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FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. ItitOlA LA BELLE ASSISIALICI. PROMIMADE DRESS.—A round robe of India-jaccenot, trint tned round the bottom with ribband; a mantle of line India mull m uslin, or white crape, with fisher front, ornamented with drawl: rihhand and tassel*, terminating on one side in a point wi , h a tassel, and confined to the waist on the same side. A vitl.ge hat of white chip, with a crown of blended crape and sarsuet, bound and tied under the chin with ribband, over a lace cavi l, and raised from the face by a short wreath of small French rows. Faras,l and ridicule of purple and green shot silk; gloves •t York tali; hottan bouts of white Morocco. Gt. VIRAL OBSERVATIONS—JeweIIery is much more worn shoe Leant at this season, hut we have not noticed any new de vice; pearls s.etn the most admired for necklaces, with diamond cl.,ps, broaches, ear snaps, with oblong pearl drops; garnets and emeralds are much admired tor their cool and becoming effect ; watches are not quite so much worn as the last month. The irevaihrg colours are stray., pink, blue, yellow, and green. FROM ACKIRMANN'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS AND FASHIONS. Atitisto DRESS .—A high round robe, with full low^_ sleeve, trimmed with Vandyke lace at the throat and cuffs, and ornamented round the bottom with a Tuscan border in vtedle-work. A short capuchin cloak of buff-coloured shot ma llet, fastened w hit broaches on the shoulders, and trimmed with sleep Chinese silk fringe of the same shade. A Moorish turban loaner, Lathered into a broach in centre of the forehead. Purple ridicule, with gold snap and tassels. Half-boots of buff-coloured kid. Parat.ol with deep Indian awning, the same as the cloak. CHILD'S DR ES s.—A short-sleeve Spanish vest and trowsers I COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY Sir S. ROMILLY appied, on the behalf of certain in t), ; an Indian dimity waistcoat with long sleeves, and collar habitants of Chelsea and Battersea, for an injunction trimmed with a narrow border of muslin. High shoes, of pur- to put a stop to a nuisance arising from a soap ma rt, or black Morocco. A college cap, of purple velvet, with nufactory in that neighbourhood. Before the mann erinison band. factory was completed, the defendants had hien EVENING Dar ss.—A Grecian round robe, with demi train, of n e Indian muslin or Italian crape, trimmed with silk cr silver warned, that if any inconvenience should arise from fringe; a Circassian sleeve,' and bosom finished ala chemise. A the effluvia, a legal application would be made to re- Ronan tunic of Sardinian blue satin, confined with correspon- move it. Nevertheless, on the works being COM dent cord and silver buttons in front. A neck-chain and locket vleted, the smell was found to be insupportable ; on of silver filieree or pearl, with earrings and bracelets en ,sire.• . which a second application was made to the manufac- Hair worn fiat, waving in curli on the forehead, and confined hitid with a row of twisted pearl; the *anted placed across the turers, who, he believed, did endeavour, by several al front. An occasional scarf, or cloak, of thread lace. White terations, to remedy the evil, but without effect. A satin slippers, with silver clasps. Gloves of white French kid, bill was then filed against them at the Surrey Assizes, and lan of carv.d ivory. Ilast Lent ; but the defendants removed it into the The Earl of HARRINGTON is to have Windsor Castle Court of King's Bench, where it could not now be in the room of Earl HARCOURT. ; tried till Lent, 1812. The present application, there fore, was made for an injunction to stop the nuisance The Bishop of KILI.ALA is to have the spiritual in the mean time. Sir Samuel said, he had a great care of the diocese of Dublin, during the indisposition number of affidavits in proof of what he had stated, of the Alicumsnor. only one of which he would trouble his Lordship with The Earl of GRANARD has been appointed to the reading. This was the affidavit of a Mr. Sadler, a Irish Hanaper Office, is the room of the Earl of Wm- ; chemist, which explains the whole process of soap- MEATH. _ I making. He says, that after the saponaceous part is . La St. Anne de Libourne.—This was also a ques tion of salvage—The Court in this case allowed the sum of 8700 to be distributed among the salvors, and £lO each to the owners of the boats employed upon the occasion. extracted, the soap-waste (as it is called) is allowed to run into large shallow pans, where the fluid is evapo rated, after which the solid part is calcined. That this process extricates a large quantity of sulphurated hy. drogen gas, which is is a very elastic fluid, incapable of supporting combustion, and, consequently, unfitted for human respiration ; and that sometimes the op pressive effects of this gas may be felt for the distance of two miles, and in general for halt a mile. Sir Sa muel then quoted two cases of nuisance in which the Chancery had been applied to, in one of which the Chancellor had refused to interfere, not deeming the the nuisance a public one ; and in the other Lord Loughborough had ordered the nuisance to be re moved. LORD CKANCILLOR-" Let the defendant be again applied to, and let the case stand over a day or two." Lord Tlynow has returned to England, after an absence of nearly three years, on a tour through the Greek Islands. General LYMAN, the American Consul, has been, for some time past, at Cheltenham, trying the waters and air for the recovery of his health. Lord HEATHFIELD is dangerously ill at his house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. The late Marquis TOWNSEND was President of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Trustee of the British Museum. THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.