The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-01-26 00:00:00

D I. Jr' " Of course this bloody, base, and atrocious BRITISH . 4EMY IN m:irtier has caused much anxiety on the part of every British Officer. Memorials are going in on all sides =TRACT or A tssite otisa st to Lord WCLLINGTON, that he may not suffer it to " itasprri, D. s, 4115. go unpunished. It has caused a greater convulsion " The army has not mush changed either its posi than I ever before witnessed, and, no doubt, w i ll tlon or its circumstances since my last. The right, produce some strong consequences. under Sir It. HILL, has thrown its left a little for.": ward towards the Adoor, and its right a little back 4 " I am much occupied is . every way, and hare ward towards the Nicene ; this is in consequence of Duty time to say, that you shall hear from me by its luting supposed that Son LT is marching on the l every opportunity." right bank of the Adour with a- conpiderahie fo ; with intent to attack our right. If this Om • Hall past T%beive u'Clock. P. M. Jan. 26. Lord Wttzttidrort will, of coarse, suppot:t It, a a - action ill he i itabte. I neral,. in w. mew; The AmerkeiPSESIDENT'S Speech to Congreu has , ge 46 The French are suffering ouch from yule. this morning been received, and is now posted at all sorts.. The whole of the are - *-+andi.d . ,~, ~~ Y,_,' 1 tbe I4rk4rfai. 4stiva, - . bed ._ :b at Santis' Citts.,iii qtwat or 'two Frew% 'frleitteii and. having water," wiled attnill anille-44101. The Cystic ilt appotated to cndsi on' i t , this .' De tille,92lo.last. two large French frigates passed . ' the ii Ilimis‘ tiniopplaeflipaalsb colonel., ateering snitir eto'Y s a l ,f. p ,, ..: . .' l ._:: • . .' . IF 1 Lliiiirrig:lg st. ID awd 21.—The Adventure packet tree; Jt!yi!!cliji . arrived at Sing/ante. The Baum fri,ate, with a tfesielOasetty lir itioneY on board, was to will a few days after IrbeisUrifigia.:. ka touched at Beivauda, and learnt that the itsses*llleaciliart trilgite had arrived at Boston front roped Cape Hon', sod that the Presldent, Matedoninn, and United States ''!Atilled an - The ' frignies it cruise. . Lapwing packtt bad befit retniessasit.r.aniesi inns Jamaica.—Arrived his Majesty's ships from a anise ; and the Pacenius frigid', &On NO,. • • = F;;; , . • . • • • LAW INTE.LLIGE NGE. • . • coLTAT OH : J ANi ‘25. • ISt wOttuls• ; .- I,l46.tinfittioAtesed fora role to show dan3e r toe' Urdie"..i for the Plaintit in this case - should it4it ib t stet aside, and a new trial granted. The action ? :41Sis'•iifed at guildhall, on ths lgth Dneember last, before hcird Eti.co l ottottdo, and was for the non perfortnanie oft Contract far the purChaw of a quan. tity pi cotton yarn. It Appeared by the etidence, that the only tnetsturaUdato in writing at the contract, was a bi l ig i f parcels, in *MO the D..fetulatit's trintn in 'lt "lit nf .CopperrAplate ) Bought oL omit Norris !end ' Co o , agents." The 0140-tiff's name s the dile, leek the Test of the bill..qt.pireels, *es - .. - suppli form. A Wrier, fr.aa a ..-__ Lt.o up's, but trans its great length it is impossible to by Leland navigati on , n o t a si a gle.b orse o f any bind-- Li..eselt,..oll°,,PL•Geetee; sad the Wellingt°""P"rt 6 r'", Bei .- written by the Defendant . 'rhe eitaase'ted Counsel get a copy. It b dated Dec. 7, and the copy ate eemainieg, all being pressed for the Army of'tito ' n . 7 ; r 7, '"Y' ..-.. -.e., ea .. 4s-Arrived the ger h i red turned cutter, a objected at the trial o ther tills ivg. nbt • i suf fi cient Lt.ovn's is in a Bermuda Paper of, the 18th of that, - Neigh. 'rhe &dour belay so far in oar power tit MAI ' ' note, • e ridm in writing, of b • • esetta •slutpatchea from the beet la the Scheldt.-Sailed the Reim. " r in nl Q.'" e --etthe seggies ' month. 