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This deter►ni nation was come to at a very full meeting of the Board, by a resolution to that effect, which has since been confirmed. The Board consider their claims on public support to be too . well established to suffer by the injurious imputation on their conduct in the statement al-laded to. They will not incur any/further expense of time by enlarg ing on their own merits; they dart cheerfully appeal to their past labours; and on a steady adherence to the same princi ples which have hitherto actuated them, they confidently rest their claim to the continued good opinion of the subscribers and of the public at large. That the above resolutions be signed by the Chairman, and published in all the Morning and Evening Papers. (Signed) JAMES JACKS, Chairman. FOR THE SUN. A SIMPLE QUESTION. MR. EDITOR—My sensibility, my liberality, my curiosity, and even doubts, as to my own ex istence ; or, which is the -same thing, as to whe ther I am awake or in a dream, have been much excited by recent daily perusals of_ some obscure Papers—some of them obscure from being know ing, others from being unknown—in which I have observed copious lamentations over the imprison ment and death of some person at St. Helena; by some called NAPOLEON, by some BONEYPARTY, and by some the Axe EMPEROR, no doubt as having sprung from the guillotine, or having -perhaps been a great Butcher. Now Sir, what I want to know is, whether this is the same person who, though a Corsican stranger, was brought up at a Public School in France, and afterwards, to show what he had learnt there of Gunnery, turned the artillery of a Usurping Faction upon the inhabitants of the capital en masse ?—who, through the influence of his wife, got the command of the Army of the South —who, after the conquest of Piedmont and Lombardy, sold the Austrian prisoners to the Spaniards for slaves in the Catalonian Quicksil ver Mines—who ravaged and ravished Italy, after protestations of " friendship to the Poor" —who did some naughty things in Syria and Egypt, if we are to believe the stories which Colonel WILsoN told, but which Sir Robert WIL SON has declared to be falsehoods !—who, on the erection of his own Dynasty, boasted that i❑ five years it would be the oldest in Europe?-- who, in contempt of all the laws of nations, de tained Englishmen, women, and children, from their families and relations for years?—who pro moted all his own officers that broke their parole of honour, yet imprisoned in dungeons those of his foes who dared to escape from bondage when not on parole I—who declared that he would in vade England, and make it a country unfit to live in ?—who promised to his army the gold and the women of Britain ?—who sacrificed millions to gratify his own ambition ?—who invaded Bel gium, and caused the battle of Waterloo, by which almost every family in Britain was clad in mourning ?—and who, in his own public mani festoes, declared himself a Mahometan, AND DE NIED HIS REDEEMER?—IS THAT the man, Sir ? Your's, doubtfully, I. G. N. P.S. Pray is Hi'the man whose splendid esta blishment was the only item of British expendi ture which Sur Geon Joseph did not propose to reduce? TIIE ARMY. We have upon several occasions given our mi litary readers the first notice of what concerned them, and we can now state, from our usual au thority, that the following reductions are decided upon :—The 18th and 19th Dragoons, two troops of every regiment of cavalry (the Life Guards and Blues excepted), and two companies of every regiment of foot, beside some Colonial corps.— (British Press.) AYR, JULY 16.—0 n Tuesday, the Royal Ayrshire Militia, under the command of Lieu tenant-Colonel Farquhar, were inspected here, by Colonel Alexander Boswell, Vice-Lieutenant of the county, who was pleased to express his marked approbation of the corps. Yesterday the regiment, having completed the usual period of 21 days training and exercise, was disembodied. HAMILTON, JULY 24.—Tbis day the period for, training and exercising, the Royal Lanark shire Militia terminated. The arms and clothing were deposited in the regimental stores. CAUTION TO MILITIAMEN.