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- and he Thewed that his recolledion of the affair had confiderably failed. On the part of the plain tiff it was allowed that this circumaance had not been difclofed to the underwriters ; and that it be ing in the knowledge of the plaintiff it had been kept back, the policy was void; but that the plain tiff really knew it was utterly denied ; and Capt. Price of the Cirene was called to prove that he could not have received the information in the way limed by the laft witnefi. He fwore that he bad not feen Mr. Gadefdale at the Cullom Houfe on the 16th of June, nor had fpoken to him any where elfe till near a week afterwards, when he came on board the Cirece. Then and no fooner he told him of the Amie having failed two days before tire time of his own departure. The Learned Judge left it to the Jury upon the credit of the witneffes, and after a very fhort con- I fultation the) found a verditi for the plaintiff. There were three other cafes in the Eper but I they were all referred to arbitration. The Court I was than adjourned till after the Mires. COURT OF EXCHECWER,MARCH s. IISS MAJESTY'S ATTORERY GENIRAL o. OMR j 1 GRIGORY. The Counfel on the part of the Crown Rated to the Court and Jury, that this profecution was com menced by order of his Majefty's Commillioners of the Stamp duties, to recover of the defendant penalties to the amount of pea for a too corn mon and injurious fraud upon the revenue, of giv ing receipts upon undamped paper. That the de fendant was a potatoe merchant, refiding in Crif pin-fireet, Spitalfields, where he carried on a very extenfive trade. That he had confiderable deal ings with the wintefs whom he fhould call to prove the cafe. That the information contained thirty- two counts for various offences, fixteen of which were for giving receipts on payment of money up on undamped paper, whereby the defendant had forfeited for each offence the fum of id. and the other fixteen counts for penalties of Sol. each, in curred by the defendant for a fraudulent contri vance to evade the ufe of (lamps. That one mode; among(' others adopted by the defendant in giving thefe receipts, was what is too commonly ufed by molt tradefmen at the foot ofiheir fhopbillsforgoods, viz. writing the word " CAI" oppofite the Turn paid, and which the defendant had often done. — But he had recourfe to another ingenious device, which he fuppofed would fecure himfelf from any penalty, if his cuflomers were fatisfied to accept fuch receipts, viz. by writing " The day of the month and the year," on which the money was paid, and the letters " A, B, C," at the foot of his bills of parcels, which he delivered to his cur tomers as a difcharge for the funs paid. Two witneffes were called who proved the pay ment of the money to the defendant, and his hand writing to the fevcral pieces of paper which he de livered as receipts, whereupon his Counfel on his behalf faid the cafe was fo fully made out, that he would not trouble his Lorthhip and the Gentlemen of the Jury ; and requefted the Counfel for the Crown to accept a verdict for fuch penalties . as would be a Icahn to the defendant in future, and others guilty of fimilar praaices. It was therefore agreed, under the direction of the Chief Baron, to take a verdict for penalties to the amount of 1601. which his Lordfhip (aid he hoped would operate as a caution to others who wereiin the habit of de frauding the receipt duty, and he trufled they would not in fume fuhjea themfelves to tech heavy penalties for fo trifling a funs, and which moreover they had a right by law to charge to their cuftomers. rot • or-r- Jew boys. of the names of Ifaac Solomon. and Jofeph Mores, were examined before the Lord Mayor, charged upon the oath -of a Captain of a (hip, with picking his pocket in Lower Thames-ftreet, of a pocket-book, contain ing bills and notes to the amount of 401. A .gen tleman, who was in company with the Captain at the time, Rated teeing one of the prifeners pick the Captain's pocket, and on which they were both fecured. He law one of them drop the pocket-book from behind him into the ftreet.