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London, England, 1807-12-24 00:00:00

kffilL ACtIDEA7

On Taefday evening, about feven o'clock, the &-
Wherry coach, on its way to town, from the heavy
fog.eame in conta& with the battlements of the firtt
bridge near Be!font. By the (hock the coach and
horfes were precipitated over the arch, a height of
eight feet, into a shallow cream of water, about four
feet deep ; by which accident a gentleman, of the
name (f John Locker Wainwright, (who married the,
widow of the late "Ir. Pearce, who was on the roof cf
the coach, was killed on the fpor, by the carriage and
herfes falling on him. The two lead horfes werd
drowned by the wcight of the wheel holies and car-
riage on tl.em. Had it ri,a been for a chaife,
by at the time, in which were fume naval r fficers
coming to London, this unfortunate affair would
have been more diarelling, as five Julie., who were
infide the coach, (which ay.t s neatly filled wi.h water)
w ruld have been fuffacated, bur, through the inde-
fatigable exertions of the officers, with the guard and
coachman, retcued from their perilous fituation ;
and the officers, with she humanity In confpicuous
in Englifh failors, infiantly refigned their chaife for
the ufe cf the unfortunate travellers. The guard, on
a tingle horfe, with a land/run, conveyed Mrs. Wain
wright, (the lady of the unfortunate gentleman) and
another lady, to the George Inn, Belfont, while the
remaining paffengers were brought to the fame
place in the chaife which had been In humanely re-
figned to them. On Mrs. Wainwright being pulled
cut cf the coach, the called for her littband ; when
the guard, having extricated Mr. W. from his lima-
tion, and finding him dead, informed her that be
was gone to fetch a carriage to c, 'lvey then to Bel.
font ; but that if fhe did not like to wait, he would
conduct her on one of the horfes after him Belfont.
The agony of the lady, when the c'rpfe of her huf-
band was bton.lht to the inn, is eafies felt than de.
fel ibed. The unfortunate Mr. Wainwright was for-
merly a Captain in the army, and lately retired, with
his lady, to the Weft of England-. Having occation
to came to Lon2on, they tr avelied in poll chaifes till
they came to Saliecury, where they took infide •
places in the coach for town, and an outride one for
a female fervant that accompanied them. About
four o'clock on Tuefclay afternoon, Mr. W. remarked
to his wife, that it was too cold for the poor girl to
be on the roof, and that he would, with the leave of
the pa angers, exchange pl.:ces with her for the re•
mainder of the journey. II: had not been on the
roof more than two hours when the unfortunate ac-
cident happened. Mrs. W. arrived yefterday in town
in a Hate of diftraaion.

The Bath mid), from London Tuefday even-
ing, in confecrience of the fog, ran of the road rear
Kenfington, and was upfet ; but no matetial. acci-
dent happened to the paffengers.
Two liackncy coaches, in the Eigeware Road,.
came in contact with each other, when both were op-
fet. One gentleman, infide, had his arm broken ;--;
and another Gentleman, in the other coach, had his
head and face much cur, from the breaking of the
glaf.
_ _

FIRS AT TOTTENHAM —Uprn further enquiry rt.
(*peeling this calamitous event, we learn that the.
Lady's name is Maccaughey, and not ht,Coy. Her
hufband, as we Rated, was drowned at lea. On his
death, he left eight children to deplete his lots. One
of there fubfequenly loft his life, by falling into a
pond in his muthet's garden, while the was gone to
church. She had Sill feven children living The
two younger peti(Led by the fire at their mother's
houfe on Monday night. The immediate cattle of
the fire is now under flood to have been different
from what we Rated yeflerday : Mrs. Maccaughey•
with a Lady from Ireland, came to town to fee one
of her fans, and finding hint unwell, fpent the night
in town. A letter was fent by Mrs. M. to her fa-
mily, to inform them of her intention ; brit the letter,
unhappily, never was delivered, or the fatal acciLient
would probably have been prevented. The ac-
quaintances who had fpent the evening at the Lode
with the fervants, had left it before nine, when the
younger children were put to bed. In the mean
while the family, confining of two young Ladies and
two young Gentlemen, fat up for their mother. One
of the fervants palling the room where the two
younger child; en lay, (melt fomething burning, and
opening the doer, the flames bunt forth. Several
attempts were made in vain to Cave the children, in
the courfe of which the Rev. Mr. Roberts nearly loft
his life by the (lairs catching fire.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. sr.—Saturday evering, about
(even o'clock, an alarming fire took place at a
painter's fh,p, in Grayfon nreet, which it entirely
confumed in a fhort lime, bet fortunately without
communicating to any other premifes, though clofely
furrounded by them.

