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PRIZE CAUSES.
The following Report cannot fail to interea our
Readers, as the decifion amounts to a new and fo-
lemn affirmance of that p•inciple which is at pi, lent
war oily difputed by the United States of Arno ica.
Privy Council Ctomber, Much t.,
CASIO, THII WILLIAM, JOHN TILSYRY MASrtlt.
This cafe, which was an appeal by an Ameri-
Can daimant, flora a lenience of the Court of Vice
Admiralty Halifax same a fecond time before the
Board 011 further proofs, on the 24th of Taft month,
when it was fully argued by the King's Advocate
for the cartnr, and by Dr. Arnold and Mr. Stephen
for the claimant.
At the dole of the argument it was intimated by
the Cnnrt, that they had no doubt what their decifion
ought to be, but that they tithed to refer to the t a-
, slaws cafes that had been cited in the argument, and
on that account only they direlled the caufe to (land
over for judgment on a future diy. Accordingly,
this day the unanimous judgment of their Lordibips
Was given, in a very able and luminous manner, by
Sir Wm. Grant, the Mailer of the Rolls.
His Honour &ft briefly Elated, the tingle queftion
in the caufe to be, whether the voyage in which the
property of the claimant was embarked at the time of
the capture, was a lawful voyage? The cargo in
qudtion confine,' of cocoa, which had been [hipped
at Laguira, a port in the Spanifh province of Carrac-
cas, in South America, on account of the claimant,
in the fame thip in which it was now captured, and
was brought to Marblehead, a port of the United
States, where it WAS entered and landed, a bond
having been given as ufoal for the duties; but it was
a few days afterwards re !hipped in the fame bottom,
and difpatehed on a voyage to Bilboa. Debentures
were thereupon granted to the claimant for the
amount of the duties, a (mall part excepted ; and
theft debentures being, at a fubfequent period, given
up at the Cullom Houle' and the (mall balance of du-
ties paid in calls, the bond given on the entry from
Lapin was cancelled.
This, our Readers a ill obferve, is the ordinary enure
of proceeding in like cafes; and which, it is contend-
ed on the part of America, amounts to a fair impor-
tation into that country, fo as to jutlify the fuldequent
tranfiniffion of the produce of a halite colony to the
mother country, or any other port in Europe, while
the -:ontraay is maintained by our Prize Courts.
The Mailer of the Rolls did not enter into chore
general principles of the Law of Nations, on which
this Country vilicrts a right to prevent neutrals from
carrying on the colonial trade of our enemies in gene.
ral ; principles which have been fo often difcuffed,
and fo often folcannly recognized by the Lords Coin-
iniffionen. He only obferved, that by the uniform
fen& of the Board, whatever branch of that trade
was not allowed by his Majelly's war ;nitrations,
was unlawful ; and that therefore the only queftion
for theU Lordllsips in this cafe was, whether the
voyage in otiention was fairly within the licence of
the Royal Inkration which applied to it ?
Hi. Honour then proceeded to expofe, in a (train of
the cleareft and molt conclufive reafoning, the abfur•
dity of regarding the deviation from the dire° courfe
of the intended voyage, (topping at an American port,
the landing and re.fhippiteg the cargo, and the for-
mal proccediugs at the Cuftom-houfe there, as le-
galifing a voyage which would otherwile have been
unlawful under the Royal 'nitration, when thole
ate are difcovered to have been merely ofienfible,
and concerted for the-very purpofe of evading the
rule of law. The true intention of the parties, he
obfcrved, might not, in general, be catty difcovered,
becaufe the fame exterior circumftances naturally ac-
sompaied an evafive, and a genuine importation.
But when an intent merely to give a falfe appearance
to the tranfation was difcovered, it was impoffible
for the Court to give effat to Each an intention, by
holding that the old voyage was difcontinued, and
that a new one had commenced, withottradmitting
that the legal charater of a tranfation was to be de-
termined, not by its real nature, but by the name
which the parties chofe to give it, and by the Lae
colours which they made it to wear.
The direa voyage from the Spanith colony to Spain
was clearly prohibited—but when colonial
.produce,
fhipped in the former, was defigned to.be carried In the
fame bottom to the latter, a deviation from the dirett
'nude of the voyage, contrived for the mere purpofe
of giving a new name and a new appearance to the
tranfaillion, could not alter the cafe. It was (till in
fubttance and area a direa and tingle voyage; and
in the conitration of plain common fenfe, in was ins-
poffible to view the reftriaion in a different way.
After illuflrating this point much at large. his Ho-
nour adverted to the sircumitance of paying or Caw-
ing duties, which hat been much infitled on by the
merchants of America, as legalizing thole voyages
according to the former judgments of our own Prize
Tribunals. In this refpea, be raid, the Lords Cont.
enialoners had been &fledged to have departed in a'
late cafe, that of the Effez, -- Orme mailer, front
tome rule they had previoufly Jaid down. But in
fa t. the payment of duties had never been regarded
by them in any other light, than a circumttanrial
evident: of beholds: to the Importation into America.
It had been fuppiifed, that large import duties were
really paid in that country, and if fo, to be Pure k
tionilhed a Rrong indication of a deign in the party
payitt--, them, to make a real, and nut merely an'
ratentible importation. So the Court of Admiralty
hasfreafonably thought in the cafe of the Polly, Lai'.
ky Mailer, the fir ft cafe on this fubjea, bat the Learn
ed Judge of that Court had anzioully guarded in his
judgment, againft the notion that this, or any other
circumnan:e, amounted to conclufive evidence, that
the importation was genuine, or that the payment of
duties of itfelf pare legality so the trade.
It Area wards appeared, however. in the cafe of the
Eifel, that the law of America, in refpea to theft
importations, was very different Isom what had been
sated in the former caret. and had been received as
fad, both by the Court of Admiralty and this Board.
Indeed of a large turn being paid fur duties, it Jas
' found that a bond only was given. and that dehen.
tures were iffued in return by the Cullom Houle, on
the production of which, after the re exportation, the
bond t as cancelled, except that a very (mall prime-
tion of the duties was paid and retained. It appeared,
for innarce, in Me cafe of the Effea, that of 5278 ilol
tars, the total amount of duties for which bond had
been given, no leO than yofics dollars had been &defied
is Cush debentures, and only a 98 dollars eV oak: paid.

