The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-17 00:00:00

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dwelling-house ; 1. Davis and M. Jacobs, for a robbery on the
highway, on Margarat Quinland, and taking from her person goods
and money, value its. 6d. the property of J. Oninland ; Thos.Haley
(tar a burglary in the dwelling-house of P. Gibbons, and stealing
goods value 11. the property of E. Gibbons ; T. Smitherman, for a
robbery on the highway on It Bitters, and taking from his person
goods, value 21. Is. Bd. his property ; Win. Gardner, for returning
from transportation ; J. Smith and J. Scullen, for stealing goods,
value 10 1. and upwards the property of T. Gorrod, in the dwelling
house of T. Clarke ; and Mary Stoneham for stealing Bank-notes,
value 45 1. the property of P. Aimsham, in his dwelling-house.
The Sessions were yesterday brought to a conclusion ; the cases
tiled were of very little interest.
Alexander Rosetta was tried for stealing on the 2d inst. from the
London Ducks, 751 b. weight of quicksilver, value 101.
Jolni Spencer, one of the warehousemen,deposed that the prisoner
was seen walking through the Dock, and waS seen to drop a parcel
which was found to contain the quicksilver, which had been de-
posited in the warehouse No. 3.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was a seaman out of em"
ployment, and had been engaged to carry the parcel in question by
n man whom he met.---Guilty.
The Sessions then ended, and sentence was passed on the fol-
lowing convicts :—Twelve were ordered to be confined for one
month ; one for two months : nine for three months ; 214 for six
months ; 12 for one year, and two for two years ; 48 were sentenced
to seven years transportation ; 7 fir fourteen years, and 10 for life.
Twelve were ordered to be privately and one to be publickly
whipped. Forty-three were ordered to be kept at hard labour in
the Houso of Correction, and to he imprisoned for various periods.
several were discharged by proclamation,
The Admiralty Session will take place on Tuesday next.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 16.
ST EAR' V. BORKETT and RAMSEY.

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The plaintiff in this case was a coppersmith, the defendants
were distillers, and the present action was brought to recover
.23,21. 45., the price of a still, which, it was stated, the plaintiff
had made for defendants, under the following. circumstances
In 1809, the plaintiff's men were employed to repair a still he-
longing to defendants, on which occasion the workmen gave it
as their opinion, that though the old still might be patched up,
it would not last long. Upon this representation the still in
question VieltS ordered, and was to be ready to supply the place
of the old still when it should leak again. 'Hie still was accord-
ingly made in five .weeks, and ready for delivery, hut it still
continued on the plaintiff's premises; a short time since howe-
ver, the plaintiff gave the detimdants notice to fetch it away.
when the defendants for the first time said they had never or-
dered it.
On the part of the defendants, it was stated, that the old still
which the plaintiff's men had condemned in 1809 was still in
use ; and further, that in 1810 the plaintiff set down the price
of the new still in the defendants' yearly account, but deducted
it previous to the account being settled ; the same thing oc-
curred in IRII and 1812; and, under these circumstances, Lord
Ellenborough held that the plaintiffs could not maintain their
action ; they were therefore non-suited.

C tkitßOL v. CRESWELL._

This was an action in which the plaintiff sought to reco-
vet a compensation in damages, for a violent asault committed
upon him by the defendant. The defendant was chief mate of
the Thames East Indiaman, and the plaintiff was servant to the
second mate on hoard the same ship ; on the 18th of January
lasi, at which time the Thames was lying at Yampoa. The
plaintiff was employed in coiling a rope upon the deck, when
defendant called to him to. know what he was about, and not
receiving an immediate answer, betook up a large billet of wood
and threw at him. It however fortunatellmissed the plaintiff;
who quitted the deck ; the defendant followed him, and struck
hith several blows with his fist : he then doubled a rope's end
and beat him about with it till he was himself exhausted, swear-
ing at the same time that he would have his " ti—tud Irish life."
The plaintiff gave him no provocation whatever, he only said,
1-have not deserved this treatment of you, Mr. Creswell." The
plaintiffcomplained several days after of the inconvenience he
felt from the ill treatment he had received,