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'!••• ! 111,1111131 V. OAMPPILL AND CO. Mil was an action - to recover payment Of a bill, anmesting to £1096 7s. 6d. guaranteed by the defen dants. The plaintiff is a merchant in Antwerp, sad sold corn to Sayer and Co. in LoAdon. Sayer and Co. having become indebted to the plaintiff to the amount . now claimed, he drew upon them for the I amount, and refused to give them further credit till thef payment was !guaranteed. Sayer tad Co. accepted the bill, and got it guaranteed by thellefendants. The defence rested rather on points of law, which Were saved by his Lordship. It was objected that the bill was not stamped; but the Court remarked, thst it had been decided that foreign bills, such as this was, required no clamp. It was also contended' that value had not been given by the plaintiff, for that a considerable part of the sum claimed had been paid for insurance of the cargo. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £1096 7s. 6d. LOW V. ASHPITEL. Mr. Serjeant Lams stated, that this was an action more to ascertain a right than to recover the small sum which it professed to claim. The defendant de manded,2s. 61 for every head of cattle driven into Hackney-marsh or Common. The authbrity pre tended was that of the manorial Court, That the homage Court had a right to make bye-laws he did ' , not dispute, and they referred to a statute of James I. to establish their right in this case. But for centu ries the sum paid by all commoners, for ea,:h head of cattle put into this common, had been sixpence, and there did not appear any right on the part of the homage Court to raise this sum to 2s. 6d. It was then proved that the plaintiff had paid Ss. for a hoise and cow which he put into the Common. Mr. Serjeant VAUOHAN,fOr the defendant, argued upon the drainage and other improvements of th , marsh, and contended that the sum exacted was rea sonable, considering those improvements. The stesvard of the manor appeared with his folios. He proved the authenticity of the last charge ; but on cross-examination he proved 6d. to have been of old the tribute. Many legal difficulties arising in this question, it WAS made into a case to be argued before the Court, soda verdict was taken for the plaintiff—Damages Four Shillings. I 6 ' I 4 , f • • I ' 11 1 , I • 4 4 4; ' ' Pr'COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 18. AFSJONEES OF WAIMEORAVE V. mGNOLD. This was an action for damages in consequence of St libel publiblied by the defend.int, who was the Se cretaryoftbe Norwich Union Insurance Company. Mr. Serjeant LESS stated the case for the plaintiffs, the circumstances of which are as follow :—Walde • . _ _ deprave having his premises insured in the Norwich 13,1i0n Office, applied to the defendaistfor payment of 1.3`19 6s. in consequence of damages which those pre mises had sustained by fire. The defendant refused' to pay this suns, which, however, Waldegrave veto rimed upon a trial of the cause. Of this trial the de fendant published a hiitory, with comments, in which continents he ir.sinuated that Waldegrave had set fire to his own premises. The in of the libel upon Wal• deprave was expressed in the following terms— " Suspicious fires alwars•happen on Saturday or Sun day. This fire happened on a Sunday night, and the cause of it has never been ascertained."—fhere were also several other refleaiens, but not quite so severe, upon the conduct of Waldegrave. it was proved that three thousand copies of this history were published in handbills, and two thou-. sand also in impressions of a Weeldy Newspaper. The Printer of the handbills, and the Printer of dull Weekly Paper, deposed', that they received the copy' of the libel complained of from the defendant. The Proprietor of the Bull Inn, ilishopsgate-street, whose premises are contiguous to those of Walde grave,-deposed, that the fire which damaged the resi dence of the latter, was occasioned by a horse-keeper in his service, who incautiously taking a lighted can dle iptoone of his stables, set fire to it, and was him self burnt to death. The person who valued the property of Waldegrave, which bad been destroyed by the fire, deposed that it was worth the sum charged and recovered by him in his action against the Norwich Union Fire Office. The defendant's son, said his father had-been Se etetary to tl!a Institution fdr twenty years. Hesita ting to say whether his yearly income was 4 or 1.:5,t 1 90, or whether his last year's income was not £6,090, he was asked if he was not a man of considerable pro perty? and answered in the affirmative Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant COPLEY. What ! Do you direct this action ?