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London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

LLG4L DIFFICULTY.

A moat extr,orilinary, and istilretl mirecetlonted
circuimtatice h..s jut or in the City of Gloo.
tester. 0:5 Wcsltiesday eveuih,l List, Mr. Ricardo,
the I legit Shari, and his r.- nor, iiroceeded, about
ten o'clock, in order to nett the Judges. Sir Wil-
liam Garroo amt Mr. Justice Ili,lroyd, WI the
rood fauns Monmouth, where the business bad
detained thou rattier ail tiutvio2ll ktigtli Or tom,—
Sir Williaru Garruw had ;;one tur.varil from Mon-
mouth with the sitinost expedition; but all his
efforts did hot enable Isms to reach Gloucester
br-
fure twelva o'clock. When Sir William was in
the Slitiiff's cll3‘ Is, Mr. Ricardo suggested the
probability of tile illegality of ulsruii,g the CUM-
missiou ou the 1311 t instea.l of the lah, which was
the specific day. This, st first, did out very forci-
bly strike Sir ‘Villiant oa u serious objection; and
lie opened the Comincoiois as usual. In the morn-
ing the Judge, Sheriff, &r. attended the church, and
the Assist sermon was preschyd by the Rev. James
The Grand and Petit Juries were sworn
in, sod other proceedings commenced. Mr. Justice
liolroyd sun:veil iu Gloucester about three o'clock
in the afternoon, and a consultation was held on the
*object of the two-opening of the Commission on
I the wilt. Mr. Jill 6% Mr. D.lttistey, Mr. Pugh,
and several olier gentlemen gave their ) i )) iosis;
and at length it w:,s deter iii i i led that great mischief.
I/001 tin the Crowe illld cis ii bide of the bar, sitig'nt
ensue, should the Judges pruceed to trial under
these extraot.limov eircuinstimer*. The Court was
Ilion me adjourned uhul 011% iiiii (S.liurtlu))
Had the Under-Sheriff went uffssitit sill pon,ible ex.
perlition to the Chancellor iu miler to have his opt-
iii, and to kilo-s if the ha...mitt of the Asz•izrs
could be Lgally proceeded on, or if it were lie-
erssury that u new Cutrunis,:hou shusild be issued.
Gloucester then lrecaude a scour of isideocribable
confusion. Lawyer* and their divots were seen
rus.uing mu all directions. The witnesses, oil
of *loots were obliged to remstio at Clutter.-
ter, were lamenting the Lois of time they should
sustaiti-Lbarrisitera were renewing their terms of
ludgisig ; awl indeed nothing Could equal the
appearance off' the city wisest the tidings of the
stljoursintetat of the als,•izeis were Made known.
The cosisequences of proceeding to trial were
not at first colijectured. They Might have beau
of the most lamentable and mischievous kiln). Pri•
mown. might hove been slcs used illegally punished.
decisions of law-suits modal have cull null
void, soil evess the Slone!). himself, had he proceeded
to the esecution of a +entailer of death, Might have
been inflicted for wilfol murder. The anxiety that
pervades the city it is probable may hot Speedily be
ferintuated ; for it is Uncertain how soots the Chao-
' cellar may decide tlii momentous, sod as we before
said, miprecedenteil s;iiebtioii. I !i% Lord hip may
even Otto!: it necess.iry to anciatioei meeting of the
Pniy Council, and at titii season of tit.: year such

a alerting c:.nnot be speedily asie.tiLled. iron►
this evil and inconvenience. liourvtr, good may
eventually pr.weecl ; and the pr.setit steremtity
tiler- n for tt Jut a, iu propriri lrrr,runu, to tyros
the Cumuti,aio.,, m.e}• lie .rt .k.,41 w Srrlie4lsl
sent fur,voird for this purpose, %lieu the bli+iiirpb of
the vrecedlog Armee in of unu,,ual magnitude.

