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I v LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE.CHANCRLLOWS COURT; MARCH 18. THE ATTORNLY-OZNERAL v. THE MCINNERS: COMPANY.. Mr:HEALD an 1 Mr. PHILLIMORE Were heard for the dele.idants. They chiefly relied upon the ivill of Sir Anirew Judde, in which the lands in Grace. church street, St. Mary Axe. St. Pancras, &c. were devised to the Skinners Company for the use of the Schoo., and also an annuity and other lands for the support of an Alms-house. The will adds that the surplu, nay be disposed of at the will and pleasure of . the Company. The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave his judgment in fa vour of the plaintiffs; he would • not, however, go farther at present, than to make a declaration that the Skinners' Company held the lands specified for the use of the Free School, in their character of Go verndrs of the possessions and revenues for the main tenance of the School, and that these lands were bound to the use of that School. Farther than this he could not go, because the increase of the property was too large to be dealt with by a Court of Justice, and it was a cite fit for the interposition of the Le g'slature. He referred it therefore to the Master to ,:squire and to state what is the present value of the tr.ds, and what was their value at the time of the !iling of the bill; also to approve of a scheme for die future regulation of the School, and for a fair increase to the salaries of the Master and Usher. In the cc:Rose of the hearing the VICE-CHANCEL• 161 asked to what uses the Company have applied th surplus revenue of this Chit' ? Mr. HEALD answered, that they applied it to cha ritable uses. ASSIZES. I'l I D3TONE, 91 A RCII 75. 'BREACH OF PROM IS O 1 MA IMIAGE. RICUA !IDS e. PUGH. This was an action by the plaintiff .for the beeach of a marriage promise entered into with her by the defendant. The following is an outline of the cir cumstances: The plaintiff' was a young lady of considerable personal beauty and mental endosvments, an t i one of the ten elildren of a respeetabie surgeon and apothe cary, residing at Scale, near Sevea Oaks, in this County ; and the defendant was a w:dcwer with two children, carrying on business at Sheerness as a linen dmver. The pi:U:1611 - i age was stated to he twenty seven, and that of the defendant a hirty•live years.— In the :»();::h of July, 1818, during the Election contest xvhicli took. place on Penenden-heath, the de f mdant happened to meet the plaintiff, for the first time, and was on the instant rarticic with her 1 er sonal chatans. tihc era', in company with her brother and a voting haly, Pylie; lie took occasion ta fall into cooveteattioa with her, as it should seem uninvited, the stihject of their discourse being the roetits of the then Candidates for election. There the acquaintance seemed to stop, but at the end of eight or ten days afterwards, as was stated by thel plahttiff's brother and her mother, he came over to t;aala, called at her father's house, and, without any prefatory introduction, pioffeted his hand in mar iige to I. l .iss Richards, and required to know v:hat potion it was in her father's power to bestow upon her? He was inf, med that the whole of her for tune was comprehended in her person; upon which li disclaimed the idea of all pecuniary considerations, .said be was esiamoured of her person, and repre seated that he seas in a very flourishing way of busi w.e,s, and possessed' brides A . . 700 per annum, hide psiisieat property, and was exteemely anxious that .• connubial knot should be tied forthwith, and that wishes should be ennmitiiiitcd to the young lade. At tin:: time Miss Richards was on a viii v. i.b sumac fiiends in Sasser, and her parciit, irnme &au:4 communicated to her ti.e riarer that had been made. In the meantime the kivfetiOant adchesseda lett:or to t: if: ia,i y in rather familiar terms, tendering her his hand anti fortune, and requiiin„ ; her, if dis eagaeed, to bless him in a rut: alihince.