The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-07 00:00:00

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LaW INTRALIGRNG,E.
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ViCk.-CFIANCELLOWS 'COURT, tire. 5.
# This eas the first !;blsl Dur*mfier Michaelmas Term.
fLe Seal was opened by the Lnrd Chaturellor, at his
' house in lieriford...qua.., .
, lint Opmonr the VICC-CHAIIICIELLOR tai into
1 ~Court at Ors's, minutes psis% ten &clip", 44viirett,
• , taking his seat oh the Bench, observed,:lo%,
11.10,1
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tlernen at the. Bar, that he less afraid theArraed ►I
tether would not be sufficiently recovered ,froaa hie,'
indisposition (an attack of the gout) to it.jiie his melt
in Court on Nloinia) ; he had, thcrefoe.,,,tekri b
c,„; Lordship, that he nould hear his tantionskigjerm.
day i no n herb day he would take his Loadebiiil
motions and ins Owls alternately.
ABUSE OF CHARITIMI. ._ , .
. *lli ATTO IN ILY •GI VII b:RA 11. V. 714 j111.1441”..1111,411TLEY
AID UTiIER4.
.4!.1
• Mf. Bentslated, that this was At information
: filed by his illaiii)'4,Attarosey Cowersl at. the rein.
ti.. 11 of the inhabitants of JO* jteris of gingiva, in
Bet kshire,,,eg.inse 'Or jilt! rimpl.- , Vlll4 t the Vicar
it
. or the perish. end 13 Trustees of a (Juicily, founded
~.for the scpport of a grammar school, in the parish of
• liaingley. The itiformatiou charged. the Defendants
ni.h several abuses of the trusts of the charity estate.
The ci cumaionces were, that before the reign of
limes 1. 14 crit.iit estate was bequetethed to 13 *me-
tres, 111111111.11/I',lll of the parish (for the time beierg, for
the "I:port of a grammar schools. Amongst the re.
. gala tinny of the donor for the management of the
ebarjoy. there was one, which directed, that on the
sloes Is or rem,•*al ..1 a trireme from the parish, the re.
';. 'Paining t, wove. should ilt mediately proceed to fill his
place, hs electing another. The information also set
forth, that the D•fernt.int, Ilisrtley,held the•ituarion of
sr hoolniA.ter and vicar of the parish, and one person
could not lentil the two offices, acrordine to the in.
browns of the donor That the Rev. Defendant had
rade an addition to the school-house, for the purpose
of receiving scholars as beprdera, which was oat con•
tempi ttorl bs the founder, and that he showed as cp.
doe preference to the hoarders, to the disadvantage
of the free cholera; that the trainees, instead of be-
' ing a check over his conduct, had allowed him to
Lave the •hele and s, le management 'of the Charity
gawps, and the only reason they assigned for their
conduct was, that it was for the best.fit of the Chg.
city oet 'he Rev Defendant should be solely inte•
seined in it. in. testators, therefore, raved, that
the Court *mild refer it to the Master, to enquire
. and report whether it would not he for the benefit of
the Charity, that the surplus fowls, over *hat was
-4. necessary for the supr rt ofthegrammar school, should
be applied for the purpose ofinstroctiog the children
of the poor tubAbilants of the perish in rending,
• weitiog. and arithmetic. The Defendants had put
:in their atieweol, in which they wever.lly denied all
, the ellegetions of the irolormaljott, and set forth, that
'the Chatity was most properly conducted, end the
11 r• Def• mho extr.-mels sotentive to him duties as a
PC14.,(11‘11141PI, which was attested by a number of
!,..G• till, men of the greatest respectability in the neigh•
• bouthood Ile (.h• Learned Counsel) was nu t in.
s'etructett to say any thing against it., respectability of
the It• v. Defendant ; but he was certain dist nothing
.
itould add more to his respectability than his consent•
log to the enq ivy ,beferre the Master, as the latter
v. oh h)
,hi. Report, give his seal to his rospecta•
Weis, if he deserved it.
RN. Honour the VIC! CIIANCELLOR.:" This JIB
ea ain ash icli I moot refuse it r mph; before the
