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London, England, 1825-05-19 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY is.

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lIADWEN V. MENDIZABAL.
This was an action brought 'to recover the balance of
an account due to the plaintiff, who was a merchant,
carrying on business at Gibraltar. The defendant had
formerly resided at Cadiz, but was now a prisoner in
the King's Bench prison. The case possessed no other
remarkable feature than this, that the defendant had
been rendered unable to make good his payments by
the depression is Spanish Government Securities, of
which he was a considerable holder. The Jury gave a
verdict for the plaintiff for 2,2601. 16s. Sd. being the
full amount of the bill.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY lA.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BERGERAC.

This was an information filed by the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL, for the purpose of obtaining an order of
condemnation against forty-five casks of turpentine;
which had been imported by the defendant, without
paying the duty required on merchandize of that qua.,
14. The case for the Crown was conducted. by the
SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. CLARKE, and Mr. WALTON;
for the defendant, by Mr.havis and Mr. RICHARDS.
The facts were shortly these :—A number of casks
of turpentine had been imported by the defendant, who
is a merchant in that commodity ; the duty paid on
them was that usually paid on common turpentine. On
this species the proportion of pure oil of turpentine is
generally one in five, or one in six. When the turpen-
tine in question came to be tried, it was found to con-
tain pure oil in the proportion of one in three. The
duty having been paid as if it were of the former qua-
lity, whereas it was of the latter, it of course became
forfeited to the Crown.

Mr: JSRVIS contended, that the defendant had not
been fairly dealt with, when it was remembered he had
never been informed of the moment. when the Govern-
ment Officers thought proper to make the experiment,,
of the quality of the turpentine, in order to be present.
Besides, they had waited so long before they made the
trial, that it was impossible to form a fair opinion of
the original quality at the time of importation. Thus
he hoped it would be the opinion of the Jury that they
could not come to a conclusion in favour of the Crown,
whichmust have so ruinous an effect on the fortune of
his client.—The Jury, after a short consideration, re-
turned a verdict for the Crown.

RECORDER'S COURT, DUSLIN.—J. Womack, T.
Supple, and W. Suppk, were charged with having
grossly assaulted M. Gordon, a mister nailor, in
Gardiner-lane, at half-past seven o'clock, on the evening
of the 20th of October last. It appeared by the testi-
mony of the prosecutor and others, that five persons,
among whom were the prisoners at the bar, M'Cor-
mick acting as leader, entered his shop. They first cut
his (Gordon's) bellows, with a table knife, then knocked
him down with a tongs, with which they severely
wounded him on the head; some of them afterwaris
knelt on his breast, %%Mist others' beat him with sticks.
All this was done in a kind of solemn and premeditated
silence, by the combinators. The mother of Gordon
cried grit, " You have murdered my child," upon
whiich one of the pa;ty threw a hammer at her. The
Jury retired for a few minutes, and brought in a ver-
dict of guilty, anti' the RECORDER sentenced M'Cormick
to nine mootbs' imprisonment, and the two Sdpples to

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDIiALL.

