the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, fdr the publication of a
blasphemous libel.
The defendant was brought up, upon the motion
of Mr. ADOLPHUS, and pleaded Not Guilty. Shc was
then given to understand her trial would come on in
due course.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
Mr. SCARLETT moved for a Rule to shew cause
why a criminal information should not be filed
against John Ambrose Williams, for a libel published
in the Durham Chroxide of the 18th August, 1821.
The paragraph complained of was as follows
" So far as we have been able to judge from the accounts in
the public papers, a mark of respect to her late Majesty has been
almost universally paid throughout the kindom, when the pain-
ful tidings of her decease were received, by tolling the bells of
the Cathedrals and Churches. But there is one exception to
this very creditable fact, which demands a precise notice. In
this Episcopal City, containing six Churches, independently of
the Cathedral, not a single bell announced the departure of the
magnanimous spirit of the most injured of Queens, the most
persecuted of women. Thus the brutal enmity of those who
embittered her mortal e►istence pursues her in her shroud. We
know not whether actual orders were issued to prevent the cus-
tomary sign of mourning, but the omission certainly indicates
the kind of spirit which prevails among our Clergy. Yet these
men profess to be followers of Jesus Otiose, to walk in his
footsteps, to teach his precepts, to inculcate his spirit, to pro-
mote harmony, charity, and Christian love !—Out upon such
hypocrisy ! It is such conduct which renders the very name of
our Established Clergy odious, till it stinks in the nostrils; that
makes our Churches look like deserted sepulchres, rather than
the Temples of the living Goa; that raises up Conventicler in
every corner, and increases the brood of wild fanatics and en-
thusiasts; that MUNI our beneficed Dignitaries to be regarded
as usurpers of their possessions; that deprives them of all pasto-
ral influence and respect; that, in short, has left them no sup-
port or prop in the attachment or in the veneration of the people.
Sensible of the-decline of their spiritual and moral influence,
they cling to temporepovrer, and lose, in their officiousness in
political matters, even the semblance of the character of Minis-
ters of Religion. It is impossible that such a system can last ;
it is at war with the spirit of the age, as well as with justice and
reason; and the beetles who crawl about amidst its holes and
corners, act as if they were striving to provoke and accelerate
:he blow, which, sooner or later, will inevitably crush the whole
fabric, and level it with the dust:"
—Having read the libel, comment, Mr. Scarlett
thought, was unnecessary ; nor would the Court, he
trusted, require any affidavit beyond that which
charged the defendant with publishing the Newspa-
per in which such matter had appeared. The attack
was directed against the Clergy of the kingdom ge-
nerally, and against those of Durham in particular.
It was impossible, their Lordships would see, that
any individual could come forward as a prosecutor;
but could it be endured that the Established Clergy
of a country should be so treated with impunity, in
a public Newspaper? If such acts could be per-
mitted, that veneration must cease, which, as long as
religion had a footing in a country, wai due to its le-
cognized Ministers.
I'he LORD CHIEF JUSTICE." Take a Rule to
shew cause."