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DERBY HUNT sTAKEs, EPSO.V.

terIIVIVIDAY, ♦watt. 21.
ITe du not ever recollect better sport having taken place at
these Stakes some their .ommencerneot, nor the Downs snare
senmerously silently& The horses started precisely at lislC
past one, anal the Rare. dud not conclude milli half•pa-I
Mr Tattersall eundeseled the business of the .12y for
the Stewards, the Doke of St. Albans and Lord De.lay ;
and Mr Farrell presided as Judge. The spurt was admi-
rabic, the particulars of whirh are as follow :
Sweepstakes of sgs rich, for horses that have isolated this
season with the Earl of Derby's stag humid% 12rt. each.
Two•mile Deals. (infiltrates Riders.
Mr. Ghtiolening's gr. R.
Mr. Shaw's b. to. Pioneer
Mr. I. Tatlrnall's
Mr. Tatierull's lar g. 111.10Apgrig
Mr. Young'. I. K Wairiur
Bonaparte against the fickl—A good rem.
The Surrey Hooters' Stakes of foz... each, for hordes mit
thorough bred, that never started, paid or received for-
feit, prior to the day of 114.11111 g, bons fide the property
of Greaten...is Subscribers, &c. as in Ike Articles; Ike
second horse to receive ISga. out of the Stakes, llst. each.
Twumile heats.

1114bherly's b. R. ppolytne, •gef 1 1
Mr Sbaw's b. tt. by Young L'Ortent, 5-yrs old 3 2
Mr. Tattersall's ch. g. 4.yrs old
Even petting—Mr.Tattersall'a ch. g. ■pint the Held.—A
good race.
A MATCH.—Mr. Thompson's hl. h. ha Haphaza►d, beat
Mr. Tattersali's h g Hortnigliniiinger, for ?Wes
Sis rep... Rakes of Mtgs. each, for bones that have never started,
paid or received forfeit (half-bred Hunters' Slakes ax.
tented); Gentlemen riders. One mile brats.

Mr. King's h. g.
Mr. Hull's hl g
Mr. Coventry's b m.
After the brit heat, 30ge. to 10 were !awl is f of Mr.
bl g

The Farmers' Stakes of 45gs. given by the Earl of Derby,
11 Julia-, Esq. and J. Mobherly, Esq.; added to a sob-
seription of sgs. each, for horses toed lie the COIIIIII,I of
Surrey and Kent; 3 yrs old, 9st. 10th.; 4 yrs old, 10st.81h ;
5 yr. old 1 Ist Kth • six and aged, 121 b.

Mr. Mailer's Lo. R. by Fireaway, 3 yrs told..
Mr. W 'i br. on. by G. Warrior, 3 yos 01d.... 2 1 II
Mr. Wentworth's b. g. Ten-buy, 6 yrs old .. 3 2dr
Mr Neina br. on.. 4 dr

Fu caws, the favourite at starting-3 to 2On Warrior the
ger ..... I heat —an excellent race.

Iltok Stakes of bg.. each, for horses sot thorough-bred.--

Oar !Ude.

Mr. Turner's
Mr. Staishory's
Mr. Clarke.
Ma. TAtirrsall**

A very fine rate—Mr. Turner's the Avuurite.

An accident of a very serious nature had nearly taken
place through the carelessness of one of Mr. Hughes's
boys, of the Spread Eagle, Epsom, leaving his.horOel., wit►
there young ladies belonging to Mr. Charlwociel's School
of that !dace, upon the bar. Just as the horses came in the
ree ..... I heat of the Fie'mere' Stake,, the noise frightened
them, and they ran off at ■ most furious rate, the chaise
going at lintel several yards entirely epos the ofEwbells.
Dulling their progress two of the Ladies jumped down, and
the third, in a must wonderful manner, nutwithstandiug the
rapidity wit► which the chaise went, got from the bar into
the inside, where she continued until the animals were
stopped at Langley Bottom, a dilliallre of half a mile from
where they set off. Providentially they were not burt, ex-
cept one Lady slightly uu the leg.

