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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, AUGUST 2. SCOLEY V. COLES. • This was an action brought under the statutes the 9th of Anne and 47th Geo. 111. to recover a penalty of £5O for an illegal transaction connected with the coal-trade. It seems that the ships engaged in that trade are furnished with sworn meters (in order to the delivery of their cargoes) upon their arrival in the river. The meter is appointed as soon as the cargo of the particular vessel appears, by tht books of the office, to be sold; and the presence of a cer tain certificate put on board at Newcastle or else where, by the shipper, is necessary to the proof of such sale. In order to prevent vessels from ob taining undue priority in the appointment of a meter, by sending up their certificates (by post or otherwise) before they are actually in the pool and ready for delivery, a penalty of £5O is imposed upon any master who shall part with his shipper's certificate before his vessel is to the westward of Blackwall : it was for the recovery of that penalty (half going to the informer, half to the King) that the present pro-1 ceeding was taken. The undue delivery of the certificate was proved, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, £5O. The Court, nn its rising, adjourned to the sittings before Michaelmas Term. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY. THE SHIP PRINCE REGENT. This was the case of a bottomry bond, in the by po•hecation of which the freight was omitted. Lord STOWELL said, he should direct that the freight in this case be brought in, and subjected to contribution in an average upon the ship, freight, and cargo. In this case the freight had been omit ted in the hypothecation of the bond ; but he had no doubt of the Court's jurisdiction to supply the defi ciency, which it now directed to be supplied. Un questionably the hypothecation ought to have in cluded freight. The lender—the person who ad vanced the money upoz the bottomry bond—might undoubtedly elect to have the cargo included ; for he was competent to elect upon what security he would hazard his advances. But he could not ex clude ship and freight, fur ship and freight were evi dently the natural securities for the repayment of his money, and the Court observed, that in directing the freight to be added to the hypothecation, it was, • only strengthening the securities to which the lender was entitled. The bond was then ordered to be brought into the registry of the Court, and to be paid with interest and costs. TILE SHIP AURORA. In this case a ship's register was delivered up by the Captain of the vessel to a party making advances for repairs done and performed to her in consequence of darnap,es sustained at'sea. The Captain drew on tie owners for the amount, or part of the amount of the charges, and payment was refused by them of the Captain's bill. This was an application to the Court to grant an attachment against the patty hold log the ship's certificate of registry, so deposited with the lender of the monies expended in repairs by way of security, and by him refused to be delivered up until repayment of his disbursements. It was con tended on the one hand, by Dr. Lust:lwo - cos, that the master ought to have taken up such monies in the regular way, upon bottomry ; but that he had no right to deliver up his ship's register, nor the lender of the cash to detain it. Dr. JENNER, on the other side, maintained that the party advancing the money was entitled to withhold the register, by way of lien upon the owners for his advances. Lord STOWELL said, as this was a new case, he Could take some time to consider it. H.4,IIPSIIIRE ASSIZES. WINCTIESTETt, AUGUST 1. 'The Commission for this County was opened in the usual way on Monday evening by Mr. Baron feitAitAm and Mr. Justice BEsr ; and on the follow ing after Divine Service, both Courts proceeded to business. On the crown side the number of pri soners is unusually small; there are only forty-eight in the Calendar, and none of them charged with any crime of marked atrocity. The following prisoners pleaded guilty to the minor ciffctice of having forged notes in their possession, which subjects them to transportation for I t years : William Goldson, aged 36 ; Affred Pink, aged 30 ; John Clark, aged 56 ; and Sarah Prince, aged V. Malachi Thornton, aged 27 ; Andrew Smith, aged 23.; John Walsh, aged 23 ;• John Galvin, aged 32 ; and John Woodnot, alias Brooks, aged 22, soldiers, were capitally indicted with having, on the morning of the 23d of April last, at the Parish of Portsea, Pcirtsmouth, feloniously and burglariously broken , and entered the dwelling-house of Captain James Ilearney Whire, and stolen therein a large quantity of dollars, Bank-notes, silver, plate, wearing apparel, &c. his property. It appeared - from the evidence of the prosecutor, Captain White, his servant, and others, that on the 22d of April he left London for Portsmouth, taking with him the property in question. On arriving at his house, it was lodged in the parlour, where a tem porary bed was erected for the Captain ; the room had a bow window, and was fronting the street, so that any person might have seen the property, and what was passing within. On Captain White's a‘raking nest morning, he found the room in the greatest confusion, and his gold watch and seals, which he had placed on the escrutoire, gone, toge ther with the other articles. The door, which shut by a spring, was open, some handkerchiefs having got entangled under it. On searching the house, the scollery-window was discovered to be open, through which the thieves had effected their entrance. An oyster knife, which was sworn to have been in the scullery on the family going to bed, was found in the, parlour, but for what purpose it was removed is not known. A female, who slept in the upper part of the house, stated she heard a noise about one o'clock in the morning. In consequence of information received, Captain White, with two officers, on the 27th of April, re paired to Cosham, and while sitting in an inn saw thprisoner Thoptop pass. lie was immediately • ~~~ secured, and on search being nude, sortie of the stolen ' articles were found. They then went to the barracks, and Smith and Brooks were taken into custody. An extensive search was then inside ; Galvin gave up the watch and seals, which it appeared he obtained from Smith ; and a large quantity of the plate and uni forms was afterwards found in the possession of Thornton, Brooks, and Smith, against whom the evi dence was quite clear ; but it did not materially af fect Walsh. Mr. Justice BEST summed up the evidence with his usual impartiality, and adverted to the want of substantial evidence against Walsh. His Lordship also observed, it was for the Jury to consider whether the proof of burglary had been made out against Gal yin, who might be viewed in the light of a receiver. The Jury, after a short consultation, pronounced Thornton, Smith, and Brooks, guilty of burglary; Galvin guilty of receiving the watch, knowing it to be stolen ; and acquitted Walsh. His Lordship then, in an impressive address, passed the awful sentence of Death on the three first pri soners, and sentenced Galvin to twelve months im prisonment in the House of Correction. On the civil side the entry of causes is also small ; only 23 were entered, two of them Special Juries ; and, judging from the empty state of the tOwn, none of them appear to possess any interest. The Court was occupied the whole of yesterday, and nearly t he whole of to-day, in the cause of ARNF.LL E. FOWLER, which was an action to recover the value of 80 sheep which had been purchased at Appleshaw fair, near Andover, and driven to Bulstrode Park,`in Bucking hamshire, where they all in a short time died of the rot. The plaintiff averred that the sheep must have been affected with the disease at the time of the pur chase, and called witnesses to prove that neither during the journey nor at Bulstrode had they been fed on wet ground. An equal number of witnesses were called to prove the soundness of. the sheep at the time of sale, and the question went to the Jury upon the point of credibility. The Jury, after being very elaborately charged by Mr. Baron GRAHAM, retired for about an hour, when they returned a ver dict for the defendant. The other causes tried were either undefended, or for trifling shop accounts, possessing not the slightest degree of interest. BOW-STREET.—Wednesday night, as J. Basely, a hawker, was passing over Wimbledon Common, he felt hiMself suddenly attacked from behind, and a handkerchief drawn over his eyes ; he was then knocked down, his pockets rifled, his pack taken away, and he was cut and stabbed in the fate and several parts of his body. He supposed three men were concerned in the attack, one of whom exclaimed, " Cut the —'s throat !" 1k fainted with loss of blood, and when he came to himself the ruffians had fled. His groans speedily brought three of the horse patrol, who were passing, to his aid, who rode off in different directions, and overtook three men, whom they yesterday brought to this Office ; but Basely could not identify them, nor was anything found on them that could tend to their crimination. The patrol, however, said, they saw no one else on the road ; and, from the manner in which they were stationed, it was impossible for any ono to have passed unperceived. After a very long examination, two of them, named Tuck and Carpenter, were remanded, and the third was discharged. A young man, of most respectable appearance, was put to the Bar, when Mr. Cass, a malt-factor, stated, that as he was passing through Old-street-road, on Wednesday evening, he was attacked by five or six fellows, who knocked him down—the prisoner was one of them—and tried to get his watch, but the chain broke, and he only got part of that and two seals. Witness seized the prisoner, and held him by the collar till the patrol came up. The prisoner, Who was greatly agitated, said he was coming along the road, when he beheld Mr. Cass on the ground, sur rounded by five or six men, who ran away. Mr. Cass then got up, and he asked him if he had been robbed ? to which he replied, " Yes; and you are the' man that did it," and seized him by the collar. The prisoner protested his entire innocence, and handed his card to the Magistrate, by which it appeared he is a respectable - tradesman in Shoreditch. He called a neighbour ing tradesman, who bore testimony to his character, and said that the landlord of the house where Mr. Cass had been, told him he was tipsy.