The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COrRT OF KINWS IiENCII.--JAN. 10.
London Adjourned SlttingS before the Lord (lief Justice
and Common Jnrie4.

VELDON V. HALCOMVP.

This was an action for money had and received.
Mr. lituixgr stated the following facts to the Jurx :
Tt.e plaintiff in this case was a Captain in the Ealt
Iniia Company's service, and hail intrusted •the de-
fendant. who was a mercantile agent, resident at ISt.
Helena, in the year 1:s09, with 120 bolts of Mengel
canvass, with directions to sell them by public auction
at a price which he limited, hut if the canvass would(
net fetch that price at St. Wiens', be wan to send it to.
Mr. Amion, the plaintiff's agent at the Cape of 6004
Hope. Eighty bulls of conrass were sold al...reeably
to the plaintiff's direction, hut th? remaining 'lts;
inst-ad of being sent to the Cape of flood !lope. were,
by the defendant, sent to a Mr. Hale, au a;:e.ft of Ms
own at Rio Janeiro, and sold there. An arcomit
s stating the proceeds at 121/. ss. 211. was ren-
dered to the plaintiff in 1:s10, and an order given to
recriee the money of Mr. Ilale, in England, but the
plaintiff hail never been able to find Mr. flak au I had
not received a shilling of the money. I rider these
cirrettnstanees the plaintiff brow: h' this actioli, tkl re-
cover the amount of the It) bolt., of rativa,s from the
def-mlant„ as he had complicit with the ti:m4 of
the plaintiff in the mode of iliripo‘'itz of it. the
plaintiff's instructions, dated May, I ntitt, ml the ac.
count sales, flitted 45th Aug u,t. 1,410, w..ry put in. as
also a letter of the defendant to the plaintiff, dated
Sept. 1, I Slit
Mr. MANITATT, for the defendant, contended that
plaintiff's instructions had been complied with, it
being necessity for the purpose of gating the canvass
admitted to entry at the Cape of mood Hope that it
should pass for Portuguese property, and to that end
it had been shipped by the defendant for Rio Janeiro,
to be sent from thence to the Cape. lie admitted that
Mr. Hale, to whom the canvass, with other goods of
the defendant, was consigned, had never accounted to
the plaintiff, nor paid met the proceeds to Mat, but
neither had he paid it to the defendant, and therefore
if the plaintiff could claim for tile canvass from the
defendant, he submitted that the form of at tion should
have been trorer, anti not money had and received.
•he Cuict Jesrucc said, he had great doubts nn
the subject, but as the case presented itself, there did
not appear to be any thing to leave to the Jury : he
should therefore nonsuit the plaintiff, with liberty to
move to enter a verdict for 1211. ss. 2d. the amunnt
of the balance claimed. Ile considered, that if the
cans-ass were tent to Rio Janeiro on its wnv to Mr.
Amion at the Cape of tiood Hope. under the plaintiV4
direct:oats, it was so sent for the purpose of evading
the Navigation Law-, a nil the pl.tintiff could not re•
rover. If it were sent on accunut of the defendant
Ba/r.onhe, then the burin of action ninth' be undoubt-
edly *rover.

MICR'SIeR r.

• Thig WAR an action for looney paiA, anti for work anti

ialipintir dime.

Air. Ca3tritet.t. led the plaintiff's case. The defend-
ant, a master sugar-baker, entrati the plaintiff at
4-s. per nee!: as u boiler. After the parties had been
some time tot., I I:er, a Jew, named Samuels, also a servant
to the defendant, charged the plaintiff with having
rot hell his master. The plaintiff was carried to the
Worship-street: hut, even were the Jew
believed, the Illalzistrate doebted, anti the plaintiff
was dischargetl. The Jury, :11r. tatty hell said, n until
110 doubt suppose that the mater r. joiee.l io the inno-
cence of his servant, and took him forthwith again
Into Ms house. Not so: he discharged him u:oni the
spot, refusing to pay the lialanee of wages this' to him:
and for those arrears of wages, for a mouth's wages
in lien of due warning. and for rertain monies expend-
ed by 'the plaintiff on behalf of his master, the whole
amounting to about the present adjou was
brought. The learned l'aitusel then proceeded to
state, at much length, the various claims set forth in
his account. The month's wages the plaintiff would
ertkle himself to by proving the enst of the trade.
The an ears were for the price of three days' labour ; the
plaintiff having been disehart.:etl on a li'ednestlay, and
b .sing only received payment up to the preceding Sa-
ta.day 1 lie items of each laid out were manifold:
b'ood, lime, trestle, and butter, used in preparing the
s r, ar: candles to light the house, brooms to sweep,
anti ps to wash it; the hire of a 11. d-chamber for
the accommodation of the plaintiff; and a sum of 21.
13. lid. paid for King's taxes.
A uumbrr of witnesses were then called; but the
ea..e established was so slight, that the plaintiff's
, preferred a 'sunsuit to trnstin4 his client in
tt.e hands of the jnry—Plaintitf nonsuited.

In addition to the county meeting's which have
l• t •ic been called for 31inisterial purposes, we find that
one fur the county of Chester has been convened at a
ter., short seotiec for Thnrsday next, as if to take the
',warty braurpries...and 44voti essonggle • *table 414.
(!nation, not to be obtained by a mote regular pro-
cess. By an intimation. however, signed by Lords
Crewe and Grosvenor, and several other Gentlemen of
weight in the county, it appears that 31inisterial ex-
litiuu ill be opposed by independent zeal. Al-
Luling to the vague declarations emanating from such
v.auggled meetings, unaccompanied by any notice of I
the late procemlings against her 31ajesty the Queen, ofl
the abrupt and hasty prorogation of Parliament, at a
season which peculiarly called for its counsel and ad-
vice, or of the present distressed state of the country,
appear, say these Noblemen and Gentlemen, to imply
approbation of the conduct of Ministers, " of which
conduct we feel it impossible for us not to disapprovi."
Since the Fashion of Curling the Hair has heroine
so general both to Ladies and Gentlemen, it may mit..
Le amiss to point out its danger in destroying that
elegant ornament a fine head of hair. The use of the
Iroas make the Hair harsh and dry, and it loses allifi•
?..,time lustre and elasticity. To counteract this, Avz•
m:ssoN'al:urling Fluid has long stood pre-rinioentt.and
;ts general adoption by the Nobility raises it above. any
imputation of Quackery. By using it after 1.471/11_g.
it makes the Hair soft and 01ussy as silk, and kelp,
Curl firm in exercise, in dancing, or walking is itt
weather. It oleo preserves it from falling or ckaiagiteg,
colour to extreme old age. And in order to proteit the
Pahlie.against imposition, thi Proprietor intends taking.,
out immediately a Patent (or the Invention.