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LAIV InTELLIGENGE.

HIGH COURT OF ADMItAI.TV, DOCTORS. CUMMON'.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13.
This d.ty the Right Hon. Sir Wm. SCOTT pro.
ceeded to the adjudication of the following caufe:
The Rendfburg, Nyloir?, mauler.—This was the
c.tfe of a Danilh Ihip, laden with a very valuable
cargo, which was captured on her voyage from
Latavia to Copet h igen.
It appeared that the Chip had been condemned
At a fll-111t.T heating, and farther proof ordered
with rape& to the cargo, which was claimed on
beltall of Nlefirs de Coninck and Co. of Copenha•
n, who had entered into a contrail with the
Dirch Fall India Company,with a view of bring.
ing home the produce of that colony, confining of
Ipices and other valuable articles, which could not
to accomplithed by any other praelical mode under
the ;name of the war.
The Court was clearly of opinion, that it was
illegal for :t neutral to cuter into fuch a contrail,
and, therefore, condemned the property as good
and lawful prize.

SURRY MSIZES.
CHARMILIkI RASDALL.—The plaintiff, Mrs
Charnam, was the there ramie of a Mr. Stone, a
fat mer, who, not contented v ith a wife and liven
children, had raif.d his maid fervant to the rank
of his concubine, and by her had had a nume-
rous fpnri.o., offspring, the real wife was negleEted
and all ! he attentions ,fFai mer Stone were thrown
away upon the amiable Betty Charnam, as the
was detcribed by one of the w itneffes. The gallant
cultivator, in order to find employment for Betty
in the c' ty time, had fit her up in bufinefs in a
fhop, in v Welt the fold corn, flour, and ever y ar-
ticle of farinacevas nutriment. Betty, however,
was only the nominal proprietor of this depot of
grain, for the accounted with Mr. Stone for the
profits, and gave credit only to (itch cuflomers as
he approved of. It happened during the great
fcarcity about three yews ago, the parilli in which
Stone relided, came to a refolution that every per-
fon tenting a dwelling !virile or honks of twenty
pounds per annum, fhould take a poor perfon's
child, and keep it for a ye:.:, feed it, infltmfl it,
and at the expiration of that period, fend it back
to its parents. The Para Officers allotted a child
to the care of Mr. Stone, as tenant of two thistles,
one occupied by himfil and his legitimate family,
and the other virtually in his poffeffion by the Teti-
dence of his Lady Betty. Upon this occafion, and
to relieve himrelf front the burthen impofed upon
him, he appealed, and contended that he was not
the occupier of Mrs. Charnam's honk; however,
he was compelled to keep the child. After this
he continued to give the Parini Officers and Tax
Gatherers a contederable deal of trouble, by Milli-
ing he was not liable perfonally to the poor's rates
end taxes, but that they mutt look to the plaintiff
for them. This determined the Parith Officers to
take the firft opportunity of flying the wiellion
with him,avel accordingly one very loon prefented
WM. The defendant, Randall, had contraaed a
(mall debt at the limp, and as he was not ready
to pay it when called upon, Betty denounced the
vengeance of the law. The Patifir Officers hearing
of this, promifed to fupport him in defending any
action that might be brought againft him. The
prelent fait was commenced at the inflance, and in
the name of Charnam, and the fide queflion Was,
whether the or Mr. Stone was the aftual owner of
the (hop and trade ?
Several witneffes were examined, and proved
that Farmer Stone was more frequently to he tt
found at the houfe where Betty TT fided, than in
that which was inhabited by his wife. He conti-
nually slept there, appeared to have the manage-
ment of the trade, and, in !bort, there was not a
thing Betty had to which he had not accefs, and
over which he did not enjoy unlimited controul.
NiThenever a cuflomer applied to purchafe meal or
flour, the always went to Mr. Stone to atk whe-
ther the fhonld truft him ? It was evident that the
pt oprietorthin of Betty Charnam was a pretence—
a meal-tub plot to delude the Parith Officers.
The Jury, it about helitatiun, found a verdict
for the defendant.
STEELE V. Dit'strotra--.Thic was an action by
Meffrs. Steele, formerly lime burners its an eaten-
live way of bufinefs, at Streatham. to recover,
under an eieftment, the twine profits of Come
houfes and land in that neighbourhood.
It appeared that they had been made bankrupts,
but that their bankruptcy had been afterwards fu-
p-rfetled. The defendant had contrived to get an
ffignment of their property as trullee for the cre-
ditors, and had kept poffeftion of it, as was dated,
to the great injury of the plaintiffs, who, by hav-
ing it withheld from. them, were prevented from
deriving confider:4lde advantages from it. The
plaintiff had recovered poffeffion in action of ejea-
;nent, and this fait was brought for the interme-
diate profits..

