Star.
London, England, 1805-08-27 00:00:00

BSVZES.

At the I,ineuln Adzes, a verdiek to the value of
the fhip York, and her cargo of coals, etlimated at
40001. was obtained againti the owners of the fhip
Swan, which on tne isith of November lan carelefsly
eau on board the York, and funk her in Grimfby
mails. It appeared that the fleerfman of the SWgila
had given the helm to an ignorant paffenger.
Lalt Wednefday the Affize for the county of Well-
snoreland was held at Appleby, and, highly to the
credit of the County, there was not one prifoner to be
tried, although it is twelve months ace the La Al
llze was held there.
On Saturday the Mize for the county of Lancaf
ter commenced before Sir ALLAN CHAMBRS and Sir
T. M. zlurTom. There are feventeen prifoners in the
they are mod of them for capital of
fewer than have been for felteral

);cicsow, isql PLAINTIFF, 4.A WILLIAM
.11 MOSEY ALLEN' JAMES VERE, PETER
LEWIS LUCADOU, AND WILLIAM
(ANTS.

'Vault and falfe Imprifientent.) •
im Mr. PARK'S opening, that this
it by the Plaintiff, a Major-General
Company's fervice, againft the De-
:fling him, by millake, for another
ifim, one of the Defendants, was a
• the liberty of Knarefborough. Mr.
the attorney employed in the coon.
Vere, Lucadon, and Co. bankers,
the Plaintiffs at whole fuit the De-
niftake arrelled.
‘rnbden Neild, Efq. proved, that after
- dinner at the Dragon inn, Har-
i oth June, 1804, he went to faun-
before the Dragon ; he oblerved a
of gentlemen ; General Dickfon
m, and was complaining of the in-
received, in having been arrefled
ied having any knowledge of the
Plaintiffs, and aliened that be did
iy tiling. He told Mr. Mofey Al-
Icen, and begged he would dela
I to do fo ; but read a letter he had
ig the Mr. Dickfon, againfl whom
night, to be Mr. Dickfon of An•
rkfhire. On the letter being real,
:n prefent immediately laid, they
in, of Anton's Hill, and that the
A was not he. Lord Bellhaven,
nicer, of Edinburgh, and othqs,
Mr. Allen (till perfitled in the ar-
iff was quite patlive and abed by
Anne of the gentlemen then offered
magifirate, and make affidavit that
Lickfon of Anton's Hill. This
A ; in confecpience of which Mr.
an, and Mr. Ogilvie, became bail
for 8,9461, being double the
:bt. That the gaol for the liberty
igb, to which the General might
/eyed, was one of the wed/ in the
d been defcribed as fuch by Mr.
'e father.
. Ogilvy, Efq. of Clw fiers, Northßri.
Dragon in Harrowgate, at the time
ton's arrell. He obferved the Gene-
trm language to two ill-looking men
aim, and that the General beckoned
and fome others of his acquaintance,
. Mr. Ogilvy paid no attention to this,
•Mend lra, got into a row with his tap
to hinifelt. General Dickfon then
Friends, I take you to witnefs, that I
or pool. and that I don't know the
I don't owe any man a fhilling."—
it up to the place where the General
t crowd about him. Mr. Allen had
General', ihoolder, and was reading
t.Dicki4ii and the ladies of General
were much alarmed, and the Gene.
igitatcd. This witnefs confirmed the
Farmer as to the affurances given that
was not the perfon, and that one
le-knew Mr. Dickfon, of Anton's-
next door neighbour. Witnefs find-
would fatisfy Mr. Allen and the bad-
General Dickfon, offered himfelf as
mug with Mr. Hunter ; they were 1111.•
ted. The witnefs and other gentle-
ay offered cc go before the Sheriff of
Lord Mayor of York, or any other
Ike their oaths that General Dickfon

