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repposed,will be too fresh, and the efiltivium toe editing, to
admit of the disehirge of public business within tite Court
on the 6th of Noretnber. The health of thatord Chief
Justice, which is known at this time to be very Delicate,
might be rendered worse by sitting in a newbeilding,
Which at the present season must be unavoidably damp.
It is, therefore, reasonable to stir/v.le that theUsirt. not:
only on account of the Judges, but of all wheso attendance
is required, will be well aired by stoves, and put in a pros
per state before it is occupied. '1 he steps which led at
the Exchequer in the Korth-east angle of the hall wets
taken down on Monday, and a paeiage opened to this
King's Bench Court. The Lord Chancellor's Court, WO
Vice-Chancellor a, and the Common Pleat Court, will uii
questionably be opened to receive the Judges etn, She first
day of Term. Those Courts are now finished. with the
exception of painting and varnishing the oak wainscots
which in a few days will be completed.
From a slight inspection of all the New tonne,,*
think the Exchequer is the best. The ground allotted fa
dim important seats of Justice left the architect no
rto make them sufficiently spacious. The King'e
.11; in consequently too small, and will be found less
convenient, if possible, for the administration bf JUstier
than the Westminster Sessions House. Part of the space
has been appropriated to a Bail Court and the aveintes, s
circumstance which necessarily makes the King's Bench
Court smaller than it otherwise would have bees. - throne
the new buildings were commenced there were only three
Courts on the same side of the Hall, nirhely the EXche-
quer, the Common Pleas, and Chancery. New there by
five, as Conete have been added for the View Chancellor
and King's Bt-nch Bail. The High Court of Chancery,
the most ancient and dignified it stitdton of the country,
is worthy a handsome. commodious, pubic building. Tirli
King's Bench and Cemmon Pleas arc tribunals which
have stood for ages. They are of the h'ghest importarOe
to the subjects of tl is realm, and the edi ice- where the hit
is administered under the jurisdiction of either ,Ceittet
should not only be convenient, but a public °mintiest.
Amidst the many improvements i s the City of West-
minster, which will hereafter mark the protection .granted
to the arts under the mild reign of George the Fourth, us
expect to ace useful public buildings erected, add mots
especially those for the administration of the civil itot)
criminal laws of the land.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, OCILDRI“,
Zit UI9D~P, OCTolEli 20.

Atiyoutneel Sittings befvre the tore Chit! Justice ASZOTT Aso
Common Jwriza.
IDIXO7 tr. PRICX.
Mr. GURNEY and Mr. MAliNttill cnntlttelid the plait:tars
ease; and 31r. Sonata." e And 3lr. MAURY/al' that at the de-
-1 fendint.
The plaintiff In this action is the keeper of the well-known hors/
sepointory io Barbican, and an auctioneer ; the defendant,
about the time When the circumstances oo which this attics #
founded took place, was a stage-master, and mu several coaches on
*Millington roads. Mr. Dixon now sought to recover 301., being
the balance due on a sale twelve horses, which the defendant, Mr.
Price, purchased of him at an auction on the 23d of December,
1823.
Edward Claughtoo, examined by Mr. Mnitrtisca, sold, that hle
was present at the sale in questioo, when Mr. ?tic,: bought On
horses, and paid dorm 471.
Cm:a-examined by Mr. Steat.tet.--The horses wets brought
from Price's stables, and wither understood they were his own
home,.
31r. Samuel Pullen—ls the pWetiff's attorney ; issued a cren-
migsion of bankrupt wainst Me. Filet on the 18th November.
1813.

An examination of the bankrupt Price before the Cocriniiveioatee
was here put in and read, in the course of his limn= he acittoow-
, lodged that he made the purchase of the horses, and said, that at
the time he had not a penny, but bad borrowd 471. of • fritod,
and could borrow 681. from another.
This was the plaintiff's case, end
Air. Se attLerr submitted that the pliant*. wisest he nowsuited ,
inasmuch as this action could not be sustabasd by him, as one of
the assignees of Mr. Price, but that it ought to bare been browge.t
jointly by hies and ble.-Weee, she *bar maga*,
Mr. Get xe'r contended, in answer to this, thee lie coald nor
bring it as assignee, yet he could as auctioneer ; the it was the every
day prectiee for scuttle to be brought in the name of the NKr
tioneer, though he bad no interest whatever to the property
at site.
The LARD Curer Juertc4 was inclined to be of opinion with
with Mr. Scarlett on the point of law, but thought if there wan day
defence the point might be reserved, and the Cale go ea, to present
the carries from coming agaib to trial.
Mr. SCAILICTT then went on with his defence. He said lbw
he was very glad his Lordship had reserved the point for ItUe,
though he might perhaps be able to settle the ease very quickly in
another way. lie then went on to observe on the very emissive
transactions of the plaintiff, of his great acquaintanee with babas,
and of the unlikelihood of a men of hie kw/Wedge of melt ODOI
manners selling these horses on the credit of Mr. Price, while
he was an uncertificated bankrupt. The name of Mr. Awe*
had been mentioned. This gentleman, at the time, was a maw .
muter, engaged very extensively in business, and having very gem
credit; and Air. Dixon might very reasonably have objections I*
Mr. Price's responsibility. He could hue tone at all to thole(
Mr. Auger ; and he was prepared to show, by Mr. Nash, the agent
of Mr. Auger, that the horses were actually sold on his stalks-
taking to guarantee Mr. Dixon for the price of them.
Mr. Nash, the secretary of Mr. Auger, was called, end
that a note had been sent, by Mr. Auger to Mr. Dlitoo, oer::
himself to guarantee Mr. Drson to a certain amount.
The LORD Cuter JUSTICe briefly summed tap. There was,
he said, only one question for the Jury to consider—whether than
horses were sold on the credit of the defendant Price, or as ebto
credit of another person of the Darn, of Auger? To prove thee they
were sold on the credit of Price an answer. en the examinatie* ilf
the commission, in which he says he paid 471. be bad borrowed et
• friend, and that another friend had
.peoentee4 him ai. more,
Mr. Nash says that he took o note in writing fsolll Air. Anger to
Dixon, desiring him to give credit to the amount of tAL in kis
name. In point of law, thete was a great difference between giving
your word and giving a note in writing. In the latter case yew err
be sued, in the former you canno-. If the horses were sold. knocked
down, sail delivered on the credit of Anger, the plaintiff Moat
fail. Notice, it appears, had been give* to the plaintiff to Wm.
duce the catalogue of the sale, which usually contains the names et
the buyers. This catalogue had not been produced. Now, if she
name of Auger was put down as the buyer of these horses, times
was • good reason wiry it had not been produced, There .iii mo-
ther point which has been put, which seems to deserve =wider-
ation.—and that is, that it is highly improbable that Al;. Dinett
would sell to en uncertiticated bankrupt.
The Jury immediately found a verdict for the defendant.
The LORD Cuter JuSTICI (on this verdict being declared)
turned to the defendant's Counsel and said, in his good-humswasa
way. " this is better for you, Mr. Scatku, than your poise ed
law."

