The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-24 00:00:00

SP .. .•. 1 V I t ' ,~ - , • - ~~ { • mei . _• 'itlr': many sportsmen, because they afford the means of a monopoly in the manoriords, who preserve theft own estates, .and beat up those of their neiglihners.,, in many districts the farmers have almost exter minated the game, by destioyiag pheasants and . partridgestests, and young hares. This is the case' in greet parts .of Berkshire, ierrey, .Ilcrts, and arises from malice at not being alloWed to kill, them themselves, for the partridge does them ne . harm. The most destructive animal is the rabbit — it is formidable,- both by its means of subterranean concealment, by which itevades its:enemies, and by its wonderful fecundity. It was.once so numerous in the island of Minorca," that it got quite the upper hand of all the other inhabitants of the island, brutal is well as tinman. BUsching, in his Geography, under erticle " Minorca, Vol. VI. p. 2.7 t, of the Lausanne Edition, says, •" Les lapins y etaient au irefois si grand noinlire qua ler, kabilans tkman derenr tits seevies de troupes. a Auguste centre deli! : cnncmis°." This fact, or an tinny being required to subdtre the Rablait Nation in Minorca, is well 'attested by Pliny, lib. sill. c. 55, end also by Strafs, lib. iii. It is also mentioned in Ward's Natural His tory, who,says s that the produce that Is single pair of rabbits are capable of producing in four years, may be,estitmeed at, one million izro hundred seventy four theasand eight huhdreil and forty. Now this is a most formidable - enemy to the farmer; and haw dots the Legislature . ptoteet him against it ? —L.-Instep/L.o' f sending to his .amistoitee -regi ments of. isolates, as Augustus did „to the - Mi-- norkese, it 'ideally diearins. him ; for, ,if -the, far,. met is providc4 'With a dog mid e gun, it forbids - him, to useteth together, unless •inaeolt to lie what i calleira qualified man;-. which feW fiteeit6- by pro' fession are,- mid if he should be qualtfietireben must 'be also have a game certificate. But . ft the ;loon farmer kills '4.rabbit with dog and gun s Unqualified'. and uncertificated, he is liable to the penalty of the Game Laws. What then an he do ? Why, he may kill a rabbit with a gun without' a 'dog,' or with a, log without a gun; but both together he dare not use. Never will oar farmers subdue a whole host of devastators in this Way.. Xt.ls like permitting a man to defend himself again 4 a gigantic enemy with one hand only t *when Nature has given him two. It is not unlike telling him; " You shall -fight your foe -with your 'right hand, whilst I tie op your left ; or, vice versa, with your left hand, your right being hound up, butboth you shall not have the use of. And what chance can any man have of subduing a whole nation of enemies, a nation against which the great Augnstus . Ciesar waged war with his con quoting legions, thus manacled and deprived of half hit strength?— There does-nut exist a single rustic that has not sense to perceive, that this is not al lowing the poor farmer what is commonly called fair play. , It is a very extraordinary, circumstance, that the ancient law of England, which the Norman Kings swore to maintain, was exactly similar, with regard to game, to the modern French Institutions. The Normans broke their oath to make the Forest Laws , which always have been. deemed, tyrannical, charters were procured for the purpose of counter acting them. Thus did our ancestors vindicate what they considered as freedom, in regard to the chace. And Ma ckstone says, the Game. Laws ar:• a bastard slip from the Forest- Lewe s 'or • that despotism exer cised over the sports of the field,. te finely described. by Pope, whereby both man and beast (as he says)— GAME Ldit'S. "Man yawn on TIM ACIRICOLTORIS Or °MI COMMIT. BENJAMIN s . faet,Wooo's CASE. Mr. Stanwood declares, that he lately occupied the farin called Beating, in the parish of Great Mar. le* and county of 'Bucks; that he retided there up ward; of 20 years ; end that he quitted the said farm at .Islichaelmas, 1811, entirely ,on account of the losses_ he sustained from the devastation of his crops .by game and Tablets, harboured in a wood contiguous, called the Moor-wood, belonging to Sir William Clayton, Bart. Farther he declares, that befOre the said wood was converted •by the owner into a preserve, he was in a thriving and dull no men was then more happy and contented than himself, his farm having been very reasonably let, and. his landlord very kind and indulgent— . This eticou:sgement excited his industry ; and he thinks he ought not to be - ashatted to say, that among all his neighbours he has generally borne the character of an active and industrious husband man. ,Ile has had the satisfaction to rear a family of fite children in habits of industry likewise; and big daily comfort was, that notwithstanding , the pressure of the times, he was in the way of accu mulating the means of setting them out wellia the wesl4 This was Isis situation when the Moor w(siejosas converted into a preserve; after which, prospects ,iii lie underwent a sad change.