The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-01 00:00:00

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onNERAL DISTRIfitfTION 'OF Tli'L DRItISH

ATZMY, DEC. I, IbOI.
Ergular:. Frnritlles. A fy. Tot • 1.17‘
Inf . G. inf. liat-Cmp
=3 2S .S" 71 12. 4.
14 4
S 1 Fj

E ngland and lA' al
North 13:':taiii
relind -
Jersey, ctwrnscy,
Gibraltar". -
Minorca and Malta - .1
Egypt - . 3 2.5
Canada, Nova Scotia, &c.
West Indies. - - I 34
Cape of Good Hopc;
East Indies - 4 It

7 IT;

32 -
2 -
4 ,--

30
7
35
‘.9

Total 41 14Y 44 $6 310.

(,!1 And D:taclnnents.

. .(6j..The Coinpaiiy's. Troops exclusive... • ~ ,
* F.x.cl%SiNe Artillery 21.110 lingincer's hory an.d.a.13T03.4,.
Independeilt Cohipanie,s, Recruiting Coris;

F.ASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

, . .
DRESS.—Round dress of thick white mu:lip,
The Hungarian cloak made of naCarat, or scarlet trim-
med all round with broad lace orfur. A bonnet of the same
colour as the cloak, trimmed with black lace or fur, aud or.
namented with a flower or feather of the Sarne cOluur.

xs .--A shoit robe of fine• muslin, with a train
or petticoat of the stie., the robe tna,le plain over the bosom,
With additional fronts tc,l fly open from the shoulders. The
whole bound With starlet ribbon t-07: sle,:ves and the robe
from the shoulders to the bottom are otnamcnteci wlthiscarlet
rilabon.—The bosom trimmed round with deep white lace.
A,liat of white silk turned up.in front, and lined with sc it-
let ;, a feather of the same coiouefixed in front; to fall o,rer
the crown.

DRESSES.—t. A bonnet of black velvet, trimmed
with blue ribbon ; a deep black lace round the front.,
A close boun...-!t of purple orother Colour,:dsilk' tilt:roma
with ribbon of th7Lt,'Saiiia colour; andornamented with a- dower
in front,.
3. 41 bonnet ofb-lack,velvet, tamed up is i front, and lined
and trimmed with scarlet i a scarlet feather in froi t: '"

4. 'A cap of 4.)loured velvi3, with a flower of tbc sat= co-
lour in front.

domestic or undress cap of fine . . •
6. A bonnet of pink silk, trimmed with bliick ribbon; tnd
a black feather lace round the front. • .

7. A dres hat of wltiTe satin, turned up in frni-it, and
trimmed with purple velvet; purple and white feathers in
front.

8. A black veli,et hat, turned up in front; and lined and
tritameihwith purple.
:9. A hatiof brown velvet, turned up in front, and trimmed
with pink ; bows before ana behind.
OB FH.VA r ios - -The prevailing colours are. scarlet,
pink., and purple.. Mack bear muffs and tippetS' lone. be-
lore, and in the forth ofa handkerchief, are general for-morn-
ing and Walking dress, and White Muffs and tippets for :fiat
dress. Feathers and flower,] of all-descriptionS arc universal ;
long scarlet ribbons are worn round tkte bosom, from y.hich
Miniatures or lockets, are suspended: Caps in full 'dieSS are
more prevalent than last winter. .

