Star.
London, England, 1808-04-29 00:00:00

447 V lATLLLICE!'CE•

THZ EDITOR OF THE STA.

COURT OF i'ING'S BENCH, APRIL 127.

Stn—The numerous accidenu that have happen
from the clothes of.woMen and children taking fire
will, I hope, induce you to insert the following, rather
indelicate, but infallible method of extinguishing the
flams, when such circumstances occur. It is taken
from the last Number of Me Phdosophical Pla,ozire,
page 175.
" The hands of any assistant must be passed under
all the cloathes to the sufferer's shift, and then the
whole closed above her head. The flames will thus
most certainly be extinguished. This ran be done in
five seconds. in the time that a person can stoop to the
ground and rise win, and no other method can be
so ready, lx,Jedittous, and effectual. The sufferer
will Leib At.: the business by folding her arms close
before her."—April t 7, 1808.

PELLET V COCKERELL, AND °lnns.
The Plaintiff in this case is Captain of the East I*:
din Company's ship United Kingdom, and when Id
Calcutta in the year 1804, the Defendants, who sx
merchants there, agreed with the Plaintiff for dab
whole of his privilege, at the rate of 351. pet ton, anti
to give him for 34,000 rupees, which he had in their
hands, 3s. 2d. per sicca rupee. Accordingly the de4
fendants sent 118 chests of indigo on board the United
Kingdom, which arrived safe, but the residue; 112
elitists, Was lost between Calcutta and the ship, which
wasting* considers le distance down the river. In
the bean time the 'Defendants had ordered other
goodson board, to make up the quantity of tonage ;
but before they arrived, the ship sailed ; therefore,
ActRDANELLES EXPEDITION. the Plaintiff sought to recover 24.131. I Is. being the
deficiency; in freight. On the part of the Defendants
It is reported that in a few days the production ofl
certain papers respecting the ill fated expeditions to !beingStned
it was contended, that as the Plaintiff had been in.
out and home, to the amount
. of 70001. and it
to
the Dardanelles and Alexandria will be moved hr.— 1 the custom in India to insure from shore
shore, they were not liable for the deficiency. The
We sincerely hope the report may be true, as there
are many circumstances that seem to render it pile original contractleing admitted,Lo. rdELLEtatoitoucit
cularly desirable, and even necessary. Half this Ses-1
sion has been taken up in motiens for papers, and /i said, it was clear that the raintiff had not practised
any delusion, and that the 112 chests of go had
endless discussions upon them, respecting the Danish never been in hil so on,
consequently he Could
expedition, to the able conducting and successful issue ;fat not be Lab ablf for what was not under his care. Verdict
of which it is probably owing that Parliament has hi- ' .. • .
therto coetinned to enjoy the privilege of meeting i
t- This DOWDING AND ENOTHESIOD. REID AND OTHERS.
Platnfiff 2413 L Ils.
peace, and of employing the midnight hour in debate This action was broughZandte Plaintiffs, who ard
ins about the honour and expediency of that measure i cnnliers' eagaia n-G.,,Ast thes..4rDef ts, who had been the
intead of being called into the field to 'tight for the ' °wntrs of 'le ""'"" '-r—
-protection of their families and firesides, al& to strug- East Indiaman, for sup-
plying that ship with stores in the year 1803, to the
gle even for the existence of Britain, for whose de-I amount of 2181. 17s. Id.
struction, a combination, embracing so wide At circle i It appeared that a Mr. Moses Agar had been the
and possessing such powerful means, had been pre! ship's husband, and part owner, who had the entire
pared, and almost ready to burst upon us. lf, in such k management of the ontfittittg of tlie ship, and had also
