The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-31 00:00:00

CoaoNEKS' 1 NQU ESTS:

YORK AbSIZES.

LEYBOURNE S. !LISBURN.
The plaintiff is a respectable farmer, residing near
Dritfield, and the defendant, a surgeon, residing at Sher-
buns, a distance of 10 miles. The action was brought to
recover the sum of 201. fur money lent. It appears the
parties met together, at Easter 1821, at a place near Scar-
borough, and an acquaintance was contracted. The de-
fendant, on parting with the plaintiff, said be would
come anti take a Lttle beef with hint. Ile was as good
as his word, and became a frequent visitor. On one ( f
these occasions, the lilaintiff happened once to complain
of a head-ache. The surgeon said he would neon cure
him of that, and advised him to have a tannin the neck.
phis recommenda•hin was adopted. Soon after this, the
defendant, perceiving he had been well re'eived, and
treated with hospitality, thought he might presume a
little on their friendship. Ile then applied for the loan
of 201. The plaintiff at first demurred a little, for their
iirquaietance had been but of short duration, and he bad
previously known nothing of the defendant. Mr. liar-
burn offered his gold watch as a security for the money;
but this the plaintiff declined, and lent it without any
pledge but the promise to return it in a fortatight,
did not, however, pay it in that time; and.after waitieg
twelve months, Mr. Leybourne bad now found it neces-
sary tq bring this action for-its recovery. After appli-
cation made, the defendant at length wrolg twsay
Its wishedtto be informed what interest was-due opoe
the 2&, as he was disposed to come to a settlement.
The plaintiff was under the necessity of applying to his
attorney, and he wrote to him also acknowledging the
deht, but, for the first time he stet up a counter-demand.
The defendant, it wouldsiena, besides being a eon of Es-
culapiustsvaelilse Ottapod, a member of a volontrer
corps. So that, in chinning this set-off, he says, wbea
the account is arranged; helms an affair of honour to set.:
tie. lie sends an account Ilf t41..Wir.44,f0r curing• the
plaintitrs head-ache. Nothing said& be more absurd
and untenable than..a demand of this destripion, an
rawer to a demand (if 20f. for money borrowed. •The
fendant might possibly have visited the plaintiirs motheev
Mho resided near him; hut if lie bad, the %Vas able tai
pay her own surgeon's bill, and it would be ridiculous'
waking such a charge to him who had never desired his

attendance. •
31r. Jas. Johnson and Mr. R. Jenning's the Tisintitri.
attorney and attorney's clerk, proved en admission of
the NM. being borrowed, and produced the letter of the
defendant containing an acknowledgment of it. He
stated that the 20/. had been paid on account for teedi•
eines, but allowed that be had delivered no bill.
Jonathan lOntroats proied the *commencement of the
soinaintance itsuweiets the parties, the promise of the
defendant to come to take beef with the plaintiff, anti his
fulfilment of it: ,He is a Dear neighbour anti ne:er
know the plaintiff to have occasion for the service+ of a
doethr. slr. Raebure cause as a visitor, and sometimes
called upon him.
Oh his cross-examination lie said he did not know bow
ninny stints the defendant might.make. He got no beef
of the whom'. He did not knaw of the pl diva being
obliged to take mercory, or having any complaint but a
pain in his finger.
s:i4s Mary Imiiibert proved the defendant's frequent
visits at the bongo of her uncle, Mr. Levhourne. He
once ccimplained of a bead•acile. The defendant recom+
mended a seton in the neck. The plaintiff was. averse to
it, but at last consented. Mr. Rarburn pot in the sews
but sfte found the ointment and dressed it. bemelf. • She
never saw any medicine sent by tiw defendant bat' one
small vial bottle.
This evidence was confirmed by Assn Kirby,. the ser.
vent ; and Mr. O. Brown, an spotheeartysssaid 58. was the
usual charge for putting in a setou, but 7s. tid. or 101.6 th
were outside charges.
Mr. WAILES, as Conmel•for the defendant, urged the
prOhability of the plaintiff having an illness unknown
able
r to
the family, and said that be wonld prove.by retot
witnesses, that at a meeting between' the parties, hir.lieys
b.surne admitted the charge of Ott defendant to lie rea-
eonsbleilf lie would reduce it to 201. taking elf the odd
41. 104.4 d. which he refused to do. •
• Mr. Jae. Akiersort, surgeon, •statest that in Oct. last be n
was an assistant to the defendant, and was present .at
couveriation between the plaintiff and defendant, whets
the former admitted the latter's detnand to be satisfactory-
if he weuld• deduct 41.101. 441.
F. W. flotham, a pupil of Mr. 'taciturn, deposed to the
same remsrk of the platiliff.
After his Lordship had•commented on the evidence, the
Ju-v returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Dantages
" Twoni y
'pounds, with literVit,nekgtsg• off 71• 6d.
for
the seton.

