Star.
London, England, 1814-12-10 00:00:00

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.7,t4d ant plaintiff for a tenant, on sectitint of his
; end recommended that the £2O shoold be re-
med. This Gillman promised he would do"; but,
tuoth
although frequent applicitititii -had since been made
to him, the money bad ntsebeen restored,
. The Jury found a verdict for the phintiff—tta-
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mages £2O ; costs 40s. .
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, thiC EMBltit S.
smitriotit V. MILES.
This was an action brought by thiplaintiff, de-
scribed to be a Gentleman of small fortune in Purr;,
against the defendant, who is on: of the Proprietor's
of Gairaway's COffee House, to recover a compeusa-
bob in damages for an assault and false imprisonment.
It appeared that the plaintiff had been in the habit of
going to Garraway's to, take refreshment. He usually
called for ham and tongue sandwiches, with ginger-
be3r, and walked away without paying the waiter.—
Delos asked on one occasion for the amount of what
he had taken, he gave the waiter a penny, and said
he had paid his master. It afterwards appeared that
the plaintiff had not paid, and Mr. Miles ordered his
waiters to keep watch over him. They afterwards
observed that he took refreshment twice a day on
four days, and went away each tithe without paying.
The defendant supposing it was the plaintiff's inten-
tion to live on him, determined to put a stop to what
he considered an act of dishonesty ; and having pro-1
cured a constable, the plaintiff was pointed out in the
Coffee-ionm, 'seized by .the constable and taken to the
Poultry Compter, on a charge of being a swindler.—
On sending tor Mr. Haines, a person of respectabi-
lity, he was let out, on a promise to attend at the
Mansion House. The next day he was examined be-
fore the Lord Mayor, who discharged him. Of this
false arrest the plaintiff complained, and it was con-
tended that he was entitled to large damages.
Sir V. Gums said-4, The defendant, as it has
been truly stated to you, had no right to take into cus-
tody on account of his not having paid for refresh.
ment, and I agree it would have been more becoming
if the defendant had called on him to make good this
payment. He had no riglit,.ceitainly, to cause this
G.titleman to be arrested and conveyed to the
Compter. If we were trying the propriety of the
plaintiff'.: conduct in this action, we might say he has
not much to boast of. Though it is true, Gentle-
men may go to a Coffee-house and be in the habit of
having what they get scored up, yet I believe they
are persons well known, and that they mention what
they have. This was not the conduct of this
Certainly he has right to maintain this action.
The Lord Mayor very properly discharged him.—
The conduct of the defendant was illegal, and it is
for you to say, under all the circumstances, what da
mages he ought to recover for this imprisonment,
which is illegal, though certainly the act was com-
mitted under circumstances of great peculiarity."
The -Jury, without hesitatioa, found for the plain-
tiff,Darnages One Farthing.

BOW•STRUT.—J..Hereferson was yesterday brought I
to the Office, charged with a gross outrage in the
boxes, itc. of Drury-lane Theatre, on Thursday night.
Nettleton and Clements, two of the constables, stated,
that they were called into the saloon to the prisoner,
who was behaving in a riotous manner. They found
him endeavouring to break the chandeliers with his
hat. He then proceeded to the second circle, and en-
deavoured to force himself into the boxes, and broke
the door of one to pieces ; when the constables again
interfered, and conveyed him out of the house ; and
when the jr got him to the end of York-street a friend
of his prevailed on them not to take him to the watch-
house, assuring them that he should go home quietly,
to which they consented ; but they had not returned
into the Theatre above ten minutes before they were
called again to take him into custody, in consequence
of his having again entered and made a disturbance'
on the staircase, by endeavouring to force his way
past the check takers. They then secured him, and
conveyed him. to the watch-house, where he remained
all night- The Magistrate ordered him to be detained
till he bad paid for the damage done to the Theatre,
which he gladly acceded to, and expressed his sorrow
for his misconduct.
The Proprietors of the Golden Cross Inn, Cbaring-
cross, were summoned for sending a hare, which came
by the Liverpool coach, directed to be left till called
for, at the complainant's house, a short distance out
of London, by an errand cart, by which he did not
get it so soon as he should have done, when he called
for it, agreeably to the advice from his friend in the
country. Mr. Morris, one of the proprietors, produced
the label attached to the hart, which was directed to
the complainant's residence, written in a large and
legible hand, and the words t, to be left till called for,"
were written very small, and in an obscure part of
the direction? and therefore it must have been over-
looked in the hurry of business ; and the Magistrate
coinciding in this construction, did not inflict any
fine, but only directed Mr. Morris to pay the extra
expences the complainant had been put to.
Thursday Wm. Waddington was charged with rob-
ling the Hornchurch waggon. -The driver stated, that
on Tuesday evening he received a parcel at the Red
Lion and Spread Lagle, in Whitechapel, directed to
Mr. Tyler, at Horncastle. He stopped at the Pi-
geons, at Stratford, where he watered his horses. On
bis return from. the house to the waggon he missed the
parcel. He shortly came up with Gibbs, one of the
horse patrole laelonging to the Office, who had just
found the pareel and taken the prisoner. Gibbs stated,
'that he was on.duty a little beyond Stratford, about
seven o'clock he heard a noise on the road, and on
his going to sex what was the matter, he found it was
a carman disputing with the prisoner about carrying
the parcel in question ; the latter said he had found
it at Settle, near Stratford, and the carman saying he
had no doubt but he had stole it, and refusing to carry
it for SiM. The prisoner was fully committed.
GUILDHALL.—Yesterday F. Ben, a drover, was con-
victed in a penalty, for striking a sheep so unmerci-
fully as to cause its instant death.—MaryTovey, Jane
Morris, and her husband, were remanded, charged
with having in their possession a pig, which they had
just killed, the property of T. Murrell.
QUZEN•SQUARE--Yesterday dime Carta was re-
manded, charged with breaking into the house Of
Hitchen, in Artillery-place, Westminster, whilst
the family were at chapel, on the evening of Sunday,
Ith ult.

the 6L..
A baker, in Tottenham-place, was fined RS 17s. 6d.
being at the rate of Is. per ounce, for 77 MUMS and
a halt of bread deficient in weight, in a ituaaticy ex,
postai to sale in his shop.