Star.
London, England, 1829-07-14 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS- •THIS DAY.

The general Session of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol
Delivery or the Adrairaky et Kosland, wee held dlis day, beim
Mr Casietoraes heeneues, Mr. Jude* Trams, Mr. Judie,
Darter, sad the usual QvMens.—Mr Customize Houma
ilakily jotted th• Jury.

commis or naocv.

Cartels Arras Smirk was indicted for having pint ,on the
14th of July. tat. plundered a metal' ship, sailed the
within three leagues of the idea et Cuba.—'The prison*
Not Gaily.
An appneaties to papa the trtal,oa the grata of as ab•
sane of a material waren, was ratted by aerie:met% Counsel,
and everrskd by the Bina.
Mr. Wainensan opened the pleadings.
The Knies Amami stated the facts of the case to the Jury.
and called the failowist wittiness:
Jacob Loma,' natieeif .totwegi, stated that he was master
of the ship Braismo Jay, lila, ad send lethal ship from
Antwerp in that month, for the Hansialt. When they rounded
Cape Antonio, on the lath of July, stoat three leagues him she
bland of. Cuba, they wave overhauled by schemers, one
of which hove so, with British sonars Aying es she main-
top. He took her for an. Hellish Tani, and heisted Dutch
caws. The schooner haled him, and ordered him oopp
board. Ha mai on board the schooner, with four of his
crew. He taw the primmer with a harp coat on,. slid be gave
his papers..-wken he bad dew so a back man said eight of the
pates get into she boat ad west a !wird his ships one of them
robbed him Si his watch. • Afterwards he leaked over the bows of
the pirate vessel, aid saw that his men were beaten and ill treated
on board his vesseL The pirates thermals took possession Si his
vessel, and the prisoner also went es beard her. Some oldie pintas
asked him where his assay was ? he said be bad so assay. They
asked him several dines, and he gave the same mower. Thep
then did a rope about his neck, sad Nude one end of it fast to the
anchor, ad hove him Into the ma, but Ms setood mats caught Ms
by she legs, asd band him upon dock ; hems gate saselses,
and was nearly strangled. Wires he recovered be was so wadi
that be fell down into the forecastle. Towards eight be
ague west spa deck, and saw that his mat were wounded; he
saw the primmer, Who ordered Min into the bdat and on board the
schooner; the prisoner tedoespasiettMst, sad the sett wonting
Lewes sent again a beard his vessel, istassil his use lying's,
deck wounded. The primer smother came us board, and media
blot ti weigh lumber aid at mil; the prisoner struck hisclabb
rape's rod. TM nest day the prisoner ordered a potties et tbr
eugoof his skip, to be discharged km tbe .o:homer, whisk wok,
iriegilantwo ships' taiga feast than. The pirates }le od
hie ship ot Noes. butter, said chase, sad on the 17th the echoer
sank sal eed wart away towards the eastward. The same dog the
alba sdasesser came alongside and took mere goods Ina WEIN
the went away the ant mornisg. Whes the•sehnesers ware sway.
they left 10 man, who toot the vessel team end sold the remainder
of the earl*. ilrey gritted him on the tab : the pilaster
was not one of the tea mat, but he returned on the 20th with $
schemer is ballast and took the remainder ache cargo; on **tads
a doer hovels sighs, and the releaser wait slat withigeissand
ameba ha; he Calm seta good pianos us," The 'schooner made
Beall and captured the sloop in the night. The pirates remained until
the soth, and be, as well as his crew,were man out of his ship.arbith
as burned by the pirates. They pat bins brio the merchant ship
'lkeda, and the prisoner gave him his ship register, nate iatrit-
• and a paper which he said would be an isdesulity for his
loss. • The paper wails apaisis,ald be could sot reedit.
Crommamined by Mr. Amours—There were Cony men
in the pirate' vessel, a loreesehicit mattered dat of his venal,
.and which so single individual could resist. and& • was the
cm *most 'capable lot naeigatirtg eke Tema. le anis the ab-
eam of &Sidi tar his child was we:aided. About eight &rata
his vessel was in amp of • the pita,. BEM odd tit Min," I have
bees takes an of ea Itaglish vessel; -and am obliged to do this—if
it lbadsot bseaforme,' your asselsreold not have been taken."
Witness asked Mm why ? Hosea, es My easels so gssd—k soon
%di ;mu mesa"
was the Cast ha the preseession.
• The passe, this seined isto his detente at peat lesgth. de'l
darling Mesa cesepolledso act ease bad dens being taken at et blit
town vessel sod allgedito seagate aspirate acbssseer under threats
if the most iterribio enmity. Hs had, be stated; loses plundered
of a vast skein peopertyonsi was under as undertaking to marl
a yeast Lady after the mpg* melanins:al in which be was
tabs out of his owe meat by the pirate.
• Baresslaispeesable 43endames seamed hiessasement, sad pee
hint the bights eboraceerSerbeiwar and linearity, and an. Gentle.
man •seid instead ammedisdy give him the command a a SOO
ten ship.
Chief Justice Tyne. :cawed up, and the Jury hosed him Aror

