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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINBTER, JuLY 17. •
Sittings at Nisi Prior, before Lord thief Justice •
EIALNBOROUGH.
LOVELI. V. W ILLtft.
This Was an action I,rought by the Plaintiff, the
Proprietor of a Nevispaper, against the Defendant,
a Neasinao, to recover darni.ges for the Defend-
ant's having stiliatl,uted another paper instead of
the-Plaintiff's, although he received the order fur
the Plaintiff's.

The case was filly made nut by eviilence, and
the Jury gave a verdict lur the l'lttiutill—Dumages,
Is. sad 401. costs.

The Common Jnry ense4 being finished, his
Lord.hip ro•e at eleten o'ciock.

COURT OF COMMON PLEM, WESTVINUTIA.
bat at 3isi Pries before Chip/Justice
M•DIVILLD nail a Special Jury.
XXVIII V. DIXON.
This was an action brought on n wirranty of a
Horse. to recover the purchase money, JO. 19s. the
lierae having proved 0n...A110t.
Mr. Se,jeant 131:sc stated, that the Plsintiff and
Defendant were both horse.dealers. On the 30th
of January the Plaintiffpurchased a hone from the
Defendant, at Botten fair, cud received a wairanty
that be was perfectly sound. On the 3d of Fe.
!wintry, the horse was so dl that a farrier was obli-
ged to be sent for, who declared him to be in the
list stage of a dropsy, He died shortly after ; and
on being opened, several ma, Boos of water were taken
from his chest. He would prove those facts; and
the only ipres.tion for the censideration of the Jury
was, Whether the disease had taken place before the
purchase or after ?—lie then proceeded to call his
witnesses.
John Voinig, Livery-stable-keeper, Berry-street,
Bloomsbury, deposed, that he knew the Plaintiff;
he was also a livery-stable-keeper in Carlisle-mews,
sod the Defeudent was a honse-dealer, residing in
Leicestershire. 'He was at Batten fair with the Plante •
tiff; they tailed their horses together. On the day
the Plaintiff purchased the horse in question, he
and the witness set off for London : they only went
13 miles that day ; they stabled the horses, but
the our purchased from the Defendant womb' not
eat his oats: ou the neat day they went as far as
liatville Wood Side, 11 miles : that night lie also
refused his road ; on the following day they 'rr.v-d
in London about 11 o'clock. They waiked the '
horses all the way. He had been offered to tons
for sale at the fair, but he would not pui hose bun,
as he thought his eyes were hollow and dull.
On leis craw-examination by Mr. Serjeant
WOMAN, he said the horse was not very fat; he
travelled very fairly: he did not know thaetlie pro.
gent' of an old stallion always had small eyes.
William Baker, groom to the Plaintiff, deposed,
that he did not see the horse until the morning
after he was brought to London ; w:.en he saw hint.
the food that had been given him over night lay
untouched iu the manger. He iiiforiaed his 'Me-
tre,' of it, and she sent him for Dr. Lase. Tile
horse died on the Saturday sennight following ; an
his being opened, there were eight gallons of water
taken from him.

Mr. Lane deposed, that he hail been a farrier for
52 year. On the 3.1, he saw the horse ; he was
labouring under a great lassitude, had a white
mouth and a flaxen tongue ; he was dropsical all
over; his lengs had grown to his side; the eater
between the skin and flesh made his eyes appear
depressed ; he knew it was of no we to give him
ally thing, but gave him some trifling medicines to
satisfy the Plaintiff: on his being opened, he had
watry tumours. in his lungs, and eight gallons of
water were taken out of him : be must have heed a
diseased horse by the law of nature on the 30th of
January, and for mouths prior.
On his cross-examination, he said, that extrarasa.
time could Jtot have taken place until after inflam-
mation, for the foundation of the disease must have
first taken place. Ile had wrote against the Vite-
riflery College—he hail lashed them. Mr—Cole-
man, the Professor of the Collie, was ignorant—
he compiled all his works from obsolete books. It
was a school of foolery•.
Stephen Ledyard, horse-dealer, stated, that the
horse was offered to him for sale at the fair, but lie
would •not have any thing to do with him, as his
eyes were hollow, sunk, and blue, which showed
that he was diseased.

