The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-06 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

Antenewnwwwasn
tion of his opinion, that there was noshing in either of the
objections. In the first place, the defendant was well dte
scribed..as, a person• having the controul, order, directions
and management of the affairs of the poor ; and second:
hatrin% acted as' ad assistant overseer, it was unneeemary
fee dmilaintlff to prow the validity of his appointment,
1w order so bring •Itim within the operation of the sta.
tote. The Learned Judge, therefore, directed a verdict
for the plaintiff, with one penalty of ICC. with liberty
tollse defendant to move to enter a nonsuit upon both
points.
CROWN SIDE.

James Jacobs was indicted for forging a promissory
note fbr 10/. at Tonbridge. on the 4th of March, with in-
tent to defraud William Jefferyland John Garr. A second
roast charged him with uttering the same note knowing
it to be forged. Two other eonnts charged him with utter-
ing the note from the sum of U. to the sum of 101.
The case was this:—On the 4th of March the prisoner
bargained with Mr. Cambridge, a butcher of Tonbridge,
for the purchase of a cow and calf, at the price of 91.. in
payment of which sum he tendered a 101. Chatham Bank
note, out of which was given him a 11 note in change. A.
ter passing through several han?e, the supposed 101. note
was paid into the Hastings' Bank, where it was discovered
that it had been originally a 11. note, and had been altered
to a 101. note, and it was at length returned to Mr. Cam-
bridge, who was obliged to make good the amount. On
the 26th of July the prosecutor's servant being at Horse-
monden Fair, saw the prisoner there, whom he immediately
recognized as the person who bad paid the note to his mas-
ter. He accosted him and told him the circumstance. The
prisoner said he did not know him, and seemed anxious to
get away. Upon being pressed as to the transaction and
his recollection of it, he said it could not be him, for be
bad never in his life been at Tonbridge ; that he had never
purchased a cow and a calf; and that be had never been
rich enough to possess a 101. note. The servant was, how-
ever,
positive in his recollection of the prisoner, and caused
him to be detained by a constable. The prisoner then al-
tered his tone, said he did remember something of the
transaction, but that he had no idea that the note was a
bad one, hut if it was, he must stand by the loss, which
he should be happy to make up to Mr. Culnbridge. The
alteration of the note, and all the formal parts of the case
were satisfactorily established.
The prisoner, in his defence. said he had taken the note
from a stranger, that he had no knowledge of its being in
altered one, and that be passed it to the prosecutor in per-
fect ignorance.
Mr. Sergeant ONsLow charged the Jury that the ques-
tion for them to determine, was whether the prisoner ut-
tered the note with a guilty knowledge, and desired thew
to weigh the evidence with great deliberation.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty--LOnavu. The aw-
ful sentence of the law was passed upon him.

GUILDHALL, h[WcISTL►, Acausr 2.
CIVIL SIDE.
INSOLENCE OF OFFICE.
.WATSON r. CARR.

This was an action broughi by the plaintiff to recover
compensatory damages for an assault and false imprison.
meet committed by the defendant, who is Captain of the
Watch of the Town of Newcastle.
It appeared that two parties of Fining mon met outtalk
in the street ; that they were hinting to each other some
disposition to dislike. The one party addressed the other
with the lines of " Fly rot yet," to which the other re-
sponded, " Oh, stay !" Some slight scuffle ensued and the
watchmen came up. Two of the plaintiff's friends having
been taken so the watchhouse he followed with the hope of
bailing them. Iwthe place of accepting his security, the
defendant, the Captain of the Watch, confined him in a
dungeon with the vilest offenders in the House of Correc-
tion, where he remained the whole of the night, until be
WAS discharged by the Magistrate.
Several witnesses were called who proved the aggravat-
ed cbaracter of the assault. _

