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1,500,0001. It was a redaction which they bed been
driven to. and he hoped the house, by perseverance,
would force them to still further reduction. He had only
to cumplain slow, that the right hon. gentleman bad at
tempted, as usual, to paint the state of the finances better
than they really *ere ; this was • fallacy. He was ready
to acknowlege. indeed it gave him pride and satisfaction
In do so, that the finances wire in a much better state than
be expected.—( Hear, hear. heart); and the right hon.
gentleman ought to have been content with staling the
fact as it really was.
Several resolutions were then agreed to.
Oti the resolution for raising 200,0001. by lottery.
Mr.ELLICE gave notice lie would oppose this grant in
its progress.
Mr. BERNALL said he would oppose the resolution in
the first instance.
Mr. BENNETT also opposed the resolution. This was
a tax taken out of the vices of the people, and was taken
unnecessarily, as according to the right hon. gentleman's
own statement, lie had an excess of revenue of upwards
of 5,000,0001. This was a tax raised on vice, whilst the
house was granting money to build churches. But one of
the right lion. gentleman's botles.vs would do more harm
than all his churches would do good. He should not he
sat prised if the right lion. gentleman's next budget shonld
take example from a former Bishop of Winchester, and
tax stews am' brothels, which would he quite as innocent
and much more productive.
Mr. CRIPPS defended the tax as one which was volun-
tary; lie would rather support the repeal of souse other
taxes.

After some further observations the resolutloos was
adopted.
The committee then divided.—For the resolution 123

against it OS—majority het.
On being re-admitted to the gallery we found the Chair-
man putting the qnestiou on some other resolutions, which
were age erd to without any observation. The house then
resumed, and the report was ordered to be received ou
Monday.
On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it
was ordered that the house at its rising do adjourn to
Monday.
Cn UELTY TO Hoesrs.—On the motion of Mr. R. Martin.
the home went into a committee on the bill for the voorC
effectual prevention and punishment of et itchy to horses
and other ammals.
Mr. W. R. COLBORNE objected to the present coca-
. sore its wholly unnecessary, or. if at all necessary, as
ittefficient. It would, as it new stood, only shave the
effect of punishing set rants, and others intimated with
the care of horses, whilst it mould leave untouched the
conduct of the wieners of horses, who were often cruel
in matching them to perform great distances in very short
periods of time. Ile could not but think that the house
in the present day was too prone to legislation upon sub-
jects which did nut require It. (Hear.) At the same
time he gave credit to the motives of the hon. ineuthvr
who introduced the bill.
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH thought the principle of the
bill a good one, but he did nut see why its enactments
should be confined to horses. He thought that asses
also should be protected from the cruelty to which taey
were so often exposed.—(Laughter.) He concluded by
moving an amendment, whist' was considerably increased
when it was put to the chairman.)
Mr. SCARLET'. said he felt no doubt at all respecting
the principle. Nothing could be more cruel than harsh
treatment of unoffending animals, and nothing more hu-
mane than to prevent such harsh treatment, but it was
no a fit -*object for legislation.—(Hear.) Why should
there not he an act of pailiament to prevent the horrible
criminality of bunting a hare l—(Cheers.) The bare had
painful sensations and agitated Iceliugs after a few hours'
hard chase, yet no gentleman proposed any law for het
rcllef.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH's amendment, for inserting
the words " male or ass" after the word " horse" was
then put.
It was suggested to amend the clause further, by has
castling after " horse" the words " mare or gelding."
A Nienther, whose name we did not catch, said that the,
generic term, " horse" iucluded snare, gelding, mule.
and ass.
Mr. HERVEY said It was not so iu penal enactments.
The amendment for inserting the words " horse, mare,
or gelding, mule, or ass" was then rgreed to.
Mr. ELLICE was against such legislation, and gave
notice that when it should be moved to report the bill, he
would move an amendment that the report be received
that day U months.

