The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-06-07 00:00:00

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subject, .and t
Mr. BASIN._
had judged barshl,
and 14 knew
scribed. The

prices. If any
lated, so as '

neighbouring
felt, as, in conseq

could not coi

were cheapet ingfacturera
would go to chef?
would not come to them. The Honours', Gentle-
man replied to the observations of Mr. Heakisson,
and concluded by declaring himself indifferent to the
Committee, and that he wished to get rid of the ques-
tion for this season.
Mr. HUSKISSON and Mr. BARING mutually
'explained.
Mr. BARHAM thought that the proposed measure.
•would ultimately lower the price of grain, and was
against the Committee.
Mr. P. MOORE thought the best mode of pro-
ceeding would be, according to the Prayer of all the
Petitions, to postpone the matter till the next Session
of Parliament. His object, and that of his Cimsti-
, tuents was, to see what the effect of the inurement
which the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) had that night
laid Ware the House (the Definitive Treaty of Peace),
would be against next Session. Ministers would have
time to look about them, and to see to what extent
our burdens could be alleviated ; and landlords also
might have time to enter into arrangements with their
tenants.

Lord COMPTON spoke in favour of a Com-
mittee.

The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER
expressed his willingness to accede to the suggestion
of Mr. Canning; though he declined giving any
pledge as to his future conduct during the iession.—
Thy period of the Session was late, but it was never
too late to bring in a measure that was called for- by
the circumstances of the case.
Sjr C. MONK thought the information before the
House was quite sufficient without going into a Com-
mittee.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KINGS BENCH, Jams 4.
LAWRENCE 17. WARLTERS.

Mr. LOCKHART was in favour of the Commit-
tee, and of postponing all discussion daring the pre-
sent Session.-

This was an action whiChaccopied four hours and
a half, and excited a considerable degree of interest.
It was an action of replevin. The Plaintiff and De-
fendant on the record had no interest in the question :
the real parties were, the eldest son and heir-at-law
of Mr. Samuel Jackson, formerly a brewer and hop
merchant in the Borough, and Mr. William Towns-
end, an attorney, who has carried on business in
Staple Inn, for near 50 years. The history of the
else, compressed in the shortest possible compass, is
this :
The father of Mr. Jackson had formed an attach.
meet for his housekeeper, by whom lie had a daugh-
ter (now married). Soon after the birth of the
daughter he married his housekeeper., and had several
children. Samuel Jackson waelphe first born after
the marriage: he went to His father had re-
shied for some time at Axminster, in Devonshire, and
about ten years ago returned to Londini. Upon his
arrival he lodged at the Saracen's Head, Snow-hill,
„where 1001Fai takeAaill, etaldied intestate, leaving a
vary large personal and freehold property. At has
death has pecuniary concerns were, and had for a
long period been, under the management of Mr.
Townsend, the attorney. Samuel Jackson, the son,
heard by accident of his father's death, and, quitting
the India service, claimed of Mr. Townsend an ac-
Count of his patrimony. He could get no satisfactory
information, and was obliged to institute proceedings
In equity. In the meantime Mr. Townsend set up
a trill 1111 which himself and Mr. flogarth, his clerk;
wet* meditated the executors. It was not an ori-
,oWal will, for he stated that to have been lost ; but
t was the draft from which the original will had been
copied. lle took the draft to Doctors' Commons,
j and swearing to the loss of the original, obtained
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probate. Samuel Jackson, the heir at law, in order''
to 'try the validity of the will, distmined upon tlia
Plaintiff, one of the tenants. The Plaintiff being in.,
demnified tiy, Mr, Townsend repievined.
The case having been opened by Mr. ATTORRET
GISERAL in support of the will, called several wit.
nesses, and, among others, Mr. Townsend and Mr.
Hogarth. They both swore to the deceased having
made a will at Townsend's chambers in Staple Inn.
1 Mr. Townsend then swore, that after the death of
Jackson, he found the will in his trunk, at the Sa-
racen's Held ; he took it out. and read P over to
the relatives, and returned it again to the trunk,
'leaving it in possession of the daughter of the de-
ceased; that she sent the trunk to his chambers next
day, that the will was then missing, and had never
been seen since. Upon his cross-esaminatioN he
said, he had made no entzeiry at the time about the
wilt; he had not gone to the Saracen's Head to say
such an important paper had !leen loft in the house,
be had Rot applied to the Police, nor had 4 taken
any one step to recover it.
Mr. PARK contended, that the Very related by
Mr. Twonseed and Mr. Hogarth was in)probable.—
That a will disinheriting the heir bad been made, her
admitted ; but it had been cancelled. If the will
had been in the trunk when Mr. Jackson died,, it
could not have been lost; it would have been too
much the interest of those who had the custody, 04
it for them not to have taken care of it. He, ther
fore, trusted the Jury would disbelieve TOwnsend
and Hogarth, and give the hair at law, his right.
Lord ELLENBOROI4II addressed the jug in a most
able manner. .
The Jury retired for a, short ame, smd,reterned.
a verdict for the nominal Defitsdanti thcre.by dis-,
crediting Ike witnesses Townsend and Ilmattboand
establishieg the right of the heir at law. • • ,
The property thus recovered amounts to about
55)0001.

