The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-02 00:00:00

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the • /410steete obeerred Trilie Pefeediept—
" Why, you must 'Wei bees divot\ sutett.*
which the befeedaot sodded sod beitedheetiet.:
Mr. .1 mute eddreeted the Jury for the De.
fendaut.

Lord ELLS/110100dB summed up the evidestee,
aad observed, that this wain wants* outrage coin.
•Hitted by the Dgentlant• oa the person of the
Plaintiff in his own dwelling. It was a pare
question uf damages, of which the Jury were the
()sty jedges. •
Verdict for the Plaintiff... Damages WI.

TOOL V. 1111INTLY.
This was an action fur the use and occupation
of eCrtain premises in Islington, for a quarter of
rar, 301. being at the rate of 1901. a year.
£he MTORIIIITY-GESTILAL observed, the written
agreement on which the Plaintiff claimed his relit,
was either a lease or a written agreement ; if s
lease, it had not the right stamp, it was a stamp
of las. and should be 30s. and therefore void as a
lease. If it was an agreement, it was not bind.
jog
.un the Defendant.
[surd ELLEIDOItOUGM held it to be a lease, with
the wrong atansp on which the Plaintiff was non.
knited. •

I•Mr. GAUROW ObINTIOd, it was singular onoug,h
that it was stamped this very morning, and the
party might as well have paid for the right stamp
to save. s nonseit, which would cost him k
good deal more than the difference between the two
stamps. However, if parties would he pareksa,
it was their• own faalt, and must beer their own
expance.

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A den lime tame, * lady took ■p her residence
at a resist:Uhl, inn in Birmingham, professing her.
intention of quitting ii in a few days, as she was
,going to pay a visit to the Earl of Warwick, and
to her friend, the Right lion. the Earl of Craven.
Her acquaintance with the great was well sup-
ported by the Noble Personages whom she ranked
In the list of correspondents, among whom were
his Grace the Duke of Portland and Sir Sidney
Smith. She stated that her husband (now afar !
no more 0 had been surgeon un board the gal-
lant Sir Sidney's ship ; and her correspondence
with our naval hero commenced by his addressing
letters to her. from Rio Janeiro. The lady tap.
peared from her dialect to be a native of Scut-
land, and several gentlemen from that country,
residents hi the town, waited upon her, and were
greatly planed with her conversation, which was
far superior to that of the vulgar ; and she also
appeared to be seqvaieted, not only with their
friends and relations, but also wish must of the
principal characters in Scotland. The punctua-
lity with which for the first day or two she dis.
charged her reckoning with her landlord, lulled
his sespitions, and her demeanour was calculated
to inspire confidence; at length, however, Irer
conduct changed; to make up far the deficiency
of her wardrobe, she adorned herself with an
lelegant sash left at the house, by a gentleman on
the recruiting seiviee, and some ietters passed be.
twoen her and a sun of Mars which were not cal-
culated to render her stay at the inn at all desir.
able to its Proprietor. Some hints ref,re
given her, that it would be well for her to prose.
cute ILT journey, and pay her-visits to her noble
friends ; this was not taken well, neither did it ap.
pear that she possessed the nays and mare; to li-
quidate her score, but said that she expected a re-
mittance from a Mr. Cameron, at Lichfield, and a
day was fixed fur the receipt of a large sum by the
North Mail ; but the same day that she we.; to
receive her packet, a gentleman returned from
• Lichfield, who hail been instructed to make en.
quiries fur the said Cameron, and his report w.ac,
that he enquired ut the Tax_gathcrer'•s and at the
Post Office, and it did not appear that any such
gentleman resided in Lichfield; but theft was au
indistinct recollection, that a person of that 112'11(1
had some year, since been transported front teat
city. • While this report was being mak, Her
lady, fjom a station w hick she had taken at the
stout's head, reconuoitred the passage into ill'
1111 street, and aware that the armistice which she fiad
obtained, on the promise of her reuritt-rec.., Kea.{
'stip, expire, she thought it best, like a prieleitt
General, to make it retreat while a retreat was
practicable; she therefore, without heat of dre,is
or any of the honours of *ar, and quite uuisicum-
bered with superfluous clothing or cis np equipage,
' effected a lodgment in the street, thence by mare:.
big arid counter-marching she got quite clear of
the enemy ; but it is expected she is still in the
town, and has most prubably joined the Cyprisu
corps.