On the clause authorizing an appeal to the quarter
sessions,
Mr. ELLICE moved an amendment that it should be
received this day six months.
After a few wurdm 11U111 the Attorney Genoral, who
likewise objected to the principle of the bill, and from
Mr. Alderman Wood and Mr. It. Martin, who moppet ted
it, the house divided.
For the Amendfurnt 31—for the original motion 34
majority for the bill S.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

The indictment found at the late quarter sessions
against David Ridgway, of Swarsbriek-street, fur
publishing a seditious libel, has been removed at the
instance of the prosecutors, into the Court of King's
Bench. The warrant of the Chief Justice was im-
mediately issued, upon which Ridgway was appre-
hended, and brought before James Norris, Esq. at
the New Bayley Court-house, on Saturday (iGth
inst.) Bail was then given for him to appear at the
Court of King's Bench. The sureties were, Mr.
Peter Turner Candelet, and A.lr. James Walker, in
501. each. ltidgway's proper business is that of a
fustian-cutter, but he has been fur some time a noted
seller of political pamphlets. The indictment against
him has been preferred by the Lonstittetiustal Society,
and t. ill probably be tried at the next Lancaster
assizes.

Mr. Luthington, of the Treasury. in reply to a
letter from C. M. Durrell, Esti. M. P. Las significtl
that 4c:farmers will nut he pierented from wcttiog
inisalcalM; tarivy us loud fur tittir cart litase4 awl
ther stuck.

FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S 0412IBTTEA
BANKRUPTS.
J. P. Hollis. Bolingbroke Row, Newington. tailor. Solicitor,
Mr. Kiss. Cliffbrd's Inn.
T. Nichols. Birmingham. dealer. Sol. Mr. Taylor, Wal.
brook.

W. B. Hart, King Street, Cheapside, merchant. Sol. Mr.
Taylor. King Street, Cheapside.
S. Youden. Dover, carpenter. Solt. :.fesers. Stocker and Co.
New Boswell Court.
T. W. Gorely, Dover, hatter. Sole. Messrs. Stocker and Co.
New Boswell Court.
F. Jones, Bristol. mason. Sol. Mr. Evans, Hatton Garden.
R. Simpson. Newcastle upon Tyne, perfumer. Sol. Mr.
Leadbitter, Pancras Lane.
.1. Ward. Beech, Staffordshire, fanner. Sol. Mr. Hicks,
Gray's Inn Square.
H. M'Corquodale, Liverpool, merchant. Sole Messrs. Taylor
anal Co. Temple.
DIVIDENDS.
June n, J. Outtram and W. Welsh. Liverpool, common
brewers-19. J. Houliston, Thayer Street, Manchester Square.
tailor-19. W. J. Porter, Chelsea, coal merchant—So, G. Heyde.
Newgatc Street. upholsterer-2S. T. Courtney, Strand. coffee
house keeper-23. M. Sweet, Taunton St. Mary Magdalen.
Somersetshire. innkeeper-2, J. Hill, Rotherhithe.
mereltaat-
-29, V. Hankinson, Manchester. grocer-30, J. Birch, Manches.
ter, cotton spinner-19. T. Booker. Emawortb. Hants, miller...
to, J. Fullerton, Manchester, saddler-26, R. Maltby, Madame
Street, money scrivener-21, W. and J. Durkin. Southampton,
ship builders—July me, T. Marshall, Bromley, York, clothier.
CERTIFICATES to be granted June 19.
W. and J. Bryan, Old Compton Street, Soho, haberdaehers—.
J. Taylor, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, wine merchant—
W. L. Houghton. Kingston upon Hull, stationer—J. Hinchlieb.
Bradley, Yorkshire, wood merchant—Ps Watkins. Bristol, oil
and colourman—J. Boydell, Bethnal Green, coal merebant—T.
Ward. Coventry, silk manufacturer—H. sd G. H. Findlay.
Adam's Court, Old Broad Street. silk manufacturers—B. and
J. Troughton, Wood Street, Cheapside,