lildoer prayers fur ; as to the Reverend Defendant
:1110),Iing the Igo Sit 'Miura of Vies. aud ichobtmoospe,
op par i-c wilt MVP have the.-nppottunny before the
Navel r.f printed' g evidence as to the propriety or
•c• mt atihilisi et his hoidenk theta° offices. As to the
.c.are erviost the Reverend Defeadaut of having eo-
-1.1,4pit ,he school.house for the purpose of receiving
,34 ,eh. I •141 Ile boarders, Ism certainly of i pinion
lbw, • 11 sr I. t of a free school has no right to receilit
.boartiet3, 411 /WU' it can he 'wetted thirtlt.o.) wield'
.be of .rleantag to the purports of the free 5ch001....
There may be cases where it might be advisable, fee
insistice, where the funds of the free school aryls.
adequate to the rapport of a teacher, for men of
stalent and education tail! not be touted to accept of
'the 4 dice if they are not sufficiently remunerated ;
!rut iii this instance there tit.ea not appear to be any
jack of rondo; there( .re I Wog the whets subject
matter ought to be referred to the. Master, and that
be steroid also enquire and report whether it would
caot.,,he for the leered' of the parish uf &ogle,- that
the widest fends should ue applied for the education
of poor .11.1nren in reading, *riling, and arithmetic,
'for I see in the .deed of gift that riled says," for
the grammar school Onei.other purposes."
The prayer of the relators granted.
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t elion the. o.iNtit record.
Wood e• it lth 41110 °TRW
Action for in assault. Lee plesoled-tew MM.
demesne, on which ivies wits j• ivied. The ether De.
...dant§ justified in " walker massas." 10
pet the Plaintiff *et 'haw Whore she had no
!tight to stay. Thit:jire replied' that esceseivir
violettee was used far purpose; on which issue
waitjbiteed : ewe assault .n$ bpi" seird, the sole
question was, whether they seed more
violencii than was. oweeseeerimblening the Plaintiff
oat f a b•sse to whit!, she' 4664 a right.
Mr. rtit.t.iii.stafted, that the Plaintiff Was a single
woman, boat 37 years okl, who had purchased
one Murciano! a public-house, called the H
Heal end Stara* Stars, in Ratcliffe-berthas,. T
house she afterwards agreed to assign to Lee, and oil-
fortuoistely suffered him to enter before he bad.
paid all he agreed to pay. Finding be 'timid not I
complete his purchase, of quit the house, she wanly
there with a determination to regain possession, and
it was upon this occasion that, after sitting there
from two till eleven, she was wined out with
u violence complained of.
eessur
witnesses called for the Plaintiff thee date*,
thatnlt'.. el
:se . she had gone there in company with others at
two o'clock, on the 30th of March, as we trder•
stood ; hid stayed there till alpaca, and conducted
bertiOr Vary gbietly ; only tour pinta of beer were
drank. At eleven o'clot k, Lee closed the shatters,
raged the other Defeticlants, ten of whom were pub-
1.
l'ffirPtS, ant 411 an cijoining room, put out the
leas-light, and said, " Now for a good light"' The
ni.tr .5 .5 then hustled and dragged shoat violently,
turned out of the house, and tte sleeve of uer gow•
torn. When the nailing* asked for her money,
called her a d—d b—p, and refused to pay her.
The Plaintiff was conveye•l to a witch-holm, and
kept there till eleven the new morning. She was eon •
sidrrably bruited on the Wrist and arm, and obliged
to go to a doctor a week atter.
The Counsel for the Defendant ataied,libitifiwis
daunt was an insolvent. and the Pions** his sereatif
that after she had 'tweed ttowssigo to Lett the hoist/
assigned to her, Nlordauut-besi given ire notice to
pay the money ; that she bad behaved with the &tritest
violence in the public-horse,. mad that no more force
had bees used to turn air out than wasahauletely
oe-
cessery. The Plaintiff's witness had admitted thsl
when the money was demanded of Lee he had said
Mordsunt had given him notice not-to pay it to Mrs.
Wood.

