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London, England, 1819-10-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELL2GrNCE.

corrr OF KING'S BENCH, OCTOBER 19.
ROMIRSON AND ANOTHER r. FAITH AND ANOTHER.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, as as,
signees of a person named Prince, against the de-.
fendants, owners of a vessel called the Magnet, on a
Charter-party. The question was one of sea-wor-
thiness. The Magnet was chartered for a voyage,
from this country to Honduras, to bring home a,
cargo of mahogany, and was chartered as strong,
staunch, sound, and seaworthy, and in every respect{
equal to a voyage to Honduras and hack. She sailed
in 1815 ; and on her arrival at Ilonduras, in conse-
quence of some symptoms of decay which had been
discovered in her timbers during the voyage, she un-
derwent a survey, by order of the Governor: the
persons appointed to survey her were the Comman-
der of one of his Nlajesty's iessels then in the Bay, two
Merchants of the place, two Masters of trading ves-
sels, and a Gentleman, named Young, who went out
in the Magnet from England. Their report was,
that she was not sea-worthy, or capable of under-
taking the voyage home ; her timbers, as described
by the surveyors, were sound in the middle above
water, but so much decayed at the ends, that the
chissel went in at the second blow, and several of
her timbers were sprung. Under all the c;rcum-
stances, it was recommended that her cargo should
be taken out and sold there ; and it was for the loss
thus sustained, and for that of the cargo home, that
the present action was brought.
Mr. GURNEY, for the plaintiff's, stated the case, and
called his evidence, from which it appeared, that Mr.
Young, one of the surveyors, expressed himself in the
strongest terms as to the state of the vessel, observ-
ing, that if a cargo of gold, equal in weight to one
of mahogany was put on board, and he might have
it for conveying it home in her, he would not venture.
On the part of the defendant, Mr. SCARLET?
called several respectable witnesses, ship• builders and
others, who proved having surveyed the Magnet
about three months before she went on her Honduras
voyage, and that she was then perfectly sound, and
her timbers of that description that they would have
lasted eighteen or twenty years.
The Junin said, this was a question entirely for
the Jury, they had to decide on the opposite testimony.
The Jury retired, and after being out half an hour,
returned with a verdict for the defendant.
BRADLEY AND ANOTHER V. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS.

Mr. SGARLZTT stated, that the plaintiffs in this
case were the assignees of a person named Hilvers.
The defendants were highly respectable bankers.
The present was an action in which the defendants
were charged with usurious transactions; the cir-
cumstances of the case laid in a, very narrow com-
pass, though they would, if gone into, lead to a
very complicated and extensive investigation of ac-
counts, &c. Upon .the best consideration which he
and those Learned Friends who were engaged with
him had been able to give to the subject, whatever
doubt there might be as to the validity of certain
securities which the defendants held of the bank-
rupts, they did not think they had the least ground
for expecting to succeed in the present• action for
usury ; they felt they could not establish this penal
charge, and it would be but a. waste of time to go
into a case which they felt, before they commenced
the inquiry, they could not 'establish. He was par•
titularly anxious that no part of his conduct should
go to raise any prejudice against these respectable
defendants, and he felt it right to say, that in his
opinion, if the plaintiffs were able to prove every fact
they alleged, they would not approach near to a
proof of usury. Under these circumstances he waited
only his Lordship's direction either to withdraw or

to proceed. ,
The CHIEF JUSTICE observed, when Gentlemen of
such consideration at the Bar said their case was such
that they could not establish it, to go into inquiry
was only to waste the time of the Public. In this
case there must either be a non-suit or a verdict for
the defendant, the plaintiff might snake his election.
Mr. SCARLETT said, with his Lordship's permis-
sion, the plaintiff would be non-suited.
The plaintiff was accordingly called and non-suited.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—There is another cause in the
paper between the same parties; Mr. Scarlett, what
will you do with that ?
Mr. SCARLETT—My Lord, we will withdraw that
cause. The second cause was accordingly withdrawn.
In the above Court on Saturday, 44 Woodward v.
Webb," plaintiff sought to recover damages from
defendant (a Proprietor of the Umpire coach from
London to Liverpool,) for injuries received from
being thrown from the tool* of that coach in June,
1817, when it was upset between Northampton and
Welford, by the coachman, who was drunk, driving
the coach up a bank, on the road-side. Plaintiff's
knee-pan was broken, and he is incurably lame for
life. Verdict for plaintiff—Damages £3OO.

