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Coroner's Inquest.
The Times, 1824-10-21T00:00:00

Yesterdayatlernoon a coroner'sinquest was held before T_ro,asA SHELTO, Es.Pq at the Red Lion, in Poppin's-court, Fleet-strect, on the body of 1 lr. John Appleyard, an elderly gentleman, whc came by his death iunder the followingmelancholy circurnstances.:_ JardlBs3Davls, a clerk to llasrS. Hale and Lynn, ale.brewers stated t!ton Saturday evening, about six o'clock, he was engsge3 in putrnkdown twvo barrels of ale into the cellar of the Red Hart public-house, in Shbe-lane, and that while putting down the %fecond barrel, the wnggoner of Dlessrs.Shears. the coppersmiths in Shoe.lane, camoeup with his waegon and wished to pass. Wit. ness Tequested lie would wait until the ale was put in the cellar which he did; but whien this was donc. he attempted to pass wit- nes told himt there was not sufficient room, but he replied there was, and drove bis wapgon on, which came in contact with the dray. a hcel, and drew it back several yards;, the deceased was at the tirmne atanding near a 'pst at the corner of Stonecutter's-Street, and the dray came against him, and jammned him between that and the pest. Tho deceased almost immediately fell, and, on being picked up, said he did not think he was much hurt. Witness called out to-the driver of the waggon to stop, and went towards the deceased to en- deavour to rescue him from his perilous situation, but could not reacb him in time. There was not roanm for the wa,ggon to pass without the wvieels going on the foot pavement. The deceased was afterwards taken to a house in Shoe-lane, and surgical assistance im- nediately sent for. George Large, a drayman in the employ of Messrs. Male and Co.. and several other persons who witnessed the accident, deposed to the lame effect. Alr. Wiray, the surgeon who wvi called in to attend the deccased, raid he found him in bed, and en examination discovered that seve- tal of his ribs were broken. He applied such remedies as he thought *necessary, and attended him until Mlonday evening, when he ex. pired. On examining the body after his decease, he found seven of the ribi on the left side broke, and which rere forced into the intes- tines. Those injuries were the cause of his death. The Jury returned a verd-ct of MansrlqA-teer against Richard Jehnson, the driver of the waggon; and the Coroner issued his warrant for his apprehension. Johnson was in attendance, and said the affair was qtite .iccidental. lie received an excellent character from his employers, in whose tevice he had lived many years. The deceased waS isearly 90 years of sge, anld e vey respectable ?3> of indepcndent property. CORONER'S INQUEST.
Letters were received yes...
The Times, 1824-05-15T00:00:00

Letters were received yesterday from Havannah, dated April 7. In consequence ot a report that tbe Ceres, Spa- nish frigate, had been captured by two Colombian cor- vettes, a small squadron, consisting of four ships of war, had sailed from Havanush against them and an embargo had been laid on all other vessels in the port, in -order to prevent information being conveyed to the Colom- biaus. The sailing of these ships gave rise to a ru- inour that a landing was contemplated on the main of Co- lombia, or in some part of Mexico ; but there could be no motive, we conceive, in thie Governor of Cuba, to send out a mere marauding expedition; and to an armament destined for wvarlike operations, his mieans were alike unequal in men, imoney, and supplies of every kind. Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's, diIQ Ha- vannah, April 1:-" The Telegrapk, Raux, froin Bor- deaux, was detained off the Cape de Verds, manned, and sent into this port on the. 25th ultimo, by the Spanish armed brig Romano, having found in her warlike stores, bound for the coast of Lima." DOVER, May 13.-Arrived his MXaje-ty's steam-packet the Arro-, with twvo carriages and 70 passengers; also the Spitfire, with five carriages and a number of passengersm An open boat, with despatches,axriv4 this aftemnoon: they were immediately forwarded to London. Several Spaniards, emanat wham was a Field Officer, btely belonging to General 31ina's army, landed here to-day from C5abiis. On Thursday, a ste.am-boat, purchased for the King oI Denmark and most splendidly decorated and fursished, sailed from the river for Copenhagen, in which his Majersty and family are to embark to visit Jutland and other places in the course of the sum- mer. It is manned by British seanen, with a Captain of the Danish navy, and accompanied by Alr. Gillespie, a Scotch engineer, to Eu. perintend the machinery. A curious circumstance occurred in the quadrangle of tbe Royal Exchange on Thursday. As the workmen were lowering the statue of Charles 1. from one of the niches on the north side, for the purpose of eleaniRg, &c., the head came off*, dose to the shoul- ders. In this state the headless trunk was taken to the statuary. The Berwick Advertiser says, " A seal of a most enor_ mous size, in this part of the wvorld, was caught sosie days ago, near the mouth of the Tweed, by some of our fishermen. When the creature bolted up from the water its large glaring eyes almost terrified the men who were near it. When killed and cut up there were found in its stomach nearly half a aImon recently swallowed aud part of another decayed by digestion. lts weight was gupposCt to be aoat. 50 stone."
Theobald's-road, and its ...
The Times, 1824-08-26T00:00:00

