The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-26 00:00:00

LORD STOWELL.

Adair's

(From the North America,. Review.)
But a still more striking example is Lord
Stowell (better known in this country as Sir
William Scott), the present venerable Judge of
the High Court of Admiralty, of whom it may
be justly said, in the language of Cicero, that he
is jurisperitoritin eloquentzssimus. This great
man has presided in the Court of Admiralty
since the year 1798 ; and during this period he
has commanded the admiration of all Europe, by
the learning, acuteness, and finished elegance of
his judgments. There was a time when it was
somewhat the fashion in this country to under-
value the solid excellence of his opinions. Our
commerce was brought so directly in conflict with
his administration of prize law, that it was diffi-
cult to avoid prejudices on a subject in which, as
neutrals, we had so deep an interest, and were so
liable to indulge strong animosities. But time
has dissipated many delusions on this subject,
and we have had in the late war ample opportu-
nity to try the accuracy of his principles, when
we changed the character of neutrals for that of
belligerents. We can now look back upon his
decisions with somewhat of the calmness and
sobriety of a philosophical historian. With the
exception of the doctrines respecting the Colo-
nial trade, in which it is but common justice to
admit that he either acted upon public orders in
Council, which he was bound to obey, or upon
the rule of J 756, which his Government had
previously chosen to consider as an established
part of its Prize Code, the differences between
his decisions upon prize law and those promul-
gated by the Supreme Court of the United
States, are so few as to be almost evanescent.—
After the most- •powerful arguments, under the
highest political excitements, and with the aid
of the most striking eloquence, . there has been
but a single principle adopted by him which has
been deliberately overruled by the Supreme
Court, and on that occasion there was a serious
difference of opinion among the Judges.
But it is not in respect to Prize Law that we
intend to speak of Lord Stowell, though he
every where exhibits the most profoiind and ac-
curate knowledge of all the .publicists of con-
tinental Europe; but as a maritime Judge, de-
ciding in what is called the Instance Court, the
great principles of commercial jurisprudence.
His superiority in this department over the tech-
nical reasoning of the common lawyers is most
signal. He discusses every question with a per-
suasive and comprehensive liberality—with a
tone of general equity---a knowledge of maritime
usages—and a disposition to consider maritime
jurisprudence as the unwritten law of the
world, rather than the municipal monopoly of a
single nation ; and he draws from all sources,
ancient and modern, the best and purest prin-
ciples to aid, to illustrate, and to confirm his
own judgment. With him the grave learning of
Grotius—the acute, bold, and somewhat vehe-
ment, discussions of Bynkershock—the reverend
testimonies of the Consolato del Mare—the col-
lections of Cleirac—the busy, practical sense of
Roccus—the brief, but clear, text of Heineccius
--the various and exhausting labours of Casa-
reps—the argumentative .commentaries, and
luminous treatises of the French jurists, appear
as perfectly familiar as the writers of his own age
and country. - He evidently reposes upon them

even when he does not cite them ; and trans-
fuses into his own eloquent and impressive judg-
ments whatever they afford of general doctrine,
or just interpretation, upon all the doubtful
questions of maritime law. One scarcely knows
which most to admire, the simplicity of his prin-
ciples—the classical beauty of his diction—the
calm and dispassionate spirit of his inquiries—
his critical but candid estimate of evidence--
his strong love of equity—his deep indig-
nation of fraud, chastened by habitual modera-
tion—or that pervading common sense which
looks into, and feels, and acts upon the busi-
ness of life, with a discriminating, but in-
' dulgent eye—content to administer practi-
cal good, without ostentation ; and wasting no-
thing upon speculations, whose origin is enthu-
siasm, and whose end is uncertainty or mischief.
Even when he deals with
,subjects of another
class, as in ecclesiastical causes in the Cansistory
Court, one is surprised to see with what admi-
rable propriety he uses his knowledge of general
jurisprudence and the civil law, to give vigour
to his decrees. And, upon questions involving
the lex loci, he has triumphantly shown that he
can master the results of foreign jurisprudence ;
and, as in the very interesting case of Dalrymple,
v. Dalrymple, compose the strifes of the Learned
Advociktes of the Scottish bar, and fix for ever,
upon an immoveable basis, a question which
had vexed the domestic forum of Scotland, for a

long period, with its doubts and difficulties. We
say, without hesitation, that the character of this
eminent Judge, whatever may have been his
original genius and ability, .owesits. present ele-
vation, in a great measure, to his enlarged studies,
and his cultivation of universal jurisprudence.
Take, for instance, his celebrated judgment its
the case of the Gratitudine, in 1801, on the
right of the master to hypothecate the cargo, as
well as the ship and freight, for the necessities of
the voyage ; or the case of the Juliana, in 1822,
on the invalidity of a stipulation in the shipping
paper, to cut off the seamen from wages, unless
the voyage was performed to the final port of des-
tination. Where shall we find, in the annals of
the common law, except among the judgments of
Lord Mansfield, cases argued out • upon such
rational and enlightened. principles, aided by sober
and various learning, and ending in conclusions
so irresistible. One seems in them, to be read-
, ing not the law of England merely, but the
law of the world—the results of human reason

and human learning, acting on human concerns,
with reference to principles absolutely universal
in their justice and convenience of application.
We wish American lawyers would study the fine
models of this sagacious Judge, with a diligence
proportionate to their importance and utility.

THE MARKETS.

