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COURT OF COM MOM PLEAS, Dre t.

Sillily id Nisi Pryor, 6eAre Lord Chit!' Justice
TURVIR f. ►IORGAII.

This was an action fora compensation in damages
for an assault. The Plaintiff is a kop-merchant.
residing in High-street, Borough, and the Defet,ns
ant a hop-fa/lot, residing in the same street.
Mr. S.rj.•+nt Best stated 7hp case on the pats of
the Plaintiff, which was corroborated by the evi-
dence.

It apeasirea, the Flaiutiff and Defendant are
neighbours 4 Plaintiff is a man fifty years of an.,
and of a great slue, very unwieldy; the Defendant
iseoesiderably younger, and cnnsiclered a very pow-
erful man. Mr. 1 inner dined with a person of
the name of 13anrein,nn the day the assault cons-
plaine.l of was committed ; after dinner he was
called not by a person on horseback, with whom he
had a little conversation ; he was seen talking to
Mr. Morgan a few minutes after, when one of the
witnesses heard either a gentleman who was along
with Mr. Morgan, or hirrikelf, say, ',Turner, you
had better go house," in a few seconds after he saw
Defendant push violen.ly against the rlaintiff, and
shore him into the carriage-road ; where, being of
great bulk, Is* rolled for some time, and when be
arose it was with great difficulty ; he appeared very
much agitated ; did not observe he was much hurt;
it appeared to him the push was evidently given
with an intention. Mr. Turner felt great pain in
rising from his chair, and with difficulty could walk
up or down atairk; he appeared much bruised, and
was confined for ten days or more to his house.
The Jury returned a verdita for the Plaintiff—
DAmiles 1001.

BA V LIT 0. V •RRISON.
This was an adion ►rought to recover 131. the
price of a horse sold to the Plaintiff by Defendant.
and we►raatsd sound, but which afterwards was
discovered to be usinund.

I: appeared the Plaintiff saw the servant of the
Defendant riding this horse, and, struck with his
figure, he inquired if his master would sell bins I the
servant answered in the affirreetive ;he took the liber-
ty to ride to Harrison's. to inquire the price ; when,
after sonic time, he bought the horse for 551. and gave
him a 501. check in paymynt, and a hawse valued at
251. St the titer of the purchase, there was no per-
son present, but Defendant warranted the horse; a
few days previous to his buying it, he took a friend
with him, under the premnce of his wanting to buy
horse, in whose pretence he declared the horse,
bought by Plaintit, sound %rind and limb, in every
reaped"; about a fortnight afterwards, having found
the horse was unsound, he returned him to Defend-
ant. who refuted to take him back.

William Beane, Livery Stable-keeper, Borough,
stated, the horse it. question stands at his stables;
was told there was a dispute about the horse ; Wit-
ness tried, and fc.und upon galloping him be roared
very loud, he also roared in trotting ; saw Plaintiff
and Detetidint at b:s :tables, the former said he
gave 301. and the horse valued by him at W. bat
isleich the latter valued at 2.4. Oa his cross-esa-
rnination, he said, the galloping produced the roar-
ing sooner than the trotting; Plaintiff mild Witness,
Defendant had warranted the horse, but which the
other denied.

Mr. Marsden. Veterinary surgeon, proved the
horse WAS a roarer; and said, the roaring was pro-
doted by the membrane, lining the wind-pipe,
being swoln ; so that when the horse was put in a
heat, and his lungs expanded, there not being suffi-
cient route for the admission of air, occasioned the
roaring, unless the horse had :lad a violent intlatm-
nuitton its the throat. De was of opinion the dis.
elder must have existeciat the time the horse was
bought.
Daniel Curran, who took the horse to Defendant,
proved his having refused to take him back.
A defame was set up, in which the unsoundness
of the horse was not disputed ; but that Plaintiff
bad bought the horse without his having got any
warranty ; and, at the same time, knowing he
made a noise when rode fast. A person of the name
of Fowler, who lives with Defendant, swore his
master desired him not to wurant the horse sound,
and also that Plaintiff gallopped him on Putney
Common, and heard the Noise be made, and asked
Witness what was the reason of it who told him
be aid not know.

