Star.
London, England, 1807-12-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, DEC. 9.
ANN EANCHISTIA N. LETITIA NORMAN.

The plaintiff is a milliner, who had fold to the de-
fendant articles of her trade, to the amount of 211.
Mr. Gaartow, for the former, raid that his client
was entitled to recover this amount, fur which an
acceptance had been given.
• The defendant was a lady who made a brilliant
figure in the world of fathion, and who refided in II
Gloriedler Place, Portman fquare, and fubfcquently
in Henrietta ftreet, Cavendifh fquare. The
with many other:, aftifted this dafhing female tb
fupport her extraordinary fplendour, yet they were
to be told that the Lady was not liable to pay
her own debts, not that the had not the means,
but that the had not the inclination to difcharge
them. The defence to be Pet up was, that the was
a married woman ; he did not believe that the ever
was married, becaufe it would be a libel upon her
to fuppofe it; it would be to prefume that the had
been with every body, and any body, but her huf-
band, and that the had been every thing, and any
thing, but a dutiful wife. It was to be faid, that
after the had contraaed this dcbt as a tingle woman,
of the Beat ton, the tricked a foldier defined for fo-
reign fersice into the nuptial contra& If the for-
Ler conjeCture were a libel, this would be a calumny
yet more ittfupportable to her. The firft would be
only to fuppofe that the had infringed upon the fanc-
tity of the marriage bond ; but this would be to ima-
gine that the, a fplendid ornament of this opulent
city, attracting all eyes by her Rile and magnificence,
fhould profane the marriage inftitution—thould for
a moment connect herfelf with a man with whom
the was determined never to have any future inter.
courfe, in order to defraud her creditors of their juR
demands. it was true that (uch a defence did ap-
pear on the Learned CounfePs brief, but be mutt
perfuade himfelf that his inftruftions were erroneous,
and that the Gentleman by whom they were prepa•
red had been deluded into a belief of what was a
moral, it not a phyfical impotlibility.
Mr. Jolly, Clerk to Madam Lancheßer, proved
the order for the goods, and its execution, and fur.
ther the delivery of an acceptance for the amount,
with a promifelof payment. The lady faid the
thould leave town, and depofit the money in the hands
of her fervant foi the difcharge of the bill.
The ATTORNEY GEN mu. faid, that his defence
was in a (mall compafs, but it would be found to
be complete and fatisfaClory. He Arnold prove that
his client was married, and it would be teen that
Madame Lanchefter had not much reafon to corn.
plain ; the knew the way of life to which the defen-
dant was devoted, and all the rifles incident to filch
a fituation.
William Mills depofed, that the defendant was
married to William Norman, at Ealing, in Oanber
iaos ; her name was Crelfwell ; the witneis was her
relation, and gave her away at the ceremony.
Mr. GARROW—" You were very extravagant to
give away fo valuable a commodity ; how came you
poffeffed of it, fo that you had it in your power to
confer fo diftinguithed a favour 1"--44 A. I was at
the houfe prior to the marriage."
g, Was it a long courtship?"—A. 84 I do not
know."

66 Who is he ?"—A. '4 I cannot tell."
(Z... 66 What is bis employment ?"—A. 41 He is a
gentleman."
Q. 44 What fort of a gentleman ? What and where
is ba,,—A. 6, I have not Peen him for a year and
a half." _ _

Q._ •• How vouch were you paid for aging as fa.
there for the dile/large of this tender paternal duty:
we want to know the regular price of (bele things?"
—A. " 1 do not know what it is."

Mr. Denman, another witnefs, laid that he had
Peen William Norman in Anglia lel, after his deli-
very from the King's Bench.
The plaintiff was nonfuited.

COIL/WM/I V. TOME.

