The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

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L'UBLIC bINNER AT BIRMINGAMitIi ' '' . LAWINTELLIGENCE.
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On Saturday last, the first of Angier, the Orders . • ,-- COURT OF CHANCERY, Annan 10.
hs Council finally expired. To celebrate a day of ! eA:PARTE PA RROTP, IN THE MATTER or PARROTT.
such Importance to the manctfactu ring and commercial . This was an application on the pert of the bank-
interests of the kinedom, a 'numeroas and respectable
party of the inhabitants of this town and neighbour- rapt, to have his commission superseded, on the
grounds that there was no act ,of 'bankruptcy, nor
hood dined at the Royal lietel,Turouant to notice; any petitioning-creditor's debt.
Thome, Arestoon, h:sq. in the Chair. 1 Sir Sxsvezt. Rosirssr and Mr. Honer, having ar-
.A sbmptuous di rirrer,vas provider!, the tables were gued the case at considerable length on the part of
decorated with numerous appropriate devices, and at :
the Petitioner, and
the upper end of the room was placed an emblematic I 11r. A. .
I sot and Mr. MONTAG u, having argued the
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peleting in crest:ins, by Mr. Lint's.• ! case also at great length on the part a Mr. Foote,
" The sudden revival lac -commerce at; the expira- the petitioning Creditor,
tion of the Orders in Council," .was theitstect to be , The. Lona Cuxectssopeseid, this was a question
represented by the Artist. - ' • • ! involving points of Welt importance, both to the
After the cloth was removed, the following
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twists ' bankrupt and the petitioning creditor, that he should
we: e given, and drank with, ripple uses t i not think of coming to a' Goal judgment upon it,
" The King.':—" TilotPrince Regcnt."—" The Queen aid :without I
floral Family.' —" The Constitutiop."..._.. The
in mill
Pinvy."—" Lord Wellington arid the Alliid Foccet in thti Pe. ,sal and • ;firer givew it full' and attentive peril-
consideration. to the whole of the affidavits,
iiiealla.”—.4, May the refecetroe of the °Mersin Conoelltotito ' and evidence on both sides. His ,present impression
means of estahlitAing permanent friendship between (*eat Uri- • of the matter, howeter, might be acceptable to the
tan and the United Stales." . ;
The Csiaramas rising, then said he, should pro. parties. From the• case submitted 'oir the part of
pose the health. of a man, to whole we owe more ' the petitioning creditor, his Lordship could net but
; see that he considered himself as a creditor of the
than can be expressed ; of a marl whe
bas rescued
Isis country from a system or erroneous measures, , bankrupt's, to a very large amount, to far back as
the year 1795 ; and that his claim, after all pay.
fureaded on erroneous documents,„nduk h o es taught i
ments made in extinction of it, amounted princitial and
the Legislature of th a
, country, that iris not the Co- :
'atrial interest, nor the !4hippilig inters*, ivio fatal interest' to considerably more than 50001. The case
sticks on which Dreamt has-well nigh split, but the of the territrupt,on the other band, amounted to this—
Manufacturing interest, on Which the prosperity of I that as far back as the year 1795, he, in satisfaction
England deposit% It .is the health ofd siiin
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, of a debt due by him to the petitioning creditor,
over an estate belonging to
whose character.. it is in vain to lavish words, for it ! granted ' a 11/4..gage
meridian sun, . him' together with a bond, and warrant of attorntoy,
has burst upon his country like the.
