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'I i 1 ::.. 1 !I 1 I ~~ 1 ~~ i ~1 6 1 that multiplied the risk. Was the grinding-house alone to be insured, it would be material to know whether it communicated with other places used as stores, or for any other pUrpose. This grinding house did communicate, in all its stories, with the other two, by means of iron doors. A description of the buildings should have been given, and it was not enough to say that they vtere warehouses, or sugar-houses. The defendants, no doubt, would have sent their survey6r, if a proper description of the premises had been given: this, hoviEver, was not usual, unless under peculiar circumstance;. With respect to the cause of the fire, he felt a perfect con viction that it arose from the new process of using oil, and that the plaintiffs knew this to be the-fact. They did not pretend to account fin' the fire in any other way, and neglected to examine a most im portant witness. Where was the man who lit the tire? His Learned Friends brought forward a mill wright, who could not even say whether the machine leaked or not. Mr. Scarlett, after alluding to the evidence of the various other witnesses, concluded a speech which occupied two hours in the delivery. Samuel Willoughby was the first witness called for the de fence. He is a porter; recollects the fire; resides at No. 10, within a hundred yards of the premises; he came out of his house that morning about six minutes before four; on coming to the corner of Holloway-street, the window flew out, with a large body of fire ; there was no smoke, but a body of fire that would have knocked down a horse ; is positive that there was no smoke; saw no lights on the Boor immediately above; the morning was wet; the first who came up was the watchman. Cross-examined by the Souctroa-Gintaast.—He was beyond Ile. Laws's bons the landlord of the Mulberry ; had no con aarsation with Mr. Laws on the subject ; said in his tap-room, that he was at the corner of the building when the fire broke etas; did not say that when he discovered the fire, he had not yet got as far as Mr. Laws's home. John Clayton is a watchman.—Was alarmed a little before four o'clock, by a cry of " !" os the 10th of November; observed a body of fire coming out of the window, and ascending up the wall—(Here witness pointed out the same window as the former witness).—Saw the private watchman belopging to the sugar - house ; his name is Wilson ; and he was stn ding at Laws's door when witness saw the fire break out ; Wilson lived there for /102:1t: years, and is there still; witnesspeard no explo sion ; he saw the flame only out of one window at first ; in half on hour after the flame began to lsaue from the other windows. John Young, is clerk to Mr. Lockey, a surveyor; he (Mr. Lockey) was employed to make a perspective drawing of_the premises ; was there often enough to know the situation •f part of the premises ; the grinding-house is in the centre ; the long engar-hause was where the fire broke out ; the new sugar-house is at the end, towards Mulberry-street ; believes there was a eonanunicatiwn between the long sugar-house and the grineing heuse ; does not know that there was a communication between the pew sugar-house and the gelnding-house. Mr. Lockey ex.:rnined.—Was employed to make a drawing of the premises; could not tell exactly how long the new sugar !muse was built; is certain it was built before October; the grinding-house was not a sugar-house ; there were two stoves in it ; there was a communication, by iron doors, between the grindine-house and the lone-house, as also between the grinding house cm! the new-house there were iron doors that commu nicated between the long-house and the new-house. O. his cross-examination, witness &lid, he was not sent by the Plitraix Company to see the premises for more than a year be fore the fire. Spate zoinmessir.oien passed between Ilr. Bishop sr i himself respecting the new process. In conversation Air. Bishop mentioned, that he had the intention of putting up stew boiler, which witnesatinderstood to be fat oil; if be was then surveying for the Picanix Company he should have thought it right to :ornmenicate the circumstances; does sot recollect in sp.;ctiug the premises in 1518. Re-examined by Mr. Scerterrr.