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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

TDURIDAY, DEC. 14.
TIM KING V. TIMM

Mr. Gurney stated that this was a prosecution against the
defendant, a bookseller in Wych-street, for selling Paine's
Age of Reason. The prosecution was instituted by the So-
ciety for the Suppression of Vice. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to continent on the mischievous tendency of
the Works of l'aine in the usual terms ; adverting also to the
opinions a Inch Judges and former Juries had given of these
works. He then stated the following as the facts of the
present case ;—the Society for the Suppression of Vice,
having reason to suspect the defendant seas selling Paine's
Works, scot a person named Itaanald to ascertain the fact.
Itagnald accordingly, on the dth"ofJiily last, went to defen-
dant's shop, and purchased two or three pamphlets. Defen-
dant asked hint if lie wanted auy thing more. He then men-
tioned Paine's Age of Reason, as a work he was desirous of
having. Defendant told him they could not be had under a
pound. Ragnald said that was a great deal of money,
and offered sixteen shillings. The defendant desired he
would call again on the 7th, and defendant gave him the
book at the price of 16s. On the Sib of July, the day fol-
lowing, Mr. Fair, clerk to Mr. Pritchard, the Attorney to
the Society, went to defendant's shop, and asked for Paine's
Age of Reason. Defendant said he had not got it, tint could
'Amin it for him at the price of a pound. Mr. Fair offered
10s. and was desired to call again in an hour or two, which
he did, and the work wits delivered to hint, he having pre-
viously paid the 16s.
These farts were proved by Ragnald and Fair.
The work was put in, and the passage read commencing
" People in general know nut the wickedness there is iu this
pretended word of God.
Mr. Adolphus addressed the Jury oa behalf of the
defendant.

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Tho Chief Justice summed up, and the Jury found the
defendant guilty, at the same time recuumsending him to
mercy..
The Chief Justice said, inquiry should be instituted,
Trod it' proper their recommendation shiii•A have its due
weight.
Mr. Gurney said, the defendant had already been once
excused from prosecution, on his solemn promise that he
would not spin Offend tv,ailist law and religion by selling
this n ork.

lAltvIS V /LOPER.
Thiswas an action by the plaintill, an apolhccarp, against
the defendant, a lawyer, to recover 81. 18,., for physic fur
nished to him during 811 indisposition, ns appeared from the
tvidence, oh seven weeks duration. The defendant in the
way;of his profession, called for a taxation of costs, by making
the plaintiff a tender of five pumids, as payment in full of his
demand. This was refused by the plaintiff, who determined
to have elf or nothing, to ain the horse or lose the saddle,
and therefore brought the present action.
The plaintiff's to o daughters were called, who staled their
beliefs but all thearticles mentioned in the bill were furnished
to him.

Mr. Gurney, for the defendant, contended, that this was
an exorbitant demand on the part of the plaintiff, and Ilya
there was noire medicine charged fur than had been furnished,
even supposing the defendant's iliness to have been of the
duration described.
The July, however, 101,041 a verdict for the plaintiff, for
31. 16s. in addition to the 51. tendered.

Sittings before Mr. Justice Holroyc,
THURSDAY, DEC. 14.
JONES v. SAVAGE.

The defendaut, an artist, residing in Warren-amet, Fitz.
roy Square, brought his act ion against the defendant, who
keeps a coffee-shop in the neighbourhood of Oxfor...street,
to recover a conspensalion for three ornamental paintings en
fresque, done upon the walls of the defeadent's shop. The
charge for this work of art an. 11.
Several witnesses proved that the charge was moderate
for the work. It was stated that artists in the same line
frequently received ten guineas for compositions of less merit,
in the houses of the Nobility, on the occasion of routs and
halls.
Tim defendant endeavoured to prove an undertaking on the
part of the plaintstf to do the work for 30.. ; but he failed
in making out that case, and the Jury found a verdict for
plaintill.—llautagesl 1.--costs,
FRIDAY, DEC. la.
HOLLIS, V. ATKINSON.
This was an action for slander. The plaintiff was a
tailor and oilman residing at Walworth, and the defend.
ant a carpenter. From the evidence it appeared, that on
two diflerent occasions, once at the public lull-house,
and :nice in a public company, the defendant, speaking
of the plaintiff, said, " Hollis is all to pieces
he will soon be in the Gazette—he compounded wiili
his creditors four years ago." These were the slander-
ous words laid in the declaration, and proved by the
plaintiff's witnesses.
The Jury found a verdict for tlic plaintiff—Damages
201.—costs 40s.

PHIPVS, V. 24 EVAKI).
The plaintiff, who is a gentleman residing at Old
Ford, sottght to recover a compensation from the de-
lemlant, a gentleman residing in the same neighbourhood
lin the injury he had sustained by a kick received by
,in form a horse Iniongina to the dcfeiitlault.
Tile Chief Justice was of opinion that there were
uo `trouts of a vicious disposition.
'1 he plaintiff consented to be non-suited,
rrcavowicac, V. BASSETT.
'lite plaintiff brought thk action to recover the sum of
41.43. the expence he had been lot to hy an alleged il-
legal distress. The question was shortly, whether
tender had been made and refused. A person of she
name of IN'ingfield proved, that he Well with the plat
till to the house tri. Battler, and saw via ^uuleas ten.acrtil,
which the landlord refused. The Wlllletai made 'newe-
-1 andouts of all that °cc:is:red.
.N 1 Iry Hutt, servant to Haller, said, the plaintiff came
to het it taster alit! tendered SIX pinciik. Butler said,
that is not any rent. The plaintal tepliiA, I, You be
Sir, get is, how you Can,"
.wore to the tender of sir, 1 uiaeas. 111111
swore to the plaitatill offering six pounds which Bui!er
a. ju.tilied hi refusing..
'lnc Jury Mond a verdict for the plaintitt—D.inoges
Four Guineas.