The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-11 00:00:00

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Comet:dew slimed by the Lord !Jettlenent of Ike Amity
4. Line°la.
To be Deputy.Llealesaats—Sir Edward Freed; Brombead,
Bart —.dated Aegis.' 7, 1822; Jobs Pyle's', E.q.—dated
August 16, 11122 y Gnome Illsomadake Alharms, Roq.;
Jobs Taff:sell, Fol.—boils dated as above; and William
Augustus Johosoo, Esq —doled August 29, 1829.
Coneetteetoseist the 2d Royal TOwer Hamlets Milli's, signed

by Ms Majesty's Cesumfasivesers etf Liegamasdey for the
Tamer Hand.l.l.
Adjuimet honer Wilkins to have Brevet reek as Caplets—
dated August 6, 1121.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Francis Dipper, of Worcester, silk. eresr.

tike last year; ;kerma piers Is. per cwt. lower
Clisette ovivege.
Pslsttatts amalgam le Vary lively demand, dad lite brat
qualily km Marxist alfairlisep:suliasee. of id per lb.
Rost.-The deputed kr spa bees brisk, bet nor last quo-
tattoos are all aapportqL
Ilsomoselr e&rii,o2l puncheons, and ;Mee of
People la. W. per gallon; r
Ditto same time last year 310.1919 panelmossa, and price o/
Proofs h. 44. p•• 108•11.
Caroa..-There bid Iskto souse in'q,:iiry for Trinidad fisr
espovistlimi ketitheesork klb'vfiry dtalt ; a parcel of cooli-
war Groom*a appearrd f0.1011.19‘ in today at 70s. to 745.
per set. 4 •
Dvswoona -Foe Jassakyl.Logirood Ile demised is nut
11,14; nark li dill aid lower • solid li!easagaa Wood is
8014 al 3111.perfon.
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• 4.IIIIIIERPODLIIPISPOST, Sswettassa 4.
TIN Garralf 'Bartel has •Itareo extreMaly • ast &iris, all
is. week, to emmeresee of Guthrie ;whim sales advertlsed
fui yraterday, winch, however, west briskly at au &dramas of
141.'per lb. ou Boweds and Alabama', and is some instatiem
at an impreverient is Orleans; the Demerara", which were
of middriog gosh% sold 111. • id. kW,' oar late currency
for Ibis draeripeion. The spiartity offered anti 8.801 Wet,
of whir* 7;483 bales were mird, yrs bowed, 3,918 sold 611. a
711. for to fair, 71.1. a 8,0. for good fair to good;
• Orgraas, 1114111,411. a 7.1 ordinary to iniddliog, 71.1. • 911.
. fair to good fairy • Alabama, 990, bid. a 644. Drama yto asl4.
Alias, Bid. a 7.1. fair Is good fair; Para, 90, 744. a 84. lord-
dhoti Miramar., 359, 714. very ',raillery, 84. a 844. oral.
airy to fair; Illiaa Nova, 23R, 611. file. The salts by pri-
vate are 3,830 bags, and consist of 1,200 Bowed at 64. a
744. • few ardinaer as bid. and good at Ild; 680 Orleans at
64d. a 10id ,• 340 Truss t 511. a 7J.; 430 Sea Island
' as 1044. sad goy at 194 a 24.; 190 Peromit at 911. a
. 1014., 180 Bahia at 9J. • 044 ; 370 Maranhao, at 811. a
944. ' • 110 Rare at 711. a 811.; 70 Demerara at 811. a 944.;
20 llarbedoes at 711.; 20 Carthagena at 64.1.; 20 Bourbon
at ltd.; making rhar 'oral sake of the week 11,360 bags.
There ass 00000 treed fi.r public sale on Friday nest 4,000
Bowed, sod Orleans. The import is 8,714 bags, vie. Deme-
rara 907, Wee India 338, New Orleans 792, C Is and
Charlastoa 1,441, other parts Moiled States 3,182, Brasil
2,174.

