The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-22 00:00:00

A GANG OF MONSTERS.

MARLBOROUGH-STHEBT.—A set of monsters in
!lowan shape, no IrWer in niiinher than 17, %%ere
detected and apprehended by The M trlh9rotigh-
rct •Ottieets on Sunday night, charged nviili
Must abominable propensities.—The toliowing
are their names :

Harvey Tammas, John Ferguson, Henry Warfortl, Charles
Holloway, Edward Austin, William Harvey Wasley, Joht
Donovan, William Ism!11, William Mitchell, William 'Anton
(a boy), Charles Limnirr, James Howe, W. Jemmett, Wil-
liam Kitchen, Thomas Simmonds, James Nicholson, and
John Trill ; they were all dressed very decently,. and three
or four of them were• dressed in the most exquisite style of
-dandyism.

This prosecution was instituted by Mary'ebone.
pirish, and it W4S conducted by Mr. GREENHILL.
It appeared by the evidence of a respectable
young man, named John Percy, in the employ of
Lee and Co.,'Nurserymen at Hammersmith, that
Le met Austin, whom lie had known before, who
told hint that he had a very laborious situation at
a school in the New Road, and he invited hiin to
take tea at %Vastley's house, in High-street, Mary-
it:hone, Where linell was introduced to him un.
Sunday se'nnight. Percy was soon disgusted with
th'e vile company to whom he had been intro-
duced, mmtinicat et' what had happened to a
friend, and substquently w the Magistrates at
this Office. His evidence involved the whole of
the .pri•oners in guilt. They first met in a gar-
ret, and then c titre down to another room on the
second floor, with the intelligence that the draw-
ilig-rotirn was ready ;Astir) any new face.was asked
if he was a fashionable man. The lkindlord of the
house, Wastley, had a cat on his knee, decorated
with red ribbons, and this fellow was proved to he
a. Dissenting Preacher, They are wosly Genth-
men's servants. One fellow was deSignated the
Russian Bear, and most of them 'were immode-
rately rouged. An the Magistrates presided, and
the prisoners were severally committed to the
House of Correction (with the exception of Sim-
monds, who was discharged for want of proof ),
to give 24 hours' notice of bail. The avenues to
the Office were crowded.

FORTUNATR EscAPE.—Ye,terday a fire broke
nut in the house of Mr. NEWMAN, Baker, at
Edmonton ; it began in lite upper pert, in One of
which rooms %vas 3 woman...servant : the devour-
ing element bad made such. pt ogress as to inter-.
.eept the passage of.the young woman down stain,
when she new to the window and precipitated
herself trout a three-stories Window, when, stir-
prizing to say, she escaped with only a trifling:
contusion in one of her legs, and is doing very
well.

On Saturday last, as. Mr. 13oult, a respectable
young aliist, was shooting in Battersea-fields, he'
was joined by. a friend ; they had not 'proceetle,t
.far before his companion fell. and his gun going
off, sent the whole ch-trge through Mr. 13oitICs
thigh: Severely wounded and bleeding, $u
applied to a titan with a horse, and ntterwar:a
.o another with a horse and cart, to eontcy
him to Mr. Holt, surgeon, Vauxhall, but thts
was inhumanly tensoi,
An Edinburgh raper stir+, We are sorry to
earn that the.,yolios fever it at prescnt pre:alget
tl ditiarcut tfibtriyts ut bcutland."

I.4AW IN'rELIA(;;;FiNCE,

VICE-CHANCE:LLCM'S COURT, Dec. 21.

THE BLENHEIM ESTATE.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, AT THE RELATION OV

