The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-25 00:00:00

i gtATINMAN. , • Oteiiendtri will have observed from ott of pieseedines in the Court of Chancery, that the Primps@ of Wales has lately filed a bill against the Fart of Liverpool and Count Munster, the esecotore of the late Duke of Brunswick, her brother, claiming. she repayment of 15,0001. sterling, stated to have. been lent by .her to her brother in the month of As. gust, 1814, and to have been ;mired by three differ ent wriuen engagements from the Duke (two of the engagements Wag deposited at Mr. Ceettes office), and that Lord Liverpool and Count Monster made an application to the Lord Chancellor, that the Princess of Wales should be compelled to produce the third instrument before they answered the bill. The Lord Chancellor called upon Count Munster to make an affidavit, stating hi reasons why this instrument should be produced before the bill was answered; and, in conseqeence of the efildevit made by Count ' Munster upon that occasion, the Lord Chancellor, on Tuesday last, made an order that the Princess of Wales should produce the inurement., The follow. ing is a copy of that affidavit, which, though not pub licly read in Court, is filed of record In the Court of Chancery. • Yesterday the. senora election toe Poodle! Of. liters In the Parish of Christ Church, Surrey, took place it a Vestry Meeting, which was numerously attended. Considerable interest was localle es. eked by an mooed contest for the office of Vestry Clerk, in eppc9ition to Mr. Maymott, who has for SAW years held that office. The names of Mi. Aresttrong, Mr. Donne, end other parishioners were pet forth as Candidates, but subsequently with treern,elthat by the parties or their friends. Ott the proposition for the reelection of Mr. slier tort, as Vestry Clerk for the present year, Ml; FARQUKAisos• rose, and in a long speech stated hie objections to this appointment. They Were chirpy, that Mr. Maymutt had not only acted In defiance of the directions of the Parishioners Whom he was bound to obey, but bad openly intlled them before a great public tribunal. Mr. Nowhere°a then alluded to the conduct of Mr. Allaymen t who on an occasion when some of the pa -Ir',Monne wished for a new berialaground, and bad so foot to have a Bill brought into Par fet. that.perpose, was desired by a Vestry 'Neon's' to withdraw that Bill, instead of doing Which be had connives. . it its proceeding, end in answer to a quittio* before the Mese of Lord had stated that a greet netiber of respectable parishioners were in favour of the Bill, and very few ageing it.— Be therefore proposed, as an amendMent to the mo tion, that Mr. Dimas should be elected Vestry Mr. Donne and some other parishioners spoke against the Amendment, and Mr. MACREAKT and one or two other parishioners in favour of it. Afro a considerable dismission, remarkable only for the display of zeal of the friends of the respective (COPY.) IN ,CHANCERY. BETWEEN nu ROYAL lIIGUNINIS CAROLINS AUGUSTA PRINCE4S or watts. NY ANTHONY BULLER. ST.' LEGER, HER NEXT FRIEND, PLAINTIFF; AND Mg BERT BANKS' EARL OF Ltaxeroot, AND ERNEST FREDERICK RUMAT COUNT MUNSTER, .OE. PENDANTS. Ernest Frederick Herbert Gant Munster, of Grosvenor-place, in the county of Middlesex, one of the above-named Defendants, maketh oath, and said), that he hatb been informed and believes that in or about the latter end of the year 1816 her Royal ,Highness the Princess of Wales sent to the Right Hon. George Canning, one of the emitters named in the will of the late Duke of Brunswick (bet who bath not proved the will), two instruments in writ. ing, one in the German language and one in the French language, both dated on the44th dry of Au. gust, 1814, purporting to be to the same effect, and to be engagements on the part of the late Duke of Brunswick, to repay to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, in two years, with interest, the sum of 15,0001. sterling, therein stated to be lent by her Royal Highness to the Duke of Bruns wick ; and this deponent farther said), he bath been informed and believes, that the said two instru. (Dents were deposited by Mr. Canning with Messrs. Coatis and Co. bankers, iu the Strand ; and ibis de. ;violent