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LONDON, FRIDAY, APPoL 14, 1820. for which HAMPDEN fai in the Field. and SYDNEY died on the Scaffold.' COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Aran. 13. ti7F. beg leave to offer you our grateful knowlejetteents 6.r the honour you have conferred N um by Re-eiectine us into the Direction. Teasing that the Preprlrtors will ever find us deserving al We confidence they have reposed in us. We haft' Sit• honour to hr, with the greatest respect, Lftdiry 310 Gentlemen, Your nn st obedient and very humble servants, JACOB HOS ANQUET, JOSEPH tvrroN. • WIT Il AM TAYLOR MONEY. EDWARD PARRY, TIIONIAS REID, WILLIAM WIGRAM. BastJnylia House. April IS. DM. EITERNE, IMO, ♦N! CO. T. THE IMPEILI•L INSL'R•NCI CUM PAN T. The Court was not less crowded this morning than yesterday. For some time before the LORI) Cntet Jes- TICI 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 reply, when Mr. Serjeant Roemer begged that his Lordship would allow some of the chemists who had been exa mined to be recalled, in order that they might be asked, whether, if a fire broke out under such circumstances as had been described, it would have a particular *swell The Counsel for the plaiutiffs were about to object to any re-examination after the case was closed, when The Jury intimated a wish to have some of the wit nesses recalled, in order to -put certain questions to them on the same subject. Jr. Ferriday was then recalled, and examined by the Yeteeenan of the Jury. In his former evidence be bad' ',elm of u inflammable vapour, not of a volatile oil, as stiffing from the pipe. That vapour would have burned more or less quietly in proportion to the quan tity of atmospheric air mixed with it. It required a pro portion of a fourteenth of gas to be explosive. This was the vapour of oil at the temperature of 410. life explosion produced lov it would not resemble the explo sion of gunpowder. The explosion of gunpowder was violent in proportion to the volume of gas produced by the volume of gunpowder, combined with the rapidity of inflammation. The explosion of gases might be ge nerally considered in the same way—that was, the pro portion of the heated gas to the cold gas before it was tired. The explosion nimbi, of course, cause a rapid expansion. When heated to a white heat, it occupied three fir four times ..0 re space than before, and it would expand to that extent in every direction. All the vat-' pour 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 neu substances, and enter into fit w combinations with the air into which it exploded. From the rough experiments he had made, he thought that inth hie gas would have the same effect as the oil. The smell, after the explosion, would depend on the quantity of unconsumed vapour which might get about. If the proportion of vapour were small, the dame would be blue ; if there was a great quantity of vapour, and more con fi ned, it would burn brighter. The common gas light was an instance of continuous explosion with the greatest portion of vapour. Mr. Parks was next recalled, and asked, lay the same Juror, whether he differed from Mr. Ferriday. and in what? He said, he did not concur in all that Mr. Ferri ' day had stated. Ile did not recollect to have witnessed such explosions as those alluded to. There might be a smell atter an explosion. The smell caused by a thumler ' storm he considered to proceed from a mixture of niirous gas. There generally was a smell in explosive mix tures. He thought the smell would be occasioned by part of the gas or vapour bring driven about flacon mined, which would retain its original smell. lie tild tosi be fr k e e d ve m A; r a t 4l • ein iid p i e a rat in ttt able vapour w H o e u t t u a g rise .e kt it impossible that any ittraitintable gases mild have re mained in the dues at such a heat as was kept tip. They must have gone into the air as 604111 as generated. If an accumulation of intlawmaide gashed taken place in the dues, or in the premises below, where the light was, would it have exploded like gunpowder, or in what degreei—l do not know what experiments others may have made, but I think it impossible that an explosion, as such, could have taken place without a Ernat noise, which must have been heard in the neighbourhood all round. iettrta AMICABLE SOCIETY, you INSURANCE or LIVES, SSWKAN ey-isys, FLEET-Welt aaT, LON DoM, iteCORPOIII TED PIT QUCI( • N lea, 1706. irrHE DIRECTORS have sow to offerto the .1 attention of the Petite. TABLES of 11.