The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-04-30 00:00:00

MIME V. GREENE.

This was an action spinal the Defendant for loss of or-
vice oecationell by the seduction and subseqaent pregsancy
of the Plaintiff's daughter. The cause was tried before Mr.
Justice PARK, at Winchester, when the Jury found a ver-
dict for the Plaintiff, damages sfil.
Mr. C. P. WlLLtars now moved for a rule to ohms cause
why a sew trial 'boatel but be bad. The grounds on which
he moved this were, that according to the evidence of the
ruin, woman at the trial the child was born (oar or Are
weeks after the regular period of genial ion. She having Axed
the time of the ennurxiou at the middle of the month of De-
cembr r 1820, and the child was born on the 26th October 1821.
Theory were also circumstances highly improbable in her ac-
count of the transaction, which, according to her testimony,
took place in the middle of the day, in a small room adjoin-
ing to the Dafrittlant's shop, and separated from it only by a
glass partitiou, with a shurt muslin curtain, over whirl, a
child might look. and the shop door opening into the High
sheet of Winche.tm. The Leaned Counsel said he had
nun the affidavit of a Sheriff's officer, who was in possession
of the Drfeadant'a shop (his affable beiug embarrassed) in
the mouth of Dereashev, 1820, n which lime the Defen-
dant was •tarot from his house for a period of throe weeks.
Rule to chew cause grained,

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Two fishermen were broueht before the Lord Mayor, at the
instanre of the Water Bailiff, charged with bevies sold sin
wholemone fish.
It appeared from Ilse evidence of Mr. Nelson, the Deputy
Water Bailiff, that n le• days Mace he was 'Mug through
the west end ut the town, when he saw the two Prisoners
offering tur sale a laige quantity of young fish. The fish,
whirh were produced, coasisted of almost every merles of she
smaller kind that swim the Thames, roach, dote, perch,
bleak, and !tithe!, all full of spaer•. It appeared they had
been pestially sealed fur the purpose of disposing of the
scales so the Jews, who manufacture muck pearls from
them. This desciiption of fish in spawn, Mr. Nelson as-
certained, hail been sold fur the tables of the luxurious at
the west end of the town iu cousiderable quantities recently.
Nothing could be more iniquitous than loch practice', for
independently of the heinousness of destrosisig fish in fall
spawn, it ought to he known that such fish were unwhole-
some iu a high degree. Nothing, fur instance, would mule
speedily produce a diarrlsma than a plentiful meal upon bar-
bel in full spawn, of which fish the Prisoners had offered a
large quantity for sale. Mr. Nelson thought it his duty lu
seize them, and brine the Prisoners before his Lordship,
that they neigh/ be made au example of, and notice given
to the publik of the *lawyer which they ran in purchasing
such firh at arch a mmo. The law forbade the fishermen
from taking any fists but flat fish, roil some usher species
during the spawning season, which commenced at the be-
ginning of March, anal ended in June. Those, however,
also had purchased, and eaten of the fish now in spawn, the
%Vida Bailiff. was confident would requite no cacti not
to meddle with such fish in future. The Defendaiitit Roost
been summoned to produce the wets, wish which they had
caught she IA which they hail sold.
The Defendants produced some nets of great fineness,
which they said they hail used for the purpose, but they
pleaded in mitigation extreme distress miens( from the
scarcity necie.iosied by the wowholesome state of the river,
that uhliged them to make the moat of such fish as they
found iu their neighbourhood, for if they were not to du so,
they would never find oily of them again in that part.
The Lid Mayor highly ecusured the practice of catchier
young fish for their scaler, whirls was only exceeded lo
enormity by selling them whin in spawn, which, as poor as
the y_weie, they world do any thing sooner than out fur their
own food. The plea of poverty in extenuation of mach plat-
tires was becoming feu trite to be much longer listened to,
and Abe practice which they curried or was the surest
means of making themselves always poor, if tint of destroy-
ing the fishery entirely. His Lordship, however, retain"'
Ilse penally, but condemned the whole of the Defendants'
nets.

The Pelham Leewa►d Islands packet has brought
letters from St. Thomas's to the 12th of March.
The intercourse with the Spanish Main was in a
state of some activity, awl goods were taken oft
freely by purchasers from the interior, who before
had been much discouraged by the projec,ed expe-
dition of the Royalists against Coro. Some vague
reports were in circulation that the Royalists were
in sufficient strength to be preparing for au atteinpt
on Cameras, but they du not appear to be entitled
to much credit. Both that place and Lsguayrs, up
to the latest account., remained perfectly tranquil.
Adders to the end of February had been received
at St. Thomas's from Ilse city of St. Domingo,
which was then, in appearance, settled. and eitjoyi gig
tranquillity under the Government of ROYER.
Some activation was created there by an information
that all expedition against Samaria, a settlement on
the eastern side of the island of St. Domingo, had
sailed from Martinique. This force was said to he
I transports, with 2,000 troops on board, under
convoy of Admiral J atom. The letters from Mar-
tinique announce the failure of the house of ETNA
and Cit. a mercantile establishment of great emi•
nee on that islaud.

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