Mr. SCARLETT, for the plaintiff, stated that as the inter-
ests of public justice alone induced his client to bring the
adieu, he did not seek excessive damages.
On the part of the defence, it was contended that the de-
fendant had only exercised those powers which he had in
right of his office, at well under the common law as by
a specific act for regulating the watch of the town of New-
castle. _ _

Mr. Justice BATLEY, in charging the Jury, observed,
that neither the common law nor any local act recognised
such an unjustifiable exercise of official authority. It was
ersentiat to the doe administration of justice that men
whose duty it was to execute the law should be restrained
within their fair and legitimate powers. He recommended
to the Jury to give moderate, temperate, but unt vindictive
or excessive damages.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages4os.
with costs.

POLICE.

MANSION nousg.—Yesterday the LORD MAYOR stated,
that he understood a charge against Ady, of Hounsditch,
stood over for consideration, and he wished to know why
the prosecutors had not come forward ?
The Chief Clerk said, be understood that Ady had sa-
tisfied the party by returning the money which be had ob-
tained, and by *paying the expences. •
The LORD Mavoa stated, that in consequence of the
publication of the charge, he bad received various letters
from different parts of the country, complaining of the
conduct of Ady. krom those letters it appeared that his
system of sending letters was in full force and activity,
and that lie had got a printed circular, which be sent to
those whose names were inserted in the List of Unclaimed
Dividends, to their relations, or to those whom be fancied
to be their relations, informing them that, upon the re-
ceipt of a sum of :money, he could give them advantageous
information—which was, that their names were inserted in
the List of Unclaimed Dividends. His Lordship read inseveral
of those letters, one of which was sent to the He•. Mr.
Friend, of Canterbury. One correspondent expressed his
surprise that Ady should 61111 him out; but all had been
pat on their guard by the statement 'in the Newspapers.
As it had been mentioned in the Papers that this man bad
been tried an.l acquitted, his Lordship wished it to be
known that the acquittal was obtained upon a technical
informality in the word of the conviction at the.Mansiou-
house, and not upon the merits of the case ; the question
as to the legality of the practice was therefore still open.

GUILIIIIALL.—George. Harvey, a drover, who was charg-
ed on Saturday by Statnton, one of the officers of Smith.
field, upon suspicion of having stolen a sheep, was brought
up yesterday for final examination, before the sitting Ma-
gistrate, Mr. Aldermen Kat
• Hughes, a drover, having occasion to go to Smithfield,on
Friday last, between live and six o'clock, Seeing the pri-
soner with a sheep at that omissial hour, when the market
is .lways cleared, took the trouble to watcll him. lie fol-
lowed hint into Cloth Fair, and saw him drive the sheep in-
to a butcher's shop there, tie the creature's legs, and take it
behind a curtain, as he supposed, for the purpose of slaugh-
tering it. He stood for a few moments on the opposite side
of the way, till hearing from the noise theaniwal was mak-
ing, it hail been stuck : be crossed over, and said, " you
wretch. Hervey, who po drover's sheep is it you. bare
there ?" The prisoner at first replied *nip " what's that to
you," but presently added, that it was a' r. Dibdin's, and
afterwards observing Hughes waiting .about,. Unbowed to
knock • Ids brains -'out, if' he trou►led • his bead with
' Hughes t hen 'went sweet and i alarmed Stsintoni the Whiter;
of the eittanittanees, who i►amediately replifeed to the gimp.
tad itavntObat Dar vey bad broil& it itl as it *twig lse•had

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to drive to Holloway, but whieh ♦ea tired, and could not hot'
got to walk there ; he thereforawished the butcher to kill
and dress it, which ifielatter. such being the practice iii the
trade when sheep fall lame, or acridents happrneti to them,
agreed to do, expecting the owner wneld mad for it. nap.
ton left another officer in chsrewof the carcase, whits he
sought out and apprehended the prisoner, end he subse-
quently discovered the sheep had bieen detached trauma drove
on their way from Cow-cross to d'arwick-Lino. near New.
gate market. The property was readily identified by tin
mirk, on the skin.

