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I ANNIVERSARY OF THE scornsu HOSPITAL. y,sterdty the Anniversary of this excellent Cora roration, which has for its objei t the relief of ticorrhitteo who are exposed to intligeore in the indropolis, through those vicissitudes of 'ire against which no prudence or circumspection can form an ad-qoate Lifeguard, was held at the Old London Tavern. The Meeting had been postponed from St. Andrew's Day, in consequence of the death of the Queen. At •evei o'clock the company, which was very gonsidt cable, sat down in a sumptuous dinner ; I!. Right Roo. the LORD MAYOR, to the Chair. of rr t'-ie cloth was removed, Non Nubis Mi mi a , was sung with fine effect, by Nlessrs. T. Cy,ke, Taylor, Broadhurst, and Pyite. The usual tarts of the Royal Family were then drunk Com the Chair. The Health of his Ma isie was (hunk in profound silence. T .e CHAIRMAN then propos...l 46 Th e Itrotory of our departed, amiable, excellent, and d.mnr.tu Q vim ei with proper respect. " Health of tbe Duke of York sod the Army of Luz law!;' f .Ilo'. rd with three times three. he CilAI KM A N then rove to !Impose the be of the President of this Institution, lie took .to able review of its 'roc mod progress. and the happy l oosprrity which, had market) its career for nearly 1.50 years. It was origin illy planned, and sub ie piently conducted, to give assistance to Ile . Tllo. MUM and indigent Scoichmen, who were, from the nature of their sittiatioo, excluded from parochial relief in this country. The origin of the Poor Laws was long known as a matter of history. Tonic laws spruog from the most humane pitociple ; but it was to be feared that in their result they taxed real industry fur worthless objects, and bail t lie effect of alienutio4 from industrious and piiipr babas people of the working classes, aim without such leizisrdive provisions would _lave more sti-oi. c .ly relied on their own industry fur their support, and felt a zeal to keep their families free from casual boom% Thr worthy Chairman then reviewed the merits of thin Institution, and declared, front his own expelietice, the benefits which from tiros. to time love result. d from it. lie said that to tile 1 i•t ye ,u it afford , d assistance (and to initoy of them in the ;',ape Of annual prosion) to no less than 3,SIS iudivuluals, and this great relief a er. recital al Ali expeii.e of little inure than 2,600/. The simple fait of such results was quite enough to thew the great utility or an Listitirtitni like the pre sent, and lie eariestly hoped the comp my would minitaiii it as it deserved, by the ample bounty of their pal. outage. The healtlis of the Duke of Clarence, the Pre sident of the Societl„ and of the Duke of Sussex anti the rest of the Royal Family, were then succes sively given amid great applause. The Secretary, Mr. Au LIN then proceeded to read the Report of the Corporation to the Company. The Report expressed the highest acknowledg mein to the people of this country, for the assist ance they bad given in aid of the views of the Cur imitatiim, and particularly expressed the thanks of die Corporation to the Lord Alayor for takitig the (Jar on the present occasion. The Report then stated, that although by a late decree of the Lord Chaticellor. it was decided that the bequest of the late Mr. Ki,,loch ',laced at the disposal or the Scottish amnia! 76,000/. in consul., yet that the apptopriation of tins money was pit to quite a distinct purpose than the actual application or redo f, which the Scottish Hospital was destined to frirtiisli. Mr. bequest was solely con fined to maimed and wounded soldiers and' sailors of Seidl mil who suffered in their country's services, and wilt not applicable to the relief of the general objects to whom the Corporation oiliniiiiiitcred The CHAIRMAN then gave— '• Health and Success to the Scottish Corporation." '• heslth of the Duke of Montrose, the late Presi d,ut," was then drunk with great applAthr. The CHAIRMAN passed the highe,t and mnst de