The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-05 00:00:00

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The Master of the Rolls wet oucephrd troth nitre
in the morning till four, in hearing causes of no plat:
lic interest whoever. In the course of the city a cote
was called on; James the Vicar of Croydcn, which
*skied to th pri,dection of actoontf. A Cr'entle-
by his lift, hid begooathed certain Posies to
the Vicar, Churcb-wardens; and sit inhabitants of
Croydon, for the purpose of building a Co •t-brialt,
a Butter.market, and procorifl s Durkin -round&
The semi for each of those purpose! *roe swot-Medi
and the surplus was directed to be 'field into the
Bank ender the contrast and direction of the C..art
of Chancery. Some dispute arose shoot the produc-
rion of aceounts, but no decision was given, as his
tionour,the Master of,tbe Rolls, wished to rollover
the pleadings...in the tine.
Notice *as fixed up in Court that his Hoorst.
would, on the follbwing day, sit its the Council
Chamber, in the Imo, in consequence of Sir Joh*
Leach, tine Vicw-Cbsocellot, beginning his sitting.
to-mortow.

LORD CUANCF.LLOk.
His Lordship remains in nearly the earns stale at
he has been throng.% the week. lie is totally enable
to walk, (rein both his feet being severely affected
with the gout. He *lll open lb• Srai this day in his
own house, at►d it is arringed that the Vice-Chan&
cellor will hear all his Lordship's motions:

COURT OF It ISO'S BRNCH.•Dec 4.
SALMON V. ATurNsoN AND (mums.
This action was breselit against the UP fontionit
coach proprietor., for baking refused io conGey thd
Plaintiff, a respectable attorney at Both 4 Item Liver-
pool to Holyhead, after he had taken his place; and
also of recover eapettces paid by the Plaintiff for a
chaise, in consequence of such refusal. lietwema
Liverpool and Holyhead there sic Vats ferries; the
first over the Mersey, at Liverpool, *here the pas.
sengers are paid for tiy the conch panprietors; snit
two othera at Genteel and Bangor, where it seems
the proprietors refuse to pay f..r the passetiaers. But
the question in the present case seero.o to he, -net sta
mach whether the passengers or the proprietors
ought to pay for the passage over tittle two forrie4,
as whether upon the present occasion the Defendants'
coachmse, who was Mao a prollietor, was not in
collusion with the &apnea sod post.niaster at Cott•
way, to make the peasetigers pay an illegal rletnind;
the fare for the ordloery foot passengers heiti4 id.,
and for a horse end rider ed., while 611 was demand-
ed of the outside cbsch passengers, and is. of the
inside pas4etigers.
Haskes*orth, the Defendants' agent, poled*
that the Plaintiff had taken his place from Liviarpout
to Holyhead, under the name of Jetties; lit the be.
ginning of Septetnber last. The proprietors, he
stated, paid the passage over thediersey, but not the
other ferries. •
pat% wyn, the Plaintiff's clerk, proved, that he tint
roller,. the D'fendsnts with-a writ in this letiOtthlid
travelled by the same mail. in the ceeyse•M the
journey. he bad learned frau; the mouth trY the coach.
man (the Defendant Atkinson) the particulars of the
transaction, which he (Atkinson) related as follows:
—A tall thin Gentleman came by the coach to Con.
way, end having made great objections to pay the '
fare of the ferry, 14 hide he' said posithrely he *veld
not do, one of the boatmen oissfreeted him when 11r
was endeavouring to mount Me coack, whereupon
Atkinson said to him, " You hails sold s great did
about the ferry ; to save your 'word, I'll pay foe
you ;" to tallith Mr. Salmon answered, " If you do*
I woitit pay you again," when Atkinson replied*
" Oh ! then I'm off;" and accorlio.ly drove off,
but pulled up seven or eight yards further of, on Mr.
Salmon's hailing him, end turned round to the guard,
asking what he show(' do, the guard said, " Drive
on ;" the guard being his master, he did drive on.—
When the witness returned by the same coach, Ala
kinson further stated, "that it was always usual tot
the passengers to pay the ferry ; if they did not, he
drove off without them, unless ibey bad beggar!
which might be stopped by the ferrymen ; ()poet one
occasion tour passengers refused- to pay et once, 411141
he drove off without them ; he should have drived
off without witness, if witness had refused to pay."
The Defendants endeavoured to show that the plat
sengers always paid the ferry, and that the coachman
bad not prevented the Plaintiff from getting up to
pursue his journey. They first called -- Jones,
who had been the ferryman for seven years ; be stated
that the passengers always paid the ferry, he never
received it from the coachman. The coach stopped
half an hour at breakfast, and he usually demanded
his fare when breakfast was over, just before thepase
sengers mounted. The Plaintiff refused to pay out
the occasion in question, upon Which witness eaten&
ed his arm to prevent him from mounting on the
coach, but there was nothing else to prevent him.—
The coachman said he would pay to save the Push•
tip's word, he having sworn he would not pay.
Plaintiff said, "If you do, I won't pay again." The
woodman said, " What are we to do now ?" and the
paid replied, " Dries on, yea most not keep the
mall all day." Plaintiff was roar or five yards from
the coach. Willing could not say he Was near
'enough to hear whet passed between the coschmen
and guard. He then went in to Harp, eight or ten
yards of ; by this Hine the coach bad passed on, have
ing staid its foil time, if not more. '-
On cross.esaminatien he stateA, that the ferry-
charge for toeispassengert was a penny ; for a Men
and horse ten...pence ; but coach oat side p. ,enters
paid sispence, the inside a shilling. The coecomets
never went off without the passengers paying, for
they always paid, though he hid known difficulties
arise. Ile usually made his deMand alter breakfast,
whin the coach was going off. He went himself to
the Magistrate with Mr. Amon. Did :mot recollect
four passengers being left behind.
Mr. Roberts, the Post.master of Conway, refitted
the circumstance of the altercating! shout the hire,
rla h in the same way as the preceding witness. The
Plaintiff had said be would never pay such a .21---d
imposition.
Chief Justice A Bun —ile was perfectly justified
In saying so.
The witnesi prnceedrd to state, that 301. had been
fallen oft' his salary to ply for the ferryage et lb*