Star.
London, England, 1828-11-21 00:00:00

COLCHESTER MT CLUB DINNER.

Tuesday this- Club celebrated their Twenty•secnad
Anniversary at the Three Cups Inn, and the attendance
was highly respectable and numerous, there being pre.
sent 112 Gentlemen id high character and consequence.
Sir G. H. SMYTH, Bart..M.P. presided in the Chair,
supported by Sir. tI:1 AII HARVEY, M.P. Sir JOHN Ty-
att.t., Bart. QUINTIN Dtcx, Esq. M.P. Archdeacon
LvALL, and several of the Clergy, Cclonel BRAMSTON.
the Mayor pf Colchester, W. SPA ALING, Esq. the High
Steward, Jun E ROUND, Esq. with most cf the Gentle-
men of the sown and neighbourhood, and many from
distant pints of the county, forming a larger assemblage
than urn -any formes occasion. An elegant dinner
was served up by Mr. Skitter, and the wines were ex
cellent. On the removal of the cloth, the Chairman gave,
The King, four times four—Tutte. GOD save the Ring.
The Duke of Clarence and the rest of the Royal Family.
l'rotestant Ascendancy.
la giving the latter toast, which Was drunk with en-
thusiasm,lthe worthy CHAIRMAN stated that it was in
contemplation to establish a Brunswick Club in this part
of the County, having for its object the protection End
rniinienance of the Protestant Ascendancy in Church
End State. Sir E. Hai vey, Sir John 'I)
re.., Colonel
Bramstcn, and Mr. J. Bound, although living at a dis-
tant part of the County, begged that their names might
be enrolled inthe Colchester Brunswick Cluti, promising
their. countenance and support, and the company testi-
fied their approbation by loud acclamations.

The immortal mrmory of Mr. Pitt.
'Phi 'hike Wellingtoit,• Mr. Peel, and the rest of his Majesty's
Ministers.

Sir G. H. Sirrythi--(by Colonel Baa)lsion).
Sir ESA Harvey and the. Tree Blues of Fuse=.
The, Bishop -of 1.03j011, the venerable Archdeacon, and the
Clergy of the Diocese.
The Lard Lieutenant of the County. •
Hugb Dick and the True Blues of Waldo&
Mr.-Quiutin dick.
Colonel•Bnniston.
The Mayor and Corporation of Colchesten•
Ihe High Strsvan:.
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Mr. Raley (Mayes) and the True Blares! Harw •
Mr. Mayhew and the True Blues of London.
The Stewards of the Day.
Mr. A. F. Miller.
The;klayitr of Malden, J. S. Hance, Esq.
TiresSetwards Elect—Colonel Bramston, Quintin Dick, Esq.
11. P., John Round, Esq. Gunge Round, Esq. the Mayor of Col.
clieuer, and 11. Ronnieles, Esq.
Success to;he intruded Cekbester and Essen Brunswick Club—
(by die Mayor).
Cu*.. Conyers and the True Blues of Epping—(by
.Mr. Dick).
Lacy Smyth, Miss Smyth, and the lipase of Beerchnrch—(by
Mr. Dick).
The True•Blties of Chelmsford. •
hir..Gatreu, and the True Blues of Ipswich, Sec.
Tne worthy and much respected Baronet left the
Chait eleten o'clock, and the company separated
shortly:After..
Itrivas wills great pleasure we remarked the unani-
twist leiling which prevailed in favour of Protestant
Ascend:l:icy. ':'very • Gentleman she spoke on the
occasion seemed impressed with the conviction of the
nece,sity of establishing Brunswick Clubs, and making
a great and decided stand against all encroachments on
our glorious Cruittitution, as established at the Revolu-
tion in I6BS. _

