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of bttObtr .1011ov/tog, do rotoplaint hating hten tade '
by the prosecutrix, het mistress proposed to turn her
away for her forward conduct, and that on the 50th
she was actually turned away. On the gd of-Novem-
ber the prisoner first heard of this charge, by being
threatened with legal proceedings, unless he wi uld
pay a sum of money. On the 4th of Novembei he
was examined at a Public Office, where he was told
that he need not bring a Solicitor, the charge being
of so frivolous a nature that he would certainly be
discharged: but the rape was sworn against hint,
and he was committed to Newpte. It this com-
Olain had been made a few ;days earlier, while the
Grand fprf were sitting, he would have bean tried
.at the late Seilion.l pmt now, without the interfe.
rence of the Court, he Wbilldbg pbliged to remain at
prisoner till the next Session; to.theltuln of his busi-,
ness.—Lord ELL E.% Boaou ou--“ take yout idtioteri,
and Writ."

KINO!S BENCH, NOVEMBER 1.
„MN V. LAING AND WIFE.
Mr. Tor-...ctu moved for a Rule to shew cause wity
the verdict for the plaintiff in this case should not be
set aside, and a new trial granted: The action was
tried by a Common Jury, at the Guildhall bittiftg4
after the last Ter& The plaintiff Was a haberdasher,
at Coventry, and sued for £23, the amount of goods
supplied' to the defendant's wife before her marriage.
The goods having never come to hand, fltni some
negligence in the carrier, the plea of infancy was set
up ; and the question was, Whether that plea had
been proved ? The father of the defendant's Wife
deposed at the trial, that his daughter *as born on
the 20th of November, 1787, and corroborated his
evidence by the production of a Bible, in which the
fact wtts.entered, as the father swore, at the time of

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.the date. One of the Jurymen to be in . " - , . .
the bookselling trade, asked to look at the happeningßible, and COURTS-MARTIAL.—The 2d inst. a Court Maftial
Observed, that the date Of the book was only in the i was held at Portsmouth on J. Gibson, seaman of•the
-Teat 1787 ; and from examining it, he could say, that 1 Loire, for stabbing with a knife Lieut. R. Croker, 04-
It had lain by some time before it had been bound : i Seer of the Watch, the 113 d Sept. on her passage limn
and 5-et it Was bought in Scotland in the year of its 1 St. Helena to Englandaa-It appeared on the evidence,
• date, the witness being a Scots gardener, of respec- , that Lieut.C. had reported the Conduct of the prisoner
table character, now in the service of the Vicar of! to Captain Biown, for making use of a vile expression
Clitherow. The goods were supplied only a few days ' to the Signal Midshipman on the evening of the 22d
before the time when the defendant was allowed tole of Sept.; that on the next morning, between the hours
of age; and the Jury, influenced by what one
Ex i
of their
•of eight and ten o'clock, he (Lieut. C.) being. Officer
. number had remarked, disbelieved the Extol infancy, of the Watch, was returning from giving orders to
and found for the plaintiff. Mr.Toppingnow produced -the Boatiwah on the fore-castle, when he heard his
the affidavits of the father, the daughter, and her sis- ' name called ; on turning round lie saw the prisoner
ter, swearing that the day betore-mentioned bad al. ' standing as if wishing Co speak to him : on Lieut. C.
ways been considered and kept as her bit rh-day ;-1 approaching him, the prisoner said in a loud voice,
that the mother was dead, and the midwife also ;—' " You have reported me to the Captain."-i-Lient. C.
:and that the baptism being private, there was no replied, " I have," and was about to add more, when
eburch register thereof. There •was also the affida., the prisoner pulled out a knife and stabbed at him
:natof st neighbour, stating that the birth of the ciefen. with all his force, wishing to hit him in the breast or
• dint in question took place about the time aforesaid,: neck; Lieut. C. sprang from 'him, by which he re-
for 'that the neighbour herself lay.-in in
.Febreatry, ceivedat. wound ;tulle shoulder; Lieut.C. then ended-
a 1788, and she remembered the. defendaut being
.voitredipa seine the prisoner, but finding be couliknot
brought to see her.then: ' : make use of his arm, in consequence of the vround;,
Lord Eceteurntoucat, who tried the CAMP, said, ' he succeeded in retieating.to the quarter-dick;: the
that there were some circumstances of suspicion which prisoner at the same time brandishing his knife and
puraiing hint as it to make second attempt, exclaim-
induced the Juryman to make the observations which
ing, " I'll be hung for you."—He was thensecured.
