The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-21 00:00:00

LAW INTAUIGENCE:

lishment of the Hospital School was bound. tes
Defendant, who is the Commander of atiilerchant
vessel. -When these boys have been maintained for
several years, and educated at the expense df the
Hospital, they are invariably bound, out to the sea
service,. in order to their becoming able seamen, and
the indenture contains a covenant. (the performance
of which is secured by a bond, in the penalty of 501.)
that the boy shall be kept, during the whole term of
his apprenticeship, to the sea service. In the present
instance, the boy remained in the service in which he
was bound by the hospital for six weeks only, but
was then taken away from it, and bound apprentice
to an engraver. These facts being proved, the CHIEF
Jusricc very strongly reprobated this abuse of a
most excellent institution, and left it to the Jury to
give such damages as they thought right, when they
immediately returned a verdict for 501. the full pe-
naky of the bond.

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Mr. Peitz stated; that this was an indictment
against tie Baron, for a most abominable nuisance he
had set up in the fields, behind Whitechapel. He
had literally stunk out all his neighbours, by boil-
ing bones, and collecting a compound of all villain-
ous dwells: the putrid carcases of dead horses, stink-
ing horns and hoofs, sal volatile, and soap lees,
were all congregated, each in its highest pitch of per-
fection, were all collected, to the-utter destruction
of the comforts of the neighbourhood. lle was in a
condition to call multitudes of witnesses to shew that
even passengers who came within the effiuvia of the
factory immediately unloaded the contents of their
stomachs; and some workmen in a house near were
literally driven away [rote their work, unable to
stand the shock of such a mass of putrefaction. Ile
had also a specimen of some of the liquid, which he
would uncork, to convince the Court and Jury that
he was not overstating the thing. [The Jury shook
their heads.] He said, then he would not assail
their noses, but he would give them ample evidence
of the dreadful nuisance of the Baron's manufac-
tory.
Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL here interposed, and
admitted the manufactory had not been so well con-
ducted as it might have been, but promised that in
future the business should be so managed as not to
offend the neighbourhood, and offered to bind' his
Client by a rule of Court, to conduct his factory in a
mode to be prescribed by a skilful petson, to be
mused between them.
Mr. Nome consented, but said be mustl eke ave
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dict of guilty, which was, after some observations,
agreed to, and the Defendant was accordingly found
Guilts, subject to the above agreement.
BOLDING V. LAURIE.
Mr. GARROW stated, that this was an information
against the Defendant, a respectable saddler, residing
In Oxford-street, seeking to recover certain penal-
ties from him for having employedus a journeyman
one Samuel Mansell, he not having served a regular
• apprenticeship of seven years to the trade. The ac-
tion was founded on the statute of the sth of Eliza-
beth, a statute so well known to the Jury, it would
be unnecessary for him to detain them, by stating
the nature of it. He could not however forbear
stating his wish that this statute was either repeated
altogether, or amended lb such a manner as to ren-
der it more effectual; that it was at precept ineffec-
On Friday the Directors of the Chamber of Coin-
teal to obtain its object, he could adduce no stronger merce and Manufactures of Glasgow took into their
a proof than that Mr. Laurie had once before been consideration the Report of their Committee, relative
convicted for employing this same man; and whilst to the expiry of the East India Company's Charter.
the law stood as it did, that the Plaintiff, if success- They came to several judicious Resolutions on this
fun, would only recover au insignificant penalty, and interesting subject, the object of which is to obtain,
be saddled with his owe costs, it would be worth the for native capital and enterprise, that share of the
masters' while to leer the expense of defending them-
India trade which, in consequence of the inadequate
selves if pressman; as these unapprouticed men means of the Company, is now enjoyed by foreigners.
worked for so much less wages than regular men • •
Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded
would. The declaration charged the • Defendant en the-Abasis of these Resolutions, are to be immedi-
with having employes liftmen twelve months, name- I„ „ • -,-
reoared and presented before the approaching
ly, from January to December in the last year and tge 7" ' ' • 1
• e' ... scuselowl.
