The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

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eff heTge was shut up, and the De:
46ndant, desirous to preserve .his own path, Dante-
utiately broke It down,: and 'raised through the nor,
mood *wt. The Plaietiff,..on the other hand,
Anxious to prevent him, ec a deemed, front inter-
loqiug, 'raised a paling upon his own property„be-
te ixt one side of the street and the other, thereby
effectuallibarring the egres§ of the Defendant to his
premises. The Plaiutiff had brought an action for
trespass, which waslried before Sir James Mansfield
at the last Sittiagh, and asverdict was obtained from
the Jury. At that time, he r. Serjuant Shepherd)
contended, for the pefendant, that so soon as a man
erects a street of houses, and paves and lights them
RS other streets ate, that moment he dedicatei the
street to the Public, unless he puts up a hat at the
entrance, to denote thatthe proprietor still reserves
his right of private property. Therefore, In sap-
port, and as grounds_ for the application, he would
set forth, that,. because the street in question wanted
all notificatien whatever of•its being reserved as pri-
vate property, the Defendant' possessed a right to
open the closed-up end which joined his premises,
and to issue through the same, as though there was
uo private right whatever in reptence ; attd more:
over, that the ciciiing-up of the street azainst the De-
fendant,. was a .trespass committed against public
right. This case resembles one tried a few years ago
by the Proprietors of the Foundling Hospital, whom
sty Lord Kenyon said, that although the street
which they endeavoured to re-close was wholly
private property, yet its having been fur almost fifty
years occupied es ti public thoroughfare, without any
notification of the right reserved, it must be consi-
dered as dedicated to the Public.

On the part of the Plaintiff, it had been urged,
that he had never submitted his street to the jurisdic-
tion of the Commissioners of the Pavement, and there-
fore it would still .remain private inheritance. To
that he would reply, that the Paving Commissioners
were restrained, by express Acts, from paving any
new street unless they were solicited toithat purpose,
by a certain number of its inhabitants.., The owners
of the house might reserve the right of paving to
themselves, and alighting too,. although the street
was wholly a public one ; though the .street was
dedicated.
.to the Public .by common proclamation,
that act alone didnot surrender it to.the,Paving Com-
missioners.

The LORD CHIEF JJSTICZ said, it appeared that
the street in question was not a finished one ; nei-
ther did the houses run parallel, awd the Jury be-
lieved.it wholly private property, to which the Pub-
lic had no right. However, he might take the Rule,
which was accepted accordingly.

X.

THE PENAL L..4WS,'
WIfICH AGGRIEVE THE CAtIOLICS OF IRELAND.

Ist. If a Catholic Clergyman happens, though In.
edberfently, to celebrate matriage between two Pro-
testants, or between a Protestant and a Catholic
(unless already married by a Protestant Minister),
he is liable by law to suffer death!
9.41. Catholic Priests are liable to imprisonment for
refusing, upon being interrogated in Courts of Jus-
tice, to,divulge the secretcof.private Confession, con-
fided to them-by Penitents. •
3d. The Catholic Clergy are liable to be punished,
by civil action, for excommunicating unworthy
Members of their own Communion. •
4th. The Catholic Clergy are denied the permission
(awl sometimes in Ireland) to perform the rites of
their religion for Catholic soldiers and sailors.

sth. The Catholic Clergy are unprotected by any
law, prohibiting the disturbance of Divine Service,
whilst celebrated by them.
6th. The Catholic Clergyman, bound by his vows
to a life of celibacy, and generally in narrow circum-
stances, feels the harshness of being held liable to
the payment of a modern tax,. called Bachelor's Tax.

His Royal Ilighniss the PatNee REGENT has been
graciously pleased to remit the sentence of death
passed on John Skelton, at Edinburgh, on condition
of his being transported to Botany Bay for the term
of his natural life.

On TUesday fortnight, a poor boy was murdered in
a wood, near Woolwich; ,bx a ruffian, who having rob-
; bed his Master; and being pursued, tied for refuge to
the Wood, where bring seen by the boy, the latter
screamed with terror of him, on which the villain
seized amd strangled him • he was apprehended soon
after, when he confessed that he was nearly three
hours in perpetrating this horrid deed !
INT,' A NS.—lAtely a person from White Waterßirer,
reported that there were four Indians tilled anti
scalped upon the upper waters of that river: l'no
story runs thus :—That an Indian came to the cabin
:of a farmer, in whir!,, were only the mother and
!some children, and carried away some cheese and
lead ; that the father soon afterwards returned, and
lettrniug the fact, pursued the Indian and shot him ;
that a party of four men in the same neighbourhood
lbeing out a hunting, and having funned a camp,
three of them went in pursuit of
.game; leaving the
fourth to. watch the camp, that in the_ mean time
three Indians entered, and fofcibly took from the
p:hite man a new rile, leaving an old one in its
place, and that soon afterwards the other three men
having returned, they proceeded and overtook the
Indians, every one of whom they killed and scalped.
The person who furnished this information, added,
that he himself saw two of the scalps.—(American
Paper.) •
On Thursday night Lord Grimston's house, in
Grosvenor-square, was broke open, and robbed of
a quantity of wearing-apparel, and other property.
On Wednesday evening, Lieut. Anderson, of Ken-
nington, had his pocket picked of near 2001. is
Bank notes, at the foot of Blackfriars-bridge.
, Friday a servant in the Stanhope family impru-
silently trotted alne horse, worth sixty guineas, up
i.George-court; Piccadilly; to a boot-maker's shop,
and on haltingsuddenly, the animal slipped with his
feet and was killed by severing .his haunches.

On Thursday, about half-past two o'clock, the
Plyrno,:th and Exeter stage-coach (the Mercury or
Spanish Mail), was upset near the Haymarket, ow-
ing
to its being overloaded on the roof. The passen4
gets had warned the coachman at SalisL'urv, th .t lie
had already taken too much luggage: notwithstand-
ing which, he subsequenly added, as it is supposed,
nearly five hundred weight. Most of the passengers
were severely bruised, and it is hoped that a proper
example will be made of the offender.
RoxiNc.—The secondary amateurs of the fist had,
to use a Newmarket phrase, their first Spring Meet-
ing yesterday, when) in imitation of tl:e Four-in-
!laud Club. St. Giles's vied .with the Holy Land,
to outrival Duke's-place in the ot-out, and, each
vain of his equipage, made his best play to that re-
nowned acelelcma, St. George's Row, Paddington,
where a pitched battle, for 25 guineas, was fixed to
take place, between Fosgrove, a Staffordshire
coalman, and who was introduced to the gemmcn,l
under the auspices of the veteran, Joe Ward, as a
lelzer; and another candidate for fighting fame, of l
high provincial repute, yclept 'Trent Billy. One of
the most manly a:id determined battles of modern I
days was fought. The men were noviciates in
science, but of courage and quickness sufficient to
spoil any sparring men of equal and superior weights. 4
They stood and hit each other, until one was down,
without the Fives' Court etiquette of science, like I
too well-bred cocks, for three quartets of an haunt
;Fos rove won the battle, by hitting with his left's
hand with great effect, and stepping back. The loser
.was a fourteen stone man, quite equal to Berke, and.
fought much in the same rushing style, which the
winner well availed himself of. Paddingion Jones
seconded Fosgrove.