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London, England, 1801-03-06 00:00:00

6IERIt4 LEONE HOUSE,,

MARCH 5, aor.
By accounts received from Sierra Leone, dated
the Bth January, it appears that the refraftory dif-
pofition which in a former inftance had nearly
overturned the Colony, and had for Tome time in-
creafed among many of the Colonifts from Nova
Scotia, and for the reftraining of which a Charter
of Juake for the Government of that Settlement
has lately been granted by the King inCouncil, had
broken out in open inforreEtion. The infurgents
were at firft oppofed by the Company's fervants
and by Tome of the belt difpofed part of the Nova
Scotian, and were compelled to leave the fettle-
ment. They were afterwards taken or difperfed
through the able and fpirited exertions of Lieut.
SMITH of his Majetty's 24th regiment, who ar-
rived at Sierra Leone at the periodfin queltion with
a body of Maroons, and with a (mall corps of
Britifh troops, and who was ably feconded by
Lieut. TOLLY of the fame regiment, and Lieut.
SHEIIIIFF of the Royal Navy.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING% BENCI4, FEB. st

The irifiirreetion unhappily was not quelled with-
out bloodthed, two of the infurgents having been
killed, and three principal fomenters of the rebel-
lion, after being tried and capitally convieted, hav-
ing fuffered punifhment.
The peace of the Colony had been completely
reftored, when the accounts came away, and a
body of troops from Goree were expefted to ar-
rive in a few days, which were to be permanently
Rationed at Sierra Leone. Mr. DAWES, the late
Governor, who went out to take upon him again
the Government of the Colony, arrived a few
days before the difpatches came away.

A letter has been received from Madras, dated
the tft of October, which contains the following
intelligence The fhip Prize has lately arrived
here from the ifland of Ceylon, which place the
left in the middle of Auguft. By this conveyance
we are informed, that an infurredion broke out
among the natives, between Columbo and Ne-
gombo, which was happily fuppreffed by the vi.
gilance and activity of Capt. WILLIAM VINCENT,
who was at that period in command of Negombo,
a fea-port on the Weft coati of the IRe of Ceylon,
and with a detachment of Malays, attacked the in.
furgents, and completely drove them into the
wildeft part of the Candian country ; fine which
all fymptoms of revolt have fubfided, and tran-
quillity has beta effected without lots. Two com-
panies belonging to his Maiefty's loth regiment
arrived in time, to affift in caperfing the fugitives.
The Northern part of the ifland remains tranquil.
The diftrit of Matura has alfo experienced a fpirit
of revolt ; but that part is now peaceable. Major
Folio, Commandant of Manaar, on the Eaftern
nail of the ifland of Ceylon, has raifed fome new
fortifications there, and put the place in a ftrong
Rate of defence. It is reported, that the principal
reafon of difcontent in the above Provinces arofe
from a certain tax, which the wifdom of Govern-
ment had thought proper to levy, and which was
by no means injurious in its operation to thofe on
whom it was intended to be impofed."
As it is generally apprehended that the Court
of Liffion will foon be compelled by the threats of
France and Spain to declare againft us, the prin-
cipal merchants engaged in die Portugal wine
trade on Wednefday waited upon Mr. PITT, in
order to confult him upon the occafion. We un-
dertland he admitted the exiftence of the danger,
though he expreffed his hopes that it would not be
immediate, and obferved, that if the merchants
withed to have their effects fccured, he had no ob-
jection to their bonding their wines for two years.
By accounts from Rome we learn that the Pore
has received affurances from Paris, that the States
of the Church, with the exception of Bologna,
Ferrara, and Romagna, which were already given
up by his predeceffor, fhall labour under no ref-
tridions in confequence of the impending Peace.
The POF a's Nuncio, Monfignor Sr I la a, is conflantly
at Paris, and is fupported -by the Spaniffi Court in
his Treaty for an Ecclefiaftical Eftablifhment.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT iv FIRS !—About two
o'clock on Wednefday morning, happened, at No.
io,Charlotte-ffireet, Portland-place, another dread-
ful inftance of the extreme danger with which the
fafhionable articles of female drefs are worn in
any carelefs fituation by a fire. A Gentleman who
had been on a vitit to Mifs SARAH Rion', (upped
with her, and had been gone but a very thort time,
when fire was by fome accident communicated to
her head-drefs. No perfon was with her in the
room, and ere the was aware of her danger, the
reft of her clothes were in flames. In her firft
furprife, the had run to Rifle them with the win-
dow-curtains, but without effect- Her fcrvant
was at laft alarmed, and called the afliftance of
Mr. Wit I.:APIs, Surgeon, from the bottle oppofite.
When he came in, Mifs Ricios flood at the door
of her apartment, holding the door with one hand,
with the other the corner of a theft of 4rawers
near it. She had feizcel both with a convulfive
grafp, and was in the agonies of death. They
could not relax her hold to remove her, but her
ftrength was exhaufted by the effort, and the
almolt immediately funk down and expired. Her
limbs were contracted, and her whole frame molt
frightfully fcorched.
The flames had fpread over the room, and it
was with difficulty that the houfe could be Caved.
On Taefday fe'nnight, between one and two
o'olock in the morning, the inhabitants of Hull
were again alarmed by fire. Mr. Meggitt's brew-
houfe m Storey•Clofe was difcovered to be on fire,
and from its fituation, being amidft a number of
other houfes, great apprehenfions were entertain.
ed for their fafety ; providentially after the arrival
of the engines an immediate flop was put to its
deflrudive prolgrefs, but we are forty to fay not
before the roof -had fallen in, and part of the uten-
fils in an upper chamber deftroyed ; but from the
exertions of all ranks of people, the property in the
orewhoufe and the adjacent premifes were all fe-
cund. As no fire had been in the building for
lonic time previous to this affair, there is every
reafon to believe that it had been the work of fome
wicked and malicious palm,

