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the charges. The attorney-gene- 

 ral, for the defendant, offered to 

 refer the case to any person, not 

 an upholsterer ; but the plaintiff 

 preferred to go on, and after he had 

 proved the delivery of the various 

 articles in his bill, lord Ellenborough 

 asked one of the witnesses what 

 was the highest price at which his 

 master had ever before provided a 

 bed ; and upon being answered 

 200/. his lordship said that it be- 

 came tradesmen to intimate the 

 probable expense of such an article 

 as this to their customers, and to 

 take their sane judgment upon the 

 manufactory of it. Did the witness 

 ever know any other person, who 

 was suffered to go at large, pur- 

 chasing such a bed ? The witness 

 replied, he did not. 



Mr. Garrow said, that he should 

 be able to prove that the defendant 

 saw the drawings of this bed, and 

 was furnished with an estimate of 

 its expense, nearly to the full va- 

 lue charged. 



The Attorney-General said, that 

 if he were driven to a jury, heshould 

 rely most strongly upon the ground 

 his lordship had suggested. 



Lord Ellenborough said, that 

 tradesmen were in some degree the 

 guardians of our safety, as to or- 

 ders given them ; and this bed was 

 charged at above three times the 

 price of any one which the plaintiff 

 ever sold in his life. 



The Attorney-General repeated 

 his readiness to leave the case to 

 any gentleman to say what the 

 plaintiff ought to have, supposing 

 every article was ordered. 



Lord Ellenborough never heard 

 of such a bed to be slept upon. 

 There was in the neighbourhood of 

 the place in which the court sat 

 (at the Mansion-house), a bed 

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which cost 2,000/. but that was a 

 public thing, which ouglit not to go- 

 vern the bed of any private per- 

 son. 



Mr. Garrow said, that his client 

 had not been, till now, aware that 

 the reference would be binding, and 

 that he would have a verdict for its 

 amount. He was now willing to 

 consent to it ; and Mr. Bolland 

 was chosen as the referee. 



8. Letter from Mntichester.— 

 " As you will, no doubt, hear of va- 

 rious reports of riots and tumults in 

 this town, I think it right to put you 

 in possession of their causes and ef- 

 fects. Every occurrence I shall re- 

 late to you passed under ray own 

 eye ; you may, therefore, most im- 

 plicitly depend upon the facts. 



" On Saturday last an advertise- 

 ment appeared in the Manchester 

 papers, for the purpose of conven- 

 ing a meeting at the Great Commer- 

 cial Room over the Exchange, on 

 the Wednesday following, ' To pre- 

 pare a dutiful and loyal address to 

 his royal highness the Prince Re- 

 gent, expressive of the strong as- 

 surances of our attachment to 

 his royal highness's person, and of 

 our ardent zeal for the support of 

 his government. 



" This advertisement was signed 

 by about 150 loyal subjects. The 

 consequence was, that an opposition 

 sprung up in order to defeat the 

 object of the raeetiHg, by propos- 

 ing and carrying a counter-address. 

 The better to ensure success, the 

 opposition caused hand-bills to be 

 distributed, and placards to be 

 posted throughout the town and 

 the country for ten miles round. 

 These being, in general, of an in- 

 flammatory tendency, calculated to 

 rouse the passions of the people, it 

 is impossible to conceive the great 

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