Star.
London, England, 1807-05-12 00:00:00

LZTV INTELLIGEWCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY ir.
ADVERTISING MONEYLENDERS.
This was the laft day of Term, and the only thing
worth reporting was a motion made by Mr. GARROW,
to let afide the Judgment obtained under a Warrant
of Attorney, and to flay the levy in the hands of the
Sheriff.
It was a cafe wherein a lady of the name of Bette),
Bell was the Plaintiff, Mr. Gattaow, on behalf of
the Defendant, moved for a Rule to fet afide the
judgment agairift his client, and a3fo to flay the
money levied under execution in the hands of the
Sheriff. The Learned Counfel faid, that this, was
one of the caks in which fome of the praftices of
the advertifing moneylenders were particularly con•
fpicuous. The Defendant being fomewhat embar-
rafted in his circumfiances, and in need of tome tern
porary afliflance, unfortunately met with one of thefe
moneylending advertifements, in a daily paper ; he
applied to .he place where it referred to, and there
found the bufinefs was entirely tranfaCted by ladies :
there was the lady clerk, the lady bookkeeper, the lady
money lender,&c. It appeared from the affidavits, that
a tradefman in the City, wilhing to obtain a temporary
(*apply of money, and being lured by the terms held
out in the public advertifement, repaired to a houfe
in the neighbourhood'of Cavendifh-fquare, where he
hoped to obtain an accommodation on advantageous
terins. He was introduced to a lady, who propofed
that he fhould draw bills, and the would get them
negotiated. He was, howeser, to take, as part of
the aatfide►ation, a capital hunter, a both that had
hunted with the King's ]rounds, and that the fon of
the Archbifhop of York had offered 150 guineas for
it; but it should be put in, as a great favour, at 120
guineas. The party contented, the bills were drawn,
and as a collateral fecurity, he gave a Warrant of
Attorney, confefling Judgment to the amount of the
fum to be railed. When the hunter came home, faid
the Learned Counfel, the outfide and infide value of
him, ditpufing of his bones to make ivory black, his
hide to the currier, and his fells for the dogs, was
not more than 31. the very fame animal the fon of
the Archbifhop was reprefented as having offered
150 guineas for. But the whole was a dehilion, and
the tradefman prefently found himfelf fwindled. He
would have gladly funained a lots of 301. or 401. to
have got his bills back again, but that was refuted.
The firft bill became due and it was paid ; the fe
cond was diffionoured, and the Money Lender, on
advantageous terms, entered up Judgment on the
Warrant of Attorney. It was therefore to fet afkle
that Judgment, and to flay proceedings, that the
' prefent motion was made.
The Court granted a Rule to Phew caufe.

A melancholy event happened on Sunday fen-
night, at Chedgrave, in Norfolk :—William Mofs, a
young man relident in Chedgrave, paid his AdrefTes
to a young woman in the fame place, named Crifp ;
her mother, however, it teems, refufed her confent to
their being married. On the day above mentioned,
Mors, who is a Member of the Loddon Volunteers,
attended the parade of that corps on Seething Green,
at which Ann Crifp and her mother were alfo prefent.
During the parade another young man came up to
them, and folicited and received the mother's permit-
lion to have her daughter. This loon reached the
ears of Mofs, and he was heard to exclaim to Ann
Crifp, " If I, am not to have you, nobody elfe (hall."
This expreffion palled unheeded ; hut it was the pre.
lade to the defperate a& which this unhappy y ,oth
foon after committed; for when the curdle was
over, and the young woman and her mother were on
their return home, Mofs watched.his opportunity, and
Itabbed them both in their bodies with hi.bayonet.—
He then ran into his father's bottle, near which the
deed was perpetrated, and hatching a knife out of his
father's hand, cut his own throat, but not mortally ;
he has fince been committed.to the Cattle. We are
happy to learn, that the wounds of the two unfottu-
I sate women are not likely to prove mortal.