%TES, which have been lately conspleetd. for the insurance of Lives, at the various Ages from Stu 7 ; either fur the whole life. any specific number of years. the contingency of one person surviviog another, or for the joint continuance of the hies of two persons, the insurance payable on the death of either. Inserarees in this Office are effected, in certain cases, at a reduction of nearly 30 per cent.. and. on the whole, on terms 'really favourable to the insured. Insurances may be effected from 9001. to 6.00 W.; and every kind of insurance, however short the period of eon hemmer, is entitled to a participation in the pecuniary ad vantages accruing to the Corporation. These advantages are wholly appropriated to the benefit of the insured, in pro po-tion to the amount of each insurance, as circumstances arise in the year in which the death happens. Of the claims upon this Society which became payable in respect of insurances on the lives of persons who died in the last year. 73 shares, on which fourteen yearly payments or more have been made, receive additions amounting to 33 per cent.; 3 shares. has in; made thirteen yearly payments, 23 par emit.; 6 shares, having made eleven yearly payments, 17 per cent.; 23 shares, basing made nine; it shares, having made eight; and 2 shares. having made seven yearly pat - meats. receive II per cent. in addition to the sums originally inured. Abstracts of the Charters and By-Laws. with Tables of the Premiums, may be had at the Office, where attendance i, given daily from Nine till Three o'clock. By Order of the Court of Directors. J. PENSAM, Registrar. Mr. Brande was retailed, and was abont to be exa mined by the same juror, when Mr. Serjrant Ithosi:xx observed, that as the present mode of re-examination WAS quite a new one, br hoped his Lordship would star it until he sent for Mr. Scarlett, who was in the other I 'mitt. Mr. Serjrant VAUGHAN said, the questions were nut put by the plaintiffs The witnesses were now in the hawk of the Court and the Jury. The Foreman of the Jury übserve.l, that the object of himself and his brother juror; was to get at all the facts of the case. _ _ Mr. Brand, was then asked, whether he differed, and in what, from Mr. Parks; but it appeared, from his an swers, that he concurred in Mr. Park's opinion. Mr. Phillips was next recalled.—lo case of an explo sion of vapour from oil in a high state of temperature, he thought there would be a smell. He would, by way of illustration, say, that the common gas, where it es caped without burning, produced a strong smell, but where it burned there was little or none. - if there was any accumulation of vapour, it woitlil emit a stroog smell before it exploded. In explosion it would make a but that would depend on the quantity of atmospheric air. There might he no smell after explosion, but he thought there would he a strong one before it. Henry May recalled, and examined by the Foreman. -.411e had been engine-keeper for 2-1 years. lie. SCARLETT, who had entered the Court a few uti sutes before, here interposed ; be begged to submit to his Lordship, that though the Jury in this mode of exa mination might think they acted for the advantage of the cause, yet it might not have that effect. They might perhaps take a view of it, and put it in a shape, which the Counsel could not have any opportunity of explaining. The Loan entalo Ju'Vrn a said. lie had allowed the Counsel fur the defendants to put a question in re-exanii nation, and be could not restrain the Jury in asking ally questions for their own information. • The Jury again declared their sole object to be to get sufficient infortnation to direct their judgment. Mr. SCAMLETT replied, that he had no doubt tbeir ob ject was perfectly fair; but he had wade the observation in the discharge of his duty. He would confidently leave the ease in their bands. . . . The re-examination of May was then proceeded in.— It was the watchman who lit the fiie on the morning when the place was burnt. That man was not here.