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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY V.
THE KING V. WEAVER.
This was a prosecution against the defendant for
a libel on Lady Tankerville, which appeared in the
John Bull.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the Jury as
Counsel for the defendant. He said it was not the
intention of the defendant to deny the publication
vas libellous, and therefore he submitted to a ver-
dict of guilty, reserving what he might have to say
in extenuation for another time and place.
Mr. Sen. RLET T, who appeared for the prosecution,
observed that he could not object to a verdict of
guilty being recorded, but he made no admissions or
reservations in consequence thereof.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said the defendant had per-
mitted a verdict to pass against him, and the Jury
would and the defendant guilty.
The Jury accordingly delivered a verdict of Guilty.
AWK ES V. COSTER.
The plaintiff, a merchant in the city of Ishirwich,
brought his action against the defendant, also a met-
chant, in Lad-lane, Cheapside, to recover damages
for words having a tendency to injure him in his
trade. The words in the declaration were, "Hawkes
has stopped payment."
Mr. SUM being examined, it appeared that Coster
had merely mentioned a report brought to his ware-
house by a man named Dere, and as there was no
evidence to ,uni-,ort the declaration, the plaintiff
was nonsuitc.!

MAT rnzws U. OXENFORD.
Tie plaintiff sought to recover part of a large sum
of money which he advanced to the defendant and
others, for the purpose of carrying on the business of
Stock-brokage.
The defence was, that the money had been ad-
vanced to promote a gambling transaction; but the
Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages £5OO.
SINAPSON U. TUCKER.
This was an action on two bill of exchange ac-
cepted by the defendants, Tucker and Voolcott, glass
cutters, residing in High Holborn.
Mr. SCARLETT, who was Counsel for Tucker only,
said Wooleott cornfiitted an act of bankruptcy, and
some private transaction of his, induced him to give
the bill in question his own name and that of his part-
ner. The defence of the action rested solely on that
part of the ca..e.
The Cot EF JUSTICE said there would be an end to
the circulation of bills of exchange, if such a trans-
action could prevent the plaintiff, who had no know-
ledge of the fraud, from recovering.—The Jury
found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £209.
SECONDARIES' OFFCE, JULY 26.
STEPHENS V. BROGDEX.
This was an inquiry to assess the damages to which
the plaintiff was entitled in an action for assault, in
which the defendant had suffered judgment by de-
fault. The damages were laid at £lOOO.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the plaintiff's case. He
said the action was brought for such compensation'
as damages could make for a most grievous assault
that had been committed by the defendant on the
plaintiff. The defendant, by allowing judgment
against him by default, had admitted that he could
not deny or justify the assault of which the plaintiff
complained. Tile plaintiff brought the subject before
a Jury with pain ; but he felt it his bounden duty,
both as a man and as a citizen of London, who had
been cruelly injured in his person and his feelings, to
appeal to a tribunal of his fellow-citizens for such
redress as their verdict could afford. The plaintiff,
Mr. Stephens, is a jeweller, living in Castle-street,
Holborn. Mr. Brogden, the defendant, is also a
jeweller, living in Bridgewater-square, Barbican. It
happened that some time since, information was given
to the master goldsmiths, that the jewellers were in
the habit of selling mourning rings without the Hall
stamp, by which means they avoided the payment
of a fee that is charged on affixing the stamp at the
Hall. The master goldsmiths, in consequence of
this information, called a Court of Warders, to take
the subject into consideration. The jewellers were
alarmed, as they had great numbers of these un-
stamped rings on hand ; and they called a meeting
on the 31st of May, to gonsider how they should
act. This meeting was respectably attended, and
Mr. Stephens was present. A Mr. M‘Gregor asked
who gave the information to the master goldsmiths ?
A person who stood near Mr. Stephens replied Brog-
den. A friend of Mr. Brogden's said, " Whom does
lie say ?" Mr. Stephens answered Brogden. The
next day Mr. Stephens received a note from Mr.
Brogden : they were acquainted, and were both cre-
ditors of a person who was then insolvent. The note
was as follows :—" Bridgewater-square, June Ist.
J. Brogden's compliments to Mr. Stephens, will feel
obliged by his calling on him at Bridgewater-square,
on business equally important to both, before four
o'clock to-day, or to-morrow morning." Mr. Ste-
phens immediately went to Mr. Brogden's house,
where he found him in his counting-house, a clerk,
and the porter who had brought the note, being pre-
sent. On Mr. Stephens's entrance, Mr. Brogden sent
the porter out, and after shutting the door, went into
an inner room, from which he instantly returned with
a large whip in his hand. Ile addressed Mr. Ste-
phens, saying, " And so, Mr. Stephens, you called
me an informer before eighteen persons last night ;"
and without waiting for any reply, he struck Mr.
Stephens over the eyes with the handle of the whip,
in a manner that caused the blood to gush out and
stain the silver articles that lay on a counter in the
loom : he continued beating Mr. Stephens about the
head with the whip till he broke it; and even then,
riot content, he seized the larger part of the handle
and continued to beat Mr. Stephens till the clerk,
who was present, interfered to save his life. Mr.
Stephens offered no resistance ; he had a complaint
in his eyes, and the first blow he received rendered
him incapable of making any defence. Soon after
the clerk had succeeded in saving Mr. Stephens's
life, Mr. Taylor came into the counting-house, and
on expressing his amazement at what he saw, Mr.
Brogden said—" Ify am deceived, I never can
make him amends. But should not a man of ma-
ture age and of sound mind have made inquiry be-
fore he would make such a violent attack on his fel-
low man? Mr. Stephens was taken home in a coach;
his life was for some time considered by his surgeon
in the most imminent danger, and even yet his reco-

