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viVIAN O. NEAL.

This was an AFtion foithevaiSs of a Horse be.
longing to the Plaintiff, which had been killed by
the shaft of the Defendant's cart running through
his thigh.
Tile Plaintiff, who was a professional gentleman,
residing in Lincoln's Ins Fields. was riding along
Holborn, towards Skinner-street, with his groom
following upon the ho, se in question, which was re-
presented to have been a very valuable one. In pass.
mg by Fleet Marlowe a crowd of carriages filled
the left side of the way, which obliged the Plaintiff
to take the right. The Defendant's cart was stand-
ing on that side, and, just AS the Plaintiff's groom
was passing, the driver audtleiOe whipped his horse,
and turning short upon the •irim, the shaft of the
cart entered the animal's thigh, and carried him
several yards down the street, while the driver con-
tinued to whip his horse, and endeavoured to pro-
ceed. The poor bea:a lingered fourteen days u ..der
the care of a Veterinary surgeon, and, at the end
of coat time, in attempting to lay down, the bone
of the thigh was so mach injurci, that it broke?
upon which he was shot.
On the part of the Defendant, the Witnesses
roved, that as the Plaintiff's groom rodc. past the
cart. two women and a child were crossing the
greet, when, sudden: pulling tI;) his horse, to avoid
running over them, tn- accident happened.
Lord ELI s noantilu said, ex Tiestinn was,
sehrthcr i, was ,t moi occident, r tile fault ~f any.
a i which of the part..,.: ? The Jury, consideri .g it
only an accident, found a Verdia for the De-
fer.dant.

LAMRV. reCAN AND DRAVDV.

TINS was an Adbon for an Assault.
Mr. EIIISIC est, stated, on the part of the Pliintiff,
that he was a Sheriff's officer, and having an execu-
tioo *pint the Defendant, *Can's. ic‘xxh, he took
pbsiusion of them. Wh; in this situ..tion, he was
decoyed by the l)efendan:s cwt of M•C in's house,
and brought to another, where he was so well plied
with iremlir inside, by Rozaly outside, that he be-
came vety much intoxicated. As he sta4ered
throngh a dark lane, in his way horn.., be was
beset by :he Defendants, who knocked him down.
brr I .n till he was senseless, and in this s tuatioe
put him into a exit. and sent him home. The De-
dants pleaded, in jtistiiication. that the Pialotiff
was condu4ling himself iii,leceetly towards Brandy's
wife, and that they gently laid hands on him. When
Mr. Eaus s i had finished his statement ;

Mr. Glass, nn the par, of the Defendants, stated
to the Cow t, that the Defendant. Brandy. and his
wile had commenced an Aelion in the Court of
Coin Common Pleas arza;nst the Plaintiff is this Atlion,
and it would b. better at once to pit an end to all
ma. Lets of dispute hetween them.

Lord Ecurvaoitoratt nhserved, that it was a
drunken quarrel, And not a it CAMe to conic before
a Court,

The parties then agreed that a Juror should be
withdrawn. and proceeding, stayed in the Court
of Common PICAS.

COMMON PLEAS -Cut ..L.Lir 7.

stosiritancra r. DE TASTII.
This was a Special Jury Case, which occupied the
attention of the Court the greater part of the day.
Toe Plaintiff is one of the .I.rsignees of a Bankrupt,
stoned &Mena, and the Attion was brought to
stover OM. the balance of certain accounts between
him and the Defendant. which remained unsettled
mce 17,8. The books necessary to prove the
Plaintiff's demand were produced, but the Book
keeper, who bad balanced the accounts, being dead
the trusaftion could not be explained without a
very losig investigation. The Judge, therefore, di-
reFtesl the Jury to give a Special Verdi& for the
Plaintiff, and the parties agteed to ap,roint persons
to examine the accounts.

OLD BAILEY. Juts 7.

l'Art? lb. Julia ROOILC *la Mr. yuei,e

ILI4C R.

