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"'The plaint's vessel was lying at anchor in flae )10LICE, &c.
river Thames, when vie defendant's ship coming up - •- - , •
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•.r.ght before the wind,. rem her bowsprit through the Edward Wilson, formerly a hatter ut mpton-
Caledonia's sails and rigging, and did her consider- ' street, was yesterday brought to the Bow.street Office,
able dAnage. on a charge of having refused to pay their fares to se-
The defence was, that the Sophia had been en- veral hackney-coachmen, employed by him at various
trusted to the care of one of the pilots appointed by ' times. Not being able to pay the amount of the dif-
the Trinity House (according to Act of Parliament) ferent fares, he was held in his own recognizance, and
to pilot vessels in the Thames, who had, at the time, . agreeably to the Act of Parliament, to appear at the
the sole management-of the ship, and that therefore, next Sessions, to abide the award of the Magistrates.
the plaintiff was not liable. ; Yesterday, at the Mansion-House, Mr. DAVIS, of
Lorkd ELLENBOROCGII, however, directed the Jury King-street, St. James's, charged a man who had
to find a verdict for the plaintiff, to prevent the case . lived with him as servant, with defrauding him of a
going again to trial ;at thelsame time saving the point banker's check for £l5. Mr. Davis stated that he
made by the defendant, for the future consideration sent the prisoner to Morland and Co.'s, in Pall•mall,
of the Court. - 1 to get cash for the check, but he not returning, Mr.
t D. sent to the banking-house, and found the prisoner
had received the !mount. He never saw him after
till he met him that morning in Lombard-street.---
The Loan Matoa, finding the offence was committed
in Westminster, ordered the prisoner to Bow-street.
IV. Elision, yesterday, underwent his final exami- I
nation, at Horsemonger-lane Gaol, charged with ern•
bezzling a cheque for £9O, the property of his em-
ployers, Messrs. Vizard and Hutchinson, Solicitoiss,
of Lincoln's Inn. No fresh evidence was adduced,
except that of Mr. Robins, silver smith, of Fleet-street,
who received one of the notes taken in exchange for
a large note, paid by Mews. Child for the cheque,
in purchase of a ring, whiTh the purchaser stated was
to form the indissoluble bond between Mr. Eliston and
Miss Colson, of whom the public had i!icard so much.
Gore, on a former examination, stated, that he had
purchased the ling for Eliston, but he was not pre-
sent this day. Eliston was ordered to be delaintid for
trial at the next April Old Bailey Sessions. •
A distressing accident hai pened yesterday in the
new coffee-house that is erecting at the Auction Mart.
Part of the scaliAding giving way, two men who were
employed underneath had their thighs and legs broken,
and were carried to the Hospital in a shocOng ct-u-

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER te.
sru.i.A V. woomms.
Mr. Serjcant SHEPPARD, for the plaintiff, stated
this to be au action for two policies of insurauce of
£2OO each on the American ship Daniel and Frede•-
riek, from London to Gottenburgh, and horn thence
to any other port in the Baltic, not higher than Riga,
Ibesides which the plaintiff was to receive ten per cent.
for convoy. The vessel had a licence from London,
where her gods were taken in, to Gottenburgh. The
goods consisted of indigo, coffee, and sugar, and
when she arrieed at Gottenbun gh, another policy was
effected on the goods on board to any of the other
ports in the Baltic, not higher than Riga. She ac-
cordingly sailed with convoy to Pillau Roads, where
she was taken.
Mr. Serjeant LYNNS, for the defendant, said, that
Pillau being a prohibited port at the time, the vessel
could not proceed there without a licence ; and in-
sisted, that the policies were effected on the goods
front London to Gottenburgh, not from Gottenburgh
to Pillau.
Mr. Sprole, the First Mate of the vessel, proved
that they had a clearance from Gottenburgh to Pa-
lau ; that they carried with them the same goods which
they had brought to Gottenburgh from London, viz.
indigo, sugar, and coffee ; and that they sailed with
!convoy.