very is doubtful. If the plaintiff sought for coin-
pensation for his personal sufferings, and his pecu-
niary loss, which, from being unable to attend to his
business, must be considerable, the Jury would feel
he had an irresistible claim but Mr. Stephens had
much higher claims: he was a most respectable ci-
tizen, deservedly esteemed by all to whom he was
known ; he possessed honour, and feeling, and sen-
sibility,—these had all been deeply wounded ; he was
a husband and a father, and had seen the dearest ob-
jects of his affection weeping round his bed in all the
agony of anticipated widowhood and orphanage.—
For these wounds of the heart the Jury were now
called on to make him the very inadequate satisfac-
tion that damages could give.
Mr. Taylor stated that he knows plaintiff and de-
fendant. Went to defendant's counting-house on the
Ist of June. As soon as he entered, Mr. Stephens
exclaimed—" Oh ! Mr. Taylor," and pointing to a
whip that lay broke on the floor, proceeded to tell
him that the defendant had violently beat him, at
the same time putting the defendant's note, inviting
him to call on him, into the witness's hand. Mr.
Stephens's face was cut, and there was blood on plate
that lay on the counter. Mr. Brogden put a letter
into the witness's hand, and desired him to look at
that, and he would judge of his feelings. Witness
followed Mr. Brogden up stairs, and on coming down
said to Mr. Stephens, that if Mr. Brogden was wrong
he would make reparation. Mr. Brogden had au •
thorised him to say. so. Mr. Stephens denied having
used any expression against Mr. Brogden, and men-
tioned several persons who could prove it. Mr. Ste-
phens's head appeared to have been washed, and he
went away in a coach.
Mr. Beveridge stated that he is a surgeon, and at-
tended Mr. S:ephens on the Ist of June and about a
month after; he had an inflammation of the eyes, a
violent contusion in the temple, and a laceration 01
the scalp : his life was in imminent danger : inflam-
mation still continues, and he should not be surprised
if fatal symptoms should even yet take place—he
had seen death ensue from less violence.

The plaintiff's case closed here.
Mr. WILK ES, for the defendant, conjured the Jury
to judge by what had been proved, not by what had
been stated. The defendants clerk had 'been pre-
sent from the beginning, and he was not called.
When Mr. Taylor saw the plaintiff he was after re-
ceiving the rites of hospitality (this expression ex-
cited some risibility in the auditory): his face, too,
had been washed, and he was sent home in a coach
procured by Mr. Brogden's courtesy.
Some of the Jury asked whether Mr. Wilkes would
produce any evidence to disprove the evidence that
had been heard ?
Mr. WILK es declined to produce any.
the SECONDARY summed up the evidence, telling
the Jury 'that if the defendant's clerk, who was pre-
sent at the beginning of the assault, could say any
*thing in mitigation, it lay in him (the defendant) to
produce him.
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict—Damages £BOO.
OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, JULY 26.

