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trial. His lordfhip conceived that, 
no fraud having been imputed to 
the plaintiff, there was no legal 
groand’ to preclude him from the 
right of recovering upon this bill ; 
atid he was of opinion, that if any 
man took a bill payable to a certain 
name, and it is indorfed by the per- 
fon of that name, fuch indorfement 
was a legal transfer, although it 
might afterwards turn out that the 
indorfer was not the fame petfon to 
whom it was made payable. Unlefs. 
this do&trine were admitted, an in- 
fuperable clog would be introduced 
to the negociation of bills of ex- 
change, which muit deftroy the 
whole of that fpecies of paper 
credit. 
Juftices Afhurft, Buller, and Grofe, 
totally differed from the Lord Chief 
Juftice, and ftated their reafons with 
great deference in oppofition to fo 
high an authority. All thefe learned 
judges faid, that the indorfement of 
the bill in queftion was unqueftion- 
ably a capital forgery, and that no 
legal right could be derived under 
forgery or fraud. It were better 
‘that a clog fhould be put to bills of 
exchange, than they fhould be ne- 
gaciated by means of forgery; but 
they conceived that no inconveni- 
ence to.trade would accrue to mer- 
_ eantile tranfactions by depriving the 
plaintiff. 
Salifbury, Nov. 27.. The inhabi- 
tants of this city were vifited laft 
Sunday evening with a very tre- 
mendous ftorm of lightning and 
. thunder, accompanied with a very 
heavy fall of rain. The high im- 
pending clouds were fo highly 
charged with the eleétric matter, 
that the lightning, which was unufu- 
aliy vivid and ftrong, appeared to 
~ roll along the ground like a body of 
liquid fire, and its frequent fathes 
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were fo inftantaneoufly fucceeded 
by fach terrible burits of thunder, 
that many perfons were exceedingly 
alarmed, and almoft every houfe felt 
an infantaneous {hock from its pow- 
erful effeéts. At the Three Swans 
inn a ftack of chimnies was thrown 
down with great violence; and much 
damage was done to two rooms 
within the houfe, the windows of 
whieh were broken, and much of 
the furniture deftroyed. By ac- 
counts from different parts of the 
country, we learn, that this ftorm, 
which began at Portfmouth, con- 
tinued from Saturday noon, the 21f, 
to Monday nignt, and that its ef- 
fe&s were equally awful and de- 
ftructive in many places. i 
It has been laid down as a 
law in the court of King’s 
Bench this term, that a wager, in 
itfelf /egal, is not recoverable if laid 
on an illegal objet; for inftance, no 
winnings can be recovered on the 
event of a boxisig-match, becaufe 
the objeé&t of a bet in the cafe is a 
breath of the peace; and fo it will 
operate with a wager laid on a 
horfe-race, provided the fum raced 
for is below what the aét of parlia- 
ment flipulates. 
Tt has likewife been laid down as 
law this term, that the keeper of a 
livery-ftable cannot detain a horfe 
for his keep, though an inn-keeper 
can. The livery-ftable keeper is 
fuppofed to know the perfon from 
whom he receives a horfe, and to 
make a bargain for his keep; but 
“an inn-keeper- is from neceflity” 
obliged to receive all that come; 
and without fuch a remedy, he 
would be fubjeét to many impofie 
tions, which the prudent livery-fta- 
ble-keeper may avoid if he pleafes; 
at leaft fo fays Lord Kenyon. 
Disp, The Rey. Michael Lort, 
[?] D,D.- 
s 
30th. 