— Tne young I uly reeurlied to her father's house, and wrote the defendant a letter, from the dictation of 1-!,:r father, giving hirr to understand that his ad. dresses would rot be discouraged. Immediately af terwards the defendant again e:tme over to kale, and spent two whole days in the young lady's com pany, during which he was extremely anxious for the ieunediate consummation of his happiness; but not being then cat of mourning for his late wife, she ob jected to so hasty a proceeding, but consented, at his urgent request, that the day of solemnization should not be postponed beyond the ensuing Christ mas. In the meantime, however, he made it a con d;tion, that he should have the happiness of writing. to her, and that she should answer his correspondence. lie then took his leave, after having bespoken one of her sisters to act as bride ' s -maid- at *the nuptials, which was understood on all hands to take • place about Christmas. Between the time of his departure, which was about.the middle of August,' until the month of December, when the match was broken off, a most affectionate and ardent epistolary corre spondence was kept up between thelovers ; but to wards the end of the year, the defendant's letters altogether ceased, when, in consequence of a desire expressed by the father to know the cause, he re turned for answer, that his views towards Miss Richards were completely mistaken; that he had never contemplated anything more than the happi ness of corresponding with a woman of education and sentiment ; and that nothing was farther from his intention than marriage. In consequence of this surprising intimation, a professional Gentleman was consulted, who wrote to the defendant on the subject of his proMise to the plaintiff, and in answer to that letter, he assigned as a reason for his conduct, that Miss Richards had, in one of her recent letters, inti mated to hint, that a younger and more worthy rival than the defendant had been pay in:*; her considerable attention, had praised her beauty, and that she dlubted her power to resist his importunities to be stow her hand and heart upon him. These were the most prominent circumstances of the case on the part of the plaintiff. A volume of the defendant's letters was given in evidence. Mr. ADOLPH us addressed the Jury for the de fendint ; after which . the Jury retired for about half an hour, and returned a verclict for the plah l titi— Dameges, 1:700. Moe Stepney. a youth aged ID, was indicted [ cur uttering a forged £1 Bank of England note, at Plumsted, on the 10th October last. • The prosecution was conducted by Mr. GRANBY, Mr. Serjeant TARDY, the COMMON SERJEANT, and Mr. Bowaiq. The prisoner was without. Counsel. It appeared in evidence, that on the day men tioned in the indictment, -the prisoner and another young man, named Curwen, tendered the note in question to Mrs. Henderson, The ,landlady of the Red Lion public-house, at Shooter's-hill, in.payment for some bread and cheese, amounting to two shillings,, and received the change. After they were &one, circumstances of suspicion arose, and one of the Bow-street patrole, who happened to be on duty in the neighbourhood, was sent after them, and having taken them into custody, they were searched. The prisoner threw from him a piece of paper, which being picked up, was found to be a forged one pound note. Both prisoners were taken before a Magistrate, and were afterwards lodged for safe custody in the parish watch-house, from which, how ever, they contrived to break out and make their escape. On the 16th of November the prisoner was again apprehended in 'Middlesex, and on being then searched, he threw from him another forged note. The other man, Curwen, has not yet been retaken. The prisoner, who represented himsttlf to be a maker of mats, stated in defence, that lie had re.' ceived the note in question from a gentleman, who had purchased four mats of him on the day men tioned in the indictment. Mr. Baron GA nnow summed up the evidence, and the Jury found the prisoner—Guilty—Death. EDR+T URGH, MAPCII 11. The following are the appointments for the ensuing Spring Circuits, or Assizes,, in Scotland: NORTIL—The Toss Jusilcs CLERK and Lord Pnnitri.i.v. Inverness, Tuesday, :lpril 25. I Perth, Saturday, May 6. :Aberdeen, Turf:lay, ? lay 2. J. A. MAnottocusr, FAq. A.D. SOUTH.--.1.(1111 ILANTAND and Lord hI/LADOWISANV. Ayr, 111(mclay, April 10. I Jelburgh, Thursday, April ea . Dumfries, SattirCay, April 15. 11. If. DRUMMOND, Esq. A. I). and Lord :iceman. Invernr33, 111onday, April t 7. I Glaigow,Weduelday, Stirli: s, S.:Wrday, April 91.. .1 J. 