The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-10 00:00:00

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tired; I; ei-ti;at time; h4d 'net-read the sifif anis
unfoitbnate young 'woman :.and she was eleCuted
nil; the peat
nforning. . ~ • - •. .
Isain a4tible.of your kind exertionsi'ind
I trostbu f,►rll forgive my apparent neglect.
" I am, Sir, your faithful servant,
`if Tilt:coin's hiss, Aug: lb, 1014. • - 8.-MONTAGU.:
.‘ M. Richardson, cut...hill."
Mr. Itichardzon's letter to -Mr. Montogu..and.that
Cmptleetants application,to the Recorder .on Tues.,
do's-were in consequerice- of information received
ouW the night before, that circumstances of a nature,
teuclinr to throw.grent doolite on the guilt
beth Vennieg had-been Oblicly•stated. and thotthela
cieetrovstances could be cleatly • -Proved by most re-
npirtnable persons. Upon this information, the fol-
lowing proceedings were likewise adopted
Application being -made 'to appoint a meeting of
the panties at Nertatjate, at a meeting which was held
in. Mr. Newmati's house, Mr.-Gibson, -of the house
of;Coillit and Co. chemists and druggists, No. 300,
Holborn, stated the circumstances alluded to in the
presence of the Rev. Nle. Cotton, the Ordinary, the
Ray. Dr. Pe:kills, Chaplain to his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent, Mr. • Under Sheriff Leigh, and
seveval•otber getitletne,'n. It was then agreed,, that
the proper cousse4o be taken was to lay the circume
shinces before the Under Secretary of. State for the
Home Department, Lord Sidatouth, the Secretary of
State, being out of too'''. Accordingly between three
and four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. J. B. Sharp,
Mr. Ogle, Mr. BlathWaite Mr. Aberdour, and Mr.
Gibson, waited upon Mr. Becket, at the Secretary
of :State a Office, and Mr. Gibson stated to that gen-
tletiren the circumstances as hereafter particularized.
Alter listening to them, Mr. Becket recommended
Mr. Gibson to attend at the Recorder's house, in
ittoomibury-square, the same evening at eight
o'clock.; and before they separated it was agreed
that one other person should attend also. At eight
o'clock, Mr. Gibson and Mr. J. B. Sharp attend. il
ed at the Recorder's house, and there met the Re-
cuider and Mr. Becket, to whom Mr. Gibson made
a statement of facts in t!se following words, or words
to the following effect : •
." About the month of September or October. last,
to the best of my recollection, Mr. Turner, jun.
called at our house, and appearing in a mild and
deranged mate, t invited him into a back 'room, or
coanting-house, where I detained him, whilst Mr.!
Oinclaord,- another gentleman in Messrs. Corbytt's I
hotiae, went to Hi father's. In this interval, Mr. 1
Turner, jun. used the most violent and incoherent
ezpressioris—stick as, My dear, Gibson, do, for I
God's sake, get me secured or confined, for, if I
am at liberty, I shall do some mischief ; I shall de- I

*troy myself and my wife : I must and• shall do it,
unless all-means of destruction are removed out of
my way; therefore do, 'n-iy good friend, have me
putt under acme restraint ; something from above
tells me I must do it, and unless I am prevented,
certainly shall do if:" •
Mr. Gibson, to whom Mr. R. G• Turner thl4 ad.
dressed. t'imself,'also stated to the Recorder ai►d ,
Mr. Becket other circumstances .exhibitink the gine.

ral symptoms of a deranged mind. lle further
stated, that .Jr. ClOckford, t gentleman associated
with him, could confirm the fad of his, Mr. Robeit
G. Turner's, mental derangement at 'mote periods
than the instance then eluded to : but that Mr.
Crockford wits unfortunately at 'Oat-time out of
town. Mr. Gibson concluded by stating, that, in
the interval between Elisabeth Feuning's apprehen.
sion And her trial, he waited on Mr. Turner, sen.
and - strongly urged the impropriety of proceeding
with the trial, entreating him " to consider the state
of his son's mind, and the language he had used,
and trusting that the consideration of these circum-
stances would intince-ihem not to press the trial, '
lie acquainted Mr. Turtrer, sets. that 'these were 'not
alone his sentiments ; but that. some mutual friends
•f the Turners' family and himself had mentioned the
impropriety of Mr. Robert G. Turner's being at
large under the circumstances with which ho was af-
flicted."
