The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-13 00:00:00

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41//hDLReIfiX MIS/ONS, Seer. IL.
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.11211 M 'Henry Puke, a gentleman of: ray eel
ipOkcat
1 in-tianee, rellitilig in East Sialthileld,• wad i
huii,lbethaisi to serve tie am -ei ilesilhortnigh
M • , the otor of Fast Smithfield, mad pariah. se St.
r. to Aligning, after halite• been appointed to
I. at (Jae by the Court Lett and Jury of the 'Moser.
I More the trial commenced wide aliscassiea took
act betneen the Cu used en both sides with a !Paw
4,1 ) ecommodation ; but as the terms could sot- be
ref led to by either party, Mr. Jeesop, the Cembeal
eta behalf of the prosecatioa proceeded to call bill Vita
nooses. . : e
It was peommitlig a Mr. Cross, a ad4ior, who
acted foretieeirailears as Steward of lima
the author Lady cotton, that at a Court
April tail, I defendaat was appointed Ileadberoogha
alt also pegged that the regular notice was sent 44
la' st at first Impels' the seas of three guineas to
pled from serving the office; but that after-
he withdrew this gam, and refused to serve.
'C}. reason be gave iu the first instance was, that his
I. hastiest lame was as properly stated, and *her-
ein& that he had resided but a short time In the
palish ; that there were many other persons whole
duty it was to serve before hies ; that very', low per-
-901111, with whom he could not associate, were em-
ployed 'to act as Deputy Headlwaroeghe and Consta-
bl $ ; and that the members of the Court facet were in
the habit of eatorting money from respectable people
whom they knew could notseree, and spending that
motley in feasting.
When Mr. l'ross gave his evidence, he was, cross-
examined by Mr. Anot.enrs, who ceutentled from the
answers he received, that Mr. Cross had out been re-
gularly appointed as Steward of the Manor, and that
or course, whatever passed at the ('ourt held by Alm,
was illegal. Mr. Adolphus. in his address to the
July. stated, that all the offence committed by hi+
client was that of resisting a syateni of corruption and
1 stortion which a party in the pariah had Weal iiCell.<-
I, toed to carry on for the purpose of ,raisinK money to
%fend at tares us. Their practice, he s..id, era., to
v atch every new comer, who estalitiikod himself in
..• y respectable line of business : *en to mark him
auc for some civil office, make him pai 'a fine in case
1..• could not serve the same ; and at last let the offices
• .. tiled by low obscure persons who were %bolls-
...ii t for them. Under these circumstances, he muted
ts t the Jury would not pronounce a (verdict of cuilty
a .ainst his client, who would he ready to undertake
o.c Ace nest year if proper per•mus were utomets to
4. I 11101 him.

.Tessor, on the other band, repelled these
t• tements of Mr. Adolphus, as an unfounded slander
on the parties who carried un the present prose-
' utinn.

The Chairman, Mr. roNAT, SAW this case was the
narrowest in point of circumstances, aad the shortest
point of facia of any that Mr Caine before a Court'
I was just as simple, as if the Jury were to try %the-
:s er a man was sitting in tke boa near hien, or had
i.re out of the box. It mattered oat how the Stets-
; d of the Manor bad been appointed to the showiest,
f. r he acted by the authority of the Lady of the Manor
i:. that way which the law required ; nor did it make
s part of the case Whether tines were exacted (row
t' olio %timid not serve, or whether those fines
fri• spent at taverns ; for the Lady of the Minor
.s entitled to all fines; but she rave them up to the
1.1-4 .ns who constituted the Court feet, and they
1 t! a right to du what they pleased with the flurry.
ti•si.;es, if those parties had been guilts' ar estur-
ts, the de6ndant might have prosecuts:il then, for
if e same. It was clear that he bad been appointed
an office, and that he refused to perform the
t t;:ies wf it.

Tho Jury, without retiring, found the defendant
dr 'ti.
..14.4:1 Rennin./ and Hannah Donning were indicted
for tu assault on Jemitna Taylor. This case, which
was of an aggravated nature, arose out of family tlis-
ekvements, which seen. to have been pursued with a
tifree of virulence rarely paralleled. The prosece-
trig, a decent-looking elderly woman, was a sister •f
t_tt delinquents, and nursed the child of another bro-
-o(e^r, William Henning. On the 19th June last, the
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elrepts wishing to see the child, a envisage was left at
04? lodgings of the prosecatric, to bring it to them
4 tore it went .o bed. Having remained from home
rite's' than usual, she went at ten o'clock at night to
t44e the child, and as she was entering the Lourr of its
pa:vita, SrAS wet by the MAP defendant, who shook
h•r and endeavoured to force her out. William Hun-
;r,s, hearing the scuffle, went to rescue his child and
wa• knocked down and trampled on by the defendant
a, when Hannah, who lodged in the upper pats of
tie house, and to whom John had been on a visit, rush-
down and also attacked the proseentriv, who sets
left after the struggle was over, covered with blood,
with a
blackeve and a tooth knocked oat. The pro-
scciutriz's eye was black when she came Into Court
f:•ott, the effects of a subsequent assault committed by
.john
The Jury having found both defendants Gouty, J.
I:tinning was tined M. and ordered to enter into re-
•r .
e:ltntrances to keep the peace for twelve months, him-
se.. in 40?. and two sureties in 201. each ; and Hannah
tit aping was fined 6s. tftl. and gave her own reeog-
s. sauce to keep the peace fur same period.
Mrs. Mary Potts, the wife of a respectable baker in
th; parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, was tried
ur. two indictments, fur assaulting !Ukiah Samuel
S frt ag, a collector of paiish-rates, Ebenezer Young,
h:. sus, and James .Ifright, headborough of the parish,
it the execution of their office.
The first named proaecator
.seent. accompanied by
tie other two to the house of Mr. Potts, to call fur
its, 6d. the amooat of two gestures' rates over due,
for it hitch Mrs. Potts flippantly desired him to call
artin, when he produced a warrant of distress, a,ad
hating read ft, said be must take a• table for the
U .notnt. He}Potts, a stout, jolly, and.rither a good
. eking dame, with an excessivittitipe of ipirit,.t ere-
01 attacked them, and Idluieltuti all three
..812 her (los, threw dowiithe 6444; hying, there
-.211 you, don't suppose it "was becaiai I hid Bet two-
.
.V, that 1 did not pai you al 501... •
hicwas the ease sworti tit by the. three nomipal
fitrk e t 614 the intlictmnti lisprtg.p;afezted at /!*
sa.nce of the trustees of the parish-ritis,-ana fetrbili