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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DECEMBER 14. - - The LORD CHANCELLOR, adverting .to the many judgments in arrear, said he would, on Saturday, state the respective days on which he would dispose of the cases which stood over for that purpose. The cause of his net having disposed of them before was, that be had had of late two most painful duties to perform, which had engrossed much of his time; and when he said this, he felt confident that he had satisfied every person concerned in the cases which were in consequence thrown back. His Lordship subsequently took occasion to notice the circum stance of motions, which might be made in the other Courts, being now brought into that of his Lordship, and cornplained of the increase of business that took place in consequence. Motions, he observed, were only heard on one day in the week by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor; but, were the dine enlarged, it would enable his Lordship to make a farther pro gress in the appeal causes which stood over. He would, however, have a conversation with the Vice- Chancellor on the subject, and at present he begged to be understood as not attaching blame to any one. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DECEMBER 14. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA U. SMLTH, This was an action in which the noble plaintiff sought to recover from the Hundreci.ti Ossnlston, the amount of the damages done totis house by a riotous and tumultuous mob, on the night of.the Bth of June last. The Counsel for the plaintiff observed, that cv7rybody must recollect the evening when" the' Queen arrived in London, on her return from the Continent, and the confusion which prevailed on the occasion in several places at the west-end of the town that night. He should spew, that this night a riotous assemblage had surrounded the house of the Noble Marquis, and broke great numbers of the windows, the value of which he now sought to recover from the Hundred. The Learned Counsel then called the Collector of Taxes, and the Under Sheriff of Middle sex, to prove that the Parish of St. Ann's was in the Hundred of Oss e ulston. . J. Warren, a watchman, who had been stationed near Burlington-gardens, on the night of the Bth of June, said, that on that night, about 300 or 400 per sons came down Clifford-street ; that they came to the Marquis of Angleseis house, facing Burlington gardens ; they hallooed out, " Lights for the Queen," broke windows in Lord Sidmouth's house, and also in the house of Lord Anglesea. They never waited to see if the lights would - be put up, but set to work , as hard as they could. This was the night of the Queen's arrival in London, and it happened about 11. George Gill, the doorkeeper of the Marquis's house, saw the people passing and repassing on the night in question, and crying 4. Light up." He af terwards heard the windows on the south side broken. On the morning of that day they were entire. The glazier employed by Lord Anglesea to repair the windows, said he had put in several panes of' glass, sixteen of them were plate glass, and his bill came to £45 16s. The charge was a reasonable one. The Counsel for the Hundred contended, that the assemblage in question was not such a riotous one as came within the Act of Parliament. Several houses were illuminated on the night in question; and it was a common thing for a set of idle boys to go about on such occasions, and throw stones at those windows which had no lights in them. These, therefore, could not be considered as a riotous assemblage. They merely wished to do honour to their beloved Queen on her arrival in England. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in his charge to the Jury, said, the only question was, whether this was such an assembly as was pointed out by the Act? The watchman declared there were several hundred persons collected together, making a great noise, and throwing stones, &c. and it appeared the watchmen were assaulted. Could any one doubt, then, that this was a riotous or tumultuous assembly ? Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages L'04.5 16s. HOWES AND OTHERS V. COLLYEAR. This was an action brought to recover the sum of £135, being the amount of two bills which had been accepted by the defendant, Mr. Collyear, commonly called Lord Milsington, in consideration Of goods fur ni.hed to his Lordship by the plaintiff's, who were linen-drapers. The first bill was for £99, the second was for They were both accepted in July last ; they were made payable at No. 11, New-square, l Lincoln's Inn.