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a LAW I.lTELucrxer ()UHT OF KINGS RENCII.-SArt•RD‘T. TOE Al Ake/CIS Or RERIIORD T. AND ANOTHER. hr SOLICITOR-UUNIRAL Ptatell the particulars et this case. It was an action bron , lit by the Mar owis of Hertford against the hundred of I Issulstone, of, which the defendants are inhabitants, to recover cont ensati 0000 in damages for outrages committed nu his premises by a riotous and toomultons mob, on the night of the Sth, or morning of the 9th of J one last. The action was brought under the 57th of the late King, e. 19, .. 34, which provides that "all mischief done to a boom., furniture, or fixtures, by a b riotously or tuna 1- titottsly assembled, stoatl be reimbursed hr the hun dred or county in which such mischief shall have been effected." The attack which led to the present action took place a few days after the arrival of her Majesty in this country. Several witnesses haring proved the ease, Mr. Justice Houtovu said, the it hole amount of damages proved was 12111. I9s. ; and to a verdict of this extent he considered the plaintiff 'quitted, un less the Jury were of opinion that the chat es made by the tradesmen were unreasonable. If the Jury thought any abatement ought to lie made, it it as their province to snake it. The act of Parliament under which this action bail been brought, was a most - .i . holesome one, and was introduced fur the purpose of, checking malicious attacks of this description ; by showing to the parties influenced to cutumit such catrages that, in point of fact, they were doing no real mischief to the party against whom their violence was directed. The jury found a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages 12111. I 9s. .5(1. ARTI NPIRE C. !LACK 1T •Nl) N IFE. Mr. A notenrs stated, that this action was brought by the. plaintiff, a young woni.en :15 years of age, against the defendants, Heneral Mackay and his lady.l to recover a compensation of damages fur injurious' words spoken to Mrs. Mackay, for which the (letter:ll was answerable. The experience the jury must have bad in courts of justice hail no doubt taught them that ar:ions for slander varied more or less, according to the effect and tendency of the words spoken. There w.,s one class of words which went to destroy the es timation of character, anti prevented persons obtaining confidence and employment. In such cases he had never found a jury backward in redressing injuries, by giving damages. The case he had to lay before them was of i i he latter class. It was one in whirl, the character of a poor bat honest young woman had been destroyed by the riot and powerful. The plaintiff was servant to the person who tittered the slander, and it ay.'s almost miner e s aaa y to tell the jury that a young woman so treated by her master and mistress would nimott find it impossible to get her bread in the world. The plaintiff bad been in the sister k:ligthim in the a-rvice of a baronet. She there married the butler, i•et discovered soon after that her husband was married t another woolen. She came to England with her n:other, anti had a child. She then went to the see irre of Mrs. Mackay, and remained there until the 19tb of June. when she considered it advisable to give retice to quit At that time there had been some talk is the family shoot property stolen ; but nothing was said to the plaintiff; she was told her wages 'would not then be paid; she must call again. On the Sun day following, when she went to get her wages and ler trunk, she was told she was accused as a thief; at" family had been robbed at divers times, anti she was the thief. When her trunk was delivered tin, Mrs. Mackay examined it, and Said, " I have .) doubt you have stolen a mast deal of property, and here is a handkerchief I eau almost swear btiongs to a lady who visits me." She detained the barikereliief, hut sonic time after it was delivered up to the attorney in the cause, there being no pretence for it ithholding it. The plaintiff was hired as servant bi another lady, Mrs. Lavie, who having occasion to make sonic clkniunnication to her, sent nt to Mrs. Mackay to inquire where she was to be found. Mrs. Mackay, on that occasion, told Mrs. Larie's ger cant to tell her mistress Mary hlartinere could not go into the service of Mrs. Earle ; she was