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LAIV INTELLIGENCE; • • • COVRI of GUILD/11MA., Mitell 5. 11 MGR AFTER !RR 311. H R I)F.N JOUNF , )141. 'id, was an action to recover a sum of money fur raisi;? recruits. Mr. GI Ras stated, that the Pt iintiff had been em ployed by the Defendant, Colonel Johnson, to raise .t certain quota• of men, for hi; Majesty's service, order a certain stipulated agretinent, which direa ed him in the manner such duty was to be rrform vd. Agreeable to his instriraions, forty recruits inhsted, and the Defendant obtained a com mission. He was then ordered to remain in the re cruiting service ; and during his continuation on that duty, he expended certain sums of money, the payanent of 'which had been refused t and was now tke sUbje.<l of the present !union. The Learned Counsel observed, that he *as fearful he should not be able to make out - the Whole extent of such expen diture, lint he could ieettunt for a considerable part of it. He had said formerly, that the case ought to have been kferred to arbitration, and his client wa.; of the same ophinii, but the proposal was objected to on the part (4' the Defendant. He proceeded to state the-terms on which Mr. Harden engaged with Col. Johnsonyand produced a letter of service, by whiCh it appeared that the Plaintiff was to raise forty meta for three divisions, and was to have 81. per man for such as were approved et . at head-quarters. A minute estiniate was then made of various neces sary charges that had been brought by the Plaintiff, it the whole amounting to 7091. the greater part of t.hich proceeded front a misfortune that had at tended the Plaintiff in transporting his men to Ire !ald, as they suffered shipwreck, and were marched ha,:k again to head-quarters, at a considerable ex pence. The • Learned Counsel expressed that his w asnit certainly did not me:ui to take one farthing more ft ont the Defendant that the most rigid arbi trator would demand. Mr. Easel/4E contended that the statement made by his Learned Friend was incorrea. By the letter n; service, the Plaintiff was to have 81. per man. 'lliose men were to he placed in a particular situa von, on condition of his being put in possession of a commission. If such men unfortunately died, it was undoubtedly a loss to him, but he was forced to nand to such loss, as he went by a contract. Upon the whole he argued,. that the Plaintiff could not reasonably demand a great portion of the sum Which had been estimated Lord F.cca noaoron, after stating that the Plaintiff was bound to adhere to the letter of service wnich had been given by the Defendant, was of opi nion that the case eras More tit for the decision of a prvate tribunal than a court of law, and advised the parties to submit to the arbitration of such per sou} who were regularly acquainted with the nature of the Plaintirs proceedings, and competent to judge. After some discussion, his Lordship's pro poled was acceded to. This cause terminated the Sittings. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, M tart; 4. Ref:2re Lord ELLENsoßocalt and a Special jury. WILLIAMS 4. SHFE. This was an action on a Policy of Insurance on a vessel and cargo at and - from Lisbon to Liver ' ! 4 1 - . ERSKINE stated, that the ship procrede on hei voyagc home, during which she sprung a leak, an i in a heavy gale of wind was driven on shore, on tli coast of where she was reduced to a wreck. The captain finding all possibility of pre s,rving the ^c.sel ineffectual, abandoned her to the t 'uderwriteis. On the return of calm weather, le reral small crafts were sent to take out the part of her cargo which had not been destroyed. During the time she remained in this situation, she was ob served to be on fire ; the Mate, who was on shore; saw the flames issue from her sides, he immediately went on hoard, and found no one there but the cabin-boy, who was asleep. The vessel was entiroly consumed, and several malicious persons raised a rcport, that she had been set on tire designedly. This, the Learned Counsel observed, was with out fon:dation ; and he would take it upon him to vindicate his client against such an assertion.—He wished the case to be fully investigated, and had no difficulty in believing, th.it the .fury would discard .dl belief or such an ;mention, when the evidence re lative to the transaaion was laid before them. George Murray was then examined, on the part of the Plaintiff, respeaing the making of the policy, which, he stated, had been regularly transaaed. Mr. Gaitiow observed, that his Learned rriend had stated the report which had taken place on the ship's takiilg tire. It was certainly a circumstance that imparted a strong suspicion on the part of the Underwriters, therefore it was proper they should make every enquiry upon the occasion. The question then was, whether there was any ground for that suspicion they had imbibed. The burning had since appeared to be accidental ; and, he was glad to say, his client was saistied. On this representation, the Jury gave a verdict for the CROSSL EY V. LEDWIC H. This was an a.lion upon a promissory-note for 451. which the Defendant had given, as a security f r a third person, to the Plaintiff. Mr. Gaitßow opened the case with stating, that a person of the name of Best had applied to the