The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-20 00:00:00

LAW INTBLLIGENCE.

COURT OF Kixn's BENCH. Nor 19.
The Cowl was accepted till twel►e, in hearing
orgowtents span rases In what is tiller! the Crown
)taper. bet which would be of wo general interest in
detail.

Ills itwo Ir. ItNntAit,Wootre, end Lzvt.
II will be in the recollection of e. u r !traders that
when these persona were called spier jedgment, a few
days slam in consequence of their conviction for a
lingitioss sod fraudulent esespiracy, MP's, affidavits
sets pot in, partly to found an arrest of Judgment
and partly la mitigation of punishment ; and amongst
others, the affidavits of two persons assuming the
names of Edwards and Jones, staling that they had
sera Mr. Ade• and Mr. Harmer, solicitors for the
the prosecaiion, talking with several of the Jerors on
that occasion, during their absence from the Jury
boa, between the coaclesion of the first day's pro-
ceedings in that trial, and their re.compencement
she second day 3 this with a view to Impress the
Court with as idea these Solicitors had endeavoured
unduly to interfere with the deliberation', and in-
ference the &chine of the Jury. In answer to those
allegatione, eadevits in reply meta pet Is by Mr.
Hamer sod Mr. Adam, positively, disproving the
imputation east on them, and sheets/ that the sir•
davits of Edwards and Jones le he mete fabrica-
tion ; that a* each persons were to he found at the
places of abed* to which those affidavits refecred,
and that they were utterly fallacious, and contrived
merely le impose on the Coon sad defeat the gods of
Justice.

Mr. GURSIT, jut before the rising of the Court,
moved for a rely to ohow arse, why the attorney
who prepared those affidavits, sod who had not acted
as attorney for the Defendants at the trial, should
sat bring before the Court the persons above-men.
tinned, and mime the matters its the affidavits,
which went to the effect, that the person anodes' to
bad prepared these affidavits, not being an attorney
for .he conspirators, and that he hod handed them to
the Defendants, chits in rested,.
The Coons asked Mr. Gurney whether any sprat-
cation had been made to the aurorae, on this subject?
Demos it might so happen that he sae himself de.
reined, and there being some doubt whether she
Court could call on hint, net heln4 en attorney in
the ewe, to answer to the matters in the affidavit.
Mr. Gomm answered, that certainly no applies.
lion had been made to tRe attorney open the satires.
The Conti then sagg•ved. that he Amid mew•
lien the matter again on Friday sent.
At laicise o'clock the Court rose to stood with the
other Jedgeo in the noun of Lords, us to. Irish
Appeal ease of Grady am! others ; sod their Lo4d..
el ilia Ilse. adjourned to Friday (this day being Holy
Thursday soda ilk. mewl

A very fine brig. celled the Tarantula, •se Me.
patched on 61.nday afternoon frees Gravesend, by
Colonel MACcte.olte. This excel his ea board 100
nen, installing s eam►a of (Ayr's, destined to jib
the 'spoliate& 'vino No+ Grenada.
Is appears free a lissom made by warr of tia
Bosse of Common*. lbat th. number el finvanna ed.
spitted to aye the &Web Museum, fines th. toot ey
March, 1818, to the nib of March, 1819, *eve
63 253.

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One of the parties is the late conspiracy of Klemm
and others, and who is 'opposed by • variety a
Wong circumstances, amounting altogether to • cur.
tsiary, to be Meyer, has, it is said, beer, *need eel
by his creditors, at a &seance of fleetly 300 miles
from Paris; bat be is not yet in rostedy. This di*.
cover, from the sccoent which oppeered in lb.
English Pipers, announcing the flisbt of the parties
from Paris, after haring swindled semslitersoos by
their prinentiedeomineraial transactions. Lewis Levy
•nd Kinnear are septios,ql to hare been the persons
who passed there ender the names of Sweitser and
Lewis, and absconded from Paris 'beet a fortnight
before the trial in Loudon. The ether, Meyer, •b.
wooded about 10 dsys afterwards. The Gentlemen
who seised their men has forted a list containing
the muses of all the conspirators is England, France,
mind liollsnol. _ _

Chester County Jail b now so crowded, that Ow
Governor is obliged to pot two and soosetima• throe
ins bed.