Mr. RASE, id- not object to the appointment or
a. Committee. provided it were distißctly understood
that there.shon)(l be no ulterior proceeding during
the present Session of Parliament.
The House then divided' on the motion for the
Committee, •

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4tiongetre'were still excluded, hat we understood
that the XGANCELLOIL of the EXCHEQUER
neat proposed, that the further consideration of the
Report of the Corn Impuit Bill should he deferred
till this day three ',becks.
General GASCOYNI moved is in amendment,
that it he deferied till t►istday sirmontbe;
The House dila divided,

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Thus the Bill was thrown'eat.
The Lottery Bill was read a third time and passed.
Lord PALM EItSTON gave notice that he should
move the Army Estimates on Friday.—Adjourned.

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JEGON V. WILLIAM.
This was an action to recover damages. fee .414
molt, alleged to have been committed tr.y Abe. De-
fendant on the peruse of the Plaintiff, vp the SO. of
February Last.
The parties; it apptaVwd, were Poch
chants, and on the day in question, Plaintiff, having
gone on boor 4 one of his own barges at. Paul's Wharf,


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their H. and cast off a rope Which confined the batges of thi
Under :Defendant; he; the Defendant, having witnesbed the
power ; tranuctien, ran to his barge; and a scuffle ensued '
void an- between him and Plaintiff, which ended in the forinet
ing an striking the latter a blow en the face; Which fohnl
heart , ed the ground of the present action.
Mar-1 The case having been proved, and the defenee not
lique, with being of a satisfactory nature, the Jury found a ter:
'luable of , dict for Plaintiff—Damages Five pounds; cal
espendi- Forlg . .
nfidence ; , : • ,
COURT Of Ml**
` not be I,
it leads I *—. • seeyez a. filsAillienT.
Ant/little 'Mr. Serjeant.. BEST stated this was an tii•flett
become the
brought by the Plaintiff, a respectable upholsterer;
that fine island ; and upon the whole, !against the Defendant, a lady of fashion, to recover
it is able, that it should be • restored than the sum of 71. 14e. 6d. being the balance of an ace
but we are compelled to ask, first, trat!count for goods field and delivered: The circum;
how, - Iphotte expence is Sweden to be indemni- !stances were, that the Plaintiff furnished a part of
gild for deprivation' of the advantages stipulated . the Defendant's house in Chesterfield-street. lit
'to her by Treaty with' England? only question was, whether he had or had not
" 2d. If not entitled to an indemnity for Guada- charged mere than the articles were worth: He
loupe, on what ground rests the arguthent for aid- would prove by respebtable persons, that they were
higher in the conquest of Norway,—defended as it ' charged at fair trade prices ; when he had done that;
was in the British l'AelialnanS, against the acknow- he would consider himself entitled to the verdict of
!edged prihciples of fieslice, and the obviOus consi- the Jury. In justice to the Defendant, it became
derations of gonad Ind far-sighted policy, on the his duty to inform them, that the Plaintiff's demand,
single fact, that it was dee to the conditions of the which was originally 1161. 14s. 9.1. had been paid;
same Treaty, which now, it appears, in the case of except the sum then sought for. He then proceeded
Guadeloupe,. is destitute of all binding obligation ? to call his witnesses. f -•
cc ft week' not be candid to flips by the truth, Messrs. Daizeii Smith, Collins; feed reight op.
that Engla4sl has had confirmed to her some disputed holsterers, deposed, (het the.charges in te II werel
title! *Fidel importance--ind has made some valu- correct, that the price fliargell•per yafdtfee the tors
able acquisitions. On the high value of Malta we peting, one. of the articleet:they mold not purchaad
need net dwell. St. Lucie is a' most useful harbour, wholesale, at the" pace Charged, Bs. 94.
defendedrby a port almost impregnable,and the I Mr. Serjeant V Aucitee then addtessed the Jury
on the part of -the Defendant, he said, it was most
Isle of France may be said to complete the great
chain of 'works that connects our Asiatic Empire probable, the witnesses which had been minified,
with*Great Britain. But the general sense of the -had spoken, true, according to theiebelisiev.ee teethe
people of Paris respecting the part we have lately best of their judgment; but it would be recollected,
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taken in the affairs of Europe is by no means equi-
they examined them at eight, or at dusk, as was
vocal. That we hive paid our Allies for 'making war, acknowledged by Mr. Dated, Who also said, the
said our enemies for making peace—pretty largely, it veneering of the wardrobe was not smooth. The
will be felt, in both instances." Jury would consider this case not a common one.
—This lady of fashion and fortune, as she had beets
called by his Learned Brother (Best), desired a Mr.
Hodson, it tradesman, to call on the Plaintiff, and,
tell him she find deposited the money in his hands to
pay the Plaintiff, if he would allow the articles to be
fairly valued ;Instead of attending to this notice,
the Plaintiff hail the Defendant arrested. He would
ask them, if this was proper treatment from a trades.
man to a lady of fortune ? He would prove the
facts he had slated, and had not a doubi, but his
Client would have their verdict in her favour.
Mr. Thomas Hodson, ironmonger, deposed, that
the Defendant and the wife of the Plaintiff called at
his house, and the former give him 501. ; he after-
wards suw, .the• •w hen the. witness said to
him," Yeu and I can settle this business," and
oreiedbini' a rule to measure the carpet, and told
hlth allow him two 'yards more than
hatimild meaisire, and that he would allow him the
corner*. The Plaintiff declined doing its . The
witness then measured it, and it wanted 11 yards of
what was chareedift the bill. On the 224 of April,,
the witness 'offered the Plaintiff to pay hint the whole
lof his Bill, if he would make an allowance for the
Carpet, and deduct 11.'1s. for two shelves put into
!the wardrobe. This be refused, and four days after:
eritrds the Defendant was arrested; he the witness
was her bail. lie had known her 20 years, and she.
was a most respectable woman.
George Woolley, upholsterer, Piccadilly, t.. key,'
cabinet-maker, Grosvenor-street; William Greetie
and John Blackstone, deposed, that the articles ire
the Plaintiff's bill were overcharged 111. tls. 6d:hut
said, that the witnesses on the part of the Plaiutiff,
were most respectable men in the trade.
Mr. Serjeant Beers replied.
Lori Chief Justice G Ines, summed up the evidence.
The Jury gave a Verdict for the Defendant.

