Star. — 1818-03-24 (London, England)

JURY COURT, SCOTLAND. LEVEN V. YOUNG AND CO. AND PITCAIRN.  Tuesday a trial of considerable importance came on before the Jury Court, in which Mr. Leven, an officer of Excise, was plaintiff, against Messrs. Young, distillers at Burntisland, defendants. The ground of action was in consequence of some information having been conveyed to the Commissioners of Excise, relative to certain practices alleged to have prevailed in the manner in which Mr. Leven conducted his business with the defendants, on which it was thought right to dismiss him. By some means he obtained information, not only of the nature of the allegation, but also of the course of the information. Being able to disprove the former, .he was re-appointed by the Excise Office. The Court of Session (First Division) having found that Mr. Leven's dismissal from office proceeded from the unfounded complaints of the defendants, and that three articles of the Plaintiff's libel, inferring malice, were proven, remitted to the Jury Court to assess the amount of damages, which were laid at Twenty Thousand Pounds. Mr. KZAY stated the case for the plaintiff, with great clearness, and called three witnesses chiefly to shew the value of the office held by the plaintiff. Mr. JEFFREY then addressed the Jury for the defendants, in a most powerful and impressive speech, contending, that it was not implied, in the judgment of the Court of Session, that Mr. Leven's continued exclusion from office was owing to the defendants, and that the Jury would be able to judge of the extent of the malice imputed to the defendants, by perusing the documents produced by the plaintiff. He complained, in severe terms, of the proceedings of the Board of Excise, which had produced every document which Mr. Leven required, and had withheld' the material documents necessary for the defence of his clients. In these circumstances, and on account of the terms of the decision of the Court, he declined to lead any proof The Loan Cuter COMMISSIONER delivered amost able and perspicuous charge to the Jury, who, after deliberating for an hour, gave a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages Two Thousand Pounds.  The Sussex Assizes did not tinit.h until late on Thurday night. There were 19 capital convictions, but none of them were left for execution.—James Nye, the elder, aged 48, for being an accessary in the Rudgwick felony, after the fact ; Henry Gardener, 2.5, for burglariously entering the dwelling house of William Smith, of Ashburnham, and stealing therein a clarionet and other articles ; and IV. Fames, SO, for passing aforged r cte for 51. at Uckfield, severally received sentence of transportation, the former for 14 years, and the latter for seven years each. At the York Assizes, Mr. Justice Borirr passed sententence on the prisoners convicted in the course of the preceding week, when twenty-five prisoners received sentence of death. The Bar being insufficient to contain so large a number, these unhappy men were brought up at three several times —Previous to his Loi dsip's departul e, he respited all the prisoners, except Samuel Leatlai convicted of paying, at Hull, forged Bank of En,glend Notes. Saturday morning, Isaac White, aged 32, George Biggs, aged 19, and William Johnson, aged 26, were I executed near Winchester. White was convicted of uttering forged notes; Johnson of highway robbery;, Biggs' crime was a burglary in the house of his master, from which he carried nearly 4001. in cash and notes. Great interest was exerted in his behalf. Petitions, signed by the Minister, parish officers, and a number of respectable inhabitants of Gosport and Al. verstoke, were presented to Lord Sit:mount and Sir S. HOLROYD, to commute his sentence into transportation for life—the reply to which was, that " the Judges are determined that the law shall take its course, in all cases where servants of any description, may be convicted of being concerned in robbing their m asters."  At the Assizes for Staffordshire eighteen prisoners received sentence of Death, two of whom, for housebreaking, are left for execution. A man of the name of John Peregrine has been committed by Lord DYNEVOR to the cdunty jail of Carmarthen, for the murder of Margaret Powell, a poor Cottager, 74 years of age, in the absence of her husband, by giving her several dreadful wounds on the head, apparently with a spade. Last week a Tyburn ticket was sold in Manchester, (exempting the owner from all parish offices) for 280/. which, with the auction duty, =punts to neauiy 300!.