The three un'ortunate persons who were injured on
Tuesday by the exit'. Lion of gas at Covent-garden
Theatie, and taken to Middlesex Hospital, were last
night ail ctritig
The damage done to the interior of Covent Garden
Ilearte is comparatively trifling—fifty to one hundred
pout,ds will be the utmost of the expense of the repa•
ration. The proptieors having removed" every par-
ticle of the ga. aopai 3tus, could, wit% perfect ease, open
the Theatre on Monday ; but a filed determination on
their parr that even tr.e smell should be entirely get rid
f, will recision them to deter the commencement Lur
a len...days after that period.
A few years ago, a similar accident to that on Tues-
day at• Covent garden Theatre occulted at the Argyll
*Rooms, by the explosion of gas. but not attended with
the same calamitous consequences. Mr. Ttrou.%s
Watan, the composer, was very much scorched by the
igniting of the gas in an old gasometer there, and
others were also injured, bt tno lives were lost. Gaso.
meters shnuld never be erected in those places where
the daylight could not always be introduced, so that the
workmen need not have recourse to candle-light while
tepairing them, or removing the residue of the gas
-when it was deemed necessary.
At the termination of NI ACRPADY'S performance of
Othello, oti Fritlay, the lagu of the evening was nearly paid in good
suo:h for his assumed villany. When uttering the words—" If
thou art a devil, I cannot kill thee," instead of passing the sword
behind the back of logo, Mecums's' miscalculating his distance,
energetically drove its point through the doublet, close to the very
skis of Mr. J. SHITH (logo). The latter Gentleman feeling the
cold steel passing in actual contact with his skin, suddenly placed
his hand on 'the spot to feel fur blood, imagining that he was
wounded. On undressing. he found that there were double open-
ings in his dress, even unto the shirt, the sword having made a
complete transit. It is nor always safe to be opposed to an veer.
erne actor. Mrs. Hannan, it will be recollected, was only aped
from being stabbed-by the same Gentleman last year it Norwich,
when playing Virig.ittio to his Virsholoo.—lihri-Iferaid.,
A Commercial Convention has been concluded be-
ta een the Emperor cf Russia and the King of Srolio,
regulating the intercourse between their respective sub-
jects, and by which the vessels of Russia and tolansi
en one side, and those of Sweden and Norway on the
other, shall be treated in Os ports of the contracting
Powers on the same terms as national vessels, with to
gird to port duties, tonne; e, pilot tge, &c. and also te
all duties to be paid to the Cro• 0, 0 tbv.t.rwns, to to
kthate establisbMents dticrirtios,.

SHE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CLERGY.
1 - DECLARAtION.'..
We, the undersigned Clergy of the county of Note
tinghans, sensible of the-blessinks ue enjoy under the
good and glorious Constitution r four country rn Church
and State, and firmly attached to the P., otestant religion.
of which that Constitution is the safeguard, resolve and
pledge ourselves to uphold the same --by all the means
which we can legally exert. Feeling impressed with the
conviction that it is the design of the Roman Catholics
to subvert the Established Church, and finally to sub-
stitute their own, we deem it expedient to publish a
declaration of our sentiments.
Anxious as we have been to ascertain the truth of
what is asserted by the Roman Catholics, that a change
has now taken place in their sentiments and feelings
towards us in those points which justly excited appro.
hesisions in the breasts of our forefathers, use lament. to
find that neither in civil nor religious matters has any
effectual change been manifested. But, on the contrary,
that the same disposition on the part of the Romisli
Church to impede the distribution of the Bible, and awl
diffusion of the Gospel light. exists at the presentmo-i
anent with all the determination of former times. ,
We are desirous that the State should continue to
tolerate, to the greatest extent compatible with its se-
curity, every description of Dissenter from our National
Church, and to give its utmost protection to
.411 such
persons in the exerci,e of their religious worship ; and
were we assured that the Roman Catholics, our fellow-
subjects, could give the same security with the Protes-
tants, of their allegiance to the Sovereign of these
Realms, we should be alike desirous for them equally
to participate in the same rights and privileges With'
out selveh; but it is our firm belief, grounded upohpast
experizoce, that without such security they cannel' be'l
admitted into places of mist and power, witly.ut en-
dangering the Constitution both in Church and State.
We entertain serious apprehensions that the Roman
Catholics, in their d:mand for what is tailed is Emaa-1
's
cipation," are aimin,t, under the pretence r f political
power, only at the exaltation • f their Church, and the
suppression of our own. And when we contemplate the
bold and illegal means resoited to for compassing this.l
end—when we see the threldom eaercired over the
Roman Catholics by their Pries•s—and how religion
has been made an instrument i f a factious and trea—
sonable tendency, we feel called upon to declare it the
duty which we owe to our ceuntry,-to the-accred cause'
of our religion, and to the spiritual we fate ef those cola'
fided to our charge, to maintain and uphold, by our
best endeavours, the Protestant Ascendancy.
(Here follow the name.).

