Star.
London, England, 1818-04-14 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, APRIL 13.
GUPPY V. BRITTLEBANK AND PUTTER.
This was an action tried at Derby Last Assizes, for
assault and false imprisonment of the plaintiff, who
is a farmer and grazier in Somerset, the defendants
having taken him into custody upon an unfounded
charge of being a common utterer of forged notes,
' because he had accidentally received and passed a
one pound forged note at Ashburn fair, in payment
of sixteen pounds, for a horse. The Jury found Mr.
Brittlebank Not Guilty ; and gave a verdict of one
farthing damages against Potter.
Mr. Serjeant COPLEY this day moved the Court
for a Rule to shew cause why a new trial should not
he grant ed, and the verdict set aside ; first, upon the
ground that the taking into custody in this case was
Illegal, for want of a warrant being granted by some
Magistrate for that purpose ; next, its being upon an
unfounded charge, as no felony had been committed,
and the damages of one farthing not being commen-
surate with the injury.
Mr. Baron ()ARROW referred to his notes upon the
trial, and held that the Jury, under all the circum-
stances, had given a fair and dispassionate verdict,
which, in his opinion, ought not to be disturbed. If
at a fairra well dressed stranger was found passing a
forged note, where a great many bad notes were dis-
covered to be in circulation, and suspicion fell upon
him as being the utterer, was justice to be delayed,
so as to let the offender escape, until such time as a
warrant could be had for his apprehension?
The Court dismissed the application. Rule refused.

COURT OF KING'S BKNCII,_APRIL_!3I

EXENFTION FROM TOLL GOING TO RILIGIOUbwoItsiIIE

LEWIS V. lIAMMOND.

This case was tried at the last Assizes for the
county of Wilts, before Mr. Justice HOLROYD. It
was an action brought by plaintiff, who is a dissenter,
to recover back from the defendant, a toll collector at
Roud, in the county of Wilts, the amount of a toll
exacted from him in his way to his usual place of re-
ligious worship. The plaintiff claimed to be exempt
from the payment of this toll, under the provisions
of the Turnpike Act, referring to the trust in question,
by which it is provided, among other things, "that
any person or persons residing in the township or pa-
rish in which the said roads lie, going to or returning
from their proper parochial church, chapel, or other
place of religious worship, shall he exempt from the
payment of toll." A verdict was found for plaintiff.
Mr. CASSERD now moved to set this verdict aside.
He. contended that the exemption claimed by thy
plaintiff only extended to the parish in which he resi.
ded, and did not extend to any other parish. Thi
plaintiff had passed through two or three parishes in
his way to his place ofworship, to which his privilege
of exemption did not refer.
Lord ELLENIOROUGH said the question was one of
general interest, and ought to be set at rest. Consi-
derable doubts existed in his mind, whether the ex-
emption was not confined to the limits of the parish
in which the party lived.
Rule to shew cause granted.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 13.
THILPOT MORTLOCK AND OTHERS.
This cause was tried, some time ago, at the Chelm.
ford Assizes. The plaintiff, a farmer and maltster i
Essex, brought an action against the defendants, %%hi
are bankers at Cambridge, for maliciously issuing ow
an extent in aid against the property of the plaistif
A verdict was given for the plaintiff, with twelve
hundred pounds damages.
Mr. Serjeant ONsLow this day moved the Court
for a Rule to shew cause why the verdict should ne
be set aside, upon the ground of excessive damages,
and prejudices under which the Jury seemed to hay
acted in giving so large a sum ; and which was fur•
ther manifested in their endeavouring to return thei
verdict before the cause was fairly submitted to them,
Coorr—Take a Rule to shew cause.

Quiett-sauna.—Yesterday, Mr. Morgan, the Solicitor to the
Treasury, came to this Office with Mr. Archer, of the Commis
sariat Office, to exhibit articles of the peace against Mr. S. "
King, late of the Commissariat Department, for threatening him.
It appeared that Mr. King had been some time ago discharged
from the service, at the Cape of Good Hope, in consequence of
his deranged state of mind, and he conceived Dlr. Archer had
complained against him. Since that he has called at Mr. Ar
cher's house repeatedly, held out threats, and Mr. Archer, it
consequence, wished him to be bound over to keep the peace,
and now swore he was in bodily fear from him ; consequently,
a wartant was granted, and he was apprehended. Mr. Fielding
asked Mr. King, whether he was prepared with bail? when be
replied, he would spend the whole of his days in p. icon, rather
than trouble any of leis friends. He desired Mr. Archer to pro
duce the copy of a letter which he had read In the Messenger'
room, and intim-to:d that be had done him great injury; bu
be must be aware there was such a thing as an action for false
imprisonment. He then went to prison, refusing to have a coach.
After he had left the Office, Mr. Archer said he considered him
insane, and be had no wish to proceed any further against him
than to make ktm keep the peace. Mr. Fielding directed be
should be examined by a proper Physician, who would report
his state, in order to keep him, if so, property secured.
Lasourru-.racer.--Ynterday N. Mitcham, J. Inhatigitnemy,
P. Maples and P. O'Brien were brought up under the following
charge :—'fhe prisoners, who belong to the 19th British Lancers,
had on Saturday apprehended a deserter, and were proceeding
with him to the Savoy ; when near Finsbury-square they were
assailed by a mob of about four hundred persons, with the most
scurrilous abuse, and at length pelted with stones and mud.—
O'Shaughnessy, who was the Corporal, mildly remonstztti
with them on the impropriety of their conduct, observing, than
they must do their duty, and warning the populace on the con-
sequence of impeding them. At that moment hr received a des-
perate blow from a stone, on which he drew his sabre and rushed
among thin,. Ilis comrades did the same, when One young
man received a desperate cut, and others were slightly hurt. In
the confusion the deserter escaped. The populace still continu-
ing their outrageous behaviour, the soldiers presented their fire-,
arms, when one piece went of, it is said, by accident ; but we
do not hear that any person was hurt. At length a party of
Peace Officers arrived; when Davis, a Headbtrough, in ward-
' ing a blow from O'Shaughnessy, received a severe cut ; but,
aided by several respectable persons, they succeeded in disarm-
ing the soldiers' and seeming them in the watch-house, when the
mob dispersed. Yesterday they were brought to this Offic,t;
when no charge being made against them, and several respect-
able persons testifying to the propriety of their neaduct, the Ma-
gistrage discharged them, and gave them a justificatory note to
deliver to their Commanding Officer.

ExEcutioss.—A few day% since S. Homes, and J.
Dace, convicted of burglary at the Stafford Assizes,
were executed pursuant to their sentence. The next
day, the wife and mother of the former got intoxica-
ted, and with an insensibility to shame, and in viola-
tion of all decency, made a public spectacle of his
body at one 'penny each,'-On Friday last, George
Needham grid William Mandeville, were executed at
Nottingham, for a burglary at Burton Joyce.—Sa-
turday se'llnightEdwaniPbtler, who was found guilty
at the last Assizes of sheep-stealing, was executed in
I front of the county jail, Shrewsbui y.