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LAW INTELUGENtit.

COURT Of OIIANCORT, Waxes lin,
Miimal', Damon= IR.
'Loa muse Win Gott at half

The Loan Ca5tc5........
post ten o'clock.
111.1ICTION OP ?RS MASTIR OF 1101111111911 COLLIOI4
CAIIIOSIDOI.
Mr. WreiannaLt. stated, that it was the wish of
the parties that the petition in this case might be
heard on the day after the next Seal, if it met with
his Lordship's approbation.
The Loan CHANCOLLOII—." I will hear it on
,whatever day the parties may appoint. As the case
too Bern meatioued to me, 1 ►nay us well correct a
`mistake that has gone abroad, 1 have received in
anonymous letter purporting to come from Cant.
bridge. and evidently written in • fictitiouji hand,
supposing that 1 hate the appointment of the Master.
The writer is mistaken, for it is not vested In me; the.
case does not come before me as Visitor of the Col.'
lege, because his Majesty is the Visitor, and the
appointment is vested in the Crown, and by the
Crown disposed of with the advice of the Council ;
1, as Lord Chancellor, have not even the recommen-
dation. I have said so much to ease the minds of
those who are so fretted, ufraid I should do wrong."

THE MARLBOROUGH GOLD PLATE.
THE RAWL OR SHAFTESBURY AND OTHERS O. HIS
GRACE THE DUES OF MARLBOROUGH AND
()THUM
Mr. SHADWELL, Counsel for the Noble Plain-
tiff, stated, that his Learned Friends were not pre-
pared with the promised affidavit of their Noble
client as to the fund in Court to inert the payment
for the gold plate winch had been destroyed, melt-
ed down, or sold. His clients had, however, made
an affidavit, which set forth that the Noble Duke
was rearms to the fund in Court 4,000/. his being
indebted to the receiver in that amount, on which
ground he had to ask his Lordship to grant the
motion he submitted to Into, and that his Lordship
would feel the necessity of the csistos to the house
and park of Blenheim being cootinued.
Mr. RAE, Counsel for the Noble Defendant,
said, that on account of ►he absence of his Grace
from town, he hail not beets able to get the affidavit
which was ordered by the Court. The affidavit
61ed by the clients of his Learned Friend was cal-
culated on an erroneous foundation, as, although
his Grace might be indebted to the receiver in the
sum of 4,0001., the receiver had not passed his last
year's accounts, and, alien he did. there would be
6,0001. in his hands, which would leave a balance
due to his Grace of 2,0001. There was also to be
considered, that the receiver of the estatet had to
pay to the Duke the sum of 16,000/. per annum,
which put it beyond a doubt that there would be
always a sufficient fund in the bands of the receiver
to meet the detnatiil of the 1,3001., the supposed
value of the plate which had been destroyed.
Mr. SHADWEI.I. said, it was true the receiver
had to pay to the Noble Defendant 16,000/. per
annum ; but fortunately, ur the contrary, the
Duke regularly assigned it, and if his next year's
income was encumbered, there would be no fund
to pay the 1,300/.
The Loan CHANCELLOR" Have you 1111
affi-
davit, Mr. Rae, that the fund in the receiver's
hands is not encumbered by his Grace ?"
Mr. RAE said he was not prepared with such an
affidavit, but he would be able to have one to that
effect by the next seal, if Ins Lordship would
postpone the motion moil than.
The Luau CHANCELLOR—" It is highly ne-
cessary that such an affidavit should be made ; fa
if the income of tfie Noble Defendant is already
encumbered, whoever it is assigned to will have
the fist claim. Let the order stand as to the
codas until this affidavit is produced ; and if it is
not satisfactory, I will do my duly, nod take cure
that the orders of this Court shall nut be in-
fringed."
Further consideration postponed until the next
Seal, the ISlii of January.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL,
Tramway, DICEASCII 21.

Adjourned Sittings alter Michaelmas Term, hefure
the LORD CHIEF JUSTICK and Co►nnion Juries.

