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LAW INTELLIGENCE. • •-• COURT 'OF KING'S BENCH.—Nov. 2e. THE LINO V. HARVEY AND FISHER. The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved for the judgment of the Court on Thomas Harvey and John Fisher. The information against the defendants was read by the Cki k. It charged the two defendants, the for imer of whom was the printer, and the latter the pub lisher of the newspaper called The Day, with print lag and publishing in their paper, of the Sth of April last, a 'Scandalous, malicious, and seditious libel against the rui:itary force of this country. The publication in question irnfessci to give an account of the pro ceedings in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, during Saturday and Sunday, the 6th and 7th April last.— The reading of the Riot Act it stated, " acted as a signal for military execution, and in a few minutes the Horse Guards, with the most inhuman violence, charged an unarmed Ansi unresis:ing people." Many of the populace, according to this statement, sought for safety in lanes and private passages, but the snl- Biers seemed actuated by a wish to shed human blood. The jaded appearance too; of the soldiers, the next - morning, and their swords stained with the bl od of an injured people, plainly shewed -the obduracy of their hearts, &c. &c. On this Information the defen dants ali6wed judgment to so against them by default. On the part of the prosecution there were no affida vits fled. : The defendant Harvey filed an affidavit in extenu ation, in which he stated, that the affairs of the paper were managed by a Committee of fifteen Proprietors, by whom it was ordered that the publication should at all times take rlace at six o'clock in the morning. The person employed to give a fair and accurate re port of the proceedings in the neighbourhood of Pic cadilly; during the period in question, did not wive at the offiCe till past one in thil;.morning ; he wrote his'accitunt on small slips of paper, which were dis tributed among the 'compositors as they were written, without the defendant having.had any opportunity of kiertiii4thetii, nor did he actually peruse the article till *in day, when he felt extreme sorrow and sur prise to find it so very objectionable, the writer of it being a person who had been employed in a news piperfOr several years, and one who, he understood, might have been trusted.' . The defendant then felt, apd still did feel extreme sorrow and contrition for the °tete of which he had, been guilty. He had a wifearid eight children, the eldett of whom was under 13 Years of age, dependanfon him for support, and he threw himself' on the compassion of the Court. , Mr. Fisher's affidavit also bore, that he was corn pUtely ignorant of the - contents or nature of she pub lication till after it had appeared ; so much, however, did . he disapprove it, that he caused it to be omitted out of another paper published n the Monday even ing, called of which he is one of the proprietors, the article in question having been intended for insertion in that paper also. An affidavit was also filed by Mr. Collier, the At ,l torney for the defendants, stating that previous to the present prosecution the defendants had offered to the conductors of the prosecution to give rJp the name of the author, anti also the manuscript o£ the article in question. • The ATTQRKEY-GENERAL 'said the present was without any exception the most wicked and libelous publication to which he had ever felt it to be his duty to call the attention of that Court; and it was for the defendants to shew why a punishment proportioned to its enormity should not be visited on them. In this respect the affidavit last read, from which it appear. ed that the defendants had offered to give up the au thor, and the manuscript copy of the libel, could little avail them. He wished it to be known, (known in deed, he believed it was'thotigli the reverse was pre tended) that the giving .up' the author was no excuse for the printer an d - Publisher. All the ill they could do they had already done;—they had given the libel ' to' the public—and it was only because they feared that a just punishment was abtut to fall upon them selves, that they latterly endeavoured to turn it over upon others. He was far from thinking such conducts justification, or even an extenuation. The other two affidavits whiCh bad been read, were by the defendants themselves, the one the printer, and the other the publisher, and one of the 1300 proprietors of this paper, it being divided into so many shares.