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THE SPRING COURSE o f LECTURES
will commence on MONDAY, the 2lst inst.
Theory and Practice of Medicine—Dr. Elliotsou.
Materia Medica—Dr. Roots.
Chemistry—Dr. Burton.
Anatomy—Mr. Green and Mr. John F. South.
Surgery—Mr. Green.
Midwifery—Dr. Locock and Dr. Ferguson.
Comparative Anatomy—Mr. John F. South.
Botany—Mr. Frost.

. Clinical Lectures will be given.
pupils entering to the Surgical Practice of this Hovital,
are allowed to attend that of Guy's.
For particulars apply to Mr. Whitfield, Apothecary to
Thomas's Hospital.

Published by John Cumberland, 19, Ludgate-hill.

111DPELSHAM'S CHRONOLOGY of the
-tffi' REIGNS of GEORGE 111. and IV., in a pocket
volume, with portraits, sa.

CUMBERLAND'S BRITISH THEATRE, containing
119 Acting Plays, in 17 vols. price 3/. 10n. 6d.
PERCY ANECDOTES, with 41 portraits, engraved
by Fry, in 41 parts, at 2s. 6d. or 20 vols. cloth, 51. 6s.
111 ELAND'S LIFE of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
with coloured plates, engraved by G. Cruikshank, in 64
numbers, ls. each, or 4 vols. 3/. 4s.
FIELDING'S PROVERBS of ALL NATIONS, An-
cient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs, ss. neatly bound.
LIFE in PARIS, embellished with 21 coloured en-
gravings, and 21 vignettes, by G. Cruikshank, 1/. Is.
HUME, SMOLLETT'S, and BURKE'S HISTORY
of ENGLAND, 136 engravings, in 37 parts, Is. 6d. each,
Or 6 vols. 2/. 14s.
LIVES and PORTRAITS of PUBLIC CHARAC-
t
~HS, 89 engraved portraits, by Cooper, in 3 vols. cloth,
1/. 4,

CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES, with por-
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elutlh Its.

ROYAL MAIL COACH-OFFICE, LAD-LANE,
TH E following ROYAL MAILS depart
c,_ from the above Office every Evening at half•rast.
'even (Sundays excepted at Seven) :
BATH and EXETER, through Devizes, Taunton, and
Colintapton.
BARNSTAPLE New Mail, through Milverton, Wi-
volscombe, Bampton, and South Alotton.

BIRMINGHAM and KIDDERMINSTER, through
Rtuney Stratford and Coventry.
BRISTOL, through Marlborough and Chippenham.
CARLISLE and EDINRURGPI, through Chorley and
Caratang.
_ _ _

EXETER, through Salisbury, Blandford, and Dor.
ester.
.ALMOUTH and PLYMOUTH ROYAL MAIL.
HOLYHEAD, through Wolverhampton, Shrewslrtry,
and Bangor.
LIVERPOOL, through Newcastle and Cengleton.
MANCHESTER, through Derby and Macclefifiehi.
111ILFORD HAVEN, through Carmarthen and Haver-
ford-west.

NORWICH, through Colchester, Ipswich, and Scole.
The following POST COACHES start regularly at the

time specified:—
MORNING POST COACHES.
W'ey'mouth, through illandfoid and Dorchester at Five.
Norwich, through Bury and Scole, at Half-past six.
Nottingham and Derby, through Leicestec, at Half-past
Six,
Exeter, Falmouth, and Plymouth, at half-past Six.
Windsor and Eton, at Seven.
Birmingham, Coventry, and Ifolyhead, a Quarter before
Eight.
Liverpool, through Birmingham, a Quarter before Eight.
Southampton, through Winchester, a Quarter before
Eight.
Cenberbury and Dover, at Eight and Ten.
Prighton, Eight and Ten.
AFTERNOON POST COACLIES.

