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London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

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COURT OF RING'S BENCH, Jim 3.

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kilter! e. LLOYD AND co.
This was an action of tweet, by the Assignrils Of a
bankrupt named Lewis, tO recover a gestalt), of fallow. to
the amount of 120,0001.. which was alleged to hare been
converted by the defendants, who are bankers, to their
*we use.
The plaintiff's ease yea conducted by Mr. Seaar.wri.
Mr. W. E. TAUNTON. and MT. ADAMS ; and the defend.
ants by Mr. SOLICITOR-01E111AL, Mr. F. Pommes, and
Mr. WILDE.
It appeared in evidence that the tallow in tondo* was
in fact the property of the defendants, Ind she pond on
which Mr. Lewis's assignees claimed it as belonglog to
his estate was, that be bed signed certain receipts, by
which he purported to be the owner of the tallow, and
the question was, whether tills, which was mere prima
facie evidence of ownership, ivas sufficient to over-rule
the defendants' claim, as the teal owners of the propery?
The LORD Cater Jusrica was of opinion that Mr.
Lewis, the bankrupt, could only be considered as. trustee
of the property, and therefore had no title to give his as.
StITEIMII a right of sedan.
The plaintiffs were, therefore, sewesitod, with liberty,
however, to take the opinion Oda Coat, on elation to
set aside the nonsuit.

WOOD, Cllir,. WAINWRIGHT.
This was an action of assault and battery.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS conducted the plaintiff's ease. hap-
peared in the evidence, that on the I,sth of March last,
the plaintiff was riding in Bond-street on horseback,
when the defendant came up to him, and struck him
several blows on the back and shoulders with his whip ;
as soon as the plaintiff was dismounted, he again struck
him and laid his head open. It appeared that this vio-
lence had arisen, in consequence of a quarrel of some
standing, and that the plaintiff had spoken of the defend-
ant
as one of the most damnable of characters.
Mr. BROUGHAM whom was Mr. AB SA Itlad) ad-
dressed the Jury in mitigation of damages, and urged
that when one gentleman used such language as this to-
wards another, he could not reasonably expect than the
offended party should not feel indignant, and endeavour
to resent such unjustifiable conduct. The offensive
language of the plaintiff had drawn upon him a degree
of violence on the part of the defendant, which, certain-
ly, in a Court of law, meld not be justified, and therefore
the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict ; but being in the
station of a gentleman, he (ale. B.) could not suppose
that the plaintiff could wish to pot money into his pocket
by this action. The Jury therefore would do their ditty
if they confined their verdict to the most under:ire dam-
ages.
The Jury found their verdict for the plaintilt—Dam-
ages, 1001.

that the prophet intended to pnahlbit gin iweold weather.
Indeed, it appeared to this complainant, that as gin was-
not known in the mortal days of the prophet, it was
wholly excluded from the prohibited articles ; and that
Hit Were known at that distant period, the prophet
would leave been too wise to reject it.
A third, who could speak broken English, appeared
highly indignant at the insinuation that gin was not
sanctioned by the religion ()rale East. Ile thought that
If the faithful chose to indulge themseive with grog, it
was of no importance to the infidel, who could not suffer
for the errors of the former.
A gentleman who attended in behalf of the East India
Company said, that the complainants were urged to make
those groundless charges by interested persons. The.
complaint about the wages was not general ; it was mere-
ly made by the sprang of this gang, who bad takep the
men frtm another smog who had received the full pay,
but badreserved twfi'Montbs of It for his own Ise, and
was now at Bombay. The most ample allowances of
Coed bad heed uniformly given,and there was no ground
for grumbling. Gin certainly was not served to them,
for the moat desperate consequences might be appre-
hended from giving to persons of their constitution and
habit any liquor that was likely to excite them. Even
when sober, they were apt to draw their knives upon
slight occasions.
A witness was then called to disprove every charge.—
He was a Portuguese servant, who had never been a sailor
-before the • voyage that lately brought him to this
country, and fated, as a !smear.
He was asked whether lee bad been treated in the same
manner as the Lascarsi by the Company. He replied in
the affirmative.
" Then you are perfectly satisfied at your treatment ?"
" Why, yes : I'm satisfied, because it's DO ass not to be
satisfied."
No further question was asked of this witness by the
Company's agent; but, on being interrogated by the•
Alderman, he admitted that there was no reason to ap-
prebend any of those dangers which sometimes arise from
too high feeding.
The gunner elan East Indianian swore most positive.
ly that the allowpnce given to the complainants was the
same that bad always been given, and had never before
been complained of. timer was not included in the al-
lowance, but the English sailors made converts of great
numbers of them with the favourite beverage.
Alderman Cox was satisfied, that the only ground the
serail; had of complaint was, that his men hal been
cheated of two months' pay by the smog who preceded
him, and for whom he ought to keep a look out on his
return co Bombay. The welfare of the soul, as well as
of the body, in the opinion of the worthy Alderman, was
very properly consulted, by withholding grog from the
Lascars.
The sersng and his men then departed, declaring that
they would not join the ship, unless grog and the two
months' pay were forthcoming.
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ROW-STRUICT.—EIeanor liteker was brought before
Sir RICHARD RIRNIL yesterday, charged Kith having as-
saulted die Inspector of Seamen's Wills in the Nary Of-
fice.