Ad not

. The Defendsol's witnesses, one of whom wits a
police-officer celled in on the oecasi 111 l , stated het
Mrs. Wood was conducting herself with the greatest
violence; she dawned law. and damned ev-iy thing :
did not core for any Wog ;she was desired to go aMb . y
peaceably, hut refused. When she »as turned out
of the house Lee did not put out the gas-light till she
was at the bar-door, which was close to the soseet•
doh(; the wes held by the waist and shoulders ; no.
,401011111 AOM *Jack ; she had had a complaint tilt Mei
i Weal I before the 30th of March.
niet for the Plaintiff commPoied on OP
.I#ol Is* potions. Iniviwg been emeloyed to -teen
the-flaintiff out ; on the lights having been resin-
guished ; anti on Lee's having said, ' Now foe a
good Litt.'
The Jury, thinking that the Defendants had not
used mote violence than was necessary, found a set•
dict for them.

COURT OF COvAION PLEAS. Usc.s.

PHILANTHROPIC ANNUITY soca.TY.

ANNIL LLOYD V. RLY. RICHARD %ANDILANDL

This was an b•oue,bt to lei.nver against the
Defendant, one of the Directors of the above Insti-
tu►inu, the 'time which the Plaintiff had paid for the
purchase of shares in the institution, it having become
insolvent.

Mr. Serjeant LENS stated the cage on the part of
the Plaintiff, and several sitereinies Were eloo.lood,
and the books of the Institati. n produce,' ; trom
whirh it appeared that one Thomp.oo, and not toe
Defendant, nos the author of the Ispititurlon, end tail
acted in capacity of manager ; cud it appeared from
the evidence of Mr. Tattoo, the Magistrate (who
was a ahareholder in the Institution), that the 00-
frothy, bad solicited him to become one of its I);
rectors.

the Ni

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wt in the

Hnnoor ASTFIII of 'It!!!
BoOiltorit Chomner, to heir times by coomit.

Mr. Serjeant Cortu, for the Defendant, contend-
ed, that to have 'walled the Plaintiff to recairr, a
case of fraud %undid have been made out splint the
Defenitant, bat of which no rvid•'nce hart been ad-
duced; ■nd forcibly dwelt upun the evi•leuce of Mr,
Torino. than which nothing could more strongly
evince the anxiety of the Defendant that the affairs
of the Society should be placed under proper dirt•,
den.

COURT. OF KING'S BENCH. Dge. S.
Ivo rWol2r, V DROVIT...
. This was an action against Mi., Dronet.to recover
the value of a grated piano-forte furnished her by the
Fig end the. question wen, Mlimber the credit
been given to the Lady, or to her brother, the
celebrate,' tote player, with whom Ave Ifred, .
Isho has since become a bankrupt. The .Plaintit's
Alopmen stated. that Mies. Dronet had given the at-,
Iler, and that bit had detilted her In the .book
*as prod veva. Site did not make the eft,*
%rine little time afterwards she had sent an sipeleiry'
, •
for not paling, and had promised to pay when 'ltch.
brother t Ilford. A demand had been maroons her boo
Sof &heir bf other became bankrupt. A bill had beende..
livered in her btothei'suame,but this bill was drawn snit
another shopman. ..Mr. 'Motet, was. cslled_ as a,
Witness for the Defenifoot, :SO said tht be 1464.16.00
',vend times te.try the instruments.. and nal p Mfg"(
when it "al ordered ; his sister spike
out] tbelawilee was 'given by himself. No bi:l was
wide ant et,tlre
' Mr. Druartrs fathPr, f,ir whom his son was Inter.
pent. gsve'ewidence to the Stine Pave.
The Jury found a verdict fur the Plaintiff.