Cautorbllyaod---DOrtr, at Half-past Two.
Carlisle and Edinburgh, through Garstang, a Quitter
before Four.
Derby, through Northampton and Leicester, a Quit ter
before pour.
Glasgow, through Kendal and Dumfries, a Quarter be-
Foie Four.
Itlattchoter, through Derby and Buxton, a Quarter be-
t.'" Four.
FoNottingham, through Loughborough, a Quarter before
ur.
Bristol aid Rath, through Chippenham, at Four.
Milford Haven and Tenby, through Swansea, at Four.
Taunton, through Cross and Bridgewater, at Four.
Windsor and Eton, at Four.
Livornool through Coleshill and Lichfield, at Half-past
Two. •
Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich, at Half-past
Rive.
Derby, through Leicester and Northampton, a Quitter
before Six.
before
Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Carlisle, a Quarter
Six.

Manchester, through Leek and Macclesfield, a Quarter
before Six.
Nottingham, through Leicester, a Quarter before Six.
Birmingham and Coventry, through Stony Stratford, a
Quarter before Six.
Holyhead and Shrewsbury, a Quarter before Six.
Cambridge Entiarprise, New Post Coach (in six hours),
through Buntingford, Royston,
before Six. and Melbourne, a Quarter
Wisbesch, superior fast coach, through Ely, Littleport,
and Lynn, (in twelve hours), a Quarter before Six.
IWauchester New Independent, threw h Leek and Mac-
cksfield, a Qmuter before Seven.
before
Glaagow, Edinburgh,_Dutnfries, and Carlisle, a Quarter
Seven
Canterbury and Dover, at Seven.
Nat. POST COACHES to every
titY and Manufac-
turing Town in the Kingdom.
W. WATERHOUgE and SON, Proprietors.rtir The Proprietors of the above Carriages will not ba
ilcemuutdble for any Parcel or Package whatever, 0„, for
any Passenger's Luggage above the, value of blive Poinui„,
'Wets the same be entered and paid for accordingly at the
1"110 of the delivery of any such Parcel, Package, or P,,,,..
"%el.'s Luggage, to them their Agents.
________ uggage, or

ESTABLISHED MEDICINES.
p NEWBERY, and SONS, Proprietors
• of Dr. James's. and other valuable Medicines,
.ittition the Public against Counterfeits, and acquaint them,
that none but the genuine are sold at their Warehouse, No.
Ch' 1n Saint Paul's Churchyard, the third house from
e•Plide.

d.
Dr. Steer's Opodeldoc.2 9
—Camomile Drops 1 9
—Convulsion Oil ....2
—ParegoricLoeenges 1 1
Bilious Pills (New-
bery's)
Dr. Salerni'sPowder 22 0
Ems. of Coltsfoot ...• 2 9
Ditto, ditto 3 6

d.
Dr' James's Powder 2 9
--12 in
Pills 4 6
D®iPowder 1 6
it) '
r,_, Y Carminative 1 9
"Ana's Cephalic
Slita 1 lf
its gpenee'sDentri-
fise
4 0
,-}run's Tincture 3 6
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ah...'t authenticity of tlse above will be ascertained by the
ti7t_°f "F. Newbery" being engraved in the 3 temp.r.
dander's Tea ...2 9 I Dr. Hooper's Pi115...1 11_,
the Ad every other Medicine of repute. On taking Six,
.4.411Ps are allowed.

ROBBERY OF THE LEDBURY BANK.