The dreadful accident of fire a few days (ince, at
Mr.. Stoakes's hr ufe, in Church areet, in which a
lovely infant was fo burned as to caute its death,
was at that time thought to have been °cc:dim:led by
accident, but horrid to relate, it has been &Coveted
not only by the acknowledgment of the Cook, then
in Mr Stoakes's lervice, but from the circumfianee
of feveral articles flolen from Mr. S.'s houfe being
found in her poffeflion, that the deliberately committed
this unnatural outrage againß humanity, under the
taint hope that her robbery of the houfe would be
concealed in the general conflagration which the ex-
peCted mull (and but for the timely alarm inevitably
would) have followed her diabolical attempt. The
woman has fince been fully committed for the rob-
bery, and the other crimes are under confideration.
Ahoutpo o'clock on Tuefday morning lafi, the
watchman in Market fireet, in Lancalter, Aifcove ed
the premifes occupied by Meffrs. Gafkills, linen and
woollen drapers, to be on fire ; the alarm was imme-
diately given, and the family with muck difficulty
laved their lives. Two engines foon arrived, and
being well worked by their recruits from the Firft
Royal Lancalbire Militia, and others, the fire was
I prevented from extenchog to the adjoining bodes,
and in about two bouts was completely got under,
but not before the infide of the houfe and fhop, and
the whale of the goods in the chop were burnt or
much damaged. The houfe and Ihop were infured;
but we are concerned to add, that the lots of the
I above induArious youths is eflimated at between two
and three thoufand pounds, no part of their flock
!riving been infured. It is grievous to Rate, that
in the contufion which took place, Come evil minded
perfoos carried off feveral articles of value, but we
troll they will be recovered. It has not been afcer.
tained how the fire commenced. r

DUBLIN, DEC. 14.

COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER.

This day Robert loner, Commander, Robert Robert:,
Mate, and Francis Mendel:lbn, Steward of the Live/-
pool packet called the Prince of Wales, appeared in
enstri. befoye the Hon. Jullice Mayne and Pfflic/
Fletcher. _ _ _ _

Mr. M.lslat.i.v, their leading Counfel, Rated, than
it appeared by attelled copies of warrants of com-
mittal, that the Captain ( Jones) was charged with
having felonioufly and wilfully killed or murder d
M'Lean, a Lieutenant in his Mejeßy's tBth
regiment ; and that Robert Roberts and Franci)
Henderfon, were committed for the murder of two
of the private; of the fame regiment. Thefe com-
mittals were figned by the Superintendent Magif-
trate, and of comic mull have been founded on in
formation taken on oath. He therefrke &fired to
know if the informations were returned by the Ma-
giltrate, and if it was intended to found indictments
on them.

