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WELLESLEY v. DUKE OP BEArFORT.

Mr. Ilmtv asked when his Lordship would give judgment in
this cause? _

The LORD CirANTEr.con. Paid that the affidavits were very
long. There was one of Mr. Pitman and another of Mr. [nigh,
which would occupy some time. He would, however, contrive to
read them through on Saturday night, so as to dispose of the cause
within the term.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEDNESDAT, JUNE 7.

THE RING r. CARRINGTON AND TARTICEIC.

This teas an indictment against the prisoner Carrington, a clerk
in the Liverpool Docks, and the prisoner Tarblick, a custom-house
broker, charging them with a conspiracy to defraud the Liverpool
Dock Company of certain duties. The prisoners were tried and
convicted at the last Lancaster Assizes. and _

Mr. SCAB LETT now prayed the judgment of the Court upon
them.

3lr. Justice LITTLEDALE reed the report of the trial Ckfter
which Air. Scan LETT directed the attention of their Lordships to
an intercepted letter from Tarbuck to Carrington, in which allusion
was made to the offence with which they were charged, and ex-
preuing a hope that the manner in which the fraud had been prac-
tised would not be discovered.

The prisoners, who were without Counsel, when asked if they
had any thing to urge in mitigation of punishment, said that they
bad already been imprisoned nine months.
Mr. SCARLETT, for the prosecution, said that he was not in.
structed to press hard against the defendants, although the offence
of which they had been convicted was a very serious and dangerous
one. Ile believed that the defendants' statement was true when
they alleged that they had already been imprisoned nine months.
Mr. Justice BAILEY, in passing the judgment of the Court,
lamented that the prisoners availed themselves of their situations to
commit an offence of the most serious nature, which no doubt
would have been carried to a great extent if it hail not been de-
tected. One of the prisoners was a Custom-house broker. and the
other was placed in a confidential situation, obtained either front
his own good conduct, or from the recommendation of his friends,
The emoluments of that situation would have supplied him with
an honest maintenance; and, had he conducted himself with pro.
priety, most probably he would have been promoted to a better
situation. Ilowever, by his own misconduct his prospects were
now destroyed, and by the evidence of an accomplice, as it gene-
rally happened to ill-doers both prisoners were now brought to
justice. Taking into consideration, however, the length of impri-
sonment which they had already suffered, arid the bitter distress
into which their connexions nad been plunged, the Court adjudged
that they should be imprisoned for six months further, in the
House of Correction at Kirkdale in Lancashire.

The LORD CHIEF Jurrics at one o'clock went into the Bail
Court, where he took all the undefended actions in the Middlesex
paper, which were brought upon bills of exchange and promissory
notes.

After his Lordship had gone, the other Learned Judges went
through the Bar, and took common motions, none of which were
of Interest.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7.

The Lost) CHIEF JUSTICE took Lis seat at half-past nine
o'clock this morning.
Some causes came onin which no defence was made.
The Court soon after sat in Banco, to hear motions, but nothing
of any public interest occurred during the day.

Extract of a letter, dated Port-au-Prince (St. Domingo),
April 22:
`• A French vessel, laden with English goods, has arrived at
Aux Cayes from Bordeaux; the full duty or 12 per cent. has been
levied upon them ; they were imported in English packages, and
betrayed themselves. Mr. Cahn: Broward is appointed Haytian
Agent for France. By a law which has just rased. yesterday,
Haytian property under the Ilaytion flag is to pay one-sixth less
duty on imports, and one-tenth less on exports. than what is ex-
acted from the most favoured nation. The bonding law is to take
effect on die Ist of August next • the property is only to be allowed
to remain one year in store, at 1 per cent. storage. with an addi-
tional charge of 2 per cent, as export duty. Should the goods be
sent oto or the country, Port-au-Prince, Jacnal, Aux Cayes, Cape '
Haytian, and the city of St. Doinirgo, are the only ports where
this advantage will be enjoyed. The National Bank Law has I
passed the Chamber of Deputies, the capital is to be six millions of
dollars: Where will they come from ?"there is but little pro-1
geese in raising a loan here ; a law for levying a contribution from
the Hayden's is under discussion. The Directors of the Bank, as
well as the Adinlnistrative Committee, are to be Indigenes: fu.
reignet's may be elected censors."
MONSIELin CH All F. RT.—The novel announcement of M.
Chabert, to enter a hot oven; and to continue in it a space of time
sufficiently long to cook a piece of meat, had not attraction to in-
duce many persons to visit his performance, last night, at White
Conduit House, from which we may mclude that the sect of Fire
Worshippers has not yet been imported into this country. It was
said of the Greeks, by a Roman satirist, " that, if required to go
to Heaven, they would make the attempt." The enterprise of the
French is not less daring, as exemplified in the case of 11. Cha-
bert, whose endurance of heat, howevet, tends to a different quar-
ter. This person remained in an oven hewed to a temperature of
580 degrees of Farenheit's thermometer for ten minutes without in.
termission, and, after taking some refreshment, he entered the
oven twice afterwaids, where he eat:tinned an equal imervid.—
During these intervals three separate beef-steaks were cooked, and
during the entire time of his continuance in the oven (about 15 mi-
nutes) a leg of lamb was baked sufficiently for the palate of any
Frenchman. Ile swallowed 111 grains of phosphorus, a sufficient
quantity of arsenic to kill GO persons, anti drank with the greatest
ease nil heated to a very high degree of temperature. AI. Chabert,
on the whole, appears to be a very appropriate inhabitant fur the
planet Mercury. The performanies of this person anear to be
free from any species of deception, and certainly are very extraor-
dinary in their way. How far the public will patronize such exhi-
bitions we will not pretend to predict. The performer himself has
the most confident hopes of' patronage, when, as he observed to the
spectators, he eculd persuade the world that hie performances were
possible of aecomplishnient.
Richardson, Goodluck, and Co. big to call the attention
of their Friends and the Public to the LntLottery that will ever be
drawn in this Kingdom. The Scheme contains Six Prizes of
30.0001, with various other Capitals, the whole to he drawn in One
Day, the 18th of July. Richardson, Gnodluckand CO. recommend
an early purchase, as there will be un Advance in Price of at least
11.45. per Ticket on the 19th of June. 'rickets and Shares, in va-
riety of Numbers, are on sale at their Office, 104, Bank. buildings,
Cornhill.