The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-18 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Aran. 17.

viz WINO B. JAMES ?Mifflin.
This defendant had been convicted at the last Sittings
before the Lord Chief Justice, upon an indictment found-
ed on the Statute of William the Third. which charged
that he, being Captain of a ship, had unlawfully refused
to bring horse two seamen, named Morris and Clarke,
who hail gone out with him on a voyage to Genoa. The
Statute imposes a certain punishment of three months
imprisonment.
The Sotretvon-OstetnAL now prayed the judgment of
the Court; and
The COURT, on ler all the circomatances of the case,
remanded the defendant for a week, in order to give him
an opportunity of making some terms with the unfortu-
nste turn aggrieved, and thereby place himself before
the Court in such a situation as would entitle him to some
favour.
The case was ordered to stand over for a week.
Tea WINO e. ALIMINDER MOIL, !SQ.
This was an application made last Term against the
,r;•fenilant, a Gentleman of forune in Lancashire, for a
criminal information, at the instance of a gentleman
named Wilson, formerly an Attorney in the borough of
Southwark, but now a neighbour of the defendant, for
writing certain letters tending to provoke the prosecutor
to fight a duel. The misunderstanding between the par-
ties had arisen is consequence of a promise made by Mr.
Wilson to procure for Mr. Noel the Manor of Hartiegton,
in Yorkshire, with a view to the game. Mr. Wilson had,
in fact, procured a conveyance of the manor in his own
behalf, and thereby broke his promise to the defendant,
who thereupon wrote the angry litters which were the
subject of this proceerl;ne.
The Court, atter hearing Mr. SOLICITOR-ORNRRAI.
and Mr. llttouutiam for the defendant, and Mr. Scan-
tan for the prosecutor, made the rule absolute.

At the Old Bailey, yesterday, Ellis Needham, insurance
broker, was put to the her, on an indictment, charging
hire with farging and uttering as true, a certain paper-
writing', purporting to he a bill of exchange fur 661. 18s.,
and to be accepted by Jeremiah Stamford, well knowing
the saute to be forged and counterfeited, with intent to
defraud John Kinnear, of Norfolk-street, Strand, on the
21st of ()arbor last. A' the details of this case here re-
cently given in our Marlhorough-street Report, we shall
only observe, iha' afters long trial the prisoner was acquit-
ted. He ss as then arrsig nets on four other indictments, but
no evidence being adduced he was of course discharged; the
Recorder having, aoltuonished him as to his future course
•of life, and warning. him to beware how he lent himself
to persons to send nut 0.% the town bills to such an ex-
tent, without the leas means of taking theca up.
A dreadful archivist ot;coured on the llth instant, in
a coal-pit near Valenciennes, by the explosion of an in-'
flammable gas, called iu Ciat part of Fr..nce.ftcc gri.tme.
Nineteen of the stockmen were killed. The state in
which the bodies were found aggravated the melancholy
nature of the spectacle, for it is stated that they coold
not be identiti-d. Their li mhs no longer reset:aided what
limbs are in !grit natural state; they were shrivelled,
and their parts drawn together. •