no they were then ready to make it—aud to know if the At torney-General was ready to receive them for that purpose. This course was accordingly adopted. •« m t . Grattan and Mr. Fitzgerald accordingly waited on the Attorney-General on Saturday last, and stated the object of their visit.—Mr. Attorney-General was not then ready to receive the communication ! We understand that he asked if there were any informations on oath, and recommended to Lord Fingal and the other Gentlemen to go before a Police Magistrate, and give their information to him—said, that the usual way was to go before a Magis trate,. and did not seem to think it at all necessat y to see the Catholic gentlemen himself ! We - understand that theAttorney-General was strongly pressed to receive the communication, and submit it to the Irish Government ; that he asked, whether the Gentlemen meant to conic to him as a Committee; to which the Knight of Kerry replied, No, Sir, they will wait on you merely as individuals." At length, the Attorney-General appointed the hour of twelve on Monday, the Gth, at Mr. Pole's Office, in the Caste, for receiving the communication. He said, he wanted to go to his country seat, and supposed there could be no danger in the mean time ! 'The Earl of Fingal, Major Bryan, and Mr. O'Con nell, were appointed to go to Mr. Pole's Office at that lour. They did so accordingly, and were accompanied by Mr. O'Gorman. We understand that they gave a brief statement of the confession made by the Schoolmaster— gave in his name, and the names and residences of some of the Trustees who were witnesses to that confession ; and also some printed papers belonging to this Associa tion. They were received by the Attorney-General and Mr. Pole with ceremonious politeness, and, having made their communication, withdrew, leaving it to the Govern- ment to act as they should think fit. We have heard, too, that the Attorney-General offered some excuse for postponing the meeting from Saturday to Monday. He said he had, on second thoughts, written •to Mr. Gramm, to say that he would be glad to see Lord Fingal on Sunday ; but as Mr. Grattan had returned to his house in the country, the letter had followed him there, where Mr. Grattan had written in answer, that the matter did not press. • Lord FINCAL replied, Mr. Attorney-General, tue felt Mat it Tressed on us to make the communication as speedily as possible.' " THE NATIONAL,REGISTER. SATURDAY,JAN.IL JAN. Yr>. LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING'S GUILDHALL. THACKORAII V. 131:1t10ETT. This was an action upon two Bills of Exchange, amounting to near 30001. brought by the indorser against the draw. r. The defendant was the age nt e ef .% essr , . 'rett:in and Co. Merchants of London, residing at Newcastle-upon-Tvne, and had been in the habit of drawing Bills upon them for their accommodation. Thi: BiH in question were accepted by Messrs. Preston and Co, and one of rile part ners of the house carried them to the plaintiff (sell, resided atl3ci‘t•sn), !requesting he would discount them for the ace rn ocidai ion o. the drawer, 13erkett. The _plaintiff gave him checques on his Bankers fir sell, amount of the Bills, upon condition that du- money should be reran ned on the following Saturday ie'nnitzlit. When that day came the plaint:ll demande ! his advance hack, but Preston and Co. not being preiiiired to pay it he returned the Bills, insisting on ' icing pad without delay. In the mean time, and just as the Eills were fallirg due, Messrs. Preston's became insolvent, and the day before their insolvency was deciared, one of the partners destroyed the Bills in question, through mistake, ion with others, and the money never was paid to the plaintiff. Notice of; the non-payment, at the time the Bills shiiuld become due, w... given to the acceptors, Messrs. Preston, but not to the delendant, the drawer. The Attorney-Genera!, for the plaintiff, contended, that notice to the drawer was not necessary, inasmuch as theses were ace( ntinodation and there was no prod of any assets in the hands of th dr.twer belonging to the acceptor at the time the bill- became due. But it ap peared that both at the time of making the bills, and, when they be came clue, the defendant was a creditor of Messrs. Preston, oo lance of account, but in a much less sum than the amount of the hilt,. Upon this Lord ELLENBOROUGH held, that notwithstandirg the amount of the bills was much beyond the balance of accfamt, y, t, as there was an existing balance on an unsettled account at the time they became due, the defendant was entitled to have notice of the norpay ment.