Star.
London, England, 1814-10-13 00:00:00

LEE v. GREEN.

Mr. -Nixes SMITH opposed the defendant upon
several grounds, but principally upon being out of
the Rules on the day of the review in the Park, and
for removing goods to the value of APO, which were
liable to a distress. The latter, he said, was a com-
plicated case of fraud, for, in order to blind the land-
rd, he got him to take a bill on one Mr. Chamber-
I :yne. who was not to be found, and in the mean
time, he removed his goods. This trick would not
serve his purpose ; for it was laid down in a book of
gord authority, fuller's Nisi Prius, that the right to
distrain for rent was not merged by taking a bill of
exchange, that being an inferior security ; and
thetetote when the bill was returned, the defendant
ought to have had the goods on his premises to answer
for the rent. _ _

The prisoner, upon being examined as to his sche-
dule, had admitted that he had removed his goods
on the 25th of April, and sold them for £3B ; but a
witness said he SAW two cart-loads of new furniture,
worth at least eGo.
Mr. Price, the landlord, said, that the deferidant
gave him a bill in payment for a quarter's rent and
King's taxes, and received a few pounds to make up
the balance. When it became due, no such person
was to be found, the house was empty, and the de-
fendant in pi Lon. He was himself collector of taxes,
and gave a receipt for the King's taxes.
Mr. Serjeant PALMER said, that he considered the
bill as a mere delusion, and no mergerof the debt for
rent, and as the landlord, if he distrained, must have
paid the King's taxes, he should allow the debt to be
excepted for the whole.

Last nip,ht a Coroner's Inquest eras held at the
Rese and Crown, Colville-court, Rathbone-place, be-
fore G. llouosos, Esq. on the body of Mr. Thomas
Patton, who Ina with his death on Tuesday after-
imon, in consequence of some rum taking fire whilst
be was racking it off. The only witness called was
J. Smith, a baker, residing at No. 2, Upper Rath-
botte.place, he had known the deceased about eight or
tine years, he kept the Duke of York, the corner of
Little Charlotte-street. Tuesday, about four o'clock
in the afternoon, witness was alarmed by the cry of
fire, and a little girl same out from the house of the
deceased, and beggedlim to go to her uncle's assis-
tance. Witness went down into the cellar and saw a
quantity 'of rum on fire—got some water and extin-
guished it; w hen he went into the beer cellar he saw
the deceased lying upon the floor apparently dead,
his clothes and part of his hair were on fire. Witness
grit a pail of water and threw over him, which extin-
guished the flames, and upon trying to turn the de-
ceased over touni him totally lifeless. Witness be-
lieved that the deceased was trying to compress the
pipe, to prevent the rapid flow, by which means it
burst, and the deceased having a candle in his hand
the spirit caught fire and suffocated him.—The Sur-
Aeon was of opinion that the deceased died from suf-
ti:catton.—Verdict, Accidental Death.

An Inquest was alto held on the body of John 1
Dran, at the Blue Posts, Monmouth-street, who
died suddenly after haying eatena very hearty supper.
Verdict, Died blithe Pititation of Goo.
Thursday, as JOIIN Battrox, a young man a native
of Bethers.len, in Kent, wasshooting in a wood there,
and not -being allowed to carry a gun, he endea-
voured to conceal it en the approach of some person,
when in thrusting it into the underwood for that pur-
pose, with the butt-end foremost, it went off, and
lodged the contents in Lis side, which caused his
deaih on the followingg, morning.
The Mr. GALS% whose printing-office was destroy.
ed at Wa4tiagton, was formerly the publisher of a
newspaper at Sheffield, in Yoikshire, the Shfidd
Beiiiier. He quitted Englaid ill 1794.