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.01 I.J srie w COV, PEW PARLIAVEKT. MEMBERS RETURNED. i f f ww Bornugh—la. Geo. Sams Campbell. tc. ditto... Rt. lion. Lord Arch. Caanphe 11. wr, ditto—The Hors. F. Stewart. isca Coonty-.The Right Hon. William D 113 1 ,441. onrquelt...Sir David Wedderburn. in—The Hon John Vluthan. o.County—Sir John Siorlair. CONTES TED ELECTIONS. YOSIIIIDAS—THIRTEENTH DAY' P S OLL Lord . Msl , n9 • . 471 total 100041 La,celies . 541 1Q.254 Wllbertntce . 491 11,175 wersarow• cuicrtopi—scvstitis DAY. s.r.lAhn Newport . • si Mr. ailitie • • . . 308 or gssa y--v4y 20— L1GHTH DAY. RIO Has. Maurice Fazgerald . 644 HeArr Agthur EA. 06 Coleue James Crosbie .41•1' Or TVALAICIC—MAY S9. — NINTH DAY. Wm.odeti, E. • 128 total 145 7 14,,, W. Quin • IU4 1091 Wm. rhumas Mousell, Esq. 55 . 764 MAY 30. —TINT/A. DAY. Wm. &WI. F.A. . IP9 total 1626 H un W Quin . . 197 1224 Wm Thomas Mneiss.ll, Esq. 61 826 COUNTY TIPMANY—SIVIINTH DAY. His M. Mathew . 303 total 1015 W.I. 1 , A P • • 206 . 1755 .1... m u.g...':, Eq. . 215 1393 L. resiaelathm. El. 123 967 FATAL DULL. Tie Drblie Correstendfst of the first of June, regains the following article r We are deeply concerned to state, that en Slurday last, at two o'clock, a meeting took place near Wexford, between Mr. Alccck and Mr. folcloup,h, Candidates for that county ; when nn the first lire, the tatter received a shot through the I-art, which instantly deprived him of existence The origin of this fatal dispute. we understand, was in consequence of the deceased procuring the te nants offs Lady who supported the int of Mr. Alva. to tote against him. We trust, that the whiter may rest here, and that this awful circler). once may restrain the unbridled impetuosity w'ih which eledioneering contests are commonly pur eed, and that, guided by moderation, each party may have the good sense-to let this fatal aft stand alone and unimitated hereafter." hia article only carries down the intelligence Wexford to the moment of Mr Culclough*s h, and is the latest intellireoce that has been irom slat quarter. Of the final result of t t ration, therefore, we know nothing ; whether th.ae Aentlernen who nominated Mr. Sheridan, had tne coo-age to keep it open in hi: favour, or whe ther. whirh is the more probable case, the death of Mr. Colclough had the effed expected by those who compassed it, ref paralysing the exertions of his friends. and terminating the contest. With the particulars of this fatal event we are not acquaint cd; but irons the good sense, moderation, and ha bits of Mr. Coklough, we are confident that tee challenge must have been sent by his adversary, or that a quarrel was fastened upon the deceased, which compelled him to become the challenger. this °nisi.", we are confirmed by the general state of politics and parties in that county. as well as by the events of the last twelve months, within which, the present is the third Election that has token place. The first was in consequence of the elevation of the present Marquis of Ely, one of the then Representatives of the County. to the House of Veers. Upon that occasion Mr. Colclough proposed his elder brother, wbo has been many years resident in France, and Mr. Alcnck, the relative of t'e Marquis. was set opopon the Ely interest. Mr. Calelnugh, in his advertisement on behalf of his trotter, stated, that his chief was " to reserve the miry hogs the tyrannyof the Ely family," at which apression the Marquis expressed greet indignation. and immediately went down from-Dublin to Wex ford, as report stated. to challenge Mr. Colclough. 