— He did expect, as these affidavits were pointed in ex pressing the immediate contrition of both defendants, for the offence they had committed, that they would have closed with narratlng. the paragraph in which, in •their next, or some following publication, they had expreaed that contrition to the public. For such paragraphYhowever, he looked in vain : not that he thought that would have justified the defendants, though, the having adopted such a course might have shown that % they hid been speedily avinlcened to a sense of their error, the' total absence ? hoWever, of e'very eiriiienCe of thik kind, was sufficiently demon strati vehow insincere was the contritinn they now pro. ant:sire - I tolikve felt andif these defendants would turn their attention to what they had published 0/0 d'ayiaftii the pithlitation of the libel in question, liiNtis . .ssAtied they Would repent having said in their that' they felt contrition at the time. He shetild tikiSitiic - kred to considers who these persons • Were e • deferidanti had libilled,'llll4 how nn aereiiiiiii thy were of :IA treittnieit. Avery per-' snit . sbhit'beard him niusr astari,• in what state a Part of thii great city was at the time to Whfrjh the rrtiel in . question refitted. The military had neiessari* been called out on 'the occasion, to the &Charge elan filisinne and disagreeable duty:-. They ionid not 6 itniceired as at all interested in the.serVici, nor could ' they expect defy reeourPenee or alvautagi to themselies'toresuh from 11;their Tote • ribitaid must ; ai se fromTrott a conicirinsniti oT Alschars - - Ittitheir duty te' 'their own credit, ail' to the sans &cubit of Oh' kat (4 . citizens All 'Ad heard Min, iEie bellested„, tikeW the forbeartiae . thoie had . ohgtiet.: They suffered' dierirselvei to be bi salted, naji eihn in be. tired 'ctn . ; atidroinded, before they resisted in then . oVin- defence, inlf 1* the pubic diatety. He hardircay, thtit wa n i hind:l'4ok! - .the preser.t eh aYge. IlteAttorney-Gti7ftii4 thin proceeded to read the Pirag . iah's in the pubtteatlOti• which viliaPartictilarli oagjettionable. Wit it to Si etiellireir, Wetted, thattlitis:treitary of thii countm it* Potetkeie et thernieVt 4,4% were more pecitliaa'y otii . 4 fellow citigenc- dined be charged with raking plea:sure sheddint thi Octoct Af o'ur (hint' sobkets it such an abominable charge wesc allotied to'. past, and, of course, - from reiTlaSiing tintonliadicted; to be supposed not capably of contradiction, all the bonds between them and the public must be at once loosened ; or, if false, - and still •uncontradicted and unpunished, what inducement could remain to the military of this oountry to-discharge their duty ? On the rest of the publication, in which the appearance of the soldiers, on the following morning, is rive seated, their swords stained with the blond of an in jured people, so as to plainly shew their obdurate hearts, the Attorney-General thought it unnecessary for him to say a word : nothing in his power to - say could add to its malignity ; their Lordships would look to it. They would look to the soldiery, they would look to the people of this country; and they would award such a measure of punishment in this case as should seem to • them to do equal justice to all. Mr. MARRYATT addressed the Court in extenuation on the part of Mr. Harvey, the printer. He admitted that the defendants were legally responsible, but con tended, that in the circumstances in which they were placed, they could not be said to be guilty of a mali cious intention, and so could not be malicious libel lers. They had no reason to distrust the person em ployed to give a true and accnra-e account of the proceedings alluded to in the article. They had ther of them an opportunity to peruse, nor, in point c,f fact, had they perused the publication, which he was ready to admit was a gross libel ; not being cog nisent of its contents, therefore, he submitted, that they could not be held to be deliberate offenders.