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Court Of Common Pleas, Fr...
The Times, 1824-02-21T00:00:00

-1L11a W an auon to recover o.uuh, oeiug Ute vajue u i u uii u, hebange, nf which thc defendant was the acceptor, and the plaintifl the --t endorsee Mr. Sergeant PELL stated the case for the plaintiff; and called the followit evidcnc:- Wrin. mble deposed, tbat in May last he called on the defend. ant for payment of a bil of exchanle of 3001. It was the same as tatnw produced. The defendant refused to pay the bill. The names of Pyble and Wells were endorsed on the back of the bill. Croje.exrriecd by Mr. Sergeant VAUGH.AN.-About the time the bil wlias presented for payment, the plaintiff was a prisoner in the Kizz's Brr;ch pTison. The defendant, when he refused to pay the bif, aaid that he slould be indemnified by Mllr. Elmhore, who was the asignee of Gray, the drawer of the bill. He did not say that Gras had partea with the bill without consideration in order to chrat his assignees. The bill was then put in. It was drawn in August, 1821; and bc. caxnedue on the 17th of February, 1822. A witness proved Gray's writing an the bill. Mr. SeCgeant VAUGHAN addressed the jury tor the defenda ant, :rA s,ated that he would call evidence to prove that the bill bad got into the hands of the plaintiff under circumstances of such suspicion as to render it necessary, if he hoped to sue- ced in the preent action, to produce proof of having given a consi. dertion for it. The circumustances of the case. as they had been de. scribeA to him, and as he believed they wobld appear in evidence, ere that Grav. who was a horse-dealer in Oxford-road, became a bankrapt in Ii21, and endeavoured to defraud his estate by giving the bill which was the foundation of the present action, together with seveal others, to a person named Pvble, who, without receiv. in any coneideration, gave them to an6ther person naMed Wells, u,d from him they passed into the hands of lr. Pocock, the Zeore WVhittvhall stated, that come timne in M822, a short time before the bill bcarme due, he was in company with Pyblc and W el4s at the house of the latter. Some coinversation arose respect- ing the bill whch Pyble said he had given to .Fella, svho was to give it to Pocock to get it discounted. 11H understood that no considera- tion had been given for the bill by any of the parties. Other witnesse were called who proved that the plaintiff had paid :&ray the bSill which was aftervwards returned upon his hands,' and that he kept it in his possession for a considerable time without tak- irr any se-Ps aitaOSnt the defendant. Te LORD CHsEsF JttsTtcCF-summIed up the evidence, and ob- 6erva,Athat it was for the jury to consider whether the circumntances attendirt the transaction were not sufficiently suspicions to require the plaineOffo produce proof that he had given a oonsideration for the bill- The jury tet eel to consider of their verdict. and after being ab- sernt for about o hours retunsed with a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. FmIDA-f. FEB. 2 rOCOCK V. BILLING-
Marriages
The Times, 1824-01-26T00:00:00

On the 24th inst., at St. Alary's, Lambeth, HenrY Pailmer, (of Bow), to IlIary Ann, fifth daughter of.111r. Henry Notley, Darset- place, Claphait-road. on the 21st inst., Francis Law, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, to Eliza, cldest daughter of the late Samuel George Evans, Esq., of the Bengial Aledcia Establislhmnent. On the 2?al itsat., at St. Phsilips~ churchi, Liverpool, the Rtev, Sa,. nituel tVayne, curate of 'A istow and Cawood. in the county oC York,~ tu, E iza, third daughter ot the Into Rev. Dav'id 1Bruce. of. ,vrni
Old Bailey, Friday, Jan. ...
The Times, 1824-01-17T00:00:00