ON BATHING —The recent melancholy death of
the Nlarebioness of Worcester has given rise to the
following scientific observations on this subject:—
•. The natural temperature of man is about 90 degrees of
Fahrenheit. With such heat, equally distributed, the unnutest
vessels are pervious, anti heat is readily transmitted through
millions of channel., upon the surface, as in the centre of the
body; but let a person plunge into cold water, which is probably
about 48 degrees, the surface immediately ebrinks from the
application of such a suddenly reduced tosupaature; the hew
rueralile pauages through which the blood was iimiedy
instantaneously contract from ingrows ression. sad /AMP 10 11=
414 the vital fluid, which is directly hate wit intim'
organs, producing an engorgement, MOM of the
brain, liver, and spleen, also the lungs, and is Abe
cause of that tightness of the chest and bermat winds
follow immersion. These parts are so wilds fkmagl. he •
vigorous frame, and where the internal MOM 101/0/1 1106 a se
disease or obstruction, the vessels of each are sufileiently Ist art
elastic, both to resist the force of, and to receive and reada, this
additional efflux of fluid, until the heart, which is the psrop of
the system, assisted by the contractibility of the wnaseL thew.
selves, overcomes the collapse of the surf**, and illinle the bland
again to the exterior. So far, all is well 8.4=4,04,:zae1,
succeeds, and is beneficial 1 but a pawn
internal parts usually partake of tha kaki= of ibe es=
structure, is little capable of sustaining diet huh al bleed ea die
interior, and to support that consequent souggie_or the lallArd,
arteries which is n to effect a netalase s num a is
often felt for a considerab time; oftentimes a sort &Maim le
produced, owing to the heart as it were giving up the mese for
a time, independently of those organic !wines or rupture of
vessels which take place, as many palm have been atimited
with a spitting of bleed ea seesteg sue of Oho wow ; tai. it is
believed by several eminent per is litapeabedge. that those
people who are said to be taken with the twati3 he the.
_u wale; end
are drowned, are destroyed by the lucre hag a em. causing
apoptex7, or some 'thee heel elect Apo. rawaring a pro-
diTosition to aueselem. a disease of the bog, sae. the
mischief produced may be Tardily conceived.
" How often de we see dose per* who, hes delleasy. of
flame, or bed health, would be
______.._. slain;
exposure to cold air, or eilmr, crithiro...Y..... n.• uY
dare the extreme vicissitede a dhows bath. If they are not
capable of bearing the kapok* from eili is bow wr=
bear a cold bath. the she* of which must be pater. in
as the =dim is dome
" These wbo arc delkeie and ttabgath sod wbo wish to try
the ewesof a =IA book &meld: dm maky. e teed a tepid rew.
indwell/ bermiag the igaranages. If much einem is felt
after treg this sold bath. which seems* eantiass. the wawa one
hould he het Filagree to, which will lama* edea th.unlisted
surface, and gradually restore the Wince el einelatios?
These observations are not made with a boor of
frightening from, or discountenancing, a rissedy
which may be of considerable service when peoptwly
used, but only to infuse some degree of caution in
its application.

Society for Me Relief of Aged and Iryfro Pry-
Imam and Dissenting Mini:tem—The annual ge-
neral meeting of the friends of the above laudable
society was held on Wednesday last at the King's
Head Tavern, Poultry ; T. Gibson, Esq. in the
chair, supported by a number of dissenting ministers,
who severally addressed the meeting on behalf of
the society in the moving and seconding various
resolutions. The report of the last year's proceed-
jugs was read. and presented a gratitYing a;;eount of
the labours of the society. After officers had been
elected for the ensuing year, and thanks voted to the
chairman, who expressed his acknowledgments, the
meeting adjourned.
His Majesty means to honour Sir W. W. Wynn
with a visit this summer. The Chief of Wynnatay
intends to summons the bards and minstrels (as in
days of yore), to give our beloved Monarch a spe-
cimen oldie manner in which the Ancient Britons
performed their national music.
A now Freemason's Lodge bass been established
at Milford, in Wales, which was opened a few days
ego with much ceronsooy, and (hew together not
less than 2,000 persons. Atter the installatiets, the
ladies were admitted to see the Lodge, and the
niarl•led wails, the Star in the East, the full Sun in
th:. south, and her mild and reviving beams in the
Wcst, with tho brethren in full =Mak customs.
uovel and iinpooing ettu‘t. •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF LING'S RENCH.
MONDAY, MAY 2s.