Accounts have been received from flulifax to the
23,1 ultimo. The finances of Nova Scotia are re-
presented us bang in a condition far from flouri►h-
iug. They had collie under discussion in the
Mins.. of Assembly, in a Committee of Ways and
Means, when Mr. ARCHIBALD moved the follow-
ing Resolution :
" Resolver)—Tbm an ineresge of the Revenue is necessary
to sheet the earmitture of the current year."

Oli this motion, a great number of the Members
delivered their sentiments as to the best mode of
overcoming the difficully, which was greater, as the
!louse was convinced that it would be injudicious
eitlisr to increase the duty on any article, or to im-
pose any new ones ; it w:ts recommended that the
expedient of a fresh issue of paper should be resort-
ed to. It was argued, on the other hand, that if a
proper system of economy were resorted to, this
would be altogether unnecessary. The first resolu-
tion w.'., however, laid upon the table. On the
Hill of March the debate was resumed, and alter
many fresh arguments had been made use of on
both sides of the question, • Bill was introduced
for raising the amount required, by the imposition
of ditties on superfine flour, tobacco, brandy, rum,
and wine imported into the province, and also on ell
articles imported by foreigners.

Immediately after the recess, s Bill is to be
brought into Parliament to relieve authors and pub-
libbers from the burden under which they at present
labour, of being compelled to deliver, gratis, eleven
caplets of every book published, of whatever value it
way be.

No less than two hundred and fifty of our Naval
Lieutenants have recently embarked for Canada, to
possess themselves of their portions of land in chat
p.ovince, confiirinably to the regulatioue of Govern-
went in their favour.

The numbers of poor who have received relief
from the lisereaux de Chariti at NMI, during the
brit three mouths of the present year, is 84,446.
A new and j odicious arrangement has betu made
by the Post-office, with regard to the receipt of let-
ters from Spain. Formerly they came ro hand on
a Tuesday, when there was little or no time fur
answers, but they are now received on a Monday,
by which means a clear day is gained.
The celebrated C•IINOT if now living at Mag-
deburg. The report of his intending to reside at
Offenbach is incorrect. No hopes seem to have
beta held out to him of being restored to Its cows-
try by the clemency of the King of FRANCS.

A Munk, ■t Home, in the course of exploring
the tiaces of one or the twelve monasteries of Si.
Bei., diet, lira discovered a large edifice, which is
i‘oisposrd to have been built by Nut). He has
Opened a length of 26u feet, and found Et chambers,
1.1111.114: and circular, be►ides an dqut du et of AM

Norwich Corsi Ma►ket on Saturday was thinly
attended, bat what few sales were made, obtained
rather better terms than last week.—There was a
considerable Aviv of Scots and home-bred cattle on
the 11111, for which high tenor were demanded. The
sheepapens were also well tilled, but little alteration

A two-►hear Southdnwn wrther, which weighed
391 b. a quarter, and produced .2-21 b. of loos fat.
wit. lab' week killed ht• Mr. IttctiAlw Buacir, of
Ducking, Norfolk. It woo. bred by Mr. itullbAT
RIGH St.seiltor, who received a piece of
.titse ten ginneep, fur the beat .l►ecp of the
loud at ti►e last liulkdau ohtep-bliegrivg.

I A W INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Imicomes

WILDNibDAY, APRIL 21.

OPERA-110USE.
WATERS n. TAIOR.

The Court wilt crowilrd Iu excess at an early
!lour, no expectatitio that the toot ion in this tel.e
would be proceeded in, it having stood fur that pur•
pm.. from ye►terday.
The Loan CHANCFI.I.OII came into Court at a
quarter past ten o'clock, whets he directed %Ir.
Carr, the Secretary of Lunatics, to proceed with his
paper. Hu Lordship was occupied front that hour
uut►l four o'clock, to hearing Lunatic Petitions, of
Ins interest except to a se parties concerned, when
.the Court closed.

