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VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, FRIDAY, Dsc. 17.

xII[PTOR t'. •RCHER
In this ease, which Caine before the Court on a petition, it ap.
peared that a Commission of Itankniptcy had issued against a per-
son of the name of Archer, in the month of May 1821 ; and that
two persons of the names of Ely anti Adams, were chosen as.
aigneco • that in the month of August billowing, the bankrupt ob-
tained Was certificate; that n't it appeared that there would be some
difficulty in collecting his outstanding debts, and as on his freehold
property. consisting of eleven houses in the town of Hertford, there
was already a mortgage amounting to 1,41101. and that the mort-
gagee had refused to purchase the equity of redemption, the as-
signees called a meeting of the creditors to consider of the best
means of turning this prcperty to account ; that as none of the
creditors attended on that occasion, the assignees took upon them-
selves to enter into an agreement with the banknipt to sell to him
the equity of redemption of his mortgaged property, and hill debts,
for the sum of 600/. to he secured by good acceptances at three,
four, and six months that in the month of June Ift.'2, Ely re-
moved himself Irons the assigntieship, and two persons of the names
of Kimpton and Walker, who were not creditors, were substituted
fur him. Mr. Kimpton not thinking that a sufficient consideration
had been given by the bankrupt, refused to accede to the conditions
of the agreement, and actually put up the estate at Hertford tier
sale, notwithstanding that Archer had already paid upwards of 400/.
of the purchase money. Archer, upon this, tiled a bill in Chan-
cery for a specific performance, and also moved for an injunction
to restrain the sale. The injunction was refused, and the assig.
Dees proceeded to sell, and obtained 1,90 W. for the property. The
bankrupt now °tired to abandon his agreement, on condition that
the assignees would reimburse him in all the expenses that he had
been put to in entering into it, which of course included the ex-
penses of the Chancery suit • this they refused, but agreed tore.
turn him the money that he had paid ; and also WI. as a remune-
ration for the trouble he had been at in collecting the debts. The
bankrupt declined this ; but did not go on with his suit in titan-
eery ; and the only point in dispute now was, who was to pay the
expenses of it.
fhe Vitt E-C/TaiiCrLI.OR said that he could not tell what would
hare been the effect of the auk hail the bankrupt chosen to perse-
vere in it, but as he hail do:rived his case, the Court timid only
deal with it in accordance with its universal practice, which was
to dismiss it with costs, thus leaving the expenses of it to be paid
by the bankrupt.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FRIDAY, I)rc. 17.

Before the 1.01113 CHIEF JUSTICE, and a Special Jury.

LIBEL.

DENT t. NEWCOZIB ♦KI) OTHERS, PROPRIETORS Or TIIE

BOSTON GAZETTE

Mr. Henry aunt appeared it, persuo,, sad conducted his own
ease. lie began In stating, that junior (enamel usually stated the
nature of the pleadings, but as he was unprovided with such
learned aseietanee, lie must be excused if he dad not state them so
accurately as might be expected. Ile was himself the plaintiff;
and the delemlante were, Newcomb the elder, Newcomb junior, and
Henry ltrooke, proprietors aril publishers of a newspaper called
the Burros Gazelle, publitthed in the county of Lincoln; and the
action was for a libel published agair.st him in that paper. The
Jury might, perhaps, be surprised to tied that they were engaged
in the investigation of this case, the libel having been published in
Iducolnshire ; but the matter stood thus:—lie had attended at a
lisuipshire meeting ; upon his conduct at that meeting the Bostus
Gazette had made the most unwarranted strictures, and he there.
fore met his opponents about the mid-way, and had the case tried
in 3liddleses, where he was sure he would have a full, • fair, and
an Impartial trial. The libel of which he now complained, and for
which he sought a reparation in damages, was as acerubdous, gross,
and false as ever found Its way into the columns of any paper,
and if he did not prove it to be so, why then let the verdict of the
Jury decide against him. It would be idle—it would be a silly
affectation in him to reectid that Henry Hunt was not known to
the Jury. All the ',mid knew, fur all the world had heard,
through the medium o: .i: newspapers, that he had been obliged to
defend himself against .arious attacks, not only in this Court, but,
unfortunately, in many others. Tietley, however, lie changed
places; fur to-day lie appeared before them in the character of an
accuser—forced into the office of an accuser, bound to bring others
to an account far their conduct against him. As a political charac-
ter, he was tolerably well known ; bat he did not to-dee•aPPeta as
a political character. The question was not one of such a nature,
and he trusted he need not ask the Jury not to see it with a political
eye lie was asked if he wished this question to be tried by a
Special Jury, and he answered, " No ;" for he was satisfied that
any twelve men in this country were not only competent to judge,
but would give a fair and impartial judgment between !dm and
the panics whom be now brought betitre them. The defendants,
lie was given to understand, were wealthy men, living in a fine
house or mansion at Stamford ; and so much the worse fur him, as
their opinions had a currency proportions' to their wealth and
their respectability, and exactly in the same proportion was their
libel calculated to do him mischief. Had this attack appeared in
one of the twopenny publications of this metropolis, he would
not have noticed it ; but appearing as it did, in a country paper,
having men of wealth and respectability for its proptieters, he was
compelled to have the matter sifted to the bottom, in order to the
defence of his own character. The libel in question was published
in the Buslus Gazelle of the eetli of April last ; it was headed
" Hampshire Meeting." It then proceeded to state, " that a
meeting had been held at the Castle of Winchester, for the purpose
of petitioning Parliament fur the repeal of the Assessed
but as the requisition confined the meeting to those who were house-
holders only, the rabble mob was not so great as if it had been held
in the neighbourhood of Landon. About five hundred most reepee-
table housekeepers, however, atteuded—Walter Ling, Esq. High
Sheriff; in the ellaisi Resolutions were proposed by Mt. Carter,
Mayor of l'ortsmouth, approved of by the Earl of Camarvon,
and others highly respectable, and ultimately adopted, but that
the proceedings of the meeting might lack nothing in the shape
sir patriotism, Mr. Orator Hunt attended for the avowed pur-
pose of vilifying and abusing every gentleman present." That
the bumble individual now addressing the Court and the Jury
was the person alluded to, could not be doubted fur a nennent.
Ile did not attempt to deny that at the Hampshire Meeting
there was conslstrable difference of opinion ; but he plainly and
solemnly denied that he ever went there with a view of vilifyingaay
one present, or of thwarting what he considered to be the duty of
any man ou such an oczasion. la hat county contained men who
all thought alike? And was it because persons dilfreed in opinion
that they were therefore to be abused or vilified ? rutinly nut.
Ile expressed his opinions ; he said he thought the Meeting use-
less ; and why ? because he said the timuicial measures for the
year had been already arranged ; because the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had arranged his plans. lie further said that there were
many taxes which might be repealed, and render the public a
greater service. Such were the taxes on coals, malt, &c. He cer-
tainly did my that the assessed taxes principatiy aflixtel the gentry,
and that their repeal could work no great or general good, because
it was in the power of such persons to put down their carriages and
horses, and thereby relieve themselves. To this effect lie moved
an sunendment, when he was called to order by the High Sheriff.;
but that was all that occurred. To prove what he said wee correct,
Le would call one of the reporters of a London Newspaper, the only
one who was present at the Meeting, and in Mr. Conway the Jury
would find a gendeman, a scholar, are' an unique reporter. How.
ever, the teal went on he state—" That this man, after what has
transpired during the last two or three years, should have had the
impudence to thrust himself forward upon such an occasion, we are
surprised ; but, whatever tnay be the width of his forehead, we
are surprised that such a Man is allowed to hold up hie head, or
appear in any company of gentlemen." Mr. hunt continued : the
man who causes forward and openly attacks me I care not one far-
thing fur, because I here the means of refuting what he says ; but
here was an attack in the dark. The author of this calumny says,
" after what has transpired," e.a but be did nut tell us what it
was he meant that had transpired ; therefore the libel implied that
something which the public were not as= of had transpired
against his character and honour ; but lie (Mr. Hutu) would ap.
peal to the world, when did he ever hide his head under a bushel
when had lie ever been ashamed to shoe his face ? when hail tic
ever shrunk from inquiry ? lie was certain that lie had never done
either. The libel, therefore, contained something that no one but
the foul authors of it understood. But what answer did they mean
to set up to it to-day ? Did they mean to justify it ? No...they

haul merely ',leaded the gelle-al issue, thereby, in flint, admitting
that it was false; but he 'multi even at that moment allow them
to withdraw the pleA of not guilty, ael place* justification on the
record.

