The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-05 00:00:00

-LAIF REPOI47'.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNI 4.
RYLAND, 1.;. PAYNE AND CDILLING,UULtTII.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL a hewed cause against
a tule,lto set the verdict tormedy obtained in this
case aside for excessite.daniages.
The circumstauces:of the original anion were as
follow

The plaintiff had gone down from ,London to
Birmingham with his friend a Mr. Knipe, who had
totmerly paid his addriessea to a young lady GI the
name of Richards, and whose 'addresses had been
permitted by her family. But when Mr. Knipe
renewed hi's visit on the present occasi,pn, he found
his addresses received with peculiar coldness, under
the knowledge that his :property had been consi-
derably diminished since his last visit to Birming-
ham. Miss Richards was in the house of her step-
father, Mr. Caddington, and the cousequepce of
some explanation on the subject, was a peremptory
order to the lover and his friend to quit the house.
This they did, and their trunks were sent after them
to the: inn. In two days after, the jailor of the
town, and one of his assistants, entered the'room
where the plaintiff and Mr. Ruipe were, threatened
to handcuff them it' they made 'any •resistance, and
conveyed them through the public streets, on' a
market-day, to prison. On being asked the cause
of this treatment, the tailor answered, that they
were stispetied of being connected with a gang who
passed fotged notes in the town. On being-asked
fOr his authority, they were answered, that there
Was no warrant for their seizure, but that Mr. Cad-
dington would be answerable - for every thing that
had been done. The defendant and Mr.. Knipe
were confined for three hours, until they declared
that they would not force Miss Richards away. On
making this.prounse-they Here released.
The Jury summoned on the writ of inquiry, gave
damages, 2501. against the jailor and his assistant,
and this vti liC3 was now attempled to Le set aside
as more than a due compensation to the injured
feelings of those Gentlemen:

Mr. CLARKS followed on the same side.
Nir. GA BROW, for the Rule, threw the matter into
rather a more ludicrous posture. The plaintiff and
his friend were nothing more than two innocent ad-
venturers, who, in •the spirit of gallantry which un-
fortunately for this degenerate age is losing its re-
nown among us, took the heroic resolution of going
down, mounted on the top of the Birmingham coach,
with pistols, to make love ; or, in other words, to
rescue a distressed damsel from the bars and bolts-and
tyranny of her lather and mother ! There was,
however, more of heroism in .the conception, than
of ability in the performance; for, from some pre-
mature hints on the subject which escaped those
knights errant, soon after they got admission to Mr.
Caddington's.table, they were dismissed without ce-
remony, marched out without the honours of war,
and their goods and chattels sent alter them. 'They
then became valorous, and" their language so far
alarmed Miss Richard's family, that they were ob-
liged to have Peace Officers sitting up all night in
the house, lest those gallant chevaliers should'take
that young lady into their holy keeping, and take
her off on the top of the coach to London.
The Learned Counsel was proceeding, when
Lord EL LENBOROUGH interrupted him and said, that
the damages were evidently too weiglify tor the in-
jury. The Coon of course never felt itself compe-
tent to fix the standard of damages, but its province
extended so fir as to correct the erroneous exertions
of authority in. those persons who were connected
with the administration ,of justice.
The act of the defendants was certainly an offence
against the law. But the proceeding of the plain-
titrand his friend must have excited the most uneasy
suspicion ; coming as they did, armed, and in that
neighbourhood where so dreadful a tragedy had
been acted lately, by a person who came as a suitor.
Under those circumstance's there was sufficient
ground for sending the Jury to a new inquiry.
A Mr. Trotter, of Cambridgeshire, came into
Court, applying in person for information against a
.Magistrate off the same county.
Lord ELLENBOROUGiI peremptorily refused the
application as then made.

BY HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND.-An Exhibition
unparalleled in Riches will,j2e opened on the sth of
June, when Premiums will be distributed to the
amount of 200,0001. All liege Subjetts are entitled
to become Cand!dates if they apply in time. The
place of Exhibition will be ed,,per's Hall, and
Tickets of are to be bad at CA.ATEa's,
No. 8, Charing-cross.

Gn
Sturdy the L 01213 CHANCELLOR, on the ap
plica.tion of. Mr. hitotottAm, granted an Injunc"
tion against Messrs.' MANKEtis and .TONts, Etliwr
and Pub!isher of The Satirist, for publishing a pri-
ate Letter, written by Mr. BROUGHAM on the bill);
3061 of Parliamentary Reform. Mr. BROUpHAM bla
addressed this to several Of his friends for the pur'
pose of learning their sentiments on that stlbjecli
preVidus to its discussion in Parliament ; and ..acoRY
of the: letter having been, as is alleged,surrepw,
tiously obtained by the Editor of the betbre-rneo-
tinned Periodical Work, it' was by them published.
The Cotirt thereupon ordered an Injuuaion to pre"
vent the further publication of the Leiter.

SHIP

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