The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-11-29 00:00:00

NORRIS V. THORNTON.

Sir S. ROMILLY moved that 5.5001. he paid into
Court by Colonel Thornton, the defendant. Col.
Thornton had purchased a:► estate from the PlaietitT
at 7,5001.; he had paid 2,0001. but he had refused
to pay the remaining 5,5001. till he received t►ro
hogsheads of claret due to him, as he alleged, from
Om -Plaintiff, and also because the wood was not of
Ole nice which had been put upon it, and because
the Plaintiff retained possession of part of the estate.
The LORD CHANCELLOR Ordered the money to be
paid into Court in two months from this time.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 27.

PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved tht. Court to wt
aside the proceedings in the case of liamsbottem r.
Hawkins, ou the ground of irregularity. lie sub-
mitted to the Court that Mr. Hawkins, who o as 1N...

utterly an attorney in Pall-mall, had engagrd in ;he
!mines's of a banker, at Brighthelvistone, 1,?.d
coming insolvent, had bean arrested for dent.; to ;ht.,
amount of between 30 and 40,0001. and he !io,tell
that as the privilege granted to attnrnies wer:, it. fact
intended solely for the advantage of their clients,
that they might not be prevented from prosecuting
their suits, so in this case, where a
smite left his usual
plate of business, and went to reside in a distant
part, and there carried on business as a banker only;
the mere fact of his having continned his !mine in the
list of Attornies of that Court, for the purpose of
screening him from arrest, would not be allowed.
It appearing, however, that Mr. Hawkins had,
within the Itt,t two years, transacted some business,

the Court refused the application.
The ArrowsEv-Gxnautt. remarked, that 7 as
good often sprung from evil, he hoped that some
steps wou:d be taken, that where attornies were en-
gaged in trade, as in this case, the privilege should
not be allowed them. •
• II r. Robert Bell, jun. a merchant of Hall, was
I brought up to receive Judgment, having, together
with a Mr. Hervey, been found guilty of writing a
letter containing a challenge to Mr. Yvsons, a mer-
chant of the City of London, in order to provoke
him to tightw duel, and for having posted him at
Lloyeli'Cotlee-house, as a scoundrel, a liar, and a
coward.,- There were also other indictmenis against
him for baying posted him in a similar manner in
Essex, where Mr. Parsons was •then on a visit ; and
also in Middlesex in the neighbourhood of his own

boas& .
Sir,SIMON LE BLANC (after observing that this
species of offence had considerably increased of lake
Pore; and that he could not but think the British
illieveltents of Writer timeeurese men of as nice a sense
111fflittut,airtidelicacy of (tenet 'as* thole of the
resent? Qu, id. ‘"
though we do not find from the re-
emit :of the Courts that they thought it necessary,
in °Met° support the character of Gentlemen, to
'violate the law of the land," passed sentence on the
Defendant, Co pay a fine of 1001 to the King, to bo
imprisoned in the Marshalsen prkon for three calen-
dar month, and to enter into recognizance to teen
the peace for three years, himself iu 5001. and two
.sureties in V. 501. each.
Irr3orxix7 Come, Nov. V.—Mr. SERJEANT
-Plithiso attended this day ter the second time, in
expectation that fifteen prisoners, whom he had
Ordered to be_ brought before him, should
appear is
Court • but none of them were brought up. The
'll:learned Judge, after sitting two or three hours
without doing tilly-thing, expressed great displeasure
at tlist injustifielire and disrespectful conduct of those
'Cholera who, in defiance of his order', and of a 13"
'isitiveAct of Parliament, had not only not hronglit
Irp the prisoners required, but did not even appear
'in Court to make any apology or explanation.
He
Then adjourned the Court until Monday.
DIED.
Oa theit&h •Kov. at Witham Lodge, Faun, in the SO year
af 101004 Ow: Hon, Francis Talbot. brother to the late and
meoPio the maim Part of Shreinhory.

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