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LAW INTELLIGEI4
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUN! S.
Sittime• ut Westminster, rove the LoRD CLIIEF JVITICE end
• mums Jury.

• LOWS v. SHONE.
The plaintiff had taken steps to advance money to the defendant
upon mortgage, and expenses had been incurred in looking at the
title, and making other inquiries respetting the premises. The
title was not satisfactory, being carried back only hve years. The
plaintiff, therefore, declined to advance his money, and the defend.
aat retuNell AO pa the expenses incurred. 14'7.tnesses were called on
both sides, Mt. Marriatt contendingthat the mortgagee always paid
the expenses ; and Mr. tkatlett urgng that there was no obligation
to pay in the.present circumstances.
Vadict for the plaintiff—damages N. Iffs.

ERN RING v. 'FENCER.
The staignment of perjury in this case arose from a snit in
()battery, Edwards v. Spencer. din Edwards had taken a build-
ing lease from dlr. Spencer, the defendant. There was also an
agreement between the parties that the defendant would secure
right of war to the ground let °a building Icame. Mt. Edwards
hied a bill int Chancery to enforce performance of the agreement.
The defending made affidavit that the agreement respecting the
right of way contained certain wants, which two .vitnesaes would
prove bad been struck out before the agreement was signed.
An iibectien Was taken. *.at the affidavit. in the outset. Me
thus Sworn et the rah* Office, Southampton-buildings,
Lowden."
Mr. SEARRIITT contended that this error was removed by the
Jura, which did not insert the word" Laudon."
31r. Gummy urged that it could net be purified.
The Loan CIgIEF JEST ICE osnerved the point.
Mr. GURNEY nest raised an oltieetkin from a variance in set.
riactof the bill. The affidavit contained the word '• house ;" the
Ind
ictment had It "homes."
The Loon Camel, Jtssici thought thin fataL
Nut Guilty.

GLUM'? r. CLOSOT.
Mr. MOII7IIrAVO stated ibs case to the Jury, and gave a history,
Ti.vi which coda be learnt that Mn. Olinet, a milliner was de-
prived of the sisqnsat sookty of • parrot, which had been brought
from Madam* Chuot's, at Paris; and that she now sought com-
pensation is dumps for the deprivation.
Andre Charles blandoce gave evidence of the arrival of the par.
rot, and of ha being the property of ills. ()hurt. file account of
Ms quarrels with the parrot, whose eternal talk annoyed him much,

venires: asneeasient.
31rs. Undone was examined by means of her husband's inter-
pretation. She brought the parrot from Pula, when she was Mrs.
Alollter, and employed by Mn. Claret in millinery. The parrot
spoke french extremely well. lin. Clarot had said she would not
let Mrs. Giblet have the patrol until site should pay her 201. which
she owed.
Chaulette Borday had always heard the parrot calkd Madame
Glinet's. Mrs. Clurot beat the parrot toe its noisy speeches, and
saki the would not let Madame Meet have it till she paid the 201.
The parrot was taught to say in good French—" Matt/nue intact
alleald not have it till she paid the 201."
31r. 31 AAAAA t'r now called upon Mr. Scariett to produce the
parrot 3s a witness.
Mr. ticalLtTT said the parrot could not be expected to be
produced.
Joseph Noah, a dealer in parrots, considered those which spoke
French as the most valuable. He had sold parrots for 45 guineas,
aud for 951.
StLILETT said the defendant's case was, that Madame,
Glinet bad given the parrot to Madame CLvvt, in gratitude fur set-
oketeendered to her.
Pepe Frederick Lutz spoke to the parrot having been brout
ilex Cheroot's, in Paris, at Mrs. Glinet's desire, in order to give
it to Mrs. Clarot. He brought a cage, and gam it to 31rs. Claret.
lledante Mine put it into the cage, and desired it to be good, as it
had got a new house and a new Trustless.
AIMS Elizabeth Ross, who is in the service of Mrs. Claret, gave
evidence to the same effect as the former witness. She received the
20!. from Mrs. Glinct, for Mrs. (Tarot, in January last.
Madame Querns said that Madame Cilium, after she had left
Madame Clarot's service, had given bee the parrot from gratitude.
Mr. 3tutrarx, in reply, expressed his confidence that the
Jury would give such a verdict as would induce the defendant to
return the parrot.
The LORD Carve JtiSTICE summed up, and left it to the
Jury whether the parrot had been jiven as a present, or as a pled4o.
'1 he Jury, after eoutedeliberation, fumed for the plaantiff.--Da.
mai:es 20 guineas.

OLD BAILEY, M _.EDNEIDAV, JUNE 9.

THE NEW COURT.
'rids morning Michnel John O'Connor and Rickard Harrel, two
vt*Carlile's shopmen, were put to the bar on charges of baring
published blasphemous libels.
sir. Fa MICR objected to the Jurors who had tat on the former
Case,. •

When this able:deo was made some of the Jurors were sworn.
Mt. "POLLAN]) said, that the Lest -oil Counsel had now no right
ettelimes the Jury, as the Crown bad lost its oppoetunity; but
that the prisoners might not complain of having been unfairly tried,
he would admit that another Jury should be called.
The RECORDEn said, if the Jurors in the box were dismissed it
must be considered as a favour towards the prisoners, and not as a
right to be used as a precedent.
The Junes in the box said, it was their particular wish to be
allowed to withdraw.