The quantity of British Plantation Sugar offered at ant-
Cm this week was only 800 casks, and ihongli we have bad
some order* for the Irish market, the sales ►are gene off
heavily, and at rather lower price. fur middling qualities ; of
the 1100 risks brought forward, about 000 were sold. White
Bengal Sagan have meld at full priers, viz. at 70s. a 725. for
middling to fair, and 745. 6.1. a 755. 9.1. for good to See
white; a few fine yellow have also brought 685.; at them
prices the grocers have taken 600 bags. In Foreign descrip-
tive' nothing is doing.. Demerara Molasses, of middling to
fair quality, ha* sold at Us 6J. a 26•. 9.1. We have had but
little besieges these is Roam Cuff-e of ordinary quality
continues very unsa!eable, sod as we have little of ether de.
seriptieee, scarcely say business bias been done in the article
privately: 50 tasks of very ordinary sod rank Jamaica were
forced of al suction yesterday at 765. a 89s. and one lot of
leerier taste at 50s. Pimento is steady, and a small parcel
of good moitity has sold at Bid. 0f 200 bagi of West India
Cocoa, without certificate, uifered at auction, • "mall part
sold at 40".11d. 1u Rice nothing material has twee done.
Them Nes beta • fair busineme dose fh Dyrwecids, at fall
-prises; wldOswiesseht Legaremil Ws tot welt 01. be ; Cuba
Filmic 91 Ills. Ild ; Spanish 71. 10e.; Spanish ard Cubs mix-
ed 91.; gelid Nicaragua WiLid 44g. • 411., and • parcel of
small 271. be. a. 301. los.
In Ash.. there is 110 alteration; Montreal Pot have sold
at 375. and Pearl et 42..64. Is Hides there are no 'sirs.
Fur Tubseeu there has been a fair demand (ions the trade,
at hest week's prier,.
Some coosideralde parcels of Irish Wheat have again been
brought forward for rile by serum, but nearly all withileawn
fur want of ride'.,,; market on the •bole has been dull.
Oats have sold on rather better Irma.
Turpeutine is steady; about 1,000 barely of good quality
have been sold. About 1,200 barrels Sieckholni Tar have
bees shimmed of at 16i. 3,1. per band. •
The bolded.% of Quercitron Bark have become more anxious
to sell; • small lot of Philadelphia was sold by 11111.111311 on
Monday at 123 6.1.; •nd y.sicsday 80 roles N. w York, and
120 Mids. Baliimeoe., both of good (lushly, IVti. offered, but
withdraw.; for the New Tod' only 10s. and fur the Balti-
more only 115.6.1. was bid.
200 bags of ordinary Sicily Shumne have brought 17s. 6d.
per eel. and small Ides of good Ws. per cwt.
Olive Oil has Leese mon• inquir►d for ; about 20 tuns or
Camba have been ►old at 50/.10 51/ per
In eoumqnence of 311 improved demand fur Tallow, the
attention of the tinele has been dirrcied to l'a!m (lit, nod
some imesiderside pu►cha*es have been made at 211. 10s. to
25/. per tun; holders now require an advance of 11. to 21.
per tun. Tallow his been in request, nod paces bare ad-
reseed Ulu 31. per eel.

OlL—The sermon!, rire.ved from Greenland and Davie
Straits art by no means ersod. but she lame murk of COTIIIIOII
0.1 prevents an isnmedimc advance. On the liras receipt of
the accosts's., vim!, 'tassel an averige of n'oput 60 tuna per
ship. she price of Greenland to arrive ruse so ¶231. n sited,
es whirls woe artless were made; but old could be houghs at
221. ■s ...loch 'lsere are scarcely aoy buyria. Lousaid Oil
is rasher higher; Rope OA lower.
MEDITERRANEAN, ere. PRODUCE..
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FRUIT —1 h. re id no alteration in the prices thia we. k ;
'69 radks of Currants from Trieste, .4 inferior quality, bare
be. is suhl by auctium at 101. W. to 1051. per cwt.

BRITISH STAPI.E ARTICLE.%

Rpm, VD St GAR —ln onlina.y large lumps at 75e. to 765.
per cwt. b.-rut •u rtivsolcs of dd. to Is. there hs• been lon.
'utterable lt•inevo done, aid SCarCely nay could have been
obtained wider 70..; in better yuali;i•s a itiv. to SO.. Owl e
has beta a little business dune. Least s are heavy if sale.