the conierfation which preceded k. He fa* Mr.
Duncan ftrike Mr. Brickwood, the confequenee
of which was a black eye ; but Mr. Brickwood
did not 1411, for be laid hold of the Rand in the

BRICICWOOD V. DUNCAN. (vane. Mr. Duncan had the charaCter of being
The Arroaxty GENItAL Rated that this was a very generous good-natured man.
an action for an affault. The Plaintiff and Defen. Mr. Jones, a furgeon, who attended Mr. Brick-
dant were merchants in this City. This was a wood, (aid he found him very much disfigured :
fpecies of injury feldom complained of by perfons one of his eyes almoft doled up. He was exceed-
of this rank and Ration in life ; for, whatever might ingly affected by this injury. He thought he never
be the defea of the prefent generation, its manners law a.greater impreffion made by a fill in a man's
were confiderably improved in comliarifon of thole face in his life, than he law in the face of Mr.
of former ages, and it was now but feldom that a Brickwood in this inflame. He continued in this
Gentleman ]had to complain of a grofs and brutal (late with the marks of violence on his face for eight
affault being committed nn him ; but this was an or nine days : he was in great pain, and obliged to
exception to the general good manners of Gen- keep his houfe.
tlemen. The infult here complained of was at- Mr. East INS addreffed the Jury in an ingenious
tended with a confiderable injury, for the Plaintiff fpcech for the Defendant, in which he infitted that
was fo disfigured by the violence, that he was it was not probable the Defendant (hoald have
obliged to withdraw himfelf from the public view ftruck the Plaintiff without great provocation, but
for a while, it being unpleafant to exhibit marks of which there could be no evidence, luxe the wit-
of difgraceful violence on his face, which were the nets who law the lcuflic did not hear the whole of
effea of the Defendant's mifbehaviour. The infult the converfation. The truth was, he faid, that the
here was of an aggravated kind, for it was offered Plaintiff had provoked the Defendant by railing
in the public Corn Exchange, in the pretence of all the price of the market unfairly ; the Defendant
the molt intimate connations and acquaintance of was to purchafe theft articles for Government,
the parties. They were perfonsef large property, and had the belt willies fur the public (who GOD
and favors and dealers in corn. Some overtures knows pay enough already for every thing) and
were made by the Plaintiff to a Mr. Sawyer, for the walled the price of things to be kept down at the
purchafe of tome peafe, and Mr. Brickwood hay- market, and it was out of this the converfation
ing made an offer to him of 51. Bs. per quarter, arofe, in which the Plaintiff gave the Defendant
for forty quarters of that article, the Defendant the lie. The Defendant alledged that the Plaintiff
chofed to make fome obfervations on that fubjea, had railed the price of this article ; ti,e Plaintiff
and to alledge that the Plaintiff had offered to pur- laid he had not ; but why did he refute to go with
chafe a hundred and fixty quarters, fo as to en- the Defendant to Mellis Sawyers and Williams,
hance the price of the article at the market. The kill by, to clear the matter up ?—No, he refuted,
Plaintifffaid, lie was mifinformed on the fubjcn; and perfifted in giving the lie to the Defendant.
that the price he had offered was 51. Bs. and that The Attorney-General had laid, that the prefent
was only for forty quarters"—which the Defendant generation was improved in manners, and he ad-
contradiaed, and, with an oath, alledged " that he mined it ; but there was a tpirit among us, that
had offered to purchafe ifioquarters of Mr. Sawyer, was not diminifhed fence the days of Alfred, and
in order to raife the price of the Market." This that was to maintain promptly our veracity when
the Plaintiff pofitively denied, and he bell knew attacked. A man's veracity in England was like
what he was doing, nor was there any authority the chaßity of a virtuous woman, nut to be fuf-
veiled in the Defendant to examine the Plaintiff pefted ; this fudden gull arofe from that fpirit, anti
