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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
CJURT OF KING'S BENCH, Wr.vitirsTEß, Dec. g.
Siftings et Ni Prius, Wore Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGH, und a Special ✓wry.
I.:Kin. CON.
BOYD O. %%gars*,

Mr. ATTORKBY-GEN.I.R.II. (as- Counsel for the
Plaintiff) regretted that it was his duty to present
the Jury this day with another case of a similar de!
scriptiou to that of yesterday ; it a as, however, some
consolation that it was not marked by the same sir-
cumstances of atrocity, although it was attended
with the Same loss of happiness to the Defendant.
—The Defendant was a eon of the Honourable
Charles Boyd, who war the son of a Scrod) Noble.
man, whose estate was forfeited ; the incline of the
family were, of course, circumscribed. This Mr.
Charles Boyd
,had married ; but his wife dying
shortly after, he again united himself to the daugh-
ter of Lord Covington, a Scotch Judge. in going
abroad, some time after, he lift his suit, the Plain-
tiff, in the care of his grandmother, who had given
him the best education her limited means would
•allow ; and on his growing up to menhoood, so
far consulted his inclinutions, as to put her whole
fortune into his hands, to embark in trade; by
which means it was completely sunk. Thus they
were both left destitute in the world. The Ho-
nourable Mrs. Boyd, however, had good friends, and •
through them got an annuity of uOul. a-vear, and a
place in the Custom-house, for the
and again they were raised to a situation of
Comparative affluence. lu bollle tithe after this,
the Plaintiff became acquainted with Mr. Hide
and his family, and becoming attached to the
daughter of this Gentleman, proposed for and
married her, he being then twenty-six years of
age, and she about no. Such was the anxietraof
the Hon. Mrs. Boyd for the happiness of the young
couple, chit though immediately solicited to live
with them, she declined, lest it should he disagree-
able to Mrs. Boyd ; promising, at the amine tune,
that if, after the ti rat six mouths, they 'Teased their
request, she would readily consent. After the
ealairatioh of this period she was invited aw' ait), and
came to live with them. In this manner they cou-
tinued together in a state of happiness, with the
ex-
ception of the last 3 months, when the conduct of
Mrs. Boyd underwent a very material change ; this
change was to be ascribed to Mr. White, the Defend-
ant. Mr. Boyd having entertained suspicions of his
wife, took the folio:ring method of ascertaining the
fact of her infidelity; he pretended, on the nth
of September, to leave town on business, and re-
tired to a friend's house, and employed two • iits
to watch her: they did Ivied' her, and traced her
to. the Key in Chaudos-street, to which she was ac-
companied by Mr. White. One of ?jr, Boyd's ser-
vants, who had watched their motions, hired the same
coach in whist they came,drove to the Custoin-lionse,
aid informed her master, who stepped into the
coach, amid drove to the Key. On asking for his
wife, Mrs. Clarke, the mistress of the house, denied
that the be.l been there, but she was detected in
endeavour;iig to escape by the bock way ; on which
the Plaintiff exclaimed, ‘. That's my wile." The
lady replied, .g Oh, Charles, he has not injured
alter The Defendant escaped.
The marriage having been proved, Alexander
Lockhart was called : he stated, that he was a rela-
tion of Mrs. Boyd, visited sometimes, and always
entderstonit rhea she snit her husband lived happily.
Major Elves (nr the Tower veteran hattalioti), Mr.
Ingrain Ryder (of the Custom-house), Mrs. Leland,
and Mr. Atkinson, tleiinved to the same effect.
!Martha Woodward remembered Mr. Boyd's
leaving his house on the 7th of Sept. last, and de-
siring her to watch Mrs. Boyd ; his house was in
Sirlinouth-street, No 7, and that of Defendant in
Milinan-street, No. 26 ; saw Mrs. Boyd, on the
ath, walk across the adjoining fields with Mr.
White.
George Millet and Mathews deposed that
they saw them both get ludo a hackney-coach, and
drive to the Key in Chanilos-street ; they sent a mes-
tenger to Mr. Boyd, who Caine with n constable,
some time after, and demanded his wife, and found
her there.