It became evident, therefore, that the inference for.
merly drawn from the fuppofed payment of duties;
was groundlefs • for, though it might be prefumed
that the party who paid fo large a fum as goon dol-
lars to the Cullom houfe, intended an actual impor.
tation, the payment of the petty fum of 198 dollars
could fopport no fuch prefumption. Conleguently,
from the time that the law of America became ent-
reaty known to gur prize tribunals; the paying or fe-
curing duties could no longer be rtgatded as a ma-
terial matter of evidence, in cafes of this kind.
Here his Honour remarked, that this country could
not be reafonahly accufed of wifhing to prefaibe to
Ametica what duties the thould reteiste or retain in
this (pecks of commerce. If the thought fit to admit
of fuch importations wi•hout any duties at all, the
only confeguence would be, that there would be one
circumllance the lefs, from which the trite intent*
of the importer could be collated. The guellion Rill
would be as now, and as it had always been, whether
the tranfallion was real and fair, or only a colourable
proceeding, in order to evade the rule of law, by con-
gealing the true nature of the voyage?
His Honour next declared, that lie had carefully
looked into all the dee;ded cafes on this fubjea, and
that he found, not only that there was no difference
between them in principle, upon this point, but that
they all fupported the rule he had laid down, with
great uniformity. To prove this, he went through
the leading circumfiances of each of thefe cafes, iu a
chronological order, and (hewed, in the moll fat isfac •
tory manner, that the landing and paying of duties
alone, had never been regarded by the Court as con-
clulive ; but that the quellion had always turned on
the intention or the importer, as collated from all the
eircumhances taken together; that when pnfitive evi-
dence was in fume cafes given of both thefe fats, and
when the duties were believed by the Court to have
been adlually paid, hill further proof was dirated as
to infurances, as to off:ring the cargo for fele in the
neutral port, and other circumflances indicatory of
the true intention of the party; and that when the
tranfallion was found to have been merely defigned
to break in appearadie the continuity of the voyage,
and thereby elude the rule of law, the property, not-
withltanding the landing and paying of duties, had
always been condemned.
Long prior, therefore, to the czfe of the Etter, the
American merchants molt have known, if they at-
tended at all to the proceedings of this Board, that
the landing a cargo, and paying or timing duties
on it, in their own ports, would not (office to pro-
tat their trade between the hohile colonies and Eu-
rope; and the prefent complaint of furprize or want
of notice, was totally unfounded.
His Honour then applied the general rule, thus
clearly ellabliffied, to the cafe in judgment. Here he
°bre:Ted the claimant had not left them to make out
his intention from circumtlantial evidence, for he ad-
mitted the receipt of letters and prices curtent from
Spain, which determined him, before the snivel of
this cargo at Msrblehead, to fend it forward to Spain.
Confequently the fulifeguent tranfaElions at the Ame-
rican port, could not be intended as an spatial impor-
tation into that country, but were merely ufed as a
cover for his pre conceived put pole, and the voyage
from Laguira to Spain was difenntinued for a while.'
in appearance only, not in reality.
Judgment was given condemning the property as
lawful prize.
Dr. LAWRFNCI. as Anita: f orie, Rated to their
Lordffiips, that in the cafe of the Polly, Lacy, at the
Admiralty, an affidavit had been produced, on the
part of the Claimant, fisting the canal payment of
the duties, and that the Court was at that period not
at all aware that the duties were fecured by bond in
thefe cafes, and difcharged by debentures in the way
that had lince appeared. He alto mentioned, that by
the law of America, as now clearly underhand, the
importer adtually derived a pofitive advantage by
thefe tranfaElions, for that though the duties are not
, paid, negotiable debentures are iffued on the credit
of the bond.

