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one COmmon Cnoncilmart: The Borough leaf it.
corporated in 4. Jac. IJ and it Wes appointed to con-
sist of one capital Burgess, called the Alderman, 12
capital Burgesses, and 21 Common. Councilmen ; the
plwee of the election was in the Alderman, the ma.
iNrity of the capital Burgesses, and the majority of
the Common Councilmen at the Guildhall. The ai.
fidavits•in support of the application stated, that the
late Alderman had issued the usual sunimonses
the Corporation to Entei on the 11th of August I.lq.
and that being ineffectual, a second notice, to met t
on the 14th, when Only four capital Burgesses aoen-
ded. On the 18th of August, a third day appointed,
only five capital Burgesses were present ; and ia coo-
sequence of their absence, the Al-del man for the pre-
sent year had called the body together for the 10th
in.tant, but then only six out of the twelve were pre-
sent. By the terms of the Charter, it was necessary
that the majority of the capital Burgesses should at.
tend; and as the largest number present at any of
i the four meetings was six, it became necessary to ap-
ply to the Costa, in order that the vacancies in the
Curporaiiien should he supplied.—Writ granted.

THE KING W. THE MARGATE PIER COMPANY.
Mr. GURNEY mnvcd or a rule to shew cause why
a mandamus should not issue against the Company
of Proprietors of Margate Pier, commanding them to
pay a certain Poor's Rate. He had mentioned this
case last Ttrm, but it was thought advisable to pass
it over until the Compiny had regulated the Pier
toll. The toll having been made in Augnst last, the
rate was demanded from the Company, which they
refused to pay, and they had no property on which
rtle Pat ;s!, Offices mild its% y d.e amount. It was
then hoe necessary to call fur ibis mandamus, in rider
to compel them to p y tote asi.essment.
Lord Et.i.xxit-ov;t,tot" is there nothing on which
y .0 can distrait), so that you are obliged to make this
unusual application r'
Mr. GURNEY-6, There is rot, t: y Lord. We can•
not distrain the Water, nor reno)ve the stones."
Lord ELLENIVRIOUGII...." There must be some buil-
ding ill the Pier ?"
Mr. GURNEY." There is nothing that we can
distrait)."
Lord ELLENnottovonal We must have an affida-
vit stating that fact."
Mr. GURNEY—" I have an affidavit, setting forth
that there is nothing on which we can distrait)."

Rule granted.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOVEMBER 12.
Kyle HARBOUR.
This important cause. the Duke of Islewcasle v.
Clark and others, was this day disposed of, fur the
present, and the Rule applied for granted, namely,
to chew cause shy a new trial should not be granted,
notwithstanding a verdict had been given for the
plaintiff.

SELLERS V. RieRFORD.
Mr. Serjeant BLOOM, 'hewed cause in support of
an action against the defendant, for a breach of con-
tract. He had sold, by a deed of assignment, the
good will of his shop in the chandlery and coal retail
trade, in Tottenham-court-ro id, and contrary is the
stipulation in the deed, he had opened another shop
in the coal trade within sixty yards of the foriner one,
alleging that though the deed prevented his commenc-
ing the sane business within threr-quaritrs of a mile
of the first shop, yet that by A parole agteemvot, lie
had aright to do so. The Learned Counsel conten-
ded, that no parole agreement could set aside a trip.
lAr deed of assignment.
Mr. Serjeant Oxsiow, on the other side, contended
that those odious and selfish bargains should not be
encouraged.
Mr. Justice PARKE could not see how such bargains
were odious, or the breach of them legal. No pa-
role agreement could in this manner render void a
previous contract. At least the Learned -Judge could
sot think a.
Mr. atjeatit ONSLOW said, that as the Court had
expressed so strong art opinion against him, lie must
lalso admit that he did not see how the contract could
be touched either.
At hall-past one o'clock the Court adjourned, for
the purpose of repairing to the Goon of Exchequer,
to be present at the ptickang for Siter;ifs.

