The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-13 00:00:00

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rim DUBLIN ELRCTIOX.

POLICE.

flutt,n or Mrmen tters.—On Thursday, the 6th in-
stant, . meeting of this (Wild took plaee purstant to
notice; it was numerously attended. The object was
to take into cousiderAtion the late proceedings in the
House of Commons, respecting the Irish Chancery
Bill, and the effect likely to be produced thereby upon
the sitting of our newly elected Representative, Air.

QCI 1.1)11.4 I.l..—glizeietA Jasfes, a middy
ma 1, of very decent appearance, was tweexhi
i,
, terday before Sir W. l'cit i is, rharm.o with fool Or.
Mr. Irelamd, hosier, 11011. .rn-bridge. stool'
he was reading the newspaper in his atop, ehiil
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and obseuriar,
, at the do Jr, cast up his eyes, and pen.rit,.4 tk•
saner, and at the same instant missed a pair of stork
1 from among those that hung in the door-wa,
' jumped over the counter immediately, ai4
of the woman, who, with the greatest row
imaginable, presented a new µair of te.p„„,, 144
mach mildness entreated him to purchase thew,
suspicion, was nut, however, to he thus blow
he searched the prisoner's person, and Te„h the , •
inga from under her arm. There being we air.
his daughters in the shop, he thought it not alto/
safe to leave the prisoner with them, sad
went to the door in the hope of seeing tie
Ikeeper, to give her in charge ; in the interior
pair of stockings disappeared front twar the spa
!Ilse prisoner thendtutal ; and on this firt heist
1 municaten to him"hy his daughter. be irking*
stockings peeping out of the prisoner's hiyhht
Wore he conkd get to her she very detlelite it
them slip down by the ride of her on the Nom% i„,,t.
the beadle, came up shortly afterwar.d., aid bit
into custody. When tal:rn to the Cotlyter, sit
immediately recog!dzed as having been disrlat
fruit thence that very morning, aftvr an itoprisol
of six months, to which she had been sen...nced
I stealing a coat from a shop-door.
Notwithstanding° the deiwarity of the wetmeiti
racter and conduct, .11r. Ireland was anwilliagt•
scents; am! although Sir W. Curtis urged theuerewin
ridding the public of so ine,irritrible an offender. •
insisted triodi llr. Ireland being hound over, he
ileelitintl, conceirinK he could tad he et:at:riled, 1.4
having, as he observed, he: s'vorn.
Sir IV. cc , Tis.—,4l r, I line treated von lik^ a relet.
man and a man of resp..et..'ility, iiho came hoc .4
speak the truth, and not like a carilrowl, whoa t
might be ti..ceseaey to swear :wr.r.• his flidelire Mill
.be listened to. Though you hare nut kern sworn, f 4
have deviated the farts in esitl.enre, and I insist col
your being hound over to prostra.e. Offiref. kir.
Ireland he sworn.
1 he bixo4 was then tendered to Mr. Ireisad,hetle
derlinen t., he bourn, °bier% ing, he believed her
11•. t compelled.
Mr. Payne, the Magistrate's clerk, said kis
the !tower I.f the Magistrate to commit hien if he
s;sted in his refusal.
Sir W. tuturts.—Art.l in such a case as Wel
use all the power the law gives we, pm way
ttiom it.
Mr. I reland.—Then I am compelled to proweW
Sir W. Ural-IN.—Certainly ; if you don't
her I shall proseruW you. I give you reedit he
humanity, but it is misplaced towards sack a
as this.

The business was opened by Colonel Blacker, who,
in a brief but energetic speech, proposed a series of
strongly-worded Resolutions, declaratory of the alarm
excited by the proceeding, and of its unconstitutional
tendency. These were seconded by Sir E. Stanley.
alt. Grattan addressed the meeting at some len►,•th,
and was replied to by Mir. Alderman King. After
which Counsellor Burie opposed the proceedings in a
lung and desultory speech, during which he was fre-
qnently called to order, and interrupted loud cries
of " Quation;" he concluded by musing an amend-
ment, which was opposed by Captain Eitzsio eeeee ons.
The question at length being put, the amrnen►ent was
negatived, but the original Resolutions carried by a
great majority, not ■wre than five or six voice% being
raised against thew. A petition to the House of Lords
was then agreed upon, and directed to be forthwith
prepared and forwarded by the following Gentlemen,
:—Alderman King, Cul. Blarker, John &books,
Esq., Williu►n Furlong, Esq., Alderman Archer, Sir
K. Stailley, and J. B. Fitzsimmons, Eel. The meet-
iflg then adjourned. Ellis was present, but from
fceliugs of delicacy did not speak ou the occasion.
. _ _

The Corporation of meet (rriday, the 7th
instant) for the purpose of taking into consideration
the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the
clause !nu-minced into the Chancery Bill, which affects
the return of Mr. F:llk.—(tn6lbs .futri nal.)

L.I fl-OSTE LLIGZ.VCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Gumniuti.L. Ji Ls I.

