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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE U.
THE OPERA HOUSE.—v►ATERS V. TAYLOR.
The LORD CHANCELLOR pronounced his final judg-
ment this day upon the merits of this complicated
motion, and said he had fully considered the explana-
tory affidavits filed on behalf of Mr. Taylor respect-
ing the application of the revenues of the Theatre
within the years specified in the.proceedings, and felt
satisfied that considerable sums remained unexplained
and unaccounted for, which the order now framed
by his Lordship directs to be speedily paid in by the
defendant.
Mr. H ART, on behalf of Mr. Waters, the plaintiff,
rose and suggested the necessity of an early, day being
appointed for the payment, as certain payments, the
clear right of Mr. Waters, were shortly to accrue due,
which might be affected by the day of payment by
the defendant of the sums in arrear.
His Lordship replied, that all such circumstances
should he provided for in the order which should be
delivered out to the parties to-morrow morning.—
Judgment for the plaintiff.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE t 7.
THE KING V. JOHN ROBERTSON BELL.
This defendant, a ship and insurance broker, found
guilty at Guildhall, upon an indictment for sending
a letter to Mr. Munnings, a merchant, provoking him
to a breach of the peace, was brought up for judg-
ment. Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed, that it appear-
ed, that although the letter was extremely violent,
yet the prosecutor had first called the defendant a
rascal, upon the public Exchange, for not accepting
the prosecutor's bill of £lOOO, when it afterwards
appeared by award, that there was only £3OO du to
him. The defendant then, as a man very naturally
might when thus rated on the public Exchange, called
the prosecutor a liar ; upon which he took advantage
of his superior strength, and struck the defendant.—
The Court would forget their feelings as men, if they
did not mate great allowances for a letter written '
upon such provocation. The letter was evidently
written with warmth, but a day or two afterwards it
did appear, that the defendant had renewed his chal-
lenge to the prosecutor ; and therefore the Court,
through Mr. Justice Gaon, sentenced him to one
month's imprisonment in the Marshalsea, and to en-
ter into a recognizance of the peace, for three years
afterwards, himself in £lOOO, and two sureties in
£5OO each.

THR ICING V. G. MANNERS, ESQ.
Mr. PARK prayed the judgmental& the Court on
the defendant, who was last term convicted of a libel
on Hallett, Esq. a gentleman of considerable
fortune, residing in Buckinghamshire, and a Magtt.
strate of that county. The libel in question was pub-
lished in a periodical publication called The Satirise,'
of which the defendant is proprietor and editor. The
libel charged the prosecutor with inhumanity towards
his own sister, who was ill, and a prisoner in the
king's Bench, and to *horn he refused pecuniary as-
sistance, although at the same time he was a subscri-
ber to the fund then raising in aid of Miss Taylor,
the friend of Mrs. Clark.
Mr. Manners addressed the Court on his own be-
half,. and submitted that he had not sought out Mr.
Hallett, to whom he was unknown, and who was a
stranger to him; but Mr. Hallett had invited his (the
defendant's)attention,byhispublic conduct. It was true
he was the original planner and proprietor of The
Satirist, but many articles found their way into that
publication without his knowledge, and which if they
first met his eye would not appear at all. He trusted
the Court would see he was not a deliberate and ma-
licious libeller. The libel in question was forwarded
to the publisher in a letter received by the General..
Post ; and, before its insertion, he (Mr. M.) had
taken every means in his power to ascertain the truth
of the facts stated in it. He went over to the King's
Bench prison, *here, stretched on a bed of sickness,
the Lady was then lying, and assured him all the
facts stated were true.
Lord ELLEN/lOW/UGH here interrupted the defen-
dant, and cautioned him, that in stating that the libel
he had published was true, he was uttering other li-
bels, and aggravating instead of mitigating his offence;
his Lordship
adviceshob he
servediladq
hefrse would give ivgeivtheen defendant
the e same
thers,
too often without effect, viz. ~ That the less he said
the better it would be for him." • .v
Mr. Manners—My Lord, I humbly thank your
Lordship for your kind suggestion. I mean not now
to say these facts were true, but to shew to your Lord-
ships that I acted on the impression of the moment
that they were so, and that my mind was not inspired
by malice, or tinctured by malignity, towards Mr.l
Hallett.
Mr. Nita, for the prosecution, observed it was
impossible to say the defendant was not a malicious
libeller, since there were two libels published by him
en Mr. Hallett' t two periods, eighteen months dis.
cant from each other. He had confessed himself a
willing libeller, and had stated that he went over to
the King's Bench, to enquire into and investigate the
circumstances, and thereby proved himself a delibe-,
rate libeller.
Mr. Justice GROSE addressed the defendant as fol-
lows :-•••" George Manners, you have been convicted
of having published a gross and malicious libel upon 1
the prosecutor, a Gentleman of respectability and a
Magistrate. You assert that it is not a malicious libel
you have published ; but who can read it and not see
that it is so ? It also appears, from your own state-
merit, that it was a premeditated libel ;—since you
went to enquire into the truth of the circumstances
stated to you. But what was the truth or falsehood
of that statement to you ? You had no right to en-
quire into them, or to trouble yourself on the subject;
if one part of Mr. Hallett's family had to complain
of the other, the law was open to redress the injured
party. You have been guilty of an offence which,
whenever committed, it is necessary, in order to pre-
vent others from becoming offenders, that punishment
should follow. Taking all the circumstances into
their consideration, and considering this as a private ,
libel, the Court do adjudge, that for the said offence
you he imprisoned in the custody of the Marshal of
the Marshalsea for three calendar months, and at the
expiration of that time that you find security for three
years, yourself in five hundred powids, and two sure-
tied i'st two hundred and fifty pounds each."

