Star.
London, England, 1826-04-01 00:00:00

JURY COURT, EDINBURGH, MmicatS.

The Court proceeded to the cause in which Dr. J. Ha-
milton, jun. of Edinburgh, Professor of Midwifery in
the University of Edinburgh, was pursuer, and Dr.
Thomas C. Hope, Professor of Chemistry, in the same
University, was defender. Whether, on or about the
23J day of April, 1825, at a meeting of the Senates of
the Univirsity, and in the presence and hearing of the
Professors," the defender did falsely, maliciously, and
caluMbiously, Impute intended falsehood to the pursuer,
by stating that the pursuer was a liar, or a malicious Ind
impudent Gan Or that he, tlae putsuer, not only lied,
but knevi that he did so ; or did use or utter words to
that effect, to the injury and damage of the pursuer ?
There were two counter issues, the substance of which
was—whether, on or about the 19tli of January, 1824,
the pursuer did present or communicate to the Magis-
trates of Edinburgh, as Patrons of the said University,
a printed memorial, containing the following words, or
words to the following effect, viz.—" That the memo-
rialist can prove that the present Professor 61 Chemistry
does not teach the processes of pharmacy, nor the
making of chemical preparations for the apothecaries
shops."—" That no man can now practice physic with
safety to the public, without .a knowledge of the diseases,
of women and children, and that none of the members
of the medical faculty, as presently constituted, do
teach that knowlede." And that "the diseases of
women and children' was "a subject on which no other
Professor of the College gives any information." And
whether the whole, or any part of the aforesaid words,
wers known to the pursuer to be false. Damages laid
at 5;0001. Mr. Cockburn, for the pursuer, called Pro-
fessors Bell, Napier, and Sir W. Hamilton, who de-
posed to the use of very strong and improper language
by the defender, and the Solicitor-General having ad-
dressed the Jury for the defence, the Chief Commis-
sioner summed up the evidence. The Jury were en.
cl.)sed at a quarter p ist two o'clock this morning, and
rem lined enclosed until half-past three, when the; re-
turned a verdict in favour of the pursuerd,Damages.sool.

MIL ACCOUNT OF HIS AERIAL EXCURSION
ON THURSDAY LAST.—At eight minntes past five
o'clock, we ascended from the Eagle Tavern, in the
City-road. Having made a rapid ascent on Toesddy,
I was aniious, it possible, to primed slowly on this
occasion, with the twofold object of gratifying the
public, by remaining longer in sight, and at the sense
time of affording to the companions of my voyage a
more ample opportunity of viewing the varies: beauties,
of that world which they had just left behind them. In
both respects I fully succeeded; if any satisfaction was
felt by those below, who marked our track through the
vast vault of Heaven; I can answer for the gradient:ion
of those above. After we had risen to the height of
from 800 to 1,000 feet, we were borne to the eastward
for some time ; but a fresh current of air then took us
southerly, and we crossed the Thames considerably be-
low London Bridge. We had here a fine opportunity)
of tracing the course of the river, in all its beiuty, it
being then nearly flood tide. The-shipping seemed to
us like a great forest, and almost every object was
clearly discernible—though from the immensity of dis-
tance, greatly reduced in size. The villages of Lime-
house, Deptford, Stepney, and Greenwich.- were quite
as visible to us as we were to their inhabitants, whilst
the “ great and mighty heart" of the nation lay, in the
perspective, a confused and incongruous mass of boild-
ing. In about fifteen minutes from our uc. ensionwe
entered a stratum •or cloud, which was uncommonly
cold and dense i"ese 'emerging from this, we enconn-
tereJ a heavy shod} of snow of delicate whiteness, and
peculiarly floe. The'therrhometer was here sensibly
affected ; it stood at Sedegrees, 2 degress below freez-
ing point, Atid'Olt. yntedter was st Z 4 degrees. Hav-
ing been , Ifortz minutes in the air, we pre-
pared for 'We Landed on a file grass field,
• shoot 'five cal% fibii&vOgoalcs. -

SESSIONSJ44.IiLieIf.
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TUB CI•DIVANT, LADY sanatmona.
This terror to publicans, officers, and watchmen,
again made her appea•ance this day at the Guildhall,
Westmin•ter, to answer the charge of Mr. Timothy
Priest, of Tothill-street, who complained that she had,
with malice prepense, assaulted, wounded, and beaten
the body corporate of • him, the said prosecutor, about
half-past 5 o'clock in the morning of the 17th Janu try
hest. The circumstances attending the present case
were precisely the same as those which characterised
her Ladyship's conduct on, former occasions, and the
charge. being proved against her, the COURT', in consi-
deration of her having already been confined since the
17th January, sentenced her to 14 days' confinement.
John Davies was placed at the bar, charged with ad-
ministering a quantity of laudanum to a person named
Harvey, with intent to rob him. Harvey, an honest,
innocent, simple countrysian, related, that on the 23d
of the present month, he was walking in Fetter•lane,
when the prisoner accosted him. He asked which was
the best way to St. James's Park ? Harvey told him ;
and as he affected to be a stranger, he vffered to shew
him some of the London curiosities. The offer was ac-
cepted, and dig walked together for some time, and
at length they stopped to dine at a public-house, at the
corner of Cecil-court. After their d n"er, they each
took a glass of rum and water; while drinking the
liquor, the prisoner was observe.% by a barber in the
room, to pour something from a vial in the prosecutor's
glass. An officer was rent for, the prisoner taken into
custody, and carried before Sir R. Birnie at Bow-street.
Before the examination was completed, the prosecutor
became so sleepy, as to render it impossible to avoid
yielding to the propensity. The next day the prosecutor
found a vial in his pocket, which had evidently contain•
ed laudanum, but how it had been conveyed thither, he
was unaware. Inquiries were made at the shop of a
irighbouring druggist; and from the assistant of that
person it appeared, the prisoner bad purchased a qua*.
city of laudanum in a vial similar to that found by-the
protecinor in his pocket. This was the evidence ad•
doted on the part of the prosecution.
Mr. BA PAY addressed the Jury for [the prisoner, and contended
that the charge was supported by suck unsatisfactory twig:knee that
they could not convict his client.
The Jury having consulted some minutes, returned a werdet of
Guilty.
The Cnatawax, with some remarks on the peculiar atrocity of
the prisoner's offence, sentenced him to be imprisoned for two years
in the House of Correction.