The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-25 00:00:00

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COURT OF CHANCERY, Nor.
T.X•P.IKTE nus. 4. 1N THE MATTER OV ROSS.

Tim FANG r. -Tv Plitm thToti.

The Dafend int was found guar) at the last As_
sires at r iwailit of. an an.ault and battery upon the
lieu. IL.ury Bolton. The facts of the case appeared
from Ihe report and affidas ifs to be fhe
D fottilasit is a hanker et Stamford, in partner-
ship aids a Genslcnotti of the name of Johnson ; in
July lit a heavy run upon them and upon two other
bankers in the same town• took place, whichocca-
siiined the failure of the two latter. On the sth of
July Mr. Bolton, being at the news-room of Stam-
ford, in company with a physician and a Mr. Thomp-
son, an attorney (according to.the oath' of the latter)
used these or similar expressions: " have you heard
of the trick Eaton played to keep up the credit of
his hank,—when people tame into the shop he took
care ro have*sonie piles of one and two pound notes
upon the counter, with a 501. note on the top, to
make people believe they were 501. notes all the way
down." This remark reached the Defendant's ears
through Mr. Thompson, and the next day Mr. BA-
t"n called to Pas I I w hat he had said, but did not see
Mr. Eaton. Soon of e waids M r. Bolton went tine wa-
tering-place, and did not return for a month or five ,
weeks, whew he met the Defendant in the market.
place, who immediately accosted him, saying, dint~
if he did not immediately retrast the expressinne
which had been reported to him, he would pull him
(thq Prosecutor) by the nose. Mr: Bolton replied
that he had said nothing that he need be ailiamed of,
on which the Defendant called him a liar. The Pri-
soner retorted by reiterating the expression as applied
to the Defendant, who immediately stepped up to
hint, took him by the collar, tore off the Nap of his
coat,' end threw it in his face. The Prosecutor was
at this lime on horseback : the Defendant on foot.
The Defendant being now brought op for judg-
ment, a great number of affidavits were put in on his
behalf, restating the expressions used by the Prose-
cutor as to the trick of Mr. Eaton, and denying that
the Defendant had done more than take hold of the
dap of Mr. Bolton's coat, and that by this starting
of Isis horse it was torn off. A great number of tes-
timonials were from the most respectable persons of
Stamford and its neighbourhood, as to the gentle-
manly and piiaceable character of the Defendant.

Mr. ll%lrt moveo in this case, that the sum of
"COI. should be paid over to his Solicitor, Mr. P.
llord, who had sufficient authority to receive it for
Lim. l h he siwed on an ffirbVit of the Petitioner,
bind of bit Solicitor. ell() stated himself to be not
r ply Solicitor for Sir John, as he was caned in fo.
reign countries, where the honour of iin;glittiood
ens conferred upon him, but in this country. This,
he en:wetted to his Lositsitip, was rather an applica.
(ion novel in its nature, and requiring aconsent from
the other patty. Thic, he was happy to say, his
blend (Mr. Wilson) %fluid be happy to give.
Mt. WlLsott consenting to the Oyler,
The Loan Cit ctict.u.ou. ordered tit° same, as a
matter of course.

COURT OF KIN( 'a BENCH, No•.:I.
ItEIC V. 6111111LIIII•
In this case, which was mentioned yesterday by the
Attorney-General, a rule to show cause was granted
why an attachment shouid not go against her for the
Now-performance of Mr. Montagu, the City Sur-
veyor's award, by which she was ordered to abate a
ssuiquice in Warwick-lane, consisting in the impro-
per management of a slaughter-!rouse.

