The National Register. — London, England, 1823-01-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lallr INTELLIGENCE. . by proving that the wool sou sold o. the day the truster Is Messrs. Nithelsees, most respectable wool factora.in Bader COURT OP KING'S BENCH. ball street, for sh2l. le. Id., sad could, therefore, have ben THU NSDAY, DLC. 3. worth On more. 111113Atil Or PROMISE OP menataor..—ESTEß e. NI WY: Proof wee given of the sale of the reel at the time for this This action was brought by Elisabeth Ester, against Wm. slim, but the evidence of identy with that in question was not `Hiatt, for breads of promise of marriage. conclusive. Mr. C. Phillips stated the ease to be oar in which the Jury The Lord CbierJastioe left the Jury to soy, en this evidence. were called epos to give large damages.—ms plaintslf, ruin what they thought a fair price for the wool. They found a Ennobled' &ler, was the daughter of a respectable man, who . lundist fur the Pliialid .-- blthagel 2521 . 2 5. dd. livid the situation of clerk in a brewery. The delienslant WATERIIOI/sE AND I.THERS V. KEEN AND OTHERS. was a person of large property. His father living in America, I 'This was an action against the trustees of a turnpike road la Ile wee seat over to Eagtand for tiler:alien, and put to school at . the neighbourhood of Birmingham, to recover back monies ions Itethnal-green. During the time ho was there it. went to tri o Properly demanded by them, and paid under eompoiaion. Louse of the plaintiff's father. When he left school be removed , Ploielitre were the owners of a stage coach called the Blearing to Liverpool, and left the faintly in which be bad been cherished, him Balloon, which passed every day through a turnpike galled t. its expressions of everlasting gratitude. After on interval ef Re too-gate, between six and seven tu the asorning, and retested years he smite to them again, with scarcely • shirt to his back with another set of horses in the evening. By the local set, 111 or • a aline is his ' , Gillet, having leaded jo a stare of misendiler • Ge.. Il 1., eoutineed by sabeeqeeput provides., it was enacted, deadtatioa rrota Ireland. He was again received u a relative, that no carriage, horses, or baste, which had once ',lid the lodged and boarded for six months, daring which he sat d e ify toll, should be subject to the payment of toll for ;swirl et any at their table, and received kindnesses which ou_ht hive been effaced from his memory. During. th i s per i o d h e insisted on payment of toll en the return of the roach in the thogeht fit to originate another Asir, Mack be bad also for- evesing, on the ground that being drawn by different horses It 'Alen ie the days of prompereas fortune. He socceeded in t was Sot wad" the ithoePthalt of i.e stabile. The "achatall leg the Arranges of the plaintiff; and being very dear to accordingly paid, for a week, the daily sum of three shillings; ' all her relations, he made his proposals openly, aid they were but afterwards, fur the sake of conveigenee, paid the weekly openly accepted. After some time be said that his father was I sem of one guinea, by direction of his employers. The p 'dead <width proved afterwards to be a fabrication), end was sew brought to recover IV. Is. lid. tha "they lo that therefore he must return to America; but before he pad, which it WOO alleged the treaters had no sight to insist on. weed, be asked and received a promise from Mies Eater, that The Solicitor Geiser's', for the Inmates, first objected that s h e „ n u irem n it am& till Mt. men, H o otneieed abroad the action eaglet to bare been brought in the county where the for six-or scree years; but the impression be had made oe the raise of action arose, because • clause in the act directed, that 1 heart of tb plaintiff was strtmg, said oho „ t w isty wa i ted his I the trial of all actions for rimy thing dose in ties of lis arrival. Meanwhile his father died, and he became possessed provisioes, 'Mould be thus restricted. He also contended that, of property, as wield be proved by his own declarations, to the ceder the same cruise, the defen.ants were entitled to motion it amount of sot less than 28,0001. tie now reminded the plaintilf action. ' Alter promise, which she expressed her readiness to perform The Lord Chief /satire thought that this chose "II applied at any time when lie those to claim it. He resumed his visits; to tarts, and