saith, that on the 7th of February, 1818, this deponent attended the said Messrs. Coatis and Co. and there were then present Mr. Canning and Mr. 14. Blanc, the solicitor of this deponent, and the Karl of Liverpool, a party in this suit, and also Mr., Brougham, sod several other Gentlemen, who ap peared to this deponent fo attend with him, but who are not known to this deponent. And this deponent' saith, that Mr. Coons then produced the said two written instruments, and that they were on that oz. vision inspected by this deponent, and several of, the other persons present., And ibis deponent smith, _ 1111ttevioes to the Lute Dyke a order hi hit annwet to the mid bill it is 11111106. that his rawer may fell, reed *d ca. *Gild have the lespostien nif **said last.m! ) ., instromeet. mutorrEft. &MO a my ihrambers, boithisaiptae: she ma Marce l 181 i . .•11111M hsi tt%tl.lirsacaY. If tali AySIZEIS. . On . Monday the Anises for this testify tads. enticed at Maidstone, before Mr. Baron aILAIIAM4 in the Civil Side -and Mr. Bares Wood, in the Crown Court. The venires in the former amounted to 40, and the Calendar is the latter contained 02 prisoners--a washer exceeding all former prEcedent. CROWN COURT. Jo/as Filmier was indicted for felonioosiy killing Ind steeling two sheep, on the 20th of November, in the parish of Little Mengeham, the property of Weems Davis, a farmer, in the . oelibboorhood of 1)•nt. It appeared that the servants of the Prosecutor hod safely penned op his sheep on the night of the 20th of November, and nett morning the shave in question were missing. Suspicion afterwards fell open the Prisoner, his boon was searched, the skins of the sheep were found, and great part of the flesh 'alt up and preserved in pickle. The lama were clearly mode out, and 0. Jery fiend the Prisoner Gaily—Death. Mercer Lidgeter, a yowl man of genteelsp. pearasice, 111115 indicted for stealing, on the 6th of Match, at Maidstone. a horse, value 301. the pro. petty of John Arckoll. it appeared in evidence. that (he Prosecutor's groom had fastened up the horse in question in his ?mowers stable on the night of the 6th of March. Nest morning (he bomb was missing, and Mr. Arckoll went to Smithfield, and the very same day he saw his horse in the possession of a horse-dealer aimed Dawson, who, upon being asked how he became possessed of it, said, that he bad purchased it of the Prisoner for 101. The Prisoner was after. wards apprehended, and he voluntarily confe.sed .that he bad broken-open the Prosecutor's stable, and taken the horse away. The Jury found him Guilty, but recommeaded 'Wm to mercy. pm Mr:MATatorr entered into a refutation of Ike charges made against him, and complained. in terms of the strongest indignation, of the practices resorted to against him, of dispersing, through the medium of anouyinoes hand-bills, the foulest sod most slander oes calumnies against him. lie declared, that so far from following op the Church-yard Bill, after the Vestry had desired him to withdraw it, he had in stantly ceased to take any part in the transaction. — Be spoke in the warmest manner of the slanderous attempts that bad been made to hurt his character where he w‘s unknown, and dared the authors of these attacks to meet him openly and avow their acts: The result of the disCussion was, that Mr. Maymott was re-elected, very few bands being held up against' him. A vote of Thanks was then passed to him fee *is conduct. The equal annual grant of 300 guineas, in adds- lion to his annuity of 601. was voted to the Rev. Mr. Mapleton, the Clergyman of the parish, as a proof of the estimation iu which he was held by his parishioners. Doctor J. B. DAVI/ eloquently supported this motion. Mr. FARQIIMARION also bore testimony to the eminent talents of the clergyman, and hoped that he would in fetal* cease to take a part in parochial ceetroverty— that wee alone wpmed to make hie a perfect character. After thanks were voted to the Chair, and tome of the routine parochial amalgamate 'made ) the Meeting separated. SCOTLAND. • HIGH COURT Of JUSTICIARY. On Wednesday the Court proceeded to the trim, of the Rev. loseph Robertson ' Minister of the Gospel in Edinburgh, and William Pearson spirit dealer, lu Canoongelf, accused of falsetsoo d, (Mid, and forgery, and of celebrating unlawful marriages. The Act of the Scottish Parliament, under which celebrators of clandestine marriages are liable to be brought to trial, is the 34th Act of the first Session of the first Parliament of Charles 11. (1661, cap. 31) entitled 4- an Act against (Amides ine and Un lawful Nlarriages," where,' it is eir.ciod, '‘ that the celebrator of Inch ntarrlrtgo, be banished the king. dom, never to return therein, under the pain of death."