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pose of putting money in his pocket, but for the purpose
of vindicating his character, and that could only be done
by the Jury showing that they considered he had been most
deeply injured, and that he was entitled at their hands to
ample compensation.

Richard Haines, a medical student, deposed to having
purchased the two numbers of Fraser's Magazine, contain-
ing the articles complained of, at the shop of the defendant,
115, Regent-street. _

George Henshall was directed, in Decembe3, 1832, by
the plaintiff, to call upon Mr. Moyes, the printer of Fraser's
Magazine, to complain of an article reflecting upon Mrs.
Watts.

Mr. ERLE, for the defendants,. admitted that Moyes
was the publisher of the Magazine.
The witness stated that the office of Mr. Watts was at
1, Crane-court, Fleet-street. The United Service Gazette
was published there, also the Alfred and Old England news-
papers, with which, he believed, the plaintiff was connected.
The Satirist was never published there, to witness's know-
ledge ; he never knew that the plaintiff was connected with
the Satirist. Several country newspapers are printed at
the same machine, and sent down to the country to their
respective towns. Among these the witness enumerated
the Szirrey Standard, the Dover Telegraph, the Oxford
Conservative, the West Devon Standard, the Blackburn
Standard, the Worcester Guardian, the Greenwich Guar-
dian, and the Leicester Herald.

John Harman was formerly joint proprietor of the Leeds
Intelligenecr. Mr. Watts was connected with it, and deft
it of his own accord.

Mr. Howe is connected with Whittaker's publishing
establishment ; the Literary Souvenir is published there.
After the appearance of Fraser's Magazine for November,
some orders for the Souvenir were withdrawn. The ex-
pense of getting up such a work as that of the plaintiff
must be between two and three thousand pounds. -
Mr. ERLE addressed the Jury for the defendants. The
case of the plaintiff had been introduced by all the elo-
quence of abuse upon the defendants, and he was the more
surprised at this, when he recollected that the plaintiff was
for many years before the public as a poet, author, and the
editor of many newspapers and annuals, and therefore that
he could have no right to complain of attacks upon his
public character. One of the defendants was the editor of
Fraser's Magazine, and the other was a poor industrious
man, far removed by his sphere of life from those bickerings
and contentions. It had been asserted, on the other side,
that if the real author of the article was given up, the pre-
sent action would not have been brought ; but the fact
was, there never was any application to Mr. Fraser on the
subject. He admitted that there was an imaginary article on
the plaintiff's annual, published by the defendant, but it
was no more aimed at his, than any other of these publica-
tions ; it was not intended to injure its sale, 'but to ridi-
cule a style in Mr. Watts' publication which the reviewer
thought might well be amended. That would be at once
perceived by the Jury, on looking at the entire article, which
represented a convivial meeting of the well-known writers
in Fraser, and a wager as to who should write a critique
upon the Annuals, all of which were treated in the same
laughable and ridiculous style. The poetry (which the
Learned Counsel here read) was mock-heroic, and because
it was so, the plaintiff called upon the Jury to give him
large damages. When the little prattle of children in
domestic life was printed and published and put up
in gilding and elegant binding, had not the critic
a right to say that was too ridiculous, and should be
corrected. They were all aware of the influence 'of re-
viewers—many saw with their eyes, and when these re-
viewers thought proper to find fault with particular sorts of
style, was Mr. Watts to claim immunity from that criti-
cism to which all public writers were liable ? There was
no proof of any loss sustained by the plaintiff, and the fact
was that the critique was published a month before the
book itself came out : it did not come out till December
20, 1834, and if there was any falling off, its lateness in
coming into the market was the true way of accounting for
it. With respect to the second article—the caricature—that,
he would prove, was not prepared by the defendant, but by
Mr. Hermandel, the lithographist ; and if that was proved,
the defendant must be acquitted upon this count. It would
be the just penalty which Mr. Watts would pay, for at-
tempting to mix up a poor man, such as Moyes, with these
literary squabbles, and endeavouring to fix upon him the
payment of heavy damages.

- The case is not likely to terminate till a late hour, the
defendant having several witnesses to examine.

EXCHEQUER COURT.--(THIS DAY.

REDFERN V. BRADLEY.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for an injury done to the plaintiff's eye, by being cut with
a whip.

