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7 Cfrit._ se% and payment of tbs. mileage duty '
and,?hek4whiressed the Jury. The short question
for them, bc said, war, whether the Defendant
%Lapse that the-gentleman wits coheir up, intending
• to be set dowtsurilbirs the streets of London ; which
he rontruded amoss hove been the case from the
frequency of the fact. It was at loot reduced to
. thus ; the question) of hie being to be raised upon

Ant.
itobert Webber. . examined by the SOLICITOR-
G EN /MAL
Naomi Mr. Lind.ay well ; he 'byes in Queen.
street, Mai-fair; knows of hi. going three or four_
times a went, for four months atm-naively, from
Paul's Church-yard. by the Plaintiff's couch.
;,:•4 getting out at different vismo.iireisasjOlL„
...,.rortimeibe would remain, when the coach stop.
,e,l at the White Horse Cellar, eating some fruit
For a few minutes, sod thou be let our, not by the
but by some other man. On one occa-
sion Mr. Cloud's Coach was full, and on Mr. Lind-
say coming up the coaehmao induced one of the
monde passengers to take an outside place as far as
Pircadilly. to accommodate him. Remembers Mr.
Viand being before the Commissioners, twice on
i`)r same day, in yr previous (wisp, but cannot swears
•.e. was Mailed.; *heves the coachman was; and
thriii was desired particularly to 'stolid to its not
hero; done again. That was three or four weeks
before this conviction. He never spoke to Mr.
C;oucl on the aohject.
Crolverestimed Seljeant PELL.
He could notlllheat'ut•what month Wells, the
coachrnan."was warned. but it wen before this con.
He could not sneer to a fortnight or three
vtlieks. Hi. Undoes, *n in the board-room at the
me. He is certain of the warning, but nut of the
ome. He was employed by the hackney-coach
-t-asterv, and used to follow the coach on foot from
4t. Paul's to Picoaililly. lie had a part of the
larroalties, but not in this cape. lle could :int say
now insily penalties he had received part of, but
7.e had supported his family by it fur eight months.
Mr. Setjeaut l'at.r.—" Then you. are a common
i;.i.Ormer ?"

Vt'itness" You may call me what you please.
1 was unfortunate, and n.is obliged to eupport my
t.mtly as well as I could."
Mr. Serjeant PELt—" Then I call you a c
-
moo informer."

"Witness —" The law protects me." ( Laughter.)
Re- exatniaecl. —He could not recollect whether
she warning did or did not Lake place before the
,4 !sr April.
William Lewes, inspector of hackney-coaches,
remembers Mr. Lindsay being before the Commis.
siouer• on a former occasion. He believes it was
elbout eight months ago. He also remembers the
coachman had a particular warning, but he does
•of remember whether Mr. Lindsay was present.
Ile cannot say whether it was three or four weeks
before the conviction in May.
!Mr. Dunne, clerk to the Cominissioners, remem-
bered a warning bei•ig given to Wells, and•thought
it was on the 7th of April, when Mr. Lindsay was
present. Cloud was not there at the time.
The case bring closed—
The Cam JUSTICE asked on what clause the
Solicitor• General went?

The So Lictroa-thmaium—“ 00 the 9.11 Anne,
cap. 33, sect. 4 and 12, and on the 14 Geo. I.
c,,p. 37, sect. 3. My Learned Brother suggest. be•
sajes the 55th Geo. 111. cap. 145, sect. 12; but
differ from him most materially as to the opera.
t; an of the word out, in that section."
The CHM' JUsTlca said, there was also the
48th Geo. 111. sect. 9, and he held that if that Act
were not repealed by some suhsequent statute, the
driver of this coach was entitled to do as he had
done. He mentioned this to call the attrition of
the parties to that statute.
The SoLICITOa-GEXERAL said, in his opinion,
ri:at statute was repealed by the 11th section of
the 55th George 111. cap. 185.
Mr. Serjeatit NIA then addressed the Jury in
reisli. The question for them to decide was, whe-
ti.er the coachman knew that Mr. Lindsay was to
ti.r set down shrift of the journey when he took him
af; r The evidence of the coachman on that point
wus suicontradicted, except by the man atm re.
kiatossiedged that he got his bread fur seven or eight
motifs by butiting*down the Hammersmith stages.
•. The CHIE, itisTica observed, that if ever these
wad a case winch required temperate discussion in a
court of Justice. this was one. The law of the
efEP was reserved for a future argument ; the Jury
t. 14 row only to decide upon the fact of the know.
ledis of the coachmiti at the time of taking np
Kr. Lindsay; and he cotild not help observing,
its., as that Gentleman was in Court, that question
Al:4111i hastrllien decided by esensiiiing hint as to
tut point ; biat he lind dot been called—he there-
f pie,
tua his own part, felt toile satisfied that the
coachman (lid know. It wB,. however, fur the Jury
a.arride.
airing' consulted fur a few minutes. the Jury
rtieretod is wish tti retire. and did so accordingly ;
iy istagort hdf wis hoar they returned with a verdict
li.i.ll,st
The Curits J You find that the Plain'.
iifrelrd not thus, Mr. Lindsay WAS in be >et down
ti Vaccadilly at the lime he took hi::: up ?"
a'ueettian of (be Yes, my Lord."
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..
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ticobudi UrSilittra&Cll RIAY, a boy :shunt eight
c.sesaf age, Wilt) was stabbed the left eye by
-.1,./rfdA iteuliedge, a bar about fourteen Weary old,
oL Tintidsy earning the it Ist ult. in a soutueut of
Maltsluoighter ;" and the
ysorett delststpteut Itiss bees czotoot fitted to our prison.
Vie.frodst somestag week, about use o'clock, as a young
unit/ seramstowskag tome Bait Mitsui so York, tear Cup•
sniariaropsolaso, be beard sweet owe emotivity in depress.
qui Soiree 40 Ass piste he .oberired (as be Hussein) a
egorrei wills a greet Hook. He asked why else
was Hors es JIM smasessissibis boar and woo auswered,
thin Abe Md osiMed .the week es which the perms
ssetrias ustabeaide with .hiss to York; bus, ow the sup-
poi"! enema tedipitmes her arm sod His tried blowsug et
the linviss sillifereed two wee cedert Nook. Alarmed et
441° segis,..oi.pet "SO. lu ens bone,. soil made the beet of
bee trigehrTsek
VII tie orflitnitsdrifoodepareastglitodioist Herm o'clock,
Mrs. Shut Leh Ellisher.4, Mb, (a presort wise kept a smell
as.vot wpaosasse.Mestioaas Pape% was discevered a We-
irs, sorfbe at the /Um of Hsi atom : from the bruises about
b.r bed a.Otbe Wet-imam of emcee*: Misled to bse pockets
beesug semi of. soLsitst a single irsicieli. be timed on thu
1414: sow. at is amorally cuochnhol elm had bees murdered
hp sone ',ma toves•••• stskousos.