ROTHWELL AND ANOTHER O. DEMAINE.
This was an action by the late Sheriffs of London
against the Defendant, who had been joint bail for
a mau mimed Lee, who had since abscouded, us
well as the other bail.
The Defendant Wended that at the time he gave
the bond in question, he was st►ll an infant under
the age of it years.
The execution of the bail bond was proved. and
also that tha Defendant had been iin baldness as a
warehouseman in Watling-street, on Isis own ac-
count for above a veer. Nis non-age was proved
by the testimony of his first cousin, sod his evi-
dence corroborated by the register of his baptism.
Mr. GURNEY, for the Plaintiff, nled,
that no regard ought to be paid by the Jury to the
register winch had been produced, on account of the
extreme inaccuracy with which it appeared to have
been kept. He urged the probability of the De..
fendatit's relation speaking to a pe•nod of time, so
long back as twenty years, being mistaken in his

age.
The LORD CHIEF JusTtce observed to the Jury,
that the irregularities which appeared in the parish
register were not of such a nature as to impeach
the evidence which it afforded in the present case,
more especially as it was corroborated by the evi-
dence of the Defendant's cousin, of whose correct-
ness there appeared no reason to doubt.
The Jury immediately found a verdict for the
Defendant.

SAuNDERSON AND ANOTHER V. cams.
Mr. BROUGHAM stated the facts of this case to
the Jury. The YlainUNi are assignees of one %Vni.
Probed, who carried on business as a wine-mer-
chant, in Holborn, and who had failed fur the sum
of 45,0001., but lily creilitota had not been yet able
to discover effects only to a very small amount, not,
indeed, exceeding 7001. All had been assigned or
conveyed to other persons, ar.d the assignees, fur
the benefit of the estate, had been obliged to'fol-
low and claim all which had been parted with after
the act of bankruptcy had been committed. The
act of bankruptcy in this case was lying in prison
for two months, and the amount sought to be re-

'Coined web fee forty data of tea pert,
sal 41.46
of Markin. and sin down of shirty, -part of %Welt
(the red port) was delivered di the-very day the tick
of bankruptcy das COOstnittect, that is. be the. day
the hankrent west tatitiests, and the wthet.part
few days after. • •
Mr. illtevonati then Ott in (*Metter IR the
7petitioniug creditor's debt, and act of bankrOptcy.
The tending was admitted.
The examination of the defendant upon oath
before the Commiti.itswers of Kookraph it Guild-
hall, was put in, to prdee the sale and th4ive'3 tif
the wine afire the set of bankruptcy, from which It
appeared. the forty dozen of port was sent I.i on
the eth May (the day Probed. went to prison), and
I the white wine nii the 1-2 th of the 'ante month. •
Mr. Scatt.et-t• addressed the Jury for the Del
feud/mt. lie said it might be very trite that
Probert bad deceived his creditor., belt Ins Client
knew nothing of it. lie was a baker, and being
about to retire from butanes.. anti wanting waive
wine. he was fee ~,,, mended by Mr. Slieppittd to
Probed, and accordingly on the silt May pur-
chased the port wine, said paid him for it on des
livery. The Madeira and sherry wine lie purchswed
and paid for a few days after, and though Probert
might be in custody at the time, he should.. wove
that he was out on day rnlrs,aud about his business
slmopt every day from the Bth to the ttith. May.
Hr rested for his defence on the statute of Ist
'James I. section 13, by which all parchasersfroms
bankrupt. in ignurani‘illf ass act of bankruptcy.
were protected. And+. idler. he wonld sh•-• that
the port wine was bought before the act of bank•
rupicy, au Probed did 1114 go to prison Int the
evening of the Bth May, and the port wine was de-
livered in the morning of that day.
Under the threviou of the Loin ClitEf jUg-
Tice, the Jury found verdict fur the Pi4intiffe
for the white wine only.—Damages 321. 14..

POLICE.