which blesses whilst it dazzles the wor
m. "It is the :to confess judgment upon the bond : and that he
health," said Mr. AttWood, "of a. an, the Orit . also granted to the present petitioning creditor a
in all our hearts, the man of the people, Henry ; power of attorney over his whole other effects of
1 every kind, that he might collect the same, and di-
Brougham." vide them among the bankrupt's creditor:. That in
This was drank amidst the loudest bursts of ap-1
i pursuance of this power of attorney, Mr. Foule col-
plause, for several minutes ; when they had subsided,
Ilecteci the bankrupt's effects, and an agreement was
the. Chairman read a letter, which he received from
entered into by him and the other creditors of the
Mr. Brougham, wherein that Genitalia', expressed i
bankrupt, by which they agreed to release him on
the gratification he felt for the mention of his name,l
at the late town's meeting, and regretted that his nu- Payment of a certain composition. In this way, the
merous professional engagements prevented his being bankrupt contended, the debt now claimed on by the
present at the dinner. "It is impossible," said Mr. I Present petitioning creditor, Mr. Ferule, had been
B. " that I can ever forget what has passed; and to satigfied in full, and had been released ; so that the
the last moment of my life I shall be ready to lay it arrest, and consequent imprisonment of the bank-
down in defence of what is the highest interest and rapt, by Mr. Foule, upon the judgment which had
honour of the country." Ile stated his conviction I been so released—and which arrestaud imprisonment
that an accommodatimi would take place with Awe. constituted the act of bankruptcy on which the pre-
rice, when she was apprised of the conciliatory mea- sent commission was built, were false and unjust, and
ftdres of our Government.
could not support the commission. In this latter ar.
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and expressing the high- gement his Lordship was decidedly of opinion the
respect for the manly grandeur of Mr. Whit- bankrupt was correct, if it could be shown, that,
est
bread's character, and fur his long and eminent ser- through any act of Mr. Foule's, or through any
vices and incorruptible virtues, proposed " the health pretence to which he had lent the sanction of his
of that honest and enlightened statesman, Samuel mine, the other creditors, or any of them, bad
Whitbread," which was received with long and been induced to accede to the composition. It mat-
reiterated bursts of enthusiasm. These applauses tered nothing though Mr. Foule and Mr. Parrott were
were repeated and almost increased, when a letter both aware that Mr. Foule had no intention himself
was read from Mr. NVlritbread, expressing his con- of acceding to the composition ; if he allowed his
sletion that a permanent and honourable peace may name to be used as a colour, through which to seduce
yet be expected. any one creditor to accede to the composition, he
' The next toast was " the health of a Nobleman,
could not afterwards set u his own deceit, from
who," said Mr. Attwoodr 't adds lustre to a long rhteter motive he might have practised it, as f
rom
aerating him from the obligation to which equally
line of heroes in the glory of the English history, of
might have been seduced by his ex-
a Nobleman whose rank is the highest in England, With those whir
and whose virtue is equal to his rack, who has never ample, he had by his own act, or by his own con-
deserted the people, and who can never desert them nivance, subjected himself. It was a circumstance,
The Duke of Norfolk." ' too, worthy of observation, that Mr. Parrott had
The health of this Nobleman was received with assigned to Mr. Foote the equity of redemption of
the warmest tokens of respect and gratitude. the property over which he had had the mortgage,'
The heelths of those Members of both Houses of and that without specifying any particular sum in
Parliament who have assisted the Deputation, were consideration of which the equity ogredemption was
thee drank ; after which a letter from Lord Moira assigned. Now his Lordship had no hesitation in
was read, expressing his Lordship's good wishes and sayrng, that in his time, the acceptance of such an
the pleasure he received from the revocation of the assignment would have implied a release, en the part
Orders in Council. His Lordship was unable to at-
of the person accepting of it, of all further claims,
teed the dinner, but had sent a flee buck for the oc. on account of the mortgage debt ; else why were
elision, from his Park at Donington. not the amount of the balance due, the value of the
Mr. NI4TPHIAIi ATTWOOD proposed the health of estate, &c. specified ? At all events, he was satis-
fied, that if in such case, any debt was still insisted
" The lion. Mr. Ward, and may he be the successful
on as being due, the right to redeem could not in that
candidate at-the next election for Warwickshire."—
event be foreclosed. Lord Thurlow had no doubt
This was received with great applause; and Mr.
held, that after a foreclosure of a mortgage, and the
Spooner rising to give the health of Mr. Al. Attwood,
sale of the estate, a mortgagee might be intitled to
expressed his complete coincidence in that gentleman's
hopes. In Mr. Ward we should possess a Repre-
bring an action for such further sum as might be due
sentative who would be really acquAnted with the
fo him ; but this was to be done, not with reference
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trade and manufactures of his constituents, and wouldo the sum for which the estate might have been sold
as affording evidence of the balance due—but ,on
mistake a Birmingham HATCHET for a Sheffield
a.tzos. The following is a copy of a letter from proof of the value of the estate; and his Lordship.
