The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-09 00:00:00

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IP little 1/Victiii, but Altwit bat afistOtei3ln.
Ta
t
on continually quarrelling,. and proceeditig
sn imes- I& Moles • that the (melte beteeestinstr
Ts stun and Mr. Beer had taken place, and ihst
he ad been let in by Mrs. revelers, she Whig
the:key of the Mese tat Broadstales, as has. been
stalpal ; that Mr. Taunton, the husband, km, .1t,..
rent had so told OM Worse.; bet dist he preferred
going mentor Mr. Wear bourn, and thatlerteld her
so at the time he came dowu to her in thteeentry,
to *Meet what she could prove as a witness upon
this trial ; that Mr. Taunton bad actually slept
with his wife and herxister one night, when all the
beds were occupied. It hid been intended that
the sister,. who was a widow lady, whose name
was Bessie, waste base slept that night with, the
witness, end fresh sheets had boon, laid op the bed
'for that purpose ; that she, the witness, had gone
to bed, expecting that Mrs. Beater would follow,
went to Sleep, but when she awoke she found she
had no bedfellow. When she got up she went
, down stairs to her master and mistress's bed cham-
ber with the little boy, of which she was the nurse.
There she saw Mr. and. Mrs. Taunton, and Mrs.
Taunton's sister all undressed gad in bed together.
That Mr. Taunton asked her, the witness, what
she thought of his being in bed with his wife and
sister together ; to which she said it was all very
right if he chose it. She swore meet positively 1
that she never said that she attended her mistress
to the Templegardens one day in March last ; that
her mistress left her awhile and came back spin,
'• but that her clothes. were no. rutapho, nor we,.
'she in any confusion, neither had she a white lie.
lisse on. That her mistress did not ,l .100' her to
take a hackney coach and drive to ,'Zr'. Yates's.
and stay fur her till one, and if she did ...It ...-..,
then, to go home to the Tower, ether- ;ti ~.n
dwelt with her father." That she hart r. ••,. said
her mistress did not calm home till ftiur o'clock.
That when she looked at Mr. Taunton sae thought
she saw a cuckold. That if they 'brought her into
a Court of Justice, she would be d—d if any body
should get a word of truth not of her. That she
went dono to Leicestershire, and Mr. Weybourn,
the Defendant, wrote a letter to her, on the sub-
ject of her testimony, which she nut receiving for
a week did nut answer. Mr. Weybourn came
down himself to her, to take down what she had i
to say on this business, which.she told him, and he
drew it oat in the form of an affidavit, to which
she swore wheu she came up to Laudon. That
be mar!e out another affidavit of facts also, to
which sheytt ore, stating those things which she
had rOated as bearing epilog Mr. Taunton, &c.
-Sophia Cox, who was the chamber-servant of
Mr. And Mrs. Taunton, flatly contradicted Ann
Bea. in the most material parts of her evidence.
As to the sleeping of Mr. Taunton with .his. wife
and Mrs. Boner, her sister, at one time, it was
ahsolutesy false. The fact was this : Mr. and
Mrs. Taunton • bad been at the Opera house, it
was too late for Mrs. Beezer to go home to her
lather in the Tower, where she resides, the gates
there being shut at ten o'clock, it was deter.
mimed to make a shift ; to make her up a bed ;
there tsai a spare bed, but it happened to he _ oc-,
i:upied by Mr. and MA. Punpleuell, who were
un a visit at tit: house of Mr. Taunton ; there.
':ere, Sarah Cox made up a bed in the night-chair,
in .whlth the nurse slept, for Mrs.. Beezer, and
bhe took off her gown truly, and put oo a flannel
one, and went into that bed, which was in the
bell-chamber of Mr. aad Mrs. Mutton, where
they slept ; that Mrs. limier did nut stop in bed
stills them ; but when Mr. Taunton tit reit of
bet! and went out.of the room, Mrs. Bt-ezer then
undressed, went to bed to her sister, and took
rest for an hour and a half. That Mr. and Mrs.
Taunters wete very happy, indeed, before Mr.
Wes bourn became acquainted with the family; but
that afterwards there was a very great alteration.
Indeed she always went out with the Weybourn's,
to the neglect of her family. That Mrs. Taunton
did not let Mr. Reed into the house at Broad-
' stairs, es Ann Bell bad sworn. That Ann Bell had
actually said, in the hearing of this witness, that
if they *mild bring her into a Court of Justice,
she would be d---d if they would hate a word
of truth from her. That Ann Bell did say, that
when she saw her master, she thought she saw a
1 cuckold.

