The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-07 00:00:00

1111 E STATESMAN.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT or KING'S BENCIT, Aft, 6.

THE KING V. TILE JUSTICES OF GLOUCF4TEK.

This case was an application made by Mr. Gun-
•Nr.v. to the toort for a mandamus to the'Justices of
the county of Gloucester,• commanding them to ad-
minister the oaths.to certain persons alio wished to
act ns Ministers of dissenting congregations. It has
for a long time I),,en the practice of administering the
oaths to all Who present themselves, and it has been
the universally received opinion that the Magistrates
at sessions had on discretion, hut by the Toleration
Act were hound to administer the oaths to all who
presented themselves. The Court of King's Bench,
however, in a . late case of the King against
the Justices of Denbigh, declared, that a per-
son NI ho claimed to take the oaths as a licensed
teacher, or preacher, to a separate congregation,
should previously have a congregation before
he could take the oaths, which exempted him
from the penalties of the Test and Corporation Acts.
Under the authority of this decision, the Justices of
Gloucester refused certain persons who claimed to
li.tve the oaths administered to them, as pretending to
holy orders. By the Toleration Act, all Protestant
Dissenters, being in holy orders, or pretended holy
orders, or pretending to holy orders, or being teachers
of a separate congregation, are entitled to take the
oaths which exempt them from certain disabilities.—
The question for the consideration of the Court was
" a pretending to a holy orders."
Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. A 'mart argued
that the Dissenters incurred no penalties unless they
were preachers, and that therefore they must hare a
congregation before they could claim to take the
oaths, and that it was necessary for them to be cloath-
ed with one•of the characters in the Act, before they
could demand as a matter of right to have the oaths
administered to them.

Mr. Tomtit: had begun to reply on the other side,
when the Court said that in the present case the-rule
must be•made absolute for the mandamus in as-much
as the person had brought himself within one of the
clauses set out in the. Act, namely, as one " Pre-
tending to Holy Orders." There was one case which
limited these words to mean " pretending to be in-
vested with holy orders." The Justices might, if
they thought proper, return to the mandamus, that he
was not such a person, and then •the question would
come fairly before the Court, and it might be carried
to the dernier resort. But at present the Rule for
the Mandamus must be absolute.

Two instances of interference with Grand Juries '
in Ireland, have been detected and exposed to public '
detestation—and yet, thanks to the mildness of the '
Duke -of RICRMOND'S Administration, those two in-
stan,'.:•s remain unpunished, or even •as far as the
people know,. unreproved by the Executive Power.
Er. one case a Shopkeeper is indicted on a charge of
felony, at the prosecution of a poor woman:--and '
Alderman litaLEY, a Police Magistrate, stands
self-renvicted of having written a letter to a Grand '
:r, telling him that " it would be cruel to find the
the other instance, RICIIXRD GUINNESS,
Esq. another Police Magistrate, stands charged, on
oath (recorded and uncontroverted), with having a&
visc,cl a person (a man in office, and a member of the
Unanimity Club), whom his Worship was und,r the
necessity of binding to abidehis trial for an Assault,
to " make Intereet with the Grand Juy" to throw
out tiie Bill ; that is—to make application to the
whole or the majority of a'Gratl Jury to become
perjurers. and to deprive-the injured Prosecutor of
the redress, which tlse Law, if not obstructed,
would afford. And yet, straege as the fact may ap-
pear in England, where even a Duke dare not write
such a letter or give such advice, those two Police
Magishates, who have a salary of 5001. each for ad-
ministering Justice, and who are removable at the
pleasure of the LORD LIEUTENANT—that is, remov-
able even for trilling offences, still remain undis-
turbed in their office, just as if the feelings of the
People were of no account in Ireland ! •
The Petition from the town of Liverpool to the
House of Lords, presented by the Earl of DERBY, on
the subject of the Orders in Council, is written with
great Strength of argument. The Petitioners say,
that their Lordships doubtless have already observed
with astonishment and alarm that by the whole tenor
of the late Declaration of Ministers, the continuance
or revocation of the Orders in Council is rendered
dependent on the continuance or non-continuance of
the Berlin and Milan Decrees ; so that the/ arc not
to be dependent on the circumstances or interests of
this country—not on the feelings of the Pallet It F.-
CVNT for the complaints and sufferings of an
alive-
tionate and loyal people ; not on the interposition
of Parliament, but on the measures to be adopted
by a hostile power Over whom this country has no
controul.
The Irish Catholic Deputies were prcsenfA- ;In 1.
Sunday last, to the Duke of Sussr.x, at ,ncingtott
Palace, when the Carl of Fiso.ki.!., toad of !
the Deputation, expressel the acki`owl,Nl;ewnts of
the body for the speech made by ,is. :fighitess
in support of the Eattiolie claims. iso are assured
that there is no
~,i-ound wnateter for 1.:1;' report, stat-
ing that Ministers had agreed to °W..: to the Roman
Catholics three of t:ieir principal demands.
A_quEstion was put on Tuesday to a most respectable
witness in the Committee on the Orders in Council,
which greatly affected the House, and we are sure
will affect the country. The Gentleman had spoken
not only of the sufferings of his neighbourhood by
the hafdships and distress they endured through. the
interruption of trade, but of the feeling of apprehen-
sion which it excited in the breast, as a pgrent,- and
in the hearts of parents in general, for the destiny
of their children. " And, se," said a- Ministerial
Advocate—" It is owing to the sensibility of ••
parental feelings, that yotl have brought this Petition
to the bar of the llouse."--LThe witness answered the
remark with dignity and decorum ; but the House
was so alive to the unseasonable sarcasm, that a di- 1
vision took.place on the motion to expunge the ques-
tion from' the minutes. _

