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• ••r-r7. - ti I ~.-.., - }~ ~~ of the injury sustained by the plaintiff was lejrly at tribatable to that publication, being put forth two years after his suspension, and after be had, in fact, quitted the country. It should be remembered also, that there was no eitensive circulation of the libel. It was merely given in a private room, to an individual who held a high official station, and who had acci dentally called upon the Governor. He admitted that i. would have, been much better if the defendant had never published it, but it did not seem as if any very great injury could have been sustained by the mode of its publication. The Learned berjeant here es. pressed his regret that Mr. Frith, (the Attorney Ge. neral), when the libel was given to him, did not ex ercise that discretion which might , have been ex pected from his station, and immediately advise the Governer to suppress all fureber publication of the pamphlet. Such conduct war what ought to have been pursued by Mr. Frith, and if pursued the evil now eonaelained of would havebeen crushed at once. Mr. FRITH rose and addressed the Court. He said *there was a certain delicacy to be observed in expos tulating with the Governor of a Province. His Lord - ship knew what he meant. Sir V. Gnms—l do not know *hat you mean. I know that an Attorney General in this country, and I hope it is so in the Colonies, ought to speak as boldly to those who consult him, as they speak in consulting him, Mr. FRITHSO I did, but respectfully. , Sir V. Glans—Aye, aye, as respectfully as you f)nleetase. I wish to observe, however, that nothing has said by the Counsel for the defendant which need excite any unpleasant feeling in Mr. Frith's mind. Mr. Serjeant BEST-6414rd, the witness in his deposition said, that be did advise the Governor. General not to circulate the libel, when your Lords ship interrupted him. Sit V. Gins—He did not state any such thing, neither did I interrupt him. But I will ask him the question again. Did you advise General Garen of to publish the libel ? Mr. FRITH-1 think I did—l think it was very likely I did. Sir V. GlBBS—Exactly ; that's the answer I have. already. How can 1 take as evidence what a Gentle man thinks he did ? Mr. Serjeant Lazes was proceeding, and remarked. that if Mr. Frith, after be had taken the libel home with him, and read it, had even returned to . the Go vernor and remonstrated, no doubt the further circue lation of it would have been stopped, when Mr. FRITH again addresses; the Court, and said, I do now recollect that I did adopt that course. I observed to the Governor, that as it was probable Mr. Wyatt would never return t , the province, it would be bet ter not to do any thing which might mar his future prospects. Sir V. GIBBS—Did he ever circulate any after that? Mr. Flu - rat—Not to my knowledge. Mr.-Less then continued, and contended that it did not appear the libel had ever bcen shewn to any human being except Mr. Frith, and he seouhl put it therefore to the Jury whether that was a -case which called upon them to give exemplary damages ? What injury then could Mr. Wyatt have sustained ? He ee-esetue.i UOil. General Gore had been so imprudent as to publish the paper is and be leinented still mote that he was so unfortunate as not to have received proper advice from the person who was cons etent and bound to give it. With those observations ould leave the ca •naelmeds of the Jury. Sir . Bas charged the Tery ; prefacing his remarks by some observations which he addressed to Mr. Frith, with a view to remove any unpleasant feel. ings from his mind. He must know that the course which had been taken with respect to his evidence, was that which the practice of every court of judica • tore sanctioned. Nothing whit)) bad been said ought to give offence to him, and he would add, that there was nothing in Lis evidence which could be justly animadverted upon. With respect to the general merits of the case, it did not appear to him that the first charge had been proved, as there were no state ments in the pamphlet whidi shewed that what was there urged constituted the grounds on which Mr. Wyatt had been supended. The pamphlet, in fact, appeared to be only an answer to something which bad been published by Judge Thorpe and others. As to the last charge, that of libel, it had unquestionably been proved. The publication . of the pamphlet was an offence against the laws, which could not be de fended, and so far the plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict. It would be for the Jury to estimate what degree of damage the oharacter of Mr. Wyatt was likely to sustain from the publication of that pamph let, always bearing in mind the manner of its publi cation, and its very limited circulation. The Jury then retired for a short time, and gave a verdict of £BOO damages. PREROGATIVE COURT, JULY 10. LANGSIBAD 9. LEW= ACTING by /Ha GUARD/AB. This was a cause respecting the last will and tes