Star.
London, England, 1802-04-24 00:00:00

LAW HiTELLIGENGE.

Sittings appointed in
before the Right Hon.
aoaoucm, Lord Chief '
Eater Term, 1802.

Middlefex and London
EDWARD Lord ELLRII-
rUfIiCe, &c. in and after

auDeLasax.
Tadday. May is
Maiaday, - :7
Meaday. - a 4
Friday, - 28
AFTER
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' LONDON.

II Wet!array, May is
Tudday. . IS
Wednefttay, - *4
Saturday, • 19
TIIM.

Walnefday. June a

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 23.

This day the Right Honourable Lord ELLtu-
soaono a took his feat as Chief Jutlice. He bad
taken the oaths, and gone through all the prelimi-
nary forms at the Lord Chancellor's. Four Spe-
cial Jury caules Rood on the paper, but only one
was tried, viz.

PENI4II,I V. WHILILWRIGHT.

Mr. ERSk Hog ilated, that this was an anion on
a policy of infurance upon the cargo of a Swedifh
&fp, the Refolution, at and from London to Pen.
facola and Mobile, on the coati of Well Florida,
and back again. The adventure was one which
would not have been f.anaioned by the laws of
this country, but for the provilions of two Adis of
the prefent King, authorizing his Majelly's Coun-
cil to grant licences to his fubjeas to export Britifh
merilAndise to the Spanilh colonies, and to im- I
port goods from thence, provided they were their
own property, or the property of the fubjeas of
Rates in amity with Great Britain. The plain-
tiffs, Meffis Penman, Shawe, and Co. were mer-
chants in London, and had exported goods prior
to the year z Soo, to Mars. Panto'', Lelie, and Co.
of Penfacola, who were indebted to them on the
balance of an account current, in the fum of
37,0001. Regular licences were obtained from the
Secretary of State. to export an outward cargo,
and import an homeward one t and the fhip failed
from Portfmonth in the month of November with
the licences on board, and all the neceff."ry dom.
went:, to fhew the belonged to a neutral nation.
In the month of December the fell in with, and

was boarded by a French privateer, who after
plundering her of a part of her provifions, Rores,
and cargo, and taking away the licences of the
Council, fufiered her to depart. The Refolution
prOteeded on her voyage, and in the month of Ja-
nuary, !Sot, the was captured by the Experiment,
Enghal privateer, off the Bahama Wands, into
which the was carried, and libelled in the Court
of Admiralty there as a lawful prize. The Court
upon being apprized of the circumflances of the
licences having been taken away by the French
privateer, releafed her. and the proceeded to the
ultimate place of her deflination, furnifhed by the
Admiralty Court of Bahama with a certificate of
her having been libelled and duly difcharged. Her
cargo was landed at Penfacola, and delivered to
Metfrs. Penton, Leflie, and Co. She then took in
her homeward cargo, confißing of furs and
&ins, and was returning to Europe, when the fell
in with the Syren frigate, Captain Golllein, who
carried her into Jamaica, where the was again li-
belled as lawful prize. The Court upon hearing
the cafe allowed pine months time for the produc-
tion of due proof of the licences having been
granted. The plaintiffs confidering the cargo was
of a perithable nature, thought proper to abandon
and call upon the infurers, leaving it to them to
avail themfelves of the benefit of the decifion of the
Court of Admiralty in Jamaica. This they had a
right to do, and therefore the only quellion would
be, whether the plaintiffs had an infurable intereft
in the cargo ? he contended they had ; for it ap-
peared they were creditors of the confignors to the
amount of z7,000L and he fubntitted, that if the
King granted a licence to his fubjeds to import
the commodity of another country, it was fuffi-
cient that fuch fubjed had an interell in the com-
modity imported, and was not availing himfelf of
the licence to conceal an illegal traffic. He had
only to add, that when the fad of the fbip having
been plundered of her licences came to the know-
ledge of the
.plaintiffs, they communicated it to
the Underwriters.
The evidence on the part of the plaintiff; eon-
filled of proof of the policy, the Order of Council,
the licences of the Secietary of State, the account
current between the plaintiffs and Panton and Co.
the [hipping of the cargo, and the circumftances
attending the voyage, as defcribed by the Learned
Connie!.
The Counfel for the defendant raid, the defen-
dant refilled this demand on grounds which had
long been known to his Lordfhip, and recognized
by Courts of Law. When the queßion was dif-
tinaly Rated, it would appear that fuch an attempt
to obtain money from the pockets of an under-
writer had fcarce ever been made. Whenever
underwriters fet up captions and technical defences,
they were jultly the fubjei of reprobation; it was
therefore a matter of confolation that he was not
Rending on any formal oblation, but on the manel
merits of the cafe. He was defending his client
on the ground that the plaintiffs were not entitled'
to the benefit of the policy, becaufe they were not
within the defcription of the licences under which
they claimed to be proteded • and becaufe they
knew, that in all probability le fhip was at this
very moment condemned by the Admiralty Court
of jainaica, in which it was libelled. The tingle
quellion was, whether the property was in Penman
and Co. ? he maintained it was not; but was in
Panton and Co. who were not Britilh fubjeds.—
If the licences had proved the property to have
belonged to the plaintiffs, would the French pri-
vateer have been content with taking only part of
the cargo ? would the not have taken the whole.
Betides, it was evident from the account current
between Penman and Co. and Penton and Co. that
the cargo was the property of the latter, for there
were charges made by Penman and Co. for corn-
sniffion, and for the premium of infurance. Had
they confidered the property as their own, fuch
charges could not have podEbl7 found their way
into the account. From the evidence of the fad
deducible from the face of the account, he Wilted
the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover.