LIBELS.

THE NINO C. JOHN HUNT.
On the first sitting of the court this morning the So-
licitor General moved for judgment on this defendant,
who was tried the sittings atter last term before the Lord
Chief Justice, at Westminster, and conviated of pub-
lishing The Examiner, a libel on the House of Com-
mons.
The defendant put in no affidavits, but addressed the
court, from a written paper, in mitigation of punish-
ment. He urged the purity of his intentions in publish-
lug the matter complamed of, alleging that he had stated
nothing more than what necessarily followed from the
opiuion expressed even by one of the speakers of that
house, which he was charged with villifying. He was
about to address their lordships in reprobation of the
special jury system, but was stopped by the court, who
informed him it was entirely irrelevant to enter upon such
a topic, the system being established by act of parlia-
ment, and consequently was placed without their Juris-
diction. The delendant had no intention to libel the
House of Commons. That house, in his opinion, could
nut be libelled by any writer, because its character would
depend upon its public acts. If those acts were for the
public good, it was of slight importance whether the
editor of a paper wrote ill or well of its proceedings.
The Solicitor General briefly addressed their lordships
..--and whilst he conceded to public writers the utmost
freedom of political discussion, he contended it should
be exercised in decent and modern language. After a
short consultation on the bench,
Mr. Justice Bayley pronounced the sentence of the
court, which was, " 1 hat the defendant he imprisoned
for one year in the house of correction, Coldbath•fields,
and at the end of that period enter reeognizatices, him-
self in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each.
THE gnus V. THOMAS FLYNDALL.
The Solicitor General moved the court for judgment
upon Thomas Flyndall, of the Western Luminary, who
was convicted at the last assizes for the county of Devon,
held at Exeter' of a false, scandalous, and degrading
libel upon her Majesty the Queen I The defendant put
in a long affidat it, stating, that he has twelve children,
nine of whom were dependant upon him for support,
and that if he was imprisoned for any. length of time at a
place distant from that where he carried on his business.
(Exeter), it would be ruinous to himself and family.—
The affidavit contained nothing of moinent—Lein read—
the defendant addressed the court at some length from a
meuuscript which he held in his hand; he stated, that
the publication in question occurred in the regular dis-
charge of his bounden duty, as a conductor of a news-
paper, which required the notice of public events. That
Isis attention bud beets called to the subject by the pub-
lication of the report of the committee of the House of
Lords, appointed to investigate charges against the Queen
-which report impunged her Majesty's conduct in se-
verer terms than he hadjused in commenting upon it
defendant then (after expressions of his poverty)
reiterated the ruin which must befal him and his affairs,
if he was imprisoned at any distance from his usual plata
of reildence, and also called the attention of the court
to the iniury he had already sustained by assault and
popular violence, in consequence of this prosecution.—
He submitted, that he had already suffered enough for
his offence, which he repeated was not ititentioual.—
lie had uniformly been the supporter of the royal family,
the laws, and the government of his country; and the
jury before whom he was tried, who knew his character
in the country, had most earnestly and particularly re-
commended, that he should sutler the most lenient pee,
nishment which the law could possibly inflict. He wet
now extremely sorry for the offence he had com m hied.
The Solicitor General, in reply, denied the peculiar'
right claimed by the defendant 01 acting upon, or even
publishing the report of the House of Lints. As a
journalist lie (the defendant) contended for his rigrit to
comment upon public evetiu. It was true that he had
this right—certainly not pectilias ly, but in common
with all the objects of this free country. But it was
not for the free exercise of such a right he stood there
for judgment this day, hut for a foul and infamous libel
upon her Majesty the Queen, and which was published
at a period calcula'erl more than any other to aggravate
the offence. It was true he had been recommended by
a jury of his neighbours to great mercy and lenity. He
(the Solicitor General) had tin desire to reduce the value
of that Recommendation, which, he pres ttttt ed, was given
by prisons well tittahtied to forum a proper judgment of
his general character and conduct. Ile had also sworn
that he had a family of twelve children, nine of whom
were dependent upon him for support. These were
circumstances upon which the coot would exercise
their discretion; and as the defendant had expressed liit
contrition fur the offence, lie had 1111 wish to aggravate
the circumstances of the case. After the judges bad
consulted about ten minutes on the bench.
Mr.justice Bayley rose to proriaunce judgment. Ile
said, that the netentlant had been louno guilty of what
was truly descruwil as being a hint and infamous libel on
bar Majesty the Queen—a libel too, %%Mien was pub-
lositeo at a period well calculated to aggravate the elm-
tacit r of tbe utlu. nee. There was nothing more important
to the due administration of justice, than the party
whose conduct was iiiijaogned, should go unprejudiced
before a constitutional was the wisest and
most leachog usaSini iii the LAWS 01. this kingdom, that a
person sl Id be pretutnell innocent until the contrary
appeared in due course of law. The defendant had not
only disregarded ties maxim of law, which it ought in
have been his first duty to have obeyed, but had added
oilier charges against Her Majestv, which were irrupt rly
stesignaterl In the indictment as being CuICULlen toilclautr
and slander the Ell4liClef of her Maje,ty tote Queen.—
The defendant had said, that he had unifoinily sup-
ported the reigning faintly -upon the throne ; lie should
have recollected that her Majesty was the Consort of the
kitsig who sat oil the 011011 C, and that she was th.arly

