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BRUSSELS, Nov. 29.

_ FLORENCE, Neev. zB.

HAGUE; DEC. 3.

The STAOTHOLDER sel. out on the srst or second
from Brunswick for Cassel, Where he will stop two
or three' days with the Landgrave, before he sets
out for Illemburt.
The Hanoverian Troops have been received with

transport in their former garrisons. At Ve.rdun
there has been a ball; illumination, acc. upon thiS
occasion, and this example will; we suppose, be fol-
lowed by the other Cities of the Electorate. Gene-
ral BLucKER's Prussian Hussars have taken the

Chief tithe Banditti who have been robbing in
IVestphalia. He is called Al. de Plittemberg, and
he is said io he a bastard of that ancient family
which has given its name to the small Town of
P/ittemberg, in Westphalia. This, however, will
not be the first time that a rogue has taken the
name of a reputable family, and abused it.
The Affair of the Prince de SALM is still spun
out. It is said that Mr. VIGNERON, who was
concerned in this business, will be condemned to the
galleys for ten years.
The plan of crazing the names of Emigrants en
zvasse, did not pass the Council of State ; therefore
they are granted individually.
•

THE Ex-Director BAR RAS is here, in the charac_

ter of an exile ; he is but little noticed, and does
not live at one, half of the expence that is stated in
'the
public Papers. He regrets much his past grandeur
--;-14e does nOt even visit 'the Prefeft.
We now begin to think that we shall ultimately
•belting to France, which will be very disagreeable
to majority of the Brabanters ; but we must submit
to our fate without complaining. Brusse/i. has last

almost every thing since the year 1794; it will now
be scarcely possible to restore her to her former
condition. Scarcity begins to be very sensibly felt
here.—Specie is very scarce, and the Shopkeepers
will not give any credit. We are promised better
times, but upon these promises we place no great
reliance. _

Marshal LAsdY is just dead. The excellent dis.
cipline of the Austrian Army is in a great measure
owing to him. Some changes in it are now going
to take place.
Marshal LASCY.was an Irishman, and served with
disiinCtion in the Seven years War.

'1.14E followingis the Letter, of the date of the
27th of August, transmitted to His Prussian Ma-
jesty by our Sovereign, immediately after his ac-
cession to the Throne t
" SIA,BROTH£R, AND COUSIN,
" As in consequence of the Treaty concluded, and signed
at Luneville, on the 9th of February of the present year, and
nubsequent -Conventions, the Sovereignty of the Kingdom of
Etruria has been conferred on me, 1 have repaired to these
my States, where I have considered it as one of the first
duties of my Government to inform your Majesty of my ar-
,rival, and to communicate to you the most sincere assurances
of my firm resoiuti?n to imitate, with th:: utmost zeal, the

example of My predecessors; by promoting, to the utmost of
rev power, every thing which may tend to the service of
your Majesty, and the advantage of your Subjeds. I flatter
A-nyself that ydur Majesty will receive graciously these pro-
'-„:fessions of my !.,igh esteem, and honour me cairn the same
'favour and friendship which my Predccessoti have r,:ceivcd.
this hope, and trusting that the Tuscan Natlon will be
t oriented with the same good will and protedion as the Sub,
;leas of your Majesty, I remain; with the highest esteem,
" Your Majesty's aite6tionate
" Baal. hex, SERVANT, Arer. COUSINi
" LOUIS."
P:Gra:cc, Aug. i 7, 'Sot.

Of the three Syndics) or Officers to watch over
the Constitution, that have been appointed, only
Citizen VAN DER Hoop has accepted his appoint,
menr) the two others having declined acing. Ad-
iniral C.INSBERGEN, and several other persons who
have been nominated Members of the different Mi-
nistries, have likewise refused to accept their ap-
pointments, and our Direaory is employed in chus-
lug others:
English PasseS,for:Dutch Ships have been received
from Citizen APOSTOOLL our Commissary in Eng_
land, for the care and exchange of Dutch Prisoners.
A Prussian Envoy is expeded here very soon.
tatavian Envoys will likewise be appointed to M.
drid and other Courts. Citizen MET IVERS is men-
tioned for dip former.
Several Merchants at Brussels, Ostend, and Art_
.4,1,1, are preparing to open a dired Trade with
America.

The regular communication between England and
Brusse/s is now restored, after an interval of seven
Years, that is from the 9th of July, 179+, on which
day the French entered Brussels. The Post now
goes twice a week to England from Brussels, by the
Way of Calais.