CROWN RlOE.—Turiniv.
to the matter of fr. Mead; and, Admit Belt, ciiirtedl
'with mueder.
The trie'of these prisneers is postpOned till the next
.Aftezes, on the ground- stated in their aindaits, that
peat pains bare been taken, and with tno much success,
In the newspapers and other publications, to prejudice the
public mind'agatnst theta, ind that they cannot have at
the preient moment fair and iinpartial trial.

A very cariouseiteutostance occurred yesterday morn-
ing., which has morethe appearance of romance than of
APtI4IOI troth, attd yet we are assered, the latter characte-
• ristie easy
.be applied to it. ManY of our readers may
•bave seen in Blackner's History of Notiingliam, an ac-
-mirrnt of a elite which runs under a hill, called Dog-ken-
nel-hill, on the west side of the road leading front Mary's
workhouse to the thallows-iiiii. This cave, which is the
largest in town, neatly two hundred
native yards lrock, was
one, arid
supported by durneroospillarlf of t
• been ont by one Juntes Rotel. and into its recesses the
light of the son bit never 'yet entered. The Corporation
parsning tame Oahe of improvement they have in view,
brve dischiried.the inhabitants of the rock houses near
• it, and on Wedhesdaiy, a man attempted to explore the
anysteriehOf thin caierui•and after remaining in it nearly
five Loire, was comforted out tot paying a' um of money
to somebody he therein, who seemed welt arquainted
. with its seerrt labyrinths. Two indivillials in the town,
• beard of this eireiterreniner,wed determined to explore it,
and having provided themselves with lights, they entered
iftolit ten olelork yeSterthiyo morning. Their lights,
however, only served to render' the surrounding gloom
wkwe'visible, and when nearly bewildered, a man attost- •
• et thgri with a light in his hand, who, in thesoost•eohrte-
onslftanner. offered Itirust4 as their cotiduelor I they
tru.ted theinselveettrgis guidance, and in a ehtirt. time•
. be led them to a place, where they
.disrotered five me*
t sitting round aligliet •tuti. playing at eirds on the
ground ! 'flreiftchniketOr *asked if
repute
Wished- top)
backagale, and, Of roorse, they replied iti the affienut-
i • 'tire, and he away, hut thee were' soon attacked
1
~.-• br a gang of reality:must probably the sattiethat .they
had seen playing at aide; by whom tbe.ligbts were put
out, and one' ofthrm teatAbfereit In a sbinfeful manner.
Theetter escaped in tbei dark, and hid bitoselfi The.
first man, despairing of life, offered allibe money, he irad
i if' they would let hits go; tirey.thert led, hies to the side
.., of a hole, reputed to be lifeen feet .deep, and filled with
water, and then denianilvd•the fulfilment othispentuise;
wider the apprehension that he would. bed illed; or
thrown Into the wafer aed.ttrowited, , liks mo-
pey, and they pointed to alight at a distance, hy follow-
ingniticb, iliey 'told hitn; he Wuld obtain his liberte.
lie did so, abd draped; bat filmeo d biaiself eonsiderably
'hurt by thelcing'litiCatinent be had received: His mote
f rtneute companion, who had foll;nirdat a disance, es-
.. CAI ed also, mud withont tojnry.--(Nottieglians Nerive,
Friday) .

