Star.
London, England, 1827-12-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Salta, RIMIBASSKOS, APPIALS, Asa Patsyassta, 11170111 Tus LOU
CIANCILLOS, Famous To aurae TIMM, less.
Thursday, January 10, Friday, Saturday, and Mooday—Bank-
rupt Petitions.
Tuesday, January IS—Find Seal.
Wednesday, Januar/ 16, Thursday and Friday— Be-bearings
and Appeals.
Saturday, January 19, Second &al.
Monday. January V, Petitions.
Seats, F.xcxerseus, Fuss:mai Mammy% PLIAS, DISIOSSIIRS,
MAW Pennons. across TUB VICK-CIOADICALI.es, reuaous aso
Hn-
sra: Tram, i &XS.
Thurad ty, January 10, Friday, Saturday, and Monday-.-
rupt Petition.
Tuesalty, January Id—First Seal.
Wednesday, January 16, Thursday, and Friday—Exceptions
arid Further .Directions.
Saturday, January 19—Second Seal.
Monday, laanoary 21—Pleas and DrOSlttfer&
Tuesday,January 22—Petitions.

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COURT OF CHANCERY, Dscruszt
THE ATT(4ltitlf Oar ERAL o.COEPORATIoII Of wAZWICK.
The Loan Cnancet.coa gave judgment in this case
—the arguments on both sides having been brought to
a conclusion yesterday. His Lordship, in Renouncing
judgment, said that it was quite clear from the evi-
dence, chit originally the right of appointing a Lectu-
' rer or Assistant was in the Vicar of St. Mary By the
Charter, the Corporation was to ray the balmy of the
Lecturer. In consequence of this, it appeared that the
Victor; from courtesy, had consulted the Corporation in
the appointment of a Lecturer, and they brought for-
ward entries of appointment in their own books, to prove
from inference that the right of appointment was in
them. The Court could not hold the entries in those
books to be evidence against the Vicar, to %Inch alone
the Corporation had access. and which were made es
parse by dual. In the manyinstances in which the
Vicar had made the appointment, he had presented the
Lecturer to the Bishop- for his license, and his tig'..t of
doing so had never been contestea by the Corporation;
the Corporation appeared never to have obtained The
Bishop's license for any appointment of theirs un it
1810. Upon the original right, therefore, of the Vicar
to govern the affairs of the Church, and upon all the
evidence adduced in the matter, his Lordship thought
throb:lance in favour of the Year. He, consequently,
agreed with the Master, who reported that the right of
appointment from time to time was in the Vicar, be
causethe recent acts of the Corporation could not be
taken to govern such a question as this. The result was,
that the Court overruled the exceptions to the Maces
report, and ordered the Corporation to pay the costs.
Irises then agreed at the bar to be unnecessary for the
Court to go quo the nest pet tion, which prayed that the
Corporation aught be compelled to pay the Lecturer's
wages, because they had only declined to snake he pay-
ments for the purpose of having this queston raised
and decided. S rictly speaking, the question was a
question of law, And ought to have been decided upon
an issue ; but It eking at the length of time the matter
had been in the Master's office, the smallness of the pro-
perty in question, arid the dearness of the balance of
the evidence in favour of the Vicar, he could not think
he would have acted justly, had he new sent it to a
Couriof Law. The declaration up in the original pe-
tition was, that the right of appointment was in the
Vicar.
Su at QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
This was an appeal to the King in Council, and the
question at issue was, whether the Master of the College
hid a right to exercise a veto or negative vice upon
every proposition that should be submitted to that So-
ciety or Corporation ?
Mr. John King (a tutor and a distinguished member
of the Cllege, but nut a Barrister) addressed the Court,
and stated that this was an appeal to the Lord Chancel.
lar, not in his capacity of Jutlge of that Couit, but as
the representative of the King in the adjudication of the
differences et the College. This suit had arisen out of
the election of a Bursar of the College, in which the
Master of the College. against the opinion of a majorit)
of the Fellows, exercised his claimed right of putting a
veto Upon a proposition submitted to that assembly;
and the question now before the Court was, whether
this was a legal or an assumed right. He (Mr. King)
appeared, by his Lordship's perm ass on, for the Fellows,
in opposition to the claim so set up by the Master ; and
be trusted his appearance would not be deemed pre-
sumptuous, %%ben it should be recollected that this am
not a question of general law. but one mote properly
alapted for discussion in his Lordship's private cham-
ber. Mr. King then proceeded to state the ca'e, and
to argue upon the construction of the Statutes of the
tollege, and on the analogy of the practice of other
Colleges, as well as srf decisions in Courts of Law in
cases of Lay Corporations, an./ suggested many cases
in which the most absurd consequences would ensue,
were the Master entitled toezetcise his assumed right.
Mr. GAIia•TE appeased for the Minter of the Col-
lege, and in his argument occupied the attention of the
Court till four o'clock. when the Lord Chancellor rose.
The Court was filled principally by Cambridgemen,
to witness the discussion of a question of so much inte-
rest, which on one side was conducted by what may be
termed a Layman. The Lord Chancellor and the two
Learned Counsel for the Master (Mr. Garratt and Mr.
Jacob), had been all Senior Wranglers in the same
Ualversity. .