It redounds not a little to the hill and credit of
the framers of the prefent Lottery Scheme, that
notwithßanding the (mall extent of its Tickets, it
contains fuch a number of Capital Prizes, and even
one of fuch a magnitude as that of 25,0001. But
when it is added that it poffefles more Prizes than
ufual of wool. and between fix and feven thoufand
Prizes from toool. to xll. whereby the chance of
blanks is very confiderably lefened, it may be pro-
nnuneed without hefitation, that it is the moll inter-
ening and advantageous Scheme produced for many
years to the embrace of adventurers.
Minseessz Sassions.—Yellerday thefe Sefflons
were held, before the Chairman, M. WAIN wmtiwo,
Ern. and a Bench of plaices, for the purpnfe of
(wearing in the Grand Jury for the County of Mid-
dieter, and the ufual number of conftables. This
ceremony takes place every Segion of Oyer and Ter-
miner, alternately at Hicks's-hall, Clerkenwell, and
at Guildhall, Weamintler, in order to maintain the
iurifdiftion of the City and Libtrties of Wellnoinfter,
1 in the County of Middlefex.
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After fome other routine banners, the Cnnrt ad.
journed to this morning, ten o'c)'ck, when the Chair-
' man proceeded to try the feveral iraverfeis ; the lift
contains upwards of fifty defendants. Theta are alfo
a number of felons for trial.

LONDON Stssinas.—Yefterday the adjourned Ser..
Eons were held at Guildhall, before the Recorder and
City Officers. After fwearing iri the Jury, a cafe of
alfault was called ; hut the profecntor did not appear,
and the Defendam was dacharged. Several appeals
,ben occurred, the mat material of which was the
following :—Mr. Chore, a refpeelable wine merchant
rending in Tower Ward, appealed for the refloration
of his licence, which had been taken away, on the
ground that he bad attempted to turn his hnufe into a
public-houfe, and fell wine in (mall quantities, to the
-injury of the publicans, ite. in the neighbourhood. His
licence did not permit him to vend a bottle of wine ;
and in the prefmt inllance he telnelied the Cowl
would grant hint a beer licence, which would enable
hits to demand payment for fmall quantities of wine.
He Rated, that it was not his intention to injure the
publicans relident in the ward, or to fell fpiritons
liquors; and called two reipeElable inhabitants to
(peak in his behalf, who gave him an excellent
racer. The Court were induced to grant the appli-
cant a fret!' licence; and the Recorder intimated a
/Ripe that his indulgence would not be at.ufed.
Several •agrants were difpofed of in the ordinary
way, and the Saran adjourned.