This cafe was tried before a Special Jury, and was
defcribed ki Mr. Pa ILICE as an at-lion to recover the
amount of a policy of infurance on fome goods Blip-
ped on board the Mary, from London to Leghorn.
The Plaintiff, in z Bos, having occallon to go to Italy,
put on board tits Mar 2 fmall adventure, and ern-
barked hitnfelf. The ip left the Thames on the
2
I Ith of May, 1802, add in going up the Bay of Bif-
cay the experienced v y bad weather, fo bad indeed
as induced the Capt ,he having no alternative be-
tween the lois of the Oil, and making for the near.
eft port, to bear lip r Corunna. He was however,
baffled in getting In ere, but proceeded to reach Fer-
rol, where the thip. rived on the sd of June, tiloz.
The las, of whit the Plaintiff complained, took
place after the veff was in Ferrel: The Cullom-
hqufe and Board o ealth Officers Came on board,
and told Captain khe mai* * * out a manifell
of the cargo. TM Captaia fs, •ft+l4 was impodibic
f
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for him to do fo, as he had figned a manifeft to the'
(Ale effe& at the Cullom bode in Londen, and did,
nut intend to break bulk in Ferrol, or to trade in any;
way. He was told there was a pofitive order by the'
Xing of Spain for his making a manifeft, though it
was a mere matter of form, and accordingly Captain I
Silk put down a number of packages, &c. to which he
could not fwear, and kept the Plaintiff going kack.. I
ward and forward to the Governor, till at length the i
(hip and car go were feized and condemned by tome
Judge, not a Judge of the SpaniQs Court of Admi.
ra'ty, but by a Judge created for the purpofe. • He
underflood that it was meant to be urged in defence 1
of the underwriters, that the fhip had deviated in her
voyage ; as, iftllead of paging the Streights of Gib.
raltar, and navigating the Mediterranean to Italy,
he had flopped at Ferrol. Such a deviation, how.
steer, Mr. Parke contended, was legal, and jullified
by various precedents. The fait was, that in the
Bay of Bifcay the lea made breaches over the veffel
every minute. and it was abfolutely necelrary, for the
Caving of the lives of the people, that the went into
Ferrol. It was alfo to be urged in defence, that
this deviation took place for purpofes of fmuggling,
but both of thefe charges, he trufted, he fhould prove
to be unfounded.

The fira withers was a man named Sherriff, who
proved the fignature of Mr. Butler, Mr.Toufc's agent,
to the policy of infurance.
Mr. Courteen, jun. was next examined. He was!
attorney for his father in the caufe, and prefented
the policy of infurance to. Mr. Toufe. He under.:
went a long crofs examinatioa. by Mr. GALLIA'', re-i
finding a letter he had received from his father,
while at Ferrol. The witnefs laid he'had it not, but
had fent it to his mother loon after he received ir, and
it wastherefore either loft or dearoyed. Mr. G. hated
its contents to the witnefs, and afked him whether k
did not Rate that his adventure of knives, razors,
and fciffars, had met with a good market, and had
yielded him a profit of thirty or forty yer cent. The
witnefs anfwered, itio filch thing ; quite the re
verfe." He was afked whether or not his father, in
his letter, expretted a with to have authority from
the other Ihippers of goods on board the Mary, to
fell the cargo at Ferrol, as he Paid he could do fo
to great advantage. The witnefs replied in the ne-I
gative.
Captain Silk, of the Mary. proved that the (hip
had been compelled, through firefs c,f weather, to
enter Ferrol. acrd upon no other account.
Mr. CARLOW addreffed the Jury on behalf of the
Defendant. He Paid his Learned Friend, Mr. Parke,
had fitggefled various defences for his client, for
which he was highly obliged to him. He, however,
had a plain trait forward anfwer to this cafe, which
was very different. This anfwer was, that the PlAin-
tiff had futlained no damnification ; he did n..t fell
a part, but the whole of his adventure, and made a
profit upon it of from 30 to 4o per cent. TN illuitrate
theft fats Mr. C. read the letter of the Defendant
to his fon, dated from Ferrol, which correfpondei
with Mr. G.'s Ratement. To prove this, he called
two brothers, Jofeph and Timothy Healey, the latter
f whom (wore, that his adventure on board the
Mary amounted to ir,oool. They defctibed the let.
ter read by young Courteen from his father at Fer-
rol, as breathing good tidings, and being altogether
tatisfaelory, It turned out that !the cutlery fold by
Mr. C. fen. had been depofited in the cabin, not un-
der the hatches, and that it had been taken alhore by
the Officers of the Revenue.

After a reply from Mr. PARK', who put it to the
Jury, whether they could believe the evidence of the
Healey:, who had defcribed fa& after a lapfe of five
years, and a half, and a brief addrefsfrom Lord EL•
LENDOROUGH, the Jury retired for about twenty five
minutes, and returned a verdid for the Plaintiff—
Damages 771.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC.'9.
BAILEY U. HARRISON.