tament, and codicil annexed, of John Clark Lang mead, Esq. late of the parish of Egg, Brickland, in the county of Devon, Esq. deceased. It appeared that the deceased died suddenly, a widower, on the 30th of ...larch, 1815, that on the 3d April, 1811, he drew up a paper, entitled, 44 Memorandum to com pose my Will, and to serve as such until I can reel larly execute one." By that will he gave die residue of his property unto his sons, John Clark Langmead and William Langmead; and the deceased delivered the same to a Mr. Jacobson, of Plymouth, his Solici. • tor, as instructions to make his will from ;at which time Mr. Jacobson informed the deceased, that it would operate as his will in case any accident hap pened. It -further appeared, that the deceased did' not call upon his Solicitor again concerning his will until after the death of his daugjuer, Mrs. Louisa Lewes (wife of Mr. J. W. Lewes) which took place in May, 1812, when he informed Mr. Jacobson, he wished to make some alteration in respect. to the dis position of his property, in consequence of that event. Phis instrument was propounded by the son of the deceased, and it was opposed by the grandee's of the deceased, on the ground of being entitled to a dis tribution of the personal estate and effects of the deceased. in case of an intestacy. The Court (SirJOHN NICHOLL) was clearly of opi nion that the deceased intended that this instrument should operate as his will till he made a snore regu-, lar and formal one ; and accordingly-the Court pro nounced for its validity, but directed the costs of sly ming; to be paid oat of the tvUttoes estate. • .1 OLD *ALM" Edward Cavil, .si boy of 14 years, was elPitall7 convicted of stealing a silver tea-pot, value 40s. the property of T. Divett, Esq. He was, however, ear nestly recommended to mercy by the Jury and the prosecutor; which recommendation. Mr. Justice Part stated, it would give him a heartfelt satisfaction to second. The boy had really a most prepossessing appearance, and was very much affected with his situation. James Cofilly, aged 16, and W. Lewis, aged 15. were accused of assaulting Catherine Lucas, and taking from her on the high way six pair of cotton stockings, and other articles : the indictment stated the articles to be the property of the girl, whereas it appeared they belonged to a Miss Parker, aged eight years, daughter of Mr. Parker, master of Lucas.— Tha child also was company with Lucas during the affray, and was not now in Court. There was every reason to believe the prisoners had taken the articles, but, owing to the above error in the indict anent, Mr. Justice Aaacn directed the prisoners to be acquitted, but ordered them to be - detained. William Jones, aged 24, and William Batten, aged 21, were then put to the bar, accused•ot stealing two watches, the property of Samuel Taylor. Mts. Taylor deposed she had left the watches in her room, .when she went out in the morning, and locked the 'door, but on her return in the evening found theta gone, and the ddbe open. .From the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared top 1w OM. watches were traced to the prisoners, lillesktnes particularly declared, when confronted wNk Batten at Queen's -square Office, that Batten had given them to hint to pledge, saying, that one of them was his lather's and the other his wife's, and that he was in great distress. The landlord of the house where Batten lodged declared that it was im possible for any person to pass to Taylor's room with out being seen by him, and he was positive Batten had not gone to that room on that day. Mr. Justice PARK was confident the Jury would acquit the prisoners. If Jones at all was concerned, he was merely a receiver, but could not be convicted of felony; and he certainly thought not the smallest shadow of evidence existed against Batten. The prisoners were acquitted. John Lewis, aged 37, a man of colour, in a deplo rably wretchefi situation ' was accused of stealing va rious articles from John Di.le. . The prosecutor stated his having known the prier,. ner for the last five or six years, and on Friday even ing, 7th June, having taken him to sleep with him, in conseqtence of his saying be was in great distress, he left him in the room in the morning, and gave him some victuals. On Sunday morning, while exa mining his chest, he found a blue coat, a white gown, and a shirt, taken away. He saw the prisoner again an the 24th, and questioned him in custody of an of ficer respecting the theft, which prisoner couleur and said he was very sorry for. Daniel Watts declared the prisoner came to him l on the Bth June, and offered him the above articles for sale, saying the coat WAS his own, and the gown the property of his girl, whom he had quarrelled with, and that he sold them from being in poverty. Wit. ness would not buy them; but he saw the prisoner again on Monday, who told him he had sold them to a woman in Rosemary-lane, for Bs. and some gin. John Lines apprehended the prisoner, who