The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-13 00:00:00

JPOLIGE,

MARLRO,ROUGII STREET.
Caimans or Itior.—Mr. Bright, a respectable
houieholder and currier, in St. Ann's parish, was
charged by the constable on duty at St. James's
watch-house, with repeatedly knacking at the
watch-house door, and with indecorous conduct in
the house. Mr. Bright wes not called on for his
defence, no offence having been substantiated, but
he requested permission to state his case, which
proved how unjustly he had been treated. In pas-
sing through Crown-street, between 11 and 12
o'clock, on Friday, accompanied by Messrs. Knight
and Broadhurst, tradesmen of the first respectability,
Mr. Bright was thrown down by a heap of gravel
and earth impeding the foot-way, the sewer being
under repair. There was no lantern to warn or to
guide the passenger, nor could the watchman, who
owned the beat where the nuisanceezisted, be found.
Mr. Bright repaired to the watch-house with his
friends to apprise the Officers of the nuisance, but
he was informed in an insulting tone through a
wicket, there was no admittance, and he asked in
vain for the constable of the night, and knocked at
the door repeatedly. He was at length let in, and
I afterwards charged with ill behaviour in the watch-
, house, when Lloyd, the constable of the night, or-
dered him, by virtue of the majesty of office, to be
locked below. Mr. Knight, a tradesman of St.
James's, who resides on the' spot, pleaded, that his
friend had committed no offence, in vain, and he ul-
dmately offered to bail, or to put 2001. in this said
i constable's (Lloyd's) hands, for his friend's appear-
' ance, but he refused to listen to any amelioration of
his decree, and he was locked below till 12 o'clock
the neat day. The case was discharged, and the
Magistrate declined taking the shilling fee on the
diseharge. Comments are unnecessary, as the case is
to become a subject of future litigation.