There are some very curious circumstances connected
with the perpetration of this most daring and extensive
robbery, which have not yet been communicated to the
public. They are important, also, as well as curious, in-
asmuch as they will serve to show haw alarmingly sys-
tematic and ingenious the thieves are in their plans of rob-
bery. The two persons who, beyond all doubt, committed
the robbery in question, had paid more than one visit to
Ledbury before the last occasion, and were supposed to be
London travellers, and therefore attracted no particular
notice ; and of course they took care to inform themselves
of every circumstance connected with the Bank which
could at all favour their nefarious views. The banking-
house itself was not inhabited at night, but was " taken care
of," if it may be so stated, by an ancient couple, who oc-
cupied a small tenement adjoining, and from which tenement
there was a door of communication with the Bank. The old
man, in addition to the emolument he received as the nightly
guardian of the banking establishment, carried on the busi-
ness of a barber. He and his wife were both of a very re-
ligious turn of mind, and regular in their attendance at
places of divine worship, but were never known to go toge-
ther, because of the important charge intrusted to them;
so that they made their visits in turn. One of the two
men alluded to, upon the last visit, went regularly every
morning to the barber's to be shaved, and having made him-
self acquainted with their habits, he took care to provide
himself with religious books, to which lie drew the atten-
tion of the barber and his wife, and would sit and converse
with them upon their favourite topic for an hour together.
His manners were pleasing, his information apparently to
them extensive, and the old couple were quite delighted
with the strange gentleman. On Friday morning last,
(the robbery was committed on the evening of that day),
" the strange gentleman" called as usual to be shaved, and
the conversation taking the customary turn, he observed
that a friend of his, a most pious and an exceeding clever
man, was going to preach that evening at a chapel which
he named, and he wished he could prevail on them to go
to hear him. They would, he assured them, be greatly
edified, and their souls comforted by the discourses of his
friend. They hesitated, and he even offered to accompany
them. This latter proposition was irresistible, and the
barber and his wife consented to go. He called in the
evening, and they all went to the chapel together, the bar-
ber securing his doors in the best manner the fastenings
would allow. They had not been long in the chapel, how-
ever, before the stranger whispered to the barber that he
was seized with a violent pain in his bowels, and must re-
tire for a time. He did not return, and the barber con-
cluded he was worse, and remained until the conclusion of
the service. In the mean time, the work of plunder was
going successfully on. The door of the barber's tenement
was opened with picklock-keys, and an easy entry to the
bank was effected in the same manner. The iron chest
from which the greater part of the property was abstracted
had a secret sprits, but this the thieves disccvered, and
thus set at nought the ingenuity of him who had construct-
ed it. An iren-safe, however, in which some very valua-
ble property was da7soedsitedia3esitocatipeeedd, thoer
villains—whetherw ewere
from its having p that they
unable to open it, cannot be known. The thieves were
many miles from Ledbury with their booty before the rob-.
bery W5l discovered. An active officer has been to Led-
bury to make inquiries, and to examine the premises.

Basket, MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
Kingston ----.—_
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Birmingham .... Birrninghani—Office of Mr. Whattelyne, 11
Hughes, it., m.._...•.. 1..8
w., Leyembutr—Globei Exeter
Jisoloohnrset,onN,v.J,., Manchester
—White's, Manchester ... ......
n'e, MancheAter—White'6 Hotel,
Royal hotel, Manchester
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INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCIfAIIGED,
Petitions to be heard at Portu_naLstreet Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Jan. 21, at Niue o'clock.
Sutton, W., Pulteney-street, Golden-square, tailor
urandon, W., Somerset, horse-dealer
Holland E. City-road, cotton-manufacturer
J Oxley, ~ South Leverston, Notts, farmer
Page, R. Sutton, Surrey, wheelwright
Sedgwick, J., Walthamstow, sawyer
Simmons, J., Guildford-street, Southwark, engineer
Viner, J., Bath, carpenter and joiner

The Corporation of the City of London, not
to be left entirely behind in " the march of in-
tellect," have formed a new Library, which is
shortly to be opened i❑ the Guildhall. The
books have been collected under the auspices of
Mr. Bolland, Mr. A. L. Jones, Mr. Taylor, Mr.
Oldham, the City Solicitor, and Mr. Upcot of
the London Institution. The collection already
made is more numerous than that possessed by
the mechanics, but not so numerous, or perhaps
so generally useful, as that ,attained by the com-
mercial and professional youths of the city, at
the City of London Literary and Scientific Insti-
tutions, though more costly works of rarity res-
pecting civic history. The most important work
contained in the new Library, is a complete set
of the London Gazette, from its commencement

