The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-20 00:00:00

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?RON TUESDAY maliT'S GAZETTE..
BANK KU PTA.
.1. Beverley, Berge Yard, Rucklersbury, merchant. &inciter,
Mr. Farren, King's Arms Yard, Coleman street.
T. flail. Old Compton Street, Soho, woollen draper. Sole.
Moan. BiIIOW and Co. Rasingh..ll Street.
DIVIDKNDS.
lan. el. J. Green, Oxford Street, smith—Feb. 4, W. Thorpe,
hawker—l, J. Holier. Tooley Street. Southwark,
eityinist—e. W. Dimwit. Cast e Street, Finsbury. tailor—l, I'.
ebber S.reet, Daubed' Marsh. hat inaniiiketurer—•
P. and J. Herbert, Loudon, merchants-3, W. Wright.
Tewkesbury, linen draper-4, W. Wel, ford. Tower hill, mer-
chant—S. T. Arthur, Need]. 4lsmorg.imliire, shopkeeper-10.
• A. i+witnew, H. White, and T. Tindall. Chesterfield, hat manu-
facturers-13. T.. Griffith. llllmorton, Warwickshire, victualler.
CMITIFICATKS to be granted Feb. •
I. Craney. Suuwhill, grocer--. 1. Robertson. Old Broad
• Knee,. merchant-7. Passman, Old Street Road, me cliahr
J. Atihweß. Nottingham, ironmonger—J. Thurtell, Brudwell.
. Sodblk, merchant—M. Douglas. Sunderland, coal litter—J. I.
and P. Coto-art. Clement's Lane, wine increhants--T. Jacks,
Bishopegate Street Without. flour fluor—J. Beattie, Purism,
fldua&r—F. Robinson. Aeon, Warwickshire,dcaler.
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W JAYE LLIGEVIVE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
IatiNDAY, JAN. 13.
IIItiCLAY C. smitten:rt.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff to f the
Weed:mg 4701. 10s., which the plu;ntilf had lent, and the de-
athbed had premised to repay. The plea wee, that DO such
money bad ever been !cut to the defendant. but Met it hail been
paid over to him by the plaintiff in discharge of different sums
of sunnily which the plaintiff had that to him at play. On ibis
(tint none was joisseth
The first witnemeeeled was John Bewley, a brother of the
plaintiff. He stated, that the plaintiff was a dealer in snuff
and tobacco, residing at N 0.49, in the Strand, and that the de-
fondant is a clerk is a banking-booth, and also carries on bud-
eines" as a coal-merchnot. On the 29th of May, 1820, the
defendant came le Isis brother's shop, and asked him fur a
loan of 1001. His brother replied, that he could not then
spire 1001., but that he wield let bim linve 701 ; and he was
actually drawing • cheek for that ma epos his hankers, when
the defendant said, that he wanted a few shining' for some
purpose or other, and desired that the cheek might be made
out fur 791. 10s. This was a..cordingly done. On the 7th of
June, in the same year, the defendant again called u;ton his
brother, and said be wanted 3001., hut that he did not kaow
person eseept the plaintiff to whom be could apply for snob a
lora. His brother, after some cant ersstion, gave him a cheok
on Isis hunker for that sum also. On the td of October, 1820,
the defendant again called upon his brother, said that he waded
money to pay fee some ooals, and asked the plaintiff to lend him
1001. for that purpose. His brother replied, that be hat not
that sem by him to *pare, but that he would give him a check
for 301.. and accept a bill of exciter e to this same amount for
I ho, payable three ur four months after dates The defendant
said, that this wound do ; and the check awl the bill of ex-
.lunge were immediately betided to him. on bin promise to dis-
eharge at the following Christmas all the money which had been
lent him. Subsequently to that period his brother again asked
the defendant in big bearing to repay the gems which had bees
'advanced to bite. The defendant promised to do so, as soon as
ever he could ; and added, that if he bad had buck all that
had been bet to hits (the plaintiff) at play, the pleintiff would
owe hint money.
