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London, England, 1819-01-30 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 29.

MAYOR OF GRAVESEND.
Mr. MARRYATVed the Court for a rule to
slim cause ‘vhy the Corporation of Gravesend
should not proceed to the election of a new
Mayor, upon the ground of the illegality of the
Election or Mr. Croden, who at present holds
that OtHce.—Role granted.
No other case of public interest occurred in
this Court.—(Morning Chronicle.)

TITHE CAUSE.—Last week a cause was heard in
e Consistorial Court of Exeter,• wherein the Rev.
Chas. Eliott Walkey, as owner or proprietor of the
Tithes of the Parish of Churstow, in the South
of Devon, as Trustee for the Chamber of Exeter,
was the promovent, and Stephen Bickford,- a con-
siderable farmer of Churstow, was the defendant.
The question at issue between the parties was,
whether the defendant could remove his barley,
without affording the tithe collector a proper op-
portunity of seeing and comparing that,part which
was set out . for the tenth with the other nine
parts, it appearing to. have been the practice
of the farmers in several of the parishes in the
South of Devon, to put together 9 cocks or scores
of barley into a truss, ‘Abich was immediately re-
moved, and to lea ve what theydenominated the tenth
for the proprietor of the Tithe : when, atter an
argument of considerable length, in which the
' Learned Counsel on both sides pourtrayed consi-
derable ingenuity, the Court was of opinion, thar
though• such mode of tithing— did appear to
have been generally adopted. in. several of the
Parishes in the South of Devon, and in the Parish
of Churstow in particular, yet that it was contrary
Co law, and therefore the•prOltnovent must recover
Counsel on the part of the promovent, Mr. Tan.
cred—Procter, Mr. Thomas Turner. For the de-
fendant—Counsel,' Mr. Stephens—Proctor, Mr.

Thursday se'nnight the front of one of the
stage•boxes at the Dublin Theatre gave way, and
three Gentlemen who were leaning on it were
piecipitated into the orchestra. Fnrtur►aredy the
panne' in its fall fastened on the spikes-under-
neath, which prevented the party receiving any
material injury.
GLUTTONY EXTRAORDINARY..---A fellow named
Isaac Briggs, who works in the dock-yar.! at
Portsmouth, undertook last week to cat a corned
leg of pork, weight 17 pounds and a half, in
twelve liours,, At the first onset he cleated off .11
the fat, and devoured six pounds and a half, al-
though it was not half done. In the evening he
had another turn, and eat seven pounds more,
some of which was fried, together with a gallon
of pickled cabbage and a gallon of ' beer. He
could have finished the pork, but at eleven o'clock
the brute was bought for 3/. as some bets were
pending upon it. This •gormandizing took place
at the Star, Luke lane, near Portsea. - . ,12.

. CRIMINAL „INFORMATION.
Mr. SCARLET? moved for a rule to shew.cause
why a criminal into, motion, should not be, flied
against a Gentleman named Patrick Connely, for
endeavouring to provoke a -Mr. William Mitchell
to fight a. duel. The Learned Counsel stated,
from the affidavits in support of the motion, that
Mr. Patrick .Connely had married a young lady of
fortune at Brighton—that Mr. William Mitchell
had been appointed one of the Trustees under the
13r!y's.nratriage settlement—that in the year 1817
Mr. Comtely.had called upon Mr. Mitchell to trans.
ter to him some of the trust property, with which
the trustee refused to comply, alledging that he
had no power so to do. In the year following Mr.
Connely renewed his application, but the answer
was, that nothing conld.he done, upon which Mr.
Connely addressed Mr. Mitchell in very abusive
language, which ended in -the latter determining
to break off all further correspondence. Some
time afterwards the parties met on the Sreyne, at
Brighton, when an altercation ensued, Mr. Con-
nely calling Mr. Mitchell "a_ person of-low and
contemptible origin," for which offence, however,
an-apology was afterwards,made, . But since then.
Mr. Mitchell had been continually addressed by
letters, containing such offensive matter that he
rwas induced to take no more in. On the 46 .of
January inst.,. however, he received a letter from
Mr, Connely, the superscription being in a strange
hand, conveyed nearly in the following terms :
" You hard-hearted wretch, .the momentil can
get', you abroad, I will shake a whip ovet you,
as a coward, distorted in mind as well as in body.
You are the cause of ruining my family, and
many others.". The affidavits stated other grounds
for the motion, and represented that Mr. Mitchell
had never used an angry word towards Mr. Con
rely, 'who was stated to be a. surgeon by proles
sion. Under these circumstances, the Court grant.
ed a rule to spew cense.

PARLIA MENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JANUARY 29.

The House met at ten o'clock, and proceeded
in Appeak.
The oaths were adminivered to ti)e Earl of
Thanet.

An adjournment took place at four, and the
liolise resumed a little before fire.
Mr. Mason, from the E”t India House, pre.
seated, pursuant ;o Act of Parliament, an Annual
Account of 'Salaries, Gratnitks and Pensions,
which was ordered to lie lip'arl the Table.
CARE OF THE KING'S PERSON.
The Bill respecting the care 4)f the King's Per-
son, was, on the motion of the Ear! of lavEit-•
POOLi read a third time and na!zsed, and ordered
to be sent to the House of Com:lions by two of
his Majesty's Judges.—Adjourned till Monday,

'6l elevatetl rat,k. It complined of a breach of
the privileges of that Haute, by the interference
of a Peer of Parliament in the Election for the
`City of Oxford. It did not alledge an undue Re-
turn, but that the - Duke of Alarlborough had
been guilty of a violation of the tights of his Ma-
jesty's suhiects, by various illegal acts, commit-
ted for the purpse of influencing an Election.
The Petitioners were persons of most respectable
character, who had taken no part in the Election;
awl he conceived that they were justified in their
otppiiraion to have their statement referred to a
Con,mittre of Privilege*. Ile notv moved, there‘
fore, that the Petition should he read.

Loyd CHARLES SPENCER CHURCH:LL tled•red,
that he 1171(1 nu wish to Oppose the,lnoilott of the
lion. and learned Genileman, Ft Om his own
syttial knowledge of the facts to which the peti-

tioo ',ferret), and from other circutnstattees, tie
t.,11 rile ko most c(infitlence that the conduct of

Noble Relation would, upon inquity, prove to be
Mt,iriv undeserving of the imputations cast upon
it. lie should defer dl farther remarks till a fu-

I t,;e 01 pot iimi'V.

Mi. C. IV. Vt'y NN said, if he rightly ornterstood
the nature of this petition, ft ton the observations
of the Hon. word [eart►etl Gewleman, it did not
rompl •in of an 'lndite return, nor did it proceed
from persons Iraing a right to vote or take any
TrArt in the t Ipetion. It could not, theretore, be
referred to an Election Committee. He wished
to drate tl-e attention of the llt►nse to the extreme
itreonvettitnee that must wise from taking I►ett-
ti of his ',mire into consideration, before the
fourteen days had expired, ,t ithito et loch election
• Petitions might be received. A Committee al►-
pointed to inquire into the grounds of the present
etonidAint, li.t)•t ieqnire into facts whicl► might
toterwlrds Iteoine the subject of investigation
Moore a Petition tot an undue return. it would
111113 open a door for drawing cages front
the consideration of Select Committees, and
making them matter of discussion U) the. House
itself, to the renewal of all those evils which
were -found to prevail before Ow system of jntli-
cat t/re by which contested Elections were now?
decided was established. lie recommended, there-
fore, to the Hon. and Learned Gent, to postpone
this question till the ildtlys should have elapsed,
there could then be no objection to his motion
for r,ff-tring it to a Committee of Privileges, it no
Election Petition were presented in the wean
time.

DetlNth'S expressed himself grateful for the
advice of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, but
begged to state, that he was wrong in supposing
that the Petitioners were not freemen of Oxford,
or were not qualified to vote. It appeared also to
hint, that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had
carried the effect of the Act of Parliament too
far. It might he desirable that it should, but the
in its resent state did not exclude any per-
son from complaining to the House of a bread► of
privilege within the 14 days. Every subject had,
therefore, /a right to expect that his complaint
should be immediately considered. He 1110110'r,
ton, that the consequences of a report ,by a Cont-\
mittee of Privileges were somewhar exaggerated,
when it was supposed that it would necessarily
embarrass or mislead fifteen Gentlemen, actin,g
tsl►on oath, whose duty it might afterwards be to
advert to the same eirenmstances. Under these
considerations, and witl► a toll knowledge of the
respectability of the Petitioners, he did not feel
himself justified in consenting to any delay.
Mr. C. WY NN observed, that be had under-

Stood the lion. GentlemAn to have said, at first,
that the petitiimers had no local connection tvitlt

the city of Oxford. He felt, however, the diffi-
culty which he had already urged to he so strong,
that as the report of a Committee of Privileges
must, if made, lie on the table till the 14 days
were expired, and there, was therefore no reason
for dispatch, he should take the sense of the House
iymi.the question of receiving this petition.
An Hon. Memaga, whose name we could not
learn, observed, that it was imrossible for the
noose to know the nature or substance of this
petition till it should be read. All that was stat-
ed by his Hon. Friend was, that it contained au
allegation of a breach of privilege, by the inter-
ference of a Peer in the election of a Member to
serve in that House. Such a complaint, he ap-
prehended, it was their duty to attend to at any
time.

TIRRNEV could not conceive upon what
principle the House was called on by his Hon.
Friend to rej.tct a petition, or to decide that they
would not receive it, before they bad heard it read,
and merely hecgtvie it elated to a breach of privi-
lege. It wold,l be soon enough to dispose at it,

or to postpone its considetation, when its contents
should be fully known. With regard to its merits,

be 'vas entirely ignorant of themehut he was most
willing to believe That they were favourable rather

than orhertvise to the Noble Duke.

Lord S. CHURCH ILL repeated the expression
Of his anxiety, that an early occasion might be
effqrded of vindictiting the.conduct of his Noble

Itclation

r. WY N N thought the statements in the Peti-
tion might, by being read, in some degree eia-
dice the consideration of the question by an Elec-
tion Committee, bot was willing to yield to %-iliat