The Cuuar pail very little attention to what
this evidence said, for it was clearly manifest he
stretched a goat deal.
The Jury returned a vcrdist for Plaintiff—Da.
sages 501. costs 40 shillings.

The anion for Crum. Con. brought by the Earl of
ELOIN Pe Mr. Fes oussoo, his sisaidest friend,
which beseeched so much attention in the fashion-
able world, and was expened to give a fruitful
theme to the eloquence tit the Bar, has taken a.less
sonspieuous course, the Defendant having suffered
judgment to go by default. The Sheriff's Jury
will, therefore, have to determine the raNilllll of
damages, very appropriately, in a a 1.., ~air.
It is said that Sir ROBLIIT WILSON, itt the dis-
guise of a Cossack Cort, was mint on one of
the occasions when the Emperor Aiszaavaa, the
King of Ps usst •, sad Pen AAAAA a, dined together,
end that he was also present, iu the same disguise,
at woe of the other meetings.
A will has lately been proved in Doctors' Com-
Moos, to which there are thine.. caveats entered.
This will be rare work for the Donors and Proctors.
On Saturday last, a bill of indictment was found
by the Giafid Jwy for hiitttlieses, against hart
MT—, a Magistrate of Dublin, for an alleged,
enntainesi in a letter from that city to.a
Gentia-
natQ residing near Pr.itlassel-plate. nisis •sate
lasaly similar to that of /edge Jonsson.

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NA rig. INTELIICENCE.

P•RTSUOUTH, D lc. I.
Nothing arrived nr sailed this day.
Came into harbour Ills Mnj,sty's ship Sharp-
abuoter.—W N.E.

rEvmour it, DEC

Came in the S,orp23, from a crotsr, with the
Giontar French privateer, her prize; Toting Etas,
an Americ4n.Deiano, from Ph,Lidelphia, tor Boar-
deraioe4 by the Emerald, for a breach of
Ivlockacie. •
Totteay. WIC. 7.

The wind springing up from th;eastvrard.this
morning, Admire) Lard Gardner, with the ships as
under, got under weigh and proceeded down Chan-
nel to resume their station off Ushant, •:z.— Ville
de Paris, Itiktat Grow. Texwoni.Sf. Wage. Dread-
AMA, Temerautt, C 114151118, of the Ism ; Bases hired
armed cutter.

DIAL, BCC. B.
Came dawn from the river His MAjesty's ship
Phersiz, and rem,sins in the Downs with the ships as
per last.—Wind N.W. •

AMERICA.
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FIRE AT FREDERICKSBURG. VIRGINIA.

Extraa of a letter from Misers. Thomas Seddon
arid Co. dated Falmonth; 19th 061ober We
shall probably be the first.to communicate to you a
dreadful calamity which this day Isefel Fredericks-
burg, at eleven o'clock, and during a severe storm
freeN.W. A fire broke out in the large house
upon the hill, formerly occupied by Mut Carter,
nearly -Opposite Mr. Patton's store, which soon com-
municated to the main street, and burnt every
house on that side of the street, at the corner below
Roses large brick house, rind destroyed every
house on,that side of the street, down as low as
J. 11. Rawlin and Co.'s. It burnt all the houses us
the river as low as the bank, which is now in flames,
with the exception of James Brown's dwelling-
house. Great fears are entertained for a great deal
of paper in the vault of the iciank, which was not ve-
moved. It is impossible at this moment to say the
damage that has been sustained ; 20a,000 dollars is
not perhaps too large a calculation. A great sum
for Fredericksburg. Adam-Cook and Henderson,
we are informed, are amongst the greatest sufferers.
This fire happened a few minutes before the great
race was to have been rani and of coarse few peo-
ple were at home, which added much to the loss that
most persoas have sustained."