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Mr. Paton feels anxious that this class may be viewed as a com plete nursery for penmanship on undisputed, principles; and as a farrier against the vague and improper encroachments of depraved taste and assumed talent so frequently pressed upon the notice of the public, whose attention ,being necessarily directed to Other'Ob pets, have not always time to investigate the merits of every pro- Posed system. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 6toB in the evening. Terms may he known by applying to Mr. Paton. Paton's copy lines sold at 27, Paternoster-row. Mr. PATON has published the following PRINTS, to which he respectfully begs to call the attention of the Public : The DUKE of YORK.—The most interesting and powerful Likeness of the Duke of York will be found in Ilis Royal High ness's memorable Speech on the Catholic Claims, ornamentally- Written and Engraved on a Plate 114 - -by It; inches, by Mr. WALTER PATON, which may be 11;t1 - of the Printeellers ge nerally, and of Mr. Paton. Price Is. 6d. India, and ss. plain : the Portrait, withoet the Writing, 3s. From the Literary Gazette, Sept. 23; 1826 :—" Mr. Paton could not have devised surer means of attracting attention to his great abilities as a penman than by adorning this specimen of them with so admirable a likeness of the Com It is from Jackson's tine portreit, a most powerfu nd striking resemblance, and beautifully engraved by Thomson, -an oval , shout the size of half a crown piece. At this moment, when His Royal Highness's health causes so much anxiety, it is peculiarly i nteresting. The example of writing does great credit to Mr. Pston's genius as a master in that profession." The Late PRINCESS--CHARLOTTE.—Paton's grand dis- Play of Ornamental Penmanship, in Memory of her Royal High-' "esti the Princess Charlotte, containing an extremely fine Minia ture Portrait in the centre, and dedicated by permission to the King. Size of the plate 18 by 212 inches. 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But if they chose to stand in the situation of the author, if they chose to incur the responsibility of such a proceeding, they must take the consequences of their con duct, and so long as they found the gratification of public curiosity was a profitable trade, so long would they con tinue the course adopted by the defendants. The case was in the hands of the Jury, and it was for them, by their verdict, to de termine whether such conduct should be tolerated with impunity. His Learned Friend (Mr. Scarlett) might address them, and urge that so soon as the defendants had discovered that they had been imposed, upon, and that this report was unfounded, they bad hastened to apologize for their error, and contradict their mis statements. They had also admitted that they were the proprie tors of the paper, and thereby afforded some facilities to the plain tiff; but by so doing they had avoided the payment of those costs which they would otherwise, have been fixed with. But this formed no excuse for having published so gross a fithrieation. It was the duty of the proprietors of newspapers not to publish any thing without being satisfied of its truth, and he (Mr. Gurney) trusted that the Jury, by their verdict, would give such compen sation to the plaintiffs for the injury they had sustained, as would teach the proprietors of newspapers in future to be more cautions how they trifled with the credit and character of others. Frederick John Taylor produced the admissions from the de fendant's attorney—lst,' that the defendants were the proprietors of the Morning Herald newspaper ; and 2dly, that the paragraph in question was published of and concerning the plaintiffs, as bankers at Brighton, on the 24th of February, 1826. The libel . having been read by the officer of the Court, Mr. S6ARLICTT, for the defendants, submitted that the plain tiffs had not proved their trading as bankers. Mr. GURNEY said he Would soon do that, and then called Mr. Turner, who stated that he had been clerk for some time to Messrs. Wigney and Co. of Brighton. They were in the habit of issuing promissory notes for the payment of money as bankers. Cross-examined by Mr. SCA RLETT—The run on the banks took place in December, and commenced again on the 22d February, 1826. There was a run on our hank for several days. We had provided for it before Monday. The Union bank did not stop payment. Mr. SCA RLETT, in addressing the jury for the-defendant, stated that he should not urge to them any of the topics which his learned friend had anticipated he should make use of. The fact was, Mr. Thwaites, from the first, had expressed his regret, and his readiness to make any apology that any man could be expected to make Under similar circumstances ; but the plaintiffs