The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-02 00:00:00

LAW lATELLIGENCS.

ROLL'S COURT, Disc. 1.

TAX UNION ■INEVIT seetarr.

This case came before the Court no the Petition of
certain of the Members of the above Society, against
the Secretarfand other Members and Trustees, praying
that lie, the Secretary, might be ordered to deliver up
to persons to be named by the majority of the Society,
all books, accounts, and monies in bis hands; and
that the other defendants might be directed to transfer
all stock, Scc. standing in their names, in like manner.
On the part of the defendants, a readiness was evinced
to do what was required; but the payment of the
costs was opposed' on the ground that they bad not
been required to do what WAS now prayed by regular
notice.

Mier hearing Counsel, the Master of the Rolls
noticed the sonsent of the defendants to comply, and
the fact of their not being regularly served with no-
tice, and suggested the propriety of saving the ex-
pcnce of a reference to the Master, by now delivering
up the books, and making the transfer; and in con-
clu‘ion, directed that should be immediately done;
that each party should ;lay their own costs; and in
the event of the order not being complied with imme-
diately, applies*w should be again made to the
Court, when the parties would be dealt with accord-
ingly.

COURT OF KINO's BENCH, Dsc. I.

TRISPALE r. STUART •:tl/ OMENS.

This was an ::etion against the Proprietors of The t at Richmond-green. to the amount of 401 /. wide!' she
Centric,- newspaper tor publishing a libel in that pa- j was to pay by instalisuents; but not being paid, be ar-
per imputing to the plaintiff, a constable of the reefed her.
parish of St. Pancras, improper conduct respecting
off.hlr;iPoLLorneigistiskte•l the
uwittnoesha;mifailni
the
eilyr lasist,
foran
the disposal of a dead body which hail been taken
from the possession of certain persons appre!sentled the'rg ..na:raniothedefil; oufglLesseilf and the creditkors ? Ile
sai.l ;here was a talk about it, hut the thing was not
by the plaintiff, and brought before a Magistrate on a alone. tier father seemed inclined to he her sernrity ;
cliar.:e of nulawfully stealing the same, for the pnr- ' hut when a warrant of attorney was presented to bites.
pose of selling it for surgical diasection. The libel- I lie said he would rather put a rope about his neck than
lons matter set forth in the declaration charged the' sign it.—(A loud laugh.)
very right in saying
laintiff with having grossly misconducted himself in
en; irli.t:t'iro(t)l:l.—vo'n' wasPleral:3eP;alkwen the furniture for' Ike:
carrying the body about to different places for the
beelit of yourself and the other creditorar--" 1 woule
piireose of being paid a price fur it, and particularly gladly_ have taken the furniture on toy own account, for
to Surgeons' Hall.—The defendant pleaded the gr.- the'paytnent of my own debt.'' The witness stated, that
neral issue, not guilty. Miss Slarldrake'a father was now &prisoner, nail intend-
The plaintiff'. ease was conducted by Mr, Gurney ed to he brought up in a day or two to pet bits iliacisarge 1
and Mr. Chitty, and the defendants' by Mr. Scsrlett. The Commissioner asked the insolvent, what becatto
goods at last? She sail' Pier were seized by her
libel for which the
This, it is ill be recollected, was prewisely the same
olafortlilloerd for rent, and sold for tal/. She intended Is.
plaintiff brought an action, a short bar- ;I prolitdolir establishment, but it failed.
time since, against the proprietar of Tar Oberreer, and I William Jackson. an ironmonger, at Richmond,
for which he recovered damages to the amount of I said he supplird the insolvent with goods to the amount
SOL The same evidence given in that cause was pro-; of 59/.011 whirls he did ma expect to get one farthing.
*aced in this. I Ile said, with great vehemence, that the whole was a
Mr. SCAR LITT. for the defendant, admitted the trial:, contrived by this visaing woman's father, to take
Ilailsehood of the libel, but put it to the Jury " a case; hint in. The father would be up to-morrow, and he
for nominal disinages only. As soon as the defendants, , should oppose him.
sebo had copied the libel from another Paper, were! The s. .i
'ourt desired that the prisoner might be
aware of its falsehood, they imnsediately itiscrted in brought up again the neat day with her father.
their Journal a contradiction of it, thereby doing' _
every thing in their poster to repair the inittry of POUCH.
"Mich the plaintiff complainer!. The Jury well k! aloo _ c,.. ~
lake into their coisideVation, that the ONO/Melt ~,_ A
.441.""'".r.e—j-
KO II LI C Ili PIM WO IV-IrfaK IT-.--. err ay, -.oh._
already received fall. from a respectable daily partial, I
Rake) the fumy-woman who was apprehended by
fur inadvertently publishing the same libel, and no ; . .'
- •
I,ay..nder, the Bow-street officer, encamped with other
less than SOL from a respectable Sunday paper, for from
between Wendor and Cliesbam, was conveyed
the same cause of aetion. The plaintiff; tiserefoie,
~.. " .
from Maidstone prison to Tunbridge Wells, to be exa-
could be entitled to no wore than net:final damages. ! . .
mined before the Magistrates, the witnesses being
The Cuter Justice, in summing up the cane, called
there; when she was identifies! by a female servant,
the attention of the Jury to the topics addressed to
who waft corroborated by another witness, as being
then. Ity the defendant's Counsel in mitigation
of 1 the *Man who applied to her to,Yrrite the direction
damages. and left it to them to discharge their duty
' n w