TIM tile v QAIxIT T.
Mr. TISDAT. said that this was an indichritht sigaiebt My,
Garnett, for unlawfully refusing to 'errs the °liked constable in
the srd of Cripplegate.
Mr. Commox Senowase stated the case; he said that kr.
Garnett was &gentleman of very great respectability, carrying on •
very extensive business aa a corn-faators being oar of the swam
in the firm of Scott, Palmer. and Garnett, in Addermasibury.
said that the parish had no right to iaquire 'where the pasties va-
sided. Mr. Palmer, one of the firm, had servA the office away
time ago, and therefore, he ennteaded, that Mr, Harnett 11111 AS, -
liable, and cited the King Poynder, in support of this infected*.
Mr. Heather, examined by Mr. Common latimasaw w,--b •
collector of ward-rates. The different memben of the hoist of
Scott. Palmer, and Harnett have been sunine4 to attend mod
meetings; believes that Mr. Patron Issa served the otdce of Mr-
seer. ; does not know that Mr. Palmer has anted or fined he al-
most every ode.
Some conversation here took place atioutttbe Sat of the Hint v.
Poynder, when ,
Mr. Gnaw xi., who was for the defenda;ts, said. that is that
case, Hobson, • clerk of Ponder's, was in the occupation of she
house, and that Ponder never lived tberehimself.
Mr. Commow Statiwatre added, that there was now another
case of the same kind before the Court, is which Mr. Adlaed was
defendant, but he understood there was no dwelling-house.
Alr. Richardson called.—Waa present at the elect/on of ward
beadle in April 18%. He took the poll. Mr. Harnett atteaded.
mid voted for Mr. Heather. the lost witness ; it is neassaary to be
a householder in order to vote at this election.
Mt. Gums we here took an obiection, that Me Garnett was es 4
in the indictment to be a householder and inhabitant, bat he had.
not been proved to be so inhahitsist
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Examination continard.—Mr. Palmier is a bocsekeeper ; Mr.
Garnett reeides at II imprtead, and sound be a very utiat person lo
serve the duties of a constable.
Mr. Palmer, examined by Mr. PoLl.pox—ls a wiser la tits
firm of Scott, Garnett, and Pallier- They hare Weltalitintliouse
in Aldermanbnry. He (witness) mania the dwohnspisonse. and
has occupied it fbr tonal years. No abet person has any Wag
to do with it. Ho has sieved aU the aka of **parish.. l&
rived thee. slisee to rapes 4114 4ssw lb. iiausetalft at

safarstera. Hi must daps at this beam Ha merely attends se
Su ••••shwisuss
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by Mr. rowstow StIGCANT—The rates foe
= 1141•.11
41•4111041 that is, both the dweitirter and eountiog-houie,
us Pad bit inasem The rut is also paid by the firm. Witness
t'o a dad M Streatham tn Has not slept in Alderaubuty
41641fiesteas.
flya
at
by
b Mr. Opmetw—The dwelling-house is entirely
wht. metrol, and he can sleep in it whenever he pleases.
Letts elite? leveter.--There is nothing in this cue to
N In • Jury ; the object isf the parties is merely to tty the ques-
ladle . foe they are desirous of brinking it before the Court; the
elltimilant oust be fogad guily, which is the only way of effecting
ISM
?he ,lary accordingly. ender his Lordship's direction, found the
didlestlant guilty, And the question et right will be brought before
die Coartitist Terns in • special arse.
NOV,* V. .1111111 Mr.
said that throws/ an ac'
*ho Is a coachman, to

