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fur the Plaintiff, they, anent, wool.' add to the value of
the horns the expense of keeping them in the interim.
W. B. Ramsay was them called and entailed—Received
the price of the horses far Captain Oakes. he being out of
town; the receipt handed to Men is that he min ; it is fur
3133/. 10s.; has heard beta Captain Oakes the remaining
51. were paid to him.
Cromexandeeti—Knew the boron front their original per.
chase by Captain Oakes. above a year back -, they were used
as regimental horses. has seen one of them hunting, and has
redo another of Mein himself; always understood them I.
be sound, there was tin "'presentee to the rookery ; has sees
one of them go through &day's bust very well; never sup-
ported them to be unsoiled ; has been used to books since a
boy; never observed • contraction in the foot of the York.
shire, never looked particularly at it; the hones op
himself to Milton; they were rode up aid down thewsgh the
yard of the livery-stables in Peet.lare ; it was pond; heard
nu remark made by Milma, or any other penes peasant,
shout their legs; they etkibited we symptom of weakness ;
the bright bay hone, not the Yorkshire, one bed a swellieg
above his kite,, but was eared of it ; there was No enlarge-
ment on the ?et luck-joist of the off furoleg of the latter.
William Ftrmor, Esq. extemand.—Wers Ante by Milton
the Yorkshire horse which he bad purchased of Captain
Oakes ; it was in the latter nil of September, or begioning
of October ; on his warren* his to be send, bought
him for 300 guineas; bad previously observed the fetlock
join of bolls his fore legs swelled and iadamed ; rode him
no soft ground in the Park; told Milan he was appreheo.
sive the bone was unarmed, het so be warranted him would
take hint ; he wits delivered op to hint the very evening he
bought him ; rude him to Mr. Sewell to be examined, as
well as be can recollect. 'boot fear days after; his own
opinion, after riding hint two or three tomes on soft ground
is. the Park, in the intermediate time, was, that be was
lame ; be was rode by nee* hat himself; rode him to
the Veterinary College himself; is quite sure he was lame
then ; the injury appeared to he in the fetlock Joint of the
off fore-hg ; his coachmen had the care of him while is his
possession; only be suspected witeenadons, inlaid have
aeut him at once to his hunters.
Crose.rxemined—The bone was scot back immediately
after Mr. Sewell saw him; neon charge his memory with
exact dates ; did nut ride his. atter he had been at the col-
lege : was in his posseasioe three or four days before be was
taken there ; hod exercised him I. is than any horse he ever
bought; did sot think it right, becaose he son uncommonly
fat ; merely eantereil him ; did not " put hits. out ;" did not
make him sweat; hail buss out anew four times before be
discovered him to lse lame.
Edward Stone, °whom to Mr. Ferro.,,
_slated, that the
horse was looter Ina etre, sad rode by embody but Isis mas-
ter ; the next morn.ng after he came, he perceived a great
inflammation, heat, sod swelling in the part before mention-
rd, hut observed no lameness till he went to the College, and
was told by his master; told his minter of the inflammation
in both fetlock joints the merniag after the bums was
brimicht.
Mr Sewell, of Si. lake/nary College, ',remained.
Raw the horse in question the day be was brought to the
College by Mr. Fermor ; can't Mate the day of the month;
,perceived him lame; ohmovird an enlargement in the elf
fetlock joint before, attended with heat set swelling; there
was also a slight entities in the shape of that foot; it
might have been natural, or it might have been from
" Girotiring it;" the bow was thew decidedly unsound;
any one would theo have observed his lameness ; a hone it
ofteis lime without its brio; observed; the borne is still
lame, thqueb not an mach en as he was.
In answer to the Ciller hornet —instead of entering
the horse three or four times routed the park, liner the is..
Aammation had beam perceived, the more proper asst hu-
mane emirs. *oak, have bees to let him stand is, the stabk.
Mr. Colman, a Professor in the Veterinary College ; Mr.
Herniae, and Mr. Powis. Veterinary Su^ Jobe
Hell, a farrier, corroborated the testimony of wit.
now.
kinelAbs
Henry Ben, E. was neon whoa the bought
by Mr. Femme; thought from hie appose's= he could not
be wend, anil dissuaded him bon the purchase.