not to actions forested oil contracts. and arranger:eats fur the wedding were in progress, when b e The Soli:guar General then submitted that there will ao eel soddenly declared that be had changed his mired, and would ape Gigot Proof that the payment was compulsory; but further eel searre, as lie Weeded to live Aegis' for life. This was false • dente was adduced to show that the trustees knew when they, -but bad It bees true, it would furnish no excuse; for it was the received the mosey, that the demand would be resisted, cad awed duty Oa mien folly to make tip his miad is this point, the °Nudism fall to the ground. before he ventured to trifle with the feelings of a woman. He No °Pillirso was give of the math point is disisatai "to the proposed, however, to make some weeds; be said that be aorsiraction of the act ; but a verdict was takes for the plaintiff would give Miu Ester 3001. or 001. (of which scat he for *object to the oPiaiort of Hu Coact o. • &Puha' actually advanced 101. to Miss Mary Ester, the younger I case. sister of the plaintiff for her use) and would make her POLAND AND ANOTHER e. GLYN, BART, AND offline. parents comfortable for life. This would hare been poor This was enaction by the assignees of Mr. Massada, a bolt meads, yet even this Le bad aot gives ; and shortly after be rapt, to recover 251. Its. dd. paid by him to the defembothe. went and married the cousin of the woman on whom he bad a who are bankers in the city, is contemplation of bankrapiey, inhaled t hi s i rrepara bl e inie,y, What defence could he make and to the injury of his other creditors. The payment was Dew 1 World he attempt to deny the promises / They would I made before the act of bankruptcy, on which the commission be proved to have been solemnly made, and as soienlirly era- was Mended ; at this period the bankrupt was wader appreben. lamed after the lapse of years; and could be further proved den of baiskuptay, bat he was not ea pressed for the NOOK? by -by a letter in his own hand, addressed after his marriage to the I the defendants sato render its payload legal. It appeared lather of the pleintiff. .In this epistle he expressed his bope that the bankrupt was is ember, assed eireamstances, and bad that Betsey did sot take his marriage amiss, and concluded by been advised that he could only extricate himself from his dill • • strange ociefision of ideas—which fortunately did not proceed "hie' by a eommi.aioe, bat be did mot himself positively drink from an Irialuraa—foche sabecribed himself Your afiectionate that such, a measure moat be adopted. He had received a 1""e nep h ew and amen, William Hiatt." (A l aug h ) . p er h aps t h e from his bankers, requesting to know whet would be done in counsel for the defendant might urge the age of the lady as a his afar, bet bolding out no threat whatever. Ile said be ppieffor ridicule she aertaialy bad grows older same she first paid them because be thought he might, is boomer, to give them mieeived the addr esses see the de fe ndant, and was now 30 or 37 a preference. years of age; bat ler'weekl disarm these sneers by at once I The Lord Chieflutioe eaplaired to the 'wry, that in point consenting that all reinismee should be throw. out of the case ; of law, may payment made by a bankrupt in the ordinary case of that the Jury should leave out of their consideratiou the *Bided I trade, or under the pressure of a creditor, before the ant of Wert, the emdempt endured, the hope delayed, the blighted l benkreptey was valid; bet that if be voluntarily, while eon "specialism*, earl elsould oaloalate ride , the establishment which templatiog bankruptcy, paid a• individual creditor, the aseig the plaintiff bad lost. But before they threw these topics out sees might recover the mosey by action, for the beneit of the el the ease, let them reflect on tbe feelings of women, infininify I estate. He left the Jury to say whether this payment bad mere Ineerated than those of a man ; which no commerce with been made iu expectatiou of bankruptcy, and whether it had the world assuaged—which she endured in Le solitude of see. been induced by any threat of the defeadaila. rows, shuddering at the very lipped for redress, with no The Jury found a verdict for the theutdits but those reineuthriences which haunted her like M. 14a. spectres, and which bed no wink' hut the ruins of her heart.