Robert Smitl Was charged with a burglary in the hDuse of Lsady Croft on the 17th of December. The watchman, perceiving one of the parlour-.vindows of her ladyship's house in Welbeck-street open, alasmeci the servants. wsho on entering the parlour foundl the prisoner conecaled there..-Verdict, Gsilty-Deeih. am Holding was charged with robbinlg his fther's houseof nine silver spoons, and other asticles.-U>iiItg. In the eveninglMr. As Nr presided, instead of the Recorder, who was indisoesed. Richard Owene was capitally indicted for stealing a considerele number of silk handkerchiefs from Wrilliam Heaven. The pr. soner, knowing the prosecutor to have contraband silk-handker- chiefs for sale, told him he would-bfing a friend to buy some. Se brought amanto theprosecutor's hosordingly; who, however, as soon as he saw thegoods, seizedthem, representingbimrelf to be a cuastom-houseofficer.The prisoneroffered thattheyshoidhlabetored, if the prosecutor would give him 21. This susn not being forthcoDn- ing, the prisoner's companion took away the handkerchiefs, and has not since been found: and after varnous endeavours to recover tbe property, or the value of it, the prosecutor bad the prisoner taken up. In his defence the prisoner stated that he had been the dupe of his comnpanion, whom he beltrin at the tirne to bc a ctstom- house officr, and called witnesses to prove that he had taken some steps towzards lodging an information against the prosecutor for sell- ing contraband goods. Verdict, :Guilt3; but not of the capital part of the charge. OLD BAILEY, Fridau. Jan. 16
OLD BAILEY, Saturday, Jan...
The Times, 1824-01-19T00:00:00

Maris W-'lliarns, aged 19, a woman of the town, was indicted for uttering two forged 51. Bank of England notes, well knoiwing them to be forged. Ilr. Sergeant BosArouET and AIr. BOLLAND conducted the case for the prosecution: the prisoner had no counsel. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 29th of December the prisoner went to a shop in Cranborne-alley and purchased a pelisse fOr 36s., in payment for which she tenderea a 51. note; out of which, after it was shown to a neighbour, she received l1. 4s. in change. She gave her name and addlress, " Alaria Williams, Hartshorn.court, Goltden-lane," and said she had-received the note from a gentleman whom she had met in Holbom. Upon the note being found to be a forgery, the oficer repaired to Hart4horn.coQrt, where he found the prisoner, who immediately stated her recollecdon of having pai a 51. note at the shop above-mentioned. On the 19th of the *preceding month, the prisoner went to a green- grocer's in Bast-street, Manchester-square, where she gave an order for four shillhngs' worth of coals and vegetables, to be sent to No. 2, Lower Spring.street. She teudered a 51. in payment, and received the change. The artides weretakento the house to which she directed them, but no such person lived there. On the Ist ofDe- cember,the prisoner went ito a haberdasher's in the Citv-road,where she bargained for a pelisse, for which she tendered a 5L. note. The owner of the shop took it to an inspector to be examined ; and while he was absent the prisoner having told his wife she would call ag.gn for her change, walked away, and did notreturn. When taken before the magistrate, she admitted she had paid a 51. hote for a pelisse in Cranborne-alley, which she had stolen oqt of a bundle of notes in the possession of agentleman whom she had picked up in a state ofintoxdcatidn in Holbom,but shedenied hawng everbad more than one 5L note in her life. The three notes were produced, iden- tified, and proved to be forgories, all from the same plate. In her defence, the prisoner admilted that shie had paid a SL note mCrauborne-alley, whicis she bad taken from a gentleman withoutt knowing it to be a forgery; but she denied-n~ost positively t4at she was the peTs,gs1 who had, tendered the other notes. The Jurj', after a }ev; snoseuts' consultation, returned a verssict of-Guiltp. OLD BAILEY, Saturday, Ja7n 17. -
OLD BAILEY, Thursday, Jan...
The Times, 1824-01-23T00:00:00

