The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-06-28 00:00:00

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SPOVTING IGENCINIL
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EIING--,Continued.
+UV% ri It ay,
Sweep.taket of meh, 45gs added Tw
'Xi., 14. Li:-Trlnetates Slate, 5 yr. old, 1 ;ft 7....
Mr. Woriaira Petzdy I{o .aged, 10. t. 11't. . $
1.4L4....0ket Mot tr yrs old, 9d' a
1.1 F. Eanitinet'. lbf.ainer, 6.),t I L. Sri H. Lipriss-,
ewes S'a'e. M tn. 3to I ovo 51dee.
IA V. &milli beat L. Ituolvt's &tango Parity
each. Two s.ltiodi 25g4,-6 to COY ligato ruklL •
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NEWCASTLE.
TLESDAY. .
The Kings Flare, for 4 yrs o! 1, 19.0. 4!lt 5 vet old, /fa; 63L..
6"yrt old, Mit. and Brawl 12. t. 2'b
Sir T. GascJigne'd g.. C. by lltlpiai, 4 vo.
Duk, of I !Atli:Wall b. c. Stmlerland, hl bt...r, 4re old .
Mr (lotion's br. e. Clevelsod, 4 y a 041 - 3
Two to I oa Sonde:lam', 4 t, I.agat. Ckseland, and 5 an 46 •
to 1 egst. the winner.
Fifty Pounds for home., Ste.--.Toor ),‘
Mr. N. R. Hodgamea gr. m. PrLellJ, by balenta. 5 yrs olsl.
rat. 1 Ilb. . • I
NI, Naomi& b. L. Brandon, aged, ilst. 71b.
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Six to 4 .Tri•litard in.
ITOLIKILIM SHELP-SHEA AU.
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THU< D DAY.
Oh Wednesday, by half-past ten o'clock, the
company had assembled very numerously, at Mr.
Coke's I sum-yard ; the carcases of the fat sheep.
,hewn :.live on the former days, and slaughtered
the preceding evening, were inspeCted, and their
'weights declared; viz. fbur South-Down Zwes as
follows:
%Vt Vise. Carew.. TaiLotr. Skin. Wool. t
Mr. Davis's.... 11.4 71!....7iit. 1 lib...lst. '
Mr. Blythe's—A Ist. lb ..70:010 ...Olt. 10.,11) ..91b..411b. •
Mr. Coke's 7 t. I
Dine .6st. lat. Sib.— &b.... 010.
By ere weight of the last carcase, Mr. Bell was
declared the winner of the Uweep.stQlss, foe rues.
sing i:s weight when alive.
Two South-Down fat Weather Carcases si7eared
as follows, Cz.-
111r.Punly',—C4-c se,Sit T.'!',w, 21,1 b. Slc'n, 911,.
Gtrur,4ca 7 3 I 2 7
Two fat New Leicester Weathers, arpeared as
follows, viz.
Mr.R-evOs—Car-rse, est. lb. Tallow, est. 1211 b.
Mr Visrdy's 11 9 --... 1 2 —ll
A herd of beautiful Devon Cow,, .seionging to
Mr. Ccke, were next inspe,fied. and were much
adntircd by the for their symmetry and
lightness of bone alt . The clippers wee,: now
proeceding with the', •s intended to be let h the
eve..inz., and which were previously examined is
their wool by the breeders and amateurs.
Mr. Powell, of Brsrentharp, shewed a ..::earling
South• Down P.am, against another belonging to
Mr. Dewings, of Castle Acre, in order to decide.
a bet between those gentlemen. The Judges act.,