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
IUrESSR N. CURRIE and Co. Sergenns, bating for
along reties of years made the VENEREAL. DISFA.,t the
particular uhj:•Q of their Mveftlgation, are now enabled to an.
nounee the difeovery of a Medicine faperlor to Mercury lu the
Care of that Weak. It is at prelim' fullUent for them to ohfcrre
that its effects are diametrically oppolite to chafe ta: Mercury, for
though It completely eradicates every vellige of the tiros in its
molt confirmed lieges, yet It does not in the keit injure the confli-
cation, or alter tl.e complexion ; on the contrary, it renovates the
fyfteni in Milts natural fundions, promotes Appe.ite, and facili-
tates Digeitlon. Nuntbertefs Initances arc on recent recard of the
fuperlor effi:aey of this Medicine, Its Inherent and fpecine virtues
seting as a perpetual enrreetive to bodily dehi:ity, whether pro•
calling from an exec(' of conjugal and illicit pleafures or from the
more infidious though not leis delteualve Indulgence In a certain
pernicious bible. Amidft the melancholy variety of Iliforders
which are the eonfequence of this tulltaryvice,thcre arc none Sneer
affiPling than thole DFS/CIINCLS and Dein LITI rs that prevent or
embitter the matrimonial Rate. The wtetcbcd fufferer broods over
his misfortunes, afoarned to reek relief till it has breu?ht himito
fuck a Rate at natal as to render life oppreffive. To thole tin •
happy Perforu it will be a confiding Ml6:lion to know that they
may now, by a new and infallible mode of treatment, he reltored
to that greateft of all human bleffings, a prong, rnanhi, and vior-
ou s Coultitudon. _

Mel% Currie and Co. may he conrulted by Patienta.nt either
Sr:, at tittle H00f..., No. toy, Hatton Gardrn, P...lonaliv or by
!titer (raft paid) incloling a Bank Note, when the nrcaary ad.
vice and Medicines will be given or fent to .Iny Fart ut the Xing-
dom.—Patient. is. the Country are mitt:fled to Rare their age and
general mode of living.
No lob Hatton Garde&

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SEASONED HUNTERS.
TO BE SOLD 131' AUcliON, by Mr. PEES: UN,
At Mr. Pinder'', the What L ,
On Monday the sift of April. at Twelve *Thiele
ROLLIKER, a full Blood Hoak s ELLVT. a
full Blood Mare, by Ouftavuo ; ADMIRAL, by r leasing
ROUGH WILL, by Calomel t..CAPTAIN. by True Libre. -
They are the property of Sir John Maxwell, have been may -
fatly bunted with Lord Monfon's, and oerafionally with other
Fos Hounds in the Neighbourhood carryinr list,rt Roues
May ht. teen by applying to the Or oat.
Lincoln, April sy, 51306. —
HARLINOI'ON ana CRANFOR' s MMULFSEX,

TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOU) het..re Asti. Mor,t.y.Efq.
Dewy to the Remembrant.er of 14,1114eity'• Court of Fiche-
qutr, on Friday. the ath April infttat. at r wel,e &Cloth at
Noon, at the Magpie, Inn, liounfLtre Heath, I•urfuanr to ati
Orli. of the raid Court, made i;t a Cauft: the King :4,11)1
Denton,

A FREEHOLD ESTATE in Eight Lnoi, con.
lifting of 3o Aere► and t Ra.n,t of Rich Arable Lana lyiap
difperfed in the common Fields of Harlington and Cranford, Lit:
the nate of Mr. William lienfon.