Mr. Nan, for the Defendant, spoke in mitiga-
tiara of damages. He said the Defendant was a
young 11131), clerk to a merchant, and not by any
means in independent circumstances ; he was igno-
rant of the Plaintiff's wife being a married woman;
and was guilty of no breach of hospitality or friend-
ship, by his intercourse with her ; the Defendant,
who possessed a most prepossessing figure, was met
and addressed by this lady in the street ; sn assigna-
tion was made, and they repaired.to a brothel. It
was impossible, under these circumstances, his cli-
ent could have been the seducer. The natural
conclusion he was to draw, from the bteha►iour of
the lady, was, that she belonged to that class, who
are not very tenacious of their favours.
Lord ELLesisctocuu, in summing up the evi-
dence, observed, that though the Plaintiff was en-
titled to damages, they should be rather nominal
than otherwise; they were to be measured by the
loss actually sustained by the Plaintiff; this loss
could not be great, as it was that of a corrupt an.l
licentious woman ; there had been no circumstance
to prove the Defendant's knowledge of her having
been a married wemaii. _

The Jury, almost instantly, gave a verdict for the
Plaintiff—Damages 2001.

OLD a.4lEa Y.

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•ATUROIY, Ott 9.
Joh% Doll, a watchman, was indicted for Waling, in a
darlltophouse, a bundle, containing a incl. bank note, the
property of Caroline Witco .
The ease'of this poor woman in known to tine public by
the examinations at litow.street Office, a short time slate.—
She related the circumstances ~f the Pr,souer and another
enticing her array, by telling bee they would take her
Si the house where the coach she was to go into Liver-
pool atupprit to take up passengers, and of the other 121111
running away with her buodle, which contained the note.—
Mir p..ontiscil to go in search of the thief, nod in an hone
he would be bark with her, hut he never retnrned, and it -
poor woman, Ma state of c,:tecrne anguish of mind, attempt-
ed to cot her throat. It was proved that the prisoner way
an necessary to the robbery, and ha one (Mind tmilti, but
not of the capital ot7euee, stealing in a .1, g•Iliolf I '. The
Proaertstria cue ded sympathy in Court, from lire saudeott de-
meanour, slut being accompanied by her tea infant children.
she never recovered her property, but has met relief from a
peerage public.
PERJURY.
Michael Ilegart, was tried fur having committed wilful
perjni y, in a lots trial at these Soasi.rus, wilco two isen, •

