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LAW REPORT

COURT OF KI,NG' BENCH, MAY 22.

This morning was employed in justifying-bail, of
which there were very few. At eleven-o'clock the
Lord Chief Justice came, when the Court proceed-
ed, to take the causes which stood in the Special
Paper ororgument, and the day was, nearly occupi--
ed in hearing them.—That which claimed most the
attention of their Lordships, was an ejectment cause.
The question for the consideration the Court
turning entirely upon the construaion which the
the law would give to the language used by the Tes-
tator in a testamentary devise Of certain freehold pro:
perty• mentioned in his will. • '
Afterhearing Mr. HOLUQYD in support of- the
plaintiff's claim, she being the daughter of-the de-
ceased, and Mr, fAiaoTT for the defendant, the
Court took time to give 'their judgment. • -

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23.

Richard Barrow 'was brought' up to receive judg-
ment for cruelty. to Samuel Strange, a child of eight .
years old: • •
From the.affidavits.read 41, the Court, it appeared.
that Barrow, 'who was a surgeon. at Hounslow, had
taken the child. into his house with the intention of
adopting bin), and allowiog him to be called by his
own name. He; however, gradually' treated him
with severity, and on the 27th of July last corn-
, witted the particular ads of atrocious cruelty, of
which he had been found, guilty. For some boyish
trick, of settivg fire 16 a few sticks, Barrow dragged
the cbilu „into .the 'kitchen ; after, tying his leas,
flogged hint severely with a horsewhip, forced a red-
but iron into his ban till he was burned,. put him
in a cupboard' filled with straw, brought fire, and
threatened to buil, 'hint aliye,
,fired pistols close to,
his head; forced him to swallow tobacco and other
sickening 'substances vomited,
,and after this
discipline,, put him into the coal-hole,' with his leg's
tied, and his stripes smarting upon him, for 24 hours,
with no other susterraoce than bread and water.'
One of the affidavits stated, that earlier in •.the
year, on a remarkably frosty' Moil-ling,. Barrow, for •
some slight offence, had stripped Strange naked, put., ,
him into alarge watering-trough in the yard, and.
pumped onitim till regrew perfettly insensble.
The ATToaNEy-G;ENERAf.., in praying judgment,
observed with great effect, on the unpitying inven-
tion *which this man had exhibited in his experi-
ments '• on Lipman suffering. He concluded by hop-
ing, that while the passing, fit of humanity, which
adopted this little victim, was4mt to be overlooked
by the Court, yet its sentence would teach masters, •
and all others who, have the power of good and evit
to their species, that the laws of the land
.were
less in securing the dependent and the child equally,
from the exercise of arbitrary severity.
. Lord ELLENBOROUGH felt the case to be 'of a dark
dye; but the first anxiety of the Court 'must be for
the_pteseiit state of the child's health. (It was an-
swered by the Attorney General, that child was re-
covered, after a Surgeon's attendance on him in the
iworkhouse for a month.) •If so, the objest niusr
be his future provision ; and it might he left to. the
Counsel on both sides, to settle the income to be
allowed to that injured boy, for a definite number
of years. If no such settlement could bekagreed on,
the law must take its course, .and if its band fell
at all, it must fall heavily. Time was then given
till to-morrow to make the arrangements, and the
, Court adjourned.

