Star.
London, England, 1801-12-16 00:00:00

14ARBILT O. ,111.1.1NDELL.

This was as aetion upon the warranty of a
horfe. The fans of the tiafe as Rated by Mr.
Glass, and as afterwards appeared in evidence,
Were as follow :—On the t 7th of July the Plai tiff
purchafed the mare of the Defendant for thirty
guineas, w u ran el found, and free rum vice or
blemifh. She was taken to Fox's Livery Stables
on the 27th, and remained there till the 29th,
doing no work thofe days, but being only exere:i-
fed. On the latter day the was fent to the Plain-
tiff's own (table at Pentonville, where the contintaid
till the t ath of Anglia, and then for the tird time
the was put in a light chair, in order to go a
journey to Gravefend. It was found that the mare
was then very ill, and performed the journe. wish
difficulty inaday—fhe remained two days a: Gi.a
fad, where, all polible care was taken of her, and
on the third the came back to town. F.:9ly in
S.Ptember the died, and upon being opened, it
was found that the had the dropfy in the cheil.
Cutler there circumliances he contended, that the
mare could not be confidered as found when. the
was bought.
Chriftopher Dawes was prethnt when Mr. Har-
belt bought the mare, and gave an account of the
manner of performing the journey to Grave cud.
He drove all the way. It was with great difficulty
and diftrefs that the mare performed the journey.
When he returned, be told the Defendant the Rate
of the mare, who promifed that he would come to
look at it, but he never did.
Mr. Fox, the livery-(table keeper, gave the fame
account as opened by Mr. Gibbs.
George Merredew raid, the mare was under his
care from the 29th of July to the t nth of Auguft ;
when the went the journey to Gravefend. She
had never been worked at that time, but only ex-
ercifed. He was preient at her opening. She
died of the dropfy ; the heart was not bigger than
his Mi. IL thought it muft be an old complaint,
of reven or eight months (landing. He had Come
knoWledge of horfes, as he drove the Iflington
Rage, and 44 of his own died in four years.
Bate, a farrier, and Moore, a horfe-flarighterer,
gave the fame account.
On the pirt of the defendant witneffes were
called, who traced the mai c back for two years,
and by their tettimony it appeared that the mare
had been found all that time.
Mr. Colman, Profdlhr of the Veterinary Col-
lege, laid, the fame effels which the witneas had
defcribed, might take place in a fhort (pace. The
difnrdcr was rarely of long (landing. The fmall-
nefs of the heart might attic from the preftirre of
the water in the elicit upon the pericordium. A
mare under fuch circurnitances would perform a
journey to Gravefend with great labour and dif-
trefs.
Mr. Bond, Veterinary Surgeon to the Duke of
Clarence, coincided in opinion with Mr. Colman.
Lord Kstrvorr thought Mr. Colman', evidence
put an end to the cattle ; he Paid a horfe with water
in the alert would perform a journey to Grav-e-
-lend with difficulty anddillrefs. The witnefs had
Rated, that the mare did go through that journey
with very great difficulty.
One of the Jury raid the fame nhfervation had
(truck them.—Verdia for the Plaintiff.

Lail week, Ann Norman, a woman fiippofed in.
great povei ty, died fuddcnly at Ipfm ieh • on th ip-
ping her, there were too guineas lea nd loved up
in her cloaths, and property to the amount of be-
tween five and 6ocl. found conceded in diff.:reat
parts of her apartment.
There is now living at Hillhead, in the Parifh of
Acivcafile, in Cumbe-land, a widow in her hun-
dredth year, in perfat health and fpitits ; her hair
which had fallen off fcvcral years ago, is grow-
I in& again, and referable% the flaxen locks of a
child, and what is equally fingular, the has lately
cut feveral new teeth.
Latt Saturday a parcel of failov, arter receiving
their wages, hired a coach, in which they put a
fidler and a grinder of mufic, to play to them :
while they rode on the ontlide, in their wild frolic,
one of them fell on the pavement in Ratcliffe High-
way, when be was much bruited. They pnt hint
into the conch, :old drove away with as much glee
as if nothing had happened.
Lau week a: a couple was going to be married
at Sheffield parith church, the bridegroom was un-
expeeedly areefled by a wife, from whom he had
not yet been divorced by Death or Dators Com-
mons. The poor fellow, terrified at this unwel-
come apfsarition, infiflcd on being married to his
new bride, as he was determined never to acknow-
ledge the old one. The Clergyman, however, de-
dined to qualify him for tranfportatioa, though
the unhappy man fwore that he would Conner en-
Pt+. for a foldire than return to his former wife..

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