— One of the patrol also stated that Mr. Cass was not sober. Mr. Cass, however, firmly denied this, and persisted that-the prisoner was the man. The pri soner's friend then left the Office, and in a short time produced a host of respectable persons to the charac ter of Ore accused ; and Mr. Brume admitted the prisoner to give bail for his appearance on Monday.. MA RL801101.7611-STREET.-1 esterday, a Mr. Goals ton, a Jew merchant, of High-street, Shadwell, and Mr. irilliam S'ewsnan, a master-printer, of Widegate street, Bishopsgine, were brought to this Office, in the custody of Foy and Clements,, charged, at the in stigation of the Prussian Government, with being concerned in committing a forgery on their Bank to a great amount. The Prussian Consul, together with several persons connected with the Police of that country, attended, and the Office was excessively crowded. Mr. MAINWA RING, the Magistrate, was occupied nearly the whole of the office-hours in hear ing the case, and several persons nearly connected with the Bank of England also attended to hear the evidence, which was in substance nearly as fol lows:—It appeared that, for a length of time past, the Police at Berlin discovered that numbers of spu rious notes, of the amount of three shillings, cur rent in that country, were in circulation, and it being impossible that the inventors could carry on their mal practices in Prussia, they were quite at a loss how they could possibly originate, until at length a fo reigner, who was in league with two other persons, cone of whom was a Prussian banker, was appre hended and carried to prison for uttering several thousands of these forged notes. The parties were examined by the proper Authorities at Berlin; and, after being confined in prison six weeks, one of the parties—the foreignerexpressed a desire to reveal the whole of the plot, on condition that he might be saved. This was consented to ; and he informed the Government, that the most extensive arrangements were made in London for the purpose of forgeries, and divulged the whole system, and the manner in which he procured the forged notes from (as he al leged) the prisoner Goulston r who is a jeweller. Ar- rinEements were accordingly's:tilde, and several of l thel'olice accompanied this foreigner to London, fer ' the purpose of apprehending the patties, and Making a case out against them. The evidence of the fo reigner went to set forth, that he and a petson named Ludd, who is at present confined in prison at Berlin, were for a length of time connected together as traf fickers in these forged notes, before they were appre hended ; and that, a short time ago, they received (so witness alleged). 5000 from the prisoner Goulston, with which they went over, and which were circu lated through the instrumentality of an eminent Prus sian banker. Witness said he paid the prisoner £lO a thousand for them. The witness stated that on his arrival in London, he went to Goulston, is an agent from Ludd, to procure 12,000 of the notes. The prisoner said he had not got them, and he could not furnish them, in consequence of owing the maker £lO. Witness gave him £5; and it was so arranged that he should call for them on the Monday evening following; and prior to his departure the prisoner ex pressed his apprehension that the witness had brought the Prussian Police with him: this he denied, and quitted the place. He went on the ensuing evening, by appointment, and received 12,000, and afterwards 21,000, which he delivered to Mr. Foy, of the Bank; Mr. Foy, an Inspector to the Bank of England, on his oath, stated, that on receiving information of the forgery, and it being suspected that notes of the Bank of England might be issued from the same quarter, every effort was made to trace the affair to the bot tom. For this nurpose he, in company with Cle ments, one of the officers belonging to this Office, watched the prisoner Goulston, after the last witness called on him, to Mr. Newman's, the printer. On their arrival at his house, in Widegate-street, Bishops gate, they entered, and seeing Mr. Newman and his son, asked whether he was not printing something for a man named Goulston? He said he was. Wit ness desired to see the plate of one of the notes which he produced. He was conducted up stairs to the printing-room, where he found two men at work at the printing presses, `making the notes with all pos sible speed. Each side of the note is different, and there were two plates—one man was printing one side, whilst the other was finishing. (Here the plates were produced, and caused much curiosity.) Wit ness found various papers for the purpose of making the notes ; a great quantity were made ready for issuing, and others were cut ready for printing, all of which he seized. On a minute search being