The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-18 00:00:00

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Cotircr m CHANERIi:
Yesterday the Lott D CH A NCELLOR
judgment in one of the many caries tc hiC thlye
sprung out of the bankruptcy of Messrs.
House, (that of the Wakefield bank), and by
whic'hisome point.; of great importati:e t i cduntry
bankers and their agents, the town. bankers; were
decOed.

. In all these caps; s; as well those of the 1-1;114
Ye,vil, Leeds, and York, as the Wakefield bank, it
had been the custom of the Lotintry bcinkeis to seta
Up tO,town bills before they became due,,indiy4A
in blank. It ought to he known, said his Lordship;
that in such case;, if thr Town banker will at frau...,
duiently, he may do it eflecloally.
Where the inten:ion of the parties evidently - is;
that such tiansinmed bills s all retnciin .as seeut-ltl
only io answer a Special purpose, such bills
cernani
the;property of. the rerniiter ; and in case of bank
ruptcy cannot be dk:poseti of by• the assignees, event
if thetown banker has a vower, to discount for
limited ptirpose ; if, in faC.l,.he'has not discountedi
and such hills reitiai:i in sßecie, they are the pw-
perty of the rernitivr.

The Case of the /Jun bank (decided on Tuesday)
was, put out of doubt by tlie express 'wei.tten
"claration, that such tins wore held .a-s_spcurity
by Messrs., ; 1.414- the Loud CH ANCki.Loit,
held, that the. same contract jit h be I,lerred, •
though there was a declioaion, from Cie cirturu-
stances of the transattin,; and inthe cage of tLe
.lieficid bark, it appeared that in the weekly ac-
counts snt dOwii into the country; no cra<<it wac
given tot the bilk-utuil they bec,!ine k!ue It also
appeared, that when in fact swot- uLf.p.• bills were
discounted, no accoont, of such discount was tr,iis-
mitted, which was a confession that that wa3
wrongfully done.
His Lordship will give judgment on the cases of.
the Yolk, Leeds,,andYeomil
_banks, tbii day ; the
circutusi.incrs of which Older • from tho,e of. the
Hull and Wakefield baoks; already decided in iavvuti
of the country bankers.

COURT OF KlNb's BENCH, APRIL 17.

TAY L,R V. LEWIS.
.Mr. STORKS moved to set aside the verdia, and .1
enter a nonsuit in ibis case. The cause %Vas tiled
at the last Aylesbury Assizes, bt.fore'Mr. Justice
HEATH. It was 31) action on the Stbtute of Anne,
for wing a greyhound. The faas were, that the 't
defendant, a respeaable farmer, but not qual,fied to
kill game, was in company with a Mr. COlning, a
Gentleman abundantly qualified) and to whom the
dogs bilonged ; he was seen to beat the bushes,ao4l
rode after the hare. He was not the servant of Mr.
Colding, the qualified man, but adrnitte,d he wat .
with him as a companion, and for the purpthe of en- •
joying the pleasures of the course. _
At, the trial, Mr. Justice HEATH was inclined to
nonsuit the plaintiff; but on the authority of a case
[pled by Mr. Justice LAWRENCE, who held, that
.a
, ~
person joining in the cnase, .though the dogs be•.
longed to' a qualified person present, was liable to.
the penalty, he direaed the Jury to find for tiro.
plaintiff, reserving the right to the Counsel for 114
defendant to move to enter a nonsuit. 1
Lord ELLENBOELOUGif asked if, it. were sgreel
that all the world must runaway from a-man court'.
ing, •as from one infeeted with the plague? It it
',lad been the case of a servant, he should- not have.had a moment's hesitation ; for if the, law wens
otherwise, there must, be an end.of all hunti,,g, Leas
til they could get qualified whippers-in, &g.
Rule granted,

Ora
BAILEY.—The Sessions laving ended, sen-
tence of Pcath
,has_ been passed on Henry Shippey,
for it highway robbery; Thomas rianna,gan, I\:;e3.
Daley, Joseph Thompson, alias Joseph Woolinari
Thompson, and George Smith, for forgery; Eliza-
beth Burn, William Webster, and Susannah Webs •
ster, for privately stealing in a shop; GeosgeLittle,
Int- highway rd,bbery ; Susannah Eaton and William
Pike, for stealing, in a dwelling-house ;
Harper and Matthew Smith, for burglary; Daniel
Brown, for horse-stealing; and Joel Ware,. for re-,
turning from transportation.---Two were ordered trtt
be traniported. for life, viz. John Whitehair and
Michatil Cirroll ; one for 14. years, vii. Amos As
ton ; and 19. tor seven years, viz. John Cook,
Eliats Abrahains,Robert Weir, .Lucy Parsons, Joha
Pitcher, Thomas Watkinson, John Hughes,. Ana
Stevens, James Stamp, Sutter) Cooke, Wm. Blake,
Pizabeth Hathera, i\l try Beck, James. Dal.vson,_
Ev:in Evans, James Pitteathlev, John Holcomb,
John. Brown, 'John King, and Henry Lazarus;. threes
were ordered to he imprisoned in the House of Cur-
reCtion tor two years ea, h ; nine for one year, and
nine for six caleno moriths,each, it; the Serne gaol;
seven to •be imprisoned in Newgate for various pe-
rio Is; four to be privately and. eight publicly whip-
ped; fi kern judgments respited ; nine fined I`s. each
and discharged ; and thirty discharged by procla-
mation.