The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-09 00:00:00

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more money by performing jearogys in flirter time.
Such ante of travelling as twelve orlottvlita Wl* fa
hour by a coach lade with , !rws it. rate w el,
could edt be sanctioned,for t was aggro'atiii illegal.
and those who adopted it must beware% fee they Aid it at
their peril. He was afraid, 'however, they would go on
(hiving faster and faster, until by repeated accidents it
became necessary to pat a stop to the system; by see-
tencing those who in the pursuit of it, occasioned the
death of say of his Majesty' subjects, to be transorted
for life. His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to ]e im-
prisoned for twelve months in the County 040, and
during that time to be kept to hard labour at the
tread mill.
There were many Jekus in Court, amongst whom the
conviction and sentence appeared to excite a strong sen-
sation.

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• The Bill to enconfage the eatmamptioe of Beet, as amend-
ed by the Committee, bet:jest beta printed ; it contains the
following enactments:-
Ist. That it is expedient to brew ale or beer intermediate
between strong beet and table beer. ,
• Ad. Such beer slay be brewedon paying an excise duty on
t of 61. per barrel.
3d. Not less than five barrels of 36 gallons, and not more
than five ands half, are to be made from each :linter of
malt, and the price of suebbeer is not to exceed 98s. the bar-
rel, or 10d. the pilot:, as sold in large or small quantities.
Any person charting more than this price will subjec o brew
t
self to a bite of 601. Any person ms king an entry t
beer of this description, who shall brew port. r, or beer of a
greater or lets strength, than above mentioned, or
be fiend uses nn
other ingredient than malt, yeast„and water, shall
4001. for every offence.
4th. Person brewing this beer are to take out Licenses,
and be subject to the same regulations as other brewers.
6th. Brewers of this beer are to be allowed to retail it on
their premises, it not being for cons:l:Option they; but if
they sell any other beer or ale on these premises, they will
be subject to • fine of 1001. for every offence.
6th. Brewers of other beer may brew this beer, on taking
out a license for this purpose, provided they have no inter-
.est in key malt making concern within one quarter of a mile
of the premised for tossing this beer ; and provided they
have no interest in any other brewery within the distance of
900 yards from these premises. Every transgrestion of this
regulation subjects the offender to be punished by a fine of
4001
7th. Any person paying 21s. annually for a license, may
be allowed to sail this beer, provided it is not sold for con-
sumption on the premises k but tis ithese will not give
permission to sell any other beer o tale thann this.
Bth. Any person selling this beer without having taken
out a license, Is to be lined for every such offence, the sum
of 60L
Ath, 10th, and 11th. The duties laid on by this aet, to be
under the management of the Oemosissioners ot Excise, and
levied as they levy other duties, and carried to the Cons:Ill.,
dated Fund.
12th. All the braidings, tubs, and vends, employed to
make this beer. are to he described to the Excise, and dis-
tinguished from one another by some particular mark; and
on new buildings foe brewing this beer are to be erected
withiu 200 yards of any brewery for brewing other beer.
and no bnildints for brewing ether beer. are to be erected
within 200 yards of the premises on which this beer is to be
brewed.
15th. Every person brewing beer under this Act is to de-
signate the storehouse or room which he means to use for
keeping malt.
14th. The quantities of malt received are also to be en-
tered into a book kept for that purpose, which book is to
he open to the inspection of the Excise °filers.
15th. Every person brewing this beer is to expose his
stock of melt to the inspection of the Excise Officers ; end
if the quantity on hand' does not correspond to his accthet,
he is liable to be fined for every offence 900:.
16th. Brewers may have their stock of malt measured, U
grey dispute the Officer's judtment by gauging.
17th. This beer must not be put or stored in casks larger
than butts, and every cask must be measured by the Officers 1
of Excise.
lsth. When sent out in casks of more then four gallons,
ee casks are to be marked with the name of the trader,
brewery, and-the figure 3 under the penalty of 601. for every
neglect.
19th. All brewers of this, and all other beer or ale,
are to make a declaration in writiog of the strength and
quidity of the beer brewed at every brewing. Neglecting
tolfo this, or concealing or alteriag such a declaration,
suojeots the offender to a penalty of UMW. for every offence.
40th. This Act is to tyke effect on Ju'y 6, 1893.

KINGSTON ASSIZES, Arap. 7.

SOMERSET ASSIZE.-TAUNTON.

