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4 , I 1 4 7441-i ~~ LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST 10. 11-PARTE LORD DICEY, IN THE MATTER OF THE DU- j CHESS OF NORFOLK, (LUNATIC PETITION.) Mr. WisuetELD stated, that-this was a petition on the part of Lord Digby, praying that he, as Com mittee of the Lunatic, the Duchess Dowager of Nor folk, might be pen mined to file a bill ter the pur pose of ascertaining whether the present Duke of Nor folk was rot bound to pay up arrears of an annuity of and of pin-money amounting to £7OO per an num, to which the Duchess was entitled by the in dew.u.,.? of settlement, executed by the late Duke on his mat age, and which had not been paid since the 1782. By a former order of the Court, it had been referred to Master Harvey, to inquire whether the petitiotwr ought to commence a suit against the Duke for the recovery of these arrears. The Master had accordingly inquired, and had reported that the -Duke was not liable, since he had constantly sup ported the Duchess, and had provided her with eothes and other articles, for which pin-money was understood to lie generally set apart. The Lear ned Counsel, with ill possible respect for the opinion of the Blaster, could not concur in the propriety of this 'repot, Which he believed to be founded evirely on mistake. It proceeded on tl4 supposition that pin money was an allowance for clothes; and certainly, if that was the case. the bukei having provided the lunatic with clothes, could not be liable for any arrears. The real intention of pin-money, however, Was to provide a fend, not for the purchase of dress, but for the occasional display of that liberality and ;nagnificence which were expected from females of ele- Vated rank and fortune—such as birth-day presents, costly preparations for public exhibitions, &c. But, independently of this error in the principle on which the Master had founded his report, he conceived that the question was of too great importance, in volving, as it did, a sum of nearly £40,000 to be de cided en any authority but that of his Lordship. He then proceeded to cite sevetal cases applicable to the present, and endeavoured to establish the princi ple, that in all cases the husband, or his represen tative, was liable tor arrears of pin-money, unless it could be shewn that the wife had legally relinquished her claim to that allowance. If this principle was correct, there could be no doubt of the Duke's lia bility in the present case; for since the year 1789., the Duzhess had not been competent to wave her claim. Mr. SHADWELL followed on the same side, and ar gued at considerable length in support of the Duke's liability. He said it was proposed to try the matter against the late Duke's executors, if his Lordship should think proper to allow them. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the only question before him was, whether the Committee should be at liberty to tile a bill for the recovery of these arrears alleged to be due to the lunatic, and he was of opi nion, that the Committee, if so disposed, should have that liberty. , $ 4. • f, 8 ....• . • • • • • •* IMP DE TASTET V. LOPES. This was an application of a similar nature to the one made last week, in answer to the motion for the committal of Mr. Lopes, for the non-performance of an order, directing the production of certain books, papers, and writings. .Ir. WLIIIERELL now prayed the Court to stay the attachment under the same circumstances as thobe of the former application. Mr. MART contended, that the motion ought not to be granted, as the affidavits of the Defendants were not of that nature to warrant the Court to shew any pecculiar lenity. The Loin CHANCALLOR said, the had read over the affidavits, Ste. and the opinion he had come to was, that the attachment ought to be abolished, but under all the circumstances, he thought Mr. Lopes ought to pay the costs of the application and of the at tachment. SUSSEX ASSIZES—LEWES, AUGUST 9. Jimes-Gear was tried on the Coroner's inquisition, for the wilful murder of Henry Turner, at Storring ton, on the 14th of May last. It appeared that the deceased and the prisoner had been eagaged in a pugilistic contest, at Storrington fair, were they had been both intoxicated with spi