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behaviour foe two yawn ; Wisself in IX/ uud Iwo
ober* iu .251. each. _ _ .

No other buwiseas of importauct came before the
Court.
At half-pact two o'clu4:k. Lord E:Lemborough bet
at A iai Prtua.

GUILDUV.J.

Sittings in Tenn 6efure;ir Jamas Mamma.
sriaLk. v. 'lowa' and pasaY.
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This waft no actiditia trover. The. Plaintiffs had
purchased the public-lump, called the Bed Linn,
situate is Gray s-inu-lane, at a sale by auction,
which lie let to a loan of the name of Cockburue,
together with the fixtures furuitnre, etc. in April,
1807, iu payment for which he had received eon,.
in money, which hod been advanced to Cockburiie,
by toe aefendaets, proprienks of the Golden Lane
brewery, together with Cnekhu9isis dotes, for the
balance of the purchase motley. As a counter se-
curity for there notes; be took a bill or sate of the
f orniture of the bonier. In Jauatairy last, suspect-
ing that Cockburue's atlis:rs were Hot as prosperous
iss they suould be, he btiZed on 'the furniture, fbr
the purpose of selling, to pay himself what was
due; and the Deleooltats also sent la an execution,
by the Sheriffs, upon a judgment, under ,Which
they actually sold; and this action was brought to
recover their debt, the security for which had been
thus taken away from the
William Hope, the lint witiorss ior the Plaintiff,
eras a Broker; he was employed upon occasion of
the lettieg the Red Lion public-house, Gray's Inn-
lan', bribe Plaiutiff. to Cockleirne.for the poryamie
of valuing tbeturnitnte. Cockburne was put into
possession, and executed a boll of sale of the farni-
tare to the Plaintiff, which he witnessed. Upon
that occasion he saw a person of the flume of Grey
there, who apOtartd as the agent of the Defend-
ants ; this was on the 16th 1807. In coney-
qtvence of what he saw about Cockhurioe, he hinted
to Grey his doubts that he had no money; Grey told
bins be was to advance 4001. on the part of the De-
fendants to Cockboinie, and he informed Grey of
the bill of Gale to be executed by Coekburne to
Steele, together with his notes, as part payment of
the lease.
. Upon his erossexamination he said, the 2001.
advanced by the Defendants to Cockburent, was
paid to the Plaintiff ; the bill of role was not exe-
cuted on the sane day the possession was given, it
being late in the evening, and uo stamps to be
promoted, but some data after ; and Steel., the
Plaintiff, knew that the .2001. which he received
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from C;:kbume had horn advaared by the De:
feudinits. He uudetatund that the Defendants
were to have an assiguiaeut of the lease of the
house, as a security for the money et. advanced by
them. Cockburat remained in possession of house
and fu:nitare, after the exixotien of the bill of
a de.
John Fotherby, an auctioneer, swore, he went
in company with the Plaintiff to Corkhurnes, on
the g 4th of January het, who o the Plaintiff took
possession oldie furniture, and directed him to sell
then.. He proceeded to take an iaveitoey accord-
ingly, sod left his son and another man its peewees'
Slott as his bailiffs. Ls three dais after, while
pre-
parieg the goods for sale, the tilteeiff's 0111 km UP
terropted them and took possession, and the geed/
were afterwards sold he auction by Grey ; be was
present at the sale, said Grey saki es %helps* of
the Defeadauts.
Upon Zia cross-esarrur.ation it spread, that on
the day after be had been put into possession by
the Plaintiff, they went together to the Defeo-
deists, *here Steele told one of them. Browne,
that he had !earned Cotkboirne was not doing well,
sod that be had taken poesession of the furniture
coder the bill of sale.
The son of the last witness. and his servant, whom
At bad put to take are of the good*, proved the
passeesioe, until interrupted thereto by thetliseriff's
Officer, at the suit of the Defeudants.
Joseph Hunt, the Sheriff's Officer. pursed be
reoelved a warrant at the suit of the Defend:nits
to key the amount of an euecution on the goods
of Cockbarne, under winch he seized ; but denird
all km:solute of the Plaintiff, or any other laming
been in possession under seizure at the time he
took the goods. They were sold under this warrant,
en the 'kali January last, for 2141. The ease for
the Plaintiff was closed Isere.
Serjeent VIUGII te, for the Defendants, coo-
teedcd, in the first place, that a bill of sale did
Sot vest the property without possession followed.
Si, JAWS/ NIINIFISLII Said, lu kiww of no such
' law but reserved the point for future argument.
The Learned Counsel then strongly urged to
the Jury that here there had been no linsserion iii
fact by the Plaintiff, but that the whole was an
after thought to oust the Defendants of their legal
remedy to recoser a just debt, by means of a pocket
deed of shale 6r.A brought forward. when they had
seized under the writ to the Sheriff.
Alexander Cockburne, the landlord of the public
heave, was then called, but it appearing from his
testimony that the Plaintiff had actually seized the
goods under his bill of sale, before the Sheriff's
officers hail entered with the execution, the Learned
Jedge declared the Defendants had no right what-
ever to justify the act; and the Jury. under his
direction. found a verdict for the Plaiutiff.—/k.
usages 101.

On Wednesday the 26th ult. as two }clung men,
of the names of Pate and BALltil, were on a shoot-
ing eximision, on the manors of Combe Sydenliem
and Manksilver, in the county of !tloinerset, accom-
panied by sevenil others, PAIN, oho had a doutrle-
barrelled sun, very inadvertently cocked both
locks ut once, just before he tins' at a bird; when,
having discharged one barrel, and not knowing the
other sae cocked, he earned it 'onset, under his
arm, sod it presently exploded and shot BAUR,
who was about 9 )ens old, and his cousin. The
'Adige entered just below the ribs on the right
side, after having torn off moat of the Beall on the
heck part of the right arm, with parts of his shirt
adhering to it ; the blood rushed in spools from
the different arteries of hie tight arm, and he tnust
have died through loss of blood, had not one of the
party kept Ili!. arm urea, and thereby abated its
effusion. Ile is still ali%r, and hopes are enter.
t.iut.l of his rei:overy.