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A BETH GELERT; THEORAVE OF THE GREYHOUND The (peanut' beard the bugle found, And cheerly hulled the morn, and man y a brach, and many a hound Attend Ltawattr?4•3 horn: And Rtn be blew a louder blaft, And gave a louder cheer ; a come, Oder,, why art thou the bre • LLIWILLYN'S horn to hear mien does faithful Gclert roam •TM lover of all his race ; • se me, fa brave, a lamb at home, 0A Ike in the dace!" VON stLasw bend - . Tho NUM Gde►t fed; • . a , goodid, he ferv'd, he cheer'd his lord, add wastited his bed. Isse, he was a peerlefa ►ound, The diftd Avid Jour. : pd mow no tgrierr could be found, godoll the duce rode on. A i d ow, as over rocks, and della The gallant addings rife, All Sonewho's craggy chaos yells • With many mingled cries. no goy Laavezas,vn little lov'ti atedisee, of hut or hare, "„Arg4 ikut, and (mall the booty prov'd, For Gdeet was not there. agised LLIWEI:LYN homeward hied, When, near the portal feat, • altruist Gdert he efpicd, biuding his Ibrd to greet. anvil= be gain'd his rank door, Agialt the Chieftain hood; The Holuldwas finear'd with gouts of go*, His lips, sad fangs ran blood ! Luvrausit gu'd with wild furprife, Waned fish looks to meet ; as &write cbeek'd his joyful guile, And nye►'d, and Hek'd his feet. bessitit its halo LLewaLLttr part, And as west Gskre too Aid where's!: hl eyes he can, Fedi bloodrgouts fluxed his view &Mired his infant's bed he &midi The blood-Itain'd covert rent; And all 'around the walls, and ground, • With recent blood bcfprent. He adi'd his child, no voice replied, He farthl with terror wild ; Mimi! blood he found on ev'ry fide, As is where found the child l . [hip kga, the ived .iled Lev- R. W. Indy lAAR ;ate, the ri vcd t 5.- Blot from and ailed loes ; Boy. , for Un• rum, g for il Ru t con. Rime. Rion. Idcnts lows; WIL- rer Me• edal, 3. ippro nithed • NeFlusund ! by thee my child's devour'd The frantic father cried ; • Aid to the hilt his vengeful (word, Re plumed in Mitres tide. His fuppliant, as to earth he No pity could impart ; let Mil his G&W., dying yell Palt heavy o'er his heart. Atout'd by G&W, dying yen. Some flumbera wakened nigh ; What words the parent's joy can tell, To hear his infant cry I Coward beneath a mangled heap, toe hurried larch had mifs'd ; 4UI glowing from his rofy 'key, His cherub boy be kited! Net fcrateh had he, nor harm, nor dread : let the fame couch beneath Lay a great Way; aH torn, and dead, Tremendous Rill in death l M, what iwas then Las waaairs's pain, For now the truth was clear, The gallaot lima, the Wsybad flan, To Ewe I.Lawaaas heir. • Vain, yak was all La sw ' woe; • BA of thy kind, adieu ; • The frantic deed, which laid thee low, • This beat Gall ever rue !” And now a gallant tomb they talk, With eoftly kulpture deckt ; And marbles, Rolled with his ruff% Par Gainer bona protect. Han never mold the Spearman pars, Or Fixate: unruov'd ; Mae oft the tear-berprinkied risk, UAW 's foerow prov'cl. AM here be hung his born, and (pear ; And aft r evening fell, Panty's planing founds, would hear Pam Gdert's dying yell ! And till great S *MAW rock., grow old, And teak the form to brave, The confectatal fpot all bold, Tbc name a GILIMT'S I in s ipsyy V this Ballad is traditional in a Village at the foo t dammo d o m, wh at LLIIMLLLYN had a houfv: the C;rey -604 owed &lore, was given him by his Father-in-law• pga join, in the year zaos, and the place, to this dos. , taildeb Gtr ; or, The Grave of Gekra. It may not be improper to inform thole who go 'Prance, that Enghilt horfes are not allowed to ' imoduced. In taking over Englilh bodes, , they m a y fuffer fort* inconvenience. h Ilifirop of Sr. Pot. Da Leon haying fonse Igo obtained from one of the Secretaries of the power of preventing certain French from availing themielvm of the advantages ports when dcfireus to return to France, %w -hacked by his certificate, the Alien Office was . ly befieged by thole who remon(rated fach an arrangement. Lord Pr tit A/A feel on the return of P eace , t h e impropriety of . ag any longer fuch a regulation, to the inconvenience of many worthy individuals Copied to the Bilhop of ST. Pot DI LION' illi future interfacnce will be dripenfcd with.' pe.v. Larr fICTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER tr. DE COETLOCON V. COLE. This was an Aftion on the part of the Rev. Charles De Coetlogon, to recover the furn of 5001. dile on a bond by the late Mr. Cole, from Mrs. Cnle, his widow and adminiltratrix. The bond had' been given for; wool.; Soot. of which had been paid by Mr. Cole, and the interefi of the re mainder, up to the year 1799. • Since