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PDX v. VI.IItC,XXIL aid OTHERS.
This Muse came on upon d-murrer to the De-
'Os fendant's answer 'rise bill was filed for an ac-
t count. discovery, &c. and charged the. Defendants
with confederating in deprernarkg the value of cer-
N taro articles in the foreign 1114:ket, to the Plaintiff's
injury, &c.
Tl.- is cause arose out of several transactions in the
fur trade. An agreement was entered into by a
number of persons, about the year l7Bi, and several
ship.. were fitted out, in order to carry furs from
Nuocka Sound, and other pasts of North America,
in order to supply the rtapettive markets of Russia
and China. The Plaintiff was a party in this ven-
ture, and charged ate Defendants with various ads
subsequently done by them, in order to depreciate
the ;wide i:t the foreign market, and by these
ph.adisigi the Defendants were called upon to set
forth the number of ships, of what description,
tonnage, &:. ; at wuat port arid porta, &c. they
were titted out ; also when, where, and how they
traded for skins in North America and elsewhere,
and what quantity, &c. ; and also the number of
sea otter skins imported into Russia and China, and
what port or ports the same were so imported.
&c and the quality and prices, &c. during along
period of time; and further, haw many and what
were the edifts published by the Emperor of Russia,
or by the Emperor of China, prohibiting or encou-
raging this trade, er how otherwise, &.. &c.
The LORD Cis ancet. toa, after looking over
these pleadings, and repeating some parts aloud,
observed, that this Bill reminded him or a ease be-
fore Lard Ashburne, upon a question of the sea- ss or-
airless of a ship, where it was stated, that there
had been a quantity of rats on board, and it was as.
serted that the leaks were stopped by the rats' tails,
and the party was called upon to set out in his an-
swer, the numbet of rats on board. and whether
they hail tails or not, and oilier triaing and irtele.
rant matter. His Lordship, therefore, could not
VA the prh.644lity of answering may of the allega-
gaiioos in the elauniff'. Bill
The Soticiros-Goiteaat, Mr. Paacevat, and
Mr. Coolie. contended, at consideraaLe length, that
the Jemuirei was bad, in as much as it should have
set out the particular allegations in the Plaintiff's
bill, to which the Defendants were to give their
sows:, and many of which were wholly irrelevant,
and not be.sring at all upon the merits of the case.
Air. LEAC et, on the other hand, supported the de-
murrer ; and with respeft to the merits of the case
its:lf; said, that it was of great importance the al-
legations alluded to ',mold be fully answered, as he
should hereafter show, when the ruerit. of the case
came to be discussed. And, with respell to the
form, in point of law, it was quite sufficient
The Loa o Ctia scsotoa said, that before he
would pronounce a judgment upon this case, he
would loos attentively over all these voluminous
pleadings, many ofwilich appeared to him frivolous,
irrelevant, and wholly impossible to be answered;
at the same time he did not wish to shut the Plaint-
iff out of any benefit which he might derive from a
more paticuias answer to lus bill. This being a de-
nim ter 1 # a discovery, lie certainly would look at
it with a very jealous eye. He observed, however,
that calling upim the party to set out how many
otter skins were imported into Russia and China,
from all parts of the world, for a long period of
tune, was a thing totally impossible.
The cause, consequently, stands over for judg-
ement.

HOPI CMG or.

HOESHAM. MONDAY, MARCH lb.
The LOAD CHILI BAnooi and Mr. Justice HEATH
opener their Commission for holding the Assizes,
this morning ; and, after hearing Divine &nice.
pr.sceechci to the business of the County.

CIVIL SIDE.
7aaraa r. tic% loto.
This was an aclinn for slander, between two men
in business: the Plaintiff. e tobacconist, in PA-
WL And the D-fendant, a tradesman in Brigh-
ton. They hod a dt.pute, at the latter place, last
summer, when the Defendant, to induce a Magis-
trate to bind the Plaintif to keep the peace, used the
following words:—"• He is a chmgerous man, and
I know that he drew a knife upon a Mr. Hill, in
Middle 'met."

This was !roved not true, and to have town or.
treed in the violence of passion, and not with any
gaiu •us intea•t.

Toe Lay Lur.iii for the Plaintiff—Damages One
The Crown SiJe did not affml any thing ins-
portant.

Yesterday, at Marlborotwh-street, a young man,
of the name of thwart, was charged with an
assault, arising out of the following circumstances:
The Def-ndant, a miniature painter, had been em.
ployed by a tradesman, in St. James's, to take the
likeness of his niece, and in so doing, the limner
became enraptured with the original, and altar
Laving performed his Lick, be made several unsuc-
cessful attempts to gain another interview. He
partly succeeded, on Munday evening, and the as-
sault was cranmitted whilst the tradesman was ca.
ercisiog his tight in putting the painter out of his
Morse.

The following fAlt, which occured at Devizes,
Wiltshire, very recently, however strange, may be
relied on. A female pauper having some children
with her, by chance strol',:cl into the town with her
little ones, and died suddenly, before she could
proclaim her parish ; anu consequently, the children
became chargeable to St. Mary's, lieviLes, where the
mother was buried. After the funeral of the pau-
per, the good folks id the town spread a report
61. the church-yard was troubled, if not witu
supernatural appearances, with hideous shrieks
and mountings. The 'iexton of the parish, a re.
solute fellow, dared appro.ch the seat of terror, and,
by his resels.clies, it was given out tl.at the recent
buried pamper was alive, for he had heard her cx.
claim. •• !Here ! Mere I" the parish to which it was
supposed she had belonged. The grave was open.
ed, and the body Will taken up three days atter its
iliterment s bur, tb the disappointment of the in-
Lto
cr,,,itive. it .pe-.ke sot. and it was again put Wrest, 1
Le disturbed no inure.
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