Ovi his cross.examination, he said the horse up-
peered lively, but he was jigged with ginger.
Thomas Cross deposed, that when he opened
the horse, his heart was much wasted, and the ear.
ulna was half an inch thick. By the Levities! law,
a beast with such a heart would not be eaten.
Samuel Anthony Bloxham, veterinary surgeon,
stated, he was bred at the College. It appeared to
him that the horse died of an inflammation of the
lungs. lie would suppose the disease had com-
menced about 14 days before his death.
Oil his cross-exisitimatiots, he said it might have
commenced in six days. It was frequently brought
on by removing a horse from a cold stable to a warm
oue.—This closed the Plaintiff's case.
Mr. Serjeant VAuGIIAN addreraed the Jury on
the part of the Defendant ; he stated that he had a
number of witnesses to prove that the horse bad
been in perfect health when delivered to the Phila.
tiff, and that lie had never been en hOur skit. before ;
he would also produce several of the most respec-
table veterinary surgeon., who would give it as diver •
opinions that the horse was sound at the time of the
sale. This would be sufficient to entitle his client
to their verdict; but he should conceive it would
not be iircesimry to trouble them, as the Plaintiff
had not made Odes este he should therefore sub-
mit to his Lordship that. the Plaintiff ought to be
lion-putted.
Um' Chief Justice Matisitatm.—" Certainly
Blosans's evidence contradicts that of J-ane's; but
sold wi.tt the case to be more folly gone into."
Mr. Seij int VAVGIAII then proceeded to ex-
amine his witnesses.
William Millet. farmer, said he purchased the
horse when it was rising two years old. from the De-
fendant, for ISlguanciii; and lit-t December he sold
hills again to the Defendant for 351 ; he was diem
only rising four years, sad was
,perfrctly 54:•0041.
John FlSlth, servant to the Defendant, avutsva
he brought the horse ltio wiles toltedusun Fair;

be was well and lively : saw him afterwards at Bot.
ten Fair, he fed well ; was to high spirits. and ap-
peared perfectly sound wheit delivered to the Pl:Liar
tiff.
Chief Justice Msearteto—'• Brother Vaughan,
you need not have asked that question; fur if he
had any apparent disease, the Defendant would not
have strewn% Men, or the Plaintiff would not have
bought him...
Charles. Grey, horse-dealer, Oxford-road, saw
the horse at Gotten Fair ; he of eredf 351. for
him, and was sorry afterwards he did not give 381.
the price asked by the Defendant. lie was in very
good condition, and the wjtuesis did not see that he
had any defects.
Jolla Clements corroborated the evidence of the
last witness,alid he also offered 351. for hint.
Mr. Coleman, Professor of the Veterinary Col-
lege; Richard Powis, William Sewell, and Wil-
. liaut Hirrisou, veterinary surgeon. were of opinion,
from the evidence they had heard, that the horse
was sound at the time of the sale, and that the di-
sease came suddenly ori.
Mr. Serjeant BRIT replied.
Lord Chief Justirm M•esnet.o summed np the
evidence, with his usual perspicuity, and observed,
that the Jory had only to decide, whether the horse
was or was not sound on the day of sale.
The Jury give x verdict for the Defendant.
BROWN v. Ha GEORGE ROBINSON, BART.
This was au acting' brought by the Plaititrff, to
recover centage fur selling an estate of the Defeo&
ant's.
It appeared, that the Plaintiff was employed by a
Mr. Cole, the steward of the Defendant, to sell an
estate for hint in Bedfordshire, by auction ; which,
for want of bidders. he was unable to do ; but after-
wards sold it, with the codr•ent of the Deferidaat,
to a 51r. Robinson, for 11,000 guineas, by a private
sale ; he sought to recover 11 per cent. on that
SOUS, being what was usually allowed to auctiajjetra.
It was the rate that Skiuner and Dyke. in Lmidois,
always charged. lo defence it was contended, that
altlio' the Plaintiff had been, in the first instance,
employed to sell the estate by auction, yet, when it
was sold by private sale. he was the agent of the
buyer. and ought to be remunerated by him. A
bill was also put iu,where the Hanna ouly made a
charge of 671. 1 as. ; and 201. had been paid into
Court by tile Plaintiff. The Jury gave a verdict
for the Plaintiff 1131. being one per cent. on the
purchase money.

If4ST.IIINS7'AR SEVSIOVS, Ccsaics-
wEr.t., jui.v 17.

