The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-23 00:00:00

?Bus e1L432.
The rued raid Essen Fez Home asset to-ntorruw, al the
Gram Demos ; Saturday, at Marks Nail ; Illosooday.ai Bank
Hall; Thursday, the Ma, at General Eleven Parkepte, at
ten.
' The Hatfield HounJe swat tomsarrow, at Breatiosittain
and Saturday, at Kimmel. at kaH-psst lea.
Lord Sas4e4 theme mat tinasenar, al Dotidiagtun ;
Lad Salitroky, at Lain, mei day at halt past tea.
The Duke of dirafter's Haunts meet this day, at Little
flumes.% at hoarse. len.
The Oakley Hoorieds meet to-mrsowrew, at Oak Close ; Ss-
terthoy, at Apisrand Bury, at baltpust tea each day.
• The Quarto Hounds meet this day, at Norraanton
,IT011146; igb-saarcsay. at Six Hills, sad Saturday, at Usetis.
Awe Woad, each day at hall-past tem.
St Bellingham Graham's Hauls& meet this day, at
_fkrialren; 10-111turroW, at Calkei anal &Mirky at Cliff, each
day at half-past teu.

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INCISE COURT, DUNKELD.

Ou the 30th tilt. an Luise Court was held at Dunkeld.
The ledges were the Duke of Athol', who was in the Chair,
air A. M. Markeimie, of pelvis. tam Colour, &nth. of
Medium, and the Bailie of Deakelil, who is alai a Justice
.14 the Peace. The causes before them, conaidering the ex-
tent of the bounds from which they came, were not very nu-
merous. A great many of them were for malting without
I%try.
The Duke of ATRot.i.adilveseed the Court in a *hurt and
ispproprtair email, itheervin, that while the Excise l.uw
•-,oes such as aminoitail to a prolubitin of legal distillation
Ise She Highlands, he use use of these who felt himself di..
..slie IS mmty earl in tufted elensinigy to deliatmeuts,
nom ape i owe Wes altered, AM Me low ima outdo
apOltimble, and merit melt as he osoll *sit, M. was
s •• used to muted Ike AN haler, and IssNtedt mothers
4 0:1: Is the individlials Mairerned in Them, es well as to
the cerrime of the osiMety. li" had bag laboured to iihttio
_such atieratietis of Ms taw u might emit the eiratenotauees
•
of the Higkinda, sb4 be Imes that his Majestre Omens-
_men, had very wish. to de all is their power to preente
fair trade its that peed of the me**. Re regretted the poin-
ful duty which devolved ow him sad the other JuMiecal list
ft was • wiener of imperious .Ba:realty, aril peopUt unto
be taught. that, if they madame to violate the IMF of the
land, they csaiset escape with impunity.
Sir A 11. MACIIIIIIIIIV, is a speech of soave length, eon-
cowed in the amitimmits so well ,expeemed by the Noble
Doke. lle knew well what pales be had taken to Natty she
Jr:seise Law, a subject of a num complicated natio*, cud to
procure sack au altelatiou es might cult the Circumstances
of di.: Highlands. The Ones for malting without entry
were ten shillings a bushel; for illicit distillation, in every
. moo hut one, 801. sterling, soil In that of GOI.; for cell.
Imittpteit. without halm, from four to bye pounds; fur
bonfirg spirits withost permit, eight shilling the gallon, be-
sides the lose of the spirita.—(Caltidoxiint MeTerry.)

IRELAND.
DECRI4III6III 18.
•
Arrived the Earl or Clare, Lo►d Dutferin. sod
Frederick and John Brownlow. Fsqrs from London.
Moo Stephens made her first apilellfilllCC last
'►vening' ar Belfast, in the part of Rosetta. in Lore
ix a I aline.
Miss Byrne is an fir recovered as to spni-ar on
this evening ass Adein, in Me Haunted now.

COMMON PLEAS, DrCEICIER 17.
ECCLLS V. lOU H liL

An action by the payee of a promissory note
egoism the maker—Verdict for Plaintiff 131/.
spirant, A. GIBBON V. RICHARD TOUTCHEIt.

This was an action of wirer for a bill of exchange,
amount 2001. British. In the year ISIS Cowan.
Sweets Olson gave the Defendant, who was a ship
broker, his draft of 2001. British,upon Messrs. Dixon
and Silver, in Liverpool, for repairs dotty to the ►hip
Illinerva, of which Olson, who was a Swede. was
Captain ; and for law expenses incurred by the
seamen, who were promovents in ■ libel in the
Court of Admiralty ; the Captain drew upon Messrs.
Dixon and Silver, because they were the corres-
pondents of the owner of his vessel ; Gibbon handed
this bill, amongst others on 'Change, to 'Coutcher,
the Plaintiff, with whom he had been in the habit of
dealing, and he gave him cash fur it ; the bill was re-
turned to Toutcber from Liverpool, peotested fur
non-acceptauce ; he immediately apprised the De-
fendant of its dishonour, who said there must have
been some mistake, and took the bill from him, un-
dertaking either to return it to him r►gularly accept-
ed, or pay him the smonot in Bank antes ; Twitcher
lent the bill to a correspondent of his in Liverpool,
requesting of him to call upon Messrs. Dixon and
Silver, and inquire why they refused to accept it ;
Mao* and Silver persisted in refusing to accept
the bill, stating that they had been instructed by
the mate of the vessel who succeeded Sweets 01,on
as Captain, not to accept for more than the costs
of ►epasiiring the ship, and directing Mr. Twitcher to
look to the seamen who were the promovents in the
libel, fur the law expenses, and they accordingly
paid Defendant something over 100/. pursuant to
time instruction. lu the mean time the Plaintiff

eeceived several letters from the Defendant, ',polo-
/jets% for the delay from time to time, until he at
length stated that he had become a bankrupt, and
was reluctantly compeller, to return bins a creditor
in his schedule. The present action was brought
under the form of an action of trove!, as the Dr.
fendant had given an undertaking to return the
bill. which he never fulfilled. The Defendant's
Counsel contended that he had an elect either
to return the bill or its value in Bank notes; that
he chose the latter, and for that the Plaintiff could
not bring an actin', of trover, and he was barred of
All assanipsit, by the Defendant's be►ng a certified
bankrupt. The Court, howeter, decided the
contrary in charging the Jury, who found fur the
Plaintitf—es7/. _

The ',taut ut law i 4 saved for argument.

141411 AL MONtillEilT.- The public having taken
more than an ordinary degree of interest in the Mo-
nument to be erected by the naval and marine tier.
races to the memory of the late Lord Viscount
thi.vii.t.E, it will perhaps he gratifying to dont
to learn that the Committee have resolved to adopt
the much-admired Sod justly celebrated Pillar of
Taaists, one of the most approved talcs of anti-
quity (or a pillar modelled upon it), and to sur.
monist it with a colossld statue of the late Lord
MELVILLE. St. Andrew's-square haring beets sing-
gested u a very eligible and appropriate site for
. ~,,, e such chaste and simple structure, application
is, we understand, about to be made to the proprie-
tors fur permission to rear this Pillar in the centre
of that elegant Square, to winch, as well as to the
!sittrovotis its getter.ll, it cannot fail to prove highly
ssawitnental.--(Adineargit Paper.)