THE KING V. E. 110EDITCII.
The liefentkut had been found guilty before Lord
Ellenborough of an assault upon a man uamed Burt.
Ho was jointly convicted with a Mr. Barrow, an at-
tortevy, upon whom the judgment was not prayed,
which Mi. Edward Bolduc') was now brought up to
receive. The Dofoodaut, in partnership with his

brother., carried on business in Long-acre, as coach-
builders to the cisurse of business some disputes
arose, which were carried to extremities, the De-
fendant commencing a suit in Chancery against his
brother John Ilidditch, by his attorney, Mr. Bar-
row. In the commencement of this proceeding,
tome process was to be served upon Mr. John 1101.•
diicli, which produced A violent altercation, and was
tin. origin of the assault in question upon the herraut
of M,. John Holditch.
Mr. PARK frit tenet! that he was compelled to prey
the judgment of the Court in a case like the present,
Lot it was the only niode left of preserving the pence,
so much was the Defendant exasperated against his
brother.
The Arrettstre-Gentrtir, lamented that the re.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the Court in
mitigation of punishment, observing upon the peen.
liar provocation given by the Prosecutor, at the so.
went when the whole county had been alarmed by the
failure of two banks et Stamford, and when the sol-
vency of the house of the Defendant and his partner
was put to hazard. This was one of those cases
which scarcely admitted a question, whether a person
ould rather be in the situation of Prosecutor or De-
Umlaut even in expectation of sentence.
Mr. Serjoant V ILIGIIIN, nu the other side, dwelt
particularly upon the lm:g period that had elapsed
between the words spoken and the revenge taken.
The sentence of the Court was, that the Defeo&
ant should pay a fine of 101. and be bound to keep the
peace in his own recognizance of 1001.

commendation of Lord Ellenhorough to refer the
maticia its ditforessce, had been unavailing; for his
Client (the Defendant), he could t•ay nothing; the
Court must deal with Lim as it pleased.
The Defendsint was about to put in an affidavit,
which
11. tat recommended him to withhold, as it
coutained tuiliter matter of aggravation.
Ttle Da6slYsitit reluctantly complied, on under.
itandi tag 'du; 'otherwise time would be asked to au.
iwer its contents.
Lord gioeasoaorcol, and the rest of the Court,
egiiit ssigiNtitl an arbitration, and in the hope that
it wrsold be effected,
Ur. PAKK offered to postpenc, judgment until next
Terra, the Defetid.int eiliering into his own recog-
nizance to keep the peace.
Lord P.l.LtisaJitouGu was glad that this proposal
had hems made, and he Loped it would be met with
soine spirit of conciliation by the Defendant. Had
tis;t the I":oseculer consented to such a postimue-
ment, the Court would have felt it to be its duty to
comm;t the Defendant till next Term, that he might
have time coolly to reflect upon the consequence of
ilia pertinacity.
The DA...inlaid was discharged on giving his owo
recognia.ance in 10001. to keep the peace.
TAYLOR ViD OTHER. V. 1110111ZRSIttlf.
This case came before the Court in the form of a
demurrer to the rerlication. The Defendant, a tan-
ner at Canterbury, fell into difficulties, and com-
pounded with his creditors, who gave him a release,
and among others the Plaiitailf. (who are bankers),
to whom he was indebted iu the sum of 21481.
which, as well as the amount of this ether debts due
truss the Defendant. to other persona, was specified
in a schedule annexed to the release. The Defend-
ant was, however, co-surety for a man named Har-
nett, in a bond, which, at the time of the composi-
tion by liomersham with his creditors, was forfeited:
upon this bond the Plaintiffs proceeded against the
D fentlant, and the question was, whether .Me was
exonerated under the release which had been given
by the I laintiffs and his other creditors.
Mr. BARNWALL was in support of the affirmative,
and argued, that the whole of the release was to be
taken together, in order to ascertain the intentions of
the parties ; if this deed were so examined, it would
be round so be a general release of all claims both
present and future ; the words were, that the parties
released the Defendant" from all claims, whether at
law or in equity, which they then had or might
hereafter have, or their heirs, executors, or admi-
nistrators," frosts the date of the instrument. •It
was the case of creditors dealing with the estate of an
involvent debtor, and the release embraced all his
present and future liabilities. In support of his ar-
gument, he cited two cases, in 1 Show. 150, 3 Lev.
27.1, and Owen 71, Cro. Elia. 370, in which it had
hoyit held that the general words of a release were
no: controuled and restrained by the. particular re-
alist. •