— The learned commiel proceeded to urge the •• rare fidelity" with which his client bad awaited the defendant's retina ; the desti (idiom amidst which she consented to his add ; and the advantages, so long hoped for, of which be bad deprived her.— Ile asked the jury to proceed on the maxim of inspired wisdom, Do onto others as ye would that they should do to you"—to say what they would think satisfaction if one of their own 'daughters bad thus bees throws OD the contempt nod rumpus eau of the world: this be asked them to give, mid he asked no ware. The Solicitor General, lbr the defendant, submitted that the taking of 201. by the plaintiff, as part of the 3001. was a release from the defeedant's promise. The Lord CliiefJusLice said, if the whole had been paid it aided bare operated as a release ; but the 201. paid fur a peril twist purse could ant be considered sufficient to induce the plairdar to release him from his Funds*. The Solicitor Gonersl then proposed to mama to a verdict fur 3001. minus the 201. advanced. M e. pltillipe refused to Recede to that proposition, unless 301. s year, promised the father, was included. The Solicitor General then addressed the Jury, sae contended that 3001. the sun the plaintiff had considered entlieient coal psosation, ought to be the amount of the verdict. He com plained that Lis learned friend bad iMrodaced exterior dietary aggravation iota this sae*. It bad bees opened as a ease of grave, solemn, and sacred character. The plaintiff, according to his learned friend's statement, had been much Injured, and eelibeey was the result. The plaiutiff was a, this time 40, and the defendant soave • ears younger. 'flue Jury, as mea of the world, would never believe that elle would have refused an ad vantagenus :bitch in the absence of this wandering . swain. bad any such match ofered. When be left her to go to Anlierina, did sae regret his going, or did she say, Had you not better marry me before you got" It was really too much to ask the Jury to believe the lady devoted herself to celibacy. They could not take the high, powerful. and fanciful relation of Ms Wanted Mend, as an iodueement to give more than the 1001. which else herself bad ooaiaidered sallicieht compensation. The Lord Chief Justice, is his charge, said, the Jury were not bound by law to confine themselves to lbw 3001. het they sword no doubt consider what would be a satisfaction for the Injury, nut forgetting at the same time, that the platting' nerself bad there a dispositioo to receive 3001. lice Jury fumed a verdict fur the plaintiff—Darns, FRIDAY. 'AN. S. gle•WOleru AND OTHERS, AIIaIGNEES T. PELLATT AND ANOIHIN. This was as action of I brought by the assignees of Messrs. Tipped* and Grethaen, bankrupts, to recover 4401. Ile. the alleged value of wool bonght by the defendants of the bankrupt, after Nn alt of bankruptcy. • The act of bankruptcy prior Lun' transfer was clearly proved MA conviviality snob barterer was admitted to be void The Solicitor-Cenral thee proposed to redeem the damages, ............ AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER. From the draught at the commencement. and the subsequent condoned Was. &considerable part of the wheat wed hoe hew put in lattelsollt law The appearance, of the on" how • vow s itanheenelly good. Local diti»age has boon ft the whew by the late goods. from which they are reeneerbeg ; And throng s gamily. will receive a salutary cruet $, the late Z es prontatileloanble weather. In our hat. ,we repotted from tans the usual quantity of wheat had Mt been sown thr irt alelos s' ' wields boa bees contredieted by dlvect/y opgaidenareortions 'no . nap his pool gram has the eraggegahkro*vators is as dleutisded at dm wpm prices. that wig of n . have determined to contract Mt culturessa• Report "take still morrfavourably of the turnips. slid of all von guide craps.. Lamb hare bum far tauter dm* p. m wtlflar ready f or putting in the needy pulses ineeeekeif the semi Nea t puma= of the market Christmas. vilest Um smidy, and even advaneed i Ono • hivieneable alioneroantiss e I no doubt. resulung lion the pendent forbearance of landloeda. Starage discrepancies of intelligence arrive from different parts the country. In some parts it is pretended that the fanners no loupe complain, and that • favourable turn in the tinier is in prorgeet. Facts. and II slew of the case. forbid us, at pre sent, to be sanguine in itch a speculation. When we consider the immense and