• . .
-The Ballet of Illczni;char is now the favourite at
the_Parisian Opera. It is not Unworthy, of ob_
servatiOn, that ;Khile Mantic Hir.i.IGSBERG de=
lights the English in F.`achar;s, it is one of our own
Countty-women, k Miss MILLER, Who perforins
thatpart with great applause on the The‘dre ue la
Republipie & des 4rti.
K> I.tlii.E was , . .
pieient at the dramatic represen,
tation at Strawberry:hill, .on S.gitiday, and,
_with
the proVident zeal of a good iManaget,_has, we tin...
derstand, obtained permission to have the Mann..
script Comedy of The Fgslipnaqe perform..
ed on that occasion., brought forward at Drury lane
Theatre. It is, according to report, such an ele.
gaits, neat, and spirited composition, that there is
no re.l-4on to doubt its s,y2cs_•Ls.-
Mr. Alowg, the Liverpool Manager,
.has,
understand,
.offered Mrs. BILL' tetc..TUN, a Thousand
Pounds to perform one month at Li verpopl,
that she. will probably accepts,.ifhe retrains-in this
Country. , ,
In a Morning Paper;yesterday,, one 62,tady
adverriSes for a set of "l'eeihwhicli She
had dropped, in the street,, and inoth:er Wants a
husband. Tlie latter has, it seems, what thc''otliei
Stands so mach in need of, a 60th.
On Tiles.dak last, a SWindlei of the mine of
81.1.bler, under false pretences, defraudedlW.:
MARF'sioTT, Banker, and IVlessrs:"SmiTits.;:,Lace,.
Meichants Of NorthaMpton; of
,property to the
amount of ,uPWards of soa—Upon discOVerink
the fratid, they immediately •followed him to town,
wheie lie Was apprehended on Thursday e‘'-enirigi
and very near the Whole of the pro^peity recovered,
We find we were • not. Correa in the statement
WhiCh appeared in our Paper last-Saturday, .
ing the price of Wheat ifiAugust 1796; wieh -a re,
ference to the Price of Bread at that tirn!e, as it ap-
i)ears from thell4alweighei:s' Retell, prom, which
the assize is set, that on the 1,01 of ,Augnst
Wliet was 'from 4.05. to 635.• per titiarter;•an&thO
average SSs. ;4.-!-d. and on ✓the- i3d of the same
month, Wheat was from igs.• to the average
4os. 61-d.
A singular accident haPpened
.yesterday. after..
noon, about three o'clock, in. Old Bondireet
hackney-4:040i passing opposite the paper-hanger's.,
about the middle of the street, the ground gave
way, and. one of the horses fell into the common..
sewer ; a .depth of near 414, feet. Every Means
,weie employed to find the horse, but we believe
without effed. The poor animal, endeavouring
to find his way out through the intricate Windings
of the sewer, mast probably perished..
ExTRA
,SitutrsoN, -of
the irth Light Dragoons, hasnengaged to walk 9cr
miles in twenty-one hourS- and a half,' for logo
guineas: He has fixed upon the same ground on
which Mr. PARCLXY perfordied his time-match.
On Thursday a Walking-Match: took place be-
tWcenLieutennt FtioTu and Mr. SHIP, Veterinary
SurgeOn, bosh of the I 1 th Light Dragoons, for ten
guineas a side; to walk fifteen miles (they started
near Vocklington, and walked to York); which wa:
wort by theformer Gentleman. They each perform.-
ed the journey within three Burs.
On .Monday se'nnight Mr. JAMES H6Usort, of
Beverley, set off from that place to walk to York
(a distance of more than- a'B' miles) in six_ hours and
d half; for a small wager. He peffamed the jonr_
ney in five hours and forty-five minutes, being for
five minutes less than the time allowed.

On Saturday night, about seven o'clock; as
Bowker and his daughter, of jelain-street, were, re_
turning from Snar6brook, near Epping. Forest,' fo.
town, they were stopped in a singre horse chaise by
two tbutpads arced with cutlasses and bitidgeon,
whO with hOrridTmprecatiorrs demanded their mor: y
and watches,. which Laving Obtained, they effentAi
th6.r escape.

REPORT.

c?titT 7P KING's BENCH, Nov. 30.
SITTINGS 87.1'01t4 LORD KXNVON IN WISTMINSTSR-

ItA.LL.

DAVISON V. GILDART.