rits. The deceased, after some rounds, tell to rise no more. • The surgeon, who was the only witness examined, stated, that in his opinion, the deceased had died from natural causes. Under these circumstances the Learn ed Judge directed an acquittal, and the prisoner was according found—Not Guilty. Eli Cousins was convicted of horse stealing ; and John Ellis was convicted of burglary in the day time. .1. Kent, a poor boy, about 13, who was lately pub licly whipped through Acton, in company with three others, for robbing gardens, was on Saturday last found lying in a geld near Turnham-green, in a state of the most deplorable wretchedness and exhaustion. He was conveyed to the workhouse, and thence to the roundhouse, where he lingered only a few louts, and then died. Friday, one of the boys, forming part of an eques trian troop exhibiting at Barns, in Surrey, whilst en deavouring to stand on his head, unfortunasely fell from his horse, and was killed on the spot. An Inquest was held on Wednesday, on view of the body of James Webster, of Knottingley, who had on the Monday before fallen from a turn-about ma chine, when at an elevation of twenty feet from the ground, and pitching with his head upon a stone was killed. It appears that Webster and three of his companions had got into the machine in a state of intoxication, and by their violent beating had burst out the bottom of the box in which they were placed. One of the other men had his arm broken, but the two others clung to the irons, and escaped unhurt. SLEEP-W ALKING.—A lamentable accident hap pened a few nights since, at the Cavalry Barracks, Windsor. A young man, a private in the Royal Horse Guards, got out of bed and walked in his sleep, and unfortunately was able to open the win dow of the room in the Barracks, from which he fell out. The sentinel on duty near the spot gave an alarm, and the poor man was taken up in a most de plorable and distressing state. Surgical assistance was procured with all possible speed. Thursday se'nnight, a cow entered a public-house in Bristol, walked deliberately up two flights of stairs into a room, and rowed without doing or sustain ing am y injury. pouct Mewstoe-Housa.—A great number arletters have been received by the LORD MAYOR, in consequen ce, the it is thought, of an erro neous o p inion that it was psoothpaity one e e o sr the of la l bo Os u . r a . Some of them went so'far as to state, that his Lord ship said, he considered that sum sufficient to meet the necessities of a whole family. The comments were such as would naturally arise upon the suppo sition that such an opinion had been actually enter tained and promulgated. But the tendency of the Lord Mayors observations were far different. He stated, upon the application of an idle fellow, who refused to work because he could not get the full wages of an excavator, that the distress of the coun try would not be so prevalent if those who had for merly 16s. or 18s. a week would, instead of throwing themselves upon their parishes, accept of 10s.; and this opinion was founded upon an authority by no means insignificant, which conveyed the assurance that the Army, the Navy, and the Farmers, were to tally at a loss where to find men for their purposes. —While the LORD MAYOR was sitting yesterday, be received a few of those complimentary notes, which gave him the pleasing intelligence that he should be disposed of, before his mayoralty died a natural death, in various ways, amongst which were men-. tioned some of those ingenious plans to which bar barians often resort when they get hold of a victim against whom the war cry has been raised.—The LORD MAYOR observed, that he was prepared to meet , with opposition, but he trusted that those who had the opportunity of observing his conduct would do him justice. The duties of his situation were of the most arduous kind. Re should continue to discharge them according to his conscience, and he was sure in the end to receive the approbation of the reflecting part of the community. He felt no pain at the vari ous laughable devices resorted to for the purpose of keeping up the cry to his prejudice; and he in par ticular adverted to the application of the poor fellow at Guildhall, for whom he felt much compassion, but whom he could not, think of restoring to his for mer situation, in consequence of his defects, both in understanding and in the motive for the act which caused his dismisal.