to the present day. For this 2401. was given,
and it is believed to be unique. The set m the
British Museum is very imperfect. There are
many book collectors in the city who possess
large libraries, some of which it is hoped the
owners will bequeath as additions to the New
Library', and the Committee are ambitious of
making it: the first for works of authority on
municipal subjects. Whether it is to be freely open
to the public, as the Bibliotheque de la Ville,
and all the other libraries, Government or Cor-
porate, at Paris, are—whether the admission is
to be a matter of solicitation and patronage, as is
the case with the most accessible public libraries
in London—whether the Court of Common
Council will confine it to their constituents, the
citizens, or whether they will confine it to them-
selves—is vet, we believe, undetermined. The
Corporation have in their possession public
documents of unknown value to the historian,
but there is no intention of rendering these avail-
able to the public. There is in the Town Clerk's
Office upwards oflooo volumes of manuscript re-
cords. We believe they contain a perfect series of
the minutes of the proceedings of the Corporations
from the reign of Henry 11. These must be of
considerable value to the historian, as throwing
light on the transactions of the Government
during those periods, when its affairs were so
much interwoven with---those of the citizens.
The sumptuary regulations which the Corpora-
tion at various periods chose to make, and its
ordinances for the internal regulation of the City,
would, no doubt, be of considerable value, as illus-
trative of the history ofmanners. Besides these,they
have large quantities of judicial enrolments of
deeds and other records, no doubt of equal in-
terest and importance, which, until latterly, were
allowed to be neglected in mouldering heaps.
The present Town Clerk and his assistants, who
happen to be men of some erudition, have for
some time past been engaged in superintending
their repair and preservation. These documents,
which would form the most valuable accession to
the Library, the Corporation arc unwilling to
throw open to the public, though the majority of
its members are profoundly ignorant of their
contents, and are obliged, whenever a litigated
point occurs respecting city privileges, to depend
on the inclination, the industry, or capacity of
their officers for snaking suitable researches.
The Commissioners of Public Records have set
an example, ill making the records in the cus-
tody of Government_ more available to the.pub-
lic, and, for this purpose, both at the Tower, the
Chapter House, and at the State Paper Office,
triple indixes of names, places, and things, have
been formed, or are in the course of formation,
to facilitate research.

Notwithstanding the depression of the times
real property Bells well.—An instance occurred on Wednes-
day se'nnight at an auction at Ryhall, near Stamford. A
small house, and two acres and a half of pasture land, (in
the occupation of a lady at that place,) which had been
valued at 4001., were knocked down to a gentleman near
Bourne at the extraordinary price of 7661.—Hu1l Packet.
THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Mr. BRUNEL was
in.the diving-bell on Tuesday morning and on Tuesday
night, as long as the tide would permit it. Ile resumed
his inspection yesterday morning for three hours, remain-
ing as long and as deep as the air-pipe could safely be
used. He found nothing that could induce him to alter
his original plan of using bags of clay. A barge full of
bags was accordingly thrown in, over the deepest part, this
afternoon ; and now eight or ten barges of larger bags, or
bundles of bags, will be thrown, through an opening made
in the raft which is moored on the cavitlV. It is with ex-
treme concern we hear of Mr. BRUNET, jun. being very
seriously indisposed. Mr. BEasissx, another of Mr. BRU-
NEL'S assistants, is also very unwell. Mr. GRAVATT, a
third assistant, was very ill the night before the accident.
It was its consequence of Mr. GRAVATT'S illness that Mr.
BauNEL, jun., though he had been on duty the whole of
Friday, continued in the frames until six in the morn-
ing of Saturday, when the accident happened. It being
the hour of relieving, Mr. Braausn was kept a ter,
minutes longer above to write the orders, and give the men,
who had justsleft work, something to drink. Mr. BEastistr
might thus for the second time have been in the situation
in which he distinguished himself for his coolness and pre-
sence of mind. It must he remembered he was the last to
quit the frames in May last.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Yesterday morn-
ing, as a poor-looking woman, with a baby in her arms,
was o
of Wych-street, a hackney-coach
came r s s
drivingng up, at
thea top
t a pace more rapid than ordinary; and
c
before the poor woman could get out of its way, she was
knocked down by the pole. The screams of the woman
and hir child were instantly attended to by the coachman,
but before he was able to bring his hot sea to a stand-still,
one of the fore wheels had passed over the stomach of the
woman, and would have crushed the head of the child to
atoms, had not its mother, by an exertion almost super-
human, while actually writhing under the wheel, rescued
it from its perilous situation, by plating it away with her
only disengaged hand. The child was uninjured, the
mother sadly bruised, hut, notwithstanding the wheel had
passed over her stomach, she experienced no inconvenience
whatever in that part. Mr. Mx:is/rum. (the fare) who
alighted after the accident bad happened, ordered the poor
woman and her child to be taken home in the coach,
where, some time after, he visited her.