—No. io u are not on good terms with your father ?—lf 1.. st answer that question, I rather say my father Is not on good terms with me. Mr. Serjeant LENS objected to this kind of exa mination. Mr. Serjeant COPLEY now addressed the Jury for the defendant, and attempted to spew, that the sole object of the publication was, not to calumniate or injure the plaintiff, but to justify Mr. Bignold for having defended Wahlegrave's action. This became necessary for hins,'irt" consequence of the meetings held for the purpose of censuring his conduct in that case. Beading the summary with this view, hey would find that it only contained the reasonable sus picions or impressions, which, whether right or wrong, if they really existed,. justifiil Mr. Bignold in resist ing Waldegsswe's action. entae-Juartics--It is impossible to suppose, that a circulation of thousands of hand-bills, of which some might be handed to passengers in the street, and of wlich a copy w as published in a Newspaper, was a privileged circulation. We can judge of mean ing ; as to motives, they are beyond our province. We can judge of meaning only by what a man says. I am Of opinion, that the object manifestly is to im pute dye fir s e to the iplai,ntif. Is it possible not to see that the object of the whole publication is to deprive the plaintiff of the protection which the verdict of a Joey had afforded? It is for you exclusively to estimate the amount oi.darnages. But I lament that a son, on bad terms with his father, should ever be brought into a Court of Justice to prove the property of his father, for the purpose of obtaining heavy da mages. Any one who brought him in this case has done ill. Jibe came of ht* OWII RECOPip it iS to be defamed indeed. !fjse Jory, after a short cenaltainn, (Kind a ver dict fox vizi Pktiatii-.Desiages Lox INS6LrEIir DESTOIS COW DEC.IB. tar TIM atAtran of NOW 210111121 V. Mr.-Ancometua stated, that the present petitioner was well known as a gentleman who had engaged in several' speculations, which all pored Wafavourable. Prior to his pawn application be had received the relief afforded by the Court to Insolvent Debtors, and in order to earn a •reputable • • ,he hasp e sood since his first application, enga 041 ' 'seweral under takings, which all tended to me him in debts, instead of extricating NM from them. Mr. Doherty, on his .examination by the Court, stated, that he had received the relief of the Court on the sth of October,.lBls, and that the principal , means of support which he enjoyed was his half-pay, amounting to about £4O per annum. His debts at present amounted to £9053. 18s. 6d. of which £2l, s had been ceotracted since his last discharge. None of his creditors objected to his liberation ; for they had all signed a paper expressing their willin to let him free, except one Gentleman, whom he on potted would also sign in the course of the day. Ha bad been singularly unfortunate in different specula. tions ; he had engaged in conducting a Paper, called The World, which .died about a month since, in con sequence of kis imprisonment, and by means of which he lost upwards of £lOOO. He bad also undertaken the arrangement of some Masquerades. at different Theatres, which eventually were productive of great expense without any emoltrmeut. All his present creditors knew of his having been confined for debt. and he had no other means than his half-pay. The money which set him on in business, was borrowed from some friends.--lasolveut Discharged. IN THE MATTER Or JOHN HALE. Mr. NORRIS opposed, in behalf of Mr. Sims, the discharge of this insolvent, on the ground of his hav ing given a, false statement of the value of his pro perty in the schedule. On the examination of the insolvent, he stated that he had been a shoemaker in Oxford-street, where he had carried on Lusiness for more than 16 years.— Having a large family, and his wife being sickly, he became much embarrassed, and within the course of the lact six years had offered two different composi tions to his creditors, the first of ss. in the pound, the second of Bs. neither of which, in consequence of his misfortune, he was able to discharge. lie was ai rested in August last, and his application for his dis charge on this day was opposed by none of his cre ditors, Mr. Sims excepted. The value of his stock in trade, as the schedule stated, was about £27, and his furniture was also of small value. Of seven chil dren, some of them, together with their mother, were sickly ; and although he was always desirous of procuring an honest livelihood, the pressure of this forum: had overpowered his greatest exertions. Joseph Hale, brother to the insolvent, had been brought by subpsena to prove the value