EAST INDIA PRODUCE.

'lYoico.—B• nettl c0mnt,.11,14 641 per Ih. advance on the

Mr. SCARLBTT, iu his address to the Jury, ob-
weed. that they had heard from ha Learned
Friend that this was a case which might be de-
scribed as rather of a sporting nature ; he much
regretted that he was not better acquainted with
the laws which regulated the diversion of hunting,
in order that he might be able. in language more
appropriate and suitable to the subject, to stale the
ease which the Plaintiff hail intrusted to his COlO
dila/ Me client, Mr. Ridgway, the gentkmsn
now sitting immediately before him, he knew to be
a man of character us honourable as that of any
individual iii this wealthy and populous county.;
he bad 'the advantage of being pesserred of an
ample fortune, and in the enjoyment of it had,
from the earliest period of his life, addicted himself
to the pleasures of the chase; but in such a way as
to produce the least possible inconvenience to every
one -*home property he had occasion to pass over in
the course of his diversion, fie had ever deported
himself in such a way, that not only hail every gen-
tleman in his neighbourhood been inclined to afford
him every facility; hut they had themselves been
most happy to -join him in the sports of the field ;
there was not a gentleman of rank or fortune, for
many miles round his residence, who had not felt
happy in granting him every privilege nsunl on the
part of one sportsman to another. Mr. Ridgway
had for many years kept an excellent pack of har-
riers in this county; before be had a pack of his
own he was a constant huntsman with the hounds
of Sir F. Standish, a sportsman upon whose celebrity
it was quite unnecessary to descant. A splendid
estate having devolved upon the Plaintiff, he iu his
turn became possessor of a pack of hounds, e'e-
n/2RO for their fleet mssl tothott formerly:
possessirgjActieon. flaring eeortre.the proprie-
tor 6f a pack of this kind, he had the privilege con-
ferred upon him of using the lands of the most consi-
derable persons around the neighbourhood where lie
lived. He had found himself most reluctantly
compelled to bring the present action, io conse-
quence of having experienced, while in the exercise
of that sport. a Lich lie had been for twenty-seven
years in the habit of enjoying, for lit least three
times a week, with that specie', lie would not say
of resistance, fur it would not be a proper term to
make use of, but with that sort of aggression and
sato. k upon his hound. which no line sportsman
could ever consider H. pardonable. The residence
of Mr. Ridgway was in the neighbourhood of Choi-
Icy, and he had the liberty of sporting over the
whole extent of ground between Bolton and Chor-
ley, including all the lands lying in the I in-
termediate townships between those two places it
happelied on the day specified in the declaration,
that lie went out with his hounds nod retinue as
usu el, and a hare was roan put up within the pre_
cincis of the manor of Chorley, chased and killed ;
that manor, he believed, belonged to a geotleman
of the name of Gtllebrand, at that time residing
abroad ; had he been here, lie was well persuaded
the grostssil for the present complaint never would
have exist.d. The game having been put up within
the manor of Cliorley, but in that particular part of
it in which Mr. Ridgway had no distinct or specific
liberty of hunting, lie called off his hounds its order
to prevent the cutnntirsion of any trespass which he
conceived might be considered as extra to his pri-
vilege. This occurred at a very early hour of the
morning ; yet, at this period, two or three of the
Defendants thought tit to make an attack upon
Lis !Imola while he was in the act of drawing them
otf, lir passed over that insult without notice, and
prectieded with hi, sport within his own preciocts.
Another hare was shortly after put up in the neigh-
bourhood of a piece called Duxbury Hall, which
was in a very short time run down and killed.
Another was put up. and pursued till it got
within the precincts of the manor of Chorley
it was to be noticed that it was not started originally
witlim that niaeor, tint had fled thither. it was