Thcobald's-road, and its nieighbourhood, were on 'rues- day evening amused with the vagaries of an over-drove ox. lIe was riceeded by two avantl-couriers, in the shape of bull-dogs,who every now and tihen gave him assurance of their presence. He gored a pony which was standing in Theobald's-road, in a chaisc-cart, in which were two infant children, whose pefilous situation excited in- stant courage in the minds of those around, who extricated the poor innocents from their situation, regardless of the attacks of the en- raged animal upon the same pony which was attached to rlte cart. H e also tossed and gored a helplews old woman, and has, it is flared, so seriously injured her, that she is in Rmuch danger. At length, after having put the whole ueighbourhood into dismay and disorder he was secured by means of' a few dustaien and an experiencei butcher, who, mounting one of the high shelved dust-carts, a proached the place where he stood pawing the mud and roaring, ana throwing a slip noose over his horns dragged him to a post and slaughtered him. A few lessoas in ortification might have been learned in the streets on this occasion, where trucks, wheelbarrows, &c., formed a moveable defence agaihst his encroachec; but he hap- pilY committed no further misctief, to our knowledge, than what Is above stated. Yesterdlay morning about 10 o'cloek as a country team was procceding on its route towards Tottenham-court-road from Godstone, in Surrey, very heavily laden with trusses of hay, on pro- cecding up St. Martin's-lane, auid opposite the Navy CoffIe-house, owinlg to the ropes slipping, the whole mass fell into the middle of the street, and tor some minutes blocked tip the road ; but although a numberof carriages were passing at the moment, no michief oc- cur;ed to them, nor did a single individual receive any injury. 4
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-11-04T00:00:00

