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London, England, 1809-03-04 00:00:00

. COURT OF KING'S PENCH, MARCH S.
Lord ELLENBORNIGH sat to dispose of the Common
The Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Mill-1 Jury causes which remained untried, and g`ot through
tory Inquiry is upon the department of Miscellaneous ' the whole of them by an early hour.
Accounts. These are arranged under a variety of HOPLEY RANDS.
heads, not less than 26 in number—we shall ony This was an action by the Plaintiff against the
mention those, upon which we may think it proper to' Defendant, as one of the owners of a vessel carrying
make sorne remarks. goods from Portsmouth to London, to recover a corn-
Under the title of Great Coats, the Committee the on
for the loseof a quantity of brandy shipped
serve upon the benefit which has resulted to the on board at Portsmouth, for London. The whole
public, &or the discussion which took place last Ses-1, quantity shipped was 129 gallons, of which when
:ion in the House of Commons, in consequence of the casks were afterwards examined, there remained
which the supply is now procured by open contract. only 37 gallons, there being a waste or leakage of
Article 7. is, " Accounts and Claims for Losses." 91 gallons. This, Mr. GARROW said, could not be
These, it appears, are usually referred to a Board of accounted for by the ordinary causes of evaporation,
General Officers ; and by such Board in the year 1796, or of the absorption of the wood of the casks, for
upon the return of the army from the Continent, up- j which a fair allowance must be made. Such a pro-
wards of one-fifth of the general sum claimed was portion of the whole, quantity could not be
sucked up
disallowed; upon the return of our troops from the by the cask, there must have been another sort of
Helder in 10, the sum claimed was, 139,766, of sucking, that which is called at sea 66 Sucking the
which 015,927 was disallowed ; but the following is Monkey," or in plain English, pillae. The Plain-
g
a most singular circumstance : In 1806, a Board of tiff's clerk proved the casks- being received by the
General Officers being appointed, to investigate the Captain of the ship, and their being sent on board by
amount of losses sustained by the forces serving under a lighter from the shore, and the quantities both on
Lord CATHCART in Hanover, their report, assigning the lading and on the arrival in London. It was at
£17480 to the sufferers, is transmitted to the Secre- first suggested for the Defendant, that the pillage, if
tary at War, by a Secretary of the Treasury, with any,might have been committed on board the lighter;
an intimation that it had been examined and ap- but it appeared that this could not have hap.
proved by the Comptrollers of Army Accounts, and pened. It was then attempted to be shewn, that
a request that warriusts might be made out for the owing to bad weather the casks got turned with the
money ; whereas, says Mr. BARRY, it appeared, from bung downwards, and the spirits leaked out. But
a " mere cur
sory,
perusal of Report, unaccompa- his Lordship thought that this could be no defence,
nied by the vouchers, that many of the decisions were as it must be owing to improper stowage..
erroneous." Verdict for the Plaintiff for the value of the 91
The table for the Guard at St. James's amounts at gallons of branGRE dy.
FPUBLE v.
present to the suns of ,(9181; and under this head, a LINGBURN.
also an action for the negligent carriage
saving is recommended of about 50001. per.annum. This was
The business of the Irish levies is both an important of a
large quantity 738 bottles broken.
of Champagne Wine, and it ap.
and a complicated., one. A Committee was formed peared that there were
in 1805, for investigating the accounts of these levies, In this cue a verdict was taken by consent.
at an unexceßtionible annual expeuce of F 1339.—
Of the integrity with which the Irish levies are raised,
some idea may be formed when it is known, that the
chief difficulty of the Committee consists in 66 detect-
ing
the transfers of recruits from one principal of
levy to another." Qf the villainy of this conduct, 1
if not discovered and prevented, both obliges
the public to pay tOice or thrice for the same man,
and likewise deceives the country as to the number
of men , raised, we cannot speak with sufficient
acrimony. The utility of the labours of the Irish
Levy Committee, if partially performed, may be
farther appreciated, when the public knows, that
of Major Jon? BRADSHAW'S account, amounting to
Je1,,17,000, only 081,000 was allowed, and the dis-
alßwance of the other £76,000 was " by himself ad-
mitted to be correct." The charge of Major WIL-
LIAM ARMSTRONG against the Public, amounting to
£37,000, which he actually received, and the sum al- i
lowed not exceeding 020,000: he still retains a large
balance (Or did when the Report was made). But it
is generally to be remarked, that though the persons
who were to have such large money transactions with
the Public, never gave security for the due admini-
stration of the sums issued to them, yet as most of them
are in public situation: under Government, no great dif-
ficulty would occur in forcing them to give direct an-
swers to the statements of disallowances which are
sent to them.
These are the whole of the material points con-
tained in this Eighth Report.

LAW INTELLIGBNCL

malTilßr INQUIRT.