•
Air. %daemon, whole premises, in White-street,
Docoogh, were recently destroyed by the berating of
the boiler of a steam.e•Lime, and who •es et the
time thesrifeily broiled and scolded, died i•
Thontss's Hospital on Sunday hit.
the pedeiri••, has cempleted his arduous
t.•l el a.lkiq 1100 oils in IV aye • too hours
•od slitter, minsee, withl• the wise he walk-
ml the last wile le twelt• slued's, es•d •ppsared very
little fa igo•J.
A fee days ego ter• wpm woes 1•;d in Cra•.
break Jail. sutler a chargeef ask. Two Jays ails,
when the Oficaes visited &fief, fee the purpose of
faking them before • s{agiafr•te, Ii we. diacitceutd
they had escaped by digging • bide through the
feendothes !I I

A fight lately took *mat theGrre•gb efldavet
bet wee. t rebid' breilegs Leave berdai6Gotr.
ran ; is which, after fighting 310 ressede, Wow wail
declared the Willeber. •
A few days no farm men at flartweli, wee Lyles.'
bury, sot doom its s field, with Ora expense
of drinking tiro linens of Hollaeds, wkisbsrro
uid, they teetotally accomplished; at tlio same time
evriesitag themselves wills alngieg the most aboadeobli
songs. At last they all fell into a prefoood sleep;
.sly three of them swoke, and left thoirerempaalea,
es they Ong& still sleeping. The 'seat asornlng be
may foetid dead, sod a shocking •spectacle. his face
bring almost black, and be having died apparently in
pent agog,. Hs be. left a wife and several young
children. _ _

DASD v.—ln the Sooth of England, Dandy means
mom lisely petrel,. es in the fullowing line of the
song of " IVprel of M. South:"--
" 'Tippet. link Tippet. It the DenAp."
In the North, Deady means something little; in
lino ksbite, a bantam fowl is called a Doody. A mn.
deist Dandy, like the bantam, is a little, peel, harm.
last, tackling thing.
NI. relies nittie an !Niteroi was held at the Hairs neat. in
l.i.itr flesunro-erryi, on ehe bates of Ise yowl *Saw" wb..
..ere declined wu ?timidity 'writes" hi ntwoming N per mu.
Or pee of them pliciag bet h nth gonna nateltarf.
be finny Wart feints the Acre. Wad Ai • fell Clutter Weer the
r err, in c..de,,recerinc to acrid bro., fail la likmahis. Yesdla
At id alai I`...tw.

Pf:ILICH.

THE ST,

Qutts.sqtraitt.—A fib dem ego, the Magis-
trates at this Office *ere engaged in hearing in-
formations filed by Mr. Thomas Bradfield, of Derby-
Street, Partissest.street, coal-merchant, against
Jonathan Sampson, of Snath.street, Berkeley-square,
for a violation of the Act of the 47th of the King,
respecting the sale and delivery of coals. By this
Act, all coolonerchaots are repaired to deliver a
ticket with their coals, specifting the mount aid
quality of the coals so delivered, end distinctly
ersemerating the number of sacks of etch sort of
coal; this is to protect the Nick against imposition
by receiving so inferior coals seised with the best.
Mr. Bradfield had filed three informations, which
led to considerable dimassion, and etched mesh
interest. The circeststances were as follow t
On the sth of April, the Elefetidrat, Mr. Salop.
see, bad sent three waggon loads of coals (Moe
'chatdrons), to Karl Varese's, in Groseenor.square.
Mr. Bradfield having accidentally observed one of
the waggons in the Strand, and respecting the met. 1
sorement, followed it to its destination, and Ma. I
mated to his Lordship's butler his suspicions. The
better bad one sack re.measored, which proved to be'.
bet two bushels, instead of three. Notice was im.
mediately given to the Meter's Mc, and vendor, to I
have the remainder meowed, and set of twenty.
five sacks so re.orearared, then were fifteen bombe!,
short, which led to the enatittation of the esel.
ticket., by Mr. Heritage, the Inspector, who found
thee not made nut as revolted by the Act; for, in-
stead of specifying eighteen sacks of Wellsend mid
nitwit** Hartley's. the tickets merely stated thirty.
sem socks Wallsentl end liertlees. The ticket's still
remained in the hands of Eat, VeroMm's holler, sod
were subsequently shown is Mr. Bradfield, ow ap.
plicatino to his Lordship, when Mr. B. foetid that
an eeeee re bed taken place, and that the specifies.
ties was rendered correct, eccordiog to the Act,
which induced him to bring the whole subject before
the Magistrates.

