The National Register.
London, England, 1821-03-12 00:00:00

7$

LAIV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
MONDAY, MARCH 5.
SLANDER:BISHCP V. FRY.

P'

TUESDAY, MARCH 6.
RYMER V. RERCB.

FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, Mancn S.
Yesterday morning, soon after one o'clock, died, at the age of
22 weeks, Her Highness Elizabeth, only daughter of his Royal
Highness the Dukc of Clarence, to the great grief of His Majesty
and of all the Royal Family.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
W. Reid, junior, Newcastle Place, Clerkenwcll Close, watch
Maker, front March 10 to April
RANK it urrs.
R. Mason, Barfristone, Kent, miller. Solicitors, Messrs.
Lodington and Hall, Temple.
R. Aubrey. jun. Manchester, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Willis
and Co. Warnford Court, Throginotton Street.
G. E. Aubrey, 'Manchester, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Willis
and Co. Warnfonl Court.

T. Gibbons, junior, Wells, Norfolk, merchant. Sots. Messrs.
Flexncy and Co. &Alba! Row.
J. Troughton, C. A, Newcomb, and J. Troughton, Coventry,
bankers. Sol. Mr. Peanuan, Coventry.
H. Gibbons, Islington, dada. Sol. Mr. Junes, Temple
Chambers, Fleet Street.

DIVIDENCS.
March 22, G. Wood, Gloucester, marble mason-29, J.POOPe.
Chesterfield. Derbyshire, tallow chandler-31, J. S. HaMs,
Wapping Wall, merchant-10,J. Bentley and J. Beck, Cornhill,
watch and clock makers-17, T. Hughes, Oxford Street. hosier
—TO, B. Cohen, Bishopsgate Street, merchant-21, W. Brooker,
Eaton Street, New Cut, Blackfriars Hood, timber merchant-
-20, G. Putter, High Street, Poplar, grocer-31, T. Sisley, Isle
of Thanet, Kent, merchant--14, J. Cuthbert and M. Clarke,
junior, Colchester Street, Savage Gardens, wine merchants
—27, W. Couch, Axminster, Devonshire, builder-27, 11.
Neville, Colchester, dealer-30, J. G. osvenor, Harts II ill, Wor-
cestershire, ropernaker-17, W. Luv.hington, junior, Mark Lane,
merchant-28, J. Macmichael, T. Gitton, and W. Macmichael,
Bridgnortli, Salop, bankers-2S, J., W., and J. Macmichael,
Gitton, and A. M.Math, Fleet Street, carpet manufacttuers
—3l, J. Simpson, Smith square, Westminster, corn merchant-
-31, T. 1. Smith, Lawrence Puuntney Lane, merchant-31, J.
and J. E Wannington, Gracechttrch Street, drapers-28, T.
Salter, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, currier-28, .1. Burke,
Stockport Etchelh, Cheshire, cotton manufacturer—April 4, W.
l latch, Eccleston, Lancashire, corn merchant-7, S. Bothwell,
Fenchurch Street, printer-10, J. Thomas and J. Cabell, Oxford
!Street. linen drapers.
CEIII IFICATES to be granted March 27.
B. Carter, Hertford, famotr—lV. IL Gilbert, Leicester, wool-
staplers—G. Clarke, Knightsbridge, carpenter--J. A. Hunter,
Aston, Wan, ickshire, dealer—J. Sanders, Ivybridge, Devon,
tanner—,l. Bailey, Birmingham, grocer—G. 'pout!, Ludgate
Hill, linen draper.

This was an action to recover damages for slanderous
words spoken by the defendant.
Serjeant Pell stated the case for the plaintiff, who is a
solicitor. It happened on the 19th of December last,
that the defendant, who is an eminent banker, attended
a batik mitt's meeting at Guildhall, at which the plaintiff
was also present. It was the day on which the assignees
were to be chosen, and several of the creditors agreed to
appoint the plaintill solicitor to the assignees; upon
which the defendant, who was also a creditor to a con-
siderable amoutk, Said, " 1 do not think hint sufficiently
reputable to be emplo•;ed in the business; I would not
trust him with :Ad.' The defendant the day after, re-
rated similar expressions while transacting other busi-
lICSS iu the office of Iris own solicitors, and to recover a
Compensation of damages fur the injury lie had, by the
use of such unjustifiable expressions, inflicted on the
plaintiff, the present action was brought.
111 r. Sevainford proved his having heard the words
already mentioned used by the defendant, who addressed
them to the witness in the way of friendly caution, but
hood enough to be heard by others. The witness was a
creditor. as was also the defendant, to the amount of
1,0001„

Mr. %Valoisley proved the repetition of the words the
next day by the delentlant, who said he would always
• uo his duty, and would if necessary, say what he had
said again, though it should cost him tool.
Sergeant Vaughan for the defendant, contended that
he had only exercised his right as a creditor by giving
his opinion or the person it was proposed to appoint
solicitor to the assignees.
The Chief Justice told the Jury, that as the defend-
ant had not dented his hating spoken the words attri-
buted to bitty, the sinlp.e question for them was to decide
whether he had .poker them niali:iously, and on this
point the plaintill 's own witness had declared, that he
considered the words t.poken in the way of friendly cau-
ti,ri.
The Jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the
defendant.

This was an action for Ithel. The plaintiff, a
surgeon by profession, re-ides ai heigate, iu Starry, and
composes a medicine called, " 1 he cardiac and Nervous
Tnicture"—sovereign even in the most oi.posite cases
of human ailment. The detendJut is the cdtior of a
monthly ruhlication called Ihe Medical Cuzetie—and
the libel charged was of a twofold character, consisting,
first in re flexions upon Mr. Rymer himself, and next in
attacks upon the ine a luable specific.
1)r. Reece, ill his answer, denied any intent to im-
p:Jell the character of the visitant, but justified his
strictures upon the 'Ca unite Duettist.,"
Jt appe,ited trim the el idrtice that Mr. Rymer's pa-
tent hit the dose in question had tai.ired ; and the jury,
:legato Mg the personal libel, found a verdict for the de-
frildsot.

WRIGHT AND OTHERS, V. !ACC.
This «as an action against a coalition carrier. The
plaintiffs, Mess's. 11 right and Co arc hankers at Christ-
chineh, in Hampshire, and Alessrs. Rogers, Towgood,
an Co. of CI( nient's-Idne, are their London corres-
pondents. It is the cusicru of Messrs. lingers and Co.
on the first day of ever) month, to return to Nlessrs.
Wright and Co. tl.e notes loch hate been paid ou
their account ; and on the Ist of December, 1819, a
parcel containing notes of the Christchurch buil, fires
gird tens; to the amot at of 43051. was delivered at the