The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-09 00:00:00

WILLS, IN TUE MATTER 07 MORGAN.'

Mr. HART moved his Lordship, that this Petition
be advanced. It was a Petition, praying that the
hooks (he being a professional man•) should be deli.
vered.to the Petitioner, he undertaking to make out
the bills for the mutual benefit of himself and:of the
Bankrupt's estate.
The Lomb CuANcELLOu °Head-. it to stand for
Tuesday.

'COURT OF KINWS BENCH, Dcc. Q.
SPECIAL JURY.,

TUE XING O. JOHN TAUNTON. • :1 pod, and the price moderate, iteagreed to purchase
This was an indictment egniost the Defendant, t it jars and
Ile.hadthenet oil
occitioU was accotordiopen ngly d
any epoeit
oft'
ed
Surgeon, for inoculating children with the Smelt Prix, 'jilt him'
tin Monday, when on doing so be was serprised 4
and causing them to be carried to and from his house find that all the contents of the jtir, 'at more than is
through the public streets, while labouring under
inch below 'the .serface, wes.pure water. On texas
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that disease.
'fhe ATTORNEY.CENERAL, for the prosecution, 'mining. all the jets he. found them each le the same
state, tnere Rot being more than a pint of oil in each
said, your Lordebtp will, lam sure, mese my say_ stale,
Tee Prisoner was a stranger to him, and he had
ing a word or two upon the course 15 I.- ere aimut to
pursue. Your Lordship has probably had an ome-. given up all hopes of redress, when as he was going.
tunity of looking into the indictment, And observing down Narrow-wall, on Tliursdax afternoon, he ob.
what is the subject of the prosecution. Those who
served the Prisoner coming along with 'an oil-jer girl
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think that it is of infinite ileportance that the plague his shoulder. He immediately seized him, and de-1
tamed him till May was sent fur, by whoa
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fir as human beings can prevent it, base instituted taken istte custody.
The Prisoner did not deny any part of the chargecl
this prosecution, in consequence of its having Leen I
but pleaded extreme distress and a large family as an:
alleged that the Defendant has been in the practice of
bringing great numbers of persons to his house for I excuse,and promised, if Mr. Gayler would not pro-
the purpose of being inoculated, and of
milling . secute him, he would either return him Ida money,
them to pass through the streets in every direction, ror make up the fall quantity of .oil to him.
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and in all stages of the disease. My Learned Friend I Mr. Gayler at length consented net to prosecute,
Mr. Pollock, who is for the Defendant, sayi, that his; end the Defendent was discharged, with a seita.ble
Senior Counsel is absent, and adds, what is tnifcti . admonition from the Magistrate for the pAst and a
more important, that since this prosecution the De- ' caution for the future.
fendant has given directions that this practice shall HATTON•GAUDCN.—Yesterday the driver of a
be prevented, and this being stated, I have no objec- hai.kueY'rAmth appeared to a summons to answer to
lion that the trial should stand over, and I consent a complaint made against him by Mr: William • Eley,
to it in the confidence that those who advise the De- I in behalf of his wife and daughter. The Complainant,
fendant will enforce upon him the importance of; stated, that at eleven .o'dloek On Monday forenoon
that direction, which Mrs. and Miss Eley engaged the. Defends:it's coach
it is elated he has given, being
attended to. God forbid, that those who have the Ito take them from the Angel at Islington to
thMoor-
small-pox should not be attended in their own houses es'gate; that °albs Irak i befendent fell in with
another hackney-eolith, the difirinr of which and the
by any persons they choose, but they must not be
Defendant Ms their coaches aftlnetlsecli other at so
carried about the streets to the destruction of others.
furious a Me as to endanger the lives of Mrs. and
My Frietid, Mr. Pollock, will communicate to his
,client what has passed, and the understanding upon Miss Eley; there was no check-string to the coach
which this is allowed to stand over.- so thee Mrs. Eley had to.stretcb out at the conch-
window sod lay
Mr. Justice BAILEY, who sat for the Lord Chiefhold of the skirts of the D'efendant's
coats which she -kept ptilfing.and entreating him to
Justice.—l hope it is sufficiently notorious, that the
causing persons to pass through the streets who may' stop; their cries, screams, and entreaties however
availed them 'nothing ; the Deft/Mae( teas drunk and
have that disorder upon them, although they are
going for medical advice to some person in whom -1)31d On attention to them, bbt drove on At The ins- .
they. have confidence, is an indictable offence ; and mitten' risk of their liiei; the sheets of the coach
passing over several heaps-of gravel that lay on one
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if that person, instead of attending them at their
side of the road, so as • to endanger Its being aver- I
own houses, as lie might do, ehooses to direct that
they shall from lime to time be brought or come to timed, by which they were se jolted and tossed
him, there is no question, but that he Is Ids° liable to abbut that they received several severehruises.
au indictment, . The Sitting Magls'trate lamented that the law did