—Mr. Bebop desired that what he cow.rnanicated to witness respecting the boiler might be made a secret. .9:.er the fire, he asked Mr..Bisbop whether be kept it a se cret from the other partners as•weli as from the diem? Mt. I;Sishop's answer was, that they knew it as well as himself; he thought Mr. Salmis object was to keep the process a secret, not the risk ; the risk never entered into his contemplation at the time. _ _ Witiam Christopher is a bricklayer; recollects a boiler being put up at Craven and Beaumont's, under Mr. Wilson's dime dons ' • the machine was used only 12 or 13 times ; it was never used without the direction of Mr. Wilson; it happened only twice that the oil was hezted to 210 before he (Mr. Wilson) came • he used to raise it when be came to between 300 and 400 degrees ; while the pan sv.a discharging on one occasion the pumping was stepped, and the oil roar to 450 degrees; at the latter part of the day it rose to 300, when the pump was stopped; the eff:ce of the heat when the oil was raised to 500 was, that the pips; upon some occasions, broke ; one day the oil was at 410, the pan was cluagtd, ur.d while discharging, it rose to 500; in abolt six minutes the pipe burst, and the oil mixed with the sugar; Mr. Wilson then raked the fire out, and the heat of the oil rose to 600; this, witness thought, arose from the stopping of the pumping; the oil came out at the top and bottom of the boiler. Samuel Wilkinson is foreman to Messrs. Taylor and Marti neau; received orders to make eiperiments on oil ; there was between 10 and 30 gallons Used; the vessel represented that in the model, three feet long, fifteen inches wide, and fifteen inches deep, made of wrought iron; Mr. Taylor wished to know whe ther common oil mixed with that which had been used would produce an inflammable vapour at a low temperature; from 100 to iSo, vapour rose with a good deal of noise in the boiler; wit ness applied a light to the top of the tube issuing fromthe boiler; there was no appearance of a flame until they came to a tempe rature of 230 degrees; it then took fire in sudden gusts ; there was a noise like fat frying in the boiler at a temperature of 303. Witness recePecel Orders to make a new experiment; the for mer boiler was perfectly" clean and charged with 33 gallons of new whale Q/1; the experiment was continued for twelve days; ft was heated about eleven hours each day, and suffered to cool during the night ; 507 was the highest degree to which it was heated; the highest degree of heat on the first day was 380; there was no inflammable vapour; the tube was four felt above the boiler; the heat on the second day was 375, the vapour was then slightly inflammable; on the third day the beat was 39° . ; it was not then inflammable; on the fccrth day the tempera ture was 380; the lowest temperature at which it wash:flam mable was 33k1; at 360, on envying a light it took fire; on the fourth thy Witness tried the difference between raising the fire gradually and suddenly; at 380, with a slaw fire, the vapour was scarcely inflammable; on the sixth day, the highest tempe rature was 3uo ; it was inflammable from 345 to 365; the va pour burned in the boiler on applying a light; on the seventh day, twelve gallons were taken out ; at 335 it was slightly in damnable; on die eighth day be carried it to 500; when, at that temperature, the vapour took fire seven inches and a half shove the orifice of the tube, and spread itself without any noise; at very high temperatures the vapour was not inflammable, but the reason was hs not bring raised by a sharp fire; on the ninth day, the vapour took fire at 490, and at the end of 'a worm at tached to the boiler continued burning for twenty minutes, the dame being six inches in length ; iu fifteen minutes, with a mid dring fire, be raised it 145 degrees from a degree of 500; it was inflammable at 345 ; on the tenth day, it was as inflam mable at Z,60 as it was at 500 on the same day; on the eleventh day, it was inflammable at 510 ; this was the lowest ; on the twelfth day, also, it was inflammable at 310; there was another experiment commenced on the Bth of March, and continued t 3 days at a temperature of 560; the beat never exceeded 365; the quantity of oil used was 24 gallons. On his cross-examination by Mr. Serjestat Taber, the witness adhered to his farmer statements, and no point of any import ance was brought out. Alexander Smith was employed to watch an experiment Oa oil ; it commenced on the Bth of March; their. was lighted at six in the morning, and continued till sin in the fusing; belied orders to carry the heat no higher than its ; did sot *seine how high the thermometer was enduing ~ be severe te imp it between 350 and 560; it otglit hive pt asbw isSoiS ; tt never went above 365. On his cross•examinatlss, vitamin said be was never war st ifrg: en a process of the kind before, bit *NNW mai cauu directed to it during the twenty-three dtiya- Michael Ferriday assists Mr. Snide at ets Sorg festito 4l l; .be has made chynxistry his atwirfor the lon dike yaks; ?slim dry the oth was the time be first invedgotsi the properties of oil when heated by fliriosta degrees; he inblie as eeperfatent et train-oil, to ascertain the temperature at which it would burn on the surface; it was esnalmstible at 400 if maned, and at 490 if dot conflated; the vapour itt the surface of the a is cent buitible at Osat•tensperature ; he tried experimems on oil for metiy,sistpeeed to the action of fire ; Galan boils at about 