ALLEGED LIBEL.—A conditional rule was obtained in the Court of
King's Bench, on Wednesday, against Mr. Westmacott and Mrs. Durham Dutton, as proprietors of the Age, for a libel on Mr. Holmes of the Trea- sury (whom it designated as the whipper-in of the House of Commons). The libel charged Mr. Holmes with writing an article in the Courier for the purpose of bringing down the price of Greek Bonds, of which fall Mr. Holmes took advantage by buying largely. It was stated that Mr. West- macott, though assured that the fact was not so, before the libel was written, had expressed his determination to publish it at all hazards.
CERTIFICATES OF Luaracy.—We notice, for the information and cau- tion of medical practitioners, that on Thursday, in the Court of King's Bench, an indictment was presented, and a true bill found by the Grand Jury of the county of Middlesex (on the prosecution of the _Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, under the act 9 Geo. IV. cap. 41, for regulating the care and treatment of insane persons), against Mr. William Jones, sur- geon and apothecary, Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, for having signed a certificate of insanity without having visited and personally examined the patient, and for untruly setting forth in such certificate that he had visited and examined the patient to whom it related.—Times.
AN AVERAGE Loss.—At the Thames Police Office, on Tuesday, a woman named Long was charged with robbing Wilson, a sailor, of a five-pound note and fourteen sovereigns. She had met the sailor—one of the discharged crew of the Briton—at Gracechurch Street ; and on pretence of finding him lodgings, she had him placed on one of the Blackwall stages. At the Half-way House, on the Commercial Road, he found her tugging at his watch, and had her arrested. The exact sum previously in his pockets —namely, the five-pound note and fourteen sovereigns—was discovered on her person' by the policeman who searched her. Knowing the character of the woman (she was taken up lately on a charge of intoxicating sailors and then robbing them), the policeman proceeded immediately to her lodgings ; when he found Daly, another sailor, in a half-stupefied state, lying on a bed ; and on his being roused, he declared also that he had been robbed of a five-pound note and fourteen sovereigns ! As both the men were equally positive of the amount of their several losses, the magistrates were con- strained to dismiss the woman, and the two seamen divided the loss between them.
NEWGATE.—A plan of escape which some of the prisoners in Newgate had formed, was detected on Wednesday night. They had cut up their straw mats into ropes, and had attached to them pieces of lead for the purpose o throwing them across the outward wall, to enable persons stationed there to
kohl them.
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