— They were committed for trial. SHADW ELL.—Yetterday a publican was charged with alts of fwindling and robbery. The offences being chiefly committed in the county of Surrey, be wascommitted to the new gaol in the Borough, to undergo a trial at the next affixes. Thurfd.rf a woman, the wife of a foldter lately returned frOm Egypt, preferred a complaint againit him, at Hatton Garden Office, for having cruelly treated her. He promifed very fairly; but as Paid the could maintain herfelf and children without his aid, the perfifted in (wearing the peace againfi him. He was, therefore, committed for want of bail. A great number of forged notes of the Bank of England, of the value of two, five, and ten pounds each, and a great many bad feven Chilling pieces, were on Tuefday difcovered bras boy, in the trunk of an old tree, near With Farm, on Southfea. I Common, Hamp(hire. They were curioufly tied up in an old worfted Rocking, and fecreted under force pieces of boughs. As the boy was carrying the notes carelefsly along in his hand, in the road leading from Southfea to Porilmouth, he was met by a man of the name of Horlock, a thoemaker. I who, perceiving them, requefled the lad to look at them, which be declineddoing, when he inftantly fnatched . the grea ten part out of the boy's hand and ran off. The boy having a knowledge of his perfon, and recolleaing he had feen him before at a hoofs in St. Thomas's-ftreet, gave information to Sir Join CAZTER, one of the Magiftrates of the Borough, who gave immediate orders for his apprehenfion. When the conftables entered the houfe where he lodged, they detated him in the very as of drying the notes by the fire, as, from the late heavy rains, they were in a very wet Hate • he was of courfe inftantly taken, and com mitted to gaol to take his trial at the next felons. Sufpicion of the perfons who have forged the notes and fecreted them in the above manner, has fallen on two men. length been able to trace out the nett of felons who have been fo bufy of late in the forget, xi their notes. The neft was formed at Bilfdow, between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, where feveral perfons have been taken up. Two men,belonging to the Shrewibury mail were apprehended at the fame time, as in the guard•boot of the carriage was found a parcel concealed, containing forged notes. G. Lynes and J. Ballance, dealers in forged Bank notes and counterfeit coinage, have been commit- ted to Stafford gaol. Monday morning the following felons broke out of gaol at Glafgow:—George Rankine and Alex .uider Anderfon, under fentence of tranfportation ; and Allan Henderfon and John Smith, who were to have been tried for theft at the eating Circuit Court there. Thefe fellows made very extraordinary exertions to effeil their efcape : they wrenched out a large iron bar, which was fixed in the vent of their cell, and having with it broken and burnt fo much of the bottom of the door as enabled them to get out, they burnt off the lock of another 'cell, and then forted open another door, at the back of the chink. ney of which they broke through the wall, and got into the flair leading into the clerkichambers, into one of which they entered, and remained till after feven o'clock in the morning, when the fen. tinel at the back of the gaol was taken off his poll; they then made their ecape by a window upon the ' ground floor. A fanner, in the neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmund's lately gave a dealer t 4 guineas and a I bobby for a fine riding horfe, which the latter fold as his own property ; but on the farmer's riding to town the following market day, the hone was claimed by the fon of a perfon from whom it had been Qolen. Oa Tuefday evening between (even and eight o'clock, a moil daring robbery was committed at the Ship Inn, Sheerness. When the people of the honk were bufy ferving their cuftorners, fome vii lain or villains took the opportunity of going up hairs, and with an iron crow broke open the bed room door, where Mr. and Mrs. it AIME sleep, fearched every drawer and clofet