The prisoner's defence was, that he was sent by Mr.,Dib.
din, of Vauxhall, to get three sheep of his out of the pens
in Smithfield ; that he could only And there the sheep alleg-
ed to have bei,i stolen, and that believing it to be Mr. Deb-
ain's, and finding it was unable to milk, be had taken it to
be slaughtered. • •
The prisoner said, he bail semi for Mr. IMbdin, bat that
gentleman 'lid not appear in his behalf, and be we/ commit-
ted for trial.
Menr.nonounn Smear.--Williarn Hanopsoa, a very
smart looking groom, was yesterday placed at the bar,
charged with having robbed his master, Mr. J. Moore, son
to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, who resides at No.
39, Curzon Street, May Fair. It appeared that about ten
months ago the prisoner had been for about three weeks in
the service of Mr. Moore, and one day while Lie master was
absent in the country. he thought proper to make use of a
valuable horse and gig on an excursion of pleasure, which
he kept out the whole of the day, and when he returned at
night he packed op a large quantity of wearing apparel,
belonging to Mr. Moore, with which he absconded. On
examining the horse, which was left in the stable, he was
found to be quite disabled from the ill treatment he bail vs-
eeived, having his knees broke, and otherwise much injured.
A warrant was at that time had against the prisoner, but
although several counties have been traversed in search of
him, no trace could be discovered of him until last week,
when Clements, an active officer of this establishment, re-
ceived information that be was to he hearth. of in Leicester-
shire. To that county Clements proceeded,
' and having his warrau's backed there by his time the
Duke of Rutland, he succeeded, after a long search, in ap-
prehending the prisoner at Melton Mowbray, and brought
him to town. On their way up, he confessed the robbery
to the officer, and told him where he bail pledged a part of
the property at lirentford. Mr. Moore attended the exa-
mination, and identified the prisoner.

Mr. Roe, the Magistrate, ordered that he should be re-
manded, and the pawnbroker at Brentforti summon,' to
attend.

WOrtSIIIP-STlMT.—Yesterilav, the three boatmen were
again brought before Humeri.: Liam, Ea'. for furtut.r exa-
mination.
The watchman, Snellgrove, of Chapel-stseet, Edgware-
road, who sheltered the poor woman on Sunday nigh.' cur•
roborated the latter tart of her n unitive. Ile stated that
about 12 o'clock on Sunday night he was in his box. near
the second mi'e stone from Tyburn-gate, atthe third bridge
on the Paddington canal, when he thuaght he heard a titan's
footstep, and he turned his lanthorn, and saw a tallish wan
at the gate close to the bridge, an I after him a woman,
whom he sitice knows to be Elizabeth Clayton. They' both
posed over the bridge in the direction to Harrow. Then
he heard the man say, " You'll go a little further, and turn
to the right, anti you will come to the Test-pot, and that
will take you to Oxford•roail." "My good fellow," sail
the ivatehmao, " you are directing that woman wrong ;
von are directing her to Harrow instead of Oxford-road."
The watchman then called the woman back, and she came
back. The man then disappeare I. When the woman came
back she seemed much agitated, anti scarcely able' to speak,
and the watchman said, " Hood woman, what-part of Lon-
don do you want to go to?" Site said, "4 don't care where
I go.P „The watchman observed, " Is there any thing the
matter with you ?" She said there was a good dial the
matter, for she had been very ill used by some of the bat-
men. He remarked, "It's uo use for you to go into London
to night, for you will nut be able to procure a lodging, and
I wilt let you sit in my box till I go away at 5 o'clock."—
She said she would, and be glad. After he had gone his
rounds and returned to his box, he asked her what
the ill treatment had been? She told him that three men
held her down in bed, when one of them committed the
crime stated, and that the man who came up the bank
with her was the man, and that her arms and legs were
bruised very much. The watchman said," 1 wish you had
told me of this sooner, and I would have taken the man
into custody." He then gave her some bread and cheese
and beer. Ile asked her if she should know the boat, and
she Said she should know it by some painting on It. She
remained in his box till five o'clock on Monday morning,
when he went with her to the Gauging House on the Ca.
oil, and there he, inquired what boats had passed about
midnight, anti they were informed there were three, two
of which were going to Paddington wharf, and one of them
was going to 'Snell and Itobins's wharf, at the basin in the
City Road. They afterwards went to view the two boats at
Paddington, but she said neither of them was the boat.—
The watchman then took her home to his wife, and after
giving her breskrasr, he put her on a Paddington stage,
with directions to put her down at the basin in the City
Road. _ _ _