Baker, Erg. sew the hone the neat morning after
Wog bought by Mr. Fenner, and said be would be lame
after the best gallop
James Maul, a lowneelealer, deposed, that the other horse
had own got an injury is the leg while in possession of
Captain Oakes.
Byng, servant to Minos, stated the hone was sold
to Mr. Fermur the day after he was bought by his master,
and returned to Coping Oakn the day after Mr. Femme
sent him back.
J Woodkin, keeper of the liemy-staidee, Park-lase, proved
that his bill amounted to ell Ss. dd.

This wss the Plaintiff's ease
Mr &skit* Lexa on the pert of the Defendant, remark-
ed how unlikely it was that • min who had beers a regular
horse dealer, like the Plarstiff, for twenty-four years, sbutild
have overlooked so material a defi•st se was now said ex-
isted in the hor,e when be was sold. He should produce
several very respectable witnesses, to prove that at the sale
the horse was pot through very severe exercise is the park,
mod that fur mouths before, sad up to that time, lbws was
vot the most distant 'poem/sacs of soy ossooodoess
Major Kelly, of the let Life Guards, was then enamined
Knew the two horses, the subject of the action, very well;
knew them up to the time they were sold to Minos. Cape.
Oakes was in the habit of riding them to the geld ; continu-
ed to do so till within a fortnight of the rile; should con-
sider this s very severe trial for a horse, rrquiring hard gob
loping, sodden pulling in. and wheeling, which shake a hone
very much; did not perceive him to be lame; it be bed
been, most probably would bows observed it, as Captain
Oakes used to ride in front of $ squadron ; the other horse
was nut lame; saw both very often in the stable, and looked
at them very minutely, though he never took tip their fete.
Four or live Officers of the Nine regiment, including the
riiiingmaeler, with the sasists•t-ridiagmasler, and farrier,
confirmed the above stateeneot in every particular.
James 1310%1111, Veterinary Sergeo• to the regiment, stated,
it was his slaty to examine nit the horses once a week, and
report any of them footed to be onsuund—oever had mos-
Bios in report either of Captain Oakee's horses.
Charles Newland, servant to Captain Oakes, cleaned the
borses the morning they were sold ; washed and cleaned
their fret ; examined them; dam was so tameness or asp
appearance of iinsotiodnimo perceptible.
Mr. Serjeant VAUCIRAX ties spoke to evidence.
The Cuter Jvsetes read over the evidence and comment.
ed ou it, and the Jury, after two or three usiuutes dritbasa.
lieu, brood 6 verdict rK the Deesstaat.

OLD BAILEY. Dsc. 5.
MOST IMPORTANT CASES OF FORGED NOTES.
Jails Williams, aged 11, was arraigned fur forging and
pimping a U. mote purporting to be grimiest, with intent to
defraud the Governor and Company of the hank of England.
He ales Mood charged with patting away ten of the said U.
motes; and another count elated his having pat sway five of
the said 11. notes in the coons, ot Surrey.
Mr. Serjeant Bosatittorr stated the ease to the Jury, and
Celled the following witnesses :..--.
William Underwood deposed, that he was engaged by Mel-
bigot constable, Samuel Fumanti, anti William Coate*, to
detect the Primate at the bar in passing forged notes. 11' it-
nem hid become acquainted with the Prisoner on the 211th
of October last; and on the 7th of November, fur the first
time, he met the Prisoner et the Coach and Horses, iu
If/envy-lame, when the Prisoner was is company with John
Gay, whom he well knew, and who iatroduced him for the
purpose of buying mutes of the Prisoner. He bad been pre-
viously told by cosy that the Prisoner would sell him some
queer ones, meaning /urged notes. He hunght one, fur
which be paid Is. ands day or two afterwards be hosight five
more from Prisoner on Waterlimbridge. Cat the 12th be
met Prisoner en Monument-y. 4, and purchased leas wore
forged noire. Prisoner then asked) the witness whets he wait!.
ett tome? to which whores replied, he should wear other
sides by Thursday, it bring the day before Kingston Fair.
eross.e.rautiwed.—He hut hero • calico-printer, a copper-
smith's porter, and a coal dealer with his cousin, who was
also a clerk Its a lawyer. He had gives isforestatinn against
three other persons besides the Prisoner.
11.•;11inm Sellers stated that be was entpktrd by the flask