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they appeared to be supportable. ne , believed` that none who bad any knowledge, .cf the Gentlemen of thti B tr, doubted their integrity in this respea Upon, thiS principle it was that Mr. Stratton had his best exertions then against Mr. Angersteio s ' and it was upon the same principle that Mr. Harrison was about to have the best ref his exertions now, agabist Mr. Stratton. He thought the Verdia, of that jury right, upon the evidence that . was before them, and that arose 'froin.the workmen who were called on the part of the Defendant, not being. sufficient mas ters of the topics on which they spoke, two of whom Made a wretched figure, the consequence of which was, that Mr. Stratton recovered a ierditt against Mr. Angerstein for his whole bill : bat the question tow for the Jury to consider was this— Did Mr. Harrison, in the part he took on the , sub. jea of Mr. Stratton's cliarge for that apparatus, con . - dua himself fairly; according' to the result of his own judgment, as the Surveyor of Mr. Angerstein ; or did he aa frOm pique to Mr. Stratton, the De. fendant in this cause ? Mr. Stratton had accused the conduct of Mr. Harrison, and for so doing, Mr. Stratton was called upon'to answer this day be. fore the fury. The beclaration stated shortly the' words that were made use of by the Defendant against the Plaintiff, by which it was imputed to Mr: Harri son, " that he is a Scoundrel."—Mr„ Stratton hav ing said of Mr, Harrison—" If I should haVe fixed him an oven for nothing, or otherwise have given him 30 per Cent. he would have passed my account unnoticed." This was what Mr. Stratton, a trades: man who worked for Mr. Angerstein, had thought fit to say of Mr. Harrison,- for only doing his duty as Surveyor to Mr. Angerstein ; and in that cha. rafter, judging of the charges of Mr. Stratton— Now he would take the liberty of pausing here for a moment, and then to ask the Jury, whether they thought it possible for one man to utter slander more destructive of the charatter of another, than this ? Here was a person bound, by a sacred duty he owed, to his employer, to attend to his interest, and who aped according to his judgment for that interest. If Mr. Angerstein was, in a n y r es p e a, over-charged by Stratton,' it was,the bounden duty of Mr. Harrison to snake his stand against it.—He* did so, and in doing so, he acted according to the best of his judgment. Mr. Harrison had said to Mr. Stratton, " Your charge is 901. I do'not think it worth more than bol. •I am employed by Mr. Angerstein to take care of his interest, and I must see that he is nut imposed upon." This was what Mr. Harrison said, and on this he acted when he ad. vised the charge•of Mr. Stratton to be resisted, and ycr, in so 'doing, be was charged, by Mr. Stratton, with hiving, at the same time said to him, " If you will put up an oven for me, which will be of the value of 301. or •allow me 20 per Cent, I Will pass your bill." He wished - to know whether any slander could be worse than this ? Could any thing more compleatly describe a knave ? This was what Mr. Stratton had chosen to state of Mr. Harrison, and it was a very serious charge to be made against any body, it was still much more serious, to be made against a Surveyor, than.any other person, for , 'it struck at the very root of his character as a pro. fessional man, and was calculated to drive him out of Society; he was, therefore, compelled to vindicate himself in this public manner by ACtion.