The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-10 00:00:00

UNIVATuR.fI.,.. P4R EN TS.

[FROM AN 404%110C/0i PAPILII.3

• Some years ago there lived' at Brampton (England)
a woman whose profession was that of taking off
their patent's hands the children of an unauthorized
passion. Her name was Sarah Welland.
The people of intrigue knew the name of this
person familiarly ; her profits were considerable.— •
Her cosmos was to receive the devoted infant from
ti third person, without asking any questions ; she
took with it a certain price for the maintenance and
care; of it for life ; and neither the paretos nor the
parish were any more to hear of it. .What must'be
't their hearts who could deliver op ,their children to
this cerorio destrudion . The exposing infmrs
,among old kOrrem., against which we so much
excision, was less criminal. The child there'might
escape ; but in this case the very bargain sold its
blood. Parents, who themselves felt no compassion
t.or humanity, could nor suppose there would ,be,
either in a stranger; and as the whole price was
paid at once, the ,sooner the infant perished the:
greater was the prOfit. It were happy there were'at
the present time no
:murderers of this sump, for
there will never want unnatural parenta. The late,
miserable son of the Earl of Risreas is but one
instance among thousands, 'that when a person is
deprived of the cOrnmuri benefits of society, and de.•
voted to everlaitingshame'by the particular circuits_
stances of his birth, his patents are his implacable
enemies.
One child that entered the bloody walls of Wel.
laid escaped, for herself -died that evening. The
smiling innocence of the little Vie.iim pleaded even
with those who had perhaps* before been the iostru.
mews of her barbarity ; they had no interest in its
death, .and they carried it to those who had at that
time the tare of the poor. The deserted infant was:
taken trciiii house. to Itotts,* and begging supported;
it till there should be a vestry.—The careful over_;
Seer postporied a fortnight that which should have;
Crime' on the day following, that the parish might,
have a charier tci he freed from the inctimlnarce,—;
but this little wretch was to live. The nameless'
infant bad escaped the only hands from which it,
cchild:fail to meet 'compassiott ; its throat bled with;
a woUrid inftided by be hand of its father, but not.
Martal. All were charmed-with it, and all struck
• with conunkeration, 'Thoie who hail no fortunes'
• declared,' that were they rich they would adopt it •,
hut such aohad the knower found the inclination less:
fervent ; evert they,' however.ocontributed their,
shillings. The vestry met at length, awhile chibt
was ; the Officers took it into their care, and
the world heard no more of it.. Pity is a short
lived. virtue ; the incident was soon forgotten.; arid
if any thought upon' it, 'they probably ,supposed it
devoted to destruClion.
Nine years after this, cute FRASI it, a man of ha.
minify acrd honour, ea w a buy naked upon one ef
the roost
,barren Ot hifi rilOUrltatris. He was sittieg,
his eyes were swimming in sorrow, Voough no tear
had fallen from them. 'They were turned up to
Brawl) %curb or.ignatiore; but with alrocAt'a spirit
of uVoraiding: and iu his hand was a root of giass
see.hot food.
' The master- of this place, tooehed With -coin.
passion, took him to his house: he put Hos en the
habit of the; Highlands, employed him in his ter.
vice, and he ke-aa called FRAtr R. He •vas asked
,how he Came thither, and huw he becaMe so mite.
able bat mild thiilte little answer. Ile kneW molting,
of fattier' or glathrr, -nor 'friend, nor pi%ce of birth.
first rcinttOrionet was of an anc.,eottiVigetari,
with whom be had livel o cabin : her delft 'lead
wit lo,e Irow, ene to another 9f the liiianutrs ; and
at last the 1.,15 of his only itioainingfriend load left
hint eetirely .;.I,titutt. 'His. mister found:in the
boy, as he ilrew seoie and. spirit, and the' most
perktl gratioide took' hies-from the nraner
4erviets, and had him near. his person. Few saw
Lim ; but all Whii did said they perceived soli*
thing in hint' very singular. His' bdiaviour Wi4
modest ; but his understanding was above his years
lie had been near twenty years io the service of his
father (More than matter) when the last rebellion
broke out in Scotland. His:m'aster took the wrOnir,
• side, and there Wit:l no gore-fit:n(4 Fa 435 R f011001ing„
lie' was in the two aaions that weresuccessful, and
bad so distinguished' hitnielt • in both, that he- Woe
marked for particular favour. In the last. his hand
was not, less adlive, but he fought against the Duke
of CUlltistit LAND. A single arm could not comp
stand success in opposition to so much condud, join,
ed with so much resolution. . fled among the
routed Highlatelere, ..and in on hour, was in a place
of safety ; a retreat, Whereneither friend,could be
likely to id 'nor eeculy to reach him—where he
!wither be forced nor I::trayed. In thisplace,
as he was leaning.upnn his sward and resting againsl
a tree, he saw two per Sons enter hastily, the one :in
old m eying, the other a yining man In pursuit
him. IVhat astonished the warrior was, that they
;sprayed of the vidotious party. lie stood a mo-
Inrnt, turtling they would fall together upon him 4
but th-y regarded none except 'each other. Thetßi
than, tirchns his fret would not give him security,
turned upon the pursuer, and put himself in a pot.
vireo!. dap's:to fit MIR W.IS too much a hero t
look orpOo an unequal encounter,. As. thp old throat
will on thebrink ul destruCtioto.he fell in between.
" I k WOW. nothing of your quarrel, said he, to the
. younger,. but let me dispote, it in his place. Ile is
not a match for your youth and vigour." No inoie
words passed t the old marl stood aside, acrd his.
.. champion .conittered...
Tim' person. whom he had saved made him all
„possible. acknowledgments. He told him, that he
•would return the obligation by preserving him; he
..proposed taking him back in the evening, ail&
changing his dress ;.a.farprosstised to adopt him frir
. lsis sort. He etMelutied with extolling his gallantry
. in the highest teril6, ;rod with obselying, it wai.a
'.pity.apersott of so (noels honour should be a Rebel.
Femme answerod him :thus " Tire Scots Lk) 41
fight. Alitistotheit King because they ate disloyal,
• hut because „they .are commandtel by thoee they
l,lsek Lords have a sight to their duty.;
and they are taught inn'n infants to behove that
their first, virtue is sittecliente there.'' Ire paused,

