The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-07-27 00:00:00

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On the nut ite called again;' When he
Scrthat it wee prolfaide the first entry •OPthillgh was town.
made by Rosen before hit.left home that morning; heard Mr. Prete making enquiries concerning'* bill
and that the twit, were made on the loth, but the forged in his name for 10,0001. and which he nal not
heading or the4far left net. On this „gems the allowed to see without the3concirrAirceNOf a proles-
Jury (amid a verdict for the'Defendant. tonna .
I potion, whose opinit!in De .Titatet ;expressed
himself anxious to take. He called' the %neat day,
JuLv 2j. and saw Parry; id the heist': nothing 'material oc.
artuascirr tre cox!. curred : he never eel Parry afterwardc.‘ • •
The Plaintiff IRS a plumber, and brought this ac- Mr. Guilt was pretreat at the'Ebove coierersatiosi
'finer to recover 501. 19'. being the amount for which ' and went with •Parry'to makel.the transfer. tie
Defetulant, an autiuneer, had sold a quantity, of (mind 570 puttcheeds of rtirn,loo pentlieohs of gin,
Plaintiff's pictures. The Defendant had paid a sum , 117 pipes of wine, and 45 puncheons of brandy, all
of money into 'Court, sad the only question was as of a hich were traosfarred to MT. de Taste. He
to the sum the -Defendant was entitled toa.retain for presented the order for these goods tollr. de Taste 4
the expellees; he, had retained.3ol. The sale con- who said, he had been grossly debeived by Parry lit
tined 191 pictures, only 83 of which were Plain- the whole of their transactions: -When the business
titfis ; and he contended that he -was /only liable to was complete, he inforMed 'Paget that Parry de.
ids proportion of the expellees of the sale. I sired him to say he could give no rnoreruns, but bills.
G. Stanley, clerk. to Defendant, iwoio, that the Witness never saw Latham during this time, and
additional Isidore@ were put in the sale with the ap- : was desired by Parry not to mention, the transaction
probation of the Defendant, and that it was abso- ,to him. Saw, Peek enquiring about a forgery of
lutely necessary to put some good pictures with 11,0001.,' Parry expressed a hope that neither Peek
them to attract buyers, as he' ad never seen a worse ;.nor Mardall would prosecute, as he believed De
collection, He preyed the sale of the pictures, and Tastet would not. Parry informed' -him that the
that they bad bee. sold for 501. 19s: i he also stated ,I puncheons of•rurn were purchased for Mr. DeTastet,
tat the charge of advertising was 1`21.; of cant.' with large sums put into his hand by that gentleman,
lopes It. Is. Oa being asked how the catalogues but had not been transferred. •
'were framed, he said the person went to the collec Henry Bagster, who had been ~clerk to Lathan%
tsar, and by guess and itiventioA put the names of . mid-Parry. They beeline insolvent on the 14th of
the different supposed artists. i Janesrye as he had since learned; on the 16th
'flee defence was, that there was au agreement that Parry disappeared, and he had not seen him since.
Defendant should have 301. as his recompence, what- I The runk was at the 'Lonclon Docks, sad ands part
sore the peke might be At which the Sautes should; of the general capital of Lathier and pin' Itbliadt
sell Defenclant being unwilling on any other condi. ' no' distinguishable marks -ab Out it. Oeld,,that
tious to sell such an indifferent collection. about 100)0001. had been pat into Parry's hands 'to
Mr. Dwerman swore that Plaintiff came to him, ..purchase rum for Mr. De-Tastet. The brandy
and told him that the Defendant bad agreed to sell was not purchased for Mr: Do Tastet, though he
his pictures. Witness told him not to be too salt- thought it might be with his money; far -Parry-at
guine, and said he supposed Plaintiff expected to ;that time might be said to receive all his money from
