Court Of King's Bench, We...
This wa4 S) Information against tue oelen aant, tuea at thein. stance of the Admranlty under the statute, for lea-ring four sailore in North America whio d aassted In naBvgating bis Ycasel to that country. MSr. GturSaT opened the mae as one of geat aggravations, and expressed his confident expectat!ofl ilat it would be fuUy proved by the witnesses. In support of the prosecutlon, the men w vw7hose behalf it was In- stituted were called. They stated that they were put on shore by their Captain on the 11th of November in lat yew, at a creek of the river St. Lawrnee, and thatthey only reachedEngand by Aci- dentally meting with a ship whichbad been stranded inthe river. Mr. BuOuOGAm, for the defendant, cross-eammined the wit. aesses,.with aview to show that they had left the vessel in order to obtain f'reequarters for thewinter, and ellcited from them someslight inconxistencies of statement. Upon these the learned counsel ad- dressed the jury; and he also commented on the improbability of a Captain dismisling his best hands, and leaving his vessel without men to navigate her on her homeward voyage, at the very com_ mencement of winter. 1The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE told the jurg, that the simple ques- tion for thgir consideration was whether each of the men who had been examined had committed wilful perjury, when they swore that they were left in rorth America agaiNst their will, and when they were uncutnadicted by any of the crew who remained on board the vessel, and who might have been caUed for the defendant. The jury immediately returned & verdict of giiity. fUST OF KINGS BENCH. WESTMnrS3TXR, JUXN 12. I'HE XING V. CHRISTOPHERION. - -