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ARIS, itIEC. 4.

General HATstt, Senator, died sttddenly on the
30th ult. of a fit of apoplexy.
The Prefects having requested of the Minister of
War, some explanation as to the Exechtion of the
Law relative to Conscripts, the Minister has an-
swered them, that all the dispositions prescribed in
that reaped, are to be literally fulfilled, and that
they will not be modified by Government.
On Wednesday the Conscripts of the Sixth Dis-
trid, assembled at the Mayoralty House, quarrelled
amongst themselves ; the Guard interfered, but
were attacked by the Conscripts. A Patrole of
Dragoons came to the support of the Guard, and
overpowered the Conscripts. In the conflia, one
individual was killed, and several wounded. Twen-
ty-three of the Mutineers have been arrested, and
conducted to Prison.

BERNE, Nov. 25.-L—All the Cantons of Switzer-
land, with the exception of those of Schq,uitz, Uri,
Underwald, and Tesin, have sent their Deputies to
Parisi where the greater part of them have already
arrived. We know nothing certain at present, as
to the mode in which the Congress is to be held ;
it is asserted, however, that the ci-devant French
Ambassadors in Switzerland, the Senator BARTH E.
LEMY and Citizen PERROCH ET, will be united to
Citizen VERNINAC, in order to give their opinions
respeEting the new Constitution.
We learn that HARTMANN of Housietten, RE_
DING, and BALDINGER, of Baden, hitherto detain-
ed at Arbourg, with other Prisoners of State, have
been set at liberty, after giving security to preserve
the public tranquillity, and that they have returned
to their homes, where they are to be subject to the
particular superintendance of the Constituted Au-
thorities.

THE BANKS OF THE ME I N; Nov. 27.—We have
received from Vienna, the important intelligence
that a great part of the City of Constantinople has
been destroyed by an Earthquake, on the 2.6 th of
OEober last.

SCHAFFHAUSEN, NOV. 17.—An order has been
received within these few days from General NEY,
according to which all the French troops cantoned
in Switzerland are to assemble every night on the
signal of alarm being given, and to remain under
arms till break of day. According to the same
order, a French Officer must be present at all the
Post-offices on the arrival and departure of every
Courier, in order to inspet the letters which ar-
rive and depart. We are ignorant whether this
measure is to be attributed to mere suspicion, or to
the alual discovery of some dangerous conspiracy.

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BASLE, Nov. 27.—We have received letters
from the Representatives of different Cantons sent
to Paris, but they do not yet know when the Con_
sulfa will commence its sittings, or how it will be
organized.
NovL 28.—General SE R RAI has set out for the
Griros4 where troubles have broken out, and de-
tached at the same time the i3th Light Demi-bri-
gade, (lately arrived from Berne at' Zurich ) in order
to contribute to the re-establishment of order in that
unfortunate Canton, ao lung dgitatcd by feitaiona
disputing for superiority. There arc various ac-
counts of these troubles which have taken place in
the mountainous distritts of Hanz and Direntis,
and which appear to have been occasioned as much
by the dearness of provisions, and of wheat in par-
ticular, as by political motives.
The Fricktbal is divided into two parties, one of
which has at its head the Prefect TALI E L END FR, and
the Members of the Administrative Chamber ; and
the other, several ci-devant Burgomasters and Bail-
lies. The majority of the people seem to be in fa-
vour of the latter.

The Communes of the Frickthal have sent Depu-
ties to Paris.

•
RAT IssoN, Nov. 24.—Our Magistrate has is-
sued a Decree, by whitl he informs the Inhabitants
of Ratisbon of the approaching occupation of Rails-
bon by the Troops of the Elector Arch-Chancellor
of the Empire.
The Deputation of the Empire held yesterday
its 3bth Sitting. After it had finished the
reading of the Recess, the Directorial Minister
proceeded to calculate the votes. Bohemia de_
dares, that she refers to her preceding reser-
vations, until the conclusion of the Negotiations
entered upon between her Court and the Mediating
Powers, and of which the result is hourly expe&ed.
With regard to the rest, she does not oppose the
propositions of the Deputation. Saxony considers
the proposition merely as a Projet of Recess, as it
leaves many points for future regulation. Branden-
burgh, Bavaria, the Grand Master of the Teutonic
Order, Wurtemburgh, and Hesse Cassel, offered
no observations on the measure; and have voted for
its adoption. Mentz has followed their example,
and consequently the Projet of Recess has been
adopted.