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CANAL PROPERTY:
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The average prices of Navigable Canal Property,
Dock Stock, Fire-Office Shares /cc. in June, 1811,
(to the 25th) at the Office of Mr. SCOTT, '2B, New
Bridge-street, London :
Trent and Mersey, er Grand Trunk Canal, £l2OO, the last
Half•yearly Dividend at the rate of 445 pw share clear, per ann.
Birmingham, £llOO, ex Dividend £3l clear, Half-;ear.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire, dividing £2l per share clear,
Helf.year, £790.
Warwick and Birmingham, £285, dividing £ll.
Monmouth, £l2O.
Grand Junction, £227. £224. Ex Dividend of £5 Half year.
Shrewsbury., £145, dividing £B.
Kennet and Avon, £4O.
With and links, £3O.
Rochdale, £52. £54. Ex Dividend of £l.
Ellesmere, £B3. ;CM
Grand Western, £l9 discount.
Peak Forest, £Bl. £llO.
Grand Union, £l2 10s. discount.
Worcester and 'Birmingham Old Shares, £3B.
New ditto, 10s. premium.
Dudley, .7, with £1 dividend.
West India Dock Stock, £165.
London Dock, £l2B. £127. £127 10$.
Ditto Scrip, £25 per cent. premium.
Commercial Dock Old Shares, £159, with new share attache
Globe, £l2O.
Rock, ass. premium.
East London Water-works, £l5B.
Grand Junction Water-works, £l3 premium.
Strand Bridge, £l4 discount.
London Flour Company, £lO 10s.
Dover-Street-Road, £9 discount.

