The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-07 00:00:00

ted, to some half dozen of other topics which we,, find '
standing in the Order-book. It is Napoleon's (or rather
. Tom Paine's, for the words are his), hat-one step "from GUILDHALL.,-.Sarah Emma Harwood was brought before
Mr. Alderman VENABLES yesterday, for final examination, upon
the sublime to the ridiculous." We find, for example, that
Col. Torrens intends
charge of shooting at, with intent to_ do some grievous bodily
.to make a. motion for " the pacifi-s- the
bairn, to
more firm
the. roal-m.erchant, inßriday7street. She
cation of Ireland I."—that Mr. Maberley contemplates his
toile,eenulend firm than at the last hearing; but imprisonment, and
annual attack upon the Assessed Taxes—that Mr. Daniel certainty as to her ultimate fate, had ioduced some altere-
Whittle Harvey has an embryo bill in his pocket to "re- tion for theworse in her appearance. P
gulate the formation, and to define the liability; of .Joint • Stock Companies"—that Mr. Michael An .Mr. Alderman VENABLES said, altbough.the prisoner had been
Angelo Taylor
meditates another skirmishing inroad upon the Court of sity of repressing, God forbid that she should not have justice. It
Chancery, his rear being supported by Mr. John Williams, appeared to him that the fact that had been most relied upon at
with the heavy brigade of " all motions heard before the the former hearing, as establishing the pre-existing malicious in-
Lord Chancellor, during the last five years, of all Appeals, ' tention (he meant the evidence of Mrs. Broadwater, that the pd.
Causes, Exceptions, Further Directions, Bankrupt and soner had
the
neighbourhoodpubliclyavoedlierlth ie
intentionvir trials tioaisshocfotskt Ilrinliafirnidngal)l;
Cause Petitions, heard before his Lordship, and now pend-
arid alarmed
ing for judgment, with the times when they were respec- went far to show the absence of the real intention to do harm. It
seemed ttf) him that the prisoner
.was ahigirl of the town, and with
Lively heard, and the days on which the same have been on
daels,iiieawbioe
tpue ze.muLiaetge asheconneenxdieoanvowureicdh 3 •. Randall thought it
the Paper for judgment ;" and that Sir John Newport
afterrtaf
and makes
eosthaeirl
intends to give us, for the last time, his First Fruit Fund
ways, to alarm him. She fires pistols in' the yard,
of Ireland, again. We must bear these visitations with the stir eho can,. in the Lope that it will reach his ears; then she
what fortitude we can. Dr. Johnson defends the inequali- loiters about his, house, and draws the pistol from 'her Muff before
ties of Milton, in his " Paradise Lost," by the emphatic his eyes, but makes, no attempt to fire at him.
When she did pull
observation, that a " palace must have passages." So, a the trigger, she was probably aware that it was levelled too high
House of Commons must have its Daniel Whittle liar- to do any mischief. He really could not discover the
,existence of
vet's, its Michael Angelo Taylors, its Sir John Newports, the malicious intention which was the.very essence of the charge;
its Williamses, and its Torrenses, and its Maberleys, as'well hut it ought to be known that firing at a person :without ball was
as its' Canning', its Peels, and its Huskissons. It se p !fence within the statute.
Mr. Alderman. VENABLYS observed to -the prisoner, that al-
useless to repine at inevitable ce)amities. The better
though he had taken a lenient view of the matter, if he had seat
—New Times,
part of wisdom consists in bearing them as well as we carit- to a Jury, they might have. come to &very different conclusion.
He should not set her at large until she had given bail, herself in
100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, to keepsthe peace towards
Mr. Randall for two years ; and 24. hours' notice of bail must be
given to Mr. Harmer. •
' Mr. Alexander's clerk said, the prisoner had never been a
woman of the class mentioned, and the prisoner herself also dis-
claimed the. imputation, and begged the Alderman to satisfy him-
self upon that subject by examining her respectable friends who
were then in the room.
The Alderman,. hoWever, declined going into this investigations
and the prisoner was removed.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Sir RICUA BIRNIE address-
ing Bond, the officer, who for time years directed the police at
Drury-lane Theatre, and • whose son hiss lately obtained that ap-
pointment, told him that he had heard several complaints respect-
ing the want of due attention on the-part of those officers who
should attend the different entrances to the pit and boxes, to pro-
tect the public from the.depredations of thieves. He had heard
that the officera appointed to that duty at Drury lane, instead of
rendering the public their protection and Resistance, were placed
as watchers over the check-takers, a ditty which if was never in-
, tended they should perform, and which lie R. Birilie)- hail-
' determined to put a stop to.
Bond, in reply, said he would lose no time in communicating'
with his son on the subject. He added, that when he Was at
the theatre, attempts had been made to place the -officers under
his directions over the door-keepers and check-takers, and Mr.
Winton, a gentleman connected with the management, had more
than once told him that the public might take care of themselves,
and that the police were at the disposal of the managers, whose
interests they were bound in the first instance to protect.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE repeated his determination to remedy the
evil complained of, by causing the officers in attendance at Drury-
lane Theatre to be placed at those places where they could best dis-
charge their duty to the public.
Smith and Barnes, the two young men who stand charged
with highway-robbery in the neighbourhood of Finchley, un-
derwent a re-examination, after which they were fully committed
for trial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB 6.
Wl:Am:mom V. CARTER.
This cause again occupied a very considerable portion of the
time of the Court this morning, and after Counsel had been heard,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he would give judgment in
the case as soon as possible.