Maregi;;;;;Tl----
The Dowag'er o A Lis au KT had an ele-
goat orartramins• as Sunday evening at her home in'Arlington.
street, which was anineroady and fashionably dwindled.
• Sir • GEORGE WA SIREN DEA entertained ht dinner 1311
Seaway hidyths Prima mid Pritimei Menu& it if, Oseatesses- A as-
noatmen and rowumr,•Eari sad Qantas of TANIOVILLII, • ldar.
yds of Hammen, Dlr. and Mrs. thiiismos, Dir. 'Vasa,' Fen.
Guam, the Mining the Students of the Maya Mideast
a( Music, and a irdik Orchestra iiiider'the management of bk.
11.i.ka, performed !arises pieces if fecal and liskrainental mask.
Slimisine at &mum was present, and delighted the any .with
soma graalsk *paid remmessed hit o*4 comptioldin; which she
pee with inliaite-immost add diet.—ln the isitnitig there irers
Count witiConatiosi Limits, Diebesi allamia, Pilate de
= Words aidilarehimon Cabankabb4 Sir NaLade pulsar, lAA and Lady "kisaniiientuturr, Ake el Dr
cumin, part it Csinsartna,
•

• !BD DRAMA.

•
At s poriodirhoit tholopirtaatto dm' Drama through-
out the adeillied meld has Won einhersally Mtherwledged, both as.
a powerful angles of domestic policy to dived the public mind feuds
martian to 'end turbulent laterftvesce with matters' of Go-
!recommit, m well as an innocent recnitiob tithe IndoltWeid in kale
end mid, a medium of plain inetruction to the mar, sod delight-
fel slimiest to the wit and the philosopher; it beitoines incumbent
on all who would cater matter for the mental appetite of the day,
00 give the Theatre its due share of attention. Every thing 'which
modems to promote public bappinest should be a primary wady
with the journalist, whose daty it is to watch with maims milleity
that the moral end sad purity of• taste that could distinguish
the national Sage be irrafrogably obsifloit. to seder to pre-
serve tdeat in its legitimate ammo l amt aline • .(ki. taste of
the times within the bands of correct foisemot. Thittgetserat are
and Missetatetnent bestowed on draniade eshalthits throughout'
the whole's( Swope and Assietica,behoves us to diem that the
state of the British Stage lag nee behind in the general marshs(
thee remotest. The mithr with which it is cultivated: mere ',pig
daily in France midGensisay, must induce us impartially to inquiri
into the exact condition or ear presentTheatre, and assist from thee
to time to correct its defects,as far as our impedes= en the Wailed
'of both natimal and foreign theatricals can render our blots of any
profit to slime who direct the Stage. We must endeavour to amt.
rain if the theatres of this capital be• judiciously managed for the
true interests of literature and the public. The mcontronied
authority and direction exercised over the Metropolitan Theatres,
by perms bolding than by ntonopolizing and exclude, plane.
as pried* property, is, we apprehend, a fatal deterioration to tat.
provement ; Mims alone to secure mat, they arc reported to
prefer pooderbg to corrupt public taste,' rather than risk empty'
benches by any attempt to reform sod conduct the dramatic bias
of the peoples but what an 'enormous error it 11, to imagine that
the Stage should =Merv* the fluctuating caprices which err
ever spotting with the judgment of sodety ; it should thasten and
lead the taste, Est fellow iss perversions--the pageant, pautomkne.
tumbling trick. buffoonery, and melodrama, any allure an audisoce
to the Theatre, but geodes Tragedy, Comedy, and pure Opera.
muse. with a people et andentaitding,•ever prove more attractive
than all the brilliant nonsense, or vapid edam which all the old
of painters, mechanists, and eostundets," can get up, is catch ever.
Sewing boosts. Moth of the good csmpaay that delighted lonasely
