The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-12 00:00:00

DECISION ON THE PATENT COFFIN CASE.

This important and novel proceeding, which had
been arue,: at great length on a firmer day, came
on for judrincnt hefiire Sir \Vrn. Scott this morning.
It was a snit brought by John Gilbert parishioner
of St. Andrew's Holborn, against John Ilitswood
and William Boyer, churchwardens, fur the offence

of obstructing the interment of his wire, Mary Gil-
bert. After stating in substance the criminating
articles, and the defensive allegations, the Learned
Judge proceedid in a long and elaborate speech to
&liver the opinion of the Court, on the question of
right which had been submitted fix its tkcision.—
Sir William first took a view of the ditkrent modes
of disposing of the remains of the dead, recorded in
history, and then came to consider the argument
relative to particular ceffins. With respect to the
ditkrence in the duration of the coffins of wood and
coffins of iron, it was, said the Learned Judge, the
bult a the party complainant, it beim,' left by him

to judge of this matter, without sufficient inilirma-
time, 1 judge amiss in holding, that coffins of iron are
non h more, perhaps doubly more durable than
•boic of wood. 11; thereihre, these iron coffins are
ring additional charges upon pari,hes, they
.0 bring widi them a proportionate compen-
lk,ll all common principles of estimated
•na pay lir the longer lease which you
the ground. At the same time
to carve for themselves in jm-.
submitted to the examination
-istrate, the Ordinary. " It
,arne:l Judge, " that
• ibit a table of burial
'-dicary. I would
tit.: body should
•rther obstruc-
'tit question,
ory resolu-
-id 1 wil-
•eccwmnend
e dead.—l
both sides,

case which
Magisterial
u Wed LICS
.self Thomas
a respectable
ed bitu of his
...ersblc value.
ur, !.vho is an athletic
u, that at six o'clock on Tuesday
Jog down Bishops;_taw-street, a street
Jo as crowded as the Strand, when he
seized by the arms by two men, who
-a tightly that he was unable to mote; at the
..ute a person from behind put his bawls under the
..rsecutor's chin, and forced back his head. He was
.teld tint' some moments in this postore, during which
time he felt his watch escape from his fob, and his 'soc-
kets were deliberately ransacked, bit: fortunatjAy he had
nothing upon his petson of particular value, excepting
his watch. After having investigated the contents of
his pockets, the soblwrs released him as sudden:), as they
had seized hint, and decamped down the alleys near the
place. Before they disappeared, however, the prosecutor
kat sufficient litne to recognise the person of the prisoner,
and to see hint hand his watch and seats to another
• the gan;t. The prosecutor porstied the prisoner with the
cry of " stop thief!" down an alley near the spot, railed
Catherine-wheel-alley, when lortuuately a labouring
man passing up the heard the cry, and seized the
prisoner as he was running, and detain. d him until the
prosecutor came up, who would not otherwise, from
ituric..ey and dar'uess of the place, have been able to
have caught the robber.
Another gelid! man who was present in the Office
recomise I the prisoner as the matt who had !ribbed into
only a few cvessitr,,, bcitere.
The prisoner Thomas James Crown, pallor, was fully
colutuittel to take his trial, and the patties bound over
to proscc ac.

LOW-STREET.
ALLEGED AITMAL UPON Loan LIVERPOOL.—
On Friday Jute Harris, a respectable-kinking elderly
woman, was brought Op on a warrant charging her
with an assault upon the Right !lots. the Earl of Liver-
pool, and als r with an :memo to excite a breach of the
peace.
Anthony Thomi*on, a patrole of this office, stated,
that soon after nine o'clock ('et Thursday mornin,l, as he
was walking b hind the Earl of Lit erpoel ;Ilia other
Noblemen down Kin z-sueet, Westminster, tow4rds the
Nouse of Lords, he heard sonic person in the shop of
Alf. Loftus, a ,:rocer, "- that's him—there he goes," and
in a moino.iseut atierwards the defendant rushed out of
the shop, passed the witness, and placing herself in
front ut Lord Liverpool, snnuk her fist in his face, and
exclaimed " Oh, you r— I You old t—." His
LUlthillp and those with hint started back, and they
avoide.l her by st.paring a ide. Or; her return Lack to
the shop, she accosted the witness, um!, pointing to Lord
Liverpool wade use of the same lati;ple. The witness
GLl:isequently called at isoftta's aim wiring ascertali.
ed the defendant's residence, he procured a warrant for
her apprehension'
'j'he defendant, in the course of the ei.ove statement,