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London, England, 1819-03-06 00:00:00

VICFeCHANCELLOR'S COURT, MARCH s.

• his Honour the VICE CHANCELLOR was this day
occupied in hearing causes of no importance but to
the parties concerned, till past three o'clock.

COURT OF KTNG'S BENCH, MARCH 5.
lICPEV. PHELPS.

The plaintiff, a medical man, sought to recover a
demand of £l5 for atten lance upon the wife of the
defendant, and the cure of a disease under which she
suffered. The defendant refused to pay the demand,
on the ground that the plaintiff had not effected a cure.
Mr. SCARLET? contended, that ,the plaintiff was
not entitled to recover. He had represented himself
able to cure a disease, which often attacks the breast
of a female, by a newly-discovered remedy, and he
was allowed by the delendaut, in the hope of receiv-
ing benefit, to attend upon Airs. Phelps. After he
had prescribed his nostrum,. it was found of no bene-
ficial effect, and the lady was obliged to submit to a
surgical operation to preserve existence. Under •all
the circumstances, it was described to be a case in'
which the plaintiff had 'obtained employment under
a false pretence.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.

FRENCH 11. GILES AN ANOTHER.
The plaintiff, an ironmonger, brought his action
against the defendant, a coi.ch-master, to recover da-
mages for an injury received by the breaking-down
of a carriage which he had hired in August last.
The plaintiff had hired a barouche on the 2d of
August to take his family to Chiclehtirst, in Kent.
On their return to town the straps of. the dicker
broke, and the plaintiff was thrown off: hit shoulder
was dislocated, his arm broken, and three ribs frac-
tured. A surgeon attended him several months, and
he was not quite recovered when the action com-
menced. The action was attributed solely to the rot-
ten state of the leather straps.
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The Learned Judge held, that persons letting out
carriages were bound to see that they were fit for use.
The Jury retired three hours, and on theii return
found a verdict for•the plaintiff—Damages £5O.

COMMON PLEAS
THACKERY V. BIGNOLD.

The defendant in this case was formerly Secretary
to the Norwich Union Five Office. The plaintiff, a
respectable manufacturer near Manchester, was one
of the persons who preferred the complaints against
his conduct, as set forth at a public meeting held at
the Vulture Tavern. Bignolu, soon after that meet-
ing, published a pamphlet, in which he libelled the
plaintiff, and this was the ground of the present ac-1
tion. The falsehood of the libel was clearly proved,
and a verdict was consequently given for the plaintiff
—Damages £5OO.

HOME CIRCUIT—LENT ASSIZES.
HERTFORD, MARCH 3.
The Home Circuit commenced at this place' to.
day, before Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in the Civil Court,
and Mr. Justice Palm, in the Cr 'Am Court.
William Ambrose was indicted for violently assault-
ing John Bishop on the King's highway, on the 27th
August last, in the parish of Aldenham, and taking
from his perton a gold seal and part ola watch chain.
Since the prosecution had commenced, the constable
who apprehended the prisoner had died, and this
link in the chain of evidence being wanting, the
Learned Judge summed up the case, making such
observations as occurred to him upon the doubt of
identity, and the Jury, after considerable deliberation,
found the prisoner Not Guilty.
MARCH 4.
John Berry was indicted for assaulting John Lodge
Hubbersty, Esq. on the King's highway, putting him
in fear' and taking from 'his person 20s. in silver, and
a gold mourning nag, his .property, on the 10th of
August, in the parish of Standcin.—Guilty—Death.
Mitstell Chapman and James Anthony were indicted
for burgiariously breaking and entering the dwelling-
holase of William Green, in the night of the 12th of
January last, in the parish of Buckland, and stealing
therein some silver and a one-pound note. This was
• the most serious case in the Calendar.
The circumstances produced in evidence were
these :—About two o'clock in the morning, of the
I`.?th of January, the prosecutor, a respectable far-
fl-.er in Buckland parish, 'and his family, were awa-
ker.ed out of their sleep by the crash of some window
'glass, and presently afterwards the prisoner, Chap-
man, burst open the door of the prosecutor's bed-
room, and with horrid threats demanded his money.,
The prosecutor got out of bed and opened a drawer, ;
and gave the prisoner three half-crowns ; he then
attempted to get into an adjoining room for the pur-
pose of,pulling an alarm-bell, 'but he was resisted by
the prisoner, who struck him a violent blow, but at
length succeeding in getting out of the room ; he was
followed by the prisoner to the next apartment, and
was in the act of pulling the alarm-bell, when he saw
die other prisoner ascending the ladder placed against
the window. A scuffle thegamsued between the pro-
t,ecutor and Chapman, who struck him several Mows
with a.small iron crow upon the arms, and attempted
to force the same instrument dosin his throat, in,
doing which he broke two of his teeth. The,other
prisoner in the mean time entered the window • but
the prosecutor succeeded in getting out of the house,'
illand giving the alarin. Other acts of violence were
committed by .the prisoners upon the prosecutor's
wife and a female servant, but they only got a pound-
.note in money. The alarm being the prisoners
;knitted the
house; but were both recognised eat-
Vag men in the neighLuurhood.
riscenv Antlieuyi attempted to set up an
;dila, but it was supported only by contradictory evi-
. ,detice. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty—Death.

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