mired tribute of praise on the Noble Duke fur his munificent patronage of this Ilia (iNtr's , mind, and heart, and purse, kept pare in eriabliu.; the Corporation to give effect to their be nevolent views, flis Grace's heultlt was drunk with three times dr... Sir Tiii3slAB BELL slid, he would propose a toast with all his heart, which, he was sure, those alas heard l.im would drink with all theirs, namely, "The health of the Lord Mayor, the King of the City of Lon , lon, who this day assisted them with his presence." The toast was received with great applause. LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, sail, that, as an old Member of this Corporation, lie should nut ha7e done his duty if he hail not conic Naomi on the present n t. Ile felt himself, thrre fore, us wholly disetattled to any rructilar mark of their favour for his conduct oil the present occasion. Ile hoped he should always deserve well of lea fellow-citizen!, for an upright and consiieto. nous Obi:hinge of his duty. But he frit that he le.d a tight to attribute the high compl;:io iit he hail ya‘t received, not to any acts of his own in a Persetail point of view, but solely to the magi , - broil sooton which he happened to till. It yr.t4 Clete-fore must grateful to him to receive their ppplaime, as he knew he owed it to their sei.se of the feeling which was due to the if the Magistracy—a rank which was always iiith proper resi.ect by those oh., knew the lluria-e it [not upon welety. lie felt the force *1 tile compliment, because he kit-sv it came bons persons it, that class of society whose , sointmis d were au object fur every public Wall to " 11 t 111 . ill his tu wisteria' capacity, it should be (tort to descrve their good v.:WI always endeavour to do St) by a laithlul ilisciiarge of his duty. The worthy Chair. iv, concluded by giving '• 1 he heohh tfl I,e Cor- Puation ff London." Ile observed, that lie saw an member of that body present (11 r. A Ider. too l Nlagit..s), *IP) had taken 111 the pr iiiiii num of Lutitutiou, is lie had in all ,•I luny which had ria.oged benevolence fur their olject, in active and illictrin to w. The hoist was drunk with three times three. Air. .11 , 1erniuti NIAGNAY then rose and said, that N' iit Irul been 160 pointedly alluded 111 by the he ccuid u , t rafram from tam the Prvstat occasion, to return thanks ou the part of the Corporation of London, for the compliment which had !mien joist paid to this distingu.sheil Body. The Corporation of London were ever ready to promote the objects of philanthropic establish ments like the present. and he never could feel more sincere pleasure than when he had the oppor tunity of assi.iiiig iii the promotion of such laudable The health* of the late President anil Vice. President were drunk. Tile CHAIRMAN then said, that he had to propose the health of W. Kinlnch, Esq. an einimient and distinguished merchant, who, to a plainness of ex terior and simplicity of manner, united that inte grity and firmness of mind which made him appre clate the chivalrous feeling and daring enterprise of his countrymen. For them he had bequeathed a property to console them in their hours of solitude., after they had euliereol in their country's service. This toast was drunk with three finks three, amid great applause. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the Treasurer, Sir Thounaii Bell, whose heavy purse end willing heart were always at the service of the Scottish Curporatiote. He hoped that the Meeting would send their worthy Treasurer home with such a purse as he would like to carry, even if lie hap. petted to require some of the cont;nitiy to assist him in securing its 'tare conveystice. Tile Corporation wanted a heavy purse, and tke Meeting were errs tamilly read{ to give it. Sir Titostas BELL, in returning thenks, said that the Scottish Corporation were enabled to cooler the benefits for which toe) had become so cousin. cutout', by having the great advantage of prrou ,s who performed the distributive duties of tile Society in houtioary office*, and without ally reward, save the consciousness of having performed an honest duty.