The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DuttLlN, I‘Lti3en 5.-7-4 servant girl in.this.city
►.has, within thpe few days, come into the possession
of a most ample fortune.. It is upwards' of twenty.
years since a young man who paid his addresses to
"her, 'and was refused, -entered" into the military ser-
vice of the &st India Company ; he had never-been
since heard of until about a month ago, when she
received inforniation from a resotiaable Law Agent
in London, that her lover clied'aibout eleven months
since in one of the Compeinfs Settleinents,"whdre
he had held, for the last fifteen years', a civil em-
ployment, and that he had bequeathed to the former
obje& of his affetlions; if living, the entire of his
property, amounting to 25,0001: The. fortunate
damsel left her master's house a few days since, an 4
:sailed for Holyhead, on her way to London. -'
The following outrage" was committed within.
about three miles of Waterford, ort the night of Sa-
,turday sc'nnight :—Several men, well armed with'
blunderbusses, swords, pistols, &c. made their ap-
pearance in ,the neighbourhood of. Ballyduff, Atn-
berhill, and Mount Congreve. They first assaulted
the house of a farmer, of the 'name "of 'Navan,"
against whom they Are supposed to haveentertained
the most fatal designs. Not finding the proprietor
at home, they robbed' the house of two muskets,
and then departed,': Without doing any other . ma-
terial injury. "-They then proceeded to the house sof
Jordan, another fitrtiter, whom they dbrnpelled
swear that he wouldconclud them to the residence
of one Fitzgerald, who had 'recently' taken some
ground. ,They met Fitzgerald on the road as they
were proceeding to his house. After grossly' abusing
and beating hiM, they forced him to take an oath that
he would deliyer" up the uronitd -the- very next day.
Fitzgerald's -horse, toge.ther.vvith some other horses
in the neighbourhood, were then tsken by them,
and the whole party speedily made off with them-
selves. The proprietors of the horses comineneed
next day an early and diligent, search -for th6ir reco-
very. Willie thus employed, they discovered John
Fitzgerald, whom they iimnediately took into cus-
tody. This is a distinguished gfilldikr, and %vas,
about two years ago, an inmate of Waterford Gaol
on 'a charge of murder.

• A theatrical Lady, who' had: bcen engaged with
her husband to perform on the Dublin stage, has,
it' seems, been recently obliged
.to return to this
Country, in-consegnence of a,suspicion that she was
too closely- besieged by the son of a diStinguished
pillar of thel,aw, in Ireland. According to report,
her drawers were searched, on the intimation of a
friend of the husband, and Letters were found which
at least justified immediate measures'of precaution.
It was repOrted.that the gallant had been. put under
arrest on this occasion, but the report is not true.
Mrs: DIDIER, a comic aEtress, who has been per-
forming. on the Bath stage for forty years, retired
froM publiC life a few days ago, and took leave of
the audience - with an occat,iohal Address. This'
Lady performed, during the summer, several seasons
at the Haymarket Theatre, while it was:under the
management -of. FOOTE. She possessed a consider-
able share of merit, and has condu&ed herself
thrOnghout the whole of her theatrical career with
such uniform propriety as well deserves the tribute.
of applause. It is evident that hu merit in this—re-
sped did not pass unnoticed-or unrewarded by the
Proprietors of the theatre, as she gratefully acknow-
ledges in the following passage in her Address

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6, My worthy Alanageri, whose gentle
" 11441 e (.ne laritht

Ll' REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARcxg.

MASON AND LACE V. WORRALL.

