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London, England, 1830-07-12 00:00:00

woos V. WOOD.

This action was brought to recover compensation for a loss
sustained by the plaintiff, owing to a misremescntation made
to him by the defendant. The plaintiff is a wine and brandy
merchant, and employed the defendant to travel and collect
orders ; the defendant represented that he had got in order
from Berrington, an innkeeper at Hanley, in Staffordshire, for a
quarter of a pipe of port, value 221. and the wins was sent - but
Berrington not paying, the Plaintiff, at the Defendant's instigation,
brought an action, at the trial of which evidence was produced by
Berrington that he had given no order for the wine,but only allowed
it to remain tot some time at his house, till the Defendant could
dispose of it. The verdict was for Berrington;abd the Plaintiffhad
to pay 801. costs, for which this action was brought.
Barrington was called, and stated that he had given no order for
the wine, which was only kept at his house for some time, till it
could be disposed of in the neighbourhood.
Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages Eighty Pounds.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,Jutv 10. •
D.AII/11IDA V. LADIDELS.
Serra WILDS stated that ibis wee as action for a libel
which the endant had written concerning the character IV
*hail& which was calculated to do bim very great injury. The
plaintiff wis extremely pained to bring this action, as the names of
seepastiable pees* must be introduced, The parties were both MO.
osinsil, residing in the ne*bbourbood of Pemioneiiie, and were at
owe time intimate r. hod They been= otherwlse.he elknold ace wry.
11r. D'Aranda Winne acquaintaiwithamspeotabierfionllyliadagin
illklidighbourhood, that.
.o 1 Mr, lip a wbalesala. awAimarp Aar-
tOsiff oft OS_ ,* basutiffil (laugh tar; so whom
shi iilaidtM by consith,titid "old adtdreesint, acid he was es fiat
nse Graturying her, when nio.letters. which forined..the sabject •
sir present intim. were as to Al r. Nett ; they were limb
I ions, and.irrielintly teriiteri is a disguised hand. The
-11supsana duet fermi Abe-letters. OM one
.addreised to Miss
Vas dna sent, end that young lady lendy showed it in her
Ow. A short thus after, the defender no doubt thinking nee,
leetne not sufficient to shake their confidence the honour and tirs.l

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meter of Mr. &Arend's. st:nt another se air. Nott. That gentle.
man, with prudence end caution, showed them to the plaintiff, and
told him that he must abstain from visiting at his house till ills
charges •were cleared up. Mr. D'Aranda then took the lend%
and proteftting his innocence of the charges contained in them, sail
he Would take every step to sift the matter to the bottom. He ha*
not itinie been at the house, and the marriage bad been given up„.at
hest till this trial was concluded. Inquiries were then made. and
It was found that the writing in the letters was that of Mr. lAn-
dels. Several witnesses would be called to pro* this, and it would
be proved that the paper on which one libel wu written wee the
sante as that kept by the defendant. He called on the jury to think
of the injury the plaintiff had sustained, and to give great damages,
as the injury was undoubtedly great. One peculiarity in the lett
was that the name of Miss Nott was In both spelt wrong, a IC Whig
prefixed. This would show that Abey had been written by the same
Abe Some of the witnesses called expressed their belief that the lettere
[alluded to were in the hand-writing of the defendant.
Mrs. Jane Williams said that she went, at Mr. D'Araoda's re.
quest, to Mr. Landslip' shop, and asked foe a sheet of paper for a
neighbour; Mrs. models pre me one from the desk in the par.
lour • this is it.
.

