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LA 17 INTELLIGENCE.

GEORGE COLMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS OF
GARRICK AS AN ACTOR.

My fullest recollections of him, as a performer, are
in the characters of Abel Drugget, Benedict, Don Fe-
fix, Lasignan, and Richard the Third. An actor an-
per-eminent in such difficult characters (to say nothing of
Hamlet, Ledr, Kitely, Ranger, - and various others),
must have possessed most extraordinarx powers of the
very highest order •, and I shall remember him in them
' while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.'—
Ile did not quit the stage till I was nearly fourteen; and
I have shown how well I mast have been acquainted
with his featnres, hie manners, and his quirks and turns,
in private life, which made me more particularly into.
rested in observing him, when I had opportunities of ob-
serving him in public. I may venture, therefore, an
opinion (if my opinion be worth anything), formed upon
juvenile reminiscence. I have only, however, to repeat
what others have said a thousand times, that
Take him for all in all. •
I ne'er shall look upon his like again.
I have mentioned the uncommon brilliancy of his eye;
but he had the art of completely quenching its fire ; is in
his acting Sir Anthony Branville, a dramatic personage.
who talks passionately with the greatest sangfroid, and
whose language, op to his temperature, breathes
lame like Hecla in rcesedland. In this part, I have been
told, he made the twin stars which nature had stack in
his head look as dull as two coddled gooseberries.* But
his Deaf Man's eye (of which I once witnessed a speci-
men at Hampton) evinced his minuteness of observation
and gift of execution.
There is an expression in the eye of deaf personsil
mean of such as have not lost all perception of sound),
which, difficult as it may be to exhibit in mimicry, it is
still more difficult to define in writing; it consists of a
mixture of dulness and vivacity in the organs of vision
indicating a desire to hear all, with a pretending to hear
more than is actually heard, and a disappointment in hay-
ing lost much ; an embarrassed look, between intelligence
and something approaching to stupidity ; all this he con-
veyed admirably; and if I could convey it in words one
tithe as well, I should have made myself more intelligible.
On the whole, with all his superior art in pnurtraying
nature, it is to be lamented that he outraged her in one,
character, and that was his own ; he over acted the part
of Garrick; and it was very bad taste In him to be always
performing himself upon a carpet, as if he had been a
fictitious personage on the boards ; he converted his com-
panions into critics in the pit ; practised clap-traps upon
them ; and the row of lamps in front of the proscenium
was eternally under his nose.—Random Records.

• This character was not, I believe. generally understood, though
we are led to think otherwise by the Biographies Dransativa. Vide
this work under the article of The Discovery, a Comedy, by Mrs.
Frances Sheridan.

COURT OF CHANCERY. MAicu 24.
COOPER V. WILLY _

The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that in this case a motion had
been made some time ago for a receiver. The ease was of a novel
nature. The individual who held the office of asaistant •
tart' counsel, at a salary of 6001. a-year, had assigned tfftil=y
over to trustees, for the purpose of paying certain debts, and the
application to the court was, under these circumstances, for the ap-
pointment ors receiver of this 6001. a-year. The office of assistant
parliamentary counsel was not, properly speaking, an office. A
gentleman wu appointed to give advice as assistant parliamentary
counsel to the lords of the treasury on certain matters, for which he
was paid a sum of 6001. a-year; but he was liable to be discharged
at any moment, and the salary was piid out of fees. There was no
permanent fund out of which it was payable. Parliament voted an.
nually a certain sum applicable to legal services rendered to the'
lords of the treasury • and they allowed 6001. a-year to the indivi-
dual who sustained ;he character la question . No action amid
be maintained against the lords of the treasury, nor any suit in re-
sect of the same; therefore it was impossible for the court to ap-
.point the receiver as prayed. Were a receiver appointed the court
felt perfectly satisfied that the lords of the treasury would not pay
the money to him, but to the lndvidual whom they employed.

TEMBILIL V. 11101IC4SWE =EAT REGXOI4.

A gentleman behind the bar obtained leave to give notice of a
motion for Saturday next, to discharge a writ of tle meat regno
granted es-parse against the defendant by his lordship on the appli.
cation of the plaintiff.

