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regarded. the selling of guineas. It was but
just, •tii:4 ,Whoever- received' paper in legal pay-
ment .shonld not ne compelled by law to pay any
thing else than what he had received. As to the
penalties by. law for preventing the exportatiOn of
gold, coin, when a higher price was to be procured
for 'it in foreign markets, At writers agreed, and
experience concurred in demonstrating, that even
if tir6 penalty were death, the thing could not be
:revented. Colbert bad .said, that if _a wall of
brass .were built round the kingdom, the gold
coin would .find some chink by whickit would dis-
appear, and fintlt.its way to.the foreign markets:
He could not vote for this „Bill on any of the
grounds stated by the Chancellorof the Exche-
gaer, The Government had got into a difficulty
from theappos.ite of those principles which he en-
tert,ined, ' and be could not see how they could
extricate themselves from this difficulty..

After a few voiAS from Mr. BUTTERWORTH and
Alderman ArktNs, the House divided on the
Amendment of Mr, Creevey

For the Amendment
Agaitist it •
Majority..

..129
.----110

The original question was then put, and theßill
was read a second time, and ordered7,-. to a Com-

mittee to-morrow

On the motion oC the CHANCELLOR of .the Ex-
CHE4UER, the House resolved itself into a Con-
mittee on the Sugar Brewery MI. The itestAn-
tions r.'erc read no atrreed to.

Mr. Caoiaa - inovcd for leave to bring in.a Bill
to amend an Act passed in.. the last Session, re-
specting the Intertourse between' thecislands of
St. Domingo .and Jamaica.,--,Leave given'. The
Bill was then read a first time, and ordered to be
rad a secowl time to-morrow.

The household Amendment Bill was read a
first time, and ordered to be reach ]. second .time on
Thursday next. '
The. Malt Duties Dill was read a first tithe, and
ordered to be read a second time to-i►iorrow.
Adjourned at nine.

LAW REPORT.

COURT, OF KING's BENCH,'Dt. S.

THE KIN V. COLLIN AND. THIRTY,-FOUR OTHERS.
This a; as an indictment charging the defendants,
who are journeymen curriers, with a conspiracy
to raise their wages.
Mr. PARE having stated the. case on. the part of
the prosecution, adduced a witness, who proved a
conspiring. together on the part of eleven of the
defendants, to compel, their masters to agree to a
higher rats of wages than that hitherto allowed;
that the proposition of the journeymen to the lairs-.
tors was rejected,•about the 10th of Mardi last,
on which the whole of the journeymen struck,
ex-
.cept those to whom their masters agreed to alloiv the
advance and that they confirmed to refuse to work,
till within the last seven or eight weeks, being, in
the mean time, sopported out of funds previously
collected for the purpose, and having tickets-,
by which they were enabled to live free of ex-
pence, into whatever part of the country they
chose to go, being thereby certified to their coun-
try brethren persons deserving of support.
About seven or eight weeks since, however, they
bad all returned to their cluty.-.
Lord ELLErnottouoti here suggested, the great
end of Justice
,being thus attained, whether it
might not be sufficient to take it verdict against
those eleven persons, and to allow them to remain
as hostages for the good behaviour of the trade in
general, not to be brought up for judgment, ex-
cept in the event of the conspiracy being conti-
nued, or breaking out afresh. ,
This humane suggestion wasiordifilly embraced
on both sides and a verdict of Guilty" against
the eleven persons specially pointed out, was ta-
ken, subject W the above understanding.

CRINI. CON.

CHAMBERLAINE V. BROOMHEAD.

• This was an action of trespass, by which the
plaintiff, a Gentleman connected with the parkas
sailing
.between this country and Lisbon, sought
• to iecover from the defendant, -a Lieutenant in
' the Navy, a compensation ip damages, for critni-
. nal conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
• The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in stating the case,
admitted that it
.was not one of an aggravat-
ed nature, or where the Jury could feel them-
selves called on to give any thing like. great • da,-.
mats. • The wife was a person whom any has-
band must wish tO get quit of, and the defendant
was somewhat to be pitied in having fallen into
such an unfortunate connection. The object of,
the-plaintiff in bringing this. action, was not so
much to recover damages, as to be enabled to go
for a remedy elsewhere ; and 'also to guard against
the thrusting upon him of a spurious offspring,
it having been given out that his wife was with
child by the defendant.
From the evidence, -it app-eared that the plain
tiffand his wife had not lived together, nor even,
seen each other, for several years paSt, the plain-
tiff having till lately-resided in Lisbon, whence lee
• sent his Wife home, in consequence of he'r miscon-
duct, several years ago. She appeared to be an.
abandoned character, ail a habitual drunkard.;

and that the defendant, who lodged in the same
house with her, was not the only person with
whom she had been connected. The husband,
however, it appeared, had pot abandoned her to
prostitution, but, that the sum of 61.25. sd. was.
paid to her by an Agent, regularly every month.
Lord ELLENRO,ROUGH, when the case had pro-
ceeded so far, said, he could not advise the Jury
in the exercise of a sound discretion, to give more
than nominal damages, and the law would not
allow them to give less.
Mr. BROUGHAM submitted that in such a- case,
the defendant was entitled to a verdict. What be
'went upon was the separation of the patties for a
slumber of years.
Lord EL LENi3OROUGH asked, was the separa-:
tion by writing? . .
Mr. BROUGHAM admitted it was not:
, LORD ELLENBOROUGH said, if the separation
was not of such a nature as to have occasioned an
=actual Cessation of the controul.which a husband
told over his wife, lie should-hold that sltch set.

,
paration was- no bar to the present aetiOn. ri;§
Lordship had stated by anticipation What he
shOuld lay down
,as the law Of the case, and if thc
Learned Counsel was not satisfied; lie night
file a Bill of Exceptions to the law as so laid
down.

