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London, England, 1825-07-30 00:00:00

BRIGHTON. JULY SO.

The Duke and Duchess of • Clasen:nap frequently walk about
our streets, arm in arm. We heard fish-woman exclaim on
Wednesday, " Goo bless 'em ! how comfortable they look—jna
like man and wife." Their Royal Highnesses have paid a visit to
the Bazaar, with which they seemed much pleased.
Lord and Lady Cameras and family have left the Royal York
Hotel, to occupy 19, Old Steyne.
Arrivals at the York Hotel—The Duke and Duchess of Argyle,
Duke and Duchess of Richmond; Lords G. Lennox, Dunvrich,
and Alvanley ; Earl of March; Earl and Countess Kinnoul ; Earl
Lisburne ; Hon. Mr. Vaughan ; Lady Augusta and Mr. Cotton;
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Lawless, Sec. &c.
Sir T. Jones is among our latest arrivals.
Mr. Harms left us on Tuesday, after a few date residence, for
London. He has lost 2500 guineas by the defeat of Cannon.
Ward, the pugilist, is here. He is a line young man, with a
frank, open countenance. He was on the Race-coarse, and at-
tracted considerable attention.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. CANNING,
as his Mearsres Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, held a
Levee for the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, at the Fo-
reign Office, in Downing-street. Among their Excellencies pre-
sent were—Prince Ertemeesv, the Austrian Ambassador; the
Prussian, the Swedish, the Netherlands, the Spanish, the Danish,
the Sardinian, the Neapolitan, &c. &c. Mr. CANNING gave pri-
vate interviews to each of their Excellencies.

Mr. Husztasoli transacted business with Mr. CAN.
insto yesterday, at the Foreign Office.
The,Crutacetton of ,the EacHiQula came to town
yesterday morning, from his **use at Beckenham, in Bent, and
after transacting buosiness at the Treasury, returned in the evening.
A duel, which it is feared will prove fatal in its
consequences, was fought on Thursday morning, on Crawley Com..
mon, between a Gentleman of the name of ikeionstrone and a
Mr. BA INA It& The first fire had no effect, but in the second, Mr.
Et.rinimona was wounded on the side of the right breast, and the
ball was not extracted, although attended by Mr. BAN% a proles..
sional Gentleman. The parties are distantly related.
The Bank of England have declined making ahy
further advances on deposits of stock. An application was yester-
day made for a loan to the customary amount, on 11,0001. Consols ;
the answer was—that the Bank bad discontinued lending on depo-
ails of stock.

The Royal Society of Sciences (La Soeiiii Royale
Isotgoitre do Mama), in its sitting of the Sid of this month,
admitted Mr. Timms Camrsar., one of the moat distinguished
literati of Ragland, among the numbers of its noo-resident flies).
hers. Mr. CANINO= is DOW at Paris.
Nan STOCKMAN, THE PUOILIAT.—This man under-
went a very long examination this day, at Bow-street, charged
with robbing Mr. Crouch, of between 3 and sCIOO, at the Castle
at Warwick, and was sentanded until 'I Andel,.