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• be boatsmen and people to follow the raw ;
Viet did re, and manually got into a cover seer the
plate where Mr. Wilkinson heed. The instot
Mr. Ridgwsy found the hounds had tot iatgia
wont or cover adjacent to Mr. Wilkinsotei managing,
Ire directed his linutsman to sound lila hugle.ge
draw the park away. Every one, at all acqusia,ted
w.th the sports of the field, must be perfectly aware
of the prempt obedience which lioundsinffri to that
well-known sound; no one was ignorant that the
-sound of the horn was the only way of drawing Of
hoends when in the act of pursuing their game. it
was just after the hounds bad received this warning,
that the circonistonces bad occurred *hid' had
given riselto the present action. The hounds were
retiring in the moot orderly mew, when. seetal
of the Defendants began to stied them in • way es
violent ai it was unwarrantable. One of the Dee
(endwise had • large bludgeon, which be actually
broke by • blow on the back of one of the houndr;
another threw stones at them ; a third, who had a
double-barrelled gun, fired twice at them; true it
was he could not prove that the gun was loaded, for
the dogs were not bit or killed ; but the infer-
ence was obvious, for gainekeeti-rs were not
usually abroad without basing their guns loaded.
Tine violence, however, was not thought sufficient.
A large and furious dog, which was usually kept
chained up, one let louse, and turned upon the
hounds, the Defendants exciting the dog to
.upon and worry the hounds. Our of the hounds
wus seized hold of by this dog and much injured,
and it was oat without difficulty the straggling
animal was extricated. Sevetal of the pack were
attacked in this way by the ferocious mastiff set
upon them; mid although they were ultimately
rescued, it was not effected without extreme exer-
tion and danger to those who interposed. All this
passed after the bugle had sounded. A. he had
before observed, every body knew that the most
effectual, and indeed the only way of drawing off
hounds, was by the well-known sound of the bugle.
At to attempting to molest them when in full
chase, it was • vain attempt, which no man could
make, unless from a wanton and malicious motive.
The fact was notorious, sod lie could adduce evi-
dence in support of it, that such was the eagerness
of houuds in pursuit of the chase, that there had
bein an instance of a bitch in a pack littering dur-
ing the hunt, and actually seizing her pups in her
mouth and continuing the pursuit. He iustanced
this in order to spew that hounds were not to be
diverted from following their game by any feeling
of pain, or by any infliction of external violence.
Now what was the excuse set up by the Defendants
for this outrageous conduct ? But lie :would first
observe, that several of the hounds were so much
injured that they were unable afterwards to join iu
the pursuit. These hounds had all their identical
names ; one was called Treachery, another Touter,
another Tragic, and another Tearer : in fact, every
hound in the peck sou drsiguated by its itio:.er
name. These four hounds ill particular had serious
wounds, of which they all bore the marks to th.s
day. They were obliged to have medicines adini.
nistered to them, and surgical operations performed
upon them. Mr. ltidgway considered this as an
unsportsmanlike proceeding; it was such as he
had never met with before, and he trusted he
should never meet w:th it again. He deemed
it right to inform Mr. Wilkinson of what had
occurred, for the Defendant's aervaots had in.
formed him that they had authority for their
proceedings. He could hardly suppose that any
gentleman would have given such an authority to
his servants. Mr. Wilkinson wrote him for answer.
that he had examined his servants, that they had
given a very different account of the transaction, and
that be should believe them in preference to any
oilier report. Such, said the Learued Counsel, was
the nature of the case. He did not mean is state
that Mr. Ridgway had brought the present action
with the view of recovering considerable 'damages :
but he was compelled to vindicate his rights if he
was to enjoy the pleasures of the chase iu the way
he had been used to do, and as nll persons before
him had beret accustomed to enjoy them. If lie
was to submit to an attack of this kind upon his
hounds every time the Defendants or other, thought
proper to make it, he would be subject to that sort
of aggression which Ito sportsman could brook ur
endure. Ile was, therefore, obliged to b:ing this
action in order to have the question decided between
bins and the Defendents, whether hounds, in pur-
suit of their game, were liable to be treated in this
manner. The justification was, that these hounds.
were in a close which, in one count of the defiant-
lion, was alleged to belong to Mr. Gillebrand, nett
in another, to Mr. Wilkinson. Iferbould prove
that the hare was originally started in another mi.
tsar. Sue° was the excuse made by the I.)eferid-
ants fur letting loose upou the hounds • large New-
foundland dog which had been conihntly kept

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