—Peter Foreman, a respectable old man, was charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £3O, with intent to defraud John Whittaker, Esq. and Thomas Bond.—ltemanded. GetemiAte.—A Husband *early Murdered by his Tliffr.—Yesterday Mrs. Ann Farmer, was brought be fore the Sitting Magistrate, Alderman Raritwete, by Turner, one of the constables of St. Dunsten's pariAr, charged with an assault of the most violent and dreadful nature upon her husband. Mary Anne Curtis, in whose house the defendant aad husband were lodgers, stated, that the poor man is an attor- ney's clerk, usually employed in the neighbourhood of Chancery lane, bet has lately been confined to his bed by severe illness ; that yesterday the witness went into their room and missed the two pillows from their bed ; she inquired of the husband what had become of them ? and he replied that his wife had pawned: them, contrary to his desire. When the wife returned,' the witness followed her up stairs, to interrogate her about the pillows, and mentioned to her what her hus band had said ; upon which the defendant, in a fu rious rage, caught up a tea-kettle, struck her husband: on the head, and severely wounded him. The witness, I, alarmed at her desperation, ran down stairs, scream ing for assistance ; and upon her return with a neigh bour she found the defendant had in her absence caught up a pitcher, broke it on her husband's head, and inflicted so severe a wound that his life is declar ed to be in danger. From the dangerous state in which the man now lies, it was impossible to take his evidence at present.—The prisoner was remanded till the situation of her husband should be correctly ascertained. Bow-STREET.—Yesterday John Booth, a Clerk in the General Post Office, Lombard-street, was brought to this Office, and underwent an examination before RICHARD BLAME, Esq. charged with secreting a let ter entrusted to his charge. For some time past com plaints have been made of the miscarriage of letters, particularly those containing Bank Notes, Bills of Exchange, &c. even at the time the two young men, Clerks in the Post Office, were under condemnation, and who were executed about six weeks or two months since. Letters were stolen in the Office, but no trace could be made at the Office of the robbers, and the terror of a certain ignominious death staring them in the face did not operate to prevent a conti nuance of the depredations. The Gentlemen engaged in the regulation and management of the Post Office have been exerting themselves in every possible way to discover the offenders, and at length they suspect ' ed the prisoner, and on Monday evening, when the Clerks and Sorters were assembled at the Post-office to sort the letters to go out by that night's mail coaches, and it having been previously arranged for Vickery, the Officer, to be is attendance in an anti room, and when the Clerks and Sorters were assem bled in the Sorting Office, he was introduced and desired to search the prisoner, upon whom he found a great variety of papers, and in his left hand breeches pocket he found a letter sealed with wax unopened, directed to Mr. William Knapp, Wrestlington, near Potten, Bedfordshire. On opening the letter, it was found to contain the halves of two £lO Bank Notes. The letter was put into the General Post Receiving House, in Chancery-lane, by a Gentleman of the name of Ryder, who, on the sth inst. had put in a letter, the two other halves of the same Bank-notes,, directed to Mr. William Knapp, Wrestlington, near Potten, Bedfordshire. It did not appear whether they had been received as directed or not.—Daniel Stow, the Snperintending President of the Inland Office, proved that the prisoner was employed in his office , and that the letter found in the prisoner's pocke t would have passed through his hands, in his official duty, in the Manchester Division.—The prisoner is suspected of other offences of a similar nature; and Mr. PARKIN, the Solicitor to the Post Office, who' attended to conduct the prosecution, applied to the Magistrate for a fortnight to be allowed him, in or der that he might endeavour to procure more evi dence ; which the Magistrate granted hi m.