..ith House Miss r, .oey's
They 'wild not let it be seen. I saw it, however, afterwards in the
street, and again at the Marylebone Police-office. I knew the dog
again.
Cross-examined by Mr. SCARLITT--The. dog was pupped on
AA fifth Feta.. IdAd him when about nine weeks' old. He had a
spat on his right side, and another on his left side. They were
kegs spots. lie is a Danish dog, for the purpose of following
hem and eartiages: I sold the-two dogs to House for half a guinea
lirte.examlned by Mr. Maawrwri. I hove been with Mr. Pitt
AP fifteen yews. „ I Irwin the habit of frequently seeing the dog
Won he was bat.
lielery Sergeant-7 am a coachman, and live in Wimpole-mewo..
- • I Orin the habit of tieing the dog from April to July, when be
*abbe ; he dog was remarkable for his colours ; he wax of thew
odours, white, black, and fawn ; there was a fawn coloured spot mi
• his tight side. •fla had a sure tail. oecasioned by a carriage tas.
fling over it. I saw him one day after lie was lost between Harley.
street and Vilmpole.rnews, knowing a carriage. toward the latter
end or Demob,' : saw him also at the Police.office ; House said,
" The dig is me property." Miss Kidney was present, but !do
not remember sherbet, she made any or what reply.
Richard Hill—l was the defendant's cotchioaa in the months of
July end August. 1824. Ido not remember what day the dog was
beought fdt sale, but it was about the end of July or the beginning
of Mignon ; -the dog appeared to be about five mood's old ; he was
Jon gelling over the dirtcmper ; he was very poor and very badly
brulaed in the tail. The man asked 14... fur him, which my
mistress world not give; he came again the next day, and she
bought the derive a guinea. Artier the dog was dieenvered fallow.
leg her carriage, she said that 1 wannot to let any body see him.
Cross-examined by Mr. SCARLLTT—Vou make a very good
wiiness. Mr. Hill ; you will now tell me. perhaps, when you isk
Mies Kidney's service P—ln October. 1824. a
Why did you leave hen-?—There were some differences bee
:well us.
What was the difference T—We bad a quarrel.
Mow long have you known Mr. House ?-1 have known him,
• time.
did you find him out se a witness T—fast December.
11
lyiji
•11f tabs yew before a magistrate ?—He did.
you bound over to keep the peace to Min Kidney T—l
w neatly, there was no writing about It.
ere ea alien before a Magistrate P—No, he came to our
blue. ; ft woe In the tele of Wight.
Did the givg you a cjiarecter when she discharged you P—No •
bat 1 girt a Owe Idtboot one, and she was the mews of depriviai
megfit.
!Mt yam net the means of-the man selling the dog to Mile
KIIP—No.
DM oat VAS introduce the man to Miss Kidney ?—I did.
How long did you live with WA Kidney T—Two or the,e
years.
Abraham Digg. examined by Mr. Costume ft aaaaa NT—I was
hue Kidney's coachman. I lived with her till last July. I m-
endable Strum coming up to the carriage ; he caught the dog by
the !Aar, and chinned it an his property. I succeeded the last
ei la bow service; the dog was of three different colours. 1
wbweflatsdweernight. if any person came tochtim the dog, not to
let Memlimetern. When Howie came the fMlowtog day he did not
see draft g I was sent for into the house and the dog followed
owe TI/011aio a very good description of the dog ;he had not
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should now tell the Jury, not to show its spots till it is some months
old, but that they are successively manifested from the period of
about three months to twelve months of age. On the 3d of August
it hid not a spot upon it. Could this be the name dog that was
lost ? He should prove also that the dog was in beautiful condition
at this time ; that it had no distemper: could this be the same dog,
shish was represented as just recovering from the distemper? NV ich
respect to the man who sold the dog, he should prove that Richard
Hill said to Miss Kidney that he knew him very well, and that his
brother was groom to Lord Ashbumham. It is +mid, in aggravation
of this rase, that Miss Kidney sent for a wswerable. She acted pru-
dently in so doing. She thought u an attempt had already been
matle by House to take away the dog by force, he might repeat it.
She sent accordingly for a constable, as the most certain means of
keeping the peace. He should now advert to another point. When
House came for his dog he represented it as being the property of
his master, Mr. Mitchell(' leman of very great respectability,
said Mr. Searlett, and whom I the pleasure of intimately
knowing), and that he (House) came to claim the dog on his be-
half. Again, his description of the dog to Miss Kidney was very
curious. He said tire tail was entirely crushed off, except a small
piece of skin. Resides all this, when the matter was Mime the
Magistrate, if It had been settled that the dog was the property. of
House, she would undoubtedly have given it up to him. She had
no wish to keep it wrongfully. It was a favourite certainly, but it
was trot ber companion—she was not in love with it. 1

Alias Tracy, a young lady apparently about In, was called, and
examined by Mr. SCARLZTT-1 know Miss Kidney, I wan on a
visit to her when the dog was offered for sale; Richard Hill intro-
duced the man, and said he had known him for many yesrs; the
dig was very young, coite a puppy , he hod two very light spots,
L but nodark ones; be was white all over ; at a short distance be
appeared perfectly white. He was not fit to run atter a carriage;
he way in good condition. We went down into the yard to examine
him, and I induced Miss Kidney to buy him, because he had such a
beautiful white nose; if I had not seen him again till December. I
do not think I should have known him, he was become so spotted;
I do not think any body would.
James Dapper—l am a farrier; I live in Marylebone; I at.
attended the stables of Mies Kidney; I examined the dog's tail ; if
it had been damaged, there must have been an ossification or swell.
ing of the hone, but there was no knot at all. I should think it
was, when purchased. about nine or ten weeks old, it could not
have been five months old. _ . .