governed the verdict ; the witness was extremely
He was found guilty and adjudged to puffer death.
eager in protrUding the tesdninny of' this Bible, the
production of which was voluntary, and mide before On the same day a Court-martial was also held,
the fact had been controverted ; and the entry was and continued by adjournment until the following
day, on Captain Lynne, ot his Majesty's ship Eclipse,
made not in the usual place, but on the Mark leaf be-
upon a charge of detaining the Lerd Minto cartels_
tween the Old and New Testaments.--s-Rule refused.
. WSLSSN AND CO. O. KEYS= AND CO* employed in the conveyance of the French garrison
.
This was a Rule nisi for a new trial of an action \at the Isle of France to European France, upon pie-
for freight, in which the plaintiffs obtained a verdict tepee of some irregularity in her papers, and a sup-
tor 82904 ; and the question was, whether an implied
poted breach of the navieation laws, thereby acting in
an impr, per, unofficer-like, and unjustifiable manner.
assuntiuit arose from the defendants to pay the freight
The Court agreed the charge had not beeh proved
to the owners, upon the delivery of the goods by the
a
Captain to the defendants, who received them undergainst the said Captain H. Lynne, and did adjudge
an order from Messrs. Williams and Wilson, with him to be acquitted.
whom the plaintiffs contracted upon charter-party, A Court Martial was held an Wednesday, on
and for whom, it appeared by the manifest, the goods board the GLADIATOR, on Mr. Brewer, Purser ; Mr.
John Pigot, Clerk ;and Mows George, Master at
were shipped. The bill of lading was to Messrs.
Aims, of his Majesty's ship Iphigenia, for seducing
Williams and Cos or order; but was indorsed to de-
from the land service three men of the band of the
fendants prior to the ship's arrival :and it was admit.
was North Cork regiment. The Court were of opinion
ted, the defendants now had the goods, and it
that the chase was in part proved against the said
they who paid the duty at the Custom-house, although
Mr. Brewer, Parser, ef.his Majesty's *hip Iphigenia ;
Lord Etaanceoftoceit said that was done a/o invests.'
and adjudgad him to lackeerolay,expritnanded ; and
The original consignees (Messrs. Williams and Cie)
that the charge was not proved against Mo. kiln
had become bankrupts, but the first demand had beet
made opon the defendants. , 1 tigot, and Moses George, and did acquit them. ••• k
Mr. PA Mg Mir.* MARRYAT, and Mr. CAMPBELL, • FRANCIS PRISONERS —Eight Freach OffiCtes lately
shewed cause against the Rule, likening the case to broke their parole, and escaped from Andover. The
that of Cock v, 'Taylor (2 Campbell, 587) and quot- fi 'lowing particulars have since transpired :—They 1
went off in the night, saddle-horses being provided.for
, ing alsci the cases of the Theresa Bonita, 4 Robinson,
236 . Sodergren v. Flight, Trinity sittings, 1796; them. Six of them rode double, preceded by two other ,
s,
andiVard v. Felton, 1. East, 507 ; in a hich the de- lair,es ; on each of which were moonted two officers,
fendant merely acted:as agent for another seithae, accompanied by two English condeciora, who were
ne to receive f6OO to'cover all expendes, and ctimpletely,
knowledge of the Captain, and was therefore relieved
froany liability. 4 elect their escape to France. They mitred cin'ite.
-, coast, near to Christchurch, opposite the Needles, on
--Ir was settled, that the landing of the goods in
question (sugars and rums) at the West India Doi.k,„ the 2d of October, where there was a.smuggler's ves-
sel from Weymouth in waiting for them, but the
under 39 and 40 Geo. 3, secs. 45 and 87, was the
tame for the Captain's lien, as if they had still re- wind was so completely contrary, and blew a hurri.
mained in the body of the ship. 1 cane at the time, that it was deemed improper to go
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. Fueiaa, eon-
on board. They in consequence prevailed on a cotta-
tra-distinguished this case from that of Cock v. Tay-! ger to take them in, imposing the French officers on
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for; and the Court inclined to think, that as here the the cottager for Guernsey merchanth
.who,were pur-
goodswere delivered to the defendants, not upon the
sued by the revenue officers. They remained cog,:l
'
exhibition of an indorsed hill of lading (as in the case sealed in the cottage till the sth of October. At 1 I
o'clock of the night of that day they went en board
of Cock.v: Taylor), but of an order from the consig:'
nee, as if they had been still the proprietors, the law
the vessel, the wind being fair tor the coast of France.