In the course of the conversation with the Re-
corder and Mr. Becket, it was mentioned by MG
Gibson, that the arsenic had been purchased some
time- previous to the conversation with Mr. Robert
G. Turner above mentioned : and on leaving the
Recorder's-house, Mr. Gibson, with the same laud-
able and honourable anxiety that he had shown
Auring.the wattle of that day, expressed his sincere
lives that the knowledge of these circumstances
yfrtiuhl lead -to an extension of mercy to the poor
girl—at least a respite until some further enquiry
Wlroulti be instituted.—ln twelve hours 'afterwards

Elizabeth Fenning uas executed.
•-• It is highly essential that' the statements asserting
that ate Lard Chancellor was present at the meet-
*lugs on Tuesday should be contradicted.—The T.ord
Chancellor was not present at either of the weedily;
boti,nieutioned.
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of Parliament ; as their rights would be equally pro- new trial granted.. At was an action 'upon a Oa-
tected by the cause the decree was obtained in, he rantee of the solvency of an insurance-broker, who
.mosed oil' the part of the Defendants, that the pre. had underwritteripolicies on a ship and merchandite
- Bent bil! 'eight be dismissed. belonging to Plaintiff-41r:- Seirlett's motion 'was
H'• Mr. ART, Counsel for the Plaintiffs, said they made on two grounds; firtt; that the guarantee
.had tio objection if they were paid their costs, and ought to have been, stamped; the fact being Ober-
lin(' liberty to look into the proceedings of the cause wise, and next, that it Was an illegal voyage. in
in ichicli the decree had been-obtained. , support of'these Übjettioni he referred'td the Stamp
• The Lotto CHANCELLOR directed-the cause to be Act, by which it was enacted, 4rahat all letters of
'dismissed, and the Plaintiffs paid their costs out of agreement,
,of end concerning commercial busbies's,
' thi priii. . , coming by. post from a distance of fitly-miles, need,
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- samosa V. THE Hoz. THOMAS COVENTRY.' , ! !not be stamped." The letter in questionte obseried,
- -Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY was about to move in this certainly had come fifty miles' Gy posr, fdr it- had
::cause, whets . come from Liverpool;' but beitifea letfer guarantee-
Mr. ilmer said, tie Plaintiff had. only filed an ing the soliency of an insuribCe broker,' he nitre-
affidavit yesterday, and his Client, the Defendant, headed it coold'not be deemerTas of and concerning
had not seen it. . !commercial business. 'lf it had referred to any bar-
•' Sir S.smuet.' ROMIr.LY said, the affidavit was merely ' gain made for the sale of merchandise, or guaran-
of the service of a notice.—When this motion was ; teed the qua)ity of geods, he should hate no ditli-
mentioned before, it was put off on Mi. Hart un- i culty in adthitting that it came within' the meaning of
dertaking that a sum of money,, which was in the' unstamped agreements desdibed in the Act. But
Defendant's possession, should not be disposed of i the fact being othe?wise; he 'thought it was impera-
' until the motion was decided. The fact was, that live, in order" to twiddle binding, 'that it shottlirbe
isince that time the lion. Thomas Coventry bad con- ' stamped. .
trived to get it attached in his hands. Lord Eumesoiodolr—a I carlitinly Consider thit
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The motion. was postponed to, this day week., as a mercantile letter of the second degree; the Stamp
IN THE MATTER OP Joust GOULD/14 R.RANKRUPT• Act is sufficiently severe without our forcing its dm-
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY stated, tha,t. this was the , struction beyond what it 'fairly importi."
petition of the petitioning creditor, praying that his i Mr. SCARLETT said, he had done his duty in
Lordship would issue an order directing three per. 'submitting the objection: 'With reference to these-
sons to gobefore the Commissioners, and to submit i cond head of objection, it was this :—"" By'the Sim-
to be examined. They had been the servants of the I tide of Charles [Lit was deemed illegal for any
bankrupt; and were the only persons who could , British vessel to be 'thanned With a foreign master,
prove that the bankrupt had committed au act of ,seamen or mariners; but, in consequence of-the
bankruptcy. His Lordship had on a former day is- state of war whith afterivards prevailed, this Act
sued an order that two of them should attend before was, by an Act of the 43d of the King, chap. 64,
the Commissioners,. end that service of the order at altered and amended ; and by this'new Act, British
Mr. Gouldie's house should be deemed good service. vessels were allowe to • be manned with three-
One of them, of the name of Browne, had since fourths of, foreign seamen or mariners, but no then.
