The Sun.
London, England, 1803-05-07 00:00:00

THE FORGERY.

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EVERY kind of exertion is used for the deteCtion
If the Forgery and Fraud committed on Thursday
morning upon the LORD MAYOR. We state the
knowing particulars from the best information.
. On Wednesday night a person took a post-chaise
in the City, and drove to Dartford. kie then went
(6 all the Inns, _mailing inquiry if SciiAw the
Messenger had passed through. Upon learning
that be had not, he took a chaise for Rochester.
Two Miles on this side of that place, he met the
I\4;in-coach, and, stopiling it, inquired if Mr.
ScuAw the Messenger was inside. He was an.
sweted
.in the 'negative, but told that a Foreign
Messetzer was in the coach. It drove cm and he
turned his chaise and followed it to Dartford. The,
-.person here entered into conversation with ibis
Messenger, a Neapolitan o'me, and told him that he
would ge,t much sooner fn. town by accompa.ving
him in his chaise• than in' the MaiL.coach. The
Messenger, •suspeding nothing, accepted his offer,
and they came to town rowdier; They dove to
Lord HAWKRsDURY's 011 ice, in Downing-street,
where the Messenger• left his dispatch, and they,
proceeded on to the Whitehorse Cellar, in Picca,
dilly, where they breakfasted. Between seven and
eight o'clock, 'the. person asked the., Messenger,,
who, from .having been 'here very often, was per.
leetly well acquainted. with the town, to leave a
• letter •at: the Mansion: house:. This. he agreed to
do, and the letter which the LORD MAYOR re_
ceived,was given to him. He took it to the Man-
sion-house, and left it with a servant; and did not
afterwards see the person who had committed it to
his care. As this man was seen by so many people,
his person can be readily identified; and as a de.
scription of it will probably he published, we enter.
tain-a sanguine Wee that some .discovery will be
made of the persons concerned in so atrocious an ‘'
attempt to plundir the Public.
_ The Bank Broker .who on Thursday had pur.
chased 49,0001. Reduced Stock at 69. i. towards li.
quidating the ,National Debt, informed the Stock
Exchange, that the Governor and Deputy Gover.
nor orate Bank had determined not to pay more
for the Stock than the price on which reduced Stock
was the day before, which was .64., reserving to
themselves the difference,
,but they would give a
final answer on the subjea as yesterday at eleven
o'clock.

The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank
waited on ME. ADDINCTON, who is the Chief Cam.
missioner for puchasing Stock for the Reduetion of the
National Debt, and stated to' him the fraud that bad
been' kadised. The answer was •accordingly given,
and they wide good their Broker's eng:igement, by
taking Stock :to the amount of 49,0001. at 69k.
On Thursday night the Geritlernen of the Stock
Exchange agreed to the following Resolutions

I. That alt bargains made on Thursday sth of May,
of every kind whatsoever, whether for money or time, be
considered as ill‘ll and void.
11. That every Member of the Stack Exchange be obliged
on or before four o'clock this clay. to prepare and deliver in
to the Seletit Committee. to be hereafter named, a copy or
statement of alt and every bargain by him trail:meted on the
4th aria stb of may, .1803.
I . That in the event of the Comniklee calling on any
lkiernber for his books, of the names of his principals, after
such statement shall have been left, the Members aforesaid
shall be obliged to produce and avow the same, but not other-
wise.

TV. That Messrs.
jonui3Arrys, DAVIP RICA/1110,
THOMAS fish, TilogAs iti-,8,r it r,,
JOHN ('TEL, \ '-11.41A n 1 SPEPtiLItD,
WILLIAM GZEICIt, WILLIAM STFIR,
C. H. HANCOCK, . JAMES, SrilkS,
lAM).6 KItItNAN, 1)167E1L TiM.II.ILMAR,
VILL.IAM MORGAN, and
ROSKIIT I'ODMQRt. " DAVID WALTIRS,
be appointedio form and constitute the Committee aforesaid,
and that the said Committee do a6t by-virtue of this resolu-
thin, with the firm endeavour of tracing out the party or par-
ties com:erned in this abominable attempt at fraud.
V. That an immediatavSubscription he entered into by the
Members of this !louse, to be left entirely at the disposal of
the Corninittee.-

Soon after these Resolutions were agreed to, in.
telligence reached the Committee, that several per.
sons had expressed their' determination not to corn.
ply with tbe objects of them, and the following was
entered into :

Resolved—That, as it appears to the Committee aforesaid,
that,many Persons have neglected to conform to. Resolution
the ad,; they hereby give notice, That. unless those Gentle-
men, who Ivive" this day failed to deposit their statement of
Account:, do leaVe the same in the Committee-W.lom, on
or heforc two o'clock to- Morrow, a List of their Names will
lie published in. this room by ten o'clock o►n Saturday follow.
ing.

Ely Order of the Committee,
C; H. HANCOCK, Treasurer.

N. u. It is requested of those Gentlemen • who did not
transact any husiness on the days above-mentioned, that they
will avow,the.same by letter to the Committee, ou or before
the time. stated.

After much consideration the Committee thought
proper to change their, intention of offering a re.
ward for the discovery of the Authors of the fabri.
Cation.

About three o'clock on Thursday the following
Bill was stuck up in every conspicuous part of the
City

PRICE, MAYOR.