— Witness was nsually in the engine-house. It was about half-past threewhen the alarm of tire was given. He had started his own engine before he heard the alarm given. It might be three quarters past 3 when l►e beard the alarm given. When he heard it, lie went to pull up the iron door. The fire, when he entered, was on his left. There was not any strong smell, nor any thing in the appearance of the tire different from others he had seen. He heard no explosion %retire the fire nor after. Mr. Loftier was next recalled, hut nothing material was elicited from his re-examination. The SOLICITOR-01YMM. now rose to reply. Ile be. pa by thanking the Jury, in the names of fiis clients, and, he might silk!, in that of the public, for the great OL--"''''''''-'-''m"°"---".IP-1."...11.11.1P11.11111111m11.1111.11.11.11...11.mimmi........1.1111.1.111.111111.111111111.1111.1111.1.1111.11111.7_ . p_. I downiri , 7 I Ili! , 4 01 ' : p. . $., . 4 V . ; t• - •.C.e • . , . t„ ,f ( • , xi .i.' .:. 1§ % ~ I t elo Ili; 1 01 " 1 ";!•11 •,i • 1 tateL . . z man o 3 - Ne 1 PRICE SEVEN PENCE. an I anxious attention they had paid to the premed in quiry. What he hail just witnessed in this case was, if any such could be required, an additional practical illus tradon of the benefit of Trial by Jurv. After the Coon s& on both sides had roncluded - thei;examination, had seen the witnesses recalled, and most mitontr'y exa mined by those who were to be the judges of their te.- tiwony. This, he repeated, was an excellent illustra tion of the benefit of 1 rial by Jury, and of the security and happiness of living in a country where that mode of trial was so strictly obsereeil. The present he consi dered as one of east importance, not only to his clients, but to the public at large. Let the Jury now look a. the case. It appeared that, before the plaintiffs bier adopted the new process, they had three fires in 1 e same room, where afterwards they used only one. They very naturally conceived (and that such was the far: be would shew)that that diminished the hazard. Their conduct subsequently proved that such was their belie? for was it to be supposed that in an establishment whew a capital exceeding Itto,ooo/. had been invested, and only a part of it insured, that they would have ri'ked are uninsured property of 30,0001. or 41.1,0001. by any plan which they knew to be more hazardous ? He only mentioned this circumstance to show how honourably Lis clients stood in Court. He would now come to th., objections urged against the claim which his client 4 had made ; and, first, to one which his Learned Friend, Mr. Searlett, had said, lie (the Solicitor-tieneral) had passed over slightly. Ile would allow that his Learned Friend possessed advantages which he did not. lie (Mr. Sc;orlett) had fourteen or fifteen grounds of defence, and it was impossible for him (the Soli citor-Hem:al) to be aware, at first, of which of them lie would avail himself. His Learned Friend had said, that the plaintiffs bail not given in the policy a proper description of the place insured. To that lie agswereo, that it was well known to the defendants that only a part of the premises were insured, and that such part had a communication with other parts of the building. They (the defendants) must have been acquainted with this cii - cumstance, for they had insured a part of the same pre , noises the year before. They bad insured only a part ; and, if they wished, they might have demanded a view of the whole. He would now, before he came to Il e other points, say a word as to the necessity of giving a ' description of the place near to that insured. He con ! tended, that even if this process was carried on in the part insured, it would not be necessary to give a descrip tion of it., unless the risk was thereby increased. Hut bow had the defendants themselves thought of this in creased risk ? Let the Jury look to what occurred wine respect to Mr. Harris, of Liverpool. lie had applied ti the defendants fur leave to use oil and tallow in his poo -1 cess, and they endorsed their complianre on the bail, lei the policy without charging any additional premium. Was that the conduct of men who conceived the hazard increased by the deviation from the old process? So much for what had been thrown out respecting the policy. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to con tend, that the old plan was attended with more dangec than the other, and cited as a proof, the means which were resorted to by several to refine sugar without 1-wi ning the risk of its boiling over—a risk to which the e:,I plan was constantly exposed. Mr. Martineau, for th,s purpose, bud Myers* to aisinu, and, iss loiter to raise the sugar to the required temperature, was obliged to iis - the high-pressure steam-engine—an engine which oil. confessedly attended with very coniiolerable risk. It had been attempted by one of the greatest chemists e this country. Mr. Howard, to prevent the boiling uvoo-, had suggested the boiling in ewevo ; and, at the press sit moment, the defendants were proprietors of a patent preventing this danger. Mr. Kerjeant Bursar h -re interrupted the Soli, it., - tieneral. and begged to state that he was mistaken ; it defendants bad nothing of the kind; they were uut r u..- cerned in any sugar-manufactory. The SOLICMOR•iiESERA L continued. He had made is mistake ; but it was one for which the Jury would hie give him. lie had fallen into it from cordounding• the present defendants with the defendants in another i'a•c. Now, in order to infer the greater risk from the use of oil, what had been said ? 1 hat oil produced an it.- flammable gas which was extremely danerous. It Lat had his witnesses said on this point ?— That they ns..it l'ollllllon whale-oil, and that it produced no gas rimier .t lemperainre of 314) or WI. It was said, that they had c o t gas from nil at a temperature of 100; but then that from oil which had for I 9 months been at several times exposed to heat. Others of the witnesses had deposed, that they had got gas from oil at a temperature nut much above 3 0 0; but, then, how was this done ? The oil was got front NI r. Taylor' a, and the evidence of Mr. Ferri day showed, that in refining oil, some sulphuric acid was used, sod this would tansy gas at a loner tenapera'ure than the nil, if unmixed with any foreign ingrediew-. What then, was the deduction front this? Was it n••t that the oil used by the plaintiffs had nut gone Marlin .4h such processes as to make it give out gas at 354); and that in the oil used in making the experiments, Om,e must have been some foreign ingredients ? It was Ina! at fur the defendants. that the oil used gave out gas at temperature o13.SO; and, in some instances, as low a. 3:4'. Why, this was lest than the temperature at which the oil used by the plaintiffs was generally kept; and if, as 'tali ;wont to be inferred on the other side, the gas was etturir.g down, and accumulating day after day, it should liar, ex ploded in August or September, and not in November. The defendants then, in this instance, proved too intich ; fur, if there was any foundation in the analogy they isb to show between the oil used iu the experiments and that used by the plaintiff.. it must have hall the effeet of eausing au explosion long before the time at which the tire took place. His Learned Friend (Mr. S.) hail asked, `• nut call Muller ; he is in your power ?" This was an observation common to hoih sides; and be rentrmsberr l . well a remark which had once been made by a Learn .4 Judge, who then presided in that (mart (Sir V. 6:bbi). He laid it down, that, where one party had a duanuient to which the other had no access, the uou-producti:fn of it, if desired, would raise • presumption against the party withholding it; but the sante reasoning could rot apply to the nun-production of a living witness. who was in the power of both parties. Muller was in Cos. t• and, if the plaintiffs did not produce WM. why hart not: the defendants called him, after they had admitted that be was an important witness? He knew the obi weighed against his clients, hat it had just Mao weight against theotber side,and ntizht only be cosi....lerrll as dust in scale. But let the Jury see how the case stood with respect tu the ere. There irss no a ppearAtire, no .n,. II ' which indicated the combustion of inflammable vapcits ; and, if any such existed, same of it must have been sea - t:red about unconsamed„ which would emit an unpleas..nt smell. If it were communed all at Once, :hare moo nobeernzpaniuseicolorlowsuionirawrbli.clanowrownasid alinayreoiterstylajle:l4:l tired which could indica , ' the repent!** of enflamin •tr vapour. If the fire ha i been caused by the ration'. . . . . I i Ai RAAt....R...Q.. _ ~--------''''' ...„ c 1. de. Ilre ' ere I , MAI 10 ' thea. - --....--. • . - ... iy. the 441 LONDON , FRI D A ' 1111 ...