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London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

WALLS V. HOCKLET•

This was an ant brought by the Plaintiff, so
apothecary, residing in Curtain-road, neer Shore-
ditch, against the Defrothi.t, as brother cud exe-
cutor of Miss Hockley, who died of a poilmomary
consumption' in Jul" la.', to recover the sum of
343/. 1 41.-2011/. the value of apr 1111 l homy
note pass.il I.y the deceased to Plaintiff 1111 Novein.
her 30. 11;17, payable six hi. after her Ilerth;
4.5/. 124. NJ. fur medical sttemlinice, snit the re-
m...oiler fur medicine. supplied during her
The defence made *a., that the Plimitiff had of
ri4lit no demand on the score of the note, in. Miss
Hock ley vtii% not in liworsiion of her facoleira alien
she drew it. and as improper had been used
by Plaintiff to extort it ; that the methemes and at.
temluoce had hero greatly overcharged, and that
Plaintiff had received sufficient reamileration for
them by payment of a bill for 50!. drawn hy de-
ceased in Deceiniier,.lPl7, on Defendant, iu Isis
favour; and payment of a legacy of 1044. be-
queathed him to the will of the deceased.
Miss Ho..l,:ley's 'mew-tender proved, that the
Plaintiff attended her (luring now the of her
Worm till her depth; that his visits were frequent
by day and night; and that 1w MR. sometones
obliged to sit up the whole night.
In her cross-examination She *Writ that various
precautions had been taken in oievreit the young
iisjiujeig herself—the bars ft: the window.. of
her room had been fastened up, l-.t -he should
throw lier.clf out. She used io br to queotly de•
after her medicines acre atfun..slefed: I.lle
did put know there tens any thiog iin;.rourr in the
niedienws, she did sins 1f0..w what the) I•ert
Up of; she hehreed llr. Wallis made Piofc'shnle
of love to his patient, toot she war attached la
big s ; thought that if she recovered I. y Were to he
'parried ; aacirratood that Mr. Nl' iii. tilt. • ned

to tiotroy jutstbelf uuloop she rogogrd to II $U Atop

rwil th.l Mitt. 11. was ?:cnetitneAllirmed lest he
thauld do ea; did not kt.ow any °thing about the
promissory note till after the lady's death. Witneta
eolith!. red the Lady in a tiling state for right month/
hefn• e her death.
Mena Parr was called in to see the Lady about
the end of ',mom,. anti attended her regularly
after her return from Weymouth ; was in the
habit' of visiting her its November, and did not then
look upon her as beta;; in a deranged stale of mind,
She had s pulinntialy ctiniumption, and was fre-
iptirdly attacked with hyste.ical allectioitt, which
often produce a disorder of ir.ind similar to insanity.
gave no dirtctions about the apothecary 'ls attendance,
but merely wrote the prescriptions; many medi-
cines were required to palliate her disease, though
they might not hsve heel, expected to r{i}fest,', cure;
his on retimai to suppose the Apothecary did not do
his duty. It was nut po.•lhlr, from the nature of
the coniplaint, to pronounce whether too much me-
dicines hail been g.veu her. After her return from
IVeymnutli, knew that her complaint w.ms incur-
able; from that time till het death the was in an
extremely low elate.

Dr. Hamilton visited Miss Ilockley previous to
the attendance of Dr. Parr; her complaint was al-
together hysterical; she was not insane; except
when In her paroxysms, she was competent to any
act. It'irnight be iirceasury that an apothecary
alveolil attend her through her whole illness, and
lie continually repeating the medicines. The apo-
thecary paid het the greatest attention; constant
attendance on his part was necessary, and her
brother used sometimes desire hint Insley all night;
has tasted the medicines. and found there were no
love potions in them.
Mr. Serjeant VAUQIIAW, for the Defendant, said,
the Plaintiff's demand was altogether unjust and
iniwarrantable. He both furnished medicines not
necessary, and charged. an unreasonable price for
them. %Vim opinion could the Jury entertain of a
men who had tried every art to seduce a young
Lady's affections, who he knew could never recover,
for his own base ends? Was it credible that the
Jury would compel her brother to pay a note drawn
at a time when she did not know what she was
doing ? The deelanition did not contain a word of
the legacy of MO/. nor of the hill of 501, drawn by
Miss llockley about two months before her death in
Plaintiff's favour, and paid bins by her brother—
Three two aunts, the Learned Counsel contended,
were au ample compensation for the Plaintiff's me-
dicines, with all his tabour and trouble, and that
the Defendant was perfectly justifiable in resisting
such unconscionable demands.