gone before the Commissioners, but. refused to give lion was made of such permission extending to the
i evidence, without he was raid the sum of 601., which master. The ship in question was commanded by a
he said the Plaintiff was indebted to him. The Com- foreigner, and as the Act of Charles 11. which had
I missioners did not think they ssese authorized in not been repealed, niade'this illegal, he apprehended
eominitting him, as he'etated himself to.he a creditor. the voyage altogether was in breach of the INaviga-
Mrs. Wilmer, the female servant, it was said, was oat tion Laws, and, of course, that the under Writer was
of town. The other, David Davis, had beeu served not liable for the lost:
with a summons, but refused to attend. Lord Ecsetezoiteimit—" Was it proved that the
The Loan CuaNcecena--" :Brosine saying he Captain was a foreigner 6h-the trial ?" '
was a creditor ought not to have prevented hit being Mr. SCARLETT.--A It iieel.my Lord; end adinitted:
'examined, however it might affect the result of that on the other side."
examination. Take the order, Sir Samuel, if I The COURT, after some deliberation, granted the
do not say any thing more about it before the Court rule to show cause, and at the-Same time intimated
rises." to Mr. Scarlett, that if be thought he could make any
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thing of she stamp objection, he might bring that ques•
tion on for discussion at the mine. time.
lIOARV V. SIR CHARLES
Mr. GAZELEY moved for krule to show canse why
t new trial should not be grunted in thik case, ,nr a
non-auff entered. It was an action upon n dee.dof
covenant, and the only question for decistaq,strose
opon, certain variances between the dechtrltlen, and
the deed• of covenant. Po principal, 414,40
only material variance, weft the addition utAletter
Sin the declaration. In the declaratipn.the.Wordit
inierted were 'Mee-house!, whereas in the
was .rtare;house, in..thvingular. r. GOA!
,ele7
seVal casts in which tiCll va rianres,espectally when
not material to the case, Or in ,the present jostince,
were considered of no importances and the 0010
granted the rate.
. 11.I.RIMAN P..oxr.Ev.
.Alr..D.rmaAw moved for a rule. to show cause
wby the verdict for the Plaintiff in this case shoukl
not he set aside, and a new trial granted. It was en
action fur, slander, tried at Lincoln, before
Julies? Heath, awl a verdict was found. for Plaintiff,
damages 40s. The words were—" Kirkman has
stolen from me seventy guineas out of a mattressun-
der the bed on which. Ite slept in myhooro,and
had been put there unknown to mw.by *O. W.W.I'
Mr. Denman, submitted, that the . Loamed, ~ludge
would not permit-the DOetulaßt to jostif.g.,,.becatteati
the only evidence which. could be submit,ted,oLlibp
money having been plaCed in the.niattNis Va44l4otue
his own.wife. There.was other evidepco,,,ttowir4to
of a circumstantial and:. conclusis naturg„.,whicali
might have been brought :for 40. .4.
The Counv now confirmed tbp...iplopeßt..4,lVlr.
Justice Heath, and held that t% no legal proof of the
money having been placed in the .ma tread could be
adduced, the, verdict ought not tp be Xtetusbe4,,..4.:

.CddaT ICING'S BENCH, Nov. O.
ODDITY. V.
Mr. CLARKZ Moved. for a rule to show'eadne why
the verdict for the Plaintiff in this casesheeld nofhe
set aside, tilde non-suit entered. .It was on action
broUgh,t.upo,p the statute of, the .52d of the King,
chap, 10.4.kneti was tried before Mr. Benin Graham,.
at4;eiceitii. The; action was brought Against the
Iltuirlfed and the deelaratien elated; -,.".That cer-
bits- persona had riotously and in.a &elderly man.
-ner asseei!rled, It ad de-
stioyed lc! frames, the property Of thit.P sutiff, the
-same frames being. the engine: employed;ist, carrying
on his manufactory of frame-work Wog The !
• jection which he (Mr. Clarke) made et tke iime, was,
that these frames did not come wit4dithetneaning of
the statute under which the action- was brought.—
The Learned Judge, .however,._ directed! the Jury
otherwise, but gate him leave to move the Court
upon the subject. In consequence of which perinis-
-lion he now addressed their Lordships. It was
proved that a number of perverts had entered the,'
shop of the Plaintiff, and had destroyed the frames
in question., . . •
Sir Simon lett,...BLAN,c.-1.',. There was no doolkt es
to themanner. in which these frames were destroyed ?"