'flee precise message that passed, we do not know ; kit Mr. Colclough answered, that he did not al lade to the Marquis, p 'tonally, but meant the gene ra political condua of his family ; and this expla taat!on was accepted. as satisfaanry. Upon that cc c awn a report prevailed, and was, for some days. th-lieved in Dublin, that Mr. Coleleugh bad been Vl:ed in a duel ; a circumstance which, in itself, fur ni.thes a proof of the hostile spirit which the public pan med to exist in the breast of Mr. Colclough': political opponent. In that contest Mr. Colclough', brothel • succeeded; and this victory was ill calculated is dimi t isle the breach between these two rival fami ' Oa the Disuslutinn of Parliament, by the late -.later, t he friends of Mr. Colclough suggested the stoprie s y of continuing to have for their Repte * native, a gentleman, now a prisoner in France, poiort of. whose return home was uncertain, aced led hin ns ly to become a Candidate for the county. • • • Colclough yielded to their solicitation, and was ...mad, with this friend R. S. Carew, Esq. Mr. - .ok was also a Candidate upon that occasion; wag aoorther triumph over the declining in 'a of the Ely family. Mr. Colclough, whose .rant, homane, and liberal principles, had en- J hilt to th,e etrunty of Wexford, war now con ea decidedly :hoe moat popular man within its si and the au s iability of his charafter in public • • : life, added to ere great weight of family I •si appeatod to bid defiance to an oppo. re. The change of Ministry, however, having : the friends of the Ely family again into they were revolved to make another effort I. tega i l that influanee, which, unfortunately for the country,. they yt one three possessed. Mr. :11- cock Was *evadingly brtrught forward a third in cok k..fatt with Col. Ram; and Mr. Carew having J clinall the eottest, the popular interest Vonnsed Mr. Jokti f:cdelougly and Mr. Sheridan ; the latter of whom not being ara.'ti s ed of the "'ea' .sure, Mr. Colclough bad to fi ght Pot °°l7' his own battl e , b ut t h at of his a b sent f e i es ,f ! , Saturday, the 23d last, was the day of noniinatjurfa and it then sweated that Mr. Alcoclia friends fOr l t .th .t not all their Ministerial inf! uence, or a e rr coali tion with Colonel Ram, could prevail. . 1 1. order to carry their point, the reign of tenor arcs re lived. and Mr. Ki.rg, who seconded Mr. Akock, attually threatened the event that has taken pholc• occasion In outlast page, in which may be read the painciples of the party ; those principles which stung the peasantry into madness, and made the county of Wexford the fetes of retrellicn in 1798. According to Mr. King, no tenant has a right to freely exercise the eledivz franchise; but the principal landlords may form a junle. and having seleßed a Mr. Akock, or any one else, desire their tenants to des% him their Representative; and if Mr. Colelough, or any other Gentleman should set up on t h e popular interest, it is wicked and ungentlemanly, and he must answer fbr it with his life. Wit appeal to the sp,eol, of Mr. King. as copied from The Ilferforil Journal; a paper, we believe, under the influence of the patty, and which, we must pre sume, has corredly reported Mr. King's speech. that Gentleman not appearing to have complained of it. This single case may afford an idea of the preßice of those worst of petty tyrants ; we mean that cla•s of Irish 'squires and Landlords, who re gard their tenants as the mere instiuments of their will and pleasure. It was from this galling ty. ranny Mr. Colelough 'might to deliver his native county, an attern;st worthy of his generous and li beral spirit. The threat thrown out by Mr. King, at the nomination. appears to have been Naively followed up ; for, although the sense of the county was' known to be decidedly in favour of Mr. Col elough, his opponents continued to head the Poll, and on Friday, the sixth day of the Election, the numbers stood thus : Mr. Altn k . CAmtel Kam . Mr Colcimigh . . Rent Hun. 11. II Filiecklan . 731 729 630 601. Nothing but the influence of the tyraneical prin ciples of this Mr. King, who. we understand, is a Captain in the Wexford Militia. could have pre. vented Mr. Colclough from taking the lead from the first day. We'd° not find. however. any aft of violence produced by this system of terror, until Thursday se'nnight, on which day Laud took piece between Mr. M , Cord and Mr. Standish Lcquay, both of Rou. Mr. MeCord was the particular friend and the partner of Mr. Colelough. in the hank of that town. Loquay is a follower of the Ely family. who contrived to have him made a Magistrate; but IMIJ Chancellor Pon senlay considered him totally unworthy of the office, and stripped him of his Magisterial au. thofity. In this du:l. the parties exchanged a case of pistols each, and in the second fire, Mr. M'Cnrd wounded his antagonist in the groin.