a thief. Mrs. Lavie having received that communication re fnsrd to take her, and the young woman was deprived of getting her bread. After the action was brought for the slander, the defendants did not venture to jus tify the words, lint merely denied they had said the words. The individual who add d the jury knew nathirg of the parties. Mrs. Adolphus gave the plain tiff a character: and, however disagreeable it might be for ladies to come into a court of justice, he had considered it his duty not to withhold them from do ing that which justice required. Mrs. Adolphus was in attendance, and the defendants were at liberty to call her into the witness-box. When the jury bad heard the facts stated by witnesses, they would, no Doubt, consider it a ease for damages. Mary Jones said she was lady's maid to Mrs. Li vie, who resides at West End, Hampstead. She took a note to Mrs. Mackay's from her mistress. It was from Mary Martinere. She asked where Mary was to he found ? Mrs. Mackay said, " I tio not think the yaung woman would suit your mistress; I have miss ed different articles—wine, cambric, &c." When the witness returned, she told her nsiatress what had pass ed. Mary was not hired. Mrs. Levi', wife of a Solicitor, said she had known Mary klutinere. In September last she in. enired her character, and finding it satisfactory en ga{ed her at 14 guineas a-year. In consequence of wuas Mary Jones told her, she did no! t a ke the plain. tiff. She received the character from Mrs. Adolphus. She did not learn from Mrs. Adolphus that the plain tiff had gone by the name of Cunningham ; that she was a married woman and had a child. Henry Martinere, brother to the plainiff, went with bis sister to the house of General Mac'ety on the 4th of October. They went into the parlour. Mrs. Maelkay said his sister was a notorious thief. The words were—" I have missed 10 ponds' worth of thins since she has been in my service ; I have lost bye pounds worth of cambric, and fire pounds worth of other things. I will call the men-a-srvants, and I dare say they hare some of my property in their pockets." a. • Thet;mpones, servant to Thomas Winter. Esq., 34, St: Janwelatreet, deposed that he went fur the plain ihrs trunk. He saw it opened, and Mrs. Mackay TL E :ez7 took notice of a pair of silk storkings. She said it a•as no wonder Mary hail such tine things. If Ow robbed every person u she had robbed her, she might get them, The handkerchief was detained as the property of a Miss !Ireton. The plaintiffs Attorney stated, that the handker chief was returned to him by the defendants. Mr. Danstax addressed the jury for the defendants- The circumstance of the plaintiff having had a child was not communicated by those who recommended her, and suspicion was naturally excited. Confidence with regard to the characters of sen ants was always neces sary. In this instance Mrs. Mackay was led to sup pose she had in her service a young unmarried woman, and it turned out that she was a wife and a mother.— It nimbi have been no inure than fair if Mrs. Lavie had waited on Mrs. Mackay to hear the cause of suspicion. She would then have found, perhapea that although 3lrs. and General Mackay were not able to justify their assertions, there were groundsof suspicion to convince every h 66666 inrable mind that the words were uttered ler a conscientious feeling. The defendants wet* bound not to suffer a person whom they suspected of dishonesty to enter the service of another, without communicating those suspicions. 'I he learned gen tleman concluded by cnlliug Miss Breton, who proved that the plaintiff in a con versation she had with 3lrs. Mackay in the kitchen, admitted that she received some tea and a bottle of wine from another servant in the family, named Ann. The wine was drank among the servants in the kitchen. Mr. A lumen t s replied with s asperity, and after the learned Judge had ably charged the .Inr, they re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 30f., costs Ki‘li r. purr. Mr. Grit:VEY stated this vase to the Jury. It was an indictment against the defendant for an as,tult antler the followint,• cireunistanees:-.--The def e ndant was the occupier of some premises in Adans-street. Ailelphi, belonging to a person named Allatits. Adonis became a bankrupt, and 3lessrs. 