in the room, and hole cash and Bank notes to the amount of upwards of col. with which they got clear off; though a quan tity of plate to a confiderable amount,and two gold watches were in the room, they did not take any of thefe articlesaway. A defperate gang of mifcreants inlet that place, who have no vi fi ble means of living (except by robbery and plunder) ; they often en tice the invalid Tailors into fome public houfe, make bem drunk, and then rob them of their property. One poor fellow lan week had his pocket picked of 601. another loft his chef full of clothes and 301. in Bank notes. Scarcely a day paffes, without depre dations of a fimilar nature taking place. On Sunday the 14th ult. a terrible fire broke out in the premifes of James Done, farmer, of Little Budworth, in Chefhire, which entirely con fumed the fame,together with 5 cows, and another very much burnt, a quantity of barley, oats, hay, and firaw, all his geering, and mot of the farming utenfils. On Sunday fe'nnight, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock at night, the Town-hall at Eaft.ltct ford, Nottinghamflure,was difcovered to be on fire, but by the exertions of the inhabitants it was hap pily got under without any material damage. I On Saturday the 13th ult. three boys impru dently ventured on a marl pit at Weft-Heath, near King's Norton, that was frozen • over, when the ice gave way, and di• two eldeft, about 12 years' o f aeo w ,— Ulaortunately drowned. The young. 1, rot more than three years old, contrived, by fome means or other, to get out, and was the bearer of the melancholy intelligence to his parents, of the lots of his brother. The other boy, we underhand, was the fon of a Qstarter-Mager in the Blues. A melancholy accident happened on Thurfday night, in Perkins's Rents, W.:llminfter. A large old houfe, inhabited by a number of poor families, fuddenly fell in, about half paft ten o'clock, with a craft), which, at that Rill hour, was heard at a great diflance. The unfortunate beings who were thus buried alive, had retired to reft,among whom were fome children. The people that affembled direeted by their cries and groans, immediately let about removing the rubbith, and extricating the fufferers, fo that by day light all were dug out of the ruins ; Come miferably wounded, and lonic dead. Among the dead is the wife of a fohlier in the Guards, lately nturned,from Egypt, of the name of Ltgget ; he crept out of the rums bimfelt, and his wife was following him, when a beam I Shifted its pofition, fell acrofs her neck, and killed her. In the fearch, her hatband was the firft that difcovered her. The following perfons were alto found:—Mat thew Tag, a labouring man, who, it appeared, .had not been in bed, as he was found dead with his clothes on : he bad been heard to (peak fereral times to the perfons not to dig too near his head. James Steward, a duftman, who worked for a Mr. Corny, much bruifed - . Elizabeth Steward (his wife) her Shull fraanred in fuch a (hocking man ner, as to occalion her death. William Steward, a young man, terribly bruifed ; he lay five hours under the rubbifh. A little girl, tz years old the day the accident happened, dead. IThe wounded perfons were taken to the Infir. mary, and every care taken of them • aid to the credit of the humane inhabitants, we find fubfcrip tions have been fet on foot for the benefit of the diftreffed furvivors, who, by this calamity, have loft their little all as well as their relatives. The houfe belonged to a Mr. Nass, and the lower part was ufed by a perfon who burnt bones, for the pnrpofe of making hardhorn, who had re cendy made a Shed and Rabic for his cart and horfes, at the lower part of the premifes, in doing which, it is fuppofed, the fupporters of the houfe were fo injured as to occalion its giving way. It is to be hoped, that the Coroner's jury will :deer tain whether the calamity was really occalioned by this circumftance, for Should it prove to be true, it will attach that neglea to the diftria fur veyori whofe particular duty it is to prevent there accidents, that the Migiftrates for 'the county