Tuesday, Mr. John Cozener, of Greenham Mills,
Newbury, had two South Down Sheep shorn at his
factory, exactly at five o'clock in the morning, from
the wool of which (after passing its various processes)
a complete damson coloured coat was made, and
worn by Sir John Throckmorton, Bart. at a quarter
past six in the evening, being two hours and three,
quarters within the time allotted, for a wager of onel
thousand guineas ; the sheep was roasted whole; and
a most sumptuous dinner was gives by Mr. Com-,
ter, to Sir John Throckmorton, Colonel Stead, Cap:.
Lain Bacon, and many other celebrated agriculturisti
of Berkshire.
Tuesday night a young man, nearly exhausted, was
taken out of the sea, near Newhaven. He had been
dining on board one of the ships of war, in Leith Roads,
with some friends, and had imprudently gone in to
bathe, on his return ashore ; he was shortly after ob-
served struggling in the water, alternately rising and
sinking, when a Newhaven boat put off to his assis-
tance, and brought him on shore. He experienced
every possible `attention that could be paid to a per-
son in his situation, but he died on Wednesday mor-
ning. He was bead waiter to a principal, tavern in
Edinburgh.
An inquisition was taken yesterday at the George
and Dragon, on the Watford-road, on the body of
Jeremiah Halsford, who was killed in a pugilistic
contest, with a man named Smith, on Tuesday last.
The deceafed was the son of a respectable farmer, near
Hayes, and his antagonist was the son of a publican.
A dispute had originated in a cricket-match, and the
(parties mutually agreed to fight. After an unscien-
tific combat of a quarter of an hour, Haisford re-
ceived a blow on the temple, which laid him prostrate
on the ground, at he died in six hours after, from
the effect of the blow. The parties had always been
good friends. Verdict—Manslaughter.
Switintom.--tA man about five feet ten inches in
height, of florid complexion, with powder, and gen-
teel address, has obtained a quantity of jewellery,
lace, and other expensive articles, of trades-people,
about St. James's and Oxford•street, by assuming
fictitious characters, and personating several gentle.
men of rank and fortune. The offender obtained of
a dealer in Jermyn-street articles to the amount of
£l2O, the middle of last week, under the tide of a
Baronet, of Somersetshire. The Swindler had the
effrontery to introduce himself to Mr. H. a gen-
tleman retired from business, in Wiginore-street, on
Sunday se'nnight, and succeeded in persuading. the
old gentleman that he was his nephew, by his sister
in Gloucestershire--that he had just returned from
the army in Portugal, and was a Captain of Dra-
good. He managed his business so well by the pro-
duction of notes from the Secretary of State's Office,
to prove intimacy between him and the Under Secre-
taries, as to obtain from Mr. H. the loan of £5O, for
immediate use. The offender rides a bay horse, atten-
ded by a servant in green livery with red facings.—
He passed for a clergyman in buying some lace in
Wardour4treet last week.
Yesterday, J. Toldervey, C. Wheeler, and J. Tol-
dervey, were fully committed from Hatton-Garden
Office, charged with stealing from a field at Islington,
a heifer, the peoperty of Mr. Hailes ; also a number
of sheep, the property of Mr. Baslington, a salesman.
Tuesday week, Jean Fullarton was brought before
the Judge of Police, at Edinburgh, upon two com-
plaints, by the inspectors of different districts—the first
for stripping a child of its cloaths in Buccleugh•street,
and another at Lauriston—the second, for stripping
a child of its cloaths in Gray's-close, High-street, and
another in St. John-street; and both complaints were
fully proved. In one case, the child was left almost
naked ; in the other, a considerable part of the cloaths
bad been carried away. In one instance, the woman
passed herself for the aunt of thechild, which prevented
the interference of those who were passing at the time;
in the other instance, she had decoyed the children by
promises of money, toys, &c. Upon the first complaint,
the Judge ordained Fullarton to be committed to Bride-
well for 60 days, to be confined to a solitary cell, and
fed on bread and water; anda similarsentence was pro-
nounced on the second complaint ; the confinement
to be continued from the expiration of the confine.
ment upon the first. She was farther ordered to find
bail for her good behaviour for one year, upon expi-
ration of her confinement upon the second sentence,
under the penalty of 035 sterling, and to be detained
till such bail shall be found.

BIRTH.
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MARRIED.
Tuesday, at Wiliden, in Middlesex, the Rev. John Griffin, of
Preston Candover, Hants, to Catherine, daughter of the late
John htcvensun, Esq. of Bedford-squire.
On the lath inst. Mr. lames Cochrane •Surgaias, in Gia,
to Msa.Margaret,daughter of Mr.Hughiluenikuleeetewit

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DIED,
Wednesday greening, at his house In ..Aibensarle-otroet,
Bight Hon. Sir John Anstruther, Bart.
last week, at Kelton, near Guisbrough, at the great ge
106, Dorothy Page. She retained het faculties w the lam