The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-18 00:00:00

WEIAON ♦ND SON N. ALDRIDGE.

Mr. alAttairATT stated, that this action was
Isruoglit to recover the sum of SSW. 17s. the price
of a horse sold by the Defendant for the Ploituiffs,
oii::er the following circumstances :—The Defen-
dant is an auctioneer, and the Plaintiff. are conch-
proprietors, on the Essex-road. They having given
sip mut of their coach concerns, wished to dispose
of twenty horses and a carriage. They employed
the Defendant. as their auctioneer, as they had done
on various previous t cessions, to sell the horses and
cal nage. The corditions of sale on which the De-
froilant was to act were, 16 that Mrs. Nelson never
gave a warranty for her horses. The purchase
money to he paid Net ion+ to the horses being
taken from the pi eittim.s cf the Defendant. Aod
the Del( prktu.t In pay over to the Plaitititl; the
proceeds of the sale, within three days after it took
place, if lie hal received the money —or else as
swot as the I. lists erre delis-tied to the nu' chasers."
These conditions were stuck up in various parts of
the Defi infant's premises. at the time of sale. On
the appoluted day, the Plaintiffs' horses were sold,
and fir nineteen of them, and the carriage, the
Defendant paid mer the •0,3 received, witliiii the
stipulated time. The twentieth horse was sold for
fifty-sear') guineas to a liackiseymaii, of the name
of (lone'', surf t ILA horse the Defendant allowed
Gulleu to take away, without payirg for it—be-
cause he WWI a customer io Defendant's yard, trod
he had, therefore, no of ijectimi to trust hint. Gut.
after lie hail the firose f-r a few days, returned
him, and the Defendant did not object to receiving
him back. The applied lino
the.
. looney
for which the horse sold, but the Defendant refused
to let them have it. The Learned Counsel con-
tended, that the Plaintiffs were entitled to recover—
and observed, that he believed Aldridge pas only
the row 1111 l of Defendant. Guile's, lie imagined,
was the real Defendant.

Mr. GURNi.Y, fur the Defendant, contended that
he hod :whit in this co.. legally, and as lie %/Id
:0111106%rd althritigh there was nn war.
Nulty with the horse, Vet there was It printed hand-
bill circulated, with the knowledge and consent of
the on the day of saie, which set forth
4, that there were twenty machine horses to he sold
by am is o, all active, full of hard meat, and just
collie from constant work. oo the Essex-road."—
Gullet, bought the hone in citoriotioin, which would
buoy.- hero to line and vulteible aiiinial„ he haul
women,) ihe description given of him—that is, if
hr we.e a horse just conic from constant work.—
But, whet. Gulleii tried him in the break, he found
that he was exceedingly vicious, and would toot
work ou the Essex or ally other road. Under these
circumstsllte• hr i-etnriled biro.

liPsT %aid. ilos was no on.wer to the
case. The Drft ottani had been em-
ployed 11l .04esit tit sell, and had iuld he
hall no !mart to feceive the horae bark again. Ile
ought Lot to stiffer.d the mutual to quit lob
lift-1111.es till the prier w is fool for it--a 0.41,
Flour 'o, he certainly isms hali!e. it Was i.ot io br
14.1e1an.,1, that ao auctioneer, actiog Nb •0 ar,ent,
t.o utd attrtssaiils to all persuu what-
rai-i w hr evaroctro "1 .. 11.1ewlat,l•

' Vtitlict rui Pia 591. 17a.
ISUESJ. r. sr.; I DOW.
Tbis was an a.:lltwi fur b w.a avid OW delivered.

The Plaintiff is, as his !Mlle imports, a Jew, and
carries on the busiiiess of a slepselier, anti the De.
fendant is the Captain of a ship. Some yeara ago,
the Plaintiff furnished the Defendant with 103
gross of buttons, at 3.. per gross. am outing to
15/. 9.. which the Defendant, who was going to
Russia, was to take with him, Hs a venture. The
Defendant paid him 71. up,. and took the his' ans
Sway to Riga, where lie left then,. Hr returned
to this country, soon after, and told the Plaititilf
that he had not sold the buttons, nor could hr get
a market fur them, they Were so had. He drinuctl-
ril back his 7/. 10s. which leas returned to him, but
elaintiff had never since hero able to get a y ac-
count of his buttons, anti, therefore, brought the
present action for the full amount.
Ott the part of the Defendant, it was stated,
that this was a partnership adventure, in the tir.t
instance, and that Defendant had paid his hull of
15/. 9s. into the halals of the Plaintiff at first start-
ing ; but that when he got to Riga, and opened
the packages, he found the buttons were Elleh In-
famous trash, that it was absolutely impossi,de for
Inin to sell them. When he returued, he told the
Plaintiff where he had left the buttons, and where
he might find them, if he pleased, and gut his
71. 10s. back again. The buttons, which still re.
roamed at Riga, were not saleable, and the Plain-
tiff well knew it—but now, after a lapse cf three
or four years, he thought fit to arrest the Defen-
dant, and bring the present action for the whole

A witness was called, who proved that he :id—
witted these facts, in conversation—and a verdict
was returned fur the Defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDUALL,
THURSDAY, DICCEDIBER 17.

Before Chief Justice DALLAS and Common Jo) ies.