The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-30 00:00:00

VIE NATIONAL rEcisTER °lvi S- ii v animmeram )1011011red his nephew %; ith the present of a 'word, and nowt, with both his hands extended, he tentrtied them his thank P. With respect to th , Society of Friends, if they could not give to kill! they hart given, mid would give, to cure.—( Applause) .-:-Great was the object of their undertaking, and great must be the means of their accom plishment. All Europe %vas to he relieved, lie wondere.l a Bishop and . the Chaplain e v ery diocese did not come forward with tar t of what they es‘joyed in ttatvillity. He believed it he were big!' it, the chinch as his nephew w t , ,s in the army, he should act so up3n the present occasion. They. like the Quakers, though oh n il init to give to kill, might give to save life. With iespect to him he could assure them, they wonlil hear !-outething from Staley Chapel ; for, though they hod no Lord Mayor! , twice hehn'e tiw they were not so poor but they could rAse a subsciiption, perhaps equal to the purchase of a sword for Ico guitle,.6.—(ApplaW - 0 0P "' The Rev. Gentleman COIIOII4IOI by moving, 0 that all the corporate bodies be invited to give their asi•tance to the funds of the meet ing." Tlii motion was seconded by Mr. Bruumnark, and carried nnanimously. Mr. R. H. Marten then proposed a vote of thanks to his Royal Ilidmess the Duke of Stts,.ex, and to the Chairman for his conduct in the chair that day. Both were carried unanimously, and the meeting then broke up. ATV INTFLLIGENCE. Mouthy being the first clay of Hilary Term, and the Lord Chan cellor being so much indispoted, in consequence of a Revere attack of the gout, Opt hg could not 11,1(1 hi. levee a• usual, the Judges met, at the house of Lard Etennorottelt, Chief Justice, and from *thence proceeded, ju state, to their different Courts, which were ;paled with the accustomed cerentocies. COURT OF KiNGli BENCH, SATUTIDAY, JAW. 20. USURY. ; I The ATTORNEY-GENERA T. moved for a Mllo to slew Cainewhy bond with warrants attorney sholibt riot be delivered up tq the obliger to be ra::celled upon the grouuds of usury, of rather a novel na ture. , The Learned Attoriey-General care'ully abstninio, flora men tioning ,the unites of the parties, stated that the parry' on whose behalf be made th i s application, had borrowed a Plllll of 9.1001. from the obliger, for whit he executed his tome!, With w:.rrant of attorney in double that sum, fist tittle with interest at per crut. the obliger at the settle thy: executing his bond to the first obliger in the sum of 2,1001. payable without interest, thereby obtaining interest at the rate of 101. prr cent. for 610 sutu actually lent, which, he conteeded, was an illegial and I: serious consideration.-- - Rule panted. The Court was oeeopied a great portimi of the morniog upon settle trent, and other spi•eial casivi, !root the Quarter SV3SIOII3, jcservati for the opinion of their /...ordships. FRIDAY, JAN. 90. On behalf of Mr. Sturman, who stamls charged with setting fire to his house, in Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly, Mr. GA;ALEE made an application tar rut Habeas Corpus to bring itim op to be bailed. He made the appliemion soiely on the affidavit of the Ilefemlant, I.vhieli, in the Orstplace, asserted his innocence of the fart ; and further stated, th at lie had tqlteti the horse about eighteen months Ago, and ILA expender, upwards of 8001. in the famishing of it at Hiatt time. That since that period lie hail bought other art; des or Proitureto a considerable amount, and that the house was hand . tumefy furnished for the purpose of letting it in loi ; gings to pen,wis oreOlnlitint!. That byilds lease was bound to insure the lonise for 15001. which at:vomited for the magoitiole of Isis insurance, being :30001. for lool.e awl toroi t nye. aPAavit theu went on to Mate that on the day preceding the evening of the tire, his %VA haring g one o or, he fiinisrlf was about to go out, whim the servant told him, she had asked her mistress for permission to go out that even ing. lie therefore de , ired her to Ivaxe a light in the passage, that the house might not appear to be It It alone : the, flea - ited the places whet e he had been that day, wail siated, that he dined at the 'Telegraph chop•lionse in Leadenhall-qr;:et ; WIWI) he got home in ,i)lp evening, he found that hi, house laud beer' on are, Put that it was thep extinguished. He further added, that he had lett a con oideiable slim in l3an4owites apti lit gold coin, in 4 Wall 04 1 which me 4 missing. The Court observed that the Sessions was very near, a nd th ere .was no . grotind laid for tile writ, except the affidavit of t h e accused person. they were to admit these affidavits of innocence from the piarties ,tlieinselves, as ground sottirient .for admitting thetp to nobotfy . l.ould slay iii ??spite -belle rehmedi AitcHFas counr, DOCTORS' commovs, J.N. 21. areT D. LADY YMItY ntaT t This was a proceeding fur a d.votee at the instance of Thomas