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INVEN F:;i1 I'!I';`TIIVING LIVES FROM SIPPWRECK. .Y ., :str.rr. lay,. Mr. T.RsNGart , R from Cornwall, m 4,! • an Experiment. oo -11 c Serpt , tr isle fly !e Pork, ap n ,,ratit9 ior pre rving li.;cs in caes of hytore his - I-lihticss the Puke of ICI•:Nr an - fl the Cont , on , ee of z tic flotuane Society, Admiral Sir \Vivi Yout4o., Vii e•Admiral. of Eti4;land., Adtnir.l! Sir CuArt..vs ito ,- t.O.Y, and several ()ibe , rs and dis:l!,- gon.hed•characters ; among whom we noticed a It ii sian Prince,. and some (;entlemen attached to the tinbassv.ot that and other nations. In surveying the nature of shipirreck, and the too e(•tirtnott caldtllttt S atte,olin,:, it evidently ap pears that vast..nitrobers (perhaps nine-tenths of tine w bole witnbcr that prematurely perish) are l os t not being able to eitablish a rope cointuonica:lon it in the shine. By,the experi ment. lio,;(vr, which we have just witnessed, se ie.') Measure in confidently announcing, that this difficulty appears 162 be completely monnted. elfeet this very important work, 'lll . r. Tre'n groure uses a common skY;-rueket,' prOnerly pre partd with a line a tacked :to its stick ; by this line tiws communicated, the , end- of a small rope (large enough for the'cotnition pin-poses of Irwitling ally thing to the dune) is sent to the per sorts .rho may be assembled upoit the beach. - appears to br titelearling principle of his inrcution ; bat be has, also various articles calcit 7 lived to convey persons trot, the wrerk to land, will) all possible security and facility and tvhiell pie crtnirniently artangedl a small chest, in tendethn become a Most iti►pnrtatic and valuable part of eve . iy vessel's equiptuent; thus putting tile, instrahe bands (,t: iNbo will - have them ready io apply for th . eii- ;6'114 deliverance, when Nolere-net'essityt- reqUire. .-‘- ..Intriaking•the experinieirt-yesterrlay, the first .rocket whicb was .dischsage.d,. , took• ,out-the line very well,•but-whert .nearly tircross the river, the stick got rhseugaged front the rocket, and with ,tlie 'tell into the waterj the , rocket came ash:,re, and explorLd._ •-• „. , The second rocket was difeliargt4in beautiful style, and hinught..the line Will it across the river, to sone coesider4•le .distance upon Lind. By this line the end of a ril . te was quickly pulled over, aid by the rope, the end of a 100 fathom haws-er,which was stretched arras the river by tackles from two trees. On tile hawser kV*le tbru placed two mall tt>rH constructed rollers, .to the hawks of wivivb siispe:cded an flexible chair, (which T. calls chaise tolagte).; intil this a min quiekivput ltitrtselr, and' wars presently and sate ly cooveyed-iicrop, to the oppot , ite shore. The chAit was l u hack empty,and afterwards another sem Was swpenned to one rol ler only. This seat had a quantily4Ot chsk at tached to it, to make it buoyant. Another - man .got upon this', Y anit supposted - himselt by holdine ott the rope, which earri,d :the. seat by passing iill/1401 be Centre ; lie was ,ako hauled across the riser but when about halt way over, the -1-!-ie/t of Ole hawser let. hint down in the water, uhe litiopoty of »the . sew,- as 'night nwondly .2spected, upset him, and it he butt tar to be - 11.4111 rd in that-shoat - n - 10, h e tsoidd have been ex posed to witch danger, it not to cert,kin &suite tion. kVitti all date deferet:ce.to - Alr. Trengrotire's in- 1 4cennify, we discover much in this new 'seat to •objeci to, and wonder al his , absence ot. cation, when conceiving. there was room tor com parison bet , ceett this and his old,one, amt of kis introdocing the new totie - str&O. An . experinvut with a drag net, for the cern, very of persons sunk tothe,bottoni, was made by a Mr; iirnee...wh.cli had the expected effect. ; and which,, in such places as the Serpentine, having a pietty_smossili bottom, and two boats at com mand, is a most certain method to accomplish the put rise pr6posed. • The company now generally retired ;. hut Mr. Trengtoure wishing to try some- rockets, and to gratify the equestrians on the other . side, -(who were by , this time tintneronsly +issembled),, projected two or three lines very prettily across the. river hrthe use of small rockets ; and drew ti;e attention, and apparent approhalion of a grrtt Many Ladies anti Gen tlemen.