The man and woman passengers, though applied to and
desired, did not attendat theothee, in consequence of which
the prisoners were remanded, and summonses granted for
the passengers' appearance.

Lamastit Bv:tem—Yesterday a fellow with a wooden
leg was brought before JOUR HARDWICK, Esq. on a
charge of robbing and attempting to murder Mr. James Ho-
garth, grocer, of No. 16, Oreat.Eastcheap, upwards of two
years ago. The particulars of this transaction are these:—
About 10 o'clock on the night of the 10th of April, 1821,
Mr. Hogarth was returning home through Leman Street,
when he was accosted by a black woman, whom he accom
panied to a house in Wentworth Street; they proceeded up
'stairs into a room where a man with a wooden leg was sit-
ting at it table; two persons named Brian M'Pnelau and
Bridget M'Lschlan soon entered the room; and Mr. Ho-
garth, not liking their appearance, wanted to go away, but
M'Phelan stood against the door, and prevented him: they
then insisted on being treated with liquor, but he would
not gratify them. The man with the wooden leg instantly
demanded 31., which he said Mr. Hogarth owed him, but
v-b as he had never seen any of the pattefore, he refused of
course to give it ; the wooden legged man then collared
him, threw him down, and called several times for a knife,
which was brought to him. The black woman and he were
then keeping Mr. Hogarth down by main force, and nearly
strangled him ; they cut off his pocket, contaiaing 121.75..
and then the wooden legged man asked his companions if
he should cut Mr. Hogarih's throat; they assented to
and he proceeded to execute this horrid purpose, but Mr.
tlogarth put bis hands to his throat, and received on them
several dreadful cuts, until he became insensible. On com-
ing to his recollection, he found himself alone, without a
light, and weltering in his blood. He anstrived to dad the
door, and got down stairs; he informed thematchnian.of
the dreadful usage he had received, and they apprehended
bl'Phelan and APLachlan, who were tried at the following
Old Bailey Sessions, but acquitted. The wooden legged
man and the black woman absconded, aml.were not heard
of until yesterday, when the prisoner earreodered himself:
It appeared that the prisoner was a Greenwich pensioner,
and immediately after lieu:aired orders wereseit, to Hessen:
wich to apprehendkim *ben he applied for his pension, bat-
he bad obsoonded,.. and never applied for it since. • Mr. W-
orth, ea being questioned, ,deolaved that lialcould
shear thrprisoner the was, and Mr.. Hardwick premed.
Min ohm ors • to- 'sr resemblance the prisarsersbons to the
so" as, his .awanttee was 'holier:bet very, reesackablot
batstill Mr. Hiserth could nut. carry • his,recellectio•
far back. , • .

