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London, England, 1802-12-21 00:00:00

LAW IIV7 ELLIGE‘CE.

We are regirdied to correft an error in our re-
port of the trial, BISHOP v. HAWK ES. Lord Er.
LIN SOROU H did not fay that the Defendant's con-
dua was calculated to excite fufpicion.

PALACE COURT, DFC, 17.
FINNEGAN V. ALLPN.

The Plaintiff is a tavlor, who, in the mirk of
his trade, credited the Defendant with articles to
the am.lunt of 271. and upwards. It appeared,
the Defendant had dealt with the Plaintiff in the
two feveral capacities of Cylonger and (Jeri ; in the
later he credited him with ten guineas for his
trouble in potting up his ledger, where, unfortu•
natelv for the Defendant, an entry of his own in
the Plaintiff's books proved 141. los. againa him,
for which the Jury gave him a verdie.

KEELEY V. JAMIESON.
This was an aaion brought againfl the Defen-
dant for the balance due on a Bill of Exchange
for 251. 6s. which the declaration charged at 71.
gs. 6d. The Learned Judge, on hearing the evi-
dence on all fides, found for the Plaintiff—Da-
mages 71. gs. 6d.

COURT OF KING'. BENCH, DEC 20.
aossom v. LENT AND ANOTHRR.

This was an anion brought by the Affignees of
one Blakely, a bankrupt, to recover the value of
a cargo of coals fold by the Defendants, who
were brokers to the Bankrupt ; the money arifing
from the tale was not received till after the Corn-
million of Bankruptcy had been fued out, and was
then kept by the Defendants on account of a debt
due to them. The Plaintiff alto endeavoured to
prove an aft of bankruptcy long precedent to the
time there coals were tent to the Defendant ; but
in this retpta the proof failed.
Lord ELLFusosotrcit was of opinion, that as
Blakely had given the Defendants a power to fell
previous to his bankruptcy, no aft of bankruptcy
committed between the time of the contras to fell,
and the receiving the money op account of the Pale,
could at all take away from the Defendant the
right which he had of receiving the money, and
applying it in difcharge of a debt due to him.—
He, however, contented to referve that point, if
the Plaintiff's Counfel tbould think proper to move
the Court upon it.

COURT OP COMMON PLEAS, DEC. so.
FENTON V. •TKINSON, AND co.
This aaion was brought to recover the whole or
part of the fum of isool. which, according to the
Plaintiff's allegation, had been unjuftly withheld
from him by the Defendants, to whofe care k bad
been configned by the Plaintiff's debtor in Ame-
rica.

