Star.
London, England, 1801-03-09 00:00:00

COURT OF KING' BENCH. MARCH 4.

• .PR74IIERTON O.
Mr. A Gas ERAL opened the cafe on
the part of the Plaintiff. He Paid, this thion was
brought to recover a compenfation in damages
for the lots fullained by the Plaintiff, in confe-
quence of the Defendant's having given alalfe re-
prefentation of the circumstances of a Mr. Kent,
with whom the Plaintiff had entered into partner-
fhip. He requefted the Jury to attend particular.
ly to the cafe. The Plaintiff had not only met his
own ruin, but thofc allied to him by Lined were
slearly ruined ; they had united to advance a fum
of soo al. in order to perfeCt this partncrfhip, con-
ceiving, from what the Defendant had (laud of the
circumitaaces of Kent, that the connection would
be highly heneacial. The Defendant, be laid,
mutt hays: been apprifed of the infolven:y of Kent
at the time he was giving the charatter he had
done to two li•iends of the Plaintiff's, who we..e di-
reeled by the Araily to inquire refpeding an adver-
tifement which aypeared in the Manchefter Chro-
nicle, in the month of January 5799. At the time
he made this reprefentation, he well knew that
Kent • was ind.:bted to in the funs of 68w1.
and that he was on the b:..nk of ruin ; vet hc told
theft Gentlemen he was a man of fubtlance. The
Fartnerfhip commenced on the t it of March, and
to die middle of October, hc would prove, they
were infolsent. The Plaintiff. therefore, fought
to recover back that money had been turn
from di.: family, by the Defendant's not having
lioncitly dated the intuition of Kent.
Mr. Lark w.an, at the requetl of the Plaintiff's
brother,.in the month of February 1799, to make
inqui:izs of the Defendant reipeeting an advertife-
meat for a partner. The Defendant told him, that
Mr. Kent s% as a Prullian by birth, i-as educated
at Hull, had been in a Counting 'lonic at Bremen,
went from thence to America, for Meffrs Parifh
and Co. of Hambiirb, to ..dioni he gave great
fitisfaCtiou : that Le afterwards min:. to London,
and from the good opinion the Defendant had of
him, he laid, he would have taken him into his
own Counting Houle, but that he could not write
£rsglith wida sufficient correetaas and cafe : that
as a proof of his regard for him, lit had indorfed
his hills, to reader them more negotiable. With
:•cfpat to property, he fail, he -had but a few
hundreds. The Defendant aflted the Winters
what pri p:.rty the Plaintiff had ? to which he
a:listen:4, he believed between apd pool. He
Aid ilia: ...Avila ont do ;.:if that was all,he would
1105 K.11t.:06)1 In the s:onneftion ; hot,how-
eve?, th: Defendant laid, he .would make ilriEt in-
qui: :es Phintiff.
NI-. reot coy irmed the flatement of the former
ftd, be told the Defendant be did

not come to inquire the (lability of Mr. Kent ; Vi-
inquiry was meant to afar:Ain his hom,nr and in-
tegrity ; to know whether the broth::.r.ofbi, friend,
who had lent him, might with fltkty firm a con-
flation, on which the well doing of a whole fami•
ly depended. The Defendant ftid, Mr. P,..mher-
ton might be perfally fecure in forming the con-
flation ; and " moreover," laid Mr. Tinins,
" were I to (hew you (clapping his hand on a bo.);:)
the co:mations 1 have had with Kent, you would
he of the fame opinion." The Witnefs faid, Mr.
'l'unns never told him that Kent was in his debt ;
if he had done fit, he fhould not have ads ifed the
partnerlhip : it wasfolely relying on the charaCter,
as given by the Defendant, that he did advife it.
'I he money was proved to have been paid on'ac-
count of the partnerlhip by the Plaintiff. It was
alfo proved, that, previous to the partnerlhip tak-
ing place, Kent Rood indebted to the Defendant
in the fum of 51571. I+s. Bd. exclulive of intcrell
up to the 9th of February.
The iniblvency of the Plaintiff and Kent was
proved to • have taken place about the month of
Odober 1799.
Mr. CARRow addrelfed the Jury on behalf of
the Defendant. He faid, the prefent demand was
as unfounded as the attack upon his charaCter.—
The Defendant did not adapt his converfation with
the Witneffes with relpat to any references given
by Kent. " Not one (haling," faid Mr. GARROW,
" was applied to pay the Defendant's debt out of
the funds of Kent and Pemberton." What the
Witneffes had Rated was aridity true ; and he was
convinced there was not one Gentleman among
the Jury but would be of opinion that no falfe re-
prefentatinns hacl been made by the Defendant,
and, confequently, he ihould be entitled to their
verdkt.