SO* STRICT.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AT THE ROYAL
INSTITUTION, IN ALBEMARLE:ATM:AA'.
Yesterday Mr. Frederick Arcum, the celebrated le etiiree
on Practical and Operative Chemistry, was broweld to the
office by Bishop and Nicholls, the carves, from hi. house
in Compton-street, where he has resided for s'hnut
thirty year., charged with relishing the Royal Insiontion
Albemarle-street, to which the Prisoner was a seile•criber,
and had been so fur a number of years. He anilero"Pnt an
examination before Roe-hard Biewie, Ewe. the sitting itlegie-
trate, when it appeared from the evidence adduced in sup-
port of the charge, that the Royal Institution is considered
our of the first Institut isms of the kind in the world, and it
possessed a very superior literary, particularly in general sci-
entific books, but that the character and estimation of the
buiiks have been reduced considerably fur some years past,
by their being rendered imperfect or incomplete, net br
stealing or de.iioying the books, knit by teasing tint leave...
The diabolical and infamous practice is suppiewil to hive
been carried on for time years before it was discovered, and
at first when one book and elven another was fumed eat as
imperfect, it was conjectured to have been by accident, beet
at length it was discovered that hooks which were Clued to
be imperfect by leaves being deficient, that they have as-
certaiued to have been completely perfect but a very
short time before, and therefore sin doubt was en-
tertained of the books having come into the Instil.-
lion in a perfect state, and that they had been so for some
time after. The discovery of the defective biota i
particularly is scieniefic and valuable books, so mach so,
that Mr. John Siert, the Assistant tabraeian to the Korot
lostitution, made a formal statement to the managers of the
circumstances, anti, ut the same time, however unpleasant
it might be to mention any Subscriber's name as the
suspected thief, fur no other person could have bed it in his
power to have caviled on the depredations fur sue!! it irliZth
of time, no occasional visitor could have bent able to com-
mit such repeated thefts and spoliation of the hooka, and he
at length mentioned the Prisoner's nemesis the Centime,. be
suspected, and stated as the ground of his steeple sssss ,
IMt
Ike books which be lead discovered that lease% hod been
taken out of them, weee books chit the Prisoner wets to tlie
habit of reading, and that he had Seel/ hill/, and after the
Pri.uner bad left the institution he had examined the same
books lee bad seen in his bawls, and had found learns take.,
out of them. These cireeterisiatices, however strolie
sgsiosS
the Prisoner, were not held sufficient to justify any crernival
proceedings against him,especially as lie was considered a
Gentleman of rank and consequence in the scientific world,
and it was deem el necessary that every precanlion and pen-
dent step should be takeu before the offence should be
charged upon • Gentleman of the Prisoner's respeetabi-
lily, and Mr. Sleet was directed to watch the conduct
of the Prisoner when he came to the Institution, which
be accordinely did. The Prisower's hourie in general, of
visiting the 10StillatiOri were from al t Live o'clock in Vie
