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COURT OF EING'e-BENCH, WESTMINSTER, Jam. 29.
This being the first day of Ndlaty Term, the
Judges of the several Courts assembled us West-
mintier Hall, according to custom, ands after the*
usual ceremonies, repaired to their respeeive-Courts.
The proper officer attended this court, to make
the usual returns upon oath, upon the reports of the
several convicts under sentence of transportation, in
His Majesty's dock-yards at Woolwich, Deptford,
and Portsmouth ; also, of those on board the hulks
stationed at Portsmouth harbour, &c. Those re-
turns were made in the usual form, and stated, that
the convias were all remarkably healthy and or-
derly, and were prevented the use of strong or spi-
rituous liquors, except in a medical way.
A great number of persons qualified for bail, but
none to a large amount.
DAY RUt.FS
Lord E an aonci it gave notice, that since the
last term, the Court had a conference with the other
Judges, respeCting the ;ranting of day rules during
term ; upon which their Lordships agreed to an
Order, which his Lordship direeted should be read.
The order stated, that in luture, all persons con-
Sued in the King's Bench Prison, or within the
aisles thereof, should be allowed no more than three
day rules during each term ; that any application
for further time should be made upon
.sufficient affi-
+davits ; that the former order made in this behalf
;ihould be rescinded ; and that, upon the whole, no
Imore than seven days rules should be granted in
taCii term.

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CARICATURES.
c AAAAA V. I,lXOg.
Mr. Bosoms moved fur leave to file a Criminal
Information against a Mr. John Dixon, an engraver,
residing in this City. The application was grounded
upon the affidavit of the complainant, Mr Moses
Carara, who was a respelable gentleman, and an
officer in a volunteer corps ; he was not of the Jew-
ish persuasion, as might be supposed from the name s
his family had been so, but were not now. The
affidavit stated, that Mr. Carara had employed an
artist of the name of Atkinson to paint his pitture.
and the learned Counsel regretted exceedingly that
he was not then furnished with sufficient materials to
bring this gentleman befote. the Court. This picture',
was exceedingly well painted, and in a very good
style, but had one very material defect, in not being
at all like the original, on which account Mr.
tara objeEled to paying for it. In consequent of
this, Mr. Atkinson thought proper to go to his
house, abused him, and beat him most violently, and,
at the same time, challenged him to fight him; and,
upon the refusal of Mr. Carara, he called him a
scoundrel, coward, and other opprobrious epithets :
Shortly after this transatlion, a caricature picture
was published, and sent to Mr. Carara. It repre-
sented the painter in the aft of kicking this gentle-
man, while the mother of the latter appears looking
out of a window above, and exclaiming, " 0/1 nty
poor lirn !!!" From whence we conclude, Mr. C.
has the additional name of Benjamin. To make the
pisfta:e the more conspicuous. Mr. Carara is dressed
in the regimentals of his corps, which were rather
remarkable, a green jacket. with light blue pant-L-
-loons, and in order that no ono might mistake for
whom it was intended, the number of the house (9),
and name of the street (Coaway-street), were con-
spicuously delineated. Underneath this descriptive
performance were written appropriate verses, nearly
as follows :
A hold Lieutenant, once a Mo:ei„
Lately found h.l honour nicked ;
And, as he 1.01 not blonds nous,
Ile rather let hilairif be kicied.
Mr. Basalts& observed, that he had taken the
liberty of transposing a word in the last line, as in
the original it was rather coarse (a loud laugh).
This. he said. might be a very pleasant jest to some
people, but it was no laughing matter to the Gen-
tleman who had been so grossly injured ; and he very
well remembered their. Lordships having recently
said. that those sort of practices were not to be al-
lowed with impunity. It appeared, that this Mr.
Dixon was the engraver of this picture; and, upon
being applied to relative to it, he refused to give up
his author; it was therefore found expedient to make
this application to the Court.
COUXT--" Take a Rule to shew cause."
TUX ZING V. LOWTNXII.
Mr. Ginn informed the Court, that in the course
of last term he had moved for a criminal informa-
tion against the Defendant, for writing two letters of
a libellous tendency to the Magistrates of Wiltshire ;
but, in consequence of some informality in the affi-
davits, and a hope that the business might be ami-
cably adjusted, their Lordships allowed it to stand
over—however, the Defendant had since appealed
from the order of the Magistrates, and his appeal
Was dismissed ; it was therefore necessary to trouble
the Court with the application.
A Rule to shew Cause was granted.
Mr. Dam e,ut moved for leave to compound a
penalty in a qui WM aftion, upon payment of 201.
He observed, that part of the penalty, instead of
going to the Crown, went to the poor of the parish.
and the Churchwardens consented to this application.
Lord EL LIN sosouan.—la And are the poor to
have nothing ? We cannot allow the rights of one
party to be disposed of by another."
Motion refused.
Some short time after, a Junior Barrister inform.,
ed the Court, that he was unmated on the part of
the Churchwardens to consent to Mr. Da Dorm's
Motion.
COURT.---" But we do not consent to it ; we can-
not allow a compromise to the prejudice of the
parish."

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JONES V. SWARMS'S.
Mr. J aavts applied for a Rule to spew cause
why the Plaintiff should not pay the Defendant's
costs in this cause; he moved this under a late Aft of
Parliament, to prevent vexatious arrests, and it 3p -
peared. there was no reasonable or probable cause
for arresting the Defendant.
1-lis affidavit stated, that this aftion was brought
for the price of a quantity of coals, which, when
' measured by the Meter. was found to be considera-
bly deficient in quantity. 1. he Plaintiff was after•
wards prosecuted by the common informer, who re-
covered a penalty of 501. it7:,itist him, upon this
identical trausaclion. This ;salon was brought for