Star.
London, England, 1820-04-01 00:00:00

CURIOUS CASE.

At the sitting of the Jury Court of Edinburgh,
on Wednesday se-nnight, came on for trial an issue
arising out of the following very extraordinary cir-
cumstances :—On Saturday, the 13th of Septembtr,
1813, Mr. Stoddart, a respectable merchant, of Leith,
went to the shop of Mr. Reid, bookseller there, to
purchase two shares of Lottery tickets. Mr. Reid's
boy, in the ob-sense of his matter, handed to Mr.
Stoddart a parcel of sixteenth shares, out cf which he
selected two, Nos. 3934. and 84-26. Not having money
with him to pay their-price, he wrote his name ott.the
back of each of them, and returned them to thebtiy;
desiring him to put them aside for 'him, which Was
accordingly done. About eight in the evening of the
same day Mr. Stoddart again called, and reminded
theist:), of the shares, when he told him they were laid
aside for him as desired. About an hour afterwards,
Mr. Harper, also a merchant in Leah, went to Mr.
Reid's shop end purchased some shares, paid for
them, and took them with him ; this transaction was
with Mr. Reid himeelf, who had then returned to his
shop. On examining his remaining tickets (to return
them to London that night) he .discovered that Mr.
Harper had got away one of the shares selected by,
Mr. Stoddart, on which account he delayed return-
ing his unsold tickets till the following clay. Earlr.
..
next morning he sent his clerk to Mr. Stoddart's resi-
dence,
with the parcel of unsold sixteenths, to men-
tion the mistake to him, and give him the. choice of
all the unsold tickets. Mr. Stoddart was in bed, but
his father went to him with the message, and soon
returned to the clerk with an answer importing, that
his son did not mean to effuse another instead of the
one which had been sold to Mr. Harper, to which was
added, as related by Mr. Reid's clerk, that Mr. Stod-
dart, sen. said, his son would keep the other share
which was then sent him, but would have no more,
and that it was a stupid thing to sell his son's ticket,
but it could not now be helped. Mr. Reid, there-
fore, considered the matter as adjusted.
Monday's Rost brought accounts that the ticket in
question, No. 8984, had been drawn a prize of
I:10,025. Mr. Stoddart then brought an action be-
fore the Sheriff against Mr. Harper and Mr. Reid, to
deliver the share to him or its value. The Sheriff re-
lieved Mr. Harper from the claim, but found Mr.
Reid, the seller of the ticket, liable in damages to the
extent of the produce of the share, with expenses.—
The Lord Ordinary (Lord FITMILLY) affirmed the
judgment of the Sheriff, unless it coald be proved by
Mr. lteid that the pursuer abandoned his purchase on
having been informed of the sale of the ticket to Mr.
Harper. To this interlocutor ate Court of Session
adhered in January, 1819. From this decision Mr.
Reid reclaimed, and ultimately obtained a remit of
the following issue to the Jury Court, in the trial of
which Mr. Reid was held as pursuer, and Mr. Stod-
dart the defender.
" Whether, Upon the 19th day of September, 1813, the de-
fender abandoned and gave up the purchase of the cne-s!steenth
share of the ticket 3934 in the State Lottery, admitted to have
been purchased by the defender from the pursuer upon the 13:it
Slptember aforesaid ?"
The Jury found that the defender did abandon and
give up his right to the lottery ticket X 93-1 upon Suit-
day the 19th day of September, 1813.

At Mr. Plumes (of Ryal, near Worcestet) sale of
cattle, a few days ago, 31 lots, each containing but
one cow, calf, or heifer, produced £1,417 Ss. 6d.—
One of the cows was knocked down for £127; ano-
ther, in calf, for £lO9 4s. and a third for £105.--
Thirteen bulls, of various ages, produced £1093 l'3s.
one of which fetched '2OO guineas.
MADAME KM:DENIM Joanna Southcott of
Germany lives at Revel, in the profoundest retire-
ment, and endeavours to prevent her name from
being any longer talked of. The crowds of vaga-
bonds, idlers, and beggars, who followed her in her
wanderings through Germany, hive disappeared.—
No one cues out Hosanna/ to her any longer; no
opportunity is any longer given for exalting herself
in her own imagination ; and no food is any longer
furnished to her ostentatious devotion.
AK AMERICAN SENATOR BURNT IN EFFIGY.-
64 We think it proper to.state, for the information of
Mr. Senator LANMAN, that his late vote upon Al!
Missouri su'oject excites the universal indignation of
this community. An evidence of the popular feel-
ing upon this occasion was exhibited in this city o:s
Thursday night, about nine o'clock, when a number
of persons assembled in the yard of the State House,
and burnt 11r. Senator in effigy. A transparency
was displayed, bearing tlle w.orsts,.
Lailman and Slarcry:',—Cc;;;;evticut Mirror: '1