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London, England, 1804-05-24 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY, MAY $3.
We ha*/ a good (apply of Wheat to day, with a number of
lifeeiday's ordinary (unlike, for which the demand It (mall.
and
prices lower; In prime temple, there Is little alteration; Dantsie
• yiSa. per quarter. Barley sod Matt continue at former prim.
Rye is fomrthing cheaper. Oats go off at • fawn inereafe in price.
le Peale and Dues little kkeration. Fine Ainerkao Floor 175. to
jig. per barrel.
GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER
Wheat. 165. 4th p* per qr. White Peale, ma. ots.
Ewe Ditto, yak yys. 6d. Bane, gEs. od.
B sew 641. Tick Ditto s6s. 331.
,sia 16s al. Oats, t;a WS 13s.
SSL 59*. 04. Poland ditto, 243- him*
Rapt Dom. 1; 361. 10 syl. pa. MIL
PRICE OP FLOUR.
Pins P 1 '391. to 435. Seems& 34a. to 391. par bet.
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH.
Bois ys to 61 6. I Pockets 61 co to yl
PRTCE of HAY and gr&AW in SMITHFIELD.
Meeker Hay, per Load, . 4 os. to I. os.
Clover - 135. to 51. zyt.
Memo, pm Load tl. 45.N0.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 13.
enmity, nib, V. sit. w. outgoes, sees.
lb. Eames Paid, he was Conde' for the Plaintiff.
Mr. Ainfley, fon of the late Sir Philip Ainfley, who
was koown to moil, if not all, of thole whom he now
had the honour of addreffing. Both he and the Ho.
pourable Clendemaii, the Defendant, were men of
molt nnrastaable probity, purity, refpedtability,
and worth; had alto the bleffing to be that which
ii 'train of qualities generally was, a man of
delicate fetifibility. He would not, as he ought not
to bear, and could not bear, any reproach upon hls
don; be was therefore obliged to do that
which murk be oppleafant to any man, and more to
Is- peoportimt as his feelings were acute, to crane
h.tfore the public to proted his reputation from an
attest *lade upon it by the Defendant, by a trafre-
predkatation, which, tome bow or other, took place;
bet trader which, front whatever caufe, the Plaintiff
Ma .ht not to At in Mesa ; for he owed to himfelf, to
his (Emily, and to his friends and acquaintance, a
Jury to vindicate his charade, a duty which ha
could not fleece; for if he fubmitted to this re.
, he could never enj9 any happinefs in life.
=lt& the calumny of which he now complained of
this Record, oink if not refuted, utterly deftroy his
itittadon.' The cireamflances of the cafe he ihonld
thWpreceed to open; but &It it was right he fhould
late, What all who heard him and who knew the
-ripittif'
r would took readily admit, that this Hon;
linisateancame into Court. not to obtain moody
as a ecinpaufation for the Injury wbiels. bad bear
elima to. his .character; money was not only no re.
Mar for fucti an evil as that of a flandeed repute-
's.* bat to the Plaintiff it was nothing; he crane
MED Court entirely and purely. and by his Advocate
Wow reclaimed it, for the vindication of his ho.
S.:it It was the Plaintirs honour, and his honour
that he now flood tlip for.
- . Gass Paid, that Mr. Ainfley had dineed his
/Awned Counfel, Mr. Easatar, to open this rank
jilt's, emild have been espeaed from inch an ho-
teutable clirmerr, by difavowing all dente to a&
St Maley as a compenfation, but merely to viniS.,
tate his chataeer. The Defendant, Sir W. Gibbons,
who fat by him, difklaisned all idea of perflaint in
*at which be had uttered spina the Plaintiff, which,
1111 r. Citing (aid, he would not alkdge, if he was dot
&well eotraneed of his client's, as be was of his
Zitsmihetnee in this cafe. Sir William Gibbons
tat dine him to Make this declaration there-
at , and then to rettaa iris ace, by flap
d tisk the Advocate exceeded his authority, or to
wiliffinttion between what the Advocate might
Iht tat *Client *fent to. The whole of this mat-
te had originated in a miliake. A Meffage had
• Wel fent to Sir 'W. Gibbons, which had been mZ
ihterpretednnd trafconftrned. He now defired it to
be unwed, that he believed the Plaintiff to be per-
'fatly free, not only from all imputation of the Cott
ansplaitted Odin this Aetion, but of every other that
could be 'Notions to his reputation. The Defendant
had ?Ordeal Mm to fay publicly, that he difavowed
aft intention of perfilling in any thing injurious to
the Pikintirs charatter ; and that he thought the
belt acquittal which the Plaintiff could have of fuch
an imputation. Sri well was Sir W. Gibbons, who
Crow fat by him, convinced of the propriety of what
was Paid in his behalf, that he defired the Plaintiff to
rake a verdia for any Cum or the whole Cum hated
in the declaration.
Lord E LLLLL (novo"; nbferved, that this entitle,
adopted on behalf of the Defendant, was very pro-
perly adopted. He trailed, it would be, for he
thought it ought to be, fatisfattory to the Honourable
Gentleman, whole character was Co grievoutly at-
tacked by the words which were on the Record, and
which. from ddicacr. the Counfel on both fides had
'ablaitted from opening. The Defendant had inftrue-
cd his Cotinfel to admit damages to the amount Rated
in the Declaration; but of which, by what had palled
in Court, it was probable there would be made no
vindictive ufe.
Mr. Easesaa raid, that his Client came into
Court to receive that which he had received, a full
.vindicaaion of his charafter, and he cared for no-
thing cite in this Caufe. Verdict for the Plaintiff.—
Nominal Damages Ten Thoufand Pounds i