—.His Grace had been confined to his town residence, in Piccadilly, in a fluctuating state of health, for several weeks. The fist attacks were spasms in the chest, which were I succeeded by a difficulty of respiration. They con- t tinued more or less violent until his death. During the last week he could not rest in bed ; for five nights he sat up in a chair, which becoming irksome, a chair-bed was provided. During the Sunday preced ing his demise, his Grace was considerably better ; Ile was enabled to walk upon the terrace in front of Devonshire House for at least an hour, and after wards to eat a hearty dinner. The first indications of extreme danger were repeated vomitings, about three o'clock oil Monday afternoon. The whole of the medical attendants were then called in. About five o'clock, his Grace, being relieved in some de gree, but much exhausted by the convulsed state of his frame, laid himself down on the chair-bed ; but after remaining 20 minutes, he exclaimed to his apo thecary who was in attendance, " I cannot stay in bed !" His extremities were then getting cold. The difficulty of breathing increased about nine o'clock. A few minutes before ten his arm was bound up, for the purpose of opening a vein. Just as the surgeon was preparing the lancet, the head of the patient fell back, and he expired in the arms of the Duchess.— A consultation among the Members of the Faculty present, afterwards was held, on the subject of the disease which caused his Grace's death ; when they appeared to be unanimously of opinion, that it was water on the chest which had communicated to the heart. There were present at the last moments of the late Duke, the Countess of Besborough and Mr. \\'iiliam Spencer. Expresses were sent off to all the different branches of the family who were in the coun try.—Lord and Lady Morpeth were overtaken, on their way to Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle ; they arrived in town yesterday morning. His Grace was a very respectable No blunan, but though one of the chief props of the Whig Party in this country, never distinguished himself as a politician. He was of a grave turn in private life, yet not insensible of humour, and of a very hospitable temper. He was fond of the :society of men of wit and distinguished talents ; and the company whom he assembled at his magnifi cent seat at Chatsworth, as well as at Chiswick and town, would have been conspicuous in any age for parts and information. He died in the sixty-third year of his age, having been born, Dec. 4, 1748. 1 e Duke of Devonshire, Marquis of Harting son, Earl of Devonshire, Baron Cavendish of Hard t-sick, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of Der - eshire, and LL. D. He succeeded his father, Duke October '2, 1 7 ,64; married the .sth June, 771, Lady Georgina Spencer, sister of the peseta ,:u1 Spencer, and Countess of Besborough. Since her k:::ACCS death, which happened a few years since, •!-::.‘ Duke was married to Lady Elizabeth Foster. His t=race is succeeded in his honours and fortune by his en, William George, Marquis of Hartington, who la•-ely came of age, born May '2l, 1790. MASONIC FUNERAL.—Tuesday the remains of Mr. loitN BARRETT, of Princes-street, Westminster, who W*ss unfortunately drowned in the Thames, on Thurs day last, was interred, with Masonic solemnity, in St. John's burial-ground. The Master, senior, and junior Wardens, and a numerous company of the Brethren belonging to the Lodge of Unity, No. 72, proceeded will the mourners to the ground, the band of the Ist regiment of Guards playing the slow move meat in Ar t:ierxe. r. When the corpse was interred, Brother Fait rsELL delivered a discourse on the viruses of the de ceased. SOURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 20. KUCKBR V. ATKINS. This was an insurance from New York to any port in the Baltic. The vessel was captured by a boat from shore as she was hovering near her port of dis charge. The loss was known in December, 1810, but the assured did not abandon until the month of April. Lord Et.t.wszonouon held this too late, and that the assured must abandon, within a reasonable time, to entitle him to claim for a total loss. 1-lis Lordship however told the Jury, that in making up their esti mate of a partial loss, the only thing to deduct from the total loss was the chance of recovering the cargo, and the Jury would consider how much they thought that chance worth. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damage on ave rage loss 80 per cent. JULY M...