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L.IIV INTIiLLICENCE.
. vointy OF CHANCERY, Ltscoui.lii,
MosuAT, JULY O.

The Lotto CHANCELLOR was ntropied in bear-
fug haiskrapt petitions, of no interest except to
the parties concerned.

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Sites sigri Vier Term. before Air. Justice Asso'rt
' .II . ~ sad Specie/ Juries.
. stir: A 111 mid 111 aILETT V. WI LEAN and tits Asti.
. The Plaintiffs no this coot are emildent elruggists,
vesicles% tie tlw city of Losidou noel the Defendants
ere the well-k 'town stage-coat7h proprietors. The
'action was brought to recover 114/. the 'aloe Of
-vs Ilex of cochineal, which, it was alleged, wis lost,
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its consequence of the care lessors. of the nefeerdents'
vereritta. It appeared, that, on the 94111 of Febru-
arc host, the'Plaintiffs reveived 11 letter, pisrportiog
to be written by Mr. James Al'orthy, of Exeter.
dyer, relnesting them to send I' ,by post, en sie-
ve tof the current price of cochineal. On the
26th of February they directed a letter to Mr.
Worthy. in which the prices were stated.
11:1w the 46th of February they received • seemed
lever, directing theta to vend to Mr. Worthy he-
tet-eel 30 rod 60the. of cochineal. They complied
wick the ler. and. in order to 611 up the hex in
which 11 were about to pack the cochineal, they
plaCed in it 63Ibs. The partel was taken to the
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eal-sod. loath Inn, by their porter. regularly
booked. mild a receipt given fur it. By a suldse-
queia poet the Plaintiffs apprised Mr. ‘Voriliy that
they hail forwarded the article he bad written Tor.
They. immediately after, received a letter from
bine. stating that he had never given nosy such
order—and, on examination, It was feduntl that the
letters supposed to have been writtlrii by Mr. Wor-
thy, were mere fabrications. and that those which
were ice the outset directed to him by the Phon-
y& heel been intercepted. it appeared, however,
that a person called at the London Inn. at Exeter,
and, having paid 16s. Id. for the carriage of the
box, had it delivered to him—since which it had
not been heard of. To recover the value of the
;parcel the present action was imilituted.
• The defence set up was, first, that Messrs. WO.
elan were not liable, as a notice was stuck ap in
' their office, which set forth Wet they would not be
'accountable for any parcel, above the value of SI.
unless regularly booked and paid for—acid second,
that their servants bad not been guilty of siegli.
grime. The porter of the Plaintiffs, in the course
of his examination, deposed!, that he had often
„booked parcels at the Bull-and-Mouth, but had
• not, until these few week., observed the notice al-
.:laded to—and then he perceived it un a board in
a remote corner of the office. The clerk of the
Defendants, however, proved that the notice
hall beets publicly exhibited in the office for
14 years. This was all the evidence on the first
part of the defence. The statement, with respect
to the second, was as follows :—lt was entwined that
a parcel such as that described, had been delivered,
by the Exeter subscription coach. at the office of
the London Inn, at Exeter. It was directed to
Mr. James Worthy, and it was knowsi that a dyer of
that name resided in Exeter. On Saturday. the
2d *of March, a person called at the office of the
London Inn, and inquited whether, on the following
any, he could get the box directed to Mr. Worthy.
lie was answered, that it was not customary to send
out parcels on Smithey—but that if it were sent for
by Mr. Worthy, it would be given to the messenger.
Ott Sunday, a man called for it. He was asked what
his name was, and by whom he was sent: He said his
name was issues Williams—and that he did not know
the person by whom he was employed, who then
stood at the door. He was told, that there were two
parcel. directed to Mr. Worthy—but he stated,
dist he was only furnished with 16s. td. to pay for
the box, which (tbe clerk believing that the person
making the application had been employed by Mr.
Worthy) was delivered to him. Under these cir-
corustitices, it was contended, that a fair degree of
cautious was exercised by the Defendants' servants.
James Williams, the man who procured the
tercel, deposed, that be was applied to, in the
public street, on Sunday, the 3d of March, by a
strange iodividual, to carry a parcel from the Lon-
don Inn to the Half Moon Inn, for which he was
to receive 6,1. On inquiry for the parcel, one,
different from that described by the stranger, who
stood at the Inn door, was given to him. The
stranger, on seeing it, desired him to go back, and
ask fur the box. He also directed him to state that
the fecund parcel would be sent for in the morning.
Ile did as he ode derired, and received the box,
which the stranger took from him before he arrived
at the Half Moon Inn.
Mr. Justice ABBOTT said, there were two points
for the consideration of the Jury—first, whether a
knowledge of the notice was brought home to the
Plaintiff's porter—and next, whether the Defend-
ants servants had been negligent aad Inattentive.
If tiny believed that the person employed to carry
the parer' by the Plaintiffs, knew of the existence of
the notice, they would find for the Defeo louts,
unless it appeared to them that due caution was
not used, with respect to the delivery of the box.
It certainly was a strange thing, that • hateable
parcel should be given to a perfect stranger—to one
of whom they knew nothing—set the same time that
airy sere cognizant that a Mr. James Worthy lived
out Exeter, Irons whom they had not received any
otei.tica ' whatever, with respect to the bus di-
rected to hunt.

The Jury retired, and after a consultation of an
hnur ai,d a half, returned a verdict for the I)ea
felidants.

On Tuesday last a moat astonishing and Unusual
circumstance was witnessed by several hundreds
Id spectators. At Newlyn. near Penzance. a
swarm of bees suddenly alighted ou a buy's herd.
and remained there fur a considerable time. The
buy. alniog terrified to death. was required to
smoke tobacco, to preserve himself from being in-
ju►ed. Its rite meats t►me a hive was procured. and
I,eid over I. head fur some time ; when by degrees
wise fetes ail entered it. without inflicting the kart
I, jury on the buy.—(Corrucoll Gazette.)
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