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London, England, 1804-07-24 00:00:00

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Cnes4.:+, Wnrreel ALL —Flidly b*fore
Noble and Riz.ht I:,notirable the Lords Commif-
(loners of Appeals in Prize Canfes.
The Ch, Nereid, Decoke mafter.---This relict, under Britlfft
eolours.lideit with a valuable cargo of various merchandise, failed
from the Cape of Good Hope., in Febraary t 833. to U rigida, on
tf-t GM It ni Africa. irom thence to St. Helena and' Itinldada, and
aftcrtv,rd> • a the Coalt of Brazil, off Rio Janeiro, on which euaft
flue evuizAl mill the latter cod of May following, wises the put into
the IC.md of St. Catherine's and from thence returned to Rio Ja-
nein% :It which place an agreement was entered into totweeo the
Supercargo and Pednilsntonio Alvarez, for the tale and purchafe
01 the cargo; whereby it %eas ftipalatcd thy the fame (1101.1141 be
delivered at tea, on board a veffel ftat,d to belong to the
porch:if, r, and to he paid for lo fprek on delivery; and that
whilft cruising, to fall In wi is the veffel into which the cargo was
to he delivered, the Wilt taken and feisid as prize. on the lath of
Nave/niter, t.no, Ly Lfs Majefty's ddo Piomede,the Honourable
Elphirdttme Conimander,and carried to the Capeof Good

'dopy.
It aepearcd drat the Judge or the Court below decreed Mar parts
of the drip and cargo as were claimed for loin Robirtfun, A/d-
-ander Walker,. and jots Elevate. to be teemed; but pronounced
t.r juR caufe of ftizure. and Loodetnnoi the claimants to the colts ;
from which fentence of teßurati-.n of 'hip and cargo the capiors
appealed ; as did lik drift the claimants from the Judge's decreeing
the carol" their curt., and not condemning them in coils and da-
mages. Their La dSlips.after hearing Counfel on both foles, which
occupied nearly the whole of the day, reverie,/ the fentence of the
Court below, and condemned the Rip and cargo as good arid law.
ful prize, on the ground of the illegality of the trade.
SHERIFFS' COURT.

CATON V. ARCMS* AND OTN AAA.
This w. 15 an aftion for falte imprtfonment. A
perfon ref:ding in the fame bottle with the Defendant
of a name correfponding, had committed an aft
which demanded fecurity. The Officers of Ju!lice
repaired to the houfe, and they being unaware of
tke diftinetion betweem them, feized upon the Plain-
tiff, and conveyed him to a place of confinement.
The Judge remarked, that Officers lbould be minute
in their proceedings in Inch like cafes, as the liberty
of individuals in this country was Lot held upon fu
precarious a rature.—Verdia for the Plaimiff—Da-
mages 10.
ESSEX ASSIZES, CHELMSFORD, JULY st, MatiTNNL
CR.WNS+oa.—Pnrtrirb Mullins was indicted, under
Lord Ellenborough's Ad, for having, on the 26th
day of December, wilfully and malici, tifly cut off
the hand of James Clemenfon. The Prifoner Whe-
lan was a pattole and watchman in the patith of
Well Ham.
Clemenfon deprifed, that nn the 26th day of De-
cember he was drinking at the Two Brewers, Strat-
ford.—The prifoner tame in very much in liquor,
and abufed the witnefs, telling him he owed him a
grudge for two years, and would pay him fome time
or other. He behaved In ill that he was turned out
of the hotsfe.—The 'milliner, however, came back
abut eight o'clock, and then Clemenfon was fitting
at the door ; the prifoner immediately laid hold of
him, and (wore he would fearch him, for he fufpefted
he had piSlots about him. The mimes faid he might
fearch if he ./4)oll—The pri!oner faid, No, he fbould
go before the conflable. He immediately dragged
the witnefs aerois the road. As the prifoner was
very dinnk, he dragged the witnefs about a great
deal, upon which he laid hold of a rail ; the prifoner
immediately made a blow at him with a dittafs, and
cut the hand off, except a (mall piece of (kin which
held it. Two other witnefies confirmed this hoe-
ment : one added, that the prifoner's wife was (land-
ing hr him, and that (he gave him the initials, after
Clemenfon had laid hold cif the rail.
The defence of the prifoner was,that he had given
the cutlafs to his wife a (port time before With the
Sheath on, and that when the gave it back he fuppofed
it was alto the itht•si ; and that with that impreffion
on his mind he (truck at his band, not meaning to
do the mifchief that had happened.
Several Gentlemen of the county laid the Prifoner
was a very excellent parole—that in feveral inflance•
he had behaved with groat fpirit, hut never with any
excels. The Jury found him Guilty.
Bake and gobs liration were indikled for a
burglary in the boufc of the Hee. William Day, at
Hoyden.
Mils Battinfon (aid, about half paft nine, on the
tsd of April, (he law in tfie walk-houfe grand-
father's houfe the faucepans, c_bppera, and curtains,
which were afterwards Stolen. The neat day, in the
morning, She difkovered that force tiles had been taken
off the walk honk, and the articles which were there
the night before gone.
By the evidence of two perfons, it appeared that
the piilonets had been drinking at a neighbouring
public honk the whole day preceding the robbery,
and bring found heavily laden in the road to London,
they were flopped and fearched, when it turned nut
that they had got the doles articles.—Arerdift, both