James Gales, another servant of the family,
contradicted Ann lied in much the same manner
as the former witness. •
Daniel Dsly, a Lieutenant in the navy, said
he knew Mr.' 'Taunton, and was astonished to
hear the opening of the Defendant's case, in o hich
it was said this Mr. Taunton had wished bins tip
go to the play and thence to a brothel. Ti, the
play he did iuvite him, but n. 'Wog else; all the
rest was *falsehood invented by the Defendant.
Thu Al to sitA I. made •an excellent
rei,ly, onsteinfin% that the like to this case, as II
.stlevted to a Defridant in point of Infamy, was
never before prevented Ito a Court of Justice.
lie Inc.ented the it %lisps were not stated higher
thus io,ooot. for 'POOL had been given more
than mice f.r cases of less infamy-then this, sup.
portei as it was, by a tHseet of falsehoods to
blacken the character of thy PlaintijE • It was in.
famy attempted to be-supported by perjury, by
witnesses -wbum the Defendant bad subioracd.. .
Lord Fora.sosostocon left the fact of the adul.
tery to the Jury. T;ir I)efendant bad takers a.
wrong measure of the untlerstandingsof (pikers,
and bad applied.that to theirs which was only ap-
splicable to his own. Ills Lordship commented
most ably on the case, and declared that this
was the worst cue he ever saw or heard of in
a Court of Justice, aggravated as it was by
the Wiesen being a Barrister, which Was a
grievoas reproath to the profession. • lle.wai s
disgrace to it. The damages should- be sacra.
PlarY• • .
The Jury withdrew, and remained 4st of Court
for about tweet,' cainatel, Ind returned a verdict
for Plaistilf.—barrages 14000 i.

• OOURT or commit PLEAll,—lPsipior, Disc. S.

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OLD DAILICY.

FRI DA Y, ncc. 8.

HICKS'S HALL •
tridsty, Decernbei &

of • pigholdiit !ma The
following were the clrenmstanees of the case :
This Delmillnetra West ledlalsre`Sellekst;folik
pas**. is thsseeenade Muter, for, 'the voyage ;
aid as 'hill tiro' Wan' to aecompasfyltim, impend
the Plainda, nee • a dress-mater in. &toter:
street, in thlf tittrand, as '1 t*rant, contract.
ing to -Oil her,rtwenty goineas for the voyage
oat and home t`' ant agreeing to ensure her -a
range bank to• England, should Ae nut, oft ht4r
arrival., kbe the clime., or should any other
great take'plece that might *niter her • stay *di,a.
greeable. •'Wheis within • two days, sail •of :the
teralutadon of• thiir. verge, the Df:nd Ali
consequence of •some abusive language sod Im-
. proper' nonduct on the part of • the Plaintiff, dis-
charged her from .his.eer vice. The ship arrived!
at Trinidad, and the-Defendant and his lady went
on sboreilearin* the Plaintlff without inoney or the
means of obtainirig her pas.sge back to England.
The Captain, however, took coinpaisioit on hrr si.
tnatitm, and agreed to convey her.baCk to Eng-lan:I.
In pursuance of this .humane• intention he kept
her on board during a voyage to Cisraiioa, and
from. thence conveyed her to England, where,
on his arrival, 'he was paid by her friends thirty
guineas fur ber passage. To recover the latter
sum, and the twenty guineas, proseiwd to tier
by the Defendant, she arrested the Defendant
on his return to England., and brought the pre.
sent &clips.

It appearing, that the Pliintiff hail miscon-
ducted herself 2 the Jury found a vesdat lee the
Defendant.

