Star.
London, England, 1802-01-27 00:00:00

CONTIMPT OF COURT.

In the Cafe of an Officer in the Navy who had
refitted the Officers of the Sheriff when they catne
to arreft one of the Officers on board, and for
which a Motion was made for an Attachment
agathft him,
Mr. Gan Lay, on the part of the Plaintiff faid,
that this Gentleman had paid all coils and charges
in this bufinefs, fo that the Plaintiff had no objec-
tion to dropping the purfuit of it, if the Court were
fatisfied with the apology which he underflood his
Learned Friend, Mr. HOLROYD, was ultimata to
make for the Defendant.

Mr. jtlitiCC GROSE.--" Well, Mr. HOLLOYD,
what have you to fay for your Client ?"
Mr.. 140LROM CAW, that his Client had paid all
colts and charges in this matter. His conduct, he
acknowledged to have been quite improper. He
was blame/echo make a fubmiflion to the Court,
as had been done to the Adiniralty, and he milled
it would be received.

Mi. juilice Glost.—gg Ilope this) and other
Gentlemen, will take warning by this Cafe, and
be convinced that they are not, under any pretence
whatever, to rFfifk the procefs of the law, to which
all elates of his Majeity's fubjeas mull yield a
prompt obedience. If this Motion had been pe,-
fined in, the confequences to this Gentleman
might have been very ferions."
Rule difcharged.

CHARACTER OF RAIL.
In the courfe of juflification of Bail, in which
it was Rated in an affidavit, which was made to
oppofe them, that one bf them had lately been dif-
charged by an Infolvent Aft, and that neither of
them was folvent, as the Deponent was informed
by Acme of the neighbours of the Bail, &c. The
Bail themfelves denied all this, and Avore coil
tively to their poffeffing confidetable property in
the Funds, &c. This was Rated on the part of
the Plaintiff to be a furprize on him, and there-
fore it was requefled, that time should be given to
inquire further into the chara&er of the Bail, but
Mr. Jußice GROS. laid, that thofe.who snake
inquiry into the charatter of Bail, fhould not take
at random what any body might fay to them in the
ftreet, and then.come. forward and make affidavit
of it, for', by this practice, it much too Frequently
happened, that the charallers of men who became
bail for their friends, were grievoufly Pandered.
Thole who made there enquiries, fhould be cauti•
ous of what they (wore to, and take care there was
Tome foundation far that which they Rated as in-
formation froth others. The Learned Judge laid,
he difliked exceedingly the affidavit in this tare,
and for that reafon would not allow any time for
further inquiry upon which the Bail juflified.
THE Enid Si. OR. STEVERSON.
LunArics.-7-This cafe was refpeeting the mo-
tion made lalt Term, for an Flabeas Corpus to be
direEted to Dr. Stevenfon, of Newcaftle. com-
manding hits) m bring into Cottrt Captain Rogers,
lungtic under his care. It had been fliggelled
that this unfortunate perfon was by no means in-
fime, but confined for the fake of his property i—
aticl that Dr. Stevenfort had denied his friends
accers to hiM.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL obferved, that Taft
term the Court had ordered this bufinefs to Rand
over, in order to be informed whether Dr. Steven-
fon's hotife was licenfed—whitt was the real Rate
Of the lunatics health—and what was the fituation
and charader of a perfon of the name of Patter-
ton, who had introduced himfeif to the Court
with the addition of M. D. to his name, importing
he was a regular Phyfician ? It might be recol-
leded his handbill or addrcfs to the Public had
been produced, in which he confidently Rated he
could make the blind fee; the dcalhear, the lame
walk, and the dumb fpeak ; in thort. that I.c could
reftore every fettle though its tile had been long
loft. This Quack DoCtor had made an afficiaTit,
by which it appeared he Was rather afhamcd of
the pan he had taken in the tranfadion itl qua-
, don. Aftcr admitting he had Villted the patient
by the defire of one Adlam, an Attorney, he
added, that he bad taken a place in the machine
from Newcaftle to London, and had fcarcc corn-
Menced the journey, when he law this Adlam
riding on the. out Rde, and Capt. Rogers with him,
behaving in a tumultuous and difarderly manner.
Adlam defired the people not tb tnind him, as he
was only an infane perfon. " Oh ! oh ! is he fo,"
Paid they, o theft he !hall go no farther with us."
The queftion of his expulfion was put to a fum-
mary vote, and the Majority, or rather the
unanithity of voices being againft him, be was
tut-bed out without any more ceremony. The
Gentleman through whole care he had been con-
fined contrived to fecure him win; and took him
aboard his Chip, but this Lunatic had fenfe enough
to watch his opportunity, and call a (culler, with
which he got ashore. He Was again fecured, and
was now in Town, and in no refped under the
controul or coercion of Dr. Stevenfon, confequent-
ly it was imp Able for him to make any return to
the writ of Habeas Corpus, if it was direded to
him. It was neceirary to vindicate Dr. Stevenfon's
charafter, to Rate, that Drs. Ingram and Ramfay
had vilited the Lunatic at his houfe, and had found
him in a very difordtred Rate of 'hind. The Only