•

LETTER FROM Slit TES. LETHBRIDGE.

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, TROMANRY, AND tbitt.
'HABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET.
• • Emmons PAar, Nov. 18, 1828.
GENTl.lll4llN—Having received nelorrtiati-n ;hat rtis
intended by several individuals of great zespetubLity
*nil influence, in the eastern part of the county, td place'
their signa.ures to a declaration, which shall announce
their unalterable attachment to the Protestant C•onstitu.
lion of these realms in ChUrch and State-r•and having
been requested to place •my signature to• Such de-•
claratioo—l cannot but desire' to do so in the .m6tl .
public manner, and to seize the 6p,_renttuteity of laying
befole you, very shortly, my views on the occasion. .
You are, and have been, no doubt, anxiously attend:
ing to all that has 61 late passed regarding that great
question, which is, as I thick, very absurdly cal
" Catholic Emancipation;". acd very probably have
reflected, not without apprehension, on what may be
'the result, in the next Session, of the conduct of r.-
,liament and Government with reference in that subject•
you are also, I should conceive, well acquatuted
the alarming measures so long and so siudac;ously per-
sued by that illegal and unconstitution4l bOdy in
land, styling themselves r• The' Catholic Association,"
whereby a degree of excitement 'and animosity has been
awakened in the minds of our Woman Catholic fellow:
subjects, equally subversive of their happiness as men,
their duty as loyal subjects, and dangerous in theca-
tieme to that part of the United. Empire.
These measures, as a natural consequence,have stirred
up the Pt, to tants in Ireland to a just sense of their
danger, and they base assumed a position of defence,
by as-ociating them elves in clubs, which is justified
only by the provocation tt ey have received; rand which
it i; to be hoped will avert the horrors of another series
of anarchy and rebellinn in that unhappy portion of cm
common country.
With these events before you, and others springing
from the same cause, which are daily occurring in.
Enelane'„ a here association, are formed and forming,
with a view to delend all that is clear to fteetren—
their religion, their liberty, and their laws-4. eanneit
thir.k 'hat you will deem this .address either illetinier''
or unnecessary, my object hieing .to submit to you the
paramount obligation which .11 men are now undsr,
who. are resolved to maintain unimpaired that vital
principle of the British Constituti,n. 64 Tire notes-
writ Ascend:alley in Church and State," to come forward
and avow themselves. That principle, Gentlemen, is
now openly attacked by its bitterest enemies; and whit
is most singular, many of its friends are supporting
those who make the attack, from a deluded notion, that,
no such attack can do it any harm. • How long this
delusion will continue, and to what straits it stray bring
the Government ard the count!, no man can Corset;
but it is a fact, only necessary to be laid bale to. the
hi.nesty and the patriotism of the people of • England,
to rouse them to action. That action, Gentlemen, Will
be best shown, and prove most effective, by your com-
ing forward in parishes, say, one, two, et Om. united
AS may be most convenient, and agreeing upon a mo-
derate but determined appeal to the Parliament of this
United Empire, setting forth all the benefits which
liberty of conscience in religious .matters has conferred
for many years last past on this great natiun, and the
fixed determination Which is kit, not to put- that great
blessing to the risk of being, injured or lost.
Gentlemen, the moves* at which I write is on which
calls for the honest and fearless avowal of every man's
sentiments; and he who shrinks from the duty may be
inflicting a wound on his country that may be long felt.
Under this feeling it is, that disregarding all censure for
thus intruding myself upon your notice,' have presumed
to address these few words to you; and I have'the
bonnets •NO remain, your much obliged sad .faithful
Friend and Representative, .„
T. BUCKLER LETHBRIDGE.

