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In god on another suit, which prevented the application to the
Court, at an earlier period of the Term.
The Court gtanted a Rule in Arrest of Judgment.
!PM RING v. MRS. SOPHIA.SIIINDERS, OTHERWISE SONS,*
AMILIA STAFFORD coons, J. GODFREY. J. GRAVITY.
AND J. J. FARCE.
In this carte the A r TOR smer-GewEets, on the part of denies ,
fendant Parke, anti Mr. CatTlr on the part of the other des
fendante, moved that the indictment found against the parties at
the late Middlesex Sessions, be removed by culla/girl into this
Curet.
3lr. CRITT r said, that he moved hint on the ground of the ex-
eseordinary length of the indictment, which contained sixteen
counts, of which fourteen charged oflenees at common law ;
because an extrorodinary prejudice had t :en raised against the des
fondants, by report* in the newspapers; and Scaly, because Mr.
Parte was a man of extensive property in Chelsea and Kensington,
who had been uifortunately and moat innocently, oo his part, in..
*oh ed in this transaction.
Mr. AN:DREWS opposed the motion, on the ground that the Sta-
tute took away the right of removing an indictment front the Sees
signs by certiorari, which contained charges of obtaining property
by tae.uts of false pretences.
The Loom Cuter JusTICE said, that the greater number of
eountain the indictment were for conspiracy at common law, and
in any indictment it might be very easy to introduce a count or two
immuring charges of obtaining property by means of false pre-
tences, fur the purpose of preventing its removal into this Court.
Ile was of opinion that it was only reasonable to grant the motion,
especlafly as the defendant, Saunders, swore, in her affidavit, that
she made no false pretence, and that she actually possessed consi-
derable property in the St-est India Islands.
The writ of certiorari was then granted.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, &anti:tar, FE.. 12.
The Court was occupied this day (the last of Il ilary Term) in
hearing motions of no public interest, and io disposing of formal
business.
In reply to a question of Mr. Sergeant VAUOMAK, the enter
Jasper said, that he was of opinion the Court would not give
judgments till next Teens.
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POLICE.

BOW-STREET.
On Saturday James Daaahoe was charged with the following
robbery :
Mr. Crouch, • jeweller, in Long.acre, stated, that on Tuesday
evening he heard a noise, and on going into his shop, found that a
pane m glass lisd been broken. lk immediately attempted to open
the street door, which he found fastened outside with a handker-
chief. lie at length got out, and found that he had been robbed
of live gold seals, several gold keys, &c.
J. Blackburn, • boy, who witnessed the transaction, stated,
that he followed the prisoner and gave an alarm, when he was taken
into custody.
Avis, the patrol, stated, on apprehending the prisoner he found
the knuckles of kis left hand bleeding, apparently as if cut witk
glass.
The prisoner was fully committed.
J. S. Gamerstos was fully committed on a charge of embezzle-
ment.

BATTON-GARDEN.
Amongst the disorderlies brought up from the Lancaster Estate
watchhouse, on Saturday morning, there was one personage peeu-
liarly worthy of attention. This was a Mr. Robert Fergorou, a
farrier by trade, a Scotchumn by birth, and a lover by the decrees
ut fate.
AVhen this interesting young gentleman drew up at the bar, it
would be difficult to conceive any thing so ridiculous or extravagant
as the picture that was presented. Mr. Robert Ferguson, as ge-
nuine a highlander as ever trod the keather on the Grampians, or
fiourished a claymore in the cause of Bruce, looked defiance at a
host of pigmy watchmen, antiquated llogberrys, and the worn-out
satellites that formed his escort from the watch-house to the hall of
justice, whilst they, on their parts, thought there was no crime in
keeping at a prudential distance from his Herculean arm. The
written charge against poor Ferguson was, " thit he had been
creating a disturbance about the house of Mr. Sutton, the lawyer,
in Brunswick-aquate, at an unseasonable hour, by singing songs,
bawling," &c.
In support of this allegation one or two watchruen were produced,
who gave in evidence that the prisoner was found down in Mr. Sut-
ton's area, between twelve and one o'clock in the morning, making
all sorts of noises, and that having collected several of their corn.
rades (twenty at least), they got him to the watch-house.
" Pray," said Mr. Laing, -• what brought you in a gentleman's
area at such an hour of the morning?"
Poor Ferguson,
_who had evidently been indulging rather too
freely in Bacchanalian libations on the previous night, made one or
two hiccups by way of preface to his reply, and then eying the Ma-
gistrate with a sagacious leer from beneath his black eye-lashes, he
replied, with perfeet gaite du near, " What brought me intil the
the airy?—why lure, to be sure. There's a lassie lives there
that's my sin sweetheart, for ae blink of whose twa blue eon I'd
gi'e a bander pawl', or bear beano' while there's drap o' bluid in
my veins!"
The Magistrate smiled at the energetic delivery of this modern
Scotch Cupid, at the same time observing, that he had no right to
disturb other persons by his amours, and still less right to be found
in the area of a gentleman's house at such an improper hour.
This had uo effect on Ferguson, who, with the same calm in-
difference, replied, " I dinna car:. fit the house, sae I had my sin
lassie oot o'e--that's oor gait in Scotland, if we canna gang in at the
street door, we'll just gang down the area."
The Magistrate perceiving that a great part of poor Ferguson's
exhilaration of spirit was owing to the unsubdued potency of the
" spirit that dwelt within," remanded him in default of bail to the
lock-up-room, the air of which is generaily found to have a most
salutary effect in cooling the fever et the brain.
At three o'clock Ferguson was again brought up; but, though
evidently more temperate, he would not, even to the Magistrate,
concede his right " to sing a bit o' a sang to his ail lassie--it was
the Scotch faeltion." Two persons, however, became his sureties ;
and the gay, light-hearted Ferguson once more enjoyed the pleasure
of freedom.

WORSH IP-ST R EET.
Saturday two men, named John May and John Jerome, were
charged with stesling a dead body, in the burial-ground, Hack-
ney-road, on Friday night.
The prisoners had raised the corpse of a poor man who was bu-
ried the preceding day, and had put it into a sack. As they were
filling ap the grace, two gentlemen, whoa ere passing, heard them
at work, and collected the watchmen of the neighbourhood toge-
ther, who took the prisoners into custody.
The prisoners were committed for want of bail.