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TILE TURF. -.0.-- SETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, laruAav 10. DERBY. 114, 'u 1 eget Mr. Pirree's 1 111 te 1 apt cult out of rult I Brierls 16 to 1 seat biot4er to I 17 to 1 owl Doke . Much( r IS I. 1 migneedrol 16 to I eget Pandora' ISO t 0111406 siker 01112. 410 1 apt the Sorcera t Is 2 le t o r 11114 11 DoNCASTIIII W 2. 1.12 11 to 1 apt Mr. ri‘rtes gr. IVAN' A SPORTINM rtArir. fit‘t ‘vrepstaices rosining match of het week rail" as other match Of the same kind to be wade at a eseorifrinl meeting iu as Saturday Wok. and which wiatir• rifted yesterday us the Bath rood. It was fora make of 10 guinea. each, as follows :—The match was he dhe runt talks; amid Mr. Carter gaga one Wile at surrhieg Mr Mr. Huffman, who weighs nitres aurae; throe !porters ipt milt to Kr. Pigeon; red half a mils to Mr. lawn. eerier got ay with Joules al fuer mitts, and the latter owe tit. It was • tine rate is between she oder dine. Pigtimi omits* ILA/man in the last quarter of a war, het Ito was 10., murk ft-alienated to head him. Canes. she had Emit ••traurdsuary play is the tart wik was urea rodurod anJ the Sforn alone man beat Carter by gin garde. awl Vicrun by tea. Carter did his grosid 111110111114. Tatty were all meek dastresurd cARLILS. The foltnwiag is a literal espy of the emblem placed MI Mrs. Carideo window, which Ims co much allmetesi Oar al- Indio, of the carious as to seriously itecuovammute she Iwsi ps‘senamv " Mrs Carlik respecifislly informs' the milk. that after an occupation of the premises (or sin washylMAsai4has carried eff 41 the property . of Mr. Ovalle. sad kit bre with. 1)111 soy mess. of providing Ar her hatpins peneepfereap. The properly seised fur the fine is Irma SOK mod Is CUOMO, justice the Sheriffs should premed to mil, fee she benefit a the emote, what he has seised for Its one. The strasdonment of the premises seems to have ham to maid the payment of the mat rod loxes dee et Christmas i soother instance of the mainetesse of the persecution to Win* she has hero exposed. Ustler them eiresmistaares Mr.. Cm. tile re-opcns her shop for the sete of political pulii.estlams, and hopes the liberality of the politic of thy 1011.11110511 p.scowisc her runtimes to avert the (Meats of • praossatams which has thrown herself mod her thiblres apse Ms reams lion of the friends of just tee tesspet ml with sistedy." TO THE EDITOR UP THE INITISH PRIM eta—A. an humble individual 1 should feel Dosch em barrassmeot in arldressiwg myself to you oso W Ifidimaisig subject, if I were not fully amiable 4 p.m modistes Is woke known whatever may ban a liandaility S. promote the welfare end comforts of the prblie. Ilsrossir your inters& drug, iiefol, and impartial Pow, rims freirded ups* ris• tual and IWn esperirace. Its a comMvp lake sitoollsell e .lllSl of safe and comfortable travelling le cereal* it esiebisr able importauce; I beg leave therefore to up. OM 1 -been a servant of the public, is tbe howakile sitnMiss Il[ • sage-coachman, thirty-Ave years, mid ban drove mo t wards of forty miles a day during that time, sod it is with concern that I koow (request rad scrims micedmoks have recently occurred. and time very rhea is crow Treace of the incompetency of drivers. 111 pens that there are disagreements bereave the and that each of them will in such rases imolai opus wading his own servant with his own homes a single stage, who is wonky an inexperieoced, careless, or idle beraellsesar, sod if be happens to be out of the way, Ibleal so wipsalier kassaism petrol poet-buy is substituted for Ws I ests of usisims that the best w to remedy this evil will be lior p... avengers to rodraiu from giving thew drivers any wail% nor, indeed to any coachman whi. drives a teas distaste Dam forty miles. Tbrowgh this mean. considerable expend* and trouble would he paved to travellers, especially on she might, as it would prevent the annoymor inspiotiosities of these drivers at the end of every stage In long distances the elwve descri piton of drivers may, perhaps, be empl o yed with out the knowlvdge of the principal or superealeadior an racerr; hut, vs the guards travel mooch lodger distasera thus the coachmen, it is nn