Mr. HUMFREY said the plaintiff sought compensation for
one of the most wanton and dangerous assaults he had ever
heard of. The plaintiff was a coachman. He was on the
stand in Piccadilly on the 7th of March, 1834. About
seven o'clock a person came along at a most furious rate, in
a gig drawn by a grey horse. He was flourishing his whip
about on all sides of him, and on coming opposite to the
plaintiff, he made a cut at him. The whip caught him in
the eye, and inflicted such an injury as for a long time to
make it a matter of difficulty to say whether it would ever
recover. The person who inflicted the injury drove on at
the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour. A person named
Prior, who was unacquainted with the plaintiff, seeing the
wantonness of the defendant, took a cab and followed him
to Newgate-street, but was unsuccessful in his pursuit. On
his return, in Newport Market he saw the same vehicle,
standing at the door of a cheesemonger. He went in, and
on seeing the driver of it, was convinced that he was the
same person who had done the injury. Plaintiff now
sought to recover the expenses he had been put to during
his recovery, and. such other damages as the Jury thought
the case entitled him to.

Mr. Prior, and Markham, the man who drove the cab to
Newgate-street, proved the case as stated. In their cross-
examination they said they had a very indistinct view of the
defendant, as it was rather dark. They found a gig with a
grey horse in Newgate-street, but it was, not the one they
were in search of.

Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant, who felt very anxious to clear himself from such a
charge as was brought against him. He was out in his gig
on the day in question, but he was not in Piccadilly, further
than crossing the end of it at Regent-street. He was no-
where near the scene of the assault. Unfortunately he had
no one with him, but he would prove that the defendant was
perfectly sober on the day in question, and that when he ar-
rived at Mr. Allwright's shop, where the other witnesses
found him, his horse was in a state of coolness, that would
convince the Jury it was impossible that it could have
been driven at the rate of ten miles an hour as the mis-
creant who inflicted the injury had been doing. He
would further prove that the defendant at once gave
his address, and denied that he had done such an action as
was imputed to him, or that he had been in that part of
Piccadilly at all. Though he was not in a situation to
prove the fact of his having come to Newport-street in a
different direction, still he hoped he would so far convince
the Jury of the impossibility of the defendant having com-
mitted this assault, that they would at once give him their
verdict.

Mr. HUMFREY replied. His LORDSHIP summed up,
and the Jury found a verdict for the defendant on the
ground that the party had not been identified.
His LORDSHIP refused to certify that the case was a fit
one for special jury.

We are grieved to learn that Lord Vernon, at the
last accounts received, was suffering so violently from dysen-
tery as to leave small hopes of his Lordship's recovery:

The Emperor of Russia is endeavouring to. expel
the Roman Catholic religion from Poland, in favour of the
Greek Church. The process, like every process resorted
to by the Autocrat, is harsh and tyrannical, and the object
is one which can scarcely interest any person but himself and
his successors.

THE DISOWNED, BY EDWARD LYTTON BUL-
WER, ESQ.—Like the " Pelham" of the same highly-gifted
author, this fascinating novel is now presented to the public
by Mr. Colburn, in his " Modern Novelists," at one-fifth of
its original cost. It is announced to be comprised in six
Numbers (three of which have already appeared), at One
Shilling each, with five elegant embellishments by Finden.
The " Disowned" contains no exaggerated pictures of
human nature, no glaring and meretricious representations
of high life, no false gildings of unworthy actions and prin-
ciples ; but embodies scenes of real life, clothed in that rich
and flowing diction, and that classical elegance for which
Mr. Bulwer stands unrivalled amongst living authors.
A short time since as Mr. Ingle, a medical gentle-
man, of Lynn, was passing along the market, he' casually
noticed a stone lying upon a broker's stall, which he pur-
chased of the broker for nine shillings. Some lapidaries
upon seeing it afterwards, thought it seemed to be of more
value than its appearance at first denoted, and it was sent
for inspection to where the quality and worth of such things
are minutely understood ; and report has stated it to be
worth several hundred pounds.—NoVolk Chronicle.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—In consequence of a defi-
ciency of water to work Mr. Shoot's paper-mill, at Wat-
ford, Essex, on Tuesday, four boys and a man were engaged
to tread the great wheel (in the manner of the tread-
mill), when the stream suddenly increased, and flowed in
with such force, as to carry them over the wheel. They
were got out as ,speedily as possible, but were all se-
verely hurt and mangled, and one of the boys died in a few
hours. The others are likely to recover.—Suffolk Chronicle.
SHEERNESS.—The small pox is prevailing to a
considerable extent in this place, and very many fatal
cases have occurred, chiefly amongst children.—Kentish
Gaze*