The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

. •
got RT OF KING'. BENCH..WtsrsitN.ree, Nov. 7.
THE VAAL or VAEHfrET C. ROBERT SUCH, ESQ.
Mr. ERSKINE moved the Court for leave to tile
trim raw! ilArarthon against the latter gentleman,
for an Aii.t,th tipon the former. In this case, he
stated, the parties were particularly circumstanced.
being near relatives, and he felt great pain in being
obliged to bring forward any thing relating to fa-
mily atrairs, before the Court; but the gentleman,
against whom he made the application. had con-
dueled himself in such a way as obliged Lord Darn-
ley to resort to those disagreeable measures. Some
time ago, his Lot &hip received a letter from Mr.
Bligh, in which he informed his Lordship. that he
should have heard from him before; had he no: lost
the use of hit limbs; and after making use of several
incoherent and opprobrious expressions, he told his
Lordship that be was a cowardly assassin.
Lord Darnley soon after received a second epistle
frqn this gentleman, which was couched in the
same abusive terms, stating, that his Lordship was a
fiat, and the only return he should make to his
Lordship, for his cuasummate impudence, when they
should next meet, should be a blow. In consequence
of these letters, and Mr. Bligh's general condu9 to-
wards his Lordship, he was under the necessity of ap-
plying to the Court, for an information against that
gentleman ; upon which, a conditional Rule was
granted ; but, in consequence of a letter his Lordship
received from him, making a full apology for his
condo.% and requesting that all proceedings might
be stopped, and also his Lordship's own wish for
many family reasons, that Rule was not made ab-
solute. From that time, the Earl of Darnley never
had any communication whatever with Mr. Bligh,
until one day, while he and the Countess of Darn-
ley were waiting for a change of horses at an Inn,
14 saw Mr. Bligh in the stable-yard. In accompany-
ing the Countess of Darnley doses stairs to the car-
nage, he saw Mr. Bligh standing across the threshold
of the door, so as to stop the passage: Lady Darnley
advanced, and gently tapping him on the shoulder,
requested he would allow her to pas., which he
mediately did—but, on Lord Darnley's coming up, he
again placed himself across the door, and, when his
Lordship attempted to pass, he dire ly threw himself
into a menacing attitude, called Lord Darnley the
greatest scoundrel upon earth, drew back, and
struck his Lordship a violent blow, in the presence
of the Countess of Darnley, and while she attempt-
ed to interfere.
Mr. gesautta said, he should refrain from stating
the particulars of this case any farther ; the parties
having been so recently before their Lordships, he
did not feel it necessary ; he could not, however,
avoid expressing his regret, that parties, who were
so near relatives as Second cousins, and also conne&-
eal by marriage, should be °Wiled to resort to this
method of deciding family quarrels.
The Court granted a Rule to shew cause.
THE KING (AT THE SUIT or a. 0. THOMAS, ESEk.)
v. RICH- M. PHILIPS, Esq.
Mr.Gaesow. on behalf of the prosecution, moved
the Court for liberty to enter up the verdi& in this
case. Mr. Philips was indiaed for sending a cLII-
- to the p.u.y prosecuting on behalf of the
Crown, with intent to provoke him to fight a duel.
The Jury found him guilty of an intent zo provoke
the Prosecutor to send him a challenge. He under-
stood it Wa4 necessary to make an application to the
Court. in order that the verdin should he entered.
Gad Et.i.tiosollouou—" In this case there were
two particul rr cfmnts in the iudiftment, the one for
sending a challenge, and the other, charging the
Defendant with an intent to provoke the Prosecutor
to tight. On the ft-inner count the Jury acquitted
him; hut found him guilty on the layer : it wale not
necessary to apply to the Court upon this occasion ;
however let the verdia be entered."