VICE.CHANCELLoR's COURT, famcoues-lxx,
WrUNMIDAY, Aram el.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

COOKE v. (mossor and she Proprietors of Drury-

lane Theatre.'

Mr. HART stated, that he hid, on the part of the
Defendant, Glossop, to move that the injunction
which had bre', granted should be dissolved, but
on looking into his brief, he found that it had been
granted by the Lord Chancellor, therefore the notice
or motion was wrong, v his honour had not the power
of altering his Lordship's order, which made it times.
sarry for his chro to terve a new notice of motion,
to eii4lde him (the Learned Counsel) to move it
before the Lord Chancellor.
The l'lct:-CatAscu.t.mt—s, Be it so."
Ilis Honour the Vit:EXHaNcKz.t.ott WAS mem•
pied the remainder of the day till three o'clock •iii
hearing motions merely of course, at which hour he
role.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GuiconALL,

APRIL 41.

A 4 jointed &Masa he/ire Chief Jast:ce Aomori' •Rd
Special Juries.

CONSPIRACY.
THE RING H. KINNIkE end OTHERS.

The Court was crowded at an early hour this
morning to witness the cont►nnat►on of this trial.
which had been adjourned from the night before,
and the first part of which appeared in oar Paper of
yesterday.
Mr. Banatyne, the only remaining witness on the
partiof the prosecution, wits called and examined. He
stated, that on the 2lst February, IBM he receiv.
ed a letter from Giflogow, directing him to make
inquiries into the character of John Meyer, and
also that of Keys. The account he received of the
homer induced him to think he was a man of cre.
dit, and Meyer gave kiln a thousand pounds on
account of Keys, which satisfied him respecting the
latter.

The case for the prosecution ended here.
Mr. SCAKL►TT, the COIIIIIOII SCRJRANT, and
Mr. DENMAN, theta addressed the Jury on behalf of
their respective chews, Mr. Mutely Wolf, M►.
Lewis Levi. and Mr. Ki eeee ier. Their speeches
occupied sever hours. _

When Mr. DLNKAN had coucluded—

Thomas Some. a leather-seller, was called on the
pa►t of the Defendant. Mr. L. Levi. and sworn
.--
but not being able to speak to any thing inater.al,
he was ordered to withdraw.

The Court was delayed some time in waiting for
other witnesses for the defence. Forty or fifty
were understood to have been outside, but none of
them appearing. the Chief Justice commenced hi•
charge to the Jury. This was an indictment
against John K• *.r, Lewis Levi, Montague Leroy,
and Mosely Wolf, for a conspiracy. A conspiracy
meant nothing more than the combining and acting
together of more persons than one, toward. effecting
a certain illegal pu►pose. Many more individuals
had been originally included in the indict-
mem, of these, sonic had disappeared; and the
persons conducting the prosecution had thought
proper to remove out of the indictirserit others
who had been at first included iii it. elle.
ther wisely or otherwise was not a question fur
them. Their duty was limited to the con►ideration
whether the four persons he had named were guilty
of' the offence imputed to them. It was very much
to be lamented that inflammatory details of the cir-
cumstances of the case had been communicated to
the public through the press previous to its coining
into Court. No practice was more to be depre-
cated in general, as its obvious tendency was to
produce impressions which might he very false, and
which might operate to the great injury of one of
the parties. It was their duty to put out of their
head every thing they had heard out of Court—to
consider nothing but the evidence which had been
offered there. and to draw from it that just con-
clusion, which he had no doubt their excellent
minds and great experience would lead them to.
The charge against the Defendants was three-fold ;
it accused them of having set up in business, as
respectable persons, three mean individuals of the
names of Meyer, Weyler, ■nsl Lee, of holding
them forth to the world as persons of substance,
putting money into their hands, and by these means
inducing various subjects of his Majesty to give
credit to them, and to intrust them with property
to a large• amount, which was intended to be taro.
ed to other purposes than they supposed. and to
the actual beriefit of the Defendants. The duty of
the Jury was to see not only that the fact of a con-
spiracy in general was established. but that the eel-
deoce of it was brought home to catch of the
accused. That a conspiracy had been formed to
defraud many persons by means of John Meye►,'
who l►id •bscondedd. was an undoubted fact, and.
that he had failed for '25,0001.; also a facts that
Reeve and Lee had faded for about 11,0001. which
they had effects to answer of the value of 1,0001.;
also • fact, that Weyler had failed, though what
property he had was riot to be discovered. as L.
Levi, out of the Defendants, was our of his me
signees. such having been the charge. he hoped
the Jury would allow him to direct their attention
to the evidence. The Learned Judge then detailed
those parts of the evidence which described the it
tuitions of John Meyer. Weller. and Lee. in the
outset, their progress in brainless, and failure. It
did riot appear that the slightest imputation had
been, or ought to have been attempted to be thrown
on the statement of Reeve. Lee's partner ; and the
deduction to be made from 116, and all that part of