would not be sa tisfied with such concessions, and it therefore remained with him (Mr. Scarlett) to address to the jury such observations as would satisfy them, that admitting the defendants' liability, this was a case, the justice of which would be satisfied with the most mode- - rate damages. However he (Mr. Scarlett) might disapprove of such publications, it must be remembered that the defendants had offered every reparation in their power, and that his learned friend had admitted that he was unable to prove that the plaintiffs had received any special damage ; and when the jury had their attention called to the paragraph, which was- placed in the de fendant's paper immediately under that nosy complained of— when they heard the ample reparation which Mc. Thwaites had afforded the moment he was aware of the mistake which occurred —for mistake it would he distinctly proved to have been—he (Mr. Scarlett) was satisfied the jury would estimate with great mo deration whatever damages they might consider the plaintiff en titled to. 'lt apl3eared, on reference to the defendant's paper of the 24th of February, that there were two correspondents from Brighton. After reading the libel complained of, the learned counsel read the following : [From another Correspondent.] "Brigbton, Feb. 23. " This place was thrown into the utmost confusion yesterday morning, by the stopping of the Old Bank, the firm of Mitchell, Mills, and Mitchell. A rim immediately i-ommenced on the Union Bank, which continued beyond description the whole day. The streets were crowded skid' every class of-people, but more particularly with the labouring one, with the one-pound notes, fighting and scrambling with each other, to see which should get in first. I never saw such a state of distress and misery as this place seems to be in, yet they keep up the price of provisions ; beef and mutton 9d. to 9id. per lb. ; scarcely a visitor here; between 2,000 and 3,000 houses to let, and the streets crowded with men out of employ. Brighton appears to .me to have seen its best days. I only arrived here yesterday, and it is my inten tion, with nearly every other visitor in the place, to leave it to its fate in a day or two. - I herewith send you a hand-bill, which I saw distributing in favour of the Union Bank this morning. Should you think it worthy of a place in your paper, perhaps some of its constant readers will he able to comprehend it ; as for me, it seems a new way to pay one-pound notes. " A SPECTATOR OF DISTRESS AND MISERY." Now in this, continued the Learned Counsel; there was not the least mention of the plaintiff's bank, and it was"therefore impos sible for any one who had read the two letters not to perceive there was a mistake in the first; and, from their situation, it was scarcely possible for any one to read the one without the other. At the request of Mr. SCARLETT, Mr. Turner was then re-called, who stated, that the plaintiffs bank and the Union Bank, though not in due street, were in streets in a line with each other. This, continued Mr. Scarlett, shows how easy it was for such a mistake to occur. His Learned Friend had said what was very true, that the proprietors of newspapers must he responsible for such publications, - and for their anonymous ccrrespondents; but he (Mr. Scarlett) would submit, that in the particular state of the country at that time, it was of the greatest importance that the public should receive the earliest information respecting the state of the country bankers. He was very happy to hear that Messrs. Wigney and Co. were gentlemen of such high credit and respectability, and wished he could say so of many others by whom losses had been sustained; but there was nothing more na tural than than, in such a crisis, a mistake like that now complain ed of, should occur by the assemblage of a crowd in the same street where the plaintiffs' bank was situated. He (Mr. Scarlett) remembered that, in consequence of an old woman slipping down at the end of Birchin-lane, and a crowd being collected, a run had commenced upon the banking-house of one of his oldest friends —one of the most respectable bankers in the metropolis—Messrs. Hoare, Barnett, and Co., and the report was brought even to Westminster-hall, that - they had stopped payment, but it vanished in a day. his Learned Friend had talked of the proprietors of newspapers ; he (Mr. Scarlett) had therefore a right to talk of the profits of bankers, and if they chose to circulate 11. and 21. notes, publication appeared, a o p es pe t a t r in ed y: they must, in their turn, take the consequence of any report that might be occasioned by the ferment and impression of the mo etalceifietßidiaingth'stopnatpiellriaiten which on could ment not The t• and the 25th, the following appeared " Brighton, Feb 23. - - I hasten