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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 13, 1817
Page
4
At the Lancaster Assizes a libel action, Hodgson sues Scarlett for words spoken at the bar claiming harm to professional reputation. Counsel defend broad free speech for the bar while urging limits to protect clients, noting the case tests parliamentary privilege and the duty of counsel to comment on proved facts.
The discussion centers on whether words spoken in judicial or parliamentary settings are actionable when published. Counsel debate if there are fixed bounds to criticism and if overstepping them justifies legal action. Lord Abingdon and others argue limits may be necessary, noting prior cases and the dangers of suppressing legitimate comment.
Report of a case tried in the Admiralty Court at Fort William on February 4 1817 concerning the Cutter Dispatch bound from Calcutta to Bombay. The court considered bonds and the applicability of the Navigation Acts to East India trade and ruled against forfeiture, noting legal inconsistencies and the absence of proper officers to enforce bonds.
In a detailed ruling Lord Chief Justice debates applying the Navigation Act to India. After observations the court concludes no forfeiture can be decreed for a law not declared to apply here and, with Sir F. M'Naughten and Sir A. Butter, releases the vessel and its cargo.
In the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, Roderick Dingwall stood for attempting to murder his wife Christian Clark by arsenic after soliciting a surgeon for poison. Janet Douglas, accused of mag-stealing, claimed a child from James Reach’s household, with a long chase ending at Halbeath where the child was found. she was sentenced to Geard’s punishment. The court also heard the case of Robert Reid, charged with murder by strangling a man in Albany Street chapel, with accomplice Rae later sentenced to 14 years transportation.
The Sexyerpor-General and Mr Hunter dispute the panel’s culpable homicide charge. The court notes distinctions between cases, condemns extreme cruelty, and sentences the panel to seven years’ transportation beyond seas after a stern rebuke by Justice Creix.
Wednesday last the Lottery finished with a prize of 2000 pounds drawn and sold in Quarter One Eighth and Ten Sixteenths by Martin and Co. 8 Cornhill and 1 Oxford Street who previously sold 829 prizes including 20000 pounds. No. 4674 and 190501 indicate successful holders may claim amounts on demand.
Notices announce marriages including Charles Su, Esq. of London to Margaret Pin Wolferstan, and John Jones to Lady Harriet Plunkett. A death records Isabella Kirkland of Port Bannatyne aged 15 years. Also listed are prices of government funds and stocks at yesterday’s close with multiple 1d to 5 per cent bonds and Navy Annals values.
Auction notices for Waymouth and Bridgwater include sale of extensive ground with houses and a boat-builder yard, plus another ground parcel near Seymet Street. Advowsons and rectories at Spaxton and Fiddington are offered, with parsonage houses and glebe lands. Also sales of haberdashery stock and a Gravesend estate with a manor, wharf, windmill, and cottages.
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