Star.
London, England, 1828-11-25 00:00:00

LX PARTE NUNN.

Mr. PLATT moved for ass lit of habeas corpus to bring
up the body of a person of the name of Nunn, in or-
der that he mi, bt be discharged out of custody. He
h 44 been committed on a conviction for smuggling,
and no.Aclubt be bad been engaged in smuggling ;
but it bppeared tbat the committing Magi:trate bad no

jurisdiction, and on this ground the party applied for
the writ.—Rule nisi granted.

•OWE V. BRENTON.

The evidence for the defence was no* prnceeded with.

Stephen Pearce was the first witness called, and his
examination, which had bern intertu, ted on S riurday
on the objection taken by the plaintiff'. Counsel, was
resumed. He stated that he had received toll of copper,
lead, and iron, from other assessionable manors besides
Tewington. In some cases where he granted sets, he
did not take toll, but dues only. In some instances he
gave sets fry trials where no metal was found. Hi.
tether and himself accounted for the dues to ti e execu-
tors of S r William Lemon, who was a lessee of the
duchy lauds. Several books were here produced, and
the witn ss ideo tified them as being in the handwriting
of hi, father and himself. They contained entries re-
lating to the toils taken and accounted for to the lessee
under the Crown.

The books of the steward of Lord Burymore, a
lessee of some cf the duchy lands, were produced, for
the purpose of showil.l the uninterrupted enjoyment bi
the Dukes of Cornwall cf the several dues.

Richard Penrose stated, that in 1822 he wrought a
copper mine in Tywarne-hale Manor, by license from
Mr. Charles Carpenter, to whom he paid dues. Some
of the lands were enclosed, and some were in waste; he
also wrought mines in various other parts of the duchy.
He was never interrupted by any of the tenants of the
surface, and never paid them compensation, though he,
had spoiled some c f their land by sinking shafts and,
erecting buildings. His family had been much em
ployed as adventurers in these mines, and paid many
thousand pounds as due to Mr. Donnithorn and Mr.
Smith for tin, and to Mr. Carpenter for copper. Those
persons were the lessees of the duchy lands. Mr. Car.
penter was lesiee of all the minerals except tia and
royal mines.
John Stevens had lived in Tywarne-hale manor for
ffty years, and had worked mines there; he had raised
copper from enclosures in ancient duchy land ; he sunk
a shaft at Trevisicks, and paid dues for the ore which
he found there to SaThen Pearce, the toiler for Sir W.
Lemon; the land was ancient duchy land; no obstruc-
tion was offered by the tenant to the digging in his
enclosed land.

John Oaks held a tenement in Ty warne-hale, in ditch;
land, and had wrought mines there for twenty years,
under the aut ior ity of Sir W. Lemon, to whom he paid
dues; since then he had been licensed by Mr. Carpeute .
There were two miner, partly in duchy land and partly
in free land, belong7ng to Lord Falmouth. Dues were
paid lor them, partly to Lord Falmouth, and partly to
Mr. Carpenter; witness had never been interrupted in
his working of the mines by the tenants of the surface.
Thomas Williams had been captain of several mining
adventures for eight years. Wheal Phenix, Wheal Cal-
stock, &Ist Crinnis, and Gunner's Lake, were in the
manor of Calstock, and were duchy lands. some tin
was g t in Wheal Price I ix, and w itness paid the dues to
the ageiit fur the duchy lessee. J. Williams became
proprietor of the Phasitis in 1821. Prior to that lime,
the Earl of Mount EJgecumbe had it. Part rf these
lands were enclosed and partly 'waste. S rote of the
owners of the soil resided close to the shafts, but they
never offered Any interruption to the working of the
mines. It was the duty of the captains of the mines to
walk about and see what was going on.
John Pearce confirmed the testimony of the last wit
ness with respect to the payment of the dues to Mr.
Williams, the lessee under the duchy. •
William Johns stated, that he had been a joint ad-
venturer about SO years ago, in a lead mine in duchy
land, in the manor of Elston. The land in which the
shaft was sunk was partly enclosed. The dues were
paid to S ephen Pearce, the teller for Sir Wm. Lemon.
Samuel Lisle, a mining adventurer, in 1813, 1814,
and in 1823, 1824, had been put ser of the Modlin mine.
He t ok sets for mines fr.:m Mr. J. Williams and Mr.
Carpenter, and paid them dues.
Wi! iam Harris, aged 83, stated that he held a tene•
ment in Elston manor for 20 years. He attended an
Assession Court to take it. He had been a Captain of
Mines during the greater part of his life. A mine was
worked in his tenement for tin arid copper, but he never
made an objection to it, and never heard that any body
had aright to make an objection. His tenement was in
an enclosed part of the Duchy. He should have been
glad if he could have made an objection, but he thought
he had no right to do so.
Another witness, 72 years of age, gave similar tes- '
simony.
_ _ _