(Before i/le Co0tAT04 SERaEANT.) J,oseph Ede7i, a boy of 16 years of age, was indicted for stealing a retictole, a watch and olher articles, on the 15th of November, the lp'rbierty of Eliza ilunter. e the Iet Dpeared that the prosecutrix was walking alone about three o'clock-on the day mentioned in the indictment, in Charlotte-street, B3loomsbutg, when the prisomer came up to her, anti snatched her reticule, in vhich was -hei watch; handkerchief, and some other trifling things. The chain of the reticule broke, and thEe priscncr rnl offwithit. Hie was afterwards apprehended from the description gifehn by thle-poseciirix, and -wavrecognized by her wvhen she af- terwa~r,ls saw hhs >tbe police-office. A gentleman wlho saw the transactiOn alsoident.fied the prisoner. The Jurg fouud him Guilty. jo.saph7r W&' indicted fbr receivirng, knowing it to have been stolen, one btass canon;, the property of Captain John Marshall, of Elstree, - Ierts. 'Iltere was a separate irdictmentagainst Sarah at/., the W:ite of' th1e prisoner, for rccciving four brass cannon, the property of the same person. if oscpn Lowe (adhttied as evidence) stated, that he stole the six brass carnol eatch of them weighiLng one cwt., and sold one to the * risoner, Joseph Rashs xadealer in marine btores, at Paddmigton, orone sovereign. On hiscro.ss-examination, he adnmitted, that within the last 12 months he had been present at upwards ofN2O different robberies. ?i he learned Judge (Dtr. ARABI N) put it to the jury whether they eouli give credit to the unsupported testimony of such a person as the witness had described himself to be. Thejury immeediately acquittcd both the prisoners. Afargaret relly and Alargarel Brya7n were indicted for stealing several articles ot wearing apparel, the property of the guardians of the poor of the parish Of St. Mlarylebone. on the 203th of July last, to the value of 20s. It appeared from the evidenceof an accomplicc, supported by other testimiony,that at midnight on the day named in the indictment, the two prisoners, being paupers in Marylebone workhouse, broke into tbe laundry pursuant to a previous agreement, carried off several gowns, caps, &c. and afterwards escaped over the wall, by means of a ladder wvhich was in the yard. -The Jmu vfound bath the vrisoners Gailtv,. OLD BAIL1KY, Thursday, Jan. 22.
We do not like the interf...
The Times, 1824-01-27T00:00:00

WVe do not like the interference ot the softer sex in poli- tics. HECTOR'S advice to his wife, to attend to the distaff, and leave the toils of war and the intrigues of state to stronger minds, applies to all agcs. However, wheti the fair busy-bodies wvill middle wvith what (loes not concern them, we would have them corrected with geutleness and humanity. The last letters received from Spaini evince the brutality of the present Government by its treatment of fe- males wvhomn it suspects of opposition to its principles. It appears that soon after the surrender of Pamnpeluna, a great number of persons were arrested, among whom, under the pretext of placing them in security, were included several ladies, wlho lad at any former timne manifested an attach- merit to the Constitutional system. Mlost of them have since undergone the form of a trial, principally, as is clear, *with the view of extorting money from tiem, and they have been subjected to the following sentences:- Donna FRANCISCA DE CAMAARASA to be exiledl to Za- mora, accompanied by an officer of justice, whom she is ordered to support on the joiirney by a daily allowance of about two dollars. The mother of the preceding, a lady of very advanced age, fined 20 ounces of gold. DonnaJosEPHA D ENDAriIENA, 2 years' imprisonment in the royal gaol; but on paymert of 10 ounces of gold an- nually, she is at liberty. Donna ELOYA HARREQUEN, 4 years' imprisonment in the royal gaol; buit free on an annual payment of loo dollars. Doiina .11ARTINA DE YRIARTE, 4. years' imprisonment; or to pay 20 ounecs of gold annually. Donna JOAQUIMA ECHARRI, to be exiled from the king- dom of Navarre for 6 years, and not allowed to go near to the royal residence: sentence redleemable for o00 dollars. La Senora de ECIIEVE1tRIA (63 years old), exiled frem Navarre for 4 years: remitted for 20 ounces of gold. The'sister of General MAI NA, whose husband was killed in one of the batteries during the siege, was still in prison, and her trial was to have comne on last week; wvhen no- thinlg could avert, according to the information receivedl, her being sentenced to the hulks at MAalaga. The only crimne of this lady was that of being General MNIINA'S sister. A great number of ladies, both old and young, wexe in the prisons of Pampeluna when the letters were despatched, wvhich was on the 13th inst. bYe hardly know wvhether the Spaniards are inore gal- lant who inflict these iniquities, or the French who suffer them to be inflicted. ___
Letters from Pernambuco, ...
The Times, 1824-01-31T00:00:00