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allied to the Royal Family fit which he professed so
devoted an attachment. The learned Judge iu con-
clusion said, that the Court had taken seriously into its
consideration the very strong recommendation of the
Jury, who must have known the defendant's character
in his neishbourhood, and that that recommendation
had materially weighed with them in pronouncing their
judgment, which was—that the defendant should be
imprisoned in the county jail of Devon, at Exeter, fur
the space of eight calendar months, and that. at the
expiration of that term he should give sureties to keep
the peace for three years, hiutaelf itt 5001. and two suffi-
cient sureties in 4501. each.
The defendant then withdrew, in the custody of the
tipstaff of the Court of King's Bench.

THE LINO V. BELL AND OTHERS.
Mr. Scarlett said, in this case a rule fur a criminal
information for a libel had been obtained against The
Times newspaper. He had now to show cause against
that rule. The libel was contained its an account,
published in that paper, relating to the proceedings at
a public meeting in Denbighshire, w Inch cast some reflec-
tion on the character of the individual who was prose-
cutor in the present case. The defendants acknowledged
that the article, which was the subject of prosecution,
was unfounded; but the fact was, the defendants re-
ceived it from a correspondent, and behaved it correct.
As soon as they discovered their error, they took every
means in their power to trace out the, person who had
thus deceived them, but without success. They were
now anxious to express their regret that they should in-
advertently have been guilty of thisinjustiee towards the
prosecutor.
Mr. Sergeant Parke said, his clients were ready to
accept this public explanation. All the object they had
in view was a justification of character. He was in-
structed to consent to the rule being discharged on pay-
ment of costs.