--{Morning Paper.) DANblt 'SW - IN - rata —YeSterday John Johnson, who ifas dressed in the , highest style of fa-hion, was charged, at Hatton-Garden, with del , and jog e'vei . 4 tailor 4, mercers, and other trades people, of cations articlo, to a Very great atouunt.—Mr. Jenkins, taih'r, 27, Fleet act eet, stated, that the prisoner came to his shop some time ago, and assuming an air of conseqtience, looked out several articles of dress, statin g , at - ttre same time, that he woo! 'd he a plod . customer, both for hits seit and liis father,'who' kept the Symood's le'n Catice;ll?ruse. After tiros selecting goods to the amount of between 30 au.' 401., he ordered Mr. Jenkins to tie ttrem up, and accompany him to his lather's, where lie might the articles on, and he would pay' for . what be k‘ pi. Mr. Jenkins then ts•ceOtn paoiel rite prisoner to the - Smond's run COffee h,oise,' when the latter took the hondie out 'of his band, desiting ltittt to walk in; and sit down, whilst' he went up stairs to them an, and stew them to his father. After Mr. Jenkins likCd waited, some time, he made. impity 'about prisoner, and,.to his astonishment, learned that be was an entire stranger, who had 'walked throng() the 'house, nod nut at the other door, with - the bondle,:whilst Jenkins' was 'waiting 'in the Cofß!e-room.—Committed to Netvgate for trial . ; resterday afternoon, as a Gentlemva of . t he Mute pf . ..l.ques, and his 4,, , r0tim, - were going:alOng the Fulham road, in a' curricie and'pair of spirited treys, the horses took fliglit'at the shooting doWn of a c4rtlit gra%+l, - and ran off at a furious Doriog ottt,on one :Ate, Awl his servant• on the tither, the• aniMali still keeping their sped until limy gnt ififo - a 'harrow pirt ot the road near Walhatn. green, when they e , elle 11, wish a bfe,t et's dray, and w . v,• hoot the slightes: injury to then, ot the. but; mrottonately, although !wither list g, *lox his ses YdliteXpetiructll atiA fr4CtAt : , y we're both tips/ seeieusly.lricerate - 11"ithepiir f d t g o itlJ 9:llenvis.e InaLerially bruised. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COCKY OF' CHANCERY, JULY 15. DE TASTET V. LOPEZ. This case satire onus an appeal from the Vice- Chaucelh , r• under the followiog circumstances: Sit A. l'ic.GoTT and Mr. 11 7 T1-11.ItELL stated, thi' this was a motion- for the Court to reverse an (neer male by the 'Vice-Chancellor on the 30th of Joffe last, relative to the staving of a. trial which was to come on hefvie the Common Pleas at ;ha loesene London Sittings. They were de sirons that this rn oiou ,hoidd be heard, as it was partitolafly imp - irrant relative to the jurisdiction of the Court, and peculiarly so, its the law of this country a llowed no man to have an 'order issued a L z,inst him without his bente, heard, • and were such a system of applications for new trials being postponed, allowed to be inttorloced into 'this Court , it would create the greatest pos.sible and he a fruitful source of endless vexation. Mr. • Lopez was an eminent merchant itt Sr. Peters burgh,, and, by favour of the Emperor of Rossia, he was net milted to send a mercantile vessel to the Brazils.. The vessel accordingly,sailed to Rio Janeiro, where having disposed of her cargo, she took in another, aud sailed on her return to Russia. Unhappily, however, by stress of wea ther and other nautical causes, she was obliged to go into F. 11110116, on which she was seized by Mr. De Tasret, a merchant, aged 82 years, who sold alkthe cargo. Vt'hether heihad.or bed not a lien on that cargo, was a question of no import ance in the present instance, as no debt, whatever could justify him in acting in an'illegal tnatMer.— Ao action was commenced in.Jattie 181 . 