SI/MMEE ASSIZES.
MAIDSTONV., JULY mt.
VIE KING V. ABRAHAM CONSTAILg, ESQ.
This was an indictment fot a misdemeanour. It
stated that the defendant, as one of the Justices of the
Peace for the county of Kent, having no regard to jus-
tice or to the-duty of his office, but unlawfully intend;
ing to aggrieve and oppress one John Baker, and td
expose him to ignominy, shame, scandal, and disgrace,
on the 30 h July, 1822, without any reasonable or pro
bable cause, and under mete colour and pretence of his
office, did sign a warrant directed to the keeper of the
House of Correction at Maidstone, reciting that he
(Baker) had been duly convicted before him (de,
fendint), by the oaths cf Joseph Abbott and Thomas
Ferguson, of being a rogue and vagabond, to wit, by
indecently exposing his person natced before a gist
named Harriet Hall, aged ten, in Greenwich Park, and
that he (defendant) had; for this said offence, adjudged
him (Baker) to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for three month., and by the said warrant did command
the said keeper to detain him for the term therein spe,
cified ; whereas, in truth and in fact, the said J. Baker,
had not, at the time of the sighing of the said warrant,
been duly convicted by the oath of the persons therein
named, or by the oath of any other pe.sons ; but on the
contrary, defendant had signed the said warrant with-
out seeing the said J. Baker, and without giving him
an opportunity of making his defence, or of examining
the witnesses to the said supposed offence, &c. There
were other counts, varying the charge in particulars not
necessary to mention. The last count was for false im-
prisonment.
Mr. QURNRY stated the case for the prosecution. The
charge against the defendant was, that he was guilty
of gross negligence and inattention in the discharge of
his duty, whereby a grievous injustice was imposed
upon an innocent man. With the guilt or innocence
of the party suffering the Jury had nothing to 4a.
Admitting him to be the most infamous of men, tl,e
offence of the defendant could in no degree be lessened
by that circumstance. As a Magistrate he had grossly
violated his duty ; and if the Jury were satisfied of !:is
guilt, they were bound to say so by their vet dia.
John Baker, the prosecutor, deposed as follows s
In July, 1822, I lived in D. Word. lam a married
man, and was a housekeeper, and carried on the busi-
ness of a green-grocer and iruiter. er. I lived there nearly
eighteen months. On tht 30th of July, between two
and three o'clock, as nearly as possible, in the afternoon,
I was near bbe fence of the Observatory, in Greenwich
Park, and had turned aside for a natural purpose. I
then came on a little way, at which time my dress was
properly adjusted, and heard a child crying. She was
then about twenty yards from me. 1 went an, spoke
to her. I asked her what she was doing there ? She
said she was selling matches and laces in the Park.
At the time I so spoke to her, I swear most solemnly
that my person was not exposed. After I had spoken
to her, I observed three men lying on the grass at
some distance; they were between fifty and sixty yards
off the place where the child sat. I afterwards
learned that one of them was named .Ferguson.—
One of them came up to me after I had got out of the
Park some time. I had just got to the Greenwich great
gate, when he called out to me, " Arn't you a pretty
to behave in the manner yon have done to this
girl 7' The ether two men went in search of Eggle-
stone, the constable. I was given in charge of Egglestone.
I was first taken to Colonel Foreman's, and then to the
office of Mr. Bicknell, who was there, and he told the
constable to take me to Mr. Oonstables house at Lewis-
ham. I was accordingly taken there, a distance of a
mile and a 'half, but he was not at home. I was then
brought back to the office. Alter Mr. Bicknell's clerk
had written some papers, he gave them to the constable,
and desired him to take me to Mr. Constable's again.—
The constable took the papers from the clerk, and took
me to the house of Mr. Brown, son-in-law to Mr. Con-
stable. The constable went in and left me outside the
door. The girl and the men were on the opposite side
of the 'road. The • constable CAM out and took me
away to the watch-house. I never saw Mr. Constable
on that occasion, nor have I ever yet seen him in my
life. Egglestone delivered me to Cassano, the officer,
who locked me. up. I remained there that night..•
Next day, between two and three o'clock, Hodges, soo-
ther • constable, came for me. L-asked where I was
going ? He said he hadgot Mr. Constable's commitment,
and that he was going to take me to Maidstone jail.
When we came to the Lion and Lamb, where the Maid-
stone coach stops, we found the coach full. I was then
taken back to the watchrhouse, but I was removed to
the lock-up house for the night, where Hodges told sae
I could be better accommodated. I was locked op un-
til next day. I was then taken to Maidstone jail, and
was kept there three months at hard labour.
Two constables were examined, whose evidence was favourable
to the prosecutor. His wife was also examined, who stated that
his imprisonment had proved his ruin.
By the Cuter Armes—The reason I have for saying that my
husband was totally ruined is, that he was obliged to part with his
horse, cart, and shop,in consequence of being shut up in prison, and
I wished to be near him to do what I could for him. I Inv not
able to attend his business. •

This was the cue for the prosendon.
Mr. MARRY/err then addressed the Jury on the part
of the defendant. The Jury would observe that the
indictment did not impute to the defendant any cor-
rupt or malicioni motive in this transaction, and there-
fore he was at a loss to conceive how this prosecution
could be sustained ; it appearing, in point of (act. that
there had been a conviction of the prosecutor. Who.. •
ther it was an irregular or erroneous conviction was not
the question. It was perfectly clear that there could be
no intentional ill-will on the part of the defendant to-
wards the prosecutor, for neither had seen the other
in the course of their lives, and consequently there was
a complete absence of everything like or mali- .
cious motive. It was quite-certain, that as soon as the
error was called to his attention, he manifested an
anxious desire to set it right, by ordering the man to
be liberated if it could be done. But being informed
by the Magistrates' clerk that it was too late, the war-
rant being a commitment in execution, he could do no
The