• The truth, of the matter was this : there was not the least foundation fur this assertion of' i Mr. Stratton, on the contrary, he should prove that Mr. Stratton made to Mr. Harrison a proposition which was re,. jetted with indignation, and that made the case more malicious on the part of the Defendant against liat Plaintiff in this Cause. For these reasons he expetted the Jury would mark this case with very ,serious damages., • • .... • LAW REPORT. CX)Vkl' OF LNG's BENCH, jmr. 79. SITTINGS fatoßi, LORD XLI-ENSOSIO!IGH AND SPECIAL JUKIEL, IN GUILDHALL, I.ONDON. HODSON' sti. LEE. Tuts was an otion on the case upon a policy of insurance ; loss by perils of the sea. lt appeared upon, the depositions which were read as evidence for the Pl.tintiff, that the ship in tines. tion was not lost.by the perils of the sea ; and there. fore the Plaintiff - was nonsuited. IVRITIIIT AND ANOTHER W. KEYMER AND °TITERS. This was an anion of Traver, 'to recover the value of coo barrels of pot-ashes, which had been consigned by the Plaintiffs to the Defendants, as their la6tors, and which they Were alledged to have pledged on account of charges, &c. and which charges had been tendered to them; &c.; notwith standing which they refused to deliver up the goods. Mr. Ettsxt N u said, that by the Law of-the Land, a finer had power to bind his principal_ by selling his goods, but he could not pledge them, and that Wag the present case. it appeared, however, that upon the statement of the accounts between the Parties, the Plaintiffs, Instead of having any demand on the , Defendants, owed. them 0301. upon balanee,_ and therefore this. action could not be maintained.- 7 -11aintiffs nonsui.ted. Some other, causes stood in the paper, but they were _not. tried; one molt of because the Special Jury - was not full, and neither side prayed a Tales. AITTII4O3 IliL7olts LLLENIOAOUGH. HARRISON V. SI:ItAITON. Mr. GARROW opened the Case on. the part of th e It was an ACtion for Slander uttered by the Defendant, of and,concerniog the plaintitf, too t was matter, he said, of great important to the Parties, and in a great measure to the Public, who had an interest in proteeting the character of an individual who wasperfeftly respedable in his con. did. • He wag very ready to admit that there was no species of Adion which differed more in its shades, from its 'circumstances, than an AE}ion of this nature. Some of them had proved to be oldie nrott, trifling and insignificant kind, such as grew taut of Alehouse quarrels or the like, and they did not deserve the grave attention of a Court or jos. tice. There were others which were of' the most 'serious complexion, such as tended to destroy a mates reputation, root and branch, a odto drive' him out of society, and that Walt the nature of the Case now before the Jury ; for the ..Plaintiff could not bold up his head in society without asking a July of his Country their opinion of his Case. The Plaintiff was a Surveyor, and had for many years exercised his profession with unimpeaehed integrity. The Defendant publishes to the world that he is the Nelanufailtirer of patent kitchen ranges, ovens, and the like; and it, was PildttrikUlOti that great pro Ats ;ire the result of his trade. In consequence of .souse of these advertisements, 'some of the servants of Mr. Angerstein were direEred to treat with Mr. Stratton for crating in Mr. Angerstein's housio•a steam ap paratus with a warm closet and the, other requisites for cumpleatins it. Mr. Angcrstein was well known to be a person of great opulence and equal liberality ; he gives, as a man like him may give, splendid, entertainments to great tompatiiet, 'and therefore this 'apparatus was direded to be made of peculiarly large dimensions. It was said that Mr. Angeistein's company often amounted to fifty or sixty persons including the family, &c. and Mr. Stratton, said that the expence of ere ling this appa. ratus would be about a guinea per head to the num. ter io,cooked the dinner for,- stithat if it was to he large enough 'to dress a dinner fur fifty persons, it Would'cost fifty guineas. This apparatus was pre pared and finished by Mr. Stratton, and his Bill ientin; He would' not 'trouble the Jury, hr said, with the particulars of• that;Bill. Mri. Harrison Was employed' , by Mr. Angerstein as his Surveyor, aria-consulted as ro the propriety of Mr. Stratum's charges for ereding this apparutus, which happened to be a great deal more than the estimate of it, being cool, gs. Those who were told, it was not to exceed 601. considered . this toot large sum. He did-not now inqoire .whether Mr. Stratton was en. titled to this sum or not, but Mr. Harrison was consulted upon it, and he did as was his duty to do Surveyor for Mr. Angerstein, he went about to iroltiireinto the fairness 'of the charge, for which purpose he examined stow much tin and iron, and other materials had been laid out on it ; bow much titneund labour of men had been employed upon it; and the result was, that Mr. Harrion was satisfied, in his own judgment, that the charge, orMr.Steitt. ton were considerably too large, and be represented that to iris employer, Mr. Angerstein, who autho. eized him to make a tender of 601. to. Mr. Stratton,. whicirhe did accordingly : this was not satisfadory tbs Mr. Stratton, And therefore he brought his action against Mr. Angerstein, which was tried before my Lord Chief Justice, sod .a Jury of sMer. chants, 'at Guildhall,. when Mr: Stratton 'recovered the whole amount of his bill. The Cause then proceeded at some Jength in the evidence, but as none of the Witnesses could prove the words uttertd by the Defendant precisely as they were laid in the Declaration, the Plaintiff was Nonsuitcd. COURT OF EXCIILQUER, thc, Ri VOIX TILE LOF.P cuIETEtitON. BRITTEN 'Ti. WHt72. THIS was . an anion for board, lodging, and ne cessaries, furnished by the Plaintiff to the De. fendanr's Wife. . Mr. D I WNCEY opened the case . by stating, that the Plaintiff was a Captain, and the. Defendant an Insurance Broker. In order to make the case un. dersrood,. it would, he said, he necessary to ex. plain the business from Jhe 4ofprpepcempt of the connexion. of the parties... There, was living under the proteCtion,of, the .Plaintiff, a Nis cce , to whom thePefendant had for a considerable _time paid his addresses, but that the Captain being called aliroad, and his, Wife going down to the pit to see him em. bark, the Defendant had taken advantage, daring their absence, of - the affFdion of the yonng Lady, Upon the Captain's returning,, and discovering what had .pasied, he insisted that „the Defendant should make . her reparation, by fulfilling the promise of madiage, whieh.he .had so repeatedly given. On his refusing to do this, an anion was commenced against him, which .he stopped, Iv consenting to marry the Lady, and the marriage accordingly took place. He understood, indeed, now, that the de. fence was to be a denial of the marriage, which he had been informed was to be made upon the ground of its invalidity, 'because the licence for it was not taken out by the Defendant himself, but by a. rela tion of his own.of the name of Mesnard,:,whotook out the licence, , representing himself as White: Mr,PLosis it said he had no.evidencei and there. fore should . not, dispute the marriage. Mr. DA i viro ryY eaid, that certainly was prudent, as he had thetclergyman, and all the persons present, ready to prove it, Shortly after the zarriage,,and the birth of a child (the wife still continuing at the . house of her uncle, because it was not then conve. nient for the .husband to take her, home), she was deserted by her husband in the midst of a'long sick. nevi, occasioned by, himself, in a way which proved he had other connexions. After. some: time bad elapsed, upon the uncle presenting an account for board, &c. he said he was willing to take her borne ; upon which the uncle consented, .on condi. gtr.'GAuttow:said, that he was, perhaps, the last 'version who ought, to inquire into the propriety of that verdia, for he was, on that occasion, Coup. set lb:- Mr. Stratton. He trusted, that ►either his Lordship nor the Jury would think that he was do. ing'any thing i►npropper irr•the Tart he was taking now for the present. Plaintift . against Mr. Stratton. He should have been better, pleased if this case.had fallen into the hands of soul& othet Gentleman at the Ear; but when Clients bratight them instruetions, they were bound to follow them ; they could not re. tire from that - duty, without retiring from the pro. fession, for if once the principle was established, that a Barrister should, in the first instance, consider whether he would take a Brief, or not, and determine whether he would or not, according to some caprice of hit own, the whop Bar might .du the same thing, to that .a man might have a good case, anti yet nobody to support it in a Court of:just ice .; not so the pralice of the Bar; the rule was to take In. 3UIIakNIS as they came, and to support them while PRICE. 