Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-25
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
REMARKABLE CASE.

Wss. Hamilton.
Mrs. BooTY versus CAPTAIN BARNABY.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff to
recover the sum Of $1,000, a. damages for the
scandal Of the defendants assertion, that he had
seen her deceased husband, Receiver, driven
into hell.
When the extraordinary trial commenced, seve.
raj witnesses were brought forward. who proved
the words to have been spoken BY Capt Barna-
by, and afterwards BY his vile. The defence set
up was, that the defendant had spoken no more
than the truth: no more than had been seen by
number OF persons as we'll as himself; to prove
which the journal books OF three different ships
were produced in Court, and the following pass
age recorded in each) submitted, amongst others,
to the Court and Jury, by the defendants coun-
sci:
Friday, May 18Th. -Wehad the observation
Of Nc. Booty this day. Captain Barnahy, Cap
tain Bristow, Captain Brown, |, and Mr.. Ball,
Merchant, went on shore in Cabtain Barnaby's
boat, to shoot RABBITS upon Stromboii: and when
he had done, we called several of our men to-
gether by US, and about half an hour and fourteen
minutes after IN the afternoon to our great sur
prise all Of us saw two men come running to.
wards us with such swiftness, that no living man
heard Capt. Barnaby say, Lord bless me! the
foremost is old Booty, my ext door neighbor.'But
he said he did not know the uther who run behind;
he was in black clothes. and the formasl in grey.
Then Captain B. desired all ofus TO take an &C
count of the time. and put it down in our pocket
books. and when We cot OH board, we wrote 1t in
our JournaIs for we none Of heard OF saw the
like before, and we were firmly convinced that
we saw old Booty chased BY the devil round
Stromboli, and then whipped into the ianes of
neil.
After they arrived in England, and were ~
ing at aves-nd, Capt Barnaby's wife came on
board, the On OF Octnhsr, at which time Capt.
B. aud Captain Brown sent for Captain Brsto W
and Mr. Ball, merchant to congratulate them on
their arrival also; and after some DISCOURSE Cap.
tain Barnaby's wife started up and said, (" My
dear. will tell you some news; old Booty is
dead" Captain Barnaby directly made answer.
:" We all Of US saw him running into hell"
Soon afterwards. Mrs. Barnaby told gentle
man of her acquaintance in London, what her
husband had said. who acquainted Mrs. Booty
with the whole affair. Whereupon, Mrs Booty
arrested Capt. Barnaby in thousand pounds ac-
ton, for what he had said Of her husband. Capt.
Barnaby gave bail, aud II came to trial in the
Court of Kings Bench. Mr. Booty's wearing
apparel was brought into court. and the sexton
Of the parish, and the people that were with him
when he died. The journals were then sworn
to. and the time when the two men were seen
and Booty died, conceded within about two mi
nutes. Ten of the men swore TO the buttons on
his coat, and that they were covered with the
same sort of cloth Of which his coat was made:
and so It proved.
The Jury asked Mr. Spinks {whose hand writ
ing appeared in the journn that was ready it he
knew Mr.. Booty?--He answered, 81 knew him
we'll, and am satisfied saw him hunted on the
burning monntaIn, and p,nnsed into the pit OF
HE'LL winch lays uuder the summit of Strombo-
ill.," The Judge Immediately made use OF the
following extraordinary expresslons:--
lord have mercy upon ne! and grant that
may never see What you have seen. One, two,
or three. may be mistaken; but thirty never can
be Mistaken
The widow lost her case.
See History Of the Azores. London. 1878.
L. A.. Captain Of Light Dragons 10 His Britain
mic Majesty's service. Edited BY Joseph L.
Haydn in 1911
Ymkse Accommodations. The Boston Tran
script gives the following humorous account OF
an incident which happened at Worcester last
week:
On TIE first evening OF the Convention, a team
ster drove up to the door OF one OF the principal
tayerns and asked for ''lodging Tor himself and
beast" The landlord said that he could not &C
commodate him, every bed in the house being ia
ken up.
.sWeii,' said the teamster, g am not at al!
particular, will put up with part OF a bed"
Part Of bed" replied our host, ''why,
nv dear sir, there is not bed in the Inn that
has not two in it already. aud some of them three
and fours'
"weIl, can't you let me sleep in that there
parlours"
8. No. we are going TO make up seventeen beds
there tonight. and they are all engaged"
Well now. that's curious; can't you give me
a buffalo skin and let me lay down here in the
entry. shan't discommode nobody"
"No, Ishan't have you IN the entry; we shall
be up all night, and don't want any folks Gilt
ter,ng aud sprawled about the floor where people
are passing all the time"
"WelI, by Gosh, you an accommodating fell