- 119, crops were now devoured and laid waste by the eafmals baloneing to that preserve, both game a udirabbits : the tatter were in sucb abundance, that they ate ttie stound next the preserve as bare as if it bad been' pestered:with ft s.k .of sheep; so that the re • was nothing there eiduir to reap or to.rnow.— lt is est the nature of these apjmals to destroy even snore than they eat, cropping:the heads of unripe corn; and tearing them on the grona. His crops of ssitent were not only much triaged •in winter and spring, but also often treated in this way just before harvest; by *hick means, the loss was so treat, that sometimes he has Dot had again the seed he sowed. — A field, called the Fourteen Acres, then in wheat, was savaged so - much one season, that at harvest there'was not quite the seed that was sown on it, leaving him, the said B. Stanwood, an entire loser of the rent, times; and expences of cultivation, on the said fourteen acres of land, which cannot, ou the. very lowest estimation, be set at less than from 701. to 801.; ors which same field, nevertheless, there grew a crop of wheat this year (having been well protected) that has been appraised at half a load to an acre by Mr. Stall wood himself, on the part of the landlord, and Mr. Edward Sawyer, of Bocmer, on that of the tenant. Ile also declares, that in that sane year, he verily believes the hares and rab bits ate and destroyed as much as 20 quarters of bar ley us a field of ten acres, being, according to his computation, as well as that of his barnmen, about half the crop. With respect to the extent of his lossei by the above means, daring the four years previous to his quitting the farm, he says, that not having kept a regular account, he cannot exactly Slay, but he thinks they cannot have been much short of 4001. This, however, he is confident of, that he can, with a safe conscience, swear to their having been above 3001. He further says, that, he did not dare to make a free use of his gun for the protection of his property against the rabbits, because the keepers were always very angry and abusive when ever they saw him carry a gun, and because he nes very apprehensive that they ywould swear he killed game when he only shot at rabbits; for which rea. sons, he dill not think it safe to use his gun, except only when he could have a witness along with him to prove, in case of necessity, what it was he fired at ; and that, in these apprehensions he is not singular, for it is a general outcry among the farmers in the neighbourhood that they dare not use their guns for lawful purpo'es on account of the game-keepers. • Mr. Stanwood declares, that he bore all these hard ships as long as he was able; but-perceiving they were without end or mitigation, and that the real object of the keepers was, that he should cultivate the land, and paya•ent and taxes, for them atone to reap the profit, he grew quite_dispirited; and unable to con tend with those ,difficulties. Ile therefore wrote to 'his landlord, then residing in Devonshire, and who had net seen the farm for several years giving au account of the dreadful meaner in whith it was re. 'waged, sayiug, that unless be was allowed to'quit the farm (which was now become a certain yearly loss to him), he would undoebtedly be ruined before the expiration of the term. Upon which, his landlord consented that lie should quit that farm at Michael • mas, 1811, and continue to had the other, farm, on which he now lives in the same parish, hut, fortis-, 'mately, at a considerable distance from any of the preserves belonging to the Lord of the Manor of Great Marlow. Mr. Stanwood also says, that the thing which hurt him Nest was to see, that whilst he was:i losing money,' tliti keepers of`the Moor.wood . w a re accululating it. One of these men, named William _House, who was bit a poor labouring man when the Moor-wood was first