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CHALMSFORM, MARCH 10.

Farsterscreut O. Sins Elf .—This was an anion
to recover damages for an affault, and pufhing out
the plaintiff's left eye.
Mr. Gattanw nbferved, that this cattle was
taken eut of its turn, in order to accommodate
forme prstfeffronal Gentlemen, in whole time the
public themfelves had an intereil, and who could
be ill (pared from emit It was
a cafe cf a mat Icriouc and important nature, and
was one which made a large derracd upon the
itinice of the jar v, ar.- they wmdti tit:d, by
the evidence which he :it .t.ld lay before them, that
it was a uick..l and preind:tated airaultAnd that
the defendant had contemplated the precile
chief which he bad tau ti_J into cffce. That alit-

chief wits the deftroying of one eye of the plain-
tiff, an evil, of whatever magnitude in itfelf, was
further aggravated in the particular cafe before
them, inafmuch as it difabled the (offerer from
following that courfe of life which had hitherto
given him bread. The plaintirbad hitherto fol.
kiwed the occupation of a Rage coachman, but
from the lots of his eye he would no longer be
able to purfue that employ. It happened one day
in December, that the defendant, a man, as would
appear, of moll profligate and abandoned man-
ners, and of molt brutal ferocity of temper, was a
patfenger in his coach. They had fome words,
which led to an idle quarrel, in which all parties
might perhaps be in the wrong. When the coach,
however, arrived at Hornchurch, in this county,
the defendant left the coach, and went into the
inn, declaring, at the fame time, that if the coach-
man followed him, be would" poke his eye out."
The coachman, however, did follow him to afk
for his fare, and then he was as good as his word,
for, without further ceremony, he thruft his flick
into his eye, and that delicate and ufeful organ
was thereby loft and irretrievably dollroyed for
ever. The moment the poor man received the
thrult, he fell down in a parozifm of agony and
anguifh, and a neighbouring medical man was
fent for, but the care was fo exceeding defperate,.
that it was deemed expedient to refort to a perfon
of higher reputation, who the moment he taw the
cafe, pronounced the eye irretrievably loft. He
did, however, all that human (kill could diaate,
but his judgment was verified ; the plaintiff had
loft his eye for ever, and now he flood before a
Jury of his country, demanding reparation for fo
enormous an injury. He was perfealy fatisfied
that they would grant the poor (offerer their heft
proteaion. They would give adequate damages,
even though the defendant (hould not be able to
pay them ; if he were not, his body mull lie in
prifon. He, however, underftood that the defen-
dant was not in that fituatlon, but was a perfon of
con fiderable lornperty.
The cafe, as proved by two witneires, was as
follows :—that the Hornchurch coach came to
King's Head, at Hornchurch, on the 29th of
December. Storey, the defendant, came a pal
fenger, and in palling through the bar, he laid—
" I)—n his eyes, if he follows me I'll poke his
eye out." The coachman followed loon after,and
on entering the room, Paid, " Gentlemen, will you
pay your fare ?" Storey immediately turned
round, and thruß his flick into the plaintiff's
eye. Mafon, the landlord, who was Rending near,
exclaimed, is Yon have put the man's eye out,
fend for a donor." The defendant Paid, Aye,
fend for a donor," and immediately left the houfe
without further notice; _ _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Ware, under whore care the plaintiff had
been, Paid he Caw the plaintiff a day or two after
the accident ; the eye was fo much (welled, that
he could hot afcertain what damage it had Tuf-
tained ; but he was now enabled to fay that it was
irretrievably IoR.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD admitted that the de-
fendant had aged improperly, and muff have a
verdia againn him ; but he cndeovoured to miti-
gate the damages, by fisting that the defendant
had been very much provoked by the coachman ;
and although he meant, it was true, to ftrike him,
yet he had not the fmalleft intention of throning
his eye me ; he added, that giving large damages
would.defeat the intention of the Jury, as he would
be unable to pay them, but muff either abfcond or
go to gaol.
Mr. Junice HEATH Rated to the Jury, that the
affault and confequent injury had been proved.—
The only queftion for confideration was the pro.
perty and quantity of damages. He read the
evidence, and intimated his opinion that it was
wantonly done.—Verdia for the Plaintff.—Da-
mages isol.
MULCH I le....BUDDER& O. CONSIDINE.