The CLER x of the Centre informed the Court that
they were returned; but he had received orders not
to fend up indictments.
Mr. M'NALLY again obferved, that thole men had
undergone a very long examine' i m before an emi-
nent King's Counfel, and had been confined under
the Magillrate's warrant in Newgate, for upwards
of a fortnight, when intimation was given to them
that they fhould he bailed. This he advifed them
not to comply with, and the next day they were
difcharged by an order from the Magiarate, an or-
der which he conceived no Magi(lrate could make
in a cafe of murder. It was an authority which
the Court of King's Bench would not exercife. That
Court could bail, but would not difcharge in cafe of
murder, where informations were (worn ; no Magif
trate fubordinate to a Judge could even bail in fuch
a cafe. It might appear extraordinary that he fhould
urge a trial ; but be did In upon the flrongefl convic-
tion that no charge could be fupported againft his
clients. He did 10, becaufe confcious of their inno-
cence, he wifhed to clear their charaders from the
fable and, fool afpertions thrown out againfl them in
the public prints, and flrengthened by their impri-
fonment. A trial was nrceffarey to re efiablifh their
reputation—it was neceffary as a bar to any future
profecutionr that, in loch a cafe, they might have the
benefit of pleading autre join acivit. They had been
alto put to great expence in bringing witneffes from
Liverpool and other places, and by employing an
Agent and Counfel ; but probably Government in
its wifdom and humanity would remunerate their
pecuniary loffes. He conclude"! by laying, he could
not frame any regular motion, but :null leave thofe
unfortunate Englifirmen to the difcretion of the Judges.
Junice MATHS GM, the Court could not intertere
where the King's Attorney and Coroner declined
profecuting—of coutfe nothing was done.
Mr. Gottresss was on the fame fide ; but the
Court having intimated their opinion,he did not think
it necefrary to trouble their Lordihips.

TUESDAY, DEC. 15.
Matthew Donogboe was indiaed for the wilful mt
der of Patrick Buckley, of Johnflown, by throwing
him into the river Liffey, at Afton's (tap, in the
month of September lati.
The evidence produced was infufficient to Main
the profecution, and the prifoner was acquitted.
Richard la was inditted for the wilfu'. murder of
Anne Lee, his wife, in James's-nreet, in the month
of November lag, by giving her divers wounds with
his hands and feet. No witnefs appearing on the
part of the pore:l6°n, the prifoner was acquitted.
Richard Hoare and David Parram, two foldiers,
were indiaed for the wilful murder of Jahn Lindon,
by nabbing him with a bayonet, at Strand-flreet, of
which wound he infiantly died.
The trial lined for Etveral hours ; and after an
eloquent and ingenious fpeech from Mr. M'NALLY,
on behalf of the Prifoners, jullice MAY NE charged the
Jury, who retired for a few minutes, and returned a
verdia of—Manflaughter.
DEC. lb—Four prifoners, Doyle, Borne, I tam.
and llfulhall, were inditled for plundering a veifel
named the Powell, on the 22d of November lan, to
the value of tool. This veffel was wrecked during
the late norms, on the [hand oppofite Merrion.—
Several witneffes were examined, the tendency of
whofe evidence went to prove that the motive of the
Travetfers was merely to bring dead bodies on (bore,
for which they were hired. No legal evidence ap-
peared fully ftrong to convia them, and the Traver-
fers were accordingly acquitted.
Francis Mahon was found guilty of a burglary,
committed at Garretflown, in which he and his affo-
ciates broke their way through the thatch of the
peafant's cabin, who profecuted them.
Pigot flood charged on three indiaments, on
one of which he was found guilty of a burglary, for
entering the houfe of a Mrs. Tracy, who keeps lodg-
ings at Dundrum, on the 14th of Odlober laft.
Mils Moore, who identified the prifuner as one of
two who had a blundetbufs, and had entered the
houfe about three o'clock in the morning, and parlied
upon honour with feveral ladies there, to deliver him
and his affociates all the money they had. This lady
was very circumftantial as to the prifover's move-
ments after he had entered the houfe, received feve.
ral fums, not to a great amount, in notes, filter, and
brafs.
The prifoner proved to have been a quondam
fetvant to Colonel La Touche.