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Mr. 111ARowicst.—There appears to be a decide.' Indispott-
don in you to give evidence, and it Is not to be borne that
justice should be so defeated. However, we eau probably
supply the delitielicy by other witnesses.
Two watchmen proved, that on the night of the robbery the
prisoner lodged in the house in question with a Mad: woman.
and that Immediately afterwards they absconded, and bad not
since been imard of. it was submitted on be:• ilf of the pri-
soner, that the simple fact of his lodging in the house at the
time could not implicate him merely becaese he had a a lodes
• ley, more particularly Ms Mr. Hogarth could not identil v him-
Mr. IlLitowtca said, that unless it could be shown rl at et
'that time two men with wooden legs cohabited with black
women in the Caine house, he should certainly commit tla • pri-
soner. The evidence waaalready very strong against doe pri-
soner, but in order to ohtaie the evidence of the person who
was landlord of the house at the time alluded to, be "mule' ad-
journ the case for a week.

FRATICIDE.—An inquest was held at three o'cloei • ea
Monday afternoon. last, before Thos. litirling.E.q. carol ,Pr.
at the lieorge Inn, Rystip, n•ar Uxhridge, on the bod 3 of
a yoong man named William Aldridge, who wss
tiered by his trother, Oeorge Aldridge, on Wednebslay
last.

Mr. Barrow Slade, assistant to Mr. James, a strums of
Uxbridge, was called on about 8 o'clink on W. .Ines4hiy
evening last; lie found the deceased lying on a bed wivt a
greater part of the intestines protruding ; on further Pt:-
amination he found a portion of the intestinal canal twits
complttely divided. Witness wss then able to ascertain
the extent of the external wound, which extended inlengtit
seven inches, and mast have been• inflicted by some sharp
cuting instrument. Deceased died on Friday morning, hi
the inflammation and mortification of the wound.

John Arters resides at Oakshade. in the county of Sur-
rey; the deceased and witness were mowing to.fether in a,
small field adjoining the house; deceased's hrother. Geo.
Aldridge, was also mowing in the field. The first word
that took place washy George saying to his brother, "Yost
told master we could not mow no more than an old W0M.1%
an I you know that I can mow your legs off." Hie brut wr
I.(tbe deceased) said, • " You cannot mow, nor keep up in
company." Deorge Aldridge aimed a blow at the 'News 1
two or three times with the scythe, whiCh struck him in the
side; deceased said. " You have ruined me for ever," ar.l
instantly dropped' his scythe and came away, walking t,i
this house with his entrails partly out ; the brolser
kept mowing the round until hefid,shed it, but in his pas-
sion he chopped his scytheinto a tree.
George Barker, of Ryslip„ overseer of the Grand Jnne-
tion Cat:al Company, stated that on Wednesday evening
last be was going out of the back way of his house, and was
informed by a person named Charles Martin, dint murder
had been cuwutitted below. He hastevd to the spot where
(Imaged had been wounded, and found the brother, Cleo.
Ablridg., apparently in a state of derangement. and was
cutting ..t the grass, not like mowing. Witness asked hint
what be had done with his brother, for that Ike was like to
cause his death ; when (leo. Aldridge replied, " U—n von,
I'll serve you the same." Gee. Aldridge was then taken
into custody.
l'he.Jury took a view of the.body,,iod returned a veriliet
of " Wilful murder against the brother. Oro. Aldridge."
warrant was issued fur the prisoners commitment to
Netvgate.
On Tuesday last, Mr. We'sb, Governor of the City gal',
having cause to suspect &Nom I Riordan (convicted of
manslaughter, and sentenced to be transported for life), of
endeavouring; to blind or put out his own eyes, dimovereal
he had wounded his left eye with a needle, and that Itu
urged several of the prisouers to run needles into both his
eyes. to .prevent his sentence bring carried into mention.
Mr. W. after using every means to restrain the men from
injuriag himself, informed hitu that nothing of that land
could prevent his being transported. Hating cause to sos-
pect • atwitter attempt. Mr. W. watched Ikiak and found in
his hand a paper of potash suffic:ent to blind ten men, lie
then aelinook•ilifed before Mr. Maguire the whole of the
above attempt to blind himself, and that he got the potash
from his wife for an innocent purpose. Mr. Welsh seized
the potash as she handed it to him. Riordan said it wits
sugar.—(cork ildeertister.)