The 501. bill wag then pot in and proved.
Mary Coleman wee culled. end the CHIEF JUII.
TICK asked what ,the was to prove.

The Defend:u►t's Counsel replied, the state of
mind in which Miss Hockley way after returning
from %Vrt•mntstli.
The Culey JUSTICE said, enough had been
heard on that subject from two respectable phy-
sicians.

Mr. Seijeant LENS was then proceeding to reply
to the remarks thrown out on the other side,
about the 'tote for 2001. and the legacy of lua
The CHIEF JUSTrE advised him to put that
sum out or the d,iii4sid, and .Hy nothing shout it.
That world save him (the Chief Justice) the neces-
..ty of adverting to that part of the case; but if
any thing more were said of the transaction, he
should express all he thought about it ; and which,
perhaps, the public would not be obliged to him
for suppressing.
The claim for the value of the note (30O1.) was
then given up by the Plaintiff's Counsel, and also
fur the attendance, 4.il 13s. 6d. the legacy being
supposed to be meant as u remuneration on that
head.

Mr. Serjrant LENS then argued it was morally
impossible the bill for 501. could have been drawn
on the Defendant, es executor of his sister, before
she was dead. It was necessary for the other side
to ',hew that fact before they could allege it was
passed in part payinrot cf Mr. Wallis'. demands.
The Cui EF JUSTICE told the Jury the only ques-
tion fur their cowiderstion was, whether the bill fur
501. was given to the Defendant in part payment of
hip medienues and attendance—if they should he of
their (minion, they would %abduct it from the Plain-
tiff', !lieu el ; otherwise, Pot.

The Jury, sifter or short etunsideration, found the
501. to have been in pert payment of the bill, and
returned so verdict fur the Plaintiff.—Dornages,
47/. 11% 41.

A New Brunswick Paper intimates, that the
Surveyins have found that the nigh Lauds indicated
as a boundary by the Treaty of 1783, lay south-
ward of St. John's River, leaving the whole of that
river, the Settlements on the Maditwarka, and that
mute to Canada, in the hands of the Engbah.
The Predo/os, JAMES MACK, arrived at Leith
on Wednesday best, having completed her third
voyage from St. tsrtrr►bnryfh, the greatest number
made in one year—two are the average. Mr. MACK
Steep. on the 45th ult. the frost was so intense
in the Baltic, that lie. and the masters of about
fifty other vessels, ttttt at have been under the neces-
sity of wintering at Omitted!, had they not actively
entered into a sub•ciii.tion, tool enaithe).ed the Rus..
mans in r•ttving through the ice. The navigation
of the I3vair Is a lid, in a Petersburgh article, to be
',Nimbly closed for the remainder of the year.
A slight shock of an earthquake 11,4$ experienced
in Brogue, on the morning of Niontlay sentlight,
altont Hole o'clock. It was, how-err, h more
sensibly G It in tile netglohnurliood of Peutir, where
a gentleman (lest-Übe, it as it the earth sunk nearly
a you! 1..,•u trotter his fret.
/lactic Expsoirioti.—lt is said, that early in
the emu'. g summer enother expedition will hr sent
out for the ;unloose of exploriog a North Western
pa.•ege to the Pacific Ocean. The Griper gun-
brig ha• arrived at Deptford, and *ll be l*enered
as rose of the Discovery vessels, in lieu of the Frene.
It Pi ohm mord, that two of the booth-1,01814N which
were At Algiers will he ordered-uut on °tenon. dea-
ths:unto. 7'..r Isabella and A/err/oder will be
paid off immediately, and the crews will he al.
lowed t► month to gee and see their friends. (he
wonderful Elatin sue, who is still on boar., one
pi the ships at l)e,itford. aid whu lately sat fur
ins ;wino% has taken an, h a fancy for drawing
landscapes, that the Olfirris have Kivu him pilule
and brushes. Mid every tither facility fur indulging
Ills ►ew prupeuritf•.