The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-10 00:00:00

POLICE.

l3o;w-STR6:T.-0aThursday -evening
.the
inves-
tigatiou of the charge for uttering a forged bill, pre-
ferred by. Mr. King, against Mr. H. the-21.trorney,
. was resumed by Mr: llcAp, :when -Mr. George
.Huff' attended, and proved that he knew Mr. John
.Horner, ()ft Copthall-court-buiidings3 that lie'
re-
Sided there from
.the` month of September, ffto7,
till the 24th of December; when he left London,
and went into the &jollity, in consequence. of bis
being,embarrassed. He stated, -1-iat he will
a „Manchester agent, and - accepted a . number of
bills ;
.he, frequently visited him at the warehouse
_in Copthall-court-buildings, and often saw him
write.3..and had,no doubt but the acceptance of thtt
,bill in dispute was, the writiag of the same Mr:
John Horner.,

The witness underwent a long and severe-cross=
examination, resp.k=•6ting his cuon-atioclance in the
moriling„ancl his connoai9o with John Honker.

Mr. ALLEY addressed. the Magistrates at some
levit on behalf of;Mr. H. and,sai4 .he was conti;•
dent he must be satistied'as to the bill being a debt,
John Horner having been und.,uhtedly pr(;ved to
reside or trahslet business at the place where the
bill purported to be. made payable at.
Mr. READ :observed, that the ide of the nen-
entity of Mr. Horner being done awq, he.should
discharge Mr. H. which was accordingly done. .

Coax, DEC. 2.—On Friday night last, in crime-
gnence of information received by 'Kingston Rollie,
Esq. SurVeyor of Excise—he, accompanied by Mess.
Francis H. Matthews, Williani and Charles Holton,
(the Officers of his Survey) proceeded to a Glen be,;-
tween the Dublin and Mallow roads; within' three
miles of this City, where they deleted a• private dist-
tillery, furnished with every necessary apparatus.
/competent for the process of ; horn thb
casks found in the doricern, it appeared as ii it was
frorri Molasses -titey Worked. This Still is, as we
understand, one of the largest private ones ever dew
tefled, its contents being about 2QO gallons, and not
what is generally termed a Pot, but a regular Cop-
per Still, and made on the most modern plati Too
much appli,u e cannot be htstowed do those gentle-
men fin- the persevering activity, -unwearied' atten-
tion, and fatiguing exeitions displayed by them on
thi4 occasion : they arrived at the distillery at eleven
o'clock on Friday night, and .did not sleep,,but were
constantly on the alert to arrest some, of the persons
employed in the workQJ but without etfetA,. though
every effiirt possible was made; and the did not re-
turn until twelve o'clock on Saturday, \rhea they
lodged in his Majesty's Excise Store, the still, the
backs, which•they were Oblii,Ted to break into staves,
some spirits, ground corn, &c.

A melancholy accident, too often the conscqnence
of indiscretion or ignorance, occurred in the fore-.
noon of rriday last, at a lime pit, belongi►►g to Mrs.
Slodden, in the Old Dover 'toad, near Canterbury.
Three servants of Mr. Fleet, of Tyler Hill, were
digging in the pit, when either from being under-
mined, or from being loosened by the late;l►eavy
rains, the chalk on a sudden gave_ way, and falling
on two of them, crushed one,. a young man of the
name 'of William Walker; waggoner's mate, 19
years of age, to instant death. The other, id the
name of Bedwell, although nearly buried in the frag-
ments, escaped with some severe contusiOns, and a
broken collar-bone; he was taken to the liens and
Canterburyllospital, and is in a state of convales-
cence. The Inquest of the Coroner, of course,
found a verdiet of Accidental Death on the body of
Walker.

The following accident occurred lately at Bide,
ford, Warwickshire,:--As a man, named Careless,
and his son, were taking a load of ragslo
ton Mills, owing to the darkness of the nigb.r, tiny
missed the road near the tOrmer place;: and, over-
turning the cart, they were both killed on the sp9t..
They were found the next morning, by some peovtel
who were going to work the shafts lying upon the.
man, and the boy with his head under ,a ,it
appeared that the youth lad struggled hard tor his
life, by the earth being kicked trom. • bznenth,
feet; but, unfortunately, he was. not- able to ey..7-1-
cate himself. An inquest anti Ir.tld on the it.i,jdioi
the next day. Verdiets-4ccidvita' Death.,

