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/ISCOUNT HA Wst RDEN.

On Friday last died, at his house. in Clar-
ges-street, Piccadilly, in the thirty-ninth year
of his age, after a lingering illness, THOMAS
RALPH Viscount LIA WARDEN, of I)undrum, in the
county of Tipperary ; a man universally regretted
by his family and friends, and beloved by all who
knew him. His Lordship married, in 1798, Miss
ANCIS ANNA AGAR, only daughter Of CHARLES
Earl of Non ss A reros, Archbishop of Dublin; and
Primate of Ireland, and dying without issue, is ►uc-
ceeded in his titles and estates by his half-brother,
the Hon. Con sws t Lis M ati•r, son of ANNE
ELIZA3LTH MOSER, sister to the Lite Viscount
MONCK, and third wife w the first Viscount
HAWAILDEM.

The Kim° has been pleased to grant unto WTI,
LIAM Mltsza, Esq. a Captain in the East Ynik
Militia, His [loyal License and Authority, that he
arid his Issue may take and use the Surname of
Jo 1.1.11 y, instead of that of Mt Li. ea, and that he and
they may bear the Arms of Jolliff only, with proper
distindions, out of affectionate respea to the me.
mory of WILLIAM l'urtiat.t. incur r, late of Ndn-
Monkton, in the county of York, Esq deceased ;
such Arms being first duly exemphfied according
to the Laws of Arms, and recorded is the Herald's
Office.

Irish Juries are remarkable for giving heavy
damages in Crins. Con. cases. Some years ago a ver-
did of 5,000% was given against a postillion who
had been seduced by his mistress, the wife of an
attorney, as he was driving her from Dublin to
Cork. This verdift, against a person in his humble
condition, was equivalent to a sentence of imprison-
ment for life ; the unfortunate manic now in the Four
Courts Marshalea, being excluded horn the benefit
of every Aft of Insolvency which has since thrown
open the doors to his fellow prisoners. The verditt
of 20,0001. recently obtained in Dublin, by Lord
Ca° rico aa e against Sir Jomo Pia itS, is the greatest
ever recorded in the annals of Crum. Con.—ln the
celebrated case of Earl Gaosverma and the Duke
of Cum e, though the damages were laid
also at 10u,0001. yet the Ncble Plaiutili was award-
ed no more than to,oool. ; and even of verdifis of
tliis ameunt there are only a few similar cases, via.
the case of RICHARD MARTIN, M.P. for Galway,
v. Pares; the Rev. CH AIL es Massey v. the Mar-
quis of IiZADMIT j and three ut four Miters.

LAW INTELLIORNCI.

COURT OF KING'S 111.14c.”1, Gust , lu. 211.'
Siting: at Nisi Pe ius, hr/ore Lord Chief Ashes'
ELLee:b ,110eGN
Del oe 1 e Deifitlic 6/ FIR WC! V. 101.
1 his was an aetion in ejaltnent. t.rought to re-
cover the possession . ceram mr.:-tgagsd premise.
in the parish of St. Andrew, Floloot The De-
fendant was the widow and execu:-ix of a person of
tf.r name of Rawson, to whom, in his li: • time, the
Plaintiff had advanced various sums of money.
which at last amounted to 2501. and the Plaintiff
becoming exceedingly urgent for his debt, and
Rawson not then being able to pay it, he agreed to
mortgage the premises in question to him for tha;
sum. Mr. Jones, the present Defendant's Att,r
ney, was employed to prepare the necessary deeds
upon that occasion ; when the Plaintiff complained
of being obliged to take a mortgage at 5L per cent.
interest, when, if he could get his money back, he
should make more than double that sum of it, in
the course of his trade. In consequence of this,
and fearing lest the Plaintiff should insist on his
money, and thereby drive Rawson to the last ex.
tremity (as was stated by Mr. Carshore, Mr. Jones's
Or, k), Mr. Jones prepared the securities for a
larger sum than the original debt, by which the
Plaintiff was to have 101. per cent. This deed,
therefore, by enhancing the consideration beyond
the amount of the real debt, and giving it the
complexion of an usurious transattion, was void in
law ; and this was the defence now set up against
the Plaintiff's demand.

The Learned Counsel, for the Plaintiff, made
some very severe animadversions upon the conduft
of Mr. Jones, and his Clerk, in this transaction,
and said, it should be his care how Mr. Carshore was
ever admitted an Attorney of that Cou,t; and as for
Mr. Jones, ;.is conduct should be brought as a
subjee for the consideration of the Court at a
future time.
Lord ELLarisonouou thanked God that this
was the first transaction of the kind which had oc-
curred since he first sat in that place. He had never
before known an instance of an Attorney wilfully
betrayinz the interests of those who had entrusted
their affairs in his hands, by suffering them to ad-
vance their money upon a security, which he knew
at the time must be vr id, His Lordship then di-
reeed that Mr. Jones should prepare proper secu-
rities for the mortgagee, at his own expence,
also should ply all the espences which he had in-
curred in this suit, and in every thing relating to
this transaction, as the only way to avoid the severe
animadversions of the Court hereafter.

A verdia was th-n agreed to be taken for the
Plaintiff, the Defendant engaging to pay the &dual
sum due, by instalments.

HILTON 9. MINNIKIN.

This was an maim for an vssauit. The Plaintiff
was sitting in a public house in Lower Shadwell,
when the Defendant cane in, and used very gloss
language to him. He then %seta out, and soon after
returning, without any provocation on the part of
the Plaintiff, the Defeniatit drove him from his seat,
struck Lim a violent blow on the cheek, which cut
him, and gave him a hi i‘k eye ; he then gave bins
two krsoek.down blows...a:id the Plaintiff% shoulder
was so ii.jured ky the fall, that he was unable to at
his :.nsiness for upwards of three weeks.
Ar'erdia for Plaintiff, 201. damages.
noanas V. WRIG!tr.

This was an airline brought by the keeper of the
White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, against a respelable
attorney in the Temple, to recover Ski. being the
expences for the maintenance, kc. of 5 or 6 servants
of a Mr. Burton, who were brought up from York-
shire. as witnesses in a cause of Mr. Burton's,
which was then roding ; the present Defendant
was his attorney, and desired the Plaintiff to let the
witnesses have whatever th..•y• called for, and he
would be Accountable for the payment.
These fads being proved,
Sir V ic•ky G a as, for the Defendant, said, that
his client had frequently applieJ to Mr. Burton to
pay this Bill. but in vain; he had no objeelion to
the demand, but it was necessary for him to defend
this aftion, in ordet to entitle him to recover against
Mr. Burton.

Lord Lc I. EN soitovon, upon looking over the Bill,
observed, tha turre were charges for wine, pastries,
ice. which he thought rather i )4-) much for persons
in the condition of servants. The Jury, however,
would give such a sum as they should think rea-
sonable.—Vcrdia fcr Ylaintiff, 251. 4s.