—His Lordship therefore directed the plaintiff should be nun suited. The next case was between the same ?arties, and brought by Thi-k -orah, the plaintiff, against Berkett, upoi the statute of William 111. for refusing to give new hills of acceptance (the former being des!ro!,:ed, as already mentioned), upon his (the plaintiff's) tendering the ustz.;l in demnity, pursuant to the statute. But it appearing that the wor,ls of the statute were " bill or bills lest or miscarried," httt not extending to bills destro rd, it was agreed to withdraw the case for the I.resetr.;—it being the intention of the plaintiff to move the Court to set aside th , 2 nonsuit in the former case, upon the grounds that notice to the drawer of an accommodation-bill was not necessary. in the above Court, on Tuesday, an action came on, at the suit of the University . of Cambridge v. Dryer, as the publisher of Mr. Fcx's Histo rical Work, for not having delivered a cipy of that hook fur !he u- , e , the University, pursuant to the statute of Anne. There was no di,pute as to the facts—and the plaintiff's took a verdict for 61. 64. the pric• of the work, subject to a case for th- future consideration of the Court, wh t . ther the payment of the copies of every work to the English arid Irish Universities could he enforced--since, in the cases at the Encyclopedias, and books of that magnitUde, the expellee would be enormous. PROVINCIALS. It is with much regret we learn, that thirty more frames were broken at Nottingham on Saturday week, by the rioters.—The Derby Paper of • Wednesday states several fresh acts of robbery and outrage in that county.—A framework knitter, named Draper, is committed for trial, a: one concerned in robbing the house of Mr. Hunt, of Ockbrook . The Quarter Sessions commenced at Portsmouth on Thursday, before Edward Carter, Esq. Mayor, and a full Bench of Magistrates ; when a true hill was found against Crofton, who committed th. late robberies at the Crown- Inn. He was acquitted for want of Prosecutors ; Bradbury, we understand, is pursuing his professional as ()cations in Ire!and ; and the naval gsnrlernen, who were also hound over to prosecute, being at sea. Crofton was, however, ordered to he remanded till the Sessisns are ended, in order to give time for the fatly r two parties to appear (he being charged on three counts). It is not at all likely t'sey will appear. MURDEKS.—Wednesday, William C. r, alias Wdlism Smith, alias Will the Tinker (which trade he has followed and travelled in fir a num ber of years, in Norfolk and Suffolk). was arpr , trended at I;act on, on a charge of two murders, committed at Crastishl (a village bttsee. ti Vox ford and ! Jarlescon) in 1793, aided by two other;, who are sots • in Mir. tody. The murders were cornmi ted on an ti:cl man aii his dsughter. It is said they were urged to the fast act I , y t.i_ son of tilt &d man; on account of his father r.-fusing to give tom sone, m;,t.ey. Tice niLirdt revs. were taken up on 'he declaration of fena::: when she w. s ill. it was communicated to the Rev. Mr. Olderrtham, upon whose war rant they have been secured. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. MANstoN-Hottsg.—Robertson, Priestly, Price, and Goulding, who were charged with breaking open the wine cellars of Messrs. Mann and Ingot!, under the chapel at the hottom of Quet-n-street, Cheapside, and r aling a quantity of wine, were on Friday brought up for final exami nation, and fully commi , ted. SIIADVELt. NIURDEIM—John Harrison, a sailor, who slept with the deceased Williams at the Pear Tree p - ;blic• house, was re examined at this office last week; when he stated, tilat he saw : , bout four wet 1 44 ago its Williams's possession a knew French knife, which WilliaTris inform e him he had just put chased. 'ilk it is sup, 03.. d is the instrument with which he cut the ti.rcats of Ins uttf.)r7unaie victim, he privy b longing to the Pear Tree public-house, when: Wdliams lodged. has lY en . e.trched and examined, and in it ha ' e teen f mud buried a pit of blue striped trowsers, much 5141 t with baptet f' mu top to bolt ,m ; they are spoken to very conild,f3t.y by iffilii.lms 7 l fellow lodgers Pear-Tree :ts having been seen frequ ntly lying about LIR - house . A peal.•••ibo;k has also been fun: d in the same place, crettaining sev- tal ,estrum rtss au+ a pair of sensors, which, no •d tubt, will prow it to ha-o. belonged either to .Ors. Vinliam..on or rs. The tr., , vs , :rs ant the pocket• book were Ji.cov(-reit thrust down t;4441* four leer miler ti'e tnarr , tce of tie soi by a birch-b-o , ua, wtvct was :;1,.) tou nt a p r d et4scula: polition upon the trove- tees, li.tt co •t .1-tely covered by the The cf , ntents of 1!1.- pocket-book arc .rash, ;Ala do nut al' - pear to have been disturbed. , \