imputationagainfl Dr. S. if it could be conliderett
one, was his refuting to let this nsan, of the mini,.
of Adlani, have accefs to him ; he had done o
flow a motive of prudence; conceiving that fucl,
a vilit would diaurb and irritate him.
Mr. Juaice GaosEfaid there was no occafion to
go further into the hittory of the Lunatic—the
queflion was whether the writ ought to be
granted? •
Mr. MENstorr obferved, that the Lunatic w
no longer under Dr. Stevenfon's care, and theze-
fore the fubjeet matter of the prefent motion fu:
an Habeas Corpus was at an end.
The Motion was accordingly difiniffed.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS ACT.

On a queflion, whether a party, who had been
difcharged under the laf Infolvent Debtors Aet,
was difcharged only as to his perfon, but his effeets
were liable for debts which he owed before that
dilcbarge ; or, .whether, on that difcharge, his
goods were free as well as his perfon? an argument
of confiderablc length took place.
The facts are thefe :—The defendant was in-
debted to the plaintiff in 1798, upon which the
plaintiff obtained judgment, but did not charge the
defendant in execution. The defendant was dif-
charged under the late Infolvent Debtors A&.—
After this, the plaintiff revived his judgment by
&Ire Facia:, without any real notice to the de-
fendant, and afterwards iffued execution, and le-
vied upon the goods of the defendant—who now
contends, that this execution was a bad one, for
that both his goods and his perfon were difcharged
by virtue of this Infolvent

The plaintiff contended, that the execution was
a legal execution in this cafe, for that the Infolvent
Debtors Aft difcharged only the perfon of the de-
fendant from the effe& of his debts at the time of
his difcharge, but that his goods were liable to the
payment of his debts.
Mr. Grass contended, that the execution was a
good one, and he faid, that although it was not
always an eafy thing to find fenfe in every claufe
of an Infolvent Debtors Aft, yet it would be pretty
extraordinary if the Legiflature had put thole who
purfued legal diligence for the recovery of their
debts, in a worfe fltuation than thofe who had
neglefted their rights, and had not purfued them
at all, which would be the cafe, if this was a bad
execution, fince it was clear that this plaintiff
would have been entitled to iffue out an execution
againft the goods of this defendant, if he had not
purfued any meafure for the recovery of the debt
before the defendant was difcharged.
Mr. DAMPIER, on the other fide, contended,
that this was a cafe in which the plaintiff had no
merit in his diligence, for the judgment was figned
in 1798, and revived byfiire fi 41 and fecund,
returned nail, behind the back of the defendant,
, but by which the judgment was revived, a thing
labfolutely indifpenfable wheh the judgment be-
came above a year old; and after the defendant
Was difcharged by the aft, his goods were, on a
fudden, taken ih execution. It WAS true he might
be let in to plead, and put this queftion in Wile;
but to be let in to plead without a reiloration of
the goods upon which the execution was levied,
was a hard meafure, for, by this ftep,the defendant
had been for a fecond time, abfolutely, as he fwore,
reduced to beggary. He contended, that the laik
Aft for the difcharge of Infolvent Debtors, upon
the fair conftruaion of it, tnynt, that when any
man had the benefit of it, he was not only dif-
charged in his perfon, but every aftion, like the
prefent, purfuedagainft him, before his difcharge,
was likewife at an end ; fo that neither his effeds
nor his perfon could be agaih taken in execution
for any fuch :talons before his difcharge.
Mr. Jutlice Geost faid, it teemed to him that
the belt way to meet the juftice of this cafe, was
tb let the defendant in to plead, if he should be fo
advifed, not to order the plaintiff to reftore the
goods, for that he trout dt, and a good deal
more, if the iffue fhould be found againffhim. The
Learned Judge faid, he did not pretend to be tho..
roughly poffetted of the meaning of the Legiflatore
in every claufe of this Aft of Parliament, but he
had been concerned in the difcharges of many fort,
Toners under thein, and he had always underftood
that the peribn alone was difcharged by them,but
that the effeas were liable; how ever, the defendant
(hould have an opporrtmity of pleading in this cafe,
if lie Ihould be fo advifed, and that would draw
the whole queltioft into difcutLon.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 26.
HARRIS V. LEUTHWAITE.

