The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-11-22 00:00:00

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COUNT OF EXCISE.

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tie* for three yews, Mac Neil in SOL and two sureties
iu tsl. each.
THE XING U. JOHN beIIORNZ.

The Defendant was tried before the Lord Chief
Baron, at the last Assizes for Warwick, and found
guilty of publishing a seditious libel, entitled, " A
Letter to Me Soldiers on the State of tke Country."
The Defendant put in an affidavit, which gimlet',
'hat he had been tried and imprisoned for an offence
of a similar nature subsequently committed,
%Ir. Justice &Tun, sentenced him to be im-
.preioned one year in the House of Correction, its
Cold Bath-fields.
The case of the King v. Burdett stands over for
to-morrow (this) morning ; that Gf the King v. Cart.
%night and others, stands for Thursday next.

IMPORTANT CASE TO SALT MERCHANTS AND

Th. proprietor. of the bmg railed the Friend's Increase,
..I1 Liverpool, sought to have returned to them the duty
.h,en had been paid on 98 tone, or 3,915 bushels of salt.
1 he return of the linty was prayed •n the grounds that the
•iilt had been damaged and rendered unfit for sale, by the
•,,10-1 having sprung a leak soil admitted Ike sea water to
the salt.

James Welsh, the mite of the FrieRICT hiereile. won
railed OD behalf of the Consplainsuis, and stated, that the
v.rig left Liverpool a few otontlis since in a perfectly ww.
worthy state, with 99 tons of *oh on hoard. The tonnage
ad the vessel was 9R tuns; but sbe wasn't in the present in-
stsisce laden above bee load water mark. The witness saw
MI the wilt weighed before it win put on board. Soon after
they got out of ports heavy gale sprung up, during whirls
the vessel sprung a trek. The gale footnoted for arerrel
dioring which Sieve the weather was partientsrly had,
avil they arse Utollred to keep Ike pump at work every 90
',mimics. The witness read the lug-book to the Court, of
the state of the wcatiwr during the voyage to Loudon. They
look in so Excise officer at f;tavi,eitoi.
J..nies Wrillser., the master of the verse', corroborated the
statement of the last witness.
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\lr. Niryew, the Solicitor of the Eget"' contended, that
according to the Act of Pailsament, the Master sari Slate
of vs saris carrying salt, were bound to make entries in the
log hook of iist.h eircumstancs s sa of the salt on board
with regard to its having beets damaged, and that witless
snich 'writs were made and produced, the Court had no
poweastar mature the dirty.
Tile Solicitor for the Complainants said in reply, that it
was inipoamble for the master or mate ever to make such en.
tries, as the hitches were fAstrotst down during the voyage,
!and were nut ripened until the vessel'. arrival in purl;
therefore the moter or mate had no opportunities during
the voyage of iestertaming whether (lie salt Mad been damaged
411. 1101. . _ _

'lke COURT, upon reading the Act, said, that they found
II was PXSN cos upon the point, and that they were completely
rem red by it. They had every disposition to afford telief
to she Complain/Into, as they belie, ved the kiss to have
taken place. The Court recommended the Complainants to
apply to the Lords of the Tr y to have she Art amend-
'ed. as. as to put it in she power of the Commissimivis
4!it efrard relief upon their conviction of the damage having
taken pl lee. They could nut, however, help observing that
the Isard.hip might cagily be avoided, by the master or mate
'of Ilse vivid making entry is the lug-book, whirls they ought
to do, of every incident by which the property under their
Tare might be injured.—Complaint rejected.