Mr. %Yard to the Chairman I— • was certain, that if the mortgagee continued himself
•• Seymour-place, 3nly 18. to hold the estate, Lord Thurlow would in such case
" Des, Sto,-1 am extremely flattered and gratified by the have been of opiuion, that in these circumstances,
tiention of my name in the resolutions which accompany your the mortgage debt was foliy discharged. Ills Lord-
obliging letter. It a ill always give me the ;mr ites! pkasnie to
contrioute, in however slight a degree, to ;inmate the interests ship proceeded to go through the evidence on both
of It roam:haus. conceded as those interests must always be with 'sides, again declaring it to be his decided opinion, as
the commercial Km", sod Prar'PeritY of the skate mariee— to the law of'the ease, that if Mr. Foul. had lent
and I only I meinthat te was not in my power to contribute
more pike:sally towards that great object, for the accomplish. hie name, so as to deceive any one- creditor, into the
meat of which we are lloichlerlramael'solelY to the zeal, pent-' belief, that, in acceding to the
Foule's example, he himself was
compositionr he was
scraper, and astonishing talttats of Mr. Dronghatn. only followin g Mr.
e t shall tw obliiged to be a great distant from Dirmingisato
on the day of the-dinner, or I Shook!, with the utmost pleasure, i also bound by the composition. His Lordship should
accept tne invitation with which the Committee have honoured ' read the affidavits carefully, iu order to satisfy him-
arc.
" I aim, Dear Sir, very respectively and truly yount, self of this fact. s
•' J. W. WARD." Mr.
LEACH agreed in the law as laid down by his
The Chairman, Mr. R. Spooner, and Mr. Potts, i Lordship, and was content to take an issue to try
after their healths beiag drank, severally addressed i the fact.
the company, joining in tire congratulations of the f Sir S. lt...oseseest hoped his Lordship would deter-
day, expatiating on the necessity of a trade with mine the case without any issue; and
America, and hoping that ail_ differences would be his Lordship said, he hoped he should be able to
accommodated. do so. .

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We are truly sorry that we have to notice another
addition to the black catalogue of attempts at assas-
which hat e lately been made in this country.
Indeed they cannot be viewed by the rekTting mind
without exciting the utmost alarm. On the 6th in-
etant, about two o'clock in the morning, Mr. Wallis, !
surgeon, of Loughborough, was called up, under a
false pretence, to attend a woman who was said to
be in labour', and on his opening his front doer, ,
some villain discharged a pistol at his head, which
fortunately missed him. He had presioUsty re
ceired a letter, threatening his life, but bad taken
fit) notice of it. No reason can be assigned why the
life of Mr. Willis should be attempted ; he is de-
;scribed to urns-a very peaceable and quiet sort of a
gentleman, of very domestic habits, and has not the
least knowledge of having done any thing to crimes
aie energy of thivdeseription. A very tibentivestedd
of-stiteet'itintdred guineas hes been offered for the
discovery of the.person Otto wrote the letter, or-he
who fired the piitol ; and we hole such an iniOtous
utsioupt will not long remain unpunished.

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GLORY!—A poor honest tar, or rather the re-
mains of one, now at Bristol, eahihits a mangled,
mutilated abridgment of a human being :-7-he has
buried an arm is Bengal—one jpg in the
.Ocean
and the other. at the Cape of Good Hope—and he is
lately come to bury his heart (which is still as sound
as a biscuit) in •Old,England,•his native land !—,This
retniiali us of the limb-lopping ravages of war in the
circumstance of foul. sailors, at the tremendous siege,
of Gibraltar, in 1482, who lost seven leis. by a
single shtit I—fired by (now) our good and faithful
allies the Spaniards;--e -siege whioh lasted three
years, seven Months, and twelve dayal—when the
rock was so nobly defended by the brive,Elllidt, oc
red-het ball memory!
A number of boys were appreheodotOo Sunday;
morning last, in the fields.about Islington, found by
tb,,alicers gambling. Their posters or parepti
at-
tst in -their behalivpsoutisoiliihe',ltiagiat of to
watch their morals and preven4 Italai
Similar offs*" il4 'UM.. -They vier,. ace.
dismissed. .
