Star.
London, England, 1813-01-30 00:00:00

Ldlff INTBLLIGENCE.

ADMIRALTY COURT.
Yesterday the argument on the licences granted
by Admiral &swim's, and delivered by Mr. ALLEN,
British Consul, at Boston, came on before the Ad-
miralty Court, when Sir CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON Was
heard against the validity of these licences, and Doc-
tors HRRBZRT and ARNOLD, with Mr. LUSHINGTON,
in support of them. The first contended, that the
Admiral could not sanction the trade beyond the
limits of his command, and it was also urged, that
the licences had been made a common article of sale,
from 500 to 3000 dollars each, in perversion of the
design with which they were conceded. The other
Learned Civilians insisted, that these licences were
granted according to established custom, and that
their authority could not be questioned or contra-
vened.—Sir WILLIAM ScoTt postponed the decision
until the next Court day.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 29.
At the sitting of the Court, Tuos. La BLANC, Esq.
Barrister at Law, took the usual oaths and his seat
below the Bench, as Second Master of the Plea Side

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of the Court, in room of FREDERICK GROVES, Esq.

INTILRESTING MERCANTILE DECISION.
SNAITH W. DIANOAY.
"This was a special argument reserved on a case
which had been before a Jury, who found-for the
plaintiff, to ascertain whether Bills of Exchange,
amounting to some £4,300, were really Irish bills of
exchange, and therefore correct in being drawn on
Irish sumps, or whether they were not made Eng-
lish bills of exchange by being filled up in England
by. an agent.
Mr. NOLAN argued in support of the verdict,
stating the circumstances of the case. The bills had
been drawn at Waterford, in Ireland, and transmit-
ted to the agents in England, who filled up the
blanks for the sums, the dates, and the names of the

drawers. These bills, being to all intents and pur-
poses Irish bills, were drawn on Irish stamps; but
the defendant wished to contend that they were Eng-
lish bills, and that, therefore, they were not good in
law, as they were on Irish stamps ; but that argu.
ment was neither founded in the reason of the case,

nor on the law and decisions on the subject. (Vide
Russel v. Langstaff, &c.) They had been com-
pleted in England it was tlue, but had they not ob-
tained the characters of bills of exchangein Ireland ?
What had been done in England was by agency, and
in completion of what had been commenced in Ire-
land ; and therefore they were Irish bills, and the
parties were justified by the terms of the Stamp Acts,
by the reason of the case, and by former decisions on
the law of the subject, in drawing them on Irish
stamps. To sbew that they were Irish bills, and that
they would be considered as such by Courts of Law,
he would ask, whether in the event of the parties
dying, their assets would not be liable to pay ? The
Learned Counsel, therefore, submitted, that the ver-
dict for the plaintiffs ought to be confirmed, that
the bills were donaide and legally Irish bills of ex-
change ; and he could not but observe, if the law
should be held to be otherwise, how much confu-
sion must thereby be introduced into the mercantile
world.
Mr. ScaItLETT argued against the verdict, contend.
ing that a bill of exchange could not be such until it
bad all the essential parts of a bill of exchange, and
that in the present case, all the essential parts of such
instruments had been supplied in England, and that,
therefore, the bills were English bills, and as such
ought to have English stamps. Had not the bills
been virtually drawn in England ? for, until a bill
had the name of the drawer, the date, and the sum,
it could be no bill. Blanks had been sent from Ire-
land with the signatures of the person by whom they
purported to be drawn ; but in England had been
made passable bills of exchange. As that was the
case, they ought to have had English stamps, and
not Irish stamps ; and in not having English stamps
they were invalid in law.
Lord ELLErtaonouutt held, that the agent must
follow the act of the principal. If the bill was drawn
on an Irish stamp, dated from an Irish place of resi-
dence, it assumed the features of an Irish bill ; and
it was not in the power of the agent to contravene the
intentions of the principal, except by altering the
place of residence, in striking out the Irish place of
abode, and dating the bill from some English place.
No such alteration had taken place in the present in.
stance, the agent had acted as the functionary of the
individuals who had the bill. The functionary had
only perfected what had been begun by the principal,
therefore the act must be taken as the act of the princi-
pal. The agent had only sent it forth in a more Fertect
form ; but after such filling up, it was, to all intents
the same bill, and therefore in being an Irish bill,
the parties were justified in haviw drawn it on an
Irish stamp. The filling up wasimerely putting the
bill into a more perfect form ; and whether that were
done by the principal or by the agent, it was exerci-
sing the discretion of the principal.- It then must be
considered as an Irish bill of exchange to all intents
and purposes.
Mr. Justice GROSE and Mr. Justice LE BLANC coin-
cided in opinion with the Lord Chief Justice.
Mr. Justice BAILEY also agreed in opinion with the
other Judges, observing, that the only act which
pledged the Irish House had been done in Ireland ;
and that the bill must therefore be an Irish bill of
exchange in every point of view. To carry this opi-
nion further, for the purpose of shewing the clear-
ness of the law on the subject, he had no difficulty in
saying, that had the parties in Ireland whohad drawn
the bills died, that their assets would have been lia-
ble, bad demand been made for payment of these
bills.—The verdict for the Plaintiff was accordingly
confirmed.