This was an anion of trover for a horfe.
Mr. GARILOW Rated, the fingularity of this
cafe would be, that the witneffes on both fides
would (wear to the identity of the fame horfe; but
this was not the firm time Inch a cafe had happen.
ed. A poor man (Kiernan, the printer), who had
once 101 l a horfe, Caw another like him, and was
fo folly perfuaded it was his own that he not only
brought an anion to recover it, but when defeated
in his firm allion, run through every Rage of ap-
peal until the caufe was ultimately decided againtt
him in the Houfc of Lords; yet fo fully perfuaded
was he to his dying day the horfe he claimed was
his own, that he publilbed a hiflory of his horfe
law-fuit annually at the bottom of his Almanack.
Mr. Brooker, the plaintiff in the prefent cattle, had
purchafed a horfe of Meffrs. Green and Young
Come time in May laR, which his (errant was one I
day riding, when the defendant, who was a guar-
ter-Mailer of Dragoons, claimed the horfe, as
having been Bolen from Norwich form time be-
fore. He accordingly had poffeffion of the horfe,i
and had lince fold him. He did not mean to im-
pute perjury to the witneffes who would be called
to fupport the claim of the defendant, but be
(hould (hew clearly that they serf be miltaken,
for he would take up the hißory of the horfe in'
queflion, from the moment of his birth until he
came into the hands of the plaintiff, Mr. Brooker.
To prove this cafe be called a man of the name of
John Stedman, a farmer at•lstworth, in Suffolk.
ie Rated, that in £798 he gave his fon a mare in
foal, which foaled a boric colt in the month of
June that year. His fon kept the foal until the
t 6t.h of September tfioi, and then fold him to a
Mr. Aißon. He faw the fame horfe, after.it had
been claimed by Confidine, at Mr. Hyam's Livery
Stables, at Iflington. He was Pure it was the fame
horfe—it was a bay, and had a few white hairs on
the forehead, a few in the tail, and a black lift
down the fhnulders.

Charles Stedman, the fon of the lall witnefs,
Rave the fame account of the horfe, and added,
that Le was a reftive, had tempered bean. He
ha,i !.im nicked and docked before he fold him.—
The !loth was thee traced through the poffeflion
of a Mr. Milan, a Mr. K►ernie, a Mr. Gerard, a
Mr. Young, which 1.01 rime' fold him to the
plaintiff Brooker. There witneffes all agreed that
at was the fame Lori:, and gave the famc defcrip.
don of his marks sad tamper.

Mr. Scrjeant Sutton's 11.:ted the cafe of the
defendant, which was, that Mr. Confidine haJ
bought the horfe in quzlion of the breeder M
Saffolk, before he was either broken-In or trisis(
med ; that he had him nicked and decked by t.
farrier of the regiment then at Norwich, and th*i
he was turned out in that neighbourhood to graze,
and was Rolen while at palure.
To prove this cafe, four private dragoons cf
the regiment were called ; they Rated that Mr.
Confidine bought the horfe. at Norwich in Feb.
The horfe then had a long tail and
mane, that he was trimmed by their farrier ; he
was a bay horfe with a black lilt down the back, a'
little white in the forehead, white in the off fet-
lock. They had Peen him lately, and had no doubt
but he was the fame horfe that was Rolen from
the pa Lure around at Norwich.
Edwards, one of thefe witneffes, the man who
groomed and rode him, being crofs.examined as
to his temper, laid it was nothing remarkable.
Mr. Gaititow obferved, that this was decifive,
for all the witnelles agreed, that the horfe was
vicious and relive, and that upon this occafion
the horfe himfelf was the bell evidence, for what
was bred in the bone would never come out of
the flefh.
Mr. Sherman, the perfon who purchafed the
horfe of Mr. Confidine, after the latter had taken
him from the plaintiff, faid, he fold him again
the fame day, becaufe he was fo relive he• could
not ride him. . .

