NOV. 27. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. BRITISH FJREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. A most respectable - and numerous meetinT, of the friends of thiv Institution. took pkee yesterday at the Freemason's Tavcrn, Great Queen-street. The DUKE of KrNT in the chair. The annual re port of the committee wes read—it gave a mo•t . gratifying picture of the progressive improvement of the institution, hmi was received with the warme4 demonstrations of Fati‘f tvt;ott. Several resolu tions for promoting the interests ut the establidinient, were read. Amon_ other persons present, were Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Hume, Lady tVlsithrcad, Lady M•lniosh, &c. LAW IN7ELLIGENCE. COURT OF KINGS BENCH, Fitio.tv, Nov. 23. THE KING Z•. COLONEL. GRANT. The defendant was brought ap for jadgment. He was convicted at the la.t Lewes Assizes, for assaulting a Mr. John Bnd, an inha bitant of BriOsion. The case was repented loom the Cisenit at the time ot its oceurrence, and was as follows :—The defendant, Major ot the 18th Hteisars then wiartered at hrighton. and the proseentor. 111 r. 11e111 , was driviee his chaise on thy road leading from Brighton to Lewes, when he met the Major also driving a one-horse chaise. Tire latter came so Hear the former. that he drove him almost ofT the road. Upon which he asked him, Why Ise did not quarter?" The Major turned round and exclaimed, " What is that you say, Cott impudent rascal? down on your knees ' and beg my !Hullos), or 1 will horse.w hip you." Mr. Bull replied, he never asked pardon of puppies. The Major then laid Isis horse-whip on his shoulders, and in doing it struck the wife and child, who were riding with Mr. Bull. Bull asked his mime; he replied it.was Duncan. Bull said, and my name is Bull. I live at Brighton, and will punish you. Tire Major told him to go home and tell his Brighton friends he had re ceived a horse-whipping.—After Counsel had been heard, the Major beegid to Fay a few words, when he vehemently protested on his honour that he never gave a false name. Ile was sentenced to six Weeks impritonment in the King's Bemis. DISSENTING CHAPELS. THE HIM', V. GEORGE FAHQUAIttiON. Mr. !Colon wis this thy to chew cause against a rifle obtained dui in 4 the :a t Term, calling upon the Justices of Surrey to skew cause wily In order of Sessions made by them, confirming a poor rate f r tl:e parish of Christchurch, imposed on the defendant, should not 1 e gnashed. The defendant, it appeared, having been rated by tln. Churchwardens of the said parish, appealed against the rate, upon , 11 ground that Rowland Hill's and other meeting-houses in the par sh, were not subject to the payment of a similar r,dte. Mr. Nolan a ipported the order of Sessions, which lie said must be confirmed. i•iasninch as no proper initice bad been given by the de fen(L:nt of the grievance of which he complained, he having given notice that c:rtain Chapels were not ratedi instead of having stated that cer :lin persons 11 ceiting the pi ofi ts of the said Chapels had not beou rated. The Court held that it was not the meeting 10100, hut the man to whom the mettinglionse be longed, that was rateable, and consequently the flrm of appeal adopted by the defendant wiai improper. .He must, there fore, at present settle his difference with the external walls of the Chapel, and in order that lie might obtain the judgment of the Conti upon his ease, put himself in a rational shape.—Sir Simon Le Blanc snit], the chapels in question tni6:it or might not be rateable. —Order of Sesbiona confirmed. THE KIND V. P. WOOD. Mr. Nolan moved the judgment of the Court on the defendant, who had been convicted at the late Assizes fur Surrey, before Mr. Justice Heath, of disturbing the Churchwardens and Overseers of the lowish al Croydon, in the vestry-room, on S'indny, the 31st of October, 1813, whilst assembled there for the disrritch of parish busieess; and torthur *'so, assaulting Mr: Farrar, one of the Overseers. Foru the Judge's notes it appeared, that the defendant forced his way into the vestry ; and, using must violent language, ran his fist eery rear the rice of Mr. Farrar, and on quitting the room, he sairl----" Hell coul d not produce another such a set of v4lnins." The cfPavit of the defendant wa put in, stating, that he wended the yes!rv-mom us a parishioner, amid had delivered his opinion as such. fie denied ever hating put his (1,1 in the face of Mr. Farrar, but said, he merely tonic!, the table in the warmth of speaking; a warmth occasioned b: an opini o n h e enter tained, that these persons had abused the trust repmed in them. Mr. NI len said, all the object these Gentlemen had in view was quiet fir the future, and security boo' further violence on