The Intelligencer, & Petersburg Commercial Advertiser

TEAS. In the City of New-York on the 15th inst. took place the trial of the right to 2245 chests of Hyson Tea, valued at $40,000, which had been found in that city and had been taken possession of by the Marshal of the U. States, on the ground of their fraudulent conveyance from the public store in Philadelphia, without the duties having been paid, or even secured, according to law. The Teas were imported by Edward Thompson of Philadelphia. The case was brought up for trial in the District Court of the United States, and after the evidence had been heard, and the judge delivered his direction to the jury, they brought in a special verdict, on the facts only. It is to be carried up to the Supreme Court for adjudication on the points of law which are said to be various and conflicting. The claimants of the tea rest their defence on the fact that they were bona fide purchasers, and that they became so without any knowledge of the fraudulent conveyance alleged against the importer in Philadelphia. On the other hand it is said that by the U. States statute law the government possesses a lien on such dutiable property as may have been obtained from the public stores in a surreptitious manner, to which no subsequent contract can effectually form a bar.