M. GRAND, Advocate to the Regency of the
Prince Bishop of RATISBON, and of the Prince DE
LA TOUR TA'AIS, presented a Memorial, in the
name of the Jews of Germany, in which they de-
mand to be freed from the yoke which still lies heavy
on them, in all quarters ; and to be placed on a si-
milar footing with the other German Citizens ; and
that the Deputation of the Empire should " termi-
nate," (say they) " their glorious labours, in de-
serving well of Humanity, by the re-establishment
of the Jews in the Rights of Men and Citizens."
fittest, Nov. 28.7—The' Corvettes La Torche,
from Martinique, and La CurietlY, from Cayenne,
have been released from quarantine, and have en-
tered the Great Road. The Epidemic Fever which
raged at St. Domingo and Guadaloape, had not ex-
tended its ravages to Martinique.
The vessel La Rhinoceros has entered L'Orient,
from St. Domingo.

The whole Military Force of Sweden consists,
for the present Peace Establishment, of 47,000 men :
of these, 13006 compo3e the standing Army ;
34,000 are an highly disciplined Militia. Of the
Militia, 24,344 are Infantry ; Icrocs Cavalry ; 3,154
Dragoons, &c.
There being. great apprehension of a considerable
rise in the price of Coals, owing to contrary winds,
we are happy to learn that upwards of /lo sail of
Colliers have arrived in the Pool within these three
days, and more arc expelled to arrive every day.

GIBRALTAR, Nov. io.

ON the sth inst. a Spaniard of the name of Con.
zales, who had assassinated a Spanish Gentleman
in Grenada in August last, was delivered up from
the Garrison, where he had fled for refuge, to the
Officers of Justice who went sent in pursuit of him
by the Spanish Government,
The Spanish Government at the same time re-
quested another murderer to be delivered up, who
had assassinated several people some years ago, and
who had also taken shelter in the Garrison. This,
however, His Royal Highness the Governor un-
fortunately found himself restrained from doing,
by the late Treaty of Peace, which only includes
crimes committed subsequently to that period, and
which the villain strongly urged on his being ap-
prehended—His Royal Highness was therefore un.
der the necessity of expressing to the Spanish Com-
mandant the extreme regret he felt at being pre-
cluded by the Articles of the Treaty from also de-
livering that assassin immediately into his hands;
but as murder was a crime .of all others that never
would find protection from a British Garrison, he
should instantly order the villain to be turned out.
of the place, which was accordingly done, by land-
ing him on the neutral ground, where he would
probably fall into the hands 01 the Spaniards.

An English Frigate, under a crowd of sail, pass-
ed on the 3d inst. through the Straits, to the West-
ward ; she was three times fired at by the Portu-
guese Squadron, which always cruizes in the Gut
during an easterly wind, before she spewed her
colours : she must probably have been charged with
Dispatches from the Fleet, for England.
The rainy season has set in with great violence
these some days, but the Troops are all extremely
healthy, except the remains of the Opthalmia,
which is still unsubdued in one or two Regiments.

DUBLIN, D2c. 4.;

STORM AND RAIN.

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EARLY on the morning of Thursday; a i(.11..47..;
Storm at South-East commenced; aecoMpanied bY.
incessant torrents of Rain, which continued witlliat
intermission Until about three o'clock yesterday
morning, and swelled the rivers and brooks i 6
Dublin and its neighbourhood to such a degree, Ol
must haVe occasioned incalculable damage:
Several mills and mill-darns on the Dodder, have
been either broken down or overwhelmed by the
flood ; Ringsend Bridge has been carried away ;
the Poddle Water has increased so much as to
overflow all that part of the Liberty through Which
it passes, and boats are plying to save the lives,of
the poor people in Patrick-street and Patrick's
close ; the Lower Castle-yard is one sheet of water;
and Dame-Street was for the greater park of yester-
day impassable by persons on foot ; the Liffey; a
might be expeEted; is violently swollen; and will
probably continue so for some days, until the water
in the upland country shalt have subsided;
We haVe not heatd of any lives lost by the'
floods; but we are sorry to think, that from th 4
direction of the storm much mischief has oectirred
on Oar coast: two Dunleary boats With twelve per..
sons'are said to have foundered in the night; and
the discrets and danger which wa.%; found even be,
tween the walls, Make us fear very much lot the
consequences of the tempest at sea.