'I he I.olw entar Jusr icy —That cannot now be done, Mr.
Hunt.

Mr. hunt—At this moment, my Lord, lam natisfitel to let them
give evidence of justification without any plea on the record, and I
further say, and I hope the Jury wdl take it into fireman, in otitis
gallon of damages-11 will, my bard, even go further, and say,
that if the detendantit call any one credible witness to prove that a
single line of this libellous matter be true, I shall consent to the
verdict bring had against nit.
ere Mr. Hunt procenled to teed extracts from the libel ; but
betore he proceeded many staitences he was obliged to use his
spectacles. Mr. Scarlett appeured to smile, and Mr. hunt per-
ceiving it, remarked, that although four years younger than the
Lemke! Gentleman, still he could not boast as sleek an appearance
or us quick an eye without his spectacles. Mr. S. had never tasted
the meeeim of prison discipline, nor the damp of a dreary cell. Mr.
Scarlet: answered this appeal by a nod of the head, and a cominutd
slit I.
Mr. Hunt resumed—The libel impute:l to hint that he wished
to have the coal tax taken ofd; because It would be individually
beneficial to hint, as he used Ira) clialdrens a year in the menu-
fscture of his toasted grain ; and it went on to state, that his con-
duct at the Hampshire Meeting was an excellent species of political
cant and hypocrisy. The libel, for so he charged it, prover led in this
strain Fite man who cants in such a strain in behalf of the
poor, is the same who has made a fortune by selling roasted tarn
at one shilling per pound to the poor, which he was afterward,
glad to dispose of at ed. per pound, and which corn, by the by, is
said to be poison." The libel then gave *a long aceountof this
11 roasted corn, which it purported to copy from the Cortogr rhasiciow,
in which the corn MO treated as a vexatious production ; and that
any person, who, after tasting it, felt within three days any me of
a long list of pains which it named, might be certain that it arose
from tasting the graM in question. Tins was much in the style of
Moorr's Alin".nck—they Itad better twee said, about three di p
tif ter, or three days before. But to she* the malignnv of the ee.
fersdants, they were not satisfied with asserting the tersontnis qua-
lities of the ennead grain themselves, Bid they quoted this two-
penny hoot, this Co. 'age Physician, as a proof of their assertion,
precisely the sione,am their Learned e;ownieJ would, when arguing
a point of law, quote Coke, or Lyttleton, or Mack:atone, bet cause I
he would know that his own assertion would not he received by the
Court. It had ben` his misfortune to have offended some gentlemen
of the public press. In his early days it was his good eetime to
hare pi/sat:and a handsome patrimony, and for a length of time he
employed himself in cultivating his paternal estate, and in Jo=king
atter his own private Interests. He, however, left that employ-
ment, and had embarked in the 164th more dangerous field of
public life. Upon his embarking in politic the gentlemen of the
press asked, forsooth, what business he had to meddle with po.
Inks? Why did he not content himself with remaining in private
life, as his encestors had done before him ? Perhaps, indeed, it
might have betel Letter for him if he had never so interfered, and
after two years and six months' solitary confinement in a dungeon,
lie had been brought rather to inellna to that opinion ; lie, therefore
determined to enter upon business, and dig n tile eewspatters turned
round upon hint, and asked what right he had to interfere in husi.
nem So he was exactly placed in the situation of the old man
and his ass, who, after trying to plense all, pleased none.—
Many persons seemed to think that the roasted corn was a mere
chance discovery, as a substitute for coffee; even same learned Per-
sons had been of that opinion ; hut he could with truth and honesty
tell the Jury, that it was on his part the fruit of much tesearch.
Upon an analysis, he found it to be a nutritive and delicious beve-
rage; and it tad another great retrommendation—!t was cheap, and
could be purchased by the poor, and he, upon that account, chiefly
determined to embark in the speculation of its manufacture. Hut
just at this time, the proceedings at York, occupied his attention ;
and about the same time an execution issucd against him, from the
Court of Exchequer, fur selling this roasted grain, it being
alleged that he had violated an Act of Parliament theta recently
mimed for the protection of the West bight trade. He had to pay
a tine of e 001.; but previously to this he had sent two pounds
weight of his roasted grain to his Majesty, one pound to each
member of the Royal Family. one pound to each of the Bishops,
one pound to each of the lA•arned Judges, one pound to each Peer,
and one pound teach Member of the House of Commons. Many
of these persons he knew had tried it, and from several lie had
received letters of acknowledgment for the services he hail rendered
his country. The7tioventment, shortly after this, passed a bill to
legalise the sale of the roasted grain, and a circumstance occurred
which perhaps had never been heard since the days of Sir Itobt.
IValpole, which was, that, by an order from the Treasury, the
Board of Excise returned him the 200 e penalty which had been
originally indicted on hint for selling the roasted grain. Notwith-
standing this, however, it was not even now generally known that
the sale of this grain was legal, for many persons who had heard of
his conviction tor selling the grain, had never heard of the Act
legalising the sale of it. ‘Vith respect to the profits that P. was
said he gained by manufacturing the grain, he could tell the Jury
that he had ten shops in this metropolis, the rent and 13%e% of which
cost hint 1,2001. annually, and the Jury must be aware that such a
payment must materially diminish any profit derived by the grain.
I'he immortal Shakspeare had very properly sial-
-IVho steals my puree, .teals treat,
"Fwas mine— to his, and has been slave to thousands :
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches hint,
And makes me poor indeed.
Notwithstanding this, however, Shakspoare never could have ima-
gined such characters as the defendants, for they endeavoured to
rob him not only of his purse, but of his good name. But the
libel in the lioaton Guartle assumed another character; it dealt
more generally and extensively, for it not only traduced him as
an iadtvidual, but it attacked the whole Legislatere ; and why the
King's Attorney-General had not yet brought them to task, was a
question which was yet to be decided. lie (Mr. Hunt) was glad
I to see the playful smile on the countenance of his learned opponent.
the Counsel for the defendants ; he was glad to see Min in good
health; and he thought, notwithstandiag what the defendants had
said, that the Learned Gentleman had u sort of longing for a trial
of the roasted grain. (Laughter.) Again the smile played on the
Learned lientleman's sleek face, and he was glad to see it. Nay,
he would say this to Mr. Scarlett, that if lie (Mr. Hunt) had a
bad case, a case where he had not a leg to stand upon, that after
all whiLh had passed, and he had soma cause for remembering it,
there was no lawyer whom he would so readily employ as his
Learned Friend. With respect to the quality of the roasted corn,
it had been analyzed, and was nut found to contain a single particle
of deleterious matter.

Mr. Seaar.vre said, that if Mr. Hunt's object was to advertitta
his groin, he thought that he had now succeeded. It'll)t respect to
what had been said about the poisonous totalities. he (Mr. Scarlett),
on the part of his clients. was ready to admit it was fake, and in
their name to offer an apology, provided Mr. hunt had no objec-
tion to withdraw a Juror.

_ .
Mr. Hunt asked what Mr. Searlett would say to the forum put
of the libel ?