—(Applanse Arno :s went into the apartments of the -4ek and the t• digent, 01111 timed fruin their own actual inspection who were really the pr per objects. Such conduct was above all praise. For liimits-If he h. .1 only to say, that he should conti ,ur, as long . OS lie was honoured with their confidence, to pertorn► to the hest of Ins abslitirs the duties of his office.—(eipptiuse.) The health* of time Committee were then given with great apnlause. 'Mr. LAuttlE bore testimony to the Lamont*, of the Committee, and the discrtmination with Whlel their bounty was applied. Through Mr. Kinlncli's bequest, they could now waft to the out...pensioners in the Highlands, the funds which were destined for their relief. The Highlander would hiss the hunt that gave him this bounty, sod would, while taking his glass of whiskey to the health of his beorfactos— "Shoulder his crutch, and .hew how Gelds were won." Stich a sight must be a great national incitement to patriotic and benevolent acts. It would iii fact fur nish a subject to the pencil of one of their siewar.is —the distinguished WILKIE—an artist whose name stood on record as that of the most eminent individual of his time and country fur the portraiture of simple, tender, and homely sentiment.—((.rent applause.)—.Such a Meeting as this was like the gathering of the Clans, it was the aggregate as semblage of the representatives of good anti liberal feeling in Scotland, for the promotion of a great national purpose.—(Appluuse.) Mr. MACM A VOIITEN said, that, as bead of the clan of the Nlatinatightens, he would increa-e his donation of five g as to ten pound , , to shew hi- warm re gard for Scotland—a country for which he would be ever ready to draw the broad-sword. The evening was spent in the utmost convivia lity. Nearly 500/. was received for the current year's expenses of the Corporation. Letters were read from his Royal highness the Duke of Cla rence, and the Duke of Montrose, coutainnq libe ral donations. Messrs. T. Cooke, Taylor. Broadhurst. and Pysie, in the vniarse of the evening, mid( 4 to the CIIIIVIViaIity of the Meeting by their vocal powers. Mr. T. Cooke rung the old Scottish air sif John Anderson nry Joe, in exquisite sh le. lie war loudly encored. Mr. *Gregor played on the Scotch pipes seve ral national tunes. The company separated at a very late hour, after the enjoyment of excellent fare, good society, and the interchange of serial and benevolent officer. The Rev. JOHN TOPMASI, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, is spirointed Master of the Crituinar Stth?! of Broun►sgrove, Worcestershire, founded by King ED WARD VI. and endowed by Sir THOMAS COOK, I3•rt. w►th Scholar. iips and Fellow%liipa to IVoreester College, Oxford. It I- confidently asserted, that 4. there are at this time upwards of one hundred alr-houses and g.n shops iu Carlisle; or nearly one lo every ten tidies bitants," What a blessed effect so plentiful a 'prink ling or do.Ni potion ;trust have upon the morals of vat population ! _ The weather was yesterday so extremely cold, th.it the canal in St. Ja mes's Park was cove; ed with ire, ar,d some thoughtless boys were 'tainted It/ smoke themselves by sliding upon it. lietw,en three and four o'clock in the afternoon, a boy, who had ventured some few yards from the edge, on the north side of the canal, near in the Pagoda. bridge, having slipped down, five others threw themselves upon him, and the ice being too thin to support them, they all fell into the water: fortu. wady they were got out with no other injuly than a gout! • (lucking. It is atatrd in the Papers, that an infusion of the anthu.ratitund odorutum, or early vernal sweet.r..ented meadow grass from old meadows, well fed and mowed, and well got up, h:ts been proved to be wore agreeable and nutritious than any tri:it is to be made from any feu that cats be prooitierai from China. This tea is odoriferous