Star.
London, England, 1810-12-18 00:00:00

L•J•4 k • •

SIR J. SINdifIR AND MR. H

r3KISSON.

•
SIR JOHN SINCLAIR'S REMARKS ON MIL MY
SQN'S PAMPHLET.
• (Continued [tom ie STAR of yesterday.

• PRFEACP.., PAGE 1 AND 2.
" I committed to paper the substance of my opinions, be pare
Afore, and the remainder very soon atter, the publication of the,
keporr. 1 trust that I shall be justifies& it submitting what v
. .
' for .•n indulgent

originally prepared . .*.n . and limited cu le only, to , fronting the platform, had all their glass
the examination and judgment of a more extended mid impartial shivered to pieces -, a considerable portion of the lead
tribunal."
on the Bank was blown off; one of the largest trees
ODSERVATION.
on the Walls was torn up ; and three stacks of chim-
The Honourable Gentleman, after his retirement
neys were blown down belongipg to the Marine Bar-
jectsfroM office, having directed his attention to the sub-
racks which considerably injured the roof ; in fact
of Coin and Paper Currency, and having form-
all the houses in the direction of the gale suffered
ed a system on the foundation of ancient authorities,
m ore or less. Its effects were confined to the south
possible. merely wished to gain is malt j proselyte: to his creed as
side of High-street, St. Nicholas's-street, and thpossible. He therefore prepares the substance .- f his
opinions, communicates that substance to
buildings at Southsea ; it was not perceivable either
ser inthirent
on 'the Point or at Portsea. We have gathered the
and linzited circle, perhaps to some particular Members
of the Bullion Committee, and by such a mark of
following particulars from the suburbs of this place :
.
CROXTON Towne—This spot suffered considerably,
confidence induce ; them to become converts to
commie.'hi: and shows the violent effects of the storm in a greater
faith. But I should be glad to know, if the , degr
nisation of these opinions was restricted to particular degree than
any
other part of the neighbourhood ;
Menibers of the Committee, why it was general ? and two houses, three stories high, belonging to Mr.
oss, tarlor, were in an instant levelled to the ground;
if it was general, why the doctrines of the Honour.
as was ehouse belonging to Mr. Cox, painter, and a
able Geutleman were not incorperated with the Re-
port ? The House were entitled to know all the bake-house belonging to Mr. Janes ; three other houses
grounds on which the Committee had formed its epi-
are also much damaged ; and above thirty other
oions and it was not right to withhold information houses are considerably injured. There were two
persons at work at the time, in the cellar of one of Mr.
frmr the House, in order that a Member of the Corn-
Moss's houses • one of them, a young lad, son of Mr.
mitten might appear, in the course of any future con- Moss's
builder,' was dragged from- the ruins, very.
test, with more advantage, and, as the champiee or
seriouslyf injured;i the other,
.on perceiving the darts
Goliah of the ancient system; might acquire all the
ortunate y tate to the himney, and received no
credit, and carry off all the glory of the expected Pr'
injury. Mr. Moss had ac very narrow escape—he
victory.
I was going up a ladder placed against the upper storey,
PREFACE, PAGE 1.
s. Proportionate to the general interest excited by that Repast, fort purpose of driving in some nails, but recollect-
,
bad been the clan:our raised against it irg that he had left the nails on the ground, he came
OBSERVATION. 1 down for them, and had scarcely reached the ground
It is to me a matter of astonishment that the cl .- whea the two houses fell. It appears that he is a
snout has not increased tenfold, considering the mis. very deserving industrious man, and has a family to
chief that it ha already done, and how much it is ' sapast-
likely to affect, "in its practical consequences, the irate- . 'BRADLEY'S FIELD.—Two houses belonging to Mrs.
