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LAW INTELLIGENCE

COUItrII,. () KING'S BENCH, JULY
"PAAKER, v. ENGRAM:. •
This wai an action upon a Bill of Exchange for ..£5O. . T. 112
Bill was drawn by John Barford.; accepted by Mr. T. Ingram,
a fish salesman at Rillinsgate ; the plaint-Iff was endorsee.-71'he
regular proof being given, .• .
Mr."Pux.i.F.ii, _tor the defendant, charged the transaction as
usurious.. • •

Mr. .Edmund, Barford said, I am Captain and Adjutant of
the Wiltshire -Local Militia. 'Mr. Ingrano,the defendant; accapt-
ed the Billin question for my brother.. I went with my brother
to the house of the plaintiff, who is a silversmith in Be:rnars-
street. We said we had a Bill to discount; and lie desired that
we would leave it with him until next day. Next day we
called. Mr. Parkencarried us into a back room and said'that
the Bill would do. My brother then asked what he was to pay
for the discount. Mr. Parker said, " 1 suppose you will not
mind laying out £20." 1 said that £2O was a great deal too
much. Mr. • parker • then fetched in a silver cream-jug, a
cheese-knife, abutter-knife, and two srindl spoons. Ha said he
should charge 410 -10 s. for them, but afterwards agreed to take
£l9. iVe gain-411 e Bill, and received £39 ls. 4d. in cash, and
the silver articles. We wanted to dispose of the plate, and we
carried it ,to a Mr. Archbut, a silversmith and pawnbroker near
Astley's Theatre. -The articles were weighed; andthey weighed
(ivory handles included) between 12 and 13 ounces. We sold
them- for £4 10s.

Cross-examined by Mr. GuRNEY.:—We did cot say, when
we went to Mr. Parker, that we wanted to purchase godds.
Mr.' PuiLEN submitted that it was now for Mr. Parker to
show that the plate had been worth the priccfor which he had
sold it.

Mr. GITANEY, for the plaintiff, had the means of showing
that fact ' •
Joseph Bland said, I am shopman to Mr. Parker, I saw the
-Messrs. Barford when they first came to our house. They said
that they wanted to purchase some silver articles.- Next day,_
when they came, they had a cream jug, a butter knife, a cheese
knife, a marrow spoon, and a punch ladle. These things were
charged] at £lO. No bill of parcels was made out; and I
do not know what the articles weighed : they would have been
charged £lO to any other customer.
Mr. GURNEY, in reply, commented 'upon the modesty of
.patties,Fho, after taking from a tradesman £39 in cash, and
plate, came with. a legal objection to bar his claim al-
together. If Mr,. Barford chose to sell his goods to a. pawn-
broker at half their value, with that choice the. plaintiff had ,
nothing to do ; but if the sale had been a fair one, Mr.. A'rch-
but (who was known to the defendants) would have been called.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left "it to the jury to. Say,
whether the sale by Parker had, or had not, been a regular
transaction.
The Jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict for the
defendant.

COURT OF COMMON. PLEAS, Jui,Y 16.
11E.MING V. SLARNES.
This was an action on a breach of warranty of a horse. The
plaintiff's servant swore that his master purchased two horses,
one gray, for 1314 the other black, for 121., from the defendant,
who warranted both sound. The black, however, was. dis-
coVered;•on the same evening on which it had betin bought, to
be broken winded, and was c,onsequently returned to the de-
fendant, who refused to take it back. The defendant's wit-
nesses swore that he had not warranted either of the horses ;
and that he had sold both together for 251., the price of the gray
being 181. : and hetherefore refused to take one back without
the other ; but offered, if both were returned, to receive them
and return the money, His Lordship' left it to the Jury to say
whether it was likely that the plaintiff would 'purchase horses
without; as One of the witnesses for the defendant had stated,
even asking. if they "'ere sound, or that, if the defendant had
not warranted the animal sound, but sold them with all, their
faults, .he would have consented to xree-ive.them back and return
the money. ,
Verdict for the' plaintiff, £l6 45., the price of the horse and
the cost of his keeping. -

