Star.
London, England, 1827-06-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, Were
the Right Ron. Sir WILLIAM Marta Hoag. blight, Lord f
Justice of Ma Majest•fs Curt of Comm*,lssas at W , ,
Lt tad after Trinity Term, 1827.
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N.B. The Court will sit at one o'cbck on June the loth Wit
list; aud at half-past tine precisely on each of the other days.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jogs 11.
1111;111NO v. W. WONTRIOU, °KRT.
This was an indictment against an Attorney of this
Coate, fee supposed perjury, assigned upon his answers
to certain interrogatories administered to him in Chan-
cery, touching the airs of Mr. George Ball, an ale
brewer, who, in 1812, had married the widow of Mr.
Webb, with whom he had been in co-partnership. As
soon as the case for the prosecution was closed,
The LORD CHIME JUSTICE was of opinion that the
case had failed; and without calling on the othht side,
directed the defendant to be acquitted.
Verdict—Not Guilty.

PHIL KING V. RICHARD DOWNING RICRARDS.
This was an information against the defendant as the
printer, publisher, and sole proprietor of The Age News-
paper, for an alleged libel on Lord Glengall, in that
Paper, on the 29th October last.
The ATTORNZT-GINRRAL (with whom was lirr,J:
L. ADOLPHUS) stated the case for the prosecution.
The information, which was now brought to trial,
had been granted at the prayer of Lord Glengall, last
Michaelmas Term. The particulars of the case were
then fully disclosed. The alleged libel imputed to the
prosecutor that he had originated a Military Inquiry
respecting a report in circulation that Lord William
Lenox (an Officer in the Orford Blues) was connected
with the defendant's Paper; that Lord Glengall wiui
himself connected w,ith an obscure Newspaper, which
was in the practice of publishing the most scandalous
and infamous libels, to which his Lordship was not
only privy, but of which he was the most active in the
circulation ; and that he had connected himself' with
a sweep, named Molloy, who had catered scan-
dalous libels, to be published in the Paper in Which his
Lordship was connected. It spoke of his Lordship as
" a dirty Lord;' charged him with being one of the
greatest liars in England; Called hini a " blinking
puppy," who was in the habit of betraying his own pri-
vate friends, traducing every woman in whose company
he had ever had the happiness of being; and spoke of
him in other offensive and vituperative terms.
The ATTORNRY.GINSRAL stated, alit this newspa-
per had commenced its career by publishing a series of
libels on private character, add had thus brought itself
into notice. This was not an attempt to restrain the li-
,betty of the press, but to repress italicentionsiess, which
elms the province of the Jury. by their verdict, to ef-
fectuate. All attempts on the part of the defendant or
Isis counsel, even to insinuate that there was a testicle
Of truth in the libel in question, must be rendered iiter.i
live from the course which Lord Gleisgall had taken on
the present occasion. In applying to the Court Of
King's Bench for a criminal information, his Lordship
had negatived on affidavit the truth of the slanderous
matter contained in the libel. The defendant had had
an opportunity of shewing, by affidavit, that what he
had published was true. In his affidavits, however, no
attempt of that kind had been made; and, therefore, he
was now precluded from suggesting, even by insinua-
tion, that there was a particle of truth in whaa-riad been
published.
The libel having been put in and read, . *
Mr. BROUGHAM, in an ingenious speech toilitiJory,
read over the libel paragraph by paragraph, and en-
deavoured to persuade them that there was nothing li-
bellous in the publication.
Lord TINTIRDIN shortly summed up the easier the
Jury, and put it to them as reasonable men to say, wt..,
' the they could doubt of the libelous tendency of a pub-.
lication which imputed to the prosecutor that be was
himself the disseminator of scandalous libels; that he
was the betrayer of friendship; that be was the greatest
liar iu all England; and that he was the traducer of
every woman's character in whose society he had bad
the happiness of being?
The Jury without hesitation found the defendant.
Guilty:
TIM RING 9. IL D. RICHASIOS.
this -wail another information against tite lime de-
fendant, for a libel in The Age of the lit October, 1826,
on Jelin Easthope, Esq. M.P. for St. Alban's, imputing
that he, as a 'stock-broker, had sent into the market Chs-
lian bonds for sale, after he knew froin Messrs. Hal-
lett, Brothers, and Co. (Aginxs for the Chilian Loan),
that the Chiiian Government was unable to pay thedi-
vidends.

The paiticulars of this case also were disclosed at tilt
time the motion was rAade for a criminal information
in Michaelmas Term.
The ATTORiIEY-GSNERAL, Mr. BROUGHAM. and Mr.
KAY*, conducted the prosecution.. Mr. DINMAN ap-
peared fbr the defendant.
After the case for the prosecution was closed, Mr.
DRNMAN, on the part of the defendant, said, he must
yield to a verdict of Guilty, and reserve for a future
occasion such topics of mitigation as he should be able
to present to the Court.

dren. He is an agricultural labourer, and in common,•
with others of the class, thought himself entitles] to re-
ceive from the parish a certain sum independently of
any thing that he or his family might be enabled to get
from other sources. He claimed not only' the -payment
of his original allowance, but all the arrests.
CHA prisoner, what have you to say,
For this violent conduct?
The Pauper—Say why that it *as his fault. He put
use in a passion, by refusing me my sights, and I threw
down my stick, and swore I'd be d--.d if I went .*ay
till I had 'em. Was'nt I justified in doing so ? I did
not threaten his life. Though he is an Overseer, I'd
no more hurt him, than I would one of my children;
so I hope you'll look over it this time.
The Cover ordered him to be kept in piton until be
found sureties to the amount of 201. to keep the peace.
Three men were sentenced to be transported during
seven years, for stealing goods from dwelling-houses.
They belonged to a considerable gang of thieves, who
have committed extensive depredations in Bermondsey-
, Two young men, J. Marston and W. Sadler, the
hour a costermonger, were charged with having en-
tered a dwelling•house belonging to Mrs. Foote, at
Barnes, and stolen a quantity of wearing apparel.
They had been seen together in the course of the
morning of the 4th May. Sadler was seen to go twice
into the house where the prosecutriz resided, the door
having incautiously been left open. On the first time
he brought out a bundle, which he gave to Maraton.l
On the second time sat alarm was given as be wasnak-
off with a second bundle. Both were pursued, and
taken.
A great number of witnesses gave Sadler a high cha:
ratter; most of them were respectable tradesmen, who
had known him from his infancy. They considered
that he must have been unhappily misled by' some bad
characters —The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty,
but recommended them to mercy.