.....
Isaac Turner—l am a veterinary surgeon; I examined the dog;
its tall had no mark, it had never had either fractme or dislocation ;
the Danish dog usually puts out its spots from three to twelve
months of age.
Cross-examined by Mr. Costuott SERGEANT—The Root is not
visible, yet a dark shade may be observed on the am where these
spots appear.
Re•examined by Mr. SCARLETT—No person could tell till
after the lapse of a few months what these spots will be.
Mr. Spagrtioletti.—l am acquainted with Miss Kidney. 1 wan
sent down to see the dog after it was purchase/ ; there were several
large spots ; it appeared to have been distentpeted ; the hair was
off in places, and it had all the marks of the distemper. Mr.
Mitchell came, and said the dog was not his, but his servants; the
dog had a large dark spot behind ; it appeared to be three or
four months old.
Mr. Hunt —I am a constable. I was sent for by Miss Kid-
ney. House said the dog was the property of his master, Mr.
Mitchell. and he claimed it on his account.

Cross.examined by 31r. Comstog•SEncitANT.—Miss Kidney
Impressed herself very unwilling to part with the dog.
Mr. Harmer.—Bigg came to me several times about the dog.
He said that from the description House gave of his dog, this
could not be the same. He did not say this doubtfully.
Mr. Coststox SERGEANT replied upon the evidence for the
defence very acutely and at considerable length.
The LOAD CHIEF JUSTICE was proceeding to sum up. when
the Foreman of the Jury, addressing his Lordship, maid, they
would spare his Lordship that trouble, as they had all made up
their minds.
The LORD CIIIEY JUSTICE.—I don't know how ; though I
suppose for the plaintiff:
Foreman.--Yea. my Lord.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—WeII, I cannot dissgree with
you i that it, I think, as your verdict ought to be. You will con-
sider what damages you will give.
After cor suiting a moment, they returned a verdict for the
plaintiff: Damages—Ten Guineas.

SURREY SESSIONS, KINGSTON, OCT. 19.
VAUXHA LL GARDENS.
Mr. LIAR wwri.z. applied for the usual license to this placed
amusement in the name of Messrs. (lye and ilughet ; Mr. Bish
having, since the last license was granted, retired front the pro-
prietorship.
Mr. BRISCOE said,
Implication, but he had
4100, sod he could ,
ghee* bad upon the
rldyN oilhe county,
[lra RS of the public
don were properly re
dons to immorality i
frequenting them.
could be enjoyed
country, but he thought
straints, and he felt it an
of this license, unless •
whom it was granted, tl
none that might be imp
favour; if they did not. .
the same restrictions as other pu
Mr. Sviessa said that an indulgence had been granted to the
prOprietors of these garden., by which they were permitted to sell
41quan from the bar till two in the morning. So far only. they had
UM mempted from the regulations to which publicans in general 1
MN liable.
Mr. Ri xotcg, in allusion to the worthy Gentleman who had
,introduced this discussion, said he considered it was highly impro-
per in any Magistrate to bring forward charges against the pro-
prietors of these Oardens of the serious kind he had mentioned,
without having a single cue to name in corroboration of his state.'
menu.
Mr. Rancor said he was not aware that the proprietors were
differently situated as to the time of closing their bar, to any
other publican. The remarks that had been applied to him by
his brother Magistrate, he thought might have been made more
courteously.
Mr. Shstwist asked if the worthy Magistrate (Mr. Briscoe)
would have the bar of these gardens closed at the same time that
publie-hosses were shut up ?
'• No, no !" exclaimed the greater part of the Magistrates on
the bench. " that would be at once saying, shut up the gardens 4bl:
together."
Mr. Bay , understand that Vauxhall Isom-
quantity of liquor consumed during

year he suggested to the Court two
propriety of these gardens would be
referred to a description of debeing,
prejudicial to the morals of young per..
then riven by the proprietors that It
promise which he believed had been
• heard any complaint on that head.
time of closing the bar ; and he had
recollected, that he then wished the hotr to
'es, however. determined that two was the
been told of any instance wherein the
_it open after that time hid been infringed
nevertheless, still remained the same, and he
were not given out after midnight,
materially to protect the morals and
young persons from disgrace, if not
_ Mr. Hughes, one of the proprie.
whether any liquor had been drawn if.

- •
certalnly not."
opinion that twelve wmikl be a bet.
• bar—and moved, that that time be
of two, as it tow stood.
cannot receive the motion. The
trr sell spirits; but this Bench cab

. -
... it thinks proper upon the persen to
permission. The worthy Magistrate then
he ficense be granted to the individuals ap_
same terms they took it last year. He was
course, because, during the &eason, he hidl
had not seen the smallest breach in
Entered into, when a similar applica-
de in this Court last yenr.
almost without any opposition.—License