Yesterday, a welt-dressed lad, aged.ls, of the name of Mathias
Morgan, was brought before Mr. Alderman Lucas, charged with
stealing a horse and chaise, value 601. the property of Mr. Sparrow,
the grocer, on Ludgate-hilt.
The prisoner bad run away from a boarding-school in Yorkshire,
about two months ago, carrying with hint a little pony, which the
kindnesi of his parents had placed at hi; disposal there. Ile rode
about the country till all the savings front his pocket money were
expended, and then sold his horse for 10/. and came up to London
in quest of adventures. Upon leaving the Bull and Mouth Inn-
yard, chance directed his steps to the " Equitable Register office,"
for hiring servants, in the Old Bailey ' an advertisement was in-
serted for hint in the newspapers ; Mr. Taylor, the surveyor, in
York-place, City-road, answered the advertisement ; a fellow was
sent with him from the office to impose on Mr. T. by stating he
was a- Liverpool merchant, and that the boy had lived in his service,
and eventually, though not in consequence of this false representa-
tion, the prisoner, who passed under the name of Arthur Morris,
'was engaged by Mr. Taylor, and continued with him until the
morning of the sth inst.
On this and the previous day, an advertisement appeared in some
of the Morning Papers. notifying that a horse and chaise was to be
disposed of, and might be seen at the Leaping bar Livery-stables,
in the Blackfriars-road. These were the property of Mr. Fre-
derick Sparrow, and the prisoner applied at that Gentleman's
counting-house, bout eleven o'clock, on the morning of the sth
instant, stating that he had seen the advertisement, and thought the
horse and chaise would just suit his brother-in-law, Mr. Taylor, of
York-place ; and among a variety of other questions, asked whether
he might not try the horse? Yes, certainly, replied Mr. Sparrow,
the hostler going with you. At the prisoner's request, Mr. Sparrow
wrote the price of the chaise, &c. on the back of one of his cards,
and with this the prisoner set off to the Leaping-bar, succeeded in
overcoming the scruples of Mr. Lindup, the keeper, as to letting
him have the horse and chaise out on trial. without a direct order
from Mr. Sparrow, or without sending somebody with them, and
rode away into Yorkshire ; giving the keeper of the Registry office
a friendly call in the way, borrowing his watch, and sending him
on a sort of fool's errand, to Mr. Taylor's, in the City-road.
On discovering his loss, and that the story the prisoner had told
him was entirely a fabrication, Sparrow first sent a Worship-
street officer in pursuit of our hero, who was at St. Alban's at the
same time with his pursuer, and even so close as to overhear him
making his inquiries. the officer, however, returned unsuccessful;
but Mr. Sparrow receiving information that the prisoner had been
offering the horse and chaise for sale, at Northampton, dispatched
Charles ilerdsfield, an active young officer, permanently attached
to this Justice Room, in search of them. This officer, by perse-
verance, succeeded in obtaining a trace; and, though the clue was
repeatedly broken for ten miles at a time, through the prisoner's
travelling in the night, and other devices, ie officer finally captured
him at a village a little beyond Sheffield, after a chace of upwards
of 200 miles, and brought him back to London, together with the
horse and chaise; the latter of which he had left in pledge for his
reckoning, at an Inn, on the road.—The depositions having been
read over to the prisoner,
Mr. Alderman Lucas, to give him an opportunity of acquainting
his friends with the very perilous situation in which he had placed
himself, and also that he might not be rendered ati incompetent
witness on a trial for fraud, at the present Old Bailey Sessions, de.
ferred committing him for the capital offence for a few days.

that on leaving England, he predicted that he had not to nine moutns- imprisonment, ano tne two O.J Elinci W ^
ii month to live. Though a revere disciplinarian, yet six months' eacb. • as
his dashing paftizan habits, his great disregard of The Worcester Journal says, " ComWnations are daily ~,
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danger, the brilliancy and caul of some of his military increasing, and tend very seriously to embarrass al- fa
movements (he is perhaps the only Officer who ever most every branch of trade. In the Birmingham' GJzette tt
performed the daring teat of charging cavalry, formed of Monday, a meeting of the manufacturers of that rti
.. i iii line, wi 11 inf,ntry). rendered him a great favourite town is called, ' for the purpose of considering their
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'i with the men under his command, who, of late, were present embarrassed and unprecedented situation, in
principally Irish. consequence of the existing combination among work- p
men.'—The master tailors of this city are advertising P'
Tuesday, Robert Joimson was- brought to Gnild-
tot hands, at an advance of wages (we believe 24;. per ‘`
hall, charged with having ft loniously ent-red the sugar-bakehouset:
' of Messrs. Sawn It., GELDART, and Co. in Lillie Carter-lane. An week), their present workmen requiring a larger ad n
accomplice of the prisoner, of the name of Joseph Hack, etitlea- !lance than they are willing to give.. At the Guildhall, B
. 'touring to escape by a chirmity. fell from a height of sixty feet into last week, Joshua Jones, a journeyman tailor, was ti
the cellar, and was so much irjared as to be unable to itttnil at the
committed by Mr. Alderman CARDEN, to the City
r office. Johnson was remanded. • •
Same day, Mary Anne Suidvan, the great rival in feats of- iiio- x
Bridewrll, for one month, for quitting his master, with „
'pose to the sot diming Lady BArrYmore• was brought to the Pollee out giving warning, and leaving his work in an un- p
i ogrcr. Mailborough-street. for breaking the windows of the work- finished state."
it ' ; 54,1414 e of St. Gitro's, and threatening Mr. -11riggs,•the Overseer. Shel 3
The journeymen belonging to the mills for thanufac- !'
( 1•, ii pi,,, committed to the strong rooin.-and ordered to eter Nile 'At
11p9pjjOldee of bad, to answer articles'of the peace, which will -el-be tuning of brown paper in the neighbourhood of Dur-
saaked agataat liar at the &ohms. ,ham, have struck for an advance of wages. .3
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