Star.
London, England, 1827-11-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Noymeass U.
At an early hour, the Court was crowded with per.
sons anxious to hear the speech which it was understood
Mr. Robert Taylor would deliver, upon being biought
up for judgment. At ten o'clock, he appeared ia Court,
sod took his seat in front of the table.
Tl.e LORD CUIIIVJUSTICR intimated that the Court
would hear motions for new trials to-morrow, instead
of going through the special paper. •
The RECORDS@ ret, to move the judgment of the
Cdurt upon Robert Taylor, who had been convicted of
blaspheiny.
Mr. ilium:nuns( informed the Court, that be was not
instructed to Move for a new trisl in this case.

The RICOUDILA said, that the Attorney-General was
with him in the cause, and was movaentatily expected
in Court.

'file LORD Cunt,. Justice said, that the Court would
await the Attorney-General's arrival, as well as that of
Mr. Justice Holroyd. 1

LIBEL.
The COURT then went through die bar in the or,i.
nary coarse of business, when
Mr. FItENCH, speaking from the back seat, said, he
had to move for a rule to show cause why a criminal
inf. minion should not be filed against Mr. Young, of
No. 112, Strand, printer and publisher, and Patrick
Giant, Esq. of Portland•place, who was the sole pro-
prietor of a newspaper called the Sea, for a libel. He
had, be fore he proceeded further, to apologize for his
present deviation from the practice of the Court, in
coming forward to be his own Counsel. Among the
learned friends who surrounded him, perhaps it WAS
possible he might have a few learned and ingenious
enemies, and it was therefore by applying in his own
person, that he thought he could best pursue his own
purpose. The Sllll newspaper had published an atro-
cious libel against him—one which, if it received cre•
deuce, was calculated to deprive him and his family of
the means of subsistence. He never should have ap-
peared as an applicant for a criminal information in
this Court, were he not compelled to do so in justice to
himself. Of the libel itself, one sentence would suffice
to apprize the Court of its bearing and tendency, and
be a fit sample of the whole, which was rather long; it
was as follows:—" There is a silly Gentleman named
French, going about the town, whose eccentricity of
mind has of late taken a sad turn ;" it then went on to
impute a disordered intellect to him, to his own depre-
ciation and the injury of his family. Now he had no,
other means of chewing the falsehood of this imputa-
tion, and of substantiating the soliditj of his intellect,
than by instituting and conducting the present prose-
cution.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY—What affidavit have you, Mr.
French ?

Mr. FRENCH-4 have a very full and copious one of
my own, my Lot& The libel. further accuses me of
inveighing in public against everything good in the
institutions of my country..
The Coons., upon understanding that Mr. French
had complied with the usual form of Affidavit in such
a case, graced a rule to chew cause.
Mr. FRESCH—I have a similar application to make
against another newspaper. There seems to be a de-
tetntination with a part of the press to spew Up my
,igntecility of mind, and I am equally anxious to thew
its solidity.
The Courtr refused to hear a sicond motion of this
11 kind at the smile rime from any Leatned Gentleman.
Mr. FRZNCII—Theo shall 1 be allowed to make it
to morrow ?

The LARD CHIEJ Juvrtrit replied, that it would be
competent for him to make his application in his mu
to-morrow.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. if.
The C, urt sat in banco fora few hours this morning,
and disposed of a variety of motions of no general in-
terest. At one o'clock Mr. Ju.rice GAseLee proceeded
t,) Guildhail, where he commenced sitting at Nisi Prius.
'Several cases cline on for trial, but they were all en-
tit rly void of interest, except to the parties engaged.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 22.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL U. BROOK BANE.

This case tiai been frequently before the public. It
was an information filed against the defendant, as
army agent, ca:ling upon him to account for several
large sums s,f money received by him in and sub-
stqnently to the year 1794. To this information
the defendant. pletded certain documents called clear-
ing•warrants, ssbich he contended were in the na-
ture of a final settlement of his accounts w ith the Crown.
The plea was excepted to, and overruled by the Court,
but with liberty to the defendant to amend, giving bim
also permission to have access to certain accounts, pa.
pets, and dccumcnts in the War•ofhce, tor the purpose

of enabling him to prepare hi; defence. The defendant
accartfingly amended his fOrmei.pke, by adding to it
midis information which he drew from the papers in
thellV.r.l dice and this amended plea being also ex-
cepted to, the case came on for argument on a former
day in this Terns, and stood over for a further affidavit
in support of it. - •
The Count to-day, after heaving Mr. H. WRODORAII
on the part of the Crown, and Messrs. Jratvls and
Mit.t.mt for the defendant, again overruled the plea as
still insufficient.

