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London, England, 1824-04-16 00:00:00

FEES OF CONSULSe•-•-•DE LEMA V. nALDIMAND.

The Arronwev-GeNBRAL stated this to be an action
brought by the Spanish Consul in this country for work
and service done. The detendant had held certain Spa-
nish Bonds, which the plaintiff cancelled, and for which
he gave certificates or receipts upon the Spanish Go-
vernment. F'or this service the fees were sought, and
fur which this action came into Court.

Mr. SCAR LETT elicited from the first witness, that the
work u as done for the Spanish Government.
The LORD CDIEF JUSTICE said the action could not
be maintained, In any transaction between two private
parties, the Consul was entitled to his fees; but where
his Goverment was one of the parties he could not
claim fee.. As well might fees be claimed in this coun-
try for the exchange of Exchequer Bills at the Treasury.
—Nonsuit.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, APRIL 16.

The trials being concluded, the convicts were brough t
up for judgment before the Cosistox SERJEANT, at
five o'clock.

Sarah Williams and Catherine Carty were sentenced
to transportation for life ; five to transportation for 14.
years; forty-seven to transportation for seven years;
three to be imprisoned and privately whipped; one to
be privately whipped and discharged; and sixty-five to
imprisonment for various pei iods.
The following prisoners, convicted of capital ofences,
were then placed at the bar:—
James Williams, Frederick Scott, and John Ross, highway rob.
bery ; John Hill Wagstaff, forgery; T. F. Crees, Richard Hughes,
Richard Evans, James Wilk bey, Frederick Bolton, George Thomas,
Stephen Beats, George Goswell, James Holloway, F. H. Jermaine,
John Cosbet, Sheik Brom, Eliza Hillary, James Lamb, William
Whitehead, Mary Ann Hudson, William Williams, and James
Sullivan, stealing in a dwelling-house; Thomas Pearson, George
Lock, John Thomas, Thomas Hooks, Thomas Keeler, Edward
Brimman, William Clutterbuck, and John Wades, for burglary.
Proclamation of silence having been made,
The Commow SIRJEANT proceeded to address the
prisoners. The sentences which it had been his painful
duty to pronounce upon those who had just left the bar,
had been apportioned according to the best considera-
tion the Court had been able to afford to their different
cases : but with respect to those who now stood at the
bar, the Court had no such disci etion. Only one duty,
a most painful one, was cast upon it—namely, to pro-
nounce that sentence which closed the scene of this life
upon them for ever. As the degrea of their guilt were
different, so were their prospects of mercy in another
quarter different; but the Court had no power to hold
out hopes to any of them : it was possible that they
might all suffer. If any of them received a transmuta-
tion of their sentence, it would still be on condition

(which might be considered a hard ' one under other
circumstances) of their final separation from their-coun-
try and friends. Whatever might be the result of the
petitions of their friends here, there was a throne at
which petitions for merc.y were never offered in vain.
He therefore implored teem to consider the awful situa-
tion in which they stood, having now forfeited their
lives, and lose no time in making their peace with
Heaven. Whether they lived or died, the time devoted
to such a purpose would not be thrown away. His
Lordship concluded by pronouncing sentence of death
upon them all.
Hudson and Hillary, being pregnant, prayed stay of
execution.—The Court then adjourned.

Not long age we paid as much as 5001. a week to
the casual poor : this week the same slass of poor have
been paid with less than 144—Sheffeld Paper.
Dovin, Arm 11.—The following disgraceful oc-
currence and breach of hospitality took place here last
week : Some foreigners landed from the French
packet, with a camel, a bear, and too monkeys, for
which they paid a considerable duty ; they obtained the
permission of the Mayor to exhibit them about the town,
for the purpose of defraying some part of their expenses.
The monkeys were trained to many diverting tricks,
and a very large sum had been offered for them; how-
ever, it was their first and last day of exhibition in this
county: some malicious person went to a chymist and
purchased two-penny worth of arsenic, which was in-
troduced into some figs and given to the animals, while
they were amusing the public ; they were shortly after
observed to be ill, and died in the evening, to the great
loss and regret of the owner, for whom they had a great
fondness, and clung sound his neck for assilance, when
the poison began to be painful to them. It is to be re-
gretted the delinquent has escaped punishment. In jus-
tice to the chymist, he refused to supply the poison,
without a second person certifying that it was for a
proper purpose; when the offender brought another to
answer for his intention.
An action for damages was tried at the Kerry As-
sizes, " Eager v. M,Slieehy," for loss sustained by
plaintiff in consequence of the seduction of his daughter,
under promise of man iage. The trial occupied the at-
tention of the Court and of a respectable Jury for the
whole of Monday, who (at ten o'clock at night) returned
a verdict for plaintiff; 2501. damages and costs.
Friday se'intight, as the condemned i risoners were
entering the jail, in Bury, one of them, of the name
of Bradnum, convicted of the burglary at Glemsford,
was thus accosted by his mother :—" Well, boy, what
are you to be done to?" "'slanged, mother,
" replied
the son. " Well," rejoined the mother, "be a good
latry. and don't be hanged in your beat clothes, but let
me have them; I had better take your.red waistcoat now 1"
SMITHFIELD 3IARKET, APRIL 16.
There was a fair supply of Men, but they were of an inferior
per stone, but the inferior sorts
description, and most of them left over from the country maims.
s .mall Lambs were scarce,- and sold
wOceeien
a:fa:ger:4
"qukaalibtlye.
very high : those of a large sine were not sought after—upon the
whole, the Market appeared heavy, and not much business doing.
Beef, per stone of sibs. 35.04 i. to 4s. Oil. Mutton, 3s. 64 to 411.
64.
Veal, 11.6 d. to ss. bd. Pork, ss. Od. to 51. od.Lunb 6s. to 7s.
obtainedG

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