Lord KF.N YON was of opinion that the gut:llion,
in this cafe, was reduced to a narrow point. The
principles of this aa ion he would not dikufs, as they
had already been dikuffeel in Waminfier Hall.—
If a perfon was applied to for chara.ler, he might
refufe to anfwer the application; but if he chofe to
do it, he was bound to give a fair rcprefentation.
The point that materially prelfed on thd Defen-
dant (and if that did not, there was no other in
the cafe that did prcfs) was with refpea to the
book : the Defendant knew the tranfaaions that
had taken place between him and Kent, and, in
common faith between. man and man, he ought
to have opened his books, and (hewed him the na-
ture of the tranfaaions ; he (hould have told hint
all. The book to-day was unfcaled, and the Jury
were in polfeflion of the fans. It was proved, at
the time this converfation between the parties took
place, that the Defendant was vomit with Kcnt
35401. 14s. 4d. This, his Lordfhip faid, appeared
to him to be the (trefs of the cafe. The Jury,
however, would decide.

The Jury retired for a fhort time, and found a
Verdict for the Defendant.

POI.ICE,

Bow-STREET.—On Saturday Y of. North was
Billy committed to Maidltone, to take his trial at
the next Affixes for the county of Kent, on two
charges of borl ftealing.
Same day a baker in the neighbourhood of
Seven Dials, was fined before W. KINNARD and
A. GRAHAM, V.fqrs. in the mitigated penalty of as.
an ounce, on one hundred and fifteen ounces Ilion
of weight, in thirty-eight quartern, and three penny
loaves, amounting to 141. los. in confequence of
information, upon which a fcarch warrant was
granted to examine the whole of his bread, which
the officers did, and weighed all that was in his
lhop,and brought all away that was Ilion ofweight.
A baker in theneiglibourhood of Wardour-ftrect,
and a German baker in the neighbourhood of Ox-
ford Road, were fined for felling bread lhort of
weight.
The bread was all forfeited, and the Magi ftrates,
in the moll laudable manner, diftributcd it to ob-
jals of charity.
NIAN sioN HOOSE.—Saturday IV. Wadd;fon and
W. S. and 7. Coolfm, three brothers, were charged
1 with flealing a parcel of leather out of the White
Horfe inn, and committed for further examination.
Gt./MOH.% LL.—Saturday Navin Pearce was commit-
ted for trial, charged with having ftolen from the
Bull Inn Holborn, a faddle which he offered for
fide to a fadler in long-lane.
Fottr men and two women were examined on
charges of uttering counterfeit half guineas and
fhillings, nine of which latter they paffed to a baker
on Snow-hill. They were ordered for a further
examination, when the Solicitor of the Mint will
attend.

Two men and a woman hare been apprehended
on fufpicion of king concerned in the robbery of
the Poll Ofsce at Leah. _ _

Laft week was committed to Stafford gaol, Rd
ward Evaiu, charged with killing a ilteep, with
intent to (teal the earcafe, the property of Joleph
Wright, of Weltbromwich, and alto with flubbing
Williant Rogers in the neck, with intent to mur-
der him at the time he apprehended him;—and
flizaleih Taylor, charged with uttering a forged
and counterfeit note, purporting to be a note of
Stephmton, Webb, and Stephenfon, value one
guinea; anJ Joh* Mil,, on fuiPicion of being con-
cerned with thc /aid Efizahrth Taylor, in uttering
the raid note, and other notes, knowing them to
be forged.
On Thurfday fennight, the body of a newborn
infant was difrovered in an out-building belonging
to Mr. V,'. vF. r..-, of Hull; from its appearance
it teemed to have litfiered in its birth or foon after.
A girl in Mr. LLVFTT's fervice being futpeeted,
was upon examination found to be its mother, and
had been delivered of it on the morning of the day
it WAS found; the was accordingly taken into cut-
tody, and a retpedable jury called; when it
clearly appeared from the evidence of an expo".
ricnced furgeon, that the child had been dcad pre-
vious to its birth.—Vertfia arcorinigly.
A poor man, named Wilton, at Lincoln, tome
days fince, took two of his young children, their
noife affeding his wifewho was in travail,into an ad-
joining Ilable, when a !torte, fubjeft to fits, ftruci
one of them, fine boy, dead at the Whitt, anal
timely hurt the father by falling on him.