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LAW 17$17111:LIGT2TER.
COURT OF JUNO'S BRIICK-1)14
THE ICING PHIPPS. •: • .
In this indictment .for la libel in the weekly paper
called The News, upon Viscountess Pereeval, the pro.
secution being abandoned, the defendant was found
Not Guilty.
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THE ASSIGNEES OF TEGSTRAU, A BANKV/PT, v.
ettsiatits. • 0
This was an.action brought to recover from the de-
fendant the leasetkeertain premises which had been
assigned over to hini by Trtn..ram, the 6ankitipt, nit!.
•der the following circumitantes —on the ground that
the transaction was Merely intended as a cover foe
usury :—lt appeared that in 1806, at which time the
lease of the pretniies in ittestioni which were iidltlls
'Tristram, under the Minor Canon bf St. Pattidi, had
*Viral years to run i'he being:hard Inn for; man '
irppGed to ind obtained' Wntit AbleVefetidatitt
'and in consideration d reeeiving that sudn;assigne
'his original lease overla hint, the defendant, itgreeiti 1
to grant him an ntidet lease at a rent of if7o per a 1
filim for Seven years, and in this under lease was i
'serted a•tlause, giving to Truttrittri the Toiler of res.
'demption Cott paying the • ie9oo seven years.
'seven yews eapittat in 1815, wiliriut Trustnirn'ebci
'able to• repay the IE9OO ; the lease: heretrpon tat
(claimed hy" the 4efeqi‘lant; Scion alter Trustritin
carne pktopt, ao4 the transacting' coming to th
intt)wledge of -his assignees, they instituted the pee=l
sent action, on the grounds that the insertion of t
clause of redemption in the under lease proved t 1
the whole was nothing more than a mortgart,:aad-•
cover to enable the defendant to receive mord tisall
'! five per cent. for. his £9OO for seven years, and'thima
4a.get possession of the premises which, it appearedi.
,Iwere worth near £2UOO.
rf On the part of the defendant it was conoseded that i
the orit4in;tl transaction was a fair bona fide *ale, and
that the clause allowing redemption was inserted as an
aiscitilgence. The Jury, however, aftcra summing
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froin his Li:4(6114i, found a verdict for the plaintiffs.
C.OUILT OF COMM()!I PLBXS, MAY 24.1
smutzints. • •
LANCECHENOLIC en BRETON. •
This was an action to recover a compensation in
L datnages for the loss which the plaintiff alledged he:
Iliad sustained in consequence.ot the defendant bieving•
seduced his daughter, and deprived bim of her services.,l
The plaintiff is an enibroideier, in the neighbour:
hood of Soho, and his daughter assisted him in- the
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usiness. It appeared on du? trial, that Miss Lanco.
Iclieneck, in the month of May, of the preceding year,
went to the Swiss Chapel, when; on her return, she 'I
met the defendant v:ha introduced himself to he: no.
lice, by enquiring it she was not the daughter of Mr.'
:Lancecheneck ? To this question the answer was in
,the affirmative. Be then rbserved, that she, as he'
understood, was .* connoisseur in paintings, and ti
she had no objection, and durst trustherselt with him,
be would shew her some originals. She atcordingly
accompanied him to a bons* not far distant, where he
succeeded in accomplishing what appeared to be his
object, namely, seducing her. The consequence of
this seduction was the aceouchrtnent of the Lady, who
had been provided .for at the expence of her father;
the defendant being. absent from•tPis country, on a'
public mission, during her pregnancy.,
These facts Paving hen substantiated,'
. The CIIIKst •in charging ilie
sled, that this wasbot a.ease which calla for 'kern-
'plary• damages Cie:Cll4.y were ui • give tie father
compensation up to the eitent of his
The plaintiff Ought recover 1100, and the Tory.
after a shoreconsultitioi, gave isfara Verdict. of 4.'25
damage's.

IitiDDIMF.X.SE4SIONS.
The Sessions cokimeniki yesterday. at the Sessions
House, Clerkenwell
George Royal was indicted for kgrostm,ault on Al.
derman Atkins, on the evening of the 50th of March
last: Alderman Atkins stated, .tliki.4)ll the evening
above mentioned be was proceeding to the Concen-
RooM, Hanover-square, in hi& carriag- ; when near
the door of the C;;ncert Room he-found his carriage
Was impeded, and looking out, observed anotht r eat--
ridge attempting• to force its way into the. tank, -and
in doisagthis the pole of the Alderman's.catriage wits
broken, and the harness also. The Alderman imme-
diately got out of his own carriage, and went up to
Ather, in which he saw Lady Hampden sitting.—
He inquired of her Ladyship to whom the carriap
lbekused3 to which her Ladyship replied, it was ow
Iher's.• There was another Lady in the carriage, agl
the Alderman directed his inquiries to her, but could
nat. get' answer.. Upon this he went up to tht;.
horsesl.heatis, and taking hold of them, demanded iot
the coachman to 'whom be belonged ?- when the
coachman; instead of answ4ilig, struck-him violently
with his whip several times. , At. this instant Town-
send came up, And the servant was secured, and he
'then learnt "that it. waii.ady Cliarlatte Durhambi
carriage, and that it was her LadyshlP who bad re-'
fused to answer the question put to het.
Mr. Alderman Atkins's 'Coakhinati corroborated
this statement.
Mr. KNAPP, for the defendant, argued that his
client was justified in attempting to get into the tank,
there being la vacancy, and also in trying to set his
horses loose when they were seized by a person he
did not know. The blows, which had fallen on the.
Alderman were not, however, intended for him, but
for the horses.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the
Court, alter animadverting' strongly on the mode of
defence ad lited, sentenced the defendant to pay a fine
of RlO, to be imprisoned two months, and at the ex-
piration of that time to find security for two years,
himself in £lOO, and two securities in *5O each.

Friday last the driver at ihackney.coatt was sum.
moned het ore' the Conintiseioners upon a charge of.
cruelty to his horses, abuse to a gentlemen who'
noticed hii conduct on the evening of the 6th cat lesrl
month in Argyll.street. 'The, iiictimstances detailailA
were so shocking as indaced the Cointaisiabfts tci*sl
scree they never heard a mere atroeinns Case, arid,
would have inflicted a pecuniary peisaky,'btit* as tt
Must neceseartly be paid by his father, they mnctr to
their credit, gave him a most soitable,4dinonitinn ott
the bzutAlity
.of his conduct. and 1441444 him to h
suspended from driving say tunclinq•conellior duce
[mouths.

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