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dr11901131100. SQIAR ECLIPSE.-
of the Son on Toesday morning, thex
be the greatest which has happened in.
52 year-. At Yeek, 10 digits, or'
twelve nt the Sun, will be eclipsed;
and Whitby, .the. Eclipse will be
; and in. e part ot. the'llaltic, and
the North. EisiWr ni, the Eclipse will be
, total. To the Sonth•and West it will be
with tn. At London, nine digits and two
liPsed. The' duration, scc. of the
according to trot time, (by which
dated) will be as below :
before Eight eefock.
, Eclipse, Eight o'clock:
5 m. past Niue.

Ten. .41
, nukes the first impression on the right
_is upper limb.
Those who adjust their clocks to algurrint time,
, that the Sun being 14 min. before true
the different observations by their clocks will
min. iaier than above stated.
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opfdrerst last night drew a most brilliant
Drury-lane; and certainly it is a high dra-
w From the admirable manner in which it

,t tee sale of an ancient Welch Lady's library, the
lot but one was, " An. Account Of the irrineipd
Freilir. with their Decant from Adam I"
-t tanj.of aligwelf-row, in Essex, has nt-
"stake:sirallOQ epos his walking 4000 miles in
Aeon,. up .a a mile of his own choosing, within
tag miles of Imam.
aurday se'rmight, as Nathaniel Gammon, of ?al
waSlhfAshing x walnitt-tree, he fell from one of
branches, an.l was so much injured that he
on the Moticlay fallowing.
Ibefrid, who some years back shot at the.
•with teen other prisoner's, confined in .New-
who had severally been acclititted• on account
,pity), were yesterday -removed from thence to
New ISethlern, St. George's-fields, by an order
, the Secretary of Slate.
Tuesday some soldiers of the Royal Staff corps,
demployed ia taking down and removing the magazine
at &fierier! Barracks, with a view to the diminution
of labour, undermined one of the walls to throw it
dove, but which was effected so• suddenly that two
of the men were caught under it ; unapt whom,
Thomas Day, -was crushed .ter death; and the other
so dreadfully brui.ed that it is feared he cannot re-:
over. The deceased WAS a married man, and bore
as excellent character. -
• Owing to the late heavy rains, the Medway, at
Maidstone, is so much increased, that in several
-paces it has overflowed its banks, and much craft.
from tba rapidity of the current, is prevented
• smog up. •
FRUSTUMS EMIGRATTOII..—GREIBMII6 •
About thirty British emigrants; returned, disappointed
and cheerless, were landed here on Saturday, from
the Nasal, Btozetnue, arrived from New York.
' There are several weavers amongst them, who, of
marsr;.could not obtain a liveliloaod.by their trade
there, while Bri,ish manufactures were selling sn far
belie the original cost. Others, whose expectations,
perhaps, were unwarrantably high on setting out,
may have returned. not so ninth from being unable
to ea emvtoyment, as from tio.ling the encourage-
r:am uitait let short of their hopes. Some descrip.
• tinas.oi artificers, we nolieve, have fared better, such
as masons; joiners, Str. 1;:lsoorers„ also, h.tve flush!
empl. /mon in the agricultural clAstricts. B.) t withal
the rage fur emigrating 1)..s been such, that gr, at
members; cat almost all descriptions, nave found
themtelses, alter howling some time, pennyless and
:.etiii itithain occopaoon.—The sea-ports are full of
:Mem. anxiously sr, king suo.e opoortnnity or means
• *return home. Capt.:in Bevetttnsa s Is, that if he
wild oiler taken them •nsi Stifled then) gratuitously,
• sight !rive in thousand p.issengera of this de-
striptibti at New. York. To shew the height to which
dtis emigrating mania has risen, we may notice that,
,ere are tol ainto ig tn., persons returned by this
~el, is a pins keeper, belonging to Yot kshire. who
told not belteve, -until he had ocular demonstration
idle tact, that the Yankees had AO More use for his
*races, than the people of Buenos Ayres had for the
items and heerth marts which some of our sage spe-i
sent out a few years ago, in the infancy of
evrtimmerce with that quarter.