This day the COMMON SERJEA NT presided, in the
absence of the Judges, when the following prisoners
were tried:
Mules Ellis was indicted for stealing a quantity
of tea, the property of Sarah Cresswell.—Guilty.
William Richards was put to the bar on an indict-
ment charging him with stopping on the King's high-
way, and taking from the person of William Mar-
shall a watch, chain, seals, Etc.—Guilt:J.
Francis Peters n-as also indicted for stopping and
robbing Thomas Lee, of 16s. 6d.—Gnilty.
James Hammond was found guilty of stealing three
silver spoons, the prope:ty of -John Faulkner, in his
dwelling-house.
John Slum was also found guilty of stealing a
piece of cloth, value I.:1 Its. 61 the property of
William Walford and others.
Samuel Levy stood indicted for stealing from the
person of Thomas Mengo, on the King's highway,
6s. in silver, B:c.—Guilly.
John Read, a man of shabby appearance, but whose
language shewed him to be rather above the com-
mon thief, was indicted for stealing a mattress and
other property belonging to William Applebee.—
The prosecutor lived at Hoxton, and in the garden
attached to his house he had built a small summer-
house, in which he had placed a bed for his own ac-
commodation in the heat of the season. On the mat-
tress of this be he had painted, in large characters,
the words —" Stolen : be pleased to stop it." And
on the other side was inscribed the prosecutor's name
and address. One day in last month the summer-
house was completely stripped of all it, contents, and
the property was traced to the prisoner's lodgings.—
The room in which the prisoner lived was found to
be entirely fill-rd with articles of various descriptions,
which were proved to belong to many persons in the
neighbourhood who had lost their property. The
facts of the case were distinctly proved against the
prisoner, and he was found Guilty.
There were six other indictments against the pri-
soner, and no fewer than seventeen charges against
him for theft of various kinds.
The COMMON SERJEANT told the prisoner before
he was taken from the bar, that he was much too in.
genious a character to be suffered to remain in this
country !
Prisoner—" I hope that you will send me out of
the country, my Lord, and not on board the hulks."
COMMON SEnJEANr—" Your convenience will not
be consulted."
JULY 27.—James Turner and Henry Haskins
were indicted for stealing a £lO note, the property
of James Cooper.
The prosecutor stated that he was a servant out of
place, and on the sth July; as he was looking in at
a bookseller's shop, in Middle-row, Holborn, the pri-
soner Turner accosted him, and representing himself
as a cattle-dealer from the country, asked witness to
go to a public-house and take some porter. Witness
consented, and they went together to the Blue Posts,
in Southampton-buildings. In a few minutes Haw-
kins came in, seated himself by the witness, and
began conversing with him. Hawkins said that he
was a tradesman just come from the country to con-
sult a doctor concerning his health. Presently after-
wards a third man came in, and seated himself apart
from the rest of the company. A general conver-
sation took place, and Hawkins and the third man
who came in began to lay bets with each other. The
last man said, in a contemptuous tone, " Oh, you are

all poor fellows, and can't muster a sbillifig among'
you all." Hawkinsl appeared to be angry at this de-
elaration, and asked the apparent stranger what he
would bet that they could not produce ten pounds.
—The stranger replied that he would bet them one
pound each, that they could not produce so much
among them all. Hawkins then asked the witness
whether he had ten pounds about him. Witness
replied that he had ten pounds at home, which he
could fetch in a few minutes. Hawkins desired him
Ito do so, and they all came out together. Witness
accordingly went home, and brought the £lO to the
public-house. In a few minutes he was joined by
the two prisoners and the third man. The two pri-
soners then pulled out what they called a £lO note,
and witness produced his £lO note. The stranger
admitted that he had lost, but did not offer to pay.
—He then laid another bet with the prisoners about
some matter which witness did not understand; a
dictionary was, however, produced to decide the
wager: witness was asked to join in the bet, and he
said he had no objection, as he did not wish to carry
away the man's money. He was then induced to put
his £lO note into a hat with the prisoners notes, and
when the dictionary was examined the stranger told
him that he had lost the whole of it. Witness became
angry, and said he only intended to bet "double or
quits.' He then endeavoured to get his £lO note
from the hat, but the prisoner Hawkins snatched it
out, and the three went into the street, leaving wit-
ness alone. He endeavoured to stop them, but in
vain, and caned out lustily for assistance. A con-
stable followed and secured the prisoners: the third
man escaped. While the constable was holding Haw-
kins, the £lO note belonging to witness was seen to
drop from him.
The constable confirmed this evidence.

