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Explain how you have been sworn—whit you mean by being sworn? The Sotterron-Gratzsai object ri to the queetioo k but it was pressed and allowed , When they took down my dePositiOn they asked me mind io. What do you mean by being sworn?—Upon the conduct of her Royal Highness. What do you mean by " Juranentt," which you nsed?—.. Upon the depositions I gave before Codazzl there was an oath. lle.cri'oe all you did ?—I deposed to all the things they asked me, and said all I had seen ; and upon this the oath was. The question was repeated to the witness, who evidently mis understood the meaning of the Interpreter. The Interpreter netitted the word " in the question, upon which Mr. Ilaoucitast peremptorily desired that he should corasct his translation. 'lle answer was" The deposition." How was the deposition taken?—lt was this which I said had seen. Did you do anything ?—I don't understand. What did you do when you took the oath 7—The deposition of the services I had done her Royal Highness. Was there a book there P—No. Was there a cros 7—No ; 1 believe not. Did you kiss a book or a cross?—No. The SOLICITOR.-GINERAL. Did you, when you took the oath, hold up three of your fingers? )Ir. DENMAN objected to the question. The witness had ex plained that he had not taken an oath. Mr. Wrims.—The witness did not kiss the book nor the cross, and I shall not allow hint to be misled. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the question might be put in this form.—When the witness took an oath, what did he do? Mr. BROUGHAM said, the witness, who did not appear very acute, when asked on taking an oath what he did, immediately began a long statement of all that he did, and all the Princess did, and all he knew. The Soileiroa-Geszaat complained of his Learned Friends opposite always complaining of a question when it did not suit their own purpose. The LO It CHANCELLOR.—Mr. Solicitor, I understand that Mr. Brougham does not hold up his hand against your hold jog up your three fingers. SOLWITOR-GENERAL to witness.—When you took an oath, did you hold up your three fingers ?—.No, Sir. Mr. BROUGHAM complained that the Interpreter, instead of giving the answer of the witness, " No, Sir," proceeded to ques tion hint. At the time you took the oath did you hold up your three fingers ?---114: told me to swear to tell the truth, but I made no sign. When he told you to tell the truth, what did you say ? Mr. BROUGHAM objected to the question, and was supported by the LORD CHANCELLOR, who said the question might be put by their Lordships afterwards. The Sottemaa-Gxeeaat. was defending the question, when DZ:OI.*.N said, he could not sutler his Learned Friend thus to lecture their Lordships. The LORD CHANCELLOR.—No Counsel shall lecture their Lordships, Mr. Denman ! We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday last being the Anniversary of the death of MARIA ANTOINETTE, late Queen of France, the :tine was observed as a day of religious commemo ration.—On Tuesday, the English Ambassador, in a private audience, returned to the King of FRANCE a congratulatory answer from the King of ENGLAND to his notification of the birth of the Duke of Bove • DEAUX. I'M. a Ft:sm.—Monday, nothing done—• Tuesday, Five per Cents. 75 fr. German Papers have arrived, but there is no striking novelty or importance in the facts which they communicate; For many days it has been con jectured, that if Austria had not wholly laid aside, she had at least suspended, her plans of attack upon the national independence of Naples, Baron Fnunotir having received orders to distribute his infantry re giments in quarters within the frontier of the Aus trian territory•. Letters were said to have been writ ten by the king of NAPLES to the Emperor FRANCIS, deprecating his interference in the domestic affairs of the SJuth of Italy ; but those who wished to defeat the purpose of his Neapolitan Majesty's remonstrance, on behalf of himself and his subjects, asserted that these letters had been forged. 'llle follmiing article appears in the German Papers . Vieux., OCT. 7.