Best, Earl- against Lady Emily Peet, Ms %oars, on the ground of adultery, al• legs d have been columnar d with J. H t ry, Esq. It eppeared from the evidence, that the piirties were married in Sep tember 1804, and lived together from that time until the year 1807, et Mr. Dest's house, in Stratford-place. Aboto that time, from the embarrassed stele of his affairs, he was under ihr necessity of surren dering himself to The Kin's Bench, and having obtained the rules ho took up his residence ni 'ft -Hire -place, St. Ott rge's,fiekls, Ludy Emily remaining %lee her felier, the of Aldbooingli, in _Ttrook-stieet, Grosvenor-square. Flom thence she :mewl Feinted him and the C'oatt fess, her mole!, to Ireland, and returning in June , 1808, renewed her cohabitation with her huaband in Temple-pli.ce. She left him shortly afterwards, and elorgel with Mr. Henry, passed the night at his lodg igtelgtsh,er toh ,inlltuke Pack e-sir Hors e , Duke-street, siniiiister, aird the next niorninv they went to- Turnliam-green, where they remained attest three weeks; they then removed to Lodge park, Kildare, Ireland, the -t at of Mr. Henry, where they cosninued until his death, in Febreary, 1810, constantly during this time passing as Ine-hand and wile. A child, "lin Wee baptised ns theirs, at 'feddington, Middlesez, shortly after Lady Emily's Worn, was the fruit of this connection. Mr. Best brought his action against Mr Henry, in die Court of King's Bench, who suffered juigment to go by default, mid in January, 1809, an in-• quisition was taken, and the damages assessed at 20001. Lady Emily's Counsel admitted that the adultery was amply proved, and that, upon un attentive consideration of the whole circumstances of the cese, they did not see any sufficient ground to resist the application for a divorce founded teem them. Sir Jelin Nicholl s uggested, whether there was any satisfactory reason assigned for the lapse of time (near five years) between the ver • diet at common law, and the commencement of the present suite a cir cumstance which carried with it a suspicion of connivance on the part of the husband ? Lady Emily's Counsel replied, that th., circumstances had occurred to them as the only ground of objection; but they were uppreliensive it was sufficiently repelled by the proof of Mr. Best's circumstances, • being such as to renter it improbab'e he could possess the means of sustaining the present suit at an earlier period. As o however, the eh ? cumstance seemed to be considered so important by the Court, their doubts bid revived ; and they, there fore, proceeded to contend for the su-pension of connivance, noticing earth ularly, that it was to be in curred nom the circamstances of Alr:l3est's not appearing to ha v e en , torcedpayinent ot.ibe datives, which, if he had, woiii4 beep enabled limi to have brough; the sun in due time. air John Nieholl recapitulated the circumstances of the case, and ob served, that upon the proof of adultery there could be tin doubt ; the Court, leiwever, expected semething more than this from the complain ing party; it expeoted an ample elocitietion of his conduct, more or less, according to the stispicien attaching to it ; and a forbearance front claiming his remedy for so long a pet hod as five years, required some fin ther explanation than a mete suggestion of embarassed piicumstances Such a forbearance raised a suspicion of connivance , and that sesiii . (ion must be removed before the husband could ft illy claim his renied. He then entered into an examination of the facts in proofs, and of the husband's conduct : and was of opinion, (hat they rather tended to in fer his privity to the elopennnt and adultery complained of, particu larly us there was (to a man otheiwi , e circumstanced) so strone a m..- tire for seeking a divorce, us the birth Of a WUriotia child, publicly cognapd and regisiered as such when christened. As, however, the proof of adultery was se clear, and the husband's situation and circtito stancee such as to render it possible that lie mifht have been prevented 110111 claiming his remedy sooner. the Court would give hint the upper , (unity of erplaiiiiiig that tact, by rescbutiret the conclusioe of the catisg, to enable him to do so by affidavit; hut if he declined doing so, his only remedy would be by an appeal from the decision, WIPP!) this Court would then feel it to be Ws duty to pronounce. Leave was therefore 4 iypts gait) the next Coati, for Mr. Best's Coonsel to move for rescinding the cause tor ti)is pprpole, if, eptet con,ideration, they think . it Advisable to dp no. ClRCUlTN.—Tiiiirxday, the Judges met in the Treasury Chamber Wegtminster Tidll, and hoe their respective Circuits, ai follows: — Mt DLAN n —Lord Ellenborongh and Mr, Baron Wood. NOltrOLli—Lord Chief justicp Mansfield aid 11r. Jttstice 114'014 HOME—Lord Chief paw% Gibbs and Mr. Bayou Thomson. NORTllEitn—ior. Justice Le Blanc and Mr. 4tistice Chantbrp ! thirortm—Mr. Baron Graham and Mr Justice Dallas. Wi;4l:4lx-Itr..Justice Puyly and Mr. t lnstice painriFr. , .. . AN 5