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111111111111111111111111111MININIIMMINEW ~.:._.. . • - - • LAW INV? T. IG En& COURT OP KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JAN. 13. LAND 0. HUNTER AND OTHEItS. 1 This was an action for goods sold and delivered, and was brought jointly against the houses of Messrs. Hunter and Co. and Messrs. Hoffman And Co. eminent merchants of this city. These Defend ants were jointly concerned in a considerable adven ture to the Baltic, by the ships Maria Dorothea and the Zepard, and a considerable quantity of the goods forming this adventure, were purchased from the Plaintiff through the medium of the Defendants' (Hunters) broker. Bat it appearing on the evidence of the broker, that although ultimately it was a joint concern, the goods were ordered in the name of Messrs. Hunter only. The Jury, therefore, under the direetima of his Lordship, found a verdict for the Defendants. GAZ ANDIEL V. IIL AM/EVEN. This was an action upon a policy of insurance on goods per the ship Vrow Aleda, from London, to any piste or ports in the Baltic, with warranty on behalf of tie underwriters against capture or seizure in her pert of destination. The vessel sailed upon her destined voyage, and arrived -off the port of Swinnemund on the Ist of November. The Captain went on shore to consult . the agent, Mr. Volga, as to the disposition of the cargo, said things being then in a very doubtful state at that place, the agent prevailed upon the Cap tain to remain at his then station, although the ship was leaky, until the 12th ; in the mean time, frequent communications wore made between the Captain on board, and the agent on shore, and some steps were taken by the latter fur disposing of the cargo; but on the 12th, the hostile intentions of the Government et Swinnemund were made known, and the agent warned the vessel off, and directed him to proceed to Carisham ; he accordingly weighed anchor, but from stress of weather and adverse winds, was driven back, and obliged to-return to his former station off Swin nemund on the 17th, when the vessel and cargo were brought into port, and, after remaining under seques tration for some days, was finally condemned and confiscated. The ATTORNEY-Gesertae, for the Defendant, contended, that upon this evidence the Underwriters were discharged, the warranty being against seizure in the port of destination. Here the vessel had ar rived at Swinnemund, where the agent was ready to meet her ; she remained at anchor for 12 days, during which time there were constant communica tions between the agent and Captain, and the former had actually tiken some steps towards discharging the cargo. It could not be doubted, therefore, that this was the port of destination ; and, accordiug to the terms of the warranty, the Defendant was dis charged. Lord ELLENBOROUGU, however, construed tho terms of the warranty upon a more extensive scale, .and held, that the meaning of the port or ports of destination was where the object of the rovage could be effected ; it' was still in the power of the party to l change the destination—where ho found danger in one port, to elect another. If, therefore, the Jury believed the evidence, that the agent had bond fide abandoned Swiunemund, and had elected Carl. sham as the port of destination...-and that the ship was driven back by stress of weather, and thee seized—the Plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict; for by the terms of the policy, the vessel was at li berty to go to any port in Sweden, or return back to England. If, therefore, she had actually aban doned Swinnemund, and was driven back by stress of weather, the terms of the policy were not avoid od, and the Plaintiff was entitled to recover. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the Plaintiff---Damages, 2001. and costs. DUNI ADZ AND OTUESS, ASSIGNEES, 0. mess nue atrestews. This was an action brought by the Assignees of a Mr. Atkinson, a bankrupt, late an insurance broker, to recover against the Defendant, an eminent under writer, two several stens of 591. 93.2 d. and 471. 