Star.
London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

CHELTENHAM; iA.FgAay 7.

Notwithstanding the Taint stbieb.have fallen for some
tithe past, clei town, on no'preccding winter, boasted
of such an influx of company. The btilliant 'assembly
at the Montpellier 'Rotunda, on Thutsday last, afforded
a proof of the incre.rsit.g prosperity and
;rectiogsofihe C4eltenhatn Wineer Season. Upwards
of tire trundled of. our most fashionable residents and
llitt!hrs were wand.
The rollowipt Ladies opened their houses last week
to ifieir filends. via.—
.IbeDowager Lady. Ford, Mrs. Anthony Stoughton, the* Misses
ytafrernej, Mrs. Colonel Crowder, and Irs. l)oyne.
The High-street, Promenade, and Cambray, are the places of
most fashionable resort, from two until four o'clock; and a more
odimating display of pedestrians, and elegant equipages, can scarcely
be conceived.
Colonel Berkeley's fox hounds returned to us the lit of this
month, with bis aMple stud, concist ins of upwards of thirty hunters
and hacks, They hunted Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday, to numerous Acids of sportsmen. The sport, on Thurs.
' day, from Dumbleton, and on Saturday from Weston Past, was
quite extraordinary.
In addition to the hunting in our own immediate neighbourhood,
the Dole of Beaufort's hounds, which meet within an easy distzuce
of Cheltenham, afforded us, last week, excellent runs from Eyford
and Aldsworth. We observed, besides the Noble Duke, the Mar-
(feign( Worcester; Lords Edward, William, and John Somerset ;
Lord Sherborne, the Hon. W. Dutton, Lord Edward Chichester,
and the Hon. Colonel Lysol, on the field.
General Dyce has purchased a house in the Promenade; and
Mr. Peel, Suffolk Lawn.

• • LAW•IWrELLIGENCE. *-
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GVILNIALL, JAM. 8.
Sittings after 3liehaelmas Term before Lord TIMMADEN and.
Commoo.Juries.
EUSTACE V. CONWAY.
This was at action brought by .the plaintiff to recover
cnnipensation in damages for Worsts spoken try the
defendant, imputing to him wilful and corrupt perjury.
The defendant p!eaded the general issue, and also a
it

