The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-29 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN:

ASSIZES.

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shall quickly find a serene joy of another nature
possess your mind, than what arises from gross .
pleasures: Coo will beat peace with you, and direct •
and bless all your councils—all gond men would !
presently. tern to you, and ill men would SMART V. GRAM
and ashamed, !
and have a. thin party. For I speak it knowingly,
. This wits an action against the Defendant, the wis
there is nothing bath so alienated the body of your
doer of a Colonel, by a stone-maion at Guildford,
ipeople frtim you, as what they have heard of
,your
for making a tomb-stone for her late husband,
. .. M..ARRYAr, for the Plaintiff, stated, that the
life, which disposes them to r,ivc an easy belief to all. Mr.
other scandalous reports. . 1 r latntiff was a tradesman at Guildford, led the lady
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was the widow of a Colonel in the army, who died
" Sir, this counsel is new almost as necessary for
your affairs, as it is for your soul ; and though you at Guildford in the year 1812. During the first pa-
have highly offended that Goa, ;
who bath been i„e_ : roxysms of her grief, she wished to show her love
nicely merciful to you, in preserving you at Worces- and regard for her late husband, in perpetuating the
ter fight, and during your long exile, and mho memory
_r of her husband, by erecting a tomb to his
,
Plaintiff brought you back so mirscalously, yet he -is still me ato Y• The 'Plai'ff accordingly made a design,
good and gracious; andwill, sincere re- l upon your . which he engaged to finish for 301. or 351. The
pentance and change of life, pardon all your stns., i
scribed,
.fu,rnished an ioscriptinn, which Was to be in-
anebut it was both badly written and badly
receive you into his favour. Oh . Sir, what if
spelt tDea:
.ow.
5r...! as well as he could make it out, it was as
yon should die in the midst of all your sins ? At the
great tribunal where you
,must appear, there will 1 I
be no regard to Old Crown you now wear ; but. Gone! but whither? Does he cease,
Now his body rots away ?
it will aggravate your punishment, that being ws% his !.otll a fragile piece
in so eminent a station, you have so much dishonour- Of the same but finer clay ?
ed GOD. Sir, I hope you believe there is a Goo, and Where's the soul ? Obtained release.
a life to come, and that sin shall not pass unpunished. That ne'er dies sor ever dies.
While his !Indy sleep,. in 'pence,
If your Majesty will reflect upon your having now • Far :may his spirit dies.
been 20 years upOn the throne, and in all that Hey to Coid to hear his doom!
time how little you have glorified GOD—how much , This epitaph the clergyman objected to, as doubting
you have provoked him, and that your ill example , the immateriality of the soul, and would not suffer it
halh drawn so many after you to sin—that men are to be inscribed. This produced some delay, and at
not now ashamed of their vices; you cannot but length the lady thought the monument not necessary,
think that GOD is offended with you ; and if yoe.lfor having gone to Ireland and returned, she at Wit
consider how ill your Councils at home and yoarl-declared she would not have the tomb-stone at all.—
wars abroad have succeeded, and how much you have, Bat the Plaintiff had completed it, except patting ft:
lost the hearts of your people, you may reasonably I up, and though the lady had changed her mind, it was..
conclude—this is of Got), who wilt not turn away ' not to be expected that he should lose his labour;
his auger from you, till you turn to him with your i and the Jury would say whether a tradesman should
whole heao. . lose his labour, although the ardour of a lady's wi-
" I•ani nu enthusiast, either in opinion or temstdowed affections had decreased by time.
per; yet I acknowledge I have been so pressed in my The order and the making the tomb-stone was,
mind to make this address to you, that-I could hare proved.
,
no ease till I did it ; and since you were pleased to For the Defendant, Mr. Serjeant BEST contended,
direct me to send you, through Mr. Cinemas's. that the tomb was ordered in 1812, and was not,