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A serious accident occurred in Coventry osb Tuesday
list The Lord Primate of Ireland, accompanied by
his sister, Lady Anne Beresford, arid' his nige. Missi
Beresford. was proceeding on his journg tow.. aidio Ire•
land, in his private carriage, when the azle-tree br9kr,
and threw them with violence out of the carriage. "Thv
whole rf the party were more or less hurt; but the
waiting maid of L,ady Aerie Beresford was most seriqi
ops)y_injurad. His Lordship Wald arrived in Londonlos
order to celebrate the mat riage of his niece, Lady Bp?
Beresiord, Visount

• TO TIE finrrOß''
Szu.t.itour inueNno of the .following pardculararilattveto the
two unfortunate individuals who were suffocated at the Ere which
took place in Covent Garden Theatre oo Tuesday last, will essen-
tially serve the cause of charity, which 1 on contioced.wilL be a
sufficient muse (or my troubling you on the subject. Any sub
scription which th.: humanity of the public may place in my hands,
or cohtribute at thd Boa Office of the Theatre, shall be duly ap-
propriated, and an account thereof open for inspection at the latter
place. at all times,
William Douglas, a person of the utmost integrity and a most
valuable servant, has been employed in the Theatre about seven
years; be has left an aged mother, who was entirely dependant
upon him fur support, a wife, now pregnant, and three young
children, the eldest of whom is imbecile.

Richard Fennell, a very respectable man, employed occasionally
at the Theatre for two or three years, has left a, widow now preg-
nant, and three children, entirely destitute.
I am, Sir, your very obedient Servant,

HENRY ROBERTSON.
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Nov. 20,1828.

WRECK OF THE BEAUFORT CASTLE.

'SOU .A LIVERPOOL PAPER.