-.lioXAlf d. TITOUPSOW. This was an action to recover back the sum of £1660, paid by the plaintiff to the defendant for the purchase of a vessel named the Crescent, which was sold by public auction, under pretence that a fraudu lent representation had been made by the person em ployed by the defendant to shew the vessel and the state in which she was. On the part of the plaintiff, it was stated that the vessel, which, at the time of the sale, was lying in the Surrey canal, was deep in ballast, and filled with lumber, in order that the faults in her bottom and keel might be the better concealed, by her lying deep in the water. To prove these facts, Mr. St. Barbe was called, who stated, that he was employed in the sale of the Crescent. She was sold by public auction, and was to be taken with all faults. He went on board her previous to the sale. She had a great quantity of ballast on board ; and there was some lumber in her ; in fact, she was in the same state in which she came from the Mediterranean, where she had been in the transport service. The lumber pre vented her bottom being easily seen ; but he had no reason to suppose it had been placed there to prevent her being fairly looked at. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, from the evidence of this witness, it did not appear that the ballast or lum ber had been put there artificially. She was exposed for sale, to be taken with all faults. If there appeared to be any difficulty in examining her, it should only have served to make them inclined to buy more cau ; tiously. The plaintiff, however, had made a foolish 1 bargain ; and now he seemed to think the Jury would be still more foolish, and give him damages for his ) folly.—Plaintiff nonsuited. SMITH, ST. BARRE, AND CO. V. COLES. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are ship-brokers in London, against George and Charles Coles, who were also brokers, to recover a sum of money received by them for the sale dif Danish prizes, under the following circumstances : At the time when the Danish prizes were seized in the ports of this country, it was thought proper by Government to appoint Commissioners to superintend the sale of them when condemned. These Commis sioners found it prudent to employ brokers to dispose of the property, and account to them for the pro ceeds. They accordingly, on the Ist December 1807, entered into an agreement with certain brokers for that purpose ; and amongst these were the plaintiffs, Messrs. Smith, Martin, St. Barbe, and Co. Messrs. Campbell and Co. and Messrs. Kymer and Mactag gart, and Messrs. T. Coles and Co. This agree ment was signed by all of these Gentlemen, and they thereby rendered themselves jointly and severally re sponsible to those Commissioners for the value of the property they should so dispose of'. In addition to that, they afterwards had a meeting, at which they passed a resolution, by ohich they engaged to ren der themselves responsible to each other for their respective firms, and to make good any default that might arise during tile continuance of the said contract. Whenever a vessel seas condemned, the Commissioners handed the sentence of condemnation to the plaintiffs, Messrs. Smith, Martin, St. Barbe, and Co. who acted as the chief agents, and, aczord ing to convenience or agreement, sent the necessary documents to one or other of the houses, who were to act with them in this business ; and the house to which it was so handed were to send an account of the proceeds, and pay the amount to the Commis. sioners whenever the prizes were disposed of. In the months of August and November, 1808, in pursu ance of these agreements, the condemnations of the vessels called the Hercules and Alancion, were han ded by the plaintiffs to Messrs. Thomas Coles and Co. for the purpose of their disposing of them, and, in the regulat course of the business, they (the defers-1 darts) should have accounted to the Commissioners I for the proceeds, amounting to £,3tB 17s. 2d. ; but, although they had succeeded in disposing of the prizes, they had never so accounted. Messrs. Smith and Co. the plaintiffs, knowing they were answerable to all the rest of the brokers, thought themselves bound to make good that sum to the Commissio- GOLDSMID V. LAbiOTT. ners, and they now, by this action, sought to re- This was an action against the underwriters upOn cover the amount from the defendants, whose duty a policy of insurance on the cargo of the Prussian it was to have paid it. The honse of Thos. Coles and This was one of the causes called Baltic risks. ship Augusta, at and from London to the Baltic.— Co. had dissolved partnership, upon the death of the " father of the defendants, in July, 1808, and the same The vessel and her cargo arrived sale at Stralsund, firm was afterwards carried on by William Coles, one where she was laid under embargo ; and, having sus of the former partners, along with a younger brother, rained some damage on her voyage, part. of her car- of the name of Frederick, while the two other brothers, go, consisting of hides, was taken out and disposed George and Charles Coles, commenced business toge of, to pay the expences of the necessary repairs. She they under the firm of Coles and Brothers. The disso was finally taken possession of by the French, and the lution of the original copartnership appealed in The cargo has not since been heard of. The Jury found Gazelle of the 6th August, and was also notified to the a verdict for the plaintiff. HAGADEN V. VAUGHAN. friends of the parties by circular letters—and in Febru ary, 1809, notice was given to the Commissioners that This also was an action on a policy of insurance the partnership was dissolved, and an application made against a Baltic risk, on the Prussian ship Amelia to them by William Coles, soliciting a continuance of and cargo, at and from London to Gottenburgh.