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Gaily.
Thc Crown fide finilhed very early this morning :
fentence of death was patted on the above prifonert,
and Adria. itlyfaa, for the maiming—but neither
were :eft for exectition.
Thoiaas Cowland, for fclonionny taking from the perfon of Ed-
ward rnine, in the !smith of Wanftead, one canvass purfe, con-
taisniz the amount of five pounds in Dotes, and forme fir,by
fume, he.
BCl.3lTlill Rovfe, Willem Taylor, and Mofes Carter, for grand
larceny, for the ( Inc period, and eleven were env:tined.
Rerkert Conan. fir privately fteallra in the dwetting-houre of
John Saw,ll, • •idtualler, at Cbadorell, grid and filver coin, to
the amorint of four pound• arid upwards, in monies rumbi•red.—
He appeared a very re qattahle man, 'Nis • biriaklayer, sod eight
relponfilde neighboura gave ldm an excellent chi:After.

At the Public Office, Matlbornirehareet. Satur-
day, 74n Cartwri,7ht and Mph //whew were charged
a itn sonti,iri:,7 together for the purpofe of procur
ing Cart, nght a fez vice in a zentlemin's family, by
lA, fr,rg,:d in!tr•rnent. Caltwtotht had ergaged him-
. id, .t. to"trit:it'l to P. Pkv Tom, Efel. 01 Lower Grolve
; re.:4lt :et, ind had referred in lhgliam for a 111:1T1C.
tr., whom l‘e Hated to hive lately left, 3..'
rcl:ded at Langley• The profecotor refrtrett
1...t.t.1ey bv a !c,er. aLisheled J. A. Ingham, Efq.
and I:c rrceivc.i an Aqs, el, 1). letter, of Cart vellght's
1 1-:•1 n.ut at:cral: ..h...eiits and ahilities, recommend-
hi: ,i,t7i in 1-...1:.1-, a Manner, that nn doubts could
s • it li•c•l•it77 1 ha. After Cartwright had been fix
" - ....r.ir'r, he was. as cottnmary in fuch
' ,- riihrii.ig aas, when Mr. P.
;4•411.., of his ehirieter, and
: ved to be a perton that 05-
- ~.it ovule as pta.'"hie,l by
i.c,,,it clearly proved that irg-
, t;,•• -;r,... kn. they ‘Vzie each
letil‘lserd 1,0 dire: ta..mirs iniptifouuseut.

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