The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-11 00:00:00

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:ile, —t should,not have the honour ot noticing
I your iftlispposielim- d': Sir S. A 61416011.
I Bill, but-virlisfiteter ioice oljustice* and hums.,
nity is heard,:froseonind seems she repository•of
•panici and Pee". io< it .nought bat hydras anC
chimeras dire ; your itnaginatioe sets up unfair and
'filiciett premises, whiet you overturn as easily at.
Den 'Quitote did the heilletolous army, which
he sew loot lock of sheep: 46 Rad not the Ftettels
atevotetiostists, say you, begun with the abolition;
;.'of Capital Rupishown4 ? When he looked, how.
.x.ver, to th'e millions who had since fallen in ,tM6
cotirsiof the Re;olution; he could not but regiqd.
...all schemes of the kiniwith an eye Of jealousy."
Here is a terrific vision conjured up ,when no such
thing ,onus in,:contemplation as <abolishing capital
'unishments, nor 'even to lessen the ;pother of
ezecu.ions. indeed yoU begin your speech
with conceiving; that 'if Sit SA VIAL' 0:0KILI.Y!S
Bill should pass, execution must follow at a
necessary consequence of every sentence upon
;•..lt4t:,•this was imaginaryi,for the. 'same
great peerogative of mercy ,10101d-;lntre remain.
ed ; but the unhappy objects would have,
been fewer,
.and.its exercise not 'whiningly fre.
Oen,. : there must have been massy instances .oP
inistentionally unjust severity in ,the' nommen,
ble .ease, of capital conviction, • antler the present.
system, carefelly as the birth, •parentage,educe.
lion, and whole history may-have. been examined;
• end reported ; for a load of salpielon, perhaps'
' considerably unjust, must sometimed. have'offer.';
whelined a criminal convicted of privately iitealitifl
the small value ofso scanty mealLatnify be
trated by your own•sinfile ty!,
66 •It was'an old but trite nit the lAti
feather broke the h'orse's 'back ;. but 'the Right;
Gent.tpreibmed it Wad hardly be said that
realheteireitild break an kale's ba.Aitif there tree.,l
9O pri.e.tistbig. weight imposedqptiii Win,"
•Why HO:the politionis incontrovertible that a
single feather 'could not break an horse's back !
tattimAio triumph I
.Butenlfttrte•
• 'lately a' pre...eiOtinA weight,
,as you .cell
suspicion, *liith a rel.)? small degree Of gailt,,like,
the last feather, 'will bear down higher characters'
than those of condemned Maus, as every maestr••,
Coltman observation mit be able to testify. •
ou then lay down another, positieuas undessi,
alle, " that intimidation is the best method of ef.
feeting the, prevention of crime , most auta.
. ble discovery' to Sir SAM (TEL ROM' LLY ! But as
to intimidation, by frequent couriektions only,
...even sparrows its a corn-field art cussing enough .!
to find out aeoarwhett they Ore fired at with pow-
der only, to frighten them ; and the wicked ones 1
in this generation are, to -the full, as cunning as
sparrows.
You next asset:OW:A is impossible to provide
for different degrees of the same species of otteuee;
and here your peculier turn breaks out--G -The
Right Ilutionvable Gentleman, proceeded* to altude
to a Bill, which, he understood, was once more to
come before them, for preventing cruelty to aid.
malt :'• he 'could out help looking with an eye of.
jealousy on all such visionary schemes, which had
huManity and justice for their ostensible causes."
Now, as to providing for dilfereut degrees of
the same species of offence, which yoy say is an.
possible, it may be so for imperceptible degrees.;
but when the offence becomes enormous, as some.
times in, the ill usage of parish apprentices, the
law wilt lay hold of the inhuman master, although
lest flagrant instances of cruelty to the friendleas.
poor and still more helpless animals, must be suf.,
feretl with impunity. 1 Nor do we read of any
complaints of pafticutar inconvenience sustained
by mankind in the history of that natiOn where a
Knight . was degraded" for having a poor • mise-
rable half.starred horse,. 'whereas lie was fisi
and jolly, who jocularly excilied lsinisclf by say-
ing he fed himself, but his servant fed his horse.
Enthusiastic partiality, for creatures of itsferior
species is not likely to do much harm ; nordo we
read in the Grecianilistory of any which folloWeil
the punishment of the boy who. put out thu :eyes
of his bird. It was 'rather thought to have cois;:•
tributed to the virtue of .the people. I *am, Sir,
with the utmost respect,
• . A I'RE-e.XisTING CORRESOONDENT.