600; hit, if previtrealy distilled and condensed again, becomes midi more inilammable than new; all the substances of which oil is =solexcept water, are more *flammable than the Oil e of the products of oil, when purified, is the same in all its properties as native naphtha; it may be produced from oil which has been frequently heated before, at a temperature of 400 or 410. The experiments were made on the same Oil Wilkinson had been using. On raising the beat from WO to 410, it gave out vapour considerably inflammable. There were two yelpers produced. There was a great deal pf aqueous vapour, and that arising from the naphtha. He could have no doubt that the process of heating oil became more dangerous as it continued to be heated. The vapour from distilled oil, and that produced by naphtha, are both heavier than the stows- Sphere. If the steam-ben had been filled with vapour and air, and that light was applied, ft must Warne. When the temperature , reached 460, the oil was thrown out in jerks, arising from the formation of vapour in the dl Witness cou ld; not say, after his experiments, that the process with oil was a safe one. He made some experiments on sugar, and could get no inflammable vapour below 420. Mixed with water he got it at 440. If the heat was continued on sugar, he should expect the same effects as front oil. fidnits the process dangerous front the oil, itself being rendered more combustible by heat. The produc tion of the naphtha took away all doubt as to its danger. Train oil, such as he used, requires only hill' the quantity of beat to raise it to the same temperature as water. He made no expe riments to ascertain whether the accessions of heat were more difficult when the nil was at a higher degree of temperature than at a lower. The bulk of his experiment" were made on the oil furnished by Mr. Wilkinson. The printipal point proved by this witness was, that the pro cess used by the plaintiffs was attended with danger. Richard Phillips, Professor of Chymistry at the London In sdtution, bad made experiments with oils heated and otherwise; about two months since the result was, that recent whale oil emitted an inflammable vapour at abor: 400 ; heated half a pint in a retort, for thirty bolus, at SO; after that, the oil thick ened and became dark in colour • he increased. it suddenly to 500, which produced a distilled oils although apparently fluid, if placed in a cold atmosphere it would become solid; vapour of oil before heated, becomes combustible at aim; had no doubt it was vapour and not gas; the vapour was heavier than atmo spheric Air ; the account of Mr. Ferriday as to the result of the public experiment was corral; thought the machine before hint was of a dangerous nature. Cross-examined by the SotterroaeGanniu.e.—Water was also produced by the union of the Hydrogen and Oxygen gas : There was only one public experiment; when at 460 degreei it pro duced an aqueous fluid ; had never heard of accitlent from the boiling of sugar • could not obtain inflammable vapour from it at 440; nil pro duced it at 400; therefore the use of oil was much more dangerous than the usual process ; as accident might happen by the oil boiling over; and running down to the fire place, it would take fire ; could not produce inflammable vapour from raw or refined sugar at 440 degrees. Dr. &stock was a Physician, had studied chymistry tinny years ; had made experiments on oil some years back ; was pre sent at the public experiment at Mr. Taylor's, on Thursday last, at noon ; the first object was, to ascertain the change made by exposing oil to a moderate temperature; the second, to observe at what time inflammable 'menu could be obtained from oil that had undergone that change; oil that had been kept at 360 d grees el days, produced volatile oil at 440 degrees, it was a highly dangerous inflammable fluid ,• on the second experiment, the oil became thick, and of a dark colour; this oil produced hiflanunable vapor's in a slight degree at 4C03 and when the ther mometer was a few degrees higher, it increased considerably ; at 460 the oil spouted to the ceiling, and it was with difficulty the :nermonieter could be seen; but as soon as it could be no ticed :t was 450 degrees. The change made in oil by being kept for a time at 360 degrees, is an important chymical discovery, end, he believed, was unknown to the chymical world previous to that experiment. lle thought the account given by the two first witnesses of what they observed, was very similar to what be should have expected. • John George Children confirmed the evidence ofjir. Ferriday sod Dr. &stock. lie cohsidered the process of using Oil for boiling sugar exceedingly dangerous; more so than the usual rocks. John Taylor s a partner with Mt. Martineau, had a share in several Patents ; had not at present any interest in a Patent used in sugar-boiling; bad had a great deal of practice in oils; did