This Eleanor Tucker is a singular being. More thaa
half a century ago, she kept a lodging-house for sailors,
somewhere in the neighbourhood of Whitefriars, and was
accounted a woman of property. Since that time she
bad been condemned mare for some off.nce, had her sen-
tence commuted to transportation for life, was seat out as
a convict to New South Wales, and emancipated in less
than three weeks after her arrival there, it having been
discovered that she was inaocentof the crime for which
she had teen condemned. She railed from New South
Wales on her way b.ek to England, but chose to remain
at the Capc of tio. d Hope; and, after having spent
teen years in wan eriag about various parts of Africa,
the East lodies,.anit South Americo, she is returned to her
native country a link shrivelled old woman, " with
scarcely clothes enough to cover her," as she says, " or a
bit of bread to put in her mouth."
These general farts were stated by the Clerks of the
Navy Other, who now attended to make good the charge
of assault nricst her; and they add►d, that she was a
woman of very extensive information, though of very
strange habits and disposition. The assault they. stated
to have originated in a claim she has on the Navy Office,
as the executrix of a deceased seaman, whom she alleges
to have died in a French prison many years ago. They
had am rtained that she proved the will of this seaman
so far hack as the year 1752, but the circumstance of his
having died abroad necessarily created much delay in
obtaining prooftof the fact, and this delay she would not
brook. Latterly she lass presented herself at the Office
almost every day, and every day she has become more
and more peremptory in demanding an instant settle-
ment ; so that the busiress of the Office has been fre-
quently impeded by her clamorous importunity. Yester-
day morning she came again, with her pockets filled with
pieces of stone, and, nut receiving an answer to her sari-
faction, she deliberately flung one of them at the head of
the Inspector!—at the same time declaring that she
would never leave the Office again without her money.
Under these circumstances, she was given in charge to a
constable.

Sir Rica ARO endeavoured to reason with her, but the
angry al woman refused to listen to reason—" I am
much obliged to your Worship," she said, " but I have
done business with that office forty years together,and I
know all about it as well as any body.—These men re-
ceive their salaries the moment they are. du►, and why
am Ito be kept out of my just rights month after month?
Here have I been dancing attendance upon them ali
through the wet and stow of last winter to no purpose—
though they owe me more than twenty pounds, and I am
starving."

. The worthy Magistrate told her 143 was convinend
every thing was condurtk in the Navy-Office with the
utmost dispatch Tossible, and if she persisted in her pre-
srut conduct he should be under the disagreeable neces-
sity, of sending her to prison—
:. Well, I'll get bread and water there, at least;.,and
here I get nothing!". replied the ancient dame, " shot
me up any where, in a Distil* if you will, and I'll be
thankful to you—for then I sha'n't die for want of bread
at any rate."
In the coarse of some further conversation, the Magis-
trate asked her if she bad ever thought of writing an ac-
rount of her life?

" I don't know," replied the singular old woman, in a
careless under tone, " 1 do'nt know. I kept a journal of
all my wanderings; and 1 was offered fifty pounds for
it; but the man was a scoundrel, and I dared not trust
him."

Ills Worship seemed to commiserate her situation very
much, and aggin attempted to convince her of the certainty
of her case being properly attended to by the Navy-olfice;
but she declared, if she oas suffered to be at large, she
would go there again ingeotly and break every window
in the house, and eventually be was commuted to prison
iu default of bail.

