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FREDAY EVENING, JULY. 29, 1825.

frEDICAL, CLERJ
Ari LIFE ASSURAI
GEORGE PINCKA

CAL, and G EN ER A
iCE SOCIETY.
ID, Ai. D. Chairman.

DIRECTORS.
Rev. Christopher Benson,M.A. Henry Earle, Esq. F. H.S. -
Robert Bree, M.D..F.R.S. James,Kibblewbite, Esq.
James Chrden, Esq. Samuel Merriman, M.D.
A. H. Chambers, Esq. A. A. Mieville, Esq.
Arthur Chichester, Esq. Sir George Pocock
Henry Jas.`Cholmeley-, 141.. D. Ashby Smith, M.D.
Thomas Davies, Esq. R. R. Sutherland, M.D.
Sir Charles Dei Voeux, Bart. George Vance, Esq.
The cotnneon usage of excluding from the benefit of Life As-
surance, or. exposing to a forfeiture of their policies, indivi-
duals who may have been afflicted with Gout, Asthma, 'Rup-
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of Blood, Vettigo, or any other disease," being liable to be-
come a sotuice of fraud on the one hand, and of litigation on
the other, this Society, in order to remove every pretence for
-deceit or .fraa,.',alent concealment, respecting the actual state of
health of Ahe assured, extends the advantages of Life Assue-
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standard of health, as do not materially tend to shorten life,
upon their fraying.a moderate addition t..) the pren.iiiirri, pro-.
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Medical Prefession, the attendance of such a body of eminent
practitioners, on. every occasion of granting an assurance, forms
a distinguishing safeguard, which cannot fhil to be highly be-
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Persons proposing far assurance may arrange to pay their
premiums either in a single payment—by-annual payments for
a limited number of years only—ote- by annual payments
throughout the whole continuance of life.
The person assured has the option to share the profits, either
by adding them to the policy, for the benefit of his survivors,
at his decease ; or take them, in reduction of the annual pre-
mium, for his own benefit during life.
J. PINKA RD, Resident Secretary.
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EXETER, TUESDAY, JULY 26,

NICKIVELL V. KNOWLING.

Mr. BAY LEY opened the pleadings. This was an action for
defamation. The wordsof which the plaintiffeomplained,charged
him with having stolen a sheep, the property of one Jackman.
The defendant had pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Serjeant PE L L briefly stated the.case to the Jury.
The plaintiff's son was the first witness put, into the box.—
He proved the uttering of the words complained of; bit having
repeated them Its if they had been spoken in the third person,
and the' Learned .Judge wishing to fix him to the very terms
used, his Lordship.asked the witness the following question
"Ii some man .owed-you ten pounds, and you were going to
ask him for payment; would you begin by saying, he owes me
ten pounds."-LHis.Lordship's object•, however, was completely
defeated, when the witness, not understanding the nature of
the question, replied, with the most perfectly vacant counte-
nance, " No, my Lord, I should say, •'please to let me have
the money.' "—( Loud laughter.)

Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, who seemed no way daunted by
the almost immoveable ignorance' bf the witness, appeared to
imagine he should be able to make the man understand the
question, if it was repeated to him in a somewhat different form,
he therefore asked,," But if you wanted him to acknowledge
the debt, woOld you say to him, he owes me the money,' or
you owe me the money.' "
The witness, however, was not one on whonra novel impres-
sion of this kind could be made with so much rapidity; he
patised fin about half a minute, and then looking most comi.
cally perplexed, he answered " My Lord, I came here to speak
about the sheep, and not about the money" (continued laugh-
ttr.)—Other witnesses were celled to prove the expressions,
and all of them swore that the shepin question had long been
in the possession of the plaintiff; who purchased it a year before
from a person named Adams.—On their cross.examination,_
they stated that the defendant. had mentioned some marks on
the sheep, and had said the plaintiff swore that be knew it for
his master's by those marks.—LAU Attorney's Clerk proved that
the =defendant had refused to make an apology, and had re-
peated the offensive words.
Mr.
.Ser:jeant WILDE, for the defendant, said, attorney's
clerks should not be called, to prop up a rotten cause, and con.
tended, that. when a servant had a.bona fide belief that the ram
was his master's, and having such a strong impression, he was
not to be called to account for the words he had used, under
such circumstances.

