The Sun.
London, England, 1809-05-31 00:00:00

COURT" KlNC's BENCH, MAY 24.

110VSE OF 11:4174.9.

COWAN I% MAMMY. .
Mr. GO ROW Stated this to be a qui tam a6lion, . . TUESDAY, aAlr 30.
e:; The House in a Committee of Privileges bad untie
tcprecover penalties to the amount of 401. under the ;
statute of Elizabeth (the .sth Elie. c. 4, seol. 3 t .). - 6,nyersatietyesperSting the fixing of a day for the
further consideration of the Itoxburgli Pei erage, but
which prohibited any smith, mason, carpenter, #s.:c.
, no day.was.positively fixed.
or any other trade therein specified, from employiog
A number of Public wild private Bills were brought
any person as journeyman who had not served e -
upiti.loensi
atiletenCf,oomtlimcoersis
Banildi read aa 'nfiinrsnt_tinithen),
and
regular apprenticeship to such trade, under ayenalry
of 40s• for each offence. This Act of Parliament was
those who. after it was reads first time, 5 passed for the purpose •of proteating
Lord LIVERPOOL.OhSer*CIi that he should move the
had teken, the trouble of, acquiring knowledge
_ second reading of the Bill, ca. Tir in sday next, and,that
through- the ordinary mode of acquiring it, hy ap-
if the discpssion was not. Protraeled to 'a late hour,
prenticeship, against those who might • set up
without such- skill, and without 'having taken lie should propose that the Bill tie committed on the
.ue
•
g . •
the ordinary pains yto acquire it. The defendant
sat
r daY. . .
,was an eminent coachmaker, and employed many he Second reading of Most of the other B w
ills as
•
hands in the various branches of which coach-
also fixed tor Friday.
. ,making consisted; among the rest several black- Mr: CHARMILLY. . . .
smiths, who had 'not served a regular appren- Lord SUFFOLK rose to make seine observations on
ticeship, and therefore he bad inecried these pe- the conclutt and chargter of Colortel Charmilly, par-
' nalties in the instances in which he had employ- ticularly as they were exhibited- dering the late,
e'd such men. , But what was curious was, Mr. • campaign in Spain. He could not but feel as a pro-
Moberly had gone the cheapest way to work in fessional man, _for the honour of a soldier, and he
the defence of ibis cause ; be had not retained any' therefore thought it incumbent upon him to submit
counsel ; well knowing that my Lord Chief Justice i a- proposition revealing bite- to their "Lordships. He
would 'watch the Plaintiff's ease, and see that it was going into the country, but 'he expected to re-
was proved with more correctness than any gentle- return the beginningolthe ensuing NL‘.eel;, and -would.
man at timber could do. . make his motion most probably OliThal sdayse anight.
It then appeared in evidence, that the defend- MESSAGE.
ant employed ten, or a 'doien smiths, some of • Lord Liverivooe brought down a Message from
whom, bad not fierve.d an apprenticeship, but not Lis Majesty, eimilar to• that delivered in the Cm o-
trade less than seven but
that any of 'them had 'previoubly worked at the
MOOti Son Friday se'night, respetling-the inadequacy years) s that none of them of the ACI of aileen A'niie, fur the Mairitenarice of
were employed purely air snqilt's work, but wereen- the Poor Clergy. The Message stated, that the Main-
gaged in the mixed and compound character of coach- tenance belonging to the Clergy iii divers parts of the
it:liking, and used to do only that part of smith's •
work_ which belonged to coachtuakitig upon which, kingdom was still mean and insufficient ; and that
it the House of Lords can find any proper. method
Lerdteiestuokoucti observed to the Jury, that to enable his Majeity to accelerateoperation
if they were -of opinion that the' Defendant had 1 said Act,
it
toe
great advantage to the
employed these smiths, or had employed carpen- I public, and very acceikable to his Majesty. tern, wheelwrights, painters, ur those of any other .
the Earl of Livettrooe then moved that his Ma-
trade, in his campuand busines of coachniaking, jesty's MOM gracious Alessage be taken into consi
and not in the riMple trade:itself of blacksmith, car-
derat ion onTitursday next. •
penter, Sec, he could not be said to have incurred . The Bills on the table
.were then forwarded in
'the penalty of this A&., 'even if he had employ-
their repective stages, and the House adjourned
ed 50 . men who had not served an apprentice., . ship. ' rt would be bard indeed if 'he were liable, in till to-morrow.
Such a case, be'cause
,it would thesi follow that any
man 'who undertook to build a bridge must be lias
ble foi these penalties in every, 'instance in which
there happened to be employed either. mason, , car-
penter, or smith, who had not served his appren-
ticeship ; and many of each of these trades must
be. employed in that undertaking. The statute
of Elizabeth meant that the penalty should at-
tach only where
.such persons were, employed is
any one of these tredes., simply; and uncOn-
'fleeted, not as they were here, es mere parts of a
eompouod of trades, to produce something from
them all, such as a coach was, If the Jury were of
that opinion, they would find a vettlita kr the De.
lendant.-IVerdia for Defendant.

