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yet if it be a question to be decided upon correct feeling, I shall always feel, decide, and ultimately act for myself. I will not condescend to make professions of the purity of my motives; I boldly appeal to the whole conduct of my past life, private and professional, as voucher for the soundness of my intentions; and if it becomes a question between me and others, as to the correctness of those feelings, or that conduct, general opinion must decide between us. I have thus, sir, gone more into detail of the question between me and the Oxford circuit. If there be any known rule as the resolution asserts, I shall not presume to infringe it; but I wish to convey to the gentlemen of the circuit, and my most anxious wish is to do it in manner and language as respectful as any body of gentlemen can require from an equal, that I will not abandon, but firmly maintain, a right for myself and others who may be in like circumstances hereafter, until the asserted known rule of the profession is distinctly proved to exist. I am extremely sorry, that you should be the channel of what, to me, is a painful communication, but, trusting to your polite attention and former friendship for pardon, believe me, sir, ever your's respectfully. J. CURWOOD.

not be many, because no man, who has acquired business in one circuit, will abandon it to begin again in another, unless he has motives from other causes out of the profession, to which he looks for compensation for his loss; but with respect to length of standing at the bar, I can state one precedent on the home circuit (with whose history I am best acquainted). Sergeant Kempe came from the western to the home circuit, and at once took the lead of it. I have also heard, that lord Loughborough first went the northern, after he had obtained a silk gown. With respect to general understanding, I found the rule to be so variously understood, that I could arrive at no certain conclusion. With some it was understood to be an absolute right to change once others thought, that any change in a man's own peculiar circumstances was a sufficient justification. That a man has a right to change his circuit, has been a thing so often done, that no one doubt can exist upon the understood right in the abstract, but at what standing, or under what circumstances, are wholly undefined, or at least as far as I can learn. The only conclusion I could come to, was one as stated by a gentleman of rank on this circuit, who, on speaking to me on the subject, observed, "that in his opinion, it was entirely a matter of feeling, to be decided on the peculiar circumstances of each individual case." upon this last principle, that I acted: I felt I was not influenced by any unworthy motives, or taking advantage of any peculiar circumstances in the circuit, against the junior members of it; and although I hope I shall ever be open to conviction if I am in error,

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Post of this date contains a long correspondence between the American commodore Porter, and the commandant of Porto Rico, on the subject of the death of lieutenant Cocke, commanding the American schooner Fox, who was killed by a discharge of a cannon from Fort Moro, while persisting to enter the port, after a previous discharge with a blank cartridge to prevent him. The commandant, who was absent at the time, attributes the rigorous execution of a positive order by the second in command to the alarms excited by the previous bucaneering expedition against the island, from an American port, under the command of the adventurer Ducodray Holstein, as well as to rumours of other intended designs against Porto Rico. Commodore Porter is very lofty in his expostulation, and the Spanish commander very deprecatory.

KING'S BENCH. Novello v. Towgood. The question in this case was, whether a chorister in the chapel of the Portuguese ambassador, residing in a house separate from that of the embassy, letting part of his house to lodgers, and engaged as prompter at the Opera-house, and as a teacher of languages, has a right of action, if his goods are distrained for rates, taxes, or rent.

Mr. E. Lawes urged, that the privileges never extended to any goods but those of the embassy, and that the seizure of the plaintiff's property could not deprive him of the ability to perform his accustomed duties. Their loss would not affect his voice, nor injure his musical skill. It would be perfectly monstrous, if a person in such a capacity could take houses apart from the ambassador, let them to lodgers, and then evade

the payment of rent and taxes, on the pretext that the rights of the ambassador rendered his property as well as person inviolate.

Mr. Campbell, in reply, contended, that no distinction had yet been taken between the person and the goods of a person attached to the ambassador's suite. If the property of a person in the confidence of the ambassador were subject to process, the despatches from his court, and the dresses appointed for his suite, might be taken by the sheriff of Middlesex, when immediately requisite for the purposes of the embassy.

The Court gave judgment for the defendant on this single ground, that the privilege claimed was not at all essential to the performance of those services, which the plaintiff was bound to render. They would sustain the privileges of an ambassador, so far as they could contribute to his convenience, construing that convenience in regard to his rank, his office, and his religion; but it was the privilege of the ambassador, not of the servant; and it was impossible that any ambassador could desire, that a person, engaged occasionally to afford him certain assistance, should protect himself from liability to contribute to the support of the revenue, or to the burthens of the parish in which he resided. Such a construction would be contrary to every principle of the law; the ambassador could suffer nothing by the seizure of these goods under process of law, and therefore a nonsuit must be entered, as the plaintiff had no ground of action. 25. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS OLD BAILEY. Marinel Krans, aged 37; Carle Kalke, 30; Jan Schmidt, 31; Jacob Robileau, 26; Jan Lammpe, 33; Martin Kape,

34; Jan Vanness, 22; Jan Jenner, 22; Jan de Friese, 26; Vollin Maree, 32; Kiest Molinaar, 24; Kendrick de Bragne, 25; Jan de Frenchberg, 32; Jonathan Vandyke, 24; Jan Crat, 55; Hendrice Allerson, 25; Jan de Frenark, 16; Cornelius Reymas, 38; Abram de Molinaar, 24; John Harrison, 27; William Dangerfield, 18; all stated to be natives of Flushing, Middleburg, and Trefaer, and by profession fishermen and mariners, were put to the bar on an indictment consisting of 12 counts, the principal charging the prisoners with maliciously shooting into the Badger, a vessel in the service of his majesty's customs, off Dungeness, within fourteen leagues of the county of Kent, on the 13th of January last, and killing James Harper and Wm. Cullum, officers of his majesty's customs.