We have this week the painful duty of laying before
our readers the very melancholy n Mileage of the loss of
die bark Beaufort Castle, belonging to Messrs. C. Hors-
fall and T. Tobin, of this town:
The Beaufort Castle, which was a fine vessel of 400
tons burden, New' Brunswick-built, and needy new,
commended by Mr. 'Peter Jackson, sailed from this port
nn gunday, the 17th of February, with a crew consisting
of 28 men, on a voyage to Bonny. on the coast of
Africa, where she arrived in safety ; and, having taken
in her cargo 'of palm oil and ivory, left Bonny and
touched at Fernando Pe, from which she sailed on the
22d of August, .and proceeded prOsperously on her
homeward voyage, until Wednesday, the Bth of Oct.
when being In lit. 29 deg. 30 min. long. 30 deg. i gale
cements- from the Northward, which incteased with
considerable violence during the day. The vessel was
laid. to under a double-reefed rnain.topsail, and in this,
posititms continued during the night. sibbout eight o'clock
the next morning the wind suddenly dropped, and the
vessel fell off into the trough of the sea, and the fore
scuttle being carried away, in spite of every exertion
which was made by the crew, Cie skater rushed into arid
ailed the hold. The wind snots after springing up with
Terrific fury from the W.S.W. took the maintop sail
a-back,' and threw the vessel on hew beamends. The
main lanyards were directly cut? he 'mast went by the
boatd, and was almost immediately followed by the
foremsst.safter *filch the vessel. righted. The wind still
blew, if possible, with increased fury. until the night,
the Isoruns (fa Lich were greatly increased by almost
pitchy darkness, when a heavy sea, which struck the ill
fated ship on the larboard quarter, anti tore up the decks
with a -tiemendous noise, washed the Captain -and nine
nips ins) their watery grave. The sea now made con-
tinued breacht over the deck of the vessel, and, at dif-
fers:simian a. carried' away 13 others of the cr: w.
he chief mate, Mr. Colli,r, and the seven surviving
men, now . lashed themselves to the shrouds of the
rn*en-nt• st, and had the heart-tending mortification
of seeing. a dismasted ship, tie crew of .which were
htp.ily employed in Jigging up jury-masts, pass to e
ward. Evety signal wh ch they could possibly make
waidisregarded,, and the unfortunate men found them-
selves destitute of food of any kind, cons Tacitly ex-
posed to all the horrors of famine, and. chive n about at
tf.e mercy of a t. mpestuous sea, apparently, and, in all
hu..
nran probability, without the slightest prospect of
:dia. In this, II all others, most dreadful apd of pal
hog conditini., they almost miraculously existed until
the fourth day. when, being reduced ne .tly to the lasi
exttemity, hope, their only res. nice, having alms st if
not entirely failed, and death, with all its terrors, stalling
their in the. face, kwatchful and kind Faortne.ce di
meted a tresse-1 to their aid. A sail appeared on the
'unison, bore down, and rescued the care-worn and
emaciated more like shadows than
substantei, finds the wreck.
T e vessel which trek them up Proilsa-to hi Le Ce-
,tonwire, a Flinch bilk, book! to-Boston (Llnieed St ttr:3
and by the Captain and crew' every satiety was mani-
fested and care bestowed lot the recotett of those whom
they hid preserved, and under the foster inglcaie of the
Frenchmen the pour franks rapidly recovered. The
Captain of the brig stated that his vesel Lad been dis-
masted in the gale, arid that he had a lew'days be'ore
passed tan dismasted vessels. In a few days Le C..ton-
oei.e fvl, in with the Britis s brig Bolivar, from Santos,
hound.to Falirusitih, into hi:11 vessel the shipwrecked
crew were transferred, and having soon after met the
13rittsh ship Bolivar, from Bombay for tiis port, -mate and four r f the. m'qr were 'taken on board am!
arrived here safely on llouriuy morning last. The
other dare searnzn have, if c.surie,. proceeded to Fat-
month.
We subjoin a list of the names of the unfortunate men who
perished— Pett tliteksem; Captain; James Taylor, second mate;
John Gust.:o; sail maker; John Eddleston, surgeon; Joseph
Murphy, carpenter; John Long, cook ; "John Sloane, steward ;
Parrivk M'Gutk, Thomas M'Phalan Daniel F:itzgt:Fald, and John
Bradshaw, , coopers ; John Lennard, Daniel M'Phalan, John
Brownbill, Humphrey Williams, Marshall Snowden (Joseph, Ma-
nuel,•blacks), Antonin Pierce, a Portugueie and John Colclotigh,
seamen; Thomas Sproston, apprentice; and William Dunstan, a
respectable young man (family at present unknown), who came as
passenger in the vessel from Fernando Po.

•
THE Two Mord Iti.—As the.e are now two PARKIFS
on the Bench, some doubt has arisen how to distinguish them.—
The wits at Westniimter have, however, hit upon a tilqinction
which.may serve: JAMS being the name of the eider, coupled
with the odour of sanctity which accompanies him, they propose
to tali bin)" St. James's Park;" and the younger, " Green Patk.
The Exeter Petitions against the C.,tholic Claims re-
celvetil the signatores of nearly three thousand persons in the course'
of the first day. •
A school for the instruction of. the children of the
Portuguese Emigrants has been. established' in None-
stteet, Plymouth, under the auspices of the Portuguese
authorities, and of several benevolent persons cf that town.
The city of Brussels on Saturday was so abundantly
supplied with corn, that pried declined very materially.)
It is stated that the streets were all literally blt.cked up
with waggons, laden with this precious product of tl e
earth : the supply was greater than ever had been re-
membered.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Nov. 21.
The Waling Trade was exceedingly dull this morning, although
we had many buyers at market ; but they were more engaged in
viewing the quantity of Foreign Wheat exhibited than in purchasing,
and the tales made were at a reduction of 2s. per quarter from the
prices of tdonday. Fine Malting Raley sold at 435. per quarter,
and the distillers purchased at 351. per quarter. Oats were very
dell !ale, and rather lower. .
lIMITUZTATIONS WM MONINIT.
*heat, F.nglish (qrs.)* 2,020 *- Foreign
I.lrish 1,150 Oats, English
Foreign , 10,010 , • Irish
Earley, Kuala*, 1000 Foreign
Irish .-- Flour '(sacks)'
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov: 21.