COUR r OF EXCHEQUER, NOVEMBER It.
The Loki) CHILI LUDO; WAS engaged during the
morning in hearing Lord Lonsdale's Tithe Cause.
He asijutirned at an early hour.
At half-past two o'clock the Ciraacaccoa of the
EXCHEQUaIt nt .red ti,e Courr. dressed in his lull robes,
followed .by the Luau CHANCELLOR, the JUDG/Ll, the
Earl of LIVERPOOL, Lord HAKROWRY, Viscount SID-
MOUTH, &e. &C. when the usual ceremony of prick-
tug for Sheriffs was perforated.

MANSION House.--Martha Crouch, the wretch
charged •with inveigling a child, nine years of age,
from its parents, and afterwards becoming accessary to
her violation lit a monster who lured her for the pur-
pose, was yesterday brought up for re-examination.—
The particulars of this most atrocious affair were
fully detailed in our Paper of Saturday last. A letter
was now produced from Dr. 'Lamb of the London
General Dispensarry, from which it appeared, that the
child died from an internal inflammation, and that al-
though no doubts could be• entertained of her person
having been violated, yet there were not sufficient
merks of violence externally to justify a positive as
sertion that such violation had caused her death. Mrs.
Allen, the mother of the child, stated, that the priso-
ner had 4onfeised having teceived a sum of money
from the villain by whom the hellish deed was perpe-
tratyd, and that she had given part of it to the pa-
trole who apprehended her, to suffer her to escape.—
Honey, the officer, said, he had stated the circum•
stances of the case to the Magistrate at Union Hall,
in pursuance of whose order, every exertion had been,
made to discover the patrol. who took the prisoner
into custody, but without efUct—the man could not
be found.—The LORD MAYOR said, be regretted ex-
tremely that through the conduct of this man, the
case against the prisoner should be rendered so in-
complete as not to be cognizable at law. She must
be discharged, net because there was any doubt of her
guilt, but for want of evidettce. He, however, had
no doubt that the compunctious visiting. of her own
conscience wunld be a severer punishment than any
which the law could inflict.—The mother said, that
the wretch at the bar had admitted every thing of which
she was accused : In the presence of GOD here
stands (said the slistressadßarent) the murderer of my
Child." Upon hearing that Crouch ices to be
charged, she cried most bitterly, and exclaimed, as rn

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pray for.the justice of .He.avoi. since there's is:Loci'.
rity nn earth—no protection against the shedding of
the blood of infants."—The prisoner was dichareed.
UNION HALL.— Yesterday. Mr. Edward Healy,- the
Captain of the ship Eagle, was broughtliy.. warrant
before the Magistrate, by May And ,1141. officers, I
on a charge preferred against him by his apprentice, i
for beating him in an inhuman manner, on the 12th
of October last. Richard Palmer, the apprentice,
-aid, that on the day in question, he made a mistake
Igin giving some new bread, instead of rld, to the
crew ; the Captain, when he discovers d it, fetched a
thick stick, which he produced, out of his cabin, and
beat him with it on his head, face, and Laud:, until
he fell on the gtqund nearly insensible ; two of the
knuckle joints of his hand were dislozated, and he
was very. unwell-for a long time Iron, the effects of
the Captain's severity. The Mate of the Ea ule cor-
roborated the evidence of Palmer entirely. The Ma.
gistrate said, that the weapon which the defendant
beat the boy with, was sufficient to have killed him ;
it was a very improper thing to beat a boy with, and
he (defendant) must find bail to answer the com-
plaint at the Session.
MARLIOROOGII-STREET.—Yesterday Eli% -tbeth Potts,
of Paradise-street, Mary-la-Bonne, was charged by
Mr. Poulter, Clerk to a Society for the relief of dis-
tressed pregnant women, called the Cavendish and
Baker-street Society, with, disposing of a basket
of articles convenient for lying in, entrusted to her.
It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Poultrr, th it the
Society consists ef Ladies, actuated by tli best mo•
I tives, that of providing for the relief of afottessed
pregnant women. They are fortishyd with a basket
Of linen, &c. complete, tor the purpose, and 2s. per
day for the month. The basket of necessarits is re.
quired to be returned ..t the expiration of a mouth,
and the bearer of the basket receives eight shillings.
In this instance the prisoner was proved to have
pledged the articles before the arcoacherneas took place.
She was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment.

Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, a man went
into a tobacconist's shop, in Cumberland-row, Battle-
bridge, and, taking up a large jar of tub.tcco that
stood on the counter, ran away ith it, and eilectrd

his escape. •
MURDERS AT GODALMIN, SURREY:•FURTIIER PAR•
TWULARS.—Tues:iay morning a man who had some
shoes being made at the house of Mr. Cbennel, shoe-
maker, Godalmin, went to inquire if they were
done ? on opening the door the first object that
caught his eye was the bad, of Mr. Chennel's house•
keeper lying on the kitchen floor with her throat cut
in a shocking manner ; he was terrified at the sight,
and called tn. some of the neighbours ; o'4 tow d
the floor nearly covered with blood, and the old wo-
man quite dead and cold. They proceeded up stairs,
and there they were almost transfixed with horror at
seeing Mr. Chennel on the ground a shocking spec-
tacle, his bead nearly severed from the body, his body
bruised in various parts, which skewed that the mu't
have had a severe struggle with the murderer. He
was quite cold, which is We reason tor supposing that
the Mittman murders were committed on the prece-
ding night. Upon a further examination of the body
of the housekeeper, it was found that her skull was
fractured, a hammer that was found on the ground,
( which Mr. Chennel used in his business), api:.eareJ
•ia have-been the itAtrument with which the blew was
given, as the face of it corresponded exactly with the
• ndents in the ckull. Information was given to the
RMagistrates in the neighbourhood immediately of the,
dreadful transaction, and they with great promptness
caused an immediate investigation to take place, fur
the purpose of discovering the perpetrator or perpe-
trators of the murders. Lord Middleton, who is in
the Commission for the County of Surrey, was very
active in causing an immediate examination of all
persons who could by their evidence afford the least
.due to the apprehension of those who had commit-
ted the foal deeds. Upon inquiry.rt was found, that
the son of Mr. Chennel, who is married, and who
lived at a considerable distance from Isis fathei's
heuse the had a short time ago married a mimeo
with a handsome property, but unfortunately for her
bad spent it all) WAS in the neighbouitiood of his la-
ther's house on the night when the murders were com-
mitted ; other circumstances transpired,. which caused
a further suspicion of the son, and the Magistrates'
had him apprehended immediately and brought be-
fore them for examination. It appeared that on
Monday night the prisoner was drinking at a public-
house a snort distance it-0m his father's, and that be-
tween nine and ten o'clock he lett the public-house
and was absent some time, when he returned and I
drank some porter, and remained drinking in the
house some time. He solemnly denies all ki.owledgel
of the affair ; there is no evidence to implicate him
further than we have stated, except that he has lately
beat very wild, which had given great uneasiness to
its respectable parent. The deceased was well-known
to possess considerable propeita, and CIA is supposed
to have been the object oh tflose who committed tic
murder ; but whether any isroperty iI.IS been taken
is not yet positively known. 'rh.: paiiiiner was re-
manded until the Coronet's Inquest has taken place,
and the decision of the Jury ts knuen.
KILKENNY, NovitsmAt atiocions attempt
at robbery sad nitride( was made on Tumidity mor-
ning, the 23d ultimo, upon the person of a po,a wo-
man of the name of Anne Lawler, residing in a c!)t.
tage upon the demesne of Mr. FrItENCII, of
kill. The circumstances, as stated to us, are truly
horrifying. The attack was made by two men and
a woman, who, alter beating the p err woman with
a pitchfork till she appeased almost lifeless, cutlets-
, vowed to finish the dreadful deed by strangling lies
with a handkerchief. After this, they proceeded to
plunder the poor woman's apparel and a few ten-
penny pieces. Which having done, and finding the
poor creature still alive (signified by her calling to
the LORD for mercy), these wretches repeated the
work of murder, dragged the poor woman out of
doors, buried her in a dunghill, and covered it with
weeds, and departed. The pruvi,aence of Gov mita.
culously interposed to rescue from the grave this vie-
tim of a murderous cruelty, and to bring, we cot:fi-
sh:idly trust, the perpetrators to putiishment. The
poor woman having lain for some time buried, re-
covered strength sufficient to crawl to the door of
neighbour, distant about two hundred yards, and to
state the whole particulars, and, what is of more 'an-
sortance, the names of those whom she may with
sties term her murdeters.--The ofieuders hare not
'been