confessed' his having stolen the articles, and accompanied ness and Dole to the hnuses where he said he had sold them, but the people of these houses denied hav ing seen them. They were Jews. The Jury found him guilty of stealing 595. only. Thomas Dover, aged 15, was accused of stealing several sheets and other articles, in the possession of Matilda Scott, wife of James Scott, Mary-la-bonne. It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor had left the articles in a wash-house, after fastening the door, but not the window. The prisoner was found in the morning, about three o'clock, by the watchman of Croft -street, carryibg a wet bundle in a bag, which he said was his own property, and which afterwards was proved by the prosecutrix to be hers. In his defence, he now said . he had been locked out by his =Ono, and bad taken shelter in a building, in one corner of which he found the clothes.— Guilty. Margaret Welch, aged 46, was capitally convicted of stealing a piece of flannel privately in a shop, to the value of 6s. The flannel was found concealed under her gown a minute after the, theft, by the prosecutor. Solomon Bowerman, charged with stealing a horse and collar, the property of Robert Roffey, and a cart, the property of John Bullen, was then put to the bar. The latter charge was however abandoned. Robert Roffey missed the horse in question on the 18th of June. It had been locked in the stable by hi; boy the evening before, but the dour of the stable had been broke open. Does not know what hand the prisoner had in this transaction, but witness again saw the horse on the 21st, in the Grafton Head pub lic-house, Tottenham Court-road. He saw the horse in the yard just now, which he identifies to be his. Thomas Waitron corroborated the preceding. He identified the collar to be his master's property. George Hughes remembers the prisoner and ano. then man coming into the above public-house on the 18th, when a third person, named Read, who lives near the house, was in the same box with them. Was desired by prisoner twice to give the horse he brought with him a quartern• of oats. There was a cart brought to the house at the same time. Saw prisoner next morning, and detained him by the orders they bad received, in consequence of his being charged with stealing a horse and can. Witness never saw the horse and cart before. John Squib, constable s appiehended the prisoner, and on searching him found in his left pocket a loaded pistol. Prisoner said the horse Vas his own. Thomas Edwards, constable, found an iron crow in the cart, said to pelong to prisoner. The prisoner in his defence called. John Kenton, sawyer, who declared be knew the prisoner only by sight, but on the morning of the 18th saw him buy the horse and cart from an individual in Tottenham.] court-road, not far from the public-house. Saw hint, give £l2 in paper, and Al in silver, to the seller of the horse and cart. Knew that prisoner was a labour. ing man at the Regent's Canal, and never heard ti his having a shilling before. An ingenious cross.eiamination took place by Mr. ADOLIMOS and the Learned Judge, which very snuck weakened the veracity of- the witness. Mary Gates stated the primmer lodged with hot aid was in bed on the morning of the 17th till nib. and mune borne at seven in the evening, and did not go oat till six in the morning of the 18th. Two boys of hers, one aged twelve, the other eight years, slept with him. He paid her half a crown a week for bed and washing. The Learned Judge (Mr. Justice PARK) summed .up the evidence. He left it to the Jury to consider what credit they could attach to the singular testi mony of Kenton, and he certainly thought it ex tremely unfortunate for the prisoner that he had not called the man Read, who was said to have seen the purchase of the hone, and also the two boys who had slept with him, to prove his being that night at home. The Jury would easily see what credit the testimony of Kenton, or the last witness, Gates, deserved, from this glaring defect. Atter retiring a few minutes, the Jury returned a ♦erdict of Guilty. Thomas Desmond, for stealing a coat, value 30s. the property of John Adams, was acquitted. . • . POLICE. MA RLBMICHIGH -arritErr.--Bastaarr.—A quest ion came before the Sitting Magistrates yesterday, of the first• importance to such per sons as are concerned in Batumi. It was, whether a person paying three shil ling per week for a sleeping room, and nine :billings for a stand, is a Bazaar. in the same parish, making a rental of twelve shillings per week, became a pa rishioner ? A person renting a stall in a market, and having a lodging in the same parish, is, by the joint rent, considered a parishioner. This is a new case, and will be decided at the Sessions. HATTON Gattnex.