6 Aud such was the dslavof "be' outer side, that a Bill, was not filed in tnis r Court till June 1818. a period of two ye 4 rs; That hill Was extrem•ty volorninous, and bis Lordship . no doubt, find . that ctil they aimed at 'by filing it, was to maintain tliBt.tbe plaintiff, Mr .Lotrez, had two itll t iers, and thus „ that he might be niiiisu tteu. The' aclion, how ever, proceeded in the 'Court of Co m moi, where the Jury granted a verdict of 37,0001. Large as that sum might . appear, his Loldship'need not be tol:I that - it not more ihtm one•third of What the iilairitiff would have ' I received, had his careen been allowed to proceed to St. Petersburgh. - An amended hill 'Was atter wards filed in this Court for discriverf;r, aid soap plh at ion Was made to the Court idcommon Pleas for a new trial,' Yvtlich' Was granted on condition of proper sc enrry . l.ri ll g given for the 37,0001, and a Mo.ion was also granted for permitting a COM - MISSIOO to,go Rostia to examine Francisco Lopez, sou of the plaintiff at law,. The Cotuntissiort wunz to St l'etersburgh, where it ‘ent on very slowly, every hoped:merit being thrown in the way, as thongh it issued on tile I th Jaonary, it was ad jouroed.from time . to time out the most friNoloos ofetexrs, aid arrived in England on'the'2oll) of Jove. On the last day of that month, tipplication was ouletOthe Vice-Chancellor,.to stay the new On Wliat grounds satell an application could he supported, he knew nor, the order for. the ori ginal.trial not having been issued by this Ctout. On ti;e same day a motion was made in the Court of Common- Pleas, to suppress the' dep;,sitions which had been taken before the Cormnission at St. Petershorgh. That motion was, however, re jected most propetly by the - Learned Judges of that Court, who at once saw its design, 'anti re fused. it without hesitahini. An affidavit was drawl) up, flud . s,wion on - the 29th of June, and fiktl on the 30th, in the Vice•Chanctdfor% Court', thes vets day for which the moti in was fixed. That afli la'vit contained facts, to which, of c , .mae, the tether site could not reply by ailid tci , but which thry'llelared in Court they were com pletely-qualified to rebut. The affi.:As it was, hot' - ever, read, quo the thotiott granted, if 'tow came before his Lotdship by loaral, and whatever might have been the opinion drliv red elsewhere, there could be no doubt of its being refused here, first, as the Court bad Hoiloisdietioo at all in the case, the order for the original trial being mi , ide a L , urt of Law, and secondly, hecao,,e aoph cationitself was intended to make this Colitt art endless and unnecessary cause of delay its the ad ministration of the Courts of Law, • ,The LORD CHANCFL.LOK declared he was at a loss to see wily an affidavit. filed under such sirs emustances,.could be read in any blanch of the' Court. It was morally impossible to go on with business if an affidavit filed in that , s ay was to be lead in another place and nut read here, but while he tat in the Court it : eliimtld not be read so. It was also unpleasant that .a general and invariable rule of practiceorhould inn operate - in both places, for by such a way of going on, it would he itn pOssible to do justice to the snito:s of the Court. lie most state further, that it would he difficult indeed to convince hith that the motion !Aiwa(' have been granted; unless there were other ch.. ciiinstances to found it on than the mere reading of an affidavit, while Counsel were denied the right ut answering that affidavit. lf, indeed, any . Gentleman at the - Bar stated in .his place what the contents of the affidavit would be, and if, after due deliberation, the Court were satisfied that such affidavit Isoutd not repel the facts of the • other side, then the expence ,replying by new afthlavits might be saved. But when Counsel .!istinctly and' pointedly declared their heiog able to give a satisfactory answer, time should be given them for doing so. Whatever others might do, he was determined, while he had the honour of sittlug there, to rohninis:er justice between par ties by the only effectual way in which it-could be administered, which was by hearing both sides, and eVery point Whi . elt could be urged. Mr. lIAPT, on the other side, contended that he did not expect to have seen the merits of this case gone so fully into, the pure question before the Court being simply the ground which the order f:tl been made in the other Court. The Bill stated, that the plain De Tastet, had, a lieu on the outgoing and. incomipg cargo, and the raflid,viifirer! before the Vice Chancellor. was for ire express joirpose of 'preventing the trial front ptoeceding till there was the fullest access to all :he - books; letter-6, papers, &c. whieb could pos 4ibly throw any light on the transactions which !,ad *taken pface between the parties• To grant each intoi illation was the design of the 'oral r tirade by hii Honour, though it bad not been complied] with to the full.