—The shopman of the plaintiffs gave evidence as to Lord Milsington having given the bill for goods supplied is a Mr. Giles. Verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, including interest, £156 17 s. Id. THE KING V. WEBB. This was an indictment for wilful and corrupt per jurf, alleged to have been committed in an answer to a Bill in Chancery. _ • A flaw was discovered in the indictment before the met its of the case were gone into, and therefore the defendant was•pronounced—Not Guilty. JERVIS V. SLOPER, GENT. This was an action by an apothecary and surgeon' in Compton-street, Soho, against an attorney of the Court, for medicines supplied him in the cure of a lapsus in the thigh. The defendant pleaded a tender of £5 in answer to the demand of £8 16s. The plaintiff's case was supported principally by the evidence of his two daughters, who proved that they had seen the defendant at their father's shop a great many times within two months. and that he -carried away with him twenty-four boxes of pills, a •great many bottles of medicine, and large quantities cif liniment, amounting to the sum of £8 16s. It was admitted that the defendant had tendered £5. • Mr. GURNEY for the defendant, contended that this was an 'exorbitant demand. The defendant had ten dered £5 which was as much as the plaintiff was en titled to. He was certain the plaintiff had charged ':for mare medicine than the defendant had ever re ceived. Amongst other items were 24 boxes of pills • and 31 bottles of mixture. It was impossible the • defendant cohld have taken this quantity in five weeks time; and why was' it impossible ? why be cause the defendant was now sitting before him in, .Court dive. There was one part of the plaintiff's conduct which shewed him, however, to be 4 man of, some humanity,the last item in his bill was a box of tonic pills. Now certainly it was kind of him, as he had determined to bring hii action against the fendant, to send bim sane *mitts to strengthen mid give him spirits tinderliismisfortune. The defendant was now most willing to pay for 10 boxes of pills, apd 15 mixtures, a quantity of physic much exceedibg what his utmost efforts had enabled him to digest. \- The CHIMP JUSTICE left the question in this case of Physic r. Law to the Jury to decide, who found a verdict for the plaintiff for the whole of his demand. THE KANO V. TYLER. This was a prosecution instituted by the Society for the Suppression of Vice against the defendant, a bookseller, residing in Wych-street, for selling Painis Age of Reason. • Mr. G traNEY stated the case to the Jury, and called J. Raynell, who stated that he was desired by the Society for the Suppression of Vice to go to the shop of the defendant, and discover if he was in the habit of selling Paine's Works. He accordingly went to the shop on the 4th of July. He purchased two or three small pamphlets. The defendant asked him if there was anything else he wanted? Witness said he wanted Paine's Age of Reason; the defendant said he had it not, but could get it if the witness would pay £1 for it. Witness said this was a high price, but ultimately offered 16s. for it. The defendant desired he would call again. Witness accordingly went away, and returned again on the 7th of July, when the defendant delivered the book to him, for which he paid 16s. T.,Fore went to the defendant's shop on the Bth of July last, and asked him for the Theological Works of Thomas Paine. The defendant said he had not got them, but could get them for the witness if he would pay a large price. Witness asked how much ? He said one pound. Witness observed that was an enor mous price; to which the defendant replied that it was, bat that they were now so scarce, that any money might be had for them. At length, he said he would get them -for sixteen shillings, if he could be certain the witness would again call for them.— Witness assured him he would, but to make the thing certain he would pay beforehand. Witness accord ingly did so, and returned again in about two hours, when the defendant took the book from off a trunk behind the counter, and delivered it to the witness. Cross-examined.—Witness was at this time em ployed by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, as clerk to Mr. Pritchard, the Attorney to the Society. Passages - from the work were read. Mr. ADOLPHUS addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant. The Age of Reason was a work so well known, that he should not insult the Jury by supposing, for a moment, that they were ignorant of it, or of its nature. The work had been repeatedly condemned, by Judges and Juries, as destructive to Religion and morals, and in that opinion he entirely agreed; he was not the person, therefore, who would become the advocate of such a publication. The de fendant was aware of that when he selected him for his Counsel. The duty he bad now to perform was, not to defend the work, but to protect, if he could, his client. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment on the nature of this prosecution. It was in stituted by a Society called s , The Society for the Suppression of Vice." This was a Body which had done infinite service to public morals; but, like all other Public Bodies, its acts were sometimes wrong ; such, in his opinion, was the character due to their proceedings on this occasion. What had been the !conduct of his client ? Was he one of those who displayed Thomas Paine's Works in his windows, or whose shop was designated by the appellation of " The Temple of Reason ?" So far from this-being the case, so far from his inviting-the Public to pur chase these interdicted works, he was not ready to produce them even when applied to by customers ; and it was not till after an enormous price had been offered for them, that he consented to obtain them for the witnesses called on the part of the prosecu tion. The high price charged for the publication, counteracted, he contended, the evil of the sale. He was aware this would not alone entitle him to ask for a verdict ; but he trusted it would operate in mitigation of punishment when brought up for j udg, - ment. The possession of this book in proper hands, might be productive of the greatest benefit to so ciety. If the Bishop of Llandaff had not possessed and read it too, and that with attention, the world could never have had the advantages arising from that Rev. Prelate's most excellent and conclusive re futation of it. He (Mr. Adolphus) did not scruple to acknowledge that he possessed this obnoxious work ; he considered it as necessary to illustrate some parts of the history of our country, as were many other works condemned by both law and morality as works of general circulation. He doubted not but if his library were examined, not the open shelves, indeed, but his closet, and se:ect reposittiry, works would be found amongst tht books which would subject him to imprisonment as the possessor of ri baldry, or sentence him to the 'scaffold as the pur chaser of treason. In the present case he could not 'bin think kindness and a caution to the detendant, would have had more effect in retaining him from the sale of this work than the prosecution had had. The Learned Counsel concluded by expressing his conviction that even should the Jury feel themselves compelled, by the evidence, to find the defendant guilty, their verdict would be accompanied by a re commendation to mercy. The Jury found the defendant Guilty, but begged to recommend him to the mercy of the Court. The CHIEF JUSTICE said, every attention should be paid to this recommendation if, on enquiry, the defendant should appear to deserve it. Mr. GURNEY said, the defendant had been once already excused from prosecution for selling this work, on his promise not to offend again. Yesterday, the Grand Jury for Middlesex found another time Bill against the notorious Fletcher, alias Franklin, for a misdemeanour, in obstructing ar perverting the due course of justice, by writing, composing, and publishing to each of the Jury who were summoned to try Sir Francis Burdett, a letter, calculated to inflame their judgment, and urge them to find a verdict against the worthy Baronet The letter in question, it will be recollected, was received by the Jurymen immediately on the eve of the trial, and not only occasioned a great sensation, but was very severely animadverted upon by the Ministerial Prints, as being the wicked effort of some crazy Ra dical, and one of them stated its opinion that it would, 'perhaps, be attributed to some Got►eroment Spy. . OZD.BAILXV, DEC 1411,0.4. P. Connell, W. 114 "Iri ndicted for .stealing three seals key, the l propett l Y of C.:T. Ireland, from his Perm?. The prosecutor was passing down DrorT"lgne,l when-he was hustled by the prisoners, Who attempted to snatch his waft's, but the chain broke, and. they got only his seals.. The who Jury apprehended founde prisoners th em s a id, th Guilty,e y most desperate thieves in the parish of St. Giles, (n- its neighbourhood. Connell was tried .at the l ast Sessions, with two others, for a highway robb er y , were e and the b t Officer and his companions in that offence. are now under sentence of death in Newgate. W. Saunders, a man of respectable appearance, was charged with . stealing . two books, the property of Mr. Taylor, a solicitor, in Furnivars-inn. The prisoner was employed as a copying clerk, in Mr. Taylor's office, and being entrusted with two books to take to Mr. Winyard, a surgeon, in Nas sau-street, he sold them to Mr. Callow, a medical bookseller, in &who. The prisoner addressed the Jury in a very superior manner, and apparently labouring under the deepest emotion. He acknowledged the offence, but de clared that he had been driven to the commission of it by the direst distress. He had been five months in prison for debt; and, in order to obtain his release, had executed a warrant of attorney, engaging to pay Ss. a-week. He had but a guinea a-week at Mr. Taylor's, and when he sold the books in ques tion, it was to enable him to keep up the payment be had engaged to do, or go again to prison. These facts, added to the circumstance that he bad been for the last fifteen years almost the only . sitipartof an aged mother and a sister, would, he hoped, ope rate favourably for him in the minds of the Court and Jury. He concluded his address in tears. The Jury found him Guilty; but recommended him in the strongest manner to mercy, and with prompt humanity made a subscription for the pri soner, to which several Gentlemen in Court added their donations, and a handsome sum was in a few minutes