The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-03-10 00:00:00

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LAW iNTELLNENC.T.
COURT or KING'S SENCeI, Mates 9.
SiHinar si Niti Priut, i•fort Lord E LLLLL 01t01101e
errs' a Sistei4lJery.
Rouser .ad waits'? V. 111.1.13 end OTN/Iti.
This was ac siEVern of trov.r, brought by the
Plaintiffs, ag dna the Defendants, who are the
Assignees of the estate of Tiunn and Ackerman,
bankrupts. The bankrupts wild to the Plainsiffs
considerable quantity of logwevid. value WA.
for which they received the Plaintiffs' pronsia.n►y
note, since yid. The logs of wood had Oben piled
in the yard of the Win India Dock Company, y
the bankrupts' orsL.r, for the Plaintiffs. but were,
since the issuing of the statute, reclaimed as try
property of the bankrupts, by the assignees ; and
their warrant of delivery, originally made out u
favour of the Plaintiffs, was, by their order, with
the consent of the superinterffant of the yard, core
vetted into an order in favour of the assignees
themselves, by erasing ewe names of Bourne and
Whitby, and .iibuituting in their place those of the
bankrupts. By this contrivance, they espeaed to
make it appear. that no transfer of the property L. 4.
ever been made to the Plaintiffs, aid that s
sible psoperty was vested in the banks upts ; in *Lick
case, purulent to an AEI made to that effea, in :he'
reign of William thu TLird, the rffeEls would is.
converted to the berr:it of the Credirots, aild be
lodged in the hands of the auignees.
The Learned dunce observed, that the tight of
the barkrupts was at best Liu • very equivocal, if
no: an unfair one ; since it was obtained by an eta.
sure of the same: of Os:. Pi tis,tiffu, and a snbuitu•
Lion of their own in t'!eir place ; that the real
ownership was vested in the Plaintiffs there cold
be no doubt, both from the curresvmuence. the
bdl paid to the value of the lop-wood, a wed as from
the nature of the warrant origmaily made in tbsit
favour, bat which ha I since suffered so extraordi nary
a change. He,thercfcre,recommended the Jury to
find a ,verdifl for the Plaintiffs. Verdift for the
Plaintiffs, MITI.
Tuwwittings concluded this day.

PULICh.

41W ST ra AT.
;nformation having bees given at this O, ii:e. hy.
stvesal of the inltabitants of Stnith.itreet. Westmin.
stet.. that strong suspicion was entertained that a' -
gang of coiner' occupied a house in that street.'
Mr. Rears direifted Sayers and Taunton to exert
themselves in ascertaining the troth. The OfZeee.,
upon inquiry. stispeaitig that it was not a mint.
but a private distillery that they had seen of.
laid a plop' for aseettaimoy.: the fad en Friday. and' ,
engaged an Exc.se Officer to accoosAny them:
To prevent any difficulty or suspicion in 'ening
admittance into the hoese, they sent a baku.r4s
with two quartern loaves. to knock at the door. It
was opened by a woman, and the Officers railse4
into the. huaie s Sayers seized the woman and a
man who was in the parlour (a well.knowe cherae;
ter of the name of Brody). Taunton and the EL.
eise Officer ran down into the kitchen, where they
found ad eighteen gallon still at work, wi:h all the
implement. neceutaty for distilling, ant a nt4n iii
attendance ; they took him into custody, hot •tif.
feted him to remain till the provers of .4istiliing the
liquor was complete : after whici: the Excise Orr.
car seized the liquor, still, &c. and the Nike Offi-
cers took the Ulan before Mr. RC AD. Wh t to.
vidcd him in the penalty of SOI. which, sot being'
prepared to pay. he was committed to the Howe
of Correßion for six months.

On Saturday, a ha:kney coachman was charged
b.itare Mr. GnAMAAI, by Mr.. St. Leger, of Cover t.
Garden Theatre. with exalting more than his t..re.
This being proved to the sausta&ion of the Magi*.
trate, he fined the coachman in the mitigated pe-
nalty of twenty shillings. After this was decide!.
Mrs. St. Leger stated the following aggravated
case of misbehaviour. Mrs. Sr. Leger hued 11-e
defendant's coach, on Tuiliday nigot, to rake 14
from the Theatre to her residence in Norton-meet;
Mary.la-Bonne. On his way, he stopped of a its!)a
lic house in St. Giles's, to drink, drove through
sevetal streets where he had no occasion to go, and
frequently stopped the coach to ask her, a• the win.
dow, in an impudent and sneering manner, " if sib
knew where she was—where she was going to, and
if she tad changed her mind to go to any other
place than wi.erc she at first desired him to
di ive :" At length he 4rove t er to a public I—ii.se at
the corner of Castle-street, in Newinaii street. .she
remonstrated on the impropriety of his condua, and
desired him to drive her home, but he swore some
horrid oaths, and refused to do it—forced her out of
the coach, and demanded two shillings for his fare:
Mts. St Leger told him she could not pay him um:
less he would drive her home, she having nothiug
less than a 201. note in her pocket, which he ,c.
fused to do, and held her prisoner, by arm. for
some time. At length she went into a iatlatic-house,
to endeavoar to get change, to procure her release ;
but the landlord not being able to give change, she
described whim she was, related the circumstances,
and he lent her two shillings.
Mr. Gs *asst lamented he Sad not known the
aggravated CAW before, as he would have fined him
in the full penalty of tit. for ezaeling more than his
fare. The Magistrate, however, finial bins one
pound more for misbehaviour.

We uncle:sty...l that upwards of A: a thousand
copies of the ereeholdets and C int:anon' ri
of the Buildings which form ti.l l it lr
Lovvaav, have been circulated. since it was los ova
that that I.•,.tery i. to be decided by the i.ext draw-
ing of the State Tickets. Thls pima that t:,e Ho as
Loll aav has suddenly acquired in extraordinary
popularity, and the sale of the 'rickets, wn cb in-
creases every hour, wit not fail to advance theta tar
above their present prices, before the d.aw:i.g com-
mences.
boxing match. as severe as ever sets witnessed.
took place yesterday in Mary-la-bonne-ft:ids, between
two men of the names ut Jams, a sawyer. and
Cmecre a drisver. for a put 5e ut Eve guineas. The
objects ofd version amused the op-Ms:ors 'tally two
hour., v..ih plenty of lc:rick-down Slaws, and when
they were unable to face each other, but by being
led to ad ou by their seconds, the Asussawe ama-
teurs. who advanced the prize, made a drawn bat-