The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-25 00:00:00

LAW INTE LLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jaw. 24.
FLIISIBT V. WATERS—FLINDT V. BISSET.
Mr. Toryism moved for a rule to shew cause why
the verdicts in these cases for the Plaintiffs should
not be set aside, and verdicts entered for the Defend-
ants. The question was, whether an action could
be maintained on account of persons who were
Alien enemies at the time the action was brought. •
Lord Ileeeximeotron said, the parties interested
had become Alien enemies after the loss, and before
the commencement of the action, but the action had
been brought nominally by a British subject.
Mr. TOPPING said, the question regarded the an-
nexation of Hamburgh to France, which it appear-
ed took place about January, 1811, finingh it would
• be sufheient for the argument
.of the Defendants, if
it had taken place previous to the month of Jene,
1811, of which there was evidence on the face of do-
cuments before the Court. There were here two
counts in the De(Meriden. In the former, the
interest Ives averred to be in the Plaintiff; and, in
the latter, in Schiller and Co. alone; and his Lord-
ship had decided that the question meat rest on the
second count alone.
Lord Eeetesonouum wished that the Darned
Counsel would tell the Court, if he had found any
ca-e in which it had been held, that a Plaintiff being
himself a British subject, and who averred that he
had an interest in a cargo for himself and others, had
not a loans stand! judicio, on the ground. that
some of the parties in whom the interest was averred
had become Alien enemies after the peelod..at which
the loss was incurred. •
Mr. ATTORNEY-CENTRAL noticed the cases of
Brandon and Nisbeit, 6th Term Ropor:s, p. '23;
and of Bristow and Towers, in 6th Term Reports,
p. 35. In the former of these Lord Kenyon had
held, that an action could not be maintained, either
in the name, or on account ..f, an Alien enemy.
Lord ELLENBOItOUGII said, though a British sub-
ject did maintain an action in consequence of a loss
arising to a person who had subsequently become an
Alien enemy, it did not follow that such Alien ene-
my would have the benefit of the verdict. The pro-
' (tells might be impounded for the benefit of the State.
here the transaction was legal in its inception, and
it aepeared to his Lordship, that a British subject
had a capacity to sue, though he could not apply
hat he might recover to the use of an Alien enemy
during the war. The question was, is liether the cir-
cumstance of the person in whom the interest was
averred having become an Alien enemy, was a bar to '
j the action ? In his Lordship's opinion, as he at pre-
f sent conceived it, it was a bar to the application of
the proceeds to the use of the Alien eueniy, but not
a bar to the action. His Lordship asked, was there
any ease reserved for special argument on this
point.
Being answered in the affirmative, his Lordship
desired that a note should be sent in of the names
of all the cases depending on this paint. It seemed
to his Lordship to be a new question, but the Learned
Counsel might take his rule.

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*BISHOP OF LONDON'S COURT, DOCTORS' COW
MONS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14.

rouerr b. TOIIKINIS.
This was a cause of nullity of marriage, brought
by Joseph Pouget, Esq. the father of William Peter
Pouget, the husband, on the ground of minority, he
being only of the age of 16 at the time the same was
solemnized between him and Lucretia Tomkins, a
servant living in the faufily. It appeared that the
marriage in question was performed between the
parties on the 28tit of January, 1810, in the parish
church of St. Andrew, Holborn, publication by bans
having been previously made by the name of William
Pouget only, and this without the knowledge and
consent of the minor's father. On the part of the
promoter of the suit, it was contended that this was
a marriage fraudulently and clandestinely had, as the
Marriage Act required the parties to give in their
true Citristia'n and surtk\Jes, whereas one of the
parties here had omitted the' name ' Peter,' by which
name he had constantly gone, and was knoWn by his
parents, inmates, and servants belonging to the fami-
ly, and this was done for the purpose of concealment.
On the other side it was contended, that the Mar-
riage Act did not say that a party was to give in all
his true Christian names, or that a marriage should
be annulled for the want of giving in all his names.
Sir Wm. Scorr said, he should take time till the
next Court day, to consider of the sentence. •

STATESMA,I44. .