Abraham Martin, an infirm old countryman, was
indicted for feloniously stealing a quantity of corn,
the property of Messrs. La Coste, bankers, at Chert-
sey, on the Sth of December last.
The daughter of the prisoner positively swore that
she had gleaned the corn, found in her parent's
house, from the fields of the prosecutors.
The Chairman having summed up the evidence
with great precision, the Jury returned a verdict of
" Acquittal."
The following are the Resolutions moved by Mr.
Randle Jackson on Tuesday last :
" 1. That this Court regard with great concern
the alarming increase of crime within its jurisdiction,
particularly the crimes of burglary, housebreaking,
and street robbery, which, in many instances, have
been committed with such confederated strength,
and in a manner so open, violent, and atrocious,. as
to have placed the persons and property of the in-
habitants of this county in such a state of insecurity,
as to demand the immediate attention of the magis-
tracy, and of all persons in authority.
" 2. That a Committee be formed, to take into
their consideration from time to time, as occasion►
may require, the state of the police of the county,
and such matters as they think connected therewith,
and to report their opinion to the sessions.
" That the said Committee consist of—

Sergeant Scriven

Messrs. Spicer

Sir Richard Frederick Spur
Sir Thomas Turton R. Hudson
Messrs. Denison Crawford
Patimer Edgell Wyat
G. Holme Sumner 1 B. Allen
Trotter Gaitskell
S. Thornton Woolley
Page Briscoe
Jackson Robert Hedger
Wightwick The Rev. G. W. Onslow
Barnard The Rev. John Courtney
And Messrs. Chambers, Swabey, and Hone, the
Police Magistrates of Union-hall.
" 3. That this Court will at all times be ready to
attend to communications from Government, and
will, to the best of their power, contribute their aid
to the protection of his Majesty's subjects both as
to their persons and property.
" 4. That William Joseph Denison and Charles
Nicholas Pannier, Esqrs., the' Members for this
county, be requested to present a copy of the fore-
going resolutions to the Secretary of State for the
'Home Department, and to give their support to any
bill which may be brought into Parliament for the
remedy of these evils.

" 5: That the Chairman be requested to transmit
a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor of London, and to the Chair-
men of the Middlesex, Kent, Essex, and Sussex
sessions."

ANCIENT LONDON.

From a History of the Wards of London, just published.)

Jcwin-street, anciently styled the Jews' Garden,
was the only place appointed for the people of that
persuasion in England to bury their dead in, till the
year 1177, in the reign of Henry IL, who, after
long suit to himself and Parliament, then assembled
at Oxford, assigned them a special place of burial in
every quarter where they dwelt. When the Jews
were banished from England, the place was con-
verted into a pleasure-ground, with summer-houses.
The ground, with appurtenances, was called also
Leyrestowe, and was granted by King Edward I. to
William de la Forte, Dean of St. Paul's, being. a
place," says the record,- " without Cripplegate, and
the suburbs of London, called Leyrestowe, and
which was the burying-place of the Jews of Lon-
don; which was valued at 40s. per annum::—
Milton having escaped the prosecution commenced
against him after the restoration, for his attachment
to the republican party, and his having been Latin
Secretary to Cromwell, removed from Holborn to
Jetein-street, where he married his third wife, Eli-
zabeth, daughter of Mr. Minshull, of Cheshire. Mil-
ton removed hence to Bunhill-fields. The street
has been lately very much improved, and a suitable
and handsome building erected as a place of worship
for a congregation, under Doctor Abraham Rees.
A portion of Barbican is in this ward, and the re-
mainder in Cripplegate ward; and it may not there-
fore be irrelevant to extract in this place a portion of
the very curious account of Roman London, given
in a letter to Hearne, the celebrated antiquarian, in
1711, from the perseveringly industrious and elabo-
rate Mr. John Bagford, particularly known for his
researches into the history of the antiquities of the
city. He says, " I shall now observe another old
building of the Romans which was a Watch
Tower, then and now called Barbican. It is men-
tioned by John Stow; but nothing remains of this
antique building but the name. Here they kept
cohorts of soldiers in continual service to watch in
the night, that if any sudden fire should happen
they might be in readiness to extinguish it, as also
to give notice if an enemy were gathering or march-
ing towards the city to surprise them. In short,
it was a watch tower by day, and at night they
lighted some combustible matter on the top thereof,
to give directions to the weary traveller repairing
to the city, either with provision, or upon some
other occasion."

