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London, England, 1802-06-25 00:00:00

COURT OF MN (I'S JUNE e 4.

TlL;s beisiry, ;: enc Court did not fit in
I 7.4' ). but Jury Code was
: t ,v v.

This was an actin!, to recover the Turn of 23g1.
for a•or!c and labour, in mit; lie: a water wheel for
the d-tenciant's mill at Stratford, upon .• new con-
lh The mill v. as I.:!uated on a branch of
the Diver Lea, where the water varies very much
in depth it th, different tides, by which reallal
the mill in pie:lion was freanently prevented from
w.” king. 'l,;he l;tr.it gneflion in the carafe was,
What was th,7 env! the. ei tintifflvid undertaken?
On the part of the plaintiff it was infilled that he
had only undcrtakt a tfi COnartlit a new Wheel,
which (hour enablz the mill to work two hours
of the tide lucner than it could do on its own cor,-
Ilt

jor. the Manager 1/1 the plaintiff's 611-
(1'16,, li.ited, that this was tile contraa he had un-
dertaken. This wasd,,nehy 'ening a waterwheel,
mind' W sto be elevated ~r (kindred according to
the hebzht of the tide. ( A model was introduced
to eshibite the mode of it operation.) He raid he
raw it at workafterwards, and that it pet formed ac-
c(l ding to his ex pea.iticns. It worked in the
nu.nth of Norremhlt, when ft orn the flate of the
f 1,41.1, all the ncighbouring mills could nut work
at all.

Several other witnefres, chiefly mill-~~ rights,
were called, who hated that the new wheel was a
great imptovement.
On the part of the defendant, it was contended,
that In far front being an imps ovement, it was a
great deterioration to the mill, and that upon an
average it performed lets.
To prove this, the de:endant's fervant was call-
ed ; he hated, that although it worked at flood
tides, yet on other occafions it had a very inferior
power. When it was firfl fet to work it would not
deliver the good+, to obviate which, they were
obliged to cut the mill-Unncs in a nevi manner,
and the corn was not properly ground. The bran
contained a great deal of flour, which aro& from
a want of flrtngth in the mill to grind it properly.
This flatement alto confirmed by a Mr. Ja-
cobs, a miller, who fait] that he had bought a gt eat
deal of the bran from that mill, which contained 16
much flour, that he thought it worth bis while to
grind it over again.
A number of mill-wrights were then called on
the part of the defend:lnt, s‘ho agreed in hating
that the work was not well dellgned, and particu-
larly pointed out that the wheel was not half the
diameter it ought to have been, to obtain the ne-
cefrary power.
One of thefe witnefres for the defendant, was a
very fat man, which induced the Learned Coon-
fel to nbferve, a Your trade feems a more thriving
one than our's." " Aye, Sir, (replied he) we deep
found in our beds."

The !.earned Judge having detailed the evi-
d !nee, told the Jury that there were lome amongfl
Clem more competent to decide than he was. The
liry accordingly withdrew for Yome time, and
then returned a verdift for the plaintiti.—Da-
magcs, tool.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE z 6.
PAARTYN V. COLONEL THORNTON.

This was an a'9on to recover damages for a
malicious arreft : the files were briefly as follow:
—The defendant, who was Colonel of the York-
fh;re Militia, had fome difpu:e with his brother
officers, and an enquiry was the confequence.—
Afier it had taken place he applied to the plaintiff,
who profelfed to be an author, to write what he
termed an elucidation of charges, &c. and while
engaged in the %via k gave him so and 7o guineas,
snaing 120 in ail. After the work was corn-
pleated, the plaintiff demanded too guineas morq,
the defendant refufed to pay, and an ac-lion was
f:t on foot.

