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'hour Of the night. Derendant said, if he would not
gn lie could trot help it; did not catch cold ; De-
fendant did no damage to the house. Did not
}glow whist day the docket was struck ; did nil see
Finch from she 6th till the 30th April. Thomas
h.til come 'before at other times, and demanded to
Ste the Plaintiff on acconot of that bill ; wittiest,
told 111.4 he was not at home, (weans. 1w WWI not.
The ChM Juettcc here ulmerred, that if it was
imeiviled in provewn act of bankruptcy by the wit-
tie.., the better method would be to summon him
b.'fore the Commiasioners.
Me. SCARLET? diaclaimeil any inch intention,
and the crow-exiimina mon proceeded.
Witness had *nine money whets Thome% hail call-

ed with the Isillebut.asot enough to pay it.
Louisa Fein@ is servant to Mr. Finch. nt his
Louse in Camper's-row: remembers Mr. Thomas
caning there on the night of the sth May last. to
the hest of liar knoslen-Ige between ten slid eleven
o'clock ; had just wino to bed ; heard is very vio-
lent ringing ■nd knocking ; got out of Ind, and
sold him from the window that Mr. Finch was not
at home. He went away, hut in some time return-
ed, and began knocking and ringing in the same
way. It was then, to the best of her knowledge,
rttven o'clock. Ile said he would insist on coming
in, as Finch was in the house, and asked, If IVhere
is rhiit lying scoundrel John Churchill ?" Witness
renll.-41, " liiit ruled him. Atter sonic
little tune the boy went down, the Defendant still
continuing to knock and rung as violently as he
contd. He said Iliac if slip would not call the bnv
down he would go on doing an till nine in the morn-
ing. At length the apprentice came down and let
him in.

Crospexisatined.—The Defendant did not why he
had been informed by Mr.. Finch that her hus-
band hsd remained in town that ni,dit.

This Will the. Plaintiff's case.

Mr. SCARLET?, for the Defendant, said he did
not see why easy bankrupt (as the Plaintiffwas hay-
tog been made one by Mr. Chatfield) with a rather
bard creditor, who looked fur his debt in a too vto-
leot manner, as perhaps the Defendant kid, might
hot bring an action of tetspass against him. The
law undoubtedly allowed him to do so, soil there-
h,re he had no defence to make for Mr. Thomas.
But it was for the Jury to consider whether the cave
was worth bringing into Court. Had they ever
known an instance in which an action had been
F. ght by a debtor against a provoked creditor,
who had come angrily to demand his money, and
on his creditor being denied stayed all night,
though such an action might have beets brought ?
The Defendant had gone to the house influenced
by a natural anxiety for the interest of his employer,
ito.l by resentment against the Plaintiff for his abuse
of the coufidence he had reposed in him. Ile
had been bandied about the whole day from
post to pillar, from town to country, snd from
country back again to town ; and under these cif.
tonsoinces was it worth while making the Case a
serious one ? It was plain that the Defendant's
ooly object bud been to snake • tender of the bill
to Mr. Finch, and demand payment of it ; it was
',tie he had gone at an unreasonable hour, and staid
rather too long ; but it was expecting too much of
ousan nature to suppose that a man, after such
t-eotment, could act with perfect coolness of
.judg.
tnent, and command of temper. Moreover, it had
rot appeared that she maid asked him to go out,
•::d the boy, so far from expressing a desire that he
s!.ould do so, procured him a night-cap and night-
K~•w•si. The Plaintiff himself had soot been in-
j.:red in his person, his property, or his quiet.
Tl•ere was stone of us that did not at times commit
acts which dispassionate reason would disapprove
of, but the common sense and feelings of maukind
made allowances if we sometimes, under the
force of strong provocation. o'erstepped the mo-
desty of nature." It was not au immaterial con-
sideration what might be the consequence of hold.
I,:g out as example to creditors—that if they called
or: a debtor and stayed half an hour or an hour too
lorg, they should be subject to an action of tres-
pass and damages. On there grounds, he trusted
they would dismiss the cute, with merely nominal
damages.
The CHIEF JUaTICE in his charge said, that
though a creditor might go into the halm of a
person who owed him money to demand it, and
ante there a reasonable time, the law did not suffer
Mtn to enter it at any hour, remain any time, knock
up his servants, and 'hot one of them out as long
as be thought loom. if the Jnry believed the facts
as they had been stated, it became them to shew
that such things would tint he allowed. When
they had been asked if ever they bad heard of an
action brought on such an account, they should
st.k themselves whether they had ever heard of con•
duct similar to that imputed to the Defendant.
'llse Jury having deliberated a short time, re-
turned a verdict for the Platatiff—damages 40s.

