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who, it appeared, was afterwards unwilling to fulfil
the contract. In this letter it was said—. I have seen
Mr. Hileers to-day, at 'Change. and spoken to him
on the subject of your toturtter. He said be has no
thing further to observe 11)..11 it, that if yon do not
semi the oil at the price stiptilved you must pay.bias
the deficiency between that and 460; and he added,
that you have only till ten o'clock to-morrow to con-
sider of this, for if you do not send an answer before
then, he will insist upon receiving 463, but still he
would prefer receiving the oil."
Lord ELLESIIOII9UGH Take your Rule."—
Rule to show c •use grantee.
This motion s•-eme.l to Dave excited great interest;
as the Court was very much crowded.
PRE ROO I IVE COURT. DOC I ORS' COMMONS.

Respecting the will of Mr. Elliot. of S'teer's-town,
deceased. Sir Jons Nnaeq. said, lie was anziors to
Throw out a genrral ca'ztion, and to protessintal men
in particular In their receiving instructions from a,
testator to make his will (if their evidence was t be
received as otherwise than doubtful). they would be
particularly careful to receive the instruction from
the hands of the testator himself, who should be ac;
quainted with the contents, and on no pretence tp
destroy, but to preserve such instructions, for the
purpose of being produced in evidence. lie hoped,
through some medium or ether, this caution would
he,mitde kwivre to professional men in genrral, and
in future attended to by them as a matter of fin-
por Lance.
wanstaß (1101,112ULY mica) to. 71111 ITECUTnItS To Vile
WrLi. osaittra ASKO'. YoUNISALY or UM ISLAND,
TIP ST. 01014 DM.
A motion was this day made by Dr. ADAMS. as
Counsel for Mrs,Webster, in the above cause, calling_
upon the other side to bring in their answer to an ap-
plication fur the sum of ift132.000, being divided
among the residuary legatees. nieces sod grand Awl
phews of the testator.
The will of the testator. who was a West India
Planter, and lett a fortune of nearly £200.000 to his
four nines. his residuary legatees). has been in a
course of litigatioa for several years, occasioned by
iatoily differences betneen the cousins, respect•
- ing their individual shares, and in consequence the
wilt* 01 the pflperly is still locked up, and much
litigetion still depen.ting. The executors and trustees
mann d under die will, --- Douglas. Esq. of Lon-
don, and the Rev. J. Arkin. of North Britain. bro.
Ora of the testator. having died pending the suit,
kuers of iiioistsation granted to tnewheve been
mailed. and °it. t ,•stentors appointed.
Dr. SW Anlll. on the part of Mrs. Voids Mrs.
Mildir, and. Mrs. Dempster, Med,' to the testator by
a deceased brother, opposed the application of their
cousin, Mts. Webster. on the ground that an alle-
ation now otiore the Court, was appointed to be
bb-rd stem T.:rin, together with the answer.
The Court therefore refused the present motion,
directing it to stand over until the cause should be
beard nest Term
coup* or COMMON PLIAS. NOV. sit.
ThiloKtiroti TAMIL

• The circumstances of case have already under.
an investigation. the leading facts ue as 14
IrOw —A Ritmo !Purl, called. the Patriarch, this
p*perty of a Mr. Puha a Russia merchant,
wailer:der -the directiorrof Messrs. R. and R.Thons•
um, sod, West, as the firm then stood, although Mr.
Robert Thornton had actually withdrawn, proceeded
taSakutta with the °sensible view of shipping a
caret Of Indian produce for the Russian market....
The.bouse of l'horntons and West procured for the
supercargo a person of the name of Entbryk an in-
tredectin to the very respectable house ut Falk,
Ferkusson sad Co. merchants at Calcutta, and also
if letter of ciedk to .a remain extent. By means of
allerros. Fairlie, Fergussun and Co. sugars and cot-
ton.*** shiNed at Calcutta on board the Patriarch
to* valise Of. nearly 06,000, and as those oentk.
user here answerable to that amount, the bill of
bdiag was viade out to theist as a security for the
otWances, and was br, diem assigned over their
currespoadents in London, Messrs. Fairlie, Bonham
-arra Co. -the present Puteadaats. In the bill ot lading
the astral Words relating to freight were struck out,
it being expressly ariderwoOd Prehn, of St.
Petirditergh; Was lire actual owner bah of the ship
and al the cargo., 146114. Fairlie. Ferguson and
Ci;'insieried the amount of their:interest in the cargo
to'shipet'of London,: where the Patriarch• was in-
siteopted to calif* tridths4 sad where, in fact. she
Wavle 'rebuilt until Mims. Fairlie, Bonham and Co.
telt *lapel:es io .8 situation' with safety to thens.t
seiressts relintsbilf their lien •upon the .pkoperty by
sathfieleol,instirancies that bills to the amount of
bitween Se and 4000, drawn by Embry the se-
peicargii, osilifeltio. R.. and R. Thornton and West,
would be drily honoured.. Messrs. Fairlie. Bonham
and Co. received the bills with an unpins' of the
chip basing been insured,but the advice did not state
thit.,she Winan* was to the port at London only I
the bilirwere presented for acceptance in the nasal,
ways. with an intimation in the most &Acne way,.
that secoritiiecititt Se dergrablir to at boosin
cute. A 'invasion ensued. and while it was pea*
the ship left. Portsmouth, without the kaowtedet
et „the defendant; to primed to Antwerp. Wm*
Boihear • and Cr. now found, for the gran
that the property stood at their own risk, us
sobs as the vessel left England, and the hifennatiesi
was conveyed to them; by theplaiatiffs advising did
_defendants to insure the cargo at Altman,. at the
same time intimating that .they (the plalatiffs) had
insured the ship and freight to the anoint of shit-
seen-shoosand pounds. - Mews. Faille. Bonham and
Co. atter some difficulty, on account of dig very
large sum abeady insured at LlOy‘Pir by the: plain-
tiffs, secured their correspondents by Wholes pa&
tie's oa La cargo to the amount of OSUMI. Within
a Wery fee -days informatioa was received that the
Patriarch had been wrecked on the coast of Mg-
4and, bat this i etrirsiderable part 01 the cargo had
Mm and. It vide a remarkable fact adduced at
iiieteei do very morning on which Messes.
Tberstele'ina, Wert hid effected the issuances
wpm dile drib• mad frtt, and that.they had de-
sired the defendants to. Waft Abair part of the inset-
ince es. the cargo; foreign lettereluid been delivered
as the plaintiffs, and one in partictliar, the postage of
1414,104 a • 642• am never amounted for. Much
internist se tag piece between the parties miming,
their falatire Amapa Wllll4Oll 1111 d at Ago-

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