incembent duty of theirs to report these owl all utbri irregularities, or to fnrnuh travellers with the came. of the proper authorities. Should these suggestions of an bumble oulividual be *mender! to, I have fair reason to hope, that much future comfort, safely, ands redaction of expense would hr insured to travellers, and experienced coachmen would be employed. I am, Sir, Your bumble end obliged Servant, AN OLD COACHMAN. DRAADIVL ACCIDEINT. On Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, a dreadful ex phiniou of gas, by which several persona were seriously it,- jureil, and an infant killed, took place in Furth-street, in this town. The facts of the eine, as far as we can collect them, were nearly as follow :—During the greater port of that day, the family of Mr. Benjamin Slater, in front of whose house, in that street, one of the main gas pipes passes, but wit►out having any communication with the house, had been veal!) , annoyed with the smell of gas, which it appears was • scaping from the pipe into the house. Information of this 1 ireumstance was essmontiiirated to the proper persous at the gas works, who promised to remedy the inconvenience next day, nut conceiving any immediate danger. In the evening, however, as Mrs. Slater was sitting in the parlour ronversing with a friend, she sent her daughter with a candle to the closes, when a most dreadful and violent explosion of gas took place, by which the upper part of this Lower, and the whole of the back part of the adjoiniug house were Wean out, and destroyed, and the houses otherwise touch injured. Mrs. Slater 'a daughter was scorched most shockingly over all her body; and a young child was forced from Mrs. Slater's arms into the fire-place. Airs. Slater was also burl; Mrs. Fletcher, her friend, we [relieve, escaped ua• low. But more serious injury was sustained in the adjoining house, occupied by Mr. John Slater, who was that availing ?islet faining a party of friends. Tbepait of the bowie, where they *ere silting was quite demolished, and they were so rush•.d among the rains, that it was some lime before they be extricated. They were all more or less hod. Mr. :01111111 Mater had both Isis ankles Intl nut; he also r errilmj a *esti wound, sod wee otherwise sanrh burl. Mrs. Delman' had aloe both her ankles put out, and her arm broken; and the further misfortune of having her child, a hall of about five weeks old, which she was heilllllg 111 her arms unfortunately killed, Mr. Deboam also revised some in jury, as did Mrs Jobe Slater, and some other•, but we do um know the partienkirs. Our remlers may funs some idea .f the violence of the explosion, from the Gr•l of sonic tnhles ilia chairs bring thrown ars•ns the street, and a window he •n.! blown quite mil, soil slosrram over a wall on the oppo nte side of the si reel. Sore persons who were passing acre lso hurt by the falliwg hvieka s Orr—(Neerccutle Paper.) The fight between Shelton mod Oliver will take place in tirrtfordsloirr Ull Thursday, twenty...live miles horn London. Betiii.g is about mu. but Shelion for choice. On Saturday eveuiny, at eight o'clock, Mr. Clio Riekrasu's "u'ei Nu. 7, Upper Mary-lc-bone-street, was 'styled by take key, end his brat flour private library brake is urn, strovig boa, with a Bramati's learnt lock, wrenched with some forcible iastrnment. Irmo this was niouey and , ceiro articles, as well as a favourite dint off the eremitic piece. All Ibis was dune with very ►kilful tools, for the "'bleb was airungly locked, anal the strong box, were seine-fly didgured in lista atrocities' rubbery. The shop WAS vista, nod several peisous iu ii, and the usual occupauts were is the kilekeo. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF LING'S BRANCH, C ISILDMA LI, JANUARY le. • NADRAGO V. WII.T.ES. This was an ruction to r-cover 34,0001. Csr damages done it sieve ship, cargo, sod the pro b Ale profits which might have arisen from the sole thvrrof. Mr. SCAKIATT stated the case. The Plaintiff was a Spanish mit-chant. of considerable eminence in his own coutitry. The Defendant was one of a clam of ;remiss whom be honoured as moch as auy man, who were very deservedly grtat favourites with the public. fl meant British naval officers. The ft ' if had fitted out a vessel called the Vises/- Saw for the African shave trade, which, though elotialied be the English laws, was perfectly legal in/{win. I Tbe vessel proceeded in July, 1817, from flavannali to the African coast, where she mei* in September, and calling to at two or three plOrof, had at paired a cargo of '289 Illifef. The lad of these places was Puerto Novu, where she tismtnauiceted with a Portogoese vessel earned the /I(firso, aitn w hich she exch.:ag,-41 goods for the slaves that a ere oil 'maul. Ihs Alajesty's ship C herub came into the port, and the blaster of the Discnrodoe, accoriling to the orders which lie hail rcCeived from its owners, put to see, for the purpose of ov)itliag any cum• asonnention with any cruisers, such being the te •one of his orders. The (.'hero's gave cha•c, over took, and boarded the Discatudor, and after con trrytag her to Sierra Leone, the DI LIVeS were landed tend rrl►ased, the ship afterwards •rut to Jamaica, there detained until July—then surrendered hack, of muse, her hull and rtggitig conaidierahly (lett-- stunt d, her cargo lost, her stores either perched Of Sold off, and the, profits winch most ha►e arisen trot• the voyage turned to an aluso,t ruinous loss. He was tit a loss to guess what objections would be set tip to the (1;11mq:us which he asked. His client boil done nothing but what was lawful in his own country, and, as he had pvic!iseil it (far he had kept, mccoriiiiig to the Itinitotions all•rwerl by Treaty, within the 6th and 7th degrees of latitude), allowed by other powers; he was consequently un der the protection of the law of stations, nod any wrong dune to him was an injury dour to the rights of maws's, and that liberty sil traversing the high seas which wise were so noxious to protect as the Courts and Juries of the British emigre. He knew that he used say nothing more in furtherance of justice, became ha elicit was a foreigner. Of that Court it might he said. as it was declared of the ROM4I , Senate of sold, that no natio., and no people, when wronged, ever manly appealed to them for protec tion. _ _ _ Andres Joseph Paliser was in the service of the Plaistilt He sailed with the Diseneader front the liev•ulsehs hoagies an investment on board for the purchase of $3O slaves, es the 12th July, 1817. 11 . w ship arrived on the coast of Africa. and con- United taking in slaves from September till Janu ary. la the meats time the Captain had died ; wit arm took the command of the ve•sel. She arrived 1 1 at Puerto Novo, having on board shout 290 slaves : goods for the purchase or 200 more slaves were sent 0 i I awe. He had communicated with a Portu guese vessel, the /lifers,. His Britannic Majesty's ship Cherub put into the port, and witness put to sea to avoid cointnunicating with her. The Cherub perused, overtook, boarded her, and took her first to Cape Coast Castle, then to St. Thomas's, rod filially to Sierra Leone. The slaves were put on share. The goods which remained were sold. Wit loss saw some of the goods in possession of some of the crew of the Cherub, into which vessel he and his crew hail been removed. After being detained for some time at Sierra Leone, he was conveyed in his own ship, under the command of Lieut. Austin, of his Britannic Majesty's ship Semiramis, com manded by Sir Jltillell Yeo, to Port Royal. Jai , macs. After detention there till July, the ship was given up to Mr. Mitchell, agent to the Plaintiff at that place. Cross examined by Mr. JARTIL—Caosin %Vil. les came himself on board the Diseutudor, and said that he would teach witness how to rub Por tuguese vessels in future. Witness did nut know to what he alluded ; acknowledged that he rod his . men had gone un hoard the Infers°. also that his had repeated the visit. The reason was, that he had exchanged goods for slaves with the Portu guese Captain, ors not satisfied with his berg:int, and returned to demand what lie conceived to be the full value due to lam. It was customary to conduct such transactions well armed. lie had not broke in the hatches of the Piforso ou his last visit. He had, on the approach of the Cherub, endea voured to weigh anch ,, r, but being confined, with one of his crew, by sickness. was unable to ac complish it; therefore cut cable and stood to sea. He had avoided the Cherub, because he had gene ral orders not to speak with ally vessel that lie could avoid. The slaves were 111 good health.