Letters from Pernamtbuco, dlated the 14th nlt., were re- ceived yesterday by way of Havre. Intelligence of the recent events at Rio had arrived there, and had created great uneasiness. The Temaining members of the Junta had resigned their situations, and a new election had taken place, which led to the appointment of the following indi- vikluals:-MANoEI. CARVALHO 1)E ANRA.DE, as Presi- dent; Senhor SAT.DANHA. recently arrived from Lisbon, as Secretary; and Dr. BERNARDO, wvith two priests named MuNrs and VENANCIO, late deputies to Rio, as Counsel- lors. JosE Di BARsOS, *vho commanded the Pernambuco contingent at Bahia, and who had recently arrived from thence, had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the troops in Pcrnambuco. In this province the inhabitants were waiting with much anxiety the arrival of the niext despatches from Rio, witli the intention, as theletters state, of declaring against the EmPERoR, should he eitherat. tempt to assume despotic power, or to re-unite the country with Portugal. The same sentiment was understood to exist in all the northern provinces of Brazil.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-01-27T00:00:00

DIED. On the 2?.d inst., :t his house at Croydon, aged 78, Christophir Tadiy, E-q. On ;1 edezsdav, the 21st insti, in her l'd year, after a severe and pa:inlul illness, ,lliss Rix, of Sasbri.dgeworth, Herts: her trulvgood and amiible qlualities so en(leared her to her numerous friends and thc neighhourhood, that in hler a loss will he felt almost irreparable. On atnrd .v, the 24th inst., at his house upon Clapham-common, Johnl Farrer, 13sq. aged 87. At Wawo0rth, .aged 83, :Mrs. llannlah: Auither, relict of Mr. Tho- mas M'inchester Auther, ormerly of Edmonton, in the county of ;M1iddlesex. On Friday l-st, in the pritne of life, of palmonary consumption, Tloinws Den:, Esq., of Sidbur-, W1'orcester. On Saturday last, the infant s51 of Mr. -fatthey, of Doughty- street. Oil Friday.the 23d in.st., at his house, Binfield, Berks, Lieute-auatt- General Sir Francis Welder, aged 49, leaving a widow and eight children to lament his loss.
We witness with extreme c...
The Times, 1824-01-17T00:00:00

1Ve witness with extreme concern, the violent, and it is to be feared, the growing irritation in the minds of our fellow-subjects of the West India colonies, on the question of British interference in the relations between planter and slave. The present instance of this unfortunate spirit is one whieh occasions more regret, because the scene of its activity is the valuable island of Jamaica. It appears by the Royal Gazette of the 15th of November, that a bill has been brought into the House of Assembly for the repea. of the Registry Act, which is strongly inveighed against by all the Members who speak upon it, as a measure at once obnoxious, expensive, and useless. Now, undoubtedly, great indulgence-nay, tenderness-ought to be exerClsed, not only by Parliament in its measures, but by individuals in their judgments, towards a body of mea whose lives and fortunes ticy themselves consider to be deeply compro- mised by that policy of which they complain. But we do confess that the repeal of the Registty Act seems neitlier justified nor fully explained, by the arguments adduced in favour of the proposed bill, by the gentlemen of the Jamaica Assemblv. The repeal is not rccolmmended on the simple grounl or the miscliiefs inherent in the Registry. Act itself, but as a mode of taking revenge on the Aboli- tionists, for their imputed scheme of finaUy ruinillg the planters; and on the Ministers, for an alleged breach of faith, in countenancinig, as they unquestionably have done, the project of emancipation, after pledging themselves to thic colonists, that in enforcing the registry of slaves, they entertained no thought of furtherinterference betveen them and their proprietors. It would be more consistent and praiseworthy in the planters to show their disapprobation of the coining measures by some different means than by declaring war against the past. It is, nevertheless, the shuffling and subservient policy of Ministers that is the real origin of the mischief, being blown about one day by the murmurs of the IVest India interest, and the next day by the threats and denunciations of its enemies ; sa that neither party knows what to rely upon as the systenm which Government will steadlily pursue.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-01-06T00:00:00

