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London, England, 1814-02-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COLLEGE, HERTFORD.

The report of the Committee of College, (lated
17th Dec. 1813, to the Court of Dirpetors, of the
examination of the students at the -conclusion Of
the s_ccond term 1813, is as follows :-41-1 con-
formity with the notice given to the Court. by the
Chairman on the 2Gth ult. the CoMmittee yester-
day proceeded to the East India. Colrege, to ht-
tend the result of the exmninaill'm for this tern') ;
and to present the Prizes awarded by the College
Connell, as the reward of merit; to those stu-
dents whose pre-eminent attainments had
_en-
titled. them to thew honourable marks of dis-
tinction. -

The Committee, upon.their arrival at the, Col-.
lege, proceeded to the hall, accompanied by the
College Council, and proper Officers ; when Mr.
Maddock, one of the senior students, read an
essay in English, of his own composition, on the
reign and chara:7tcr of Elizabeth, in' which that
gentleman displayed talents and acquirements Of a
superior description,. which obtained for him the
decided commendation of the Committee.

Reading and construing in the Sanscrit, Ben -
galee, Persian, and Hindoostanee Lingua:4es then
followed, in wide') the several students exhibited a
proficiency in oriental learning highly credit,i.hle
to themselves,, and xery gratifying to the Commit-
tee. The respective lists accompanying this re-
port,'Sbewing the attainments of the students in
the various branches of learning taught in the
College, were 'laid before the Committee ; as
were 1140 specimens of drawing and of oriental

writing.
The Committte have great satisfaction in re-
,.
re-
porting to the Court, that the general result of the
present examination has been very satisfactory to
them, reflecting equal credit upon the Students
and their Instructors. -Prizes were then present-
ed to the Students by the Chairman.

MURDER.---'A barbarous murder was committed
on Monday evening at a- village called Newton,
near Fenny Stratford, -in Buckinghamshire, on the
- body of Mr. Varney, an. aged Man, who kept a
Chandler's shop in that village. It appears that
he was robbed; and atterWards most inhumanely
murdered.- A Bow-street officer was yesterday
dispatched in pursuit of the perpetrators. .
Wednesday se'nuight, the 81st regiment, after
beingon• board the transports for nearly six weeks,
were lauded at Helvoctsluys ; and it is an extra-
ordinary fact,• that, at the time this regiment was
disembarking, a transport lay on the opposite side
_of the rover, on board of which were detachments
Of the reginients of Frankfort and Nassau, that
were, opposed to the Slot itt nada,

LAW I'STEL LI G ENTc.

COURTPO'KINO's BENCH, FE-13. 28.

rzitiurcv.—THE KING V. PVESCOTT.

Air. Ct swoon stated, that this' was an
meat against the-defendant for Perjury, hi swri.ai--
hig that certain land 'was not,foymerly Oat of the
waste of Clapham Common.

111 r, GURNEY then stated the ease, the outlines
of which areas follow iirosecutor, Doctor'
Edwards, a Omitleman of eminence in the 'Civil
„Law Courts,
,had, in the month of May, 1811,
agreed to.purebase of the defendant a house and
•grouuds on Clapham Common, which formerly be-.
longed .to Lord Teignmouth, and which after-
wards came •to the defendant by purchase.—
This agreement was . completed, and the pre-
mises conveyed to Doctr,r Edwards in the month
of July following, Soon afterwards the Doc-
tor discovered that the ground on which his
coaCh-hoose and stables were•built, was formerly
inc2.osed from the waste, and that he had no good
title to them, but was. liable to be ousted by the
Lord of the Manor. Upon this 'he applied to the
defendant to rescind the Contract; and restore him
his purchase money, but the defendant refused to
do this, and Doctor Edwards was obliged to file
his Bill in Chancery for relief. The defendant
pot in his answer to this Bill, and swore that the
ground in question, to the best of his knowledge
and belief, never constitutedi part of the waste ;
and noon this answer the per was assigned.
The Learned Counsel then stated the circumstances
and evidence by which he proposed to prove that
the place in question was formerly part• of the
common, and that the defendant well knew
it. It was first inclosed in the year 1781, by
Mr. Thornton, the present Member for Sur-
rey, with ' a slight paling, afterwards it was
inclosed with a -dwarf-wall - and open paling,
and planted with shrubs; then it was sold to
Lord- Teignmouth, and by hint to the Present de-
fendant with others, and they divided the placie
into two parts, and built the coach...by:lse and
&Wiles previoa-; to, the sale to the present prose-
cutor. The Learned Counsel als6 stated a va-
riety of others, to shew a *knowledge of the fact
of the inclosure in the present defendant. Upon
the production however of the' defendant's an-
swer, it appeared' that. he had sworn that the
coach only, and not the couch-house„had not Teen
built on the waste, and on this defect the defen-
dant was acquitted. ,
•

SPENCE AND IVIIE V. BIGGS.

This
_was' an action for an assault upon the
phs.intiff's -wife, by an'Attorney'S .clerk 3 and, it
was proved that the defendant ci,nsiderably bruis-
ed the wife with a mahogany post, ‘v.ioeit. was an
object of contention.
,The Jury gave the plaintiff
501.