The Learned Jedge repressing himself to nearly
the same effects the Plaintiff consented to be nos-
silted.

COURT OF • EItarEQUER, Dac. 5.
IMITATIVE TEA, cdrytir., AND TOBACCO.
Tit MORS ET- GINERAL e. HENRY C"9111
The Arrymitair-Vaxiaat. Staled the iutormatioil
against ths'Defairdant, which imputed, first, that be,
being a tes.dealer, h,d in his possession a tare quan-
tity of coloured leases, in iirbitation of tea; 2illy, that
he had a sitnilat quantity of coloured leaves in his poe.
sestina, made to resemble tobacco; and, lastly, a
quantity of roasted beaus, peas, or other grain, is
imitation of coffee, *hereby he had become • liable to
pay lore penalties to tna KinA.
J,llll, I'ioctor ma* then ionic' and estatnined.-11.
,de4.naril, that he 1-iced servant with a person of the
.flante of Jinni)? Lamb, at Fiskerton, near News+ k.
Nortingliainshire. in 1809, witness lived with an
uncle of this WOO, Mimed William LAWIh, who was a
thymist mod druggist; Henry bulb was in partner.
ship %nit his uncle at that lime; but, so his uncle':
Meath, Rate up the business of chymitt and druitkiat,
and toasted blacking tnatiefacterer ; he had , carsiest
on it., Ituairipas for three 'rift and it half; witness
teutitraid Ititb Leary Limb tal last. Drcesuber. lle

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SiAACS XitArlDp ,
This wag; an whir for a 'malicious prosecatian.--,
Tit. Defendant,* Marshalman of ►hr coy of tormicror
wolleat soy warrant, entered the
I t.ut.e, its the 234 of February, taken the Plaintiff
:t) cus,rtly, and lurked hitu up all alight.. For this,
had btutt6lil till action, and jeC9Tifed

ItrerKSM A TA

Irttitlit:lol4Pro ho iirnoglie Hist action, the Defeat/Pot , come to Ftaliottoal in hilltrfolrembt't 6,
lodged an information upjort bins at the Lsobrib in the some county ; witness knew nt fu
~ Poisre Olive. The Plaistiff was acquitted of Ms roiliest:l been in hi% possession. Thi4 too IS ti'lm•
Margot le the light:traria, sod now broeght &is posed of stroatac sad white thorn leares.Thosr lames
uttg to terns•tr da.nagrs for the groundless chest.. were booed from the collectors at thrne-balfettco
'' 'erOsir)id of acqnittsi being set nut in the dada. a pound. The oliite.thern leaver were ;Awed its a
far iill!,,,oftinse
indwul:rait,:i a vit.:mince, andcilsis aconirioransofaiperHi -waskateratiwdas sitar;
pct tannest thus
.srohl.ilytiewniiropf
NAP .. t !
of the same of II Jai*, .. drained, ind'iliiral oposka 4110; IN§ thud,. black
, iiir— - __

