Star.
London, England, 1804-12-05 00:00:00

I. 4W INTELLiGENCE.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH, DEC 4.
HUILDV. LINCH•
Thi aition was brought by the Plaintiff, Who is
an Al .orney of this Court, wind the Defendant, a
tradeftnan, who employed him in his profellional ca-
city. The moan of the bill was to4l. as. 6d.—
There is a aatute enaaing, that bills of thi. kind
&wild be delivered one month before the demand
for the payment is made, and the objea of this Ila
tuts is, to enable the party againli whom the claim
applies, to get the attorney's bill taxed in the regular
office, according to eßahlifhed rules and I trms, if he
Mould be diffatisfied with the charges. The bill in
',his cafe was proved to be delivered on the zoth of
July, and the Defendant was arrelted fur the Aronura
on the with of Augull ; the fimple queflion, there-
fore, before the Court and Jur y wa‘, whether the in.
terval between thole two dates could be eonfidered a
month within the terms of the a 9, or, in other words,
whether a lunar, or a calendar month, was the limit
prefcribed in the (haute ?
Lord ELLIMICIROUGII.-..-41 The time reaches one
day beyond a lunar month. If a calendar month
had been mentioned previonfly in the aO, 1 should,
probably, have conftrued this clank in reference to
the period before alluded to ; but in the abfence of
this cireumnanee, I mull take it, that a lunar month
was intendcd.by the Legiflature." Verdia for the

Plaintiff.
Jonsson /MO OTHERS O. TIND•LL.
This was an anion brought by the Plaintiff and
certain others, Members of what is called a Coal
Club, kept in Wilke's theet, again& the Defendant,
who is a Coal Merchant, with the view to fir him
with the penalty of tool. under the 3d Geo. 11. e. 26.
The clank under which the penalty was claimed,
tuns thus :
Whams, by amaze estamt. shakkoo of coals is showed
Woven twee. sot le is propoedost tats rata er fetter viand-
tyere. kola seedwd.ihseanhabserrnre, real deakes:and ottrrs,
ids difraCe of say parcel or par:els of coals as Pool
. and
weatare essence Waiversat euantirr.rmaker *rich the
lards, Itslassomea. east dukes, and others, shall forfeit the
nwatty et scot."
• The Ceal Clubs to which we have alluded, are cont.
rad of a number of perfons la inferior Rations,
who would be under the necetnry of purchafing one
of the usoff ufeful articles of life by the tack bufhel
Webs could not fecure the full meafure by theft af-
t they therefore fubkribe a certain fun
weekly towards the fund of the Club ; and accord-
to theft= they contribute. they are annually fup-
plied with from one to five chaldrcinseaccording to the
quantity direfted in the books of the eltabliflunent.—
The Defendant had offered his ferviets to the Wm-
loss. and bad Itemaccepted as their coal merchant :
two chaldross and a half had been lint ins and a dc-
Waxy was difeovered of t 3 buthels.
MOM GRRROW and ESPINASSII, On the part of
Plaintiffs, produced evidence to the delivery,
and were about to tall the coal meter who afcertain-
ed the quantity, when they were interrupted by the
Loan Cm sr jUs Tics .—" I am forty to turn you I
sound, fail his Lordthip, on a difficulty in point of
foins, porcine truth is. the Plaintiffs am not capabke
Of fupg this affirm. Suppofing the-e had been
so attion agandt the purchafers for iron-payment, the
Mier could not have fupported it again* theft par-

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Sr. atatiow..--44 Does not your Lordfhip think,
that the Defendant deals with each Ibdivideal for his
(operate identity r
Lard LLLLL neouGN.—" The caufe is of great
importance to the public, bat I cannot coincide with
TOG ota this principle." Plaintiff nonfuited.
Par telt•ao O. easels.
The Plaintifis keeper of the George Inn, at tn.
field ; the Defendant is a tobaeconitt. and is alto a
:17k in the boute ot Mars. Pigeon and pilots, in
Borough.
Media. pat.eas and Aar:mews. for tape Plaintiff,
laid, that the Defendant called at the George Inn,
laid he came to demand a balance,- on which
Mr. Pritchard delired him to walk us, and, before he
patted. the Defendant ufad the following words :
as you are a thief ; yoo robbed me of a calk of bran-
dy ;" and for this Linder the Plaintiff fought raters
in an anion for damages.
Maria Pritchard deputed to the words, after
which she was crofs-ezmnined for the Defendant by
Mr. Gasaow.
Q, Was there mach altercation ? A. More words
tiara than I can podibly mention, and all of the fame
hied.
Q, Was this calk of brandy ever paid for ? A.
Kr., my father was under unfortunate circurnhances.
Lord Eeer NSOILOUGH enquired of the witnefs,_ if
fie Mar oaderttm,d the calk the Defendant alluded
to was that for which his employers had never been
paid ? A. So, my Lord, I now undertland it.
Lord EL LEMEOROVC 'I. —" Then this cannot
amount to any charge ot felony ; it only means, that
the Plaintiff behaved frindolently in the tranfaAion,
and the wards cannot b.: &emud to be proved."—
Plaiutiff nonfuited.