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teyal Artiller ,
POLICE. • .
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BOW-STREET.
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The house of Mr. Munro, boot and shoe-maker,
Wien's. BrolkiwAni::f's 111.)1;:iii: al): t;
e'..(inuet.he7 1
. was indicted for
in St. Martin's Church-yard,
.bas been twice robbed . the wilful murder of Isale•lYa
M‘Guire, a child of the age of seven years. The
Lim- ' circumstances of this case were of an extraordinary
lately of boots and shoes, and other property
The Prisoner was servant to Lieuteita,it
and bore.a most eeemplary good cherac'er
to a considerable amount. Mance and R.
berick, belonging to this Office, received private in-. nature.
formation respecting the robbery, and, in conse-.; Webber,
quenee, apprehended a man of the name of James in the regiment ; some thins, however, had baa
Bull, on whom they found a duplicate of Lamb, the . stolen from his master's closi r., and he ivat suspected
for of the theft. Ile absented himself all the night of
Serjeant.
pawnbroker, in Stanhope-street, Clare-market,
:the 4th of April, and on the morning of the sth, es
a single boot. The pawnbroker denied receiving the
early as between five and six, he came back to the
pledge from a man of the name of Collins, who had
boot in pledge from Bull, but said they took it in
barracks, and wakened a person of the name of
ffecot, with whom he had lived. After son • pre,„
but one leg, which was the cause of their taking
in Jetiary conversation, he told him he had committed
a single boot. Collins was, in consequence, appre-
limi
m ust be hanged, and desired to
heeded, and he proved that he purchased it of Bull for a crime for which he
be taken to the guard-house. Adam Little,
six shillings. Mance and R. Limberick,
, learning
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Major there, received him into custody, and desiring that a man of the name of William llf Donald was
I concerned in this and other robberies, they laid to speak to the Serjeant in private, he then told Mtn;
in a that the last night he had murdered a little girl:
I in wait for trim, and while they were waiting
I public-house in Little Catharine-street, Wanield The Serjeant desired him to state further particulars.
! came in, but seeing Mance he bolted out, running lie said, that getting over a stile, which led into a
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down Catharine-street with the greatest swiftness.— :lane lie saw the child at p 1 ty, who cried when she
The Officers "Stop called out Stop thief," and several I
saw him ; that lie then took the child iii his arms, and
persons endeavoured to stop him, but in vain ; when `
with his linger and thumb strangled it. As soon as
1 he got to the entrance of Exeter 'Change, the man iit was dead, lie carried it under his arm for some die.
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Idressed up like one of the Yeomen of the Quards, . tance, and laid it on some stone steps in a place he
belonging to Polito's exhibition of wild beasts, endea.
describ,loessed.
was called, who found the child in the
Toured to secure him, but he knocked him down and i
passed on into the Exchange, where the crowd col.
place where the Prisoner described he had left it •
1 lected was so great in consequence of the alarm, that and the Surgeon stated, that by the marks under th;
Ihe was prevented from moving on, and in the mean throat, the child had evidently been strangled in the
time Mance and It. Limberick came up. He made a manner described by the Prisoner.
desperate resistance, and it was some time before he 1 The Prisoner could ascribe no motive for this act;
could be secured. On searching him a new centre- but told the Serjeant he had no malice against the
bit with two sharp angles, supposed to be so highly child, and could not tell how he came to do it.
tempered is to be capable of cutting any thing, and i Mr. Ccawnoo,_ as Counsel for the Prisoner, exa.
making an aperture large enough for a man's arm to mined as to whether the Prisoner might not be Is.
pass through, was found upon him. On his being ' bouring under a temporary derangement of the brain,
...taken into the strong room in the Brown Bear.pub- from the improper use of mercurial medicine.
lie-houses where James Bull, above alluded to, was 1 The Serjeant said, lie knew the Prisoner had a&
confined; he knocked him down and beat and ill- ministered mercury and laudanum to himself without
treated him in a violent manner, and swearing it was 1 medical advice, but he did not know in what quan.
him who had given information against him, and I titles.
conducted himself in such a violent manner that he 1 The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up the sri.
was double-ironed and hand-cuffed. On searching 1 dence, stated, that the mere atrocity of the act itself
the lodging of a woman in Little Catharine-street, ' must not be considered evidence of insanity, other.
with whom he cohabited, part of the property stolen 1 wise the most guilty criminals would escape ; and
from Mr. Munro, on the 18th of July last, was 1 here was evidence much too slight to infer any de.
found, and also a number of implements used in 1 retirement of mind.
house-breaking. Yesterday M‘Datiald and Bull un- 1 'rhe Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, and he re•
derwent an examination before Mr. NARFS and Mr. ceived sentence to be executed on the Monday.