upon interrogatories, as to what he was doing, ought not to be vilited with any ferious penalty.
although he chofe to exculpate himfelf from the Lord Kenyon Laid, the Jury were in poffeflion
charge of having bought, or offered to buy this of the whole Cafe, but he could not help obferv-
quantity, in order to enhance the price of the ar- ing, that there was a difpofttion to make the molt
tide at the market ; but the Defendant was not of this in the firft witnefs, for he faid the Defendant
fatisfied, he did not chufe to be fatisfied in a knocked the Plaintiff down, whereas it appeared
gentlemanly way, but laid with unbecoming afterwards that this happened not to be fo. The
harfhncfs, "Do you mean to give me thelie, Sir?" Jury would confider of the Cafe without any ob•
A lie—the Plaintiff was maintaining his own ye- (creation from his Lordthip.
racity, and fupporting the conliftency and pro- Verdia for the Plaintiff, damages tool.
prim of his condua, and the Defendant had no INGLIS U. ISHSRWOOO.
right to difpute it; and when a man tendered to This was an anion of trover brought to recover
another an iffue to enter into a quarrel, which he the value of a quantity of hemp, iron, and deals.
does by alking, "Do yon mean to give me the It appeared that the goods had been purchafed in
lie ?" he ought to meet tome legitimate rebuke. Ruffs and !hipped on board a veffel called the
The Defendant's mikonduet did not end here, for William, chartered for tile purple, and bound
' immediately on this, he (truck the Plaintiff (eve- for England. They had been configned to a mer-
ral fevere blows, fome over the nofe. which occa- chant of the name of Crane; but Crane becoming
finned an effufion of blood—others over his eyes, bankrupt, the configner wifhed to have nothing to
which doled one of them up fur feveral days, and do with him on that account, and re-configned
disfigured him fo that he was not able to (hew them to another perfon of property and credit.
I himfelf in public. This was the fort of intuit which Upon their arrival they were demanded by the
was offered to the Plaintiff, and this the injury he Plaintiff, who is allignee to the bankrupt, and,
fuffered before his countrymen in the public Corn as the perfon in whole cuflody they were refitted
Exchange of London : and the Jury would have to furrender them, he brought this anion to reco-
to fay, what attic' of themithes would have ex- ver their value.
peaed by way of reparation, if the complaint was The cafe was extremely perplexed, and involved
exhibited by one of them.—He did not mean to feveral points of the mercantile law of Ruffin.
a& for vindiaive damages, nor for any thing that Lord KENrow at length interfered and raid, that
went beyond the due proportion which one thing as the queftion was one upon which the Jury would
ought to bear to another; but they were to reprefs find great difficulty in deciding, it had much bet-
this fpirit of brutal violence, and to affire the pub. ter be referred to arbitration. His Lordfhip's re-
lic that the places of public refort (!hall not he commendation was adopted, and a reference was
turned into boxing fchools, and that a man is not immediately agreed to.
to be beat becaufe he does not chufe to retraa the MARCH 2,—.TUEBS v. GILSON.
truth in compliance with the outrageous temper Mr. GAMY opened the Pleadings, from which
of any one who chutes to infill upon a falfehood in- it appeared, that this was an aftion on a Policy
jurious to his character, but that on the contrary, of Infurance on the (hip Franklin, warranted
men (hall be protected in the vindication of their American, at and from Liverpool to Naples, &c.
own veracity, and the decorum of Public places The Leading Counfel for the Plaintiff obferved,
(hall be preferred. that this anion was brought again( the Defendant
William Hales, clerk to Mr. Brickwood, the to recover tsol. the amount of his filbfcription to
Plaintiff, (wore, That the Plaintiff was in the a Policy of Infurance on the (hip Franklin, on a
habit of attending the Corn Exchange daily.— voyage from Liverpool to Naples. This (hip bad