to assist at ea English playhouse, have been forced to abandon
that neon, and seek refuge from their degeneracy of taste
in the Italian or Preach Theatre. Torrents of translation from'
the " petit epecsode " of Pads, mere short lived pieces " do;
circossenee," wretched Mete Dramas, set to worse music,
• companies of what our neighbours call " Mocks tree actors
engaged at low salaries to amble managers to pay enormous
• sums to half a damn stage tyrants, professionally yckpt " &ars,"
and unsuppened by a respectable secondary " dramatis persons,"
' nightly reduce our whole interest in a play to a few detached dense;
musicians who madder their exercise on the gamut the whole

'amount et their duty to the stage, transforming what should be
ambined pleasures in Open, to the mere performance of insipid
' einem ; these, with licenses of numerous description, are gradually
Jointing our 'Theatre to a mete haunt of the populace; while the
practice of shaping dramatic composition to suit the peculiar acting
dais or that Gentleman or Lady, denominated Sur. the fate of
which composites depends on the simple private judgment
of sumo Managerial histrios or small critic engaged in his
service, and paid to puff of stage tricky trash—all tend te.
render •dramatt tamers unworthy of respectable writer., and
have long and driven real gement from the arena—leaving this
*ablest walk at literature to trumpery play Tampers and
paltry translators; and precious work they make of it. The
absordity of supremo* overt description at Drama on the same
Sup is another mews of trotting tlse door to encouragement mid
competition against both Authors and Actors. While the bar.
barons and licentioss custom of timing the dissolute tithe lobbies
of our Theatres, sod nattering them to °style in the revoking pa.
rade of eke, all that is most digesting in a " Petals Royal." or
Desch " Maim" disgraces oar literary genies, attrages me.
talky. provokes the scorn of foreigners, and readers the Theatre
infamous ialhe ryes of a great respectable majority of out Imes
community. This hideous these is within the power 'se 'Magistrates
sod Managers to obviate, without infringing on the liberty of the
The pawkier* of t►e various basun and other Insets•
dons open to the public in this capital prove, by the praiseworthy
regulations introduced late tbs.e establishments, that indecency
easy beusetrksed, and yet the publie be Do less liberal of their
patronage. A drunken prostitute. when railing is the streets, or a
Thasaad Jerry swaggerer indulging vulgar riot therein, are handed,
alms cerswerteie, to the watdi.boese; and yet this abominable eel.
sauce is nightly tolerated in whole crowds of suck, congregated
within close bearing and sight of ear wives, daughters, and timers,
whirwever we escort them to what is called the elegant amusement
eta British TheatreAerely there is some difference between the days
eta Charles 11. and a George IV. and is behoves the Managers of
Theatres to consider some mesas of reform—et least we shall not
be wanting in reminding them it such necessity. As prevalent as
barking rant, and namby.psmby puling on the London Stage, are
to be found anachronisms in costume, inappropriate decorates, and
errors of Stage boldness and arrangement. A strict attention to
keeping is conspicuous in the most unimportant Theatres Vf the
Content, and ought with care equally to be studied with es. -ebb
we shall also continue to recommend. On the Gentlemen and
Ladies individually composing the different erns dranratiqrse of
the capital, our judgment s►all be impartal—improvensent is our
aim, and we shall labour to that end with pleasure equal -to oar
perseverance.