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SMITH AND ANOTHER v. OAKLEY AND OTHERS.
This was an issue from the Court of Chancery, to
try the question, whether certain sums of money,
and Ban .tf Exchange, advanced to the Defendant
Oakley, by the Plaintiffs, were so advanced, on
his general co-partnership account with the other
I Defendants, or upon his own sole and separate ac-
t
count.
I The Plaintiffs were, Messrs. Alderman Thomas
Smith and Company • and the Defendants, Messrs.
i Oakley, Overland, and Oakley. now Bankrupts, but
(.formerly extensive Woollen-dealers in this city.
1
The trial of this cause occupied the Court near six
bouts, and from the Bankrupts being examined, the,
1 one on the part of the Plaintiffs, and the other. on
I the part of the Defendants, a great contrariety of
!evidence was adduced, anti a variety of circumstances
introduced, irrelevant to the matter in question.
..
Mr. John Oakley; one of the Defendants and co-
partners, Bankrupt, was examined on the part of
the Plaintiffs, from whose evidence it appeared, that
1
previous to his co-partnership with the other De-
fendant Overmul, he was concerned in very exten-
sive mercantile dealings ; and at the time of entering
into co-partnership, the credit balance in hi favour
on the face of his books amounted to upward 4 of,
22,0001. while his partner brought no capital into'
the joint concern. Ile (Oakley) had the sole ma-
nagetnent
of the books and money transactions, I,
while the other partner (Overand) was chiefly en-
gaged in the country, buying and seling, making re-
f mittances, &r. That in the course of their extensive
dealings, they had occasion for large
.advances of
money, and were in the habit of exchanging and dis-
, counting paper (Bills) to a very considerable amount,
for which purpose, they had accounts at four or five
different banking-houses ; and among others, the
witness (Oakley) was in the habit of exchanging pa-
' per, awl procuring cash for Bills from the Plaintiffs.
—That towards the close of 1810, falling into em. i
barrassed circumstances, a separate Commission of
Bankruptcy was issued again him (Oakley), and also
another Commission issued against the firm of Oakley
and Overand, at which time they were indebted to
the Plaintiffs in the sum of 20891. 4s. upon an ex- I
change of paper. 'this witness positively swore I
that these advances were made and appropriated I
solely to the joint and co-partnership concern, and I
produced his books, from which all the entries ap-
peared to that effect.
Upon the part of the Defendants (the assignees) a
guarantee was produced, written and signed only by
Oakley, whereby ho engaged to guarantee the pay-
ment of the Bills for which the exchange of paper
' had been made, in his own individual capacity. It
also appeared, that the Plaintiffs had proved their
tiebt under the separate cc-omission against Oakley ;
and Overand being called and examined, swore that
the exchange of paper was made on the sole and se-
parate account of his partner Oakley, and had no
connectiOu with the partnership concern ; but he
could not speak with any certainty from the entries
on the books, as he never interfered with that
branch of their concerns.—The accounts given by
Oakley, however, were corroborated by one of his
clerks, and a public accountant, who had made the.
entries.
After a very long investigation, Lord Eta.cato-
'nouns told the Jury, that the only question for
them was, whether these advances were made on the
joint of separate accounts of these parties, and that
they would decide upon the evidence adduced, and
as inspection of the books. It mattered not in what
manner these advances were originally made, whe-
ther upon the j
appear to them, that they were after- I MORTALITY OF Joint or separate credit of the parties, .
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but if it should MALL-sox.—We regret to state,
wards appropriated to the general purposes of the that this dreadful disease is at present very prevalent
general co-partnership, then. both parties would be in London, especially in the suburbs, inhabited by
equally liable, as for a joint debt. the poorer classes ; and has of late occasioned nu-
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the a mereus deaths, particularly of children. As more
Plaintiffs—Damages 20891. 4s. and costs. than twenty stations are opened in the metropolis,
GREEN AND ANOTHER V. OAKLEY AND OTHERS. far affording protection against the ravages of this
This was another issue from the Court of Chan-
disease, by Vaccination, free of expense, under the
cery, to try a similar question between these Plain- auspices of the !Audi:tit Vaccine Institution, and the
that Nation ' it •
National Establishment, is much to be lamented,
tiffs and the assignees of the DA'endants, and direct-
any. parents should be found so unmindful of
ed by the Lord Chancellor to be- tried its the shape
the lives of their offspring, as not to embrace the
of an action for money lent and advanced. opportunities so benevolently afforded them for their
It appeared, upon the part of the Plaintiff
s, that
security.
they had various and extensive dealings in advancing
the Asurvey of :..*.alical Officers was held the week
sums of money to, and exchanging paper with,
(forelast,. on. tseneral Phillot, on board the Eyen
Defendants upon the co-partnership account • and at .
t prison ship, in the Medway, in consequence of his
the time of the bankruptcy, the balance in floe Plain.; having made some representation to the Goternment,
t
tiff's favour amounted to upwards of 11,0001. "that that he was treated with undue severity and indig-
but in the present action they only sought to re- I silty, by being placed in company with the common
cover 50001. ; soldiers who had the misfortune to be taken prison.
Mr. PARK, for the Defendants, declined making
'ors of war : he also stated that his health was in so
any defence to this action, and the necessary proofs °.
delicate a state, that the confinement to whisk he
I
being made out, the Jury returned a verdict for the t
was subjected endangered. his We. The medical gem.'
Plaiutiffs—Damages 50001. and costs. 1 tlemen having made their survey, reported that the
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General was in pet feet health, and considering that
Comma's I*QUEST.—Aa inquisition was taken the had twice broken his parole of honour, it is their
. on Saturday, before G. HODOsON, Esq. Coroner for ' opinion that he is placed in a much better situation
Middlesex, on the body of Jane Cooper, one of the ! than he deserves.
`children unfortunately poisoned in consequence of 1 Saturday, at the Queen-square Office, David
I her mother accidentally milting arsenic with treacle. I Doones, a chevalier stindastric, of genteel appear-
s The body was opened, and it was proved to have t ance, was committed .to Tothill-fields,' for three
bees numb ideated, and a part of the poison was I months, as &cheat and impostor. It appeared that
found lodged In the stomach. The Jury perfectly' the Defendant, assuming an undertaker's face, hid
. coincided with Mr. Baker, *the Magistrate, of Marl-; obtained money of several Noblemen and Gentle-
: borough-street Polite-office, that the death of the ; men, on a representation that his wife was laying dead
. child'was occasioned by accident, and a verdict was i and himself without the means of burying her. In
i returned accordingly. Two other children are in a I consequence of some suspicion that his story was in-
; very.bad way, but slight hopes are entertained that correct, an officer was applied to, who made enquiry,
one will ultimately recover. and actually produced the wife, supposed to be de-
Patnerrelausser.—Yesterday morning, a .young; funct, In proper health and spirits. This yesurrec. I
I man, of the name of Kingsbury, undertook, for a i tion from the dead was considered a damning proof I
wager of 51., to go on foot from London Bridge to ,' against-the Profaner of ways And means, and his I
Blackheath, and back again, in' one hour and a ! commitment of course followed:
quarter, the whets distance being ten miles. Ile' i Monday, Wm. Kerry, landman, of the Devede.;
started at ire o'clock, at a moderate rate for abo..t ' lion, was tried at Portsmouth, by a Court-Martials,
• lie sheet.., whets ko upended his pace, and baited- for fighting with his shipmate, aml for disabling him:-
itt Idiew Cr...; after which be pursued his-journey, ' setf, 'by
,cutting of two fingers of his left hand toe
arrived at Blackheath at 35 minutes after fives evade piniihment. lie was acquittel of the first'
stopped lie minutes, then started-afresh. on his re. and though the engirt- held. the second offence in grief
tsraiwitk great velocity, and arrived at the starting 4 abhorrence, yet,' in
.considevation of his good cho.'
:post at slue minutespast iii o'clock, winning'ey ratter, 'end the contrition he had shewn, did *died-
; si.s..minutes. At startieg-,` odds were. against him him to be only severely reprimanded. Was. P
3 font ti three. A great malty bets were depending on dY.tke listsPer,-Ibt beastialitit irag-.---
Na iltitt.
airs 300 lashes.