— The Attorney-General had said it was no excuse in such a case to give up the author. It surely was not, but, undoubtedly it was an extenuation of the offence, being all the reparation which it was in their power to offer. The fact, too, that the same publication had been excluded from another paper, published at the same office, and in which these defendants were concerned, afforded the best evidence of the defen dants contrition, being given on the spot, and at the moment. Their Lordships would weigh all these cir cumstances, and they would also take into their son. sideration that the defendant, Harvey, had a wife and eight children, the eldest of them not 13 years of age, dependant on him for support. Mr. READER, for the defendant Fisher, admitted, that if the author had been standing here for judg ment, he should have found it difficult to say any thing in his defence. The case of Fisher, how ever, he submitted, was very different. He was, no doubt, liable, but it was for the Court to say, how far his mind was concerned. The Attorney-General, with that dexterity for which he' was so much distin guished, and by which he contrived to turn every , thing against persons standing . here for judgment, contended, that the offer of giving up the author was not even an extenuation of the defendant's guilt. If they had done so, however, would he not have adduced that as a strong circumstance against them, and have alledged that it was a proof of their conti nuing to persevere in their offence. Mr. Justice BAILEY asked, had the defendants apo logized is their japer? " Mr. READER was not prepared to assert that they had. He wished they had done so—but though a man had not &tie all that he might and ought to have done, still'it would be hard to deny him credit for what he actually did. Lord ELLENNOROUGH ordered that both defendants be committed to the Jail of Newgate, and be brought up for judgment on the last day of Term. THE KING .V. LOVEL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for judgment against Daniel Lovel, publisher and proprietor of The Statesman newspaper, for a libel in his paper of the Bth of April. The defendant gave in an affidavit, which stated that the paragraph had been inadvertently copied from The Day, and that deponent did not know the author of the article. It further stated, that deponent was in a very infirm state of health, and seriously ill with the asthma, for which he had been lately cupped and blooded by tha advice of a physician. He had been particularly directed to avoid confined air. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would not trouble the Court with any further observations on the libel. As to Mr. Lovel's saying he had only copied the para graph, their Lordships would not of course consider that an extenuation. Those who copied a malignant li bel we're at least equally guilty with the first publisher. The defendant had stated that he.was in a weak state of health, and his appearance made it probable ; but, he ought to have reflected on that before-harid.— When men determined to outrage the law, they ought to consider how far they were able to meet its puiiiilt -1 rrients. But this circumstance would be 'attended to; and though rigid justice might not admit of any re= laxation on that ground, yet he (the Attorney-Ce neral) would not wish to inlpecle any mercy which. the Court were pleased to: slew'. He then observed, `that as Mr. Lovel had no counsel, he *prob a bly Wi s h e d ,to address, the Court. Mr. Lovel.--“ I wish only to say, that it is not possible for a publisher to read every thing put into his paper from the great hurry of publication. ' Lord Eturseoiionon. It should not, then, be done in a hurry. Nothing should be hastily done . which may produce so strong an effect upon the pub lic mind. In your case, the paragraph, was taken 'from a morning paper, and you had the whole day Ito eansideti of it. It is not to be borne in an affidavit, 'that a man shall state a right and custom of copying 'every foolish or wicked thing which be can find in another paper." Mr. Lovel. — " My Lord, I only *ant to explain to' your Lordship how that is ; the men begin at five"—. Here Lord ELLESBOROUGII interrupted him, Sir, that is your own arrangement. If you hurry yourself for gain, you must tae the consequences of your conduct. Have you any thing further to address to .the Cosurt ?" . Mr, Love! made no further observations ; and Lord 'ELLipooftounii directed him to be committed to the 'custody ofthe.Marshal of the Marshalsea, and brought up for judgment on the last day of the Term. THE KING V. RYAN AND RYLEY. 