Star.
London, England, 1827-02-09 00:00:00

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.

Dr. LUSRINOTON stated, that this was an action for
damages, brought by the owners of the schooner Acorn,
to recover the value of their vessel, which had been run
down, and totally destroyed, by the ship Killinbeck•-1
It appeared that the Acorn sailed from Shoreham on
the evening of the 23d October, bound for Holland,
and while running in the Channel, between two and
three o'clock on the following morning, she came in
collision with the ship Killinbeck, bound from the Island
of Antigua to London. The Killinbeck struck the Acornl
on the midships, and she went down immediately, the,
crew having escaped into the Killinbeck. The Killinbeck
had her spritsail- yard broken, and her jib-boom driven in.
The Acorn was rated at 80 tons,and valued at 500 guineas.
There was a striking variance between the testimony
given by the crew of both vessels as to the state of the
wind. After adverting minutely to the allegations of
several witnesses, the Learned Counsel submitted that
there was a gross negligence on the part of the crew of
the Killinbeck, and that the owners of the Acorn were
entitled to the value of their vessel.

Dr. doom' en behalf of the owners of the Yillinbeck,
adverted to the discrepancy which appeared between
the testimony of the 'crews of both vessels, and con-
tended, that the Court was bound to dismiss the case,
!as there was no evidence of mismanayement or nigh.
gence on the part of the crew of the Killinbeck.
Dr. J. ADDAX' followed on the same side. After which Dr.
Lesunravorr replied.
Lord &rowan then pronounced in favour of the claim made by
the oweers of the Acorn.

Lard Inewau. was assisted in the hearing of this ease by two
Idrasnara lathe Tritet y Duatd.

There was a gnat overflow at KEAN'S performance
a Lasers* Junks, to the tragedy of Ander, at Drury-lane Theatre,
oo Mooday. upwards of 3C persons were sent away from the p►t
aloes at the flue price on that evening, who could not obtain room.
Saturday was committed fur one month's hard labour,
the driver of the Gloucester and Cisebeehnie mail cart, for wilfully
loitering on the road between Cheltenham sad Gloucester.

ST: MARTIN IN T3l Ftsuitia4l. v•ry numerous
Meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin's was held
on Wednesday evening, at the Union Hotel, Cockspur-
street. The object of the Meeting was to consider the

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fen S. propriety of remunet sting Mr. Fe-on, of Charing-cross,
Mr. Sergeant ,_WILDIC moved the Court on behalf of for the outlay to which he had been put in defending
a person named Lancaster, against an Attorney of the a suit on the part cf the inhabitants of the parish
against the payment of Church R4tes attempted to be
Court, calling upon him to answer the matters con-
tained in the affidavit. The plaintiff, it appeared, had levied by the Select self-constituted Vestry. The suit
a son, who was charged with a misdemeanor, and was has been pending now about six years, and after going,
about to be examined on-the charge at Marlborough• through the inferior Courts, is at present before that of
street. He applied to the Attorney complained of to the King's Bench for its decision.—Several resolutions
attend the examination, and gave him money for that were carried for promoting the object, and it was agreed
purpose ; he, however, neglected to attend ; the exa- that application should be made to all the parishioners
urination was postponed from time to time, in the con-
to hold Mr. Fenn exonorated from the expenses to
fident expectation that the Attorney would attend, but ,
which he had been put.—ln the course of the discus-
sion, it appeared that the Poor Kates collected in the
he never did, and the son was committed for trial.—
Parish amounted to between 18,0001. and SO,OOOl. per
With much difficulty he afterwards found out the At-
annum, and this enormous sum collected, or (as some
torney, and instructed him to defend his son, and to
subFcena a material a itness ; he neglected this, and it of the parishioners called it) extorted from the pockets
of the parishioners, was completely beyond their con.
was not until near twelve on the night before the trial
of his son came on that any Counsel was instructed; trout in its expenditure, as its management was con-
fined to the self-elected Select Vestry.—After some
his father was compelled to go, on the morning of' the
trial, some distance in the country to procure the at- further conversation on this subject, in which several
tendance of the witness, whom the Attorney had neg. respectable parishioners joined in condemning, in
lected to subpoena; and, although he made all possible
unsparinverms, the conduct of the Vestry, the Meet-
haste, before he could return his son was tried and con-
ing adjourned.
victed at the Middlesex Sessions. By some means theßaron de Grim shrewdly observes, in a letter re-
Attorney pacified the father, and advised him to bring lating to the anxiety of D'Alembert, to be burred
actions against the Proprietors of certain Newspapers, within the walls of the parish church—" It is very
in which a report of the trial appeared. He applied for strange, that these philosophers think it so much better
a further advance of money, when the complainant told to be in the Church after they are dead, -and so much
him he had no more money, but that he had a bill. glory to be out of it when living."
This the Attorney took, stating that the special pleader "Poets count for little in your country," said a fo-
would discount it. In the event, however, his actions reigner the other day to the Verger of Westminster
were neglected, he could get no declarations, he became Abbey; " you take a shilling for a sight of the tombs,
m
embarrassed, went to prison, and broke the rules to go mist of which are of no interest whatever, and ask but
three-pence to thew me the spot where repose the ashes
to the Attorney, to get some account of the money,
of your Popes and Miltons."—Le Francais_a Londres. .
instead of which he was turned out of doors. There
were other allegations in the affidavit; the main charge MAXIMS TO Ltva ET.—Ten friends rein dearly por-
was, that he obtained various sums of money from time chased, if acquired at the expense of a gle enemy ;
to time, and had not properly applied them. for the latter will take ten times the pains to injure you
The Cater Jevons said, the difficulty wag, whether the proper that the former will take to do you service. Probafuns
mode of proceeding was not by an action for improper conduct. etc.—Literary Magnet.
The Cocas, after some consideration, granted a rule, railing upon politeness has been defined to be artificial good-na-
tbe Attorney to answer the matters contained in the affidavit. cure, but we may affirm with much greater propriety,
=AND C. LTMAIK MID Alt 028•116
This was an action brought to recover the value of that good-nature is natural politeness.—lbid.
the brig Speedwell, upon which the plaintiff had a As the deepest river flows for the most part with the
mortgage for 15001. lent to the owner, a Mr. Ritson.— least noise, so the men who think deepest, for the most
The Speedwell was, when the mortgage was effected part talk least.
by Ritson, on her voyage to New Orleans ; she was Won't do is the mother of more calamities than Can7ds.
consigned to the house of Salkeld and Co. as was also When Old Snib committed a crime he always termed
another vessel. Whilst the Speedwell was at New Or- it a mistake, but when his neighbour committed a mis-
leans Kitson tailed, and Salkeld and Co. took proceed- take, he always termed it a crime.
ings against the Speedwell ; the was seized, and by The man who has a heart to give no praise to your
alleged tricking and contrivance sold for 2000 dollars, good deeds, will always have a heart to give blame
although she was proved at the trial to be worth 22001. to your bad.
Mr. Sergeant Wu.= skived cause against the rule, and contended The fattest lamb is aptest to be beset by the fangs of
that. if fraud was sheer°, there was no other point in the ease, the fox ; the richest rose, by the fangs of the robber ;
The CAW occupied a great length of time, and the and the brightest ability, by the fangs of the mouth of
Court o ere t f opinion, that it was not necessary to she w envy.— Charky's Rank : aping esefint.