Plaintiff for certain goods, which he obtained, t:► the amount of 1001. It was, however, soon after disco- vered, that the same person had been dealing, with an intent to commit a fraud ; in consequence of which, application was made to a Magistrate, and a Police Officer was dispatched to take him into c usto dy, who conveyed hint to the house of the Plaintiff, where he was to m.tke restitution for the property he had obtained, lie then told the Plaintiff, that he had not as much money as the goods were worth, but that he would give up a time-piece to him, va lued at 451. which was nearly finished and should br put into his possession. Mr. Crossley had no objedion to the proposal, provided it was imme diately put into his hands ; hut he would not take the word of Best, nor trust him any further. The Defendant then stepped forward, and asked Mr. Crossley, if he would take his bill for the 151. for ten days, as a security for delivery of the time-piece in ouegion. This was consented to, and Best was liberated, on giving a note fur the remainder of the •ft t-k • • Itri rig . rrAnler. At the titre appointed, the time-piece was put into the hands of Mr. Ledwick, astd the Plain tiff applied to receive it, or the 45L He was told by the Defendant that Best had left the kingdom for Constantinople, and had gone away so much in his debt, that he should keep the said time-piece on his own account. The Plaintiff then brought his aaion. The time-piece was undoubtedly given for a specific purpose, therefore Mr. Crossley had a just. claim to it. The evidence called corroborated the foregoing statement. Mr. EttSKlNt; c ontended, that there was a hook debt due to the Defendant from Best, amounting to 791. and asserted that his client had never entered into any such agreement as had been stated during the time of Best's being in custody for his swindling at the house of the Plaintiff. Mr. Ledwick was an attorney ; he was well acquainted with the nature of such an agreement, therefore would not have en tered into it. Lord EL I.L.NtIOROUGII said there had appeared no contradiaion in the evidence. The bill was de livered on a condition which ought to be complied With, the Jury would therefore give their decision. Verdict for the Plaintiff. BLAKELY V. BARR. This was an action in trover, to recover the value of a cask of juice, the property of the Plaintiff. It appeared, that a cask of juice had been sent in a cart to the Defendant, who is a wharfinger at Symond's wharf, to' be delivered on board the Friendship, Captain Day, for the purpose of being conveyed to Messrs. For, Birch, and Co. at Man chester. On the arrival of the cart at the wharf, the cask was booked, and the sailors belonging to the Friendship placed it on the quay ; it was, how ever, conveyed away, and Inst to the Plaintiff. It was contended, in beliad of the Defendant, that the men belonging to the ship had taken possession of the cask, and that he bad no charge of it. Lord ELLENBnROI:GIi observed, that if it was in the custody, at any time, of the whartinger, he was bound to see it safely delivered. Money was paid for that purpose by the owner, consequently it ought to be respated. The Jury, without hesitation, gave a verdid for the Plaintiff. BISHOP V. GAIME.4 This was an athon to recover the sum of "1.25. Rd. far goods sold and delivered. The Plaintiff was a Corn-chandler, in Itolborn, and the Defendant, a Carpenter, residing in Camden town. Several articles were delivered, for which the Plaintiff was refused payment by the Defend ant, on pretence that the hay, straw, &c. had been sold to his son against his order. It was, how ever, proved, that the articles had been generally used fur the benefit of the Defendant's horse. The Jury, therefore, gave a verdict !Or the Plaintiff. POLICE. V 1 - UNION-HALL. Saturday a man named Samuel Belt, but who is better known by the nick-name of Pair Ifflp, was brought before the ittiug Magistrate on a charge of being a fin-owe-teller. A complaint had been made previously to the Magistrate, by ROBERT Gans, the agent employed by the Society for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality, against• the prisoner, in which he stated that the prisoner h.td been for several years past employed in the pritelice of telling fortunes, and pretending to be a Wizard, by which he had realized a considerable sum of money, and in carrying on his nefarious and deceit ful profession, had induced many persons to believe he was really able to foretel their future fortunes or destiny, by the assistance of the Angel Gabriel, with whom . he frequently conversed, and by a knowledge of the holy scriptures ; for which pat. pose he always made it a praaice to quote twiny different passages from the Bible to those who came to him, and by these means so worked upon the minds of several weak persons, as not only to occa sion them great anxiety and distress, but had dis turbed the peace of several families. That he (Gray) had been with him at different times, Jim the purpose of inquiring of him different circumstances that might attend his future for tune and welfare, at which times he had charged him, different sums of money, according to the information required. The last dine he charged him half-a-crown ; and at the different times Gray attended him, he found