The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-24 00:00:00

• LAW I.V2WLLIGEAtIi.

COURT K INO'N BF:NCI!. Just In.
Ituts.arot r. st s tON.
W:1!4 anartion of trespass. 'Me plaintiff is an
op3lrnt r.,w-iireper at IlarupNt...nl; the drtuntlant an
it.art.ost traccr in gooseberries and gingerbretni ;
r. 4 the action was brought to try the right of vending
I.les on Primrose-hill.

31r. St ‘ntev•r,after stating that his client was lessee
.ofthe hill is question, adverted to the classical erle-
Ittity of the sit 1. F,qually the resort of the duellist
anti of the dog-fighter, that delicious eminence had,
time 04t of mind, on Satnttlal-s and Sundays, witness-
r,l the freaks of the milk-maid% Mary-le.imue. Far
tv.ts it nom the wish of 11r. Rhodes to shut nut the
rablie from the pleasurt a of that promenade; but the
practices of this piernan were the destruction of his
item. e. In the lease of the plaintiff, the learned Untr-
ied then said, there WWI a clause which prohibited the
'46 ..t herr or liquors upon his farm. The defendant
itstr.,%?r, utangre the repeated enntiooos upon
hint, It as ia the habit, on certain days, of setting np
hooth upon Primrose-kin. from nbich Magazine he
tii,ttibutetl, in very considerable quantities, porter,
sprstre-Seer, and other commodities of a like caliber,
thereby attracting a hilarious rrituti, pernicious alike
•he morals of the people, and to the meadows of the
itiaintiff. The object of the present proeeeding was
to t to recover &ma:4" ; bet the Jurytttwid perceive
11..11 the tlefraidaties cundoct WY* not only calculattol
t“ injure ]lr. /bodes' property, hat to endanger his
I -asr.

11 it ewes were then ealle.l to prove the trespasses
r amities, by the pieinan,whose übiquity they itereribed
as altogether entraordiiiary. Ever shire the summer
••4* 1.41‘ .ittempts h.ml in V 2113 been Haile to cli,loslge
hi's,. Lightly equipped will a s.ool and a baud.
and favoured always hv die sympathy of his
roul,itnilinorts curtonters, be feu fruw place to place,
b oll;ng the pursuit of the plaintiff's servauts. F.reu
i.• the course of tiaese rapid evointiosca he travveteol
I u.iness as be ran : an& when hard prerrell, rein. 'tell
ii to the neutral territories of the proprietor of Chalk.
f

lr. Mason. possiMy fries a Jiilike to legal pro-
-4 made no defrere; and the Jury fouled fur
plairtiti--11/tuirages Is.; eiy.ts Ilk.
lie pod winnen who sell shunt the ball ap.
p• Art II meal interested in i re-ult.

JII,II 22.
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This was slamsa asrAiwit the Pi fp rilant. a. printer
CP: Me 75wes otirspaper, for An .11 I)egPil libel against
plaintiff, iumptitint to Lim irrt)iivn.itie4.
Ibe plaittiiirs rase woe concise-led by the Snu-
-41 %XX IL and Mr. .I,tioi,rilt.A, and the
by Mr. Ne.iniarr, Mr. flout:till/N. and 111 r.
1'.%1T.

f 4r on/trimmed Ebel purported to be a <tatrineet of a
I -a.plaint omit by the ylaistiff against a person
Palmer, for a )track of the peace, before tire
klagistrams of 3farlhonorgh4treet, and heated
Ihindyissa listra.malinur.— giving a Indirrosa ar-
t:omit of Irks; was implosive/I to hare passed before
the Magiotrates between the plaintiff anti the prri.on
sicsin.t whom be complained. The declaratiou haring'
Frliet.ae4/ to set out is ihe• isdacrinew, the names of
the parties. it tortoni oat span the et itlence that there
Is al a sni,morner of the riari,tian name of Palmer, and
the ~kiertion beiag takere by the defendart's Counsel,
tier plaintiff was mosouiteel.
There teas DO other rase of interest.

BOARD OF ENCISF, lc Nt tS.

ILLICIT ISA ett lllsl'► WTI TORT.

Mr. ,Itiks Stapasker. an exteneive snap manufac-
turer, in Whiteness'-street, was charred tiros inform:t-
-t er. with making seep in an simmered plare, to ith in-
at at to defraud the televise. The information eon-
ta;retl three roasts; the first ekarging hint with
a;:ing snap in an tinestere4 place ; the wend for
such as reentered Oar,. whereby he had fur-
lei le.l DM!. sad the third to the like effect.
Sasrilettet the Conner! for the Excise, tktailed
O. • taiktts, as was afterwards stated in evidence_
1 lioness tinter, as otfieer of Excise. stated, that es

t'••• 7th of Stritemher, as con,equesee wf informatics
i 'LA had bees received, be nem, in company with a
Lioth,•r officer, to the defendant's atassfartory, is
WI-ite's•yaril, N'hitecrosa-street. They found f.gir
tales which had been pst into the fat•trough fur coa-
cd•a!mest, wkieh bad bees used as wap-frames, keying
f4:..e both:ut for the porpoise. and which were ersek

a:nailer than the legal swap-frames. They afterwards
*tent into a room which joined the premises, where
t::ey found a man and woman at tea. They searched
th,. room. hot foetid nothing to excite suspicion, until
they perceived a pair of folding doors, which opened
into the room. They asked the man fur the her of
them, but be replied they were stuentered premises,
and they had no business there: they were therefore
obliged to force the door open, and in the closet or
ree.ssa, they found three boxes full of snuffled soap.
On etamining the place more minately. they perceived
a rovered aperture, which they finsnd to communicate
with the copper on the ground-flour below. The boxes
were so contrived as to resemble the ordinary boxes
used in carrying out soap, hurl the whole was very in-
ge.r iously arranged. The room in which the soap was
voted was part of the premises, and was let out to
lodger..
Henry Elswerth. an Excise officer, proved that the
roams where the soap had been seized were not entered,
at the Excise Office.
Mr. Witar., as•Coonsol for the defendant, %poke at
great length in his behalf, and rook an objection to the
second/count of the iadietniest, •on the ground of in-
torstially. cbutended that a penalty of SOL only,
instead of 2l could be inflicted 'on the defendant
aped that Mai*. Ile admitted that a fraud had been
euraftnitted lin.the resent*, but *aid, that the defendant
himself had in this instance, been the victim of fraud
avid treachery:. He called a witness to prove that the
defendant hill)titherto been a fair trader, and was,
&Ai severe hart, unable to bear a large penalty.
Under all these circumstances, the Learned Counsel
reign, upon the eqttrtto deal leniently with him.
'Ai Huard pie judgment on the first and second
ements. They condemned the whole of the soap and
rikgal apparatus found upon the defendant's premises;
lint mitigated the penalty from sow. to Atm. and coots.