— This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. J A RV is. for the defence, admitted the weakness of it in a strictly legal sense. Ile had circumstances to put before the Jury, however, which he thought must reduce the damages,. which in the arnomit claimed were such as issuld . utterlp ruin his client, to a very moderate compass. Hay load great reliance on the integrity of a Bntish Jury. and he knew that they would do as much justice to a foreigner, perhaps be even more scrupulous about it, titan to a fellow-subject. This he would give them credit for. though he eauld not season his compliment *Oh those allusions to Grecian or Roman States, with which his Learned Friend had dressed hi, enlogium. He• would pore, in op. position to the insinuations and declarations made against his client. of his having made a wait ton aid unprovoked attack ou the Plaintiff's vessel, that lie had very plausible grounds for leading him into as error, which be • had Cour nutted from zeal its the performasce. of his duty. Ile should &XII the evidence of three naysl officers who were serving at the time under his lamented (item! Sir Jaynes Yen, to prove that Captain Wines hail the best reason* for supposing that he was act -1 ing perfectly right in what he was doing. The s e were person of credit iu their professiou, and of unsullied honorer. In the menu time how stood the case with the Plaintiff? He was Irwin% wholly on the evidence of one witness. and that • persoirim [dictated its tlse transaction, sus! however legal us .his pursuit. condacting a traffic horrible to hums city, and under circumstances of cruelty and misery the end appellier. not witness had informed Ike Court. *al the ship, which wag or *Ay Sllktene beetles. was Stied for the re ception e 4 Am bemired mod thirty slaves! Let the Jttry issieee what o slave trader of such • six meta be. irith the Iletwriotos wont of discipline and deeoliates is Spaiiirli ships. and with no ragulations fur bettering the horrors a the Middle Passage, as there used to he sa this country ! The foci was, I lie *mild prove it to them, that the as well as the crew, were fast 'nuking under the iii fldPwee of the dysentery. The small-pox also was ragas* among them, and it required the utmost medical skill, on their arrival at Sierra Leone, to preserve their existence. When lie had made these points gond, the Jury would hare to consider of the proper amount of damage. doe to the Plaintiff. Ile war sorry to have to call on a British Jury to weigh the value of human flesh and Wood, but it was forced upon them. His Learned Friend told claimed it the rate of 1001. for each slave. This was the price of ;while slaves. But surely the Plaintiff would not presume that the whole cargo was of prime slaves ; so far 01 IteMiSe was the (ii t. that not nue-half of them would dosser ihat firm. That was the titat deduction they were roll ed oh to make. They would then take into the ac. coma that tool. for a prime healthy slave. wits the price paid at Hammel), whereas the voyag e was yet to he made at the time of "leisure, mod the cargo ill a slate of trrriltle and lienlisome The CIIIET JUSTICE Ito•re interfci ed, informed the Plaintiff',. Counsel that a doubt which lie could not get over hal entered His 'plod, as to the 1101.111• hility of a foreigner recovering ilaiii..ges in a Bro. lish Court of Justice. for losses incurred in • init. he, which is punishable in • very high degree if carried on by British subject.. To this Mr. SCAILLETT objected. that the slave trade was guaranteed to Spain rimier certain tie. curostances contained in the Treaty esecutell be tweet' the two countries, and so palpably was the right of Swim admitted in the slave traffic. that one coodition agreed to in Colmi,irratioll of her pre aprctive and gradual abolition of it, was, that Spain was to receive from Great Britain 400,0001. Lord Chief Justice Assere tt ght dirt the appeal to the grant to Sprits for ■ pro•perlive also. Istiote of the slave trade, rather an unlucky