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London, England, 1806-05-20 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP RING'S BENCH, MAY sp.
Robert Baker, an apprentice, and an impreffed
man, was brought up by Habeas. at the fuit of his
mailer, to be difeharged. The return made by the
Captain of his Majedy's Chip Pluto to the writ was,
G. that being duly authorifed to imprefi men under
a warrant from the Lords of the Admiralty, he had
impreffed the party above dated, who had afterwards
entered voluntarily into the fervice." It being ne-
ceffary, tinder the Al, that the party Ihould not
have voluntarily entered to entitle him to his dill
charge, the Court difcharged the Rule, and the man
was remanded.
Lord Et-mammon Paid, the mailer fhnuld have
applied in the &ft inflance to the Chief Judice of the
King's Bench, who was empowered, under a (Witte
paired in the reign of Henry VIII. to grant a Habra:
Corium, and to enforce the liberation of his appren-
tice. He hsd not done fo, and after the return
made, the Court had only one alternative, that of
remanding the man.

THI SING D. HttitY AWD JOHN BURTON, ISGIVI.
This was a conviOion upon an indiltment, chorg•
ing the defendants, maltliers, at Nuneaton, in War.
wickatire, with affaulting John Oliver, an Excite.
Officer, but not in the execution of his duty. The
defendants, father and fon, were brought up for
judgment. It appeared that Oliver had informed
againfi one of the defendants for wetting down malt
at en unteatonable time, and that as the two de-
fendants were leaving a corporation dinner at War.
wick, where they had drank pretty freely, they ob.
(erred Oliver (landing in the bar of the ma. An
altercation enfued, and the elder Burton bade the
younger drub him well, and obeying the commands
of his father, he beat him feverely. The next Court-
day, however, in the town, the defendants offered
Oliver 301. as a eompentation for his bruises, which
he refuted, and profecuted the defendants at the
alExes.
Lord Esssesolouen (kid, that as the defendants
had (hewn a difpofition to make an immediate atone.
went for what they had done, the Court would not
situ them feverely.
The defendants were then ordered to pay a fine of
251. and find fecurity fur their good behaviour fur
three years.
The Azroatrez Gentlest. made the ofual motion
for continuing recognizance* and motions of praaice,
till a late hour of the day, when the Term ended.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. HAY rso.

This morning Col. Thornton addreffed the Court
for about twenty minutes, ia infwer to the affidavits
of T. C. Burton, Efq. upon which a Rule had been
lately obtained by Serjeant Cocci,— The Colonel's
addrefs was delivered in a temperate manner, and he
received ;rut attention from the Court. His objea
in obtruding hirnfelf upon the notice of their Lord-
fhips, he raid, was, that the imputation of dilhonour.
able conduit, which had been call upon him, might
be removed, by a full invefligation by the art, of
the tranfaetions which Mr. Burton had thought proper
to complain of, and place in the light he had done.
So far from any chicanery having been praillifed by
the Colonel, to induce that gentleman to become the
pprchafer of the pieures, dogs, deer, bodes, Sec. which
be had enumerated in his affidavits, it was only at his
extreme folicitation, that he (Colonel Thornton) dif.
poled of them ; and the tale was not fecretly or clan-
deflinely managed, as had been charged, but was
made in the pretence of feversl gentlemen, who were
now ready to give evidence on the &Wed, and to
expele the calumny of the accutation For the ar-
ticles which were difpoted of to Mr. Burton, the Co-
lonel had been repeatedly offered much more confi.
derable turns than he had charged ; and, upon the
Court granting the inveßigation he now folicited, it
would be fees how widely different the truth of the
cafe waste the fiatement which had been preferred in
the affidavits, and who the really injured party wash
The Court ordered, that the cafe thould be refetred
to the. Prothonotary to invefligate and report upon.
GI. Thornton thanked their Lordthips, and retired. li
Gaaaow is confined to his honk in enure-
mum of an accident, which, however, we are happy,
is not likely to be attended with any faint's inconve-
nience. He was returning to town nn Saturday even-
ing on a fpirited young horfi, Waieh took fright at a
tiked cart which had broke down dote within the
Turnpike Gate at Hyde Park ; the pole of a carriage
flruck Mr. G. with great violence in his fide, and
threw him under the horte. Mr. G. is much bruited,
but has not any fever, and there is at prefent no
doubt that he will in a very short time be able to ap-
pear again in Wellminfler Hall.
Yefierday noon Sir Micm•ax Li Ftessrma, Bart.
had an interview with Vitenunt Howica, at the
Admiralty, and during the converfation fell down
faddenly and expired. Dr. HARIMS, the Firft Com-
mill-toner of the Tranfport Board, was called in on
the 4xcafion, but in vain. Sir Molest La FLessiso
was in the 53th year of his age ; has left a wife and
one daughter, who are at the family feat in Weft-
moreland, which county he has reprefented in Parlia-
ment fcr feveral years. The body was removed in
the afternoon from Lord Howice's private room to
rhat which is called the Captain's waiting room,
where it will remain till the Coroner has taken his
inqueft, which will be tome time this day.
Some of our fair Ladies of quality have been to
pundual in their attendance at Weßminfter Hall, that
thcy are become familiar with all the legal and Par-
liamentary jargon `the day. They now know what
is meant by kggins the motion: of courfe, and
mating the idea of an HONOU RAILS G • MAN I

An old writer fays, that the reafon why Manflaughter
is tlili retained in the law, when a woman is unhap-
pily killed, is, that our Legislators, when the Al was
palfed, did not fhppore, that any man would lift up
his hand againfl that kr he was born to proted.

On Wednefday fe'nnight, a ball of fire fell on a cot-
tage at Claverend Green, in the Forel of Dean, and
forced its way through the roof into the kitchen, where
T. Davis, the owner, and his wife and child were
fitting, but happily without doing any damage, al-
though a calk of gunpowder was in the fame room,
;ept for the Hie of the mine works in the

where it was ke
ft Iteft.