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London, England, 1820-10-27 00:00:00

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, COURT OF KING'S BliaTcli, Gerollita 96. • -"---
now-srioret.—Yesterday two prostitutes., calling
. RILL AND•OTHBO,V. MANTIELLI. themselves Mary Baker and Catherine. or Kit Baker,
The plaintiffs in this cause were the owners of a ship were brought up. from St. Martin s watch-house,
named the Princess Mary, chartered from this coun- I under the following circumstances :—lt appeared
try in 1817, for St. Thomas's and St.. Domingo, on b
tike outloo • y the evidence of a host of' witnesses, that between
these conditions:—the ship was to
tons ' three and four o'clock yesterday morning, the whole
cargo, to be delivered at the above-mentioned islands, f neighbourhood of Vine-stree, Chi idos-street, was
freight free, and in compensation was to be freighted alarmed by dreadful cries of " watch r " murder!" •
home with coffee, at a certain stated tonnage.; The Ike. accompanied by the sound of windows breakipg.
brother of the defendant went out in the ship as Su- These cries continued for nearly a quarter of an hour,
percargo. When the vessel arrived at St. Thomai,'s, and no watchman seems to have come near the place
the Supercargo shipped• on board 7bs.cases of mer- during that time. At length a man was seen hanging
chandise, *lrish were taken to St. Domingo; and from the second fl iop window of the house No. 4.,
the action was brought to recover the fleight of the Vine-street, with his head downwards, and in the next
cases. The defence rested on the cross-examination moment he fell upon the pavement. Two watchmen
of a witness, which entirely failed; and the plaintiffs had by this time arrived, and whilst some persons
bad a verdict in their favour : thedamages to be
.conveyed the' man almost lifeless to the watch.
settled out of Court. •
house, they forced the door of the house, and proceed.
evidence or not, it was allowed by the Court to 2 ing to the room from whence the man had fallen, they
*mad. It contained a full admission, on the part of found there the two prisoners, in a state of great dis.
Bennet, of the fact with which he was charged, and order and agitation, and with their clothes much torn.
his earnest request that the Company would not The story these women told was,•that he had wil-
prosecute, as he had already been sufficiently punished fully thrown himself from the window I—and one of
by the consequences of his misconduct. them asserted that as he was getting out she caught
' Mr. CHITTY contended,• that no conspiracy had hi •
m by the leg and held him, calling " watch I" with
been proved against the defendants; what the result all her might till her strength was exhausted ; and
might have been had they been indicted separately, she then was obliged to loose her hold, and he fell.
he should not take upon himself to say ; but there Several of the witnesses, however, deposed that he
was no proof that they had acted in concert, and con, p a__
ared to be struggling very much with some per-
quently could not have been guilty of a conspiracy. sons before he was completely out of the wiudow-
1. Mr. Justice Batter told the Jury, that the ques- that all the cries,of " murder !" and " watch!" were
tinn for their consideration was, if a conspiracy had uttered in a moan's voice; and that, as he fell, two.
been proved or not? If they thought the defendant women looked out after him, without uttering any
Fos was not guilty, they must also acquit the other alarm at all. The evidence was heard thus far in the
defendant, Bennet, as they had both been included forenoon, and the prisoners were then remanded till
in the same indictment. the evening, in order to obtain from the man him.
The Jury withdrew for half an hour, and then ac- st.lf, if, possible, some account of the transaction; and,
quitted both the defendants. notwithstanding the dreadful fall he experienced, he
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCTOBER 25. ' , was able to communicate the following particulars :
LAURENCI V. ABERDEEN. —His name, he stated, is Frederick Wilmot, and he
' The plaintiff in this case effected an insurance in is a journeyman shoemaker. He denies all acquaint.
December 1818, upon seventy head of cattle, which ance with the prisoners, but states that he met with
were shipped at Cork on board a vessel 'named the them accidentally in Vine-street that same morning,
Edward, for Barbadoes. The 'ship sailed on the when, partly by persuasion, and partly by force, they
18th of January, and on the 26th of the same month got him into the house, and eventually into the front
she was overtaken by a violent storm, and driven room on the second floor. Here they locked the room
into Mount Spain, in Cornwall; and at this period door, and demanded something to drink ; and he, be.
