The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-07 00:00:00

THE LATE EAST INDIA CADET-

SHIP CASE.
LEWES, August 4.
(Before Auckland, Esq , Deputy-Sheriff.)
DEW V. COHEN.
This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages for
a libel insert, d by the defendant in the firight°3
Guardian, the defendant having suffered judgineDt to
go by default.
Mr. Ballantine was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Janice
for the defence.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the plaintiff, Mr. Dew, was ea
auctioneer, residing in King William-street, London, and
he brought this action to recover compensation in damages
for injury to his character and bffsiness by the
publication
of a libel by the defendant, whose paper had a considerable
circulation in Sussex, where plaintiff had many friends.
lie did not impute any m ilice or improper motives
to the defendant, but he had shown a want of care and
diligence in this case. Mr. Ballantine here proceeded
to narrate the circumstances attending the late East
India Cadetship case. Had the report complained of
been strictly a report of what took place in London, when
a charge was instituted against Mr. Dew by the East
India Company, Mr. Dew would not have brought this
action, but, instead of reporting what took place, the
defendant had condensed the report, not giving Mr. Dew
the full benefit of the observations made in the course of
hearing the charge, nor giving the people of this county
an opportunity of judging of the transaction ; and is
the condensation one of the gravest charges from which
a man could suffer was made against Mr. Dew. W.'
Ballantine, here read the article, which was a followe:--
" ILLEGAL SALE OF AN EAST INDIA CADETSHIP.- *on
Saturday Mr. John Harry Drew, auctioneer, of Sind;
William-street, and Mr. William Rallett, of Bayswater,
were charged before Mr. Hardwick, of the Marlborough'
street Police-office, with being concerned in negotiations
for the sale of a cadetship in the East India Company's
service, in violation of the 49th Geo. 111., which makes
such a proceeding a misdemeanour. Mr. Clarkson ar
pearal for the prosecution. It appeared that the pi?'
souers had represented to Mr. Coppard, formely residing in
the London-road, Brighton, and now at Horsham, who
was seeking a cadetship for his step-son, Mr. John' Mat-
thew Boswell, that they could procure him a cadetship,
on receiving 1,0001 or 1,1001., through the influence of
Mr. Henry Shank, formerly a Director of the Compaeif
and they exhibited to him a note, purporting tobe signed
by Mr. Shank, promising to procure Mr. Boswell a ca'
detship in November next, and on handing over the do-
cument, and also a certificate signed by the prisoner'',
and another person not in custody, that the signature wee
that of Mr. Shank, Mr. Coppard paid the parties 1,050 L
It was proved that the signature purporting to be Mr-
Shank's was a forgery. The prisoners were admitted to
b
The jury would see that not only was the plaintiff stated
to be charged by the East India Company with being
concerned in the illegal sale of a cadetship, but the ar-
ticle went on to charge what he was sure his Learned
Friend would admit never was stated against him, theS
the document signed by the prisoner was a forgery'
Nothing of the kind ever took place ; there was no do;
cument signed by Mr. Dew. It was for being traduce!:
in this manner that his client felt it necessary to apPeel

to a jury.
William Ball, bookkeeper to Mr. Dew, was called to
prove that the business of Mr. Dew had been seriously.ity
jured since the appearance of the paragraph in questiott•
Mr. JAMES, having cross• examined the witness at
great length, addressed the jury for the defence. gisr,'
Cohen had apologised for the mistake. The falling 0"
of the plaint:ff'sbusiness was owing, not to
skeinics
tion of a short paragraph in the Sussex pape, which,
the sole mistake was the insertion of a superfluous "
but the charge of being concerned in the illegal sale ol
a cadetship, for which he was taken three times to is
London police-office, and the details of which transaction
were reported in the London papers. Not a single
owner of property had been called to prove damages;
they had no one but the clerk, who was engaged at is
salary of, 255. per week. Mr. James concluded by r;
minding the jury that a verdict of less than 40s. WOW
leave the plaintiff to pay his own costs.
The DEPUTY SHERIFF having summed up,
The jury consulted for about two minutes, and then
returned the damages at the eighth of a penny.
Mr. JAMES said there was a coin in the colonies 014
would just meet that.
Mr. BALLANTINE said they had better say a fartbill
Mr. JAMES—We consent to the increase.
The verdict was applauded by the spectators.

DUTCH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, Auc. I.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Orange returned from Ems
days ago, and are now at the Loo. They are expel'''.
here next week, with their children and household.
The Cabinet messenger, Reisman, is to go to-121011°A
to London, with dispatches for the King. te,
BATAVIA, MARCH 4 —Accounts from Amboa Tye
that the health m
of that island is quite satisfactory.
epidemic has wholly disappeared. , „ dont
BATAVIA, MARCH 14. Great damage has nee- ts
in the residence of Tagat and Pekalongar, by WOO „a
rain, which inundated the plantations of rice, sugar'
indigo, and destroyed several habitations and °
buildings, and many small vessels,
Samftl sal
rig
BATAVIA, MARCH 21.—The coasts of ll„-„,
Japara are still molested by pirates, and the fiswmo

waging trade are expose:ltogreat danger.

TRADE OF FRANCE:'-
The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the following re.
turns, from the Administration of the Customs, of the
principal articles of merchandise imported into France
during the first six months of the present year, showing
the quantities arrived and consumed, and the duties
received :
Merchandise.