Just published, by T. HARVEY, of Blackfriars-
road, a Pocket Manual, being A few Minutes Ad-
vice from Me Medical Board, in a Lecture on the
Lues Venerea and Sexual Debilities, as deliver-
ed at Woodstock-House, and Charlotte-House, in
`March last, a Publication highly interesting to
young Practitioners, and of importance to the vital
interests of Society.—For the accommodation of
Patients at the West end of the Town, a Medical
Board is established in Woodstock-street,-Oxford-
street, under the patronage of Dr. COOPER, of Char-
lotte House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road.
The Board is composed of Gentlemen of the first
talent, of nearly forty years' expel knee, all Members
of the Royal Colleges of London and Edinburgh,
who are consulted daily by all ranks of inva-
lids with the greatest confidence. Patients afflicted
with a certain complaint, strictures, erratic pains,
eruptions of the skin, ulcerated throat, glandular
swellings in the neck, nodes on the shin bones, &c
are diseases which arise from improper treatment—
the afflicted are immediately relieved, and speedily
cured, without confinement —Messrs. COOPER and Ca
are consulted at Woodstock House, from Eight in the
Morning until Eight at Night ; and at Charlotte-
House, Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev.
Rowland Hill's Chapel, from Twelve till Eight,
end no where else in London.—Mechanics have ad-
vice Gratis every evening, from Six till Eight, at
both Houses; and on Sunday Mornings until Twelve
o'Clock.—N.B. Ruptures of 30 years standing, and
of "
xl inches in circumference, radically cured, with-
oat surgical operation. 0- Private Euttince, and
I Private Room., tor Consultation.

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tp°) otherN descriptionsCotton
last little exceed 400 bags ; 160 fair to gm.,
ping quality Bengals 7d. to 70. a fev..7ery
Sid. 60 good fair Sul,!ts ')(1. in bond
purchases were duty paid, and consist of
Islands, fair 2s. sd. cod 2s. Td. 50 •,oc,d pc
buco 19d. 40 good fair Bov.-eds
sale advertised for this forenoon, 200
bags Carthagena Cotton, has been witbdr;
account of the languid state of the market.
CorrcE.—The public sales of CoTee
were very considerable ; the ordi; ary dese'
sold at a further depression of Is. to 2s. per
middling, good, and fine middling, of which
plies were considerable, sold on fully • , righ
as the previous currency. There were no pub.'
of Cofree this forery. nn ; and notwithstandi
large deliveries from the West India Warehm:
week, 1'2'27 casks 1148 bags, yet the request 1,
vate contract does not improve ; the demand'
very languid.
SLIOA R.— This ferenoon the demand by Fri(;
tract was limited; there have been some per
good Suga:s, at the prices of last week, but 6
Hess d( ne has not been general or extendi
buyers waiting the eventof the public sales oft
in anticipation that a further reduction wet.
submitted to. Generally, the result r,F :'test
may he stated very favourable to the market;
gars from es. to 70s. go off steadily at far
fine Sugars are scarce, and much wanted,,
rather higher ; the low brown Sugars, from,
60s. hang heavily on ha.td, and may be purr)
on lower terms. There .vac, i.t the early part(
week, -a general and nutter extensive demand:
lined goods ; towards the close of the market t
quest became exceedingly brisk, and the per
reported for the Mediterranean, and for tire
consumption of the country, were on a very en
scale ; there were also considerable sales f
Hanse Towns and for the Baltic, the accounts
mild season being very favourable for the
notwithstanding the extensive demand, the
have given way, as the refiners continue very
to effect sales, on account of the state of d'e
market, and also on account of the great less
tained by the trade who held during the last
the quantity of goods on hand is very inconsi,
Molasses are in steady request. This forenoon
demand for refined goods appears to have - -
the market is rather heavy, and purchases •
made on lower Perms than last week. Foreign
gars continue heavy and declining.
hinroo.—The extensive sale at the India
commenced this morning ; it consists of above
chests of Bengal Indigo, the greater prop(
and middling, very suitable for exportation,
qualities which have lately been mo,t in reqtr
ordinary descriptions about I'2oo chests, SO NI;
and a few chests of ordinary Manilla
prices appear to-day much the same as last :a::
some instances a shade higher.
Ous.—The prices of Oils continue to de.:1:1