An F,,gle of a very large size has for some time
Past been hovering about the woods at Houghton in
Norfolk, and was on Sunday taken alive by Lord
t:IIOI.ItIONDELEY'S Keepers it measures eight feet
from wing to wing.

Died on Monday 14,th December, deeply regret-
ted by her husband, and many valuable friends and
relations, Mrs. Roßt RTS, of Dinbun, in the County
Denbigh..l-7Althotigh subject for many years to
tedious hours of pain and Alit:lion? yet she bore
them all with the composure and cbearfulness of
true Christian : she had all the good qualities
that could adorn the mind. The poor' have lost .a •
generous friend—her heart was ever open
,to their
wants, and her affability to her inferiors made her
beloved when living, and her death will long,be
Lme n ted
The.lpswich . Journal of Sattirday gives the fol-
lowing statemenv-respeaing, the property left by
Mrs. Norman, who lately died in that town.-,—On
her death, twenty-five half guineas were found
saved up in her stays, and two guineas in the fillet
tied about her head, whichi, from appearance, bad
been there some years, beidesil. in the house, and
securities to the amount of upwards. of 700). The
(1 %eased* dealt in distilled peppermint, was known
t'Y many to' have property; but 'was so very perw.
ri°us as almost to deny herself the necessaries of

At

COURT OE KING's BENCH, DEC.

ISITTOWS HETORL LORD KENYOIV AND A SPECIAL JIIR"1",

A.T GUILDHALL, LONDON.

MANN T . SKIFVNtR.
1
MIS was an Anion for Money had and received
by the Defendant for the Plaintiff; which, after an
opening by Mr. ER.SKI NE for the Plaintiff, and a
short statement by Mr. GIB ES on behalf of the De-
fendant, was agreed to he turned into a Special
Case-, for Argument before the- Court of King's
tench, on the following Statement of Fans :
" That a Mr. Heath, in Jamaica, for a valuable
consideration, paid to him by Mr. Allen,, as the
Agent of the Plaintiff, and a Mr. Leonard Parkin-
son, drew Bills on Messrs. Atherton and Ashley,
which they refused to accept, not having Funds,
which Bills were returned protested to the Island
of Jamaica ; but Mr. Parkinson's" proportion was
afterwards paid. Upon the return of the Bills,
Heath, the Drawer, shipped Sugars in the Hero,
25 tierces of which, comprehended in the Bill of
Lading [setting forth the Bill of Lading with the
Indorsement], and delivered the same to Mr. Allen
for the Plaintiff (Mann), and Mr. Parkinson. Mr.
Allen specially indorsed them over, and transmitted
the same to Mr. Parkinson, for the use of himself
and Mann. Mr. Parkinson's Bills having been
paid by Atherton and Ashley, he, by the desire of
Allen, delivered the Bill of Lading to the Plaintiff,
Man. Before the Sugars were shipped, Heath gave
advice (setting it forth) to Messrs. Atherton and
Ashley, who gave orders of Insurance (setting it
,forth),to the Defendant. The Ship sailed, and was
lost on the 12th of February, 18os. Mr. Mann,
after the loss, possessed of the Bill of Lading,
tendered the Premium of Insurance to the Detendant,
and demanded the Policy ; and having afterwards
discovered that the Under-writers had paid the
money, demanded the money. At the time of the
shipment of the Sugar by Heath, Heath was the
debtor of Atherton and Ashley, to a larger amount
than the sum insured, and the Defendant was the
creditor of Atherton and Ashley to more than the
amount of the same Insurance before, and at the
time he effected the Policy (stating it), which
debt remains unsatisfied. On the Ist of June, 18oz,
Atherton and Ashley stopped payment."
Lord KENYON said, that he certainly had a pretty
strong opinion on this case ; but, however, he
should pursue the usual course, by reserving it for
argument before the Court.

Verdi& for the- Plaintiff—subje& to the opinion
of the Court on the above statement.

VIDELL AND OTHERS V. LE COINTE AND OTHERS.

This was An AClion of Troyer, to recover the
value of five Boxes of Cambric, of which the fol-
lowing is a short account :
A Merchant,' at Antwerp, sent these Cambrics
to the Plaintiffs, _ above the value of zoool. on the
credit of which, the Plaintiffs advanced between
eight and nine hundred pounds. They came into
the hands of the Defendants, for the purpose of their
being taken to market fn. sale, by the consent of
the Plaintiffs, on the condition that the property
they advanced upon them, :;hould be secured ; bat
on no other did they suffer these goods to go out of
their hands ; of which the Plaintiffs fully apprized
the Defendants before they did deliver up the goods,
stating, that the Defendants might dispose of them,
subject to the payment of their demand, &c.