Cross.rxamined—The neighbour whose name I menticesedwanted
no paper; I have heard this ;Asir talked of in Pentonville.
Mr. Nett was recalled, to prose that the paper on which the let.
ter was written to Miss Not; and the blank sheet obtained by the
last witness, were of the same make.
Mr. Nelson, an Inspector of warrants of attorney at the King's
Bench, said that he had been in the habit of making himself as.
quaintest with feigned and natural hand writing. It was his opl.
elan that the two letters were written Ina feigned handwriting.
Mr. Sergeant MIDDY addressed the jury for the defendant, and
said that the defendant had nothing to do with the libels. He had
never written them, and he was at a loss to imagine what 'node,
could be ascribed to him for committing such a base act. He was
not a rival suitor; he had never seen the young lady, and was a mar.
ried man. The evidence as to the hand-writing was not at all strong,
and he should bring witnesses to prove that the letters wets not in
the hand-writing of the defendant, or like his.
Mr. John Holmes, a Surveyor, from the Royal Engineer depart.
men; said he was certain they were not in his handwriting, and he
believed them to be an attempted imitation.
Cross-examined—l should think Mr. Landels could not, horn
his general way of writing, write in this manner.
The defendant's attorney on his solemn oath believed the hand-
writing was not Mr. Leach' ; it was at first sight similar, but on
a short inspection did not bear the character of Mr. Linde's' hand.
writing.
The other witnesses gave similar evidence.
The Curer JIIITICZ summed up, and left it for the Jury to
say, on the evidence, whether the letters were written by the defend.
ant; if they were, they would give their verdict for the plaintiff;
and such reasonable damages as would compensate him for the in.
jury and vexation he had expert d.
he jury retired for four ECl:ali then brought in a verdict for
the defendant.

The two most striking paragraphs in the letters, were to the fol.
lowing effect :—That the Plaintiff was one of the most despicable
beings of the human race ; one whose whole soul is deceit, and
whose only object is money.—He is everything that is base, sordid,
'and fiendish, and is now in a state of insolvency.
BOARD OF EXCISE, JULY 10.
SNUGGLING Tea.—A Portuguese gentleman, named Memos!
Joao de Mode, an officer in the 'orrice of the Emperor of Bend.
was summoned to answer to an information, charging him with
smuggling 171 be. of tea, by which he incurred a penalty of 1001.
besides the forfeiture of the tea.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Joseph Taylor, a Surveyor
of the Customs, and two of the Customhouse officers, that on the
3d of June, on the arrival of the Mary, from Ostend, tithe Tower,
they went on board. The defendant wee a passenpr. They asked
him if he had any thing concealed, and be replied in the negative;
However, having reason to suspect something, Mr. Taylor seirched
him, and found eight belts concealed about his body, full of tea.
They also found on him 31 letters, addressed to various persons.
The letters were sent to the Oeneral Poot.officr, and the tea to the
I Excise. The defendant was convicted in the full penalty of 1001.
land the tea was declared to be forfeited.

ROBBERY AT BART/IOIOMM HOSPITAL.
Yesterday evening John Nails and John ilurley stood In.
dieted for breaking and entering Bartholomew Hospital, sad
stealing a hag, two Al. notes, five sovereigns, and other moseys,
being the property of the Lord Mayor and corporation of the city of
London.—The particulars we gave at the time. The witness for
the prosecution, Shearing. In his cross-examination, admitted that
he had been in custody five times within the last five years, and
once at Westminster for twelve months for exhumation. During
the last five years he had gained his living by supplying the faculty
with subjects.
The Jury found both the prisoners guilty.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, on behalf of the governors of the hospital, re-
commended the prisoner to mercy.
Joseph Roycr, aged 74, was convicted of stealing the carcase of a
lamb, from the shop of Mr. C. Monekton, a butcher.
Mr. Sergeant AnAllll observed that, for many years past, the
prisoner had made his appearance at the bar almost every Sessions,
and if he were discharged to-morrow he would return to his old
practices. He then sentenced him to be imprisoned two years in the
House of Correction, and kept to hard labour.
Henry Tallow Risphau was indicted for forging the stamp of
the Goldsmiths' Hall Company, and affixing the same to a certain
spoon ; is other counts he was charged with having such forged
stamp In his possessiost, with a felonious Intent, &c. Tbe prisoner
protested his Innocence, and called witnesses who contradicted ge.
nosily the evidence given by Neale. —Verdict—Nog Guilty.
John Riddle and John Lucas were indicted for stealing, in the
dwelling-house of the Earl of Roseberry, a time.peace, and other ar.
ticks, value M. his property, and Thomas Laliesore, alias West-
wood, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing them to
have been stolen.