DOS, ON DEMISE OF ()SORGE, V. JSUON.
Mr. CLARKS moved to set aside the verdift
which bad been obtained for the Plaintiff in this
ca,e. The Defendant set up a title as heir at law of
John Jesson, son of Thomas Jesson. It appeared
upon the trial that Thomas died in 1777,1eaving his
sari John, and one only daue!lrer. I: also appeared
that John went filkhea, and never was heard of since.
The Jury accordingly found a verdia that kr died
betwrm seen and ten years, and his sister became
bis heir at law.
On the part of the Defendant, he contended that
the Defendant having an adverse possession for 26
years, and the heir at law, John, dying under the
age of twenty-one years, his sister was only entitled
to a reversion of 10 years. The learned Judge who
presided then ruled that she was entitled to 20 years
after death of her brother; however, the point was
afterwards saved for further consideration ; and the
only question now before the Court was whether
she was entitled to 20 years reversion atter her
brother's death, or not ?
The Court granted a Rule to thew cause.
CLIVAINTS AND WITS 0 SleN.
Mr. Grizst.ev moved to set aside the Nonsuit
obtained in this cense. anion was tried at the
last assizes for Devon, before Lord ELIANSO-
ROUGH, and was brought for an assauk upon the
Plaintiff's Wife. The Excise Officer or Surveyor
direfted his m-n to go and search a boat in which
the Plaintiff's Wife then was; they were proceed-
ing to search the lady in a %Cry indecent and impro-
per manner, when she cried out to them, " Us •
decency:" upon which the Defendant assaulted her.
' lie was an extra man in the employ of the Sur-
veyor, who was not present at the time, but had
son,. home to his own house.
The Defendant, it appeared, was not an excise-
man appointed by the Board, but could be paid, dis-
charged, or employed by the Surveyor when he
pleased ; but Mr. DALLAS, on the part of the De-
fendant, contended that he was an officer naing
under the immediate direaions of his superior ; and
farther, that the a&irsn was not brought within
three calendar months, according to the statute ; in
consequence of which the Plaintiff was nonsuited.
Mr. G. then observed, it was a very hard case upon
the Plaintiff, as he should have treble costs to pay,
and contended, that the extra roan had no authority
to aa as he had done, the principal not being pre-
sent, having gone home to his own house.
Lord EzzavllolloColl.—a. The reassn he did not
appear was, because he was known to the parties.
and would have defeated the purpose of the search
By my notes, it appears he was a man usually ep-

pointed to that Emilios:mem, and timninated by the
Officer. He was in ail respeas coasideted as ati,c-
Officer, except in not having an authority from thit
Board. The question turns upon the constrnaiou
of the Excise Laws ; anti as one that may Oates,
some general effed. I thin!. you may have a Rule
to show cause."—Rule granted.

COURT 01 COMMON MEAS.
iAm‘Elt a. THE EAU. OF IVAPAL—CIC.
Serjeant Sexpittato moved for a Rule to thew
cause why JudgMent should not be arrested in t*.
case, on account of there heing.on the face of the
contra& an usurious agreement. Two thousand
pmnds had been borrowed from the PlaintiT ou the
Defendant's bond, payable with 5 per C. 2.1!.
It appeared front the contr. a, that 411:. wts ro he
paid by the Defendant, exclusive of the 2,0V1. and
3 per Cent. interest, which, be contended, sees usa-
Serjeant BA !LEY on the other side said, that the
4001. only meant the penalty, and that it was the
usual form of all Scotch bonds.—Rule granted.

POLICE.

SD TWE
William Smdll, a Waterman, plying at the Globe.
stairs, Rotherhithe, on Monday last, was attacked
by a number of idle persons, who threw a quan-
tity of fireworks into his pockets, which exploded.'
burned his clothes, and otherwise injured hirrf.
Tile principal person concerned in. this rniichie-
vans . business was fined in a penalty of 20e. :
agreeable to AR of Parliament. S:ven .eh u's were
fined under the Gunpowder Trewson Aft, in tite.
reign of James I.
Several Bakers were convined in the penalty of
is. per us. for selling bread deficient of weight.—
The bread was distributed amongst-the poor.
•We understand that in the case of the Earl of Sill
VINCENT against three prrsons, •In the Court, of
King's Bench, on Tuesday. for a libel, !.r.
SYDNEY appeared to be implicated in the chatro
merely as the printer.
The 96th regiment will sail from Ireland, in a
few days, for the West
'lle Officers of the 9.'411 (rifle regiment) have
caused to be ereaed, in the parish church of Cheri-
ton, a monument to the Memory of Captain A. D.
Cameron, a brother officcr of the same regiment.
The design is a statuary tablet rept rsenting an
Egyptian sarcophagus, sumountei by a crovim and
bugle:(the insignia of the corps), on a dove-c.-i•tured
marbk ground, with the following inscription :
N,ar this plat are inte-to I the reruaios
Alex4:.dor llutscaa Camino:l, Ca..tai:i in us di. As. 11Stli, or
rest
Son of Cip.airs Charles C.,m,qt,n, Licha' a-, N. B.
Woo died at Siiouie ode on th • Bth day ,of Apo:, LA..O I,
Attie 22 Years.
As a tribute of rmood
To his mans amiable qualities,
To cominetnorate the sllite of his worth; ,
As a gootircian and a eddies., •
Thostmie 1-as bar.. ereded
Ey his brother °dicers.
Extra& of a letter from an Officer an board His
Maje-ty's ship Butfulo, dated off i'rince of Wales's
Island, in December last :
"After leaving port Jackson, in 'New South Wales;
bound to Calcutta. we tenched in Gun war at Am-
boyna and Coopang, in the [stand of Tim• r, to €ll •
water and refresh the people : we sailed from theneli
in September, at which time there was no Dutch
naval kreb in the Soudd. About six weeks 'reforest
our arrival, a Commodore, with three frigates, Old ,
sailed from thence forTernate; and, in enfeav• uring •
to pass round the west end of the Island, the Com-
modore', ship was hove on shore, by the swell in
calm, and totally lost ; her Ruts ai-.d part of her
Stores is ate saved : the other two fiigaer, we undec-
stoc..l, were to go from Tl mate to Batavia.
" Ani;royna was governed by pwrt of a regiment,
in which, except the °thetas, were very few Euro-
peans. Timor we left in ()dober, its tortifications
are still in a hate of ruin."

