Court of Queen's Bewich finds pardon acts valid for Canadian prisoners
The court delivers judgment on the habeas corpus return for Randall Wixon and Canadian prisoners. It upholds the legality of pardons conditioned on transportation to Van Dieman's Land and detentions in England to fulfill those terms, with rulings extending to several listed inmates and motions for attachments against the Liverpool jailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen's Bewich
Judgmert
Lord Denman
Randall Wixon
Her Majesty's Gaol
Liverpool
Justice Littledale
Lord Coke
Lord Hale
Cumming
Chancery
Hale
Elizabeth
Justice Wilmot
House of Lords
Blackstone
Croley
Lord Eldon
Lord Nottingham
Swanston
Charles Justin Rainsford
Privy Council
Upper Canada
van Dieman’s Land
Quebec
England
Justice Hubbard
Hailey
James Somerset
Canada
George IV
Lower Canada
Sir John Colborne
Crown
Finlay Malcolm
John G. Parker
Robert Walker
Paul Bedford
Leonard Watson
James Brown
Ira Anderson
William Alves
Barnes
King
Laddis
Hill
Lst
Batchelor
Mr. Batchelor
Breeches with Plaice Thefts At Billingsgate Trial
William Reynolds faced the lord mayor charged by Billingsgate clerk Mr. Goldham with stealing four large plaice. Green testified the fish were found alive in Reynolds breeches, leading to a three month sentence. Bridget Hurley and others were also brought before the mayor for distress and fowl theft cases as part of the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Reynolds
Goldham
Billingsgate Market
Green
London
Mr. Goldham
Grimaldi
Acarce
Bridewell
Reynolds
Mr. Hobler
Bridget Hurley
Bishopsgate
Leadenhall-market
Old Bailey
Ireland
England
Arabia
Mr. Booker
Pauper’s Theft Prompted by Starvation Bargains in Parish Aid
Hyde the constable described a starving man who stole two fowls as relief from parish aid proved unavailable. The prisoner, linked to Cripplegate and living in St Luke's, faced derailed relief and repeated refusals as he wandered between parishes. Alderman Gibbs sentenced him to three months in the House of Correction for felony despite the old man’s frailty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Potter
Alderman Gibbs
Dennis Hyde
Cripplegate
Caroline Beswick
New Street
Clothfair
William Lloyd
St. Luke’s
Hyde
Old Bailey
House of Correction
Polly Moriarty
Mr. Benett
Polly
Mr.Benett
London
Four men in drunken brawl at Marylebone lodging
In Bedford-place Regent's Park Edward Scanlan Patrick Coffee Daniel Regan and Michael McCarthy faced Mr Rawlinson for a rowdy late night celebration of a wedding-night. The party grew violent with fists and a police confrontation ending in multiple arrests and commitments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starron House
Edward Scanlan
Patrick Coffee
Daniel Regan
Michael McCarthy
Rawlinson
Erin
Bedford-place
William-street
Regent’s Park
Regan
Cockell
Lion’s den
Dawkins
House of Correction
McCarthy
Nesbitt
Wigmore-street
Cavendish-square
Mr. Nesbitt
John Ratcliffe
Mr. Rawlinson
Chimleys
London
Hatton Garden Juvenile Housebreakers Charged
Patrick Callaghan and William Murphy both aged 15 were charged with feloniously entering a Bloomsbury dwelling. They climbed a wall entered the parlour and fled. a candle and threats were noted while a peace-warrant was granted and remand ordered for further evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hatton Garden
Patrick Callaghan
William Murphy
William
M‘william
Clarke
Bloomsbury
Benett
Polly Moriarty
Mary Ann Pearce
Lady Barrymore
St. Giles’s
Polly
Shipowner Ordered to Pay Hospital Dues and Costs
Mr Ballantine ruled a sick seaman is entitled to medical attendance and medicine at the shipowner's expense. The owner must ensure the illness was not of the man's own choosing and pay the claimed amount plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames Office
Mary Compton
Elizabeth Ann Valley
Greenwood
High-street
Shadwell
Valley
Harris
Clipson
Pinchin
Johnson
Ratcliff Highway
Messrs
Butler
Powell
Mr.ohnson
Sam
Lyles
Malcolm
Robert Sherard
London
Calcutta
Ballantine
Eyles
Brentford Petty Sessions Spotlight Hawks of the Theft Ring
Discovery of a wide stealing gang operating across Hampton Hampton Court Hampton Wick Teddington Twickenham and even Kew gardens. John Groom, the principal witness, disclosed all twelve members leading to warrants and remands for lead copper and other depredations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brentford
Hawrron
Hampton
Hampton Court
Hampton Wick
Teddington
Twickenham
Heston
Kew Gardens
Groom
Jeff Sharp
Clerkenwell
George Casey
Richard Collis
Thomas Atkins
Tinsley
Clitherow
Mesers
Baillie
Armstrong
Lady Goodricke
Johnn Groom
Lady Goodricke’s
Smokeylane
Read
Stevenson
Roseville
Casey
Mr. Reid
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John Colborne
Mr. Watson
Geneva
Joan Minpanke
Nisi
Baronet
Pocock
John
Sir John Peniston Milbanke
Ralph Noel
Byron
Viscountess Melbourne
John Noel Milbanke
John Milbanke
Countess Cowper
Viscount Melbourne
Noel Byron
Countess of Lovelace
Milbanke
Polich Reafporte
Mansion House
Guildhall
Marylebone
Marlborough Street
Samuel Evans
Chambers
Hertford
William Phelps
Brighton Bill
Owen Swift
France
Paris
Gray
Evans
Hertfordshire
Beresford
Policeman Mackenzie
Mackenzie
Charles Maynard, Esq
Limmer’s Hotel
Conant
Shutt
John Savage
Great Western Railway
Vigo Street
Mr. Conant
Worship Street
Smith
Barber
Hackney
Codd
Paddington Road
Hackney Road
Brambeth Street
Craner
M‘craw
Parker
James
John Barton
Bromley Lock
Hawkins
Mr. Hawkins
Gun Tavern
Edward Pearce
Ebdencourt
Pearltow
Blackfriars Road
Jeremy
Richard Hodgson
James Cuddy
L Division
Lord Ellenborough
Town Eal
Sir John Key
Bart
Wapping
Kinsey
Sir John
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