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COURT OF KING'S Bela!, APRIL so.
Herder:a was brought up for judgment, convicted
at the last Oiford Asizes, for aiding the escape of
Trench prisoners from Thames, in Oxfordshire ; he
was remanded and ordered to be brought up again
on Monday.

Daniel Batt Eaton was yesterday brought up for
judgment, in consequence of having published “ a
lasphemous libel on the Holy Scriptures," written
by Thomas Paine. Mr. J. P. SMITH, his Counsel,
was heard in mitigation of punishment, and replied
to by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL; when the Court or-
dered the Defendant to be brought up again on Fri-
day se'nnight. '

THE RING V. BROWN.

' The defendant, Colonel Brown, who stood conv.c•
ted of forgng certain documents, purporting to be the
band-writing of Mr. Harrison, Secretary of the Trea-
sswy, by which he obtained a grant of land in the
island of St. Vincent's, was brought up for judgment.
The defendant put in an affidavit, stating hisiong
service to the country, and during the American war,
in which he had received 17 gun-shot wounds ; he
• alio stated the great losses he had sustained by the
American revolution. '
Mr..PARK shortly addressed the Court oq his be-
half, when he was sentenced to be two years impri-
soned in his Majesty's goal of Newgate.
DISTURBING RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
Mr. Justice GROSE pronounced the sentence of the
Court on. John Hunt and William Squires, convicted of
an outrage on a religious Meeting, in nearly the fol-
lowing words :
4, You are here to receive the judgment of this
Court, having been convicted most properly of a very
dangerous offence to society, of no less dangerous of-
fence than that of breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of another, doing mischief to the doors and
windows, and assaulting the mistress of 'that dwell-
ing-house, Mrs. Tomlins. When we consider the
whole of this case it is an enormous case, whether we
look to the violence used, to the day, to the numbers
assembled, or to the purpose for which you were as-
sembled; the violence was great, and a great deal of
injury was done to the man's property, although you
pretend you did not meet there for the purpose of
doing an injury, and that you did not meet there for
the purpose of doing an injury either to their persons
or their property ; you did meet there to do that which
is as bad—you met there for the purpose of disturbing
those who hid assembled for the purposes of religious
'worship, and when we recollect what the law tole-
rates with respect to religious worship, it is most
. abominable is private individuals to disturb others
in celebrating that worship which the law allows.
—Your numbers were alarming, the mischiet.you
did was very injurious to these persons, and the
purpose for which you met was an abominable in-
tention to interrupt them in the exercise of that wor-
ship ,whieh the law allows, and in the celebration
of sithich the law will protect them. It is for us to
See that you receive such a punishment as shall be
sufficient not only to deter you from the commission
of such offences in future, but to deter others from
the commission of similar offences. Therefore
taking into our consideration, as we do, all the cir-
cumstances of the case, as well as the circumstan-
ces mentioned in each of your affidavits, we do order
and adjudge that you, John Hunt, pay a fine io the
sing of £'2o, and to be imprisoned in his Majesty's
prison of the King's Bench for the space of one ca-
lendar month, and to give security to keep the peace
for three years, yourself in £lOO, and two sureties ill
051) each and that you William Squires, with re-
spect to whose offence there is certainly a distinction,
`lie do order and adjudge that you be imprisoned in
the prison of the King's Bench for the space of one.
calendar month, and then be discharged ; and that
you Jonn Hunt be imprisoned till the fine be paid
and until you have given such security.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 29.
, THE RUMP AND DOZEN.
lIUSSEI V. CRICKETT.
In this case, Mr. SerjeantlrAtionaw had obtained
a Rule to shew cause, why the verdict for the plain-
tiff should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered.
Mr. Serjeant Bur appeared to shew cause against
the Rule.
The Loan CIJIEP JUSTICE, when he opened the
notes which he had taken of the case, said, the Court
had now to consider a wager, of such a kind as he
hoped would never appear in the presence of a Court
gf justice again. It happened, that on the 29th of
May, 1809, the parties in the case, accompanied by
several of their friends, had a. merry meeting at a
tavern, and a conversation taking place between
'Hussey and Crickett concerning their ages, it was
Mutually agreed, that a day should be appointed for
the examination of their ages, and whoever should
' happen to be oldest was to pay for a certain kind of
dinner, called the 66 Rump and Dozen i" they par-
ted, and a day being appointed by the intervention
of some of their comrades, the party met, to the num-
ber of eight persons, but"Crickett did not appear,
upon which the plaintiff produced the certificate of
his age ; and, by the stipulation of the bargain, the
defendant was declared to have forfeited the price of
their entertainment. '
In the evidence of Hurd, one of the party, it ap-
epeared, that the witness was very anxious for a din-
ner, and accordingly ordered it, and paid the bill, for
which he was reimbursed by Hussey. They were all
schoolfellows, and when the agreement was made,
it was signed by both parties. He considered the
46 Rump and Dozen" to imply a good dinner, with
as much wine to cool it as could be conveniently
drank. The bill amounted to 818, including the at.
tendance of waiters.
• By the evidence of Keen' another of the party, it
appeared that he was deputed by Crickett to fix a day
and place where the party might meet for dinner. It
',. had: been expressly stipulated, that both parties were
t at at table with certificates of their ages, and
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- served, that Hurd had paid the dinner, without the
.wall of Crickett, and when the trial approach-
termination, he had scruples in his own mind
propriety of maintaining the cause.
Serjeant Batt, in sheering cruse against the
observed, that the parties made the wager of

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