IV RE PEMBERTON, • lI•XIRETTr-CONXITXZWT TO
YZWO•T Z.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied for the discharge of George
Ellis, who had been committed to Newgate by the 14th Hit of corn-
enissioners for not satisfactorily answering questions put to him by
the commissioner• respecting alleged concealment of the bankrupts'
property. The witness had been a shopman to the bankrupt, who
carried on the bushman; of a linen-draper; he had left that situ.
ation two years and a half ago, and entered into the same line of
business for himself; at the end of twelve months he became a
bankrupt, and subsequently went to assist his sister in keeping the
Eight Belle public-house at Fulham. Some of the goods of Pem-
berton had been sent (including an old horse and cart) to the pri-
Purer, who bad prevaricated very much rapes respecting the nature and
possession of them. The solidus admitted that the that
examination could not reasonably have been considered satisfactory,
but that on the whole the ultimate examination ought, and which
be submitted to the eoutt.
Mr. WAKEFIELD was on the same side.

The LORD CHANCILLOR considered, without bearing counsel
on the other side, that it was impossible to suppose that the pris
loner did not know much more about the transactions than he had
.slisclosed. lie had pursued, from beginning to end, a series of
falsehoods, out of which, from time to time, he had been driven.
The commissioners had done just what he elite led Chancellor)
would have done ; and the priaoner ought to be kept in prison until
be.bad given more information than he had yet done.
Remanded, with a recommendation to the commissioners to give
Win an opportunity of appearing before them moon again.
RROONDARIES' OFFICE, COLENAW.ITRIET, lilmicu 24.

LE PRINCE V. THIIILICRIZ.
This was a writ of inquiry for the assessment of damages In a
case in which the plaintiffsought the sum of WO!. for the tuition of
the defendant's children. The defendant had been discharged under
the insolvent act, and this action was brought in order to make
good a claim upon his pension as one of the mowers of Sandhurst
college.
WALLiturrow was for the plaintiff. The account had been
conning for a long time, and could be proved to be a most reason.
.able one, being at the rate of about a franc and a half an hour for
.Instruction in Latin, Greek, and mathematics. There was no written
contract hi evidence, but there were several letters from the defen.
slant, expressing great satisfaction at the progress of his children,
and proving clearly the claim of the tutor to liberal remuneration
for services rendered by him to the defendant's children, fur a period
of time extending from 1820 to 1828.
Monsieur Philip Francois Nelletnent, Vice-Consul of France in
Landon, proved the hand-writing of the defendaht in the letters.
which praised the exertions and talents of the plaintiff.
Manakin' Pierre Francois Merle. professor of French in the Uni.
Testily of London, proved that the charges of the plaintiff were
moderate.
• Dr. C. Hodgskin deposed, that the charge was most reasonable.
Me had studied in Paris, and be paid more for tuition than the de-
fondant had charged.
Mr. Coots was for the defence. The demand of one farthing
would appear to the jury to be a most extraordinary one, when they
should hear the account he had to Five of the facts. The plaintiff
had undertaken, from motives of affection to the children of the de.
Madam, in the first instance to educate them, and afterwards he had
accepted a sat at the dining table as a recompense for the services
he rendered. The whole of the account had been settled in France,
where M. Le Prince lived on the most intimate terms with, and at
the expense of, the family ; and it was particularly ungracious in
him to appeal to a °nun, of justice under such circumstances, and
when his friend was in palpable difficulties. The jury would, no
thnobt, distinguish this cause, by giving the smallest possible demo.
thination of damages.
Ladislaus Iffdllerie, son of the defendant. deposed, that the plain.
toff inetrected him and his brother, in 1820 and 1821, at Versailles,
wbo was in very delicate health
There they. lived with their mother,
and embarrassed circurnstanca. The plaintiff said to him at one
thate,.when reproaching him with inattention, " Hew ungrateful
yon are not to mind what I say when you know am sacrificing my
time without remuneration to you." II itnese's mother died in April,
WM and in Nay his father arrived at Versailles. The plaintiff
was writing down a list of hit father's creditors, and the defendant

