Star.
London, England, 1809-11-09 00:00:00

LEVEN V. JANSON.

Mr. Serjeant SHEPPARD stated this to have been a
trial on a policy of insurance on a ship, trom G, tee.
burgh to any port in the Baltic ; and which shi,
been taken by the French at Pillau and sold in !)..,nt-
zic. The payment of the Insurance had been :(.4
fused, on the ground that she had no Br:tis:l I; _en,:e
on board. At Pillau, the Captain concealed tl e
cence, with the other papers of the ship, in some p rt
of the quarter-gallery ; and hearing that the ship had
been purchased at Dantzic, and brought back to
England in another name, the Captain and Super-
cargo went on board, and found the licence, &c.
where they had been concealed by the Captain at
Pillau. On the day the trial came on, the Captain
went away just before it commenced, being obliged
to attend the Alien Office, he being an Alien. Be-
sides, on that day a number of causes respecting ships
which had been captured at Mau at the same time,
having been decided without their licences being asked
after, the Captain of this vessel did not think his evi-
dence so necessary on the trial as it really was. The
Learned Serjeant moved for a Rule to show causes
which was granted.

HOLROY AND OTHERS V. GWYNN.
In this case, Mr. Seijeant WILLIANIS moved for a
Rule to shew cause why the former verdict should
not be Set aside, and a nonsuit entered. The Learned
Serjeant stated this to have been an action of trover,
brought by the plaintiffs, whe were the Assignees of
one Lee, a bankrupt, for some timber which had been
sold by Gwynn, to Lee, in 1807. Lee paid at first
£l7O, and afterwards he was to pay at different tim-s,
81189 more. This agreement being entered into by
the parties at the same time, that if Lee should be-
come a bankrupt before that sum of Jel 139 was paid
up, it should be lawful for Gwynn to take away all
trees standing, cut down, or taken away with the
bark, &c. to make up that part of the sum which
might remain unpaid. Lee had become a bankrupt
before the sum was paid up, and Gwynn had entire.
.ed the terms of this agreement, for which the As-
signees of Lee had brought the action of trover against
him. it had been tried in Middlesex, before Sir J.
Mansfield ; and he, not recollecting a case analogous
to it, had directed the Jury to find a verdict for the
plaintiff, reserving it for the Court of Common Pleas
to issue a Rule for a nonsuit.—Rule to shew cause
granted.

CIIARMANT v. TATUM.
Serjeant VAUGHAN stated, that this action had been
formerly brought by the wife and executrix of a man
named Channant, who, with two other persons, Kelly
and Smith, had kept a gambling-house in Jermyn-
street, for money lent by her deceased husband to the
defendant; and the Learned Serjeant moved for a
rule to shew cause, why the verdict should not be set
aside, Bcc, Smith was the evidence who proved his
having lent £5O of the partnership money to Taylor,
and that when the partnership was dissolved, Char.
mant was to take the debt as his own property. He
argued for the rule on the ground that the action
should have been brought in the names of the three
partners.
Sir J. MANSFIELD, on referring to his notes of the
trial, found that Smith had positively sworn that he
lent Taylor the money, for the express purpose of
gambling.—Rule granted

On Saturday last, a boat with five men put ashore
near the signal post at Sutton; on the coast of Lin,
colnshire. The story connected with the circumstance
is as follows :—William Fitzgerald, carpenter's mate
of his Majesty's ship the Magnificent, cast away on
the coast of France on the 25th of March, 11904, was,
with 75 of the crew, put into a French prison ; and,
on the 6th of July, 1809, this man, with several
others, got away from the prieun ; and, on his arrival
at Amsterdam, requested protection from the Ame-
rican Consul, who tefused his request. He then, rather
than be again immured in a prison, entered on board
a French privateer, in the hope of being captured b?
some British cruizer. 'l'he privateer was at anchor
at Schelling, when a boat was sent out to capture a
vessel in the offing. In this boat went Fitzgerald,
Peter Doyle, an Irishman, Ad Thomas Green, a
Prussian, with ten. Frenchmen, and an American
black. • Fitzgerald 'and his two friends watched the
proper opportunity, seized upon the arms, and forced
I' all the Frenchmen to jump overboard, excepting one!
who, with the American black, compose the number
that have landed on the coast. Capt. LLOYD, of the
1 Royal Navy, at Boston, has sent them to Great.
Grimsby, there to wait for their disposal by the Ad.
rniralty.

A Very destructive fire broke out in the stables of
Major haunt., at Hardinge.green, Surrey, on Sun.
day evening, which was occasioned by a candle fall.
ing from a-lantern, which communicated itself to a
truss Of straw. The Major had just returned home
in his curricle, and the stableman was gone fig a pail
of water when the accident happened. The building,
consisting of a stable and outhouse, was destroyed, As
were also two horses, worth 200 guineas. The dwel.
house caught fire, but it was extinguished beim" the
same. spread.

COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS,

NOVENIBER 7.

is day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT pro-
rd to the adjudication of the following cases :
Hope, Cock ran master.—*l his American ship, with a cargo
arican produce, on an asserted veyaze to this caw ntry,
-ed by a frigate, near the coast of France, and rheCourt had
istance of Trinity Masters, who were of opinion that she
fir a French port.—Condetnned.
master—sllis vesscl, underOltletthurgh
, laden with brand?, bnnnd from Rochelle to Hull, was
Ted by a man of war on the Rochefort station. She saikd
. license, which had expired. The Court observed, that
he obstruction; existirg in respect to the commerce of this
the most liberal construction should ha given to instru-
of this nature.—`he was therefore ordered to be restored
with freigh' and expenct s, on payment of the captor's expellees.
Mcreuri•:s, Ptettrs master—A.lth; vessel, umlir Papenburgh
colours, bean with brandy, from Charante to London, was cap •
tured by th, Gibraltar; she 4:::!ed under a licence.—She was re-
stored with friiight and expenees.
lordstern,l;arttls master.—•l hi; verse!, ander Swedish colours,
was camired by a Fre• eh privateer, and afterwards re-captured
b 7 a King's ship.—ln this case the usual salvage was granted.
Maria Charlotte, Wickstrom master—This vessel was sailing
from one Rti:-.itin po:•t to another.—Further proof directed.
Aurora, Selnli'man raster.—fill tnis case the Court pronounced
for the captor's expences

HIGH COURT' CF .11'ST:CIA kr, FDINFURGH, OCT. 21.

This day came on the of Oliver, for
t'oe robbery of the Peel)l-s rn,til, on Wednesday the
o'-zth of Juno last. The libel was restricted to an ar-
bitrary punishment, in consequence of which the pri-
soner pleaded Clniky, and the .hiry returned a verdict
accordingly. The Court sentenced the prisoner to be
transported beyond seas for 14. years. The Loan
JUSTICE CLERK addressed the prisoner in a very im-
ptc..;sive spesch.

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