This was an action hr the holders of a bill o•f ex-
change, against the defendatit::, who were the ac-
ceptars.
31r. tit A►lLCTTstated the facts of the case to the Jury.
The plaintiffs were bill-brokers, and the defen;:a:,!s
were general merchants in London. The bill. which
was the subject of this action, purported to be drawn
by J. Higgins, (ruin Wigan, in Lancashire, on the
defendants, and was regularly accepted by them. It
was brought to Ilse plaintiffs by Fryer, the confidential
clerk of the ticlemlauts, who hail before brought bilk
in the hand-wrifiwt of the same thalier fur discount,
is the plaintiffs, whirl, had been a!I regularly paid
when at maturity. '1 he plaintiffs knowing the suf-
ficiency of the defendants' house, discounted the bat
immediately. 1%11!•ri the bill became due, it was pre-
sented for payment at a banker's, oho pre^ntlied to
write upon the lace of it, that which Ito (1I r. Scarlet°
was satisfied they had no right to do; they have
written upon it that the indo.s intent was a forgery,'
and payment was refn.e:l accordingly. It wa► for

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the amount of this bill that the present action was Mr. Ireland was then sworn to his evil
p
brought, and the defence which be understood would
!ontod over to irosecute. The prisoner was
be set up to-day by the defendants was, that the in-
Ipole committed to Nen-gate for trial.
dorsement of this bill was a forg:etY, as well as all the Ito Thursday, the Gilt instant, the Iligh
piecediag bills which the plaintiffs bad discounted in of lark, with a party consisting of a corporal
the saute hand-writing, and that the whole was a
privates,
who went to execute a warrant, was at
transaction of fraud and forgery, on the part of Fryer, by a concourse of people, amounting to !peewees
the defendants' clerk. lie should be able to prove. and. 200 men, who assailed them with at,,,,,,.
that, in the last four years, bills to the amount of soldiers were obliged to tire in their own defence,
6,500/. were drawn in the same hand-writing, and cc- several of the people were wounded, one of when.
cepted and paid by the defendants ; in addition to since dead.
which, he 56111 d prove that one of the notes n Melt Coax, Juts 3.—This day a meeting took pia is
was paid to the defendants' clerk, Fryer, by the plain- field under Mount Desert, between liethneed
tiffs, in part of the anumut of the bill, which was the Esq. and Thomas ()Timor, Esq. ; the former Ova
subject of the present action, was paid into the de- by Captain Bovton, and the latter by Captain Omar
feudants' bankers for their account. • when, after exchanging a shot each, the allhir *
The plaintiffs' clerk was called to substantiate these made up, and the parties shook hands preview'',
facts, but he admitted, on his cross-examination by the leaving the ground. We rel:ret to add, however:it
Solicitor-I;rue; al, that the defendants, so far from being a poor man at a consideragple distance receiveiewd
in the practice of raising money on their own aceep- the balls in his arm, but in tttttttttttttt had Bobs*
winces, used to advance money to the plaintiffs upon of the professional assistance of Dr. IVoodreillk I&
the deposit of bills of exchange or collateral security, t
fortunately was in attendance.
and that the plaintiffs charged Fryer a commission of The party in the duel, described in our her
ne-eighth per cent. besides the legal interest, although ' Monday,
the bill was discounted by them on their own account. the contents of whose pistol lodged is it
arm of a passenger on the road, has been bed to ha
The CHIEF Justice on this stopped the cause, upon
under a
the ground of the illegality of a hill-broker being a fiat granted by the Recorder, for 110. wadi
the issue of an action to be innurht for the iaj..
discounter.
sustained.—(Cork Me, motile eTromitis )
Mr. SCARIATT consented to a nonsuit, and the plain- We lament to state that William &riot', bal• ad
tiffs were according-1y called.
—iso--i. Mr. Bain, the eldust son of Dr. Bain, were a
drowned-
- The IN .

COURT OF EXCISE, JILT 12.

ILLICIT %OAP MANTBACTORT.

Richard Rola°ld and Henry Robton, two brothers,
wrre charged with having carried on a nianufactory of
soap, without having given notice thereof to the Ea-
else, with intent to defiind the revenue.

C. 11. Lord, an rarer of the Excise, stated, that me
the 17th of May, inconsequence of information which
he had received, he went to 0141 Ford, and at a house
situate in a bye place, usAr the Three Colts, he set
two of his brother officers as sentries, whilst he weal
and reconnoitered. Having ascertained that they were
tight, they gained entrance, but met with no one
the premises but a woman. On going (loon stall&
they found a soap-topper, the curb of which had been'
broken down. and the hot soap suffered to now down
is the ash-pit, from which the witnels inferred, that
the approach of the officers had been discovered in
sufficient time to allow the operators to i:estroy their
works, and make their escape. They sated several
Misdeed weight of soap from that which had been suf.
Owed es rem awa♦ in the ash-pit. They found several
mks rd seapkes, and seised a large quantity of ma-
*sails and apparatus.
Joseph 3111bourn, the landlord of the house in quer-
ies., proved that Richard Robson was the tenant.
t -A cleric of the Excise proved that the place had not
bees legally entered.

The -Cain &clotted Henry Robins, but convicted
Richard Robson in the malty of 20111. and the for►
feitere of the whole of the soap, materials, anti app.-
roots, used in the manufactory.
Several grocers were comc-tea and punishal by the
Court, for having sold that vile Compound called P. U.
Per imitetive pepper r and two bakers pliwded guilty to
the rhi'r, of haviug adulterated their brand with foul
'salt, which had bees used in curing Lesitiek-'