Star.
London, England, 1807-12-04 00:00:00

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DORMER V. HAMBURCH.
Mr. ClAtitow Rated, that this was an aftion to
fec,,ver a fum of money advanced by the Plaintiff
to the Defendant, under the following circumflances:
The Plaintiff was an out penfioner of G►cenwich
Hofpital, and, in order to increafe his means of lab•
litlence, he had made feveral voyages to the Weft
Indies and home. It was truly atlonifhing, he Paid,
to remark ht-tw p-or and f shorn failors were del
piled, and had the doors of hofpitality and comfort
!hut upon them ; while the gates of feilivity and
good cheer were opened wide to thole forts of Nep-
tune who came home either with money in their
pocket, or entitled to wages from their employers.
Such► was the cafe of the Plaintiff. In September
hilt he had arrived from a Well India voyage, and
he unluckily lea into the hands of the Defendant, a
crimp ; who introduced him to Jofeph Jofephs, a
dealer in flops, in order to his getting,new rigged.—
lie bought horn this hone? Jew a parcel of flops, and
the Defendant told him he ought alto to have a
watch, in order to obferve host, time went with him.
The Plaintiff replied he had no more octagon fot a
watch than he bad for a carriage, and he refilled to
have it. It wa., however, forced, or rather palmed,
upon him ; be being told that if be did not like it,
he might return it in a few days, and all would be
right. Plaintiff then gave an order to Defendant
for payment if his wages as a mariner, and the
Defendant received from the Captain the (um of 311.
19'. This money the Defendant retained ; and the
to his utter confulion and aflonifhtnent,
was, in a few days thererif er arrefted, and lodged
in a fpuning hottfe kept by a baiiif? named Jenn.—
The Plaintiff while there, was waited on by the De-
fendant, who afl:ed him if he Ma+ not tired of con.
finement lie alto mid him that if he would drink

a bottle of wine. and tign a paper, he w: it'd let him
get. out. The Plaintiff agreed, and expeeted to get
Lis money back, but in that he was molt cruelly nif- I
appointed, as it had been ail ((pandered and diffipa-
ted by the Defendant. This, Mr. &srrow Paid, was
a new cafe ; he well knew how his Lordfhip would
clifpofe of it. He would protal the fearren, and not
fuller them to he pill 4ged by thefe iliarks, who were
more cruel and kfAi:4le than the waves thofe ma-
riners had been buffeting.
Captain Brooke proved having paid the Defendant
3 it. 19%. the Plaintiff's wages, for the voyage out and
home.
The Avroonsv GEXIIRAL, on the part. of the De-
fendant, !aid, that his Learned Friend had favoured
the Pry wiih a very hnmourous defcription of the
treatment a wealthy failor experiences on his return
home. The truth was, that the Defendant did re•
crive, fry ti e Plaintiff. the 311. z 9s. ; but with re-
vr,; to the t mance cf the Sop and the watch, filch

htd never been heara of befiire. The Plaintiff, it
ought to be (fated, was indebted to the Defendant
161. for which he had fued him, and the-Defendant
took that debt, and 31. 13$. 6d. the -eras, out of the
3d. ; fo that, including a charge of 11. per week,
log,three weeks board and lodging for nifhed the
Plaintiff, tbehalance due to him would amount to a
'Ay inconfidetable fum. •
To prove that the Plaintiff acknowledged being
in t e•Defeedant's debt, a man named Anderfon was
called. He Paid he was in candy for debt, in Jean's
bottle, at the dine the Plaintiff was brought there,
and he beard him acknowledge himfelf to be in the
Defenslant's debt, in a fum above ten pounds, though
he could not recoiled the amount. The witnefs, on
his croft examination by Mr. G*aaow, laid, that he
had been applied to to come forward on the trial,
only 141 night.
joreph Jofephs, the flop dealing Jew, was next
put into the box. He was, however, not examined,
he being one of the bail for the Defendant. He was,
of courfe, an incompetent witnefs.
Margaret Swyene the fervant of the defendant,
proved the plaintiff's lodging and boarding in het
mallet's houfe for three weeks, in September laff.—
She thought a pound, or a guinea a week, fufficient
payment for that accommodation. She recolledled
Mr. Jofephs felling him clothes, and his being arrell-
ed immediately thereafter. The plaintiff, the added,
had promifed to treat her with k new bonnet, and
the defired him to give her the money and the would
plies berfilf a but this he refilled, hying he would
exercife his own tale; the never got the bonnet, ow.
isg to the arrett of the plaintiff.
Mi. °ARROW, in his reply, laid he thould prove
that it was impoffible fuch a firm as 161. could be doe
br the plaintiff to the defendant. The way in which
a debt to that amount was attempted to be made out
was as novel as it was impudent. In the firft place,
the Bailiff and Ande: fon were afked as to the
amount; the one could give no information, the latter
gave a tellimony of a very fufpicious kind. I' Who
was this man, Anderfon ? Where does he come
from ? What is he ?" laid Mr. Garrow.—" Why,
all that we know of him was, that he was alfo in
durance at the time the plaintiff became his fellow
lodger and chum. By Anderfnn's own evidence the
defendant had only picked him up !all night, and
there was no other account of him, than that he was
originally found as a debtor in the fpunging houfe.
He could not admit therefore, that upon loch telli•
mony as this, 151. were due. It was laid, that crimp
muff live as well as other men. This put him in
mind of an anecdote of one of the French Minifiers
a little before the Revolution. The prefs of Paris
groaned wilh libels on the Government, and the
Minitler fent for one of tlinfe authors and Aced him
what he meant ? He replied that 'Weller: mug live
like other men ; the Minitler !hook his head, and
told him he doobted that, and form had him taken
into eulindy, when his lucubrations were put under
a proper controul. With regard to crimp, g
(as well as other men, I, laid Mr. Garrow) mutt
Ihake my bead, like Lord Burleigh, in The Critic, as
I have no doubt but that the naval and mercantile fer•
vice of the country would be equally well feived
and fupplied, were no fuch pep in exit4ence."
Lord ELLENZOkOOGH charged the Jury, (Wing
that the only point they had to determine, was the
amount due to the plaintiff. The Jury accordingly
found a verdict for the plaintiff for 311. 191. deduEt-
ing three guineas for the three weeks board and
lodging enjoyed by him from the defendant.