'lt occupies 5+ columns of that Journal we command the left bank of it, the !meiotic* v i wl • . •ib do • Immo iter potehes for Admiral* irming. . made and signed by the patty. tit be ft:Verged by remit ...' • and wilUnta leelesttie titan three of one of ours. All of course , stopped, and no applies can be receliett e : emi t a( JA N. "V.-Arrived the American schooner coettrect," within the 1 h it- section of the teatute of which produces infinite distress. Lerd•WeLLINGTO* 4. SOW, ( iestseetemenah to F rance w i t h cotton captured by t h e frauds, 29 Carr. 11. c. 3. ; but :the objection was Olt litotes .colleet beta those who have read it, is h as set a ;„ germ; fla gs l a t e l y B a y o nn e . l 1 r i ' - ' - to tI i did* jai- b rig ; sailed Dec 9, and brings oir sews. over-ruled upon .the authority of the-case-of eau ntiere . that it is warlike spinet this country from beginning Amid, that in his last communication ha idointed the' ' 1 I: e • . 1 •• .4e. • . , son v. lackion, 1 B. and P. 'MA, although Lord I ... .tea:id. .. . . . :the people, that having decided to attack •it by Sfs AVlils.gitr OF MR. It ''S BIRTH. ) Ellenborouge gave Mr. 'rapping leave to move upon . • . „. t e tte fo pool basitiet e lyeen posted :--el Senneds v i . , result, be should confide that operation to the St • e e .4 - - & . t ' --. , DAY. • .- 4 .• • I the point. He nisi submitted that case was (limits *. ." c • Wards. The result of which might be perfectli ' e eee _11 ,7 Oat. 9 sit elec iti it. . IS e have this woe: derstood, for of, coarse, minder, coulaqiitt* eliellotley last bang the Anniversary of the Blith- •no recognition of the hill of parcels by a subsequent plot received* 'Wax Paper , of the 15th inetant... i rape, and robbery would naturally ensue. lies lute - .• M fox a . r.number of 'etoble.men and Gett-.! letter of the Defendant Mmself. No evidence was M :Ace fo r laying au Embargotin the United States; ewer to this is not inel the Spaniard el ' ' • ' • IdrearthTetetose, with the .14intibeeil witleCeel.at. tite • 4eitti, thatethe Defendant had caused known, -• . t, ~ .14 . :1 1 144" 4104 GOV ess by a large majority. • . . liteetainly ordered op, and it ii . tiederstood. • me . eta b, in cemmetnoralion of the priocipito his natne - to be printed upon the bill of parcels; and - a - • attack will he made by thetaeses the weskett it • that enlightened Stalinisten. Tho.Eacl the statute expressly mid, •that the inemorauduni will be another Badaeoe besieges., taut Will vat& et A. ' was i n the Chair, and he was s uppor te d ; shall kw $ 4 signed" by the party sought to be . i blood, bat I think we shalt get on. - _ .', by Jinni Erskine, Lord Say an d S o l e, • Lord ry : charged- To sign, was- defined to ratify by mt./tine - ; t ' 1 A eery curious report is Suoiteadustrieusly cir- °.artd. Lord William Fitzgetakl, Sir Arthur Piggott, and in Lord Colte's Commentary upon the stet. ee l culated throughout theewbele army. It is said (and Sir liens. Hominy, Mr.Byttg e ltr. Alderman Combe, ;H.B, et clear distinction was taken, by saying, that. it is unnecessary to say rein' whence, of course, this Mr. Calvert, Mr. Adair, Mr. Dudley North, Mr. a bargain and sale must be in writing, and net by came) that the Marquis of Weeenneroe has received Wilbraham, Mr. Martin, Mr. Howorth, Mr. Moore, print or stamp. plenipotentiary powers from the • A.llied Kings, to Mr.aillaaison, Mt. Honeywood, Mr. Serjeant Run-1 Lord Eetzwaonoucit,—ln thin case the subsea negociate a peace with BONAPARTE ; that such a ne- ningtein e Me.. W. Adam, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Norton, quest writing by the Defendant is tautamonnt to an gociation is, at Ai( moment, absolutely going on„ :.j- of other Grentleitsen. This Duke of admission of the printing, direct, between the Marquis and BONAPARTE ; and _ : s the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of '. Mr. Justice BAILEY— She Defendant has said that the Allies have confided. thus to Lord W. their , Lord Morpeth , Lord John Tovrnshend, that the Plaintiffs have " bought of him." most important interests. The following is a prqiet Sit .Aubrey,, Sir James Mackintosh, Dr. Parrei Lord Eetetersoaotton.