The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-17 00:00:00

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saying and publieiing whatever he fancied could ite *stifled. It
was said that i'-d.viduals had a right to discuss the very laws. of
the country; were we then to have a power beyond the Legisla-
ture ? It such were the case, then: was no security to our
establishments; hut the notion was not only highly dangerous,
but in the highest degree unconstitutional. If the Jury could be
of opinion that any thing but mischief was meant by the publi-
cation under their consideration, they would acquit the defend-
ant ; but he (the Judge), in the conscientious caischarge of his
duty, had no hesitation in saying, that he considered it a most
wicked libel.
tie Jury withdrew for about ten minutes, and brought in a
verdict of guilty.—Judgment en the defendant will be deliiered
in the Court of King's Bench next term.

WINCHESTER. "
PALMER V. GRIFFITHS, GENT:''

This was a Special Jury cause, and was brought against the
defendant, to recover damages for criminal conversation with
the plaintiff's wife.
Mr. JEKYLL, fbr the'plaintifi, stated the case, as it was after-
wards detailed in evidence. The plaintiff is an auctihneer and
coal-merchant, residing in the neighbourhood of Newport.
The detendant is an :,ttorney, inhabiting that town. die is a
married man, and the father of several Children. The parties
had been on terms of intimacy for many years •
,titthe plaintiff,
froma variety of concurring circumstances, suspecting his
wife's infi,:elity with the slefendant, placed an old washer-wo-
nian under a bed in his (plaintiff's) house, Where be also secreted
hiinself in such a position that they could discover all those who
entered.the room, .after remaining in this situation for an hour
and a hail, they observed the happy pair pass through the
room hits) An adjoining apartment—the two spivs shortly after
rtv:l•,.d out of their lurking-place, and surprized the amorous

Aire zierjeant Ptta., for the defendant, made several pointed
observations against the plain iff,' for having placed himself in
such 4 situation as to he the witness of his own dishonour ; and,
viith great force anal ingenuity .contended, that from the sudden
Externiptjon of the plaintiff and Ms old washcrwOman, there had
tnr 1--e•r, time for' the defendant to carry his criminal intentions
into egcct.
ht: tharned Judge (CH A am E ), however, was of'a different
opinion ; and the..tutly,,agrering with his Lordship, found a ver-
dict f4t the plaintiff. Dam 1001.
ilingh Killday, Wait intticfed for assaulting Miry Bright,
of Yarmouth, jp the Isle
.of WilP, spinster, with intent to
'o.tritiflit 3 rape; tlie particulars of this trial were as follows :
. arltiellprOseentrit is di years of age, daughter of Mr. Bright,
itteher, at Yarmout . On Saturday, the 15th of Septeber,
i!
4f*Ctsitft;hribt/ five in the evening, as "ihe was returning from
eyktilin to Ifaritioittli, on Boiney Common she met tie pri-
Ore!, Who asked her how she did ? be then caught her violently
round the Waiit, And dragged her artuui-fifty yards old of the
toad-, under the di:clivity of a bill, among broom and bushes;
she mach.. grt.at resistance, and screamed, on which the prisoner
threattned to take her lite tf she made a nnise ; he then seized
her by. the thr6at, threw her on the ground, and very much ill
.treated, her. They were together about twenty minutes; she
thehnbtalued leave °tithe prisoner to go to the road in search of
het.shues, which she had lost in the struggle.. She was not long
in the road beh the ptiosooe;
again, when shy Peter Gro,
ante, on which
pbe caught hioiti,
same time telli,hg .
crier. Glove*
said other prits,of
tail,, it'd herAilg
kOle she telaietl tl
;ielalett saVgiullecrti7i
, jet' 1%.1. She
attenaled.by a p!
usage she. recetv_
irnied the eVi4ence.ckl
..
vial, s lietvect a great
• .:*4 pg. teirral 1:-
wit hesitatAnivrt.
zliiidge said lie's)i»
t ilklif' the liiv 44049.
strstonplifer two years
.f/j .'4>. . • . . •

Monday the
ivcd here. The
Sher Learned '
. tke uses
*44 si a ti
ktitivnit- Maieriatie.