POLICE,

6VILDITALL.—A respectable bill and exchange broker
in the city, was brought up on Saturday before the Sit-
ting Magistrate, Sir C. FLOWER, charged with stealing
a coach and horses.
The prisoner, it appeared, was strolling homewards,.
pretty highly charged with the juice of the grape, about.
half an hour after one o'clock in the morning of Good
Friday, when he was observed by the watchman in Al-
dersgate-streer, to leave the foot-path, and make a very
minute survey of a hackney-chariot that was on the
stand, the driver of which was at the time taking a very
comfortable nap on the steps of a door a few yards OE*
He walked round it two or three times, then opened the
door and examined the inside, and having ascertained it
was quite deserted, very deliberately mounted the loot,
took the whip and reins in his hands, and calling to the'
watchman to shut the door, drove off at a sharp trot.
he watchman, who, from the authoritative manner
in which the prisoner gave his orders, at first conjectured
he might be the owner of the roach, and had obeyed his
instructions in shutting the door, began to suspect if
might he a /ark, and went to call the coachman, whom'
the well known noise of the rattle of his wheels b
somewhat roused front his slumbers, and they both. set
off in pursuit.
The prisoner, who, it came out, is a very good whip
himself, having got a fair start, would, however, most
probably have distanced his pursuers, but in the very
height of his triumphal career. he was met by another
hackney teach, the driver of which knew the chariot,'
sod seeing s smart gentleman on the box, instead of his
brother Jarvis, smoked the trick, and, drawing his coach
across the road to stop the passage—
" Vliere are you going Ali that 'ere chariot ?" said he.
" Vhv, home," replied the gentleman, endeavouring
to imitate the coachman's lingo.
Coacher, however, was not to be done, and before lie
could he prevailed upon to let him pass, the real coach-
man and his companion, the guardian of the night, came
up, and the Corinthian was conveyed from the box to the
Compter, having first been paraded before his Honour;
the Constable of the Night.
The explanation which he attempted to give of his
conduct before the Magistrate was, that he w.as tired,and
;really wanted a coach home ; that he called "Coach" se-
Vera( times, and waited at least ten minutes, and seeing
joo coachman, mounted the box at last merely in the ex-
lpectation that that would bring him. He told this story,
ihos ever, in a manner that made it obvious he did not ex-
'pea *it to be believed, and the Alderman having aster-
•tsitsed' his respectability, the gentleman at the saute time
expressing himself sorry for his foolish frolic, and wil-
ling to make any recompence, allowed him to withdraw
to settle with his accuser.
The (Tatham' having thus learnt he had gut a awe!!
customer, became so exorbitant in his demands, that the
Alderman was obliged to be again appealed to, antistind-
log that the gentleman had, even before the hearing,
offred to give the cachma a tovereign for the trouble
lie hid occasioned hio m, whicn h the latter had indignantly
refused as tun little, took upon him to assess the damages
himself, and, after obsessing that the driver was hiniself
liable to a penalty fur leaving his coach in the street un-
attended, and that but fur his Loki negligence, the affair
could not have happened, awarded that the offender should
pay the'prosecutor 3s. for tbe loss of his morning's work,
to attending the Justice-town, and lie dischar
aviegeand Thos.
d.
Itarrox-thangx.—Saturdny, D
Willis were brought up in the custody of Wm. Lee,the
Officer, Chirgestwith carrying on a very extensive piivate
diatille`ty' at ra, Castle-street, City-road. John Dmwit,
on'extiie•Ofileer, deposed, that in consequence of private
information bd received, he, In cdmpany with John Bide,
ensthin Woe' Odicee, rekairettabout• ten o'clock that
l
aVoruitqc to theoose, 22, Lastle-street. Citrroad ; they
red.a. the prischier, Wrn. Davis, sitting by the fire in the
back' parlotit; * add in the back kitchen found a large cop-
