The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-22 00:00:00

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH. ArRtL
REATTIE AND ANOTMER P. COPELAND.

Mr. GA:MUER moved for a rule to show cause why
the verdict in this mote should not he set aside, and a
verdict of nun-suit entered. or a new trial granted.
The ease was tried before the Lunt l hief Justice and
a special Jury, ut the last sittings in Westminster-
liall--yenlict for the plaintiff. 'I lie plaintiffs, who
are the executors of a gentleman of the name of{
111`Kinloch, deceased, brought an action against the
defendant, who was his general ages t. to recover da-
na.i.,es tar his neelerting to pay, in raper tune, the
premium of the life insurance of 31•Kitiloch, by which
aeglet t his executors lust Lim:L. the sum fur which
the life had been insured. It was pnord at the trial,
that the efendant was the agent of the deceased, who
resided ahrii.ol, and that the defendant teas in the ha-
bit of paying up from year to year the premium on the
inserattee, tot :et oral years. Upon one occasion he
Degleeted to pay the minions. and shortly after
M•hitiloch dying-, the benefit of the insetrance was, of
course, lost. It was proved, al,o on the trial, that
the defendant was in the habit of laying out money un
the acraniat of his principal., whether or nut lie hail
foods I t firs in his itstiMs.
Mr. 6 isk:Lea founded his tutatiiii: satin the gromutt
that the defendant had n..t any funds of the di...easel!
in his hands at the time when it Lecatne neees.ary for.
111111 tit li:ly lip the premium iaa Ili.. insurance, and
als, upon the Lrroitml that Dr. It...atie, our of the
exei utorA, teas in this' habit ..f giving orders for the
ean;iimain r ~f Ow payment of the premium from year
to )ear, and that the 55550 when the payment was sus-
peteleil, h. had nut ruts:aril the usual order from th.a

goat leessan.
The Co your gaid, although they were of opinion
that the ‘eriliet might nut to he ilisturheil, that still
they were not disinclined to grant au opportunity for
Plane fail diseu:sion of tine pain They would,
therefore. ;five a rule to c;,use why the verdict
shon!il not be set a%idr. ; and in i.f a motion for
arre•i ofjudyuient. the other /Larry slaouW have an op-
portwiPy of hying. heard.

THE STATESMAN.

•3 II IliiNI; r. Pvl4..

OLD BAILEY, Pruner, APRIL 21.

TRIAL !SIM

amongt themselves, and if they should not agrre, tla..
Court wonld then have no difficulty in granting a rule
to show cause why a nrw trial should not be granted.

William Henry Pyin, of the city of Exeter, was
called upon to plead to an indictment, charring him
with feloniously forging upuu the wrapper, or cover,
Cadet' over thirty rrioroi of paper, a certain stamp, or-
dered by the 3lth of the late king to be affixed to all
sick curers, to denote that the Excise duty has been
duly charged.
The defendant pleaded Not Guilty, and asked for a
topy of the indictment.
Site Cols, JUSTICH said, that, in cases of felony, the
Court hail no power to order a copy of the indictment
to defendants.

Prom the early hour at which otir Parr goes to press,
we were only able to give our Readers yesterday a brief
sketch of the proreedings ..f the Coon up to ta o
o'clock in the afternoon ; at that period the examina-
tion of Adams w:o; going on.
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When the examination of Adams was concluded, he
underwent a severe cross.examination by Mr. Afoot,
111 UK, when asked 111111 many questions respecting his
religion. an•l his former professions of infidelity.
the following witnesses were thee called, all of
whom had heen examined on the preceding trial.
Some of them, particularly Monument, were rigidly
cross-examined by Mr. A 1101.PNCS, With a siew to
throw discredit on their evidence. No new facts, how-
ever,
transpired in their cross-examinations.
Eleanor Walker, of the house in Fox-court, Gray's.
inn-lane, where legs lived; Mrs. Rogers, of the same
place; Joseph Dale, Brunt's apprentice ; Thomas
Smart, the watchman is tirosvenor-stinare; Charles
Bissett, another watchman ; !Ivory Milan, who met
two of the prisoners at the Rising Sun public-house,
on the evening preceding their arrest ; John Hector
Morrison, who sharpened a sword for the prisoner ;
Edward Simpon, a corporal in the 2d Coldstream
Ouards, to prove that flarrison kn•'w the barracks in
King-st vet : John Aldus, or:a r, to prove that
Davidson reties melt :t suor•l which he had pledged;
'fbontas Ifyllen, to prose giving the note to the Earl!
of Harr•wlay.
The Earl of Ilarrowhy was examined. His evi-
dence was of course the 'awe as sin the former trial.
Mr. Baker, his butler, was the next witness. He had:
hardly got into the box, when Digs, addressing the I
Judge. said—
"My Lord, there arc soap• of the witnesses he-e;
several of them are together. telling each other their:
evidence. Will }•one Lordship permit them to renikin I
The witnesses who had been examined were imme-
diately ordered to withdraw, and they aceordingly
retired.

The examinatinn of Mr. Raker then prnrecled.
'the wher witnesses were—John Monument, Thos.
Monnwent, George taeorge Right-en, Jas.
Ellis, Win. Westentt, Luke Dixon, Joseph Champion,
Atm Wriglit, Win. (*harks Brooks, Wm. Lee, Fre-
derick William Fit:tiara:ter, William Legge, and Her-
ealled, and came Into Court, but