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euted it, not well, but to the extent 
of my humble abilities, and the time 
which I have been able to devote to 
it ; andI enjoy the grateful feeling, 
that there is no suitor of this court 
who can say | have not executed it 
conscientiously. Thereis yet, how- 
ever, one painful emotion, by which 
I am assailed—it is the taking leave 
of you. In retiring into private 
life, 1 am upheld by the hope that 
I shall carry with me the continued 
esteem of a profession, for which [ 
feel an attachment that will descend 
with me to the grave. 
‘6 For the great attention, respect, 
aad kindness, I have always received 
from you, accept, gentlemen, my 
sincerest thanks, accompanied by 
my best wishes for your long con- 
tinued health and happiness, and 
uninterrupted prosperity.” 
s) 
Mr. Pigott, the new attorney-ge- 
neral, evidently affected, made a 
brief answer to the chancellor, in 
' the name of the whole bar. 
5th. This morning was executed 
in the Old Bailey, Leonard. White, 
for cutting and wounding William 
Randall, a watchman, in the execu- 
tion of his duty, in Little Ormond- 
street, Bedford-row. 
In the court of king’s bench, an 
application was made on behalf of 
colonel Thornton, for leave to filea 
criminal information against Mr. 
_Fiint, for challenging him to fight a 
duel, and horse-whipping him on 
' the race-ground at York, last sum- 
mer, &c. ‘The quarrel arose out of 
a bet of 1500 guineas, which Mr. 
Flint claims to have won of colonel 
Thornton, by the race he rode 
against Mrs. Thornton, whose bets 
were adopted by her husband. 
Whereas colonel Thornton maintains, 
that of the bet alluded to, 10001. 
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was a mere nominal thing, intended 
to attract company to the race, and 
that nothing more than 500 guineas 
were seriously intended by the par- 
ties. After a full hearing of the 
whole case, lord Ellenborough was 
of opinion, that the case before the 
court was one in which their lord- 
ships ought not to interpose with its 
extraordinary power. On the con- 
trary, he conceived that it would be 
degrading its process to interfere in 
favour of such parties in such a 
cause. Colonel Thornton had 
chosen to appeal to the Jockey 
Club, and should have abided by 
their decision. He had, however, 
not found them exactly fitting his 
notion of justice; aud, therefore, 
for every thing that had -happened 
since, he must have recourse to the 
ordinary mode of obtaining redress, 
namely, by preferring a bill of in- 
dictment at the sessions of the 
county. The other judges being of 
the same opinion, the rule was dis- 
charged. 
6th. As five boys were coming 
on shore at North Shields, from the 
Ship Pomona, the boat unfortunate- 
ly got upon a ship’s hawser, and 
upset. Four of them got hold of 
the rope, but the fifth, who was a 
Scots lad, (to whom they had given 
a passage from Mona Island, where 
he had been shipwrecked, and suf- 
fered many hardships) went to the 
bottom, and before assistance could 
be rendered the others, one of them, 
a boy belonging to London, let go 
his hold, and was likewise drowned. 
One of the bodies was found two 
days after. 
Provenine Maron.—The Cock- 
burnspath agricultural society had 
their first annual ploughing match 
on the 20th ult. in a clover lea field 
be- 
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