The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-27 00:00:00

tiff and his friends bad been 'I. (mud liable by the Lord
Chancellor ire costs, &c. toJones.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied.
Lord ELLENBOROUOIf, in addressing the Jury
held, that though the charther•of any person might
labour under an infirmity, it could not‘be permitted
to any one' to.take advantage of that circumstance to
give it the coop de grace. ,ijerg the condud of !ha
plaintiff could lint" be said to be without blemifh,
but still the ddendant. was not warranted in .taking
advantage of that circumstance to, prejudice his
neighbours against him. There hadc been no ;Usti'
fication,' and the only question-was as to the quail'
turn of damages.: The Jury werenor to give to tho
!plaintiff that measure of damages which they
adjudge to a man of entire and unsullied fame, who
had•neVer done'any thine that was wrong. fierd
it was obvious the plainliff, bad miscondutted hinlf
self. The would not, therefore, give him what
dathage they would'-award to a min of unblemished
fame. They would give" lan what might ;e,m a
reasonable' and moderate,recompence for the injury
they might Supposelie had at-Wally sustained. For
the defendant was not warranted, because the;
tiff had over-stepped, the *bounds of proprieiv, in
holding him up as a rrionter to all mankind.
The Jury, after a few,minutes consultation, gage
a verdict for the plaintiff--Damages iobi.
Lord .ELLENBOROUG-11 agreed to eel tity as to costi•

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A Clerk, employed in the houseot Hoare, Barnett,
and Co. bankrs, of l.dombardstreet, has decamped
• with bank mites to the amount of 4,5001.: a re'
ward of t‘i-o hundred gnineas is offered for his ap-
prehension. Sur soon•as the robbery and the escape
of the thief were ascertaineckapplicittion was made
to the Office at Bow-street, and• he was traced oo
board a ilottli•COUritly SM3I k. •No time of course
was lost .to send a Bow-stieet officer express to
Scotland, to endeavour to greet him with-a w4rrant,
on ins landing; whichit is hoped he will be erp-
bltd to do. About ten yeati isince, another Clerk
of • the same' house decamped wish ten- thdusand
pounds,.and escaped to America. \He had the kind-
ness:to write home to his employers, to acquaint
them of his safe arrival, promising, it he -was sac'
cesaful in his projects, to remit them the whole mo'
ney, with interest ; but as they have never sine
heard from him, it may be -presumed that he either
changed his mind, or was unlucky in his -spew'

. When Tom Paine was about to leave France far
America, which was some time after Buonaparte be"
came FirS't Consul, fie addressed a note to Talle'
rand-,•-with: whom he had been intimate, stating,
that, bo4 been honoured by.the French pe°'
ple with a seat in the National Convention, at an eorll
periSd 61. ilie revolution, he felt it. a debt of grow-
tude:kr'lliih he-owed to France, to makea tender. °I
11.1$ services in the ,country of his adoption, the 11114'
ed ofAt»eriet, to Nyhich he was about tare"
days after this note was presented'
Pairfer6c6ived a Itlte'r a'drayman, couched in Lb°
following, terms :
." M. .eallevrand, :Minister for Foreign
has received Mr. Paine's note, which he laid betbr"
the- First'Consul; 'and has'beeti direcled in reply, r`fr
send per bearer,-a pipe cif -brandy, and to Wish Air'
a-ple.asant passage, to the country otitis adopt'
tion, the United States of America."
This anecdote 111r:Paine himself frequently meta
tionedlo his friends in-Atnerica-, 'over his brandy and
water, whien he was rather toad of enjoYing-
tbe foupdation.of a house at-the sotith
end firoacl-street; Aberdeen, the workmen,
t Irre ;reef Irbiti the surface, came to comnioa moss
but in that inosS, several burnt beams of wood, Rru:
bably lodged: there since the . contilgration of -b4
ward 111. were found. A well, regularly built
brick, also descends through ate MUSS, covered o_t
by an arch at top, and having no corinunicati°"
with the surface for at least several centuries.
The foreign arrivals last week, at the, port of Live„
~
pool, were extr.:tnely numerous. About 40 ships
rived laden with North American produce. FrQui
the 6th. to the lOth inst. 8,403 barrels of flour, al
19,020 bags of wheat,jhad been imported. there 100
New York aid Philidelphia.