- RIO lay ', o 46U1. " The Cruet for which HAMI'DEN (tU in th NIX ____ ..._ __— -_—_ ma To 11W PROPRWTORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY, V'd 1.tD1.11 IND IiaNTI.PNEY, /Oa TIC PIN NNNNN T RNLI./ OF DENAVFD ARTISAN., Pe- v7F. beg leave to ofrer you our grateful ae- 11111CHAA% AND TURIN EIDON a. 12 V kaiivdejement. f..r the honour yoe have conferred THE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be at N es, ha Re-eiretine us into the Direction. celebrated at Albion H ou s e , Alderagatirstreet , on t i T r astinat that the Preprietors will ever find us deserving TEVIRIDAT, April 20, 1920. A V 01 u s e confidence they have reposed in us, The Right lion. the 10513 MAYOR, M. P. Presideet, le- We hart tli honour to hr. with the greatest reaped, in the Chair. Ladies att,l Gentlemen, *TEE AR Di. nt Year mast obedient and very humble servants, Sir Wm. Curtis , Bart. M.P. W. Imav e ll. E s q. nf JACOB BOS ANQUET, Thomas Wilson. Esq. M.P. J. Malcott. Ea .% it JOSEPH L'OTI'ON, .. V. P. J. Mansfield, Esq. W 11.1.1 AM TAYLOR MONEY. lit P. Bodkin. Esq. J. March, Esq. EDWARD PARRY, C. Brind, Esq. E. Poston. Esq. THOMAS REID, J. Brown. Esq. A. Redford. Esq. WILLIAM WIGRAM. O. Chappell. Esq. W. Richardson, Esq. r. EastJndis House. April IS. 1920. B. Denham, Esq. J. Scott, Esq. I (i. Derails, Esq. J. R. Smith. Esq. t AMICABLE SOCIETY, roe INSURANCE of LIVES, J. P. Harrard , Esq. J. Thompson. Esq. H. Hickman. Esq. W. It. Thrupp. Esq. SiltiltANT'it-fius., FLEET-VT*l[lT, LONDON, J. Johnson, Esq. A. Weller, Esq. i N CORPORATXD NT Q1:11:4 •N Nit, 1705. Dinner to be on table at Four, for nee s'eieek:Obtair., it FirHE DIREGIVitB helm sow to ofterto the —Tickets. les. each, to be had of the Segments, at the 'Fa- IL attention of the PuWit. TABLES of RATES, which vitro, and of have been lately consplestd, for the Insurance of Lives. at Mr. D. RICHARDSON. lion. See. ' t the various Ages from Stu it ; either for the whole life. an) No. 1, Walbrook. This day as published, In 4 vols. Itmo. prier 424. • - DE CLIFFORD: or, Pa'sion more powerful than Reason, a Tale. Printed for A.K. Newman and Co.. loadenhall-street. The following will be published in a short time : GIITTLTIZORDD ; or. thi- Child of Sin, by Charles UCH, A. 31. Author of the Infernal Quixote, Ac., 3 •ols. ; or, Memoirs of the Montague Family. a Novel, 3 vols. Tat Ova-ror *to Nora, a Tale of Mid Lothian; and other Tato, by Francis Lathan, 3 vols. 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CARROLL, the Contractor, thanks the Public for their distinguished favours up to the Preliminary Drawing on the I Ith inst. ; and as no Prises Meter than tit/ •ere then determined, all Tickets and Shares, If bought be fur the 97th this Month, will have the sales chance for the 4 V I Also fur the whole of the ONE HUNDRED AND TWO CAPITALS. And for every other Prise In the Lottery (except the Z3U Prices that have been drawn). as if they bad been bought !mita, lb* Preliminary Drawing. \. B. Two Prise , of 90.0001. 3 per Cent. console, nu' ar Deans 17th This \holtli, when the Two FIRsT•DRAWN PRIRLS will gain 1 1 11.0001. each, in addition to whatever Prices they ma y be drawn. Tickets and Shares are selling by CARROLL. Contractor. No. 19, cornhal, end uti, Oyford-street, London ; who spired and sold. in the last few months. LW. 30 . 000 f,..% Auk 11.001.11. ; 1,343, 20.0001. ; 7,003, 6,0t1U1.; CPA, tAlikx• de. die. 44anot.t. hu Agenhi lo all the principal towns tt ruvaliout the country. LAN' mrELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OVILDNALL. APRIL 13. SHORT r SeCARTIIT. This was an action to recover from the defendant, who is a solicitor, a sous of 3•201. paid by him on account of the phintiff, for the reversion of a snm of PIM in the Fi% e repents. Stock, but which Has lost to the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant. The case fur the plaintiff was conducted by Mr. TIN DALL, and that fur the defendant by 31r. SCARLIETT. The following is a succinct statement of the damn stanses of the case : Mr. Short was induced to treat for the puchase of a reversion of the above-mentioned funded stock, on the death of an old woman named .Shand, living as a servant with a fatnily in the Minuries. It was alleged to him that this sum was bequeathed to her by the will of a re lative, registered in Doctors' Commons, and vesting the money in trustees for her use ; and the sum agreed on for the purchase was 320/., this woman at the time being considerably above 70 years of age. The plaintiff di rected the defendant, his solicitor, to prepare the roper deed, and to inquire respecting the will at Doctors Com mons, and the Stock in the Bank. He sent Ws clerk to make the inquiry, who satisfied himself as to the will and its contents at the Cummins ; hut on inquiry at the Bank, lie was informed by a clerk that it was not usual to allow strangers to examine the Stock books without authority fr the Bank Directors. He reported this answer to his employer, and no further inquiry was made. 