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These Sessions commenced yesterday before Francis Coast, Esq.
and a full Bench of Magistrates.
Jos. Writ;/81 and Caro. Jackson. two of the officers of the Men-
dicity Society, were indicted for assaulting and falsely imprisoning,
for the space of eighteen hours, James Grant, and Ellen his wife.
Wright appeared to take his trial, but a certificate of illness, as
ampected Jackson, was put in, and his recogaizances were conse.
quently ordered to be respited. An application was made for the
defence that the trial of Wright might be postponed till Jackson
was able to attend, but as Mr. PHI Litre, for the prosecution, re-
fried to consent to such arrangement, the trial was oodered to
peeeled.
all.. Niece.les, in stating the case, observed, that it was one of
considerable interest and importanoe. His client was a poor and
humble man, but, although poor and humble, had a claim to the
protection of the law against the outrages of those who were better
circumstanced than himself. The defendants had represented that
their conduct had been in react accordance Witt. the instructions of
the Managers of the Society of which they were agents, but he
could nel, believe such was the can ; if, however, it were so, lie
could only say that the Society was a disgrace and discredit to the
metropolis. The prosecutor had been supplied with the means of
conducting the present trial by the joint contributions of a number
of respectable individuals who witneseed the conduct of these offi-
cers, and who would now come forward to speak to its impropriety.
The Learned Counsel proceeded to state the facts of the case, to
sustain which be called the following witnesses:—
James ()rant, the prosecutor. sworn—l ant a tailor by trade, and
ansilso a private in the East Middlesex Militia. On the 19th May
I was passing with my wife and two small children (I carrying one
and she the other), through Piccadilly, when my attention was
attracted by a very grand equipage, which was standing at the door
of al r. Hales, a stationer living next door to the Egyptian Gall. 1
was told by the persona who were collected amend, that it was the
Marchioness of Londonderry's carriage, and from a feeling of
eseiesity I resolved to wait till her Ladyship re-entered her car-
Soon after I saw her come out of Mr. Hales's shop, and as
the was entering the carriage, • tall man, shabbily dressed in black,
came up to her and asked charity. One of the attendants pushed
him aside, and as the carriage was driving off, a person came up
and took this man into custody, but after carrying him a few yards,
let hint go, and then, with the defendant, Jackson came up to my
wife, and began to drag her away. I inquired what they were going
to do with her ? and Wright replied, " We'll have you too," and
then leaving their hold of my wife, they seized hold of me, and
commenced dragging me along in a most violent manner. They
tore my coat to ribands, knocked off my hat, and after that kept
besting me over the head and shoulders, Wright with a thick
stick, and the ether with his staff. 1 still had my child in my
right arm, and one of the blows happening to hit him, I lost all
patience, and letting down the child, hit Wright with my fist in
the mouth, and bled him. After this they redoubled their violence,
notwithstanding that the crowd kept calling " shame" upon them,
and one man in particular, who was on horseback, told them that
they ought to take me before a Magistrate if I had been doing
anything amiss, and not to use me in that manner ; to which
%Fright replied, that he should use me as he liked. and calling the
man who interfered a vagabond, and other opprobrious names,
said that if he did not go away, he would pull him off his horse,
and lock him up in the watchhause also. and wife were
finally dragged to St. James's watchhouse, and there locked up in
separate black-holes till the following morning, when we were con.
',eyed to Marlborough-street Office. On our way there, Wright
took me into a public-house, and gave me some bread and
cheese and beer, and told me to acknowledge myself is' fault
when before the Magistrate, and that it would then not go
so hard against me. I promised so to do. On being
brought before the Magistrate, a charge of vagrancy was
preferred against me, but was dismissed; and I was then charged
with ;assaulting Wright, and on this' charge was ordered to find
bail, which being unable to do, I was sent to prison, where I had
lain five weeks, when Mr. Hale kindly consented to bail me.
While I was imprison, Wright called several times on me, and
wanted to persuade me to write a Icier to the managers of the So-
ciety, acknowledging that I had been guilty of the act of begging
charged against me, telling me that if 1 so did, nothing further
should be done to me. I told him I would take his advice, but I
never did do it, nor did I at the time mean to do it.
Cress-examined by Mr. ANDREWS-1 hove been a soldier two
years ; but tiara no allowance exeepting when called out. lam
living at 111, Orchard-street, Westminster. The clothes I had on
when apprehended, were not so good ea thole I now wear. They
were rather shabby . the coat might be worth 35., and the trousers
2a. lam better off' now, as I have more work at my business as •
tailor.
Mr. Aunntivs—flow often have you beer. in custody for
begging ?
%%"