and saech.. or, and is said to be nutritious, rshilmatitig. and, io.stesd of relaxiug, to give a tone to the fibres of the stomach to create appetite, awl promote digestion. A Cockney gentleman, who, is said to have made die rbsrovrry, has been called by his lewale friends, " Emperor of lay-ten." SAttirrhy wrck fourteen quarters of meat and the eareasses of two pigs were publicly binned, its Liverpool snarl...4-place, lay order of the Chief ;Magistrate. Monday se'nomsiot several weer summoned before the NI A YOR, for hosing ex poossol to sale wiwholeamtur meat. Tlir Cll3l*g• Ji ~4 1 1 ..G.Ct0i II y proved, and the parties were hued ut the mit:gatvd penalty of 503, au.i cctu.. THE CENOTAPH. We can stute from good authority, that the mo:. numr-otal K pof the Cenotaph 1.1 in progriai, •nd it is expected will be stiffittently forward for nor:rection au the ritsuilog spring. EPIGRA3L " We mentioned, in our Panic of 'ninthly last, a severe Epigram upon fork«, w.ll was attributed to the pen of the late Lord Ellenborough. The folluwitig has been vliewii us as the one in question. It was enclotted in a cover, anti presented to Burke, as he was a b out to open one of the principal charges against Mr. Hastings, in the High Court of Parliameo• : Oft have we wonder 'd that on /rich ground Nu reptile has e'er yet been fmu,d ; Itereslid, the sveret stood., of Nature's work— She paved bee venom to create a Burke! " This bitter effusion, on hi. it, was ob served to have a momentary etreet on the nerves and colilltell4tice of the illustrious manager. With an air of blended indignation and contempt, hr tore it 10 pieces, and vrattered the fravnents about the hall. The atonz 1, however, was impressed on his memory, and rr l wn!ed by him SO souse friesids with aii atr of jocularity." This paragraph is extravert firm, a Treinmry Journal of last nhght , wh:cli has been the must loud of his Lordship's esslogn,tm. CAUTION TO TII.4DES.TIEN. Tuesday afternoon a female, dressed like a servant, railed at Ilw shop of Mr. Coleman, 40, %V iirmorrAiree and ordered 'hr." pair of I I. and some shores to bra ni In Miss Commit', daughter of General Cameron, Gliiiiers• ter-Mare, who, she said, was just going nut In walk, and wanted them for immediate use. Miss Cameron having puirlinseil sonic shoes the,e a few days lit.forr, which the wonisit said she highly approved of, Mr. Coleman ease M r the biod, having no person to send them home liv. ihe slot she would return in half an lull as she heard the General's fain say that Mr. Colrinan nis to call al eleven o'clock .he following morning, to measure them (or some strong walking shoes, as they wale g. 1 i111: 11111 111 tows,. Not returning, howrv,r, Mr C .14 min sent his aim to the lionise of General Cameron, whale he was informed that oil hoots had been ordered, but that tiny 61d been isdirenert that a woman was going shout the neighbous hood, getting. guotts in the name of the funnily. PITEOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. Yesterday morning a young female of genteel address and appearance waa romp!, at five o'clock, silting tinder a !alio. on the likplford-road, a Imola frozen to death Pearce, the man who (mind her, carried her to the Turk's Head, on the Hilo ford-road, where, by the humane eye' tiona of 1 he landlord, she was, after n cui.aidr►ahlr time, restored to sense and animation. She gave no usher answer lo the Din_ mermis questi o ns which were asked, than that she ca tie to town almost Friday last, that sh- hail been treated uiikinilly by her friends. aiiil that her mind was greatly dist d. She declined stating the name or residence of any of her Glenda, sir from what rause her distressed fi clines arose. She reftiseil all inisienahee, and, when taken before a Mails. Irate, persisted in her silence, and at last went away without communicating any further particulars respecting her situa tion. EXTRAORDIN 41tY CH RON OF (WILD-DROP PING AuA/AN7' Al I'OI7NO LA 111. About eight o'clock on last Tuesday erenitt:. a fine male child, apparently 114.1 a wick old, was (11111.11 ISO all old has. kat, having on a shirt, and wrapped lip in a ghee of Man. kit, lying at the d •of Mrs. Mary LIMY!. 21, Taish.strert, Gray'si Inn.lane. 