Star.
London, England, 1801-08-21 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 20.

The price of Bread has fallen this week three
Affixes, and on Monday next is to fall five Affixes
more. Potatoes of the fineft quality are already
down to 3s. fid. per cwt. From the prefent aufpi-
cious harvea almotl finiflied, and the abundant pro-
duce, particularly of the latter article, every ne-
ceffary of life will in a few weeks be as reafonable
as they have been for many years pail.

The average price of oats laft Saturday, at Ken-
dal Market, was 455. the load ; but new oats were
fold at 405.—The load contains 74- Wincheacr
buthels; confequcntly, the laft quoted price was
equal to 16s. the Cumberland bufhel.
The prices of flour, at the fame market, were,—
Beft American ss. 6d.—fine rye 3s. Bd.—oatmeal
4s.—lndian meal 2s. Bd. per ftone of 161b.—Beef
was at 7d. mutton 6d. veal 41d. and lamb sd. per
lb.—Potatoes 6d for 141 b.
Thurfday fe'nnight new Wheat was fold in Ul-
verflon market, at 31. per load, and oats at 13s.
per bufhcl.—Old oats at 14s. 6d. and old Wheat
much lower than the preceding week.
The (Z2artern Loaf fells at Chelmsford for 15d.
—The Peck of Flour, 4s. 6d.

The following QEantity of Grain was lan week
imported into Hull :-451+ quarters of wheat ;
2857 of oats ; 305 of barley ; 4 of peafe ; 314 of
wheat flour ; 54 of rye flour ; to of Indian meal ;
and 122 tierces of rice.

At Shrewfbury Fair, on Tuefday and Wednef-
day fe'nnight, fheep and pigs fold high, as didialfo
horned cattle and good hones, of- which there
were not many. Lambs' wool 14d. per lb ; fleece
wool (being molly jobbers) from 16s. to 2IS. ;
better fort averaged from z6s. to 285. per flonc.—
Cheefe from 7.4.5. to 86s. per hundred.
On Wcdnefday laft a petty SelEon was held at
Chelmsford, for the purpofc of hearing the indi&-
ments of the weigher, lately appointed for Chelmf-
ford Hundred, who, on his infretion, found no
lefs than 76 millers, bakers, grocers, butchers, &c.
within the raid Hundred, in the habit of tiling
weights fliort of the ftandard, and "who not only
forfeited the fame, but were kverally fined for their
,carelefsnefs.

The prefTnt feafon, Pays a Cumberland Cor-
i refpondent, is in an equal Ilate of forwardnefs with
ithat of the year 1776, with ctif exception :—in the
fecond week of Auguft, there were Nine Graitney
Green Wedding:! It is however worthy of remark,
that a fudden rife of wheat, in Cockermouth mar-
iket, from fourteen fhillingr to feventeenjbilings and
_fix-
pence, the Cumberland bufhel, was confidered as a
phenomenon not to be accounted for but by large
orders for exportation to the Well Indies ! What
a change one quarter of a century has produced !

Lail week a goofeberry was plucked in the gar-
den of Mr. MILES CHESTER, at Calderbridge, the
circumference of which was four inches and a half
one way, and there inches and three quarters, the
other. It weighed two guineas and two feven-
fhilling to fourteen pennyweights
and eight grains !

Two living alligators were brought to Lancaf.
ter, laft week, in the (hip Lancaller, Captain
Wissow, from Savannah. They are young, and
healthy.

Among the veterans in the Commune of Tours,
there is faid to be one of the name of John Thurel,
who is 103 years of age. He was born in Bur-
gundy in September 1698. He entered into the
Regiment of Torraine in Sept. 1716, from which
time he ferved as a private, declining all promo-
tion. In 1735 he was wounded in the breaß by
a mulket ball at the liege of Kehl. At the battle
of Minden he received fix fable wounds. He had
three brothers killed at the battle of Fontenoy,
and a fon killed on the 12th of April, in America.
He ferved in all the Wars in Germany, Flanders,
and Holland. He enjoys a penfion of 600 livres.
His mother lived to 118, and one of his uncles to
130.

