The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 28.
This was an action upon a bond for 4,0001., conditioned to
pay 2,0001., dated 3d Noveinber, 1813. The defendant pleaded
that he had delivered the bond as an escrow, and not as a deed.
This was the second trial of the same cause, the circumstances
of which we stated some time since.
The plaintiff's case was conducted by Mr. SOLICITOR-GE-
NERAL, Mr. GURNEY, and Mr. CORMYN and the defend•
ant's by Mr. SCARLETT and Mr. E. LAwES.
The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff:
STEEL V. PHILLIPS AND WIL LUCAS.
The plaintiff, a silversmith, in Oxford-street, brought his
action against the defendants, who are his next door neighbours;*"
to recover damages for an assault.
The parties disagreed about a right of way to the plaintiff's'
stables, and in January last the defendants committed an as-
sault on theplatntiff, who had endeavoured to rescue his groom
from their violence. The Jury gave 301. damages.

CHARGE. OF ARSON.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday at three o'clock, John Dottie
was put to bar, and underwent another very long examination,
when the following evidence was adduced :—•
William Stuck, a butcher and broker in Initecross-street,
stated, that in 1811, he lived at 197, next door to the house that
wasburnt. He had now no recollection of the prisoner's per.
son ; but a day or two after the fire he saw a man at the Eagle
Fire-office, who said he was the man who was burnt out
of 196, and
was come to claim his money. Mr. and Mrs.
Gibbs were there. Witness asked him how much he was
insured for, and he said about 7001.; and upon being. asked
what that insurance was effected upon, he said upon his
stock and furniture. Witness said he was surprised ut such
a demand, for he knew he had not stock and furniture
to any thing like that amount. Witness and he went up
stairs together before the committee, and witness repeated
his opinion to Mr. Beetham, the Secretary, that the pri-
soner had no such stoek as he 'had described. The pri-
soner was then sworn to the amount of his claim, but was
afterwards told that if he made it again, he would be taken into
custody. The prisoner made no reply, but went away. Wit-
ness, the morning after the fire, was present at the examination
of the premixes, and he saw that part of the flooring of the first
floor was burnt, and, part remaining. There were no fragments
of furniture visible. Two years after this, the rubbish was
cleared away for a new house to be built, and witness examined,
and found the oven qUite entire ; the crown of the oven was
perfect.-
Mrs. Stuck, the wife of the last witness, deposed that the man
who occupied the baker's shop, No. 196 (she could not swear to
the prisoner), applied to her some time in the summer of 1811 to •
get him a washerwoman, and to desire her to bring his linen home
tretnthienlinreg,hhise
things
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Sotare w,dobamysutatonbenr: leave them at witness's
house, until he sent for them. This she did, and after the fire,
homeie nv,e rayn da: usuale Saturday.g
et begged
which took place on the Sunday night, a young man came and
fetched away the linen. 'Witness recollected selling the prisoner
some old articles of furniture, among which were two or three
chairs, some time before the fire.
Mr. John Carmichael, of Russell-street, Covent-garden, baker
and pastry-cook, sworn.—Witness knows the prisoner very well.
The prisoner was his journeyman in 1812 and 1813. They had
frequent conversations upon the subject of the fire, and the
prisoner told him,_ that on the night it happened he was in bed
and heard a cracking as if thieves were breaking into the house.
He opened the chamber-door and found-the staircase on fire.—
He shut the door quickly, and, having no other means of escape,
broke his bedstead to pieces, and with one of the posts he forced
away the iron bars which secured the window, and jumped into
the Street. He never said that any one was sleeping with him
on that night. Witness asked him how the fire happened, apd
he said that It was in consequence of the crown of the oven hav-
ing
fallen in, and the fire bursting out from it. Witness said, • '?
if that was the case, it was very Bard he should not have his
insurance money, and asked how it was that he made no claim,
and he said a friend of his was prosecuting his claim for him.
Witness urged him, to go himself. and he'said he would.
Walter ttigg stated, that he lived in Baldwin-street, City.
road, and was a tin-plate worker. When the prisoner was living
in Ratcliffe-highway, before he lived in ‘Vhitecross-street„
witness supplied him with utensils 'for his trade. Had no re-
collection of serving him with any after hp was burnt out at
Itatcliffe-highway ; but soon after the fire in Whithcross-street,
the prisoner came to him and said, " I have been to the case,
and shall soon get my money ;*_you know I have had a great
deal of goods of you, and if the Fire-office people apply to you, •
I wish you would say that-• 1 have had 501. worth." Witness
said, he would search his books and whatever goods he had
actually had, he would report to the Fire-office, but no more.
Witness distinctly understood the prisoner to refer to the fire
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any more witnesses, because if he did, he thought the further
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hearing had better be adjourned, as it was so late an hour.
. Mr. Isaacs said, he had only to call the secretaries to the
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those gentlemen were not present.
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Mr. Isaacs—They are to prove that the money was paid
fore, in his conversation with Mr. B' hcould
r. e only have re-
ferred
to the one in IVhitecross-street.
All the witnesses present were then bound over to the Sea.
*ions, and told they need not attend here again.
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday, when he will be-
fully committed.

CHARGE OF MURDER.—Christopher Waters,
Chief Mate of a Merchant ship, named Alexander,
was yesterday brought up to Worship-street Office,
for re-examination before S. TWAYFORD and J.
Mu.wARD, Esqrs , charged with the murder of
G. Griffiis, a seaman on board the same ship,
at Pernambuco. The evidence of Joseph Bland,
examined on a former day, was read over by the
Clerk, and two other witnesses were sworn as to
what they knew of the transaction. The pri-
soner was then committed to Newgate to take
his trial at the next Admiralty Sessions.

Yesterday morning, the body of a female, ap-
parently about 30, was found floating in the
River Lee, near Limehouse-bridge, and was con-
veyed to the Bonehouse, for the Coroner's In-
quest. , The deceased was dressed in a black
gown, and light-coloured whittle; but had nei-
ther cap nor bonnet on. She had nothing in her
pockets,

COAL-MARKET, MAY 28.
Ships at Market. Ships sold Price.
17f Newcastle - -12 f -33 s Od to 42s Oct
5 Sunderland 3 -33 s 2d to 42s Oct
t Scotch Coal - - b -34 s 64.1 to —s Od

BIRTHS.
At 26, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, the Lady of Major
Riddell, of a daughter.
On the 28th inst., in Bedford-street, Bedford.square, Mrs.
Win. Hurst, of a son.