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London, England, 1812-11-14 00:00:00

coura OF COMMON PLEAS.—Nov. 12.

Mr.Cuawoon moved for a. Habeas Corpus to
be directed to the Gaoler of Worcester to bring
up a person of the, name of Harrison, who was
committed for stealing two bundles of laths. By
the affidavits, and amongst. others, one of the pro-
'secutors, It appeared that Harrison was a man of
property, whu having bought of the prosecutor
sixteen bundles of laths, took eighteen. The
taking was admitted by the prisimer, but he de-
nied having done it with an intent to steal them,
but to pay for them. He took them without pay-
ing, because be conceived the prosecutor was not
at home.—Rule granted.

tiltitiSf6t4 b. R 44. iiibtriT.
this was ari-dttidn htdught to reebVer the Shin
tf 3;5001. under the following ciretnnsianeS i a
' Writoffierifreica *as pa into the Sheriff's hands;
to re6civer that sum of money' from. a person in-
debted hi that amount to the plaintiff, Mrs: Thar-
, He issued his Warrant Upon the said Writ,
and delivered it to his officer, who levied thereon.
Between the levy and befOre the sale Of the goods,
another writ was put into the defendant's hands,
viz. a writ of extent at the suit of the CroWn. He
soki the goods ; but 'instead of paying the
thoitey to Mrs.. Thurston, he paid the money to
the Crown, upon the writ of extent ; and she;
therefore, as her writ was first in his hands;
brought her action against the Sheriff for the
3500 i.
This case had been upwards Of three years
before this Court, and, after hearing Counsel ort
both sides, finally, this day, the Judges delivered
their opinions seriatim, and were unanimously of
opinion that this action could not be maintained
by Mrs. Thurston against the Sheriff, and that Le
was right iii first satisfying the writ of extent at
the suit of the Crottrn.

POLICE.

MARtneißovcit,sTßEET .H-Stephen Fane and J.
Raymond, eonlynon informers, Were charged at the
suit of Mr. Wadniore, pawnbroker, under the Act.
of the sth of Elizabeth, chap. 5. entitled, '' An
Act to _redress Disorders in Common Informers."
It appeared by the testimony of Mr. W. that the
defendants calf( at his house, and stated that -an
information kid been laid against hint for taking,
more than legal interest, and they produced an
information, •igned John-Lees,. gentleman, Hert-
ford-street, St. Clement's Danes j and also a sum-
mons, purporting to have been issued at flow
street, upon the pretended inforMation, but it had
no-nigistratc's name affixed to it.. Upon the pro-
duction of these pretended documents, the deters-
dant, suggested conciliatory measures; to quash
proceedings by compensation, and after two meet-
ings had taken place, to ascertain their full
scheme, Mr. W. paid them 31. to stop proceedings,
and caused them to be secured. On being appre-;
bended; and searched, other pretended iulortna-;
tions were found on- them, purporting to have •
been laid also by Lees against a Mr. Baylis, whd
had paid, the defendant 2/.

• Mr. Williams, of Gray's Im.-square, Soiicito
to the .pawnbrokers, produced the Act, Which
makes the offence of compounding subject to the
pillory,. &c. It enacts, that informers shall nO,t by
colour or-pretence of process, or without process,
upon colour or pretence, of any matter against any
penal law, make any composition, or take any
money' or reward, or promise of reward, for him-
sell or any other, without the consent of the
Court, under pain of imprisonment, pillory, Z:c.
The defendants were committed for trial. By such
acts'as these justice is defeated, mill the revenue
suffers'.

The fire in Newgate-street, to Which :re
cd in our last; broke out in a largemlodern built
house, the lower part ,of which was divided into
two shoF; one of them was• occupied in the fall-
' cy-tricaming line by Mr. Wright, and the other
by Mr. Smith, a tailor: The tire broke out in the
rear of the ground floor, but in the part occupied
by which of the two could not be ascertained.—
Providentially, there was acopious supply of
ter, which was applied with so much actiVity
the firemen, as to confina the devastation within
comparatively 'sinall' bounds. The premises in
which it commenced, however, were totali•V- dz-
-stroyed. The house of Mr. Woolf, the sign of the
Magpie, was also gfeatly damaged in the rear.—
As is' WO frequently the case on such melanclitly
occasions,' there were not wanting thoge • who
turned the scene of 'calamity to their own emolu-
ment, by plundering the objects of distress. A
lodger of Mr. Wooll, Who was carrying a boN coal-
thitiing 30/. worth of halfpence, craved the wisi;it-
ance of a by-stander, who contrived to let it fad
on the stones, 'by which it was shivered in piece.
and the greater part of the money became a prey
to the marauders. One man was stopped by the
watchman in Little Britain, with a keg-of gin,
when he immediately staved the cask, and the
liquor was of course wasted; he was, however,
conveyed to the Compter. Mr. Wooll's watch
was likewise stolen by some unknown plunderer.
A few nights since, the house of Mr. BARROW,
in Ocean-street, Stepney, was broke open and
robbed of property to a considerable amount. The
robbery is supposed to have been committed before
nine O'clock, and by the daring manner of placing
a ladder to the window of the first-floor.

. BIRTHS.
On Wednesday
,last, at .his house in Guildford-street, the.,
Ladyof Henry Frederick .Alston, Esq. of a Sou.
ksterday, the Lady of Broome P. Witts, E.sq.. of Brava
wiCk-square, of a Daughter. .

MARRIED,
On Tuesday last, at Dareshury, Cheshire, the Rev. Pete:-
Leigh, Rector of a Mediety of 'Lynan, to Mary, Youngest
daughter of the Rev.-Dr. Biackburzw, Warden of the Colle-
giate Church. of Manchester. •
Last week, it Chathaw, Mr. Robert. Dadd,Cktemist, to Miss \
7slartin, of Fromptou, Kent. ,

• , DIED.
At Java, early in the Spring, CaptairyThoreas Eaglestone,
it., .N.C.onituaudcr of His Majesty's ship Proci is.
'Latels-, Dipton, near
,Corbridge, Mr. Robert Jewett,
ag-ed-El6 '11(i was the father of it children, and grandfather
to 745.
'du Itanchester, Mr. kite, well known as Manager of a
Company of EgueArian's.

COAL MARKET, Nov. 13.
Ali s said. •Price.
10 . . . L. Dd. to 535. O.
• 4 . . A 0 Od. to +6s. al.
0 . . . to --s. Od.

Ships at Mar.Ket:
'304 Neweastle
174; .
3 Scotch Coal . . .

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