The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT 01? KING'S BENCILJu}It 14.
M•PIIERSON Lova:.
This was an action for a breach of promise of marriage. Thi
declaration met out a written agreement, signed by the delynd
ant, *hereby he undertook to marry her in March or April, or
pay her the sum of 1,0901. At the trial, before the Lord Chief
Justice, and a Special Jury, at the London Adjourned Sittings;
after last Hilary Term, the Jury found their verdict for ilia
plaintiff; dernages 500/. In Easter Term, Mr. SCAR LETT ob-
tained a rule, Oiling on the plaintiffto she* cause why thuver-
dictshould not be get aside, and a nesi trial granted, on the
ground that the drainages were exceSsiVe. On that occasion thu
Court made it a condition of granting the rule, that the defend.:
ant should bring 15411. into Court, which sum *as btought to
accordingly.

Mr. AWorainva and Mr. I tTT now *hewed cause against
the Rule for a new trial.

Mr. SCARLETT and Isll% WALFOUD were heard in support
of the Rule.

The COURT, taking all the circumstances of the mac intA
consideration, and acting upon that discretion which they said
they had an undoubted right to exercise, thought the Rule for
a new trial ought to be made absolute; but upon the terms of
the defendant's going to trial at the sittings after this term,
paying the costs of the former trial out of the money paid .into
Court, and giVing the plaintiff judgrnent d this term, if she
shodld recovei ii second verdict.

CI MINA I. INFORMAt lON.
Mr DEN ami moved for a Rule to she* cause why a cri.:
minal information should not be tiled against Mr. Robertson,
the printer Of The Morning Chronic*, for an alleged libel upon
a Mr. Davis, One of the Grand Jurors impanelled to inresti..
gate the charges preferred against a person named Forbes, said
to have been implicated in the late riots in Dublin. The alleged
libel appeared in The Morning Chronicle, and imputed that
Mr. Davis and a Mr. Manvers, another of the Grand jfiri, had'
gone as delegates of Mr. Sheriff Thorpe, into the priiion where
Forbes was confined, for the purpose of asking him What guys..
tions they should administer to the witnesses who should ap.;
pear in support of the prosecution. The Learned Counsel said,
that he had the affidavit of Mr. Davis, denying. Mete imputa
tions altogether. He was only instructed to move on behalf of
Davis,.the other gentleman libelled not being in London.
The Coifivi asked Ititn what proof he had that Mr. Robert-
son was the printer of Pee Monthig Chronicle !I
Ali. DE) rsi sail ihe bad not the ordinary proof required
-In them, eases, but he had the admission of the exetnitor of the
late proprietor of thepaper that Mr. Robertson wits the printer.
The COURT said, this was not sufficient; and until then.:
was legal proof to satisfy the Court that the party against whom
the motion was made was responsible, the Rule could not be
granted.—Rule iefithCd.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, itIWE 14.
60VENTRY V. Silt T. tt. CIIA:4IPNEY4.
Serjeant nOPANQUETOll,this.ilay followed Mr. Serjeant
Villa/JAN and Mr. Serjeant PEEL, who bad formerly been
heard in chewing cause againit a Itule to set aside an Annuity
which had been granted by the defendant. The Rule had been
obtained on an affidavit of the defendant, which stated that,fie.:
ing very much pressed fur money in the year 1819, fie applied
to (.Tibbs, a partner in the house of Iloward and Gibbs, to
raffle him a large sum of money by way of annuity. Ttie utn
required was 33,0004 and the plaintiff's contributiOn to that
Sum was 1,2001. The defendant went to Gibbs' office in Cork..
street, Burlington:gardens, the day appointed fin granting the
annuity, when Giubs produced from his pocket a number of
notes; which he stated to amount to 1,2001. and which he said
was to be the eonsideration for which the present annuity was
to be granted at the rate of 121. per cent. interest for the ldan.
The affidavit went en to state, tht.t the money was never paid,
actually to the defendant, but retained by Clubs on account of
some former debts due from him in respect of other annuities..
In answer to these statements, Gibbs and two of his clerks
made affidavits' m
in which it was positively sworn that the a.
hey was actually paid to Sir Thomas Champneys. and that he
then signed the deeds, aftei which the clerks lett the room, the
money being at that time in his pocket. The affidavit of Gibbs
then proceeded to state, that when his clerks left the room, ho
reminded Sir T. C. of the purpose for which the aunt had new
raised, and a settlement then took place between them, on
which the defendant returned some of the money he haa're-:
,calved.

