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. . . . COURT , KING'S BENCH, JULY it. ,
r -*at preparations acne *salting for -a review of the wool:wow:is v. NIOGRE. '
r:. I.lte•ment lit Light Dravions, at Hounslaver• This wag an a4tion of assault and false imprison-
'l.. '':: all' tab* place before the PRINCE REGENT, on Ment brought by a journeyman tailor, against a Cap-
r: •-s', ay- next:. the General Staff, and. the Staff of the rain of a South-Sea whaler, who, in walking along
:-,.t,.e District is iilattend en mite. Whitechapel with his wifc, one evening in January
inli.e detachment of the 55th Regiment, stationed last, had his pocket-picked. of his packet-book, and
Jamaica, was (by accounts received by the last seeing the plaintiff at hand, told. pin of Lis loss, and
TActet) reduced to forty.eight privates, sick and Well. requested hi„..doress. The defendant then invited
. A reduction in the veteran battalions has been the plaintiff intffa public-house in the neighbourhood,
mciitioned in the military circles, the proposed con- where Iv! cdferd ham two guineas, if he would give
mitt for clothing, now advertised, does not include hint his Ship's Register out of the pocket book, with-
tti. whole number. nut which he could not go so sea, and say no mire
yesterday se'nnight the Eastern Regiment cf For-
• . ithr'''t ti' rc6birY* 'l'he plaintiff persisted that he
Local Militia, commanded by I.,ieutenatit. I
,r i knew 1.,-tiling of the poc)cet-book : and the defendant
•C3ltines. T. MoLutox, were inspected !V I)
at ...rlntrose 14... fora constable, Who searched the plaintiff, and
;. .... Itmisis, who signified his entire approbation f frtn,d. upon him 01117 his own pocket-book, a tuck of
t•: are high state. of discipline to which that fine body Cards, and some silver. The delendant, nevertheless,
of Then had 'attained. had the plaintiff committed to the watch-hottse, and
The followii 0 is a letter from a gentleman belong- I the next morning (Thursday) he was brought before
lag us the:4 Medical S all of the Sixth Division of i the Rev. Mr. Ronsox, the Magistrate, thc.defendant
herd Weilington'r. Army : • 1 attending but was not able to swear CO pliintiff's
" June e.-1 he camp from whirb I trwwri7e, protected front ! identity,:iS the persun who had picked his pocket. Mr.
the scorching rays of an almst vertical sun by the umbrageous i Roasox,however, testilied,that from the circumstance
foiage a a large olive tree, is close span the village of ilediagon, i of the plaintiff's having been supping at a suspicious
one day's stare from Pennemienra. We arrivrdr..stceday morn- 1 house in the neighbourhood, with persons of whe•_.e
Ifs (fur we uniformly march A'S early as light enaiArsu4) and ex-' names he was ignorant, and fur ()titer private reasenc,
pitted to Lave proceeded at break of diy to Mentos, as directed he was induced to commit him to Clerkenwell Prison
io rte t.)re.e...a :a last slig4r. . ' • I till these circumstances could be enquired into, to be
.• idaiut two A; I to-day, the order arrived for us to halt' brought up for re-examination on Monday. He was
but how iorg we may remain, no one tan divine. Various reports accordingly. committed till then, when the defendant
at! now afloat, but it is generally billeved, that an immediate I! did not appear, and he was discharged for want of
crncentration of our forces wit be Made; after which, a grand i evidence. It was for the imprisonment from Wed-
rob upon ta:an;anca and Madrid Is the sappOsecl deign of Earl I nersdanight till Monday that the action was brought.
Weiliogton. • . , • I The defendant pleaded not guilty. -
" Gill, The Division marched this Morning at two A.M. to I On the part of the plaintiff, it was proved, that he
fs•icatioa, near wil' we lie encamped a this tone. We are of , was on his road home when he met tire def.ndant,
course going to join :be main body of the army, and in an likeli.; . and that his situation in life excited no suspicion that
hood with thevicw already stated conjecturally. • Ihe would be concerned in a felony. This evidence
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u :tis, "I his morning the division marched to Quadracies, one appealed to the Magistrate on the Wednesday
I ague beyond Sabugal, a distance of five leagues, and took up Its I The Saeicerort- GENERAL,' 011 behalf of the defen-
he.ley many was an
encampment in a wood of cb unit trees, affording an admirable
dant,
protect.,4 from the scorching k at. Near Sabugal we were in eye witness, when practicing
anecdote 'of
a fact, to whichng at the Old Bai
contact with the first division, who had been pursuing a nearly years ago. Sir Henry Russel, the present Chief Jus-
similar route.
. rice of India, (then Mr. Russel) came into Court one'
day,. and pointed out a man in the gallery, who had
" Bth, to-day we arrived at our encamping ground, about
ive have robbed him of his gold watch, on Hounslow Heath,
emanate from Albergarria, on the Spanish tronLer
few
just learned tLa
at Lord Wellington has, a few hours since. been
v.eii.d evenings before. The man was exceedingly
..esse a.,
and appeared indionant at being accus-
engaged in reviepting the 7th division on the neighbouring heights. ,
ed of such a crime ; but he. was addressed, 64 We
" litth, From ore issue of partieMar orders r. lazing to the tree- how
you,
Mr. Wentworth, you had better come
don of huts *lib boughs of trees, it Is pr-:aimed we shall remain , dovno;
beer did sit, and upon being searched, a wig,
elev. days; this will certainly afford a grateful respite from I
I WS,S ftlinti in his pocket. As he did not-wear a wig,
the inconceivable tatigueswie have been da.ly undergoing for so •
1 ibis circumstance excited stillminidlarbsyustphiecipolfaitnotitiha.se•
bog a period M time. .
" You have of course heard, that molting orders bav-s Pmdu zed in the defendant's
a
, pacrof cards; andMr.Wentworth said he was going
been i**444 to the sevesel Commanding °lc' of our rill' f to Botany Bay in, a short time, in the capacity of
meats. (Inc hundred Spaninds are speedily to be inraikd is . surgeon. He was dismissed with the assurance that
each British- battalion, Who are to receive the nine rations he would be watched home, and if he did not leave
and pay, as our own soldiers. Tits plan.is certainly excellent, ! town by the Saturday following, he would be sent in
ai doe Spanish character undoubtedly Is made up 4 ma"rie:e ; • Botany Bay in another capacity. He had not left the
111;04 calculated for the formation of a soldier; netking but Bet- i Court half an hour before a little boy in the gallery
slid ease:plow and British direction I. wanted, in order to enable : exclaimed, ,f My Lord, my Lord," and the husincss!
the SPantsb nation ace:llia:lY to assert her iddePendreee in the I of the Court was interrupted by his saying he had
bee of the Benetton. armies et Napoleon himself. kis certainly • found a gold watch on the ground, just where Mr.
matter of real regret, that so floe a race of people, enjoying too : Wentworth had been sitting. It proved to be Sir
um arivantage, of a most este Ikat climate ands highly fertile soil, Hen: y's property, and was doubtless dropped by'tba
abated have,ey the supine Indolence of their Government, been ! culprit, as soon as he had been accused of the robbery.
stsffered to tail lute its peesent state of ditradation and subjection, I Lord ELLINBOROUGII charged the Jtt: y, that what-,
But we sus} be allowed to hope fur a display of something like ever allowance they might make for the feelings of.
ereergy in this unfortunate race: if the Portuguese, who are as in- : haste with which a man made a charge against the 1
war in moral qualities to the Spaniards, as their cspntry is to : nearest person to him, upon discovering himself tube
Spain, can be Made to'act . with such prowess in the field, as to ' robbed, yet, that the defendant, after the search of
can e them to be taken for British soldiers, what may We not ex- I the plaintiff at the public-house, ought to have been
pest teem the adoption of the same 'means which gave rise to such . satisfied, and not to have committed him to the watch
eaatm,. of their character, with a mad people so jemßrpars.. ; house for.the night.' At any rate it was his duty to
bly suit:ler to than in every thing." I attend at the Magistrate's on the Monday morning,'
land not leave the plaintiff to be released how he
could, with no regard for his feelings. It was no
sufficient suspicion, at the holiday time of the year at
which this affair took place, that toe plaintiff haa a
pack of cards in his pocket, with which he might have
been amusing his friends at a leisure hour.
The Jury were from half-past three, till near eight'
o'clock, before they could agree to find a verdict for
the plaintiff of £5O.