The defence of the prisoners was, that the prose-
cutor had laid the wager, and that the £lO had
been fairly won.
Some flash notes, used by men of the description
of the prisoners, for the purpose of swindling, were
found upon each of them. One of these notes was
of a very curious description. It was as follows:

" No. 7. I promise to pay to Talents, Ins and Outs, or
Bearer, Two Pence, when the Pensioned Drone and the De-
structive Monopolizing Locust shall have been removed from
the Hive of British Industry by the Axe or the Halter. London,
July 27, 1818. " For Groaner, Hardpinch, and Self.
" Pence TWO. (Signed) Shirtless Ragged Bottom.
" Entered, Tristram Moueyless."
In one corner of this precious document is a repre-
sentation of a bee-hive, with this motto, " Industry
blesseth a man—ldleness curseth him—Copy the bee!"
The Jury found a verdict—Guilty.
The COMMON SERJEANT told the prisoners that
they should be severely punished for their ingenuity.
Benjamin Jauncey, a genteel looking youth, was
indicted for stealing a purse, containing a guinea
and a sovereign, the property of Mr. James Ascott,
from his person.
Mr. Ascott was in the crowd at the Coronation,
when he felt himself suddenly hemmed in by a gang
of pickpockets, and his pockets were all turned inside
out, without his having the 'power to make the least
resistance. He lost nothing but his purse, contain-
ing the coins mentioned.
Gook, a constable, had been watching the prisoner,
and the rest of the gang, for some time, and he saw
him thrust his hand into Mr. Ascott's breeches pocket,
and take out the purse, and almost at the same instant
he seized the prisoner by the hand in which he held
the purse. Ile immediately dropped it.
The Jury found him Guilty.
In the course of the day many pickpockets were
tried and convicted of robbing Gentlemen at the
Coronation.

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Yesterday
E. Lee was charged at the Town Hall, Southwark,
with being concerned with divers others in robbing
Mr. Spicer on the highway. The prosecntor is fore-
man to Mr. Marriott, ironmonger, in Fleet-street,
and resides in Bedford-place, New Kent-road. On
Thursday night he was crossing the ruins leading
from the Borough-load to Newington Causeway,
when four men, of whom the prisoner was one, came
up, and with dreadful imprecations told him they
must have his money or his life. He said he had no-
thing worth their taking, when the prisoner felled
him to the ground. Prosecutor called ,g Murder 1" on
which one of the robbers jumped on his neck, and,
leaning his hand. against an adjoining wall, conti-
nued jumping upon his throat till his cries were,
stifled, whilst another was employed in kicking him
in the ribs; he was then seized by the waistband of
his trowsers, turned on his face, and his pockets
rifled of their contents, which amounted to 3s. Gd.
Disappointed at finding such a trifle, they commenced
kicking and beating him with increased violence, till
at length his senses forsook him, and he had no fur-
ther recollection of what occurred, till he found him-
self in the care of an Officer. J. Kinsey, an Officer
belonging to the Office, stated, that be was on duty
in the Dover-road, and met the prisoner and three
others. Knowing them all to be thieves, he watched
their motions, and soon saw a gentlemanly-looking
man approach. The gang immediately came before
him, and one of them, whom he believed to be the
prisoner, said, a D—n your eyes, stand and deliver
your money !" To which the stranger replied, in a
cool dispassionate manner, " Take care of yourself,
my ft iend, for ril not suffer myself to be robbed by
the whole four of you !" The robber then prepared
to attack him, OR which the Gentleman produced a
pair of pistols, and swore that he would blow out the
brains of the first man that attempted to offer violence.
On hearing this threat, they ran off, and the former
pursued his way very deliberately. Witness then
left his hiding-place, and was proceeding along the
• road, when his attention was arrested by cries of
ig Murder !" from the ruins on the side of the Borough-
road. He proceeded in that direction, and beheld
• under a wall the body of a man, and the four per-
sons whom he had seen in the road, kicking and
beating the prostrate man. He then drew his cll.-
lass and rushed upon the aggressors, on which thry all
ran away; but he pursued, and secured the prisoner,
and, having gained assistance, he took him to the
watch-house, and carried Mr. Spicer to a place of
safety; after which he was carried home in a shock-
ingly bruised and mangled state. The prisoner de-
nied the robbery. He was fully committed.
UNION Ham..—Yesterday a Mrs. Larking, re-
siding in Red Cross-street, Southwark, made a com-
plaint to the Magistrates that a starling, which she
had lost on Saturday last, had got into the posses•

