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Yesterday the Clare Militia left Ipswich, under mound 9f Major Frraossaus, for Harwich Bar tacks; and the Waterford Militia, under command 11 Lieutenant-Coloriel KIM*. Were expected to touch in from -Harwich, in two divisions, to-day. ~.........46.. L4ff RITILLIGINCE. • COURT OF XING'S Blink % NOV. U. kr. Justice Ls BLANC, previously to the arrival isf the other Judges, vela; occtipied for some time in hearing the justification of bail, and in granting se: *al Motions of Course. Jn the arrival of the other Judges, Abe court resided ti 3 the consideratinn of those cases set then for argument, in what is called the ie A:ga ins* for ,Tha NM IL via INTAIRIA3III OP DENJIASS. 'Whit was akar arrant respecting the term of issidence'netessary to give a pauper t.ft right of re- Smiting parish relief. • Mr. bioasxe contended, that a residence of forty days, tbe con* of one pear, did not give the 11 8 11 k Ide.GauLat and Mr. Samar argued maim main- NAND that forty days residence, even by - intervals, kids one year's -Sae year's service, gave the clam a and all *awes were to be found in the presentlase. • • The Court observed, that Is the argument went to affect many decisions as well as the Acts of Par-. Tramcar tespecting,patipers, they would take time to *lnsider of their judgment in the case now brought before them. Judgment deferred sine die. 'lle Coda then pinceeded to deliver a variety of *menu. TAB RING DANIEL EDAS'Goosos The SOLICITOR-GENERAL prayed judgment herein, the defendant having been found guilty at the Lan taster Assizes on an indictment of having bought Five Guineas at an advanced price, namely, for rts. 15s The defendant put in an unvouched paper, which' meted, that tllO offence had taken place in Septem ber! 1811, that he had answered to the indictment In January, 1812, that he had been pint to great ex: and distress since, *ad that the. present was Isis grit offence, GARROW expressed hie happiness that the document just read was an unvouched paper, fbr it had appeared in evidence that the present was not his fi s t . offence. The offence of which he bad been e,was the highest possible mis&impnor ; and was the first time that the Court had b .mn called to pus judgment since the passing of the recent "cc to this bea d, making the offence punishable as t taisdetneaster Mr. Justice Game delivered the sentence of the Coin Considering the present state of the current .cf , the realm, it was highly necessary that there sum, be such an Act in existence as the one under loch* defendant had been tried. The object . the defendant in offending as he.had done, was not fweydble of a doubt I and as it could not be ques ra ed that the Guineas had been purchased with 1 "` ! l e" of leading them nut of the kingdom,-the +egniatape bad ,hewn Its wisdom in 'caning the stem among the highest misdemeanors, for it was not to be borne, that a whole nation was to be incommoded by the conduct of such men as the two now before the Court. With the view, not dull of punishing die individuals before the Court, lint of holing out a warning to others, to make them beware how they committed a similar offence, the Conn sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned C le the endar Month Casde of . Lancaster, for the space of Six al s Tux &no v. =twit. Sir W. GAMOW 3110 prayed the sentence of the Lyon in this- ease. The offence was similar to the Gus noticed iibove, Brown having been found guilty el at Wean= charging him with purchasing Two Geilliii at an advanced price, be having given for . 488. es.-.-An Affidavit was put in by Drown th ekithitiagoii. idlkiinee—§it iibntiab ittiprisob". &Mit in the Castle of Lancaster. aim IN CHARLES w. WHITTAIZa I wlLLtaltt Mani, • -, ' MID OTlifill& The two above-named defendants were &bad guilty of a conspiracy against Mr. Gibson, with a. view to defraud him, in having represented then wives as men of very co ' Me wealth and con sequent, as merchants. y were tried before Lord Ellenborough, bat o above-named only had been found guilty. o - is having been ac quitted. • Lord EtAntraottoomi read the notes of the trial, from which it appeared, that one of them contrived to get himself introduced to a man of some conse quence in this town ; and from the tenor of his con duct, that individual felt interested in his situation, and ultimately recommended him to . Gibson, Whit her having represented himself to possess. a c a pital e4OOO. A partnership took place between Whit titer and Gibson, but failuie and bankruptcy suc ceeded. Sundry mercantile transactions had taken place, and suspicions had arisen as to the correctness of Whittaker's proceedings. Smith and one Lewis