We.miderstand that the shop in whkh the unforal
tunate ftunily- of .the "M etas weft mufti:red, still
exhibits the horrid spectacle of the blood.. of the un-
fortunate victims in various places, arid is an object
of considerable curiosity. The cantinnance of such
a sight is shocking; and It ought to be put,an end to.

Mr. BETTY.—This popular performer
.took leave
of the Bath audience on Wednes lay last ; where his
attraction was great beyond all precedent. On
Thursday he performed Young• Norvrd to a crowded
and fashionable house at Cheltenham; from whence
he proceeded to Worcester, and is now at Wolver-
hampton. It is said he is engaged for 21 nights, du-
ring the ensuing season, at fifig guincas cash night,
and a clear benefit.

Mr. Browne, of Rockville, has cleared by the
!meeting at Kildare the sum of 10,0001. Ilis horse
Lope, by Shuttle, seems likely to rival the fame of
th.! celebrated Eclipse, as Mr. B. has done that of his
owner. We understand that a sum of not leis than
,50,0001 is depending on the event of his beating
! Col. Lumm's famous horse Norfolk for the ensuing
Kirwan's, in June.—(Dubli4 Evening Post.)
}ire persons, including a woman and a boy, were
lately lodged in Castlebar-goal charged with the
crime of cutting out the tongues of several lambs.
There is within two miles of this town, a young
woman, who has lined during the last three years,
without meat, bread, or
.any solid article of food.
She suhsists entirely on. 4 little wine and milk. It is
remarkable, that she throws up every day a large
quantity of blood. She is unable to move, having
lost every particle of tiesh ; but she appears nearly
in the same state she was three years ago.—(Beading
Mercury.)
SHOCKING AccinEsv.—On the 2d inst. as two
young men, of the names of Clark and Fordyce, in
.the employ of Mr. Mairlson, a builder, were return-
ing home from Eiook-green fair, in company with
four respectable females, Fordyce, with two of the
females, were knocked down io crossing the road,
previously to entering Kensington, by a cart drawn
by four horses, and the two women were run over.
Neither of them were killed on the spot; hut the
recovery of either is doubtful. They bad each of
them limbs fractured, besides violent contusions.
One of the 'sufferers is the daughter of a herald
• painter, in Duke-street, Hampstead-road.—Fordyce
escaped unhurt.