Oa Tuesday last died near town, in the 6gth year
of his age, the Chevalier D'EoN, memorable as a po--
litical character, and Charge des Affaires in this
Country from the Court of France, but more so on
account of the questionable gender to which this ex-
traordinary oharacter naturally appertained. `lt will
be in the recolleJion of many, that about 36 years
ago policies weJe!opened to ascertain the sex of this
extrabrdinarynon-descript,to the amountbf2oo,oool,
which was eventually cle,ided and paid, upon a Sur-
gical 'Certificate, alter personal examination, that the
reputed Chevalier was a female. The French Physi-
cian PERI-GALES!, however, who attended the Che-
valier' in his last moments, and examined the body
on its dissolution, now positively declares, after the
strictest anatomical inspection, that it in reality prov-
ed to be the'body of a perfect male !
Lord BAYNING 'died suddenly, on Sunday last,
about eleven at night, at his house in Seymour.-
place, in the 81st year of his age. . '
1 ELOPEMENT,—Yesterdaythe daughter of a tlier
chant in
,the neighbourhood of Finsbury-square,
eloped with a young Irishman, Managing Clerk to
-': a great house in the same neighbourhood.
The present Lottery will be drawn in a few days,
in the usual place, Cooper's-hall.
..
I The Public will please to observe,. that the only
' person in partnership with the late Sir J. Baos-
- COMB, at the time that Firm shared and sold the
Grand -Prize of One Thousand Tickets, which pro.,
duced 24.;7651, (in last April.-Lottery) was E. EY,-
TON, who is now removed to No. 2, Cornhill, near
,the Mansion-house.

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iFERLI.PARLIAMEM:

HOSE OP PEERS,

WEDNESDAY, MAY £3.

Sir S. Rumiuor was hed-ikl in the Aripeitl'i.nackle,
v, further hearing of Countei do lliiday

everal Private and Local Bills were brought up
from the. Commons,. and read a first time.

THE DyK•E OF BRUNSWICK.

_
• The Bill granting an annuity -to his Serene High-
rfess, was read a third time; and. passed without any
opposition;
Tile other tills oh, the table' were forwarded in
their reSpedi‘'e stages.

TheiVkarquieot CANSDOWNE rose again to postpone
the motion respecting the late campaign in Spain)
of which he had so often given notice,
.but he found
it necessary to•do so on account of the continued in-
dispOsition of the Noble Secretary- for the Foreign
Department. -He wished nog' it might be under-.
stood that the three Motions -of which notice had
been given, might stand for the beginning, of June.
The • Catholic question for the 'ts-t of June, the
motion of his-Noble Friend (Lord Grey) for, the sth
ofJune, and the motion of which he himself had
given notice for the 'ith'of June. Should any thing
occur in the interim to alter this arrAngement,, he
should feel it hiS duty to give due notice of it to
the House, . The Noble Marrinis c6ncluded with
,moving that the order,fortO-Morrow be discharged,
and that a new order be entered for sUnamoning their
Lordships for the 7th of June.—.-01-der,:d.

COMMERCIAL LICENSES

Lord LAUDERDALE agairi dl'. the
ahUses which attended. the granting cif licenses by
the Privy Cotwcil to merch-ant.vessels destined for
different parts of the Continent, and allowed to im-
port-diffk-rent articles'. BY Means of these new re-
gulations the whole of the trade of the country was
thrown into the bands and placed alt the mercy of
the Noble Lord at the head of the Board of Trade.
No settled rule seemed' to, be laid down either re-
specting the terms upon which licenses were grant
ed, the,time they might endure, or the nature of the
articles, the i'mportatiOn 'of which they permitted.
The papers laid on the table in • pursuance of a mo-
tion of his, did not answer his intentions or expec-
tation, he must therefore move for more extended
communication,

Lord BATHURST observed, that in granting of
these licenses, many irregularities might occur,
which it is impossible to provide against. It was found
necessary .to renew some licenses which had expired
before the objea for' which they were granted had
been obtained. In other cases pretended correspond-
ences were adduced in order to obtain licenses,
which were afterwards fount to be fallacious; as
they referred to contracts which never had taken,
place. But what the Noble Lord complained of had
oceurredduring the late Administration, as well as
under the present Administraiion, and per hays Could
not be well avoided.

Lord .11OLLAND would not look for a justification
Of such, measures to the conduct of this or that Ad-
ministratidn. The question was, whether they were
right or wrong. In .his opinion they had all their
source in the Ordcrs of Conncil. -
Lord LALTD.i:RDALE made a few observations in
reply, and concluded with moving ~for -theTro-
duction of the licen43 granted from - theyear 1793,
and the description of -the parties to whom' they
had been granted, down to the present
Ordered. -.