The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-08 00:00:00

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bRI3TOL SVALIM'It dSSIZES, S-EPT. 5. -
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On Tuesday, Mr. Baron GRAUAM atrrived in'this
Bow-STIMET.---Yesterday Mr. NV, 1-1. Somerville, .
city, a!,d, atter opening his commission at •IVisi
late Second Lieutenant of his Majesty's Ship lienum-
' nri!ts, proceeded to try the following causes:—
Mie, .was. brought before Mr. NAaEs, the Sitting
Magistrate, and held to bail to keep the lksae. :Or ; • TIEamAN: v. GILES AND GRANGER.
twelve months, himself in 4001.. and two Securities ; This action was brotight for. :neglect, in not for-
in • Mi. each, fdrhaving challenged: Hugh Pearson" wardmg good-s- in A. 'reasonable time. 'The parti-
late First Lieutenant of his Majesty's said Ship; , culars were as follow ;—On the lith September,
Yesterday John Kray was examined, before Mr. i Bob, Mr.. Tyerinall sent a box lo_the Defendants'
READ,:- apprehended by •Pearks, charged "with rob- , warehouse in -Bris'tol,
.requesting it might be for-••
bing his master, Il Coumandier. di Aceto, of money warded to London the same. -day, -as it contained'
and jewels to the amount of 5001. . , .. furs, which had been sent on -approbation,
.and
• The Commandier di-Aceto deposed, that the Pri- which did. not suit ; Plaintiff heard nothing Of them
soner was his valet, and, on the night Of the 26111 11.:1 13th - December following (a lapse of nearly
of August last, his "house was robbed of money, tl re• m lulls), when he received a letter from. the
diamond brooches, .3r6. to. the amount of upwards 'furriers in London, . dated the t2th December,
of 5001. : . , • . stating tile arrival: of the furs that day, bdt in con-
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Several Witnesses attended, who -proved many st•quenca cf having been kept so lung, and the sea=
Circumstances of suspicion on the Prisoner, and. he. son bring over, they could not take them back,
was committed to Newgate to take his trial. , therefore they were returned to Plaintiff; he re-
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insect 'to -take their), and -cowmenced au . action
for the amount, in consequence of the detention.—
The -Defendants' Counsel admitted • w hat had been
sta'ed,.-but-,in their defence produced a notice of
the Defendants, stating,
..that they would not be
responsible for any goods delivered "to them above
the value of five pounds, except they were entered
and paid for accordingly. The Judge was of evpi-
Mori the Defendants were not liable.—Plaitititi

111..kresiQN-HousE.—A Frenchman, of the name,
of La Norman, was yesterday charged by Mr. An-
thony Longwith, weaver, Spitelfields, with swiud-
lug him out of goodS to the amount of 1301.
Mr. Longwith stated, that the Prisoner, accom-
panied by a person of the nape of John Cummins,
came to his warehouse, and informed him they
v:anted a quantity of goods to send to the West In-
dies. The Piisoner represented Cuinmilis',as. a trier-
chant-of great respectability, who' had Possessions
to a large extent in the West ludies ; told him that
he knew him •for many years, and that his
,paper
was as good as that of any house in London, Which-
induced him to let them have goods to the amount.
of 1301. for which he received a note of Cummins,
payable in six months; at this time 01111thillS had a
house in Leadenhall-street fOr a few weeks e he had
since. absconded, after he and the Prisoner had sold
the goods to another tradesman', for much less than
they held agreed to pay for them : this he could
prove by the person who bought them, and that
they divided the money equally between them;, be
had been in search of the Prisoner, but could not
get any account of 'him, till by accident he met him
this day in the street, • when he tried to avoid him,
but he caught him by the collar, and field him until
an officer was got to take him into custody.
The Prisoner made a most ingenious defence---he
said he lived in tee BOrotigh, that lie was a Bank-
rupt, and that the Assignees, under the Commis-
sion, had entrusted' him with
.50001. Worth of pro-
perty to dispose of for them ; not having his certi-
ficate, he was not able to commence business again,
but he thoneht he was justified in • business as
a Broker. Cummins was recommended to him as.
a West India Sle.rchatil, that wanted to buy goods,
and it he would choose the goods for him, be-should
ty.; allowed brokerage. He did not think it incum-
bent ou linnet° inquire particularly who Cummins
was, as he was only •Jo receive brokerage ; he knew
Cummins had a hoase, 18, Charles-street,' Black-
friar's-road, he knew nothing of him before the
transatlien with Mr. Long wit-h; he made no false
representation ; he only picket the goods 01.11",.and
was -paid his Commission. Cummins gave Mr. •
Longwith a reference-to two xespettable merchants,
Mr. Lee; of Oxford-rOad, was one, and another
Gentleman,' whoseaddress be did not remember.--
'Mr. Lontrwith seemed perte&ly satisfied with the ac-
count he had got ft urn those Getitkinen, 'and accept-
ed of Cummins's note, payable in six months, which
was not yet due, and he defied Mr. Longwith to say
or to shew, that his name was ever entered onelfis
books a, the purchaser or osteosible person. He.
was convinced the Magistrate would see hovi
little
cause there was to suspect him of a fraud ; for it bro-'.
kern were to inquire into the circumstances of the
persons that employed I.IICIII, their custom would be
small indeed ; under those constderatioes, he had no
doubt but the worthy Magistrate would discharge
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Mr. Longwitli Baia the Prisoner had not stated
the for wa, the who made the take
representation of Cummins, by which means he was
induced to, let him have the goods ;he not know
at the time the Prisoner was a bankrupt, but had
• learned it since from hi.s Assignee, who wrote to
him to beg that he would .have him secured, as he
had defrauded the Commission of several hundreds
of pounds ; besides,. there' was. an accomplice of the
.Prisoner and Cummins, that had made a full confes-
sion of the fa6ts.

noiisuited.

•The worthy, ALDERMAt remanded the Prisoner
for_further examination, and desired him, ‘:. hen he
was next.broughc up, to produce ill,: license that he,
as a_Frenchman, was permitted to remain itt this
country. • ,

Guir.DHALL.—On Tuesday a variety of charges,
...principally arising out of the transactions at Bar-
(tholomeW Fair,• were-brought before the Sitting Al-.
derman (BIRcH).
Two persons named Stilwell and Henderson were'
chared 'by the City Officers., as being •notorious
pickpockets. They had been seen in the most
crowded part of the Fair, with their hands in the
' pockets of different persons,' and the Officer, from
the previous knowledge they .had of their.charaCiers,
thought it their duty to take theth into custody.
On searching the prisoners, there was nothing
found upon them which went to• infer guilt. On
one of them a pocket handkerchief was found,
but no person appeared to claim it. The Worthy
Alderman, therefore, did not teel himself called on
to do farther than commit them' to Bridewell for a
week, before the expiration of which time the Fair
would be finished.

The mysterious disappearance of Mr. JOHN DEW-
HIRST,, of Sot by, Lincolnshire, who left his family
on Saturday the 17th of Ottober last, and was sup-
posedlo have been murdered on his return to Horn-
castle Market, is at length accounted for. His friends
have lately received a letter troth him, wherein he
states, that he is in good health in the Island of Ja-
maica, that he has got a place of 150 i. a year, and
he hopes his wife «rill go to him. He adds, that
he " left his family. on purpose to acquire property
enough to support old age." The letter was read
to many persons on Saturday. in Horncastle Market..
Two men were in Louth prison. last week; charged
with the murder of Mr. DEWHIEST.