HALIFAX (NOll,l SCOTIA), OCT. 7.

KING's COLLEGE, WINDSOR

Oil Tuesday the r4.th of September; was held
the first Meeting of all the Governors of the new
University of King's College at Windsor, incor-.
porated by His Majesty's Royal Charter; bearing
dated the r zth of May, r Sot. They consist of his
Excellency Sir John 'Wentworth, Bart: LL. D.
Lieut. Governor of the Province ; the Right Rev:
the Bishop of Nova Scotia : S. S. Blowers, Esq. the,
Chief Justice ; Alexander Croke, LL. D. Judge of
the Vice-Admiralty Court ; R. J. Uniacke, Esq:
Speaker of the House of AsSembly and Attorney-
General ; J. Stewart, Esq. Solicitor-General ; and
Benning Wentworth, Esq. Secretary of the Pro:.
vince. Upon this occasion the Charter was pub-
licly. read in the Coliege-Hall. It eszablishes "at
Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia, one
College, the • Mother of an University, tOt the
education and instruaion of youth and students,
in Arts and Faculties, to continue for ever, and td
be called King's College ; by the name and Style--
of " The Governors, President, and Fellows of
King's College, at Windsor, in the Province of
Nova Scotia ;" the College to consist of one Presi-
dent, three or more Fellows and Professors, ard
twelve or more Scholars ; the Governors named
in the Charter, and their successors, to have power
to frame Statutes, Rules and Ordinances for the
good government of the said Colleges; subject to
the approbation of the Lord Archbishop of Can-
terbury, who is constituted Patron, as the Bishop
of Nova Scotia is appointed visitor of the College."
The. Charter further ordains, ". That the said
College shall be deemed and taken to be an Uni_
versity, and shall have and enjoy all such and the
like privileges as are enjoyed by the Universities
in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land ; and that the Students in the said ',College
shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees
of Batchelor, Master, and Doelot, in the several
Arts and Faculties, at the appointed times."
The Governors have appointed a Commit!et to
frame and digest a body of Statutes, and also to pro-
cure, from the British Universities, men of learning
religion, and abilities, to fill the different stations-,;
It is hoped that the whole will be accomplished,
and the Establishment completed for the admis_
sion of Students, in one year, or less, from the pre.;
sent time.

No Students will be admitied, who have rot a
competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin Lni..
guages, and it will be required, in particular, thg.
they should be able to construe Virgil and ilorace3
the Gospels in the Greek Testament„ Ilomer's•iliad9
and Xenophon's CyropoNlia, Memorabilia, or some
other Book of Greek Prose, that they be ca-pable of
translating English into Latin, and of making•
Latin Verses.

And, in order to encourage Students throughout
His Majesty's Dominions in Americas to prepare
themselves with diligence for entering this College 4
a certain number of the Scholarships, established
charter, with a suitable stipend; will he confe;:rea
on such as shall most distinguish themselves for
learning, on the examination for admission, upon
'the opening of the College ; of which public notice
will be%given.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, Dzc. 7.

)ITTINGS BEFORE LORD EI.LENBOROLICBI AND A SPECIAL

JURY IN WESTMINsTER,HALL:

AFFLECK, BART. V. SADLER.

THIS Was on AaiOn for Deceit, which the De_
fondant practised on the Plaintiff, Sir Gilbert Afffeek,
in selling to him, for gaol. a term of years in a
House, With a reserved rent of tool. a year,- the
Defendant representing that the 'house was in good
tppair and perfealy sound,; whereas it was, to his
knowledge, at that time, in such a state as that it
was dangerous to live in it, a stack of chimnies of
the house being so decayed, that they could hardly
be repaired, without taking away all the old ma-
terials of them, sand re-building them with new.
The Defendant, it was stated, had formerly
.posed of this same house, to a Gt-ntleman'of the name
of Clerk, for 17001. and-refuSed to'give Sol. for it
back again, but took it fir the mere expence of the
Conveyances : so that he had made between two
and three thousand pounds for nothing, in this case.
A Buildt'r, employed by the Plaintiff, swore,
that after the Deed .of AsSignment was executed,
conveying this house from the Defendant to the
Plaintiff,• :was the following conversation-be_
tween them. - Sir Gilbert Affleck said to the
fendant—" ni,l not you tell me,befOre I purchaSlO
fiis house, that the deteas, I had mentioned ,to you,
as pointed
‘.>tit! to me-,-.;had been remedied, - and, the
house 'made perfectly sound as any house in Lon.
don i"

