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MARCH 17. (Sunday.)

The 'Cornwall Chronicle' informs us, that, at the Montego Bay assizes, a man was tried on the Monday, for assaulting, while drunk, an officer who bad served with great distinction, and calling him a coward ; for which offence he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and a fine of 100 1 . ; and on the Tuesday

the same man brought an action against a third person for calling him a " drunken liar," for which he was awarded 1000 l . who had two Captains under him; and their intention for damages ! A plain man would have supposed two such verdicts to be rather inconsistent ; but one lives to learn. This man was a clergyman; and his cause of quarrel against the officer was the latter's refusal to give him a puncheon of rum to christen all his negroes in a lump.