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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUI-
• ANCE SOCIETY,

26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parllameut

The many note! and varied advantages bestowed by this. Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits 'and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested; and this bonus, according to au equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future
premiums
Policy.' Annual Bonus
Entry. I No. Age I Sum. I Prem. I Added.

EXAJIIPLS,

Policy. Annual Bonus Casb Prem.
Entry. so. Age. Sum.
Prem. Added. Bonus. Reduced.
£ £ B.d. £ 8. d. s. d. B.d.
,837 39 59 1,000 67 8 4 132 14 6 58 19 9 819 4
[B3B ll4 56 3,000 175 15 0 296 9 7 123 0 6 16 9 7

Another Bonus will be declared in the present year.
DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto offered—
every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty, will, at sixty-
five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 47!. iei. Gd.,
or 3491. Us: cash, or policy at death of 46C1. Similar advantages at
fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment—
two-thirds payments lent at any tune, and two-thirds returned to re-
presentatives In cases of premature death.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.
ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
34, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established 1823.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
LOWER RATES of PREMIUM than those of any other Office
that entitle the Assured to participate in the Profits.
The Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon average to la per
cent. on the premiums then paid ; and in 1839 a second Bonus was
declared, amounting on the average to 311. per cent. on the premiums
paid during.the preceding five years.
Prospectuses and other particulars may be obtained at the Office
between the hours of Ten and Four, or will be forwarded to persons
resident in the country on application.
CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY.
Established 1770.
An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the GO-
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in the Forenoon precisely, for the ELECTION of a PHYSICIAN to
this Institution, in 'the room of Dr. Wm. Taylor, resigned ; such
Election, if contested, will be by Ballot, to commence at Ten o'Clock
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Candidates for the office of Physician to this Institution must pos-
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By Order of the General Committee,
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PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause FLINTOFF
against HAYNES, the CREDITORS of JOHN BEARDSWORTH,
late proprietor of the Repoetory for Horses and Carriages, at Bir-
mingham, in the county of Warwick, and Contractor for Post-horse
Duties (who died in the month of October, 1835), are, on or before the
22d day of March next, to come in and prove their debts, before Sir
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in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; or, in default
thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said
decree. TAYLER and COLLISSON,
28, Great Jamts-street, Bedford-row,
Agents to H. M. Griffiths, Birmingham, Plaintiff's Solicitor.

HEIR-AT-LAW and NEXT of KIN of ELIZABETH HOUGHTON
and NANNY EDWARDS.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in the causes of EDWARDS
against DODD, and EDWARDS against BOSANQUET. All persons
claiming to be the HEIR or HEIRS-AT-LAW and NEXT of KIN of
ELIZABETH HOUGHTON, spinster, who died in the month of Ja-
nuary, 1823, living.at the time of her death, or to be such Heir or
Heirs-at-Law at the present time, or the personal representative or
representatives of any deceased Next of Kin ' • and all persons claim-
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(wife of Humphrey Edwards), who died in the month of September,
1837, are forthwith to come in and make out their claims and prove
their kindred before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the
said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton •buildings, Chancery-
lane, London, or in default thereof they will be excluded the benefit
of the said Decree. _

The above-named Elizabeth Houghton was the daughter of Richard
Houghton, of the parish of St. Botolph Without, Aldgate, in the City
of London, carpenter, who died in the year 1764, and of Margaret his
wife and grand-daughter of James Houghton, of Kirkham, near
Preston, in the county of Lancaster, butcher, and at the time of her
death resided in Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
The above-named Nanny Edwards was the sister of the said Eliza-
beth Houghton, and for several years previous to her death resided at
Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, where she died.—Dated the 7th
day of February, 1844.
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Published this day, foolscap Bvo., with Six Illustrations, ss. bound,
THE LIFE and TIMES of the PROPHET
SAMUEL.