more. . question for the consideration of the Coup t
and Jury was,whether, in the absence of any imputation
el corruption, malice, or the conviction of
Baker, regularly drawn up, would nut be a complete
answer in point of law to this indictment ? It was
mani-
fest, upon the prosecutor's own :hewing, that there
was something in his conduct on the occasion in ques-
tion to justify suspicion. But the case would net stop
there. He (Mr. M.) would call the persons who wit-
nessed his conduct in the Path, and the Jury would
judge from their evidence of the truth •r falsehood of
the charge.
Joseph Abbott examined—.l am a waterman, living
in London. I know two young men, named Chamber-
'Leine and Ferguson. The former is a waterman. fie

and I brought down a fire from London to Greenwich
un the 30th July. We were to return with our far •
About two o'clock we went to take a walk in the Park.
We met With Ferguson in the town, and he walked with
us. I saw Baker sitting by the side of a female child.
fie was exposing himself to her in a beastly kind of
manner. I did not hear him say a word. He was with
the child three or four, or five minutes. I dare say.he
saw sas, for he quitted the child. As soon as he was
gone we went and spoke to the child, and asked her
what he said ? After that Ferguson ran after him. I
did not see Baker run ; the trees prevented my seeing
which way he went. Nobody went for the constable,
but when we got out of the Park we found Ferguson,
the constable, and Baker together. We then went to
the Magistrate, the constable leading the way. 'We
tsf:erWards a ent to Lewisham. I don't know the Gen
tleman's name to who:e house we went.
Thomas Ferguson and G. Chansbertaine gave similar testimony.
Mr. GURNEY then addressed the Jury in reply. He
had told the Jury in the outset that the question was not
whether Baker was or was not guilty of the offence
alleged against him, but whether the defendant had ac-
quired a judicial knowledge of the facts and circum-
stances sor the case, before he doomed the unfortunate
man to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in
the. House of Currection ? The guilt of Baker, assuming
it to have been satisfactorily made out, could be no an-
swer to this indictment. Let that unfortunate person be