The process with the , innage:jimarea es' differ-
,to that adopted with the Iberia leaves. The
olione leaves were scorched in a rs limier, and co-
leered with Dutch pink and Pitis%ian blue. This
formed a green, and gave the sort of Mono which
genuine green tea bore. Of this sort of ruff Mr
Henry laansb sold large qesolities,--of abygnne, be
could say, a ton at least, bed been reflected and
sold. Of thorn leaves he could' speak to somewhere
about two hundred weight. lie also mad. an imita.
tie* of tobacco... lips we' made of sallower, or
bsaffron. „jani.iiaverst aware, whether this ass a
leseme or a poisitnnas vegetable. This was she
Ifiloseciin a solution of pre-tish, and pressed out to
itsett of its colour. Having been thus deprived
. natural colour, it was pet into solution of
peras and alter, where It flPlolllttla illt completely tlis
*prated. It was then pressed a second time, and
gand after being sifted and clesned, became
tt:' Wattle's, to speak within eempass, could
legyi, that from one to Iwo toss had been made and
solid at Farticlio and Fiskerton within a year and
srlf4f. Mr. Lamb was also a maker of imitative
ape. ni.• .hmade ofroasted in
, ii was
antitheft ground and wised with a little toffee. To
speak within compass, two or three toes of this had
been made and seld. Two women sod three or four
thildren were employed to collect the %Intone and
OWe leaves before.rogrotioned. The steeping took
cto at farndon, and the drying at F .. i•kerten—
, . *tides were sold to different grocers and shop. it
tests. Witness knew a person of the name of
Witt, *lto eras Mr. lAmb's agent or traveller fir the
sale of these things. Witness s.rw the articles IA birh
were the wirer of the present information; they
Isere the articles he had been speaking of.
Ctos..ressanined by the Common SEILTEANT.—Was
.wegaged in making the stuff he bid described abi,ut a
par and a half; was quite satisfied with the making;
.1* did not pot it down the people's throats.
'Mr. Robert Wittier, CollectOt 4. Excise at Leeds,
'llaporred, that on the Slat of March last, he went on
. a vessel called the Swan; at the wharf, at
PPds ; he was accompanied by Redford end Gray,
&Is two tterks; he iteerehrd the vessel, and foond•11
hogshead arldrirstred to Mr. Cope. This cask, in the
manifest of the type!. was said• to contain blacking ;
witness was not content with this, but broke open
the head of the hogshead, and fotind it to contain a
number of paper parcels, containing 216th. of an In-
d ef. imirating tobacco ; he also found a quantity of
.paper parcels. containing 1791 b. of an article in.j.

tatiog coffee; it was gruotid ; he to,•k samples of
these articles; the whole bidk was seized and con•
veyed to the Escise-office, teturned to the Is'Actia•
quer, and condemned. After the seizure, a search•
*quint was procured to search Mr. Cupr's pre.
Wi ill company • ith othPro, went to
the Deierwiant's, who keeps a grocer% shop at
Leeds. They oho' red, on e,teiitig the premises,
two paper piece's fy big upon the couyter ; the shop.
Thaw was in the shop, and upon being asked what
ttiose parcels contained, he said the Jiiqrie drag-
parcels. Witness osatnisieo gem, and found
they towained Imitative coffee, isa *pie ed
e..t h. It was the some lost of staff found an baud
the S. an. Ile then went into a warehouse belong-
ing to Mr Cope, about 40 yeti's' distance. Ilea.
the at9n made a search, and found sfv•ral met per•
cols glib. weight of Ind/otitis tubacco.—
Thi> was the same sort ut stuff Nand its the hogshead.

