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of the defendant's seeing the items charged in the
bill, which was produced in Court, copies of which.
had been repeatedly sent to Taunton, and no objec-
tion made to their items.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. CROSS.--
I perceive, Madam, that you have here charged cash
£5, and again—cash £5. Are'you certain that this
money was advanced to the defendant P—lt is im-
possible for me to speak, with certainty, at this dis-
tance of time ; but these items are entered by rne,
and I believe the defendant had this money.
I see, also, £1 7s. charged for his share of a din.
net.. 'This appears to me an extravagant charge.—
Then you must know, Sir, of what the defendant's
dinner consisted, but I do not—(A laugh).
The LORD CUM Jusrice.—Perhaps, Mr. Cross,
your client doubled the Cape, and got to Madeira
(Laughter).
Mr. CROSS addressed the Jury on the part of the
defendant, and endeavoured, with considerable inge-
nuity, to shew that a letter addressed by his client to
the witness who was just examined, at least disputed
the accuracy of the account. He also dwelt, with
great force and feeling, upon the extravagance of
the charges contained in that inauspicious bill; but,
as the Jury did not sympathise in the sufferings of
his client, they relentlessly returned a verdict for
the plaintiff.

FITTER V. BALL.
This was an action for slander, brought by the
plaintiff, who is a farmer residing at l)owton, in
Essex, against the defendant, who had been for-
merly employed by the plaintiff in the capacity of a
baker. The defendant had imputed to the plaintiff
his having stolen a sheep, and justified on the plead-
ingsithis assertion.
111 r. GURNEY was proceeding to state the case for
the plaintiff, and, while remarking upon no profes-
sional Gentleman appearing in Court to justify the
language which the defendant had used with regard
to the plaintiff, and observing that this circumstance
ought to swdl their verdict, the defendant's attorney
appeared in Court, and applied to his Lordship to
defer the case, as Mr. Adolphus was engaged for the
defendant, and he conceived that he was in Court
until this moment.

Mr. GURNEY consented to this arrangement, and
the case was accordingly postponed.
CLEARY V. COBBETT.
When this case was called on, Mr. BROUGHAM ob-
served, that as there was a cause of a counter nature
in the Special Jury list, in which it was intended to
justify the libel, it would, perhaps, be more advan-
tageous to all parties, that the present case should
stand over. until the other was disposed of.
The CHIEF Jusvcc.—Unless good reasons are as-
signed by the other party for the alteration you pro-
, pose, I think it may be allowed to stand over.
Mr. CONES:TT entered the Court shortly after this
application was made to his Lordship, and when the
cause which was then hearing terminated, addressed
the Chief Justice, and observed, that he had just
heard of an application made to the Court to
induce his Lordship to put off the trial of Cleary
against Cobbett, until another trial, in which he also
was defendant, had ban disposed of. It was his
wish that the trial in question should be brought for-
ward with all possible expedition, and he knew not
what connection it had with the other trial, to which
he understood the Counsel for Mr. Cleary alluded,
that could make such a postponement desirable.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said, that Mr! Brougham had
applied to the Court at an earlier period of the day
to postpone the trial in question, but he could not
consent to that application in the absence of the de-
fendant ; but when the cause was called on, and the
defendant was not in Court, be conceived that it
would be advantageous to him to postpone the trial,
otherwise it would never come on in his absence.
Mr. Cosset.? stated, that he bad attended there on
Friday and Saturday, and he was only prevented
from being present to-day by the insolence of one of
the door-keepers, who prevented him from entering
the Court ; and when he sent his sons to obtain 4,1
mittance, they experienced a similar reception. Un-
der these circumstances, he thought it not unreason-
able that the cause should proceed foithwith to trial..l
The CHIEF JusTice.—What do you now say, Mr.,
Brougham ?
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that he had no wish what-
ever to exercise an unnecessary, and, as it might ap-
pear, severestrictness towards Mr. Cobbett ; he ima-
gined that the proposed arrangement would have
met with the concurrence of Mr. Cobbett, but he had
no objection to proceed with it as soon as the Court 'I
thought proper.
The CHIEF Jturricz.—Let it be taken the first in
order to-morrow.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DECEMBER s.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL 0. WYATT.
This was an information filed by the Attorney-t3e-
neral against the defendant, an extensive ale-brewer
in Portpool-lane, for having used coculus indices nude
other deleterious drugs in his brewhouse. In addition
to the penalty for the use of the drugs, the informa-.
lion also sought the condemnation of the coppeiboiler
in which those drugs had been infused.
The discovery of the illegal practice upon which
this information was founded, took place under cir-
cumstances of a singular nature. It appears that an
Excise Officer, whose duty it was to attend the con-,
tern, suspected that- drugs were used, and, in order
to ascertain the fact, be contrived to place himself at
the top of the brewhouse ; and, having removed a tile
from the roof, he was thus enabled to command a
view of all that was going forward below. Having
remained in this situation for some time, he perceived
the younger Mr. Wyatt approach. At this moment
a small orifice was opened in the dome of the boiler,
and Mr. Wyatt proceeded to cut open a brown paper
parcel which he held in his hand, and the contents of
which he threw into the liquor in the copper, which
had not yet begun to boil. The vigilant Officer in-
stantly exclaimed from his peep-hole, to the alarm
and confusion of the parties below, that if they stirred
'he would fire upon them. He then descended, and
rushing towards the copper, took off his hat, and,
dipping it into the fluid, succeeded in bringing forth
la portion of the illegal drugs, which yet remained
'`on the surface. This he secured and conveyed to the
Surveyor, with whom he afterwards returned to the
brewhouse, and seized the copper, valued at £l,OOO.
- The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was this day prepared
to open the circumstances of the case to the Jury,
having in his possession a model of the brewhouse
and ofthe dome copper which had bees seized, who