Mr. Juftice HI AT /4 obferved, that he remem-
bered having tried four tanks of this fort, where
two fets of witneffes fwore to the fame bode, and
in none of chore cafes did he think perjury was to
be imputed to either party. They were deceived
by two animals having the fame natural marks.
and fo nearly refembling each other that they could
not be dittinguithed. But he thought it was very
eafy how to to decide—one party had to a honk
—the other had over loft it. They who could
Phew continued poffeffion were sneft likely to be
right. He alto recolleeted trying a ode dice lin
Norfolk (where they let their fows and pigs run
on the Commons), of a low and litter being claim-
ed by two parties, and each fupported his claim
by feveral witneffes, who (wore to the identity of
the animals. There was no reafon to fuppofe but
that they had been deceived*by the 'arenas which
the two litters bore to each other.—Verdid for
plaintiff for 2 11.
The Seffions being ended, James Brawn, Robert
Davey, Philip Stacie, Thos. Plumb, James Burn,
Samuel Wood, and Stevens, received fen-
tence of death for various burglaries and robberies; '
but the five latter were reprieved before the Judges
left the town.

BIRTHS.
Friday, at his haute in Bloonsantry-place, the Lady of John
Woodcock, Efq. of a daughter.
Lately, at Groton Houk, the Lady of John Priebe', Efq.
M.P. of a daughter.
On Sunday, In Gower-ftreet, the Lady of John Sargent,
Efq. of a daughter. ors.
Wednaday fe'sinight, 101 Charlotte-Aura, Btdford-fquare,
the Lady of Joleph Bond, Efq. of a daughter.
On the sth Init. at Netherdak, Mrs. Role butes of Nether-
dale, at a fon.
The Lady at Cot Dizeo. of Ckdhow. of a Sinittner•
At Seeder* Hoare, the 6th inf. Mrs. Dalgicifh, younger of
Sankt*, of two foss.
At Clerkington, the ith it&. the Lady of Robert Hepburn,
Bfq of a daughter.
In Dublin, the Lady ciao Hon. and Rev. John Pomeroy, of
a fan.

pt Elyflam, star Waterford, the Lady of Alex. Malik, rail.
of i daughter.
In Cork, the Lady of Bernard Shaw, Efq. oft faq.
Is Lower Merrias•Rmt, Dublin, Mn. W. Do*. of a fan.
In Athlone, the Lady of the Rev. Dr. Stress, of a fon.
In New Rofs,the Lady of the Rcf.T.Handeoek, of a daughter.
At Newtown Pery, the Lady of John Veleker, Efq. of a fon.
In William-then, Dublin, the lady of Dr. Blake, of a daughter

MARRIED.
At Edinburgh, on the 7th inft. Patrick Bowie, Efq. of Kai-
shack, to Mes Margaret Raitt, youogeft daughter of the late
Thomas Rapt, Efq. of Loagformaem.

Oa the 3d Initant, at his Mae at Cortaciy, the Right Hon.
the Earl of Airy.
On Wedaefday evening, at CAM:bury, Herta, Mrs. Cla-
ridge, wife of John Claridge, Erg. of Pall Mall, in the 34th
year of her el ge; melt defervally relyeeted and bentnted.

