The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-15 00:00:00

Vir REPORT.

COURT OF RING'S DENCII, in/NE 13,,

THE Kit 44 ). WISE.

. The defendant in this ease; who is a tieuten-,.nt
in the. Navy, was called ,on to receive the judg-
meat of the Curt, having allowed judgMent t4.i
-go against him by &faint,' on an information;
charging him with havinFendeavouringtaprovok
Andrew Hawes,l3radley:Esq. a Magistrate- of the
county of Kent to fight a duel. - . .
It appeared that the defendant, stippoSing liis
mother to .have been treated with -disrespect, b!.,
fg!le prosecutor in his capacity of a Magilltra,ti.t,
contrived to Meet him, on the same day, on hip
own grounds, and, holding a stick over his helf_l.
desired hdm to consider that as a bOrse-whip, irii i
forming him, at the same thne, if he did not K'ltai;,.
.the notice a gentleman Ought Of that act, he woula ':-
i
post him, as a coward. _ t
An affidavit was filed, for the `defendant, ca-
pressing sorrow for the offence he bad fallen into
in the moment -of irritation, under the impression •
that his mother had been ill t.:c...ated,`anal horn
feeling of the duty in protecting her. -
4r. Galtiow. said, if half as 'much had been 'ail
by tie defendant to the prosecutor in private, the
defendant should not have been brought -up froo
Kent for judgment.
Lord ELLENI3OIIOLIGIT observed, this was but A -
symbolical horse-whipping. it put him in mina
of an occasion, ,where one person having desirc4
another to consider himself as having been pullet}
by the nose by the person who Was addressing Witt,
the other answered, " And do you; in retLra,

consider yourself as having been run through 'Oc
body." To mark, however, the sense the Court
entertained of the respect due to Magistrates, it
would be but proper that the defendant sholld
pay the costs in this case, which was the only pu•
nistunent, entering, as the Court did, into his 00-
tives, which they. Were disposed to inflict on hip- -
The defendant's own 'recognizance was aceorti-

ingly taken, that,he shoultieothe up for judg,m,ent
when called on, . thereby giving him an opporttr
nity to set himself right %yid' tte prosecutor. -

Saturday, in the Court of Chancery, in the case
of George Ross, a bankrupt,. the Lord Charieellor
than, a person attending on the CommissiOu-
ers under his commission, though not summoned
to attend, and ;though his presenbe was not re-
quir9d by them, was piotected from arrest b!
of ;his creditors. His Lordship accordingly
ed tii3t t)ie. bankrupt should be discharged ; ajid
that alp the costs, charges, and expences, i .ncurred
by him q2nce his .arrest should be pald'by his ere-
.
ditnrS at wk.wse suit he w}ls "arrested.

Thelvatchznen. and military :sentinels at
mouth dock-yard have been examined on oath
bqt after the min test. investigation it cannot be
ascertained whether thebuilding was fireu by over'
heated hemp, by lightaing, or by incendiaries
About nine :hundred and iifty feet of the ropt
house are irretrievably, destroyed, with a con
derable quantity of hemp. The valuable mad-11nel
for twisting cables is much i7,;ured. The whol°
of the damage sustained is estiatßed at twenty'
five thousand pounds. -
3. Senkinson, for neglecting to appear to be
rolled h the Lindsey Local,Militia, has ben
mitted to 'the Louth, Honse of Correction for ihr7-
months, and to be ',.:ltorn to serve in the said-f-egi-
ment for the next four
Sir J. Banks, while obSery •-zg lately the inati'Ga
of a snake along the floor of hit?, library, (I:ocov',-1-
ed that it was assisted in advaneThg by- its
which served the pUrpose. of 'feet, the points
them touching ;touching the ground, /aid .by those. nsearif
facilitating his motions; Mr., Home,' to w!?-9,74
'the fact was made known, avail-d` himst!lf of th '
occasion,to obse?ve more minute: y the cons rric-i-71'.1'
of the ribs of snakes, and the manner_ th,yy a-c,
ali-pted for this hitherto unobserved
.purposc:-
movingthcir bodi.2s.

Mr. Brodie, after nutnerous\-experiments-of
rious poisons on diirerent animals, has aseertiin.,_.%). •
that the slightinfiammation which occurs iu tr
•stoinach, after taking Poison into it, is IPA sOm".
cleat to ocoasioa_ death, but that it is the patt'tilll,
power of the drug on the, nervous -.system, -andP"
the blood, which destroys 'Life.
Oenticinan 'S,trorinit,s, in Seotland, wh°
had for twenty years totally lost his sight; v:0
attached by a lever„which confined him, t(
his bed for several weeks. On his recovery, be
could from his window discein the ships in the bar"
boor, and several other objects. Since Which time
his' eye-sight has grattua4 improved.

On thecith inst. at Hill-House, Sussex, the. Lady of Jamol
Campbell, Esq. It. N. of a il'aughter. ,
On Thursday, Mrs. George Barclay, of Cadogan-place, GI
a still-born' Child. :
On Saturclay evening last, at Sir Charles Cockei ell's, Bart"
Hyde Park Corner, the Hon. Lady CoAerell,.of a Daughter- ,
Yesterday morning, the Lady of William Payne George,'
Esq. of Manchester-square, of a Sou and Heir.

On Sattt-day last, at St. Mary-le-bonne; Mr. Witham 41-
Brace, to Miss Mary-West.
The same day, at Wandworth, the Rev. T. L. StroPO
M:A. Maar of Titsey, Surrey, to Anna Maria, eldestdaugie"
ter of George Tritton,3s..;l.of West-hill.
On the' 13th inst.• at St. Mary-le-bonne, Alexander 7,1`2.""
nes, of the 2d Reiinient- of 'Life Guards, to Ceinla:
eldest dan4-hter of Peter Esq. of Fracafiehl, Zet
land, North Britain., _

• DIED..
On Monday se'nnight, at Gairetstown,'near Kinsale, Jail
Kearney, 1;,,,q.. at the very advanced age SG yeas, forty
which he served in FirrliainCut.
On tlit'.! :3d lust; in her S9th rear, Mrs. Marshall, of Cro;r11-
court., , -
At her brot,'.:ier's 110130, in Pent,mrille, on Friday the 51t -
inst. Miss Jessy firaftjeli„ 9.4 yinrs,
of Maranulalte Craduck, F.•;q. of tiainford, iti the
Durham, and' sister of Mr. Cradoch, of Pateruoster-i'Y'l,
0:1 Friday, aged GS, ichard Ealdwyn, Esq. TiTaStlret
St. Barthelothew's HOspital, aad'to the, Welsh Charity.
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