--Yesterday Thomas Full, land lord of the Fox under the Hill, Fox -court, in the Strand, appeared to a summons to answer to an in formation laid against him by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, for suffering persons to be tip pling in his house, during Divine Service on the LOMA Day. It appeared on evidence, that between eleven and twelve o'clock, on Sunday the 23d of June, there were between forty and fifty persons smoking and drinking in his house. The defendant stated, that his house was situate close to the water side, and that the persons found there, were market people from the country. He was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 10s. and costs. Roam Green, of the Queen's Head and Artichoke, Regent's risk, and Mikan Anne:, of the Jew's Harp, Regent's Park, were charged with having several 'persons tippling in their houses, during Divine Ser vice, on Sunday the 16th of June ; it being their first offence, and having . observed strict order since that time, they were reprimanded and discharged, on pay ing the costs, the Society not pressing for the penalty. Henry Skinner, of the Blackmoor's Head, Exett.• street, Strand, was charged with a similar offence ; about twelve o'clock, on Sunday the 23d of June: the defendant stated, that there were several workmen employed on the new English Opera House, that worked all day on Sundays, in order to complete that building, and that twelve o'clock being their dinner hour, they only came to his house to have their din ners. The Magistrate observed, that their doing an itlegal act, for which they were all liable to have in formations laid against them, could not be a sufficient excuse for him in a breach of the Sabbath, but it being his first offence, and the Society not pressing for the penalty, on his promising not to offend again in like manner, he was discharged on paying the costs. On the Ist of July, the foundation stone was laid of a . column erecting at Ahiwick, by - the Duke of Northumberland's tenants, to perpetuate the many acts of his Grace's benevolence and generosity. when a great concourse of people collected to see the cere mony on that occasion. Friday morning, about three or four o'clock, a house in the Main•street, Anderston, Glasgow, was broken into,. -by means of a ladder, at the kitchen window. Friday se'naight, a fine young man of the name of Davidson, while bathing in a m:il•pond at Munlochy, near Inverness, was unfortunately drowned. _ _ Tuesday se'nnight, a man employed with several others in blowing a rock - a; a quarry near Stonehaven, was, on the explosion, struck by a fragment of the stone, and killed on the spot. Friday morning, a sawyer of the name of Robert son,' whilst walking up Marischal.strtet, Aberdeen, with another man,dropped down and instantlyexpired. 'A labourer at the Hedderwick Limework, Forfar. shire, of the name of John Christie, on Friday,, had his skull so dreadfully fractured by a stone which had been blown up falling on it, that he died in a few hours afterwards, leaving a wife and child. TUE SEMAPHORL—This improved machine began working on Wednesday, between the Admiralty and Chatham. The communications by this means very far surpass the Telegraph recently in use, both in ce laity and perspicuity. One among the great advan. sages obtained is the distinctness of observing the ap paratus from one station to another, which is accoun ted for from the late one being of a square form, and thereby holding the density of the atmosphere, apd the present being simply an upright hollow mast. The Telegraph, it is well known, consisted of six shutters or flaps, and could not, by any means, pro duce one hundred combinations. So superior are the powers possessed by this machine, that with only two arms it produces not merely letters and words, bit whole sentences, and upwards of two thousand different symbols. The ingenuity- displayed in the Arrangements is exceedingly great—and it may be said that communicating by characters in this man ner has reached its utmost limits. The powers of this machine are not confined to the naval service, and its construction is upon such simple principles as to admit of its being adapted to all the uses of an army, and can be conveyed in five minutes, in a waggon, from place to place, as circumstances re. quire. His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, Sir HENRY TORRENS, Sir H. CALVERT, and several noble and distinguished Officers; have inspected it for this purpose, and pronounced thek approbation of its powers. The public are indebted to Admiral Sir HOUR Poennu, for the improvement and adoption of this important invention, who has displayed great science and judgment in the arrangement. During the late war, it is notorious the utility this species of communication was to the Corsican ; and we trust, that should Ragland be again called on in defence of her just Rights, that this country will derive every advantage wbiFh this species of communication can nerd- '.4 "‘w,: Or ' LIBUT.