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London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

BRIGHTON. JANUARY 12.

This afternoon the Prince Regent was enjoying
his fivourite exercise on horseback along the West
COI-, for nearly two hours, accompanied by Sir
B. Bloomfield and the Rev. Mr. Blomberg. It is
a gratification to state, that his Royal Highness
appeared in excellent health.
In the afternoon, the Vice-Chancellnr, the lion.
Mr. Paget, and Mark Singleton, E•g. M. I'. ar-
rived in the Pavilion, and afterwards joined the

Royal dinner party.
The Archduke Moynihan took leave of the
Prince Regent this morning, and returned to Lon-
don. Before his departure he was accompanied
by several Noblemen in an inspection of the whole
of the establishment :it this splendid palace.
This morning the Marquis and Marchioness of
Cholmonikley, the Nlarquis of Salisbury, Baron
tle Nieinen, Baron Whet', and Major Huligier, de-
parted horn the Pavilion.

The Court of France will put on mournino, for 21
(tip' from Toes(luy next, tus account of the death
of hrr Royal Highness the Princess ELIZABETU
of Saxony, aunt to the King of SAXONY.
The Duke and Duchess of ARGYLL and Lady
AUGUSTA PAGET have arrived in town, from their
vrat in Scotland. _ .

Yesterday a solemn Dirge for the repose of the
soul of the late lamented Sir JOHN THROCILMOR-
TON, Bart. was .perfortned at the Bavarian Chapel,
Soho-squire. The ceremony lasted three hours,
and was very impressive, affecting, and imposing.
Among the distinguished persons present were,
Bishop POYNTER, the Doke of NORFOLK, the
Earl of SHREWSBURY, 'EDWARD JERNINGHAH,
Esq. CHARLES HOIHYOLD, Eaq. &c.
The separation Mr high life, which took place last
week, between • Germain Baronet and his Lady, does
not arise from any impropriety of conduct oil either
side. The parties have been married many years,
but have not lived together on very cordial Wine.
THE ARTL—The PRINCE REGENT has been gra-
ciously pleased to permit Mr. NIUDIE to have the
portrait of Lord linTcutNsols, from his Collec-
tion, in order to take a copy for the !Medallic
Series. •rt,is excellent picture is now in the pos-
session of Mr. WERE, of Lougdon, near this city,
who executes the engraving.—( Lichfield Mer-
cury.)
The celebrity given to Rob Roy, by the novel and
the drama, has drawn great numbers of visours to
the 'retie of his life and advei.tures; and throughout
the whole of the last summer arid autumn, the Glen
of Alberfoyle was the daily resort of numerous
parties of pleasure. So wrist indeed was the at-
tractiou that a steam-boat was built upon Loch
Lomond, for the express purpose of conveying; these
parties from a point in the neighbourhood of Dum-
barton, up the Loch so Rob Roy's cave, in the Glen
of Aberfoyle, and for many months it found ample
employment.
GRATITUDE.—At a numerous meeting of the
tenantry of the Duke of PORTLAND, at BMW,
in gratitude to his Grace's reducing the rents on his
estates in Northumberland, and many other acts of
'munificence, a large bonfire blazed on the summit
of the ancient pile of Bothal Castle, while at the
base the circling glass went round to the health of
the noble family of Portland.
Lord GLLNGAL has et this time a loge sport-
ing party at bas fine .rat. near RAM, in Ireland.
An unpleasant accident happened there rai Satur-
day week to Mr. BAGWELL, of Thouistown. A
sporting companion fired at a rabbit, not
Mr. list:mat on the other site of the brake of a
thicket : the shot entered Mi. BaGwEt.t.'s thigh ;
it has, however, since been extracted. Nu serious
consequences are apprehended.

LAW INTIaLIGENCE.

COURT or RING'S BENCH, Oman Ala,
Tiluitsomr, bosuART 14.

Sittings at Nisi Press, before Mr. Justice BEST
and a .Special Jury.

