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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

i COURT OF RING'S BENCH, OutuDmiLL,

Ttswaissaise, hill VARY H.
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Define the LORD CHIEF JUSTICR and COMMON
Juries.
GRIENWILL AND AlfolitEß D. OT.ACR.
The Monti& in this cue were owners of the ship
Seietste. The action was brought to recover the
sum of 83!. 16a. 4d. being a Isalance of freight slue
from the D.-fendanr. au consignee of a cargo of tim-
ber shipped at Halifax, in North America. and
de-
livered to the Defeudant at Sligo, in Ireland. Tie
freight specified in the bill of lading wits 6001.
The defence set al! was, that the freight was pay-
able in Irish corrency, and not in sterling money ;
hut the charter-party was put in laud read, which
expressed that the SUM reserved for freight was to
be in sterling money.
Verdict for the Plaintiff—damages 831. 16s.
LAWTON D. BOYD.
The Plaintiff in this case was a maker of the ap.
parsons for manufacturing gar. The Defendant
was Captain of a West Indianian trading to Ja.
maica. In the year 1818, he ordered front the
Plaintiff u gas appuratits, to be made according to
a written order which lie sent to the Plaintiff. Thy
apparatus, after some delay, was completed and
sent, agreeably to Captain meter, to bill
agents, Masson and Co. who shipped it by a vest,'
then about to sail for Jamaica ; nu its arrival there
it was found to be tun large for the purpose fit;
which it was required, by the person who had order*
ed the Defendant to bring it out, and was in con-
sequence left on his
The defence was, that the action ought to have
been brought by Lawton, jun. to whom it was ii-
ledged the order was give.. : also that the apparatus
was not completed in time ;. and, lastly, that it was
not made according to order, being too large, and
more tit to light a street than a doctor's shop, fur
which it was designed.
Several witnesses were called, by whom the case
for the Plaintiff was fully sustained, although it
appeared that his foreman and principal witness was
recently dead.
The Jury immediately found a verdict fur the
Plaintiff—damages 1151.
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OLD BAILEY, JANUARY 11.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.
William Keightley, aged 31, a genteel-looking
rnan, was capitally indicted, for uttering, as true,
a certain order for the payment of 120 i. 7p, with
the intent to defraud Janie& Scutt Smith and John
Go!die.

Oa the trial being called there was no pinion to
produce the order. Thomas Smith and William
Slaughter were ordered to be culled on their recog-
nizance.: an officer stated that they wsrfe not bound
Over to appear.

Mr. Justice Ho LIIOYD observed to the Jury, that
on account of the absence of the order, they were
obliged to acquit the Prisoner. If it was kept back
on purpose, the parties acting so must take the
consequence, for on them it must frill.
The Jury accordingly returned • verdict of /Vol
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
William Watson, aged 18, was capitally indicted
for assaulting Ralph Webb on the King's highway,
tool taking from his person • pocket-book, con-
taining 13/.
Ralph ‘Vebb deposed, that about eight o'clock
on the evening, of the 27th of December he was
walking down Horseferry-road, when lie saw three
men, one fronting him, and one on each side of
him ; the Prisoner was on his right hand, and made
a trust with his hand nem the witness's breast-
pocket, nod took his pocket-book, and handed it
to the mail in front of him ; the witness immedi-
ately seized the Prisoner by the collar and took
him to the watch-house, the other two men rim
away ; the Prisoner raid, oil the witness laying
hold of him, that he had not the property ; the
Prisoner col his companions never spoke or did
any thing until the Prisoner took the pocket-book,
and gave it to one of his companions ; the pocket-
book contained a Bank post-bill for 10/. sod three
1/. Bank of England notes. He had never seen
them since.
The witness, in his cross-examination by Mr.
PLATT, said that he was cooling from town when
the Prisoner robbed him ; he was not drunk, but a
little so ; there was no crowd when he met the three
men, they used no violence towards hint ; he saw
no crowd us he was taking the Prisoner to the
watch-house, no one assisted biro in taking him
there ; he was certain the Prisoner was the man who
took the pocket-book, although it war a very dark
night, so dark that he could not discern the coun-
tenances of the Prisoner's companions.
James Collins, a boy of 10 years of age, having
been interrogated as to whether lie understood the
nature of an oath, and answering satisfactorily, was
sworn : he stated that he was with the Prosecutor
on the evening of the 27th of December, when he
was robbed by the Priumer ; lie knew it was the
'27th of the month, because he had looked at an
Oman:telt in the morning, on board his father's ves-
sel. • lie was walking behind the Prosecutor when
lie 515 W the Psisoner take the pocket-book from the
breast pocket of the Prosecutor, mod hand it to his
companions, who ran away, on which the Prosecu-
tor seined the Prisoner by the collar, arid took him
to the watch-house. It was a very dark night, and
although lie could tiot see his face, lie wars certain
the Prisoner was the person who took the pocket-
book : lie knew him by the colour of his coat, which
was brown.

On his crnss•examiostion he said that the Prose-
cutor was a little'drunk. Since the robbery the
Prosecutor had spoken to him relative to it, but
he never told him what to say ; he spoke to him
this morning about it, and told him to tell the
truth, and nothing else. lie (the witness) never
said in the watch-house that he did not know whs..
ther the Prisoner was or was nut the man who had
committed the robbery : lie always said he was the
man.
John Flinds, a hearlborough, stated, that he had
the charge of the ysateliliouse when the Prosecutor
brought the Prisoner in.
On his cross-examination, lie said there was a
considerable crowd following the Prosecutor and
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