400
• 1 ,010
11,550

I-400
9,700

CA171.11 Al ISASICAT.
1 Beasts 555 I Sheep 4,040 Pigs 140 I Calves 164
Beef . ...5a &I to oar 4401 Veal . . 48 4d to Ss Od
11foli . 41. .04- 41 Ihr Pork . .4. 6d 5s 44
vffay per lerscl, XII 10s. to £4 ss. Clover .€.l les. to 25 Os.•-•
Straw £1 10s. to .61 lib • ' . .

LAW INTELLIGENCE;
•N•effUlti - OP CHAtießliit. blev.

WILLIS. V. BLACK.
The LORD CHANCILLoK gave judgriver in this ease;
the question on which arose upon the construction of a
colseitant contained in 4 'settlement made on the Mr.
ria,;e of a Gentleman named HO:nby with a Lady
named Black. The• father of . Miss Black covenanted
in that settlement, to give the partips to the marriage
And their heirs, by Vs ail! 'or others. i-e, as large n por!
trim ti hi. property as he should give by his • ill or
.other wise t 4, any or his younger children, the gift to •
take effect upon the dea'h of the survivor of himself
and his pre-ent wile ; onethousand four hundred pounds
was advanced by Mr. Black at the per sod of the mar.
flag.; I e had also advanced to several of his younger
children sums of money both prior to, 4nd after the date.
f the marriage settlement ; it was cont• nded that
the settlement had 4 retrospective and, ptospectjvp
effect, and that in an account to be taken betwecis
the patties, those sumi so a..eanCed to the .yOungrr
children should be .taken into the iiii-ount. • Upon
the matter coming on bif 4re Lis 'Honour tie Vice.
Chancellor, he directed an account to be taken in that
firm. Upon a re-heating before him, hiS Honour te.-
verseil that cUkisitin he tato, and it was against the last
judgment cf his Honour that the parties appealed to
this Court. His Lordship, of er going some length into
the settlement, thought the decree a hich•was first pro.
n•,tanced by the Vice-Chancellor WAS the right one. as
far as it decided that the covenant had a ptosPect've
effect ; but with respect to its having u,retrospective
effect, the Court reversed that part 4f the decree. tits''
I.o,dehip directed that.the 1,4001. advanced by the
Cuter at the mairiage shirul.l be consideted as an items •
in the account between the parties, and ordered it to be
brought into Cou t.
COUItT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. to.
•• .
TULA 1. AT BAR.
Tilt EXECUTORS:OV JORIIIM kuleg v. gßeveov.
At ten o'ciock their Lordships tiu.k weir seats on the
Bench, and, in the absence of use o the ,Jurors, dispftbred
or a few motions of coutrse. On the names of the Jurors
being called, •
Lord TEBTBRDRN called on the S licitor-G-neral to
proceed with his evidence on the part of the defendant..
Mr. Illingwo: th was then swr:rit, and examined by
the SiLICITOR-GKKBRAL.--atre copies !muddied' *ere
OM acts from the Ehomsday Book, and translations of
,he Latin copies; these eurActs were solely with se.
terence to the Duchy of Cornwall. Witness Olen read
he first copy, *filch stated tEe right to be vested in
King William, his brother, Earl Moreton, and five
others— theoriginal was in the Tosser of L•mcf..n.•
Mr. Baker-cies k ri, the T4a er of London, produce¢
copies f a Charter,-granted in the 15th year or,the
reign of Henry the Third, 1251.- taken (toil'
ginal in the Tower ; also copies of 4-streets... Mai tbir
.H. ndred R all amid Commissiuss.. , ,
Mr. Harding, clerk 1 f4l4e•R•TOrd •Qffice, Tower, dfla
posed sesichios, but could not find Life- inquisition of
Edgard 11. •

