Star.
London, England, 1826-05-29 00:00:00

P. THE DOER OT BEAUFORT.

Mr. Has: informed the Court that the additional affidavits
which his Lordship had directed to be made in this use, were now
ready, and he requested permission to hand them to his Lordship.
The affidavits were then delivered to the officer of the Court.
Na thing else of interest occurred to-day.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 27.
MACDOWAL V YOUNG.

Mr. Serjeant ONELOW moved Enr a rule to shew cause
why the verdict on one count of the declaration in the
' above cause, for the defendant, should not be set aside,
and a new trial had. It was an 'act,on by the lay im-
propriator of the parish of Sr. Helen's, Bishopsg-tte-
street, against the defendant, as a parishioner of the
above parish, on the 97th of Hen. VIII. to recover 2s.
9d. in the pound, which that Statute directed to be paid
by the Ci,izens of London, according to the decree of
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief. Justice, the Chief
Baron, and others therein mentioned. In a second
count, a sum of 121. was alleged to be due for a compo-
sition formed between the parties. A verdict was found
for the plaintiff on the second count. On the first count,
the Lord Chief Justice was of opinion that no sufficient
przot of the decree having heea acknowledged as law
had been produced. Now the current of casesfrom the
year 1579. suppot ted the decree, as the law, directing
the amount of tithes to be claimed. The motion there-
fore was to obtain a rule to shew cause why the
verdict found on the first count, under the direction of
the Learned Judge, should not be set aside, and a new
tria 1 had.— Rule granted.

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE AT TOBAGO. —.Mr. B.
Wilson, of Tobago, preferred a complaint to the sitting
Magistrates of the Island against Mr. Frederick Robin-
son, son of his Ezcelleticy Sir F. P. Robinson, and a
person named Grant, in which he stated, that being in
bed in his own house at midnight on the 18th of Fz-
bruary, he heard a knocking at his door, which he
opened, and saw Mr. Robinson and Grant.- A dog ran
into the house, which Mr. Wilson kicked. M. Robin-
son immediately said, " Kick my dog, Sir, kick me;"
and seizing Mr. Wilson, threw him down, and while,
struggling to release his stick from Mr. Wilson's grasp
called out to his companion,-" Grant, give him the pis-
tol in the face." Grant immediately presented a pistol
at Mr. Wilson. and di 'charged it, but a female, who had
come to Mr. Wilson's assistance, turned it aside at the
instant and prevented his receiving the contents. Grant
then said, "Robinson, have you another ball?" to which
Rubinson ans.vered, " Yes, lack in my pocket for it."—
Grant then put his hand in the pocket, took out a ball,
and reloaded the pistol. But apprehending, it is sup-
posed, the arrival of a neighbour Mr. Wilson's servant
had gone to call to his assistance, they both fl d without
firing tr second shot. The Magistrates to whom the
complaint was preferred b and Mr. Rubinson and Mr.
Grant in 200/. and two sureties for each in 1501. to an-
swer the charge at the Grand Sessions, and in the mean
time to keep the peace.

Tax C9AST OF AFRICA.— Wednesday, the transport
ltic Merchant, Lieutenant Lester, agent, returned
from Sierra Leone, ACIlt, Cape Coast, and Ascension ;
left the last named place on the sth of April. The
several stations on the coast of Africa were more healthy
than usual. Accounts had re iched Cape Coast, of the
death of Captain Pearce, R.N. and Dr. Morrison, the
companions of that intrepid and hardy traveller, Capt.
Clipperton, R.N. who has himself reached Soudon, 160
miles in the interior, [wally in lat. 8 north, and was then
descending the north face of the 'Kong Mountains, on
his way to Tirubuct' o. The surveying ships Liven
(Captain Owen), and Baracouta, were proceeding on the
survey of the Western Coast of Africa. The Leven had
recently completed an examination of the Isles de Los
—six in number, about 70 miles to the southward of
Sierra Leone. These ships had tracked the whole coast
from the Cape of Good Hope to the Gambia, but bad
found but few anchoring-places not before known ; in-
deed, a harbour is hardly to be found on that coast. St.
Paul's de Loando is a capacious and safe harbour, and is
the site of a Portuguese settlement; in it were retract a
Portuguese frigate, and 18 slave vessels, all reading in
the most open manner, under the protection of a large
castle, a fort of 64 guns, and several smaller batter es.
The situation is about 10 south. The Leven and Bara-
couta were fired at in going in, as it is a custom et the
port that all vessels should anchor outside the Oar, until
her force and business are wholly known.
At the close of a case on Thursday at the Mi !diesel
Sessions, wherein something like perjury had been com-
mitted by a shoemaker, Mr. Adolphus said, he knew of
perjury committed by 4.00 shoemakers at a Middlesex
; they met at the Magpie and Stump ; one went
to vote, for an experiment, and finding he passed, re-
turned to the society, and said," D—n me, I've opened
the ball, you may all get up and dance." This he
himself proved in the Court of King's wench, and that
they committed the perjury for 30s. a-piece. Mr. Phillips I
said, he knew of a man who went to poll eight times I
at the Drogheda election; seven times he succeeded by
altering his dress and his gait, and actually on one occa•
ion, shaved his head. On the eighth time, an elector
said to him, " What, Dennis, are you come to vote
again?" " Oh no," replied the other, "11 not vote any
more ; for by J—s I'm tired of it."