It appeared that an a,grcement had been made
lietween the Plaintiff and Captain Leuthwaite, de.
ceakci, to whom theDetendant WasExeeutor, that
the deceafed should take out to the Mediterranean
certain goods boiliffit by
,the Plaintiff, which the
former was to fell to the belt advantage, and was
to (Imre the profit with the Plaintiff. Goods ahich
had been purchased by the Plaintiff to the amount
of taco!. were (hipped on this account on board
the veffel commanded by Captain Leuthwaite.—
Upon Captain Leuthwaite's return to Porrfmouth,
after completing his voyage, the Plaintiff fent
down a perfon to hith, to whom the Captain ad-
mitted that he had fold a part of the goods, and
Paid, he would very (Portly pay the Plaintiff what
was due to him out of the money he had received
on account of the goods, and give himthe account
of the whole ; but the next day he was taken ill,
and died in a Veil, few days afterwards.
This Aaion was brought againft the Defendant
as Executor of Captain Leuthwaite, to recover the
value of the goods. It appeared, however, that
the Vail in queftion was the Ifabella tra.niport,
hired by Government, and employed in the tranf.
port fervice, Which Leuthwaite the deceafed com-
manded, and that part of the goods in queltion
were aanally put on board as flues ftorcs.
One of the Owners of the Tranfport Rated, that
the veffel was entirely let to Government, and that
according to the rules of the Tranfport Service,
the Commander could not take out in her any
goods whatever fur the purpofe of felling them.
Lord ALVA SILE y being clearly of opinion that
the whole tranfaaion was clandeftine and illegal,
:tied that the Plaintiff had therefore no right to re-
cover, the Plaintiff'3 Cotrofel contented to a no".
fuita

FIRES.
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Satlirday INVOThing early a bottle was burnt male
ground, and another much darnigcci, by acciden-
tal fire, near Swan-ftrect, Mitu.ries.

Two firec took place at Worce during tin
Lift week, in confequence of the card:An-N.l, of
fel-wants.

On Saturday morning, between twelve and one
o'clock, an alarming tire broke nut in the Shop-
ping of Mr.llterry,brafs-founder and piastre-frame -
maker, in CherrySlrect, at the back of the hind,
Birmingham, which entirely confirmed the whole
rant'e, together with a cptaittity of finithed and
unfinilbed goods, to the ;mono, we underaand,
of upwards of Sod. This accident is aferibed to
the carelefrnefs of one of Coe woa kmcn not putting
the fires properly out.

The following daring roY)ery was committed
nn Thurfday evening tall, in the pirifh of Slang
ham :—As Mr. Cr: mix, a mailer warrener, was
without fide his 'souk, putting up his window
thutters he was acentled by two men, who de.
manded of him, whether any perfon was within
his houfe ? On his anfwering, that could be no
bufinefs of theirs, and atking whether they meant
to rob him ? one of them replied, that they were
effne for that purpofe; and inftantly fcizing him
by the collat, dragpcd him into the bottle, and,
with prefentd pith is, robbed him of forty pounds
in ca fh ; took feveral articles of plate from a cup
board in the kitchen, and two guineas from a fcr-
vant maid, with all of which thy), made off.