'there were only nine head of cattle suaiiving, name- coming alarmed at their manner, told them he would
ly, three oxen and six mules, the rest having been go and fetch something, in the hope of thus making
killed by the agitation of the vessel during the his escape; but they peremptorily refuses! to let him
storm, which she had with difficulty weathered. The go, and began to search his pockets fol. Money. He
day after their arrival at Mount Spain the three oxen resisted, and their violence increased ; upon which
died, in consequence of their wounds and bruises, he ran to the window, threw up the sash, and called
and one mule died afterwards on the voyage to " Watch !" The women instantly followed, and en-
Barbadoes. There was a clause in the policy of in- deavoured to drag him away from the window, but
surance, stating that the underwriters would not be he clung to the sash, and they pulled at him with.
responsible for any loss occasioned by mortality, and such violence, that, all the lower part of it gave waye
upon the application of this clause the question arose. and they all fell backwards into the room. He now
It was contended for the plaintiff, by Mr. SCARLET?, struggled with them several minutes in different parts
that the term mortality did not apply to that death of the room, he crying out " Murder!" all the time;
occasioned by perils of the sea, and in support of and at length, having broke away from them, he
this construction he cited a case from the Ist 7'ertn again rushed to the now open and shattered window,
Reports, "Jones against Small," which was a case with the intention of reiterating his cries for assist.
of insurance upon slaves. Ii that case there was a alum, and whilst he was in the act of so doing, they
similar exception, and yet it was held that the under- came behind him and both together forced him out.
writers were liable for deaths occasioned by mutiny. —The prisoners were again bronght up in the even-
Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, contended, that ing, when a certificate from the man s medical at-
even independent of the special clause, the under- tendants was put in, stating that he was in too dan.
writers would not be liable for death occasioned by gerous a state to be removed, and the prisoners were
disease, and therefore, if it had any meaning, it was, in consequence remanded for a future examination.
that it should protect the underwriters from any risk —One of the prisoners is a very fine woman, and
except such loss as was occasioned by shipwreck, within these two years was one of the most dashing
and in support of thii he quoted the premium paid courtezans in London.
on this insurance, namely, one and a half per cent. Mr. DUNN, a Gentleman raiding at Pimlico, ap.
and without that clause, and with a view to that plied to the sitting Magistrate yesterday for a peace
extensive liability which the plaintiff now sought to warrant against Mr. John Smith, a Gentleman who
attach to the.defendants, they would not have con- has a house at.Brompton. He made this Ipplicatiou,
seated to receive less than from ten to fifteen per he said, in consequence of the " bodily harms" which
cent. on the value of the cattle. he apprehended from the said Mr. Smith.
Mr. Justice Bur said, that the word mortality, The Magistrate accordingly issued his warrant, and
both as used in the policy and common parlance, in about half an hour, Mr. Smith was brought in cus-
implied that death occasioned by sickness or disease. tody before him, when Mr. Dunn, with much nit:- •
He therefore thought that the Jury should •find a Lion, deposed—how that Mr. Smith bad committed a
verdict for the plaintiff, with liberty to the defend- violent assault upon the son of him, Mr. Dunn—boar .
ant to apply to the Court of King's Bench on the that be had prosecuted and held him to bail for the said
propriety of that opinion, and in case they set it assault, and how he,thesaid Mr. Smith, had ever since
aside to enter a nonsuit. With respect to the mule continued to persecute him both by word and deed.
that had died on the voyage, he conceived that k He rode by his house every day on purpose tq insult
could not enter into the present question, as that him; loaded him with the most opprobrious epithets,
question was confined to the cattle destroyed by the and bad, on one occasion, actually dismounted from
violent motion of the vessel. ' , his horse, taken off his coat, hat, and spurs, and of
for the plaintiff—Damages referred. fered to fight him, in the middle of the street, either
as a gentleman or a blackguard—that is to say, with
fire-arms, according to the laws of duelling, or in a fair '
stand-up set-to, a-k-Crib I He (Mr. Dunn), bow..
ever, having no taste for either mode, declined this
" wager of-battle," though he assured the Worthy
Magistrate that had it not been for his hawing a silver
plate in the roof of his mouth (from a halt) he should
have let Mr. Smith know that he was no coward...
