The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-09 00:00:00

GREGORY v. PARSER.

This was an action brought by the Plaitjtiff, who
kept a Library at Brighton in 'the year 1802, against
the•Defetidanf, a Quarter-Master in the Army,• for
various triflio.g articles au-Ili-shed to him and his-wife,
an-nun/Mg' to- 71. • •
Apainst th;s debt' the statute of limitations, was
pleade
oe
d—but during the intervening period of Mrs.
Parker's returningtrom 'France, Wh;cll she -had' left,
her husband had written two letters, acknowledging
the debt. "'hese. his Lordship thought sufficiebt to
remove the case from that statute--Mrs. .Parker,
having been 911 e of the 'patties who had assisted in
contraaing the debt in queseion:
Verdid for the Piaintaf, 71..105. .

•HALL V. ODNER.
This was an aation: brought .by a relation and
pArtner in trade, against another, for payment of
nearly 10,0001. for goods sold and delivered. This
sum the Plaintiff sought to recover by, virtue of a
judgment obtained in the COurt of King's Bench at
Quebec, and also upon an account previously signed
by the Defendant himself:-
A point arising as to how far this-judgment could
be deemed final, a verdict was given in behalf of
the Plaintiff, subied to the opinion of the Court, to
be afterwards argued upon a special case.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
SITTINGS BEFORE LORD CtUEF BARON AND A SPECIAL

Juicer.

THE KING V. SCHOFIELD.

. .
This was anindietment to recover Penalties under
the Statute, from the Defendant, a mahster at Ox-
bridge, for using a room for malt„ not entered agree-
ably to the At of Parliament. The penalties, ter
different days specified in the indici•ment, amounted
to upwards of 10,0001. and it also contained addi-
tional charges, for the removal of malt into the room
in question, in three different states of vegetation,
amounting to a, large additional sum. '
The SoLICITOR GENERAL having stated the case
on the part of the Prosecution,
Two respeaitniet,Witnesses, one of them .an Ex-
' arniner General of Excise, and the other a b'llper-
visor of were adduced, who concurre
stating, that, on a day specified, in consequence. tf
suTicions entertained by them, they broke'into the
room in question, winch %vas not only not known to
the Officers, but w-,is concealed, and required the
drawing of a secret siring to discover the entrance.
They:ll:ere found., on the floor, and sticking against
the wz.:3lls, particles which they knew from the taste,
and from inspection, to be malt in, three different
state:; of vegetation.' They found no sacks, .how-
ever, nor.a any- quantity of Malt.
Mr. SCARLETT,• for the Defendant, set Up two
pleas—Fiir.st, that he had entered at the Excise 04ice
five.ditlereht rooms, of which the present was one,,
there- being only tour others in the.view of the
ncers,- unless the temporary separation of (.41i.iir
tliese four, rby a partitiOn reaching only io the thin
of a moderately sized man, could be esteemed a
total division. Secondly, he purposed to
,adduce
evidence to shew that the room in question not only
was not tiled, or Meant to be used, by the Defend-
ant, for the purpose of malting, but that' his servants
were ignorant of- its existence, and that it was 'in-
tended as a pl-ace where potatoes might be kept by -
him, free from any risk of their being stolen by his
servants.
Three servants of the Defendants were adduced in
support of the latter plea, all of whom concurred in
declaring that they were present when the Officers
forced open the room in question, that nothing was.
found' in it but- the refuse of barley-straw, and that
on sweeping the room not above a quart,of different
articles were -colleCted, consisting chiefly of mice_
chewinffs -lite. but in no. instance of a
single cent-
plete grain.

After an'athiress, in reply,- from the Socic:Tox
GENEIZAL,

&flared the alledged
The Lone CHIEF BARON
entry of the room a complete 1..• it being essen.,.
ti:11 to the cony of a ur.iiting-roorn that it shoultt
not ouly be entered, but be known,and open to the
officers. The pretence of keeping potatoes too iti
this room, unknown, as it was alledged, to the De-
fendant's servants, was unworthy of an answer, and
only tended to aggravate the otfence committed. It
remained, therefore; only for the Jug-to estimate
the degree.of 'credit-due to the Witnesses liar the
Prosecution, who were persons even'in the higher
Revenue Departments, and who were only sailed
on to ,make surveys when improper prattiees were
suspeCted, with the statement of the Witnesses for
the Defendant, all 'of whom, in many particulars,
contradicted each other. •

The Jury found a verdiet generally for, the
.
Crown ; . and if a few word's, . the .ot.tciToti.
GENERAL ' agreed to restria it to a single penalty
of QOUI. -

. . -
A respeaable farmer of Nestrip, in the county 0:
Gloucester, has a ear now about ht., yen weeks old,
which has but three kegs, • The two fore legs are
perfeft, hut there is only/One behind, which, 110.4-:
ever, serves him to walk with, whit:bile kh:es with
as mucla freedom as if he possessed the other.