QUSSN-SQUARIL-Yesterrlay, Richard Readers**,
coachman to Sir K. Hobhousr, was brought to this of.
on a warrant eliarerd by Mr. Martin, Y.P. for Gal.
way, with wantonly and cruelly ill•treatieg his horses.

Mr. Martin atsited, that on the 26th ult. be happPoe.l
to be looking out of the window of his residence in Man-
chestee.buildion, Wesbuinter. When he observed Sir B.
Ilobituuse's carriage at the actor ; the defendant was on
the box whipping the horses must furiously., and at the
same time pulliog the reins with all his rated, so that
the animals reared op and pleura moat vlolintly in caw
ce(peence of the severe Maw, Which was coalinted by the
defendant more than. usinnt
Donald Agdersun; !tire& --keeresr, Tlveggally,

stated thatthe horsse bet maell to Lin , Sir lienjentas
Hoblionse basin( hired them of him fur a twelvemonth;
he bad been frequently told that the horses were ill-need,
in consequence of which he thought it his duty to see
them, which he did a few days ago, %then he was shock.
ed at their appearance, they being reduced nearly to sk .
kW.. and covered with whip marks.
The defendant pleaded, that in con.eqnenre of the Tee.
fleeces' of the horns be was compelled to use the-whip
as he bad done.
Hi was fined in the penalty ef4os.

WANSTSAD-Hovsc—The materials of this princely
mansion are now dispersing, and although a con-ider-
. able tinse most necessarily elapse before it shall be
cleared away, still curia is the great variety of appli-
cant'', that it will tr.- long he reduced to a wreck, awl,
like the" fabric of a vision," there will he nothing I.ft
to trace even its base. Whilst some lament at the cause
of this event, and heave a sigh for fallen greatneee,
there are those who contempt& e the mere with mttrh
more cheering prospects—and none have greater cause
to adopt the latter, than those gentlemen who so judiri.
onsly contracted fur this lar;.e ma s of the best materiels
and chastest workmanship. The sal:. h s now been open
to indisstidaals !idle more than f otrteen days, during
which period some of the more choice articles have been
disposed of. Lord Tankarville and the Rev. Saville
Ogle, of Newcastle. have hitherto been the largest-pur-
chimes, particularly for the marble chimney-piettes, dour
of which have been sold for 4261. Nearly 300(11. has
already been realized. whilst the interior rem :ins bat
little disturbed, and the exterior not toucl ed ; still Vie
prices asked ere spoken of as extremely moderate.—The
wainscot Boors are sold for about 51. per square ; wain-
scot doors with locks and joints, 21. to 2s. 611. per foot.
The sale during the present summer is expected to be
confined to the fittings up of the interior. However la-
mentable it may be to the lovers of the arts, to he ito
formed of the circumstance, it is no less a fact that tie
historical paintings upon the ceilintes, so much admired
for their designs snit the repetition of them, being
painted upon plaster, are rendered melee:, as being ir-
removable—they must, in the general wreck, error n to
the dust with that brittle composition which they now
so magnificently embellish.—(Chantsford Chron.)
INCRSASING MORTALITY IN TUS PSNITENTIART.—An
inquisition was again taken at the general Penitentiary,
Milbank, before 0. H. eELL, Esq. coroner, esterdav at-
ternoon, at three o'clock. on the bode of Mary Knight, a
convict, aged 16 year.. The jury being sworn, ret red to
view the body, which presented the inert skele on re-
mains of a once pretty-featured .nteres:i g female. tin
their return Mr. Benjamin Chapman. the yew Governor,
deposed that, as appears by the prison resister, the lir.
ceased was tried at tire, Old Bailey, on the 17th of Febru-
ary, 1819, and found guilty of felony, for which she wits
sentenced to be transported for 7 years. sytaieh sentence,
under the provisions of the Act,was afterwards commuted
to 5 years' imprisonment in the Penitentiary. She was
received therein on the :Atli of March following, in a
good state of health, as all prisoners must be when re-
ceived into this prison. Mr. Pratt, stria-on, deposed,
that the deceased was removed to the ioliruiary on the
24th of March, 1822, with ulcerated legs. Site remained
there till the 1411, of October, when she was discharge:l
cured. On the 231 she was again brought up witu a
recurrence, and remained until the 31st of Di-cambia,
and was again discharged. On the 19th of February
last, she was swain received, complaining of debility.
She continued till the 2d of July inst. and lingered tilt
between one add two o'clock in the mornin %lieu she
died. During- the last period of her eordinieuent she had
pains and a couch ; she die:l (rum the rupture of a blood
vessel en the lungs, which occasioned her to vomit a
quantity of blood; had this not happened, witness thinks
sue could no- have survived (ruin her redly-NI and debili-
tated state of body. The disease of h.q. lanes mac tut*
cause of her death. She was ittteraid by wittie.s and
Dr. Hutchinson, and lastly by lire. Boers and Latham ;
every thing was done that could be thought of for her
recovery, but to no effect. [Juror—Had this woman
been properly cured, she would not so soon after had a
relapse ?—Witness. It was a new okitase. [Juror.—
Why do they not remain where they die Witness.—
Suppose 1 was to die here, it would be a cruel thine for
all yon, Gentlemen, to sit here till a jury was ito itA 11 nen-
ed. [Juror.-11 the body remained, it would give the
jury an opportunity to see the nature of the prison.—
Coroner.—l take it to be a conrenietice that this loom is
built for the Jury. Ido not sac this ease can be mire
folly established. The Jury considered a few minutes,
and then returned a verdict—" flied a uatoral death by
the rupture of a blood vessel." The following are the
number of deaths since 1816 :-1817, three ;1818, four;
1819, three ; 1820, eleven ; ltf2l, twenty; 1822. twenty
one; 1823, up to the Ist of July, thirty-one.—Total, 93..