holding the land claimed has been so long in possession that in
ejectment not lie against him; but the party claiming land
must prove a better right than the tenant, whi.h is the issue
joined, whether the " claimant has a better right to have than
the tenant to bold the lands." This issue is .to be tried by a
grand assize, who are chosen by four Knights of the county,
who come into Court girt with their swords, and are swore to
elect the grand assize, who hereafter are to determine the cause.
This was this day done; the four Knights appeared with their
swords, and were swornto that effect in a cause of DeSSaux p,
Strangford, The issue will probably be tried next Assizes.
An action was tried, brought by a Mr. Baron, a baker,
against a Mr. Mraener, ftir slander ; and in one of the reporte In
the public papers, the cause of action is stated to have arisen
from a jealousy between the parties, who each espoused a dif.
ferent preacher, of the Methodist persuasion. The alledged
slander was, that the plaintiff was a rogue, and he could prove
him one; that he had robbed the defendant's family by selling
them bread of short veight, &c. &c. These words were proved
to have been spokeityby several witnesses, and the Jury foutfd
a verdict for the plaintiff—damages ss. •Itis noticed by the
friends of Mr. Baron, that his object was not to obtain damages,
but to repel, in a Court Of Justice, the foul charges brought
against him, and to show that during the thirteen years he had
been in business he had maintained the character of an honebt,
upright men.
WIILTFIELD V. LA ROCHE.
Penis case.was tried by a Specil Jury, and lasted the whole
day. It was an action of trespass for taking the soil of the
plaintiff On the river Qpine ; to which the defendant pleaded it
was his own freehold; and next a right to take it, to repair Ills
banks adjoining the river. Ihe next question was,-whether a
little eyot (island) in the river, rose out of the river, or whether
it had been separated from the adjoining meadow by the cur-
rent. The defendant •contended, that it was originally part of
his meadow, and that he had a right to connect it again by arsk
embankment. On the part of the plaintiff a great number o
witnesses were called, who stated, that within their recollection
there was no island where it now existed, but merely a shallowl
which, at low waiter, in dry weather, produced a number 01
water plants and rushes, hut •that since, the Grand Junction
Canal was formed, it lowered the water in the Colne, and a
bridge above being, about 16 years ago, blown up by a high
flood, the rubbith and materials settled on the shallows and
created the island. For the defendant several witnesses were
called, Who spoke to its being anciently a part of the meadow,
and apparently separated by the current ; they also spoke to the
custom of all person 4 adjblning the rivet being in the habit of
repairing their banks with the soil from the bed of the river, but
it was generally done by the persons taking the soil adjoining the
bank, and not taking it by boats from the middle.—The Lord
Chief Baron recapilk.lated the whole evidence on both sides
with great minuteness ; after which the Jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff—Damages One Shilling.
WHITCIIMICII V. iNtAll/sTRII..

fore the prksoper atterAVß:d to draw her away
le saw Peter Gruves,and called him to her assist-
h the prisoner ran away, and Groves came up ;
(liy the artit and enireatetd his protection, at the
4 bins how iIT the had been treated by the sot-
* her bane her ctiotbei *ere tom, her arms
es.of her body very muc scratched by the brans-
Iroat very gore frOnt v;pTence. On her reaching
ritl to her mother the treitnibntshe had recehred,
r itated and exhau)ted kilit,vould allotst. Oil
she saw the pristoner lIV • , cng-
fi tt hot, hotili •
vinight, ;O
physiciitn for nearly three a
• tfr cup the ill.
'veo. P.efer Groves, a setV4At ' wouth, con-
denee. of
_rbe , pritsecutris. 'the cua I)isi
a greif of shreivdnesi 615tersitiofis,
1 questions: to the witaerbset; but vilt.itl
, rettruei ye rOitol-.-G!t,itliitifyie Assaults,„ _he
inhict •ertintn the kerei- d'egree of puntsp,-
04rOp. higpee„Anti, Inter:44 dhi%; 00
vo years t npuse. ot•Lorrection•
• 2 7: ". rz; ••
HEIVITO
e Lord Chief .W•bn n lbstreelleatilt -
Lord Chien Earop took the Civil Skit, and the
Judge tried the Pt-Ai:niers,
orosei is the rathex singotor eccuirettce of at writ
is
A a trial foundeAl on an ancient mil a most
SlaVe• Wo4afit

WIWI CIRTIIC:11 V. WARN VAL.
This was an action against the proprietors of a Cambridge
coach, to rover damagei for an injury sustained by the plain-
tiff in beinmoverturned by the negligent driving of the coach-
man. Thellaintiff was bookkeeper to the Guildford with,
and went by .. • c defendant's stage to Cambridge; during-their
journey the • ' . an drove in a most furious marineKt vld4ll
ended in upset...];: the coach—=the plaintiff was thrown ffetn the
roof, and consi• '',,•ty :bruised.' Fur the defendant *Atte! wit-
nesses were call -0-.0 attempted to represent it tit an utrevoitt.
aisle accident, ov ::. • oued by the whip being entangled in the
reins. Thelury ". -id for the plaintiff... Damages ea
'Oh the Cfdten Si .. Ceritige Watson *as .rnd'ated for stealing
abbck spate,, the property . of Wtn-Whitdurini, at the parish
of §heepball, in thjs comity., ,The • • 6* *4..left on the pot
day of Angystin the batiklard or tire • hiiimutor, front Virte*e
i Wit Aiiken by- the Pritener; -Who . '. . • •a*ty. "Mk fr, atilt fie
rode hard att that atilt, bleating ta-tteat z WS durance intim
.more ;. but not ki4s.vi.a&-t4e,antntr.r,, and the oticse kap*.
in it ,veg well,. he.,,bid.gay • .the lanes Arr a circle, and 4
NOW*, ,sUppostri* jitritiZelf4i at vvir air be rad: Into* It
04?
-Inift:lWdlibl' it 4kiiiii& et& - Wdth Wiiiitei4. traAtaftatellie
hOrse, and benefit-I%Si) als*tvr till I/whit . . ',rig/7- -.F - Aur
Wret A .digaggt.fitAqtroiri4Flh)ariPg,ll ;:,rofliatnitl. e
,i,,,kit he
was there ttie orse yof fiCO wit►
ittli - 6 42S • l
ratrn'ifitnil zdtly.
• • 'ar#olsoll,l6ribtg Wag -dant ittediar insitie,i •..
of an infant. Thee.4lslP4Mit•lP4l3443)o
expected 000 n i
at.; . '' • •
was sentenced to be angel, and it is ' ;
Aseix*be,re ended. . .....,. .
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