otr,.1 costess that the imputations so liberaly indulged in by certain joturnals against characters which, for aught I kfnow, may be irreproachable, does surprise me in this " thinking coantry," for so we arc pleased to call it. Yourrespectablc paper is, ras might be expeeted, an hononrable ex- ception. They appear to be doingtheir utmost to urge the partners in the late Berners-street batik to reply to Di r. Fautntlerov's def<ence That there rnay be no want of stimulus, one talks of pariiciprion for. crime; thes magnifying cven the prisoner's charge of perzicipatiore in prqf ifs the character of which latter particpation depends altoge- ther on the knowledge or suspicion that the fun4s are improperly ob- tained, or on the belief that they come in the regular course of bu- siness. They are urging these gentlemen to retly to that defence, wbhen the pbisoner has beard fromn his judge, that merev, though impreba. ble, is not impos. ble: they 2.re urgisg them to endeavour to deprive himn of the slender hope of lif'e allowed, by shaking, if they can, the only groand on which he rehes upon for rnercy-viz. that he did not forge for selfish purposes_that he had had year; of anxious care owing to eiimbarrassed finances, and was, personally, of' economlical habits. Surely this course is verv thoughtlebss, to say the least of it. In my itercourse with legal Mnen, there appears but one opinion-that the pattners would make them- selves justly liable to the severest censure, were they, in order to clear their characters a week o: fortnight sooner, to prejudice the chances of this unfortuate man, such as they ate, or such a* he may consider theta. He relies altogether on his defence. Are theyv then to seal his doomn by possibly deprivinfr his statement 3t the c aracter of truth ? The statement may be tr,e but, surely. it is unusual thus to adopt interested statements, nma.de by Browedi- great and practisedoffenders. All that I know . . :hat the Bla:.'s of England, who must have had opportunities of inve;tigation, appear. by the Attorney-General's speech, to have entertaired no stlCh ideas. I feel no right, then, at present, to suppose guilt on tbeir part. I mi)!htecertainly, wisein my oNvn conceit, say that they. a3 well a:n the Bank of tnglatud, had been over-confiding-had been careless. utL this after.wisdoxn is cheap. It would appear bv the evidence of the witnesses to character. that thic untbrtunate man had possessed the art of inpiring confidence in his *ntegrity in no common degree. It see.as the prtofthepublicpress, combining mnercy and hurnas nity wth itB ack;nowledgedt power, to implore the partners to be pa.- tient fror a while, rather thtan to irritae themi into mah in;r statements. or disclosures which lacy affect the life of a fallen fellow-creature. Such?, at lcast, arc_thc vien, of .-I", I'lov. .3, IMZ4. Tttt-- A L.*1WSTUDENT. TO TUJE ED) TO OF THB TIIlrS.
OLD BAILEY, Thursday, Apr...
The Times, 1824-04-16T00:00:00

The Lrialq beini concluded, the convicts werebToughtup forjudg- ment before the Comtiio SRrGEkxr, at five o'clock. Sah Mlliarns and Cethern.o CarPI were seutenced to transpor. tation for life, five to transportation for 14 years; forty-seven to transportation for seven years: three to be imptisoned and privately whipped; onetobe privately vhlpped and diseliargedl; and sixty- five toimprisonment for var;mus periodls rhe following prisoners, convicted of capital oftences, *tere then placed at the har:- James Wrilliams, Frederick Scott, and John Bass, highway rob- berv; John Hill WagstafF. forgery; T. F. Creec. Richard Hughes, Richard Erans, James Wilkbey, Frederick Bolton, George Tho- mas, Stephen Beats, George Goswell, James Flalloway, F. H. Jer- maine, John Cosbet, Sheik Brom, Rliza Hillarv, James Lamb, Willianm Whitehead, Mary Ann Hudson, William Williams, and James Sullivan, stealing in a dwelling-house; Theimas Pearson, George Lock, John Thomas, Thomas Hooks, 'Thotnas Keeler, Edward Brimnian, Wim. Clutterbtick, and John WVades, burglary. Proclamation of silence having been made, The Co'MMOu' SEIRGEAhT proceededI to address the prisoners. The sentences which it had been his painful dutv ta pronounce upon those who had just left the bar, hsd been apportioned according to the beat consideration the Court had been able to atTord to their dif- ferent cases: but with respect to those who now stoed at the bar, the Court had no such discretion. Onlv one duty, a most painful one. was cast upon it-namely. to pronounce that sentence wlichi closed the scene of this life up-n them for ever. As the degrees of their guilt were dlifferent, so wvere their prospects of mercy in another quarter different, but the Coart had no power to hold out hopes to any of them ! it was possible that thev might all suffer. If any of them received a transmutation of their. senterce, it would still he on condition (which might be considered a hard one under other circumstances) of their final separation from their country and friends. Whatever mnight be the-result of the pe- titions of their friends here, there was a throne at which petitions for merv were neser offered in t-ain. lHe therefore implored them to consider the awful situation in which they stood, baving now for- feited their lives, and lose no time in makinz their peace with Heaven. Whether they lived or died, the time devoted to such a purpose would not be thrown away. His Lordship concluded by pranounc- ing sentence of death upon them asll. HfidFon anid Hillary, being pregnant, prayed stay of execution. The Court then adoiurned. OLD B,41LEY, T?wr.sda!l, April 15.
Insolvent Debtors' Court,...
The Times, 1824-05-15T00:00:00