POLICE.
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mAnotoN•Hot7ss. •

Aease of ..1111P importance, RS it re:nrii, Ship,mstetli 0111.1
Cap"'"", .•11 Satto..l.l heard before the Lord Mayor
The Clot/bits and p.irt.mener of a large merchant reabri
in the Thames sets n few days Alp eallr,l upset by the tither
owner, Mr. N a inerchaut at IV•poistg, to give op the
tifirate of the rcgtatty of me ship, hut he refitsesl, tiotwith-
standirig his heisig warned of the consequences that would
ensue. Mr. N. out heing ahle In prevail nano. him, applitti
on Friday to the Lord Mayor for a warrant to apprehend
the Captain.
The Lord Ms)or at first doubted a hither he had the
power to grant osse; loot alum reference to a statute of the
28th Geo. 111 c. 34, the following clause appeared:—"
the master of soy vessel, who shall have received the certi-
ficate sof the reentry thereof (whether he be part owner or
nut), shall wilfully detain and refuse to deliver up the smne
to the proper officers, upua the owners, or the major part
of them, requiring him w to du, lie may he apprehended,
and 11111111 consiet before any Justice of the Peace, he
shall forts it the slim of 1001.; and its default of payment he
shall be imptssusted in the common gaol for a term Not kill
than six ha, nor more than twelve."
The lisitn Matron immediately granted the warrant, and
the Captain was brought before him. lie Isola for some
lime firm in his resistaowe of the demand for the certificate,
lout al length, aware of the very tlisaveratile cosiseqlsessese
of a refusal, he I:mounted to give op the document required,
and the matter terminatrd..

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John S*ith was remanded no a charge of utteriag •
ged note.

GUILDHALL.
Patrkh Flaherty visa charged with cruelly beating his
wife.
Mrs. Flaherty stated dist it wns with the utmost reluct-
ance she had Come forward, lust the safety even of her life
demanded it. She hold barn many years the wife of the man
at the bar, and hail been in very good circumstances,
but by misfortunes they were reduced in absolute poverty.
Within the last few months be had bee 1111 l r acquainted with
a ur.urird W4llllll/1 of property. who pampered him and sup-
plied 1 with plenty of money. 11f this, however, he
took esperial care that she should not partake. aml she was
compelled to sunk very hard fur a emu), subsistence,. while
he was heitog in homy Soucy lots acquaintance with this
woman his conduct 1,0 her (Mrs. F.) bad been of the most
brutal 010 scriptinio. He repeatedly heat her wily severely,
and on Friday loght, at twelve o'clock, he came home,
knocked for mlniiitance, and upun her opening the dour he
saluted her with a violin. link. He theu beat her most
cruelly. and catehing her by the thrust would hive sit an-
gled her but fur the lasidlorol of the house, who besting her
screams. burst sprat the door, and rescued her from his
gra►p. The face and rots of 11w unfortunate woman bore
ample testimony of the brutality of ben husbau.l. Flaherty,
Ito derrne at:cased lois wore of oirnitheome-s, and said she tie-
screed what sloe got. The landlord and his wore firmly
denied that Mrs. F. erre cot intoxicated. The Magistrate
strongly reprobated the cotoluct of the Prisoner, and, is
default of bail, culuinateri him to the Cumptcr.

BOW-STILL CT.

On Saturday Joseph Parish, a watermatt, was brought to
the otter, charged with a new °fester under the Act of Par-
liament for huffiling and regulating Waterloo Bridge, which
cossets, find nu waterman shall ply for fares on the horse or
foot-path leading to WAirlito Bridge, and that they shall
nut exceed n ccrlaiu spice at the top of the stalls, 1/111 each
side of the bridge ; and as a caution to watcrint. rut to
offend under the Act of Parliament, printed uutices arc
pottied up, signed by the Clerk of the Company.
%Valium Westrapp, a collector of the tolls at the Bridge,
;dated, that the Pei ..... sir had pistil fur a fare two or thee.
times on the foot• path leading to the Bridge, to the inter-
rum hot of the passengers who were going over or returning
from the Bridge. He cautioned him against punning inch
conduct, when the Prisoner replied, he would do it in spite
of him, upon which he seized him, as the Act authorised,
and brought hint to the office.
The Prisoner was convicted in the mitigated penalty of
ten shillings; hut lie deuying the chance, pledged himitelt
to appeal against the conviction, and produced hail for that
purpose.

