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London, England, 1802-06-14 00:00:00

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Amp' da Was teptated on Saturday, and tecelvt4
with increased applause, All that we have, indeed,
said of this charming composition is more than
tified by its success. Though this is a serious
Opera, the music is so contrived as to redeye the'
melancholy tenor of the Fate; and the loves 01'
Rinaldo and Armide, derive additional interest trona
the charms of harmony.
BANTI, stimulated, no doubt, by the high repu-
tation of a rival performer, exerts all her pow•:r and
all her skill. The result has augmented her e.ken
fatoe, and abundantly gratified the Public.-.--Sne
never sung better than on Saturday last, and in he.r
chief Air was loudly encored. To procure this en-
core Lord GALLowAY most heroically led the ,tn,
and was enthusiastically followed by the Ata.lleoce
in general.
The incidental Dance went-of very well, and
Mad. LABORIE appeared to great advantage.—
The Machinery was managed with precision, and
certainly with great eclat. The Magic Woed
suddenly converted from dun shadows into the bril-
liant horrors of• the infernal regions, prc,thiced
very fine etfea. But even this spielioid scerx sunk
into comparative _usignificancc when the erwrin irnr3
coup d'ail was exhibited. The appearance of Ar-
rnida's magnificent Palace, falling in bl,z7ng
the Dragons disgorging flames, and the sk,:vir
fire, altogether pre,enred a scene of suJi varied
grandeur, as powerfully' impressed the imagination.
The concluding Dance was /ma, wliic;4 is it
shewyand not an uninteresting Ballet, and n hich was
very much indebted for its effet to the LABORIES,
D'EGVILLE, and.Htt.t.tcsnrAtc.

The House was briiliah6v at►ended, and there
was such a shew of British Beauty, as might have:
defied comparison with the boasted graces of Cir.-

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REPORT.

COURT OF' KING's 10fk:E•12.,

WIT7ING6 BEFORE LOR.D.ELLEYEOP.O.UGII AND A ArEcSAL
JURY IN. WESTLIINSTE.B. HALL.
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T.IIE KING .V?, THE it.EVIR ND THONIAS WILLIS,'

AVD, 01'41EltS:4

_ THIS was a Prosecution against the Reverend-
Thomas Willis, and, two Other Yery eridnent'
-Gentlet4n, rnhaiiitatitS:Of the Parisheslif St. Gil.&;
and Sr. George,. -Bloomsbury; and Vestrymen -• of
said Parishes ; by way.of indiament, charging:
.that they, as such Inhabitant's and Vestrymen; him-
-ing: the role; mAnageirlept, diretlion, and conduCt
of such Parishes', conspired'ioge.ther to hire -a large
house, .a.nd- ,sohire such hduse; in -l)eati.street,
in. the Parish of St. Anne, Soho, in the "city of
Westminster; 0.41 d did causti into be filled with•seve-
--ral 'Nor Children, iliac iS" to -.Say, s'Ci,PoOr
and Nurses, ais4 Other •Ateen.clarits-,: in all to
the 613100- of eleven„ ,'Ac. wheir.hy the Parish of
St. An was injured,, inastnuch as,Jhat the'aggre-
gate„ofsUchChildrcir.mighti by'theirbeing crowd-
ed together, contagious: diseases—might
disturb the neighbourhood, anti which pdually did
or-tiouses ro -couside I ably
in sde, or renr, in Dean street, and its neighbour-
boOd, -to the inj:ry of the inhabitants of the hirish
of St.. Anne,:&c. •

The idea of Conspiracy
,was given on at once,
for nothing was imputed to these •Honourable•Gen-
elljmen, but that they were the Man2gers of the
'Affairs of the two •PariSligs of Sc. Giles
Gorge, and held Vestries to carry the business'of
these l'arishs.intoeffecl, but that what. they .did was
; sin d the substance''Of die complaint was
this, that, while there was rOorl, in their own
ParishrOo contain theii.. Poor, they ought to-keep
theni.there, but that-they had not a right to go in-
to
another Parish, and take a place for the reception
of their Poor; thereby to annoy such Parish, and
put it to such inconveniences as such a thin must
produce :7—and it was said, that. this i'to'secution
was brought forvard for the purpose of having the
question ( Law put triion.the Record, and to have
a SpeCial Verdl found, ip-, order, that if the Prose,
cutors should think necessary, the matter might:go
to the House of Lords ;. and ,that •if,it should appear
that the Defendants had,a right, to do this. by the