The material circumliances of the cafe were as
follow :—.Edward Edwards, a merchant in Phila.
delphia, was indebted a very confiderable fum of
money to feveral honks in England, among which
were thole to which the Plaintiff and Defendants
belong. Atkinfon and Co. to whom Edwards
was indebted (even or eight dioufand pounds, were
the principal creditors, and to liquidate the debt
due to them, he bad agreed to make over to them
the half of the valuable cargo of the Chip Louifa,
which was at that time on a voyage, but daily
expeaed home. In the mean time, however, hav-
ing in confequence of frame arrangements with an
ether boufe in Philadelphia, got poffefflon of a
lead named the Bilboa, together with her cargo,
be fent her to the river Thames, with inftruaions
to the boufe of I3ambridge and Co. to difpofe of
the veffel and cargo, to indemnify themfelves from
the produce, and confign the furplus to the De-
fen lams in the prefent anion, to whom he at the
fame time tranfmitted orders to place 30001. of
thisfurplus to their own account, and give tsool.
to the Plaintiff. The cargo not fetching the er-
peaed price, the whole overplus given to the De-
fendants did not amount to more than aoool. who,
on this account, did not confider themfelves as
under obligations to pay any part of that fum
into the hands of the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff
conceiving that he had a right to the whole of the
fum fpecified by his debtor, or at leaft to a fair
proportion, determined to bring the cafe before the
Court for a deciflon. As 30001. was the dividend
affigned to the Defendants, and !soot. to the
Plaintiff, although the produce of the cargo fell
Ilion of the expeled price, the Plaintiff concluded
that he was in jurlice entitled to a third part of
that price. The Jury, however, immediately re-
turned a verdia for Defendants.
HOI/Pilt V. LORIMER.
This anion was brought to recover a fum of
money the Plaintiff had been defrauded of, by
rec. iving a falfe charaner from the Defendant, of
a per Gin who had applied to him for credit.
It appeared that a Mr. Prefton Graham went to
the Plaintiff, who was a dealer in leather, and
gave him an order for various goods ; for which
he required fix months credit. The Plaintiff °b-
la red, that it was rieceffai y, before he gave him
credit, he rnould know who the perfon was who
bad recommended him. Mr. Graham immedi
ately told him to apply to the Defendant, Mr.
Lorimer, who had long known him, and would
give a fatisfanory chat atter him. The Plaintiff
went to the honk of th 4 Defendant, the Strand,
for the purpofe of making the pepper enquiry, and
was told by the Defendant alit he had long
known Graham, who was a very Ilona man, and
might very fafely be trufled with gpods to the
amount of cool. or upwards, as he *id engaged
in hufinefs d *lnch emolument, for a'tonitnercial
boufe in America. In confequence eJihis infor-
?nation, the credit was given, and the geode deli.
vexed, to a confiderable amount, into the bands
of Graham, who fhortly after (hipped them lot
Hambnrgh, and kft the kingdom.
Serjeant Cocims afferted, that if a man was de
fronded of his property by the mifreprefentatior
of another, the injury Curtained by filch perfon
immediately became the round of an anion. It
hins,that the ntwat acquainted
at the time 1

England from America, where he bad been in a
(late of infolvency ; if, therefore, there esiffed in
his mind a previous knowledge of his inability to
account for the purchafe of the Plaintiff's goods,
the Jury would not hefitate in giving their Verdid
in favour of his client.

Serjeant EPH IRD contended, that no finifler
motive had induced the Defendant to make a falfe
reprefentation of Graham's charalter ; he had
done II) entirely from ignorance, and from his
defire of (peaking favourably of a relation, whole
brother, Col. Graham, had married the Defen-
dant's

Lord ALvstitiv addreffed the Jury upon the
evidence, and was of opinion fufficient tellimony
had not been given to prove that the Defendant
had aded from malice, or from a motive tending
direaly to injure the Plaintiff.—A Verdict was
therefore given for the Defendant.

POLICE, &c.
BOW•STR E E r.—Yellerday John Held under-
went a third examination before Sir R. FORD and
T. Romsou, Efq. Sir R. FORD had received a
warrant from W. Wilfon, Efq. a Magiftrace for
the county of Cumberland, againft the prifoner,
for having forged and uttered a bill of exchange,
drawn upon J. Crump, Efq. in the name of Alex•
ander Augultus Hope, to Nathaniel Montgomery
Moore, of Kefwick, Efq. which was alfo produced.
Nothing, however, final took plate, and Hatfield
was remanded on his former commitment.

On Saturday a young man was examined before
Mr. GRAHAM, charged with defrauding the exe-
cutors of the late Mr. Hill, pawnbroker, of Brew-
er-ftreet, and Charing-crofs. It appeared that the
prifoner had been in the employ of Mr. Hill, be-
tween four and five years; and fume time previous
to the death of Mr. Hill, which took place about
two months fince, he had entrufied the manage-
ment of the thisp in Charing•crofs to him, and in
which he was continued by the widow and the exe-.
cutors. The prifoner having but 601. a year, and
living in very great ftyle, the executors ftrongly
furpekied he was not concluding himfelf as he
thould do, and they took an account of the flock
feveral times lately, which led to his deteetion, and
he was taken into cuftody. Inftead of 601. a year
supporting him, he has been living at the rate of
about 70001. he drove a curricle and pair on Sun-
days, with a groom behind him. He has been
Peen dafhing in a chariot, and living in a fuitable
manner. He was committed for further exami-
nation.