unfailing supply of live stock at S field market, so often to an overdrive, the prices obtained there cannot be donned low; more especially as Use highest prim are seldom er ever quo ed in the common lawns. Store cattle and sheep, from the abundance of keep dunng the autumn. hare been sale • able without any depression of prices; hut cows. calves. mut foals. have been ni.st ready of sale. Pig brocaing has been utterly . ruined in this country, by the constant and extett,ive int portatron from !remind. flue breeders are taking the the most judicial steps; either thwaintinuing entirely, or reducing their breeding . stock one half. They write from several quarters that " money is scarce ;" the English of which in fact ts, that prices are low; for in no pert of the country is money deficient Ste a profitable purports. whether in coin or paper. he. litr e the surplus or country labourers has been supported with as much ease as was expected ; but the prospect, especially in case of a hard winter, is gloomy. The dinaustactioa on accoint of the tithe system gains ground in the country, and. indeed, iu the minds of all who reflect; nor due, i, seem possible that such an antiquated and absurd mode of supporting the priesthood can possibly endure mum/ years longer, notwithstanding the °ppm tea of such powerttricontheting interests. ,J,Se THE ATHANAINAK CREID.—The Alliall3Sl3l3 Creed, WI,ICU IA f l c. ui yAI ttttt ten by the minds to be read on Chrisint.troay. 0111111C41 that day at the Chapel Hovel at Brightou his M.,jemy was present on :he lit CaliOn • and tool, the sicrentent. A tiivistary of the Church declared of the creed in question. " Would that ti e Church were well rid of st r We du out know whether ilia* is intruded tube asap Sowards the accowi l plwittnent o. this wish. .; ~ ~ _ ~_. Y , - _, i► --- -- i.«..~ WAD BIIWN IN traLi. Signor Tbemari De San Clary, lebeated oe the Lefties stage, bad bees making the tour of Italy to improve his me skid tactics. Hr was at ltegrio, in Calabria. and mimeste proceed to Vienna the shortest tonic. where be was engaged to sing before the Emperor, he etultatked wiisout passe we iu so open Most bound to Ancona. a capital town on the Admit, Gulf, but Will seised near Cape O:raulu by a Venetian galley. alai thrown into prison, where he inane ,ed to have a letter de. livered ;into Lord Byron 's hant.a, who very soon had him re- - leased. Ile sang at the cosoerts. sad beeline a general favourite. A lie was also very partial to swimming, end gave : proof of his eapsituess in that exercise. Al • meeting oa the shore, he sang to manse many of the Debi It without receiving any reeoutprase, and was wearied with eareres when the Doke de filoutcassio insisted epee bliteepeerr ing • smog. He remonstrated is eat and they predeePliej. hint till be stood on the la 4 of th e Virgin's steps lending 11•110 water. They thonglit sow he was safe ; but. to their atter - astonishment, he made a few bow. and taking to the water like a spaniel, swam across, to the square, amidst Weeders of applause. Except upon the stage, the Sissies was meter trou bled with an recurs. He lodged at s hotel adjoining that of Lord Sven, wise hammered him with particular nude,. Sir • Lad for eerie time vainly sheered foe an latrodee. tics to his Lordship, He was * nerd lens. mad vulgar its his language nod deportutest ; a:weaver, his wife was a blew stocking, and had penned • novel, is which Lord Byron ass introduced as a repentant husband. For lbws, reasons- this doors of his Lordship was bermetionly sealed naiad 'theie ingress. Captain F--o, a Sooteb eases. a friend of Lord's, sod a w ght of " infinite mirth and weeniest fares. bent epee mischief, promised Stir -- as introduction. &your Thessaai was a partner in the scheme; he wts up in the fao shade of his Lordthip's clothes, ad his Lordehip received the Baronet at his hotel. Added M , torn stupidity, Sir was pnrbliad end easily The company consisted of several bee sloes i the on the right of the Signior, fel:, eesteineed be was vests the immortal bard. The Signior gave some of songs in a strain of burlesene that evened inlinie mirth .‘) listened with gravity, and marked time with hie At the close of the evening a bill was preowned et "Mary weight," the mock Lord having left the War end thanes.:-. Sir stared ; Ceptain F--n remarked that Ong men it . s hotel, and every one was glad to pay foe wooing no pied Byron. The Baronet discharged the bill, end meet Mow highly pleased with his new acquaintan. e. Neat ilep,,4lv Promenading. Sir wet his Lordship in a similes , dint thin wont by Signing Thoonasi ; and after ranges his Zip --calmed him with " How do ye do, my Lord l the win.