collected, This scene produced an effect that can be better felt than described. The women were all in tears. Mr. Taylor prosecuted the pri soner entirely for the sake of example to his younger clerks, of whom he had several. He had behaved in the kindest manner to the prisoner, having taken him in a state of poverty, and completely clothed him. Thomas Lowick was indicted for embezzling £lO, the property of Mr. Bodkin, Secretary of the Men dicky Society, Red Lion-square. The prisoner was la messenger in the office, and in that situation was entrusted to redeem some property. It appeared by .. the evidence of Mr. Fagan, an officer of the Esta blishment, that he had redeemed a part of the pro perty, and applied it to his own use. Oa being suspected, he absconded with the rest of the money, and was apprehended by John Wright, the officer attached to the Society. He was found Guilty on the clearest evidence. - William Cunningham, John Holdstock, and Wil iiain Russell, were indicted for stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of some seamen, on board the Flying Fish tender. Cunningham was found Guilty : the others were acquitted. Fanny South was convicted of stealing apair of sheets and a cennterpane, the property of John Wise, from a lodging-house. The Recommit humanely promised the Jury to place the prisoner in a situa tion where she would have an opportunity of re deeming her character. Thomas Pearson was indicted for stealing a pair of plated spurs, a great coat, and other articles, of the value of £3, the property of the Hon. Grandy Berkeley. The robbery was clearly proved, and the prisoner made no defence, but Threw himself upon the mercy of the Court. He was found Guilty, and the RECORDER promised that due attention should be paid to themerciful suggestions of the Jury, this being his first offence. Joseph Clark and John Dawson, alias Farrington, two young men of apparent respectability, were in dicted for obtaining of Mr. Samuel Nock, gun menus facturer, £2OO worth of goods under false pretences. It appeared by the evidence, that a Lady, of the name of Catherine Farrington, had lately died, leav ing property to a very large amount to Mrs. Trickey, who is the residuary legatee under the will. The prisoners represented to Mr. Nock that they were the rightful heirs to this property so left by Mrs. Far rington; that Messrs. Blunt and Beaumont, the So licitors to Mrs. Trickey, had acknowledged them to be so ; that they had an action in the Exchequer against the residuary legatee; and that, in fact, in a very short space of time, they would become pos sessed of this large property. As a further induce ment to allow the prisoners to have the property they afterwards obtained, they referred Mr. Nock to their own Solicitors, Messrs. Robins, Lincoln's Inn. Under these circumstances he allowed the misoners to order £lll worth of guns. Mr. Samuel Nock proved the fact, that the pri soners came to his shop on the 21st September last, ordered the goods, and described themselves as above stated. A list of legacies was also left with witness by the prisoners. amounting in the whole to £3800; ind this was accompanied with an account of the stock in the Bank, left under the will, to the amount of £60,000. The property taken away on the 21st consisted of two double-barrelled guns, value 92 gui• neas, and their case, together with other instrumentso is ounting to £lll. Becoming alarmed after he had parted with this property, he went to Messrs. Robins's office, in Lincoln's Inn. He there saw Mrs Booth, representing himself-as the chief clerk of Mr. Robins. By him he was told that there was n o do u bt in his mind but that Farrington was the ri g htf u l liar to the property; and this he knew from documents in his hands. _ On talking to Mr. Robins on the sub-, ject, he put himself in a rage at the idea of being re. (erred to upon the subject, and. said that he would .not be referred to even by the Bank of England. lis ,added, that, as far as human foresight could go, lei believed that Farrington was the rightful heir. • It was afterwards proved, by other witnesses ! did the prisoners had pawned one of the guns for £l2 at a pawnbrokerk; that previously to the fraud the prisoner Clark lived in a house in Greenfield -street, nearthe deceased Mrs. Farrington's house, and that the prisoner Dawson visited him, Mr. Beaumont proved that neither he nor his partner ever wrote any letter stating that cher were ready to deliver up the property in coestion to ..t e prisoner: A dish-ages had - been . put upon 'the p. o , party in the funds.. The will of William Farring: o2 Was read; and it contained not, a syllable respecti ng the prisoner Dawson, alias Farrington. In stating the fact to the Jury, the COMMON S tk . iiinnyremirked dpon'the filet; that neither Robi nt or Booth had been called by-the prisoners. The Jury might draw a toletably cotreit conclusion as to the ' reasons which actuated these_ two Gentlemen in NA appearing, and the pristmers in not calling them. The Amy, without hesitation,-found both the pi. soners.