Star.
London, England, 1805-07-27 00:00:00

EPIGRAM ON A BAD SIGN PAINTER.

Groterque and ttrange were the defigna,
That TOM the Painter drew;
His proper trade was paintingfigur,
But he did wanders too!

We underfland a Patent has been granted to Mr.
Jams: Nos Coggeihall, Hex, for a Machine for
drawing a Sliver, after the Wool is worked on the
Comb. There is, we are informed, a machine now
at work at Leicefter, for the infpeaion of gentlemen
in that place, which meets their decided approbation;
the work being performed much better, and at lefs
than half the ufual expence.

Mrs. Frrztiaassar arrived at Brighton on Mon-
day, and took poffeflion of the boufe the has had
built on the North of the Steyne. It is in the mo•
dern 'Lyle, with a colonade, fupported by fix noble
columns, 14 feet high, and ornamented by a fanciful
balcony, which runs the length of the building ; the
whole is painted a vivid green, which has a finceffed,
when viewed from the promenade.

The poor Queen of Erautta perfecnted with the
odious addreffes of Prince Euceire BEAUKARIIMS,
is in a fituation the molt melancholy that any Queen
has found herfelf in, fine the days of Queen PtNR•
Lora. Indeed her fituation very much refembles
that of the Qileen of Ithaca; fur though (he has
but one deteitable wooer, he is backed by a power
which renders him equal to a similitude, whofe re-
tainers menace the life, and devour the inheritance of her
fon. Her bufhand is (till more hopelefily abfent than
thrssrs, for he is gone to the bourne from which no tra-
veller returns; and her fon is in a (late of more kelt-
* minority.

Isburrtv.—On Monday, the Bth inflant, two lads
of Limerick, Cornelius Dogherry and Edmond Dal-
ton, apprentices to ladies' shoemakers, commenced to
work the entire week for a wager, no part to be done
by candle light, the work to be infpefted by their re-
fpeftive employers, and none to be accepted but fair
faleable work ; when, after the week's cordeft, ending
Saturday evening, Dogherty proved-yitioriouv, hay-
ng made 44 pair, and Dalton 4.3.—Dogherty's wa-
ges, at 20d. a pair, would amount to 31. 13s; 4d.

There are nearly as many large CApitals in the
prtfcnt Lottery, as have been ofuslly given to Lot-
teries of more than double the number of Tickets,
and the money allotted to a portion of the blanks,
together with the Twenty Pound Prizes, have re-
duced the riot to little more than two atftual Blanks
to a Prize.

Thurfday as a groom was exercifing a boric in
Smithfield, the animal took fright, and ran away with
hire, when turning the corner of Rnbfon's Rabic-yard,
in Little Britain, too fuddenly, the boy was thrown
with fuck violence as to ft-at-lure his fkiil. He was
taken to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, but expired a
fhort time after his arrival. The owner of the bode,
on hearing of the accident, ordered it to be fhot.

At the Affixes for the county of Northampton, F.
Deacon, for fheepAlealing, and Senn. Bates, for houfe-
breaking, were capitally convieted, and received len-
ience of death, but were reprieved before the Judge
left the town. Geo. Chefi, for obtaining goods under
falfe pretences ; and John GoVon, for He two
bu(hels and a half of wheat, a deal door, &e. were
ordered to be imprifoned 12 months. Tho. Haynes,
on fufpicion of Healing a curriele and two honks, and
I.von. Haynes on fufpicion of poifoning his wife, were
shrcharged by proclamation. At the fame Affixes, a
barber received 3501. damages of a miller, for crimi-
nal converfation with his wife; and a young woman
received 1501. damages of a man for feduiltion, and
breach of a promife of marriage.
STORM.—On Tuefday a heavy form of rain fell in
Birmingham and its neighbourhood, accompanied
with lightning, and loud peals of thunder. In De-
rr:end, the lightning aruck a timber-flied, in which
f;me lawyers were at work, on the premifes of Mr.
Lord:ley ; it firth cut away the letter N. (North)
Irom under the weather-cock at the top of the build.
nig, fplit the rafters, went thro'the cafement that was
open, of which it melted the lead, and afterwards
foot into the ground in a fawpit where fome men
were at work. One of them was frock upon the
foot, and forced out of the pit, where he lay infenfi-
ble for fome time. When he recovered, his foot was
difcdotired, and a good deal hurt.
On the fame morning the farm-houfe of Mr. Tay-
lor, near Bourmbrook, was nearly dettroyed by the
lightntng. The chamber and lower windows and
haws were driven out, and the chamber floor
l.nocked down. Five women and lonic children were
the premifes at the time ; the women were all
thrown from their feet : but, we are happy to find
that nr,rie of them received any injury, except from
ight. An a(h tree on the premifes of Mr. S. Wheeley,
the fame neighbourhood, was nearly Ihivered to
jeces, and I; ,me of the balk carried upwacis of
a 3 yards from the fpot.

