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Rh  the fame principle that it is aid in 6 Co. 45. ‘‘ the court will damn a bond, on which the obligee has recovered.’’

M‘KEAN, Chieƒ Jutice. The court will not detain a note or bond in the circumtances mentioned. With repect to the competency of the witnes, I remember a cae before CHEW, Chieƒ Jutice, where one Chapman  was indicted for playing with fale dice, and the peron cheated was admitted to be a witnes. On the authority of that deciion, in a recent trial at Lancater, the injured party was allowed to give evidence, after a full argument upon the preent objection. We have, therefore, no doubt that Meng is a competent witnes. 

HARLES JULIAN DE LONGCHAMPS, commonly called the Chevalier De Longchamps, was indicted, that “he on the 17th of May, 1784, in the dwelling-houfe of his Excellency the French Miniter Plenipotentiary, in the preence of Francis Barbe Marbois, unlawfully and inʃolently did threaten and menace bodily harm and violence to the peron of the aid Francis Barbe Marbois,  he being Conul General of France  to the United States, Conul for the State of  Pennʃylvania, Secretary of the French Legation &c. reident in the houe aforeaid, and under the protection of the law of nations and this Common-wealth.’’ And that ‘‘afterwards, to writ on the 19th of May in the public reet &c. he had aid Charles Julian de Longchamps  unlawfully, premeditatedly and violently, in and upon the peron of the aid Francis Barbe Marbois under the protection of the laws of nations, and in the peace of this Commonwealth, then and there being, and aault did make, and him the aid Francis Barbe Marbois unlawfully and violently did trike and otherwie &c in violation of the laws of nations, againt the peace and dignity of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Pennʃylvania,” —To thee charges the defendant pleaded not guilty.

The evidence, in upport of the firt Count, was, that on the 17th of May, De Longchamps went to the houe of the Miniter of  France,  and after fome converfation with Monieur  Marbois,  was heard to exclaim in a loud and menacing tone, ‘‘  Je vous deʃbonnarera, Poliçon, Coquin ’’, addreing himelf to that gentleman. That the noie being heard by the Miniter, he repaired to the room from which it iued, and that in his preence the defendant repeated the inult offered to Monʃieur Marbois in nearly the ame terms.

In upport of the econd Count, it appeared, that De Longchamps and Monieur Marbois,  having met in Market Street,  near the Coffee Houe, entered into a long converation, in the coure of which, the latter aid that he would complain to the civil authority, and the former replied, ‘‘ you are a Blackguard.’’  The witnees generally depoed that De Longchamps truck the cane of  Monieur Marbois,