The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-09 00:00:00

TRURO,

AT the Vicewardeo's Court held here on Wed.
nesday...last, a cause, which inteieSied all the Miners,
-came On to he heard before a -crowded Court : the
Atlvocates, three and fnur'deep, aarranged
in <tr let
•of battle: Messrs, W
juSEI94EpWARDi,
and ItorirßTS, appeared for-ripe' Plaintiff,' Lord
ARUNDELL ; and .Wle,siS. GEORGE, EDWARDs,
CoGDF,and JASAEs;forEDVTAP.O-Fox, merchant, the
Detendant. The .aubjeet of,this dispute was, whe-
ther a sett of Polgoorli grantedaby the nit).
tiff, in May 1783, to comtnetce from 'Midsummer
1783, for 21 years,• was expired at. Midsuinmer,
.1804?—Mr..GeoRos, with his usual ingenuity,
.opened the busines,, and, on the part-of the ,Defen.
dant, tendered a reference. 'this.was tel by the
Advocates for the Plaintiff, who then pr seeded to
prove theinselves entitled to the mine ; and, after a
'variety of trying exceptions to points of form, by
• the. Defendant's. • Advocates, the Vicewarden de.
creed the self expired, and that the. Plaintiff should
take possession the mine and premises.
. ,
Sliturday night last, abolit nine o'clock, the
• inhabitants of Faltri,,:uth were alarmed by the drums
of the. North Devon Militia , beating to arms.
Every one thought the Enemy was •in sight ; and
each, in-his own way, Orepared for the rencontre;
some by,s'ecuring their money-bags, and others by
appealing to their arms. But it soon appeared that
the fears of some, and the hopes of others, wete
equally groundless. 'A party •of soldiers and sailorb,
who seldoin agree but when the co:ninon Enemy is
in sight, had quarrelled over -their grog.
.The
sailors branded the soldiers with the insufferable ap.•
pellation of Irish Rebels: Conscioui of the services
they had done their Country, in quelling the' Re.
Union with which they were branded, the veterans
forgot, in t felt indignation, what was due to good
order, and appealed to their sabrea. Serious mis:
chief was now apprehended, and a butcher (Richard
Downing) received a blow on the forehead from the
scabbard of one ot their swords, which felled him
to the grOund. But the interference of the Magi.
stray's,. Messrs, BANFIELD and CA111,113, assisted
by the .odicets, soon.-restored order. Downing,
who Was first thought to he seriously hurt, has
been declared nut of danger; and the meo who had
been confined have been di,eharged.
PILCHARD FISHERY.--- 111 e warm close weather
of theiiteseot.week itosneeri very favourable to the
eatchinb ‘,l pilchards; and there ti a prospect, par.
ticutaris on the Southern coast, of a plentilid sea.
son. The quantity Celiared at Mevagissey, d•wn
to Thur,day,,was about 1300 hums: and these were
11,quly I,,Cre,aSing ; at Ptirtlmrillicie, neat Croftlinle,
zoo 10,d5.; Port Isaac 300. Mids.; Newkey 100
, 1
.
Mawes.zso ; Ltzard 20; Mount's.bay 200;
Grem qq:mt I: its 01
,very fine tuil)ot' have Levi
caught tit), Aveek near rot tread), which sold'in out
Mirkels 2LI. a pound.
.We are sorry to ,find that the 'wheat in the pa.
tidies 'of St...Kew, St. Minver, St. Breockt St.lssey, and fieveral other parishes in this county, has,
been so much injured by rust, that many acres will
be fit for nothing-but manure.