..., gentleman,"
refused to take the

charge.
Mr. Awcanws-'How long ic Assam this happened ?o-I don'
knew:
ye. Axbenws—Can you tellanything near the tithe?—No,
cert. -
Mr. Anottras—lsit three yeas, or is it five veers? You can
tell within a year, I suppose?—No I can't ; I don't know how
long it is. • 1.
The Learned Counsel here referigei to some particulars which the
Mendicity Society had supplied him whit; and from the man's
answers to the questions thereon wounded. it appeared that the
Society had long possessed a most correct knowledge of his name,
his place ofhativity, and theresidsoces which he had occupied since
his return, some few years back, from Martinique. It also ap-
peared Mat sometime back he applied to the Society for relief, and
received from-them it basin of soup sod at:pence. •
Ellen Grant, the wife of the prosecutor, gave an account of the
of conduct, similar to that given by her husband.
In her ernes-examination, site said that she did not curtsey,
nor do any other act., with a view ofiseutacting the notice of
the .Marchioness. Her husband and her were at the time going
into A lbemarleAtreet, where the/ intent to commence singing.
Mr. Hercules Bides 5w0rn.,...4 tarn a' son of Mr. Hales, a book-
seller, and remember seeing the plaintiff's, with others, standing
near the blarchiliness's carriage on the day mentioned in the in.
dictment. There was a tall man in the crow who asked charity
but was pushed aside by one of her Ladyship's attendants. I did
not see either of the complainants ask charity, and I was standing
a such a situation that 1 must have seen ahem had they so done.
Just as the carriage drove off 'Weight came up and seized hold of
Grant's wife. Grant said something to hint but what I could not
hear, and immediately after Wright turned round, and seising
hold of him, commenced beating him with his staff over the head
and shoulders. The other officer also struck him with his staff.
One of the blows fell upon the arm, by which Grant was support-
, ing his child, and caused him to let it down, and it was then, and
pot till then, that he struck the officer. By this time the officers
had dragged the man some distance, and as I did not leave the
shop door, I could only perccise that the officers continued strik-
ing at him.
Cross-examined.—l was examined as a witness before the Grand
Jury.
Mr. Nathaniel Hales corroborated the lastwitness, and as he ac-
companied the parties to the watch-house was able, in addition. to
confirm the account given by the complainant and his wife, as to
the indignation expressed by the mob, and the insolence of the
officers towards a person on horseback, who remot.trated against
their harshness. Witness attended tho'follevrirez day at the Police
Office, and gave evidence :o the ante effect as not.
' Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREIVO—YoO went to the Police-
offilee under the supposition that a wring hell been done ? „
Witness—l went with the certainty that 1.41-ong had beeoTone.
Mr. lismitel Carter and Mr. James Riurnham, assistants to
Dr. Reece, of the Eg6Eutian Hall, and Mr. Peat, a saddler, liv.
log directly opposite, a I bore testimony to the nprovoked and can.
necessary seventy of officers.
Mr. A Knit E ws, far the defendant, catorneered with explaining the
motives which -had ind u red the Society to stip forward to give their '
servant the means of defence. The dutieshe had to perform were
of an arduoos meanie, as it was not to be tarred that the sturdy
beggar wuuJd submit to the apprehension his person, and the
exposure of his artifices, without a violent struggle t. and it there.'
fore became the more jecumbent on the Society to protect
their servant to the utmost while he might be engaged in'
the due discharge of his ditty ; but if on the contrary he
abused the power intrusted to him there was no wish
on the part of the Society to screen hint from punishment.
In the present inns:toe, the object of the Society was the eheitine
the truth, and with this view they supplied him with the means of
defence ; but it must not therefore be supposed that they were de.
tennioad on protecting him triton all itsaardn, or that they would
eontinue him in their employ if the result of the proceedings of to-
day atioithi afford a reasonable conviction that he hal wantonly end
wilfully bees guilty of an act of oppression. With respect to the
*Heard act of imprisonment, the answer was. that by the new Act
of Parliament it was lawful to take into custody any persons who
might befoand iirandering about with Main to commit an act of
vagrancy. The question of intent was one which required refer.
ence to past habits, and was one there/ere which could not always
be proved on the instant, a circumstance which accounts for the
prieonea not being taken before a magistrate until the following
marmite. Reside*. he was given to understand that the magisteatee
of the °flint in qiiestion never attended tcleinninfrated cases of this
kind' at the evening m
that ing, could.doubt hi s•
As respecter; the latent, who, after
iin
Nearingthe evidence niece by (heei•
intent ?• Who-was there that did not see t t the carrying of the-
children in their anus, and pladag them en in a situation so as
to attest notice, was all meant to extort my ? And although
it might he true that they did not ask shaky, still it was cagy to
effect the 11X106 object by-a curtsey from togwife, and a supplant
kook from the husband. The officera, knowing their character*,
and fairly inferring their intent from the eireuinstances under which
dhey found them, did no more then their duty In apprehending
them : and with respect to the alleged assault afterwards, if he was
gighdy haepostad by his Wiest, no mere frees had been used than

was necessary to repel the resistance which they met with ; but un.
fortunately he was riot in *condition to prove this, as the complain-
ants had artfully contrived to indict both officers ; • still he trusted
the Jury would rigittly weigh the case, and return such a verdict as
would enable his client to leave the Court with honour.
The CHAIRMAN. in summing up, said, that the case was one of
very grest importance, and he should therefore preface the sum.
ming up of the evidence by souse general observations. As re-
petted the imprisonment, he could not consider it illegal, the charge
being of • nature that rendered delay necessary, and the character
of the man furnishing a strong presumption against him. The
question whether the blows had been given, and the circumstances
under which they were given, were matters for their (the Jury's)
consideration ; and as he should read his notes of the evidence to
them, they would be the proper judges as to what credit was to be
attached to the evidence of Grant, and whether the violence, if they
were of opinion that it had been used, was harsh and unnecessary.
The worthy Chairman proceeded to recapitulate the evidence, and
concluded by expressing his conviction, that whatever might have
been the conduct of the officer whose case was before them, still the
society had worked much good by ridding the streets of a great
proportion of the impostors who used to infest them.
The Jary, after a short conference, found the defendant Carinvi of
the assault on Grant, but acquitted him of the assault on his wife,
and also of the charge of Islse imprisonment. :sentence was de.
Leered till each time as the other defendant might have taken his
trial, and in the mean time Wright was admitted to ball.

