The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-17 00:00:00

THE IWATIONAL'REGI grER• saying and publieiing whatever he fancied could ite *stifled. It was said that i'-d.viduals had a right to discuss the very laws. of the country; were we then to have a power beyond the Legisla ture ? It such were the case, then: was no security to our establishments; hut the notion was not only highly dangerous, but in the highest degree unconstitutional. If the Jury could be of opinion that any thing but mischief was meant by the publi cation under their consideration, they would acquit the defend ant ; but he (the Judge), in the conscientious caischarge of his duty, had no hesitation in saying, that he considered it a most wicked libel. tie Jury withdrew for about ten minutes, and brought in a verdict of guilty.—Judgment en the defendant will be deliiered in the Court of King's Bench next term. WINCHESTER. " PALMER V. GRIFFITHS, GENT:'' This was a Special Jury cause, and was brought against the defendant, to recover damages for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Mr. JEKYLL, fbr the'plaintifi, stated the case, as it was after wards detailed in evidence. The plaintiff is an auctihneer and coal-merchant, residing in the neighbourhood of Newport. The detendant is an :,ttorney, inhabiting that town. die is a married man, and the father of several Children. The parties had been on terms of intimacy for many years • ,titthe plaintiff, froma variety of concurring circumstance s, suspecting his wife's infi,:elity with the slefendant, placed an old washer-wo nian under a bed in his (plaintiff's) house, Where be also secreted hiinself in such a position that they could discover all those who entered.the room, .after remaining in this situation for an hour and a hail, they observed the happy pair pass through the room hits) An adjoining apartment—the two spivs shortly after rtv:l•,.d out of their lurking-place, and surprized the amorous Aire zierjeant Ptta., for the defendant, made several pointed observations against the plain iff,' for having placed himself in such 4 situation as to he the witness of his own dishonour ; and, viith great force anal ingenuity .contended, that from the sudden Externiptjon of the plaintiff and Ms old washcrwOman, there had tnr 1--e•r , time for' the defendant to carry his criminal intentions into egcct. ht: tharned Judge (CH A am E ), however, was of'a different opinion ; and the..tutly,,agrering with his Lordship, found a ver dict f4t the plaintiff. Dam 1001. i lingh Killday, Wait intticfed for assaulting Miry Bright, of Yarmouth, jp the Isle .of WilP, spinster, with intent to 'o.tritiflit 3 rape; tlie particulars of this trial were as follows : . arltiellprOseentrit is di years of age, daughter of Mr. Bright, itteher, at Yarmout . On Saturday, the 15th of Septeber, i ! 4f*Ctsi t ft;hribt/ five in the evening, as "ihe was returnin g from eyktilin to Ifaritioittli, on Boiney Common she met tie pri- Ore!, Who asked her how she did ? be then caught her violently round the Waiit, And dragged her artuui - fifty yards old of the toad - , under the di:clivity of a bill, among broom and bushes; she mach.. grt.at resistance, and screamed, on which the prisoner threattned to take her lite tf she made a nnise ; he then seized her by . the thr6at, threw her on the ground, and very much ill .treated, her. They were together about twenty minutes; she thehnbtalued leave °tithe prisoner to go to the road in search of het . shues, which she had lost in the struggle.. She was not long in the road beh the ptiosooe; again, when shy Peter Gro , ante, on which pbe caught hioiti, same time telli,hg . crier. Glove* said other prits,of tail,, it'd herAilg kOle she telaietl tl ; ielal e tt s a V g iu l l e c r ti7 i , jet' 1%.1. She attenaled.by a p! usage she. recetv_ irnied the eVi4ence.ckl .. vial, s lietvect a great • .:*4 pg. teirral 1:- wit hesitatAni v rt. zliiidge said lie's)i» t ilklif' the liiv 44049. strstonplifer two years .f/j . '4>. . • . . • Monday the ivcd here. The Sher Learned ' . tke uses *44 s i a ti ktitivnit- Maieriatie. holding the land claimed has been so long in possession that in ejectment not lie against him; but the party claiming land must prove a better right than the tenant, whi.h is the issue joined, whether the " claimant has a better right to have than the tenant to bold the lands." This issue is .to be tried by a grand assize, who are chosen by four Knights of the county, who come into Court girt with their swords, and are swore to elect the grand assize, who hereafter are to determine the cause. This was this day done; the four Knights appeared with their swords, and were sworn to that effect in a cause of DeSSaux p, Strangford, The issue will probably be tried next Assizes. An action was tried, brought by a Mr. Baron, a baker, against a Mr. Mraener, ftir slander ; and in one of the reporte In the public papers, the cause of action is stated to have arisen from a jealousy between the parties, who each espoused a dif. ferent preacher, of the Methodist persuasion. The alledged slander was, that the plaintiff was a rogue, and he could prove him one; that he had robbed the