efternuon till past seven—the home certeinly best enleulated
rt.r him to piscine such 111114raCtiert, as 1 title are Gorr sots-
scribers there then, than at other Intuit. flu M'educedey
vetoing the Pi teenier was at the lestit idiots during his usual
hours of between live and seven, when Mr. Sleet watched
him very closely, when he had no doubt hot the' h• hail
turn several leaves out of some hooks he had been
looking at, but owing to a pile of books which was between
these, he could nut lie positive, and therefore be. was Arvid
to iuterfere; but if he had, it is strongly suspected) he would
have found
left the institution, Mr. Steel proceeded to examine the
bookie, which he had particularly noticed the Prieoner had
.been looking at, when he foots.' a periodical scientific work,
called Nickolgon's Journal, defective of five leaves will& he
was positive was entice and complete last week, and strongly
'reveled that the Pi isuner had taken them ; he detirmined
on taking steps against hien, and encoded peat slay inenniog
at the office, and lepurted she whole of the exereorilinary
and suspicious circierestauci•s to Mr. Bicair, the sitting
Magistrate; who, after due contideratioei, deteemieitel on
issuing a search warrant to search the Pi bini.e, as
the (July prompt and effective means to awertaia, w libtry
degree of certainty, if the Prisoner had taken the five leaves
set of Alleherlasoir Journal, on Weehiesably eve t. Pio-
vide.' Mr. Sleet could swear that the leases awl otlier pro.
.perty belonging to the proprietors of the Reseal leietiteitien
were in the Prisoner's house, which Mr. Sleet fet
bimsttf
justified in doing, and prosidiii the Prisoner hail Wren
the leaves out of the books, he ea+ suspected to have
done, he expected to find them in the bowie. .as it was
supposed that his object was to 'mist bins in l';•
scientific publications, and save him the expense of pur-
chasing them, the leaves taken out of the sliffeiesit hooks
being the must interesting and impurtaut pail of the weeks.
• Bishop and Nicholls. the officers, stecompaeir) Mr. Stior to
the Prisoner's horse in Comptowsteeet, with the.remele w ar-
rant, and found him at home. the the officers commeneicat-
lug to hien their unpleasant business of haring a search w le-
vant granted by Mr. Biluie, the Magistrate, to Newell his
home for 'totem property, he appe seed a good deal surprised.
Mr. Steel proceeded to examine the diffirr•ut papers iu the
house, road ideutified a number which bed. hero torn out of
books belonging to the Royal luetitutiou. While Mr. t
was pursuing this serious conduct as it all...Oita the Fri-
same', he was walking up and down the room id goat egi.
tat' . Bishop advised him to attend to what aims 61010 r,
as it was of great importance to him, stolen properly being
identified in his house. which, *Wood he eweld account for
the legal possession of, lie must lee answerable for the tom-
seepireices. The officers seized the leaves, Ake. a. identified
by Mr. Siert as helongiug to the Peoprietors of the Royal
Institetioo, whit-hoes well as the Prisoner, they brunch' le
the office before Mr. Streit, when Mr !Gait identified sun-
dry leaves which corresponded wills books belongueo to ibe
Royal laslilntios, which had heenthetilairet. • All the bo•lis
which boil been plundered of /cases west. thuee wired vie