was net the man. After the hail was given, the Ge-
' neral gave his word of honour to the bail that he
w-tuld not quit Harrowgate till they were difchurged
from 'their relponfit-ility—it was I I days before this
was done. This affair made a great noife, and Gene.
sal Dickfon's arrett was the common topic of con-
verfation at Harrowgate for forme days.
Several letters were then produced in evidence.—
The fir ft was from Mr. Carruthers, of Clement's Inn,
Attorney to the Mars.Veres, addreffed to Mr. Mofey
Allen, containing inftrudions to arreft Mr. Dickfon,
of Antott's-httl, on his arrival at Harrowgate.
The next letter read was from Mr. Allen to Mr.
Carruthers, defiring a particular defcription of Mr.
Dicklon's perfon ; adding, I anderfland they ex-
ped a perfon of the name of Dickfon at the Dragon
Inn, in the courfe of a few days, which, probably,
may be the perfon you want to smelt ; but without a
particular deleription of his perfon, it is next to an
impoffibility obtaininwinformation of the different
innkee; in, as they are particularly thy when they fee
either a bailiff or a gentleman of the law enquiring
after their gnats, it being a certain fign of unpleafant
circumftances attending them." Mr. Carruthers's
reply was then read, containing a defcription of the
perfon of Mr. Dickfon, of Anton's Hill.
Mr. Allen's next letter gave an account of having
arrefted General Dickfon. " He fitys he is a Colo-
nel in the Eati-India Company's fervice: He denies
coming from Anton's Hill, nor does he know any
thing of the bufinefs or Plaintiffs he appears to be
marked with the (mall pox, and feems in every other
refped to anfvver your defcription. I accordingly ar-
refted him," /cc.

Mr. Cairrithers's anfwer was read, containing
the refult of the enquiries he had made as to Gene-
ral Dickfon. " I went to the Eaft India Honk,
and on infpeding the lift, found that there was a
Colonel Dial. .n in the Eaft India fervice. It is
too true Col( nel Dickfon is at Harrowgate ; and
what is molt extraordinary, the defcription they
gave me of Colonel Dickfon's perfon Jun correfponds
with the Defendant in this adios. As the debt is fo
very confiderable, we muff ad not only with caution,
but with firwnefs, and not allow the perfon now ar.
relied to flip through cur fingers, until we are per-
fedly latisfitd that he is not the perfon indebted to
the Plaintiff 6. Things milt remain as they now are,
until I hear from you," Ecc.—A fubfequent letter
was alfo read from Mr. Carruthers, direding Mr.
Allen to cancel the hail-bond, and apologize to Gene-
ral Diekton,&c.

No witncifes were called on the part of the De-
fendants ; but _ _ • _

Mr. Seijeant Cncaset. addreffed the Jury in miti-
gation of damages. lie °Versed, that the tniftake
was an unfortunate one ; but circumflances had oc-
curred to ',iodine it : the Chriflian name and firname
of General Dic k fon correfponded with the Defendant's
in the writ his (peaking the Scotch dialed, &c. ; that
Mr. Allen appeared to aft with very great caution
throughout the affair ; that had he fuffered General
Dickfon to efcape, and he had proved to be the real
Defendant, he would have made himfelf liable to the
debt of 45001 ; that General Dickfon had fuffered no
real injury, having only been detained a few minutes
through a midake that could not be avoided ; that
to the minds of military men, and with their notions
(4f honour, this mght teem a great infult, but to
'timid{ aid his friends at the Bar, it would appear
very differently : that Lord Eldon, the prefent Chan-
cellor, was once arteßed by miftake, when Attorney-
General; and that fo far from confidering it an in
fult, or bringing his action, his Lordfltip has Ire.
quently related the ciritnuftance to his friends, and
mentioned it with much good humour. The Serjeant
humoroufly animadverted on the improper refiedions
which the witneffes had thrown out on the perfon of
-the defendant Allen, and ebferved, that if Mr. Allen
would wear hair-powder, and flare every day, it
would beautify him confiderably.—He concluded
with expreffing a confidence, that, in fuch a cafe as
this, where no real infult or provocation had been
intended, the damages would he merely nominal.
Verdi& for the Plaintiff—Damages zoo].
SHREWSBURY, AUG. 23.—0 n Saturday lag, the
Commiflion for holding the Affize for this County,
was opened before Sir SOULDEN LAWRENCa, Knight;
his Lordfhip attended Divine Service on Sunday
morning, at St. Chad's, where an appropriate ter.
mon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Salt, Chaplain
to Thomas Whitmore, Efq. Sheriff, from St. Luke,
xiv. 41.
Lord Chief Juflice ExuteriolouGH having been
detained by the length of Wines in the Nisi Prius
Court at Hertford, did not arrive here till Sunday
afternoon. On Monday morning their Lordfhips
proceeded to banners.'
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, iD a concife but im-
preffive charge to the Grand Jury (after having ex•
preffed his pleafure for the fira time of vifiting this
part of the kingdom under his Wetly's Commililon
of Affize), intimated, that he (caret thought it ne.
ceffary then to enforce the high importance of at-
taching to the education of Gentlemen (efpecially
thofe placed in fimilar fituations of eminence to the
Jury he then addreffed) a converfant knowledge of
and acquaintance with, the laws of their country ;
and more particularly that which fo brilliantly dif-
tinguifhed the glory and defence of Great Britain ;
for, though he could not fpeak experimentally of the
conduct and decifions of thofe Gentlemen, on whom
a clifpenfation of the Britills Laws depended, for this
county ; yet, from the tenor of fubflantial reprefcn-1
tation, he was fully *Mired, fuch was their opinion (AI
the involving dation in which they were placed, as
to pretlude the necellity of his expatiating on a fob-
jed, the incumbency of invedigating which, they
were in fully convinced of.
The followinz prifnners took their trials:
Sufannah Nock, for Dealing various articles, from the dwelling
hook of Sarah Dares, of Much Wenlock ; David Jones, aged 22,
for feereting, embezzling, or defiroying a bill of exchange, In the
port dace, at Ofweltry ; William Jenkins, for Dealing a bay geld-
ing, du. property of the Rev. Thomas Alban, of Ludlow; and
Thomas Carter, for Ruling a weather cheep, the property ot
Richard Low, of MorviDe, received fentence of death.
The eaufes at Nifi Prins were more in number and
of greater interell than has been remembered for fome
years ; owing to which, the Winds of that Court
did not finifh till a late hour on Wednefday night.
An itfue of confiderable interefl, direftert by the
Court of Chancery, was tried at thefc Affixes, in
which
_Tulin Richard Meredith Warier, an infant, and
others, were Plaintiffs, and Jofeph Waiter, Efq. and
Margaretta his wife, Defendants. The phjed
to try the validity of the will of the late Dr. Mete-