The Plaintiffs, the holders of a PrOmissory;Note,
brought this adiOn atainst W. Worrall; the Defend-
ant, as indorser: The transa6tiOn was:some,.vhat
irregalar. Jorin Worrall; the brother of the De-
fendant; Wanting money, the Defendant agreed to
lend him bills of exchange to the amount of lOqui.
for which the Defendant received no consideration,
and John Worrall was, in fa&, much indebted to
Wtu, Worrall on other accounts. At that time the
Defenciant did not indorse the bill; but some time
afferwarde, it being passed over to the Plaintiff, one
Briggs, their. clerk; applied to the Defendant to have,
the bill indorsed ; arid, said, that John Worrall had,
told him that the Defendant had agreed to indorse it,
and he must. Wm. Woriall made some objection,
and said, if they doubted it; he would guarantee the
bill, but at length agreed to put hiS name upon ir,
which .accordingly stood after MasOn and his part-
ner's indorsement. In this situation it would have
regularly appeared that Mason and Co. were answer-
nble 'to the Defendant, instead of the Defendant be-
ing-answera.blko them: It was, however, contend-
eclat] behalf 3F the Plaintiff's, that the indorsement
must be considered' according to the agreement, as
an indorsement antecedent to Mason and Cp. and
.not subsequent, and that they were entitled to sti4
the Defendant upon it. •
Mr. MARRVATT, for the Defendant; argued, that
it must be considered only as a guaranty, and not an
indorsement; and was void by the Statute of 'Frauds,
the whole agreement not appearing in writing. He
said also, that if it had been an.indorsement, inserted
as it were nunc pro tune, it might and would have
been easily inserted befere the name of Mason and
Co. as there was full room for it. He then called
,John..Worrall, :who. contradided.Briggs, and said,
thavile had never told him that Win. Worrall had .
engaged, to indorse it, and would indorse it, but that,
in-faa the Defeudant's name was put on the bill-,
merely to render it'nsore easily negotiable.
• Lord EoLtncnonouGH said, that_ .the question
.would be whether it' was agreed to he' an indorse-
ment nitne pro tune, or Merely to give the bill a
Inure:negotiable appearance, without rendering...the-
Defendant liable to Mason and Co.; and he agreed
that it would have been .easy to have inserted the
indorsement before their name, as there was rodmi
and that it would be better • to hold .persons to more'
regularity in their proceedings in busin(4ss.—Vw-dict
.for the Defendant.

BOURNE-V. ROBINSON, ASSIGNEE OF AK.ERMAti.

This was an a&ion of trover, to recover a large
quantity of logwood, which had been imported 1y
. the bankrupt Akerman, of the house of Thyerson,.
Akerman, and Co.. and was'suld to the Plaintiff for
10001. It was.at the time lying in the West 'lndia
Doeks ; and the custom is, fur the Company to give
a."-pertificate of the receipt of the goods, and of the
naffie of the ship and owner, which is delivered to
the ciWner. This certifieate be indorses to'ithy one
to whom .he sells thegoods ; and upon this indorse-
ment, and producing the original consignment, the,
transfer is made from one proprietor to another,.
without removing the goods.
n this care-the goods .10d remained its the Dock
Company's books, in the name of Alerman, and,
. by mistake there had been a re-piling of the logwood.
for him ; but Bourne lad the certificate delivered to
him, and the Clerk to the Dock Company said '
Akerman could not have the goods delivered to him
Withent pi-000'611g the original certificate- Bourne
affd *Co. app:ied to the Dock Company for the
'43, but were told that the Assignees of AkerriLin
had given an order not to deliver it to any one with=. -
out their order. UpOn this the Plaintiff wrote to tie
Defendants, and received for answer, that they
meant to retain it as the property Of Akerman, and
should prote6t his right. •
Mr..G/111E10W, fur the Defendants, now insisted
that the Defendants' were entitled to retain the log-,
wood, tmidet' the Statute 21 Jac: I. as being property
left:in tbe" visible possession 'of the bankrupt; or
that at least trover.could not be maintained, because
no conversion was proved.
Lor'd ELLENBORO6GR, •C. J. held,
.that as the
bankrulit had'parted with the certificate to the. Plain-
he could have no .controul over the property;
which took it out of the Statute ; and also that there
Was'a conversion by the terms of the letter.—Ver-
dki forthe

The business of the Sittings was concluded this

ss
A pardon has,been granted to au unfortunate young
Centleman ooDoblin, 'named GANNO, who was
lately convided of forgety, hut Nin whose favour so
many alleviating circumstances appeared, that he was
very steongly.
.recOmmended to mercy.
To-day
~no. Court of Alderman being held, the
iNiAyoa, after inspe&ing the returns of the
Meahveighers, ordered that no alteration should be
made in the price of Bread.