SCHOOLMASTERS.
DOE ON THE DEMISE OF BISH, v. KEELEY.

This was also a special case for argument. The
lessor, of the Plaintiff, Bish, had demised by lease
for 14 years, a house and certain premises, situate
on Richmond Green, to Lady Georgiana Macneil.
The lease contained a covenant, by which the tenant
was restrained from erecting any additional build-
ings, from using the premises as a shop or shops,
from exercising, or suffering to be exercised, any
trade or business, and from permitting any public
sale or sales, by auction, &c. upon the premises,
without the license of the landlord, under certain
penalties. Lady Georgiana Macneil disposed of
her interest to the present Defendants who was a

tachoolmister, and kept a boys' school upon the pre-
mises ; and the questioa was, whether the occupa-1
den of. a schoolmaster .came within the meaning TX.
the words trade or business," contained in this
covenant?

Mr. BOLLAND, for the Plaintiff, contended that
in true contemplation of this covenant, the business
of a schoolmaster came within its meaning. And
although a person exercising the business of a school-
master did not come within the provisions of the
bankrupt laws, yet, according to the terms of this
covenant, it was such a trade or business as was in
the contemplation of the lessor, in making this pro-
vision in the lease, the object of the lessor being to
preserve the premises from unnecessary dilapidations,
and prevent any trade or business from being carried
on, which might cause an inconvenience, or annoy-
ance to the neighbourhood. The Defendant cer-
tainly had not erected any show-board, or any thing
on the exterior of the house, to denote that he kept a
school, but soon after taking the premises, he issued
his cards, and now kept a school of between 50 and
60 boys, boarders and day scholars, and it certainly
could not be contended that boys were the least mis-
chievous animals of the creation. He had searched
for authorities, but Could not find any in point, it
was therefore a novel case, and in deciding the ques-
tion. the Court would take the whole context and
meaning of the covenant into their consideration.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, on the other side, observed, that
the question was, whether the Plaintiff had guarded
himself sufficiently by this covenant, and contended
that the business of a schoolmaster could not be con-
sidered as coming within the meaning of this clause,
which only contemplated a trade or business in the
general acceptation of the term. The Court was
bound to construe all covenants of this kind most
strictly as against the covenanter, and they would
not give it that extension contended for by his
Learned Friend. He would suppose this Defendant
to have but one scholar, or a child whom he thought
proper to educate, it could not therefore be contend-
ed that he was a trader. As well might it be con-
tended, that a miniature-painter, or even a special
pleader, was a trader.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH.--« I should rather think
that just before the Essoin day of Term, his neigh-
bours would think a Special Pleader a most trouble-
some annoyance. I can have no doubt but that this
is such a trade cr business as comes fully within the
meaning and contemplation of the covenant. Fathers
families very well know, in holiday time, what a
great annoyance even three or four boys are in a
house, much less 50 or 60. But it is said he makes
no show. lam rather inclined to think 50 or GO
boys, playing in the court-yard of a house, is a very
terrible shtw in a peaceable neighbourhood. Can
any body then say, that this is not a business, and
such a one, as above all others, would leave the pre-
mises in a state requiring greater reparations than
any other that can well be imagined. I think it is
clearly within the scope of the intention of the party
making this covenant, and certainly falls within the
niscbief which this covenant was meant to prevent."
—Judgment for Plaintiff.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Several persons confined for debt were brought up
to be discharged out of custody, under the Lords'
Act. Many of them were opposed; among whom
,was a ycung woman, a widow, of the name of Sarah ,
Shearman. On her examination by the Counsel who
opposed her, it turned out that she was entitled to a
certain property, under and by virtue of the last will