proof of her absolute and tottalierahle right in it. fie did not intend to decide of himself against the chaise fur damages. He would direct the Jury to semi. ►rte those which they awarded for the ship •wd goods from those which they would give for the slave*, and the profit on them, and she latter should l►e submitted to the decision of his brother J edges. Mr. SCORIA?? offered, as he said he bed dem on Sraturdray, to withdraw • Juror, and *Weil the damages to the award of ally two respectable gentlemen competent to judge such a tratisraetiess, who should be appointed. He would not offer this again, if now rejected. Mr. Jaavts thanked his Honourable Friend for what he called " his small mercies," bet he was ' not at all afraid of the verdict of the Jory. They must feel obliged to his Lordship fur bis hied in. terposition, which had for the present rosteiderably ' narrowed the question. He had now only to treat of the damages which they were llama to award for the goods said to have been kft in the ship, and for the deterioration of the ship and stores during the time of her detention. As to the first. they would hardly take the estimate of the Plaintiff's only witness. of 6,3001. for the goods left in the ship. According to the witness's own shewnig. the original investment was in nominal value 26.000/. with which it was proposed to purchase 530 slaves. Now at the time of the departure of the Dis eutedur from Puerto Novo. she was said to have 290 staves on board. and goods fur the purchase of 200 more were then lying with the agents on shore. The proportion of 6,300% was more than could have remained after the purchase had been with draws foe 490 slaves out of 530, the intended cargo. The lost consideration was the value of the ship and rigging, with any deterioration occasioned by her deteution. This he was must rrady to grant. The estimate of the ship. rigging, &c. at the time of capturing her was 2,2501. But then he had it un der the hand-writing of Mr. Mitchell, who, strange to pre, was, though a British subject, resident in the King's doinmions, agent to a Spaniard in a trade prohibited by the laws of his Government, that the ship was received back " with her hull, rig glitz, and apparel, as perfect as at the time of her seizure." He Duce more impressed it upon them that his client was led into the present difficulty by his seal to bring to justice what he had good reason to believe was an act of piracy. namely, the con duct or the Plaintiff', witness towards the Portia guess vessel. the Commander of winch had com plained of the aggression, and thus induced the Defendant to act as be hod done. Lieutenant Stokes was an officer of the Cherub. which formed part of a squadron sailing under the orders of Sir James Yeo. for the prevention of the Slave Trade. They fell in with the Ettore() at Puerto Novo, and in consequence of the informa tion they received of the injury done on board by tlte• biscutudor, they followed and overtook her. Witness went on boatd with Captain Willes. likr was on deck. They asked for the Com manding Officer. Puliser pretended a pas. senger. and said that there , was no orits pore ticular on board. Witness asked what number of slaves were on board ? He afterwards took the unmber himself. Their condition was shocking ; they had the dysentery and small-pus on board; there was no surgeon ; the summit of the Cherub came on board and attended them. They were taken round to Sierra Leone. For tome months after very few of the slaves could stood. On their arrival at Sierra Leone, they were more regularly treated ; they had medicines and a daily allowsuce of wine. Mr. Benson strengthened the former evidence. Lieut. Austin deposed to the particulars of the Jamaica voyage, whither he wet commissioned to take the ease for trial, one charge of piracy, against the Diseutador, which charge could not be sub. stemmed, and the ship was restored. Mr. Keunet Macaolay, Memberof his Majesty's Council or Sierra Leone, testified also to the wretch ed condition of the slaves, and their manumission by the British authorities at Sierra Leone. From the• Spanish manner of stowing sud tending *love, in the Middle Passage, seldom more than SO or 40 nut of 70 ourvived the voyage.