IVIELANC{6LY, AccwDENT.I,O SSunday afternoon, ao George !Iankin, :ferrymnn to V'illiamo Britid, ESq., was returning after co veybig the pbtman across-tbe ferry at.ShpepFettn; in rais. ing one of the poles he overreched himsdlf and sunk to rise nv mose. The unfortinitte man b'is left a wife and tvo adildreu totlly unprovided for, to deplorehis untimely end. ,This morning (Thursday) between 'eiihf and itinC; o'clockd twopelvates o*fthe 65th Tegiment seese fouTnW `ded at the' bottom of the Castle Rock, on the orth.ide *They hnd Qnuievour. ed thc night betore to get out at thc gate, biit wvere pzevented by 'the senntineF: and in nttemPtsng iod daYnbedowiethve rock, d lost their h'old,~and fallen ieemanuly from agremmtmeightj as their bbdiei | %t tUit hon of one aiJo2siZ;amMereaiwj
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-02-07T00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1824. The Paris journals of Wednesday arrived last night. The fol. lowing is the only paragraph in them worth extracting: - "M IADRID, JAR. 30. "A report has been spread of a violent insurrection in the Philippine Islands last summer. The Government has received a particular account of it." FRE .'CH FUNDS,Paris, Feb. 4.-Five per Cents opened at96.25., closed at 96. 55.; Loan of 1823, 8i.; Bank Stoclk, 1660; Neapolitan Rents, 81i; Spanish Rentes, 25k; Royal Spanish Loan, 60k. Exchange on London, I month, 25. 45. : 2 ditto, 25. 35.-Coztrs Ant kentique.
THE KING.-Yesterday morni...
The Times, 1824-02-19T00:00:00

Tue KINn.-Yesterdaymorning about a qijarter pst 11 o'clock, His Majesty left Wiindsor i he travellinh c?ge, wvith outriders, and escorted by. a patty of:e 3iresintenv of Lighlt J)ragoons, and arriyed at his Palape in 'an-mal about halfwpast one. Soon after the Xing received visits from the Dul)e of York and the Duchess of Glocester. His Majesty was attended by the First Lord of the Tteasury, tbe Secretary of State for the 3ffomeDepartmient, the Secre- tary of State for Foreign Afidra, the Secretary of State for thc Colonial Department, the Master General of the Ordnance, the baracellor of thle Duchy of Lancaster. LordViscount Granville wvasintro uced to His Mlajesty by Mlr. fSecretary Canning, upon his being appointed Ambas-, sador to the King of the Netherlands, in the tOQW of the Earl of Clancarty. The noble Viseount kissed hgnds, and had the honour of a private auidience to take lea'vei previous to his Lordship's departure for the Netherlands in a few tays' time. The above Cabinet Ministers had all au- dicinces of HiEs Majesty. The Court broke up at ~te-p aX four o'clock. At teu minutes before live, Ilit MTaijes1) lett town on. his return to Windsor, eoforted by a irt ot the 3d Light Dragoons. 'The Aadi,cd 0(acttes to the lOt4linst., whicIiv we re- ceivel-yeiterday, contain no news o? tke slightest interest beyond the Peninsula. The number of the 7th instantS professes to give a sort of reply to an. article of our jour'n4 respecting South Anerica. Ithvbuldbe superfiuous to take any farther notice of a writer *ho shows liis utter digre-" gard to trnth, or his utter ignorianc of facts, by telling usi at 1' neuly the whole of tbe tic&-royalty of Limia, andu the richost provinces of Buenos-Ayres;,,a still dejfcto de-. pendent on the Spanish Government." ' We understandt that petitions to Parliameitiare preparing at the principaL ports for the appointment of"Committee' to inquire into eatEd 2the nava service, 'paicuarly a regarals the truaniig.and tie truteaentlof sat-lorsn atId pofl liability to imprefsamenft also - to lay Ufie*fo4ndatiou of 1$ aew coode of maitlmelaws-ou v utituriopIia prucipa
St. Mary's Church, Bryans...
The Times, 1824-01-08T00:00:00