.cottnt OF EXCISE.
ADULTERATED BEER.—.Tames Smith, a , publican, was
charged with having feloniously compounded six gallons of
liquor with grains of Paradise, quassia, and other pernicious
ingredients, not malt and hops, with intent to defraud the reve-
liue: •A second count simply charged him with having the
liquor so compounded in his possession, for purposes of adul-•
teration. A third count in the information charged him with
having had in his possession four pounds of the grains of Para-
dise, for the purposes of adulteration, &c., whereby he had
forfeited on each count the sum of 2001.
Samples of the contents of a cask seized on his premises were
produced .in Court, It was a fluid of a most powerful stature,
highly concentrated, intolerably hot and bitter. It was of a
yellowish semi-transparent colour,' and when the 'cork was
drawn a pungent smell exhaled.
A witndss was " giving Isis evidence, when Mr. Mayew, the
Solicitor of the Excise, stepped for ward and stated, that the case
was compromised.
Mr. WILDE, the Counsel for the defendant, begged to be
allowed to withdraw his plea of Not Guilty,and to plead Guilty
to the counts for having in his possession, &c., the ingredients
charged.
Judgment was accordingly awarded against the defendant on
the two counts in the penalty of 1001. :
The above case excited the greatest interest, as we are in-
formed that about 90, publicans are implicated in similar. prac-
tices. By the application of drugs like those produced before
the Court, and other ingredients of 'a similar desciption, -it is
stated that they are enabled to compound to the extent or con-
verting two butts of porter into three. ' •

- MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
'Yesterday these Sessions commenced at Hicks's Hall, before
th e:Chairman, Mr. Coifs T antis Bench of M agistrates, amongst
whom was tlf4 Recorder. On occasion °fa motion being made
for a trial to stand over, the CIiAIRMAN observed, that in con-
sequence of the number of orders of that kind that were made
last Session, it lasted three days longer than it would otherwise
have done. The object of making such motions was, that
Counsel might be able to attend the: different causes 'in which
they were engaged; but the effect was to give a monopoly of
the business of the Court to the Senior Counsel, anti to prevent
the Juniors ever getting a brief.—The Court would therefore in
future decline acceding to such applications, unless a sufficient
cause was stated by affidavit.

LONDON SESSIONS.
Yesterday these Sessions were opened by Sir Joini PEERING,
as locum tenens for the LORD MAY3II, whose indisposition' we
regret to state, has not abated. The Common Serjeant, Sheriffs
Waithmnn and Williams, Aldermen J. J. Smith, &holey,
Brown, and Bridges, were also on the Bench.
The following A :al abstract of the calendar for the present
Sessions : - . . . Lendon. Middles2x.
Murder - - - • 0 ' 6
Housebreaking - - ' O. 1
Burglary. 0 1
Stealing in a dwelling souse - - !a.
Uttering forged notes. -
Forgery -.. . -
Maliciously shooting -
Highway robbery
Returning from transportation
Receiving stolen goods
Manslaughter . '
Larcenies , - -
Stealing from the person
Fraud

16 fay
2 • 17

Tote' 140--24 116
State of his Majesty's Gaol of Newgaze, up
_to the 12th of
July,' 1821 : • • Niaies.. Females.
Convicts respited during pleasure- , • - 28 . 6
Upon whom JUdgment of the Court has been
respited - - . - - -
Under sentence of transportation for life -
For fourteen years •' - - . -
For seven years - - . -
Prisoners under sentence of impz=senanent for
felony and misdemeanours -
Committed by Commissioners of 2araizapts
For trial at the.preaent Seseions
Ditto at ti:e Admiralty Sessions
Remcir. icr House cf Correctior- •

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