3l'Leod anti Enna were appointed his assignees. l'ittler their authority a distress fur rent was delivered to Sitew, a broker. to execute. Skew, ac Eanied by assistants, went to the house of the defendant, and took possession in the defendant's absence. Mr. Pitt, on his return, turned the un•u into the passa4e, and shut a glass dour upon them. Shea• was attempting to force open the floor, is lien the defendant made a push at hint through the gla! , , with an iron crow. Spew avoided the blow, and sent for constables, and ultimately got access to the I eby another way, wizen a struggle ensued ail!' the defendant before they could disarm hint of the crow-bar. IN being disartued, defendant said, " By liod, if I had lead a pistol 1 would have shot you." These ell ctimstauces constituted flee assault, and formed the subject of the present prosecution. Mr. Gurney called Slsew, and a tonnber of other witnesses, to support his statement. Alr. Pitt, who conthic.ted his own defence, contend ed, that the prosecutors were trespassers on this occa sion : that the authority ander which they entered was irregular; that they took possession of parts of his premises not comprised in the demise from Dlr. Adams, and therefore that he was fully justified in his resistance to their taking possession. '1 he Ju►}• found the defendant Guilty on 'N.,/ counts out offifieco. PMT M. SUM AND OTIIIOIII. This was an action of trespass brought by Mr. Pitt against the defendants, Skew, the broker, his assist. ants, and the assignees of the baakrupt, Adams, who were the parties prosecuting Mr. Pitt in the former case. The evidence was the same in substance as be fore, so fir as regarded the plaintiffs right, and the trespass committed by the defendants in continuing. beyond the time allowed by law, on the plaintiffs premises; and the defendants having taken certaie fistnres scheduled to the plaintiff in his lease. The Jury foetid a verdict for the plaintiff for 41. las. fur taking goods mentioned in the schedule. STIIINET P. PP: TER MOORE, lESQ. M.P. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to re• corer 9511!. the amount of his demand for stereotyp ing an edition of Shake'prare fur Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. Sc.timerr W 3! fur the plaintiff, and Mr. tiea• xer for the defendant. The material question in the cause was, whether Mr. Moore was personally liable in this action, upon which footing it was brought, or whether he ought to have been joined with the Committee of Ma nagement for the affairs of the Theatre, on whose ac count the work was alleged to hare been done. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found a verdict for the defendant. TUIMAN iloalole the amount for which they were bound °Tel betire. PERJURY. WILLIAM GEOROIt WILMOT. The defendant was then put upon his trial on an indictment fur wilful and corrupt perjury. The in dictment charged that, on the 29th of November, 1!t19, the def•ndant scent before henry Moreton Dyer, Esq at the Public-office, Marlborough-street, and, on his oath. charged Elizabeth Haze, his servant, with feloniously stealing a shoe-horn, a pair of silk-stock ings, and other articles, his property ; whereas, in truth and in fact, the articles enumerated were nut his property. Air. ALLAY opened the case. The motive alleged against the defendant for the false charge complained of, was to deprive the prosecutrix of wages u hick were owing to her by hint : mu It stress was laid upon al leged vexatious delays on the part of the defendant, and the defendants in the other case, by giving a great number of notices of trial without appearing in con sequence thereof, thereby putting the prosecntrix to' enormous expense. Witnesses were then called to prove the facts charged in the indictment. Mr. Crawoon addressed the Court and Jury for the defendant, and urged that the latter must be satisfied that the defendant, wilfully, knowingly, and without any reasonable ur probable ground, laid an informa tion against the proreentrix for a robbery •; if he was merely mistaken in supposing that the property in question was his own, that would not be sufficient to justify a verdict of guilty. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call several witnesses on the part of the defendant, whose testit ttttt went to prove that there ' acre grounds of suspicion against the prusecutrix. Amongst gib was Mr. Want, one of the defendants in the 6;l44 l ffease. The Juryifter a few minutes' deliberation, found the defenilJnt guilty. Judgment was nut pro pounced. 31r. Want, who is a surgeon, carrying on business in Clarendon-square, Somers -town, u•as then taken into custody, and not being prepared with un 4.- jectionable hail, was cot 1111 l itted to the noose of Cor rection. The case occupied the Conrt from ten in the morn in' till half-past seven in the evening-. The prosecutrix is all interesting youna woman, and is sisre t .in-law to Captain Ilauttigardt, by whom she has been 'modified in this effort to vindicate het character from the imputations which had been cast upon it. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. CONSPIRACY. ens KING T. w ILLIASI GUMMI WILMOT, IRYKT WANT, AND !ELIZABETH III! WITS, AND MART nuria3. Thts was an indictment against the defendantkfor conspiring falsely to charge one Elisabeth (lass with feloniously stealing certain articles of wearing appa rel, Ike., the property of Wilmot, and in pursuance of the 'nisi conspiracy, causing her to be taken before the Magistrates of Marlborough-street, on the said charge ; wh , in trutls and in fact, the articles alleged to hare been stolen were not his property. and were eraf tily conveyed into the box of the prosecutrix, who had been a servant in the employment of the defendant Wilmot. All the defendants load been admitted to I OLATOOW. Dec. 3.—There has not appeared for hail, except the lust mentioned person, a cheese-monger, . the last thirty years so many removal tickets on shops, in Charlotte-street, Rathbune-place. The ease was . and that too in tiallowgate-street, as is at present ex fixed fin trial this morning. he defendant Wilmot, Midi"! ; nor is this confined to the shops, whole fiats being iu custody, appeared at the bar; the other tie- of lodgings, counting-houses, and even moderately fendants did not make their appearance. sisetl dwelling-houses, are to he bad, “ at present. 19hen the case was called on, the prisoner, under rent moderate." A fiat of a house, in a central and the advice of his Counsel, refused to plead to the in- respectable neighbourhood, and let three years ago at (Bement. A warm discussion took place upon the •ZOI., has been let at 13f., and a shop in the same te propriety of this proceeding, which ended (on the neutral. the rent of which was 441., has been let for prayer of the Counsel for the prosecution) in the Court 161. Many shops are shut altogether in the suburbs, ordering the recognisances of the two Wants and and even in the town, and those that are kept open Butler to be notated. and directing the prisoner to generally have just reason to complain of a greater be detained fur the contempt in not pleading. A demand being made on their stork of humanity than struggle had been missile on behalf of the prisoner, that on that of their wares. A gentleman in Trongate, another indictment against him tor perjury should who rents a shop at not less than lOW., with a suit take precedence of the conspiracy ; but it ended in the able ntablislonsent. sells *5 needles, No. $, neatly put proceeding abtove mentioned. 'I be. Conti ordered a up, at one halfpenny . ! A Nhelfield merchant offen a warrant to issue immediately for the (opptehensiou of gross of six•blaJed knives at MM. !—(fiistrUte the other defendants. and bolding them to bail .ig t • nick.) uricab INTRI.LIGENCR The ship Commerce, of O a reenock, ran o n nu , Pilgrims. abou: 30 toile.* below Quebec, where the N ak . Inns, arrived at Plymouth, left het. The Oer:inn, %%anti's, (rots Oporto to Nara:than% 1, loot near the latter port. Crew saved. The Pitt. Urosoe, from Nevis and St. Kitts to Loud ° . which was driven on shore at St. Kitts, v s th e t e jth .1 August, 11.10 been got off with considerable damage. The ltooina, Lithgotr, holnd to Petersbnrgli, str uc k on some rocks rear Eckholen Island, on the 13th and having sprung a leak, ,iut into Bevil to repair. The St. Franeisco Jr As's, from Oporto t• .'rrn a ,,,. hnco, was taken on the 10th of Oct. withis 14 irsgs.r from that port, by :he Vallente ship privateer. The Hannah, Putt, from London to Shields, nu et the Herd .Saud on the Zith instant, but was Lot off the following night, 'ay assistance (ruin the abort, so d c4l. rigid into port. an I supposed with little ilarmize. lianwicii, 1 tor. ...