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London, England, 1834-02-04 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 3.

FRE'NDBURY AND OTHERS V. JONES.
In this case, which was not concluded yesterday
when we went to press, the Jury found a verdict
for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 3.

M'ANDREW V. ADAMS.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to
recover compensation from the defendant for a breach
of covenant.

The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, subject
to points reserved by the Judge, with liberty to
enter a nonsuit.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT, FEB. 1.

BARNES V. COLONEL HAMPTON AND ROBERTS AND

ALKEN.

The plaintiff in this cause was Mr. William
Barnes, jeweller and silversmith, in Henrietta-
street, Cavendish-square, who, by a process peculiar,
we believe, to this Court, sought to obtain a sum of
money in the hands of Messrs. Roberts and Aiken,
solicitors, Copthall-buildings, alleged to belong to
Colonel Robert Hampton, in the right of his wife,
against whom he (the plaintiff) had a demand of
about 7501. for jewellery and plate alleged by him
to have been furnished to her.

Mr. Gurney, on the pact of the plaintiff, said
this was a process by which a creditor who was un-
able to find the person of the debtor, but who had
found money belonging to him, could attach that
money. The first proceeding, therefore, in the pre-
sent case, would be to find whether the garnishees,
Messrs. Roberts anti Aiken, had moneys in their
hands belonging to Colonel Hampton, and if so, to
require to have the keeping of those moneys as part
security for the plaintiff's debt. All present, he
expected, knew the peculiar circumstances of the
case, and he should only refer to them on those
points where it was necessary for the interest of the
cause. The plaintiff, Mr. William Barnes, was a
silversmith ; the defendant was Colonel Robert
Hampton, in the East India Company's service,
now abroad, who was indebted to the plaintiff about
7501. for jewellery furnished to his wife. The gar-
nishees, Messrs. Roberts and Alken, had money in
their hands, belonging to Mrs. Hampton,which motley
the plaintiff now sought to obtain. Some time ago
Mrs. Colonel Hampton employed Ann Vickers, her
maid-servant, to pledge certain articles of jewellery to
redeem other jewellery. According to the orders she
had received, Ann Vickers did so, and after the trans-
action a balance was left in her hands of about 351.
This sum Ann Vickers took with her to Margate,
where Mrs. Hampton then was ; but when she gave
the money to her mistress, in place of admitting that
she had authority for what she had done, to her
great surprise, Mrs. Hampton handed the money
over to Mr. Tuffnell, and gave her into custody on a
charge of felony. The proceedings on this charge
terminated in the acquittal of Ann Vickers. The
money given to Mr. Tuffnell was placed in the
hands of Messrs. Roberts and Aiken, the solicitors,
who conducted the case. It might, perhaps, be
alleged on the part of the garnishees, that they had
a el-dm on this sum for expenses incidental to the
prosecu-ion, but he should be enabled to prove that
those gentlemen had been employed by Mr. Wm.
Tuffnell, and not Mrs. Hampton, therefore it was to
that gentleman they were to look for their costs. It
would be sufficient for the plaintiff's case to show
that Messrs. Roberts and Alken had 35/. in their
hands which had been taken from Ann Vickers.
After evidence had been given, at some length,
a verdict was found for the defendants.
A few minutes after the verdict was returned
Schofield, an officer of Marlborough-street, got into
the box to make an application to the Court, and
to protest against a proceeding on the part of Mr.
William Barnes. He had in his custody certain
duplicates of valuable property found, together with
Mr. William Barnes's amorous epistles to Ann
Vickers, in her box. In order to obtain possession
of this property Mr. Barnes had served him with a
subpoena some time ago, in order to get him into
the city, that he might serve him with a process
from the Lord Mayor's Court. He had no evi-
dence to give in that case; but as soon as he got as
far as Bartlett's-buildings, he had been served with
this process by Mr. Barnes. He had of course at-
tended to the subpoena, which was for the case just
concluded, although he had no evidence to give.
'While its Court Mr. Barnes had served him with
another process, relative to the property in his pos-
session. He had therefore, he considered, been
twice inveigled by Mr. Barnes into the city in order
to suit his particular object.
RECORDER
the RDER
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discharged application,
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A gentleman named Whitehead next got up, and
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subpoena
said he too had some property ID his possession be-
longing to Mrs. Hampton, in order to get at which
Mr. Barnes had adopted the same line of conduct
towards him.

The Court directed both these patties to retire
and make affidavits of those facts, which being done,
the Learned RECORDER, after some very strong and
pointed remarks on the step taken by Mr. Barnes,
granted a rule nisi.

SURREY SESSIONS, FEB. 3.

IMPORTANT APPEAL.

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At the Adjourned Sessions, which commenced
this day, the Court was occupied the greater part of
the day in hearing an appeal against a rate at which
a gas manufactory at Kingston-upon-Thames was
assessed.

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with encouragement, was opposed strongly by the
maltsters, a trade carried on to a considerable extent
in the town. When the maltsters found that they
could not succeed in smashing the manufactory in
its infancy by information as a nuisance, they
adopted other steps, which were also unattended
with success; and lastly, had recourse to a meeting at
vestry, at which the appellant's manufactory was
assessed at 2001. per annum, a sum considerably be-
yond that at which he should have been rated. To
show the haste with which proceedings were taken