WEIR v. ARF.RDEEN and OTHERS.
Mr. SCARLETT stated, that this was all action
brought on a policy of insurance. to recover the
aroma of the sum intoned. Plaintiff lint
been the Captain and owner of a brig called the
Prince of Coburg, chartered
.from Loudon to a
port in South America, in the year 1817. He *m-
imed the vessel with the Defendants, who were
underwriters at Lloyd's. The vessel proceeded
from the port of London, and being too heavily
laden, she we obliged to put into Itomsgitr, and
have part of her cargo talteu out. .The Plaintiff
made the Defendants acqua►nted with the circum-
stance, after which they endorsed the policy of in-
surance, admitting their knowledge of that fact,
and repledging themselves to the risk. On the brig's
outward-bound passage she experienced very severe
weather, and was obliged to put in at Surinam
nearly a wreck, and was obliged to he sold there.—
He was at a loss to know whit defence the Defen-
dants could set up: It had been tinged to him that
they intended to say that the brig was out sea-
worthy when she was insured. He would, however,
prove to the contrary, and that by the best evidence
—the surveyors who examined her before she lert the
port of London. Having dote this, lie had no
doubt but the Jury would give a verdict fur the
Plaint. 11.
The policy of insurance was put in, and admit-
ted by the Defendants.
Derinis Outlet., a ship-surveyor, stated, that he
remembered looking at the brig Prince Coburg,
when she was taking in her cargo at the London
Docks. He was sent by the party who had char-
tered her, as lie undrraood tlw Captain objected
►taking in any thing more. Ile was or opinion
that she could take in inure goods, as the greater
the dead weight the better. The cargo consisted
of iron and dry goods.
On his cross-examination by Mr. GURNEY. f,►e
said, that the Ciptain (the Plaintiff) wanted lighter
goods ; he dirt out know any thing of the circum-
stances of the brig, but he thought 'she was lit to
go to sea when she had a complete cargo on board.
Wm. Howell deposed, that he surveyed the brig
on behalf of the charterer, and he saw her when she
was taking in her cargo, and she was properly
loaded. He saw her before the cargo was put on
heard ; she was iu good condition, and lit to be
Cent to any part of the world.
Daniel Frerich.shipwright, deposed, that in 1817
he was a surve) or of ships at Ramsgate ; he re-
membered the brig Prince Coburg putting in
there ; was in, sent when part of her eergu, fittreil
tons of irua, was lauded from her; it was taken
oat abaft the main hatchway ; ►he wanted nu re-
pairs ut the time lie examined her, and would
Lave been glad to have found a job fur his father,
who was a shipwright, as business was very dull at
the time. He knew no other reason for the brig',
putt lig in at It iinsgate but that she was overloaded.
It was an agent from Lloyd's that sent bun on board
of her, and he gave him a certificate to the effect
he had stated.
Captain l'hompsoa stated, that he had been a
matter of a vessel in the year 11317, from the port
of Landon to Surinam ; he arrived at the latter
place on the loth of June, 1817. The brig in
question arrived afterwards; it was good weather
when she arrived at Surinam ; he saw her coming
round th,: fort ; she had a pilot then on board. Ile,
the witness, towed her into harbour with his ship's
boat. Two days afterwards he went on board the
Prince Coburg, to examine her ; he found her
water-ways open, her quarter-boards carried away,
her night-heads broke, and her sails and rigging
much damaged ; she had not a perfect sail left ; she
appeared to have suffered much from bad weather,
and to hate laboured much ; he advised that part of
her cargo should be taken out, after which he again
examined her ; some of her plauks had started, her
butts had worked out, her main-stern broken, a
splinter out of the after-part of her keel, caused
by her striking against this ground, ■nd three of
her rudder-banda were broken. Ile did not per-
ceive that she was rotten, on the contrary, her
taD-
bers were sound. It was not safe to proceed with
her to the coast of South America ; she could not
be repaired at Surinam, and she was ultimately sold
there.