That he was with him on the ill of December been purchafed by Mr. Tubbs, the Plaintiff, who
la, there; he law the Defendant, Mr. Duncan, is a native of America, of two perfons, alto citi-
there often alto ; he came up to the Plaintiff that zens of America. She commenced her vo) age
day; the Witnefs heard them (peaking together about the beginning of the prefent ycir, and ',m-
ahout fome Peale, he did not hear the precife fecuted it with all due diligence, till the was cap-
words they had, but they talked together for Lured, by two privateers, under Spanish anti
about five minutes, and he thought they were French colours, who turned out in fad to be Bri.
joking, and fo took no particular notice.—But tifh fubjens, being Jerfeymen. and who brought
loon afterwards Mr. Duncan Aced Mr. Brick- the Franklin into that ifland. This !hip being
wood what he meant by bidding for fome famples thus piratically feized, they thought proper to
which belonged to Meas. Sawyer and Williams ? libel her in the Court of Admiralty. She being
Mr. Brickwood faid, " he only bid for three or thus detained under thefe circumflances, thole
four of the heft famples, and that he had bid who were interefted in the property abandoned
sl. Bs. but he did not fay what quantity." Mr. her to the Underwriters. The Counfel laid, he
Duncan faid, "he had railed the price of the mar- was not aware there was any ground of defence.
ket by fo doing ;" that was, by bidding, as he They had paid money into Court generally. It
called it, for the whole of the article there. Mr. was fuggefted to him they meant to co: cad the
Duncan wanted Mr. Brickwood to go with him Plaintiff was not the proprietor of this thy, anti
to Meffrs. Sawyer and Williams, but which Mr. that he was not an American.
Brickwood refufed. Mr. Duncan repeated over After this caufe had proceeded a certain lergth,
again, " That he had railed the price of the Lord Kawyou faid, he was clearly of opiaion,
Whole market."—Mr. Brickwood anfwered to as the Franklin was at prefent libelled in the Court
the contrary, by laying, " That he only bid for of Admiralty, that the Plaintiff had a right to
three or four of the belt famples."—On this, Mr. abandon her to the Underwriters.
Duncan laid to Mr. Brickwood, "Do you mean There was another queflion in this cafe—whe-
to give me the lie?" To which Mr. Brickwood ther the Franklin was, in eitimation of law, an
laid, " That he only bid for three or four of the American (hip?
belt famples, and not for the whole." Mr. On the part of the Defendant, it was contended,
Duncan (aid a fecond time, " Do you mean to that Mr. Tubbs bad lived for years at Liverpool,
give me the lie 1" Mr. Brickwood again gave had married a lady, the daughter of a gentleman
the fame anfwer, " that he had only bid for three of high confederation there, and that he was there-
or four of the belt famples, and that he did not fore, to all intents and purpofes, a Britifis fubjea.
want the whole." Mr. Duncan faid a third time, On the part of the Plaintiff, they clearly proved
"Do you mean to give me the lie ?" and before Mr. Tubbs an American fubjea fo lace as the
Mr. Brickwood couldmake any anfwer to that, year 1796, refiding in the State of Mafachufett's,
Mr. Duncan knocked him down ; he !truck him and that his father refided there at prefent.
down; he (truck him five or fix blows on the Lord KENYON obferved, that in the Eullatia
nofe, and three or four in the face, and one on Cafes, which were decided when he was Attorney-
the head. Mr. Duncan is a very Rout man, and General, it was held that, when a man was do.
may be about the age of forty; Mr. Brickwood miciled in a State, carried on trade there, and
appeared to be much hurt, and his face was all added to the power and Rrength of that State,
covered with blood, and he was confined for that for the purpofes of capture, he WEALD be con.
eleven days. fidered as of that State.
Jofeph Brantley. another Clerk to a Corn-Fac- The counfcl for the Plaintiff faid, if he had bees
tor, taw this kale, but did not hear a fynable of aware that this was to hart boa madc a queltion,