- It was not suffiCient to - have obtained these books, &.: as pr, per time should also he allowed for examining them An affidivat made, stated, that in the book there wer,: o!,ly six pages which had any referenceto:he case ; 4 subsequent affidavit stated there were eight_more, and Pei haps, on a more careful examination, more might s' al he foond., The other ell. tail .strongly complained of delay, but the blame was as much, if not more, on their side es on his: Why had they instituted an action in 1816, and not brought it to trial till 1818 ? Surely this was as much de 7. lay on the one hand as :he (Ow. The Learned Counsel then, at great length, contended for the propri:'ty' of the order, and the difficulty tinder xvhith Mr. De Tastet would naturally labour were he to go to . trial without being in Lull possession of every necessary fact. That the other side.had other documents could not be doubted, and.their reason for delaying them was, that they .related to other accounts than the present ; yet tie 'Must own this was no reason for keeping them back, but, on the contrary, every light should be thrown on the subject. • As to the imputations cast on his client, he should treat them %Via: silence, as not at di-hearing on the case. . Mr. PFRYS lollp,wed on the same side. • Mr. XVETEASHULL replied,- and contended that every document had been furnished to•the other side, and that ~very thing had been sliewu them frDm. the books which had the slightest relation to the transactions between the two parties. Affi davits to that effect were filed since the motion made before the Vice Chancellor. The very next dayafter the order made by the Vice Chaneellor, notice was served on the other side, that_ they must prepare for trial notwithstanding that order, 411 woiddcoMe before the Lord PIA:1. .The question alien on other property could 'not he at ail conceived to haveany.reference to an ae!inti. for damages here incurred by detain ine. '[bat the action had been raised in 1816, and not - tried till 1815, was urged as an ar giiii?eilt of'delay on the pert of his client, but the witnesses were hr (I'oo from the - Brazils,, &c. which occupied much time, and could not be avoided... A . Oe LORD CHANCELLOR said, he should read all the alli:tas, and h ive jiidgment on corning into Conti. 10 7 morrow,triorriing. He sLould fake care ,to inforyn himself hoWt long the Chtet.Justice would hold his present SiCtings in London; as he did not know whether in that Court the .Judge would be obliged to go sooner or later to the Assiz.s. On the motion of Sir A. PIGGOTT on behalf of ;he Soitof in the Court, it was ()Merril that the books of the Accountant-General should be shut afterrthe 21st of August next, . COURT OF Klisiq'S BENCH, JULY Sittingi riper Trinity Trim before the Lord Chit! Justice and Common Juries. ' PERJURY. THE KlvG V.•UEORGE TRENHOLM SCURRAH. The d,'iandant was. criminally indicted tor ft 1 toilful .and corrupt perjury, in an inform lion lodged by Eliot before the Commissioners of Cos toms in the year 1817, fidsely charging a r,spect able Merchant of London; Mr.-James Lslog, of Butcher-ro;'., East Smithfield, with having nor chased from hint. a large quantity of contraband foreign ,goods, in the months of Jlone and July 1515,_ arid ch - ging a Mr. Whalley, a respectable tradesman of llonccster, With having delivered to him the said t nntrahand goods for sale Ho com mission, upon false charge, his r. to roey-General had filed an information against the said parties in the Court of Exchequer, nod a sty) it of capita issued in eonsqa6mr, upon wlAch )11) we:a arrested to answer for penalties locos-- red to the amount of 7,5361. Mit strong circum stances being shewn to the Commissioners. to proee .tili *minimal ion were false, the p k irtie, ere ri lea d, and phi,, prosecution instituted at the nesit a of t) , t. B.htd.of Customs. The ease t ti , e proseeotion was opened by Mr. CAi4rEP.LL, and the cheurnstances stated by Gnit'srl-.Y The tarta, lB pi ()veil in evidence, were short I y as 10110.