the evidence wss,that these three men II 011,111M1Ply
emerged 111,11) poverty awl ob.ruill ru .iffor.sieer
Nod e noeseleidl sunlit. Ile vex, trod the evoleoer
of Mr. hffrrruti, w bleb ',hewed that Meyer, wheo lie
sloe led, had ir,ro Indebted to his Wise :knout
bring the tined !Hirt of all the trridit he hod oh-
tattled. Neither slid titer,. ....roil to be Nov just
ground of e ensure irizottod ‘Vcrd. 111 HMI it 11;-no..,
for their conduct atilt to Meyet..-hreative
when any one esll.ll to inquire about him, they
opened their books and vlies.d them—. 6 there %rot
the whole trosteroolooo4 I.r.t%reo to., lodge for )our.
privet." Our of the (jeoilr.two for the deleher
(11r. I)etion..l4) had said 1., thought the letter how
l'eriguux and Liditte cool Hot be a Remote
but must have brett forged by We ler. II.• did hot
agree in this, because there wits not a word of the
evidence which touched that point, sod it
was to lie recollected, that the signalure of Re-
rigaux and Lafitte was known better, perhaps,
than that of any other house in Europe. Ile
then adverted to the statement of Reeve respect-
ing the articles of agreement between him nod loe,
drawn up by Levi ; and also L. L.-vi's introducing
Meyer to Reeve, as tending to spew the contiexiim
which exh-red brtween the different billises. and
that Lee and Reeve's was set up Itir the purpose
of carrying on the fraudulent design, Reeve's
conduct on bearing the suspicions thrown out at
Manchester alpinist Meyer was such as altogether
to acquit him of participating in the scheine--it was
that of 11111 hooe't Men. lie awn cominented on the

