Sir Charles Wetherell applied on Thursday to the Vice-Chancellor, to
dissolve the injunction obtained some weeks ago by Messrs. Squire and Williams, the bankers, to prevent the erection of the statue of George the Third in the open space at the top of Cockspur Street. After hearing the argument, Sir Lancelot Shadwell continued the Injunction.
At the Mansionhouse, on Monday, a Jew doctor, Cautho by name, was charged with eating a dinner worth eightpence, at a tavern, without paying for it. He was very impudent to Alderman Winchester, the presiding Magistrate ; saying he knew perfectly well that he had only contracted a simple debt, and had not committed any criminal offence. He said he should only give the eating-house keepers in the City one turn each ; and then, thank God, the law was the same in Westminster. The fellow was discharged. (This case illustrates the glorious nonsense of the law. An honest, but defrauded or unfortunate person is liable to iar.. prisonment for debt at the mercy of his creditor ; but an undoubted swindler, who cheats a poor waiter at a tavern—for the waiter is the sufferer—escapes, because, though essentially a thief, in law he has only contracted a debt which it is not worth while to recover.]
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