—Tht Panels bad plead 4 Not Guilty. Wow, Seesaws Welk of Nurtb Leith, WINDSOR, MARCH 24—At a late hoer last night the Duke of KENT arrived. The weather proving stormy and cold, the Royal Family have not left the Castle for two days past. This day the ranee of Ilusg-Hosssuaa is expected to pay his first visit to her MAJESTY and the Princesses. The hells began to ring this morning, and have continued the whole of the day ; numbers of persons of all ranks were assembled le expectation sauteing his Serene Highness. The Prince of Hasse-Hossurto yesterday left town for Windsor, on a visit to the QUEEN end Princesses. Lord end Lady Houann have left town for their OPW seal, Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, which was left to his Lordship by the late Earl of Ureaa OSSORY. Mr. Banucvssa made hia growl electioneering en. tree, on Monday last, into Kendal. Lord Lourout hold then arrived at Lowther Castle, 'and the friends of the family mere making an active canvass in every part' of the county. EMTER TUE , DAY.--,olllPrday, according to en cient custom, the Scholars of Christ's Hospital walked in procession to the Royal Eschange, when about one o'clock they, with their beadles and nurse', were ! admitted to the Mansion-house, and after seeing all the ornaments of the Egyptian Hall, they passed in procession through the Grand Saloon, where sat the LORD MAYOR, LARY MAYORESS, and family, with thy RecoaaEß -stud City Officers, when his Lord. ship presented each of the boys with .sixpence, a glass of wine, and a bun, after which- the Loan MAYOR went instate with them to Christ's Church, when a sermon was. preached by the Rev. Dr. CDA VEY, of Cambridge, who took his test from the ogrh chapter of Job, and 13th verse, FIRE IN SALISBDRY-COURT.—This morning, at half-past two o'clock, a fire brokeout in the second floor of the Barley Mow, Salisbery.coort, Fleet -street, which raged with great fury for an hour and -a half, and totally destroyed the premise!.—Mr. Koorr, the landlord, was out of town, end Mrs. KNOTT, with a fronaleTriend, was just going to bed, when they discovered the fire; it was with great dif. ieolty they made their escape, itith the servants, leaving their clothes and every article of value be. bind them. The adjoining houses have sustain'oillsot little injury. We understand the furniture and stack were insured for 1.50014. oadthe boon for 6001. BAR WIT.--IN a hi. kW, la Oxford, whore it was-observed that a young °simian had Mane Wise than could be judged rogoisite for him, a celebratted Barrister remarked, that it only proved he had the port of a Gentleman. Many pergolas, whosissan ners may not be exactly• formed in the school of Chesterfield, may, nevertbeless, lay claim to this port, in consequerice of the smiles of Ventage in the present Lottery, which pistil, e them's° demand their - rn-PoIIT-ed if "o -Morrow ; agil Shares S. , il•Ma..d.. :..~. ~ i v wa++..M • - - if they would Call is either hitt hong. or Mt Reii.A: assiget.Aktitty; alter Mons 11tie. 4 inet . ; ready tie them. :Thei were thilt m.rrtpsl, and Mr, •Rotettiori ote eittscti - a Ark itt Fitzgerald were married tieflie irteriesse i g , 6EI rues, day or WedniSdily ef4r the n.sirriAgi, O r t; Ill'Pheeson; went for the line., hot Mr. itin.etbmi Mid they would not gel them unless the W.A. fuer . *ere present; and the men were at Perth.. M •Pster. 'hes wrote to tire men; Who answered Ind told her to Mr.Robertion and demand the.liueatr the.monet . y hid paid fur them. Witnesi end *Photon 'hest *est to Mr. Robertstin and shelled him the letter they had received, end be told them to mike tbem. , 14 helves quite easy, and desired them to go to Pear.: „ 1 , son's ; wltich they dirt, sod be said he was afraid they could not get• them, but desired them to call aped . him to• Morrow, when he should try and get. the M.