Star.
London, England, 1808-05-21 00:00:00

IIAY 19.

AN ILSOAPT.—TIKE KING V. 110B7RT DAWSON Lricii.
TheA•rroaNtY GENERALinfnrmed the Court, that thedefen•

dam, who should have attended the preceding day to receive the
judgment of the Court, had not yet appeared; on the contrary, h
should seem that he haul availed h:nuelf of a Day Rule, and had
made his escape. He should therefore move for a Writ of Habeas
Corpus, to be directed to the Warden of the Fleet, commanding
him to bring up the body to.morrow.
. Mr. Gwaitow said, he could assure the Court that the Warden
had used all possible diligence, but without surcess, to find the
defendant, ana that no pottiLle means would be spared to bring
him forthwith into Court.
Lord ELLEN soitouGu.—" We will say nothing at present about
the Wardea.r
Mr. /ustkce Gutosr.-1, It is a very extraordinary ease.?
I.ord Et.[ E t BOROOOII.-•-.." Tlie W4rden will be industrious to

find hiA. It will be, very unfortunate to him that the defeudant
should by b:oug.it up in pursuance of the peren.ptury order of the
CcLat."

BLANCH ARD V. CDR&

This was a motion to set aside an inquisitioh for excessive da-
mages. The Plaintiff was a poor old woman, nearly blind, who
resided in a &Oise on Sydenh.nn Common, from which the De-
fendant had ejected her by force. The layer ctaini xi title nudes
a will 'a the person with whom Mrs. Blanickird had lived, and
theta' was some litigation to the will in the Court of Exchequer.
In the month of January IHO7, the Defendant, who is an Attor-
ney of some eminence, haring given the Plaintiff notice to quit,
came about five o'clock in the ev. ning, wins three bailiffs fol-
lowers, and turned the Plaintiff a? d her lodgers, together with
her furniture, into the highway; ard, but fer the humanity of
her neishbours, she might have 1: TR starved with the cold,
without a home lo put her head .n. An active of trespass
was brought, and upon judgment being suffered by default,
an inquisition waetakee, and the Jury gave a verdict in damages,
for 4(101. The Court now held, that, as the Defendant had a
good title, and might justify the trespass, those damages were
Excessive. 'they said it was difficult to animadvert upon the
conduct of the Defendant, which was very severe and intempe-
raw, because it might affect the minds of a Jury upon a subse-
quent inquisition i but although the damage was not to be ascer-
taint by the mere rent of the Premion, yet there should be sonic
marration ; and 41OL were out of all bounds c' discretion. The
inquisition was therefore set aside, although there appeared to be
more violcacm used in the trespass than was necessary.
MAY 20.--.-P4IESTL EY

This was a question on the Marriage Act, namely, whether a
nitund child coati legally marry unckr aoe by licence, with the
consent of the mother. It was argued by Mr. Owisr, and most
elaborately by Mr. Serjeant WILLIAMS. On the one side it was
contended that a bastard was //h./ select, and, legally, had no
father or mother; but by Mr. Serjeant WiLriasts it was con-
tended, that that mile only applied t? haheritances. Sir William
Scott has lately decided that ouch a Marriage is illegal, altheitigh
there is a contra decision in the Court of King's Bench. The Ser-
jcant express .d great Indignation at a Civilian presuming to con-
strue an Act of Pat-Hamel: different from the Judges, who aro
the legal expositofs of the statutes.
The Cate stood over for the future judgment of the Courts.
DV CHALOTTE O. LORD BARRYIKIRIL
. .

This was a demurrer to a plea. It appeared that the plaintiff
and another, Assignees of Delpini,a, bankrut.t, Lad bryurht an
action against the defendant, as Etecutqr of hip deceasLd brother,
to recover a bond for 40(.01. to which the defendant pleaded plene
atforini::nrui:t and judgments recovered in Ireland. To this the
plaintiff demurred, insisting that the record of a jusii.ruent reco-
vered in Ireland could not be produced as evidence In bar of a
debt coctracted in England. The defendant's Counsel insist's&
by the Act of Union, it could, and dust the judgment recover, d
in Ireland had a prior claim to simple contract debts in Fugland:
The Court, however, beld the plea to bS had, and gave the par-
ties leave tq =cad, and to go to issue.

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