Ftrcsraoanvon.—here is an averment, ceibed at the explosion whirls ink place at Mr.
which, if it be right in point of law, puts an end to Constadt's sugar-house, from the effects of which he
159 case. It is averred by the Plailititni, that this died last Tuesday morning. Nothing new came out.
wits not included, nor was it meant by them or Verdict—.4ccideatial Death.
h)- the Defendint, to be included in the sum w Bich The ruins of the concern, destroyed in Well-
they released. which, in the schedule, is specifically . street have been explored to the tower part of the
W oat to be itl4Bl. ;building, where the boiler sad pans were situate.
Mr. DARNmALL suhrnitted that the Plaintiffs were The former was broken into wend. pieces, and one
oat at liberty to explain, by averments, the meaning of the largest pans, about eight feet iti diameter, was et,
or the relense, which spoke for itself. l Thursday found complete, bet reversed wiih mouth
. bird ELLsxaowouset.—Here is an aggregate downward, and the edges buried in the earth from'
sem, being the 'Mount of debt released by the Plain- the effect of the'explosion. There iti new tittle hopi
t:ttis,'.onil whether this money upon bond were in. of finding the bodies of any of the three persona,
eluded. is a fact competent to be ar,,rred. The sum misfits'. A piece of a human milli a shit!l leg bone,
of 21181. is released in consideration of 15s. in the arid from 50 to 100 other particles, have been
posed : bet for the release of this money due from deg from the rains. These were found in that part
Ice L .eiolnni as co-surety on bead, there would be of the building where one of the men (a German)i
eo colivitlration et eV. was stationed, and where was the largest ire. The
Mr.: Justice LET...--Since the decision of body, thereferei may be said to' have beet coaseared
sips v. Thorpe (M. 1t.a)t0..235, Lutw. 1149.0 and to ashes.

'ATESMAN.

POLICE.

EXTENSIVE RIVER PIRACY.

illAnta Pot ICS °sclera—Friday, J. Ridgeway. alias Tay-
lor, J. Hollings, W. Hates, Jo.. Brown, and Join, Itautniage,
were brought in this other, and underarm a final esaminatiou
before W. KINNAIRD Esq. rtiorgrd a itl• stenting is quantity of
eambricks, show Is, handkerchiefs, and other articles,
to an immense ammo's, the property of Messrs. &wkly.'', Wil-
llama. hod Burton. of Water-lane, Tower-street, on the 313th of
October last. This case had previou,ly undergone three sere..
ral investigations, and on Friday the examination lasted many
Moors. Three other persons it appeared, were concerned in
the robbery, via. John Flygar, John Mackrell, nod Samuel
Spendlove. The former was in the service of the Prosecutors,
had confessed his guilt, and become an evidence. The two
latter had absconded, and a considerable reward has beta
offered for their apprehension. A number of witnesses were
examined by Mr. A LEY. for the Prosectei,m, but the prior
eipal testimony adduced was the written confession of Flygat,
from whose statemeut it appeared, that on the 30th of October
last, he was ordered h• his employer.; to get out his lug-boat,
then lying at Galley Quay, and take on hoard three trunk*
laden with merehandize, to lie cmsigned to the ship Henry,'
Captain Motwley, lying at Black wall, and des:hied for Sail:
Pam. The goods were, in the first instance, sent from the
house of Wile.tx and Clarke, of Watling-street, to Pie panic%
who had become the Prosecutors, fur the purpose of Geese
shipped.'When Fly gar was abtiut to leave the wharf, he re.
ceived orders to get the trunks on board the Henry, if possible,
that n•ght, but in the event of his nut auccording so to do, by
Tr:woo of the tide, or alileM be, he was to dried to return to
the Halley Quay with the pod.. He accordingly returned, no--
der one of these pretences, at an early hour 'oil the morning of
the Ast, and Mr. button, one of the partners having been
made acquaiuted with the circumstance, had tie curiosity to
examine the trunks and immediately expressed his fears that
they had been opened nod plimilerid. To ascertain this fact,
it because necessary to apply at the locket-office, in the Custo-
mhouse, for a document of the exporting property, which. being
-.awned, and good, of all