MOUSE OP COMMONS.

TURSDAY, MAY O.

The Windsor Forest Bill went through a Corn-
mitteeithe report of which was ordered to be re-
ceived to-morrow.

The Ship Owners' Bill was read a third time, and
passed.

Mr. JP.K.NiI. presented a Petition hom four persons
imprisoned in the King Bend) tin• debts exceeding
13001.---Ordet•ed to lie on the table.

Mr. BAYNES presented an Account of the sa-
laries, Six. of variotis Officers of the: Naval Asylum.
On the motion of Sir C. l'uLu this account was order-
edto be printed..

A disagreeable circumstance took place on Mon-
! day night at Mrs. Eoaarotes, in Grafton-street.
This Lady gave a ball and-supper, and several, hun-
dred guests were assembled. A Gentleman with a
black mask on attempted, about one o'clock, to ob-
tain admittitice, and it was with some ditfictily that
the phalank of servants prevented him. He was at
length torced•aWay, after having lost the* greatest
part of his coat in the contest, lie was supposed to
be under the influence of Bacchus.
The benefit:Of Mr. GLASSINGTOti, the Prompter
'of the Covent-Garden CJnipany, was very well at-
tended last night at the Haymarket, Theatre. • The
play, was Pizarro, and Mrs. POWELL, of the Drury-
Lane Company, came forward as Elvira, which she'
perfoimed with great ability.. In the interlude of
Personation Mrs, C. KESIBLE and BiIUNTON highly
amused the audience. The whole of tl4 Performers
indeed seemed disposed to exert themselves zealously
in favour of the respectable individual who was to
profit by the night.
Mrs. Bzsuor, Into Miss Lyorq, retires from the
Stage at the end of the present wason,,and will sing
only at enneem.

Mr. PRNDERGHAST gave notice, that on Tilesda.k.
next he wonld move for Papery conne6ied with the
trade of India.

Mr. 5.41111 presented 'certain Accounts: from
Greenwich Hospital.--Ordered to lie' on the. table.
Alderman CONIER presented a Petition horn cer-
tain Booksellers &c. pray;ng for is
repeal'of c,.rtaiti Clauses in An eistitig Act against
obs,...cne and seditious Publications.--Otsdeted to lie
on the table

The. further consideration of the Report of the
Charitable Donation Bill„waS postponed ro Thursday.
The Conitnittee on the Irish Militia Bill was post-
poned to Thursday. •
The third reading of the Gas Light Bill was post-'
poned to Friday. • .
Mr. H. mo wrGoll ER Y put a question relative to
the Native Forces in India ; but in so low a tone of
voice that we could not collect his meaning.'
Mr. Duwims, in reply, observed, that tf
he had no official information on the subjett, be
could not doubt that the fad• stated by the Finn.
Gentleman was trite.
After a short conversation between Sir T. Turton
and the Chancellor. of the Itxchequer, the InSolverat
Debtor's Rdl was read a second titne;and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.