ever so guilty, the conduct of the defendant was
.-equally illegal and improper. But he contended with
confidence, ghat the story told by the three men, who
had been examined as to the transaction in the ('ark,
WAS s ) in onsistent and improbable, as to be wholly un-
worthy of credit, when opposed to the solemn declara-
lioa of Baker h
The Lotto Cuter JUSTICE, in charging the Jury,
ohm red, that it all goad nre.l must feel pin at seeing
person in the distinguished situation ol a Magistrate
placed in the situa.i,m of the present defendant, the
sensation was happily counterbalanced by the consola-
iion of recollecting that though there were thousands of
_Magistrates daily administering justice from one end of
the empire to the other, it seldom happened, scarcely
once in ten years, that cases of this nature were brought
forward. The Learned Judge then directed the atten-
tion of the Jury to the pre, ise nature of the charge upon
the record, and put it to them whether the charge so
alleged was not clearly made out by the evidence?
The tubstance of the charge was, that the defendant,
being a Magistrate, had thought proper to commit a
man for three months and to hard lab:ur, upon a sup-
posed conviction, drawn up on the oaths of two
persons, whereas in fact those persons had not given
their evidence upon oath. That allegation appeared
to him to be clearly and satisfactorily made out, for
the defendant had no authority to make the convic-
tion, .4 issue his warrant upon it, ex:ept distinct and
satisfactory proof was given, in his own presence,
* of the truth of the charge which had been preferred.—
The conviction was supposed to be founded on an
Act,of P.tli.rment of very modern date, which added
exceedingly to the author ty of Magistrates, empower-
ing single individual, unaided by a Jury, to decide
upon the guilt or innocelce of a person, who might
,perhaps be without Counsel, or other professional as-
sistance. In such a situation, above all others, it was
incumbent on the Magistrate, n.rt only to observe the
substante ef justice, but strictly to adhere to all the
-formai, 'order to prevent the possibility of injustice.
It aras Clear, upon the testimony in this case, that the
defendant hid departed from his duty in signing depo-
sitions, the deponents to which he had never seen, and
comntitting a man to prison who had never been con-
fronted with his accusers. His Lordship animadverted
in strong terms upon the practice which appeared to
have obtained in Mr. Bicknell's office, in allowing the
Cleft to take the depositions of witnesses in the absence
of the Magistrate, and expressed a hope that it would
be forthwith corrected. Depositions should be taken
on oath, in the presence of the Magistrate, who is alone
the competent authority for that purpose. His Lord-
ship 'then adverted to the depositions and to the record
of conviction, and observed that in each it had been
falsely asserted that the witnesses had been examined
co oath before the plaintiff. This was a gross falsehood. It had
been ttuly observed, that if the defendant had been so minded, be
might, open the discovery of • his error, have caused Baker
to be released immediately ; for though he could not have
dine so upon his own authority, yet the Secretary of State,
upon a proper application, would have ordered his discharge
forthwith. Indeed, his Lordship doubted whether he might
not have caused him to be discharged by Habeu Corpus.
—Much evidence had been received which was irrelevant to the
present charge, but as the prosecutor had launched his case by
proof of bis innocence, his Lordship felt himself bound to admit
evidence in opposition on the part of the defendant. Such a course
of proceeding on the part of the prosecutor was very excusable;
4or, although the unfortunate man might have suffered an unjust
punishment, which could not be recalled, yet it must have been a
source of consolation to him to vindicate his chuacter from the
foul stain which had been cast upon it.
'the Airy immediately found the defendant Guilty.
EXETER, JULY 48.
I[o4BB STEALING.
Henry Percival was indicted for having, on the 26th
of April last, in the Parish and Borough of Totness, in
this County, feloniously stolen one mare, the property
of Samuel Heath. It appeared that the mare was
.hired out to be ridden to Bury Pomeroy, and ought to
have been returned within a reasonable time. Instead,
however, of being returned, it was found elsewhere ; and
notice having been given to the prosecutor, be re-
claimed his property. As the case stood there was not
the slightest evidence of the guilty intention of the
prisoner, at the time he borrowed the horse, and the
Jury acquitted him.
A few other cases were gone through ; and Henry
Perceval was then again put ',to tie bar, charged on
another indictment, with having feloniously stolen a
horse. the property of William Mugford, on the 29th
of April last. It appeared that the prisoner directed
the ostler of the White 'tat Inn, Exeter, to get him
a good looking horse to go eight miles and a quarter
oar the Honiton road ; the horse was procured from the
prosecutor, but the prisoner, instead of driving him
along the Honiton-road, took him in a contrary direc-
tion, and sold him at South Melton, for seven guineas.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, that if he had
ss ished to have availed himself of the many oppor-
tunities afforded him for his escape. he might safely
have done so. He declared that young Mugford had
repeatedly told him that he did not mean to prose-
cute, and indeed, said he n ould not prosecute, and
he advised prisoner to write to his friends for assist-
ance. Mugford and the constable staid behind him
drinking on the road several times, while he was pro.
ceding to Exeter; they got nearly intoxicated, and he
might easily have escaped, had he thought proper to
attempt it; but he relied on the promises of Mugford,
and had not, therefore, taken any advantage of the op
portuoitits of escape which Lad been azTordcd him.

Me. justice GAtafet, in summing typ . the ma 'to'
the Jury, said that they must dismiss from their minds
any circumstances connected with the prisoner, which',
might have occurred this morning, bat which had no
reference whatever to the present inquiry. The prisoner
was charged With having feloniously stolen a horse,
and to find him guilty of that offence, the Jury must
be fully satisfied that at the moment when the prisoner
hired and rode away with the horse, he contemplated
committing the crime with which he was now charged.
If when the horse was delivered to him he did not
harbour in his mind the guilty intention of stealing the
animal, although he might have afterwards forgotten
the trust that had been reposed in him, and have ab-
sconded with the horse and sold it, still his doing so
under such circumstances, would amount only to a
breach of contract. The prisoner had spoken of some
promises held out to him by young Mugford ; those
promises, if they had been given, amounted to nothing.
The horse was the property of the father, and the son had no right
of his own free will, and it did not appear he had authority from
his father to make the promises, independently of which, even bad
such promises ►►een made, it would have been extremely illegal to
carry them into execution. The Jury, after a short deliberation,
retorted a verdict of Guilty. _