On Sunday night, or early on Monday morninl.,
the houfe of M. Ackley, in Wood-(tree:, Cheap.
fide, was entered by time thieves, and robbed of
articles of plate and other property, is the amount
of so.
A few evenings lime, as Mr. Burtrtn, of New.
ington, was on his way home, he was flopped on
the Grange road, leading into Kenr road, by three
refolnte men, whn tobb...d. him of what money hr
had about him, and hills of exchange to a large
amount, with which they retreated into the ad-
joining fields.
Monday evening as Mr. Kenton, of Winchefler.
*feet, London Wall, was returning to Town in a
porl.chaife, he was flopped by three footpads, near
Kennington Common, Om ',fed the mon blaf-
phemotts expreflions to intimidate him to make a
quick delivery of his moiler, which amounted to
near ten pounds, which having obtained, they ran
off with their booty acrofs the fields.
On Sunday evening, about (even o'clock, as the
Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Piccadilly, in company with
Mr. Smart, of Oxford-fireet, were travelling, it
the Doaor's carriage through a place called the
Neckinger, by the Bermondfey-mad, they were
attacked by four footpads; two of whom held the
!loges heads, while the other two opened the dcors
of the carriage, prcfented two piliols, and robbed
them of theircafh, notes, and their wa,ehes.

A few nights lance Mr. Herbert Burrifon, of
Leonard-Rivet, Shoreditch, in company with his
wife and mother, were flopped by fix footpads near
Peckham Gap, on the Greenwich Road, who were
all armed with bludgeons; two of them ufed the
Inott bLafphemous language and threats, and drew
knives, the other fair held Mrs. Burrifon, Mr. B.'s
mother, and Paid, if there were not fufficient pro-
perty for them, they would murder them all ; they
proceeded to examine their pockets, and they took
the contents from them all. They then laid they
would have Mr. B.'s cloath%, but he refolutely re-
futing to (trip, they gave up their demand and
made off.

At the late Quarter Seffions for Norwich, the
Court was moves to quafh an order of banardy,
which had been made on an opulent farmer in that
county. From the evidence of the mother, it ap-
pears The had been a fervant to the farmer (who
has a wife and feveral children) ; that (he had
been reduced by him, and that on her being oblig-
ed by her pregnancy to quit her fervice, flue had
been induced, by his promife and entreaties, to
Areal. the child to another perfon, for which pur.
pore he took her to a Magifiraie. After the, child
bad been (worn, the former placed the mother at a
midwife's at Norwich, where he paid her boitrd and
lodging, and fupplied her with ;he then pre-
vailed on her to go to Wifbeach to Ray a couple of
snonths, in order that the child's age might be
mifreprefented to the perfon to whom h was fwom.
The mother, fhocked at the enormity of the crime
The had been induced to commit, went to the Ma-
Filtrate, and Rated the faits to him : under his
direeion,the child was re-fworn at Norwich againfi
the farmer, and an order iffued on him to pay for
its ofupport. Several attempts were made by the
farmer to invalidate the teihmony produccdagainft
him, but the Court confirmed the'brder.

THE BARBER'S SONG.
PA CK WOOD'S Pafte, Sir, Ital Strop,
1 adopt in my atop ;
Hunting Razors corneas pat as they eau g
Mark wen the Cutkr's fears
When Taylors whet their alters,
Ott Packwoop's Razor Strop—hes your Was !

.The Counting-houfe Penknife, whetted on one
et PACK WOODS Strops, will experience a pentive
proof of their fuperior excellence, and give a keen
edge to a razor to shave to admiration. The
Strops arc fold for 3s. 6d. 3s. and 10S. U. each;
Boxes of Page, red and black, 2s. 6d. each ; to
repair and keep the Strops in order for years. If
not approvedon trial, to return the money within one
week after purchafe. Sold in London by Mr. Lo ee,
No. ;2, Haymarket ; Meas. Hendries and Sons,
middle of Shug-lane ; Meas. Rowneys, No. 95,
Holborn-bal ; Mr. Sizeland, No. 2, Vere-ftreet,
Cavendilh-fquare ; Mr. Vickery, Taviftock-Ilreet ;
and by moil of the principal Perfumers in Town
and Country ;—and, wholcfale and retail, by Mr.
s7tnntons, Dublin ; and Mr. &sebum, Edinburgh.
Hunting Razors Crowed 'with a guard to prevent
cutting. To prove their Web a Gentleman bas
6.mA-with one of them on horfeback— an acqui-
titian for timid &avers, or thofe troubled with a
nervous complaint. Price al: r as. 6d. The Ra-
zt.rs arc fold only by Mr. Pafilarood, No. z 6,
Gracechurcit-ikettp London.

From the LONDON GAMY", fa. 16.

MILITAILY PROMOTIONS.