To which the D.-fondant, Sadler, answered,—
" That ,he had told him so, and that he :had made
the house as sound as any_ h'tuse in London."—
Whereas, it was so far from it, that the Witness
would not insure its standing for an hour; ;and on hi,
Saying so, the Defendant lost his temper, and abused
the Witness. The defeas had only been 'hidden
with a little plaster, and the house made very fair
appearance on the out-Side.
Mr. GIBBS took an objection to any representra-,
don which the Defendant made before the Deed of,
Assignment was executed, because the written Deed
must be taken to contain every thing that was bind-,
ing in Law between the Parties, and no evidence
could go to the Jury on any thing that related to
that Deed.
But Lord ELLENBOR,LIGa held that this convet-
sation was to he Cr!:,,iticred as a Fraud collateral to
the Assignment, air. a part of the inducement which
the Plaintiff' had for agreeing to, it, and therefore
to he received in evident:el. but the point should be
saved, if the Learned. Counsel thought. he could
make any thing it.
Verdict for the Plaintiff---Damages to be comput-
ed out of Court, by agreement.

THE KING v. SEILAZ.

• This was an indithnenr against the Defendant for
writing certain Letters' to Lord Portsmouth, charg-
ing him-with attempts to commit a nameless 'crime,
with a view of- extorting money from his Lordship.
Mr. Ettsxixt—said,•he,was of Counsel for this
Prosecution, which was an Indi6tment preferred. by
the Earl of Portsmouth, in performance of one of
the most solemn duties which a man could owe to

himself, or to .the Public,- of which he was a meta_:
ber. Thia Prosecution was for a charge made upon.
my Lord Portsmouth, or rather for a Letter writ-
ten to him for the purpose, as.stated on the face of
this Record, of extorting money, from him, under a
threat of accusing the Noble Earl, of an attempt to
commit an unnatural crime.. When he had stated
that to be the foundation of this Case, ,he was sure
the Jury would consider it with great attention.—
They could not, but be sensible how very difficult it
often was to bring men of just and honourable feel-
ings to do. their duty in such a case. -History
told us, in many instances, how very unwilling men.
were to bring forward such Prosecutions as the pre-
sent. It had pleased God, in his infinite wisdom, to
implant in the mind of man, 'an abhorrence of this
crime, the tendency of which was to disappoint the
works of the Creator, 'by diminishing those joys
which Divine Providence intended for the conti-
nuation of our species. It was therefore no won-
der that Human Nature shrunk back from the im-
putation of it, and this was the reason why these
accusations had sometimes succeeded in their objed,
whiCh was, to extort money ; nor was the first rate
courage of men always able to face such. arkaccusa_
tion. _Men who had advanced even in the cannon's
mou'th, had nut had fortitude to face a false accusa,
tion of this nature, and rather than have such a

crime even imputed to them,. had suffered them.
selves to be robbed and plundered, and their peace
of mind to be destroyed, rather than bring the
guilty to the punishment they deserved. The Noble
Prosecutor of this" inditiment deserved praise for the
course he was pursuiug ; it was honourable to him ;
he was married, and stood in a circle of high con-
neCtions, where he \vas esteemed. and honoured. The
Law upon the subjea of the crime now'before the-
Jury, had slept far ages, but it became so prevalent,
that the Legislature thought it necessary to inter-
fere for the purpose of bringing such persons as the
Defendant to punishment; it provided that such
persons shall be imprisoned, set on the pillory, &c.
My Lord Portsmouth hiad this Defendant in his
service for a considerable number of years—indeed
Vow his Lordship's youth, for he had been tippoint-
ed to attend his Lordship by his Tutor in Switzer-
land ; during the time he was in this service, the
Defendant made the Noble Earl believe he was at-
tached to him, and performed all the .duties of a
servant in his station. In the year'l799 my Lord
Portsmouth left his houSe in Hampshire without
the knowledge of his friends, which of course ren-
dered them very uneasy, and indeed alarmed them.
They found that his Lordship was at an hotel in
London, from whence he went to Yarmouth, with
a view of going to the Continent, owing -toa 'con-
spiracy which had been set on four, which had
for its object, not only the taking away the Noble
Lord from his friends, but also to supersede the care
of his family in all its concerns, and to dispossess
his venerable parent of the power he had over
these concerns; the Defendant .was atthe bottom of