obtaitied, the trunks were °Y..- A, an,. „oils ofall descriptions
that had hero packed, discovered to have been taken out. Mr.
Barton feeling etoto.riton% that the robbery could not have taken
place •vithnut the knowledge of ['lyric, the latter was ques-
tioned respecting it. Fur a considerable time he denied all
knowledge of the transaction; but at length, through regard
for his wife and family, he was induced to wake a fall confes.
lion of the m .tter.
The Magigrate was of opinion that a case was made out
-dew the parties, and the Prisoners were fully committed for

!KW
• *llia.
Ilarrotr-Ginorti.—Friday, Thomas Young. charged with
stealing a quantity of valuable printed paper train Mr. Hensley,
his emplo)er, which he sold as waste paper to James Francis,
who keeps a -tationer's shop in Cross-street, Hatton-garden,
was brought on Friday, and confessed that about eight
weeks before Christmas last, being then in the employ of Mr.
Hensley, he happened to pass the door of James I. rancis, and
seeing a bill in the window, " Waste Paper bought here," he.
in consequence carried him a bundle of paper, the property of
Mr. Hensley, which he stole from his warehouse, and after-
wards another handle. Francis would not give him more than
A. a pound for the paper which he carried him at different
times.
John Mathews, n fraiterer, living irr Leather-lane. proved
buying several quires of the said paper from Mr. Francis, as
waste paper, for a tacit he paid 10d. per pound.
Mr. Hensley proved, that even as waste paper, some of the
werks being on royal paper, was worth at least 14s. a ream,
and the nthers to delay, about I Is. a ream, bet that last year
they were worth considerably more. The works in themselves
weer invaluable_