--:. Mr. Robertson was then in another room with Peer: Coo, end Pearson cable out, and quid this to the Wit: nest tad *Pherson. They called again st Pearson't nest day ; at four o'clock, and be said he hid got t them, but he did not know how mutli they hire in: it debted to hiM; he had bat: so much trouble. Ili ~ desired them to go to Mr. Robertson's, and he Would .1 follow. They went to Mt. Robertson's, and In; .. g ist be wet very happy they had girl the lines, and Pear.., son immediately cause in. Mr. Robertson theu took . the lines out of a drafter, Ind wrote sonfethitig on them, Pearson tied preciously told the *Horse that he had left the lines at Mr. Robertson's: Pearson again said that they were indebted td i•im for the . 1 trouble he had had, but Mr. ItobNitson ask, he l:ad better gite them something than take all Wog (coat them. Mr. Robertson wrote something ort the linos, ; hot said he was afraid they senold not be atimittefi t. the barracks, as they had not got line. frbm the C. • Mending Officer. Edward Fitzgerald, priente in the ftSth iegintelt; gave similar evidence as to thownerriege between hie) .! sad the preceding witness. When he first .lent to Mr. Robertson, he asked him if he had a tine front Officer, and be said, no, when he desired him td Mime back at one o'dock, whet, he sent his vitteant staid along with willies, col Wimps to one Paisley; the Session Clerk, who .efused to give the 11604, he.. eceae witness had no u.re from h, s C om th s „di i o A • Officer. Upon returning to Mr. Robertson, he said he did not know what to do with them, sts It wet mostly beyond his power to marry them Ho thou gave the witness a line to Pearson, and said he might be apt to get the lines for them. Pearson swot he would do 'spry thing in his power to get Mr. ii.,tierti ann to marry them, and desired the whole four to come down to his house as four o'clock. and Mr Roe bertson would be there. Atter four o'clock mei whole went to Pearson's, and here' Mr. 11,..hertsont went into a room, and bad some consersation.—...; Pearson then came and asked If they itete ready witness answered they were, and then Mr, koliert.• son and Pearson came into the room: Pe4rioil said' to Mr. Rottertoei, . 6 You know the like thing pencil before, and the lines were got afterwstde."..:.' Mr. Robertson then desired them to leave 7s. ed: • piece for the lines, and ta. Od. a vim for the Mar: riage. The two women then went away for Ott money, and the parties were married. • . arc Macpherson corroborated Ityr.tastlainslyvt. iliheilm lad for rainy pat_ - - Alexander . Margaret --- -- -- --- -- 1' Brunswick's death be• n honoured with his confi- knows Mr. Robertson; be newer but once applied to of Sarah Urquhart. Pearson told them that he oncd done., and had been in habits'of continued corre- the witness for a certificate of proclamation of bans, before got Mr. Robertson to marry a c o uple, and spondence with him, end was ietimately acquainted and that was three yeari ago. And being shown is got the lines for them afterwards. When witness with his manner of writing, both in the German and certificate in the'namo of Mooney, a soldier of the and her companion got the lines, Pearson said, "Mrs in the French lasigusge, and has in his possession a 88th regiment, and a girl named MtPherson, he de- Robertson, what see these ladies indebted to me for great number of letters and other papers in both p .ciares it to be a forgery, and the name A)essnder getting these lines?" and Mr. Robertson ansrvered a languages, written by the said late Doke: and this Ross, at the bottom of it, not to be the witness's " You have had g very active day about them, but deponent took with bins to the said meeting at Mr. hand;Atriling ; and a certificate in favour of a soldier in place of taking any thing from them you Wald. Omits's, one Gemmel letter and one French letter, of theliftib, name Fitzgerald, and a girl named Urqu4 rather give them something. . • written by the said late Duke, for the purpose of bart;thnwn to him, he also declares to be a forgery. John Mooney, pirate in the RBth regiments gave comparing them