had traded, and had been constantly concerned. with Whittaker while ikpartnership with Gibson. Whit taker, after the faWre, had disappeared, and Smith said he would gPortugal in pursuit of him. At r Portsmouth Gib i ound some of the goods that bad belonged to him arid Whittaker as partners; and after various inquiries, *c. the defendants were tip ,prehended, to answer to the present charge. Whitaker put in an affidavit, stating, that he had been in Newgate since September 1811, existing prin. cipaily on gaol allowance, and throwing himself ou the mercy of tho2ourt. • Smith, alias Wilson, put in a similar affidavit; and ) t appeared from an observation that fell from Mr. Gurney, that this was the same'individual who, un. 1 der the name of Shuckard, had been charged with defrauding his namesake, a landlord at Brighton, of considerable sum of money, and acquitted in con . uence of some doubts having arisen respecting the Act of Parliament. Mr. §PARLETT briefly stated, that this fraud had been prictised upon a very honourable and frank young man, and had been carried on with the most consummate artifice. Mr. GURNtY simply stated; that the fraud was to the amount of several thousand pounds. Mr. Justice GROSZ, in delivering the sentence, ob served, that the defendants had been very properly convicted of the heaviest misdemeanor that posssibly could be committed in a populous and mercantile city ; and in rascal on the„case, he could not but shudder at the almost unequalled. tissue of fraud and knavery that characterized their case. The sentence of the Court was—That they be im prisoned in Newgate for Eighteen Months, and that they stand in the Pillory, once within 4 month from the time of receiving sentence, in front of the Royal Exchange, for the space of one hour, between the hours of twelve and two. 1 TB! KING V. JAM!S MINEL This was an information for having sent a chal lenge to Mr. Crang, a surgeon, of Bristol, with the view of provoking him to fight a duel ; judgment bad been suffered to go by default. From affidavits put in, on the part of the prosecu tion, it appeared, that some disturbances bad been i occasioned by the conduct of the defendant, late a linen-draper of Bristol, at the Theatre of that City, It originated in the defendant having endeavoured to proceed towards the front of a box, pushing by a party of ladies, in the most rude manner, although some gentlemen had offered to resign to him their seats, to obtain peace, and promote the comfort of the females. Words hereupon ensued, and the next . morning defendant sent a challenge to Crang, which not being cpmplied with, he posted Crang In sundry parts of the city as a ieward, having refused gentle manly satisfaction. Crang was a surgeon in the 2d • battalion of Gloucester militia. An affidavit made by Rennel was read. He stated that, perceiving room in the fiont of the box, he de sired his brother officer, for defendant was then Lieu tenant in the said regiment, to allow him to pass.— This ref nest was refused, Crang observing, «You shall not pass, by if you attempt it I will knock you down !" He attempted it, but received two blows, and had been compelled to quit the Theatre in consequent.. He sent the challenge, because he had thought, that to act otherwise would have bees to disgrace his Majesty's uniform ; and he was anxious that no tarnish should be left on it, by not complying with the custom between military men on such act ion. The continuing prevalence of these errobeow notions had Ted him into the indiscretion of posting Mr. Crang. He had been put to much expense, and heft& failed in trade, he trusted in the mercy of the Court. He had also been tried by a Court. Martial, and had been in consequence dismissed his rment. Sir W. Gnithow, CID the part of the prosecution* lamented that the fact of blows having been given by • Crang had not been established by the affidavits of °them • Mr. Gnriroab said, that the other affidavit did sup part defendant in that fact. As to the offer of a seat, iti weight much depended on the manner of offering, and it might be done in such a way as to give an Mr. Justice Gaon, in delivering the sentence of the Court, observed, that the custom, the barbarous custom, of Opting duels, was not to be endured; and he who displayed that true courage ) which would be evinced in resisting an invitation to commit such an offence, was not only deserving the support and good opinion of that Court, but the thanks of all good nten ' and lovers of the law.