COIll MARICIT, MARK Laws, DECEMBEI 23. The
market to-day was very thinly fupplied with Wheat,
an 3 the few fates effeEted were nearly'at our lall cur-
rency—Barley middling fupply, and goes off readily
---Malt keeps its price, tine new about Boe. pet qr.—
Beans of each dcfeription rather lower. The fupply
of Oats is likewife thort, and this trade appears at
more advance—Flour without alteration, tine Ame-
rican 401. to 435. per barrel.
ORM ORAL CURRANCT A 9 rk19191.
Wheat, 50$ boa yes per 511'. Grey Peas. toes 70S cd
Ent Ditto. 75$ od Beans, (old) s6aed
Rye, (new) ens sas od Tick Ditto sae sgs od
Barley, ecs 451 cd 0at1,33s 38s eas
Malt, (old) bcs 70s od Poland ditto 43144 s od
White Peas, (Boilers) rsos 16:s Potatoc ditto to 46s cd
Rape Seed sal 261
Fine Flour Sys 6cs--Seconds soe sss
COAL MARKET, December 23.
Sblpi at Market Ships fold Price
30 Neweaftle Coal 9 sos od so stls
a Sunderland a 48s od to ste od

LAW 1117LLIGENCE.

CO RT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. xB.
rrearato V. LORD ceravitea.
This w is an atlion brought by the plaintiff, as
owner of a South Sea whaler called the William
Fenning. 'Tahiti the 11.ght lionout able Lord Gren-
ville, who (being reliauary legatee of the late Lord
ramelford) is the owner of another South Sea
whaler tiled the Catrwent. The action was in
trover for the value of half a whale, which the
plaintiff claimed to be entitled to, and which be
elledged that the defendant, Lord Grenville, had
converted to his own ufe.
Mr. Serjeant BEST liatid,,on the part atilt plain-
tiff, that his claim relied on the ellablifhed ufages
and regulations of the Booth Sea whaling veffela.—
The c'itlom of this May is, that limed one veffel
throw a harpoon into a whale, and another veffel
immediately afterwards come up and kill that whale,
it is to be divided between them. The Learned
Counfel Paid, he fhould prove that this has been the
conliant ufage in the South Sea whale filhery, al-
though different rules prevailed in the Greenland
filhery, from the diffetence of circumftances. If
fuch were the exiling law, founded upan the ufage
of the filhery, it would be no queflion either for Ju
ties or Judges to fay whether the law were right or
not, but only to pronounce as the law Rood. The
cullom, however, appeared to him to be very rea.
(unable, and fomething like that which was con-
Randy praaifed in this country with tripe& to
fptinging game. The kind of harpoon which was
ufed in this inflance, and which was very commonly
tiled, was called a drag, beeaufe it has a buoy or
piece of wood of from one to two feet fquare attach.
ed to it by a fhort rope. This piece of wood, floating
on the water, bath (hewed where the (truck whale
was, and impeded its ;mirage through the water, and
thus prevented its efcape. In the month of June,
tilos, the veffels cf the plaintiff and defendant were
fifhing near each other in the South Seas, when
Captain Law, of the plaintiff's veffel, having wound-
ed a large whale with one of thufe drag harpoons,
had fixed another harpoon (which was attached to
his boat by a towline) into a (mall whale. When
the defendant's boat approached, he hailed her, and
told the Captain the courfe which the large whale
had taken. The defendant's crew then killed the
larger whale, and the Captain being aficed, accord.
ing to the cullom of the trade, for half the whale,
refufed to give it ; and it therefore became neceffaty
to try the quellion at law. As it was evident that
the (hiking the whale with this drag-harpoon pre-
vented its efcape, and affifted confiderably in taking
it, it was alto clear, and Rood to reafon, that thofe
who fo affilled fhoald be rewarded for the affißance
they had given. The extent of the reward would
depend upon the cuflom of the trade, and he would
thew that it was one half of the Sib.
Captain Law, the commander of the plaintiff's
veffel, proved his having (truck the large whale with
a drag harpoon, and that, after its being (truck, it
did not proceed farther than zoo yard► before it was
killed, and cut up by Captain Anthony, who was
in the boat of the defendant's veffel, and to whom he
had waved his hat for aftillance. The eirta generally
produced by firikinra whale with this drag-harpoon
is, that it Rays for a confiJerable lime nearly in the
fame place, ;skiing, (or, as he explained it, melts.
Touring to extricate Hell from the harpoon) ; and