that foul conspiracy. All the pipers and documents
concerning tliis conspiracy had been made the sub-
jeet of a Motion in the Court of King's Bench, last
Term, on the part of this Defendant, to which
there was a consent on the part oldie Noble Earl,
and the papers were brought into Court; which they
never could if his Lordship had not consented ; here,
however, the papers all were, and subjed to what-
ever use the Defendant's Learned Counsel could
make of them for. the.benefit of his Client ; but not
knowing What:course was intended to be taken in
that respect}, and not seeing what bearing they had,
or could' have on the issue now before. the Court, he
should take no more notice of them at present than
to say, that among them•were some, Bonds and Se-
curities for the payment of an annuity by the Noble
Earl to the Defendant of tool..4yeari and -about,
35e1. in money alledge'd to have been advanced by
the Defendant to his Lordship. The Defendant
having charged the NOble Earl with this abomin-
'able attempt, w,s afterwards taken into custody
and secured, he having la:come the subject} of the
suspicion of the Governinent of this Country, and
was ordered out of it, under the authprity,of the
Alien AA of the hardship of which the Defend-
ant had 'complained, but of, which no person' was
permitted to dispute the propriety, since it was a
power lodged by the Legislature in- the Executive
Government, to be used by them according to their
discretion.

Perhaps.there never tvaS a Case which 'Mocked all
description so much as the' present. In the usual
course ofiniquity, esps-cially of this sort, the guilty,
party took care to conceal, in his letters. and :.cOr-
resPondence,- the•inatnediate and palptble, proof of
guilt, and therefore a difficulty was slirow:a-- in the
way of the Prosecutor sometimes, in making out the
CaSe on the part.of the Pinsecution ; but here. the
Defendant ,l4d direftly d plainly-avowed his own
guilt, as stated on -the- IZeCord of this Prosecution.
This was a Letter in the hand-writing 9f flip'De-
fendant, dated the ifith of April 'Sol. It,,,appear-
ed_to have been written at Hainburgh, sent to the
house-of the Noble Earl in Hampshire, sent
from theuce :in his. Lordship's Town House in Lin_
and received by the Noble Earl
there. Mr. ERsiot4 read the Letter, of which
the following is the material part :
" MY LORD, _

When any Nobleman chuses to, deny his. own
word.i, he puts himselt on a level with the lowest
subjea in His Mjesty's dominions. That your
Lordship has d ne this, 1 have prjol—,l now pro.
ceed to inform you, that in consequence' of your
lence on my just demand, made. in my list Letter,
I am come to a resolution, Which I will keep, so
help me God.' The resolution I have taken is sim-
ply this---.lf I have not, by The return of post, a res_
titutior, made to use of every •Bond, Securities and
Money otherwiSe • due to me froM your Lordship, I
will 'expose to the world the repeated
Attempts you have nude on me.—You well know'
the penalty for and that penalty is Death.
Your Lordship's consciousness of guilt will put you
under the necessity of complying with the demand
here made.".—Theti on the suhjed of moneif he said,
that his Lordship- and family owed him' iOOO/.
and then the letter proceeded to state, that he, was
about to come to England, under the proreCtioryof
Ministers of Courts in Amity with Grea: Britain,
and that when he arrived, he should retain an erni
nent Solicitor in Lit;icoln'S.ltin, and take measures
to do himself-justice ; and concluded with paying,
that whetherhe-should be exposed 'or not, depended
on his. Lordship's own subsequent condud.
Mr. Ettsukt observed upon' the iniquity of the
Defendant, as it was proved by this Letter, upon
which he expatiated a't' considerable length, consi-
dering it as the must daring profligacy that ever
was exhibited in'a Co'tut oflustice.; and yet after
all this, he wrote another Letter to his Lordship,
full of professions' of friendship, only saying, he
wished to have his claim satisfied. Had there been
any, foundation for his charge upon the•Nobie,Earl,
would he, if an honest man,' ever have professed
friendship for him'-,again—most indisputably this
was a foul and infaMous.calUmny, all of which the
Noble Lord was ready to deny on his- most solemn
oath, and to prove that no man upon earth had more
abhorrence of this detestable crinu: than hithself ;
and there were many other Noblemen and Gentle-
men in Court ready .to beat the most honourable
testimony for. hi,s ,Lordship, shewink that nothing
they ever knew or heard of his Lordship had a ten-
dency to fasten this imputation on his charader.—
He was visited by some of the most respeaable per-
sons in the kingdom, and esteemed by all who had
the honour of his acquaintance. He should prove
the letters to be of the hand-writing of the Defen.
dant, and it 'would then be the duty of the Jury
to find the Defendant Guilty.