7s. for returns upon short interest and convoy on poli cies of insurance. The defence was, that the broker who had effected these insurances was indebted to the Defendant in a much larger sum, and he contended for his right of detaining these sums as against the broker ; hut this question being now pending for judgment in the Court of King's Bench in a similar_ cause, the Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiffs, subject to that decision. In the course of the morning, Collins, one of the Serjeants at Mace of the City of London, whose duty it was to preserve silence in the precincts of the Court, brought a person in custody before Lord. El lenborough, of the name of John Robert Curtis, and charged him with making a noise, and when repeat edly cautioned, using abusive language, and threat ening to kuock the Officer down.—llis Lordship having heard the complaint, and the Prisoner's an swer, fined him ten shillings, which was reluctantly paid, and he was then discharged. A tailor, following the army, was wounded in the head. When the surgeon saw the wound, he told his patient, that, as his brains had not been touched, there wa.; no doubt of his recovery. The tailor said, " if I had possessed any brains, I shonld not have been there." FAT AL EFISCT OF FILAR AND Snassr.—A servant girl in Chester, being lately charged with having rob bed Mrs. Creswell, the actress, of Ave guineas, con fessed the crime ; hut immediately ran down to the river Dce, and, plunging in, put an end to her exist- _ ence.— Coroner's verdict, Luotacy. His Grace the Duke of Noaramt has, with • li berality of sentiment Worthy of his noble house, sanctioned in person the cause of religion at Work sop, by encouraging the Methodists of that ptaee to build a Chapel, and has presented them with 20 ton& of timber, in favour of that design. The Committee appointed by the Inhabitants of Chelsea put their Parole of ten men in motion, on Sunday night, for the first time. They are relieved at midnight by • second party, who patrole tilt days light. It is highly honourable to the Gentlemen of A. parish, who have voluntarily tendered their ger *este superintend the toncluct of this Patrols.-- 'The first Patrols on Sunday night co was nducted by Thomas Bonner, Esq. who divided it, and commit 's': one party to the direction of a Constable. , : .:. 4. 7 o f i I 1 t sai I I 1 ! . „ { 1 11 . i 1 i I qi . 1 .. i . \ 1 I i 1 I 1 . i . • I I f i t , i ill tt , • II I ..c t" e , ( i . 't . 1 V i . ; f I i I i Air, if ~ 1 I i 1 .., r,) . ~ ~, , , i , , , , . ‘ , 0 , I h. 4 i , I 4 Tlit, STATESMAN.. 47TEMPT TO 808 AND MURDER. - --.....---- - [FURTHER PARTICULARS . ] Test evening, p. Hicks, F.sq. of Union-hall, ac companied by Mr. May, one of the Clerks of the Office, wept to the house of Mr. Pryor, shoemaker, in the Borough High-street, to take the deposition of Sarah Wilkins, Mr. Pryor's. housekeeper, who was desperately, wounded by some villains on Sunday evening lust. The substance of her evidence was as follows :—" Having occasion to go down to the cel lar about nine o'clock on Sunday evening, as I was returning up the stairs, I perceived a man coming from the back part of the shop, I supposed it Was Mr. Pryor, and asked hint if he was going out so late ; upon which he turned round, and I perceived ,he had a black crape on his face. I was very much alarmed, and called out; on which he said, if I was I not quiet he would murder me. I epdeavoured to get to the door, when he came to me, and said he Iwool(' cut my threat. I put up my hand to defend imy throat, and received a deep cut on the arm with a sharp instrument. The villain then forced a gag into my mouth, and gave me several cuts across the throat. At this time, ano th er man, a short, thick, ! elderly person, came in at the door, and said to the first, ' Come along.' rhe one who came in last, knocked me down ; I became insensible, and knew I not what followed." Mr. Pryor stated, that he was I at supper with Mrs. Wilkins's brother, when they were alarmed by the cry of " Murder !" they ran down, and found the shop in darkness. On pro d curing a light, they found Mrs. Wilkins lying insen h sible;. the shop-door was open, and a quantity of boots and shoes were lying on the floor ; but he had I not yet discovered that any were taken away. These i are all the particulars which have yet trans p ired of this atrocious and . sanguinary outrage. Mr. Ma y was on the spot within live minutes after the alarm was given, and immediately sent for Goff, Clark, and Friend, the Officers, who have been engaged since in a strict search after these daring depredators tint asql.ssins, but their search, we are