On Tuesday, the Lotter' Wheel goes sound :
who would adventure iior the greatest chance ever
known, Invii no titre to lose; after the first day it
may be to:) as the whole are to he drawn in
four days. Tv_kcti an, Shares arc on sale at
and Co.'s Offices, No.. tl, Poultry, No. 12, C;,ar-
ing-cross, and No. 31, Aldgate High-street.
Tuesday Next will be a great day of rejoicing. ; nt.
Nine o'clock in the morning the too begets. I,ef;t4
Tickets dancing round four Grandees of 20;00u:.
each, with their train of attendants, 10,tiou,.5teti)!.
ioool. 5001. 1001. bOl. &c. Ii will chdro,-
ing to have an engaging partner. TiLkets.atid Siiarcs„
entitling you to choose which yon itke, may !)t-
-had at No. 26, Coruhill, or Si.. '.`&ir.:;iirt's Hid.
Borough, the old established 5t4,..t
where—Prizes are pai-,1 in derrnit,-"tyit'e- :%.1:;;;
moiit obedient humLik

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Lil,ll/' REPORT:

COURT OF CHANCERY, Dr.c. 9

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Exrd...LOW.TIIER V. 7FIANtS Oti THE I.,.INEDAI.£

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ESTATES., •
this case a tiff' had-been.filed by- the Plaintiff;
arbirr4fihe paid by the
14fidtatItt.iont ht..8111-1-I:entlMatioti:on the Lordship of
-.'dn'''::iceoiAit of the :LOrd, who is now a
inin,w. The. tenants pled a customary -20 penny
altl6` ; nd the Master of the Bolls direded an issue
?iS'be slie'COuit of Common 'PleaS, for the
purrioue o determining the Customs of the Manor's,
'in' this respetq. The issue was' tried tried before Sir
JA7\M,i. MANSFIELD, Z3lld• the Jury gage a verdi&
.for Defendanis, thereby estahlishing they 20.
petiny 'fine— The Chief -Justice .who tried the case.
grartod his 'certificale, approving of. the veidiet of
the Jury. -The Pl.fintiti, LoWcver, afterwai.dS
moved fora new trial, on the ground that the verdo
kvaS Contiary 'to all •the evidenCe adduced. For
Though the tenants had succeeded in sheaving
nutnbc,:r of instances in which the'fiiies wertuhder
the proportion or twenty penny fines, these very
instances went to she4r.,' t [nit there was rib fixed cus-
-totoary rate. Besides—this, however, there was a
Deciee the- CoMit 'of Char., ty, in the year 1664,
which had not been. prodocid on the trial of• the
issue, which clearly;.proved the right• of exacting at)
arbitrary reasonable, fine. On- the part of the-De-
fendants, the propriety of granting .a new trial was
-hardly denit-d ;: but a was contended, that the same
ought to be 'wit Vcost s, partiCularly on account of the
.1664 Decree, which hadsnot been heard'-of when
,thelormer issue was tied.' '

t' :Mr. Selif'alit SHEPHERD, Sire ARY.fitrit PIGOT,'I
'and Mr; WETHERALL, this day objeCted to a 'new
Vial being granted unless on pavrrient aists.
Sir SAMUEL riolvitt,Ly, Mr. Tnomps6N;4Czc. con-
tended that the. Court could liCit,'COHSlstelltly with
the ilea of allowing the parties tO-g'o'to a new trial
on equal terms, give the costs of the former-issue
-against _ the Plaintiff. What .was this. but saying,
Ghat his Lordship •was -satisfied with the verdi& in
.the former case,. arid that it .was-nothing but the ad-
laitional evidence to be produced, which ought, on
the new trial; to weigh with" the. Jury On the
decree 1664, the Plaintiff, comparatively speaking, •
built little. was principally on the ground of the
verdict being contrary to all the evidence adduced,
that the new trial was demanded.-'
The Lorry CHANCELLOR did not hold the Dceree of
1664 as sufficiently conclusive of the clittam of the
manor to preclude farther inquiry. If 'the uew trial
demanded were td proceed -on the ground of this
Decree not having formally been. before the Jury, •
he should have
_been of opinion that ,costs ought to
folio r. This,was not the case.37and he thought it .
better, being satisfied that tl)e merits had never:Pro- !
perly beep before the Jury, at least never in the way
elaidate4. S. ItoiLLY, that a new trial 4tould
b 4 granted,. the question of costs, as was frequent
in ti,e practice of that Court.,-being reserved till it
should be seen how the case should terminate: His
Lordship observed,, that *Fee, different issues had ;
been tried before pronouncing the Decree in the •
year. 1664, the last of which was a trial at. bar. He
should leave it kr the Court of Law to. say., whether
a trial at
_Bar should not also take place in the present
instance. •