rests and comforts ofeveryclass of society." The Hon. Mason of St. Mary's-street, and Mr. Lane of the
Gentleman (Pamphlet, p. 11.) talks of the restriction Dock-yard, finished except the roofs, were completely
1 baying Wrought so much mischief, and laid the blown to the ground. These houses were strongly
foundation of so much confiiiion in all the dealing ' built, having a stack of chimneys in the centre, four
and transactions of the community ;" I should be . feet square, and the party walls nine inches thick,
glad to know where was the mischief, and where the they were joined to an inhabited house, which re.'
contusion, prior to the P s•nort of the Bullion Corn. leived a considerable shock. In this field, a number
nnittee ? The mischief and the confusion has since of garden walls and chimneys were also blown down,
been great, and will be fatal indeed, if that Report' In a field near Green Lane, belonging to Mr.
shall be acted UPON. Is it to be weedered at that a : Allen, very considerable injury has been sustained by
clamour has been raised, when a fee has been kind- some newly erected buildings. At Milton, a barn
lea Which may spread devastation and ruin over A and some out houses have been blown down.
whole kingdom ? The Stocks have already fallen I The tornado was severely felt at Hasler Hospital :
materially since that inauseicicits Report has been ' a stack of chimneys fell upon the south wing, and
printed and circulated—bankruptcies ii •ye increased drove in the roof ; :he building in many other parts
beee'ild all former precedent—and mercantile coati. is much injured., Four hundred weight of lead was
• ice Iti bsesishaken to an extent never before ex- can ied away from the wash house ; and a strong iron
`c,q.d. 'All this may partly be owing to other ' rail:eg eight feet high and thirty feet in length was
Le ..0 restances I but a considerable share of the rnis- • laid level.
chi. f ought certainly to be attributed to The Report ,
*of the 13n1lain COMmittee. The clamour, however, DOVER CLIFF.—The following additional particu-
iencebing to what it will be, if any attempt shall be lars respecting the fall of part of the Cliff, are given
,pea4accerry the suggestions of the Committee into in our Dover correspondence of yesterday morning.
effect. What will the Public feel, when the same! 4, The bodies of the unfortunate sufferers who pe-
I
1114 p rtm demanded.from them, with-but one half of rished on Friday morning were all dug out before
that circulating medium, on the abundance of which night, and a Coroner's inquest was held yesterday,
its: ability to pay those taxes entirely depends.. A whets a verdict of accidental death was returned.
&amour would then be excited, beyond any tlsingl a The late most violent and incessant rains have
-inaninin the hletnif of this countiy ; indeed,
*aeon- , so deluged the cliffs, by filling the crevices and chasms
vulsion would take plaee, which MUSS thicar every . in the rocks, that the water, proceeding to the base,
tins into confe'sion. swells the pores, and occasions the cliff, from want of
Pit EPAOP, PAGE go vent, to blow up.
1
" Sir John Sinclair defines Money to be a well replated paper maiturday another heavy fall of the cliff • from
ditcrencis, walk a certain proportion !f coin. Such an axiom seems the heights
to me wholly unit:ell gibe, and must of course be weeny un-
gpswerable. hours of twelve and one; it is supposed that not less'
mesenvaetom. than 1200 tons of chalk came down, and the dwelling
The Honourable Gentleman appears to have so , houses of Captain Sutton, Mr. Shepman, Captain
Gereripletely immersed himself in ancient literature,l Hammond, Mrs. Stupples, and the Widow Yaw-
fee he cannot comprehend the common language of tins, are. severally damaged; at the back part the
modern times. If he has to pay any individual such laundries and other out-houses being dashed to atoms.
, a sum as sal 0 14s. 80. in inonej, I should be glad to To the late hour of the cliff falling is to be attributed