made a preserve, gained so much money by the sale of rabbits, that in one . year he saved a hundred ponedi,which he pat oats, interest, as he, Mr. Stanwood, - bath been credibly' inform,,-, • and believes to be true. He farther says s , that, . in order to comply with the wished of his land. lord, though with little expectation of success on Ms A few days ago a person was arrested in Clonmel, part, he waited u pon Sir William Clayton, an d in who acknowledged himself to have been concerned formed him of his great losses; hoping that he would in a very atrocious murder, which was p er p etrated make him some compensation for the same • but t h a t Gentleman only laughed, and turned his back upon on a .young. woman, near Toryshill, . five miles, him. After which, lie was accosted by a person from Waterford, in the mend) , of Kilkenny, on I named Joseph Webb, who rents, a farm *longing the 24th of June tett, the particular* of which to the said Sir William, at Widmore, end is also his we communicated at the time- The Kama of the game-keeper there. 'I his man, design no doubt, person takbe is diNirtord,' he is not nineteen rears to please his m ore. treated Mr. Stntlwood with ex- old, and is from the neighbourhood where the foul treme brutality, and told him to go to Devonshire, deed was Calaalitted ` It arill• be r ecollected that . and get a trifle tram his landlord. In short, Mr. the body and head of the. female were disc r ayed. Stalktoed declares, that it hurt his feelings very in separate places by a boy, and, that an active, le e much, after having been so gra n d s loser, to be vestigation having taken place, it appearedlhaf, ta g p it like a common beggar, and, instead of be-1 wart/Abed of a pound note and a ten:penny. pitied and redressed, to be made game of , an d and the strongest suspicious of guilt were attae srosely instdted by this brutal game-keeper. to Aylward, who immediately tied; end a ru witiEss of the truth of all the particularthere considerable rewinds were peered, -be dadamei • I itelattil, I bare set my hand to this paper s _ dated at l effort which was made for his apprltontlin. Ito Old House Farm, October 10, hill.' • • has, we understand, confessed that be I* Prise" B 1 STALLWOOD. ' 'at the murder, bat denied that he committedit, and • charged its perpetration on Mtn nitinidiVeniffell• bsttslltAL SIEXASSIS, NOW FIRST POOLlintn. who 41st al been :tAre, and they are bath eon; Tie Game Laws- ere eonSidered it Ir eery great wkly 1 . 11 Kilkenny gikeLpt. steuitilkir 4,041,41 t grievance by farmers iu general, and even by a greats the nest s. ' --" For sportive tamnt bled, But while the subject starsid, the bettet wit= fed." * The rabbits here were (orator's it, such great numbers, that the inhubitant: petiti.mml Angindu4 to stud moue of his troops to bUCCUIIf thPiti g .o.te encluipc, -- LAW for th e Yl ait i . Viols this ihe [ Sot.fctror:-(. E Nhalii, tiff, submitted to he non-suited. 111.141Crir AND OTHERS V. lIIIRIEIGn. • This was action, tt a ko tt erresc,o ovefr t,ht. brought ne abmuroc uh h t. ) : . :, /t oe l fe . : a : r .a s c,4 . lal v ci i usa ten due' f o r a D " .. t • i fet ( al o a . ti b t, " tOOl. It appeared, from the evid , utee for the plaintiff that a Mr. Cristie, a customer of their house, nn j given his cheque upon Om to the D:fendant, for 'LOOT. but, from some particular: circumstances, ~i,t and instructions were girc t , to theliutCatpilile:eitflt tint wish it to be paid, awl therefore direct e d HI Plaintiffs, when it should be presented f(4 payme n t, to say, that they had tin efforts; hut it tuns subtle; queutly agrecd by the Flaintitfs, that they should say', it was not to be paid by orders of the tln t m.e a ll'(. lh .ll i ti e .. effect. The cheque being presented for ptivtutmt was accordingly refused, and the nods " not to 1 ) : [ paid by orders of the drawer, u " n w ritten torn of it. Upon a subseqoent day the sa. na cheque was again presented foeptiyment, but i n ti,, interim, the words which had been so writt:2:l were cut off, and one of the Clerks, [ circumstance, paid it. In order to briqg the tearer, [ action home to the knowledge of the D.len:l.mt, 'it was proved that the cheque was p a id t„ 0 ,,,, i l p ß a a i n d k i „ o : o f t t h : e ng l i m an i ti kfo n rt o ht t he e es, f Dst o n rf a l in . litn w c l: o i b c ny h tent[ 7 : • p a ed s p, a z:::: i i: dant, in payment of a bill of e xch a nge for a third !sperson.. Ihe lt r l e r. w l a ' s wi n e o lll tt ( C; of fraud ou