The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-25 00:00:00

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BLACIANOItt, A voLUNTAIM retusioveit a TR, orrice or
Tin AMOR. 14.T1111 RIT. PATCR.IPIRI9OA. • •
This ease involvieg the defendant,' who is R-ctor of
North Huieh, in the diocese of Eteter, in a charge of .tin-,
continence with Maria Isabella Blackburn, came on to be
. beard before the Right Reverend the Lord Bithep,hittl.ltis.
Chaecellor, on Saturday last. From the pleadings and
evidence eibibited and admitted in the cause, as detailed
by the Learned Counsel for the proinevent, Mr. Stevens,
is appeared that it hail been alleged and was in proof Osl
criminal intercourse had subsisted between the defendant
and the object of his affections from July.lB2o, to March.
112 i, and the parties are intro laced as living in London,
at Bath, at Hythe Honits.Rithain. flythe,..Surrey, end. en-
rine, other people doting that period, on terms of a most
intimate charatiter.
bir.'rascaso, Counsel ler the defendant, dwelt with
eonsiderable foaling.. and. energy,. on Abe consequences
which would, oesue to the defendant shmild the preseOt
proceeding be deter Mined against bits, affecting as thee
inevitably would his +leered interests as a moinher. of
society. and more inaup_liately tels.cllaracjer asp Clergyman
of.the Established Chircliibti"conteittled,tbat as there was .1
failure of proof of IrrU 4;i..envoi. illvcouts, within right
Menthe from t_he time of the *otiniiencement of the suit.
the defendant ives,-mithted 'tin! itehrtii.of the statute,
,27th Cleo. 3. c. 44. ti:t.';'l.44 tipt ,confirmation slteiaFted
to be set up in suppoif4l44is. Risekbarp's erialenee wse
inefficient; thin there :els* lnentficieneroLproef 10 to
the identity of,thcpartitiii.antlinfter mamtnentifiggenerally
en the merit' of the min; sonclatied-Ine..expreising his
Impes,• thet stmall t betimes& fetal to .the defeti•lant,
his Lordship would nOt. dist spender cot deprivation
with which be wee vestml itod,condittiring die suspense.
with which the defendant-bowl , bee* teamed during the.
Fr offtess of this proceeding. misi.thip heavy expenses be
bad incur: and must farther east-iini fietowed his
Lordship Id be satiedest that the -enelc.of Pinta were
attained, without visiting the defendant with a heavier
. •
punishment. ," •
Mr. S'reveN'it. in reply,,yemirked that dive was ample
proof of criminality within tip- eight Months. hut that hi,
views of the above Act different .inust widely from .his.
• Learned Friend's, though. bed, it been applicable as to'
time, which, in the present instance, he denied, then, that
it never contemplated any abridguirnt, of. the, power of
Bishops t, correct Clerks,,eod. that its preamble favoured
"the conclusion that its opt r4ioq was,not intended to extend
. to the eff-nc..i thereby recited.when eonipsitreil by persons
of the defendant's character;-and after combating, at some
length and considerable ability, the arguutenis
a.lvanced by thm Learned Connsel for,. the defendant, ob-
served tat he wa,s satisfied hie Liirdsidp, in coining to a,
deterininatiren on this lanydniket cese,..woulthexcbtole (ruin
•his eans.deratinn the disgrace and inenneentence which
ins: ht aired' to the defendant were a. judgment pronounced
'against hi a, and that, whatever the emsequences
be, public cx insole ileinan.leiLand theilefendant's criminal
coaduct merited, no inconsiderable punishment at his Lord-
ship's hands.
Jatlgnient fieferred.—Promwent's Proctor; air. Tamer.
• —For the defendant. Mr. W. KPlna.

CAIIBIIIE/HE tdut, A t t :tyro:tic/NS, bor. IS:
--alliply"— ~
Julut Kitten, aced 56, and Jame: Kitto., by wife.: who
were. coma itted for trial: under iheVegraint Act, es rowoes
• and vagabond:, were put to the bar. - . • • .. •
The circumstances of this cases were very singular; from.
the curious system. of.,decelt and fraud which had heed
carried op by the prisoners. They were at ensterned to I
travel shout the country in a caravan. and practice on the'l
credulity of persons. in . the lower sphere of life, by .preed
tending to an almost miraculous .power. of discoverincatiol
curing diseases •of every kind. Tise• -women on- their ,
journies feigned to be deaf and dumb, •and carried' with J,
her several papers. purporting to be by the authority of the '
'irov, certifying that she, Mrs. Jane Kitson. or Mrs. Mary 'i
Ugliest*. Ike. according to the name she wished to assume,
was the Matighter of an eminent physician and horn deaf 11
• and dumb. She then produced ahookti;ntstehig such
sentences ae " You have a cake gtorrieg • on yoer aside,.
