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London, England, 1802-12-20 00:00:00

LIW INTALLIGEWCIte

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC.
BASTMAN V. CHA%I&T.

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This aaion. was brought on a policy of infurtittt
made on the Seaflower hoop from London toLi[►
boa, which was afterwards captured by a French-
privateer.
On the 27th Nov, 1797, the fhip left the Pool
and joined the convoy on the 27th of Deceit:bet
but being feparated by hers of wea-
ther, was obliged to put into Rashkate, where The
was detained till the aoth ; &only after, the veffel
failed for Spithead in fearch of the courtly, but
found it had departed two days before. On the
[7th February, 179 R, another convoy was appoint.
ed, end the Seaflower, not being able. to keep up
with it, was again under the neceffity of putting
back. As the ship was deeply laden, the Captain
thought it would be conducive to her fafety, to
difcharge a part of the cargo at Portftnouth, for
which he obtained the perm►Q'ion of the owner and
the Underwriters.

This vefTel met with repeated difafters in het
feveral attempts to perform the voyage; at length
the arrived at Falmotithi on the 17th of April,
5798, failed with the donvoy under the command
of Lord Nelfon, but toting light of it, was captur-
ed on the loth, andearried-Into one of the French
was contended, on the pail of the Under-
wrtitersi that the Plaintiff thould have proved thdt
the convoy with which the veffelikiled was hound,
to the fame port, as it might have lieendettiged to
fomc other quarter of the globe ; that *ben
a (hip arrives at the rendezvous, afld folloais the
convoy, unlefs the overtakes h, it is contidereddte
fame as Wale had failed without it : ie tritkockarW
a deviation from the warranty, if a WO- foed'
the convoy and returned without effeaing it.
Lord Kenyon had decided, that if a vete' Gail-I
ed without the convoy appointed for the voyage,
although fhe might join it afterwards; it was ne-
vertherefs a breach of the warranty.. And in a
more recent decifion by Lord- Ezzattsottovam,
when, at the time the fignal was made for failing,
the Captain of a vefTel was on Sore, though be
joined The convoy foon after, this was oonfidered az
breach of the warranty. The Jury. found aver
did for the Plaintift

Two other egufes depended on the Me of the
preceding.

lIACICHOVSI V. RIPLeT.

'his was an aelion on a policy of incitranee, to
recover 1201. for part of the teroods 'chipped 'in tWe
Anderfon, from Liverpool to" lit which was 1011.
The articles in quertion Wei* -illt pans,
weighing upwards of 63 cwt. which, from their
bulk, could not be Rowed in the hold, but were
L• thed on the deck. The Underwriterslutd Mide
fatisfaaion for the reft of cargo ; but *it egg
not fpecified in the policy that there snide. werc
to be carried oh the deck, according to the ctifioni
in fuch cafes; it was contended that the Under.
writers were not bound to make them good,;:. -7
Several cafes were quoted on this .occafion,
it appearing that in no one Inftance, the Under-
writers bad been cot:Merv:l refpqnfible, the Plain-
tiff was non fuited.

On Thurfdiy evening was apprehended, at a
public bottle in Long-lane, Borough, by the BQW•
ftreet officers, Abrahani 10feben,n Jew, and four
other fulpthed perfons, charged, on fufpicion,
with cutting and nabbing in the belly Thomas'
York and another man, In the nustfth of September
lift, near Woolpack-alley, Houndfditeh, with an in- 1,
tent to rob. They were committed for teal.
A noted houfe breaker, named Pickett, has been
committed to Ilchcfter gaol, for breaking open the
houfe of Mr. Clarke, of Allicotti and Reeling
plate, cash, &c. to a large aMount. Some of the
property was found in his apartmenti A farmet
named Lovell, whole houfe was broke open a thou
time fine, hearing that. this depredator was in
cuftody, came to view him, and found part of his
property in his pofleffion. Another man named
Tucker, is alto committed on a Charge of being
concerned with Pickett in robbing the fainter.
MUSD/ I of Mifs Tessurre—The following are
frelh particulars of the late hotrid murder of Mifs
Tebbut, of Kegworth, in Leicefterfhire, briefly
mentioned in this Paper of Saturday r--Mils Teb-
but, who was about 28 years of age, and houfe.
keeper to her brother, in Kegworth, had been to
fee her mother, who lives only at the other end of
a dole adjoining the town, called the Home Clofe
(through which isapublicpath from theneighbour-
ing villages), was, on her return home, about ten
o'clock in the evening, molt brutally murdered, by
fume perfon or perfitns unknown.
As the was in the habit of frequently fleeping at
her mother's, her abfence created no alarm, par-
ticularly as it was fo near, and a very moonlight
night, but in the morning, about fir o'clock, the
WAS dilcovued by two young men, in a puddle on
the ground againil the ftyle leading into the town,
with her clothes turned over her face, her (hoes,
bonnet, and neck handkerchief torn off, and her
pockets rifled of shat valuables. the had ; they
went to a blackfmith who was at work, and got
her into his bottle; where fbe was firll recogniled,
through the die t with which the.was covered ; her
brother was immediately alarmed, and a furgeon
fent for, but lite expired while they were undreffing
her. From the britifes upon her legs, thighs, and
breaft, the mull have made great refillance, as the
party no doubt intended to violate her, but did
not fucceed, and in attempting to flint her cries
(which mull have been heard, from bottles being
fo very near), ftrangled her.—What renders the
circumftance more unfortunate and calamitous—
three or fur pertbns of relpetlability in the town,
were out in the neighbourhood Tithing, and did
not return till eleven o'clock, but though hereto.
fore accullomed to go over the dole, all very
4ngularly took a different way ; had they fortu-
nately gone as tifual, the mull have been found,
perhaps time enough to have faved her life, and
led to at difeovery of the inhuman mimfter who
perpetrated the horrid decd.—An Inuit was
taken, and a verdici of wilful murder returned
againft fume perfun or pukes Wino:ma.