The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-06 00:00:00

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Government of which he desired the acknowledgment
was 'of the country whitely had, before the Revolution,
been the Vice.royalty of La Plate. It was then
asked, whether that did not include Monte-Video
and the territory occupied by the Portuguese ; the
Banda Oriental, understood to be under the go.
vernment of General Artigas, and several provinces
still in the undisputed possession of the Spanish Go-
vernment? He said it did ; but observed, that
Artigas, though in hostility with the Government of
Buenos Ayres, supported, however, the cause of inde-
pendence of Spain, and that the Portuguese could not
ultimately maintain their posseision of Monte Video.
It wilt after this that M. 'Aguirri' wrote the letter
offering to enter into a negotiation 'for conducting a
Treaty ; though admitting that he had no authority
to that effect from his Government. It may be pro-
per to observe, that the mode of.recegnition by con-
,cloding a Treaty bad not been suggested as the only
one practicable or usual; but merely as that which
bad been adopted by France with the United States,
and as offering the most convenient means of do-
signatking the extent of the territory acknowledged
as a new dominion.
The remark to M. Aguirre, that if Buenos Ayres
shoold be acknowledged as independent, others of
the contending provirsieS 'would perhaps demand the
sunset kid particular reference to the Banda Oriental.
The enquiry was, whether General Adiges might
not advance a claim of independence fur those pro-
vinces., conflicting , witb that of Buenos Ayres, for
'the whole Vice-Royalty of La Plata. The Portu-
guese possession of Monte Video was noticed in re-
ference to a similar question.
It should be added, that these observations were
connected with others stating the reasons upon which
the present acknowledgment of the Government of
La Plata, in Cu, mode, was deemed, by the Presi.
dent, expedient, in regard as well to theirinterest as
to those of the United States.
Hare follows a List of Papers transmitted to the
President, with the Report of the Secretary of State,
of the 25th March, 1818.

LONDON AMIA,KE M!Y 5.
WEST INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PRODUCE.
B. P. SUGARS.—The quntity of good quality at
mai ket hariug been small, and that description al-
most eactusively looked after, the demand of the
week, although not lively, fully supported former
prices, with the exception of low browns, which
hang on band, without acceptable offers. The pre-
sent stock of sugar is about 2,600 casks less than at
this time last year, and the present average price 7s.
per cwt. higher. Ha.vennah Sugars, in very small
quantity only, are at present ativerket.. • .
Coe/Pm—The speculative disposition that prevails
in this article has been very active, and it has ad-
vanced 4s. to ss. per cwt. generally. within the last
two days ; indeed ss. profit have been obtained on
Dutch Coffee, bought at the public sale of Friday
last. Holders of fine St. Doliogo now ask
1225., and 120 s. were given yesterday. Foreign
Coffees are most saleable; but for British.plantation
a similar advance is required, fine quality has not got
treireitt,proportion with other descriptibus.
OLW-est India Coffee the stock is now 3,660 tont,
being 4,300 less than at this time last year; but pre-
' sentprices are 455. per cwt. higher.
•: -CracoA.T-The prices of Cocoa remain nominal, no
sales having been effected. •
Rusts-are steady at the prices last quoted,• as are
Dye Woods:.
Prreersen met with animated bidding by public sale
on' Wednesday, and realized the quotations, viz. 94d.
' to id.
NORTH AMERICAN PRODUCF..
Extract of a Letter, dated Quebec, March 21,
1818,:—" Ashes come very sparingly to market ; the
stock at the several ports, and on the banks of the
St. Francois, do not exceed 1550.br15. from a quarter
to a third of which are Pearls, both are eagerly bought
es,they arrive: The prices at Montreal are, for Pots
455. and Pearls 50s. per cwt. with a very brisk de--
mand.—The quantity of Lumber at market is trifling,
being but a remnant of last year's stock.—Flour is
in demand for home consumption, at 425. 6d. to
475. 6d. per barrel, and Wheat at 6s. 3d. to 7s. per
minot."
Toeacco remains steady in prices, but with very
little business doing; the reduced state of the stock
continues to be the ground of unaltered firmness on
the part of holders.
Carolina Race is dull of demand at the nominal
price of 435. per cwt. A sale of East India Rice on
l'hursday, did not support the previous currency for
East India Rice, by 2s. per cwt.
A cargo Roudit Tuneererrse and Virginia TAR
came in last week; for the former 225. 6d. is asked,
and the latter 235.