—Andrew Shields, Private soldier in the Edinburgh regiment of militia (a substitute for the parish of Dalkeith), was tried by a regimental court-martial at head quarters, on the 23d instant, for absenting him self from the regiment without leave, from the 12th to the 23d July, during the period of train ing and exercise, and, having been found guilty of crime charged, he was sentenced to solitary confinement in the Bridewell of Edinburgh, for the space of three months. The said Andrew Shields has been committed accordingly. ~' - N UMBER 9026.1 EAST INDIA HOUSE, July 18, 1821. F INE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That MEASURES having been adopted which may lead to lbe .discharge of a large portion of the existing SIX per CENT. IZID IAN LOANS, the Company's Loan Creditors resident in Europe are hereby apprized of the circumstance, that they flay furnish their Agents with instrnctions accordingly. The Court have authorized their Bengal Government to :P" ) a new Si x pe r Cent. Loan in India, to which the present Per Cent. Loan obligations are transferable; and in re r4lll to Absentees who receive their Interest by Bills upon the Court, and who have omitted to give instructions to their Agents applicable to the discharge of the existing obligations, Interest will be remitted to them as heretofore for a period °f fi fteen :nonths after the opening of the proposed new Loan tnße ttgal,within which period tb eymnst furnish their Agents 'it!) i nstrnctions, either to receive their Capital, or to trans 'or it to the said proposed new Loan. PETER AUBER, Assistant-Secretary. DdILLARD'S EAST INDIA WAREHOUSES, No. 16, CHEAPSIDE. MILLARD takes leave respectfully to in - . • form the Nobility and Families, that by his long ex- Zrience the East India Trade, and great attention to our 1.: 1 M anufactures, he has been enabled, in addition to his cr,,', l ar supply of India Goods in Muslims, Shawls, Long Calicoes &c. to produce the most complete Imitations each in , Brttish; and his beautiful Shawls; Nainsook, Seer- C: 4 l,, "c 'nnit Mull Book,Sircarallie,andßetillaMuslins; Long a nd.COssacs ' , are of the first kind, and at the most &sir to,.,,Oriers, wholesale and retail. The admirers of real I n dia • h ouc u.s will find the greatest variety from the Company ' s are- Sh,et and those who require curious British . Mushns, ./kc. will find them in the those' geates . t perfectir ; and bi t ,' ; urnish and India, as well for Gentlemen s Neck as for Ladies' wear, taken in the entire Piece, or St the Wholesale Prices. J. M. begs most respect- I.i n recommend to Families his choice undressed Irish h e ""1 ° , which for beauty',- durability, and economy cannot 1 0 4„ sur l'assed. he • greatest variety of white and coloured b re .c Y Dresses, adapted for Morning, Dinner, and Evening t tlie 'so after the newest Parisian style •, with printed Furni si"! f'in'ed Cambries, and coloured Muslins of unique de- I mperial•Paient Cloth, white Chints, and Anjengoes, bri • tr to the H o u se . I n dia Shawls bought. French Cam p"? ~and Foreign Damask Table Linen, Huckabacks, russia and oth e r Sheeting, &c.—Five percent. discount ap i : ()w ed on all Goods bought, to the amount of 101. and W GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD. N ou . Publishing, in Monthly Parts (Fourteen of which may p e is. each, handsoTely printed in Quaito, on , A NEw p, a tp n e d ,,, c m o d d, P t es E se IIENSIVE SYSTEM i t N,t . of MODERN GEOGRAPHY, Mathematical, Physical, • R i c 3l , and Commercial ; being a perspicuous D . ehneation od e Present state of the Globe, with its Inhabitant? and sprorsuctions ; preceded by the History of the Science, int, r• • tr t , d e d. with Statistical and Synoptic.,l Tables, and accompa ut witx Series of correct coloured Maps, a great variety tratPriManneate Views and numerous other Engravings, ug th e rs, , Costonvi, and Costumes ot Nations. llus- By THOMAS MYERS, A.M. T he , the R o yal Miiitary Academy, Woolwich. h•ry , Iv ," , ts never; p e rhaps, been a period in Modern His ttio,„,r:ru it c ou ld b e l ess necessar y th a n a t th e present at G eo to enforce reasons for publishing a new System • -gra PhY• The political Events of the last Nta,...yo entirely changed the territoi ial relations ofdifferent (1, 4 ` ,1 ' :.that all existing ,Geographical Works have been len- Witit it ' a ineastrie, ohsi,lete. In Ibis Work, the mutations "a‘'e taken place will be found minutely explained, by ILeniFic"us'le development of facts, founded on official and au br. L'Oentnents. • parri ' ,"g th e last. four or five years also, large Accessions ttlße • eeti made to our general