Mr. SCAILLETT replied, that he could say nothing to that.
Mr. Hunt then said he tuust proceed in the cause. Ile had already
been put to lOW. costs, and would not, therefore, now withdraw a
Juror. In the county of Lincoln, where the defendant's paper circu-
lated, he (Mr. Hunt) had no less than fifteen agents fer the sale of
the roasted grain: the Jury would therefore judge the injury the cha-
racter of the roasted grain was likely to sustain from the publication
in question. Even iu the town of StanitOrd, where the defendants'
mansion was situated, he had agents for the SAC Of the roasted
grain • it was sold even at the office of a rival newspaper. pub-
' Basted immediately opposite the defendants' house, in Stamford,
and this he (Mr. Hunt) believed was one reason to be assigned for
the malicious motives of the defendants. Mr. (lent was about to
argue against there being any poisonous matter in his roasted grain.
when

The Loan CmEr JUSTICE said, that was quite unnecessary,
as the defendants admitted that it did not Contain any poisonous
matter.

Mr. Hunt proceeded in his address to the Jury. Ile would ask
them if the article in question was not calculates! to ruin any titan
in trade ? Ile would wish the Jury toiplate themAelycs for A mu-
mem in his situation, and he would ask them what would their
feelings be, if an imputation like the present was cast upon sty of
them; what tisanes would they think themselves entitled to,
were they placed in his situation ? Ile called upon them to dis-
charge their duty as men, as Englishmen, and as tradesmen.
Mr. Mawe, of the Stamp-office, proved that the defendants were
printers and proprietors of the iitation Gazette.
The Boston Gazette of the 27th April 11124, containing the libel,
was then produced by Mr. Mallinson.
Edward Carter was at the Hampshire meeting in April last.
The meeting was called to petition Parliament aptnst the Assessed
Tartet. The plaintiff wu present at the meeting. Witness has
no doubt but that the plaintiff is the person alluded to as Orator
hunt.

.....
A Reporter of the Timr, r.easpaper attended the meetinL7 in
question, to report the proceedings :.Ir. Ilunt was present ; has
no doubt but that Mr. Hunt is the persun referrtil to in fist libel as
Orator Hunt.

Cross-examined.—Witness took the speeches of the other orators
u well ws those of Mr. Ilant, wntt also the resolutions.

William Hunt knows the plaintiff to have been a housekeeper in
Hampshire fur the last twelve years; ha resided at Illidillettm Cot-
tage, lILW Andover.
. . .

111 r. SCARLET T eross-extoninerl the witness as to the quantity
olgrain necessary to make the prepared grain. It appeared that in
prepuring it lost more than one.thinl weight. The alleged libel was now read.
Mr. Hunt proposed to call medical gentlemen who had analysed
the prepared gram, to show that there was nut any poisonous mat-
ter euntaincd in it.

The LORD COIL/. JI,mT ICE said that was not IteeeSSET, as the
defendants' Counsel admitted that the part of the libel which
charged the grain to be poison, was false, and nojustitiearior. bad
been 'put on the retard.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. SCAM, ETT then addressed the Jury for the defendants. lie
commenced by saying, that as Hunt had taken it for granted
that his name was so generally known, the less it would become
him to occupy the time of the Court and the Jury, in making any
more direct reference to him. Mr. Hunt, as every body who read
the newspapers knew, had ovule a very prominent figure in politics
some few years ago, and Mr. Hunt himself did not seem in-
clines! to forget it. Mr. Hunt sought the reputation of a public
character and had acquired it ; sonic of its sweets, and some of is
sours, were his portion. Nor was he singular in this situation,
when all public men ate equally liable to censure as to praise. Mr.
hunt, however, had brought all the censure on himself; for Pc
was restless is his vocation, and had rather have notoriety, however
acquirtd. than a safe reputation in retirement. lle could not lire