'icor?, Esq. A.l). • Friday, Lord PiTmit.r.irheard a debate at great length on the action of declarator, pursued at the instance of the Officers of State, against the Ear? ofl. HALDINGTON, for having it found and declared, that his Lordship, as Keeper of the Royal Parks sur rounding the Palace of Holyrood-house, has nu right nor title to quarry or carry away the locks from Sa-. lisbury Crags;s. The SOLICITOR-6 EN ERA L Contended that he IFES no right to do so. Mr. CRANSTOUN, for the d...sfens'er,Thaintai.ied, that he had a right to quarry the rocks, aid tt , e the whole grounds as he saw fit. As t'.-2 ca..e involved many points of law, as well as tights of servitude, wherein the inhabitants of Edin burgh had a first intere s t, Lord PITMILLY ordered memorials to be given in by the first box-day.in the ensuing vacation. Bow-writ arr.—Yesterday, Edward A/den-man, late a-se:ter in the General Post-Office, unciZrwent a se .cond exatnination, charged with stealing Bank-notes to the amount of £35, from a letter. The prisoner was fully committed. William Panin,gion and Rosina, his wife, were committed, the former for attempting to shoot May hew, the conductor of a party of the Patrole, and the latter on a- number of charges of uttering forged Bank of England Notes, in the neighbourhood of Hun&;erford Market. Tows HALL,SOUTHWARx.—Yesterday WO young girls, residing at Dock-head, came to the Justice room to ask by what means they could recover the sum of £6O fiorn a woman named Paling? which had come into her possession under circumstances of a very extraordinary nature. —ln the course of last week, a statement appeared in most of the Pa pers, representing that a boy named Paling had dis covered a parcel containing £5 notes, to the amount cl 12 , ?0, in a !,lied lately belonging- to an eccentric old Gentleman, named Proaper (since dead), but ivhich sh:al is now in the possession of the applicants. With this old Gentleman lived young Palings grand• father, as an assistant ; they generally wot ked to etile.- in a shed at• the back of the house, and at length became such old cronies, that the one partoilk of the eccentricity of the other ; they were seldom, if ever, asunder, till the latter was attacked by a dangerous illness, and went into the Workluith,e ; here lie lingered for a considerable time, and, in thei interim, old Mr. Proaper died suddenly, and on an examination of hii effects, was f0u.!..1 to the astonish.' ment of his relatives, to be very poor, considering his abstemious mode of living. It seemed_ that on his death bed the other old man (whose name is IVitter son), threw out some hints respecting money, which he said was secreted in this shed ; but his ravings were atti ibuted to the disordered state of his brain, by all except the boy, who, when an opportunity presented itself, searched the place, and found the sixty pounds in question, most part of which he laid out on the girls in Dover-street, in one week, and the rest, by the activity of Welfare, a Constable, l was recovered, and given to the boy's mother.— The report of the hidden treasure flew like light ning through the Borough, and came to the ears of , Mr. Proaper's relatives, who were filled - with sue prise, and determined to have a second and minute search throughout the lucky shed. Accordingly a period was fixed for the investigation, and the appli cants, attended by a select few, went forth to explore the place, not doubting but they should find plenty of wealth. The fatt justified the eager anticipation of the good neices, as scarcely a board was taken from the flooring that did not exhibit to view bundles of notes or bags of guineas I—making in the whole a larga sum. After many deliberations, it was ad mitted on all hands, that the whole of the wealth was hidden at different times by the deceased Mr. Proaper, who probably entrusted his secret to his old com panion and fellow workman, Witterson, and that it ought of course to fall to his surviving relatives.--. Full of this idea, they proceeded in a body to Mrs. Paling, demanding the £6O as a matter Of right, and 'making no secret of what they had found in the shed. The object of the present application was to know if there was any cripunal process by which Mrs. Paling could be proceeded against. The Alderman.was de cidedly of opinion that there was not ; that they could only proceed by civil actien ) .and even then with Jittle chance of tucccs. BANK OF ENGLAND. A General Court of Proprietors of this Corporation was held yesterday, for the purpose of considering the amount of the Dividend on their Capital Stock for the Half-year ending the sth of April next ; as also the expediency of presenting an Address of Con dolence on the death of the late