The mill of Mr. W. Goodwin, at Picket's End,
near Hemel Hempfle4d, having been lately rob-
bed of a quantity of flour, and the warehoule of
Mr. Richmond, on one of the quays in Thames-
ftreet, having alto been robbed of feveral quarters
of malt, fome of the offenders have been taken
and twice examined at this Office, from which
examination it appears that the fervants of the
two Gentlemen were both implicated, one of whom
is in cuftody, who has made a voluntary confeftion
of his guilt, and is retained its an evidence again ft
his accomplices. The prifoners are to undergo
another examination.

On Monday fe'nnight, the body of a female
child, about ten months old, was found drowned
in the Canal, near Paddington; and from its arm
being broken, and the !boulder diflocated, it was
fuppoted Tome violence had been ufed before it
was thrown into the water. On inquiry, the child
proved to belong to a journeyman coachmaker, in
the neighbourhood of Oxford-street, who, with his
wife, was teen walking near the fpot, on the Sun-
day evening preceding, The wife, it appeared,
had feparated from her butband, Tome (Iron time
fence, and was in the work-houfe; but the had been
with her hufband from the Saturday before ; not
appearing there again, furpieion was entertained
that the had thared the fame fate as her infant.;
and the Coroner's jury held on the body,returning
a doubtful vertlla, the hufirand was fent for and
interrogated. He pofitively declared, that he never
knew what was become of either of them, until he
heard the latter was found drowned; he admitted
that be had made no enquiry after his wife, and
laid that they had parted, becaufe Ike was very
much given to drinking. This account being
materially contradiCted by Tome perfons who knew
them, be was ordered by Sir Lemurs FORD to
remain in cutiody, and the body to be fearched
for, h ch was by Tome bargemen found on Friday
afternoon, about a mile from the place where the
etild was difcovered; and yefterday he underwent
long examination, and was remanded for Mop-
day nest.
MARLIOROUGH rraerr.—Saturday two dafh.
ing Cyrians appeared before the Magiflrate, the
one charging the other with an *fault. It ap•
pealed that thefe ladies were at Drury-Lane
Theatre, when a quarrel taking place, the accufed
party went home, and putting on the drefs of her
fervent, returned to the door of the Theatre, and
waiting till the other came out, began pelting her
with mud, till at length the was refeued from her
fury by come Gentlemen. The Magittrate re-
commended to the parties to make up their diffe-
rences, which th
difmiffed. • ey accordingly did, and were
MANszon Houss.—Saturday a young man of
the name of Hackman, made application to the
LORD MAYOR to grant :him an order to be made
Ice of the 4Vaterman's Company, be having regu-
larly ferved his apprenticethip ; but the matter had
refufid to do fo, on pretence he had not paid .his
binding, and that he had fummoned him twice to
attend his Lordfhip, to (hew caufe, but he had ne
ver attended. The Clerk of the Waterman's
Company told his Lordlhip, that this young man
imlisitt be madeafier,whenfraefetebrya
ikhis n
g artier,him independentrever
atueai o
nosf,
his Lordthip gave order that ke might have his free-
dom.
A poor old failor applied to his Lnrdthip for a
pats
w tt no
giveG a ehfi ens: d fa ,
his ypiailgteh,ebnurta
hadlle r
fens
thein boat
was
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to
Lord(hip's
with,
pats.
This his LeredthiP
immediately procure
complied and ordered ,him a
few shillings, to get refrethment.
YeaffdAT William „Brown and his wife were

cruelty to three female &Urea, their ipprenticei,
one of whom, Sarah Harris, a girl of nine or ten
years of age, being now in fro dangerous a flute
that little hopes are entertained of her recovery:
A number of witnetfes were produced in fop-
port of their charges, which were alto confirmed
by the appearance of the children who were brought
before the Lord Mayor, who ordered both the pri-
foners to be committed to take their trial for the
murder, thould the child die, which event there is
every probability will happen in a few days.
GUlLDHALL.—Yefierday R. NO and His wife
were examined a third time, charged with fecret-
ing a pocket book, containing a large Turn in bank-
notes, which a collector of taxes unguardedly left
behind him in their houfe. They were committed
for trial.

