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London, England, 1815-03-22 00:00:00

ptIVIISR AND FOREIGN lIII3LE SOCIE'T'Y.

•
At a Special General Meetihg of this Society, held
Id the New London Tavern, Cheepside, March (;,
WILLIAM Wtutenroack, Esq. M. P. Vice-President,
in the Chair,
The fullowing.Resolutlons were unanimously adopted, viz.
The BRITISH and Poitziou Bins SOCIETY, par:lllpm hip in
the general sorrow occasioned by the dwelt of the Ire Henry
Thornton, Esq. M.P. discharge a muttrottil duty in expressing
their veneration for his memory, and their groin de for the
eminent services which, as Treasurer, lie ieildi.itii :u the ii:.
terests of this institution, from its cominencenieut i.ss the year
1804, to the period of his lamented dere& e. •
Sensible of the Importance of tlitrie duties whieJs a.tach to the
office thus painfully vacated, anti convinced, from their know.
ledge of his character, slid their experience of h s attach nett se
their object, that he will diseiarge them with It lel ty and zeal,
unanimously resolve, that Jo I N 1•:.,; be appointed
to succeed his late revered Uncle as .rk EiVula kit to these Institu-
tion, for the remainder of the cirrent year of the Skiery,
Wbile the British anti Foreigsi Bible 4ticiety bow with due still-
mission to that dispensation whiCh has iefl ctei :Ton rite:" so 42.
vere a loss, they desire to acknowledge at Ow s.tote time the
goodness of Pitoviocuc I. in directing them tt. tit Merl, of re-
pairing lt,with such itnammite, promptitude 3.1:1 real ,ratilac,ion,
The Britedi and Fofeign Bade :'ocitay canto* but regard it as
a circumstance peculiarly tav,mrah'•• to their 1111111360 U, that the
Office of T.-easurer should be permitted to remain in a comtie-
don from which it has deriv,d so much credit and advasiage ;
and devolve upon an individual, whose pa-t conduct has affortird
a pledge, that he will ecuutre the virtues aisnziatel wait his
name, and reflect that integrity, candour, an.l per..eeering phi-
lanthropy, of which his revered Predecessor and I:dative fur•
nished so illustrious an example.
lizuacted from the Minutes,
JOHN OW EN,
JOSF.PH HUGHES, Fecretaties.
C. F. A. STEIN1i0P1:1:,
N.B. Remittances may continue to be made to iVlessrs. Down,
Thornton and Co. as heretofore.

Bow STREET.—Yesterday a case came on to be
heard before Mr. NARES and Mr. BIRNIE, under a
charge against three of the navigation men employed
by the Regent's Canal Company, for a riot and violent
assault on some mem employed by Mi. Agar, the
barrister, on his grounds attached to his house, near
the Veterinary College, Camden Town. Mr. Agar
stated, that in the Act of Parliament passed for
making the Regent's Canal, there was a special
clause that the line of the Canal should not interfere
with his estate. He stated that the law held that the
assembling of any number of persons above three to
do an illegal act, constituted a riotous assembly.
• That on Monday morning the prisoners, with others,
to the number of about twenty, said to be employed
by the Regent Canal Company, came to his land
and forcibly knocked don l::s fence, and sane men
employed by him in protecting his property, had
been knocked dowa and viokntly assaulted. lie
submitted to the Magistrates, that no possession of
property could be taken b; force and violence, but
that it must be done in a legal nay, to nd in a due
course of law. Mr. Edwards, the Clerk of the Re-
gent's Canal Company, avowed that :he prisoners
and the rest of the n tvigators were employed by the
Company, and that they had acted on Mr. Agar's
lands as they had been order:d. In justification of
their conduct, lie contended that the Act of Parli i.
mint did not direct that the line uf the Canal should
clear or not interfere with Mr. Agar's estate. He
then stated the proctedii:gs in Chancery, am! that
they can-idered the distcissal of the injunction oh-
wined against them as a decision in their favour, and
establishing their rtlit to proceed with cutting
through Mr. .Agar', estate.—The Ma7isreatts nb
served that they had nothing to do with giving a legal
possession, or with the construction of the Act of
Parliament in the main question in dipate ; but that
they had jurisdiction over a forcible possetokiuit being
made. In this c lie, however, it was considerably
altered, by Mr. Agar stationing a number of men to
resist the other men, as if they had not been there no
tiot or assault would have taken place, they accord-
ingly discharged the prisoners. Mr. Agar dechned
his intention of bringing an action for damages, alai
desired to know by whose orders tfaq acted. Mr.
' Edwards informed him it wa; the act of thcCompany.