At at early hour in the morning of the let of June, two persona
rung the bell at the prosecutor's house ; the porter got out of bed
and inquired their business, when they told him that they had been
sent by Mr. Anderson, their master, to sweep a chimney. The .
ter believing their stay, let them in, and again retired to rest.
Yfet
went, as he supposed, to sweep the chimney, the situation of if
they described to him, and from the circumstance of Mr. Anions
being generally employed to sweep the chimneys of his Lordshipss
house, no suspicion was excited. The prisoners returned to the
hall in about half an hour, and the porter let them out ; one of them
carried a bag, which the porter supposed contained soot. They told
him they had swept the chimney.
Mr. Justice J. PAILE summed up the evidence, and the Jury
returned a verdict of Guilty against Riddle, and acquitted Lucas and
Westwood.

William Argus, aged 52, was indicted for stealing twelve watches,
value 1181. the property of Lewitt Isaacs. The prosecutor said,
I reside at No. 23, Houndsditeh ; I am a watchmaker, and
the prisoner was my own traveller I allowed him three pounds per
cent. commission, but strictly enjoined him never to make any
sales without first communicating with me. I also desired him to
give no credit, but always immediately to hand over all monies he
might receive to me. Tote prisoner received the watches in ques-
tion in December last, and his not returning according to prom
my suspicions were excited, and I caused him to be apprehended
February last, at Farmer's town; and, when he was examined at
Hatton-garden Poliorolllce, he refused to give any account of the
watches.
Mr. Sergeant Alums, in charging the Jury, said that this in.
dietment could not be supported, as the prisoner was an agent, and
consequently entrusted with the property to dispose of. Verdict—
Not Guilty.
4(fred Jones, aged 17, was indicted for stealing a watch, a gold
ring, a pair of ear-rings, and 281. in money, the property of Mar.
tha Hayward.
Mr. Sogautt AZAPIW summed up, and the Jury immediately
returned a verdict of Guilty. It appeared that though the prisoner
was young in years, yet he was an adept in crime. The Court
sentenced him to be for seven

trimported .4 years.
MIDDLESEX SESSI N S—Saturday.

410.
Michael Kennedy, the man who has recently cut a figure at
Bow-street office, under the assumed rank of %tajor. was charged ea
two separate indictments with defrauding Mary Royal and John
Sayer, by falsely pretending to be on terms of correspondence with
the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, and that be was
about to receive from the former an order upon Co: and Green.
wood for WM. 10s. • Mary Royal deposed, that she kept a general
shop, and that the prisoner was introduced to her by Mr. Sayer, who
undertook to be answerable for such necessaries as she might supply
to him during a limited period. She, in consequence, furnished
him with such articles as he required. In his visits to her shop, he
produced various letters which he said he had received from the
Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel, and told het that he w'
to have an appointment in the police. Oa one occasion he
[a
id he had to meet the Duke of Wellington at the House of
lands. sad that he wanted money to pay fees and expenses,,
end that If she would advance it, be would repay her out of the
motleys for which the Duke was to give him an order on Messrs:
Res and Greenwood. She fully believed in the genuineness of the
letters .he produced, and on that ground alone was induced to ad.
nom him 11. 4s.—Mr. Sayer, d 1 illiers-street, Strand, stated that
Abs detendloat and., woman he called his wife applied to him
,Jadareso, icosting that they had cone Prom Northampton. fleal
agreed as reci lin Meta, and they took poseessioa. A few days 614
to letter arrivad by post directed to the prisoner, and which was siva
him. Ile opened it and showed. it to witness. •lt ;imparted.* b
from the Dike of Wellington. and spoke of a bum or 1651. Ws. tol,

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Verdict—" Guilty epos' both indismosnea" The Court senesced,
hint to foe:team years' transported's, being seven years for oath