Woasuip•rraarr.—Saturday a woman of re-
fpeCtable appearance was committed for trial, be-
ing charged with uttering counterfeit money of-
various denominations to a thopkeeper in Shore-
ditch ; and what added more to her criminality,
the had a large quantity of counterfeit money con-
cealed about her.

A lad of t 6 yeats.of age was charged on fulpi-
sion of having committed a robbery in afield lead-
ing from Hoxton to Newington.
The evidence being incomplete, he was dif-
charged of this alledged offence, but was detained
on fufpic'ion of other robberie.
Three publicans were conviaed in feveral pe-
nalties, for fufering apprentices and labourers to
play at unlawful games in their refpeEtive houfes.
Yefterday a man was committed to the Houfe
of CorreCtion for three months, for having taken
infurance in the lottery.
HATTON GARDEN.—On Saturday, about five
o'clock, as Hancock and Wood, police officers,
were going their rounds in the purlieus of St.
Giles's, obferving three young perfons of the names
of George Davis, Edward Crow, and Richard Say,
in a kind of confultdtion, which bey fuppofed fore-
boded no good, they took them to the office to
give an account of themfeives, when immediately
after a poor man and his wife, of the name of
Lewis, living at Battle Bridge, came to charge
them with ftealing wet linen out of their yard, the
property of a Lady near Portman-fquare, betides
waiftcoats belonging to Come Gentlemen, to whom
they aged as laundrefs and carrier. They were
committed for re-examination.

Yeßerday Asn Kap was fent to the Houfe of
Correction for one month, for drunkennefs and riot-
ing, for which offence the had been imprifoned be-
fore, and liberated but three clays fince.
A man of the name of Peek, refiding in Cow-
crofs, wasbrought to this office by a constable, who
deteied him (leafing four valuable dogs, on Sun-
day laft, by rubbing bid own dog with an ingredi-
ent which made the reit follow him. He was com-
mitted for re-examination.

Ann Allen, a woman of the town, was charged
by an old journeyman carpenter with decoying him
to her lodging on Saturday night lafl, and rob-
bing him of his coat. She was committed for trial.
WHITICJIAtEL.Saturday iE I. Nichol,, one
Cafes, with other perfons, had a private examina-
tion on fufpicion of having committed divers fe-
lonies at different places on the Whitechapel Road
and Effex. They were committed for re•exami-
nation.

Yefterday Patrick Bung was charged with hal-
ing a quantity of tobacco, the property of the
KixHe was committed for trial.
Linfee, Barnard fee, joßdo Pincher, John
nod, and W. Brogues, charged by the conftable and
watchmen of St. Mary, Whitechapel, with tumul-
tons behaviour on Saturday night laft. They were
committed to prifon for want of fureties.
A decent girl, of the name of Fergufon, who
belonged to Greenock, and had been Tor a confi-
derable time a refpeitable fervant in that town,
having occafton to go fome days ago to Paifley on
bufinefs, in confequence of the death of a relation,
and left that place on her return rather far in the
day to be at Greenock with daylight, was attacked
to the eaft of Port Glafgow, about night fall,
by a fet of ruffians, who abufed her fo much, that
with difficulty the reached a houfe the other end
of that town, where the withed to enter, and was
endeavouring to relate her Flory, but the door was
fhoved in her face, the fell in the !Wage, and hor-
rible to relate, was found a corpfe next morning.
She was, it is &id, the only fupport of an old and
infirm father.