By A GRANDFATHER.
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Just published, Second 'Edition, with plates, Bvo., cloth 145.,
INTERMARRIAGE; or, the Natural Laws by
which Beauty, Health, and Intellect result' from certain unions,
and Deformity, Disease, and Insanity from others. With delinea,
Bons of the functions and capacities which each parent bestcriv4" ou.
children, and an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of
animals. By ALEXANDER WALKER, Esq.
" The production of certain rosults by certain intermarriages is now
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THE CYCLOPEDIA of PRACTICAL RE-
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PAIIT I.—The Death bed Lament of King James—The Queen's
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£l,OOO £1,500 £5,000
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HANCOCK'S PATENT FLEXIBLE-BACK BILUSHES, No. 88,

FLEET-STREET.
THE Public are respectfully informed that the
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CAMDEN CLUB, NOW FORMING at No. 12,
WATERLOO-PLACE.—These premises, so desirably situate,
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TERMS OF ADMISSION.
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Country members, entrance 51. ss. Annual 5/. ss,

It is proposed to introduce a new principle into the constitution of
die Club, with regard to town members, by which a member retiring
'shall have a rateable proportion of his entrance fee returned to him,
according to the number of years he may have been a member.
Prospectuses, containing full particulars of this new regulation, may
be had of the Secretary, at No. 12, Waterloo-place, where the Pro-
visional Committee meet daily to receive applications from gentlemen
desirous of becoming members.
London, Feb. 1, 1844.

TO COUNTRY PAPER MAKERS, STA-
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above, or a similar description. He has been hi the habit.of travelling
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IIALSE'S .SCORBUTIC DROPS.
DECLARATION OF THE GUARDIANS OF BRENI,

DEVON,

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other cures also made .in this part, we strongly recommend"
Scorbutic Drops" to the notice of the public.

Signed by John Elliott, sen., Lord of the Manor, John Manning,
William Pearep, Henry Goodman,‘Arthur Langworthy.

June 21, 1843.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEriVS BENCH, Feb. 9.
(Sittings in Banco.)
:ARPUIiI V. THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY
COMPANY.—JUDGMENT.
This was an action to recover compensation from de-
fendants for the injuries plaintiff had received, in copse •
quence of the terrific accident which happened to the
down train from London to Brighton, near Merstham-
tunnel. The jury found for plaintiff, and a rule nisi had
been obtained for an arrest of judgment and a now trial,
on the ground that defendants had not received the no-
tice of action required by the Act of Parliament incor-
porating the Railway Company.
Lord DENMAN this morning gave judgment. The
Court was of opinion that the defendants had been sued,
not as proprietors of the railroad, but in their capacity
of common carriers; that therefore notice of action was
not necessary, and consequently that the plaintiff was
entitled to retain his verdict.— yule discharged.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 9.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins before Lord ABINGER and a
Common Jury.)
ROBINSON v. MASON.
This was an action to recover compensation in da-
mages by reason of a trespass and illegal distraint,
alleged to have been committed by the defendant.
The plaintiff (Mrs. Robinson) occupied a room in the
house of the defendant, in which there was property
valued at 120/. Some differences arose between the
plaintiff and her landlord, which ended in an examina-
tion at a-police-office. On the return of the . plaintiff
from which with her daughter (to whom it was alleged
that a portion, if not the whole of the property. be-
longed), she was refused admission. The plaintiff
alleged that the room was engaged on a quarterly
tenantcy, and that at the time of the trespass their oc-
cupancy had not terminated. The defendant, however,
contended that the room was engaged at a weekly rent,
and that the seizure was legal.
Lord ABINGER summed up the evidence, and the jury
returned a verdict for the defendant.