Colc:nel Thornton, from motives of his own, ar-
relied the plaintiff for the film he had paid on ac- -
Count of the work, but after much acrimony had
paired on both fides, the cafe was referred to Ed-
ward Morris, Elq. a Ba:ritter, who awarded, that
the publication !honk! be burned in confequence
of its asperity, that Thornton fhonld forego
his anions againit the plaintiff, and that Mr. Mar-
tin fhould confider hintlaf well paid in the (20
g •
uine•ts he bad r...e• lied of Colonel Thornton, and
emitted to no Mot And that all diffeteaCes be-
tween die parties fh uhf ceale and have an end.
Mr. Martyn, however, had brought the prefent
actitai for a malicions .0 reit, which could not be
pit:: into, die law of the land cyptelsl
that no adios on the cafe could be maintainc:l,
after an arbitrator had made his award touching
that aaion, and di it the produaion of the award
fhonld he a plea in b ir to Inch aeliori. This being
the cafe in the prefect aflion, the plaintiff was non-
FIVI I V. WAKV.
This (-wife, which, bit. a coiiiderable length of
time hr: mited the intcrett of the commercial
world (having ahLady been tried and art,,tieell,
came on Monday laR to he again tried by a Special
ale, befoie Lard A r.v.144 Y, in./it-der to deter-
ni;ae in which ship-own.rs and feAITICEI were
peculiarly COll, 2tnf.'.l.
The ilhaintiff, in the moath of September igco,
fitoed artirlcs at Linden, as Chief Nfate on board
the fliip Pinrburn, of which the defendant was
M. Orr. to proceed on a voyage to kiga, and back
to England, 1:0 boat d the lard Ihip, at the wages
of 6c. 6d. per month.
The (hip pi‘iceeded to, and arrived at Riga, and
doling her flae there, an embargo or relit-aim was
laid Ly the Roilian Government co all British (hips
in the ports of Rails, which lalted for about the
{pace or fix months, when the plaintiff. and the
roll of the crew returned og board the 114 without

figning any new article!, and brought her with a
lull cargo to Plymouth.
This Ain't was brought to recover wages dur.
ing the time the (]tip was thus detained, and in
kopport of this claim the flip's articles which the
plaintiff roped to. perform the voyage were pro-
duced, and evidence given of his having faithitilly
pet hirnicd his duty during the voyage. There
was alib another point Itwed to the Jury, that if
the plaintiff was not emitlA to recover his wages
doling the time of the embargo, he had a right to
fo much more wages as he could prove was paid,
:oiler the embargo ceafed, to fcamen retuning to
England; but ibis being a point which the witneifes
could not with precif ion afcertam, the plaintiff
relied on the burner ground.
Mr. Serjeant SHr.PitEto contended, on the part
of the defendant, that this embargo put an end to
the contraa betweon the plaintiff and defendant,
and that the right of wages ceared at the com-
mencement of the detention. After having dwelt
at eonlidetable I:ngth on the hardlhip which the
cm tiers would fuller if bound LI pay the wages,
he called come Captains of !hips detained at Ruf.
li-t, to prove alai a low rate,of wages was given
to seamen after the czOargo.
Mr. Serjeant Coc h ELL, tits the plaintiff, argued,
that no power or aa could ditiolvc the comma,
while the condo& of 6:: parties motif:fled that
they confulcred the fame to fubmit : he made a
forcible appeal to the feelings ofthe Jury in favour
of the plaintiff, and alai Itated how much it would
tend to the injury of commerce if opportunities
were afforded to tailors to fay, that any thing dor-,
ing a voyage could diffolve the articles they had
entered into.

Aftcr an able and impartial charge by Lord
At. VA St LE Y to the Jury, they retired, and returned
a verdia for the plaintiff-401. 19s. being the
amount of wages for the time the lhip was under
the embargo.
POLICE, Ace.

THAMES-Orrics.—Wednefday afternoon, Ro-
bert Delamain was examined, on a charge of
mon Nazeret, a feaman, liating himfelf to be a
Frenchman; that he failed. with Captain J. Smith,
and that the (hip is now lying at the Upper King's
Moorings, at Deptford ; that on Saturday week,
about feven o'clock in the evening, he received his
wages on hoard the (hip, to the amount of 3.0.
which he put into his breeches pocket for fafety;
then called a boat alongfide, which was the pt i-
loner's, who took him afhure, and afterwards went
with him to a public-houfe, near the water-fide,
on the Mill Wall, where he paid the prifower his
fare, and gave him fomething to drink : he then
went away, but was loon followed by the ptitbner,
when he was.knocked down with a (lick : another
man came to the affillance of the prifoner, who has
ahfconded. After the affault, his breeches were
forced open, and all his money taken from him,
betides a Bengal handkerchief, which they took
from his neck ; being lo beat and overpowered
he was unable to call for help. The prifoner was
fully committed for trial. _ _ _

Yellerday feveral conviElions took place againft
different pet ions, for having unlawfully in their
poilaion foreign produce, the property of the
merchants. And the Captain of a (hip was fined
51. with coils, for fuffering pitch to be heated on
board his (hip, this fide of Blackwall, as dangerous
to the fafety of other 'hips in the ftream.
A farmer was conviaed at Ipfwich, on Tuefday,
in the mitigated penalty of 405. for felling a calf's
(kin, without being damped.
On Sunday fe'nnight, during the time of Divine
Service, the 'bottle of Mr. Dawfon, of Hannay,
Berks, was broken open, and a 51. note, fome calh,
filter tea fpoons, &c. to the amount of aol. Ilolen
diet-cont.