• Mr. BRutIGHAM raised e. point, on the ground that
the defendant did t produce evidence relating to.sho
particular barony Which belongs to tt:e sultjett ut goer
tion.—Mt. East( tsa, and thiee junior Costistl, 1011uwed
On the same side.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL. replied at great length;
hut was interrupted by
Los d TeNTpeUEN, who, addressing himself to .
Broughaim.,sAid be was going to offer an opinion whiils
would n• t, ill any mannei, affect his caireitamely. Oat
the Attorney• General staled that he intended fferirg
certain evidence, btfore which the present iaestiots be.
came premature. -
Illingwoith, in cootinnation. read estraiteffelli
the copies produced, whicl , and the reading. of &kw.
meotai y evidence, occupied tie remainder of the day.
Mr. BROUGHAM objected to the adiniision r f leases
of the Duchy-lands held in ether towns and eranOre, of
the ground th..t the terms cf. other leases c..uld trace no
belting On the land in dispute.
The Cotticr held that the Attorney General 'fiaighs.•
offer pool .of a general custom in the leasing t f land,
in the .duchy.

Evidence was accordingly r•ceived of what was called
free conventional ten►rres, rr pea able on petition attti-t179.
payment of fines to the Lord every se,sten sy, ar•. z'
The reports of M►nisters of the Church, pr. ving the'
payment o► fines under the ►aid tenures, were also luX
in and read.
Lord TaNTERDeN, at six o'circlr, said the hour for
fu►thrr adj urnment of the ptocte sings had censer and
t e Court thereupon adjourned tint" tomorrow atom•
rug ( his dal).
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Getuwar.L. Nov. to.

LIBILL—TAYLOR V. LA SUN.
Mr. Sergeant ANDIUWS stated the plair tiff's case
The action, he said, was brought by 4 parish constable
against the pricier of the limes newspaper, to recover
compensation for the injury dare him by Vet, publics,
tion of a police report of proaedinge that took place
at Hatton-garden Police-office, in which .the plaintiff!'
' name was most unnecessarily and injuriously intro.
duce) in. his absence. He did not mean to go into the
general and most important question—the right of, in
any case, puSlishing the pioceed.ngs of Police offices;-.
but, if the accusation made against the plaintiff in
Abe publication sr ete true, he would be so d.sgraced-
at to I. obliged to retire from society, and be ring
dmed incapable of earning his daily bread. Whet*
a man was so attacked, what course had he to pursue
but to appeal to p Jury of his country, and ask them to
tell him by,their verdict what recompense they would
expect to receive for such an injury. The plaintiff was.
a respectable man, and bad for many years bcen cons.
stable and
.hersdbortingh of Sr. Luke's, from which he
went to reside in iii piiish of Islington; and, in con-
sequence of his gcioci character, became constable there.
The libel of which he complained, charged him with
having apprehended a man of the name of Walker, on
a charge of bigamy. and that he attended, with other
witnesses, at the Old Bailey, and tad, for the purpose
of obstructing the course of justice, kept back the wit--
nesses ; in consequence, the pristine'. was acquitted. The
fact was, the trial had been called on. and by one of
those accidents which sometimes occurred in criminal
Courts, the prisoner was acquitted, for want of any wit.
nesse: to prosecute. A few days alter the trial, the pri•
soner's wile, attended by the parish officers of St James.
Clef kenwell, made an applicauon at the Hatton garden
Police office, to obtain an order against the husband hrei
the mail ten nee of his wife ; and on the neat day, the
13th of A pit, the grossly scandalous libel complained of
appeared in the Time: newspaper, not, he admitted, as of
the Paper's own suggestion, but as a report cf what had
taken place at the Police office. The Learned Sergeant
here detailed the particulars of the report, and observed
that at least the introduction of the plaintiff's name
must be admitted to be irrelevant. The defendant badk
pleajal a jastification, and before he could entitle him,
self to their verdict, he must prove the facts stated**
the, publication to be true. The Jury would consider
that a **Mkt fqr ‘be clefeadunt would here 'he