The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-07 00:00:00

430 .11 of which are in no to the shoals which the forming. " Your Committee, being convinced from these inquiries, as well as from the information collected by them last year, that the rebuilding of London Bridge, upon improved prin ciples, would be a measure of substantial economy in itself, ;Powell as subservient to other purposes of still greater import ance." THE NATIONAL ) long time washed away ; and add II fridge has already been the means of LAW REPORTS. COURT' OF KING'S BENCH. WED:OEM.IY, JULY 3. THE KING V. DE YONGE. The Court this day, according to their previous notice, pro pounced judgment in this important question. Lord ELLEN moitouGu, in stating the judgment of the Court, observed, that the defendant De Yonge, was cony cud before bbn in the Sitti.:gs after last Tcrm, in which conviction a ques tion was reserved, upon the 'notion of Mr. Marriott, upon a point of law, and . that the judgment should be staid, as a Nimilar point had occurred before the Court of Common Pleas, in the King v. Wright, which had been reserved by the Lord Chief Justice of that Court, for the opinion of all the Judges. It bad been accordingly thought proper to reserve this question ,also, as the decision of the one case would be the decision of the Gther. Both cases, therefore, had been most solemnly argued before all the Judges except three, who bad been absent from indisposition, but he was not aware that any of them differed in the least, upon bearing the argument that had taken place.— The charge, in regard to De Yonge, was that of exchanging .50 tuineas, and ret•eiving more in value than the same were de clared by Proclamation of Geo. 11. to be current for; but the ctchange Shaving been made by means of certain Promissory Notes of the Bank of England, together with a silver coin called a dollar, all the Judges were of opinion that the exchange upon • the record was not an offence against the statutes of the .sth and Gth of Richard VI. upon which that charge was founded. In consequence of this, the Court were of opinion that the case u f be - Yonge ought to be arrested, and it was by that their judg , • mem arrested accordingly. • . .• • :W-.4.L.DRoN v. GREATREX. Thls . Vias ateittilteti trover, brought by a servanteMaid, against her lane mas er, a tailor, in Piccadilly, to recover the value of some clothes left in the defendant's custody at the time of her quitting his service. The plaintiff had left her master's service in consequence of ill health, and when she sent for her dot ees, he refused to deliver them until she should pay 113.6 d. for broken glass. The only article of dress demanded to he eeiivered up, was a black bombazeen gown, valued at f..)55. and . which, it typeared, the defendant's wife so fir exercised an act of ownership over, as to give to her sister to wear. It also ap peared, that the plaintiff had got some trifling articles from the fendaet's shop, but lord ELLEN Boaoucu held, that neither this nor the broken glass gave the master a lien on the property of his servant, and the Jury found a verdict of 2.56. Damages for the plaintiff. In the Court of Arches, on 'Thursday, in a suit preferred by Mr. Newbury, against the Rev. Mr. Goodwin, Curate of lie:!thfield, Sussex, for irregularity at the communion table, chiding, quarrelling, and brawling in the Church, the Learned Judge (Nicol) thought the Rev. Gentleman would do well to consider, whether he would act discreetly in 'defending the suit. Ii: the same Court, in a case of divorce promoted by C. Dalton (who kept the Rising Sun public house, at Canterbury), against his wife, Sarah Dalton, by reason of adultery, the proofs of criminality being clearly made out, the Court granted the rL-medy prayed for, and passed sentence of divorce accor dingly, destroy the Star Printing... Office, and Mr. Cooke's extensive workshops at the back of Mr. Read's house. But water was ao early obtained, as well as the assistanbe of the engine kept by Messrs. Heare, Fleet-street, which was the first that arrived, that the Star Office experienced only some partial damage, and Mr. Cooke's 'premises were not injured. Mr. Read's house was burnt to the gropnd. His property was insured, but, we pnderstand, not the house. No lives were lost, and we are hap py to state no accident happened. FATAL EFFECTS OF StINDAY EXCURCIONS.—..