—The Magistrate called upon the prisoner to know what he had to say in answer to the charge and the evi dence given against him ; at the same time, humanely observing to him, that as he was not assisted by any legal adviser, the most prudent course he thought he could pursue, would be to remain silent, except he had any satisfactory answer to give to the charge preferred against him.—The prisoner did not utter a word in reply, but trembled exceedingly. MARLBOROUGH-STRatT.—Outrage on a Female.— Yesterday George Dodd, a decent looking young man, residing in Gresse-street, Rathbone-place, was brought up from Mary-la-bonne watch-house, on a charge of a serious nature, preferred by Miss Hamer, a young Lady, of Queen-street, Soho-square, with having set fire to her clothes by rubbing phosphorus on the sleeve of her pelisse, and thereby endangcripg her life. The Magistrate said it was a very aggravated ofience, and the prisoner must make some amends to the pro secutor, or find good bail. COMMERCE. LONDON MARKETS, AUGUST 10. COTTON.—The letters lately received from India state, that the Cotton crops had, in a great measure, failed ; the first reports upon this subject were not believed ; the subsequent statements, however, are beginning to attract much attention, and have ma iterially improved the request both for Bengals and Surats; since our last 2800 bales of Bengal Cotton have been taken at 6d. to 61d. for the very ordinary to ordinary, and 7td. to 71d. for fair common to good shipping quality, a few fine Bd. 300 Surats were taken 7d. to 91d. The other purchases since our last consist of 400 Pernambuco 19d. to 20d. 40 Ceara 1 . 120 St. Vincent's fair to good clean 144 d. to Id. a few Bahama good to fine 151 d. to o._ I d ma ing the purchases since our last nearly 3509 bags Cotton. The importations since our last are-82S bales Brazil, 608 American, and 50 West Indias.— Importations of Cotton in 1819-55,865 bales Ben gal, 24,325 Surat, :058 Madras, 348 Bourbon, 7134 Brazil, 2566 American, 2956 West India Islands, and 98 Smyrna. - SUGAR.—The demand for Muscovades continued limited last week ; the low brown descriptions were pressed upon the market, and might be purchased lower ; one reason assigned for the continued dull market is, that the prices of Sugars at the out-ports are much lower than in London ; samples were ex hibited last week from Liverpool, and the prices ap peared to be ss. and lower than this market ;- free browns were 535. low browns 51s. inconsequence of this great difference very considerable orders were transmitted, which will, no doubt, improve that mar ket. The demand for Nluscovades this forenoon is still confitied to good and fine Sugars ; the market may be stated heavy at last weeks prices ; the low Sugars are little enquired after, there have been a few strong Etowns sold 625. to 635. the other pur , Ichases are good and fine Muscovadcs 68s. to •Ns.- The supply of refined last week was still apparently l inadequate to the demand ; but as the buyers evinced no eagerness to purchase (anticipating more goods in a week or two), the sales were not extensive ; Lumps and Crushed were in steady demand. Molasses were heavy and lower. Last week by public sale, 105 bags Brazil Sugars were brought forward, ordinary soft white was taken in at 325. and 40s. yellow 345. the whole parcel were soft sugars, and in bad condi tion. At the India House on kriday, 7000 bags Ben gal Sugars went off full 2s. lower than the last sale, good white 455. to 465. ordinary white 40s. yellow 345. to 365. ordinary soft brown 235. 6d. Coerce.