The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-02 00:00:00

No. 10,886.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1827.

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DOG-DAY REFLECTIONS.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

BY A DANDY KEPT 1N TOWN.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-LINCOLN, JULY 30.

" Vox clamantis in deserto."

Lord TENTERDEN having opened the commission
here on Saturday, the business of the assizes com-
menced to-day. There were thirty causes entered
for trial, and the names of seventeen prisoners in
the calender.

Said Malthus, one day, to a clown,
Who lay stretched on the beach in the sun,
" What's the number of Souls in this town?"
"The number ! Lord bless you, there's none.
" We have nothing but dabs in this place,
" And of them a great plenty there are ;
" But the soles, please your rev'rence and grace,
• "Are all t'other side of the bar."
And so 'tis in London just now,

ACRIL V. CLAY AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought to recover compensa-
tion for a grievous bodily injury which the plaintiff
had suffered in consequence of the neglect of the de-
fendants and their servants. The plaintiff was the
driver 'and part proprietOr of a stage-coach, running
between Gainsborough and Grimsby ; the defend-
ants were the owners of a steam-packet plying be-
tween Grimsby, Hull, &c., and which was called the
Graham. The plaintiff having driven his coach to
Grimsby on the • 7th of November last,' and having
business at Hull, he went on board the Graham as
a passenger. The . Graham was to meet the Uni.-
ted Kingdom, another steam packet' in the Hull
roads, and convey passengers from her to any fur-
ther !distance they might wish to ga, The two
-packets were accordingly brought agside each
other, and lashed' together, Upon which the engineer,
captain, and crew of the Graham went on board the
other vessel; and the boiler of the Graham was left
unattended to ; the consequence of which was, that
for want: of the necessary precautions for giving vent
to the steam, the boiler burst, and the plaintiff and se-
veral other passengers were dreadfully scalded and in-
jured. The deck was rent to pieces; the passengers
were enveloped in steam and boiling water, and
some of them thrown into the sea; whilst no person
whatever belonging to the vessel was injured, they
all being on board the United Kingdom. The
plaintiff's legs, hips, and thighs were severely
scalded, in consequence of which he was laid up at
Hull for nine weeks, during three of which his life
was despaired of. His medical bill amounted to 28/. ;
and the other expellees of himself and his nurse at
the.house where he lay exceeded 301. He had also
to pay a man 14s. a week to drive his coach while
he was'ill. Besides being at all this expense, his
sufferingS had 'been extremely severe, and he was
not even now wholly recovered. Under these Cir-
cumstances, his claim for compensation upon the
defendants, who were rich men, was very strong.
It was understood that the proprietors of these
steam-packets combined together to defend actions
of this sort, but the jury would do justice between
the parties froin whatever quarter the means of de-
fence might be furnished.
Lord TENTERDEN having summed up the evi-
dence, the Jury returned a verdict of 1381. ;damages.
There 'were two other actions against the same
defendants, by two of the other passengers on that
.occasion, 'in which verdicts for 751. and 601. were
taken by consent.

Not a soul to be seen up or down ; 1
Of dabs a great glut, I allow, .
But. your soles, every one, out of town. 1
East or west, nothing wond'rous or new ;
No courtship or scandal, worth knowing ;
Mrs. —, and a mermaid or two,
Are the only loose fish that are going.
Ah, where is that dear HouSe of Peers;
That some weeks ago, kept us merry ?
Where, Eld—n, ark thou, with thy tears?
Where thou, with thy sense, L—d—ry ?
Wise Marquis, how much the Lord May'r, •
In the dog-days, with thee would be puzzl'd
It being his task to take care
That such animals sha'nt go unmuzzl'd.
Thou, toe, whose political toils
Are so worthy a captain of horse,—
Whose' amendments (like honest Sir Boyle's)
Are "amendments, that make matters worse !"*
Great chieftain, who takest such pains'
To prove—what is granted, item. con.—
With how mod'rate a portlen of brains
Your heroes contrive to get on.
, And, thou, too, my R—d—sd—e,—ah, where
Is the peer,
,with a star at his button,
Whose quarters can ever compare
With—R--d—sd—e's five quarters of mutton ?
Why, why have ye taken your flight,
Ye diverting and dignified crew?
How ill do three farces a night, •
At the Hay Market, pay us for you!
Forovhat is Bornbastes to thee,
My Ell—nbro', when thou look'st big ?
What pantomime better can be
Than L—rd—le's wit and his wig ? •
I doubt if ev'n Griffinhoeft could
(Though Griffin's a comical lad)` •
Invent any. joke half so good
As that precious one, " This is too, bad !"
Then come again—come again, Spring !
Oh haste thee, with Fun in thy train ;
And—of all things the funniest—bring
These exalted Grimaldis again !
From a. speech of Sir Boyle Roche's in the Irish
House of Commons.
. t The' nam de guerre under which Colman has written
some of his best farces.