•
diths of Pentrebychin ap-
peared on the trial, that in the month of May, tBo c.
when it was admitted by all parties that the teltatiar
was in a Rate of mind perfectly competent, he had
given inftrudions for the will in quellion, which con
tained on the whole an unexceptionable dill:soli:Lin
of the property, amounting to about moot. per ann.
but that the will was not executed till the Bth of Sep-
tembir following, and was then nothing more than
the original draft containing numerous alterations,
abbreviations, and interlineations ; that in this inter-
val the teflator, who, from the time of his taking pot.
lemon of the eftate, upon the death of his elder bro.
Cher in ;Roo, had contradted the habit of exceffive
drinking, was attacked with violent and frequent
fits of epilepfy, that his memory was at intervals to.
tally gone, and was generally impaired, and that the
whole had brought on, at times, confiderable wan-
derings of mind, to fo great a degree, that the cella
for would converfe for a length of time, with imagi-
nary perfons, as if prefent, and even with perfons who
had been long dead, and that he had been affeded ih
this manner not only in the early part of the night
immediately before the day, in which he had made
his will, but on feveral preceding days ; but having in
the latter part of the night had fome refrefhing peep,
he appeared cool and fenfible when he executed the
mill, and afterwards dined down (lairs with feveral
friends and difenuered no fymptoma of delirium.—
The caufe was opened in an able manner by Mr.
DAUNCEY for the Plaintiffs, and anfwered in an im-
preflive fpeech by Mr. DALLAS, who carite down on a
fpecial retainer. He relied on the cafe of Attorney
General v. Parther, 3 Brown, Ca. Cos. 441, which, in
many of the circumaances, Rrongly resembled the
prefent, particularly in its being the execution of a
legal inftrument of importance, in itfelf of a very
proper nature, in the pretence of perfons of refpeda-
bility, to whom the party at the time appeared per-
feElly competent, and which inarument was never•
thelefs confidered invalid • the difference appearing
to be, that, in the one cafe, there had been a com-
plete and aaual derangement of confiderable length,
though it admitted of intervals of apparent fanny ;
whereas in the other, though there were frequent
wanderings, they proceeded not from infanity, but
from debility and dictate. The caufe was concluded
on both fides with candour and ability ; and it ap-
peared the univerfal fenfation of the Conn, that it
was a cafe which cogewly invited inveßigation, but
that the vet diet eftablilhing the will, was equitable
and jug.