Tuefday fez-might, a waggoner and his mafter
were flopped on the Rumford-road by two men,
who appeared to be foldiers, who at the fame time
attacked the mailer and fervant with horrid im-
precations ; after fome refiltance, lime people
providentially coming up, the villains ran away,
but not before they had robbed the man of a purls
with fome money. Next day an application being
made to the commanding officer of the diftritt, the
men were ordered into their ranks, and two men
fworn to and examined before a Magiarate, who
committed them to Chelmsford gaol tbr
Tuefday a woman was oblerved by a Gentle.
man in the :UT of decoying a child from &mond-
fey New Road, in order to (trip it : the had fuc-
:ceded lb far as to get the child into Chianti's-
ields, where the Gentleman law the mifcreant
take off it, clothes, when the was taken int,) cult°.
dy. The child was reflored to its parents.
Wednefday night, about nine o'clock, a man
had the audacity to deal a hafkeewith about solbs.
of coffee, that a porter had pitched near New
idge tireet : he was immediately purfued, and
taken in a court near Bride-lane, where he violently
beat the contlable, :all W 34 then lately lodged in
the Compter.
Oi nuiday lentil& John Ryan was committed
to Reading gaol, charged, on an inqneft taken by
the Coroner, with the wilful murder of Henry Fre-
wkti, in the parifh of Hurley. It appeared on the
•Inquitition, that both the above perfons worked as
labourers for John Sawyer, Efq. at White Wal
tham; that on Saturday evening, the 2ad of May,
they received their wages, and about half part fix
o'clock they were fcen by one of the labourers walk-
ing together towards their home, as they both
lodged at the Red Lion, at Biwam. Between 7 and
K o'clock Ryan was met by another of the Moor..
ers alone, about half a mile from his 'edging, and
on being afked where his companion was, Paid, he
was gone on forward; the man oblerving Ryan
lhad two deal rods, ailed him to give him one,
v-hich Ryan did, and on which there welt three
(potsof blood. When Ryan reached his lodging,
t people of the 'mule enquil ed of him where Fre-
, win was? he anfwercd, that•he left his work at the
nfoal time, but he did not know where he was
then. That day fortnight a boy palling along the.
!Mid, and feting two dogs run from a pit on Bit..
cher's Green, went to the place, and difcovered
the body of Frewin, which was in a horrid muti-
lated and putrid (fate; the head was fraCtured, and,
from the putrefaCtion, feparated from the body ;
the bowels were torn out; you hand eaten off, and

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the lower jaw, gone. The legs were covered witl
couch, and bent under Lirn.
A moll diflreffing accident occurred on Tuel
Jay, about noon, near a village. called Keynfham.
on the road between Bath and Briaol: as a wag
,t!nn,heavily laden with iron and hemp, was going:
..wn a very Ilcep hili, the !tortes became unruly:
!he diver, in his endeavours ttop them, was
thrown down, and the wheels going over his body.
he was tit miferahly bruifed, that he died almoil
immediately.
In the afternoon of Friday fe'nnight the fides of
:t well, near Blackburn, in the neighbourhood of
Manche(ler, 13 yards deep, fell in while two men
wet cat work. The accident happened at two
o'clock in the afternoon, and after inceffant la-
bow ing till ten o'clock at night, Richard Wil-
ton, a linker, was heard to fpeak : at twelve,
Bcardwood, the other !teflon, was found dead.—
At this period, from the unthinking preffure of a
crowd of people, the earth again-gave way, and
the dead and living men were once more buried.
About tour in the morning the latter was releafed,
not only without broken limbs, but very little
bruited—he walked home. He heard the people
talk whilft walking, when they were leveral yards
above him. The decealed has kit a wife and
eight chiljrcn.
A few days ago, a man, in the vicinity of Leigh-
lin-bridge, became ontrageonfly inlane, and hav-
ing effected his cicape frnm thole who had him in
care, unfortunately killed a child as he roamed at
large. For this he was puriticd by the neighbour-
hood where the deed had been perpetrated, and
having tied to the brink of a wood, it was feared
he might elude apprehenlion until he might com-
mit limilar violences ; and a young man with a
large pole, at that crilis, coming within reach of
him, with one blow, unintentionally, killed him
on the fpot.
On Thurfday fe'nnight an inque( was held at
Didlbury, on the body of a child killed by a.cart,
the driver of which, as is but too frequent; was
behind it.—The Jury found a vetch& of kap-
Ilaughter, and he was committed to Lancafter gaol
for trial. .

