The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-02 00:00:00

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This anion was brought f work and labour.

117 r.EiiiKINP) on the pit oldie Phintiff, stated
that his' client was a poor mariner, and a native of
3) mauk ; the Defendant was what is generally
termed a H►n being a 'person in the habit of
procuri,,g „mos to serve, on 'board Indiamen.—
The .Plaimilf had sert'sd him for a length of tinie
a,, a f,ithild nd 'trusty servAnt ; he frequently-
went op end 43own, froin Londoir to Gravesend'
13,;ih those seamen whom his mater on procured,'And
he togrii ar the 49r On choie necasiOns like a
galley slsve. fie spoke several languages, and was
in mans, other respeds a mos' Srrvant.
When he left the service of the Defendant he was
o"..iligee to sunnoun hire before the Lord IViayar for
lrir w.4ges, sol.'ir. he promised in dischar
,r them.
Instead of winch he ilionglet proper to make out an
account ct 471. figainst him,'as fur nionty lucid and
t-, hit inaintaitiance, lodging, &c. and, as
retpital f,l all his faithful 'set vices, lie had him
arre'steil, and throw!, into Newgate, where
he' might h,ve starvcd, but for the humanity of the
Danish Mitsister.

• The Wi,f.rAt's for the Plaintiff prnveti that he
tvrtira the Dtsferalttir lit the years 1802 and r 803,;
constantiv 10. go tip and dawn the, River
nigt7,l ,mod dAy• ; ht. spoke; the Swetlibil,D4nisit, and
utlier largoJgeh, end wag remalcably 'tf,efol to the
Defendant, who trusted,hini 35 much as if he.himsell
was pre.,eitr. When at home at the Defendant's
house he used to clean 'the shoes, ,and ,knives and
forlo, tturse the children, and mike ,mats ; and the
DOentlani wasirequently heard to say, that, the old
mati(meantng the Vlaintili) was worth from two to
three hundred a.year to him.
•
The Sheriff's Officer proved that he lay in wait
foctlie Plaintiff, by direCliono of the Defendant, as
he was. returning front the latter with his box of
clothes. .

MI% Sarah Dunn, a Lady of about fifty years
of Age, proved his being confin:d in Newgate.

On her ctosi.examination, she could not rezallea
anv thing about an offer of her's to juin with the
Plaintiff in a warrant of attorney to pay the De.
fendatit's demand against 'hito,•by iwitatments of
one guinea etch ; but the admitted that she was to
have.been telartied to the Plaintiff, only for the un.
ludcy event of his being in prison.
A;, drew Peterson proveti, that he had twice ship.
ped the rt,tirtiff, on board of different vessels, as an
able seamin, within these two last years,
,6 i rice he left the service of the Defendant, at each
of which (mei he ;received a coniitierable bounty.
jiu agreed with the other Witnesses., that he' was
a very useful person, and well worth at the rate of
one guinesi per week, at the-jc3gt, to any rrsort
whil should. employ him in the line of the De.
fentLint.

On the part sf the. Defendant, several witnesses
were Called, Who swore, that the Pl..iotitr was an
aged and decrepit) man, having iii,located his shout.
der, ond WO otherwise disabled, bn ae t& render
'him of little or. 110 value to any one. He was much
adttitled to drink, and so Itivenily int,,xicated, as
-str render him , a very ttufit person to he intrusted
with any business whatever; an,l moreyer, that he
.wou)A, only di; just as, he pleased hiinself; Without
attending to the direttitins of, hie employer. .1-hat
the Defendant gave him money whenever he fniketi
for it, besides amply' fUrnit‘hing him with meat,
elti,k, clothes, washing, and lodging, and 'every
other necessary..

t.N.ll' °ROUGH was of opinion, that there
bad hen very great etageration of the tats on both
010 ea, On the part of the Del!.-ticlant, it was endea.
vowed to lie.proied, that he had employed the Pl.tin.
tiff metely thr,ugh charity ; but if his witnesses
were to be itnpbettly credited, be seemed to have
exten‘hzai his bounty to a very considerable length.
A$ to the Waffikni of Attnrney, his Lordship .had
sin doubt of such a fan having ctiren place ; but it
.was to. be reconetted, Who was
.the..persun -making
such a proposition. An unfortunate str,irtger in a
foreign land, ent4i144,1 in, ttr,ist:o, Virtth respect to
the story of hisheieg Ati kablt peronn, the evidence
of Peterhof), who had twice shipped .him on iluard,
af, an able•hodird'sentnan, within these tWo years,
and his bring in that situation at this moMenty
fleiently contraflined that part -of the
case. On the part of the Plaintiff, . his charge of
Col. and upwards, Wag to unreasonshie,- without
something rr what lied had seceiv•
ed, at different times, from the..Pefendant. Flow..
rye?, taking
,all the circumstances irito,etinsidesa.
tion, his Lordship obsers ell,
.was fur the jury tc,
figlis what they thought would be a just and fait at.