that independent of this effea, its firength is walled,
its (peed diminifhed, and its place in the water af;
ccrtained by this floating piece of wood ; and it there-
fore becomes an eafy prize to any me who may
come up. The witnefs alto tellified as to the cutlom
concerning the property in the fills caught, as Rated
by the Connie!.
Captain Holcrowe, who Paid he had been in the
Snnth Sea whale filhery for nineteen years. alto de-
clared it to be the odium to divide the filh in fuch
cafes.
Captain Dagg was acquainted both with the Green-
labd and the South Sea whale filhery. In the Green-
' land filhery, there was no fuch rule, as the whales
were larger and leis eafily killed by a harpoon, and
the ice prefented other obtlacles. They therefore did
not ufe the drag•harpoon in the Greenland filhery ;
but in the South Sea filhery, the rule was what had
been before Rated.
A very confiderable number of old Captains in
the SJuth Sea filhery proved this cullom. Some of
them flared that they had been waked on by Lord
Grenville's Solicitor, and had told him what the
caftom was.
The cafe for the plaintiff being denied,
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD relied for a nonfvit, on
the ground that an aftion of trover would not lie, as
the whole was an undivided property, of which (by
the plaintiff's evidence)they were tenants in common.
If the filh had been divided into two halvae and the
fhares affigned, then the plaintiff might bring trover
for his moiety.
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD laid, that he felt that legal
objetlion to be a very Rrong one.
Mr. Serjeant BEST requelled that the caufe might
go to the Jury on its merits, and that the point of
law might be laved. He had too great a refpe& for
Lord Grenville to fuppofe it polfible that, if he were
defeated on the merits, he could confent to move the
Court upon filch a point. He was lure his Lordfhip
could not know that fuch an objeaion would be
taken, and that it was the ad merely of his agents.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD allowed that Lord Gren-
ville did not know any thing of it ; but that if he
did, Lord Grenville was only one of the defendants,
as hit Captain, and the crew of his veffel, were alto
interefled, and Lord Grenville bad no right to give
up their interelt. Lord Grenville was entitled to a
larger (hare ; yet the meane.l perfon on board had
a right to have.their interefts protetied.
Mr. Serjeant &sitar read the admiffloos in the
cattle, and the letter of Lord Grenville's Solicitor,
ofroing to try the quellion on its merits. If. rfter
there, the defendant were to take advantage of thofe
points, it would be completely taking the plaintiff by
furpr ize.
Sir James MANSFIELD faid,that whatever might be
his opinion cf the objettion, he would allow the caulk
to go on, as oue of the witneffes had Paid the whale
belonged to the perfon that fita !truck it. If the
whale was his (although by the cußom he mutt give
half of it to fomebody tile) then trover would lie.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD then addreffed the Jury
at eonfiderable length, and with great ability, on
behalf of the defendant. He (aid he timid prove,

by widielres as rekeEtAble and experienced a; the
plaintiff's witnefes, that the cultom was, that a
whale (ruck by a drag harpoon was conlidered a
4( loofe fins ;" but that a whale (ruck by a harpoon
which was attached by a tow line to a boat, was the
property of the *del to whjch the boat belonged.—
This cuttom was founded in rearm) ; for the whale

which was attached to a harpoon that was aCtually
connefted with the boa►, was as much in the pallet=
flan of that boat's c►ew, as a filh that is upon the
hook furpended to the line of a Ming rod. If (hik-
ing whales with drag harpoons were to give a right
to half the whale, the indullricus and!nterprifing

Merman would be no better off than the idle and

rather timid. All the danger that there wgs in the
whale filbery was from the fifb when (truck by a
hat goon from a tow line, for then the boat was often
(love in by a (troke of the whale. If perfons
thought they had nothing to do but throw the
drag harpoons, without venturing to follow the filh,
the real whale filhers would be deprived of that fair
earnings. He trulled he fhould prove that there
was no fuch cuflom as that fet up by the plaintiff,
and that, in point of law, the verdiU mull be for his
client.