The' Rev. J. SKOTTLIWORTH, of Cowling-HiU,
Yorldhire, in a letter, dated Auguft to. Oki,
has addrefred for publication to B. D. PER ;ma s, of
Leicefter-fquare, London, the Patentee of the
Metallic Traaors, a long lift of cures by thofe In-
Rruments ; among which are, three of tooth-ach,
too chronic head-ache, two bums, a fevere fcald,
and feveral cafes of inflamed eves, one of which
follows :

" A Perfon bad for three years been much afilieted with a
rheum about one of her eyes. For ten days before the applied
tome, the eye 'tad been fo covered with a wch, that fiat could
not fee at all. Her Phyfician, who bad tiled a wadi, without
any benefit, feared the fight was Irrecoverably the could
neither aerp nor reit from the violence of the pain and inflam-
maion. 1 applied the Traetnrs thirty minutes, during which
the found great cafe, and loon after was enabled to fee. I ufed
them again only twice during the two following days, when the
eye wee well; the pain and inflammation being gone, and the
fight lettered."
On the tit of April was pubUated, by the Patentee, an entire
new Work, entitled " Cafes of ficeefsful Praftice with Pan-
ama's PATENT Ma tcTa•croaa,recalved fine January
saw, the date of the farmer publication, ke."priee t is. Sold by
johnfon, St. Paul's Church-yard, Louden.-0f the Patentee
it may be had grads, by aU who balm prechafed the Tradoes.
The Cures of Gout, Stbenmatifirs, Head-ach, Tooth-wit,
Sprains, /knifes, and all analogous Model of Hawks which art
!subtilised, are inmunerabk.

The Triion, fo no:diary in every Family. and among
Hodes, may be bad, genuine, with new and improved Area
Ups for u&g them, for Five Guineas the Set, of /I D. Pas-
tries, A. M. the Patentee, in the hook of the late John Hun-
ter, Surgeon, LeleefterAnare ; and of Frederic timith,
Chc-
odft and Dnissift, to the Haymartet. Landon. The portable
name of the Traders milers their conveyance by Conch, or
eves b 7 Poe, porfeder convenient. Letters Weight; abide
amount (polt-poid) *sly odonticei

pt—ig)
ing the was awake, and shcn he was gone out of
the room the got up and faaened her door, and
then contrived to awake her fellow fervant, who
flept in an adjoining room, who gave the alarm to
her mailer and milli-els. Mr. Jaques looked out
of the window, and called the watchman; the vil-
lains hearing the alarm, made their efcape over a
wall of the yard into an adjoining court, and car-
ried with them feveral articles of plate of confider.
able value. It is fuppofed they entered the houfe
by the one pair of flairs window.

On Tuefday night, or early on Wodnefday
morning, the houfe of L. PRIMA-1-, Efq. of Hilling
don, was broke open and robbed of plate, wear-
ing apparel, and other property, to a confiderable
amount, with which the robbers made their efcape.
The robbery is fuppofed to have been committed
by three men, who were feen in a chaife cart,
about three o'clock on Wednefday morning, com-
ing from Mr. PRIMAT'S houfe, towards London.
On Tuefday evening the houfe of Mr. Odlin, in ,
Church-flrect, Paradite-row, Rotherhitbe, was en-
tered and robbed of a very large trunk, containing
property to a very confiderable amount; likewife •
the whole of the cath and notes of which the gen-
tleman was poireffed.

Tucfday night Mr. Rendale, of Dean-Rreet,
Soho, had his pocket picked of bank notes to the
amount of upwards of Cool.

Wednefday morning, about four o'clock, a mid-
dle aged decent drifed man was difcovered in a
ditch, leading from Camberwell to Kennington, to
appearance almoll dead ; two labouring men go-
ing to work with force difficulty got him out of
the ditch, quite helplefs, and with other Alliance
they took him to the neareft public-houfe, where
in an hour he recovered, and Rated, that
having on Tuefday been at Camberwell fair, with
feveral acquaintance, and after fpending the even-
ing with them they feparated ; that he met with
a female, who pretended to know him, and would
accompany him home ; and going acrofs the
Gelds they were overtaken by a man, who de-
manded his money; on refuting to deliver he
WAS knocked down, when the woman affifted in
rifting his pockets of his (*dyer watch, and about
two guinea,, after which they threw him into a
ditch, where it is fuppofed he had been nearly three
hours.