viaruir r. BOL.

This was in action of vote', to recover the nine

of certain goods of the Plaintiff. which had come
into the hands of the Defendant. and been cep-
verted to his use. The circumstances were as
tollevr
The Plaintiff. who resides at Ghent, on the
I.;ib December. leis, shipped on board • ',reset,
ul which the Defendant was Captain. a large
quantity of red and white wheat and horse beans.
vonsigiiing them to his brother at London, who
acted as his factor. to the bills of lading it was
provided. that sizteen days should be allowed the
consignee fur wuh.ding the ship from the day of her
arrival being reported ; and for every day after. the
Captain was to be entitled In -a demurrage of 44
ou reel. parcel. or 6L on the whole. The ship ar-
rived *a the 9d. and was reported the 4th January.
In the mese time the Plaintiff's brother suspended
Dais figments. and was made a haukrupt. of which
Plaintiff having been apprized, flint to London.
and mode a personal appionition to the Captain to
deliver the Geer to him ; 16 loorters cud a half were
delivered to-the lighterissait employed by him, but
the Defendest having biter served with ■ notice by
_the sis.igntea of the imusigiire, not to surrender the
goods, refused giving op •u jr more of them. Ac-
corthogly they rsniniteed on board till the 94'h
March. when 00 quairterinf the white wheat were
.014 by a cone.lisetor employed by thi Defendants
wad the reeminder of the cargo between that thy
and the ; the red wheat et 709. sod 71s.
the white at 7ts. sod the been. at 4,15. per gamier ;
the gross proceeds were 1.1001. 4s. Sd.; the ca-
imans of the sale were 96L 4s. 9J. and the freight-

age 711. 123.6 J. The fairness .r thole iris not 114.
puted by the Plaintiff, and being deducted from the
grow' ram the net proceeds were 99i/. 74.; bet the
Defendant contended that he was entitled to have
further allowance of 61. a clay demurrage for a con.
eiderabfe time that the cargo remaked on hoard, by
the terms of the ag►eement. The Plat otiff disputed
this, and further proctored P Wittle4P, whet swore that
et the time the Plaintiff etude the demand of the
delivery of the goode, the red wheat wit. worth 7rees.
or 76a. a quarter ; the while 77.. ; end the beaus
f 6oa. to 624. The two last were the only points
iu tli.pute between the trarties.
The Cuter JUSTICE told the Jury. that there
wets no well-founded claim to the demurrage, at
the detention of the cargo hod not beret occasioned
by the default of the Plaintiff.
The Jury fecund a verdict fur the Plaintiff:—
Damages,. 992/. 75.

POLICE.

MAIIIIIO/11 Hour.
ATTEMPT TO POISON.