made, nothing was found to sanction a belief that Bank of 'England notes were executed there. August William Eikorn, Inspector of the Prussian Police, who was assisted by Mr. Lewis, as interpreter, stated, that the notes produced, which amounted to several thousand, passed as three-shilling dollars, and were drawn on the Prussian Bank. They were all forgeries. . Mr. Goulston, in his defence, said that he did not think there was any crime in selling them, especially as they were made in England, out of the jurisdiction of the Prussian Government. He maintained that he had committed no offence. On Mr. NIAINWARING asking Mr. Newman what he had to say, be replied that be was not aware of his having committed any offence; he printed them in the course of his business, without inquiring what they were intended for. He did not understand the Prussian language on the note. He was a respecta ble man, and was employed by various Public Offices; and not being in want of business, it was unlikely that he should accept of the printing of these things if he knew it would be a crime.—The Magistrate thought it rather extraordinary that he had not made inquiry. Ile answered, that he thought they were. admissions for some place.—The Magistrate said that was unlikely, from the great quantity that were printed, and he felt bound to commit them.—Mr. Newman requested bail to be taken; he could bring forward the most respectable persons.—The Magis trate said he had but one course to pursue., He re gretted it much, if Mr. Newman was led into it. He would order every accommodation for him, but he should remand them. lIATTON-GARDEN.—P. Nally, a tinman, in Union street, Somers-town, was charged by Major Coch rane, with stealing a patent tin burner out of one of the lamps in Guildford-street. About six o'clock the preceding evening the prisoner and a tinman of the name of Robinson, from Deptford, were drinking at a neighbouring public-house, when the conversation turned on the construction of Lord Cochrane's patent lamps for burning spirit of tar. In order to decide the dispute the prisoner borrowed a pair of steps, went to one of the lamps, and brought off one of the tin burners, on which he was shortly after taken into custody. In defence, he said, he was well known in the. neighbourhood to several persons who saw him take it, and that he meant to replace it as soon as they • had examined it. Major Cochrane contended that any thief might plead a similar excuse; but the Magistrate was of opinion that there was no feloni ous intention made out, but remanded the prisoner until he brought forward some respectable persons to his character. T. Hall, a dustman, was charged by a watchman and constable with assaulting and beating them the preceding night, and attempting to rescue.a prisoner out of their custody. The charge was proved, and the prisoner was committed for want of bail. As he was taken from the Bar, he rushed from the officer, and made several blows at the complainants. He was then handcuffed, and taken back, when the second charge was heard, and he was ordered to give an additional 24 hours notice of bail on that charge. Twenty-six pickpockets, apprehended by the con stables of Pentonville, at the Belvidere, on Wednes day afternoon, during the ascension of the balloon, were brought up for examination ; on some of whom two or three watches were found, on others, from two to six pocket-handkerchiefs, and other articles, sus pected to be stolen. Some of the Gentlemen who had their pockets picked attended, and identified some of the prisoners : ten, against whom there was no positive proof, were discharged, and sixteen were remanded. the Wednesday morning, the house of Mr. Buoww, a plumber, of Edmonton, was burglariously entered, and rob bed of c. 54 in gold, silver, and Bank-notes. An elderly gentleman had his pocket picked of a book containing £ 9O, on Durham Race-ground, on Thursday se'nni ght. The thief was immediately taken, but contrived to convey the property to an associate ; who succeeded in making off with it, x_ Ilk FIR ES. Apthorpe Hall, near it le 11 Beth, was re duced to a skeleton on Tuesday by tire ; nothing b ut the walls are standing. It broke out in the laundry, where the servants had incautiously left a horse full of linen to dry, and such was the rapidity of the flames, that not a vestige of furniture was saved, t h e inmates scarcely having time to escape. Attached to the buildings were stables and a coach-house, whi c h were also destroyed. Mrs. ADAMSON, the presen t occupier of the house, was in London when the fi le happened. Another fire happened yesterday morning early, a t the house of Mr. BENINOBOHOUGH, Talbot-place, Regent's Park, which destroyed the interior. I t was occasioned by some .bed-curtains being accidentally set on fire. Thursday se'nnight, the soap-house belonging td Messrs. A. CLAPHAM and Co. at the Ouseburn, cur Newcastle, was discovered to be on fire, and in a f ew minutes the flames burst forth, with great fury, and threatened serious consequences. By the prompt a:= sistaoce of the workmen from the neighbouring m a . nufactories, and the most