' A VALUABLE RECEIPT.--The best antl•attrition yet.
discovered consists of a pound of black lead, inti-
mately mixed with one 'wand of hog's lard. Apply
this to the axle-tree of a carriage in the usual way.—.
°nettle' will prove its superior efficacy.
On Rosaanv. —Thursday night a man went
the Blue Posta public house, in Bennet-street. St.
hies's, and stole a bottle of gin; but being hard
by the landlord and several watchmen, he
the gin and broke the bottle before he was a'
He was taken to St. George's Watch...
ver-square.
, FIUSALS SWlNDLlM—lnformation was
lborough-street Office, yesterday, by a
tesiding in Berkelersquare. of the ex-.
male swindler, who called at his residence
ice, but the Gentleman being out, his
,ted her into the drawing-room, toawait
Mt B-- soon came in, and the Lady
Ito the iihrary. She there claimed sc.
.11 Mr.* 8.--, as Miss G----, daugh-
(ember of Parliament, and brought to hie
`laving been in company with him, with
a party in Ireland. Mr. B-- knew
She then burst into tears, and it WAS
(ore he amid appease her. She nest
left home unknown to her father, to-.
iage against her inclination. She then.
she was about to seek an asylum wick au
rkshire, but her finances had been much
travellirg, and she had no more than aftli
' thither, but that al snore would suffice
expenses to the country. Mr.
Anted her sel3. The 1.44dy at first re-
mote than the set, but she was at
'prevailed upon to accept the whole, and Mr.
found lie had been imposed.upon. Gene-
,as also imposed upon in like manner by
a few days since; and also a Noble
her feelings so overcame her as to cause
Iteries- .She was even practising these de-
Baker-street so recently as Monday last.
, as having a prepossessing appearance,
her upper hunt teeth rather project.

L4ll, .12MRIZIORATCE.
• .
COURT OF patGea nEgOtt, movEMBER O. .
. ISONNO.AND'OTHEN2I V.-11100AI 81001116 • •.-
'
The plaiiitiffii Dr. Montt) andibir. Charles Memo,
are proprietors of BF-Mc-house establishment' fee thr,
reception of limatice—the defendant is a merchant I
the action, wlich was 'tried at the &Wage arid last.
Term before Lord Ettacusaanuoii, was to recover a
considerable sum for board, lodging, &c. supplied to'.
Mr. Peter Moore.. the brother of the defendant,. who '
bad itieen placed buliiin in the plaintiffs' asylum.'-.-
A virdier Will hiund far the plaintiffs.
The Antennae Gaeta.% L •IDOVrd this . day for 'a
new trial, on two groundse —l. A. misdirection by
the Chief Justice in point of law :.: 2. 'Chat the ver-
dict was against evidence. He admitted - that the
Itmatic, against whom a commission had subsequently,
been stied out, having survived from Ireland, where
Ihe had' been guilty of *alone •irregularities, was
placed by the defendant under the care and in the
house of the plaintiffs*, with directions that he should
be supplied with every necessary for his convenience
end comfort. • He remained there for a considerable
time, the defendant constantly paying the bills for
ezpenses; but business requiring his presence in Ali.
rant. he gave the necessary directions to-be observed '
during his absence; and it was for the board, &c. of
blr. P. Moore during this interval that the action
.was brought. At the trial, his Lordship had held
that ' a lunatic, who experienced no lucid interval,
'could make no valid cootract, and it was on the ge-
eerality of this doctrine diatribe objection in p int of
law arose; for on the authority of 2 Roll's Abr. 357;
t Sid. 65, 112, 2 Blackst. Com. 291, 2 Inst. 213,
, and the case of Thompson v. Leach. the Attorney-
General submitted that s lunatic, without lucid in-
, tervals could, like an infant, stake contracts for his
I benefit. though to could not enter into any engage-
ment to burden his estate. He had not h.id an oppor-
tunity of examining the bo..ks himielf. but the re-
terentes had been supplied by Mr. Evans, who was
with him in the cause. Uport the second point he
(rent through the letters read at the trial. on the re-
view of which he- contended; that the balance of
evidence was decidedly in favour of the defendant.