and testament of a gentleman of the name of Squire,
late of New Inn, deceased, in case she should survive
her son, now an infant, and which property was not
i mentioned in her schedule ; she was, therefore, re-
manded until Monday next, in order that she should
have the opportunity of inserting whatever right she
may have in that property in her schedule.
J. Taylor was also opposed, on the ground that he
had not put in his schedule the goods, furniture, and
stock in trade which he had in his house and premises
at Newington-green before he went to prison. On his
examination, it appeared, that until the period of his
being arrested and sent to jail, he kept a public-
house, known by the name of the Coach and Horses,
at Newingtontreen, and also a butcher's shop ad-
joining ; but that, being indebted in a considerable
sum to his brewer, he had made over the whole of
the property in the said premises, by deed of assign-
ment, to that brewer, as a security towards dischar-
ging his claim ; and that he, the defendant, had
,no more interest whatsoever either in the public-
house or yet in the butcher's shop adjoining ; in ad-
dition to which, he further deposed, that if the whole
were sold under such assignment, it would not,even
then, produce sufficient to discharge 'the brewer's
debt, which was very heavy.
Mr. Justice LE BLANC expressed his opinion, that
this was a property which the prisoner could not have
put into his,schedule, being actually and bona fide as-
signed, before imprisonment, to his brewer, as a se-
curity for monies previously due ' • and he directed
that he should be discharged, and he was discharged'
accordingly.
A person of the name of Humphries was next op.
posed by Mr. ESPINASSE, on the ground that, not be-
ing charged in execution at the plaintiff's suit, he
was premature at present in seeking. the benefit of
the Lords' Act, until that event of being charged in
execution should take place.
Mr. Justice La BLANC here desired that the copy
of the warrant in the jailor's possession, by virtue of
which he was detained, might be read, and it was
read accordingly, by which it appeared that the de-
fendant was taken upon a writ of caftias ad :ad:facie*.
dutn, returnable on the last day of last Term, and,
that he has continued ever since in custody under
that writ.
Mr. ESPINASSE then contended, that the mere tak. '
ing under that writ was not sufficient to entitle the
defendant to sue for the benefit of the Lords' Act.
But the Court held otherwise ; and
Mr. Justice LE BLANC observed, that the very tak-
ing under the warrant was in itself a charging in exe-
cution, conformable to the letter and spirit of that
Act, and directed that he should be discharged, and
he also was immediately discharged out of custody.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JANUARY ES.
YEATS V. HEALING.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an
Attorney, residing at Gloucester, to recover ,81 1, for
uu,iness which he had been authorized to transact.
l'ot: question was, whether he had received any au-
thority for bringing an action, by which the present

claim had arisen. The facts were : A widow, named
Healing, living at Appleby, was desirous of obtain.
ing an account of the debts due from the estate of
her deceased husband, in order that the executors
might settle as early as possible with all parties. Ft
that purpose she applied to a person named Newn•
ham, who went to the plaintiff. After some conver.
sation on the subject, Mr. Yeats told him that he
could not act in this business without some authority
from the widow. Newnham, consequently, went
back to Mrs. Healing, and obtained from her the
following note, to be presented to the creditors :
" Sir—l will be obliged to you if you will be 90 good as to
write dawn the small bill which my husband, J. Healing, was
Indebted to you. " Mrs. Healing, of Appleby:*
The plaintiff, in consequence of the above, went
round to all the creditors, produced the note, and
Wd they would put their names, and the amount
eir debts, merely for the purpose of having the
same paid immediately. The several creditors put
their signatures to the paper, which had the following
words written at the top :
" We do hereby severally authorize Mr. Yeats, of
Gloucester, to support our several demands of the
Executors of the late James Healing.—Witness our
hands."