SOUTEI AMERICAN PRODUCE.
The demand for COTTON has been limited this
week, and prices remain steady ; the East India
Company have declared 1151 bales Surat, and 700
bales damaged Bengal Cotton, foi bele on Friday
next, the Bth instant, prompt 7th August following ;
there also 150 Spanish and 100 Berbice advertised
for sale on Thursday and Friday. neat. The sales of
the week are (duty
.paid), 500 Pernanibuco, fair to
good 2s. Ifd. a 2s. 2d.; 320 Minas, ordinary to
middling 220. a 224(1.; 260 Smyrnas, fair to good
184. a 180. ; 60 Bourbon, ordinary 2e. 6d. ; in
Bond 80 Surat, middling to fair 141(1. a 16d.; 230
Bengal, ordinary 104 d. fair to good I Id. a 120.
fine 12fd. : total 1450 hags sold. The imports of
the week ore 4719 begs, viz. 498 Pernambuco, eO7
West India, 94 Surat, 4050 13Pisiols.
BALTIC, &c. PRODUCE.
• Some sales. of Y. C. TALLow on the spot have
been made at 775. and ow arrival ' purchases may yet
be made at 7is. fur July shipment, and 70s. for all
the' year.
In Hine to arrive there is nothing doing.
The following were the quotations at St. Peters.
burgh; April I0:—Y. C. Tallow' on contract 183
rbls cash, ditto on spot, 190, asked 195; Soap on
contract 170 paid, 180 asked. Clean Hemp on the
spot, 90, ditto on cotriVaCt 85, Potashes 115, Bristles
70. Ezehange 11 13. 16..
. IISDLThIt IZAN LAN. fig. PRoppc,.., .
FRUIT..—Two vessels have arrived in. the.. Creek
. from Smyrna ; but there is very • little ,fruit in 'these
ieitiels. Turkey Raisins cohtinUe most-.lW•demand.
Figs are very dull of sale, the trade being overstock-
: eel, and the vality inferior. -

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• LAW IN7'EtLIGENCR.

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COURT OF KINGS BENCH, MAY 3.

BznizzX is lower; particularly. Teneriffe, which
may be had. at the reduced quotation (291. 6d.),
Sicily 31s. 6d.
BRITISH STAPLE ARTICLES.
The prices of REFINED SUGARS have varied but
little ; Lamps for crushing continue in steady de.
mod far the Russia market. Loaves of all descrip.
tinns may be purchased a sharle,lower. viz. Powders,
liamburgh and Doubles, 645. to 74s.—MOLASSES
have been in good request.
OILS remain stationary in price with little doing,
except Sperm Oil, which has fallen considerably.

BERNARD V. BULL.
This action was brought to recover five guineas, for
a pair of new shafts and some other repairs to a dennet-
gig, sold by the Plaintiff, a coach-maker, in the
Nampstead•road, to the Defendant, au attorney.
Mr. PULLER, on the part of the Plaintiff, proved,
by witnesses,, that the gig having been purchased in
August, 1816, the Defendant required that new
shafts should he put to it before the end of the year,
preferring the bent tilbury shafts to the straight shafts
with' which the vehicle was originally built. •tiome
+Wes and screws wore also provoled, end new 'Vail'.
rug and varnishing done, for all which five guineas
was charged, and that charge wall sworn to be reit-

sonable.
Mr. ScUtLETT, on the part of the Defendant, said
that, although defending this action would cost his
Client much mare than the sum sought to be rerover-