• sit oe your stomach ?" His Lordship did eel • stomach this suode of enctatioe, and peeeithly e- - ",Slr, I don't know yoe." "Not know me!' this acre, " for whom yes sang me messy rich seegs last eight " The toes is mad," uttered kin Lordship, end fleshed unduly past hiss. The trick soon mantled the emu of his Lordship, orb wee ill pleased with his same being made free with ; and the %- meet, enable to stand the guisaing, sedum! Venice in diarists His Lordship, fertile at invention. laid a plate to be revenged upon the forward hailed-singer, who had the weeny toptippose he bad a person " worthy of any lady's eyc," The Coulees of --Y. undertook to make him believe she was amines with the charms of his person, and is a short time seeeeded. The Signior professed himself her admirer. sod no aseigna.iee wee .1 fixed uponin her apartment, where there was only see deer. . and no biding-place of any description: His. Lordship, ne.pery, concerted, thuudered at the door Warily after the Sisekerlet catered ; and the lady, ander proem. • of saving Wet. theme • him into We chimney, and fasted the board with • aprimr, leek. His Lordship had ordered a veld sonatina, mod a ammtesiet of music, as nein friends came with hien: Foe the erre* at • three boors the ealertainniest was kept up merrily, and thi. SiAnior 'offered penance is lb* chimney le yipareeg a., July day in Italy, and then shish what the higaior have endured. One of , the company expressed a wish se; : change instrumental for vocal musics, when Lord Byrom sir served, he had a bird in the chimney whit* amid issiNto IND oaten of Signior Thoinasi to admiration. Goimperrew the chine. eel, be, in a whisper demanded a snag. Oa psis of farther confinement, the Signior, humbled is spirit, begs., eon ed with some humour the air— " Prey set the mournful captive free." •le • • His Lordship, then producing sundry heed{ cards, made the compasy "(most of *born were those that enjoyed the joke at his expense the preceding night) purchase thorn at • high price, remarking, that every one was glad tort, for hearing Signior Thontasi sin?. The son of Apollo was.then released, soda free pardon granted on his preinimare Sever again to OW Wyon.l his ;north:Wan sphere. • Is plain Laglish, Mr. Thome, Sinclair, late of Coyest Garden 'Theatre. I I iis 1 . • u , LUDICROUS SLtetuna.—A short time since, all ieformation was laid, that 60 casks of gill were buried hs lbe park of a great commoner in Norfolk, Epos wb,ob two oil- • yen of •Excise accompsuird the two itilbnitris le the inure of the tubs, nod speedily raised their spirits. Rather at a loss for aru e)artae, the pressed into their service the tumbril of a neighbouring fanner, which they tooled with their liquid tree ' sure, and, mounting themselves, maned In lipttoe spirits foe the adjacent ;receipt of Casten. How frail are all the hopes of man ! Exulting in postension, it worthies, that linclopiiis are sometimes taken from wheels. until convinced of the fact, by finding the cart, the tube. Mid the cxeisensan, anti the informers, whylmed in one prodigious rain. Oa collecting the Mock, sum* tabs ware faced I. be ' mach itijnred by the fall, sod the 0011k41111 of several bed seek irate the barren sand. The remainder being seenred, the party wished to resume their joentey ; bet on attempting to start, Ohl Debbi., released, as if by magic, from the ties whirh bound him to jhe tumbril, walked quietly forward, leaving his cargo of cares behind ban, and the whole party of gist and gentlemen were again precipitated into the road. A. have not learned what other impedinterna presented themselves Is the broaderroser of these new resorteetio* men ; hot it stems quite certain from the mishaps we have /regaled, that em the cuter. coast of Norfolk. it is not always safe to meddle with those who call op spirits front the vast) deep." By a recent Act of Parliament, the uttering or offering for payment the notes of country bankers. or others, knowing them to have been stolen. sub. jecta the offerid.n to transportation. This informs. don,' we think, cannos be boo widely circulated. .4 , - t • 11. , _ • * .. ,nw ,Tt .:~ ~ . ...... Al