to contradict an error in my letter of Wednesday last, into which I was involuntarily led during the confusion which pre vailed on that day. I mentioned in it that Messrs. Wigney and Co. had stopped payment, as well as Messrs. Mitchell, Mills, and Co. Although. it was reported that such was the fact, in my burry to despatch the communication, togethfr with the extreme pres sure of the crowd at the bank, that gave the appearance of reality to the rumour, I had not the opportunity of ascertaining the truth in person. lam now most happy to aNuaint you, that this most respectable firm (as well as that of Messrs. West and Co.) has withstood the shock, and will, no doubt exists, continue, as here tofore, to support its credit. It is now well known that the firm of Wigney and C o . h a d previously provided themselves with so large a sum, as to put them beyond the power of any such contingency; and so great was the reliance of the more respectable part of the inhabitants of this town in their solvency, that none hut the lower class made any demand upon them. Expectations are entertained that Messrs. Mitchell, Mills, and Cn., will shortly resume their payments. Printed bills are placed in the windows of many of . the shopkeepers, announcing that their notes will still he taken. Although the panic has nearly subsided, still the gaiety and hi larity for which the town was once so famed is for the present fled and a settled gloom overspreads the countenance of almost ever: person you meet." Not satisfied with this contradiction, continued the:learned counsel, Mr. Thwaltes, in his leading article, added the follow ing : " It gives us much pleasure to inform our readers), that our Brighton correspondent was incorrect in his statement (which appeared in our paper of yesterday) respecting the house of Mess. Wigney and Co. Our Brighton communication, received last i s n a s y e -s rted that in athrbtahneik' in ar ii t ti o es f tiO i n r , P tho '4fr u,gli ;' : c'n ery t the rithj' pun, re night, prt, a a n n d d had maintained its ground most trininphantly." This would arrive on the 2/eth at Brighton, and by the end of the week the run had subsided, though not all the embarrassment. Thus, then, the defendant had used all the means in his power to point to public attention the error that had occurred. He (Mr. Scarlett) did not pretend to justify the publication, but he sub mitted, that under such circumstances, when an editor gives to .the public all that comes to him, and takes all the care he can to correct any. errors that- may arise, in the absence of all proof of any injury, in the absence of all proof of any actual malice, there was no ground for the J ury to visit him with serious damages. Mr. GURNRY, in reply, contended that, in the first place, it was the duty of the defendant to have shown that in point of fact he hid received the letters in question, and secondly, by whom those letters were written. He (Mr. Gurney) did not impute to the defendant that he entertained any malice against the plaintiff', for probably he had never seen them; but he did impute to him, that by means of his paper, he had suffered some secret - enemy to gratify his malice. If the defendants had ever shown any wish to give up the author that would have been the but apology that could have been offered, but up to this very hour it had been re fused. His Learned Friend had Urged that the injurious effects of this report had been counteracted by the contradiction that the defendants had published the next day, but before the benefit of that could possibly be received,- it had been spread all over tile world, published in 10,000 papers, where that refutatiete might never be seen or regarded. It had been urged tbea no injury could have been sustained by the plaintiff; if ene second letter had been read ; but he (Mr. Gurney) cons;:aered that this excuse which his Learned Friend had been irretnicted to make, was the greatest aggravation which could b e o ff ere d. If the defendant had the opportunity which he afforded to others of judging of the truth of this report, why did he publish it at all ? Why did he publish to the world that which he hail any reason to doubt of himself ? He (Mr. Gurney) trusted that the verdict of the Jury this day would be the means of teaching persons not to insert in their papers that which they knew to be false publications, which, he believed, had tended more than any thing else to aggravate and augment the distress of the period when this libel had appeared; and he therefore hoped that the verdict in this case would in some degree cure that evil which had gone such alarming lengths. The LORD CHIEF Jo - Telex, after reading the paragraphs in question, obeerved,:that it had been urged that any one who had read both letters must have seen that the