a critical emergency, thr.e has been deemed well spent been in the habits fne years of dealing with the Plain-
in giving every act of Government its severest cone. ' tiffs in accommodatienbllls, till he became a bankrupt
in 1807, when the Plaintiffs sought to recover the
ment, it is surely not less important to allot a portion :
of it tc the review of fruitless expeditions which have; amount of their bill for stores.
On the part of the Defendants it was proved, by
I cost the lives of so many of our brave defenders ; tare i
several respectable coopers, that the usual credit wad
Wished to a certain degree the lustre of his Majesty's I
only 12 months,,and that the ship had been sold, and
Ilarms, and wasted so much time and treasute that :
! the whole account had been settled between the ship's
might have been more advantageously and honour-
husband and the other owners.
ably employed. That the late expeditions to the Ar-
Lord Eeerizonot:ou observed, that it was clear,
chipelago and Egypt were most disastrous is but too I
apparent, and the reasons of their having been so I from the extreme indulgence the Plaintiffs showed
Mr. Agar, that they did not conceive the other owner*
should be enquired into, and- probed to the bottom.
actions
responsible, especially as they had several money trans.
The public has a right to be satisfied as to the how
actions together after the usual credit had expired,
whence they could have failed so* completely ;
whether from the want of information and judgment and withholding their demand so long, naturally ;n-
-and
in those who planned, or of . skill, of prudence-, or of i duced the Defendants to suppose that the whole ae•
valour in those to whom the execution of the plans mand upon the ship had been entirely liquidated.
; Verdict for Defendants.
was entrusted. The experience, ability, and esta-
blished character of many of the officers employed on JONES AND ANOTHER, C. HODSON' AND ANOTHER.
that service, warrants the belief that no blame can at- This was an action brought for goods sold and de-
tach to any of them ; yet as something very like it is livered to the Defendants, amounting to 13161. 9s.
unfortunately (though perhaps not intentionally) in- i Both parties are warehousemen, in. cteen-street,
situated in some of the extracts of the dispatches pub-ICheapside. In the month of December, r. Hodson
lished upon that occasion; it is certainly no more than t called on the Plaintiffs, and purchased from them a
common justice to the concerned to let the foundation quantity of cambric muslin s, which were delivered,
for such inuendos be ascertained, or proved to be al- and the invoice niade out in the name of J. Hodson
together geoundless. The soldier, whatever be his aid Ce. but Mr. Hodson called a few days after and
rank or station, who falls fighting for his King and prevailed on the Plaintiffs to make it out in the name
Country, leaves the protection of his fame and ,Of Shaw and Co. calicoTrinters, in Manchester.
cation to the care of those in whose cause he 117,1 Mr. Shaw was called, and upon cross-examination
and a generous Public will not suffer a slur to rest on tted that they 'never received the goods, though
either, even by implieldem 'which by a candid and hentood they had been purchased for his house,
dispassionate' investigation, can be wiped away— as Mr. Hodson was a partner, and since that period
More especially_ if there shall appear the most distant became insoivent.—Verdict for the Plaintiffs.
round to suspect the insinuation might have crept on
from pqlitical bias, or a wish to compliment the liv-
ing, at the expence of merit no longer alive to refute
the calumny, or possibly to retort the charge.

COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 28.

MR. LUDLAM.
At the sitting of the Court, this Gentleman, against
whom a Commission of Lunacy had issued some time
. since (as particularly stated in the report of proceed-
ings in this cause in a former paper) respectfully ad.
dressed the LORD CHANCELLOR from the back bar--
he handsomely apologised to his Lordship for thus
troubling him with a personal application, and trusted
he would excuse so great a liberty, assuring his Lord-
ship at the same time that nothing but the particular
circumstances under which he stood should have in-
duced him to do so. He requested his Lordship would
appoint a day for taking his case into considerations
as every day's delay was of the utmost importance and
extremely injurious to him. He further stated that
he had already lost two of his material witnesses, and
a third was under orders for the West Indies. He
therefore trusted these circumstances would be a suf.
ficient apology for trespassing upon his Lordship, and
requesting an early day for the consideration of his

The following short extract, from the Tragedy of
MAHOMIIT, will be found applicable to character
of the French Ruler :
At CANOR-1 know thy master's arts : his generous tears,,
Like the refreshing breeze that previous fall
To the wild outrage of th' o'erwheiming earthquakes,
Only forerun destruction.
Yu AltoN—Leagues he will nuke too--
ALC lNOß—Like other grasping tyrants, 'till he eyes
A lucky juncture to enlarge his bounds ;
Then he'll divide them, leap o'er every tie,
Of sacred guarantee, or sworn protection ;
And when the oppress'd ally implores assistance,
Beneath that mask inv.wie the trisit'd-for miens,
And, from purefrie.d:h.",b, tale th ette to himself.
Lust and ambition are the springs
Of all his actions ; whilst, without one dente,
Dissimulation, like a Pattering painter, •
Bedecks him with the c•;lottting of these an.
Government have it in contemplation to purchase
certain lands which run parallel to the Duke's Walk,
near the Abbey of Holyrood-bouse, Edinburgh;
and join with the King's Park
or St. Ann's Yards,
on the west. The whole area, when the malls
are removed, will form a park of upwards of 50
acres. The intention of Government, in the first in-
stance, is to form a park for militaty exercises, artil-
lery-grounds, magazines for military stores,
Saturday se'nnight came on at Down Assizes the
important trial arising from the detention, by the
Wickham and Ross revenue cruisers, on the 6th of
July, 1803, of the American ship Charles Carter, for
having a greater number of passengers on board than
were warranted by Act of Parliament. The vessel
was permitted to proceed on her voyage, on security
to abide the consequences. By -the ver4ict of the
Jury, the owners were fined in 4'2100.
Some uncommonly daring robberies were last week
committed on the watch-makers and silversmiths in
the city of Cork. A robber, under pretence of pur-
chasing,having secured an article,fled instantaneously.
Mr. CONNOR, Nassau-street, Mr. Down, Fishamble-
street, and Mr. SMITH, JerViutrget, have each lost a
watch in this way ; and on comparing notes it ap-
peared to be the same man only disguised in various
dresses. He went to
.Mr. Smirii as a working shoe-
maker, and having bargained very hard for a 9 guinea
watch, he asked the hour and fled while Mr. SMITH
turned aiout to look at,the regalator. He also ran
away with a number of spoons from a shop near Ca.
pel-street, but being pursued, he called out honour
Gentlemen ! I'm in dett---the people believing the as-
s-ertion did not stop him ; and thus he escaped tri-
amplant in open day !

case.
The LORD CuAxcetwa assured him, that it was
his *wish to give the matter his earliest attention, but he
understood there was some difficulty in the case.
Sir :Salton. ROMILLY, on behalf of Mr. Ludlam,
observed that nothing more was necessary than for leis
Lordship to make an order to try the traverse.
LORD. CHANCELLOR.—.." I should be glad to give
Mr. Ludlam every assistance in my power, but wish
to speak with the Master before I make any order...-.
I. will direct the Master to attend me in my private
room before the sitting of the Court to-morrow morn.
ing, and if mr. Ludlam will be so good as to attend
at the same time, I will see what are the necessary
steps to be taken."
CLAIMS ON THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.
Immediately after, a poor man, who has long been
in the habit of attending the Court, who is better
known by the title of the Duke of Norfolk, and whom
we have had occasion to notice in former papers,
j..con-
trived to station h. self in the front of the bar, before
Sir SAMUEL Ron ILLY, and addressing his Lordship,
begged to know' his Lordship would make any order
in his case ? He had (he said) been thrown into pri-
son for debt, was now living in a very poor and
humble dwelling, from which he was afraid he should
be obliged to seek a.ssistance frora the work-house,
where he had already been once compelled to go--
His title to ar, independent property, he added, could
be fully made out to his Lordship's satisfaction.
The LORD CHANCELLOR assured him he had given
his case every consideration in his power, knit found it
was quite impossible for ?dm to give him any assis.
tance, which, however, his Lordship regretted ex-
ceedingly.
Several cases of petitions in bankrupt cause were
disposed of, but nothing of any interest occurred.