Star.
London, England, 1802-08-16 00:00:00

was a monied man, a velvet•merchant, fometimes
living in llafinghall-lireet, London, and at others
a Gentleman riding at l'itt's place, in the county
of Surrey, tiara:Bag and vexing his neigltbours.—
He the Learned Counfel) for
an AlFillant Camek:qer, and offers the man
he (hail approve a honk to live in free ofc x pence,
and Mr. Cunningham is the man on whom his
fancy lights. Ater being in the honk fome time,
a quantity of wood and potatoes is tent in for the
ufe of Mr. Cunningham's family which are not
meafured, becaufe Mr. Judwine's fervant does not
foppofe they are to be paid for, but that Mr. C.
is to have them for nothing ; and fo he was, faid
Mr. :Jarrow ; but Mr. Cunningham having reful-
ed to give evidence in favour of the Velvet-mer-
chant, who had affaulted another man's Game-
' keeper, this and two other ;talons were fangled
up againtl him. So much for the potatoes. The
next was Mrs. Itetford's bill of 81. for butcher's
meat, and a bill due to Mr. Griffin, the brewer,
which he had not that day gone for; hut the Jury
would remember that he fwnre Mr. Cunningham
is my debtor ;" and when they heard what he was
going to fay, they. would, like himfelf, he alto-
, nithed at his unparalleled audacity. Mr. Jud-
wine (continued Mr. Garrow) applied to there
men to arreft Mr. Cunningham fince the Affizes
began, or to permit him to pay the debt, and
to antedate the receipts. They refilled to
arrest Mr. Cunningham, obferving, with a feel-
ing that did them credit, that he was not a
man of means; that he had three aftions al-
ready to defend, and they had no defire to lock ,
hint up in a gaol. Thus it was, laid Mr. Garrow,
that this tormentor of the human race endeavoured
to fpread ruin, mifery, and defolation around
him. But why do I tell you ail this, but to thew
that this plaintiff is aftuated by fume malign pal.
lion, probably revenge, towards the defendant,
and that it is not his anxiety to obtain that jutlice
!• which is doe to every man that influences his con-
duel. The cak then is fhortly as follows :—" The
defendant has paid 15 guineas into Court, which
the plaintiff replies is not the whole of my de-
mand. It will be for you to fay what further
loin he is entitled to ? for my part, I cannot think
he has proved a farthing beyond that furn."
Baron MACDONALD expreffed his with that the
aftion had net proceeded, as, to fay the least of it,
wi affidavit haelbeen made in a very carelefs way,
d if wilfully done, might meet very ferinus
confequences. The cafe for the confederation of
the Jury was extremely limple ; fifteen guineas
had been paid into Court ; the fums further claim-
ed by the plaintiff were t 31. for potatoes, and 141.
expences attending an indiftment againft Mr.Cuit-
ningham for (hooting without a licence. As to
the latter, the Jury would remember that the de-
fendant was employed as affiltant gamekeeper, and
that in the exercife of that employ he had incur-
red the penalty. With raped to the potatoes
and wood, the white's himfelf thought they were
not to be charged, and indeed they appeared to
have been volunteered ; it would, hove ver, be for
them to fay, whether there was a fair buying or
• felling, or whether the aricics had not been volun-
tarily given, and that the charge was nothing more
than an after thought. He thould only add that the
expence of the indiftment mull be laid totally out
of the queflion, as it was not paid at that moment ;
• but it it had been, he thought that Mr. Judwine
was bound in honour to protect the man who had
been ftreuuous in the prefervation of his game,
having engaged him for that purple.
The Jury found a verdift fur the defendant.
THE SAME AGAINST THE SAME.

This was an action of Trefpafs. Mr. Serjeant
BEST vindicated the character of Mr. Judwine from
the attacks Mr. Garrow had made on it ; and ob-
ferved, that Mr. Cunningham, inttead of preferving
the game, was the greatett deftroyer of it; and, not
contented with what he &tilled himfelf, had
introduced his friends to do the fame, anclihad de-
Itroyed the young breed out of fpite, in conic-
(pence of which M. Judwine had difmiffed him,
and warned him off his manor; notwithitanding,
laid the Learned Counfel, he continued to fport,
and to do all the milchief his wicked mind fitg-
gelled to him. Whatever, therefore, might be
the character of Mr. Judwine, it was impoffible a
Jury could defend ,tich cantina by their verdict.
Evidence was then given of Mr. Cunningham's
having broke nine young plantation trees after he
had been warned off the manor. The killing of
game was previous.
Mr. ()ARROW faid it was a miferable cafe, and
proved that Mr Judwine's tall,: for law was never
to be fatiated. He had brought an action againfta
" farmer, for plucking and fmelling a clover flower,
which grew in one of his fields, and on that occa-
fion he got a farthing damages ; the Jury were to
1 confider how much more he was entitled to in the
prefent.
The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
ma„' 5 405.
There was another action againft Mr. Cunning-
ham, at the fuit of Mr. Judwine's Steward ; but
he contented to withdraw a Juror.

ORIGIN Or THE CORONres JURY IN ENGLAND.
—A Lady in London, after burying fix hufirands,
again became a wif.—they lived happily for many
months ; fhe declared herfelf particularly fo, as her
former partners had all difgufted her by lima-
nefs and infidelity. The hufband, to afccrtain his
wife's real chnraaer, affeaed intoxication and ab-
foice. Reproaches and even menaces were the
confequence. One evening, when he appeared
dad drunk, fhe produced a fmall leaden weight
from her gown fleeve, and having melted it, the
approached her hillhand, who counterfeited fleep,
iin order to pour it into hisear through a pipe. Con-
vinced of her wickednefs, he flirted up and feized
her, and ft:cured her till morning, when he con-
duaed her to a Magiftrate, and related her con
duet. The br,dies of her fix bufbands were dug up,
and upon chirurgical examination, it was dile°.
vered, that they had all died by the like means ;--
fhe was tried and executed. To this circumilance,
rays the relator (who is an old French author) is
England indebted for the ena&ing of the law,
. . . withelllt ten/.