stock of geographical know %,DPre'44l4d the energies of unimpeded intellect have been ~l'tra l d to the sarvev of the World in sUch a manner, as t s '°lll [ 4 an ample sh'are of novelty before the industrious i,, t4 t4 r a Geographical System. While, therefore, the W:'" 1 itrthis all that is unquestionable in preced -5:440-4.,", be may expect to receive, in addition, the con -11,44° Information which subsequent researches have Work will b e comprised in Twenty-four Parts, k e t Ani n d s ' ol ? . wo . v . ery large and splendid:Volumes. , te r . r : • rined or Sherwood, Ne "tvand P t sold f by all Booksellersely, and Jones, Pater- T o T. TAYLOR, Esq. attitt _ ti n , No. ni 9, Nos Bridge-street, London. n, i l Si jI ; y a ,. G leave to inform you, that ever since , the A i r 'eli!i; 179 e, I had been afflicted 'with the Lue o s t l m e e n t i fi r c e ine ii,, e se4' l . tal its obstinately resisting eery o e, t4 ill:' by the most eminent of the . faculty.and t ' svice clis cursheere and un -I,Nee,,severalsevcre courses of . salivatpn 14 4 ti. jt olli the Hospital with little relic appear to t o (147 tavist inveterate nature. In tl.c springof last year 04'r r ist e: had got te such a head, as nearly toput a period t atii, 4 „ ll ea ei nee--I had a large ulcer on the crown of my le, , q tr• ' arm, and my legs were . broke out in a frightful I ` , 4"f i l f i ',Y tightwas dreadfully painfel,a.n i d ny liad.been in a left had also ri l , I,ire ceration for the last seven years .. 41 11 1401 4 1°4 es On it, was very much discoloured, and gave warm in bed, w a; tstl y • i seN ciating ' pain, particularly y gtet t 'titib, s l ePrive me of rest; , in th s is e :lan c ie n ntable state, I vilichacioqaded byta ke flton y l oi p .l . 7 . , (who received so' fort n ; I , beg a t' them here),A'ir. J. Leake's Patent Pills, /14 0 ,,„'gat f t ,'' to do on the 26th 0..1k ‘” , in . the course of a tl • more than a on — la the J e gan to receive benefit— :V-e--11 af ter, 71 1 , te rs on my head and arms t ::•er l e it so e undly healed— bo 1, consici"e sores ors my legs healed also; leaving, . how- la He ot ti, e i ra blediscolouration in tbe skin, and pain in . the ter • e l eft which by the blessing of Go . d, and a little "le r "' Perseve ' lle. in ' your invaluable Medicine, subsided i thit --"es disperarsirig,the skin regaining — its natural hue, and go o 4 , c 'etar _r ,:,.. nal pains gradually going off. I thus became, by farioe''enal advice and medicine, perfectly free fron . i . all my "'tlertic("Plaints—have recovered my former spira l s %rid ea titi n -4, pad am become jolly and fat, in which state mks knew b ke, I la-nle'2;lai?Y months, Io the astonishment of all . w t h d o e, ii e you, for a loss in what terms to express mygrati to u make thi s ni ~ ior th e good of other suffering mortals , k ' l ea; ? ri cas e as Public as possible, as I shall on every occa si_sa doing you will greatly oblige, „ I- ) Your grateful, obedient, very humble servant, 'ska t e , ALEX. MURKER. s Clqse, High-street, Edinburgh. , ;lin Th Witnesses to the above Cure:— . ~, 3 "41Pson, No 3, New Poultry Market, Edinnurui I , r "ha hl'lntosh. Ohl Assembly Close, Edinburgh. , . y Fr et and sold b ' y the sole Proprietor, THOMAS A li - hote, Ileraber of the ltcyal College 4 4 ' i l str,C. ° e • si • 9 ( c . New Bridge-street, Londo . n n ; a an of Surg .. c e o n n e s, at s ,lical(tily directecdritcoe t l e m ore tb i ii .v i , 40 years, ? after a practice parti• 1 i i mplaints and those te e , e.atal to the Partcsuor; o Gene n ration, with that inviolable t ee, whi eb men of his profession should always observe in l' 4l 4, n es : ha flatters himself the advice and assist . ance he tst,'us'Y administers to persons taking this Medicine, will itlt aiti trued, i Li aY a disceroin , Public as an advar.tage seldom 1, •tk ‘ 1 1 :e,s and void of all a t" mbignity , . i4Ctr s , .ticad,.by his appointrisent, tor the convenienceoftho t 1)71,.,a distance, t the Toystiop, No. 103, Oxford - street; 4411 .soorough's, ~,, 1- 4 rid No. 7, Fish-street -hill; Mr. Baxter, 4 1 " p e A ge, Edinburgh ; Mi. Callwel.'s, Dub . ao a d n of ,t 1 4 , 1, pn in every considerable town in Great Britain d viii, , i a, in boxes afonlv es• 9il each, stamped, and sealed u te k :1111 Tilid plain diiectiens. whereby persons, of either 'aayeure themselves with ea ' se, spted, secrecy, and safety. •;",s; • • , . , Sri _ .:7717) A.:7•-•. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1821. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 30. KIRKPATRICK v. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. WINGFIELD, in calling the attention of the Lord Chancellor to this case, said, a Petition had been presented to the Master of the Rolls, praying that a reference might be made to one of the Masters to take into consideration the pro posals that had been drawn up relative to the solemnization of marriage between the parties named in the pleadings. Ms Lordship having, however, on a former occasion, issued an injunc tion restraining them from having any inter course, and also interdicting Mr. Thompson from aiding or assisting in the ceremony, he, the Mas ter of the Rolls, did not consider he had any power to hear it until that injunction had been dissolved by his Lordship. The parties had now come to an adjustment of their former differences, and were willing that the marriage should take place ; he had now, therefore, to pray his Lord ship to dismiss the former order, when the Mas ter of the Rolls would proceed to hear the Peti tion.—Mr. HomE said, he instructed to consent on the part of his clients; and the LORD CHAN CELLOR dissolved the Injunction as prayed. BOWES V. THE EARL OF STRATHMORE.. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a Pe tition from the Countess of Strathmore, praying that the cause might be referred to the Master, for the purpose of having the costs incurred in the prosecution of the - claim of her son to the honours and dignities of his house, taxed, and that when that bad taken place, they might be paid out of the trust estate.—Mr. HART should not object to the prayer of the petition, if Lord Strathmore's costs were included in the order, which he considered he was entitled to have done. It would be recollected that the Testator had directed that the rents and profits of the estate should accumulate, after paying a certain sum for the maintenance and education of the infant. but should he not attain the age of 21, Lord Strathmore would be entitled, under the will, to the whole, and• consequently he had a claim coeval with that of the infant. The in quiry, it would also be recollected, was by the direction of the Court, and under these circum stances he could not entertain a doubt that his Lordship would grant his client his costs.—The LORD CHANCELLOR—Let the costs of both par ties be paid out of the Trust Estates, and the prayer of the petition granted. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 30. COX AND CO. V. TROY AND OTHERS. - -- The SoLiciTon-GENERA L stated the — case to the Jury. .This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Messrs. R. A. Cox and Co. against the defendants, Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. for the recovery of the sum of X 938 on a bill of ex change, stated to have been accepted by them. It appeared that on the 24th day of March, 1820, the plaintiffs received a bill drawn upon the de fendants at sixty-one days after sight, which bill was on the same day left in the usual manner for acceptance. It was' not, however, called for till the 27th, and it was then delivered to the clerk of the plaintiffs, with the acceptance cancelled. The drawers, Messrs. Stevens and Roach, bankers at Cork, had in the intermediate time become in solVent, and consequently, although the bill was in the first instance accepted, it was cancelled be fore given up to the plaintiffs. The Learned Gentleman, however, contended that the accep tors could not, after having once signified their acceptance, recal it. J. B. Willis—l am clerk to the plaintiffs. I left the bill now sliewn me at the house of Robarts and Co. for acceptance, on the 24th day of March, 1820. I put it in the box, as is the usual way. I did not call again till Saturday the 27th of March. The bill was then given to me in the state it is now in. I made no remarks to any one there on the oddity of its appearance. John Coles, the solicitor to the plaintiffs, was then examined. , He had paid particular attention to the obliterations on the bill. With the assistance of a glass he can make out to his satisfac tion the words " Accepted 24th March, 1820 ;" likewise part of the name " Robarts and Co." If, ,however, he had not been, so well acquainted with the circumstances of the case, he should not, perhaps, have been