of his bro► titers stock in trade, for_ all of which he would not give £3O. This witness gave_ an affecting account . the distress of this unfortunate family, and of . noble exertions made by one of the sons to save from absolute want his mother and his sisters. J. S 3 zehy, foreman to Mr. Sims, stated that he wont to the shop of the insolvent on Wednesday last, where he remained at one time five minutes, and at another 1 time not two minutes. He inquired for some shoes, sand his estimate of the value of the property was about fifty pounds. To a question from the COURT, 1e said that he d:d not tell the persons whom he met what motive in• paced bins to go into the shop. — On his cross-examination by Mr. HEATH, he said, that he saw Miss Hale and another female sitting by the tire; that Miss Hale shewed him the shoes. There was oo gentleman present to throw bins into the gut ter, *hen he thus went to insult unprotected females. J. W. Sims, residing at present in the London-road, stated, that some years past, the insolvent came to his house, where after some conversation, he agreed to let him have goods upon credit. This agreement was but a short time before the insolvent called the first meeting of his creditors. Upon the proposal of giving only eight shillings in the pound, witness re fused to take less than twenty. He,received the full amount. lie thought the present value of the stock in trade of Mr. Hale was 501.; a year since it was worth 1001. He had seen the house handsomely fur nished, and thought the value of the furniture, even now, amounted to 301. (;Toss-examined by Mr. REATII-..-lit admitted that he was present at the first meeting of creditors, and that having 'before that time declared to Mr. Hale, that he would never consent to receive less than 4.05. Mr. Bale gave him a bill for the full amount, whirl he afterwards received. Mr. Serjeant Rustanorw—Did you, as an man, tell the creditors assembled, that yo* Were a receive the full amount ?-:—Witness, No. On further cross-examivation, he declared, that be never offered to give a character to the insolvent, al. though he had declassed to give him credit. Mr. Hale was aria called, and he related bow he, had gone to Mr. fitins's his where, upon his besaing, that in consequence of his credit being bad was obliged to purchase from country- deal ers, who al ways reqUeSted realty money, Mr. finns said. " why . do you not ask credit from them? I will give you a character?" _ _ . Sanutel Hale, son to the insolvent, corroborated his father's testimony relative to the conversation.— Mr. Frederick Sarah lent him CVO on his own ac count, by means of which he endeavoured to support his mother and sisters. Witness gave an account of the manner in which Ilk. Sims destroyed the bill giVen him by the Attorney attending at the compo sttion, and conforming the payment of the full tortount of the debt to him. Mr. Serjeaut lturtszeorou took a Intuitions view of the case, the principal facts of which he recapitu lated with perspicuity, althoug h the testimony which was afforded was Collikaing ; he bad no hesitation in pronouncing his opinion, Utat the circumstances, es related by the Insolvent, seemed to him -correct ; un der which impression the Court felt itself bound to Aiischarge the Insolvent, and moreover to order that his brutlier should be appointed assignee. Mr. HEATH applied to the Court for permission to have Mr. Charles Clarkson eppointed essigase is his room, because the latter was bettor enabled. to sue Mr. Shns for the surplus of lge. in the pound, unseat the creditors were entitled to, as having hista fairly obtained.--Serjeast Rumituiprost seceded to the application, to the great Istisfactice of 'Matt DOUBT Oj' COMMON PLEAS, DUBLIN, DEC. 17. Xi. J. SOWL.AN V. 2112 ALZION UNIVRANCIT COWAN t. This ease, which has occupied seven days before Lord NORBVILT and a Special Jury, terminated yes t evening, when the Jury returned a verdict for the full amount claimed -.117 the plaintiff—£364o. with costs. _ _ _ Counsel for the defendants entered several bills of exception, intended for argument in the next Term. The plaintiff has a similar claim upon the Hope In surance Company, which, it is thought, will be de termined by the ultimate result olthis cast. The following is the substanCe of the Regulations, of the Board of Customs, respecting the conveyance of merchandise by the Holyhead Packets : The annexed articles, the =imitative of Great Britain and Ireland, are henceforth permitted to be imported and exported ' by his Majesty's Packets between Dublin and Holyhead, on their obtaining a license for that purpose Apparel tot both sexes, books, bound and unbound; buses, or Boots of earth or