'fhe rule was accordingly discharged.
The Court disposed of several revenue cases, pronoun.
cing judgment on the affidavits.
REMOVAL OF PAUPIRS.—THE /LING V. THE INHACJ.
TANTS OF Leans.
This was an application to the judges to set aside the
decision of the court of sessions which quashed the order
of the magistrates for removing a pauper from Leeds to
Scotland, where he was settled. The question arose on
the power vested in justices of the peace to remove four
persons front one part of the kingdom to another. It
appeared that a Scotchman, with his wife and children,
had become chargeable on the parish of Alverdiston,
Leeds, and the magistrates, under the act of parliament,
which empowers them to remove persons horn in Scot-
land, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, to those places
respectively with their children chargeable on parishes,
made an order of removal of the father, a Scoichistan„ in
this case, to Scotland, leaving the norther and children,
who had obtained by birth a settlement in the parish.
On appeal to the sessions the order was quashed.
After arguments pro el ans. the Lord Chief Justice
lamented the necessity which the court•had beets under,
upon some occasions, of saying the wife might be sent
tootle place and the husband to another. In the present
case, without considering the former law of settlement,
it was impossible not to say the magistrates had the
power of sending the whole family together, and if so,
they ought not to exercise the compulsory mode of se-
paration. The decision of the court of sessions, quash.
tug the order of the magistrates for separation of the
husband from the wife, and ought to stand. Tne other
judges were of the same opiniou, and die order of the
court of sessions was affirmed.
FRIDAY, JUNE I.
THE KING V. CARTWRIGMT, WOOLER, 80.
At the re-commencement of this case to-day, Mad-
docks stated to the Court that he would address a few
words to their Lordships. After some introductory
words he was proceeding to make sonic reflections on
the manner in which Special Juries were constituted.
when he was interrupted by the Court, and told that he
could not be allowed to take any observations of that
nature. He went on, but was again interrupted. and told
that tie could not be permitted to asperse ad the persous
who had been concerned in supporting the indictment.
If he had not any thing to offer in mitigation of punish.
ment, lie hail better be silent. The Court was utilised
to interfere repeatedly, and the defendant then said, he
would past over nearly all lie had to say, as he found he
should he should nut be allowed to speak freely. lie
then concluded by asking the Court, if they would
Cause 111111 to be locked up for conduct which he could
justify on the principle that lie had been only exercising
his benevolent feelings.
A person of the name of Mills attempted to addrra
the Cuuri in the behalf of Lewis, who was then iu pri-
sun. The Court told him that lie cotdd nut be heart, as
the defendant was out before ae Court.
Mr. Denman addressed the Court in behalf of Major
Cartwright. He wished to spew that the Major had
taken but a very small part in the proceedings tor whim
lie was now to be punished. besitier, pin of the talice
chitty:Li tin Wouler and Eillllolli3 was vo oat they had
published in their 'respective newspapers, and conse-
quently the Major was not at all ituld.cated iii that pa
of the crone. He then contetided mat the isiere act of
electing a legislatorial attorney was of itself no offence.
It tile defendants merely assembled to petition for a re-
dress of grievances; and if they hal in some degree
over-stretched the proper bounds, their meeting with
good intentions utigtit to have its weizatit in 'migrating
pumshinent. Ile elicit alltl3ol to the punlicattous of
the Major, and concluded by repeating that though no
abuses in the Legislature existed, if the parties met fur a
boranafJe ;impose, they were justifiable. A. all events
the ctiaratter and cuilutact of the Major were very dif-
ferent trom those who were with him. lie hoped the
sentence of the Court would bear a reference to the
Major's particular case, and be fitly in unison with the
principles of freedom. Great expres,ions of ailtd.talloll
honoured the close of Mr. iiiii an's speech.
Mr. 111oultr then addressed the COW( at considerable
length.