several other persons there, some in the room with the prisoner, and with whom he was practising his pretended science ; while others were waiting for their turn to be admitted— and among such persons he described, that there were several of both sexes, who, from their ap pearance, would not be suspeaed of such f . olly and weakness, as many of them appeared to be above the middling class. Cpon Gray making an information upon oath be fore the Magistrate of these circumstances, a war aant was granted to apprehend the prisoner; and to confirm what Gray stated, he told the Magistrate he would introduce one of the Officers to the pri soner to have his fortune told. John May, ono of the Officers, was sent with Gray to execute tae warrant, and when they ar rived at the prisoner's house, they found him en gaged in the exercise of his profession, with a very decent-dressed woman, of a very respeaable ap pearance, and writing down passages from Setip tore. They waited till the prison,r had answered her such questions as site wished to be resolved, and then May desired to have his fortune told. The prisoner took hold of his right hand, and, after ex amining the inside, and quoting several passages from the Bible, foretold him several circumstances that would occur to him, and made him and Gray a present of a curious straw ring of various colours. May then enquired of him his charge, when he told him he never took the money, but the woman below did, whom he called up, and May paid her a shil ling in the prisoner's presence. May then inforined the prisoner of the other ob.- jeft of his visit, and in return predided to the pri soner what was likely to happen to him, and took . him into custody; the prisoner, who was very strong, resisted the officer, who, with the assistance of Gray, had much trouble in getting him out of the house ; and when in the street, he made such resistance as to occasion a vast crowd of persons to assemble, who attempted to rescue the prisoner, and it was with great difficulty that May, with the help of other officers, got him into ecoach and brought him to the office. When he appeared before the Magistrate, his dress appeared a disguised garb, to give him the ap. • • pearali:e of an r• 1,1 sorcerer, the better to carry on his practice, and work upon the Minds of his cis? tomers: he had a large wrapping-gown, trimmed with fur ; a cap; and 1 large pair of list-shoei tied round his legs. He pretended to be insane, and would not give any consistent answers to the ques tions put by the Magistrate, but talked in a most in coherent manner of the Angel Gabriel, who, he had given him the name of Poor Help ; menti oned the names of several of the Nobility, and continued quoting passages of scripture. The Magistrate thinking he was as much like a rogue and vagabond as a fortune-teller, committed him to the House of Corn: Rion, under the vagrant ast, until the next Quarter Sessions, when the So ciety mean to continue the prosecution. GIBRALTAR, Fran. 8. It is believed here that Sir Richard Strachan, who arrived in the Donnegal, of SO guns, on the 4th instant, from Portsmouth, and sailed on the follow ing day for Malta, carries with him orders for our fleet to bring away the British troops. The island will not, however, be completely evacuated till his Majesty's ships Dragon, of 71. guns, and Re nown, of 74 guns, now repairing here, and also the Monmouth, of 6t guns, join the fleet at Malta. You shall be informed when they sail. The Quarter Sessions, which commenced _on the :id inst. ended yesterday. His Royal Highness, as usual, presided as Chief Judge, and conduced hiniself with great eloquence and propriety. The unwearied attention and pains he has uniformly shewn to the prote,ftion of the inhabitants in all their civil rights, since he was appointed Governor of this place, has justly impressed them with the highest veneration and atie&ion for his person and charaaer. The following k his Royal Highness's Address to the Grand Jury:— " Guntlemen of the Grand Jury, "le the official situation in which I have to address you, it becomes my dote to state those points to which your attention is to be principally directed, in tinier that you may be able to fulfil the trust'reposed in you by the public, in the manner best calculated to produce the effect for which you are now a,sem birtl. " Your duty, Cetitlemen, is two-fold, in as much as you art called upon, both to present offences, on sour own knowledge, and to decide upon etch Indictments as may be sent up to you. In both these cases, your principal attention should be to ad hese to the instructions preeeibed by the Charter of this place, and to follow the execution of the English law as closely as local circumstances will admit of. To do this effectually, you shoukt avoid, as much as possible, finding any indictment founded upon -tatutes lately [meted, and tendered necessary only by temporary c i rcumstances peculiar to England; AS pro secutieg upon these grounds may lead to legal doubts, and the necessity of a respite on that account, although the Jury has itself entertained :one upon the fact. Such was the t ace on a late trial, which took place hire at the last Quarter Sessions, when two atrocious Criminals, whom the Jury (mind guilty of the whole of the cicuges exhibited