KING, and of Con gratulation on his MAJESTY'S Accession to the Throne. At twelve o'clock precisely, the Directors entered the Court-room, when the Governor, after reading a minute, agreeably to the usual form, of the proceed ings at the last General Court, submitted a proposi tion that the Half-yearly Dividend should be Five per Cent. This being agreed to unanimously, it was also resolved that Warrants for the payment of the same should he issued on the 6th of April next. The Governor then, on the part of the Directors, suggested the propriety of that Court testifying, by an Address to the Throne, its loyalty and attaci ment to the House of Brunswick, and its deep sense of the many virtues and exalted character of their late Sovereign. As this motion appeared to give general satisfac. tion, an Address to the reigning KING WPS immedi ately read and agreed to, without any observations. It •was then ordered that the Address should, be signed by the Directors, and sealed with the common Seal of' the Corporation. The Governor and Deputy Governor were likewise requested to communicate with the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, with regard to the most conveaient mole of pre eating it. The Meeting then adjourned till . Tuesday, the II dr of A pril next. XING'S Last night, Madame Matta took her Benefit Con cert at this Theatre. After BEErnovEN's fine Over ture to Prometheus, and HORSILLEY'S Glee, By Celia's Arbour, incomparably sung, BELLAMY came for ward to announce, that 64 though Madame Ma n A bad a severe cold, she would make her best effort to sing." This once celebrated woman was then led to the S:agc; she is now upwards of seventy years old, yet her appearance exhibited but slight dzcay ; .rer step was Mtn, and her air erect. She had been at no time handsome, and of course years have not added to her attractions, but her neatness and ma tronly grace were tho%e of a . Tess mature age. She sang Gut s uctufs recitative and air, mio term. Her voice, once so captivating, retains a great por tion of its facility, and much of its expros,ive style ; butts sweetness and volume are gone. She laboured through the effort with pain, and the applause, which were lavi,hed on its conclusion were obviously less those of pleasure than of respect. In the second Act, she sang Ilaannt.'s air, What tho' I trace, with ra ther more power ; but the fine talent has perished, and Madame MARA milut derive her fame front the praise of those who heard her thirty years since, and then heard the most ei;pressive singer that the Conti nent ever sent to England. The audience, we regret to say, were not numerous.—Amongst the great singers of the last century, Madame MARA held the highest rank; nature had invested her with very ex traordinary powers, and to these endowments she su peradded the still more valuable qualities of a most cot rect taste, and a thorough knowledge of her art. She shone with equellplendour in the florid style which, in her day, prevailed at the Opera and in Concerts, and in the more chaste and grave music of the Oratorio she was not confined to any one school, whether in the Italian, German, or English, her supe riority was confessed, and she was as much admired in Paris as in London. 'Madame Want. first arrived in England in the year 1781, and sang at the cele brated Commemoration of HANDEL, where she con firmed her reputation. At this period she was in the prime of life,. both physical and professional, for she was born at Cassel in I7ZiO. She continued to held her high situation in this country for many years, and visited most of the provincial towns, thus sptead ing more widely her fame, and enlarging very con siderably her fortune. She then went back to the Continent, but returned to England about eighteen or twenty years since, and :gain appeared before the, Public, though not with so much eclat as before.