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London, England, 1808-05-13 00:00:00

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LAW REPOT,

COURT OF KING'D ttENCti,
THE KING V. 108 N GOANGER, 2" Q.

This was an indidment for an assault, tried at the
last Assizes for York, when the Defendant was foUnd
guilty. He was this day brought up to receive
the Judgmebt of the gotta, and his affidavits in'
miti.atioic read by the Crown Officer. It ap-
peared that the Defendant, a Merchant of consi-
derable etninence At Leeds, took an alive part
M the canvass for Lord Milton, at the late me-
morable eleetion for Yorkshire. The Prosecutor,
Mr. John Skelton, was a friend of Mr. Lascelles;
and an Attorney of reFpetaability. The evening,
preceding the day of notnination, Mr. Granger
having been out canvassing
.the County, was re-
turning with some friends to York, and as be passed
a house' where the Prosecutor was, he exclaimed,
" Milton for ever !!' Mr. Skelton, and some friends'
in the nitereSt'Of Mr. Lascelles, exclaimed " No
Javobins! No Burdetts and Despards!" adding smite
other opprobrious epithets as applicable to the De-
fendant. Some .time. after, Mr. Granger met Mr.
Skelton, and demanded why he had called him a
Jacobin ? Mr. S. replied, he had culled him so, be-
cause he believed him to be one,--he added some
further irritating expressions, anti Mr4Granger spit
in his face. 'This was the assault complained of,'
and the breach of the peace the Defendant had been
coti7iiied
Lord ELI:UNBOROUGH asked the Counsel for the
prosecution, -whz”her Mr. Skelton admitted his,
having called the Defenttint a -Jacobin, which, his
Lordship laid, was a very reproachful term in the
way it was now understood, and the l!uplication of it,
to a good and • loyal subjed was likely% to pcothiFe
much irritation. , _

Mr. TOPIIANI replied, that he was not instruded
one way or the other, and begged permission to an-
swer the Defendant's affidavit in that particular.
Lord ELLEN/WIWI/Gil said, he supposed the Pro-
secutor'did nut wish to keep the Defendant in ens•
tody, or require him to come up again upon'such nit
affair.

Mr. TOPII AM replied, that the assault was com-
mitted in the market-place', and was extremely pain-
ful to the Prosecutor's feelings, and degrading to his
character.
Lord ELLENBOROUGIi then told the Defendant to
attend when called upon, and Mr Granger with-
drew. -
With the above exception, nothing of public in-
terest occurred, and the Court rose at an early hour.
At two o'clock Lord ELLM3OROUGH went into the.
City, to boa the first Sittings in Term for London.

THURSDAY, MAY 12.

KING V. RICEIAItD WATSOK.

This was a criminal information for a libelaginst
General Gwynn, of which the Defendant had been
found guilty. He was-a Colonel in the Army, and
had been conviCled by a Court-Martial, of which that
General was the President, of tippling with his infe-
rior officers.. The situation to-Which General.Gwynn
was appointed had exposed him to the malignity of
the accused.

Lord ELLENDOROUGH read the report of the trial
at Saw, much of which will not have escaped the
recollection of our readers. The last letter, signed
at Shock Sam," was most offensive : it was as fol-
lows :

" I see by the Papers yOu attended at the Chapel Royal,
and received the Sacrament. How dare you fly iu the face of
your Creator, after the many villainous ads you have barn
guilty nt on this side the grave ? Take courage and blow your
brains gut, it you have any, and rid the world of a villain
and it tiCu u nurel.•
" Send the woman at the Three Tuns, Croydon, some
money for the _support of her daughter you got with.
and pay off the scare of gin you owe her Jon
(Signed) "
_SHOCK SAM."

Subsequently the Defendant met the General with
a brother Officer riding through Bond-street, when'
he insulted the General, and threatened to post him.
Atter Mi MotuaYAT had been beard in mitiga-
tion or punishment, and Mr..Gmatow and Mr. Jr-
KY kr, for the prosecution, the Defendant was com-
mitted to the King's Bench, to be, brought up again
on Monday sennight, to receive the judguent of the
Court. •