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law as it now stood, -application might he made.
to Parliament.. There was no dispute upon, the
facts, for these' lionourabie Gentlemen admitted
them; and aliedged, that they_ had done.nothing
more than that which they had a tight to do, for
that some time ago, being-, hurtheneo:with Poor .to
a greater extent than formerly; they hired the
Rouse in question, for the accommodation- of such
Poor, to separate the sick from the healthy, &c. &c.
The eviden.ce consisted of the' opinion of an
eminent SurVeyOr,- who said that the,houses in the
neighbourhood of •this place, would not let for as
much rent now as if this- Poor-house was not
cre,ticd, fze.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH laid down the Rule of
Law most ably in this Case, in the course of which
he
,observed, amongst other things, that before there
could be any Conspiracy, it Must appear that the
Parties either had in view an illegal object,' and'
met for the purpose of carrying it into effea. ; or
having a legal objea in view, corsspircd to carry it
into effeLfi by illegal means, neither of which was
the Case here, and so there could be no Conspfr.icy.
That as to- a NUisance, the evil must be general be- •
fore there could be any public nuisance: it was not
enough that some houses might be lowered in rent in
consequence of this house being thus occupied; that
might be the case if the house had been turned into
a School-house, for within the noise of a School, it
was not likely that people would dwell if they had
ti choice ; the same thing might be said of a Mann_
faCture,- and yet none of these things could be held
to be a- Nui,,ance unless they. became ,s 6. from t!lc
excess in the use of'thcm. It was not enough that
contagious distempers might arise from such a place,
there must be some aauul existing complaint before
the place could be deemed a Nuisance; a School was
capable of creating.a contagioas_distemper from a
number of children being together, but it was not
i Nuisance on the bare prosperof its being likely
to produce that effect.; nor' was a Small Pox Hos-
' pital a Nuisance on account of thepossibility of con--
tagion being produced by it ; and that had been ex-
pressly :held, and therefore there was no more.Niii-
sauce than there was ccipspiracy. ._There eculd
be
no doubt but that any privateindiVidualsnight have .
hired thiS house for this purpose,
.and that-'there
could be no complain,ron- that account, unicis it be, -
came a Nuisance from the use of. it ; and what one
indiv idu:a might do,..the,s'e Gentlemen afting for a.
Parish, might do, and; therefore upon the_wnole of
this Case his•LbrdshiP could see no point-of Law to
be reserved, and. there could not be any' Special
Verdict without and,
reservation of some point of
Law, the- result of which was that these Gentlemen
were clearly entitled to their acquittal.'
The Jury immediately pronounced the. Defend.
ants -Not Guilty. ,
This is a .mere deseriptive, sketch of this Case,
which is of great importance, and which we shall;
therefore, -detail on_ the first opportunity, and re-
commend it to the scriotts attention of our Readers,
for although the Case itself be perfedly clear in
point of Law,. yet Many excellent things were said
in the course of its-discussion.

On this evening we find will be performed,at the
Royal Circus, for the. Ist time these seven years,
.that favourite
,produaion named the Spring Meet-
ing, in which will be introduced the much admired
Polley Races, which have afforded such-capital en-
, tertainment to every_tirele ; also, for the first. and
only. time, Miss Satinders, sister to, the celebrated
:Mas'ter Saunders, will -mah.-e her appearance on
horseback.—These attraefions, together with- so
interesting'a Piece as 'the Fatal Predidion, or Mid-
night Assassin, and the' popular 'produftion of the
Enchanted Ilarp, cannot- fail of drawing a most
crowded Audience, and at an early hour.

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