The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-08 00:00:00

ME STATESNIAN,

which have been made .hy Ministers too frequently and
too stweessfally—(Lottd applausr)--to return two Mem-
bers who will support the principles of civil and religi-
on• liberty: and this object you are prepared to accom-
plish nt great personal sacrifices. I should hope that nay
name is a sufficient guarantee fur the ronslnet which you
desire; and the motive whirls prompts slot to confide in
PIP is so honourable to my family, that should be dead
to all feeling if it dill not stimulate me, so far as my abi-
lities may enable me, to take care that your expectations
:distil not be disappoitsted.—(('peers.)—Perhaps it is out
necessary for meat present to be more explicit; but there
is one important question upon which I am railed upon to
express my views—l mean Gelato( Parliamentary Reform.
I call it most important, as upon this measure depends
the existence of all our retss ' g liberties.—(threrA.)
—No one can see more clearly than I do the necessity
for such a reform in the present state of the country. )
Iwg you to accept my acknowleeletentessts for the honour
you have ronferred upon use. You rtions have been
already great—if they be continued, I have no dun ht of
final success; and remember, Gentlemen, the triumph
will he your own."—(Groul and reiterated arplause.)

ESSEX LENT ASSIZES, MJnem 6.
The Assizes fur this ctinnh• commenced at Chelms-
ford this day. On Saturday the Judges, Chief
kla Richards, and 3lr. Baron Barrow, cause into
sown, and opened the ctiuttnis.inu, and un Sunday attend-
ed Divine Service. In both I 'ourts the amount 14 busi-
ness is een• roissitlrraide. The criminal calendar con-
tains one hundred and twenty-six cases, of u hurls two
are child tiers, tine manslaughter, and several
miser rapital felonies. In the A !si Priup Court there are
thirty-nine rauses entered for trial, of which sixteen are
special Jury rases.

r. WARREN AND OTHER'S.

This teas an Julius on the rase fur breaking and enter-
ing the plaintiff's dwelling-hunse, and fur Lupri• soon,/
for the spare of 21 hours.
The defendants pleaded first, the general issue, Not
and a:Trawl, as to the breaking ami entering the
plaintiff 's dwelline-house—!rare and license: cm both
uf whirls pleas i*ose WAS jwine.l.
The plaintiff's case was erauturtril hr Mr. .‘twiLenes
and Mr. Bunton:sit : awl the defendants' hr Mr. M.IIIIIY-
ATT and Mr. Wald-wit..

The case proved in Evidence was this :—The plaintiff
was a labouring titan, residing in the parish of
in this county; the ilefettelant Warren was gamekeeper to
John Wilkes, I:sq. the late Iligh SherilT, :mil the other
defendants, Hartle; wid lirown, were PM:kilts in the em-
ployment of Mr. Perkin.. of the parish above-mentioned.
In the evening of the 16th of Noel-101er last, about
half-past eight o'clock, after the plaintiff hail retired hi
rest, the eletionla tits came to leis eottage and !smirked him
tep, ne.ler prete nue that his father, coining boute drunk,
hail fallen into a pool, desiring him to get up, dress him-
self and see his father home. The plaintiff, influeneed
by a sense of tidal duty, immediately got up and opened
the door, upon whiele the defendants rushed in, and
commenced a strict search in every part of the house,
for the pnrpnse eif tiriling, if they meld, engines fur the
destruction of gaine.—lt was stated,-that in the course
of this pm-ceiling they belt Iced with great indelieacy
towards the plaintiffs wife, turned her about in her bed,
and otherwise disturbed the pe we anal quiet of the
fainily, lay knorkirg about the furniture anal creating a'
genet 'noise and diutnrhanee. Not finding the object of
their • •h, they left the dwelling., and proceeded to
examine the 4444 t-buililings, and under the thatch of a
pig hot el found three dead hares and a gate-net, an
engine us-' ,1 for catching hares. They then returned
to the and, atter procuring admittance, In-
sisted on taking the plaintiff into custody, sayiter that
they had sent fur a constable, and that be naligt ire
along with them. The plaintiff remonstrated uptin this
tonduct, and said that he would lie forthcoming on the
morrow if he were wantoti. A constable, howeedr, was
re nt•Eisr, to %violin the defendants observed, upon their
repairing hilt to take the plaintiff hits) custody, awl his
oliJertinf. "'that a bird in the hand was worth tams iu
a bllOl ;• and that the plaintiff, rotwithstanding the
tempestuous slat' of the weather, was taken fr his
warm dwelling, amt carried to the house of Mr Per-
kins, who ordered that he should be detained in custotly
till the following morning. lie was accordingly kept
the elliole nicht at the Plough public-Louse, in the vil-
lege, stria watch ; and the next morning, on
lak.-n before a Magistrate, was disehare-eil. 3lr.
Perkin.: nag not a Magistrate, and the defendants we-re
not armed with any warrant. The plaintiff bad ad-
mitted that lie was " a guilty man," and that he had
killed the hares on air. Wilkes's estate, and that he had
used the gate-net in question fur the purpose of destroy .
inc gaale. I 'niter thew circumstances the present ac-
tion was brought.
_ .