J. Hickman stated, that he was ac painted with the
„manor of Tewington. He bad searched for copper in
Saxe Gotha, and found none. Mr. Charles Rashleigh,
on witness's application, agreed to give him a set. Peter
Goldsworthy was his toiler, and accompanied him to
mark the bounds of the set. Mr. Willis, who was te-
nant of the land, never interrupted witness w hilst be
was in search, which continued for six years.
Mr. George Geech stated, that he W.ls concerned in
mining in the manor of Tewington for some manganese.
He took the set from Mr. Ita.hleigh. The speculation
not proving successful, he gave it up in three months.
Tullock, to whom the land belonged, never objected
to witness's operations. Witness did not know that he
was aware of them. They were in enclos-d land. The
surface of the land was not meddled with, but an adit
was driven in a sleep place.
Captain Thomas Garvie gave similar testimony.
Christopher Vickai y Bridgeman produced several sets
for copper and other minerals, in different mines, which
he had obtained front the Duchy-cffice. They were read
to the Court.
The answers to tee intertogatories which were put
to certain tenattts of the manor of Tewington in the
12th year of Queen Elisabeth, and which were objected
to on Friday last as not evidence on account of the in-
terrogatories to which they were answers not being
attached to them, were then put in and read, for the
purpose of showing that they had only a freehold of in-
heritance in their takings, according to the custom ofl
the manor. Similar answers, taken at different pet iods
after the reign of Queen Elizabeth, down to the year
1774, were then put in and read. In the latter docu-
menu, the tenants claimed a right to the timber on their
tenements, for which they paid a fine in some of the
early documents.
Michael Barbary—l am a miner; in the early part
of 1820 I worked at East Crinnis ; I knew Mt. Howe,
of Le Mellon cottage • I conversed with him about
*inking a shaft in Le Mellon moor ; he wanted the shalt
sinking on East Crinnis level; Vivian was his mining
captain; I met Vivian with Mr. Rowe in 1820; vee
contracted to sink a shaft in Le Mellon moor, and to
hole to East Crinnis level; before that time we were
driving a lode on the level in East Crinnis; we bad
get into Lt Mellon moor; in East Crinnis I earned 14s.
15s. 16s. a week; I was to have 41. 10s. for a fathom
from Mr. Rowe; I thus got 30s. a week; four of us set
to work upon it ; we sunk our shaft about 26 yards,
and then we holed to the East Crinnis level. Abut a
fortnight after this, I saw persons working under Vivian
no the East Crinnis lode; in consequence of this, the
East Crinnis adveututers were obliged to work round

it. I recollect an old iron shaft sunk in tle centr
Mr. ltowe's moor; it formed past cf. the Fast Cr ism:
mine works.

Clots-examined—This iron shaft was in we, i 1814.
than j..ined the E tst Ctionis adventurers. They lock
then risen some copper ore, but had n t taken it away.
I don't know that they had raised tin; ti.ey suspended
that mine for some years; I •aw about a ton of copper
ore at the shaft's mouth in IBM

Re-examined—They returned to the shaft in 1820.
John Phillips deposed to a conversation which he
had held with Mr. Rowe in 1814. Mr. Rose said, that
the East C, Innis people had mined for copper on his
estate, and that he hoped it would turn nut favour-bly.
as he could derive no profit from it, as the estate was
duchy land.
Cross examined-1 t old this story about a week sp.
The case for the defendant then closed.
Mr. Bauuutlitu then proceeded to call witnesses in
reply.
Edward Clode—ls steward to the present Lord of
the Manor of Tess ington ; he held Courts for the L rd
since 1801 ; holds a Court Leet every year at Michael
miss, and a Special Court for surrenders whenever they
are applied for: the Court Leet is attended by the cus-
tomary tenants; the Special Court by himself, two
customary tenants, the surrenderer, and the taker ; he
kept the manor book in which the entry of surrenders
were made; the surrender and the take were both by
livery of the Lord ; the tenants take an oath of fealty
to the Lord; witness being ordered to produce certain
surrenders,

Sir J. SCA sLarr said, he did not rise to ohjlct to this
evidence, but to protest against the admission of it on
this occasion being considered as a reason for its admis
sion on another. It h4d been held by Lord Ellenborough,
in a case reported in Starkie, that when in an action of
'rover the possession of the goods was the point in issue,
the plaintiff must give all his evidence of it at the outset,
and could not postpone it til the close of the case. He
was anxious t r allow the plaintiff to go into the fullest
evidence; but he protested against the irregularity which
such allowance might occasion in the usual practice rf
the Court, and hoped that it would not be cited as a
precedent on a future trial.
The examination of the witnesses Oen proceeded. He
read several surrenders of tenements in Rowe's Le Mel-
lon made to the steward of Tewington manor, and sub-
mitted to a long examination founded upon them.
At six o'clock the Court adjourned.

