The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-04 00:00:00

LIABILITY Of COACH PROPRIETORS IN CASES OP FURIOUS

DRIVING.
Before Mr. Jigsliee Bayley and a Special Jury.
PORTZ& V. HINDI AND ()TURAS.

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Mr. Scalmarr, for the plaintiff, said, the question
they had to consider was, what compensation should
be given to the plaintiff for injury he bad received
from the improper driving of a coachman ? The de-
fendants are proprietors of the Glasgow Mail; the
plaintiff a man of respectability and property, a coal
proprietor, who was travelling outside by the mail
from Aberford to Wetberby. The coach was driven
into Wetberby between nine and ten at night, when it
was quite dark. Two of the defendants were inn-
keepers at Wetberby, and to their houses in turn the
coach was driven ; but out of the direct road in order
to pass the Post-office. In taking 91is course there
was a sharp tars, in making which the coachman
drove at the rite of eight or nine miles an hour. There
was a channel in the middle of the street, at the cor-
ner, and the wheels got into it and became canted: The
night being dark, and the coachman driving fast;
he paid no attention to this critical state of the
'coach. It proceeded in this condition a short dis-
tance, when it cane to a declivity, and went over,
and .the plaintiff suffered those bruises and contu.
sions which laid the foundation of the present inquiry.
' His leg was broken in more places than one; his knee-
pan greatly injured ; and his head much bruised and
1, hurt. He was carried to an ion, where he was at-
tended by a surgeon, and laid for a month or six
weeks. They stolid see he was a man of weight, 16
or 17 stone, and he would not fall the lighter in con-
sequence. Fault was found with the plaintiff's bill at
this inn. He (Mr. Scarlet') observed Mr. Alderson
(an inn-keeper) was among the defendants. If any of
them were confined in his house at:Ferryheidge some
weeks, under those circumstaoces, he would, no doubt
make out a pretty good bill. The plaintiff had been
in a situation that requiied attention, and his family
had, of course, come to pee him. But the question was
not the amount of the bill. or the injuries sustained by
the plaintiff, but the liability of the defendants. The
controversy would turn upon this. The great public
utility arising from the specalations of the- defendant.
he tem pest ready to admit; bat it wskindlepensible
dist persons in their situation should be responsible
for the skill and attention of their coachmen. Driving
at the rate of right os nine miles an hour through a
town, on a dark nlght,rasiarely improkee driving.—
Wfien ntspectotra'weeilit the way to notiee,it, coach-
men wonld ',,tat:t tplerele rate. but when entering
the town, au4 angoachitr. the (pospoirtae,enmelt went
the whip, and Hie speed; stintrapid. thas.people
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might notice their cciiiii,,, panctearyg- ,
.10.Jewas
not to de emitred. Thetenrilriblicil&kOhl.ololNivfit
on the part of post-boys`, hough' no InJuSitudlif could'

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perimade than to quicken
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would judge what tho
jury. ' Let theta soppily th
sides of their heads lotiiiiid;
salute what they would
injuries, be-would thank
Sailed
'Thomas Wilke, of Aberfottl,
his examination was proceeded in.
Rot nu hoped be should be ability is,* the tine
of his Lordship and the Jury. He wished; liOyroot.r.•
to reimark, that the positive (orders of the post-elice
'made it necessary to drive the mail by the course it tiso'
pursuing at the time of the accident.
Mr. JVIITICII BATLEY had no doubt that wadi'
be corrected if a proper representation were made.
Mr. SCAILLITT said his chest did use seek fat
vindictive damages. He bad no lutes so make
*profit of a severe injury, and was to take
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Verdict for the plaintiff—Dam
POLICE.

Mawsrox-House.—A number of Greeks were
brought before the LORD 111xvoa yesterday, under the
following peculiar circumstances :—A Gentleman
stated, that the men whom he had brought before his
Lordship to obtain his adviceor assistance, were Gretb,
and had come to this country in a Turkish frigate, La
Della Diana, which beronged to the Paeha of Egypt.
It had brought a cargo from Alexandria, and was at
the time it sailed manned by fifty Greeks and thirty
lurks. On his arrival in this country, the Commander
of the frigate had heard of the war which had broken
out betneen the Turks and the Greeks, tied did net
choose to entrust his vessel at sea again with such a
majority of the latter nation, who might rise aponitis
Turks, and take possession of the ship. He, therefore,
paid them the amount of their wages up to the time of
their arrival at London, and discharged them. The
Greeks .had been put on shore in the neighbourhood of
the Docks, and had been strolling about without any
chance of getting away. There was no ship in the
river which would take them, and their scanty mesas
were now almost entirely expended. Nothing eenle be
more destitute than the prospect before them, unless
they were rescued from misery by powerful interference
in their behalf.

