The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-11 00:00:00

question at issue was, whether the contract between
the Plaintiff and .Col. P. had beets completed, or
whether the property remained subject to the cots-
troul of the Plaiutiff.
The Learned Judge was of opinion that the
goods had not been suld to Colonel P. ; and the
Jury, snider all the circumstances, found a Verdict
for *the Plaintiff, subject to a question of law re-
specting the fixtures. '
OAITHWAITC V. ELLIOTT.
This was an action brought by a bricklayer to re-
cover a demand for repairing a party.s. all belonging
to the warehouse of the Defendant, at Vl'apping.•
Mr. Serjeant Buy defendod the action, on the
ground that the Plaintiff had fixed pieces of timber
.its the !nick work contrary to an Act of Pau ia-
'ineut fdr building party wa11.,. The Act sad s, that 1
the timber shall net project from the wall, and in
the present case a beam ran frum the wall to the ad.
joining premises. ft W:l3 contended that the De-
lfendessit could derive no benefit from the work ; •
was a nuisanceas it stood, and the Defendant would
•he under the necessity of pulling it down. The
warehouses near the vr It, according to Ow sees..
, meat of .the Learned Serjeant, were insured for
18,0&01. and if one of them was to take lire, the
gmnes would soots destroy the whole. The Fire-
Office had also refused to insure the Defendant's
warehouse its its present •ituation.
The Judge said, if the patty wall must be pulled
down in consequence of the defect of
.try .budding,
it was of nu use, and the Plaintiff could not re.
-cover. The Aot of Parliament for building party
walls had beets made to prevent fire, •it was nieces.
sary that it should be strictly observed, and *uric.
mess were beund to proceed by it. llas Lordship
bought Cie action could out be sustained. The
ilaintar was uonstaitrd.

roLice.

MAR LSOROLIGII-STREiT.

A gentleman of the irately of Howard charged Ilia
livery-set vant, !Valium Lee, with riotous and dis.
oralerly behaviour, to the annoyance of his the
Prosecutor's family.
It appeared that the Defendant, after having
been a ftirtnight in Mr. lloward's service, behaved
in a way that occasioned his immediate dismissal.
Linder pretenee of a claim to advance of wages, he
intruded himself into the Prosecutor's drawing.
room, and behaved in a west, inticcent manner be-
fore ladies, and afterwards committed an assault
upon the housekeeper, and continued thus to act
until taken by the officers of justice.
The Dzfetitiant was committed in default of bail
fur the assault, and he was ordered to Bid sureties
to keep the peacetowards his master.
WHITECHAPEL, _

Saturday Riaard Simla and William Laois
%%wit earitiiited, being charged upon the oath of
Mr. Rapti Clay, of Green Wait, Wapping, with
privately entering his shop, and stealing two silver
watches. flu stated that while sitting in a room be.
hind the shop on Thursday - evening, he observed
the two Prisoners, one of w hum got over the coati.
ter, and t,icrk the property, mentioned. They bath
then ran off, when ..he immediately pursued them,
and thvy'were taken with the•watubes, which were
p I i rot.aett_ and dcritilie.ll°. The Prisoners wore fully '
toinniitted to Newgiste fur trial.
Eli3a6cth Brown was charged by William Hanle
with aceirsag Mar in Wentworth-street, White-
' chapel, and taking from his person a sitter watch
ttnd a bundle containing a quantity of wearing.ap.
pare! : thu latter she handed to a man wtio made
his escape. Tire Prisoner was secured, and on be.
leg searched the watch was found upon her and
identified. She was fully committed to Newgate
for trial.

