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Company of Players, for a nu;sance, in playlng.
droning, and performing. vocal and instrumental
music. at aP.lblic•house to Highgate. without a
license' contra.) to Alt of Parliament
Mr. Series r Burr bad formerly obtai ed a Rule
to put off Lie trial,- off account of the absence of a
materiel witr..nie. named George Ansey.
Mr. Sequa* _V-Suustau 'hewed cause this day
against the Rule so (+Wnd ; and stated. that this
witness, whose presence was deemed to important,
bad been daybed as a gentleman, living at High-
gate ; btu. upon inatus7. no such persrin could be
faced; the only one there. of that name, was a
jourvyman taw, whose son, a strolling player,
had gone to Scoland. If this last perk= was the in-
dividual sh go :is Learned Brother had described
as agent) • .lan, he thought there coal I be no occa-
sion to put off the trial beyond the Sittings after
Term. as hi, evidence would not, in all probability,
be very n;v.rtor .

Mr Serie BEST argued, that he certainly was
jaAified in dk:nominating this George Ansey a gen-
dem,,n, he hAving been much in the habit of per-
sonrting Princes, oirtien, and Warriors,
to the ent.rt.itnment and initrurtion of the public.
The Court, however, being of the same opinion
with Mr. Serjeant V.inghan, the Rule was die-
d:dr-pd.

COURT OF EXI'FIkQUER, loss 15.

COX O. iIioULDINO.

The Plaintiff. Mr. C x, is the owner of a Cam-
berwell stage c .v:1, and on the night of the 8:11 of
April last was Jrteing his own coach through Wal-
worth about the hour of nine o'clock, when the
Defendant, Mc Goulding, a gentleman of fortune
in Lontl,n, was, with his wife and nephew, driving
his g;g from Camberwell into town, and in driving
against the Plaintiff's coach, by means of the pole
of the gig running under the shoulder of one of
the Plaintirs horses with great force, the Plaintiff's
horse. valued ar 20 guineas, in a few minutes after
dropped down dead near the Turnpike at Wal-
worth. By this dreadful collision, in a very dark

night, the tree persons in the gig were thrown out,
and Mrs. Goulding was left senseless on the road ;
her husband littedber in his arms into an opposite
green oircer's shop, and a cry was heard for a
Dolor from some person in the road : the company
b and upon the stage coach escaped unhurt, bur
were much alarmed. This anion was arought to
recover the value of the horse. which appeared in
evidence to have had two eyes, but no power to see
with either.

The lint Witness, Mr. William Hammond. tai•
!molts, *Wide passenger on the hind part of the
coast. plaspd, that Mr. Goulding turned his gig
out of bat peeper side of the road, and drove it
furiously against the Plaintiff's coach, and drove
the pole of the gig into the lo;iss of the Maintirs
Form, by which it was killed This Witness was
very much confused, and on his cross-exami-
nation, stated, that the cause of his act see-
ing the affair more distihaly was, that all his
enemies was direeed towards the ady in white.
Who was throws frosts the gig, but be could not tell
trim came of barium did be go to her auist.ince.
On behalf of Ike Defendant, it was contended
and sworn, that be bad kept on his proper side of
the mad. and that the Plaietiff broke out of the
right liver. awl ease to the Defendant's side of the
road. aid dashed against the gig. which occasioned
the evil. h was settled, that acci item ,wu out of
the case' and that the whole turned upon the fafi,
which of the parties had waited his proper side of the
road, in driving, as the law on that head was fully
settled ?
The Witnesses. on both sides, so positively and
directly eontraditted one another, that it was left to
the jury to believe which they pleased.
Verdi for the Defendant.
LIBEL AGAINST AN ATTORNEY.
CROON V. TIRRIS.

The Plaintiff, Mr. Croom, is an Attorney, living
at Ilchester, in the county of Somerset, and brought
this aaion against a Mr. Norris, an innkeeper or
publican of the same place, for slanderous and
defamatory words uttered by the Defendant to the
Plaintiff's face, in the presence of a witness, who
was the only person preheat at the time the words
were spoken at the Defendant's house, in Novent-
her, 180.5, and the only witness produced on this
trial. The Plaintiff laid his damages at 10001.
The Defendant pleaded the general issue. but no
justification of the truth of the libel, by which
means the amount of the damages was the only
question for the Jury ; the Plaintiff was entitled to *
vet d;:t for some damages. at all events, by ibis plea..
The slanderous words were these: " Dare you
oppose Mr. -Fuson? (another Attorney at lichens.).
Mr. "Fuson has forgotten more law than you have
in your head. You are a scoundrel and a cheats
and knew no more law than the chair I sit upon.
Why don't you return to the place you came from ?
He-mnse be a fool who would employ you. Yon
have been in prison."
The objection to this asthma was, that the Plaintiff'
having had three opportunities of trying it in
ffernersa, since the cause of aEtion had arisen, had
omitted so to do, and instead of trying it there,
where his character was best known, and where it
could be tried with so much less expense. had
brought it here. 130 milts distance, from either of
two motives, which were eqnally unworthy, to beep
expense upon the Defendant, or to bare it tried
where no one could duly appreciate the merits or
character of the parties.
Mr. Ammer, Counsel for the Defendant,
strongly urged these considerations; stating, that
these words, however improper, were spoken in
heat, upon the spur of the occasion, and hut once, to
tie Plaintiff's face. in presence of one person only,
and not by way of backbiting him, or circulating
defamation, which would be a different consider-
ation ; and lastly. as the Plaintiff had proved no
special damage or injury sustained by him in con-
seqnence of such slander, he trusted the Jury would
feel it their duty to find a verdict for the Plaintiff.
in justice and conscience be thought would
a ca.' of this complexion. by send-
_ to lichens with a 'nth& only for
sixpence.
after six hours consultation, found a
se Plaintiff. damages 501.

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