The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-09 00:00:00

THE sTATmmAN.

LAW INTR LLIGENCi

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COURT OF CHANcERY, Nov. T.
The Court did not "sit this day. It is expected
tits' the Lord Chancellor will be able to come out
on Monday.

COEIVT 01 KlNus BENCH, Nov. 7:
The Court was occupied the greater part of the
day in motions for new trials, of which only the fol-
lowing were of any interest :
IMMIX V. I,AINGITELD AND WIFE.
This was an &dirt for goods sold and delivered to I
the Defendant's wife, previous to her marriage, to
which she had pleaded infancy. • The case was tried
before Lord Ellenborough, the last Sittings at Guild-
hall, and in support of the plea of non-age, the
father of the Defendant's wife produced a Bible,
wherein he had registered his daughter's birth a few
days after she was born, he then residing in scot-
I laud, swore positively the entry was made with-
in three weeks after her birth. The Bible being
handed to, and examined by, the Jury, one of them
(a bookeller) observed that the Wok was published ;
the same year that the entry of the birth bore date, I
in November,and was not in circulation till the latter
end of that year, from which it was probable that the
entry was made at a subs.luent veriotl, and the Jury
found a verdict for the Plaintiff.
Mr. TOPPING, for the Defendants, moved to set
aside the verdict, and for a new trial, on the grounds
of the positive testimony of the father, and the great
. probability of his having made the entry in the Bible,.
at the period sworn to, notwithstanding the opinions
of the Jurymen.
The Court, however, thinking the Jury had had
sufficient opportunity of deciding on the fact, re-
fused to grant the rule.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7.
'UTNE V. 'RUSSEL.

This case bad been tried at the Westminster SeS-
14011S last terth, before Mr. Justice Ginns, and a
verdict was given for the Plaintiff, who is an attor-
ney, and hrooght his action to recover five pounds
odd, the amount of a bill of costs due to him by the
Defendant, for some professional services. The
Defendant had before pleaded his own cause, and
now again appeared in person to move for a Rule,
to show cause why the former verdict should not he
set aside, and a nonsuit entered, or a new trial
granted. The ground of this motion was, the dis-
obedience of the Plaintiff to the instructions given
him in the legal transaction entrusted to him by the
Defendant, and he also alleged some mistake on the
part of the Learned Judge who tried the cause.
Chief Justice MANsvmn said, that it wa§ neces-
sary that the Learned Jddge before whom the cause
had been tried should read his notes for the direction
of the Court, and Mr. Justice Gibbs accordingly
read his notes ; when the Judges were unani-
mously of opinion, that the verdict had been given
against the Defendant on the clearest evidence, and
the Rule was consequently refused.
The Court rose soon after two o'clock, and their
Lordship signified their intention of sitting at
eleven o'clock on Monday, it 'king Lord Mayor's
Day.

The Lord Castlereagh had sailed from Bengal for'
China. The H "(wren 'Hastings had also sailed from I
Bengal, supposed for China. The Surreji had sailed
from Madras on her return to Bengal. The Doper
Castle was in Dock when the Baring sailed. The
kien,,sal arrived at Madras thefidt July. The Bengal, I
off the Cape, separated from the other ships for Ma-
dras which sailed with her from Portsmouth. The
Bengal had delivered her cargo for Madras, and
sailed for Bengal in the evening of the 13th Jury.-1
The Earl St. Vincent, Asia, and Prince Regent
anchored in Madras (toads 13th July. The Baring .
spoke his Majesty's ship Minden, and convoys tint
128th Sept. in lat. 7. N. long. 23. W, all well.
The itoyal Society on Thursday evening had theirl
int Meeting for the season, when a letter from Sir i
H. DAVY to the President was read, containing. so ;
account of a most extraordinary new detonating sub-
stance. It is composed of the two elastic fluids, !
trzote and chlorine, and it appears in the form of a
yellow oil, heavier than water, and explodes with
great violence by beet equal to that of the human
body. it may be preserved for a time under water,
but it requires the greatest caution to be experiment- ;
ed upon in dry vessels, as mere motion muses it to
detonate. Sir 11. DAVY, in attempting to explode
a small quantity, not larger than a mustard seed, in
la close vessel, with a view to collect the products,
received a very severe wound in the transparent
corner of the eye, which at present prevents the
sight. -We learn that he is attended by Mr. \'4 Aar.,
and we are happy to state that he is likely to sustain
no permanent injury in consequence of the accident.
It is mentioned in a private letter from Paris, that a
substance, probably analogous, fias been lately dis-
covered there, but the preparation of it has not been
made public. There is reason to suppose it has been
concealed from its being applicable to the purposes
of war.

