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Off Dover the St. Patnck, Ross, tom Waterford ; and
the New Draper, Kay, from Wotan.
At Southampton7the Elo,tatth, Winter, from Cork.

At C0We1...61C Noah Allac (rem Savantn.h.
At Lieferponithe Swift, Price; and Governor Gi!naan,
from Nrer Yetk ; Ceres, M dyneux, from Dominica; Suns -
net, Rader, from Danttie ; Augu.ta. Dashw,od ; Union
Tucker; and the Lucie, Inglie. from Cherie:toe.
In the Clydethe Governor Corkton, Udary, front Moat
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YOAK ASSIZES.

(Coatinued.)

SIR THOMAS vAvAsous, 114 ST. D. R. CLAIMON and

T 11 L KS.
Belotv Sir GrLti ROOKS and a Spe, Jar".
This was an adion to try the right of the soil and
manorial rights of the Manor of ‘itarctoft.
Mr. Serjeant Coccatt. in addressing the Jury.
said, that the case of the Plaintiff was one supported
by the strongest body of evidence be ever remem-
bered. He could trace the possession of the rights
for which his client contended, from the conquest r
the present period; dating which period. all the
rights which appertain to the Lord of the Manor
were exercised by the ancestors of the Plaintiff. An
extra& from Doomsdty Book, which recognised
the exigence of this Manor, was the first document
produced ; a grant from Henry the Third of this
manor to the Vavasour family was also produced
and read ; different series of court r'lls, from 1 tisl
to 1758, were also lai4 before the Court; various
perambulations of this manor by Sir Thomas Va-
vasour were proved ; and the exercise of the right
of holding courts, impounding cattle, receiving
rents for encroachments upon the manor, levying
fines and recovering acknowledgments from the
persons removing soil, turf, or gravel, from the
common of Scarcroft, was clearly proved, by the
evidence of many ag-d and resperEtable persons, to
have existed from time immemorial.

When this evidence had been gone through, the
Learned Judge asked the Defendant's Counsel if
they could oppose, with any prospeet of suc -est, this
strong body of evidence ? when, after a short con-
sultattor, they declined making any defencc to the
a&ion.—The Jury of course found a vett:id for the
Plaintiff.
etowit O. stet' s,rtosnt4 and WADE.

This adiin WAS brou;;!:t by the Plaintiff, the
owner of a sloop called the Nemgy, which tracks
between Hell and Bradford, against the Defendants,
as owners of the ship Hq,e, for so negligently and
carelessly mooring the said ship, is the harbour of
Hull, on the 13th of February, 1805. that oil the
ebbing of the tide, the Note came against the Nancy
and sunk her. and damaged the A _ 'ancy and her
cargo, consisting of groceries and other articles of
marehandize of great value. This cause, which has
excited considerable attention, was tried at the
Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1506, before Mr. Justice
Itoonz, and a Special Jury, when the Plaintiff ob-
tained a verdict ; but which verdid having been
set aside by the Court of King's Bench, on pay-
ment of (-Ist: by the Defendants, and a new trial
granted, the same Cams on to be tried on Saturday
last, before Mr. Justice Roots and another spe-
cial Jury. The trial lasted from nine o'clock in the
morning till eight at night, when, atter a full inves-
tigation of all the fads, a verdict was again found
for the Plaintiff, for 5,000!. subjad to be reduced
by arbitration.
Counsel for the Plaintiff—Mr. Serjeant Cockell,
Mr. Topping. and Mr. Hardy. Attorney, Mr.
Yrost.

Counsel for the Dtfendants—Mr. Park, Mr.
Wood. and Mr. !Lune: Attorney, Mr. Dickinson.

Commissioner Cusis t Nom A N has assumed the su-
perintendence of the Dock-yards at Dirtford and
Woolwich. In the former yard, the house occupied
by the Clerk of the Checque has been appropriated
for the residence ut the Comanis4iouer.