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PARISIAN FASHIONS.

The head-dresses in hair have not been lately very nu
We observe a great many satin turbans, come of which are
wrought in silver. The white or rose satin Polonese mobs, with
a high crown, flat at the top, arc trimmed with swansdown, and
those of the bee-hive shape, of white crepe, have succeeded to
the velvet mobs with draper..., s. We begin to see some mobs
of a very round shape, which fit close to the head. They are
made of rase or white satin, more or less puffed. Short dot:d-
irges a-e either rose or white in equal number, and are alwa.•s
tri:nrocd with swansdown. The fashion of turning np the leaf
of the hats is not an general as usual. tiers are no more co-
loured feathers or flowers. The hair is stM worn in long curl;
upon the forehead. Sometimes there are pendant ringlets be-
fora and behind the eirs. With the exceptirin of the Cache-
mire shawls, all the shawls are square, with tassels at the
angles, breaths, and four golden flowers. Most of them are
red, or flame-colour purple, or inclining to Amaranthus.—
The men of fashion wear upon a very fine drab riding cost a
very narrow collar, falling bsck, and very narrow lapels. The
drab shaggy riding-coat> have either a single loose falling collar,
or five cc:outs in successive stagts.

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agNcitt WESTAINSTER, Frs. 13
&luny aftcr Tl7lll, kfore Lord ELL EN BOIIOUOII.

st4ITH V. KELLY.

( A Cause recommended to tlw perusal of TraAestnen.)

Mr. Gait no% stated, that the Plaintiff was an up-
holster& in Brokers-roar, Long Acre, and was also
a dealer in spirituous liquors; and the present anion
he had brought was one among many others, which
:hewed the facility with which tradesmen
.parted
with their goods. With regard to the Defendant,
Mr. Kelly,. he hardly knew how to describe him.
He had 'obtained property of the credulous Plain-
tiff, by pretending to be a Hamburgh merchant of
splendid fortune, who hid taken a house in Brian-
ston-street, with a view to furnishing it in the first
style of modern magnificence. He was one of that
class of customers, whom Mr. Oakley, the proprie-
tor of the celebrated Magazin de: Mode:, had, upon
a memorable trial, described them as persons who,
from the extravagant nature of their order, were
possessed of large property, and would pay liberal-
ly, nay, lavishly; or were swindling adventurers,
who would not pay at all. Unfortunately for the
Plaintiff', the condut of the Defendant rendered the
latter description more immediately applicable to him.
He had been recommended to the Plaintiff by a
Mrs. Fisher, and assuming the air and consequence
of a man of fortune, he ordered about him, and be-
spoke articles of furniture which were worthy to
have adorned the Maison de Plain:nee of the most
luxurious Princes. The Plaintiff, conceiving him
perfealy responsible, trusted him to the amount of
near 8001. He also gave him Credit for wines and
liquors for the entertainment of himself and his
guests. Shortly after, the Plaintiff, to his great as-
tonishment, found, that the sci-dirnnt Hamburgh
merchant had been attested, and was incarcerated
in the King's Bench pristm. He therefore thouht
it necessary to lay a detainer against him. lie
should prove his case, which would .entitle him to a
verdia ; but God do him good with it, for it is a
thousand to one if he ever received a shilling of his