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• COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MARCH e.
THOMAS V. ROBINSON.
This was an action for defamation.' The words al-
ledged to have been spoken were, "'that the plain-
tiff's wife had not been fairly dealt by," and others,
insinuatlg that she had not died a natural death, but
that the plaintiff was her murderer.
It will be remembered that the body of a female
was some time since taken up after interment in
Islington church yard, and that a pin was found
sticking through her heart. A Coroner's Inquest
was held, and it appearing that the pin was so inser-
ted by a surgeon, after death, agreeably to the request
of the party when living, from a fear she had always
entertained .of being interred alive, a verdict of—
" Died by the visitation of Gon," was found, and
the body again committed to the grave. The plain-
tiff was the husband of that female, and the defen-
dant being acquainted with the parties, uttered the
offensive words in question.
It was urged in defence, that the plaintiff lived se-
parate from his wife, and that he had treated her with
great harshness and severity. It also appeared that
she had died in consequence of a miscarriage, and
that her disturbed state of mind, and the neglect she
had experienced, were supposed to have produced the
fatal effects ascribed to her pregnancy.
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD remarked with considerable
force upon the fate of the unfortunate woman, and
the jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict
for the defendant.
IJIARCH 3. SARRATT v. SIIEDDON.
This was an action to recover the amount of da-
mage done to the freight of a vessel bound from Su-
rinam to London.
It appeared in evidence, that a policy of insurance
had been effected with the defendant on the ship in
question, on her homeward bound passage, and that
the vessel, on quitting the harbour of Surinam% was
unfortunately thrown on one of the bars at the mouth
of the harbour, by the effect of a strong current,
from which circumstance, her freight was consider-
ably injured: to recover the damage done to her cargo,
on that occasion, the present action was brought.
The Captain and various other persons were
brought to prove that the ship, on its leaving Eng-
land, was in a peifeitly sound and sea worthy state,
and in every respect calculated to perform the voyagel
on which she went.
On the part otthe defendant it was urged, that
her timbers were rotten, and that she was otherwise
unfit for the purpose to which she was applied.
The evidence to this point was not, however, sa-
tisfactory, and the Jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Dainars 1501.
•

FOOT-RACE.—A match of a mile, for 100 guineas,
took place yesterday, near Hampton, between Cap-
tain ANNING, and a man from Etou, named FORBES.
The Captain ran his adversary the mile for 90 gui-
neas, with a bye-bet that he did the distance within
five minutes. He won both his hets, he having beat
his adversary 200 yards, and completed the mile in
four minutes and fifty seconds
A duel was fought last week at Jersey, between
Captain C— and Lieutenant P-7as, of the 47th
Regiment. The former lost a finger the first fire,
when the secoads interfered, and accommodated the
difference.
Thursday morning an affair of honour, between
Mr.. S— and Mr. P--, of Bristol, was de-
cided, in a field near the Montague tavern. The par-
ties, by agreement, fired together ; at the first dis-
charge, Mr. P— was wounded in the upper part of,
the thigh. After being taken from the ground, he
suffered amputation, and is since dead. The meet-
ing took place in consequence of a misunderstanding
at the Theatre.
Tuesday Rebecca Hodge: was committed to Warwick
gaol, for shooting Mr. Birch, of Ward-end Hall, with
a pistol. It appears that she had harboured the demes.
sign for several years. She had been several ti
seen about Mr. Birch's premises.: on Monday night
she, through a window, saw Mr. Birch sitting by the
fire asleep, she then opened the door, vhich was only
on the latch, arid, after some time walking about the
room, she discharged the pistol at his I d, two slugs
struck him ; one did but little execution, the other
has since been extracted from the skull, which ha.,, been
trepanned, and hopes are entertained of his recovery.
She was brought to prison by the watch, disguised in
man's cloaths ; a loaded pistol was found In her hand.
Seven years. ago she was a servant in the family, and
the only cause she assigns is that she had formed an
attachment to Mr. Birch at that time, and was in con-
sequence discharged her place.
As great number of persons are rendered very un-
happy by Spasms, Wind in the Stomach, Obstruc- '
tions in the Bowels, want of regular Perspiration,
Vomitings, and Bilious Complaints, Head Aches,
Heart Burn, Costiveness, Nervous D&orders, Cho-
- lie, Gout, &c.—We are authorized to say, that'
SPEEDINAN'S Pills are in most cases an exeellent re-
medy for these complaints ; and especially recom-
mended during the time of Sea Bathing, and drink-
ing the Sea and Mineral Waters ; also for those
visiting warm Climates. Prepared by Tuomais
Sita.arPal, jun. Druggist, Tottenham High Cross,
giddlesex, by virtue of an assignment from H. and
I. Beswica,•sole Proprietors of the Receipt, by the
Will of M. Sreentuteg ; and are sold.by Shaw and
Eawards, No. 66, St. Paul's Church-yard ; and Ba•
~.„11 and Co. No. 150, Oxford-street, in Boxes at 2s.
1.,. GI tog. 6d. and One Guinea • and may be had
the principal Venders of Medicines in town and
.fiCtiary.