The Defence was that the Defendants were Mer-
chants here, in the habit of corresponding with the
Plaintiffs, and with the Owner of the gOods; 'that they
had to apply for a licence here, without which these
cambrics could not have 'been imported, but that
the claim which the Plaintiffs made for,.their sum of
Soot. was of A. doubtful nature. It was admitted
that the Plaintiff's might, in this Case, have trans-
mitted these goods by letters upon certain terms,
but it' w:,. contended, that ,it was, not correft to
say that they had a Lien on such goods, so trans-
mitted, because a Lien was that- power which a
person had over a thing that xi,"as in his hands :
but he Might nevertheless have an ,equitable claim
upon it.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL was proceeding to
contend that the Defendants. were not bound to de-
liver up, or answer for the value of these goods in
this case, when

Lorci:Ktrowx said it was dangerdus that this
definition of a Lien should go forth. He tookit that
a Lien was riot necessarily confined to the posses.
sion of goods.=lt was a faulty expressions from
Which much mischief might arise—he took it that
a specific Lien might be on goods that were not in
the.possession of the Party who had that Lien.—
From confining Lien to goods in possession of the
Party, nitich false reasoning and false conclusion had
been used and drawn. The Plaintiffs hire had pos.
session of these goods ; they stated the terms on
which, and on which only, they would allow the
Defendants to possess them • they had a right to
state-what terms they pleased before they parted
from these goods to the Defendants: The Defend-
ants had-no right to dispute the propriety of these
terms—as between the Plaintiffs and the Owrier of
the goods, the terms which the Plaintiffs imposed
before they delivered them up, might be subjea of
litigation, but the Defendants in this Adiori, had
'no right to say the terms were improper: If there,
was any impropriety in the claim the-Plaintiffs made
in this ease,: why did not the Party file a Bill of
Inter,pleader ? Here the Plaintiffs came into pos.
session of the goods, and they prescribed to the
Defendants the terms on which they delivered'the
goods up to them. What tight had the Defendants
to say to the Plaintiffs,--we will dispute your de-
mand against the Owner of the goods ? They had
no tight—the case was iiexfettly clear—his
Lordship thought that interessitodgbt to be added
to the sum for which this Adioovas brought, which
sum w.'s 8731. 7s: tad.
Verdict for the Plaintiffs, damages gaol..

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SHIPLEY 'V. lIELL.

This was an Aftion upon a Policy of Insurance upon
\.the Ship Mary, frdm Nrchangel 10 London. "It "ap.-.
geared in evidence that the Ship came safe to het

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t';',ooColgs in the river Thames; on Wetinestiay the
7th of Oaober, about two or three o'clock. On
iday the 9th Ate struck upon an anchor, and b'roke
in a part of her bottom, by which accident he
C,lptain stated he was obliged to run the Ship upon
the mud. The question wash Whether this was a
stranding

. ,
The Arrraß NET GENERAL ooserved, the voyte
was complete when she got, to her Moorings
The Learned Judge was of the same opinion, and
thought there was no pretence to recovi against
the Underwriters.—Verdielfrr tte Defendant.

COURT OF COMMON FLtlig, DEC. 22.
BEFORE LORD ALVANI.EY AND A SPECIAL JURY.
MOUK ,AND OTHERS against ABEL..

THIS was an aftion to recover 2001. the amount
of a Policy of Insurance on the cargo of the ship
Juliana Maria, from Bengal, by the Cape of Good
Hope, to Copenhagen, the vessel and goods being,
warranted Danish property. 'The vessel was cap-
tured by a French Privateer in Odober, 1797, car.
ried into Nantz, and there condemned by the Tri-
bunal of. Commerce.
It was.admitted that the vessel took in its lad-,
ing at Calcutta, as appeared by the bill Of lading,
and sailed from thence, and that the goods remained
on board until the vessel was captured by the
Enemy. •
M. Serjeant VAtiCHAN on behalf of the De-
fetult, took an objedion to the aetion, 'contend-
ing, that the voyage was illegal. By the -Navi-
gaticl% At of the rzth Charles IL it was provided, •
that no goods should be imported to, or exported
from, any Port in His Majesty's dominions, unless
in such vessels as were manned by British Seamen,
or were British built. The vessel in question was
Danish, manned by foreign Seamen, and sailed from
Calcutta, a British Port. The voyage, therefore,
being illegal, the Policy was of course void. -
Lord ALVANLEY being of opinion that the ob-
jedi,on precluded the Plaintiffs from recovering on
the Policy,
Mr. Serjeant SH FrnERD, on behalf of the Plain-
tiff's contended, that they were entitled to recover the
premium, being 2.11., no fraud whatever appearing
in the voyage, or in their condua.
A verdid was taken for 211., subjed to the
opinion of the Court, whether such a verdiCt was
legal ; if not, a nonsuit to be entered instead.