able to h ave rea d it so clearly. With that knowledge on his mind, the whole of it is quite intelligible. Mr. SCARLETT—" In-your mind's eye, Horatio." In answer to a question from the Jury, witness said, " I think I can trace the word accepted,' it being written in brighter ink than that used in the obliteration." Mr. SCARLET; for the defendants, contended, that the simple writing of the words was not le gally an acceptance : to constitute an acceptance there must be open delivery, acknowledging it as such. The COURT observed, that this was a point of extreme commercial importance, and although several times agitated, had never been finally decided. Mr. Scarlett would have an opportu nity of bringing it forward in another shape. Mr. SCARLETT continued.—lf such was not the case, a blot made by accident in the place where the acceptance was wont to be written might be so construed; or two bills, one for a large and the other a small amount, might be left at a merchant's, and the small one might he intended to be accepted, and the clerk by accident begin to write on the larger. Was it, in such a ,case, to be supposed that It could not be cancelled ? Ile must correct the statement of the Solicitor- General. He admitted the insolvency of the drawer, but averred that a knowledge of it was not possessed by the defendants till the 29th of March, consequently they were not induced to cancel their acceptance on this account. —lt was an allegation in the declaration, that the bill by such obliterations was ren dered useless, but as it was admitted that all the original writing was legible, that allegation could not be supported. The plain tiffs had their remedy against the other parties. On this ground, therefore, and the one he had be fore in:taloned, that to constitute an acceptance ... .:-. • N V - - ,• , < 4 .. :12' .5 C.;:., P 9 it , '.: .:''''' . ...... C there must be delivery as such, he rested his clients' defence. The only question for the Jury to decide is, is this any acceptance at all? The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury. It was for them to make their• own observations on the bill, and the evidence of Mr. Coles. If they thought (and there could in his mind be but little doubt of it) that the acceptance was ever written by the defenllants, they would find a ver dict for the plaintiffs. The Jury immediately returned a verdict, da mages 9901., with liberty to turn it into a special case or a special verdict. BIRCH AND-CO. V. CREEVE CLERK. This was an action of assumpsit upon 9_5 bills of exchange, amounting in all to about 9,5701., drawn by one William Birkes on G. C. Wright, and other' persons, accepted by them respec tively, indorsed by the defendant and by the drawer, afterwards indorsed to the plaintiffs. 'Fhe plaintiffs' case was confined to 19 of the bills accepted by Wright, the defendant's al leged indorsements on the others being of so doubtful a character, that they declined offering evidence to support them. This case excited very general interest. The trial lasted from one in the afternoon till eight o'clock in the evening. The case was in sub stance this :—The plaintiffs are respectable bankers, carrying on business at Stafford, two of them having a branch bank at Stone, in the county of Stafford ; the defendant (the Rev. Ottley Creeve) is a respectable clergyman, of large fortune, residing at Muton, in the same county. A person named William Birkes, car rying on business as a cheese-merchant and malt ster, in a large way of business, at Charnes Old Hall, near Eccles Hall, in the same county, had been in the habit of discounting bills with the defendant, accepted by G. C. Wright, of Salis bury Arms-yard, London ; but at length having some doubts of the'solvency of the latter person, they declined discounting any more of his bills, unless they were indorsed by some persons of known credit in the county of Stafford. In consequence of this Birkes, as was alleged, pro cured the endorsement of the Reverend defendant, a Gentleman supposed to be worth ,e 7,000 per annum, to Wright'skills, and the plaintiffs actual ly discounted hills to the amount of 9 or RlO,OOO for Birkes, all of them being drawn, accepted, and supposed to be indorsed by the defendant between the latter end of August and the latter end of December, 1820. It also appeared that Birkes had discounted bills to a large amount similarly manufactured, with