The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-25 00:00:00

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COURT OF &INC'S HENN!, OtILDWALL. OCT. SM. .
Hrfu►u Mr. Justice DATUM. dud a Special Jury.
!LOLLY r.

This was an action avinst the underwriters. In
September, I SIN, au insurance was erected upon the
1 ship Seaman, then It ing .it llnil, and bound for " her
port or ports of loading in the Baltic." 'I be policy
was worded to cover all I orts in the Halle sod in the
liulf of Vint 'nal, at being iturertain at which of them
the vessel would receive her cargo. 111 OM IS Is,
having taken in a certain cargo at Hull, the Semalan
sailed. 1/n her outward voyage she toadied at F:lsi•
near, anal at Dantric, to deliver goods; and, proceed-
ing from !hoick to Pillion, was lost I, the perils of
the sea. The short question was this—lf a ship, in-
stared to her port or ports of loading within a certain
limit (that laving a voyage f.'r the purpose of Arritillg
cargo), touch at a port • r ports, ulthongh nithin
her limit, for the purpose of alelivvting cargo, aloes
she, or dors she wit, 'hereby vitiate her policy ?
Mr. Ji'IITITE Il.%Tt.av thollZbt that the point would
he heat discusse,l in the shape of a rim., whirls was as.
vented to by the counsel for the parties.
DE T %%TIM C. Bolt! J .NN

This was an issue, direrted by the
to try whether the plaintiff, 11r. rirtioin de Tastri,
was, or was not, in the year I 111, a partner in the
I house .of Bees, Bun►doanaif, and Company ; and
whether that partnership uas, or was not, substantial
and beneficial. The ranee turned pr:w.ipally upon
dry matters of amnia; hot there was one cireunt-
dant e which ?melted attention and mitomishtnent.
The plaintiff and defendant are untie and nephew ;
both are men of the mod respectable situation and
connexion ; and, by the order of the Vice-Chancellor,
both were to be examined in tie cause. These gen-
tlemett.hs floe course of their testimony, tontradirted
earls upon al? important !winos, and upon facts
as to which mistake uu either aide was utterly its.-
possible.
Mr. Justice Ilst LET. In slimming up the evidence,
observed upon the general danger of allowing an in-
dividual to give evidetice in his own cause. The sure
ecoirse for the jury would be to look at the documents
produced, and at the probabilities of the case.
The Jury, after retiring for near an hour, found the
following verdict—That the plaintiff was a partner at
the period in question ; lint that his partnership was
not vobstantial and beneficial.

POLICE.

Bow-Systrer.—Thomas Jones, one of those trou-
blesome fellows who infest the footpath in the neigh-
bourho of of the White Ilorse•cellar, Piccadilly, and
called by the initiated .‘ a entice," was brought before
the Magistrates yesterday, charged with a gross a..
sank upon Captain Bailey, of the tiptards.
The Captain stated, that having taken his seat in
one of the Banmpersmitle stages, with the hope of
getting to that village• sooner than a hackney coach
would convey him thither, he ‘p as detained so long at
the White Horse-cellar, that his 'patience w•as quite
exhausted, and be therefore got out of the coach, in-
tending to seek some other conveyance ; but he had
not walked many yards, when the defendant over-
took him, and, without ceremony, mute& him on the
breast with such violence as to send him reeling
against the wall.
The Captain added, that he should have taken pats
further notice of this ruffian-like attack, than chas-
tising him on the spot, had not two gentlemen who wit-
nessed the transaction interfered, and begged him to
prosecute the man for the sake of the public 'These
gentlemen gave him their enrols, and they peeved to
be two of the Middlesex Magistrates, Me . Sketch-
ley and Haswell.
In reply to this, the defendant stated, that he thought
the complainant was going off without paying his
fare, and having been left in cart of the roach, be ,
thought it his duty to stop him ; but he denied that he
had struck him : his foot slipped, in his hurry, and
he fell against I - .
Ordered to find bail, to answer the charge at the
Sessions, and, in default thereof was committed to the
limme of Correction.

A tizatisz House Ctia.—A man, named Sharp,
was charged with stealing a horse from a
_Mr. Cutts,
a livery-stable-keeper.
It appeared, by the evidence of Mr. Cutts and his
servants, that the prisoner had obtained the horse on
prettnice af skewing it to a gentleman who wanted
t purchase it; and he promised to -return flitter the
!horse or the money on the to lowing morning. Ile did
luot do so, however, and Mr. Cutts, after waiting •
weak fur his appearance, bad him qprekended fur
'the theft.
The prisoner, in his defence, said Ise bought the
j horse in tpiestiou of • Mr. Wright, the insister ofCatts,
'turd he appealed to Mr. Wright; who was peesest in
,th• Are. for the troth of this livaertiod. -
Mr. Wright denied thaitte was the master of eitttuf

I add Ise also denied having sold the horse to the poi
tatter, or bating any knowledge of the transactitin till
Ile heard of his apprehension.
The prisoner then tailed a witness, who shore
point-blank that he was present when Wright sold the
horse to the prisoner, and that the price agreed upon
was 13!.
Mr. Wright again denied all knowledge of the
affair, and Mr. Cults produced another livery-stable-
keeper, who proved the horse to be the property of
Cutts ; he himself having sold it to him a few hours
before the prisoner rode away with it.
The Magistrate (Mr. Misseteu.) appeared quite
astounded at these cross-swearings ; but the prisoner
requested him to suspend his judgment a few minutes
as he expeeted other witnesses who would completely
satisfy him.
In a few minutes two other wit did arrive.
These were a Mr. Tobin, sack-maker of Itromptott, and
his neighbon-, a cabinet-maker, whose name we
did not learn.
A long and angry altercation now ensued, in the
course of which the Magistrate more th:tu once told
the parties that in his opinion they were a set of
sharpers altogethef. It appeared, however, that the
true history of the affair a as thust—Tohia, sometime
ago, Lad a horse and gig to sell, and the prisoner,
Sharp, introduced Wright to him as a customer.
Wright purchased the horse and gig: but instead of
paying ill Money he gave Ws own acceptance for
them. this acceptance was dishonoured; and Tobin
upbraided Sharp with having introduced Lim so bad
a customer; upon which Sharp assured he would
" are hint a/piled." Tu achieve Ctis he proposed to
buy a hor,v of Wright and pay him for it in his own
coin, viz.—in the dishonoured acceptance; but unfor-
tunately, by some mistake or other, he obtained the
horse of Cutts instead of Wright, and thus got into his
present predicament.
The worthy Magistrate still retained his original
opinion, that none of the parties were any better than
they should be ; but ;miler all the circumstances
lie e.mtmitted the prisoner fur a future examination.