vigorous exertions, the fire was in a short time overcome. Wednesday, a fire broke out in the house of MT. WILSON, a carpenter, of Seven Star-alley, Ratcliff ' highway. It originated in an apartment on the ground-floor, in consequence of the s'.3 - vant's having placed a gridiron, which had been jut taken of f t h e fire, among some shavings in a cupboard, by %%hie's they became ignited, and before the flames could. -be extinguished the premises were nearly gutted, and the greater part of the furniture and stock in trade destroyed. Saturday evening, about ten o'clock, as a woman, named Esther Knight, seho resided at Crowan Church. town, in Cornwall, was taking leave of a person who had accompanied her from market, she said, that from the appearance of the atmosphere, she feared there was a fire in the direction of her ton % hou se , which was at some distance. Becoming a aimed, she called her daughter, who had gone to red, and who arose and followed her mother ItAlf dues ea.~ The daughter pas.,ed the old woman, and on coming to her brother's house, found it was on lire. Th e owner of the house and his wife had gone to Helstoa market, from which they had not returned, leaving two children at home, who were with difficulty re.. cued from the flames ; a few articles of furuiture only were saved. After some time, the young woman, who had been called out of bed, was returning home to put on the remainder of her clothes, wheu she stumbled over a person who •had fallen across the road ; and making an alarm, this person mu taken up, and proved to be her mother, who had dropped dead from the fright before she could reach her son's house. Every means were tried to restore animation, but in vain. The poor girl was so alarmed at this second shock, that she was seized with hrteric fits, and now lies in a very precarious state. The fire was occasioned by one of the children placing a candle so as to communicate to the thatch with which the house was covered. INouesys.—Tuesday last, an Inquest was held at I Moor Mills, near Hereford, on the body of Master Edward Halford, eleven years of age, son aad heir of the late Edward Halford, Esq. of Herefordshire. The deceased went to dine the preceding Sunday with a Gentleman, and was missed at dinner-time: on Monday the body was discovered in the mill-pond, where, as adjudged by the Jury, he had fallen in by accident. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Rising San, in High-street, St. Mary-la-bonne, on the body of Mary Morgan, who died in consequence of taking oxalic acid in mistake for Epsom salts. Sarah Green slade stated, that she lived next door to the deceased. On the morning of her death she shewed her the re mains of what she had been taking, and asked her if she thought it was salts ? She looked at it, and told her she thought it was. Soon after she returned, and said she was very bad. She then said she had taken the salts from her husband's trunk. A Doctor was sent for, but she died before his arrival. Mr. Potter, Surgeon, saw the paper containing the remainder of the powder, which was oxalic acid. He opened the body, and the appearance was such as plainly indi cated that her death arose from the cause above stated.—Verdict accordingly.—The deceased was a very respectable woman, and has left a large family to deplore her untimely fate. • COFFEE SHOPS.—Yesterday bills were issued from die Police Offices, in order to be distributed to vari ous proprietors of shops, or rooms, for the sale of, or under the pretence of selling, ready-made Coffee, with a copy of the 18th Section of the Act of Parlia ment passed in the late Session, intituled An Act for the more effectual administration of the Office-ci a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis,' dtc. which requires that shops. or rooms of the above description, shall not be kept open after eleven o'clock at night, during any part of the year, nor opened before the hour of four in the morning, between Lady-day and Michaelmas; or before six in the morning, between Michaelmas and Lady-day; and if shut up with persons inside during those homy, except persons dwelling therein, the owners will be fined £lO on conviction ; and, in default of payment, sent to hard labour for three months. DIED. July 21, at Bervie, aged 80, Mr. Alexander Thom, mud* turer. Ile was not only the first who introduced the an d spinning flax, by machinery, into Scotland, but erected the irs Scotch spinning-mill on the water of Bervie. He was ama d general knowledge in most scientific subjects; esteemed for ea integrity and attention to busineu. At Fort William, lately, Mr. Donald Kennedy, at a /If/ advanced age. He was the person who set fire to the PO brewhouse, when the Pretender was besieging Fort Wiilink July 2.3, at Scasyde Cottage, near Aberdour, Mrs. MOO widow of Robert Aloubray, of Cockairny, M.D. July 11, at his house near Dublin, John Knox, Eel. WS Major in the Sligo Militia. July ;50, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, Eleanor Saab, lb% infant daughter of Henry Brougham, Esq. MAILS THIS DAY.ARII,DUE. 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