hands, such information as I thought fit to convey ! finished in October, 1814: and that, after so en•.
so )ou, I hope your Majesty will not be offended, if I reasonable a delay, the lady had a right to counter'
I have made this use of that liberty. I am sure I I mend the monument. With respect to the objection'
can have no other design in it than your good ; for I of the Vicar, he said it seas the duty of the Plaintiff
I know very well, this is not the method to serve any' to have communicated the proposed Weed/Aim in
ends of my own. I, therefore, throw myself at your , the first instance, and tint to have waited for two
feet, and once more, in the name of Goo, whose set' I years before he stated the objection. He ailed
rant I am, do most humbly beseech your Majesty totthree witnesses to show that the Defendant had matheii
consider of what 1 Irve written, and not to despise repeated applications to the Plaintiff to proceed In
it for the meanness of the person who bath sent il- the work, but he delayed it. They did not, how-
but to apply yourself to religion in earnest; seal!ever, prove any direct countermand, and the Jory
dare assure you of many blessings, both temporal; found a verdict for the Plaintiff.
and spiritual, in this life, and of eternal glory in the . Damages 311. 10s, •
life to coine : hut if you will go on in your sins, the
ROBINSON V. BENNETT.
judgments of Goo 'will probably pursue you in this
This was an action for a nuisance.—The Plaintiff
life, so that you may be a proverb to after ages ; ,
had a house on the banks of the Thames, near King-
and after this life, you will tie for tier miserable; •
ston, 'Which had a lawn extending down to the water.
and I; your poor subject !het now am, shall' be a
At the bottom of this lawn tern a drain which came
witness against you in the great day, that I gave
from a distillery of sweet waters.
you this free and faithful warning. Sir, no person
Mr. Serjeant' Best stated,that the whole of the re-
alive knows that I have written to you to this purpose • „
' fuse water which passed by this drain was merely the
and [those this evening, hoping your exercise to-mor- dregs of rose water, and other odoriferous distills.
row may pat you in a disposition to weigh It more
flouts, which gave an agreeble odour, and was rather
carefully. I hope your Majesty will net be of. desirable than otherwise. The Defendant being pos-
fended with this sincere expression of my duty to ,
sassed of en adjoining 'piece of ground, built three
you ; for I durst not have ventnted on it, if I had It d also erected erlain
.or tour ,malt -cottages, an * ern c iv
not thought myself bound to it, both by the duty a
pendages which are equally necessary for cottages or
ewe to Goa, and that which will ever oblige me to
palaces, and turned the drains from them into the old
be, May it please year Majesty, &c."—There, Sir,
drain—but they did not convey rose water. In
is a letter written by the worthy Dr. GILBERT llva- short, the commodity they deposited under the notes
/err, Bishop of Salisbury, addressed to his profligate
of the Plaintiff's family was such as to render his
Master—a production so remarkably plain and per-.
house a most uncomfortable habitation.
spicsous, as not to require any thing like com- ,
The fact of the corruption of the drain being
ineutary, and from me, therefore, shall receive none.
proved, it was agreed that a verdict should be taken
Yours, dec.
I for the Plaintiff, subject to an award, to determine
' how the drain might be altered so as not to annoy the
Plaintiff's family.
MOGGIUDGE V. COULSTOCK.
This woman action for an lISSIMit, to which the De-
fendant had pleaded a justification, nathely, that the
Plaintiff was making a noise in his sh9p, and that
therefore he gently turned him out.
The Defendant was the postmaster at Reigate, and
the Plaintiff conceiving himself overcharged in the
postage of a letter, went to his house, where an al-
-1 tfrcation ensued ; the Plaintiff called the Defendant a
scoundrel, Ste. and the Defendant called the Plaintiff
a d—d canting hypocrite, and pushed him out of the
shop, but without any great violence.
The Jury found a verdkt for the Defendant.
The Crown Side produced nothing worth report.
ing.