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IVINCIIE.STEIC ASSIZES.

I One of the most extraordinary trials that ever dis- I
graced the annals of atrocity, took place on Friday,
at Winchester. John James, a youth of nineteen'
i years of age, wns indicted for the wilful murder of
this mistress, Elizabeth Hill, at Shallieet, near liar-
mouth, Isle of Wight. It appeared, from the most 1
!clear and satisfactory evidence, .that his master, to 1
whom he was apprentice as a shoemaker, was gone I
with his sou to church on the morning of Sunday,the I
21st of June last, leaving his wife and this lad at i
home. On their return, in company with a neigh- 1
hour, they discovered Mrs. Pill lying on the kitcheu ;
floor, with deep wound's indicted with a hatchet on
her head and face, and her throat cut across. Ou
interrogating the boy, who was deliberately walking
before the house, he very calmly confessed the foul
deed, without being able to assign the most latent
motite that could induce him to commit it. He stood
lat Me bar, during the whole of the trial, with his
eyes bent en the ground, in a kind of melancholic
apathy. He vie►►ed the dreadful instruments, pro-
duced in Court, with unaltered aspect ; he heard
the awful sentence with indifference, and retired
without having uttered a word, beyond a refusal to
say any thing. He declares that he entertains no
sorrow for the action ; for had any one else come in
in his way, he should have done the same thing.—
His mistress, he says, was always too good to him.
Ile feels no terror at his approaching fate, but ex-
presses himself truly happy and content to die.—
When strongly interrogated as to the probable motive
of his conduct, he referred the enquirers, without
Icomment, to the 3d chapter of Job. Ile appears an
[enthusiast in the Methodist persuasion. The Judge
(Sir ALAN Cuisinez) commented with much feeling
and perspicuity, on the dangerous effects of vulgar
and literal conceptions of scriptural passages.

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" for the The foliating is an abstract of the Bill
preservation of the public peace in certain disturlteil
counties :"—Arms collected for purposes dangerous
to the public peacotnay be searched for and seized
by any constable under the warrant of a Magistrate.
in case admission is refused, the constable may enter
by force, by day or by night. 'Phe second clause
appoints arms, not secure from unlawful seizure, to be
lodged in places of security ; receipts for the saute
being given to the persons from whom they are
taken; such persons hating alsd the liberty of ap.
peal to the Special Sessions to be held every three
weeks, for the restoration of their arms. The arms
are to remain in safe custody till the expiration
the Act, or while the district shall continue so eiz.:
turbed as to make it expedient, iu the judgment of
the Special Sessions, to retain them. Another clause
declares uulawfal all assemblages for committing out, .
rages, &c. taking of arms, collecting depots of attest
&c. and all assemblies associated or communicating
by delegates for the purpose of raising money by
subscription in aid of the above unlawful purposes;
The penalty on such offenders is left blank. Such
assemblies may be dispersed by the Magistrates, and
the persons present ; and all such as are found cars
Tying arms under suspicious circumstances, may be
detained and required to give bail, and prosecuted
fora . Justices may, on information upon
oath, commit any person acting as delegate or secre•
tary to the above unlawful assemblies, end take pos.
session of the money, books, &c. belonging to such
asestattion. Justices may disperse etiy assembly
consisting of or more persons meeting at a dis-
tance from any house, between certain hours, which
such Justices may suspect to be assembled for un.
lawful purposes. On refusal to disperse, the same
shall be counted an unlawful assembly. Justice,
'of detached and adjoining comities to have con.
current jurisdiction in such counties. Penalties
are.imposed on persons who knowingly permit un.
lawful assemblies to be held in their houses - and if ,
at public• houses, the licences to be forfeited. The.
provisions of the Act to extend to certain counties
left blank, and to such other counties as his Majesty .
shall, upon the representation of the Lieutenancy/ .
declare to be so disturbed as to require the enforce-
ment of the provisions of the Act. The duration of
the Act is left blank.