THE MARKETS.

COAL MAR
Adair's --- 325. Od.
Beaumont--- 36 6
Eighton Main ---- 29 0
Eighton Moor.-..„-- 30 0
Ellison 30 0
Felling Main"-.-- 28 6
Holywell---- 32 6
Killingworth 33
Old 'Walker-- 33 6
Ord's Redhugh 29 0
Pelaw

CET.—A..ig. 1. •
Walls End Newmarch— 348. ed.
Ditto Cramlington— 30 6
Ditto Hotspur--. 32 0
Ditto 'Northumberland 33 0
Ditto Biddell's----. 94 6
Ditto Walker 34 9
Lambton small —,.....—.. 17 0
Eden small
Blyth 27 0
Hartley 30 0
Llangeuneth 42 0
Marquis Main 26 0
Fawcett Main' 29 6
Nestle= 33 0
Rus<ell`s High
Walls End He1t0n...,..... 37 6
Ditto Lambton! .37 6
Ditto Ly ons 33 6
Ditto flawinsworth ..-26 411
Ditto Stewtirt's 37 "6

James Barnes and Samuel Smith, both of Spalding,
labourers, were indicted for a highway robbery.
Isaac Jervis was a liquor-merchant, and on Tues-
day, the 6th of March last, was returning home frOM
Spalding market, when, as he was about a mile and
half this side of Spalding, a man jumped over the
hedge, whistled, and caught hold of his bridle.
Witness struck at him with a small stick which he
had in his hand,. and asked him what he wanted.
The man immediately seized him by the collar, and
dragged him off his horse. TWo other men then
came to the assistance of the first, and commenced
beating the witness. The third man, who was tall,
knelt on witness's face, to keep him down, and put
a handkerchief over his eyes, while the other two
rifled his pockets, taking from him his banking-book,
in which were a Bank of England .51. note, a Wis 7
beach ditto, a Boston 11. note, seven half-crowns,
and other small money. One of them also carried
away his hat. As soot' as they had gone off, .the
witness mounted his horse and returned to Spald-
ing. He subsequently had a man named Elson
taken up on suspicion ; but the latter was discharged.
He could not say that either of the prisoners had
been engaged in the robbery.
A witness, named Ulliot deposed to his having
seen Smith and Barnes together on
,the road leading
to where ihe robbery took place on the evening of
its occurrence.
Robert Durant swore he had been in Spalding
gaol for debt after jhe prisoners were sent there, and
one day, while weeding onions in the court-yard of
the gaol, he entered into conversation with Barnes,
who said to him " What do they say of us lads ?"
Witness asked " What are you in for ?" Barnes
replied " For robbing Jervis." Upon which wit-
ness observed, " It's a wonder you did'nt kill him."
.Barnes answered, " I would have finished him if I
'had known as much as I know now."
The examinations of the prisoners were then prov-
ed by the Magistrate's clerk, and read by the officer.
That of Smith contained a full confession of his hay-
ipg been a party to' the robbery, which he said was
suggested by the other prisoner, who swore he would
rob somebody that night, and put his threat in exe-
cution contrary to the remonstrance of him (Smith),
who reminded him that he had but just got out of
another scrape. Barnes denied having been concerned
in the robbery. The Jury found both prisoners

