Star.
London, England, 1804-02-17 00:00:00

INTELLIGENCE.

COOPS OP ZING'S BENCH, FEB. i 6.
DAVIS v. CLARKE.
Tin plaintif wat fervant to thew; efeadant
ht fo hr
, wo is
aa ;roe-founder, and this adion broug da-
ges, in confequence of the Matt having infliEted
ma
a very fevere corporal punithment on the fervant.—
The Corot 'erg kept a confiderahle time in waiting
ea account of the artfti abfence of four witnelfes who
were now fervants of the defendant. One only at
loft attended; who would depofe nothing material to
the faits Bated before the Court. The others were
called upon their fubpwna, I, which commands them,
taying elide all pretences and enures, to appear at
the ttial on pain of tool. to be forfeited to the King;
to which the tlatute of the sth Elia. e. 9. hasand d added
a penalty of tol. to the party aggsieved, a-
mages equivalent m the lofs fuflained by want of
Inch evidence."—Plaintiff Nonfuited.

11; MID °TOURS. VIIICUTOiS OF slaty TURIIIG,
b. THOI. JOHNS, VIM,
, a&ion was brought on a bond given by the
&fondant for the payment of 1501. a year in guar.
in/laments. It appeared. that twenty inctal•
were due, and the bond having been admitted
pleadings, no valid defence could be attempted,
culla for the plaintiff. 7501.

WATSON O. WOW.
The plaintiff is a mustard manofaßtrer at Lam-
' the defendant a fkopkeeper at Salitbury. The
had given to a Mr. Wright au order for a
queasily. ormnilard at the price of yd. per pound.—
The plaintiff, who had fitcceeded to the bufinefs of
Mr. Wright, foon after the receipt of the order, had
sigectutd it at 6d. per pound.
liefrs. Pastas and Rica/Amon, for the plaintiff,
bated shit tore of tbe trattglion, and proved that
two applications bad been made to the defendant for
Farthest in May aed September, iSoa.
Mr. Glass, for the defendant, raid he was a
that
but verh y
behieft and ftopid fellow, in whore both he, te
Unused Costal, had lodged a long time,
is was n6t an occifion on which has flupidity could
sissy &advantage to him. Ile bad offered the
Oise far which the order was given • that pri
as ce was
misisdle sad the plaintiff, who Teemed'
tod be hot as
bis commodity, might have his mallard returned to
Win whenever be Gould give direitioci for its farm-
alle.-41sistiff nonfuited.
The Court broke up at an early hour, on account
; the non4ttendance of the ',conies. Of about
twisty caafes that were called over, a few were pou-
t in more the record was withdrawn ; and the
above, with two or three others undefended, were
Awned: .