In,tbe rimsl-17d .er uu. a village had' been:
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nearly destroyed by ire. The house. hi Which
the flames were brit discovered, and most of those,
adjoining, •were soon 'burnt to the ground. !The
people ofthe iillisgc lied. in every direction, and
the place was abantlonett,,When a party ut English
seamen, who volunteered theivassistande,..ioon found'
means of stopping 'dull pregteis tsf itffi fides* and
finally seceettled in titertebing the sre, eighaving,
the village. For this service their c otidnet Was
reported theta French Government' by the prin-
cipal inhabitants, who solicited per-missive' for the
must active of the British, on that occasion, to re.
turn to Ettglaod..., 4Cliivreqiiest was Wilted.; 'but
each person was rewarded with a gift of, 501. and
ordered to be recorded a Member of the Legion of,
Honour, by which they .will betatitled to receive
each about 91. per annum.
At the Public Office, Shaslwell, yesterday,,Tho.
mas. Hart was charged with entering the garden
of G. Caulier, Esq. at Mile.etul.rold, and .stealing
valuable exotic plants, some of which bore several
fruit. He was committed for re-examioation.
. Two gentlemen and a [edit the latter of whom
was resident at IlammiCiainith, were upset in a'
boat in Twickenham React, at dusk on Tuesday
evening. The boat was staved ; -and the lady and
one of the gentlemen, were nrliwnett.•
The Romans paid pirtfeithir attention le . the
Geddes's. of Fortune,. and had no-less' than eight
temples erected to her honour bi their Of: s 'Tel.'
sus Hostilius was the first whobsailt bei4bidmple ;
and from that circumstance, 'tis easily 'bows);
when her worship was , 'first intredticed..insongst
.the Romans. In Englaud, althoegh all ranks
warship her,. we •k wof ire tentr eerceted 'to her
Papaw,. unless, indeednit be. Cooper", fluff. In
that famed, place she will be partiettlaitly-trotship-
• ;led on the nth of.'isext month :—She LOWO,wilt.
be all drawn on • that- day, and the gifts -01 'the
tiff Goddess diitiibu tad ,in prefasire,' JEsta
Siittettbdi oft I'irkl44gal gain 4, -441) '
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COURT OF KINQ'S: BENCH, MAY 10. • 1"
-BIETCALW*RiIII:/IBBBERS V. BRUIN. t •
-This was anectibri to, recover the penalty in; a
Bdnd of Itideninity gietiakby the Defendant to the
persous mateed,"-thereitytleinaL fitessDirectoes.-slid
Company or • the . Olgire 'ltrittrapee Stia.igif .eQ
guarantee the honestL'af a peiiitin *flake waille-lf
Wilkinson; a C Nit vii-..tiverrinivifif.7frevi red
at theirial, *NA aolic:thot laSt Sittingt o'f Hi-
lary Term, that - the- person so.!gitariuiteed.
_been deficient in his amounts, and minas to a con-
siderable amount.: Sitice,enterinrinto the Bond
some of the Directors belonging bathe Company
died; this.wai proved at the bialolvheireti objec-
don was, taken by the .DefendanNtausisel, 'that
'the Plaintiffs could not recover under. this Boridt
'inasmuch' as the undertaking was given to person?,
who could have nu surviving representatives;, be-
cause," atthtiugh they were a chartered body by
defile of au Act-of Parliament; 'they were 'not a'
-corporate body. The J 'try, however,, found for
the Plaintiffs, and this day the Attorney-General
moved fUr a rule to show cause why that vadat
shothd not be set aside, and a tionsuit entered.—
His ground was the foregoing objection, and the
' Court thereon granted the Rule Nisi.'
.visicesT V. lILAYMAKER.
, The cause of action here was the amount of an
Attorney's' Bill of Costs, and was tried at the.
last Sittings at Westminster, when a verdict was
'foand,'for the Defendant under the direction of
the Judge. It was tried before Lord Ellenbo-
rough,. when it having appeared that the Bill of
costs-for which the action had been brought, was
not tlelliered to the Defendant, signed by the Plain-
tiff* one month before 'the action was brought, as
the Aettqf Parliament directs, the. Jury, as above
Itated,fotand for the Defendant.
I,llr. roprise: now moved that the verdict should
lie set aside, ands new trial granted. The Learned
Cohnltil -Staled, that true it was the Bill was not
'actually delivered' to the. Defendant in person,
hut. it, was delivered to his Attorney ler a
,Judge's order, and he contended that such delivery
waif the same as if it had beed.delivered to the De-
fendant himielf.
