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COOPER V. eouteasori. Bari.

Mr. Guars Ev stated, that thi4 UCtlOll wan brought
for the oon-fulfilment of no indenture, In• whit:ll.oe

late Sir George Robinson, who was. Trprrfellted by
the Defendant, covenanted to procure from the
Crown, from time to time, an extended lease of
certain premises, situate oil Tower-hill, which he
bad let. in 1782, to an individual, who was represesit-
ed by ,tlr. Cooper. The late Sir G. Robinson was
bound, by that indenture, to apply to the Crown,
when iseceesary, for se renewal of the lease, and he
had not made any atipulation that, if extraordinary
terms were demanded, he should nut, in that case,
be compelled to renew. The lease had not been
renewed ;nice the year 1809—and, inasmuch as Ilse
lessor had not guarded against any coutingencies
which might occur in procuring the renewal, his
client had a right to call for a compets•ation for the
injury which he had sustained, is, consequence of
the premises being no longer leased to bins. Look-
ing to the rent which the premises produced, and
the period which had elapsed since the expiration of
the lease, Use damaege surmised by the estate of
the lessee, amounted to 9721. and the present ac-
tion was brought to recover that sum.
Mr. Dersuaar, for the Defendant, admitted the
indenture. Sir George Robinson's family, lie ob-
served, had held, from the Crown, certain pro-
perty on Tower-hill, since the time of Charles I.
but, its the year 179 P, an Act of Parliament had
passed, winch interfered very considerably with the
tenure of that property. The Act he alluded to
had fur its object the improvement of Tower-hill
and its neighhourhotal. Now, by the indenture of
lease no which this action was founded, Sir George
Robinson, his heirs, administrators, or assigns,
were bound, not positively to procure tan extension
of the term for which it was granted, but to " apply
for, and endeavour to cause to be renewed" the
lease in question. This lie would show had repeat-
edly been done by the Defendant—but the Com•
5,.7-sinners of the Land Revenue, looking to the
improvement Act of 1798, had 'lmposed such
terms as Ito prudent man could comply with—and
which, even if they had bees, agreed to, would,
from their mutate (certain tenements being directed
to be pulled down, others of a different description
to he erected, and gardens to be formed on the
.ites of various teliements) have prevented the lessee
front again possessing the particular premises in
dispute.
Mr. lienry Rose, one of the Cl. rks in the office
of the Commissioness of Land Revenue, produced
two petitions from Sir ti. Robinson, in the year
1807, praying for a renewal of the lease of the
premises. The answer to these applications was,
that a lease would he granted, on condition that he
pulled down certain testenienta (amongst wlsich
was that now in dispute), built six substantial mes-
images, on which lw should expend at least 9,000/.
and insure them igainst loss by tire to the amount
of 6,0001. Witness stated that Sir George had
also made many personal sppliclitionr.
The CHIEF said, it appeared from this
evidence that abussilaut applicsitither had been made
for the renewal of the lease—but the mower was of
such a nature as rendered it utterly iiiriptusihle.
even if the Defendant agreed to the terms proposed
by the Crown, for him to put the Plaiistiff in jun-
session of the premises claimed, wide!' were to be
pulled down, in order to make room for either%
()taloa wonftnned.

At the lute Norwich City Seiwitina, a true bill
will, found agaitiat STEPHEN MACE, for imuoltiog
W. T. FAYERMAS (the late Binnswick Knight);
but the trial was truveraeil, and id, we undo-011nd,
to he removed by certiorari tutu the Court of
Kin' Brod).

OLD IMILEY, Wt:): i I ty, J,►lL ►I:Y

Before the Iti coRDIR OW COMMON &HUMAN?.

George l'emiinvm, • private 'soldier bi the ittl re-
giment of Life Guards, wast indicted foe stealing ti
portmanteau, cantainieig II sabertach, pouch, and
belt, the gond, of Charles Webb Dauer, Esq.
Colon." in thut regiment.
It appettrid by the evidence that the portmanteau
in question wen pieced in the riding-lonise at Port.
man Barracks, •nd the key was lino.; sip in the
orderly-room, to which the Prisoner hul access on
the night of the robbery. Shortly :41er the port-
manteau was missed a search was made, and it was
found concealed iu n hay-loft in ;eytiinur.mewn,
over a stable intritsted t't the rare of the Prisoner.