INUIT V. DIOLIAL.
r. Gaaaaw laid, that the plaintiff, Mr. Imlay,
was a merchant; the defendant had been a dealer in
hie. Some years ago, and in the late war, the de-
was at Havre, in France, a prifoner,
&Warn in a
oats fo deplotwble as to be af-aid of (tarring.. The'
plaintiff happening to find hist° there, took compd.
rpm op him, and lent him 'col. Some time sift
waser
the pestles came to England, an application
made as behalf of the plaintiff to the defendant for
payment of this money, when he acknowledged the
debt with gratitude to the plaintiff flying, he did
Dot think be thod have lived Lung if it ha& not been
for the beneyoleulnce of the plailntiff. Afterwards he
declined coming to a lettlement, and the prcfcnt
adios was brought again(' him, upon which he
pleaded the Route of limuations. namely,
fit that he did
ant undertake and promife to pay within years.—
DM this plea would not avail him, for he acknew
ledged the debt to a Gentleman who called upon
him for the payment of it in the month of January.
sacs. Mr. Gssaow laid, he believed the defendant
was become very poor, atuLthat could only be his
apology for this defence. Ile hoped his poverty, but
not his will, contented.
A vritnefs proved this acknowledgment of the de-
fendant.
Mr. Eisele, raid,, his cafe for the defendant was,
that this money bad been lent
nflea on the credit of ano-
ther perfon. who was to pay it id of the defen-
dant ; but as he had no wituels to prove it. he would
i,ot talk about It.
Verdia for the plaintiff. Damages tool.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, TER ty.
N•Stle• 41111) •NOTHEII. V. KILI.INCI•
This was an anion brought by the Plaintiffs, who
file brandy merchants, in London, to recover from
Site Defendant. a tavern keeper, at Portfmnuth, the
Slice of a pipe of HoUands furnifhed to him. The De-
fendant was known to the Plaintiffs to be an infant at
she time of making. the fttritilhing. It was alledged,
borever. that having. acknnwledged the debt, and
promifed payment ot it, After he came of age, any
ilea on the head of non-age had been abandoned. It
rppeared in evidence, however, that when the De-
S..nciatit made the promife, he was lint awate of the
effeft of it, but It .1 he did 6, tinder the di Lad of
an
an •R with which h.: was AS the ITlOlllent Set v.:J.
In (bele eirznrolt.,nces, his : commended
to the Jury to find • fir the Defendant, which
they accordingly diJ.
Fitt. 16 —utotartt. v. ttttt 1..
'lbis was An liCtket ittOVOit. by the
the defendant, Admital Kernel, to tec,.rer an o:.;
tasltt of twenty-two y
'MT two cistettions that "tote were, whether the
'plaintiff bad a debt l!?1?: 11. him at ail ? and, Wht'i.te
there was loch an ;:eltitowled,:mett• on the past vi
the defendant, as took tete dt.bt out lit the nAtilte
of
ittnitAtit ns ?
The I.viicnce, on the part of the plaintiff, wa,, dirt
a debt bad 1,,,u due ro him about tan and twenty
veers ago, from the defendant, whn was then a Can
i tin in the Navy, and not very able in Ny
it. The
ommint of the debt did not preeifely appe.:r, at the
proof of its etilling at all, as far as ant sled the
she COWL. Was rt,, nt.tte titan piece of pal/et, ptir•
pmtlng that the dekndant bad raid the rlaiotiff 15a.
in viii:ch it might be inferred that
trething mot.: WA, it 'Ai then given in evi•
()owe, tha, the after, f.% year% from tie
when the ;;....tle ;01,cm lobe, ftl? t ?
OW er
&ft naant, a dernaml of 71. as eile
I,.•nt 1. the ia"! The tiCiLi• 'Alit 11°.!
tut :lea Atl .V.its? it, 161.1lielg ti•C Lt• hos attct-

1,111:

ney, Mr. Cotterel, Nadia-beet, Soho, bl urinate *I
sire he always regulated his affairs, and Bating,
that he would inform him as to his determination

and ability.
Serjeant SHIPH ARO, Counfel for the defendant,
infified that the Judge was to decide upon this letter,
whether or not it was an acknowledgment of the debt?
Set-leant Cocain. c, for the plaintiff, contended, that
it was a quellion of fait for the Jury to determine.
Lord At-witty mentioned a cafe where Lord
Kenyon had dc.ei,ied on a letter of this fort, and on
that account the Court had fent the caufeback again
to a Jury, to whom it was fubmitted as a quetlion of
W. Whatever, therefore, his own opinion on the
merits might be, he was bound to fubmit it to the
Jury to determine, whether or not the defendant's
letter was an acknowledgment of the debt ? He,
thertfore, dirteled dun ury was due?
in the &It
place, whethqr any bt was
whether there was filch an acknowledgment as would
take it nut of the Statute of Limitations
'flic Jury retired for about half an hour, and then
returned, finding a verdict for the plaintiff, to which
they laid he was entitled both in law and jutlice, for
the fum demanded, which Wal. 701.