1-,1 IP REPORT,

KING'S 13ENCii, Di .c.
HARE 1.).

TH is was an afliOn for an infringement of a--pa-
tent of the Plaintiff's, who was a brewer, and
claimed to have discovered a mode of heating water
by the steam of the copper, and impregnating. it with
the essential oil Of .hops. - It is diffi.:ult correctly to
describe the mode of doing this without the model,
which was•produced in Court. But it was by a
semi-ghibe fixed on the copper-head, which caught
all the steam of the boiling,"wort. -This tvas con-
veyedArough a tube, in -which -it was condensed,
and'car4i4 pro the, water Tproposed to be heated.
There were several pleas to the declaration, one of
which denied it to tie an origins' invention,---In
support of this the Defendants called a.. Mr. Sutton
Wood, a brewer, of Oxford, wht proved that he
had invented, and had had a Patent, which was now
expired,, for preciSely the same sort of itiVentiOn.—
This of course, put an end to the Plaintiff's case,
who had a-Verdi& against him.

COURT OF COMMON, PLEAS,. Dac. r.

GOOCH 11. PROIILETT AND. SHAItr.

Tuts Aaion was brought by thePlitintiff, Sir
Thomas Goocli, against the 1-Iftndauts, who'itr'e
the proprietors of Bottorf WhArf, tbr'the stag of
forty-five
.pounds sterling,
,being. the. value ,a,
cask, of wine, wllick had been (lam: Ted and split
%Ade in the custody of the above:meutioned'