441 The two defendants had be : found guilty at the ncashire Assizes, of endeavoo rbtg . to persuade sol diers to desert horn his Majekifs service. The con- 1 victions took place under the'Act of Ist George .L and the sentenes of the Court upon each of thiu de fendants wart, that thoy be imprisoned two calendar months in the Castle 04.ancaster, and . do Within .tlyul periodstaast 4 in. the pillory, on a market dab; at 1 verpool, Where the offences were soptkisitieds NOV. ti. BE I NLIK4 . k • • Mr. .BeijOiiit:Birt Iggsmatecl a liprrttartistkOuse ibould defottiedi as'ail i d i etWabits attorney, Mr. Davison, d oily elhPred In -the amended 'bill 'or particulars; °Mired :by . bii LOrirshiii two nights before. The bill • itself . %Vail much more obscure than that. which it wits intended'to correct. Mr. Serjeant LENS, as Counsel. for the plaintiff, would not consent to this airangeinent, observing, that the objection had been before overruled by Mr, Justice Heath, when made at Chambers; at events there was nothing now before the Court. Sir J. MANSFIELD-6 , -64 There certainly is not any thing now before thp Court, Brother Best, if have any application to• make to the Court, you must ground it on an affidavit. Perhaps, however, it Fould be better for yoti to allow the cause"to proceed ; and you know if your opponent gains a verdict by any informality, you can eAsily set it aside." Mr. Serjeant BF r—"" I shall certainly - do so, Mk Lord." Mr. Serjeant Legs then proceeded, and said he should dwell as little as possible on the case, as he understood the defendant 'was one of those unfortu nate men.who having been born to an affluent for tunek.had been reduced to poverty. Under such cir cumstances, he should content himself by merely pro ducing a letter iroin the defendaat:himself, in which, after mentioning several other debts, he acknowledged the one in question. Alexander Sheriff having had the letter produced to him, proved the hand-writing to be the defendant's. The letter was then read, addressed to Messrs: Agar and Co. Galway, Ireland, wherein the debt to Mr. Bingham, amounting to £469. 7s. 2d. was ac knowledged. Mr. Serjeant LANs —" I understand, my Lord, that brother/Best will not make his appearance." A verdict was of course found for the plaintiff— £4o9. 7s. 2d. darnages—Costs 405." Mr. Serjeant Bar-4 , rsee, my Lord, in Mr. Da vson's bill of partieulars u that he charges 8117 for his bill of costs in a cause where the original subject of litigation was only NIS. Sir JAMES MMUIPIELb—" Yon know very well, brother Best, Mat :itch thing: are very common." TAVERNER v. LEARE. This was an action on a bail-bond, and the defence was, that the signature of the defendant, as attached to the bond, was , not his handwriting - This, how ever, was confuted by another subscribing witness. Verdict for the Plaintiff; WOOD V. BROAD. This was a similar action, against which a similar defence was set up, but that being defeated by the evidence of !mother subscribing witness, a verdict was entered for the Plaintiff. KENYON 1). CROWDER. This was an action on a bill of exchange, drawn by one Stump, and indorsed by the Defendant. Stump's clerk proved the indotsement of the defendant, but Mr. Serjeant COCKELL endeavoured, in a cross-exami nation of some length, to prove that the transaction was an usurious one. Thu, failing, a verdict was of course entered for the Plaintiff. NeIrC2f6TLZ. A''OPEMBER t)!). Saturday evessiAtt se'nnight, as Mr. D.Vi r ,elder, of ... Sotit,l3 filuelds .s4ip-cwner, ants nt ., home from this town , in feropany Will, the MAR,' hi s vessel, they' ireintabittd•dn the l'\',,,d, si,; irefid;iiele? tl4 - fff:tii*bytio, I% ont-p , aes - ,the - foemeie oftileittyleightstilliitigvand the l etter his watch. ! Thursday calking, lasi, s Mr. Jahn Wi l i South shieldi, biatdier, was rettining . borne - Weitoidiev:tal'attatterd, at' a place call..d G. Gate; by evitsibet-pachiti sailors' dresses, wh,. .ed him' deWu,• find zubbed'him 'of three Aillic: his watch. . , A serious accidenthappeeed lately at the 11, 6 Mr. Dobian, sign . th e Crosi XeJs , Alston. John Lee of Penri ' entnnionlr rndivo hp of Latvyer Lie, : ' proainseup stairs , cliatnbet. he fell batkwards.and disloeaWd which caused his death. . . . A i',4l days ago, a being . in. the shape who lives at 13404 fr om ca price Of tempe r lical incitement, ttedhislihrseby the•ton*ue and in that situatinninosr barbatoutlybec dumb animal till his tongue was literally torn the roots and left at the stake. As Mr. and Mrs. gaillil4 of Maidsti. returnhig from London, ytatrdtiy single-horse chaise, just ai . they had rr corner of Birch-Wood, past one o'clock in theafternoon, a MYR C. a gap-way on the left-hand, side of the Likindon, and without saying a' word, horse by the bead. Mr. Arte,sa iniMediatt up in the chaise, and said he would•not and began to flog the man with his ehaiseA hopes of making him let go his horse' s h ea d, which he drew hi s right hand from tehind' presented a horse-pistol. At that install panion of his (whom Mr. knows had not fore) made Las appearance, and going horse to Mr. Auttws% side, demanded hi , Mr. A. finding resistance useless, gave . guineas ; not satisfied with that, the robber you have more--- - Mt. A. replied; yes, I lit silver, and gaffe him to the amount of I robber afterwards demanded his watch being in a tortoise-shell case, said he would if he would have it, and repeatedly questioned as to his having mote money ; but on Mr. _ ing him he had- nbt; be was suftred to proceed.