General Le Febvre, taken prisoner by Sir John
Moore, and who wus many years prisoner of *aria
this country, has "taken French leave. It Will be
recollected that every indulgence was shown-to this
man, and he was received in the most hospitable man-'
ner by some of our first families of distinction
Cheltenham and at BatL
In the early part of last -week-, the town of .Lough-
borough was thrown into a very considerable degree
of agitation, by a repart that Mr. I'. the master of a
respectable academy there. had 'become involved in
charges of a disgusting. and ditestable nature. So
unwilling were his friends and= the gentlemen of the
town to believe the reports in circulation, that a meet.
ing was convened at the Bull's Head, on Wednesday,
which was most numerously aftended, for the Ore
poseur publicly expressing the general opinion as to a
disbelief of the charges; at which meeting
,the said
master personally appeared, and smade a solemn and
deliberate avowal of his innocence ; and the business
of the day-seemed to terminate in his complete exoner-
ation from such foul aspersions, .with full dearmi-
nation of the meeting, by passing sundry resolutions,
and even appointing a Committee, to aid and, assist
him in bringing the authors thereof to the most signal
justice. The next day (Thursday) every exertion
was carrying on in furtherance of their object, but
on Fridar evening the bubble burst! ! ! (a rumour
being spread that he was about to be apprehended,)
which has ocCasioned'no small degree of consterna-
tion among the inhabitants of the place:
Another attempt has been Made to destroy Sydney
Col!eoxt, Cambridge, by some incendiary,- who ob-
tained' admission into an upper room by forcing a
padlock with which the door was secured ; the fire
was discovered about two o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, and fortunately extinguished, thought not till
damage to the amount of five hundred pounds was
sustained. A loft, containing a great quantity of
tar and pitch was within a few yards of the part where
the fire was discovered, a great part of the town
would have been involved in ruins had the flames,
communicated to it. A rigid examination is to take
•
place of every person within the College, beginning
with the superiors, that none may be offended at
being personally interrogated.
Some of the late most fashionable routs, have been
marked`by
,fashionable purloininp, which would'
subject the ordinary classes of the people to criminal
convictions. The pitiful offence we allude to, is
.the
taking away pew and valuable shawl's, and leaving
old flimsy ones in their stead; and this is evens de-
fended by some of the depredators' of diatinctiou, on
the common adage, that " exchange is no robbery !"
At be Countess of C.'s last crOirdea assemblage, no•
less than 47 shawls were thus purloined, amongst.
which were three new Indian ones, worth fifty
grams each, for w high titdlicorrietesso °beaked only 1
thread-bare things, not worth half so many. shillings.

Oa Tuesday, at the Public Office, Hatton-Garden, a
shoplceeper in the vicinity of Saffron Hill, attended,
at the instance of the Court Met Jury, who seized
in his 'shop several loaves of Mead,, exposed to sale,
very deficient of weight. 'The charge being made out,
he was convicted in the mitigated penalty of two shil-
lings an ounce, and the bread given to the poOr.

A curious circumstance occurred: at. the Bush Ta-
vern, -Bristol, on Monday night, about 11 o'clock.
A young man, •who has since been discovered to be a
sailor, belonging to the Union shin of war, lying at
Plymouth, went to bed apparently• composed•; but
before the sertant had left the room fire minutes, the
*house was alarmed by his•cries of " Help the out,"
and by the breaking of glass, occasioned by his bur•. t-
ing through the sash. Though, asleep, he continued
walking from one roof to the other, and along the
narrowest ridges, and at length' jumped from the
surprising height of 30' Mt, sitithont receiving any
material injury. Re was conveyed to bed, and left
the inn the following morning for Plymouth.