know, whether it would not be payment in nrenre, ac. the escape of the inhabitants from destruction, though,
cording to the modern meaning of that word, if het as may be imagined, their terror was very great.—
were to deliver to his creditor a ten pound Bank note, The crash was so violent as to be heard at some dire
lnelt a guinea in geld, four shillings in silver, and two tance at sea; and there are now parts of the cliff
pence halfpenny us copper ? Does not that exemplify which look every moment to come down, and impress
-the definition, of money given by me, namely, " Pater one, on beholding, with terrifying awe ; for should it
Currency, with a sennia troitertion of Coin 1" In fact, come on to freeze hard, much danger and destruction
eoie is of no real use in a country, except as 'small is to be apprehended."
money, or change for notes. A moderate proportion Cozoisen's Itesuesr.—An inquest was held on
of silver, and the smaller pieces of gold, therefore, is Saturday afternoon, at the sign of the Sun and Apple-
all that is necessary. tree, in White Hart-yard, by Anthony Gell, Esq. on
PAMPHLET, PAGE 1. the bodies of William Annison, and Mary Annison,
altis of tke essence of moneys. possess intrinsic rake" his wife, who were killed on Friday evening, by the
OISERVATLON. falling in of the house in which they resided, is White
If the Honourable Gentleman by money means rein, Hart-yard.
it certainly possesses intrinsic value ; hut his researches George Marryott, of No. 4, White Hart-yard,
kwe not been very deep or extensive, if he does not s*id, that about six o'clock on Friday evening he
now, that various articles have passed for money, heard a great crash, and found that part of the house'
pihich are withoutanematerial intrinsic value. Among had fallen to the ground. It was occupied by Mrs.
' elie ancient Britons,. ireneings or plates were used as Grant, who let out the upper parts in several tene-
money. The Spartans preferred iron bars quenched :rents, the inmates of which were precipitated to the
with vinegar, that they might not serve for any other' ground floor. One man and a boy were taken out
purpose. Seneca observes, that anciently there was alive, and much bruised, chiefly on the legs. The
,stamped money of leather. The Hollanders, in 1574, deceased, William Annison, and his wife were next
•coined great quantities of pasteboard. Cowries, a found—they were dead : part of two beams which lay
kind of shell, are made use of as money on the coast over them were sawed, to extricate them : there were
sef Africa and in the East Indies. All these sorts of several bruises about their heads. Dr. Staunton, and
fey have little or no intrinsic value. Mr. Young of the Strand were immediately called in,
• ; • PAMPHLET, PAGE go who examined the bodies, and found them, lifeless.—
.. per Carreacy leas obviously no intrinsic value." Verdict—Accidental Death.
,Honoureble Gentleman cannot have studied a
the jects of Coin and Paper Currency with that
elNeintnee and ability which might be expected from
him, when he states that circumstance as an objection
to Paper Currency, which is in fact its greatest ad-
vantage, tremely, that it has no intrinsic value. The
Chief objection to coin is, that you must purchase it
at a great expence from foreign countries, and after
all, it is only a transferable commodity, or a medium
of barter ; whereas paper currency answers the same
purpose, with m:iriy additional advantages, and being
9f no intrinsic value, the nation has it for nothing,
laom fifty to sixty millions carrying on our agricul-
ture, our commerce, and our maniactures, anti pro-
• -clueing a revenue (and consequentlyaa national force)
altogether incredible, are created by paper money. It
ix .t species of circulation obtained at little or no ex-
pence, and which has saved the exportation of many
• :milieus of property, by the loss of which the nation
would havu been impoverished.