A correspondent informs us that a lady, who lately ,1
I resided in oar ot our western squares. is about to leave Beighassel
for the Continent, in eonsequenee of per eldest son baying fonkird
'
a matrimonial eonnection—eontrary to her own wishes, as Weil as
to those of her high spirited family—with a fancy dress-maker, ate.
—Brighton Mould.
his not generally known that the Russian General
*Dammam to amu Under My years ot age,,—a Gain= by birth.
a soldier of fectine,andsosoiewlger to the famous liaacur saTotar.

Private letters from the Continent Mate that money is
do abandons there. that If MOM should want a Mao they us
it with the greatest ease.
An attempt to. establish a Theatre at Sydney, New
South Wales. bastmiss. maspasessfol, in voastistoce et a pigmy,
Order of Council. Tbe sustained sonsideralisiess, having
actually erected an for the purpose. akisoirgis forewarned
that he would not be permitted to open it.
An order, we understand, reached the St. Katharine
Docks early yesterday morning, which discharged the slicers and
inn who bad bees engaged in the Tees& destined far Mr.Thonsas
Peers sew settkosent on the Swan Weer. Ooe of theft vessels,
the Gilmore, had bar sails bent, and was to have hauled out yes.
terday. We have not beard any reason assigned for this measure,
bit the Cky people think that the Cabinet Canada, which at on
Satur4ay last, and sammeased Sir George Manly from Sunning.
hill, had something to do with it.
A REEF NEAR REVAL STON E.--EXUSCS Of mater.
'Swathe agent to Lloyd's at Revel, dated Jam 27 -" The Ad.
mita! of the Pert has informed me that a new reef has been die.
rotund about• a vast to the eastward of the Royal Storm The
reef is her fathoms is Mick and two ands half broad, and mil
nine fret below water."
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 12.—1 t is impossible that the
Cortina Canis can be gm sE. her back being hakes. It is not
certain that al the tarp will be mood. as the sea Seth in sad oat
let her every tide, said at low water there are ten feet water is the
A certain eminent contractor has suggested the taking
awl Waterloo Bridge !-4nd of having the plies immained.
Lord WHARNCLIFTE, the Hon. JOHN WORTLEY
ILI: Sir J. V. IL lelllllBlllem, and Lady Jouresson. of Hadiness,
hod: pert of thrfamly of the litho, of Ss. atria's, passed through
this town during the week.--1141aid Giornost.
bitty LOUISA CLINTON gave a ball and supper on
Yrtitsy Matt at bar mishear in Queen Amostreet, whisk was at-
tended by a saemsreasiksWel seek sad Mists.

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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS.