Mr. M tally Art-addressed the Jury. and required them
to say what damages t:i^v would give to a, plaintiff n ho
was confessedly a poacher, in whose possession was
found an engine for the destruction of gamy, and three
hare•, the fruits of his unlawful practices, concealed in
the thatch of a pig hovel.
Mr. Baron lisanow, in his address to the Jun•, said,
that the plaintiff was undoubtedly entitled to a verlict,
and observed to them that the gnestton was what da-
mages they would give a man who had been unlawfully
imprisoned under the circumstances alluded to by the
defendants' Counsel.

The Jury deliberated for about 10 minutes, and found
their verdict fur the plaintiff—Dam igrs 5/.

A return was laid before the House of Commons
.at the end of the Session of 1819, from_which it
appears, that many .Under Sheriffs claimed consi-
derable fees upon the return of Members to the
last Parliament,. Upon a reference to the Act ith
and' Bth Wllliam 111. cap. 25, it will be seen that
this :practice is perfectly and that the re-
xeipt of ally fee pu this occasion subjects the 'Per-
sons concerned to a penalty of 5001.
• Sect. 2. And jie it timber enacted be the authority
aforesaid; Prh heither the Sheriff nor hi. 1-,,der Sheriff
in any county or city, nor the Mayor, Bailiff, Countable,
Port Reeiih, or other officer or ()Seers of any boruagh,
town corpea.te, port or place, to whom the execution of
any Writ or Precept for electing Members to serve in
Parlianietit.doth belong or Appertain, shall give, pay, I I:-
ceive or take any fee, reward or gratuity whatsoever, for
the making out receipt, delivery,Veturn or•exerstion of
ane such Writ or Precept... •
Sect. 6. • • And every Sheriff, Under Sheriff,
Mayor, liailiff;atul other officer; to whom the execution
of any Writ or Precept for the 'electing of Members to
serve in Parliament (loth belong, fur every wilful of-
' fence contrary to this Act ihall forfeit she soot of
MK Ste.

The Dumbartonshire troop of Yeomanry Cavalry,
consisting of betwixt 70 and 100 men, under the com-
mand of Captain Dennistoen, of Colgrain, was reviewed
on Thursday last at Daliunir. by the Vice Lientenanti in
presence of a number of the most respectable gentlemen
of the county. They were allowed, on all hands, to be
a use body of men, and the perfortnance of the sword
exercise and manceavres gave universal satisfaction.—
They are immediately to be augmented N three troops.
rer the last two teens the kost has been nearly
as intense as at limy period during the winter, and yes-
teillat' morning the easel in St. James's Park was cusp-
pletefy Resew over. '