The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-10 00:00:00

GIBBAV V. LLOYD.

This was an action upon a policy of insurance on horses, on
board the Aimwell, from Liverpool to Jamaica, warranted free
of jetson and mortality.
The horses, three in number, were killed on the voyage by
the violent rolling of the ship, but they had arrived at their des-
tination. The question'was, whether this was a loss within the
policy ?
The defence was, that as the horses had arrived at their de-
stination, though dead, it was not a loss within the policy.
It was agreed, on both sides, that the Jury should find a
special verdict, in order to take the opinion of a higher tribu-
nal, and a verdict was found accordingly.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 9.
LIBEL-SPENCER V. BUCKTON.

Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN stated, that the plaintiff in this case
was a goldsmith and jeweller, residing at present in Clerken-
well. The defendant was in the same business, and lived in
Birmingham. The plaintiff had been obliged to seek re-
paration at the hands of a Jury of his country, for an in.-
jury attempted to be inflicted on his character through the
means of an anonymous libel. He had been for some time an
agent to the defendant's brother-in-law, but believing that
he should benefit himself by the change, he had recently
commenced business on his own behalf. Just at that time
the defendant, who was then in his house eating his bread,
drinking his drink, and sleeping under his roof, thought fit to
return the plaintiff's hospitality by a libel, calculated to injure
him in a most mater manner. The plaintiff was indebted to
an attorney at Birmi ham in the sum of 381., and to that per-
son did the defendant meanly and basely send a comniunica-
tion, stating, that the plaintiff was shortly about " to leave this
country for the Cape of Good Hope, and that if Benson had any
business with him unsettled he had better look to it, or he would
lose it." This allegation the defendant knew to have been com-
pletely false. In conseirence of this letter, Air. Benson hnme-
diately forwarded an affidavit of debt to his agent in town, who
accordingly arrested the plaintifl: This the Jury well knew
might be productive of the most serious injury to a young man
just then commencing business, as it was calculated to destroy
that credit so necessary for a young beginner.
Three witnesses proved the letter to be the defendants handl.
writing, and the other circumstances were also given in evi-
dence.

Mr. Serjeant PELL, for the defendant, to negative the spe-
cial damage complained of, produced letters of Benson to his
agents, urging them to press the plaintiff for his debt, ancicalled
one witness' who was positive that the letter, complained of was-
not 'written by the defendant.
Mr. Sprjeant VAUGHAN replied.
Verdict for the'plaintiff—Damages, 1001.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
GAMBLING.

Yesterday, George Pope was indicted for keeping a common
gaming-house, in No. 77, Jermyn-street, St. James's.
Mr. ANDREWS stated the case for the prosecution, and called
M r. Peter Berard, who had been a Deputy Assistant Commissary
General in the Army, but was dismissed by the sentence of a
Court Martial. 'Witness had been ten or twelve times in the
house between the 3d December last, and the month of Fe-
bruary, wheu,he commenced This prosecution. The house was
Open to visitors from nine o'clock in the morning till twelve at
night, and the witness had seen between thirty and forty per-
sons in the house at one time. The games generally played
there were hazard, rouge et noir, and an deux claque, and the
witness remarked that the players were, for the most part, if
not always, losers.
Mr. Henry Compton, a clerk in the Stage Coach Duty-
office, Stamp-office; corroborated Berard's evidence as to Pope's
keeping the house in Jernayn-street. He had been frequently
in it between 3d December and February last, and saw gam-
bling going on therein at all hours of the day, and the gaming_
room occasionally full. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

111 r. ALLE Y made an able defence for the defendant.
The Jury found the defendant guilty, and he was sentenced
to three months imprisonment in the House of Correction, and
to pay a fine of 1001.

The citizens of the United States at Paris assembled on the
4th instant to celebrate the Anniversary of American Indepen-
dence. The following toasts were given :—The 4th Ju1y,1776.
The Constitution of our-Country.—The President of the United
States.—The Memory of Washington.—The Memory of Frank-
lin.—The Militia of the United States.—The Navy and Army
of the United States.—The former Presidents of the United
States, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.—The .free Govern-
ments of South America.—The Emancipation of Greece.—Our
illustrious Guest, General La Fayette.=-The Fair Sex.—By
the President (Mr. Barnett)—Our Ministers of the Interior and
for Foreign Affairs, they unite the suffrages of their fellow-
citizens, and the respect of foreigners in their negociations, by
their patriotism, their integrity; and their talent. A prompt
arrangement of the differences between FrAnce and the United
States. By General.La Fayette, the Memory of the first Arne-
ricans,, and of the last French who died for the cause of Li-
berty. By Mr. Garcia, the capture of Cornwallis, in 1781, by
the combined armies of France and the United States—honour
to the memory of the brave men who fell, honour to the survi-
vors. By Mr. James Gallatin, Spain, may she triumph over
the internal and external enemies of the Constitution, and in
the end secure the same liberty which we have conquered by
means of the heroes and .sages of our Revolution. By Mr.
Booper, the Memory of Louis XVI. dear to a free people. By
Mr. Stevenson, ,Representative Governments, the only ones
which can guarantee rights, and insure the happiness of the hu-
man species. By Mr. Marshall, our Commodore Hull, tilt.,
first who. dissipated the charm of British .invintitility. By
Mr. F. Reckidge, Mr. N. Irving, and the Literary and Sc!Cn-
tific Institutions of the United-States. By Mr. HaSang, the
Memory of General Lefebvre Desnouettes, and of the other
victims of the shipwreck of the packet Albion ; we lose in him
a worthy citizen, and France one of her bravest soldiers,
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—III proof of the ac-
commodation, rapidity of conveyance, and great advantage,
which has been acquired by the public from the establishment
of steam-boats all over the Fripire, and in a special manner,
of the incalculable advantages which are likely, nay certain, o
accrue to the-Western Islands or Hebrides, from these useful
conveyances being now established, and a regular communica-
tion opened twice in every week between Glasgow and Fort
William on the one hand, and the sea-port town of Toberniory
(near the western extremity of the Sound of Mull), .on the
other, a Gentleman has offered, for a bet of a considerable sum
of money, to leave the shore of Leith, on any given morning,
to passAlirough•Leith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, a part of the
counties of Durnbarton, Bute, and Argyll, to land on the
island of Icohnleill, dine on the island of Staffa, and take sup-
per in Mull, glt on the same day, and to return to Edinburgh
on the following day to dinner—stonny weather, such as to
render the landing on,the island of Staffaimpracticable, being
only excepted. ,W e have not heard that any one has accepted
this bet, but we have authority to state, that it has been, and
is new offered.—( 4dinburgli Courant.)
Four candidates have started for the County of
Wigton, in-the room of the late much-lamented
JAMES -HUNTER BLAIR, Esq.; but the day of
election has not yet been fixed. Their names
are, JAMES'MACDOWALL, Esq. of Logan ; JAMES
STEWART; Esq. of Phisgal ; Sir WM. MAXWELL,
Bart. of Monreath ; and FORDES HUNTER BLAIR
Esq. of Portpatrick,