get 3or 4001.; Plaintiff replied, that he expected to IDe Tastet. The gin was transferred the same day
get 7 or' 8001.- Plaintiff then said Defendant had ; that it was bought ; he did not know that any of it
been to see his pictures, and had, en looking at' was Da Taster's. If any person had asked him for
them, said to Plaintiff, that " good frames did not IDe Tastet's rum, he should have mid, he knew no-
make good pictures ;" and on Plaintiff asking him to ; thing about it, as all the rum was • Latham's' and
pick out the best, Defendant said he had better send Parry's. From October° till the time of the benk.
them all, as they wcoild help one another. Plaintiff ruptcy, not more than 13,0001. were doe to Latham
also expressed great satisfaction at the Defendant and Parry from different houses.
having promised to put some excellent pictures Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD said, the transfer was not
st amona ~, them. He also said Defendant had told him made in the, contemplation of bankruptcy, nor a
that the expences of the sale would be 301. I voluntary act, but done under the appreheuslen of
Lord FaxectronouGu told the Jury, that if they prosecution.
believed that there had been an agreement, it made ' • Sir J. Masseter.o, in his summing up, said, that
an end of the question : but if they were not of that Parry, who was aware of the crime Which he had
opinion, they were then to consider what- Defend- committed, could contemplate nothing eke- thaw ab.
ant deserved for his work and labour. Ile had to , seriding, or an act of bankruptcy, at the time of the
discover names fur 83 pictures, and had afterwards transfer. It was a voluntary act, for there was no
to make a speech on each; and gentlemen of the long evidence of any threat of any kind. - •
robe could very well judge what 83 long speeches I The Jury in a few minutes returned i• verdict for
deserved, particularly on bad subjects. if the Jury I the Plaintiff, for all the goods ezeept .576 puncheons
though theie was an agreement, they would find of rum.
for Defendant. If they were of a contrary opinion,
they would give the Plaintiff an-adequate compen-
sation. • • •
.The Jury found a verdict for the Delendaate
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jett 26
, cARP.ALL v. DR TASTES.
This was an action brought by the assignees of
Latham and Parry, to recover '576 puncheons of
rum, 200..purscheons of gin, 117 pipes of port wine,
and 45 pencheous of brandy, transferred by the bank-
rupts to Defendant, in contemplitiarrof bankruptcy.
The first witness called was; Mr. W. Mardall, who
swore, that in January last (the 14th day), in con-.
sequence of some information which he received of a
forgery upon himself, he went to the house of De
Tastet, in-Broad-street,. accompanied by Mr.-Gorst
they saw Parry and De Tastet in conversation to-
gether : he told the cause of his errand, namely,. that
he understood 1k Tastet hid rt- bill draten on his
(the w itness's) house, for T 2,0001. by Latham and
Ferry : De Tastet said he had.such a bill ; and that
these had been another for 18,0001. which had been
paid by Latham and Parry, on the ground that the
witness was anxious that the hills should not pass
through the Beak: .Mr..Nlardall said, the bills were
gross forgeries,. for he 'had never made-such accept-
ances. De Tastet then -said to Parry, ." How is
this ?" Parry replied, it was a mistake, for the
Bills were drawn upon another holm with similar
names. Witness said this was false, for there was
no other house. of the same name in. London, and
there were no branches of his own house. He then
insisted upon seeing the bill : 1k Tastet then opened
• a tin case, but net finding it, withdrew into an ad-
joining room, an i was immediately followed by
i; Parry and by Mr. Williams (he believed), one of the
clerks. They staid out nearly half an hour, which
1; made, Mr. Gorst himself very impatient. dr.
a-