-A boat, in which were Mr. Prater, an artist, ot Pimlico Lower Road, his two daughters, and five other persons, was staved above Battersea Bridge, on Sunday night, by some unskilful young Caen; Miss Sinither w.ts drowned, in endeavouring to escape av:th file party into another boat. A gentleman nearly lost his life in at tempting to save her, but was providentially picked:up by a boatman. EXTRAORDINARY OCCCRIENCE.--.•FOT several days past a 1:e.1, nine years ot age, belonging to a respectable tradesman in tee neighbourhood of Paddington, has been missing. tie was at school near that place, and net returning home at his usual hoer, search and ingeiry was made for him. _No tidings were heard until last Tuesday morning, when he was found (lead in one of the vaults of Sr. George's Chapel, Paddington. The body vas standing against the wall of the vault. His bag, with his school . - books, was on his showier; there were several coffins in the vault. It is conjectured that the boy had been led these by cu riosity to see a funeral, and that having been inadvertently shut in, he died of frigkt. Monday, a warrant was obtained for the apprehension of a Paymaster-serjeant, for a violent assault on a publican, in the neighbourhood of even-oaks, Kent, under the following circum stances :—The publican's daughter, aged nineteen, had ahsenn d herself from home with the serjeaut, who waaluartered in the house, a fortnight since, and the publican having obtained infor mation her retreat, repaired to a house in the Hampstead road, where she was concealed, and on knocking at the doer, was assailed by the seducer, and heat in a shocking mannet. On the officer repairing to the house on Monday, to execute the warrant, the parties had fled, but au agent of justice has been dispatched in pursuit. Monday, William Whitehead. who has undergone several examinations before the Lord Mayor, charged with uttering a forged bill upon the banking-house of Robarts, Curtis, and Co. for BEI. 7s. 10d. purporting to be drawn and signed by 'Mr. Cel len, of Westminster, was brought up for further examination Mr. Roharts and several others from that banking-house at • teatded, and proved the bill to be-a forgery. Mr. Culkra. attended and declared. hit name, assigned. was not of hisliansf writing, and that he knew nothing about it. The prisoner de clined saying any thing at present in his defence. He was fully committed for trial.—lt is said there are a great many other charges against him. He was formerly a Clerk in the Bank of England some years, but had been .discharged. . Martha Bennett, of Thelnctham, in Suffolk, is committed to Bury gaol, charged, on the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, with the wilful murder of her male bastard child. It appeared that she had secretly delivered herself on Sunday the 23d ult. and had smothered the child between her bed and the floor on which it laid, and afterwards sewn the infant tw in a handkerchief; on the following Saturday she threw the same into a pond, in which it was discovered next day. BIRTHS. On Saturday last, the Lady of Joseph l'ole Care►, Esq. was safely delivered of a daughter. At Hermanston, the Lady of the Right Hon. Lord Sinclair, of a son. MARRIED. On Saturday last, at St. Goorge's Church, Hanover-square D. Pi ice, Esq. of Lee, in Kent / to Mrs. Russell, of Lewisham in the same county. On the 2d inst. at Putney, Marshall Waller Clifton, Esq. of the Admiralty, to Elinor, daughter of Daniel IMI, Esq. of Highlands, Putney Heath. PRICE OP STOCK 3. S per Cent. Reduced 62 ;Vi 4 per Cent. Consols - • ~.. ,9 Bank Long Annuities , 16 11-164 India Bonds ols. (.:Os. pm.. Exchequer Bills, 3d. ls. di%. ls. Par. Omnimn li! dis. Consols for Open. 633ii ACCIDEN OFFENCES, Bcc. Ftkr..—At a quarter before twelve, on Monday night, a fire broke out at Mr. Read's, Law Bookseller, Bell-yard, Carey tArcet. 'The family had retired to bed, and the flames having burst out in the lower part of the house, its inhabitants were c•+mpelled to tscape b) ladders out of the second floor windows. Considerable apprehensions were entertained lest the fire should London : Printed and Edited by E. ROCHE, and Published by JOHN rISHER, No 5, Pickett-street. Strand, near Ternple-Bar , and forwarded by all the Newsmen, the Clerks'? Roads, an Lools.sellers throughout th(tJuited J.V.:li•;lorn, free of postage, 0 Country at 10s. 3,1 d, per snartts7 •