At the time it was found it was just pot into a hats.
'per by the Defendant and his men. On farther
;search he discovered 66:14 of imitative tea : this was
likewise in the hamper. The Defendant, on being
asked where he got these articles, after some he-ifa.
tiny, said he had received them from Henry Lamb,
of Fiskerton, hear Newark. Ile presetited to wit.
ness an invoice, in which there was a• twit', de-
embed as*. I 11111. of L. E. H. at 24." The D. fend.
ant said L. E. H. mold for tobacco. In the same
invoice there was en article described as "501 b. of
C. F. E. at 91. per pound." This the Defendant
said stood for coffee. There was likewise en article
" two boxes of E. I. D." which he explain.
ed to mean tee. With regard to the hogshead found
on board the Swan, the Defendant mad it was intend-
ed for him, hut he had refused to take it in ; witness
made an enquiry after the invoice of that, and the
Defendant produced oue which he siid was it. The
goods in this invoice, however, were described as
•• girt. of E. 1. D (yes);" there was no tea in this
cask, and therefore this mill not he the invoice en-
g int.(' for. The D..rendant will he had purchased
thew. things of an agent of Mr. iLotruh'i, of the name
of gyre, to whom he had given his acceptance at two
!swaths, for the amount of the first invoice produced.
Ile said he had been thus prompt in his pay meet, be.
canoe Eyre raid him if he did not pay immediately,
Mte lioutd atquaiiit the Escise. All these articles, like
giose found in the vessel, were seised and returned
kli.the Esc. equer. There was a letter sunned to
Ambit) of petrels, which witness had described. This
letter apungized for delay in sending the goods, and
additd, gigot Me wished to send 6• a trot good article,
and he Intoned be had secareded."—ln cross-esami-
natio, whiles, said that the Defendant sent to the
Eaeiselofice to state that the officers had over-looked
a quantity of tea, which was afterwards seized.—ln
re-estsainalloo, witness said Mr. Cope was an en.
tere4 tea-dealer.
The Conwors SEILI EANT.—I won't trouble you to
prove this,.
Mr. Bedford, clank to last witness. corroborated
his testimony in all respects. The Defendant was
much alarmed, and said he was going to return the
goods to the, manufacturers. He entreated that wit.
Jaen would net seize them, as it would ruin him. He
•threatened to blow his *hellion out. On the neat day
'whistle went again to Defendant's house, and found
two boles Is a small room in which the seizure was
the previews day. These holes contained eight
refs of imitative* tea, of 11b. each. Witness did
llelieve these boxes were there the day before.—
APY had, lie sat bare seta them. These were
itched also.

reengniiiid the%
10114. begins, $1) fit*So iließbfeetturti roy Mr. IA b.
Too coma for 4b Gavin tiri•ig
•Tio COMM. igRaItANT ati•l .1 the Jury on the

pus of Ow DA.lolitial, *how be ileseribeti to he
Elan in I Tory small way of husioesysttrernely poor,
and alter& in prison for debt.
The Coasson.itsit,SlT —My fostfli I cannOt m.
Au ow „Hurl f.,r the Crown sit thlieo.ow, and there.
fore *ill not give year Lordship the troeble Ostia.
ming up. '
The Cal ow Rostov —ll was oot going to soft op,
nor is it in my posirr to controul Ow mercy whirl;
Any be eserei.ied by she Crown in this rase; bid i
Meek it right to stale, Is one Itrp.alte4 to Ndodailter
jpoae beret that there is no foanilatitio for thesis
claiaes to coesideration *kith the Goormea.lierkii„;
has pet in. It it lap lime to iv, an tad to this
abominable tragic; and, as far all I etidetstaird le
no*, An.. is nothing in it to evil* cumpessimf.
-r The Jury then trimmed a verdict for the cr."
.54r the following poratrlties : 11201. for 11111 b. of
*Ostler. tea, if JUL pre lb. ; 1001. for imitative cocks
bad,ll/01. for insititive tobacco; making a total ul
OW .
lite ATTORNEY GENERAL V. THOMAS AND ccoatat
PI Et•ON.
This Wee en Information &pint' the I:l4entlantes
. , erg, at Maischooter, for hosing imitative test apd
Moffitt in their possessiort.—Joho Gii,sas deposed,
Shat he was an Excise-officer at Manchester. Oil Ilia
154 of April last he went to the shop of the D,.
tentlants, in the market.place of that town. The
Defendant, George Nelson, was there; he asked ror
Igi'olsnce oteriffees for which he paid three.lialtpenced
lii consequence of an rallillifialion cif. thia article, the
wit day, he procered • search.weirintf and vend
needed to the Defendente heresy, slid fderod a psiget
routuining 20tb. of whit watt called greet. fee dest 1611
going up ',sins he foxed, 10. an unfurnith'ett room, tope •
yellow ochre or Do'ci pink spread on flit flour:—
He was induced-to tante ea ekperiment on the gotais
sea-doss, and found that It was black tra.dust eh.
loured with this yellow vicar* or-Butch pink. The
, Coffee was adulterated.
John Itichattison, a.tioperaisor of Escise, corrobo.
rated the testimony of the lest witne,4.
George Taylor, another Supervisor of -Eerier,
proved the Defendants to he entered as tst•iliniers.
There was no defence, and a verdict eras found
i for the Crowe, of a penally of 1001. for •liaving
coffee adulterated with burnt grail' in their posses.
alone and 2001. for hating the coloured tea iu their
session.
colos
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. HALL.