A new Jury was then awm.
Mr. HOLLAND stated the DM to the Jury. sad said, that after
the &atomic° which the subject had undergone, both yesterday
in Mis Court, and eisewbsee for several yams past, it would be tin-
perdottable in him to atter into the subject at any length. The
Nees:ion fur them to decide was shortly, whether, after the convic-
t:ono thathad taken place foe the pubhcaticio of this book (the AO
R....arom) for many years past, ea far back as 1711; whether after
toe repeated declarations by Junes, of their opinions of its nature I
and terdency—whether, alter the repeated punishment of those who I
coma:Ned to act in violation of (belay, Mr. Cathie, by his agents, I
st.tould be allowed to act in the face of these declarations, and set
me law at detiance—and whether the Jury would second him in so
acting.. The Learned Gentleman, after reading several manger
of the work, said that he was sure the duties of the day did not lin-
go= upon him the Demeeity of going through the whole of this
work ; and he was sure, from the manly manner in which the
Coomel fee the prisoner had yesterday declared his belief of the
meth of revealed religion, no defence would be made for the princi-
Om of the prosecuted week. He left it for the Jury to say. wise-
••etter melt a publication should be allowed in the city of London.
George Leadbetter, a petrol, was cartel to prove the publicatinn.,
He find went into Carlde's shop, and saw the prisoner Hassel,
ohm he asked for a copy of the Age of Rtsuun. The prison.,
said a man had just been taken out of the shop, but that a man ,
would samba there who would sell any thing. Witness went again,
when he found the prisoner Hassel, and O'Connor in the ahop.
file again asked for the Age of Heating—Hassel turned round to
O'Coaoor, and the later produced the work—witness put down the
;covey-o'l mm: took it up, rung it, and put it into the till--the
vowels then asked for Poteeer's Prieripter of Nature—Hassel
said they had not got one copy left. O'Connor said, " Yes, we
have ;" slut witness purchased a copy.
Mr. FaLtreu, in behalf of O'Connor, addressed the Jury.
f:pen th a occasion he should be as sparing as he could of the time
ani patience of the Court. He had little doubt that he was ad.'
dressing men of more enlarg:d understanding than the Jury of
yesterday, who seemed to rely implicitly on the wisdom of the
Sistititor of the Treasury, and to treat with contempt every &brit°
slial.e that confidence. Atter further consideration of the subject he
ass more deeply convinced that the ground on which he defended
the primacy of yesterday was secure and just. and he again'
deeLued, aloud, that whilst Unitariansdenied the Divinity
se Christ, were suffered to walk abroad unmolested anti
accepts-nod, so long would it be unjust /Alit most initial-
WWI so prosecute these unfortunate men. The Learned Counsel
:or the prosecution had called this s tolerant age, and said that it
vas the happiness of this country that every man in it was allowed
to think es he pleased. Hut the injustice in the present case was,
that what the Unitarians had the blasphemy to think they bad the
blasphemy to preach, arid they were allowed to proclaim their hoe-
rihle dogmas from the house-top, with a trumpet furnished by the
tether of lies, and to teach their belief in all its horrors to the
.yeeng, totalling the blossoms of their faith, and depriving them
or their guide, their hope, and their happiness. While this
was idloweal, it was iniquitous to prosecute these poor illi.
tenses INIOLDIDD•, that were driven by want to commit the
...Y.:atus far which they were now exposed to punishment.
Piety in every part of the country tilmildered at these ptimecutions.
True Christianity was everywhere semlalized at then). The die-
bertha:mien of use books was most horrible, and the circulation
was increased by tens of thousands by these prosecutions. Could
.tete imprisonment of these poor starved ignorant creatures check
-teem ? No. The erre cause of the frightful increase of infidelity,
was the %keg and lueury of the higher elm:see—their Deistic:al
principles, and their unchristian conduct. He repeated it, that the
community was in peril from this source. He concluded by derJar-
iro, that, as a Chrhtienr he had himself been persecuted in his na-
tive country fee his religions opinions, and that persecution still
curt/sued. He therefore felt tor those who were persecuted, and
he came to protest, as a Christian, against such a course. He
wished them to make converts of these poor men, rather than mar-
tera. He wished never to address a Jury again on this subject ; it
wits disagreeable to him • but it was, perhaps. the last tin...milieu he
should have OCA/SioO him,
&Jury, and be would declare, that
as Christianity had noble arguments in ha favour, he wished them
alone to be exerte.l. The prisoner, he repeated, was a Christian,
a hem believer, induced by want to sell the work. He (Mr.
French) would repent to his last btesttt, send forth your champions
to convert, and r.at your gaolers So incarcerate.
The prisoner Hamel reads defence, which, be said, was his own
compotatiort. Ile boldly justified his conduct, and the nature and
tendency of the work. and said he should cheerfully submit to any
4:woe/omen He ailifreastd the Court in a broad west-country
41131:!et, with a peculiarly ecsrutric manner.
The Iteconnne summed up. and the Jury found Misfi—
t:a/Us, and O'Connor—Not
Hassel was they sentenced to be imprisoned in Newgate for
wa years, stud to give sureties for 1001. for his good behaviour for
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