Star.
London, England, 1820-07-03 00:00:00

INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 1.
, • THE KING V. THE COUNTY OF KENT.
This was an indictment against the inhabitants at
Kent, for neglecting to repair a certain bridge, situ-
ate at Deptford, in that county.
• The defendants pleaded, that the ditty of keeping
up the Bridge did not belong to them, but to the
Commissioners of Sewers for the district between
• East Monlsrl and RivensbOurne. The question was,
' whether the stream over which the bridge passed was
a natural stream into which the marshes of Kent vo-
luntarily discharged their overflows, thence to be
carried down to the river Thames—or whether it was
a• channel, in the nature of a sewer, artificially con-
.-sfructed for the same purpose?
'The Lotto 'Cuter JUSTICE held,-that if the brook
over which the bridge passed was a natural rivulet,
then, even although it -hould have been deepened
and widened by the Commissioners of Sewers, for
• the purposes of drainage, still the county was bound
to maintain the bridge. That the stream was a.natural
stream appeared rather probable from this circum-
stance—it divided the counties of Kent- and Surrey,
forming, of course, the boundary of each.
The Jury found the defendants Guilty ; thereby
throwing the onus of repair upon the county.

OLD BA I LEY S ESS lONS.
Saturday, J. Marsden and J. Smith were convicted
of uttering twenty-eight forged El notes, with intent
to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of
England.
'The London Grand Jury having finisked their la
boors, ai.,l having delivered the last bills into*Court,l
the Foreman addressed the Judges. He was (he
stated) reauested by his colleagues to ask their Lord•
ships, if any, and what decision had been come to
respecz;ng the right of Grand Juries to visit his Maz
jesty's jail of Newgate?
• Mr. Justice HOLHOYD observed, that a request was
made by tl'e Gentlemen ot the Grand Jury of the
City of L..ndon, on the 20th ot May last, to the
Judges, to give their opinion as to the legal right of
the Grand Jury to visit and examine his Majesty's
Jail of Newgate. Those Learned Judges, upon that
ecca,ion, refused to give their deciJed opinion until
they had received the -cone talent sanction of the rest
of the Judges. There was, in consequence, an ap.
plication•fiom the Grand Jury received- by those
Judges who were. then present, which application
was afterwards submitted to the consideration of all
the Judges. The Jury, in the document they pee-
tinted, claimed it us a matter of right, and not of
courtesy, to visit his Majesty's Jail ot Newgate; and
this tight they claimed from custom and long usage.
The. Learned Judges accordingly consulted upon a
disputed fight founded upon custom and long usage;
afidconct:iving that a future Jury might feel dis-
posed to claim admi,sion, and to try the legality or
illegality of the qoestion, and that in such ease some
of theJu.iges would have to give tfreir opinion in the
course of the judicial proceedings, they (the Judges)
thought they. could not consistently.give their °pi-
llion prior to the matter coming bet Ore them in the
vkgular way..
The Foreman thanked his Lord:hip for, he atten-
tion- the Judges had paid to the consideration of the
subject; and the Jury were theu regularly discharged,
'with the usual thanks for their set vices.