Mr. Serjeant LAWEB was heard in support of the rule.
The Court deferred giving judgment till a fature day.

Tlig Of§:

CORN EXCHANGE,' JrixE IG.•
The 4ui)plies of all sorts of Grain last week wore again eon.;
sitlerable ; this inclining the quantities of Corn fresh up lire
tolerably good, so that there lice very large show of samples of
nearly all kinds of Grain; the Millers have made scarcely
any purchases of Wheat, and this trade is excessively 11u11, a:
2s. to 33.. per quarter reduction from the prices or this day
sennight ; Barley fin& very few buyer* and with ditUulty
supports last Monday's prices ; Beans are very dull, and tigaia
rattier lower ; in Peas of both kinds there.is but little Hein;;,
and are cheaper. The Oat market continties to be overdone
with large quantities, and althotigh the prima have suirereil
further decline of Is. per quarter since last Monday, yet there
are but few sales. The Flour trade remains exceedingly hoar,:
Whesit, Med • • 4(hs 82x Pease, White 44s
White 411 s MI IS Grey 3 37s
Rye 34a 38s Beans ....,....;.,2213a 3tis
Barley 30s 40s Oatsis
Malt 4t.: CAR Flour .
ARILIVALS LAI7 wrim.
English Wheat, B,4so—liarky,
30,773—8ean5, 1,325--Peas, 41I—Irish Oats, 4,030—Enc141.
Flour, 12,170. •

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN 11,7 V.WGLAND AN vcrst.l.*•
Wheat, Ills. 7d. ; 13ttiley, 341. 3d. ' • Oats, 275. id. ;
375. tid. ; Beans, Ms. lid ; 13043,47:1.1d.
The Average Price of Brown or hi usovadatisgar,coropottd
from the Returns rustle in the NV[ ‘vk ending the 11th t.44.f
June, 1823, is 325. IV. per cwt.'.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, trk
There was a good supply this morning of all deirriptims (vs
Cattle, brit the trade w:ui uii, tuul'the prl!es or all Cods
meat is much lower partiettlarlY-Beef, w/4/t Is near pfa
stone lower titan 40'111011140.N market.
To sink the ozi, pe r stone of Mb.
Beef :is Oa to 4 fk t Veal
mutton 3s od ifs 4* Otl Pork
Lamb 44 Ot u, 45s &t,

/TAY A)(1) STRAW I.Vlt
flay ... to'-e4 1 RAW,
£3 lei tos,t4
etrinv 12 6r to .I`2 104.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 16.