His LORDSHIP then-proceeded to pass sentence upon
the prisoner. He observed, that the evidence which had
been given in this case could leave no doubt as to the
guilt of the prisoner. He should not properly discharge
that duty which he owed to the public justice of the
country, if he permitted the prisoner to entertain any
hope that his sentence would be remitted. Unless the
prisoner could shew anything that would prove the
public justice of the country could be satisfied by an
alleviation of the punishment, or unless he could pi o-
duce some circumstances that could be laid before the
source from which mercy was to be expected, the
Learned Judge could not promise him any remission of
his sentence. If any of these circumstances existed; if
there was anything that could be alleged in extenuation
of the prisoner's offence, it would give his Lordship
great pleasure to lay it before that authority who al-
ways received such representations with the greatest
attention, and the delight of whose reign it was to ex-
tend mercy wherever public jus ice would permit.—
Should the prisoner, however, be unable to do this, he
could hope for no mitigation of his punishment. His
Lordship, after advising the prisoner to prepare to quit
this world, passed sentence on him in the usual fain.
The case excited considerable interest, as it was stated that the
prisoner was the son of a respectable Dissenting Oergyman. He
was dressed in a full suit of black, and appeared to listen to the
trial with the greatest anxiety. When the Jury were deliberating,
he fixed his eyes upon them, and watched them with the most I
intense earnestness. During the address of the Judge, after the
verdict had been recorded, he was extremely affected ; he trembled
exceedingly, and wept ; but when the awful sentence was pro.
nounced, he seemed almost to be In convulsions; his frame became
powerfully agitated, and when he attempted to descend from the
dock be was so unnerved that he could not move a step, and must
have fallen down, had he not been assisted and supported by the
gaoler's men who were attending him.

LIBEL—THE KING V. POLLARD.
Mr. BATLEY opened the pleadings, and stated this
was an indictment against the defendant, for a mali-
cious libel on the prosecutor (the Rev. Mr. Ley), con-
tained in several letters which had passed between him
and the defendant. The indictment on which the pre-
sent proceeding was founded had been preferred in the
Court of King's Bench, and the defendant pleaded
" Not Guilty.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS stated the case to the Jury. The
plaintiff was the father of a large family, and a re-
spectable Clergyman of the Established Church, who
was desirous of qualifying one of his sons for the me-
dical profession, hating previously placed two other
sons at the University. With this view he applied
to Mr. Pollard, the defendant in this action, who was
an eminent practitioner of surgery, residing at Torquay.
The necessary arrangements having been entered into,
Mr. Ley's son was placed with the defendant in the ca-
pacity of an apprentice. He should observe, that the
young gentleman had been prepared for the profession
in which it was intended he should engage, by a sound
and liberal education, and a handsome premium was of
course paid to Mr. Pollard with his new apprentice;
and yet,notwithstanding these favourable circumstances,
the defendant had thought proper to express his decided
opinion of the youth's unfitness and incapacity for the
pursuit marked out for him, and that within the very
first fortnight of the latter's apprenticeship, when he
could have had but very slight if any grounds for
forming such an opinion. He (Mr. Williams) enter-
tained little doubt the Jury would come to the conclu-
sion that the defendant had formed a very premature
and unfounded opinion upon the subject, and that be
was not justified in representing the plaintiff's son as
incompetent for the profession, and imbecile in charac-
ter and abilities. The unpleasant and afflicting infor-
mation was not communicated in a way to atone for its
unpalatableness, but heightened sad rendered doubly
poignant by the mode of conveying it. The information
was given to the father, not in language measured or
limited by a regard for parental feelings, but in words
and a style of communication the most gross and in-
tolerable. (The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to
read part of the letters that had passed between the
plaintiff and defendant on this subject; and in two of
which the alleged libel on which the indictment was
founded was contained). The first letter he should read
was one addressed by his client to the defendant, and
requiring on his part, as perfectly right and reasonable,
an explanation of his extraordinary treatment of the
plaintiff's son.
In answer to this communication, the plaintiff received the fol-
lowing most unjustifiable and indecorous reply, which farmed part
at the libel charged in the indictment, and after reading the letter,
he (Mr. Williams) would put ft to the Jury to say whether it was
Not most malicious and offensive in its nature?
44 Torquay, June RS, Isl 4.
Sea—On receiving your letter a fortnight since, I felt such con-
tempt fee a person who would be capable (in the first instance) of
'Teething such a gross imposition on me, and then have the effron-
tery to endeavour to persevere in the imposition at the expense of
honour and every good feeling that might have been expected, that
I did not choose to answer it. The general expression of your
letter was insolent, to bay the best of it : it evidently skewed you
would 'scribe, your son as Uas myself to an ungovernable ob-
stinacy, and a mean unmanly spirit, or you would not leave him
with me. You are affecting ignorance on some points, and assert;
ing others not true. Your son is a useless incembrance to me-
and after your conduct, naturally it is extremely disagreeable both
to Mrs. Pollard and myself to have him in the how ; and do what
you can he must leave at last, and all your stratagems, all your
evasions, can avail nothing as affecting the main point ; hence you
had better take him away without further delay.
" The question as to whether any or what part of the premium
shall be returned to you is a very proper one to be submitted to a
reference, because a manifest difference of opinion exists between
us on the subject; and as all the declarations of desire to settle chit
matter amicably must be so at variance with truth, when accom-
panied by a refusal to leave the question to an honourable reference,
it will be quite useless, unless this method be adopted, to hope for
a fair and honourable termination of a business, which, in justice
to your son, you ought never to have allowed of its being mentioned
to any indifferent -persons. I shall have no hesitation to snip
over the indenture to any person, provided there is no concealment
of circumstances.
" I had hoped my interview with Mr. James Cornish would