Dr. Minim had so little considered the defendant as
having any contrail over the lunatic, and answera-
ble to DM for the expences of his meintenance, that
he had actitally forbidden all correspondence, until
the permission of Mr. George Moore, another bro-
ther, wits obtained, or until the Lord Chancellor had
decided upon the lunacy.
Lord Etamisooouoit—There is no pretence for
saying in this case, that individually the lunatic made
any contract, in 8 perfectly passive Stine he WO car-
ried by the defendant to the asylum of the plaintiffs,
and directions were given by the defendant that he
should be supplied with every *Ohl necessary for his
convenience and comfort. On leaving England. ac-
cording to the evidence at the trial, the defendant
saidthat he should return in siz ocintlis, but that in
the mean these the account should be sent to his
mother, with %horn he would leave instructions tor
the payment of the money. The defeudatit having
.placed his brother at Brook.house, took him aw.iy in
1814; and unless it is made out that some other
person hats Subsequently taken the liability upon hiui.
self, the defendant remains answerable. As to the
direction that the defendant shuuld not correspond
with the lunatic, it was in all probability necessary,
and the physician vias .the proper judge. whether it
would not have the effect of pr .luting injurious irri.
mita). I will not sayarliether 4 nice question might
not arise, as to the power of infants and of kinetics to
contract, but it does not arise here, as there is no evi-
dence of. any contract made by the lunatic. •
Mr. Justice BAYLRY did not feel that the Court
was called upon to give any opinion as to the yes.
Lion of law ; he apprehended that the case. of Thoinp.
sea v. Leach would not bear out the position tor
which it had been cited. .
Mr. Justice ABBOTT was quite clear that the de-
fendant in the first instance had madelihnself respon.
sible by placing the lunatic with the plaintiffs, and
nothing had been offered toremove that responsibility..
Mr. Justice Houtoro cOncurred, and the Rule to
shew cause was refused.
asof 'CMS O. PRATCHETT. . •
. i
This was an action of ifssumpit, by the assignee,*
of a Bankrupt named Weich, to recover a sum of
16700 riceived by the defendant from tho bankrupt,
after his bankruptcy, and was tried before Sir Wm.
Garrow, Chief Justice of Chester, at the last Clientele
Assizes; the question of law being. whether a sum
, of money borrowed by the bankrupt from a Mr. Drum-
. who lent it for the special purpose of being
I paid to the defendant, was recoverable back from the
Limier by the Assignees. The Learned Judge at the
'trial, held that is point of law. the money was for the
1
purpose of the action, the money of the bankrupt,i.
l[and recoverable by the assignees.
Mr. Breams now moved to set aside the verdict
for the plaintiffs, and obtain a• new trial, but the
Court were of opinion that the decision at Nisi Pries
was right, and therefore retuned the Rule.
bIAROMON AND ANOTHER O. COOL&
' This was an action by the indorsee against the in:,
1 dorser of a b'll of exchange for COO, and tried before,
Mr. Justice Burrougii at the last Assizes for Sussex,-
' when a verdict was found for the plaintiff.
Mr. Nonan now moved for a Rule Nisi. to set aside
the verdict, and obtain a new trial, upon the ground
that the defendara had not had sufficient notice of the
dishonour of the, bill by the drawer, the fact being
that upon the dishonour of the bill the plaintiffs had
notified the circumstance to the defendant, informing ,
him, at the same time, that the drawer had promised
to take the bill up in a week, which they said would'
answer their purpose, • The drawer not having after. i
wards kept his promise, it was contended that the
defendant should have had further notice of that cir-
cumstance.—The Court, however, thought the first
notice quite sufficient, 'and refused the Rule. i
. 1
RBI V. WU. TUCKER. ,1
Mr. Glued) moved for a rule, to sliest ease why 1
this defendant sh old not be brentAbt tip and diaelsar.
ged out of the *custody of the gaoler of Bitter Castle.
