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. The Loan Cutzr JUSTICE thought he ought not ; the man being decidedly in the wrong.
The Foreman Of the Jury observed it was the wish ef
that each party should pay their own costs, M order that thee
trifling actions might be discouraged.
The Loan CHIEF Juirr ICE—That being the impression ~f
the Jury, I will certify, certainly.

CHIDLES V. BULL.
This was also an action to recover damages for an assault.
Mt. Sergeant TADDT laid this was an artier', against the ee.
feudist, who was a butcher. residing in Oreat Chapel•street, IVESt•
minster, brought by the plaintiff, to recover damages for a ssras
beating which he had sustained.
It appeared the plaintiff was a lad, and had been in the
ant's employ, which be left, and that while under the defendant,
steel had been given to him, which the lad thought himself en.tticd
to retain possession of. He accordingly called on the clefts ~!sr•
for it, but it being still witheld, the plaintiff became ITri?P'el
whereupon the defendant followed the lad into the street, beat
him
with a stick till it broke. then knocked him down twice, and kne4 violently upon his hod& An officer going past interfered, and tl e
pnd taken to the wan
The defence was that plaintiff had gone to the defendas.t's
Intoxicated and behaved himself outrageously ill.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up. and the Jr.s• •e.
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 201.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

These Sessions yesterday commenced before Francis Cons%)
who, we are happy w state, has so sufficiently recovered iron.
weakness in his eyes, under which he has of late laboured,
be able to attend to his public duties.

EXTRAORDINARY AND GROSS OUTRAGE.
iniliamlprinstned indicted for assaulting, and falsely imp.,
sorting for the space of 12 hours, Moses Abraham Collis, and a!sl
for assaulting his wife.
lllr.PttlLLlvsstated the case to the Jury, as one of the mat
wanton and aggravated abuse of authority.
The prosecutor, • glass-cutter, resisting at 109, (heat Saffln.
hill, stated, that on the night of the oth of January last, as he wet
going to bed, he was alarmed by a most violent knocking, first at
the door of his next neighbour, and afterwards at his own. On
going to the window, he saw the defendant in the act of hammering
the door with a stick. Witness went down to the door and asked
him what he wanted, to which he replied, that somebody had
thrown water upon him from out of window, and he was deter-
mined to knock at every house right and left till he found the right
one. Witness assured him it was not from his house that the wa.
ter was thrown, and seeing he was intoxicated, advised hint tugs
peasahly home. This he refused doing, and became at last •0
troublesome and noisy, that witness was obliged to give hint ;a
charge to the watchman. On arriving at the watchhouse the de.
fendant announced himself to be the constable of the night, and
seating himself in the chair appropriated to that dignitary, ri;led
out his staff, and exclaimed, • Now here I am, lam king cr the
castle ; let's hear what complaint you dare to make against n. r."
Witness replied, that he could not think of making the compiahn
to hint, against himself, but that he would prefer his compicin•
next morning before the Magistrates, at Hatton-garden. " Mad
what you say." was the reply of his worship the Dogberry of the
night, "or I'll have you locked up." Thus warned the wimess
deemed it most prudent to retire, and had got home, and was Cicut
to retire to bed, when he was again alarmed! by a violent knocking
at his door, which, as before, he found p led from the de Weed.
ant, who was accompanied by a watchman, and a patrol, and in.
I slated on the door being opened, as he had come, he said, to taz
witness into custody. Mule= refused letting him in, and .....
mediately commenced forcing the door, whieh being 'but sligh,ly
secured, he easily effected, and immediately seized witness on ere
side, while the watchman who accompanied him, held hint on de
ether, and the patrol stood over him with a drawn cutlass.
called to his wife to fetch assistance, and on her attempting to psi
for the purpose; the defendant swore at her, and struck her a via.
lent blow on the shoulder with his staff. He was dragged to the
eatchhouse, locked-up in the hole, and although two re.
spectable housekeepers offered to be bail for him, the de-
fendant refused to accept them, and declared that if the
King of England himself came to bail him, he would not acc-pt
him. The next morning he was taken before the Illagistrates at
Hatton-garden, who, on hearing the case, not only dismissed the
complaint peril-wed against him, but also strongly advised the pre-
sent proceeding.
Mrs. Collis confirmed the above tesitmony, and also added, that
to violent was the blow she received, that she was obliged to
have no less than 1p leeches applied in the course of the two hollow.
lag days.
Several neighbours also were called, who proved the conduct
of the defendant to have been most violent and unjustifiable.
Mr. HARRY addressed the Jury for the defendant, anti envies.
'mired to make it appear that the complainant had assaulted the
defendant with a poker, at the time of his forcing the door of the
house.
Two witnesses were called for this purpose, who however pre.
raricated so grossly, that the Court refused to listen to them.
The Char KHAN, in summing up, characterised the case atone
of the most wanton, violent, and unpardonable abuses of authority
of which he had ever heard.
The Jury unhesitatingly returned a verdict of Coldly on both
indictments.
The CHAIRMAN sea that the conduct proved against the pri-
soner was so calculated to excite the indignation of those that
heard it, that perhaps it would not be right to pass any judgment
on the instant, and he should therefore deter so doing for a day or
two, in the mean time he would be kept in custody.
In the course of the day the Grand Jury returned into Court a
true bill against Eduard Lawson end James Lawson, for felony.
In having waisted the process which the of of Ileship.street
were instructed to serve upon them.
The indictment is under the Act for cutting and maiming, in.
troduced by Lord Elleoborough, and commonly kndwp as his Act