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LAY INTIILLIOINCE. 6.••••••••• 1 1 CletT Of EING'S BENCH. Vigsvmmirvi,MA, I) Swigs' at Nisi Priut. Wore Lard Chief Justice ELLSIMILUGH. svelte ttttt • This was a n a aion upon a tailor's bill for Ist. gs the Plaintiff having proved the delivery of the r ood% to the D efendant, and his sons, Marshall and ithan, the defence set up was. that the and e a fenndant, who was a chemist and di uggiit, vvender of quack medicines, and alio being one of f u., ; people called Qiukers. had obje&ed to paying the slim of 51. odd, for one of his n th he having tu rned to the pomps anal vanities of is wicked s: rld, and deserted the ways which his father him to walk in. These two young men had bcot, dtiring their younger days, reared and dreised fashion of Qoakers ; and he had paid the ex of their clothing ; but, on coming to years ;.t i ne.nrity, they thought proper to get rid of those s, their opinions altered, and the.? pi eferred dress, according to the fashion of the day, to e nove simple and less expensive dress of their I ~mer nt ofessioni Besides this, the one was of age, I the other not far from it, and they had engaged .1 business totally independent of their father. 3p;leat however, that the clothes charged by !he Pia•o•Aff were furnished while the young meu y se:ne residing with their father, the Jury found a eedta of 191. 6i. for the Plaintiff. LLOYD e. L ANL. Walt lAti atlicni of mom brought by the Plain , • respetiable bookseller in it ly-street, Cavern cia i ti- , quare, agaiest the Defend H aut. e who wns sur. y on u. that neighbourhood, to recover A f.)is sue lined by the Defendant detaining an admiasio t cket belonging to Drury-lane rile:rare. 'C. e Plaintiff, among other persons, Was the proptiet r Of several silver tickets iif admission to cue cheats es and Opera, whit's he let our far the night to those who called for them, at a certain price. The De fendant had hired a ticket for Drury-lane Theatre., lust at the commencement of the season, and the ticket was detained, as was the usual custom, in older to summits whether it was genuine, and to pat a private mark upon it, that it might be known to the dour-keepers as a free-ti7ket for the mason. Some tune after, on the 26th of Novanber.. the Defendant had two tickets for Diury.lane Theatre, tor which he paid the usual de psi: of 11. These tickets were marked C.O and No 9'. The Defendant returned the ticket C.C. , bat it was not discovered that No. 91 w n: vetre tuned, ontil some time after, when the DeiVoclatit sp;:itesi (or an Opera Ticket. whell. neon inv,stiga- Vol, they found that the ticket Ni.. 91 h a d been out Or 53 dos from the time the Defendant teceived j,, llP'to that period I'he ACtion WAS therefore broitght to recover the amount of the price, at :le rate of 4s. 41 • per night, and the value of the t ekct itself which was a 11. 6s. The Defence set up was bo , ut that when the Defendant went to the Theatre, the ticker, No. 91. was stopped by the door-keeper, and the next mornit:g the De fendant sent to the Plaintiff to ne t him of it. 1: appeared, however, that from the uprri vr;lici• the tketr were hired. and the time when the Defendant made use of the ticket, nine days bad !fleeted. The LLAIMID Jutroc therefore "4“"Brgirelrt. it all events, the Plaintiff was en ti.li d, for ase nine days, and if. from the evidence, the dui y ate of opinion that the ticket had been detained dOing the whole of the time, they would lad tLeir verdiet accordingly. •l'he Jury. atter a long consultation, found a eerdifi to the full amount of 71. las. r It. 0 • Ire for LI, ind Jed • 111M1 Male P. R•MVi• Tills was an anion brought to recovet the earn of tw-nty-five guineas, the value of two paintings of time portraits of three favourite horses, belong ing to the I)efendant• - The Ploia:tff was a young artist, and had been inritca to spr.d some •at the Mendota's. a C. , . ',lonian of property and Erspeaability, residing ac Fulham i whom he W. 1% employed, among other things, to paist the s e pottoits of the Defend.int's IV Tree, bet had never received any cumpensoti. , n }or ;,is trouble. Mr. Wod, a celebrated artist in th's line, open examination of the pintoes produced in Court, thought 25 guineas a very reasonable sans to charge for them. On the part of the Defendant, Mr. PARKn