On the part of the defendant, Captains Scott,
Chriftie, Bunker, and Q2ellie wtre produced. By
their tellimony, it appeared that the cull-m, until
the !aft two or !three years, was what had been
timed by the plaintiff's witneltes ; but that abut
two or three pears ago, the Captains ot the different
whalers on the fame Ration ufed to meet together

and fettle rules and regulations, and that theii'gerie.
TA rule now was, not to allow this privilege to drag
harpoons. At the Galliepago Minds, where this
HI was Ilrack, the whales went in large fhoals ; and
if this rule were adhered to, one boat's crew might
wound a number of whales without taking the
trouble to follow them. At prefent, even when a
whale was fituck with a tow line harpoon, if the
Rrikers gave up the porfuit, it was reckoned a bole
fills, and the next boat that came up mi?ht take it.
Captain Law was then called again, and Aced by
his Lord(hip, whether he had agreed to the regula-
lions that the Captains of the other whalers at the
Galliepagos had made ? He anfwered pofttively
that he had not, and that he went on the old ufages
of whaling.
Serjeant BEST (poke in reply. •
Sir JAMBS MANSFIELD told the Jury, that if the
;Captain had entered into any agreement with the
other Captains on the fubjed, be mut have been
b.nnd by that agreement ; but as he had pofitively
denied ir, and there was no proof of his haying known
of thole new rules, or having acquiefced in them, he
; could not be bound by them. Whetter the new rules
were more equitable than the old 'ones, was not now
, the quelion ; but as they were very lately intro-
; duced, the Captain, if he knew nothing of them, had
a right to confider that be was Sating under the old
rules and ufages of whaling.
Verdid for the plaintiff.—Damages to be referred.
PARER 22 ..-WILLIAMS V. NUNN I,ND REYNOLDS

This was an due from the Court of Chancery, to
try a fimple Net, namely, whether the plaintiff had
committed an as of bankruptcy. In order to bring
the matter forward in a proper manner, the aftiun
was brought by Williams againtl the D:fendants,
who had been the petitioning creditors, for a trefpafs
committed by them, in takic'g ()tit a falfe corn mifGor,
under the authority of which the plaintiffs goods
and effetts had been feized.