This Ira! au information ousinst ilia Defendant, a
coffee-dealer, in Old Gravel•tane, for having unite.
the coffnoin his possession.
The fact was pres.d by the officers, and he was
convicted in the penally of 1001.
SINGULAR FRAUD ON THE. CUSTOMS.

THE ZING V. JOHN DELANo.
This was all information against the Defendant, for
a fraud on the Customs, committed by trim under the
lolloai •g ciovuoisolineeli :—The Defendant is a ship.
noisier 1111 Liverpool, and applied to the Officers of
Customs of that town on three several occasions, to,
be permitted to ship for Americo three cases, eerie
containing ICO pieces of Windows batwilsotelsief.,
which hail not, yaid,A§st dot. Promiesinas
being gristiferll,an neer was sent to accompany the
boars in (plaints to the Docks. Upon the ways
however, Delano contrived to inveigle the Officer
into a ',visite. house, to give him his allowance ; col
in this Wet'sl the chimers were wrong upon the
hoses; those rontsining the silk handkerchiefs west,
taken out of tip cart, and other boxes of
F
,appearance sul,stitoted ; the silk haudkerchiefs wet*
conveyed to the house of a ship.chandler, mend
Den, an, by whom some of them were purchased.*
Suspicion having f a.terwards outsets as to the frames.
lion, search ws• made on board the Americas', by.
the Custom house o:ficers, and the three boxes being
examined, were found to contain only brick.bsts and
mats. In the Defendant's house silty pieces of boo-.
daises were afterwards discovered.

The ease was conducted fo► the Crown by Mr.
Nitrite), in the must sble manner; and Mr. Den-
man, for the Defendant, di•plsyed his acrestonsed
talent. The facts, however, were too clear to admit
of doubt, and the Defendant was convicted in pe-
naltieb to the amount of 6001.

CONSISTORY COURT, Dec. 5.

ROPER V. ROPER.

This was a suit of generation, instituted by Mrr.
Sophia Roper against It. Roper, Esq. the husband,
for cruelty. An exceptive allegation was given in.
on the part of the husband, against the admissibility
of evidence offered on the part of the wife, of her
own family having interfered in a quarrel alleged Ire
have taken place when Mr. Roper, accompanied by
his wife, went on a visit to the Lady's lithe, and mu-
ther in a gig ; en which °cession he (Mr. Roper)tent
2001. to the •ife's father. The act of cruelty
charged, was, that Whilst banding his wife out Of
the gig, at the door of her father's house, the hoc-
band severely assaulted end kicked his wife, which
rendered the interference of the family necessary, I.i
prevent farther violence. In disproof of this
the husband illeged, that he had shown great
kindness for his wife and her family, by lend-
ing her father 2001. upon his own personal se-
catity. Letter* written by the lady's etetiter to tior
were pat in, to show that the wife had absented
herself from him without jest cause. They espressA
great satisfaction at her daughter's reconciliation
and return to her husband, end entitled to the her.
pint'ss expressed by the daughter in her letters to her
mother at this event having taken place ; the mother
adding, " I hope I shall hear no more of any such
unpleasant occurrence taking place between you, since
it is for your own happiness 'to study every act
of kindness by which you can please so dear a
husband."
Sir Jos's, Nscuom decided, that the evidence of
the lady's family, relative to these differences, as well
as the evidences• of the husband's family, Afield be
received, in order to furnish the Court with full in•
fermati•os as to the character and completion of
their quarrels.

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