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after having convinced Mr. Ste- 

 phens and others of the accuracy 

 of his statements, left the house, 

 assuring them that he should go 

 to every respectable shop in Glou- 

 cester and make known Mr. 

 Carter's character ; observing, 

 that although he had outwitted 

 him in recovering his jewellery, 

 yet he considered he had an im- 

 portant relative duty to perform 

 to society at large. Mr. Thomas, 

 as appeared by the evidence of 

 many witnesses, did go round to 

 the tradesmen of Gloucester, and 

 in the most undisguised manner, 

 with iionest indignation made 

 known to them the real history of 

 Mr. Carter, who, at that time, 

 was considered a man of immense 

 property, and had incurred debts 

 with various tradespeople to a 

 very considerable amount ; in fact, 

 such was the high opinion enter- 

 tained of him, that the freedom 

 of the city of Gloucester had been 

 presented to liim. Carter left 

 tlie neighbourhood the foUo^ving 

 morning, and had since been 

 living at 57, Nelson-square, 

 Blackfriars-road ; and, from the 

 cross-examination of his wit- 

 nesses, it appeared, that none of 

 his numerous creditors had been 

 paid, except one person, who was 

 paid a small sum, in order, as 

 Mr. Dauncey, the counsel for 

 the defendant, observed, that a 

 larger might be contracted. Such 

 were tlie grounds on which the 

 action originated ; and although 

 the declaration contained 1,3 

 counts, only one could be proved, 

 whicli charged Mr. Thomas with 

 having spoken tlie word " swind- 

 ler," which was admitted not to 

 be actionable, unless special dam- 

 age could be proved, in which 



the plaintiffs counsel failed ; and 

 those counts relative to the mali- 

 cious prosecution were set nside, 

 as no evidence was adduced to 

 disprove the accuracy of the in- 

 formation on which the warrant 

 was granted. 



Mr. Thomas had no occasion 

 to call any witnesses ; and after 

 Mr. Baron Richards had summed 

 up, the jury immediately return- 

 ed a verdict for the defendant. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 PROPERTY. 



Chelmsford, Friday, March 15. 

 — (Special Juries.J — Sutton v. 

 Barksworth and another. — This 

 was an action of a novel sort. It 

 was brought against the defend- 

 ants, as owners of a vessel called 

 the Gunson, for salvage of the 

 lives of five seamen, and also a 

 very small part of the vessel. The 

 defendants had paid 501. into 

 court. The plaintiff, Sutton, is 

 resident at Colchester, in this 

 county, and is owner of a small 

 vessel called the Success. The 

 master of the vessel gave the fol- 

 lowing account of the transaction 

 — That on the Gth of December 

 last it was blowing a ^'ery heavy 

 gale of wind, with a rolling sea, 

 and there were several ships in 

 the offing making signals of dis- 

 tress. He went out with the in- 

 tention of assisting a large Rus- 

 sian vessel on the sands, when 

 he perceived the Gunson lying 

 on her beam-ends, and some 

 men sticking to the wreck. He 

 immediately turned his attention 

 towards them, and with great 

 danger and difficulty saved the 

 mate and four men from inevit- 

 able death — they also picked up a 

 yard, a boom, and some other 



pieces 