pointed, decided in favour of Mr. ; and it
was regretted, that the excellent Tup which he me;
duced, was not entered as a candidate for
Coke's premium in this class of live stock.
The company now repaired to the field, to wit-
ness the trial of the a;'l icultural implements in.
spewed on the preceding day. The couch-harrow
perfermed much to the satistaftion of those present.
Mr. Pokey's orator succeeded very completely, in
gathering the conch-roots from a soil previously
pulverised. A scafiler, of cumbrous nuke. drawn
bT four horses, cut the land very deep on which it
was tried, but seemed more calculated. for heavy;,
wilt. A strong plough, for bottoming up hard dry,
land, was tried, and seemed, from the attention,
which Sir John Sinclair, ar.d others of the beet,
judges paid to it:, to be thought, with a rdigl.• Altera.
tion, a valuable implement.
Mr. Parkinson exhibited a scuffle., which was
tried ; but we heard no particular opinion expressed
Ly those who witnessed the trial.—The one-kora'
plough seemed to justify the expedation fowled off..
it, for stirring light lands.
About four o'clock, 170 persons sat down wiLla!
Mr. Coke to dinner, at the conclusion of which, the
Judges'repeets on the merits, f the cattle,implementei,
Sc:. produced by the several cand;dates, were read.,
ani silver cups were delivered to several ; the para.-,
culars of which we beg to dr kr till our neat.
In the evrniog the company repaired again to
the Fat m yard, to a sale of four Devon Heifers.
which sold for 10, 13, 13, and 15 gutiivits. respec-
tively.
Devon two-years old Bull was next sold for
23 unseat, sad another for 8 'guineas.
Three aged South-Dawn Tups were tl.en let for
the season, as follows:
No. 2. wli;c*, had c;i;yed 4:b. Ma. of wool I. 15 3 10
4 ditto . 5 6 . sl:tto 21
6 vitt* . 6 6 . duo 10 1J 0
Bit shearling South-Down Tops were let as fol-
lows :
No. 9. winch had clipped 3b. 6oa of 4/nOl L. 13 15 0
4 ditto . 6 4 . ditto 21 0 0
7 ditto . 6 I . ditto VI 0 0
10 ditto • 6 9 . date 13 13 0
II ditto . 414 . ditto Si 5 0
19 ditto . 6 0 . d•.% 19 10 0
This highly interesting jute, tonclUeei by a show
of some Merino Rams. belonging to Mr. Coke,
which gave grce satisfailion to all who knew thee •
importance of producing superfine or panish w 001,., ,
for ;he use of our broad-cloth utalufa& timers. About
nine o'clock, the comi..ny sepal ated, arilil Mr.: 7*
Coke's visitcrs returned with bin. to the Hail ; nest'
morning several of fie /swat, urn met off from thence
on a tour. in order to visit some of the peincit:al
Norfolk agriculturists, and theace to those et- Line
cohtshire, Yorkshire, Durham. and Norilsomber.
land, so as to arrive at Barmoor Castle, Co: scat of
Francis Sitwell. Esq• in time fur his S.-hertz-alum and
agi lultural 6'l Me.nday se'onight.

