The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-16 00:00:00

LAW REPORT..

COURT OF KING's BENCH, ,TirLy 15'.
SITTINGS BEFORE LORD ELLENDOROUGH AND A SPECIAL

JURY IN WESTMINSTER HALL.

THE KING '2l. LLOYD.

MR. ERSKINE stated, that this was a Prosecution
instituted by the Society of Clements Inn, against
the Defendant; for a Nuisance. It appeared by
Records, that this was a very antient Society. It
was first a Religious House, and afterwards they de-
voted themselves to the study and pradice of the
Law, as early as the reign of Edward IV. This
Society was attached to that of the Middle Temple.
One of the greatest ornaments of the Law, and who
had formerly been a Judge of that Court,Mr. Justice
AsHRuRs4, was a Member of that Society.
This Prosecution was not instituted from spleen,
or injtistiee, but from necessity. The Defendant
was a Tinman, and had a shop close to the wall of
the Society; and by the violent and incessant ham.
mering of the Defendant and his men, the Members
of that Society could not pursue their business: To
constitute a Nuisance it was sufficient that it de-
prived men of their comforts.
Mr. Allen and Mr. Hayman, two of the Gentle-
men in that Inn, were called, and Mr. Allen said,
he had had Chambers there nearly 46 years, and
had never been disturbed in pursuing his profession
till about a year and a half ago, when the Defendant
came to his present shop. They began hammering
sometimes so early as five in the morning, and con.
tinued incessantly. Sometimes it was more mode.
rate, but it was at other times intolerable:

The other Gentleman had resided 27 years in the
Inn, and confirmed the evidence of the former wit-
ness.

It appeared that the Defendant had done every
thing in his power to lessen it.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought this was too
minute a thing to be purued by that Society, where
only a very few of its Members were affeded by it.
He thought the flutes and fiddles that were con-
stantly heard in the Temple, tended Co distrait the
mind, that was intent on study, as much as this
noise did. And no man had ever yet tried the
powers of the Law on these musical instruments.—
These cases of Nuisances had been carried sufficient-
ly far already, and he had no desire to extend the
Criminal Law in any resped whatever. He hoped
the Defendant would pay a proper attention to the
comforts of the Gentlemen of this Society, and if he
did not, Civil Actions might be brought against
hi►n.

Mr. PARK, on the part of the Defendant, said,
his Client was ready-to do any thing that any in-
different person could propose, that was consistent
with carrying on his business ; and he had atually
given up the working of seven men, and had only
three.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that was very fair.
It was agreed that some indifferent person should
go to the spot, and should say what was right to be
done.—Not

THE KING against soLomoM AND ANOTHER.

Mr. GARkow said, this was a Prosecution by a
Lady against her Husband, and her Sun, and from
the relation in which the Parties stood, it was
agreed the Jury should find the Defendants both
guilty, subje& to a reference..--Guilty.
The Sittings ended before eleven o'clock.

An extraordinary Society has been for some time es-
4ablished at Paris, which is not very generally known,
but which may be classed with the many whimsical
..Ktitutions that great Capital has produced within
These few years ; there is a set of young Painters,
wit have taken upon themselves the name of Medi-
tators, and who form a distind Society amongst
themselves"; they go about, dressed much at- n.l- the
Roman manner, naked leg:;, with a Toga over their
shoulders, no shirt, and the neck and shoulders un-
covered ; in short, they ate truly Originals in
pearance, as in opinion. They pretend that there
never was• a Painter of excellence—not even RA-
PHAEL—They pass their time together for hours
without speaking, and also before their easels,
which are covered with cloths, in the ad, as they
pretend, of profound meditation. At length one of
these Meditators has produced a pidure—his name
is JOSEPH HUE, a Pupil of DAVID (as indeed they
are most of them from his School), whom he calls a
Sign Painter, and to prove the contemptible opi-
nion he entertains for the state of the Arts in
France, he has chosen for the subjects of his sublime
talents, David, the Painter, La Laude, the Astrono-
mer, and a Musician, crowned by Ignorance and
Folly. This performance is looked upon by the
Meditators (only) as a chef d'oeuvre, and they have
had the impudence to expose it at a house in the
Place Vendome, where it may be seen for a livre
each person.

Notwithstanding the reputation of Citizen TAL_
LE Y RAND PER I GDR D, there is one circumstance in
his diplomatic charaaer which is not altogether to
his credit. In the treaty with Holland, which was
drawn up by this Minister, he literally gave away
to that Republic a small town belonging to Prussia.
The consequence of which was, an immediate re-
monstrance on the part of the Prussian Ambassador,
who made the Minister sensible that the town was
a part of the Prussian dominions, and not of the
French Republic. It was accordingly struck out
of the Treaty.
A similar circumstance occurred once before when
M. DE LA CRO Ix, the antagonist of Lord
MALMESBURY, described Stockholm as one of the
towns of the Hanseatic Confederacy.
The present may he very justly considered as the•
Age of Profit to Learned Men in France. The
Astronomer, LALANDE, enjoys a revenue of above
zoool. sterli►►g, LA GRANGE, the celebrated Geo.
metrician, and LA PLACE, are both very rich ; and
what is very remarkable, all the principal Chemists
hold lucrative situations under the Government.—
CH AP FAL, the Minister of the Interior, was a
Chemist.

Yesterday se'onight, a man and woman from Ba.
singstoke, were brought to Winsehester for the mur-
der of 2 young man, by severing his head from his
body,