The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-07 00:00:00

rOND,

' This was an atlu)n of hi night against the
Dissenting Miniqer, on. behalt of. whom Mr. GAR-
ow bad applied li.voly in the last Term for a twin—
datnus to restore him •to his Pulpit 'in Bethnal-
green. •
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- Mrs. Davis, the wife of a eSrpentrr, Said, she was
visiting her husband, who lodged' at the public-
house, on the Surrey side of the Strand-bridge,
while the. bridge was building, on the 2181 oiMay,
last.e .The solAcyor of at out'7o years
Of age', and the defendant is between 3.6 diiu 40.
He professed himself to be a clergyman of a'Prcsby-
terian ChapeL The phintiff anu the defendant
were bath at the public•hoUse upon business, an.i
eame'into the Witness's husband's room; and the
defendant abruptly ordered, the witness out, a, they
had • met upon business. Being engaged to' drink
tOa with the landlady,she went out otherwise she
woUid have reSritgibeh rudeness. When she got
out,'sheheard a great noise and sevfile, and the de.'
*dant• followed the plainiitPout of the house, the
'former calling the landlord to, assist bito. His eye
was' bleeding tremendously 'and thew itness said to
the defendant, " are you not 'ashamed to s'rike
man so Much older than Yourself r The defendant
replied, that" the plaintiff' was a t 1; -----d old vit.
lain, and he wished be had knoe'ke'd his brains out'.
Mr'. Deuce, the landlord, OK that when lie saw
the 'partic:s, whom he did rrbt knew before, the
plaintiff u'as aclinropon the defensile, and keeping
the defendant' froth him.' He' cye''wati bleeding;
and he said that the defendant bad almost knoCked
it ant: •

Mr. Pearce, sorgenn, said. that the eye bled furi.
ouNty, so*, Hiatt; he Itt first tricio,tht it was his nose
'which was bleeding. It ‘vat.'afterWords infianied so se-
verely, that the Witness %ylisippretiensi've of a slough
forniik, and' blindness ensuing., Fie attended the
two or three creeks constatidy, and the eye
was now not completely recOvered. •
Mr. GAnaow, tor ibedelqndant, said, that if the
plaintifthad
.proceeded*against .the defendant by in-
di‘':tinent, -11'6 jury would then hart; been, by the
et idence of the plaintiff, let into the provocation,
Which ihedefendant received to this assault. As it
Was, he bad suffered enough, in his own reflediona
upon the words he bad used, and in being turned
out of his situaticro by tire plaintiff and others, as
preacher to the congregation at Bethnal-green ; and
he wds now out of etriploYrnent.
Lord ELLRNAOROUiIif said, that the Jury were in
possession of all they ought to know ;. and this ac-
tion bad nothing to do with the defendant's having
been ousted troll) his pulpit, although, to be sitre,
congregation would very.; properly struggle hard'to
get rid of such a teacher as the defendant.

Verdidt for the plaintiff—Datong es 601.

KAYE V. DUCHESS DE DA rIRNNE.

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This,vvits an aaion on a bill Of exchange, dated.in
I 804, for 21 1.. by the defendant, and
whose atceptance to it was admitted.,

—Mr. PARK, for the defendant, stated, that the
Duchess de. la Pienne, the defendant in this case,
was the wife of the Duke de la Pienne, a nobleman
of tontine' under the late government of France, and
who had forfeited every thing by following the (or-
e tunes of the unfortunate 1.1„))al Family of That
country. Ihe Duke and his ,wife had in conse-
quence of the. French.ReVolution came to this coun-
try, where they bad been obliged, to live, in 4.state
of Comparative penury. The Duke had 'gone to
Sweden about the year 1803, and had never yet re-
turned, his wife, the present defendant, Waving eon-
tinned 'to reside in this country. The defendant
had been married to the Duke de la Benue in the
year 1790 or 179.1,. by au !Archbishop, , who' was
now dead, Of course it.eould. not be supposed that
be Should' prove the marriage, but he sln,uld be
able to shew, by french noblemen of the first dis-
tintlion, that they. had, been recognised as' man and.
and received as such into the firsteireles in
France, and been also visited, and received as tiuch
in this country. . .
The Duke de Quienne and' the Count de la
Chastres proved that the defendant and her hus-
band had been received in France, both at Court
and by the Nobility, as Duke and. Duchess de la
'Pienne, prsvious to the Revolution; and that they
had also been regarded as Man and wife in this coun-
try, The latter witness stated that lie had re-
ceived letters from the Duke de la Menne within
the last month.