PREROGATIVE COURT. Nov. 24.
MARSH AGAINST TYRRALL AND HARDING.

The argument in this case, which has occupied four
days, was brought to a close at a late hour this day.
Dr. ADDAMS followed the King's Advocate. on behalf
of Mr. Marsh, in a speech of three hours. Dr. LUSHING.
Ton And 1)1. NICWLL replied on the part of Mr.Tyrrell,
and Dr. PHILLIMORE for Mr. Harding.
Sir JOHN NICHOI.I. said. that as much of the evidence
which had been retested to requited attentive examina•
tiuti, he should reserve his senterce for further considera-
tion. He should probably not give it next Court•day,
but he would give previous notice of his intention.

SHERIFF'S COURT, RED LION-SQUARE, Nov. EC
THE FAILURE OF MISSES FRY AND CHAPMAN.
An inquiry was last night held before the Sheriff and
A Jury, the object of which was to ascertain the amount
of debt due from the above firm to the Crown, prepara-
tory to the issuing of an extent. The claim of the
Crown, it appears, arises upon certain dishonoured
drafts, drawn by Government against public monies
paid into the house of Fry and Chapman.
Mr. Heath, a principal Clerk in the Banking.house
was examined, and from his testimony, it appeared that
the sum for which the Crown has a clsim, amounts to
116,7901. 13r. and for that sum the Jury found a verdict.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Novrima 24.
Sarah Grith h was opposed, in propria persona, by
Daniel !►l'Feeling, fora debt cf 1001.
Insolvent stated that she formerly kept the Cooper's
Arms, in Clarendan•square, but disposed of that
house, and went to reside in the Comme►cial-road. She
afferwards disposed of the temainJet of the property,
and was arrested by the opposing creditor, who had
previonsly married her; but who, in consequence r f a
former marriage, and his first wife being tl•en living,
was subsequently tried and convicted at the Old Bailey
for bigamy, and sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment.
M.Feeling—E''! eh! altar's that you say?
Insolvent—Tried for bigamy, you writch !
Mr. COOK submitted that M'Fetliug was not, under
circumstances, a legal creditor.
Mr. Commissioner HAIMIS was of the same opinion,'
the debts not appealing on the face of the schedule.
The Insolvent was the.: ordered to be discharged
forthwith.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.— William Carter was brought, yesterday,
before Alderman Weidman, charged by one of the officers of
Smithfield, with cruelly beating a bullock about the bock. with a
stick on the same mortnng, and at the same time bring without a
badge in the market.

Alderman WAITHMAN animadverted a little on the frequency of
such complaints, and intimated his determination to visit all such
as came before him with punishment.
As this was the prisoner's first offence, the Alderman fined him
under Mr. Martin's Act in 10s.

When the prisoner pleaded for mitigation, he wee told that he
had had a point in his favour, for if he had been convicted no the
recent Act, the smallest penalty would have been 2016—The charge
regarding the badge was foregone.

BOW-STREET.

A pale-visaged, curved-nosed, dresser of hair, about live feet six
inches In height, clothed in fine black raiment, with dark hair, and
wearing on his shoulders what craniological amateurs would con-
sider a well manufactured, properly balanced piece of intellectual
machinery, was brought to this office yesterday morning, to answer
a charge of wanton assault committed last Saturday night on a
young female, in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden Theatre.
The complainant and her witness were about ti or 17 years of
age, very neatly dressed, and anything but NOW or repulsive its
their physiognomy.
Anne Wilson, the brunette, swore that the fellow struck her on
the head with his hand, and kicked her en the legs.
The barber, In his defence, said that be believed he was tipsy ;
be admitted the assault.

Sir It. Brame told the fellow that his conduct was most shameful
and unmanly. These poor creatures, added the worthy Magistrate,
have sunkient misery and distress by their mode of life; it was
case that he would not allow to be compromised, and recomasended
the complainant to indict the barber at the neat Sessions.
MARY—LA.BONNR.
The driver of a hackney coach was summnned for demanding
more than his lawful Ws of a Lady in Piccadilly. Mr. Hoskins,
the Magistrate, was passing at the time, took his number, anj
gave evidence against him, and Mr. aireirus fined him 40s.
declaring that whenever coachmen were convicted of misconduct
towards a female. be would indict the utmost penalty.

