The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-11 00:00:00

Judge MAti4mr.p.-44 Nol nor I neither; the
`=Plaintiff must be railed."
1 Tiqratforitei nonstiam. •

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Al :MURDER.
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.1; Dell, alias J. Swith, alias G. flazoky, who WRB
taken from ou board his Majesty's ship Rosa:Rood,
lying itromness, and who was charged upon his
Toltintip.ry confession, of.being au accomplice with
William/ end others. in the murders. arrived at the;
'Nom last week, and was conveyed from thence to i
the Tender otf the Tower; on board which vessel i
;fie Magistrates repaireil on Suneay lasi, wAee-e'full
investigation took place. In His declaration, the
prisoner stated that his real name was John Bell, j
that he was bound apprentice to the sea at five years
of age. He ran away from differeM ships, and served
some years in America, on board the President
frigate, and was present in the action between her
and the Little Deft; 'from 'which .he likewise ran
,afrey, -and .came tO .Engtand in the .Lirerpoqi,. of

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suddenly eleva._ _ie import pot.-__ _ - -
. . -.— ! Chai4stoten,l R. • Dobiten master. He -remained
General, should commence his reign. of terrerewith of ere Charities. ' . •
be- ,in is s rip till Christmas, • • Ch's '
ship 1*
the laudrible and merciful endeavour to add to the .it appeared that the estates of this charity,
' discharged from her • Others of the ens* ran
_present overwhelming weight -Of . thie Lew of! 'tinging to the ;sewn of Hastings, bad been let to one v .. e I ' • •
iz.Milliamion and J. Williams, Irish-
'Abel, the introduction of the wont specie' of 9f the. )urati
,of the. Corporation, sit .a rent which i aw'Y'
en • Wdson and J. Jones, Scotchmen. --The
practice, en the most barbarous and disgraceful netted to the cliariti about 701. and are now let, m ' J.
cause- of hisi demanding his discharge, and of•the
reigns, to be forted in the British History,- andefthe direititor of tire Court, it rents of about
others funning away, was the murders at that
that of " Cosseaucrive Lure." It remains, 2401 e anct.thil the charities had been united; and
time committed bee there •in Ratcliffe-highway, at
however, only now necessary for us to say, that, oily coo toaster appointed. -- The estate of
which he was present with Jones and Williamson,
knowing, as we do, the upright end honour- the Rye Charity, it appeared, had been let, ini_
who did it,- opon previous eoncert, the night before
able motives which hare governed all our actions, tit the year 1308, at a rent which' netted to the
they intended to have robbed the house, but in this
and that the summit of our ambition has ever been, charity about 30k per annum, and that the Corpo-
attempt they were baffled. He stated the murder to
and ever shall continue to be,to reader our Press the ration received offers to take the lands in that year
have taken place at about halfepast eight at night. to
of injured virtue, and the scourge of vice at a rent of 1301. Two charities ought to 'have been
All wenteuto the house together, through the shop-
and oppression, we are prepared for this fresh at- established in this town, but they hare been united, door, which they foued open, and a Gentleman
tack of the Crown Lawyers; and whenever we may and only one master appointed.
standing behind the counter. They shut the door
hr called upon to defend ourselves at the liar of our Hitt HONOUR directed that bath Charities should be
behind them, and Wiflitimse Wilson-, and William-
Country, we shall pursue the same line of charecte- properly regulated. •
son went up stairs, leering trim behind the counter.
rietic independence that has uniformly distinguished It was observed, that too much encouragement
Ile saw Jones witht.e maul kneck the Gentleman on
us, relying with 'confidence upon the honest verdict could not be gtyen to enquiries of this nature.