Donde Burke, a lad about 18, was capitally
indicted ler stealing privately from the person of
a Swedish sailor, named John Frederick Westfall,
14 half Joes and a one pound Bank note, nu the
10th of November but.

The unfortunate Prisoner, who is a mariner by
profession, stood in the dock, during his trial, on
snitches, his limbs being disabled from performing
their functions, in conseqeence of wounds receiv-
ed in his 11f.tjesty's service. It appeared from the
evidence of the Prosecutor, that lie went a
publie.honse is Nightingale-lane, %Yapping, to
drink *torte he found a great nuintierof other
seamenP. drinking and smoking. Having drank:;l
moderately, he sat down on a seat and fell asleep.
In the course of a short time he was awakened by'"
the Prisoner thrusting his hadd into his pocket,
which he immediately seised hold of, and charged
him with robbing him. The Prisoner protested
his innocence, and offered to be seerched. • This
ordeal he underwent, very minutely, Intl at leligth
1-1 of the half Joes were foutid concealed in one
of his shoes. '• .

Those facts were cortoborbted by the landlord
of the pitblie house. •

The Learned Judge, in hia charge to the Jiirs•
directed them to put out of their considdratioii the
capital part of the indictment, which t c'en'Aiiiiiied
the privily stealing from the Orson of the rtoso-
ctitor, realm, the Prosecutor, hid the
Prisoner himself in•the fact of the robb.:ry. The
Jury therefore fonsiilfr him "guilty of the larceny
only. ,
4. Fax and M. Sale, two- girls both under the
age of 17, were capitatly indicted f,r stetlmo pri-
irately iu the shop of T. James, a linen dryper,
Picket-street, temple Bar, twelve yards of
value fourteen shillings Thu charge its the indict-
went was fully proved ; hut the Joey. in mercy to
the youth of the culprits, estimated the' value of
the property under five shillings, which obviated
the capital penalties of tho law, and found them
guilty of larceny.
•

Mary Wicks was indicted for stealing in the
dwelling house of Philip Stupford, Req. three
scr tabtu spoons, value above forty sbillieg•, his
roperty.

Kent,
neat lc,
Yealle2 •

The Prisoner had been a cook in tfm•ramil
of the Prosecutor, at his house, Nu. 47. Baler.
street, North, from whence she was di.cliarged a
few days before the robbery was discovered. _Tbo offence eras brought home tb the Prisoner by
means of the testimony of Mr. Perr)::.an, a
pawn-broker, to Whom the Prisoner bail offered
to sell the spoons in question. Suspecting that
she had dishonestly possessed herself. of the pro.
perty, he interrogated her respecting them so
closely, that he soon discovered reason's to detain
her, and make inquiries at the' place she stilted
herself to residy which nal at No. 32, Vimpale.
street, where he learnt that the Priaoher lied last
quitted the service of the Prosecutor, Ind• there
fouiid, that spoons, answering thee. deserlMitm of
those the Prisoner hsd offered to Mtn for sale, werc
missing.

• i

The Prosecutor identified the epeeist proilticed
Perryouni, when the Jury round the Pri-
soner put, of stealing to the valuelifliis.

• MIUDIE.YgI: SEtiSIOSS.. • .•

• CRUELTY TO CHILORPN.
• James Marlow-04A and Sarah ilia trite, were
charger with lithunian and cruel treatment towards
Mary Marlborough, the infant child of James
Marlborough by a Fortner wife.

• The particularnef this ease have already been
amply detailed, and •perhaps a ;tries of mere in-
human conduct was never b..fore ezemplified, par-
ticuiarly in respect of the female child. The
statement of the wickedness of the transaction,
%hick it would shock our rcadur% to peruse, even
fell short of the 'Many of the Defendants. Had
the biatality centinteed much longer,•the unhappy
child mast have died under it. • Is not this preme-
ditated murder ? 'rho Jury found the parties.
bags guilty ; and, the merciful sentence passed un
seek oncombion, such so aggravated instance of
hiernal, diabolical atrocity towards a 'cm A Lie in-
fant, was, that the gammas is to be confined I'2
months in the Howse of Correction, and the man
palm days in Newiateill

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Barley, verge utter.. 1 AL —4. to .411‘. —4. '
Oats
Woos " 4%. --d. 1. 465. —d.
Yeas • —4. ts e115...4.

