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110l;O. NLEDS.

This was an aftion for an assault by burning the
Plaintiff's face with gunpowder. It appeared that
the Defendant was a serjeant in the Christchurch
vliddlesex Volunteers, and the Plaintiff was servant
to one of the partners of the house of Trueman,
tianhury, and Co. brewers. On the 12th of Aprill:
(ihe day on which the assault took place), the corps,
to which the Defendant belonged, had a field-day,
otter which, he, with some ,of his brother soldiers,
dined at the Laurel Tree, where they made rather
too free with the juice of the grape : when the De-
ienslant came to the tap-room to pay the reckoning,
he met the Plaintiff, and it appeared, that after they
had drank a bottle of wine together, the Defendant,
by the way of fun, pulled a cartridge nut of his
pocket, and put it to the candle; it immediately blew
up and burnt the Plaintiff's eye-brow and check,
who direelly cried out, that the man who had fired
off was a rascal ; the Defe •dant then said, he was
the person, and very high words ensued ; however,
when they cooled a little, the Defendant arlogised,
declared he had no intent'on of doing any injury,
and offered his hand to the Plaintiff in token of
friend,hip. It furthor appeared, the Plaintiff had
been s 3 lightly injured, as to be able to travel se-
venty miles the next day.
The Jury found Is. damages for the Plaintiff.

PALACE COURT.
POPHAM r. COUGH.

The Plaintiff in this case is a 1 Cdr, who, for some
time, kept a respectable boarding and lodging house
at G sport, to which the Defendant occasionally re-'
sorted when on shore, he at that time commanding
a gut: brig laying off that port. The amount of the
bill was 331. los. The Plaintiff's evidence esta-
blished an admission of the deut amounting to 27i.
hut no farther. The defence was, that the debt
being contracted, and the confession made at Gos-
port, it was out of the jurisdiction of the Court, and
therefore the Plaintiff must he nonsuited. Mr.
AOA ft, in reply, stated several cases in support of a
coot; a: y opinion, particularly Luken and Henning,
let Saliceld, 202 ; Cowper 220, in the case of Row-
land and Peate ; and Blackstone, 307, in the case of
Lord Lonsdale r. Litdcsiale, in which it determined
that a prohibition could not issue, nor the jurisdiction
of the Court be otie,tioned, unless specially pleaded,
which was not done in the present case, the plea
being ad Mit only. ('he learned Judge was o:
opinion the Plaintiff was entitled to recover, and the
jury found a verdict for 2;1

•OTTEt O. JONES.

A motion was made fir a rule to skew cause why
the defendant should not be discharged nut of cus-
tody, he being imprisoned in the poison of this Court
for a debt of 121. under mesne process. Affidavits
were read to prove that the Defendant was a pri-
vate soldier in the Ist, or old St. George's Volun-
teers, commanded by the Earl of Chesterfield; that
he was regularly enrolled in the regiment, re-
ceived pay, and was in every respea amenable to
the pains and penalties of the Mutiny Ad, and was
of course entitled to all the benefits of the same. It
was observed by the Counsel, that a private in the
same regiment had some time since been tried fit
being drunk on his post, by a Court Martial, forme,
according to the terms of the Mutiny AR, and found
guilty, where he received sent. .ce of 150 sashes
He wasibrought out in front t-t the regiment to be
punished, but his sentence was abated, after a very
seeious admonition from the Commanding Officer,
on condition of his acknowledging his fault, and
begging pardon of his comrades for the bad exam-
ple he had afforded them.

Court—J" Take a rule to shew cause :it k a point
I should not like to determine until I hear an ar-
gument on this subjea, which is not only novel.
but very.intcresting to a very respedable body of
men."

SUMMF.R ASSIZES

Western. Lord Ellenborough,
Hams Thompson.
Norf,Ak. Chief Justice Mantleld,
Mr. Justice Heath.
Hampshire. Chef Baron,

Baron Hotha.m.

M.diand. isillu7tleedrose•
Mr. Jiht.cie Rooke.
Oxford. Mr. Justice Laurence,
Mr. Justice Le Elas.c.
North. Mr. Justice Charabre,
Baron Graham.

Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope to the
13th of March, by the American ship Silents, ar-
rived at New York ; state, that on the 7th of March,
three Dutch ships of war, two of them armee en ftxte,
had arrived there front the Isle of France. The
Dutch Government had ordered all the English at
the Cape immediately to leave the settlement, and
many of theta had proceeded in American ships to
St. Helena.