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C 311 RT 017 KING'S UN cti, • WLSTIONSTER, JAN. St. strength and longevity ; her husband was about 70
years Oi aglip.,!
Mr. GA %sow moved for stn conditional mule to &lima \,% itemises lathe Defendant had stated,'
file a crinsi'eal information na behalf of a Mr. Stone, that s&-• was much given to the brandy bottle of late
who was a Gollefter of Customs at Dover, against years. and had got so partial to it, and applied .in
a Lieutenant of the 1401, who commanded an
frequently to it for a Mile consolation, that it afea-
armed cutter in His Majesty's service, for sending a A her health .
e. to such a degrees as ultimately to put
letter, with intent to provoke a challenge ;• this, he an end to her existence. On the evening of the
observed, was a matter in which the Court. and the day on which she went to Manchester, for the pur-
public in general, were particularly interested, as it pose of being examined as to the state of her
chiefly concerned the health of the community at health, in order to efed the insurance, in returning
large, and the prevention of infeltious diseases home on hntseback she fell to the ground, and re-
throughout the tingclom. The gentleman against ceiv:l a considerable wound in her chin. She was
whom he moves, being, he understood, a very me- carried home, And a female friend called to see her
ritorious Officer, and one whei, in other respeas, in a day pr sn after this accident, at which time she
was a person of great respeaebility, the present ap-
plication was thought the most lenient way of bring- was very
kept her bed ; she declared to this friend. that she
bad, and expressed hee apprehensions that
mg the business before thetSourt, and of preventing
~she would not live out the date of the Policy, and
a repetition of the like prailices in future. After
then her husband would not get the money on it.
these preliminary observations, he did not think it
necessary to go into all the circumstances of the •Phis witness Also stated, that she had frequent-
ly seen her take to the bottle, and knew her to
1 case, but to state'a few of the faits sworn to. It be in the constant habit of drinking, sometimes
I appeared, from the• affidavits on which the motion braii.ly and weer, sometimes rum end waters..repd
WAS grounded, that the vessel which this gentleman fregoeii-ly brandy without - 'o°- .-- _so. - • •
commanded, a hired armed cutter, came into Dover L ,son the whole of the
Harbour with the yellow flag fi ying 'Aber mast-head; it appeared she had r
She maul signal of •a ship being under quarantine. from excessive drink
The coming into the harbour, the Learned Counsel was not an insurable
observed, was, of itself, highly improper for a ship policy ; upon which
under such circumstances. However, application found a Verdi& for the
was immediately made to him to depart ; and he, in The question was,
answer, said. that his cutter had received considera- the insurance, she wa.
ble damage at sea, the crew were run short of pro- The Court expressed
visions, and they were, in other respeas, so very as returned by the .1
deficint, that it became absolutely necessary for fatly justified by the .
him to run into port. Upon this, Mr. Stone, as the Counsel that it would ,
afting officer, desired he would weigh anchor and case.
leave the harbour, which he refused ; the former Mr. Serjeant COCISEI.e, on the par of the Plain-
then said he should be under the necessity of report. tiff, said, that this was not the only groudd, on ,
ing his conduit ;to which the latter replied, he which he had taken an obfisaion to the verclia sat
would report him in turn : Mr. Stone added, that he the trial he objected to evidence, which, he corium;
had afted irregularly in the first instance. It was to ed, was inadmissible, and ought not to have been
be observed, that Mr. Stone did not make use of received. This was the declaration of Sally Irises
any improper language, or any species of abuse to a third person.
whatsoever which could provoke the subsequent Mr. PA KIN, for the Defendant, observed, that this
conduit of the Lieutenant ; and, instead of this re- was an obje.tion wholly unexpected by him, and for
monstrance producing the desired effeift, Mr. S. re- which he was not immediately prepared. as be did
ceived a letter the same day from this gentleman, not till then understand such a ivestion had arisen •
in which he told him, that he had no hesitation in in the ease.