stone; cabinet ware, coaches and caber car riages, cottons, drapery, new and old ; earthenware, or pottery ; haberdashery, hardware, hats, linens, millinery, plate acrd plated ware, prints and pictures, saddlery and other manufactured lea ther, and worsted, viz. tabbinets and bombaaeens ; stockings. No drawback is to be allowed on any article transmitted in this planner; but the countervailing duty, imed by the Act of Union upon the several articles enumerated in the above list, is to be levied, so tong as the same may continue in force. A severe Epigram upon BuncE is attributed to the pen of the late Lord EL LEEDOROUGH. It was enclosed in a cover ilnd presented to Humus, as he was about to open one of the principal charges against Mr. HASTINGS, in the High Court of P.oliament : Oft have we wouder'd thation Irish ground No poisonous ruptile eves yet was tound; lieveard the secret student Nature's work— She said her noon to create a Ii nos! This bitter effusion, on his perusing it, was observed to have a momentary effect on the nerves and coun i tenance of the illustrious manager. With an air of blended indignation and contempt he tore it in pieces, and scattered the fragments about the hall. The stanza, however, was impressed on his memory, and subsequently repeated by him to some frien.is, with an air of jocularity. THE DROPPED CH ILD.--Yesterday the Parish Offi cers attended in Hatton Garden, when 4mw Symons, the midwife, was brought up, charged % l ull being an , accomplice in dropping the child.—She was held. to bail. BOW-BTREZT.—.-YeSterdar two men were brought to this Office by two of the Parole, on suspicion of having been concerned in the late horrid murder at Homey. They underwent a long private c-camina tion before Mr. Ili HMS. The particulars that tran spired respecting the ground of suspicion against the prisoners it would not be prudent to make public at resent. --They were committed. A few days since Mr. Brains received a commu nication from Scotland, that a youth of the highest respectability had absconded from his family, and it was supposed had made his way to London, and from his extraordinary propensity to the Stage it was supposed he would connect himself with some actors. The Magistrate in consequence sent infor mation to the Managers of all the Theatres of the eircunrcance, with a description of the youth.—Yes tray Mr. BIRNIE, while sitting, received a mes sage from Mr. S. kemble,ef the Theatre Royal, in Drury-lane, informing him that a youth, resembling the lad who lately had left his friends in Glasgow, and whose absconding from the University in that City was notified in town, had applied to him for an engagement. The youth, upon being brought to the Otce, said that his real name was James Aickin, And owned that be had arrived from Glasgow by ten, in order to get employed on the Stage. Upon a question from the Magistrate to him, respecting the youth's abilities, Mr. S. Reliable was compelled to assure Mr. Bating, that young Aickin had no chance ef success as. an actor. The MaOstrate now advised the youth to return to his real frsends. Westeote, the constable, at length undertook the task of forward ing the youth to Glasgow. James Colley, alias Dwyer. was committed for trial, charged with robbing Maurice O'Connor, Esq. of Dangles, in the county of Kerry, Ireland, of a va riety of articles. The prisoner had sailed with the prosecutor, on the Sd d this month, from the port of Cork, and landed on the sth near Bristol. Prisoner had robbed the prosecutor, who encountered him by chance afterwards in um', during the voyage, of property which the latter did not miss until some time after they had landed. • Goixoestuo.—Yesterday Ji sllia,tt Ilatokins, who keeps a chandler's shop in Fetter-lane, appeared on asmensons to answer the complaint of the Inquest of &. Andrew, Holborn, for exercising his trade and calling on the Sabbath-day.--Mr. Stevens, one of Oesidenien of the Inquest, said, that inthe course of their duty last Sunday, during Divine Service, they foiled the defendant's shop door open, a side oebacon hanging Outside, apparently for sale, and customers in the shop being served.—The defendant did not deny the charge; he thought it very hard ; and said he had served Mr. Stevens's servant with bacon on Sunday morning, and several others on the Inquest.' Mr. Stevens denied the assertion.—The Magistrate thought the defence an aggravation of the crime, and convicted him in the penalty of ss. and costs. Massiow House.--Yesterday a Gentleman, of the name of Cowper, complained of the Owner of one of the Coaches to Bow and Bromley. The Owner of the Coach did not appear to the summons, but 'sent the driver in his stead.