money I
The Plaintiff's apprentice proved the various
items of the charge against the Defendant.
Mr. ERSKIN E: said, he was not instrueied to infer
that the Plaintiff was not a very fair and honour-
able tradesman ; it was only his duty to contend
that this aftion had been prematurely brought.—
With regard to his own client, he wai not personal-
ly acquainted with him ; he was represented to him
as an Harnburgh merchant. The Defendant had
been acquainted with a Mrs. Mary-Fisher, who had
dealt with the Plaintiff: she had recommended him.
The Plaintiff, oa being applied to, to furnish his
house, made him this proposition in writing :
" Sir, I shall be glut to furnish a house fcr you at any
time on this condition—to be paid one-half within six
months after the furniture is put in the ho'e, and
the other half at the end of the next six months,
making in the whole twelve months credit."-s-A
tradesman was at liberty to make what terms he
pleased; he might offer to sell his pods for ready-
money; but surely after he had agreed to give credit
for a particular period, and had delivered his goods,
he could have no pretence for arresting the, body of
his debtor, till that period was expired. The Plain-
tiff having delivered the furniture under this agree-
ment, afterwards subscribed to the follewirg ads
justment : " Settled by two bills, one at three, the
other at nine months ; the wine account settled by
a bill at two months." Bills were drawn according
to the purport of this settlement, and the Plaintiff
paid them away ; notwithstanding which, he had
lodged a detainer against the Defendant before their
currency was expired. If a man sold goods upon
a specific credit, and bills of exchange were given
for them, he could not possibly make any demand
till those bills became due and were dishonoured.
Lord ELLENBOROUCPII. Were the bills accepted ?
Mr. GA snow. There are none in existence, nor
ever were.
Mr. Easitina said, he should prove they were
given and paid away, and that they were carrcnt at
the time the adion was brought.
Mrs. Mary Fisher said, she kar.v the Plaintiff ;
she had dealt with him, and paid him 1001. for
goods purchased. She stated, that the Plaintiff had
delivered the furniture to the Defendant on the
terms mentioned in the agreement. On her cross-
examination by Mr. Garrow, the said, she knew bills
of exchange had been given for the amount. She
was not present the whole of the time, but she was
certain the bills were drawn ; she saw them laying
on the table ; she did pot read them. Having dealt
with Smith, and had a slight accittainuar.ce with
Kelly, she had recommended the latter as a good
customer. The 1001. she had paid was her own
money. She was not born without money ; she
came of creditable parents ; she had been acqaainted
with the Defendant some years, but had not long
lived under the same roof with him. He had been
abroad, and of course she could not have lived
with him. He was nop in the King's Bench.
She had an apartment of her own, and did not
live with Mr. Kelly. She never represented her-
self as his housekeeper, but only a; his acquaint-
ance 'and friend. She never appeared as the
mistress of his house. She could not say how
much the Defendant got for the goods when they
were afterwards sold by auction by Mr. Phillips.
They were sold about five or six months after they
were delivered. Mr. Kelly was a Gentleman, and
had plenty of money. She was not of his parties.
Mr. G ARROW observed, the Defendant might well
have money, when he defrauded a tradesmen out of
8001. worth of goads, and immediately sold them
by audion.
The first agreement was offered as evidence, but
net being stamped, it could not be received.
Mr. GA alow, in his reply, said the forms of the
law were happily calculated to do justice, and the
Jury would be &lad that the Plaintiff's demand
could not be defeated by saying that he had re-
ceived something not worth a shilling—the worth-
less paper of a man who was a prisoner in the
King s Bench prison. The fat was nothing more
or less than this : the Defendant was a pretended
Hambro' Merchant, whom nobody knew, and of
course whom nobody would trust ; wishing to fur-
nish a house, in order to dispOse of the articles as
soon as he got possession of them, he had availed
himself of the introdation of a handsome, dashing
lady, with a muff, tippet, laced spencer, and the
other. paraphernalia of fashion, whd had previously
purchased goods for which she had paid ready-money.
The honest tradesman, dazzled by the bank-notes,
and the reputable name of Abrahun Newland, Ile-

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Mir offi usual St rd, 'kW; was the ual COune of
thoic who nt to Wtraiii : they regularly paid
for the 'first articles they purclmed, in order that •
they might get &edit for otbei— fl,r which they ne-
ver meant to pay. The Learned Counsel strongly,
and with a good deal of apparent proha.iiilitv, in-
ferred that the 1001. had lxvit paid by Mrs. Fisher,
with no °the; view than that of iaducing. the Plain-
tiff to
_give eiredit to her subsequent recommenda-
tion of the Defendant. He contended, that when
a tradesman agreed to take a bill for six or twelve
months, that the bill tendered to him ought to be
such a one as'he could itrimediately carry to the dis-
Count market. . .
It appeared; that notice had been • given by the
Defendant to the Plaintiff, to produce the Bills of
Exchange; but as it turned out they were Notes of
Hand, and not Bills of Exchange, te notice was
deemed insufficient.

Lord ELLassoutountt observed to the Jury, that

it did not appear the proposition of the Plaintiff had
been acquiesced in on the part of the DEfendant—
this was necessary, in order to make it mutually
binding. If it had been assented to by both par-
ties, then this aflion had been brought too soon ;
but if not, the Plaintiff was in the onilnary situation
of a creditor, having a right to maintain an anion.
It did not appear with any degree of certainty,
whether any Bills of Exchange had been given.
The Jury, without the least hesitation, returned a
Ardia in favor of the Plaintiff; for the whole of his
demand, amounting to 7731. and the verdia seemed
to give general satisfattion.

OLD B4ILET.

FEBRUARY 20.
/VW: rr BEAUMONT HCTIIAM, lint. Sir St moN LE
BLANc, and Sir ALAN CrIAMBR/E.