THAMES POLICE.
Jahn Fay, John Jab Mai and Cu►ge Stephenson, were charge?
with a desperate assault upon Captain Thomas Summers, of the
Ann, a collier ship. It appeared the three defendants were appren
tices in the Ann, and on her voyage from Shields have been in
continued state of insubordination; and upon the Captain ►etmwt
strafing with them, they attacked him in a most desperate manner,
and knocked him down; some of the crew interfered, and over-
powered them. One of the witnesses wrested a bar of trots Cron
one of the prisoners, with w►ich be was nuking a blow at tht
Captain's bead. Tbey were committed to IRMO the chase at
the Admiralty Sessions.

ivonslitP.stntr.t.
Saturday sight, a Stile before Mr. Lamm .To‘ left the need,.
two aliabby-genteel looking young awn appro lerd, and nue tb„,
addresird him

Applicant—l want a sommtins to Compel the parish autheritial
to give my cousin (pointing to the other) a pair of shoes, as be
it
nearly barefooted.
magi,./e.,sc—What is be? and what are you?
Al Ocala—lle was bred to the trade of a gold and silver wife,
drawer, bot ont of employment for a length of time c and f ant a
journeyman shoemaker, with a small family, and unable any lone,
to assist hire.
Ma .istrate—Has the pauper any parents living?
Applicant—His father is alive, but is in a madshoose for slum,
lug at his late Majesty.
Magistrate (in ansasarment).—ls Hatfield still living?
Applicant—He is, and was in good health when I last saw him.
M. gist rate— How loss since was that?
A pplic ant—About two months.
slagistrate—How does he look?
Applicant—Why, Sir, it might be recolkcted, that In defend;g,
the life of the late Doke of York, in Holland, he received several
sabre wounds on the bead, and one which carried away the gegi
from off his cheek ; and as he advances in years makes his appe4„
ante truly frightful.
The Magistrate then ordered a summons, and desired die pew
boa to be ezamined, which was found to contain eight shilling.
and which were given to the pauper, who, after returning thanks,
hit the Office

LAMDETII—STREET.
Mary Ann Barron and Ada Mott were charged with a /wen.,
and robbery in the premises of Mr. Canny, tobacconist, inWilites
court, Ch incery-lane.
It appeared that on Sunday week the prosecutor's house wu
entered by thieves, and plundered of snuffs, tobacco, and other
articles to the value of above SOH. The prisoners lived in Chichester
Rents, Chancery lane, where the stollen propeity was diseuend
concealed under their bed.—They were committed fur trial.
UNION—HALL.

Three men, named Csas, Moron, and Clettabrek, were brouot
before the Magistrates on the following charge :
Juba Yates stated that the three prisoners had hired a seal
tenement of bins in Glasabouse-yard, St. Saviour's Parish, but
they had not been many days in the new habitation before the
neighbors complained of the bowling of dogs ; and the printers
having been observed to take several very fine dogs into the
premises, which it was suspected had been stolen, he (Yates)
burst open the door, and on his entrance a most disgusting seen,
presented itself to view. On the ground were discovered lying the
carcasses of pipe dogs, divested of their skins, and two more were
suspended from a book in the ceiling prepared to undergo the saws
operation. In the same apartment where the above animals were
found, (oar of the same species alive were fastened op, all of whiek
seemed to be nearly starved to death. One of the animals, a
very hue bitch, was in that condition from hunger, that she
had devoured one of her own whelps, and the other dogs that
were alive, would have, it was asserted, eaten each other, had they
not been fastened up apart. The complainant added, that being
convinced the prisoners were dog stealers, and that the thins*
found on the premises were all stolen, be bad them takes iste
custody. The skins of the nine dogs were not found on the Frt.
mists, and the Magistrate was informed that of late several valuable
dogs bad been stolen in the district, no doubt for the sake of their
skins, which were valuable, and fetched • good price at the furriers,
who manufactured them into fur caps.
' Two of the dogs found on the premises were led down to the
Office, and although it was evident they had been kept without
food or a considerable time, yet they appeared to be very ins
' animals • one of them was a large dog of the Danish breed, aid
tbe other was between a ball and a mastiff, white, with a black spat
on the side of the bead, and on one of the hinder legs.—The pri.
loners, In their defence, said they bought the dogs at Smithfield.—
They were remanded.

