The National Register.
London, England, 1818-05-10 00:00:00

respectively ending in September. ISI3. It appeared that
the defendant, upon giving up the seats in the Synagogue, had
been applied to for pzyment of the rent, anti acknowledged
his liability, but excused himself from then paying for want
of means.- The rent of the elt.ipel was paid out of the pro.
dice of the seats, atiii certain religious offerings and obla-
tions, ort of which also the poor members of the Synagogue
were supported, thereby relieving the Christian parishes from
o.e liability of supporting Jews-hi paupers. Part of the pies
sent demand was therefore constitnted of certain of these
Oblations. which the defendant hail neglected to pay.—
Amini,gst others were the Mit,• rol, or contribution nn being
allowed to approach the Ark 4 the Covenant, in which the
table: of the Levitical laws are placed : the 11 iniontrn, or
compositieb ;mid for not attending cot:tin funeral obsequies,
*pun the iiiiath ofa Jew; aid the ( :wsilkteper, or Day of Judg-
tweet, a coliiritintion for providing the wax candles necessary
I'ur the supply of the altar oil certain feast day:,
Early in the cause this learned Judge suggested the pro-
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'p iety ut ring the case to some r".speetable Jew acquait.t-
ed with the customs of the Synagogue; but this was declined
by the def'endant's Counsel.
The case of the plaintiff, having hem proved,
Marryitt stibmitted tan olojectioas to the plaintiffs'
tight to serovcr :-Ist, it appeared that the demand toads'
against the defendant hail .c.tit net during the life.time of
one of the lessees of the !synagogue, Jacob Hart, who was
since dead ; and as the plaintiff.: had not drawn their decla-
ration conformable to that state of circumstances, they could
not recover ; and 2dly, There seas no proof of contract be-
tween the defendant and the plaintiffs ; and even supposing
the contract to be proved, the law of Lugland did not allow
the claim. Upon this punt,
Mr. Justice Abbott said, that as the law of England allowed
a religious establishment tar the Jews, and tolerated their
Itistititizons, all the consequences arising therefrom were
sanctioned.
ipon the first point evidence was given to slew that Jacob
)tart, one ut the lessees, had died only in 1814, and conse-
quently the ailedged liability of the defendant having accrued
during his lifetime.
Ms. Justice Abbott thought the pleadings defective, and
therelore directed the piaintilfs to be nunsuited.

THURSDAY.
JAXE MARIA ItAArtt TON V. BELT..
Mr. Chitty stated. that this Win an action for a libel published in
the Werkia Dispatch Sunday newspaper, of the Goth of July, 1817.
It was it tlici.e terms :
" Cuii.o STEALING.—At Cie late Sessions at the Old Halley, it
appearsthat the feinale convicted of the above crime was tOrmerly
the wife of an eminent printer, in Fleet-street ; that for a short period
of her life, she •• strutted mid fretted her hour upon the statle." and
performed several times :it the little Theatre in the I laytnarket ; since
which time she had formed a connection with a gentleman in Paris,
and left that place some time ago preparatory to her accoreltenterl
in this country : the child ►he was delivered of died. and upon ac •
fount of receiving a large sum of money from the father. she stole
the child alluded to. in order te'return with it to France, to impose
it upon the reputed father es her cll.:ping. She is a female of cons! •
derable talents.
Mr. Stvirlett, on owning the rlaintift's case, said, that his client
was, he honeyed. a widowed lady, formerly the wife of Mr. Arch:bald
Hamilton, printer. Falcon-court, Fleet-street, who had been pro-
prietor of several important and valuable works. Such had bten
the etfeet of this caluinnions paragraph, and so accurately and un-
equivocally was the plaintiff pointed nut in it. that many of her
(amends were imposed upon. and the solicitor she had been formerly
accustomed to employ. even went to Newgate to visit her, expiating
to see lier.previous to the infliction of the sentence to transportation,
and Mrs. Hamilton was driven into Court to clear her reputation.
The libel was now admitted by the defendant, when the.lury consulted
stew minutes, and gave the plaintiff a Verdict, with 200 L damages.

AeettattaastoN AND SUletnE or AN OVTLAW.—In Ja-
nnary last, U. Cowen, a inert-limit in Great Prescott-street,
became a batik rud,t, and absconding from his commission was
outlawed. Several of his creditors hearing lately that he
was living in a great style at Rotterdam, applied to the Lord
Mayor for Ids assist/tete ; and Brand, the marshalmau, Was
Sethi to Holland with his warrant for that purpose. The
Batavian Government, however, manifested a decided oppo--
&Rion to the measnre ; and it was only by the exertion of
Lord Clinically, the British Minister at that Court, that it was
at length aeccdeddo. His Lordship was compelled to write
home to the I.:n*4st' Government, and obtain its sanction to
au tandettaking, pledging a reciprocal conduct, before the
Blieister of Justice at the Hague was directed to furnish the
necessary authority. This was done en the 13th tilt. awl
Brand immediately proreetled to Rotterdam in search of his
object, and the same afternoon he met him walking its the
street. On hiving aceetted by the officer. ho asserted that
they dare nut take him; lout the Dutch authority being shewn
to him, he made Wit little resistance. The populace, how-
ever, appeared alarmed at the execution of a foreign war-
rant, and R great botfy of them collected immediately, who
skewed a disposition to oppose the arrest ; insomuch, that the
the officer, found it neccseary to set a strong reinforcement ;
and it was only by a constant exhibition of their pistols that
a rescue was not attempted, and the prisoner was lodged in
safety. The saute night lie was conveyed to the prison at the
Hague. On the filitou int meriting he requested tl:tt person
appointed to be with him, to procure him a little coffee for
his breakfast, and aftlionglt the man was not away more than
Eve minutes, on his return liefound him hanging by highland_
kerchief tv the knob of a Nandi cupboard. He was *instantly
rut 'loan, hut life was rotally extinct. The officers recovered
from his lodging a large quisuillity of cash, jewels, bank-untes,
wiottee4, Oc.o. sod it seems a law-suit is likely to take place
he/ wets' the assignees colder the commission, and those cr"
• .es %%Ito atone were the roust' of its recovery, as to who
se -II have the disposal of it. Since this omeirreneo has taken
) „ee, the Corn tussahs" of Polite at Rotterdam hits 11/13111.d
~; Order, enj • g the proprietors of all Indeing-houses to
el :se a return every morning uf the isuilitE.r, niatue,, and de-
sot ytion of their mutates; and this order has been hitherto
strictly enfnrceil.
A sedntlaluti• aileentnre occupies at present the attention
of the public at Lyons a yonag and yr; y
Inv. ly woman, went lately to the Theatre des tan: s:in. M.
M•—,a veil ig and rich ..tenttemais, was attick atilt her
beauty, I,e fullowed her, and at length diseovettil that she
was marl ::•/1. 'lll4 a Porters of conjugal-fidelity, mid had 'm-
oisten the advance,. of se's eCal of 11.:1' adatirers. However.
M--- !rived it s::ell II 11141111(1. that mile evenim: he re
COVI'd a h :ter fi a n his .‘iticevhi, winch runs this:—"
hitstem.l has I. ft hut has slat Anne ; come and b•
Lapps with r fi it nil." Voting did not
isa.ed emu/in; hut he hail not been a quarter
of au ROM 5511.11 lice, when in same the linsband, breathing
MCC and tlinuea, nod comm.:led M— to sign hill log
6060 Oat c-• Nest day M------ applied to the(.;olamjs%aire.
and on inssatigAtion it was fotiml that Madame oas
the mishear., not the ssife Ix affair is now be fore
'he Procersuc du IZoi.