Lord PORTSMOUTH." The Defendant Seilaz
lived with me as servant for some yers—l am well
acquainted with the charaaer of his hand-writing.
He attended me on my travels on the Continent:- I
have not the least doubt that this letter is his hand-
writing. Lhave very often seen him write. I re-
eeived it at my house, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields."—'
This was the first letter of which we have given
the substance. His Lordship proved the second,
which we have described in like manner.

His Lordship, on his cross-examination, said,
During all the time the Defendant was with me,
I had reason to be satisfied with his charafter. I
believed him to be, and I found him, a faithful
servant. His wages were z 6 or 30-guineas. a year ;
I am not sure which. He is a Swiss by birth. He
left my service in 1799. He came home in 1790.
He returned with 'me from the Continent to this
country. I always had a good opinion of him. On
quitting my service he went to• Hamburgh. It
was in the month of August', I believe. I was at
Yarmouth, when he parted from me. I am not
sure that he went immediately to Hamburgh, for
he might have returned to London in custody.
When I parted with the Defendant at Yarmouth,
I believe there was due ..to •hitn. about zoo). I
owed him also an Arrear of wages' of about 901. or
loot. I had granted him a bond for the payment
of an annuity previous to this time. He left. be-
hind him some of his goods at my house in Hamp-
shire, but I cannot tell what became of them.

After -he left tne, he was a considerable time in
prison."
Another Witness proved d letters to be the
Defendant's hand-writing.
Mr. GARROW then submitted to-the Chief Justice,
whether he was at „liberty to ask my Lord Ports.
mouth, upon his solemn oath, whether there was 'the
least foundation in truth in the 'imputation which
the Defendant had by his letter 'endeavoured to
fasten upon his charaaer; -
Loa ELLENBoRouGH said,•he did not WoOler
that-lher Learned Counsel for the Prosecution,: as
well as theird•loble Client; shotild be anxious up.ort
that subjetl,: but it was one which was not in issue
upon :thisinditlment, and therefore he was bound
to: rule that the question should not be put.
The same submission. was made to examine aefiei
Witnesses' in Court as to the .charaaer of my Lord
Portsmouth, but over-ruled for•the same reason. •
' The letters were ,then:tgad. _ •
_ _ _

Mr. ADAM, on the .part of the Defendant, ,Iph4,
mitted an objeEtion in pojtit.of law to this caselo:
ing w the-Jury, on the; ground Ahat,,the Ag of Par,
liament which made, the. Sending': of letters an.
fence, extended only to thxise. letters which.,were
sent with a view or ti-iNnt:to,tott gain inanFY,
goods, or merchandizes,:&-c,• ~This, su'omitted,
was not scnt with a view_ to
.extort or gain,,rpone.y,
.54c..tit, as it appeared jn evidence, to•pOtain what.
was due to him., • •

'The JUSTI C E .over-ruled this objefticin,
holding, that '.whatever was intended to procure
money, whether due' •not,- by the terror 'of. a
threat, was a species of extortion of money, and
therefore within the meaning.of theAl of Parlia_
ment, for men were entitled. to appeal, to the laws
of iheir-country=before they paid any tiemands made
upon them, and no one had a right to terrify:them
froth 'making such.. appeal.