Messrs. Sparrow and Co. bankers at Newcastle; and with Messrs. Broughton, Sprowton, and Garnet, liankers of Nantwitch. It was supposed that the whole number of bills so put in circulation amounted to near 840,000. Several of the bills discounted by the plaintiff had been regularly paid, but upon some of them being diThonoured, notice was given to the defendant in the regular way as indorser, with a requisition to take them up. This led to a disclaimer on the part of the defendant, that he knew any thing of any bills in circulation with his indorsement upon them,- and a declaration that if any had bten so circulated by Birkes they were forgeries. In the beginning of Janu ary last Birkes absconded to France, and from thence to America. The plaintiffs then brought the present action against the defendant, as indorser of the bills set out in the declaration. Anticipating that the defence intended was for gery, the plaintiffs relied upon the defendant's own conduct in the transaction, to shew that he could not be ignorant of the bill being indorsed in his hand. It was imputed to him that, after otice had been sent to him of the dishonour of two of the bills, be paid no attention to it until a week or ten days afterwards, but that in the mean time those bills were taken up by Birkes by means of the defendant's drafts upon Messrs. Lubbock and Co. in London, where the defend ant kept a cash account. It was further alleged and proved, that after this action was commenced he wrote an intemperate letter to the plaintiffs, reproaching them for their conduct in this re spect, imputing to them motives of avarice in pursuing him, folly in trusting Birkes,-declaring that he had never had any pecuniary transactions with that person since the 24th of June, 1820, and positively asserting that Birkes was a villain, and had forged his name, as he had discovered in a previous transaction with the Bank at New castle. To negative the contents of this letter, Mr. Vernon, the solicitor for the plaintiffs, and a Clerk in the house at Newcastle, were called, and they proved that after Birkes had left the country they severally waited upon the defendant, and that in conversation he ad mitted that he had indorsed two of the sup- posed forged bills then produced to him, but which had been paid ; that he had given Birkes a draft for 1001. upon Messrs. Lubbock and Co. and 'had also given Birkes a receipt for 1001. which the latter had deposited in his hands. He anmitted that he had' had an interview with Birkes on the preceding Sunday, and on being asked wlcy he did not cause him to be then ap prehended, he said he was not aware that he could be taken up on the Sabbath, and on being pressed why he did not . take steps for that pur pose on the Monday, he could not give any sa tisfactory answer. ather bills then produced, he positively declared to be forgeries. On the main issue in this cause, namely, whether the indorse ment of the bills in question were or were not forged, Mr. Hurle, pay-clerk in the house of Sir John Lubbock and Co., Mr. James Hoare, a solicitor of Lincoln's-inn, Mr. George Keene, a solicitor of Stafford, and Mr. George Bower, in spector of powers of attorney at the Bank, were called, all of whom, except the latter, from their PRICE SEVENPENCE. intimate knowledge of the defendant's hand writing, were clearly of opinion that the indorse. ments were genuine. The latter. witness also thought that they were genuine; but, on his cross-examination, he admitted, that all the l 9 indorsements appea:red . to be written nearly at the same time, in the same ink, and with the same pen. The defence set up was, that the indorsonents were rank forgeries; that Mr. Crewe was a gen tleman of the most honourable character and up right integrity, and incapable of making this de fence if the indorsements were genuine; that the only transactions he had ever had with Birkes, was in dealing with him for malt, for domestic purposes; that the promissory note alluded to was given by him to Birkes for malt so purchased ; or that the receipt alluded to was an acknow ledgement for 100/. which Birkes had induced him to take, for the purpose of lending it at inte rest for the benefit of the latter. To prove this defence, Mr. William Holt Davison, Sir J.'Chet wood, Mr. Crewe, the defendant's son, the Reverend L. D. H. Cockburne, and Samuel Lovett, the defendant's butler, were examined. The