'desired the plaintiff to pay himself same money which had been
borrowed from him, and. if any thing was due foe instruction to wit.
nese and his brother he (plaintiff) should be paid by instalments
with the rest of the aeditots. At hearing this the plaintiff ap.
peered quite shocked, and declared that an lts bed done had been
done from a motive of serving them, and was quite disinterested.
The defendant then put a gold watch and chain into the plaintiff's
hand, and said, " Dear Le Prince, allow me to offer you the only
article of value that reuudna of her we ham lost ;" upon which the
plaintiff sprang up, embraced him and his brother, and said he
:would not accept of any thing except a few trifles of their mother's.
(Here a letter was read which witness raid was in the plaintiff's
hand-writing. It stated that all he had done was done without the
.remotest desire of a return.) Plaintiff dined with the family con-
stantly.
Cross-examined—The plaintiff attended his brother from 1820
till 11126. Witness's instructions were not so regular. Ho learned
mathematics and spherical trigonometry.
After some further evidence of minor importance,
Mr. WALLINGTON addressed the jury. He ridiculed the idea
of a tutor's giving up hie time for six years, in consequence of the
violence of his attachment to two strangers, foe nothing. This was
too strange a story for Englishmen to believe, whatever credit the
French might consider it entitled to. The use of the table was,
next to the attachment, an odd sort of remuneration. As for the
circumstance of the watch, and the language used on that occasion,
was it because he had the delicacy not to make a demand of a debt
• while the corpse of his debtor's wife was in the house that
he ins to be considered as having thrust away his claim ? The
fact was clear that the plaintiff expected either money or a si-
tuation through the interest of the defendant, and not having ob.
tamed the latter* he naturally sought the formes for his six years'
service.

Mr. POTTIM the under secondary, lusting My clearly and itn.
partiall summed up,
The Jury awl the damages at One Farthing.

LENT ASSIZES.
SUSSICX ASSIZEIS.--17-IHSHAM, MARCH 24.
_ _ roar-orricz 10111ZRY. _

Join Haden, a schoolmaster, stood charged under the Post-dies
Act with secreting a letter, containing a 101. Bank of England note,
the of Samuel John Williams.
r. Hunwsi and the Hon. Me. Law appeared for the prosecu.
ties, and Mr. CLAMMY for the defence.
Mr. Jobe Redfer, the Brighton Postmaster, proved that the pri-
Pfeet was in his employ on the 24th September last. It was the
duty of the prisoner to receive and give out letters at the post-office
window. Prisoner left the post-office service on the 26th of Septem.
ben ; he did not leave on account of misconduct.
The prosecutor stated that he was at Brighton on the 24th of
September last, and wishing to send a remittance to his wife, he
enclosed a Bank of England note, No. 8489, for 101. in a letter
which he took tQ. the post.office. The prisoner took the letter
in at the posuotke, and was informed by prosseutor that it
contained a 101. note. The prisoner said be did not think it could
be received as a cash letter. Witness then desired that be would
Rive him the letter back in order that he might put a shilling
Irate it and thereby make It a money letter. Prisoner afterwards
looked into the letter, and said it was "all right." Witness
then paid the postage of the letter and it was marked with the
letter P. (The note was here ptoduced sad identified by the
prosecutor.)
made up
a clerk in the post-office, Brighton, proved that
be made up the London bag on the 24th September ; there was no
money letter for a Mrs. Williams entered on the bill.
Cross-examined.—if a letter marked" cash" is found to contain a
101. note, then it is put up with the other double letters. Witness
cannot in that ease say wnether a letter was sent to London or not.
There have been three or four disturbances on the subject of money
at the Brighton post-office; a clerk in the office was found to bel
201. short in his account.
David King, of Brighton, stated that he was at the King sad
Queen public-house, Brighton, on the evening of the 24th of Sep-
tember. Prisoner came in and asked the landlord to change him a
101. note for Mr. Harris. On being required to endorse the note he
wrote the name of Harris, and added the initials J. H. Witness
identified the note.