— She then retired, finally as it was supposed, to Mos cow, whence she was driven, at its destruction by the bold Russian Governor, having, it is said, lost in that conflagration, property to a large amount ; and this is the reason ascribed for her re-appearance last night in this Metropolis, after thelapse of an in terval so formidable to a person in her profession, and at her time of life. Ca aniFf. , —The Gloucester Journal says, " Amongst all the Election Contests which have ever come to our knowledge, we hardly remember so extraordinary a train of circumstances as have occurred on the present occasion at Cardiff. On the dissolution, Lord J.Stuart, who had represented Cardiff and its contributory 80. roughs in the last Parliament, announced that he should not again offer himself for the Representation; and it was immediately made known that Mr. Ludlow, the Barrister, was to be supported by all the principal parties. The Burgesses of several of the &roughs, anxious for the continuance of Lord J. Stuart, as their Representative, rose almost en masse, and entered into strong Resolutions, entreating him again to come for ward, and offering to bring him in free of expense. Lcrd James, however, it seems, apprehensive of inter fering with the wishes of his brother, the Marquis of Bute, declined the invitation ; and Mr. Ludlow went to Cardiff, assured of the support, not only of the Agent of the Marquis, but also of the other great leading interests. But though these interests were pledged to•him in writing, it seems that, for some reason or other, the agents altered their minds ; and on Mr. Ludlow's arrival, he found that another Can didate (Mr. Wynd. Lewis) was supported by those very parties, on the assurances of whose pledge he had offered himself to the Electors. These circum stances Mr. Ludlow explained in detail, previously to the commencement of the Election on Thursday ; and the narrative produced such a burst of enthu siasm in his favour from the greater part of the inde pendent burgesses, that he determined to persevere in opposition to those interests which had been so with drawn from him. The polling accordingly com menced, and has been continued with great spirit.— The eyes of the County of 'Glamorgan are anxioesly turned to this extraordinary contest, as the result will probably lead to the opening the Representation of the Boroughs, which have for many years been deemed a sort of heir-loom to the Castle of Cardiff:" SPORTING MTELLiGtVCE. BETTING AT TA TTEII SALL'S YESTERDAY. Odds on Races to come, with the variatiqt:s. RIDDLBSWORTII. 9 to 2 agst Mr. Wortley's co.:lt I s to I ..gst 5 to 1 agst Selina EY. 13 to 1 art Prothertoßlucher 113_to 1 asst F.ncltrce 18 to 1 agst Duke K 5. 5 to 1 agst the Sorcery I lii to 1 agit }lam ST. LEGER.--1S to 1 agst I..tr....l'icrst's gr. c. CAPTAIN BARCLAY'S CURIOUS WAGER,:fO LIVE BY I3EGGING, FOR SIX WEEKS. Dr.l: to 1 2gst AtbUttiS 12 to 1 a b -st Sailor • 30 to 1 aga brother to Whisker • OA Extract of a letter from Dornoch, dated :larch 9, ItSO :7 "In passing through this town, yesterday, Cartaiii Lianctmr was arrested, and carried before Bailie Nr.i.nzot., who commitici. him to prison as a vagrant, for a wtek, during t:hich he 13 to be kept to hard labour. When Captain B. WAS carried Is-,..fure. the . he stated to him who he was, and the reason he h:1 for travelling in the way he was siring, but, front his wretcht..l ap pearance, he was not beaved. From the r,:niottine.s of tl.l l, place from Kineardineshire, it is likely that the worthy B..iast had never heard of the Captain's former singular exploits." SPA:MING. Cyrus Danis, from Bristol, had a be::::fit at the Tennis ' in Windmill-street, yesterday, a , :d it was betfr atteadca/ thm could have been expect,nl, cm:sick-ring that the Electitn:s arc on. The principal setbv-to was het•.--ren c:ndid..tes for ing, who reiSiatted e:e aad in "ahattlaric,.-; but as they are net known 1.1 tLe prize-ring, their perforipa.:::ati are not worth recording. Larkin and Ilie.man 7thf gas-light man).—The latter set-to . rA the request of one cf thr principal t.tnatein s, ant! he v:ent to work with much deter:..-nation and conrage, but he v:as out weighted. Fie made some hits-tell, but liNt rc-caved heavily about the nob, more than two for his one, and La...kin had most decidedly the best of it; hr :lit his game cdversary assay from. hint in style. Ruudill and Dal made a se.ntiso, set-to,.and drew down much applaazs..., by tlf_ir fist: hits andyisrrh:s. Ettrie and had ri-.1 , c1a the to t of this bout; and wilt the exceptioa ui twice or thrice, CM . ..CC* lea hand at the bead was parried, ac.d he v:Js renti:l; rcturtn-d open; and at other •tirnes Burn worked him into a corner, a-.d • gave him pepper. Carter's blows were chiefly short. .Dacis closed t!le sports. in a set-to with a. ituriic freer Chelsea, named .Theise: he did as he liked with him, andpwrd • him in the las: ronnd. • _ _ A ;;;;.tc 1 .1;;.;;;:.;(ic for C.i:vcr and Hiclinan to F.ght for a purs.: of sc, guinras, ..luetin and Cat b:tge, ovit Tuesday week. • OeNsetaATons.