the sale is heavy, at a reduction.
Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.RIIIII, this
noon, still continues very limited, and the prices
giving way ; purchases may be made at a
reduction of ld. per gallon ; some Leewards,
proof, offer as low as 2s. ld. Jamaica descriptit,
also heavy. There have been lately very iew
chases of Brandy. There are no inquiries
Geneva.

HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.-The prices ol
low continue to decline ; the market is heavy.
Hemp or Flax there is little alteration.
TOBACCO.—The demand for Tobacco condi
improve ; the inquiries are not confined to
parcels, several purchases for the home-consi
are reported ; the prices ate still advancing.
LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER 16.
The animation in Cotton has subsided, and .
mand having been limited all the week, we Lay,
perienced a decline of id. to 4,d. per ;h. in 8,
and Orleans ; and most other description, arc. .
shade lower. On Friday there were offered
auction 780 bales Madras ('anon, and 185 Beak,.
Them was but little disposition to buy : of the 3h
dras only 150 bales were sold at lid. to 80. for f •
clean quality, being lower than was generally
pected ; the Itengals sold at 7id. to Id. the qual:.
middling.—The sales of Musecvades exceed la
hhds. this week ; brown and middling Sugars a:
Is. and Is. 6d. lower ; the fine maintain the I
prices ; dry brcwn Muscovades 545. to 58s. 110 J
bags Bengal sold, fine yellow 665. to 7'2s. 140 bore.
Brazil Sugar, offered by public sale, were all wi',"
drawn, good brown 28s.—Coffee heavy, and 2s. .
Ss. lower ; good ordinary St. Domirgo sold M. v
100 s. good middling Jamaica 116 s. 6d. but there al
no* no sellers at the reduction.

GLASGOW NI ARK ET, OCTOBER 16.
Corrow.—The sales this welt amount to 509 pack' Ws
Sea Island 101. at 2s. '_'id. to 2a. "I.—Stained Do. 6, at
Boweds 183, at 13ii. to 14d.—Orleans 20, at 15d.—Tensiat.t
20, at 121d.—Detr.erara and 13t t bice 34, at 160. to 16V.--oti"
rats 10, at 12d.—Do. 65, at Bd. in& riar.—Bengal 80, at lid.

BIRTHS.
Saturday ar'nnight, Lady William Russell, of a son and biz:
Sunday, at Tunbeidze \I 'd"; the Latly of Lieutec.ant-Cowge•
Ilrov..nrizz, of a son.

lIAR RILL).
Monday, at Mary-la•bonne Church, Lieutenant-Colonel C4ll-
- of th 75th Regiment of Foot, to Mary, third ti.lughter •'
the late Peter Breton, Esq.
October 15, at Dalkeith, James Alexander. Esq. banker. :e
Catherine, daughter of Dr. Andrew Gra.harn,

DIED.
Qn the 4th inst. at Present, Lan=shire, aged S 7, John lia:c•
den. He s, re, .1 in the siege of Quebec, in the 1.5,11 Rcgoacc:.
and was employed by tite immortal Wolfe, as his valet, until
death of the hero ; when 11.! entered the service of Gen. Alurno,
with whom be remained until his discharge, in the year 1761.
At Garngad Hill, near GLsgow, on the 10th inst. Mr. Jcv-r-
Shearer, late Qiiarter-master of the Royal Artillery.
At Burntsfield Links, on the 11th inst. Mr. Douglas (loufW•
golf-ball maker.
At Southwick, in the Stewartry of Kirkcin:brig,ht, the 4th LIS
Clerneutina, daughter of the lateilugh Bailie,

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