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London, England, 1804-11-16 00:00:00

TPII RING V. JAMLS ROSLINURGY.

He was sentenced to six months imprisonment in
the gaol of Bodmyn.

MI KINO V. HANNAH JAMES.

The indiftmentiri this Case was tried at Flereford,
and was preferred against the Defendant and seve-
ral others, for a similar offence against James
Wood, an excise officer, of Glamorganshire.
The Court sentenced her to two months imprison-
ment in the King's Bench Prison.

TN[ KING V. Roaurr stority.

This was a ease of great outrage on the part of
the Defendant, who WAS convitted at Warwick of
assaulting Jesse Hilton, a shoemaker, with a poker,
and disabling him.
It appeared upon the evidence of the Prosecutor,
that he had given information to the supervisor of
some malt. which was to be removed in the night.
iit went towards the plate when it was dark. cc..

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companied by one Waller. an F. F. :• -in in, and‘eaw.
a in in walk backwards and fors.. •rrlsO who. upon'
seeing them, concealed henselt. +1.1.e» thee castea
up to him, he turned out to be the Prisoner. who, '
looking under Prosecutor's hat. cries gut--"' 1)--itti
your eyes, are you waiting for an •thet- job ? I'll do
ye." He then struck Prosecutor -.A..): *is fist, e-ho
returned the blow with his stick, old knocked De-
fendant down, and, while in that situation, edvi•ed
him to go home. This he repeated twice. I'iiii
Defendant then ran away, and, a, ti, r Prosecutor and
Waller were returning home, on passi ig the
Defendant's house, be came our, and, with
an iron instrument, struck the Pensectitor severe'
violent blows in the head, and cut lona to the bone I
he fell senseless to the ground, and when recovered
a little he crept home, as well as he could, or his
hands and knees. He was confined for upwards of
thirteen weeks after, and entirely lost the use of cue
of his eyes; he has ever since been ill, and not able
to earn his bread. When he preferred his India.
ment at 'the Borough Sessions, the grand-jury, whe
were mostly maltssers, laughed at him, and did not
find it.
Serjeant BAVt.r. V I.Y. in the absence of the 11-r-
TOINCY GaNSII•I, observed, U was a heinous of-
fence, and the Defendant had good reason to con-
gratulate himself on not having been tried for a ca.
peal felony, which might have been done ender
two efts of parliament, for laying in wait. and
wider Lord Ellenborough's late a& for cutting and
maiming ; he then observed, no punishment the
Court could inflia could compensate the Prosecutco
for the loss of his eye.
Lord LLLCSJOROUG}I observed, it was an enor-
mous matter of complaint. and a most shocking
thing that the Prosecutor shouid be dismissed with
contempt by the July.
The Defendant was then committed to Newgatea
to be again brought up the last day of term.
raANCO V DUBOIS AND OTallaf.
Mr. EaSICIhE shewed cause against a kale ob-
tained by Mr. GI ens, for the Defendoneo he dis-
charged upon filing common bail, inasmuch as a
commission of bankruptcy had issued against him,
and be having obtained his certificate.
There had been an exchange of piper between
those parties to a considerable amount ; and at the
time the Defendants became insolvent, there were
bills outstanding to the amount of 6,50u1; it was
agreed by the Plaintiff, for the accommodation of
the Defendants, that he should renew bills to the
amount of :110001. which were to be paid to Nlr.
Wilberforce Bird. The 6,5k111. being due pievions
to the bankruptcy of the Deendant., the Faint,ff
claimed on their estate for that sum; hat the 20001.
did not become due timil sub, ap:en. to Defendants
obtaining their certificate.
The question therefore bef• •re the Court was, w
ther the 2,0001. was renewals. and a per- of
63001. and whether the Defend ,nts were now
liable to that sum ? Rut it appearing to the Court . "
(after long argument) that rse P ainiiff had not .
suffit:iently *hewn. whether those. Bi Is were a sub-
stitution or not, or mane out to what t ansatti-n
they properly belonged, the Court made time Rot*
absolute.
In the case of Karl St. Vincent, against three
persons fur a libel, Mr. Easel ns nit vied • to •be t .4s
Rule for a Criminal Information shied, t .
twi an affidavit boils, acad. 'satin.; A.: -
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the principal Defendant in Ireland, and '-t irertni- •
sibibty of his being served with the or.:er. :he c ,v.t.
enlarged the Rule to the Lit Jay of toe preset.:
Term.
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The letters brought be the Lisbon Nfair, haring ,
undergone the preventive p:ocess of fumig ult.'s,
were delivered on Wednesday at the Post Office. 'l
The latest account. from Lisbon, down to the '
3d inst. mention, that a Nlesseoger, wh • had pm..
ed through that city in his way to Madrid, had re-
turned to the former place, where it was sail he 'I
would remain till he,..receiverl dispatches hem the
latter. It was supposed that they would bringebe
uncertain state of our Negotiation with that Pow r i
to a speedy issue. This event, however, it was I
imagined, would not take place till the arfiral of the
French Ambassador at the Spanish :.*onrt,
The Alegi 'cane frigate is undergoing a complete,
repair at Sheerness, in consequelme of the damage 1
she sustained in the North Seas, during the late se- c.'
vere gales.
The salaries of the Secretaries to Flag Officers,
and Commanders in Chief, are to be advanced. 1
On Thursday, the Bth inv, a rr .t -et from Bel.
fast was landed at Greenock, fpm the Surd/ sr
packet. He is the man who some tirnz a'go Lrutte
Renfrew prist.n: he had been ermined there for is-
suing base money, a considerable quantit;• of which
was found in his posseisinn whet, h: was first apply- i
bended. He was imnictliat-iv rent off from Gree-
nock( in irons, to occupy his old birth at Renfrew..
An entire new branch of mama In::: has trees
introduced into Scotland. In the netehbourhood or
Glasgow, a work has just commenced ,or hemanu-
fraAute of iron-wire from the raw mate! al, an ar-
ticle much wanted in this country. %Ve hope the
adventurer will meet with that encourig ment his
lendable enterprise well entitles him to.
Serious fears are entertained for t e safety of
Lord Venter in, who sailed :loom Bengal in the
beginning of December last His L-i-dship having
visited the Continent of India w th a view to the
Listory, politics, and natural prod Aions of that
country, went to Ceylon. from whence he was to
cross theninsula, and emb irk o i the coast of
Malabar fur the =Red Sea. lie was exectfted in
England in July.
Yesterday, the Wandsworth troop of volunteer
cavalry paraded at their head-qua:tent. at one
o'clock, in complete marching order, and proceeded'
to their usual place of ex:retie. where they welt
through the business of a field-Jay. in such a man-
ner, that we feel confident in asserting, that, th io'
they are the youngest co_rps in the county (being the i
last accepted by His M *JEST Y), they pert rmed
their r:-.anceuvres with a degree of alertness 'and pre-I
cisinn, that would have done honour to a weren't'
corps : they returned at hal'-past tour o'clock, to
the Eagle Inn, where a dinner bad been prepared
by the privates, as a compliment to their Officers,
and to which most of the neighbouring Gently were '
invited, and attended. The dinner conosted of
every delicacy the season afforded. and was served 1,
sp. and condufteci in a degree of perfeetion, bybln.r...iii
Wiitts, landlord to life Eal/12- /11111

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