The defendant, Mr. J. Healing, who did not ap-
pear to be related to the widow, put his name down
among the others, and the plaintiff itntnedeately
brought an action for the recovery of the debt by which
costs were incurred constituting the present demand.
The defence was, that neither the defendant nor
any of the creditors had given the least authority for
bringing an action for the recovery of their several
claims. On the contrary, it was contended that the
plaintiff had resorted to stratagem in o?der to obtain
their names and debts, for the purpose of bringing
the said actions. It did not appear that any autho-
rity had been given for the action in the present case,
farther than the writing at the head of the paper,
which, it was said, the defendant and others did not
see when they signed is.
The Jury found a verdict, without hesitation, for
the defendant.

The paper bearing the names of the creditors was
left, by consent in the hands of the Judge's Clerk.

PETERBOROUGH SESSIONS.
A case of considerable importance to wool-buyers
and farmers lately came on to be heard, wherein Mr.
Wm. Bellars, a very respectable and opulent farmer,
at Waodcroft, was the appellant, and Mr. James
Rusher, an extensive wool-buyer, at Bradford, in the
county of York, was the respondent.
It appeared, that, in the month of October last,
Mr. Rusher purchased of Mr. Bellars, by weight,
1618 fleeces of wool, at '29s. per tod, the then snar•
ket price of good wool. Mr. Rusher, finding that
some of the wool was in a bad state, employed two
persons conversant in the business to assist him in
examining the fleeces ; and dot of the 1618 he had
so purchased, 1486 were fount to be in an improper •
state, not having been sufficiently washed, others being
wound with locks or dirt, and others in a wet and
damp state, whereby they became the more weigh.
ty, to the deceit and loss of the buyer thereof."—.
For this offence Mr. Rusher I.iid his information
against Mr. Bellars, upon which he was convicted
in the penalty of fl4B. 12s. being at the rate of 2s.
for each fleece so found in an improper state. Against
the conviction Mr. Bellars now appealed. After
many witnesses had been examined on 'uoth sides, and
Mr. Caner nad been heard tar the part of the Appel-
lant, at half-past seven o'clock, Mr. T. Atkinson,
for the respondent, commenced his reply, but was
stopped by Lord MILTON, who said the Court was sae
tistied, and affirmed the conviction. We think it
right, fi r the information of farmers, to state, that
by the 82d sec. of the Act of the 28th Geo. 111. c. 38,
upon which this conviction took place, the seller of the
wool complained of shall have the power to apply to
the Magistrate before whom the information is laid,
to summon the winder of the wool ; and if it 'hall ap-
pear to the satisfaction of such Magistrate that such
wool was so falsely wound without the knowledge of
the seller, then that the winder alone shall be an-
swerable. But it is to be remarked that such appli-
cation must be made by the seller to the Magistrate,
pending the information, and immediately after the
seller has received the summons to answer the com-
plaint. This Mr. Bellars neglected to do, and there-
fore the Court had no jurisdiction over the winder,
but the seller remained liable to the penalty.-.-The
Court was exceedingly crowded.

At Somerset Sessions last week, George Kelson,
the person from whom the well-known picture of the
Woodman was taken, was examined as a witness : he
is ninety-one years of age.

The attempt at forgery on the Bank, on. Tuesday
last, was under the following circumstances I—A
Clergyman, residing in the country, sent 133000 to a
Broker, to be invested in the Funds, and the Broker
returned him a Bank receipt, purporting to be a re-
ceipt for a transfer of stock in the Clergyman's name,
agreeably to his directions. The Clergyman, on era.
mining the receipt, found that the witness's name,
purporting to be the signature of one cf the Bank
Clerks, was written in such a style that it was impos-
sible to make it out; this, together with other cir-
cumstances, caused him to suspect that there was
something wrong, and in consequence sent the re•
ceipt to a particular friend in London to make en.
quiries at the Bank, which took place on Tuesday
morning, when the answer was, that no such transfer
had been made. This was soon noised about the
Bank, and the parties suspected contrived to get the
proper transfer made during the time the enquiry was
about to be instituted.