Nearly the whole of the houses to be erected on the'
ground now in the coarse of being cleared la Charing-ernes and its
vicinity base been lea. and at extravagant prsces.t The ground
rent is also exceedingly high. so that Covenantee will, notwith-
standing the great' imiday incurred in making compensations. b.-
eneoblittable gainers. The ground in the vicinity of the site of
the date Carlton House is oat let by the tout, but at the rate of
one blindest gleinele per house, each house containing a frontage
of about twenty fast.
The Conunissioners, it is stated, refused to let Mr. Clarke (whom
family shasoeeipied latter '(hug* for more than a century) a
site of groom' he lieu of that takes away, and the whole of the
ground in the narrow put of the Strand is undentood to be let to
air. faker at Ai per foot, which has since hems undoriet. some as
Mg! at 40 and se per feet. Sir Themes Varnisher, the banker.
has takes the whole of the ground in Little St. James's-street, at
flee pima, per foot ; and has since. it is stated, refused eight
guineas per foot fee Individual lots. Iligh u these prices
may appear, they are ratively, low, compared with the
intend rent of Croeftfonrs which Is nine guineas per foot,
ind that of the United Service Club tea guineas per foot.
The erabelliehments fa the weighbourheod of Charing.cross, the
&nod, ate. promise to be •as profitable to Government as dime
made in Regent.street, which, on the outlay of a million sterling,
new pay. it is enderstood, an Interest of SI per cent. yielding a
'peat probe to the State ovet and alive the per cottage required
to he paid on the advaams.
The improvements at Mating-cross and the Strand cannot he
convince for at least three or four years. in the event of no greater
activierbeing shown dun licithibited at present.

majority of them are to pay a rent of ./300 per annum,
oraillop preadoina foe Win, varying freer /500 to El,OOO.

REFORM.

Last night a Meeting of "The Association of Friend+
'of Radical Reform" took place in the Theatre of the
Mechanics' institution ; Mr. Hy NT in the Chair. The
Theatre in every part was crowded to excess : each per-
son was admitted on payment of what was termed a
radical rent of one penny. Mr. COBBETT and "Arnie
other reformers sat at the table.
The Casniatan mid be was tattered by the kindness done to him
in Ides to SS the chair fur the evening. He appeared
buferi the swains possessing and publicly avowing the same feel-
ings which he pawned and avowed twenty-Gm pears; during aU
that time be bed nem Gam changed big political creed ; neither
tad these around ninth--((been.) lie trusted that an example
would that sight he shown to the whole of Ragland; and suck an
ample toe as woad be followed at least by all the radical refor-
mers of the empire; he should take the liberty of reading a resole-
doe which would be submitted to tbe meeting, mad every one pre-
"eat wend have an opportunity. if be were se inclined. either to
=favour of k or against it ; nese should be pm down by
. Mr. Heat then read the fellow* reeeisthm—" That
the 'biers of al/ Association is the attainasent.by all legal and con-
stinnional means, of a radical reform In the Newsom House of
Parliament, which will secure to the people Annual Parliaments,
Universal Suffrage, and Vete by Ballet."
The most deafening applause followed the reading of the
• limobstkars.