'flie deed being ready, the plaintiff handed the defendant :he purchase-money to complete the bargain, with strict injunctions to ace that all was quite alKat, be fore he parted with the niattey. It was paid! and the deed etecnte3. The dal woman still Tleia! transaction occurred in lSl2; six years etaii-01 without further inquiry. when it was discovered, on exatuirtation that there never was any such stock as that mentioned star in the names stated, and that the will in the Commons ismst have been either a trick to found a gross fraud, or made by some testator who had no such property. _ _ The Learned Judge was of opinion, under all the cir cumstances, Ow the defendant was answerable to the plaintiff for the stun thus disposed of, without the vigi lance it was his duty to exert. The Jury found fur theplaintitf—Damages 320/. Costs 40s. ZION COFFINS. This subject, which has so often occupied the atten tion of this Court in a variety of shapes, came forward again this day, in form of an action of damages, for as• sault and false imprisonment, brought by BRIDORMEN, THR PATENTOR, r. ■CRRARP, ONE OF THE CHURCHWARDENS 01 T. ANDREW, HOLBORN. It will he recollected that this contest originated in the endeavour of Mr. Bridgman, a Lib is an undertaker, to procure the sepulture of the deceased wife of Mr. Gilbert, a ,tole-merchant of the said parish, in an iron coffin, at the parish burial-ground in Gray's Inn-lane, on the 10th of March, 1619. But the fees demanded were BM which the husband of the deceased refined to pay, as too exorbitant, and the Innly remained unburied until the following 10th of June, when, without any previot notice, Mr. Bridgman brought it in funeral array to the parish church-yard of St. Andrew, in Hol born. The I'lergyman was that day occupied with his parish children at St. Paul's; and the sexton refused to receive the body. Mr. Widgeons:l insisted on the right of sepulture; warm disinters arose; the churchwardens: were sent for, and at near right o'clock Mr. Burrard ar rived. He would listen to no representation or remon strance from Bridgman, hut charged Min with raisin disturbance and exciting riot, and threatened if be di not itistantly quit the el.itreh-yard, lie would order his beadles to take him into custody and carry him le the Compeer; Mr. Bridgman refused to quit; and filir:liters: rand ordered the beadles to seize hint and take him to the l otnpter in Oiltspur-street, which they did with much violence. He was confined there for the night, and u n til twelve next day, when lie was brought before Alderman Domville, at the Justice Room, Guildhall • who, on hearing the charge made against him, dismitset it as groundless. A man, named Vrewen, one of the beadles, was then induced to swear an assault against him ; upon which the Alderman felt it his duty to hold him in sureties to abide his trial at the nest City Ses sion, where he was tried and acquitted; and for those ass cults and false imprisonment he now brought this action, laying his damages at 51.101. Mr. St'tleLETT, Kith Mr. CHITTY, managed the care for thr pl ' 'tf; Mr. Usautar, with Mr. LATTLIIKALC, fur the defendant. Above twenty witne(ses were examined on both sides. The CHM' JUSTICE, in summing np for the Jury, told them the point here for their consideration was, whether the plaintiff had committed any breach of the peace, or dune any thing to excite riot or disturbance. If they should lie of opinion that be had, then their verdict :mid he for the defendant. But if not, then the de fendant bail greatly exceeded his authority, am) must be reitonsible fur the consequence; and their verdict 'mold be for the plaintiff. In considering the damages, they would exerci•e a calm anal dispassionate delibera tion, and give what they thought reasonable. The Jury found fur the plaintiff—Dam ages 100/. rums 40s. 'flee trial lasted till half•past fire o'clock. __1N....M.-