The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-05 00:00:00

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LAPP' INTElLresycr.

COURT OF ROW'S BENCH. THIS moasiNo.

TD[ XIM• d. Cliterwatawr, WOOLIIII AND OTINCRII.

Mr. Nibs Oa the part of 3lajor Cartwright, in a very
fordo.* speak contended, that the defendants were en-
titled to a new trial, on the three grounds of the unindif-
ferency of the filasten of the Crown Office, on that of the
!timid, and on their right of challenging the poll. lie
observed, that his client would be amply repent for all
his loss of time and money by establishing the doctrine
that the array of a svcial Jury might he challenged.
The right of selection claimed by the Master, mold never
be intended by the Legialat tire, because both pnrtirs are
required to attend ; and fur what purpose could they be
wanted, if the Master was to do as he pleased ? The
word nominate is ambiguous. and he was glad that :t
was so, because it gave the Court an opportunity to di-
rect such a mode of procedure as should be consonant
to
_public. jnotiee.
Mr. Justice Hater observed, that popular writers ha.i
very much misunderstood the Statute, if 11111 was right
in his construction of it, and that there never could here
been a proper Special Jury from the time of passing the
Act till this day.
Mr.llaLt, said, that he most contend there never bait
been. The Special Jury list is returned by the petty
constable, who thus confers the rank of toqn!re. The
innate!, of honour is thus reieresd. Heretofore it
Mowed from the bighes' anthoritr, now it is in the
lowest. We cannot challenge fur not being an Fs-
quire, and so the petty constable is infallible. 04-
jections were made to the Muter, %artist/to of the
special jurymen had served on the grand jury that
found the bill. The master with his assumed right of
selection might have rejected them, but he seemed to
labour under a very nnfortunate bias, and lobe ignoract
the coarse he should pursue: We have an undonlytei
right of challenge for unindifferency in the Sheriff, and
therefore sworn triers ought to have been appointed.
These questions ought to be on river race evidence, be-
cause to human ingenuity could anticipate, on an mei-
davit, every question which might arise, and therefore
the defendants ought to have been allowed triers. Ina 4•
vetting to the snmmoning of 31 r. Peach, the learned
tleman observed, that his learned opponents ought •o
have folded up their affidavits rather than to halt!
suffered such an affair to bare come before the wor:.l.
What! said he, the King's commands to be hancliPd
about from the sheriffs' officer to a common carrier, from
him to a tofl-gate.keeper, and then to a shepherd a 1 o
laid them nn the dresser, in a kitchen, to be chopped .1)
with the parsley or any thing else. He hoped it W 0,.: I
be the last time this would be done. it was 'followed
only in the political eases. The other summonses were
served in a different way. The Learned (!entlenn.l,
after soma able argnnients on the right of challenging t! e
poll, concluded by declaring that unless these grounds were
sufficient to entitle the defendants to a new trial,llie ear-
nestly craved that the Trial by Jury might be,abolishe,',
as without the right 6f challenge it could only heron,*
an engine of oppression, and a serious evil instad of a
gond.
Mr. PaRNDEROAsT rose, but the Chief Justice havi,c
to go to tiuildhall, the Court declined hearing the case
any further till Wednesday.

HURRICANE AT SANT:IREN.
The Lisbon Gazette of Jan. 20, contains an account of
the overflowing of the Tagus, occasioned by the violent
and incessant rain which had fallen for several days, and
of the consequent destruction of s greet qnanlity of
cattle.
A tette?, dated 121111112010(a tuialtS IC. E. limn
iGishett).Jas. 4, giver the following description of a
hurricane t—the yeast terrible plienenna have been W..-
nested here this day. Abut half-past three o'clock
the afternoon dreadful claps of thunder were heard, se
were followed by the most violent floods of rain, which
produced an alarming inundation. About half-past four
the thunder became still more awful and terrible,
though the rein continued to fall in the most copious
torrents, and the frightful noise increased by a tremen-
dous hurricane, which, taking the direction front west
to east, and forming immense whirlwinds in its 'course,
svrtipt every thing before it for no less than 300 parr-.
A great number of the best-built houses were mR roo fe d ,
from the Convent of the Dominicans to the College of
the Benedictine*: part of the pyramidal column called
the Cross of the Trinity was thrown down, as also the
cross close to the convent of Franciscans, and the stove-
cross in front of the Trinity was completely demolished.
'Many hundreds of old olive-trees were torn up by th,-
roots ; and trees of other kinds, which, front their
strength, made a greater resistance, were rent in nieces.
Some assert there was an earthquake, and the fall of 4
thunderbolt ; the belief of which last circumstance.
seems to have arisen from tho horrible crash which we,
heard during the storm ; but there are no vestiges of
either of these phenomena. The whirlwind, however,
seas the most rapid and terrible of ilny in the memory
of man.

On an average of the last four years, the imports of
deals from all parts, according to the Report of the
Committee of the House of Lords upon the Timber
Trade, hate bads BS follows:—
Hundreds of IN Pieces. '
Deals. Doel-oods. Battelle. Total.
From Nanny. 7,063 2,263 2,221 12,97 V
Vcoodoo • 1.941 1,128 416 6.41 n
teutsalst ti,l le 1.6111 ' 1017'1 12.094
s .
Total tt,007 8,621 2,0 q 34.160

Hundreds of 1210
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Dealt Old
- Deal-enslt. •llatles. Von!.
VMS British North Anglican
' Colonies -1.,6111 LIAO
Comm ExcilANllliFas. s.—Our supply of Wheat was
wry large this margin ft front Essex and Kant, including
u.conskierable quantity that remained over frau last
weak's snivels, frogs the above condo, the chief pang
of whisk being of inferior quality, and Wry much out of
'contlidtg, was measly unsaleable, st a reduhloa of 3,.
Ider quarter lower than on • last Monday: Fine Bailey
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snit for malting, h trons Is. to 3s. per quarter cheapr.
The-Oat trade was exceedingly dull; at a ;Wage of Is.
par quarter. Is Beath and !lease there is so alterstipn.
sweats*. Oats. Petite' ll4' V 7
Wheat. Nast sad Pelasd ' llOll 13.6
• leases SOW Ws Ws old 46 Feed so: l6 e 1
Set e& Ile Ws We 66 View "4.. per sack A- 4
Norfolk ... . old 44 ip Rai* Weed, per last 401. WC
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bark; ... 2O FORMS.
Malt . •10 t. Auteriess.. —8 —s
White Peas.. ,'..f.,: . it Death .... Si Su
Ditto boilers , ..:...'• SI ' Bolds 31441.. so ss
Unes.Dlo•..., -: Ist mire' el Diemen
email , news .'.: a•• iNi ,•• Beelmil Apt" . It 64.
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