the penalty was 40s. for each month. . '''
Samuel Mansell was then called—he elated, that Cirr Bestrius.—Yesterday a Court of Common
lie served his apprenticeship of five years in the coup- Couucil was held at Guildhall.—The Committee for
and he bao worked nearly a year as journey- General Pirposts presented a Report relative to re-
try,beilding the State Coach, which was read ; ind on
man, when he Cams to town, and was employed by
Mr. Laurie ; for the first eleven months he was em-
an amendment, it was referred to the Committee to
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ployed by him he did nothing but make horse-Olothsi advertise to repair the present State Coadh —The
girths, rollers, and sometimes mend bridles. Bridle-
Coal and Corn Committee presented a Report recom-
Cutter was a different art to saddlers, but saddlers mending the appointment of certain gentlemen to he
generally sold bridles. In the Month of December Coal and Corn Meters, in trust for the city for four
be was employed in making saddles for the East years, in case they should so long continue members
India Company—his seven years would be completed of that Court, when they were appointed accord-
in the present month. When Mr. Laurie engaged ingly as follow :—To be Coal Meters—Mr. Za-
him, he did not ask if he had been an apprentice, chary Langton, Mr. Richard Dixon, Mr. Robert.
be only asked him what sort of work he could do? Kirby, and Mr. Edward White; and Mr. John
Mr. Ilsouonam said, the question for the Jury to Bickerataff, to be a Corn Meter.—The sum of 30001.
consider would be, whether the Defendant did in was unanimously oted to the Treasurer of Bride-,
fact employ Mansell in making saddles ? and if he did, •well and I3ethlem l spite's, as the gift of the CoOrtl
whether he did so knowingly, and willingly breaking towards building a n w Hospital for the reception of
the statute ?—Tbe difficulty of getting journeymen lunatics in St. George's-fields.
saddlers to work was well known—a difficulty Another proof of the ardour with which literary
arising, he would not say out of a combination, but research is now pursued, or literary curiosities sought
a joiniug, as it was called, of the journeymen, to after, occurred at KING and LOCHEB'S Auction Room,
oblige the masters to give them the wages they had on Saturday ; a small 'Tract, entitled 6' Erposkio
demanded, amounting, in some cases, to 7s. per Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolum Apostolorum adi'apam
day. This had obliged the masters, not from incli- Laurecium."—Purporting to be printed at Oxford '
nation, but in self-defence, to employ men who had in 1468, was sold for ninety-one pounds!
not served a regular apprenticeship. In the present ei
.. AttENTAL INHUMANIT].-otl Wednesda7 last,
case, however, Mr. Laurie had not employed an ig- John Tubb and Rebecca his wife, were indicted at
siorant person, since Mansell, as appeared by his the Middlesex Sessions, at the suit of the Parish of St. I
evideuce, had worked at the business near seven Pancras, for inhumanity and cruelty to their child-
years. If these actions were encouraged,. this rem The
evidence upon the trial, however, only
would not be the las; by many hundreds which the went to affect the conduct of the female Prisoner,
Court and Jury would be troubled with. The jour- against whom it appeared, that she had frequently
neymen, however, unless they were wise enough to' exposed two of her children to the inclemency of the
desist, would be the persons who would ultimately' winter, without food or raiment • and that, on one .
have diost cause to repent, as they would call at- occasien, the nearly strangled them with a leathern
tention to themsplves•, and them wore clauses is the limp, to peasant the doleful cries of their unhappy
same statute which, for conduce•such as they were offspring, when exposed to her unnatural barbed-
adopting, inflicted penalties far more severe on them, ties. The Jury acquitted the husband, but fated
than those which, in the present case, they were en- the wife guilty; when the Coast senteuced her to
forcing against the masters. six. months imprisonment in the House of Correction.
Lord ELL'ENBOROUGO said, this wp an action on
The body of Mr. Jackson, who was drowned at
a penal statute, whether a politic one or not, it was Spalding some weeks since, was found ou Wattles-
entitled from the Court and Jury to a fair constac-
day last. The incidents of this unfortunate main's
lion ; and he could not advise the Jury to ceentemet
life have long been before the public, in a small pam-
a combination amongst the journeymen by eneourag-
- phlet. He was a respectable tradesman in Ireland at
lag the masters in the breach of a positive statute.
the time of the rebellion, and was three times taken
He PDS not in favour of the statute, but he and the
out to be executed by a gang of lawless desperadoes,
Jury were bound to see it obeyed. With rereect to
'
and
whether the Defendant was a willing offender, the is often rescued by the King s.troope.