Mr. Colc's death, meetings of his creditors had been held, and dividends had been made; but not to the amount of twenty Millings in the pound. The Counfel for the Plaintiff contended, that the money due by this bond was of the higher order of debts, it being under teal, and confcquently had a right to precedence of payment of other debts, fuch as promifory-notes, fimple•contra& debts, ftc. On the atteaing witneffes being called for, only one appeared, the other being abroad at Jamaica. William Hancock, fornterly apprentice to Mr. Cole, when requefted to look at the bond and its fignatures, and to fay whether the flea fignature was his, Paid that he could not (wear it was not, but he did not believe it was. On examination, it was the opinion of the Court, that both figna tures had been made by the fame hand and pen ; and, on looking farther, it was contended that the filling up of the bond, and alto the fignatures were the hand-writing of one and -the fame perfon, namely Mr. Cole. Whatever had been the motive for which this trick had been played, it appeared that Mr. Cole had aEled fairly by it, and it had been acknowledged by the adnunifiratrix ; the Jury therefore returned a verdiet of fool. with intereft, for the plaintiff. MARTINDALE V. LORD PETERBOROUGH. This was an Aaion brought to recover a eon fiderable furn of money, due by the defendant to the plaintiff, for his fubfcription to a club held at his houfe. It appeared by the regulations of the club that, if a member did not pay - his fubfcription within a limited time, his name was polled in a particular part of the room for a given period, after which, if he did not come forward, he was not any longer confidered as a member. This rule had not been complied with. After hearing the cafe at confiderable length on both fides, it was the opinion of the Jury that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and they accordingly gave a verdift for the defendant. COURT OF KINGS BENCH, DEC. x i. )REACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. AIIDREWS 17. MOIRISON.—This waa an ACtion for a Breach of Promife of Marriage made by the Defendant to the Plaintiff. Mr. ER SKIN I opened the Cafe on the part cf the Plaintiff. He obferved (among other things) that if there were any cafes that more than others deferred the attention of Juries, they were thole wherein the interefts and she injuries of Women were concerned.—Man, they knew, was the Lord of the Creation.—Men made Laws ; men admi• nigered the Laws which were made by Men— Women were in no refpets, that he knew of, in ferior to Men, except in being weaker, which, to- gether with their virtue and their beauty, made them objetts of our proteftion and love ; add, ac cordingly, they had, in all ages, and among all Nations under Heaven, been under the protettion of the other fez, as they ought to he, for as we make Laws, and we carry them into execution, we thould protect thole who have no (hare in either. It would not be refpeftful in him towards the Jury, if he were to endeavour to convey into their minds any ideas of his own, concerning the nature of the injury of which this Plaintiff complained; that is, the nature of a difappointment of a Woman under fuch a promife as that of marriage: The Jury knew the nature of fuch a cafe. They knew that no injury under the fun was fo great. A man or woman might bear lofs of property, lofs of health, and many others of the calamities which this world brought upon us—but 4 , a wounded fpirit who could bear ?" A woman who is addreffed by a man, and who, for any caufe whatever, is difap pointed in her expeltations, is difparaged. Lct her be as unfpotted as Diana, as beautiful - as (he is un (potted, as accompli(hed as (he is beautiful, the mull, neverthelefs, fuller in the opinion of others, at lead of our fez, if the is once addrcffed and af terwards deferted by a manwhom the is intended to wed; becaufe there is a fort of pride in man, which will make him than what another appears to think unworthy of his acceptance. A man argues with himfelf thus :—" There mull be a reafon for this, although none be given. There is no fmoke without fire ; there mutt be tome fort of blame attached to this Lady, although it does not meet the eye or the ear of the Public." He (aid, he did not know, whe ther any confiderable part of the Jury, moll pro- bably Come of them, were parents. Moll of them appeared to him to be many years younger than hunfelf, but to fuch of them who were fathers, he would put it as a quellicm, what they would think of (itch a difappointment to one ofitheir daughters ? He Ihould therefore content himfelf with raying that