• Frew ti►a condi• Riau of the 'laves in question, he did not believe that any of them could have reached the Havau nal► alive. Mr. SCARLET? cross-examined the last witness to prnt.nr, hes evidence of the value of sound and liesithy •lart-s in the flavanttah, dod theta replied. The Lunn CHIEF Justict summed op with more than orllinsty perspicuity, directing the Jury to stints:oe the damages they might be disposed to give into two portions—one for the cargo I its probable profits, the other for the ship, stores, goods contained, and deterioration ; the former would be Fe...erred for confirmation, until the opinion of the J u d ge s had hems pronounced upon it. The Jury retired and in about ;in hour returned, soul pronounced their verdict fur the Plaiottff— d images 3,0001. for the ship, stores, and goods. and 18,1801. for the blares mid probable profits of the auysge. _ MIDDLESEX sIiSSIONS. These Ses,ions were opened yesterday morning heroic -- Cows?, Esq. aid several Magistrates. The 1111111 r% of the Grand Jury were then called over. The CHAIRMAN said, it was unnecessary for him, both rr.im the character or the Gentlemen who composed the Grand Jury, and from the state of the calendar, to say a word on the duties which they were nho•t to discharge. He would, there fore, allow them to retire, after merely requestiag that they would apply th•m+rtves, isi the first in stance, to the cases of felony, it bring material that those should lie disposed of ea soon as possible. The Jury retired, and the Court proceeded to hear the cases on the list. tilisebeili Crow was iselicted for an assault on Mary Anderson. The parties lived in the same neighbourhood, Oakes. -court, Clerkenwell. It appeared that their children were in the habit of quarrelling with each •ther, and on one of these occasions the Prosec•trta received • blow in the face from Airs. Crow. Several witnesses were examined, bat the Jery returned a verdict of—A'm Richard Peatford was indicted for assaulting Mary Ann Crouch. The Defendant was a butcher living at Hampton-Wick. The Prosecutrix and her liwiliand lived in the same neighbourhood. The Prosecutrix stated, that she went to the Dem. fenikiiit's shop and bought a piece of mutton from him at 6d. per pound. She was very particular as to its quality. The UrfeirrlHnt assured her it was r ed and fresh. She took the mottos' away, but maim after discovered that the meat was very bad. Otte returned to the shop to remonstrate with► the Defendant. who, instead of taking back the meat. said, that lie sold it us stale meat, that he would summon her husband for the price of it, and, with. oat further provocation, lie seised on the Prose cutrix. pushed her alpinist the wall, dragged her to his block, a:id bruised her back against it. which severely hurt her. On her crossaeitsmintition she admitted, that, having received a letter from the agent of the De fendant, vhe went to his house and offered to settle the affair for a slim of 7/.. and 21. expenses. Two witiwsses, out behalf of the D4esidant.stilted, that Mrs. Crouch went to time shop, not iu the man. set she described, but iii a most outrageous and vieleist manlier; that she applied towards the De fendant the most violent language, called him scoundrel, villain, blackguard, &c. and actually threw the mutton at the Defendant's face. The witnesses stated, that they did not see the ayeault committed ; that they were in the Defend rot's shop, and I,IIW him merely turn her out of his premise.. The Jury• found the Defendant Guilty, and he was sentenced to pay a fit.e of 101. James Pitts, John Pius, and Eliza Pitts, a de cent respectable faintly, residing in Bethnal-green, were indicted by Ann Simplon', fur au assault on the Ist of December. . The Pinsecutrie. in detailing the circumstances of her ease, acknowledged that she had thrown a pail of water on the Defendmits; rood this outrage bring held as a first assault, the Defeudauts were iostsutly Acquitted. LIBEL Mr. George Hubborrwaunadieted for composing and publishing a malicious libel against Christo pher Lewis. Mr. ADOLPIIV*, as Counsel for the prosecution, stated, that his client was a baker, living in Chet see ; the Defendant was an officer on halt-pay, and