Jury would my whether be bad done all he could to DARING OUTRAGE.—A gentleman, named James,
Inform himself of Mansell's real situation. A man residing in Villiers-street, Strand, was yesterday
forenoon attacked by three ruffians, near the top of
must bedonsidered as a willing offender, who shuts
his eyes against information. The declaration was Water-lane, Fleet-street, in the most barefaced
for the penalties for twelve months. It appeared, manner, who attempted to take from his breast-
however, that for eleven mouths of that time, he pocket a pocket-book, containing Bank-notes to
the
worked only on horse-clothe; the last month only amount of 1501. Mr, J. seized one of the fel-
ld
was he employed in making saddles. Should the lows by the collar, but was obliged to let go his ho
from a blow he received in the mouth from oess.ot
Jury, therefore, find for the Plaintiff, they would
find only ore month's penalty. the gang that knocked him to the ground. The
The Jury found for the Plaintiff and month's pe-
villians, finding themselves then frustrated in their
salty-406n object, ran down Water-lane, and although closely
--.00...... pursued, contrived to secrete themselves In .posNb of
COMMON PLEAS, Fos. le. the houses in that vicinity, which it is well hariern
• . . onzsivwscw novella; o. wiriest. are the places of rendezvous .for those despond*
This was an enquiry before the Lord Chief Justice characters. One of them was a short,lusty mita,
• to assess damages far the breach of a covenant con- and dressed in a blue cloth frock coat, and the ethers
tanned in an indenture of apprenticeship, by which wore drab coloured coats,
mad. 44 the appear race
William Findlay, oue albs poor boys on the estab- of geollomtp's VlN`in't

FEBRUARY 20.
KAY V. STUART.
This was an action brought by Mrs. Kay, the,
keeper of a lodging-house, to recover of the execu-
tors of an unfortunate Gentleman, named Russell,
171. odd, alleged to be due for board, lodging, &c.
It appeared that Mr. Russell, who had been long, in a
bad state of health, went, on the Bth of June, 0110,
.from his lodgings, with intent• to visit, by appoint-
ment, a Mr. Vaughan, and another friend, at Tot-
teridge. Not reaching his friends at the time ap-
pointed, they became alarmed, and made enquiry
after him, but they heard no more of 'him until a
month after, when it was advertised, that %Pendent=
had been found drowned at Barnes, describing the
marks ou Ms linen. Mr. Vaiighan went down to
Barnes, and found it was his unfortunktb'friend. He
then sealed up his papers, and without 'divulging the
melancholy tidings to Mrs. Kay, asked what the de.
ceased was in her debt. She said he had paid her all;
that was due on the day he went away. Afterwarffs
she made a demand of 171. which was resisted by
the eaecutors, because it appeared she bad charged
for fire and other artieles,'said to have been sup-
plied during the absence of the deceased, and when
in fact he was dead. She was offered 131. but re-
fused to accept it. That sum was tendered into Court,
and, under all the circumstances, the Plaintiff was
nonsulted.
The Judge finished the Sittings in this Court, and
discharged the Jury.

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it ober! Menu and John Pantos were indicted
for breaking into the dwelling-house of James Rod-
gers, and attemptiug to steal some handkerchiefs, on
the 21st of last month.
The Prosecutor is a linen-draper, in Piccadilly,
the glass of whose shop window the Prisoners were
detected in cutting, for the abovementioned purpose,
ea the morning of the aforesaid day, at seven o'clock,
by the vigilance of Nicols and another Bow-street
otficer.—Guilty—Dedh.
Robert Blackman was indicted for stealing lace
and other articles, to the value of 1001. from a per-
son named Cunvin. The Prosecutor is a travelling
dealer in lace, silk handkerchiefs, ribbands, &c. Be-
ing about to remove from Drury-lane, where he
lodged, to Chandler-street, his wife, who appeared
as principal evidence on the present occasion, en.
gaged the Prisoner, together with a person of the
name of Lake, to move her goods. She accompanied
them to her new abode with a female acquaintance,
of the name of Thomson, who left her there. The
witness shortly after went out herself, and before
she could return, was taken up on a charge of pas-
sing bad money, and conveyed to the watch-house.