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Yesterday, at Merikiniour.s..ieet OLa, a NMI
of the name of Collier, was .tharged wi.i. reeretiag
11;i-tacit in A dael.ing house with a felonious intent.
Mr. Brown. C:.yrtiist. in Oaford. •reet, wAs string
in a back path-Air, on 'rno.s.,,y •,itect, with cis ta-
miiy, when a no.se was herd at the top of the
hothe, as if thiev., were. breaking in. Mi. Brown
went on to the Ira-it with a candle. And, after a
diligent search, disc”ver.d the Pt;,..,:scr. c..-raczeled
in a water-closet. The graoaer war tali, cern-
sui.ted for trial.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

coultr OF KING'S BENCIT—GemnuALt, JuKt :7.

ROBARTS and co. O. Dawson.
1 This was an action brought by the Plaintiffs,
. • Messrs. Bobatts and Co. Bankers, in Lombard-
' " street, to recover 401. being the amount of a hill of
acceptance, of the Deist-dimes, who was an attorney
of this Court.
It appeared, in evidence, that the Plaintiffs te-
..sceive‘: the bill in question, specially indorsed to
them among others, from the country; and in the
common course of their business, it was delivered to
Mr. Paine, one of their clerks, belonging to the So-
), ciety called Quakers, who, on the 27th April, 1805,
left it at the Defendant's house in Craven-buildings,
Drury-lane, for acceptance. As it sometimes hap-
pened that bills were not called for, for a day or two
after left for acceptance ; so in the present case the
bill lay for some time without being demanded, and
became due a day or two before the witness called
fee it. Having seen the Defendant, he asked for a
bill he lsad previously left for acceptance. The De-
fendant demanded whether it was a bill for accept-
ance, or a bill for payment he meant ; the witness
answered, the former, and described the bill in
question ; Defendant replied, that he had paid the
bill ; when the Witness observed, if so, he must
have paid it wrongfully, as it was specially in-
dorsed to the Plaintiffs, who had not signed their
names on it, and therefore it was irregularly paid.
[ The Defendant said, he would prove it was paid,
and proposed chewing his book for that purpose ;
but Witness declined it, considering it would be
no proof, and demanded to see the bill. The De-
fendant then produced a peat number of bills,
which he asserted were paid bills. and looked them
over carelessly ; hut the Witness observing the bill
in question among them, took it up, and faun.' it
accepted, but no appearance of any receipt, or other
lit discharge, upon it, He repeated, that it %sac nut
paid, and the Defendant then called in his servant-
maid, who declared, she could not swear to the
payment ; I.c then called a gentleman, who ap-
peared to be a lodger or inmate of the house, for
the time purpose, but he also declined speaking per-.
sitively. Having secured possession of the bill, the
Witness determined to keep it, and the Defendant in-
sisted he should give it up, threatening to call aeon-
stable to apprehend him as a robber, toe. ; bet, in
the sequel, he suffered the Witness to carry it away
with him, and the aaion was consequently brought.
On behalf of the Defendant, Sir V. Glass ob-
served, that mistakes might sometimes happen, but
it was rather extraordinary to leave a bill from the
27th April to the 24th May following (three days
after it became due) without calling fur it. The
possibility was, some other person bad got the bill
in the mean time, and it was paid when due. At
all events, it was not necessary to have the Plaintiffs'
indorsement on it, in order to make it regular, for
on the face of the bill, it apposed t 9 be made pay.
able to one George Harvey, or Order, and was in-
dorsed *, George Harvey" in Mama, without speci-
fying or directing papoose to any particular per-
son; so that, in point of law, any person whatever,
into whose hands the bill might chance to come,
might avail himself of the acceptance of the De-
fendant, and obtain payment. He had the book
alluded tot with the woman and the person who
were presented to the Witness at the Defendant's
house, hut he found it so great .s difficulty to prove
the atilual payment, the Learned Counsel declined
calling any Witnesses.
Lord Etta:4Bolmm' observed to the Jury, that
bowever true, in point of law, the Learned Counsel's
observation might be, with respell to the indot se-
bent. by George Harvey ; yet, the Defendant
might have resorted to other means to prove the
payment of this Bill; he might have produced a
corresponding draft on his Bankers for the sum, or
have :hewn it by some entry in his becks ; he might
at least give the same satisfaCtion then, that he did
to the young man, when be demanded the Bill, by
calling this woman, and the other person referred
to ; it was true, it might be inferred from the pos-
session, that there was a presumption, prints facie, of
the bill having been paid, but the burthen of pool'
in this part of the case lay upon the Defendant ; be
aught to have called those persons ; he might have
produced the leJger in which it was stated the en-
try of payment was made; if the bill had been paid,
be had the means of &hewing it in tome way or
other. Under all the circumstances, his Lordship
deft it to the Jury to say, whether, in their opinion,
the bill was paid or not ?
The Jury, after a short consultation, found a
verdia of 421. for the Plaintiffs.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
The trials of yesterday were of tl:e same nature
as en the preceding day, and equally uninteresting.
Two noted charaders were conratled of petty thefts,
and sentenced to 7 years transportation.
It was stated about three week, since, that a gen-
tleman of fortune, wbo is nearly related to a dis-
tinguished Nobleman, was held to bail for an unna-
tural attempt en the person of a soldier. The bill
wa, yesterday thrown out with dit„uirst. The gen-
tleman alluded to is of a noble family, and the
charge appeared altogether so inconsistent, that the
Jury had no hesitation in discerning the motive of
the parties. The gentleman was dreadfully cut
and beaten by the fellow who charged him with the
crime imputed to him, and who was then a sentinel
in St. James's Park.

A wager of five hundred guineas was made some
time ago, between the Gentlemen Florists of London,
and of :bridge and its vicinity, respetliag the finest
chew of Pinks. Tne,!ay last was fixed upon frir the
decision, and the shew took place at the lists, on
the Uxbridge-roads umpires were chosen from
among the most celebrated judges. The shew con-
sisted of six stands, with twelve blossoms of various
sorts ; three on each side. It was universally al-
lowed, that a more beautiful display was never wit-
nessed. After a most careful and particular scru-
tiny, the umpires decided in favour of the London
Flcrists. Mr. S rrrisens, a Gentleman •of great
celebrity, as an Ansattur of Flowers, proposed,
after dinner, in the names of the London Gentle.
men, to ewer Pinks the next season, for any sum
WA exceeding live hundred pineal, against all
Lngland.