% I dvittidalii. feAsible representation, meats to tod;iee ,\lr. Laing to sell him a 1,0: e gokkolity cif hemi , ~1 1 cr, tilt; but not having fulfilled his engdgement by,paym , nit, and some other dicamstanees having been di,eovered, show Mr. Laing the ontairness of the transaation, he threatened to indict the defendant fur swind liog ; but he did not put this threat into exeel preferring the more lenient process of ar..." resting him for deist. The dc;'endaut. after <lons e time, endeavoured to obtain the benefit of the Itt tinlv'ent Debtors' Act ; but was oppOsed by Mr. Lain, and remanded to the Fleet Prison. There he met s'itb a roan named Wickham, who Was con fitted at the suit of the other person, Mr. Whal ley; and here it would seen the plan was con certed between those parties to lodge the-infor mation. A letter was written by the defendant, a revenue-officer, named James Steele, in Aegust, 1817, desiring him to come to the Fleet Prison,. and receive information respecting ,the purchase and sale of a quantity of snitiggled goods. Steele accordingly went, and savv, the defendant, and there was in the same room with hint a Man nam ed Wickham. A paper yews handed by the de fendant to Steele. purporting to be ,of sale of a large . quantity of contraband goods from Whalley. to the defendant, who informed Steele that Laing and Whalley were the persona princi pally concerned in the sale and purchase of those goods. An information was in consequence taken froM the defendant on•nath 'before the Commis sioners of Customs, in which he states!, that on the 10;11 4unc, 1815, at.persOni named John Daly, residing in Suffolk-so eet, Southwark, came to him, and told him a friend of his, named Whalley, had it large -quantity of contraband goods to dis pose of, and asked the deponent to undertake the hosiness ; and in a day or two afterwards, Whal t y to his house, and lett there a la.rgequan ity of contraband tOLeign articles, consisting of camels,' hair shawls, silk itoe,,glpves, acid scarves, &c. which he gave to deponent to sell on a einninivii:On at 10 per cent. on did not2wish to plush:lse for his own account, and haat he . .itr.cienseqp!nee Called on Mr. [ATHA' a", his 11.i:cher-row, teat, evetiMpin 'Jude . and July, and sold to 11;n1 a larze quantity of those good , . This was the group(' of the ittiormasion, atter.. wards filed in Op- Excli,quer Court by t he King's iVtorney•Gencral, v%hich was followed by O. art., st of Mr. IVliialtek and : 'Mr. Laitigs. This intotmation was protium! and proved, in Court, as also ate circumstanies of the, capias 0 114 arrest. • It Was sworn posithfly by Mr. Laing, that he never had ;Old such articles, or any other, at 'HI, time, to the defendant, and 'bar be never was AL home at his town residence etr er 'Change 4 41 ' 114 on any eveni: gi in thi. months of June, .loly,iko" gust, or Srptemher .that he always went. Mime' diately 'after 'Change to Whi tec h l i t .l, % owe he took .a choke, and went out to his house at. We st and that the whole of the affidavit had jitst heard read was utterly false and un ° founded. • His testimony was corroborated by his mphe'r,i /atnes Lying, jun. who constantly resides in btu uncle's► town-house. Mr. Whalley also proved, that he never in hi. life saw the defendant until the middle of Oc t ' v ' ber, 1815,. when_ he found hint living in a roods in the Rules of the Fleet, in company With 11 1 man named Wickham ; th:tt he never purchogu l any goons, or had any deali ngs w i t h hi m ; that he was nut from his home at Gloucester to June, July, August, or September, 1815 ; nor until the mouth of October, when he csal o to London. testimony was corroborated by his wire, his apprentice, his shopman, and two iespecrable inhabit , ints of Gloucester, who swore t hey 504 him at Gloucester on the 10th and 12th of inner 1815 ; and it was proved that he Was dilly at - - tending b's business at his house here, and mad ing entries in his books, and i n , hi s own h t ind" writing, the whole of the months ut. June tintl July, 1815. Two letters, written and addres;ed ! by the de' fentlant to Mr. Laing, and dated from the