Hauge Ruthven, a Bow-street officer, said he apprehended the
prisoner at Dover on the 25th February last ; the Osoner was in a
boat just landing from the French mail packet.
This witness underwent a severe crose-esamination by Mr.
Ctanesorr. He admitted having written a letter to the prisoner
in an assumed name, to procure his return to England.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he gave a Mr. Harris change
foe the note in question, at the post-office; and in order to prevent
any blame falling on him for so doing (it being contrary to the
post.olliqe regulations), he had taken the earliest opportunity *-
change doe note again, and replace the money in the post.offiat dli.
He dented having received any letter from Mr. Williams on the
Setttember. •
Seven 4 ihntiedis give the prisoner a good character foe ho.
natty: itlinit deo stated that he had a wife and six children to
suppoet.
The Jury hand the prisoner Guilty, and sentence of death was
recorded. •

Riatard Measor was capitally indicted for stealing thirty gold,
silver, and metal watches, seven gold seals, and other property, to
the value of 1301. from the shop of his master, R. M. Lashmore,
of Brighton.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and the Judge ordered sentence
of death to be recorded.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 24,

Mike Powell, a dairyman, late of Bennington, was opposed by
Mr. COOKE on behalf of a creditor named Biggs.
It appeared that the insolvent, while labouring under embarrass.
meets, in October last, gave his sister.in-law, Mrs. Fisher a war.
rant of attorney for money which he bad long previously borrowed
of her. Under that warrant of attorney Mrs. Fisher took possession
of all the insolvent's cows, household furniture, &c. but for the
purpose of enabling the insolvent's wife and children to support
themselves (the insolvent himself being in prison), she allowed the
cows, furniture, &c. to remain on the premises, and to permit the
business to be carried on. However, during the insolvent's impel.
sonment, all the property was gradually disposed of, and nothing
now remained for any of the other creditors, some of those cows; so
disposed of, having ban supplied to the insolvent by the present
opposing creditor.
Mr. Woonnorra, for the insolvent. submitted that nothhig
had been substantiated to warrant a remand ; that the power ot
attorney was given for a bona fide debt of 1401. and that Mrs.
Fisher's permitting the property to remain for a time upon the
premises, was merely an act of kindness, and to enable her sister to
provide for her family.
On behalf of the opposing creditor the Court were prayed to
dismiss the petition, the circumstances under which the warrant of
attorney was given having been omitted from the in eolvent's pe.
tition ; at all events, it was a clear fraudulent disposition of
party, to a very considerable amount, at a time when he was in a
state of insolvency.
Mr. Commissioner LAW observed, that he bad no doubt that
Mrs. Fisher thought she was only doing dist in which she was jus-
tified, for the purpose of securing her own debt; at the same time,
as far as the insolvent was concerned, he had no right, at that par.
Sailer time, to do an act which gave all his property to one partial.
Jar creditor, excluding the general body of creditors from any pard.
cipstion in the property. It was a clear case of an undoeprefessnee,
and therefore the judgment of the Court was, that the insolvent be
remanded for a paled of seven calendar months from the date et
tiling his petition.
Jacob /friseerd Joseph was opposed by a creditor in person, named'
David levy.
After the examination of the insolvent had concluded,
Mr. Commissioner Law said, there was a number of small mat.
tens in this insolvent's case, which placed him in a situation much
to bis discredit. His property was but small, and his dealings were
but on a small scale; but it appeared that he had paid a sum of
money shortly before going to prison which ought to have been paid
into Court for his creditors generally. The judgment of the Court
was, that he be remanded for a period of four calendar months gem
the date of filing his petition.
William Read, a tally-man in the linen-drapery line. was op-
po.. by Mr. Nicsior.t.s, on behalf of Mr. Simpson, and Messrs.
Buuerworth and Brooks.

The insolvent stated that his debts exceeded 460!., and there was
owing 1,04 W. from no fewer than 948 persons. He was a licensed
hawker, and used to sell his goods about the country. receiving his
payments by weekly instalments. lie went to prison on the 30th
of January, a short time before which he delegated a person named
Nivea to go round and collect his weekly payments. He knew that
Niven had received various sums, but he never inquired how
much, because he understood it was unlawful for him (insolvent)
to receive any of his debts after he had eone to prison, cense-
greatly he bad received nothing from Nivea. The insolvent
said, he recollected when a brother tallyman, named Irving, was
examined in this Court on his petition, in February last, on which
occasion this insolvent was brought up from prison to be examined
as a witness. He denied that on that occasion he said all the fur.
'dwelt) his house was his own; indeed, he could not say so, be.
Cause it belonged to Ur. 31`Duff, who bad previously compromised
with his eredilort. lie admitted that he had frequently represented
all the furniture to be his, but that was false.
Several feluales were called who had purchasid pods of the in-
polvent,tor which they were to pay by weekly instalments. Up to
January 11, they paid their instalments to the insole/at, wed ever
since then they had paid them to a person named Niven.
James Simpson. the opposink creditor. stated, that the insolvent
owed him OW. for debts which he had guaranteed fur the insol-