—The a:rangements deter mined on for the trial of the Cato-street Conspiratu!s are as follow :—The Grat:d Jury ti.r the County.of • will be sitnin:o, ed to the 6essions-itouK., in ('lerkenwell, on the '27th itt , t. Two of the Judges (we believe Chief-Justices ABBoTT and DALLAS). V.. ill be present, when the S l .eci..l Commission will opeiled, and the charge delivered to the Grand Jar:, alter which the Judges will adjoa: a the Commi'ssien to the IGth of April.- - The (3 and Jury 'wit' proceed immediately with the maniration of the numerou.; witnesses, and, as soon as the Bills are found, ttoticcs of trial will be served on the dial-tent p:isoner, printed lists of the witnesses to be proauced them, according to Act of Pin-liument. Tlie:tririeCiat Commission wiht: e re-opened, pr?fornzet, .:at Bailey, on Monday, the 10th of April but•atthe Sessions of Gaol Delivery commence on the is supposed that the Commission will again be adjiiique;.l over 'the Sessions, so that the .State Trials, it all pi-o bability, will not take place Wu; e the 20th of-Apri!. CORBETT has published a long account of a pri-' vate examination which a person named ("tcraltri7, a shoemaker, residing at No. 2, Heathcock-court, in the Strand, underwent lately before Mr. Bit:l4x, at Bow -street, of which examination chambers own reporter. He admitted to the I .ti:igist:iVee,• he says, that he knew Preston, Brunt,and Tiiistleti:Ood; but not Hall ; but that he had had some difeverico :with Thistlewood on account of his bringing a inr.n named Edwards, and two drunken.rnen to 110 horse, who talked in a way which led hint to consider Ed wards a spy. According to his account, he was fre quently going to state what Edwards said, bat WAS always stopped by the Magistrate. He stoutly denied giving any ball-cartridges to Hall, or. that lre at tended any private `lettings. He never heard This tlewood say anything against Ministers. He met him at a public-house in Gray's Inn-lane ; but on that occasion he says, " Thistlewood did not speak to me, nor Ito him. I told you bef9re we were, not friends, in consequence of•ltis bringing Edwards and the drunken Irishmen to .rny house, and in conse quence of the horrible language that Edwards made use of. I never liked Edwards—he was a bad cha racter. I saw Thistlewood on Christmas-Day, and told hiin I would not suffer such persons as Edwards and the drunken men to be brought to my:house. Thistlewood said, that. Edwards brought the drunken. men. I told Thistlewood that I was sure Edwards • was nothing but a spy. Tne dreadful language he used at my house, convinced me—(We cannot in sett the evil expressions which Edwards used, they were nothing inferior to the toast .given by the monster Castks )—that he was a spy.—Thistle wood told me I was mistaken in the person, for he was an honest man. I fold Thistlewood th'at it would be well if he was not deceived in hith."— Magistrate—" You never was at any private meet ings ?"---Chambers—" No, L never was; I never kept any secrets, and if they had, any, they never trusted me with them. When I told Thistlewood that Edwards was a spy, he said he, thought so once, but he was satisfied to the contrary." He xias.then discharged. BIRTHS. 6 At Paisley, the Loth inst. ihel;oly of Captain 'Probion, Regiment, of a son. The 11th inst. the Lady of the lion. Captain Dawson, B.N. of a daughter. MARRIED. At Kensington Church, on the Ist inst. by the Rev. Mr. Tay lor, Alexander Jameson, Esq. t• Miss Frances Thumle. The loth inst. Captain Robert Anderson, fist Regiment, to Charlotte Erskine, elded daughter of the late J. Y. Wade, M.D. of the Hon. East India Company's Service. • DIED. Monday, in Gower-street, aged 25, Mr. William Oliver, fate of the Ilon. East India Company's service, after a severe i kegs of 'two years and nine months. At Edinburgh, oa the 4th Inst. Miss Grace Brown, elates: daughter of the late Captain A. Bream, R.N. of fohnstonburn. Feb. 29, at Kirkaldy, James Cruikshank Mylre, youngest•soa of Major Mylne, 79th Regiment. At Demerara, John Emperor • Willson, many years a Om islander of vessels trading to that and the adjacent colonies ; and, ' about the same time, his two eldest sons, Langton and Joseph,. aged seventeen and sixteen. HIGH-WATEkt. at LONDON lIRIDG EC TO-btOilltQW. • Mcrning - • • 28 rnytutecafter Afternoon - - 4 B 4B 4 LONDPV ; ranted and published by Lim. ib7P7h Robots • • • risco, 'retrylo•Bar. - ,g