• POLICE.
•
BOW-STREET. •
Faiuo.—A man has resided at Deptford for some
time past, under the name and title of Sir Edward
Perrait,stating himself to be the Agent of the Admi-
ralty, and that he resided in that neighbourhood for
the purpose of transacting business relative to that
department of Government, and has, by that 'memo,
practised impositions in several instances in conse-
quence. Among those imposed upon by him is a
woman of the name of Elizabeth Bullen, who
ap-
plied to him to procure an Admiralty protection for
her husband, he having been in the merchant service,
and then prevented from going about his business for
fear of being pressed. This he agreed to do, and iu
a few days after produced her a pretended protec-
t tion written on a skin of parchment, with an Muni-
' ratty seal on' it, which no doubt, had been taken
off from an official instrument and pasted on the pre-
, tended protection. At the time.he delivered it to
her, he gave her a bill of the charge for it amounting
to 601. in different items, for parchment, writing dif-
I ferent fees on it, in a similar manner to an Attor-
ney's bill. Mrs. Bullen (lid not expect, nor was
she prepared to pay so large a demand, but she paid
him 231. 13s. 9d. in part, and he took from her a
large mahogany dining-table and chest of drawers,
as a security for the rest. Ile read her a letter, pur-
porting to have been sent him from the Admiralty,
and stating, that the charges for the protection were
very reasonable. Mrs. dulhei's husband then went
about his business inperfect security and was pressed,
the pretended protectiontreing treated with *ridicule.
Mrs. Bullen, in consequence, applied to Sir Edward
Perrott, who said, there must be some error in the
protection, and desired to see it, and miter giving
it to him he refused to let her have it again, and de-
stroyed it. Not being able to obtain any redress,
she applied to Mr. Goodhew, the acting Magistrate,
residing in that neighbourhood, who immediatety
saw into the imposition, and dispatched Crouch,
Tucker, and Price, three acting constables, to take
the self-created Knight into custody, and they ac-
cordingly secured him, and brought him before Mr.
Goodhe%v, who communicated the circumstance to
the Board of Admiralty. Savers, the Bow-street
Officer, was employed to make inquiries, and he,
with the other constables who had taken the ini-
pestor into custody, learnt that his name was Edward
Perrott, and that his title %%as assumed. On search-
ing his house, they found a copy of the pretended
protection.—lle stands conitnittoli. •
H ATTON-GA DEN.

Yesterday IMia.in gtitiyi, a very smart looking
young man, was brought up, and underwent exami-
nation, being charged by the wait,r at the Quoen's
Head Tavern and Cotne-house, in Holborn, with
coining on Thursday evening" last tb the almve
house, when he ordered tea ; after which he
took an :opportunity to slip out, and go away,
not having paid his reckoning, when the
waiter, missed a silver tea spoon, and immediate-
ly pursued and took him, gave hint in charge of a
patrole, and he was conveyed to the watch-house.—
On being searched the spoon was found its his pocket,
as were a number of spoons suspected to have been
stolen, and six one pound Bank of England notes.
and fourteen shillings in silver. He pleaded poverty
as an excuse. The charge, however, being made
out, and sworn to, the Prisoner was fully commit-
ted to Newgatc for trial.
sit ADAVELL,

Ann Christopher was fully committed for trial,
charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel,
the property of Mrs. Jansen, of Mill-wall, Poplar.
The Prisoner had been employed as a washerwoman,
and in the absence of the mistress of the house, had
contrived to purloin the articles, and escape. She
was traced shortly afterwards to the watch-house in
Poplar, when the property was found concealed
round her body.
Mdrij Smith anti Mar,y Davis were committed for
trial, charged with uttering and passing counterfeit
Bank-tokens for three shillings. They were appre-
hended by Partridge, the Officer, in the act of passing
one for the purchase of bread, in the shop of a
baker. The Officer immediately took them into cus-
tody, and on searching their persons, a number of
three-shilling Bank-tokens were found, all of them
counterfeits.