The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-20 00:00:00

being dishononred ; this was tha ca3e in the pree
Sent instance; the name of a friend of the Defend-
ant was put on this bill, in case of need, but no
application had been made there, and he 4npposed
this would be urged, as such an omission would
subject the - holders to all the consequences of a
failure in the payment; but he knew of no law to
establish such- a doctrine; on the contrary, though
such an application might be made, yet the holder
was not bound to, look to any other ior pnyment,
bet the person upon whom the bill was made pay-
able. The other ground was this—that the. bill
had not been presented for acceptance with due dili-
gence, and that by sending it round by Hamburgh,
instead of dired to Lisbon, the time was wasted.
until the arrival of the French ; when, if accepted
soon as it might, it would .have been paid in
course.- Now he held the distinetilm between bills
payable after date, and after sight, to be this ; in
the.first the holder was bound to present the bill
within the. time specified, or there would be a
laches ; but in the latter there was no *else pe-
riod when it should be offered for acceptance;
the only operation of. which was to mark the time
When it would fall due ; and this way the very
ground-work and., reason for drawing bills, payable
after sight, that the holders might have such time
as they should require to circulate them, before
the period of payment arrived ; upon both these
grounds he considered the Plaintiff as entitled to
recover. -
The-Copy of the bill and protest was by admission '
read. The bill was- drawn by Hatton and Sons,
Aberdeen, August 29, 1807, in favour of the De--
fendants, on a house in Oporto, payablez 1 days
after sight, and protested there for non-payment!
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN, for the Defendants, con-
. tended, that the Plaintiffs had not used duediligence,
and that it was for the Jury to decide whether they
had a right to send the bill into circulation through
enemy's country, at a time. when they might
have sent "it direct, the post being then
.open to'
Lisbon, and" Arch, if they had done, it would have
been accepted, and, of course, discharged, long be-
fore the intervention of the French. Another part
of the case thrthem to 'decide upon Was, whether
the PlaintiffS were not bound, in the event of non-
. payment, to apply to the person Whose mane ap-
peared on the back of the bill, in, case of need ?
This, he contended, 'they Were ; and that the effect
of that name was the same as if the 'bill had-been
drawn, payable in the alternative, either by one or
the other of the parties resident at Oporto. To
establish this dodrine; he proceeded to call a Gen-
tleni'an of the name of Bell, convetsaut in foreign.
bills of exchange, when---
The Learned JUDGE interrupted him, by asking
him hoW they, sitting in a Court of Law, could
know any other parties to bills of exchange than
the drawers, acceptors, and indorsers ? And further
obServed, that, in this instance, any application, as
contended for, -would have been absurd, as it was,
notorious the acceptors themselves were ready to'
pay,. but for the compulsive interference of the
,French.'
- The Learned Serjeant then
.confined the defence
to the point or due diligence, which, he submitted,
had not been used by . the Plaintiffs in sending the
bill circuitously, instead of &tea, to Lisbon..
The Learned JUDGE was beginning to sum up to
th? Jury , by stating he knew of no rule for present-
iog bills payable-after sight at any particular time,
when he was'stopped by the Jury, who said, they
word& not trouble his Lordship, as they were per-
feCtly satisfied on the subject, and immediately
found a verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, 7531.

A fire broke out at ten o'clock on Sunday night
at the house of Mr. Hend, at West Dean, near Cole-
brook, which was attended with melancholy circum-
stances. Mr. and Mrs. H. were on a visit about a
mile from home when the fire broke out, and before
they could arrive the house was consumed, and a
little boy, four years old, was buried in the ruins.
It 'vas occasioned by the maid servant, who had her
1,-s:tors in the kitchen, leaving a candle to near the

bed cuttains, which caught after she had put the
child, who was burnt, to baL

Such was the violence of the gale on Saturday
night, that it suddenly threw doWn one of the boxes
in St. James's Park, immediately behind Duke-street.
Unfortunately the centinel was in it at the time, and
remained under it till his groans attracted the atten-
tion of the next centinel, who extricated him from
his perilous situation. He was afterwards removed
to the Hospital, where, from the severe bruises lie
received, he now lies with little hopes of 'recovery.
—lt is remarkable, that on the same evening, in
another box near St. James's Palace, a centinel was
,found sitting speechless, from the extreme severity
of the cold ; but on his being removed to the guard
house, and placed near the tire, he gradually reco-
.vered from his torpid state.
Yesterday a man attended at the Navy Office,
and made a claim of money due to him as belong-
ing to the Mars, and other ships. Mr. BEDING.-
FIELD, the lnspeaor of Seamen's Claims, examined
into his, case, but could not find there was any
thing due, and gave him an answer accordingly ;.
bpwevr, with much difficulty he could be .prevailed
won to leave the place,. He afterwards returned to
th.e Office, and was so extremely troublesome, that
force was obliged to be resorted so, to turn him
out. At last he was conveyed' to
:Bow-street. It
is suspeded'he had broken out of a.mad-nouse. He
was committed to St. Clement's Workhouse, under
the warrant of Mr. RIJAD and Mr. BEDINGFI tLD,
as a dangerous lunatic. , .

• Early on Sunday morning the body of a reipeeta-
bly dressed man was found in the road leading from
The -bot-tom of Gray's Inn-lane to Camden- Town.—
It was yeiterdly owned, 'and proved to be Mr. J.
Pester, a Grazier, who resided in Cross-streot, Port-
land-street.f. He ;eft home after dinner, .as he said,
fbr a walk, and was supposed to have got.drunk,
and to have died from the inclemency of the wea-
ther.