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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT JF lINd'S-BENCH, Wtatutosrets Int, I.
Sitting; of Nisi kopre Lord Chirf Et-
LENIIIIIOOOII.
SVAISR, D. COLtS.
This was an anitm for an assault.
The parties, Plaintiff and'Defendant, were coach
And coach-harness makers, and tin the evening of
the 4th of November last, had been at a merry.
making, with some of their companions. and brother
tradesmen, at the King's Arms public-house, iA
Cross-street, Lorig-acre, where they supped together,-
after which some praiaical jokes ensued ; the pasties
were a little elated, and as the Defendant was en.
deavouring to retire, some of the company seized
las hat, and endeavoured to keep him; f - sup-
posed to get rather angry; and the Plain.
back in his chair at the moment, received
blow in his stomach from the Defend,
in a bad state of health at the time,
aliened, that he was from that time,
D,ce;nber following, unable to work
Three Witnesses, on the part of the .
to those fads, and declared the assault
and unprovoked ; and one, nn behalf
ant, declared, that the whole orig:nat
about the bat, in which the Plaintiff t.
part as any one else, and afterward'.
agreed to accommodate matters, and
friends as ever.
The Jury, after a short consultatiodt
Verdia of 51. damages for the 'Plaintiff.

OLD-BA I L.EY SESSIONS.
These Sessions commenced yesterday
JUSTIC,.. Le 13L•NC, Mr. Justice CHANSON t„
coaure, bee. The Calendar is not heavy
her, but it contains several capital clurges,
which is one of thurffer. •
Mire "Inn Ryan was found jailie
counterfeit ,ixpence, she having been .
similar effmce at Clerkenwell Sessions..
taxed to one year's imprisonment. Tt
offence is made capital by the SMUT*.
trial of any inlet est occurred.
The Report of the Co.mnittee appointed
' inspea the Journals of we House of Lords
!Avon tis.'their prOceedings upon the Impeachment
not Maivicce, has been
con. -•.ts three Protei,s, delivered in .
th ..lbjeff. The first of there Protests,
s red AucriAso,Dusoss, Sensor
swam, Roisters, ST. Joao, Vases
I.accicaoaca, ONFOFTI and Moir
roa T, was delivered in the day before.
given in Vs estmisister Hall ; it consists
ohjeetiou to the form of proorediag, tr.
sentients contending that " it teas t.
praaice of the House, in cases of High
Misdemeanours, to come to some vot
Chamber of Parliament on the me, its r
presented by the Commotu"—The
which was delivered After the Verdi
Westminster, le founded upon the
Second Charge: it i. signed DAWA AT,
SiAIIVICtt`ASO.V,I TS FOROTII/Ct:'
VAWILL 140 L, AP.O. LAinceohca,
&teasels', Oaritab And Moss-
Cturros.
Piotest reL,tes to the permission
have been given by Lord Metvi tic to
Tin. his Paymaster, to draw from r
England for other purposes than for
Nay 11 Services, erintrtoy to " an Al
regulating the Office of Treasurer of
Nary. Ineff.i. 1 Protesr is signed.
oust. Fse,zeicic, CLIFTON, VASSAL.
LAVOEND.LA, Surrosa and Bapitssi,
wed Moarrstcs. DIJIIITAF, Sr. Joik
.siAwv tics. It referi to tl,e answer tc
oiventh questions. This third Protest
Actable l•tigth, but is not generally
•it is only a recapi-oistion of the princ:p.
used) by the Managers upon the trial,
already before the pdblic.
• -We have received a, Hamhurgh
t:sth lost, from which we have estrus:lad
ing articles:
. . NIONITZR,
The &Mewing notice was this
here t— •
" t antes to inform rise morchaits al the
Ilan Priaeint.es,tb.taancording to a rescript of
pr.vate Mitai,ter of Slap, Josh Ber:tw, it
ciAercoment allows the nevi tin of the B.
coaturbealrand the p4sage o! Neutrals to the I
See, is permitted —Aim that the Mitigation Act
to which, no fore-gn s'tips can catty the T•rushiction• of
moot!, to Yolland). rs ..uspeivied with respea
eels, with Mew froni ifru.si.‘n poets
" V. ViNtit, Pra•adent to the Chamber,
The following Circular Letter has '
.French Minister of Marine to the
the different french ports:
si 'no. that according
Majest, athisdAte, the En.haito is taken en
sets .I:tamad to consequence at the hostilities,
com.lties, th.t it n Hs hi.;esty'a Immune*
vessels oe at liberty to depart.
This measure must be considered .
a speedy adjustment of the dal-aeons' ,
two countries.
