The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-11 00:00:00

POETRY.


THE MODERN NOVELIST.
Thrice happy authors, who with little skill,
In two'short weeks cm two short volumes hill
Who take some Miss, of Chtistiah-tiaine
Ai. pi ui,ge veep itt Inve and letter-writing;
Perplex her well with jealous parent's CareS,
Expose her virtues to a lover's snares,;
Give her false friends and perjad swains by dozens,
ith all the episodes of aunts and cousins;

Make parents thwart her, and her lover scorn her,
And some inislvap priti`g up in ever}, corner :
Make her lament her fate with ahs and ohs,
And tell some dear Miss Willis all fier woes;

Whilst how with love, anti now with griet, she rages;
Till, having.brouilit her through two hundred pages,
FirrUing, at length, her father's heart obdurate,.
AN 111 11,1<c Ler take the 'Squire, and fle:ive the Curate,
She scaleS tke garden Wall, or fords a river,
Elopes; gets married, end her friends forgive her. •

LA 1' REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH. jul.Y S.

MILES V. SCIJLTHOR.P.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated this to be an
action for the balance of accounts between the
Pl;intiff and a young-man of the name of Hick,
a nc:phew of the DEstendabt, whom he had chosen
to st,:t up in' binqness at Braintree, and fiir that
.I,tir,
pwe had written to the Plaintiff to supply him with
tsuch articles as he shotild.want to'begin trade with,
which the Plaintiff would 'not ..furnish 'unless the
Defendant would guarantee the payment of the
bill when, the--credit should expire. and wrote to
the Defend Ant a letter to that ette6t, to which'
the Defendant • "Wrote the. following answer:—,'
'f
-Bury St. Edmund's,' 23d Jan. rsos.—Dear"Sir,
In answer to )ours of yesterday respeding Mr.
Hicks, I, now' inform you, that I will answer for
the payment of goods sent to' him,. to the amount
of 1001: for six mouths, and I libpe after that:
you will not think it, necessary for me to be ac-
countable, for you will be acquainted with his
manner of doing business, and that' as well as his
payments will be satisfactory, yours, &c."—Signed
by the • Defendant, and directed to the Plaintiff.—
In consequence, -and on the faith of this letter,
the Plaintiff trusted this young man to a consi-
derable amount, about 1901. and he had "paid se-
veral sums Of Money ; but there now remained a
balance due to the 'Plaintiff, who now claim-
ed it by this action ; and lie was at a 15ss to guess
what -.lie defence was; for the amount of thesur.i.
as well as the duration of the credit, was within the
limits which the -Defendants had. prescribed it his
crwn letter.; that was, the sum was less than 1001.
and the time was within six months.

Upon the evidence, titer ,-; was no dpubt of the
'bets bcuq!, as stated by the, ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
But

Mr. GARECiW and Mr.. LAWS t.ook objeBion tc ,the•
form of the declaratiim, which was, for goods sold
and delivered by the Vlaintff to the Dele.ndaot,
and which- was contrary to the faa ; for the goods;
vere sold and delivered to. Flicks ; they coniet.ded
that the declaration should been . upon the spe.
vial contrO, stating, that in copsideratiOn of the
Plaintiff selling and delivering, certain goads,,to a.
given amount, wititio a giv,en timt,.lo. Hicks, the-
Defendant woold. pay fa; •
Of this opinion. was Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and
therefore the haintitt was now.aied.

Ell'AZI7It V. li,-STER.

Mr:Gattaow stated_ this to be an' anion to re-
cover the sun of 341, being the balance 'due to the
Plaintiff upon the -accounts between thern:--;,
The Plaintiff was a hard-working man, wh6 drove
a waggon and • team_ for a -Gentleman in London.;
-but the Plaintiff had-: house-in CrtAs-street,. Black-
friars-road, and let. nut :lodgings. The Defendant
was a neighboUranci.a butcher, 'who was in the'
habit of b,Arowing sums of money to help hiw to
carry on hiS blisMcis ; on the tart occasion
.whet:
lie borrowed money, he-came,weeping-on account
of the Want of it, .and added, that if be could/flise
141. he could clear fol. 'by: it, by buying rattle for
slaughter; on which the Plaintiff's witelent hfnr
that sum, which she had) set aside •for.the dooor
and the 'Defendant admitted that he voaspen in
debted to the Plaintiff in 341. having. had in-a 11,404."
and pail only 61. Being afterwards called upon to
pay.i,he said he had no money,' and was norlikely
to have any;. that if he was arrested he would go
into jail, where he t(-uld live as well' as if he' were
out, and his brother and sister could carry on
,the'
busineis without him. .

case was sworn to, for the Plaintiff; 'by
Mary Wrston and Maria Brown, two lodgers of
the Plaintiff.

Mr. MARYATT, for. the Defendant, maintained
that this aclion could not be supported, because..
ivittated•by usury..
,the Defendant:was indeed
in the habir of borrowing sums .of • rnoney'of the"
Plaintiff's wife, but paid constantly anint4.4-e;tof
per pound per week for every stun he borrow,ed. That
be borrowed several surns; and constantly paid•at•the
rate CI. per pound every weekiby Way of interest---:
just 1301. per cent. per annurril Once he•borto'ivetc
201. and 'returned twio •.for the interest; "s 6 that
be carried- away only lei. for hip .20 -pounds !
Ile proved this to Ise/a constant 'plaice ..by
wit-
nessof the name of ksepti Collins,•a servant of flit
Dclen,:emt, and wi.): had seen 'the transactions' be-
twce.,n the parties:, .and Often carried this interest;'
/t 1 paid it to the Plaintiff's wife: ;
Lord .ELLENBOP.OUGH told the Jay, that Unless
they . were :convinced the, WitnesS Collins, • was per-
jured,. without. any .apparent motive, the defenditrif
was clearly enthled 10 a verdia:
The Jury t;cithdrew, let-milted dut of Court about
20.miputes, and returned a verdia for the Piaintid—
Danuagßs 341. :
•

JVLY 10.

$lll H. V. BUTLER.

This was an aaion to recover the sum-of 1,10661.
log. upon two bills of exchange taken from the,lle-
fendant by Mr. Durand, and which liad-heen paid
to thePlaintitf. It appeared that Mr.,Durand, the