Mr. Harr, before he sat dews, said that the Secretary would
read the sithltes a the but Meeting. organising the Society, in
'order that 'they might be manned predate to the Resolution
which be had jest rued being put.
Mr. Gamut, the Secretary, read the minutes.' which were can-
alised othainsendy.
A Mr. Gam, then pm the Resolution.
Mr. Camases rose amidst hoists which' baud muse mimes.
After having &Weed something like Grim he ablated that the
history of Perianths was neither mere our bas them the Maury of
abuse est hundred years of striving between the people and the
sristeeracy. At the glorious Reveletion. as it was aged--
(Laughter)—it was meted that me Parliament should sic longer
thus three years. A very diertdine after that, the very same Par-
liament passed a law themielves, without asking the people any-
thing about it, whereby they wets enabled to sic myth years ; and
dew they went on from Parliament to Parliament, to the year
1711 S. One hundred add Mty.three Peers contrived to put a majority
tie' the House of Commess ; but these were surely not the re-
peesentadms of the people—(Cries of No. so). Again. I. the
yew lOW Mr. Maddocks shred to prate to the house, if be
wield 'be allowed, that there was a tracking in seats. What
slower was made ? Why, that such evidence was anamemary—
(A latigh). PuWneot kad caused the present state of things;--G
state. the misery of which was felt by the littlest merchant as well
se the poorest labourer. If that was not the case, whence came
the evils? They could not have came from the deeds. The
Cliencellor of the Exchequer said, some time ago, that the dis-
uses of the country was but a posit, elest4—(A laugh)—bet
donde did net smelly reduce peoples become; and the fact was,
that it was the Parliametu, as he bad already mid, that was
to blame, aid certainly net a reformed Parliament—(Cheers).—
Yet the people of England are told that the system works
well. Does it do so?-(Cries of • No, no.") Mr. Cobbett
the met a review of the paper money, and the tales.
Spething of the tax on pamphlets, be said that the Act passed
into a law through the activity of Plunkett, who was now a
Lord in Irelaad—.(A laugh). He said that such an Act was Deem-
say, because books and learning were' far too cheap, aid the
=kz.et toe enlightened. At the very same time others of the
said that we were hi a state of beastly Ivor:Dee •
so that between the two parties we stand a very poor ance
'a getting ear rights at all. It was stated by the same
authorities that the venous who kept reform alive were a set
of dement* characters, without property. Perhaps they •had
no Wm to km /—(An aikidos here made to the late Lord
Castlereagh, met with just reprobation. Mr. Hunt later-
, bred, and order was again restored). He bad heard it
suited, that it was in cootemplatien to mime a vote of thanks to
the Marquis of Bkodford, for bringing forward Pad's:matey lie-
, farm last Smiths but be objected to that,because she Mallets had
,stated that evening, is a public print, that his reform was as differ-
'cot from theirs as were the poles—(Hear.) After glancing at the
standing Army, the Judges' &lades, (which he really thought. 'if
any thing, too small,) Mr. Ricardu's 'Dowry of Finance and half a
donee ether topics; familiar to Mr. Gobbet' as household words. he
coododed by supporting the resolution which had been read by the
Chairman.

Mr. Maus, et Heatingdon, and several abet Gentlemen, ad-
dressed the Mettle&
After the Ressiation bad passed, end wine other routine business
weedispossdot, the Meeting adjourned.

A ktter from LisbOti, dated 20th of June, states, that
a Lady named Pacheco has been arrested and was then 'imprisoned,
bastes ohs would not reveal tins name of a French merchant,
through whom she was remitting about SOi. t • her .on, who is a
refer* in Holland. The pollee bad intercepted the letter, but
fortunately k did not contain the designation of the brut t►rough
whkb the remittance was to be made.

A duel was fought between two of the Odicere of 'the
ith Dragoon Goarda, Captain R—l and Captain H—y, behind the
Canterbury Barracks, on Sunday morning, at eight o clock. Hay-
leg received Capt. IL's ball. Captain H. bred in the air, and the
parties left the ground.-t-oliak Casty.
There is much talk its Paris of the intended visit of the
Klog to the sea.pons, and an possible Mille are used to glee a
greater degree of importance to the umteal service than it has hitherto
posmased. The Court gossips go so far is to say, that a new Order
of Merit for the Navy exclusively' is to be treated; and that the
pm" Duke of Borden: is to be at 'the head of 'it. 'A splendid
yacht is to he bent for this Prince, in which,' when he is a little
eider, be win take excursions.--Ceurt.faunatil.
THE TURKISH Emetkr..—We have before uncertain
map published in the year 1080, end dedicated to King James 11.
by his loyal subject and servant James Berry,"•wkikun book
miler. " at the sign of the Globe, between Chasing cross and
which the Turkish domisione are far more clearly
WI dews than in Linos% of our modern ulnas. Itl the map or
pin Wars us, we have." the Empire of the Great Torte is
Erstegs, Ask, and' Africa. divided into an its Stglerbeglies or
Goveramenes, in which are also distinguished the Mates that are
tributary to him ;" smile the first etas. are pictured and *flume.
rased-0 Remelia, that of the Sea, Duda, Zemeawar, noun:a.
Candle, and Cab. in &rope ; Natalia, Caraelania, Cypru., Zul•
table. Mims, Trehisoulle, Tchildir, Can, Idrzeruni,Wan, Akppu,
abut, Rica. Diarbekir. Shook fieheleresul, liagdat 0$11,0!a.
Wes, and Jensen in Asia ; Mini (or Egypt) and dabairfa. in
Africa; estate Beata that ere under his protection and tributary
blink viz. the Prindpalities of Little Tartaty, Tranalliania. Mol-
ar's, Venda. and the Republics et Ragusa. in Metope; the
issaisss of the Chorine, Mecca, and of the King of Arabi,.
.tetra in Asia; and the kingdoms of Algiers, Tone and Tripoli,
Is Mena." This notice may be et some sae at the pretest nisi.
Miaow who wow bestow a thee& on the east intent of sedate
beer Which the " Great 'Doke" pastimes power and islioenee.—
To those who cannot trouble themselves with the pr.ounetatiost
of an the bard names set Meth above, we may members, in one
word, that the imitative in question, and which are DOW Intely-to
fall a sapesseyy to the =eldest of Rossi, extend from nisi the Straits
of Glbrsitar is tbs. West re the Covina Sea b the Bast; and
the &WM of Bebeinsolel see Smith to 'ibe had of the
entire Venice le the Non). • •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF OF ICING'S BENCH, JnT 15.