-VaLONAL SIR JOHN Drsk of at this lgallantwlet.wOhtrheyccreernminateirirdeel Royal Arttile"ry. His death w as t o h n e T W 2 h d e ed b r n e m e t m t s a d a i a:y n s , 0 f occasioned on the 2d instant, in endeavouring to st , as the cart iage of I.ieut. Col. Invniv, of the san e f e T. v i ce . His coachman, who was on the top of the c, a .I , brushing off some dust, called out tohi n ,, as h e w t ' s coming out of his garden, 66 Oh, Colonel, stop the horses!" He endeavoured to do so. and caugh t . re of them by the bridle ; the horse plunged forward i and the poll struck the Colonel n the breast, mut knocked him down, and the horses and carriae went over hi m s he got up and walked into his own Jo liet and dropped down. His wife was instantly sent lot IA where she was, and all possible aid procured, but three of the ribs had been broken, and one stuck into his heart. He lingered in great agony mail ti to o'clock in the morning, and then died. '1.11,! aecider.i happened about half past one o'clock at n , 01 • li e has left a widow and four children unprnvided h c , Lieutenant-Colonel DYER was a Knight C .nlrn. in d er of the Bath. He had distinguisbed h;mselt on 'N or loccasions, and had one medal more thin the Duke of WELLINGTOW VAUXHALL.--Crowds of elegant and fashions k company attended the splendid gala, at this ta sc h ia . ting scene of delight and wonder, on Werfi tes ,l l eight. The music was uncommonly attractive, 1 1,, sweet warbling: of little BLAND continue to chains every one. Moss MATHEWS also rung semil airs with her customary sweetness and judgment. B e . tween the acts, Madame SAQVI, her hoosband, and re, veral others, executed a variety of graceful perfor: mantes upon two ropes. Indeed, with regard to the general complexion of the Gardens, it was ex. tremely pleasing—nor could any union of art with ns. tural beauty, surpass the impression which the eye rt. ceived on observing the moon shed its soft and ckucl. less lustre over the trembling foliage of the lefty trees, at the moment Madame SAQU! was making her grand ascent amid a blaze of fire works. New COINAGE.—The new Silver Coinage is going on with astonishing rapidity : nearly 150,000 pieces are coined daily, and in a week that quantity, im. mense as it is, will be doubled. The head resembles that on the last issued three shilling pieces. ' The re. verse is beautiful ; it has the Arms of Great &itri t o very richly emblazoned, in the manner of the foie Italian silver pieces under BONAPARTE. The inscnp. tions are handsome, but the letters are in very low relief. The milling round the edge is not only new, but surpassing any thing . of the kind we remember to have seen. The edge is raised so as to protect the effigies, arms, and exergue from being speedily worn plain ; and the milling is applied in deep perpendi. cular indents upon the circumference. In this respect the money in preparation is far superior to the early coinage of his Majesty's reign, not only in milky, but in richness of appearance. In addition to the gold sovereigns, and doable sovereigns, there will he half sovereign:, and crowns and half-crowns. Tte new coinage is expected to be issued simultanecnoly all over the Island ; in order to accomplish which, large deposits will be previously made in every con siderable town : and when all is complete, a . 10731 Proclamation will be issued. Between 69 anJ millions of pieces, chiefly shillings and sixpences, eh{ be given at once to the public, and the larger mote? will thereafter be circulated progressively as the h. hours of the Mint enable the issues to be made. CER FIFICATES, lutr SO. D. A. T. Young and W. W. Abbott, Water-lace, eat o W. Pearce and W. Westhorp, Liverpol, merchant.—J. ban, Sheffield, draper—E. Edwards, Gummy, Carnarvon, reactant —I. and J. Cullimore, Church.court, Clements's-let e,i ine ate brokers—J. Beadslls, Cambridge, cabinet-maker —J P. LAO, Bishopsgate-street, insurance-broker-1. Hrttt.on, Mandeserr, plumber—T. Carlen and W. Wilson, Fenchurch.street, crol.fae. tors—A. Heartley and J. Catlen, Portsmouth. ship-chanillem-- W. Scott, Pall-mall, Wooiridge, Plaistow, grote:.--1. Mason, Little horock, hay dealer—J. Tolson, Brighouse, York shire, grocer—W. Scott, Portsmouth, wine-merchant—E. Crake and H. and I. Ingledew, Borough Market, potatoe.m-rchauts— W. Stuckey, Fleet.strect, vintner—T. Williams, Derby, bra.- founder —T. Banks, Little Hill Home, Stafford. timher snerchw. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Captsin'i gen, of the 25th Regiment of Foot, to Miss Bailie, only daugh ter of Dr. Bailie. Tuesday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Capt. l lawker.R.N. to Jeanne-Maria, eldest daughter of the late George Pllll.e, July 5, at Trnnothside, Captain Begbie, of the 8.2 d moment, to Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-General Range. PRICE OF S [OCRS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock, 2171 Osmium , Vital S per Ct. Rest. 6311 lndia Monde 4 5 pr. 3 per Cent. Cons. 649 Exch. Bills 4 6 pr. 1 per f.:ent. 789 I Consols fnr Aec. 641 1 1” I Loup Aun. 15 15-16 i Lottery Tiekets,_X23. 191. MATR I MON Y. 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