'the poor child was misty tierishial Amu the cold ; it was taken in doors. whirr ewers kind attention was paid to it, and after it was warmest and fed. it 1133 car ried tit the work•limme of the tipper lilwity i.f the pettish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, ii Little Cray's. liiii.latie. 'Elie &Howie): iti.covery has born made. v. hick has primi ticritia9y led to the iletecti (((( of its unnatural motto r, who proves to be a 141111 , g lady. re-itling nut far from the aei h. who Isas hitherto bo rn e a character. Yesterday the P u t.l. I Illire, who have lakrll rip the Cue, attended at the Police Other, II ..tun garden, win se • private examination of all the witnesses took place, allifil ureupird above two that the yoting lady (whose name, fur oliviona reasona, we me not Il• yet at liberty to issentious), was delivered of the child in question on last Saturday sitternoon, and aim shortly after taken by the tutu vile to put to :sortie to a pour woman residitig its Chickenwell, where it remained until Tuesday aftritioun, whit, the midwife, who tars its Ku ;iy.strvet, went to the nurse fur child, bee the Lady wished to ate it, before she bent the country to nurse; she sati.fied the nurse for her trouble, carried away the child, atoll the same reenlist/ It was found as above de scribed. The nurse hearing, of the circumstance, sie.peclett it was the semi. child that was taken from her on Tuesday if mid went to the work•honse to satisfy her picion., alien she snataiitly identified the child to hr the same she had to nurse; she knew it by a p.trticislar to irk, and haviii4 on the same $11:1't, but till the rest of the baby clothes were clianzed fur wut.e. She then gave the information that led to the present examination'. Two oth. r w n, who saw the • Mid at norm-, plowed the aamr. Mrs -, the inidwite, was sent fur and chisrly exiiiiimeit, a6ri , to exonerate herself from the chats, ahe was compelled to tli , clis , e the unfortunate young I..isly's name who to the real moths r nr the child, and whose family are of the :realest respectability. The entire t rid, ure was taken down, after which • warrant was :ranted to take her in custody. There are many report; aflolt respertiut the folu r of the child, %hi( II we du Ilia think ourselves umlauted to tu the public. Seveuty vessels smiled iu the course of last week from Whitt-haven for Ireland. It IS •11 runiourtil that the appointntri , t of Loral lliav ILIA: in the Govrrintr-Gruirradship of India ail! take plare ut no Irnlftte (late. 11'r lately mentintirii ii rumour, thnt ;no; Lurdshrp will be %Ur. eeriled First Lord HE the Admiralty, by the Milli-. bills of BUCKINUHASI. It is is-ported that Sir HtinSoN Lowe is appoint ed to succeed General Sir Itotp.tur 11RowNiteco 111 the Government of Ceyltni; bur not h.nt; ver i al u to yet kllllw Is 5. to his successor al St. !fell-mi. L.rd STEWART, the British A 111 bioqqiitor to the Court of Austria, milted St Vietma on the 2d of 111, Highness the Duke of CLOUCk.STI a It ft Fialiklort till the 711 t, fur Nl,olance CATALANI ha- r.rsignetl the di rer:boo ut Ow Theuire iltolien,ul %holt s r. has 11.141 ihe management for thr.e yea's. I)teinng that li. r.. El N141141;14- CATA LA NI Ir bu lopurrd to has.. su.tanieil a lass of goo,ouo tr. Tile. erlehealtit singer hit rol.phuitly to proceed to St. Pt Irrpliturgli, by w. , y of Lit.rim, mow.. It ~.dlll that 1.11 her return hoot Russia, she will rt tire to hart ettatc urge Flcrctice, her native country. L4W INTELLIVENCE. C01 , 1:1', Civcos.N's-INE, VICE CHANCE' Low.; 'lut.a.)•ll, Ustimartt 17. At the of the Ottitt Mr. GIFFIN Vii.. SON took his seat behind the 11:1% The Vict:-Citaaurt.i.on—.