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London, England, 1825-05-16 00:00:00

LAW INFFI.LIGENCE.


COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Maw 14.
THE KING V. CONSTABLE. ESQ.
This was an indictment agairst a M igistrate of the county a-
Kert for a misdemeanor. Woen the case was called on at the
last Assist's at Maidstone. the prosecutor, finding that =lases
one of the principal witnesses, was MI in attendance, d
ceeding, and the case was made a remand until the next A seise&
On a former day 11,. Gurney obtained a rule Nisi against Eagle.
stone for so attachment for a contempt in not obEying his vubpena,
it being suggested that just as the trial was called on, he disap.
I ired, and wilfully absented himself.
Mr. Alas ItY•TT atd Mr. DOWLING now showed CffilseillN
the rule, and produced affidavits, showing that the witness be-
come suddenly ill, and was obliged to retire to a neighbouring
public house, and go to bed, and that his indisposition continued
for several days afterwards.
The Cotter put it to Mr. Gurney whether the application was
not answered
31r. Gun sEe said he believed it was, and the rule was dis-
charged.

THE LINO V. WILLIAM LORTWO.
This defendant bad been convicted at the last Dorsetshire As-
sizes of a riot, and was now brought up for judgment. The de-
fendant was son to a person who had been pan proprietor of the
Exeter Subscription Coach, in which the defendant's brother had
also a share. Mr. Winter, and other proprietors, having, as wan
alleged by the defendant, dispossessed defendant's father and
brother of their shares in the coach, for not conforming to the re.
gulations of the Company, the defendant became incensed at his
father's and brother's supposed wrongs. On thr day mentioned in
the indictment, the Subscription Coach, in which were several pas-
sengers, stopped at Dchester to change horses, and it was proved
that the defendant insisted upon his tither's horses being put to as
usual. Finding his purpose could not be erected, he. with the as.
sistance of others. cut the tram and reins, and yoking his father's
horses to the coach, drove of with it. For this offence he was now
brought up, it being alleged that the lives of the passengers were
in imminent peril Irons tire violent conduct of the defendant and
his party. His brother had. on • former occasion, been sentenced
to two months' imprisonment for the part he had taken in the
transaction. The father was also prosecuted, but died before trial,
at the age of 75.
The defendant now put in affidavits, urging his father's wrongs
in excuse of the violence he had committed.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS addressed the Court in mitigation of pu-
nishment.


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Mr. Sergeant PELL was heard in aggravation, and
The Coon?, taking all the circumstances of the case into con-
sideration. sentenced the defendant to two months' imprison.
meat in Ilchester jail, and to find sureties for good behaviour for
three years.

THE LING V. EDWARD MARTIN LIVERMORE AND EDWARD
MUNLOP, ESQ.
Mr. BROUGHAM—I am to apply to your Lordships for a rule
to show cause why a criminal Information should not be filed
against two persons, of the names of Edward Martin Livermore,
the printer, and Edward Dunlop, Esq., the proprietor, as :hey ap-
pear upon the affidavits 1 have, of a paper called the Telescope.
My Lords, I move this upon the part of Lord Kennedy.. who
states that when he came to town yesterday morning he perceived,
for the first time, the following paragraph relating to himself in
the paper I have alluded to, which appears to have been published
on the first of May. though he only saw it yesterday morning,
having been in Yorkshire. Ills Lordship is prevented bringing
an action, apprehending that the course lately taken of moving for
sa injuuction in the Court of Chancery might delay the proceed-
ings. I will now read the passage :—" It was reported yesterday
that Lord K—v, , the celebrated shot, had been detected in a situ-
ation with the wife of a respectable commoner, which may lead to
the employment of the gentlemen of the long robe, if the injured
husband be not already satisfied with the chastisement he inflicted
on the spot." Now, after first swearing that he believes the words
Lord K—y apply to him, and no one else, and that the sub-
stance of the statement that he was caught in a situation that left
no doubt of a criminal connexion between him and the wife of a
person stated to be a respectable commoner, is false ; he then gives
a contradiction to the whole, which would make any person who
has not seen the length to which liceptious writers of the present
day have gone in the public papers, astonished at the publication of
what is-an mere, and so foul as it in, a mere fiction: he says that he
has never been detected in any situation with the wife of a respect-
able commoner, or any other commoner, or any other person, that
could lead to the employment a the gentlemen of the long robe,
or taking any legal stets whatever against hint, the deponent; nor
has any injured husband, or any other person whatever, inflicted, or
attempted to inflict, any chastisement or other outrage or assault
whatsoever on this deponent, and that the whole of the said para-
graph is altogether false and libellous, and without any foundation
or colour of truth whatever, and intended to calumniate the charac-
ter of this deponent, and injure hint in the estimation of his family,
his friends, and the public.
Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT—Take a rule to show cause.
HABEAS CORPUS.
Mr. PLATT moved for s writ of Habeas Corpus to a Mr. John
Gurley, commanding him to bring up the body of his daughter,
who in 1822 had married a young man named Stamford, from
whom, after cohabiting with hint for a few months, she was forcibly
taken away by her father, and since unlawfully kept and detained.
The COURT, under the circumstances stated, granted the writ.
DUEL.
Mr. WHITCOMB moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal
information should not be filed against Mr. John Sayre, for chal-
lenging Mr. Michael Jones to tight a duel. The parties were
described in the affidavits as gentlemen, but the Learned Counsel
had reason to believe that they were respectable farmers, occupying
their own estates in Shropshire. On the day mentioned in the
affidavits, Mr. Jones was looking after his flock on a neighbour-
ing hill, when he met Mr. Sayre. The right of depasturing on
the hill had been in litigation between the parties, and Mr. Savee,
addressing Mr. Jane?, said. If you will meet me here to-morrow
morning, at six o'clock, with a pair of pistols, we'll settle our dis-
putes finally; and if you have not pistols I'll lend you mine."
Under these circumstances the Application was made.
The CounT said it appeared to be a matter which might be
settled by some other tribunal, and therefore refused the Rule.
The Court sat till half-past six o'clock.