defendant's family by selling them bread of short veight, &c. &c. These words were prov ed to have been spokeityby several witnesses, and the Jury foutfd a verdict for the plaintiff—damages ss. •Itis noticed by the friends of Mr. Baron, that his object was not to obtain damages, but to repel, in a Court Of Justice, the foul charges brought against him, and to show that during the thirteen years he had been in business he had maintained the character of an honebt, upright men. WIILTFIELD V. LA ROCHE. Penis case.was tried by a Specil Jury, and lasted the whole day. It was an action of trespass for taking the soil of the plaintiff On the river Qpine ; to which the defendant pleaded it was his own freehold; and next a right to take it, to repair Ills banks adjoining the river. Ihe next question was,-whether a little eyot (island) in the river, rose out of the river, or whether it had been separated from the adjoining meadow by the cur rent. The defendant •contended, that it was originally part of his meadow, and that he had a right to connect it again by a r sk embankment. On the part of the plaintiff a great number o witnesses were called, who stated, that within their recollectio n there was no island where it now existed, but merely a shallowl which, at low waiter, in dry weather, produced a number 0 1 water plants and rushes, hut •that since, the Grand Junction Canal was formed, it lowered the water in the Colne, and a bridge above being, about 16 years ago, blown up by a high flood, the rubbith and materials settled on the shallows and created the island. For the defendant several witnesses were called, Who spoke to its being anciently a part of the meadow, and apparently separated by the current ; they also spoke to the custom of all person 4 adjblning the rivet being in the habit of repairing their banks with the soil from the bed of the river, but it was generally done by the persons taking the soil adjoining the bank, and not taking it by boats from the middle.—The Lord Chief Baron recapilk.lated the whole evidence on both sides with great minuteness ; after which the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages One Shilling. WHITCIIMICII V. iNtAll/sTRII.. fore the prksoper atterAVß:d to draw her away le saw Peter Gruves,and called him to her assist- h the prisoner ran away, and Groves came up ; (liy the artit and enireatetd his protection, at the 4 bins how iIT the had been treated by the sot- * her bane her ctiotbei *ere tom, her arms es.of her body very muc scratched by the brans- Iroat very gore frOnt v;pTence. On her reaching ri t l to her mother the treitnibntshe had recehred, r itated and exhau)ted kilit,vould allotst. Oil she saw the pristoner lIV • , cng- fi tt hot, hotili • vinight, ;O physiciitn for nearly thr ee a • tfr cup the ill. 'veo. P.efer Groves, a setV4At ' wouth, con- denee. of _rbe , pritsecutris. 'the cua I)isi a greif of shreivdnesi 615tersitiofis, 1 questions: to the witaerbset; but vilt.itl , rettruei ye rOitol-.-G!t,itliitifyie Ass a ult s ,„ _he inhict •ertintn the kerei- d'egree of puntsp,- 04rOp . higpee„Anti, Inter:44 dhi% ; 00 vo years t npuse. ot • Lorrection• • 2 7: ". rz; •• HEIVITO e Lord Chief .W•bn n lbstreelleatilt - Lord Chien Earop took the Civil Skit, and the Judge tried the Pt - Ai:niers, orosei is the rathex singotor eccuirettce of at writ is A a trial foundeAl on an ancient mil a most SlaVe• Wo4afit WIWI CIRTIIC:11 V. WARN VAL. This was an action against the proprietors of a Cambridge coach, to rover damagei for an injury sustained by the plain - tiff in beinmoverturned by the negligent driving of the coach- man. Thellaintiff was bookkeeper to the Guildford with, and went by .. • c defendant's stage to Cambridge; during - their journey the • ' . an drove in a most furious marineK t vld4 l l ended in upset...] ; : the coach—=the plaintiff was thrown ffetn the roof, and consi• '', , •ty :bruised.' Fur the defendant *Atte! wit- nesses were call - 0 - .0 attempted to represent it tit an utrevoitt. aisle accident, ov ::. • oued by the whip being entangled in the reins. Thelury ". - id for the plaintiff... Damages ea 'Oh the Cfdten Si .. Ceritige Watson *as .rnd'ated for stealing abbck spate,, the property . of Wtn-Whitdurini, at the parish of §heepball, in thjs comity., ,The • • 6* *4..left on the pot day of Angystin the batiklard or tire • hiiimutor, front Virte*e i Wit Aiiken by - the Pritener; - Who . '. . • •a*ty . "Mk fr, atilt fie rode hard att that atilt, bleating ta - tteat z WS durance intim .more ;. but not ki4s.vi.a&-t4e,antntr.r,, and the oticse kap*. in it ,veg well,. he. , ,bid.gay • .the lanes Arr a circle , and 4 NOW*, ,sUppostri* jitritiZelf4i at vvir air be rad: Into* It 0 4? - Inift : lWdlibl' it 4kiiiii& et& - Wdth Wiiiitei4 . traAtaftatellie hOrse, and benefit - I%Si) als*tvr till I/whit . . ' , rig/7- -.F - Aur Wret A .digaggt.fitAqtroiri4Flh ) ariPg,ll ;:,rofli a t n itl. e ,i,,,kit he was there ttie orse yof fiCO w i t ► it t li - 6 42S • l ratrn'ifitnil zdtly. • • 'ar#olsoll , l6ribtg Wag -dant ittediar insitie,i •.. of an infant. Thee.4lslP4Mit•lP4l3443)o expected 000 n i at.; . 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