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London, England, 1807-03-18 00:00:00

LAW JATELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH 17.
FOX D. FLETCHER AND °THUS.

This caufe came en upon demurrer to the Defen-
dant's anfwer. The bill was filed for an account,
dikovery, &c. and charged the defendants with con-
federating in depreciating the value of certain articles
in the foreign market, to the plaintiff's injury, &c.
This caufe arofe out of feveral tranfaaions in the
fur trade. An agreement was entered into by a num
ber of perfons, about the year 1783, and feveral
fhips were fitted our, in order to carry furs from
Nootka Sound, and other parts of North America,
in order to fupply the refpeelive markets of RutLa
and China. The plaintiff was a party in this venture,
and charged the defendants with various :sets fubfe•
fluently done by them, in order to depreciate the
article in the foreign market, and by thefe pleadings
the defendants were called upon to let forth the num-
ber of fhips, of what defcription, tonnage, &c. ; at
what port and ports, &c. they were fitted out ; alio
when, where, and how they traded for skins in North
America and elfewhere, and what quantity, ;
:rad alto the number of lea otter !Lim imported into
Ruffia and China, and at what port or ports the fame
were fo imported, &c. and the quality and prices,
&c. during 'a long period of time ; and further, how
many and what were the tdias pnblifhed by the
Emperor of Rutlia, or by the Emperor of China,
prohibiting or encouraging this trade, or how other-
wife, &c. &c.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, after looking over thefe
pleadings, and repeating Come parts aloud, obfe.rved,
that this Bill reminded him of a cafe before Lord
Afhburne, upon a queltion of the lea wor thinefs of
a fhip, where it was Rated, that there had been a
quantity of rats on board, and it was afferted that
the leaks were flopped by the rats' tails, and the
party was called upon to let out in his anfwer, the
number of rats on board, and whether they had tails
or not, and other trifling and irrelevant matter. His
Lordlhip, therefore, could not fee the poffibility of
anfwering many of the allegations in the plaintiff'sßill.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL, Mr. PERCETAL, and
Mr. Coons, contended, at confiderable length, that
the demurrer was bad, in as much as it fhould have
let out the particular allegations in the plaintiff's bill,
to which the defendants were to give their anfwer,
and many of which were wholly irrelevant, and not
bearing at all upon the merits of the cafe.
Mr. LIACH, on the other hand, fupported the de-
murrer ; and with refpea to the merits of the cafe
itfelf, Paid, that it was of great importance the elle.
gat ions alluded to fhould be full; anfwered, as he
Ihould hereafter !hew, when the merits of the cafe
came to be (lit-cuffed. And, with refpeet to the form,
in point of law, it was quite fufficient.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid, that before he would
pronounce ajudgment upon this cafe, he would look
attentively over all thefe voluminous pleadings, many
of which appeared to him frivult us, irrelevant, and
wholly impoffible to be anfwered ; at the fame time
he did not wills to fisut the plaintiff out of any be-
nefit which he might derive from a more particular
anfwer to his bill. This being a demurrer for a dif
cowry, he certainly would look at it with a very
jealous eye. He obferved, howe►er, that calling
upon the party to let out how many otter thins were
imported into Rutlia and China, from all parts of
the world, for a long period of time, was a thing
totally impoffible.
This caufe confequently Rands over for judgment.

Lnacsvirv.—There are at prefent living in the
parillt of Loudon, county of Ayr, four brothers and
a filler, of the name of Campbell. They are cotters,
or vatlals, under the Countefs of Loudon and Moira,
and their ages united, amount to three hundred and
eighty fir. It is fingular, that the whole of them have
ever been diflinguifhed in the ()Arab for their good
tempers and quiet difpof►tions.

MARRIED.
Captain Hale. of the Royal North Gloucefter Militia, to the
Right Hon. Lady TheodoGa Bourke, fitter to the Earl of Mayo.
On Thurfday laft, Mr. Jofeph bevey. Jun. of Welt Hill. Wand.
worth, to Mir. Hollinfhead, of Newington place, Kennington.

DIED.

The Rev Mr. Becky, of Raton. near Manehefter.
Saturday fe'nnight, at Bootle, the Rev. Thomas Smith, retlor
of that parith, and vicar of Ulvcriton; and an ading Magiftrate
for the county palatine of Lancafter, and county of Cumberland.
At Nairn. on Toefday the 17th ult. Enfign Donald Ruff, of the
Royal invalids.
Ounday, at his bode in Rotheltcr, of a eonfumption, Mr. Tho •
mas Etherington, Bookfcller and Stationer.
On the 7th instant, at the Polygon, Southampton, Sir William
Dunkin, late one of the Judges of the Supreine Court of Judiea.
tore, Calcutta.