• which, if tot removed, will cease your death ; I can remove
it ;" or" You have got the dropsy," be; with the' some
promise of relief. This book she showed to th,osittikeial
she wished to become her patients, and pointing to anY.Of
its numerous stock of diseasis• witk-milich.she.desired • tiri
afflict them, prothised, it-the same time, ~e,speedy.. cure.if.,
they would buy her medkines. .As . she .pretended.to he
dumb, she carried with her a paper seeteining answer* to
the queetions most likely to.oecur, and.to times printed•
replies. she referred the querists. The pan the man acted'
k the plot was various. Sometimes he watt the dnct r•
himself, though geserelly he merely eccompanind him wite
iota the houses, and acted as interpreter;
,or itibisted .Isi
persuading their dupes of the preeariotts condition iowliich,
they were, and in hearing testishouy to the wonaerbil cues
Sirs. Kitson bad effected.
The first witness called to prove this case was Mrs. Need,.
. of Newmarket, who received a professional visit from the
fee:ale prisoner in August. Kitson first pioduerel her
certificate, and afterwards her book of diseimes, from
which site selected one for the child *of witness, and per.
seeded her to take a bottle of medicine, and in voesequence
of Mrs. Need's situation in elite, took:the reduced fee of
10 4.6.1., the regular price for such a mixture, beinecto any
one else, 31. The child at the time was unwell, and the
medicine was. to produce a perfect care in 14 tla)s; at. the
eni of a month, however, this patient died.. .... - •
Ann Hull, a st!optcpeper in Sohem, was also; on the 27th
of the same month, vita ted.hy the formie.doctor ;-and Atter
the certificate had been produced, was assured, by mains
of the disease list, that she was dropsical. elre: Mill,
feehng quite well. at the time, was nbt inclined to give
much credit to this amnrance: .The macs, hoteever, having-
entered, soil by accident, and relatetisterne wonderful cures.
effected by the duMb doctrewat last eeteuededrwiteers that
she must have lot tltp dropsy.. fire which site consermorrelr
bought the proffered bares ••• .4.'9
..., 4 i• ...• :' 7. •''-
. It appeared from othertritecates, th.Ot•thOesfisePerie Were:
apprehended io. Soltam,..lo ,consensenco of tr:oetiee•ln.toe
newspapers that such A couple. were on. they trAvels.; • and
wises the earavao Was searched,. a leogemombyr. of ,•jthe,
certificates, and the • duplicates of the: ..ittsOilietio tinestions,
&c. were found r and 'ills* • tikrattdO of 400 r. le kild , and
silver.
Mr. HUNT, foe the. prieonwsp.artade use& ..kgs/' nba,
jectiona to the form of c.onsinireceat, which. the Goad °vim
ruled, and they wereetentettued tosiernoisthe' imeriscrounsot.
and bard taboos. •_-_ . •• • , .. ••• :• .. ...
At the conciseico of the-triakthe.fomeiej prisoner, WINO
bad so long mimed for dpurb,Addressed tlisConrt, charities.
• the constable who 'seised her with hirviag betma#ed' is 'a'
:SOW brutal manner. •p • .• . - , • . • -•
4 The costs of the prosecution were oedered to he paid out
' '.. of the money found on the prisoners. and it 'Nis expressly.'
• directed by the Chairman, drat the express!, of the whinnies -
be paid into their respective hands. site.reeimioder of .0,1
property to be reamed :tothe exgrant. _on their died..err/71
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•Aurreewv.—lks sone worgaten, oa teridetlajt, wino,
Flog a cellar to the fourthtouse from theierose. ea
side of North street,•Chieliester; they fodoiltr solid Moot 14
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foitswing inscription:— • . - • - . e. •-::: 1
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the veal form of the petleo4,ootl4live Adam at the tett
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and contemporary witttityeteors,lthilatier if whtiet
needed In Use Severson's* or Otis eetuitry, .endec thf,
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