Mr. Smith, in reply, stated, that the assault upon
Mr. Dunn's son was this :—He had seen that youth
beating most unmercifully a boy much less than him-
self, and feeling angry at such cowardice, he had .
dismounted from his horse, separated them, and apt
plied his horsewhip to the shoulders. of young Dunn,
and for this the father had never since ceased tripur.
sue him with the most inveterate rancour. He ado
mitted the having challenged to fight in any way
most agreeable to Mr. Dunn, but be did not do so
till provoked past bearing by the irritating language
of his adversary.
The Magistrate (Mr. Boum), after entering his
protest against all stilling matches, of whatever den
scription,l-whether the spontaneous tarn-sop, or the
more elaboratepilched battle, directed Mr. Smith to
find sureties to keep the peace.

The Earl of DERNY, on account of the coming of
age of his grandson, the Honourable E. G. SMITH
STANLEY, gave to the Dispensary at Preston 1.30, to
the National School £5O, to the Methodist School
£25, the. Roman Catholic School £25, and to the
Ladies' Charity 125.
A few nights since, the dwelling-house of J. bra-
tun, Esq. of Beggars'-hill, Norwood, was entered by
means of a ladder applied to the library window.
The thieves happening to break a square of glass,
which awakened Mr. biotin' and the servants, they
were compelled to make a precipitate retreat, taking
pith them only a few articles of plate, and some
linen. Mr. INoLuat pursued them by the light of a
dark-lantern which they carried, as far as the Croy-
don-road; but the thieves, finding their pursuers
gaining on them, their leader gave orders to douse
the glint., The light was immediately put out, and
Mr. Iwousu and his assistants, being left in the dark,
abandoned the pursuit.
The following is an extract of a letter from
Buenos Ayres, dated the 14th of July :
tg We have had some dissensions here. The Cus-
tom-house had been shut for the last fortnight, butt
is now open for the entry and clearing of ships. All
business is at a stand--the town in a state of warfare
--cannon and soldiers placed at all quarters—and
communication with the country nearly stopped. The
people here seem determined not to allow the others
to enter, which may easily be prevented, at every
house is a fortification of itself. It is reported that
the other party have promised their followers to give
the town up to plunder for a week, if they can but
succeed in entering. The country is in a disturbed
state throughout. and there have not been less than
seven or eight Governors within these ten weeks.—
Freights here are £6 to £7 for hides, as every one is
endeavouring tp send off what they can, and little
appearance of anything being settled."

The new half-crowns, the first coined since his Mk*
JESTIN accession to the Throne, were this day issued
from the Bank.
Coss Itsczatesa, idaszsAni. Oct. s7.—.Several vesseb from
I the Suffolk coast have arrived since Wednesday. and fine When
being in demand, sales of that description were readily effected.
at an advance of Its. per quarter en Monday's p4ces• Buie!' le
is. per quarter lower than on Wednesday, havint 'rod vppl
this morning from Norfolk and &droll., Oats continue biavy
side, except for fine fresh corn. which obtained Monday's pricer.
In Beans and Peas no akersdea.
f5312111/Ml.ll Maser:, Ocs. s7.—Beef, Si. ad. to Sa. ed. per
state ; Matson, Is sd. so 4s. id Veal. rea Otto Ss.
Pork, &Ad. to 6s.od. Lamb.oo4d. to 0s at /haat
Beasts, WO;. Calves, ISO; Mop NW; Pillisteeo4—•
Kay, ALM*. to 4i. 40. Clow, IL 10., SOX. 10%, tiovr, IL 10.,
t. ii. lets.