The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-18 00:00:00

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prate allitir betimes tie di ad Mr. Stewart, hot
slimed, if he paws *me Mail -meg to hies, by
which it could be sherrili lave bees a partnevelkip
Mansamies. to medals, The men amid bass seat at
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he lad sot, heire;ee, theigglo fet to comply
Mr. lierilios nitwit; is sY Walt the
plat stir was daimpelle. te Nome told. yrraent
&Wove wartilled to comsborase the Lerma thms•
errs statement, hat the proof af 1 e massactios is NW
ties being a joist essens, meti.so very alight, that
- The Lei/ OOP Jibiell salmi the CWeatame-Sitr•
kaet ffbawoold he sr
for case to go te the Jury? -Jar:v.v. as
'The Caatuast4ioaMteta !belt M babwillhallt
(Arne to g• tip the Jury. , . • •
Nr. Scanthil: es Coedit itte the &frame:4
gemmed upon the weakens of the cam whirl) bad herE
their cossidenahea; mad sehmitted the MI-
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ems meek to sseislis the plaiatiff le a hen
The Lena Cum Jeseseet mama op the gat trtkp
Jury, wlee hosed a verdict.fae the defendant.
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ThisAiteeitleties for falmaad abaci*** arrest.
Mr. minaysw detailedjes ease to the Jury:—The
plaistif wasa isechasist, Sag is Jerant•i•sttwet, Ni-
eman?, the dofemisat a solicitor, VON; at Cambridge,
who heti had sawn mith s ilr. Joan, wh•
paid ioto his hands the occeptaace of the .plaintiff-.
Three eras after the hill became due. Mr. Julies pail
It, together with 3W. epos •a diferest meolint
Jones desired to have the bill returned, and wee pr...
mehrod 4 sheitid he seat to kits is a Gni days. it Nev.,
was rammed to Jaw, but annintimp afterward. to.,
plaistil was arrested far the eammat of the hill. awl
taken to I sponging User, where be gave bail, and
as salmi had begs coameasta which was not Memo-
rd is: •-•
Mt. W. D. Jones ins cal d, mho deposed as fellows:
—I reside at Cambridge in M4O, I was indebted to it,
defendant several hundred poonds. In Jose of that year.
I gave him is part satisfaction of my account the phafr-
tars acceptance; shortly after the bill became dee. or
' ahem that time, I paid him MM. the amount of the bat:
together with 3W. tie an original account, he gave me
a written achnsorledgmeat. At that thus the plaintiff
lived ioiTheoltabl's-road. I requested to have the bia
delivered op: the'defeedast aid it was with his paper.
at Barnwell. attic a mile from Cambridge, where Li e
dwelling-imam ads situated, but he would givait to me
the Monday fulluitieor. This passed on the
.Satiu.-
Jay; I asked him for it afters ards, but ii 4 Nor ob-
tain it. 30tortreently, he commenced an annum againit
lereakfite whom I otteeded as 'shame.

Crwasaeneamined by Mr. litinsltit.-118111‘1.110/4 Its
nsy•elf bad asn,oy among transactions. !be itittbdatit
came to the knowledge of the existence of • •
krowiedging thipaynsent of the bill, *tan tion of
our arooitota b Lootlon. -
ssihspepeP lam psi in, it *Mei ebb rdefesiinnt
lodged the receipt of thepaymeest for Bramit's accept-
ance.
John Hopwood, formerly a sheriff's oflieer residing in
, Chnocerv-lane, proved the plaindtre arrest at the snit of
the &fieriest, and the payment of imposers by the
terser.
The iliscontinoaece of the action was proved by the
redaction of documentary rrideucr.
Mr. tionver, for the defendant, sebseitted, oo the au-
thority of Vibe** s. fjbater, 2 Beitanqnet etti Puller,
£22, drat the plaistili cool.l nut maistai it hi, action 111;411
the evidence which had been adduced. That ease de-
rided it was necessary express evidence shook! be
vireo of a malicious motive for the serest, which he
contended bad sot been produced in the present case.
For 11.1. plaintiff, Sinclair v. Eldridge, 4 Taunton, was
cited, asd the objection was over-ruled by
The Caw JOITICI, who said, he thought the plantar
bad made out sprints/brie case Logo to the Jury.

AIL GURNST addressed the Jere on the part of the 4.,
fendant, relying on the absence of any evidence of a ma-
licious Intention; and observed, that the defendant,
when be emasseneed his action, was ignorant of ae
bill having been paid, but, as saunas be was actinaiiirc.l
with a written acknowledgement having been given
him to Mr. Jones, he dropped the proceeding.
The Loan Contr.:L..llc' told the Jury such an ac-
tion as the p was not maintainable, unless st.i 4-
factory evidence was given to abew—first, that the ar-
rest of the party was without a reasonable or probable
cause—or, secondly, that a malicious intention existed
the defendant's mind to injure the credit of the plaintiff,
by imprisoning his person.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, 151., costs,
495.

• WEAL■ Finaftv.—The Friendship arrived at Dundee
frosts Davis's Straits, brings the Ulu* int; account :
!Littler, of Leith, 8 or 9 fish, 10th Sept.; earl Percy, of
Kirchably, 9 fish ; Superior, of Peterhead, 9; Ingria, of
Hull, 17, 170 to 180 tons of oil; Cato, of ditto, 3 ; Mid-
dleton, of Aberdeen, 7 ; Prince of Wales, of ditto, 6;
Active, of Peterhead, full. The Friendship left the ice
12th ult.

BRIGHTON. OCT. 16.—.0n Sunday humping. !se fond
tide having half male, and the marooning tremendously
high, it was seriously apprehended that the apparatus
employed for the erection of the chain pier *wild lie
unable to resist, till after high water, the assault of the
briny element. Thousands assembled on the Marina
Parade, about a quarter before eight, a.m., the tide then
having neatly two hours to now, the aisparatus, stage,
and three of the four immense principal piles that
were driven, gave way with a tremendous crash, they
were broke. by the force of the waves into fragments,
resembling those produced by shipwreck, and strewed
along the coast front opposite the New to the Old
Says. Groyne. The piles were-ltrukr• a a little
above the ground into which they were driven, which
circtunstance is a proof of the firmness of their bun-
dation. At high-water, awl for some time before,
much interest was excited for the preservation of the
new esplanade, which, to the gratification of every
beholder, it withstood for more than two hours the po!.-
derous hangs sod overwhelming. of the element, and
would, unimpaired, have braved the storm, had it not
been fur the massy timber lying on the beach for the
use uttlie chain liner I some of which was drawn into the
sealer by the receding or the wares, and with the three
broken piles, fragments of the apparatus, lite., acted
upon the lower part of the wall, between Broad-
street and the eastern extremity. During the gale
the white heads of the billows, which owing to the den-
sity of the atmosphere, 'stealing to the estreotest reach
of vision, had an eareedingly soblime effect. The wind,
though it cootinoed to blow a heavy gale, shifting round
to the morth•eatit, the sea hecasse smooth, and con seqne
ly dis next tide did DO rumba, dump.