if the cafe was made nut as it was Rated to him, the Jury would feel they had it not in their power to compenfate, for no money could corn penf rt e the injury this young woman had received. —He was ready to admit, that it was not every breach of promife of marriage that ought to be fcourgcd with fevere damages ; there were circnnt fiances under which a promife might be made, and afterwards broken, and yet the party difappointed Oscadd not have any aftion. If a man made a pro. mik of man iage to a woman who afterwards ap peared not to be prudent and modell in her beha viour, the party ptomains marriage (hall be ab relived ; or if prudent and model in her behaviour, yet that the may be known to have tome defeat which were not known at the time of making the pemik, a man Ilan not be bound by his promife, for a man is not bound by a pia:intik of this fort to aftliet himfelt with the contempt of all who knew him. If (he had any &kale which might be com municated to her offspring, and that was difywer ed after the promife, the promife (ball not be held to be binding. If a man without any ellablithment in the world, depending merely upon the good will of others for his rnaintetante,—who was under the Government and controul of others, and had no Cu ppm t but from them, and had yet, either from the impetuolity of his paffions in his youi,D, or from fome inditcretion, made a promile . wiuchl would be a ruin to himfelf and every body con- 1 nefted with him—ilich a promile thould not be binding, for fuels a promile was more honoured in the breach than the obfervance. But this Cafe was like none of there, it had no excufe which I either of thole would have for a non-performance, for here the Defendant was a man at the years of difcretion, a fubftantial tradefman living in ?vire table bufinces for himfelf. The Plaintiff was not a Lady likely to draw him to an expense which his circumflances in life would not enable him to bear. She was the Defendant's neighbour, the daughter of another tradefman, educated as the defendant had been, and with whole conneftions he was perfeftly well acquainted,and therefore it WAS not too much to fuppofe that their purfuits were fimilar. The Prom ife was prefumed to be difcreeily made, and therefore there was no excufe for the breach of it; and for the breach of it the Jury were not only called upon by the rules of Law, but they were bound by the principles of humanity as well as the dictates of clear Juftice, to give ferious damages; for nothing (bort of ferious damagescould•aniount to a compen. fation to this young woman. Having Paid this by way of preliminary, he thould now thortly Rate the circumftances of the cafe which was to be laid be fore them. The Plaintiff was the daughter of a Mr. Anderfon, who lived in Gofwell-ftreet, a re putable grocer there. The defendant was alto a tradefman in the fame greet, and refpeftable in every thing, he dared to fay, except the occafion of his being before that Court today. The Defen dant had, for three years, paid his attention to this young woman, and fome time in February lA, ob tained her father's leave to court her in marriag e, and under that folemn fanCtion, he vi fi ted the fa mily, the fanftion of honour; and honour was not to be found only at St. James's, or in theAsurliens of a palace ; it was to he found under humbler roofs, and was indeed the companion of all ranks of per tons in this country, and it was the grand charac teriftic by which this country was diftinguithed from all the other countries of the earth, that, with us, honour was known, felt and'afted upon among all ranks of people. This Defendant was admit ted as the intended hutband of this young woman. He paid his addreffes to her, and he gained her affeetion under the folemn pledge, not in a few loft words whifpered in her ear in a corner, which might be fat afide by the authority of parents, but under the folemn vow of a future marriage, and that in the view of all the neighbourhood ; and that promife made gravely to the father and the mother of this young woman, and which was veri fed by the defendant making his folemn oath of his fincere intention to carry that promife into circa, for he took out a licence for the aftual celebration of the marriage, which he could not have obtain ed without an oath, Rating, among other things, there was no juft impediment to the marriage ; which impediment there mutt be, if he had any reafon for the non-performance of his promife.