Mr. ATTORNEY-C LNERAL.--The few sOntenciDs
which your Lordship has prOiltionced, are of the
highest importance to the community. •

nut 'leave it in his posier.tn punish the offender es he
merited, but as fir as it did he Weald. The De-
felident was ramified In the penalty of I OS. Ind costs,
which liP paid clown and was. discharged.
, V0.11,114142T —Frid:iy morning.. T,oint on, the Wirer. nrrivrd
la ionn so bit John Paler in hie custody, front llrreford,
ekergett with vurinus frauds north the Excise. • i'le underwent
nnegorniontiow before Mr. • Ilia Inc lir ',bleb • Mi. Mayotte,
tbe•Salicitor to the 'insult of revi-,..9401e41 that. the Piisoner
Itritilteen nu E °Meer, do 4 while he eras in office shout
Sent ounce. nn the Any previnim 'ft the trne%al of the licences lie
c..liected from a mother pf tiolilico“. the semi to p for Their
licenceg, which were to be rrareet sin rite folinveine dwy, nod
absconded with Ike sey. He wn., eounnifted h.r further el-
imination.
Elizabeth Lund was brought troth. office fit. Sayers, charted
with uttering it forged bill of exchange for 1671. 4.. to Meisrs.
Morl•ind 0011 (fl. the fitoilo.l•, in Poll-Mx:l,' lost portiar 'it be
drawl) by porid Merchtcr ToulkeN, M. P. for
Stitottird, 'nod ibe itcceut,it by Mr. Foulkei.
She trio vuownitted for fordo restitniiatiou. • •

Sir SAMUEL Roattr3.-e, on the other' hand, submit-
ted, that a true description had not been given in the
particular, of what the Defendaet was to purchase. . • ..
The particular, on the contrary, was calculated to ! / Last week, a maw of th_e_eenua..st Zile!sop,. who
deceive. Mr. Allison never saw, what he was to : lives in-Retieliff-street, Ilrista, had a quarrel with a
purchase, and trusted entirely to the 'representations farmer Phelps, of Knowles,, when a scuffle and bat-
of Mr. Winstauley,• that the ground-rent was per- tie ensued, (luring. which.. the former Sit, off . the
feolY secure, and had no conception that it Was a thumb of the latter;. Mortification and death fellow-
rack-rent he was purchasing instead of a ground. ed. Ceronees Verdict-•-biaaslaughter.
rent. -lie did nut suppoie that the rent was payable! A boy, on Sunday •.lust., was unfortunately
for the small houses, but fur the ground on which drowned hi the Infirmary pond, Manchester, by the
the houses stood :-401. a-yeir, instead of being the breaking of the ice, open which he was rashly slid.
value of the houses, he understood, was the value of ing. What adds an agouiziqg weight to parental
the ground on ',hid' they stood. He understood a misfortune in the abuse distressing accident, is,
ground-rent to mean a ground-rent osi.liouses erect. that whilst the mother had hurried forth to witness
ed at the time, amply secured by valuable buildings every practicable bet fruitless eflurt to save a drown- ! .
three
l beeasu afterriru!
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au the premises. That it was a rent.reserrd upon ing son, an Want child,. left slumbering at home Anti-Attrition when:applied 'to leather has no
land demieid for.the purposes of
.buildiug. 1 in a cradle, near the fire, had, during her, tempo-
Smell'
anud•hernlialthrackellaneecklitelwiliceappor he times appear n
Mr. STrlsnee, on 'the same side, contended that vary absence, breathed its last, from the unhappy upon it,
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the difference between that actually purchased by the circumstance of a spark having communicated to the dressing of Anti-Attrition ; it also preserves the
D4endeuts end
thOt held
boutt in the particular, was the clothes, and consumed them with. the little in. niches in boots awl shoes from breaking or giving
v.ry great. Hs thought e acisisurchased security, nocent. . .
Sr eves kind of leather ; it remedlesahe defects oc- '
way; and, k is a most excelleati thing for Itaraesa, /
easietteo by bad tanning, and prefeiiis spy ill effects
-;ll.real he had only purchased risk•and•trouble.--- .The. State tottery finished drawing Thursday last,
bad blacking'; consequently it makes leather
. .. in his present purchase was Ince the
second or Ibil nh. of December.-:-The principal pait of the,
slur:ibis., an•hoots and shoes.isuill last one. .
. d mortgagee on a West India. estate, where he Capitol Pvieee drawn on that day, including N#, . from
-3 to become an anioliellat -on the estates of his 18,646, a Grsud Prize of E 50,000 Three per Cent. mere
Console, re
sold, in Shares by Ilicitastpsop,
.third longer than they otherwise. wood do, at the
. • o t Bedfor . . • .
. . Coon, fareply) coitladed, that there Were Gatinittlelts. and Co.
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time that die feet will be always ......,...

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