A. number of forged Bank of England Notes hat
been lately put into circulation in the neighbourhood
of Portsmouth, by the following stratagem, the dis-
semination of which will induce caution in shop-
keepers :—A tall m.in walks the street in the even-
ings, and, wherever be sees an opportunity, stops
some boy, to whom he promises a trifling reward, if
he will go into a shop and purchase an article. ex.
plaining to him, that his fear of being impressed, if
he is seen in a public shop, induces him to ask the
favour. He then furnishes him with a£s note to
make the purchase ; and in many instances he obtains
upwards of £4 change, besides the articles. If he
observes any person come out of the shop with the
boy, he makes off ;—or, if the boy is detained any
lengt'a of time, his suspicions are &Wakened, and ho
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POLICE.

bOW4TßUT.—Yesterday morning Nichols, one of
the conductors of the Bow-street Patrole, appre-
hended a Clerk employed in a large concern, on a
th.irge of forgery, ot embezzlement.
R. Limberick took into custody at the same time,
two men of respectable appearance, on charges of
forgeries to a very considerable extent. They all un-
derwentlong private examinations before Mr. BinNiz,
who committed them for further examination.
A broker, in &met's-town, was convicted before
the same Magistrate, in the penalty of 40s. and costs,
for placing goods on the public path. •
D. Lovell was fully committed for trial, charged
with robbing a Gentleman, a few mornings mince, in
Xeicester-square, by Collier, one of the pat, ole, who
saw him take a handkerchief from a Gentleman's
yocket ; and, while he purs.ued the prisoner, missed
,the Gentleman. Collier had also seen the prisoner
a few mornings previous, in the company of a gapg
of thieves, in Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-
fields, insulting females, and attempting to rob peo-
ple as they passed.—The prisoner was fully com-
mitted for trial. _ _

rd Kendal was charged by a
Grazier, by whom he was employed, in the neigh-
bourhood of Fetter-lane, with robbing him of a quan-
tity of brass dust, value Is. which the prisoner was
detected in the act of carrying away in his coat
pocket. The prosecutor stated, that he employed
upwards of eighty men, and had discovered that he
was perpetually robbed in this manner, so that the
property stolen was to a considerable amount, for
which reason he was anxious to make an example of
the prisoner, whom he had protected from want at
the time he besought employment, and was there-
fore guilty of base ingratitude, as he paid him one
guinea per week, though a stranger to the business.
I fie was, however, willing to drop the prosecution,
provided the prisoner would volunteer to serve in the
army or navy.—The prisoner pleaded distress, and
• having a wife and family, and she far advanced in
pregyoncy, as the mason he declined the alternative
of going into the army or navy.—The wormy Alder-
tnan (I:surnors) ordered him to be imprisoned for
one month in the House of Correction. _

...
W. Lelland, aged 17, servant to a victualler, was
yesterday charged with stealing a metal watch, with
lold chain and seals, six table-spoons, and three silver
adles. Mr. Gold, of Fleet-street, proved that the
prisoner brought him the watch, which he took in'
pledge for four guineas, saying, that it was left hint
y a deceased uncle ; and some, time after the pri-
s.lier's fa:her, a butcher, redeemed it. The father
stated, that he had been informed by his son, that he
tad purchased it of a man at Camberwell-fair for six
shillings ; and when he took it out of pledge, he sold
it, owing to his distress; but did not know to whom.
The youth was remanded for fur examination.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday a baker, in the vi-
cinity of Clare-street, was charged with exposing to
sale bi ead short of weight, and was convicted in the
penalty of 2s. 6d. per ounce, and the bread forfeited
to the poor.
A young man wls committed for re-examination,
charged with being concerned with others not in cus-
tody, with breaking into the premises of Mr. Moor,
oilman, in West Smithfield, and stealing thereout a
quantity of soy, and ether articles.
throN-HALL.— R. Garr and J. Searls were charged
with having stolen a quantity of pease. Collingbourn
and Glennon, as they sere going along the Borough,
observed a town-cart with six sacks, turned inside our,
which were lull of something. Suspecting all was
not right, they questioned the carman, who informed
them that they were put into his cart by two men, at
the King's Head Inn, in the Borough, who were to
meet him in Fleet-market. The officers proceeded
with the cart, and in their way the carman pointed
out the men from whom he had received his orders,
sho were the prisoners, and who, on perceiving the
carman pointing to them, ran off. 7 hey were, how.
ever, afterwards apprehended. On the sacks were
marked gg Staples, Horton," and they were filled
with peas. Collingbourn immediately wrote to Sta-
ples, who informed the Magistrate, that the barn of
W. Mumford, Esq. of Sutton-at-Hone, had been
broke cpen, and a quantity of peas stolen; and also
that the sacks were part of ten which had been stolen
from him, containing potatoes.—The prisoners were
fully committed on both charges.

