Star.
London, England, 1819-08-28 00:00:00

LAW. VZEZZMet2.

COURT OP CHANCERY, AUOUST 11'.
.2101.011111 COUNCILLOR was occtpied nearly
seven
hours in bearing Counsel in the case of the Ports-
mouth Bank, the particulars of which have been re-
peatedly laid before thrEublic. His Lordship granted
the prayer of the petition, which was to supersede the'
Commission, on account of a concerted act of bank-
ruptcy, but he gave permission to the creditors to
sue out a new commission. His Lordship at the same
time alluded to the recent trial of this case at Win.
thester, before Mr. Baron Gettuty, where the Jury
had come to a similar conclusion.
At half.past five the Court rose. His Lordship
will sit two hours to-morrow, which flintily ends the
present Sittings.—The nest Sittings begin on the Ist
of November.

CARLISLE ASSIZES, AUGUR $4.
-1,01143 LA I CIiIAiLLION.-4/11111113T ant.
Mr. SeARLETT stated this to be an action on the
part of the plaintiff, a licensed spirit-dealer, at New-
castleton, in Scotland, to recover upwards of ICSO
from the defendant, a farmer on the English side ofl
the border, for goods sold and delivered. A bill had
been riven in part payment, which was dishonoured;
this bill would prove ESO of the debt, and a witness'
'who had been in the plaintiff's shop at the time
would prove the rest.
Thomas Scott (the trial-was postponed yesterday
on account of the non-arrival of -this-witness, who
now appeared in the bee with:a mostexpressi ve fare.
His eyes were rel, swollen, and onsteaid, his cheeks
all oozing with fermented beat, while his manner
was tremulous and shy) knew the bill, but recollected
nothing more. The rest nf the dent might oritmight
not isavc ,been contracted. Hedis* remembered
that his master had to /y 2 the bill. •
His Lordship, with the greatest good-nature and
nnsuspiciousness, supposed that the witness had been
travelling all night.
.Mr. ScA ntarr said they must, in consequence of
the_conduct of this witness, confine the demand to
the amount of the hill.
.cross-examined by Mr. CoußintNAY.—Are you a
Scotchman ? Yes.—Well, since you are from the
land of learning, tell me what ape means, for we
have got such an article charged against us ?
means whiskey.—(The. i n-taught bearers laughed
aloud, and others thought it strange.)--uneacised
whiskey ? I down know.
'Mr. Justice BayLay.—Why, if another word were
'added, it might signify brandy in this country.
Mr. CouarawaY. —O, my Lord, the word whiskey
signifies in Irish, 'water.
Mr. ScAnurr suggested to his Lordship that the
witness was in town since eight yesterday morning,
drinking with the other party.
Mr. COURTMAY disclaimed the imputation against
Mr. Law, the defendant's attorney.

The witness could give no stemma of himself. Did
not know when he arrived in tom?, and did not know
whether he had seen Mr. Law or not.
Mr. COURTENAT addressed the Jury. He Should
prove that the plaintiff himself had acknowledged
that the defendant owed him nothing, and that the
defendant had suffered great losses by seizures made
of the whiskey bought from the plaintiff.
Andrew Ross, an excise•ofcer at Langholm (call-
ed for the plaintiff), knew Douglas to be a licensed
spirit-dealer of great respectability. He always sur-
veyed his stock of spirits. He might sell any quantity.
Whiskey was from 7s. 6d. to 12s. the gallon. Malt-
whiskey was dearer than corn-whiskey. No permits
were allowed by law to be given for whiskey to be
carried into England. No permit was necessary for
conveying whiskey to a private family in Scotland.
Here his Lordship ascertained that whiskey could
not be legally carried into England, and said there
was an end of the case.

Mr.ScAßLErr.—Then I mast be nonsuited.—
Nenkstit. ----

MANSION 1101a3E--Yesterday, the Master of a
Free School, in the City, instituted principally for
the education of the chiidren of the poor Irish, ap-
peared before the LORD MAYOR, to answer the com-
plaint of a boy, 12 years of age, who walks on
crutches, and has an issue in his right hip, in conse-
quence of some injury which has made him a help-
less cripple.—The boy, whose mother was loudly
eloquent in-describing the master's ferocity schen he
chastises, stripped the child's back, and exhibited the
marks of a cane, laid on evidently with a powerful
hand. There were at least a dozen cuts, each up-
'wards of a foot in length, from the neck and shoul-
ders downwards. The poor sufferer said the master
had used him in that manner because he staid away
from school,•a crime of which be had been guilty in
consequence of having no dianer.----The schoolmasser
assured the Loan MAYOR, that the boy was novorious
for being a truant, end :for disobedience to Isis pa-
rents, and that his mother had requested that chas-
tisement should be inflicted upon him.
The Loan Maptroa—lt is impossible that any yr°.
man, with a spark of humanity about her, could di-1
rent that a poor cripple should be treated in so brn.,
tel a manner. To tell me that a parent could .do so,
has falsehood upon the very fast of the assertion. You
observe she has 4 child at her breast.--The-echoel=
master assisted his Lordship that the boy associated.
with all kinds. e6thieees- and vagabeads, and that
two of his schoolfellows were present, who could
I prove that •the punishment had been inflicted upon
the mother's authority. He produced a cane, which
he mid .was the only instrument he had esed, and
(with a view of proving that be. had not laid it on
sith the violence attributed to him) be said he had
applied• it to the :what body of the boy, instead otos-
ercising it over the •clothes, as other schoolmasters
would have done !
Then ciate Mavott—l suppose you stripped the,
poor child from A merciful consideration, in order
that his clothes might not stick in the wounds. What-,
ever might have been your object in baring the boy's
back, and witnessing the bloody marks of the cane,
I consider the treatment of him as most brutal. It is
ridiculous, as wallas unfeeling, to give a man who,
has no command, of. his• temper, an command in al
school—The schoolmaster said, it should bee lesson
to him as long as he lived, and begged that his Lord.
ship would postpone his decision WI that ofthe.Coas.
mince, who were to inquire into the circumstances,
should baknown.

The Loan blaToa—l 'appose -you will be dis.
'barged ; but I have a duty to-petfucin as well 20
the Cemmitte% tad slag} bold ou to bail.