not think the use of heated call safe; himself and brother had abandoned it. because they considered it a dangerous agent ; oil distilled from tar Is volatile; had observed that 500 degrees were requisite to buil it; hie vapour it emits is heavier than air and very inflammable ; had known accidents happen by the va pour raking ire; there was no explosion like gas, but it corrus coed like lightning; thought shriller effects would be produced by tr..in oil; during the time of the e t alluded to by the other witnesses, be occasionally atten . and observed that at 410 degrees the vapour was inflammable ; witness was ac quainted with the process of boiling sugar; did not think that w:s particularly dangerous, but that th& application of oil Was' very much so; the heat used for that perpase does not exceed 240 or 260 degrees. Front the model of the building, he thought it probable that the current of air wou'el soinetimeghscend. and at others descend, up and down the flues. I%lr. Martineau never saw or hard of any accident from the operation of boiling sure.. The danger in sugar houses arose, from the heating the stoves and the Mauve. The sugar would be; materially injured if a stronger heat than 260 degrees were ap plied; thought the application of a vessel of boiled at very daneJ serous, and a great increase of risk. Daniel was a sugar refiner; said sugar we; first cleared, a proportion of water being mix d with raw sugar, 550 degrees was toe utmost heat that could be.applied without injury to the i sugar ; the introduction of heated oil was math more dangerous than the common process; the steam does not always escape, but the house is ofteu full of steam. occasioned by the density of the atmosphere. Gardener, a practical chymista attended at the experi ment at Mr. Taylors; he ciocurred in the statements given by . Dr. Rostock and Mr. Ferriday. Dr. Aiken had made experiments on oil about four of fire years ago; his aatention was directed to the composition of whale oil ; observed that whale oil CoMained a portion of gelati nous muter; fond whedboiled rapidly it burned to the bottern of the pail • the od became turbid and black, Occasioned by the jelly in the oils if the jelly be exposed to a given temperature it will blacken and • produce inflammable oil; that 41 seas first liscivered by a German chymist of the name of Dip Pie ; when viscid. fluid like whale oil is exposed to nak e d fire, the passage of the heat *Cold be retarded. in proportion to the viscidity , it cattalos, so that the thermometer put in at the top would be a very uncertain criterion by which to judge of the heat of the stratum at the bottom of the pin; boiling oil, in the opinion of witness, was exceedingly dangerous, because it was uncontroul able and unmanageable; by the oil being frequently boiled it becomes more volatile. _________ -z•—• Willoughby re-exatnined.—When be tit saw the lamas be did not smell anything, not did he observe that the lame was dfferetit from common fires. The evidence on the part of the defendants being closed, the Court adjourned at six o'clock. THIRD DAY. The Court was not less crowded this morning than yesterday. ,For some time before the Lord Chief- Justice took his seat, almost every place within the bar was occupied. His Lordship arrived at ten o'clock, and the Solicitor-General was about to re ply, when Mr. Serjeant BLossur begged that his Lordship would allow some of the Chymists who had been' examined to be recalled, in order that they might be asked, whether, if a fire broke out under such cir cumstances as had been described, it would have a particular smell? The Counsel for ;he plaintiffs were about to object to any rimgcaiiiiitlttiOlt after the case was closed, when The Jury intimated a wish to have some of the witnesses mailed, hi:_order to put certain questions to them." the same subject. Mr. iterrliikr was then MA O& sod exiewieel by the Fere enen et the.3ret7. Ia hie briber Itelibseet he had When elan iseeermable Wirsisr, set of 'a .I sa, as whin halt the Mire. 'That vapour woad ism bulked awe wino ¶uletly in cordon to she symifitity of staimilteric k Wail with it. It required a proportion of a fourteenth of gas to be explosive:-- his was the vapor or ga at the tonmesatture of 410. The im plosion produced by it would not resemble the explosion of glow powder. The explosion of gunpowder was violent in propos*. , doss to the volume of gas produced by the volume of gunpowder, combined with the rapidity of the inflammation. The explosion et gases might be generally considered in the same Bray--that was; 'the proportion of the heated gas to the cold gas before it was &ed. The explosion would of coarse cause a rapid expansion. When heated to a white heat, it occupied three or four times mere space than before, and it wouli expand to. that extent in every direction. All the vapour exploded would have Its smell destroyed. The smell belonged to the vapour, and not to its result or product. The product of the exploded vapour would have other properties, would form new aubstances, and enter into new combinations with the air into which it exploded.