A few evenings since, two nocturnal depredators,
technically termed evening sneak:, forcibly entered
the premises of Mr. Alexander, in Leicester-street,
and succeeded in packing up a quantity of elegant
bed-furniture, together with other articles to a great
amount, with which they left the house undiscovered.
A number of robberies have lately been committed
in Nottinghamshire, the guilt of which the robbers
' themselves appear anxious to lay on the head of Ned
Ladd': men, who, we fear, have already enough to
answer for. The following are the particulars of
some of these daring villantes : —ln the evening of
Thursday se'nnight, as Mr. Mattock, wool-comber,
of Arnold, was returning home from Nottingham, he
was assailed by a ruffian, who presented a pistol, and
demanded his money. Mr. M. had but a few shillings
about him, which the villain took, at the same time
observing—" If any one enquires who robbed you ?
say it was one of Ned Ludd'F men." The villain
who committed the following I obbery was very pro-
bably the same. The same night, as C. Whiler was
returning from Sneinton to Carlton, where he had
been working as a tailor, he was met by a man of
genteel appearance, about three hundred yards from
what s called the Meadow-plat Gate, who presented
a pistol, and demanded his money. The young man
was compelled to deliver his watch and 7s. The
robber declared he was a Ned Ludd's man, and re-
'. turned him a lilting to drink his health ; and, after
ask .ng.his name and place of abode, he said he should
have his watch returned before long. James Kinley,
residing near the Leen-side, in Nottingham, who was
driven out of employment in consequence of the
frames being broken at Mr. Lowe's, in Crossland-
street, to prevent himself from becoming troublesome
to his parish, took to hawk red-Herrings for a liveli-
hood ; and as he was rearming from Arnold on
Thursday night, a footpad presented a pistol, and
demanded his money ; and, on his remonstrating on
the inhumanity of sobbing so poor a man, another
villain rushed upon him, and they jointly compelled
biro to deliver his pusses containing 13s.

iz.*pziftztri4 AZTRANDimar.

The widow of a Field Officer, aged Sti
eloped from her •two daughters, in the neighbour.
hood of Baker-street, last week, with a gallint son of
Mars, a private of a ltglit dragoon regiment, aged 22;
and was led to the hymenial altar on Monday last.
The Lady has te 800 a-year, besides a handsome
provision for her two daughters, proVidiag there
be no increase of family. .

BoxEns.—lt seem that Cfopley has declined fighting
Ford, so that no pugilistic matches are on. There are
no competitors to be fount against Jay and Carter.
PEDESTRIANIOI.---Another attempt to rival the
Kentish-man in his performance of ten miles in one
hour, was yesterday made by a Mr. Sumner, for a
wager of twenty guineas. The attempt was made
on the Uxbridge-road, and the pedestrian did five
mile.; in two minutes over the half hour, but he was
afterwards beat by time in every hundred yards, and
the hour expired when he had done nine miles and a
quarter. The ground was favourable to the task.
SWINDLING. —TWO men of gentlemanly appear-
ance and ensnaring address, one of whom called
himself a Colonel, and the other a Swedish Count,
have for several days been defrauding jewellers, tinen-
', drapers, tailors, dte. They are attended by a ser-
' vant in green livery with red facings, and have le-
vied contributions lately at Cheltenham and amongst
the Oxonians.

Tuesday last as Ashmore, the carrier betwixt
Gainsborough and Bawtry, etas passing through
Beckingham with his cart, attended by a large mas-
tiff dog, the ferocious animal fastened upon the son'
of Mr. Oate, innkeeper of the former place, a child
about four or five years old, who, with several other
children, was at play in the street, and would inevi-
tably have torn the boy to pieces in a few minutes,
but for the timely assistance of some people that
were at hand. 'I he po.w little fellow is dreadfully
lacerated in various places, but it is hoped the conse-
quence will not prove fatal. Mr. Oate has coma
sienced an action against the owner.
A few days since as Mr. Bolingbroke, rug manu-
facturer, of Coggeshall, Essex, was turning into the
gateway of the Bull Inn, Woodbridge, a Itta-se had run
furiously away with a gig belonging to Capt. Chester,
of the artillery, which came in contact with Mr. B.'s
chaise, and instantly threw it over; when Mr. B.
received some very severe bruises, but Capt. C.'s ser-
vant sustained very little injury, though dragged 100
yards on the ground; the gig was broken to pieces.
The revival of the Old Mode of Drawing the Lot-
tery has become exceeding popular, in consequence
the Public getting the whole of the C ; ital Prizes
in the last Loamy, in Shares ; the Little Lottery is to
be drawn in the same manner, on the 17th of next
month. _ _ _

