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Conliable, and the other a tetrier puppy, belonging
hp the Defendant's apprentice.
Lord tr.tvanottouort raid, to find the Defendant
guilty, and liable to the penalty in this cafe, it was
neceffary that a pregnant purpofe to violate the laws
fhould be apparent. To (hew fuck difpofition, the
I actual (hooting at game was the ufual proof. The
concomitant of d,gt, however, of the defeription
dated by the witnets for the Plaintiff, joined to the
actual polreffinn cl a gun in the hand of an unqua-
lified perfon, was pretty drong evidence of the fact.
In the prefent cafe the evidence was contradictory.
One witnefs faid the dogs were fuited for game;
three, on the other hand, had aliened that they were
of a very different defcription. It was, therefore,
for the Jury to determine on which fide the weight of
proof lay.—Verdiel f a. the Defendant.
aouss v. CLIFT.
This was an Action for an affault. The parties
refided at Stamford in Lincolnlbire, and were next
door neighbours. A quantity of dirt was lying be-
fore the Plaintiff's door, and the Defendant, who
was a brewer, defired his men to take it away ; upon
their hefitating to do fo, he took up a (hovel in order
to remove it himfelf, when the Plantiff (hatched up
a Ipade and in a menacing manner refitted him ;
upon which the Defendant (truck him a violent blow
with the (hovel in the face, cut him dcfperately, and
made him bleed profufely.
The Court coalidered that the Plaintiff, from the
threatening manner of holding up the fpade, had
given the fird provocation. though the Defendant
had sided with great violence and brutality—and the
Plaintiff was nonfuited.

NILSSON •ND Tag V. DEISM
This was an afti.in for an afrault. The parties
refided at Wellmintler. The Plaintiff was a brick-
layer, and the Defendant a publican. The Plaintiff
being univell. Mrs. Cattle, a next door neighbour,
propofed to fend for a drop of comfort to the next
gin Chop, to raife his fpirits. A little boy, fon of the
Plaintiff, was accordingly fent to the Defendant's ihop
for three quarterns of gm : the latter's wife was ferv-
ing three Gentlemen butchers. and in giving them
'their change, as it was Elated, took up the boy'.
money and gave them a farthing out of it; by force
mitlake, the money was put by, and when the boy
demanded his gin, Ihe refuted, faying he had not
paid for it ; he returned home, and related what had
happened to his mother, who, accompanied by her
neighbour, Mrs. Cattle, went to the gin (hop, and
defend to have either the gin or the money; a dif-
pute arcfe, and the Defendant, who was then at the
tap behind the bar, came round, and, ding fume
abufive expreflions, pufhed the Plaintiff, Mrs. Han-
fun, with great violence, out of the fhop, by which
her arm and leg were much bruifcd, and the continu-
ed ill from it for come time after.
On we part of the Defendant he endeavoured to
prove, that the loquacity of the lady was fo loud as
to diflurb the nook ; he therefore defired her to go
about her butinefs, but, perfitting in her demands,
he turned her out.—Verdid of 4os. for the Plaintiff.
D•LE V. GRAY.
This was an adion brought to recover the Pjain-
tiff's witch. which the Defendant had pawned.
The parties were rnillrights, and one evening at a
public houfe, in company with feveral other perfons
of the trade, a ccnverfation took place refpeding a
man who had worked contrary to the regulations of
the trade. Thi* affertion was controverted by fome
of the party, and a wager of a guinea was propofed
between the Plaintiff and one Flint; the flakes to
be deputed in the Defendant's hands, and the wager
to he decided by the Committee who regulated the
trade, on the following Monday. Flint immediately
depolited a guinea, but the Plaintiff, not having any
cafh about him, gave his watch. When he had re-
tired, Flint and the Defendant agreed, that the latter
fhould pawn the watch for a guinea, and they would
drink it ; the watch was accordingly pawned, and
the amount drank between them.
Some time after, the Defendant met the Plaintiff,
and offered him the pawn-broker's ticket, which,
upon his refuting to take, the former threatened that
he would get another guinea on it to drink. The
Plaintiff, never having received his watch hack again,
brought this :idiom
Upon the examination, however, of the firfl Wit-
nefs, it appeared that the wager was taken down in
writing, and not being produced, the Plaintiff was
nonfuited.

SWAINS b. XILLST.
This was an anion upon a Bill of Exchange, for
3201. as. 6d. againft the acceptor.
The Plaintiff had fold a quantity of hops to the
Defendant, for which the Bill in quellion was given ;
but the latter not having taken thern away in time,
the Plaintiff fold them, and brought this anion for
tl.e difference.
Mr. GARROW, for the Defendant, objeited that,
inafmuch as the hops had never been delivered, the
Plaintiff could not recover in this fort of anion ; but
it appearing in evidence that the Defendant had al-
rented to the non delivery of the hops until the bill
fhould be paid, Lord ELLENSOROUpII thought that,
as the payment of the bill was to precede the deli-
very of the goods, the Plaintiff had a right to reco-
ver in this aaion, and a verdia of tool. WAS accord•
ing found for the Plaintiff.

The Qcarter Sections for the City and Liberty of
Weliminiter, commenced yefterday before Mr.
MAINWARING and a Bench of Jußices. Two Mar-
thallea Officers were tried for an afrault, but it ap-
peared in evidence for the profecution, that the molt
they had done was to (hake their fifts at the com-
plainants, and even that was contradicted on the
other fide. The Jury were of opinion with the
Chairman that this was no affault, confidering all the
circumßanees of the cafe, and the prifoners were ac-
quitted. A little girl about t 3 years of age was tried
on two feparate charges of petty larceny ; of the firli
The was acquitted, becaufe the indiftment charged her
with Realing a pair of filk Rockings, and it appeared
that the had fiolen two odd ones. She was found guilty
of the next charge, however ; but the Court in con-
federation of her good charaCter and her youth. or-
dered her to be imprifoned only one week. Thee
three cafes took up the greater part of the day.
During the thunder 'toms on Friday laR, one of
the three new built houfes in the City Road, near Sr.
Luke's Workhoufe, was fet fire to by the lightning
in various places; a child was !lightly fcorched by the
flames, arif►ng from a quantity of thavings ; but the
fire was got under without doing material damage.