.‘ •
TIMEN
A vessel has arrived in the river which left
Barcelona in the latter end of April,- and es;till
'the' communications frorn thence have lately been
very imperfect, and frequently, perhaps, stopped
.in-their, way through France, it has become of
.importance, though a little out of date, to'ascer-
tain the' real state of the city at that peried.--
. The Captain reports, that the Oservation he
was enabled to makeiduringia stay there of some
duration,.convinces him _that the population
.is
;-entirely unanimous itv favour of the Constitution;
and also disposed to make every . sacrifice to
maintain it, As an instance .of this devotion, he
mentions that there has been inscribed in large
:letters, along the fronts of the houses in the
,principal street, the whole of. the Articles, of
-the Constitution. The Charter by which
they hold their liberties is' thus exposed to
. the daily.contemlilation of the people. Mina was
perfectly adored by them, and the greatest con-
fidence was placed in the result of his operations:
- His requisitions in money were supplied wit-
- Tingly, and in a few hours..after being demanded.
Its last claith on them was, not for money, but
for 10,000 tri-coloured cockades, in which the
general observed that he couldnot thee diSclose
to the goad people of Barcelona' to what purpose
they were to be applied, but he had no doubt
of rendering such an account of them hereafter as
would give. universal. satisfaction. Tarragona
and other place; on the were also strongly
devoted to the Constitution. At the periOd of
the attempt on Valencia by the Army of the
Faith, the Militia of llarcelona' volunteered
marchipg to, its relief, though at a distance of
more than 150 miles. They returned in high
order, and discipline, after having accomplished
that, object... _
.The friends. of Spain and Portugal cannot be
too much on their guard against the devices of the
conuneo. enemy, by whose agency every political
occurrence beyond the Pyrenees is distorted, if
unfavourefile to his views, and if otherwise,
grossly exaggerated, before the public here arid
in France are permitted to hear any thing about
it. The telegraphic message circulated on Sa-
turday concerning a revolution, or pretended re-
volution, in Portugal, may very possibly turn out
to be,,,a trick of some sort, having for its ground-
work nothing more than one or snore changes in
the Cabinet. At all events, it is sufficiently
,plain, thatif one part, of the news were true, the
rest of it must have been a fabrication ; for if, as
the French liberal papers justly remark, all the
troops except a. single regiment had deClared
against. the Constitution on the 28th, can any one
believe that the Cortes, which form the essence of
that Censtitution, would on the 30th have been
exercising its ordinary functions as a deliberative
assembly,.? We can state that no official intelli-
gence of any Such, alleged revolution has reached*
London.-7(./bid.)

[MORNING (AMON IMO
The II!' W S reciyed from 'Lisbon on SatOrday, by
, the way. of. Fratice, of a revolution having broken
out there, at, first created considerable. alarm, a.;
Jndeed ,l 1 new events connected
.with the Pen-
insula necessarily must do, at a moment when
public anxiety is'so much on the stretch. The
impression, however, in the course of yesterday,
was considerably. weakened, owing to several
in-
consistencies with which the :report is accom-
panied, and as very _properly noticed in the
Carrier Francois. Up to the present-.moment, the
-whole story appears a, tissue of Improbabilities.
That the French hive 'made, every, Preparation
fora revolution in. LiSbon, by the expenditure
of large' sums of money,, by sending agents
thither, aufl by sowing Aissen4ons even among
thenoyal no new fart ;:their plans,

as welt as :the, parties who were to carry
them into execution,. have Jou been known and
counteracted. How, therefore, they could all at

once base succeeded, appears matter of great
astonishment.. Unfortunately, till the arrival of
a fresh packet, miw, daily expected, there are no
means of contradicting. the French bulletin ; but,
in all probability,,it ,will ,then turn, out that the
_chief part of the report was made up' in Paris,
The last advices ,received from Lisbon direct
only COMO, Ili), to the 25111, owing to the packet
having touched at Vigo ; but at that, time every
thing was quiet,, and the army and people satis-
fied That a.Rovolution of such a nature could
have been effected in two days is perfectly Ulla.-
COUII f hie. One
,regimen,t,,of , the jarrison was
from Oporto, and it was one of those that first de-
clared in favour of the Revolution there. The
other troops were supposed to be equally enthu-
siastic. As the Courier Francois very justly ob-
serves, the concluding part of the telegraphic
dispatch, of which the public are deprived, might
possibly have explained the inconsistencies with
.which it abounds. A Jail, effort may have been
made by 'the' French army and their abettors ;
but, if the Cortes were still sitting on the 30th,
and the King had .pledged his adherence to the
Contaitolion—a circumstance very naturally ex-.
ported, from the whole tenour of his past con-
ditct since he arrived in Portugal.-:-it is very
likely the attempt will be the forerunner of a
Fresh triutmph to the liberal. party.