ob served, that if the Plaintiff in thi; cause could suc ceed. there must be an end to all hospitality or courtesy towards persons of this description. The Defendant's son, between whom and the Plaintiff a great intimacy had sitbsisted, invited the Plaintiff to his father's ht use. to assist him in finishing a paint- fog he was then about. The Defendant received him, and treated him in the most hospitable man ter ; and, in this course of a visa of seven months. during which time he was used with the utmost friondship and hospitality, he happened to paint these too piaures for his amusement. and as a cons planeet to Mr. Ramos. He also painted a room for the Defendant, tar which it wit stipulated he should receive six guineas, instead of which. the Driend.int most liberally gave him a tea pound toe ; and, after living at his house for seven ny..riths, he now brought this ael ion to recover that st - tbch it seas cmtended was never &c-red. Lord Et t ruabaotion thought, that when a per son so received an hospitable invitation to spend a rnoe,ths at the house of a gentleman. in this visy, it was a most ungracious return, to bring him ::30 a CAM of Justice for stall hospitality. In the cmrse of his life he had met repeated instances, where attists and persons of taste were invited to yinAlernim's countt y seats, without the slightest idea o; being paid for their labours. He recolleted the it.st rove of Madame Mara being at the house of :4 Noble E.trl, whom he should not name, where he fist' the pleasure of an invitation. and nobody ever dreamt that she was to be paid for her singing. In shwr. it was a common custom for Noblemen and Gentlemen to invite artists, and persons of that de act iption, by spend a term at their houses, but t i t wa s never supposed they were to be paid for it. A there was no proof either that the Defendant had at all emploed the Plaintiff to pa'nt tl.ese cattle, the Jury cont.! only find a verdift f tithe an De f end ti t , provided they thought he had givn instruaions about the matter.--Nerdia lot the Defendant. MIDDLESEE ELECTION.. 1111.111114S0111e•T svelte. A Meeting of the friends of Sir Christopher Baynes. Bert. one of the Cuididstes for Mid, , took place at one o'clock yesterdae• at the Free masons' Tavern, in Great Queernstreet. About 31)0 most iespeaable Freeholders attended. Sir W re. Givens. being called to the Chair, he read the advertisement by which the Meeting bad been called, explaining the purpose of the Meeting to be. to consider of the most eff-anal means of securing Sir Christopher Baynes's EleCtion tor the County. Mr. Bowels rose to propose certain Resolutions ; in introducing them, he addressed the Gentle men present, awl said. that, having some Resolutions to propose. he should state the grounds upon which he thought it proper to suggest them. lie consi dered that the great advantage attending the Elea ion of Representatives to Parliament, was, its affording an opportunity to th e people to express their senti ments of their former Representatives, aiid also an opportunity of expressing the sense of the;nuntry, op on great constitutiona l q uestions. If the udged from whet they had already seen, it was the opinion of the country at large, that the late change in His Ma jesty's Administration had become necessary. One of the Gentlemen last returned as Representative of the county. bad g iven the Eleaors an oppoity expressing their sense of him, upon a former oc casion, and had shewn that he lived an the hearts of the Eleftors. The other Gentleman returned. was not, he WAS convince d, a proper person te represent the County ;he alluded to Byng. Upon two our of !h , se Eleetions, In- (Mr. Byng) had given his support to Sir Francis Burdett. He did not object to him upon that account, as every man had a right to retreat his sentiments freely ; but he objeete.l to him because be gave that support under the mask of neturality• The people of chic country loved an °pea. manly, and decided con duet, and men who ea according to their professioes. Mr. Byng did the reverse of that, and therefore had forfeited whatever claims he f But rse ur. merly had for the support of the County.ded all t h er e was another ground,which supers e ded o ther considerations, and th at was the ground upon which this E.ation arose. His Majesty (said