Fleet: Piison, in April, 1819, were produced anti rem! , and in these tie confessed his crime, professe 4 deep, contrition, implored the lenity of Mr. 1,61)0 and intreated his interfetence with the Commis' sioner3 of Customs-on hi's behalf. The defendant, being now can-et! on for his de" fence, shortly ad , lressed the Court and July, prat testing his innocence, and added, that t h e Wan! of money precluded him from obtaining the st i * fentlanc , of two witnesses in 1 „ h i s deo fence, as one of them was at !' , iris and the ether in Clasgnw. The CHM' Jos Tics shortly summed up ft/ the Jut y, who found the dotendant Guilty, I"' he WAS rerminded a' to the Prison from ,% bol he came , to be brought up for judgmeut nes 4 'Fero). OLD BAILEY. Yesterday Charlotte Lawrence was ecmyhted of stealing a frock from a little child six years olg!' was proved by the mother of the infant, thu s she livNt at Stamford H;11, and had sent lie.r little giel to school : the child had tio• been v,ohe haute it returned vvithout 1.5 frock, and gave the whole history of the manner in which she loci lost it. The chill said, that she was tart lay gt Lady (he prisoner) in klewcll-lane,•who Ott leer, that if she would give her that frock, she (the prisoner) would make her a present of d nelf pretty tut ken white ft oc! The child consenter , the truck was taken off, a'•d the prisoner roll away. At about half -past five the seine e vening the mother saw the prisoner (H.:king tea at her own lodgings, and taxed her with.the robbery. At first ~.she etontly denied it, but after liavicg irctrodoced to the constable, she then cow' lessed 'the whole. Several witnesses were called to her characters and proved her honesty. Some of the I.4 , llllrasa l also stated, that the prisoner w,s sometimes 4 16 ' ranged in her - mind, end was almost an idiot. She bad. been a cook in a Vonoly, and might have stolen plate and jewellery, it she had felt in' 'rile RECORDER said, in .limining up, that al' 010110 the value of this article Will small, yet ie did not disprove her gull,. The aitwout of Ilia article Stollen was a very bad criternm to jitd.g ° by : he bad not forgotten !he case tried nor veer long ago, where a man worth 20,0001. was idea. for stealing a sheet of paper.• - James White, a very young boy, of respectabl e nppearavec, was indicted for picking a gentieM 4ll4 pocket of a handkerchief. The fart of the tobt bevy was distinctly preyed. In his detence h° told a seemingly artles3 tale, that he had a.ro",; mother who was at hoMe hilt starved, that he ho's laid out his last farthing in proem big vie,. wit+ to t her, that the dpiy berore the robber% be had bia in bed for many hours, withou. tasting any ' fid that when he came out in the evening heso° the Gentleman's handkerchief hanging out of hi! pocket, and he could not help taking. it. He s 4 i ° he knew be wag wrong in cluing it, but, at 1 116 moment, he could not help it. He Cal nest ly beg' ged to be sent to the Penitentiary, or ,tome sutsM The boy was found Guilty, and after the verdiq had ly. , en pronounced, Mr. Brown,„ the keeper Nv.vvgate, said, that lie knew him to be a bad boys and that the lad had before now been in Vlerkelle well. The young rogue still keeping up the dile simulation, denied the fact, and wept most Oi ta terly, crying, " 0 my poor mother I" and ws a taken out of Court. BIRTHS. • Al his house, at Kensington, on the 12th instant, the 1. 4 4 of H. G. Codd,. Esq. of a dauOter. O. Sunday, the , 1 Ith instant, Mrs. Clutrit , s Clarke, Spelditurst-street, of a son, ,who died on the I.lth. , _ DIED. On Tuesday last, at her mother's house in Portland-Plo t t Mrs. Ectear, widow ot Dr. Handyside Edgar, formerly of the Island of Jamaica, On the 14th inst., suddenly, Henry Lark, Esq., of N° ll thumberland.street, Strynd, navy-acent. Yesterday, at Rotherhit.‘ e , iu the 85th yearlof' his awe, ---••. ' John Boyd, many years Commander of the ship Hibbertst the Jamaica trade. . _ LONDON: Printed hy J. B. A.B.STAIRS,. of No. 29, wee tiroomd-streer, Queen=square; ~aud, pnblished. by " . „,1;; • ' • S(3IIPPS, 'No. 7, Soutl Moli,ori-street, at TH E ". • 0111‘c, No. 112, Strand ; where Adreitisernents, Ov /e . 1 0 01iirs, &c. (post-paid) must be addressed, / 7 a..., ~....