The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Aram, 26.
ANDERDON V. BURROWS AND OTHERS.
(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)
After Mr. DENMAN had been heard at length for
the defendants, _

Lord TENTERDEN sad, that the only question
which the Jury had, to consider was the amount of
damages. Tbe.conduct of Dr. Burrows, in signing
a certificate of the plaintiff's insanity, without hav-
ing sees him, and sending two persons to secure
him, was contrary to law. He was sorry to hear it
stated that it was usual for medical practitioners to
act in that manner. In estimating the amount of
damages, it would be necessary for the Jury to con-
sider whether there was probable cause for suppos-
ing the plaintiff to have been of unsound mind at
the period when the assault was committed. With
reference to this point, the plaintiff's singular
estrangement, not only from his family but from
persons of his own rank, and his extraordinary mode
of dressing and living, were circumstances which
should not be overlooked.

The Jury then retired, and after being absen
three quarters of an hour, returned into Court wits
a rerdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 500/.

ARCHES COURT, ArRxL 26.

This being the first day of term, the Court was
opened with the usual forms, after prayers.
No publ;e business of moment occurred.

FREDERICK ROBARTS was admitted of the number
of Procurators-General exercent in this Court, by
virtue of a rescript freua his Grace the Archbishop.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aram 24.

George Loggan, late a Captain in the 92d regi-
ment of Foot, was opposed by Mr. WOODROFFE, on
behalf of Mr. Martin, a jeweller, at Cheltenham.

The insolvent in 1823 sold his commission in the
army, and had nothing ever since to subsi,t on but
a pension of 1001. a year for wounds, and occasional
assistance from the bounty of friends. That assist-
ance he calculated at about 901. a year, and his pen-
sion being charged with an annuity of 421. to a Mr.
Groves, his whole income, including his friends'
bounty, did not exceed 1481. a year, with which he
had to support his wife and himself. He bad, since
1823, contracted debts to the amount of 2,4611.
13s. 10d., and he had no assets of any description
to meet them. All the debts which he contracted
in London, amounting to 8001., he disputed, be-
cause, being contracted in 1823, they fell under the
Act of Parliament 9 Geo. IV. chap. 14, by which
Act a person might take advantage of the statute
of limitations if he had not given a promise to pay
in writing within six years. Having contracted
those London debts, he went to Durham and resided
there until 1827 or 1828, and he there contracted
debts to about the same amount as in London. In
May, 1828, he visited Cheltenham, where he became
acquainted with a gentleman named Webber, who
afterwards married his sister-in-law, and then the
new married-couple left Cheltenham for Kelso,
where Mr. Webber has a country sear. 'While Mr.
Webber was in Cheltenham, the insolvent fre-
quently rode in his carriage, and mixed in the most
respectable society. Cheltenham he contracted
debts to the amount of about 7001. Shortly after
his arrival he began to deal with Mr. Martin, his
opposing creditor; first he purchased a gold watch
for 251., and some trifling articles which he paid for.
He then began to run up en account with Mr. Mar-
tin, and from that time to the beginning of October,
when he left that place, he got into Mr. Martin's
debt to the extent of 2541., occasionally giving him
bills, all of which remained unpaid.
Insolvent proceeded to state, that a day or two
afterwards he came to London, went thence to
Brighton, and afterwards to Worthing, for the be-
nefit of his wife's health, she being in a very bad
state. He took all the plate, and many other ar-
ticles which he bad got from Mr. Martin, to Lon-
don, where he pawned all the spoons and forks at
different pawnbrokers, none of whose names or re-
sidences he could recollect. Unfortunately fur him,
he said, he nad been obliged to have so much to do
with " these people" (the pawnbrokers), that he
could not recollect any one in particular. The plate
was all afterwards redeemed and sold. Some other
articles he pledged, and when in the lock-up-house,
he gave up the duplicates to a Mr. Briddie (a silver-
smith) in discharge of his debt. He admitted that
he had made no mention of any part of this property,
and the disposition of it, in his schedule. He had
run up a bill at the Gloucester Coffee-house, which
debt was not in his schedule, because he considered
that discharged by the proprietor retaining some
boxes containing his goods.
Mr. Commissioner lI4RRIS said the case must be
adjourned to file an account of all this property
which had been concealed from the schedule, and
also to insert and serve two creditors who were
omitted, viz., Mr. Briddie, and the proprietor of
the Gloucester Coffee-house : the latter person
might perhaps come to oppose the insolvent. There
was no want of fraud in the case as it at present
stood, and the insolvent must not expect his imme-
diate discharge.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

John Thompson, the driver of a hackney-coach,
was charged before the LORD MAYOR, by Cope, the
Marshal, with having driven through the streets as
if his object really was to overturn and destroy every
body that appeared before him.
The LORD MAYOR ordered the defendant to pay
2/. for the private damage, and 1/. for the offence
against the public.
BOW-STREET.

Two men, named James Drift.ll and 441e.rander
Spencer, were charged with having committed a
violent assault upon James Carmichael, a private in
the 2d Regiment of Foot Guards.
The defendants were remanded, in order to pro-
cure the attendance of a material witness.

Robert Gilbert, a man in the dress of a sailor,
was brought in custody of Thomas Snell, a police-
constable of F division, charged upon suspicion of
having stolen th!ee sheep, the property of a Mr.
Chinnery, who resides at Ipswich. He was re-
manded.

A meanly-dressed man, without hat or shoes, and
carrying a huge well-thumbed Bible under his arm,
came before Sir R. BIRNIE, and stated that he had
just been to the Freemasons' Tavern to attend a
meeting for the propagation of Christianity among
the Jews. He had obtained an admission ticket,
and therefore considered that he was as well en-

titled as any person there to address the meeting.
" In early life," continued the applicant, " I was an
unbeliever of Christianity, having been brought up
amongst those who scoffed at its divine precepts, and
to me this sacred volume (holding up the Bible)
was a sealed book until the light of truth broke in
upon me, and by the blessing of God I became—"
" My friend," said Sir R. BIRNIE, " your conver-
sion was, no doubt, a happy circumstance for you, but
I have no time to attend to the manner in which it
was brought about. What is the object of your ap-
plication to me ?" " I came for your assistance to
recover my hat and shoes," said the applicant,
" having been rudely thrust into the streets without
them, by a set of men who profess to be Christians,
but act even worse than heathens."
" How came you to lose your hat and shoes ?"
asked the Magistrate. " My hat I of course took off
on entering the room," replied the applicant, " and
feeling desirous to address the meeting, I drew off
my shoes, that I might not dirty the seat or soil the
dress of a lady who happened to sit next to me. I
then proceeded to address the Chair, but had
scarcely spoken three sentences when I was dragged
from the room and thrust into the street, barefooted
and bareheaded as I was." The applicant then went
on to say, that he wished to see but one universal
church upon the earth, where the followers of Chris-
tianity should meet to worship, and was about to
read copious extracts from his Bible to prove that
this was the Divine intention, when
The Magistrate stopped him short, observing that

a public office waq no place for a religious disquisi-
tion, and even if it were, he (Sir Richard) was not
sufficiently versed in such matters to enter the arena
with a person so well read in theology as the appli-
cant appeared to be.
An officer was then directed to accompany the
applicent to the Freemasons' Tavern, with a request
:that the poor man might have his shoes and hat re-
stored to him.