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The Solicitor-Casseral then rose to reply in aggravation
of the °deface. He was not desirous of pressing the
weight of punishment upon one more titan the other of
the defendauts. Tney were all implicated in the un-
constitutional act, which he expressed a hope might be
the last attempt of the sort. Tuere was every reason to
believe it would never again occupy public attention, or
come before the court.
The court took a considerable time to deliberate on the
punislimeta to be passed on the defendants.
Mr. Justice Bayley then said, it was his painful duty
Its pronounce the sentence of the Court. The charge its
in the iiitlictsuent was, that the defendants conspired to
raise discontent against the gdvertiment, as by law
established, and to produce hatred and contempt of die
House of Commons. In pursuance of their object they
met to elect and appuinta person to be the represeutative
of the inhabitants of sham in the Commons
Houag of Parliament. The learned Judge then adverted
to the evidence. It was proved that Major Cartwright
was not within the hearing of the resolutions. He
made no address on the object of the meeting, but re-
turned thanks to them. o judge of the conduct of all
the defendants, it was proper to look at their conduct.
Haddocks, Wouler, and Edmonds made speeches, to
excite disaffection in the minds of the meeting, which
proved at their trial, the Jury found theta guilty by a
conscientious verdict. The affidavit of Major Cart-
wright exhibited the feelinga of an extremely good heart,
strong principles of religion, and of great attachment to
the country to which he belonged. He (the learned
Judge) lamented to see that upon one subject, and per-
haps upon only one, there was to a certaiu degree in the
mind of that gentleman a delusion, an unfortunate de-
lusion as to the rights of adult amen to vote fur their own
representatives. The nt:•,;•K's preference of imprison-
ment to fine was a preference which deserved to weigh,
and would weigh, with every well coustituted mind; •
but the court was bound to look at the majors age, and
to judge male prudently than he had done fax himself.—
The Court, taking all these circumstances into consider-
ation, did order and adjudge—that the defendant Ed-
monds should be imprisoned fur nine months; the
defendant Maddox, for eighteen; and the defendant
Woofer, for fifteen months, in the jail of Warwick I to
find sureties fur their good behaviour during five years, .
themselves in 4001. each, and two securities in stonl.
each :—the sentence of the Court upon Major Cart-
wright was—that he should pay a fine of 1001. to the
King, and be imprisoned until that fine was paid.
Major Cartwright paid the fine and left the court.— •
The other defendants were taken into the custody of the
Marshal of the King's Bench.
11111116 R C. $l5 ROBERT PRAT, CLARK.
This was a nisi obtained by Mr. Denman to discharge
a sogriovii, which the defendant, as he said, had unwst-
tingiy signed. The atChivit upon which the rule was
granted was made by the defendant himself, and was 'to
the following effect :—that he had received no consider-
ation from Hammer for the bill; that on proceedings
being taken against hint tipoa it in the year 1810, he had
signed a paper upon accidentally at the office of calling
Messrs. Cooper and Lowe, the atiormys of Mr. Hemmer.
which he did not know to be a caveat& ; and that lie
heard no more of the matter front time year 1811 to the
year 1819, and that, if the corsavii was discharged,
he (deponent) believed he had a good defence to toe
action.,

The Solicitor General, In showing eafise against the
rule, produced an affidavit (rout the pl fRi
swearing to the consideration given to the bill .
and accounting for the non insertion of it in his schedules.
by stating that it was in the hands of Messrs. Cooper
and Lowe, wno had a lien upon it (beyond its value
for the payment of costs due to them; A second affidavit
front Messrs. Cooper and Lowe, set forth a letter written
by Mr. Hannan), the defendants attorney, a few days
before th*signature of the corwvit proposing that cogno-
sit, and promising that his ellen' should call to execute
it. The atii‘lavut turther stated that the le was an affi-
davit upon the files of the court by which Sir Robert
Peat, in the year 1814, to exonerate his bail in the action
set up the cognoat which he bad given.—(Sir Robert
having sworn that lie heard nothing of the mailer be- •
tween the years 1811 and 1819.) It concluded by
stating, u a reason for the delay in proceeding, that the
defendant had fur a lung
for another long time he had been psivilegetl as tit eta
state of a foreign atubassador.
The Court thought toe fendant's affidavit in 1814
&Wire :IS to the nature of the case. and discharged the _
rule Willi Busts.

Ealraordinary CoVingration—A great quantity
of clean straw being spread in the street before a
gentleman's house in Nottingham-street, St. Pan-
cras, to prevent the noise of carriages, on account of
the lady's illness, the fineness of Friday caused a
multitude of children to collect on the spot, who
amused themselves by tumbling and playing in the
straw, which from being laid down three or four
days, was as dry as oiratf : on a sudden the straw
caught tire (supposed to be caused from the sparks
of a pipe, where a woman sat smoking), and burnt
with such rapidity that several of the children were
severely scorcli‘d ; some escaped with their little
frocks and pinafores on lire, and one child was nearly
falling a victiiu to the flames, front which it was
rescued by a hackney-coactnuan wrapping it up in
his great coat. The entire of th,: straw was eon- -
sinned bctOre the conflagration be stopped ; it
spread considerel.L.;arm in the neighbouriakal.

A grouni rattan c.ino %C.IS presented at the ia-t
meeting of the Madras Litcrary Society, feet
in kti-th ; beitg; 23 feet the itmauruent
huateti.