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London, England, 1811-05-25 00:00:00

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G. C. Bithop and James Trips, 'eeetvielei-of-sts
assault.of a.very violent nature on. an Excise.offieer,
lin the d•scharge of his duty, while surveying the soap
rnAnufactotyot the defendant Bishop, the vim defer
dant Trip, being his servant, were sentenced to be im-
prisoned in the gaol of Maidstone, Trip for 18. and I
Bishop for 12 calendar mOnths.
THE KING IN 1111ApOW, CLIME.
Mr. GARROW prayed the judgment of the Court
:against this defendant, who had suffered it to go
i against him by default, for calumniating the wife of
the Gentleman in whose house he was tutor, in order
to Induce his patron to continue his son under his

charge.
Mr. TOPPING presented en affidavit, stating that
the defendant, who had come from Liverpool on the
outside of the coach, there being no place to be pro-
cured inside, had been visited by a rheumatic affec-
tian on the lungs, to which he was liable, and also by
'febrile symptoms, which rendered it dangerous for
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him to quit his bed.
Theiktrottraty Gettenat. said, he must speak out
here. The defendant had been down at Liverpool
preaching against the person who here, felt himself
called on to complain of him. The Rev. defendant
would endeavour to persuade the persons who heard
him at Liverpool, that the Court were favourable to
him, and he would go on doing so, if he was not
brought up for judgment this Term.
Lord Et.l.ENnottoucts—" Let the defendant appear
in Court t,).MOTToW."
THE EING en CHURCHYARD AND OTHERS.
A Criminal Information had been moved for in
this case, against a number of persons for conspiring
together, by noise and violenceto prevent the exercise
of Divine Service, at Wickham Market, by a body of
Protestant Dissenteis.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL this day shewrd cause on
the part of one of the defendants, hot, on hearing Mr.
CrAITOW, in reply, in support of the Rule, it was made
nbsolute as to them all.
THE KING v. JAIN INITHAIARTON, ESQ.

Mr Jelly's prayed the judgment of the Court upon
the defendant, who had been found guilty of an as-
sault upon one Dana:
• The defendant was a student of Gray's Inn, and was
returning home one evening with some fellow students
after having dined in the Hall on Grand-day, when
brushing by accident against the prosecutor, he called
the party " shop-boys," and otherwise abused them ;
upon which, the prosecutor continuing to follow them,
the defendant pushed him off the curb-stone. For this
offence he filed an information in the Crown Office :
and although the defendant had offered to take Lord
Ellenborough's advice at the trial, and go before the
Master compound the offence, the prosecutor re-
fused, and wanted farther terms. It was now agreed,
however, to refer the case to the Master.
THE MO Ir. ?I MA; PIIATHER.
This defendant, a coffee-house keeper, who had
been found guilty of assaulting William Clipstone, a
Sheriff's officer, and the defendant's father-in-law,
aged 70 years, and afflicted with the rheumatism, at
a table in the King's Arms Coffee-house, Palace-yard,
whither the parties had adjourned to dine, after
having been witnesses in a cause at Westminster-hall,
was brought up for judgment.
It appeared that it was not till after the defendant's
recovery of Xl6O against the prosecutor by verdict of
a Jary, that he instituted the present prosecution ;
and the prosecutor's attempt to defraud him of the
money was the provocation to the assault. The de-
fendant was sentenced to pay a fine of forty shillings.
ARCHES counT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, MAY 24.
GILL, falsely called DICK, against DICK.
This was a case, which, from its peculiar nature,
has excited a consid,•rable degree of interest. It was
a proceeding at z.he instance of the wife, for a nullity
of marriage, grounded upon a plea of personal im-
perfection in the hush.vid, by which the principal end
"of marriage was defeated. Upon his denying the
fact, the proof oblig.al to be resorted to was an in-
spection of both parties by medical men.
Cases of this description being of .such rare oc-
currence, it became necessary to refer back to the first
principles of the civil lsw, and consider their applica.
tion to the present case. A long and ingenious ar-
; gnment took place in consequence; of the particulars
of which, and the evidence adduced, the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the case prevent a detail.
The Learned Judge (Sir innw Nictiott.) observed,
that there could• be no doubt of the circumstance
`complained of being a sufficient ground of nullity,
but then the proof required by law was strong and con-
clusive t the rare occurrence of these cases demon-
strated the difficulty of obtaining that proof, and.
however parties might be affected by it,.he could not
depart from the strict rule of law thus laid down.—ln
the present case he was of opinion the proof required
had not been afforded, and he could Mt therefore
establish a precedent of thisnature uponlight grounds,
the party having a remedy in an appeal to the col-
lective wisdom of the Court of Delegates. He pm.
nounced, therefore, for the Wine of proof on the part
of the promoter of the suit. and dismissed her op-
, plication.
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Wednesday evening last, as Mr. Joseph Holland,
of Gutter-lane, was walking his horse along the
Green.lane near Kilburn, in company with Mr. Samp-
son, of Bread-street, apparently in perfect health at
that moment, a vivid flash of lightning came, and he
fell from his horse dead without a groan.
A man has undergone two examinations at Marl-,
borough-street, on the charge of having been concern-
ed
in poisoning the horses at Newmarket, and he has
been remanded till next week. Lord Foley is said
to have suffered a lose to the amount of £50,000, by
the nefarioni'poiiOning.of hittlood horses, from the
nomet mai...ft. satchel to which he had engaged thein.
Munnetts.—Thursday night a murder was com-
mitted in Brick-lane, Spital-fields, attended with air.
cumstances of brutality rarely heard of: a girl, stand-'
ing opposite a butcher's shop, was annoyed by a boy,
i who wished her to be gone. The girl resisted, and
threw a handful of mud at him. This the woman
belonging to the shop no sooner observed, than she
knocked down the girl, and kicked her with such vior
lcnce as to break th_. spinal bone, which u, fortunately
caused her death. The woman instantly decamped.
Mr. M'Gregor, of Stonyhurst College, near Black-
burn, a respectable teacher of dancing and fencing
occasionally in Lancaster, Manchester, &c. was robbed
and murdered last week on the road betwetia the for.
rater place ata4 Preston.

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