of en iaonest.Jury. We cannot, however, refrain the forehead and'muecterhim: The Prisoirerwent up
from just calling the attention 'of the Public iii gene. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, DEc. 10. stairs, and found by the wayete young woman ly-
eist to the extraordinary circumstance of these Crown POREER V. COLT.INS. ing murdered ; in. one eel ,the rooms a woman in
, . t
itieheuse, end went tothe
Lawyers, in their several Ex-officio Prosecutions, The Defendant herein was the individual who
bed, with heethroatcett •
almost uniformly betraying a fear to repose their sent forth in the fashionable world, some few moeths the same state. They lef etsd a child in a cradle, in
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Case in the only censtitutional practice of *the Court- since, a prospectus for the establishment of a kiyal from whence they went
rendezvous, in Tqwerehille
try, that'of appealing by Indictment, in the first in. Plysium, in the neighbourhood of the Regent's on' board the ship Isefoigeheittioned. The Prisoner
e Can what teplace, ansu
stance, to a Grand Jury. The power of filing In- Park ; and the Plaintiff had been employed by him told
he didth not ptai
care about bad
it, ex teke
pecting a share posed
of t
formations Kr-get was originally vested in the I to begin to carry this alights- plan into execution,
King's Attorney-General, for the purpose of cape- Iby commencing the erection of certain immense plunder. He also declared that the same Captain,
Biting, and not retarding, public justice, under the' rotundas, &c. for which work he now sought the whose name_ is Dobson, onthepessage to Eirgland,
idea that it might, for the public security, be expe- ' payment. shot two of his mates with a Pistol. Declares that
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client to reeved to such a proccse during the interval Mr. PARK stated the case, and read the pro- lie lately-confessed the Murder to two of his mess.
of a Grand Jury not sitting.—But mark, Reader, spectus. It proposed to erect rotundas of four bun. mates on board the Rosaeioad; that he, the Pri-
the perverted use which modern Attorney-Generals dyed fed diameter, similar to that formerly at the sonere can neither reed nor write: On his examine-
have made of. this discretionary power. In the Rtmelagh—to lay out ground promenader, and Lion at Stroinuess, the Prisoner, contrary to his pre-
resent instance, we only receive notice of an rooms for routing and waltzing—to collect Acetic 1,1 sent staeement, declared that he himself was the
information having been filed against us, on the; water for marine c.yeriments and aquatic exploits— person who murdered the . woman, by cutting her
26th of November, for an Article inserted in our ;to have concert rooms for people to consort together throat when le ing in bed. That he struck at the ser-
Journal on tee 30th of August—an interval of ' —to make it in fact. an Elysium fir more bewitch- vant-maid outside the door.
,That the mates mur.
three months; during Attach interval, there have lug and enchanting than any thing that had ever dered by Dobson were natives of Liverpool. The
boon frequent opportunities of making the corr.! been imagined by painter or poet, amongst- the an- owners of the ship nt Liverpool, to which these
stitational appeal to a Crand Jury.--We corn- ! cients or moderns. 'The amusements were to he far mates were said to belong, being written to from the
Main of this as a scandalous and oppressive proititu-1 beyond any thing that had ever been seen at the Old Admiralty, sent for answer that the Liverpool, of
Lion of the meaning of the law, to the delay of; Banelagh, and instead of their occupying the Charlestown, arrived in Liverpool in May 1811,
justice, and to harass and ruin individuals in a super- ; evenings. of our citizens and fasbilnablcs, they were and afterwards at Woolwich, in October following.l
fluous and ovens keening expence.—One of the ito destroy that accursed enemy of our motierees— The Captain's name was Dobson, but that of the
greatest outworks of liberty is 46 AGIWID 3 emir." ennui! But More—three pleaeurable, blissful, en- Mate. they did not remember. Further enquiry
This, by our old Constitetion, was the principal ! chanting, beivitchine, E 1.- taw entertainments, were bein made of Abel and Co. of London, by
guard ef every m'an's lift.., liberty, and estate ; for, ! not only to be seperior to any that had ever been 1 whom the men's wages were paid, it appeared
by our old. laws, no subject of this realm could be ' seen in the world, hut they were also, by a wonder. ! these mates had received their wages subsequent