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Ilettivan mid Fit:OM& *ere eapkaMf etriMeted of si •
etapa.-st Poplar, and for which offence they have Mace been
excreted, The preemie Defendant, alto had awume falsely, in
order to get the above men ofil.otoftwi;nl t. 441.
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COI'gNT.GAICDEN TIIZATRE.
On Sat in day even hie,: tVeflinar Cloterpi,te was bens ebt to the
Office, from iCovent-eryiten Theatre, bt John flee., out of
the patrole belonging to thiefiffice, and charged by Mr. James
Brandon, who said, that, dyeing the evriiisig, semi alter the
second act of the play, and on the commune:einem of the
half prier, he saw the Prisoner, with several others, ninnies
about the pit, and op and down upon the erahi, reel emigre:
a great noise and disturbance; and also during the third act
of the play, wherehy the uudieaee were prevented heroine the
Paine j that no not-c Elwin's:wee tutus place till the
Pi-newer mid others towed the pit, on the copilot/Timm
of half piece, mid he (the Prisoner) was must artive iu mt:
ing the anise and tumult. ,
Ordered to find hail ; which he accordirely did.
Soon after this, it bring pas; ten o'cluce, Mr. GRAIL! V
was shout to leave the Office' when a number of persona
entered it, and the .Magistrate heist; informed it was another
elixir from the Theatre, he took his seat on the Bench
again, when it turned out that it was „Id e bee!, one of the
natrule, brought to the Office in the custody of Mr. Thumes
Lee, a coach-maker, of Polenrhstreet, Oxford-street, on
charge of cutting his head open. Thie• however, was net
at first understood by the Magistrate, us has been frequently
the case with iudividnal squabbles at the Theatre, when the
party charged has happened to gin the first. say ; sod the
Magistrate was further led into the mistake, when lie inquired
who the parties were, and finding Lord to be one of the pa-
trole belonging to the Office, he took his chary agents' Hr.
Lee, which is all folilllire :
Lord stated, tharthere was • Brent disturbance iu the pit
of Covent-garden Theatre, and finding it necessary to g,
to assist iu taking some of the persous iota custody, he fol-
lowed Tauntiet and others of the petiole belonging to the
Office, when the Prisoner seized hold of his staff, with both
his hands, and pulled him, by that means' from the upper
pail of the pit, towards the orchestra, and tried violently to
wrest his staff from him, but which be was not able to ac-
complish. The Prisoner having told several persons, that
lie had struck him ern his head ; they assisted him in seizijgg
the wander again, when be was pulled down a second time
towards the orchestra, ngainet a number of people. By the
violent conduct of the Prisoner, he was separated from the
party of the petiole he went iota the pit with, nod be
stood tbe VClson they went hit.. the pit with au intention
Cf eecuriaz, was not taken into eiediely.
John Smith, one of the concluders of the patrole, belong-
ing to the office, said, there wan a great disturbance is the
pit ofCnvent-gardea Theatre, that evening, when he went in,
with a number of others of the patrols, to take into custody
one of the principals in the disturhauce ; but, by their violent
behavionr, and that of those near theta, they were prevented
from taking any of them • and be, and the other patrole,
were completely ;ted by the confusion that took place,
and the apprehension of any of them was rendered impos-
sible. He was, after the separation from the patrule, forced
down the pit, with very great violence, against the people in
the orchestra, where be saw John Lord and the Prisoner,
who had, Lord fast by the cellar, and said Lord lied struck
him on the heed with his steel. Lord, at the same time, t
was calling for assistance. A general fight with sticks, with
the persons round them, then took place. Stick, were dour-
jelled over their heads, and he tholight Lard was in danger.
He then found several of the patrule, and they went to
Lord's assistance; the Prisoner still keepiirg hold of him.
Mr. Lee then made his charge against John Lerd. He
adilreued Mr. Gemlike; at considerable lengthy with the
back part of his head in a bleeding state, which be wee
obliged to keep wiping ei.`.lll his hamikerchief. tI4 stated
that he went into the pit, for the first time, to riectempany a
friend who had lately come from Lisbon ; they were at the
' bark part of the pit, when hr °Served a number of persons
rushing into the pit, and having braid meet) of the per-
sons coining in at hay price, he supposed it wt.: the belt.
price audience entering, hut it proved to be the Frisoster,
and, as he then uuderetood, others beloneeug to the Office.
There was a great itoiae and disturbance us the pit, but in
which neither he, nor his companion, took any pert,.
The Prisoner sad her companions ruined violently enter
the pit, cud maleavoured, by force, to make their way
late, the noddle of the pit, fot whet purpose he dell Hut know,
when the Pi-owner attacked him in a violent manner, mind
gave him a severe blow with a sei:T, or stick, ou the bank
part of his In-ad, which eat has head open, and 4illil•ViOlCllCe
MU committed upon him by the Prisoner, withoutspeakitie
to him, or doing sny section to cause it ; mown which he
seized the Prisouer's Mali tar stick, and endeavoured tJ force
out of hi. bands to pieveut his doing the like twain. He
said he was determined td defend himself as an Englishman
fur the violence that had been committed upon hint. He
had served the office of constable himself, said be knew the
duty of it ; be was couvinced the Primmer was no coo-
; and he was determined to make au example of biro,
_rosecuting him with the utmost rigour of the law.
Mr. GRAMM'S admitted them both to bad, us their own
teeognisance of mil. each.
Mr. Lee said, that, in bringing the Prisoner to else Office
from the Theatre, he was kicked nail struck in different parts
of the back of his body, which lie supposed to have been
done by several of the petiole belonging to the Office, who
followed him, but he could not prove it.
Mr. Gas RAM assured him, if he could proverit, they
should be severely punished.
A Geotlarnan, whose name was not asked, addressed the
Magistrate, but be being aihhicted with au unfortunate im-
pediment in hie speech, only the eubstaace of what be said
could be learned; which was, that he had been to Covent-Gar-
den Theatre, and was perfectly peaceable, when be was sit-
tacked by a man with a staff in his fraud, who struck bus. in
a violent manner with his staff on his temple, which cut it
open. fie gave evident proof of it, as his left temple was
very moth rid, and the blood was tootling down in a stream,
while he was addressing the Magistrate. This violence was
committed, without his giving the least provocation. He
was fearful be lead no redress, as he did not know who the
NMI was.
Mr. Ga• HAN told him if he discove.cil him at any future
time, he could have a warrant fen him.
Another Gentleman made a complaiut of being violently
assaulted by n man in the pit, and applied fur an officer to
eu with him to apprehend the man.
Mr. GILA 111•11 told 6111:1 that could not be done without a
whereat, and the complainant did nut know, rho the man
was. ••••••••
William hammertoe was charged with fel iniourly stealing
three rolls of silver wire, the property of Joseph Silver sad
Cu. Weeniest, of Bedford-street, Covent-Garden.
The Prosecutor said, that, about five o'ciock, on Satur-
day evening, three rollers of silver wire ware stoke from
off his counter, of the value of upwards of nh
Alexander entitle a silver-plater, of Lerrinn-tree.yerd,
&Nitwit bury, said, that about • quieter past five o'clock,
that craning, the Prisoner came to his shop, and offered •
roller of silver wire for sale ; lie asked him what he demeaned
for it ; the Poisoner declined being a price, but said he would
sell it for what the witness would give, which cniivril him to
mispert the Prisoner had stolen it ; and be, with the assist-
ance of his neighbour, secured the Prisoner. The Primmer
said be had found mid kicked the cutlet .before hers in Coe-
duit-street
A. they were conveying him to the Office, when they got
to the coiner of Bow-street, he threw away something from
him, which proved to be snottier rune: of w,re ; while they
were picking it up he ran away ; he was pursued, and taken