91.' srocxs, VESTX R.DAY. Bank Stpek 1864 India Stock Navy s per CCM. 991 too 991 South'Sea Stock par Cettr.l797, .104 EXCherl. Bills ts. to 2s. dis. Irish s per Cent. Fundable ditto prem. pet t:ent,Con. 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A MOST DESIRABLE HOUSE, In Marlbotough-Buildings, Rath. 1O 13E LETT., on LEASE for Seven YC3f4 or a longer,tetm; that very excellent HOUS . E, Ingsgo . one of the centre in Marlborough-Buildings, late the Resi. !)" dence of I OHN SLADE. Esq. The principal part (Otte, Furniture may be taken at a lair Appraisement, A Coach. , House and Four-stall Stable may be had with the Premises. For particulars and Tickets to view tha House, apply to, Mr. Billy, Auctioneer, Sic. Milsoni-street, Bath. Letters must be post-paid. ANNUITY AGENCY OPFICE, • Nq. 7, Cecil-Street, Strand. MANY Persons having Incomes, or Annuities t ' , .for I.ife only, frequently suff4 pecuniary ein!)arrnst- , •. ment for the Want of a temporary Sum of Alotiey • tiom thy long established and respectable connexion of ML L VILLE anti Co. in the above profession, , with very opulent persons. they arc enabled to.m..gociateany immediate Loan, from One Hundred Pounds to Ten Thotisand' Pounds, upon 1nc0n..3 arising from Estates, Houses,- Money vested in the Funds. in the name of Trusts, either by Will or Settlement, Clero - Livings, &c. In all cases the Borrower will have the privilege of itturning' the Principal, at their option, with ttnc greatest secrecy and dispatch. • Profit. Six to 'l en Years Pur chase for Redeemable Annuities,. and from Ten to F i fteen Years for Annuities f or . th e Purchasers. Church Livings and Eitates, Sold by Private Contrail. Officers! Halt-pay, and Widows' Pensions rectivcil. Personal applications are received tie.) , till Four o'CloCs, - • No Leltt'ra can be•answered unless post-paid. -N..13. Agents for insuring Lives. OLD WINE, meliorated by k rig large (Juan-` titles'-together in' Va ts, C: ar,d PERKINS. . ch:uus„. Vo. s j , West end of N'ewate.strect (r"4 Moic;t . from 'Snow-hill, on account of the ;nip rovarntnts , • there) . ; fibril fourteen years exi:erieilcc of kveßi . ng .such.quantnieaos from 1 t0.. - ..t000 toyttietv oaf assert,. that Breit Wine- :s txn on.. 11ton:4 , i-rot:able iii Vont to live pante, but tnura restorative iiia '3 Wl)oloorne the stainach of the and ',Winn. - They ha - ve'Port, whiehi after being.ripen4l in. a vat, containing iwcary 14.pes I ' o _2 been in boitle front two to Seven years. ~%Vnit..f. Madeira, Sherry; Ducell3, MollOtain, they bOttlE . front tit Vats as wanted., „This .itiodebf keeping gives &to Wines that decided uperi , jrity no Well' known ainhicitnow-, lodged.. S :fel an inimensc stook •enables ti,em to servt the's' friends viittrsupciaar Wine, of the hut vintages, oak .tlieir Usual *Moderate . terms, ibr toady niuney. They m id to any part or the Towii(ilot spor s ic:s.etttitattat:kzefoll f c re o e gn o ia f c c a xi r ) a e tvo tvx :: . They.' al : - ;0 have a very, . Pim: and Jamaica Rum, East-India and Runt Orange Shrub. nISORDP.RS that inoceed. eiiher from m).impttfft, state of the Blood, or a relaxed state of the Neroest; having, in innurnerab)e instances, subsided ,by . a course .as` SP! 