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EGII•ID U. 11001.
1 ' This was an illettoll to recover 141. Isis. for work
done and performed for the Defendant. It appeared
the Defendant had employed the Plaintiff, who is a
*aver and gilder, to mount two ornamental figures,
710StfI Wenches ar.d poppy Rowers, bat not getting
the Nine completed within a reafonable time, the
Defendant ref it4.l to take the work when done.—
; There appearing to be a want of proper difpatch on
, the part of the Plaimiff, the Jary found a verdiet
for Me Defendant.
rot v. let.
This was an stains fnr a trefpars and affault. The
parties are brothers, and refide at Wapping. It ap-
peared they had quarrelled. and the Plaintiff had, in
eoedequence„ ereeed a partition to keep his brother
• •ii his premifes, they living neat door to each
!Mier. The Defendant knocked down the partition,
and in the fatale with the Plaintiff, pullied him againa
a mad of a veffel. It was in vain the Court advised a
reference. The Jury gave the Plaintiff One Shilling
damages.

nava,* O. tat Wt. Oti iteittere.
This was an anion upon a bail-bood, in which the
Plaintiff a►erred that the bail made default, and did
not bring in the body in time. A bail piece however
was produced, in which it appearing, that Kennet
had juftified by confent, before Mr. juilice Gloss,
the Plaintiff was nonfuited.
The Attorney who brought the anion, had origi-
nally been employed for Mr. Kennet, but afterwards
changed fides. Lord ELLENSOROUGH exprelfed his
difapprobation of the Attorney's conduit, and Paid,
the lets he heard of him in future the better.

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DOA, ON TNI DlMtat OT MGM', O. HAWAINS AND
Ovallf.
This was an ejeeament brought upon the title.—
The Plaintiff claimed a right to certain lands and
premifes demifed to him, as being fituate in the
hamlet of Mile End Newtown, in the parilh of Step.
fey ; the Defendants held the fame premifes for Tome
years pall, as tenants deriving under the pari(h of
Whitechapel. The queftion for the Jury was, To
which of the parifhes the premifes in queftion belong-
ed ? Several witnefies were called on the part of the
Plaintiff, moil of them very old men, who proved
that the premifes in queftion had always been confl-
dered as within the hamlet of Me End Newtown,
and parifh of Stepney that in perambulating that
parilh thofe premifes were always included ; and have
always, till within thefe tour or five years lall pall,
paid the land tat and poors rates to that parilh.
Mr. Glees, on the part of the Defendants, went
into a very long and arduous fiatensent, to prove
the premifes as belonging to the pat ills of White
Chapel ;—but failing to support his fiatement by
filificient evidence, the Jury found a verdia for the
Plaintiff.