Mr. GURNEY, Counsel for the Defendant*,
stated, that when an underwriter iron►ed a ship,
the party insured was obliged to fetid her from the
port in a sea-worthy state. The charterer was
loading here, the Plaintiff, the Captain, objected,
and said he was putting too much into her ; a sur-
vey took place, and the surveyors were of opinion
that she could carry all the charterer wished to put
on hoard, and it was accordingly put on board ;
but the Plaintiff• knew better, as he purchased the
brig. sails, rigging, and every other thing belong-
ing to her fur the sum of 4651. She sailed from
London and got as far as Beeci►y Dead, which ap-
pears by her log. She met with a gale of wind,
the sea broke over her, and she gut a-ground, and
then she put into Ramsgste; not one word of this
was communicated to the Defendants, hut they
were told that she put into Ramsgate to put out
fifteen tons of iron to lighten her, and on that re-
PreFtlibliloll they endorsed the policy. The very
protest of the Plaintiff, „loch be made at Rams-
gate, !hewed that ►he never ought to have proceed-
ed to sea, fur he states that he was forced to put
* greater cargo into her than she could carry by
the charterer. This alone lie cutis•dercil was sat-
&rut to entitle the Defendants to a verdict.
Mr. Justice BEST summed up the .vutciice, and
observed, that he considered there was sufficient
evidence of the btiog sea-worthy when she
left the port of London. The first question then
for the Jury to consider, wal, whether she was
overloaded—and if she was, whether it was slot re-
medied by the landing of• 15 tons of the cargo at
Ramsgate ? But the principal question for their
consideiation was, whether the Plaintiff• had ill-
formed the Defeodants of every circumstance which
occurred, from the time the loig left London to
her gonig into Ramsgute, previous to their eodors-
log the policy ? These were questions that at was

their duty to determine,. and to them he left them. 1
The Jury returned a verdict for the
Mr.Jouttce BEST—" I think your verdict is right;
but I wish to have your opinion whether the Plena-
tiff gaye the Defendant, all the information of what
had befallen to.the brig from the time or her leer/-
in., London to her arrival at Ramsgate ?"
SCARLETT-.-" The verdict of the Jury is
recorded."
The FOREMAN of the JURY —" Are we to TPC4III.•
eider our verdict ?—we have all agreed that it should
he for the Plaintiff."
Mr. Justice BliST—" I do not wish tie disturb
your verdict, but I wish to have your (+lotion
on the question I have mentioned to yop, o‘ 1
wi,ll to prevent litigation, and I understand that it
is the intention of a Learned Counsel (Ouriley)
whose opinion I have great deference for, to move
for a new trial ; I therefore wish to be armed with
your opinion on this question, so as to be able to
put the Court in full possession of it."
The FOREMAN of the JURY—" We desire that
our verdict for the Plaintiff shall stand. %Ve are
of opinion that the Plaiutitf did not give the -Defen-
dants all the infortnation in his power, re Wive to
what happened the brig after leaving London and
before anchoring at Itani.gate. Bat we sire of op.-
Mo.) that lie gave them sufficient informatiou."
Mr. JustioClizsr—tt Let this opinion be re-
coided."
Verdict for the Plaintiff.

SECONDARIES OFFICE, Co LEM A N•yrn-.LT.

LIBEL.

WEAR! e. srsrpsom and ANOTIIP.R.
This was an assessment of damages liar ■ libel
winch appeared in the newspaper called The Salis-
bury Gazette, and the Wins, Hants, Dursetshire
and Sowersetshire Advertiser, of which the De-
fendants are Editors. It appeared so far kick is
the 4th of December, 1817, and wile to the fol-
lowing effect :
" A■ utter depraved wretch, named Timothy Wear', late
a tailor of some respectability in this cat♦ (r.alishatv), lies
been dila week sworn to as the father of a child by his uou
daughter, a girl uuly lit years of age."
Judgment was suffered to go by dr fault. The
damages were staled upon the record to have been
to the unionist ol• 5001.
Mr. Cot.Lisi RIDGE having stated the facts upon
the record, and commented upuii the observations
of Counsel, the Jun• retired, and in a kw minntes
found darnagrs for the Plaiiititi to the utuount.
of
One Hundred Pounds.