first one contained a mistake : in his opinion, that was not the fact, as the second letter was not calculated to throw any doubt on the contents of the first. With regard to the leading article, which the defendant had in serted with a view to correct what had occurred, that, as far as it went (published 2 hours after the filet publication), was worthy of consideration in estimating the amount of their damages, which was a question peculiarly for the consideration of the Jury; and on that subject he should only make the remark, which he often made, that justice was best administered when the damages ap peared to he the result of cairn and sober deliberation, which put it out of the power of any person to say that the verdict eras the result of excited or angry feelings, The Jury having retired, after an absence of half an hour, re turned with a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damagee 1001. ALLIANCE MARINE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Yesterday a meeting of the Proprietors of Shares in the above Company was held in New -court, St. Swithir.'s-lane, on special affairs. The Chair was taken by - Gurney,'Esq., supported by N. M. Rothschild, Esq., A. Montefiore, Esq., and several eminent capitalists. The CHAIRMAN informed the meeting, that this was the first annual meeting of the Proprietors under the provisions of the deed of settlement. He was happy to say, that the Company was going on prosperously. The Report was read. It represented the Company as pro. reeding in an auspicious manner ; the capital was augmenting ; and the business was gradually increasing. The principal reason for the present meeting was the election of four• Directors, and one Auditor, who went out by rotation. Thomas Wilson, Esq., E. Fletcher, Esq., L. Luc," Esq., and - Lyon, jun., Esq., were then elected as Directors, and - Richardson, Esq., as Auditor. The CHAIRMAN hoped nest to meet them at their new offices, which were so eligible in every point of A PROPMETOIi asked whether a division of the interest could not be made ? The CHAnotA)r eaid i rtot before 1829. The same PROPRIF.TOR had heard mentioned in the report that the capital was. augmenting. Did that mean that the subscribed capital of 250,000/. had not been touched, a❑d that more than ' that sum was in the Company's hands ? The capital must be augmented, but still it might have been encroached upon. N. M. ROTHSCHILD, Esq.—There is plenty more money be sides the subscribed capital. A PROPRIETOR was happy to hear this, and the Meeting seem ed highly satisfied. N. M. ROTHSCHILD, Esq.—l can assure you all that this is an excellent concern, and will prosper.—(Hear, hear.) _ _ Thanks were voted to the Chairman and Directors, and the Meeting separated, apparently in high spirits. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT THE NEL UNDER THE THAAIES. The workpeople and others engaged in this undertaking, as well as the whole neighbourhood of the spot where the excavation is proceeding, were thrown into great consternation and alarm ois Monday morning, by a violent report which proceeded from the month of the shaft, succeeded by an immense body of flame. The shock was most tremendous, and was felt at a considerable distance from the spot itself. Upon inquiry, however, it appeared that the accident was not so serious in its consequences as was at first anti cipated, although it is sufficiently distressing. For some time past it has been considered that the portable gas was by far the best light which could be adopted for the assistance of At the the l s ab ln ot i t n re it rs o , f a t nd wk has f r thes b hafet e N t: h c e o r n e s t t h a w iit h ly ric s k o s li a g u lted. and other materials are lowered, there happened on this day to he placed, f ee the purpose of descent, some bottles of portable gas : the spot being immediately under the engine, is, of course, perpetually sh a ki ng from its working, awl owing to some inattention on the part oh the men employed at this portion of the works, who have, how ever, been previously remarkable for their care and caution, one of the bottles was not carefully secured, and the rumbling of the engine gradually displacing it from a level, it at length ir.4 down the shaft. On meeting the earth, the distance being 70 feet, it burst with a tremendous crash, and there being a lighted candle n the spot, when it fell, it immediately ignited, and filled the whole body of the shaft, even to its summit, in one entire flame, which partially proceeded into the arches themselves, hut fortunately notso far as to reach the spot where the majority of the work people are engag e d. Th e men , h owever, emp l oye d on the im mediate spot where th e b o ttl e f e ll, have suffered most dreadfully although there h a s b een no p resen t