Yefterday Yohn Filler was charged at Guildhall
with introducing himfelf to a lad carrying a bafket
of linen, value 301. in Fleet-Ilreet, sivir.g him
mo-
ney to fetch fume califs, and defirtng him to leave
the bafket in his care till his return, which the boy
readily agreed to. As fnon as the boy was gone
he was for making away from the place, but a gen-
tleman obferving the tranfitaion, and conceiving
him to be a fharper, flopped him till the boy's re-
turn, who declared he had never feen him before,
on which he was put into the care of a conflable.
He is fulpeeted to he the fame perfon who defraud-
ed a lad a few nights fince in Holborn of a boa,
containing wearing apparel. Upon both charges
he was fully committed for trial.
Various robberies having been committed on
the !hipping in the River, information was yefter.
day given before the Loan MAYOR, at the Manfion
Houfe, that eight hog(heads of fugar had been
flolen during the evening of Wednefday from the
fhip Mariner, lying at Frefb Wharf, Thames-flreet,
when his Lordfhip ;ailed fearch warrants, and from
the known vigilance of the City Martha!: the de-
predators will, it is hoped, be loon brought to con-
dign punifhment.
Ten carmen were fummoned for refufing to
load their carts with goods from the wharf of Mr.
Ogle. It Teems this prthice is become very com-
mon, to the great detriment of trade, as there car-
men will only load for particular perfons, and
thereby prevent the facility of bufinefs. His Lord-
fhip fined them each 35. and Paid if they were
brought up again he fhould be under the neceffity
of enlarging the fine.
Wednefday a man, almoll naked (fiippofed to
be deranged in his mind, and efcaped from con-
rinement),ge paraded through the City, breaking
feveral windows, and continued his way up Ho -
born into Hand.court, when he entered the Fea-
thers Tavern, got into the bar, and did confider.
able damage, by breaking windows, bowls, and
glades, and cut himfelf in a terrible manner; he
was at lafl properly fecnred, and conveyed to the
watch houfe.

Sunday fe'nnight, one Conti:retrials Ga,
a batter, was drowned whilft bathing in the
off Sandhall, near Ulverflon. His cries
heard for Tome time, but no aflitiance col

given. He was a very Ready young man, and
death is much lamented by his acquaintance.
Weilnefday LsR, a young man, of the nai
SCOTT, was drowned %shalt bathing in the
way Firth, oppoGte to Bownefs, Cumberland.

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RostEtY OF rat IJEWFS MAIS— aL.,evi,.ags,,ist- 1'
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longing to this mail were found iti a corn-sdd on i
Monday laff by lome reapers near the Iliot where
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the robbery was committed. The robbery was
cffe.fled on the 20th of July hill, and for which
,ffence two perfons, father and liin, have been ex. I
amined at Bow-flreet. The letters were opened,
and the notes of the Bank of England taken out. , ,
Country bank notes to the amount of upwards of
eight thoufand pounds were left behind. The
letters were in a very wet date, owing to the re-
peated rains that have fallen,and the length of , ;me t
they have lain in the fields. They were brought
yefterday to the Poll Office.
Early on Friday morning hit, the counting. ;.1
bottle of Meffrs. HIDE and lan, common brewers, If
at Cambridge, was broke into, and robbed of 221.
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in copper penny-pieces, fol. in gold and silver, and 1.
a tl. Bank of England Note.—A reward of 201.
has been offered for a dilcovery of the offender or .
offenders.
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A few nights fince the houfe of Mr. Jaques, or-
namental '
manufaiurer in Holborn, was broke
open : the villains packed up almofk every article 1;
of value that they could have conveniently carried
off, but were happily prevented by a fervant girl iti
in the houfe. She awoke and difeovered a man in
her room, lighting her candle with fome phofplio-
rus ; fhe law him take her gown with him ; the
fuppreffed her alarm enough to prevent him know. l

