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London, England, 1828-08-21 00:00:00

Mr. Justice BAYLEY—Then that will not do.

Mr. BROUGHAM called another witness, but it ap-
pearing that he was a rate-payer, and might have
some interest in the result of this trial,
Mr. ALDERSON objected to his competency.
Mr. BROUGHAM—We'II release him. Get a li.
15s. stamp.
The Attorney seemed to demur.

Mr. BROUGHAM—Stay, let us see if he knows any
thing about it. Now, Sir, what can you tell us
about this? Witness—Nought.—(A laugh.)
Mr. BROUGHAM—Then you may go down; you're
not worth the 1/. 15s.
Mr. Justice BATLEY—The defendant has failed
in his plea, and you must find therefore for the plain-
tiff. Verdict—lo/.Bs.

Jane Chorley, a pretty-looking young woman, was
arraigned upon the Coroner's Inquisition, for the
murder of her own illegitimate female child.
The unfortunate prisoner had lived as servant at
the Lower Stairs public-house, in Kendal, when
she formed the connexion which led to the infanti-
cide. Having up to that time borne a good charac-
ter, she wished to conceal her shame by the removal
of the evidence of it.

Mr. COURTENAY, on her behalf, took a successful
objection to the Inquisition. It stated that the
Jurors had inquired of the death, said to be occa-
sioned by the smothering with a flannel, and " other
means," and in their verdict they found it to have
been caused by the " said" means.
The Counsel for the prosecution abandoned the
inquisition as untenable.

kr. Baron HuyLoot decided that the objection
must prevail. The besetting sin of all these inqui-
sition was, that so much pains were taken with them.
An indictment against the prisoner for the murder
had been thrown out by the Grand Jury, and she
was therefore discharged.

William Hornby, a ferocious-looking rustic, was
indicted for feloniously breaking out of Appleby
Gaol, where he was under sentence of imprison-
ment and hard labour, for previous felony.--Guilty.
Transportation for life.
John Wales, the accomplice of the last prisoner,
was convicted upon the same evidence, and received
the same sentence.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Auc. 19.

DAVIS V. RUSSELL AND OTHERS.

This was an action to recover damages for false
imprisonment. The defendants pleaded the gene-
ral issue.

Mr. CURIVOOD, in stating the case to the Jury,
observed, that the plaintiff was a woman in an
humble rank in life, living in Cheltenham, and the
defendants were George Russel, the High Con-
stable of that town, and George Pearce and -Wil-
liam Tovey, his assistants. The pluintiir was now
advanced in years, but she had for a very consider-
able time filled with credit and confidence the situa-
tion of housekeeper in the family of Lady Faulkner,
and she had retired from that service with a small
fortune of savings, which was still further increased
by an annuity of 20/. allowed her by a nephew living
in Wales. She lodged in the house of Ann Hamer-
ton, a woman who united to great personal attrac-
tions a more than ordinary degree of talent, and
who possessed in an eminent degree those qualities
which made any female a favourite with the male
part of the creation, for to nothing but the posses-
sion of such powers could he fairly ascribe the ex-
traordinary degree of favour which she received

from men during her life. Tc, this Ann Hamerton,
who was implicitly trusted by the plaintiff, from
the very high character which she bore at Chel-
tenham, the plaintiff shewed a 10/. note which she
received by post from her nephew. That note
was placed in a trunk in her bed-room, but it was
stolen on the 15th of November last year, and
although the plaintiff had not for a long time
the slightest suspicion that Ann Hamerton knew
of the robbery, she subsequently received such infor-
Matioh as &Impelled her to have Hartierton appre-
hended; and, Upon an examination before the Mticris;.
trate, she was bound dyer in reeegniiaiices to appear
and take her trial. That woman; who as a dress=
maker in Cheltenham, had the audacity to appear
and take that trial, and after an investigation pros
tracted to a great length, was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be transported for seven years. That sen-
tence was not, however, carried into execution, for
he regretted to say that the unfortunate woman hung
herself in the prison on the night of her conviction.
This artful young woman—for artful he must call her
from the course she purstted—tietermined, the rim=
ment she was accused by the plaintiff; to adopt some
means of retaliation, and for this purpose she Caused
a letter to be forged and directed to Miss Davie, as
if from an accomplice who had been concerned with
her in robbing the house of Hamerton; and, having
sent for Russel, the constable, she shewed him the
letter unopened, as he believed, and informed him
that she had reason to believe it was written by
an accomplice of Miss Davis, who she was now
convinced had been guilty of robbing her. Rua.
sel, under the persuasions of Hamerton—he (Mr.
C.) would not say imposed upon by her represen-
tations, but actingender her directitons—went to the
lodgings of Miss Davis, and without the slightest
warrant or authority, dragged her, on a Sunday even-
ing, from her bed, and confined her in a common gaol
of Cheltenham, during that and several successive
nights. For this outrage the defendant and .his assist-
ants were civillyresponsible, and bound now to make
a reparation for the injury they had done the plain-
tiff. It was almost unnecessary to say that having
been apprehended without a shadow of accusation,
and upon the mere suspicion expressed by Miss
Hamerton, the plaintiff was, after a short confine-
ment, immediately liberated; but it was for the
Jury to say what compensation, in damages, she de-
served for this illegal imprisonment, under the cir-
cumstances he had detailed. After observing, that
although Ann Hamerton had been convicted in the
other Court, upon the clearest testimony, three parts
of the town of Cheltenham still believed, from her
insinuating marine's, that she was innocent. The
Learned Counsel concluded, by observing, that the
guilt or innocence of Hamerton had nothing to do
with the present case, and that the simple question
to be determined, was the amount of damages to
which the plaintiff was entitled from the Jury, as a
fair compensation for the injury she had sustained,
by the wrongful imprisonment, which resulted from
the conduct of the defendants.

The Learned Gentleman then called witnesses,
to which Mr. TAUNTON, for the defendants, replied;
and the Jury, after some deliberation, found a verdict
for the defendants.

The Danish Minister transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign and Colonial offices.
CHELTENHAM, A uG.l9.—Earl BATHURST
arrived here yesterday morning, and had a long consulta-
tion with the Duke of WELLINGTON, at the Priery-house.
In the afternoon the Duke of WELLINGTON went to the
seat of Earl BATHURST, at Cirencester, where his Grace
dined with the Earl and Countess, and returned here at a
late hour of the evening. Ills Grace was at the Old Well
before eight o'clock this morning. On his approach the
band of the Spa played " See the Conquering Hero conies."
Sir THOMAS DALLAS and Colonel CONTNGHAME pro-
menaded with the Duke, after he had taken the waters, in
the Long Walk of this Spa. This magnificent promenade
was thronged with visitors by half-past seven o'clock this
morning, his Grace being accustomed to visit the Spa at an
early hour of the morning. The Duke of MANCHESTER.
and a select party dined with his Grace on Sunday. The
hall at the Assembly-rooms was very numerously attended
yesterday evening.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at
the East India House, when the following Captains were
sworn in to the command of their respective ships, viz.—
Captain Jones( DUDMAN, Inglis, and Captain JOHN
CRUICKSHANK, Farquharson, for Bengal and China;
Captain JAMES KEITH FORBES, Thames, for Madras and
Chins; and Captain JAMES B. BURNETT, Scaleby Castle,
for China direct.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—Mr. CAMP-
BELL, the distinguished author of " The Pleasures of
Hope," is to deliver a course of lectures in this University
next spring " On the History of Classical Literature." It
is a part of the plan of this establishment, that in addition
to the lectures of the regular Professors, the Council shall
have the power of engaging individuals of celebrity, in
literature or science, to give occasional courses ; and that,
too, upon subjects for which a professor has been appointed.
The building in Upper Gower-street promises to have a
beautiful effect when the cupola and portico shall be
finished. The greater number of the lecture-rooms, &c.,
are now ready for the reception of the professors and their
pupils, and the University will certainly open, we hear,
on the Ist of October, the earliest day which the Council
announced for that purpose.
THE NEW POST-OFFICE.—The old line of
houses opposite the northern extremity of the post-office
are at present being pulled down, preparatory to the widen-
ing of that part of St. Martin's-le-Grand, opposite to St.
Anne's-lane, in order to afford the different mail-coaches a
full sweep into the area in front of the office. It is feared
that part of the church of St. Anne, which fronts the
street, abutting towards the new lines in an irregular
manner, must be also removed to give regularity to the
widening of that part of St. Martin's-le-Grand correspond-
ing with the range of the street from Newgate-street.. The
new post-office itself is new seen to great advantage, the
scaffoldings erected in front of the centre portico to com-
plete its erection having been removed, and the whole
front, which is the purest and most chaste lonic, may be
taken in at one glance of the eye. The central portico,
which is supported by six fluted columns of the same order
as the architecture of the remainder of the building, is sur-
mounted with a pediment, without any ornament or em-
bellishment further than the cornice, which runs round
the pediment at the angles. There are at each extremity
of the principal façade two projections corresponding with
that in the centre, and supporting small porticoes with
four pillars and two pilasters each, but not covered with
pediments. The entire of the building is completed on the
outside, and the greater part of the rooms ceiled, plastered,
and their windows glazed. But great internal arrange=
silents are still necessary, before the business of the post.
office can be transacted at the new edifice. The rooms are
remarkably well lighted both from the side windows and
those in the roofs. It is said that the mail-coaches will
not start from it until the 23d of next April, the birth-day
of his MAJESTY, on which occasion the Noble Postmaster-
General will give a splendid entertainment to the principal
officers of the establishment.

The Thames Tunnel is now entirely at a
stand. A brick wall hu been completed at the further
extremity of the excavation, which, being made water
tight, prevents any water oozing in in that part, and also
does away with the fear entertained, that if left in its un-
finished state, another break iu of the river might be the
consequence. The water the Tunnel makes (if we may
use the expression) at present is very trifling, and the
whole of the interior is as fresh and firm as before may ac-
cident happened. The workmen, with the exception of a
very few hands who are employed in thoroughly removing
every appearance of the late disaster, hare been discharged;
and even the few now at work will in another week no
longer be needed. Public curiosity appears to have slack-
ened in a great measure, as the number of visitors to in,
spect this wonderful attempt of art is now very limited,
and from the slowness with which money is collected for
its completion, the undertaking wonld appear to have com-
pletely slipped the recollection of the public. Notwith-
standing the appeals made, and the time that has elapsed
since the new plan was first proposed and adapted, little
more than a tenth part of the sum required to finish the
work has been gut together. We understand that it has
been proposed, in alie event of the sum of 100,0001. being
raised, to commence working from the other aide of the
Thames as far as they can go ; and in case of the water
breaking in, as they approach the dangerous part, which
istheeentre of the river, building up a similar wall to
that now placed at the end of the present works, and
afterwards completing the centere by means of the coffer-
dam. If such a plan be in contemplation, it must of ne-
cessity be attended with considerable expense, but is,
perhaps, that most likely to ensure the completion of the
undertaking.