" FIVE HUNDRED GUINEAS REWARD Will be
given to the Person or Persons who shall give such informa-
tion as,May be the means ot detecling and bringing to justice
and due punishment the Author and Publisher of false news
concerning the AlLtira of this Kingdom; contained in a forged
and counterfeited Letter sent this morning to his lorship,
at the 11:lanskin House, purporting to beg Letter from Lord
Hnwl:7:sutJßY to the Loan ft,l Avo a., acquainting him there-
in, that the Negotiation between this country and the French
Republic is Won& to an amicable conclusion,
" By Orderof his Lein-Ishii>,
66 W. I..`NEWMAN."
Afamilan Houle, .ThitrapP, May s, 1803."

*.! A cause:Of some importance to the Oyster Fish.
eries was determined at' the East Kent (Netter
Sessions, on Friday se'nnight. The Parish Officers
of Whitstable had made,an assessment upon the In.
corporated Company of Free Dredgers, of that
place, of their oyster-grounds there (but situated
two miles. out •at sea), which the Company refused
to accede to ; and on an appeal from them against
the assessment, the Court ordered the assessment
to bt amended, the proof being insufficient to is.'
certain the grounds to be' within the limits of the
Par4h.

LAW PEPORf.

CUILDUALL, LONDON, Mau. tr.
SITTINGS StiORE LORD ELLENIM:LOUCiI, AND A SiEtiAL

JURY OF MERCII.,;.N rs.

HUMBLE V. HAMILTON.

Mr. WOOD opened the Pleadings in this case ;
from which it appeared, that ~this was an -Mlion on
a Policy-of Insurance on Freight, at and from Ben.
gal to London, or 'the port of her discharge.
Mr. ERMINE observed, that this was an A4ion
brought by the Plaintiff, 'who is the Owner of the
ship called the Iris, which was an extra ship, and
which he bad chartered to Mr. Charnork, who
had chartered her with other ships to the East In.
dia Company. By a provision respetling the East
India Company'sJegular ships, if any goods arc
-deteriorated by sea ;damage, which have been
delivered' out of any- ship to the Company, the
OWner did not receive his' whole freight, but was
liable to have a deduttion to the amount of 30001.
The general Law of the Land as to Freight was
this :-:-Where a Merchant chartered a ship, he under.
took. to cart); the' goods over the sea, and if he Atli-
, vered the goods, though deteriorated:by the perils of
the sea, he was still entitled to his freight, because
the owner of the goods received theM, and it was in
his:power, by having effetied a policy of insurance,
to have recovered an average loss from- the Under-
writers. There was no way by which a freighter
mold deliver himself from the paythent of freight,
but by delivering up the calk° to the owner. of the
vessel. But if the freighter took his goodi, the owner
was entitled fa full freight.. But in this case the party
.was not entitled to full freight, if he delivered his
goods, though without any fault of his, deterio.
rated by the perils of the sea. But the charters of
the East:lndia -Company were so veiledly well
known to all persons trading to the East-Indies, and
to Underwriters insuring any of their Ships,, that it
had been decided at Guildhall, that a private Under.
writer, who underwrote an East.lndia Ship, at and
from London to Bengal, and back again, was upon
the.ship throughout the whole course, of the inter.
mediate voyages she performed in India, before she
returned to this Country. He remembered where it
had been so decided on such a Policy. If a man, un.
derwrote from London to Bengal, and from, Bengal
back to LondOn, the ship arrives at Bengal, and
before she returns to Europe, goes to Madras, and
from, Madras to Bombay, through a must exten.
sive and perilous navigation ; yet the Under.
writer was•not to say, though it was in. the power
of the Company, in consequence of their Charter-
party, to send this ship to all these places, the Un.
derwriter was not permitted to' say, I am not_ in
this policy—this is altogether a deviation, 'Though
the Company had a right to subjea you to go these
intermediate voyages, yet there was no notice to
me in the Policy of ariy thing of that sort. 'vow,
said Mr. Erskine,' let us apply this reasoning to the
present case. - This Vessel, called the frir, in her
voyage from India to Europe, was struck with
lightning ; she underwent -great and
,violent perils
of the sea ; she was exposed to several gales ; she
opened in various parts; she afterwards had a se.
vere conflict with a storm; and, from what she
suffered, her

Lord ELLENBOROUGH interposing—this case
must be governed by the general Law of the Land.
The Policy does not refer to any special cootraa
entered into between the parties.. I will not look
out of the Policy. The freight is due, if the goods
arrive in substance, however deteriorated.
Mr. GIBBS, on the same side with Mr, Erskine,
insisted on the authority of the case that had been
alluded to by his Learned Friend, that the Plaintiff
was entitled to recover.

Lord tLLENBOROUGH. " These cases have
been carried far enough. This is a mere question
of Law, as it is stated, If you wish to move I shall
be very glad. The question is, whether Freight is
to reter•to a Special Comm% entered into between
Parties—between the Owner and the East India
Company, of which the Urider.writers have no no-
tice, or whether it means Freight according to the
Common Law of the Land ?"
Plaintiff nonauited.

tunes 1 • so th.tt the Genthanen of thelury found a
vertl4 for the Plaintiff, for such a sum as Mr. Han_
key should report to be due.

The nightly overflowing Houses at die Royal
Citcus, stamp that place of amusement as the refined
depository for rational entertainment. The. House
was extremely crowded last night, and never did an
Audience so heartily express-their approbation ; for
the whole was one continued scene of applause.