DONN V. WATSON.
His LORDSHIP said this was an appeal from an order made by
his Honor the Vice-Chancellor. The gravartein of the case was,
that the Court below had declared, that a certain small real estate
should be sold if there was a deficiency of personal estate to pay all
parties. The ground of objection to the rule was, that a claim
ought to be realised -against the estate of the late Sir Salis-
bury Cotton, and that if that demand were recovered, there
would be ample personal estate to pay all the creditors. On the
other hand, it was said that nothing could he obtained from the
Salisbury estate; and that, this objection to the nature of the de-
tree below, namely, the chance of getting in the debt alluded to,
had neither been taken at the original hearing, nor upon further
directions. The opinion, however, of his Lordship was, that the
estate ought to be sold, and therefore this branch of the Court
confirmed the decree.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
HILL V. REARDON;
His Loansmr stated, that two things were to be considered
here, first, whether the commissioners between this country and
France, acting upon the convention, made between the two go-
vernments, to indemnify the subjects of this country, were
be considered conclusive, as between the subjects of this
country and the French Government ; and next, whether the
declarations of the commissioners in favor of A. 8., for instance,
destroyed all demands both in law and in equity, as against that
A. B. if he received the money awarded to him, otherwise than
the convention. Upon these points the Court had made np its
mind, and would, to-morrow, state the grounds of its judgment.
Its judgment was, that the convention was to have no such effect,
and his Lordship thought it would be a surprise upon parties to
the making of the convention, if it were to be held to have such
an effect.

LAMBETH-STREET.—It may be remembered, that on Sa-
turday last a young female made application to Mr. WrATT, the
Magistrate, to issue his warrant for the apprehension of a respect-
able master butcher in the Hackney-road, for an alleged violation
of her person on the evening after Christmas-day, which applica-
tion was then refused, on the grounds of the long interval that had
elapsed between the commission of the effence and any complaint
being made.
Yesterday Mr. Mann, the tradesman alluded to, came to the
office for the purpose of rebutting the accusation, and disproving
the charge. advanced against him. On his being introduced to
Mr. Wyatt, he announced his name as Mann, and wag at once re-
cognized as the person whose conduct came under discussion on
Saturday. The facts stated by the complainant were distorted and
untrue, and his object in attending before his worship was to give
them the fullest refutation, a refutation which he hoped would
meet the eye of the public through the same medium as did the
charge.
Mr. WYATT. —I have seen the report ; and as to what
transpired before me, it is critically correct.
Mr. Mann then went on to state, that he had known his accuser
for some time, as living at one time in his neighbourhood. On
the day on which the violation was said to have taken place, so
far from meeting her in Rosemary-lane, and inviting her to the
play, she called at his shop, and an agreement was then made to
go to Sadler's Wells, and after coming from thence to pass the
night together. They met in Hoxton-square, according to ap-
pointment, and took a coach in Old-street-road : after entering
which, familiarities, lie would admit, passed between them, but
not attended with that violence which she had stated, or any
screams or clamour whatever. When she get out of the coach,
perceiving that he dress was disarranged, particularly her bonnet,
she refused fulfilling her intention of going to Sadler's 'Wells.
They parted, and he heard nothing more of her until Thursday
last, when he received a letter from her friends, requesting him to.
call and pay 20s. as a remuneration for the injuries done to her
bonnet and a locket said to have been broken. He did call as
demands,they
an but et w
li ehe
becamen
most go t to e
exorbitant
theirl,t a nt housei
tthhy increased
eeir
exactions,in their
which
not being weak enough to comply with, they adopted the alterna-
tive of applying at this office.
Mr. Wyarr said, that if the applicant thought that the object
of the parties was to exact money, he had done right in not Sub-
mitting to them.
Mr. Mann again assured the bench that such was his belief,
and that neither did violence or violation take place.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, FEB. G.
waricwritGnt V. JONES AND FARAIDAT•
This was a bill, filed by the plaintiff, praying that the Court
wonld dismiss the defendants from the management of a partnership
concern, en the ground of their participation in the falsification of
the accounts of the concern.
His HONOUR, in giving judgment, declared that the bill had
been most improperly filed. There was not the least colour for
the imputation of fraud against the defendants. The bill must be
dismissed with costs.
His HONOUR, on rising, signified his intention of going on with
the seal to-morrow.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, FEE. 6.

