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ties. They would not be of the Mullett interest
the public in general; and we, therefore, refrain
from lepolting them,
D Ye T TON v. CH END) ER.
re this cans which was instituted to rem/et the
value of a quantity rf Cheshire cheese sold to the
Dele,alant, the Court delivered their opinion.
The cause was at present its Court, on a motion
by the Defendant for a new trial. We stated it, in
its several stages, in former Papers. This day, the.
Lord Chief Justice M *a:se tame, after regretting that
the parties had nct settled the matter amicably, as
he had advised, declared, as his opinion, that a
new trial should be granted, and that the costs
should abide the event. The other Learned Jedges
concurred, and it was ordered accordingly.
COOPER O. THORN TON.
This was a motion to set aside a verdia, and ob-
tain a new trial. The anion, which we before
stated, was tried at Guildhall, before Lord Chief
Justice M A est lean. It was brought to recover the
value of a quantity of pork sold by the Plaintiff, as
agent for a Mr. Moore, a provision merchant in
Ireland. The defence set ap on the trial was, that
the pork was measley, and otherwise not fit for
use ; which the Jury, under the direetion of the
Learned Judge, believed, and found a verdia for
the Defendant. An application was made on a
former day, to set that verdia aside, on the grounds
of surprise, and on affidavits which conttadiCted
part of the testimony adduced by the Defendant.
Serjeant Bur, this day, on the part of the De-
fonclAnt, was heard at great length, in support of
the verdi&. He todeavourei to impress on the
Court, that the greater part of this pork was so
much tainted, and corrupted with measles, that it
could not be of the slightest service to any person.
He also urged, that the Plaintiff had waved all
right to a new trial, by taking back the pork, after
the verdia was obtained against him, and selling
some of it to another person ; and concluded, by
submitting, that the Rule Nisi should be discharged,
or else, that the Plaintiff should pay his Client's
costs, and take a new trial.
This proposition was refused by the Learned
Counsel for the Plaintiff ; and the Court, after
hearing some (umber arguments, signified their in-
tention of pronouncing judgment to-morrow. •

RECAI'TURE
BY AN EDINBURGH SMACK.

Capt. Curry, of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping
Company's smack Forth, on his passage from Lon-
don to Leith, on Saturday se'nnight, between the
book of the Gun Fleet and the sunk light in the Sw•in
was informed, by a light collier, that a French lug.
ger privateer bad taken a brigantine that morning.
and that both vessels were then within three miles
distance. The ForM being well armed, Capt. Curry
considered it his duty to attempt the recovery of the
brigantine. He accordingly, with the concurrence
of his passengers and crew, bore down to the brig-
antine, firing a few guns. as be approached, when the
privateer made of, and left her prize, with part of
her crew en board. These Frenchmen betook them-
selves to the brigantine's boat, which Captain Cony
observing, he fired at the boat, and the French-
men, in consequence, having hove to, were taken
on board the Forth, as prisoners. Captain Carry
took possession of the brigantine, which proved to
he the Jetta, of Sunderland, .T. Gibson. Master,
of about MO tons bind's:, with 17 keels of coals on
board, bound for London, the mate and two boys
only being left on board by the captors. Capt. Curry
dispatched the brigantine in London, and then pur-
sued his own course to Leith, where he arrived
safely on the evening of Tuesday, the 4th inst. with
seven of the Frenchmen as prisoners.
The prisoners say, the privateer belonged to Calais;
that she mounted 14 guns, and had 64 men en board;
was six days out, and had taken no other prize. The
Jeno was twice boarded by the privateer—the crew
of the latter were repulsed in the first attempt ; but
in the second, the brig's crew, overpowered by num-
bers, were obliged to submit; one of them having
been killed, and another badly wounded. Four of
the privateer's men it is said were killed, and several
wounded, before the brig struck ; and, we are sorry
to have to add, that one of her crew was wantonly
shot by a Frenchman after the brig had struck
and was in possession of the captors.

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A most formidable conspiracy among the Negroes
at Trinidad has lately been discovered, and pre-
vented. A letter from that Island, of December
18th, gives the following particulars:—" A pit to
renew the scenes of St. Domingo has been providen-
tially discovered, and martial law was proclaimed
again on the 14th instant. It appears, that, under
the pretence of forming Bamboo/as, different regi-
ments of slaves had been secretly organized ;
Generals, Staff Officers, Judges, &c. were appointed;
the rnoct horrid oaths taken, and Christmas Eve
filed for the execution of the plan. One of their
meetings was to have been held in the Carinage
Bay, in a place which the Negroes had secretly
cleared. They were to have sallied forth at midi-
night, passed La Cbancellerie, Rechazds, 5ua6.1114
buts. set fire to all the plantations in that neiglsonr-
hood, and exterminated all the whites. While this
was doing irk that quarter, the town was to have
been fired, and the same assassinations to have been
committed. The like scenes were to have been
perpetrated at St. Joseph's, and in every other part
of the Island at the same hour. Thank God ! their
black Majesties, with their Officers, and Nobility,
are arrested, mid the criminals are to be tried before
the Governor and Council, and executed ander their
sentence. The trials commence to-morrow. We
arc all on the alert, and sleep with doors and win-
dows barricaded, pistols loaded, and horses saddled.
Guards are posted round the town, and great vigi-
lance ordered."
The Ilann44. STOAT, from NewYorlc, for Mar-
tinique, was lost, off Bermuda, on the 30th of No-
vember ; crew, and part of the cargo, saved.
On Wednesday, an inquest was taken by T.
Scwet.z. Esq. Coroner, at Ryde, on the bodies of
two soldiers of the 22J Regiment Light Dragoons.
Verdief —Thed f 1 crsiiw e Driokinci It appeared,

that an Excise officer, belonging to Ryde, hat seizcd
a puncheon of rum at Nettlestone, which is suppo-
sed to 'rare washed ashore from the /sakelle West
Indianian, stranded on the Dean Sand ; that the,e
told ers, with F.-e others, assisted him, ant drank
much ruin. as 141 occasion their death.