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others, who might be ultimatetY entitled, they cer
tainly had an interest which they could insure. lie
thought it absurd 10 suppose that the Legislature
meant to delegate to the Commissioners the power of
superintending and managing the DutCh ships tothe
best advantage, and at the same time to.haVe de-
nied them the right of making insurances, the most
effectual means of their preservation. So inadecinale.
and incomplete a.deleption ought not to be pre.:
•surned., The Aft ought to be construed more libe-
rally, ut res magiirrakzt quam pereat: The Legis-
lature undoubtedly meant, to give the Commissioners
`every necessary loiwer,for Jhe security and protec-
tion of the property.
The Lord Chief Baron (M'DoNAL.D) .expressed

himself to the same effeft. He considered the situa..
don of the Commissioners as analogous to that of
Trustee. 3. His Majesty himself could not have per-
sonally insured these ,ships ; consequently, if the
Commissioners could not have done' so, there could
have been no insurance effeEted by any person what-

ever.
Lord ALVANL.EY went at considerable length into
the-consideration of the question ; he conceived that
the very moment the Commission issued, the Com-
missioners acquired the power inherent in every
Trustee, of doing every thing necessary for the pro-
tection of the property. He considered Capt. Essing-
ton as the mere servant of the Commissioners, for the
purpose of bringing home the Dutch Convoy; and
that the Commissioners had a complete Trust vested
in them the moment:of the seizure, though it was
not to be executed till the ships arrived in this
Country. For these, and a variety of other rea-
sons, which his Lordship stated Atli a considerable
degree of perspicuity, he professed himself decidedly
in favour of the verdict pronounced by the Court of
King's Bench.
The opinions of the Judges being. six.. to one in
favour of the Plaintiff's in the original ACtion, the
Judgment of the Court of King's Bench stands af-
firmed, and they will immediately receive the im-
mense sum of money insured, the whole of which
has been paid -into,Court, unless the Underwriters
think proper to appeal to the dernier resort—the
House of Lords.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
EDWARD EAGL lON V. THE EAST-INDIA COM,

PANY.

On Wednesday, ilieday appointed for Judgment
on the Case reserved,' Lord ALyANLEY delivered
the unanimous opinion of the Court, that .there.
should be Judgment for the Plaintiff.—We shall
give
.the substance of what fell from his Lordship
in this important Case, in a
.few days.
It was erroneously stated in a former Report,
that after a full hearing at the Trial, the jury found
a verdia is. Damages. The faa was, there was no
hearing at all, the Plaintiff having consented to take
nominal Damages—,to try the Right..

CORK, FE B • 4.

On the morning of the 2 ISt Ult. the Richard,
Captain BOWDEN, which sailed from Waterford the
day before, was lost at Portscadan, on the coast of
Wales, and all on board perished !--The Capt. had
been but a few days married to a Miss RowLEY,
niece to the late Mr. JACKSON, of Cheek point Inn,
who with her husband,—an elderly widow gentle..
woman and her two daughters, two gentlemen pas-
_
sengers and tlic entire ship's crew, all went to tile
bottom!

A soldier. of the 28th Light Dragoons, quarter-
ed at Waterford, having disguised himself in an old
coat and h,t,. attempted on Saturday night last, to
rob a country Jad at a short distance from that city,
by collaring him, and presenting a loaded pistol to
his breast. The young man, striking the weapon
aside, gave the soldier a severe blow with his whip,
and at last 'succeeded in disarming him ; when /borne
persons coming up, the soldier was secured, and
brought prisoner into. town.

Lately died,, at Whitworth, in Yorkshire, Mr.
TAYLOR, commonly known by the name of the
Whitworth Doßor, and whose fame was so great as
to procure him the honour of attending the brother
of Lord THURLOW. The history of this man and
his. brother, who was his partner, is singularly cu-
rious.

By profession they were farriers, and to the last ;
if both a two-legged and a four-legged patient. were
presented at the same time, the Doctor always pre-
ferred the four-legged one. Whether singularity
of manners, or success in curing gave them eclat,
the pralice of the two brothers was immense, as
may be well imagined from the orders they gave
the druggist ; they dealt principally with Embank
and Wallis, of York, and a ton of Glauber's salt,
with other articles in proportion, was their usual
order.

On a Surday morning the Dodorrused to bleed
gratis. The patients were seated (often to the
number of an hundred) on benches round a room,
where troughs were placed to receive the blood.
One of the Dodors then went and tied up the arm
of each patient, and was immediately followed by
the other, who opened the vein. - Such a scene is
easier conceived than described.