Particulars may be had at the D. pury Remembrancer's Ofll..et
In the Inner Temple, London ; of John Vivian, Erg. Solicitor t 4
his Well es Excite; of Mr. St reef, Solicitor, Philpm.lane ;
Bials.: and White, Solicitors, Hie: Brett, Strand; at the WiP.:4
Hone. Uxbildze • Red Lion, HOUPfIOW ; Mr. Grimault, Auc-
tioneer, BrentforEnd ; and at the Place of Sale.
VALUABLE BREWERY-, srian., AND WINE 1 RADE.

rO BE SOLD,
ALEASEHOLD BREWERY, at Newport, IRi
of Wight, a genteel and flouriblog Town. with good Malt-
honk, excellent Store rooms, Wine Vaults, with new built Ctwel-
ling.huure trtenlive roomy premises, many Freehold and Lesfea
hold Public•botges, and a very confideralds trade in Wine and
Spirits attached to the fame. The returns to o•-: I. per annum, and
nr.y be incrcarcd to any extent. The Property w:ll I>r fell jointly
or feparately, and well worth the attention of any Inclined
to nits: on a genteel independent, profitable, and extenfive con-
cern. Farther partieteats may be known by application (r(t paid)
to Melfrs. Steane and Weedon, the Proprietors; and Chi ken and
Sewn, Newport. We of Wight; or /shirrs. Wright and Sewell.
Chancery lane, London.
N. B. The Stock ennfilting of near too Barrels of strong Beer
and Porter 200 quarters Malt. finite Mips, to pipes of Wine is
wood, Soo dozen in bottles, and abco t tsco gallons Spirits, to he
taken at a fair valuation. If aerecahly to the Purchafer
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• 1 kitS, ISUILLARS, Wite.ht.Wellauffe, &c.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
On the Preinifes, Mune at Faith's• Green, Mahlfinne, In the ffvun-
ty of Kent, on 'Murray the iyrh April inftaot, at Merest
u'Clock, by Jou w Bt snoe, by order of the Afilgatees of Thomas
Godden, a Bankrupt,
ALL the Valuable Stock in Trade, cenlitling of
a large Quantity of Dealt, Battens, Moulding., o:a:ter:rigs,
and Scantlings of different Sorts ; alto a quantity of Oaa limber
and fops, Dry Elm Board of various Thickneffee, .iifo various
Faits, Naves, and other ufeful Materials iu the Wheelwright
Buknefs, with a variety of Naila and other Articles of Ironmon-
gery. Seven very compleat Carp:nter's Benches add other Tebla
and lit:n(ll9,a large Truck and a Strong Cart.
Alfu the Einufehold Furniture, condfting of Chairs Tables,
Feather Beds, Bcditeads,aud variety of other Goods.
N. B. The Frochohl Husk, Wurkftwips, and Premifel fitted
up in the molt convenient manger for the carrying on an retentive
Buiii.efa, will be Oiortly offered for fate.
Thewhole may be viewed previods to the Sale, and Catalogues
had on the prendfes of Mars. Swain and Stevens, Solicitors, Old
Jewry.l.onamt I and of the Auction, er, Makitione.

the ek.CON I) PART of the TRUCRhr:SS7—t L LEAL
To be PERIM a' lit 'IDLY SOLD by.AUCTION,
By Melf be SKINNER. DYKE and Co.
• Without Referee,
On Thurfday the zeth of April, at Twelve o'clnek, and two fol-
lowing DAy., at the Truchfaffian Gallery, In the New Road,
Mary-la-borme,l„..ndon,
THE Second Part of that Magnificent and duly
capital COLLECTION of PICTURES, well known se
forming the TRUCHSESSIAN GALIARY ; which have been
imported at an immer.fq expellee from the Continent. They cons.
prifr tome of the fircft^ Work, of the molt celebrate'? Manus a
the Italian, French, Final?), German, and Dutch Schools, yin.
L. Da Vinci P Brill Van Mal len
S. Dcl Piumbo Schilone M Schoen
Titian C. Cignanl Aldergralf
Pordcnone CaiUgliorie 1- Van Lerdeo
Baran Puuffin Hol:den
Cavedone Claude Papua
Marillo C. Macau' &Nary
Carmel Cowl Lain:ire
Rembrandt Ruben* Tcnicrs
RuyElzel Saul ken Wyhants
R. Ruych Deaner
Among the various Chef &Oeuvres are the Marion and Child,
a chinning Piffiure, by Vandyck ; a gram! Romantic Landfcape,
Ruyidael ; Jofeph and Potiphar's Wife, a capital rrformance, by
Domenichino • Sufannah and the Elder', Guercino ; a Porraitof
a Lady by Candle.light, Schalckeir ; a capital Lacdfcape and Fi-
gures, Remi•randt; the Adoration of the Shepherds. a Sketch,
Coregglo; together with freeral rare Specimens of the early Ger-
man School, Irritable fur Altar Pieces.
To be viewed three days preceding the Sale...-Catalognes may
be had,at One Shilling each, on the Praia s,and of hlears.Skin-.0
nee, Dyke, and Co. Alder fgate-ftreet ; alto of Mr.
Printer, Path; Mtßn. Rudball and Co. Printers. Briftul; Mr.
Billings, Pi inter, Liverpool; Me. Damian), Printer, Edinburgh;
Mr. Tait, Printer, Glafgow; and of Mcifrs. GiMertand Hodges,
Bookfellers, Dublin.
N. B The THIRD PART bring the remahader of this value-
bk COLLECTION of PICTURES wilt be fubmigted to Safe ea
the sad, 134, mad s4th of May.