—The sentence of the Court was—To be imprisoned in the King's Bench for Three Months, and to find sureties for his good behaviour for three years. I.IIOL—THZ AISO W. 303111 11101RINDROOL The defendant had been found guilty, at the last Devon Assizes, of libelling Mr. Carpenter, a Magi:- ' trate, residing at Tavistock, by sending hi ts a private ktte;, charging him with bribery and corruption, in the exercise of his magisterial functions. It appeared that both patties resided at the same place, the defendant being a surgeon. A charge had been exhibited by a young girl against the defen dant ; but on being put on ber.oath, she swore that he had never taken any improper liberty with her.— Some time 01u:swards, however, the same girl, Mbar , yr, _ , 'hi il State billeekttsteY, Irak **tired btfets the i teen ttia Comtnissionlis a 'rates same Magistrate, and Aware th child if whielt the them en according to the r was den preghant ft, defehdant. Hereultm defen- , toyd, bdt there would be 'dant seat the letter to Mr. Carpenter, Which stared, jurisdiction upon. Ittat he 'Mist have suborned the girl to proceed in The Learned Counsel then this manner for the sate of injuring his former friend. their Lordships the peculiar Mr. Serjeant Pzu. spoke in mitigation of punish.. with Union Society was Went; and I into two branches, one of ' Mr. JEKYLL, and W. ADAM, called upon their ! and the other against loss Lordships for an exemplary pupunishment, on the ': ing to insure his property, ground that the Magiuxacz of the County ought to be purposes, a member of the 'protected. when they accumulated to The defendant was sentenced to be confined in the removed from the posseasii King's Bench Prison for six weeks. I employed in the purchase THE KING .. JOAN AGO. Mean time, the casualties This was a prosecution for a libel that had appea- by the money which remain( red in a periodical publication called " Town 1 alk," , Secretary, and at the end of . in January last, on Thomas Best, charging him with ' was faithfully divided amongst being a gambler, a swindler, and a man of the black- cording to their various shares. est hue—one who b a d b een the cause of his own to indemnify each other, ir dishonour, in driving his wife into a course of infa. : loss of IZSO per cent. was sit my, for the' ake of money, which be afterwards en- more properly, the half of I joyed. i Society only returned at the , It had been tried at Guildford at the last Surrey the pockets of the Proprietors. Assizes, and Lord ELLENSOROUGH read his notes of the Society was to have losses, the trial. Mr. Harrison, an attorney, had purchased I Baron GRAMMA ••••• 41 It i_ the publication, and had afterwards waited upon that prevents any profits from Agg, the publisher, a prisoner in the King's Bench, accumulated money." calling on him to give up the author. But Agg , The Learned Counsellor . i' said, " no, I never give up an author ; and as for :nsured at a much lower rate me, lam now a prisoner in the Bench, and have no office, 'and every person v.?! Money; therefore, neither fine nor imprisonment can ; the full benefit and advantages affect me, even though you prosecute and obtain a' prietors. In other societies, sentence against me." It also appeared from the came net a proprietor, and evidence, that the prosecutor in this case, Thomas I hey, which went to enrich some IBest, was the gentleman who had the misfortune to Baron .GRARAM •-•4 "If kill Lord Camelford in a duel. profits beyond an annnal ' An affidavit, made by Thomas Best, the prosecu. dividend appear in place of tor, now in the Rules of the Bench, was put in. It just goes to thew that you ' set forth not only the libel, but subsequent publics- so much of your money ; tions respecting it, and in illustration of it, that had employ it in trade." appeared in this " Town Talk ;". and it also set forth The Learned Counsellor the several reasons for devising the libel to have been ded, that the dividends were written on Mr. Best. profits, for they were in fact Mr. Am./4ms, for the defendant, called for a le- ty i for suppose that the Gentlemen nient judgment on his client, as' the libel was on a the ExcheqLer table were to matrwho had made himself the subject of general amount of £1 00 as a stock . talk by his conduct, and who was now living with a pences that might happen for very celebrated lady, although he had a wife in axis- which it appeared that £5O ' tence. As to the charge of not having given up,the pensatlon. would the rend, author, after the defendant had committed so great the contributors, appear to ~ a mistake by publishing the libel, he could not but would it be taxable by the think that some merit was due to Agg for his coo- bad rendered to the Comtni duct in this particular. - . , faithful account of the money Mr. NOLAN, on the part of the prosecution, obser- o;ety, with •E description of the ved with pointed severity