The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-21 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

1112. Enrron—l observe that a certain Print,
hich professes to give aroaccount of the Com-
merce of the City, evidently puts forward mis-
statements to serve private interests, if not sinis-
ter ends; for there can be no other causes that
should induce it to make false representations.

I now allude to the reports of the state of the
London Corn Trade, given, or professed to be
given, by The Morning Chronicle, which for the
last ten days has been constantly representing a
rise as having taken place in the prices of Grain,
particularly Wheat ; whereas every one who fre-
quents that market knows, and cannot but know,
that the very reverse has been the case, and that
it has undergone a constant though gradual de-
cline of price. The motives for this conduct I
shall not attempt to explain, nor whether they are
results of the machinations of Mectlmen or Bakers,
but submit the following question to the discern-
ment of your Readers, viz. :—Why is the price
of the quartern loaf kept up to 102 d., whilst that
of wheat is even below 465. per quarter, which
will yield 103 such loaves at the very least
It is generally known that the late Editor of
that Paper had large corn-mills some time before
his decease : to Whom do those, mills now be-
long ; to any one, or some one who has an in-
fluence over that Paper, and who may therefore
have an interest in representing things in that
ght or colour which may chime in with private
iterests.—l am, Sir, your's, &c.,
London, Jan. 19. INVESTIGATOR.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 19.

EX-PARTE SHAWE, IN THE MATTER OF HOWARD AND

GIBBS, BANKRUPTS.
•
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL concluded his reply at one
o'clock.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that he agreed with the
Counsel on both sides that this was a case of great importance.
It had certainly been most ably aruccl, and had occupied the
attention of the Court for six days. 'lt could not then be sup-
posed that he was ready to deliver his opinion, • particularly as
he had intimated that it was his intention to read over all the
former petitions and affidavits before he came to a decision. He
considered the best step he could take was then to retire into
his private room, and give his attention to the case during the
afternoon, preparatory .to • delivering his judgment on Monday
morning.—His Lordship then rose. ,

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 19.
BARTON and OTHERS V. WILLIAMS Al D OTHERS.
This was an action of trover to recover from the defendants
the value of certain East India Warrants for the delivery of a
quantity of cotton, and certain quantities of cotton mentioned in
the declaration. t the trial before the Lord Chief Justice at
the adjourned Sittings in London, after the last Easter Term,
a verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages 7,3371. subject to
the opinion of the Court upon a special case.
In the early part of 1813, a person named Moon, who then
carried on business at Manchester as a cotton-merchant, under
the firm of John Moon and Son, having agreed with the plain-,
tiffs, who are also cotton merchants at Manchester, to purchase
a quantity of cotton jointly, gave directions to his brokers,
Messrs. Hunt and Sharpe, of London, to purchase at the
East India Company's sales, cottons to a considerable amount,
on the account of Moon. Messrs. Hunt and Sharpe accord-
ingly purchased, at several sales between the months of Ja-
nuary and June in that year, a large quantity of cotton, to the
amount of about 20,0001., and obtained orders for the delivery
of it, commonly called East India warrants, which were made
out in the name of Hunt as the broker employed at the sale,
and left in ,the possession of Hunt and Sharpe, as the brokers
of Moon. 'The plaintiffs, immediately after the purchase, paid
Moon half the value of the cottons. Hunt and Sharpe knew
that Moon was occasionally in the habit of making purchases
on their joint account, but at the time of making the purehases
in question, they had no knowledge that the plaintiffs were in
any way concerned. In Aug-ast, whenhalf the purchases were
completed, they were apprised that the plaintiffs had some
interest in the purchases in alestion. It was subsequently
agreed between the plaintiffs and Moon, that the cottons
should he divided, and accordingly, directions were given,
by the plaintiffs and Moon respectively, to Hunt and Sharpe
to mate such division. In compliance with these tlirections,
Hunt and Sharpe proceeded to make' the division, by specify-
ing in different columns the warrants which were respectively
appropriated to the plaintiffs and Moon ; and on the 20th of
.February, 1819, they communicated such division to both
parties, and received their approbation of and assent thereto.
About the latter end of November, 1818, Hunt and Sharpe
received directions from Moon to procure him a loan of
from twenty to twenty-five thousand pounds on the security of
the East India warrants then in their possession. Hunt and
Sharpe accordingly. informed the defendants of Moon's request,
and applied to them to discount the acceptances of them (Hunt
and Sharpe) on bills drawn by Moon upon Hunt and Sharpe,
on the security of ,the -whole of the warrants, which the defend-
ants agreed to do ;
,and accordingly eight bills, payable three
months after date, were so drawn and accepted, all of which
were duly paid at maturity. These bills,• which amounted .to
.20,2721. were discounted by, the defendants at the beginning of
December, 1818 ; and at the time of receiving the money