The defendant had been chosen overseer of the moot
of the parish of Hat' barton,. in Devonshire, from
Lady-day, 1815, to Lady day,.1816, and was coati:;
milted by the JustiCee for scot paying over a-suns iii
‘lBl Ss. 10d. -which remained in .has Inds rifted he
*bad committed an act of bankruptcybankruptcy,wliiallt hap'
petted its January, 103. The deteadatit bid since
obtained liii certificate, - end
.the Learped r.. 0•-- •

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grounded h:s minims 9n the anthotity of 1 T. R
,5891` where it tiaa beast that money owing by
the eiv tiro er to the,. posisll ',/he pro Viable tinder t..
eommissitut ; he aliO' Otßiried to espiitif Ealey,-€
'Veit: 811, for the saran doctrine.. ' •
•
Rule to shwa cause granted.
LILASHASI AND OTHRIIII era ARAISTROND AND OTHERS.
was an action against the Hundred to rr.co
ver the antiunt of certain damage done by a tuna& .
lungs assembly of colliers during the late Ili _.stUrluner••.
in the-counties of Durham and Northumberland.—
The action was founded upon the Riot Act, and to:
recent Statute 52 Geo. 111. e. ISO; the injury vim
pl.ined being the destructian of a bridge, Y bailding
called a* gni* for housing caali. and Vivi tat a stable,
the property of the plaintiffs, whose object in building,
the bridge in question, which was erected over a re
vine, had been to dispense with the Libour of a bOdy of.
men, called keeltnen. At tile trial betore Mr. Jas.
tice Bailey. at Durham, toe Jury to.nd A verdict fur
the plaintiffs for the full amount of their claim.
Mr. Ricuanosoar now moved for A rule to shew 1
cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a
new trial granwd. He grounded his motion upon'
the supposition that the machine called a Staid) did
not come within the definition of buildings and crec
titans. mentioned in the Statute 52 Geo-. 111. c. ISO,
• all of which. he contended, bad reference to buildings
and erections used in trade; under which denomina.
tion, he submitted, the business ofd cattier, in which
, the plaintiffs were occupied, could not be ranged.
The Court thought the case deserving further con-
sideration, and -therefore granted a rule to :hew cause.
, Several other applications were *bade for new trials
, in cues from the Circuit, in most of which rules Nisi
_
were granted.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOVEMBER 8. •
BENTON V. THORNHILL.
The SOLICITJR-GENERAL. this day moved for a rule
to shew cause why the verdict in this case should not
be set aside, as being'against evidence. It had been
tiled before Sir Vim), Gibbs, at the Assizes for the
county of Norfolk, where e verdict had been found
for the plaintiff for a sum of 4510 against the She-
riff of the county. on the ground of an illegal execu-
tion on the plaintiff's property.
The CHIEN JUSTICE read the evidence, by which it
appeared that Sparrow, whu carried on the business
of a tarmer, had become indebted to various persons,
among whom, besides the plaintiff, who was his bro.
ther.in-law, were a person named Eagle, and Messrs.
Willetts, in whose favour the execution had been le.
vied. Sp =ow, being aware that he was in insolvent
circumstances granted A bill of sale to Beaton, in
satisfaction ("his demand of 41300, for which he had
before given a promissory note. Benton took posses-
sion by means of his son, who, it was in evidence,
had permitted Sparrow to remain on the premises,'
and occasionally to exercise some acts of authority.
Under these circumstances, an execution was at
length levied at the stoic of the other creditors; and
the question now was, whether the conveyance made
by the bill of sale was void, from there been
nothing more than a colourable possession by Benton,
and troth the legal possession having still remained
I in the insolvent ?
The Souctrott-GariERAL supported his application
for a new trial on the principte that every convey-
ance, unless accompanied by a transfer of the legal
posseision, was void .as against other creditori. The
weight of evidence in this case was in favour of the
inference, that the transaction was fraudulent, and'
,I intended only to gore a colourable title to the plain-
tiff. He rested the doctrine Of his argument on the
case of Twine, in Cooke's Reports, the well known
, case of Edwards and Hirt:el,. and on that of Wer-
ner and Smith, in the let Campbell, p. 332. With
regard to the evidence, too, he considered it as an
' important fact, that the assignment executed to Ben-
' ton was of the whole property, vsnich, it was admit-
! ted, was considerably more than sufficient for the sa-
; ti.laction of his claim
The CtorF Jusvice observed, that nothing had been
urged on this occasion which he had not submitted
on the trial to the Jury, to whom he left it to be de-
termined whether the conveyance to Benton . was or
,was not fraudulent ? If it were to be sent back again,
it mist he with the same direction and he therefore
could see no reavm for disturbing the verdict.