Mr. Justice LITTLTDALE told the Jury, that the defend-
ant's impression, however strong, was no Justification for his
charging the plaintiff with having committed a robbery. •
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
Forty Shillings.

served, thet was growteg late., and he woield get) . quar-
ters the nearest way. Thy said he should pot go geftnee he
gave them up his packet-book. He refused to deliver it, and
;Murphy then seized hini by the shoulders, and both threw him
down on -the ground ;. struggled violently, and nearly sue.
ceeded in escaping from them. Murphy seeing hire resist so
much, gave him a blow on t'ne•heati, and knocked hien into
gutter. Al`Grath then got his knee on prosecutor's breast, :eel
his head on his throat, arid again demanded his pocket: took,
• Ile still refused, but finding he was so near " done for" by the
nien'squeezieg his throat and kneeling en his breast, he said.
" take the purse." M`Gratf . then cried out, " von rascal,give me your pocket-book, or take yonr life 7;" you
prase.
tutor, however, still continuing- to refit's,. to deliver it up,
11•Grath said, " you villein, if you don't give the your pocket.
book, I'll murder you directly." Prosecute: sekt, den't
kill the—take the pocket-book, and be -off:" • .31'Grath then.
seized the book and ran away Murphy remained, until sortie was coming up the street, and then he ran away after the.
other ; prosecutor then got up, and having recovered himself,
went to the barracks where their regitnent was quartered to
find them; when he got there, the sentry challenged him in-the
usual ~:tanner, and when. he answered ntxqueeSen, " Who
. -goes there?" .by saying 4 a friend," theeenty replied, "Come
tin; friend; I know what yoU come about—two Of our men
have knocked you down and robbed you, and I was 'order-
ed not to let you in." The prosecutor, however,. was per-
mitted to go into the barracks, , where-he found the serjeant
in the guard-room, and went with him and a file of. men
to the bed-room of the prisoners, where- he found them ;
they were then -taken and confined; twenty minutes elapsed
- between the robbery and the tithe of his going to the bar.
racks. The Serjeant of the Guard took the prisoners into
custody ; the pocket-book was found in the cap of M`Grath,
under his bed; witness was (lithe sure that he drank no beer
with the prisoners that evening; he was in the same rooth with
theme but he did not drink with them ; he saw Mr. Way in
Castleettreet, and told him he was going home, and they wished
each other good night ; there were a few memoranda in his
pocket-book, and 19s. 6d. in silver. The prisoners were privates
in the Pith regiment.
11`Farren, a private in the Brlt Regiment of Foot, stated,
that he was on duty es seetry at theTastle, between the hours
of twelve and two o'clock on the 21.4 th of April ; while he was
on duty, Murphy came running up- from Castle-street, and on
witness challenging him in the usual manner, he answered,
" It's me !" witness asked him what wiade him be outat that
hour, and he said M`Grath had knocked down a sapper, and rob-
bed him, and Murphy begged' witness, if the sapper came, not
to let him in past tfo.• guard; he added, that he was going into
the next roll ; witness said, that if the sapper did not report it
he would, he would report it as soon as he came off guard ; in
about a quarter of an hour the sapper came up, and told what ,
had happened, and he let hirrvin ; witness did not mention the
circumstance to any one until the sapper came.
Murphy, on being called on for his defence, declared his in-
necence of the crime imputed to him, and went into.a very long,
and not very intelligible, history of his night's adventure's, in
order to shew that he had-left M`Grath and the prosecutor to.
gether, and what-they did in his absence of course lie could not
t-11. He had been 11 yearsin the regiment, and always bore a
gaod character.
M`Grath also protested his innocence. lie said he had been.
a soldierfrom his infancy, and had never before been even sue.
petted of a dishonest actiore He declared that lie was vary
tipsy on the evening in question—so tipsy that he neither knew
what he did or said.
The Learned JUDGE summed up theevidence, andw.he Jury
having spent some time in deliberating, their Foimen at length
said—" As we find that the prosecutor and the'prisoners were
all drinking and tipsy together, we cannot find the prisoners .
guilty."—'he prisoners were therefore formally acquitted and
discharged.
KENT ASSIZES, THURSDAY, JULY 23.
William French was indicted, on Lord Ellenborough's Act,
for cutting and maiming Elizabeth, his wife, with a knife, With
intent to kill and murder her, at Chatham, on the 19th of July..
Mr. Miewsititet conducted the prosecution. From his etate-
-merit it appeared that the prisoner had been frequently afflicted
with mental derangement, and confined at different periods in
the workhouse at Chatham, and at the Asylum at Bethnal-
green as a lunatic, but allowed to come abroad again when
apparently restored to sanity. He had been many years parted
from his wife, who lived as servant at a publieehouse at Chat-
ham. For some time previously to the 19th July, the prisoner
had been at large, and on that day he went to the public house
wheee his wife was, and whilst she stood at a wash-tub, he
tripped her up, and pulling 3 knife out of his pocket,' declared
his intention of cutting her legs off, and on the instant he in-
flicted a dreadful gash on one of her legs. Her screams brought
the master of the house and others to her assistance, and she
was rescued from farther violence. Two of the arteries,had been
cut through, and but for the prompt attendance of a surgeon,
the unfortunate woman must have died from the effusion of
blood. The prisoner assigned no motive for his conduct, nor
did it appear that he had any. It was suggested that probably
the act was committed in a returning fit of his former insanity,
and in that view his conduct was submitted to the Jury:
The facts of the case were clearly proved.
The wretched prisoner fell into an epileptic fit whilst in the
dockeand his general appearance denoted unsoundness both of
mind and body.
Mr. Baron GnattAat left the Jury to say, whether, under all
the circumstances, the prisoner was of sound mind at the time
the offence was committed, and if they were of ppinion that he
was not, directed them to acquit him on that ground.
The Jury immediately found the prisoner Not Guilty, on
the ground of insanity ; and he was ordered to remain in custody
until the King's pleasure should be known.
William Bassage; who had been brought frorreSalisbury gaol
by liabeas corpus having been ethevicted at the last Assizes
for that county, and- sentenced to fourteen.years transportation
for receiving a horse, knowing it to be'stolen, was now indicted
for stealing a dun gelding at Alaidstone, on the 2d November
last, the property of Heriry'Floate.
Mr. Baron GnaliaMsurraneti,up the evidence for the Jury ;
and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
He vehemently exclaimed against the verdict, and declared
that he was a lost man in consequence of . the perjury of some
of the witnesses. • '
There were three other :chlrges against him of receiving
stolen horses knowingly. el