effect of

Lad .•

-A. _- _ divergni lent Mind frotn permitting In a
"Wee Willa an possibly lola to any good purpose. But
bestial sseddllg from Ns fine has induced me to write to you,
Ti
the fir might have and earnestry as r have it fettled, yet, if you are still indis-
polid do so, you will find me as determined ; and whilst I exist,
and Possess a Shilling, will not submit to such a gross imposition,
which
" I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
nevst.laeoase admitted of excuse.
Ley,
h
shP W. POLLA RD...
Was this language to be Aringtaddressedto°n. ma father and a Clergyman,
in the situation of the plaintiff ? and was Mr. Pollard justifiable in
the course he had therein adopted ? His client, feeling the extent of
the insults and injury inflicted, addressed another letter to Mr.
Pollard, in which he said—" I have no desire for concealment, ink
will readily agree with you—whether I am in treaty for a master
or you are In treaty for an apprentice—to lay our correspondence
before the party with whom we treat. This will be reciprocally
candid. On this ground I have acted in forwarding Copies of our let-
ters to Mr. Ritson, to whom you had mentioned our disagreement."
To this letter Mr. Ley received the following answer from the
defendant.poiurd. and
chargedl It was
a trionpthleeposbatcaktelf_his own letter to Mr.
" What ! still pursuing the deep game, and no advancement is
doing me further injury; only adding additional insult to the injury
already done.
" The correspondence between you and myself has been shown
to the parents of the young Gentleman whom I have recently
engaged as an apprentice ; but I do not believe you have laid
the whole of It before Mr. Ritson, or any honourable impartial
person. Such a step would be at variance with your proceed-
ings. Well for the public you are not the Lord Chancellor, or
one cause might be sufficient to occupy a Whole life-time, and
still be left undecided. You must be more clever than I take you
to be, if, with all your deceit, you can make any one long believe
natural deficiencies of intellect to be perfections, or that they are
compensated for by insensibility.
" I return you this to spew that: I'll receive no more of your
jargon—no more of your insolence; ,that I want uo further proofs
of your deep, mean-spirited, and dishonourable conduct; or per-
haps, if it is possible, I may think Worse of you than I do at present.
" To theßevJacob Ley,Ashprington." " Wm. POLLARD."
After appropriate observations, the Learned Counsel called
Mr. Wm. Ley—l am son of the Rev. Jacob Ley; be is a- Clergy-
man of the Church of England, and Rector of Ashprington, where
he resides. My father has four sons, and lam the third. I was
sent to the defendant's, Mr. Pollard; in January, 1824. and soon
after left him. lat present reside with Mr. Wand, surgeon of
considerable practice at Cirencester.
The Rev. Jacob Ley—l am a Clergyman of the Church of
England, and Rector of Ashprington, in this county. I wrote.,
these letters to air. Pollard, and dispatched them in the order of
their respective dates, and these are the answers I received from
the defendant in the same order. Ope of them was sedum' ou the
back of my preceding letter, which was returned to me in that
manner. The last witness is my third son. I have four sons and
four daughters. On the 13th January, 1924, my son left my house
for that of the defendant. My son William left Dr. Warren's school
at Midsummer, 1821, but afterwards went to another.
Cross-examined.—lt was not on account of any dissatisfaction
that I felt with the master that I took my son from Dr. Warren's
school. He was sent to another school immediately; his progress
was slow at both. When the defendant expressed his doubts of
my son's sufficiency, I did not desire him to keep him. There was
a difference of opinion between us on the subject of my son's abili-
ties. I thought the defendant had come to a premature conclusion,
and I naturally wished my son to have a fair trial. Mr. Pollard
made no objection to my son's remaining with him, but sent a
message by my brother to this effect. " Desire your brother to
take away his son ;he does not snit me." My brother, who seemed
to have a horror to express, what I subsequently felt horror at
hearing, at last said, "He thinks him a fool. My son remained'
until defendant turned him out of his house, which was in January,
1825. I have received back all the premium.
Re-examissed.--The only communication I received respecting
my son from school was, that he was slow in acquiring clanical in-
formation. In the Mathematics he was considered a proficient.
Mr. Serjeant Put addressed the Jury' in a forcible speech for
the defence.
Mr. Justice Urns:nate charged the Jury, who immediately
returned a verdict of Nut Guilty. -
[The verdict in the case Nickivell v. Kneading, in yesterday's
STAB, was for plaintiff—Damages 40s. costs 40s.]