COURT of KThro's BENCH, DUBLIN. NOV. ii.
RIR THOP• JUDRIM PITZGIRALD V. POTTER.
The Court proceeded to give judgment in a cafe
which had been laid before them in mitigation of pu-
nifhment of the defendant in confecinence of a verdict
againft him at the Taft aflizes for the county of Gal-
way. In purfuance of infarmatinn granted by the
Court of Ling's Bench on beaalf of the plaintiff
againft defendant for nom ii.g opprobrious language,
with intentinn to provoke hint to fight a duel, antitte
was diteaed to have the cafe tried at Nifi Prins. bee
fore Jedge GAIORNIS. laft :aces. The Jury return-
ed a verdia of guilty, and the defendant was order-
ed into Coot?, to abide his fentence.—The circum-
[lances date cafe are briefly thefe : in the year t7nft,
when the plaintiff had been High Sheriff of the coun-
ty of Tipperary, in his zeal to put down rebellion,
he made charges of a treasonable nature againft the
defendant who bad an anion of damages brought
againft hint for defamation ; the Jury who tried the
cafe. found for the defendant, who was then plaintiff
in the fair, but not tontent with the damages, and
conceiving his charafter not reftored, at leaft to his
own feelings, after a conliderable lapfe of time, be
took occafion to meet Sir Thomas J. Fitzgerald, at
the fair of Ballinalloe, where the defendant purpofely
ambled a number of refpeftable perfons about him,
as it was listed, for the pin pole of being witneffes of
the meditated iofult ; he then in the pretence of thefe
perlons called him a liar.
. The Soticicon GENERAL ufed great erettions of
his profellional capacity, to point the enormity of the
original provccaticm and the fmall cntnneofation of
damages his client received, for afpet lions of the mesa
wanton and unfounded nature—while the plaintiff's
Connie' were extremely energetic in expatiating on
the public fervices of Si: Thomas, and attributing to
his vigilance and aftivity the downfal of inforrealon
and Inc reftoration of public tranquility in that toun-
ty, and that any harthnefs of remark be might have
been betrayed into, without malice in his mind againft
the defend.:;,:, was a venial fault for which the de-
fendant had been amply c ,rnpenfated.
Judge Div made a very eloquent remonffrance to
the defendant, previous to pronouncing lenience on
him. He reprobated, in throng and energetic terms,
tired. e. ATRINS. the praCtice of duelling in general—recognifed the
Mr. ERSKIE, for th Plaintiff, flared, that a pnblic fetvices of the plaintff-in the year 1793, when
hlack gelding.N belcaginge to thc Plaintiff, who was .the rebellion had ncarty flraak the country to its cen-
• farmer in Suffer, had been Bolen out of his park ire, and was uncommonly (irons in his centure of
on the 4th of June haft, and it had been admitted by the corolita of the defendant, who dared, in lioutra-
the Defendant, that hi had been incaution' enough geous a inantaer, to violate laws it was peculiarly in
to purchafe it along with ten or eleven other Notes, cumbent on him to tevele, having, in his own per-
k whulefale, from a perfon of the nante of Prentice. Ton, experienced their falutary and benign proteaton,
It was not tbe Learned Counfcl's intuition to (peak Iby a verdiZt in hi. favour, when he fought redrefs
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any thing haelh of this Gentleman. De arealir;a reparation for aa alledged yto leis charafter.
sr#brave:. He had been lianbed helot eit was in the I The fentence of the Curt was, that the defendant be
power of the Plaintiff to corm; iu tuin to claim iii fobjea to the c aft incurred by the plaintiff in the
gelding, but he thought he had now a right to claim I profecution, that ne lhould be impriiisned for three
re (coin the Defendant. l'nlefr. the Dc4cnilant could calendar months, fined one mark, and find fecutity
thew that he had porehafcd the hour= in queition, ti be of the peace for fevcn years, himfelf in tooul.
with all tle cerclittuties picteriiied by the a t of and tan ft.reties in sz•e:.l. each.
Queen Eliralittb, mu ft be liable to the Plaintiff I
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the motion was made in
of the Cou
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for the value of it. 14'. , calla the R
To prove this ca'e, the f r the Plaintiff was Titdall, againit Lady Charleville, to impeach aver-
examined, who laid, that •at f.unp tl:e advei din found for plain iff at she left Dundalk affizes, by
spent which his father had i:laril on the Lots ..1 his I a moll re Ipea.iblc Jute, and tried before the Hon.
Lorre, at the Woithip-flree: Office, the Defendant I Baron MtClelland , when the Court of King's Bench
hated it et Prentice, and that I tin concurred in refilling the motion with
confciTed havinr.
he had lance fold it in Smithfield market. nod affirming the vetslia. The plaintiff, a
it laid, that the I :n rot r.an. with a numerous 'Hunt family, and satin
the astute were clear and obligatory. Tie only t. the '::::.;itinzaie brother of (.IC defendant's lira liLf-
venom therefore, which remained, was te. Ice that` Land, ha.. at length obtained his juft tight after a
tie value was nut cm: (trained. libe fan of thegt cat ftruggie at, dna aunfidettable winiili net powct.

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