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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26.,

THE KING e. TAYLOR.
The Defendant, the diumager of the Opera-house, was bronght up
to receive the j ,dgment of the C-,,dirt, for a libel on a Mr L'Eceine,
calling him a mnsieal monster ; and stating. that the Theatre had
been burned down by Carivalli, an Italian ; that e was also
an Italian, and, like him, a disappointed would—be—manager, and
Sully capable of the same act.
An affidavit of I.Tcen,e was then put in. stating, that although
Iw had se%cral times avplied to be admitted into the Opera-house,
am! for that porpn.e ,Ir!-cred money and ebscription-tickets, he had
been refused admit two:4• by the express orders of Mr. Taylor. •
Lord ELLENBOROLGII asked if the detiendant had any thing to
say
M.
r. Taylor replied, he had not any thing to say.
Mr. Ju4tice Guosr. pronounced the sentence of the Court, which
was, that the defendant should pay a fine of 501. to the King and
rd main in the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea till the
same was paid.
Mr. Taylor immediately paid the fine.
Six persons of the names of Davis, Lewis. Bow, Waite, Gege,
and Gale, were brought np to receive judgment, having been found
• guilty on an indictment brought against them by the Commission-
era of the Excise, for a riot made to terrify and injure a perw,n of
the name of Coates, who h A appeared as a wltiics against a malt-
ger for penalties for breaches of the Excise laws.
The Court adjudged the two first to be imprisoned four months in
dm House of Correction, and the others three mouths.

FRIDAY. MAY 213..
W. Dyer was brought up to receive judement, having. been found
guilty on an indictment for asaulting two women. It appeared
fl om the evidence, that the Defendant broke into a room where vd
or 30 persons were engaged at prayers ; that he did assault the two
women ; and that he swo-e lie won khi the preacher. a Mr. Grind-
ley, of the age of 80, but was prevented, by being forced out of die
room. One of the women was tar gone with child. The Defend-
ant was intoxicated. The indictment had been removed icy the
Prosecutor. from the Ses-imis, into the King's Bench, by certiorari.
The affidavit of the surgeon,.wlio had attended the %roman who was
with child, was put in to prove that she had not received any ma-
. tot i& .1. jury.
Mr. Justice GROSE having remarked on the impropriety of De-
fendant's conduct, and having ako stated that the removal of the
indictment, weighed with the Voiirt in his favour, did order and
Pdjud , that the Defendant should pay -1 fine if tol. and remain in
the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea till the same was paid
CONSPIRACY.-THE KING AG %MST WSI. GEO. HARRISON AND
ELIZ. ELEANOR ST. JULIEN.

This was an indictment tried at the last Assizes for the County of
Kent, wherein the Hoii. Basil Cochrane was tile prosecutor, and
it chafged the two defendants with en:lspiting together, by means
of threats and other undue courses, to extort from him the sum of
10.0c01.

• Our readers are already in po,sessicit of the particulars of this
case, as published in this Journal during thy last Assizes tor the
said County. At picsent, therefore, tt will suffice to say, that the
defentlaut4 were, through the activity of Mr. Henson, the prosecu-
tor's Solicitor, both convicted of a conspiracy ; having but n proved
to have. attempted to extort the above NMI, by threats, stich
charging Mr. Cochrane with advising the defendant, St. Julien, who
live* with him as his mistress, to use vaputir-baths in order to pro-
cure abortion, when in truth. and in tact, 110 sti4 h charge against
bit Cochrane could possibly be Hipported, but which uriminated in
the basest motives and contrivances. _ _

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On the contrary., it appeared from the notes of the Learned
Judge, taken on the trial, that the kindest attention and regard,
as welt as atiectio:i, had been uniformly manifested towards Miss
St. Julien by Mr. Cochrane, mild he had the must nnequivocai
proofs that her int'ulolity was of that description that his protection.
must necessarily he withdrew'', for ail his servants testified to beii'g
eye-witnesses of it. lie therefore. ceased (*wilier to consikr her,
but tends-red his best services, and in the most liberal way, to the
• children, desirous, however, that theti should be sep.iratcd from her.
On the part of the defendant, Hari ison, who only way called up
for jution ot, several affidavits were pia in. stating his humble si-
tuation in life, and complainine of the severity d f the priisecution,
mid he :old ox,bt ti the Cuuit himself, iuot having,- as la said, the
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MAY SO.

means of employing Conn•el, which address occupied nearly one
hour, wherein lie conducted hithself in a manner that indicated
,
much sorrow for his ••itiuttion.
_ _ _

Mr. Common Seijeant, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Spankey, were
heard in reply, on the part of the prosecution, and the last men-
tioned Gentleman clearly demonstrated not more the laudable pro-
prrety of the prosecution, than the stubborn perseverance of the
defendant to provoke it.
Lnrd ELLENBOPOUGH directed that he should be brought up again
on Monday to receive sentence.

Mr. White, jnn. Editor of The Independent Whig, was. brought
up on Monday fur judgment, when Mr. Justice GitosE passed the
following sentence upon him :—That he be confined in Newgate
fur 15 calendar ►honths, and pay a tine of tOol. to the King.