, Tor Plaintiff is a Milliner in Pall-Mall ; the
Defendant a Clergyman residing in Yorkshire, but
who, with his wife, conies- occasionally to town.
This was an anion brought for the amount of a
bill for a cloak and other articles of wearing apparel
furnished for Mrs. Gildart the Defendant's wife,
they. were at lodgings in Millman-street,
Bediord.row, in the Spring, April or May 1799 ;
and it appeared clearly that these articles were fur-
nished to the Defendant's wife while they were in
lodgings at this place, .and living together ; and it
was said that the charges were reasonable charges,
of what -was called a ready money price.—This
•was the- case on the part of the Plaintiff.
Mr. ERSKINE contended, on the part of the De-
fendant,• that he was not liable to pay thiS demand,
and, he said, it was material to every tradesman
in this country, particularly in this town, to know,
that if ,a man's wife, living with him, goes to the
shop of any tradesman,- and contraas debts in the
absence of her husband, that husband is answerable
for such debts only to such an amount as may. be
suitable to his degree in life, and it was well that
the law was so, otherwise a man might be ruined
before he could have time to look about him. This
_Defendant was -a Clergyman, living in Yorkshire,
and,, occasionally, came to London with his wife.
That wife, although he had not the slightest reason
.to suspeet her virtue, had the failing to be most
extravagantly fond of dress, for Which the dissi-
pation of this metropolis afforded her too many op-
portunities of indulging, and which she did to such
.an extent, that it became the subjeet of disagree-
ment between her and her husband,• and caused their
separation for a While. In consequence of this un-
happy infirmity of the Defendant's wife, the De.,
lendant finding himself surrounded daily by credi-
tors on her account, gave notice to those who used
to give her credit, not to deal with her'y titan but
to ready money, and this was the Defendant's case
in this atllon. After this the •?laintiff had thought
fit to trust her, for which the Defendant was not
liable in point of law any more ti-.an in point of
conscience. The Defendant had only this com-
plaint to make against his wife ; she had. no other
infirmity: she was the mother of seven children,
and entirely virtuous ; but the law did not call on
the -Defendant to answer for all her improvident con-
tratas when they went beyond his degree, and that
the more especially after the Defendant had given
the Plaintiff notice not to give out any articles to
his wife-otherwise than for ready money ; notwith-
standing this the Plaintiff chOse to trust this Lady,
who -had this absurd propensity to extravagance in
dress, to the amount of 171. and upwards. There
was another circumstance of which the Defendant
had reason' to complain loudly, and that was, the
art that had been used by Mrs. Dawson to entice
this dress-smitten Lady, the Defendant's wife, to
purchase different articles of futery and frippery.
There needed no eloquence to assist this Lady in
her fondness for dress ; and yet, after this caution
un d Fitt tar the not •rk•cfr hio
Miss Dawson, by her mother's dircEtion, had written
to Mrs. Gildart a letter on the I 8 th of April t Soo,
as follows •

" Mrs. Dawson is extremely sorry to trouble Mrs.
Gildart about the little account of last year, but as
Mrs: Gildart particularly
,desired it to be charged as
read}' money price, as she said Mr. Gildart. would
be 'extremely angry ifshe left Town without paying
tot Dawson, did not get any 'thing by it,
as Mrs. Gildart left Town : She has been a loser—
She.v.ill be. very much obliged' by a remittance.—
Mfs. -Dawson, on the first week in May, introduces
a Spring Hat, of which nothing before was ever
tna-nufattured of the kind, it, is so strikingly elegant
and jiinple, and so much in Mrs. Gildart's stile,
that Mrs. Dawson much hOpes to receive an order."
This was the sort of
,flummery by . which, This
Plaintiff. recommended her frippery, and it succeeded
too well with this unfortunate Devotee to Finery,
the Defendant's wife, for a bonnet was never ten
minutes iti het eye, before it was upon her head, if
promising to pay for it could give it a place there;
a§,-to the Defendant's sorrow, it had been the case
frequently, and would appear to-day, if the Plain:.
tiff chose to aft with candour, by producing the
'Books, by which it would appear that the last rol.
that was paid by this Defendant to 'the Plaintiff,
was on account of,a balance ofa bill for pl. for, ar-
ticle of dress, furnished by the Plaintiff to the be-
leildant's wife. NOtice had been
:given- to the
Plaintiff to produce his books. 14 one word, the
Defendant Would be undone if all the'ex-travagant
cOntrins of this-wife of his, Were to beheld bind-
ing n'pon him. 'SO true it was, that a woman who
ZYas not only virttidus, but free from every foible
btrt'one; Might be the ruin of her husband by that
fbible, bat he was confident the case would
not be so in the present instance.
Mr. Sinclair, an Attorney, being• examined,
``swore as fellows :—" I saw Mr. Benjamin, Dawson
(the Plaintiff), about eight or ten days ago, on the
-subjet of this Adion. I asked him, . whether., he
had been paid any Money on account of thii Lady.
I cAled with Mr..Gildart on him, in Pall-mall.—l
c-:Hied,on 'him for the purpose of knowing, whether
Mrs: ',Dawson would acknowledge a Letter which
;he received frOiii him. • I produced that Letter 'to
him: I did it to save the trouble of subpoenaing
WitneseS' to Prove the hand-writing.. He looleed at
the Letter, and Said, he would not deny-the Letter,
but acknowledged -thAt it .was his Letter. 'Mr. Gil_
,dart expressed his -stirprise that after the intimation
and notice lie had given, that he could let his wife
:tin up any bill there. . The words were----." After
the notice i have giVen you, I am very much sur-
prised that you shouldiet.my wife real Up a bill.—l
havc given you tiOlice; frequently, shat,you should
rot give • I,r any article without ready thOney, and
that. she Should not lave bill' with you at all."
Mr. baWson Said, "It is true, ybit.liaite given me