On the t R inflant a melancholy accident hap-
pened in a poor man'sfamily in the parifli of Breage,
Dorfetfiaire. The father, in the morning, previous
to his going to a friend's wedding, had emptied
his pockets, and placed fome gunpowder on the
fhelves in the kitchen. He and his wife went away,
leaving two of his own childrep, and two of his
neighbours (t 4e eldeft not exceeding (even years)
in his houfe. In the courfe of the forenoon the
children found the powder, and unfortunately
threw it (about half a pound) into the fire. The
explofion, of courfe, was very great. One of the
children, in the inner corner of the large fire,
efcaped unhurt ; one received a flock in his fore-
head ; another is very dreadfully burnt, and very
little hopes entertained of his recovery. The other,
which was the eldcil, and who threw the powder
into the fire, had his clothes fet on fire, and was
burnt to death.

The Ticket No. 7,239, drawn yefterday a Prize
of wool. WAS fold by J. Baattscoma and Co. Pro•
prietors of the Lucky Offices, No. tz, Holborn,
and No. 37, Cornhill, in one Eighth and fourteen
Sixteenths ; like wife the Ticket No. 9,876, drawn
the fame day a Prize of so& was fold at the above
Offices in two littarters and eight Sixteenths ;
where likewi?e thefirli 30,0001. Prize ever flared,
was cold in one Half, one Quarter, one Eighth,
and two Sixteenths, which were paid on demand,
as will the fortunate holders of each refpeEtive
Share of either of the above two Capitals drawn
yetlerday.

RICH STATI OT THS WHSSL.
I Prise d •• • - £ soon
s ----. • • • Woo
I ......monme • • • , SOO

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, DECEMBEI
RETURN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, including oni
the 6th of December to the t ith of December.
Total—!9lB (Barter,. Average 575. Itl
os. zd, lower than lalt return.
PRICE OF Hops.
Kent 91 •s to zol ss „, Kt nt 81 8s to IEI
suircs 91 os to Tel os,. r Sufic: 81 cs to 01 /
Ella 91 os to tol os Faro. 10l os to 141
PRICE OF SEEDS, December 20,
Red Clover (old) Bob to x 124 per cwt.
White ditto
scBs to x3osb
Trefoil 3os to 68s
Turnip iBs to 25s per Inlaid
Rye Graf. 2s to 4gper ii.irter
Carrawayp q
40$ to 44s per cwt.
Coriander 2if to 295 ditto
Canary Seed 86s to 93s ditto
New Rape Seed 321 to 361 per latt.
Rib Grafs JOS to —s per cwt.
Brown Multard Seed 15$ to 23$ per bugle!.
White ditto toe to 14s per ditto.
Broad Beans 328 to 46s per do.
Long Pods 261 to 28s per do.
SMITHFIELD, December 20.
To fink the offal—per Roue at 81b.
Beef 4s od to p6d I Veal ss es! to
Mutton ss od to 6s 6d Pork 4s 8d to
NEWGATE and LEADENHALL, December
Per (tone of 81b. by the cArcafe.
3$ 4d to ss 8d I Veal 4s od to
41 od to ss zd Pork 4s 8d to
Stock at Market this morning, Beafts 2500,
Sheep and Limbs, 6,000.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, December:
Smithfield. St. James's. Whitecial
0. Hay 7 oto 7 to 4 4oto 7 7 0 4toto •
New s o .to 6 0 ----.
Straw Itoto t 16 i146t0 z t 8 6 x Bto
Clover 6zsto 7 7 16 to to
21 Crop s o to 6 18
COALS, December 20.
&ft Coals in the Pool, 21 6s. od. per Clsaldroak
Delivered 21. 138. od.
Sunderland, 21. es. od.
Delivered 21. 9s. cd

Beef
Mutton