Johu Watt., a shoprnan to the Prosecutors, stated, he
recollected, that, jo•t hefore the three rotten were missing,
a pelaou called la the strop, and impaired if they did not
auypli• the Palace of %Vales with gohl.lacs mid histamine, and
requasted the to of As. tad. to kick a parcel, which was
bronht from the conutry, trlar the Prince, to the George and
Blue Bear-inn, in • 'Whom The witness kit the shop to
communicate the request to the Prosecutor, who was is the
parlour. He retinues* to the f.i,op with tt, Prosecutors
mower,. sad, to the hest of Iti; belief, thus Prisoner was the
man bat his sight beiag eery andittetiut, MI would not
hr positive. A• soon as the man was gone, he aimed the
rolkrsol
On Ilearchinr, the Prisoner, he proved not to have any
shirt tK waietcpt en, tlasaid he is s cook, mid was brought

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It
• lip in the Eines t.itchen ; be NO been in Iscasslost •
ationt a fortnight, from i)over, ' having beta iraidlnii Min
Pa'ne's, the.thand Hotel there. Whilst* Liaaglems,lo,lllad
parted with his shirt and waistrosi, to eased ,n pitting a deLt
Fl is humor clothes he had sent oil front Dover- its Wll3lll Pr.
srliere lie had sat off to stalk to, hot stopping et a paSlla-
Jtause, in r.ensington, In. potchnate rolltrs of a nxi.• f r •
lan shilling's and a pot of porter, fhinit four o'clole au Stator.
day afterntem. He said his mother is bousekeeper to the
Doke of Cambridge, at Window% lie am committed L♦
further exanditstiou. •
l'Acoans Powell vas brought to the Office in tie eit.terit- ut
Licitn irk; the petiole, soot charged, by Mr. Jeshes je.l.
10)4, who tarps a haberdastii a.hop in at- Strand.
he Prtisreuter stated, that about half past five rielnek
on Saturday evenin7, lie ti as in his shop, to•st 11:r window.
when be saw the Peisionsr, oar! his wiuJ•nr, Lit entittn,-A ;.,
force in nue of the equates of Bias , upon whit li he *rid trio
and. seised Lien in the act, the putty was ekes'•-d from the
glass.
He was ordered to find rareties•for 114 good b•ehavittr.
Brnjamirs Creaep topptnrcrl to a summons, issued acaity•
George Bolton, of the Golden Crow Inn, by Mr. Pinch. ••i
New-street, Covent-gni:den, for unlawfully detaining a
sent from !harking, in Surrey, last grediwaday. The ground
of complaint wi,s, detaining the box nn a charge f•r
11,wie•roorn, being satisiactwiiy prertd, Mr. BV:.131
was convicted iu the penalty ut ten shillings, end mss. cram,
UV lON-IfALL, Dec. 9.
PRIVATE STILL.
kelchley was summoned before the Sitting Magistrate,
on an information charging Wm: with having been found in a
Lauding in which were two yesi.els, containing materials iii
preparation fur distillation. It appeared, that in conse-
quence of inform:llion which the F.seise (ricer regained, he,
on tbe 6th inst. went it a boon is Margan-lane,Tooky-atrect,
in the occupation of Mr. Curren; where, in t building adjoin-
big to the house, in whh-lt were tan 'easels e•.nt.tiuing atre•nt to
gallons of spirit wash, he discovered tbu.Lcf••udaut employed
in straining the thronzit u Natert front 'an t.ntsrl lest*
another; the utificer sls.t found a stone Itutt4. in the 131100,,
containing about two gallons* area spirits, and a vessel a
un-
laining a quantity of yeast. the senrchidy a closet iri tit*
room, he discovered an aperture is the 'Obit, neatly concealed
by a piece of wood, large a laugh to admit a pipet thi °ugh
into the adjoining roust, in Is leolt a slid was Gard.
Mr. B•aaT attended on behalf of the Defendant, rind
made every ingenioun defence for his client. The Defendant
was easricked, and fined fifty, pounds ; which, not being pre-
pared to pay, lie was committed to thetuunty Baal for six
months.