POLICE, &c.
BOW•STRIIST.—Tuefday night Bare&&new &wily
was put to the bar, when John Wookan slated that
he was a jeweller, in High-itreet, St. Giles's, nexta dto
the Angel Inn ; that on Sunday night his &op n
hoisfe were fattened, and his property remained in
cafe enßody, but that on Monday morning he found
he had been robbed of all be was worth, amounting
to aborts loot.
officers went to the Imre of Scully in Hers-
Two
ford-firm. Fitzroy-tquare, where, after a diligent
fearch, they dircovered in a fecret drawer of a bu•
rears, feveral gold watch keys, tome drofs filter, and
three filter mounted fondling bottles ;—asid in the
drawer of a workthoptable, over which Scully alo-
ofly fat, three caber rings. and two totalling bottles.
which being produced were examined, ffildiworn to
by the profecticor, John Wootton.
Mr. BeLLAS, folicicor for the prifoner, attempted
to do away the identity of the Roles property ; lifter
which he requetted to be indulged with a further
hearing, hinting that his client might make impor.
tacit ditkoverim.
Scully was then committed for re•examination.
MANSION Hooss.--Yelterclay Levy Liget was re.
examined, on futpiciem of fleabag two tongues from
his matter, Mr. Solomon*. butcher, in Whitecbapel,
and committed for trial.
Several bakers were fined for not ing
turns of the price of flour at the Cocker Offideliverce. re-
Woasotr.sraetr.--Yetterday Diana al:or was
committed for trial, charged with healing a quantity
of nutmegs and Algae from her matter.
jebn fearfon, after (enrol examinatioos, was dif
charged for want of piofecutor, having in his pof-
teflon a gold watch, chain, and gold feats, flopped
by a pawnbroker, who fulpeeted them to have been
Bolen.
Yeterday, about eleven o'clock, a young man. a
black, feemingly in the feafating line, was founo-
d
dead on Blackfriart Bridge. No appearance of vi
lence was toond upon bim.
A Court Martial was held on Wednefdzy on board
the Gladiator in Portfmnoth harbour. to trY William
'Johann, feaman of his Majety's (hip Chieselter, for
defertion. The ''Court, in confideration of his for-
mer condo& fentenced him to receive *y lathes no
board his Majeßy's (hip Cbicheßer, at Bich time. and
in fuel proportion, as C.apt. Senes,his commander,
may judge M.
A Court Martial was likewife held on William
Thudgley, boatfwain of the Leviathan, for altimaing,
hirnfell without leaves and and likewife for rte lilt of
dut, fentenced to be difosilied from the office of
duty,wain in his Majelty's fervice.
Tuefday night a poor man of the name of IL
Slater, who was emp y
lamed inche brewhoute of Mr.
Slaer, near Milbank. by accident fell into a vat of
boiling liquor ; be was taken out alivehe e, and caed in
rried
to the Weittninaer Infirmary, where xpir
the courfe of the night in the molt excruciating tor-
ture ; he has left a wife and three children to bewail
his tats.
On Wednefday afternoon the clothes of a lady in
Hatton Garden caught fire ; her fereams Awnless
John White, of the Police Office, who happened to
be palling, he went into the hoofe, and by his neaftitre
exertions refcued her from the mull imminent danger.
She is much (torched.
At the tart Settions for thed
his friend Lot Borougwere h
tried of Ipfonwic an
James Payne an
nuliament for a joint atiault on Sarah Anne Mot-
ran. This caufe, from the beauty of the Lady, and
the fingolatity of the cafe, excited much attention.—
Payne bad fiT ((me time paid his addrelfes to Mitt
Morgan, with the approbation of her mother and her
tattier Carrington, tan keep the Role public
houte in Ipfwich ; but from tome interested or capri-
cious motives the father-imlaw withdrew h
hiser confectattach-
.
—The young lady, however, petrified in
ment, the ring was bought, and fitted on her finger,
whilst (11C %Unica that her hand might rot off if
cet r the gave it to another ; the banns were puiditheel
at Wondbridge church, where they t
intended to mar.
y. She told her lover that he was ing
ticule in
o drink
SCA with her aunt, who keeps. another public
Ipiv. ;eh, to which a pott-chatie was ordered, to car.
ry her off. When the an iced at the chaife door, her
5: art andne, ith the help of the driver,
F;"iett her in. Her atim's bottler, however, tothed
out and flopped the horres. whillt the timid asd
al poi.•.ted lever fatted his intended Croak to be
)I..nded on; ~1 the chide, after having Rapped bee
month with one civil kits.
Such is the verfati;ity of human nature (we emit
not fay ft, liner,. of the Fair), that Mifs Morro, was
induced to pater an Indietatent againft her Lover
and his (mud Lot, who had no fat ther interfered
than by beckoning her out of her aunt's kitchen,
velure the WAS fisting twirling her bat upeti. the tiptoe
of expeetation.
The fentince patted by the Learned Reeoreer (Mr.
A t 'luso%) wa., that l'avi.e. the Lover. (ooid
be in.prnoilat for floe 'CAI h rasa
r _ 2 7..1. to ti e 11(4.gi and 11. st Lo
I in 1 dd
Cr
TI Labilt ICI u. the tale, S•/f 111:11SLOIIII/g
evhe SilHeld it iy a tint
and O. un,ll t.l.e tine was paid.