e invain.... .-.
After those depositions were taken, the Magistrate addressed
Mr. Erancis, alto was in the office, and told him, that fro*
the nature of the evidence before him, he tl ght it his duty ti
call oil him for hail, as he looked on him in the light of a cows
men receiver, particularly as he might. it' he look tile let
pains, h.tve made the proprietor, whose name was to the
works. acquainted with the depredations that were committed
nn him ; he should likewise send an officer with Mr. R. to ea.
amine his shop, to see if they was any of the paper made op
• into books for sale, so us to corroborate the Prisoner Young's
story.
Mr. Hensley, his two sons, and W. Rend, sen. the officer,
then went and looked over Mr. Francis's shop, where they
timid almilier moo of paper, arid some pamphlets made up out
of Ilie paper bought frt,in S'iping.
1 France. nos admitted to bailiand Young was fully eamilead
- ' to Nescate.
No reinforcements hating been sent to the Oki .
—,
Guards in France, that cotes is expected to return Sunday, about five o'clock, as one of the regular
hone, to resume i.s duty in London, at present per- smacks between Leith and London, called the Eclipse,
formed with much iisconeettieece by the 14th Light
Dragoons, disee,•sed indifferent cantonments at Taylor, Master, was coming from the former place,
whence she Failed on the Friday preceding, she struck
Hounslow, Twickenham, Hampton Cuutt, rte. ' en a sand about three or four miles from Yarmouth:
Costoristt's isersugsts.—Yesterday nut inquest was such was the violence of the shock, that the stern-
held at the King's Arms, Charles-square, Horton, pest and rudder were almost immediately carried
before J. W. UNwtN, E•q. Coroner fur Middlesex, away. The situation of the passengers and crew
on the body of Sarah Bieettati, aged 901, servant in' was alarming, and notwithstanding their united
the family of Mrs. Kitchen, of 11,1%t0n-square, who, ' efforts at the pump, and bailing with buckets, the
it appeared, was left to take care of the las.sae 1,1 the : water was rapidly gaining on their exertions. Death
absence of the family, who went out on a visit on the !appeared inevitable, as from their distance from the
preceding day. On the return of the family she was ; shore, and the impossibility of making their state
found its the kitchen', lying on the hearth, with her i known, no relief could be expected. At this critical
neck across the fender, and quite dead. Mr. Turners juncture, one of the passengers, who had been in
a iteighhouring surgeon, was called in, and after ex- 1 the !Navy-, sent a lad to the mast-head with an ensign
omitting the body gave it as his opinion that she died Ito hoist, with the union downwards, as their last
by a lit. Under these circumstances, and the body I resort. The vessel its the mean time swung off the ,
not having any external marks of violence, the Jury ! sand into deep water, end they were now, if pos.'
returned their Verdict—Died by the Visitutioos of Bible, more perilously situated than before. A pilot.
Gud. 1 boat providentially attracted by the ensign (it was ;
Another inquest was held by the same Coroner, at : a moon-light night), discovered the unfortunate suf-
the Gower Morrie', Whitechapel-road, on the body i ferers, and by great exertions succeeded in rescuing'
'of Thos. Reeks, landlord of the Cock Tavern, at ! them from a watery grave. The passengers con- .
Sewardstona, in Essex, wise on Monday went out ! sister, of twenty persons (six women), and with the ;
' to break a young horse, and after some time he was ! crew had not left the vessel any considerable time,
! unfortunately thrown off, and the wheel of the 1 when she sunk gradually by the stern, and was
break passing over his head, crushed him in a shock. ; shortly out of sight. The vessel was laden with great
hug manner • he was conveyed to the London 11094- : quantities of various articles, besides the passengers'
tat, where manner;
died next day. Verdict—Ace/denial luggage, nearly the whole of which was lost. At
• Death. • 'the time the vessel struck, the Master was in bed, !
Another Inqueit was held at the same house before t and left the entire charge to the Mate, and it seems
the same Coroner, on the body of Joseph Wright, a 1 he endeavoured to pass within the sand when he ;
fruiterer, residing In St. George's in the East, who, I ought to have kept on the outside. The vessel and
on Saturday:last, rushed into the cellar, and with a , cargo, it is estimated, were worth between five and
common knife cut his throat, he then flung away, the l six thousand pounds. i
murderous weapon and ran up stairs. He was tiketi i The brewers at Plymouth have set an example
to the London Hospital, where he received every es. which might to be imitated by ail other brewers
sistance that surgical skill could devise, but without: throughout England, by giving notice to their cus.
effect ;he expired Its a few days after. It was proved i tamers, that on the Ist of December next, the price
that he laboured et times under strong symptoms or, of beer will be lowered : porter 4d. the pot—ale to
derangement. Verdict—lnsatrify. i 6d, the pet.
Tut LATi FATAL EXPLOSION IN WeLL-STNIRT.— I A daring attempt at robbery took place early yes.
On Wednesday evening ass inquisition was taken by terslay morning, at the house of Mr. Bass, in Croo n.
J. W. UNWIN, ESq. one of the Coroners for the i street, Westminster, by some villeins breaking and
County /if Middlesex, on view of the body of Jean i entering the area window. One was advancing up
Julian Maiguan, one of the persons sent to the 14ou. 1 stairs, when he was met by a Gentleman who lodged
! don liospitai, in cotiseqesmce of the injury he re-1 nn the house and had heard their proceedings, heins.

medintely returned to the window, effecting his
esc2pe, but not before he hsd been struck at by a
sword, ►which, it is thought, however, did not injure
him.
Satardry, as the cook of Lyon's Inn was hanging
up something to endeavour to prevent the kitchen
chimney from smoeking, her clothes caught fire, and
before any assistance could reach her, she was dread.
fulty burnt. She was conveyed on a board to St.
Clemente workhouse.
Cold Fair, in Essex, on Thursday and Friday last,
•as well supplied ♦ith Sheep end Beasts, the prices
Of the latter, particularly for Scotch Beasts, were kept
op so high, that most of them were drove of unsold.
Sheep and Lambs being offered en moderate terms,
were purchased freely.
Monday sennight, Mr. Wood, of Hawkhunt,
butcher, while in thi act of killing a bullock, was
lanzeu with'an apoplectic lit, and filling upon- the
animal; *spired imakediate4,.