Mr. Gaßnow,submitted, that the husband of the
defendant having been absent from thir, country for
upwards of twelve tnonths previous to her granting
the bill in question, she was,- to all intents and,
puipuses, to be considered a femme sole, just like a
married Englishwoman, whose husband might have
been sent out of the conntry. In A' case decided by
COrd Kenyon, as reported in. 2d Espluasse, in Which
this very Duchess de la Pienne was the defendant,
it was so held. • '

Lord ELLErinettou'ou said, if Lord Kenyon as-
suined that the husband of the. defendant in that
case had not come to this country with her, then it
would have 'come within the case of the Countess
lvthariti, which his Lordship presuMed must have
Occurred to his mind.' Here, on the contrary,, it
appeared that 'the !Unhand. and wife had been' in
thtscouptry,tegjther ;' and, 'if the aelion had been
brought in the month of 061Oher,. 1804, would
have been held; that she 'Ought to be divested of
her riglits HS n married.womani because her bus.'
band had left _her for'a year 'in this countiynnpro-
tetied. 'His Lordship suspetled that at thelitne Lord
Kenyon had given the decision in. question t,iirre

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CLERK EN WELL-Gf!cEN, DEC. Ot.f.
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4 David Evv,is .I,;ti, put .to . the. bar, cb;.lgetl wit,l7,
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value c
tithe,
.eaus,ot, b,z., preleticeq, to t of 30a. atidl
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The prisoner, in his e,efence,stated, be was disk
.tressed, and --had farniiy -of four children,
'yotingest but six weeks oh i.tuld he ceed upon Mr:
Price for a cfkmaCter kl,o said, that he had known the
prsoher tcn"Years, •eight of *which he, lived servati
with. his. tattier; but be'was sorry to add, that
though his cilaratter was "uninseachable whilst' Lie
was fit iheicseuieet.:yet that for the last two years'
he could say noshing that w,:is good of him. He
was found' Gtiiity, 'and sentenced ta.-be confined ,
foul- months. • ' • .' •

Jayncs Puturatzand •frilliant :Hw'/z Wilson. ,wete '
inditled for attempting to pick Ilit; pocket of lArtu,
Reader, E.
Mr: Reader (who is an eruinent Barrister) clepo”'
ed, -that on the t sth of November last; about half
past ten o'clock-in the evenir.z, as he was piaCeeditig
from the l'emple !o his littse its Brunsl,vick-squate;
in passing .-through Featherstone -fluildings,, he Im-
crivrd two !suspicious looking men Standing tlivrt'',`
.and having :passed them, and PrLceeded. thronglui
Gray's inn-passage, he observed thew
sepacate,and
one of .the'lagging behind. 'When he 'had pro-
Ceedeti very.llltle way dovvii Recrr Lion•strce!,
felt a strong pull at, his copt;pocket, anti turning-
about, he saw two men run off as fast, as they
on which he instantly cried out ,r Stop livet;igaTi •
observed Ilia handkerchief nearly'nnt 01. h."
he, and (Mr. William Reader,' his son, iollottfe
theta--the.innior Mr. Reader had to chase his,:man
from Reif Lion-st-reet • back Badford-s,ive.l'
110660 Haticl-conit t-tolborn,
.1110 ureat
Turnstile, anctat last caught hiM in Lincoln's 111:!;*
fields.
They were both found Gvil t and .the
sentenced' each of them 'to two ycars' irnprisunineot
iu NeVigate, •
Pixonr w 49 put, to tlrrs bar„,:eherited vi
at tit
assaulting Susannah Ere, and tiring a PISt()I
The evidence given went 1<) estalo citi,i,"
offence tindeo., Lord' 'Ellenporouglirs'''Aet;'and.
Court, on-hearing it;tliteeied the%faerio 'll';`"`, iite ,
prisoner; which they accordingly
ordered that he:slur:llj be dorsioNl ;Al,l 10
41d Bilej~ is be' proseentaCapitallY; and "
detained accordingly.