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1T TELLI GEN CE:.

courr OF CHANCERY, FEB. 15.

THE OPERA HOUSE-DAVISON V. WATERS.

•
Mr. RICHARDS, , supported' by Mr. Joints()
moved for an order to postpone the sale of th e
Opera-house; now 'under two decrees for sale, the:
one pronounced lately-by the LORD CHANCELLOR,
and the other hy,Bis noNouß, in May laSt.
Sir.SAmuat Rommuir and Mr. ALLEN opposed
the motion as unfounded", imputing to Mr. Wa-
ters a litigation for years with Mr. Tabylor, as if
a race' for the man igemeut of the Theatre, and
also delays in his examinations, and a refusal to
produce his papers before the Master, on the re-
ference, &c. _ _ _

His lb Novß observed, that no ground was laid
to delay the creditor in this case, anti"refused the
motion.

COURT OF KING's BENCH,, FEB. L.

Lord ELLENBOROU6II commenced the London
SittingS this,tilorning. Ilis,.,Lordsliip, however,
did not sit but until two o'clock, and two causes,
neither of which had auy interest, occupied the
whole morning.
The indictment at the instance of Lady Perceval
against Mr. Mittord, for perjury, was expected to
be tried ; but owing to the time occupied by the
causes above stated, it did not come on. it now
stands postponed to the adjmirned Sittings, which
will commence the latter end of next week.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 15.

WARE V. LEVI.

This was an action brought by a coasting Cap-
tain, against a Jewish buttoninaker, to recover
601. 13s. The facts were these,: the defendant
had offered to the plaintiff 536 gross,oC buttons, at
2s. 3d. per gross, which he pursuaded. him would
be disposed of to great advantage, at Polkstone,
lithe, and other places, to which the plaintiff was
in the habit of trading. The plaintiff accordingly
took them, on the condition that it he could not
sell them lie 'should return them, 'and be allowed
interest for the money which he should advance.
He accordingly paid 101. in cash, and accepted
three bills, amounting to 501. 13s. When he car,
tied the buttons to Folkstone, and offered them
for sale, he was 'laughed at for exposing such
trash. On his return he demanded his money
front the Jew, who told the messenger that ,the
Plaintiff was a stupid fool, but that he' would take
hack the buttons if he would take some clothes in
excliange. • -

erjeant VAtinnAN, for the_defendant, de-
scanted on the surprising cheapness- of the but-
tons., and the ieuprobability of the condition said
to have been annexed to the talc.

The ,indge, however, directed the Jury to find
a verdict for Oa' plaintiff, which they accordingly
returned, 601.

CLERKI,44NWELL SESSIONS.

Yesterday William'Ro4ers, George New, Richard
Monday, Inn., and his father, Thomas Adams, and
another man, were indicted for an assault upon
Mrs. O'Brien, of Si. Martip's-lane, on the Ist of
Novetilber last, in levying a distress.,
Mrs. O'Brien being called and .sworn; said, she
was wife to Charles O'Brien. On the Ist of NO-
vember last, Monday the elder, together with his
son, awl a broker named Frick, came to her house
about h elf past eight in the morning. They moved
the goods from the part of the house occupied by
her to a parlour in the same house, AmOng the
goods taken away by' them, there was a cage, in
which she kept a bird. She requested of Hr.
Monday to lend her the. cage. He replied, that he
would see her d--r—d first, and that he would be
very crooked with her for the rest of the day.—
In the afternoon they came again, with some
other men. Her husband was not at home, but
she had her four children with her. On hearing
that they were come, she locked herself in. She
had nothing in the room but a truss of straw, up-
on which she sat. The elder Monday knocked at
the doOr, and said he would break it;•if she - did
not open it immediately On the door being
opened, he came 'in, together ‘yith his son,
and threatened to take. her (laughter, a girl
of twelve years old, to Bow-street, charging
her with having taken an old pair of booth,
part o}' the goods 'upon which the distress was
vied. They then laid hold of the girl, and dragged
her down two pair of stairs.. Witness then sat 'on
tire bundle of straw that was in the room, and her
daughter ran and clung round her. They swore.
vehemently that they worild pull the girl oil the .
premises. Rogers, one of the prisoners, together
with Thomas Adams, a carpenter, came up, and •
began to take out the sashes of the windows. She
told them she had no fire, and that it was hard to:
expose her to the cold at such a time of the year. -
They also took the door.offi the hinges. ,They then
took away the door and windows.
When the ~vitness came to this part of her evi-
dence, Mr. GURNEY Said that the. business would'
be very tedious, as there were a number of wit-
nesses to be examined ; it would be better there-
fore to refer it to a private hearing.
Mr. BARRY; •.on the part of the plaintiff, can-
-seated, and the -business Wris referred for settle-
ment to Mr. SHUTTLRWORTII.

Thomas Cribb. the Champion of England, was
indicted for an assault upon Thomas Parbery. The.
charge' ‘`vas.hanging over him from September
last,-but as the -prosecutor was not forthcoming,
he was acquitted for want of evidence. The Court
will not sit again until Friday.

Early on Sunday, morning last,• some thieves
entered the premises of the Earl of CUICHESTER,
at Summer, and • stole 'therefrom several geese,
ducks,• guinea-fowls, &c. belonging to iris Lord-
ship.
Mr. CormAN, of Great Ellingham.) lost on the
6th ult. •two sheep', . which he supposed were:bu-
ried in the snow. After a fruitleSS attempt he
gave them up for lost ; to his great surprize, how-
ever, on Wednesday last, he discovered them alive
in a hollow, where they had been buried.
Last week a four-tooth ewe, the •property of.
'Mr. Snow, of Littleton, near Winchester, pro-.
ducect five lambs. •