The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-21 00:00:00

WARNER V. ANDEROON..

This Wasitti action on a policy of insurance on
goods,- frotti.the Downs Guernsey : the tisk to
attach fi:om the loading thereof in the Downs.
, Mr. PARK. opened the case for the plaintiff, ,and
contended, that although, in general, the Cointi.
have held that WheII,WMAIS are written, 43 in this
CASO, they must strictly' be eompliect with; yet
whet! it• appears from the circumstances' of the
case, that it could not be the Intention of the
parties that the'written words should .be'literally
complied with-, the Conti. Will construe it accord-
ing to the intention'of the parties.
Lord F4LLtiNfIOttOUGH.The Court will look to
the doctunent, and will be entirely guided by it ;
in the ease alluded to, the document before the
Court referred to another, which every prudent
man would look at before he underwrote the po-
; and, ,thereforei the Court took cognizance.

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for any man n 01; to be convinced, that it vos not
the intention of the parties that ede written terins
should he cotuNied with, pis it was imroisible-to
comply with_thetn.
Lord .144.3,,xmaimon.—If you make a pollmt
that. does not fit youreitse,•you are in the case
man who gets a garment that does not fit his per
eon. I Should be :very glad to construe the p:o,
licy as'you contend,' but I aria bound by decisions
to the contrary.

OLD BAIL) Y, JAN. 20,

William' Nevill, a plaisterer, bricklayer, and
white_cv.ber,stdod indicted for stealing a sliver
spoon, a gold finger ring, a pair of stays, and a
couple of gold ear-rings, out of a house where be
• was employed;
The proecutrix baring missed the articles iii
question, cau3ed the prisoner to be searched wheh
he wal<quittiiig the house. • The search was b
Flit was stirred round,
'and the silver spdon was found at the bottom of
The stays Were traced to a pawnbroker's,
where they had 'keen pledged by the prisoner ; of
the other articles there was no account.

A painter and glazier appeared to give the PH-
sonersa good character. He was an honest young
man, and he had taken theSe articles to keep his
father and mother, an i brothers and*sisters,,from'
starving. It Was impossible, from the slacknets
of trade, ,to find ernployment..----o,uUty, •
Thom Smith stood indicted for stealing a quan-
tity of shliet7lead, fi•om a dwelling-house neat•
Pathan). 04e pf the watchmen happened to hear
a noise at the baelt of the house, about three o'clock
in the morning of the 10th of January ; On going
round, he caught hold of the prisoner, mounted
against the :MAI, who was mach intoxicated, and
had the lead in his posSession.—Guilty,
Thomas Vickers stood indicted for stealing a
quantity of deals. A person of the name of Fox,
saw the prisoner standing beside some deals, a
couple of streets from the building from which
they had been removed. He took him into cus-
tody. The prisoner Was *acquitted, there being
no evidence whatever against hint. The Recor-
der hoped, that in future the prisoner would re-
frain from standing beside deals in the public strets.
George Jones stood indicted for stealing from
Eleanor 'Watson, 36 halfpence at her house inllol-
loWay, on the 21st December.
The nrosecutrix stated, that the prisoner came
into her shop, and presenting s hO'penny, with a
harp impressed on it, Inquired if she had'any re-
sembling it, for he wont(' give her a. penny for
each of them. She took:down a basin, with three
shillingS of copper halfpence in it, and the pri-
soner put in his hand, and proceeded to 'select
harp itallpenuies; ''and threw her donna penny for
every one he found. When the 1)1160136' Went
away, the prosecutrix. discoVered, that instead cif
:having 'received -niy for each of her Irish half-
pence, the prisoner had contrived to he 4 proliter
to the amount of eir-hteen pence.
The prisonew w:l.' followed to Ilatnnstead, and
taken, into cu. tody., In his.defence he said, that w'
'person had 'given hirn an order to procure him all
the harp halfpennies. he could And, at a penny a
• piece.—Guitty.
iliilliarir and him Hicks Were found guilty of
stealing three parcels of straw front the fares Of
Mr. Newman,. adjoining. to Squire 'Wood's estate,
according to, thetdeseription which the prosecu-
tor gave of the:local situation of his territories.
Browne, on d, ShoottOi fie; two carmen, in the era-
ploy of Messrs. Hietiges, distillers at Milbank, were
found. Guilty of stealing On from their masters, on
the Bth of January. •
Theprisoners said, they conceived there was no
harm in taking a drop of gin to drink.
Joseph Ewbank, clerk to Mr, Owen, the hauls-
ter, was found Guilty on Tuesday, on a charge of
embezzling the property of his master, by receiv-
ing Peas, and entering them as pa;d, without hand-
ing them over to
,Mr. Owen. - ,