Star.
London, England, 1827-08-24 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, AUGUST 24.

Our market was in a still more lifeless state than on last Wednesday,
owing to the favourable change in the weather, and the probability
of its continuance; indeed, those who appeared to take advan-
tage of the late rains have entirely disappeared, leaving speculation
entirely out of the question ; but prices of all descriptions of Grain
are nominally the same as on Monday.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, AOCtliee 24.
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Mutton may be quoted 2J. per stone dearer this morning, but in
no other Meat is there any tAriation worth noticing from our prices
of Monday last...Bessts, 589; Sheep, 11,1120; Piss,llo; Calves, 311.
Beef, per stout:, is. 6,1 to Ss. i.d. 31ouon, 4s. 4d. to 42. l Od.
ss. to Si. dd. Pot k, 4s. to ss. 2ti. Lamb, 48. lid. to ss. ed.—flay,
per loml, L, I.;s. to 10h. Clover, E 4 15a. to £6 10$. Straw,
E 2 to .C 2 bh

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE, Almon 22.
HIGH TR2.II3OIOOINING.

Madrach Walker was indicted for knowingly; felt)•
niously, and traitorously, hieing in his po.session, or
the 23d of December last, at Greenwich, certain coin-
ing instruments, against the statute, and against his
allegiance.

It appeared that on the morning of the day in ques-
tion, in consequence of some suspicion that had arisen,
Mr. Powell, solicitor to the Mint, and two police officers,
went to a house occupied by the prisoner, in Green.
with. The door was opened by the prisoner, who teas
in his shirt-sleeves, and upon searching the house various
implements of coining were found. There was a bellows
and a forge in one of the rooms, a cutting press in ano-
ther, an immense quantity of blanks of base metal, of
the •arious sizes of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences,
with a vast number of dies, crucibles, and other articles
of a simil.ir nature. There were also some tools which
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appropriate to the trade of a working jeweller;
and it appeased that some of the first mentioned ar•
ticks, though undoubtedly capable of being used in
coining, might also be u,ed in the way of that trade.—
It further appeared, that in October, 1826, the prisoner,
accompanied by a man named Backley, who was con-
victed of coining at the last Surrey Assizes. and has
since been executed, carried the cutting press now pro-
duced to a blacksmith at Greenwich, to be repaired,
and that he and Backley had repeatedly called upon
that person, both together and separately, and given him
various orders and directions upon their joint account.

On behalf of the prisoner, it was proved that he was
by trade a working jeweller, and two persons with
whom he had formerly worked in that business for very
considerable periods, gave him a good character for,
honesty and industry.
The Jury, after deliberating in the box for come time,
retired from the Court, and after an absence of two
hours, returned with a verdict of—Not Guilty.
Henry Norman, who was convicted of a very atrocious
burglary at Lewes last week, and received sentence of
death, has been respited by Mr. Justice Park since his
arrival in this town, his Lordship entertaining some
doubt as to the sufficiency of the proof of his identity.

(Before a Special Jury.)
HOLDING V. CARTER.

This was an action to recover damages for an al-
leged false and deceitful representation made by the
defendant to the plaintiff, respecting the character and
competency of a Captain Estell.
The plaintiff and defendant were ship-owners, and
the former, being in want of a
,person to take the com-
mand of a coasting vessel of his, called the Alert, and
being referred to the latter by Captain Estell for a cha-
racter, made a written application to the defendant
upon the subject, to which he received a wtitten answer,
stating that the Captain was a man of very great re-
spectability and first-rate skill, and that he was satisfied
the plaintiff would find in him a most valuable acqui-
sition. In consequence of this representation, the plain-
tiff took Captain Estell iato his service, and entrusted
him with the command of the Alert ; which, in the
month of February, INS. while under his command,
gat on shore off the Isle of Anglesea, and received con-'
siderable damage; and a great many witnesses were
callest, who all concurred in stating, that the damage
might have been prevented by a commander of com-
petent skill, and had been entirely occasioned by the
negligence and ignorance of Captain Estell.
In answer t 6 this case, a great many witnesses, some
of them ship-brokers and underwriters of the greatest
respectability, were stalled, who stated that they had
been long acquainted with Captain Estell; that he was
a well-trained and very skilful seaman; and that they
should not hesitate to trust him with the command of a
vessel of any value. Some other persons were also ex-
amined, who proved that when the vessel got on :hole,
the weather was very rough and tempestuous ; that
several vessels were wrecked on the same spot at the
same time; and that Captain Estell did every thing
that nautical skill and industry could do, to prevent
the accident.

The Jury here interposing, and stating that they were
prepared to find a verdict for the defendant, the plain-
tiff's Counsel elected to be called, and a nonsuit was
entered accordingly.
BRIDGEWATER, Acoese22.
Before Mr. Justiee Buatoros.
PAYNE V. POLLARD.

Mr. Sergeant WILDS, in stating this case to the Jury,
said that the plaintiff was a brewer, and the defendant
a wine and spirit merchant. . They had formerly been
intimate associates, but had since separated in conse-
quence of some unpleasant differences. After these
had occurred, the defendant thought proper to defame
the plaintiff's character by she severest calumnies,
which in some degree received currency from the
known intimacy that had previously subsisted between
them. Such was the effect of defendant's imputations,
that the plaintiff's partner had dissolved his connexion
with him, by which he had sustained a deep injury.
♦t length he appealed to a jut y of his country for the
redress to which, under such circumstances, they should
I think him entitled.

Mary Ann Maund said, that she lived, in the month
of August. at the Beer Butt public-house, Bath, and
knew the plaintiff, who kept the house before her father-
in law, and was afterwards a partner with his relation,
Mr. Joseph Payne, in the brewing trade. The defendant
was a wine and spirit merchant, who supplied plaintiff.
She remembered calling upon him to pay a bill in March
or April, when he apologized for not calling upon her
father, and assigned as a reason that he did not wish to
run the risk of meeting the plaintiff there, whom he de-
scribed as a swindler, deserving to be transported--as
a man who had endeavoured to waylay another to
murder him—as one who had wasted hundreds of
pounds of his wife's property, and who would bring her
and her family at length to the workhouse.
This witness underwent a long cross-examination, in
which she denied having had quarrels with the defend-
ant or his family, or expecting to participate in the da-
mages to arise from this action, or having had any im-
proper intercourse with the plaintiff.
-Joseph Payne, a maltstei, said, that at one time the
plaintiff and himself had been in partnership, and he had
stilsolred a connexion with him in business in conse-
quence of these injurious reports.
Mr. GUNNING, in addressing the Jury for the defend-
ant, denied that he hat ever utterei the words imputed
to him in the sense in which they were misunderstood
by the complaioint, an] that the misconstruction had
been put upon them by a witness who was not entitled
to credit, tot her known disregard of the obligations of
moral character. He lett the ca st to the Jury upon the

!improb ability Of the trdth of such a otaiement in thd
sense of the plaintiff's teuimony.
Mr. Justice Boanouutr, in charging the Jury, ad:
mitted that if the evidence of the female was really unz
true, then the whole case must fall to the ground; but
if they thought the slanderous words haJ been used by
the defendant, then undoubtedly the plaintiff was en-
titled to damages; for no aspersions could well be cbn-
ceived more calculated to do an injury to a man in bu-
sineu, or. desirous to keep a proper place in society.
The Jury, after a shoat consultation, found a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001.