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, Dat.2l.
TATES AND HAC(ICK V.
• This was an action to recoi er the ptice of a quantity
of Waterford singed bacon. The defence was that the
bacon was MesStry.
The ATTORNEY GENIRAL cited an old Statute, which
passed in the reign of Henry 111. by which it is declared
illegal to sell to Christians meat bought of Jews. The
Punishment for selling measley pork was, for the first
Arks, .a severe amercement ; for the second offence,
; for the Mild, imprisonment; and for the fourth,
lkatisbment (roar the town.
Witness wba was esaatioed to prose the quality of
the bacon fold by -tbe plaintiffs, produced from his
patient 'say* casefully enclosed in paper : the odour
it exhaled had a weak effect on the olfactory nerves
of the Jary, who, by various contortions of faces, ex-

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passed how roach they *NOW a soarer apptmieh
pt the stuck. This ilogulAt appearance of the bacon
Spited such mirth in C9ort. sad at last the witness,
!With pet feet sang froid, returned it to the close stowage
of his pocket.

Lord TIINTINDiII threw not a hint' tbat die bacon
was too strong for the Jury, and after the {muse had
proceeded some !curb, the parties agreed to withdraw
a Juror.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, D. it.

V. U ACDOWA I.

This was an action for a libel brought by the plain.
tiff against the defendant tinder the following citcum.
rancm : Robertson held a bond, which was signed by
the defendant, guaranteeing that a person named Mor
rison shopld abide the resell of an award is to certain
matters in a train of arbitration between bin and Bo-
bertsun. Before the award in the ease was made, Mr.
Morrison died, and the defendant then gave notice to
the plaintiff that he considered himself as no longer
liable to the bond. The plaintiff, however, got an
award in his favour, and then got lodgment. The de
fendant, who is an attorney, occasioned great expenses
and delays to the plaintiff by his tesiyance to thisjudg-
ment. The plaintiff at last advertised the bond for
sale, and placed it in the fluids of Mr. Haggett lot
that purpose. The defendant, when he saw the.adver.
tisment, circulated a hand bill, decrying the bo-d as
being of no value, because there was a suit pending in
equity relative to it. He also sr rote to the sane effect
to Mr. Hoggart, and in the letter st .ted that the only
object which the plaintiff could have in advertising the
bond for sale was, that of extorting money frottrinlnto-
wary purchaser, or else of extorting money 'lrontlhe
p cket of the defendant by threat's ; and thd.letttr ern
eluded by stating, that tor his owa patt 'he westild
hesitate to bnonie the purchaser even if it were offered
to him for 101. This was Ire libel which the plaintiff
complained of.
Mr. Sergeant SPANK I C appearedfnt the plaintiff; and
Mr.. Sergeant WILDa addresse3 the Jury at great
length for the defendant ; and contended that as flit
defendant had a light to address himself to Mr. Hogr
cart, relative to this bond, the particulalexpressionslie
made site of could not constitute a libel. An action *as.
once brought again.t a Counsel, u ho, in addresSink the
Jury for his client, had called an Attorney a cheat. la
was held that as he had done so in the defence of
client, and as he had not travelled out of bus way to
atttck the partylst inging the action,but as it occurred as
part of theanatter in issue at the time, no action fur
libel would lie.
The Jury returned a sereirt for the defendant.