GENERAL PfDLLIPPON AND LIEUENANT GARNIER.
—From the fall ming =Count it is much to be feared
that these .m n have effected their escape from the
kingdom. In consequence of directions -received
lei ni the Seciitary of State's Office, Wortley and;
Goff, officers of Union Hall, were on Friday dis- I
patched down the Rent.mid, to endeavour to inttr-
eel* the liigitives. The „officers. • n their iirrival at
Locksbottom-!.ate, in the Seveneaks-read, obtained I
. inforrnatif n a GentitinKres ctrriape, drawn by
four post horses, containing three Gentlemen within
side, and a WI VAIlt itt livery without, passed through ;
the gate on NVednesday last. From the description
of two of the Gentlemen, no doubt remained that
they w, re the'perrans of whom they were in pursuit. i•
Thiy traced them to Farnborough, where they slept
on Wednesday sight. and where the waiter stated,
that the two G, ntlemen in question kept much con.
cealed; from th 4 time of their arrival till their depar-
tine ; and, from the sheets of the bed In which one of
them slept being waiced with blood, it was conjec.
tuned he had been recently wounded. They repro.'
sewed theniselvetas coming from Birmingham. and
ping to Hastings ;
.and by the information of the
post boys who drove ihem,'the officers traced them
tilt( ugh Vvondgate, Lamberhurst, Stone Clonal,
and Newenclen. he boy who drove. them from
Newenden to Rye, stated that they reached the latter i
place on Thursday evening ; and on their arriving
at the entrance of the town, they got net of the car-
riage, and directed hint to drive to the Red Lion-inn,
and inform Mr. -Hughes, the lAndlord. that they went
coming ; he did so, and snon after lie saw them enter I
the Inn, and fro into a parlour, frrm which Mr.
}-I,:ghes pies,ntiy after came out. He did not see I
them any Mcre I, but the carriage remained there all
night, and n-et „snianing early left the Inn tinder the I
conduct of the servant, who came down all the way
with them. 'the (*.cni, on receiving this inform a.
tiop, went immeditgely to. Rye, where, they arrived
oo Satnrchty morning,; but on questicuing Mr.
Hughes, the landlord of the ltd Linn, he denied
having seen arty pet s,stis at all answering the descrip,
.tion of those nientirned by tl.e post-boy.• The officers
then applied to the Magistrates, and, accompanied
by Mr. Chatterton, agent to the TroaSlDort .Bond,;-
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coon v. tOLLLY.