'lire care was opened to are Jury by Mr. Serjeant
Brsr He defcribed the plaintiff as carrying on bufi.
nefs in Dublin, in the year 18:4, with a partner,
under the film of Williams and Morgan. It ap•
peared that a gentleman, named Clarke, of Olney,.
in Buckinghamfhire, had, through the medium of
a houfe in Noble flied, Cheapfide, (Edward Mor-
gan and Co.) fent the plaintiff a quantity of goods,
amounting to upwards of 12001. The Plaintiff,
in the latter end of silos, came to London, in order
in adinfl the accounts of Williams and Morgan,
f Dublin, with Edward Morgan and Co. of
London, as the former copat tnerfhip was about to he
dill ived. On Saturday, the loth of November, in
that year, a meeting took place in the evening,
between the plaintiff, Mr. Morgan, of London, and
Mr. Reynolds, in order to an arrangement of the
affairs of the Company in Dublin with their creditors,
as at that time that concern was confiderably em-
barraffed. What paired at that meeting did not trail.
fpire, but a witnefa (wore he heard the meeting break
up, Mr. Williams wifhing Mr. Reynolds good night,
and promifing to meet that gentleman again on the
neat Monday morning at ten o'clock. The plaintiff,
however, did not keep his promife of meeting Mr.
Reynolds on the Monday, hut went off in the mean
time to Dublin, in order to avoid an arrell from Mr.
Clarke. He left his wife and chiLiren in his houfe, in
the New Rents, in St. Martin'. le Grant, and had
been heard to fay in Dublin, that he ih Add with to
revilit London on their account, butt was afraij to
d fo, dreading an arrell from Clarke. In the cootie
of the trial, it appeared that the name of the plaintiff
remained all the time of his abfence, on hi, door in the
New Rents, in St. Martin's leGrand ; that his name
was annexed to all invoices, &c. as ; alfo, that
the rent and taxes were regularly paid in the fame
way as if the plaintiff had been at home. The queflion
then became, whether the plaintiff, by leaving his
family and houfe in London, to (bun an at refi from
Clarke, had not committed an at of bankruptcy
Mr. Serjeant BEST, after the evidence was doled,
addreffed the jury upon the point. He laid, that
upon the verdia of the jury, ihould it plf. againfl
the plaintiff, a material queflion in law, firlajed to
the after decifion of the Court, would wife. It was
at prefent infifted upon, that the plaintiff's going to
Ireland, in order to avoid an arrell, was an at of
bankruptcy—but he contended that the plaintiff, in
quitting London and going to Dublin, did noTuch
thing. He had no concern with the Company in
London, Dublin was him home, and the place where
his friends refided. Had there been any foundation
for Clarke's arrefl,he could have eafily executed it in
Dublin, but there the plaintiff could have.given bail
which he could not have done in London, had he
been there arrefted. The Learned Serjeant alto
contended, that under thefe cir cumaances, the plain-
tiff had not violated the Bankrupt AO, in abfenting
himfelf from his dwelling. Uzi man was domiciled
in London, and left his abode to Ihun an arrell, he
undoubtedly committed an all of bankruptcy. He
fhould not wafte more time on the matter, but it was
kis duty to Rate, that this was nothing leis than a

cor,fptraey, againfl the plalatifF f.r ilte pnrpo(ecj
his utter ruin. He had r.ld .micile in Great. Britain,
and, was he not afraid of fatiguing the jury, he
could very eafily explain the circundlance of his
name remainine OR his bottle in the New Rents. Could
it then be (aid that this unfortunate, man had
committed an a& of bankruptcy ? Was it Paid
he had a home in England ? He believed not. The
fad was, that the articles diffolving partnerfhip is
Dublin, fpecify in the firongeß 'and moll pirated
term", that his refiderce—his only refidence—and
place of abode, where he was always to be found by
his creditors, was the city of Dublin, and no where
elfe on the face of the earth. Had it been proved.
that the Plaintiff had fled to difappoint a kill debt ?
No fuch thing. But he had gone out of the way to
etcape the dreadful effee, of a vile confpiracy again*
hint. Neither was it prtved, that the debt due to
Clarke was fuch as could entitle that gentleman to
arreft him ; on the contrary, that debt was owing to
Clarke by Morgan aLd Williams, as a Company;
and not by the Plaintiff as an individual.
Sir ALAN Cu Ala naE, is the abfence of Sir Jams
Miami en (i :difpofed thiough a cold) addreffeci
the Jury. He minutely recapitulated the evidence;
ftom which I e ftid filet e could be no doubt but that
the Plain; iff had committed an ad of bankroptcy.—
His Lordfh'p thought there was a fallacy in the ar,
gument of the Learned Serjeant, who had fuppreffed
the words of the Statue. The Plaintiff was not only
accufed of departing the realm alone, but with the
intentii n of ileftating the jai claims of his creditor's.
Betides, the Aa entailed a punithment on all natural
born fubjeas of the realm who commit Inch offences.
—The Jury, without hefitation, found a verdid for
the Defendant.