Serjeant %sr,. for the Plaintiff,- stated, that this
wa., cask of wine. commissioned from Bremen, and
onboard the Triton merchant ship, Captain
This cask of wine had arrived in safety'
the•river Thames,' and had been .deposited on the
il!fendatits° wharf, pertettly sound and" flee from
,latnage. As the loss hal therefore been sta,tained
itt.conSequence of the carelessness and negligence of'•
the D4endants or, their servants, it was 'agreeable,
!0 the (Nimes of law and justiee that they should
he male liable, for. the value.—The Witnesses tOr.
the PI .inter were then calird, id prove that the cask
nad been/del(v,ered to the Dofeittlants in a condition
completely sound, arid free front (Linage. Zacha.
rias.Sitilcher stated, that ,he was the Commander uf
the ,:Triton nvrchart ip, which atrived from
Bremen -in the Tlwnes inOftober, azot.
bad,shrppeci'' a cask of wine fot Messrs.'
and Barry, wine anerchants, who ailed as agent:. for
tne.Plaintitf. the arrival of the Triton in
-the River,. he had ''seen the above.mentioned cask,.
which he rccislleftPd to. have Ikenniarked G. E.
lying on deck, along with other goods. It .arpcdtt:ti
to him, that .at that time no damage‘whatever had
been done, tO the cask.

John Sheldon was next called, and stated, timt:
he was. an Excise Officer ; that; the course of hi,
duty, he had gone on board the Triton, where he
found the cask in question. In looking for the
mark, :he rnilea 'be Cask. on the deck, whet; it ap.
peared to him 'toliave beton as full .a 4
generally are. . Themark baing blotted out, i;t be•
came necessary to driye out the end of the outer
case, which was accordingly done by one oldie
crew, he twiteved it Might be the ship.earptnter,
when the 'mark:was found on the inner 'case. The
cask did Rot appear to him to have sustained any
material damage.
John Leaditian; another' Extiie Officer, snared,
that he had landed the above cask on }Juana' Wharf,
and it then appeared to him to be in R condition
sufficiently $3 le.
GeOrge Dewey, Clerk to Messrs. Plutriber and
Barry, ktut ed that in oAaber, -t Sor, hearing :of
she arrival of the Triton, he, went ,and • paid the
prime entry for the wine at the Customhouse, In
~bout a week or ten days afterwards, he went to
the wharf and demanded the wine 0) he delivered
to him, when he. was told that 'it liattbeen pililgcd
and, upon examination,
.aelually found tivit it wanempty. •

.
John Crotchet, enperintendant o'fliuttorf Wharf,
de6ared, that this was a free ivi6rf ; that the pro-
pritnOrs never took charge of, or 'considered them-
selves. as answerable for any goods that might be
lost car damaged, without a edaraCt and cOmpeii,ia-
flop fir' that purpose. That they were only paid
sixpence for every cask of wine of whatever value,
and it could never be supposed that for such a con:
4idcration any charge could be taken of these casks...
Tbe.Counsel for the Defendants stated; that the
netenditnts' Wharf w,is a free one, ineontradistitic-
lion to SufferanCe WhariS, Where the., goods' are,
by law, considered as under the care of the pro::
prietors. The case was different 'with. regard to
the Free Wharfs, where 'the owners kept no ser,
vanti of their own, norittiOk any 'concern with' the
business transaeted on the wharf,' firther than to
colleet their durs for allowing the goads to remain
on their property. The very nature •of the com-
pensation which Proprietors of Free Vt'harls re.
ceivedovas a proof that they Could not be consider,-
ed in the tight -of Insureri,' and 'accordingly they
Were never accustomed to. pay for any damage,that
'might happen to goods lying on their Wharf.
The Ledined Judge summed up the evidence. With
great ability, and remarked, that. the impressiop
upon his mind, at first, was that the Defendants
were liable fur the value of the wine, as, in Irani-
ous cases 'that had been tried before him, the
ingers. had been obliged to.pay for damages done tlo.
goods lying-on their wharfs. These, however, had
been Sufferance Wharfingers. 'The 'ciitumstaree
of this being a Fine Wharf, rendered the 'aspen of
the present case materially different from those
which he had mentioned.

.I;he Jury, after consultinf; fora feiv tninotes; re.
turned- 4 verdia for the Defenduts.

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than Dr. Taylor's celebrated Remedy t-or Deafness;
for though " Fancy may kill, and Fancy cure," yet
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removed by faith.alone. That. the most obstinate
D'ealliess has been frequently cured•.by this must in.
valuable specific, cannot be .doubtest by ,the moSt
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