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muneration for the defendant. The Learned Sergeant called a
person of the name of Daubeney. the um-in-law of the defendant, to
prove the revocation of the authority to plaintiff' to sell or make an
abstract, but he very soon broke down and WAS repeatedly cautioned
by the Court to pay attention to his answers.
The ',correct Judge left the ease to the Jury, when the foreman
made some remark upon the opening speech of Counsel, to which
his bunlahip replied, that the verdict of the Jury was to be
wholly regulated by the evidence.
Verdict for the defendant.

YOUNG V. OTE ♦XD ANOTHER,

This was an action of trespass. bmught b the plaintiff to obtain
satisfaction in dantages for an injury which he had sustained at the
hands of the defendants. Itoth panics were printers and station-
ers. the plaintiff residing in Holborn, and the defendants at Wal-
worth.

Mr. Sergeant VAIN: MAN stated the case to the Jury. The par-
ties here were originally friends and had dealings, but Young was
in default of payment, end gave I;ye a warrant of attorney for his
debt. One instalment was not paid. an execution was issued and
distress very unceremoniously levied. The execution, however,
was set aside by the Court of Common Pleas; and Mr the trespass
so committed this action was now brought. Special damage was
laid in the loss of plaintiff's kalgers and his business, of which he
would now proceed to give evidence.
James Burchall, from the Sheriff's Office, produced the execu-
tion for 2041.

In on, a sheriff's officer, produced the warrant to levy ;
he levied himself.

At this stage of the proceedings an arbitration was agreed to.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, TUESDAY, N0v.30.

[Sittings niter ifirinit:ont Te,m, befine the LORD CHIEF
IS~uoat and a Special Jury.]

THE XING I. ATTTIELD.

This was an infort ;I;e:crvoixtY.OtitEtat.
against the defendant, for bevies In his possession a certain quantity
of smuggled brandy.
The SOLICITOR.OENtRAL, Me. CLARK, and Mr. WALTON,
were concerned for the Crown, and Mr .li:wets tor the defendant.

The case was stated to the Jury by the SOLICITOR.GE N E NAL.
The case, he was sorry to obserer, was one of those which were
very frequent; and which the Attorney. General, in the per.
formance of his arduous and various functions, had thought it
his duty to bring before the Court. Be would merely state the
facts of the case, and call the witriesNes, when he was convinced the
Jury would return a verdict of I,miltv. The defendant lived near
Portsmouth, and was a gardener; his garden extended to the sea
shore, and at high tides the 'inter washed his premises. Two
Excise officers, in consequence of some suspicions as to his manner
of life, obtained a warrant to search his grounds. They examined
very minutely in the first instance, but Mund nothing to warrant
their auspiciena. They subsequently proceeded to the garden, and
there found concealed, under a mound of earth, called a potato.
bury, half an anker of brandy, and under similar mounds, two
other quantities, amouthing altogether to seven gallons of spirits.
They also found a large cave, which then contained nothing but
water, but which he contended increased the suspicion against the
defendant, and was evidently meant to receive smuggled goods.
The cave was hidden by a hedge of brambles, and it was otherwise
concealed from observation.

Several witnesses were called in rapport of these facts.
sir. Jravts, on the part of the defendant, contended that the
buries were intended to receive potatoes only, and they were formed
for the convenience of taking away a small quantity without dis.
turbing the remainder. The pit was meant for a similar purpose,
and the spirits were deposited on the premises without the know-
ledge and consent of the defendant, through a hooe grounds there
was a public pathway.
The latter assertion was proved by evidence.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was heard in reply.
1 he f'xlrr• BARON recapitulated the evidence, and the Jury
returned a verdict for the Crown.