The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-03 00:00:00


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.which enabled' the pruprietors of the honsea whirls
are built itt,Pieetastreet3 Temple-bar, and in sc.-.
ner.streec I§niniv-hiWto dispose of them by lottery,
against the Defenthrives?
'Alderman Combe, the Recorder of Loudoe, the
jinegantulnadneril otitialietrAGeet
'CI' umsmteoelsi Sacert
was nominally only against these Defendants, the
real Defendants being the proprietors of the houses
in these two places ; and the object of the action
was to procure a compensation to these surveyors
for the labour and attenttun they had bestowed ut's
the examination of these different buildings,
sidering of their condition, granting certificates of
their fitness, &c. for the purposes for which they
were designed, &c. on which their sales, or rattier
the inducement which the public had to buy the
tickets in this lottery, depended.
After a full hearing of, the statement of the
case, Lord Ellenborough held, that as there no
no specific provision in the Act of Parliament for
[granting a compensation to these Gentlemen, they
you'd not claim any thing for 'what they did, in a
Celia of Law, whatever they might do in a Court
of Equity ; and perhaps they would .have nu re.
niedy without applying to Parliament. His Lord.
Ship declared he was sorry for it, since he ;tad
eve!), reason to be satisfied that these Gentlemen's
services had been useful to the concern of which
they formed so material a part ; but still they could
not enforce their claim for compensation in a Court
of Law, without a specific provision to that etfect
in the Act of Parliament, for which reasons the
Plaintiffs were non.suited..
ORS[ V. BRUCE AND OTHERS.
The ATTORNEY Gestetiat• stated, that the
Plaintiff was a merchant, and that the Defendants
wore Underwriters ; that the Plaintiff had some
very considerable transactions with the house
of Platanow, in Archangel, in Russia; that in con.
sequence of these transactfuits he &stemmed several
sums of money to that house, and they in return
consigned to him e, quantity of hemp, towards the
discharge of that money so advanced ; that the
hemp was shipped at St. Pete rsborgh on board a
Diitish vessel there, in the month of October,
1807, but ihat 'in a few days after it was SO
Shipped, and, before the vessel had. time to quit
the harbour;'. war having been declared betweee
Russia and this. country, the vessel find her cargo
were seized, and this action was brought against
the Defendants, as Underwriters, who had insured
the cargo against all risk and loss.
The necessary evidence was given as to the ship.
ping of the goods, and the. orificletnnation of the
ship by orders irons the Russian Government;
Ou behalf of the Defendants, Mr. iirjeant
Bast addressed the Jury find the Court: he stated/
that the case which he had to submit was siseply
this, namely, that Mr. Pistanow being a Russ .
sian subject, shipped the hemp (as the invoice
would chew) as his own property ; that when tie
vessel' was seized, together it the cargo he
claimed the cargo as his property, end duck
it was returned to him by the captors, bat the
ship, being British property, was condemned.
This appearing from the,evidelice adduced, the
Jury found fur the Defendants. 4
The other cases were unimportant) except
theee.iminediately concerned.
COIIRT 04F. cOM.IION PLEAS, *May I.
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Wangs bfefor'e Sir .1 Amrs MANSII%LO, r
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DALTON V. GILLISPIE.
Mt. Serjeant SLIENIEND stated, that this action
was brought to recover 24001. on a Policy of Insur.
twee on the shipkaura,froinLondon to Shields, and
back: The ship sailed,„ and on her return she
sprung a leak, in conseysence of which she was
lost. Hating hoisted a signal' of 'distress neat
,Croinar, several boats came from Wintertou, and
she was enabled to proceed towards Yarmouth.
The'Captain was advised to tun the ship on a
sand-bank; he did not, however 4 follow the ada
vice, but endeavoured to . curl. her into port.
Unfortunately the water increased on the pumps,
and before they could get into Yarmouth, she
went down, the crew having had but a short warm•
ing to save their lives. Under all the einem.
stances, it was described to be a fair transaction;
and with respect to the ship being sea-worthy, the
Learned Serjeant said he would prove that part of
the case by
.evidence.
Mr. Serjeant Best contended, in support* of
the defence, that a fraud had been practised.--
The Captain did not run the ship on tile VA
agreeable to the advice he had received lid it
was contended, that his motive for keeping the
ship in deep water till she sunk, was to avoid any
inspection of the hull after the crew abandoned
her.
It did not appear • that there was any solid
ground for suspecting fraud, and the Jury foand.
a verdict for the Plaintiff.

At Rockford, Devonshire, on Saturday last, the 1A144
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MARItILI). •
At York, Michael Anne, Esq. of Rargwallis, Yorkshire,
to Miss Tasburgh, of Bodney, Norfolk.
Yesterday, at Camberwell, Charles Chitty, Esq. of Go
street, to Miss S. E. J otirdan, daughter of .1 oho Join dan, EA.
of Peckham Rye.
On Monday, at Ilompton Church, Colonel Hawker, of
the 14th Light Dragoons, to Misp,,lordan, of the Prior'', Sy"
denham, Kest. '
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