This was an oppition directed on behalf of Messrs. tusby and Son, members of tbe society, who, it appearcd, were considerable corn-merchants, and had supplied the insolvent, a Paddineton coach.master, with difierent quantities of oats for his horses. Abut November last there was some dispute about the delivery of a quan- tity of oats, and Messre. Rusby's agent having applied for the debt due from the insolvent, his wife said, inhis presence, that her hus- band should never pay a shilling, but should ?o to gaol and get whitewashed first. In December the saselvent transferred his eight coach-horses, harness, and furniture, to his brother for 731, 331. of which he said, he received on the 20th of January, and the remain- ing 40L was to discharge a debt of 401. due tothe brother; the trans- feb, however, was not made at the Stamp-office until February, in which month the insolvent was arrested for lSI., said to have been borrowed of a sheriff"s officer, and petitioned for Tellef under the act. It alsa appeared that the herg were now in the samte stables as usual, the furaiture in the same place as usual, and the insol- vent's family occupied the samepremises. Mr. HEATH, tor the opposing creditors, cpntended that the transfer to the brother was a fraud on all the creditors, on the very eve of insolvent's going to gaol. A Pr. POLLOCK, for the insolvent, argued that, under thecircuam- stances, it was no fraud. The Cuxrs CoGloassrowErt, in delivering the judgmeent of the Court, wandered tbat 'the 'many sentences which had been passed in that coart on insolvents, for fraudulently making away with their property, had not deterred others from acting in the saime manner. They.ought to know, that they could not so easily come there, and, to use their own term, get whitewashed; especially if creditors brought their cases properly before them. The present, he said, was as clear a case of fraud as had ever been brought before the Court; and the judgment therefore wac, that the insolvent sboald not be discharged, until he had been in custody for a. period not ex, ceeLng 15 mo-tnhfrona the filing of his petitiQor and taat is im- prisonment be within the wals. INSOLVBNT DEBTORS- POIJRT. Fnyn1 r Nrif IA THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR THE OplOSITION OF rRA.unTry-a . ..... - e - - n- .. t..
London Sessions.
The Times, 1824-09-16T00:00:00

These sessions commenced at Guildhall yesterday, before the Ri'ght Hon. thc LORD IMAT Ro, the Recorcler, anl thc bench of Aldermen. The RECORDER, in addressing the Grand Jury, after noticing tsat the calendar was more than usually heavy, anti remarking par- ticuilarly that there was one prisoner harned with murder, and ex- plaining at some length the legal detinition and description of that offence, took occasion to alludc to a chlarge of bigamy, which, sai;l heRecorder, "though not upen the calendar, is likely, aa I h wve un . derstood. to be brought under your consideration, antd it becomes necessary, therefore, tbr me to explain to you the law as it stands upon that subject. It is not absolutely necessary by the lhaw of England to constitute the offence of bigamy that the fi-st mar. riage should be contracted within the kingdom: it is ruff- cient thut it be contracted agreeably to the legal rites of the country in wlhich it i; solelnnizedt and the second marriage in 13ngland will render the party liable to be indicted hiere -the latter marriage making the offence of biganiv. So, on the other hand, thou;fli the first marriage took place in Enz1and, yet if the secend marriage be contracted out of the countr", no indictment for bi.amv will lie, the offence not beinrg committed within the kingdomn. Nor is thlis restricted merely to foreign coantries: a secontl rnarria,e contracted cither in Scotland or IreCand, however punishahle by the laws of those king. doms, would not conistittite a c large of bigamy. If, therefore, You should find in any case brought before you, that the second rmarriage nad bcen contracted out of England, you would do right to throw out the bill. There is a statute upon tlhis subjeet, wbith forms an exception to the general law; but it is not necessary that I should expl2in it to youi, as I understand that the c:ise to which I allude thoes not conae witlhin that exception." After tile Grand .Jury withdrew, the Court was occunied for some time with several cases ef trifling assaults, none of whic'- possessed any feature of public interest or importance. I.ONDON SE S;S-IONS.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-12-30T00:00:00