Mr. Justice DALLAS likewise observed, that the only
p•iiiit in question was one that belonged peculiarly to
the Juiy, and that it was no ground for a oaw trial, to
.shew merely that there had been contradictory evi-
dence on the former.—The other Judges expressed
themselves to the same effect.—Mule refused.
lARS/HR 11. aosaert.
Mr. Serjeant Hota.occ moved for a rule to shew
same why the trerdict in this ease should not be set
aside for excessive damages. It had been tried at
York before Mr. Baron Wood, and • was .an action
against the defendant for debauching the plaintiff's
daughter under promise of marriage, upott which a
verdict had been found for the plaintiff, damages
se3oo. The present motion was grounded on the
comparative magnitude of these damages, the plain-
tiff being a labourer, certainly with a very large
family, and no property having been proved as be-
longing.to the defendant beyond a bond of selo9.
It was likewiiie grounded.on the defect as swell its the
nature of the evidence. In the first place, the young
woman who had beta seduced had not been called in
evidence, as was usoal in these cases; nor had the
:child of which she had been delivered been .clearly
proved to be the child of the defendant. Some im-
putations lead besides been stated to have existed
against the character of the girl in other respects ;
and the conduct of the father himself bad been
brought in question, by his suffering the defendant
W visit his daughter at his how, and to sit up with
her after the test of the family were gone to bed.
The Court unitniamoutay refused the rule, on the
grotind that the Jury wete the most competent persons
to assess damages, in a case of this desertption. AI•
though the defendant had been allowed to visit the
daughter a; the father's residence,. it was because he
went protesting honourable purposes.. The ;keens-
'. stance of suffering her to sit, up lste at !tight was of
littb weight in persons of their cendition in life, and
was besides a common practice is that part the
country. The lather had eight other daughters,
01W only dowry was probably their chastity of cha.
vattgr.. With regard, aberefore, to the amount of
dittitagea, the old autaim of the law wee. all that could.
•:401 gybed in this case, aerdanisi pm*" Ipat in
,atipetv. giteskif, it should tr.; Ssig, bAEkt the *lts.would
, Proltakil tet244: it Of so altimant talTaatasa him.
• • . .

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will be the gri
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hat greater =rind
pifiei to the North. E
coral and total. To t
kes than with us. At l
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14 min. later ch.
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I
lose to Drury-lane;
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ipertotmed.
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Flgilifit with the
• 4001telittaitr:Of Cl
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hem,: up 11 a tn.
rt Jain% of Zondoi
llaturd.iy se'mtight,
d IfitvwasThrAshing
. upper branches an
to ~'re; on the Moticla;
ht JON: 1140(14 who
n. iagovith seven °the
fate (who had several
insanity), were yea
ha New ISethlem, St

to return home:
; tptiW have taken tl
ha. It might hive rl
ibi, setiptibn at Nes,
' emigrating gni
isgs ss we are tol are
wind, is a gam he
Mid not believe,
law •si the Net, that t 1
- ' itrvices, than the
staves and hearth
-editors sent out ;
earrammerce witl
A VALUABLE R
11., discovered consist
cd • meoly mixed will
this to the axle-trt
at One trial will pro
C Comm Rossi
en the Blue Posi
• ' • isles's, and stol
trd pelted by the lar
I(eg drank the gin and
w *headed. He
lat, Hanover.s
A DASHING FR
rad' even at Maribor
r) Gentleman residi
piei3 of a female
a kir days since,
1,11. • dsugiter invited
)the arrival. Mr.
*es shown ir.to
qvaintance with
if ler of a Member
• . wcolkction bavii
her father, at a
rld Mr. G----. 611
t "lonia time before
arid site had lel
.k. 'avoid a marriag
lltated, that she
id loot in York4hir
*educed in crave
10 to convey her th
, liblefray her ex
110 het/ever, advant
.. fused to take r
s..kavh-prevailed
400, B-- soon foal
' rid H-- was
iir die impostor a
fiord, where het
„r" Itrong hysterics.
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