The Acid prepared by SPYRING and MARSDEN 6
so useful, wherever Lemon Juice is wanted, for do-
mestic purposes, that it enly requires publicity and
a trial, to be generally used at Table ; it is so finely
powdi red, that it readily dissolves in the plate, and,
ith the Acid, yitids the finest flavour of the Lemon ;
ilwre i s also a Urectinn on the bottle for Lemonade, &c.

MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD, January 29.
Beef 4s 8d to 64 Oil j Veal 6s Od to 8s 03
Mutton Ss 4d to 74 Od Pork 5s Od to 7s 6d
Beasts. about SlO—Sheep and Lambs, 3,400.
Calves, 103—Pigs, '260.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SMITHFIELD.

Hay 51 10, to 51 10$ New Clover 51 10. to 71 Os
New Hay 01 Os to ')1 Os Straw 11 15s to 21 Si
NEWGATE AND LEADF.NHALI. MARKET.

Beef 4s Od to Ss 461 Veal Ss Od to 7s 8d
Mutton 4s at to 6s Od Pork Ss 83 to 6s 8d
PRICE OF PLOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
Bags. Pockets.
311 Os to 161 Os Kent 101 Os to 141 146
101 104 to 131136 Sussex 101 0. to 131 Os
111 Os to 131 Os Farnham 181 Os to 241 Os
PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW.
ST. JAMES'S- WUITECHAPM
Hay SI. Os. to 51. Ss. od. Hay 41. 4s. to SI. 16s
Straw 11. 195. to 21. lls. Od. Clover 61. les. to 71. 106
Straw 11. 181. :o 21. Y.

Keat
Sussex
Essex

PRICE OF TALLOW.
St. James's Market 5s lld Town Tallow 1011 6d
Clare Market Ss 113 Yellow Russia 96s Oe
Winteel)apel Market Ss 10d White ditto 95s Oil
per stuue of Sib. ----- Soap ditto 92s Cd
173 6d Melting Stuff 74s od
Average 5s Ild Ditto rough S2s Od to cos
Graves 24s Od. Good Dregs 9s Od . __

Yellow Soap 109 B—Mot tle 114s—Curd, :las—Palm 00s.
Price of Candles per Lloaso, I Sx. 6d—Moulds, 15s Od.
RAW HIDES.

Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary Is. 10d. to 2s. Od
stone) Ss. 0•l. to Ss. 4d. I Market Calf 17s. Od. each
Middlin73 Cs 41. to Ys. 64. English Horse 15s. to 16s. Od
Lamb Skins Os. Od. au Os. Od. Shearbugs 3s. 04. to Ss. 6d..

PRICE OF LEATHER IN LEADENHALL MARKET.
Butts 22d 25d Calf Skins 32d sad

Ditto 26d 2Sd Ditto
Merchants' Backs 512 d 244 Ditto

38d 46d
38d 45d

Dressing Hides 20 Id 22t1 Small Seals 33d s4d
Fine Coach Hides ittid 24d Large ditto, per doz. mi. 180 s
Crop Hides for cute. 18d 20-0 Tanned Hors* Hides 2&s
Ditro lid £3id Goat Skins 34s 62$
UXBRIDOR, JAW. 28.—Wheat per load £25 10. to £37 Os.
Barley, per quarter SOs. to sl9s. Oats 465. to 56,. Beans 995. to
1 lis. New ditto 6(is. to 7-2 s. Rye 003. to 00s. Peas Wis. to 88s.
OITORD, JAN. 21—The second best price of a bushel of
Wheat was 1.55. ed. according to which price, and a due allow-
ance made to the baker, the assize and price of bread are as fol-
low, viz.—The peck loaf househole. to weigh 17 lb. 6oz. is 51 Id
Tbe halt peck 2s. 6d. and the smaller in proportion.
CANTERBURY STOCK MARKET, JAN. 2g.—Beef, 19s. od. to
15s. od. per score.—Mutton, ss. sd. to 6s. Od. per stone.—
Veal, is. od. per stone.

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