M saitTTlZa.li tt.nesran an aciion of trorer, brought
htztita plaintiff, Oho Is a coachman, to recover damages for the
toe of a dog.
Mv. Conabw fbeactgawr stated the cue. The .lury. he ob. 1
terved. had already heard that the plaintiff was &coachman ; the
defendant eta • lady of great opulence. residing at Maids Hill.
There was no intention tan impute any dishonest motives to the lady
lot teen affair; she had doubtless come fairly by the dog, and some-
bine or other it had become a great favourite. and she was unwilling
to ran shb k t the history of the transaction was shortly this: the
dpi hed'been WWII a Mr. Siaglield, about the beginning of the
year ISIS. and sold to Mr. Howe, the plaintiff, in the April fol-
lotting. when it was about nine weeeks old. Sometime in July the
dog was lost, and Mr. House never a got a glimpse of it for several
nimitha. abet he saw it one day following a very handsome ear.
mile. He inquired of the footman the name of his mistreat, ,
wedge las refined; he then laid hold of the dog, when the carriage
wee drawn pp, and the lady said to him, " I desire that you
will not take that dog away, as it belongs to me." She
gave him her card, and desired him to call next morning
at nine o'clock. He was punctual to the appointment, but was
telld thatnothing could then be done. end he must call again at
one o'clock. Redid so, when insteed of having the dog delivered
my. Whim, as he expected, he •u met by a constable whom Miss
Kidney had sent fur under the pretest of keeping the peace, and
he VMS sent away without even being permitted to see the dog He
then had Mies Kidney brought up be summons before Mr. Raw-
lamb, at the Marylebone Police °Kee. The Magistrate gave him
&fortnights° Sad the person of whom Mitts Kidney bought the
dog troller a curious Inquiry, certainly, under the circumstances),
cad finally dimnisecl the-application, es there was no case of felony
made oat. There never was. of course, any intention of bringing
vet a Charge against Miss Kidney. and the plaintiff was driven
to his action of scorer far a lentelly. The dog was very distin.
galehable. At the time it. was lost it }tad a dark 'pot on its right
shin and another on the left thigh near the bock it had the dew-
claws cut off One of the ears was longer titan the other, and it
had just had the distemper. All these peculiarities would be
gluten to apply exactly to the dog which was in Miss Kidney's
possession, aid whin he had made out these circumstances, lie
fat that he should be entitled to a verdict.
Thomas SingOeld.—ln February 1924, I lived in Wimpole.
mews. I ant a coachman ; had at that time several young dogs ;
sold two of 'hen to Ur. flown, a dog and a bitch. I cut the dew-
claws off all my dogs. House loot the dog in July. At this time
the dog had the distemper. He had his ears cropped. They were
haellv cropped. One appeared to be rather longer than the other.
In December I went with Hoene to ins Kidney's at blends Hill.