on the heinousness of the tit was disbursed 1 btit they . libel, in calling a man, of whom it was in evidence augment, and had estimated the defendant knew nothing, a swindler, a gambler, at £lO,OOO, at £lB,OOO, an( and the cause of his own dishonour. . withstanding that it was ma( Mr. Justice GROSE delivered the sentence of the ciety had lost upwards of 171 Court, observing, that Agg appeared to be- a syste- meat, With regard to the aratic libeller, one who was destitute of fear, prinei. Insurance Society, the nature , pie, Or shame; and, under such circumstances, it be. somewhat different. Each . person bored the Court to take care that he should not out- the term of his natural life became irage private feelings and public decency with impu- community with all its advas 'silty. His sentence was, .. That he pay a fine of insured for a fixed term of 850 to the King, be imprisoned for nine months in not entitled to the full imniuni Newgate, and, at the expiration of such term, that Under that arrangement, , he enter into recogniiances, himself and two sureties made. An account of the . for three years." every two years, and a fifth The Court was occupied till near five o'clock in to establish a permanent fund pronouncing these judgments. , _ sure losses. Such being the COURT OF EXCHEQUER, NOVEMBER 29. aeries, he submitted, that the risa Kum V. BIGNOLD. e sessment had no jurisdiction, Mr. HOLROYD made application to the Court in Lordships possessed the power sent application. this case, to have the money returned which the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes had' obtained from The AT IVAN EY- 0 MOIRA L , to the application. In every the defendant, under a belief of profits having arisen Commissioners of Taxes possessed from his vocation, when it was utterly impossible noosing the profits, their determinatii that any profits could arise. and conclusive. No matter The Defendant is Secretary to the City of Nor- vocation were divided every with Union Fire and Life Insurance Offices, which or every seventh year, they _ have been for some time extending themselves over over them whatever shape they the kingdom, and now appertain to 30,000 proprie- sent ca , e, to skew the impror tors. In the course of the present year, the Com missioners of Taxes had levied an assessment upon diction, save over the representation what they conceived to be the profits of these socie- I might choose to make to then ties without being warranted by any annual account] mouser in a voca:ioti to start of gains delivered by the proprietors, according to missioners, '" since you have the Act of Parliament. Now he contended, that , have no 'sewer, but hid you the Commissioners of Taxes were not justified in then I should have allowed • making an assessment without such returns, their wer.,, He would not press not to the property. jurisdiction only extending itself to the profits, and r upon their Lordships any longer, , " The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he rose for the Mr. DAUSICZY said, I an , purpose of apprizing his Learned Friend, that he permission, on the same side intended to enter a preliminary objection against the Attorney-General. He to observe save this—the jurisdic, an application being made to the Court of Exche sioners is given by the property, not quer to set aside an assessment made by the Corn. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE s' missioners of Taxes, because it would draw into the of the Legislature in making Court all cases of questioned assessment ; besides, Commissioners conclusive, 1- he very much doubted whether the Court had any in the present application. such jurisdiction. ' aaprehand, bad their posh!. . HOLROYD recommenced, and humbly submit- &urea, siacn" -- ` eqaer would ted to the Court, that the present wet a case so pe- ployntent in' applicaiioai ag culiar in its nature, that their Lordships possessed an minefor the whole of the 366 ample jurisdiction to dispose of it according to their .• we .m was men p o sisn. mr..s.sauncey l judgments, notwithstanding that the Act of Parlia- property gave the right ot, ass meat made the assessment of the Commissioners of profits. The act of the Corms Taxes final and conclusive. For, according to the . conclusive, and the Court - - l Act itself, the duty was only to be imposed upon not the power of altering it. [profits, and where no profits were made, the jurisdic- Boon Tao( sr, Baron tion of the Commissioners ceased. • WOOD, were of the same opinion, Baron TSIOMPOON-44 Then by your argument ' n . • - on, o f consequence, was rejected. they have no right to inquire into the profits of pros . fusions or vocations." 