ZAP' INIWLICNNci.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY s 6.

ADAIR O. THIB Haw mesa COMPANY.
This caufe, which is of confiderable importance
w many individuals, and to the public at large, was
yefterday,in part, heard before the Loa oCitan c taxa.
The Bill was filed by Mr. Adair, againft the Truf-
tees of the Proprietors of the King's moiety of the
profits of the New River Company, and againft cer-
tain other perfons fpecified, belonging to the New
River Company, in place of all perfons having any
right or intereft therein. The allegations in the bill
Rated, that the perfon under whom the Plaintiff
claimed had a grant of a rent charge of gaol. a year
on the King's moiety of the prJfits of the New River
Company, tubjerft to pay a proportionate part of the
affeffment for land-tax, which, by a 9, the property
of the New River Company was liable to. And
that for a confiderable time back tool. a year had
been dedu&ed from this rent charge as the propor-
tionate part of the alliffinent for land tax, to be paid
oat of it, which deduaion was, in fa& an infinitely
higher rate of afTeffment than the other property
arifing out of that concern paid, and confequently
more, as the Plaintiff alledged, than he had a right
to pay. The relief required by the bill was, that
the New River Company should give in an account
of the profits made by them for a confiderable time
back, up to the prefent time, and that there accounts
fhould be referred to the Matter, to examine how
much of the (cool. a year, rent charge, had been
paid in fatisfaeion of the land tax, and bow much
ought to have been paid, taking the whole property
to pay at the fame rate, and to compel the New Ri-
ver
Company to pay over to the Plaintiff the dif-
ference of what bad been paid, and what ought to
have been paid, and alto to regulate the matter for
the future, by compelling an annual account, fo as
to prevent the Plaintiff from being obliged to pay
more than by law he was entitled.
Mr. RoNILLY, on the part of certain perfons, De-
fendants, belonging to the New River Company,
Rated, that he was convinced this bill tbould be dif.
miffed againft his clients. - There were, he (aid, but
three or four proprietors brought before the Court,
though the Plaintiff .had acknowlodged that he had
in his poffeffion a lilt of two or three hundred, and
according to the rules of equity, Mr. Adair was
bound to make all thofe defendants who had any
intereft in the property, if he was aware they had,
which in this cafe Rood confeffed, they thould be
made parties, if for no other reafon than to relieve
thole who were at prefent before the Court, from
the difficul.• they would labour under, if the Plain-
tiff recovered againft them, of compelling the other
proprietors to reimburfe them.
The Learned Gentleman then cited feveral cafes,
to prove the neceffity of having all the Defendants
before the Court. There were, in his opinion, fome
wrongs, almoß without remedy, or rather of fuch
a nature, as that the remedy, which it was necef-
fary the party fhoul4 purfue, was fo complicated,
that it was impoffible, confiflently with the circum-
fiances of the party, that any redrefs could be ob-
tained. One cafe of this nature bad already occu-
pied a great deal of his Lordllip's time, and was
likely to occupy a great deal more ; he meant the
cafe of Drury Lane Theatre, in which he believed
there exifted a wrong, almoft impoffible to be re-
medied, on account of the number of proprietors.—
In the cafe now before the Court, the fame circum-
Rance occurred, as, on account of the number of
Proprietors, they could not all be made Defendants :
and, unlefs that was done, he humbly fubmitted the
Court could give no redrefs.
Mr. MARTIN, as Counfel for the Truftees of the
King's Moiety, fubmitted, that this bill fliould be
difmilTed, as agaii4 his clients, they having no in-
tereft in the property whatever. He further Rated
that Mr. Adair might as well have (elected any one
perfon from the company, and compelled him to pay
the balance alledged to be due, as to have proceed-
ed againft the prefent parties. The confequence of
allowing this praeice would be, that each of the pre-
fent Defendants, if they were recovered againft,
would be in the, fame Situation as the prefent
tiff—and would, therefore, proceed againft fome
others of the- proprietors, who eventually would be
obliged to pay—and would, therefore, prolong the
litigation, as long as any perfon could be found, who
had the flighielt intereft in the property.
Mr. HART, on the part of the New River Com-
pany, relied on the fame objeetion as his Learned
Friends, who went before him ; and alto urged the
want of jurifdieion in the Court, as the party might
have relief in a Court of Common Law, by bringing
an aeion of account.