Arrived. Consumed. Duties.
Met.Quint.*Met.Quint. Francs.
Sugar (French Colonies) 489,847 434,400 20,395,951
Ditto (Foreign)
Coffee
Cocoa
Pepper 19,258 8,867 396,015
Cotton Wool
Mahogany
Oil (Olive)
Wools 81,447 94,070 4,778,980
Silk (Raw)
Ditto (Spun)
DittO (Floss)
Coal 10,405,681 9,875,077 2,338,282.
Cast Iron (unwrought) 278,122 279,040 1,611,691
Copper (first fusion)
Lead (in pigs) 88,780 - 65,322 365,03!
Tin (unwrought)
Zinc (first fusion)
Nitrate of Potassium 2,170 3,981 65,683
Nitrate of Soda
Cochineal 521 862 75,792
Indigo
Flax & Hemp (Threads) 41,781 40,312 2,720,67!
Ditto ditto (Cloths) . 18,866 17,890 11,04,..7.
Other duties - - 11,829,26*
_.----"
75,952,0114
Bt-ing 4,404,607 f. more than for the corresponding period
of 1844. and 6,032,796 f. than that of 1843.

"` The Metrical quintal is 221 ilbs. English.

MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.—The total number
of deaths registered in the metropolitan district, for tbe
week ending: Saturday, August 2, is 827, of which 81
b
were from disease, showing a decrease, as compared
the previous week, in deaths from disease, of 49. TD
number of deaths from diseases of the respirator;
orhans, was 292 ; and from epidemic, endemic, and con-
tagious diseases, 184.

BIRTHS.
On the sth inst., Mrs. R. Pryke, of the Lord Nelson, Car°
burton-street, Fitzroy-square, of a son.
On the 31st ult., at Myddelton-square, the lady of David
Betts, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., at Trinity-terrace, East India-road, WS'
Ninian Miller, of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Bedford, the lady of Samuel Daniel'
Esq , of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., at Hyde-park-square, the wife of George
La Coste, Esq., Judicial Referee of Trinidad, of a son.
On the 3d inst., at the Holt House, Wokingham, Berk*
the lady of John Spencer Wynn Werninck, Esq., of a son.
On the 3d inst., at Burton-street, Tavistock• square, 11.5"
M. Phillipson, of a son.
On the 4th inst., in John-street, Berkeley-square, the 1011
of Harry Surman, Esq., of a son.
On the 4th inst., in Manchester-building, Westminster,
Mrs. Joseph Cubitt, of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., at Belinda-terrace, Islington, ...re*
Dewick, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at the Grove, East Dulwich, Surrey, bill'
Henry II Piper, of Eastcheap, of a son.
On the sth inst., Mrs. E. C. Dermer, of the Wandsworth-
road, of a s,n.
On the Ist inst., Mrs. Ainger, of John-street, Bedford"
row, of a son.
On the let inst., at Lee, Kent, Mrs. T. B. Stow, of a snii;,,
On the 2d inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. John Matthew, 01 1.
daughter.

41,41t111RD.
On the Bth ult., at Hallow, Allan Waters, Esq., of E:
mouth, Devon, to Anne Maria, daughter of the late It .1'
King, Esq., M.D., of Mortlake, Surre ra
y.
On the 10th ult., at Quebec, the Rev. Henry notha
third son of the Hon. and Rev. rederick Hotham, Canon 0
Rochester, to Mary, second daughter of the late 1100. Lic)/313
Hale, Receiver-General of Lower Canada. the
On the 31st ult., at St. Andrew's Chapel, Aberdeen, -t
Rev. Philip Canyon, Incumbent of St. James's, Exeter,. °
Grace Julia, youngest daughter of the late Colonel
Young. R.
On the 2d inst , at St. Botolph's, Alderagate, Londos,
W. Bennett, Esq., solicitor, Manchester, to Helen, eldest'
daughter of Robert Garrod, Esq., of
Sean

DIED
On the 4th inst., Henry Mozley, Esq., of the Friary',
Derby.
On the Ist of June, at Chittagong, Caroline, Wire °f a.
Sconce, Esq., B.C.C.
On le 18th ult., in the city of Valetta, Lecilena, wifing
e of
Lieutenant-Colonel William Burton Tylden, command
the Ryal Egineer in th Island of Malta.
On o
the 30tnh ult.,s at Bre ighton, Nathaniel Simmons, Egg"
of Gloucester Lodge, St. James's, Croydon, Surrey.
On the 2d inst., at Bath, Vice-Admiral George James
ShWey, aged 77.
__ On the 3d inst., Mary Sophia, the wife of James Raymond,
Esq., of Baythorn-park, Essex. relict
On the 3(1 inst., at Southsea, Portsmouth, Margaret,
of the late Major-General Sir William Clarke, Bart.
On the 26th ult., at Dawlish, Frances Isabella,
Rev. Hyde W. Beadon.
On the 29th ult., at Hampstead, John Eaton, Esq. ,
On the 30th ult., at Pembroke-square, Kensington, Pi
Elizabeth Spence, relict of Captain H. 11. Spence, R.N. ha
!.- ~1 Ludt.,w. Elizabeth, wife
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