:
could not raise an implied promise to pay the freight :However, they had been to sea but a very short time,
in those who did hot claim as the indorsees or con- when a violent storm arose, which drove them back
signees, but merely as agents. T . o say otherwise to the same shore from whence they got on board.—
would be going farther than any case of lien had The vessel was not able to put them on shore ; some
yet gone. • • ;of them were, in consequence, nearly drowned, not
• The Court made the Rule absolute fur a new trial, being able to swim, the sea being up to their necks.--
A
OP fee if the fact could be varied upon which their At this time it was about three o'clock. It was the
possint decision was formed. intention of them all to have returned to the cottage;
NOVEMBER 94 ! but, on account of tie darkness of the morning, and
Mr. SOLICITOIS•GABERAL obtained a Rule to show the noise occasioned by the storm, two of the officers
missed the others, and their conductors, and could
wise why a criminal information should not be tiled
not find the cottage. They wandered about till day-
against R. Bell, and P. Harvey, ink. for sending a
and then made enquiries of peasants, and
lenge to E. Parsons. The parties are all met-can- light,
others that they met wide and, from their conduct,
tile men. Mr. Bell and Mr. Parsons had met at a
they were. suspected to, be officers who had broken their
coffee-house in the neighbourhood of the Exchange,
when a dispute having arisen, Mr. Bell told Mr. tar.. parole; they were at length charged with being so.
sons that he was no gentleman. • Mr. Parsom rept ea, : They behaved very candid ; . and one of them who
that that was not a proper place.to use such language; spoke English vet y well, after .vety little hesitation,
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upon which Mr. Bell called him a rogue, a scoundrel, confessed the whole of their proceedings, and that he
believed the other six were concealed in a cottage,
and a coward, words' which were repeated in a me:- :
sage afterwards sent to W. Parsons, through 'Mr. but he could not tell where it was. The cottage was,
Hervey, with which Mr. H. at first called at Mr. at ter some difficulty, traced, and the other six officers
Parson's house, at West Ham, but not finding him at discovered there. The business came qqdei.it ves.
home, followed him to Mr. Henniker's, the Magi. , tigation before G. H. Roue, Esq. M.- 1': the'l4titig
strate, and called him out of the drawing-room to Magistrate of that .neighboothood, oho wrote "up to
deliver the message. A challenge was afterwards - Loudon as the.Uartsport Board, and Adkins' and
sent in a letter to Mr. Parsons, and that gentleman Vickery; the Bow-street officers, were dispatched in
was then posted over the Casualty List at aloyd'ea:..- pursuit ot the conductors ; and have succeeded in
The hand-writing both of the letterand the posting- taking intto custoduayßroselasciterpalofcotinleduvcetsoser,i at
Itill was sworn to be Mr. Bell's. . . Adkins
l, XL.PA ETA WILLLAM DAL • Ilchester ;he had been convicted before of a similar
Mr. Amautinus moved fora Habeas Corpus to din. ? offence ; when he was apprehended then, " it required
charge this applicant upon bail, he being in Newgate, ! tour men to secure him ; a desperate its stance was
charged with A. rape. He did this upon the affidavit therefore expected, but Adkins contrived
to follow
pi two journeymen in the applicant's service as a ! him into a stable, and with the assistance of a man,
baker, who swore that their employ obliged theM to : had handcuffs on him before he knew he
was in cus-
be up all night; and that on the 13th of October, ' tody. The officer conveyed him to Southampton,
the night upon which the applicant was charged with where he underwent an • ' examination last Wedneadey
.dse rape, they heard no noise. They further swore, before Mr. G. H. Rase, when
he was identified by
that the prosecutrix, who was servant to their master, one of the French officers, and
fad anode overtures to each of them, which had been who corroborated his ' testimony. He was fully corn-
accepted hrooe of thenr. The prisoner denied the 'bitted for trial. Vickery
esiene masejolezenly, and depeeed, that= the 17th cersecl in the transaetion.

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