the part of the de fend int. Thee Court, on this intimation, ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 6s. Bd. and all costa, and to enter into Lis own recognizance to keep the peace for two year*. FRIDAY, Nov. THE XING V. THOMAS HUNT,' AM PYM. 791 This was an indictment tried at the last Assizes fin. the County of Devon, charging the defendant with wilful and corrupt perjury, of which he was .found - It appeared that the defendant was a paper-maker, in the vicinity of Exeter, and that having insure/ his mill and other premises near it, a part of the same Was burnt down, And he, therefore, applied to the Hope Ihsurance Office for the amount of the same. Some doubts, however, having arisen (his cl a ims Wi l l near 40001.) it was deemed expedient to file a bill in Chancery against him, aaer .he had received about 2,7001. of the inoney, and in his answer to •that bill the perjury was conanitted, for which he was thus prosecuted. He swore in that answer, that a certain building had been destroyed by the fire, and for which he obtained 7001 from the Insurance Office, whereas be well knew at the.time he had so sworn, that the allegation was totally faire, the fire never having reaeied it. There were several ()thee allegations of perjury in the indictment, all of which were manifestly proved ou the trial. The defendant put in an affidavit, which was read. It set forth. that he had liven already most severely punished for the crime of which he was found guilty, and that the prosecution against hint had driven him and his family to beggary and ruin ; that he had, since the trial, been imprisoned five months, and that under all these afflictions his health had been greatly impaired. .111 r. Gifford; for the prosecution, adverted to minutes of the proceedings on *the trial, and said he need only call to their Lord ships' notice the facts set forth. which but too fidly showed the baseness of the defendant's conduct, his crime being a compound of the grossest fraud and the most corrupt perjury. Mr. Justice Le Blanc, iu pronouncing t h e judgment of the Covrt, censured the defendant in the severest terms, agreeing fully with the Counsel, that his crime was a compound of the basest fraud and the most deliberate perjury ; but taking into consideration the punishment and the imprisonment he had already suffered, sentenced him to be confined two years in the common gaol of tke county of Devon. SATURDAY, Nov. 26. CRIMINA L IN FORMATION. Mr. Abbot moved for a rule to shew cause why a criminal infant. mation should not be tiled against Mr. John Phillips, under the fol kiwinebircumstances:—A Gentleman named Meredith, residing at Brecon in Wales, having met Mr. Phillips one day amusing him self with his.doe and gun, enquired if l►e had any qualification or licence; and being answered in the negative, he summoned him be fore a magistrate, and convicted him in the penalties under the Game Laws. On the following market-day, as Mr. Meredith was standing in the market place, at Brecon, Mr. Plrillips came up and applied the billowing epithets to him, " Your are a liar, a poltroon, and a coward"- Mr. Meredith took no notice of these expressions. hut removed to another part of the market. Mr. Phillips followed him; and publiciy repeated then►. This Mr. Meredith considered xs intended to provoke him to fight a duel, and, therefore, had felt it necessary to make the preser•.t application. Lind Ellenborough asked, who. was the rank and condition of the parties... _ _ _ Air Abbot—My Lord. Mr. Meredith describes himself as anEsq. Nlr. Phillips, I understand was snrgeon's mate on beard an India. man. Lord Ellenhorough—then let thew p:o before a Grand Jury, that i; the most fit trihuuaL—Apl►lication rcfnsed. In the Court of King's Bench, on Thursday, Francis Drake was brought up to receive judgment. Lc having, with others been con victed at the De , o!) Assizes of furnishing bread to the French pri soners at Dartmoor, inferior in quality to that stipulated by con tract ; viz. bread made up of a mixture of wheat meal, bean, flour, Indian wheat meal, and barley sharps, instead of that manufactured from good English or foteivi wheat. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment—Mr. Fraser, au attorney, of Greet Grimsby, was also sentenced to one month's imprisonment for a libel on Mr. Clarke, the King's Counsel, and of which he was found guilty at the late Lincoln Assizes. A belief is entertained that the Dike of Wellington will soon return to this country. His Grace, it is said, fin,.s his reFidene at Park uncomfortable ; nay, it is again reported, that his life is in danger. So far from the French conceiving the selection of so illustrious a character to be a cotnialitnent tQ them, they consider it as an affrout.