On Monday fe'nnight an inquefl was held before
the Coroner for Lancathire, and his jury, on the
body of a perfon killed by wrealing, or rather
what is termed a trial of arength, a praelice too
common in Mancheaer. The Jury brought in a
verdkl of Manilaughter againft the furvivor, who
was confequently committed to Lane:titer gaol for

BELCHER AND BURRS.—The following is given
(by a perfon who was prefent) as a more correct
account of the late meeting of there two bravoes :
The Rcv. the Dean of Ripon, and the Rev. Mr.
READ, of sand Hutton (who are awing Jullices of
the Peace for the Ridings of Yorkflfire) having had
information the evening before of the intended
battle, delired the Town Clerk to attend them.—
They arrived in the field where the Rage was erec-
ted, about ten o'clock on the morning of Thud-
day fe'nnight, and found a very large concourfe of
people affembled, whole numbers increafed until
twelve o'clock, when, after communicating with
fome of the parties concerned, they found that the
combatants had refolved to fight, and had given
out that they Would not be prevent:l Upon this
the two Jutlices, with the Town Clerk, and about
a dozen conliables, went to the Rage, which the
conßables (as ordered) began to pull down, and
in part accomplithed, but were prevented by the in-
terference of the mob, uho forcibly took poffeffion
of their tools; with loud and repeatedhuzzas ! (file
Town Clerk then, by defire of the Jullices, read
the Riot A& thrice, the mob continuing, at times,
loud huzzas, to prevent its being heard. This was
a little after twelve o'clock. Immediately after-
wards the Town Clerk addreffed the crowd, and
revelled them to go peaceably home, informing
them, that if they continued together a certain
time longer, they would all be guilty of felony:7
Notwithtlanding this, the mob very loon after-
wards repaired the Rage ; upon which the Jullices
again interfered, and with the few conflab:es be-
gan to pull down the Rage a fecond time, but
were again prevented by the mob. They then
walked off the ground into the village, the mob
Rill continuing affembled both in the field and in
the village, in very large crowds. About half pall
one o'clock the combatants both came from the'
village and. afcended the Rage, Belcher taking
precedence of Burke. They were then called to
and told, that if they remained there, they would
he very foots taken into cullody. Upon this they
both quitted the Rage, without fighting, and, ac-
companied by the mob, immediately quitted the
village : fo that at two o'clock there were not a,
dozen (hangers in the village, nor -were any by-
battles fought. A great number of Gentlemen,
who call thernfelves amateurs of the art, were at-
tending on the occafion.

THE BAREER'S SONG.
PAmcwonn% Paltc, Sir, and Strop.
I adopt is in) Ihop ;
Hunting Razors come as pat as they can ;
Mark will the Curler's fears
Whtn 'Tailors whet their Omens,
On P.tcrwooo's Razor Strop—hc's your man!

The Counting-11mile Penlcnife, whetted on one
of PAcxv.ion's Strops, will experience a politive
proof of their fuperior excellence, and give a keen
edge to a razor to (have to admiration. The
Strops are fold for 35. 6d. ss. and los. 6d. each;—
Boxes of Palle, red and black, 2s. 6d. each ; to'
repair and keep the Strops in order for years. If
not approved on trial, to return the money within
one week after purcliale. Sold in London by Mr. ,
Llve; No. 12, Hayrriarket ; Mellrs. Hendries and '
Sons. middle of Shag-lane ; Meas. Rowneys, No.
95, Holborn-hill ; Mr. Sizeland, No. 2, Were-Itt get,
Cavendifh•fquare ; Mr. Vickery, Tavillock-flreet ;
and by molt of the prin,:ipal Perfumers in Town
and Country ;-..-and, wholefale and retail, by Mr.
Simmons, Dublin •; and Mr. Raeburn, Edinburgh.
Hunting Razors teemed with a guard to prevent
cutting. To prove their fafety, a Gentleman has
(hayed with one of them or, horfebao4:--an acqui-
(llion for timid (havers, or thole troubled with a
nervous complaint. Price 21. 125. 6d. The Ra-
zors are fold only by Mr. PACILWO99I No. 16,
Graccchurch•fireo, London.