Captain Pearce, and Miss Mary Yoh7lloll, were
brought to the bar to take their trial Mr. CoNst
made a motion to the Conrt to defer the trial, upon

the affidavit of the Surgeon who attended the per-
son wounded, which attested that the health
of his patient was not sufficiently restored to
enable him to attend. The Court, on this represen-
tation, ordered the trial to be deferred until the
next sessions ; ordering the prisoners to find bail in
two sureties of 2001. each and four of 501. each.
Lane was indided for stealing a gold watch,
six silver table-spoons, a tea-pot, and other valuable
articles of plate, the property of John Salkens, John
Rupee and George Rupee.
Mr. Consr, as Counsel for the prosecution, stated
that the .prisoner at the bar had lived for some
length of time, with much credit, at the house of
Mr. Hill, a pawnbroker and silversmith, at Cha-
ring-cross ; the young man, during that time, be-
haved in a manner highly satisfaCtory to his master,
and was considered as a valuable and trusty servhnt.
Upon the death of ,Mr. Hill, the executors, (the pre-
sent prosecutors.) continued the prisoner in his em-
ployment as shopman, and from his charatter, re-
posed the greatest confidence in his honesty and
sobi iety. It happened, about the middle of De-
cember last, that the servants of the house were
surpriztd by the appearance of a lady, who came to
visit the prisoner, whom they had never noticed
coming before. She was, on that occasion, treated
with every mark of distinction the young man could
caverns. The best wines of Madeira were brought
for her refreshment ; and, in short, every de-
licacy that could be produced was set before her.
Such conduit in a person, who was supposed by the
family to have no visitors, created a suspicion,
which was but too truly confirmed by the succeeding
circumstances. A short time after the first visit, a
coach drove up to the door with the same lady in it;
the prisoner immediately left the counter, and went
into the coach. Mr. Salkens then ran out, and
accused her of seducing the young man, and of
taking various goods from him at different times.
The lady protested her ignorance of such behaviour,
left her address, and went away. The prosecutor
then made application to the prisoner, and promised
not to prosecute him if he made an ingenuous con-
fession of his condua. He then told them of many
circumstances that confirmed their suspicions, but
on a full enquiry, they found they hadinot received
the information they expected ; in consequence of
which, they went to the house of the young woman,
and on making a seardh, found the duplicate of a
watch, six table-spoons, and other articles, their
property. The prisoner was then taken into cus-
tcdy.
John Salkens, the prosecutor, stated that Mr.
Hill, the original proprietor of the shop, died about
the ttOth of Oaober last, and that the business had
since been carried on under his direaion. He knew,
the prisoner, who had lived four years and a half
in his late situation. On the 15th of December, Mrs.
Mills, the Lady, came to his shop. The prisoner
got over the counter to speak to her, while she was
in the coach. He had regularly entered the watch
in his books, with the other things he found at her
house.
On being cross-examined by Mr. Knowtry
counsel for the prisoner, it appeared that he could
not swear to the spoons, or give a regular account
of the entry of the watch ; all he knew about it was,
that there was such a watch belonging to his stock
in trade. He asserted, that he had never promised
to be favourable to the prisoner; on the contrary, he
had observed, that he would give him a halter.
Mrs. Mary Mills said, she lived at No. 6, Suffolk-
street. She received a watch of the prisoner ; he
gave it her. She became acquainted with him soon
after the opening
.of the theatre ; he also gave her
several other articles, with a tea-pot and stand,
which she had agreed to purchase. The watch she
sent by her servant to a pawn-broker's, and received
a :duplicate for the sante, Oil the 15th of Decem-
ber. She was not certain, whether her acquaint-
ance commenced with the prisoner before the death
of his maker.
Elizabeth Drew, servant to Mrs. Mills, went to
the house of Mr. Norris, a pawnbroker, with the
watch to pawn. She received a duplicate, and 101.
which she carried to her mistress.
Mr. Norris, the pawnbroker, remembered the
watch being pawned on the 15th of December, he
had kept it in his possexsion ever since ; it was No.
100, made by John Macnedy. The prosxutor
swore it was his property.
The evidence for the prosecution being gone
through, a number of very respectable witnesses
were called in behalf of the prisoner, who gave him
the charader of an honest man.
Dalton liox Ham summed up the evideace, and
direfted the Jury to give their decision according to

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• tfli-ximeler R9irrtion was indicted for stealing a
slytwl, the property of Catherne Menile ;
Tattier was indided for receiving the same, knowing
it to be•stolen.
The Prosecutrix was returning from the Theatre,
on th 7th of last December ; she had just pzssed
Exeter 'Change, when Robertson snatched away har
shawl. She asked him to restore it again, but he
refused .; she then applied to a Mr. Morgan, who
wei.t after itobertson, down the passai.,,e leading try
wards the Savoy, and ordered the
.prisoner Tucker,
who was a watcham, to take him into custody. On.
his refusal to a 6 so, Morgan called for assistance,
and had both the prisoners 'searched. ' The shawl
was found in the possession of Tucker.;in t Drse-
queuce of which they were both taken into cut-
todi.
The prisoner Robertson was found guilty Of
stealing tinder the Value of len-pence ; Tucker
was Acquitted.

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