Jaa pabllflted,
And to be had of H. D. Symonds, Yakima:ler row, and all the
Boolthliers, price 31. a New and elegant Ed:lon of
QOLOMON's GUIDE *1:0 HEALTH; which.
la in a coneife manner. recommends the moil fimgle and t IL-e-
-dam* rem, dies with proper twos of treatment for tighten, lots
of arp.aite, blreennefs, bilhous complaints, green ficknefs, con-
fonaption, female difeafes, fi JOT albut, flatulence, glects gonoriora.
hypochondriac or melancholy complaints, Juvenile infifcretiou,
lowncfs of ffirits, menfttual cvacuatic,ns, nervous dlfeales.
HAVING dedicated myfell in the Rudy, and been
gratified by the moft ecuilderalile practice in that branch
which I thought prtfer wicket, I true that I have not more mil.
employed my time than thofr who, in the extenfive held e the
p.ofselon, are oceaflonally immerfed in tine scan ty, and cannot
always attain that fueeefs which is acquired by Concentrating the
inttftedbial power to one clefs of di:orders.

The difealls of DESI!..ITY are pxotiarly dULr.Ong, far tier
bring with thrm a train of concomitant fymptunts, and by s de.
preflion of all vital entrp y, ellfttnceitfelebnotnes embittered.
Whe,her they sac from the prevalence of HI example, the &Anse.
tivr habits of fchoolboys.or the indu'gcmes of maturity, they r►.
quire tim moil ailiduous prot.fflacial Mill I but by the Ignorance of
uneducated men, the fymptoms en aggravated, and the cold)
:tan Is deftroyed.

Asa NIE:VI BLit 3f the ROYAL COLLEGE of Stißt.,4ol4::'
I wound my prttcnfions on regularity of cdu-ation, and pcillefliow':
piiviLec to prtn.9Jce, I feel tnyfelf entitled to that Coll t; &ACC
nub *which I have hitherto:Men f.• liberally honoured.
In the fin[ fella:lons of local weaknefs, carli application wit"
prevent the Cab CitT of a .h.bilitated fmme ; :lit where the folferof%
from a c,mleinufuele of the utimaolimis of the sic.. whir ..KAufetl
his mt•furtune.l. tearful of the cont.:mist or cenfure of his family
pby &Lin, 104 broads over his ir.Enisity with careful concealment,
it mutt be Coif faZtory for him to he allured not ohly of capshfill
of treatment bat alto of the molt Mal stable fecreey.
And In recentVenercal Complahus it is point* to prusent pain,
danger or dare's ; In the molt complicated e.,fce It Is the acquire-
ment of exchifive experknee In this WIC to LEed a fate, ecrt:ln.
and speedy re-e{tabilthment.
I offer the advantage of this experience tot hofe of Hier fez writs
are afill,fted with any kind of 1/1.1.111-17Y, of any tyntptoms of
VENEREAL INFECTION, and In all cafe* the terms of retail-
neration are Rated on the fire:interview.

Patient. in the country are expetted to Mein re a DAnk note, and
are requefted • to (wiry their ace and manner of
MARTIN BRIE,
Member of the Royal Lolhge u: Surgeons. in Landes.
No. 29, Anindel ftntet. Strand, two Temple Aar.

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