The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

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Mr. ?MI6 rose, and after i variety of observa-
tion* upon the propriety of producing the accounts
demanded by Parliament, moved an Amendment,
11.' That the Report of the Committee be referred
bark, and that the accounts should
.be delivered at
Whet they might he required."
jkiAldermin WOOD expressed his, doubts where
Or', even if the 'recounts were proslnced,the,Parlift
anent *oeld give their sanction to, the: Bill before the
!louse. When these were exhibited, ha w“ cop Woo"
they would undergo the strictest. scretinyund loves.
ligation. They would first, in fact, get *accounts,
end then turn round upon the Corporation, tell them
they could afford 24,0001. in an entertainment,
refuse the grant upen the ground that their feuds
could not .he in such a state of eahaostion as was
**presented. When the Corporation first applied to
the legislature for a grant of nearly 400,0001. to.
wards erecting the Whiteerom-street Prison, the ac-
counts were not demanded.
Mr. WAITIMAN repeated the opinions be bad
formerly expressed, that the !utineer of the Corpo-
ration, and their application for aid on the present
occasion, • were questions inseparable, end that the
City was bound to deliver their accounts. He thought
Government might very naturally retort upon them
for the manner in which they had fooled sway their
money ; but the Corporation should recollect, that as
a great national body, the Parliament were called
open to yield up certain accounts, it was not unrea-
sonable that the City should also be called upon to
to prriduce theirs. The Corporation had, in fact,
themselves called upon the Government to produce
some accounts at different times.
After some further discussion, the amendment was
put with this alteration, " that the Report of the
Committee be referred back, and that the Bill be still
prosecuted in the House of Commons."
'Plus was carried unanimously.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Fes. IS.
CROOME V. LONSDALE.
This was an action to recover damages for 1561. 10s.
in compensation for an injury sustained by the Plain-
tiff's property, in consequence of certain operations
carried on by the Defendant, under the circumstances
following :
The Plaintiff is the tenant end occupier of two
acres of nursery-grounds, near the Highgate Arch-
way, and rented by him from the Defendant, at one
pound per acre, since the year 1813, on a lease for
9.9 years.
The Defendant is a land-holder in the same neigh-
bourhood. and has carried on there the business of a
brick maker to a cons,derable eaten'.
The claim of the Plaintiff was grounded on da-
mages stated to have been sustained by him in the
last year, in the plants growing in his nursery-
grounds, from the smoke and heat of the Defendant's
brick-kilns, erected so close to the Plaintiff's
nursery as to scorch and perish a great quantity of
laurels, laurustinuses, fruit-trees, and other growing
plants.
A great number of nursery-men, who had fre-
quently minified the nursery, prpved the injury sus-
seined, and their firm opinion that, it was caused en-
tirely by the heat and smoke of these brick-kilns
blowing over the plantation.; end K. also appeared
from their testimony, that. in the, year 1816 a com-
plaint of similar injury from the like Pluses sustained
by the Plaintiff, was made to the. liefendaut, in con.
sequence of which an !ship/lion was had, consisting
of nursery-men, approved by both parties, who 1
;,warded a compensation of, 501. for the damages sus-
trined in that year, nitie;ls. sem that Defendant not
only paid, but voluntarily/404101. more..
The present action was brought for damages sus-
_ taincd in the last year., r
A number of witnesses, nurse/y,-wen also, swore,
from their skill and experience, that the brick-kilns
did not and could not came the injury to the Plain.
till's nursery; that they bad woolly had opportu-
nities of examiniag the Pleiutirs•nursery; that the
plants were in general in os,gtsoti state as in their
own and other nurseries ; and that the evil com-
plained of arose from the badness of the soil and
dampness of the sisuatien, and ,the blight, heat,
und a subsequent unseasonable frost in the last sum-
mer,
Mr. NlanaTaT, after contending at greet length
that the Plaintiff pas eutitled tv Inn verdict, argued
t hat in all events the damages which were compensated
by 601. in.lBl,G, wore again taken into theestiniate
now claimed for the last yearend, ought to be abated
from any verdict the Jury might be disposed to.give
in favour of the Plaintiff.
Mr. Scans.mr on the other bead, replied to this
point, by .saying, his Learned Friend had never asked
Hwy of the witnesses a single question to show that this
601. was not exclusively for the injury sustained in
1814, and formed no put of the estimate for that

sustained in 1817.
Lord gi.I.FNBOUOUGII Summed up the evident. to
the Jury, who, af►er,s sl►ort deliberations fowl/ for
the Plaintiff.—Damages, 1361. 10t. - - •

several Clerks weredisseissed from the Measurer's
Office, Plymouth Dook.yerd, ors Monday last, and
this is only introductory to a further reduction.
A. large portion of the Surcharges made by the Sur-
veyrir of this district (Leeds) upon the inhabitants,
have been confirmed by the Commissioners ; by whom
it has been decided, thata shop having no internal
communication vs his xdweiting.house, but having the
rooms used for domestic purposes passing over it,'
ehall be assessed as part of the dwelling, both for the
Window and the House Tax. Against 'this decision
the parties so assessed have demarred, and a case has
in consequence been drawn up for the decision of the
Judges. The Commissioners bate else decided that
u parent is liable to be charged with an Assistant for
&uttering his son to render him any assistance in his
shop, ohatever may be the age of the boy, and whe.
her the services he .performs .'ray be regular and
si,ated, ournereiy oceasiounl and incidental. The
shopkeepers-of Leeds, conceiving that a very undue
vtoportles of .the public. bombes, .are (hes 'pieced •
timer their ahoolders, bare:celled a Meeting ,or the
'Frade to be held siert Thersdny sot petition the Le-
gislature for redress.. Siiiikr:cOmPlients, weosodersj
bawl, prevail iwall otheuparts of. the iliegdemotinr
k presumed that the apitlication to Parliament will
tls.cotr.e gene; al.— ( Leeds Mercury )