A short time ago Mrs. Elizabeth Briggs, of Bram-
cote, set her kettle on the fire to boil the water for tea
When she had prepared the tea, it was so exceedingly
bitter that she could not drink it. She poured out the
water, and filled the kettle afresh, boiled it a second
time ; again she tasted the tea—it was still bitter : she
emptied the kettle once more, filled, and boiled it—and
it bad the same bitter taste; she then emptied the
kettle to scour the inside, when, lo! out came a middle.
sized toad, which had endured ihree good bolings!
Fortunately she received no injury.—Afffield
Wednesday a traveller arrived, on horseback, at Lob.
ster House, near York, and alighting, entered, and
called fir a glass of liquor, leaving his horse, fast-teed
to a crook, at the door. He had not been long seated,
before a person, who was in the room when he entered,
arose and went out, and with a bold dexterity, seldom
equalled, looted the stranger's horse, mounted him,
and rode of in the direction of that city. Nrsuit was
made after him, and Pardoe, a police officer, was
applied to, but the thief has hitherto escaped detection.
Saturday last a bumble bee was found in the centre
of a peat, by a servant girl in Stirling. When takes
out it exhibited no symptoms of life; but, in a few
minutes, it began to move and hum vigorously. A lit.
tle sugar was given to it which it ate voraciously; and,
what appears to us 'rely remarkable, it arquited, is
about an hour, a size nearly double of what it was relics
first exposed. The cavity which contained the bee is
quite smooth and dry—very similar to the interior of
a nutshell—and it corresponds in size precisely to the
original size of the bee. There was no opening, or any
sort of communication whatever, betwixt this cavity
and the exterior part of the peat.

MA

At Dinfield, Berk., the iie;:.ll;o7na; Morres, M. A. formerly of
Urasennose College, Word, Perpetual Curate of Wokingham, to
the above county, and Chaplain to Lucas's Hospital, to Harlan,
youngest daughter of the late Thomas Furly Forster, &.q. of
Walthantstow, Mmes.

DIED.
At Edinburgh, on Abe nib ln►t. John Bannerman Macleod,
youngest son of the late Colonel Donald Macleod, of St. KIWI.
At Demerara, on the 13th of September last, Dr. Aletandet
Mackenzie.

Lately, Robert Walker Bets'''. formerly of Honduras, son lathe
late Capt. David Betson, 9tb Regiment of Foot, of wounds, which
be received in the contending armies of Central America.

NEWGATE AND LEA DENHALL MARKETS, N0v.44.
Beef... .. ...4s 4d to 33 44 Veal ... ... 3. 4J to 41 tii
Mutton .. ...Its 3d to is lid I Pork ... ... 44 8.1 to 31 041

PRICES or HAY aro STRAW YESTERDAY.
ay. rams's.
Hay 5110 s Od to 41 104 Od Hay 111 15s to 41 141 od
Clover 31 10s Od to SI 10s od Clover 41 Os to SI mof
Straw 11 14s Od to 11 ltla Od &raw 11 104 to 11 les 01

PRICE OF HOPS, Nov. 24.
111 W SWIMS. NEW SACS.
Kent B4s to 132 s Kent 764 to 1101
ilusson
Evict
Farnham fine 160 s to 169s—Seconds. 1110. to 1501
Old Duty laid at £170,000.
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PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP &c.
Town Tallow ... ... 44s Od I
Yellow Soap ... ••• 781 PI,
Yellow Russia ... ... 4150 d Mottled .. • •
••• 8" au"
Wbko ditto .. ... .-1 •Od Curd .. . ... ••• —+
ditto —+ Od Graves
Meld Stuff ...... .. Ms 04 Good Dregs .. ••• lk °4
Tallow Imported from be. reterebutsb. 1501 C"I"'

PRICE OF LEATHER.
Best Dressing Hides
Common Ditto ,. laid to 216
Crop Hides,3s to 401bs for cutting ... 164 to tad
Ditto 45 to 301bs lad to !O4
Calf Skins, 36 to 401bs
Ditto 50 to 701bs
Ditto 70 to 110 lbs .. .......
Small Seals, Greenland)
Tanned Horse Hides 174 to 194
Spanish Hone Hides .... ..... ..

COAL MARKET, Nov. IC
Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price.
91a Newcastle 93 9,1 to
19 &inderiand 10 51• tal to ;9' A

MGM- WAINA U LONDON.BUIDGIL TO MOltiii)w.
Morning IT oisrik.te, our
Afternoon • 57 minutes Atter 5

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