The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-16 00:00:00

MOORSON V. PAGE'.

The plaintift, a banker and ship owner at Scar-
borough, brought this action of covenant upon a
charter party, by which'the defendant, a merchant
in London, had covenanted to freight the plain-
tiff's vessel, the Lavinia, with " copper, tallow,
or other. roods," from the Rio de la Plata toLqn-
don. The breach assigned was, that the defend-
ant bad put no copper, and hut eight tons. of
tallow on board, having made up the cargo with-
hldes.

It. was .contended for the plaintiff, that the 50
tons of copper and tallow was, a necessary part of
the cargo as ballast ; but the Court held, that the
words copper, tallow, or other goods,'' left the
defendant an optio❑ to load with what goods he
could get. This point of law being decided for
the defendant, it was contended for him, that he
ought not 10 have bee►► charged for freight on the
outside or envelope hide, in which a bundle of ten
other hides was wrapped ; but upon this: the
Court said, that a ►uan might just.as well not expect
to pay postugefor the cover of a letter. A long exa-

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of ‘'v A's 1.1; en gem. e I lit s c;)
weight (if the -cargo of hides at the fling's Beam,
it being the practice totifeigh One hide in ten,
and thaS calculate flier Weight '6f the 6tbers; The
pliiintht, by one of MI; *itnes3eS, Stiglteired, that
the heaviest Liles had been pietted oat for the
of giving- more than the fairworrage
t•c'eight of the carp. " After a considerable time
oc'enpied in investigating- tier until of this im-
putation; Which the Jury till nut seem to,think
had been made out, they returned a verdict for
the balance of freight duc•to the defendant, of
1231. 55. 1 id.

POLICE INTF,I,LIGENCE.

QI7EEN-tiqUARE'.

EXTENSIVE SWINDLING.- Yestertlay Thomas
iVatt, who was a few 'days since mentioned in
Mary Clarke's case as having taken the ►ho►tse No.
41, Haos-place, Sloane-street, ready furnished, of
Mrs. Bishop, at,200 guineas a year, tthder Inch
circumstances as to make her glad to regain pos-
session,' and of baying got to Newgate, 'was
brought up for swindling. Messrs. itivsrs and
Haymarket, charged him with having ob-
tained two bronze lamps, with circular plate
glasses, worth about 25 guineas, &c.
Mr. Milner stated, that about three weeks ago,.
prisoner mite, saying he wanted chandelier lamps,*
branches, Stc. for his draw iog-rooms ; that he was
a land-surveyor, and would pay in three months.
Mr. M. examined the rooms, and found the ar-
ticles quite inappropriate : nevertheless one lamp
was sent worth about 14 guineas.

Mr. WP Girth y had this lamp brought to him by
prisoner, who left STewgate on Saturday for &Ile,
it being offered for seven guineas, and seeing it
was worth twice the sum, lie was sure it had not
been honestly obtained ; therefore had the'pri,,
soner secured, on returning to coiftpletc the bar-
gain.
Prisoner stated he had held a commission in
the Rntlandshire ; was a gentleman by
birth, and having Obtained the goods on his own
credit, hail a right to do what he pleased with
them.

Mr. FiEt.ntxo sAid, that had a spark of the gen-
tleman remained breast, such clear proof of
fraud would have made him strike his forehead in
despair, • and exclaim, ‘• How: have I been dis-
gracin mys-elf and my ancestors !" instead of
committing. himself by a wanton flippancy of
tongue. Why call himself a land-surveyor, but
for fraud ; and why send quantities of rich furni-
ture into an already-furnished house, except with
the view of cheating-.
Prisoner replied, that he Wanted extra tables,
lamps, sofas, &c. and was compelled to remove•his
property to Ncw,gate, to prevent it front being'
seized for the King's taxes. "

Mr. FIELDING. was astonished that he could
talk of ""his property,'' when it had been so oh-
tailied.—Committed for furtbet. examination to
BridCwell. . •