The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH h
PROTHEROE V. FROST.
This was an action to recover damages for an alleged libel.
—Damages laid at 5,0001.
Mr. PULLER opened the case for the plaintiff. The parties,
be said, were neighbours, residents of Newport, Monmouth-
shire. The plaintiff was a Banker, an Under•sheriff, and an
Attorney; the defendant a shopkeeper. The latter, in the
shape of a letter, bad written a libel on the former, charging
him with subornation of perjury, with packing a Jury, and
with ruining by extortion the brother of the defendant. The
defendant had not only attempted to destroy the professional
pursuits of his client, but he had also stolen into his fa-
mily, and, in the hearts of his wife and children, scattered
seeds of iuspicion and dislike. The Learned Counsel haring
read several passages from the alleged libel, trusted that the
Jury, thong!) strangers to the plaintiff, yet knowing the value
of character, would award to his client damages sufficient to
compensate the injury he had sustained.
The publication was proved by witnesses for the plaintiff.
The defendant called no witnesses.
Mr. DENMAN addressed the Jury for the defence.
The case, under the direction of his Lordship, went to the
Jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1,0001.

OLD BAILEY, MARCH 1.
COMMITTAL OF THREE PERSONS FOR PRRJURY

r David Solomons, a Jew, stood indicted for assaulting, on
the King's highway, a person named Atwood, and taking
from his person a piece of ribbon, a seal, key, and ring, which
were appended to the watch of the prosecutor, on the Ist of
February, in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, in the
middle of the day. The case against the prisoner was fully
proved by the witnesses called tu,.support the prosecution.
The prisoner, in his defence, called three persons, the one
a Jew, advanced in years, and two women; one of whom
swore positively that the prisoner was in his company at the
time the robbery was committed, a distance of half a mile
from the spot. The two women swore positively that the
prisoner was not the man who committed the robbery. Se-
veral persons gave the prisoner an excellent character.
The COMMON SERJEANT summed up the evidence, and the
Jury immediately found the prisoner. Guilty.
The COMMON SERJEANT ordered the three witnesses for
the prisoner to be taken into custody, which being done, he
committed them to Newgate for gross and corrupt perjury.
The prisoner was then called up forjudgment, and sentenced
to be transported for life.
On leaving the bar the prisoner said, " You -, I hope,
as you have given me judgment, you'll get the same." •

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION,
The London Jury having been sworn in, the following 'per-
sons were brought up, cis.--R'illiarn Holmes, lrilhayi
Vanphlew, Bentley, and the man whose name is un-
known, for the purpose of pleading to the indictment pre-
ferred against them by the above Society, for the publication
'of Carlile's works. They pleaded nut Guilty, and
Vanphlew was then put to the liar, on an indict-
ment charging him with publishing in a, certain_ pamphlet,
called The Republican, certain libels to the number of nine
or ten.

Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prosecution, addressed the Jury,
and stated the nature of the offensive publicationi.
The prisoner, when 'called on for his defence,'Commenced
by reading from a book of considerable size; he entreated
the Jury to interfere between him and his prosecutors, who,
he said, dared net show their own faces, bnt had thrust forth
Messrs. Sharp, Murray,' and Co. to carry on their sanctimo-
nious proceedings against opiniOns which they dared not con-
tend with in an open and manly manner.
The COMMON SEEYEANT.—Defehdant, have you any wit-
nesses to prove any thing against the persons you hare men-
tioned, because, if you have not, you must not be suffered
to traduce the character of persous who do not appear in
this cause.

•
Defendant.—They are my prosecutors, my Lord, or at
least they are employed by them.
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and it is not fur
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you to take advantage of the privilege of defence, to drag the
names of persons before the COurt who have no connexion
withltbe case, so far as it appears:
After consulting for a short time, the Jury examined the
pamphlet, and the Foreman asked if it, was competent to find
a verdict on any of the separate; counts, and 'whether that
would be the same as finding a general verdict.
Thu COMMON SERJEANT said, the first count contained the
whole of the passages selected, 3:ld the ether counts those
passages disjunctively.
Mr. Anot:en us said, if the Jury found the prisoner guilty
on any of the counts, the Jury would,frame their verdict ac-
cordingly.
The Jury retired at twenty minutes to one o'clock, and, on
their return, at five minutes to one.o'clock,.returried a verdict,
...
of Guilty.
The Prisoner was then sentenced to be 'imprisoned in that
part of the Giltspnr-,street Compter, called the House of Cor-
rection, for two years, and to enter into 'a recognizance for
life, himself in 5001., and to be further imprisoned until such
recognizance be entered into.

A shocking accident occurred at Norton Mills,
near. Taunton, on Friday last. A little child,
seven years of age, the nephew of the proprietor,
Mr. Tremlett, accidentally fell into the mill
stream, and, by the rapidity of the current, was
forced under the water wheel. The screams of
the little sufferer attracted the attention of the
person in charge, of the mill, and it was imme-
diately stopped, and the unfortunate child was
found in the cog pit, in a state too shocking for
description, half its body having been crushed in
its passage under the wheel: notwithstanding
this, it lived in the greatest agony for half an
hour, when death put an end to his sufferings.—
Bath Herald.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, March 1.
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Hamburg!'
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Ditto
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Madrid
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Bilboa 36f Effective
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Dublin .... 9i ... 4..... Cork 9i pet Cent.s

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BULLION..

Portugal Gold, in Coin • 1.0 0 0 pct Oz.
Foreign Gold, in Bars
,„. 3 17 10
New Doubloons . •. 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 A Di
Silver in Bars, Standard 0 411 •

COAL-MARKET, ZiARCii 1.
Ships at Mfiaket. Ships sold
1.06 Newcastle - 63
27 Sunderland -

Price.
28s Gd to 40s Oa.
32s Ott to 40s 9d

BIRTH.
On the 27th of February, at Woodcote, Hants, the Ladyof
Charles Calmady, Esq. of a daughter.

ITIIAR IED. •On Tuesday last, at *..George's Bloomsbury, the Rev.
Thomas Hyde Ripley, Vicar of
.Wootton. Bassett, Wilts, to
Caroline Augusta, daughter of G. B. Tyndale, Esq. of Lin-
coln's.mn-fields.
At Ifussingabad, on the 31st of May, 1821, Captain John
Holt White, of the Ist Regiment Bengll Light Cavalry, to
Mary, second daughter of John Satterthwatte, Esq. late of
Blackheath.

DIED. •
Yesterday, in Wood-street, Cheapside, Sarah, the wife of
Mr. Mathew Willett.
On the 23d of December, at. Barbadoes, in the 20th year of
his age, very much regretted, 11. J. Loraine, Esq. brother to
Sir Charles. Loraine, Bart. of Kirkharle, Northumberland,
and Ensign in the 4th Regiment. His remains were interred
the following evening in -St. Michael's Church, with military
honours.

On Thursday evening, Mrs. Catherall, wife of Mr. Catherall,
of Pall-mall.

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