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coincidence of circurallances, two of the ancellor:
of the Defendant were witneires to the deed.
The deed was then read, by which it appeared;
that on the 16th of January, in the 4th* year uJ
Charles I. (1628), Henry Warner, of Little Cog-
gefhall, granted the elate to John Alliaon, to hold
to him and his heirs and affigns for ever.
Mc next produced a duplicate of the convey-
ance, under which Mr. Honeywood held his elite.
This deed was dated the 17th of January, 1628,
and was made between John Allifton, of Black
No ley, in Effex, of the one part, and Eliza] hih
Honeywood, of Mark's Hall, of the other pat ;
by which John Allan') furrendered, remifed, and
relealed, to laid Elizabeth, and her heirs, all his
came, right, title, &c. to Little Monk Wood, the
trill's of the fad way excelled.
This was the Plaintiff's cafe. '
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD addreffed the Jury. He
faid he prefented himfelf before them under thok
difadvantages which naturally arofe from his not
having had any great opportunity of difcufting the
queftion. He would venture to lay, that, its no
period of time, when Mr. Du Cane or hisathiifant had
been attempting to claim the property in this lane,
down to the prefent day, had they ever limped it
as they have now done: he was lure of it ; becaufe,
it being a cafe between refpedable men, as Mr. Ho-
neywo6cl and Mr. Du Cane both were, they might
eafily fuppofe that a queftion of this fort could not
arife, without a gentlemanly communication be-
tween them : and he was quite lure, that nobody
everheard, till to-day, the claim that Mr. Du Cane
had fet up. He faid, he did not wonder at their
not claimingmanorial rights--becaufe theway they
had put it to-day, totally deflroyed all conception
of this lane being part of the walle of the manor :
they knew perfeftly well that Great Monk Wood
and Little Monk Wood were once the property of
the Crown, as well as the manor of Coggethall.—
, They were all granted aidifferent times to different
people, as feveral and diftind eftates, and never as
part of the manor of Coggefhail. He begged the
Jury to confider the quetlion as it now Rood, and
the a,nfwer he was prepared to give to it, notwith-
(landing the unexpected shape in which they had
put it. The Learned Serjeant then Itated,that the"
proprietors of Monk Wood-lane, as appeared by the
deed they had juft read, were formerly tenants in
common. There were four perfons tenants in com-
mon, who afterwards made partition, and one Cy-
prian Warner became the owner ofthat partof Mon k-
Wood belonging to Mr. Du Cane.' Cyprian Warner
had granted to Allifton a part of Monk Wood, and
that fame Alliftonh ad fold to the predeceffors nfMr.
Honeywood's family another part, now belong.
ing to Mr. Filmer Honeywood ; but they had re-
ferred the profits of the Chaceway. Now, there-
fore, fay they, they have never been granted to
Mr. Honeyvrood. He then begged leave to make
this obfervation, that they had not thewn, nor
could they thew, that when Allifton fold to Mr.
Du Cane the part of the wood at the North end of
the Lane, he ever conveyed to Mr. Du Cane the
profits of the Chaceway. Say they, we will thew
that Allifton, under whom they claim, referred to
himfelf the profits of the Chaceway. Suppofe he
did, did he ever convey them to Mr. Du Cane ?
au esQ He has the title-deeds, and if thisChaceway, which
CAMM, t SQ, O. HOMITWOOD.
was referred by AUifton was cot:relied as the
• Mr. Gaaaow aid, this was between freehold dime of that illifton, under Cyprian
two gory refpeaable Gentlemen, the one Peter Du Warner, let them thew it. " But I defy them to
Cane, VI. and the other Filmer Honeywood, Eft do it. And why ?. Not becaufe I have hen the
to afgertain the right to. cut trees in a place whir deed, but becaufe, if they could, they would have
san(t probably fotneofthe Jury had feen ;he thon/ht proved it." This was a cafe where evidence of
be could, in' a very few minutes, put. his Lord (hip the %fon was evidence of the eight. When they
-and them in poifeffion of the whole of the cafe; it t in 1628, this land arastonveyed to Mr.
appeared to lint a cafe fo abfolutely without de- Du Cane, or rather the other part to Mr. Honey.
fence, that the ingenuity of man could not devife one. wood, referving the profits of the Lane, it is moll
The PlaintiE Was proprietor of the Manor called evident that they cannot !hew that they were ever
Great CoggeOsall Manor, and the Chaceway, or conveyed to Mr. Do Cane; if they could, they
Lane is queftion, was beyond all doubt within woultlhave produced the deed beyond all doubt.
that Manor. Upon this place wereowing fome It hid, that this Chaceway, and the timber upon