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woes in AM bait* di:redelliot thin he woes et dig
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IlsatitoMost. Thy* *wee Armed it' his he... alrreir
paighttesiglr fbi fl set veldt*, of tifillices Disestie Ewe*
elipirei, wee% Mr. 'Bier/ bied:oo doubt helsogrel Us the
' **low Mr property bribe 'Royal forlitotioo. filiw three
Maven, einsteinium from pages 41$1 been of Coffee's ifteterhe
Ardica, which bad beta missed from that work belemsiog
to the lostitutios. The oesiers produced &hest cbirty leaves
la the whole, sash sod lino. Whirl. Mr. Sims raid he boa
nu doubt helmeted he heals I. the library ante lostitistioo.
'rho Prisoner, io his &deem seta the leaves wised by the
.Aker. in his Loose std prodiseed befere Ike Magistrate,
helmeted to books whirl, be hod at home.
'Me Magistrate, after hearing the whole of the ease, slid,
that to constitute • &logy, she value of the property steles
'riot be sworn le. If they bad weighed a rimed, be wookl
Imes committed Mosta/ the valet Oa mimed of waste paper,
but as that was not she ease, be discharged his.

wousuir-truss'.

IiMPICION OF FELONY.

Vstlher Creeper, a private in the 2,1 regiment of Lite
(.card,, watt brought before Robert Elevate, Req. charred on
r..•piciun or atesliag a small paper•bus, cootaisiug rings
eteni ladies' trinket■.
About seven o'clock on Wednesday mein the trimmer
went into a pawnbroker's *bop in Ren•streel, sod ul:eretl
.hr aetielea either in pledge or for sale; he only dernauded
11 and appeared to be isw►sat of their real value. The
isantekroker, on examining. them, fossil they were all Sew
it:t.tl worth at Item St. tie examined the Prisoner, but he
ci tete, give no sainfactory amanita or thetas, and lhe paws-
!teoe..,r had kim brought before the Magistrate.
On es emination she Priws►r said he had been on fur-
-10 see hie friend, in Yinkdtire; that on his rescuer to
in the regiment, when coning through Stamford tail
Fi.tittay morning, he found a paper parcel in the street, in
the paper box containing the trinkets had heels
wrapped up; he skewed it at his lodging, near Stilton, on
aNt followooc day, and likewise to a post-boy nu the road
•iest day, the later told him the articles were of no value,
would only give him owe shilling for ►ach au title ; wlwa
Le :entered i■ Shoteditch he inquired fur a pawnbroker's
• 'it 1., in order In steepest of them, and was directed to Sou.
'it, t. Ile gave but a croqueted areovot of hit lime sito,e
neeay murnint, and could nut tell where he OW On TOE'S.
istztit. Me portmanteau was starched, bait nothing awl-
r•(:,,till was found in it ; his furlough was out since the hest
it November, and the tame seed he was in The line and
-p es a deserter from the regiment all last month. Ile was
committed till turlltecinquiry be Slade.

JUEL4ND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 17.

It has been represented to us, that some dread-
folly atrocious circumstance', tint aulbroetitly
in-
veitigated, took place some time rinse iu that
aliori;,7t of tlns county, colltd the I...l!_r:gon, xithin
4 few miler, of lflillula. The information we hove
tectived is to the following pu.port :—Tliat about
right week+ ago, there was a quarrel, in which a
man was killed by some tombs of a pitchfork. His
v„fe was present at the time, and it was feared
11,ot ,he would iliocov.r and prosecute the prow-
tiinota. In few nights after the homicide was
committed. her house wao attacked, her throat
and her tongue dragged out and reamed
with a large needle to her clieek, in which conditi, n
she way I, to rznire. She recovered, however,
owl, in about a month after, an.dlier attack was
wade, and her shroat 3,441) CUt ; 110, 1111111Ige to
!•:4y, f01t16114.41 tint: seecrul attempt upon her
anti Ithoilt a rOftullil.ht ago her destruction
nag rtra•ted by drowtsiog ! Notwithotindiog that
CA, account of ocenrrvoceo, as marvellous as
tt-y are rhos king, is in Circulation, we are in-
formed there ties been no it:quest held on the
Frady of the woman, nor any reward offered, or
• exeltiono used, for the appreltemioa of the
so iposral murderers. If it were not for the eircum-
▪ ai:ce of the ',crone (which we cahoot get over), we
ra!,,,ht lye inclioral to otiopect suicide; but our
1•rrn4111 suit to have a remove idea of the
1 •,11, and we learn front him alio, that some per-
to whom suspicion ottacheo, have lately
1.-areil (tom the place where the drearlftil trilso•dy
we. ptil.ireprti. We tru-t this notice of the affair
ss•;; lead to a proper inquiry on the subject.—
't 'cinslitution.l

KILKENNY. DECEMBER 9.

I: t 9 now become very dangerous to venture unto
t' oterh: of fiiikentiv ofier night-fall. A set of
II).. the dihgrace of our city. plural thuntselves
h• !':i. r,.rurrr of tin- street., said. from th,ir coo-
-11,41.y vkulking stations. onissitsiii.like, pelt the un.
s:.•ptctiug, passem!ers with stones :end brick-bats.
v.:, !live In.nril of m•veril closes where even partwe
hose have beeu thus assaulted be un-
villaniv tailing advantage of the total dark-
Less which the Corporation have at lerivrilt left
tt hcstetn of rapper-blealme 11,ts elso
hoe*. revised with unexampled violence.—( Ltinstcr
Juu•nul./

KILKENNY, DECF.MBEEL 12.

