The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-02 00:00:00

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LAW INTELido
COURT OF rIIMICERT. Kooken SI.
reeves couiece, CA3111111111,011.
Mr. Shot said that it was not the intention of anr
t►►e, parties in this ease to ttouble his Imrdahip
"Leh any further observation.; bnt thry wiAlsed to
war bnw the rots were to be paid.
The LORD CUANCIIILLOR directed that all the costs
th.ould be paid by the College.

CMG OM.
SIR U. ISCISLIII, islet; r. coLuitotoeltn rib ANOTIIII4.
"Phis iris as action against tbollandred of Brixton,
to recover a compensation la damages fur breaking the
plaintiff's wihdows, at Battersea, by a tnenoltooos
mob, assembled on the 13th of Novenae?, to cele-
brate the defeat of the Bill of Psi** hod Ptnalties
against the Queen.
Mr. fluaxav NT. COME,' conducted the plain-
firs case ; mad Ur. CRITTY and Mr. Travols the dr

fendants.
This case was precisely similar in its eircumstanceol
to the numerous actions which .have been brought
against other Hundreds for similar damage done I y
other riotous mobs on the like occasion, to compel
people to illuminate.
The facts of the rase were clearly made nut, and the
IJury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 19/.
Is. 6d. the amount of the injury dose.
The following persons also recovered damages ander
similar circumstances, fur the like injnries, viz.
Lady Langham, 9/. 14s.—Mr. Brewster, 3s —Mr.
M'lntvre, 2/. Os. Rd.—Mr. Coates, sf.
Rocker, 51. ss.—Mr. Harding, 31. 134, 1041.—Mr.
Calton, 10/. 6s.—Mr. Emmett, 2/. las. 9,1-9 r.
Helps, 1/. 165.--and Mr. Brazier, 21. 7s.

At the Norfolk Assizes, which rommen .ed at Thet-
ford on Saturday settnight, Itabert .liefuon and James
Ed cards were indicted, the former a boy only II ye-Arb
old, for having stolen, at seven o'clock in the morn-
ing of the f.d November, front out of the !tome of John
llallant, of Costessey, 1 3f. 10s. in money and banker's
notes, and 9r.q. in promissory notes. The latter with
counselling, advising. and commandin, the boy, in
company with another, to the commission of the of-
fence. The prosecutor was a pour old matt, livieg at
Costessey, who, by care and industry, had amassed
the money of which lie was thus tubbed. It appeared
by the evidence of James Ilarrey, an accomplice, who
had been admitted King's evidence, and who was the
person who actually committed the robbery, that him-
self and Magoon were in the employ of the prisoner.
Edwards, and that on the evening of the first of No-
reuther, he hail told theta, (tile boys) to vo:stusit the
robbery that on the next morning they gnt into Mr.
liallanti cottage frusta Iran-to in at a eloausher window,
where Harvey found the money and notes, and took it ;
that he afterwards gave it to hi.: master as they were
going to work ; that his toaster gave lino 7s. and gay,.
\lagoon Is. bil. that his master kept time remainder of
the looney, the pocket-book in whirls the notes weie
found, and also the notes themselves; that while be
was employed about his work, that of thatch-
ing, he endeavoured to conceal the poelipt blink and
twirl; amongst the thatch by thatching them in. This
he was observed to ilo by a person threshing in a barn
near at hand, and the Docket-hook and notes were after-
wards found there. The boy's testimony was corro-
borated by other circumstances, and the prisoners were
h found guilty

bolt gi,
A case of considerable interest orrnpied the Ilererii
Court, wherein the Lessee of Jeremiah D. ()Alden,
was plaintiff, and Daniel O'Brien, a Minor, by Nlar-
garet O'Brien, hi. mother and guardian, was defend-
ant. The question tried related to the rali .ity of a
will wade by the Plaintiff's father. is the year 1797,
and alleged to be duly attested by three sttliscribing
witnesses, by whirh a considerable property in the
County of Tipperary was devised to the (!efendant's
father, who was brother of the devisor, to the prejudice
of the plaintiff, his only child. Atter :he ex AtioinAtiutt
of a variety of critnes.o.s. and hearing the very able
statement., of the (.111111ISPI concerned. the Jnrv, after
little hesitation, found for the plaintiff, with eust.,,
a~ain•t the will.

'imputes. iis-rizrs.—' ITT come.
31oNnsx, NIARCII very respectable farmer,
named Jeremiah Moira:ran, was put to the Aar...ell
with forging. the howl of hi. own torant, named Da-
niel 111agrath, for 0,411 le. lid. This case excited
great interest. The Court w.a erow,,,ea.
The prisoner. it appeared. hail judt!olent entered
upon the band, and afteria arils took the Stib•Slicriti
and committed olistresi f. r the attioun% hot, happily.
through the interposition of a high-tnitoled country
gentleman, who meritmrionsly interfered, this foul
transaction was brought to light.
After an impartial trial the prisoner wan found
littilte, and he was given to untleistand without hopes

of mercy.

The editor of the Hundred 11. tailels of the World.
of wii;ch. in four year', above twenty thonsand en.;
pie. ho‘ e been sold. has jest ptiloli,licd a correspond-
in z voi.n me on thr Il*widers t:f the 'Pare:Hr. 1 his II
la.,t work cannot but obtain a similar extent of cirri*.
lati ,n joilginq from the interest of the subject. the
.plendonr and variety of the entrravines. and the Po-
pular manner of its composition. Astronomy was
never before rendered so fasein3ting to the eye, and fa-

ill li'3.

miliar to the nnderstanding.
The muttatfactures of this place were rover mars in
demi than at present. One bon se in town
enter-al at the Unaronts, last week, 1,30,01141 yards
anal Osnaburg for exportation. Our ship-
masters are become more enterprising : and we now
see vessels train foreign ports dist barging at onr grays
is all •va,ibit.. A few days ago one arrived from Riga.
anal three sailed for Lit:haat the week before last, which.
we heiieve, is sooner than from any other port in
Britain. There were no fewer than tire vessels in
our Iratbonr last week loading goods for the Stites
(three for New York and two for New Orleans ;) three
on the birth for liritish America ; and one for Ja-
A vessel for New York. anal another for Ja-
iraieit, had sailed with cargoes the previous week.—
Coelho%)
la tt rift ozoliv.—On the '241 nit., Robert Aitchison,
fish:arm:An. Hunbar, Eanglit a rock lobster of an on•
common large site. It weighed 7110. 14oz. avoirdu-
pois. The circumference of the hotly was I:1 inches,
and of tl.e numb claw I I inches, the length of the
latter was 1.) inches. The body measttreal If,: inches
low,. :111,1 from the point of the two horns to the tip
of the 1,11 334 inches. Front the shell of the body
beilig a•iim ered with a fine green downy- hair-like anis-
stance. the fisherman supposed that it was of a consi-
derable long age.
The colender for Nottinghamshire contains the un-
paralleled nnuaber of thirty-two mei and hors, OM
have been s.,ntenced to dhath at Cites. assizes !!! It is
a consolation however, that, exceptiug I:ptrs, for tali-
Mai Potter, the Ironzhisoro' carrier, all these uttibtta-
ite men bare herb reprieved. •