BAIL COURT, Feb. 9.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS
and a Common Jury.)
LEAVER V. WILLS.—BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
of the
The plaintiff in this case is the daughter of a lieu-
tenant in the navy, who is the superior officertelegraph established at Esher, near Hampton Court.
The defendant is also a lieutenant in the navy, now
retired from active service upon half-pay, and residing
at Thames Ditton, within a mile and a half of the plain-
tiff's residence ; and the action was brought to recover
compensation in damages for the injury which the plain-
tiff had suffered in her feelings and prospects by reason
of the defendant having refused to perform his promise
to marry her.
Mr. Humfrey, with whom was Mr. Hance, appeared
upon the part of the plaintiff, whose ease was stated by
the Learned Counsel in a very judicious and temperate
address. The who!e facts of the ease appear upon the
following evidence :
Mr. William Leaver, examined by Air. Hance, said,
—I have been in the naval service for between
forty and fifty years, and am now a lieutenant.
I have eight children, of whom the plaintiff is one.
She is twenty-six years old. For about a twelvemonth
back I have been appointed to the telegraph at Esher.
Sunday, übnedcaar last year. acquainted
dilis with the defendant on Easter
son and daughter came to see
the
whotiesleaglsto'aPaillieainadenl.nert in the v
navy,
esiloNilit andthe defendant,
called on me a week
after. When he came he seemed at first rather atten-
tive to my daughter, and an intimacy sprang up between
our families. In April of the last year he dined with
me, and after dinner, upon our walking into the garden,
he asked me to allow him to pay his
addresses to my
eldest daughter. I said I had no objection, provided he
could show how he was to support a wife. He said he
had his half-pay and a house, and ample means to sup-
portii a week for about
a wife, exclusive of that in funded property. He
t
said that he wished the marriage_ to take place the first
or second week in August. He was from thatm
timee
came
se consideredven m tothe
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three
nes
meals,
and occasionally slept
there.—The defendant has two children—a daughter, 23,
and a son about 19 or 20 years old. They knew that
r'iEE
no other officer butit—l am the superior
o
myself', and lam officer over one man. I don't know the
the defendant was the suitor of my daughter. She has
been educated as a governess, and acted as such for two
llicer
o
years in Warwickshire before I came to the telegraph.
Cross-examinedrt
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htilt. there'ils is . IG
defendant's age. lie is not so old as myself.
Mr. THESIGER—Has he not sixty close under his lee?
Witness—You must take a reef in.
Mr. THESIGER—But there is danger of a lee shore a,
sixty ? Witness—'men you must let a reef out.
_._ . .

THESIGER-But we must come to that at last.
Witness—But then we carry sail as long as we can.
The pay of a lieutenant is ss. a-day-91/. a-year. I
don't keep a servant. My children did not assist in the
work of the house, but I hired a woman for the purpose.
The defendant is not phlegmatic lie a very steady,

sober, honest man—rather lively. He asked me to allow
him to pay his addresses to my daughter on the first oc-
casion when he called on me. I did not say that I could
not give my consent until I had ascertained the inclina-
tion of my daughter. Nor did I say that lie could not
know whether he really had any affection for her or not,
as he had scarcely seen her. It did not occur to me to
consider that he was old enough to be her father, or that
he had children as old as she was. When he told me
he had a house, I did not ask him where it was, nor for
how much it was let, or whether it was let at all. I did
not ask the amount of the property which he said he had
in the funds. He went from the garden into the house—
not into the hot-house. He then " popped the ques-
tion." - -
Mr. THESIGER—I suppose he went in and said—
" Make it eight bells 2" Witness—You seem to know
what eight bells are.
Mr. THESIGEII—I do a little.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS (to the jury)—As ,we are not
nautical people, this dialect is apocryhal to us..
Witness—The defendant used to sleep at my house,
although it was only a mile and a half from his own
house ; but there was a wood in the way, and a bull in
it ; and he was afraid of the wood and the'bull.
daughter slept at the house of the defendant. I don t
know exactly when, as I don't now keep a log. I don't
recollect that at the time when he put an end to the in-
timacy with my daughter he told her that his house was
shut up, and that'he had no tenant for it. He lives at
Thames Ditton, in a double-fronted house. The rent of
it is 251. a year.
Mrs. Leaver, the wife 'of the preceding witness, was
then called and examined by Mr. HuMFREY—She stated
that when the defendant proposed for her daughter, he
represented his house as being worth 801. a year, and
said that he was entitled for life to the interest upon
300/. The children of the defendant were aware that he
was to be married to the plaintiff, and behaved with
great kindness to the father and mother of the plaintiff.
The defendant said he did not care how soon the mar-
riage took place, but for decorous motives wished to put
it off until after Midsummer. It was then arranged that

the parties should take a walk together, and Converse
upon their prospects. He continued on the same footing
down to the very moment of breaking of. The plaintiff
prepared her wedding-dress with the knowledge of the
defendant, who sail he wished to be married in Thames
Ditton church. The plaintiff was working at part of her
wedding-dress on the morning of the sth of November,
when the letter breaking off the marriage was received.
The plaintiff and her mother, the witness, went to see
the defendant's house in Alsop-terrace, and a great deal
of conversation took place about fitting up and furnish-
ing the house, and especially the bed-chamber.
Cross-examined by Mr. THESIGER—The daughter
and son of the defendant sometimes came to my house
to fetch their father away. I did not at all abuse her.
On the very last day, the 4th of November, the daughter
came to fetch her father away. She came through the
wet fields for the purpose, and was iery much out of
temper for some reason or other.
Miss Emma Leaver, a sister of the plaintiff, and a very
nice-looking person, stated that she and the defendant's
(laughter were to be the bridesmaids on the occasion of
the marriage, and that the defendant had seen her
sister (the plaintiff) at work upon the dress which she
was to wear at the ceremony. The letter of the de-
fendant breaking off the match produced a very inju-
rious effect upon the health of the plaintiff, who has
been unwell ever since.