Cries examined by Mr. ScArlett.—Tlefore the 29th of May,
he had seen the d. readmit since or twice, he: did not think
°Reser, at his brother's bouth, in the Strand. He was acci-
dentally at one lime in the shop, at another time in the counting-
house, when the defendant called on his brother about these
loans ; it was thou that he had overheard the conversations
which he had detailed to the Jury. His brother was not in the
habit of leading monevivithout taking sit acknowledgment for it ;
he did it, however, to two or three iuslividnals. lie knew that
brother eittered the 701. lOs in hie books as muney lest to
lb s defendant.
John Willis, a clerk in a hooking-house, pruned that the bill
of exelithge for 501., drawn by the defendant, and accepted by
the plaintiff, had been paid into their boo,. by M Hall
Rod Bevan, con -merchant*.
The payments of the cheeks by the plaintiff's hankers, and
the kwlgnsent of the proceeds in the bird, of the defendant's
bakers, was admitted by the riefeuditeit'it Counsel.
Tile plaintiff's case then closed.
,Ir. Seeded, for the defeucte, charged the witness Bewley
with flat unqualified perjury, committed for the lourposte of re-
cove;in.„: from bin client a sum of money which the p:aintilt had
paid to bin as a compromise for certain greater sums which he
Wed lost at play. After commenting upon the improbability of
1.i.111 plaintiff lending welt a suns of money, witlisen tatting an
acknowledgmetit for it, to a person whom has own brother
vowed never to have been in his heave more than two nr three
tenets, and also upon the likelihood, supposing the tummy to
Lasts herb actually lent, of hin having a110....t1 two years to
elayse before lie snide any Wort to recover it, Cie Learned
Gentleman proceeded to detail the eireomstaacea int which lie
mitred his defence, and which will be best understood by the
stroden.!e lie called to substantiate it.
Cleat. Joarph Wtllities Cooper, of the F:ast Kent Militia,
slated, that on the ggd of May, 11+20, lie dined at the Piolllol
0 tee-horse, by ins dation of Mr. licelgson, who then kept it.
tin that day he met at dinner Mr. %V Hit ratan, of Estwx-street,
Sordid, Mr. Bewley and Mr: Spurring. Mr. Bewley he knew
betbre ; Mr. Spurring lie did not. It appeared to him from
their cominel at that titue, that Mr. Bewley and Mr. Spurring
were complete strangers to each other. In the course of the
evening cards were introduced, and ail the party played except
Mr. Waterman ; lottery was the game played. At the begin-
wing the stake 4 were (wily abating% ; lint Mr. Bewley soon pro-
poised stakes, and, with the esetption of the witness,
half-crowns, crowns, pounds, out go forth, were goon staked I
be all the parties. 1. 0. Ilfs, and amen pieces of cards, were
Il• vl indeed of money. Mr. Iltswley was the loser ; witness
',sought that Mr. Bewliy owned that he wee a loser to the
amount of 301. or Ile% Hodgson and spurring were, he also
thought, tett!, wino •rs. No dtitlement was suede that evening,
et
least in Isis pmt velure. liodgeon Invited the thole party to
dine el his eliatubers, in Clement's-inn, on the ensuing Friday,
the 2015 of May. They dined there scourdingly ; • duly dined
there with Vire,. Play ass introduced there also in the even-
in;. The witness played a little higher than he did before
played or own Makes. There ens high play between Mr.
Bewley and Mr. Sparring, soul at whose sugecati .... be could
out tell. I. O. Ws were 'gaits steed. Before supper the de-
frodate was Rniii,c away ; he drat went to the plaintiff, who
was steinliug near the lire. and said, " It is a large auto you
have lost tu.nigm." Wittiest 04.41461 that hr said rather more
thee 4001. Mr. Itesilly lame* viand and said, I hope you
he not uneasy af you will call oo me to.thorrow, I will give