K INC;STON, MARCU t 7.

DION LTOR.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING nn the DEROV.Y OAKS. &C. MARCH SI.

6 to 1 apt. D. or Grolion's brother to Whalebone.
8 to 1 apt. Mr. Wil;ton's e. by Sorcerer.
13 to 1 ;m.o. 14. Dortincton's Sir Tlchnocc.
14 to 1 agst. Mr. Titionloll', Anticipation.
Taken-1n to 1 opt. Mr. Neville 's Sir io%hun.
'Fatten-13 on I agst. Mr. 'Party.% Ir. Icy Vacs.
13 to I agst. General Gower's Raphael.
Token —l6 to 1 apt, Lord F.gremout's Stoma colt.

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OAKS.
7 to 1 agst. D. of (Irt.fttio'S Minuet.
to.' ;14.7tr. I d. G. 11. Catenthsh's 1. by Si; David.
11 to apt. Mr. FarraU'a Deem.
Taken--14 to 1 apt. Mr. T. Peirse's Cleopatra.
11 to I agst. General Grocvenor's t. by Popinjay.
18 111 NM. the Irish
Taken--vtl.to I apt. I.d.
Betted I`.llo to 80J Mincer apt. Cleopatra.

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'Yesterday morning, Ale; boys educated at Christ's DEVON.
Hospital, preceded by their, masters, went to the The Lent Assize for the county of Devon corn-
Mansion House, to see the decoratiOns used on the menced on Monday, the 20th inst. before'the lion.
precetliug day. They were afterwards conducted Sir ROBERT G RAIIAM and the Hon.. Sir Ikea y
into the Cliine.ge Parlour, where • the Lott!) NIAYoit Daatelea—the latter on the Crown side. The ca-
and several Aldermen were sitting in their robes.— lendar contained the names of oue hundred and five
The boys passed before them, and by order of his Prisoners.
Lordship, each boy received a six-pence, a glass .of John Josiah Chisholm was indicted for forging a
wine, and a bun. Navy Bill.
11.AmevoN, Sir r. 10, 1814.-1 am sorry to be ; Mrs. Elizabeth Coall said, she kept a .draper'e
the relater of bad news. Mr. F. CAREY having, at shop at Plymouth. On the Bth of August the Pd.'
his own request, obtained an order from his BURMA it soner came to her shop, in a naval dress, and !Jur.
MAJFATY, for his proceeding up to Ara, he set out chased various articles, and had them packed I!. two
accordingly about 20 days ago, accompanied by his parcels—one he directed for .Mr. Palmer, and the
wife and family, in the vessel, formerly a Com. other for Lieut. Gore. The Prisoner then said he
pany's cruiser, which he purchased fast.yiar in Cal- was going a little way, and would be back in a quar-
cutta. They had got as far as a town; the name of. ter of an hour, and asked if she could change a
which I do not recollect, but which'is aituaie a little' Navy Biti for him, which she thought she could.—
below Padoung, when, by some milforteise or rnis- He came' back about that time; and Mr. Westlake
management, the vessel upset and inueediately sank. was then in the shop with her, who gave him the
—Unhappily, the boat which belonged to her hap- note of the things he had bought, amounting to
petted at this time to be on shore for necessnries, and about 91.: the Pelsouer then produced a Navy Bill
the Burmah boats attached were at a great distinct for 221. 6s. 9d. Mr. Westlake took it, and went
a-head ; so that before any assistance could be ren- out, and the Prisoner also. They returned nearly
tiered, blre. CAREY and two children, the gunner; i together, When Mr. Westlake pointed out a blank
four female servants, and two lascars perished. The for him to fin up, which he did with the name of
rest, by the aid of hen-coops, oars; span, &c. were, Mrs. Eliz. Coati; it was then given to witness, and
enabled to reach the nearest shore. Mr. CARET hrm.i she returned about 131. lb change. Her servant took
self had taken his eldest child in his arms, but find.'; the pare& to the Commercial Inn; the Bill Pro-
ing his strength exhausted, relinquished him to a diced io Court she knew to be the same that was
lascer, Who bore him up as long as be was able, but given her by the Prisoner.
efts else obliged at length to let him go, to Sate his Mr. Wetelake said; that en the Bth of August; he
own life. On Mr. CARET'S reaching the shore, the went to Mrs. Coafl'e house, who desired him to
Governor of the place supplied him with every ae. make out the bill •iif the things the Irrisoner bad
eessarv, end gave hint a thousand ticals, and a boat bought. Shottly after the Prisoner came in,' and
to rouse) him to Arl, to which place he has pro- tendered him a Nary-hill for 221. es. 9.1. He open.
ed the bill, and, pointing to the nime of Robert

Gore, asked` Prisoner if that was his name? who
answered his Mt& was Gore. He then pointed to
another part of the bill, and asked if that was
Captain Boyce's signature? The Prisoner replied,
64 Yes ;" pointed out the blank for him to fill up,
which he did with the name of Eliz. Coall. _

Captain Boyce, of the Zealous, said, he had no
Officer on board of his ship of the name of Gore ;
the signature of his name on the Navy-bill produced
was not his writing.
Mr. Ingram, Captain's Clerk of the Prince, to
whom the Prisoner had been an assistant, identi-
fied the writing on the forged Navy-bill to be the
Prisoner's. _ _ _

Mr. Vickery apprehended the Prisoner at Shaftes-
bury ; when he apprehended him he denied his name
being Chisholm, but afterwards owned it to he
his name; he found several articles in his lodg-
ings, which the Prisoner had of Mrs. Coall; he
Itrought the Prisoner to Exeter, where he escaped
from him ; he afterwards apprehended and lodged
him in gaol.
The Jury found him Guilty.—Sentence postponed
oe account of a point in law.