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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. so.
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PAMECER V. TODHUNTER.
This was an action on a Policy of Insurance on
freight by the brig Port sea, from Berbice to London.
A few days after she sailed, she was captured by a
French privateer, and the Captain, and all the rest of
the crew, except the Mate, were taken out of her.
She was afterwards recaptured by the Favourite sloop
of war, and carried into Grenada on the-15th Sep.
tember, 1807. On the following day, the Mate -wrote
an account of the circumstance to kis owner, and fit:
a month after he forwarded the protest. These do-
cuments the agent, who had effected the insurance,
laid before the Underwriters on the 28th December,
and claimed a total loss. However, he did not for-
mally abandon. till 12th January. Ii the mean time
432 bags of coffee, and 92 bales of cotton, were sold
to pay salvage'of the re-captors. Idthe March fol-
lowing the rest of the cargo was landed, and the ship
was sold in June last. The Underwriters refused to
pay on the ground that it was not a total loss ; that
the owner ought to have sent out instructions to Gre.
nada, to forward the ship to London with her cargo ;
and that, therefore, he was not entitled to any thing
more than a partial loss, which the Defendant had
estimated at 501. per cent. and paid into Court.
;Lord ELLENBOROUGII signified the same opinion ;
and the case was referred to Mr. Mason, one of the
Jury; to enquire whether that sum was sufficient to
ewer the partial loss sustained ? •

THE SAME C. DEwAE.
This was an action on the policy of insurance on
the same ship, and the Defendant also paid 30 per
cent.• •into Coort,;wttich was referred to the same ar-
bitrator.- •

• MACKENZIE V. VERNA/ID.
This was an action upon a policy insurance on
the snow Dart, M'Lennau Master, her trading in
a whaling voyage to the South Seas, captured in the
bay of St. Helena, in 1804. In 1806, the Plaintiff
brought an action against Mr. Young, one of the
underwriters, which he lost ; and many of the under-
writers having paid, brought an action against him
to recover back the loss ; but the Court and Jury were
of opinion that it was a legal loss ; and they had a
right to settle it as they did. It was tharefore, on the
authority of that decision, that the present action
was brought. The reason why this action had been
delayed was the absence of Capit.M‘Lennan ; and to
avoid-that.delay, it was agreed by both parties, that
Loyd Ellenborough's notes of his former evidence
should be read.
On the part. of the Defendant, it was contended,
that it was not a fishing voyage, as represented in the
policy, but only a mask for a trading voyage ; and
had it been represented to the underwriters as a tra-
ding voyage, they would not have underwritten tile
risk at so low a premium.
Several witnesses were examined respecting the mode
of effecting insurances on such voyages, and the na-
ture of the trade ; but their evidence did sot defeat
the Plaintiff's case.
Lord ELLExtonoron was clearly of opinion, that
the Plaintiff was entitled to recover, as the policy
contemplated a trading as well as a fishing voyage.
The Jury accordingly found a verdict for the Plain-
tiff—Damages 1681. 10s.
The London Sittings after Term concluded.

The publisher of the " Microcosm of London" has
announced a new Monthly Magazine, called " The
Repository of Arts," &c. for the 2d of January next.
We are well-wishers to the first work, and as such
recommend Mr. ACKERMANN to pursue the same li-•
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some of the articles, and compreSs others, as they ap-
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ber, we shall perhaps say something either in praise
or dispraise of its execution.
Mr. DowNer, the Oxfordshire Pedestriamfailed in
a great professional undertaking on Saturday. He
had engaged for a bet of £5OOl. to go .50 miles a-day
for 20 successive days, and no fixed time for the per-
formance on each day. Saturday was the fifteenth
day, when, he resigned, having been beaten by the
weather. The undertaking was the same as Mr.
WlLsos is engird to do the fiist week in April for
1000 guineas.
..MaNsion-Housz. Yesterday, a genteel-looking
young man, was charged on suspicion of stealing a
pocket-book, containing £6O. a pair of pantaloons,
and some other articles, the property of a gentleman,
who lodged
.ie with the prisoner's aunt, at No. 6, Crown-
court, adfieedie-street. The prisoner, who lodged
in the same house, had accent() the prosecutor's apart-
ment, from which the property was stolen ; the pro.
secutor had detected him wearing his pantaloons,
frorn which he had reason to believe 'he took other
things as well as the money, as he had not been in
any employ for six or seven months, and appeared
flush of money. Seieral letters and receipts were pro-
duced, which proved his having bought a horse, and
a variety of cloaths. They also proved his having
been on board a man of, war. His Lordship there-
fore told him, thati though suspicion was very
strong against him, he would send him to serve his
Majesty again, rather than commit him for trial. This
indulgence, however, the prisoner declined accepting,
and said he had lately received c2OO of a Captain of
a ship at Whitstable, in Kent, on promising to marry
his danghter, which he could prove in the course of
a week ; he was therefore remanded till that time.
Pout's OFFICEISTEI'HEN'S GREILNI, DUBLIN, DECEM-
544.—Yesterday Harney Fitztatrich, who lately
'was employed as a letter-carrier in the General Post
Office, and for whose apprehension a considerable re-
ward has beep offered, was brought before Messrs.
Hone, Guinness, and Magrath, at the above office,
charged with having embezzled a letter containing
bank-notes, with which he absconded. The Magis-
trates -dispatched Loftuts Kell, an active peace-officer,
the night before, in pursuit of him, who succeeded in
• apprehending him. Thomas Thenipson,Esq. Solici-
tor to the Post Office, attended, and after a full and
',dose investigation of the circumstances, he was fully
-omitted to Nzwgate, to abide his trial at the next