—The ship reported ye.tar lav tot e ashore upon the Shipwash•sand, has Finer beery gut „ 1s and is now at anchor at the back of the garrison, is a loaded collier of about 13 keels of Cu:la%. NIEWHAVEN, S.—The vessel Could on shore near Rottingdean huh the greatest part of her carge on board ; upwards of 140 casks of wine and Wall!) bate been raved. This vessel had on hoard a Stilall tittalltity of fruit, which nun totally destroyed; tut, then were IN. LB. LP. • HN. found in the vessel, and the hand of • third peram K ra pers have been found belonging to a v esse l ra il e d the Marko of casks on board, A x Providence, and others, the Eugenio, supposed fr au lior.eault, hound to Dunkirk or Boulogne. Pritxstenrco, Orr. 20.—The Porton:nese ship N. Senhora Jr Paz Itosalia, arrived here no the I:lihiast. She heat off 4 privateer of IS guns, under the gaig Buenos Ayres, near Cape St. Augnoine. Eotmnortim, Dec. s.—Last week a PeCtioa O l d complaint was ! ,re.ented to the Court of Session, at the instance of Patrick Mason, a itieni'ler of Nie Tomei Council of Xlontruse, complaining of the of the last 3lichaelnias Election of Nagistrati C) ie. cii for the Burgh, and praying the same say be see aside. I)Ln HAILE": Se•s:os% —S.itttrilay the following pris.mers were capitally convicted, vie. H. Parker, fo'r stealing three pair of breeches am; other artirin , the property of D. Perry. who is coachman to the Hon. J. Aberer.mibie ; W. 1'a.1. 1 0 k, of stealing in the h ou.e of Mrs. blitelsell a number of artirles of furniture. linen, &e. and J. Davis, of robbing O. Barrett. on the highway, of his watch. TO THE Enrroß OF THE STATIBIMAN. St u.--You have for many years announced, tlironch the medium of your well conducted and widely circulated • paper. the Establ i slitnent of the NI E DRAT, ROA RD.lauitat ed by the celebrate-4 Dr. COOPER. mutt assisted by eminent Surgeons and Physicians e..f nearly forty years experience— !Helium COOPER and Co: request you will have the Lir& mess to inform your readers the whole of their ratline is now concentrated at Charlotte House. Greet Chad% tie street. Bltekfrlars-road, where several rooms are appro priated for consultation. The object of this arrangement i.. that every ease may have the opinion of Dr. Cooper sad the whole Hoard ; and in order that the I uhlir may be ap. prised of the above circumstance. so advantageous to thew, you will be pleased to insert this notice fur one month. By Order of the Hoard. I have the honour to remain, your obedient Bement. ROHT. C. 'SEM. M. D. Nee. N. R. All Letters addressed to Sir F. C. Daniel, Tauter, are laid before the Board the sum day. Medical Board, Charlotte-House. Surrey. Nov, O. Donors of platens ;save. Thy house, and (in the cup of life. That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. SIICRA'f on marriage. by his discourse o marriatm. an ea raptured his auditors with the subject, that the marfied men flew to their a Ives, and the bachelors hastened to be wedded ; and " The Spectator - has affirmed. That the word " wife" is the most agreeable and delightful name in nature. The sacred Institution, then. of marriage, compasses the desideratum of our enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap piness on earth, but disposing the suul itself to harmonize with bliss hereafter. I/ Pros ions, however, to entering into this hallowed oblige tion. it becomes an imperative duty, not only to recodatethe passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those im purities. which the freedom' of unrestricted pleasure may hare entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attentive are attributable many of those hapless ll:stoners, which. chile they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also hnpress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effeminize the botly—a residence in the tropics will rein; the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently roof promise the natural dignity into a state of Inanition. her whence the agonized sufferer more thin doubts the chew" of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering hope —energy--muscular strength—felicity ; nor will oar advent-es appear questionable, sanctioned