All the prisoners, except the first six, pleaded in English, which language they appeared tolerably well acquainted with.

When the case for the prosecution was closed, the prisoners, on being called upon for their defence, said, they would leave it to their counsel; with the exception of Reymas and A. Molinaar, who handed in written papers. Before these were read, however,

Dr. Lushington rose to offer objections in point of law to the present proceeding; contending, that the Badger had no right whatever to search the vessel in question, and that the attack made by the former was illegal, and not authorized by any existing statute.

Mr. Justice Park said, that it was the intention of the Court to reserve these points for the consideration of the twelve judges.

26. At ten o'clock the Court sat

and proceeded on the trial. Mr. Justice Park asked Mr. Brougham (in the absence of Dr. Lushington), whether he wished to have two papers, put in by Dr. Lushington, read.-Mr. Brougham replied in the affirmative. The papers were accordingly read. The first was a defence addressed to the Court by Reymas, stating that he was employed on board the Four Brothers as pilot on the day of the engagement, and took no part in it. The second was from Krans, master of the Four Brothers, and stated, that the Four Brothers belonged to Flushing, and that he was directed by the master to land the cargo on the coast of Spain. It denied the right of England to bring a Dutch vessel to, on the high seas in time of peace, or that any law made in this country could bind the subjects of another country; and asked, supposing the French to have made a similar law, would the English submit to it?

John Belie.-Witness is a shipbroker, well acquainted with the Dutch language and ship's papers; the papers produced (six in number) were the regular papers of a Dutch ship, the clearance stated that the Four Brothers was bound to Ferrol.

James Lowes. Witness is a ship-builder at Flushing; he built the Four Brothers; she was launched last October; he sold her to Mr. Inglebert, a Dutchman, who lives with his family at Middleburg; proved the receipts he gave for the price of the vessel; after he sold the Four Brothers, Krans and Carl Kelke rigged her.

On his cross-examination, he said he lived 35 years at Sandgate, and knew Joseph Wells, who is now called Reymas, and one of the prisoners.

Bowing Dettering was examined through an interpreter.-Witness is a native of Middleburg, and merchant there. Mr. Inglebert is a merchant there, and a native. Knows the vessel called the Four Brothers: a cargo of tobacco, gin and tea, was shipped on board her in January last, by merchants of the firm of Mintin and Co., onethird on account of witness. She cleared out for Feroe, a Danish island, but her real destination was Ferrol, Portugal. Orders were given to the master to proceed to Portugal, and a letter was given him, to be delivered to a house there, which letter contained directions to sell the cargo and send the amount by the captain in cash. Directions were given to the master to take a pilot, as he was not sufficiently acquainted with the channel. Witness saw Mr. Inglebert on the 15th of this month, at Middleburg; he was very ill, quite unable to come to this country. Witness produced the invoice of the cargo, received from Mintin and Co., by whom it was shipped. He paid for his one-third of the cargo to Inglebert.

On his cross-examination, the witness said, he had dealt in spirits and tobacco for 20 years: shipped spirits in small casks and bottles, and tobacco in small parcels. The vessels in those cases were never sent to England or Ireland, nor the cargoes intended to be smuggled into England or Ireland.

Van Oldenbeck, examined through the interpreter.-Lives at Flushing, keeps a lodging-house, and is a carpenter; has known Cornelius Reymas seven years who lives in Flushing with his family, and is known there by the name of Joe Wills; thinks him an Eng

lishman; he gets his living as a seaman; knows Cusing was a sailmaker in Flushing, and came from Ostend; as far as witness knows, both Cusings are Englishmen ; the register of baptism was kept in the town-house of Flushing, which was burned to the ground by bombardment; knows Abram de Molinaar, the prisoner, he is a native of Flushing; the prisoner, Robileau, is a Dutchman; never heard him speak any other language; Schmidt is also a Dutch sailor; his father was an Englishman, but lived at Flushing: knows Kiest de Molinaar; he is a native of Flushing; has known one of the prisoners by the name of Wills seven or eight years; his father lived at Flushing 23 years ago, and had children living with him; he was an Englishman.

Conrad Conrad.-Witness is a seaman living at Flushing, of which he is a native; he has known Joe Wills four years; he is a sailor and a burgher of Flushing, having a wife and family living there. Has known Thomas Cusing in Flushing eight or ten years. His grandfather was a sail-maker in Flushing.

Sarah Curtis, examined by Mr. Brougham. Is an English woman; lived in Flushing these 29 years; married Abraham de Molinaar, the father of Kiest de Molinaar, the prisoner, who is her son; he was born at Flushing, and brought up to the sea, and followed it ever since.

Richard Wills lives in Folkestone is son of Richard Wills, of Folkestone, who was a mariner; remembers his mother going to Holland with his father. Witness was then eight years old; his mother brought a young son with her on her return; witness identified