will Drel3Ll7%; 2UACt The monftrous and depraved !harder which re cently took place in Peter's Row, excites much in tereft in this city. CRAWLEY, the perfon accufed and in cuftody, was brought up to Coutt this day, at an adjournment of the Commiftion Sitting, and arraigned; he pleaded not guilty, and is to be tried on Wednelday fe'imigla. As yet the evi. dence again& him is wholly circumitantial. He perfeveres in denial or filatce. He revved his time as an attorney to one of the moil refpeaable houfes in this City, and, fo far as is known, with uniform propriety, as affeding the bufinefs of the Houle. He was afterwards an officer in the Rofcommon militia. He has been well educated, and not del titute of abilities and good addrefs. His fatl•er it reaor of a parifh in the County of Dublin, and two brothers of his graduated with much credit to their literary charaaer, in Trinity College : one married and went with his wife toAmerica, where they both died of the yellow fever ; the other is now purfuing his profeflional ftudies. The Prifoner to-day looked very wretched ; a blue horfeman's coat, and blue pantaloons, both very dirty ; his perfoh in every other refpea gre atly neglected, and he was loaded with not le ts than pls. weight of iron ; his age, I Ihould fuppoCe, I about 23 years. LONDON MARKETS. COEN-EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, MARCH S. A &tutu of the PRICES of FLOUR, front the iptk of Fdle. to the aGth of February iacluirve. Total 17,902 facks.-.-Averare 595. 7 1.4 es. 'FL lower than ialt return. • PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH • Bairi 31 sos to el sss I Pockets 41 os Ns 41 tat SEEDS PER HUNDRED WEIGHT, March s. fled Mart 3os to 965, White ditto 4os to 1681 per cwt. Trefdil los to 7os Turnip 151 to 22$ pa buena Rye Grafs 20$ to 38s per quarter CintiodOd ,ios to 6os per ditto Molter& ¶ White Its ad to sss per Brod. Brown t 1 Cd to 14$ 66 per ditto Canary Seed its to 121 Cd per diem Rape Seed 5 4 4 to 00l per lalt. SMITHFIELD, March;. To fink the offal--per Rohe of 81b. Beef 4s 84 to 6. 4d Veal - is 6d to 7s 64 Matted, -5s 61 to 71 od Pork - Gs od to -s iii Stock at Market this morning. Bracts hoc, Sheep 900. NEW GATE and I.VADENIiAII, March 5. Per Rune of Blb. by the eareafe. Beef 4s od to 5s 6d Veal 5s od to 7s od Mutton 4s 8d to 6s od Pork Gs od to 71 841 RAW HIDES, March ,c. . _ Hides (per ftone) gs ad to pBd I licavy - Call rO4 each Middling 31 od to pi ad Alit& Sties 13, to Its Ordinary is od to 21 Sti Sheep tirkins 4s cd top • a PRICE OF LEATHER, per lb. A I: LEADi!NHALL. Botts, so to 561 b each, - - i tid to ltd Ditto, 6o to 661 b - - - tad to 2 4 i Macho:to. Backs • 17 }.l to AO Dreffing Hide.a - • rod to 161 Fine Cuaela Hides i6d to std • Crop Hides fdr Cutting - zB.I t. 21a Flat Ordinary . - t 4 }d to z:d Caft Skins, 35 to 401 b per dozen, - std to 2741 Ditto so to yolb - -25 d to 291 Ditto, 7o to 8:Ib - . -13 d to 2 Small Seals (Grecnlvid) psi IS. as 61 to Is 1,1 Large ditto - - IGO* to t 4)s per does. Tanned Hurfe Hides - zits to 3or each Goat Skins - - cos to 641 pct . dozes PRICE. OF TALLOW IN LONDON. St. James's market as 2d Town Tallow dos 6d too. Clare market ss ad IRO% ditto (ea.) 66s al tool Whiteehapel market as td Ft ofka ditto (foop) 63. tubas (per Item of 81b.) White Candle Rulfis 63s to 64$ —.,—... MeitinrStuff sos al tos6s 124 sd Ditto Gush ios al to o► Average Price es ad Graves - Oil to ois Good Dregs sos os . Yellow Soap, has. to os.--Mottled , Bor —Curd, 84s Cana.* s is. las. 64. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, March 5. SmitltlSeld. St. Jainc*'s. Wbitechapel. o•Hay otos so 3 ooto 5 so 0 4 ootos 5 • Straws Bto a 2l z 16 oto a 8 o t 14 oto a 2 o Clovers esto6toll 5 zo oto 6 8 es COUNTRY MARKETS. _ Coventry Grab) Market has for feveral fucceffive weeks pat continued on the decline, and both Wheat and Barley were dill lower on Friday lalt. At Northampton, on Saturday, there was a Rill further re dudion in price; Wheat fold from Ss. Gd to sou 44 11 -1 41 Whet. At Warwick Market the fame day, Grain of every kind was dull of Cale, at lower prices. At Chefter Market, on S.