trees which had been felled Illy order of Mr.HoneY- the Lane, is not in Mr. Honeywood, but in Mr.
wood, arid the aftion was brought to try Whether Du Cane ; becaufe of the words, 4, the profits of
be had a right to cut them down or not? He might the Chaceway." The termprojt, the Learned Ser.
very well content himfelf by refting the claim of 'leant laid, he took to be an equivalent term. If
the plaintiff upon Ms title as Lord of the Manor ; land be conveyed, and all the profits thereof, it
he might fhew that it was part of the with of that will pats the foil ; it will pats every thing on that
Manor. He might infift on Mr. Du Cane's right foil. But the very deed they have read, manifefts
.to cut down there trees as Lord of the Manor, but that the diftinttion between profits of one fort and
Le wouldnotentanglehimfelf with manorialrightsr another is to be conftrued by the ufage that has
becaufe he claimed the place in queftion as' the taken place in confequence of it. Mr. Du Cane
lt'reehold Effete of Mr. Du Cane, granted to him has cut timber oppofite to his own ellatc t we all
by a conveyance, cotemporary with Mr. Honey- wee he his a right to it.. Upon alp fame princi.
wood's. }hying fuels a cafe as that, he fhould be pie, Mr. Haahary, Colonel Bullock` and Mr.Ho-
ani of the gm** idedu inJihe world to abandon n:ywood, lave a right, as belonging to their
it to go into the reflion of nnmorial rights. He elates, ors both fides the Lane. But bfr. Griggs
bad been told, his Learned Friends had not fcen his gone farther ; he 'rays, that two trees have
there deeds; he was inclined to believe it. for hed been carried to Du Cane's. That, is the only
they ken them, they certainly would not have ad- inNuice of Mr. Du Cane's touching thole trees, ex-
vifedtheir Client todefend this catch. Butit waste) cept thofe that lie parallel to his own hedge. His
be F. 41, that Mr. Honeywood had cut fame timber d Friend had faid that, seifea facie, this Lane
before in this chace :be it fo; it did not follow be- belonged to the Manor. He did not know M he-
roic aGentleman cut trees,whlch he had no right then in this County, or in this part of the County,
to, and his good natured neighbour did not guar- it Was fo underftood ; but he should conceive, that
rd with him abratt it, that the right was therefoie inlets the Lane were proved to have manorial
toneluded. He Rood there upon his Deed ; not rights, that the foil .loes not belong to the Lord of
indeed. in the vindieliee fpirit of Shylock, but as the Manor, brit to the owners of the foil on the
the "reprefentative of Mr. Da Cane, to claim a other fide the hedge. lie knew first in a County
right whiolt, no doubt. Mr. Honeywood thouftht oil the other fide. of the water (the County of
belonged 'to him. He would Thew an original Kent), the Lord of the Manor was not entitled to
grant, by a perfon whit was edaml owner of afithis the foil. But, he laid, we are relieved from the
Ellett, by which the grantor eiprefsly faid. he conlidcration of Maaorial Rights, becaufe
would give all the land on the right hand of the have thew,' they have none, and to what they have
Lane to tech a one,and all the Tana on the lei a right, he thould make an obfervation or two—
to filch a one, with the exclufion of the chace. King J tars-granted the woods, called Great and
Mr. **ant &WHIR° faidr he Was perfectly Little Monk Won-1., and dr pr?fitt Merry', mani-
fatisfied Mr. Honeywood had never teen any of fellly diftinguiihing between other profits that
theft deeds. might be deriv..il from the ground, and from the
foil. W lien pirtitina is made, they make parti•
John Stowers proved the cutting down the trees
by order of Mr. Hollywood. firm ca. Great and Little Monk Woods, rrki ring
. • the proms of the Chaceway. The profits do not
John Griggs, Efq. proved, that the Plaintiff
mean the timber, and all arifini, out of it, but
was lorwd.of the Manor of Great Coggekall ; and
meal thole profit •• s no. ,ncludesitinlhe
that about ten years ago, lie took away two trees,
There is a mandril dininditin between profits, as
which Colonel liullock had cut on the land.
including all the profits, and fornething, as dittin-
. Mr. Gakaow then put in a decd. to be read by guiflied between the herbage and /tannage, and fo
it was found among Mr.
the Affoci.rte, and raid, or.. If Mr. Du Cane lie entitled to thole timbers,
Do Cane's title deeds. He Rated, that Henry he is likewife entitled to all Colonel Bullock's,
Warner, by a deed-poll, dated srith of January, Lord Harewood's, ar.d Mr. Ilanbury's. lie iliotild
1628. conveyed the Lane, with all its profits, to prove that Mr. Griggs, when he marked the trees;
Mr. Do Cane's anceftcrs; and, that by an odd marked them as the frientrof Colonel Bullock, al-