Thongs Clnrke alias Smart, Johe Ramsay alias
Driver, -- Gough, anal Clarks Hill, were in-
dicted for conspiring to extort money trout Thomas
Fitzhugh, by threateuing, unless lie complied with
their demands, to accuse huts with Wittig commit-
ted an 'motorail offeuce.
Thomas Fitzhugh, the Prosecutor, deposed•
that he "'iv a servant out of place. On the 24th of
February. he was in the service of Col. Read. oaf
flarley-street: about tune o'clock on the night o
that day. he was sent out to the grocer's. at thy
corner of Vere.street, Oxford-street ; on his. we
he met the Defeutlauts, Gough, Hammy, ore
Clarke; Gough. whom he had known before, his
mother having washed fora family in which he lilted
spoke to him : he, however, did not hear what he
std, sud walked on without making any answer
*hen he had flu-idled the basiness he went out totrans-
act, he did hot return home, lint pursued his way
toward. the Martini, of Waterford's, for the purpose
of visiting • person who had been his fellow-servant ;
he had occasion to stop iii Mood,* street, during
which time It unsay come up, and, after a few
words, bOttivid to him with much hide. encl. : he
then said, It you do not 'mined' itchy pronitNe to
give me 101. I will take you to Nlouili-street." Pro-
secutor stated, he theu seized hold of Ramsay, and
they had a scuille.; he got him down, but he suc-
ceeded in making his escape. On the follosing
day, he left the service of Cul. Head, who was going
to Chipchase Castle, Northumberlowl ; sad took
lodging. in Chatles.street, Middlesex Hospital ; on
the succeciliog Tuesday, Retool cause to his
apartments, between seven mail eight o'clock in the
staining : Ise told the Prosecutor he kitew him
again. and he should go with tutu. Prosecutor de-
nied having had any thing to do with him, and he
went away. for the purpOse of procuring • warrant.
Whet Ramsay called again. Prosecutor was not at
home• but he met him at • public-house in the
gieighlinurhoctl, on the Sottirday following, when
Rams'', had him wrote I, and taken to Morita°.
toogh-street, from whence he was committed, on
• charge of assault, to the Nets Prison. He had
*Farcety entered the Prison-yard, when Hill came
up, and h.iving asked hie name, informed hint
that an aerpiaintsoce of his, a tailor, of the name
of Wanton, had reqiie4ted him to come forward to
offer himself as bad. Prosecutor expressed his
thanks for this kindness; lout the hail procured by
Hill would not be accepted ; he, however, through
the exertions of his own friends, procured his 'Met.
anon on the 6th of March, and he then went to
live with Lady Clonmel. in Portinan-Aquare. Ou
the 11th of that month, Hill, Clarke, stud Gough,
Called at his mistress's house, at seven in the es en-
ing. Hill called fir pen and ink ; lie said he lied
got a stainp for • let. receipt.whieh should be given
to Prosecutor on his giving that sum to Defend-
sots, to prevent Ramsay from appearing against him
at the Quarter S ssious. Prosecutor refutteil to give
any motley; elle., Smut said, .• he'd 1w damned
twit he'd have a irie-pousitt note !wrote he kit the
boost." The noise alarmed Lady Cionmel, who
rang the 641, to inquire into the cause of the dis-
turbance; Prosecu'or, much alarmed. bor-
row, d a p nand-no', from Wdliam Wells, a fellow.
tits will gave it to them ; they then departed.
Next day, however, Clarke Gough colled for
more looney. Proseciitor refii•vd. alleging, their.
on the pieveding der. lie had g.. en them a !town!.
Cle.k exclaimed, t• Deneme, what do you mean
by that f it was onll 6•. ed. a-piece ; Hill had •
yarn ; and if )ou ati not give its snore money, you
shall net stay in this place, or any oth-r : I will
go in Mr. Humphries, and hr stall ::et you die.
charged." They then went awn.. On the. ROth
of March. Pro.ectitor left lastly Cloinnel's ~Trice,
sad went to the how., of L.a ly Por.lyce. who was
Skim wwi ein;il ed in rare a th.•
until her Of, the led h
Of April, be met Iltll its Il iltrut“ he demanded