statements of Joseph Lee, Mr. Dickinson, a clerk
in the Bsiik. and Mr. Sharpe. The deposition
of Meyer's first clerk, that his employer told
him his master's name was White, and that lie
(the witness) returned to the counting-horse unex-
pectedly one evening, when Meyer had told
him hi. partner was to be with him, and found
Lewis Levi there, clearly proved that Levi was
desirous of concealing the connexion from the
world. The evidence of both Meyer's clerks
indicated that neither of them was trusted with
the knowledge of the business really going on. All
they knew was, that goad. had been purchawd,
and that about the half of them, to the amount of
11,184)1. had been shipped to Holland, to Salvador
de S4inp.on. It had been said by W. Lee, L. Levi'.
brother-tan-law, who had been bent out to In-
dia, whether truly the Jury would dew , that
Runner -had visited hint in the King's Bench
Prison, and offered him 2001. to behave well on the
trial. Ile then noticed and m 111116.41 at ciiiisider-
able length on a letter which had been put in sod
read Croon Lewis Levi to M Lague Levoy iii India,
describing W. Lee, whom Levi hid sent out with
the goods, as a ruogish foul, when he ought not
to trust, pressing him to aril the good, sent
taut by the Dike of Wellington, the Leighton,
and another vessel, as quickly us possible. for
delays were dangerous—out to purchase any goods
unless lie could get ten thousand pounds worth ler
nue ; and not to return till he should receive a let-
ter of directions from him, The Chief Justice then
recapitulated the most material parts of the evidence
of the retiiiiiiiiiig witnesses, except Weyler. He
had omitted that. that the Jury might see what there
was to convict the Defendrots, on the supposition
that Weyler had not been produced at all. Coo-
entering that Mr. Wolf had nut produced a *single
bill, or a bill of parcels, to rebut the inferences
which naturally followed from it, it would be for
the Jury to decide whether the persons set up had
not been adopted by I ,he being a morn of pro-
perty, to procure goods by fraudulent meaus, of
which he was to receive a large part himself. It
was also their province to say whether Mr. Kiiiiiier's
writing the draughts of the letters. with the route,
sod giving the latter to Reeve, and bring beets at
the several meetings with the others, did nut imply
a guilty knowledge of the transactions ; and whether
L. Levi's furnishing the hind funds to Lee and
Reeve, and causing the goods to be sent from them
to Meyer, did not make out that lie had a principal
share in the business. His Lordrillipaftersards wrist
through the several particulars of Weyler'sevetlence.
If there was nothing in the vase, he continued, except
the last evidence, he should believe it one of very
great difficulty indeed ; but it assumed a very dir..
&rent appearance when supported by so many wit-
times, the testimony of noise of whom, except, he
believed, that of Wm. Ler, had been impescheil.
Another oft he Defendants, Montague Levoy,became
involved by Weyler'. statement of having seen hint
in Holland iii company with the other Delendaiits.
The evidence, however. against him was very slight.
It was for the Jury to cousider the conduct of each
individual as establisheJ by the evidence, indepen-
deeitly of the rest.—except Massnuch as it plainly fell ,
in and concurred with that of the others, mid to de-
cide
whether each of them was guilty of the tractive
laid in the indictment.

The Jury retired mud remained in deliberation
fifty-five minutes; on their return, having been
culled over, and the usual questions put by the
officers, they delivered their verdict of Guilty
against Lewis Levi, Mosely Wolf, and John KM-
tiler.; and found Montague Leroy Not Guilty.
A shout of approbation was instantly heard
amongst the spectators outride the her, which was
repressed with difficulty, and in Ai minute or two
burst out again.
Mr. Humes. the Solicitor, attempted to ad-
dress the Chief-Justice respectiug (a. we under.
stood) some allusions made by Mr. Scarlett to his
communications mud connexion with a newspaper,
but his Lordship left the Court without hearing
him.

The Officer then prnclaimed that the Sittings
were at an end. ond the Jury discharged.
About five usitiutrs afterwards Mr. Hunt, accom-
panied by scoot blench,. wen, iigo Court in a great
burry. but ou sering the Bent. elopiy. retired,

The Board of Tries have given directions roc
Bank of England dollars and tokens to be reurived
in payment of Laud and Assessed Tuxes, to the
months of April and May.
Joseph Aluples and George Marti* were yesterday
held to boil. at Union-Hall, ou a charge of stealing
the dead bodies of two children out of Sutton
churchyard. in Surrey. it appear, that them hive
been ouly twriity bodies buried in that hprying.
ground, wit Of which there have actually been
eixteen einteu by these or such wretches. Only
for the precipitate retreat of the villains they would
hare been tarn to pieces by the enraged populace,
Luca wue their iudiguatiou against thew.

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