The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-19 00:00:00

blithe. with his brother's complimenie, Ana had sent'
Mtn The Money he promised to lend him. Bathe
said he would send him some brandy in payment,
and in Febrnary he sent accordingly twenty-five
gallons dr brandy.
William Cousins Moons and 'examineri...He was at
Mr. Wilding's house, sod saw him pay Mr. Bathe
3151. 10s.; a receipt wal given for the money—[a re-
ceipt 'hewn to the witness, which he identified as the
rettipt *kith he saw given by Bathe ]
Cross-examined by Mr. A DOLItHUS—IIe was at
Mr. Holdiug's in the way of business as a draper;
he lives at Kensington, where he has kept a shop
eighteen years; he was rejected as bail for Prohert
in the vent 1819; he was a bankrupt in July 1817;
and h':.l paid a dividend of 61. in the pouud.
Wilkius sworn.—lie carted several par-
eels of wine from Bathe's to Mr. Holding's, and
took some papers with them sealed up.
Thomas Smith and Charles Appleton, also car-
men, proved the carting of parcels of wine also
front Bathe's to the Defendant's. They also car-
ried sonic papers besides the permit.
Mr. J. F. Nom., the Defendant's attorney,
proved having seen various receipts of Bathe, to
the amount of 1,3001. and upwards. in Mr. Hold-
ing's hands, prior to the arrest of Bathe at Hold-
ing's suit.
Mr. GURNEY made an able reply, after which
The LORD CHIRP JUSTICL summed op the evi-
dence to the Ju►y, who, without a moment's hesi-
tation. found a verdict for the Plaintiffs—Damages
2,040/.
This cause occupied the Court the whole of the
day, and was not concluded till nearly six o'clock
in the evening.

COURT of COMMON PLEAS, Guit.sum.r.,
TIBURIIDAT, JAN UMIT IS.

PARSONS V. WAININGTON ♦ND WILLIAMS.

This was an action broiailiibylllePTis;i4,who
is a journeyman.earpenter, against the Defendants,
one of whom is a master-butcher. in Leadenhall-
market. and the other ■ watchman, to recover a
compensation in damages. for injury sustained by
an assault and false imprisonment.
There were several witnesses examined on both
sides, and some of the most positive contradictory
testimony ever given on oath iu a Court of Jus-
tice. Stripped of this single circumstance. the
trial, which occupied the whole day, was wholly
unworthy of notice.
The witnesses for the Plaintiff, a Mrs. Ann
Flague, who had known him for nitre or ten years ;
her daughter, ■ girl about•twelve years of age; a
fellow-workman of the Plaintiff's, named Cro-s;
and a respectable tradesman who had uu previous
acquaintance with tither of the parties, deposed,
that the Plaintiff went to the shop of the first-
named Defendant on a Saturday night, in Septem-
ber last, and purchased some meat, for which he
paid a one-pound note, and on counting over the
change given to him, discovered it to be a shilling
short. The person who gave the change insisted
that he had given the proper sum, upon which the
Plaintiff expressed himself somewhat angrily, bat
was persuaded by the elder female to go away, and
return on Monday to settle the dispute. They uc-
cordiugly left the shop together. sad when they
had proceeded to a short distance were overtaken
by a person, who told them the shilling which had
been missing was found. Thereupon they returned
to the shop together; the Plaintiff received the
shilling, and they were quietly going away, when
the watchman. by the direction of Mr. Warming-
ton, collared him, to take him in charge. ye re-
sisted the attempt to secure him, and insisted that
he had done nothing to justify the taking of him
into custody. Whereupon the Defendant Wil-
liams. being the watchman, struck him with a stick
on the head, repeating the blow, after retiring two
or three steps to give it greater effect, with all the
vengeance he could. The butcher and his men
also were stated to have joined in the assault, by
crying, "Nerve Ain at !" and by forcing him back-
wards sod forwards. The result was that the Plain-
tiff was knocked down, and afterwards taken to a
surgeon's, whose assistant found a contused wound
on his head. which bled copiously, and dressed it,
the Plaintiff afterwards being conveyed home in a
coach.

The evidence for the defence, given by Mr. War-
' mington's brother and four of Ins men, and by at
meat salesman and another butcher of LPadenhall.
market, poortrayed the conduct of the Plaintiff as
most outrageously violent and riotous, in tanning
the Defendant, calling him repeatedly " scoun-
drel," " swindler," and similar names, whereby a
mob was gathered round the shop, and the busine,s
of the Defendant completely put to a stand for the
time. The watchman being sent for, in conse-
quence, to take away the Prisoner. was repeatedly
and violently assaulted by the Plaintiff; and com-
pelled to strike him in return. The Plaintiff too
we, represented to have run away down the whole.
sale market, and there to have struck his head
against a hook, and to have fallen senseless from '
the blow.

The Plaintiff's witnesses did not think lie was at
all intoxicated, while those of the Defendant repre•
aented him as outrageously drunk, and conducting
himself like • madman.

Chief Justice DALLAS recapitulated the whole
of the evidence to the Jury, leaving it for them to
decide as to which set of witnesses was to be
believed.

Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 10/.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18.

William Stewart, formerly a Lieutenant in the
37th regiment of foot, but not on the half-pay list
of that regiment, sometime in the Storekeeper-
General's department of the British army while in
France, and described in his schedule as a Coil-
merchant, was opposed by a gr.ut number of his
creditors, on the ground of various frauds p►ac-
tised in obtaining bills and rods amounting in the
aggregate to a large sum. The transactions, how-
ever, in which the Insolvent was engaged, were
severally not very extensive. Some of the bills
which he had obtained having passed through va-
rious hands, the Insolvent did not conceive it ne-
cessary to insert in his schedule the names of any
of the holders, but thought it •suticient to place
the debt in the name of the person who had origi-
nally accommodated him. This omission was ctn.