Star.
London, England, 1823-12-24 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY, DECEMBER 23.
QUEENSBERRY LEGATEES.

THOMAS V. MONTGOMERY.
Mr. HEALD and Mr. RouPet.wwere for the petitionefs,
and urged the Lard Chancellor to give to the legatees
some further part of their legacies, as they had not reo
ceived anythin.. since 1818; and that this was the anti&
versary of the7Duke of Queensberry's death (who died
the 23d December, 1810)rwho could never have con-
templated that his poor servants and others (many of
whom were in great distress) should hive waited so long
for their legacies.
After hearing the Counsel for the Duke of Queens-
berry's executors, and for the Duke of Beccleugb, and
other claimants,
The LORD Cnancet.t.oa said, that as ari order had
been made by the House of Lords, upon a special ap-
plication, that the Queensberry Appeals should he heard
by the House of Lords on the Sd February ; and as it
warbelieved that a final decision would be speedily
tome to upon the question by that House, he could not
grant the prayer of the legatees' Petition at present ; and
his Lordship therefore directed that the Petition should
stand over generally, and that after the decision or the
House of Lords, it mighl be brought before him Itgain.7
SIR GREGORY PAGE' UR -
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IN RE SIR O. P. TUR
MS. PuiLumoaß prayed for a Ore pence to the
Master- to appoint a receiver upon .‘,e property of
the lunatic, and a Committee, to insti ute an inquiry
as to who was the heir at law. and to take an account.
The. Learned Counsel tead -an affidavit to the Court,
stating that two executions were in the hands of the
Sheriff of Bedford, the one at the suit of Moset Solo-
mon., for 1:2.54., and the other at the suit of Ann Myers,
for E 152. The affidavit also stated, that the lunatic,
Sir Gregory Page Turner, was now in the King's Bench.
Prison for debt, that his house at Battlesden was filled.
with valuable pictures, china, &c. the number and va-
lue of which it wae,j.mpossible at present to ascertain.
It was therefore prayed, that proceedings under the
executions might be stayed, until the Master, had made
the requisite inquiries, and an account had been takers
of the claims of the various creditors.
The Loan CHANCILLOR granted the application.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DECEMBER ss.
RIDLEY D. COMM.

This was an action for an assault. The defendant
pleaded a justification.. •
The plaintiff is steward of the Margate steam packet
called the London Engineer, and the defendant, Cep-
lain of the rival mean, packet the Victory. There had
peen a good deal of irritation between the parties, aris-
sag chiefly from the agents of orie of the vessels having
n in the practice of tearing down the placards of the'
other. Captain Corbin, after leaving his vessel on the-
evening of the 11th of eptember last, went into the
Ship ravern, in Water-lane, where he met Ridley. Cos..'
bin immediately charged him with tearing down the
placards of the Victory at the tavern, and other places
in town ; Ridley replied that he did so, because Corbin
and his partisans tore down the placar issof the London
'Engineer at Margate. Upon this Co bin told the other
that he was a scoundrel.; to which Ridley answered by
thrusting his fist in his face, telling him that he (Corbin)
had built a new house at Margate- by defrauding his
owners; and added, that he should like to give him a'
red threshing. Corbin, in consequence of this provo-
ation, struck Ridley in the face,by which one jaws was
,fractured, and the other dislocated.—The Juryliiand
for the plaintiff—Damages, 405.; costs, 40s. . '
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• CHRISTIR O. BEARLIC AND CO.
This was an action to recover damages for injury done
to plaintiff's goods by the negligence of the defendant!'
servants. The plaintiff is tenant of the housr, No. 3,
:Woud-street, Cheapside, and occupies the ground and.
basement floors, as 'warehouse rooms for Amnels and
Other goods of that description. He let thou of 'the
moms on the first floor to the' defendanti 74 orient'
these rooms there was a water cistern; undesiblith which
was a'sink, and it appeared ti at oii the evening of Sa-•
turday, the Roth of September the cock of this cistern
was left unsafe. No person slept in the house, and on •
the following morning, Sunday, when the water came
in, it passed through the cock into the sink; the sink
overflowed, and the water flowed not only into the'
rooms of the defendant, but down into the plaintiff's
rooms on the ground and basement floors, aisd in-• •
jured his goods to the extent of between Mg. litdllool.'
The defendants usually had a charwoman totha ette
their offices every Saturday ;* their clerk in' the' take-
was accustomed to wash his hands at the cistern, and
froni the cock having been found unsafe onthe Monday:
morning, it was supposed that either one or the other'
was guilty of the negligence in
the damage ensued. On the morning
in question, the cistern was exhaur •
Mated that she tried the cock in the
perfectly safe; the clerk denied that
kern that evening. There was no ,
the cock was found unsafe on
that the clerk was the last person
sturdily evening; that he locked
fey until the Monday morning, and
Was kith& u'ndetthe cock that morn!
R -thelssfy 'found fir the plaiatif
Odle& ar of Court. , . • -
p5.i.,1;i11:4-.. Ivy 7 1•••• •
In a conversation on the Merit. sof- the stietiessivo M.
sitters duties thclate war, it waiolstervedindispralef
if PITT, that he suffered no man of talents iq ibrCrablei
et, white some of his 'summers adopted a more libel*
ystetn. 0 Sir," slid Sir P. EXAM:IIBIin his peeigailettle,
Lowed the livmg.man no love, but I will so
i any man is his coffin. PITT could fear las
; isod therefore could want no auxiliary.
he peke i but who ever beard of a hinsiisscatroje
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consequence of which'
inning of the Saturday%
usted ; the charwriasark-
the evening and ). it ".
that he went to the ela:
o doubt, however. dite.
the Monday nsorriftigi:
ion in the arms on *a.
ed it up and keit, tiii'
and that a hisid44puu
Prning dtled with wt ter:
oriff—Daniages'tci'br
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