30 0

Percy East, Zi
Tantield Moor--..-- 32 6
Wallington
Wylam 32 0
Walla End Bell and Co. 34 3
Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 36 0
Ditto Brown's 32 9
Ditto Burratan 33 et
Ditto Cifrr and 31 0
Ditto Clarke and C 0..... 30 9
Ships at market, 93%.7.--Sh

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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--July 31.
The supplies of all Grain this week are very small.—
At this day's market there was a fair attendance of coun-
try dealers and a moderate business was transacted in
Wheat : the finest descriptions maintained last Tuesday's
currency : but the general runs of Foreign were 2d. per
701bs. cheapen Prime Oats were no lower, but middling
and inferior gave way Id. per 45th. Barley Vas very
dull, and might have been purchased on rather better
terms. A few sales were made of Indian Corn, at a de-
cline of Is. per 4801 b. There was an increased demand
for Beans, and they realized an advance of Is. to 2s. per
quarter.

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Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Q. Qrs. Qrs. Loads,
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protect himself from the present action because the
money was deposited in his hands by Miss Staveley
when no one else was present. It would, however,
he proved that Miss Staveley received asum.of:lso/.
on the 23d of last November, 1001. in a bill of ex-
change, and the remainder in country notes, and
that a day or two afterwards, whilst the defendant
was in the parlour of her house, she went.up stairs
to her. room, took out the 1001. bill, and carried it
into the Parlour. .As the defendant and she were
then alone, there was no evidence to prove that she
gave him the bill, but he, the following morning,
took it to the bank and received money for it. If
the parties had even commercial dealings with each
other, it might be presumed that the bill was given
in paythent of a debt or for value, but that suppo-
sition was excluded by the situation of the parties,
and also by the conduct of the defendant when after-
wards called upon for the money ; for upon the ap-
plication or the plaintiff's attorney, the defendant,
supposing God was the only witness that the bill
had been put into his hands, denied not only all
knowledge of it, but also all knowledge of the
concerns of Miss Staveley. It would, however,
appear from his letters,`two of which would be pro-
dUced, that. the defendant },ad been frequently con-
stilted by Miss S. upon ht.- affairspindlnul given her
advice upon them. The letters were peculiar :: the
first was dated Dec. 8, 1826, in which the defend-
ant, after stating that lie had been ill, and was afraid
it would be a week before he could venture out to
see her, writes, " I have received a letter froin my
brother Isaac at Wakefield, who advises you to end
your dispute with your brother's. He thinks you
had better take 1,8001. and the furniture, and that,
with the 150/. you have got, will make altogether
near 2,100/. which he thinks better for you than
going to law. 1 should like to see you to have
some personal conversation about it, but I dare not
venture out. You must not make an offer in writing,
because it will do away with the written agreement
altogether. When you make the propoSal, it must
be to your brother Richard personally,' when you
and lie are alone, and no witness is by." The Jury
would obs'erve, that. the defendant now acted Upon
the same plan in which he bad cautioned Miss
Staveley to act towards her brothers. The second
letter, although not quite's° material, was still im-
portant. It.was written a few days afterwards, on
the 13th of December, and in it the defendant ad-
vised Miss Staveley to go to Mr. Iveson, at Bever-
ley; and get him to write to her two brothers,
threatening to file a bill against them; if they did
not come to an arrangement; and concluded with
recommending her not to tell any one, not even Mr.
Iveson, that she would take 1,8004 . The man who
wrote these letters had the face to deny, after the
intended match was broken off, all knowledge of the
lady's affairs. The 1001. bill got into Miss Staveley's
hands on the 23d of November, as part of the 1501.
mentioned in the first letter, and two mornings
afterwards the defendant paid it into the bank.
Forty pounds in notes were also advanced with the
bill to the defendant, but they unfortunately could
not be traced, and it was to be feared that they
could not be recovered.
Robert Dandy, agent to the East Riding Bank,
proved that the defendant dealt with the bank, and
on the 26th of November last paid in a bill for 100/.
dated the 7th of October, at two months. The de-
fendant endorsed the bill: he had credit for it; it
was paid in due course.
The. two letters were then put in and read.
Richard Jennings (the plaintiff's attorney.)--]
received from Moses Walker 1501., in November
last, foi Miss Staveley; 100/. was in a bill, and 50/.
in country notes. I gave it to Miss Staveley on the
afternoon of the 23d of November; in the beginning
of March I went to the defendant to demand pay-
ment of 140/. he owed Miss Staveley. The defend-
ant said he had nothing of hers. I stated to him
that she had informed me that she had given him.the
100/. bill, and a week or ten days afterwards had
lent. him 40/. out of the 50/. He said he knew no=
thing at all of the matter. I said it was singular she
should have invented such a story, and I asked him
if he had cashed the' bill for her. He said no; he
knew nothing about it. I said " you must have
known of her receiving 1501." He said no, he did
not; how should he know any thing of her con-
cerns ?