was done alle Wan. The original consignees THE MINISTRY of GLl:ltii3.-11 irkp', pre 7,.6, *
-svit
(Messrs. Williams and Co.) had become bankrupts, stands a chance of being speedily (versieel e-1 -
but the first demand had been made upon the D. sons," says he, " who are advei;ced t • '''''
fendants, to pew
.r
.ii
having been nurtured in the reveille of :)th... Lir
Mr. PARK, Mr. MARRYATT, and Mr. CAlfrIELf., mirably well as iM, lIS things go Oil ill the s';,l,,„'"--
shewed cause against the rule, likening the case to track ; bet when the' nigh rOadenei sri,hstakaisii:lo:
that of Cock V. Taylor (' Campbell, 587), atel the waters out ; whet a now atel tise,,U;;;' ',Ps', ,ahfl
quoting also the cases of the Theresa Bonita, 4 Ito- opened, aud the Jac a if„,•dc no pieme.a.,. tt.,
.I'..:',
,s
binson, 285 ; Sodergren v. Flight, Trinity Sittings, . that a greeter knowledge of me ea ititl, i, '-, "
1705; and Ward u. Felton, 1 East, 507; •in which extensive comprelieusine is req • d . than 1•f:"'"
the Defendant merely acted as agent for another with. gave* or than oilice ever can eive,e
in knowledge of the Captain, and was therefore re- ! ‘Vedncsdav week, two meat arrived i
lieved from any liability. I chaise at Ilaiiiham, oneof • ? a r'!'n hir7P
who:;, to iiimp.'l,
It was settled, that the landing of the goods in 'nolo bis Odell, and wis tekeit to tits Grit •'f
r:1,I•
question (sugars and rums) at the West India Docks, Ott Monday the other ;tune him e.!f in the f's'..e:.• .e.
under 39 and 40 Geo. 111, sect. '35 aed 87, was the the Green Lion : he tial liiins.lf to lee
same for the Captain's lien, as if they had still re- stable, having tirst put a tlet s'one,
This person is isees.ain• d flT'
• , thrl
mained in the body of the ship. bucket on it, to rei:l. himself, after %shell ' y
The SOLICITOR-GANERAL and Mr. Fer.i.ee, contra were kielsed awa v.
distinguished this case from that of Cock v. 'laylor ; a Mr. Hassan, Imole eater awl 1,„1,;;;;;;e, i',e,',`l' '''
and the Court inclined to think, that as here the sou-place, Helmet Gree;i [told. 11.. was trat'es'!'''.;
goods were delivered to the Defendants, not upon with his pack of books to Faver-liare. Tee e„...''''''
the exhibition of an indorsed bill of lading (as in ; who broke his thigh is on assi-taiit traveller- 'l‘;''
the case of Cock v. Taylor), but of an order from ' [lessen, has been in a low melancholy was- for b ..e.
-af,a,tulr- le
}cars previous
* .'3
the consignees as if they had been still the prnprie- sixteen months, and was very ' ' o'a liv!-
Illi:OtleIel.. la hit
tors, the law could not raise an implied promise to conversation.
pay the freight in those who did not claim as the in- i Chi the 2d inst. was interred Mr. Broolonate r
before his decease, I
dorsees of consignees, but merely as agents. To say London-street, Heading, Gent. and, aceordine to lir
otherwise would be going farther than any case of _ desire, was buried in
been
made
et sue!
lien had yet gone. which he had caused to
The Court made the rule absolute for a new trial, ;to his death. About live daysprevious
to see if the fact could be varied upon which their ! called on an undertaker, and went withabll:l:ilin;nl ti;'e-tl'h'.heie'!
t
church-yard, and pointed out the spot he meantto he present decision was formed.
___,....._. laid under ; on his return home, he remoted his old
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 7. cotlin from iss obscurity, Allll baring itisteeeel the
Lord Chief Baron Sir A. MACDONALD, Barons' prof "41eatts"g of his memento an,,,.i, took to his
: bed and died iu the ensuing week.
THOMPSON, GRAHAM, and Wool), un the Bench. i barn
Much attention has excited at Norwich by
ALMON V. AIORCIAN.
- 1 thencsionignul;lrilciitriac,umhsatavilitlcge
ptaacdhieerdmtmoer,,erhyi tlerenSwoiuht:d
tion concerning the costs of the imprisonment of a a
NIA ns:
In this case Sir TCIO9 Peea made an applies-
Lincoln
congregations, at the Calvert-street Chapel, ia that
Milisenger of the Exchequer who had failed to 1 pro- ; city. He appeared in the pulpit in his military eerie
duce the body of the Defendant,whom he was ordered I No small degree of curiosity was ,a wakened at
to apprehend for contempt of the Court. I Brighton during the afternoon of Monday last, by a
Lord AELCHICALD MACDONALD observed, with a chaise drawn he six horses, decorated with white
smile, that the Messenger in question had been sin- favours, proceeding with great velocity through tha
gularly unfortunate in his endeavours to apprehend principal streets; bat which proved to be no neer.
men for contempt of the Court. Once, during a I than the cavalcade of a post-boy in the employ of