lived hi the same place. It wee, he said, with re hictai.ce that he was about to state the carom simmer of the prosecution, because it in some de gree might be and to have originated out of a tram action in which the traverser acted with the utmost honour, benevolence, and humanity ; but the libel now before the Court was Hot only false and scan. ddloos, but calculated to degrade and injure the. character of his client. The Jury might possibly recollect, for it was stated in the public papers, that some time since an unfortunate young woman, of the name of Sarah Benson, was run over by a horse and cart on the Chelsea-road, which caulked her lin mediate death. None of the surviving friends of this young woman were able•to go to the expense of interring the body, and the Defendant, who lived on the Mott. with great humanity weut round the neigh bourhood to collect a sum of motley fur that pur pose. That money he (Mr. Adolpliud) had every reason to believe wed by the Defendant strictly and conscientiously applied to the purposes fur which it' wad intended ; so hid client thought, and he never i maid, or even insinuated any thing to tne.coutrory. He was therefore somewhat astonished to dad tbe Defendant charging him with having given out that he dealt unfairly in the tat this money. This, however, on an exploitation taking place, the Prosecutor altogether dotard ; he dewed having • ever uttered a diugle,word spans% the ehonscter of the Defendant—ots tb4ettistrary..he always-goer him full credit for hie good and`chatitable Notwithstanding this explicit the Defendant plYirlirtl the libel in question. It eosin the shape of a and was ponied iii serious parts.of the town of Chelsea. It commenced with these word., titteo in large letters The. wages of Blood !" It then set forth what purported to be u certificate, from the mother of the cleceaded, seri. Bing the fact that the money collected by the Delestdant was applied by him to the porpoies•for which it wee collected. The hand-bill then went on to state, that the Prosecutor (Christopher Lewis). being instigated by the devil, dirt basely insiouate that the Defeudant embezzled part of the subscription received for the burial of Sarah Bra wn; that he found it necessary to rep.•l dies ion.- moos calumny, which was as great a falsehood as could be uttered by any wretch. however debased his heart sod mind might In.. The Darned Lworis set then went on so state, that the Mint:ff pro duced a copy of the hand-bill to the Defends' who not only avowed that he was the •nilior, but that he printed it himself, and thin he wi.nlil roes tinue to print and to post it as lung us there w.et a place about Chelsea where a copy of it conli! h. stuck up. The Learned Counsel, in said, that he was sure big client %v.v.:wits i , ..41 vindictive motives, aid if he would wltininow his plea of not guilty, sod Hooke some apology for what he had done, the ii gunty would not be pressed further. The Defendant said, he felt extremely grateful ro Mr. Adolphus. for the pruitoral he It ttl he would attend or fall by the laws of lilt. rioiiiitry. He stood forward in defence of character, and he would not shrink limn inquiry. Mr. Lewis was then examined. He said, that on the 26th of October last, he produced the Itat,t'. to the Defeinlant, and asked was :te the au:l.:r of it The Defendant avowed that he na.. WI - new asked him why he should write such thing• ? He said he had every ►ight to do so, and would continue printing those bills, and posting them as Icng as he was able. ou his c►osrraanrination by the Defendant, be - sai4 that he did not recollect having told the De fendant's wife that a Mr. Wisdom had given out that he (Defendant) bad embezzled the money ;. he did recollect, that on Defendant's wife bringing . Mr. Wisdom face to face with him, that Mr. Wis.. dom said she insight to have remained at home. On that occasion he had declared to Mr. Wisdom, that what he had previttinly said was a mere joke. The Defendant presented himself to the Court. He said, that lie would bring evidence to establish this fact ; that the Prosecutor had traduced hint ; sod he would also ►hew, that what he had written' was perfectly true, and was written in the clods. • cation