sulkseet opportunity of seeing him the day before, so as to have together."
been able to describe the circumstances about the cropping of his Mr. Batscot —Then lam to
rte, his spots, and dewclaws. Miss Kidney was present when he sidered as depending upon the qua
. ' d 1 led the dog. Mr. Hunt, a constable of the parish of Pad. the night?
dissless, was mint for between nine and one o'clock. After House Mr.R.J4cceorr said thatlut y,
irks goes away again, she said, of House and his friends, they alterations, by which the props
were enstleing but a •pareel ot doenstealers. While in bliss Kid. greatly improved ; the first refer
Dees envies I was offered tea guineas for the dog. which he considered highly prejut
t Oresseexanaiesed by Mr./ices!. ero—l was discharged by Miss sons ; and a promise was then
Kidney there was as unlock, accident. should not again be used ; a pro,
iffy Mr. flotneser.—What sane this avident P—l would not adhered to, as lie had not since hi
bqg her pardon. The matter happened In this way : I drove her to 'rite next point related to the time
the open. Pop* one nighty I set her down ; I then put my hones no doubt it would be recollected,
up, and yernimed about eleven o'clock ; it happened unfortunately be twelve 1 the Magistrates, how,
I ' We the Iwwae ins net OISOR that night ; she told me next morning better hour, and he had not beet
• I was I II wee pony for it. undertaking not to keep open I
' . Fe. REMSLEEIt—WIOI you not assaulted by Mr. House? upon. Him opinion, nevertheles
• - a huleassailltgd by him in resisting his attempt to take felt confident that, if liquors we
1 r- dog. I indicted elm at the Sessions fan it ; be was not that it would' contribute most m
t 11%4 giving.instrustions to Mr. Harmer, I did not say oepittation of thousands of your
OM set &seethed the marks rightly, from ruin.
••• ..) erre....Cease, I'll help your memory a little: Did Mr.:Banco' inquired of /
'''' .1 Seem the tail of the dog through your hand, and say to Mr. tors, who was is Court, whethe.
! er the dog had never been injured in his tail ? ter two • and
witness hekhdieg math in &nattering Mr. Searktt's ques. Mr. Hughes replied, " most ci
. Mr. BRISCOE was still or.op
-
Clint? :CMOS Said, with considerable warmth, " I'll ter hour than two for closing the I
the whole of your evidence out of my Dotes if you do not substituted in the license instead
l'• answer." Mr. Suusea.—The Court c
? Printrrinwthatrenonilltnnt —I sold than Hesse was net able to de. license is merely a permission to
• endhetindeg es to a tonsil spot on ate shoulder ; I always thoeght impose what regulations it thi:
. ti. dog voile,. I dui not say to Mr. Harmer that I believed the whom it greets that permission
.
r.••
... doff was none ants; I din not think I said so; I told Mr. Harmer made a motion that the license I
that House cadet:int exectly describe all the spots, because some plying for it upon the same term
• dOn spate had net entre Out yet, panimiarly a small spot on the disposed to follo• this course, be
k RlARkiet i I dos examined at the pollee office; I did not say whose visited the gardens, and he had
U.* dee wear I only said that it was impossible to describe the the promises that had been cote
sWerepont. - Sot to the present was made in t
My aft. ratant.trT—When did House find on out as a wit. The motion was carried almost
men—tou did not know him before you prosecuted him at the Sea. granted.
sida4S—Lan week. THE COBURI
When were you discharged P—A bout the end of last July, or be- The license for the usual perfor
giatittrg of August. to Messrs. Jones, Olossopp, sea.,
/ • net you not tell me etraetin P—l do not know th,, precise day. any remark from the Bench.
. • fflhe have been taken before a Magistrate by your mistress ? THE SURRE
, .
Fri. 03 acme suspicion. Alr- TIERISIOZR obtained the
Posiernlned by -Mr. Crinnow SERORAKT.-1 wee witness Mr. Francis Hobert Iloneyniao,
i - oftsc.,t Howe at the Sessions. at toe desire of Miss Kidney ;he assignment of the late proprietor
' • • 'shied. hair s) interest in the establishme
IlieseuKielioneyeuhstatoidyyozitiarkdenargutlfe:aasfdeliz. luotodsooyfrothaesthaweantres., consented to
r idersfietheaniostx?—vrt;4ll.
' el, by Rid Rieltard Birefe.
toT
ASTLEY'S All
Illern /Arbon. another coachman, was examined, but his Mr. CowLer moved that the
el:fie-ire added nothing rneterni. begranted to the Minis Gill a'
. lh was decease ter the plaintiff. varinns persons interelned in it
1% fcetesstre now *deemed the Jury for the defendant. He interest of £.?tths in the theatre
I premised Pe Illisserving that he had often been struck by an observe- interest would be sufficiently gut
104 a„ which was made to him many years ago by a Iscly." You mon with the other individual
dint haeWdMid the) the difficulty of a sin
ewoman, sire I if le lap. however, had no olneettun to P
say en efuelMlgesi ts keep i -madman end footmen ; a man tom with theirs, if the Court should
I he p them In eent,ni, but a woman is Incessantly annoyed by to do so.
*Leen '' He at the time had regarded this remark as the petulant Mr. TISESSIOTR, on the Ten
on .crvation of a lady who possessed trio many of the gins of for. would continue her name in the
tune to end? them; but he had vines ween reason Mr eheage his interest in the theatre as she had
1 eptibion, an the present case formed an admirable own- was no reason why bet interest a
k •• . . avatar eon her ten/. He went nn to My, that If Richard slurred over.
ad HAI, 'her eneehman, h not been discharged without a Mr. PRATT represented Mean
trlntracer. the Jury would never hays heard of this Settoll. tlemen were the lessees of the pn
Sie-should move tu-dry, 'that this man, who had deleted all know. and being alone responsible, he t
. lege of the men who sold the don to Mies Kidney, had actually should have the license granted I
known his for ten years. Flrsho4d4ra, that on the 3d Amgen The COVET, after a long di
I ' this dog RV R mere puppy, tint this . which bad been so care. engstged in these applications, dl
as
by Ito spent, heed not a 'tingle spot el it, het that it teeing the Interests of all part
Ira Oita as Aso *Area saw. Disler eibanotteirof ele dog, la- conjointly, In which form it was
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, ••• r- tartoo.nK :- . •
NVitness--Never before Wright apprehended me.
laid, he did not intend altogether to oppose the 31r. A isDlirws—lilind what you are saying; come, recollect?
had given the subject a most attentive consider- Witness--I never was in custody before for begging.
l not avoid observing the dangerous effects these Air. AND RT. W s—Harc you ever been in custody?
,c public morals. It was the duty of the Magi'. Witness--(after long hesitation) I was once taken up, beeatt
y, who were the guardians of the public morals as an Irish gentleman gave my trite a is. in St. Jamea's.squme. ,
lic peace, to see that amusements of thitsitigiois,.. hie. Akr Daysici—Aed yet were frith yam *WU thiktistis I
tit- - Witness—l was.
regulated, because they threw so many
yin the way of those who were in the habit of 31r. A erinEws—And neither of you were begging?
He was friendly to those amusements that Witness—Neither of us.
by the largest portion of 'the people of the ftle. ANDIEWS—Then how came the Irish gentleman to gii
thought they should be placed under great re. you a Is. •
it it an imperative duty to object to the issuing Witness-410d Almighty 'know& I don't.
miens promises were tbade by the peewee to life. A atortivs--Were you ever taken up at any other time ?
fled, that they would rigidly obey the ramie- Witness—Not for begging.
a imposed on them ; then he world vote is their Mr. AVDRZWII—What then were you taken up for ?
id not, he would move that they be placed under Witness—lt was for singing ballads; but the " fat gentleman,
as as other publicans. at Hatton.garden, before whom I was taken, refused to take ti
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