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London, England, 1820-05-23 00:00:00

SCEOOL nF INDUSTRY. •

Saturday, several Gentlemen met together in the
E%-,yptian Hall, Klll6Oll Llouse, for the purpose of
Lt-thering, a plaa for converting the Pri,,on of War,
and other appropriate buildings, at Dartmoor, into a
Shoo? of In.th,try ibr the reception cf a portion of
the pauper c::ildren of the Metropcli,,. At about
11f-past two, the LORD MAron, accompaniud by
Mr. 13notainam, Sir ThomAs TYRWIIITT, ails] seve-
ral Gentlemen of great tespectability and influence
in the City, entered the I lall, and took the Chair.

The Lunt) M YOH having brictly stated the nature
anti objec, of the Meting,
Mr. PAteuottam rose to prorate a series et Reso-
Intions, which he was sine would be cordially met by
the Gentlemen present ; hot before he did so, he
would tl'el leave to explain to the Meeting the ob-
ject they had in view. The principal benefit which
suggested arising ti ma this plan, was to re-
lieve that great evil Nvhich this Metropolis, and, in-
deed, every other Ikietropolis, was burthened with,
namely, the Parochial Rates; an evil, as affecting the
Nk ea!tii of the City, but a still greater one as connected •
a:ith the morals of it. The Gentlemen before him
could not be ignorant of, or indifferent to the tit eat in-1
crease of javenile deiravity, which had lately mani-
fested itself in this Metropolis ;• several instances had
come to his knowledge, and he had no doubt, that
of many of the persons present, which made him
shudder, and imps essed upon him the necessity that
existed of some strong and effectual check being put to
it. That this desirable object should be rather effected
by conciliatory measures, than by forcible ones, there
could remain no doubt ; and it Was under this idea
that the Gentlemen promoting this plan, had taken
upon themselves to call this Meeting. The plan had
in view the selecting of about 2000 Orphan Pauper
Children, and, by their voluntary consent, placing
them in some establishment where they might, by
proper attention, be rescued from the desperate evils
of the idleness and vice that now awaited. them. This
intention, he (Mr. Brougham) was satisfied, would
be readily concurred in by the heads of the different
parishes in the :‘letropolis, for upon a calculation it
had been ascertained that the pager children could
be maintained at a much less expense by the intended
Establishment, than they were at pressor by those
parishes. This point having been cot rid of, the next
consideration which sug.t.:ested it,eif was a piper
place to which thet:e children might be carried. It
appeared to the Provisional Committee, that there
was no place so suial.ile as the Prison of War at
Dartmoor, a.)d finding it wholly at the disposal of,
his Majesty, application had been made to him, while
Prince Regent, on the subject, through the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the Lord Mayor. The reception
which this application met with, and the answer to it,
he (Mr. Brougham) was satisfied it would be impos-
sible for him to do adequate justice to ; the best plan
he could pursue wenld be to read the gracious com-
munication of his then Royal Highness on the occasion.
Mr. Brougham then read a letter from his Majesty,
which not only expressed his approbation of the
plan, but voluntarily named himseif patron, and in-
closed a donation of one thousand guineas in fur-
therance of the object intended to be carried into
effect; and this, the Meeting would understand, was'
done at a period when large offers were being made
to his Royal highness for these very buildings--
(Appirmse). Several objections, said Mr. Brougham,
had, however, been raised to Dartmoor, among
which were the distance, the unhealthiness of the
place, and the barrenness of the soil. The first he
thought of very little consequence, and with regard
to the latter, he would refer the company to the evi-
dence taken before a Committee of the House of
Commons on the subject (which he read), and which
clearly demonstrated the futility of these objections,
and afforded abundant proof of the fertility of the
soil, and the salubrious climate of the Forest. " _ _

The Archbishop of C ‘NTERSURYI in agreeing with '1
the Resolutions, begged to make one observation on
a point xvhich he thought had not been sufficiently
alluded to, he meant the examplu held out by an In-
stitution like that which was priposed to be adopted.
The Noble Prelate felt conscious, that when once set '1
on foot, its benefits Would not be confined to Dart-
moor, but soon be extended to the utmost limits of
the British Empire. Ile was sorry that other en-
'gagements obliged him to leava them for the pre-
sent, hut they indit rest assured, t,•t. the Institution
Lad his deci,ied s:inction and suppnrt.
Mr. Alderman Woou said, that having been Chair-
man of the Committee on frisons to which the I-lon.
Gentleman bad alluded, he wa; einiblod to state, that
the most satisfnztcry evidence had boon given of the
saluln.i:l of the situation of Dartmoor.. Out of six
thousand l'rencli priscners, there were but fifty upon
the sick list, at a time when every other depot in the.
kingdom, th:., sick iiit amounted to more than double
that rnnher.