—The Austrian Observer of yesterday, after giving an account of an article in the Times respecting the courier Brous, detained on account of some forged Bank-notes, nd hiving also given Lord Castlereagh's explanation of the ff.ti r, adds in a note: The Editors of the Austrian Observer re authorised by the Enibauy of the Kisc of GREAT BRITAITY this Court to declare, that the article in the Times, above al lud.:l at, is nothing but a scandalous tissue of falsehood and " New York Papers to the 14th, and Halifax to the ''l:t of September, arrived this morning. Extract of a Letter from Baranquilla, of July 18: " The head-quarters of the ludependent Army was at Tur f•vceo, and the Spaniards were reduced to the walls of Cartha- - .la and St. Martha.. Commodore Brion has taken the whole ; the Spanish flotilla in the River Magdalena, amounting to twcuty-seven gun-boats, most of them carrying from twelve to t :.hteen twenty-four-poanders, together with an immense park of r..ss artillery howitzers, mortars, &c. also a fine battering train, tumplete; he has been joined by the army of Antioquia, and `. ; 7.00 of the Army of the North ; and 2,000 more were on their *.arch, under the President Bolivar, as well as 1,000 Regulars !rum Antioquia, so that Brion calculated on having 4,000 men, 1 elides 5,000 blifitia. All the I'rovinces rase in arms, on his entering, to a man; and the Army under General Urdaneta is operating on St. Martha, Rio de la Hadar, and blarsaito." FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. E. B. Davenport, Esq. at Fenton's Hotel, St. Jarnes's-streep from his seat, Capesthorne, Cheshire. _ DEPARTURES. Viscount Normanby. on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire at his seat at Chiswick. Henry Seymour, Esq. to his seat in Bedfordshire' IL Wellesley, Esq. M.P. to Brighton. • The Honourable Geor g e Latish, to Carlisle. Lady Caroline Lamb, to lkocket Hall. Lord and Lady Gwynn' and family intend leaving town on Tuesday next, for the Continent. Sir ROBERT LAWLBY, Bart. who has resided for several years on the Continent, is *turned to his fine seat of Canwell Hall, Warwickshire. Yesterday Viscount and Viscountess GrtANVILL . entertained the Duke and Duchess of 13itAtmoar, Lard GRANVILLE SOMERSET, and a select party, with a dinner, at their house in Bruton-street, Berke lq-squar e. The Duke of GRAFTON gave an elegant entertain ment on Thursday to the Duke of RUTLAND, Earl SrANItorL, EA I". o f —ll AT II AM, Earl Of BRADFoltll, Lord SUFFIELD, Lord COMPTON, Mr. G. SEysioun, &c. at his re s idence in Clarges-street, • t • Extract of I letter from Chili, dated gantiago.di Chili, June, 1820:—V Patriot bayonets will, etc lo ng , irrevocably fix the destiny of this lasi Penin sula in Peru. Six thousand troops, headed by Ge neral San Martin, will sail in a very few days; and, except in the -immediate neighbourhood of Lima, will meet with no Spanish force capable of opposing the slightest resistance. All there is ripe for a revo lution; and the explosion will inevitably take place the very moment a rallying point is offered to the innumerable Patriots who have solicited the aid of this army, and for whom 10,000 stand of arms are carried in the fleet, and Officers to discipline and command them. The Spaniards have, in all Peru, from 12,000 to 18,000 troops, but scattered over that immense country, and for the greater part separated from the rest by a distance of many hundred leagues, and roads and chains of mountains almost impassable. A' force of from 3,000 to 5,000 men, is also about to march from Cordova, via Tucuman, Salta, and Jujuy, in order to attack Upper Peru (Potosi, Co chabamba, La Paz, &c.) The Spaniards are in a most critical situation, ready to split amongst them selves were they not prevented by the fear of the Patriots, and an immense Black population, eager to avail itself of aay opportunity of shaking off its chains. A system of espionage, both public and private, has been established, which has cast a ge neral gloom over all society, and almost destroyed all intercourse and confidence between man and man. Many of.the most respectable Creole inha bitants are under confinement ; the Viceroy has found it necessary to have recourse to the most violent ex; tortions, in order to gratify the increased avarice of his satellites, who, foreseeing that their harvest is al most at an end, are labouring to make a provision for the storms about to male, and endeavour by largesses to secure the fidelity of the few natives who still adhere tothe cause of Spain. Commerce is at a stand still, since no Spanish flag is seen in these seas, and all intercdurse with the mother coun try at an end. The enemies to South American in dependence