The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-15 00:00:00

NORRIS V. DAIRY.

Ale-lion, use, , and .occupation of a house. • The
defenee was, that the house being in a bad .con-
dition of repair, the Plaintiff agreed to let it for
one year to the Defendant, and to dear all taxes to
Christmas, and to put it iii repair, and to receive no
rent till all this was done. The Plaintiff, on the
contrary, stated the agreement to -be, to allow 31. out
of the rent,. for whitewashing, and what the De-
fendant should himself pay for repairs.
Mr. •GARROW; for the Defendant, asked a Wit=
ness, whether the house was not in -a shocking
condition ?—Ans. Yes, Sir, there had been some
dispute about it.'
Mr. G. It had been in chancery, as you called it ?
Yes, Sir.

Mr. G.. I believe I might have spared myself the
trouble of asking whether the house was in .a shock-
ing condition, if I had-asked you at first whether it
.was in Chancery. •
Mr.. TOPPING having got from the Witness that
.the Plaintiff's father died in Septemi;er; and that lie
toek possession in December, said in his reply, that
as to the hbuSe being in Chancery the Jury would
never believe it. It was absolutely 'impossible to
have got it into Chancery in so short a time, ninth
less get it out again.-.—Verdia: for the Plaintiff,
121. 155.. .

COOMBS V. STRACY AND OTHERS.

.
•- Sir VICARY Gults -stated, that this was- an issue
direaed from the Court of Chancery, to try the
luestion, whether .Francis Stracy, -a bankrupt, of
whom the Defendants were the Assignees, was in-
debted to the Plaintiff in the sum of fool: on' 'the
Ist of November, 1802 ? _The parties, be Aserved;
were both- respedable persons;,"%esiding at New
Windsor,- the Plaintiff was a Banker, and the Bank-.
rupt had been an extensive grocer. Being on" terms
of-great intimacy, they met at a public dinner,"whcre
the Bankrupt requesttd the Plaintiff would' lend him
-fool. to send-to his mother that night, say-ing,. at
the same time, that the post was just going out, and
he would not have time to go hOffie for it. The
Plaintiff, upon :this, advanced the money, on condi-
tion of its bent returned the -same- evening. The
-money, however, was never returned, and for some
.reason or another the Defendants now insisted that
the repayment had: already been made. • For. the
-better ascertaining the real fa&,- the Lonp
.CELLOR had directed that the Plaintiff and the Bank-7
-rupt:Eihould.both• be examined upon the trial.-

The Plaintiff, MP.. James. Coombs, Mr. William
Walsh, and Mr. Edward Burne„ proVed these fads;
and •
Mr. GARROW, for the Defendant, said, that as
these Gentlemen were so very respe&able, and
although the Bankrupt had fl.dt the fullest convic
tion that the mobey- had been repaid, yet after such
evidence, there could be no doubt that be must have
been mistaken...

The Jury accordingly found a verdi& for the Plain-
-tiff.

ELOPEMENT.--A yoting Lady, of eighteen years
of age,- of considerable personal accompiishments,
the attainment of which she owed to the benevo-
lence of a certain Nobleman, under whose protec-
tion she had been reared and educate& clandestinely
absented herself from thcfamily mansion of her patron
on, Wednesday night, and she has not yet been
heard of.. The anxiety which prevailed for the
safety of the young, fugitive, on the first discovery,
tots her absence, abated, when it was discovered on
Thursday that a post-chaise had conveyed a Lady,
answering the descripion of Miss R. one stage to
the Northward,7 in company with. a Gentleman,
well known on the turf in the vicinity of Doncas-
ter. TheGentlerrian alluded to is about forty year's
of age, and his first acqUaintance with the fair fu-
gitive was in -September last, at which period he,
was on a visit in town, and became acquainted
with a gentleman under the same roof where the
Lady dwelt, and who accompanied him to the North
on a shooting party. 'The future prospeets of the
Lady depended on the bounty of her patron.

.An alarming fire broke out, at half past seven
O'clock, last night, at the house of Mr. Maude, che-
mist, in Hare-court, ' Aldersgate-street. It com-
%merited in the engine-room, where there was a great
quantity of salt-petre; and communicated to the
Elaboratory; it burned with the greateSt fury, the
Matter being all combustible; but by-the activity of
the engines, and a plentiful supply of water, the
flames were prevented frOth communicating to the
dwelling-house, Thk alarm in• the court was so
great that most of the houses were cleared of their
furniture. It
,produced great consternation in all
parts of the town. The appearance of the atmos-:.
pherei at one time, presented a .most awfu‘ objet;}.
The people ran in every direction ; great numbers
were colleaed on London and' Blackfriar's Bridges.
Smithfield' was as crowded as if it had been' on a
market day. It was impossible to pass up Ling-
lane. The engines were a good deal 'impeded by
the cattle coming to Smithfield market. About
half-past nine the fire abated, and at eleven it was
entirely subdued. The same premises were burned'
down three years ago. We Understand that the fire
was occasioned by the fri&ion of one of the engines
in the salt-petre room; s.
A melancholy circumstance took place at Ports-
mouth in the beginning of the .week.. Some young
men who were waiting for a passage to India, went
out, as they say, 'to practise firing at a.mark : soon
after one of the party was brought back, havlag. been
ShOt'through the body, and died on Thursday morn-
ing of.the wound. The Magistrates of the place, in
due consideration of.the atlair, (not believing their
story) ordered them into custody, and they are now
in confinement. From the appearance of things it
has been suspected that the deceased went out with
one of the prisoners to fight a duel. This charge is
denied, and the parties maintain that the unfortunate
youth 'was shot by one of the pistols going off acci-
dentally. _
Thursday morning a servant belonging to Sir S.
COTTRELL, who had been ill some time,, in a fit of
delirium threw himself. into the Serpentine River,
and Vas drowned.