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12s. 7d., for which amount he trusted the Jury would girt $
verdict.

John Harrison, a stock-broker, proved, that according to trio
present market price of Old South Sea Stock, the stock which
the plaintiff lent to the defendant would he worth 1411. ss. ed.;
and that the dividends payable upon the same, from the 10th df
October, 1814, to the sth of April last, amounted to 421. Cs. I.d.
This was the plaintiff's case.
The defendant then proceeded to address the Jury on hit
own behalf. He apologized for addressing them himself, which
had been rendered necessary because the Learned Gentlemen
whom he had formerly employed refused now to take fees from
him because he was a professional man, and he was determined
not to avail himself of their assistance unless he paid for it.
The tusk which he had undertaken would require much firm-
ness on his part, and much attention on the part of the Jury.
The question which they would have to consider was one with
respect to which they should be guided by the opinion of any
man whatever. No Judge had a right to dictate to their con-
sciences on the subject. lie had a right to complain that Mr.
Taunton had not correctly stated the history of the case. The
Learned Gentleman had gratuitously and unfoundedly stated
that the plaintiff had been induced to sell out the stock in ques-
tion for his accommodation. That was not the case. He had
derived no benefit from the transaction ; he had merely become
the security for another person, as he would prove to the sat's.,
faction of the Jury.
The CHIEF BARON said, that he could not permit the de•
fendant to give evidence as to the purpose for which the money
was raised. All that the Jury were called upon to do on the
present occasion was to assess the damages.
The defendant said that he would rest satisfied with having
denied the statement of the Learned Counsel, which he (hlr.
Taunton) himself knew to be notoriously wrong. After stat-
ing that the proceedings in the cause had been going on for the
last eight years, the defendant proceeded to say that he would
call evidence to prove that the plaintiff was indebted to him in
a larger sum than that which she claimed.
The CufEr Bartow observed, that he could not allow tack
evidence to be received. The action had been tried some time
ago, and the Jury then gave the,defendant the benefit of the
set-off which he now seemed to be desirous of establishing.--,
The Court, however, after mature deliberation, set aside the
finding of the Jury, and gave judgment for the plaintiff:
The defendant admitted that the Court had given 4udgment
for the plaintiff, but they had marked their sense of her case
by refusing her costs, as the Judges of Venice had decreed to
Shy/oek " the pound of flesh," but not an atom more. After
continuing for a considerable time longer to lament " in good
set terms" the " law's delay," and its "glorious uncertainty,"
which lie appeared to feel as acutely as persons not in the pro-
fession usually do, he concluded by entreating the Jury to give
the plaintiff no more than a shilling damages.
The defendant then called two witnesses, to whom he pat
questions, from the answers to which he evidently expected to
be able to establish a set-off to the plaintiff's claim. The
Chief I3aron, however, uniformly prevented the witnesses from
replying to the questions, and several times expressed his sur-
.prise that the plaintiff should persist in wasting the time of the
Jury and the Court by such an irregular course of proceeding.
At the request of the defendant, his Lordship took a note of
some of the questions. _ _ _

John Mooiham, the nephew of the plaintiff, was the next wit-
ness. He stated that he had repeatedly heard his mother say,
that the defendant had paid her various sums of money on account
of the bond, and that she feared there was a considerable ba-
lance due from her to the defendant. She also said that she
had sold out her stock for the benefit of the witness.
Cross-examined—He is on good terms with his aunt at pre-
sent; he had not seen her for the last two years. Within that
time he had been to the defendant's house very frequently.--
He could not state how often. The defendant had lent the'
witness money, and was his creditor at present for some tens of
pounds.

AIL TAUNTON shortly replied. Ile expressed his regret that
a case which should not have occupied the attention of the jury
for more than a quarter of an hour, had now been, by the im-
proper conduct of the defendant, protracted for upwards of
3 hours. The defendant had thought proper to accuse bins of
having gratuitously asserted that the plaintiff had sold out het
stock for the defendant's accommodation. lie was, however,
borne out in that statement by the terms of the bond itself, ill
which it was recited that the transaction took place at the re-
quest of the defendant.
The Cum,. BARON observed, that the defendant had brought
forward no evidence which ought to prevent the Jury from
giving the plaintiff damages to the full amount claimed. If the
defendant could prove a set-off, that circumstance might benefit
him hereafter.
The Jury immediately found for die plaintiff—Damages
103/. 12s, 7d.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JULY 6.
lAN JUAN NEPOMUCENO.

In this case, which has been so frequently before our !veers,
Lord STOWELL declined to pronounce a sentence of restitu-
tion, with costs and damages, against Lieutenant Hagan, (the
captor of the Spanish ship and slaves condemned wrongfully
in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone), until further
application had been made to Government to know whethet
they would sustain Lieutenant Ilagan's responsibility. His
Lordship added, that the Government having adopted the cap-
ture, and having had for so many years the 'benefit of the la-
bour of the slaves, were under an obligation to bear the Lieu-
tenant harmless, and this Court would do its utmost, un.
doubtedly, to protect that officer.

Iturr-AwAy llusnAsos.—A long placard, head.
as above, was received yesterday at the different police-offices
from the township of Sheffield, descriptive of between 30 and 41)
lun.away husbands who have deserted their wives and families;
a reward is offered for the apprehension of each of them, by any
person ; as, being guilty of an act of vagrancy, they may b.
apprehended without a warrant.