THE INIARCWIS OF BLANDFORD, AND THE HON

AGAR ELLIS AND OTHERS, V. HIS GRACE THE

DUKE OF MAIILBOROUGH•
AS sOon all-his Honour the VICE-CIiANCELLott
had taken his seat in Court this morning, lie call-
ed the attention of the Learned Counsel rOncern--
ed, to the lodgment which he gave it) this case oil
Saterday last. He observed, that since then it
had ,occurred to him, that there was an Act of
l'arliameot which had .not been stated in the
pleadiugs at the bar, but which nevertheless, in
his opinion, had a very strong bearing On the
question now before the Court. The more he
looked into the question, the more be was con-
, viticed of its very great importance in' every
point of view. The Act lie alluded to was that
by which a pension of 5,0001. was settled on the
successive • Dukes of Marlborough out of the re-
venues of the Post-orEce : he had minutely read
every part of the Act, and he was convinced that
it had an important bearing on the question. His
impression was, that the said pension was allow•
ed, not for the mere support of the title and dig-
nity in an abstract sense, but for its support
in
Bleoheim-house. If that construction of the Act
was accurate, then ;be public undoubtedly had a
- to see the intention of the Legislature car-
tied itrtcs full effect, and the Courts of Equity were
hoond to see that such was done. It might he
objected, that he was not at liberty to state this
Act, inasmuch as it had loot been alluded to in
the pl-atlittes nor in the demurrer wOiieh was put
in t', the Bill, and that the effect of his stating it.
would be to eikw the Attorney-General and the
other obritititlS time to amend their Bill. That
oi.iection could not stand, because umprestion-
lily the other side might amend their bill. 'The
Act giving this Peusion was a public Act, and
therefore proper to be noticed. The second oh-
jeviott which might be utged was, that the coin-
plaiet here was merely relative to the trees, mid
not to the mansion ; but this objection he was
also persuaded must fail, for it was difficult
to distinguish between trees sheltering the house
and the house itself. Though the substance
of the complaint was, the Duke's improper-
ly cutting down trees, yet at the cod of
the bill there was an allegation that he
would cointnit most destructive waste ; and in
the demurrer whi,!ii had been put in to the bill,
(Co Glace virtually snit elided that he bad a right
to do so. If it was the duty of a Court of Equity
to protect the timner and the mansion-house,
then of course the Court was equally bowl(' to
protect all the trees which had been planted for
the 'purpose of sheltering 'the house. Such were
the impressions o.hich the reading of this Act had
!made open his mind, and he must own the Act
appeared very strongly to hear on the case. He
would not, however, wish the bar to understand
either directly or indirectly insinuating that
- these it.preSsions -of his should have any weight
out them. With pleasure, therefore, would,he
bear cacti` argue this point, because he deemed it
krie hest importance. With respect To.the
question of equity waste, he would not hear that
.again,-al-44--hati already been so fully gone into,
sauf sae had given his judgment upon it; but if the
tp-Arties imagioed his judgment was wrong, it might
be propetly argued before another Jtulge, Hii
preseirt opinion was, that this pension of 5000 i.
a year, was granted for the dignity of the family
in Blenheim-house, and not fur the dignity taken
otherwise in an abstract sense. As the point
Was of superlative importance, he would with
such pleasure hear it at the close of the cause
petitions, and he was anxious to have it finally
,disposed at beiore the hulydays. lie begged,
therefore, that the Solicitor-General and his
learned coadjutors on the one side, and Mr. Bell
and his friends on the other, would be so very
kind as to prepare themselves for the discussion.
It was one of the greatest public interest.
Mr. SIDEROTUAM.—Then, Sir, the order for
anOwing the demurrer is suspended.
TheVice-CHANCELLOIt.-11:iS SO ; and S am told
by the Registrar, that the .Injunction cannot be
dissolved till a motion be made for that purpose.
The order is suspended:

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dsc. 21.

FALSE INIPILISONMENT.

BREWER V. ELLER AND CADWF.LL.

This was an action of assault and false impri-
sonment. The case proved was this :—The plain-
tiff, who is a Member of the Stock Exchange,
friend to cite last Ascot Races with
horses, which ,they procured of a livery
stable-keeper, in St. George's-fields: The plain-
.tiff,.is s'ont be got to Ascot Heath, delivered
horse to
.o-ie of the persons who usually
S.Crltt {face-courses, 41,ti received a ticket in or-
der to catide t.itn to receive his 11-.lse again. As

soon as !he r,res were over, he: by mistake went
'to ether s:db!s, sty{ having lost his ticket, re-
ceived anwLer horse nnsweriTig
,thf: description of
the one he. hired, the former being in fact the

prop:•rtv ric tile %,ftleftdant, Mr. Eller, who;ttpott
coming to claim Eiis horse, missed it, .and in the
• result ()brained a-warratit agkitost the plaintiff on
a charge of which wat'nmit was
exerwed lit, the other ciefe.idant, Cadwell, a City
()nicer. He was taken to a poblic•hottse in St.
'Swithirt's-lane,the tesorf of constables, where he
saw Mr. Eller, won aiktd him how he dared to

take away his more from Ascot, and treat her in
tuanner in 'Which she appeared to *have been
used. • The plaintiff replied that it was entirely
,tt tterAtatie, and lie was ready to make any compen-
aa,iniC'regitired. After some altercation, ivlr.
(Fetilantled ten guineas, but afterwards re-

duceif•his claim to severs, which he said was the
' leho gum he kVOUY lake. Pending this negotia-
tion the plaintiff was kept in custody for two
and on being liberated the other defendant
demanded a compensation for his tronble. and was
offered five shillings. This sum he objected to,
us being too small, but he WAS told that it was
(rite sufficient as he had no sekc, ant, to which he
replied that no warrant was necessary, E.n. he Lad