Lord Et.tanzottonen, in his addrefs to the
Jury, Rated the nature of the action, and the ope-
ration of the licences of Council, without which
the voyage would have been illegal, and obferved
that the only queftion was, whether the property
came within the defcription of thole Acts, or, in
other words, whether it was the property of Bri-
tifh fubjeas ? Meflrs. Panton, Leflie, and Co.
though they appeared from their names to be Bri-
tißa were certainly in refpea of their do-
micile, the fubjeas of the King Qf Spain; it was
`therefore only neceffary to afcertain, whether the
property to which this infurance applied, belonged
to Panton, Leflie, and Co. or to the plaintiff?—
On the one hand the Jury were told there was a
large balance due to the plaintiffs, to the amount
of 27,0001. and that in chfcharge of that balance
thefe goods were configned. Upon the cafe; as
Rated by the plaintiffs, every thing feemed fair
and clear, but with refpcit to the accounts, a con-
fiderable degree of attention was required. The;
obfervations which had been made upon thole ac-
counts were of a very ftrong nature. It was a
very ilrange circumilance that the premium of in-
fueanne fhould have been charged by the plaintiffs,
if Panton, Laic, and Co. were sot the proprietors'
of the goods. There was allia a charge for corn-
million. Why was there loch a charge as this, if
the goods were fent to the plaintiffs on their own
' account ? The charge naturally imported, that the
goods were the property of the fenders. Clearly
the claim of the plaintiffs was no otherwife im-
peached than upon the accounts. He was not dif-
poled to quarrel with the plaintiffs for bringing
this action pending the litigation in the Admiralty
Court of Jamaica. It did appear fomewhat fin-
gular; that while the cafe was under the confider*.
lion of a Court of competent jurifdiaion which
had granted time for further proof, the plaintiffs
!honk( not have waited for the determination of
that Court. However, this Court was alio of
competent jurifdietion, and if they preferred com-
ing here, they were entitled to do fo, though if
the property timid be ultimately condemned,- all
that was doing now would be fruitlefs. The de-
fence folely arofe out of the accounts. Why did
not the plaintiffs charge themfelves with the pre-
mium and commiftlon, if the goods were their own?
The Jut y, as mercantile men, were bell fudges,
whether fuch charges were ufual by the a&ual I
owner of a cargo. For his own part, he thought
they afforded prong evidence in favour of the de-
fendant, and that the property belonged to the do-
miciled fohjeas of the King of Spain.
The Jury retired for upwards of two hours, and
returned with a verdia for the plaintiff.—Daaages
Aool. the amount of the policy.

