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Serjeant SUBtI46IIO -moved tor a Rule to shew
cause wby the son-suit in this case should not be •
set aside, and a new trial grantith This was an
aSiots tiled at the last nssises of the county of Suf.
folk, before Lord Ellenboroogb.
It appeared Itom the evidtace, that both Plaintiff
and Defendant were eelations of an old Lady 01 the
eminent earker. She had lived for two years with the
Plaintiff. and had every accommodation in the way
of board, lodging, and wa.hing. Previous to her
deA,,b, she had left the I.l3inuff's house; and on
her decease, made the DetendAst her exectifsr.—
The Plaintiff then sued the Defendant for tl.e sum
01501. fur diet, lodAing, kc. But as there was no
acinowleJi,nient of the debt on the part of the de-
ceased, at,o as, from the cross-examination of the
Witaeu.-s, it appeared tlia: it was merely aa exer-
ti •Ii of hosing, with hope of being remeiniered in
i to'S will of the old lady, his Lor,latup direa:.d the
l'isiiimif to be non-suited.
The present application rested upon this ground,
that it Winn's,' hat:. been Ht to the Jury to ascertain
she fagt, whether the Plaintiff had his expeftatioils
on the death of Mrs. Parkes ' and if they had founu
such an opinion, then it wa. light to rein-wk the
PlAiattif.
Loa' Crller Juirlec—" Brother Shepherd. can
you intoim us Arhetiier or not the Counsel for the
Plaintiff in this cause consented to a non-suit r'

Scut:lnt SoCrii &AD—. 1 cannot take upon mu-
lch 1., sewer the question of the Cush."
Loma Cagier Jusrica---"Such claims as the pros
seat am generally against honesty. and against
Gets. People. disappoint's! in their eapeaat,ons
front deceased relatives. too trequeutly convert
their little ails of Isounty. in such casco, into pecu-
niary claims against the I.:senator. It is to be me-
sawed, that in the present Cathe this conduit was
(client. and in the **WM:: of it a necessary infor-
mation vrith respel to the ground upon womb the
application is the (AMU caaewt 101111 t the
tile."--litge tensed.

P4ll.lais.

IMASSION•1101/118. SOV. 11.

Mary Fay and Elnesheth Berts.te wale brought
before the Loan Marna, by Tipple. the °diger,
on suspicion of having stoles three shawls.
Tiarper. the Officer, stated. that as he was passing
through St. Paui's Church-yard, on Tuesday, he
met the Prisoner Fay, with a beauulal Indian
shawl about her shualdas. He inquired where she
had bought is ? and she answered, tr.rits her mistress.
buspeduig that she had not procured it honestly. he
.accompanied her to the house of the Prisoner Bar-
nett, the alleged mistress, where he found, in a
&ewer, two other shawls, of English manutaaare.
• The Prisoner, Barnett; stated in her defence, that
she bought the English rnanntadured %bevels at Mr.
I lErVey'i, on LUCIVID:4111111 the Indira shawl was
brought by a person who lives in the neighbour.
hood. to bee houte, woo asked her to buy it. Atter
some time she did buy it. and the Prisoner Fey
corning to has with her oiler, she sold it to her.
She was ordered to be detained until to.inorraw,
when she is expedled to produce the verso.' Irmo
whom the shawl was boualst. The other Prisoner
was discharged.
The Prisoner Barnett was very much distressed.
She entreated the Lord Mayor sot to keep her in
custody, as she bail live children, one of whom was
an infant on the breast. _ _ _

Mary Acne J• 6010, a girl aged .17 years, was
Ist ought up, having been ixintl, between eieven and
twelve o'clock, last night, suung on the step of a
door in llishopigate.street.
Upon the linits ir.quiring where the
came from t she informed his Lordship that she
come from Whitby, in Yoek.hite; ht.r lather had
been a sailor, and was killed on boat d a man CA war.
After death, htr mother mauled again; her
tatlxvin-law behaved eery cruelty towards her
and at the age of thirteen, bound her ape/emir-2 to
Jnhn Reed, mater of Le Matt cothrr orig.
ribe had been bound weir.n yea's, lour of whoi.h

mere ezpised. tier tathtt4n4Aw also 4cttsnJ het

un,ther fix the same terns of years, who ha, bikbee
died; and as the duties of a sailor terse 10J la-
burioua for he: to perform, she ran away.
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