CHILD-DROPPING.—A few nights ago, as Taylor an I
Allan, two of the Bow-street Patrol, were on duty near
Kensington Turnpike, they obserte I, as they believed,
a dog rross the road anti take shelter in an nntirisheil
house in Leonard's-place, close to the turnpike. Stb-
petting the possibility of the individual to whom the dog
might belong. Writing in the place for no good purpose,
they proceeded to the new building, where they suppos-
ed the animal had retreated, but, inst,ad of a dog they
discovered a female infant, not more than 21 hours old,
which Allan carried immediately to the Work-house.—
Tbe child was wrapped up in a bed-gown and a piece of
flannel with a cap on when discovered.

An alarming accident occurred on Wednesday at the
house of Mr. Anderson, the sign of the Lamb, in Lamb's
Conduit-street. The house Icing undergoing a thorough
repair, it was deemed necessary to pall down the front
wall; the persons employed in the work, piled the bricks,
Rce. as they took them down on each floor; the first floor
being overloaded, the beam which supported the joist
gave way, and live poor labourers who were standing on
it at the time, together with the bricks, &c. fell in. Hap-
pily, no person was underneath. Several of the neigh.
hours rendered assistance to extricate the poor fellows;
one of them was taken outin a dreadful state, and etrrietl
to the hospital; another was severely hurt; the other
three escaped with only a few bruises.
FAIRLOP FATIL-At a Special Sessions of the Peace,
held at the Angel Inn, Great Ilford, Essex, on Saturday
last, it was decided by the Magistrates, is consequence of
the excesses committed on former occasions, that the fair-
held annually on the Forest of Hainault, known by the
name of Fait lop Fair, the same not bring held by clor-
ter or prescription, should last but one day, namely, the
present.

MARRIED.—On Thursday morning, et at. tides's, crip-
Pieltite, Mr. John Lake, or Fore-•treet, sergeon, to Au-
Rama, youngest danghter of the late Mr. Joseph Dialer, of
Whltreross-street.

DIED.—On the 2,1 lost. Mr. Henry Dowsland, of Step-
ney-green. aged 64.
On the 2tl inst., in the 65th year of his age, the Rev. R.
Freer, of Cumberlatid-street, Shoreditelt.
On the 2d instaot, Mary, wife of James Trimbey, Esq. of
Watling-street, and of Lewisham, Kent, in the 97th year of
her age.
On Wednesday, the 2d instant, George James Miller.
R. N., eldest son of the late Walter Miller, Esq. of We-
lfare-
On the 20th ult., at George Robinson's, Esq., Prince's-
street,. Rank, Elizabeth. youngest daughter of the late Joba
Rotherham, M. D., of Newcastle-epon-Tyne.
On the loth nit. Mr. Robert Ogle, of the Um of Ogle,
'lunean e'd Co. boekaellers. Lowder.
Leedom: Edited, Printed, sad Published. at the OMee of
." Tme STairtessee." No. 297, Strafed. by It. WARDELL.
'.L. D. to whom all Communications, Watts, &e. 'atil re-
peated to be addressed.