The following curious letter from Mr. MANNING,
dissenting teacher, at Halstead, in Esse‘x, to Jon
AloatrY, Halstead, is copied fibm a manuscript
preserved in the British Museum, and will probably
amuse many of our readers

" Halstead, •Aug. 2, 1732.
Sir—The narrative which I gave you, in rcla-
lion to witchcraft, and which von are pleased to lay
your commands upon me to repeat, is as follows
There was one Master Collett, a smith by trade, of
Haveningham, in the county of SuWolk, formerly
servant in Sir John Duke's family, in Benhall, iii
Suffolk, who, as 'twas customary with him, assist-
ing the maide to ,churn, and being unable
,(as the
saying is) to make the butter come, threw an hot
iron into the churn, under the notion of witchcraft
" •the case, upon which a pow- labourer, then em 7
tployed irfe:trrying dung in the yard, cried Out in a
terrible manner, ." They have Wed me, they have
killed me," `Still.keping his 'land upop his back,
intimating' were the pain wa4, and died Upon the
spot !

" Mr. Collett, 'with the rest of the servants, to sk
off the 'poor man's clothes, and found, to their great
surprise, the mark of the iron that was heated, and
thrown into the churn, strongly impressed upon hi;
back; This account I had from Mr. Collett's own
-rnauth, who, being a man of unblemished charr.c-
ter,- Iverily believe. I am*, &c.

gr MASNING.

PARTE. •
On Saturday-morning a horse-race took place, oue
mile in distance, on the Lea Road, between two
persons; for a wager of 20 guineas and. a dinner.--
One Of them had his hands and legs tied; the other
rode taackwards. The race, as might be expetacd,
afforded, much sport; and was. Won trhim" that rode
Lack wards.
Yesterday moAing, between i and. 9- o'clock,- a
foot nice' of too yard-s distance was run, -in Hyde
Park, between Lord Dorchester's kite CoaCiunan,'
• and Grindley, the hot4closer, for 40 -guineas aside.
The former took the lead at starting,. but, on his
turning partly round to look where his antagonist
was, the latter ran up, passed him, and won the
race.. There,was a great many people on the ground-,
not wit listandingth:: unfavourable state of the ,wea-.
ther, and several heavy bets were laid, among the
sporting Gentle:nen..
The number of horses for which duty is paid.in
Grcat BritAin is 1„17$,000 ; 'their -annual consunip-
tion is Stated, in the Agricultural Reports, to be the
pro2tte,of 7,00(7,060 acres. l'he-nuniber Of acres
necessary to afford subsistence to eight milli6n
pi,; in England, *according to the present diode; of
is estimated at 2!,000,003, including twelve
miliion as grass land for meat.
./..Ufe preserved lv:,t presence c 'm.irtd in toys.—Ott
Stturcl.,v a little fellow of the. name of Svian.,7 who
had/fool hardily ventured upon the ice on the high
da,n, or. reser% oir, behind LiVerpool, which was
thin for evenere: hi weigln, fell in, and was
spwiiing in the v.ate:, with his helplesS cOmpa-;,
n'otls et his own age :,tandint abOut.llitii, encourag
to swim, but enable to tender him any as-
tistance. At this Cru:„:al moment a party of the
grammar school bays, not much his seniors, wit 6
were out upon their Saturday's ramb:e, arrived at the
spot, and With att admirable presence of mind, col-
letting all the Landkercilief:s they bad among them,
tied them ont.: to another, and stob-or piece of
raring at the -cud, which they immediately threw
in to the dro.:‘ ning infant, and thereby drew him
front his perilous t•itnation, and restotedlim in safe-
ly to, his friends and to the world !

St. IAM.ES's HAY MARKET, March 7.
Hay, 31. ss. oci. to 51. os. od.—Aver. 41. 2s. 6d,
Straw, 31. os. od. to 31. 9s. od.--Aver. 31. 4s. 6d,

WHITECHAPEL FLAY MARKET. ,
Hay, 31. los. 9d. to 51. cos, od.—A.ver. 41. is. od.
Clover, 51. os. od. to 61. -os. od.—Aver. si. hos. od.
Straw; at. los. od. to 31. 6s. yd.—Aver. IL 18s. od..

COAL :MARKET.

Ships at Market.
March 2. ro Sunderland
- .78 Newcastle
6 Sunderland
4• So NeWczWie
6 Sut.clerland.
Stone. Coal
• 6. 30 Newcastle

Sold.
6 at 36$ 9d. 42S cad
27 at 36s od 41.?,,s 3d
2 at 4(s 9d 425. 9d
23 'at 38a .3d 483 3d
3 at 40a 6d 42$ 9(1
2f
.s's
15 "at 36s od 485.. 3d

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