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OLD BAILEY, Dzc. 10.
Mary Shadwell the elder, and Mary Shatiatell
the younger, were tried and found guilty (Dealh)
of stpaling in a dwelling-house, money and apparel,
value 3001. and upwards.
• Richard Greasier: and Richard Clare. were in.
dieted fur burglariouhly breaking and entering the
dwelling-house of Richard Phillips, and stealing
thireout several attiels of wearing apparel, the
property of Edward Phillips; when Cranston was
found guilty of stealing under the value of 40e. and
Clare was acquitted. •
Mary IVariug was indicted for a burglary, in
. breaking into the house of John Junes, end steal-
ing a great coat, his property.
Jones stated, that he went out about six ln.the
evening, and when he returned about seven o'clock,
he found the parlour window open, and on un-
locking the door the Prisoner rushed out, on which
she was seized, and the room being examined, it
was found that a great coat had been removed from
the place where it was left when the Prosecutor
went out, and left tied up lying on a chair.
The Jury acquitted her of the capital part, name.
ly the burglary, hitt found her guilty of the lar-
ceny, the punishment for which is in the discretion
of the Court.
A prosecution was illititUted against a man named
Richard Davis, fur stealing the livery clothes which
he wore.
Ir. KNAPP stated, that the Prisoner lived ser-
vant with a Mr. Gardner; that he was discharged
from his place, but that he thought lit to detain his
livery clothes.
Here Me. Justice Gaon; stopped the proceed.
ingWobserving, that there was no ground fur a fe.
!onions accusation. If the men hail unwarrantably
detained these clothes, the owner hod his fiction in
truier. Ilis Lordship directed an acenHal, and he
was discharged oat of custody.
A decent-looking young man,. lately porter at
Messrs. Savay. and Evans's, of Oxford-street, li.
tien.drapers, was tried fur stealing a piece of Irish
linen, and a piece of cotton, value 41. 15s. their
property. It appeared that the Prosecutors had
renommettded !kilt to Lord Vernun as a servant, and
be was to have left them and gone to hittnew place
on the bill of December instant. Ilia in •conse-
glimice of his attempting to reMove his box surrep...
Wiwi:oy the day before, suspicion arose in the Mind
of one of the shopmcn, whiok he ewumilpiested to
his employer, Mr. Evans, the tie* was opened in
the presence of the Prisoner, who then attempted tQ
snake his escape, and sin it were found the articles
mentioned in the indictment.
On this evidence he was found guilty—Death.
But recommended by the Jury to Mercy, on .ac.
count of his former goad character and his youth,
being now but 17 years old. ,
.'At a late hour on friday evening Edward Sad
ler, one of the persons who was apprehended in
the gallery of this Court, during the trial' of we,.
tam Trueman, who was tried and capitally- cos.
sided last Sessions, for a must daring robbery Com:
matted on the person of Mary Jackson, oo Sunday
evening, the 22d of Septemoer, hi Smithfield, was
put to the bar, and trietlyon an indictment, charg.
tug him with the Capital offence of aiding and abet.
thug some person isoknn*n, in telonionsly, wil.
fully; and in!licioissly assaulting one James Dray.— .
Our Readers will recollect, that it was only with the
greateit difficulty and determined conrage, that the
officers whoapprehended 'freeman, were• enabled
it) convey him to the Poultry Comptur, having been
attacked .by a most numerous and • desperate gang of
villains, 'amounting to about thirty, who, with
sticks and knives, threatened to uiurder them, if
their prisoner was not set at large. Nutwithstand.
ing the perseverance of these rufflaus,showever, the
Officers were enabled to get Weir prisoner into a
hackney .coach, with intent to take him to the
Poultry Compter ; but on their arrival in Newgate.
street, the reins, traces, and braces of the coach
were cut, and the further progress of the carriage
stopped. Vl' hilt: defending the Prisoner at this cri-.
sin, Jame; Bray, one ref the' officers, received a
wound across the hand, `which he.believed was. done
'lath a knife. Amongst the persons who were par.
tiaularly conspicuous•in this daring attack, was the
Prisoner Sadler ; he was seeu at the braces of the
coach, when the body fell, anti. was 'also seen to
tut the reins, and in fact .Was one of the most active
in the gang. Mary , Jaikson (the former Prosecti-
• ttiz), Staunton, and Lloyd, all swore most posi-
tively to the identity of the Prisoner, of whose pre-:
scow there did nut seem to be the slightest doubt.;
A tinuib.er 'of "perstins were" examined to the
genies cbaracterlwhtealf'spoke in the highest terns
of:his:hisately, steadiness, and industry. •
Tbellteatuabaa, in . summing up the evidencet j
'said he did nut know how to put a cite of inilo•
ccnce, as the facts seemed. iniutitroiertible. -With
units imstiments, . he left the case to the Jury, at 4
slued that they Would give such a aerdict as theeirr
cuuistaiiies of the case imperiously called for. 11)01
Jury then retired, and after an.abseticu of an hour
and urinsette, returned. with a
•skerdict of acquittal,
tk the 'astlittisinnent- Of ititiilstite Court. ' The. Me;
corder, on hearing their :tleterteinatioN, Qxpressetl
his feelings with ciniiiderat)lo* warmth. - lie u out..
tiered bow men of sense could by their'verdiet*aptiu
let loose upon the 'Pottle a notorious offender.
7Cuirt.did not adjourn vn tine occasion until half
past eleven o'clock.
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MIDDLII.S AIL 'SESSIONS, Detc.. ie. •
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EXIMITION.
Richard Lynn *as' ptit fti the bar, being charges-
that in-, by itrtue ankaileter eIIiOUP -.if hie office, tib
an Officer.of the Slieriti Of Middlesex,, in the ewe,
cutiott of -a warrant directiug' him to arrest and
hold to bail .one Thomas Clots, fur th sum of 121.
Mr. ALl.ei, in opining tfie case; stated that this
watt one of the many tricks which persons Who, by
the opportunity of -peeing 'a Mile weight Of ollice
Trickled on their batks, 'practised on thereisibar.
mused and the ening, though Wallis instance the
Pauseetatur did not by:any means stand in the light
oflittwoubarcassett men iu his.cirennistances. The
eriine hire was- thirof cxtortinn kaetitied • by tho
Defendant on the Prot. cutor. •
'The Defendant • was found gailtyi and after
proper tepriolitods seitenced to a Ann imprison-
ment..