thete then'tanning; ng;the tire was just drawn ain
'copper ho.le 'ender the grate, brit quite red and
hotl, y and
srs much light proceeding from it, that they could see
every thing in the place without is candle-; there Were
four apartments. below stairs all opening into one ono
thenatafitted up with every reqnisite for a distillery.
The still was charged with feints ; the spirits being rim
Off, they found two casks containing sixty gallons of raw
spirit's; alio ten waste hacks, containing shout 6 hundred
g Allatts of Molasses wash; theyproeeeded upstairs to the first
to& sod found the prisoner, Thomas Willis, undressed
slid in bed. Willis was discharged, and Davis was co
U e-
victed in the penalty of thirty pountl4., or six. months
prisonMetst. in the House of Correction, if not sooner
paid.
Untosr-Hau..—Satorday, Joseph Hooper and Charles
..goeniek, the two daring highwaymen who were appre-
hended last Week, were brought before L. B. Awn; ,
Esq. for another examination, charged with having
been engaged in divers highway robberies and other fe-
lonies in the county of Surrey. The office was crowded
'by Gentlemen and others who bad been robbed by
.the
runners. lo addition to the former evidence against
the prisoners, which appeared in our Police Report of
Priday last, the following cases were adduced :
Rnaltrild Thomas Foster, naval storekeeper et Wool-,
wich, stated that on Monday last lie was returning from
Woolwich to Greenwich at about half-past seven o'clock
in the evening; when near Myrtle-place.he heard foot.
• rteps beiriod him, and on turning round saw three men
advancing fast upon him.—They soon closed with him ;
two of them pinioned his arms on each side, and present-
ed pistols at histeed, Whilst a third stood directly before
hint, and deinanded'his money, at the same time tearing
the watch froM his fob, and desiring his purse also •to
be given 'up, eontaioing Are sovereigns and some silver.
They then stripped him of hiss great coat and uniirrella,
and turiutd.bi m towards the ith, or he should answer
with his life on refusal.
ltobert Johnson, of Cherry-garden-street, proved that
on Sunday evening last, between seven aid eight o'clock,
be teas walking from Peckham towards town, in con-
filmy with a female, and in the lane leading from Peck-
ham* to the Kent.roo.i, he was randattacLd by three men—
each ptodaced platols, collared him, robbed him of
his watch end ten shillings in silver. The witness hesi-
tated in givitifeup his watch, bat they threatened him
With instant destruction if be did not comply. They
desired bim to go off in the' directions&Peckhain or they
would fire on him, This witness's watch was produced
anti sworn to by him. He positively believed the two per-
eons were the tam who robbed him on that night. Tire
female Who was in company. with witness, could not swear
tu•the identity of the prisoners, but she believed they are
the men.
Mr. Benjamin Coles, of the'Albany-road, Camberwell,
proved, that on Friday night last, as he was proceeding
from Bermondsey home, he 'was•stopped by two men in
the Hare end Hstuuds'-road. Bermondsey, who collared
him, and presented pistols at his hetid. The talky high,
waynran called out to him, " give*Up* your blant--One.;
epi
word, and I'll tire, by Odd." The witness delivetett
his money, and the same fellow' then asked him if he had
not a tattler, tneaning.a watch; this he was also obliged-
to part with, on a tliseat of instant death, if' be did not
walk away quictlY after the bass' of bls 'property: The
witness sits positiVe•the two. ptiecniets werd the mete by
whom be was attacked and robbed.
Mr. Henry Harvey, of Fists-street, proved, that on
Wednesday evening the 19th iust: about eight o'clock,
he was attacked by three men, at the tame spot, and un-
der s:nr.l.ir c•rcuinstances as the last witness. He hid
two sovereigns
reand* some silver liked front' kim. The
two prisongers sembledtbenien by whoa be hid been
robbed.
The prisoners were both folly coMmitted, Mitt ordered
.
to te brought up again on Monday (this day).
• •