COURT OF BUNG'S BENCH, Donne, Nov. to.

Till KING, AT THE PRoSRCUTION OP HENRY GRATTAN,

ESQ M P. V. THOMAS N. EDGEWORTH AND 1 ADANA

SIONTGOSIERY, ESQRS.
The Sutictron GENERAL (Doherty) renewed his ap-
t l cation in this case for a-conditional order for a criminal
,information against the defendants., The application had
been made to the Court on a former day ; but their
Lordships then required that the article which ap-
',eared in the Freeman's Journal, and which was,
alleged by Major Edgewoith as the cause of provoea;
tion, should be set forth in Mr. Grattan's affidavit.
The Eolicitor General none moved upon an amended
Affidavit, in which the article in question was set
fin th. He said that Mr. Grattan still swore that he
had no connexion with, n it- was he at all privy to, the
publication of this article, fotther than his being the
registered proorietor of the newspaper in which it ap-
peared; and though be felt himself bound to set it
Out in It's affidavit, he protested against being made
accountable for it. He (Mr. Voiserty) would read the
article for their Lordships, and they would then be able
to judge whether it in arty manner afforded an excuse for
he conduct of the defendants. He hese read the nt ticle,
which was headed" Public Appointments...the Paving
Board."
Judge Jena having looked over the tinkle, said it
merely re tired in general terms to the officers of the
Paving Board establishment.
The Soucirost GENRRAL added, that its censure ap-
plied solely to those officers whom a report of the
Commissioners, published by direction•of the House
of Common% had convicted of improper practices;
the name of Major Edges% oi th was not even mentioned
in it.

Mr. Justice JEBB sa:d, one of the sentences inight
be supposes' to allude to rll the officers of the establish-
went, but from an antecedent paragraph it appeared
applicable to those fficers only who had been found
guilty of mal-practice,. There was; therefore, no ob-
jection on the part of the Court to grant the condi-
tional order.

The SOLICITOR GRNRRALe--Your Lordships will not
apply that accusation to Major Edgeworth, though he
may himstif it he thinks proper.
Couar.—Take a conditional rule.,•,

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL. . , I--.
Yesterday a woman was put tothe bar, charged VOW &orderly
conduct In the Black Swan, St. Paul's Churchyard.
The Landlord stated, that the evening before the prisoner and
another woman came into his house, and bad a quartern of gin ;
after which they asked for another; but by that time bk perceived
c that the prisoner was rather tipsy, and refused givin them any
more. Her companion who was sober, west off quietly,but the pri-
soner, after behaving very impudently, broke a, pane o glass and
refused to pay for it, which caused him to give her into (handy.—
He, however, did not wish that she should be further punished,
than merely compelling her to pay for the glass she had broken.
The Alderman addressing the prisoner,- said, her conduct de-
served severe punishment ; the landlord of the house bed acted in a
most proper manner toward, her, and towards the public, by re-
fusing-to give her more 'liquor, when she already bad too much;
and for that considerate and very kind conduct, instead of being
grateful, as she ought to have been, she was noisy, abusive, and
riotous, and concluded by breaking his window. She might deem
herself indebted to his lenity, that she was not punished for such
misconduct, Cut certainly she should not be discharged till she paid
for the window and all espenses.
The prisoner paid all damages and costs, and was discharged,

BO *-STIt RET.

Yesterday, Daniel Frederick Joon, the begging-letter man, who
stands charged with obtaining motley by falac representation:, was
finally examined.
From the impossibility of proving, by distinct evidence, that the
prisoner received the money enclosed to him' no fresh case was ad-
duced against him. The charge upon which the prisoner is at pre-
sent detained is that preferred by Coked Wood, and it only
amounts to a tniklemeanour.

Mr. Haccs, therefore, told the prisoner, that he would accept
bail far his appearance to meet the charge at the ensuing Kingston
Assizes ; his own recognizance in OW. and two sureties in 1001.
each.—The prisoner said he would furnish the Karnes of his ban
this day.