oet of storms. He could raise and he coed subdue throve, and
no wonder then, that with such a power, be meet swede be promi-
nent on every possible occasion. Mr. Hunt, however, ought
to know, flat those who solicited and at the 16110142 time
;vaned great public attention, might be prepared to hear re-
marks of a different cut and nature to their own peculiar senti-
ments. Those who att bent must not aspect mildness in the
return below; and those who live only for poptilat;ty meet expect
one day mother to have the populace tam their linger at them.
Beentually the people of this country might possibly be divided into
two parties—the Iluntites and the Anthlluntitee ; awl in such case,
it would be n.est ridiculous in a member of (Micro( these parties
to bring into a teiurt of Jestice every expression of dissent front,
or disapprobation of, the public and prinked conduct of the opposite
party. As to the allusive of alr. If. to the cirennotance of his (the
Learned Couneel) having bee., once upon a thrincroccivelen the per-
sonel opponent of that gentleman, Pe beggetl to state, that from
any thing which had transpired then, he was not justiti id in sup-
paging that lie enteretined try personal hostility, which he meat
directly disowned. The alleged libel was divided into two parts ;
to the first he should petered to call the altelltioo of the Jney. It
could mot be generally known that the provincial newspapers glen.
ed their most interesting intelligence from the enluoma of the Lon-
don preps. The plaintiff; leedt of any man, would have been div-
?med to have fiwgieen any provincial paper that ehoold either
nominally Or designedly have twnitted leveed the era-ceding%
of any public meeting st which he hod cut a unieltimines figure.—
The defendants then had copied the account complained tiffiem
pane 0.12 Or the many neaspapeva of the nueniemis. toot this
report, the !editor afterwards proueded to offer Isis °rennin. Mr.
Hunt appears, by such report, tc have opposed the object of those
by whom the meeting had been convened, endeavouring, it would
seem, to personde the people that the motives of these gentlemen
were every thing but patrintie 'flee plaintiff had not, that the
le arncd Counsel was aware, assent:4l offence at the term Orator,
for the expression, '• unblushing independence," lust! rot even eli-
cited that gentleman's disapprobation. Indeed, the than who could
stay the tumult of a multitude, by merely waving Li i hand.
could not be °trended at the supposition of his possessing
considerable strength of feint—sufficiently so, at letest, to
Prevent the ill effect of which modesty could not but be productive
in a public character. As such, the first part of 'lds alleged libel
treated the plaireill; and to that lie ilitultl not therefore thick it ne-
cessary further to draw the attention of the jury. He geenlll there.
tore row proceed to that part of the publication, which was said to
be a libel upon the. private character of the plaintiff. '/'hose pro.
reeding', however, it might be observed, 'timid constitute a more
effectual and Inn expensive advertisement than any that could be
deviard. Mr. It. crane into (mutt this day to explain the character
and %trine' of hie roasted colfre; ail, indeed, if his own rood looks
were consequent tiptm its nutritious qualities, it teas strong evidence
of the justice of his claim upon the public support. lie should.
conic now to the subject platter of this day's splendid advertise-
ment. Mr. Hunt had told the Jury, that lie now sold his fueled
corn at 4d. for which remedy he had charged Is.; des reduction
was the effect of competition.
Mr. Hunt hove interrupted the Learned Gentlemen, and said
that his observation had been mistaken.
The Luau JIMITICE—fIue plahitifi. said that he can-
tinued the original charge upon corn roasted according to the ori-
ginal plan ; but that in consequence of the increased demand, a
cheaper process was resorted to, and a cheaper attiele manufactured,
so as to enable Pim to reduce the price to 40. the lie
Mr. S —That perhaps was so. But what did the al-
leged libel go on to say ? why, that Mr. Hunt wished " to thwart
and vilify the gendetnen assembled at the meeting." And did he
not thwart them ? led he not vilify the gentry attending it, when
he said, that they look to their own interest in the repeal of the
assessed taxes affertieg thins when they forgot the merit of those
taxes more directly affecting the poor? Looking to 111 r. Hunt's
principles and conduct, was there a libel in these defendants sating
what they had ? Mr. Hunt inveighed against the gentry to win.
the populace; and whether in so doing he was guided by patriot.
isin or sanity, he left to others to determine. Mr. Hunt quarrelled
with the allusiun " to the disclosure of the last two or three years;"
hut surely there souk! be no secret where there was disclosure, and
disclosure could only allude to facts end transactions of what every
man had heard through the channel of the re/taperer*. Some per.
sums might think Mr. Hunt's transactions deserving punishment ;
other persons formed a different opinion; but Mr. Hunt had nu
more right to quarrel with the one than the other. The libel Cure
ther said, that the " strength of Mr. Hunt's forehead transcends
all power of calcelation." But would Ht. Hem deny or he ashamed
of that? On the contrary, he boasted of it. He (Mr. Sicartettt
was now done with that part of the alleged libel which regarded
Mr. Hunt's political character, and he should advert to that part of
it which affected him as a tradennen. If Mr. Hunt wished to ad-
vertise his roasted corn, there was no mote effectusd method of
doing it than by this trial, for guineas could not peichase half the
space in any newspaper Which would be appropriated to the
proceedings of this day. Mr. Hunt said, that his roasted cons
was approved by the King, the Nobility, the Bishops, and the
JUdgeS, and he (Mr. Searlett) was glad of it. But lie must say,
that he owed none of the good looks for which Mr. Hunt gave hire
credit, to the use of his roasted corn. For although Mr. Hunt had
pnimised hie tame of that corn, lie bad hitherto failed in his
promise. (A lavish). It was an old mode of political warfare for
men to say that persons advocated in public what their private
interests Mellen' them to. and the defendants merely said the emo-
te Mr. Hunt. They said he had an interest in lessening the tax
an coals, bemuse he consumed len ehaldrons a-week, sue there-
fore they said, that his advocacy of the repeal of this tax, was not
said so much in favour of the poor, as in favour of his own
interest. Now wan there any thing unfair in that ? alr. Hunt,
by his own admission, stated. that he had at least filet to itIO
per cent. tin his roasted corn, and was it to be made a matter or
surprise that interested motives should be imputed to him e
Is was said iu the article charged as Lbellous that Mr. Hunt " sold
roasted rye (which, by.the-by, was said to be poisonous)." These
latter maids were in &parenthesis, and were not given as the con-
viction of the writer. In further proof of this, the statement of a
medical titan was adjoined, as note, in which it was distinctly
asserted, that rye, in certain portions, was poisoneus ; be it ob-
served, however, that it was not alleged that the plaintiff in this
action used rye in such portions as would bring his commodity
within the charge of being poisonous. Further the Jury should
observe, that the alleged libel neither asserts nor innnuates that
Mr. Hunt suspects, knows, or believes the fact deposed to relative
to the unwholesome character of rye. The plaintiff, indeed. :tad
not laid any claim to special damages. Ile (Mr. Scarlet!) there-
fore submitted to the Jury that they were bound to give their
verdict for the defendants, who had merely given notonety to a
circumstance admitted on all hands as correctly stated in the note
attached to the alleged libel, and which did not impute to the
plaintitlany ill intention or evil design. As to the disailvaninge
accruing to Mr. tient, as a consequence of the publication com-
plained of, it was beyond all comparison overbalanced by tee ad-
vantage and benefit which doubtless would result front the pnbli-
cation of the proceedings of this day. The Learned Counsel there-
fore hoped that the Jury would be satisfied of the harmless nature
of the ulleged libel, and arrive without difficulty at the amelatioe
that the plaintiff was not entitled to their verdict. Mr. Hunt well
knew that the article complained of was merely a copy from the
London papers.
Mr. Hine disclaimed any melt knowledge or belief.
elr. Settees:TT—lf .Mr. hunt could maintain this action, so
might the gin-distillers throughout the empire, because rye was used
in the preparation of gin ; so might the makers of fish-sauce, if, in
consequence of the opinion of any medical man, that rye was used in
its manufacture, it would therefore be deleterious. So again with the
bakers of French rolls ; and if any man said, as a medical man,
I that they used improper materials, without deeiguating any parti.
cuter Luther, cold it be said that any baker could maintain an
action for a libel ? How could the Jury so decide ? Besides the
Rockies Gazette only copied the article now complained of.
Mr. Ilunt.—l never saw it in anyother paper.
Mr. SCAKLETT.—I do not blame Mr. Hunt for not knowing
the nuttiest properties of the articles he sells. But the Jury
could not help remembering the book entitleJ Dealt in the A.:-
Besides, the Jury could not fall to recollect, that !Ir. Hunt had
not shown that he had lost a single customer in coneequrr.ce
of the publication of the article in question ; he thought, there.
fore, that lie might safely calculate upon their verdict being for
his clients, with which they would be perfectly satisfied, as suffice.
ently exonerating theist limn the charge of having maliciously ac-
cused die pleintitf of knowingly telling to the public an article of a
poisonous character.

llis Lounsuie then proceeded to charge the Jury, drawing au
outline of the grounds of action, and detailing the evidence given.
in rupport of the plaintiff's ease. Whatever might be the public
conduct of a man, it cnuid never justify an attack upon his private
character, and however frequently this course may have been pur-
sued, there could nut be a questioa, but that the party attacked
had a just claim upon a jury fur their verdict. The language of
the article in question was of such a nature as did not preclude an
action, though the plaintiff might not succeed in proving special
danuiges. Its tendency could not be doubted. The individual
thus pointed uut had just ground of complaint against dm author.
With such opinion, he thought the Jury must of necessity find fur
the plaintiff, and in that case they would then have to consider
what amount of damages, under till the eiretunstatic.*, they teat
called upon to give. It was scarcely necessary for him to add, that
if they were of a dill:sent opinion from that bit had evil:, they
would find a verdict foe he defendants.

The Jury, arks a thuataltation of (ore or Ave minutes, named
a verdict the the plaintiff—Damages WM
On the announcement of the verdict, a hunt of approbation tan
tl.nnigh the Coma, which was succeeded by a general burst of
laughter, when Mr. H A
Hunt, advancing most good-Sly-y towards
Ins learned opponent, prcsonted that gentleman with a one-pound
parcel of the prepared corn, which Mr. Scarkat as pleasantly
nec:ptcd.
THE APOTHECARIES' CONTABY V. BENTLEY.

Mr. CAMPIELL opened the pleauiugs.
Alr. SCA* LETT stated the Cale. it Wu at action brought by
the Corporation of Apothecaries against the defendant, for exercising
the business of an apothecary without being duly qualified. It was
extr.mcly neceuary to the public Nitwit., that persons should be
skilled in this trade and mystery, and accordingly an Act of Pat-
h:anent was passed, rendering a certificate necessarv, and attaching
a penalty to all persons practismg without surh licence. Before
passing the Act, the lagislature provided for existing f---
allowed all practitioatrs an exemption from the op
statute. This Act passed in 18I:i :—tint it prohibiters
not duly licensed or not before practising, and then Mu
salty of 20/. for every art of practice,. it not so qualitie
fendant, lie understood, had nun acting u a surgeon
cary in the Ilstupstead-road, and the nature of
such as to call fur the attention of the. Apothecaries L
1811 the d,fetitlant was a whitrunith, and be could
following handicraft trades, until he set up as a sure
thecary. But. as the Jury would hear this from the