— Under there circumflances, one evening when this young lady had been defired to fix the time of the marriage, the (aid, it was at his difcretion—he prefented her with a ring, and el& with the li cence : the thought it indelicate for her to keep the licence, becaufe the did not appear to diftruft him, as molt affuredly the did not. He left it with her, and he Paid it was immediately to be fol lowed up by marriage.. For this purpofe he in. vifed the young lady's mother to view his houfe, and to fee whether any alterations could be made, agreeably to the willies of the young lady. Now, it had been infinuated to him, that there was a defence to be let up, and that in fupport of it, there was to be fome attempt at !hewing that this young lady had (hewn a difpofition to expense, which the Defeo dant could not, confi ftently with prudence, undertake to indulge; that the was a perfoa of fpirit beyond the Ration of the Defen dant. He &sold put an end to that (pecks of defence, and all argument ari fi ng out of it : he fbould thew to the that the only carafe of the breach of the promife of marriage in this Cafe, after having gone this length, was the fudden whim of the Defendant, who had feen another Lady, and to whom he was afterwards married. He not only laid this Licence before the Plaintiff, but he bought alto a ring for the purpofe of celebrating the mar riage, as be bad laid already. But having thus fuddenly changed his mind, he was defirous of getting the Licence out of the hands of the Plaintiff, for the purpofe of robbing her of the evidence, as he thought, of the promife of the marriage. The manner in which this was effeEted was mean, and he was lorry to be obliged to Rate it : there was a manlinefs and a Gentleman-like way even of doing mifchief, which this Defendant had no idea ot, as appeared from his conduft in this cafe. He did not come forward and fay, " I am lorry I cannot perform my promife with you : I have determined on marrying another woman and therefore the licence for our marriage is of no ufe." He did not take that courfe ; he found he could not get the licence away without deceit : he therefore pre tended to make an apology for an abfence of Tome time after the purchafe of the licence. He pre tended that he wished the marriage fpeedily to take place ; and to put this young woman off her guard, he fent a metienger to her for the licence, —a very important grave charaEler, drefed up in the gravity of his office, the Beadle of the parills. This was dune to inveigle this young woman, and to make her give up the licence, under an idea that he was going so make arrangements for the celebration of the marriage. The Beadle came, with the grave afpeti which belonged to fo grave a charaCter, and it was enough to deceive any man or woman. He Paid he came from Mr. Mor rifon, and that he lhould be obliged to her for the licence, to prepare for the marriage ; upon which this poor young woman gave up the licence, and then the Defendant laid to himfelf, now that I have got the licence, I will never fee you again. He never did fee her, nor her mother, brother, or filler, or any body of her family : he left her with out apology, and deferted her without eaufe. Th;s cafe made out, the qatflion of da triages would be to be eonftdered, and upon that ' fubjed he would adopt the role laid down by the Learned Judge who prefided at this trial, and who refided at another at the other end of the town lately, the fixbltance of which was, that the Jury• would confider the rank of the parties, becaute what was compenfation to one defcription of pet-- fiats was nothing to another. Now he did not with to draw the Jury from that line of moderation which was the charatieriftic of Juice, at the fame time he was perfuaded that they ought t 3 be con fiderable in this calewhich the Jury would find required their greatelt attention. Wm. Andrews, brother to the Plaintiff, laid, he knew the Defendant ; he was a baker in Gof well-ftreet, and lived oppofite to him. The wit nefs's father was r.t3w dead ; he was a grocer.— The families had known each other many years, and vifited as neighbours. The Defendant had vifited for three years at their houfe as fuitor to his filler. Since his father's death lie had heard him fay, that he intended to marry her. In April or May WI he prefented his filter with a wedding ring. He aficed if it would do ? the faid, yes ! He then laid, there was nothing further to be done but to go to church; and added, when !hall that be? She anfwered, that is for you to fay.— Shall it be next week ? If you pleafe, was her anfwer. He had alto had frequent converfations with the Defendant refpe&ing his property. He had reprefented himfelf as having 'soul. per an num more than his bufinefs, which, he raid, he would fettle all on his lifter. Be told him that would be imprudent and foolifh. On crofs esami. nation he laid, he did not think the Defendant a fool.