— On that day also, old George Ogle. whose pious zeal appears to have been roused by the cry of " No Popery," arrived at Wextord, to peea,..a' the principles of liberty, so ably urged by the Militia Captain. Earl hlountnorris, who lib' a coma• derable interest in the county, had supported Mr. Coklough on the two former contests ; and, we understand. had promised his iopport upon the pre sent occasion. Indeed we do. not knew with what pretenvoas to consistency his Lordship could have refused ; and yet we find that the Ely motion were not disposed to observe those rules themselves ' which they seviald prescribe to others. the brilintat Col•invl Mo.siell, his L irdship's sonin-law, and the learned Vist:ount Valentia, his Lordship's son. were acme partisans of Aleock and Ram, horn the, commencement of the Sieben. Thus assailed. Mr.Colclough's I tienas determined to put fetch their strength ; and on Saturday minettng. Mr Ordeliengb published a spirited advertisement in the Wexford Paper, calling upon the Eleflors to come forward, with an assurance this those why had positively promised him their votes. were fully 'anti:at to .place him at the head of the poll. The appeal, we may presume, had the desired effeft. The fatal doel was sought at two o'cloc.Lon that day. This is the second time Mr. Alco4 has thought fit, when hard run on an Eleftion, to appeal front the sense of the people. to the pistol. He was twice the opponent of Sir John Newport, for the City of Wa terford ; upon one of which occasions he fought the worthy Baronets and this is the third time wh i ch, without recourse to a duel, he should have heed defeated by Mr. Colelough. Mr. Colclougla was the second son of the late Sir Vesey Cola:lough, who represented the county of Wexford for many years in the Irish Parliament. He was a man of plain and unaffected manners, of a candid and in genuous temper, and of liberal, generous, and co dependent principles. He was the best of sons and brothers, and the kindest and sincerest of friends. His mother lives in Dublin ; and his only and elder brother has been seventeen years resident in Fiance. Mr. Celciough was killed in his 34th year. On Sunday se'nnight, Major Annaasou and his Lady, Miss Pali ltaToll, then niece, and a draughts m in of Newcastle, sailed from Slit-lds, on a voyage of observation to Iceland, to return by the Orkney and Shetland islands. Among the very striking features of the present Lottery, is the extraordinary one—in fat, the un precedented circumstance of a 30,0001. Prize in a Scheme of only 20,000 numbers. When its nume rous concomitant great Ps izrs are likewise consider. ed,and that there will not be three blanks to a prize, at any period of the drawing, the superior intrrest of a Scheme so advantageously construfled for ad venture, must be apparent. It is no small matter of surprise to framers of lottery Schemes, that with five thousand less numbers than the last Lottery contained, the present Scheme, nevertheless, should possess a much larger Prize.— In truth, thr 30,000 pounder, with the number cf other great capitals, in a Scheme of 20,00 s Tickets only, and without three blanks In a prize, are cir cumstances so extraordinary, that there can be no doubt of the present Scheme proving one of the most popular in the annals of Lottery adventure. few days ago, there was kn account given of Blood Sucker Worms, coming off by the mouth of a child, aged seven : these vermin lived 10 days. in cold water, during which time some young ones appeared in the bayou, the size of hairs, three inches long . Another child has voided a round worm, 12 inches long, of the terrier kind t it is full of young, which is plain to the human eye. The last child had been aftfled variously, for many years, and no medicine had reached the malady, until Dr. Gammas.% Worm Medicine. 'clie above may be seen at No. 74, I.'ll,$ -sere, 'Ai reference to the patients, who vowed them.