—Guilty. The prisoners were again indicted upon a sepa:-, :e charge of defrauding Mr. Nock, upon false prete rce , i of other guns, worth about £6O, on the 22d of tember. Upon this charge also the prisoners found—. Guil ty. The prisoners then received the sentence o f I : Court Upon the first indictment—to be p u y,; c whipped ; and upon the second—to be trati•portce for seven years. The COMMON SERJRANT observed, that he had ad vised the trial of the prisoners upon both indictment., in order that they might receive a doublepunidinie m , and he hoped the corporal punishment would be ex. emplarily inflicted. fhe pri ioners were mo-t dan gerous swindlers, and ought to be severely punished. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a daric villain dashed his hand through a pane of glass is the shop window of Mr. A amsramso, pawnbro',ei, in , Baldwin's-gardens, Leather-lane, and drex on: .1 valuable silver watch, with which he ran off; he %, „i immediately pursued and taken, when he delibe rately gave up the ploperty . to Norris, a constable. To a remark made, that it was surprising he did rut cut his hand, .he replied, he took care of that, for he wrapped his handkerchief round to prevent it; and that his object was to get transported. Yesterday, a young man called at the shop of :11-. WiLk tics, a grocer, in Charles -street, St. George's in the East, stating that he lived close by, and would be a customer for the future ; he then requested Mrs. Wilkins, who was the only person then in the slop, to accommodate him with a shilling or sixpence of the new coin, as he wanted it for a particular pur pose. Mrs:Wilkins, in order to comply with his desire, took a small wooden bowl, in which the sil. ver was kept, and placed it on the counter, when the fellow snatched upwards of £2 out of it, and el fected his escape. Yesterday evening, while the family were engaged serving at the bar, some villains placed a laJder against one of the first floor windows of the New Globe public-house, in Mile-End-road, entered the landlord's bed-room, and. carried off from his desk, £2O in Bank-notes, £2O in silver, and some trinkets Tuesday evening, Mr. P. WETHERS, a farmer, re siding at an inn in the Borough, was knocked down in Artilleryrplace, St. George's-fields, by a number of thieves, who robbed him of his watch and a black pocket-book, containing £4O in Bank -notes, and a number of memorandums. A case of a revolting nature occurred at Colding ham, in Berwickshire, the beginning of last week.— The carrier of the place was requested to take a trunk from a house in the village to Edinburgh. From the quantity of goods which he had previously engaged to carry, he thought it would be quite impossible to undertake it. The -person seemed extremely anxious that it should not be delayed till the following week, as there were articles in it u.hich were required ix Edin burgh immediately. The carrier was induced to take charge of the trunk, and accordingly it was brought to his quarter* It had not, however, remained long in his possession before it was remarked that a very nauseous smell appeared to proceed from it. A num ber of the inhabitants being collected together, and some suspicions being entertained of its contents, they insisted upon its being opened. The carrier resisted their attempts to do sb as much as he could, but they succeeded in forcing it open, when an old grey-headed woman, who had been interred in Coldingham burial ground, some days before,, was found embalmed amidst a variety of perfumes, but which had failed to E beta their intended effect, Three young men have en committed to jail, charged with the offence. The week before last, as the Rev. JOHN Rota, Mi• nister of the Reformed-Presbyterian Church, Laurit ton, was passing some carts laden with hay, at the Boat-house Bridge, near Linlithgow, he was forced fronehis horse, and.a wheel of one o f carts passed over 'his head. He was carried in a hopeless condi tion to a neighbouring house, where every attention was paid to the unfortunate Gentleman; but he died soon after. An interesting Paper was recently mad to the Royal Society, on the magnetizing influence of galvanism. in which various new and curious experiments on this subject were detailed, which clearly establish the fact. that the galvanic fluid, directed-ins proper manner, is capable of communicating mftmetse propetties to bars of steel. If steel bars eh I.*lskeriksbed to the galvanic current, placed in the dire tibn of the mag netic axis, no effect follows; bat if they be placed parallel with the magnetic equator, they become magnetic—the end placed to the Vest becoming North of the Pole of the new magnet, and that to wards the East becoming the South Pole. And so great is the galvafiic influence is producing this el fect,that it exerts its power at a distance of some inches (even 10 or 12); so that 'if the steel bar be moved in a circle round the course of the galvanic current, but always kept parallel to the magnetic equator, it becomes magnetic. 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