Cross-examined—No particular time was fixed for the
wedding after August had passed by.
The mother of the plaintiff was again called, and
stated, that she was not aware that any time had been
fixed for the ceremony after the time originally agreed
upon had gone by. The family, however, expected
that the defendant would fix a time.

Several letters from the defendant to the plaintiff were
then put in and read. They wore all of a very affec•
tionate character and, to use a phrase which was fre
quently repeated by the Learned Counsel on both sides,
" breathed a spirit of ardent attachment." The letter
breaking off the match was dated on the sth of Novem-
ber, 1843, and was in the following words:—
" Dear Sarah,—After leaving your house on Monday
with my daughter, who was so much offended by the
rude remarks at her fetching me, I seriously reflected
there can be no harpiness at present for either of us.
Circumstances have now occurred in my own affairs
which will prevent me from bringing home a wife for
some years, and I have now determined not to do so
until my children have left home, as they are both eery
much opposed to it. I cannot express how much I
felt aggrieved at your brother's remark, that Leton
(a sister of the plaintiff) should be tied up to me, and
such remarks are very unbecoming in a youth of his
age, and very hurtful to my feelings. I cannot allow
another circumstance to pass unnoticed which came
to my knowledge. On Sunday I found some letters
from your brother William to my daughter, and
upon inquiring into particulars I was informed that you
had been the bearer of those letters to and from; at

the same time knowing that your brother was engaged
to another ; and how could he win the affections of an
unsuspected [intended probably for unsuspecting) girl
with the intention of deceiving her ? I returned from
town on Thursday, when I received your note. I sin-
cerely hope you will see with me the propriety of this
proceeding, as I cannot marry for some years. I hasten
to communicate it to you, trusting you will have forti-
tude enough to bear what cannot be avoided. Allow me.
with every good wish for your future happiness, to sub-
scribe myself yours affectionately,
" JOHN WILLS."
Some passages in this letter which seem to require ex-
planation were not explained.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. MESMER (with whom was Mr. Petersdorff) ad-
dressed the jury for the defence in reduction of damages.
He dwelt upon the indiscreet precipitancy with which
the original offer was made and accepted, upon the in-
terested conduct of the plaintiff and her parents, and
upon the very great disparity of age between the parties,
which rendered it unlikely that the plaintiff 'could have
been very happy with a person who was so very much
older than herself.
The Learned Judge having left the case to the jury,
they found a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 1501.

ADMIRALTY COURT, Feb. 9.
THE FAVOURITE.-SALVAGE.
This was a suit to recover remuneration for alleged
salvage services, under peculiar circumstances. The
vessel sued was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall in
the latter part of last year, and a gentleman named
Davy, at St. Burien (as we understood), undertook to
watch the wreck, and he continued this service from the
28th. of October to the 10th of November, at the ex-
piration of which time he had succeeded in saving 250
tons of fine iron, part of the cargo. He incurred various
charges in the course of this service, and he commenced
proceedings in this Court to recover these and a com-
pensation for his own services in the form of a salvage
suit.

Dr. HAGGARD and Dr. Twiss were heard in support
of his claim, and
Dr. ELPNINSTONE for the owners, admitted that Mr.
Davy had rendered a valuable service, but contended
that it was not one which entitled him to maintain a suit
for salvage.
Dr. LusHmToN considered that the services rendered
by Mr. Davy had been very meritorious, and, although
the Court could not recognise him as a salvor, it could
regard him as an agent ; in which capacity he awarded
him 250 L, to include all the expenses he had incurred,
except costs of suit.

CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)

Peter Putrie was indicted for feloniously cutting and
wounding Josiah Lawton, with intent to maim and
disable him, or to do him grievous bodily harm.
Thera were other counts in the indictment, which in,
some respects varied the form of the charge.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Wad-
dington, and Mr. Johnson appeared for the Crown ;
Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Wilde defended the prisoner..
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner is
the captain of a merchant-vessel, called the Lydia, and
in the month of December that vessel was in the
Western Ocean, on her voyage home from Bahia to
England. The prosecutor, who is an American, was a
seaman on board the vessel, and it would appear,. that
prior to the transaction in question taking place, there
had been some disagreement between the prosecutor and
the mate of the vessel. Upon December 19, the prosecu-
tor'had to go aloft to make some alterations in the rigging,
and he found it drawn so tight that he could not do
what he wanted, and he came down upon deck and
asked the mate:for a marline spike to break or cut the
rigging with. The mate asked him whether he thought
that he carried marline-spikes in his pocket, and the
prisoner interfered, and insisted that the rigging should
not be cut, and ordered him aloft to perform his duty
propgrly. The prosecutor, upon this, again went up the
rigging ; and, after a short time had elapsed, the pri-
soner ordered him upon deck, and said he had a good
mind to give him a flogging for his misconduct. The
prosecutor had, before this, abused the mate, and
called him a lubber. The captain then ordered the pro-
secutor to be taken aft, and some of the crew obeyed
the command ; but the moment the Prosecutor was
released, he rushed at the mate and threw him down
across a water-cask, and while they were in this position
the mate called out for help, and said that the prosecutor
was " gouging" him. The prisoner, who had a sheathed
sword in his hand, rushed at the prosecutor, and made
several cuts at him, inflicting injuries upon his arm,
shoulder, and hands, the little finger of one of which
was cut off. The prosecutor called out that he was
bleeding to death, upon which the prisoner desisted,
and gave directions that'bvery attention should be paid
to hitt. _ _

In cross-examination, it appeared that the prisoner
seemed very much surprised that. he had cut the pro-
secutor, and that the moment he ascertained that he had
dune so, he did all he could to stop the bleeding,_and.
afterwards furnished the prosecutor with every'neces-
sary he required from his own cabin. The prosecutor

also admitted that he had spoken very uncivilly to the
mate, and although he denied that he attempted to
" gouge" him, he admitted that during the scuffle with
the mate, and while the latter was thrown down across
the water-cask, his fingers accidentally got very near
the mate's mouth, and it was at the same time explained
that the operation of " gouging" was performed by
forcing the thumbs into the mouth, and then scooping
out the eyes with the fingers. The prosecutor also said
that there was some talk among the crew of his having
said that he was sorry he did not cut the mate's-
- but he denied having once made Use of such an
expression. It was likewise proved, that upon one occa-
sion, when the prosecutor was at the helm, and all the
cre.v were on the look-out for a shoal, he veered the
ship two or three points, and thus endangered the safety
of the ship.
Some others of the crew were examined in corrobora-

tion of the evidence of the prosecutor, but their testimony
did not in any material respect alter the complexion of
the case as detailed in the above narrative ; and all the
witnesses admitted, in cross-examination, that the pri-
soner's conduct to them had been uniformly kind
throughout the voyage, and no dispute had taken place
with any of the crew except the prosecutor, and no man
had been punished on board the vessel. It was admitted
the prisoner, when he first attacked theprosecutor, struck
him with the sheathed sword, and it appeared very pos-
sib 0 that the scabbard had come off accidentally during
the fray.
Medical evidence was adduced to show that the in-
juries inflicted upon the prosecutor were of a somewhat
serious character ; but it .appeared -that he was mar
nearly recovered.
'1 his was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Wilkins then made a most able address to the

jury on behalf of the prisoner ; and he observed that he
was Li a condition to prove that he was a man of courage
and humanity, and quite incapable of committing an
attack upon any person under his command, unless
under circumstances of great provocation, and that he
would not do it then unless it became absolutely neces-
sary for the safety of the vessel, and the lives of the
pa,sengers under his charge. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to say, that the prosecutor had miscon-
ducted himself most grossly, and upon his attacking the
mate and the latter calling out that the prosecutor was
" gouging" him, he rushed to the assistance of his officer
intruding to strike the prosecutor with the sheathed
sword, but the scabbard coming off, he, not knowing the
fact, had accidentally inflicted the injuries upon him.
Mr. Wilkins went on to say, that for forty years the
prisoner had served in the Royal Navy and in the mer-
chant service, and had conducted himself uniformly with
the utmost bravery and honour ; and it was not likely,
therefore, that he should have misconducted himself in
the way described.
Evidence was then adduced on behalf of the defendant,
to the effect that at Bahia, the prosecutor wished to
leave the vessel, but on the captain refusing to allow
him to do so, he said the captain should have no good
out of him. and he would have his revenge before he got
home. The mate of the vessel also proved the fact, that
a few days before the 19th of December, while all the
crew were on the look out for a shoal, the prosecutor
said, that he had knocked the ship about two or three
points in order that the captain might find
. .