-There have been great fluctuations in Coffee. On Wednesday last about 500 casks and above 3030 bags Coffee were brought forward, th? whole sold freely, and at some advance ; East India Coffee, without the drawback, sold, Java pale 130 s. good Cheribon I 20s. to 124,5. ordinary 115 s. ordi nary Sumatra 108 s. and 108 s. 6d. On Thursday an extensive sale, 480 casks and 526 bags, were brought forward ; and though the prices were in se veral instances lower, yet there appeared a brisk and extensive demand, and nearly the whole sold. On Friday the request continued, and the prices impro ved ; since then the demand by private contract has been most extensive ; St Domingo, which had been sold last week 114 s. and 114 s. 6d. realized on Satur day and yesterday .120 s. and 121 s. good ordinary Jamaica, which realized 107 s. on Tuesday last, was held at 112 s. and 11.35. fine ordinary, which had been selling freely at 110 s. early last week, was held at 117 s. and 118 s. generally, the market was in a most fluctuating and uncertain state, the prices from 7s. to 3s. higher. There were three public sales of Cof fee brought forward this forenoon, 503 casks 696 bags, consisting of every description of Jamaica, Do minica, Berbice, and Demerara Coffee ; the whole sold with great briskness at prices 4s. higher than on Tuesday last ; but 3s. to 4s. per cwt. under what had been previously realized by private contract ; good ordinary Jamaica 110 s. to 112 s. fine ordinary 113 s. to 114 s. 6d. middling 117 s. good middling 132 s 6d. Demerara and Berbice good and fine ordinary 113 s. to 119 s. middling 1235. to 121 s. good middling 128 s. to 1295. Dominica good middling 131 s. 6d. to 1325. Of the Coffee market it may he stated, there are evi dently very extensive purchasers ; as, though the sales to-day were large, and continuing from one till past three o'clock, yet the demand increased as the sales proceeded, and the market at the close was higher than at the commencement, and great briskness in the bidaings. Otts, FISHERIES, &c.—The recent reports of the Greenland Fisheries are favourable ; the statements are up to the middle of July ; the fishery appears to that date to be a fair average; in consequence of the favourable intelligence, cargoes of Greenland Oil have been offered at lower rates ; the trade, how ever, will not purchase, they anticipate a considerable decline. No accounts are yet received of the Davis Straits Ships. Sperm Oil has considerably given way. Seed. Oils are also quoted lower, and heavy at the decline. TosAcco.—The low prices of Tobacco continue to attract the attention of Speculators ; they purchase only where parcels are offered at very low prices.— Cargoes of Virginias are reported to be sold from 365. 6d. to 38s. Marylands maintain the late prices, as the stock of the latter is inconsiderable. The re ports of the Continental markets continue very un favourable. Few export orders can, of course, be expected. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The prices of Tal low continue to decline ; such is the state of money negotiations and credit, that the prices of Tallow cannot be given with precision ; purchases can be made from 555. 6d. to 575. Hemp is liMited in re quest. Flax remains in a very depressed state. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.The RUM mar ket continues steady ; there are few purchases r tror. ted since our last, yet the holders evince no ditp)ii, tion to effect sales in the present languid state inarkes, generally, an improvement b , :th in e mand and in the prices ate anticipated. rot: of the vintage in France continue nrefavou:a Brandies may, in consequence, be stated at a ianhe improvement. Geneva is without variation. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 7. In the early part of the week, the demand fa American Cotton was limited, hht on W.ednes i t revived and bevtme very brisk, and prices whichi D d given way a little, have fully regained the hiah eit point of last w•el:k ; the advices from Calcutta 4 ti ll end of February. stating that, owing to an ohsrn tc , tion in the Iliver, that market was almost bare 4 Cotton, and tlutt the crop had failed materially, p gals and Sursts have been much sought after, have ^xperienced an ;advance did. to id. Brazl , also id. to I. per pound higher ; the sales 7, to 12,300 bags, and consist of 3150 Boweds 13td. for inferior to fair, 13id. to 14id. to F fair to prime ; 1100 Orleans 13d. to 13f,d. fo; i riot to fair, 141. to Isd. for good fair to good, ai few prime 16d. and 16id. 130 Teuessees llr 120. 480 Sea Hands 25.1 d. to 21. 21d. for ordil to fair, Sts. 3d. to 2s. 7d. for good fair to good : few very fine 3s. 900 Pernams 170. to 141. Maranhams 16/d. to 173 d. 200 Bahias 17d. to 150 Minas 1 3id. and 13/d.60 Paras 17d. 280 meraras 143 d. to 18d. 90 West Indies Mid. 80 thagenas 11 d. '2150 Sarats 7d. to 9d. for ordi to fair, 90. to 10,0. for good fair to good; Bengals 7.0. to lid. for ordinlry to fair, Bd. ti for good fair to good. The arrivals during the are 3600 bags. GLASGOW MARKETS, ATIGCST 7. Corrom.