The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-10 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, THURSDAY, MAY 9.
DRAMATIC COPYRIGIIT.--MURRAY V. ELLISTON.

The Court of King's Bench have certified their opinion that
an action cannot be maintained by the plaintifragamst the de-
fendant, for the representation of Lord Byron 's tragedy of
" the Doge of Venice," at Drury-lane Theatre.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 9.

THE KING V. WORTHINGTON AND ANOTHER.
These defendants, Worthington and Hall, were convicted at
the last Kent Assizes, before Mr. Baron Graham, of a gross
outrage on the persons of two men named Payne and Smith, !it
Deal, in the autumn of last year, by taking an active_part. In
tarring and feathering the prosecutors, and otherwise ill using
them, under a supposition that they had given information to
the Customs respecting some smuggling transactions, in which
the defendants were alleged to have been concerned.
Mr. ADOLPHus spoke in mitigation, and the SOLICITOR'
GENERAt. in aggravation of punishment.
The COURT, under all the circumstances of the case, sen-
tenced IVOrtbington to two years, and Hall to eighteen months
itnprhonment in Maidstone gaol, and both to pay a fine each of
501., and respectively to enter into security to be of good beha-
viour for five years, themselves in 1001. each, and two sureties
in 501. each, severally and respectively.

THE " JOHN BULL" NEWSPAPER.
Mr. CO:SIMON SERGEANT (Denman) moved for the judg.
ment of the Court on the well-known defendants, 'Weaver/
Shackell, and Arrowsmith, for several libels published u the
John Bull on her late Majesty.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE intimated, that it would not
be desirable to take the case in the absence of one of the Judge*
(Mr. Justice Holroyd), who had left the Court to sit at Cham-
bers.
Mr. COMMON SERGEANT afterwards applied to the Court
to fix a day for bringing up the defendants, as the Counsel be-
hind the Bar rarely had an opportunity of moving while the
Court was full.
Friday in next week was appointed, in compliance with his
request.

THE 44 GAZETTE OF FASHION."
Mr. TURTON moved for a rule to shew cause why a Crimui. al
Information should not he filed against the Printer and Pub-
lisher of a periodical work called The Gazette of Fashion, SE•c*
&c., for an alleged libel upon a person named Fielder, purport'
ing to be the genealogy of the prosecutor, giving a most offen-
sive account of his parentage, life, character, and behaviour, 0
a gambling-house keeper, and imputing to him that he had
been instrumental to his brother's death, and had forged his
brother's will. The Learned Counsel produced an afficlavit,
negativing the libellous matter, and—The COURT
ately granted a rule to shew taus'.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 9.

COVENTRY V. SIR T. cirAmr:KEYs.
Mr. Serjeant LAwEs, in this and three other cases, moved
for rules to shew cause why the annuities granted by the de'
fendant should not be set aside on the grounds that the subi
scribing witnesses had been improperly described, and past ?
the consideraition money had been retained, and only credit 11}
account given for the remainder, contrary to the provisions
the Annuity Act.—The Court granted the rules.

A cargo of ice, which has recently arrived in
the River from Norway, is now landing, and it was sinpli';
enough to see it in the course of delivery yesterday, to all '.
principal pastry cooks, just as if it had been the depth of winte'
Mr. BULLOCK, junior, son to the celebrated
naturalist of that name, arrived last night (Sunday, 15th t 1
at Leith, from Lapland', with 66 rein deer, the remainder oftb fic.
herd of 70. H 'He had a boisterous passage cf 16 days, in
course of which he lost four of the animals.—(EdinburghPafei'
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Wednesday; eight young pigs, two days °-„'
were discovered to have been killed and carried away by rd',;
from a farrow of eleven belonging to Mr. MuGGitxpa,
Ashling, near Cheshire. The remains were found at their
holes.
DEATH DY FIGIITING.—A Boxing-match took Place 0.,,n
`Wednesday night, in a field at Newington, between two Wei:.
of the names of Blinkinsop and Charrington, in consequence_o;
a public house quarrel. After contending together at wrestinf
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rather than hitting, Blinkiosop was carried off the ground, arod
receiving a heavy fall, and he died from the rupture of a bl
vessel.

BIRH T•e,
Yesterday morning, at Thomas'sS. Hotel, Berkeley-W—
Mrs. Lane Fox, of a daughter.
On Wednesday, Mrs. ;'iii. Wright, of Clapham, a s°l'.
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MARRIED. of
Esq.,
On Wednesday, the Bth inst. at Bath, George Eyre
the late

Wanens, Wilts, to Anna Maria, eldest daughter of
Horace Hayes, Esq., of Lower Brook-street.

DIED.
On the 2d inst., at Wellington, Shropshire, the Right of
Lady Eleanor Eizabeth King, daughter of Edward Ea'r .
Kingston. Her Ladyship was in the 66th year of her age' ne,
On Tuesday last, at Rochester, Kent, James PepPere/
Esq.
On Wednesday, at Hackney, Susan, the wife of Mr. Robert
Bullcock, ioodman's-yard, Minories. 3 But
On the Bth inst., at Bethel-place, Camberwell, ie°do.
60, Ann, wife of Thomas Shewcil, one of the Society of

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