-turday hQ, the average price of Wheat (571 b.) sts. otd. Oats is. 7d. At Shrewfbury Fair, on Saturday left, fat cattle and 'beep declined in price, and W Clt dull of fate; lean cattle and pigs were dearer than at the 'receding fair. COURT OF KING'S BIINCH, MARCH 3. HiCKS o. *ASKS. This action was brought againa the defendant • for having given a talk character to one O'Hara, whereby the plaintiff had been induced to militias and had thus been greatly damaged. Mr. Nees, the plaintiff's Connfel, allowed that by a late de cition it was neccffary for him to fix fraud upon the defendant. It certainly was not enough that a mifreprefentation had been made, unlefs that mifreprefentation was malicious. But he fhould prove in the moll fatisfadory manner that the de. fondant well knew O'Hara to be completely in folvent, when he reprefented him as troll worthy. The circumftances of the cafe,. as they appear. ed in evidence, were as follow Feb. 1800, O'Hara, a hawker and pedlar, came to the plain tiff, a linen-draper in St. John-thee:, Smithfield, and had goods fared out to him to the value of 881. When payment came to be talked of, he laid down 481. and Paid he would remit the reit in the courfe of a few days. Hicks obferving that be could not truft a perfeft granger, he referred him to the defendant, and the flopman was immedi ately difpatched to make the beceffary inquiries. The ftatementa were rather contradictory of what Mr. Banks Paid ; but all the witnetles agreed in reprefenting him to have ordered the lhopman to confult his books, and he would then fee the Rate of the dealings between them. He added, that it was a delicate thing to fpcak of the charafter of a enftomer, O'Hara was then in his debt about tool. He trailed him fince, and is now his creditor to a very confolerable amount. Upon the fltopman's return, O'Hara was allowed to carry off the oods, 66 ,, d efterwards received another parcel, for nei ther of whish piyment has been recovered. The e v 'fence to prove the defendant's knowledge of O'Hara's infolvency, was that of a Mr. Hawkcf worth, who Tome time before this, upon the dci• fendanes reprefentation, had trotted O'Hara. and tcrsvhom the defendant had laid, when he com plained of being cheated, 6 , Then the Irikman has done you--he has been too deep for you, has he ? You thould have nulling to do with duffers." Mr. JURICC LAWRENCE fait!, the Jury would fir& confider whether the credit Lad been given upon the defendant's reprefentation ? next whether this reprefentation was Ellie, and lafily, whether the defendant had made it kne wing it to be fo? The Jury having withdrawn for a few Minutes, brought in a verdid for the plaintiff.—Damages 501. 155. 9,1. MARCH..}. —GORMAND Ann 0 I "V. 111411 ' This Was an adieu on a bill of exchange, draw‘s , cgainft acceptor. The defence was, that the conlideratt....l..l railed on which the bill bad been accepted. A Frenchman 'of the name of Violet, who was in this country laft fummer, hav ing a large quantity of Burgundy to difpofe of, fent a (ample of it to the defindant, who is a great ironmonger. Mr. Binn was fo well plcafcd with it, that he ordered as much as amounted to the value of sccl. One half he paid in ironmongery ware, and for the other be accepted this bill, which, as Violet was the debtor of the plaintiffs, was drawn by them. When the wine came home, it was found not to correfpond with the (ample, and, according to the account of Mr. Alderman Flower and, others who. had tailed it, it was quite unlit for nfe. Still it was contended that the plaintiff could well maintain his aftion, as, from this tranf adion having taken place between the defendant and a third perfon, the plaintiffs were abfolved from all proof of confideration, although nominal. ly tl•ey were the drawers. The Learned Judge, taking it for proved that the wine was unmerchan table, left the cafe to the Jury upon whether Violet had been ading as the plaintiffs' agent ?and, they concluding that he had sot, found their verdict for the plaintiffs t z6l. da mages. MARCH 5.