— fhe sales this week amount to 3,1'09 paeltag, Sea Island Georgia 133, at gs. 34. to 2s. 44,--1)o. Stained at 164. to 154.-13:Aved 891, at 1.3 d. to 14e(1..--Oran at 120. to 150. few a. 144.—Pernains, lig, at 19(1. t( Maranham SI, at 174. to 1734.—Demi Cara and Berbiee at 14a. to ltd.—Bah-ma 46 at ladia 9, at 1: 13;1—Bengal 547, at bpd. to 64.—8 y auction, Bowed* rad. By a Return from Bengal of the Shipping ii River Houghley, on the Ist of February, it apl there were 104 vessels, whose burthens 4111()L1111 41 920 tons. The following is a statement of the principal ports from Bengal, from the Ist to the 31st J • Cc.tton, bales orsoolbs. 789 tons of 20 cwt.; ..t! maunds, 1851 i; Indigo, factory nsaunds, 5431; factory maunds, 297; Ginger, bazaar maunds, 3471, Sunday, the 25th ult. the parish of Wimp! n the neighbourhood of Dumfries, was visite:, violeAt storm of thunder and rain. The river rapidly, carrying away several bridles, fields tatoes, &c. in every direction. There was not a in Newton into which the water did not How ing one, where two sick persons i•,ry were miraculously not disturbed. In these h the furniture, consisting of dresses tables, ch and stools, floated about in an amusing manr In one house, a hen and 12 chickens were drov in ancther a bitch swam with her whelp mouth, but her strength failing, the poor wheli drowned. The inhabitants of Newton, accordi their circumstances, E ye sustained the greatea their small crops, with a few exceptions, having much hurt, and the grass, which they fed their with, rendered useless. The real damage do, the flood in carrying away the bridges cant correctly ascertained. It was particularly n, that the space on which the rain fell was not than four miles square. PRESTON, ACOVST 7.—This town was ai. s . sited by a violent thunder storm on Sunday last. force of the torrent created by the sadden fall broke down a wall, which separated the park ol ton Lodge from the road at Broughton; at brook, near Salmesbury, the flood washed a quantity of earth and gravel into the bed of tilt ble, and caused considerable damage by the quent overflow of the waters; and in High another child was struck by the lightning, a: verely burnt. On the same day, Mr. John 13:n farmer, in.Halsall, near Ormskirk, was killed ' electric fluid. He was sitting in his own house the accident happened ; his dog was also kill his side at the same time, and five of his chi .were severely blunt. The deceased was a wig and has left seven children to feel the loss of dustrious and attentive parent. The lightning the spire of the church, damaged the face clock, and tore some slates from the roof—i lifted a man from the ground, who was standi the church-yard, and threw another upon his' ENNISKILLEN, Au(;. s.—Monday last, as Mi DREW IRVINE, a respectable inhabitant of the bourhood of Brookhorough, was returning trom fair of Monaghan, accompanied by his son, the mountain, during a violent thunder storm,. the horse on which he rode were struck dew lightning. .Yitung Mr. IRVINE had been a few in advance of his Lather, and felt a shock from ; flash, which affrighted his horse and caused, leap round, when, to his amazement, he observe father and horse lying prostrate before him, wi any visible marks of injury. The poor young distress may be easily imagined, mourning or deceased parent, distant from any human habit and at length obliged to ride off for assistance the corpse removed. MARRIED. • At Killerrnont, on the 3d of Augu.t, Walser Long, Rood Ashton, Wiltshire, to Miss Mary Anne Colquhouno. ter of the Right Hon. Archibald Colquhoun, Lord Regior Scotland. August 3, at Few House, Perthshire, Alexander St, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, to Helen Sutherland. daughter of the late K Marshall Gardiner, Esq. of Ihnair At March-hill, on the 4th inst. Frar.cis Maxwell. of pool, Esq. to Margaret, eldest daughter cf Pcl ll, of March-hill. DIED. Thursday, in Tavistockstreet, Covent-garden, Mrs widow of the late Captain Richard (hay, ILN. MAILS sun Day.—aaa. 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