—lt is too narrow a con• which is handed about as what it is iteagined will be ands then distinguished persons, sent letters, stating-, struction to say that the party's name must be writ the result—it is said to be the French pr4te:bound*. , that they were unfortunatelyy prevented by differeut ten with his owe pen; many permits from infirmity First BONAPARTE ill to COnfielit that the cameo from being present on an occasion so dear to . use a stamp for their nitrite. ... . ' every genaine friend to liberty e e .. 1 Mr. Talent-to cooteteled,l6lo a :died to bind a ries of the Fietich Empire sha ll be the Rhine, the • , , . .. ,A.teseatent.r.,. inn 'eloquent and pa- party must be ht writing, althoogiceit 'need not he Alps, and the Pyrenees. The , 'Gnome Princes to i ketsigor ss, paid a just tribute to the memory of „even sealed by the party; and the Stamp' Act, el settle among themselvee ter future mode of Go.' • .e„, .• , • . the piestainne Patriot, to which every heart responded Geo: ll[. recognised a well- krtown distinction be verement. King CuA MA'S-R. and i IF Kee; _ eRDIN4I:I er end they drunk to his memory in affecting rile cc.. , twine tbetters printed, written,• or ertgroseed. VII. to be restored to Spain that the Spaniardseolew e 0 ,6 8 ,1 e. - riteeimet: haeots.which he used himself to give / , .1 Lord Ezaermeonouettee-If this stood on the print. !choose which of them thy *please for their let h. • ag: s of Liberty all over the Wortti,7.atitt , - I ing alone, it would not he brought home to the De -1 JOSEeit to retorts to Pk pies, which bfuapi, of ••• . oft*. People:' fetal ant ; bat' when the part) , has made any su i course, abdicates. JEROME to be King of Switzer. of w . be was the strenuous asseetete were the quent mark in writing (which is the meaning of fhe i land. lel usat to be King of Genoa, with a king. twit tents ; swathe Noble Fent followed it by a pen { , word skein e gie that stet draws down, adoily ) ltittel 1 dom made for him. For *hit s Sicily, St. Dotningot ' meat tibich was most cordially re ceived — recognises the *Mao precedent mtater e e ..- ... , 1 , and all the East indiaiscolmeles, French, Duteb, Dee! .Pear,i,oeihe prlOciptes of Mr. Fox's Continental Politics. , „ pretties f l esh See. to be ceded i s R ag l an d . Guadaloape to Thothealthof Lord Holland,who was tad by 1 Mr. lor /quite-Bee here there Is no signing by ! ) t h e e 10 body. . - • •'' s pi • Sweden, who it also to exchtenge Swedish Holstein ' lodittesetition Mies attending, wa s' drunk Witfi 3i, • Mr. J. DeitiPtiteaeein the for Not way with Denmark . All other Colessies to; most antiouiewish for his ipoedy rieestablishoweet. ' i Jackson{ r• . e Mete Was no slgna ' revert to their former posseesoes. Attst rift to have p , This Doke of 'Angier, the et4rquis'of . Douglas, , e , e , ee .., ner..til Is" 115LAPtc.—".uppo large dominion on the Adriatic.. Poland to bee recteit'•: Geed ',William Respell, Lord Anson, Sir Charles ' , into a kingdom for the Grand--Doke G•sgrairivoi4 4 ll , uaresment with the e l e tletetteiltemen of all the other Meetings "P m P ed-a e -.------ . ' The Duke of Ceerantnce to. be Matter of lianntsie; WS *hi Dublin; , pdinburgh, GlasgoW, bitch. MaY oat acs be i prin ' and the Prince of Ottattat King of fialbsed: , ,• At , " *•.