The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-06-15 00:00:00

LAW INT ELLIGEIVCS.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. w . strum:T.l'k, Jame
TAI LINO V. t.:7c lAIIiN ST. GEORGE,

MIDDLZSZL

The Court was occUpirdthewhiile of the morn-
ing upon this case ; the question arose upon, the
construaion of the 39th and 40th Ms of the present
!Zing, comrnociy called the London Dock A.a. and
the dispute between the parties was, whether the
Parish of St. George had a tight to demand cer-
tain sums of mousy for Pool's Rates against the
London Dock Company?
.fitter hearing the Ar raetiev-Geeettat. on the
part of the prosecution, and Mr. Boss PaQuer ors
the other side, at very considerable length, the
Court deterred their Judgment until a futu:e day.
JUDGMENT.
VIII SMOG v. DANIEL LOVELL, ESQ.
'{'he Defendant in this case WAS brought up from
the King's Beach Prison, for final judgment, having
'offered judgment by default upon an information
tsar a libel against Peter Casale, Esq. as already
utervioned in a former Paper.
Mr. Justice Geese, in pronouncing the sentence
of the Court, addressed the Defendant near'.- as
Itowst-oal You, Daniel Lovell, stand self-cow/kit-
ed if publishing a most atrocious and scandalous
....saintly upon the Prosecutor, who is stated to be a
respetlable banker of the city of London. From
the in oceeklings it appears, that the Prosecutor had
suhscritsed a policy of insurance for a gentleman
for wham yon acted, and that yeti arterveards made
a demand upon him for the loss ; and, so. ely, if he
bad a doubt whether he was bound to pay it er not,
he had a right to resist such a payment. until that
doubt was removed, and you might have brought
your Raton in a Court of Law to recover cited.
amount ; but. such is the wisdom of the laws under
which we live, that payment is not to be coin-
pelied by force, or threats, or by any tout and
SC':II,IAIOUS CAUTTIII43. You appear to have been
fully aware of the extent of your offence, aod
woen the Sol.eitor applied to you, you triumphantly
told him, you would publish a much worse
so that the Prosecutor should not be able to chew
his face upon the &sack Exchange. You tell us,
by way of mitigatl of punishment, that at the
time you committed this sia, you were ignorant
that you were offending against the law ; but we
tenant, upon the evidence before us, believe that to
be °'e tali ; fee it is impossible few any man, in the
ortrnary oaten of life, to he more ignorant of this
offence. than any other offence against the law of
the land ; if, however, tl.ese grounas of mitigation
ate wail founded, it will be the duty of this Court,
by coartishment and ezample, to teach men what
the law is upon this subjea 6 to open your eye.,
therefore, to convince you of your mistake, and to
prevent a repetition of nth offences in future. this
Court cloth attics and adjudge, that you do pay a
fine to the King of 501. and that you ire recom-
mitted to the custody of the Marshal of the Mar-
shalsea for one calendar month, and at the end of
that period. you do give security for your Inure
good behaviour for the space of three years, your-
self in POOL and teu, sureties in 1501 each."
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
Mr. Gaeaow applied for a Conditional Rule to
ble a Criminal lestermatran against a new Daily
Newspaper, fur a gross and scandalous libel upon
the Returning Officer of the Borough of Shrews-
- bury. The Learned Counsel observed, that he
moved this at the instance of a person who belongs d
to a class of men whom the Court would feel par-
ticularly entitled to their Lordships protean)°,
being placed in a stuation of great responsibility as
judges upon most important oczasions, in returning
blabbers to Parliament. This gentleman being
placed in that tituation, had called to his assistance
a Learned Setjcant, with whose kaowledge and re-
speetability their Lordships were perfectly acquaint-
ed (v e believe he alluded to Mr. Setjeant Bayley).
He eon:tufted Itimselt during the whole of the pro-
ceedings; at the late eleCiion, with the greatest im-
partiality, and swore, that he never decided on any
vote through motives of =dice, interest, or other.
wise; but, to his great astonishment, he soon after
read an account in the Newspaper compiained of,
whiCh stated, that two of the Candidates were likely
to be returned, and that one of them had reaped a
most unespea,d advantage from the deci.ions of
the Returtuog °dicer, contrary to a former dater-
ruination. The paragraph alluded to, by way of
observation. asked, whether a Committee of %be
House of Commons were nnt m ire competent to
citric& the return, than a single person of ism*
partiality, with an Assessor chosen by himself.
CUUET—" Take your Rule to chew utiles."