111 BD.
Mrs. Petty, wife of Jimes Petty, Esti. of Tranquil .1/ale,
Sorry, after an illness which she bore with truly Christian pa-
tience.
On Toeality, in Holborn, Ann, the widow of Matthew Oliver,
late of the same place, lluenklaper, ageds6. •
Yesterday, James Merest,Xaq.lof S•benri OlimbrWrikiret itt
the house Alr,.Calsy,. Seymouc-place, Eustoa-ssuare.
Oa WeiinstalaY ia.f itt Upper ilirtiouvittreet, the lafgat
of Edmond Wadi:home, Esq:

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I) EMELT Y, STRICTURES, tee.
-IMPRESSED with a consciousness that their de-
front the general plait has been highly beneficial to
others, and improved in their pinfessional acquirements by
Maturity of near twenty years experience, ble•sis. CUlilt II:
and CO. continue, wills ututtnited ardour, the eradication ef
those nisnrclers which are the consequence of illicit indulgence,
or the destructive hnbits of the inconsiderate Sc In
profe,sing the cure of these Complaints, they hold cut no i:.••
ducement to vice but, sensible a. all men must he of the rx.
istenee of such calamities, they offer their assistance at reguihrly
educated Surgeons of Loudon. and of the Royal College of
Edinburgh. In all cases of Siphy !hie infection, and in ever,.
Cnuaplaint of Debility and Deficiency. whether wising trim. it,.
infatuation of a certain destt net ve habit, long residence in
climates, free living, or May other care producing a delircw:
of manly vigour, the patient may rely .n a spe.'ds iesinc“lt•6.
to vigorous health.- Their imprnt ell phin of caring St rict.in,
thi Urethra has beakuiteaded with peculiar success. Writion,
of len and treaty years' duration have yielded to their Irma.
meat in the short period of three weeks. Several Niihkill"
and Gentlemen of the first rerpectabili ry. sr ho have laboured under
this .y.:4tiful mitt distressing disease, hartn,c received a radical and
permanent cernsirartlcalarly mimeo. thnt referroce may be mi.,
Sri themr, 81, Sllfilineitaq 'Cad-Own r the derided superiority of
Messrs. Circle and C.t.es Plainof Treatment. Many of the,'
Gentlemen had been under the care of blesses. Home, 11610.
side, unit other Slargeone of equal eminence, who att
wi enipird
their Cure by the dpplicittion of the Lunar Caustic,
success.
• Mews. Currie and Co. may be consulted by patients of sit ire
sex, wish the greatest secrecy Ala honour,' at uteir house, N,
197. Hutton-Orden '
• Patients In the country are requested to state the particul
of tteir cases and general habit of lie ingo&e. Sec. incliei rt
i
a remittance for advice and medicines, when the mine oil! b°
given or sent !daily part of the ktplom. To ensure iii:" st.
crecy MI essential tw.tligie inidertith nig. the poktage of lent.
.away be added to the account for medicines.

int HIS'ittIA.4:STY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENTS.
- ;FAKE'S GP.NU IN E PILLS, justly famocl
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small Pill is a dose t. and the trking of one hos in it reedit coo:
will soon convince the patient of the certainty of a speedY h^
e"
eatery: Nothing can he better coldrived.. more safe. ar
I convenient than tlitS remedy fur such ware obliged hippo-
nieti, or to sea, as it needs no confinement or „••; mint of duet;
end sixty year: experience Oman vNtensive pr.,,t ice) 4:15 lif in •
ed that it will el feet it curo -reboil repeated salivoion aml
nil other methods nvail nothing. . For the hc'ar urvy Pnti,
other Chroniehl Disorders, this Medicine has wit its pall"'
Upwards of 40,000 persons of both Sexes have been radically
cured of the above cruel disorders, a ithin the last eight.yars.
Prepared and sold by the Proprietors, Thomas Tit,,bir and
, Son. Members of the Royal College of Surgms e., London II
the list of real Surgeons, published.rumhally by the Royal
hour, at their hou, o. 9. New Bridge-street ; where coo.
staid atteudanct and advice will be given by theta is ail
relative to the above cowplaints,with inviolable wcrecl•
byuppointment, at the Perfumers, No. 93, St. Albrin's-street,
• Pail-Stall; Mr. Desbortiagh's Toy Shop, No. 7, Fish-steel:
- hill; ttud- by one person in every-considerable town of Gaut
Britain, &c. in boxes of only 2s. 9d. each.

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