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London, England, 1819-11-23 00:00:00

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LAZY INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, .Z;OVKAISEN 22.
TUE ICING V. STEVENS AND OTHERS.
Mr. Serjeant Pelt, prayed the judgment of the
Court on Nicholas Stevens, Peter Riscorder, Jona-
than Ham, and Elizabeth Ham, convicted at the
last Assizes for the County of Cornwall, of violently
assaultinj John Baskervill and Thomas Popham.
the case was tried before Mr. Justice Bcsr, who
read his noses of the trial, from which it appeared
that Baskervill and Popham had been to London, to
give evidence in an Excise prosecution - that on their
return, in May last, a mob was collected in the town
ul &nimbi, at the head of whom was the defendant
Stevens, menu, aging and abetting them in the as-
sault and riot.
The defendants severally put in affidavits ;—and
Mr. HARRIS with Mr. WILLIAMS, addreised the
Court en behalf of Stevens.
Mr. Justice HoLnotn pronounced the following
sentence of the Court :—Nicholas Stevens to be im-
prisoned in the 's*. of Bodmin for six months, to pay
a fine of £5O, and to give sureties for £l5O to keep
the peace for two years ; Peter Riscorder, to be im-
prisoned four mouth; Elizabeth Ham the same
period; Jonathan Ham to be discharged, on giving
security to keep the peace for two years.
THE KING V. KATHERINE SUET AND OTHERS.
Katherine Jury, J. Cleaver, and Thomas Under-
down, the two latter mere boys, convicted of a simi-
hr aggravated offence, at Maidstone, against Lucy
Cannagh, received judgment of imprisonment, in the
jail of Maidstone, each for the term of seven calen-
dar months. The defendants had previously been
in confinement for five calendar months.
THE KING V. GEORGE GIBSON.
This defendant was sentenced to nine months im-
prisonment in Carlisle Jail, for an assault upon an
Excise officer named William Wright.
TILE ZING V. MICHAEL 80AMES AND ANOTHER.
On the motion of Mr. BOLLAND, the defendants,
Michael Soames and William Mar tin, were sentenced
to three numults imprisonment in Horsham Jail, for
an assault upon an Excise officer narried Dizoo.
THE KING V. 7 0. EXIMUM.
Mr. GURNEY prayed the judgment of the' -taint
upon this defendant, who was convicted of perjury,
at the last Sittings at Guildhall.
The defendant applied to have the judgment post-
poned to enable him to obtain some affidavits, in
mitigation of punishment, from a distant part of the
country. The Court granted the defendant until to-
morrow se'nnight.
THE KING V. JAMES LONG.
This defendant was con-iii led for assaulting Joseph
Smithers, an Officer of the Customs, and being now
brought up for judgment, was sentenced to one
sumth's imprisonment in the King's Bench Prison.
John Murray and William Samways, who suffered
Ndginent to go by default, on a charge for making
lights on the coast of Dorset, on the 6th of October,
1818, to assist two smuggling boats, were sentenced,
one (Murray) to four months imprisonment, in Dor-
chester jail, and to be kept at hard labour—and the
other, to three months imprisonment, and hard
labour, in the jail of Bodmin.

OLDIIAM INQUEST.
THE KING V. JOSENI TAYLOR.
Mr. ScitaLETT having moved on Saturday to
make the Rule for a criminal information absolute in
this case, '
Mr. DENMAN now moved to open the Rule again,
upon a suggestion that he had received instructions
to shew cause.
The Cotter recommended the Learned Counsel to
communicate with the other side upon the subject,
lest execution should in the mean time issue. - In the
mean dm:. the Court directed the Rule to be sus-
pended.
At one o'clock the Chief Justice went to Guildhall
to bold his second Sittings in this Term, but none of
the cases were of public interest.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOVEMBER ss.

BRUCE V. BROWN AND OTHERS.
Mr. Serjeant Oxstow moved that the Rule Nisi,
obtained by hint on a former day, calling on the
plaintiff to .skew cause why he should not declare in
the present Term, should be made absolute.
Mr. Bruce (an army-agent, residing in Parliament-
sneet) chewed cause in person. He put in an affida-
v:t, which set forth, that in the month of April last,
action was commenced against the defendant
and fifteen other persons, and the necessary writ was
sued out ; that Mr. Partington, who had acted as
deponent's legal adviser, served all the defendants
with the customary psocess, except Abraham Dixon,
whom he could not meet, which rendered it necessary
to delay the proceedings. Deponent understood that
Dixon had lately returned from Holland, but hitherto
he had not been able to serve him with a writ.—
Mr. Partin too had. lately declined acting in depo-
nent's f, on account of Isis. want .of means, oc-
casioned by a commissicn of bankituptcy which bad
been sued out against him. Deponent farther stated,
that a true bill had been found against most, if pot
all, of the defendants,. for a conspiracy, in (mode•
lently suing out the said commission. Under all the
circumstances, deponent was anxious that he should.
not be called on to declare till next Hilary Term,—
In addition to the. matter contained in. his affidavit,
Mr. Bruce begged to.stateohat in consequence of
the commission of bankruptcy, those parties had got
into their hands property, longing to him to the
amount of 034,000, whilst the debts.proved against
him were insignificant. They had refused him a shil-
ling to carry on the suits in which he was engaged,
for the purpose of obtaining justice, and had greatly
oppressed him.
The LORD Cuter Josymr..—We cannot suffer per-
sons not before the Court to bespoken of in. this way.
We cannot allow facts of this kind to be stated,.
You must confine yourself to the matters contained
in your affidavit.
Mr. Bruce said, it was stated in his affidavit that
he was destitute of money to carry on legal proceed-
ings. He had complained of the bad faith which the
parties had manifested towards him. They, by their
Attorhey, Mr. Wiltshire, applied to him to consent
that the trial should not go on till after next Term,
as a negociation had been set on foot, and was
still pending, to put an end to this extraordinary bu-
s.ness, which he acceded to, for he was most anxious