— the employment, which application was answered by The vessel arrived in Swinemunde roads, but, not the Secretary to the Board, upon the 9th of that month , being able to land her cargo there, she proceeded to intimating their acquiescence in his request as to the a port higher up the Baltic, also under the Prussian re-appointment of his firm to the employment of bro- Government. Here a Prussian military force came ker to the Commissioners. on board, and took out part of her cargo; and after- , In support of these circumstances, Mr. Heighton, wards a French privateer took possession of her, re- Secretary to the Danish Commissioners ; Mr. For moved her Captain and three men from her, and put eusson, who was a clerk in the house of Thomas a prize-master and ten men on board her, who took Coles and Sons ; and a Mr. Symes, a clerk to the her and her cargo into Stralsund. plaintiffs, were called. The defence set up was, that the ship and cargo were the property of an alien enemy, she belonging In defence it was argued, that the letter received by William Coles front the Danish Commissioners, to a Hamburgh merchant, and Hamburgh being un tier the controul of the French ; that the plaintiffs consenting to his re-appointment, rested the respon sibility upon his hotise alone, and excluded the new were not entitled to recover. firm of Coles and Brothers, entered into by George The Attorney-General, for the plaintiffs, put in the licence, which was directed to A. B. and such other and William Coles ; and that the plaintiffs were fully aware of the dissolution of co.partnership that had neutral merchants. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, these could not be con- taken place ; but they, deeming the defendants more responsible than William Coles, now made this en sidered as neutral merchants. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then put in an Order ot e deavour to recover the amount of their advance from these other brothers, who were latterly entirely un- Council, dated February 26, which directed all Cap- connected with the transaction. The payment made tains of ships of war not to molest vessels sailing with by the plaintiffs could not be said to have been upon licences bound to any port, unless such as were ene- account of George and Charles Coles, as the Commis my's ports, or ports absolutely in the possession of the sioners had released them from all responsibility by enemy. their letter of the 9th of February. Lord ELIANSOROUGH said, this was merely a di- Mr. William Coles deposed as to his having had a rection, by his Majesty in Council, to the Common- conversation with Mr. Martin, one of the plaintiffs, dens of his own vessels; but he was of opinion it by relative to the dissolution of the partnership, and his no means went to render an insurance upon vessels re-appointment to the office of Broker to the Commis bound to such ports a legal insurance. If,.therefore, sinners; and as also to their subsequent transactions the Jury should be of opinion that, at the time the relative to the Danish Prizes—which shewed their policy was done, Hamburgh was under the dominion acquiescence as to his sole responsibility. of France, they would find for the defendant. Vera , L ord ELLENDOROUGH thought that the Danish dict for the defendant. Commissioners had, by their re-appointment of Wil• LAW INTSLLICRArat ADMIRALTY COURT, JULY 31. Mary, Miller master ; and Sarah, Gill master. — These ships and cargoes were ptoceeded against in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica, for importing certain commodities from St. Croix, where the ships and cargoes were finally condemned under the Act of 15 Charles IL—From this sentence an appeal was prosecuted to the High Court of Admiralty, where the sentence was affirmed. Primera Verde, Yalding master.—lt appeared that this vessel, laden with gum, had got a-ground in a dangerous situation in the River Senegal, and was released by the exertions of four men, who came in a boat to her assistance.—The Court decreed them seloo, and expellees, and rejected the claims of the other salvors. Earn Coles to be their broker, released the two bro. thers, George and Charles Coles from all esponsibi lity in these transactions ; and, therefore, as they could not sue them themselves, neither could the plaintiffs rear up a debt against them as having been due upon a former responsibility, from which the Commissioners had chosen to release them. Under these circumstances, his Lurdship directed the Jury to return a verdict for the defendants, which they did accordingly. PREROGATIVE COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS. Newet. AND OTHERS V. WEFK S. This was a question as to the validity of the will of a Mrs. Martha Trotman, of Chaiford, in Gloucester shire, which was set up on the part of the Executor Mr. 