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Eight years have I devoted my practice to the exclusivi treatment of 'flute Disorders, and the strecessfut resultiri my plan gives the additional ardor to oppose, as tar as I am able, the ravages of thOss,ClMlptadltS ‘vtlich itry the 1 1° 4 important in the Catalogue o f Mom lioiritties. After initiation into every lirtnich; , as an Army snegrrs I formed a vvishat an early period Of .Practice to rescue ist. dividuals fruit', the ignoraucc i of uneducated Qt .04 1 equally dangerous precipitancy of general l'racliri . oners. The Three Disorders., to the Cure of which I have:de.. voted my ,, attention, comp rise every bt.eelCs ut , VF,N E• it Ea I. INFECTION, whether of a rc4ent or long 441 2, ration : adly, Ail kinds of d e b i lity, w h et li ct arising' non' the habits of schoolAroys, or the • indiqences at ntatiltt age: Anti, iit,tiy, tiat deriiilgetTlent at rap sysrettk.iPNifthi Inca viuc t i> ctIiLhiJ3AIt.ItENNKSS,,or.sTE kat TY, Nutnirous Diseises are the (*Olt orittnorance,-. or-4 . am in the treatmeat of simple Gooorrhera ; .11 , sufotrlrt%. tietilleiltlyltivpet;v Obit • thC' . , beedS " t° are P cili q nfti V the retit:n of an unparded hour.--By supenar me_ limed Sitti ( !o!!tailitt!s %tie c;ii:ly cured; and, even Wj et:tiers have failed, 1 m:st th,ir I may presume to etriir a wiiricsi-rc.est:,bilshroc.3t I;;;vever, arc the cases complicated distress in thiS ccmpared with 'the calamitous sit nations oe Men,. who, .rro:u an indulgence in a solitary vice ' or ;the pre•valent gaieties of a tashion:ble We, acquire thit at , of Debilit . ,, is the unavoidable consequence of seen' pernicious Habits. Where the untyiney sytfcrer bioods over 114 misery, bu i t conceals tiffs ntisfortune,, it may be t9we'conso-• lation fur him to know, that although it be an uts.ieell doubt or. uncertainty with utrier Pralitti•nets„ : the reultlYe of these Peticitacej by the gradual pro gress;of Ren9Va' tion, is the acquirement Of 'sly . Eiperience. 1 f the of BaCchus or Venus have began to r;:ittice Manly irigOurs' much aitair4y will h prevented by an early Counterac. tion of this languid State; and in these use s , no greas difficulty Will occur. But where this Deficiency hit for years. existed, a ProPO • psrseyerance is indispensably ;eqiiisite to revive the slum bering Sparks of Lite, and to re-animate the Constitution. E I) WOMEN, who have long been disc 01) 010 ' in their cx,petlations of a J'amtly, rilcy . be assured, that most instances, airchdefetis are curable by Medical skill. • The secresy which is so essential to my undertakings and the qualifications vhieti.l have presumed to state, for, 01 ) . the basis ot my prctehsiona, and in coincidence %vitt) Pl' this intimation is given, that me, firer may be consulted personally, or by Letters (inclining small Note), at his ' . house, No. 29, Arundel street, Strand, near T em ple liar. Pr There 45 an. additional Entrance in Water-streets adjoining, and the Nanie is on both thedeors. Mr !tree, Member of the. Royal College ot; Surgei , nr. • tiara 'that she 'would etiter into a bon& with sure. ties, that he'wonld use her well. To this he con. sented, and the bond wasvrepared ; hut having more affeaion, for the little finger of a Lady with whom he lived, than the whole body of hli wife, he refused cosign it, and desired, that instead of it, a deed of separation might be prepared. Her sepa. rate maintenance being fixed, this was dra‘Vn out ; 'but he refused to sign it. He had paid for her board up to April last, and the present anion was for board at the same. rate, of 11. iis 64 per week' for the wife and child ; for shoes and, other articles of clothing ; and also the 'attorneot3 bill for preparing the deeds, which he had desired might be drawn up —amounting in the whole to 651. 73. A young Gentleman of the name of Bishop, prov. ed the wile being at the house of the Plaintiff . ; that he had . frequently seen the Defendant there ; that he was about 2+ years of age, and appeared to be a man in good circumstances. The Shoemaker proved his demand for shoes ; and the Attorney for the Plaintiff proved, that the De. fendant had promised to pay all the items in the ac.. count, except the board and the shoes. He proved also the meetings which had taken place, and the orders for the deeds, &c. 