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London, England, 1820-08-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CIMICERY, AUGUST 9.
IMENEBERRY ISTATEN—THOMAS V. KONTdOMERTI
Mr. HART stated, that some time back he men-
tioned a re*n of a person who was entitled to the
sum of 4.41,13.9, on coming. of age, to be paid out of
the proceeds.of the estates of the late Duke of Queens-
berry. The Petition was then ordered to stand over,
for the purpose of an affidavit being presented as to
the Petitioner having obtained the age of twenty-
one. He now held in his hand. the affidavit of the
Countess of Yarmouth to that effect;. a ftirthei sum
had accrued by dividends—what he had then to ask
was, that the principal and dividends•sbould be paid
to the Petitioner, who was now of ae ?
The Loop CHANCELLOR," Be it so."

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
THE CHAMBERLAIN OF LONDON V.
This was a case which came on before the RECOR-
DER, and interested the laborious part of the commu-
nity in the City of London considerably.
It was an action brought by the City of London
against a porter,_ for having unloaded a quantity of
meat from a cart, he not being a freeman of the City.
The penalty for which the action was brought was
; and the proceedings were grounded upon an or-
der of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Ward Re-
presentatives in Common Council assembled.
Upon the part of the City of London it war con-
tended, that a power was contained in the Charter
giving to those who had obtained their freedom a
very important preference, with respect to labour
done within the bounds of the City, aid zing a se-
vere responsibility upon those who, by accepting a
job while a ticket-porter was unemployed and willing
to work, made themselves liable to the inconveniences
of litigation. -
Upon the part of the defendant it was urged, that
de order merely affected the unloading of foreign
goods; and that the meat not coming under that de-
nomination, a verdict could not be recorded against
the defendant,
The Rzcoanza was of opinion that the objection
was a good one; and the Jury found a verdict for
the defendant.

SUSSEX ASSIZES.—LEWES, AUGUST 1.
William Picknell was indicted for feloniously kil-
ling and slaying John Archdeacon, a youth, nine
years old, by kicking him on the abdomen, at Hast-
ings, on the2d of June.
It appeared in evidence, that on the day usetttiened
in the indictment, the deceased, and two ether boys,
were teasing some mules, the property of the.pri-4
soner, who in a great passion, came up to.tbem with
a stick in his hand, and beat them pretty severely all
round, and in the scuffle the deceased received a kick
on the right sight of his. belly. Neat -day the de-
ceased appeared as well as usual, but was taken ill
with an inflammation in his bowels, and lingered until
the sth of June, when he died. The body being
opened, it was found that the liver was in a morbid
state, from natural causes, but that mortification had.
been caused by the external injury from the kick.—.
The Surgecin, however, was of opinion, that a very
slight injury would have hastened death, in the state
in which the liver was found. After the: deceased
was beaten, the prisoner had exiiressed•binrself in an
unfeeling manner of the transaction, saying, that he
bad given the boys " a h-11-fired good beating, and
had laid it into 'em d—d well, and he had given one'
of 'em a sickening." There was no distinct proof
that the prisoner had kicked the deceased.
It was proved, on the part of the prisoner, that he=
was the father of six children, and was a man of very
humane disposition; that the stick with which belted
beaten the deceased was very slight, and that the
beating was in fact very trifling.
The CHIEF jUSTICII charged the Jury to enquire
first, whether the prisoner had kicked the deceased ?
if he did, then they were to consider whether the kick
had caused death? If death was not produced by
the kick; the prisoner was entitled to an acquittal.
The Jury found the prisoner—Not Guiky..
William Harcourt and John Butcher were indicted
for feloniously '.assaulting James Hudson, on the
King's highway, on the 23c1 of June, in the parish of
Worth, putting him in fear, and taking from his
person two El Bank of England notes, one of the;
Reigate Bank notes, five shillings in silver, and other

property.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direction,
found the prisoners—Guilty—Death.
•
Two females, the one aged 41, and the other 14s
indicted for uttering forged Bask cif logland natio,
pleaded guilty to the minor offence caning in pos.
*mien, and were sentenced to :Man years trans-
portation each. . .
-Five horse-stales Iwo severally convicas‘.
received sentience ef--Deltth. . .
A sheep-stealer and abarglar were also convicted.
DM V. alt./MOAN.

This was an action against the defendant, who is
Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Severn, for seizing
the patch galliot de row Gessmay of which the plain-
tiff was master, and keeping and 'detaining her from
the 10th July until the middle of September, 1819.
The case opened on the part of the plhintiff was
this :—The Vrow Gessina, being chartered -for a,
double voyage, namely, from Amsterdam to Manus,
in the island of Rhe, there to take'in a cargo of salt,
and corivey it-to Louvaine via Ostend, and thence to
Malaga for a cargo of fruit, with which she wits to
return to Amsterdam, was in the course of her very-
pge from Marens to Louvaine, when in corisegatuce
of foul wind, she was obliged to cast anchor off
Beachy Head, on the 10th of July, in company With
several other vessels, of which she was the outermost.
The, wind haVing.changed to a favourable point, she
WA S about to resume her voyage, when she was
boarded by the defendant, seized, and taken into Rye,
and her crew carried in custody to Winchilsea. • it
appeared that she had on board two hogsheads of
Geneva, some of which was in stone bottles for the
convenience 'of the crew, and it was suggested as *
reason for the seizure, that she was on the English
coast for smuggling purposes. Representation wits
imMediately made by the plaintiff of all the circum-
stances of the case to Government, and- as soon-as
the else could be heard the ship was imMediately
ordeted to be released; bat she was not, in fact,
finally liberated until the middle of September.—
The present action therefore was brought to recover
a cot: yensation in damages for the injury which the