Star.
London, England, 1809-06-21 00:00:00

JUNE 20.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL !hewed cause against a
rule obtained by Mr. Garrow, in a cause of Cureton
v. Dur.stall, which called upon a Mr. Curwen, the
Plaintiff's attorney, and a clerk of his, of the name
of Bonin, to answer the matters of the affidavit. The
ccmplaint made by the Plaintiff's affidavit was, that
Bonin represented himself, at Chatham, to be an at.
.ortrr, and the Plaintiff th nking him such, had em-
nloyed him to bring the action against Dunstall ; but
he had since learnt that Bonin was no attorney, and
that he had unknowingly subscribed an authority f,
Curwen to bring the action, and that he had Paid '9t3,
for which he could get no account. He added that
he had been informed and believed, that Curwen and
Bonin went share in the profits. To this the Attorney-
General read the affidavits of Curwen and Bonin in
answer, which completely denied the whole of the
charges in the Plaintiff's affidavit. It was stated,
that Bonin was the mere clerk to Cin wen, and (
employed about his business ; that the Plaintiff had
employed Curwen two years before the time when he
swore be was a stranger to him ; to which was) an-
nexed, documents under the Plaintiff's own hand-wri-
ting, verifying the dates.
It was admitted by Curwen that he had received
the money, but so far from not accounting, he swore
that he had prosecuted three actions for the Plaintiff,
and had duly sent his bill of costs on the Ist of March
last, in which he had given credit for the money re-
ceived.

Mr. GARROW admitted that he milli not support
his rule, which was discharged with costs.

Tlli KING V. SOLOMON NIAMS.

Mr. JARVIS moved that the defendant mftht
,be
charged with an indictment.
The defendant being called in, it appeared that'an
indictment had been found against him by a Grand
Jury of the County of Kent, charging that he, toge-
ther with one Jacob Moses, had prevailed upon Alex-
ander M'Donald, Wm. Williams, and Wm. Mal-
colm, to quit his Majesty's ship the Victory, and to
enter on board another ship ; and that, to 'accomplish
this purpose, they made these sailors drunk with spirits
and other strong liquors, &c.
He pleaded not guilty.
He was told that he would be tried at the next As-
sizes for Maidstone. Asked if he had any bail ? He
said he had.one in Court. _

Ordered ►o enter into recognizance for his appear-
ance to take his trial at the place appointed, himself
in £lOO, and two sureties in £5() each, and give timely
notice to the Solicitor of the Admiralty of the bail he
has to offer.

THE KING V. TIM INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH RIDING

or YORKSHIRE.
Mr. WALTox stated, that this was an application
to the Court to levy a fine of 50001. on the defendants,
for not repairing the bridge in the neighbourhood of'
Northalierton. The answer to which applicatNia'
was, that the defendants were about to build a new,
bridge, and were, in the mean time, repairing the
old one ;
that they were now doing all that had been
ordered to be done at the last Easter Sessions, which
was the only time of the year when orders fin repair-

tlng of bridfts were issued that the prosecutors ;n
:I.:s case dia not know of this order, else they would
rtoi. ht.& made this apilication for a fine of 3(X)01.
which ought not, when imposed, to exceed 3001. that
it was not until lately decided that the defendants
were liable to repair this bridge ; that in no part of
this kingdom were bridges or roads kept in better
repair than they are in the North Riding of the county
of York, &c. for which reasons he submitted that th►s
fine should be respited until the next Term.
Mr. LAMB said, that his clients had no objection
whatever to this respite.
Fine respited to the next Term accordingly.
LtRNET b. BARNET.

This was a motion for a new trial, to recover the
sum of £5OO from the son to the father, being a debt
due to the latter, but received by the son while his fa-
ther was abroad. It appeared, that when the elder
Barnet went abroad, lie vested the founger with
power to carry on his business in his absence, and to
receive his debts. This was known by Mrs. Barnet,
the wife of the elder, and also proved by the father's
letters to his son.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, f r the younger Barnet,
also stated that the £5OO had .bcete paid by the
younger Barnet to his mother for hpuschold expences,
while his,father was abroad.
On the other haAd it was stated, that no Power of
Attorney had been made out to authorize the younger
B +net to receive the debts of the elder.—Rule re-
fused.

COURT OP COMMON PLEAS, JUrE 19.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN moved for a Rule. to sheet
cause why an Attorney of the Court should not be
c,:mpelled to pay the value of stock which, he or his
clerk had received for a Mr. Martin. It appeared
that the Attorney in.pected the List pf Unclaim
Dividends, publish. d by the ,Directors of the Bank of
England, and he found a dividend standug in the
name of Martin and Co. of North Britain. He tLen
inform-cl the parties (I the circumitance, and des-
cribed himself to be a Solicitor to the Sheriff: of
Lt n-
don and Middlesex ; is consequence of which he rb-
tained a Power of Attorney to transfer the stock. Mr.
Martin afterwards wrote a letter for die money, and
he was informed that Mr._Orme had left town for
Norfolk ; also that the money had been received, and
the balance plAced to Mr. Martin's account.
The Learned erjeant stated that his client had
not been able to obtain the money, and he was, there-
! fore, under the necessity of applying to the Court.—
The Court granted a Rule to shew cause.

THAMES-OFFICE.—YL tTday J. .13 01V.leS was fully
committed, charged with stealing '2'2 volumes of
Whitfield's Works from the shop of Mr. George,
bookseller, in Brick-lane.
Jane Afesenau, whose fate excited such interest and
public sympathy, at the Old Bailey, two years since,
when capitally convicted for stealing lace from her
employer, A milliner, in Berkeley-square, died sud-
denly at her lodgings in Castle-street, Oxford-market,
on Sunday morning. It will be remembered she
received the Royal clemency in consequence of extra-
ordinary interest having been made in her behalf;
but accumulated misfortunes had since reduced her to
the most extreme wretchedness ; her poverty had ren-
dered it necessary for her two children to crave sill-
tenance from the parish, and they were taken from
her on Saturday. The unfortunate woman stated her
conviction to a female friend before she went to bed
on Saturday night, that she should never rise again,
and the assertion was veritied, for Death had relieved
her miseries at two o'clock in the morning.. Yester-
day an inquest was held on the body, at Castle-street,
Oxford:market. It appeared, front the testimony of
Mary Churton, at. whose house the deceased lodged,
that she had given way to excessive inebriation. On
Saturday afternoon her two children were taken under
the care of the parish of St. `•Ltry-la-bonne, which
seemed much to distress her. She went out and return-
ed about eight o'clock, quite intoxicated. She went to
bed, sleeping with the witness, about 11 o'clock, but
at four in the morning was found dead in bed by the
witness. Other witnesses confirmed that the deceased
was constantly in the habit of inebriation. Surgeon
Morris opened the body of the deceased, to ascertain
the cause of her death ; and he had no doubt that
suck was occasioned by excessive drinking.—Verdict
Died I.y excessive drinking.