Gerona was ingiaed for the mar-
dr of William Lee, a child of four months 01,1, by
withholding from him the sustenance of life. A
Curoner's inquest bad bcen held on the child, who
toe a verdiet of Wilful Murder ; but the n.uure of
thi case was such, that the Jury arrsitted the
vallai without leari::g the lens stigma on her cha

rafter, as it appeared site had taken every method
to save the infant's life.
The Surgeon stated, that the child had been
brought to him much emaciated, and that he did not
expel him to survive above three hours. It struck
him at first sight, that the child hsd been starved to
death, btu on opening the body, he clearly perceived
that his death arose trom a disorder in the liver.

Chart + Jer,i; was indided for killing Thomas
Bray. The Prisoner and the deceased had had a
Turret concerning some money, which they agreed
to decide by a fight. They repaired to a field for
the purpose, when the deceased gavein; and on his
return to a public-house, where they had met to
drink, he laid his head on the table, and expired.
Two Surgeons proved that the death of the de-
ceased was occasioned by a blow above the right
ear; they opened the head, and found a vast quan-
tity of ertravasated blood, which loaded the vessels
of the brain, and which, they were convinced, caused
his immediate death. The Jury found the prisoner—
Guilty of Manslaughter.

Michael Foley (an officer in the army) was inditled
fur stealing in the dwelling-house of Watson,
Lower Sloane-street, Chelsea, bank notes, to a
considerable amount, the property of Mary Larkin.

According to the evidence adduced, the Prosecu-
trix, a Lady of upwards of sixty years of age, had
become intimate with the Prisoner, and on his sug-
gestion, she had agreed to accommodate him with
a sum of money to enable him to raise a certain
number of men, for which he was to obtain the rank
of Mayor. The Prnsecutrix stated. that to relieve
her friend's temporary inconveniencies, she sold nut
olds* Stocks to the amount of 6131. with a view of
lending the Prisoner a sufficiency for the payment of
a bounty of thirteen guineas to four men, he having
twenty-five men to raise, and a friend of his, a Capt.
Reynolds, had procured him twenty of the nuinber.
The Prisoner called at the house of the Prosecutrix,
on the Ist June, and after drinking tea, she pulled
out the whole of her notes, and laid them on the
table, to give the Prisoner the sum stated. During
this conference, two Gentlemen gave a loud knock
at the door. 'I he Prisoner lifted up the sash of the
window, and informed them he would soon be with
them, and immediately clutched the whole of the
notes in his hand, amounting to 0001 saying, that
his friends could not be detained. He shut the
street-door after him, and joined his friends. The
prosecutrix was too much alarmed to call after him
at that time. On her cross-examination, however,
she acknowledged having indieted a person of the
name of Mien, who had been discharged at the
Police-Office. with a view of preventing him from
becoming a witness for the Prisoner, and that Mien
had called on her, on the 30th of June, for the pur-
pose it her taking the Prisoner's note for the money,
v.-hich she declined doing, as she preferred charging
him with felony, to obtain her money. It appeared
that the notes, which were in Coutts's Banking-house,
were secured to the prosecutrix by the Prisoner's
cheque. The case was involved in so much ob-
scurity and doubt, that the Jury pronounced a ver-
d4 of twitaitte.
Richard Wealiingir, alias Frrler, was tried for bi-
gamy, in having intermarried with Louisa Strrrc7,
his farmer wife bein still living. It appear., in
evidence, that the Prisoner had not only two, but
was reputed to have four wives. The le i ie.,
ever, did not come forward, and the Prisoner sari
erviizied.

ilary leaPti and Sarah Smith were indifted for
privately stealing in the shop of Lydell lielsvall,
war East Smithfield, A piece of printed calico ; but
'ne of the shopmen h.tving seen the Prisoners remove
the property from the counter, they were acquitted
of the capital part of the charge, And found Gads,"
lasalaw only.