Mr. BrtovoatAm begged,. in a few words, to be
allowed
`to state to his Lordship What he should;
be able to skew were the facts of this case, and
having taken his Lordship's opinion on the effect,
of them, he surely should not consume the time
of the Court in entering into any evidenee, if, his
Lordship should be of opinion, that the facts pro-
posed to be given in evidence would not avail 'him.
What he purposed shewing was this, that, in wn-
sequence of an act of adultery committed by plain-
tiff's Wife, 6 years ago, in Lisbon, he had separated
from her, and sent her' home to this country.—
Slie first, went to Exeter, where, atter remaining
some time she bad come to town; and lived in a
variety of hOuses,,some of them of very indifferent
fame ; being treated by her husband quite as an
abandoned person, amt one with whom he neither
had, nor would have, any intercourse The plain-
tiff had been twice in this country previous to his
final return to it from Lisbon, -avd, on neither of
thoce occasions had he inquired for or seen her.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said,' unless. the license of
the plaintiff could be sheWn to have been given to
the abandoned life of his wife, all that the Learn-
ed Counsel had stated would nor be sufficient.
this might happen to an innocent husband, -forced
to separate froth his wife.. His Lordship was not
prepared to say that the plaintiff was that negli-
gent husband, who,,by his own act, was precluded
from the present action. If art Learned Counsel
wished', however, to re-agitate all that had passed
on this subject, his Lordship should lay (Iowa"
the laW as he. already stated it to be, and the
Learned 'Counsel might t4e his Bill of Ex-
ceptions.
Mr. G 'l4 AN then shortly addressed the Jury,
declaring-that to his client., a, wounded and inva-
lid Lieutenant in the Navy, who bad. only his
half-pay to support him, a verdict, though only'
for a shilling damages, as it must carry costs,
would be equal to a sentence of imprisoanient for
life. If this was to by the punishment inflicted
on the defendant he begged of the Jury to look
into their own breasts, and then to say, if the
jury done to the plaintiff was of sut:h magnitude
as to require so great an atonement ?
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, he -would not insult
the good sense of the jnry, by insinuating that
there could be a doubt as to the fact of the adultery
having been coLtnnitted. „Then as to the law, it
was-clear. 'lfa man was accessary to his own wrong,
or privy and consenting to it, then could he not be,
entitled to maintain such-an action as this ? This,
however, was not the case with the present plain
tiff. He had, no doubt, for several years,. lived
separately from his wife; but was he on this ac-
*count to be._obliged to let her down to every spe-
cies of degradation•=to become like the common
highway, for every foot to tread on—and to intro-
duce to him, as his own, a spurious offspring ?
Surely he was not. - What blemish was there in
hi, conduct ? He had been noder the necessity of
separating from a bad wife, but had not, repounced
his eontroul over her, nor had he abandoned her to
want. In point of law, therefore, the, plaintiff was
entitled to damages ; but in the'circutnstances of
the ease, those damages would be the smallest
which could be' given. As to the consequences
likely to be produced to the defendant, that was a
subject which he ought sooner to have taken into
consideration. •

The jury asked, would is. damages carry costs?
Lord ELL ENSOROUGH said, in this case it would.

The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages Is.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH then said, the object of
the plaintiff was to 'obtain a divorce, which he
could not have till once he had got a verdict at
Common Law,

CRIM. COW.

DUNDAS, ESQ. t 9,, LORD SEMPILL.

The S
_OLICITOR-GENERAL'said, there could hard-
ly. be conceived a more 'striking contrast between
two actions of thesame kind, than that which the
present action exhibited, when-compared with the
case which had just been disposed of. The plain-
tiff was R. Dundas, Esq. son of a highly respect-
able Writer to the Signet, the term by which the
higher class of Solicitors in Scotland were deno-
Minuted. The defendant was a :Nobleman, the
Representative of an ancient and respectable fa-
mily, also of that kingdom, having a fortune of
not less than 100,0001. and who, by deep intrigue,
had succeeded in alienating from the plaintiff the
affections of a beautiful and accomplished wife,
who, till seduced by thg arts of the defend-
ant, had been esteemed a, pattern for other
wives, in her rank in society. That the de-
fendant succeeded too well in alienating from
the plaintiff the affections of his wife was ap-
parent froth- this circumstance, that he was
actually, at 'this moment, living with her in
a state of adultery.- There Nyould,-.this day, be no'
defence set up on the part of the defeßdant but,
the Jury; afar hearing the evidence that would
be laid before theist, would not fail in giving to the
plaintiff such a Compensation in damages 'as
should spew that the plaintiff had been a kind and
affectionate husband, and that his wife had not,
till the moment the Learned Counsel had been
talking of,, forfeited the :character of a kind and
affectionate wife.

It was proved by Captain Smith,, uncle, to the
plaintiff, that -he was married to his present wife;
who was his cousin, and whose name also was
Dundas, at tbe church of St. Clement Dahes, in.
the year 1805 • 'she being then 22 or 23., years of
age, and the Plaintiff about ten years older., .The
same. witness, and 74r. Thomas Irving, Navy Pay
Office, and a Miss Colquhoun, also proved that
the plaintiff and his wife lived together in the
highest apparent happiness he being a most kind
and affectionate husband:, and she an equally kihd
and affectionate wife, there seeming to be the most
perfect love and confidence between them. Mr.
Irving stated, that the plaintiff possessed property
in Sweden ; of which country he Was alloblernan ;
that his wife and he had' been in the use of visiting
that cotmtry every year, for thG sake of looking
after their affairs there ; that for the last two years
the plaintiff had .gone by himself, leaving his wife

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