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COURT OF KING'S BENCH. FEBRUARY 26.
LYNN V. MASON.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff to re-
cover compensation for an injury he had sustained in
consequence of being thrown out of his gig by the des
fendant's misconduct. The plaintiff, who is a sbell-fish•
monger, and Deputy-chairman of the Gas Light Coma,
pony, was driving his wife in a gig along the Ham?
rpersmith-road on the evening of the Bth June last,
when they were met by the "defendant, who endea.
'rioted to drive his gig between their's and a waggon
that was passing at the time. The wheels, however, of
the two gigs coming in contact, the plaintiff and his
wife were thrown oat, and the former received a severe
wound on the foreheaa, which laid the belie bare, and
rendered him for several weeks unable to attend to
his business.
After the trial had proceeded some way, the defen•
dent offered to consent to a verdict of 601. which offer
was accepted by the plaintiff, aud the case terminated.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FEBRUARY 23.
IMIS.SHACILAIii. AND oilier's.
Mr. JSRVIS moved for, a rule to shew cause why a
writelextent issued against the goods and chattels of
two of the defendants, Wm. Shackell and Thos. Arrow-
smith, and upon which their goods were illegally seized
on the SI stAngust last, should not he set asidorthe object j
of this motion being to obtain the names of the persona
responsible for, the swot outrage. The defendants wets
proprietors of theJahrs Boil newspaper in 1821. In tbi
Michaelmas Term of that year, they were convicted of
a libel, and sentenced by the Court of King's Bench to
the ((Mowing pociishmeni :—Shackell and Arrowsmitio
to the payment of 5004 and Weaver to the payment of
1001. aud to be inept ironed in the King's Bench Prison
for the space of nine months, and to give security in
2501. each, for five years, and to be further imprisoned
till those fines ;werepaid and securities given. In Eater
Term, 18225. they having been again previously cone
victed of a libel, TAttaillg on. the condect of her late
Majesty, they were: senteecerl to the following puaishl.
merit-.—Sbeekelk Sad Weaver to the payment each of
fiueof.lool. %%Abe inoprisooed in the King's Bench Prison
for three months, .such imprisonment to commence from
the expiration of nine months, to which they had bees
sentenced for the first libel;
.and tbellefeolint Arrow.
smith to the. piyesot.uf, 300Iri but not to any impri•
sonmeor, hobeing what time oeriontly ill. The several
periods of imprisonment having expioe& and the fines
being regelarlyisaid, andthe secusities given, they were
liberated ; notwithstanding which; on- thoSl st August,
a period of one year and ten months after; Messrs.
Shackell and Arrowsmittistate,the officers of the Sheriffs
of London .entered into their premises and there seized
their goods and effects, under a writ of extent to levy
the sum of I;5001. that they apprised the officer. of the
fact that they had paid these sums of money, and also
stated that they could not get their Aischarge without
paying the money, bus the officer refused to quit, and
kept possession•of their effects, of coarse to the very,
great obotruttion of their business, Mr. ,Shackell being
a printer in a.gteat way of. bushier'. Mr. Jervis thee
stated certain irregulainies; the fine of 3001. upon Mr.
Arrow smith not having been returned in the estreat to
the Exchequer, the total fines of 1,3001, were returned
as monies paid, but not acknowledged as fines. The
Learned Gentleman therefore moved to set aside the
writ, in, order that the defendants might have their re,
Inedy at law against the trespassers.
The Constr. directed Mr. Jervis to take a rule to set
aside the writ, with service upon the Attorney-General,
the Solicitor of then easury, aud the principal of the office.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM..--It is a very extraordinary
thing, because the officer at. that office has the docu-,
meat before him,, which is to authorize him either to
. issue process or not; and that document, the estreat„,
states in fact that the, fines liadedreaslieheen_paid. •
THURSDAY. esnatraili 24.
The Aseoancy-GENERAL. appeared to shew cause
against the rule. The facts were, that Messrs. Shackell
ith hod lid their fines into the bands of
-r the Crown-office, and were
two years atter their
issued by the Sheriff against
-litril•d to give seeurity
It was to be regretted,
int an error had arisen
he object of Messrs.
get zed' ess for what
un the part of the per-
pass.
Sheriff was not before
they c.,uld decide upon
be better to enlarge the
:turney-General might
,ule enlarged.
COURT.
v. SHAW.
application from the
bstrall'of the City c f
dscide.upon the cow.
Shawr a provisi.m-mai.

ehateend pais initheisome *far John, Pettis/ endll
Co. for theineusEhis premises, which it battles. steces4
"Ayr to pall down, inconsequential the ertittiOlCClCAki
OM London. Bridge.
. The- CUMMON.SZILESANZ stated, that foe the pa
of rendering the. new London Budge comtioxtiously
accessible to the. immense traffic which would be cur
tied on iri.its estensive neighbourhood, it had Steen
found eapediont tc apply. to: the defendant for his pre-
ices, whicbsseele situate ea the Southwark side of the
Bridge. Although. Mr. Shaw's lease was to expire in a
year and three-quarters, and, he-was engaged in a whole-
sale business, which could- not be prejudiced by a re.
amid. from. one part oldie City to another, be had to-
jected the fair remuneration proposed by the Cityvand
.made a demand proportioned to• the los, of a retail
trade, and including good-will,, improvement, and re•
pairs, tv+ well as damage by removal, itc. It would be
.tor the Jury to take care of the public interests, which
were deeply concerned ia- the verdict,. and to give the
claimant no more thaws fair remuneration for the in-
jut ies he complained of having already sustained.
Mr. Rennie, the engineer, deposed, that for the pur-
pose of erecting the new bridge, it was necessary to
pull down Mr. Shaw's premises; and that a coffer-dam.
• d been made, but that although the approach to the,
whastwas moue difficult than before, its condition
by no means such as to cause a very serious obstruction.,
Mr. R. F. Newman, Comptroller atlas Bridge-house
Estates, and Solicitor to the London Bridge Committee,.
deposed that he called on Mr. Shaw, on tbe 29th St.p,
tember, notice having been previously left at the pre-
wises that they were required, and stated' o. him that
it would accommodate the Committee to have imnie:
diate possession, and that they wished to purchase as
once. Mr. Shaw did not give in the particulars of his
claim until the 14th of December, and then he demanded
£3,71185. witness offered £lOOO, to him in full of all
claims, with the er of the futures.