money front the Prosecutor : on his refusal, Hill
advisell him, if he could not borrow money, to
take putt tit his mistress. plate and pawn it, or else .1
to procure hum seine wine : both of which propo-
sitions he refused, and parted from the Defendant
Hill. Prosecutor, in consequence of these frequent
molestations, had spoken to Cobham, a Peace-
officer, who advised hint, when the Defendants
again called, to apprise him, and they should be
apprehended. The Defendants, Clark and Gough,
called at Lady Fordyce's on t!ie lath of April : the
Prosecutor was not at home ; they said they would
call again. Prosecutor hating heard, on Ins return,
of their visit, ran to apprise Cobham, the Officer ;
and, in corning back, met them. He demanded of
Clarke what lie wanted with him ; and told him, if
he did not leave off calling at his mistress's house,
he would have him taken up. Clarke damned his
eyes, and demanded nine pound'. Prosecutor ran
for the Officer, and was pursued by the Defend-
ants, who called him the most filthy names, and
Clarke spat in his face. Cobham then took Clarke
into custody, but Gough escaped: the latter, 43
well as Hill and Ramsay, were taken aubseqnently.
The l'rosecutor underwent a long cross-examin-
ation by Mr. KNAPP. in which nothing particular
came out, except that he had gone to a masquerade
at the Opera-house, dressed in a lady's pink do-
mino and straw-bonnet; merely, as he stated, fur
a bit cilia. lie there Met Gough, one of the De-
fendauts, who was in the character of a Fishing ;
they recognised each other, and Clough gave him
the nick-name of Lung Hannah.
William Wells, fuotinau to Lady Cionnie!, tor-
roborated the statement relative to a pound-note
having been lent by him to the Prosecotor, for the
purpose of giving to the Defendants. Ile stafeil,
that one of them; but he did not know which, stilt,
as lie was leaving the house, that they wanted to
take a coat Out of pawn.
Thomas Ingrtlin also "posed as to Three of the
Defendants having called at leis mistress's honey..
Samuel Sleigh, who was pretent at, the appie-
hension of Clarke, corroborated the evidence di the
Proset•ntor as to the infamous expressions with
which Clarke and Gough paraded him.
Cobham, the officer; deposed to the same effect
—and added., that he hid apprehended Gough at
Marlborough•street, by order of the Magisiiutei
who, at the wait time. granted a warrant agaimit
Hill.

The Prironer Ramsay; having nn Counsel,-limhe
in his own behalf: he slid tinit the Proarcutur had
behaved very indecently to him, ahem he Inci him
in Fitzroy-square: he resi'trd, and ariZedi him
whets Prosecutor offered hits any money to let hiin
go: this he refused ; Prosecutor, however, at
length effected use escape. After rtiv.th trouble, he
had him apprehended ; having hod much Cult.,
and being repeatedly requested by the Prosecutor
to hush the matter up. hr at IroKtli consented.
. _

Clarke also aililressea the Court, but, with io
many interruptions, that it was impossible to dis-
cover any connection in whet he maid.
Ramsay called J. Baker, the winch-house lree7er
of the parish of St. Paucrss, who deposed that he
apprehended Fitzhugh, no a warratit procured by
Ramsey. Fitzhugh fell on Iva knees, turf lteg:tett
to be pertained to e+cape he ws•, however, taken
to Msrltanorigh-street, anti eim ~,, itird. IVlteii he
c-ime out of prison, he called sevroal umts st the
wgidu.lionse, mid offered the e and limn-
say 121. to settle the busini ..pprared that
Ramsay, in the Koceerlitigs isg.sikst the Prnarcei-
tor at Marlborough-street, weut by the name of
Driver.

George Wood, a police officer, 'aa also examio-
ed, at the request of Rellllll.ll. He deposer!. thin.
when he •pprehended the Drfentlant Rainguy, he
accused Fitzhugh in the sgine manner he had thrt
day in Court, end the !wt.r did not deny the se.
rogation. To • qur.tion from IJr. ALLEY. he
said. that Roomy hail acknowledged himge:f to
have been led away by a most abominable &scrip.
lion of people.
Seven respectable master tradegmen. three of
whom hail known the Defendant Hill for up-
wards of 10 years, spoke iu the hig.rest terms of his
character.

The %ALMS( AN having shortly reeapitulatetl the
facts of the ra.e, the Jury consulted fora few
notes, and returned • verdict ef guilty against all
the Defend4ot4.—Judgmeot &fel red.
The Prosecutor, on going out ol Court. woo as.
euile.t by the populsce, and uArruwly escaped, with
his life.

SURREY SESSIONS. JULY 17.

EXTREME CRUELTI'.

Mary Bsece adios WON.. a young woman of very
decent appearance, was put to the bar. charged with
extreme cruelty towards her own child, a g:rl tenpin
ail years of age.
Susannah Brunton stated, that the Prisoner for-
merly lodged in her house; she occupied the par-
lour fur seventeen months. *oil during that time
scarcely a day passed. but she Wittll aotrd 1104116 sit
of wanton cruelty on the part of this unnatural
rent tow ls her helpless child; frequently she
sent the infant to sellout in the morning without
giving her any thing t• eat ; and still more fre-
quently punished her its a mod barbarous manner,
without any cause. One instance of the latter con-
duct, in particular, the witness stated: she was
one day employed in the kitchen under the par-
loar which the Plisoner occiipie,t, when she was
alarmed hy several violent blows on the floor
above, the shock of which brought down part of the
coiling of the kitchen, and the I tat blase she thought
was accompanied with a kind of smothered groan :
upon heanng this, the witness ron up ►turn to the
Prisoner's apartment. and mike! her, " what she
haJ been doing ?.' Tne Prisoner said, 4. Nothing."
But on looking at the child, the witness was shock-
ci in the greatest degree ; the child's features were
distorted ; and her eyes appeared swelled, and as
if starting from her head. The wituten. on perceiv-
ing this, again asked her, " what she had been
doing ?" when she said, •' nothing, but lifting
her up by the neck ;" -hewing the Witness in whet
manner, when the unfortunate infant again turned
black in the face. The witness had frequently ri •
cued the 'hild from the Prisoner's fury, and fed
he► wheu she thought she was starving.
Mary l.echard stated: that the prisoner came to
lodge at her house iii Noveinher last, and remained
till the was pppreheaded. Duripg a severe frost