. ,
In another Insurance causei,where the vessel was
insured as neutral, but captured' by a French Pri-vtti-
tett., and condemned by the Tribunal of Commerce
at Nantz, as lawful priZe, which condemnation
was afterwards confirmed by the. Tribunal of Cassa-
tion at Paris, a cast was reserved for the opinion
of the Court, whether the condemnation of a fo`-
reign Court was itself conclusive evidence that
the vessel was not neutral.

BEFORE A COMMO;•/
MATTHUES.ON agaiiiSt BENNETT.

This aaion, the trial of which consumed a large
portion of the time of the Court, was hrOnght
agair,st- the Owner of .a vessel called the—Thils-
borough, employed in the Southern Whale. Fishery,
to reover a six hundredth share of the net proceeds
of the ,-argo, which was claimed by the Plaintiff
as k bainan an board the s,iitti,c,ss.el.

It appeared chat the Plaintiff had been taken on
board at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, and
had signed certain articles; to which the rest of the
crew had agreed, by which each person on board was
to receive a certain share of the net proceeds of the
according as the same should be sold by the
owners. The Plaintiff, not being a Seaman, was
to have a third of a Seaman's pay, as it was called,
being a six hundredth share, which, after the net
proceeds of the cargo had been proved, Was ad-
mitted to be 121. gs. Bd.
A set-off was given in evidence on the part of
the Defendant, consisting of slops furnished to the
Plaintiff, sick quarters, hospital money,
.'and other
articles, amounting to upwards of 161., .which bet-
ing proved to the satisfattion ,of the Jury, they
found a verdiet for the Defendant.

Yesterday was married, I'. HoLT Wii ill:, Of the
Inner Temple, Esq. to Miss L. RASHLEICH,
youngest Daughter of JOHN RASHLEIGH) Esq., of
Penqbite, in the County of Cornwall:
Though a certain great Patriot may be gifted
with the wonderful faculty of fearing silenee, he is
evidently as little friendly to .it
,as Echo. Indeed
he 'may be' more compared with that aerial Being
than with any other, since the general nature of
his harangues is merely repetition.
It has been thought, that the word Amateur has
been improperly applied to Graziers ; but surely,
that class of the Community must be confessed to
have great kdowledge in Breeding:
that the m
Letters from Berlin state; e celebrated
Astronomer; BODE, has received froth M. De Pt-
Azzt, of Palermo, two letters; in which he con_
curs with M. Bone,. that the Star discovered on
the t3th of January last; is a Planet. The German
Astionothers propose to call it Juno, in analogy with
the nanicis of the other Planets, but M. DE PIAZzi
wishes it to be called Cerel Fernandia, iii allusion
to Sicily, the ancient dorninibri of Ceres; and to the
reigning Monarch.

The Fortuna, Fioifretten, from Malaga to Bre..
men, is stranded on Jutland ; crew saved.
The Daedalus, Darby, of London, from Riga, is
totally lost on ,Bornholm ; crew saved.
The Parthenis; Walker, from Petersburgh, for
tondPn, is totally lost near hlogland ; crew.saved..
- :The Junius, Aiken,' of Shields; from Mettle], is
on shore on the Ground§i.near RIS-inore; and full of
water; part, of her Cargo
The. Charles, Kelly, of Dublin, is lost at Riga.
The Stadt Copenhagen, •, ,from Plymouth
to Norway; is lost on.the Flemish Coast.

The John, Conner, from Petersburgh to White_
hdyen, is, totally lost on Bornholm ; the Crew and
a small part of the Cargo saved.
.A few mornings since, a servant of Mr. tArsins
was stopped between the Green Man Gate and the
Half-way House, on the Deptford Road, by two
footpads, 'Who robb..l, him of cash and notes to the
aniount of •