visit to the country, the unlucky messenger happen- 1 Messrs. Cue. eewcera:a and BLABER' 1010, hatin4
e
ed to arrive somewhere in the neighbourhood in quest
!been to Worthing to be married, " ttas (to uss his
own expression) bringing his wife home in ads.
of the body of a disobedient person. Whilst he was
perambulating the streets of a country village, some I up etelee,
of the inhabitants, alarmed by the singularity of his Friday afternoon a desperate battle was fowls
on Blackheath, between a young man named W!.
appearance, • imagined that lie was a conjuror, and
son, -residing near Woolwich, and one Simpson, a
had him apprehended. Their suspicious were con-
firmed by the discovery of certain parchments con-
journeyman carpenter in Greenwich, for 39 guineas
tam ed in a large green bag, neatly folded up,j
and I a tide. At two o'clock they set-to, and dune, se.
vend rounds each displayed considetahle knowledee
Labelled in a curious character, which they conceived
in the art of boxing ; having fought 35 minute,: in
to .contain the mysterious laws and language of his ''
the course of which time they had 40 rounds, victory'
profession. They Immediately clapped him in a
country prison, on suspicion of. being a conjuror, was declared in favour of 'Watson. .
and he was only liberated by a formal application, , ... . . •
Mete ertseness.—At the 'late fire in Henrietta,
after he had been immured two days. street, Mancheeter-sauare, an industrious mechanic,
The Court robe,at twelve o'clock, Hoop.
named Chunth, residing in the second floor, lost tee
wards of 5001. in gold and silver, welch he had
amassed with the intent of providing a living for his
wife and family, it having been the well-earmet savings
of several years, and which, with the exceptiou of
two or three pounds, was all melted at the confla-
gration. .
INQUEST.—An Inquest was .held on Saturday, at
the Coach and Horses public-house, in Lembee
Butts, before the Coroner for Surrey, on the body
of the boy who was thrown out of the stage-waggoa,
near High-street, on Thursday last. Verdict—is-
cirlenlet Death.
' . A. Coble belonging to Sunderland, with four men
in her, lately, in running ahead of a ship, was
struck by a vessel and split to pieces. One man)
namedeL Douglas, was drowned.
A Jew family of Hamhurgh, named Goldsnih',
Consisting of the father, mother, and font. chill!ren,
were baptized last month at Leipsie, by a Lutheran
pastor. This is the Math family which has, withal a
year, embraced, in that city, the Protestant CJIll•
munion.
THE LATE FOOTPAD ROBBERy.—The footpad elm
shot himself on Saturday sennight, near Wood—
worth, after robbing Mr. MORLEY, has
.been recog-
nized by hiS.friends. He proves to be a juurne) met'
sbcoicei
oko-ilsili:
the shop of "tir. Fermi:see,
stant employment at
near Tower-hill. Ile had been for some time past in
the receipt of wages at the rate of 40s. per week,
edseer:laliliaern, eldlejtcjiaillefss., Gaaniddr'had almost con-
- *and before that period not less than 30s.—Galar Has
twenty-four years of age, and has been married
about ten months, to a young woman from Eglitiee
where he had
1.. served his t•ime, and as only in aset
%l
Htil .hi 6 taylor and another person for some furniture,
'a low.ponnds, which his master would willingly have
inlvanced him, had .he known him to have been
lit
want of it, and had made the request. 'Pic otter
was his brother, who could not conveniently ,
no
hiM, . 'having • been recently disappointed in oL;i
money -due to him. .On Thursday previous tort _
perion he applied to' fora loan of rive or six
,p(o)tizlie
death he called on a relation in West-sretare., . d
and should be glad if he would let him have the te:o_l.
toldfiiid
‘ai,laios
had expressed
ptoresysiesdi t
which he once gave him, as there were rnaey,_
,1.',1
bers, he said on. the road ; and it would afford
~i.
. ah6defistttrhe'ltoastillll;;;
iNyuC>ts
-green,
duced the pistol ; and afterwards, at his
h.,
Was.;
cast im two or three balls. Galen. welt to it,eoc
as usual on Friday, but on Saturday morning
1,).::
protection. The cousin, suspecting no lime, tee
his wife as work was slack he sheuld not ee
ii,int'a
employment till after breakfast. Before he lets :.
e,.
he put some bread and cheese in his pocket ;tai!.dr.
Jo
spired of his wife if she wanted any sitver, ,;u
Lin...
her ls. thl. In the course of the day he min. :,"(1,.
the robbery, and ptit an cud to his existeace it !e
manner before stated.

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• Dftiwits Wharf. Arrirrd.
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Eclipse (Taylor), do. 7. A.
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