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entered into a recognizance, by which he had pnti
fetters on both his legs, acid tied up his tongue.
Mr. Mitchell addressed the Court in support of his
tale, and contended that he had never entered into
Wcognizances, inasmuch as he had never signed any
thing.
Lord ELLUNBOWOUGII said Mr. Mitchell appeared
to have laboured under a mistake, in supposing that
it was necessary to render the recognizance legal,
that he should have signed it. Such, however, was
not necessary ; the verbal assent which it appeared
he had given was sufficient. Under these circum-
stances there were no grounds for the rule against

Sir Nathaniel Conant.
Mr. Justice Assort. and Mr. Justice HOLROTD
agreed in this opinion, and the Rule was ordered to
be discharged.
DISCHARGE OF ALL RICOGNIZANCES..

... _
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now rose, and said it
was his intention to move to discharge all recogni-
zances returned to the Court of persons who had been
apprehended under the operation of the Habeas Cor-
pus Suspersion Act. He had a. list of their names
before h;m. He was anxious upon this subject not
to be misunderstood. He moved to discharge those
recognizances, because he did not think it necessary
to keep them in force any, longer. He should have
done itearlier, but it had been suggested to him that
some persons wished to state objections to their re-
cognizances in point of law, and he did not think it
' right to prevent those persons from having the bene-
fit of their legal objections. He should now move
to discharge the recognizances of
Joseph Mitchell, whose case had just been argued ; George
Bradbury, James Rohan, George Robinson, Richard Thick-
croft, James Leach, Wm. Cliff, Francis Ward, Wm. Ogden, R.
Pilkington, J. Holmes, J. Haley, B. Sciorstaff, N. Hunter, J.
Lancaster; also the recognizance) of Watstoch, Bagnky, Lee,
wbitiey, Hartley, Small, Benjamin Ifolme, and John Johnston.
—Other prisoners to the number of forty were in-
cluded in the motion.—The Court discharged the re-
cognizances entered into by all of them.

MATHEWS V. THOMSON.
This was an action brought by Mr. C. Mathews,
the Comedian, against the defendant, Mr. Thomson,
a Gentleman of some property.—The plaintiff's case,
as supported by Messrs. ADOLPHUS and Dowsteo,
was in substance as follows :—Mr. Mathews some
years since possessed a cottage, delightfully situated
at Fulham, and which was elegantly furnished :—a
garden with beautiful grounds were attached thereto.
The defendant, about four years ago, agreed for the
purchase of this cottage, with its appurtenances, for
7001. In 1814, he accepted a bill of the plaintiff's
for that amount. This bill, however, on becoming
due, was dishonoured, and the plaintiff being unable
to obtain the amount in any other way, was compel-
led to have recourse to the present proceeding.— fhe
facts being proved, a verdict was returned for the
amount of the bill, together with interest thereupon,
(amounting to 1261.) and costs. •
BOW-STREET.—Saturday the Messrs. Evans's, fa-
ther and son, brace-makers, of Newcastle-street, in
the Strand, who were lately discharged by order of
the Secretary of State for the Home Department,,
from their confinement under the Habeas Corpus
Suspension Act, entered the Office, and presenting
themselves before Mr. Micas, the Sitting Magistrate,
attended by Mr. }lnnate, their Solicitor, and pro-
duced copies of commitments to the House of Correc-
tion, under which they had been originally commit-
ted, dated the 9th of February, 1817, before the Ha-
;teas Corpus Suspension Act was passed, and in
hich the .ITessrs. Evans's were committed into the
ustody'of the Go: crnor of the House of Correction,
charge upon oath of High Treason, and direc-
' theGoveraor to keep their bodies in safe cus-.
ia
r, t'll they were discharged by due course of law.,
e Messrs. Evans's stated to Mr. HICKS that they'
applied to him for the purpose of having a discharge
from their original apprehension before the passing
of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, or that they
aright be brought to trial upon the charge of High
Treasons—The Magistrate, in reply, informed them
.that one Magistrate could not interfere with another's
proceedings and, as their case ha,d never been before
bins, he referred them to Sir Nathaniel Conant. This
did not entirely satisfy the applicants ; they urged,
that as the instrument under which they were origi-
nally committed was dated from the Public Office,
Bow-street, and they were said to be charged upon
oath with High Treason, it was of course recorded in
the Office, and also by whom the oath was made, it
was therefore competent to any Magistrate to inter-
fere, either to discharge them from that warrant and
commitment, or to bring them to trial for High
Treason, with which they had been charged, but
which they denied. They admitted that were
virtually discharged, but they were not legally dis-
charged. The Magistrate declined interfering in any
way in their applications, and repeatedly referred
them to Sir N. Conaat.

It will be in the recollection of our Rtaders, that
on the 62:3d of last November, at an early hoar in the
morning, Mrs. NPNANARA was barbarously murder-
ed in her house in Townsend-street, Dublin, and a
considerable part of her property taken away by the
murderers. From that pet iod until very recently,
the perpetrators of this atrocious act eluded the search
which was made for them, though it was prosecuted
with more than common industry. Justice, however,
though sometimes slow in overtaking the criminal,
rarely fails in accomplishing its objects ; and we have
the gratification to state, that the persons charged
with the murder of Mrs. AV/4.04/ou, and of whose
guilt there are positive proofs, have been at length
arrested, and are now in Newgate, in Dublin.
A few days since, Mr. Balls, a farmer at Lessing-
ham, Norfolk, found the harness in his stables scat-
tered on "the ground, the next morning they were
thrown into a pit ; and entering the calve's-house, he
observed four calves suspended by the neck, and
nearly dead. These circumstances induced him and
his son to watch during the two following nights.—
' When morning advanced, and the men servants had
risen, they retired ; but the foreman, on going into
the stable, found a barley stack beginning to take fire
from a brand which had been thrust into it. He en-
deavoured in vain to extinguish it ; and the flames
spread on every side, till that, with a wheat and an
oat stadk, barns, and stables, and out-hoses, were all
destroyed. Nor is this all : on Wednesday night,
while the'town of Happisburgh were engaged :a at-
tending an evening lecture, the same villain: set fire
to a hay and straw stack) the property of Mr. Pelts,
, of that town.