The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-17 00:00:00

SLANDEROUS EXPRESSIONS.

ON Thursday last, a trial was had in the Court
of Exchequer, before Lord AVONMORE, in an
ACtion of Damages for cool. brought by a Mr.
M‘LAUCHLAN, Lieutenant and Surgeon in -the- Ar-
gyleshire Regiment, against DUNN, Keeper of a
Tavern in Essex-street, on account of slanderous
words applied to the Plaintiff. The circumstances
of the case are briefly these : The Plaintiff, in com-
pany of, two others, supped one night at' the. tavern
kept by, 'the Defendant; to. the payment of the
reckoning each contributed his portion,
,the -whole
.amounting to 83. or 95.; after which they departed,
without any observation niade on, or objeaion of-
fered to, the silver witbwhich they had discharged
their bill. On the following night the Plaintiff
supped again at the same house,' and having paid
the waiter 3s. the charge incurred, the Defendant
brought the 35. -and several more beside, hack to
the Plaintiff, saying that they were all counterfeit,
and had been "passed by him.
Plaintiff instantly remarked, that wad impossible,
as lie had paid the former night‘bfit three shillings
of the reckoning, and the same then. Dunn, after
this, said, " I have been watching far you: you
have here repeatedly passing your base Money.
Upon This -charge Plaintiff denied, when
Dunn: rejoined;be was nothing but a coalition-coiner
and swindler, and it be doing.justice to put
him on the watch, .and try whether the shillings he
passed then corresponded with the former counter
felt Ones:he passed on the preceding night. Dunn
further said, in which a woman, calling herself Mrs.
Dunn, supported him, that. if Plaintiff was searched
in the watch-hotise, more of the same base coin
would-be found upon him. He then kept the three
shillings for the purpose, he' observed, ofprusecut-
ing Plaintiff for swindling. Dunn at first prevented
Plaintiff, and a Mr. Neale M'Lauchlan who was
with him, and whose testimony supported the Plain-
tiff's anion, from getting out, till the latter ob-
served, that he made prisoners of them, on which
Dunn returned the three-shillings to Plaintiff, and
took 'from, him a guinea note. .The waiter made no
ohjeftion to the shillings in his presence.
Some waiters were examined on the part of the
Defendant, after • which Lord Avonmore charged
the Jury, .by whom the Plaintiff was awarded +of.
• damages, and 6d..costs.

Mr. MI LLWARD, Mayor of postings, on Thurs-
day se'nnight received a fall from his horse, by
which .acrident one_ of his legs—luta& broken ; and
the fraeture is likely to be attended with serious
consequences. • The horse was afterwards killed
by Mr. Millward's order.

SHIP NEWS.

POOLE, FEB. r 5.

Arrived—the Mary, Beswick, from Newcastle ; Horta,
Shephatd, from Sunderland; Arne, Wooiand, and Hgpe,
Stickens, from Lymington ; Swift, Holloway; frotn South-
ampton; 'New Wall, Sexton, from Chichester ; Prosperous,
Nickleson, from Arundel ; and Charlotte, Roberts, from
-Weymouth.
Sailed—the Good Intent, Ballard, for Cowes ;, Dove,
Thompson, tor London.; Blessing, Robbins, for Plymouth
Elizabeth, Dempster, and Two Sisters, Davis, foi- Liver-
pool.; William and Mary, Boynes, for Topsham ; and
Stower, Kingsfort, for Exeter.

C 2. AVESLND, FEE. 75.

Passed by—Lthe' Shelburn, Hopper, frOm Palermo; En-
draght; and Vrow Gesina, , from Ernbden ;
Adeona, Wilson, from Rotterdam ; Vrow Gerbttda,
from Pappenburgh ; Mack, —, and the Vrow Catharina,
from Amsterdam.
Sailed—the Atlas, —, for Botany Bay ;• Portland, Ar.
len, tor St. Kitt's ; William, Morton, for ;Neris ; Swan,
Smith, for Oporto ; Unity, , for Cork ; and •Mary
and Susan, Bell, for Waterford.