Ceirr;ers.— i A very mpurtaet quesion to traders.
in generel, and peculiarly so to those in this part of
The.kingdom, was tried at the late York Assizes,
before Sir ALAN CHAMBRItt relative to Carriers, .
in an action brought by Mr. Smith, against the
Trustee% of the Aire and Calder Navigation, to re_
cover a satiStadiun lor the loss of a bale of leather,
whielt had been delivered by Mr. Smith into their
warehouse at Leeds, consigned to Messrs. Mon-
nerys in LQndun. It appeatrd in evidence that this
bale had been received by the undertakers, and car-
fied in a vessel belonging to them as far as Selby,
and then regularly and in due course putfon board
a vessel' belonging to another person bound ihredly
to London, and by such person taken to London ;
but that the same never came into the. hands ,of the
consignees. That the undertakers were only' Car.
tiers from Leeds to Selby, and received the
Ire ,h. or carriage of the hale ftr that distance
onl, ; and that all goods censigtied 'to London
are carried by them to Selby only, and then'
go' on by other Carriera, over whom, or with
whom the undertlikers have no controol ur connec.
ti, ri w atever. It was contended by the Plaintiff's
_Counsel, that tire Defendaets having received a
bale into thelr custody, consigned to London, they,
as Carriers, were bOund by law, by the receipt of
ouch bale (without (hey. made a special acceptance
to the, contrary) to" pay for the less of it, unless
tl.ey could shew.that they had delivered it at the
place of its consignment;
,but the D:fendant's,
Counsel held drat es the Derentlants*Were Carriets
only from Leeds to-Selby, they were answerable
only for losses or damage happening to goods whilst
under theit immediate care,. fur that the'y were only
chargeable as Carriers, in roped of the reward they
received for such carriage, and therefore as the re.
ward was for the carriage from Leeds to Selby only,
they were not answerable for this loss, which had
baPpened after the bale had been delivered'by them
to a Subsequent Carrier.
The Judge ,was ,decidedly of •opinion with the
:Defendant's Counsel, and supported him in the doe.
trine on life part of the Delendanti, and, added,
that it would be of...the greatest possible inconve-
nience was.the law otherwise, And said, that
the, Defendants received goods consigned to ',O-
dom, yet they were only bound td use proper
gence in forwarding such 'goods to the next sue.
cecding Carrier, and answerable only for loss or da-
mage whilst under their is care; and that
could only be the construction of the
.contrad in
this case, That the decisions in •the Courts of Law
upon cases by sshich Carriers are made liable for
losses of goods, in his opinion, had been extended
already'too far; and.that the dottrine now contend-
ed for by the Plaintiff's Counsel would make the
Defendants in this case, and also all other inland
Carriers, responsible fur gotids consigned and:tra-
velling upon the seas to all parts of the world, and
that their responsibility 'would never cease—a pro-
Nsition so mOnstious, that a doubt could not be en-
tertained a single moment upon the case, and there-
fore he could not let the question go to the Jury,
but direded the Plaintiff to be—new:deed.

AN ACCOUN} OF TUX
CELEi2ATED- 111,1PdSTEK 8011ROPPERi!

AT LEIPZIG.