with the said instruments. And this Sarah Urquhart, or Assert, late servant to Mr. similar evidence to that of Fitzgerald. . deponent further smith, that the said written instil'. Grant, of Rpthiemurchus. Witness was married in Mr. DRUMMOND charged the Jdry on 00 part of meld in the German language appeared to this de- October last to Edeard Fitzgerald, a private in the the Crown, and Mr. MAITLAurI on the part of Mrs ponent, upon the comparison with the Said German 88th regiment, by the Rev. Mr. Robertson. She Robertson, end Mr. PRINGLF. for Pearson, and the letter, written by the said late Duke, to be an int- and her hesbasid, with M oo ney an d Margaret evidence having been summed by Lord Olites, the perfect resemblance of the hand-writing of the said M•Vitersoe, rolled upon Mr. Robertson on a San- presiding Judge, the Jury, after deliberating in thd letter, and that neither the spelling nor the constr uc- day, nbout'll o'clock, and told him they wonted to bot for about fifteen minutes, returned. • verdict, titoi of the said written instrument were equal to the be married ;, be said he would do nothing then, as he unanimously finding Mr. Robertson one of eeties. manner of the said Isle Duke, who well understood was going to church, hot told them to come bark at holding the clandestine. marriages as libelled. and and wrote the German language, which was his one o'clock. They returned at that boor, 'and Mr. both Panels guilty of uttering the counterfeit certl. own vernacular language, and especially that Robertson showed them into a little room, and said ficates of proclamation of bans, knowing the same go there. were certain expressions in the said writ. he would send his maid-servant along with the men b e coun t er r e ii e d, ten instrument which were unmeaning, and aboard is e place where they would get marriage-lines.— 00 Thursdly 'motning the Court sentenced Mr; in the German language, and which appeared to Tbeinen went away for the lines, and came back, R o b er t so n to i m p r i son me n t i n t h e j a il of connongsso this deponent to be tiorroned from the English saying 'they had been refused them. Mr. Robertson for three months, and thereafter to be banished from idiom—thus, the German word " auf" is used in then desired them to go down to one Peassores,end Scotland for life, agreeably tb the SiiliMP. Pearson the said instrument as eq uivalent t o the English word perhaps he might get lines for them. They accord. three months' imprisonnient, arid fourteen years' 66 of," which has nearly the saute sound, whereacthe inely went dow n to Pearson's, and the men went banishment from Scotland, wish certification that if German word 66 auf " signifies " opon," and thus in. into the house, and Pearson wens with them to en- he returned within that period, he it to be pablicly mead of speaking of a Kin " of'.' 15,0001. the in. dearwer to get marriage-lines. They went along whipped, Sic. . strument when translated speaks of a sum "upon" the South Bridge, bat . the men stole back, raying ...._____....—...........5......5.aa ____— 15,0001., and instead 66 of" Duke of Brettseick, they had been refused lines tiserealready. Pearson it speaks of Duke'! open" Brunswick; and indeed then went down to Mr. Robertson's house, and the NAVAL INTMLLIGENeg. of the mouth '•of " August, speaks of the month men malted at the top of the : close. 114. returned di. —mmsn— ,,,. " upon" August; and the Christian name of the ' tautly, end the whole went d own t o Mr. Robertson's Merck, MARCH 21.—The G oo d V OnidOttlelia late Duke in the signature is misspelt, and different house, but Parton went away. They th e n wen t down from Amsterdam to Lisbon, het pot in here leaky, friss; his habit of writing, being " .Wilehlm" in- again toPearson's, but he was not at,home,obee then having been on shore, and with loss of Mils, anchor. relent of " Wilhilm," and the 'skis ii signed walked about for a little, and in the vvviiiiiig I , ititeis .. end cable. anunivick et D'Oel', which signature, or the 'sig. and Margaret aM•Phers(an called at Mr. Roliertsoit's Pompton-en, IN/ARCA 21.