.... .._ .
. Mr, 41./Atu declined saying any thing to the
Jury Upon iiiis occasion..
~.: . , . , . .
Lord 14.1,4i,ii-oitiou G E-1. summed np.the evidence,
and having made a i-exV observations, the Jury found
the .13,,;ferklunt—Guilty, . . .

OLD BAILEY.

L,',Y=TUESDAY, DEC. 7.

Thomas Halides; was indided.for feloniOusly steal-
ing, on the 16th of 06tober, rix quarrs•of beef, the
properly of. Thomas Starkie and John Jennings,
Brewers: _

This Case, frain'What transpired at the 'trial, ap-
peared to be in some measure 'connected with the
affair Of the robbery. Which .took.. place on the 6th
of OEtober • last, At- the-premises of Messrs. Starkie
and Jennings, of which two persons of the names of
JoLuson and Shires were convided. The Prisoner
wa.; the private watchman of the Concern, and. from
the evidence of Mr.- •W. Jennings, on the, trial
aliove-mentioned, as well as from other circum-
stances which transpired, there was strong reason to
susped that the Prisoner.w3s confederated with the
robbers, and aiding and assisting them in the perpe-
tration -f their•-134Yelec. In the present 6stance
it appeared that the Prisoners Colletted three of the
watchmen in the places. adjacent, and persuaded
them .to drink a quantity of beer, supposed to be
thatset•forth in the Indldment, between half after
one and .two o'clock in the•morning of the 6th of
oAober, which was the very time the-robbery was
committing in the dwelling house of •Mr: Jennings,
which formed a part of the general premises of. the
Concern. He-pressed one or two of them -to drink
more, but they declined, and just at the time they
Kthought proper .to have dune, 'the alarm respefting
the robbery was. given, and 'on .coming up to the
spot, -they found young Mr. ;Jennings and some
Watchmen engaged in securing the robbers.
The Officer" who apprehended. The Prisoner stated,
that the Prisbner,• on the Warrant being read' to
him, acknowledged that he had given some beer
away.•

Mr. COMMON SERJEAKT •lamented that under
the particular circumstances. of the Case, the
charge could not be brought home to the Prisoner
by the evidence. There wits no beer proved to have
been lost, though the case every way had a bad
colour. The Watchmen were very .rePrehensible
for quitting their stations at that hour of the night
for the purpose of drinking; ,there was little doubt
Of the Priioner's being concerned with thOse who
broke open Mr. Jennings's house, but under the
present indilment he_could not be convicted.
Verdict of Not Guilty was of course pronounced.
Mr. W. Jennings, above mentioned, who signa-
lized himself so highly on the affair of the robbery,
observed, there was little doubtof the Prisoner's
having opened the yard gates through which the
robbers entered for the purpose of breaking into
the dwelling-house:—And Mr. KNOWYE'S observed,
that the Prisoner, though a private. watchman of
the premises at the time, refused to assist and arm
himself in order to act against the robbers.
Mr. COMMON SERJEANT reprobated the conduit
of the Prisoner, and told him, teat though neces-
sarily acquitted in the present instance, he did not
go from that Bar perfediy pure.

About five o'clock, Colonel Edsvaird. Marcus
Des.pard, Charles Pendrill, and six other persons
confined under the same aueprity, and for offences
nearly similar, were brought to the Bar, when the
detainer lord committal of, the first mentioned Pri.
soner was read to him, to the following effeft
That he stood committed for having feloniously,
maliciously, and advisedly endeavoured to seduce
Thomas Windsor, being a person serving in His
Majesty's Forces by land, and divers other per-
sons, also serving in His Majesty's• Forces by land,
from their duty and allegiance to His Majesty,, and.
tor inciting and stirring up the said Thomas Wind-
sor, and the said other persons also serving in His
Majesty'sAForces by land, to commit an aet of
,Mutiny, contrary to the Statute in such case made
and provided, and against the peace of our Lord
the King.
It was also notified to him,, that he was further
detained under a warrant from THOMAS Lord PEL-

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On Monday last,'itliackn&y, WanAin
Aldersgate-street, to Miss Elizabeth Citellet, of Ilacklic