declaring that his indecorous conduit had sa- the Court, therefore, postponed the farther con-
UAW him he did not possess the manners sideration of the question to another day.
of a Gentleman, and recommended him, in
TIII KING Te. linTileNTOS.
an authoritative tone. to mend his manners in
future, or abide the consequences. Soon after, Mr
.In this case, the Defendant was convi.aed of ob-
Stone was walking on the quay, at Dover, aid taming a sum of money, for the purpose of com-
passed by a naval officer, who immediately called pounsfing Penal Actions, for his own private ante
lumen, to the injury of the Crown.
out to him by name, and asked him whether he had
Of this case, and the subsequent proceedings, we
received his letter ? he answered, he had received the
letter he alluded to, and had made the proper use gave
last. a report in our Paper of the lath of November
of it ; meaniog thereby, that he had laid it before
The Defendant was an attorney, and wrote sew-
his superiors in office, for their consideration. The
rat letters to persons selling Patent Medicines, inn.
Lieutenant then observed, if the other was a Gentle-
mining to them. that he had been employed to cos.
MAP, he knew where to find him, and he was ready . . • • .
mence criminal pi osecutious against them for
to rive him any satisfaCtion he required.
is Medicines without the necessary Stamp; but. if that
Mr. GAIIROW, in conclusion, said, that it was uy
no means the wish of the party to press this matter, would c.nonsfiemr woifthinhoiruneyo.o the sulajta, he would, for
prevail on the party to
and he hoped the present application would have the a
drop the proceedings. Upon charges be was
proper effeit ; and that before the rule could be
convicted, and brought up foe • Term.
made absolute, be would be satisfied of his impro. when Mr. Bu 'mown moved : skeengeidOstijt-
per conduct; the business would be adjusted. and
mint. on these grounds • first, thatit was us an ns-
their Lordships would not hear any thing more on
diaable offence, and secLadly. de. iadiansont was
the subjea. not sufficient.
The Court granted a Rule to show cause. The A t tosser Gensea t. law ligy shewsdamoe
Int KING 0 ALLIANDtft MORRIS. against the Rule for as osssiss=st, ado is
This was the case of the Qat Tam actions, corn- the course of a ewe' leaspealt
menced by the Defendant, under the Game Laws, contended, that a
mentioned in our paper of Tuesday last. l'he lk- statute in force, forte
die •
fendant was an attorney, and brought actions against penalty for the use of • motAkienh e.
persons sending game from the country, to Gentle- an offence; but a ICAO thiesooktirn -
men In town, by the stage-coaches, which set up at private emolument, and fandir .
the Bell Savage-yard, where he resided. When to be paid to him by sums OIL ltana,*
application was made to him for the name and place guilty of a misdaseasionos and. dm sa air
of residence of the Qui Tend Plaintiff, he referred to commit this misdemeanour, was of buff salad*, •
a person who appeared to be defunft. Upon those meanour. The pasty in such case sondsl
circumstances being represented to the Court, a means he the only injured persons Alm •.,
conditional rule for an attachment was granted early would be injured, inasmuch as he worn be • Re
last term, which kept its place in the peremptory of his portion of the penalty ; linden AS& of the
paper ever since. legislature, in instituting these paned ilentotts, would
Mr. Laws this day moved, that the Defendant also be evaded. He further contesdnd, doss a fraud
might be discharged from under the attachment, committed upon an individual was sot on indictable
issued in this case. He stated, that he was a offence under the sutute, brat the 'INA at a civil
wretchedly poor man, much stricken in years, and aition ; but when the crown inuouslood• sod the
of a very infirm habit of body ;he had been in cus- interest of an individual InCenn diaintleed adb
rosy upwards of a fortnight under this attachmene,
that
of the King, then the areete is rosholio by
and was ill able to bear imprisonment ;he had criminal process. After a very itios nertleowes in
made every pecuniary compensation in his power to the course of which he adverted,* dineoreirel NSW
the party, and threw himself entirely on their Lord- in the indictment ; and in of which. ha In.
