The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

BOWLER V. BROWN.

This was an action brought by an attorney to
recover 9/. 16s. for business done for the defendant.
Evidence was given of the business having been
done, and of the plaintiff's charges being fair and
reasonable. The defence was that the plaintiff was
not a certificated attorney at the time the business
was done. Attorney's certificates are taken out on
the 16th of November. The plaintiff did not take
out. his certificate for 1831 until the 13th Novem-
ber, only three days before the time for which it
was granted would expire.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that the taking
out of a certificate at any time before the expira-
tion of the year would entitle the plaintiff to reco-
ver kr business done previous to the certificate
being taken out.

Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Dl. 169.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

ALLEGED ABDUCTION OF MR. MILLS, JUN.—
Yesterday Mr. Mills, jun., stated to have been
forcibly detained on board ship by Captain Gaylor,
and Mr. Brown, who succeeded by a manoeuvre in
rescuing him from his bondage, waited upon the
LORD MAYOR to detail the circumstances of the
extraordinary case.
After Mr. Brown delivered a statement of the
facts of the case, to the truth of which he expressed
a wish to be sworn, Mr. Mills read his own depo-
sition, which detailed the facts of his abduction in
terms similar to those already given to the public.
It appears, that when the Captain and Mr. Mills
got on board the ship, the Captain asked the depo-
nent if he knew where he was going ? "Yes (said
deponent), I am going as far as Gravesend with you."
" No," said the Captain, " you are not ; you are
my prisoner, arid shall go back again to Demerara
with me." Deponent was thunderstruck, and said,
" For God's sake, Gaylor, you don't mean what
you say." " Yes, indeed, William, I do," said the
Captain; " Bow you can write to your friends and
let them know how you are situated, and the devil
shan't take you out of the ship. I have got you
now, and you must go back with me." Deponent
immediately wrote a letter and sent it ashore by
the pilot's son at Gravesend. Before the ship got
to Gravesend the same night, at about twelve
o'clock, the deponent got up and went ont of the ca-
bin ; the Custom-house officer was sitting by the fire
in the cabin, the pilot was lying on the sofa, and
the Captain was in his state-room in bed. The
Captain, upon hearing the deponent go out of the
cabin, called out to the custom-house officer, who
followed deponent wherever he went. After some
immaterial occurrences, deponent went again into
his cabin, and at half-past six o'clock he got up.
The Captain rose soon after, and asked him how
he slept, and he said " Not at all ;" and added that
there was a pilot's boat along-side in the night.
"Yes," said the Captain, "it was the pilot's boat,
and if I had seen you dare make any attempt to
leave the vessel, I would put you in irons imme-
diately, and put you below; and not only that, but
if I had seen you attempt to get into the boat, I
have a brace of pistols in my state-room, which
are loaded for you, and I would have shot you im-
mediately if I had seen you attempt to leave with
the boat. Moreover, I have put a watch over you
night and day."
The LORD MAYOR said that the statement was
certainly one of a most romantic character, and the
publicity which had been given to the assertions in

accusation and in vindication, was calculated to do
much good, by deterring men from unduly exer-
cising the power which their professional circurn
stances clothed them with. The pilots were right
in one thing. Mr. Mills had not been put in irons,
but the case appeared to be quite bad enough with-
out that species of aggravation.