first 4 witnesses, who were intimate friends and neighbours of the defendant, proved that the indorsements; though extremely good imitations of the defendant's hand-writing, were upon a close inspection manifest forgeries. Mr. Crewe deposed, that his father never wrote his name twice alike ; that he was remarkable for using bad pens and ink, and that he generally mended his pens with a pair of scissors. His father never had had any dealings of any sort with Birkes, but in buying malt of him. That Birkes often wanted him, the witness, to borrow money of him, but he declined. The butler was called to prove that he had never witnessed two promissory notes, which Birkes had negociated, as the genu ine notes of the defendant, and supposed to be witnessed by John Lovett, witness's name being Samuel, and that he was unable to write. Mr. BENNETT, a solicitor, of Tokenhouse-yard, produced 10,0001. worth of Wright's acceptances, drawn by Birkes, and supposed to be indorsed by the defendant. These bills had been paid, not by the defendant, but by Birkes or Wright. Witness had been Wright's solicitor.—This was the defendant's case. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied with his usual ability.—The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case with minute particularity and—the Juay, after a few minutes' deliberation, fouud their verdict for the defendant. JULY 26. SPECIAL. JURY---ADDISON AND OTHERS V. FOSTER.. Mr. SCARLETT, for the plaintiffs, stated, that this action was brought by the persons compos ing the firm of the British Copper Company against the defendant, who is a dealer in copper, in Rateliff-cross, to recover a balance for goods sold in the year 1817. The amount claimed to be due was 3801. and upwards, but, owing to a . change of partners in the firm, only a part of this sum could be recovered in the present action. The objection which, according to the state ment of the Learned Counsel, had been set up to the payment of this balance was, that the de fendant had sold some copper to one Harvey ; a part of which, not indeed to the amount claimed by the plaintiffs, Harvey had sold to them ; and Harvey not having fully paid the defendant, he supposed that he could follow this cop per, or its value, in the hands of the plaintiffs. But, said Mr. Scarlett, it will be time enough to answer this claim when we see the shape in which it is put by the defendant. In the result, it was shewn this was not the defence on which de fendant rested ; for it was not touched upon by his Counsel, who seemed to rely on the difficulty the plaintiffs were expected to encounter in proving the whole of the persons named in the record, about 130 in number, to be the partners at the time the goods were sold. This, however, was proved to the satisfaction of the Court, not withstanding the great ingenuity and industry displayed by defendant's Counsel in raising and enforcing objections to technical points of law and matters of form, as well in regard to the partners as to the form of the declaration, which was simply for goods sold. Defendant's Counsel endeavoured to shew, as far as we could gather front the cross-examina tion of the plaintiff's witnesses, that the transac tion was in the nature of a barter or exchange; but the plaintiff's witnesses to this point dis tinctly stated, that they were to supply new copper at the price of the day, and to receive old copper in part payment, at a difference of price for manufacturing ; the balance to be paid in cash. It did not appear that the defendant had any objection to make to the correctness of the plain tiff's account; he, however, put them to the proof of the delivery, and price of the goods, in the regular way ; and they adinitting the defendant's set-off (as they had before given him credit for it), a verdict was found for the plaintiffs—Da mages 1911. ls. 4d. JOHN BENETT, Esq. M.P., is re-elected Presi dent of the Wiltshire Society for the Encourage ment of Agriculture; and W. TAYLOR, Esq. M.P. THOMAS EDRIDGE, Esq. M.P. and B. J. ANGELL, and W. W. SALMON, EsquireF, Vice Presidents. A few days ago CHARLES MARTLEW, game keeper to the Duke of RICHMOND, on firing at a rabbit, burst a double-barrelled gun, which tore his hand severely, but we are happy to say am putation is not deemed necessary. This is the second of his Grace's keepers who have met with accidents from guns within a very short period.