l oss o f lif e . The extreme distance of the spot where the shield is now placed t rendering the passage of the excavated earth to the sammit of shaft by means of wooden planks and barrow s too tard y for the desired expedition of the work, it has bean determined to complete a rail-road for the purpose of accelerating thZa part of tli l e mfret ytk ; at ne; ' and base o w f or t k h i e wo o p h l , e tft e . ngeg A ed n i l n 4n th n is am ob e j d ect ue immediately' Robert and although the Greenshields, a millwright employed. in laying down the rail road, has been so frightfully burnt, that it is impossible to 02,5... rm t eda e t tinguish a single feature. The foreman of the bricklayers. named Lane, observing the bottle falling, and being at the `,.itne imme.. the tl e diately at the shaft, with a singular presence of mind, th rew l ie liinis,eoltftie fell ontliengeia•oreurndth, himn iththhains somefora . do others,t vn n: i i h ,,else , v aped un h urt . All the money spontaneously sub9r:abed by visitors is appro priated to the accumulation of a 6ek fund, from which all patients connected with the u ndertaking have relief. The nuisance at the top of St. James's , street, which had fora ab at e d, h as now become greater than ever, so th f indeed, that it is not unch ar it a bl e to Co n clude that those tchose to it hav e very solid reasons for not doing so. ty it is to put a stop - A short tune since, six res!.;ectable farmers met in a room in the parish of St. Kew, in this county (Cornwall), whose portly appearance induced them to compare notes, when it was found that the average weight of these six substantialyemen was 1 i A- score, or 2301 h. each.— West Briton. Information has reached Penzance, that the brig, SPank lag Jack, Nicholls, master, of that place, and which was bound for Genoa with pilchards, was totally lo,t on the wait of Corsica, on the 6th December ; we regret to add, that but one of the crew was saved.— Cornwall Chronicle. On her passage out and home, the Sir Edward Banks consumed nearly 60 chaldron of coals, and the expenses of the vessel to Government is stated to have been u pwards of 3001. per week. On the day after her arrival she was discharged from Government' employ, and the Naval Officer, Lieutenant Went worth, withdrawn from her. THITRSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1827. • PUBLICATIONS. nis day was published, with plates , Svo., 12e. A Second Edition of WWI — MOOR ; a Poem. By N. T. CARRINGTON. Priuted for - John 'Murray, Albemarle-street. This day was published, beautifully printed by Davison, and emnpressed into six volumes, f... Bvo. 2?. 2s. A new edition of r 11HE POETICAL WORKS of the Right Non. LORI) BYRON, comprising the Tragedies. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. • On the 13th - inst. will be published in 4to. THE SECOND. V/CkUNIE of the HISTORY of the LATE WAR in Spain and Portugal. By ROBERT SOUTHEY. Printed for John MutTay, Albemarle-street. • - nn tlie Ist of! February wine publisled, with Thirty-ane Engravings, in 4to. AWINTER'S JOURNEY through LAP LAND and SWEDEN, with Observations on Finmark and its Inhabitants, made during a residence at Harnmerfest, near the North Cape. By ARTHUR DE CAPELL BROOKE, M.A., E.R.S., &e. Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH-JAY. 10. TANKER V. Sll.klIT. This was an action to recover from the defendant the stem of 1671. 15s. 9d. the amount of a promissory note, dated the 30th Nov. 1915. Wm. Andrews, son-in law of the plaintiff, proved that he met ; the defendant in 1920, and asked him for a balance of an account for 181. and amount of the promissory note which he tendered to him ; the defendant replied he could not pay then, but would do so as soon as he was able. In 1825 witness met the defendant again, who paid him the balance of 181. ; but did not pay the promissory note. For the defendant it was submitted, on the au thority of a recent ease (A'Court v. Cross, 3d Bingham, 329) that his subsequent promises to pay, and acknowledgements of the debt, were not sufficient to defeat the operation of the statute of limitations, by which the plaiotifi's claim was precluded. The Loan CHIN? J LT sTics Tiagjog..oyes t ruted she objection, the Jury found a verdict for the plaiatif—Darnagef,. 