sorry to say, ! hat hitherto proved ineffectual. MIDDLESEX SRISIONS, ./4N. 13. This day the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex commenced at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green, before W. MAtNivantstG, Esq. and other Justices of the County, when several cases of assault were tried, most of which were petty squabbles, but the following was of a more aggra• vated nature. Jacob Fletcher and wife, were indicted for as faulting a poor old woman who lodged in their house, and who kept a mangle. It seemed that they were desirous of getting rid of her without giving her any notice to quit, hut she refused to go, under the ad vice of her attorney, without a quarter's notice; not , being able, therefore, to succeed in getting rid of her, they devised all means to plague her; particu- Ilarlv they would shut the door and make her wait a ! considerable time, before she could get admittance into the house. At length, on the day stated in the indictment, as she entered the house, the male Pri soner saluted her, by throwing a pail of water in 1 her face. Ile after-wards knocked her down, and kicked her in the stomach and breast. While he was doing this, his wife [(galled more water, with which he sluiced her while she lay on the floor. The blows he gave her, were of that violent sort, that it caused her to vomit blood, and as one of, the witnesses said, ! when she came into the room, the poor old woman I was dripping with water, wet through, and spitting !up blood, which she had occasionally done ever I since. The Jury found them both Guilty,• and they were sentenced to pay tines—the man WI. and the wife 1 101. IMichael liquid was indicted for assaulting Thos. James. The Prosecutor, in telling his story, began a formal harangue with ." Mr. Chairmaia, and (ien tlemen of the Jury," and then detailed a long liar , rative of :he Defendant's attempting to assassinate hint. It however turned out, that the Prosecutor was a barber, who, with some other gentlemen bar bers and journeymen mechanics, had subdued their reason by Meuv's entire, proceeding home together in this state down Coram-street, the Prosecutor told them they should hear a specimen of his abilities equal to Mr. Kemble's, and began with " My name is Nor val, on the Grampian bilk ;" upon which another, seized with the fit of playing Glenalron, pushed Norval into the mud, who, enraged thereat, began vociferating " Murder and assassination !" But it was positively stated, that all the damage done was muddying his dress and spoiling his speech. The Jury on 'this evidence found the Defendant Nut Guilty. .1 1 0 L ICE. . M A RLBOROUGH-STR Mr. Thompson, a. cow-keeper at Pimlico, wasl brought to the Office to give an account of the pos session of a stolen horse, the property of Mr. Pin nion, a farmer, at Ashtend, near Epsom. It ap peared that the horse was stolen from Mr. Pinnion's stable, as long since as October, 1810, and he was identified ou Saturday, in Thompson's cart, Long. acre. It appeared by the statement of Thompson, that he purchased the horse at Smithfield-market twelve months since, but the book. was neglected, and from this neglect the person who sold it is unknown. From the respectability of Thompson's character, there was no doubt of the truth of his statement, but the horse was ordered to be delivered • [ to the owner. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday a butcher, in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, attended by virtue of a summons at the instance of the Court Leet Jury, being charged with using false weights in his shop, which were pro duced, and proved to he very deficient, according to the standard. The case being clear, he ttai con victed in the penalty, and the weights forfeited. An elderly man, who sells brushes and brooms, in the several streets of the metropolis, was brought up, charged with vending such articles, not hating a hawker and pedlar's licence, agreeably to Act of Parliament, which case being made out, he was con , victed in the penalty of 101.