This was an action of slander. The plaintiff Ras
an opulent tallow-chandler and cliin.trnati, residing
at Richmond, and the defendant a sadler, of the same
place. It appeared that the parties were walking
down Richmond-hill on the f recoon of the 22d of
NoveAther last, when the defendant abused the plain-
tiff in the most gross and opprobrious language, re-
peatedly charging him with Lein; a person addicted
to unnatural crimes, and with being a thief, and rob-
bing his (the defendant's) father of £4O. The words
as charged in the declaration were proved by two
witnessec, but were of a nature too gross and inde-
cent for repetition. It also appeared by one of these
witnesses, that-the defendant, at the time, was not,

drunk, but rather fro/i. He had also lately b...en a.
bankrupt.
Mr. PARKE, for the defendant, admitted that the 1
words, as proved, ivere'most gross and abominable ; I
bit. in erdet to entitle the plaintiff to damages,
should appear that the defendant meant to impute
the plaintiff some felonious or criminal offer ; ,
whereas it was evident they were spoken in a - 1
meat of irritation, and he never meant to impu 1
those words to the plaintiff as applicable to any sub- 1
staniive offenCe.
Lord ELLENBOROUGFI observed, that the words be-
ing proved, the plaintiff was entitled to some da-
rnages. Had they been applied like the hacknied
'phrases we every day heard in the motiths of coach-
men and persons of the lowest class, the case might
be different ; but the repetition of them so frequently
seemed as if the defendant meant something more
thin Mere abuie. It might be asked what damages
-theylthe Jury) would give against a man half drunk
as this defendant was repreiented to have been ?. but
all persons should know, that they ought to Jeep
their. tongues under restraint, and were not to calum.
niate their neighbours with impunity. The Jury,
under all the circumstances, would give the plaintiff
such moderate damages as they should think 'him
entitled to.—Verdict.for plaintiff.—Damages £lO.

•SAME V. THE SAME.
This was an action of assault between the same
:iie parties, and arising
sout
to f: the same
for the ptiarainntsction :
.ff, obser-
ved, that, in consequence of the damages in the for-
mer case, be _would not press this trial.

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pr..cecdcd to se.srch t to gremiteri of the Red Luca,
but ssidiout discoarritig those ti whom diet *ere in
asearch. Wortley thus. returned to, town, but GOT
traced the cartage:4lg truss-roadti; to Gruoinbridge,
rear Tunbridge, where discovettd it at a public-
ham,kept byAsl4 ect
.Huilltrf( e lie .
es'Esbirothreied. cos tools'
:e Theservant
e
lung. 'llls may probably servo as
so olio have :twisted theta.
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