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tliouttb he was the Steward 'of ti-o)tt Cane. M
Haubtiry has cut down trees (rim imtwt ctu
rial; 1., rd Harewaod•s people have cut down t7ec%.
and Mr. I limry wood cot down two: tress in
Lane, the (lumps of t, bids fume of the Gentle ono
had feen. Jury had taken a Viok ()lithe Lan.
upon the Defendant's application to the Conxtsfot
that purpofe.] He cut them and took that arch v.
It was a moft extraordinary thing, that Mt:. 0,1
Cane, who had looked over his own title deeds,
thould, whenall this happened to him from year
to year, now tel; you, that that refervation of the
'profits of the Lane, fltould give him :aright to hold
this Lane, and its profits, in exchtflon of all the
reft. What is it that is granted as to this Chace-
way called Monk Wood-lane ? 'num itiam venetian,
jacentem inter Great Monk Wood cind Little Monk
Wood. Though Great Monk Wood is oppolize,
Little Monk Wood is not, but (lands on the howl•
dary ola feparatefrethold eftate,which Mr. Honey,
wood derived from a different family, called Crow-
lands; and, therefore, when this Chaeeway was
granted, it was taken for granted, jacentem ;nor
Great Monk Wood, and Little Monk Wood; and,
therefore, he (hould put the cafe in this way, ad-
mitting, for a moment, that the (pot in quetlion
was jacentem inter Great Monk Wood and Little
Monk Wood, lying between the two ; even ad-
mitting that to be true, yet Hi the cafe, where
they cannot (hew that this grant has ever been ex-
tended
to themfelves; where they cannot find a'
tingle (lick has been taken by them, except thofe
two trees, which were conveyed to Mr. Pu Cane's;
when they cannot (hew that they have ever exer-
cited any right in this Lane, except their own cor-
ner, it does explain the exception in the grant to
be, not the timber, but thofe profits he had before
fpoken of. But if there had been a grant to Mr.
Du Cane, (till, he contended, that thii part of
Great Monk Wood Lane would not be the proper.
ty of Mr. Dtt Cane, but of the owner of the ad-
joining freehold, which is Mr. Honeywood, he
having purchafed the eftate called Crowlands.— I
He then tequefted the Jury to recoiled, that they
could not now turn him round, and fay, it belonged
to Mr. Du Cane, as Lord of the Manor. They
could not recover in this action, unlefs they con-
vinced them that the freehold of the fpot where
the trees were cut was in them, by (hewing fome
fpecific grant, or fome enjoyment amounting to:
an exclutive poireffion of this Lane. They had
(hewn it was not part of the manor by their own
eviJence, Then he would aik them, whofe , pro:
perty was it) The owner of the freehold, beyond,
all quellion. With refped to ufage, he Mould
prove to them, by feveral witneires, ;hat all the
trees had been cut down by the owners of the ad-
joining land, Colonel *Bullock, Lord Harewood,
and Mr. Hanbury. lie concluded by obferving,
that though this cafe had come upon him by, fur-
prife, he was perfuaded the Jury, by attending to
thefe circamtlances, would givie them confiderable
weight.
The Defendant's Counfel then examined a num-
her of witneffes; who clearly proved the fads ad-
verted to by the Learned Scrjeant.
It appeared in the courfe of the trial, that Mr.
Honeywood, the Defendant, had, previous to ,
the Affizes, received notice from the Plaintiff's,
Solicitor to produce the duplicates of the old deed
read in Court, which were 1n his poffellion.
Mr. GARROIV then eddreffed the Jury again, by
way of reply, at eonfiderable length. He.cqesclts•
ded by apologizing to them for taking up fo much
of their time, and telling them that the only quel
Lion was, whether the place in quellion was ;he
foil of Mr. Du Cane ?" It was Co in 1628, smd no
man could (hew he bad ever parted with it.