ANL& Airmilifiis.

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The r.ilowing is a defcription of the RoMan Sa-
crifici..l Varzs found lately at Caddie t—Thefe anti-
quities are to valuable, both from their rai ity,• and
bonfr the elegance of the workmanthip, that they mutt
exmely precioui io the eyes of the antiquary.
The name that the rare is generally dittinguithed by
is prefericalior. and is undo Rood to have been appro-
priates! Many
holding the weenie, etc. tire in e i.icti:
a tbefe have been brought fromth Greece
late.a
and Sicily, and have been highly eftimated by the
curious for the elegance of the workmanthip, And the
beauty of the relief in the ornameu,s. But tilc Gronze.e-
-cian veffele are principally of fine
lay
li or
are the
br
—The vales we are fpeakitig of, we beeve,
fira which have been ditcovered in Britain ; and the
fculpture of Inch a veiill but once appears among
all the altars found in this country : it is on a beau
tiful Raman Altar, tit!: overed at Ellenbirougbi
which was removed to VIA HA, ar Wihaven,
and is now in the poLdion of Lois! Vircount Low.
Visa. This altar is d
es,infcribe, " Geaie loci, Fortune
reduct Rona Zterite, et Fats " Ste. ad is raid
to be the molt curious Roman Altar that ever was
difcovered in Britain. This is particularly dtfcribed
both by Camden and Holfley, who go into a long
of conjeitures rerpetting the inttrument kali)-
, toed on its fides, which arc the preftricultow,s the pa-
-1 tere, the axe, and the knife. The metal which the
II sa
fe
in quellion are formed of lions to be a corn.
pofition of refined brat's, capable of receiving a very
high polith. and Co flexible, that it allowed the arti.
firer to form them exceffively thin. At the top and
bottom of the vales it is evident that they have been 1
turned and finillied in a lathe. From there being no
accompanying altar or infcription, we regret that we
cannot fuppofe exaftly the time of the Empire when
there Caered veffels have been ufed.
The only guide
1 is the elegant kulpeuse of the handles. which contfis
of four tars of groups of figures, in excellent work-
' manthip, and all apparently illuirative of facrifice.
The uppermoft Wens to be two people holding, or
preparing, a cow or bullock for (artifice ; the neat.
a perfon caking hold of a bear for the fame purports ;
the third a prieft .loathed in his robes. ftanding at
no altar, holding fortictbing on it ; the lower one,
which is the aloft beausifuloe, on the one fide, a min
.loathed in complete armour, holding a knifanother II
e, as if
going to facrifice a (beep or a lamb, which
perfon below holds up for that purpofe ; on the other 1
fide the prieft Bands, with another knife or (word,
\
11 attending the ceremony. They are. from their ex-
flume rarity, and front other caufes unqueftionably
of much greater value than we were induced to fey
upon them in our latt week's report. This piece of
antiquity has been preferred,
;ebeaufe it fen into the
[bands of a judicious mechanic but we have heard
it jetted as a fat. that Come remain of antiquagityo
,
found in that neighbourhood; vas a few years
carried to a founder, who configned it te the furnace.
becaufe no one prefent underftood that fucb a thing
-as of the fmalleft value I
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