The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-29 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

CROYDON, Jut.v 27.
The AssizrA began here to-day, but nothing of the
least interest took place, except that the Gnu(' Jury
found another bill against Lord Cochrane for breach
of prison. To the bill last found he pleaded in abate-
ment that he was Sir Thomas Cochrane, lint. and
not Thomas Cochrane, Esq.; in fact, although he
was expelled the Order of the Bath, yet he re-
mained a Knight Baronet. The last bill was there-
fore quashed, and a new one presented to the Grand
Jury.

LINCoI N. .tuLv lg. •
Llins 'WEST V. ANY PA LM ER ASi D OTHER&

The Plaintiff in this action is a Sliigenti, and the
Defendants are Overseers of the Poor of Stow, in
this county. The question to be tried was, Whether
a medical m.n, having been called in by an overseer
to attend a pauper, cans continue.to attend after he is
discharged from doing so, and can make the parish
pay his bill for such adverse attendance, on the
ground that the state of the patient required it ? A
pauper, named Long, was affected with a liver corr-
plaint, and after daily attendance for a fortnight or
three weeks, the Plaintiff was desired 'not to go to
Stow any more on Long's account. The bill at this
time amounted to 71. ; and the Plaintiff continued to
anew! the pauper and send him medicines, ansiper.
formed the operation of coifing through hie black' to
give him relief from an abscess-on his liver ; and at
last the bill was swelled to between 401. and 501.
The Defendants paid 151. into Coutt, and contended',
that was all for which the parish was liable.
Mr. CLARICE, for the Defence, pleaded the danger
of laying parishes at the mercy of apothecaries and
itinerant quacks; and
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN; in a reply for the Plain-
tiff, urged the inhumanity of the case in forcible lan-
guage, and trusted that his Client would not, for the
charity he had shown the poor object to whom he had
been called, be saddled with the expences of both
sides in this action, which would be the effect of a
verdict for the Defendant.

The Judge (lIEATH) said, that an apothecary had
no right whatever to make charge beyond the time
of his being dismissed from attendance, unless he had
an order of a Magistrate for continuing it ; and that
was a strange sort of charity which was to be paid
for out of other people'epockets.
The Jury gave a verdict for the Plaintiff for two
guineas, besides the sum that had been paid into
Court.

TheRIDGE desired that they would re-consider their
verdict ; and, after a few minutes, they a second lima
gave the Plaintiff two guineas damages.
It was therefore announced by the Counsel far
Defendants, that a new Sri would he moved for in
the Court above. The Plaintiff's demand was fifty.
one puunds.

A terrible accident in Paris, on Sunday last,
plunged many families in the deepest distress. Oise
Auvergitat, living in the Roe de Bellefonds, at t e
house of a wine merchant, brought with him from
the country a mortar which he had found. Desirous
of emptying it in order to sell the powder, he re.
peatedly struck the mortar with a hammer ; the heat
communicated to the powder, which burst the mortar,
by which the unfortunate man and one of his friends
were killed, and forcing its way through the floor,
mortally wounded a pregnant woman and two
children in the neat floor. ;M. Valer, Surgeon, in
the Rue des Martyrs, bestowed every possible as.
tistance to the wretched sulTerers.—One of them, on
the way to an hospital, died in the Place Cadet.
We have received from Mr. 'Nostra the following
Allidaviteelative to the late Elita Fenning, and we;
comply with his request to insert it, in order that as
moch light may be thrown nit this extraordinary case
as possible.:--.
LONOO.I (To WIT).--511111 nollfili. one of the principal
Tortskils of bis Majesty'. Gaol of Neweate, maketh oath and
saith, that itt nn inierviewi which Lately. took place between
the lute convict, Fiis.theth binning, who was eves wed WO
Wednesday last, nod her father (at which interview this de- !
101 l Rod she Rey, Mr. Cotton, Chaplain of the said pii.on, !
were both Present). "Ind nit sew; r other late' view. h• tares'
them plow to Per esecution, her Mid tamer sirs end v enirc.ited
In the followii words, or words to the like etfoci (that is to
soy), " 01,my deor child, when Not' come out on Ilse enllow•,
telt cowry b itly you ttrt• innocent, sod then I can walk roe
SIMMS upright :IN ti man; hut if you say you tire guilty, t shall
never be able to holdup fay bead among the puhlic any noire."
(Signet) SAMUEL DAVIS.
Sworn at the MRlrllol4l4ollte, In the City
wf Landoo, the 49th dal of July, 1815,
Before
(51eued) SAHLIFI. BIRCH, Mayor.