of ins character, which bad beets falsely aspersed. The COURT impressed upon the Defendant, that, in the present ease, the truth of the libel rm. . no dehisce whstever. The Defendant then said, he would stand opens another ground, and he would endeavour to prove to the Court that the piper in question was nu libel at all. It commenced by saying, that ll•e Prosecutor was instigated by the Devil—these were mere words of course, borrowed from pleadings in • Courts of Justice. It proceeded to slide that the representatiou of the Plaintiff was as great a false hood as any wretch, however debased, could utter; but this did not go to call the Defendant a wre Notwithstanding his conduct, he did not hold hint in that light--did not certainly represent him as such. The publication was provoked by the con duct of the Plaintiff—it was called for in winches lion of his fame and honour. fur had he acted tie base part imputed to him, he would be justly de graded from his rank as a British officer, and his wife and children would have cause to hide dom. heads in shame. He hoped the Court would ap preciate his motives, as he stood before them on the ground of truth and integrity alone. The Cu•tnitAN, in addressing the Jury, said that there were but two points for their considera tion ; Ist, Was the Defendant guilty of publishing the hand-bill ? 2dly, Was the paper a libel, or nut ? The first was avowed by the Defendant, and on the other it was for the Jury to form un °pinkie. For his own part, he had no doubt but that it wmi • libel ; and lie regretted that the Defendalit should, by the heat of his feelings, have been tw inged into so rash an act. The Jury found the Defendant guilty. After • feeling address from the CHAIRMAN. t!:e Defendant was ordered to enter into recognizance in a sum of 100/. to appear when called ou to re. calve the judgment of the Court—and in the menu time to keep the peace. Thomas Morris was indicted for assaulting -- Wakely, clerk to Messrs Price. attorneys, in the month of June last. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Wok ely that a Mr. Anderson, • client of Me. Price, made a charge of fraud on a person of the name of Smith. Smith was taken into custody, and was detained in • public-house in Brick-lane, whilst Mr. Anderson sent for the Plaintiff to consult with hint. The Plaintiff went to the public-house, and advised Mr. Anderson to have Smith token before a Magistrate. Smith, however, contrived to make his escape out of the public-house; upon which the Prosecutor pursued him down • neighbouring street, and 11•PCm ceeded iu seising him; the Defendant (who had been with Smith in the public-house) immediately slept up, and demanded to see the Prosecutor's warrant. De then repeatedly and violently struck the Prosecutor in the arm and hand, and obliged hint et length to relinquish his hold, when Smith took . • flie•opportunity of making Ins escape, and Intd . vitice evaded the hand of justice. Th.m nr fendaut, not centrist with assaulting the Prue. cutor,.and. with having succeeded in eff.-cting the eacapeof-Smirk attacked the Prosecutor with the most settreilotts-lenguage, and pointed him nut to the . populace es a d---d barber's clerk, who en deavoured. without authurity to take a poor fellow into custody.. Ten' individuals were called on behalf of the Defendant:. After is speech of half an hour one of them declared, that as to the point at issue he had to say—nothing. The next trims's., a barber by trade,•swore, that be was present when the Prose. cuter acknoni.dged that• the assault was of a very bitting maitre, but still he demanded of the D.-fen dant a sun of seven pounds; which demand, if not complied with, lie, tke Prosecutor, would aggravate tie aldosee ex trial. _ The Defendant's brother, and another respects. ble• peewit, give hiiikit pond character. He was formerly d nor-cornMsiosted officer in the army, •and.was priltent it.the memorable battle of IVatet.. Cur as ',bleb .oE4:anon he obtatuefil a medal fur lus good emstinct. • • The Jury brought . itr a verdict of Guilty. The CH/IllstAN. Int* (seising sentence, solid, that the two last witnesses for the Defendant, had pro. duced a favourable ttfect on the mind of the • I.