CLARAE.—" None, '
my Lord ; the only
deitht is; ivhtther the head come within the Mean,
ineof thiStatute." •
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to. read the
Statute' in, question, which., after reciting various
Acts which had. been previously passed, enacted, that
any person destroying or demolishing engines, &c.
should be guilty of felony, and upon conviction
thereof, the person whoa() engines, dec. had been de-
' stroyed, would be entitled to reitioneration for hid
loss,. from. the hundred or county io which lie resided.
lie had now to contend that the frames, which formed
the subject of the present action, were mere move-
I able machine., site %d or seven of iehard& stand ih
• .• - one shop; and be removed freer roam to room•et I f f • •
I pleasure, and, therefore, not' such engines as were !low-mem-40n Wednesday eittnine4inois
contemplated by the Acii-wkich-he considered ought'. M'Coul, one bf the alert nolorions'iltaracters• in
I to be fixtures. ; London, catne tri the Office; and behave 4 in a Wel,
' The 'Court were geneially of opinion, that the outrageous and disorderly manner, it' ultitig-thr; MA-
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fratites iu questinn were within the meaning of die gistrates while on the Bench, and demandang Cdp4s
Act, but granted the tule, in order that the tinkled i of warrants and inforMations that he had been ap.
might be fully discussed. .;. prehended Upon.. fils outrageous language. enemas Eat. taken dtWill lie was changed with a violent 6en,temnt
TMs .was. a Motion fir a rule to show• cause of Court, and committed fawinfot
,why the verdict for the Deteuclant in this ease should 'By the exertions of the Otteirs, the henget has.
not be set aside, and a -new. trial Arauted. The ac- been traced in •St. George's-fields,where the jilikty
lion was tried before Mr. JUsticn Sterths.at•Linceln, stolen from Mr. Winchester's, the stationer, 'ware-
and was brought against die Sheriff of-ilie-Cireulf,; tease In Villier's-street,-Strancli was depoiiterli and
for a false return. the occupier, Matthew MVally, was broire-thit inAe
• The facts of: the case were these :--Twe mewls, Office. It turns out that a hackney-coach we iciadr;d
named Jeffries and Abbot!, being indebted to the more than once with paper!inthe course of the night,
•Plalutiff, his.Aitornet sent tviti writcto the. Under- rind Cooper, the. coachniad,• who. Stands committed
-.Sheriff .of the ceditty for theii, arrest, end at We for being concerned 'in the offence, was out all die
'same time wrote to the Bailiff te'whom these vit., its night of the robbery with his coach.
• were to be entrusted %V Blecutit4ll directing NM' ! The Prisoner was committed for further alaiini•
'how to proceed, and iufbrMing 'hits if the. Under- lion.
'Sheriff having been written'to: The Bailiff eieeeted A few'nightst since the premises of Air. Bromfield,
the writs, and received the bills end testa, bat enter coach'-maker, in Long-acre, were robbed of 24 pair
paid the money to Plaintiff. Plaintiff; in cense- of coach &site... The premises'were not broke open,
quence, brought Isis wash lilting the Sheriff, and he and ne liviPtelOn attached to any particular person,
pleaded that the motley 'had been paid to Plaintiff's but it WeaCiwiectered that a men contrived to
Attorney. Upon the trial, however, no proof of conceal himself in one of the coaches in he day time,
, that tact had been adduced, but under the direction and in the tight had" taken' the' &ivies out of; the
'of the Learnediudge, a 'verdict we; found for the carriages-, ind'made off with them. fan Vredneiday
Defendant, on the ground that the Plaintiff's Attar- evniangatilbotirer on Mr. Bromfield'S.Prestnities; and
08y had, by writing specially to the Bailiff, made who is employed as a patrole in the parish Of Si.
him his agent, and thereby exonerated the Sheriff. Martin's, was on dutyln the court leading froin
The Court-this day confirmed the holding et Mr. Craven street into Norlhamberland-street, when a
Justice Meath, and refused the rule: ' young man passed him with 'it bundle under his arm,
unoincron AND ANOTAER V. tANCE AND ANDTITZZ.•: "which, from its form, the parole suspected to con-
! This action was tried_ before Lord Ellenttoroughi lain coach-glasses, and challenged him to know what
et' Guildhall; 'at tint Slitingt after hist Term, and. 4 he' had got; upon which he let die bundle fall, which
•• "Wig was found far dui Plaintiff.' Mt. Scants' provedan contain: two *each glisses, which were
now moved for a rule to show cause why. that verdict- broke its the fall; the yitung man was stopped and sit-
aboild not be set aside, and.a non-suit entered, or 4
cured, as was another in his company.

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