45..i..11‘ The Lotto CRIER' JUSTICE said- 84 How is It pus- COURT OF COMMON ' table to assess profits without liberty of making int it. Z. teeirit, LIQ. v. roe, quirt' concerning their amount ? Is it to be taken ESQ. CRIES JUSTICE, on the simple assertion of the party, that he has Lord htoesuar, at the sitting , made no profits ? Every trade is placed under the , that with 'titian to the judgment r jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Taxes, whose' given in this case, there prevailed °Meet is to gain." i mon among th e Judges; and, ,fMr. Hotaovo answered, that the object of the so- if•postible, unanimity an a en' :elegy for Which be-appeared was not gain, for it was tude,it was deemed expedient a mere contract of indemnity between parties. lie eel on each side. WI submitted already to the Court, that no person . 1 Mi. Farm wished to ! leer 'society was subject to the jurisdiction of the would give precedence in argument . , the Colamissioners unless that profits arose from the em- senior Counsel ? ployment or profession which they followed. I Mr. Justice Fox—a We leave the manage at of Baron GRAHAM observed, that by the Learned ' that arrangement to your own judgments" • Clattleman's argument not one subject from which! 'lt is said, that on Tuesday nest Mr. BURTON Will property tax gm, would be included within the jos argue the ease on the part of the plaintiffs in de._ t fisdiction of the Commissioners. . Insurrer, and Mr. RAucurte aa set pan of the Ge l . The LORD CALIF .11STICII said, the jurisdiction of fondant. Fe' tales 011 Mika* • be arguments of hire Ft. • e nothing to exercise that then proceeded to siiew to liar plan_ on which the Nor. arranged ; it was divicie• r-hich insured against fire; of like Any person cholas., , becomei, to all Intents an Society. The premiums* to =ire than £2OOO, were' ion of the Secretary, and of Government secuities. lof fire were compensated ined in the hands of the of seven years, the residue) tongst the Proprietors &c- -hares. IQ tilis Assocjatida it always happened that a sustained, or, to expless it f the money paid into the :he end of seven years in :tors. The very nature of uses, but no gains. is a strange arrangement rom arising upon so much r continued.—The Society ate than any other Public whe insured succeeded to ages of the founding pre. • a man who insured be- -1 lost the whole of h,s moL some othet,perion. If you choose to forego 2 per cent. does not at rf profit ? Your argument do-not make altogedw as you would do did leis r continued.--He cohtegi. re'net to be considered as ' ct the capital of the socie. 3entlemen sitting around to contribute money to the c to relieve any casual ex. for a month, at the end of I, 0 had been given in corn. sue, when divided among , them as clear profits? and he Commissiotter ? They ' Itnissioners of the taxes a ney appertaining to the so. F the regulations by which had persisted in their 'as• hi the profits of three years lnd lastly at 419,000, not , nade evident that the so. 070,000 since its establish. he other branch. the Life , ire of its establishmerit wag . person who insured fot became a member of the rantagei ; and those who years short of life were itunities of the society...o: however, no profits war* accumulations was caked *th part was appropriated and in anticipation of fu- ze situation of the two so; the Conunissioners of Ai- -1 over them, and that their veer of grantinethe pre• r. made e brief resistant! very instance where the ossessed the power of a:- termination had been final r whether the profits of the I year, every third year, y possessed a Jurisdiction they assurried. In the pre. ropriety of the assessment, w that they had no juris- rsentation which the party rem. It was easy for a la• rt tip and sa f to the Com- e decided against me you ott decided in my favour' s I you an ample exercise of press so plain a question onger. tot, with your Lordship's le with my Learned Friend- e has left nothing for MO urisdiction of the Comm.'ie k erty, not by theiereits." It said, that the wisdeelt . tins those decisions of the , had been fully displayed: He had ever/ reason to . 'et been limited, the the Id have found . ample against erroneous asses*. 366 days of which the yslat- ey had properly said, time assessment, and not the. mmissioners was final and t of Exchequer possessed t. ,n Gamuts,. and Baron opinion, and the applico. rejected. N PLEAS, MEWL It mom , Row. W. DoWltle, mtcr, &c. Stc. itting of the Court, stated, igment of the Court to be ~ evaded a difference of vi- and, in order to prefabs, a subject of such risme. ient to hear another weep know whether the Clue argument to * junior • leave the usanegeeolat d IMMINPM • • A.61•••••= 10 -