twougist. to the bar of justice, without having, his . ful combination of opposites, to tend to the advance- Ito the time of the , alleged murder.--Consee
care first
.enquired into by a Grand Jury;—but, ! meta of the Arts and Seiencei! .Togive reality and ! iltiently this charge must, .have been fictitious.—
&lasi hew often has 'this barrier of liberty been substantiality to this splendid vision, the small sum 1 tiltedagitrats of Shadwell having closely interro-
lit eke!' in upon by the arbitrary and unconstitutional .of FIFTY TNOUSAND POUNDS was to be raised by , the Prisoner during a long investigation into
method of .filing ex-officio informatiens, and thus i•fifty- pound shares!. Well, but that was Mr. Collins's ; all the circumstances conuected with the murder,
obliging some of the best subjects of these realms, at ! business; in 'his twain it was reality.already. Revel- ; and that of bis former declaration, could trace no- 1
itie caprice' ~r an arbitrary Crown Lawyer, to be I Hug already in these pleasurable scenes, he employed thing but inconsistency, and a waist of connection
cragged into the Court of 4iing's Bench, to answer' the Plaintiff. tQ erect those monstrous rotundas ; but ; throughout the whole narrative. The Prisoner's gn-
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at that tribunal !for the .Crime of bravely (Weis.: on applying to him for Some money, he told the L•swers to the same questions repeatedly put to him,
wiring to support the .rights and privilrges of • Plaintiff, what very probably was the truth, that be i although he persisted in accusing himself, were full
gaglishmen, without suffering e Grand Jury is had " not Net received a guinea," in aid of his plan, [of contradictions; and so entirely vague anti incohe- •
enquire whether the case be .crimitial or get t—' yetthe Jury would tell him that he must pay those I:rent, that the Magistrates could only come to this
This unconstitutionel method of filing ex-officio in. : whone.he employed, although he might not have re- ;conclusion, that his confession was the offspring of
fornietione, and 'charging the subjects of this king-' vetoed a guinea in furtherance of his golden pro- ,la distempered-mind, from whence they believed him
dome by way of innendo and such arbitrary infer.: spec's. . I•to be entirely enuecent, his accusiug himself pro-
ence, as such a man as Mr. Garrow, in the fertility !, The liability of the Defendant being proved by his : ceetiing entirely from the effects of insanity. Under
of his invention, may choose to attach to the meat'. : own letters, and the hand-writing being sworn to by i this impression, they sent far an eminent professional !
inof a Public Writer, deseries the strictest atten- : Mr. Turner, an uttoreiey, , gentleman of St.
conversation with the Prisoner, gave it as his Lake's
decided Hospital, who, after a long
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lion of the Legislature, and calls aloud upon the I Lord ELLENBO. ROVGII enquired of Mr. T. whether .
great Connell of the Nation for immediate redress. • Collins was a sane man, fee nobody but a madman' opinion, 'that he was :insane. He was, therefore, I
And unfit thisl'edress an be effected, no man ought could think of realizing such risionary bliss,. without ' ordered to martin oft board the tender, and the pro-
to
be found guilty by a conscientious Jury, who : a.capital, : ceediugs were sent-to the Secretory of State's Office.:
b
with
fl
h steeds charged agitious crimes, merely Witee did not know exactly how.ss that
might be,
s
e• -y ! •
nacado
, and the foreedesonstruction of an Attorney but he believed MIS Collins to have obtained the plan ! The French Gene I. D - B--,-ne and his Aid-de-
andra I,
Solicitor-General, that does not come LEGA LI.Y from some foreitrner. As for himself; he had • '
giveu Camps, who lately landed at Hedice mistook the
heforo them by a Bill of indictment, or presentment legal advice to the Defendant, he having reel...rested place of their asylumi and were immediately shot.
femod by a Grand Jury. .of witness to put his name to the •Prospectds, as• the i• - —am— •
In the eloquent speech, delivered in the House of ' Solieitor to the concern. rs STATC.ff SMACKS.
n.FITU am! Timmer Wharf. Arrived. snit..
rtnimniis, upon the Law of MEI by Sir Francis . Lord Eeeesaolioucir.—" Ohelhen, you were to Brit,u,,,ja t gi44,0, await* 1 6 119 Dec. —9,A.M. '1
Muril-tt., with the greatest truth hied propriety did have furnishedthe
t:.ai lion. Baronet observe, 44. That the supeosed . • •
of. tuna): would have gone off tolerably 'well with your e
. illyiki-Mlorlilt -AT IAOOIO-111 efkiefesti yHIS .11kY.
fence, called Libel, and wat is called.theLeso spun 'legal impetus." - uraing, .9 Minute' after 7.1 Beata& JO minutes after 7.