The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

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Learned Counsel then read from Mr. Floyer's publi.
cation of the statement of the conversation between
him and Mr. Peel, the day before the election, cer,
lain parts in which were these expressions addrpsed
by Mr. Moyer to Mr. Peel, in that conversatlen—
" If you are come here to call me out, Sir, show me
Sufficient reason, and you will find me quite as reedy
es. you. cast .desire." This the Learned Counsel
tisought it right in candour to state, because the Court
: were not itt the habit of granting criminal Informa-
tions in cases where the party chaired had express-
.-- id readbans to accept the challe but it would be

recollected that Osivitaia rersatiollook place in the
'Month of June, sabres tly to which Mr. Peel sent
leis Challenge.. Mr. user bad quitted Tamwurth,
end was st Worthing, a here, en the 7th of the pre-
sent miff th, Mr. Peel sent him a second challenge
by• Mr. George Dawson, informing him, that as he
bad on s torpor occasion sielteied himself from his
• fee resentment by the mean subterfuge of having in.
'gaited his father, not himself, Mr. Floyer's conduct
bed brjhded him with the name of coward ; and as
bit fourthottgitt proper, in his address, dated 30th of
ocleher;,to Insult not only himself bet his father,
' istoitaiirt the grossest and most infamous falsehoods,
ha tropuMmoned him again to the field, and .in-
, ' formed him, that if he attempted to evade the meet-
. ••r loge second time, be would inflict personal chastise-
. meet upon him ; and concluded by informing him,
that Mr. Dawson would make the necessary arrange.
mints for the meeting. To this Mr. Floyer sent a
reply, that he should lay his letter before the Court
• of King's Bench without delay. This was not the
• moat aggravated part of the case. On the same day
' Mi.. Peel, accompanied by Mr. Dawson, paraded in
front of Mr. Player's house, with a horsewhip in his
head. On Sunday, the Bth inst. when Mr. Floyer
▪ and his family, among whom ~ere several Ladies,
• were going to church, Mr. Peel and Mr. Dawson
• came from behind a wall, the former with a horse-
' whip in his hand, appearing to be very much agitat.
ad, and tittering something, the whole of which Mr.
' }Toyer did not hear, but he heard him say that he
111 a t consider himself as horsewhipped—no blow, in
fact,laving struck. Mr. Floyer smiled, and said,
' at Very well." In the afternoon of the same day,
Floyer received a. printed hand-hill, which was
deiivered to him by his servant, at the desire of Mr.
Dawson ; espies of which hand-bill had been distri-
- hilted ahriet the town of Worthing, and posted in
the Steyne coffee-house by Mr. Peel and Mr. Dan-
con, in which the former stated, that hating twice
challenged Mr. Floyer for false assertions and on.
prorolstaffintalts, and having twice been refused the
satisfaction of I gentleman, he thereby proclaimed
pim to the world to be a coward and a liar—that he
ad met ,him in the morning, but did not horsewhip
• him, as he had intended, because he was wit b his fa-
mily—that Urgent up to him with his horse-whip in
his band, and "addressed him in these words:--44 Mr..
Player, finding you surrounded by the female part
of your family, I shell not inflict bpon you the
• chastisement I promised ; you will, however, consi-
der youtself as having been horsewhipped ;" to
which his reply was.--" Very well, 'Sir." The
atildeiit of the printer of this hand-bill was super.
added to that of Mr. Floyer, in which he stated,•
that his employer was Mr. Peel. Unger these sir.'
cemstances, the Learned Counsel applied for criminal
' information.
The Cuter Jurrtcs —Take a rule to show cause.

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. N0v.14.
On the application of Mr. Serjeant 13rxr, the
Count de Lima was ordered to be discharged from
arrest, as he was Secretary to the Portuguese Em-
bassy, and hie name entered as such at the Secretary
of State's Office, and of course he was, from his si-
. Nation, a privileged person.

Co: ?.:COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 14.
' s THE LING V. ELOPED AND ALEN.

21V, 14;4.0
SFr,, EXTENTS FROM THE CROWN.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL on a former day ob.
taitted a rule, calling on the Sheriff to pay over to the
Crown a certain sum of money which he had in his
bonds, the property of the Defendants, in satisfac.
;ties Al a debt due from them to his Majesty.
. Sir WK. OMEN, oo the part of Messrs. Morlands,
,bankers, opposed the motion. • It appeared that
Messrs. Morlands had obtained a verdict against the
Defendants, and had entered up jodgment, coed oat
execution, and placed it in the hands of the Sheriff,
,who
had levied under it. Three days after the levy
was made, and before the goods were sold, his Me-
, jesty came in with his Writ of Extent. The Sheriff,
however, on the part of Messrs. Morlands, retained
the moue/ which was the proceeds of the goods, on
the ground that they having obtained their judgment
and execution before his Majesty's writ am down,
the crown was ousted.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on the other side.
contended, that the taking of the goads by the Sheriff
'did not it all divest Sleeper and Allen of their pro.
petty in them. They were still their goods, and
only in the legal cestedy or possession of the Sheriff,
for a purpose to be afterwards carried into effect,
;tamely, for sale, in order that the proceeds might
be applied to payment of a debt due from the Defend.
sots to Messrs. Morlands. The King's writ came
down before that circumstance took place; and
therefore the role applied laid down in the King and
Alnutt, in which case the Judges held, that up to

the change of property actually taking place, the
Xing's writ should have precedence of all others.—
Had the sale taken place only one minute before the
Nine's writ arrived, lie was ready to acknowledge
the King would have been ousted; but as it was, he
contended his motion was well founded.
• The COURT, after hearing the argument, decided
that the Attorney-General was entitled to his rale.—
The case of the Kirg and Altiutt was decided four.
teen years ago; the Court bad acted on it ever since;
and until it was hugeached, by some motion for its
reconsideration, the Court would not depart from
the rule there laid down.
The . _ _
Sheri

C rule csltiug on the
money, was made absolute.

iff to pay over the

We anderitand•that 1400 seamen, 12 Lieutenants,
12 Medical Offieers and .Assistantg, and 114 midship-
men, are to be empleyed en the cost of Kent and
Susses) to pre►ent smuggling.