—Arrieed his Majestee Satyr, Brunswick OAS, the late - Duke did adopt booze, and the men waited at the door. Mr. !Lobed 4iuring the ties be was' dispossessed, of his do. sets told them all to go down to P e arson's; And he ship Leveret, from St. Helena—railed Jan. 7. Left minions by the French, bet Ibis deponent-believes would follow then., and come in at the bark door, there his Majesty's ships Contieerer, Racoon, and lie did not use Ater his retasn to his dominions in and to tell Pears o n so. They accordingly went Musquito, and the lion. Compiny't trait& St. He. Ithe autumn of the yell. 1813. And this 'deponent down, and were showed into !Akita:back room. lane. _ further saith, that the seitiiirielte ipstrunient in the Pearson said he would do all he could to • advise Mr. The Mercnry, reported last night, spoke 14 • Fronds laming* appeared' to this deponent uprou'lt.• tri marry them. Some lisle after, Mr. R. came lat. 38. N. long. 10. 30. W. the. A merican ship Mar. comparison witkshe Fim* letter of the said Duke into Pesrutu'f, and said he did not.know what garet, from Liverpool to America,. out 35 days, ell to be also en imperfect resemblance of the hand. to do. Pearson said to Mai, be dared to ay be might well.—Sailed his Majesty's 'ship Cadmesi foe Oboes' - writing of the said letter, and that the construction marry them, for he might recollect that they bad got nom -el the said educe initrument did not appear - in be a thing Of the kind done before, and had got the lines I)W 5 LTetITIT, MARCO 2g.-Camp 10 . 11lie . l i tai411MP • .... equal to the manner of the said late Duke of Bruns. otter, In had sent them after.the parties. Mr. R. ersnsvort, from p orfimsna d i fn ., m inuare ; and the wick in writing French; and that the signature of the said ; be thou g ht he recollected that they had done said instrument as also Brunswick et D'Oels, which that ;end Pearson and Mr. R. then walked into Kitty, —, from Bristol for Gibraltat. w ' ---.ln----Z; this deponent beige,s as aforesaid, the late Duke was' another room, leaving the witness anti the other .. CORR FACMAVOR, MAXON Ss.o.Weileksits fresh not in the habit of using when the said instruments. three by themselves. Pearson cense back. and asked . Wheat this mornsno. end *hat Utile of 'beer date; and,this deponent further saith, That her 75.6 d. from each couple to get the marriage-lines. arrivals of ed . said Royal Highness With in her said bill filed against flames had not so much money, bet Pearson 'aid fine ratify remain - aver from Monday Iwo die t . day'l prices. ..esFtwe .Barley being . soiree, 'the ]surd of Liverpool and thisdeponent, founded her Vorepaviors could not think of doing it until they got Poled of at that . sold readily at arsedvance of It. pot littlft: -sauna upon the said written instrument in the French- ille: It obey; and said if they would be quick and Ilingiage for the re-payment of 15,0001. sterling; and get it, be w orld remain, as he was not in a great —The Oat trade was eticeediegly h oo ey, C o d t i . imp f . f or quarter . rhea -Oda Peas and Beans there is tr• alteration. also upon another instrument in the French- langssage .berry. Wholes tied the othet girl Alen went of the same dash for the re- - payment of 15.000 Loebs the stoney, sad seems net away minutes gone. Whets deFranre ; and this deponent is informed and be- they came brick, Mr. Robertson was sitting with the The ships destined for thttoyage of disesseety ef Neves, that in the Month of April, 1817, her Royal two men, and 'citing the WO Uses he gave them. the Northern Passage into the Pacific, we ender .., Hi g h ness awe d the s aid l a tte r i ns t ru ment to be pro- Firgetald gant 74. 64. foe MO Of the lieu, and . ss. "tend, willed tbis day front tbe River. The incere . (Weeding . payment in Brunswick; and tbiadeponeot to bk. Robertsosst win pat it to his pocket ghtseg I elm entvittent o f e st eem, ga d the sea a m pi shi ‘1 advisettiutd verity Wino, that pretiess to patting ISt : to Amos to got Oa limes. toms Oa t that 1 bighost-boattk and ve. -d, ) ( we. e • , . • =~?'d . • . 4 ' 4 . . a ....' •• - ROCH IA E LIWIYON4 • . 4. pro4ent Leiteey, which route inearro Port of 131 SH way, they ills y eve, be ro- ller make a tacky patchy , * liefort Ti as the report - it tome test the Tickets are going of. ! 72ZMIZION . . • • • • • • • • . • • • •• • • . ,