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wadi net Oa* Into any detaiL Ip bringing this action, the Apo-
thasenWeeinpany were diecharmaga very i
_mportant public duty.
Tlot 4tratiest of the defendant totally *Wed him for the practice
erasing** Hear the Learned Bandanna read a letter from tie.
fade* to thoploistiffs' solicitors. in which he spelled Practice—
.•-ectise istisfactory--satofejbctory ; profession-Imsteles ; whe-
tres.,..signer ; and other terms, betraying a total ignor.ince of the
• bellt language. if the ildendant could not plead exemption by
levees practised before Aut, 1813, be certainly was not only
enlit, but evidently unqualiWe for the situation of a surgeon or
`Pb
vreale, examined by Mr. ti nag Ex.--I live near the Re.
rent's Park. I know Mr. Ihntlry, and first was acquainted with
-,-19 is let 2; he lived in Ovarge-street, Hampstead-road. Ile car.
on the business of an apothecary, surgeon, and druggist.
'Jae medicine was in the back moan on sheltee and in drawers.
applied to him for advice as a medical man, and its did my sister.
"netwere 1 Ant applied to him about the autumn of 11121 When
i weal to,him he inquired shout my ailment, felt my
I pulse, and
teed iny.saster-inelaw she loul a decline coming on. le said he
would send me some metre ir.e, from which I should find benefit.
to sent roe some pills, and some medicine in a gidlipot. We took
'no* and in the course or the week went to him again. lie said,
Yea copse not expect to be better so soon, as you have an inward
complaint. We hail mots medicine, off and on, until Christmas,
nhen I grew mach worse. He gave me, some powders as aa
teeetie, to be taken every three hours, and if they operated ever so
;:ortrfially, he said I was to *Minus taking them. He gave me
int powders, but 1 only took one,wbich produced a great effect
open me. After that I had a violent swelling in my face and head.
-Mr states took medic*, offend on from him till April 1823. when
else died. I kft off taking ha pills, and found myself all the better.
was clipped and relief from it. I afterwards received a
1 from hien,, which I gave to Mr. Watson, the clerk of Apothe-
t -lice' Hall.
fror.e.namined by Mr. BnOrGIIAIII—I went to Apothecaries'
11;11, to legatee if defendant were a medical map. 31y husband
slid non go.. I never saw Bentley before 1022. My tither knew
him a ices months before use. I don't know where he came front
nelbre I dealt with him. I told persons that I employed him, and
perhaps they did the same. 1 have not paid his bill.
Wm. Male, examined by Mr. Casty at xi—Defendant attended
ir,e as a doctor. He 'applied me with medicine on two occasions,
ben I wall ill, about the beginning of last year. 1 had Mlle
I ills and a draught flan him. Ile also bought and sold goods fur
s le as an aortiuueer, and showed me a book which contained an
tr.-count of his profits as a mock auctioneer, all round the country.
!Chia was in IMO. He said he had been in partner-Alp with Davis,
s. Jew, in ailing crockery-ware about die country.
Thomas George examined-1 lire in d'art--stmt, Regent's-park.
I first saw defendant at a Methodist Society in 1822. Ile gave me
re of his bills, ante 1 went to his house. Ile gave me some
-powders for • polo in my head, and told me to conic to him next
Jay : then he gave we powders to take every six biters, and I was
to call again. 1 did so. I could not see as well with the right
Tee as the left, and lie put some powder in my eye through a quill,
and ear since I cannot see at all with it. Defendant told me he
came from herby.
Cross-examined—lle told me he had practised as a surgeon there
about nine years ago. My account was put in my son-In-law's
bill. which to not paid.
Iteieemnineet—lle told me he had attended my wife at Derby,
T.:nth was all Use. I lived at Derby, and never knew this man
there. lam sure he never attended my wife.
John Hall exantitted—l live at 38, blaey-street, Hampstead.
toed. Defendant Weeded one of my children in the latter end of
11V2 and beginning of 1823. lie sent medicine, but the child
;tot no better, and 1 ktt off taking more from him. lle sent me
his bill, which I paid.
sl tat. (low examined—l had medicine from the defendant in
4 let. 11;23. I watt ill. and consulted him; he sent me some pills.
A :anther of mine also consulted him for an inward complaint, and
lie tibia had pills. Bentley told etc I was certainly very ill, and
going into a galloping consumption.
Mr. BP•ocuttwso chiceted to entering into evidence of general
toes of praciice, as the Stature i1111,4331:d the penalty on each separate
Al.'t 1.1 praetice.
Time Lo nn Cr, ICT J irvr trE-1 am in doubt of that; I am rot
a: all clear upon it.
Witness—llentley said he thought my brother would go of in a
gradual arnsumption. Ile sert me some pills. and I found myself
Kett ;re PMTS.!, lie said that was what he waited to convince me
of what he first said. I gave ever using the pills, and applied to
emit hee. Ile sere mem bill, which wee paid by Inv wife.
Eltonara !Indent exemintil—l live near the Ilationtead-road•
and was attended by 31r. Bentley. I had elfin from him. which I
est& 1 did not speak to him after I received the lee. I sent for
him for advice. I was very ill, and he sent me some medicine.
Me asked meif it had had effect, anti I told him it had. I had
medicine from him several times in the latter end of
Elisabeth Woollar—l consulted Mr. Bentley in 182.2, and he
sent me some medicine. I went to him ; he gave ind his bill,
which I paid.
SiARLETT—Now, my Lord, I proceed to trace this
Gentle ten from his first practice.
Mr. ll'ood produced a commission of a har.kruptcy against the
defendant on 17th November, 1821. Witness knows the defendant.
lie wes before that a hardware dealer and chapinen. After the
Lank-rtiptcy he told me he was practising in the corn line—a corn.
Cutter mean.
Win. Male was here (ailed, to peeve defendant's hand-writing to
the examicetion before the COMMIS:11011MS.
Mr. Wood—Defendant has not had his certificate, as he did not
pass Iris examination.
Air Davenport examined—ln 1803 1 lived at Derby, and knew
defendant perfectly well. Ile was then an apprentices to Strutt and
e. ire a whitesmitb. Ile might be then about sixteen years of pee.
In 1817 I saw bins in London, in the neighbourhood of Moor.
fields, making up parcels of hardware to send to the enemy. Ile
tad roehrip. I knew huts from 11;i1 boyhood. I went last year to
sac itim in the flampetru...rnad, where he was acting as an apothe-
cary ;he was dressing a wound in a man's leg. I expensed sue_
emcee at string him in that eituation, knowing what he was, and
then he allowed me his hoeke, to point out his profits.
Mr. E. Cox examined—!n 1811 I was engaged in a worsted mill
at I):rby, and Joseph Bentley came to work with me as a white-
smith. He left Ire some time in the year 1812.
t.ross-examined--1 know nothirg of Itini
Mr. Robinson examined—l am in the employ of 3leeses. Strutt
of Derby. I know Bentley very well. 1 knew hint in 1883 and
1804 ; he might be then about fourteea years of age. He served
&Mal years as an apprentice. After that I don't know when be
went to.
Mr. Robert Ward examined—l reside at Derby, and formerly
had the management of a large mill. In 1814 1 let it to blesses.
Warner and Lord. They occupied it about a year and a half
Bentley was in their employ as a silkoheowster. He lived in
Derby. Ile did not remain very long in that employ, and kft
Derby. I was frequently at the trill, and saw lkittley at work.
Ile came to work at all in the morning, and left about tight o'clock
iu the evening.
Gross-examined—Though I leased the mill to Messrs. Warner,
I lived in die front house in the yard, and saw every one pus a:,l
rel.ass to the mill.
D. 11011$2 examined—l am a stove.manufacturcr in Old-street,
Lriedne, and in 1115 the defendant worked ler my father as a
eolith. Ile continued so to do till October, 1817. Ile was 1%11
reeeler till the few last weeks. I don't know his hand-writing.
T'etetrise Ashinan examined—l am a bookbinder, and in 11111
knew Bentley es a smith. Shortly after that he made a nitaloone
to aril rods by auction. He then lived in Bath-street, Tale r-
neck-flu-Ire. and afterwards became a dealer in soollen-clothe
-an-f-Sheffield goods. This was in 1.119.
• Defendant's letter to the plaintiff's attorney, elated in Sep.
tenther, and referred to in the opening of Aft. t•carlett, was now
read.
Air. Barroalthill said, the plaintiff's had not proved any set of
practice by the defendant, which they were bound to do. When
Ike exception is contained in the same clause with the penalty, it
ahmsld be pleaded.
The Loun .11/ITICT-14011 this point I will rot nOntlit
Yee plaindifs. I think the certificate or licence to practice is for
yea to show. You are to prove the affirmative, and I shall tell
the Jury ; bet I will save the peint for you, Mr. Brougham.
Mr. Ilitouonam, for the defendant, commenced by Paying that
much of irrelevant evidence bad been introduced into the, acne for
the porpoec (leeching • prejudice against his client. Suppose in
.fled exercised different trades—suppc. c be had been a ninth, a
silk tmowster, an auctioneer--suppose all that. and what, he
asked, had it to do with the defendant's not being also an
apothecary ? The Act of 11113 was passed to prevent it:l-
ad/A persons from practising the triee mid mystery of an
arthecary ; but still the Apothecaries C./lawny had not
an ',en of railed to stand spots and by that .10, if he had prat-
tient generally, however illiterate, and sib whatever danger to
hie patents, still he had a right to practise. However holdall •
asd bereficial the nature of time Act, still it gave a very arbitrary
power to one body of men over every other exercising the nate:.
snide. The Jury should look to the principal in this case, and
themselves if they would like to be so situated in that he could not
a pound of tea or sugar without their haying a licence from a
Glatt re Company. This produced monopoly, and it war for the
Joey to be very scrupulous in extending the provisions of a
penal Act. In tact the question here was, Old the defendant a,.
swer the description of an apothecary under the tenrs of the Are ?
And lio woolii undertake to show, that &I r tlant did excicise the
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trade of an apothecary, at the same time that he was exercising tile
Wier trades alluded to. To rove his want of skill MOT Ter.
Wei were called forward ; but it all medical men were tried by such
ala orde. I, they would have to tooter,' with very fearful odds in-
deed. potisnts were not pleased, and he was quite suer
very few of the ,kpotheeariese Hall or the Royal College of Mays'.
ciao' could stand so severe a test. (TN-jelly if. as in the prtsent
• tie patinas disputed the doctor's 1011. The defendant here
height he a good apothecary, though a bad composer of &enterers,
de The Legislators 11110 passed the Act might be very excellent !,:t-
-erialainrio, though very bad syecrJ pleaders. %'ithl regard to the
Dad spelling of the defendant, why he (Mr. Brougham) had hesni
that the great Lord Chatham generally spelled the sorb " does"
dot," and the great 1/ake of hlalborough, who was as great in
his trade es tite Apothecaries' Company in theirs (be meant in the
wade of killing), used to svell in such a manner as would puzzle
the Apothecaries' Goinpany or the defendant himself. If an art-
skilful person ventured to treat a patient improperly, be body&
Mere ttheleaorne remedy iu his hands than that arm-sled him by the
tronopislising protectitsu of the Apothecarie.'
• Wm. !lepton ant a tarsier. and baee lived at
'ye-by. On Mit OrMiell beWeia were very bad ; Mr. Bentley
came to ace me, anti 1 declare before God, that what he gIIYC see
did a great deal of good. I left Derby in 1312, and did not at C
Mr ficitSey tor some ume after. Ile attended my first chill, who
wyr ill. I cannot say what name was over his dour s bat I knaw