1783, the town of Oppedo, in Naples, was
destroyed by an earthquake. "So remarkable were the
effects of this earthquake on the human organs, that in the
two following years the women either did not conceive, were
prematurely delivered, or brought forth dead children : and
of those that were born alive many immediately expired."

I have since been informed that the barren women of Mes-
sina, as well as some who had left off childbearing, became
fruitful after the earthquake. In Scylla, a very opposite
effect was produced by this dreadful visitation of nature. Bar-
ren women, and those who had left off chiidbearing, again
became fruitful. Some of the former had married, and
had remained childless till they were nearer the age of
fifty than forty."—London Medical Gazette, Jan. 12.

A singular dispute is now raging with great
violence in Glasgow, and which would seem to fix upon
that large city the spirit and the opinions of the time of
KNox. The Magistrates having determined to erect a new
church in Saint Enoch-square, appointed Mr. CLELAND,
the .3tatist, and superintendent of public works in Glas-
gow, to devise the plan and direct the building, which he
proceeded to do with universal approbation, until in an
unlucky moment, he resolved, after the manner of Edin-
burgh and all England; to introduce a window of beauti-
fully
.stained glass. Not anticipating the least objection
to tins, either on the score of taste or piety, be did not
divulge his design until it was completed, when a storm
burst upon his devoted bead, which has had no parallel
since the time when the " good folk" of Glasgow
lifted sip their unanimous voices against the admis-
sion of an organ into one of their churches. In
both instances the offences were deemed " most popish,
idolatrous, and abominable," not to be exceeded in
the annals of the scarlet Lady of the seven hills.
To lush a height is this spirit carried in Glasgow,
that crafty corruptionists take frequent advantage of it.
On a recent occasion, when the Synod of Glasgow and
Ayr were assembled to discuss the important subject of
the other pluralities, nail the induction of the very Reve-
rend the principal of the college of two livings; a learned
orator who was friendly to pluralities, (the unpopular side),
addressed the listening thousands as follows :—Am I an
enemy to the rights of the people ? Am lan enemy to
the purity of the Church? Am I hostile to the great
cause of Christianity? What have I not done? I ask
again, what have I not done ? Did I not in the moment
of danger step forward and successfully resist the introduc-
tion of an organ into this very Church.— World.

His HoNc•tiltitr a few words gave judgment in
this case. The point in dispute was, whether•
chose in action could be sequestrated.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, that there was
a solemn decision of Lord Eldon's upon tli3 sub-
ject, and, supported by that authority, he had no
hesitation in deciding that a chose in action could
not be sequestrated.

NYE V. MOSELEY.

This was a case in which a bill had been filed by
Sophia Nye, for the purpose of compelling the de-
fendant to give her a bond of 1001. a-year, in lieu of
one which he had taken away from her and destroyed;
or, in the alternative, a bond for .50/. a-year, and for
two sums of MU, to be given to the illegitimate
children which the plaintiff had borne to the defend-
ant. The case had been very fully argued before
Sir John Leach, who was of opinion that the bonds
were valid ; but in order to set the question com-
pletely at rest, he drew up such a case as he con-
ceived would embrace all the doubtful points, and
sent down to the Court of King's Bench. It was
there argued, and the result of the trial was, that the
claim of Sophia Nye could be supperted by law.
Mr. SUGDEN now, upon this decision from the
Court of King's Bench, applied on the part of the
plaintiff for a decree direeting the Master to have
prepared for ber a new bond for 100/. a-year. The
Learned Counsel also asked for the:costs:of the suit.
Mr. SPURRIER followed on the same side.
Mr. LovArr, for the defendant, thought the whole
of the costs ought not to fall on his client.
Mr. SUGDEN said, if the costs were resisted, he
would go into the whole facts of this disgraceful case.
Mr. LOVATT was not to be deterred by threats
of that kind, and repeated his objection.
Mr. SuGoKs then went into the case, the details
of which were of a very indelicate description. It
will only be necessary to state, that, on its appear-
ing by one of the defendant's letters, he gave the
bond to Sophia Nye in order to reconcile her to
the breaking off the connexion between them, which
the defendant was anxious to do, as his legitimate
children were growing up, and he feared his example
might be injurious to them.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR did not wish to hear any
more of the case.—The defendant must pay costs.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JAN. 16

THE RING V. ROBERT BOLTON AND ANOTHER.

