The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN. AL► 4.

COURT

His Excellency the Earl of Hardwicke held a
Privy Council at the Castle. on Tuesday last, and
transaded a variety of Business. A Proclamation
was direded to be issued allowing the import of
cambric; in neutral vessels under certain regulations.
The Fever Hospital anJ House of Recovery, the
first of the kind ever built for the specific purpost
in this country, was opened for public exhibition,
complete in all its apparatus, and futniture for re-
ceiving patients, on Tuesday, the '24th ult. His Ex-
cellency the Lord Lieutenant, who had laid the first
stone of the building on the 24th of April, 1802,
was graciously pleased to attend on this occasion
also; and expressed the highest satisfadion at every
part of the buiLting, and all its arrangements. The
concourse of visitors of all classes, from the highest
to the lowest, on every day since the opening, has
been immense.

The sanguine friends of the principle of such es-
tablishments propose no less object than the utter
extirpation of the Typhus Fever.
It is but justice to the benevolence of that •irtu-
ous and exemplary people, to mention, that this
great and humane institution originated with, and
arose to its completion under the direction and pa-
tronage of tire• Quakers of thi- metropolis.

LAW TATELUGENCE.

ROM's BENCH, Wagreeter ~,,, MAT S.
WRIT OF ERROR.
MILTON V. CI. AFTON.
This was an itaion brought on a Policy of a Ship
Insurance, and was tried before Lord KEN visa when
a verdid was given for the Plaintiff; a Writ of
Error was obtained, and came on this day to be
argued. The ship in question was caned the
Woman, and warranted a Dane. On her voyage
she was taken by a French privateer and carried
into Senegal, where she was sentenced tti condem-
nation by the Prize Court of that country; the aetion
was brought against the Underwriters to reenter the
amount of the Policy of Insurance, and a verdict
was obtained for the Plaintiff, as already mentiOnetl.
Mr. JENNINGS, on the part of the Plaintiff, argued
the point at very great length. He contended that
to make a foreign sentence conclusive, the special
ground of condemnation should be distinaly set out
by such sentence, and not inferred by argument ;
the Learned Counsel cited a vast number of eases in
support of his argument.
Mr. l'a argued tlisa case on the part of the
Detendaut.
The Court, conside-ing it a case of great import.
ance, and which required mature deliberation, post-
poned their opinion till a future day.
611INCHIN AND OTHERS V. MOMENT!.
• Mk was a Writ of Error to a judgment in the
Court of Common Pleas, And the declaration con-
sisted of various counts, fou'tded on promises made
uhon debts due to the deceased, and promises made
to executors; and upon promises made upon con-
traits, made with the executors themselves. Thit
question was, whether the Plaintiffs had not joined
causes of anion, which were distina and differeat ;
and the Court being of that opinion, judgment was
obtained for the Defendant—Nisi.
MAGA It Row moved for a writ of a rtmwari, its
the case of the King against Paget. The informas
tion stated, that the Defendant, with his father.
went into certain grounds to shoot rabbits, and being
apprehended, and not able to give a satisfaaory ac-
count of himself, the Magistrates were warranted to
consider him a rogue and a ratrakend; and under the
Statute of the Vid of the King, he was conviaed
and sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, to
be wnipped, and at the expiration of that term, to
go into His Majesty's service, it being the first
offence, and the sentence considered much too severe,.
' a conditional rule was granted.

WILSWI ;. GRENVILLE.
This was an acliun brought against the Defen-
dant for refusing to accept a transfer of stock sold
to him on the sth of May, and to be delivered on
the 25th. It appeared the broker WAS ordered to
sell the stock in ti:e name of Mr. Wilson, and at
the same time he had stockibelonging to Mr. Arai:,
Wilson's partner he was to have sold 50001., to
Grenville, and subsequent to the contra& made with
(re trine, he agreed to sell 50001. more to one
Webster : the stock was transferred to Webiter,
when he came to deliver Grenvillti his !tart it was
somewhat deficient, upon which Grenville refused
to accept it. The Plaintiff was nonsulted. and Mr.
GA R ROW came to shew cause against the Rule for
setting aside the nonsuit.
Mr. EVKINE an Mr. Gins, contended on the
part of the Plaintiff for a new trial ; and Lord Et.-:
ENBOROUG conceiving there were some points in
tile case which should be ascertained, granted the
rule for a new trial.

(OMIMf•JN PLEAS, WlllW•Ng.til.
The Court WAS occupied in he.tring arguments
urged by Mr. Serjeant Witt.' sis, relative to the
legality of a stamped deed, in a eaw that does not
afford the least public interest, after which it rows
at an early hour.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Mr. Layscrz applied to the Court for a rule to
shew cause why the proceedings a'ainst a maltase
at Brentford, who had been conviCted of certain
penalties to a large amount should not be quashed.
By the affilavit of Samuel Rash&eld, a Col-
leCtor of Excise, it appeared, that the maltster had
begun to make a co.isiderable quantity of malt,
without having the necessary licence, and had re-
moved near b(Ou quarters off his premises, the
whole of whieh had been seized. As the ground of
the application, it was stated that the excisenran's
artarvit had misrepresented the quantity of malt
removed, also that the maltster had begun to make
the malt under a mistake. The Court were there-
fore called upon to restrain, by their jurisdietion,
the proceedingsbetween the parties.
1 he Court considered the motion such a one as
had never been made before in that Court, and ac-
quiesce,/ in not granting a rule.

Tuesday night, about half past nine o'clock, as
Lieutenant-Colonel Goa e was returning from
Bristol, to his house at Brislington, on the road
between Mr. MA Xis:'s and Kensington-place, he ob-
served two stout men qaitting the footpath to come
towards him, upon which he warned them to keep
off, as he was armed. Shortly after, however,
they rushed on him, seized his horse's bridle, and
one of them holding a pistol to his breast, demand-
ed his money. The Colonel immediately drew out
one of his pistols, but in attempting to fire, it lashed
in the pan : in taking out the other it fell to the
ground. One of the fellows then stepped back, and
said, Now, d—mme, I'll do;for you, Sir," and
prepared to fire; but being now defenceless, the
Colonel clapped spurs to his horse, which, be-
ing a spirited animal, sprung with violence from
the hands of the foot-pads, and carried him in
a few minutes sate home. Colonel Goat, having
re-loaded his pistol, re-mounted his horse, and
with some attendants, went in quest of the
men. On coming to the spot where he was at-
tacked, he found the pistol he had dropped, but
the fellows were decamped, and he could get no
account of them. Had the Colonel's pistol gone
off, the villain must inevitably have lost his life, as
the muzzle was within a span of his breast, and it
was loaded with a ball a- ' ' '

posed they are the same
se'nn;ght stopped a gem'
post-chaise to Bath, on

treAted them in a very bt

rifled them of more lbw

And buck-shot. It as sup-
ime persons who on Friday
ideman and lady going in a
in Brislington Common, and I
brutal m inner, alter haring
in a rQ•indi in ca..l