—He was not of the brightcft parts, nor of the moll Ready deportment. Ann Andrews, the mother of the young woman. gave the fame teftimony. She raw the ring on the table, though the was not prefent when it was fit(' given. She remarked that fhe had not been con jolted ; upon which the defendant alked if the would give her content? the faid the would. A licence was received by her daughter from Mr. Morrifon. In May, by his invitation, the went to fee his honk, and the expreffed her fatisfaftion at finding every thing better provided than the expeEted. On crofs examination the faid, that af ter he had fent the licence, he abßained from coin ing to the bottle for three weeks. It was then that the went to vifit his bode ; and her daughter and her took a walk with the defendant that evening. She denied that there was any quarrel. The Regifter of the Defendant's marriage with another woman was put in and read. joleph Hawes, the Beadle of St. Luke's, Rated, that by the dire&ion of Mr. Morrifon be fetched away the licence from Mrs. Andrews's. Mr. Guess, for the Defendant, contended that the contra& was refcinded between the parties ; and Rated, that after they had taken the walk, as Rated by Mrs. Andrews, finding they could not [ accommodate the difference, the licence was by mutual confent given up the next day. The cir cumftance of it's h aving been fetched away fo foon afterwards, he argued, was fufficient proof of the fgt. He faid, the marriage was alfo not approved of by any of the Defendant's friends, not from any imputation again(' the Plaintiff, but only becaufe the was thought to be too highly educated fur a limple Baker's wife: •To make out this cafe he called, Jane Gilmore ' Sifter to the Defendant, who (poke to a converfation between her and the Plain tiff on the day the licence was procured, in which the Plaint tff declared that the was incapable of at tending to the Baker's bufinefs, as the Witnefs's Mother Lad done. She alfo Rated, that MA An. Brews proyfed that the Withers fhould attend to the bitfinet , and The live in the dining room. So far from he: Brother having 1501. a year clear of his bufinefs, the did not believe he had a (killing more than would ray his debts. Mr. ERIK IN E made an able reply, in the condi of which, among(' many other things, he obferved, that the defence in this cafe had branched out un der a greater number of heads than was ufuid. a bad recommendation to it altogether. Defence the .figf, 44 That the Father of the Plaintiff dicd infolvent." He died in affluent circumftances. Defence the favall—'s The Defendant is not worth 5501. year."—lf it is not true that he k fo, he told a lie, and deceived another who believed him, and-ought to pay for it ; if he is worth that fum yearly, he can afford to pay. Defence the third—" That he is a feel"—fo he may, but that is no reafon why he lhould not be anfwerable for the injury he does another. Defence the jourr&-0 That he Is an odd man." You would be twelve add men, if that was a fufli cient reafon, for not finding a verdit againfk him. Defence the, yil,--" That he was either lick, or (hammed to be lick, when his attorney called upon him to take inftruaions for his defence." He is as well as either of you at prefent, but I apprehend he will not be fo after your verdict. Defence theixtb--44 That he is an'assorrerriaik lam" 1 fay, unlefs the Law of England has been changed fence aaion commenced, be is an ac 'countable man, and mull account according to your verdia. Defence the frondh—fi That he is a man suit& eat rhyme sr reafay." That defence he has undoubt edly made out, bat without caring for the rhyme, your verdia will, probably, reftore him to reafon. The Learned Counfel then went over all the ob fervations of Mr. Guess, and maintained, there was no relinquithment whatever of the contras in this cafe on the part of the Plaintiff; and conclud ed with obferving, that althodgb he did not with that the Jury &mid be fevere in the Damages they Ilsonld give, yet they were, as he had faid - in his opening, to endeavour to. imitate the Learned judge, now upon the Bench, in the trial of aun. ther cafe, who was to give and who was to receive . damages in this cafe. The Jury were fomc o f thera, probably, parents, and they would confider wha one of their daughters ought to have in fucl a cafe as this. That was the fum they ought to give. The Defendant deferred to Cofer, for his condo& was extremely improper. Mr. lattice La 'lsaac then fnmmed np the eve. (donee to the Jury. Vcrtlii' for the Plairtiff—Damsges