the part of his Uieut, who, at the time he received this cheque from Cristie, was his (Castile's) creditor to the IIII10:12i or i 2,681. and, therefore, was'Well entitled iti the im. i meet of it. Neither was there any etkletice to prove that the Defendant was the persotrwho ore anted' the cheque for payment, or that he received the amount, the:fart being, that he had paid it away to another person. H., therefore,attributed the a ha.e cause t o the inattention and negligence . At the But:, , . in paving the cheque contrary to orders, and for i which Mr. Ciistie had-already obtained a venliit against them, in an action in the Court of Common Pleas, front [ whence alone the present action ar ui e. ! i therefor e, cvqu t e l : a t o t r he ha *De d fe'it a T n h t e r h e a b d e i e n v g e r n o presented , the known what was written on it, he was entitled to a 1 verdict-but he called no witnesses. Lord ELLErraoftonorr, however, thought the Be.r (evident should have gone further, and shown what Ihe had received for the cheque, and what he limb ' done with it when It Came bark from. the Bank with their words written on it. Hi knew i•ite'aitiiier that was given, and the Bankers had done alt they could. Verdict for the Plaintiff—titae.. : .. —......... COURT or tomiiilN ItO&LILTS, SPAR 11; AND 04iisat v.. SMltli AND OTHERS. This Wl9 . tin action to. recover 13,3001. the value of irship rimmed the Invention, which was lota awl on which Defendants had edected policies Of in. seeenc.e. . s • Prom the testim ony addtSeed on both'sldes, it Sp , peered that the property of the vessel in' question was ()fiscally vested in • two brothers, of the name -of Jacobbk and in the Plaints s, Sparrow, :Waits, and Plowman. , The., vessel having. gone teo 1 voyages, however, the latter ...f . which 'was' very I unsuccessful, Messrs. Sparrow,. Roberts, and Plow , !Ran; signified their intent Ton to :relinquish tittle i share in the teasel 9 and to have- nothing farther to de with her. .Under these circumstances.' the ~ s iiip ' became the sole property .of the two brothers (Jacebbs), and they proceeded to obtain a fieight , age for the River Plate, in South America, which they readily procured. 'they afterwards applied to the present Defendants, with whom.they made as in. etiolate, 'te the amount of the value of tha. vessel. The vessel having been lust, they, of course, became Ventitled to the amount to which they had 'etlieted I policies with Defendants. Pending these einem istances, howeVee, they (the Jac.obbs) became leek rupts, and an applicatiowbeittg made to the Defoe 1 dents for the amount of the loss sustained he the de struction of the lnventiess, liefeadaets produced a set off, by which it appeared thet the bankrupts were indebted to them in the full sum demanded. — This being the casee• Messrs. Spam*, Plowman, and Roberts, made aeplicatien in their own righ t, as /part owners of . the ship Lost, end insisted upon be ing paid the sum, to which tiler asserted they were, under that cireenstance,,entitW, alleging that they had never made a Written cref&rnial• renutirlation of their interest in the vessel. Defendaeli, hewever, the efeling thet this had nly ter the iusuraoreva credit of Messrs. o JacOtibs, fused to comply with their demand, and hence the present action _ .. : Vose! ... ' . .. .. , ' -;.sll'. Wei**. GlBall, 111 :talirptlif Cif tire eivraence, Rated it to be Ms o ; inloti, that as the evidence had proved the.relioquisienettl of_ tilt t wereet in theta , . eel on the emit of 'Plaint lif S; ', 'a n d ;as .it did not appear that ti.,e flefentleattied eyerJoakedio them i for the premium, that till ; ,Ote, !rt. liianta A° a verdict. • • .. . ... .. His Lordship hoeing 'Pies delivered Mk ' ;pillion, the Plaintiffs' agreed to be tionsuited, which they ci.- fonlingly were. • - '====7=l== . . ... ~,. . .4 1 h . roaeht F . Mr. IIIKNAIRD, District Surveyor, te„...n _ a complaint yesterday before the Magistrate's at Ma ti tiorough-st reet. against Mr. 'SCA Net sereetiten in Lincoln's Inn-lieids;7bat 'the two sitting' %Nis' ;rates differing in opinion, nojinignsent Was had.. "-- • On Satitnlay morning a •Gorlistone yawl, olds eight men, went out to some of the-ships in YJr• mouth roads, .and in returning for the pier, en der. (unatelv- upset; by whi ch melancholy . circunistaere they all met a watery grave, evert, one than, *IT reached the shore.. One of their compsnioni stand. hie on the pier threw 'the m a r ep e; and b:ing en ' tangled eitis it, f - II from` off the. pier, and stas ;drowned - . They have ill lef t fattiilies. - soeteet t 4CIiS. • Suit'. MILLEres Wharf. iirriiNd. A • &I'. Trusty tliallanra3ll..Leitio , •I 39 , 14, •"' 5, A . It. Sprightly (Suthcrlaatl), il.o. j 0 j tal -• ~. ~. . : .11E44 - WATKR .AT 1.0\10)04 BR MOH TIM 9 D%ll, r • lidrell*, DO inrneve 'after It; i _Evening: 10:osipestee aft: r J. . .