CAUTION TO MOTHERS.—AII iorest was held yester-
day at St. Thomas's Hospital, by F. Shelton. Esq. on ,a
child, named Henry French, who, is appeared, being left
alone, had lighted a bunch of matches, with which he had
been playing, and which set his clothes oe fire, and burst
him so severely that be survived but a few days.—Verdict
—Accidental Death.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BILLINGSGATE.—The imrne Hate
occasion of the fatal accident at Billingsgre, y. rerdae
morning, is stated to be as follows :—At midnight the tide
flowed, by which the "dumb li,Ater" became on a level
with the quay, which enabled persons to rep on from that
to the oyster vessel 4, and as, according to ancient usage, the
port is opened for the importation of oysters, as eons as
Monday morning com:nenee, the unfortunate persons, hav-
ing been supplied, were returning the sane way they had
gone to the vessel, and not recollecting Use tide had consi-
derably run down, by which the vessel became lowered in
the interim, and being dark, they a'tempted to step up to
the quay, in the act of which they fell into the river be-
tween the wharf and the lighter. • Had it been day light.
the accident might not hsve happened. It is snppueed thi,4
melancholy event will induce the Lord-Mayor to put an en.l
to a custom attended with so mach hazard, and prevent the
port from being opened till break of day. The bodies of 3
of the persons drowned have been dragged op ; one of them
of the name of Buck, lived in Fleet-market. The Timber
of boats colleoted on Monday night was greater than has
been remembered fur a long tune. The prices of the oysters
varied from 12s. 6d. to 17s. a bushel.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Top•Ac.
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Amsterdam S. f.. 19 10 Gibraltar 30$ 0
Ditto at 5ight........ 4.19 8 Leghorn 4Bt!1
Rotterdam l9 11 Genoa ,
Antwerp l9 0 Venice Italia. L1v....28 10
Hambnrgb. 3B 9 Malta 45 41
Altona 3B 3 Naples 3O 0
Paris, 3 days' a1ght.....95 80 Pa1erm0........ ores 117 .41
Ditto ;WI 5 Lisbon. 6it
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Bordeaux 26 5 ttporto 3.1 0
Frankfort on the Main —l6O Rio Janeiro 52 U
Petersburg 3us p rble.. n Bahia ' 4O 0
Berlin .....Cur Dolls 7d lOgr. Dublin. 9l U
Vienna, Er. 2 m fib 10 28 Cork Ol 0
Trieate ditto • .10 28 Istmarosi. per oz.
Madrid 366 0 Portugal goldin coi n.Ol. 06.0 d
Cadiz . 34 0 Foreigngold in bars 3/ 17.6 d
Gilboa 30} 0 New D0ub100n5....3 13 0
Barcelona
Seville . 33 0 Siiresinbars,standardo4lol

BIRTH.—On the 4th inst., at Yules Court, the Viscountess
Torrington, of two sons.

itARRIED.—On the 4th inst., J. irsuchan, Rig., one of his
Msjesty's sergeants at law, to the Right lion. Lomita Baroness
tit, .14bo, widow 9f St. Andrew, late Lord St. Jona, of Blot-
soe, sod ®Other of the present Lord.
• Ow the 6th last., at Bt.-Margaret's, Westminster. rr. John
114,41,41. of Duke-street, -Westminster, to Miss AMose•, of
Frith-street, Bobo.

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.41120 .—rAtAnitsfont. the Nor. Mr*. 'loom Orgy. aent to
prepeptAarl of Mulford end Wartingtoo, &fad IMOCIO of Dr.
Falconer, of Bath.
Oa Sunday last, at Winton; la!theWel year of hit age, air'
• Henry Meats, of 'Prinoe's7streat, Baok, solieltor.
.LoatleD: Prlated, and Pabllabeelst theiOliae. No. An, Street',
by W. WSNIUMLAL,ll.Nropriatei.

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