The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-05 00:00:00

111 S MAJESTY'S PRIVATE PROPERTY.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved.
for leave to bring in a Bill, to amend an Act
passed last Session, authorising certain Commis-,
sioners to.administer'bis Majesty's real and per-
sonal property. Some doubts having arisen, whe-
ther or no those Commissioners had a right, un-
der that Act, to manage the farms and forests of
his Majesty ; the object of the Bill was to give
them that power.
Leave given to bring in a.Bill.
The House then adjourned.till Monday.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 4.

rTHE KING 'V. BARRY.

This was an indientient against the defendant
for obtaining the -stn of Gi. 12s. under, false pre-
tences, from the Earl Of Besborough.
The defendant artfully came to the house of the
Noble Earl with three trunks, which he pretended
were the property of Colonel PonSonby, now in
Portugal, which were expected from Waterford,
in Ireland. • .
The trunks were addressed to. the Earl, with
a bill for carriage, wharfage, &c. subscribed by
the name of Fisher. The stratagem succeeded,
and the money was paid by the porter, but on
opening the trunks, they were found filled wish
stones and hay only..
. .

The defendant attempted a like fraud at the
Marquis of Waterford's, where he was appre-
hended.

He was found guilty, and sentenced'to trans-
portation for seven years.

On the 23a ult. a poor woman, reputed to be
the wife Of a Mendicant calling himself Thomas
Swain., drowned - herself in tho Ashby Canal, near
OakthOrpe. She had a female child, aged about
four years', upon her back when she went into the
water, which was with difficulty saved, and it is
thought that if assistance had not been at hand,
the husband, a helpless old man, would have met
the same fate in his attempts to rescue his wife
and child. This poor-woman had lately bee,u ap-
prehended at Cromford as a vagrant, an 4 the
dread that the officers were in pursuit of her, it
is soilp.osed, caused her to coruulit suicide.

LAW REPOIIT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, DEC. 4.

WILSON V. BAKER

This was an action to recover compensation in
damages for an assault committed on the plaintiff's
wife:

It appeared that Mrs. Wilson went to the shop
of the defendant, who was a butcher; to buy some
meat. She first had a shoulder of lard `Cat off,
but then she changed her mind, and would have a
pound of rump steaks instead•of it. The defend,
ant cut hei: a pound and a half : this she saki was
too much;` she would have only .a•pounti". He
reduced it to a pound and six ounces, still she was
dissatisfied ; upon which he lost his teMper, and
very rudely tumed,.her out of his shop„'hut with
so much violence, that two witnesses said she was
considerably bruised. The mob also gathered
round the door, seeing the manner in which she
was treated by the defendant; supposing that she
bad been committing some petty theft.
His Lordship said this was an unmanly assault,
and they would say what damages the defendant
ought to pay. -
Verdict for the plaintiff-=-Damages 5/.
JONES V. EDNV.Y.

This was an action to recover back the sum of
100/. which had be.en paid as a deposit fOli the
purchase of a public-house in Hatton-Garden.—
['he house, at the time of the sale, was stated to
be a free house, but in fact there- was a covenant
in the lease, that. Elliott and Co. should slipply all
the beer,and if the tenant took it of .any other
brewer, then be was to pay an additioiial rent.—
. The.plaintiff, at the time of the sale was informed
of this Covenant, but be said that Lord Ellenbo-
rough held such a covenant wa-i good for, nothing
(alluding to a case' in which his Lordship tided,
that 4. publican was justified in deplarting from his
covenant, if the Brewer furnished had beer). He,
however, found that the covenant was bindin7 to
a'eertaio extent, and he claimed to have his depo-
_ sit back again, as It was not, as stated in the
printed particulars, a free house.
Lord 'ELLENBoxouom,• in summing up, stated
it again to be his opinion, that it would be fit
for the Legislature to interfere to rescue publicans
from the oppression of brewers, and reprobated
the practice attempted by Auctioneers, of varying
their writi.en proposals by verbal mplanations.—
-Verdict for the plaintiff.