elan of a man named Corbett, a shoemaker, also re.
siding in Red Cross-street; that she had applied to
him to make restitution of the bird, and he had re.
fused. The Magistrate issued a summons for Cnr-
bett to attend before him, to state why he iinlaw.
fully detailed the property. Gill, an officer, was
dispatcbed with the summons, and soon appeared in
Court with Corbett, who admitted the bird was a
stray bird, and it might belong to Mrs. Larking, but
it had cost him 4d. to keep, and he never would part
with it. The Magistrate decided that the bird sho'uLs,
be restored, upon Mrs. Larking paying him 41 112
made no reply on leaving the Office with the opfi,er
to fetch the bird, but his gestures expre%sed a de.
termination to act in opposition to the Magistrate's
decision. In a short time Gill, the officer, a..ain re.
turned with the defendant, and in Gill's hand:ay the
poor starling, but, alas! it was dead. Pleasere
beamed in the eyes of the defendant, and his looks at
the Magistrate seemed to say, :4 I have cheated you."
The complainant, Mrs. Larking, was greatly dis-
tressed, and the Magistrate called upon Gill to er_
plain what had taken place during his absence. t
stated, that on the defendant arriving at his house he
(the defendant) went into an apartment to fetch the
bird, when he (witness) heard the bird y
The witness meant that the bird was speaking; and
in a moment the defendant entered the mini a ith the
bird quite dead, having twisted its neck. 'rho ma-
gistrate told the defendant that his conanct was ;am
base and unmanly, and ordered him to be turne ; ,at
of the Office, and he regretted that it was nut h/s
power to punish him.
HATToN-GA RDEN.—A few days since, the wire of
an egg-merchant on Saffron-hill, eloped with A.
Newdin, a Frenchman, with whom her husband
dealt, taking with her £470 in notes and sovcrelites.
They were traced to Portsmouth, where they were
about to embark for France, when the gallant was
secured, and brought to this Office. On bin, was
found a considerable part of the property, 00 of
which being in notes, were idcr.titied, but 4 great
part being in sovereigns, of cotir,c could not. He
acknowledged he had received .010 iron: he! to put
her into business. He was remanded, to give time
to secure the faithless female.

Wednesday last, as Mr. Thomas Farmer, cf the
Nag's Head public-house, in the city of Oxford, was
in the act of throwing from the hayloft a truss of
hay, a child happened to pass at the instant, and con-
ceiving that the truss would inevitably fall on the
child, he in checking it for the child in pass, lost his
balance, and fell with the truss into thy: st:eet, and
unfortunately broke his thigh.
A discovery has late) been introduced which bids
fair to supersede the necessity of a Dentist : BCDSON'S
BOTANIC TOOTPI lOWDeft is a certain remedy and pro
ventive for all Disorders of the Month. It rot merely cleanses
and beautifies the Teeth, but preserves them from Ll...ray Rothe
latest period of life. It makes them white, fastens such as are
louse, prevents those decayed growing worse, remove, the Tutu
and cures the Scurvy in the Hums, leaving them firm and of a
healthy redness. It is an antidote fog Gum Swelled race,
and that excruciating pain, the Tooth-aeh ; and so certain and na.
deviating are its effects, that there never was an instance otanyper.
son who regularly used it, ever having the Tooth-uc:), or a Tooda
decay ; and though so efficacious an antiseptic, it is so inflows
that the contents of a lint may be swallowed by an infant with•
out any danger. The following Agents are appoint,d:—Mr.
Atkinson, 44, Gerrard-street, Soho-square; Gattie and Pierce,
57, Bond-street; Sanger, 150, Firth, 45, Oxford-stre.t; Rich-
ards, Strand; Jones, 59, Fleet-street; Riggs, 65, ChwTUtle;
Tailsc, 41, and Johnston, Curnhill; and by most Medicine
Venders and Perfumers in the Kingdom ; price Ss. 9d. a Son;
and on taking half a dozen, the Stamps are allowed.
As great numbers of Persons are reddered very unhappy hy
Spasms, Wind in the Stomach, Obstructions in the Bowels, want
of regular Perspiration, Vornitings, and Bilious Complaints,
Head Aches, Heart Lunt, Costiveness, Nervous Disorders,
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and especially recommended during the time of Sea Bathing,

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and Edwards No. 66, St. Paul's Church-yard • and Kim arid
Co. No. 150,1 'J:ford-street, in Boxes at 2s. 4s. 6d. I 05. 6d. and
One Guinea ; and may be had of the principal Venders of
disittes la Town and Country.

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