against them, escaped the punishment which they so justly merited, simply because the crime of which they were found guilty, was, in fact, of a more being nature titan that provided fie in the specific statute up on which they were tried. It will, therefore, be obvious, that the best line for you to follow, will be to found your indict ments, as much as possible, upon those offences, the intrin sic enormity of which has ever rendered them crimes by the Conituon Law; such as Murder, Burglary, Highway Rob bery, and the like, to which, in 'most countries, capital pu nishment is annexed. As an additional motive for you to follow these suggestions, I need only point out the evident justice that will thereby be dune to foreigners, who may natu rally plead igeurance of any peculiar English statute, when they cannot use such an argument, if they are tried wily for a crime, the commission of which would have been equally at tended with a capital sentence in their own colliery. " It is true, that, in some instances, offenders may escape by being tried upon indictments so found, who had they been brought to trial under late statutes, must have met the sen tences they :needed ; but on the other hand, all uncertainty or doubt after conviction is avoided, and less injury done to the public, where impunity arises from the lenity, tl•an where it is oecasiened by the intricacy of the law, in as much as an ac quittal, resulting from want of proof, is preferable to the ne cessity of li:intuiting, or, perhaps, eventually remitting a sen tence in consequence of legal doubts 'arising after conviCtion, how far the punishment was correctly applicalee to the case. " !laving concaukel what oecairs to ine mins this subject, I shall detain you no longer than is neccesaly to express the pe culiar anxiety I feel, that you should not only make the im provement of the police of this place the object of your SeliPtlS attentiun ; but also, that you should use your influence and judgment to obtain a cheerful acquiescence on the part of the Itti4, well-informed class of the community, in those measures that have hitherto or may hereafter be judged necessary (or its improvement, as regulations, however se isey digested, must become nugatory Whelk they are not duly enforced." Bills of indiament were found against three of the prisoners : a Spanish woman for murdering her bastard child ; another woman for receiving stolen goods ; and an inhabitant, for wantonly striking a soldier. The two latter were found Guilty—The woman for receiving stolen goods was sentenced to be imprisoned a year, and the inhabitant was fined 301. for the assault, which was ordered by his Royal Highness to be paid to the soldier, as a cumpensation for the insult he had received. By a report upon the Cotton Trade of Great Bri tain, submitted to the general meeting . of Merchants, Manufathtrers, &c. held at Glasgow, and ordered by them to be printed and circulated, it appears, that the annual return of the Cotton ManufaCture in Great Britain, in 1782, did not exceed two millions sterling—that from that period, it had been in a regular progressive state of increase—and that, in Mt', the return was twenty millions sterling, pay ing in wages thirteen millions, -and furnishing em ployment to nearly a tenth part of the population of the island. Orders are given for the removal of the Gun on the Parade in St. Janies's . Park, which is to be re placed by a 52-pounder, captured from the French Arwy in Egypt. The ground is already measured out, which is to be covered with twenty square feet of stone, the piece being sixteen feet long ; and an iron railing is to be put round it.—lt is not exactly known in what country the piece wat made : there. are several hieroglyphic characters marked on it, which have not hitherto been explained. A new system of regulations has been adopted by the Captain-Utheral or Martinique, relative to the import and export duties of that island. All vessels belonging to the United States, which shall enter the Ports of Martinique and depart in ballast, are bound to pay a duty of nine per cent. on the value of their imports, and the same duty is to be paid by them in -proportion as the cargo import ed exceeds in value that which is taken away. This arrangement must prove extremely detrimental to the American merchants, as it will reduce them to the necessity of entirely relinquishing their trade with the island, or of freighting their vessels with the worst kind of Colonial produce. • NAY"! L INTELLIGENCE: PORTSMOPTH, MARCH 4. His Majesty's ship liercuie, of 74 guns, which; sailed yesterday for a foreign statien, is charged with dispatches for the island of Malta, which, it is said, she will deliver to the commanding officer in the bay of Gibraltar, and then proceed on her voyage, supposed to be to the West Indies. Remain at Spithead his Majesty's ships and ves • sell as per last. Wind N. N. F.. and moderate. His Majesty's ships Blanche, of 36 guns, Capt. Mudge ; Laindla, of 24 guns, Capt. Hill; and Kite brig, of 18 guns, Capt. Pipon, have made signals for sailing : the two latter will take to Jersey a party of invalids to perform the garrison duty of that island ; and the former is expected to sail on foreign service. 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