•
Saturdmiy afterinion an intitfisitikia wai
liton- held before T
ed 4
Higgs. Eery. at the Red Lion, Hang street, Clare-
Market, on the body of Robert OeboOsborn;FAA W 2.
Mr. J. Langley, surgeon, of Newcastle-street, Strand,
stated that he wes called on about three weeks since at
half-past eight in the morning by Mr. Spore, of No. 7,
the deceased •o he acrdingly went to his chambers, No.
2, and found him nearly covered with blond ; upon exa-
mination there was a wow' as from a pistol ball under
the left breast, about half an inch below the heart; he
examined the wound, and was of opinion from the coet iokirsti
the ball bad taken, that sonic parts of vital impnce
must bare been injured ; deceased's right hand we's coerr-
ed with gunpowder, which bad been dieeliarged and in
arsiver to a question be put to him, deceased said hself.—
e had
'made the tinund by discharging a pistol at him
On the table, in an adjoining room, witness found a
brace of pistols, one of which was loaded, and the other
appeared as if recently diechaiged; he attended the de-
ceased in conjanction With Mr. Lewrerice, a surgeon, un-
til he died, which took place on Wednesday last : the
wound was the cause of his death ; when witness filed'
saw deceased he was much agitated, and at that
and subsequently, he observed there was an occasional'
aberration of mind.
h:liz. Furmidge, the lanndress, who attended deceased,
and, looked after his chambers, had observed bid for a
month previons to• his committine the rash act, appear
very poorly in his head, aed low in spirits, but more
th par-
ticularly the last two or three days. On Thursday ree
weeks she attended hint in the evening ; he was then
very unwell, and she persuaded him to go to bed, preri-
omisay making some gruel, of which he rook a portion.—
The meet -morning she went to inquire if he was better,
and found him seoun led, as above stated; witness ob-
served he had shut isiniself, and inquired why he had
done so, but he made no answer.
Mr. S. Oshorn,of No. 79, Llishopagate brother
to the deceased, recounted various acts, which satirlied
the Jury that be-laboured under insanity.
Verdict—Temporary mental derangement.
Another Inquisition was held before the same Coro-'
net' at the Penitentiary.
Millbank, on the body of John
fieest, a prisoner confinmal there, Who died on. Tuesday
night lust.
r. tleujamin Chapman, the new Goeernor, produced
the entry book of the deceased's trial and at
time Old Bailey, on the Vist Sept.lB'll, for ati•aiing a
piece of bacon, a basket, value Gd. each, for which he was
sentenced to seven years transportation; this sentence,
however, was ;awe/aids commuted to five yeire
sonment in this pitied. The deceased was brotilitt there
on the 7th Om, 1811 ; ai that time he.Waii 22 years of
age.. Witness observed that the deceased' died on the
night previous to his taking upon him the office of Go-
vernor.
Mr. John Pratt, surgeon to the Penitentiary, stated,
that the deceased was removed into the Infirmary on the
2lst of February last, with a scrofulous swelling, or to-
moor under the knee ; he hail been subject to scrofula
from two years of age, and hail lost aling.er on the right
hand by it ; there were also marks on his necic and legs
of scrofulous ulcers, for which disease he had frequently
been in the Infirmary ; during this last time the duce:is:el
appeared getting better, and on the night he died, witness
was informed lie partook of hearty supper, and seemed in
good spirits. Witness was sent for a little after twelve
o'clock to attend him, bat he was dead. For the last
fortnight himself, and three other medical gentlemen had
continually visited him, who weer all of opinion, that time
tlisee.teol's-drath was occasioned by the rapture f a blorel
vessel in the lungs, which the disease was most likely to