QUARANTiNE.

FROM THE CONSULATE GENERAL

July 29, 11125.
&a—l have the honour to communicate to you, for the infor-
mation of those whom k may concern, the following decision of the
French Minister for the Home Department, dated the 11th inst.
Every vessel bound to France from the United Kingdom, and
front the kingdom of the Netherlands, having amongst her cargo
cotton and other goods coming front the Levant, will be obliged,
until further orders,to perform quarantine at Marseille■.
" The French Consol-General, BARON BEGUILER.
" To John Bennett, Esq. Secretary, Lloyd's."

FEMALE FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.
PROM LA BELLE ASSEMBLER.

Caardasie Dassa--A three-quarters pelisse robe and petticoat of
eras de Naples, the colour, terre d'Egypte. This elegant dress,which
is well adapted to the open carriage, either the currick or barou-
'chette is trimmed down the sides, and round the border, and round
the border of the petticoat, with oblong puffs - each divided by two
btu leaves of satin. The body is made partially low, and the front
a the waist en Berk, but formed into a stomacher by a row of the
mum ornaments as those on the border, on each side of the bust.
The sleeves fit almost close to the arm, and are confined to the
mdils with four bands of the same material as the pelisse. A pele-
rine-lichu-scarf, is thrown over the shoulders • the scarf of lace,
trimmed round with a full quilling of thread tulle, and terminating
at the ends with a bow of white satin ribbon in three loops. A Mar
or
gossamer net is worn under the robe, surmounted by a Spanish
high cellar slime, pointed, and the points turning down ; thence.;
listened with a cameo, or mosaic medallion brooch. Transparent
hot of white crape, with ornaments of gauze, edged with blond ;
soma which are interspersed nasturtium blossoms, and foliage of
Radom shades. From a braid of hair surrounding the neck, depends
merge convent cross of gold. Slippers of black satin, and Limerick
gloves, complete the dress.
Daum Daasc—Dress of blue csape-litee over a satin slip of the
SSW mbar: balloon ridings surround the border, and are carried
up ruefully, in bias, across the skirt, but not quite so high as the
waist. A Myna of primroses is placed in front, in the centre of
the trimming resod the border, and another finishes the ornament
that is carried across more than half-way up the skirt : each puff Is
eassibled by fluted rings of blue satin. The eersage is of blue satin,
mark plain, except having a crepe-hue bouffant drapery across the
bust, which is fastened in the middle with a fluted ring of satin.—
The sleeves are short, and are formed of gauze, beautifully entwined,
representing treillage-work. A narrow tucker of Vandyke blond
is adopted with this dress. The hair elegantly arranged in curls and
bows, among which are pea points of blue gauze interspersed ;
two points depend, with pearl tassels, over the right side, and a
very small esprit feather is placed at the back of the summit of the
head. The necklace and ear-ring.; are of large pearls ; the bracelets
of broad chased gold, fastened with sapphires.