This was an affirm refpeling the warranting of a
horfe, and was brought to recover the furn of 301.
paid to the Defendant, for one warranted found.
Mr. SerjeantVauo HAN Rated the cafe for the Plai-
ntiff. The .tervant of the Defendant was riding a beau-
tiful bode in appearance, which (truck the fancy of
his client, and he enquired whether it was to be fold?
The fervant gave the direlion of his mailer, and a
bargain was ltruck, whereby the Plaintiff was to re•
ceive the Defendant's bode on condition of paying
him 301. which he did by check on his banker, and
giving him to boot another bode of the value of aol
—The horfe, however, as it turned out afterwards,
-was a roarer, and he was fent back—but the Defen-
dant refufed to receive him, alledging that he had
never warranted him, and that the Plaintif knew he
was given to roaring.
Mr. Morley (the gentleman mentioned in the lan
trial) proved the admitlion of the Defendant, as to
his having warranted the boric. This he had done
under an idea that the Plaintiff was going to fell him
to Mr. Morley.
The other fats were proved, and alto that the di,F,
cafe is an incurable one.

Mr. Serjeaat Cocitsti, for the Defendant, called
a witaefs of the name of Fowler, fervant to the De-
fendant, who denied pofitively the warranting. He
Anted that be was met &ortly after, on BlacktriAt's-
bridge, by the Plaintiff, who hid " Your mailer and
you have done me finely with this boric," on which
he was riding. The plaintiff, however, did not im-
pute either to the witnefs or his mailer, that they had
warranted the bode as found. He declared he did
not know whether the horfe was a roarer or not,
though he admitted he made a great noire ; and alfo
admitted, that he had been acquainted with the bode
fence be was a boy. He denied that his mailer is a
bode dealer, though he confeffed, when welled very
hard, that he had fold and bought nine or ten horfas
within four months.

Sir JAMIE MANSFIELD obferved, that unlefa the
Jury dilbelieved the evidence of Mr. Morley, they
mull find a verdia for the Plaintiff.

The Jury accordingly found a yerdid far the Mu-
ff for pl.

The Scots Mafons have (hewn sore than the nfual
complaifance of their country, in having elated the
Nimes of WALE' to be their Grind Matter, although
his Royal Highads does not even belong to the lia.
ternity.. . . _

Can; 144 lately mentioned to have been detained
at Padliow, on fufpicion of (windling• has been dif-
*barged, as no perfon appeared againit him.

DIVIDENTUI.

December sy. James Willis, of Pudding-lane, London, merchant,
at eleven, at GuildhalL
Dec. ty. John William Page, now or late of Wood Brest, London,
merchant, at ten, at Guildhall.
Dec. sB. John Batty Take, of Beverley, Yorkibite, banker and
merchant, at eleven, at the George Inn, Whitsfriargate, King
fton upon Hull.
Dee. rE ames Huddleften. of Leicefter, vidtualler, at the Plough
I Inn, Hinkley, I.eicefterfhire.
Dec. sr. John Motley, of Suwardftonc, ECM, miller, at ten, at
Guildhall, London.
Dee. is. Mary Williams, of Milk•ftreet, London, victualler, at

ten, at Gni!dial'.
Dee as. Brough Maltby and George Maltby, df the Old Jewry,
London at ten at Guildhall.
Dec. ts. James Redpath, late of Deptford Btidge, Kent, upholder,
at ten, at Guildhall, Loudon.
Dec. 18. John Wood, late of Hesham, Northtimberland, currier,
at eleven, at the Shakekeare Tavern, Ntweaftle upon Tyne
Dec. as., John Simmons, Makin Simmons and William Simmons,
all of Liverpool, merchants and copartners, at eleven, at the
George Inn, Dale ftreet, Liverpool.
Dee as. George Evans, late of Wefthoughton, Lancaihire. coal
merchant, at eleven, at the Black Hark Inn, Bohcm le Moors.
Dec as. Thomas 1' ite, late of Davcntry, Northamptonihire,
audtioneer and liquor merchant, at ten, at the Wuolpack lan,

• Warwick.
Dec tB. Alexander Pain, of Stow on the Wold, Gloucefteriltire
_ _

draper, at eleven, at the Unicorn Inn, Moreton in Mirth.
Dee tB. Thomas Ward, of Shipiton upon Stour, "Woreeßerthire,
haberdather at eleven, at the Unicorn Inn, Moreton in Mares.
Dec. 15. Arthur lone., late of Montgomery, tanner, at eleven, at
the Crofs Totes, Montgomery.
Dec. 14. Henry Martin, late of the Crefcen6 London, merchant,
at eleven, at Guildhall.
Dec. ss. John Whateley, late of Banklde, St Saviottes,Southwark,
colour snamlfadturer, at ten, at Guildhall.
Dec. 19 Thomas Raine and George Mackey, of Greenwich, Kent
thip owners, lightermen and copartners. at ten, at Guildhall
Dee. 22. Robert Richards, of Mill lane,Tooley Rreet,Southwark,
cyder-merchar.t, at ten. at GuildhalL