— The man whO seized the horse never spoke - all 'the time, but held the horse with his and the pistol with his right; the other, the money, said, it was distress drove them Neither of them attempted to rob Mrs. ATEA did they say any thing to her. COUNTRY MARKETS. Norwich Corn Market on Saturday lag was more . ded than it has been during the season. Ihe soppiy of plentiful, and the price of Wbeat•sad Barley a little ' former selling from 445. to 454. and the latter from 20s. and prim F samples 20s. 6d. per comb; beans oats 14s. to 1.5.-1 here wa% a large spew of bullocks, hogs, on the Castle-hill on daturiiit . Past. Fat beef 9a-a to 91. 9d. per atone; and tat mutton at Id. to Some lots of Scots beasts were boughs at from its. to 'Moe. At Verb Soulmas fair, on Wednesday se'nalght, considerable show of fat and lean cattle : good beans . prices; inferior kinds were not much ia demand. The herein was but an indifferent one. Newcarrie, Nev. 17.-We bad a considerable Wheat to-day from the farmers, which was taken off at. day's prices. Some mom cargoes of Wheat and Rye have here from the Baltic. Polish mixed Wheat tbs. to 82s. In demand-the prices of Rye are rather higher. V' the Barley which has arrived this week has been brewers expect that prices will be lower. We continue large supplies of Oats from the Farmers. Prices rather -Wheat, 645. to 345. to 415.--Malt, 765. Barley,.26e. to 445.-Oats 2ts. to 295.-White Nese , --Grey do. Us. to 456.-Beaos, 441. to 46e. per quarter. 70* to 725. per sack. To 'text's, Nov. 14.-To-day there lieu a short Cattle and sheep; fat sold readily; many of t'ir inferior long, and. were not sold. Beef from 7s. 6d. to Ss. 6d. to 9s. 4d per stone, sinking offals. Wheat from 68s. quarter. Rye 00s. to 445. Oats 245. Od. to 291. 4d. Kits°, Nov. I 6.---Wheat, best, 60s. to 655. Micliilhus 50s. 58s. Pease 445. per boll of 6 Winchester bushels. Barley. to 355. Oats, ills. to 265. per boll of 71 Winchester busheb. Hassotooton, Nov. 16.-Wheat rather lower than' Barley 6d. per boll cheaper, Oats the same as last week s6s. to 4s. 6d. Barley Ens. to 325. Peas 30s to Sts. Oats 235. per - boll of 6 Winchester bushels. The supply of large, and sold heavily. BIRTH. At Thunderton, on the 9th inu. the Lady of Sir Arcb.l. bar, of Northfickl, Harr. of a daughter. MARR IRD. At St, Kinian'is Manse, near Sttrling, on the 14th Rev. John Russel, Minister of Mucha!, to Miss Jean Greenock. Late', at Epsom, Charles Pearson, in. You of Kent, to Eliza, daughter of the late Colonel Justly HA Royal Artillery. DIED. Friday the I Ilth inst. at Courtier Hall, Northamptonshire, the 11th year of her age, Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir Wake. Bart. At Montrose, after a short illness, Mr. George Murray, seller. Nov. IS, at Falmouth, on her return teem Cadiz, Lientenant-Celonel Cameron, of the 711tb regiment. Nov. ii, suddenly, in Dublin, Lieutenant-Colonel the Limerick County Militia. Nov. 15, in Portland -street, M. Franks, Esq. many Justice of the Bahamas. A few days ago, in consequence of her clothes taking Parker, wife of Mr. Parker, grocer, of Whitc'turch, She survived two hours after experiencing the most pain: . On the 2d Instant, by drowning, in the Anne, of North on Monneley beach, Mr. Williant•Criliston, master, Mr. Jehn Johnson, mate, Billy Mill ; Wi Liam Resy, aged 21, Howden Pans; Wm. Carolina, aged le, North Wm Sinclair, aged 17, of the Orkney Isle; Robert aged 15, son of Mr Kitchen:inn, master of the Spencer, castle; Francis Hall, in his 14th year, (and on his trial grandson of Mr. Robson, wateh-make, North Shields more, and either three or four passengers. Lately, in the House of Correction at Durham, where been confined upwards of seven years, under sentence pertatlon (or life, James Allen, a character weY koowts t. parts of the United Kingdom, but particularly in Nonbuarr land. He went by the name of Jemmy the Dale% Pifer in his early life a great proficient on the pipt s. tie • convicted of horse-stealing at the *nets at Durham , received sentence of death, but was afterwards pardnueu ditiun of transportation for life; but on accouct of his sh tefirmities, his sentence could not be carried into executive bad netrly completed his Seth yes:, Ind for the g r e ater Ms confinement seat *Mired with a complication of Debby, L as return.