Baron JACOBI, the Prussian Ambassador,
derstand, has applied for his passport, pier
his leaving this country for Berlin. •
On Tuesday was played a grand
in the playing fields near Etun College,
the young gentlemen of Eton School,
of the officers of the Royal Horse GI
and the King's Own (Stafford) Militia, which was
won by the former by fifty tons.
The inhabitants of Andover were mach alarmed
on Thursday se'onight, by a whirlwind, winch, from
the description, nearly resembled a West Indian
tornado. It carried up are, haycocks, in a field
near the town, belonging to a Mr. Thomas Heave,
to an height past calculAtine, as a great porion of
the hay seas liter.uly carried beyond the reach of ti e
human eye. When seen again, the estimated height
was upwards of SOD feet. It fell in different pats
of the town and oeigitourhood, a portion of it fell
half a mile from the spot whence it WAS carted up.
The txpernatioa of the labJur.rs in die fields wasvery.

MiltAlbraeS EZPIDI77OI4'. t
—ram. •
•I" ROM 111 E AqtZR-ICAH:-PAIPSRih.t=,. •• •
THE MEMORI.% OF S. O. OGORN, OF THE,CITi
OF HEW YORK, ME;CHANT.
(Read in Conlin...it, April, 111.08.)
. •
Respeafully Sheweth—That your •2 1
is under a criminal prtisecution for as ofrainaiseapieiK
the laws of the United States, 9f which, If7hisist:a
guilty, he has been led into the error, by the coado4
of officers r.f the executive goverrarsent, who now ,
intend, by bringing upon him the penalties of the
laws, to sacrifice his charaCter, fortune and lilegnle.k
in expiation of their own errors, or to deozposts4impei
vengeance of foreign governments, by offeridlikwy
Tin)— to their reNentments.

our , that _
was, about the litter end of Novembet, comma .•
cared to the Secretary at State, and to
of the United States ; thAt after it •
day sin the hands of the: Steretary of ''•• •
ceipt of it was acknocclr igesi _by him ; and
shout the last of the same month, General
proceeded to WeshinKtoo, to communicate
ally bis plan to the Go►ernment. That immed• , •
after his arrival at IV3shington, General Mira • sit
♦hired die Secretary of State ; that in his 6irst int
view he informed me Srcre.ary, that he desired
inAte an wnportartt and confidential commbnicatiotk.
u. the G vernment, alcason AS the President shouid
permit it to ire/ism,/ ; ea.t at .5 sub.eque • t
it ter-
•icw, the Sicarmaty of S.,ittr 10Aetatc41 Lisp, SkifitiaV.

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m; he was sop. as a vidim to their re.entnients.
Plaintiff leaning Your Memorialist is the mvncr of an ani eh* t
'ceived a violent called the ',render, which lately sailed sehOm s
dant, and being' tort of New-York. onder the command or dusedlielpint .
~ was so much of Gen. Francisco sic Miranda, to whom yosOlifeip
, until the I llib morialist eh:mere:l the said ship. Your Memsereekiealir
at his business. in his mercantile capacity. was an a:live ague ill v
Plaintiff, swore fitting and providing her for the voyage oesmetehich
alt to bs,lsiolent she saikd ; and for his agency in this reeriseit,„ he u
lof the Defend. now stands indided. But your 'Memorialist .41 spat
laced in a scale know that there was any law of the United Optslaipt
' tonk'as alive a which forbade him to act as he has done, in a=4:
irds the parties to the said ship, nor could he believe that .
and be as good were criminal, whon be was certain that dui liwwitt
jeds of General Miranda, as connected with thes isz,
tation, found a pedition of an armament from the United 4r
'ntTff. had not oely len fully communicated to the Pre...'
sident andlhe &artery of State, bat bad reesiegOsh
'ONS. their applause and encouragement—who, be keel (a •
also, that the Executive Officers of the Gceereal 'eke
of the United States, at the city of New-Yoshs•lsetd
today before bit. a full knowledge of the- extraordinary equipeuffich
t heavy in.,
661111112. the Ny
nume- of the Leander, andwhen he found that soap.
-
char es, among sures were taken to caution your betevaorialistais r i
check these preparations. , • . ,
If the ads of your Memorialist have been illeselaa
'l., of uttering a he cannot doubt hut that the, laws my lispet im,,,
en renri?ed of a force against him. They may be instrunieole ills siss
ssims'. and sea- hands of that Executive, who has resdareallins oliria
t. This second noxious to the punishment they denounce: -Yet tie,
Mat- No other there must, be in a free Government, some.aleelent
every case from injustice and oppressions, ,yeeigbigeta
e appointed to morialist turns with cenfident hopes to the ammalsheel,4
Representatives of a free people, and teaelflie
ICI
of Lords, in re- it shall appear to them, that one of their
he Impeachment citizens has been seduced into an error by
mprepared. It couragement cf the Executive, that Eieetta'see.4l
a the Lords upon not be suffered to prostitute its power, by IsriagtogieN
'rotests, which is him punishment, when the guilt, if any there be,,,
occ and Banc- rests upon themselves.