be toed to dabble in this medicine way. He had a drawer under.
neath Ids hatch for holding such things.
John Bentley examined—l am the brother of the defendatit, and
lirel with the defendant in Derby from 11111 to 1814. 1 lived with
him as an assistant in the stirgTty 4 he had one in his house, which
contained every thing necessary for an apothecary ; there were jars,
bottles, a pestle and mortar, weights and scales. I have been In
other apothecaries' shops, and the things I speak of were the same
1 was under Iris instructions to supply, compsood, and dispense
medicines to his patients, and every one who came for them. I
have frequently carried out medicines. Patients repeatedly came
to his shop. fly brother hail his instructions from a Mr. Pigott, a
surgeon and apothecary, and from lit. Fowler, at Derby, since de.
ceased. My brother was two yeah under him, and then left
Derby; this was about 1811. 1 aniseed him till that time. When
he lived opposite St. Werburfs church there was a sign over the
door. „Surgeon Bentley."
Cross-examined-1 am nearly 44 'Tailor age. lam an operator
on the fat; that is my profession.
Mr. Scan LETT—WiII you pardon me, Sir; but the appearance
of your hands show that your patients have dirty feet. You should
come in.. Court with clam hands.
IVitness—l believe toy hands are as clean as those of many '
persons in Court.
How long were you a chiroptalist_Aa eons-cutter ?—Nine years.
Where were you educated ?—At Derby, under Mr. 11 ood, a
hoperatear, and part of a dentist.
Where were you at school ?—I can't well sa.
Why, perhaps, it is so lung ago, you may forget?
How old were you when you went to school ?—Thirty-five years.
and before that I was a frame a °A-knitter. I continued at that
work for four or tire years, and after went to Mr. Bentley.
Mr. Bendel., why do you call your elder brother Mr.? why not
call him Jos.? that would he more natural. What was your bro-
ther bound to 7—First a smith, and then with Dr. Fowler.
How old was your brother then ?-1 can't say.
How old were you then ? 1 think that very unnecessary. I
don't keep dates.
Cm you write?—Write—yes. My brother left Mr. Benin's in
181(1 or 1811. Ile was at work there, and I was at work as •
frame-work-knitter. He was with Dr. Fowler before he went to
Shutt's. I was learning the profession while I was working as
a frame-work-knitter. 1 was paid by the week, sometimes Its.
and sometimes lib. the week. I now curry on my profession at
Hover-street, near the City-road.
It nu Hadley examined by Mr. PLATT-1 carried on the busi.
nos of druggist in DB I. 1 knew Joseph Bentley ; he remained
there for tlm: or four years. I supplied hint with drugs. I knew'
his house, and over the door there was a sign. lie then acted as an
apothecary, and nothing else that 1 knew.
Cross-examined—l now lire at Shouldanr-street, in the colour
line. My orders were small, sometimes to the amount of two.
pane--sometimes to the amount of live shillings. I did not know
that lie was a whiteamith. I never was in his house.
Be-examined—l was all my life.thiii a chemist and druggist,
till the year 1816. I served my time to it.
John Dollnian examined-1 lived at Derby when the defendant
resided there. I was a jeweller, and knew defendant perfectly well.
I have often been in his house in 1811, and fur some years after.
lie used to make up medicine.
Cross-examined-1 never was present when be attended any
patients, lie gave me his advice, but no medicine.
Mr. SCAR L ETT replied.
The LORD CillEr .1 ST IC E recapitulated the evidence to the
Jury,
Who, after some consultation, found a verdict for the pl-ntifTs.
The Court rest at five o'clock.

COURT OF C031:110:41 PLEAS,
Ifl umuitALL, Fatuay,
DECE MBER 7.

Sittings ;:efore Chief Justice Purr arid a CMIIIOIO,I

1101VAIITH ANT ANOTHER V. JOlrrt.
This was an action of trover, brought by the plaintiffs to recover
two poliri or bonds on Richmond Bridge. The plaintiffs ebaimed
these policies r ex :matrixes of Howarth, an apothecary, who had
lived an Chancery-lane, and who in that occupation had realised •
considerable fortune. Three shares were secured to the deceased and
his elecutors during. the lives of his present Majesty and the Duke
of York. The plaintiffs produced the will of tt,e deceased, to
which there was a codicil assigning to then: the mattes on Rich-
mond Bridge. There was also a legacy in the codicil, bequeathed
to the defendant, but no mention was made of leaving hint the
policies that formed the subjict matter of the present action. It
was also alleelged on the part of the plaintiffs, that the defender':
offered to give up these shares, on condition of receiving an account
which lie sated to be due to him by the testator, and he did not
claim these shares as a gift of the testator until this account bad
been disputed.
A witness was called on the part of the defendant, who was
present alien the shares were given, as he understood, as s gift
to Jones. The datfendsnt succeeded the testator in his business as
apothecary in lihroacery-lane, and claimed the shares merely as a
gift of his deceased friend.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintilfe, damages la.„ whicb
confirmed their rigitt to the aliases, and the interest received on
them.
A question of law arose in the course tar the trial, as to the
legality of a transfer of such shares made io the manner stated.
The point was reserved for future discussion.

WINTER HOME CIRCUIT.

KENT ASIZES.