— Dr. GA111314111 is consulted low tiffs in the week, A - -- - . LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY-lONS 5. CHURCH R. •ARCLAT. This was an argument upon a Demurrer. The Plaintiff filed his bill in this Court against the De fendant, a quaker banker, praying a discovery of evidence, and relief Against a verdia obtained against him in an action of Ejeftntent, tried in Cam bridgeshire. in which he claimed certain premises, called Cambridge Heath, as a freehold. The bill charged, that the Defendant bad obtained a verdict on the trial, by fraud, in gross and criminal, as amounted to forgery, perjury, and subornation of perjury, as Mr. Hart, one of the Defendant's Counsel, contended the charges of the bill amount ed to ; he therefore trusted the Court would not interpose its authority in a case stated :o be so fla grant, as amounted to incredibilt!y r Mr HA RT contended, t h at if his client had Iwo cured false or fotred deeds, and evidence at the trial, it was a crime at common law, and there pu nishable only. That if the Steward of the Manor had produced. on the trial, a forged copy of a Court Roll, to chew that the premises were not free hold, but copyhold, which could not be recovered by ejeßmenr, th-a Steward was suhjeft to an in diftment at law, and that the proper mode for the Plaintiff to proceed, was by a motion for a new trial in a Court of Common Law ; he contended, that it was not the praftice of the Court to interfere with other jurisdictions, as appeared in the case of Johnson, the bankrupt, a few days ago, where the Court refuse:l4o interpose in his arrest during his at tendance on the Commissioners. It was contended, likewise, for the Defendant, that this was not like the case of an unfair verchet, obtained under an issue dire fled from this Court, where it will always grant relief; and in some cases even against the most fair and impartial verdift. if a party injured shall discover material evidence,. subsequent to the trial ; as where a party found the receipt of his ad versary for the identical demand recovered against him, by the verdiet, or books containing a clear ac- count of such payment. It Teas finally submitted to the Court, that the eminent attorneys, Messrs. Lockart and Smith, concerned for the Defendant in this cause, would not lend their names to any unfair proceeding. The LORD CH AsceLcnte stated, that the bill con tained sufficient matter of equity for relief and dis, covery, although, on his first perusal of it he bad a doubt ; and even if it had not contained such matter, he would grant liberty to amend it, in a case where it appeared that forged and false evi dence was procured to pass a copyhold upon the Judge and Jury instead of a. freehold, to the injury of the Plaintiff, who not only suffered, by the Ter did agrinstliim, the loss of the land in question, but likewise damages in an aflion for the mean rates: under another instance of the same fraud, it appeased. that different lands were desig nated by the evidence thus procured. from the lands comprised in th• declaration of ejectment. It was clear, said the Chaneeller, that the charges in the hareem true, as the Defend int had demurred to. instead answering it t the demurrer admitting the fads demurred to be true. The Defendant did not appear at first to support his demurrer. but, by favour of the Court. was let in to re-argne it. Hie Lordiddip dissdiewird tfre simustrrer. area &roared the Rill to bk answered. THROCIEMORTOD. O. TODD. Sir John Throckmorton bei ig an inctimbrancer, with divers other persons, upon an estate, by mort gage, and there being a very tedious lawsuit re. speaing the mortgaged premises, Sir John entered into a contra.. 4 with a Mr. ['odd, to assign or make over to him all his right and claim, under the mortgage deed, for a sum much less than that due by the deed. The other creditors of the estate have obtained a decree for the sale of the lands and dividends of the original mortgagee. Sir John, petitioned to be allowed the remainder of his debt, over and above the sum paid by Todd to him, under tne contrast, aad that Todd may be paid out of the dividends in question, the sum by him ad. vanced to Sir John. It was contended, that the contraß between Sir John and Todd was finding upon Sir John, and that he should have no further claim on the