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London, England, 1808-02-01 00:00:00

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COURT OF COMMON PUPAS, JAN.. pn.
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Sir JAIIIES MANSTIVID Mn at Nisi Prins. the foj-
lowing were the only causes tried CI interest :
TURNER t. FRBINFIELD. •
This was au active. for as assault and false hue.
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sontieitti -4t appeared that the delendunt, .whols a
Aow-street Officer, apprehended the iva of the plain-
tiff, who is' a respectable tradesman at ll:entford,and.
the father, to clear the boy's character, brought the
present action. It turned out,4towever, that, the de...
feudant was in some degree tiufied in what he hald=..
done, and the Jury found a verdict in hls favour. • ••

!TARDY V. ZEUPIJULD.
This was an action for the use :uuloccupation of.
certain premises on Killbank, in which the defendant
carried on the curious trades of a :oat-boiler, a horse-
boiler, and a burr-ward! It also appeared, that he was
purveyor to a menagerie, %Id bad a copper kettle in
his possession. in which Pith.od'‘ elephant had been
boiled down, and his skeleton preserved. ,There was
no defence to the action, and the plaintiff obtained a
verdict for his rent.

COURT OF EXCHEceLiEF., JAN. 90. .
The SOLICITOR GRNIERAL moved the Court, -.Ko dis-
solve an injunction &ranted some time siace, in re-
gard to a cargo of wheat, sent to Spain, on the
ground that it was not safe to pay over the sum
alledged as a part of the proceeds, until a commis-
sion sent out to Spain was returned. The SOLICITOR
GENERAL contended, that ample time had been
allowed for such' return, and the Court concurring,
dissolved the injunciioq. •
SETTLF.NIFIITS.4.-1I has been determined in theConrt
of King's Bench, that an individual, who had enlisted
as a soldier, and deserted, and afterwards hired him-
self as a servant for a twelvemonth, and duly served
that period, had Rot gamed a settle v*s, inasmuch as the
hiring was illegal, he being a deserter,and consequently
no legal results could attach upon it. • This was an
important decision, because it has at all times been
considered, that a twelvemonth's servitude, under any
circumstances, entitled an individual to a settlement.
This is the first instance to the contrary.
• A shocking accident happened on Fri4Hr afternoon
in a lane leading from Hampstead Common:10 Finch-
ley :—A young man, of the name of 001311, was, in
company with two others, shooting at „snipes, aid ore
having rose at the edge of a piece of water, situated
by the side of a hedge, Gould shot at his bird, and the
Cader part of the contents of his piece lodged in the
of Mr. Arson, an artist, in St. Martues-lane,
who was amusing himself at a similar exercise. and
was passing, unseen, on the other side the hedge from
Gould. The young man survived but a few hours.
In the last snow storm, a Gentleman at Cavers, neat
Melrose, had several hundreds of sheep buried under
the drifts, some of them thirteen or forrteen feet deep.
After the storm, he took the shepherds, and three ,of
their. dogs, in search, one of the dogs being only sle
months old. When they came where the sheep were
buried, kite dogs, invariably, either eagerly scratched
for the, o' set up a mournful howl ; where the for-
mer happened, the sheep were alive, and saved ; where
the latter was the case, they proved as certainly dead;
upon fulding out this, they then only dug for those
scratched for, which saved much time, and by which
severalscores of sheepwere saved, which, from further
delay, Could not have been.
IxQuEsr. A Coroner's Inquest was taken at

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Chelmondiston a few days since, on M.sry Wright,
who was found dead on the chamber Hoer, by her
husband, when he awoke .in the morning. After
the body had been inspected by it surg7.:on, Lhe Co-
roner brought in a verdict—Died by excessive
Drinking. '
H.ATTON GARDEN.—Satirday Sarah Child was fully
committed, charged filth robbing her ready furnished
lodgings of every portable article.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—SAtukIay Mary Dew-
' rem, ATortune teller, was fully committed, for,obtain-:
hig, in the way of her prefeesion, froma silly girl, im-.
pro` perly named Foresight, 101.
eands a. quantity of
cloMs.
DREAVPUL FIRE.—On Friday night6i.bout a quart
ter before twelve o'clock, a fire was- discovered in the
house of Mr: Hales, grocer, in Prince's-street, the
corner of Angel-court, near Storey's-gate, Westrnin-
ter. Different fire engines hastened to the spot with the
utmost promptitude, but the houses being very old,
the flames quickly extended to the houses of Mr. Sher-
ley, cheesemonger and poulterer, and of Mr. Oddy,
the Bull's Head, put:Ali-House, adioinittg. These
three, together witirilte house of Mr. Clarke, a
butcher, in the hurt,' slid three others, were destroy-
ed by the flaftles befilie 'the engines were able to ar-
rest their ptpgres3. The greatest consternation pre-
vailed int the: neighbourhood, from the idea of the
confined situation in which the fire took place, the old-
ness of die-houses, and the great quantity of wood
that was in their composition. The poor alarmed in.
habita'tit; flew in all directions to twho
most chearfully gave them shelter,' de-
priite of their all, but most fortunately saved their.
lives.. The only one that we hear, received any perso-
tainjiiry was a poor unfortunate female, who went
to "gaze through idle curiosity at the flames ; a beam
of timber fell from one of the houses that were on
fire into the street, and broke both her /legs and her
ancles. She was carried to the Westminster Infir-
mary. The house of Mr. Harris, a salesman, and
that of the Prince's Head, on the opposite side of the.
'way, were severely scorched ; but the wind happened
to change, and they were saved. The St. Margaret's
and St. John's Volunteers attended for the preserva-
tion of order amongst the crowd, and for the purpose
of facilitating the operations of the firemen. The
engines played the greater part of- .Saturday. The
place exhibits a melancholy heap of- ruins, and it is
said that a subscription is set on foot fqr Abe beeeflk
of the sufferers. --
We have been accustomed to peethii..-eaeiety of
advertisements and paragraphs hi /layout of the pre-
sent State Lottery. Some describe it aShaving supe-
rior benefits--others as extraorclitlner idVanlages ;
but for our own part, we consider the advertisement
of Wsossn's, No. 16, Corahill, entitled to particular
attention : he muultshees real solid benefits to the
public I Shame Tickets at Sixttieti Shillings a
Ticket cheaper :thaw- he other Ogees; and those
Shares entitle the purchaser to the same advantage.
that every %hot advertiseme:it describes.

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