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London, England, 1818-01-30 00:00:00

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Lord EI.I. EN BOROUGH •••" Wesball call it ow first."
Mr. ItEsnErt--.• I have been speaking to Mr.
Platt, who states that no copy of the proceedings
hove breti made tt•tt. It i•, lowever, necest•ary that
yroir Loidsliivs foriiishod with copies of
;111 the priweetling*, which shall be mode out im-
mediate-Iv."
Lord Et. I.E N Donut' tot Not iontwediately. but
as
Mr. ItE.twEtt—" It shall be done without loss of
time."

It was then agreed, as a matter of courtesy, thnt
the parties slimild mutually furnish each other
with copies of the pinee-ilings—neither being en-
titled, iit strictness, to dement! a copy of the pro-
ceedings of the other.
Lord Et.l.Estionoutai—" Issue has been joined
on this demurrer, ore Icons —but it will be as well
that it should be (1113%111 up on parchment, and en-
grossed."
The demurrer was then read. It is to the follows
inn runt :
" And the said Abraham Thornton smith, that the said re-
plication of lam tier said Aleraleam Thornton, and the things
and mallets contielicel therein, as in manner and form above
pleaded, are good and sufficient in law, to entitle him to
wage his kiwi iii this appeal wills the said William
Ashford, as the said Abraham Thornton is is ady In
prove in manner noel form as the Court may direct:—
Whereon he prays juelgineut, and that he may be allotted to
*age his Wile' with him the said William Ashford."
Lord ELLENRottoUfai—" Let the argument
stand (or Friday se'iiiiight."
CRIMINAL INI'ORMATION.
THE KING V. WILLIAM FLIMT.

Mr. SCAIMETT moved for a rule to shew cause
why a criminal information should not be tiled
egainst Mr. IV,'ham Fleet, u person who was stated
to he the Printer end Publisher of a Newspaper,
ealled The Briqhton Herold, for publishing a libel
a;:;.Olist Mr. Wlboons, the high constable of the
town of Brighton. Ile founded his application on
the affidavit of Mr. Williams, which stated all the
circumstances connected with a riot that took place
in Brighton, on the .sth of November last—being
the anniversary of the Gnu-powder Plot. It Vida
unnecessary to go into those circumstances at pre-
sent, us they bad been folly detailed to the Court,
last Term, when Mr. IVilliains and two other 'fermium
were brought up by Habeas Corpus, to be bailed.
Mr. Williams, it appeared, made every eth,it, with
the aid of the civil power, to quell the riot—hilt,

failing in his endeavours, he found it necessary to
call in a military force. Before he did this, how-
ever, he applied to a Magistrate, Mr. Serjeant Run-
timenn, for his advice. The military were &h.
mutely paraded, and a most deplorable event or-
enrreal—one of the constables having been run
through with a soldier's bayonet, in the dank.
This, though a death per infortanium, gave a dif-
ferent character to the loniceeding, and created a
very stron4 sensation in Brighton. On the follow-
ing slay Mr. Williams notified the circumstance
to the Coroner, nod au iuyurst war held on the man
who wan unhappily killed, which sat from the 7th to
the 15th of November. During this interval, Mr.
Fleet published such parts of the depositions, taken
before the Coroner, as he thought fit. Application
was matte to the Coroner, to know whether this was
done by his desire, and he slated that it was ex-
pressly against his direction. The inquest termi-
nated in a most extraordinary way, a verdict of
tritfml murder having been returned against Mr.
IVilhonts and two other persons—and Mr. Williams
slated in his affidavit, that he believed this publica-
li of part of the evidence, and the comments on
the transaction, which constituted the libel coin-
planned of, and which he should HOW read, in-
fluenced the Jury in tiodiug their verdict.
[The libel, which was contained in The Brigh-
ton Ikruhl of the Bth of November, entered
into a history of the riot, and condemned the
calling out of the military, as, to say the least of
it, a rash and imprudent measure. The existing
civil power, not one quarter of which was em-
planed, was sufficient to have repressed the dis-
twit:nice—but, if it were not, there was a Magi-
strafe on the spot, and special constables might
have been immediately sworn in, and thus a force
would have been procured competent to preserve
the public peace, instead of proceeding to the I ist
extremity, the calling in of the military, a course
which the paragraph strongly condemned.] —The
object of these observations, evidently was, to pre-
judge the case, then before the Jury—for they
want In point out the person who assembled the
military, as the great cause of all the mischief that
had taken place. He was, however, prepared with
affidavits to chew, that, so fur from any want of cool-
ness or discretion being imputable to Mr. Williams
an this ascension, he load done every thing in his
power to repress the not, without having recourse
to unpleasant means. Ile felt that it was a cruel
imputation against his character, to be accused of
having, by his rashness, caused the death of his
friend—fur such the deceased was—and he therefore
sought the protection of the Court.
Lord ELLENUOILOUGII—" The Court has held,
an many occasions, that it was must improper, penal-
iii any criminal proceedings, to publish sissy dung
by which the result or those proceedings might Ire
therefore, it feels itself obliged to
grata the rule in question."
Rule winded.

The claim of the CHIEF BARON of the Court of
Exchequer, Ireland, to appoint to the place of
Clerk of the Pleas in that Court, has been rejected
to the Court of Error, by a great ustrity.
SMITH was, we believe, the only 5 ember of the
Court who gave judgment in favour of the CHIEF
BARON.

Qu ELNSBERRY LEGACIES.The important cause
between the Doke of Ilucct.sucti and the Trustee*
or the lute Duke or QUECNsBERRY. itspecting the
kiwi:granted by the latter, which wutt reskitted by
the Douse of Lords to the Cuurt of Srtepiiiii for
revision. has been decided against the Duke of
flucci.Ectu. By this judgment a very large
of money, now standing in the name of the Ac•
columnist-General of the Court of Chancery, nil'
become the property of the legatees under the will
of the Duke of QuEEN soma RY, should it be affirined
by the House of Lords. The whole of the funds
left by his Grace, with the accumulated interest
since his death, now amount to upwards of a 'wit•
lion sterling !