CRIMINAL INFORNIATION.-THE LING V. RICHARD HEARN.
Mr. Sergeant Wzr,ne moved for a rule calling on the defendant,
the Mayor of the borough of Fowey, to show cause why a cri-
minal information should not be filed against him. An applica-
tion had been made for a criminal information against the defend-
ant and several others daring a former term, when the rule was
made absolute with regard to some of the defendants, hut dis-
charged as against the others. On that occasion, in showing
cause against the rule, the affidavit of a person of the name of
Bennett, the deputy Mayor of Fowey, had been Sled, and in con-
sequence of the allegations therein contained, he had been indicted
for perjury, and a warrant had been granted for his apprehension,
directing that he should appear in this Court on the Bth of No-
vember last. The defendant was accordingly arrested on the 6th
of September last last, when lie sent for Hearn to his house, and
it was finally agreed that he should enter into his own recog-
nizances for 1001., with two sureties of 501. each, to appear
on the Bth of November. When that period arrived, the de-
fendant not appearing, it was discovered that Hearn had nut re-
turned the recognizance into the Crown-office. An application
was then made to him for it, but instead of returning it in the
proper course, he gave it to the attorney for Bennett, who re-
tained it till it was too late to found any proceedings upon it, and
on inspection, although it bore the same date, it was found to be
wholly different from the recognizance which the defendant had
entered into on being arrested; the recognizance not being for
his appearance on the Bth of November, but to appear generally
to the indictment when called upon.—Rule granted.

THE KING V. RICHARD HEARN AND -- BENNETT-
Mr. Sergeant WiLDE now moved for criminal informations
against the same defendants, as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the
borough of Fowey, for refusing to grant summonses against cer-
tain defaulters to the poor rates in that borough.
The COURT granted a role to show cause why one or more cri-
minal informations should not be Sled against the defendants.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 6.

SINGULAR PLEA OF WAGER 01, LAW.

Jobs Gascoyne,Aate of Tutbury, in the county of Stafford,
licensed victualler, was opposed by Mr. rioLLocs for Mr. Sa.
muel Allen Wheeler, a wine-merchant, upon a debt of 161. and
costs of action brought for the recovery of the same.
Edward Roe, clerk to Messrs. Tooke and Carr, of Gray's-inn,
the agents to Mr. Burnish, an attorney at Birmingham, produced
the proceedings in the action " Wheeler v. Gascoyne."
It appeared by these documents, that in Hilary vacation, 1825,
the plaintiff issued a Staffordshire latitat against the defendant
(the present insolvent), whereupon he was arrested, and bail was
given to the Sheriff in the usual way. In the following Easter
Term, special bail was put in, and in the same term the plaintiff
declared, upon which the defendant put in the following singular
plea: --

- After the usual preamble it ran verbatim thus :—" And the
said defendant; in his proper person, comes and defends the wrong
and injury, and says that he does not owe the said plaintiff the
said several sums of money in the ~aid declaration mentioned, or
any of them, or any part thereof, in manner and form as the
plaintiff has above complained against him ; and this he, the de-
fendant, is ready to verify in proof, however the Court of our
Lord the King, before the King now here, shall consider."
It was intimated to the Court, that this plea was intended to
be conformable with an obsolete defence termed " wager of law."
Mr. HEATH said that Mr.' Chitty ought to be here to explain it.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER (alluding, we suppose, to Abraham
Thornton's case of wager of battle) replied, that Mr. Chitty had
been employed in a memorable case of wager, in connexion with
the same county (Stafford).
The witness (Roe)
proceeded to state the stages of the action
subsequent to the plea, which, it appears, was abandoned, in con-
sequence of the plaintiff being informed that the insolvent intended
to apply for relief to this Court. The extra costs were about three
gu:neas._

The Cmar COMIISSIONEa said that the sum was very trifling,
and the Court would not be warranted, upon that ground alone,
to remand the insolvent.

The Attorney's Clerk said that the plea put in was a complete
puzzler to the gentlemen learned in the law.
Owing to a matter unconnected with the opposition, upon the
(Mr. Heath), the insolvent's case was
ordered to stand adjourned to a future day.
application of his Counsel

A person advertises in a Sunday Paper for a wife,
possessing 10,0001. and a good figure ! Surely the addition is
unnecessary, the second qualification being implied in the first.