he) when be intimated his intention of exercising his p re rogative, declared that he was makingand cons an appeal to his people upon a great national titu tional question. His Majesty had thereby shed an additional lustre upon his glorious reign, and, it possible, endeared himself more than ever to the hearts of his loyal relied& He had, by resisting a measure. shewn iris reverence for the Constitu tin f our ancestors. and had testified a fireneess, co o nr o stency, and magnanimity, truly preiseewortliy. Doubts, however, had been attempted to be thrown upon his coodnet upon that occasion. It did not become a subjea to attempt to defend his Sovereign, who, thank God I stood in need of no defence. He bad been unjustly put upon his trial before both Houses of Parliament, and now he put himself upon his country, and called upon his people to give him a solemn and elplicit opinion, as expres b i;in of their sentiments. ' 4 The question now is, whe ther wc shall support His Majesty, or join with his accusers t If the Eletiors return persons whoc o h a ve arraigned his tondo& by terming ie uni tutional, tha rout be taking apa !tea' their Sovereign. I trust, therefore, that we shall rhebageturn such Memhers as can be &Tended upon, a the steady supporters of the Protestant Religioti. While I ohjea to Mr. Byng as behig an unfit person. I cannot help expressing my appro bation of another Gentleman who offers him self to your chcice, being exaaly the reverse of Mr. Byng. He has come torward in a magna nimoiis manner, with a specific pledge respefting his condua in Parliament, in support of the Church and State 6 and 1, therefore, shall take the liberty to of proposing Cat Gentlemen as a proper petson be supported in la, pretenslons." Mr. Bowles then submitted a Resolution, proposing Sir Christopher Baynes asa p roper candidate ; which resolution was unanimously agreed to. He next proceeded to express himself i n hi g h terms of approval of William Mellish, Esq. who, he drought, also stood upon independent grounds. Although there was in reality no conneaion or coalition b e tween these two Gentlemen. yet, he thought would be but aaing a consistent part, in supporting both of them, and he trusted the friends of Mr. Mellish would do as much for Sr Chiisuipher. When be looked at the ex ample which bad been 'hewn by the County of Surrey, he had no donne but that the present cont est would be speedily de cided. He then concluded with proposing several Resolutions. (For which see Advertisement.) Sir Otitis-messes BAYSIS then addressed the Mixting thus Gentlemen, if I shall be deficieat in ex i d ess ing what I feel in my heart, I hope menu will excuse me; surrounded as I am by s o mnny friend., I cannot doubt of success ; but it would have given me additional satisfaltion, bed you se. lesned some objea more worthy your choice. Those seetiments and pledges 1 have stated in my ad dress. are such as - I shall never depart from; they shall he engraves on my heart so long as live. 1 have the pleasure of assuring you, that in the course of my canvas, I have met with such un common assurances of support, that I cannot doubt of succeeding. Those friends of Mr. Byng who had promised him their support, kindly offered me their assistance, although he had been before me ; I mention this to shew, that he is not upon that toot ing which his friends seem to expert. in the distriel of St. George's in the East. where there ate many Roman Catholics. only one individual of them said he would give Lim a plumper. In the distria of Hackney I have also succeeded, amongst several Catholics, in obtainiog promises." The thanks Baronet concluded , by returning his sincere .for the support and approbation he had met with fr sm such a numerous assemblage of his friends. The Cit *tames messed upon the Eleaors the necessity of a very early and numerous attendance, on Monday, at the Husungs at Brenitord. Dr. TitillLw ALL tose and stated, that he felt it imposslie for him to give a silent vote upon this occasion, so extremely momentous to the coun try. He was convinced that their cause was so strong in itself, that it was perfeaty unne cessary to argue. that any swonsrens,.wh ie the fronds or dispositions of any peratever. *bald • prevett him from stating his sentiments. " I bhooli. wish eweemely (continued he) , that the