have, doubtless, triumphed not a little on viewing the •unfortunate scenes which have of late been acted at Buenos Ayres. Here all is tran quil : and in spite of the bad example almost inva riably set by Spanish rulers, whose policy never went further than to meet the necessity of the moment, and attain their object by any means whatever, the Chili Government is fully aware of, and acts on the principle that vac' faith is the only basis of national prosperity ; and the people have wholly laid aside the jealousy of foreigners and foreign improvement, which, although in the- heart of Europe, has kept Spain so many centuries behind its neighbours. With regard to commerce, what invariably happens whenever a new field is offered to British speculation has occurred here: the market was in the first place glutted, and many lost money; consequently all were disheartened, and sent nothing more; now, really all those goods have been consumed, and many articles are very much in request, and enormously dear. The wine drinkers are quite disconsolate, com pelled to make use of that of the country, which is very indifferent, since no other is to be procured. The Prueba, Spanish frigate, late consort of the St. Elmo, 74, which has doubtless foundered at sea, has availed itself of the opportunity of running from Lima to Guayaquil with a convoy and reinforcement for that garrison, whilst the fleet remained at Val paraiso preparing for the expedition. It is rather singular that even the failure of the rocket attack' on the shipping at Callao, and the late disturbances at Buenos Ayres, }lave produced an effect beyond measure favourable to the object of the expedition, since it - has lulled the Viceroy of Peru into an opinion of conscious security, such as to prevent his taking those vigorous measures of defence which he other wise most undoubtedly would ; and indeed he has of late disbanded two corps (a species of permanent militia) at Lima." Yesterday forenoon, the Duke DEcAzes arrived at his house in Portland-place, and proceeded to the Foreign Office, and after paying several visits, re turned in the afternoon to his seat at Harrow. Yesterday the Earl and Countess of DERBY enter tained the Earl and Countess FonTEEtuE' Earl and Countess Of DARNLEY, Lord and Lady KING, Mr. CREEVhY, M.P. Mr. G. H. BENNETT, M.P. and a select party of distinguished personages, with a din ner, at their house in Grosvenor-square. _ _ The German Papers which have arrived notice the extraordinary strictness that is observed by the Aus triin Government respecting the passage of travellers to and from Italy. It would seem that the Austrian Cabinet are apprehensive of some secret conspiracy against their power in Italy, for they not only endea vour as much as possible to interrupt the freedom of communication, bushave denounced very severe pe nalties within their Italian dominions against all per sons who may be connected with the political asso ciation of the Carbonari. A Neapolitan Officer, who had travelled into Germany for the avowed purpose of observing the mode of military organization there practised, had arrived at Stutgard, but no sooner was his arrival known to the Government, than he was ordered to depart. In addition to the reward of £lOO offered for the apprehension of Fletcher, alias Franklin, by Mr. PEARSON, on behalf of the Queen's Plate Commit- tee, a reward of £2OO is offered by Government. — Mr. HAMON, the principal colleague of Mr. PEAR SON, applies daily at Bow -street, to learn if any in telligence has been received from the Continent re specting Fletcher. It is supposed, from. the circum stance of no communication having been received from Vickery or Mr. PEA nsort, that they have gained some knowledge of the route taken by Fletcher. Covqr-Ga Rolm—Last night a young Lady ap peared an the character of Mrs. Haller, in The Stranger. Hei• person has not that matronly appear ance which the character seems to require ; her voice, however, is deep, with good modulation. She seems to understand the character much better than she was capable of executing it. Allowance ought, however, to be made for a first appearance before a Metropoli tan audience. Mr. C. KEMBLE played the Stranger, ' for the first time, with much success. After the play, a new Farce, called A Race far a Wife, was per formed. It is diverting, and made au audience dis posed to good humour laugh heartily, and was as heartily applauded. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: • FISFEBET 4 ON RACES._ OCTOBER IC The BIIV* Cep,ieids imp In gm*, fur.huntesisilsy . a Subsc#lo - of 10p each. Four miles. Captain James's p. c. Harlequin - - - 1 1 Mr. Hooeywood's Farmer Ones - - ' - 4 2 Sir H. codes Nimrod - - 2 3 1 Apgar tubers maned, but they an rag qui the wrong side of the post,lind were distanced.-0 to 1 against the winner. • v Wks Plate of *Ma: Mr. Giles's Wrench - - Mr. Goddatd's Richtuoad Lass Mr. Jones's c. by Haphazard Mr. Head's Columbine • - 1 1 - 3 2 - 2 5 4 dr Seven to fear against Wrench. • OCTOBER 19. Sweepstakes of 10gs each. (Six Subscribers.) Mr. Duval's Sacchi - Captain Jones's Penelope Mr. Marsden's Lot Two Mr. Ilarrison's Out-and-Oot - Six to 4 apt Out-and-Out, and 2 to 1 apt the winner. A Plate of E5O did not fill. . A 3 4 Captain Campbell's Tomahawk, est. 101 b. beat Mr. Blake's Hester, Bst. 101b.-2 to 1 on the mare. The Downs were attended by as much genteel company, of both sexes, as usual. Mr. MEYNELL:S gallant pack of fox-hounds, now hunt regularly three times a week, and have already had some excellent bursts. Amongst the last arrivals at Buxton are— The Countts; of Meaborough, Hon. Miss K. Lowther, Sir Robert and Lady Meorson, Davies Davenport, Esq. 11. P. Coamiellor Lowndes, Mr. Mn. and the Misses Best, Mr. Rush and family, Mr. Mrs. and the Miss.!. Wright, Mrs. Granville, Bev. Bernard Port, Rev. Mr. Whalley, Mr. and Mrs, Stokes and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chanuellor, and Mr. C. Greciavray. Thursday evening, pursuant to advertisemeut, a considerable number of persons, acting as law clerks, met in the Apollo Assembly Rooms, Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, to consider an Address to the QUEEN. The room was filled before eight o'clock, at which time the Chairman and Committee com menced the business of the evening. Several speeches were made. A. series of Resolutions were then put and agreed to, as was also an Address to her MA JESTY, and a Deputation was appointed to carry the pprposes of the Meeting into effect. A poor fellow, who for some time past has been employed in the neighbourhood of High-street, Saint Giles's, carrying a board with a placard stuck upon it, inscribed " BEWARE OF MOCK AUCTIONS !" was the other day seized with his board, and carried to durance vile, in consequence of standing opposite the door of an auction room in the abote street. He was taken to Marlborough-street, with a view to extract from him who his employer was; but he would not tell, and all that could be forced from him to every question was, "Non mi ticordo." What's your name? —Non mi ricordo. Who is your employer ?—Non mi ricordo. There being no evidence against him of a breach of the peace; lie was discharged. A novel charge was brought to St. Giles's watch house on Wednesday night, in the person of a most respectable linen-draper's wife, habited as a spruce male dandy, with his cane ! The Lady, it seems, took a whim, which was nothing new, of seeking the company of her own sex in male attire ; and having made advances towards one of the loose order in Long-acre, who, after some conversation, attacked her dandy gallant with vollies of abuse, and others of the frail'sisterhood joining in the attack, the watch man took both to the watch-house. The charge did not come before the Magistrate, as the husband ap peared, and stated his wife to be subject to fits of mental derangement ! On Wednesday evening, JOSEPH WILFRED Pao miss, Esq. the late Sheriff, with Mr. THOS. WAKELEY, of Argyll-street, and two other Gentlemen, were standing conversing at the corner of Fleet Market, ; opposite New Bridge-street, when a female of re spectable deportment modestly requested one of the Gentlemen to permit her to stand behind him, for the purpose of avoiding a Gentleman whom she did not wish to meet. Her request was instantly complied with ; almost immediately a young man passed, and the female thanking the Gentleman for his kindness, ran up to the young man, and having linked her arm in his, they walked off together. The singularity of the circumstance excited the suspicion of Mr. PAR= KINS and Mr. WAKELEY, who requested their friend to ascertain whether he had been robbed, when, on searching, to his surprise be found the modest appli cant had picked his pocket of a silk handkerchief. Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, an alarm ing fire broke out in the house of Mr. DODSWORTH, coal and provision-merchant, of Brook -street, Rat cliffe. Mr. DODSWORTH, the servants, and three children, got out at a back window, and crawled in a state of nudity along the roofs of some back premises into an adjoining lane; Mrs. D§DSWORTH, who was put to bed only a few days, was much lacerated while attempting to escape through a sky-light, with her infant in her arms. The house, with all the fur niture and stock in trade, was in a short time con sumed. The flames communicated to a shed in the rear, which was alsodestroyed, with a valuable horse arid dog. A numerous and alarming assemblage of armed men having, on the night of the 28th of September last, appeared at Georgestown, in the County of Waterford, and committed outrages of various de scriptions, such as firing a number of shots, particu larly at a man of Mr. BARRON'S, and making pri soners of Mr. BARRON and five of his men, and de taining them in custody the, whole of the night, during which time some hundreds of armed men were employed in removing cattle, corn, &c. off the premises, the High Sheriff, in compliance with a Requisition for that purpose, convened a County Meeting, to be held at Dungarvon, on the 16th inst to take into consideration the most effectual means for preventing a recurrence of similar outrages. We find, from some of the Irish Papers which were received yesterday, that the people in some party of Ireland are beginning to indicate a spirit of in'su-. bordination. It would appear," says the Editor of Carrick's Morning Post, " by the following article, copied from some of the Provincial Papers, that the high rents, and low prices of produce, are begin ning to produce their wonted results in this country ; namely, turbulence and tumultuous resistance to law and authority, in the lower orders of the farmers and peasantry." Then follows a Requisition to the High Sheriff of the County of Waterford, whb calls a Meet ing of the Gentry of the County, 'to devise the most earectual means of preventing a repetition of out rages upon the persons and property of the inhabi unts ; and an allusion to the disturbed state of the County of Carlow. LAW INTELLIGENCE: - • COURT OF . KING'S BENCH, OCTOSER tO. • BIGNOLD V. BIGNOLD; The parties in this case were father and son, and the action was brotight to recover on a bond ter three thousand pounds, executed by the defendant in favour of the plaintiff. Mr.GoaNty, for the plaintiff, having proved the execution of the bond, submitted as a necessary con sequence, that he was entitled to recover. Mr. SCA RLETT, for the defendant, resisted the de mand, oo the ground that the transaction had been concocted in fraud, and stated the following particu lars:—The defendant was paying his addresses to a young Lady of the name of Crew, whose father was a man of considerable property ; and his father, the present plaintiff, conducted the treaty. The plaintiff. contracted to convey to his son an estate of the value of £3,000, in order to enable him to make a s.ttle. ment on his wife ; by means of which, and the in fluence of his connections, it was expected he would realize an income of from £3,000 to £4,000 per an num. In consequence of this, Mr. Crew agree) to give his daughter in marriage to the defendant, with a portion of £12,000. Previously, however, to the celebration of the marriage, the plaintiff exacted from his son a bond for £3,000. refusing, on other terms, to assign over to him the estate; and to recover the value of this bond, which the defendant had in this manner been obliged to execute, the present action was brought. After the bolrd had been given, the marriage took place. The Counsel for the defendant was proceeding to argue the case in point of law, when Mr. Justice BEST interposed, observing, that he • had no doubt the plaintiff was entitled to recover in a Court of Law. If the defence could be success fully maintained, it must be in a Court of Equity. Mr. F. POLLOCK begged leave to state, that emi nent Lawyers had been of opinion, that a defence against such an action could be maintained in a.Court of Law, and cited,.in support of that opinion, the case • of" Haton v. Haton ;" in which it had been decided, that a partkeps criminis (a partner in the fraud) was entitled to relief . .., The JUDGE was bf opinion, that the ca e cited by . the Learned Counsel did not apply, as that case re lated ton fraudulent preference given by a bankrupt to a particular creditor, to the injury of the others; and repeated his opinion, that, in conformity with . the uniform principles and practice of that Court, the plaintiff was entitled to recover; the defendant being left to seek his remedy in a Court of Equity. Verdict in favour of the plaintiff for £3,000, being the amount of the bond.