.MAIDSTONE, DEc.l6.

J.Art l•rrrant, alias Draws. alias Turutr, and Julio Seder,
were indicted for hurglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Abraham Abrahams, and stealing, on the 13th of Novem-
ber, at Minster, in the I,le of Sheppey, watches, plate, and money,
exceeding in amount :NW.
Mr. Ati MIL S conducted the prosecution, and Mr. CLAnincE
the defence. _ _

It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor was a pawnbroker and
silversmith, at Clue Town, in the Isle of Sheppey, and that, in the
cause of the night of Saturday. the 13:11 ut November, his house
was entered by force, and property to an enormous amount taken
from WS shop anti payrn-ruom. On Sunday, in consequence of sus-
picion of the prisoners, pursuit was made, and they were both
traced to the White Swau public-house, at Chatham, s here they
were found drinking in company. They were immediately appre-
hended, and on their persons was found almost the whole of the
property lost by the prosecutor. The prisoner Ingram said he
had come by the things honestly, having purchased them of a
smuggler.
Several witnesses were called, who traced the prisoners in their
flight from sheerness to Chatham. across the Medwal. and alto
gave an aecount of their progress and conduct down to the moment
of their apprehension. It was impossible for a case to be more
clearly established.
The prisoner Ingram said, In his defence, that he had purchased
the whole of the portly of a man called Cheshire Charley, for lOU
sovereigns, at two u clock in the morning after the robbery, at a
public-house in Chatham, where he had met him by appointment,
an the exp.:met:on of purchasing amugglett goods.
The prisoner Sedges said that he had been merely employed by
Ingrain to carry the bundle containing part of the property, and
LA revs ived front him a guinea for his trouble.
It aapeared that Sedger was a 111011 of Sheerness, and that In-
gram was a stranger to that part of the country. The man alluded
to by Ingram, tidied Cheshire Charley, was proved by a witness to
be a well-known person in Sheerness. and forthcoming, if his evi-
dence could hare been of any service to the prisoners.
Several witnesses gave hedger a good charactet front his infancy,
and described hint as a person of whom they had heard nothing
prejudieiaL
Mr. Justice Ito 21101:G11 summed up the evidence to the Jury,
who immediately found both prisoners
The prisoners being called upon to say whether they had any
thing to urge why judgment of death should nut be passed upon
them, ingrain pleaded strongly foe mercy, re-urging that he had
purchased the property of I fieshire Charley. The other prisoner
seemed affected by his situation, but said nothing.
Tito prosecutor recommended Se lger to mercy. on account of his
previous character, and also with reference to the situation of his
parents, who were overwhelmed with grief at his ignominious
altlllition.
The Lammed JirDGE, in his address to the prisoners, said he
had reason to euspeet that Steiger, from his local knowledge of the
acetic of the robbery, lied been in communion with his
sone?, who was a notorious London thief; but in consideration of
the testininrcials to his character, and the humane recommendation
of the prosecutor, he should not leave him fee execution. With
respect to the other prisoner, the law must take its course. There
was such a load of crime upon his back, that it was impossible for
his Lordship, consistently with his duty, to interfere on his behalf.
His Lordship thought it necessary. to state publicly, ea the reason
for ilcia distinction between the prisoners' cases, that Ingrain had,
at the Lest Summer Assizes for Hertfordshire, been acimined as a
witness againat three men, one 11111114%1 1::111W11}11t, and the others
ttair.tat Afersliall, charged with a Lurglary in the house of fir.
Gordon, of Barkhampstead, two of whom had been convicted and
executed upon his tes;hoory. tln that occasion the prisoner had
cortfeseest himself guilty. of no less than fourteen other felonies,
many of winch were capitaL It was impossible, artier such cir-
cuitistancea, for Lim to expect mercy. A man so steeped in crime,
and convicted pow upon the clearest evidence, of a most dating
liurgiar.7, could not hope to escape unpunished ; he must, there-
fore, make the best use he could of the abort time left him, to pre.
pate time death and his borththip conjured him, by hearty repent-
-nee, to render himself not unworthy of the mercy of that God in
of use presence he was about 'hardy to appear. His Lordship
concluded, by passidg, the sentence of the law in the usual form

A man named Chula; Twine, who had been observed
poaching a few evening since, in a wood belonging to
Lord Bolingbroke, at Leddiard, in this county, was shot at
by one cf the keepers, and so severely wounded is the
Lack that his life is despaired of. The keeper, we have
been informal, states that the malt was about to level his
piece at him, and that he fired merely in his own defence.
this be the case, it is rather singular that the man should
be wounded in the back only. The man himself, we arc
told, says that on seeing the keeper he immediately en-
&manned to make his escape, but by the time he had rut,
few yards be war she: at, and fell--Devizes amctle.

POLICE.
0101 MM! A Lb.
Yesterday Joke Rate:Hp, a man of respectable appearance, who I:
stated himself to have recently given up business as a publican, and
to he now residing at fluand.on.the.tireen, Kew-Midge, was
brought up en the followhig charge:—
Maki Llyeball, landlord of the Red Lion, Type-street, Chis.
well-street, stand, that on the 13th of November, he was sitting
in his parlour with two persons awned Kalif and Omen, and a bill
of exchange for IM. 7a. drawn by Keen open, and accepted by him
(l)yeball) was lying on the table, when • man named George Wil.
liam Russell, who was sitting in another part of the room, got up,
took the bill Rom the table, left the room, and escaped with it.
The complainant knew Russell before, bf h: ring purchased some
bottles at capillaire of him, and on inquiring for him, Russell was
not to be found, having left his house and not returned to it. lie i
had since ascertained that the bill having been indorsed by I
Russell,
was paid to a person named Selby,and by him paid to Mr. Wig.
Icy, a solicitor, whose clerk applied to the complainant respecting
it. The complainant applied to the Magistrates of Worship-street
for Resistance, when he was told to apprehend Russell wherever he '
could rind him, without the formality of a warrant or a constable.
Nothing was heard a Roswell until this mottling, about twelve I
o'clock, when, as the complainant was poising Basingimll.street,
he met him and seised him. A mob soon collected, and, as usual,
took the part of the person charged. The prisoner was one of the
mob, and made dimwit' very conspicuous in reproving the coat-
pleinant for seising a men in such a rough manner. The complain-
ant is vain said the man had robbed him, and notwithstanding his
utmost exertions Russell escaped, owing to a blow on the arm in-
flicted by the prisoner. An or came up and took the prisoner
into custody foe reacting Russell.
These tams were corroborated by several witnesses, who all swore
that, before the man escaped, Mr. l)yeball told the by-standee in a
loud tone, that he wee a felon.
The prisoner said he had been subpeenaed to attend a trial at the
Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall (and produced his subpanah
on his way to which he saw a crowd collected, and the complainant
pulling a man about in a very unruly manner, but he was not aware
he was charged with lilony. Ile denied striking the complainant,
but admitted putting his hand on his shoulder.
Mr. Beresfonl, the Chief Clerk, on reference to the Act of the
Ist and 2d George IV. chap. ltd. el. 1, said, that persons who were
proved to have rescued a prisoner charged with felony, stood in the
same situation as that prisooer, and liable to the same punishment.
Mr. B. submitted to the Alderman, that as this was the first case
of the kind under this Act which hail occurred at this Justice
Room, the City Solicitor had better be consulted before the case
was decided.
it witness mid that Dyeball, although asked the question by se-
veral persons in the crowd, refused to tell what the man was charged
with until lie had escaped.
The Alderman said that it would be well for persons to know,
that if a person be charged with felony, it Is not necessary that a
constable or a warrant should be used, and that when he is appre-
hended, instead of frustrating the ends of justice, every facility
ought to be given to the persons taking charge of the prisoner: it
was too common for persons to collect together on such occasions,
and to exert themselves in favour of the prisoner, for which, if the
prisoner tscape, they arc liable to iransp.rtation. It was in this
situation in which the present prisoner stood, and he should re-
mand him until to-morrow; when, if the charge of robbery against
Russell be nude out to his (the Alderman's) satisfaction, by the
attendance of Kean and Green, lie would commit the prisoner for
trial.