_., ifs&
,ALLHOLLAND,Your Memorialist has not only to Folrellobt lag i'illte "
RTOIISS, C•RTS. injustice causing
of causi nim on be prosecuted at
e the Verdift was mina!, but to represent to you the illegal
fats merely of an conduidiog that protecutioni by Which OM .
r, the Noble Dis- cred rights of a citizen have been rialaisak,
is the invariable first principles of
_justice trampled gnaw loot 10,10, .
4lffh Crimes and Magistrate of the United States. 'That thiseatenit r
vote within the yoer Memorialist may be fully Were your bueoirti
is of the Charges able ho.ly. he will proceed to give a candid 117. .
r second Protest, of all the.faels obi& have relation Le*.
lia w" given in which he is accesed. ,
e Answer to the Your Memorialist was unacquainted wits: . '
ffNkYi 1"/".„'"' 4Miranda, till Oxen the 23d day of
'let,' wcwaLvlar slhen he returned Frotti WA:bingo*. 1* .....
a, Sur roue and plied to your Memorialist, as the owner or
"ma's thallaaas Leander, which he proposed to engage to
him, wish some men, ammunition, and au
nission alleged to of war, to a post in the SPaltish territory=
Ls to Mr. 'rotor- America, at the same time invithig your
Irn the Bank of :
-at to provide • variety of,shose artidell% vela& his -
for application to project requir 1; and. in order to endue, your ble-
Aa for the better morialist to #nbark in the enterprise, and IMMO,
if His Majesty-6 vince him tha..it had the approbation of Getreusa,
l—Rosscv is, An- . menrof the United States, the following fabta wen:
SIaLL tit,ILL•ND' disclosed to your hdremoriaret, and wen, •
assi 1., say XFORD ed by the representation of Col. Williarre=
loan. Di Dom- Surveyor of the Port of iftw Yorkr wad bye arse
r; to the sixth and •
nest is of coney- • converts herein-after mentioned.,
General Miranda is a native of the provisoes 44
illy interesting, as Calfaccas in South Anierica„ where he -wan list
ac: pal. argument earlier part of his life. The inhabitants of that
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trial, which ares try were representedas groaning under • •
,_ •
ence on a despotic goverment, and anxioet
th Paper of tke throw off the yoke. Many of General 114. .--.
rafted the follow- countrymen were also stated to have been : I
siroos of freeing themselves frees their bandage. .
Aran, Joel 11. ing to bite as their expelled deliverer, sad fad A
is day published receive and unite with him whenever lineboidd _
to them a hope of success. It was • . -"'
the Royal waviohi- that General Miranda had long entertained a, .
of Baron Von Systo,
.of emancipating his native coontrys wide,' reset • ;
Juno 5, the kne.sh
closed to T.Jefferson, Mr. and the design approlreAT., •
.115;dti•?. to remain ter
:he Ports of di. N n,th him, so long ago as when Mr. Jefferson was Malang
;anon Act (according at the Court of France from the United Steels. Ih.
, pr.h.c,....r Uses General Miranda had been for some years '
reared to motto., yes- aneexped G ing aid in his enterprise from •
tuber of Commerce' taia ; but that at-length Sulam his expo&releelef 4
AS been sent by the assistance from that quarter fallacious,- be Wilk
that country, and embarked fur thisr not will) Illa
e Commanders a incest to relinquish his design. Jan with Abe 1.„1,
.. N.;,, Jan.,. finding
. here the means of :21ICCON W I diet. be jag,
,g to a decree of kvi rivect in New York in the .begisaiig cd. )lovanober
en 01811 Rossiya ow last, bringing with him a eery immeming .botboo.
11"." between she"e portent leuer to a gentleman of the finvetwereltewee.
pa•a....1 lilt au +act) in New York, which fully developed his deers,' '
" DLCRES."
and stated that he had embarked for the Thessed•
ed as indicative cf States, on the executicu of the great plan, which'
"aces hetaeen the he had for so many years meditated for the liberatioa,
of his•coutury. That in utter despair of the tifisitisie
nbassador, we un- Goverpmeat taking any decisive step, he hod .44
ost, FeePetatetY to determined 'so try what cceid be•tfoilod 41 ..
n• resources as,ilianerica-•could fur nisit..and,strigle Wls
d match of cricket, willing to etwi him. 6,6, a, ~, mterprie,...oo,
)11 rge, by eleven of tioned by petilje eutbority, or undertaken by bulls.
loot, against eleven vidual adventorert .
e Guards (Blues), Yew. Memorialist was Well assured that obis letter.
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