The Loan MATOR suggested that the Turkish Am-
bassador or Consul were the proper persons toagtly to
on behalf of the strangers. _ _

The Gentleman replied, that the Turkish Adams-
dor being a Greek, hie powers bad been witheitivha by
the Turkish Government, and there was now me ow
with credentials from the Porte in this countrylo alum
they could apply; nor could it be expected, tender ex-
isting circumstances, that any thing could have beta
done for them by aai one connected with thrThrkish.
Government. The vessel had been consigned by die
Pa-;,a to Messrs. Briggs and Co., bat they; bad der
dined taking any steps whatever in their beh nett-
was no imputation whatever on the men, buiethit tie
Turk who commuted the frigate, did not tifetkie—
self safe with so large a majority of thorn. nailer pre-
sent circumstances. The Gentleman added that hav-
ing seen the men wandering about, be had accidentally
became acquainted with their situations; that they
bad no one to speak for them ; be bad therefore
thought it his duty to bring their case before his
Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR regretted extremely that he
had himself no power to assist the applicants, and re-
commended that application should he made to the Se-
cretary of State, who alone, could afford such relief
as the peculiar circumstances of the case required.

1 be men, who were dressed in their national costume.
and whose Ins appearance excited much interest, then
left the Office. They are not natives of airy of the
lonian Isles.

Bow-rrazyr.—Yesterday a young man was brought
to this ()floe, i■ custody of Salmon, the principal of.
ficer, aid charged before Richard Birnie, Esq., the
Sitting Magistrate, with embezzling the sum of
W. 14s. the property of George F. titling, lace-
manufacturer, his muter. He was remanded.

It is so much the practice of those who have made any
discoveries, from which they hope advantage by laying
them before the public, to speak in the most extrava-
gant terms of their merits, that the discerning hesitate
to patronise them, lest they should become the victiuis
of quackery. A similar prejudice operates against the
honest deafer, who, conscious of the superiority of the
commodity which he supplies, and satisfied with a mo-
derate profit, looks for remuneration in an extension of
his business. Mr. CHAPMAN, however, seems to enjoy
an ample share of public confidence ; but to meet the
objections of the most fastidious who may wish to par-
chase his ALa and 13aaa, yet doubts its genuineness, be
has made an affidavit, of which the following is a copy:
Sworn at the MansioMpuse, before the Lord Mayer:—
" K. CHAPMAN, of B.l";ggge Wells Brewery, in the paitell
of St. Pancras, in dgEounty of Middlesex' Ale, Table
Ale, and Table-Beao' Brewer, maketh oath, and said),
that his Ale, Takki-Ale, and Table-Beer, are brewed
from hops and malt only, and that he never has nor ever
will permit or suffer any drugs or other injurious ingre-
dients to be used in his brewery. Anti this deponest
further saith, that he superintends the whole of hit
brewing concern himself, and is, thereby, with delfr
fully capable of deposing to the above facts. R. Case
IIAX.--Sworn at the Mansion-house, in the City of Leo-
don, Jan. 1, 18!l, before me, Joux tHONAS THORPI4
3layor."—All letters mas be post paid.

MARRIED.

At Minnick's, Fortanhire, N. B. on theft?* ult. the Earl
of Kiatore, to Louisa. youngest daughter of Frame's Haw.
kiss, Esq. senior Judge of Circuit. and-Appeal, at Hardily.
is the Hon. the East India Company's service.
On Thursday last, st Astley's in the county of Wor
Robert Bolton, Waldron, Esq. of Feckenhas, to Dal,
youngest dangbtor of Thous. Shrawley Vernon, Esq. of ths
former place.

DIED.
On Sunday last, at Ms house, on the Terrace HO-
street, Mary-li-bone, it the Mt year of his age, Chore-
Pyres, Esq.
Oa the 24th alt., Mr. Hamphrey,Baralooat, of Palmed*.
aged 83 years. He bad never experienced, Wag his loci
lit., a hallihour's sickness, and retained di his Amities to
**lad ses't'et. He had 'seeded• pablie wort* on the
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