• • tli 1 . •,, „. li f , i I t • t 0), ' • ; , I . 1. . , i. .i f. v ~•i a 4 1 i t t . , I ! • 'I ',. C 1 . t C .. S It a rt , _ • t II I . 1 " 1 1 l. 1 t ,, • l i l ' I I . • • 'll :• ' I I 1 .. , ' .;• . I i T tl • , r 4 I, , . ( 1 , , x I I 4 , 1 . . I. .:. 1 . l'y 11 i .., . . • . ~. t • t. : 1 1 ', i i .) . . . ' i ,:. 1 , l' •ii t , .„ ;* :' 1 ' 1 1 1 . 4 .. , , 111 , i ~ r i - • ;• 1 . ~. , Tt, :. :, f .1 ) . • 1 1' V i .e :: : i n+{ • .i f l ' • '. ' 4 .4 1 ' • I . . .. . •%. ! . . • .?. ' l . ' 11 ~ i'; I I c II! 1 : . 4 : 4 ' 4 , t 1 7 ./1 c _..t. ' • '4. POLIGE. BOW.STREET.—Wednesdav, .b.iot Smith, a . boy' Air* 19 years of age, was brought • before Mr. Naar s, charged with feloniously stealing a u atch, chain, and seals, the property if JosephWirt, ho keeps au eating-house near Lambeth Church. Lt appeared that the Pri.solier was in the habit of dining at the Prosecutor's house. On Sunday he dined there, and after he was gone the watch, &c. was missed from banging over the fire place. Oa Monday afternonu the Prisniter Offered the watch, &c. to pledge, at 'r. Lane's, a pawnbroker, is I loltiern. Not giving a sentsfaetori account as how he became oonieried of it, he was detained, when he said his aunt gave it to'him, which proved to tie false. Thundity the Prosecutor attended and identified the property. The Prisoner was committed for trial at the neat As sizes for the County of Surrey. Brook A4s on•Thoraday charged by Mr. Shipman. a gardener, residing iu Lonclim road, with at tempting to rob him on Monday evening last. it appeared that Mr. Waltman was walking near the Waggon and Bone; politic home, Newingibti,about nine &Clock in the evening, whoa the Prisoner cam! up, seized him by the collar, tbrew and wheat dewn, attempted te force his watch from Itith- :Ags. shipmatu however, resoled, and called loudly for assisiarkei wad the patroles coming op at the time, the Prisoner atielelAod to escape,. bat was aleeVelned sal taken late custody. - • Robert alias lifted Pat, MG Prier,. Ben Prete, Mo tu Clock.. George Bolton, Samuel Alien,. Ittanafteki Evens, T. • Aket, alias -Duddy°, and Thomas ?lab; were t 1 examied. M e mo evere . the Oiler , * Coi Al ling- Memo Prisonenlailbs Who 0 • es* ier-1 ouer, Kent-street, where the Prisoneet lodged, wes Mrtained as die. receiver. On acconst of the number of articiriof wearing ap dte. which welt found la their, pessessieu, they were Oeletaitted for re-examination, to afford tone fog the owners of the property to come forward. Snesticl /Vaunt a labourer, eMployed. is At Strand Bridge works, was chang e d with stealing two rec... of Amber from the works, toe property of MeOrt‘ Banks and Jolifth, the Coatrac. , tors for building the Bridge. lit was fully committed to Sew gate far trial. - • , i~ i . • ~" . . ^~? ' Ntt t.: Marriage. . COURT OF KING'S BENGSI agI&PMA 1 . 4 4 nig- 2 3. SPENCER V. BILLING. ' , This was :In action of trovcr, brought against the Officer of the 'Commissioners of Bankrupt,. to TRCo... ver certtin'goods, his property, alleged to have been. wrongfully end forcibly, taken away by . the Defend : ant, upon the pretence of being the joint property of Plaintiff anti • his brother, against which latter it commission of bankruptcy had issued. The Elaintikwas a merchant carrying on business in Cateaton-street, under the firm of James Spencer I and Co. while his brother, Win. Spencer, carried en ,re a similar business at Manchester, under the firm of ,ar Win. .Spetwor and _Co.—and the latter becotning fr bankrupt, the goods of the Plaintiff were seized by -1 f the Commissioners' Messenger, upon the grounds of r a subsisting co-partnership between the se p arties, and. tthe goods being the joint property o f both. On the Alf t ir the Plaintiff it was eutleavonweit to be Show* . AI ' t ISO such co-partnership existed ;_ * but it aim. 0: v *fitly . appeared , on the eya•gice. of the Defend. *ant, that such co•partoership did. mist - at end pre-. jar *US to the time of the act of bank r up tc y c ' forW 'twitted by William Spencer. Some letters betweere at I , " *bias pities were predated, .and it appeared, that, 4 co , iti the time Wm. