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London, England, 1826-11-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELOGENCE
COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 22::

The Chief .1 usticee of the Court, of King', Bench and Comtnon
Pleas,tnet Allis day, with the Lord,Cbancellur,,to assist his Lord-
ehip in giving judgment in the ey.isoi,of YV4ite v. Witty, which was
* question dependent on the terms of a ►ill made by a person
named James Allan, by Avhich he devised large estates in Cam-
bridgeshire to Mary Pearce
Chief Justice llesT.and Chief Justice ABBOTT, concurred in
deciding the multifarious points submitted to their consideration,
in favour of the plaintiff,' M. P. White.
'the Loan CHAWCZLLOR thanked the learned Judges for the
assistance they had rendered him, and directed the case to stand
over fur his judgment on Friday neat. .
The Court was occupied with this case the greater part of
the day. .

COURT OP BENCH, Nov.. 22.
THE xINQ V. TOW. INII•SITANT9 OF TONBILIDOR.

This WAS am appeal againet an order of the Quarter Sessions of
Kent, for the removal of a pauper from the Parish of Lainhorough.
—Case dismissed.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 22.
(Before Lord STOWELL.)
CAPTURE OF PIRATES.

. The Kme's ADVOC#TIC applied for head-money fur 58 men,
who were proved to have been pirate,. He stated that the enter-
prise was a most gallant one, anti, he submitted, eminently de-
serving of the consideration of the Court. The facts of the case
were as follow.:—His Majesty's cutter Grecian was employed on
the Jamaica station in November, 1823, and the Commander hay-

ing received intimation that a piratical schooner was off the coast of
Campeachy, plundering the merchantmen, he sailed, for
,that
coast, but the pirates having received information of his approach
ran the schooner ashore, and escaped in two canoes. The
Captain of the Grecian then went on shore, and demanded from
the Spanish Governor that the pirate vessel should be given up as
a prize, but as some of the inhabitants of San Pedro claimed the
schooner, as their property, which had been captured by the
pirates, the commander of the Grecian gave up his claim to the
schooner. The commander of the Grecian then procured a
Spanish Mecca, the , crew of which
.consisted of 11 Spaniards,
and putting on board ten of the crew of the Grecian, under the I
command of Joseph Oxendon, the mate of the Grecian, anti ona'
10-pound carronade, he directed that the felucca should sail to-,
wards the Wend of San Pedro, where he learned that the pieltee
bad regularly established themselves, erecting a telegraph, and.
taking other precautions to prevent thennielves from being cur-,
prised. The commands given to Oxendon, were to endeavour to'
decoy the pirates out to sea; when the commander of the
Grecian intended, that if the felucca should he at-
tacked, the Grecian might come to her waistline*. A
heavy gale , suddenly rising however, the Grecian was
forced to sea during the night. At day-break next morning
a number of fishing boats and two large canoes filled with armed
men, were obServed coming from San Pedro towards the felucca.
Upon the approach of the boats, the crew of the felucca, which
eonsisted of !Spaniards, ran below deck and created so much cone
fusion, that the canoes were alongside the felucca before the ten
men,belonging to the Grecian could bring the carronade to bear:
The pirates then commenced a smart fire on the felucca, calling
on the crew to surrender; but Oxendon and his small party
gallantly returned the fire, and after killing three men
belonging to the canoes, they both sheared off, still keeping
up an irregular fire on the felucca. The felucca continued her
fire until the pirates got on shore, when, after pulling up their
canoes on land, they endeavoured to retreat into. the woods ; bit
the men belonging to the Grecian landing, and still pursuing
them, they returned to the shore, and Wring to their boats, put
off to sea. One of the canoes finally escaped, but the other; con-
taining a crew of fifteen men, was captured by some Indians off
the Island of Molliera, and ten out of the fifteen were subsequently
hanged as pirates at Jamaica. Under all the circumstances, he
moved the court to decree head-money for thirty-six men, which
had been sworn were on board the two canoes, when they attack-
ed the felucca.

Lord *rowx4 said that he did not see how die Court could
grant head-money on the boat's crew of the canoe which escaped.
It WWI better to take a decree for, the three men who were killed,
and the fifteen, Who were subsequently captured. .The claim for
head-money for the eighteen men who escapes!, was a matter
which the Court would take time to consider.