—Not being able to pay the sum, he was committed to the House of Cor rection. GUILDHALL. Mary Anne Williams was charged with robbing Mr. Bryan, of New Somerset-place, of lit in Bank of England notes. Mr. Bryan stated to the Alder man, that he• was going home on the night of the 6th, and in passing down Ludgate-hill he was at tacked by the Prisoner and another woman ; that the Prisoner forcibly took the notes from his pocket, when the two women separated; that be pursued the Prisoner, who crossed the street; and gat into a I court, and by the darkness of the night he lost her at ' the time, but she was afterwards taken and sent to the Compter, without being searched, and after wards,,no notes being found upon her, the Magis trate discharged her; but the Prosecutor said, since' that time having got the number of the notes, and three of them having been paid into the Bank, he had traced one of them to have been paid to a hosier-. by the Prisoner, who had confessed a knowledge of • her as a eust-nner, but did not appear. The Magis- Itrate ordered him to be summoned t o g ive evidence, . and remanded the Prisoner for further examination. Mr. C. it MILS is not expected to continue on'the Dramatis Persona List of Covent Garden Theatre after the present season. Sunday se'nnight, a melancholy accident happened to a man of the name of Smith, a gardener of Port. chestcr :—lle had been drinking at Cosham, and on his return home, a little beyond Paulsgrove, he mis took his road, and walked into the mud, and being unable to extricate himself, the tide, on its rise, lowed over him.—He was not found till Tuesday morning, when he was perceived still sticking in the mud; on some persons going toward him, with the assistance of mud pattens, they found, from the appearance of the mud around him, that he had made great exertions to extricate himself, and in following his tracts, it seems be had many times neared the shore, but from the darkness of the night and being enable to distinguish whether he was 'right Of wrong, he had again returned and walked still farther tawadathe tide. MURDERS . IN EDINBURGH', efc. [most THE CALEDONIAN MEItCVItY.] Oar readers will perceive, that an advertisement from the Magistrates announces the death of Mr. James Campbell, clerk in a mercantile house in Leith, in consequence of the momids he received in the late riots. We trust that such atrocious offences against the public peace—two murders committed in one night, in the heart of a populous city, bes . itles a variety of other scandalous outrages, will produce some speedy and effectual remedy for the deficiency of the present system of police, for if it be the busi- 1 ness of a police to prevent crimes, the investigation at present carrying on by the Magistrates is a sulli- Icient commentary on its insu ffi ciency for that eud.— ! We readily admit indeed that crimes may be occa sionally committed, which it may defy the most se- 1 vere scrutiny to discover. The robber hastily sally ing from his retreat, and making off with his booty —the thief slyly skulking after his prey, may for a i time evade detection. Bet a combination of rob. bers, openly taking possession of the public streets, ; and almost braving the Magistracy and Police, is a sailicieut evidence either that the Police have not the means of keeping the peace of the city, or that hav ing the means, they fail to make the proper use of them. BARBAROUS MURDER OF d FENALE, IN IRELAND. W ATF.RPORD, J tv. 6. —For some time past, no ineonsider- able portion of our columns has been rainfully and reluctantly devoted to details of crimes of the most atracious description. 1 , These details referred not to one spot, nor even to one country ; • and•there was a kind of negative consolation in contemplating them at a distance from the scenes of their perpetration. Now, however, they have come home to our own doors, and we are onrselves obliged to swell those records of guilt which we here- j tofore drew only from others. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, as a young boy was passing along the edge of the river,aboat j a quarter of a mile intj from this city, oining the road to Car- I rick-on-Suir, lie discovered a dead body lying in the mud. Some what alarmed, and without waiting to make any examination, he ran and communicated die circumstance to the inhabitants of a house at no great distance from the place. They immediately r e turned with him, arid found a female corpse, niangled in such' a manner as It would be horrible even to describe. On farther inquiry . , the strongest proofs appeared, that the ill-fated being . bad been murdered at the termination of the wall leading to the , city, that the inhuman author of her death