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suited by a fellow like that, 4lio bee been t,d_ prison
and cheated a" PrPditors-L-by a fellow that has
stolen sheep ;" I asked him whether George Elliott
had stolen sheep ? he said yes, and was driving the
sheep to Dodbrook market, and was taken with, th
sheep on the road, and was obliged to give money
to make it up ; I said if that was true, I would give
him up altogether, and defendant replied he knew it
was true.

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages, Twenty Pounds."

NAIL': W. :JENSON.

Mr. Sergeant WILDS stated, that this was a
special action on the case, brought to recover a sum
of twenty guineas, which the defendant had offered
in printed hand-bills, as a reward for the discovery
of some property which had been stolen from his
house.

The plaintiff was nonsuited.
BAILEY V. HOULDITCH, ORTON, AN) ANOTHER.

Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS stated, that this was an
action of assault and battery.
The faets were shortly these:--The plaintiff was
passing in the evening of the 23d of September,
through a toll-gate, kept by the defendants, when '
he was stopped, and toll demanded of him. His
answer was that he had passed through the same
gate in the morning and had paid the toll. One of
the defendants acknowledged that he had done so,
but said that unless the ,plaintiff produced the ticket
he should not go through. A discussion ensued
between theme and the plaintiff was slightly assaulted ;
he then said he would go back, but before he had
gone far, he returned with the intention of paying
the toll a second time, as the inconvenience he
would suffer unless he went through would be
greater than the loss of the money ; with that view
he came back to the gate with a half-crown in his
hand, but just as he was about to pass he was as-
saulted, taken into custody, and carried before a
magistrate. For that assault he brought the present
action.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, Is.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--NORWICH, Ate. 7.
The Judges proceeded this morning, with the
High Sheriff and the Civic Officers of Norwich, to
the Cathedral Church, in state; and, after Divine
Service, Mr. Baron Garrow went to the City Hall,
where the Grand Jury were sworn, and his Lord-
ship afterwards addressed them on the nature of
their duties, at very considerable length; but the
only important observations of the Learned Judge
were those in reference to prisoners of the names of
David Seeker, Henry Rix, William Thurston, and
Stephen Horne, who are charged, " with divers
other persons, to wit, twelve or more, in the City
,Lnd County of Norwich, with being unlawfully,
riotously, and tumultuously assembled together; and,
notwithstanding proclamation was made, as directed
by the Statute, commanding them to disperse, they
did, feloniously, riotously, &c. remain and continue
together for the space of one hour after such Com-
mand, against the peace," &c. His Lordsh;:p much
regretted that the peace of the eetenty had been
broken since the last Assizes, by members of the
community assembling together to commit acts of
outrage upon the property of the master manufac-
turers, to destroy that machinery which was produc-
tive of so much wealth to the country. It was a
matter of astonishment that the lower classes should
not be aware that, in destroying machinery, they
were depriving thousands of the means of
small beginnings they rapidly inerlz)reitreasecirosesht,dhi
.übsistence, and producing extensive distress in
ri large portion of the commercial world.—
In destroying the loom they became the destroyers
of the best instrument of the best benefactor of the
trade and commerce of this country. His Lordship
in adverting to the riots in London, in 1780, said
that he was old enough to remember them. Fret'
,pearnti;dns
adhwtoesurotrsioo: soon
the metropolis was entirely under the de,minion of a
mobwa s of
general
metropolisb oy
burning
fromu randnin
ogwnoei women, enyr ;la;
trHisti s
tqoul
and places of worship were destroyed, and finally
Newgate was set on fire, and the prisoners were li-
berated. At that eventful crisis, when we unfortu-
nately had a Lord Mayor of the City of London
who was of opinion that he should act in violation
of the constitution if he called out the military, and
that he might be hanged for so doing; it was at that
eventful period—and it ought never to be obliterat-
ed from the memory of the people of England—that
our late revered and beloved Monarch, George the
Third, called out the military to assist in stopping
the devastation and destruction of life and property,
and it operated like a charm ; in a short time the
mob was dispersed, tranquillity was restored, and the
city was saved; and it only remained to try and punish
those—too many—who had been concerned in vio-
lating the laws. His Lordship directed the Jury to
proceed to inquire into the offences which would be
laid before them, that the Court might proceed as
early as possible to the despatch of business.

farnei Gant stood indicted for having, on the
26th of January last stolen, secreted, and embezzled
from the Ipswich mail coach-office, a paper parcel,
containing a 101. Bank of England note, a 51. Nor-,
wich Bank note, and an order for 121. Bs.
A number of witnesses were called, who gav, the
prisoner a good character; aad his father-in-ltw said,
that the prisoner received one hundred 'pounds on
marrying his daughter, about throe years and a
half ago.
Mr. Baron GARRQW 611311allia up the ease, and the
Jury found the yrisoner guilty, but recommended
him to mercy, on account of his previous good cha-
racter.

Mr. Baron GARROW adjudged that the prisoner be
transported for 14 years.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—TORIC, Aue. S.
DOE V. RUSHWORTII.
This was an action of ejectment by the assignees
of Messrs. Bateson and Co., cloth-manufacturers at
Leeds, to recover possession of certain lands which
had come into the hands of the defendant's lessor,
in consequence of a mortgage granted by one of the
bankrupts, which, it was alleged, had been gs;ven in
contemplation of bankruptcy.

The facts were the following :—Some twenty
years since, a gentleman, named Lister, having died,
leaving an infant family, appointed tslVir. Lupton and
Joseph Bateson, one of the batArupts, as trustees of
his children of the property he was able to leave
them. One of the provisions contained in the will
was, that a sum amounting to 2,0001. should be in-
vested ;n real property, or Government Securities,
to the use of his daughters. The interest was to be
received by them during their lives, and the principal
paid to their children at their decease. Mr. Bateson
was a man of landed property, and undertook the
management of the trust; but instead of investie,g
the money according to the provisions of the Will, in
government securities, he continued it in. his own
hands, and regularly paid the interest when it be-
came due. His co-trustee, thinking him a solvent
man, did not object to this proceeding. However,
when one of the daughters was about to b
i e married,
t b: transferred to her future
it became necessary to place her fortune n such cir-
cumstances thatr. Bateson, it might
husband.
wiagreed to give a mortgage for the suna due on landed
property of his own, This mortgage was granted,
about six months previous to his own and his part,
ner's failure. It was the validity of this mortgage
which came, incidentally to the action of ejectment,
to be tried on the present occasion.
To prove that the granting it must be construed
as an act of fraudulent prefefence, evidence was
adduced to show, that the
mo had shortly before be-
come a partner of Mr.i
Wilkinson,y delayed executing
his trust for various alleged reasons. At length he
bankrupt was aware, at
'the time, of his state of insolvency, and that the
debts for which the firm had failed were then in
existence. Between that period and their failure, it
appeared that several bill and loan transactions had
been carried on by them.
Mr. Sergeant CROSS, on the part of the defendant,
contended that the trusts of the testator's will ought
to have been fulfilled twenty years previous to. the
granting of this mortgage. He also insisted, that,