GENERAL WOLFE AND THE MARQUIS
DE MON I'CALM.

A Monument is erecting at Quebec to the menteetles
of General Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcatm. who
fell at the taking of Quebec, on tteleth df Sept. 1760.
Wolfe wa, killed at tl.e moment of victory; and Mont-
calm, the French Commander in Chief, receivtd at the
same time his death wound, of which he died el the
14th. The French Government, anxious tifmaik their
approbation of Montcalin's conduct, proposed to lute a
monument to his memory in Quebec. The following
is a translation of a letter from M. Bougainville, Mem-
ber of the Academy of Sciences. &c. to the Right Hoa.l
William Pitt (aftcr,tarJs Earl of Chatham):

" Park, March 24, 17111.

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" Sim—The honours paid, during your 31inistry, to the memory
of Generid„Woite, give me rumor to hope that you will not dis-
approve /ff the grateful efforts made by the French troops to
perpetuate the memory of the Marquis de /Slootcalm. f:The
corpse of that General, who was honoured with the regret of
your nation, is buried at Quebec. I have the honour to vend
you an epitaph, which the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles
Letters have written he him, and I would beg tlle f of you,
Sir, to read it over, and if there be nothing improper in it, to pro
dire me permission to send it to Quebec, engraved in marble, to
put over the Marquis de Montcalm's tomb. If this permission
should be granted, may I presume, Sir, to kureat the honour of a
hoe to acquaint me with it, and at the same time to wnd me a
passport that the engraved marble may he received on board ao
En' stash vessel, and that General Murray, Governor of Quebec.
may give permission to have it pot up in- the Ursulisse Church. I.
ask minim. Sir, fur taking off your attention, even for a moment,.
front your important concerns, but to eadeavuur to itimiortalize
great men and illustrious citizens, is to do honour to you.
' I am, kc. BOUGAINFILIA".
Na. PITT'S Arlirtl4 •
" Sta—Tt is a real satisfaction to me to send you the King's ton-
sent un the interesting subject Of the very handsome Epitaph drawn
by the Academy of Seim; sat Faris for the Alarquis de Alutitcalm
which is to he sent to Qieltec, and to be placed on the tomb of the
illustrious warrior. The noble sentiments expressed, and the desire
to pay this tribute to the memory of their General, by the French
troops who served in Canada, and who saw hint fall at theft head,
in a manner worthy of his and of them, cannot be too mach ap-
plauded. I shall take a pleasure, Sir, in facilitating a design an full of
respect to the deceased; and as soon as I am informed of the mea-
sures taken for embarking the ii arbie, I shall ininksliately grant the
passport you desire, and stint orders to the Governor of Canada for
its reception. As to rest, be assured, Sir, that I have a just
sense of the sentiments repressed towards myself in the letter with
which you honoured site, and that I Brent it a singular happiness to
have an opportunity to rarest those sentiments of distinguished
esteem and consideration with which

" I have the honour to be, &e.
" London, Apt il 10,1761.

" WM. PITT."

Notwithstanding t hi. correspondence,the French mar-
ble suns never sent; and it has remained for the F. %fish
people to do justice ton brave but conquered enemyAry
nhiung in one montiwnt the tr.butes of respect to two
gallant and high mint!eJ opponents.