as they arch, the melliplied proofs of twenty years successful experience. The easy cares of married life, are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wrenth—for the female habit is often constitutionally week—vet It can be strengthened, rod deficient energy lir' proved into functional power. Ip every case of syphilitic intrusion. as well as in every relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our abithy to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solieitous to expel the unfeeling unpyrie from the position en pi emotipte ously taken up. we deviate from general prineiples with leis hesitation ; and confident in one out honourable intgnitc la Members of the College of Burgeons. we refer the sufferieg community of either sex (especially those euter(ug into p trissonial life) at ate, to our house, where daily attemisnce is gives for personal. coneeltatioa ; and letters from the country' are imatediately . answered these must eontsis s remittance for Advice end Medic:hie, which can be ferearded to any part of the world, however distant. GOY 'mad Co. M. R. C. Surgeons. Bon serir-street, Fleet-street, Leedom. ea Private door round the corner. Just published (Tenth edition), The AF.OIB of 1.11:K a familiar commentary on the shove Diseases. By GOSS§ and Co. 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Printed. and Puhlishad at Ow Oiler I. l'useTaliesrAs" God "TN Clo mi still:1101s" (Swan NKr) No 01. Bernal. at. clanstersesuer. • by R. WARDEI.L, Jss. . LLB.: t• Moo ell I.loe tanaleations, Orders, ate. are requested to be addressed- POUCE. ilsxstorc-linrse.—An obi fisherman, named John Geoigiek, who resides at Ilai 1111 l ersinith, was brought before the Lugo l'U.svott, charged by Ruff, one of the water bailiffs, with having once more enraged in his old trick of fishing with an unlawful net in the River Manses. • The complainant, in making his statement against this incorrigible offender against the Fishery Act, mentioned several things very honourable to the ve term§ (Usiodrick is near 'U) as a man of humanity, and regretted that be so frequently had met tinodrick engaged in plundering the !mines of the brood of fish. The example of the old man, the oldest fisher man in the river, bad done a treat deal of mischief, and rendered it necessary Cott the Water Bailiff should have a look unt after him. Mr. Howell, the Head IVater Bailiff, by no means wished that a line should lw inflicted. He admitted that tioodrick bad been distinguished for humanity ; but at the same time he said that the fisherman was the avowed enemy of all the inhabitants orthe waters, and was notorious for destroying them. The Loan-Maim expressed a hearty wish that Goodrich would subscribe to the conditions of the Art, regretted the obligation upon him to condemn the net, but remitted the penalty. The unfortunate man has lost in this manner thou sands of yards of net since he had commenced trade, .statl has been times without number imprisoned for violating the law by using his favourite nets; by im peding officers in the execution of their duty- on the Thames. and by resorting to force, which has fre quently been attended with great hazard to those he assaulted. But he has hot). by land and water saved the lives of many of his fellow-creatures, and com forted the unfortunate and indigent. BOW-STMT.—There has been some time under vestigation at this office the case of alleged murder, stated souse slays since its our paper, of one May, who had bees in the employ of the biome,* of the Kensing ton llravel-pits Road, and who bad died lately, after an affray in which he hail beep the aggressor. The question was, whether Isis death was occasioned by blows, or in consequence of excessive drinking. The magistrate, after a minute examination of two medical men, thought that the matter deserved an inquiry be fore a more soieion tribunal, and therefore committed Stetting, Cooling, and Tack, three persons concerned in the affray, to await the decision of grand jury. ✓oecph Wout9,l and William Ballock, two of a gang of street-robbers, were committed for trial for a moat brutal assault and robbery, committed on the person of John Hall, Esq., of Russell-square. As the care will be tried very shortly at the Old Bailey, we forbear to give the particulars at present. F.. I