Sim* was charged nn suspicion of hieoking ■ml
emir/lug the public-house known by the situ of 3futher Red
Cap. on the Holloway rood, Isle on Thursday 'tight, or Pokily
on Fridsy owl sterling a variety of articles of plate,
&c —He was committed for 'sulker examination.

Mr. Bellchandwr• the loisbabd of Mrs. Witch: miters, who
is ..inning at Vauxhall Gardens, was charged before Mr.
Mont • with Pending a lima:ening letter to Mr. Corri, the
tunsie.mnstre and composer, who was about to sloe the
origin of his connection with the Prisoner, his wife being •
scholar of his, that he loot procured her she eligiagement at
Vauxhall Gardens, &c.; but the Magistrate declined healing
the lionory of their private trunsaCtsuns.
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A professional Gentleman attended for Mr. Corti, and
banded a ktter to Mr. Monte, which lie said Mr. Corti had
rill...nett (mom Mr. Deitch...inhere, which held out a lineal of
revenge Slid boriCy iujury.
Mr. BeHelmuth. in admitted the letter to be his writing,
but called the attention of the Magistrate to one word M it,
which, he contended, did away the evil tendency of the
threat sit the leper, which was, ff Mr. Corri behaved in en
impolite way In his wife, or acted in a similar way to whit
he had lately door, he would then act in the way towards
Mr. Coari lee had threatened to do; but as be hail not acted
tows, den his ie.& as be expected or feared be would. he abroad
not put his threat into execution; it was therefore coudi-
Donal, amid the word if dish it away.
The Magistrate admitted that the defence was an ingest.,
on. one, and bad sortie good sense in It; however he swore
Mr. Corsi as to whether, ilidrPerldelll or the teller, he wear
is bodily fear of
,Mr. Bellebanthers, which Mr. Corri swearing
to, and that be eerily believed that he woold do him fume
bodily harm, Mr. Bellehambera was ordered to find hail to
answer Mr. Correa complaint at the rowing Sessions to keep
ilk peace.
Bohol Freemen Thompson was charged with feloniously
stratiog a horse from a tint belonging to Messrs. James
and John Wiision, of Weston Hall, near York. The horse
was flared by J. J. Smith, belonging to the Office, into the
possemion of Mr. Walker, in llaker's.row, who bought it of
the ostler belonging to the Illisinghouse, in the Kingaland.
road, who I/might it of the Pinafore, and will be the luster
of his money.
The Prisoner Mai committed for further rumination.
auar.soitation•rmare.
IXIG CASE EXTRAORDINARY.

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Jiii!gment in this ease. the partial particulars of which
appeared in our Paper of Friday, wn4 even sin Saturday,
by Mr. Justice Iltaaows and Mr. Justice Dinitt, in cavorts.
of the Proaerutur, who after coiornesiling up the evitirace
adduced by each party, will, prat force sad mapicuity,
weic ilcciilr4'y of opinion, that the ideality anti continued
poptges,jim vr the animal fr l3 hiclis hail been prove.' in
the must satisfactory manner 'file PrnsectitM's Solicitor
waived the gnestion of penalty, intuit Mr. Curio-lea Solicitor
isurhertaking to pay all the costa.

ostine-HALL.
Friday Mr. Ju nn elderly zentlyinnei, and Ira.
Ilaunnh Si•the, boils of Att.. it piaci., Mick(' mil...wail, op.
peered to pr.f r i (barge a•qiult RIO battery soma
hluArr IYiltrarw Iloupyr, of the saw place, a boy about fire
year. of we. Upvn lb. ir inakiiii thi-ir eumptiiiit to the
Nlniotrase, it leveed slit to be uu frivuluttv;, that sifter CRUII.
nrnl dtal et lausystotir, it it'us dismissed, very mode to
the batiatoetiun 44311 piewut.

The Tyne, lit:LL; .:eld the Earl St. Vincent,
SI MPSON. with g hive II.1.1!ed IMO Cork,
ru: t..w S;euila