had thrown the body over the wall, dint he then dragged it as far into the river as seemed to be consisteut t ith his own safety, and that he there left it, in the hope of its being carried away by the strewn. — Fresh blood, inconsiderable quantities, was visible °lithe wall, on the adjoining gate, and in some places beta ixt them and the river, whilst the marks of footsteps, and the impression of the body, were easily discernible through the whole space from the road to the spot where it was aband.ried. A stone of several pounds weight, and nearly covered with blood, was found be side the body, with which it was e vident some of the wouuds on the !wed lind been Witted. Thew were alas other swami* on the head, that bore the appearance of having been given by a sharp instrument.. Multitudes yesterday visited the body, but it has not yet been recognised by any person. The dress indi cated the wearer to have been in an humble station of life, but it does not resemble that of the peasantry in this part of Ire. land, and there is reason to believe, that its proprietor was a str.sngeit Thursday night a quart bottle was 'thrown out at the first gallery at the Theatre, Hull, into the pit, which struck a youn g woman of the name of Thomp son on the head, and hurt her severely. Some sailors came forward, and pointed out four soldiers as the party by some of whom the bottle had been thrown ; they ware immediately taken into custody; one of them, who confessed to throwing the bottle, was sent to the Muse of Correction, and the others to the Guard-house. While the family of a cheesemonger who resides 1 the corner of Serle-street, in Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, were attending Divine Service on Sunday ' evening, two fellows got into the house; and, after breaking open various drawers, had packed up a large quantity of goods; when, providentially, the i sister of the shopkeeper knocked at the door, which 1 the villains opened and rushed out, leaving their booty behind, except 51. worth of copper, and three or four silver spoons. IThe premises of Mr. Winter, Cook' s- g round, Chelsea, which are occupied by a widow lady, were broke open and .robbed en Saturday night.— The thieves did not get into the house - but they rob. bed the larder and other places immediately contigu ous, together with the fowl roost. • - 0741 I, Erman lURT OF JUSTICIARY. Hennle on C: HIGH CO EDINEURGII,_ JAN. trial of John Hog, change-keeper, North Leith, a!I ! late carrier between. Edinburgh and Perth, accused of breaking into the Packet of Abo, a prize vessel, Is. ing in the wet (lock at Leith, and stealing therefrom fourteen pieces of printed cotton, and three pieces t , f plain cotton. The evidence was in substance as fob: lows :—On the 9th of September last, Hog proposkd to Lionel Pritty (one of the Custom-house Officers, who had charge of the above-mentioned vessel) to join with him in taking some of the goods with whiz!, she was loaded, and in which, he said, they.' was : harm, as she was a prize ship. Pritt l y at tars: . pressed some hesitation, but afterwards coteette.l. and on the evening of the 11th, they broke p ! , a hatch, which opened into the hold, that had pa , ously been padlocked, and from a truss of 0 , 0( 1, found there took out several bundles of cloth. 'l' they made up into three parcels • one was e to a boy of the name of Simons (the ship-keeper) to procure his connivance, while hog and Pritty kept the other two. When they came ashore, Witty, in consequence of a false step, stumbled and dropt one of the pieces, as'they mimed some Custom-house Of ficers, walking on the north side of the wet dock, and, being after office-hours, the officers seized it, on suspicion of it. having been stolen or smuggled. Pritty immediately threw down the other pieces he was carrying. and ran away, but [tog was laid hold of, and his bundle, containing sit pieces of cot ton cloth, as well as those dropt on the quay, were taken on board a brig, and examined by the Officers previous to their being lodged in the Custom-house, Hog all the time remaining on the quay. Hog was afterwards carried before the Magistrates of Leith, where he emitted two declarations, in which he de nied all knowledge of the contents of the bundle, and stated, that he was carrying it fur a sailor who had left him, and of whom he had no acquaintance.