Oa the evening of Sunday last, at so early an
lima as seven o'clock. a person of the mime of
4 ;eurge 'trophy, a tithe-farmer, was shot to death
i his oar) forma., near the chap►l of Gaffney, in
comity, und in the vicinity of which a military
yis permanently stationed. The murderers
ti ts! into the house Ircfore they entered, and
....waled the unfortunate man in the side.—
/f subiegoeiltly broken io. the villains
coinoleled the work of blood, sod left their vie.
ton, a oil tided in various paits of the body, dead.
'll.O ait' of the tirceagrd received a stab from the
totfi„+•, *hie!, we believe is unit It ke:y to terminate
.tally. Brophy had, a fea days previously, do.-
I Mill that iirighboui hood. aitii the assail nits nn
S4ll(ltty night baring itirivrainird tile warrant of (Its-
-I;:eie Can be 00 &trig that this dating and atro.
stout t''.,l tiros. flow circumitatices connected shit
that event. IVe siutl piolyably be (nimbled to
coana:to•tiate fucaher particulars of barbarous
murder iv our next. Toe sanguinary mircreinits
plundered the house of cash to the antrunt ul fifty
poillids.—( Moderator.)
0,1 the night of Friday last, actuated by those
trii•scipirti winch are the bane of all social order,
fair/I'd:Ode Land of rnucreants,•upwards of sixty
number, entered the vicinity of Kilbegg•ni in
sh•l comity of 14esttuestli. There chanced to be
lailieten nt that place at the time, oil their route
from Dohliti to their quarters in Athlone. • dtst-
r►an of the 55th regimens. Being apprised of
this circumstance. those audacious ruffians imme-
diately forced tote a house m which wets 104111141
twee• soldiery, whom having effectually sutpritredi
obey stripped of lire stood of lire-arms, sail Instant-
ly decsw►ped. Such acts, so disgraceful to civilised
slowly usual solely vitaliser limo the veriest dregs
of mankind.--(ArAforse i/ersdd.)

Veda/day—W. Tmeteae.-4•lldey et the Seek, Beebe-
, Imes, Lea leah% sed Swath See Ilesees.

• . ihrominnr..

SILTRACT ?Agit Lange, Dmp
• 4. A
lbatabibliiiidirl3,irio.
u This led - befasbeets a ~.pieta • Mink le the ann.
inieveial history of Boashey,-ewiwg to the faller, of the eat.
Me .repeated Rae glutei gerestems rude of Ml deireteiderse..
The ship.owarre, however, base hers in some meemere re-
lieved by as expedition to the Persia. Gulf, the result of
werbieb you Must be iiequaieteel with before- this. Anerther
expedit.ets is in ember, fee Raab and the banks of the
lodes. His Ilejuity's ships Eden sad Coda+ hove pro-
ceeded to the Red Sea, where a further lures will woe Join
drew, for the purpose of bousbardiag Ilse tows of Mocha, the
*Governor Of which place, having maltreated some of our
people abase two years age, refuses to asske an apology, as
require! by Govereeneet. These &imp will motile lei to
keep up oar heeds weld She beginaieg of emit year, whoa
oar trade, I bops, will Bow I. the same regular stress as
urns!. I ate gratified to bed that tour port bay not yet
abandoned the idea Of participdiag is the East India trade.
Ithonld this b-ion be granted, I may have it in my power to
be rveatually morel to She commerce of Plymouth. I also
,rejoice as the re-establishment of order is, F.isglaisii, and
would trust that the present P4fli•Olfili will effect so..
permanent relief to the labouring classes. I form many
plans upon Ibis subject, bat em, at last, obliged to con-
fess, that the act of guveruing le, of all 'civic it, the must
difficult."

EtiCluard ea the letter wan a Bombay Pries Curtest, by
which it appear. that English boot. sad rhnes, cutlery. and
cativo, are at priest rod ; earthen ware at lea per real. &s-
-cum,. ; and jewellery, pitent abut, and snuffs withoist
dr-
staad. Ale and beer, ca►peting, glass ware, gloves, hams
and Owelie, linens and muslin', Arrowstu.th's and Hers.
burgh's maps and charts, mathematics, instruments, marine
'dorm, millinery, mn,ie, iwthitnery, plate and plated ware,
are all, more or leas, on the mica:ire.

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