BOTH Rooua AND FOOL --A Member of an Election
Committee haying read the newspapers during part of
the time the merits of a vote were under discussion, and
slept the rest, was challenged by the Chairman (or his
behaviour. He bluntly answered... I had made up my
mind on the case." Oa the ciicumstance being Mated
to Dr. Johnson, he observed, if he (the alossostsabk
Member) was such a rogue as to makeup his mind up-
on 3 case with. ut hearing it, he shoiild not base been
such a fool as to tell itt .. I think," said Mr. Dudley
Long (afterwards North), "the Doctor ha. pretty plainly
made him out to be both rogue and fool:'
A man of the name of Phelps, who resided in Hem-
lock Court, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, while
employed on Thus sday morning i,t lilting and placiig
some sacks of corn into a caravels. stationed in the yard
of the Angel Inn. Wych Street, Strand, fell backwards
out of the vehicle on the stutter. and dreadfully frac-
tured his skull, and briice his collar bane. The unfor-
tunate man w i nmediately conveyed to St: Bat tholo-
mew's Hospital, o here he lingered in the greatest agony
till yesterday afternoon, abut four o'clock, when death
terminated his suffering..
Too lamentable instances of injury by fire occurred
ye ter day, the one in thetas! of Mrs. Sarah Humphreys,
the wife of a corn chandler in Deptford, who,• retiring
to bed, incautiously set fire to her neck bandkerehieL•
the flames from which communicated to ler night
clothes, and so much injured he-, that she waslconveyed
to Goy 'd Hospital. The other, that of Trip-
lett, four years Lid, whose mother, a labouring woman,
living in Percy Court, Bankaide, having left him in the
room with a fire, while she went on an wand, set fire
aobis clothes, by playing with a match, and was so
dreadfully burnt, that be lies in the same Hospital at
the point of death.

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Curtzwar.sto. Den.2o:-:-Tbia day the vicinity ssf the
Convicts Prison, in spr in/ rieldf Co she Colchesser road.'
near this town, was thronged by an Immense number sof
persons. even mote than at the recent execution of the
murderer Winter, to witness another indirtJua! undergo
the awful seatence of the law...namely, Jtika Tarper,
alias Newman, the leader of a limit desperate gang of
robbers, who, from the numerous depredatioos they had
committed in Runwell and the neighbost Wood, bad ob
tanned the appellation of the Riniireil iltergiars. The
'crime of which the culprit was convicted was slobbery
in the house of a Mr. Hall, a farmer. of Ramsden Crags.
on the 20th of October last, in company with terml
others, one of whom, James Watts,/ was apprehended
with the c.invict, but the sentence of death passed upon
him was commuted to trap-portation for life.
Towards the hottiof execution the culprit was brooght
from his dreary apartment in the prison to the press-.
room, which is only a few steps from the scaffold, where'
the London executioner awaited him: he was imn.e-
diateir pinioned, and then sat down on a bench, * ith his
eyes- fixed on the ground, awaiting the arrival of the
Under Sheriff and his shsistant4, who shottly afti r sr-
rived,- eta the mournful prnces%ion moved op the stoat
.tops. towards the place of execution. which is situate on
the top of the entrance to the gaol ft rim the trashway,
overlooking a vast tztent of country. On stepping oa
the scaffold he stared wildly around him, and made a
slight inclination of the head to the assembled . multi-
tude ; then resigning himself into the hands of she ere.
cationer, the drop fell, and the wretched man was
launched into etet nit).

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUFLDHALL

The landlord of a' public house I n Clot la Fair, appeared before
Aldermen Gaeaarr and Csowinta. to answer to a complaint of
having kept his house open until an early hour in the morning of
Sunday last. " to wit, half-past one o'clock in the mowing."
Mr. Chick. one of the Trustees of the Parish of St. Bartholomew
the Great (which is managed by a son of Select Vestt y, called Tres.
tees) stated that the inhabitants were so ill satisfied with the manner
in which the system of watching Worked. that they now by.turns
kept Watch and Ward themselves. He went round the Parish at
one o'clock on Sunday morning, and found fig.: oat of the eight
watchmen sleeping. When be cause to the house it question, he
saw three men let out, and beim e the door could be closed, be put
id his hand and pushed in. Ile found eight *men in the tap-room,
but they were not drinking. These men went quietly away, and
the landlord had since assured hlm, it was the first time such a eir4
cumatance had occurred, and it shelled never occur again. Ile did
tan therefore press for a severe punishment.
The defendant said there bad been& sale at his boost that day,
and he was up later In consequence. He esuld wee persuade the
men to go, but he did not serve them with say liquor.
It appearing that the defendant had been a poblima for I a years.
The Magistrate fitted him 40s. sad admonished him to avoid giving
further cause of complaint.
BOW-STREET.
In pursuance of the determinatitto expressed by Mr. Thome us,
Thursday. that dicer brought to titisolheepowerday morning, Imo
noes le the dress pleads, whom be charged with hips In Bow.
*greet at a quarter before twelve o'clock oo Thursday**, just at
the closing of the Theatres, running about and alligallie mach,s
from the stand in Charleo.street, abstracting time doisigebtars,wed
annoying the passengers.
The prisoners gave their names David Ennis, Tlr~al fat,
Minn Opuisiery, Thomas Gees, and Joan Theassima.
Sir K. Brame asked if any of the prisoners wore badges?
Mr. Thomas—No, Sir* not one of them.
Sir RICNAIII Buuns—Because 1 know that there are midis
men wearing badges echo arc in the employment of the proprietors
of the Theatres, and whose business it is to assist our ofiicers in
calling coach,. for persons leaving the Theatres. and also to keep
order in the streets.

