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LAW INTELLIGF.Nrs.

COURT OF KING'S B .N.,11, WtsTiAmsren, ra I Is.
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PASAUI.TS
MATULW V. lust.
This was an union for ai.sauiiing the Plain•if, his •
wife, and daughter, to which the Deleadant had
pleaded a justification. that having a writ against
the Plaintiff, he bed gone to arrest him, when ite
endeavoured to escape. and the assault necessarily
to-.k place.
It appeared that the Plaint:o' was a reepedtabli
schoolnasPer,resieing at Hendon, where he kept as •
seminary for young ladies, which WAS superintended
by Mrs. Mayhew, who chicly Inctr r. d her pupils
in the musket department. The • Defendant was a
shopkeeper in the strand. and previous to tkemooth
of (Mohr* last, had two drighters, pupil: at this
school, whom he withdrew from thence ab fire r t
period. Madame Bernie, who had been French C
vanes., and had left the Plaintiff before her sal.o y
was pail, applied to the Defendant for his advice.
how she should recover the money so due to her.
A Writ was ire;ed against the Plaintiff, a:1 thy
Defendant atitorripar•i•A a Sheriff's OfEcer t.,
don, a order to arrest the Plaii.tiff. They did n•.t
need in flndina him upon the, rays but in a few clays
after, the Defendant and the B at an early
hrlir in the morning, again r. paire c to the Plaint-
iff's house, when the I)efenda:.t went int r the
setaelarwmv-fotrere the yoipug ladies were jest
as-
semb.ing for the husin,vs of the moriiiip, and he
appeared to be coun-ing their number ; which.
being perceived by M Mayl•cw. ,he potitely r,.
" quested he w• add walk into the ni st room,
where her husband arsuli wait upon Lire.--

He accordingly left-the school.rotim with sip: moist
regret. misttefing &ast against Mrs. Mayhew, and
calling her, before All her pupils, 5.01e-,A indecent
and opprobrious names. /le afterwards met :he
Plaintiff hi an adjnining room, voted upon I. ,
and was dragging him away, wh: n Mrs. Olayhe • ,
her daughter, and several 01 the Loyiis, ran cut,
and entreated his forbearance; but up n this he
violently assaulted Mo. Mayh-w, knBek,d Les
down, and dislocated her thuntb, so as to deprive
erot the use of it for some length of time, accom-
panyrig the aCtion with this sipression. " D have
(lane for your bands." kir next assaulted 111 s
daeghter of the Plaintiff, and aiterwards the gat.
dialer, who came up upon hearing the disturbance,
Ina at last succeeded, with the assist.tice of the b. -
tiff. in dragging the Plaintiff into a carriage, and
conveying him to a lock.up.honse in London, settee
he retrain:4 Ira,' the ev-nieg, wham the debt was
an I he was ace.orlirgy di charged.
Mt GA a tow, far the Plaintrtf, observed, that
ossultini, and ahnsing this Gotta. man was not the
jca of the Defendant. He was aboot to set up
is e;dest daugh.er along with Madame Bernier., in
a rival sch )01, and his object was to ruin tee
iti and his family, to pull down thor fabric, in or
to exalt Mad::me f:erniet and his daeighter oprd
,heir ruins. Mid he the fe lings of a etas of honta.r,
or of eratitiolo, rewards the per'ons who had care.
fully and anxbasly supeton social toe education of
i,is child, he would have at least sent the Plaintiff a
decent attorney's letter, and the money would have
keen paid at once ; but payment was not his obj-la;
..e wished to disgrace and degrade him, as would
appear from the very words he made use of when
this shameful transaehon took place: ° I)—n you,
is not this enough to ruin Tour ichoo.
The case of the Plaintiff was proved by several
of the young ladies, and other witnesses.
Toe first witness produced, on the :3,itt of the
Defendant, was Wilson. the bailiff ; who stated, tit .t
when he and the Defendant went iota th- rot m
where the Plaintiff was, be demanded to see their
warrant, which being prootwed, the Plaintiff. at
the instigation of his wife. tore it in maces. a. d in
endeavouring to get it back, a scuff • ensued, and
he secured the Platntiff, who struggled to get locos
On his rross-examiriation hy Mr G r COW, it cam.
out, that a Bench Warrant was at that mom-n• on a
against the witness himself, for his violence upon
that occasion.
Mr...1151M5, on the part of the Dioen.lant, was
proceecing to examine more witnes e ; when
Lord LLLI.%IIOROUGH observed, tot th. re did
not appear one syrnioom of the Plaintiff's even at.
tempting to escape, or of a rescue by the )(mug
ladies.
The Jury, alter a short consultation, bronght us
a verdia of Wol. Damages, for the Plaintiff.
TMS KING CIA 4ANT.
This was an indiOrnent tor an assault.
Mr. G•aaow, for the prosecution, stated, that
the Prosecutor was a young gentleman, the sbn of
General Lyman, American Consul. resident in this
Coo. Some time ago t!e Qaneral placed his son at
the school of Mr. Barnes, at hackney, and having
an aversion to bodily chastisement, from his know-
ledge in military and naval discipline, directed that
his son should not be flogged for any im,wepriety
he might be guilty of, but punished by depriving
him of pay houts, appointing additional tasks, &
It haopened one day, while Mr. Barnes was c
fined, and unable to attend nil school, that Mister
Lyman and some ot:ler of the hays, during play.
hour, had abused aad quizzed a Mr. Adams, a very
little man, who was one of the assistants. He cm .
plained to the Defendant, who was also an usht
and acted as master for that day, when the latter
insisted that the boy should go down tiorin his icier,,
and ask pardon of Mr. Adam. The hey offered to
beg pardon, but would not kneel down to di • $
upon which the Deten.lant took a bamboo cats
Item his desk, and bee. bun violently with it, until
be brdke it in several pieces upon him 13..ing
hat subdued, lie fell on his knees, and booged par-
dust. The next Jay he was ali over braise., trim
head t:, foot, in a much mire danoerols wiy than
scarcely ever appeared in the course of niaitary
chastroments.
The Learned Counsel admitted, that by law every
parent and master had a rg..t to exercise. whole.
some and necsissary punishment upon their children.
domestics, and apprentices, titt. in .sing so. they
should not exceed the botrids of moderation.
The tags wets proved by Ma-ter L man. who
admitted his miscon.ind in *fr.:sing isft Adams.
and by other witnesses, among whom was the