MARRIED.

On the 17th instant, Duncan Carnpbeti, jun. Egq. of New
Bridge-street, to Jane, .eldest daughter of Edward Ptnni-in, Esq.
of Great Rummell-street.

On the 13th instant, John Nelthorpe Esq. of Ferriby, son of
the late Sir John Nelthorpe, Bart. to Marianna, third daughter
of John Brooke, Esq. of Btrdney Hall, Barton-upon-HontluT.

itai:

On the 11th lost. Mrs. Coke, of Hanover-Imre, in her /9th
year, at her friend's, Mrs. Taylor's, at Mortlake, in Surrey, afar
a slight indisposition of two tl.tys.
• few days ago, at Lympstone, Devonshire, where she had
gone for the recovery of her health, the Lady of Sir Win. Vorbes,
of Pitsligo, tart.
At Torpoint, Mr. Tremlett, superintend:rig Muter of the
Royal Navy at Plymouth.
J. J. Delantain, Esq. of Cadogan, aged !S7, at his house in Fon-
' hurch-street ; he went to bed in ;oaf health on Ibuteday
31111 was beast dead is his belt the um cuoraiag.

, A . • i
' g ,a• I.N 4 : 3. - ,II iJ.iiirety :, Ali 4. . •
- • :-
- ' .•9 .-- !'t 's. • t
. tielar. . I, 14,41kLAW INTELLIqII7IOE " r•-• 1 I,
:., T 1
441y4i1l
—.4.....
PORTSYOIII% 1),c.. it-41 bit* "Illeittaire tOURT OF' KING'S )11301C114 DICEMBER IS.
ing II violent gale from the westward f and, abbalf ' ant,arlurs v. fifavart.
half-past ten o'clock, a sudden gust, partaking mad* - ' Mr. PARKS stated the case. The plaintiff, who
of the nature of a tornado, was felt at•the south-east ! was a surgeon, had entered a horse for a sweepstakes
part of this.town and its suburbs. The damage oc- 'of ee guineas each, to be run for at the Stockton Races
casioned by this squall was very considerable. Day in May last. The rule of the Course was, that no
and Phillips's Counting House, the Hants Courier 1 horse should be entered after the 31st of March. The
Printing Of the King's Arms, and those houses 1 plaintiff's was entered on that day ; but in two days
mmediately 1 - by the defen-

after, a Mr. Hutchinson was permitted, by trm _
dant, who was Clerk of the Course. to enter a horse.
The origidal subscribers were Sir H. Vane Tempest,
a Mr. Barret, one of the Stewards, and the plaintiff.
Sir H. Vane withdrew his horse before the day of
running, and forfeited his subscription. The plaintiff
and the other subscribers, as soon as they heard of
Mr. Hutchinson's entering, protested against it. At
the race Mr. Hutchinson's horse came in first, the
plaintiff's second. The Stewards refused to let Mr.
Hutchinson's jockey be weighed at the end of the
Course, though they had suffered him to be weighed
at the commencement. The Stewards declared the
plaintiff's horse to be the winner. But the defendant's
assistant paid, by his order, the Sweepstakes, amount-
ing to 60 guineas, to Mr. Hutchinson. The action
was brought to recover this sum.
Mr. SCARLET; on the part of the defendant, took
two points • first, that the Stewards, by allowing, as
they did, Mr. H.'s horse to he advertised, as one of
those which were to run, sanctioned his reception ;
and, secondly, that the sum for which the plaintiff's
horse ran was, in fact, only 40 guineas, '2O of the 60
being his own. Whereas the act of the 13th George
11. declares, that all races run for less than 450, are
illegal.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII said, that on the merits the
Stewards had a right to decide, and that their award
must be final, as in any other case of arbitration, un-
less partiality or fraud were proved against them.—
On the point of illegality, the sum run for was clearly
the .whole sum in the purse, which was not the pro-
perty of any person till the decision of the race. The
sum was full 60 guineas.—Verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages GO guineas.
DEC. 17..--DE GRAVES V. SMITH.
Mr. TOPPING stated the case. In the year 18N3,
two persons, Rye and Moffett, commenced business
as linen-drapers in Oxford-street. They were supplied
with goods, to a certain extent, by the plaintiff. In
1808, the partnership was dissolved, and Rye began
business on his own account. He applied as usual to
the plaintiff for goods, and bought twenty pounds
worth. This was given on his credit, without any
further inquiry. He, however, came in a short time
after, and ordered goods to the amount of 442. The
warehouseman was unwilling to send out so large a
quantity without his master's express direction, and
his master (the plaintiff) desired that Rye should pro-
duce some reference to character. Rye gave a refer-
ence to the defendant in the present action. The de-
fendant, on being applied to, said, that he once had'
47000 in the concern with Rye, but that he was gra-J
dually withdrawing, and would do so, till he had
only left 41500. For this money, he had no other
security than his dependance on Rye's honesty. On
this representation the goods were sent, and they were
subsequently paid for. The account continued be-
tween Rye and the plaintiff, until it had run up to
£242 2s. This occurred in the course of 1808 and
1809 ; in the October of the latter year, Rye became
a bankrupt. On investigation before the Commis-
sioners, it appeared, that the defendant had, for the
security of his 4;000, a warrant of attorney to that
amount, and the lease of the house. Rye broke for
about 47000, and almost every thing appeared to
have been swept away, so as not to leave for the other!
creditors more than half-a-crown in the. pound.
This action was brought to recover 4212 2s.
which had been given to the defendant's credit, on
the strength of the defendant's recommendation.
Lord ELLESBODOUGii wps of opinion, that the de-1
fendant was not liable to a continued guarantee. He
was liable for the particular sum, the 440, which had
been given in reliance on his recommendation. But
there had been subsequent dealings, and in those it
did not appear that the defendant had: given any re-,
commendation.—Plaintiff nonsuited.