- he M.lst e l th aim mho r. lb* latter h me 'Wi l k e, d I Will. bc aid the h ouse of ton. As 1: r. Sy the mop e s to hi s b ed , ud his o k k; of a i ts; per or dial. lie to 3 post, at the poor tons ou t by Istone, aer t On, in it'd ' , reached the about half tame oat of road from seized t h e iately stood be ro b e d, iee-whip, it head, b p an d him, a es t int a cam. rat seen be. round the his money. him four obber said we a little 10s. The ;—wbich I be d-4 ;ioned him . A. assur- proceed.-- ,ke a ward - left Maid s , who toot n to ,Turrs, 110 i r fully attn. of grain wit lower: tie 19a. Od. to I 21a, to 3 1 Ihte P9 ll 4 Add at NU o Sid- per Ile to es. ed. fei , there wu is sold at higi The obey of re /apply • of at last Saw. hays aeries: ss aad morn very link of sold. Ths Ne to receive* her luwer.— '6s. to !lose— . lo Mo. to Cam net—Floors' et supply of rferior stood. Mutlos es. to 100 s. (ling, Ms. to Barley, s2i bushels. can last day. eek—Wkoi„ Oats 19$. to Wheat was krch.J. Di. ~..•;•momafa Ith inst. thy ran Anima l Greertirid4 Hill, of the ?tonslaire, io sir Willow win, SA' , the Lady of 4 Canoe% of Y Ye ar. pi Ike, MIL , Shretithirt` facrociatug` Forth Sbielea, er, ote d is; arrow% , 0h Weida; Kitcberm" ter, of tle', mat Torte) 1 ; with , • I where to boa Ice of tin& t own 111. 0114 gorsfnugh er- iPer , Ras •-r - _a in 10 09, _„. 11 " . :coed so ';a r is• tecotion. roger r" &too .itrro STEEL V. LACEY. The question in this case is of great importance to the commercial world ; namely, whether a ship, by carrying false papers, renders her policy void'? It appeared by the pleadings this ' day, that the Pennsylvania, an American ship, which arrived with pitch and warlike stores to this country, had insured from London to Russia. In the coutse of her voyage she was captured by a French privateer, and con demned. She had carried simulated papers,by which it appeared, that she had cleared ottu& Bergen, in Norway, but the Judges of the enemy's Prize Court ' , condemned her on the ground that the data in the pa pers made her suspicio.us, and that she had not pro. duced a proper sea passport. The Underwriters resisted the policy, on pretence, first, that the ship had carried simulated papers with out their knowledge ; and also that she had not pro per papers on board. _ _ Mr: Serjeant BisT contended, that a ship having false papers on board• could noe prevent the asnirette from recovering. It would , strike the Judges, that every ship must have false 'livers before they could enter any port on the Continent of Europe, in order to deceive Bonaparte's Officers, and convince them that she had not sailed from a British port. If the ship in question had not hadothe papers which the Underwriters had complained of, she would have been 'condemned by the operation of the Berlin De ctee, she having been to England with pitch, hemp, and warlike stores. Sir Wm. Scott, and other wit nesses from the Admiralty, had proved, that no ship could expect to enter the ports of the Continent with out licences. The state of Europe was altered ; and . if trade was to be carried on at all, it could not be without licences. The Learned Serjeant contended, at considerable length, that it was unnecessary for 'the assured to inform the Underwriters that he in tended to carry simulated papers, because the state of Europe prevented any ship from sailing without them. If their Lordship decided in favour of the Under writers, an end woul I in consequence be put to all ' trade in future. This was a most important case, the first of the kind that ever came under their Lord. ships' consideration ; and he was not able to cite any case to guide them in their judgment. It was plain that the ship was compelled to carry false papers, to save her from confiscat:on. It would put an end to all commerce with the Continent, if their Lordships did not establish the plaintiff's claim.—The Court did not give judgment. Friday se'nnight, a melancholy event took place at Kelso.. Convener FERGUSON, whose wife has long been in a state of inability, arising from severe indis position, was called from•the room in which she was sitting, for a short time, and on his return he found her burned almost to death. rt appears that a spark of fire had fallen on her garments, and scorched. her in so dreadful a manner, that she died the neiit day. ' Monday se'nnizht, Mr. TuoursoN, a respectable surgeon in Carlisle, was fully committed under Lord Ellenborough's Act, by JosePli Gilpin, Esti. Major, take his trial at, dm next, Assizes, ( or ...lifting and , *di 4349ptiiiimitatent, Devil Am i s h Lottlx)N: roe ed arid prblisk4l o 42/04434. STAR.° ic TeITIRIO•Bir, e h • • ... 4 g 1 1 , 41% . • - COURT OF