The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. ]4.
Nothing of the least general interest occurred in
his Court to-day.

SECONDARIES'-COURT, JAN. 14.

LIBEL.--FEARS V. SIMPSON AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought to recover damages
for a libel, which had appeared in the Salisbury
Gazelle, of which defendants are proprietors.—
Damages laid at 500/. The libel imputed to the
plaintiff (a tailor) the crime of having a child by
his own daughter. The defendants, instead of
attempting to justify or explain the cause of their
inserting so dreadful an imputation, suffered judg-
ment to ko by default. There was no evidence
on either side, except as to the publication ; and,
after a speech from Mr. CASB[IRD On one side, arid
from Mr. Anot.enus on the other, the Jury asses-
sed the damages at 1001.

OLD BAILEY, J. 14.

ROBBERY OF LORD BERESFORD.

Domingos &Gino was put to the bar under an
in►lictment, cb4rging bi►t► with haying, on the Sth
of December last, stolen from his master, Lord

Berestord, three 1/. Bank notes.

The prisoner was dressed in black, and bore a
very respectable appearance. lie appeared to be
between 40 and 50 years of age. A Jury of half
Fineign arid half English was empanelled.
Lord Beresford was the first witness called on
the part of the prosecution. He said, that the
prisoner had been in his service eight or nine
years, and had accompanied him from Portugal to
England in July last. The business of the prisoner
immediately was
.to attend him in his dressing-
room, and he of course had the care of his clothes.
It often happened that his Lordship left his money in
his pockets. The prisoner had therefore an oppor-
tunity of knowing what cash was thus by accidem
left in his pockets. His Lordship had from time
:o time missed money in this Avay, and suspected
the prisoner of having taken it. For tll purpose
of ascertandog the fact, he took the precaution of
marking three I/. notes, the numbers of which he
also put down in his pocket-book. He rolled these
notes up, and put them into one of his pockets.
On the morning of the Bth of December he missed
the notes, and sent for Foy, the officer. As soon
as the officer came, he called the prisoner before
him, and asked "him whether he had any money,
and to produce it. The prisoner immediately
pulled out a purse containing
.quantity of
Portuguese gold coin. He asked the prisoner
whether he had any other money, and he re-
plied that' lie had not. His Lordship repeated
his question, and asked, " Are you sure you have
no paper money either in your pockets or among
your baggage ?" The prisoner again denied that
be had any. The day before this transaction, the
prisoner had said that he had no money. Foy,
the officer, immediately proceeded to search, and
from one of the prisoner's pockets a.roll of Bank-
notes
was produced. It was ofined, and the
notes were compared with the numbers which had
been put down in his Lordship's pocket-book.—
He found these to be the same in all particulars.
The notes were here produced.
After some confirmatory evidence, the Jury,
without hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty.
The other trials that followed were not in the
sliglitest degree interesting.