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London, England, 1820-11-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVIIMBRR 14.
dOTTINGHAM V. SIR THOMAS STANLEY.
Thi; was an action of trespass.; the first count
charged the defendant with breaking and entering
the plaintiff's close, and making a road over his soil;
and the second, with diggifs a tunnel under the
same. At the trial before Chief Justice WARREN, at
'the last Assizes for Chester, the Jury found a verdict
for the plaintiff on the first count, with nominal da-
mages, and for the defendant on the second, under
the Learned Judge's directions.
Mr. D. F. JONES, for the plaintiff, now moved for
a rule to shew cause why the verdict should not be
set aside, and a new trial granted, on the ground of
a misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge,
upon the second count. The tunnel in question had
been made by the defendant, in aid of some mining
operations, on the banks of the slyer Dee, between
high and low water-mark, the right to the soil being
in the plaintiff. The encroachment had been made
for three years before it Was discovered, and the
Learned Judge charged the Jury that the defendant
had such a property in the soil as to exempt him from
liability in trespass. For this alleged misdirection,
the present application was made.
The Court granted a rule Nisi.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, N0V.13.
KENT V. NEVILLE.
In this case a Rule had been obtained, calling on
the plaintiff to shew cause why the bail-bond should
not be delivered up to.be cancelled, on an affidavit
of the defendant, which stated that a Commission of
Bankruptcy had been prosecuted against him, under
which this debt might have been proved, as it arose
before the Commission was sued out; and that the
defendant having obtained his certificate, the plain-
tiff's claim was thereby barred.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN now shewed cause against
this Rule, on an affidavit t f the plaintiff, who swore
that the defendant was an attorney practising at Col-
chester ; that a Commission was advertised in The
London Gazette as against one Richard Neville,
dealer and chapman, by which description it was
impossible for the plaintiff to recognise him, as he
(the plaintiff) believed the defendant not liable to the
Bankrupt Laws; and that plaintiff now meant to
dispute the Commission, conceiving it to have origi-
nated in fraud. The Learned Serjeant strongly con-
tended that this affidavit was sufficient to discharge
the Rule, -and cited the case of Stacey v. Frederici,
2 Bosanquet and Puller's Reports, 490, where the
Court refused to discharge a defendant on common
bail, on the 'around of his having obtained a certifi-
cate as a bankrupt, and of the debt being thereby
barred, as the validity of the certificate was meant to
be disputed ; but,
The COURT said, that without interfering with the
case of Stacey v. Frederici, the Rule here must be
made absolute ; the plaintiff had not taken'any steps to
invalidate the Commission, and though that might be
I accounted for by his swearing that he did not know
the defendant under the description of a dealer and
chapman, yet he had not disclosed enough upon his
affidavit to justify the Court in discharging the Rule.
He had not attempted to swear when he believed the
fraud to have arisen, on which he now wished to dis-
pute the validity of the Commission.--Rule absolute.

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1819 and 1820, of at legit 16,000 members.
SINGULAR CASs OF ASSASSINATION.—An Officer
of the French Army, named Tulanne, returned home
after the disbanding of the troops, who had retreated
behind the Loire. It was at Nlorelleri, near Toures,
that Captain Tulanne fixed his residence. The Cha-
teau of Morelleri was inhabited by Mons. and Mad.
de Grelay. Admitted into their society, Mons. Tu-
lanne contracted with Mad. de Grelay an intimacy,
which became so very scandalous, that the outraged
husband felt himself under the necessity of driving
from his house a, man who had carriea into it much
disturbance and dishonour. Exasperated through
despair of his having lost that happiness, which a long
and tranquil union had allowed him to enjoy, Mons.
de Grelay turned all his indignation against the se-
ducer. One day, in a coffee-house, he reproached
him with his baseness, the infamous manner in which
he had abused his confidence and all the evils with
which he had overwhelmed him. " Wretch," said he,
" you shall have my life, or I yours." The Officer,
who had a regard for his own life, and no particular
desire to take away that of M. de Grelay, wiped off
with his handkerchief the marks of contempt which
M. de Grelay, in accosting him, had thrown upon his
person, and went out leaving him convinced that his
bravery was not superior to his fidelity. Madame de
Grelay, who did not entertain the same hatred which
her husband did to Tulanne, contrived to see him in
private. It was in a wood near Morelleri that they
fixed the place of assignation. M. Tulanne went
there in the evening some rnements before Mad. de
Grelay. He was waiting with impatience for this
faithless woman to throw herself into his arms, when
a musket-shot extended him on the earth ; and proved
to him that there was some danger to be encountered
in disturbing the peace of a family. M. de Grelay
was accused of having fired this musket-shot, but the
Court Royal dismissed the cause. Such was the situa-
tion of thole three persons, when on the 29th Oct. last
year, an unlucky event formed the catastrophe of this
scandalous history. M. de Grelay was in his saloon; a
Brigadier of gendarmerie and a park-ranger,were with
him at the time. They were engaged at a game of cards.
On a sudden a man in a mask, appears in the anti-
chamber—he threatens a domestic that he would
blow his brains out if he opposed his passage--hei
enters the saloon—he calmly presents his musket,l
takes aim, the ball flies, and M. de Grelay falls dead,
having had just time to exclaim, "Wretch, you have
assassinated me !" The stupifying astonishment which
possessed the Gen-il'arme and the wood-keeper, gives
the assassin time to escape. Before they thought of
pursuing him, he .was lost in the forest. Suspicion
tell immediately upon Tulanne ; an enquiry took
place, and the affair, on account of matter of legal
suspicion, has been sent before the Judicial Authority
at Paris ; and the first Sitting was on the Bth inst.'and
the Court of Assize has been daily occupied in the
investigation ever sine.