The Learned Judge then told the Jury, that the
queftion they had to try, was, whether the foil of'
Monk Wood Lane, and the trees growing upon
it, were the property of the Plaintiff? If they were
his property, then undoubtedly, he had a right to
the prefent a4tion. As to damages, he did not
fuppofe that the Gentlemen teounfel for the
Plaintiff) would'tbink much about them, if they
found a verdi& for the Plaintiff As it was a quef:
tion of right between the parties, nominal dama-
ges wool& he fufficient, and the caufe might end
with the fame good humour with which it had
been carried on. He then recapitulated the whole
of the evidence, and laid, it was for them to fay,
whether they had any ground upon which they
would feel thcmfelves warranted in laying, that
this vase la ever got into the poirctEon df the De-
fendant.

The Jury, in a few minutes, gave a verdid for
the Plaintiff'—Damages, 4os.

Charles Rudman, one of the four felons executed
on Tneiday fe'nnight, in front of Fifberton gaol,
fur fheep-flealing, a mfeffed to Mr. Waight, the
keeper of the gaol, that he had ftolen a great num-
ber of Iheep, calves, &c. It &mid. appear alto
that he had been concerned in deeds most enor-
monfly wicked; for he enquired of the turnkey if
he had ever heard of the murder of a fervant girl,
about two years fine, between Chippenham and
Col-11mm? (The yoUng woman alluded tti'vras fer-
vant to a farmer at Corfham ; had been at Chippen-
ham market with butter; and was returning with
the produce, about 18s. when fhe was rubbed and
murdered, fuppofed by men then working on the
canal, hnt every effort .to difcover the murderers
was fruitLfs.) The turnkey afked him if he wifh-
ed to unburden his mind; and Mr. Waight, on
learning what had paffed, flrenuoufly urged him
to do and to make all pallble reparation to fo.
ciety for the aft; but he laid the murder ins not
ciatimitted by him, but he knew who did it, and
he after wards peremptorily declined faying any
thing fai ther on the fubjeft. !font Bow, execute
at the fame time, for dealing a calf, eonfelted that
he had Bolen many !beep and calms, hgg eons-
mitted two burglaries, and one fikpid fObbery,
befides (leafing great quantities of poidity. That
lie had alto Rolm from Mr. Ferris of Devices, at
the ritfie of the fire there, a (dyer tankard, which
he'had fold for five guineas, to a tmdefman of re-
Venable appearance. • joins °dwell mid lrldaws
ge*, executed at the fame time, for &alit% 'a
wether (he* declared that they bid not been in
'habits'of ditionefiy, and that this 'was thrtiiire
offence.

. The two folletingpa(tpgr 4rt.ftc.en a
Paper :—" A. genlTZ•man irf the Corn Trade, who
rerides riot ip miles Frefiri K ghlep, aeled ;kaki,
,r,rcat graeqity to a poor hoy woo is employed ,„
:he Colliery of the Old Cock at Halifax. A
days ago, as this was tat. atc•:ry
ilhes from the grate of the kitchen fire, be fount;
a fcroll of paper, which, upon due examination,
proved to be a five guinea Pontefran note, and
bill of exelain:!e 1,,r one hundred pounds. 'lie
bill being drawn payable to,the above Clentlern:z,
be was immcdiatOy inrrirmcd of the difcovery, and
proving theia to be his property, had them re-
llnre•d to him, when, as a reward for the horsily
.1f lite boy, he very generodly gave him oftw.!•
" Flow ividely does this aft of genernfitv differ
from one which occurred in this town on Vircdnef.
day la It :—A poor man (of the name of Harland)
st ho lives at Woodhrittle Carr, had been ht the In-
tiimaryfor medical advice, and when returuing
by lialt Parade, he '`found wrapped up in a paper
parcel fixty pounds in call, which had been
dropped by a lady when flepping into her carriage
a few minutes before, and though it was much
lefs than the above fum, he received a reward of
five guineas, which was offered in hand bilis dill,
tributed the preading evening, and an additional
guinea as a gratuity."

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