produce.
John Hill, a wardaman in the Infirmary, slept in the
same ward with deceased, and gave him his medicine ;
on going fur that purpose he found him dead in his bed.
Verdict—" Died by the visitation of GOD."
. Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Crows
Tavern, St. Dunstan's-hill, near Tower-hill. before T.
Shelton. Esq. Coroner for London, on the body of Mr.
.Samuel Sampson, aged 19, son to a respectable Merchant
of Hamburg, who was found drowned in the Thames on
Friday morning. Verdict—" Found drowned, but how,
or by what means the-deceased came by his death there is
nu evidence to prove."
Saturday morning', at eleven o'clock, a Coroner's Jury
were inißanelled before T. SLIELToN; Esq. over the body
of William Cooper. alias 3leldrotn, aged 2; years, who
was committed to the Cuntpter on Wednesday night, for
a shocking attempt.
IVilliatn Scourtield, turnkey in the prison.—On Thurs-
day morning he went to the cell-door to let out the pri-
soner; he unlocked the cell, and perceived the deceased
hanging against the door by a black silk handkerchief,
cold and lifeless; the handkerchief wa
ss fastettedWitness
.to' the
" nut," or " button," that secures the h,
ran fn} a knife and cut jim down.
Other witnesses gave similar testimony.
The Coroner addretsed the Jury in a very able man-
ner; he thought no evidence presented itself of insanity
or incoherency ; he thought it clearlyprove4 that lie had
been guilty of a shocking offence; it was for the Jury
to determine of his state of mind at the time-he com-
mitted the fatal act.
The Jury consulted for nesrly•half an hoar, and then
returne a verdict of " I nsanity"—twelve Julyinen
ing forthat verdict; ae4 three for that of Febo de se. be-

ATTEMPT AT MURDIR.—On Friday week, abou....
post two o'clock, a young man named Trapp, an inhaht
taut of Poplar, called at toe house of Mr. Manisa Horne,
the vestry clerk of the parish of All Saints', Poplar. The
door ;As opened by a female named Charlotte Kook, a
respectable woman who keeps house for Mr. Horne.
Trapp enquired of her whether Mr. Horne Was at home;
and being answered in the negntive, asked Mrs. Rook to
allow him to step in and write a note for Mr. Horne.'
Mrl. Rook complied with his request, and brought him
into the front parlour for the purpese. On entering the
whim. Trapp struck her a violent blow on the head
with a small axe lie ha& under his coat,- which felled her
to the ground. Mrs. Kook .started up and seized bold of
Trapp, at the same time crying out " Murder." Trapp
continued to strike her on the head and bud" with the
owe, •but she still retained her hold of. him ; and he also
thrust his band into her mouth, to prevent her cries, but
she-bit his fingers in a manner that soon made him with-
draw it. Tner odes of murder collected a-crowd in front
of the house, and a person having gone round and open-
house, front door, a number of persons rushed into the
when Trapp was struggling to escapefrom Mrs.
Rook, who, although dreadfully wounded in the head,
still retained her hobi of him. In the evening Trapp
was taken to. Lambeth-street polioe-office, front whence
he was sent-to Clerkenwell prison for the night, and on
. Saturday he was 'brought up for examination. It was
then found that the wounds inflicted on Mrs. Rook wets'
of a most dangerous kind, and that her recovery was irk-
tremely doubtful. In consequence of which Math*
Wyatt, Esq., the magi.trate, went to her to take her de-
positions. She deposed to the facts we have stated, cal
adentitied the prisoner, who was remaoded to Saturday
last for further examination : however, it was • said that
Mrs. Hook is as in a state that .made it impolssible for ler
to give a fuller aecoont of• the circumstances than she
hai already •giremand the prisoner in consequence was not
brought up. Mrs. Kook's recovery is coosidered by the
surgeons who attend her as improbable.' Trapp is about
26 years old. For some time past he hid followed the
business of shot-maker, and Find to the monied
ire was guilty of this atrocity, maiMained a character
free from reproach.