—Mr. Cowper said, that as he was walking on the foot pavement down Lead enhall-street, on Tuesday last, he was knocked down by the sudden turning of defendant's coach. The coach had been committed to the care of a boy, who appeared not to be more than IS or 14 years of age. The driver receiving a good character, the LORD AL,'ron mitigated the penalty to 10s. Several pickpockets were committed or remanded, for " labouring in their vocation," during the time an over-driven bullock yesterday spread terror and coustemation in the Royal Exchange. No injury was done by the beast on 'Change ; but a Gentle. man had a narrow escape of his life, his waistcoat, end even his shirt, Win torn up by the horn of the animal. A porter, who had attempted to stop and' = e a baker upon him, had also a very narrow from an attack made by the bullock, which 11 Be et length might ead restraiaed so effectually WSW* no to be Ul4 t 9 wagjoii sad *iv= oat tbe square. ROYAL SCOTCH FROST illE PHILOSOI4 WITILACT or • 1.11111111 num NI Xi Dams Sin--Visiting Dumbarton taking leave of Captain it. be prose the Royal Scotch Thistle, which scanty soil that covers or fills the • This seed had been collected from year. After distributing a portion reserved the remainder, folded up in and dated, till an opportunity of so• occur. In the abundance of my sot this small packet, I had laid it to again came into my hands till the 4 big for another object amongst the kwas agreeably surprised to find in Make its appearance. I now set at merry. as I conceived it a fair a seeds of this genus of plants might t their vegetative principle, and pre, open spot of the field, rendered hal mire having lain till the turf had r the Royal Scotch Thistle was aces on the evening of the Royal birth. rrered with new vegetation ; notwi further culture of either weeding royal thistle, from seed 18 years o months from the time the dry seed attained a size and luxuriance pert in these latitudes. It presents aft and so close and rich in the defensi. who come near it of the very appri rune faccuit." It compleely claw exceeding 18 feet, rising in the cc flower shoot, and then spreading bottom, extending its gushy leas ground, bearing down every esker its thorny point, beyond three fate pram stem. Should the weather survive the rude fury of the store judge iron Its present vigour and deepaess of its beautiful green. int veryyeins, it may be expected, wi greatest and most exubirant nativ, in this country. This thews that the entretthing tusk and dectsuc. lung retain their living principle, . I am, Pe... - - Extract from anotbor letter frai tober : " The thistle still continue most incredible size, such as to d from all (gardeners included) who any sling like it of its kind for it I will do all in my power to prese NEWG ATE ♦ND L.F. kDENH, (By the Ca Beef ' sedtoSs 4d I 1 Mutton 4s 4.1 to St 4d I I PR ICES or HAY am ST R. JAISIteIL Hay... 61 Os Od to SI Bs Od 17 Straw 21 Ss Od to 31 Os Od Clover 71 Os Od to gl 14s Od PRICE . WSW uO6. Kent 5l Is to 61 IBs Sussex 51 5s to 61 Os Essex Ol Os to 01 Os Foreign ... 41 4s to 51 Os PRICE or TALLOW, SC St. Jasnes'4 Mallet Ss ed T Clan Market WhitechapelMarket Si Oi (per stone of 81b I ) Yellow Soap, 104s—Mottled. Ile Candles, per doz. las C RAW 111 Zest Heifers and Steers (per I C sd to 5s Od I Middlings —Ss 4d to 2s id I Sheepskins --Polled, Ts 6J to Is ?IICE OF UU Mau, 50 to 561bs each Ditto, SU . to 661bs each Dressing Hides Fine Coadi Hides... ..... Crop 'Hides, 35 to 401ba ar Ate Diu* 43 to 50Iba Calf Skins, 30 to 401b$ Ditto 50 to 70ibs ...... Ditto 70 to Ewa Seals (Greenland) ----- Large ditto Tanned Horse Hides Horse Hidt4. Alma/dam ll 9_ B. sU. DIKO at sight 11 6 Asuneriagn — 0 C.F. Ditto at sight... — 0 notterdon... 1 10 2U. Antwerp, ex-too 11 11 Harnburgli... 34 s AIRES. 34 3 24U. Paris, 3 day's date 24 0 U. Ditto ..... 30 2U. Bourdeaux do. ll4 30 Frankfort Ma 140 ez•mo. lgasbid, effeetive393 ----: PTFtTCES OF G Portugal Gold in Coin, r Foreign Gold in Bps .... New Doubloons ...... New Dollars... ......... Silver in Bass New Louis oseli COAL MARE Skips at Market. Skips S 583 Newcastle Al 5 Sunderland 2 COUNTRY UIIIIII3GI, Dee. ii.---Wheat Harley, per quarter, 50s to 71 60$ to 76s—Peas, 79s to SOs— Oiroan, Dec. 17.—The prke —The Half-peck Loaf, Wheate Nswauav, Beams, December 52; to 70e—Oats, 56; to 42s to SOL—Bread, Is 7d to Is 9 Bakevar, Dec. 17.—Wheat to 10, 6d—Vetckes, Os Od per —.Oats, 32; Od to 42; Od per peck —flour, 66; to 00s per s. PRICE OP ETOC Bk. Stock Reduced 76iti Cons. shut Si per Ct.861-i 4 per Ct. 94it Navy shut MAILS T ass. DUE 1 0 9 0 Dublin Waterford Guernsey and Jersey 1 2 1 0 0 0 HIGII WATER at LODIDO Idcening - Afuirnooo LONDON: [hinted aid put T