Sophia Pearcey, niece
,to Mrs. Dolby, saw her
emit receive the bill and notes from Mr. Jennings;
the next day, at about seven or eight in the evening,
witness lighted her aunt up stairs, when her aunt
got the bill, and took it down into the room where
the defendant was, and witness never saw the bill
any more.

Mr. BROUGHAM remarked that his friend had to
encounter great labour in stating his case, from
which the jury might easily divine it was a very
difficult one to state. Indeed, a stranger hearing the
statement would have judged it to have been any
thing else than an action for money had and received:
for his friend had charged the defendant with having
very little honour, very little honesty, and still less
gallantry. What gallantry had to do in an action for
money had and received he (Mr. Brougham) did tot
know; but his friend did not merely impute to the
defendant want of gallantry, but also want of
honesty : lie did not merely impute to him that he
was not a knight-errant who would run all hazards,
and sacrifice ease, safety, and life itself in behalf of
a lady, but he imputed to him that he only 'sought
after her cash, put his hand into her strong box, and
pulled out one hundred pounds in monies numbered.
The fact was, however, otherwise ; the lady was
disappointed, because the gentleman would not marry
',her, and so she seta to him a very skilful attorney,
to pump him for evidence to maintain this action.
It is said that it is more easy to make an empty
bag stand upright, than to make a poor man
withstand temptation and be honest : but the de-
fendant was not an empty bag,—he was not
a needy man. The plaintiff's witness, Dandy,
had proved his respectability, and that he could
have got accommodated for many hundred pounds
at the bank, without being put to the necessity
of cheating the lady of one hundred pounds; for
the charge made against him was worse than pocket
picking. The bill was its own title-deed, the fact
of it being in his possession proved" the defendant's
right to it until it was shown such possession was
tortious, and that no considerations was given for
it. The plaintiffs had not attempted to show this,
as it was their duty to have done.; for the presump-
tion of the law was, that good consideration had
been given for the bill, and that presumption had
not been disproved. Two letters had indeed been
produced, the one was said to be very material, the
other not quite so much so; but notwithstanding
this, the second letter was quite as important as the
first: it was a very ill-used letter, and bad certainly
great reason to complain of the plaintiffs' counsel.
'Both the letters, in fact, contained much prudent
advice but they neither of them had any thing to
'do with the cause. When lovers quarrel, they not
unfrequently become haters; the lady is apt to get
enraged, and what a furious lady can do is well
known, and has been powerfully described. This
lady, however, knew better ; she did not break her
heart; she knew it was safer far to wed than burn,
. and she very prudently made a second choice. With
this there was DO reason to find fault, but the de-
; fendant had great cause to complain of the present
attempt; and if, after the strong presumption in his
I favour, the Jury were to give credit to the plaintiff's
I ease, no man would hereafter be safe in accommo-
-1 dating a lady or any body else, by cashing a bill,