‘ Mr. Wilson, as his Royal Fligh'arse the Ptilice Regent., in the nate. and au helidif of his Majesty, has been g , :seiowely piraistd to nominate and miedonit you 11111. of 1111. M. irsty ' s Counsel learned in the Law, take t•tir seat illeishe die har." Mr. WiI.SON accordingly took his seat iuside the bar. COPYRIGHT. BURN RI I. T. C. Losl,M t N and OTHERS. Mr. TEM PI. F. moved for :lit utjnnctinu to restrain the Defendants bum publishing mid disposing of a musical work, the property of it heing vested in the Plaintiff; under the 1011tming eilcomqatices : A Mr. Vinceozii hail compaed a Sonata, at Vienna, for the piano. forte tool violin, which he dedicated to one of the. Archdukes of Austria. Ile afterwards sold his copyright to the Plaintiff, for our hundred a n d thirty vold ducats; but to the ;treat usttint.liiiictit of the l'iailititf,.in the month of September last, lie saw a taii.y of the Sortans publish. ed by the Defriiihtits, without a single note ur lair ii fl. rent bum that which lie had purchased the copy right of; and it also contained the very words of the dedication to the Archduke, 03 this discovery lie directed a Solicitor to write to the Deleodants, hut they did not think wooer to take any notice of it, whicli complied the Nlaiiittfl to make the pre sent applicati o n to the Cowl ; mot lie had no doubt but his flonour would think there was bulliciesit ground for gutuiting the injutiction. The Vicv:-Ctivieti.l.ott—'• I cannot grant.this injoitctioil without knowits4 %%halter this work was published at Vienna as common property. Yoe most produce an affidavit to clear op this point." Nlr. TEMP LE cult! rotird, as the Plaintiff had purchased from the composer lie was entitled to the c-pv right, sod to be protected under the Act of Partial/trot. The Vier-Cit NcEl.l.oa—‘ , I ant not of that opiuiou, bectitt.r if a work is published at Vienna, or tory other foreign cottony, as common property, soy person has a right to publish and dispose of it. I will, hoarser, ,Jr. Temple, save your motion notil neat Seal, to give you 80 opportunity of storming your affidavit; rot I donut think I would he justified iti granting the injunction ou the 'air detice before we." . Further consideration postponed. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, TIILItoUAT, Dicsogat:a 17. Sittings after Michaelmas 'F e, Ware Mr. Justice BEST, Wad Common Juries. WILLIANI DRAPER BI sr, J: q. this thy took hi+ %rAt a. une of the pullet JU.lgrs of the Court of King's Brock. Mr. GASELLE, cote of the f leM COtird to 11 . 14 %rat within the WEIAON ♦ND SON N. ALDRIDGE. Mr. alAttairATT stated, that this action was Isruoglit to recover the sum of SSW. 17s. the price of a horse sold by the Defendant for the Ploituiffs, oii::er the following circumstances :—The Defen dant is an auctioneer, and the Plaintiff. are conch proprietors, on the Essex-road. They having given sip mut of their coach concerns, wished to dispose of twenty horses and a carriage. They employed th e Defendant. as their auctioneer, as they had done on various previous t cessions, to sell the horses and cal nage. The corditions of sale on which the De froilant was to act were, 16 that Mrs. Nelson never gave a warranty for her horses. The purchase money to he paid Net ion+ to the horses being taken from the pi eittim.s cf the Defendant. Aod the Del( prktu.t In pay over to the Plaitititl; the proceeds of the sale, within three days after it took place, if lie hal received the money —or else as swot as the I. lists erre delis-tied to the nu' chasers." These conditions were stuck up in various parts of the Defi infant's premises. at the time of sale. On the appoluted day, the Plaintiffs' horses were sold, and fir nineteen of them, and the carriage, the Defendant paid mer the •0 , 3 received, witliiii the stipulated time. The twentieth horse was sold for fifty-sear') guineas to a liackiseymaii, of the name of (lone'', surf t ILA horse th e D e f en da n t allowed Gulleu to take away, without payirg for it—be cause he WWI a customer io Defendant's yard, trod he had, therefore, no of ijectimi to trust hint. Gut. after lie hail the firose