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London, England, 1815-05-02 00:00:00

FASHIONS FUR MAT.

WA I.IZING DR ass.—High dress, made in cambric muslin, with
deep full flounces richly worked; a deep falling frill round the
reek, to correspond. Pelisse open, with falling collar, composed
of green sarsnet, lined throughout with sarsnet of straw colour.
Eck:Pim: De ts s.—Pink satin frock, ornamented round the
bottom with a deep border of garnet yewer, headed with a fes-
toon of flowers; the body and sleeves trimmed with double rows
of while Satin.--.l:hermann', Repositcry.
At' no wt. trait W *LACING Da tss. —Half high dress of the finest
cambric or jaccoutt muslin, made tight to the shape behind, and
seamed up the back, round the arm bole, and under the arms
with narrow letting-in lace; the front is full, and is composed of
two by as pieces of muslin tightened in to the shape by a letting-in
Tate to correspond; the waist is very short; the dress is trimmed
round the bosom with a double kill of very fine lace put on as
full as possible. Over this is worn the Aegouleme spenser, made
either in peach blossom satin or white kerseyntere; the last,
though lute in the season. is much in estimation.
WAu s.isiG Ds tss.—High dress of very fine jacconet
with a very full body, formed to the shape by pieces at the
shoulders and up each side of the back. Long loose sleeve,
Coshed ac the wrist by a broad piece of work, and a trimming
of narrow lace ; the front is half high, with a rich lace frill
which falls back and displays a little of site neck. Over this
dress is worn the Angouleme pelisse, composed of pale town-
coluered sarsnet shot with white, and lined with white satinet,
open In front, su as to elisplay the under dress.—Lalirlleelsarmbler.

LAW IN742LLIG2NCE.

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COURT OF CHANCERY.
AGAR, PLAINTIFF, AND THE REGENT'S CANAL COMPANY,

DEFENDANTS.
In this case the plaintiff had filed his Bill in the,
Court of Chancery to retrain the defendants from
cutting through his land; but the CHANCELLOR de-
cided that point in favour of the defendants. The
plaintiff then called on the defendants to answer his
Bill, which they did, but the plaintiff excepted to that
answer as being insufficient, and that question was
argued on Wednesday last before the VICE-CHAN-
CELLOR, who allowed the plaintiff's exceptions, but
would not order the defendants to pay more than the
sum of £5, the deposit for costs in such cases. The
defendants must, therefore, according to the practice
of the Court, put in a further answer to the plain-
tiff's Bill.
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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 1.
RE.7C V. THE DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL moved for a Rule to spew
cause why a writ of Mandamus should not be direc-
ted to these defendants, commanding them to dispatch
certain orders to the Governor of Fort St. George, as
approved by the Commissioners of affairs of India.—
He did this under the 12th and 16th sections of the
Act of Parliament relating to the Company, which
was passed in the 33d year of the King ; the first of
which enacts, that after such orders and instructions
had been approved by the Board of Commissioners,
they should be dispatched without delay, and the se-
cond of which provided that the Board of Commis-
sioners should not have power to send any orders
which do not relate to the civil or military govern.
ment, or the territorial right or revenue of India, aad
if they shall send what the defendants think do not so
relate, his Majesty in Council shall decide whet:ter it
do or not. The object of this application was not tP
force the defendants to send the dispatches, but to
give them an opportunity of appealing to the Privy
Council, whether they are within the scope of their
exclusive control ? The defendants had declined to
send them unless it should be determined judici illy,
that they were precluded from exercising their discre-
tion, and had declared that they had no present inten-
tion of preferring a petition to the Privy Council upon
the subject, but reserved to themselves the power so
to do, if they should thereafter think it necessary.
The Court could not draw the question from the
Privy Council, and thought it better to grant a Rule
to 'hew cause why the defendants should not appeal
to that jurisdiction.
THE RING V. ISAAC MARSDEN.

Mr. Serjeant liEbT rnoved to arrest the judgment
in this cae. The defendant was convicted at the
last Assizes for the county of Essex, of a libil upon
William Smith, Esq. late Mayor of Colchester, in a
poetical work called .s The Guild." The indictment
charged the defendant with printing and publishing
a wicked and defamatory libel, but it did not allege
it to be of and concerning the prosecutor ; and this,
the Learned Serjeant contended, to be a sufficient
ground for arresting the judgment. The Court gran-
ted a Rule to shew cause.
usuza V. DANCZY.

In this case an action had been tried, in which the
plaintiff laid his damages at £1630. A verdict was
found for him, and the Jury gave 41685. After
trial an application was made to the Court for a re.
mitter, to reduce the damages £55, the excess given
above the damages laid in the declaration. In oppo-
sition to this Rule, it was contended by plaintiff, that
the application was not made in Term during which
the trial took place.
The Court now gave judgment, and in doing so
took occasion to state, that notwithstanding some
language had been used by Lord Coke on one occa-
sion, which seemed to throw a cloud of doubt on that
doctrine, that a plaintiff was not entitled to any larger
dam %es than those laid in the declaration, with re-
spect to the present application the Court were de.
cidedly of opinion, that they had the power of inter-
fering in this case, and reducing the verdict, although
the Term had passed before the application was
made. The Rule for the Remitter was therefore
made absolute.
JUDGMENTS.TIIE KING W. TWYNUAM.

The defendant had been convicted at the last As-
sizes for Devon of furnishing, in his character of con-
tractor for the supply of bread to the French prisoners
at Dartmoor, bread of an inferior quality to that spe-
cified in his contract, and was sentenced to be impri-
soned in Exeter gaol for six months.
R. Cool was also brought up to receive judgment,
having been convicted at the last Assizes for Corn-
wall, for lighting fires on the shore, for the purpose of
guarding smugglers from danger ; and was sentenced
to be imprisoned in the county gaol for two months.
W. Clark was brought up to receive the judgment
of the Court, convicted of a fraud upon the Revenue,
in having attempted to run a wetting of barley, pre.
paratory to its being made into malt.
The defendant was convicted at the Stafford As-
sizes, and having been already in prison two months,
he was sentenced to be imprisoned two months more.

Bow-snmer.—Yesterday Simons and Smith, two
well known characters, were committed for trial,
charged with committing a robbery, a few sights
since, between ten and eleven o'clock, in Bell-yard,
Temple Bar, by knocking down Mr. Eglinton of
Took's-court, Cursitor-street, and robbing bim of
his watch.

UNION HALL.—Yesterday two respectable trades-
men were ordered to find bail, upon a charge of having
disturbed the congregation assembled at Mr. Church's
Meeting-house, in Pearl-row, Southwark, by throwing
stones and pieces of glass bottles through the window
on Sunday evening last.
Tuesday last, between twe and three o'clock in the
afternoon, as Mr. Young, of Took's-court, Cursitor-
street, was travelling through Sydenham, he was
robbed by a single highwaynun, of his pocket-book
and some silver.

A few evenings since as G. Field was walking in
Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, he was knocked
down by four men, who robbed him of £9 in bank
notes, and afterwards stamped on his breast and left
him for dead. He was conveyed to a public house,
by some persons, who were passing soon after, and
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
A malicious but ineffectual attempt was made on
Saturday morning, to burn the extensive wood-yard
of Messrs. Mottley and Ellis, at Perim. Strict
search is waking for the incendiaries.