When intelligence of this circumstance reached her
lodgings, the Prisoner and Lake left them, for the
purpose, as they professed, of going to her. Some
time afterwards Lake returned, and took away a
box containing the articles mentioned in the indict-
ment, assigning as his reason for so doing, on being
interrogated by a son of the Prosecutor, a boy of 12
years of age, that he was apprehensive it would be
otherwise taken by the constables, who were coming
to search the lodgings for bad money. Some time
after this, the Prisoner returned also, joined by ,
Lake.; they accompanied the four children of the
Prosecutor to the watch-house, whither they were
conveyed by the constables, who, on searching the ,
lodgings, had discovered so much bad money as
would justify the committal of Mrs. Cunvin. She
was committed, but in a short time enlarged, when
having missed her goods, she obtained a search-war-
rant, and some of her handkerchiefs being found by
Gilmor, the Officer, at the lodgings of the Prisoner,
he was taken up. Lake could not be found.
Sir GEORGE WOOD, in charging the Jury', ob. I
served, that there was' no evidence of the Prisoner's'
having stolen the property ; that a part of it being
found in his possession, proved no more than that he
had received it from Lake, knowing it to be stolen•,
and as there ices no count in the indictment, which
charged him with having received stolen goods, he
must be acquitted.
The Jury accordingly acquittedhim; and his Lord-
`ship directed, that a new indictment should be pre-
ferred against him as receiver of stolen goods.
In the course of the trial, the Prisoner being asked
from the Bench, whether he had any questions to
put to Mrs. Thomson, onwof the witnesses who bad
appeared against him, be said, that when he had seen
her in company with the wife of the Prosecutor, she
was intoxicated. This assertion offended Mrs. Thom-
son very much, and she offered immediately to make
oath, that she had never been in that state in the
course of her life.
Clysrlotte Thorpe was indicted for stealing A look.
itvg-glass, and other articles, the poverty of John
TMs looking-glass had been stolen from Mr. Bai-
ly's house in March last, and was pawned in the
June following, by the Prisoner, at the shop of a
Mr. Hadenborough, with whom she had been accus-
tomed to deal. Here it was discovered by the Prose-
cutor, and the Prisoner was In consequence appre-
hended.
When called upon for her defence, she said, that
the glass had been bought by her husband.
Several witnesses, who had known her a longtime,
gave her an excellent character.
Judge BAILY,• in charging the Jury, said, that the
fact of the person who was said to have sold the
glass to the husband of the Prisoner not being
brought forward, though -an • unfavourable circum-
stance, was, nevertheless, in his mind, counterba-
lanced by her having pledged, it with a person to
whom she was known, and in her own name. By
the long interval between the theft and the finding the
article, and by the circumstance of no other part of
the stolen property being found in her possession,
he was of opinion, therefore, that they would acquit
the Prisoner which they accordingly did.
Williamßarley was indicted for stealing a pair of
silver sugar tongs, and a silver tea-spoon, the pro-
perty of Richard John Millington.
Mr. Millington is the proprietor of a coffee-room
in this metropolis, into which the Prisoner walked
on the 23d of January last, and ordered tea, which
was provided for him. He bad but just arrived from.
the country, where, as it would appear, he had ins-.
bibed notions as to the principles upon which the
London coffee-rooms are managed directly the con-1
'Yerse"of-the reality: hf hnegined, that instead of
having to pay for his beverage, be was entitled to
remuneration for having been at the trouble of swal-1
lowing it, and, in consequence of This erroneous'
conception, as soon us he had done so, pocketed the
part of the appurtenances of the tea-board above-
mentioned, and decamped.
The waiter, 'however, who entertained theories
widely different from his, followed him with great
diligence, and having been successful in the pursuit,
delivered him into the hands of a Bow-street Officer.
Guilty of Larceny.
Afars Banker, indicted for stealing four brushes
sad a pair of 'sheet*, the property of Adam Le Roil
was Acquitted.
Joseph Day and J. Woodstock were convicted of
stealing a basket of asparagus, the property of John
May.
Afrcheel and Cedierfee Dujfe,y were indicted ter
'stealing a blanket, and other articles, the property ofl
Mr. Edward. Wilde, of FeatheebtOne-street.
The Prisoners are an Hibernian man of war and
-to bt.eruse who had takes np their quarters in a
io se,
kept by the Prosecutor, for
the purpose of 'accommodating occasioned visitors of
.this metropolis, on receiving a given price for the
nor el his apartments. Mr. and Mrs. Duffey had
agreed to pay, for such portion of this tenement its
they were to occupy, three shillings and sixpence per,
week. Now, Mr. Duffey wits somewhat addicted to
a foible, not, very uncommol in his country, if We
may give credit to report, of among the members ofl