Star.
London, England, 1804-03-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLRIIII'CL

Oa. "
In the entree of lel week the whole of the heeled
liattallos of the 53d regiment, quartered at Carlilk,
Rabb, and Coebormooth, starched for Whitehaven,
where hipping Ism been engaged to convey them to
Irehoid.
Lease Froist.--Seturthe la* the Era Regiment
of Royal Edinburgh Volumene. commanded by the
Right Hon. the Loos Ammar', and the attl
tali.. of tbe Second Regiment. commaothd by
Lieutenant Colonel was HOP% 11611610141 in the
Meadow Walk, burgh. The latter NOUNS
marched of about eleveo o'clock for Craigmaar
Calle, three miles to therms* of that City. of which
they took porefroo. with four pieces of whieh
were placed on the mai *haat& points. Ahern
twelve o'clock the Fill Retina*, with four pima
a Caren" wed a company of nip hoseursommar
ed Who Ghanian Rood• till deer comet* • cads
rood appease to Creignaillar, wises the !harp !hooters
sedvameed. and the reginsest foneedinto tworlvillons.
the a. ender comasaid of the Lour ADVOCATR,
she commoded by Maier Jamas. touted the
Calle. 00 the Ire Offelnallet of the harp hooters,
he tromp I. the Callienerunenced a heavy fire both
with their cannon and maketry. As the Fri Re
advanced, the &wiliest, attacked ea two palms
ert ttlfeemst times. Ia the fir*, they took the
Calle.bufwere foes a drive, out of it, with the
"ha of one piece of arti • a *coed time they were
wareecohlial ; tint in the third attack they complete-
ly faccealed, driving the defenders out of the Calle.
sad •djoiaitig groends, when they retreated to their
flaadordsorbkh were flatinned on the heights to the
-#P** ea*, tart& Niddry Road, where they drew
by is good order, which ceded the engagement.
Ia the am* of the salon many fine manceuvres
were wade, bah in the attack and defence of the
Oalle. In attacking one place the Fir* Regiment
had to pull down part of a wall to get forward a
piece of cannon ; this oblate was fornsonnucl, and
in a few minutes it was levelled with the ground,--
At another place a cannon had to be dragged up a
precipice. which, with much difficulty the artillery.
&Vied by part of the regiment, ascompliffied. and
hainight up into a fine pofitism fur attacking the eagle.
The wh.iporere under the command of Lieutenant
Colonel WIGHT, Infpating Field Officer foe that
DiOria. A great number of fpeiftators were prehult•
who woe highly gratified with this grand tarreary
treacle. We have heard of only one accident,
• boy having been hot through the thigh with a rant-
road.
About three o'clock the troops arrived in Edict
borsch, where. after being infpeBed by Col. Wolter,
in George-Square. were deati&d. day was fair,
but cold.
Due..—On Sunday morning two Gentlemen of
Liverpool, Mr. G—. and Mr. attended by
their femme's, met near Park Chapel. and fought a
duel. Mr. G— was wounded in the thigh. The
cash of the quarrel is Paid to be fume improper be.
haviour of Mr. S. to a young Lady, the niece of Mr.
G. who he courted for lane time for his wife, and
was ezpeBed to marry. Mr. S. has abiconded.
Toefilay forenoon a man at Merton, in Surrey,
agreed fa a wager of five guineas, to walk t 6 miles
and a half in three hours. which he performed with
ealc in two hour, aid filty minutes.
Relfert Tyler end Reliert Fry, die two coal porters,
found giiihy of atranhing Lieutenant Soseter ILLS
and his pro's. gang at Htingerford-ilairs, have been
fentenceil to nine moult, further impritenment (they
having alread e gar.) for that period), [
good a
the expiration thereof u, nod titurities fur their
behaviour for two yeara.
About nine o'clock on Wedoefd Ay night,* woman
who lives in Ship Yard, Temple Bar, heard the cry
of as infant, And nil her endeavouring to rind from
whew, it proceeded, perceived a mat batket lying
on the ground fcweJ asp. Cpon examining, the
f *and it contained a very )ouag infant, that fume
infecting wretch had left there. The prow found-
bog woos taken to St. Curates Workhoufe to be taken
sale of.
On Saturday a ;al of Mr. I& rticon, grocer, of
Berwick on Tweed, aged ze, an .Jeot. heeng left by
the ktvsne 1141 few minute., ss as fosind by the Ilinp•
man almoat literally burnt to death.
Ott 'l'ssefday fe'onight. • r3or woman of Tweed
Mold' fee art to her clothes : lie, cries brought le.
trend neighbours to her an-A ane e, but not till lin s
Irmo sue 'backing Is: &Wins:sow