—Should the cause come into a Court of Equity, the defendant in the present suit will hi converted into the plaintiff. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Yesterday, three boys, aged 13, 15, and 17, named Carney, Sullivan, and Connor, were convicted of stealing a handkerchief from the person of Banks, Esq. and sentenced to seven years transportation.— These boys, young as they were, have long been • known as notorious thieves; and Sullivan, who has only one hand, was said by the officers to be one of the cleverest pickpockets in London. J. Bouchier was convicted of an assault, of a very cruel and wanton nature, upon a poor Italian boy, who was peacefully following his occupation, (selling cages) in Piccadilly. The Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 50s. Several boys were convicted of picking pockets, and others of petty assaults, but none of the cases . were worth detailing. • e et... QUEEN4QUARE.- Yd ay, 7. Vincent, Eliza, his daughter, and J. Evans, were ordered to find bail, charged with a violent outrage on Mr. T. Hartley, of Trevor-terrace, Knightsbridge. The complainant was in his parlour, in company with Mrs. Woodgate, a female relation, and the wife of a merchant now in India, about eleven o'clock on Wednesday morn ing, when he heard his street-door broken in by a sledge-hammer and an iron crow, and the prisoners in an instant entered ; the complainant ran up stairs, to secure his property ; the prisoners Instantly threw his furniture into the forecourt, and destroyed his property. He immediately came to this Office, and Mr. MARIELA ND disiatehed three of the officers with, him. On their arrival they found Mrs. Woodgate lying for dead, being beat and kicked about in a most shameful manner, and the house literally stripped of everything. They took the prisoners into custody, and Mrs. Woodgate was brcruglit in a most feeble state in a coach to the Office. Mr. T. Larkin proved that Vincent, accompanied by a blacksmith, and a daughter to the prisoner Vincent, broke in the door in the manner described by the complainant. The prisoners said, they acted so in order to gain posses sion of the house for Vincent, but the Magistrate in• formed them they acted most illegally. SIIADWELL.SINGULAR FRAUD AND INFIDELITY. Yesterday, a person of very respectable appearance came before the Magistrate at this Office, to prefer a charge of robbery against his wife, and a young man that had, been in his employ as a servant. It appeared by the, statement of the complainant, that his name is Innis, and that he resides a short distance from Grays, in gsset- ; that on Thursday morning his wife; a woman nearly sixty years of age, had taken it into her head to abscond from his home, in company with a young man aborit hventylaus ! She had taken the precaution to pack up the principal articles of plate, together with what money was in the house; in the' whole amounting to upwards of £l(X) in value, and took it away ; not content with this, she had sent the young man to a relation of her husband's and bor . -- rowed £2O, stating it. was to make up a payment that was unexpectedly called for. The lady and her paramour had left the house of Mr. Innis nearly four hours before he Was apprized of what had happened. On it coming to his knowledge, lie immediately, went in pursuit, and was so fortunate as to come up with them near the iron bridge on the Basking road e He followed them to an inn at Poplar, where they ordered a bed ; a constable was procured, and the disap pointed couple vierp obliged to take up their abode for the night in the watch-house. In the morning they were conveyed before the Magistrate, who or dered the property which had been taken to be re stored to Mr. Innis, at whose request, he having re. covered his property, they were discharged with a suitable admonition. from the worthy. Magistrate.— ' Mrs. Innis, on a promise.of future good conduct, was allowed to accompany her husband home, and The young man went away, seemingly pleased that het had got out of an awkward'scrape. -r