SOWN V. Ca RTIER.
This was an action of trespass and false imprisooment
oo a charge of felony.
The case for the plaintiff was this :—The plaintiff, a
widow woman, worked for the defendant, a stay-ntanu-
facturer, in Blackfriars-road. le the spring of last veer,
the plaintiff had sold three pairs of stays to a retail deal-
er, named Stone, of Fleet-market.. Shortly afterwards
the defendant celled upon Mr. Stone for orders, the let-
ter being in the habit of dealing with the defendant, but
Mr. Stone declined giving any further orders, alleging,
as a reason, that he could purchase goods at a much.
cheaper rate, from other persons than from him. Tbis
Intimation caused an inquiry into the foundation for the
statement, and Mr. Stone produced three pairs of stays
' which be had.purchased of the plaintiff. These the de-
fendant claimed as his property, an alleged they were
made of his own materials. The plaintiff was sent for ;
she fame to the shop ; Mr. Stone said she was the prison
of whom be had bought the stays; the defendant taxed
her with robbing Lim ; she dented it, and the defendant
detained her in custody while Mr. Stone and Miss Pynr,
the defendant's journeywomen went to search her lodgings,
but nothing was found to excite suspicion. Nevertheleas,
she was delivered into custody of a constable, and carried
to a watchbouse. IVltile in custody, she delivered up
' her keys, hod the defendant, io company with the watek•
lions, 'keeper, went to the plaintiff's lodging., to make
further search. in the plaintiff* drawers, twenty-six
pairs of stays were found, which the defendant claimed
as his property. lie then canard her to he taken before
a magistrate, and having sworn positively to the three
pairs of stays above-mentioned, the Magistrate' con i
otit-
ted her for trial at the sessions. The plaintiff remained
in Horsemonger-lane gaol for six weeks, until the ses-
sions. when the Brand Jury ignored the bill of indict-
ment which was then preferred by the defendant. In
consequence of this proceeding, the plaintiff commenced
the present action. Two of the plaintiffs daughters
swore positively th tt the plaintiff had seen better days ;
that from her earnings sue had saved money and m tau-
f metered stays, with an intention of setting np business
for herself in the country; and that the stays sold to
Mr. Stone, as well as those found in the plaintiff's draw-
ers, were manufactured by herself, from ma'erials pur-
chased with her own money. It was proved it), one of
the daughters, that on the day the Grand Jury threw
out the bill of indictment preferred by the defending, the
latter said he would give 100 guineas if he could g., on
with the prosecution. These were the facts upon which
the plaintiff's case rested.
On the part of the defendant it was suggested that tli7
defendant had foreborne, from motives of liu wattity, to
adduce evidence in his tm 'on, which would haVe es-
tablished the plaintiff's guilt on the prosecution above-
mentioned. Allusion was particularly made to the evi-
deuce of Miss Pyne, who could have sworn positively to
the stays which had been sold by the plaintiff to Mr.
Stone, as the property of the defendant. It was now
proposed to call witnesses to show—firs', that all the
stays above-mentioned were the property of the defend-
ant ; and secondly, that the plaintiff had confessed to the
defendant that the stays sold by her to Mr. Stone were
the property of the defendant, and had been detained by
her iu consequence of Miss Pyne's omitting to set them
down in a book containing entries of work delivered to
her sons employed out of doors. Miss Pyne and two
other workworoen employed by the defendant were c lied
to prove these facts. The confession made was positively
sworn to by Miss Pyne: bat as to the identity of the
stays found in the prisoner's lodgings, there was con-
siderable doubt, and some contradiction between the wit-