f-r a few days, returned him, and the Defendant did not object to receiving him back. The applied lino the. . looney for which the horse sold, but the Defendant refused to let them have it. The Learned Counsel con tended, that the Plaintiffs were entitled to recover— and observed, that he believed Aldridge pas only the row 1111 l of Defendant. Guile's, lie imagined, was the real Defendant. Mr. GURNi.Y , fur the Defendant, contended that he hod :whit in this co.. legally, and as lie %/Id :0111106%rd althritigh there was nn war. Nulty with the horse, Vet there was It printed hand bill circulated, with the knowledge and consent of the on the day of saie, which set forth 4, that there were twenty machine horses to he sold by am is o , all active, full of hard meat, and just collie from constant work. oo the Essex-road."— Gullet, bought the hone in citoriotioin, which would buoy.- hero to line and vulteible aiiinial„ he haul women,) ihe description given of him—that is, if hr we.e a horse just conic from constant work.— But, whet. Gulleii tried him in the break, he found that he was exceedingly vicious, and would toot work ou the Essex or ally other road. Under these circumstsllte• hr i- e tn rile d biro. liPsT %aid. ilos was no on.wer to the case. The Drft ottani had been em ployed 11l . 04 e si t tit sell, and had iuld he hall no !mart to feceive the horae bark again. Ile ought Lot to stiffer.d the mutual to quit lob lift - 1111.es till the prier w is fool for it--a 0.41, Flour 'o, he certainly isms hali!e. it Was i.ot io br 14.1e1an.,1, that ao auctioneer, actiog Nb •0 ar,ent, t.o utd attrtssaiils to all persuu what rai-i w hr evaroctro "1 .. 11.1ewlat,l• ' Vtitlict rui Pia 591. 17a. ISUESJ. r. sr.; I DOW. Tbis was an a.:lltwi fur b w.a avid OW delivered. The Plaintiff is, as his !Mlle imports, a Jew, and carries on the busiiiess of a slepselier, anti the De. fendant is the Captain of a ship. Some yeara ago, the Plaintiff furnished the Defendant with 103 gross of buttons, at 3.. per gross. am outing to 15/. 9.. which the Defendant, who was going to Russia, was to take with him, Hs a venture. The Defendant paid him 71. up,. and took the his' ans Sway to Riga, where lie left then,. Hr returned to this country, soon after, and told the Plaititilf that he had not sold the buttons, nor could hr get a market fur them, they Were so had. He drinuctl ril back his 7/. 10s. which leas returned to him, but elaintiff had never since hero able to get a y ac count of his buttons, anti, therefore, brought the present action for the full amount. Ott the part of the Defendant, it was stated, that this was a partnership adventure, in the tir.t instance, and that Defendant had paid his hull of 15/. 9s. into the halals of the Plaintiff at first start ing ; but that when he got to Riga, and opened the packages, he found the buttons were Elleh In famous trash, that it was absolutely impossi , de for Inin to sell them. When he returued, he told the Plaintiff where he had left the buttons, and where he might find them, if he pleased, and gut his 71. 10s. back again. The buttons, which still re. roamed at Riga, were not saleable, and the Plain tiff well knew it—but now, after a lapse cf three or four years, he thought fit to arrest the Defen dant, and bring the present action for the whole A witness was called, who proved that he :id— witted these facts, in conversation—and a verdict was returned fur the Defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDUALL, THURSDAY, DICCEDIBER 17. Before Chief Justice DALLAS and Common Jo) ies. BETHAM V. BENSON. This was an action to recover damages on a breach of contract nit a charter-party. The De fendant was owner of the ship Benson—the Plain tiff hired her in May or June. 1816, fur a y m . rge from London to Calcutta and back, with to touch at Madras going and coining. at 121. a ton. Her bordeti was 575 toils. She vail-d from the Thames on the 30th of July, 1916; very shortly after became leaky ; at Madeira; was driven very much to the