WAR-nrrict, JANUARY 26.
Royal Regiarci:t of Horfe Cuards.--Cortict Brotherton Browne
to he Liva.nant, by purehafe, vice Fofter, who retires;
!;corze Berkeley, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchafe, vice

Brun re.
t it Regiment of Dragnana--Cornet Peter Hawiaer to be Lieu-
yam. hy pure:rife, vice Wright, promoted in the Goth Foot.
21 t Rrgu it lit of Light Dragoons—l .ieutettatt Caleb tinder-
wood, frinn the half-pay of the Lite yyth Foot, to be Lieu-

tenant, vier P. atee, who exchanges.
tit RegitiLmt of Foot Guartla--joreph I.Uuteur, Gent. to he
Evl.7ii, in r:reliafc, vice Clifton, promoted.
37th Bcfritneot d.t kont—titirTeon George Hreherley, from the
jdl %V.eli 11.414 Itcgintent, to be Surgeon, vice Burke, pro-

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mood.
4:' :)itta--I.icetenant Junes Walker to be Adjutant, vice
Frafer, promo.. d.
In Welt lutist Regiment—F.nfign Henry Holebrooke to be
larUtenallt. vice Byrne, decoded; Volunteer James qttin,
from the 9th Welt India Regiment, to be Enfign, vice Hole-

- -
Groat.
Ditty—Antant-Surreen William K;vg, from the both Foot,
to he Swg •rn, 'eke Heatherley, removed to the 3,th Foot.
7th Ditto-.!:nEbm Sar.mel Watts, from the t tth Weft India
Reglat,nt, to be F.nlign, vice Egan, who exchanges.
&It bete'ldentenalt (.1....r1es Carlton Kennett, from the 7th
Livia Dra,;oons, to be Captain, by porch:de, vice Cooke,
. .

. .
who retire'. .
r tat Ditto-44410 Tam I Lirriott to he Licutenant,vice
deceakd ; Samuel lA'atts, Cent. to be I ailign, 'dee Harriott ;
Etlign 'Montag Iran, from the 7th Wept India Regiment,
to be Enfign, rice Watts, who exchangts.
HOSPITAL STA'.

Apothecary Wareup to be Garrifon Surgeon In the
Masa of Martinique, vice Thompfon, promoted.
Surgeon W. A. Burke, from the 3;th Foot, to be Apothecary
to the Force.. vice Warcup. promoted,
York Regiment of Fcncible Infantry.
Captain Lieutenant Frederick Toinkins, on the half-pay of the
late Royal trill' Artillery, to he Lieutenant, vice Laudon,
whofc appointment has not taken place.
C. nrnidions in the Third (cr Lanark) Regiment
of North Britifh Militixr signed by the Lord
Leutetiant.

Erlign Andrzw Engle to be Lieutenant, vice Bores, rerigned.
D 'red Oc:ober s 4, allot.
Dog dd lobo Campbell, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Aknoder
I familton, rifigned. Dated November 14. aoz.
Colin lirnalNni, (hut. tq.be Enka, vice Boit; promoted.
bawd December 24, egoi.

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MARRIED.
On die Ath MI at Chifarlek,by the Rev. Mr. Trebezk,Ull
Hans Ayton, Erg. of Macclesfield. to Mifs Thonvfon, young&
daughter of John Thornpfon, Efq. of Chifwiek.

DIED.
'Venetia'', at the houfe of Mr. Coutts, in Piccadilly, the
infant, and only fon of the Earl of Guildford.
On Wahiertiay iaR, at his honfe in Southampton-row, aged
6.5. the Rev. Samuel Berdmore, D. D. who for twcmy..two years
was Mailer of the Charter Hoofe School.
On Friday, at his houre in %seen Ann-ftreet, Weft, John
Lfq. of Aftrop-honfc, Northamptonfhire.
On Monday fe'nnight, at Uttoleter, Mrs. Rayne !TM of
the late Rich. Hayne, Elfg. of Athborne-green ikerbyfitire.
On the 3cth ult. after only two days abets, Maitcr William
I Whittingftall, aged fix years and iix months, only child
of William Whitthigilall, Erg. of Histlderdon,- Hens.
0,1 Friday WI, at his honk, in Baker-ftreet,Portmaraguare,
in his lijd year, the Rev. Edward Lockwood, of Dews Hall,
[Arc a.

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