Lord ELI,ENBOROUGU;:—CI I rather think that]
• the Act is peremptory On the Attorneyi, aid that
•we must fellow the lotto., of it. I thoegliteo at
the trial; there are, however, many instances
where the act of the Agent or Attorney iS the
same lis the act oft principal. How far that may
apply ill this instance, shall be seen, so you luar
take yohr rule at may •rate.b . • •
• Rule Nisi . • ~. .611 4 .
li,ll.Es' V.., Or D,411411., :•
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This was au. actiono4l was tried 104.1" At
York Assizes for false' impriiOnment. Mr. !tat ati:'
applied for a Rule to Mew cause aby a new trial
should _not be granted, oat the vomit, of excess
of damages. The circumstances were these. The
Plaintiff and Defesidaiit are Attonties, and, were
partners. A dissolution; , however, took, . place,
wired the. Defendant, under a misconception, ar.,
rested the•Plaittilf for a larger sum- than was doe,
to him. The Plaintiff continued in prison from
the 15th of„ May to the 26th ; the Defendant had,
however, three days previous to that tithe, agrecd
to the Plaintiff's discharge') but which the Plain-
tiff :refused to accept. The Plaintiff 'afterwards
brought- an action for false imprisonment, mid
'l'64omit's verdict of which, under all the
circumstances, the Learned Counsel thought most
be considered as excessiie. • The Defendant, how.
dyer, did • not • Wish to disturb the verdict,, pro-
vided the Plaintiff would agree to a' reference
,Of
all the .eiretamstances. •
Lord ,Ei.i leoaouou granted a rule to chew
cause. Ili' the mean time, he suggested to the
LearnettGenthimau• to recommend to the parties
such reference. ' • F A

COURT OF cOMItON PLEAS, MAY J. i 4
. ...i .... JAMES
Sigrairi 'otfure SW MiVS.FI EMI. : 11, et i
Guildhall.. '•►. • - •
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• MAN fttf.Del,.'sAtiNnt RS,
This was au action brought by the Plaintilk
who is a hoasekeepor in.Oraveh-lotildings,,Drury-
t lane, against the•Dtleadant, who is an equestrian,
and suit tONirSiiiinders, so long known as an ex-
hibitor of horsemanship in all parts uf England,
to recover eleven pounds, the price of lottgiugs
let to the Defendant,- while performing at istley's
Pavilion.,
The plea set up by the Defendant was, his be-
intantler age; .this was admitted on the part of
•tho Maintilf, whose case was rested on th 6 ground
of tho lodgings hointurcessary fur the Defendant,
who received 141. a month for his performance.
It was proved, however, that the Defendant
was under the guardianship 'of 'a person named,
Yoang, and. was ass apprentice to his father. A
lodging was provided for him in Tottenham Court-
• road, Jou having, a .claerf omie to support, he'
thought it proper, to occupy the lodgings in Cra..
von-buildings. . .
• Of these circumstances the Plaintiff was aware,
'itntl ran the risk of getting payment for his rooms,
contrary to the advice of .Alr. Young, the guar.,
dian. Under these circumstances the Plaintiff %Vas.
nonsniled. •
-. MA11.111E1).
Oa the 29th Mt. at Urswielt, Mr. Robert Iloai•dman of '
Liv"lNNa• m law Ifeywaridi &slighter of the hoe Itoticrt I
Heywood, Esq. of Gliiiicniicherv. 4-le of Man, and niece to
the bite Adiniael !fir Thomas Paisley, Ilart. • 1
Tuesday, at Wandsworth, Z. A. thicker, Esq. of Min-
cing-lane, nephew of 0:11. thicker, Esq. of Nleirose 11:01,
Surrey, to• Arm, eldest daughter of the late Stephen Be:t-
ank Esq. of Southampton-row, Bloomsbury.
On Tuesday last, at Bisham Church. by the Rev. John
Orde, the Welt Hun, Lord Holten, .to thellon. Maria Car.
lelon, eldest daughter of the late Lord Dorchester. .
On the Itilsinstantott. Knighton, Wm. Kona,. EN. of Carl-
Inn hail, tiO Christian Ann, eldest daughter of henry Cole-
man, Esq. of Storey Gatehouse, heiccclershire.
BeOn Friday the 4th instant. at Alderiumtim Church, John
rkley Mundt, F.sq. of Gilley Park, ilea; Reading, to
NW y, eldekdaughttr of W. Stephens, Esq. of Alderusibtou.
• . OIED.
On the 9thrin'it. Mrs.•Levesque' of Spiral-square..
On Sunday last, tiestavus Adolphus Trinigliton, in the 2'd
year of his age, youngest son of Richard 'Comightim, Eq.
of the Custoin-liou.e,. London. His death MIS' firCilliollC4 by ,
a. blhw he received against a post, nu the Tuesday evening
preceding.. .. .
On Mel d& ult. (*his house in ltrixton-place, Slurry, Joha
Marquis*. Hs+ wl Si.
• On
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knotty salftkist, at Waithaantuw, aketts4oiada:
Treugatekia,
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