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COMMON COUNCIL.

LAW REPORT.

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A Common Council was held- yesterday at Guildhall,
for the general dispatch of public business.
Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN addressed the Court on
the subject of a Petition he was to have presented this
morning, the Equitable Loan Bill, now pending in,
Parliament, and requested the Lard Mayor to call a
Court on an early day, for the purpose of receiving and
considering the same, and the measures necessary to be
adopted thereon.
The Loan MATOL appointed this day for a Special Court for
that purpose.
The Committee of City Lands delivered in a Report,
on having conferred with a Committee of Aldermen, in
• respect of the salary to be paid Mr. Serjeant Arabin,
for the Judicial duties performed by him at. the. Sessions
at the Old Bailey, under the recent arrangements, and
for the Court to make him an allowanie in addition to
the sum already paid him, which was agreed to.
The same Committee also presented a Re port on the
Memorial of Colonel Trench, relative to the proposed
Thames Quay, and the Memorial of sundry owners of
property against the same, stating that it did not ap-
pear, if the measure was effected, that it would be pre-
judicial to the navigation of the river, but, as it would
interfere with the trade thereof, they Would not teems -
mend the Court to sanction it.
The Court agreed with the Report, - •
The. Courtunanimously agreed to a Resolution in re-
spect of the House and Window Duty, and the nem,
sity of its repeal; which they directed to be communi-
cated to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Resolution was ordered to be advertised.—(Fde Jeweils-
neat, iii airfare page).

VICRXHANCELLOR'S COURT, MARCH 9.

DARER V. RLENKINBOPP AND OTHERS.
Mr. HART stated that this case came before the Court
for further directions. The facts were briefly these :
The testatrix, a Mrs. Baker, who was the proprietor of
several country Theatres* among which were Roches-
ter, Maidstone, Canterbury* Hastings, and Tenbridge
Wells, some of which were her freehold property, to-
gether with the scenery, machinery, &c. attached to
them and the others she held by lease. In her will
she directed that, at the expiration of seven years after
her death, which took place in February, 1816, all her
freehold and leasehold estates, and her personal effects,
should be sold, and the money placed in the funds, and
that the trustees appointed by her will, should pay the
interest of 12,0001. which she contemplated her pro-
perty would easily produce, to four tenants for life,
each of whom was to have an equal shale, and the sur-
vivor was to have the entirety. It happened very soon
after the death of the testatrix, three of the life tenants
-died, and the fourth was the plaintiff. She had di-
rected in her will, that the trustees should pay 6001. per
annum to the person entitled to the produce of her es-
tates : but us the Theatres were chiefly supported by
soldiers and sailors, when the war ceased, the value of
this description of property was greatly diminished,
and the ti ustees had several years declined paying that
sum. This proceeding gave rise to the present bill,
which was filed in the .year 1819. The case was re-
ferred to the Master who reported that theproperty
was not worth 12,0001. The testatrix had directed
that her grandchildren, of the name of Dowton, should
have the Theatres at a fair valuation, if they were
anxious to either become purchasers or tenants; and it
appeared that Mr. Dowton, of Drury-lane Theatre, held
Rochester Theatre on a seven years lease.
The COURT held that the plaintiff was entitled to
6001. a•year, according to the construction of the will.
There was no doubt that the testatrix believed the Thea.
tres, of which she was in possession; would have raised
a much larger sum than it appeared they were now
worth, and under this impression she made her will.
The case was referred back to the Master, for him
to inquire what was now due to the plaintiff ; what was
the clear annual income arising from the Theatres since
the death of the testatrix, with directions to carry the
sale into execution, foi him to decide what money should
remain on mortgage, and with reference generally as to
all matters in dispute between the parties in the suit.

'NAUSS QUAY.—A Meeting of the Vestry of the
parish of St. Martin in the Fields was held on Wednes-
day, to consider of the plan for the erection of a quay
on the north bank of the Thames, at which it was una-
nimously resolved to oppose the measure, and a Com-
anitteesappointed to carry that resolution into effect.
PRESERVATION FROM SHIPWRECK. --s-A General
Meeting of.the Members of the Royal National Institu-
tion for preserving• the Lives of Persons from Ship-
wrecks, was held at the City of London Tavern, the
Right Reverend the Bishop of BATH and WELLS
in the Chair. The Report was most satisfactory; and
thanks were unanimously voted to Captain MARRY, for
his- excellent lance, by which so many lives had
ler plan was submitted by Mr.
:AIRMAN was happy to see any plan
the means of preservation to so use-
our gallant seamen, and was sure
d pay every attention to the plan.
voted to the Chairman, and the

