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were employed 29 days in work- 

 ing her to a port ; the value of 

 the property on board was 

 9,500L ; the Court decreed only a 

 third, however. 



Dr. Adams replied, that the 

 peril in any of the cases just ad- 

 duced was not equal to that in- 

 curred in the present instance. 



Sir William Scott remarked, 

 that, in adjudging all these cases, 

 the court did not feel itself strictly 

 bound to adhere to the grant 

 of a moiety in cases of " derelict." 

 The Court had a right to advert 

 to all the circumstances under 

 which the salvage had been effect- 

 ed in giving those remunerations, 

 and had thought proper to aban- 

 don the ancient practice. The 

 present case was one of " dere- 

 lict" of an extreme nature, and 

 of imminent peril. The vessel 

 was found in an inverted state, 

 her keel upwards, a portion of 

 htr cargo already washed out, 

 and the remainder on the point 

 of following. She was fallen in 

 with by a revenue-cutter, under 

 a complication of perilous circum- 

 stances, in the month of February, 

 in very stormy weather, the sea 

 running very high, and off a 

 coast of extreme peril, not merely 

 from its natural difficulties, but 

 from the inhospitable character 

 of its inhabitants. It had ap- 

 peared that one barrel of brandy 

 was found in a barn ; it might be 

 matter of wonder that a greater 

 part of the cargo had not travel- 

 led the same road. In every 

 point of view the peril was ex- 

 treme, and the exertions of the 

 salvors were strenuous. Even 

 after the hull had been laid up in 

 dock for repairs, there was great 

 danger of its falling to pieces, 



and destroying the workmen 

 employed on its reparation. 

 Every merit, therefore, was clearly 

 due ,to the salvors ; and under all 

 the circumstances before the 

 Court, it did not feel disposed to 

 diminish the remuneration an- 

 ciently assigned in these cases; 

 he, therefore, decreed a moiety 

 of the property to the salvors, as 

 it now stood, i. e. after deduction 

 of the 428Z. expenses from the 

 value of that property ; for as to 

 the other expenses, the parties 

 had not given their appearances 

 as soon as they might have done, 

 and their amount had become 

 considerable. As to the cask, of 

 course salvage would follow in the 

 same proportion. Costs on all 

 sides to be deducted from moiety. 



COURT OF king's BENCH, FRI- 

 DAY, DECEMBER 4. 



Sittings before Chief- Justice 

 Abbott. 



Salmon v. Atkinson and others-, 

 — This action was brought against 

 the defendants as coach proprie- 

 tors, for having refused to convey 

 the plaintiff, a respectable attor- 

 ney at Bath, from Liverpool to 

 Holyhead, after he had taken his 

 place ; and also to recover ex- 

 penses paid by the plaintiff for a 

 chaise, in consequence of such 

 refusal. Between Liverpool and 

 Holyhead there are three fer- 

 ries ; the first over the Mersey at 

 Liverpool, where the passengers 

 are paid for by the coach pro- 

 prietors ; and two others at Con- 

 way and Bangor, where it seems 

 the proprietors refuse to pay for 

 the passengers. But the question 

 in the present case seemed to be, 

 not so much whether the pas- 

 sengers 