'rhos. Weeks, of Cranham, who married the de ceased's sister, by the half-blood, and was opposed at very considerable expence by a Mr. Newell, and two persons of the name of Wyeth, residing near Basing stoke, in Hampshire, who claimed the property as the nearest relatives of the deceased, though no proof of that circumstance appeared in evidence. The case had excited a considerable degree of in terest in Gloucester, upwards of 70 witnesses having been examined in that neighbourhood. It appeased that the deceased was an old woman of a very singular disposition, possessed of a considerable property, that she lived retired from an .apprehension of her bus band's relations, for who's she entertained a great - dislike, was very parsimonious, and so suspicious, as to entrust no one scarcely with the knowledge or ma nagement of her affairs. The evidence on the part of Mr. Weeks stated fully that the will had been 're gularly executed ; that the deceased entertained a great regard for the sister Mrs. Weeks, who died a short time before her ; and also for Mr. Weeks, and gave them considerable sums of money at different times, and that she frequently expressed her intentions of benefiting them, by will, at her death. In opposition to this, the character of the person who made the will, and was also a witness to it, was stated to be such as to render his evidence unworthy of belief ; various declarations of another witness, as to his never having signed the will, were adduced, and an alibi set up as to the third. The hand-writing to the will was also stated not to be the deceased's, and a variety of other circumstances of suspicion brought forward as inferences against the probability of the will being genuine. The Counsel for Mr. Weeks con tended, that if the question could be decided upon pro. babilities, there was a sufficiency to justify the Court in pronouncing for the will in the present case ; but the question was As to a matter of fact. Facts then were given, that must afford the Court the strongest conclusion of the execution of the will by the deceased having actually taken place; and the character of the person who prepared it, though aff:ctecl to a certain extent, was not sufficient, though accompanied by other circumstances of suspicion, to invalidate an act supported by such positive testimony as the present was, and confirmed by such corroborative probabilities. The Counsel on the other side contended, that the character of the principal witness being 'destroyed, there was not sufficient evidence witlymt him in sup port of the will, to justify the Court in thinking it a genuine transaction; that the suspicious circumstances of the case rendered the evidence of hand-writing im portant; and as that evidence clearly shewed the sig. nature to the will not to be the deceased's, the will could be considered in no other light than as a for gery, committed subseqUent to the deceased's death, to defraud her relatives. Sir Jaws Nionota. at considerable length comment ; cd upon the evidence, and observed that the witnesses against the character of the prepare' of the will seem ed to rest their opinions upon his b:ing an informer, and therefore would not believe him, tho' various other persons say they would ; the weight of testimony was therefore rather in his favour, and he was even corro borated by two attornies employed by the lisserted relations, who obtained a conversation with him under assumed names, and then brought forward the parti culars of the discourse. The Coart would not say how far such evidence 'nigh: be collect, but it never could lend its sanction to such a mode of obtaining it. The probability of the story must, however, be scru- • tinized, and according to that criterion the transaction seemed fair ; the will was conformable to the deceas ed's declared intentions to the persons applied to to make it, and very likely to be so from his acquaintance with Mrs. Weeks, in whose favour it was made,and who delivered it to him at her death ; another subscribing witness corroborated his evidence, and was proved to bear a good character, and the other died before the deceased. If his hand.writing, then, could be proved to the will, the case of its opposers was cut up by the roots ; and this he was of opinion was fully done : evidence, as to general hand-writing by comparison, was of so falls. cious a nature, as only to have weight when the ques tion was nicely balanced by other circumstances ; it was what the Court always received with caution, and could not weigh against positive facts ; and even if it could, the Court, in its own judgment, was inclined to think it had failed in the present case. Upon the whole of the circumstances, therefore, the Learned Judge was of opinion, that the will was sufficiently proved to be an act of the deceased's, and that the difficulties and suspicions attending it had been satis factorily accounted for in evidence ; for to suppose it a forgery, and supported by such a a mass of consis tent perjury as this evidence must then be, presented a difficulty in no way to be rationally entertained or surmounted ; the Court pronounced, therefore, for the validity of the will. SINGULAR DHCOVERY. •••• About two years ago, the wife of a flour and corn-dealer in the neigh. bourhood of Kingston, was lost from her home, and was supposed to have been drowned, return'ng front Hampton Court, her bonnet having been found in the river. Her husband and relatives mourned her loss in the usual manlier. On going through Mailing, in Kent, last week, to his great surprize, his sup ,' posed lifeless rib presented herself, mounted on the top of a baggage waggon, with a chopping boy at the breast, in the character of the wife of a corporal, with whom she had eloped from Kingston, and to whose she was afterwards betrothed. The first husband had in Th e e m w e al a i n s t o im f e H ln am an p i t e o d n- a rou t r b t er Palace, uife. being in a decayed state, have lately been inspected, and ordered to be pointed. The expellee is calculated at sesooo. The workmen were' last, but they have ' • FIN etohavecommenced on Thunday been countermanded,.