WESTMINSTER. SESSIONS, APRIL 23.
George Webber was intlifted for affaulting John
Jones Evans, on Sunday, 14th March.
The prifoner was a pauper in the workhoufe of
St. George's, Hanover-fquare, and was permitted
to go out on the morning of the day above-men-
tioned to attend Divine Service ; he returned in the
evening in a nate of intoxication, and being defin-
ed by Mr. Evans, who is matter of the workhoufe,
to go to bed, he was with much difficulty got out'
of the ball. He came back in a few minutes, with
a knife concealed in the fleeve of his coat ; and
when Mr. Evans attempted to put him out once
more, he !truck at him. Two other paupers inter-
fered to refcne Mr. Evans, both of whom the pri-
foner feverely wounded with the knife. The eon-
liable was then called, and itrthe attempt to fecure
the prifoner, he alto received a wound in the leg.
The furgeon of the workhoufe proved that tome
of the wounds, though not at any time likely to
endanger the lives of the witnelfes, were fuch as to
deprive them of the full ufe of the particular limbs,
for a confiderable time.

The prifoner in his defence Paid, that he had
been at tea in his Majelly's fervice, and bad re-
ceived a wound in the head, which caufed him to
be confiderably deranged, particularly when he
drank. He faid he knew nothing of what hap-
pened afttr he returned to the workhoufe on Sun-
day evening, till he found himfell in the cell on
Monday morning.
The furgeon being called again, faid, he had
never obferved any fymptom of derangement in
the prifoner, who had been under his care for a
bad lek—Guilty. Sentenced to two years impti-
fonment at hard labour in the houfe of correaton.

A melancholy accident occurred on TnefdaT
night laft, by the overturn of one of the mail
coaches at Hatfield, when the coachman falling
under the carriage was unfortunately crulled to
death. The guard received a violent blow upon
the head, and an infide pallinger was much bruited.
Whether the horfes took fright, or the coachman
went to fleep, is unknown, as the accident is not
accounted for.

There are no dares of men of greater impor-
tance to fociety than thole which devote their
time and talents to the prefervation of the health
of their fellow creatures. • How eminently fuc-
cefsful the late. FRANCIS Sticsounr was in
this truly laudable employment, is completely
evinced by the rapidity of Pale which his celebrated
Amriscoaauric DROPS have invariably command-;
ed. As a purifier of the blood, reftorer of the con-
ftitution, and bracer of the fyilein, their effeas I
have been alloniihing, as may be feen by the fur-
prifing cures of perfons who were affiided with
Scorbutic and Nervous Complaints, Gout, Rhea
matifm, &c. and therefore the detection of thole
impollors, who, by means of forged bills and
other pretended credentials,have vended a fpurious
compofition of this truly excellent medicine mull
be a fatisfadion to all perfons who have a corn-
potent idea of the abfolute neceffity there is in be.
ing careful to purchafe the genuine Remedy, as
well as of preferving perfonal property from in-
fringement,. The true Medicine is diftinFuiffied
by the King's Patent, on the bottle, bill, and
wrapper; and as a further guard, by favour of
his Majally's Commiffioners of the Stamp-Office,
they have affixed a (tamp on each bottle, printed
in black Ink. Prepared and fold at the Difpenfary,
N 0.15, Sohafquare, and by the general Venders
of Patent Medicines in Town and Country, in
bottles 51. and 11. as. duty included.