HEN Prokfflonal Man of education and re-
fpciabflity deviate/roes the moral (yawn by the fo-
leaks of a peculiar Stanch, the fandion of Meg continued
Needs Is the bell criterion of faperiwity.
Teo years have I devoted my predict to the exclufive treat-
ment of THREE DISORDERS, and the fuecefsful rc.fuk of
my plan gives me additional ardour to oppofe as far as I am
able the ravages of thole complaints which are the moll import-
ant in the catalogue of human inensides.
After inkiation into every branch as an Army Surgeon,
formed a with at an early pefiod of Practice to recut
from the ignonince of uneducated Moo, or the equally clan.
germs poucipicancy of general Practitioners.
The THREE DISORDERS, to the cureofwbieb I have de-
voted or/ attentite, comprise every fpedes of VENEREAL
INFECTION, whether of a resent or lag deradov.--sdly,
All kinds of DEBILITY, whether wen from the babies of
Schoolboys, or the Indulgence of mature age, and 'Ally that de-
rangement of the fyftem la Wanes which Is called BARREN-
' NEW or STERILITY.

Nuisserout &fades are the reek of ignorance or kite in the
tleitMlint of a ample °combo, and It not anfrequattly hap-
pees that the feeds of Life are poifooed by the indiferetian ciao
ungtwrded hour. By a fuporior method fuch complaints are
eatily cured, and even when others have failed, I trait that I
may prefame to offer a radical rweltablinsent.
Few, bowavve, are the airs of complicated diftrefe in the
&birder, compared with the calamitous fittrations of Men, who
from indulgence in a SOLITARY VICE, or the prevalent
Gaieties of a feitioable Life, acquire that Rate of Debility
which la the unavoidable elefequeoct of Inch pernicious habits.
Where the unhappy fairer broods over his surgery. but care.
fay conceah his misfortune, it may be tome confolation for
him to know, tE a although it be an objet of doubt or uncer-
tainty with other Praditiooers, the removal of trtefe DEFI-
CIENCIES by the enthral prove(' of renovation is the acquire-
mem of my experience. If the rites of Bacch.o or Venue have
began to reduce manly vigour, much anxiety will be prevented
by an early cnuntendion Reis languid Rate, and in there
cafe' no great thimbles will nectar.
But where this de/tete:icy has for years wilted, a proper
Perkvenuice is indifpesdibly requifite to revive the Rumbaing
fparks of Life, and to re-animate the Conititistices•
MARRItD WOMEN. who have long been difappointed
, in their ea pcOatioul of a P30:1111, may be sired, that in moll
I Winces (rob defeas are curable by Medical
'f be Sheit ECY which is foelkorial to my undertaking, and
the ebalificatlune which I have perfumed to Rate, tom the
Bali. amy pretenfiuns, and In colocidencc wish rush this Intl
mating, is given, that Mr. BRER may be conhateti perfonally
(or by letters Wieling • (mall note) at is hook, No. ay, Aram
del-itreet, Strand, near Temple-Bar.
There i• au additiorwl outrance is Water- ()sett skating
and the n..me Is on both the doors.

LE, Nlaabsr of the Royal C.Uar of Eurikar

For it heumeiifin, Rheumatic Coot, Sciatica. Limbo" Heaj.
Nutaboth. Filly, ludidedion, fiatdicot 3pefolodic 4.r
eying Pains, carol Debility and Relaxation of the'Syftem

SPRAINS, BRUISES, CHILBLAINS, Ste.
trICPERIENCE has proved the mild ilimulating
Joints of WHITEHEAD's XSSENCE of MUSTAR.4,
MIAS liutd, the moR effedual remedy ever made known
to'tie Mein, fueereeled In cafes of-fizz, eight. tet,,
twenty:, and even of forty years Randier, /Au. (saw mar.
Itail taiiru, and it has abfalutdr cured more patients of ti,e
shire temp:Mesa, than the medicines ever before mid,-
I'm stic l'he tle;(1 Mart is Co tingniarly pcnetratjes
fpeedy is :!s operation, es generally to effect the cute of
sPRATNs, DRESSES, and CHILBLAINS,