— From the rough experiments he had made,-he thought that in flammable gas would have the same effect as the oil. The smell, after the explosion, would depend on the quantity of uncon eumed vapour wlich might get about. If the proportion of vapour were small, the flame would be blue; if there was a great quantity ,of vapour, and more confined, it would burn brighter. The collusion gas light was an instance of continuous explosion with the greatest portion of vapour. Mr. Parkes was next recalled. and asked, by the same Juror, whether be differed from Mr. Ferriday, and in what ? He said he did not coneurin' all that Mr. Ferriday hal stated. He did /not recollect to have witnessed such explosions as those alluded to. 'There might be a smell after an explosion. The smell canoed by a thunder-storm he considered to proceed from * Seizure of nitrous gas. There generally was a smell in explo sire mixtures. He thought the smell would be occasioned by part of the gas or vapour being driven about uncconsumed,erlikh would retain its original smell. lie did not believe that any in flammaiiie vapour would arise from fixed oil at the temperature mentioned. He thought it impossible that any inflammable gases could have remained hi the flues at such a heat as was kept up. They must have gone into the air as soon as generated. If an accumulation of inflammable gas had taken place in the hues, or in the premises below. where the light was, would it have exploded like gunpowder, or in what degree?—l do not know what experiments others may have made, but 1 think it impossible that an explosion, as such, could have taken place without a great Dols; which must have been heard in the neigh bourhood all round. Mr. Brand was recalled, and was about to be examined ky the same Juror, when Mr. Serjeant &oastr observed, that as the present mode of re-examination was quite a new one, he hoped his Lordship would stay it, une.l he sent for Mr. carlett. who was in the other Court. oar. oerjeant VAVODAN said, the questions Were not put by the plaintiffs. The witnesses wag now in the hands of the Court and the Jury. The Foe MN A or rite Juice observed, that the object of him self and his brother Jurors was to get at all the facts of the case. Mr. }kande was then asked, whether he differed, and in what. from Mr. Parkes ;• but it appeared from his ansWers, that he concurred in Mr. Parkes opinion. 1 Mr. Phillips was neat recalled.—ln case of an explosion of vapour from ail in a high state of temperature, he thought there would be a smell. Ile would, by way of illubtration, say, that the common gas, where it escaped without burning, produced a strong smell, but where it burned there was little or none. If there was any accumulation of vapour, it wu'uld emit a strung smell before It exploded. In explosion it would mate-a noise, but that would depend on the quantity of atmospheric air; there might be no smell after explosion, but he thought there would be a strong one before it. henry May recalled, and examined by the Poirmax.—lie had been engine-keeper for twenty-four years. Mr. Sc.smarr, who had entered the Court a few minutes be fore, here interposed. Ile begged to submit to his Lordship, that though the Jury, in this mode of examination, thiLk they acted for the advantage of the cause, yet it might not hive that effect. They (night. perhaps, take a view of It, and put it in a shape which the Counsel could not have any opportunity of explaining. The LORD Cam Jutricx said, he had allowed the Counsel for the defendants to pet a question in re-examination, and he could not restrain the Jury in asking any questions for their own information. The Jury again declared their sole object to be to get suffi cient Information to direct their judgment. Mr. Scess.rrr replied, that be had no doubt their object was perfectly fair; but he had made the observation in the dis- 1 charge of his dtity. 14 *sold confidently leave the ease in itheir hands. - The re-exanilhation of May was then proceeded in.—lt Was the watchman who lit the lire, on the morning when the t ine Was burnt.' That man wis not here. Witneu was usually:in the engini.house. It was Shout half-put-three when the alarm of Arc was given. He had started his own engine before he heard the alarm given. It might . be three-juarters past three when he beard the alarm given. When be heard it, he went fo pull up the iron door. The Are, when he entered, was on his left. There was not any strong smell, nor anything in the ap pearance of the Are different froth others he had seen; be hunt no explosion before die ire, nor after. Mr. Lockey was next recalled, but nothing material was eli cited from his re-examination. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now rose to reply, and in a speech of great length and considerable ability, attempted to invalidate the reply of the defendants' Counsel. He principally alluded to the main topic% of defence urged by the defendants' Counsel. rhe great object of the Counsel for the defendants seemed 'to be, to prove that the trade had been carried on upon principles contrary to the express terms of the policy of insurance. This he combated with pecu liar felicity, quoting the opinion of several of the witnesses, who were practical men, who had stated that the risk bad been perfectly covered by the terms of the insurance. The present practice, he observed, was merely an improvement on the former ; but the proems of refining sugar, he it what it might, was in tended to be covered by the insurers. He next en deavoured to prove,-that the specification of the ar ticles used in the refining, together with that of the buildings adapted to the purposes of refining sugar, bad not been deviated from ; and having gone through the several counts of the indictment, he submitted, with no ordinary degree of confidence, the case of 'his clients to the consideration ofa Jury so perfectly 1 1 informed on the subject as those who now filled the Juror's box.—The Jurors retired for the purpose of refreshment r on their return The LORD CRIMP Jusrica immediately proceeded to address the Jury ; and after stating to them the - various pleas which had been put upon the record, recapitulated the whole of the evidence which had been adduced from the commencement of the trial la task that occupied more than three hours). The , Learned Judge then delivered his charge with that caution and impartiality which reflects so much ho nour on the judicial character. He detailed the se veral counts of the declaratiOn and the several pleas thereto. He then dissected the evidence, :hewing how far it was applicable, to each count of the de claration. He remarked, with that discrimination which always characterizes him, that the event upon which this action was founded formed a new era in the history of Chymistry. On this important sub ject they had heard the evidence, he would not say of the most intelligent, but of as intelligent men in chymical and scientific pursuits as were to be found in this country, or in Europe! but they had, never theless, left the Court in a Kate of uncertainty. The Jury, therefore, would decide upon their own con scientious conviction, whether the risk had been fairly contemplated by the insurers ; if it had, they would do their duty in returning a verdict for the plaintiffs ; if it should, howeTer, seem the present system was a trukterial departure from the ordinary ?ractice, and was attended with a risk not coateill- 'plated, they would best consult the interests of sos ciety, by returning a verdiq for the defendants. The Jury then retired, and, after being absent -about half an hour, returned, and delivered, throuos their Foreman, a verdict for the plaintiffs, by which they found, in the first place, that the premises had been correctly and sufficiently described ; in the second, that the fire did not originate in the place where the. nevi process was carried on ;_ and , in the third, that nn increased risk was caused by the introductioa of that process.—Damages £7200. The announcement of the verdict was received by a crowded Court, with considerable approbation, aid notwitirstandh.g the interposition of the highly re spected Judge, it was some time before order was perfectly restored. SECONDARIES' OFFICE, COLEMAN-STEET.T. FALSE IMPRISONMENT.-.GARI)AIN V. PEA ED. The circumstances of this case, which were pn.ved in evidence, were these appeared that the de fendant, who is a Solicitor in Doctors' Comrno : -., was passing down Cheapside on the V.Sth of Novem ber last, when the plaintiff, who was in cemp.. 2 r with several others, jostled against him as Ile passing, The defendant soon after put his hand his pocket and missed his pocket-book, which cm:- mined Valuable property. lie immediately susTectel the plaintiff. who had jostled against him, to h.t.. , e taken it, and he followed him until he came near the Bank, when he obtained the assistance of an ()Seer, named . Wiltshire, from the Minsk's-house, found the plaintiff standing still in the street. Upon 'being taken in charge, his companions left him and went about .their business, and he was. taken to tlic •locksup room and searcherk but nothing which couM give suspicion was found upon his person. The:c was no Magistrate sitting at the time At the Mansion house, and the plaintiff, at the request of the de fendant, was taken to the Giltspur-street Comp ter, in order to give time for a further investigation of the affair, and that he might be examined by the 'Magis trate. On going home, 'at about four o'clock in the afternoon, to his country residence at Fulham, the