The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-01 00:00:00

- LAW LTTIMLICENCg.

t OURT OF KING'S BeNCII, Ol'lLDUALL.—Turstmv.
peon. Mr. JustlasnAl ttv, and Common Juries.
• istoms O. IIAUNTLET.

This waa an action In tro►er, to recover from :lir
»Icteettlant certain goods belonging to the plaintiff,
w;:is h it wa4 alleged he had improperly converled to
cwn use.

Mr. Barney and Mr. Lawn mere for the plaintiff.
zid Messrs. Scarlet' and Campbell fur the defen-
d int.

The facts of the case were stated to he
J.u•ohs, the plaintiff, is a Jew 'slop-seller, residing
•,onewhere about Ratcliffe Highway; the defendant, II
tl.tain ilanntlet, had been !mister of a merchant
is.s.el, belonging to the Port of London. It ap-
reared, that towards the end of 1415, soon after a
is •a^e had finished the last short war between Anse-
ca and this conntry,• Jacobs, through some cnn-
e'•'ion with the American Consul, resident herr, en-
t. red into a contract with the British ilovernment to
back to America such prisoners as rewaissed in
this country after the war. lie acconlingly hired a
-tart, called the Angerona, for the purpose. Capt.
• lianntlet, the defendant, being then master of her,
i'songh she belonged to a Mr. Rourchier. The pri-
,otters, to the number of 260, were put on hoard, to-
',ether with stores fur the voyage, of beef, pork, ace.;
' and with the rest, three bales of isisl (lobes, Tibial
were said to be worth 250/. Now it was 'his last
cargo of clothes whir:, was the hone of contention in
the present ease, for Jacobs contended that they
were a distinct adventure from the stores of the pri
sonrrs altogether, and he alleged that they were plat
,no board under an undcrstanding with the Captain
that, on their arrival in America, they were to be
handed over to she plaintiff's son who went out for

the pogo's?. It Was in evidence from this person
himself, that hr did go in fact out to Anteriea, hut
• Captain liauntlet gave him no satisfactory account of.
the adventure, and eventually he received no proceeds
,at all from it. On the other hand, the defendant con-1
.tended that he bad bought the surplus of the stores,
that is, all that remained of what the prisoners had
not consumed in the voyage, for ?MIL which he paid ;
.and that these bales of old clothes were ; gst the
rest. it was a good deal relied upon, that the plain-
tiff hod always shown a backwardness to give in a bill
.of particulars to the defendant. There was, however.
,n 4 distinct evidence of this contract, which the Cap-
Jain said he made, for the surplus stores, nor dill it
seem likely that the clothes made a part of that sur-
plus, and the defenlint then put his case on a point
law. A searcher from the Custom-house was called,
.and lie proved that there was no entry of a ship with
goods, any time in 1'115,0f the name of the Anger. na
bound fur America.
Mr. SCARLITT then pnt in the license from the
American Consul, in whielon was expressly stipnlategl
,that no goods were to be put on hoard ; th.it a neutral
flag should be kept rot. ••altly flyintr ; and some other
conditions were imp. $l.ll, to prevent the voya._.• of the
prisoners out, being made a mercantile adventure at
all, fie contended, then, that as the Plaintiff, in the
teeth of this order, as well as of an existing taw, had
traded in that adventure, his claim to recover against
the defendant was vitiated.

, Mr. Justice Haircut said, there Wall a was. to thew
that where a vessel sailed contrary to law, the frright
could not recover fur carriage. His Lordship thereldre
thought the plaintiff's claim co old nut be supported.
verdict.—Noosnit.

Mr. liverszy said it was the most dishonest defence
Le had ever heard set op.

SURL/T V. ROBINSON.

This was an action of flamares for uefamation. The
plaintiff and defendant were cheesemoneers,..ne living
at Walworth, and the other at Whitechapel. It ap-
E eared the plaintiff, having met with some disappoint-
fiterite in trade, became a bankrupt, and the defendant
tieing closely connected with him, was a considerihle
loser thereby. Being out of pocket al t 31/11/. he
had the good nature to, sayon more occasions than one,
that it was taken from him in a wad• nut the most ere-
tiitable in the world to the plaintiff's honesty, and in
>tbert be used such language respecting.him as was too
plain to be misunderstood; under these circumstances
:he plaintiff who " staid the wreck of matter" still
preserved his good name, thought himself ealle•I upon
to notice the defendant's eontinet, and he conceived
there was no place so proper as a court of justice for
punishing him, In his baste, however, he committed
• trifling mistake. for it never occurred to him that a
court of justice was a meet of law. The words spoken
were certainly proved, and if words have any value,
they were ef• such a nature as to shew that the plain-
tiff was not offended at them without eanse. But
11 certain plea of justification being entered on the part
of the defendant, the Jury were suffered to ere so conch
we just to convince them that the words grew out of
asi altercation in Which both were warm. These gen-
tlemen, therefore, thought "substantial-justice" won kl
be ;done to both.parties by giving a verdict foe the
Veleta with a farthing damages.

+2f • 111118 T r. ING7IIILT:
. This•was rn actiun by a tailor in Coveutry-attlet
against a person in Aldgate. The tailor wade nut
}ma mit to-a fit, but the d •fsnilant•bring shown to he
a- our:• it was proved that though thr tailor had
fintm4 Ns man. yet he took bis measure badly, for be
tsar aogswitrd.

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positions, are said to spread over a greater entent,and
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aisle, but 'that the', wilt • certainly' reiniiiit forthe
winter as an Army otObseetetloh ht Upper Val?, -•
At the adjourned Seesaws for the city of
c4:Sheeaday last, John Wills, .of heyssheet, ww, gp•
Flied lee .his ere.iitiors, sad resatanaesi, by the *Whet,
ors the gronell Af his havleg been divrhareed,
tie leteinsolvept^ Arts, 'within five years, via. in Jnly
1.44-15, Ind net4l#l4,since tlisitshne; ascii inglustty
fegislity;cif *othertrtse entitled 'himself to the be-
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