The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-10-23 00:00:00

att. _
enttltT OP Oct.
•txent V. 'TIM TOSIMPIIMS °ANAL COMPANY.
THA sag no soiree for work teed lebnoti to re.
• renienerelion from the Defendant" for some
prerrs-innel brothels douv by the Plainrif, _whet is 11
celebrated engineer, for the Defendants.
Mr. SCAILETT stated the cue for the Plsintiff,
whom he represented es • Gentlemen of *estates pa.
erre end abilities in his peotertion. The Defentlanta.
who famed the Committee fee managing the sett.
1 natness of • canal intended to ha eel pest Manebee.
Ita•, Iternely Messrs. keetley,Wallon, Wood. ?merry,
gees, sod Diann, and who were to smart she 10)-
,(44010N and other besieges in fondue, forlellettlag
ilea Iliehpeat Canal, directed their Secretary 11
Saila; in their Milliff to Mr. Rennie, then at
better. requesting hies to send them his report of
the survey he had made of the intended line of the
said visa, the better to enable them to proceed sm
I.nodoe ; end a second letter to the sane effect wool
written to him on • sobsequest day in the some month,
pressing him to send them at his seeeesi possible eon.
teni?nce. his said Report. Mr. Mottle came op to
...on, attended their Meeting, presented bit Report,
with a eiagrof the line, levels, otitestn of expeller,
Bcc. ,herb they highly approved, sad ordered, in
conseptence. 1000 ropier of the Report to be
printed; sad, by a Resolution of the Committee,
he sprinted Mr. Refloae their engineer, wed called
en his fore more detailed Report, which he after-
wards presented ; and en the face of the books dis-
tributed to darters, beakers for eeterimg the names
of subscribers, the Committee 'sieved their Resole.
appointing Mr. Rennie as their engineer, well
inneiog that his 'aliment character for rofessionsl
chill and integrity wooed be • promised inducement
fur subscribers. The Committee. however, were not
successful; tied sew this in the followiag year they
discoatineed their meetings. Mr. Revile, however,
repeatedly applied for his bill of charges, 1211.
bet did not obtain payment; and at length hemmed
his solicitor to write to Mr. Welton, to demand the
pa) wont mod say, that in faller, thereof he had or-
ders to proceed to law. This was In the year 1816.
Mr. Walton wrote to Mr. Rennie acknowledgiog his
letter, net objecting to the Writes, of his claim ; es-
pleaciop mg's,. ONt it bad not been settled long be.
fore, *Likes he had •tal ,red to elect; professing
sorrow I$ at •sorid have recourse to hostile pro-
ervitinci; ploadipi s.vetity of the dement' been
rade upon himself who had not employed Mr. Ron.
tile, or that he 'heal(' he expected to pay the whole,
raquoglitsg his, however, to wait a few smooths
bog• f, anti! the nest steeling of the Committee,
ober, he lipoid end r to rocs,' him a settle-
ment ; bat in rate of failure. be should be reedy to
pay his own fair portion of the charge.
These facts wet* untamed by wriience; and it
was else proved, hot the parties above named were
the acting Committee in I.oadoo ; aadhad, would all,
opt different tines as the Committee, sod held fre-
quent conversations about Ow employment of Mr.
Rennie, sad what be was doing.
Mr. MANITAT, on the part of the Defendants,
contended, thet the bottom of sect" dose by Mr.
Rennie, had bees done before he was memitated ea.
gineer, sod that he had dose nothing for the Committee
*lnce ; nor bed be made any survey ender their direr-
lion, bet merely forelehed a copy of a survey be had
previoraely mode wader the climates ea Committee
lit Manchester, interested 1. • quite deferral canal;
bat that in all mots the Statute of lAwiteehros was
in bar of his claim, sod that the letter of Mr. Wel.
ton, speaking merely for himself, end prowieleg to
pay a sem far which he was wet liable by any &COON
Would not take the claim eat of the Statute of Limi-
tations.
The Cuter JUSTICii however, in sommlag op for
the .burr, sat of • quite different opiates, and left
the ease for the Jery upon the evidence, sod they
fiend for the Plaintiff.—Damages, IT& 15s. 6d.

ATTEMPT AT Sumter —Yesterday afternoon, a
yew,* woman, very rateelly drinisd,abeet 23 years
of ego, was Well by some waters's, near the Red
]lone, Battersea, to throw herself of u boat, vrbkb
was moored to some others, into the Thames. The
earn immediatly ran to 'startle her, which they
oveceeded in doing, bet not without great difficulty,
it bring high aster. She mss conveyed to a neigh-
bouring house, sod recovered. It terlifd 081, that
she use the eNty dimehter of a Gentles's of great'
property sad respectability in Om neighbourhood of
Vseahall, whither the unforimatte female was care-
fully }ed bock. It appears that tbe
Lady bed once before sitempted to pet a periled to
her 'listener., in Colitetplence of a disappointment
•a foie affair.
CRVIATT TO AN11141.1.--Yestestlsy, a man who
.was dating a worn-oat and holt-starved hers in a
waggon, down Tottenham. Cowl. f sed,w es obeetved to
treat the poor beast with meth emelt,. At length, it
was enable to proceed farther, and sank down over-
powered with footsie. The brutal driver, with the
atones barbarity, lollimed tech severs blow. ups.
the wretched soled with the bettmod of his whip,
shit the blond spooled from its nostrils. A Gentle.
mesa who bed viewed this candled with iodisation,
can remeumrsting with iliedtiver, mos tbrutemed with
similar treatment, and would probably here suffered,
bad he set knocked the relit. down. A ight en.
seed, which to the gre.t delight of the spectators,
*tided In the 'lottery of the Gentlemen, who was very
little hurt; while hie opponent, to wee a boiling
phrase, was se heavily porbskril, that his senses were
Aft out of his.
CIIILD-SED Lister, MILLINERY, AND DRUMS, ON
at tIONASLE TIMM —SIM INGRAIN respectfelly in.'
forms her Meads end the public in 'pseud, list site
hts 144 in a well.lelettird Isrie asseitilient of Child.
b.d Lines. which she is miableil to sell at very low
prices, sod Millinery. of every descriptiou; portico.
lady a choice collectien of Cep, of the most fashion.
able sad meows' sitters', in great taileties. Dresses
mode t• order with the greatest taste and dispetch.—
An elegant assortment of Cloth Cloak, laroad, gnesreat
'tunnies; very cheep—No. 30, Cily•t
isseberyolesre.—oo•oll7 Milliners and Shop-
kesprre supplied, who will find tech fashion dig.
pia' eft as will attract end it their attendee.— Ob.
sive, it is nest door to the Rustic lines., Guides
end lodic Sett, Flower Stand, Jspstined, Died,
teed Wiolls• • Cheer, C•mrh and Stria Nisoettel•ry.

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