TULE MYSTERIOUS TABLE.—EMEIRY V. MOORE.
This undefended cause was productive of some extra-
ordinary circumstances. The plaintiff, a tradesman, sought
to'recover 29/. 14s. 6d. for goods sold and delivered. The
at tides which constituted the plaintiff's demand were, a
I.lncy table, and an oval fanlight over the defendant's door.
• The Lord Chief Justice, who watches over the interests
of parties making no defence to an action, was struck by
the large amount of the sum charged for a table, and said
it was proper the Jury should know what sort of a table
.t was.
A witness was called who had assisted in making it,
I%A he was quite ignorant respecting the qualities of the
article. He could not say it was a billiard table; there
An cloth upon it, and stuffing. All he knew was that it
.164 carried to the house of Mr. Moore, who was a Gen-
t !engin, and altered to the order of Mr. Moore.
Lord Tenterden said the plaintiff had made an unusual
charge for the table, but the Jury would say what sum
oueht to be given.
The Jury consulted half an hour, and one of the twelve
communicated to his Lordship that they were totally
uo:Lble to ascertain how the plaintiff made out his demand.
lord Tenterden—Give any sum you think proper,
f;entlemen. It seems a large sum for a table; if you
tt.ii,k it too much, give a smaller.
Mr. Platt, who was Counsel for the plaintiff, said it
was not uncommon to give 100 guineas for a table.
The Jury deliberated half an hour longer, and appeared
as far as ever from their verdict. The nondescript table
was a puzzle.
Mr. Platt, finding the Jury involved in perplexity,
made a proposition with a view of releasing them from a
.elution of the tabular problem. "My Lord," said the'
Learned Counsel, " if it will relieve the Jury, we will take
Ike verdict for 2.51."
Lord Tenterden submitted the proposition to the Jury',
and without further consideration they gave a verdict for
that sum.

TENFOLD V. COPELAND.
This was an action brought by the brother and executor'
of a Mr. Penfold, deceased, to recover from the defendant,
an Attorney of this Court, the sum of 181. The claim
arose from the following facts—The late Mr. Penfold was
trustee of a certain charity, and employed the defendant
to present a petition to the Court of Chancery. He after-
wards wished to employ another Attorney, and applied to
the defendant fur the papers relating to the cause. The
defendant gave up the papers on receiving the amount of
hig bill of coats, and undertaking at the same time, that
if, on the bill being taxed by the Master, any f the
charges should be disallowed, he would refund the money.
The Master disallowed 181. the defendant refused to pay
it, and this action was brought to recover it.
The Attorney General, after the cause had oocupied a
considerable time, objected that no report of the taxation
had been obtained from the Master, and that therefore the
taxation was not complete.
Lord Tenterden considered the objection fatal, and
directed the plaintiff to be nonsuited.