JULY
DIANDFORD V. DE TASTET AND OTHIRS.

Mr. Serjeant BEST stated, that this was an action
brought by the Plaintiff, as administrator, against the
Defendants for the sum of 30001, which they had
acknowledged to be due to the inteittate.
I He then proceeded to call two witnesses to Prove
the baud-writing of the Defendants, but they did not
appear.
They were then called upon their stsbNend, but
still did not come forward.

The Learned Serjeant then said, thit these wit-
nesses were, one of them, the clerk of the Defen-
dants ; the other, brother of one of the Defendants:
their testimony was kept back, and he could not,
therefore,-go op with his case, unless the handwriting
was admitted.

This - the. Attorney for the D,:fendants 'vistaed
1 t0.d0.. . .
Mr. Serjeant ilrsfusaisi, under this very manor•
dinary circumstance of a respectable merchant hold-
ing back his clerks from delivering their testiosiny,
he must be nonsuited. Nonsuit accordingly.-

GRAYSON J. QUICK. •
I The was an nation for voids spoken in defama-
tion of the Plaintiff.. The parties wore ship-builders
at Liverpool ; and in January last, the Defendant,
at a Coffee-house there, frequented by foreige. Cap-
Ileitis and others, slandered . the Plaintiff nearly .in
`the following language :—" Charles Grayson knows.
no more of ship-building than that fire, nor his
'lather before him : he has broke once, and will
break again : he has no more-timber in his yard than ,
he can curry eu his back : if you have any regard for ,
the lives of your men, do not have your ship . re-
paired
by him ; for he soldom refits a ship that does
not go to the bottom: many families <melte be laid at
his dloor."—These words were fully proved ;. but it
I-did not appear shoCaor-4ioseogo lost easulta tag; .1
Plaintiff from this slander.
Mr. Serjeant ',Les, for the Defendant, -allowed
that the words were-highly blameable, and not to be ,
justified ; but said, that they were mere idle splene-
, tic expressions, never meant to be believed,, and
which it was impossible could be believed, is the
1. nourishing- condition of the Plaintiff was well known
at Liverpool. They were spoken not long after an
election, which divided the whole town hits angry
I parties, and had never been repeated. He. should
not excuse the language, but it was not injurious to
the Plaintiff, nor could be so. . .
He called no witnesses. . • ,
Sir blmrselecu observed, that the words were
' fully proved, and were 'highly wrong. No special
damage had been shown in ovidpnce ' • but the, law
implied damage, when words were.spoken against a
man, in derogation of his professional character, on
account of their direct end certain lendeacy. It was
for the Jury to estimate the amount. of such damage,'
in this and similar cases.
The Jary, in a few minutes, returned. a verdict
for Plaintiff -Damages,
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:came opt....and.iaid :could not
be found, and desired the witness to call next day :
this the witness refused to dO,- and if he recollected
right, he said something about a police officer. Wil-
liams then went away, and Mr. Parry came and re-
quested Mr. Gout to call next day; who, however,
informed Parry that Mr. 51a rdall was determined to see
the hill before he left the house. The witness then
went in to Mr. de Tastet, and ow Parry in the
passage. De Tastet told witness that he was a deter-.
mined man, but showed him the bill. The accept.
ance was for twenty-two thousand pounds ; it was a.
gross forgery, being a very bad imitation of his alip.
nature. As soon as he glanced bis eye over it; he
told De Tastet, in the presence of Parry and Wil-4
liams, that the whole was a gross forgery. De
'Tastet then turned to the foriner, and exclaimed in
great agitation, " Parry, what have you done with
my property ; where is my rum, my gin; and my .
brandy :" Parry answered it was all safe in his
possession, and proceeded to mention several quart-
CAN of rum and gin, which Mr. de Tastet said
oubl net cover the affair, and requested Mr. Gent.
to accompany Parry, as a broker, to see a regu-
lar transfer made.--Parry stated that he had.
.);500 puncheons of rum, and 200 puncheons of gin,
%%Well might be transferred. Mr. Gorst agreed to do
it, and went out with Parry.- Before they went,
witness obseilved that great care ought to be taken in
lest the other Creditors might be ittjur-
'll Parry rip their house was perfeet- ,
witness remarked to De Tasset,
arry's idefiwas to make .false pro-
said; his phkseensed to be to make ;.
the country. Not One. Word passed.,
1, who was at that time out of

Friday sennight, a child a Mr: Rickirditsolght's,,'
pf Creech St. Michael, near Taunton, about' 19
months old, having walki►d a.nififibour's house,
unperceived; was at length Missing, ind pis found
in the well, which was eighteen feat deep ftirat-the
top to the surface of the.water, bat fortunately a
beard, part of the cover of the well, had fallen ih'
pteviously, and the infant Was fiui.nt.lyiut on ita'
back mime board, swjauniug on thi water. If wa;
immediately got up, without the sfiglitain)etY: • I

Lb. transfer, lest th
rd ; upon which •Pa
ly, sfirent. The
Viet -be tlinuglit Pad
'• 0.,: DeTastei s i 4
fu"" and leave the
respecting Latham,