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COUR f OF KING'o HtiNCH. W&sTMIDs?[•, April 13.

Thi. being the tint Jai of Easter Term, Lb." law
Courts bat, with the thual ey•retnonies.
The pope, -111:er made the metal retwit upon
oath, of the state of th several coO.tists under sen-
tence of tranTottation on board the hulks, in Ports.
thow.h harbour.
CRIMIN XI. varoRnATIoN•
Mr. GAILKONV ronved for leave, to file a criminal
Lamination against gentleman who bad totworly
held the rank of sap. air itt the Navy, but now was
no huger so, for smding a letter to an litinow able
Baronet, who also was a Captain in the woe ser-
vice, and commatulgd a body of Sr.r. rencittles,
oi,h intent to provrke •Ittro to fight a duel. The
learned Counsel men ion:-.3 uu names.

COURT OF sons .;ON Argot 23.
COt.O4IFI. THORNTON AND MR. BURTON.
Mr. Setj-ant COCRCL applied to the Court for a
rule to chew cause why the judgment obtained by
Thomas 'I hnrnton, Esq. upou Ct.!' tain Warrants of
Attorney, granted by Charles Christie Burton, Esq.
should not be set aside, and the said Warrants
ds-
Jiveoxd up to he cancelled,
The grounds upon which he made this motion
were as follow:—The Defendant, in the process of
the Court, which it was now moved to arrest, was
a eoring gentleman who had Little become of age.
and possessed of a considerable e.tate in Yorkshire,
lle had formed an intimacy with Colonel l'hormon.
the Blaititiff in that process; and toward. the latter
end of last year, was prevailed upon by him to be.
Come the purchaser of part of the Colonel's scud,
and other sporting noir:es In a visit which he made
to Thornville Royal. in November, a schedule was
delivered to hint of the horses, tie:toms, and other
artitle', which it WAS proposed to transfer to him.
In this schedule were set down, 13 head of deer,
2401. ; gutss, 2241. ; sundry 1010.1 mares, 500 gui•
neas ; hawks, 401.; a piaure of a lon end lioness,
501. ; of a roebuck, 701.; Venus and Cu 'id, 401. ;
two Rubens, 10001.; foxes, *RA. ; and various
other items. forming a total amount, in estimated
value, of b,500 guinea.. For this sum, the De.
fendant, Mr. Burton, was requested to_sign a me.
moranduot, which he understood to be in the na-
ture of a Kornis-toy nate, making payment Jut
in six months. Confiding in the honour of Co-
lonel Thornton, he did not hesitate to comply ; but,
as he had sinee learto.d, the torroment he signed
proved to he a Viorrant of Attorney, to conic-s
judgment fir I;500 guineas. A few days after the
above trans:alio-4 the Odin:oam received a letter
from Colonel Thornton, which stated, that as he
( Mr. Burton) s. as a young sportsman, who aimed
at making a figure in that charader, the Colonel
would aid him ia Lis %-iews, and •• make him com-
plete," by ~ding to him some other of his sporting
paraphernalia. In consequence of this invrtatio.i,
Mr. Button revisited Tnornville Royal, and again
became the purchaser of various things recommend.
ed by Coloncl Thornton ; including hor.es, hounds,
a room of curiosities, some pit:tares, extolled as the
chef d'auens of the most eminent masters, and a
quantity of ex:visit.: wines. in 14 binni, each of a
diffoent sort; and wkrich, it was represented, would
I last for ten years, as bouee low& wine, to the Defen-
dant and I.is friends. This purchase amounted ro
between 7 and 00001. ; anal another paper writing
WAS executed in favour of the Colonel, as a security
for that sum. This, like the former, it had been
subsequently funud, was a Warrant of Attorney,
to confess judgment. Soon after these contrAas,
Mr. Burton became embarrassed in his circum-
stances; and, being arrested at Doncaster for the
sum of 301/1. Colonel Thornton ofieted to. become
bail for him, and recommended that the Defendant
should execute a Warrant of Attorney, giving 'him
power over all his effects, as trustee, its older to ae.
cure the same from seizure by. the creditors. Mr.
Burton. who began to su•pect his.aolviscr was
not the character he ought to be, declines' this ; lost
upon Colonel Thornton introducing him to Thomas
Clifton. Esq. a barrister, and friend of the Colonel,
who was then attending the Sessions at Doncas-
ter, he acceded to their joint advice. and exe-
cuted the proposed instrument; by which, pro-
perty to the amount of 270201. or thereahuats, was
put into the power of the Colonel. Upon this occasi-
on, the other warrants which had been graated,were
not delivered up, and the debt for which the Defen-
dant was arrested, being in a few days settled, with-
out any expence to Colonel Thornton, the only con-
sideration ever given by him for this Warrant of
Attorney, to so large an amount, was a sum of 10
guineas, which the defendant bad borrowed of hint.
Vtry few of the pidures, horses, Ike. purchased by
the Defendant, had ever come into his possession, in-
significant as their intrinsic value, compared with
what they had been represented to be, was. Of
those ohich had been acquired, the brood mares
were scabbed; the deer were sn old and poor that
they died; the curiosities were as assemblage of
trash; and the phkures, instead of being the chef
d'eue,es of Ruben., Corregio, Carlo I)elce, and
ke, were the veticst daubs that ever dis-
graced a drawing-room The Defendant (in this
application) had since caused issue, in this Court,
on the warrants, and had threatenel to follow it lip
with a distress. The ohjed, therefore, of the learned
Seijeant's motion was, to restrain hint in that pro-
ceeding, and that the warrants mi;;lit be given up
by Colonel Thornton, on pay meat of what was due
to him by Mr. Burton.
Chief Justice M tasr ttt o said, the learned Ser.
je.tnt had shown ground euough, and desired him
or take a rule.
Serjeant COCKEL hoped, if, as was espedesl, his
client should find out where the vato.•ife pilots were
bought by Colonel Thornton, and the price paid for
them, he would he suffered to file a supplemental

bill. lie believed they Walt frUM .4 Gaiitry in 11.1.
iJr7.
The enuit set nr-1 to assent.

Letters horn Dublin state, that in co3rertnenee of
the measures adopted by the Catholics of Ireland, !ti
cnoovi .g Delegates to att in the name of the whole
body, itc. His Grace the Duke of lisnrotiu has
clawed it to be signified to them. that if they persitt
in swab sendisct, he shill be under the i.esesiity of
putting the Convention Act in tote ag a nst then.