The National Register.
London, England, 1811-07-07 00:00:00

LAW REPORTS.

COURT' OF KING'S BENCH.

WED:OEM.IY, JULY 3.
THE KING V. DE YONGE.
The Court this day, according to their previous notice, pro-
pounced judgment in this important question.
Lord ELLEN moitouGu, in stating the judgment of the Court,
observed, that the defendant De Yonge, was cony cud before
bbn in the Sitti.:gs after last Tcrm, in which conviction a ques-
tion was reserved, upon the 'notion of Mr. Marriott, upon a
point of law, and . that the judgment should be staid, as a
Nimilar point had occurred before the Court of Common Pleas,
in the King v. Wright, which had been reserved by the Lord
Chief Justice of that Court, for the opinion of all the Judges. It
bad been accordingly thought proper to reserve this question
,also, as the decision of the one case would be the decision of the
Gther. Both cases, therefore, had been most solemnly argued
before all the Judges except three, who bad been absent from
indisposition, but he was not aware that any of them differed in
the least, upon bearing the argument that had taken place.—
The charge, in regard to De Yonge, was that of exchanging .50
tuineas, and ret•eiving more in value than the same were de-
clared by Proclamation of Geo. 11. to be current for; but the
ctchange Shaving been made by means of certain Promissory
Notes of the Bank of England, together with a silver coin called
a dollar, all the Judges were of opinion that the exchange upon
• the record was not an offence against the statutes of the .sth and
Gth of Richard VI. upon which that charge was founded. In
consequence of this, the Court were of opinion that the case uf
be-Yonge ought to be arrested, and it was by that their judg-
, • mem arrested accordingly.
• . .• • :W-.4.L.DRoN v. GREATREX.
Thls.Vias ateittilteti trover, brought by a servanteMaid,
against her lane mas er, a tailor, in Piccadilly, to recover the
value of some clothes left in the defendant's custody at the time
of her quitting his service. The plaintiff had left her master's
service in consequence of ill health, and when she sent for her
dot ees, he refused to deliver them until she should pay 113.6 d.
for broken glass. The only article of dress demanded to he
eeiivered up, was a black bombazeen gown, valued at f..)55. and
. which, it typeared, the defendant's wife so fir exercised an act
of ownership over, as to give to her sister to wear. It also ap-
peared, that the plaintiff had got some trifling articles from the
fendaet's shop, but
lord ELLEN Boaoucu held, that neither this nor the broken
glass gave the master a lien on the property of his servant, and
the Jury found a verdict of 2.56. Damages for the plaintiff.

In the Court of Arches, on 'Thursday, in a suit preferred by
Mr. Newbury, against the Rev. Mr. Goodwin, Curate of
lie:!thfield, Sussex, for irregularity at the communion table,
chiding, quarrelling, and brawling in the Church, the Learned
Judge (Nicol) thought the Rev. Gentleman would do well to
consider, whether he would act discreetly in 'defending the suit.
Ii: the same Court, in a case of divorce promoted by C. Dalton
(who kept the Rising Sun public house, at Canterbury), against
his wife, Sarah Dalton, by reason of adultery, the proofs of
criminality being clearly made out, the Court granted the
rL-medy prayed for, and passed sentence of divorce accor-
dingly,

destroy the Star Printing... Office, and Mr. Cooke's extensive
workshops at the back of Mr. Read's house. But water was ao
early obtained, as well as the assistanbe of the engine kept by
Messrs. Heare, Fleet-street, which was the first that arrived,
that the Star Office experienced only some partial damage, and
Mr. Cooke's 'premises were not injured. Mr. Read's house
was burnt to the gropnd. His property was insured, but, we
pnderstand, not the house. No lives were lost, and we are hap-
py to state no accident happened.
FATAL EFFECTS OF StINDAY EXCURCIONS.—..-A boat, in which
were Mr. Prater, an artist, ot Pimlico Lower Road, his two
daughters, and five other persons, was staved above Battersea
Bridge, on Sunday night, by some unskilful young Caen;
Miss Sinither w.ts drowned, in endeavouring to escape av:th file
party into another boat. A gentleman nearly lost his life in at-
tempting to save her, but was providentially picked:up by a
boatman.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCCRIENCE.--.•FOT several days past a 1:e.1,
nine years ot age, belonging to a respectable tradesman in tee
neighbourhood of Paddington, has been missing. tie was at
school near that place, and net returning home at his usual hoer,
search and ingeiry was made for him. _No tidings were heard
until last Tuesday morning, when he was found (lead in one of
the vaults of Sr. George's Chapel, Paddington. The body vas
standing against the wall of the vault. His bag, with his school.-
books, was on his showier; there were several coffins in the
vault. It is conjectured that the boy had been led these by cu-
riosity to see a funeral, and that having been inadvertently shut
in, he died of frigkt.
Monday, a warrant was obtained for the apprehension of a
Paymaster-serjeant, for a violent assault on a publican, in the
neighbourhood of even-oaks, Kent, under the following circum-
stances :—The publican's daughter, aged nineteen, had ahsenn d
herself from home with the serjeaut, who waaluartered in the
house, a fortnight since, and the publican having obtained infor-
mation her retreat, repaired to a house in the Hampstead-
road, where she was concealed, and on knocking at the doer,
was assailed by the seducer, and heat in a shocking mannet.
On the officer repairing to the house on Monday, to execute the
warrant, the parties had fled, but au agent of justice has been
dispatched in pursuit.
Monday, William Whitehead. who has undergone several
examinations before the Lord Mayor, charged with uttering a
forged bill upon the banking-house of Robarts, Curtis, and Co.
for BEI. 7s. 10d. purporting to be drawn and signed by 'Mr. Cel-
len, of Westminster, was brought up for further examination
Mr. Roharts and several others from that banking-house at-
• teatded, and proved the bill to be-a forgery. Mr. Culkra.
attended and declared. hit name, assigned. was not of hisliansf
writing, and that he knew nothing about it. The prisoner de-
clined saying any thing at present in his defence. He was fully
committed for trial.—lt is said there are a great many other
charges against him. He was formerly a Clerk in the Bank of
England some years, but had been
.discharged. .
Martha Bennett, of Thelnctham, in Suffolk, is committed to
Bury gaol, charged, on the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, with
the wilful murder of her male bastard child. It appeared that
she had secretly delivered herself on Sunday the 23d ult. and had
smothered the child between her bed and the floor on which it
laid, and afterwards sewn the infant tw in a handkerchief; on
the following Saturday she threw the same into a pond, in which
it was discovered next day.

BIRTHS.
On Saturday last, the Lady of Joseph l'ole Care►, Esq. was
safely delivered of a daughter.
At Hermanston, the Lady of the Right Hon. Lord Sinclair,
of a son.

MARRIED.

On Saturday last, at St. Goorge's Church, Hanover-square
D. Pi ice, Esq. of Lee, in Kent / to Mrs. Russell, of Lewisham
in the same county.
On the 2d inst. at Putney, Marshall Waller Clifton, Esq. of
the Admiralty, to Elinor, daughter of Daniel IMI, Esq. of
Highlands, Putney Heath.

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