• ' le l .bleu, &c. for the same p ar . t Me. 0: WAS T. It s net . et et e'dru k. n w Welt interest. t parties shooli .... st 1 atlea A . i. " This is really handed about, anir so ' - . • ! 1/16. 74 1 ' imnINIIIO* - assy r l3•- f.tieteEmut, that arrattgeettenteesteerefeliblig itt y.,.,-._ . ' -.-. . ! . l Lord ELtastauspagispo.alipi i Misers, as to their eventual di 100 •dining.: MIL ..e -..• ~ .. ' • e ,e - e - t' s ' a i l li tite , •• . e te...e.... - .• l e o By On . party •sought!tip ue'emet ..r • ! peace. France will be inundated. wit"- Beitiatte-•' . . • • ' et c•hidee ls at ' t o mistime t pie In point of fact s subteribett•tte None who can afford to travel through France will ii „,,,ii. e sp r .. l - t e r ? : - : --- , . • •.,. ; . ,__ as much as if he bad said; return home by the ordinary mode of et/tweet : is; • ill fr ielb " r " liiti Aid iNypeatipve "'"'"'" "I' "e • ebove,printing to hail hems done by .. 1 hut passing through Bandeaux and Paris,' return to •= 1 1 1:7. 1 471 1 ;4"41 1 i bel p : T v s e: 4 4 4 :t "al ?' ' • ' ,charge me hereafter." • If the card stood iteritioeveiro England by the Channel Ports--a eitort time will The Earl of Landertbito and the Witigsof Scotland. - - •p-•-t nting *, it wouldri ,be differeet ; but iterififiti plot prove this; one circumstance is publicly k """ i :1 1 : • l ' :a r tes' a" o 4 4; 4" .e d o l e h tZ li rretl f s l :rtivii sad ftcligloas Fite- lag is appropriated amid authenticated by 'tie fiend., here end is authentic, that constant communications d oe l a ho t alimiseli of Ptulioment. 1 i writing of the party eought•co be charged. are kept up between Lord Weeeteoroe and e —OULT, - Lord erAtor, wod the Trio! by Jury. • I - Mr. J. ,BAILEY.--ThiS ease is entirely out of•the rvedoin of the Press. and that the letters of Soviet are most regularly dip - 1 The Taie rlhhap of K , ielt , and the other distinesisbed Meeilberg ' mischief which the statute of feautlen'as designed to patched to the English Government ; that Lord. W. ; of the Established Chards, who prove thc sitteeriky of their own i remedy, The terms of the cootettethereilippear in is said to hare declared, that the Emperor of i letio s T un atian o •• na i i lrhe a : t i t iaP i ej e t; e r n i d ae cree "P o it;ir k t e s the ;the hand-writing of tee parlyeought td becharged. AUSTRIA has uniformly rejected every idea of de- . Mr. Vett. find Ibllndependence of the Scots Kat. -i-'i ' Mr. J. DAMPitit.—The case of Sautiderson r. throning BONAPARTE, and that it is an article of the Mr. Iliaaket, and the thdePendetwe uf the 1r" Bar. *.i i ,..4... Jackson governs this.. erheree;ir ts true, that there Confederation that no effort shall be made to alter Tho Noble Chairman's health was drnk witting, • wa s a subsequent letter rarefying the contract; 'but. the Government of France, but solely to restrain it , w ' • thanks for the high spirit of conyivi id 4-4 Lor d Eldon intlniseet that he would hate decided within such limits as may ensure the safety and rode - I willeet . - intained ; and, in his address to tile' the case the same way without itee-Rule refused. pentlence of other stations—this is the present sub- coutipinfOn return, be made a most feeling o eulegiona lf a man draw-sap an agreement in his own hand jeet of conversation. Strange 'as it m a y appear to ,on his deceased friend, and.coucluded the ereilinglby-triting, "beginning "I, A . 11. agree," and leave a you, it is generally believed here, that the peace' , a foist, • which was drank with enthusiasm— ,_ I . '. •pilliee fora signetteee at the bottom, bat never sign will be negociated by Lord WELLINGTON. 