. .
;ault with him, when he said he would have a_ - row.
At th's time the vessel was near a shoal, and the pro-
cc...ding of the prosecutor was attended with great Ban-
g; r. The mate likewise proved that, on the night the

Transaction took place, the- captain ordered the prosecutor
to go forward, and gave him a slight push ; upon which
he called out, " All hands witness that I am struck,"
and immediately knocked the captain down. He (the
mate) interfered, and the prisoner laid hold of him,
and swore he would do for him. The captain then or-
dered two others of the crew to take Lawton aft. After
this Lan ton again said that he would do for him, and
made a second blow at him, and then they had a scuffle,
and Lawton got him on the water-cask, and put two of
his fingers into his mouth, and tried to " gouge " him.
He called out that the prosecutor was trying to do so,
and the captain then came to his assistance, when Law-
ton immediately turned upon him and knocked him
against the rails. The captain then struck the prosecu-
tor once or twice on the head with something he had in
his hand, and he at the same time said, " You scoun-
drel, do you mean to murder us ?" . Shortly afterwards
the prosecutor appeared to be bleeding, and the captain
wa, very much surprised at it. The mate also proved
that, during his scuffle with the prosecutor, he was cut
upon the foot in two places. The mate in his evidence
(killed that he saw a sword in the captain's hand, and
also said that he had not even seen a sword on board

the vessel.
Philip Ilamsey.Allen, the steward of the vessel, proved
that as the captain was going up the stairs from his ca-
bin to the deck with his sword in his hand,sa part of the
leather sheath fell to the ground, and he picked it up.
and now produced it. He also proved that he followed
the. captain upon the deck, and saw him give the prose-
cutor four or five " licks" with the sheathed sword. He
had often tr:ed to draw e blade from the sheath, but
eati'd not do so on account of it being fixed in so tightly.
he heard the prosecutor say that he was bleeding, and
the captain said he would not believe him. When, how-
e,er, he found that he really was wounded, he gave
%.iti:ess directions to get some linen to dress thewounds,
ancl to tear up his shirts, or anything else for that pur-
rose. The witness likewise stated that the prisoner
as a very kind captain, and always behaving well to
his crew.

In answer to a question from the Court. He (wit
ne,,s) said that he never saw the sword again after the
evening in question.

Mr. Banner, a medical gentleman of Liverpool, who
saw the prosecutor in the Northern Hospital at that
place, expressed his opinion that none of the injuries he
had received were likely to be dangerous to life. He
also said that, in his opinion, such a portion of a sword
as might have been covered by the portion of the broken
sheath produced, would have caused the injuries that
the pl osecutor appeared to have received. The wound
that appeared in front of the scalp he did not think was
inflicted by any cutting instrument, but was more likely
to have been occasioned by such an instrument as a
handcuff; a pair of which, it appeared, the prisoner had
on his hands at the time he attacked the prosecutor.
A number of highly respectable witnesses, merchants
and shipowners in Liverpool and London, were then
called, and they gave the prisoner a high character for
humanity and benevolence of disposition.
Captain Henderson, the Commander of the Gorgon
steam frigate at the siege of Acre, proved that the pri-
soner was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1815, and
always bore the character of a gallant and humane man.
Captain Chappell, another officer in her Majesty's
Navy, gave similar testimony.
The SITTORNEY -GENERAL replied.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then summed up the case,
and went with great minuteness through the whole of
the. evidence.
The jury retired at half-past six o'clock, and were
absent about three-quarters of an hour, when they re-
turned into Court and gave their verdict, finding the
prisoner guilty upon the fourth count, in which the in-
tent was laid to be to do the prosecutor grievous bodily
harm ; the jury at the same time begged leave to re-
commend the prisoner most strongly to the mercy of the
Court. The verdict appeared to create some surprise in
the Court.