estate in dispute ; for that his claim was certain, although subjea to delay, at the time of the contraa with Todd ; and that his remedy waa only against Tocl , l, if he had any grounds in equity. The Lind Chancellor said to Sir JAI'. Agent, that he thought the intended snit against Todd, by Sir John, would prove difficult ; but granted so much of the prayer of the petition as entitled Todd to receive from the dividends the sum by him paid soden the contra& with liberty to Sir John to file his hill, on -or before the first day of Michaelmas Tem, but not after. It was suggested by Sir Alt TIM! Ptoore, that such liberty should be without prejudice to the pro ceedings of - the creditors at large, of the estate. Sir Samuel. Rosstt.ty here objeBed to the words •s without prejudice" making any part of the order; words which he said were never introduced with an,ither view than of creating some prejudice ; a construaion adopted by the Court, and saw words were rejeaed. COURt OF LINO'S BENeti, Wairm TTTTT hogs 3. The Court was occupied the early part of the day in hearing arguments upon special law cases, re served fir that purpose: the following of which was the only rule of any public imporwnce : MIL PITT'S LIFE. 00" DULL I. v. IiqoLDIIIVY and 0i1..1. This was a question upon a policy of insurance, on the life of she late Right Hon. William Pitt. The c.tse stat-d. that Mr. Pitt being indebted to the Plairitiff, 'he latter had an iusurable interest in his life. and effened the policy of insurance in qoestion, with the Defendant', for the sum of 5040. for the space of seven years, at a premium of 15 guineas. Mr. Put having died within that period, and the Plaintiff's interest continuing. he brought his :aliens upon the policy, to recover she whole amount, but previous to iektIOCI brought. the mi. gins' debt was discharged. by Mr. Pitta executors. The Counsel. nn the part of the Plaintiff, argued, that, notwithreading the original debt bad been paid. the i:steres• of the Plaintiff still continued in the policy, and lie was eutr.led :ALA action at law upon On the other hand. it was etintim:Ted, that the Plaintiff's interest in the policy of insurance. ceased upon payment cf the debt, by th tzecumrs, pre. vines to bringing the aftion, and, therefore, it was untenable. _ _ _ Lord Ettewaostouon observed, that the case stated did not contain some fads which were ne- eessary to be before the Cour?. viz. whether Mr. Pitt died insolvent it otherwise—out of what fund the «motors paid the debt. the nature and amount of it, kc. ? He, therefore, whhed the parties would consent to turn it into a special verdiet, so that all the fads might be before them. The case was accordingly postponed for that purpose. JUDGMENT FOR AN ASSAULT AND RAVISH- M ENT. TNIt icipo 4. ASAAff•K MIARS, and ALPS CRAM/Ir. Oar readers may recoiled, that the Defendants la this case were tried and found guilty, at the lad Lent Assizes At Chelmsford ; the man for assaulting. a girl of the name of Harberton, with intent to ravish her, and the woman for aiding and assist= ing him. A full report of the trial will be found in our paper of Saturday. the I4th March last. These persons were this day ►sought up to receive the sentence of the Court. Atter the report of the Learned Judge, who tried the cause, had• - been read, - The Counsel for the Prosecution said, that no ob servations he could make upon the heinousness of the crime, of which these parsons stood con.. vieed, could add any weight to the report of ths . Learned Judge. Mr. WICILT, for the Defendant, Aan Crean, said, that if the report was come, of which be bad a ' doubt, he bad nothing to say in mitigation of pis. nishment, erupt that this unfortunate woman had been already 12 months in poison, during the whole of which rime she had mrndueed Urea with great propriety. Mr. Gummy, for Hearn, urged the incredibility dew story itself, which was so muraordinary for singularity. That the woman had been the obize of abuse he could not deny, but there was consider.. able doubt at the trial, whether Hearn was the guilty person. The poor woman's testimony was al most incredible ; be did not, however, mean to im peach her