.1. Monday, a wcichttiati, said he saw a soldier
carrying a portmanteau on the night of the robbery,
but he could not swear it was the Prisoner. /liana
five minutes afterwards lie saw the Poisoner coming:
in a contrary direction, and believing linti to he the
same person he had seen carrying the portmanteau
just before, he went top to litin and asked Ilion what
lie was carrying. The Prisoner gave is short answer,
and said lie was in a great hurry, conveying the
portmaidean to IVindsor.
The Prisoner, on being called upon for his defence,
said, that Ins parents and connexions were respect-
able persons, residing at Derby-, ■nd diml he wars
18 yeats of age he had beet' an agricultural servant,
lie then joined the Life Guards, mod diately
volunteered for foreign service ; he, had been in the
regiment seven years, and lied accompanied his
fellow soldiers through Portugal, Spain,
and France, and he would dare any man to say
his character had ever been taititril until now. lie
declared lie was Innocent, mill willingly confide:l his
fate to the laws of his country, and the 111ot:reboil
of the Jury.
The Common SERJF.ANT summed up the evi-
dence to the Jury, who, after !I short consultation,
returned a verdict of Nut Guilty.

J. Wiggins was convictu•fl of stealing ISO lbs. of
potatoes, the property of W. White, EA'. of Uxley
Farm, near Edmonton.

Won. Carr, who waslt few days since tried espi-
billy, for shooting at 't' Bithugsley, with intent
to kill him, or to do hiin some grievous bodily
harm, and who was found guilty of krelling the,
piece only, was again tint to the bar, charged with
having stolen a variety of carpenters' tool•, front e
workshop in the nursery groan's of :Messrs. Col-
stile and Co. of the King's-road. It appeared in
evidence that Billingsley was appointed to guard
Messrs. ground•, and on the morning of
the 13th of this month, about three o'clock, he was
alarmed by Ilse noise of somebody breaking into
the carpenters shop; lie soon after raw the Pri-
soner, and judging that he came there for no hottest
purpose, he levelled a liltioderboss at loin ; the
Prisoner, however, seized Billingsley by the throat
with one hand, put the blunderbuss aside with the
other, and a scuffle emmed, in which the Pri,oiter
succeeded in getting rissession of the blonder boar,
which lie deliberately levelled at the Prosecutor.
Fortunately, however, Isom some defect in the lock
or flint, it missed fire. The Prisoner then ran away,
but W..% pursued by Mr. Billingsley, and tot corn-
ing to some rails which eiteloped a lot of ground,
he (bopped the blutiderhoss, and it was loom'
shortly afterwards by a watchtisau, and the Prisoner
was apprehended.
The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty.
The COMMON SERJEANT said the Prisoner was a
man of too bail *character to be ullowed to remain
iti the country.
The Prisoner having been tried capitally on n
former day, for shooting with intent to kill, and a
point bnviug, been reserved for the opinion of the
twelve Judges, the judgment am the present couvic-
lion was of comae respited.
Several trials of pickpockets were heard in the
course of the clay.

From the late increase in the value of landed
property, the farmers are become as anxious to ob-
tain farms, us they were I.llllle two or three :tears
ago to get quit of them. But many tenants have
taught their lanilloids a lesson, which prevents them
'rum having leases in blurt ; as they proved such
agreements were " play to them, and death to the
landtold."

Amongst so many convictions against the titterers
of forged Bank notes, it seems singular that the
Batik should not be able, either by reward or inti-
midation, to discover the manufacturers of them,
as they are the real and original cause of the crime,
and the suffering in others.
Some interesting advices have been received
(via Trinidad) relative to the state of Venezuela
and New Grenada. The operations of the advanced
posts had all been in favour of the Patriots. They
mention the iostirrecti )))) in the province of Coro and
the western owl of Venezuela, and the desertion of
the Spanish Command llli RUEHA. nit!' 300 cavalry,
to the service of the Patriots: he took also along
with him all the cattle. horses, and mules, intended
fur the use of the royal army. The Corea, contain's
also two letters from General Moat Li.o to General
ZAAAZA, inviting him to desert from the Patriots,
offeriug him. iii the name dl FERDINAND, a military
command of a higher grade ; and WI spirited answer
to Mnamt.o, dated sth of last October.
At the late East Riding Stomas held at Beverley,
in Yorkshire, an onosnal 'mintier of atrotiotia
criminals were brought op 6,r 1631, moil sentence of
transportation passed upon the greatest part or
them. Amongst them was the mother of Amer-lea
Dunhill, whose gang Was for usassy years the terror
of the East Riding, and who owed the greatest part
of their eddies to her instruction—her pirst husband
having been hanged and her second transported.
At the bar, she presented something of the grosesque
and dreadful figure of Meg Merrill's ; and after
sentent7e was passed on her by the Chairman, she
threw op her hands towards heaven, and hoped
" the Aintightfi would sink the whole Beneh to per-
diticns ! I"—lts this profligate state she was taken
back to the gaol to undergo her future 1 shineot,
shosild her lidvsiscrd age allow n continuative in life
to undergo it. At this Sessions Colooel CREYKE
resigned the Chair. which be had tilled for Annie
years with great ability, and Mr. 131:111ELi of Rise,
was elected in his room.