_lception
Voss, a lighterman, deposed, that since the erection
of the coffer•dam, a delay had taken place in getting
to the wharf with loaded vessels, but that still the wharf
was capable of being used for all its former purposes.
Witness was corroborated by another lighterman.
Mr. Guawat contended, that Mr. Shaw was entitled
to the whole of his demand, as the Act directed that as
liberal a remuneration should be given, as if no Act at
all existed for the erection of the Bridglose
Mr. Smithson, clerk to Mr. Shaw. d, that the
warehouses were most spacious and convenient, and
attended with advantages which were not to be found
elsewhere ; that the erection of the coffer-dais rendered
the navigation to the wharf dangerous—that no craft
bad been at the wharf for a considerable time—that
search had been made: after premises, but that none
adapted to Mr. Shaw's business could be found, and
that the wharfage, &c. produced, upon an average,
6001. skyear.
. Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Thompson described the pre.
ibises of Mr. Shaw as extremely valuable.
The COMMOM•SZRJRANT, in reply, said, that if such
a scale of recompense were adopted, every one whose
premises were to be removed would comedown upon
the City with enormous claims.
The Recoariaa having summed-up, the Jury retired
for a few minutes, and i curned a verdict, allowing to
Mr. Shaw the sum of 1,7521. in full of his claim, being
P. more than was offered by the City, and 1 S9i
h.= his claims. The freehold hadbeencompfomise. d.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEBRUARY *S. I
CEAMINIIIS v. GA SWIM R.—Daßiei &raw, slime;
tenant in the First Veteran Battalion, lately residing,*
elsea, but now a prisoner in the Marshalsea, was
opposed by Mr. Chambers, a baker, residing at Batter;
*a, for a debt originally Si. but increased by cone Jo
Is action to 151,—The object of the opposing creditor
s not to prevent the liberation of the insolvent
much as to obtain an order of the Court, that part

his half-pay, amounting tolBsl. per annum be stopped
for the purpose of paying his debts.—The insolvent
expressed a hope that the Court would not secede to
the application, of the creditor. as he had a large family,
and had-served his Majest,forsrgreat amber of years.
The ellitreollll4lSSlOViat said it wamid. ail° belfeel
hard if the-buker, who also bad alarge faa i y, should
lose the whole of his debt, which had been created by
supplying his (the insolvent's) large .family with bread
and flour, and decided that 2W. a-year should be de-
ducted from his pay, far the payment, of his debts..—
He was then discharged.

A return of the number of accounts of Agents
Paymasters has been printed, by order of thalousr of
Commons, by which it appears, that on the 25th Del.
cember, 1821, 23,770 accounts were unsettled,
which 834 were Regimental Annual Accounts pribt
to 1798, and 369 subsequent to that period; 832 uii
cellaneous, and 21,735 Paymasters' Accounts. Th
have been settled, between the 25th December, 1821
and the 19th rf February, 1825, 12,500 of these ar.4,
counts ; 11,270 accounts remain unsettled,. of whith
390 were prior to 1798; 185 are miscellaneous, and
10,956 are Paymasters' Accounts. •
At the sales in Markaane, every article of product
continues to advance rapidly in value, and . the specu-
lations entered into there are become not less were
and extensive than those in foreign securities, ana.4
the shares of the Mining Associatiois. Oue of tbs..=
remarkable instances of sudden rise in price ties
the article of mace, which advanced in a fel days frti—neJ
4s. 6d. to 235. the pound. • k L. •
A• man called George Cos it now in custady• is
Leeds, and has undergone examinations at .the Court-
house, on various charges of forging, or utiles ing forged •
bills of exchange. . .
A most distressing event happened" atAnightea
Common, on Wednesday. Two children of a widowen,
named Powles, the one five, and the other • three years
old, being left alone in the cottage by the woman en-•
trusted with the care of them Alla. the father war at
writ k, took some live embers from the •grate into an•
outhouse, in which was a quantity of straw, and see ii
bn flee.. One of them immediately ranging, and was
'not injured 2t all, •btst• the other perished. The build,
'lag was destroyed, and amongst its ruins was-found the
body of•the helpless little -victim; reduced • almost to a

. and Arrowsrnith had paid their fir
Ildr-Lushington. Master of the Ci
dischassed. Subsequently (nearly
discharge) fß•executissn.was issued
their property, and they were comb
for the full amountot their fines. 1
the Learned Gentleman said, tha
so i ewhere, and he supposed th
• S •.sckell and At loss smith was to
14 certAinly was not to hedefended u
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sons who had occasioned the ttepi
The COURT observed, that the
• the. Court, and thesefore, before the
the mails of the case, it would be
t rule till next Term, so that the Au
include that offices's tuitue,—kule
• Load MAYOR'S CI
TUR •CITT 4.ollDea
in consequence of . an
• London Bridge Committee,. in b
.• London. a Jay was sussursossiatin
4 iiensatioa to be granted to .Mn Sh