BIRDIE, when Collins, the man who has but one CIVIL NIDE.
leg, was admitted an evidence. Mr. Munro identi- THE KIND V. J. HILL.
fled the boots, &c. found at the -pawnbroker's and This was an information against the Defendant for
in M'Donald's lodgings to he part of the property , aiding the escape of three French prisoners. The
stolen. Bull and M‘Donald were fully committed ' facts against the Defendant were as follow :—The
for trial. - boat of the Cybele being cruising o.: Boulogne, saw
an open boat within three miles of tne herbedr pad-
dling in for the shore. She was found to contain
three persons, who, it turned out, had escaped from
prison, and on the stern of the boat was legible,
though nearly obliterated, " W. Kite, F..lkestone."
Kite was a fisherman at Folkestone, who had then
lately died, and Mrs. Kite being examined, staled
that she had sold the boat a day or two before to the
Defendant Hill, for 111. and he paid her for it the
morning the boat was missing, but did not say any
thing that he had lost it.-- The value of the boat was
proved by.the Custom-house Surveyor not to be more
than 51.
Mr. BOLLARD, for the Defendant, contended, that
this evidence was too slight to convict the Defend-
ant, inasmuch as his boat might have been stoles
from the beach ; and with regard to his giving an ex•
tra price, he might want it for other purposes, per-
haps not strictly legal. But here-was no proof, not
the smallest, of any connection between the French
prisoners and the Defendant, except that they had
been found at sea in a boat bought by him.
The Jury retired for some time, and then returned
a verdict of Guilty.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Mary O'Connor and her daughter were
brouglit up, and underwent a second examination,
charged with having in her possession a quantity of
counterfeit coin, resembling dollars, shillings, &c.
part of which were in an unfinished stare, with stuff
for colouring, whit,' were produced by Hancock and
Hutt, the Officers. She was convicted in the penalty
of 21. for each dollar, according to Act of Parlia-
ment, having the same in her possession. They stand
committed on several charges for uttering ; to be
brought up on a future day, several persons being to
appear against them.

SATUO.DAY, AUGUST 8.
Wu. Coley and Frances his wife, were
for maliciously shooting at and wounditi
Godding.
Godding deposed that he lived with- a fi
Beakesbourne, in this county, who having
sheep.frequently stolen, employed the with!
a Man of the name of White, to watch on
between the 18th and 20th of April. Befi
light they saw a man and woman come into
and chace the sheep, endeavouring to drive
into a corner; upon this the witness, who w
with a double-barrelled gun, came frog► his
emsmalment, and told the Prisoner to surrender
himself and go with him, or be would shoot
The Prisoner swore he would neither go, 1
render, and dared him to shoot. The
then said he would stay by him till the
and they. remained together for some time,
Prisoner made a sudden jump at the witni
pulliug a pistol from his breast, fired at the
and wounded him in the thigh. White, tl
man, fired his gun and wounded the Prisoi
woman" at the same moment snapped a piste
head of White ; she was immediately knock(
but Godding being badly wounded, tin
escaped. They were, however, traced, ant
headed at Canterbury the next day.—Guiity,
The case of Miss St. Julian, for a cons;
extort money from the lion. B. Cochrane,
moved by certiorari.
The Assizes and Home Circuit .Lnished hey

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SIA KILDA).
On Monday Mg, aOd not before, by special
Southill, In tedforikshire, by the !Irv. Frederica
Hon. Willinin Woltlegrave brother to Lord Waldegr'
lilinabeth, the eldest daogllter of Samuel Whitbread, Lsq.
On the lthb ion. W. NeOilt, Lab otaninanding the N.
East Indianian; to Oise Samnel.' -1.

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