souiiiwArd, from a tnutiny amongst the crew, and the leak.,ge. greatly increasing, was obliged to put in at Rio de Janeiro—arrived there October 30, was canlk , d at that place, and arrived at Calcutta 15th January, 1817. After remaining there two mouths, and taking in a cargo of sugar, saltpetre, and indigo, she dropped down to Diamond Harbour, and had her windlass sprung in making that pert, throu4ll the negligence of the pilot. She thtit took iii it thousand bags of wheat, in addition to her forintr cargo, and proceeded to Madras. Alter Jeaving Madras, she trade water more and wore every day, until it was at length frinud necessary to pump her four tutors in a watch. Accordingly Captain Bethum brought her into the Mauritius, and applied to the Admiralty Court. She was tit omitted, and pronoiniciA to be totally affected with the dry rot, and was broken ulr and sold with her furniture, for 9,000 dollars. The cargo was sent home by two other ships, and the ;whim was brought to recover damages for the losses sus tained by the Plaintiff, in consequence of the slop turning out nut to be sea-worthy, agreeably to tl;e engagement. James Thomson, a sailor, who went out in the Beason, proved that on the voyage a large hole was discovered on her starboard side ; that 0:1 her oritv:+l at the Mauritius many of her transoms were affeett,l with the dry rot ; that she was quite rotten io hod& stein and stern, insomuch that he could pick "tit the timber like snuff. Captain Dent, of the Cadmus, was ut the Mau ritius when she made that island ; examine(' her ; found her main transept and many of her timhers injured by the rot, and had no doubt, from the extent of the disease, that it must have commenced before she haft England. Captain Jordan corroborated the testimony Of the lest witness ; he saw the Bean's at the Mauri tius; there were e 4 timbers in her after-blc tire!) , decayed, awl all her stern, with many of ht r transoms; thought part of the disuise must Lave existed before she left the Thames. Alexander Railway, carpenter of the Morepi examined the Bensum when Ow came into the Mauritius; the stern-frame und lashicti timbers were decayed throughout, and consumed by rot ; live or six of her bow timbers, her starhorld aide, and her trennela were bad ; some of the lo 14:31. ends were roast); the expense of repairor 4 the vessel there would be two-thirds none tin England. James Evans, an Officer of the 21Iusquito, coo firmed the testimony of the last witness. Jurlin Dona) , knows the Benson ft.,,,,, the time she was built ; she was built at Patrick's 1101 e, to the liver St. Lawrence, near New Orleans; MOO the materials; they came down from the Falls in Is IC, and she was begun iii 1911 ; supposes the tinnier was cut dowu in the spring of 1811 ; it woe riot put into water to season, but put on the loft at once and need; saw some of the wood cut; the tessel w launched in 1911 ; she looked very well till she tent into the water, hut then the water till' 1117..0 her .n dill rent places; supposes the still rent the in re timber, or that it slit-risk. So much water flow e that it was fund necessary to heave hr: up on shore, or she would have sunk with the next tide ; pieces of no k in. pitched. were *IOLA into the holes; was otkrtd 81. a month to sail lit her to Jamaica ; knew she was leaky, suspected she would he rather trimblesume, and that there would lie a eut.d deal of primping, and therefore refused ; wished for an easier faith. James Ward saw the vessel when she arrived in London, the fit-re bole, from Jamatea, won a cargo of spars, logwood, vial sugar ; she drew IKI much writer, that the 'agar was very much' daieaged ; 30 voles of it were injured, and the last was entirely under water; she shook like an a►peu-lath ur ma.. in a pvl-y. Charles Coulson, a ship-carpenter, employed in repairiog the Benson to the negionlog of Is to, übseived the timbres under the seaboard and toe main cu a imel affected with the dry rut, and men lioned e fact to three of lies fellow workmen,