Prisoner—Cannot I be admitted to bail
Alderman—No ; I have not the power to admit to bail foe this
oflince—you stand remanded.
lIATTON GARPEN. _ _

THE Man ACTOR IS • NEW LINE or attst•Ess.--31r. D.
F. Flowcrdere, one of the most eccentric, most unfortunate, and
(strange to say) most happy, of the whole histrionic fraternity, was
brought up at this office, to make (as he called it) his first appear.
MICE in a new line of business, or, in other words, to answer the
complaint of a certain lit:le boy, whose head happened to come ra-
ther msl.aprop.s within the reach of Flowerderea baton (a brave
oak sapling), whilst he was charging, as he conceived, in kingly
character, the rude invaders of his throne. The boy not compre-
hending the royal prerogative of first-rate actors, to knock on the
heads of the unfortunate auxiliaries of the scene, and the blow being
somewhat too heavy even to bear the name of a practical joke, he
complained aloud of the injury he had sustained, and provoked a
whit of insurrection amongst the liege subjects of our imaginary
sovereign, whose proper person was dragged straightway before Mr.
Sergeant :ILL Lox, to mower to the charge aforesaid.
When brought before this Gentleman, poor Flowerdew de-
scended from his high estate, and certainlX demeaned himself in
all respects with appropriate recollection of tile ei•dteust king and
the actual 313ln:rate.
The juvenility of the complainant made it necessary that he
should answer certain interrogatories, as to the place where liars go
to, &e., before the oath was allowed to be administered ; and, for-
tunately for Flowerilew, it so turned out, that the youngster who
should have been deponent iii this case, had always been at play
when his companions were at Catechism ; and he being unable to
make the necessary re cautions, his testimony could no he received
on oath, and Flowenlew was once more " free as air."
But the getting lid of the charge was not the least of his case ;
he knew that those mischievous, annoying gentry—the reporters—
would seize with avidity the opportunity thus presented of holding
him up to notice in a ridiculous caricature; and it would be indeed
unfortunate, if the laurels he had won in the field (lie was a soldier
too) of battle, and the eliapkta gathered on the boards of Covent-
garden and the Surrey, should be blighted, withered, and decayed,
by the pestrential 'spoofing of their pens. (Vide hie own speech.)
In order, therefore, to counteract these fearful consequences, he
resolved on writing a report of his own case, which follows, verba-
tint et liter utint—a precious rnorceau:—
" Hatte.tliarebn—Caleelokan Heavies again !! !—B. F. Flower.
dew, the Caledonian Rosetta, passing through Holborn, on
Thursday, the Pith Ifecember, between the hours of six al.d seven
o'clock p.m. (as usual an innumerable crowd followed, hunted him
like a fox or a badger), till at last struck by a cross core cover.
monger, he was. by the blow, sent into a most respectable oil-cloth
manufacturer's shop, within two or three doors of Newtomstreet,
High Holborn ; staid a few minutes for shelter, when the proprie-
tor,
fearful of his windows, requested the Caledonian Rosana to
disperse the mob. He, " nothing loth," with his "ssoictser" in
his hand, dispersed, pell-mell, upwards of two hundred of " tag
rag, and hob-tail ;" when, unfortunately, a dusty Bob (not the
real one) threatened to thrust this dusty fist into the Roscius' fair
face. The Hero of 11'aterloo. I.igny, Quatre Bras, and Brussels,
could not brook this; he &unshed his wooden sword, uhas
uquewer," and prepared to guard, cut six right and left, but
unfortunately the head of p little boy felt the last blow ; he, the
' said boy, was advised to charge hint with the watch. Fluwerdew
took refuge In the late Linns's establishment, where he has eon-
I ducted the business for twelve years past, when a Mr. IVileke, a
(set a beggar oat honeback,and he'll ride to—) pretended
grad a judge to appear he that " most
teacher, and Dr. Early, gave him up, and delivered in charge, but
Sergeant Selina. who, on hearing the
wheor(tlh/ry.alndaduyi),,iwgallst t
judge,"
boy's tale, gave hint sucii scriptural questions, that the boy could
DOI answer.
• Mafturn pirro—Mr. F. was honourabl7 acquitted---isken
to the ' Bose, and i:t a bowl of punt h dnuik • Dirojeeeta beano'
—rite Richard Birnie and Segeant Sellon !"
In reference to this sante bowl of punch we may add, that it Is
likely to (littlish matter for inquiry in another Court, namely, that
of Requests, should the landlord think it expedient to look for the
price of it from our friend Flowerdew.
Ilumot.aates.—Yetoerrlay information was received at this
office by %Vitt. Lee, resident officer, that the premises of Messrs.
Vireoleutt and Ittowning, Brownlow-mews, Gray's Inn lane, had
been burglariously entered on the wanting right, and robbed of a
variety of articles, clothes, books, mathematical instruments, he.
3lessrs.Woolcott and Browning are architects, and as twenty-four
cheststhere of tads
as n were
property convertible broken open, and also attend desk*,
where convertible to use, the proprietors con-
ceive that some inalirioua motive was the instigation to the act, and
have seconlingly offend a liberal reward for the apprehension of
the offenders.

Information was also given to IVainwright, the ofHeer, of the
premises of 3lessrs. Taynton and Chcetham, I,lw Stationers, Lin-
coln's-Inn, having been burglariously enured by means of pick-
lock-keys, and a quantity of stamps. seined at .10!., and ten so-
vereigns, were taken (ruin one of the desks in the eke. Wain-
wright, on examining the premises, fonnd a crow ban, as also two
SwF., which were used Ittr tile purpose of rising a Liege green cloth
against the oltice window, that the watchman and passengers may
put be enabled to detect their procecdim•s.
UNION HAIL__
. .

SUPPLY or WATER AY A iliCENTFtUE.—Vemeeay three
firemen applied to the sitting 3lagistrate M. SIVAHEV, Esq., tOr
the usual reward, as belonging to the three first engines that ar-
rived at a fire whida occurred the previous night, at an oil-shop in
Gilbert's-buildings, Waterloo-road.
A conversation took place between the Magistrate and the fire-
men, relative to the supply of water on the occasion.
The firemen said, that they were oa the spot three-quarters of an
hour before they had water enough to work. One house was con-
sumed ; and just as the fire was communicating to the adjoining
houses, the water burst forth from the pipes in great abundance,
and the firo was entingulshtsl in ten minutes. The tuancock was
ready, and drew the plugs, but there was no water in the main.
At this moment the torneack of the Latubesh water-works en-
tered to claim the reward ; and lie observed that, from the fury of
the flames, haul there been an early supply of water, the house
could not have been leaved. . .

I lie I.llagistrate sind that there was the most gross neglect ma-
nifested on the occasion. The firemen were certainly entitled to
the reward; but as to the turncuck, he (the Magistrate) would give
no certificate for the purpose until he bad seen the Secretary of the
Company, whom he directed to he inhumed of the circumstances
by lever, tetitasting that iralividual's attendance at the ()flier on
Ttieintay next, to explain the cause of the length of time which
elapsed In arcc water could be obtained tiorn die Company's works.
Some of the wen b.:lot:ging to this Office, who attended at the
above tire, corroborated the statement mde by the firemen relative
to the time that expired before water could he procured.

The sum
nowinvested in the Savings Bank in Liverpool
ia, we understand, upwards of 190,0001., which is realiz-
ing, iu interest only, more than 8,0001. per minuin
As P. St. John Alildmay, Erg. was shooting on Aving-
ton Manor, in company with the Duke of Ittiekingham,
his doable-barrelled gun burst, and injured his left band
o nnich, that the thumb has been obliged to be taken otl:
It is hopctt that be will lose nu other part of it. Ile is as
Is el: us can be expected after so serious a misfortune.