defendant found the pocket-book, which he had sup ' posed to have been stolen by the plaintiff, on his dressing-table, having, as it appeared, forgotten to put it in his pocket. He imrnediately sent to the Giltspur-street Compter, where the plaintiff was all ptisoned, and requested that he might be set at li berty ; when he was informed that this could not be done, but that he must first be taken before a Magi., trate, who alone could set him at liberty. The plain tiff was accordingly kept in custody until the ni:Lici:e of the next day, when he was taken before the Lord Mayor, by whom he was discharged. Mr. Anot.putia, for the plaintiff, contended, that ! the Jury should mark their sense of so scandalous a breach of the liberty of the subject, by inflicting sateil damages as would deter others from :rifling with the liberty or reputation of au individual. Mr. BOLLAND, on the part of the defendant, Con tended, that as the defendant could not possibly have been actuated by any malicious motives towartk the plaintiff, that heavy damages ought not to be in flicted. The defendant was an old man of regular habits, who for Tears had been accustomed to put his pocket-book in the same pocket, and it was per fectly natural for him, under spch circumstances, to do as he had done. The SgCO)IDARY summed op the evidence, and the Jury, after consulting for a short time, found a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages £7o.—The plaintiff is quite a young man, and a journeyman bricklayer. OLD B IL2Y. William Pearks and Daniel Thomas were found guilty of bur- glariously entering, on the 9th of March last, the dweihag-house of. Mary Slade, of Twickenham, and stealing therein two silver witches, six one pound notes, and various other articles, the pro pertrof the said Mary Slade.—Deatk. J. Williams, aged 17, was indicted for :leafing a watch front the person of J. Taykr. The prosecutor was galas down Bridges-street, when he received a vlislent blow as the back, and whilst attempting to turn round, was assaulted , by another person, who robbed him of his watch. One escaped, bet wit ness ragged the prisoner into a public-house. Nothing ,was found on the prisoner. The prisoner cross-examined the wit nesses with seine ingenuity, and appealed to the Jury, whethti It was likely that a boy of his rise should attack a man side ais much superior strength.—•Guilty—Dcath. V. Tkonipilln, for stealing a watch, a milk-pot, and other arti cles of plate, the property of Marie Bond, in her dweiling-house and T. WEenzie, for stealing seven pond in Bank.notes from Elizabeth Wheatley, in het dwelling-house, were also capitally c •.victed. Mineston-lianse.—Santuri Gooding, the tehant of Captain Davis, was brought before a Jan Committee of Aiderwn, which was held at the Mansion-House yesterdm - te widen, tut final elimination. Mr. Hawes attended as his Solicitor. 'Acre was no other evidence adduced against hiss, but that which has already appeared at considerable length. The rinser was asked some questions, hat he stopped short after a repetition of his former statement, and declared, that whatever aspics= might be entertained upon the subject of his knowledge of the Cap takes route after the escape, he was wholly ignorant of en, plan in contemplation for leaving the country, or the preparation ef swift hones for any purpose. Mr. Hamm having leen asked, whether be had anything to propose you the part of the prim ner ? replied in the negative, and seemed to wish that a com mittal should take place at once, in order that (loading might be tried at the Old Bailey dosing the present Semites. Gooding ptivataly declares, that he had np idea that he should have Sera detained in prison alter the eseape of Capt. Davis, who amooot him that no injury could arias from an act of kindness, such us was required. He was fully committed to take his trial for the miedemsanor. HEREFORD Com.toz.—Welately gave an account of a fire in this college, supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Lavender, the. Bow-street Officer, ma , sent down to assist the Magistrates in their investi gation of the business. Circumstances of suspicion attached to Mr. Hayter, the organist of the Cathe dral, who was particularly active in extinguishinx the fire. During Lavender's stay, another fire broke out in the upper cloisters, and on repairing to it, he found Mr. Hayter and his brother on the spot. circumstance confirmed the previous suspicson thq were taken into custody and lodged is liereiord MARAIIiii h Ludy, Lieutenant-Colonel toisibins, Stith Foot, to Ma Woodriff, daughter of Canuaissioner Naval Yard, at Jamaica. A pi a the Stb, at St. George's Church, /31comsbuy, Capten I Jame* Clemons, of the Hon. Mast-India Company's Ala& a Establishment, to Eliza, youngest daughter of J. Wailes, Eq. of Leicester-place, Leicester-square. 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