On the 28th inst in his 78th vear, much regretted by nll who knev him in the spLere of social benevolence, Richard Htint. Eiq.+ of Kingsland-road, manY years at intelIg4ible and active officer in the Custom-house, London. On the 20th inst., at Tottehttatn, aged S5, Mr. JamesSanr, many years an inhabitant of Clerkenwell. On the Ist of November last, at Essequibo, in the 20th year of his age, Walter Robert D'Urban, youngest son of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, his Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor of that colony. On the 20th inst, in the 78th of his age, John Holland, Esq., many years Freight Accountant to the East India Conmpany. On the 29tlh inst., at 100, Hatton.garden, in the 30th vear of'her aLe, after an illne3s or only fiae days, Ann, the beloved wifei f Henry Morlky, E;q., deeply lamented.
The Brazil packet has arr...
The Times, 1824-04-15T00:00:00

The Brazil packet has arrived, bringing Gazettes and letters from Rio de Jaueiro to the 17th of February. The French Consul-General at Rio lhad addressed a note to the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that the King of FRANCE having been informned that many fami- lies of distinction in Brazij intended to send their sons to Paris to finish their education, his Majesty had ordered himA to afford the parents all possible assistance, not only in procuring a passage for the young people, even in ships of var, but also in facilitating the means of correspondence. The AMinister is ordered by the EX PEROR to signify to the Consul how much he is gratified by the wise and generous proceeding of the King of FuAncrE. The letters from Rio represent Lord COCHRANE as likely soon2 to quit the Bra- zilian service; but as this belief rests chiefly on the diffi- ealty he had experienced of procuring a condemnation of the Portuguese vessels he had captured, it seems to have very slight foundation, no decision having been pronounced by the hoard appointed for that purpose. Lady Cocnw&wE and her daughter have arrived in England by the packlet. This arrival has not furnished any authentic intelligence of the situation of Peru. Some alarm was excited in the city yesterday afternoon, by the contents of one of the letters from RLio; which stated that a vessel had arrived. from Lima, which brought unfavourable news, but with- out any details, or the mention of any time or place where :he supposed disasters hsd occirred. Un consuiu.ig t..- .ist of arrivals, however, it appears that theonly vessel en- Lering the poAt of Rie from Lima, was the Union, which had been four days in the harboutr at the departure of the packet, thereby. allowing of course anmple tiine for any in- telligence.brought by her to become generally known. She is also supposed to have sailed firom Callao as far back il date as thie loth of December, later adivices than 'vhich, b) ten days, have already reached Englanid. 'Vhe alarm in this -c thprefore. musthave been wholy Without foandation
By the Lindsays, arrived ...
The Times, 1824-06-07T00:00:00

By the Lindsays, arrived at Liverpool, advices have been received from Buenos Ayres to the 14th of March. General ALVEAR came passenger in the Lindsays: he brings ac- counts that there were dissersions in the Royalist army in Peru-one party adhering to the Constitutional Government of Spain, the other to the despotic sway of FERDINAND VII. General ALVEAR iS said to have come to England to con- clude a loan for Buenos Ayres.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-06-07T00:00:00

On Fridayv, the 4th instant, at the Parsonage, East Hlorseley, Suirrey, ageda70 the Rev Jorin Owen, M.5A., rector of East Horse.. ley, and of St.ISennet's.' Paul's Wh'arf, London, Archdeacon of Richmond, Yorkshire, and Chaplain-General to his Mfajesty'sforces. At Edinburgh, on the 2d instant, after a long illness,,- which he bore with great fortitu'de and resignation, Tbomas Jolhn, third son of Alr. Cornelius Elliot, booliseljer there. On the 2d instant, f'rom ani atbtctk of erysipela~, Mlary Ann, wife of illr. WVhite, chyniist and druggist. flynre,ae 8 leavhig ani infant fauiily of five children, the youngest -only three day ol. O-th 2th lt.hersiserMrs. Large's death was an- On Fdav ast in ueens-suare Wetminster, lMrs. Margaset On Fdav he th istat, Rchad Caeter, Esq., of Surrey-