Altoniihing efficacy in nun:betide trials, and with full evidence
of Dr. BR ODOM'S Botanical Syrup, in which he has happily
compreffed the mat Purifying and Healing virtues of the
Vegetable Syftem, is now recununended In Scorbutic, Le-
prous and Setopholous Cafes.
"G'ROM the Nobleman to the Peafant.
intoxica-
tion b the auk of many of the Difortlen which now af-
tuet mankind. When neon is thrown off her guard by the
potent force of drinking to neck, it too often happens that this
imprudence produces another, or, in plain terms, a connedtion
with a difordered or unclean perion ; and frequently thole who
are guilty of thefe indifcredons are en the point of entering into
the facred band of wedlock, with a dlicreet and virtuous com-
panion. What is the eonfequence of thefe repeated improprie-
ties I The infedlous potion, which has lurked in the body of
the hufiand, is communicated to the wife, and entailed upon
the offspring, who comes into the world a ditgating
to all beholders, and fubjeft to the Evil, eruptions of tU molt
inveterate tendency. fice. A mechanic, who mks metal in the
completion of any performance, that has not been properly re-
fined, will find his workmanlhip break, crack, and difplay a
varlety of impede/boos, In defiance of ail pains and diligence :
it is exattly the fame with than who enter into the Rate of
wedlock, without having their blood properly purified from the
contagious dlitcmpers it 'receives through thefe erron, than
which nothing is more efficacious than Dr. BRODUM's BO-
TANICAL SYRUP, being an admirable diuretic, and *ding
by perfpiratien, never falling to cure complaints of this nature,
after they have lain dormant In the blood for keen, eight, or
ten years. Although it is fo effedtual, it is at the fame time fo
innocent, that a child, or a lying-in woman might take It with
the greateft fatty ; nor Is there the keit dancer of taking cold,
even in the a:oft inclement feafon, which It is (candy poffible
icecaps during the adminiftration of a cootie of mercury.
The Botanical Syrup and Reltoradve Nervous Cordlal,to be
bad at the Dodtor's hook, No. 9, Albion-area, 7 doors from
the Levercan Mufeum, Surrey Me of Blackfriars-bridge, hu
bottles at O. as. t es. 6d. and SI. 34. (duty included) Cockell's
Medicine Warelaufe, No. 292. Strand; alto of W. Bulgin,
Printer and Bookfeller, at his Medicinal Wareho ufe, Nu.;,
Wine-Area; who has received a large and (rah &pp' y; Thomp.
fan and Mills, Caftle-drat; Browne, Tolzey ; C. Routh,
Bridge-arcs; Reed and Sheppard, &Mot ; Meyler and Crut.
well, Bath; Mars. Goadby, Sherhorne ; Mr. React Glou-
cater ; Mr. Tymbs, Wont:far Mr. Trewman, Exeter ;
Swaney, Birmingham; Spilfbary and Co. Mary-ftreet, Dub-
lin ; and by all Printers, Bookkfiers, and Venders of Medicines
in the Three Kingdoms.
To shore Ladies or Gentlemen bordering on the State a Ma-
the Dater would particularly recommend the Bota-
nical Syrup, (prior to their appearance before the Altar of Hy-
men), who are in the imalleft degree apprehenfive of the fyftms
not being entirely found, or ruble& to relaxations of the Mids.
•„• Letters, gating Patents cafes, with the. Dator's nivel
fag of a Guinea, will be Maly attended to.
A sag. Dads inniaiarepat *re tamp mi. •

NAVIGABLY CANAL SHARTS.—MONIiTti EA '.F.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By Mr. fit:OTT,
On Friday May 7, at Twelve o'clock, at Garraway'a,Cbariv.
Alley I ontfon

SHARES in the following NAVIGATIONS;

The Grand Junetion and Paddington Canal ; original Shares.
Half Shares, and Optional Loan, bearing 5 per cent.
The Shrcwibury Canal; Five Shares of too Leach--the pro.
fiu are 71. per Shire, and will certainly increafe.
Alfo, Shares in the S:ratford-upon Avon. Lancafter, 'Woes
eerier and Birmingham, and the nakbam /invitations.
Printed particulars at the White itiurfc Uxbridge; York%
ut shire Stingo, Paddington; at Hatcli's 154.-cidaly ;
Garraway's ; and of Mr. Scott, who is authorifefi
to difpofed of part of the above, and Shares in various other
Concerns snd Eltates, by Private Contra&