1 *ay- Om ite t neintious now in forwardness terminate man It it May be considered as a note or memorandum i honourable peace. t " Poo r Colonel 'WOKE (son of Colonel Babas,' in writing within the statute, Knight v. Cockford, :Lieu- I - • .. of IVindsor, a great favourite of the Kt me's), a 1 F.sp. N. P. C. 190. See also Phillintore v. Barry, tenant-Colonel of the Guards and Adjutant-General 1 Campbell, N. P. C. 513; Allen v. Bennett, S of Sir K. ilietes corps, - is dead of his wounds ; he Taunt. 169. suffe.red mut+, and is universally regretted. " Sir THOS. STYLE, a Baronet of 12,0031. per sun. also a Guard's Officer, cut his throat here a few days aeo s in a lit of dejection e he had been for several e days in a very low state. He was of a very delicate habit, and the deprivations and fatigues we encounter were more than he could bear." . The stet .of Liveneow. waited open the Partrot • itEGENT yesterday, with the contents of the dis patches brought frove.Mr.,TitoltrfToN. • Yesterday, at four o'clock, theitussian Xtubas : seder attended at Carlton-house, and had a long IIII•.1 dienee of the PRINcE REGENT. The Emperor of Russtt, it is said, has sent his bust as a present to the Pittner.. REGENT ; and has . expressed, its letter to his Royal Highness, his in tentien to stay a visit to this country, as soon as cit.- : metronomes will permit him. His Imperial Majesty will he received with great exultation in England both by Prince and People. GENERAL PosT-OFEI‘E, JiNeARY 2, TWELVE O'CLoCE NOoNo•—The44•ollowing Mails hare reached the Pest Otilee, viz. :—Portsmouth, Brighton, Rye, Dover, Liverpool, Norwich, and Ipswich, Bristol, pool,Gloucester, and Worcester.—The following Mails remain due:—Bath, Birmiogham, Cambridge,* .E%eter, Edinburgh, Glaswow, Leeds, Manchester, ; Norwich and Newmarket, Shrewsbury and Holy. head, and the Taunton.—The Mails from Falmouth„., of thelld and 23d lust. remain due. TRIAIRNANLE PEAcTicEs.—" An Italian, who • resided here some time, and was known by the name * I Cou n t DE BANNIANO, ha., we understand, been inivelibed iu London, by order of Government. We de not exactly know the cause of his arrest, but , nee conjecture it is something of a political nature, as ;'iteoltalian female, said to he hi.: niece, resident *in Ibis town, had her papers seized by .an order from lie Secretary of State, directed to Mr. MORHALL, • the Bailiff of Cheltenham. This order was executed a few joys ago, and the.papers transmitted to town: theAsdy also received as order not to remeve from Chelfetlitem. The .Coaut tong served *whir !keep . , tenth's, In the beliefs wars,. and these received Les. • vere Mound In his side, which occasioned his lime . • nese. - tie professes to he descended, on the female • side, frOm an English Ihronet's family, of the name elf STILICKLATto, on whose property he makes con - liderable ciaimS. We learn with surprise, that a Mr. 13. 4 ", a resident in this town, of hitherto • w&) known loyalty and patriotism, has leis name intillicated in the Count's conduct." ( Frees the : Cheltenham Gltranick.) . Yesterday, Sir ALEXANDER Oactlnvti: left town for Portsmouth, in artier to proceed, without delay, with the squadron under his command, destined for the coast of America. The Admiral will he accom . 'vanied by a Naval Commissioner, who is to be sta tioned on the Lakes, to superintend the naval equip. • inents in that quarter.. No accounts frmn the British army in Holland imee yet been received. Wt' understand that Sir T. GillAitast has transmitted the dispatches expected frpjo him, in a drcititous 'way, through Lord CLAN CARTT, 09r Ambassador at the flague l and this is • the reason that they are not yet come. This expla ' salami will remove the uneasiueos that the delay has occatiioned. Ft'tomtit COMMON, JAN. 24.