ships' mercy. ferred to the various Actssll2llflut liarnent of Flies-
Mr. GA a Row. on the part of the prosecution, said, both, of George lit and Ms and cited a number of
that he had understood that the Defendant was a cases, he concluded that. Ono, these grounds, the
man very much advanced in years, and had made
offence :.n question was a misdemeanour created un-
what reparation was in his power to the party in der the statute, upon which the judgment of the
the civil aition ; but it was entirely for their Lord- e-
...ourt should pass.
ships to say, what should be done in the present Mr. Glass and Mr. Serjeant Lcties followed on
matter before the Court ; the case was a very bad the same side, contending first, that a penalty was
one ; the Defendant had brought an altion, as had the punishment inflicted upon an offender for an
already been stated, in which he appeared to be the offense committed against the King;
c and. secondly.
attorney, and the Plaintiff a dead man; after this, that this was a breach of a_p duty. and not
he had commenced a second information in the merely of a private nature. The arguments of twee
name of the same Plaintiff, who, upon enquiry, un- Gentlemen took up the greater part of the day ;
fortunately for the Defendant, had come to life, and Mr. DAN! tea was proceeding to f °Rove on the
and was found to be living in the same garret with same side, when the Court direited, that the further
the Attorney before then Lordships. consideration of the question should stand over till
Lord lit see soaouo 11.—n Since he has made re- Monday next.
partition to the party. the Court will not now require ....mmineimmail.
more of him; but it is not right that the public COMMON PLEAS. WISTMINSTF.‘.
should be subjeti to his illicit prat:lice:, and he is Sittings at Nisi Prier, Were Ste J•is ms Ma uses LLD.
not by any means a fit person to remain upon the Hong e. STILT/OLD.
Roll of Attorneys of this Court. Discharge the Rule, This was an aftion of esseeipsii, brouglitjbe the
and let his name be struck off from the Rolls of the Plaintiff, to recover the sum of tool. obtained from
Court." him by the Defendant, under fades and 11A1Adatlit
IVISON th LORD ILION A ISO. pretences.
This was an Aftion upon a Policy of a Life In- Serjeant Cocas'. stated, that the Defendant had
1 surance, effeited the Sod of November, 1802, upon been the owner of a public.house, and had tete ed
the life of Sally Ivison, the wife of the Plaintiff. into an agreement with the Plaintiff, to sell hun his
and was tried at Manchester the last assizes. when a good will in his house, the profit of which be said
verdift was found for the Defendant. was 251. a month. The Plaintiff agreed to give him
A conditional Rule to set aside the Verdia was 5001. for it, and entered into a contraet to that el-
obtained last Term. felt. 1001. of the money was paid down, but the
It appeared from the Judge's report, read by Mr. Plaintiff soon after, finding that the profits of the be.
Justice La BLANC. that the warranty in the Policy sine's did not amount to any thug like die sum the
was, that Sally Ivison was in gold health at the Defendant said, very properly refused to abide by
time of the immix*. namely, the 19th of the contrait, and now brings his aCtien to recover
Novonsbor at Ills arta 22 Yea". the money advanced.
It ,at do evidence for the Plaintiff.
Elisabeth Miller deposed, she had beers servant
apposod
dot She was alms* of remarkably good health, to the Plaintiff, and that, in the mouth of Mambo
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ithutt: water.
t the evidmce for the Deraptt,
contrafted a bad habit of
t and frequ:nt intoxication. atilt
: life at the time of cffetlietl4.,
h the Jury, without hesitati
the Defendant.
whether. at the tier of maxii% ,
vas an insurable life
ssed their opinion of the Vert" •
Jury, which appeared to them
e evidence, and intimated to the
lid mt he necesury toltripy; the
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