Front Karamsin's Travels from Moscow, through Russia,

Germany,.&e.l
He,was for a long timeTwairer in a cofFetuheuse
at Leipzig, aed nobody observed any :hing.extra-
ordinary-in him. He disappeared of a sudden, and
it was not. till several years after that he again
made his appearance at Leipzig, in the.charaßer of
Baron Schropler. He took a large houit, hired a
great number of servants,, end himself off as
a sage, to whom all nature, and even the world of
spirits, were subject,
" By pompous promises Of splendid discoveries
he allured a multitude of credulous people, and
thronged to him from all quarteri. Some
actually exp,ltted to learn things of him that cannot
be acquired at-any Uctiversity ; others were delight-
ed With the excellent table he kept. He frequently
teceivod by post large-parcels, .addressed to Baron
SchriVer.. Several Bankers ;received orders to pay
him large. sums. He. spoke of Isis secrets, which
he pretended' to• have learned in Italy,- with, a
sedudive eloquence ; and he shewed -people the
spirits and shadows of their , deceased acquAnt-
ance. When he had heated the imaginations of his
hearers, " Come and see 1" he cried, to ail .who
were inclined to doubt ; they came, and' actually
saw shadows, and various terrible sights, which
made the hair of timorous persons stand on an end.
It must be observed, that his warmest adherents
were not men of learning, or such as were accus-
tomed to logical dedudions ; for people who placed
more reliance on their understanding than on their
nose", would not at all suitoSchloafer's purpose.
-Thus his pupils consisted entirely of Noblemen and
Merchants', who were totally. 'ignorant of the
sciences. He exhibited the wonders of his art 'to
others, but he taught them to none ; and aelast, he
only performed °his miracles at home, in private,
apartments prepared for the purpose. Br. told me •
the following anecdote of him :—A certain M. like-
wise came in company with his friends toSchropfer,
to see-his apparitions. He found a great number
of guests there before him, who were incessantly
plied with punch. 14, refused to drink any thing,:
but Schropfer pressed him very Much. to drink= at
least a glass, which M. as firmly refused. At length
they were all concluded into a large hall, hung with
black cloth, the window shutters of which %sere_
Closed, Schropfer placed the spedators together,
and drew a circle around them, beyond which he
strictly enj ined them not to stir. At the distance
of a few paces 'a smjl altar was ereaed, on which
burned spirits; this cast the only light that
traced the room.- &loopier uncovering his breast,-
threw himself on his knees before the altar. He
held in his hand a large glistening sword, and
prayed with a loud voice, and with such earnestness
.and wartfith,, that M. Who had come with the inten-
tion of unmasking the impostor and. the imposture,
felt in his heart a pious awe, anur sentiments of devo-
tion.. Fire flashed from the t yee of the 'supplicant,
and his breast was powerfully agitated.- He was to
call the shadow of 1 well-known charade:: lately
deceased. After Laving, finished the- prayer, he
called the ghost v, i i h the following words :o" Oh t.
thou departed spirit, u'ho liVest in an immaterial
world, and invisible 'to she 'eyes of mait:as, hear
the voice of the friends" thou least left behind, and
who de6ite to see thee -; leave, for a short time, thy
new abode, and present .thyseli to their eyes I"
Hereupon the spedatots felt in every nerve a sensa.
Lion similar to an eled.ric shock—heard a noise like
the rolling of thunder, aud saw above the altar a
light vapour, which grew" thicker by degrees, till
it assumed the figure of a man. However, Isl. ob-
served that it was not a striking' likeness of eic
deceased. The figure hovered, over the altar, and
Selo opter, pale as death, flourished the sword above
his head. M. resolved to step OH of the circle,
and to go to Schropfer but the latter, perceiving
his' intention, rushed towards him, holding the
sword to his breast, and crying' with a
,terrible
voice, " You are a dead nutn if you stir another-
step I" M. was to terrified at the dreadful tone in.
,which Schropfer uttered these words, and at die
'glistening sword, that his knees shoOk'under him.
The shadow at length disappeared, and Schroafer
was,so fatigued that he lay extended on thcflotir.
The "spectators 'Were- conduded into another "rhos,
whertothey were served with, fruits, Many of the
more sensible people went 'to Selo s,,fer's house as to
a theatre; they knew that his boasted art was no-
thing but imposture, yet they
were delighted with
the serious comedy which'he performed.
" This continued
into
debtfo for
with several
sometime;
buttSchroiferraeds:l e
)
gotall at once
of Leipzig, and unfortunately of that class-who did-
rot wish to see his ghosts.; but were extremely im-
portunate' for their immey. He :received no more
bills. The Bankers would not advance him a penny;
and the miserable magician, worked up to the highest
degree of despair, -shot himself through the head in
the Rosenthal. Nnbody knoWs to this diy bow he
got his money ; and' for what purpose he played Off
his, phantasmagoria."

A Lady, in apsroxisin of passion, threw ,herself
through a one.pair of stairs window of 'Wynn's
Falmouth, a few days ag9, and would have
been infallibly dashed to pieces, but that a Gentle-
man, who sat near the wi,ndow, caughe her by a
limb as she passed over him, and held her suspended
till a man climbed. upon the mail-cqach, which ,
stood under the window, and _relieved her from`her
perilous situation.
One day last week the key: Mr. Nankivelt, of
Stithiins, near Penryn, Cornwall, received fttim an
unknown hand, a present of a young child. The
person who sent. it is not yet discovered ; and the
little fugitive has been consigned to the care of the
overseers of the parish. .
Abotit ten o'clock on Thursday evening an alarm-
ing fire was discovered in an outbuilding,' belong-
ing to Mr. John Charlton of Aylesford, which in a
short time utterly consumed_ the same ; the fire had
communicated to a neighboring barn, but was, by
the intrepidity of a -labouring man, extinguished,
who, unmindful of the flames, uncovered that part
of the roof which was on lire.