The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

/ACM COURT.

An information was laid against MUM. Foerdri.
tiler, Dent, and Company, charging them with having
an their premises 28 tanned sheepskins for Imports.
Yon, without being marked with the stamp demoting
payment of dory.
S. !litchi°, an Luise Olicer, stated, that be found
the skins ender the circumstances described in the
information, on the premises of the Defendants, who
are stationers. Mr. Hunt, who attended for the firm,
said, the skins had paid the duty, and that the stamps
bad been cot of or obliterated unavoidably in the
mannfsctering. Mr. Tiverton, inspector. esetnined
the skint, and said that the stamps of 14 of them
seemed to have been torn r,IT, perhaps In the maple.
!twining. The remain 14 were, however. it was
evident, uninjered in any part of the process, anti
they hail no marks whatever of the stamp. A skin
'haste, named Crook, said he had dressed a quantity
of skins for the Defendants; that he was in the habit
of doing their business in that line, and that he had
not racsiitly done any business for other employers of
the same kind. Ile was situ in the habit of cleaning
not his shop every ten dais. and he had, since he
last did that office, found 13 stamps, which he could
swear had been torn from the skins of the Defendants.
Mr. MATOLW. Solicitor to the iatcise, said, in
'rely case of the kind, the person on whose premises
they were found, whether the stamps had been psi-
Finally span them or not, was liable to a penalty ul

The 14 skins were condemned. The penalty was
remitted.

PALACE COURT, SIARrn 19.
LONG v. 114.1)ERNOT

This action was broight by Mr. Long, of Lone's
Motel, Bond-street. against Mr. R. Dermot, livery•
viably keeper, in Grosvenor•mews, for the recovery
of MI. 13s. 6d. being the amount of a promissory
note for 401. and a bill of etchings for 801. 3s. 6d.
with the interest. The Defendant had berme a
bankrept, and obtainod his dusehargo its January last,
eider the Insolvent Debits's Act, but was since ar-
rested on this sail. Ile was held liable to the pay.
went of Mr. Leag's claims, because he gave him no
notice privies' to his rumination before the Court,
as ',gaited by the Act for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors.

LENT' ASSIZES.

CAMBRIDGE.
UTTERING FORGED NOTES.

. .
John ilacqnire and Michael Code were tried
on Wednesday, before Mr. Baton GRAHAM, •n
R chore of faloniously, ko•wlogly, and wilfully
uttering forged 11. Bank of England notes, at
lckleton, on the 25th of September last. The
farts were very clearly proved, and the Jury
found botb Primmer, Guilty, when the Learned
Judge passed sentence of (kith upon them in his
usual impressive • . His Lordship gave Corley
~a to taped that the dreads, sentence would
Hr.: be carried into limn upon him, he haring
piradril /silty to the minor offence. Tbe Judge gave
Nisi:quite no bop* of mercy.

NISI I'IZ
SWAM V. WlLlWismf.

This was en action brought by the Plaintiff, a re-
spectable merchant in Cambridge, *elitist the De-
froster'', who is • clergymen, for a libel written by
him, and interred in a periodic*, work celled the
.3,14 Jaeahe iteriew, of Slumber lam. It im-
p:it'd to the Mehl iff, in trey Volt :Angalge, 16i