4;71. los. 941. with interest up to the present time. GRIFFITHS V. .101137 WOLIN, JUN. This was an action to recover the sum of 5001. and interest, secured to the plaintiff_ by a bond in the penal sum of 5,000/, dated the 25th of February, 1824. The plaintiff and defendant were attornies, and had been in partnership from the 24th of June 1822, down to the date of the bond, which was given to secure to the plaintiff; on retiring from the business, the sum of 2,000/., payable hy instalments of 500/. each, with interest. For the defendant it was contended that the bond was obtained by the plaintiff on his guarantee that certain partnership debts, which were left to be collected by Mr. Wilks, were good debts ; but AO guarantee to that effect being produced, the jury, under the direc tion of the Lord Chief Justice, found a verdict for the plaintiff—. Damages Is. for the detention of the debt, and '7Bll. 16s. 4d. for the non-performance of the condition. WIGNEV AND OTHERS V. THAVAITES AND OTHERS. Mr. GURNEY stated the case to the jury. The plaintiffs i❑ this case were respectable hankers, carrying on business at Brighton, who sought by this action to recover from the defend ants, the proprietors of the Morning Herald newspaper, a com pensation in damages, for the injury they bad sustained by the publication of a libel in that paper. The action was properly brought- in London, where it womld be tried by a jury of gentle men engaged in commercial transactions, who .were, best able to value commercial character, and hest qualified to appreciate the injury that might he sustained by such unfounded calumnies. To report that any individual engaged in trade was in a state of in solvency, might produce to them the most ruinous consequences, but most particularly to a banker; and if there was at any period of our history, one time more than another, that could rendersuch a report productive of the most disastrous consequences to parties engaged in the business of the plaintiffs, it was that period when the report now complain e d of was published, when the mercantile world was involved in distress and difficulties unequalled at any former period, and when several of the must respectable banking firms, both in London and the country, had been obliged to sus pend their payments. Under the date of the 22d of February, 18 , ,46, the defendant, in his paper of the 24th of that month, published the following, purportingto be a letter from Brighton :- 1 " Brighton, Feb. 22. - - - „ - When I wrote to you a short time since, announcing the failure of the banks of Messrs. Lashmar and Co., and -Messrs. Tamplin, Creasy, and Gregory, I did not imagine that I should 'so soon have occasion to write to you upon a similar subject. At that time such precautions were used by the firms which withstood the shock, as it was supposed placed them beyond the remit of any future concussion ; and such was the confidence placed in their solvency by the principal inhabitants of this town and neighbour hood, that the day of the failure of the other hanks, nearly all the resident nobility, gentry, and tradesmen of Brighton and Lewes signed a declaration of their willingness to take the notes of Messrs. :Mitchell, Mills and Co., Messrs. Wigney and Co., and Messrs. West and. Co. • (the bankers who had not stopped payment),' to any amount. o namely, n y " n h i a y v m e e s l l Lri p e e h n o d l e y d d t t i l i t t y .h. to pa 7n n o ei u l t n s e , e thal t tw is o no oTtl h ie o s w e e fi v r e m% those of Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Wigney and Co. At this moment there is a most severe run upon the remaining hank, that of West and Co. The North-street (in which these banks were carried on) is, in fact, completely blocked up. You can have no idea of .the con fusion and consternation that prevail. The .failnre of Messrs. Mitchell, Mills and Co., is attributable solely to that of their lon don bankers, Sir John Perring and Co., and it is really melan choly to think, that a firm which has for long a period main tained its respectability, and which made so:eft:whin! a stand to support its credit during the late panic, should now, in conse quence of unforeseen c ircumstances, be forced to suspend its pay ments. Out of five banks which lately flourished in Brighton, only one now remains." It was unnecessary for hint (Mr. Gurney) to remind the jury of the proximity to Brighton, of the facilities of conveyance, and the rapidity with which reports of this nature were circulated, at a time like that, to the . ruin of individ ua l s. The plaintiffs were unable to lay before the jury any actual proof of the damage they had sustained ; but as men experienced in the world, aware of the destructive tendency of such a report, it was for the jury to say what injury must have been done by a newspaper—cer tainly a respectable newspaper—setting forth to the world a no tification that Wigney and . Co. had suspended their payments. It was lamentable that the proprietons of newspapers would not be more circumspect in what they published. It was lamentable that they should permit themselves to become instruments in the hands of persons actuated by malicious Motives, and when they did find that they had been misled, it would become them to give up the authors. of the offending paragraphs to the punish-