Mr. Heritage swore positively as to the alteration
having be.,, made in the tickets. When be saw them
they were ;storms!, and new, by what he Mad so
dooht nes an eyesore, as attempt bad been sada to
rectify the err•r.
Francis finishing, Lord Verelam's butler, 'wore,
with equal pertioacky, that so alteration bad been
mad. is. the tickets, between their dtdivery to him in
the first 'seance sod their ',relent mate.
The Magistrates were of opinioo, that as a doebt pre-
vailed on the point at intro, the Defendant tight to
' hive the benefit of It ; the irvt and second informs-
, tinny wore therefor. qoeshed.
Mr. Massimo was %boot to proceed upon the third
intormetino, es ben
Mr. Revers:Am rote, end sail, that in this case
be had nit hosi•ation to admit that the third ticket had
berm altered, and be Auld therefore recommend
Mr. &tepee* re plead guilty. The speedo*, then
meek' sits* es to the amount of penalty, which was
discrerimeary with the Megiet►ete ; he thought the
lowest this in the country would be as emir% as ssght
ep ke eitravded.

Mr. AXDatili, on the other side, contended, that
thl. was a case in which the foil penally ought to he
indicted; the hie of the two other infoimations
strunely showed the ingenoity of fraud. Ile should be
very sorry to press opoo any man, for a hasty
committed in the harry of business; but here the of
feet. was delib►rately committed, for Sampson, after
the delivery of Om ticket, contrived, by the assist.
ance of Simkins, his Lordship's better, to mike the
ensures and alteration. The Learned Gentleman
strongly enforced the uec►stity of protecting the Pets.
lie from such ['suds, and complimented Mr. Brad.
held upon Nis per sssss tine, in the midst of so mods
obloquy in delecting slid exposing thugs practices le
IYa coal trade.

Mr. WHIM the 9111111 ft 114116111f101., observed, t Set
in this cm he and his brother Magistrates wren re. I
Breed from the doubts of which they bad given the
Defendant the benefit in the two preceding Informs.
tions, for hero oho °fence charged upon the Defend.
1101 was admitted by himself. Whatever opinion
might have prevailed respecting the two other tickets
no question mold arise as to this, for the Defendant
contested he bad obtained the ticket after is delivery
to his customer, and then altered it in the matinee is
which it sow approved. The Aet of Parliament re.
Iptirad, that en the few of the ticket should be sped.
fled thequanthy and quality of the coals delivered,
that each kind should be specifically mentioned;
stead of complying with the Act in the m. ea.
joined, the Decedent In this case stated in gross the
Iwo kinds of coals, witboN masking the separate
losotily of each ; that in the hurry of business sock
aa error might be committed, and that that eircum.
stance might render it a venial one. lied the
wonder, ow discoveries his error, at onefr too.
famed it, and stated bow it had inadvertently
or negligently arises, then indeed the penally
incurred might be estimated at a small rate.
...Bat, in this case, there was no-candid effort made
to mend the mistake ; on the contrary, the Defend-
ant had manifested a id ioleniinn by procoriag back
the ticket and endeavouring to erase the error be
had committed, and teaks the figures eonfonnable to
the provisions of the Act. It was to be inferred that
the castomer had not been defrauded, or be would
but. come forward as the prosecutor on this oral.
slon ; bet it was die to public justice In sure, that
those who ignited the Defendant in making the al.
termini', which he conletsed he had made in the
ticket, had acted most improperly. and was highly
blamable. On the whole, neither bonny his brother
Magistrates were of opinion •ahat this was a case in
which the penalty ought In tie mitigated. They
therefore inflicted ration the Defendant the payment
of the full penalty of WI.
Mr. AXORLWO, as Counsel for Mr. Bradfield, said.
that as that Gentleman was ot.ly actuated by a sense
of public rimy in coming forea,d to enforce the pro.
whioot of this Act, he Aid tint meant to avail himself
of his claim spots the penalty inflicted. Ile there.
fare requested the ewe of the penalty to which the
Prosecutor was entitled on be given to the Fever is.
siltation and lathe Royal ilemane Soriety.