SHIPWRECK.
• nit Saturday wet immune:eel the loss of the Mee- •
quin ;sired armed schooner, Capt. Jon x STEvee..
'arid sit; of his c0ne...J.% in Seaford Bay, on Thur.-
day tuorning. The following is a more circum-
stantial account :
During the night of Vredoesday the wind blew
strong. from the S. IV. with a heavy swell. mut
it being very dark, the Harleqvint, with the sit
headmost Alps. ran ashore 'in Seaford Bay, at
five minutes before four. Signal grins of diss
tress were fired front the different vessel', sod a
number of sky-roelws, tic. exploded by the eon.
vov. The reinaind,r of the fleet no s• hauled their
wind, and, with tlifliculty, cleared &achy. ilead.
The inhabitants of Srafircl and Newhaven, aroused
by the repeated firiug, ire.terird to the beach, •but
were prevented, in a great measure, from rendering
much assistance, by the extreme hunt, andda'k•
lies. of the morning. At day-break the•sccne.was
such as can hardly he described, six of the tressed'
were riose.togetiter. and the other was under
the hill cliff, about hull a mile to the Emit. Be.
rween six and seven o'clock part of the crews of
some of the vessels were got sit shore, others were
floating on rafts, be. mall so completely exhausted
that the waves waisted them off, and they peeisbedf
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The following is a correct list of the ships on
shore, several of which ore so completely dashed
to pieces, that scare...sty clay parts remain, excepting
their keels, and not a single vessel of them will' ever
be got ntr:—
The Harlequin hired armed schooner, Coptnia John lltte-
vens..—Allyino schooner, Jahn Jernmnit, kunt Gifu-altar,
with barills, almonds, capers, and cork —Hulce
Bow's, from New York, with cuttm, pot este-, and slat...
.--Traveller brig, front Malaga; with fruit —Pi ussian ship,
February, Pramsihriheq from Petersbu4i, in hallavt,
delivered her cargo, couvivtine of hemp 191,1 iron, at Pls.
moutb.—Prossiau ship, M, thedacht, ails, fruit
Riga, wine, kc.—W ey tainuth ship, Jubu Llewellyn, trout
Gibraltar, with bartlia, and tobacco.
The Weymouth was captuved on the Sth of No.
'ember, in the Bristol Channel, by the Tilsit French
lugger privateer, when the Captain, his wife. and a
boy, were put into a boat by the enemy, about semi
leagues at sea, and ran on chore at the Laud's gad.
The Weymouth, on board of which were test
Frenchmen, was recaptured on the 7th by the
Plover sloop of war, close under St. Maloes; seseril
shots were tired from the battery, but without
effect. The prize was pent RAO Scilly, %litre the
Captain and boy again joined, and brought her to
Plymouth. At Plymouth, the Captain remuined
settle the recapture, leaving the vessel in charge cf
the mute to take to l.ondon in his progress to which
place the dreadful catastrophe above-mentioned oc-
curred.
In additkm to the loss of the !easels and corms,
we are sorry to add that 32 of their crews pet i -bed.
As it may he a satisfaction to the friends of the
survivors, we shall enumerate the names of those
drowned iii the English ships, and those saved in
the Prussian vessels :
weymosals--Tkosuas Llewellyn, enusin to the Captain t
John Rose seaman; Benjamin Dules, C•A and uae
Dutchman, now' nnknowu.
If atkquin—Juhn Mattlieur, Quarter. master; Jul.n Jones,
seaman ; one
Prussian ship, February, crew of 16, and only the two
under-mentioned saved, Edward iVuadeiledb, seams% and
Nickell, buy.
Methedacht—twelve mtn, all Inst.
The crews cf the Traveller. Altiolt, and Mire,
were, by the exertions of persons on the beach, oil
saved. The greater part of those drowned hate
been picked up.
A French privateer appeared off Seaford 01
Thursday, and great apprehensi,m is entertained
of her having captured tome of the vessels that ir-
vivell the horrors of the night, and weathered
Beaflhy.lictid.
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The barracks of Winchester are te undergo a
complete repair, for the reception of troops....
Tenders have been forwarded to got-trim:eat for
that purpose.
It is reperted at the west end of the town, that
Lord HAllilliGTON had been wot for on Thinclay
night, by au express, eletnund.tie his iirimethate
return to London, in order to be put at the head
of the o.d..ance. That an inquiry must take •
place, and that Lord CASTLICREAGIII meant to inure
for it, as soon as Parliament meets, if uo other
person anticipates him, into the execution of the -
enterprise against tire Scheldt, is unque-tiooable ;
and so Lord CHATHAM Cala neither continue to
hold a seat in the Getonet, nor the place of Muter.
()entrap of the Ordnance.