'Mr. PLUME R addressed the Jury, He said he should not enter into those extraneous 'topics . on which his Learned Friend had enlarged, or he might tell As hard a talc on his part. They might be fit sabjeets for discussion in a Court of a different kind. He hoped the Jury would think with him, that the present demand was enormous, and would give only what they saw was justly due. Lord Chief Baron . MACDO - NALD, in summing up, remarked that the law had thrown on the husband the maintenance of his wife ; and that the genero sity with which the Plaintiff had aeled towards his niece was no .excuse for him. He had shaineftilly 'deserted her, but must pay for the necessary articles with which she had been -furnished. ' It appeared to - his Lordship the demand was very moderate; .and he was only surprized ) if the circumstance stated by Mr. Dauncey was true, that instead of a pro- We,ding to set aside the marriage, Mesnard an d hite had not been indieled far a conspiracy. The Jury found a Verdict for the Plaintiff.— Damages 651. 7s. OLD StVWNTH DAY--WEDNESDAY, .JAN. 19. 'obis Warner, a boy about' t . 2. years of age ! •wal charged with stealing• on the 7th . of December, two books, the property of John Eckfuro. The Prosecutor, it appeared, keep 3 a Book-shop' and stall in one of. . the courts branching from , ilishopsgate-streit ; that on the above day t .about eleven in the forenoon, be obsetved from the shop. window, the Prisoner eyeing the books on the stall ; at length, he took up the books in question, and m a d e o ff with them. The Prosecutor. ran after, and came up with him about twenty yards from the shop. The Prisoner at the moment , drops the books—but Mr. Lckford gave him in charge to an Ohm, The, Prisoner in his defence asserted (hat he had never seen the books. Four or five respeetabie, Witnesscs apjieared to his charatter ; two of these %vete Book-binders:in whose service the Prisoner had recently been, and said they would willingly employ him +again. Verdiet—Guilty. jeonies Horton was .charged 'with stealing ft . * the person of William 'Browne, three shillings and sixpence, and ten pennyworth of nalfpence, his property. The circumstances on which this charge were founded, were rather curious; this ProseCutor; discharged Soldier from the 35th - Regiment, and the Prisoner, a young lad, it appeared, were locked up together on different charges, on the night of the 4th of December, in St. Martin's' watch. house ; the Prosecutor was considerably intoxi cated at the time; but a female companion of his, and who came forward in the present instance, informed the Constable . of . the Night and his myr midOns',':-that he had ' received . 155.' that day, of which he had spent some part. On the next morn. ing inquiry was made, but it appeared Browne had no money about him,. The Prisoner was questioned as, to his. conduft with respea to the Prosecutor during the night.; when he declared that he had tsdcen.nothing' from the Prosecutor; however, on searching him, the money laid in the indiament was found in one of his shoes ; some of the silver was dirty, and for which a reason 'was given at the time ; the Case was pretty nearly made out against the Prisoner, but the Prosecutordid not appear, and the' Court' were of opinion that his evidence in such a case was indispensible ; of course, the Jury were Constrained to acquit the Prisoner, James Phinkeit was indided for stealing on the loth of January, a silver watch, value• thirty shit. lings, the goods of George Higgins. The parties, it appeared, were employed in a public house in Judd Place, Somer'i Town, in the two.fold charaders of waiters and pot.blys. On the above day the Prosecutor laid his watch on the bed while he was. changing his linen : he was. not long absent, when, on his return, h e m i sse d t h e watch. The Prisoner, it appeared, bad leave to . go to town that days; and it was proved, that in the 'course of it he pawned the watch at a pawn.broltec o at the cotnetof Shng.lane, for 11. These fads be_ ing dearly proved, and the Prisoner's defence, though circumstantial, not being satibfadorb the Jury pronounced him Guilty. rUMIIIII T°. . ~~~~ %It, 1 1 !kr *rhe Imanir lager Thr Pavia On Ot► Tata h The in ce the tar to Ia Th