Star.
London, England, 1801-11-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT d? Kliki's IsEi4Cl4, lkler.t&
The firil three hours were taken up in :pdliTying
bail : and another half hour in hearing thistafes of
Infolyent Debtors, moll of whom were difeharged.
ii. he Mid til waka.
This was an information filed by the ArtiitOtr '
GtlikßAL againll the Defendant, Ibr Obilritting
an Officer of the Revenue in the due execution of
his duty. for which the Defendant was tried and
eonviaed at the hail Atilas for Kent. ,
The Art-comp' GIN ARAL prayed klie Pagnie:ni
oldie Court
The Cale was repotted; it Was glib tbok of the
following Defendants for the like offenkek, coms
mined in different parts of the, kikigdoia. :Sohn
Holden,
liollin Holding, Richard Hook,john
rtiStockes, antes Totherfield, RithOld Ph Ire;
Richard ay, John Hughes, aid 1 Hohnqk all
of whom, except one, were cot noon to re*-
gate, and ordered to be brought up to stile the
Judgment of the Court on Holiday.
KING AND DTHVIS O. WILLL • .
Mr. ERS KIDS ibewed 'wife agalnft a Rule Which
bad been obtained by Mr. Mesas., calling on
the Plaintiffs to thew tank why the Defendant
fitould not be difchatieed en filing Covunbti Bail,
on account of the Affidavit on which he is held
in bail, hating Slated him to be indebted to did
Plaintiffs John King, George Rocitfort, and George
Rogers, banters, in the rum of One Hundred and
Ten, LI ithout adding the, word Pounds.
Aker Mr. Ease iNE had fpolorn for the plaintiffs;
Mr. MINGAY (poke as follows :—" The Public
are interelled in what pares braids Caufe, even in
this Rage cf it. The affidavit is shade by a perfon
who deferibes hirrifelf to be the Clerk of this illuf-
Irian houfe, the Banking-houfe of hieffrs. John
King, George Rochfort. and George Rogers.—
He u the fame man who offered hitt:fell this day
ht this Court as bail for a Defendant who was ar-
retied, calling Madill 4 Gentleman,' but who did
not joilify.'.
Mr. Easettm" There is nothing of this be-
fore the Court : how it it poillble for us to anfwer
this?"
Mr. Justice Gaoss—" The deikription *as
very improper!'
Lord gstrroie.l4 It is pretty well he did not
elefcribe himfelf higher."
Mr. Mesoat—" I hope be will be higher.".—
Itsde shfulttte.
Mr. MARRIOT moved for a Writ of Habeas-
Corpus to be direfted to a Dr. Stephenfon, the
of a hoofs for the reception of infane per-
s at Newcaftle, direling him to bring up the
body of a perfon named
,toliph Rogers, who was '
in his cutody. He Rated that he moved this upon
the affidavit of a difeaided (errant of the Mad-
hook, which fisted that the perfon on whofe be-
half he moved was not a fit fltbjed for confinement.
He faid he had moved it before a Judge at Cham-
bers, wlio had directed that a Medical Surgeon
Should ink the patient, and he stinted to have his
certificate before he granted the Writ. They had
accordingly fent a medical man to make fuch en-
quiry, but he was deaied ateeft and the party re-
moved.
Mr. Peke La BLANC kid, he teeolleded the
application having been made to him, but he
thought there was tome degree of doubt in the af.
fidavit, which induced him to with that a Medical
Man Should vifit the patient and certify his opinion.
Lord Kawyoa reprobated the conduit of Dr.
Stegitenfoit in Milting the Patient, in order to fruf-
trate that being done which -ought to be done,
and to avoid anfwering to the writ. —lt mutt be'
the with of all to do that which was right, but be
recommended Mr. MAAP.IDT only to take a rule
to chew caufe in the first instance, as thereby juf-
tice might perhaps be done, without the trouble
and expence of bringing the man up all the way
from Newcaftle.—Rule Nig granted.

ADJOURNED GUILDHALL SESSIONS.
STIALING DIM) $OOlll.
Maim &area was indicted for Reeling a dead
body from a burying ground after interment.—
This indiftment was preferred at the expence of
the City of London, who had the Common Ser.
jeant, Mr. Silve4ber, and Mr. Knowls. for the pro-
fecutina. Mr. Gurney and Mr. Alley defended
the prifintes. The evidence againtt him was a
watchman in St. john's-fireet, who Rated his
hewing flopped this man on the night of the 23d
of April, carrying a load in a rack. Being inform-
ed he was going to St. Bartholomew lloipital, he
furpeard he had got what be (hould not, and fol.
lowed him tiU he came to Smithfield, and meeting
With another patrole, they examined the lack, un
which they found the corps of a full grown female,
feel ingly lately buried.
Upon siting him where he had brought it from ?
he laid he had it from a perfon of the name of
Peeke, a taylor, in Gray's-tun-lane, but althonys'n
he made every inquiry, could never find any Poch
man. Upon being crofs-examined by the Prifr ,neee
Counfel, he acknowledged that they curd(' not
And out what church-yard the body had co ,ne from,
or whether it was from a church-yard 'or not, nor
aid ewer sany•perfon corn* to claim 'the body, al-
though it was advatifcd by St. Se pujehree Para
inthe Newfp,per, and kept bT thew, five days be-
fore they burred the body again.
The Prifoner's Counfcl ufed tir e arguments ge-
nerally employed in fuch cafes i n behalf of their
Client.
The Reorients in fiimmirr
.4 up the evidence,
told the Jury that in law dr •re was not evidence
upon any of the three coma' is to conviet the prifo-
sicr, As they could only Pr' ire his having po—lreflion
of the body, which he ace „anted for, f„y,ng he had
it of the 'Taylor.
The Jury Pseiliteo in finding him gtulty, con-
trary to thg nisinkr .1 of the. Court, as they raid,
woon the kerma c mine in the mdi.f menr. of his,
having in hit 1" ohm a dead body taken from a
grotmd unknom• I •
Mr. Otitt r. v moied an nire ofiodgment, and
keittil come o p. to-Tnortew to reeervelus tomtit-
au7l4la- L'iis • 11** mee's aga:n to-morrow.