Star.
London, England, 1807-05-19 00:00:00

LAW INtELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY
VICES V. ANTROBUS.
'phis was an anion to recover 681. under rather
fingular circumflances. The quelion at Wile was,
whether the defendant, Colonel Antrobus, was re-
leafed from the above fum, by being difcharged as
an infolvent debtor, in February, 1805. It appeared
Mr. Figes, of Norfolk.ftreet, Strand, had accommo-
dated the defendant with various films, who accepted
a bill rot. 441. When the bill became due it was not
paid, and the defendant was requefled to accept
another, drawn by the plaintiff, which ht did on the
t 7th of November, 1804. When the laft bill became
due, (9 months after), the plaintiff paid it to Hill
Dailey, Efq. to whom it had been gin for money
advanced to the plaintiff. Under thefe circumUances
the prefent aElion was brought, to recover of the de-
faidant the amount of his acceptance, and other colts
neceffarily incurred.
Mr. Serjeant Bssr, for the Defendant, contended,
that his client was not bound to pay the Plaintiff
after his difcharge as an infolvent ; but Sir James
MANSVIIILD was of opinion that the defendant had oc-
cafioned a debt before his difcharge, which a claufe
in the Aft of Parliament made him liable to pay, and
he accordingly diredled the Jury to find a verdia for
the plaintiff.
Mr. Setjeant Desr was inftruded by the Learned
Judge to bring a legal objeftbn, taken in the cafe
before the Court, fur chfcullion on a future day.

Wednefday, the foundation (tone of the Greenock
Hofpital, was laid by the Right Worlhipful At.sx•
ANDER MAY, Efq. Mailer Mafon of the Lodge Glee-
nock Kilwinning, No. 14, as being the fenior Lodge.
Laft week a moft extraordinary circumftance hap-
pened in Plymouth. A moft beautiful cock Phea.
fant, from fatigue, it is fnppofed, dropped down in
the Sound, along-fide the Santa Margarita, of 36
guns, lying there. This handfome biro, by a boat
being put off from the frigate, was picked up alive,
and is now at the Pheafantry in the delightful woods
of Strode, Efq. of Newnham Park, near

Plympton.
Ansciatrc—His Majefty King GEORGI I. made
a ptefent of Books to the Univerfity of Cambridge,
foon after the commencement of the tumults at
Oxford, on which occafion Dr. Tatar wrote the

Cullowing Epigram :
Our Royal Malta faw with heedful eyes
The wants of his two thaw Wes :
Troops be to Oxford fent as knowing why
That learned body wanted loyalty ;
But books to Cambridge gave, as well diferrniog
That that right loyal body wanted learning.
This epigram received a retort from Sir Wm.
Brown, as it is Aid, impromptt4
The King to Oxford fent a troop of boric,
For Tories know no arguments but force;
With equal care to Cambridge books be feat,
For Whip allow no force but argument.
The four celebrated marble horfes, which were
brought from Venice, and placed on a high wall at
each fide of the principal gate of the Thuilleries, have
been removed, for the purpok of ornamenting a
grand triumphal arch, nuw ere Bing on the Place du
Cat oufel.

On the 27th ult. Captain UPTON, who commands
the fquadron in the Elbe, detained three (hips under
the Kniphaufen flag, bound from Varel to Tonnin-
gen, with tobacco, and prevented tome ibips in ballait
proceeding up the Elbe, from Newerk, &c. The
intelligence of thefe detentions caufed great canner.
nation at Hamburgh. Our letters, however, from
Altana and Hamburgh, of the 9th, obferve that this
alarm and diftrefs had been removed, by the partial
freedom of the navigation of the Elbe over the
Watten, from Tonningen.
We have received, from New South Wales, the
Sydney Gazettes to the 9th of November inclufive.
The fcarcity of grain was at that period fo great,
that wheat had becn felling for feveral days at 41.
per bufhel, and the price of the 21b. loaf had rifen
to 4s. 6d. Two quarts of green barley jun gathered
f.ld for ss. At the market on the tit of November
not a grain of either wheat or maize made its ap-
pearance. Fowls fold at from Si. to los. per couple,
and eggs at 3s. per dozen. At the market on the
Bth, no wheat was to be had and very little maize.
Potatoes were eagerly bought at from 4.d. to sd. per
pound; and the fupply of vegetables in general very
kanty. To add to the dillrefs of the colony, feveral
fields of young corn had been wholly deftroyed by
the grub. Confiderable relief was, however, expeCted
from the approaching harva. Three men convidted.
of robbery whofe names were John Murphy, Dennis
Kaneen and William Mafon, were executed on the
28th of OEtober. Murphy, whole real name was
Crawley, was a native of London. Jofeph Morton.,
who was convilled with them, was reprieved on con-
dition of his becoming a tranfport for life. The At-
lantic, Captain Swaim, areixed from the Fithery, on
the 7th of November, with 750 barrels of oil.
Lan night, about (even o'clock,as Lady Guilkifot d's
carriage was paling along Lillie itreet, Leicefier
fquare, the pole of the carriage (truck a man, who
was a offing at the time, and unfortunately killed him

upon the fpot.
A woman of Falmouth, known there by the name
of Tammy Dunftan, kiely in an altercation with
another who charged -Ter with calumniating her,
was in the aft of denying the charge with the molt
folemn affeveration, when the dropt down and in-
Randy expired.
Saturday evening two of the Police Officers, ac-I
companied by Clark the Martha'man, feixed a great
quantity of linen, which had been flolen from the
premifes of Meffrs. Hicks, of Old Ford, in the houfe !
of Elizabeth Sidebottom, in New ftreet, Blackfriars;
whom they apprehended, together with James Ham-
mond, whom they found on the premifes. They
likewife found three brace of loaded piftnls, above
200 picklock keys, feveral iron crows, centre bits,
and other implements of hnu(e.breaking. The pri-
firmer: yefterday underwent a private examination at''
Worthip ken Office, and were remanded for re-
examination,
Isopssv.—An Inqneft was. takes near Windfor,
on Saturday,. on, the body of a young gentleman,
named Shawe„ aged 1,5, who was drowned the pre-
ceding day. The deceafed, who was a !indent of
Etan College, accompanied by three of his comps.
nuns, took an excufion up the river in a boat, and
previous to their arrival at Surley-hall, a (quail came
on, and in the confufron the deceafed fell overboard.
Verdia—dfscideatal death.