"The Skewer brig, Captain AI. re, belcnging to
Calcutta, is just arrived. She was .tracked in the
Streights of Sincapore, by about fifty piratical
prows, from Rio, ar.4 engaged them for near three
hours, when he was fortunately extricated from
her critical situation, by the arrival of His Mans-
T Y'S sloop of ear, RIO elflike, Capt. CIANIE,
when the pirates fled in every •'
• . .

Though it bas been reported in letters from Co-
penhagen, that the Russian squadron, which, in the
end of August, sailed for the German sea, would
soon return to winter in the iv, information
has been received with the very recent arrivals from
Sweden, Denmark, as well as from Holiand and
Germany, of its cruise or of its certain destina-
tion. In the c•immunication which we lately laid
before the public, we mentioned that it Lad been
spoken with by one of our Baltic Traders, and.
ac.ording to what the Russian- '.Hirers said, they
%4 ere waiting for further instruCtions.. Slii•uld this
be conio.i, the Russian fleet may be, possinly, now
on its way to the Mediterranean, and not upon its
return to the Baltic. It is a little extraoldinary,
that none of our numerous cruisers,his met with it,
and that hitherto, our Admiralty has no official ac-
count of its stat;-n. We know In•rfeal, •hat
the smallness of this squati!on t. of iitex wxight
in the scale of naval armament, oior.parcd with our
own ; but, were it ordered .td nugm.-nt the Rti..ian
\avy in the Mediterranean. it would not oniy be
highly serviceable in co-operating a ith us, but in pre-
venting Bomar...lir a's attempts on neutral Stat. s and
Islands, in that sea, particularly now, when Spain is
arming, and probably soon wi:l be added to the num-
ber of independent nations, wham the Corsican ty-
rant has, against :heir will and interest, forced upon us
as foes. Nothing better indicates the plans of intro.
Acta and destruction meditated in the Mediterranean,
by the revolutionary Cabinet of St. Cloud. than the
minuteness with which the ilibasiesr counts and put.
Lilies the arrival there of every Itussian ship ant.
soldier; its hypocritical anxiety for the safety of the
Turkish Empire ; its periodic= tenderness fur the
inhabitants of the Sere:. Islands and of the Versa,
and its false or exaggerated relations concerning the
situation of Egypt. Should a war break our be
tween this country and Spain, we have little doub
but that the Mediterranean will be a very auftivt
scene of contest. ani that, in a short time, it wil
add fresh latirels to those already won by cur navy
WON*

IT


44'.4L INTELLIGENCE:
' --••••••,--_
, PORTSMOUTH, NOT- G.
The Mediterranean fleet sailed this morning, with
fine wind at NA:. The convoy consisted of the
Tri4^i 4r, Ra..ca, Prevoyantc, and Camel. Also,
sailed the Plaatarenct, of 74 guns, Captain Render,
to join the Channel fleet, and the Lied!, frigate,
. Captain 'lemons!, Mop sloop, Captain Aylmer,
and Beagle sloop, Capt. Burn, to join Sir John
. Orde's squadron.
Atrired the Cdoasur frigate, Lord C. Fitzroy,
froai attending His Majesty at Weymouth, and the
7,te.ra bomb, Captain Abby, from a cruise.
Sailed the aomede. of 10 guns, Captain Down-
man, to receive Sir James &minaret's flag at Guern-
sey.
DEAL, Nov. G.
Remain in the Downs, the 211 march, Illncht,
1• Ititatible, "'client, Ardent, Antrioor, and RomPiry,
men of war ; Castor and Clwtlll,loll iiiplieS ; C„, PI,
Mtt, Orervi, and Curfew sloops of war; Fury and
, .'• 4 pair bombs ; Mallard, T,,,,,re,,, Mg, and Ryfe.
f ...sea, gun-brigs ; the armed defence-ships, and se-
-1 Venal gun-brigs, cutters, &c. in Walruer Roads.