great cause vhich has given I've to the present Eleicr.ons should nnt be hottomei upon Religiens. It was eel.' ainly bad enough, when it was considered in apolitical point of view. I stand upon this . gs wand, that the great question is not one wl.:ch is to be determine/ by the es; 4 " Popero, or, No l'oper7," but it is Mt whi , :h depend; tsetw..ci, th: Kiv..g a id his Minister." It was well known that the words " No Popery" had remusiclrd throughout the kinr , - ! dom. This he was exceedo.gly scrry to see. Ile detested Popery as much as achy one, but he was in clined to be tolerant to all Itt•ligions. He Isn.lsw many Kornai C.:tholier, w'.t i were as honourable al any set of men in the kingdom; and he knTsv many of them who highly dirappi rived at the milk and water measure which had bean isrought in by the Commons. After some farther c onversation, in which it was insisted that the Minister had availed himself of the cry of " No Popery," the thanks or the Meeting were unanimously voted to the Chaiiman, and the meeting dissolved. Amongst the c , ”-nr:ily present upon this occasion we observed Sir H•ms:: Pi.,pham. the rapport of Gerierawent. (Lad harear owl sherds ql opprt.b ;14,1, 13i ..to ! Beery! Sherry ; Sherr to hear y oriel Buri'et Air ever 11 I beg you, • entlemen, the nth* candidate ; for no man can be sure by t he will say something worth ycor hearing. I •hinc Le ,441 upon a late occasi in. that the age of chivalry e-a"not over with him, as he would willingly release ev-::y Kleaar tram his promise who should ccnsent to vote for tn.. Thai is certainly a very magnanim 4111 dt CIA' a ti an,but I havelived to see many magnanimous declarations retratted, and I s h , .till not be aCting with my usual spirit and lrelin7, if I did sot give Mr. Ell;ctt lull liberty to retract his d e clerations He may tai' n over to me those w hom he c rail 1 prnfntre by his respenability of private etweaeter an d i, anence . or those whom his resprctaL'lity as a brewer may g ive ban amongst publican , , hut 1 defy him to turn over to me, any one of the Treasury Voris which have been promised to him. Another topic intro duced yesterday. w.ts as to the ester sion of the es- , cise laws, so as to e xtinguish all private brewing in 110 s country. I was the only man who ere ven tured to :peak against that measure, and I have the pleasure to think. that my proposal widths causc of Lord ll•ntry Petty's abantl ining lb* tax. I beg leave to warn those who are likely to become Ministers, against any admit' again to introduce that tax. It is not a tag. Wide that is likely to affect materially the Eleetordolle Westminster ; for here it is not their +melee to brew at home : but in many other parts of the country, every man has his Owl) sap, and brews Vie own beer ; the died of which is, that every in dustrious journeyman retorter bow is the eveniag to his wife and family to partake of it, instead of f t being driven to spend his e venin g in ale-houses. and d evot in g his wife and family to cold water at boom." ( Very right. Sherry, it world &on irfamear toy . t s e xclaimed one of the crowd . ) Mr. Sheridan cebl .. . • eluded a speech which seemed to meet with thir 0 • I most cor dial approbation front all who heard him , I i by expressing a confidence of success through their forth& exertions in his behalf. So great was hie populirity with the multitude, that he was favoured with repeated cheers, huzzaing. waving of hats, and exclamations of •• Braga, Sherry I Sloen7 flow ever !•• It was a considerable time befog* milencs could be proceed. Lord Coc w next offered himself to the um cite of the multitude, amidst shouts of applaese and di sa pprobation. He grounded his right of being i m partially heard. upon the true principles of iade pendence. The cause which was honest could beer inquiry : the cause which was wrong, might era would seek the subterfuge of protection, in idle and unmerited hisszs. For his part, he was determined to stand alone. becau.e lie conceived it essential to the purity of a popular eleetioa, that every Cad date should rest upon his ow n pretensions. In fact o it was in his opinion indispensably requieitii for dm pnbiie good, that entry Cold's's!! should cooties, ;tame upon his own interest. and totally free from all coalesced 'exertions. I effects of coalition is the