Star.
London, England, 1810-05-03 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GRAYMND MAT 2.—No Arrivals.--Salled the Dula Ro•
drigo Raines:for Rio Janeiro • Alerdo de Menem*, Spinel%
for Seara ; Helen, Napier ; and Jobson, Mika., for Hayti Walt%
Dougal, for Malta; and the Young Charles, Clair, foe Waterford.

COVENT GARDEN THEATR/L-Last night this Haase
was opened for the benefit of the Theatrical Fund,
and we are happy to state, that it was immediately,
on the opening of the doors, completely filled in every
part, not merely we believe by persons who paid the
ordinary prices of admission, but by a liberal-minded
crowd, who rushed forward at the call of Charity, to
obtain seats, for which they had previously adveaced
greatly more than their nominal value ; we speak
here of the boxes taken, among which were all those
of the lately obnoxious private circle, thrown open on
the occasion. We confess, not having been able to
obtain a seat, we cannot speak of the performance;
but the perusal of the bill of the day will convince the
Public, that every thing must have been well done.
The play of Douglar never, in our recollection, had
such support. The singers we understand, exerted
themselves to the utmost, as did also the Farcical
Actors, the best of the Company. The money re.
ceived at the Treasury we are assured exceeded a
thousand pounds. There was an immense press at
half-price, and though the house was at that time
truly pronounced full, more than fifty pounds were
actually paid at the doors, on the generous principle
of supporting the cause.
Thursday Robert Dykes was drowned in the river
Dee, below Abergeldie, in attempting to bring from
Ballouchbuie a raft of timber down the river, in com-
pany with Shaw, a floater from the river Spey. The
raft was broken upon the rocks, and carried down in
single trees by the stream. Shaw was saved with
great difficulty.
The Public will please to observe that the only
person in partnership with the fate Sir J. Baasscossa,
at the time that Firm shared and sold •'
Prize of One Thousand Tickets, which
£24,765 (in last April Lottery) was E. El
is now removed to No. 2, Cornhill, near the
House.

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ChierJustice, &c. in and after Easter Term, 1810.

IN TERM.
Mibuts6l2. LONDON.
Monday May 14 Wednesday ?Stay 14
Saturday 19 Monday 21
Saturday 26 Monday 28
Friday June 1 Saturday June 2
AFTER TERM.
Tuesday • June 5 I Wtdnesday
comer ON KING'S BENCH, MAY a.
WJIGIT ANS OTDEIM V. SIR JAMES SHAW, BART. AND
OTHERS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who
are surveyors, acting under the authority of an Act
of Parliament of the 4Gth of his present Majesty,
which enabled the proprietors of the houses which are
built in Pickett-street, Temple-Bar, and in Skinner-
street, Snow-hill, to dispose of them by lottery,
agaiast the defendants, Sir James Shaw, Bart. Mr.
Alderman Combe, the Recorder of London, the
Common Serjeant, and other Gentlemen, who are
Trustees acting under that Act ;_ and the action was
nominally only against these defendants, the real
defendants were the proprietors of the houses in these
two places, and the object of the action was to pro-
cure a compensation to these surveyors, for the labour
an 1 attention they had bestowed on the examination
of these different buildings, considering of their con-
dition, granting certificates of their fitness, &c. for
the purposes for whiCh they were designed, &c. on
which their sales, or rather the inducement which the
public had to buy the tickets in this lottery, depended.
But after a full hearing of the statement of the case,
Lord ELLENEOROUGTI held, that as there was no spe-
cific provision in the Act of Parliament for granting
a compensation to these gentlemen, they could not
claim any thing for what they did, in a Court of Law,
whatever they might do in a Court of Equity ; and
perhaps they would have no remedy without apply-
ing to Parliament. His Lordship declared he was
sorry for it, since he had every reason to be satisfied
that these gentlemen's services had been useful to the
-concern of which they formed so material a part; but
still -hey could not inforce their claim for compenct,
tion in a Court of Law, without a specific provision
to that effect in the Act of Parliament : for which
reasons, the plaintiffs were non-suited.
own, 'v. sauce AND Gn1F.1154
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that the plaintiff
-was a Merchant, and that the defendants were Under-
- Writers : that the plaintiff had same very comiderable
transactions with the house of Platanow, in Archan-
gel ; that in consequence of these transactions he ad-
vanced several sums of money to that house ; and
they in return consigned to him a quantity of hemp,
towards the discharge of that money so advanced :
that the hemp was shipped at St. Petersburgh, on
board a British ship there, in the month of October '
1807 ; but that, in a few days after it was so shipped, .
and before the vessel had time to quit the harbour, I
war being declared between Russia and this country,
the vessel and het cargo were seized, and this action
*was brought against the defendants, as Underwriters,
who had insured the cargo against all risk and loss.
The necessary evidence was given as to the ship-
ping of the goods, and the condemnation of the ship,
by orders from the Russian Government.
On behalf of the Defendants, Mr. Serjeant 13EST
'addressed the Jury and the Court : he stated, that the!
case which he had to submit was simply this, namely, •
•,that Mr. Platanow, being a Russian subject, shipped
the hemp (as the invoice would show) as his own pros
Tway : that when the vessel was seized, together with
tlae Largo, he claimed the cargo as his property, and
as sttch it was returned to him by the Captors; but
the ship, being British property, was condemned,
This appearing from the evidence adduced, the Jury
found for the Defendants.

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LAW lIV7R LLIC EN C.k.
Si:tinzs appointed in Middlesex and Lon&
the ft Tht Hon. Edward Lord Ellenborout;