Abstract of a Bill to amend the Acts relating to
Protestant Dissenters. Two Acts of CHARLES fle
" for restraining Non.conformists from inhabiting
in Corporations," and " to prevent and suppress se-
ditious Conventicles," are repealed. All places of
religions worship to be registered and certified in the
Bishop's Court, and recorded at the Quarter sessions.
Preachers in and persons resorting to such registered
places to be exempt from the same penalties a.: per.
sons taking oaths under the Toleration Act of Wu,.
LIAM and MARY: but the oaths and declaration pre.
scribed in an Act of the 19th GEORGE 111. " for the
further relief of Protestant Dissenting Minster" and
Schoolmasters," to be taken by all preachers, ka
when thereto required by a Magistrate. Any per-
son may, under this Act, require a Justice of Pesos
to administer the said oaths and declaration, and re-
ceive his certificate or the same, which shall be con-
clusive evidence. Preachers having taken the oaths,
&c. shall be exempt from offices and from the milli',
1 provided they do not engago iu any other trade or
1 business, profession, occupation, or .employment,
except that of a schoolmaster. Penalties to be
imposed on persons falsely pretending to be preach.
era, and producing false certificates. Doors of re-
ligious assembles not to be bolted or barred. Penal.
ties to be indicted on persons disturbing religious
assemblies.
A new rope-house is to be erected in Plymouth
Doct-yard, with all expedition, to replace that faddy
destroyed by fire. The intended building, it is said,
will be constructed of stone, and rendered fire-proof
in all its parts.

On Thursday afternoon, a dreadful fire broke out
lat the village of Gamblingay, in Cambridgeshire. It
I began at a blacksmith's shop, and for want of an.
gines, water, and proper assistance, it consumed
twenty-three houses. A baker, of the name at
Welk, who was from home attending the getting is
lof his hay, has lost his, all. His housekeeper, in en-
' deavouring to save some articles in the house, had
.1 nearly been lost in the names.
A bricklayer, named Newman, having last week
had a violent dispute with his wife, in a fit of rage,
threw himself into the river Yare), at Yarmouth, and
was drowned.
A surgeon, of considerable eminent., in the vie:-
idly of Finsbury-square, shot himself on Thursday
morning,
Mr. Keene, a celebrated shot, killed. 27 pigeons
I successively, on liagshot Heath, on Friday last, from
I a trap,,at 21 yards distance front the gun.
Saturday morning, about two o'clook, a hackney
coach came iu contact with the Earl of Egremont's
carriage, coming front Vauxhall hardens, near the
I Asylum, it being very dark, the pole of the hackney
coach so much injured one of the Noble Earl's horses,
that it became necessary to kill it, and his Lordship
and family walked home. The hackney coachman
I was much bruised.

icantisit4CK.
11111.t.etes Whar. rrired. Serill.
Ecti,.se (Taylor), Leitf h 1 9 July 116 July, p. 6, A. M.

II Hilt WATER AT LONDON 11111HOli THIS DAY.
Morning, 56 minutes after 4. E.vening, 13 minutes after 5.

• MARRIED.
On Saturday evening. Lord Viwonnt Ttlottatjoy, to Mrs.
Brown, wt,dow of the late Major 11as. Brown.

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DIEO.
At Fahnoatb, Jamaica, Mr. W. Donut". aterehAtat.
On Thursday evening last, of an apoplexy Abraham Gold.
amid, jun.. Esq. 13reat Alin-street, Goodman's:fields. parkas
IS
the house of A. Goldsraid, Sou, and WEliason, hi the Vid year
of his age.
I ' At Otasgow, on Tuesday, the 96th ult. John MiKensie.
In the 70th year of his age. His country is much indebted to
him for the judicious example he gave in early life at Carsoyle,
as a cultivator, by introducing modes•of improvenifisla agri-
culture, which have since been followed np, and are noir
brought into general use. He carried on at the same place. as
esteasive print-Held, and was the original inventor of tMit mot
useful and important discovery, the joining copper Oar prat,
which has since proved so iavaluahle to that branch of busioew.
He was also the first iudividind alto had, the humanity to coati-
our the wages of 'work-people, during nonattendance from.
'sickness ; and has left few behind him possessed of a more phi-
lambs,* mind, or wore brilliaut abilities.

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