This was an indictment for a conspiracy to defraud
the Sun Fire-office, by making a false representation
of a loss by fire.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, stated the ease for the
prosecution. The defendant Bolton, until lately,
carried on the business of a spice and coffee dealer in
Little Eastcheap, and had a private residence at
Kennington. The defendant, William Briggs, was
a servant in his employ. Mr. Bolton had effected
in the Sun Fire-office an insurance of 1,000/. on his
stock in trade, consisting of coffee, almonds, spices,
and other articles. He was in partnership with a
gentleman of the name of Pearson, as a wine arid
spirit merchant, but that business was kept quite
distinct from the other. On the evening of the 10th
of May, 1826, a fire broke out in the upper part of
the premises in Little Eastcheap. The Sun Fire-
office was apprised of it the next morning, and their
surveyor (Mr. Toplis) went to the premises to make
the usual inspection and ascertain the amount of loss
sustained ; and in answer to inquiries of the defendant
(Bolton), that gentleman stated generally that a
large quantity of almonds, and other articles, had
been damaged by the water used for extinguishing
the fire. The surveyor remarked, that the injury
done to the premises appeared small, and expressed
some surprise at hearing the extent of damage of
the goods as stated by Mr. Bolton. The latter,
however, repeated that considerable damage had been
done. Mr. Toplis went to the premises again the
next day, and then saw, on the ground-floor, several
casks (which he had not observed on his first visit)
containing ahnonds,pepper, ginger, and other articles,
which appeared to have been damaged by water.
Mr. Toplis desired Mr. Bolton to deliver his claim,
in respect of his estimated loss, to the office; and
after some delay, a claim was sent in to the amount
281/. 16s. 9d. The office having considered this
an exorbitant demand, made some resistance to it,
and the matter was eventually referred to arbitration.
The defendant Briggs, who was examined before
the arbitrators on the part of Bolton, stated every
particular which it was thought necessary to give
in evidence to substantiate the claim made; but
the arbitrators, after a full investigation of the
matter, reduced the sum from 281/. 16s. 9d. to

180/. ; and the balance, after deducting half the ex-
penses of the reference, waspaid by the insurance-office
to Bolton. Shortly after a letter was received by
Mr. Toplis from the defendant Briggs, which led to
a suspicion on the part of the Sun Fire-office Direc-
tors that some fraud had been practised by Mr. Bob-
, ton. The letter, dated the 2-Ith of January, 1827,
and addressed to Mr. Toplis, as the surveyor to the
office, stated, that the writer (Briggs) was about to
leave Mr. Bolton's service in a few days, and ex-
pressed his regret that he had ever had any thing to
do with the business connected with the fire. Upon
the receipt of this letter the directors caused a fur-
ther investigation to be made respecting the loss
alleged to have been sustained by Mr. Bolton in con-
sequence of the fire, and the result had led to the
present indictment against the two defendants. The
Learned Counsel then detailed seine of the principal
facts. He did not mean to attribute to the defendant
Bolton, that he set the premises on fire. What he
meant to charge him with was, that he had taken
advantage of the fire (which it was believed had
been occasioned by accident), for the purpose of
making a claim on the Fire-office greatly beyond
the amount of the actual loss sustained. That was
the offence imputed by the present indictment.
Four or five witnesses were examined as to the
character of the defendant Bolton. Several of them
used some very equivocal expressions. One of them '
said, " I never heard any thing directly against him;'
and another stated that his character had been that
of a " keen" man.
The Jury conferred together in the box far about
five five minutes, and then pronounced a verdict °
"Guilty."
The Counsel for the prosecution lollyediately 2h_tte
plied to have both the defendants corn"' d.
Lord TENTERDEN inquired whether they were
both in Court, and being answered in the negative,
his Lordship said he
,could make no ordui-.

HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, JAN. 16.
CLARK AND CLARK v. 'LAW.
This
was
an appeal from the sentence of the Pre-
a testamentary suit. The &-
Mr. Ely Stott, formerly of
a medical electrician of some noto-
crßoeigaosaoetitiriN:sebtCisroyta:itrotr, iL s
riety. His character was marked by great eccen-