O clerk, the coachman of a Bristol and Bath coach,
ems tried tinder the new Act of Parliament, for Man-
slaughter, in having furiously driven a coach so that
it was upset, anti a person named James Hacuil.on killed.
The Counsel who conducted the prosecution, in stat-
ing the case to the Jury, urged tbe necessity of visiting
those to whom the safety of the lives and limbs of so
Many of his Majesty's subjects were entrusted, with se-
vere punishment, whenever by their carelessness either
was lost or endangered.
The first witness called was Mr. Smart, who stated
that on the evening of the 14th of Feb. last he started from
Bristol to go to Bath in the coach, of which the prisoner
a as the driver. The witness described the manner in whisk
the prisoner drove on the several parts of the road when
the deceased with his nephew got up. The prisoner ap-
peared to be in liquor, and as they went on he whipped
the horses furiously. As he drove through the turn-
pike gate near Bristol, lie nearly run against the gate.—
The nephew of the deceased told the prisoner be had. tresses.
skimmed it near." One of the passengers told him if The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
he drove so fast he would upset the coach. But the pri- magas 501.
sorer kept increasing his violence oo the holes. He in. CROWN MC
creased the speed very little, for the coach was going at John Joshua Hamilton was indicted for forging an &c-
-inch a -rate, that to increase the speed a great deal was ceptance to • bill of exchange for 201. drawn by biuoielf,
impossible. After they had passed the bridge, which on the Ist of October, 1,22., at three months aate and
goa over the Avon, about 100 yarde, the coach was upset purporting to be accepted by one John Gosling. 'A
se-
bythe furious driving. The coach was mot upset, in cond count charged bun with uttering the same to one
witness's opinion, by running ;against any thing. It was Thomas Pocock, knowing it to have been forged. The
running straight when it was upset. All were thrown bill was addressed " Mr. John Gosling, No. 15, Regal,-
off the top. Wisness saw the deceased, and thought his court, Newgate-street."
skull was fractured. ' The prisoner requested amerce Mr. Law oeuducted the prosecution, and Mr. ADDL.
in getting the coach to right., but witness gave no as- PROS the defence. I
sistance. He was too much bruised about himself. The It appeared in evidence that the prisoner was a shoe-
de. eased was carried to Bath. The roach was going at maker by trade, and had been in-the habit of dialing for
the rate of about fourteen ladles an hour, when it was many years with the prosecutor, a leather-seller at New-
upset. There were four psseengers at the time
tonsiliside ingtoo Causeway. In the
innatemot of October last the pri-
sed eight outside. The coach swung from side
as it Ile& along. sold and delivere I. in payment of which he gave him the
John Anthony, another passenger, said, after he bed bill in cjaestion, which he stated he had received of Mr.
.been on the coach some time, be thought the prisoner had Gosling, one of the overseers of the parish of ::7;.. Faith,
been drinking exceedingly, The coach drove furiously on, fur work done for the parish. ' He stated that M. Oos-
and witoess felt very uncomfortable at the time, and ling lived in the same house with him, that the parish
thought himself in danger. He 'requested a person who owed him 151. for work done, and that Mr. Oosling had
was talking to the prisoner, not to speak to him or divert agreed to give him his acceptance for 201. to enable him
• his alention from the horses. to get farther credit. Upon this repreeentation the pro.
Mr. Ackland, a surgeon at Bath, said that on the 14th secutar took the bill, and gave the prisoner further credit,
Feb. he found the deceased labouring ander a eel severe amounting in the whole to about SU When the bill
weund. After lingering a considerable dine, be died from became due it was presented at No. 15, Bagnoart, but
the effect of a feature on the base of the skull as the wit- no such person was to be found residing there, or in any
at Sc ascertained afterwards. other house in the court, It appeared, indeed, that the
Mr. Smith, of the White hart Inn, Bath, proved that prisoner lodged at No. 15, and it also appeared that be
the deceased on the night the coach was upset, was brought had worked -for the parish as shoemaker, but that there.
in in a state of insensibility, and languished there until was no money due to him. The prosecutor said he had
be died. had a very good opinion of the prisoner, and would heel'
'Re defence in behalf of the pristine^ was, that given him further credit, withoat regard to the bill 1!
a spring had broken accidentally on the road and there- question. The prisoner bait previously given him a hill
by thrown it oil one side so that it oret. A witness accepted in a similar manner, which when dim watt ho:,
proved that the roach arrived at the White Hart Inn with poured. No advantage was gained by the prisoner IA
one of the springs broken off, but on his cross-re:mina- consequence of paying the bill in question beyond the
tion It turned ota that this spring hadbeen broken before, increase of credit. When the bill was due the prisoner
and was only mended by a thin piece of iron. On the was not to be found, and he was 'ultimately traced into
re-exausin stion of all the.passengers, there appeared to he Northamptonshire, where he was apprehended..
no reason for helievieg that it might not have been broken Upon these facts the tate want to the Jury. and they
by the coach over-
gave 'found the prieoner Guilty—Death.
Some witnesses gave the prisoner a good character for The prosecutor and the Jury strongly recommended
humanity. _ the prisoner to mercy, and the learned *Judge said he
The Jury immediately found the prisoner tingly. should certainly take these recommendations-Into coast-
Mr. Justice Beneognii, in passing 'sentence ild the aeration. .
prisoner, observed that by a resent Aet of Parliament, Jane Parrot wets indicted for receiving, at Lambeth,
be wee empoweriA to sentence him to transportation for on the sth of February, bank-notes to the amount 6f331
life, but as this wee the first instance, which his Lord- the property of Henry Paul Kemp, knowing them helmet
ship knew of, a conviction fot the offeece of furiously been stolen.
drivieg,.be did not think it necessary to visit him with It will be recollected that at the last Old Bailey Spa-
the full measure of punishment which the law enabled sinus, in anfortanate young. woman named Mary Ain
bins to inflict, and he should suppose a more lenient pu- Siote, was capitally convicted of stealing the
notes la
nishineat in the hopes that that : tree
operate'as a first question from Mr. Kemp, of Harp-lane, Tower-street.
warning to those ef his class. His Lordship, however, On that occasion strong sus scion, were entertained that
could not help obseevituriahat a greet portion dike evil the preseat prisoner, in whose house, No. 6, Hooper•st.,
was occasioeed by tke iaauentiim of theproprieters them- Lambeth, the onfortunate young woman lived in a state
selves, who sncouratresi this system of drivitig furiously of proetitution, had instigated the robbery'. ft wai pow,
for the purpose of oussitippiag itch other, and getting distinctly proved that, the pr,oserliad relived • th,4

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