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BRAM AH 1.. DALBY•

NAILORV. STOCKU.

hr could hate brought witne♦les to prove the Plain •
till was an American fuhje& fo late as a year and a
half ago : and as there w•itnelres were not then
rrt fe.it, he muff confent to he non fuitcd, till he
fhonld hare an opportunity of producing them on
lonic future occafion.—Plaintiff nonruited.

This was as Aftion for an infringement of a
Patent.
Mr. Ermines Paid, that the Plaintiff was the in-
genious Mr. Bramah, without having reafon to
admire whom we could not go into public, and
whom we had all rear•ln to think of with gratitude
in our clads. The °hied of the machine in
queftion is to perferve, clarify, and draw off kr-
nented liquors. Itnikewife miles them to any
height, and enables one, fitting in a garret, to fill
a jtk.,, from any butt in the cellar. That the De-
fendant had imitated the principle on which it was
conitruded, there was the grcatell reafon to be-
lieve, as he merely makes ufe of a condenled air
inflead of a loaded pillon, but it was contended
that neither of them is new, and that though Pa-
tents had been taken out by both, they were not
worth a farthing. Of this opinion was my Lord
kznyon, and the Jury, by his direction, brought
in a verdift for the Defendant.

This a&ion was brought by the Plaintiff again&
the Defendant, to recover the value of a quantity
of coffee which he had 101 l by pillage, in confe-
quence of the negligence of the Defendant. The
property was confined to the Plaintiff—the De-
fendant was Captain of an American (hip, which
had on board a large quantity of Coffee, confign-
ed to the Plaintiff. It arrived inthe river Thames,
after which the Plaintiff fent a Lighterman along-
fide to bring the goods on (lore. The Lighter- ,
man was detained three days before the whole of
the Coffee could be delivered ; during which time
no peifou attended to take proper tare of the
goods, in confequence of which a lots happened of
za. bags of the Coffee. The Plaintiff contended,
that by the cat= of the River, the Coffee was
under the care of the Chip, until it was all deliver-
ed to the Lighterman, and as the Lighterman
had only three•pence per bag for carrying it from
the Ship to the Ihore, he was not refponfible for the
pillage in any cafe, except that which was owing
to his own mifcrniduft.'
On the other hand, it was contended for the
Defendant, that as the Plaintiff had fent this
Lighterrnan along-fide the Ihip, and as he was a
total firanger to the Defendant, the Captain had
nothing to do with it, and that the Lighterman
ought to have proper people on board to take care
of the goods. . •
However, it appeared clearly from the evidence,
that the cullom of the River was, that all goods
in a Lighter are under the care of the Ship till the
whole of the goods are delivered; and Mr. Cham-
pion, one of the Gentlemen of the Jury, laid, that
he knew that what was here contended for on the
part of the Plaintiff, was the cuftom of the River
s—although, he • thought it very abfurd, but as it
was a Cuftom in Trade, it was binding. VerdiQ
for the Plaintiff.—Damages the value of the Cof-
fee, 931. is. 6d.