YORK, IVET4ESDAY; JULY 27.
BOOTH V. HAIGH..—SLANDER.
This was an action brought to. recover compensation in. da-
mares, for certain slanderoti words spoken by the defendant,
of and concerning the plainiiff.L.-Mr. SCARLETT was about to
state the case, when Mr. liftousimax said •he had offered a
' written apology, and it had been reftried—M. SCARLET T said
the slander had been uttered in a public room, and unless the
greatest publicity *as given to the.apology, it would not be ac.
cept ed.— Mr. BROUGHAM acceded to apology being made
in public, but as he refused to pay the costs, the case went to
the Jury.
It appeared that on the 13th. May, the parties were at
Barnsley Fair. The plaintiff happening to go to the 'White
Bear public-house with some friends, the defendant came in, and.
sat down near them, and without the slightest provocation,
beganso apply to plaintiff expression', which did not like.—
After a little time he requested defendant to desist from using
such language ; but he still went on usinr the same offensive
language, and the plaintiff was at length obliged to leave the
rooin, as were some other persons, so tiististed were they at
the defendant's conduCt.
T. Tighe said, he was at the 'White Bear Inn, at Barnsley,
on the 13th May ; he saw the plaintiff and defendant there;
Booth was sitting in the room with some other .farmers about
20 minutes when the defendant came in—took a chair and sat
near him ; witness was attending on the company ; he saw the
defendant push the plaintiff, and at the same time use certain
offensive expressions; the plaintiff asked him to explain him-
self; the
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Mr. BROIAJIANI addressed the jury for' the defendant, and
drew their attentions, to the fact of 'his Navin ,offered a letter
Of apology ; but which had been refused by the plaintiff's soli.
citor, who he believed was only anxious to increase hi, bill of
costs. A More ample apology could not have been made. -He
'denied that there existed any ground fez the charge made by
the plaintiff, who must have becri drunk, or ignorant of what
he was saying, or he would not have repeated the offensive
languae.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in his address, told the Jury, that
they must view the imputation as if it were made on themselves,.
and give such calm and temperate damages as would meet the
justice of the case. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages M.