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London, England, 1830-01-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF ICINCii BRNCH, Jan. 22.
(Before Lord Tsurzspor and a Special Jury.)

MULL V. 1110111, MST.,
This was an action upon a breach of covenant.
It appeared, that in Sept. 1824, the plaintiff purchased a certain
portion of property, consisting of ten cottages belonging to the de-
fendant, situated at Wellborn, in Leicestershire, for which be paid
2141. the defendant having at the time covenanted to him the quiet
and peaceable possession of the premises. The plaintiff at the usual
time went to collect his rent, but was astonished at receiving a denial
to his just claim from the persons occupying the cottages, who, it
turned out, were the poor of the pariah. An inquiry was then
instituted, when it appeared, that Sir Gerard Naas father had
allowed the cottages in question to be occupied by the poor, and
that occupation had been held for an uninterrupted space of twenty
years. Upon this ground the overseers of the parish refused the
payment of rent to the plaintiff. The latter immediately waited
upon Sir G. and informed him of the circumstances before stated.
Sir Gerard Noel said, that the overseers had not the smallest right
to hold possession, sad desired the plaintiff to bring an action of
ejectment against them, when he (Sir Gerard) would estab-
lish his right to the property. An action of ejectment was
brought accordingly, in the spring assizes in 1825, which was
tried before Mr. Justice Holroyd, when the plaintiff' was
nonsuited, upon the ground of the property having been held quiet
possession of for the period of twenty years. The present action
was therefore brought to recover from the defendant the amount
of the purchase-money paid for the property, the sum paid for the
deed of conveyance, and the coats of the ejectment. The covenants
executed by the defendant to the plaintiff were put in and read.
Evidence was then given of the trial for ejectment, when it was
proved that Mr. Justice Holroyd nonsuited upon the ground above
stated.

Mr. CAMPBELL contended, on the part of the defendant, that
there was not suMelent evidence before the Court, to show that
adverse possession had been held by the overseers of the parish of
Wellborn, for the entire term of twenty years, and that, therefore,
the right of Sir G. Noel to the property in question was not upset.
Lord Tameness was of a different opinion.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, for the full amount of damages, with leave,
however, for the defendant's counsel to move for a nonsuit.

After several undefended actions, upon Sills of Exchange, bad
been tried. Lord TIUITIRDIS thanked the Jeri for their regular at-
tendance during the sittings, and tbry were discharged.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 22.

SLANDKI......PICTON V. JACEKAN.

This was an action to recover compensation for damages sus-
tained in consequence of defamation of character.
Mr. Serjeant WILDZ, on the part of the plaintiff, cited the case,
which possessed 0 3 interest.
The Jury, after consulting together for a short time, found a
verdict for the defendant.

INQUEST oil the BODY of Mr. EAGLESTONA,

THE KEEPER OF GREENWICH PARK.

Yesterday forenoon, at twelve o'clock, Joseph Carter, Esq. and
a highly respectable Jury, assembled In the Computing Room at the
Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, to investigate the circum-
stances connected with the melancholy death of Mr. John Eagle-
stone, the late park keeper, an account of which appeared in our
Paper of yesterday.
The Jury proceeded to take a view of the body. It was lying
in a shell in the bed-room of the cottage of the deceased, which is
situate in a bottom, near the bill ascending to the Observatory, in
the rear of the Royal Residence. The head was literally blown to
pieces, and presented a spectacle truly horrible.
Henry Eaglestone sworn—The deceased wa- my brother, and
was 35 years of age ; be was park-keeper, ant' had the care of all
the deer. A little before nine o'clock on Thursday morning he
asked me for his powder horn, which I gave him. and he Erim d'
his rifle gun, and went oat for the purpose of killing a due for the
Princess. I followed him with a knife to cut the deer's throat,
when. on reaching the garden gate adjoining to the orchard,
be told me to put the knife into my pocket, and return and
get my breakfast, which I did, and my brother proceeded
into the garden. I had not been in the cottage above two mi-
nutes when I heard the report of a gun. when I instantly ran out
with the knife, thinking be bad shot the doe, when on passing
through the garden, I saw the deceased sitting on a seat in the gar-
den, with his bead nearly blow off and the gun between his legs—
the muzzle pointed towards the lower jaw, and the iron ramrod
was lying by him on the lelt side. He must have fired the piece
by touching the trigger with the pellet of the ramrod, and it must
have then dropped on the ground. It was not usual for his bro-
ther to go out to kill so early in the morning, but he had a meeting
at nine o'clock that morning at the Princess's.
In answer to other questions from the Jury, the witnes said that
the deceased retired to bed early on the preceding night,perfectly
sober, and arose at eight next morning. He had habituated him-
self to drink, which operated most powerfully on his nerves. He
had of late neglected his duty very much, and he was fearful of
meeting Mr. Buck, the Princess's steward.
One of the Jurors said be knew of his owe knowledge that the
unfortunate deceased had been for some time previous to his death
very absent in his mind. A warrant had been sent to him about a
week ago to kill some deer for the Royal table at Windsor, and he
kept it in his pocket many days without attending to the order.
Itabert &gleam*. another brother of the deceswid, who holds
the situation of deputy keeper of the deer in Hyde Park, was next
examined. He stated that his unfortunate brother had for some
time been completely lost in his senses, and bad thereby neglected
his duties ; he had frequently spoken to him upon the subject. but
he never appeared to take any heed of what he said. In conse-
quence of his brother's negligence. he (witoess),whenever any deer
had been ordered by the Royal Family. always went down to
Greenwich to perform his unfortunate brother's duty. He had no
hesitation in saying that he had laboured under an aberration of in-
tellect which bad been produced by the death of his wife, together
with his propensity to liquor.
John Garlick, Are carpenter of the Royal Observatory. spoke to
the unsound state of the ticcease.C. mind, which, in his opinion, was
chiefly brought en by drinking.
Several of the Jurors spoke of isolated circumstances connected
with the unhappy man, which lef no doubt but he was of unsound
mind.

The Jury having been left together fur a abort period, returned
a verdict, " That the deceased shot himself, being at the time In a
state of temporary derangement."

At half-past seven o'clock, yesterday morning,
Hinchinbrook House, near Huntingdon, the ancient and noble fa-
mily seat of Lady Sandwich, was discovered to be on Are. F.l-•
preens were immediately despatched to Huotingdoo, Cambridge,
and the other adjacent towns, and every exertion was made to re-
move the valuable furniture from the mansion, by the surrounding
rumen and the domestics of the family. Lady Sandwich is at
prastot is London, and only a few servants were left in charge of
ACIPMINIIIII. The fire was raging with great violence at the time
4r. t left Huntingdon, and by an express received by Lady
it we understand a stop was not put to the progress of the
midi the deasiditios pl the interior of the mansion was se-
er.
mew:. illoadillilodif As o:sly a few article, of furniture
Laub Friday a gentlensan shot two wild swans off
Chichester harbour • one of them weighed twenty-one pound* and
aihalL The Amalie; one was captured alive, and is Dow enjoying
* fine sheet of water attached to Arundel Castle; and as it was
hist diking wounded in the pinks, it may continue an ornament to
that easiest palace fee acme score years to come. frhe Idea of the
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