--4,ITINC V. NARTSHORX. This was an :idiots on a policy of infurance on the (hip Arnie, from Hamburgh to London. The lots was by the perils of the lea. There was no difpote about the execution of the policy, the plain tials ineereft, or the conftrudion of the deed. The defence was that there had not been a due difclo fore to the underwriters, and that the fraud of the plaintiff thus abfolved them from all refponfibility. The policy was dated the 19th of May, and a Mr. Gadefdale was called to wove that at that time the plaintiff had great reafon to fuppofe that the. (Lip was loft. He Rated that he had goods on board the Arnie, about which he was anxious that ; that being at the Cullom Houfe on the 16th of May, he Caw Price, Captain of the Cirene, who had arrived from Hamburgh that mewing, and who told him that the Arnie had failed two .days before him; that be. raw the plaintiff foots after, and communicated this intelligence to him, and that they had a long converfation together about effeetig inferences. However. at bis crofs - , .441 , INTELLIGENCE. COCRPIT, WHITEHALL, MARCH s. Before the molt Noble and Right Hon. the Lords Commiffioners of Appeals in Prize Caufes. I Neuftra Senora del Carman y San Antonio yi Almas, De Oliveira matter . This was a Porn- I vele veiled, with a cargo, captured by the French upon the 12th of July, 1796, and recaptured on the 15th of July, by one of his Majefty's (hips, and carried into Gibraltar, where the {hip and cargo was proceeded again(, and the queßion in this cafe was, Whether this (hip, being w polfeffion of the enemy twenty.four hours, was not to be court. dered as a good and lawful prize to the captors ? or whether the claimants were not entitled to this property upon the payment of falvage ! It was contended on the part of the captors, that twenty I hours poireffion by the enemy did amount to a I converfion of the property, and that this queftion did afire in the cafe of the Santa Cruz, in which cafe the Court condemned the property as good and lawful prize. The Court, after hearing the Connfel on behalf of the claimants, reftor.:l the {hip and cargo on the payment of one-eighth falvage. 1 11 BlR•riis: Thurfday. the Lady of Cornelius Dulkr.Efq. of a daughtcs. at his hook in Outtlford ftreet. On the 28th tit. the Lady of faints Hadden, Efq. Lord Pro volt or Aberdcot. Ma fon. MARRIED. Tbrrfdif. a Melfe.4l7m.Ades, - Efq. of ()glum, Rutland- Otire, to Oils Tennent, only daughter of John 'Ferman, Efq. of Rotbernkbe. On the ad in ft. George Cubitt, Efq. of Catfield, Norfolk, to Mill F. Parini, of Upminfter. DIED. 1 I On Friday laR, at his houfeit Lime-Brett-knave, afte• a lingering illticfs, John Parkinfon, Efq. us the 48th year of his age. Tucfday Lail, in the St ft year of kis age, at Shobdon Court, Herefordfhire, the Right Hon. John Lord Vifcount Batenan, Lord•Lieutrnant and Cutlet Rotulorum of that County. On the 25th ult. at Bath, in the 74th year of her age, Mrs. Sufanuah Gordon, Rita to the late Sir William Gordon, Knight ache Bath. At Chatham, on the aft loft. at the age of 6S, Rear-Admiral Jatucs M‘Namara, Lately, at Sandwich, Daniel Ratner, Efq. On the 26th ult. at Crow Trees, near Donealter, Mrs. At- Macon, wife of Joreph Atkinfon, Efq.the &left daughter of the late Edw. Eattland, lifq. of Lincoln. Some days ago, Thomas Jets, Efq. Chief Teller of the Bank of England. On Sunday, Mifs Waddington, only daughter of S. F. Wad• dington, Efq. On Friday fe'nnight, Lieut. Charles Rice, of the Royal Navy, at Tooting, Surrey. Ou Tburfday lennight, Mr. Jones, pa. of Berk ekrlquare, in the sift year of his age. On Monday, in York Buildings. New Road, Mary-la-bonne, Mrs. Cornelia Mary Northey, wife of Jams Murray Northers Captain of the Royal Navy. On Tuefday evening, at his country refidence, near Hammer finith Turnpike, Richard Ginabert, Efq.of Piccadilly. LONDON: Painted for the Propeietora, by JOHN DANIEL. pf cAuTabrozeet) at the STAR PatarrinvOrrna, No. t ; and pablifted by LEVEL KENT, (of Co te:W*IVMM Lambeth). at No 1, Carey-ftreet, and at the STat•Orres. Temple-Bar; to whiett Office aY eonunuoi 'ilass brats Zama MS Magid to be 5ek41174