11I1GS. •
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41. --N. to A. --,
41. A. 12s.

PRICE, OF HAT ANL/

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NIiWCAT4 ANTI LEAD'.NIIALI,, MARJEETS..
( :Sy the tgildiatilf• • • •
Beef Yd. to 4.. '4l. • 4e. 401: ke j,,01L
Mutton 4.. • tkl. to 1,. 4.1. 7s. OIL

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Yellow Soap, 1041--Mottled. 1141—Picea% litla &I•Curd, .
11/4.3—Caulk: £7. 7s a ,Cl 4. 101.
Price of Causdks, per dose*, lis 011--alealth, 16% Od

NAV. LIIDES.
Nest Heifers and Steen (per Ordinary 91. M. to Is. 4d.
st,..w) 2.5. lid. to :is. 401. Market Calf less. aj. e4ca.
bLiddiao4. V.ll. cid. to is. M. I Hag. Horst. lis. to 16s. Od.
sheep Skids lb. bd. to st. Ud.
PRICK OF LATHER.
Bait* 30 to Silks. each to ed Or go.
Ditto 56 to gabs- cock - i• 516 d
Merchants' Backs - 214 40 SA
Dressing Hides - lad to Itied
Floe Cosa Hides • 19e so Sid
Crop Hidesa to 40110 for aittioglljd b 19jel
Ditto 45 to 50Iks. e- tSsi to s4d
Calf Skins 30 to !Wks. - gid te 391
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Large ditto 100 s to 1401 per Ames.
rained Hone Hides 19d to Yid per lb.
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COAL MAstKET.
Ship.-at Market. Ships sold. Prim.
DJ Newcastle ao 51s. Od. to 71s. M.
10 Sutiderload

• A few days since, a young child died at Ilke..
siinie, in Derhyithire, in *censeqUence of having
tickets a small quantity of feudalism, which had
been impredv4itly adinirtfithred to Itlilies restless,
bhp' mother, toy) WOO re sleep. The practice of
.giving this dangerou4- • medicine to children on .
these occasions is now become . very general, •
sad is frequently attendie with fatal effects; .
re therefore recommend the seeders of this me- ... .
Jcitieto.be very cautibde to wham thei.Aispese .
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of it. - • *. • •
.
• Don.ix OctericGi. str.s.—Ou the analversary
slay of the titulat. _ Saint of Scotland,. tide Officers •
of that tine regiment,:the Scotch Greys, in order
.to ;MIMI •illfl litllp their men at home, instituteil
re Military Olympie soaP•ed.tail pi; game, within
the 11.,.yal liarraelt.bi Bacrack..street. At a sig.*
nut, the whole ragimpnt pun* the pig, end it
wile not until two fell hours chato • that an able
'timing fillbw,..by. a *malterly grasp, seiAed'. ai
i tail anti threw the.ayimal oiler-file sheelder, nliiiii
I was inimoiite(y awin)eclAm as his lawful: pride.
On Thursdsts.- 1-100.1.:k .ofilii, , the watchman
[ q hi) hal been in castody ow.tht charge of being in
I company with a person: !silo rubbed Carolina
I . •
1 Wtte.ix, a 1001. and a blinttikt a! clothes, as she
! was.:oing (A fly the ilverilool cot for Irelaniet
on the 19th of lase Month, .tinderwent anuthav
examination at Botr..sttect, and was full) cow.
milted fur 'trial. •
The footpad ',Airbag etfmfeftted io many robbe.
ries of late, in the neillib.;thrhoOtf of Corbast, is
1
fiwmpshire, 'lies shut in Ike. thigh, and.taten by
an Officer belonging to the bath liaginit nf, in
1 Tuesday night last.