COURT OF JUNO% BENCH, DUBLIN, MAY it

IItRACR OF PION'S& OF MARRO/MI.
FITZOIMALD v. HBV/ItSWORTN.--Yefterday, in
the King's Benet, a verdierfor scoot and 6d. cods,
was given for the plaintiff again(' the defendant.—
Few trials at Nih Prius have more engaged the pub.
lic attention, or excited an higher degree of intend;
and whether we confider the nature of the :pion,
the portion of time it occupied, or the celebrity of
at lead one of the parties, it was eminently calculated
to call forth much curiofity. The trial hated three
days, from Taefdry morning' till late on Tburfday
evening.
The Defendant is a young clergyman, who has
dyad as a preacher in mod of the churches of thit
metropolis within the lad five years, and whom his
admirers confider as foaftely inferior to Kirwan him-
felf. In the year 494. Mr. Hawkfworth, being
then io his twentieth-year, and on thepoint of taking
his degree in College, became attached to hgh
Fitzgerald, Ow war then Irately flatten. This
young lady was the daughter of a repeaable °Moor,
who had retired from the fervice with moth bossitS
but no great Owe of wealth, and bad died his rd.
dente in Calletown, a beentifetrillage in.the neigh.
bourbood of Monotrath, in. the Queen's Count/e..'
Mr. Hawkfworth foon gained her affettions, bur
dill he was sot Wilfred. as his father was Ss misty
to early marriages, and, of courfe. as insinedisto
ionises was impoifible. Time or accident, he appro.'
;headed, might defeat his hopes, or a parent's *tither
lit, amigo her to the arms of another. In his let:
.tares emigre, he urged her with all the ardour els
dead,. /over to toter into a Memo engagement as.
vet, to merry say but hiss ; and eo encourage her ter
make this vow, he called uppoon his Goo to forfeits
him when be forfook her. Unfit letters were reedit'
evidence; and though they exhibited no very finillr,
ed fpecimens of epitfalary elegancerthey heated. at
lead, to flow from the heart,,and were not ill adepts&
:to make an impreffion on a girl of (bocce : at lenipth
they made that, and thus the connenion continued
until the year iftoz.
ttleanwhile Mr. Hawkfworth had been ordained,
had become a popular preacher, and was much fol.
lowed. In January, sBos, he called on a Mrs.
Primer, a particular friend of Mifs Fitzgerald, and
After fume preliminary converfation, he told her he
was ready to fulfil his engagement with Mils Fitz-
gerald, it her friends would give her tood. and beg-
ged the would communicate his intentions to them.
—Mrs. Palmer delivered the meffage. A Coun-
cil of War was fummoned. Captain Fitzgerald,
the father, agreed to give four bendred poends ;
the wick, albs an old officer, agreed to girt two
hundred; and the brother to the young lady, who
was then ferving with his regiment in Malta, open
being written to, immediately promifed to add the
remaining aool. out of the honourable earnings of
his profefLon ; and though he was then aftually in
treaty far a Majority, he cheerfully poftponed hi.
own promotion to the happinefs of a beloved filler—
he did more, he came to Ireland to be a withal; of
that happintfs.
Hawkfworth firmed delighted with his arrival,
every thing was fettled, the wedding cloaths pre.
pared, a fpecial licence procured, and even the ring
purchafed. Mrs. Hawkfworth and young Captain
Fitzgerald went down to the country on Friday;-1
the next day, Saturday, was to be the happy day;—
when In I inftead of the bridegroom, a billet dour
was delivered to the company, at Caftletown, beg
ging to be escrifed, as he was obliged to go from
home on pecuniary bufinefs. From this period until
the anion was brought, the interval was filled with
cvafion ; the torch of love feemed completely ex.
tinguifhed. And the vifions of his early days to have
vanilbed for ever. The aftion was then brought,
and the verdin 25001. is commenfurate with his
I property.
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EaGLItN STATA LOTTERY.-1.2111 Day.—No.
15,322. a Prize of tosoeol.—No. 11415, a Prize ol
3001.—Noss 4054, 18.014, and 26,562, Prizes ol
saol.—Nos. 4.408, 12,312, 21,050 s 20,648. 20.469
21,763, and .26,3112, Prizes of tool.—Nos. 60.,(02
7494 7.845.15,38707411, and 24,145, Pt lees Sol
The Ticket M. 15,332, drawn yellerday a Prise
of Ten Thoufand Pounds, was fold at Medi'. Ha-
lAsn, 131110.1 t, and Ci's. Office, Royal Exchange,
in One Halt One uat ter, One Eighth, and Two
Sixteenth Shares, At their Office.—No. 19,338, a
Prize of 20,0001.-20,391, 50001.—No. 8515, 10001.
—18,85+, and 15.494, sool. each, in the prefent
Lnacv y, were all 1•.111 in 6hares. and 18,209, 20001.
awl 13,315, wool. in Whole Tickets.