istification.
Mr. F. Powcx, with whom was Mr. BASTOW,
stated the plaintiff's case, from which it appeared that
previviii to the month of MarXh last, and for some
time subequently, an action had been depending be-
taeen the assignees of a bankrupt against a person
named Steele. In this action the defendart appeared'
to justify bail ; t!-:e persons to be his sureties were a
Mr. Moire and the defendant in the present action (Mr.
Conway) When Mr. Conway appeared at the Chambers
of di,: Lord Chief Justice, it was alleged in opposition
to him as,bail, that he had very recently been a bank-
rupt, and an affidavit was put in of the present plaintiff
(who is a clerk to the solicitor cpposed to Steele) which
stated that the plaintiff (Eustace) went to a house,
No. 7, Wine Office Court, which Conway gave as his
address, and found that though he was in possession of
those premises, they contained no furniture, and that
in point of fact he did not live there, but at Holloway,
where he occupied ftirnished apartments. The had on
behalf of Steele attended twice at his loortiship'sfon the
14th and lith of March). On the latter occasion, when
Conway learned the substance of Eustace'saffichreit, he,
addressing him, said,A, Hew dare you swear that 1 hat
no furniture in my house-it Wine-Office Cogit? Yoe
have been guilty of vile and corrupt perjury--it is AR,
infamous lie,' and I can prove it to' be such by fifty'
.witne.ses." This visa the-language the plaintiff' ecins'
plain.; of, and for the irjitty arising to him from which
he so?glit compensation at the hinds of an impartial
Jury. llis el ent (the Lear ned Counsel- sent on to say)
was a young man just er:teting upon life, to whom,
character was of the hieest importance,. and in his
situation of an attorney's c:erk, it must be perfectly
shvious,
.that npthing could prow more injurious than
such an imputation as had teen cast upon him by the
defendant. The first ts• 'mess call d was
Edmund Hynde—l ant the brother of Charted-I y nde,
the plaintiff's attorney ; I know the plaintiff; this is his
handwriting; he signed these ailiJavits. 1 remember
'be cause against Steele being in my brother's office.--,
I was in his Lordship's chambers iu March last, relating
to this cause; Conway and Eustace were both them
An affidavit was on that occasion sworn ; it is dated the
14th. The affidavit was read in Con v ay's preseate.
The affidavit stated that there was no furniture in the
house, N 0.7, Wine•cffice-court, and that the people in
the neighbour hood did not know Mr. Conway as a
resident. , . .
Examinaticn of Mr. Ilynde resumed—l did not hear
Conway say any thing on the first day *elating% the
bail. The justification was postponed till Saturday,
17. h March; on that day both Eustace and Cnnway
were there ; they vete in the outer chamber; t,everal
persons were present. 'lle witness then stated the slan-
derous words already set forth. This was in the hearing
of every person in the chamber. Mr. Conway was re-
jected as bail. A let er was sent on the same day to
Mr. Conway, calling on him to make an apology.
Cross examined—Mr. Downes, to whom Mr. Con.
way gave a trefeience, told me Mr. Conway might safely
be looked to as bail in that action. He told me Conway
was in the habit of taking houses nut cf repair, and let-
ting them at increased rents. I did not hear Etistace
say that Conway ant Steele: were in the habit of getting
up sham commissions of bankrupt. I did 110 - heat
Ittidace say any thing to provoke the language used by
Cuna ay: - . .
'Re examined...lt was after the Brat affichlyik. was
..._
read that Conway referred Eustace to Downes for his
character. •
The bail-piece was then put in and read, to ahem the
gamine sued for in' the actit.n, 181. .
Thomas J. Richards—l am a watchmaker. in Shore-
ditch. I went with Eustace to No. 7. Wiae-effice•court.
on the ISth of March. I went over that house iiith
him. I did not find any one tesiding elves there were
workmen, but no residents; there was not any lutnitnre
in the house. I saw Conway, who stated that.he hied
at Hidloway, but had i.iven his addre.S there, his dwel-
ling In.u,e being solar off. He-meutioned that he had
a hr:we in Watling-street. ' • .
Cr ess-ex imined.There were ten rooms in the house
in Wire-office-court; I'went into all, the rooms, from
the parlour upward-. •
Air. DICNMAN, with whom v as Mr. EVANS, appeared
for the defendant. He conceived that enough had been
laid before the Jury to shrew that sufficient proaocatinn
had been given to extenuate, it cot fully to justify, the
language he had used; but when, added to that. they
should bear the evidence which he was instructed could
be produced, he confidently anticipated a verdict for
the defendant. It w' old appear, he had no clintst, that,
not only was the affidavit sworn to by Eustace utterly
without foundation in fact, but, that, in reference tots
he had used such language as was calculated to.:excite
angry feelings in the heart of the delendaet. Such,
.or instance, as charging him and Steels with getting
up sham commissions of bankruptcy. The fast was,
that the squabble took place in the outer room, at his
Lord,hips s Chambers. The parties, might become
quiet enough a hen they got into the imusediate•pv:sence
of the Judge, but a hik in the outer apartment, it was
well known that consunt.disputes were going tortsard
between parties, and it was extremely probable that the
words imputed to his client had been dropped in the
heat of contention amongst five hundred other quarrels.,
br d TENTERDEN— Not quite 60 marry, Mt. Common
Sergeant.
' Mr. DICNIdAN—At least they were uttered amidst
much heat and altercation. The Learned Counsel then
proceeded to say, thatbefore the cause came to an end
the Jury would see that at least the affidas it was utterly
false—that it was one made, too, by an attorney's clerk,
acing professionally, and nothing could be of greater
importance than that such.Gentlerhen shoUlti. be made;
to speak the truth, for the into cos of. half 'mankind air.
in their !ranch. It could not have escaped the attention:
of the Jury, that though Richards, the watchmaker,
accompanied.E.lstace through the house in Wine Office-
court, yet he was not called upon to make any affidavit
relative to,;4l),ence of furniture,thaugh quite in as good
1 sktuatica fletbat purpose as any man could be. Tt.e
evidence Vi bic h. heibou 1.4 lay before them to prove the
'falsehood of Mr. Eustace's stateurent•would be perfectly
'simple. He would show, from Mrs. Conway's medical
cb- ttendant, that-at the time is question she was confined
y illness in 'tyre back, parlour of the house sa inspected-
y kichards.and Eustace; that there was furniture in I
her -room and in other apartment,. The action was one
which olightnever to have been brought, and which
loom would *vs been, btought, had not the plaintiff
!bean of the profession of the law, a body whose mem-
bers seldom ;suffered much hy costs, He then ea led ,
' Jdosepti Rose—l know Conway, the defendant. I
'attended his wife in the month of March last; she was