LONDON MARKETS;

CORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, AUGUST 26.

_ -
RETURN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, including only from the
iztb of Auguft to the t7th of Amoslt—Total 7,022 Quarters.
Average 89s. tid.—ts. 6d. higher than Taft return.
A RETURN OF FLOUR,
From the loth of Auguft to the .6th of Auguft.
- Total-4443 facks—Average 86s. ti. -
-21. 9,101. lower than laft return.
11170101 PRICK OF GRAIN. OK :BOARD SNIP AI CSKDIti :
Wheat 441 6os iSs Sutoltts to 53$ od
Fine 80. 83s Grey Pas 428 465 od
Fine Old Dantzic 85$ Beans, new 401 48$ od
Rye 43a Su Ditto, old, to Sos
Barley 36s 4ts od Tick Beans, DM 381 444
Malt 76s lits od 01 t 468 od
White Peas 403 461 od Oats 232 285 3ts
Bailers —48 s Poland. 3as 33$ 6d
_ _

Rape Seed 3EI. to 38L. per lat.
PRICE OF HOPS.
Dans. POCZITS.
Kent - 51 ss to 71 os Kent - 51 12s to to.
Surcz sl 5s to 61 too Sere: - 51 acs to 71 Ob
Elks 11 S. to 61 tos Farnham 91 os to sol 6s
014 Duty, a T pea
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH.
Bail sl ass LO 71 os I Pockets 61 os to 71 ass

credit of the County, there
tried, although it is twelve
llze was held there.
1 On Saturday the Mize
ter commenced before Sir .:
T. M. 3UTTON. There an
Canle for trial ; they are TI
fences: they are fewer th
years pail.
YE/ea.—JAMES DICKSON,II
I I
ELLISON, JOSEPH MOSSY I
TIRE, JAMES LIWIS I
SMART, DEFENDANTS.
(At/lot:for iffault an
It appeared from Mr. P
aftion was brought by the
‘,l.s in the Eall India Companl
i ' fpeendrloarni ; 'forthat
a
Erlflei fiiii.nn,gohnie
1 r 7
' deputy bailiff for the fiber
1(,,
1. t• 1•'..-)fcv Allen was the attor
II(I try ; and Metres Vert, Lu
in Lonel,n, were the Plain
'., feudant was by miflake art
William Cambden Neil,:
ho had dreffed for dinner a
,II rowgate, on the Toth June
ter in the court before the
large affemblage of gent'
I was amongil them, and w,
, I fult he had jolt received,
falfety. He denied havin
Meffrs. Veres, the Plaintiff;
not owe them any tiling.
len he was millaken, and
Mr. Allen refuted to do fo
• received, defcribing the MI
the affirm was brought, to
yin's Hill, Berwickfhire.
feveral gentlemen prefeni
knew Mr. Dickfon, of An
gentleman arrelted was n
Mr. Ramfay, banker, of
confirmed this. Mr. Allei
reit, and the bailiff was q
his direCtion. Some of the
to go before a magiltrate,
I this was not Mr. Lickfon
I Mr. Allen refilled ;in CI
Hunter of Thirtion, and 1
for the General for 8,
amount of the debt. Tha
of Knarelberougb, to a
have been conveyed, was
1 country ; and had been e
Nield, the witnefs'e father.
Thomas Elliot Ogilvy, 1
' trio, was at the Dragon in
of General Dickfon's arrel
NM uting very warm langu,
who were near him, and t
to Mr. Ogilvy, and fome c
to come to him. Mr.Ogilv
but faid," Our friend leas 1
for ; leave him to hinifell
l called out, Oly friends, I
2111 arreilad for 4 or pool.
parties, and that I don't 0.
l Witnels then went up to th
was, with a great crowd a
his hand on the General's
die warrant. Mrs. Dickiiit,
1 Dick ton's family were 711111
. ral himfelf was agitated.
i tettimony of the former as'
;" Ce'!leral Dickfou was not
gentleman faid, hedenew
}till and was his neat door
i.ig that nothing would fat
liff, but detaining General
bail for him, along with N
mediately accepted. The
' men bad previotily offerer
he,coutity, the Lord May
' Magilitate, to take their a