last election for Westminster, wets. to charger the puhlic purse with an expense of 80001. He had that fad from authority. and his °plies tee litie cided, that if any of the Candidates, on the pe sent occasion. made as unnatural and utriastirstbak coalition, they ought to be rejeded. There mot many questions put to bins, which he would asiews4 so tar as he thought that answer tended to sad isonviac s tire people cob heard Mrs. co ot es ta same time. be was determised sot to eater WON , plies. when called epos by every perms Alt well ihsa i t: pleased to interrog-te him. With respea.to hit visit to the Duke of Portland, it was sokty to 'am certain the views of Government ; mitt Samuel Hood, he ever was hostile us of Gm opaireli v ernmeut in popular eleeicese, abi the Elation, upon his honour, that ES his risk at ' Burlington House, be completely depot aft mo re l refused Ministerial support. He had next is to a subjea the moat painfill to his feelings. His father had certainly spent his patrimonial e advancing those plans which h e fondl y ho p ed have improved the manufalures and tom • interests of his comfy. He was, at this period, living with him in Harley-meat ; sad la mower to those question, which could only proceed from this mouth of an anemia and a villain. he could assure the people who heard him, that, dependent on his own exertions for his advancement its life. he ewers from the moment it was in his power, hesitated kw support that parent. against whom no charge of being upon the industry of the people, either by the enjoyment of pension, place. or sinecnre, could ever be made. The Noble Lord was so affeaed, is this part of his epee*. and was so overpowered by his feelings. that he eastally • ears. and begged leave to retire. =idle loud , approbation. Mr JCOltl3ll3s. with the his of liberality and sympathy.' his fatten • never to lend either his own same or the awe Sir F. Burdett. to the propagation of reports. dm. togatory to the privet character of any of the hoar victuals who had offered themselves for their cholas. He next requested the Eledots not to sleep apes their post, as inaZtion was equally criminal w: b desertion. The powers of the Ministry were es. crud to the utmost extent, and were only to be met by a cotrespondent energy upon the part of the people. Mt. Elliott had given his opinion against his own cause ; and if the Elehors were willing to Bled him, they must be vitiated to see the House of Cornas , nis, not under the controtti of* Ministry, but the chamber to register their mations. importtions, and taxes upon the people. (fend tied lacessont q. probation. Mr. Et.LIOTT attempted to speak, but the cla mour WAS so great. and the popul.triffeapprobation so universal, that we could only hear Mtn declare his determination to support his political character. by an ardent loralty to his King, and a strong venom. (ion fur the Constitution. Mr. Gi sawn nest endeavoured to .:plain the grounds and information upon which he had charged the Noble Lord with filial ingestion's; but it was impossible for him to obtain a hearing. Mr. Pima' next addressed the Eleffors, and was for some moments supposed to have coins for ward to support the statement of Mr. Gibbons. Having obtained silence. be forcibly &reused the iatroduaion pf persons' co nsiderations, err the aS. certain , to any thing of a private arum calcsiatml to produce political acerbity. He wished do BlefS. ors to recoiled the lan of that dietkageishadl "Anieed - dim, who, Is Ms Ole t . t I - patrset .- :- who fsnt addressed We t wa sa '" .-- FM I N')FE ELECTION. EIGHTII DAY-MAT is Daring the m,st part of the polling, this day, tf:e weather was exceedingly unfavourable, which pre vented the cr from as.embling so early, or being sn noisy, as upon former occasions. At the dos:: of the Poll, however, the day having become more auspicious, the crowd became as immense and as clamorous as upon rime of the former trays At the close of the ?oil the numbers announced stood thus:— Sir F. Bunlett . Lni.l rAne Mr. Etientt Mi. Sheridan . Mt. Paull . 