The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-25 00:00:00

LeIIV REPORT.

COURT 0! KING'S BENCH, Jut:: 23.
In the case of the Rioters at the Liverpool Thea-
tre, the rule against Messrs. Carter and Eccles was
made absolute, no cause being shewn.
The Court was occupied foi a considerable limo
by a tinvion of Mr. Scrteaut BEST'S, fur the reversal
of a verdict. The geileral circtinistailees of tae case
appeared to be the following: Mr. J.,laic:, the late
nntatier to. Peierstield, had given a lease of a mill
on his eNtate to title ant:. tenants. '['he tnni-str,nlll
appare, tty stipi.lied by a spring
widen iiowed
Crow one o; I,etinboutiAg hilts but ou the far-
ther side of, the biftherr was.a quarry, which I‘.l:*.*
Joinife had ceased to wort, its being overti,,,,ved,
and the w iters in which ~,v.,ined to have son-At! COW-
In the spring of tile tnid-siretem.—
Coion t J litfe, the son of the Meinnef, intending
to it hrtV quarries on his est„te, and wis.•Mg to
Jinni; it of the water, which w u
.rowned the works, ran a tunnel

• :.11 ;h.-• g,-ounds to carry it otf. This was re,
it b. ill, Hiller, who appreht tided the stoppage.
A ;,.• str,on ; Aid the pc sent appotation was mace
;., he• ostdo t e w hien a Jury had on that
oi2i-ast.in given in his favour.
Mr. GARROW and M. NoLAN, on the.,opposite
side, con en e.t that the communication bet..veen
the qaratry water and mill-,tream aas obvious from
a numuer of nataral appearances. They admi,ted
that the spring and the qoatry were 800 yards from
ea. h other, and that the woer front-the quarry must
pass undtr or c.rough 200 feet of a btrong day
bctore it gushrs out at the foot of the hill, in the
form of a spling ; but admitted that notwithstand-
ing all these daikultics in the way of piovins the
communication, the connexion wai provable.
Lord ELLEINUOROUGH said, that the question was
almost ticA el, amid Certainly at a selious nature. It
was, whether a tenant were equally entitled to the
use of the water, subterraneous and superficial.
However, he would, without' going further, first
recommer:d that the patties should come to a cum-
promise, and that Colonel.Jollitfe should buy the
miller's tight to the stream in question.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, luNt 23.

WILKIatS V. lIRERETON.
This was an action brought by Mary Wilkins,
who had formerly been servant to the Defendant, to
recover Item him a compensation in damages for a
false character given of the Plaintiff, by the De-
fendant's wile, to a Lady who wished to hire the
Plaintiff as her cook-maid.
The ch ,racier charged have been given, as
stated in the Declaration, was, that the Plaintiff
had neither been honest nor sober while in Mrs.
Brereton's service.l The Plaintiff proposed sheaving
I tins character was falie, and tnat in come-
quence of it, she ad lost a situation -where she was
to have received 201. a year.
The Lady called to prove the chara&er given did
not state it to gave been in the terms of any of the
counts spectfied in the deClaption ; she also, in her
cross-examination, proved, that there was a
tnis-
notner in the christian name of her husband. On
-these grounds the plaintiff. was nonAlited.

1 Mr. POW E LI. has published the following ex-
! planation of the expression,
." we wished that some
of our triends had 'been in ihe Tower to have for Ced
him into the carriage."
That. expression was mine—it arose out of the
conversation with Sir Francis Burdett, and had re-
ference merely to the feelings with Which I should
have been actuated had I been present at the mo-
ment when Sir Francis was about to take water.
. The remark was made not only in. petted -good
humour, but even jocularly—and was solely ex-
pressive of my regret ,at his having adopted that de-
termination, by which the people tract been disap-
pointed.—My visit to Sir Fr.incis Burdett was not
sanctioned by the Committee; nor was it even known
to any mimber of it except the. Gentleman by whom
I was accompanied, who accidentally calling, -when
I was auout to step into the chaise, oticrect to bear
me company.
So tar flout the Committee having ever, to my
knowledge, shewn the slightest disposition to force
the measure of the piocession on Sir Francis But-
den, I have myself a perfect conviction, that had.
Sir F. Burdet intimated to the Committee his deter-
mination not to attend in the procession, agreeable
to the plan that had been published,- and of which
he was- unquestionably apprised, the Committee
would have taken every active means in their power
to hate announced that determination of Sir Francis
Burdett, and the plocession would have been aban-
doned. Nor have i the smallest doubt, that had
the wish ot: Sir 'rancis Burdett to tetire privately
been publicly announced, he would not have been
interrupted or molested in returning frotii the Tower
at any moment tie might think proper, atter the pro-
( rogation of Parliament.
I am, Sir,
Your most übedieu servant,
JAMES POWELL.
Saturday, junc,23.