DL) TCII MAIL.

[RECgITED THIS MORNING.]

BOLOGNA, MAY 11.—Ilia Majesty the Emperor
of Austria hating provisionally taken possession of
the departments lately occupied .by the Neapolitan'
troops, has informed the Prefect of Pinot that he
future all the public acts are to be headed "Prot&
sional Government of his Majesty the Emperor of
Austria."

MILO!, MAY O.—The fate of this country seems-
to be decided. The old Duchy of Milan and Bo-
logna, and Ferrara, come under the Emperor-
Francis. The Deputies have signified to his Majes-:
ty, at Paris, the wish that his Italian, States may
form a Kingdom of themselves, governed by its own
Taws, like Hungaryand Bohemia. .
MANIIEIM, MAY 28.—The Allied Armies return..
ing from France seem by their position to form •
line of observation upon the frontiers. The het&
quarters of the different corps are at Spires, Kreuts•
nub, Buberach, Stutgardt, . Donau, Eschingen,
Offenburg, Steckach, lludelburg, Ulm, &c. ; the
.grand head-quarters are at Freburg. The Russian,"
boweter, continue their march homewards without
luterruption. .
.J3RUSSEI.I, JUNE I.—Within these four days
25,000 troops, atil:tt vast quantity of baggage and
artillery, here pored through Namen. . They are
going to that parteof Liege Reslaezet where previ-
I sions ate abundant. It is said. the march of the Al-
lied troops Will continue till the end of Jtine.•
An immense number of French troops, of evert'
destriptiest, 'ls lisenebkd kt Lille,. &c. along the
froatierelien'secoeit of the new organization !
the Ofkers- whe hive served only _
sting of this was, are to he,disatiased
scripts of the last three leak, to be
Nille4onsider thf . fate of Beigium
thltela a manner very desirable for
"-the anion with a neighbouring peol
nets and customs so much resemble
deed a benefit conferred by the
cannot tiro iighly valve.
ILtour., Juse R.—The Prierfice,
dered a general Thaniegiving fir t,
Allies) and the delitessce el Liollamt.

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men dealing in fort4gn corn, end tree •s'11:
• • i4boipt
which can never cease to be the
seen tikes). fis inflame Om pnblic efilipo.—' "Ms in tierce, or their enemies in' weir ? 1
t a Committee quite inapplicabile • Wtb* •ke late laxatlens of the Company's coercive
d shoblet•therefore oppose it:: t ' . inindba. be must be a bold man whe wool
RING said, his Right Honourable laktetwk elver the ,consequenees of thus admitti
harshly of the motives of the Pititionerat eillimi Multitude of folleigders into the
rw no such class of men as he hadtdq.l onetheli dominions. Why, again, should
Ile object of the iiill was to obtain gia tilikine restored to France? Martinique
any county in England were to he iflsu- itsisobl arbour—with the remelts§ still wallet
as to have no communication with the itsigran fortikation—and enriched by the es
ng counties, a bad anion would be heavily tare of irilish capital, poured out in the cons
1 consequence of the• restrictioni supplies. indulge ia by every Englishman that it would
tome in from the adjacent places.. If bread lose to oar country ? As for Guadaloupe, i
per in other counties, the manufacturers to two caves questions. There is certainli
to the -cheap bread, if the chef"? bread reason to *egret that Sweden will not beco
come to them. The Honourabli Gentle- Sovereigo* that fine island ; and upon the
dto the observations of Mr. Hoskisson, it is oso esirable, that it should be • restore
ided by declaring himself indifferent to the 1 transfer : but we are , compelled to ask
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~ and that he wished to get rid of the quek. how, an at hotte expence, is Sweden to be in
is season. bed for this deprivation' of the advantages stil

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