Star.
London, England, 1806-11-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OiCO/4\I9NPLEA.I. NOV: ti.

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• Davis yirsom,
The plaintiff, au army c?rornithon-brolter, fougTit
to itcover,rool. which had beni promifed him by
the defendant, for procuring the putchafe era Lieu
tenancy in his Majniy's Yeomen of the Guards: it
appearecithat the defendant, who belonged tote
17th Pragoon. Guards, wifhed to retire on half-pay,
and to procure a cmomilgon to ferve either. in the
Yeomen of .the Guards,, or about the Court. He
aecordingly.applied to the plaintiff. who informed
him that Mr. Apreece, fon tlf Sir Timmer Apreece,
had 'an &lies commillion to difpofc of in the Yeo-
men of the Gdirds for +gaol.
The defendant, fora* time after, brt•lctrif the in.
tercourfe wjth the plaintiff, refpeeing the pouebaft
of the automata, applied to Mr. Apreece Wadi%
and finally' was appointed to the enfigncy, which he
now holds. It was contended that the plaintiffooght
to teenier the hundred pounds ptomifed, bat Tailing
to prove that filch a promife had been made, the
Jury only gave bimi verdia for the vacs of work
and labour done, namely the wnting of two or three
letters. , •

. COURT OF RING'S BENCH. NOY. is.
To/ XING V
_

This cafe was before the Court in the courfe of the
week, and was an indiament charging the Defendant
with having entered into a corrupt contra& with a
perfon named Matthew Higgins, with a view to de-
fraud his Majelly's Government of various fume of
money, in the providing of fibres, forage, wines, li.
gorier, &c. for the troops employed in the Well In-
dia Wands, and with atlually having received from
Higgins eighty thoufand pounds, as a moiety of the
profits fa illegally made.
Mr. Pat Its, on behalf of the Defendant, had may.
ed for mandamufes to be ifined, dirated to the Cairts
of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in the Wands of
Dominica, Barbadoes, and Grenada, calling -on
them to examine certain witneffes, whole tenimony
the Defendant deemed material. The Court had re-
futed to grant the application, until the Defendant
Moult! there that the Court wuuld emetic a found
difcretion in fn doing.
This day the ATV/111Y C Hared thefe
faCts'to the Court, and laid that the Defendant had
now made a fupplemental affidavit, wherein he flat.
ed that be bad been indieed on the 25th of June lad;
that On-the 28th of that month he ha.t f,.und bail ;
and had pleaded not guilty to the indiarnent within
the fir H eight days of the prefent term. The affida-
vit fpecified the names of five witneffes in the abate
mentioned illands, whole evidence the Defendant
deemed effential to his defence, as they were acquain-
ted with his various dealing. with Higgins. Among
theta witneffes was one named Winter, the clerk of
Higgins, who had kept all the accounts between them,
and who had been left in the Welt Indies as the De.
fcndant's agent. The affidavit alto Hated, that the
application for the mandamufes hid not been made
for the fake of delay, but for tire f purpofe of ad-
ducing evidence material to his defence. If the Court
therefore thought this affidavit fatisfaftory, the At.
twisty General declared he thould not oppofe the
motion foz the iffue of the Mandamufes. It was fir,
however, the Court &mild know the Tribunals to
whom the mandamufes were to be iffued. In Gre-
nada there was no Court of King's Bench, properly
to called, but there was a Court of King's Bench and
Grand Seffioo all confolidated into one, called the
Supreme Court of Judicature. In Dominica there
was a Court of Common Pleas, in which there was a
Chief Janice and other Judges ; and there vas alto
a Criminal Court of King's Bench and Grand Set--
Lion held twice a year, before the Magiflrates and the
Judges. With refpelt to Barbadoes it was divided
into are precinets, and had five Courts of Common
Pleas. the Judges in which were planters, and not
profeffional men. There was al(o a Court of Error
and Chancery, confilling of the Governor and Coun-
cil. • He flared there things merely for the purpofe
that the mandamufes might be properly direeted,
00 their being ilfued. He then moved fimilar man-
damufes on the part of the Crown, in which the
Court acquiefced, making the Rules moved on both
fides abfulute.