The plan in embryo-for the re-erenion of Dtr
)an© Theatre, is,said to 'be by a Lottery, to raise
:00,0001. the Tickets to be guineas each, and the.
Prizes to be, personal and transferable admissioits,
for 'United peitods.
The. dispute between the Proprietors. of Covent
Garden Theatre; andlinDunu the Publican claiming
,possession for eleven years of the acite.of a.pieceof
ground enclosed within the wails, and. under 'the
roof of the new Theatre, was yesterday finally ad-
justed by the payment of 5,000 guineas for the
Publican's interest therein. The.case was briefly
this :-t-Nfr. Harris purchased of Messrs. 'Clowes,
aAel Maddox the lease of the. public house situate oa
the disputed 'ground, on a Alinement that the occu-
pier was only a tenant at will. it cattle out howe-
ver after the public bowie was pulled down, and the
ground included within the works of the newTheat re,
that the tenant had a valid agreement tbr a lease, of
which eleven years were unexpired; the consequence
was,, that the Proprietdrs were no sooner convinced
of the plaintiff's right in equity, than, with their
usual libesahty, they made him ample compensa-
tion by the payment of
.the .sum above stated.--
Messrs. Clothes rind Maddox having guaranteed to
the Proprietors the legal possession of the'house and
ground, under the penalty of 10001. will of course
be called upon, at. least, for this share of contribu,
tion towards Mr. Dnun's

A Message from the Lords announced their Lxtrd-.
ships' assent to the Smualing Prevention Bill, the
Printers' Indemnity •13111,. the Africau Trade Bill, the
Bastardy Bill, &c.•
Mr. iloaNait postponed the ,notice of his Hon..
Friend (St-r S. Romilly) till to-moi,ow,
Mr. SHAW Laravaa prelerittid a Petition from
certain Innkeepers of Gillingham, Chatham,. &c.
praying for an increase of the rates of allowance for
soldiers quartered on them.
Mi. FULLEtt stated thafin the county of Sussex,
thegrievance complained ofin thi. Petition from Gil-
lingham, Chatham, Ste. was very seriously felt.
The SECARTARY at WAR observed shut certain
measures were in contemplation by'Governinent, to
give such relief as the.circurnstances called for,

Sir I.'I,,,KNATCtiIItILL &dated, that 110 description
.of resons in the county of Kent suffered mule than
`the Innkeepers.
Mr. C.,DotiDAi .concurred in the statenwitt O( the
oppression under which ionkerptrs ac pFesent
la-
bourecl, the more especially on amnia of the Lo-
cal Militia,

After a few words from Sir Thomas Turtort, Mr.
G. :Rose, and Mr. Sumner, the Petition • was read
and ordered to lie on the table ; Mr. Shaw Lefevre
expressing his.satWatlion that it was intended by
Government to apply a remedy to the evil complain..
ed of, and trusting that•the remedy would be an effi-
cient one:

Some of the Papers have given an account of a
horse having bee a ridden in five hours from London to
Brighton, and they add, that the owner of the horse
has offered a wager that ho shall do it in a much
shorter time.---We trust that this siatement is un-
founded, and shall behappy to have the authority of
thO Gentleman whose name has been mentioned,
to contradict it.

The Judges Bill went through a Committee.—The
report was ordered -to be received fa-morrow.

The Committee of the Friendly Societies Bill was
postponed till to-morrow.

A method lids been recently devised for- fat.
teeing Cattle with Sugar-cakes, instead of Oil-rakes.
The nutritious properties of Sugar are well known,
and Oil-cakes are thOught to make the flesh -same..
'what rank.—Mr. 1:41..an the-member for Sussex,
in allasion to the new plan observed, with his usual
whimsical humour, 'that in a "short tune it would tru
-doubt, be the thshion to swoteu 'our tea with a
of beef .

Sir T. Tuktirox seeing an Hon: Gentleman in the
dire lion of the-East India Conipany in his place,
wishedio ask Whether the Court of Directors had
'taken any step with regard to the recal Of those un-
Settunate persons who had-fallen under their digplea-
sure by having obtained situations iu India by un.
due nteans.

Mr. Mugs (3s •wa understood him) replied, that
no definiiive r:svlution bad been aaopte‘i on the sub-
jed,