Star.
London, England, 1802-11-30 00:00:00

if the fentence I art about to pafs on you fhould
not be fufficient to check the crime you have been
guilty of; feverer punrlhment mull be reforted to
in future. Under all the circumftances of your
cafe, the Court cloth order and adjudge, that you
pay a fine of tool. and be imprifoned in the cuf-
tody of the Marlhal of the Marthalfea for the fpace
of three calendar months, and further until fuch
fine is paid,"
This being the k day of Term, the Court fat
till a very late hour ; but the motions did not re-
late to matters interefting to the public.
This was the lift day of 'Term.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOV. 26.
FKENTINE V. FROST.
The Counfel for the defendant moved for a rule
to thew caufe why a verdia formerly found for the
fubjca to the revifal of the Court, thould
not, iu whole, or in part, be fet afide ?
The Counfel (teed, that this adion had been
hi ought by the plaintiff for payment of wages due
to him from the defendant for his fervices as car-
penter on board his thip.. This had been refuted
by the defendant on two grounds: the fira was,
that the plaintiff, previous to his entering on board
his (hip in the Well Indies, had deferted from ano-
ther (hip ; and the fecond was, that after the vef-
fel had arrived in the river Thames, previous to
her being moored, or the cargo difcharged, the
plaintiff had left her, without regular leave to do
fo having been obtained. It appeared, from an
Aft of Parliament of the 37th of his prefent Ma-
jefly, entitled, an Al to prevent defertion from
the merchant {hips trading to the Colonies and
Weft Indies, that any feaman deferting a veffel
in foreign parts, without leave, obtained in writ-
ing, was fubjeded to the forfeiture of whatever
wages might be due to him previous to the period
of his defertion, and likewife of the wages he might
earn on board the veffel with which he thonld af-
terwards engage. As no fatisfaCtor y evidence of
his defertion from another veffel in the Well In-
dies previous to his engagement with that of the
plaintiff could be produced, the objeaion upon
this ground was over-ruled. With refpea to the
fecond point, it appeared, that by an At patted
in the ad year of the reign of King George the
Second, any feaman who left his fhip after her ar-
rival in the river Thames, before the had been
moored and difcharged of her cargo, without
leave obtained• in writing, was liable tp a for-
feiture of one month's wages, which month's
wages were to be paid to Greenwich Hofpital.
The plaintiff admitted that he had left the veffel
without any leave in writing, but at the fame time
proved that this was the general pradice ; that
the matter and owners of (hips were very happy to
get rid of them whenever they arrived in the river.
'l'hc Jury, perfealy aware that this was the com-
mon praaice, had returned a verdia for the plain-
tiff.—The Learned Judge obferved, that though
it was evident that the general pradice had been
for feamen to leave the veflels on board of which
they ferved, without any leave obtained in writ-
ing, yet, as this was certainly contrary to the aft
of the zd year of George the Second, the defen-
dant was entitled to a rule. He at the fame time
obferved, that this might not be much in his fa-
vour, as the Governors of Greenwich Hofpital
' might talk to him not only about the moiety de-
dated from the wages of the plaintiff, but like-
wife for one month's wages of the whole crew of
his veffel, all of whom, it appeared, had been dif-
charged without any written leave to that purpofe.
Rule granted.
NOVEMBER 29.;SHAWENBEILGEN V. HOBBART.
This aelion was brought by the Owner of a
Swedith veffel, which had been infured from all
accidents by the defendant, an Engli(h merchant.
Soon after this infurance had taken place, an em-
bargo was laid on all Swedith and Danifh veffels
in the ports of Great Britain. By this embargo
the plaintiff had futlained a very confiderable lofs;
but as the defendant had ;Mitred his (hip, he confi-
dered him obliged to make up the lofs, and upon
his refufal to do fo, brought this at:Hon againft him.
The Learned Judge obferved, that to allow the
lobs in fuch a cafe as thisto fall upon a Britifh fub-
jed, would defeat the purpofe for which the em-
bargo had been laid, which was to diftrefs our
enemies as mutt: as poltible. He was therefore
clearly of opinion that the infurance in the prefent
inhance was illegal. Plaintiff nonfuited.

THE LONDON SESSIONS
Commenced at Guildhall yeflerday,Mr. Alder.
man WA r sort in the Chair, affilled by the RECOR.
DER, to-. Not any trials of confequence occurred,
and the only one worthy notice, was the cafe of
Truelock v. Watkins. The profecutrix, Hannah
Tr Block, had preferred a Bill of lndiament
again fl Watkins, for an atrault. It appeared
that the hu (band of the profecutrix is an unhappy'
Maniac, confined in the Hofpital of Bedlam, of
which the defendant is one of the keepers ; that
on her going to fee her hutband, the had been or-
dered by the Secretary of the Hofpital, to leave
the place, owing to tome conduit not altogether
agreeit, with the eilablithment of the Houfe,
which the moll peremptofily refufed to do; in con-
fequencc of which, the defendant, with two others,
was directed to turn her out, to which the made
every poflible oppofition ; in consequence of which
they had recourfc to Tome violent means, and each
took an arm and forced her out. In the entitle of
the ftruggle the loft a tooth, and was otherwife
much bruited ; to prove which, the called the per.
ton of the honk where the lodged, -who fpoke to
her mouth being fo bad, for feveral days, that the
could not eat.
Mr. KNowLEs, on the part of the defendant,
timed the general well known charader of the per-
tons who concluded the Hofpital, as to their hu-
mane and kind attention to the unfortunate perlktns
tinder their care ; and further (bled, that the pro-
fecutrix had, on many occatlons, been very trou-
bicfome, frequently declaring her hutband was not
mad, and was unjuftly confined, in which cafe,
laid Mr. KNowLas, he must have inevitably been
hung, as the Magiftrates before whom he was exa-
mined, had him in charge for a threatened at-
tern et upon the perfon of His Majelly.
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