CURIOUS FRUIT.—t. Two new Currants,
obtained from Iced ; one red, the other white: they both
bring fruit as large as fume grapes, in hunches fix inches tont
and hang on the trees thi..k.v thlis the leaves ; d'ey 11%N% a pc.
culiar brilliancy of colour, a full-tiavuured fwcet :ids, and brist
poignancy of take far beyond ail otitizs. 1. Three new Straw
berries, viz t. Ihe Cherokee, a monftrous fruit, often fivie
inches round, and of moil exquifite flavour; it bears fo :than.
dandy, that one root frequently i.. plate. 2. Ilse Park.l,27,
equal to the former in every true property. and coiues Teter,
as to give a long fuceefilon. 3. Thc Grcat htsdena
the molt delicious of the Strawberry tribe, its very high flavesr
and wonderful fragrance raifc it far above an competition.
Currant trees, (each fort feparately,) fix in a bundle, fur
los. 6d. Strawberry plants, (each fort feparately,) Se iii
bundle, for los. 6d.
Sold at Crocker's, St. Alban's4reet,
Pay Portalle•

VV HEN PrGfelEonal Men of ednez.tion and re.
fponfibility deviate from the general fyftem lw the fe.
leetlon of a peculiar Branch. the fanetiati of beg emdnati
fueccfs is the heft criterion of fupeziority.
Eight years have! dev4ted my pradticc to the erchafire treat.
Went of THREE DISORDERS, and the luccershit rc..t!t
my plan gives me additional anima' to opplfc as far as I ro
able the ravages of thole complaints which are the mutt ini:ort„.
ant in the catalogue of human in firmttits.

After initiation Into every blanch as an Army Stu-gen:3
formed a wilk at an early period of Practice to recent tmli-.4shs.
als from the ignorance of uneducated Men, or the tipsily 4..
&roue precipitancy of general Praaitiontrs.
The THREE DISORDERS, to the u .ree,f which I him., eg.
voted my attention, comprise every (pet ies of V LNKREAL
INFECTION, whether of a r-ecrit or long di ration.-3,1
Al! kinds of DEBILITY, wketh.a. ariEng front the 'halsits
Schoolboys, or the indulgtnrc of nu:ore age, and lattly car.
rangement of the fyiteni in Women which is called 11ARREX
NEhli or STERILTTY.

Numerous dictates are the remit of Ignorance or haßeln Its
treatment of a Envie Gonorrhea, and it not unfrequentily hap.
pens that the feeds of Life are rationed by the iadifcretion Man
unguarded hour. By a fuperior method fuch complaintt
caul), cured, and teen where others have failed, I trutt that
may pre:fume to off' tu- a radic:d re-eftoblillunent
Few, how,:ve.r, are the cafes of complicated &Reefs is
.tl e
diforder cormared with ti:e. calamitous lituations of 1414r.wha
from Indulgence ilia SOLITARY VICE, or the prevalent Oast.
tics of a tafkionable Life, acquire that Rate of Deoikty wham
Is the unavoidable confequence of loch pernicious habits.
Where the unhappy fulferer broods overhis miter?, hit care:
fully conceals his misfortune, it may be fume cmerulation tor
him to know, that although it be au °Wed of doubt or rarer,.
piety with other Prattithmers, the removal of there DEO
CI ENCIBS by the gradual progrcfs of Renovation is &eat:quire.
mart of my csperionet. if the rites of Bacchus or Vent'. louse
WILLIS to reduce manly vigGur, mach anxiety will he pr.:mental
by an early counteradtion of this languid Clam, and in
cafes no great difkculties will occur.
But where this Deficiency has for years trifled, a proper Per-
feverance is indifpenfibly requiftte to revive the flumbring ;'parks
of Lite, and to re-animate the Conflitution.

MAIMED WOMEN, who love long hew diCappoint.9l
In their expeelations of a Family, may be allured, dentin mat
inftances filch defzda are curable by Mcdieal Skill

The SECRECY which is fo cirential tom! undertaking, aad
the Qisalilicadons which 1 haw . pretense." to Rate, form the
Baas Of my Pretenfions, and in coincidence with (was this isul-
maim is given, that Mr B- may he cant2lredpektral!
(or by letters inclofing a (mall note) at his !souk, Ne. ag, Are: .
del-ftreet, Strand, near Temple-Bar.
There is an additional entrance in Water-!Erect adjoin', g.
and the name is on both the doors.