— Several witnesses were examined in exculpation, but their oidence was not material. The Jury.were afterwards addressed on the part of the Crown, by the SoLicrroa-G EVERAT., and'by Mr. HAGOART,,for the Prisoner, and the Loan Justice Ct.eak having summed up the evidence in a very midi(' and impar. tial manner, they were enclosed, and directed to re turn their v l ..rdiet this day.—This morning the Court met at ten o'clock, when the Jury returned their verdict all in one voice, finding the Panne Gaily.-- The libel having been restricted to an arbitrary pu nishment, after a suitable exhortation from•the Loam itSTiCE CLERK, he was sentenced to 11 years traai portatiou beyond seas. • Last night //art, the person in custody. underwent a long private examination beforiMr. GanttAm, at the 80%v-street Office, respecting the murder of Mr. Man and his family. The proceedings have bcca very properly prevented for the present from obtain ing publicity by that very active and intelligent Ma gistrate. THE LATE MettnEns.—The general opinion, that but one person was concerned in the late diabolical murders at Retell ffe-Ilighway, ought not to be encou raged so mucfi as it is, as it , operates to chill in quiry and prevent suspicion. • Mr. 'Thwaites, the grocer's apprentice, and the boy of the pawnbroker, near Mr. Mares, saw three men loitering about the premises the night of the murder. One of them was a stout man, and wore a Flushing .great coat and a white chip hat, the other was a middle-sized man, and 1 the third is supposed to have been Williams. It is idle to suppose that one murderer committed all the barlvarities, and we have no doubt but that others were concerned. Those men who were heard con versing in the pa3sage of the house, late at night, where Williams lodged, should undergo a strict iu vest igatiou. The robbery of notes from Mr. Stephen Hobby, of Folkestone, has been traced to a woman name( Sarah Court, his maid-servant, and she has ben committed to Folkestone gaol, with another WOMni 4 , named l'it mho - , who rec. ived the property knowing it to be stolen. A I)lleurec.tt. CAst.—A young man, of decent appearance, went to Mary-le-bone watch-house on Sunday night, and delivered into the hands of the Constable of the night a watch and appendages, to gether with a Bible, which he said had been given to him by a fellow named Szzan, a servant out of place, not to disclose that he (Swan) had criminally assault ed him. The Constable very properly kept the man all night, and, on being taken before a Magistrate , he stated that Swan had assaulted him six several tines within the last few days, and he at letsgth,commuei• cated the affair to a coachman.—Officers wore die ' patched in pursuit of the offender. A cannon-ball took off a man's bead, not far free) the spit where General the Marquis of Townsiteed was stationed, and the brains of the deceased 14-0 profusely scattered in all directions. 44 Who coti!d I have thought it," said Lord Townshend, coolly, " thrt ! a man with such a copious supply of brains, wawa i ever have enlisted for a soldier it SRO TCII MILLER'S Wharf. Prompt (Davison), Leith Marquis of iluittley (Martin), Dundee Fife Packet (Sinuntirs), Dun dee and Perth Cmainereial (Nishett), Leith Albion (Jameson), Derrick Dow%E'a Wharf. Swift (Stuk). Montrose Buccieugh (Tod), Leith Br.dpart"(Wishart), Dundee yang,WAT AT LOND 11 utiinttes after 2. ?JACKS. Arrived. S(1114. 8 Jam. 1 19 Jan. -- -, P. M 16, -3, P. M. 19, hP. M. 16, e. P. NI - n . P• 1, P. 11. 16, 1'. .•.;. 16, - M. DGE TIIIS I)1Y. 38 minutes aft c _• . - , MARRIED. , On Thursday last, at St. 6.-orp•lL, Ilanover-square. Mr.; • C. Morrison, of o%fordlareet, to .Nliis Cox, of Aeon. Berk On Thursday Ine s at Astoa, Mr. Farmer. of Sc.l,lha str ,.o . to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. eh:Week, of Park-hill. Whr ui ' shire. On the 11th inst. at St. Georges, Ilanover.aqalre, Mr. ti. Ifni; to Alia Mary Anne Lur______2:____, D1E1). • On the sth inst. at her house, John-street, Pentonoville, in IV 88th year of leer acer, Sarah Pint, relict of !oho .lo4onn On the 10th inst. at Bath, Mary, the wife of Iti itliata Watson, Eq. of Onlwich-bill. On the 6th inst. Henry /tosser, Esq. Solicitor, of Ilart len Ballthogs, Ilolborn. The same day, at his house, Penton-Arch, Walwortlt, Mr. Dalka.la the 67111 year of lois age. LONDOYi Printed and PahHAM h t). horra.t.. sr OffICE, 67,