.The.'cereniony'of. .consei'this Ourch-waesterday p6rform; ed by.the Bisbop of-Lonadon,. in. the presence of an -extrernely nu.-. merops ancd,respectabllc0ongegation. Spaciohuas the interior is, .tk ~was quite crmvded. At aepiit 11 6.clock, the Bishop, attende4by. his chaplain, was receiveda atthe door of the churcfi- by the-.Chan- 'cellor Registrar,. Miniite?, and Vestrymeniand being ihowr into the. vestry-room, he tlhere put on -his episcop sl robes, and thenceprocecd.- e&to the. frnto?..tbe attar, where the minister .handed him , the pc-- tition,' which -he ordered to be.read by.the Registrar. Tie,Bishop: then proce=dd --to the consecration and dedication of the ch&uh., and, -with the clergy and others attending hitp, walked in proctsaion dowv-ithe church.-and, back ag atematelv repes4ing the .24th Psalm. . TheMlinister next pr 'ented to the Bishop the act, of .Par.' liament forbuilding the church, and the deeds of conveyancee, Akwhc .his L,ordship placed on the c6nmunjon-tablc' -d after the uual- address.and. pray2rs,thesentence4f consecration was.read; sijned,' 'aid prnlohed; and,tgether wit!,t,h,e petition and other-inttiment,L oDta'nded't6 Se.recorded-a,nd registerid aiong' the ather recod- -Then foUlowed the mornirng aniicomimlu1ioi serticesa-and thc whole conclttdd w.itha an gppzoprlate sermlon,- Sr. AM'Y'I CHUACJhWRN.4?VSYMSQUA RE.
Insolvent Debtors' Court,...
The Times, 1824-01-22T00:00:00

Thomas PlayJair was opposed by 31r. POLLOCK, for several creditors. Theinsolvent hba been an army-accoutrement maker, and failed in 1821. After he obtained his certificate, he married a Mrs. Hitehens, v,ho was engaged in the leather trade ; but he sufbered the business to be still carried on in her name without stat- ing the circumstance of the.marriage; and the principal question in the case was whetheror not the insolvent had been thereby guilty of a fraud towards his creditors. The CouRT observed, that as it appeared from the evidenee that the insolvent had never given any directions to suppress the fact. of his marriage with Mrs. Hitchens, but had merely aIowed the busi- ness to be continued in her name, as lie himself did not wish to in- terfere in it, and no dishonest motive for so doing having been shown, they did not consider that he bad been guilty of any franxd, and thereforc decided that he was entitled to his discharge. John Dudd was opposed by Mr. Grayhurst, a jeweller, who had given the insolvent a piece of plate for sale, upon his pro- mise to return with either it or the price of it the next day, instead of doing which, he applied the money tor which lie disposed of it to other purposes. The COURT qrdered him to he remanded for nine calendar months, and confincd within the walls of the prison. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. AVVDNESDAY. .T.A) 21.