in January last, the witness was disturb:d eat!?
one morning before she was up, by a noise is the
yard; and looking out, she perceived the prisonei
throWing the child into a e stern of water in the
yard, and dragging her out again several times :
each time she polled her out, the little victim's
back was rubbed against the edge of the cistern', bi-
which the flesh was turn and lacerated. She called,
out to the prisoner, who, upon hearing her, de-
cked: the witness soon alter went into the prisoner's
room, where she saw the child ; there were marks
of blood in different parts of the room, which she
perceived proceeded front a large wound the child
had received in her heed, as the witness conjectured,
against the edge of the cistern ; the skin was also
rubbed off its a bowy, rued Loth its temples were
very meth bruised, ,-,She had seen the prisoner,
when the child reasaesviag, run the needle into its
fingers a consideiable way. She often remonstrated
with the prisoner on her -conduct, which 'she told
her would assuredly terminate in her destruction.
Henry Clarridge, the Beadle of St. Botolph. de-
scribed the situation in which the child was found
by him, after being deserted by its unnatural
parent late on a Sunday evening in the beginning
of May last.
Mr. Hurlock, a surgeon, who was called in by
the last witne.s, stated the condition iii which the
child was at that time : she had several wounds in
different parts ,)1 her body, and one of her toes ap-
peared to have been trodden of: she was altoge-
ther the most emaciated and deplorable object lie
had ever seen.

The Prisoner, being called on for her defence,
delivered into Court a written paper, to be read
by the clerk; it did not, however, contradict any
or the facts stated by the witnesses, but stated
merely, that she lost the child. end did not, as was
stated, desert it; and that she used every effort
in her pourer to discover where it was; and was go-
ing to a printer to order some hand hills to be
printed, at the tii-ite she was taken into custody by
the officer.

The Jury, without any hesitation, found het
The Chairisan, after expatiating on the enor-
mity of mime 4.f which the Prisoner had been
convicted, oreteeededto:paiis sentence upon her. lie
observed, it wits intpinsible for language to describe
what had beets the feeiings of the Court--feelings
in which, he was fully persuaded. every one who
heard him participated, at hearing the statement
of the .witnesses ; and the Court only regretted they
had not a power to punish her with severity more
adequate to the offence, than the punishment they
were about to indict upon her would be. Tl.e
Court felt every audio .ticti to sentence her to
the illory, but were fearful, if they did so, that
the 'lva Power would not he able to protect
her rom the just indignation of the mob, anti
.thit her life would fall a sacrifice to their ven-
geance. Under these circdm•tances, the sentence
of the Court was, That she should be imprisoned
in the House of Correction for two years ; and
on the ekpiratiou of that time, enter into recognit-
, ance for her good behaviour fur two years, herself
in 100' nod, two sureties in 501. each.

The Prisoner heard her seistence without disco-
vering the least agitation ; nor did the circum-
stances stated by the witnesses. or the satires+ of
the Chairman, appear Is make any iunpressi.us
upon It. r.
Ann Ring wa• ;Articled for stealing a frock and
pett.cuat fruit the to..mon of Ann Beadle, the
&tighter of the PcOsectit. ix, t child about eta yrars
or age. The Ln t of the I'ri•ouer stripping the
child was proved ; hut the Pro.:ecutrix not appear-
ing to aunt her property. the Prisoner w 1414
'flie Chairman ordered the Prosecutrix':, recog-
nisanees to be forfeited, and regretted that the
Prisoner should hive scalped through the Ivrosecii-,
Iris's negligence ; and as.nred her, had she been
comic-led. she oi.ald have been transported.
Thomas S,sith. for ate, ding a quantity of hemp ; '
and %%mires li illiant.s awl Charles Taylor, for steal-
ing some lead front a tiwelling-house ;•were seer-
'relived to be teinstwited for seven enrs. .

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