notice tolhat elre6l, but as `,;Nits. Gil4art had been,. '
for several years, a respeetable customer. of .my:
wife's, I wished her name to be on my books,
though I should have preferred ready money."—'
That is all.-that passed.
On cross-examination, the Witness said, " that the.
wayhe came to call on-Mr. Dawson, was, to learn.
whether he would acknowledge his hand-writing, to
save the trouble and expense of subpcznaing Wit-
nesses to prove ita—l do. not think that the De-
fendant is a distressed man. He is a very respect-
able man: I dare .say his Living is worth 7001.
a year ;.but what his private fortune is, I cannot
tell."
Lord KErryoff.—" The question here is, whe-
ther a persOn giving credit to a wife, contrary to
the diredion of the husband, recover that credit
in a Court of Justice To that question only one
answer can be given; most undoubtely he cannot."
Mr. MTNGAY, on the part of the Plaintiff did
nor deny the proposition laid down by my Lord, as
a general proposition, but submitted it to the Jury
as frquestion to be decided by them, whether the
Defendant had not waived his right to insist on that
proposition in this Case, inasmuch as this cloak and
the other articles were furnished to the wife while
the husband was with her. That he saw her wear
the articles, and that he ought to have refused to
allow them to be taken in ; that if he was averse
to his njfe's wearing these fine things, he ou to
have ttrrnetl-out the person who brought the. 'le,
band-box arid. baggage..
_But that if., Jl. -bse to
bring his wile with hiirCter:o4ll;ay metropolis,
instead of keeping her (as perhaps she ought to be
kept) with her family in Yorkshire, and chose to
let her wear this sort of finery, and take it in at
his own lodgings, he ought to pay the tradesman
who furnishes; it, as it appeared to be sold for a
ready-money price. This he submitted to the
Jury to be disposed of as it should impress their
minds. He thought they would consider whether
the Defendant ought not. in this Case, either to pay
for or send back the goods.
Lord KENYON.—" Gentlemen of the Jury—lf
the Plaintiff has a right to substantiate this Case,
and to inforce the payment of this demand, in a
Court of Justice, it seems to me that there is an
end of all domestic felicity whatever among us,
and an end also to that protedion which honest
prudence has hitherto cast around_a man who would
otherwise be undone by the improvidence of another.
A man is liable to maintain his wife up to the ex--
tein of his degree in life ; this he is liable to, not
only by the Law of the Land, but also by every
social, moral, and religious duty. They all call on
him to do so ; and if he treats his wife with any
cruelty, turns her out of doors, and refuses to
allow her necessaries, he compels her to contraEt
debts in her own support ; and for such debts, up to
the extent of his ability he is liable to pay ; but I
never heard it, nor could an hundred verdidsp if it
were possible for them 'to beativen, influence the
Law upon this subject, that ir a man's wife boos
to a person and tuns in debt, and then the husband
afterwards desires that person to be cautious in.
future and not to trust her, but, to deal only .for
ready-money with her, that such a husband. shall
pay the debts which his wife enters into with that
person, when the husband says expressly will
not pay her bills,' he cannot be called upon at all,
except where he turns her out of doors, and. she
contrifts debts for her necessary support in life.
I know the Learned Gentleman ,_vho addressed you
*on behalf of the Plaintiff in this Case, to be -an
honourable man ; I am almost sorry that he should
address you at all on such a subject as this ; it is a
Case that is too clear, it is a Case where the pre-
cedent .would be pernicious if a Verdi& were given
for the Plaintiff.—Most clearly the Plaintiff has
made out no demand, and most elearly. the Defend..
ant is entitled to your Vcrdil."
Verdid for the Defendant.