The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court was unexpectedly occupied yesterday with a trial upon an Information for Libel. Mr. Bannister, the late Attorney General, figured is prosecutor and advocate, and Mr. Howe, as the…
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Supreme Civil Court. Wednesday, October 18th
Mr. W. C. WENTWORTH moved the Court, this morning, on the affidavit of one John Adam, an indented servant of the Australian Agriculture Company, for a rule to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Robert Dawson, Esq. Justice of the…
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REX t. HOWE.—The whole of this day was occupied in a case of libel, at the instance of Sax Bannister, Esq. the late Attorney General, against the Editor and Publisher of this Journal. The alleged libel appears in the Gazette of Saturday last, the 14th instant. Though the…
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John Newbury, John Ramsay, and John Lawson were severally placed at the bar on night charges, of having been found by the constables in the public streets, drunk and disorderly. The first named prisoner happening to be a free subject, was…
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The Acling Altorney Genernl (W l. MOORE, ESq) rose and stated, that he had an information to present to the Court against Mr. Robert Howe, Editor and Proprictor of the Sydney Gnzette, for a libel on Sax Bannister, Esp. late Attoruey…
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Mary Millmaker, free, was accused of stealing from a person named Stephenson, who stated that in the course of Tuesday last he went to the house of the prisoner, and having taken a tolerable quantity of liquor, returned to an…
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MONDAY, OCT, 23.— Charles Hunt, priponer, and Maria Hunt, his [?] free, servauts to Mr. B. Levey, were brought before the Bench, [?]ged with abstracting several articles of jewellery, &c. from their master. It appeared that they had proved themselves votaries to the…
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Anne Cooley, tendered her person, to the Bench, as being a prisoner of the Crown, on her own hands. Her motive for surrending herself was she said, from a wish to be returned into the Factory, and from thence to be…
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27.—Mary Macallister was brought before the Bench on a charge of drunkenness; and the beloved spousey of Molley stepped forward as his rib's advocate. The scene was truly interesting. Mary again and again purtested that she had not…
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Charlton v Holder.—This was an action for money had and received.—Verdict for the defendant. MONDAY, 30th.—Shea v Smith and Barker…
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1.âIsabella Simpson, a free body, who put Messicurs the constables to more than ordinary trouble, on the preceding night, to restrain her riotous propensities, arising from her too free l[?]bations, was sentenced in the usual mul[?]t of five shillings, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tatal Duel and Trial for Murder. (From the Newfoundland Gazette of April 18.) Supreme Court—st. John's, 17th-APRIL. the King v. Mark Rudkin, George Farquhar Morris, and James Strachan, for Murder
At eleven o'clock the Honourable the Judges appeared on the Bench, and the Court was opened in solemn form. The prisoners, Capt. Rudkin, Capt. Morris, and Dr. Struchan, were then placed at the bar, having been…
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On Thursday, the 1st of June, at two o'clock, His Majesty held a Court at his Palace, in Pall-mall, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for the Home…
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This was an action by the plaintiff, who is an Attorney of the Court of King's Bench, to recover from the defendant, the proprietor and publisher of the Morning Chronicle, The Englishman, and The Observer newspapers, accompensation…
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Wm. Watts (free) stood charged with being an utterer of base coin. The prisoner was committed for trial. Margaret Dacey was accused of being an accessary in a robvery. The prisoner, a mere girl, was committed for trial…
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6.—Mary Doyle, for being found drunk at a late hour last night in Kent-street, and John Gorman, a prisoner, being found in her company, were brought before the Bench, and, upon a careful examination, were found guilty. Mary sweet soul,…
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TUESDAY, N w. 6.âJohn Smith and Jomes Re[?]ves, prisoners of the crown, were found stowed away in the bread-room of the Regalia, this morning, with intent to leave the Colony Sentenced to be worked in irons for the terni of 12 months it such placeas His…
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William Lucas and Eben Collier, were capitally indicted, for cattle-stealing. It appeared Collier is a servant to Mr. Thomspon, a settler at Bathurst.—A young bull, not branded, was confided to the prisoner's care, with some other stock; the same…
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Mr. Justice STEPHEN took his seat upon the Bench this morning, under His Majesty's Commission, as a Judge of the Supreme Court. William Lucas and Ebenezei Collier were…
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8.—A respectable individual was summoned to answer a complaint preferred against him, by the Rev. Richard Hill, for using profane and blasphemous language, in the public street. Mr. Hill stated, that he met the…
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