The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-04 00:00:00

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ant, who was Pal4-4ACOT4IIIg ,to the amount of
the Coals. memititeii; havelnlifited a
way,goodl
deal in that;.rbesidei the private Loire!! he,
Might receiVe ''front' As.; wi).
likewise by this • Now he w 'shed/
W; jitiy to' consider :tht,' :Situation of the. Plain:'
Ida in this. case. Suppose' 'they had
•cion of this short'tneasurrbeing delivered, into their,
. barge and they had sold these Coals exactly and ,
~for the luantit7 they bought, and the hilyer,:hakil
'!'tlitin • re-measured, and they were found deficient:
'ffitir- deficient they were, 'as he should state pre.
=Sently), and,' an attion 'had' been brought-against
Hthem'for the penalties of the. Law ; this very man,
who had. thus -defrauded them, would. have beeni
raised up as a Witness to prove at once his in-.,
tegrity,' and to fasten his own fraud upon. the pre. l
sent Plaintiffs. The Plaintiffs had therefore aeted,
prudently in' detetting.' this business, and they did
fairly, for, at the instant, they gave the Defenthint!
notice they intended to have the Coalcre-measUredi
. without' delay. The Coals were itcordingly
humoured, not by any persons who might be sup.
:posed to be-partial to the Plaintiff, but by•two,Land
Coal Meters of the City of . London, and two. Land
'Coal Meters-of the Comity; Of Surrey; of the names
Biggvilishop, Lee, .'and 13tadirree, by whose
.sjoirit inemorandum,-„signedby each, •itappeared that
;the Coals in.'questihn produced in all 357, . instead
of 378 bushels 4,1, deficiency. of z t bushels:
'Upon this.- ea§o the first consideration would he,
Whether ii'.waspossible for the Jury to account fur
Such a deficitlibri Without: imputing to
dant either corruption or'grdss negligence ; 'and' he
apprehended it 'was Altos: impossible to impute less
.than fraud; hoWeVer, if the Jury' saw an'y thintg
like da4bt in the matter, they' not only hid his con-
sent to find a sienna for the Defendant,' but ha. in-
treated.them.ro 'do sti; but on the 'contrary, if the
case' was 'cle;if, public justice demanded that they
"shotild'fititi.',against him, -however. hard the effeet
might beitipon his character.-:end-even although it
Might drive hini ott•'of his public station, fur jusliet
Mast. be done, and that could not be without.de-
tetling.and exposing
It then appeared in evidence, thatsttep,fentiant
was swotn,a Deputy Meter of Coals.fir London, on
the ad of February, t 7.69 thatthe Coals in goes-
nor, were putchasecl by the ,Plalntift: that their
• .
Clerk.went on bp*them Coto see. measurecii had tea-
?ton to be satisfiedrhis employers had • not their rup
to sure : that he ;told the Defendant immediately
site Cotiis re•measured, to which he
npanswer : that they were., tne:,,,uted
before fotir Sworn Public Ciial 'Meters, two-of Lnr:-
don and two of Surrey; all of wham sworelposi Live-
ly in Court, that they were measured. (mak., '.llnd
that they were aoually ar.,,,bOiliels, short of the (Lit tp-
city which they ought to" Nive 'been according to
the Ticket made out by the' Defendant ; and that
'they were measured by a bale hushet, which was
the most 'favourable measure for the Defendant, for
that the,,bale bushel always' make , more of.the Coals
than.,.the van, when. they are fairly measured : that
nOt a Coal of diem Was lost between the one mea,
su'ring and the otiter„, Sroinp of the Witnesses added,
they did not believe it Possible that,such a deficien,
cat Would.have happened by, any thing short of fraud
in.:the.Defiodant.

Mr. GI DSIS adthessed the Jury on hehalf of the
ntrintiol)ti n4l ur5.4 query toplik that m 441 b.
urged kir him.

',Lord F4LLENBOROUGH made many excellent ob-
i i ' vationi on
,the 'importance of- this case in it_
se 1, as well as the. particular circumstances of
:it He regoested the Jury,, if. they foundifor the
P.lllintilf, to ;say whether, they found on the ground
of -Fraud '44, a Negligence, for it was stated both
*flys. in. the Declaration, As, to Damages, this
wai tloi a case.uf a penal kink.bot merely for eom,
peosation far loss, anti therefore the measure of the
Nunes. ought to be the value'Of the Coals..
-ilieltiry found a verdift. for the Plaintiff on the
giptind of Negligence: ,D.images 305. beihg the
value 'of ihe--Coah, 'which carries Costs in this
Case:

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glue.