COAL MARE

Charlotte. .. 32 0
Eighton Main 29 6
Heaton ' 35 0
Hebburn Main --.--- 33 0
Holywell- 3l 9
Killingworth 83 0
Liddell's 30 6
Old Walker 32 0
Percy East., 29 0
Pontop Windsor 31 0
Shipcote 3O 3
Tanfield Moor 32 3
Townley 3O 3
Willington 34. 0
Wylam —3l 0
WallsEndßewicke&Co. 36 6
Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 33 9
Ditto 32 3
Ditto Carr and C 0.......... 31 6
Ditto Clarke and C 0... 30 6
Ditto Cramlington...,— 30 9
Ditto Hilda - 32 0
Ditto H0t5pur..........„-- 32 6 '
Ships at market, 98%---Shh

ET.-3,11y 25.

Walls End Newmarch„. 345. 6d.

Ditto Northumberland 33 0

Ditto 'Peareth 31 9
Ditto 35 0
Ditto Russell's 36 31
Ditto. Walker 35 0
Liddell's 30 6
Tantiel 1 Trader, 3l 9
Londonderry small —.— 18 0
Lambton small ,

Culm 29 0
Culrn Cox 29 ti
El3in Main 34 0
Hartley 30 0
Llangenneth 42 0
Fordel Main 36 0
Stone Coal Cox 45 0
Nesham 33 6
Lambton's Primrose 33 6
Walls End Hettob---,.. 37 6
Ditto Lyons,— , 33 6
Ditto Stewart's VI 0
Russell's Hetton'sW. E. 36 9

sold, 5614—Unsold.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—JuIy Y 4.
The imports from Ireland and coastwise, since last
Tuesday, would, with our ordinary demand, have been
nearly equal to the wants of our millers ; but, in the pre-
sent state of the trade, the stocks in granary must be fast
reducing.—There were several dealers from the interior,
together with a good attendance of our own millers at this
morning's market, when a moderately extensive business
was transacted in Wheat, at about last Tuesday's cur-
rency ; but the market ended rather dull. Gatti were
more inquired for than of late, and fine qualities main-
tained previous prices. Several parcels of
were sold for shipment to Ireland, at a reduc
Is. per quarter, There is no change in the
other description of Grain.

Indian Corn
ion of about
Paine of any

OLD. • I NSW.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. (1,,.
O 0a 0 0;9 0a 9 ,
0 0a 0 0' '7 8a 8'0
O 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 0
O 0 a 0 0 8 2 a 8 9,
O 0a 0 0 8 2 a 8 r
0
00a00 7 6 a 9 0
0 0 a (1 4 0 a 5 au
5 6 a 5 9 4 3 a 5 .?
O C a 0 0 4 9 a 5 0
O 0 a 9 49a 6 0
O 0 a 0 0 4 0 a 5 0a
O 0a 0 048 0 a 54 'a
O 0a 0 0 3 10 a 4 ",
O 0a 0 0 3 9a 910 u
O 0a 0 0 3 10 a 4 a
O Oa 0 062 04'67 "a
O Oa 0 046 0456 ",
O 0 a 0 024 0 a 25 ',
0 Oa 0 030 0a35 0'
Canadian......—,--..... .. 0 0 a 0 0— 0 a—
Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 4801 b. 0 0 a 0 039 0 aB5 9
-- red--....... 0 0a 0 035 0 a 35 °,
Pease, English white, per Imp. qr. 0 0 a 0 042 0 a 46 a•
Rye •••••••WW•WW••••••••,..../441.V10WW 0 0a 0 36 0a 40 ,
Oatmeal, English, per 2401b5. —1 0 0 a 0 37 0a 30 'a
Irish ••••••••••••••••••••••wwww.......".113 0 i 0 33 0 a 3'7 1
.- Scotch ..,..,.«.»....,..««....,..,.«.»....,..««.....,..,.«.»....,..««......! 0 0 a 0 oa "'
IMPORT oF GRAIN for the Weetc ending July 93.
Wheat. Oats. I Barley. Malt. 'Beans. I Pease. 1 Rye. lOatud•
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads'
16,791 3,283 1,460 2,549 599 119 451 2,609
Flour, 2,236 sacks, 2,B36barrels.
EXPORTS.—Indian Corn, 566 quarters-.-Flour, 1950 barrels.

Wheat, English, per 701 b. , ,„!
- Irish (red)
- Ditto
- Scotch 4MA*, V* NW.
-- Canada (free)...----
- Foreign (free)
- Foreign (in b0nd)..,.,,.
Barley, English, per 601bs.
---- Irish
---- Scotch.-- .wernee..m.
- Foreign
Beans, English, per Imp. qr.
Oats, English, per 451 b.
- Irish ...••••••••••••••••••••,...
Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr.
Flour, Amer., duty paid, per
SOUT

COTTON. WOOL.
LIST OF IMPORTS AND XXPORTS.

IMPORTED.
C"----I‘-....... 1 EXPORTED.
~.......--.A................1,
Same pe-, Previoue
This riod last ly this
year. year. I year.
..MININOMMONI”.1••••••••••••11 .......,,,,,..,..,. i .............. .1.1.1••••••••••
Bags, &c. Bags, &c.l Bags, &c. Bags, &c.
Liverpool 495,905 331,878 1,027 12,57?
London 42,165 49,674 795,- 23,900
Glasgow 37,311 16,2;9 90
Total exported in 1827 . ..... t.t. 38,396. ~., .