—This common has been impassable for several do's, the snow in some places having been 12 feet deep ; but owing to the great exertion of Mr. Wm. WArcanoesE, of the Sian with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and his assistant Mr. Aiatcs, the road is again opened and rendered; safe, who not only sent men from London and Mimms,bet employed a number of others in this'. neighbourhood, andkad the other Coach Proprietors I been equally active it would have been open much i . .• - . sooner, for which he has not'only got the thanks of 'fire Aostrian Minister attended at the Foreignr the inhabitants of Finchley, but travellers in general long consultation with who frequent this road. Such praise-worthy conduct Office yetterday, and had a. ..the Under Secretary of State. . . as this:comet be made oo public. CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 26.—The frost keeftewsr l it wu yesterday publicly proclaimed by the ,'marketbell at a complete stand ; nothing whatsdifet inan of erminersmith, that there would this day b. : -Itieneadting ; and our prices must be quoted sea* ... held a fair en the 'Thames, between that place And ,1 „wally the 6ame as for some time past. With resp e c t Kew Bridgo, the whole being deeply frozen aerosi.. Ito Flour, there are persons who call it 89s. per There is 01 be dancing and various other amusements, sack ; although they are selling it, and can obtain and anothor sheep will be roasted whole upon the ice, no more than 755. per sack, bat whibh of course which is toke cdt up and distributed among the poor 4 i must be expected, should the severity , of the frost elite neighbourhood. continue. i Yesterday the Churchwardens, &c. of the perishes 1 A Court-martial has been held at Sheerness, to try of St. Clement Danes, au& St. Andrew, Holborn,' Captain RsowiCK, of his Majesty's sloop Afercuritu, distributed to several poor families n great number of upon a charge of cowardice, in not chasing a Danish, quarters [olive* and coals. i brig of war, on the coast of Norway. Captain it. A most alarming fi re broke ont early on Sunday l was most honourably acquitted. ,The trial toiik ' morning, iu the extensive premises belonging to ! 1 pleas at the instance of the Second Lieutenant of Messrs. GtiOatizaar and Co. sugar-bakers, in Pen-' the Mercurius, who is to be tried by'a Couromer- nington-street; Ratcliffe-highway, which threatened i 1 dal for perferring such a charge against his Opiate. destraction to-the surrounding houses, and did great We have heard, from most respectable aothority„. 4ntastbOtore•the fire was extinguished. It was oc- ' that a convulsion of the earth,' exactly similar in ickisioped M. enuaequence of the overheating of the; effect and appearance to an earthquake, watieusibly ealMOolten, which lestantly tiny** the.place in , perceived about ten minutes before e i g ht o'clock, ow 111WAr. . 7 .. . . • I 'fhursday night last, at toil! Court, Harptosh &lOWA 114 twain out on Sunday morning, about Norton, and Old Radnor, Radnorshire; at Kniii, 1,1040 1 / 4 1weiv0 . ". 4 4 age premises of Messrs. Hurst and Court the oscillation of the house was plainly peso- Vbiso4 bake.ra w situated at the Half-way llunses, 1 ce ptible, And.felt by all the family, a nd t h at ton , l* : . .fil0.1 10 pOtili:, oust „in a. very short s p ac e of time Con ' sever al apartments, and • was accompan ied with ave.. i tri.ths snare ifigildings, and hattor the daring . culfar rumbling noise. A t Harp ton a BOSOM sfortia'elf relse•Wprthy eqertiquaggif the King's Artificers ' Ethers present, An whole neighbourhood joust thunder and lightning wp 41.1 porie ft aid *woe niiiii'v lOW sad at tile ems di s c f e ssissai.) -Are bre* tamed to ashes. NO lives Weft 10.0.. • . We . deter it necessary here to state, that mar riages of ,French" prise:tors of war with. English women, are not tecognized' by the French Govern ment, and the moment a Frenchman arrives' on his native soil, they become void, and the lady must de