The Sun.
London, England, 1805-05-08 00:00:00

LAW ite.POta.

COURT of KING's BENCit, %gems:sift-re, MAY 7.
MK Court was occupied the early part of this
morning in hearing law arguments, wholly unin.
terming to the Public.
Mr. WOOD moved for leave to file a criminal
information against WM. Prichard for sending a
challenge to, and publishing klibel against, Mr.
Daniel Dickinson.
He stated, that Mr. Dickinson was a respee.table
Attorney, residing at tilverston, and alto a Captain
of a Company in the Ulversion Volunteers.
Prichard was an Agent or Traveller for Mr.
Vaughan, Merchant •of Liverpool, and lived at that
place. On the 3d of July last the former was ap-
plied to by the latter, in his professional capacity,
and received his authority to proceed fur the reco.
very of a debt from one Stanley, and accordingly a
Writ was sued out ; hut the parties afterwards met
together and settled the business, Mr. Dickinson
then made out his Bill of Costs, and waited upon
Pilchard with it, who threw it into the middle of
the floor, and said he had nothing to do with it.—
Mr. D. retired, and Prichard sent it back with
some writing at the bottom, signifying that he had
given no orders Sru such proceeding. Soon after
Dickinson served it regularly, and the next day he
found it stuck up at the Market-place with the same
writing upon it, and at the top, " This is Dickin.
son's Bill." He then sent to know whether ?rich..
and meant so deny his handwriting to the autho.
rity he had given tor the proceedings against Stan-
ley,
and received for answer that Mr. Prichard
had sent a letter to the Post Office for him, which
wanild convince him he was a Gentleman He went,
to the Post Office, askd there found an unsealed Let.
ter, direCted to him, dated " Ulversion, 3311 of ja..
nuary, and signed by Prichard, to the fol.
lowing erred
" R —Wt. have said that I denied my hand-writing
you are a hart I never did (Icily it, and will be found when-
ever•you wish to we inc."
Mr.Dicktritam took no notice at that time of the
letter; but when the month had elapsed after scr.
vice of the Bill of Costs, he sued out An Attach-
ment of Privilege, against Prichard, fur the Costs;
and co Sunday the, ilt of March, on his return
from church with his Company of Volunteers, he
was informed that another poper_had been stuck up
at the Market.ctoss, which he accordingly went to
see, and found nearly as follows, entitled..." Come
and read."
" Two months ago, Daniel Dickinson said, that bad de-
tiled my haAd.writing • I told him he was a liar, and will
tell him so slain : I 'never did deny it, and am ready to
meet this mighty military man at the Court of Common
Pleas, at Lancaater, at any where else."
The Leitined Counsel expatiated upon such gross
condu&t towards a Professional Centleman, and one
hearing, an honourable Commission in so respectable
a Corps. The re,eated aggravation of the offence,
and tell the circumstances of the ease, lie trusted,
would induce the Court to grant the information.
Lord ELLINBO/OUGH having asked the rank and
condition in life of the parties, and taking the dif.
Went times in which the matters were transacted
into his consideration, was of oPinion that the party
might have preferred a Bill of Indietment to, the
Grand Jury at the last Assizes. He observed, that
iboogh the principal object of granting infatuations'
was to prevent the breach of the peace, yet, without
meaning any disrespect to those parties, his .wish
was to resist the necessity of such applications,
and he thought the readiest way to obtain redress,
and the heat viotation against the like abuses, was
,by Bill of Indlittnent. The motion, therefore, was
refused.
Lord ELLeneolnucts, at the rising of the Court,
intimated that judgment would be pronounced on
"Itturstlay next in the cases of the King to. Price, and
the King m. Creece, both contitted of perjury on
the late Middlesex Elation, the Sittings atter last
Hilary Term.