ed, he had felt it his duty to resist an imposition
which amounted to little less than an attempt to pick
his pocket. In August, 1816, the Defendant had
made the contract for the gig at the price of 351. the
Plaintiff stating that it was quite new, and of the best
materials and workmanship. The money was paid,
and the Plaintiff agreed to keep it in repair for a year
without any additional charge ; but in the course of
about three weeks it met with several accidents
in the first place the footboard started into the
face of the groom; in the nest the spring broke,
in the third the shafts started, and to •com-
plete the calamity, the azletree broke *ldle the
Defendant' was .on his way to Brighton. In fact,
it might be a new gig in name, but certainly not in
use or in fact, for it seemed chat the Plaintiff had a
singular fetidly in fabricating new vehicles' of this
kind net of old materials ; he obtained a wheel from
one worn.out carriage, an oxle.treefroin another, a
spring from.a third, sad a shaft frotn a fourth, and
'putting them together he tricked nut a'• very smart.
lookiirrarticle: but as the various partsAad not been
secuslomt4. to the society of eaclf other, they soon
began to quarrel, and separated when fife gig was first.
employed. True it was, that new shafts were want.
ed, for-they were too narrow, and had;•.-beiides,:
started, and when the Defendant-sast the Plaintiff,
he told him that the shafts began tor'go. .66 Why,"
answered • the Plaintiff, 66 they wee made to go,"
though not exactly in the way described. It was
then agreed that the new shafts; instead of being
straight, should be bent like those of a tilbery, and
for this, and other repairs, the Defendant agreed to
pay St. 10s. which he paid soon afterwards, end re.
ceived a receipt for 431. 10s., including the 351. for
the gig. It was clear, therefore that the five .goiL
neas now demanded were included in the 81. 10s.
and, this new claim wait not dreamt of by the Plain. '
tiff until fleetly a year after the date or the receipt for
431. 10s.
These facts being sufficiently established by Mr.
Sutton, who had made the contract for the Defend-
ant, and by other witnesses, -the Jury, without he-
sitation, found a verdict for the Defendant.
HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, SERJEANTS' INN,
MAY 5.
DU 14 O. ;DUNN.
This was an appeal from the- sentence of Sir J.
Nichol, in the Court of Archer, of May, 1817, in
the above cause, being a suit of divorce instituted by
the husband, J. W. Dunn, 14:sq. against Eliza Papps
Dunn, his wife, on the ground of adultery alleged to
have been committed by her, with K. M:Clay, Esq.
in October, 1815.
The appeal came on before Mr. Justice Abbot,
Mr. Justice Burrough, Mr. Baron Garrow, Doc.
tors Arnold, Conte, Parton, Cresswell, Adams, and
Berens.

The sentence from which this appeal arose was,

"'That the husband had negligently suffered and cam
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raised at the misconduct of his wife, by en act of
condonation, in the taking her hack after the fact of
her first elopement with Captain Clay, end hewing
thereby encouraged the second elopement,'.'—Upon
the maxim " iolunli non jt injuriut" the. Court
below decided the !trishaw. had forfeited*Relaim to
relief, and pronounced that be bad failed to produce
sufficient proof in support of his
Doctors SWABEY and Doeso'sr, and Mr. PEASE,
argued object. to the admissibility of certain new
allegations propounded on this appeal, upon the
ground that the husband,. who was a party in the
cause, could not introduce an affidavit made by him,
or a letter written by himself, as evidence of any fact
pleaded thereon. Nr-
Drs.l.uslllNGTONand M ERRICK, and Mr. WARREN,
on the other side. The evidence offered and objected
to, was an affidavit mrscle.by,Mr..Dustoo.and a letter
written by him to Captain Clay, afteilhe first elope-
ment, in substance as folloits:—that the Deponent
was in great distress and agohy" of never be.
fore entertaining suspicion of Ms Wifei-fidelity or.
affection ; for, aetnis time she had Wen. brought to
bed.uly one mouth; eridahat not bilimitig the act
of .cdnltery to firteellg. commit* cins her first
elepeinent, but relyths, an her solenso protestations
of intiketice, be was iiiduceit to take hir back, by
reason of his affectititi'fdr their viiildree ; and that
he, thereupon, to mirk, hit indigo/Ilion, ;wrote a
letter to Mr. Clay, winked th..in behavior* as Artt.
lows :—" Sir, you professed. the great ml friendghip
for me, anti partook of toy constantn hoapi~aiit t,
which enabled you to execute the tooseherrid ma.
chinations. Yon • ptiliooed the chid of ' %Me
against me, to• aid is .edecink her • frittuutor
anti front her infant children. • Yuan. nheiblited !your,
self from my revenge, km,* ing aha,pyy toms, were
, op!rd for her. return. You kilos 044,hpoletepg So
am pr‘vrinted froin Owing pitilici;yttriestr info? ity
fob fear ~ftat hoc's: ifthih" baidettrititt IC' Oil