pend upon the generosity or honour of her associate, a‘ to her future rank in society, by a uniou. accord ing to the laws of France. . Perhaps it may not be unacceptable information .. z lO state that the Lady W. lately mentioned, in , * ;.runes, is the. wife of Sir Tiroauts Wise, Bart. a rsOner (or atenn) in France, from whence she •. lei' , arrived incog. and tau. by way of Marlair, 'Alt Long's Hotel, in Bond-street. This lady is the tester of the present Lord DILL6N and,fitieCe to, the ..1011rI MULGRAVE! • It is stated in some well-informed military circles, .tlp4.the cavalry regiment which exposed itself same i tleekago to the marked animadversion of Lord WEL -ListaTort, on account of plundering, has been 4 1Wenght under the consideration of the Patrice RE CENT by the Commander-in-Chief, and that his 'Royal Highness has directed the arrest of progressive 'rank in the regiment for three years. Several officers to con sequence tendered their resignation, wh ich ; have been refused. A measure highly Interesting to the future welfare of England, and to the permanence of the present dynasty, is, we understand s . determined on. Nei-' der has poblie runionr been erroneous in its desig nation of the person who is td possess the high ho poor of 4 matrimonial connection with the reigning family of England. The Prince of the House of Ottawas, already identified- with British feeling, • by his residence and education among us, and a partici psfor in British glory, under the illustrious WEL.. tiNOTOII, is, it is said, to he united yet more nearly to our interests, by leading our amiable Princess, 'England's best hope, to the altar, some time in tile course of peat spring.—Thnes. t4I.A. CONSISTORt COURT, liorroits' Coma°Ng s JAI. 254 • .0.111.% PARNrLL AGAINST PARNELL. This was a proceeding of Divorce brought by the Committee of Peter Parnell, the husband (he being a lunatic), against Attu Parnell, his wife, by reason of•adultery alleged to hase been committed with Philip Crask . ; and the question before the Court was, whether a Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor (a commission of lunacy having been taken out against the lunatic) had the power to in stitute the above proceeding. The Learned Jedge (Sir Wx. SCOTT) was clearly of opinion, both upon principle and analogy, that the power of the Committee to institute this suit must be upheld, he having -the care of the person of the lunatic, and also the care of all his property, and therefore the Court admitted the libel, SECONl)Aitirir OFFICP., JAN. 25. Muir:Vox OP ekstsers.—Surrn O. HAWKINS. I This was an inquisition to assess damages, in art action of assailt and false imprisolunent 4 in which Mr. James Smith, oriflrntiMg-strpet, was the Plain tiff, and Hawkins, 02,40.4 the City Officers, was the Defendant. The Defeeduot had allowed judgment to go against him daftilitt. • Mr. ERSKINE Opened the pleadings. Mr. SCARLE'rT elated the Plaintiff Cate. - - The Defendant, by suffering judgment to gn against him by default, had ttithdrawn himself from the censure which his conduct would have probably received front high authority, if the cese had been tried before an• other tribunal; but he had not withdrawn himself from the responsibility to pay such damag es _as a respect,. Able Jury, duly valuing the prote ction and liherty of the subject, should award against him. The Jitry were to consider how far It wss.to be endured in this country, that a peaceable and respectable inhabitant of the city of Landon, should be dragged from his house in the middle of the night, and immured in a • •., ~o ~... , I. r ,-, :: • 114ig "gf*l s' EgA • Ar FRANCS. • 4 AL ItiriLLIOENCE. • • POST OiLaTiNt,7tAnnivr a, Dna. • IN 011110111. Ot KANgt. 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