1996 17711 1411 39/ 20 Previous to any of the Candidates offering them. s elves to the ir lice of the muhitude, Mr. Gt seosis addressed them—He said, that in the presence of Lord Cochrane he wished to put a few pointed Tiestions to his Lordship, and to take care that he did not run front him whom he had termed " a very poor man " the Noble/Lord had said, that he dthpited his Oh Gibboas's) poverty. " (No," said Lord Cochrane. " I only despise your char taierhi) G ent l em an," sa'.l Mr. Gibbons," you shall hear a little of the Noble Lord's charadhr. What are y.O to cape& from the Noble Lord's professions and principles, when I state to yon this great truth ? I have good authority, Gentlemen, to tell you. that a venerable telmion of this Noble Lord, who has appropriated a great part of his for tune in educating him, is now residing in a two-pair of stairs room in a Court in the Strand. t mean. G.n tlemen, his father, Lord Dundooald. I say that the N >tale Lord, now before yon, with all his professions, allows this to be the case, and therefore you all ran the risk of being despised by him as much as I have IMMO. What can you think of him who has received 194.0001- ptize money, which he has bees 'quandaries away in obtaining the borough of Honitoth and now, being kicked out from that plus. cows here to re sent himself as ap im nritellati Candidate for Westminster ? Do not forget that he comes hese at a time when his father is residing in a two-pair in the Strand. Be assured, Gentlemen, that he who treats his father in that style, is a political impostor. I shall wait to hear his sentimeau, and then I shall be prepared to answer any allegations he may make." Mr. Samosa+, after some introdudory observa 'joss. tending to conciliate the multitude, and as suage their turbulence and clamour, in which object he entirely succeeded, thus addressed them : again repeat to you, that I share the satisfaftion which you express at the state of the poll. to which I myself have contributed. I should belie all my political principles, if I did not say, that the man who is to represent you, ought to be chosen independendy of the threats of power and corruption. Gentlemen, since 1 have been upon the hustings, it has been inti mated to me, that my old friend, hlr.Burridge, would have been here, and I should heartily rejoice to see his broad face, as I am convinced I should have sees a smile, instead of a hostile aspe& ; but 1 have had a message from him, stating, distintly, that he is my friend, and that he has been prevented from attending. on accouot of his being occupied in te. pairing his house. 'lhis, indeed, is an excuse but still I cannot halp thinking that he would have been still better employed in endeavour. ing to repair the House of Commons. ( Loud basses of laughter. braes. Sherry. yea are NM.) 'Ma allusion to my broad-faced stator, re minds me of the fact, that they are actually re. pairing the outhde of the liousa of Commons ; bat, however Gothic it may appear, as it was in the days of Afted, 1 am afraid that the furniture with in, will still continue to be all modern. teat:sive applause, lon/tars and shooting.) Gentlemen. I have the pleasure to state to you, that many of those who were adverse to me upon the last Elation. ate amongst my most serious friends upon this one. Lleelion animosities are short-lived ; and that there shall be a general oblivion, on my part. shall ever be my pradice and precept. 1 should wish there were 4 Committee ap pointed to settle Elation disputes in a peaceable way. I understood that nrich altercation arose, yesterday. as to who welt hhaisterial Candidates. I find 041 the Administiation, which has lately come forward to preserve the Constitution in Chut ch and State, is likely to be totally disclaimed. Every man shunt clairniag conch:3(.lß With it, as if it was info:led with the plague. (Brave! well said Sherry.) I repeat what I said formerly, that it tedothois to the eternal honout of the kilectots of Westminster, that they have not been ale to raise the iufernal yell of " No Popery," which has been set up by the present Administration. It is oily tailed to mace real dangers and dark designs against the principles of the Constitution. With regard to the question of whether en not the Noble Lord has so licited or conned, diteetly or inditedly. the support of Government. I have only this plain answer to make, that when the gallant Officer makes an as sertion in my presence. I am bound to credit him. ani s therefore. I expea that he will live equal credit to me when I solemnly declare. at he bee I 11 I: -' 7 411