the basket which contained the poisoned plum-
with temper and moderation.
!pudding, and which purported to be sent from Row-
The Jury found a terdict for the plainti&-llainages
land Castle. Another woman (a gipsey), previously
211 There was no other case of general interest to-day. '
01.
lin cestodY was proved to have purchased the articles
at Tnishrltlge Wells, which the haslet contained.—
t Roth these women were committed foi trial, on a
!charge of having murdered the two men in Maidstone
John Roberts, who hob been before the Court on a ipti:on.
former day, anti opposed on the ground of conced6og i Proudly alias Pears', who resisted so desperately
property by delivering over some to his brotheeird : Lavender, when he apprehended hint; was committed
some to his son, was brought up, and underwent a for horse-stealing.
very severe examination by Mr. Heath, as Counsel for Manisoaoccu-SYsteer.—This office was crowded
the opposing creditor. The brother, Joseph Roberts, yeeterday, when the seven desperadoes were ve-exa-
to'whom it was allageol he made the fraudulent eon- I mined, on the charge of rescuing the Ire burglars,
veyance, was first examined. He said tie was. a our- and wounding Marsden, the gaoler.
neyusan weaver, and that on the Ith of Febraa in
Sheirell, the brother of the lano-lighter, who was
the year 151$, when his brother was in a slat of
knocked down by the gang In the Temple; related the
distress, and unable to carry on his business, he lent ontrageous conrind of the tam% which is already
before the-public ; but like the other persons who
him lift/. but he could not produce any security or
voucher to show that he had advanced that saw:-he were brutally used there, the stela was so sudden,
said he merely made an entry of it in his own book. that lee was unable to identify either of the prisoners:
When asked how he, who was a journeyman welter, The two Harris's, alias Kaylocic Jones and Jobs
became possessed of so large a snots be antwared, that Watts, were pat to the bar to be identified. After
he got it by his business,. Ile had gut furniture from giVing a variety of contradictory statements, Jones
his brother, which be had paid for with his
.ono was desired to pull offhis great-coat and put his hat on,
money, baying lent his brother the money to buy the and be was identified by William Jones, who belittle!
furniture, and never having gut that money bark. him to be the turn who struck him in Bell-vard, as the
The Chief Commissioner." The furniture is evi. gang was proceeding' along there into Fleet-street.
gently the property of else Znaolwent. and must be Lawson, alias Hawkins, had said its his !brute, ex-
!brough t into his s(•liedule." aminiTion, that lie ital. Main/ witb'a person of the
Mr. flasin now proceeded to examine the lased. name of Mears at a public-house in Monntouth-street.
vent, who stated that he had been a bankrupt assnae. on the evening of the rescue, and blears proved suds
time in or abaut the year ISI7, and that he oil Ma to be false.
certificate in January ISIS. In the February If that John Harris changed hie name to Kavloek, because
year, lie received 1401. from his brother. Tiwre was his brother was so often id trouble; anti Oiorge Har-
p memorandum made of this in his book ; but he did rig, the said brother, was stated to be one of the masts
'taut knew if the entry bad been made at the Hop ; it daring thieves In London. In answer to interroga-
Hs, however, made soon after. In lieu of the money twit., by Messrs. Conant and retreat, the prisoner re-
st) lent to him, he gave goods to his brother to the membered being in custody foe robbing Mr. Scotti
'amount of IP/. in the month of March last. - Mr. house, at Witehledon, also for table-clothe, also foe
Meath produced a list of articles of stock pet dula by lobbing Mr. Chase's bouae at Kensington, and for so
the Insolvent in March last, amounting to 5U1i1., and many ether things, that he could not remember !bens,
caked him what became of that sleek ? He said that Its once changed his name to King, to get work at
ahne-making, as his other names had been so often
several debts were put down in the list.. He canesi
wdrertieed in the newspapers that be Lad no Chaste,
his creditors together on the sth of March, and it was
ea that day he transferred 1701. worth of colt to his He katraow been nine weeks out of gaol.
brother. On the 11. th he transferred SOL jecirit .of Watts said, 'flint he was at home ill the Tbareday
eteck to his son ; bat be said he had been obliged to afternoon, as he bad taken physic i butt the landlady
do so, in order to raise money to pay his workmen. of the Coach and Horses, in Charles-street, proved
Mr. POLLOCK, the itseolvent's Counsel, sow gun. that be left Per house about four o'clock, just before
stoned him respecting the disposal of his good& lie the resew.
said that, just before the meeting of his creditors, he xkerrow, Cope and Stanley were nest brought up.
bad been in such dietetic, that he borrowed money Skerrew said he resided inTheitreet, Cbaados-street,
from his brother, and gave him up the in Ike and he of lle, like the rest,was said that he W
of the debt. When the creditors met, peelsM
told them at hotie all the afternoon of Thursday, but the laad-
m this,
and they arced to what be bodtdoso. Howe lady Mitts. Comb and Horses also proved Houle was
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of the goods were returned by his loitiflifg„ land be In company With others at herbals' WI between three
sold theta. . and four o'clock on the Th*nday (scareelY ha-bour

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