William Corbet Rood trial for robbing the
houfe of Richard Peppard, of NewAreet, of a
looking glafs, tea elicit, and fome articles of linen.
Peppard's teflimony confifted of a train of flrong
circumliances ; he alfo identified a thirt found on
the perfon of the prifo►ier, being one of the articles
laid in the indkiment—he adduced other witnelfes
to corroborate his depofition—when
Mr. Richard Warren, keeper of the prifon of
Bridewell, was produced to difcredit Peppard's
charaaer. He fwore that Peppard, contrary to
what he himfelf had Rated in evidence on the crofs-
examination, had been confined with him in Bride.
well ; that on difcovering a plan he had laid to let
fire to th.►t prilbn, witnefs had him tranfmitted to
Kilmainham gaol ; that he faw him profecuted
and tried on various charges of felonies, and knew
him to torn approver on the trials of other colpriti.
From all theft circumflances he concluded he was
a perfon not worthy of credit on his oath.—Ac.
.. ; ..

the perfon of John Took, of Crumlin, on the 3oth
ult. Toole &poled, that he heard a noife about
the hours of one And two o'clock in the morning.'
calling on him on lime bufinels. Thar having
opened the door, the tiaverfer affanked him
A OW, knocked him down, and fired at him, by
which he was wounded in the hand with the
which he afterwaids found.
The Chairman remarked on the flinguinary dif-
potition of this man, :tinning, that it the la:A-ma-
tions against him had been laid for firing the pidol
with intent to kill, which fuch atrocious condo&
merited, his puninoneat would be much more ex-
emplary than what, under the prefent circum-
, Ranee', the law authorized him to intlia.—To be
imprifoned twelve mouths.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12.
James Multholland,abarge man,from Dunleary,
was next put on his trial, for an aflault on George
Melvin, Robert Catlibert, and Henry Beaman,
Llips. at Dnnleary, on the 27th June Taft.
At the requell of the traverfer, two of the gentle-
men were ordered to retire, while the other gave
evidence, yet their evidence was correetly the fame
and in fubtlance as fe,tl,)ws :—Thefe three young
men were walking arm in arm together through
the town of Dunleary, where they had lodgings,
when they heard a voice from behind vocifera-
ting, .. You rafcals, you koundrels ! I'll break I
your fmellers !" when one of them, on turning
about, was inflantly knocked down by the traverfer,
and immediately the other two awed his fate.— j
(It may not be improper here to obferve, that the
young men were (lender young lads, and the hero
1 of the car was an able, :Ave young man, who, in
I appearance, could treat half a dozen Inch boys in ,
the fame manner.) The Lids, as loon as they reco- I
vered their furprife, at illed each other, but not
before fome of them were a fecond time knocked I
down. At length they got the traverfer under
them, and kept him down until fome men is the
Itreet came up, as they thought, to their affiftance,
but they were much difappointed ; for inflead cf
Ailing them, they encouraged the ruffian to at-
tack them again, in which he fo well fuccceded,
that he repeatedly knocked each c:f them down,
and hurt them very feverely, particularly one, who
received a blow in his ftomaeh, which :Seas him
to this day.
In the defence one witnefs appeared, who con-
tradifted point blank all the young gentlemen had
(worn. The Jury, however, were not inclined to
believe him, as they brought in a vet dia of Guilty,
to the great fatisladtion of every difinterelled per-
fonin Court.—To be imprifoned three months.

When the verdict *ac returned, the young gen•
tlemen applied to the Court M a very handfome
manner to mitigate the lentence,alledging that they
only profecuted for the f►ke of public juttice,which
they conceived was obtained by the verdid : to
which the Chairman replied, that ob:,ed was
alio public lattice, and that he would do Lis duty.

dercd to be iml•rifoned fix months, ainl pa! a
, f 51. fave I:j:tat, whs.) ,wr,ei the
;Ind who w.ts Irina aaive : iiP is io
two year., :And
keep the peace for years.

i'itzhenty, it Int Fol:v, and limes
were acquitted of the rtritrder Jol.o C.Cti
J,tryr.ac of opini,m that. the pi 11.4wrsoitiyhtont.-I,t
the decealed to execution, hot not at 'rite
murder. 'file Court Intirrvd tlo::nr to he irtd:sLti
as aeceilatie,. 13.:14e the 111.11, and th.:!. rthw strti.rtit
nest afliwes to be tried.

to Nialkti:e Carr.,
Catey, were acquit:Lki t)I five
tlitt