- Mr. Serjeant SHEPPARD then produced the ship's
licence, which empowered the plaintitF to freight the
!ship Daniel and Frederick, in behalf of sundry British
merchants; to any of the ports of the Baltic.—The
li-
cence had been secreted in the quarter-gallery by the
! Captain when the ship was taken, and being bought
and brought to England, Ire went on board, and found
it where he had hid it.
ISeveral other witnesses were called, one of whom
I proved the policies from Gottenburgh to any port in
the Baltic, lower than Riga ; and another proved the
Isending on board at London a cargo of indigo, coffee,
and sugar.—The Jury, therefore, under the direction
of the Learned Judge, returned a verdict for the plain-
. tiff—Damages-4'410.
becestson 19.—Tueeor n v. MMES.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPPARD, for the plaintiff, stated
this to be an action on a policy of insurance, to re-
cover £2OO on goods damaged on board the ship
Ceres, in a voyage from London to the coast of Hol-
land. The vessel was freighted with sugar and col-
fee, which was consigned to a house in Rotterdam,
and the goods were to be taken out by craft, provided
and waiting for her on the coast of Holland ; but,
owing to the badness of the weather, the proper ci aft
did not come off to her, and atter remaining a consi-
derable time on the coast, the vessel was obliged to
put back to Harwich, where it was found necessary to
repair her, and where part of the cargo was found
damaged, to recover the amount of which the present
action was brought.
The Captain of the Ceres having left England to
command another vessel, his evidence, Which had
I been taken in interrogatory, was read. It stated, that I
the vessel sailed from the Thames to the coast of';
Holland on the 15th of November, 1808, and arrived
there on the 17th, the weather having become bad on
the 16th. On the 25th sonic fishing-boats came off,
which were capable of taking ashore the whole of the
cargo, but they were not authorised to do so by the
persons to whom it was consigned. One of them,
however, offered to wait till the Captain of the Ceres
could write a letter to the owners at Rotterdam, but
ibefore it was written the weather blew so hard that'
the boat was obliged to return without it. The
ICeres still remained oti the coast till the 9th of Do-
cember, ISM, the weather still continuing so bad
that the cargo could not have been landed even if
craft had come off for that purpose ; and. having no
more than one quart of water on board, he was forced
to nut back to Harwich. The vessel was there found
to 'oe considerably strained by the weather, and haul
• a leak in the, deck, by which the cargo had been da-
maged.
J. Vanhaussen was supercargo of a vessel which
was off the coast of Holland, at the same time the
Ceres was. lie corroborated the evidence of the last
witness as far as related to the badness of the weather,
and stated that he had. two other vessels off the coast
at the time besides the one he was in himself; one of
which was supposed to be upset and never heard of,
and the other wrecked on the coast ; the vessel he
himself was in being obliged to put back to England
on the day the Ceres was, having only got on shore a
few packages of light goods, and a small quantity of
his coffee.—Verdict for the plaiutA, damages .0200.

dition.
Monday se'nnight, notwithstanding tl,a violence of
the hurricane, two seamen belonging to the Gll:tt.%L-
•rett, lying in Cawsand Bay, took the ship's cutter,
with an intent to desert; which design it NV S thought
they had effected ; but on Wednesday the boat was
found store in, under Plymouth Hoe, and on Friday
last the bodies of the two misguided men were picked
up, shockinly mutilated, under Mount Batten.—The
same night Thomas Fitzgerald, quarter-master of the
REPULSE, 74, and four seamen, deserted from that
ship, and are supposed to have met with a similar
fate to the above, as they have not since been heard of.
What a long train of Mg conspires
To scourge our uncontrouril desires.
As few only have philosophy sufficient to attain to
the mastery of their passions, among -4, the many"
will be found, those who require a beacon to warn
them of the shoals and quicksands of evil—Aid those,
who already threatened with shipwreck, stand in need
of a pilot to enable them to weather the storm. For
either description of persons, we know of no publica-
tion at once so edifying and practically useful as'. The
Guide to Health."—Our bookseller assures us that
already fvescore thousand impressions have been sold
of the above little Manual of Physic : if this be really
the Fact (and we have no reason to doubt it) it is a
fact that supersedes all commenr.—Reviewer.