Tem. In January, he 'fished the insolvent to sedge all his fur.
Mime (which he always repratented as his owh) sod his book debts,
for the benefit of his mallows genandly the ineuhant refused, and
stated then, faith*. fuse dine, that the furniture was not his, having
sold it to broker. As he refused to make an assignment, the
witness enema.' indolvent, and on the follairing day he saw a
cart.leod of imeaftute taken from the insolvent's home to the red.
dame of Mr. almiseen, No. 980, Regentameet, whose daughter was
Irving's sweetheart.
Cross.examinei by Mr. Comm.—The insolvent had bought all
the witness's boskAshOssfor OIL In October, 1828 t witness had
previously height: its iselrent's book.debts. When he wished
the insolvent m assign ell his property, it was he the purpose of
dividing it arum the creditors, though he admitted that there were
many credit m whom he hid not previously consulted.
James Niven stated, that since the insolvent's imprisonment he
had received on his account various instalments from diferent per.
sons to the amount of • 41.• 4s. 6d., which he now handed in to the
court.
Other evidence was mil, and the ease was ordered to stand ad.
jaunted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

OUILDHALL.

Mr. Stanton and Mr. Sege, two livery-stablo.kespers. attended
on summonses for conspiring to defraud Mr. George Salter, of Clap.
ham, of a horse, value ISO/.
Mr. Salter went to Smithfield last Friday to buy a good chaise.
horse, and was recommended to Scott's stables in Jewin.street,
where one was shown to him, and he proposed an exchange for one
he had at home, which was not high enough for harness, but was
worth as much, being an excellent hunter. On Monday complain.
ant went there with his horse, and found Mr. Scott just going out,
but he add he would be bound by any bargain complainant Amid
make with Stanton, who looked like the foreman. Contaminant
stipulated that they should try each other's horse, and that &den&
ant should warrant his horse sound. Stanton rode the first
and complainant then started with the one he was about to purchase,
but he found very soon that the animal was a compkterearer, which
staggered and foamed so as to excite universal attention. He re-
turned in a few minutes to Jewin.street, but his horse bad been re-
moved in the interim, and Mr. Stanton had also deported. He left
the roarer, and had not been t: 'le to get his own horse, or the value
of it. from either of the defendants.
Mr. Butler, for the defendants; said the complainant's proper re.
medy in this case was an action of trover. Both parties had been
anxious to get the best bargain.
Sir Jonx PEaarito, after consulting the chief clerk, said,
there had been some chicanery in ,this case, but he could not take
it up ss one of felony. Sir. Salter might indict the parties for
conspiracy, or bring an action against them, as he should be advised.
In retiring Mr. Stanton declared he had proof that there had been
a fair " chop," and Mr. Scott, that be had nothing to do with the
transaction, but Mr. Salter bad dealt with the owner of the house he

bad pluelaised.
Mr. Salter assured the parties he would Indict them.

BATT( )141.0A RDEN.
Mary Frost, a young woman of respectable appearance, was yes.
terday placed at the bar for further examination, before 3lr.
&leant Szt.Loor and G. B. Roams, Bag. charged upon sus-
picion with having administered poison to her child, aged eighteen
months. _ _

The circumstances of the case are briefly theses—At the time of
the child's birth she lived in the service of a gentleman named Rowe,
and the infant was put to nurse with a woman named Clarke, with
whom it remained till Thursday afternoon last, when the prisoner
took it away, alledging as a reason that she could have it nursed at
a cheaper rate. On the same evening she was observed with the
child in her arms lying In Tottenham Court.road, intoxicated, and
was taken into custody ; but, as the child appeared to be In straw
convulsions. it was immediately taken to. Middlesex Hospital,
where it expired on Sunday night. An inquest subsequently tat,
and the jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict that
" Death had been occasioned by a concussion of the brain, caused
by a fall." In consequence of the decision of the jury, the prisoner
was forthwith discharged.