Yesterday a years( wumaa of very deeeut appearance was
brought up by a pariah officer for an twirl of removal. Be-
fore she appeared at the Mansiust-house she had been armed
with strong coneulsiums, in consrquence of an attempt
made by herself to take away her life by poison. The offi-
cer said he found her *Protingly in the a,conies of death,
en the steps of a dour io Shorethtrh. siirruunded by a
aember of persons, who had sent for him, MU he soizlit
make some inquiry into her deplorable case. She was
taken by the (Ayer to the wafeh.huitse, where she remained
fur a constderable time in a dreadful state of t.troire,
Two surgeons immediately attended her, and aeon ascer-
tained that she bad swallowed poison. A powerfal emetic
was administered, and a portion of the poison was by that
means lakes from her stomach, or death must have inevi-
tably ensued. This circumstance occurred ON Saturday,
and on Monday the unfortunate girl was aisle to give an ac-
count of herself. She stated to the officer that she hail
gained • settkmeat la a parish in which her father, who held
a respectable situation at the East India Howse, resided.
Iler father, she said, had refused 111 render her aseistanre
in any way whatever. She went Into terrier, sail while his
that condition was seduceul by what she called a Gentle-
mass ; she !meanie pnrgnctst, and was turned upon the
world for support, her seducer having refused to allow
her more than Ave 'billings • month fur her mainieuance.
As soon as she was delivered he, however, look the child
under his care; she applied to her parish for relief, sail was
taken into the boom, host upon refusing to give up the name
of
the father of her child she was sent amongst the most
abandoned wretches to Briar/sell for seven days, at the expi-
rations of which she was turned into the streets. She applied
afterwards to the office's of her parish, who gave her ores.
sionally a few shillings, and then referred her to the rinds
Cursnittee, • ho, they told her, would put her in soar re-
apeetable way of livelihood. She attended the Committee,
but persisted in her refusal to mention the same of her
child's father. The Committee on this aecowat refused to
&may thing for her. Altimeter she had fella. a victim to
the persuasions of her lover, her moral principle was far from
being lust, sad she preferred death to prostitolion. She
purchased four-pennyworth of laudanum at the shop of a
druggist, aid made it up into two pills, one of which also
Axed is am apple, and the other she mixed in • little small
beer. Upset swallowing the poison she sat dose upon the
steps of a door, aid soon felt its powerful (literalists
•11. e order of removal w*•-snatie out, and the pour de-
sealed outcast, upon being conducted into the hall of the
Mansioa-house, fell into violets' convulsions, which seemed
to titivates immediate dissulastiou.

- GUILDUIML.

sfoorpb Hoeristra and Daniel &Miran were yesterday
brought up, elargeri with aelliug a quantity of music paper,
ethic* bad beau stoke.

A Gentleman, who stated that be was Secretary to the
Reggaes Harmonic Institution, Argyle-strrer, depiwtl ih3t
• great gaudily of music paps., had been mired from the
warehouse of the Institutiou ; that on Tuesday he found
some of it i• the shop of Mr. Gainsford, elseesraiong•r,
Lodgatio-hill ; that person stated to him that he bad In.clit
it from the Prisoner, Harrison, as waste paper, and produced
Harrison's receipt for the payment of it. There were two
of the sheets be could positively swear to, to be the property
of the Institution. One was a favourite Air by Cramer—
the ot her, the song of " 7'he Cossack"
The Priestlier. Harrison, in Lis defence, said, lie kept a
ham and beef shop, Broadway, Illsekfriani-road; the Pri-
mmer, &Mina, bad been in the habit of supplying his re-
deem:or is the shop with waste paper, and was reco•snseusl-
ed to him; be purchased a puma' y, and having more lima
be wasted, be sold a part to Mr. Gniusford.
The Primmer, Sullivan, acknowledged that he sold the
paper is question to Harrison, and that he hought it either
from Mr. Todd or Mr. Youogprentire, cheesemongers, St.
Martia'a4e.Grand. .

Sir Charles Flower, the Sitting Aliternsao, obsrrved, that
be was of opinion the Primmer, H 111,11.11, hail fairly ac.
minted fo► his being in p 055.4400 of tire pa per. He would
therefore admit hi. to go at large un giving bail; and be
would reamed the Prisoner, Sullivan, until Friday, to live
hiss as opportunity of producing the persons front whom
be said he pore-based the paper.
The worthy Alderman afterwards took Mr. Humphries•
(dm Prisoner, Harrison's, Solicitor) undertaking for his ap.
parlance ou Friday.