Mr. RICHARD(, on the part of the Plaintiff, Paid,
he hoped he would be able to thew the objeaion, for
want of parties, was of no avail, as it was merely a
matter ofform, and might be, and was difpenfed
with, when the Court law oceafion. He then in-
ft4nced the cafe of a bill, filed to eftabliffi a cultom,
whce every individual in the Manor was interefted ;
yet, it was not required, that they fhould all be made
Defendants; but only fuch as were neceffary to give
information to the Court. On this ground, there-
fore, he thought the objeflion was out of the quef-
tion. He then proceeded to (late, that the aft re-
quired, that four thillings in the pound fhould be paid
out of the entire profits of the New River Company,
eftiasating that at tB,oool. a year. His client's rent
charge of pool. was fubjeft to this affelfment, and the
Company always took care to dedua one-fifth of it,
for the purpofe of fatisfying the Land Tax Commit-
(loners, though they themfelves only paid 36001. a-
year for the whole property, being one-fifth of the
18,0001. a year, which, at the time the Aft was
made, their profits amounted to. At prefent, it ap-
peared from the anfwers put in, that their annual
profits were infinitely more titan tB,oool. on which
account he htimbly fuhmitted, that his client fhould
not be obliged to pay more than the Company, and
that the prayer of the Bill fhould be complied with.
The LORD Cm•stesxioa laid, the Court was
under a great difficulty, as it was admitted in the
anfwer of the Defendants, that their profits were
more than tB,OOOl. The New River Company are,
by the Aft, to pay four (billings in the pound to the
land tax, as well as the holder of the pool. a year
lent charge: the Court cannot, therefore, in contra-
diftior to the Aft, fay, that the Defendants (hall
pay over to the Plaintiff, who has paid no more
than he had a rjght to pay, what in fait belongs to
neither c: them. The public alone have a right to

it, and betanfe the iiefendants bate thought proper
to defraud them of it, that is no reafon why this Court
fhould make an order for the Plaintiff to take a part
of what does not belong to him, His Lordlhip then
fignified a with, that it lbould Rand over till Wednef-
day and if the parties had any thing farther to urge,
it might be mentioned on TuefdAy.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY kr.
THOMAS •TKIESON M. WALTER SUMPTER.
Both the Plaintiff and Defendant are Brokers and
Auaioneers. This was an anion for flander.
Mr. GARROW, for the Plaintiff, Paid, that there was
I nothing which had given more fatisfadion fence his
Lordflaip had prefided in that Court, than the direc-
tion he had given to Juries on fubjeds of this nature.
In a late caufe of Tennant % Ruffin, the damages of
fool. had been given, and the prefent cafe bore a very
great refemblance so that in which the Jury had ex-
' ercifed their wifdom and moderation. The Defendant
thought proper to infinuate, that the Plaintiff was
guilty of felony. But this was done covertly. It
was Paid that a glafs or minor was loft, and that the
Plaintiff would have been accommodated at a great
houfe in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, if it had
not been for the good offices of a Mr. Dawfon, in the
fame line of bulinefs. This was not all; the Defen-
dant added, that the Plaintiff had not cleared tome
lots at Dawfon's, and that in confequence he would
be permitted to buy nothing more at Dawfon's (ales.
When much was alledged to the difcredit of any per-
fon, if the whole were not believed, it was thought,
generally, that there could not be to much Comte
without Tome fire. The Plaintiff fubfequent to there
calumnies went to bid at Dawfon's tales, when he was
taken afide by the Clerk, who laid to him, u A very
unpleafant circumftance has happened; Mr.Sumpter
has fpread come difagreeable reports of you, and
therefore Mr. Dawfon cannot permit you to clear any
lots until you have paid for them." The Learned
Counfel remarked, this was not the araxianan, but the
minimum of the damage. No man could dilcern how
deeply the forked tongue of calumny had penetrated.
His Friend (Mr. Erfkine) might, in reply, deliver a
Pindaric ode, he might, by his fertile invention,influ-
ence for a moment the imagination of the Jury; but
they would not be permanently dazzled by any brilliant
difplay of his powers ; they would recoiled they were
upon their oaths, and bring his client to a reckoning.
Mr. Pendy depofed, that the Defendant had kid
at a tale, before about twelve perfons in the fame
way of trade, •addreffing himfelf to the Plaintiff—
,' You know yourfelf, if it had not been for Dawfon,
you would have been in Newgate." The Defendant
alfo Paid to the witnefs, 4' Go and tell Atkinfon, if he
does not clear his lots away from Dawfon's, he will
get no more credit at the tale." On his crofs-ezami-
nation he Paid it was cuftomary for the Brokers at-
tending at fales, to receive two and fixpence, five (bil-
lings, lalf-a-guinea, and fometimes a guinea each,
for their company from the Audioneer. He (aid he
did not like to deliver the meftage from the Defen-
dant to the Plaintiff, becaufe he thought it would
wound the fenfibility of the latter.
Another witnefs was called, but the words in the
declaration not being proved, the Plaintiff was non-
fuited.