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London, England, 1821-02-17 00:00:00

• ?ions r. 11111,'1
Mr. GIIKRIT elated thee • dal
Joey. TIM Plaintiff •
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and the Deftiodatat
horse-defier ito Park4ane. la the ay,
11110, the Plaintiff purchased • home row the De-
readapt, for which he paid eighty4ve sinusitis,
and stipulated at the time of the purchase. that if
be returned the home in equally Defendant
condition on
the lit October following, the Defendant was to
take him back at the price of 64 guineas. Two or
three days before the Ist October the Plaiutiff sent
the horse back to the Defeedent, having previously
kept it in the very hest coudition, and worked it
very llttle. The Defendant said the horse might
be left then, but he would not be prepared
to pay the Gooney till the lit of October. On
which the person whom the Plaintiff sent de-
clined leaving the horse, and took it bark again to
Heyne's livery stables, where the Plaintiff had keil
it. On the 30th Septemper, the Defendant celled
at Haynes's, and shewed..the horse to two gentle.
ems who were in treaty with him for the purchase
of it. sind he thep stated OW the horse was per.
fectly sound, and though it had hero no the hands
Of • gentleman for a few usanthit, it was in as good
condition as if he had bail the possession himself
all the time. The horse was token •riay by him
and not returned till the evening of the same day,
when it was brought back by a servant of Ins in •
heated state ; it was put into the stable, and not
taken out till the neat day but 'one after. -when it
was discovered that there was • slight lousoueo• in
one of toe legs, which had since become a coo-
finned " bone spawn)."
Several witnesses ware called who proved the
case as above stated.
Mr. MaitaTA.T, for the Defended, said he
should WOW, by the testimony of skilful persons,
who inspected the horse GM the stis of October,
that he then bad a confirmed sperm; from which it
would follow that the first ioceptron of the disorder
must have been prior to the Ist of October. in
which cam the Defendant would be eutitled to their
verdict.
A 'Veterinary Surgeon was called, who raw the
horse oil or *hoot the sth of October, and he then
had • confirmed spawn.. In his opinion it would
require a onoi.th or sea weeks f the time the
hurt was received before.it would arrive at the
Mote of a bone spaviii.iso which ht found it.
The Jury. after • short conseltattou, found a
verdict for the Plaintiff for riity.live guineas.
ILLUMINATION RIOT.

MORN D. INITH AND •NOTHili.
This was an action against the hundred of
Oululston to recover WV. the amonianf damages
done by a riotous mob to the Plaintiff 's house.
Mr. Ditmusx said, this was an action under the
Statute against the two Defendants, as inhabitants
of the hundred. The facts were shortly these :
It happened on the night of the 13th November
last, when a great nmolber of persons illuminated
their houses, that the Plaintiff was °neer those who
did not choose to illuminate his house, which was
at the corner a Old Baird-street and Piccadilly.
About eight o'clock in the evening a great mob
assembled opposite the Phil-wire honse, calling
out, " Light up, light up!" and et the same time
elaniiag uaslluas,quia personage, who of all others
was, he could sera, most averse from seta of vim.
knee and outrage. The call to light up not being
complied with, the mob broke the shop and draw.
ing-room windoivs, and battered the street door to
pieces; and such was the fury of the snook, that
upwards of two bushels of stones, some penny-
pieces, and other missiles, were collected iu the
house on the following morning.
The facts being proved,
111 r. BL•csansui addressed the Jury for the
hundred.

The LORD Cuter JUSTICE charged the Jury.
who, after some debberaiimp, found a verdict Ibr
the Plaintiff—Damages 241.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FRIDAY, FZINIVOILT N.

RADICAL COFFEE.
Tin RING V. HENRY HUNT.

The SOLICITOR-GINSRAL stated to the Jury,
that the present was an tufurmation filed by the
Attorney-General against the Defendant. wider
the .4341 of the late King, by which certain penal-
ties were imposed un any persons selling burnt
beans, or any other article to imitate coffee.
The Excise officers who seized the stock of
roasted rye at the Defendant's warehouse, proved
a previous purchase of some of it under the deno-
mination of breakfast powder.
Mr. HILL, for the Defendant, contended that
the intention of the Act of Parliament was to pro-
tect the trader rod the public from any ►iatalsed
article being foisted on .thrm ; but in the present
instance no such evil could be upprelsended, the
article was never pretended or supposed to be any
thing else but a breakfast powder.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, found a ver-
diet for the Crown op bath counts—penalties gOO/.

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