coußr of KING" With, FES. so.
aracuroas OT TUIVISOLL f. SIOSILISON.
Mr. Turnbull was an attorney at Berwick, and
the defendant a grocer, in the fame town. Tlii-
adion was brought on a bill 6f exchange of 1 sot
And the Uncial accruing upon It fine the time of it.
aiming due, which was as early as Dee. :792. Th.
defendant had not put upon the record a plea upon
the fiatute of limitations. Mr Turnbull was Rated
to be a man very much his own enemy throughout
the whole of his life, and even at the hoar of his death,
which was effe6ed by the as of fuicide.
Mr. Paul, for the plaintiff, admitted, as a let.
off againa the bill and intereil, 821. for groceries
iupplied the plaintiff between the years 1792 and
tam, and he attempted to let up an acknowledg-
ment of the debt by the defendant, as late as 1802.
He Paid, that although the claim was founded on a
traafitittion long Gave paR, yet that the demand was
sot left valid ; and he infilled, that the fupply of
rvwies in this way, for a term of ten years, without
LetZlithtyithatbere exa.a.Lltd:abbyagtihe der:llfoot, dewed
',hid' the 'mane cosikkated.
Mr. Gamow, for the domidant, took feveral
imams, both is point of law and fag. He Rated
that the bill recites that payment &mild be made at
the c csjefothes defaidant in Berwick, yet nothing
of dis is dyers= of the locoed; fo that the
hal 'wig* legally identified. He further Paid,
that kir. Via. 01 the liberality of his mind, in
difelsarging thedidits'of his father, had involvedliim.
Alf in ffinse petwaiiry diaknities. whir* obliged him
so make a coaspoßtioa with his auditors of sot. in
is the posed. A deed of unit was in conkquence
coned Woo and Mr. Turnbull was agent and wit-
tier to this habitats:pt. which was dated fabrequently
I *the fappofed isatarity of this bill. 'klfo fubfequently
' die platen& bad 'given a receipt is fell, which thawed
that be bad no further claim avant the defendant.
Mr. Garrow having produced- the documents, and
proved the fignatures of the witness.
Lord ELLIIIIOIOO6II
rved recapitulated
and obfe the cir
to tcus h.
Rama of this extraordiaary reset
jary.that the tiaeloitd. he wham the electors had
e mad this claim, had certainly mot a&ed isoefek if
rash a ballad mimed s for he was negotiating with
all the other creators so accept tem in the pound in
order that be Nieto hisigireaive sit. in die pouted.
Hiss then adverted so the evidence, whether
by sr wits& sad he cooduded by giving
it as bisopboos to the Jury, that if they were fatisfied
with refplall to the WI, h did not teens reafonable
to sago mterelk to the Plaiatiliso—Verdia for the
thrfeadolit•

Sassesoaosoo--0 I think. Gentlemen,
this maim your mai* is perfectly right, and
hope &maim will lea= from this decifioa, not to
keep bills and docomenu in their own hands, which
are probably left with them in confidence, in order
to oaks a bat are of them at a remote period.°
rata % aastans.
The Plaintiff is a flipekiadkr. atShedwellb the
Defeadaat a merchant. is Leedom. Oaa hundred
bags of raiment bad been fold at the IA India
Company's wareboufes, and the goods had come into
the hands of the defendant, the &mat of toL per
lot, and the final payment having been made to the
Company at the time of delivery. _ The guinea for
the Jury was, whether the Defendant was liable to
pay the peek= Plaintiff the mama doe oa his par-
chafe, or whether be might =overt it ioto a fet-off
with the skate of Popplewell and lephfce. who had
become bankrupts ?
Mr. Glees, for the Plaintiff, lewd the nature of
the trasfabion, and that it war impoffible the de-
fence intended =aid be maintained, becaufe Pop-
Flew') sod Jephfon were brokers. and by their oath
could have no tranfedioos oa their own account.
He diets called bleffrs. Jofeph and Samuel Williams,
the one of whom effcard the purehafe, the other the
rale of the fakpetre. Mr. fepidos was alb' called,
who placed the matter is a sew point of view. by de-
pot's,. that a Idr. Pollard bad bees the UR pro.
pricier of the 'always when it came into the hands
of Media. Pimplewell and lephfon ; and that it was
fold, either for account of Pollard. or foe account of
hissfelfsnd partner. as broken, the principal having

alskesided.
Mr. Gaattow. for the Defendant, Paid, was per.
fatly clear, that Mr. Daniels, in the prefeni anion,
was entitled to the verdia of the Jury, and that the
' evidence of Mr. jepbfas had removed all doubt and
difktdty in the cafe. He farther Waved, that
altegh brokers could not regularly treated bufi-
nefs on their own account, yet that the irregularity
was coaßantly committed on the Royal Exchange,
and that *it deviation fronrthe k praaice would
not dearer, their pesional refpon6bUity.--ii4aintiff
nonfuited.
7[l. 29.-.DSVIDIION v. 51111115 AND INNIS.
This was an aftioe of affault, but the plaintiff
having contented that a verdia Mould be entered for
Barker, the evidence was wholly direfted againa
Innis, who bad placed a jollification on the record.
It appeared that the plaintiff was a mariner on board
the Aufpicious Indiaman, of which the defendants
were Captain and Chief Mate ; Davidf'n had guar
relied with the (hip's cook, and come to blows.—
Innis, the chief mate, interfered, and (truck the
plaintiff feveral times with a rope called a point. on
which the plaintiff faid, he would not be beat like a
dog ; if be had done wrong, why not take him aft,
and onifis him like a man ; defer.dant did for
and Jeer eonfulting Captain Barker, ordered him a
dozen.
Lord Ettarraotouou Waved, that the queltion
for the Jury was, whether the punifhment was ne-
cefary to the prefervation of good order His Lord•
fhip obterred that, notwitlifl-anding there was no
smitiay law on board merchant (hips, yet there was
the law of necrefity, which invefled the commander
with authority to reprefs all praElice% tending to the
deilruaion of the (lip. and to inflia ponifhment in
proper way ; but he had no right to all tyranni.
ally, or with cruelty. At the fame time a cam.
mander was bound to confult his officers before he
rnfhard poniflunent, at which
confultation the party
accufed tliould be pretest, as it was the law of the
land that no one ()mild 'oe condemned anheard.--
Difeiplins mull be preferred, and fullordinatioo kept
op, or the e,,mrnerce of the country would be anni-
hilattd they wooid therefuse fay, by their verdill,
the chaltricarcut was iaginAll for the picfavativa