veracity, but it was visible she might have erred from the imperfect state of her mind at that time. Lord Et tensoiousin—' , It is clear the woman waa infirm in mind, and tbat infirmity was in creased by having drank strong liquors ; Jila of that • this Defendant most basely and cruelly to k ads ea- tam ,. instice Cease., in passing the judgm.nr of the Court, observed, that these Detendauts had been convided upon the clearest evidence. It W 33 a case of such force and violence, as scarcely ever happened tc,,any unfortunate and unprotected fe. male. The aggravation was the greater as to Ana Crat'o, whose sea alone should have di*ated °ewe cogised. As to Hearn, it was his duty rather to have proteded,than insulted, an unfortunate woman, then under his care; and he had a very narrow escape of atoning for his offence by the forfeiture of his life. “ When we consider," he added, " the ioterest of those persons who are obliged to travel in waggons at night, whether as a case.fo'r public example, or of singular depravity. we are equally bound to pass sues a sentence as will prevent a repetition of suck.. crimes." The woman was then sentenced to three months ' imprisonment, in addition to tte twelve months she has already undergone, and the man to twelve n:rr•~. turther imprisonment, in Chelmsford gaol ; b ith to stand to c Ch a e zf r i in the pillory once in the Market-place of erd, within that time, upon a market-day. TUZ IILIZOOL JORIF MACLCOWLI. The Prisoner in this case was brought up from Newgate. to be admitted to bail, having been com muted by the Magistrates of Bow-street. on suspi cion of forging indorsements and negotiating Bills, to the amount of 40001. which had been not to Lou. don by different Merchants and Tradesmen, horn risherton, in Nottinghamshire, by the conveyance of the Edinburgh coach, and taken therefrom. It appeared from the examinations taken before the Magistrates, that about the 13:h of March last, the several notes in question wee-, by some secret rr.e.ins, embezzled or taken out cf the coach before. mentioned, and many of them nesisncisted at differ ent Bankers' in Derbyshire, rissicrrdshire. Chester, and various otherrpulteer -There notes were in dorsed by a person calling himself J. Warren. The Prisoner was apprehended by Adkins and Anthony, two Bow-street Officers, and was four or five times brought up and re-committed for further examination. ' Fourteen or fifteen persons were examined, but none of them could identify the Prisoner as the person who passed himself as J. Warren, and negociated these bills, except three, who could only speak to their Upon these grounds he was committed by the Ma. gistrates. In support of his present application to be ad• mined to bail, the Prisoner produced an affidavit. sworn by himself, Mr. Louis Bologna, of Covent- Garden Theatre, Mr. George Grimaldi and his wife. of the saute, Ann Thomas. Susanna Stewart. son, Letitia Harroway. and several other persons, *on clearly and circumstantially described the Pri soner to have been in their company, or transaftirg business with them in or near London, from tha 13th of March until after the 20th, in the course of which lime the bills in q-estron had been negociated in the counties of Stafford and Derby. and at Ches ter, and other places, upwards of 130 miles Irma London. Someof these withesses (Grimaldi and Bo logna) had accompanied the Prisoner one of those days to Woolwich. where they sAntormed in the Entertainment of Den ']rant at the Woolwich The. atre. Other witnesses spoke o f hi s d e s o kia s t e a with them, going to the play in the evening, pur chasing goods, &c. at such times as rn.ide it im possible that be could be absent from London, so as to be able to go to those various distant places for die purpose of negotiating the bills :n que•tion.— It further appeared, that the Pritonms i.. 1 t:een for many years in the h3 . 0 ., t of IvreFong a d.arv, which he was able to account for ever moment of his time. After hearing Counsel on both lid e Court considered it a case in which the patty might be permitted to bail.; and the Prisoner WAS accord-. • /Me _ - s /'"" _ •- j .~ . "14, e'• , " 01-•sti t +~ F! , i