Which had nearly proved setious, bap-
' Chapel for French Protestants, in
City, on Friday last. A Country
Ipanied by his son, went into the Cha-
pulpit, seats, &c. were set up for auc-
ttended to pull down the old building.—
lOts was put up, the stranger opened
tt was prevented by the fall of a large
rich he stood, into the vault, which
_ for many years. The old Gentle-
about fifteen or sixteen feet in depth,
lust and bones of the departed. He
sustained but little injury.
‘n inquest was taken at the Crown and
,'on the body of Cornelius Hickey,
a ditch on Monday morning last,
Ipposed to have fallen in a fit of in-
Constable who searched his clothes,
of his coat a paper parcel, Coed
sixpences and ten shillings, coun-
One of the Jurymen recollected the do.
his shop a few days previous, and ten-
linings in payment for a trifling arti-
Ifs brother said he intended to have
next week, apd had:Ooisibly obtained,
Carry with bini. The Jury were of,
deceased had Wien into the ditch in a
intoxication, and returned a *ludic* accordingly.

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LENT ASSIZES.
ELMSFORD, MARCH 9. •

William Ceti: was convicted of stealing, at Brent-
weod, a horse, the property of a- Mr. Thorn, and sen-
tence of Death was recorded. This prisoner had been
tried for a similar offence at the late Assizes for Hert-
ford, and acquitted. A third charge was pending
against him for a like offence in Sussex, had be been ac-
quitted on this indictment. The prisoner was a London
horse-dealer, and is supposed to have been long engaged
in similar transactions.

Thomas Tolhurtt was indicted for feloniously killing
and slaying William Davis, at Gray's Thurrock, on the
17th of November. The prisoner was a publican at
Gray's Thurrock, and bore an unexceptionable charac-
ter. On the 17th November, the deceased was at the
pri'soner's house drinking,and conducted-himself in a
riotous and disorderly manner. He abused the prisoner
and his wife in the grossest terms, and upon refusing to
quit the house, the prisoner sent for a constable to turn
him out. On the arrival of the constable, he requested
the prisoner to depart peaceably, which he refused to
do; upon which the constable laid hold of him, and
the prisoner began to assist him,' when the deceased
turned round upon the latter, and struck him a violent
blow with his fist. In the moment of irritation, the
prisoner snatched up.a poker, and laid the deceased's
head open with it. The deceased immediately fell; and
bled profusely. A surgeon was sent for, the wound
was dressed, and the deceased put to bed. Next day
he spent the day drinking at the-public house, and ap-
peared to be doing well, but in a few days afterwards
the wound assumed an alarming appearance, and after
languishing until the 17th of December, he died of thel
wound. None of the witnesses swore positively to the
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prisoner having struck the deceased; but one stated,
that after the deceased was struck,
,he saw the prisoner
throw the poker under the grate.
An immense number of witnesses gave the prisoner
an eacellent character for inoffensiveness and humanity.
The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up for a conviction
in point of law, if the Jury believed that the prisoner
had struck the fatal blow.
The Jury deliberated a considerable length of time,
and found the prisoner Not Guilty.
Daniel Taylor was indicted for a burglary and rob-
bery in the dwelling-house of George Ralph, at Great
Barstead, on the 28th July last. The property alleged
to have been stolen amounted to nearly £lOO. The pro-
secutor is an auctioneer, shopkeeper, and banker, at Bil-
lericay. In the night of the 24th July last, his ware-
house was broken open, and robbed of linen-drapery
and other goods to a considerable amount. The prin-
cipal witness against the prisoner, was a man named
Charles Clarke, who had formerly been in the prosecu-
tor's service, and having robbed him, he had been pro-
secuted and sentenced to seven years' transportation.—
After serving about four years on board the hulks, the
rest of his punishment was remitted, and he was again
admitted into the prosecutor's service. In July last the
prisoner and another man, named Lindsell, proposed to
him to rob his master's shop. This he declined doing,
for fear he should be suspected, but he gave no infor-
mation to'his master of the intended robbery. Another
witness, who was a returned transport, proved that a
few days after the robbery, the prisoner confessed that
he and Lindsell had done the job. Both these witnesses
were mainly confirmed in collateral. particulars. At
the last Assizes for this county, Lindsell was tried and
acquitted as particeps criminis in the robbery, but the
evidence was much weaker in that than the'present case.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direction, found the pri-
soner Guilty, and sentence of Death was recorded.
William Rogers was indicted for robbing John Hart
of £3 10s. on the King's highway, at Wanstead, on the
18th January.
The prosecutor, who is a hay carter, proved, that on
his return from London; where he had 'been selling a
load of bay for his master, he was stopped, about five
in the evening, by the prisoner and another man, who
threatened to blow his brains out it he did not deliver
his money. They pot him down and rifled his pockets
of all his money. He swore positively to the prisoner's
identity, having seen him in the Haymarket whilst he
was disposing of his hay.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and the Jury found him
Guilty. Sentence of Death was recorded.

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