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the house to one Harrison. Defendant was foot:
man to Lady Hatton Finch's family.
Q. flow long is it. Madam. since your mother
had hum op to Marlborough-street on ■ charge of
horse- beer k ing ?
Mr. Se►jeant ONIILOW—I object to this anoint).
titbit of • fact. in putting a question, and I do an
upon the highest authority in the land.
Mr. Serjesnt congratulate my Learned
Friend upon being the But lawyer In quote the
Queen'. case ist Court, and particularly iu this old
woman's magnificent cause.
The other answers of the witness were immaterial.
and she case was stopped by rar►seut. the Plaintiff
gelling is verdict of forty shillings with • role to
quit the house on the Pat January next. All law
proceedings to stop at either side.

IMPORTANT TO STAGE COACHES.
CLOUD O. Tut,FsaY AND ABBOTT.

Mr. SHEPHSRD begged that this caust would he
allowed to stand one for a short time, as the Solicitor
General. who wee engaged in it, was ont of Court.
Mr. Sorjeant PsLL said. that he really knew no-
thing in the case which was in doubt; he would
briefly state it to his Lordship, and it could stand
over if any doubt or difficulty arose either upon the
law or the fact. The case was simply this :—The
Plaintiff, Mr. Cloud, wall the proprietor of a Ham-
rner-mith stago.cuitch, mud had, on two several days
taken up • passenger in St. Paul's Cherchiard,
who booked himself the whole way fur Hemmers
smith or Kensington (the &rein:log the woe). bet
who chose to he let down each time at Hyde I'ark.
corner. Poe so actiug the Contieneismers for hock-
ney-coache. jolted • warrant. upon winch the coach
and horses were seised by the Defendant Teffeey,
and carried them to she yard of Abbott. By the
Snout, or Gro. I. c. 57. the 3d clott-e enacted, that
from and after the 114411 Juste then next. no gramme
should presume to ply for hire within the streets or
',beetles of Lundots and Wesain ii ii jester, or the pe-
rishes thereof within the bills of mortality, save and
except those who were licensed by the Commission.
era for hacknev-coaches ; and alba enacting that all
peewits liffentling ageinst the said Act should, for
each tarsier, forfeit la penalty of SI. wish costs. The
Learned Serjeant then proceed'," so state, that by
another Act, the 534 George Il 1. c. 185, for the
protection of stage-citoches, the 12111 section pro.
vided, that from and after the passing of this, Act,
no provision contained in any former Act should
operate to prevent any stage coach from taking up
or setting down • fare within the cities of London
and Westminster, &c. &c. provided they did not
deviate from the regular line of their road in so
doing. Now what happened isi this case was
simply this: the Plaintiff hail taken up and booked
a paisenger in St. Paul's Church-yaid, who pro-
fessed to go the whole way to Kensington with the
stage. and paid his fare accordingly, but who thought
proper at Hyde Park-coraer, which teased the direct
line, to quit the coach, as he had a right to do if he
pleased. for there was no law its this country to pre.
vent any man from taking his place and paying his
fare the whole way in a ridge coach, and stopping
at any part thereof and leaving it. It mig:it be
foolish for any man to take and pay his place to
Bath and stop at Knightsbridg., but there was no
law against it. Surely the coachman would be
liable to an action for false imprisonment, if under
such circumstances he presumed to detain a pass
stager against his will. That was the real slate of
the case, and he would in a moment wove the facts.
Mr. SHEPHERD said, that he was very anxious fur
the attendance of the Solicitor-General, as this case
was of great public impuitaace. He meant to slate,
that the Court was precluded from entering upou
thiscose nt all. it having been already decided be.
fore a competent tribenal. Ti.e Commissioners
for Hackney Coaches had alietirly pronounced an
adjudication upon it, which they were entitled to
do by the Act, and from their decision there was
no appeal. The Court would pethaps recollect a
boot rase which involved the same principle, and
precluded the Court.
ChirfJustice DALLAS said, he recollected the
bomb-boat case. where • penalty had been imposed
by soineMagist rates under a psriicular Ac., of which
they had specific cognizance, without appeal. They
had adjudicated, and the cave was brought into
Court, upon a pro-offer of proof that the vessel,
or whatever it was, was not a bomb-boat, but a
decker! ship. The Court, however. declined to
tone!) the adjudication or the Ma4istrates.
Mr. SHEPHERD 160, that that ass precisely the
point here. The Solicitor-Groteral meant to con-
tend that the Court were not competent to disius b
the adjudication already pronounced by the Com.
missieners for hackney coaches.
Mr. Serjeant and Mr. PoLLocE, jun.
both contended, that. if the Coniunsoiossets had
travelled out of their juiisdictioo. it was the special
province of the Court to revise what they had done.
The Cum? Joshes—,4 11' hat was she fare paid
from St. Paul's to Hyde Pail:-corner ?"

Mr. SHEPHERD Eighteen-pence. i under-
stand—that is about half the hackney-coach Lore."
The Cunt JNITICI said, that the case had bet-
ter stand over until the Boliator-Csenersl came.
As it wu three o'clock now. perhaps it would be
as well the 'rev should be passed for the u.sy. It
cumuli), might nut be connected with important
mitre sis.

The ewe was Oleo ordered to stead OM until an-
other day.
Several undefended courts were disposed of.

COVRt OF EXCHEQVER, sArvasas, Danonsii I.

CHARGE OF FRAUDULENTLY WITHHOLDING
- DUTIES.
TUB ZING U. SULPIT.

The ATTOZNIV-UstivitAL stated the case for
the Crowe. fie mod this was an infurnsatiost brough; ,
not to recover penalties, but duties, which hatt long
been fraudulently withheld by the Defeseduut, who
had been for thirty leers st ~.Mater as Hesurrifoad,
and it hieing crone to she linos ledge of the lioind of
Excise, that it could be proved that ibis licleudant
had defrooded the Croon fur the sp.sce of it...liq-
uor leers, situ that rra•orwble evidence could br
given of the amount of his frauds for the woole
',erica, it became his (she AttoroeyGeutral'.) nosy
to call us. a Jury to do justice to the pulilsc, by re.
storiug to it that portion of she reseuue wuich the.
Delcudant had so long dishonestly
The Jory found ■ verdict for the Crowe fur
2,3191. 9.. lad. the full soul stated to haws been
withheld.