Mr. Thomas said that the person to whom theMagirtrate alluded
were very usgrul, but the prisooets acted under no authority.
Sir H. rpm-ix-Lilies' they have no business to go near the
theatres at all. " What are you ?" said the Magistrate to the pri-
soner Hams.
Ennis—Why, your Worship, I'm it porter at Charing Cross.
Sir itionams Butam—What business have you In Bow-street,
then? Are there not some parcels missing?
Ennis—No, your Worship; I do not know of any.
Sir It. Build—Ols, but I do. •s What it your 'business?" ad-
dressing the prisoner Rose.
Rose—l am in the fish line, your Worship. I sells pickle salmon
when it's in season ; but all sorts of ftsb, your Worship, is going out
now; so I thought I'd take a turn In another way just to sun an

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bone.t sixpence:
Sir It. Bimini (to-Cowdery)—What are you? Are you in the
Ash way too?
Cewdery—No, your Worship; I am a width out or work.
Sir ttienaati Hissas-,And so you turned " Cad" because you
could not nod work co do as a sodas?

Cowdery.—ltist so. your Worship.
Green said lb* was a portes out at place. and was glad to sans a
s►illing at the theatres ; .and 11wmp.00 said he was lately from the
country, and was bred up to the fat nung business.
Sir it. !Singe—What part of the country are -you from?
Thomson—From Watford, your Worship.
Ste Itscuaso litassa—When )ao are lee out ot the place to which.
I shall send you, take my advice and make the best of your way
back to 'Watford spin.
The prisoners were all committed to the House of Correction for
seven days, under the Vagrant Act.
M A ItsI.I3OROUG H.STII CET.

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A young man, shabbily dressed. who said his name was Waimea
Barba was charged by a respectable young female, named Eliza
Fenton, with assaulting her in Hyde Park, with intent to violate
her person. appears that she trades with her friends at Bromp-
ton, and on lkursday went to Osiord-street. She was returning
borne at nine o'clock in the evenibg through Hyde Park, when
she was alarmed by the prisoner pursuing her; and though she
walked as fat as she toold to avoid hint he suddenly came behind
ber and caught hold of her clothes. She fell dawn. and he com-
stilted the assault. which she particularise!. She cried "murder,"
and be got up and ran away, but was secured as be was endeavouring
Ito go out of the Park-gate.— lle wag committed in default of bail.

W ORS H I P-STR E ET.
aft NMI was charged with robbing Thomas Young, a labourer
at the Docks. The prosecutor met with the prisoner at a public
bans, near Ratliff-highway, and pee him permission to we him
to poppail. The prisoner called accordingly, on Sunday, and the
prosecutor feasted hint with dinner, tea, and supper. The following
day the prisoner returned to the house, entered it in the absence of
the panic., and robbed It. There was another charge against him
fur robbing his own sister of apparel, pawned for Ida.
Mr. Saistioneos was willing to spare the feelings of the sister' and
desired the pawnbroker's man to give up the goofs.—He was fully
coninsitted on the hist charge.