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quer to stay the outlawry ; and for the contempt. an attachment
ua- issued. .Ir. H ill was arrested upon this process, :aid, in
order to obtain his liberation, he agreed with Mr. Taylor's Soli-
citor to take 1,3001. for his demand upon Mr. Taylor, amount-
ing to S.UOU/. and the agreement iu question was drawn up.
After Mr. Hill's fears had suhsided, or, to follow up the meta-
phor used in his affidavit, when the razor was taken from his
throat, he began to think that he had dune a silly act, and insti-
tittedo ;apse in Cdlitancery to set the agreement aside, upon the
groand that it was obtained from him while under duress, and
that
.he consented to it as the means of extricating himself (ruin
the Osiers' moved against him. This was answered by saying
that Ilk; MR was a very shrewd Attorney ; that be had pro-
fessed himself well satisfied with the compromise at the time of
making theagreement, and turned to Tidd's practice, to prove
there was•go,pircssity for witnessing the act of an Attorney, as
caocerning Sisodelf, w hen under arrest.
llama Wood said, the process of the Court had been convert-
ed into the means of advancing the private interest: of a parts.
and not of forwarding the object fur %%bleb that process war
issued.
The Court, in the result, granted.part of the motion, namely,
that the agreement should be made a Rule of Coon, bat that the
proceedings in Chancery to set it aside. might go on. Of course,
Mr. Taylor is oat beoetited;lsy the application.

is the Sheilrs Court on Friday, a Jury was assembled
to asses; datnaqs in a Crim. Co". Woods v. Niatthews.
the Defendant is. a baker, in the Borough, the Plaintiff a
shipwright, who, on coming home one night, was sur-
prised at finding his house closely locked up and his family
in bed; and with the assistance of the watchman he forced
his wav into the hack window, and found his wife and the
baker fast asleep in the same bed. The watchman sprung
his rattle, which aroused the lovers, who, leaping from
their bed, fled out of the room naked as they were. The
neighbours assembled, and interposed between the enraged
shipwrights and the faithless pair, and the baker was suf.
*red to return home to meet the friends.of his enraged
wife• A conversation took place between. the friends of
the,contending..parties, and a verdict of 301... was taken, the
Defendant agreeing to drop his action for a debt due to him
if 2001.

POLICE.

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MANSION-MOUSE, TliritSDAYI DtC. 15.
fellryw named Evans, was charged by a girl noted . Anne
Ralph, for an assault, with intent to commit n rape.
The Prisoner was a milkman, and the Prosecutrix had been
hi, servant nearly five years. The poor girl, who appeared to.
poAeFs a share of modesty and delicacy unhappily not very fre-.
quein is her rank and situation, could scarcely be induced to ex-
pass the nature of the repeated insults and assaults bbe had sus-
tained from the Prisoner, while in his service, but fortunately
without success iu his designi. She never huditild her mistress
what had happened from July last, when the first attempt was
made, until she left her vervlce, to he employed in the family of
Air. Ledss iek, which the Prisoner served with milk. :Even
there he contented to. persecute her, and to attack her even in
the street, wherever he met liter; and frequently ringing the
street•door bell in.a violent meaner, io order to bring her to the
door and more than once cisalki!g on the hall-door the words,
" Here lives a w—, A atm. Ralph'
The pow girl complained:to-her mistress* and-told whom she
mivected of this inseriptleh I and the Primmer, atter having
sioleotly rang the bell one evening, was Owed borne to his own
ohidente by one of the family, who remonstrated with bins upon
his eoniluct, which he did not deny. Hestia, however, perse-
‘ered, and on Thimdity evening last, renewed his attack upon
the girl, who, by tbe.adviee of her mistress (who bad even
ranted au Attorney to visite to the Primmer), bad him WWI into.
Mrs. lodwick attetaled with the girl, and gave her testimony
in support of the chard.
. The Prisoner, Ewan,- retkneswiedged that the girl had hem in
hi;,..familY Vt. years, and sakd,that he had been as fond of her as
r she had been oof his oivq sklldren that at last, however,
his fondness
heeitnene too' g;•eue; aill that certainly be' had taken
lay isideceot liberties with her, foe which he was extremely

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