The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-06 00:00:00

PARISIAN NOPELTHES.

AT. Poullly, on the Loire, some very curious Ro-
Man Antiquities have been found:--,-'f: pavement,
about 50 feet under ground, has been discovered,
which is plainly a relit: of the little town which for-
merly stood upon this spot, and which is mentioned
by several Antiquaries. Some Roman coins, with
the effigy of Marcus
‘Antcrinnus, have been found.
These are the only coins of that Emperor which are
known to exist.

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COURT OF COMMON pigAs, DEC. 2.

lyr iwps AT NISi PRUJS, BErORE sr* ALAN CHAMBRZ
SHAW AND AIIt.WILLTAM

This was an ACtion brought agiiust the. De-
fendants, as late Sheriffs of Middlese4, to 'recover
damages from them: for the escape' of Mary Man-
ners, whO had been arrested at thi; suit of the Plain-.
tiff, for a sum of 171. 133. 7d. The Declaration
contained two counts, the tirSt state& that M.
Manners had been arrested, and was allowed to
-escape ; and the second, that she bad not been ar-
rested,- though she might have been, if due dili-
gence had been used.
The trial occupied a considerable portion of We
'day.; • upwards of twenty
,witnesses 'were called
_*to
prove the ease on the part .of the Plaintiff., The
.first evidence gone into, went to prove, that
'Manners had been indebted to the Plaititiff,,apd
hay passed her prothissory note for 171. Lis, 'id.
which note not being paid, a writ was issued out
against Mrs. M. • r • ,

-The Deputy Sheriff was then called, Who proved,
that his under otlicer had returned Mrs. Manners
in custody. -
A long argument was 'entered into between Ser-
jeant L' :ST, for the Defendants, and Serjeant
HERD, for the Plaintiff ; in the course of which, the
former urgc.:4l, that the Under Sheriff should not
be examined, 23 he was himself a party in the canie,
and his evidence might go to - his ewn
This objeetion, however, -Was done away; as Mrs.
Itlanners's.Attorney had given the an under-
taking to put in bail to all the aeiious acit Might'
be pendiugegainsther.
The former evidence relating principally: to the
first punt in the Declaration, a body was now pre.;
duced in support of the second, to prove, that if.
Mrs. Manners had not been arrested,. was negle&
on the part of the Sheriff's, as she did not endeavour
to -conceal herself; but could 'be met with at any
time; It appeared, however, from the cross4rx-
amination of, most of the latter witnesses, that the
Lady was not as current, or as easy to be seen, as
they, on their direct examination, would have had
the Court believe.
The Plaintiff's Attorney having then proved that
*the cost of endeavoering to have Mrs. Manners ar-
rested amounted to 61. los.; the case was here closed
on the part of his Client:
Serjeant lizsT, on the part of the Defendants, ad-
dressed the Jury in A very eloquent speech 3. in the
course:el which be argued, that if a Verdi& were
found for the Plaintiff, it should onlY,be With ph-
minal damages, 'as they were. to consider what pro-
bability there was,, of the Plaintiffs , receiving his
debt, if, in reality, Mrs. Manners, who was now 14
the rules atilt:Bench, , had been arrested. In sup.
port of tids, the Learned Serjeant cited the case of
Jolieson,othe smuggler; who had escaped out of the
Fleet. .Several aCtiOns were, he said, brought
against theAVarden of the Fleet for the debts due
by INTr. 'Johnsen,: but in none of theni was there
more than nominal damages given, as it was consi-
dered , by the Jury that the debtor was insolvent,
and never could ,have paid his creditors. Aft'..r
some further observations with feipe4l to
,the Con-
tradition in the client.; of the 'Declaration, the
Learned Sc.rieanf concluded 'by saying, that if he
bad' not a %Tillie-1, at all events, the damages ought
not to be more than a shilling.
Sir ALAN (.311ANIuliE read over the evidence, and,
ob,erVed, dial in both the counts the Verdi& could
not,befor the Manna, as there .was a minutest eon.!
tradi(tion in them but left it entirely, to the Jury
to consider on Whie.:ll they would find tor the .Plain-
tiff. His Lord Ship, conelnied by saying, that if
Mrs:. Maoners had :h,een taken. in execution, there
Was nodOubt
.but the :Sheriffs would be ,
a's. she, had Only been arrested on merge process, in
settling the damages the:circumstances of that Lady
should be conidered; aa,.if she had been, in tact,
thrown into prison, the Plaintiff never might, ,froin
her iusnlvency, have received one shilling of his de.
Maud.

The Jury; after a few minute's cons deritkn,
,found a vomit for the Plaintiff, damages twenty
shillings, on the first cOunt ; And a verdiat for the
nctimilaut, on the second.

COURT (*CHANCERY, Nov, 23.

LX PARTS BOWES, IN TITS MATTIM OF EFIP,

BANKitUPT.

This Petition to supersede the Commission of
Baupruptcy was biought before the Court au.Satur.
day last, when an order was made " that tt should
At,and over till this day, and that in the mean time
affidavit should be made bythe Petitioning Creditor
as to the tune when inS debt was contratted, and
for what particular 'articles ; whether for money lent,
or for goods, wares, and merchandizes, fUrnished to
the Bankrupt." •
Mr. P:.43GOTT) thig day, produced and read the
of of Mf:Turster, in which he swore..that the
Bankrupt was indebted ~to him in two sums of
?(4,. and 'lOl, to him on the 2d OaOber„ 1804,
and to several ether sums atirarteed ou different
days therein Mentioned, amounting in the whole
to•• the sum of 1121. and he submitted it to the
Court that this'uias sufficient to establish the debt
of the .Petitioning creditor, He also read the Af-
ft.davit of the BrinkruPt, acknowledging that he had
received these several sums
.on ihe different days
mentioned in .the for Affidavit.
Mr. Rommt,y.
.contended that .thnse .Affidavits
were not satisthaoly. They ought to have stated
for what particular purposes this money had bon.

‘Mr, Utculkaps, on the part of the Bankrupt, stat-
ed, that the several surns, of •Lnottey had been Paid to
take up certain bias, the dates of which correspond.
ed with thaw ruentigned-in the 4davitsJust te.ad ;
and the reason of, that not,heibg tneutfoned in. the
Affidavit wtAii., that at, the time tilt:7 were nude they
had not been able tofind those hi/IL ,

The 1",0t.t0 CRANCALLOIti having-examined the
bills, said, . they.>ni bt undaubtedly have been te.-
eonatundation bilk; , but as the matter tio; stood
it appearod, iffitualacie, that rester, the petitioning
ctedanri was indebted to the liankrupt. He there.fore
ordered (halt supplemental difiday it should be made,
and that the cause should staud-over, _