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London, England, 1809-12-13 00:00:00

'LAW REFORT

ARCHES COURT JO' CAN ERBURY, i)deTORS

COMMONS, MONDAY, PLC. U.

RGDBARD AGAINST rnicE,-PALSEtrc, CALLING IfER

'SELF RODBARD.

This was a Cause.of nullity of martiage,.promdteci
,
by John Rodbardi Esq. against Sarah Rodhard, hit
wife, by reason of a,foriner•ruarriage.
It was clearly establiihed in this case, by exhibits
and witnesses produced', that—Ore. husband of the
first marriage was living at rhe time the second.
marriage was solemnized, and therefore the Court
pronounced the same marriage null and void.

RIEMPE AGAINST THE REV. MR.,\VICKS.

This was a suit promoted by a Mr. Kempe, of,
Calvinistical Independence, against the Rev. Mr.
Wicks, Reetor of a parish in Somersetshire, for re,
fusing to bury a child belonging to two parkhioners,
on the ground of the child having been baptised by a
Dissenting Minister.
It was contended on the part of the Rev. Mr.
Wicks, that the administering of this Sacrament
must be performed by a lawful Minister of the Es.
tablished Church of England, otherwise such bap--
tism was to he'considered as null and void, both bY
the ancient and modern Rubries, Canon Law, and
various other authorities, quoted by the Learned
Civilians on the subject. . •
, The Court (Sir JOHN NICHOLL) after. bearing,
!•he CoUnsel on behalf of the Prosecutor of the suit)
who- very ingeniously contended to the contrary
effetc,i, waS tit opinion (after entering at considerable
length into thu yatious authorities upon the point ,in
question), that the Rev. M. Wicks had mistaken
the law, that it was his duty to have performed the
ceremony, arid therefore admitted the artiCics,rt the
same time recommending, as this—suit %,v-is not
brought by Mr. Kertspe through any vindictive s.pie.
rit, but only tor the purpose of determining the
right, and setting the question at rest, that he would
be satisfied with eorreaing the error,
_and establish._
Mg the right) without proceeding any farther in the.
cause.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 12.

EDINSON V. PARKER.

This was an action to recover damage; for false
imprisonment. The Defendant is a housekeeper, re-
siding in Queen-street, Cheapside, and the Plaintiff'
lived -with him as servant.--4t aepeared, from the
evidence on the part of the Plaintiff, that she lived
in' the' family of the Defendant nearly two years,
during which time she had conducted herself
with credit to herself, and to the satistaetior) of
her employer, till within
_the last few months,
when her master went to roside a short time at
Croydon, and having a good' opinion of the Plain-
' tiff, he . left her in charge of his town-house. On '
his return from Croydon, some articles of house!,
hold, linen, which had Linen consigned to the care of
the Plaintiff; were missing; and as she could not
give any.satisfaCtory account of the disposal, suspi-
cions. arose in the mind of the Defendant, who CQM- •
rnenced a search thrOughout the house, and on exa-
mining the locks of the different places of security,
and that of his iron chest, he discovered, from the
evident marks of violence on them, that some at-
tempts had been made to force them open. This
circumstance, added to the saspicions which had
previously
,arisen in his tniod,. at once induced him
to :suspeCt the Plaintiff of dishonest practices ; and,
after some hesitatiOn, he sent for an Officer to take
her into custody, and 'convey ' her before the
Lord Mayor, in or4er to undergo a legal scru-
tiny. She was conducted to the Poultry Comp-
ter on • the Friday afternoon by, desire of the
defendant, and.wasitaten before-the Lord Mayor On
the Saturday,: who having ::made -some inquiries
into the 'circumstances 04, the case,
_remanded her
tor a ft?rtherexantii atron on the Monday following* ,
In the interim ,her 'bakes and person were searched,
but nothing was found which could fora :a.ground
for reasonable accusation. And on 'the ilelon•
day, after a further inquiry into the case; before
the Lord Mayor, she was discharged, In a short
time afterwards the property which had been lost
was, found, and the plaintiff was completely extril-
tinted from any charge of dishonesty'. „.
The defendant simply put in Islca 'of not guilty ;
but ;as it did not atrathYf `that any felony had been
committed, and :thee there was "cansequently no
grodnd for the anprhenSion of the Plaintiff, the
Jury, after a short conversation, returned a verdict
-for the Plaintiff—Damages 20i. Costs 40S.

We have been favoured with a letter from Bom-
bay, sent ou.board the Castlereagh, on the day she'
sailed, containing the following advice from Colonel
Wolker's 'detachment, employed in the Catawar
country:
-" On the 7th July; we took the Fort of Malan by
storm, the• garrison of which plate made. a spirited
resistance. Captains Wilkinson and McKenzie, of
the Bombay regiment, -we have just committed to
theearth ; they havedied,of violent exertion and
excessive heat during the storm, Mr. Cheyne is
wounded, we fear mortally; and Percy shot through
the arm; as also Capt. Anion, of the 65th; Lieut.
Brown, and another officer, wounded : oc loss is
between 70 and so, chiefly Europeans."
An old woman, who for some years lived a half
starved life, lately. died at her lodgings in Duke's-
court, Westminster,.where,after, her decease, there
were found in an. earthen' pot fifty guineas in gold,
,301. in silver, and a quantity of old halfpence.

CORN-EXCHAtiGE, DEC. 13.—There are several
.fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day, and Considerable re-:
mining supplies, part thereof foreign; sales ,of se-
cond and ordinary are heavily ntade at rather lower
prices, some prime Dantzic .exceeds the currency;
Bailey and Malt in short supply, and full as-dear ;
White Pease, likewise; Tick Beans ate • elteh)er ;
there are short supplies of Oats, but from the ex-
peded arrivals this trade is scarcely quoted 'dearer ;
Flour at late prices, fine AfEICI lean wholesale 58s. to
635. per barrel. •

Wheat -76 s a gos a ion Tickfleans (old) 50$ a 559,
Pine ditto - ti•ss a las Oats - Ai a 3os a 3.0
Rye - sos a S4i POtand ditto -36 s a 39s
Barley 5:,s 3 sos I Potatoe ditto - 4ts a—a
halt - . 7Ss a b6sl Rape Seed - 4ti a 53i
White Pease Los a 88s Fine flour , acs a 93 s
Grey ditto -54 s a 60S SC00111; Vss a you
Beams (old) boy a 66s