Dr. LusielNoTos, from his experience while on
Committee.; of the Itelle,;e for the Destitute, and
other Charities, could bear testimony to what bad
fallen from his lloncJurable and Learned Friend Mr.
Brougham, ca the preva.• ace of juyeoile delin-
quency ; and indeed it was under such conviction,
that he had taken upon himself the preparing a Bill
to lay before Parliament, on the subject they had that
clay met to promote. The task bad been allotted him
by his Learned Friend Mr. Brougham, he being
valable, from his numerous engagements, to attend
to it. lie (Dr. Lushingtou) certainly wished, far the
sake of the cause, that his friend bad pursued it, but
be would assure the Meeting, that what he wanted
in ability, he would endeavour to compensate for by
zeal and activity, as he never considered himself
better employed than in relieving the distresses, and
preventing the crimes of, his fellow-creatures.
Mr. Court rr,Nn.y entirely concurred in the measure'
about to be adopted. As he was connected with the
county in which Dartmoor was situated, he was anxi-
ous to'undentand if it was the intention of the Corn-.
inittee, or ofEziating parties, to se:.d parsons actually
convicted of crime to this place? He could assure,
the Meeting he merely wished this to be understood,
as ere:a anxiety was manifested by the neighbourhood
is consequence of the idea having prevailed there.
'11:e Lout) MAvos ar.d Mr. BIM:GUAM both as-
wrred the Hon. Member, that no such persons as he
alluded to v,0•_11.1 6nd relief at thesr hands.
Aftcr a few other remarks from Wit. WILLIAMS,
Esq. M.P. Sir T. Tyrtwiturz, &c. a subscription to a,
ver y large amount was entered into.

LAW IN7LLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'q BENCH, MAY 20.
BEALE V. KEW.

This was an action upon the warranty of I hone.
The plaintiff, a Gentleman of fortune, residinn
'Fitzroy-square, bought a farmingborse of the de-
fendant, a dealer in Whitechaper, the sum of £l5.
The horse, being taken to Mr. Be le country-house
at Edmonton, worked well for several days, when he
became ill ; and, upon examination by a farrier, it
appeared that a large stone had passed from the
bladder, and lodged itself in the urinary passage.—
, The defendant, being informed of this circumstance.
said, that he had bought the horse under a warranty
fiom a man of the name of Bonsor; and that Bonsor
would, at all events, be responsible to him. At the
desire of kew the horse was then delivered to Bonsor,
in whose bands he died ; and the present action was
brought to recover the £45 paid, together with the
farrier's bill, and the keep of the horse during ten
days that he had remained in the plaintiff's possession.
The warranty of the horse by the defendant to the
plaintiff being distinctly proved in evidence,
Mr. GURNEY confessed that he could make no
answer to the case. •

Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages £5O.
COTTIER V. TITS EARL or BELFAST.

Mr. GURNEY said, that the plaintiff in this case
was a livery-stable-keeper, in Bond-street ; and the
present action was brought for charges incurred by
the Noble defendant's horses. What defence was to
be set up he (Mr. Gurney) was at a loss to imagine,
since he should prove an admission of the debt by
the Noble Earl himself; in short, Mr. Cottier, find-
ing it impossible by common measm es to obtain his
money, actually impounded the defendant's horses,
drew a chain across the stable-door, and declared
that they should not go forth until the debt was dis-
charged. Upon that occasion Lord Belfast promised
that, if the horses were set at liberty, he would very
shortly pay to the plaintiff £130; cash had since been
received in part of payment, and the sum now
claimed.was £7B.
James Lawes proved the promise of 1:150 on the
part of Lord Belfast ; and three letters were put in
in his Lordship's hand-writing, in which he acknow-
ledged himself indebted to Cottier.
Mr. MARRY4T, for the defence, could not resist
the plaintiff's case.
Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages £7B.
HOPE V. HALFNIGUT.

This was an action of assault and trespass. It ap-
peared from the evidence of four or five witnesses on
the part of the plaintiff, that the plaintiff's father and
the defendant occupied wharfs adjoining each other,
on the Middlesex side of the Thames, below London
Bridge. By the custom of the River, the occupiers
of wharfs were in the habit of mooring their barges
to the piles which belonged to each other's wharfs,
as their respective coovenience and the state of the
tide rendered necessary. On the 23d of February
last, the defendant and the plaintiff had an alterca-
tion as to the right of the latter to moor one of his
father's barges to a pile opposite the premises of the
former. High words arose ; the defendant attempted
to saw down the pile, so as completely to prevent the
mooring of the barge; the plaintiff resisted the pro-
ceeding with a boat-hook ; the defendant aimed two
blows at him on the face with the saw ; the second
took effect, and wounded him slightly under the left
eye. The plaintiff's conduct was represented to be
mild and inoffensive.

On the part of the defendant, three witnesses were
called to prove that the injury, of which the plaintiff
complained, was purely accidental, and was occa-
sioned by his own violent and intemperate conduct.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case for the
Jury, who found their verdict for the Plaintiff
Damages £2O.

THE KING V. BYRNE, ESQ.
Mx. Entros.--Observing in your Paper of Thursday a
statement of the trial of this cause, and that the defendant did
not appear either by Counsel or in person, I beg to state that it
Has owing to a failure in my application to the Court in due
time, to postpone the trial, in the absence of my most material
witnesses, as also from the circumstance of my Solicitor not
having the most distant idea that the cause stood so early on
the paper, which occasioned his only appearing in Court after
the cause had been disposed of, on (of course) es parts evidence.
I have, therefore, to crave the indulgence of the Public to sus-
pend their judgment until a full investigation of the :aeries,
which I trust will take place in the course of the next Term,
as I intend to apply to the Court the first day of that Term fur
a new trial, the result of which will, I pledge myself, clearly
establish my innocesice.—l am, &c. Wist.uat Brazes.
Fiudyer-street, Westminster, May 20.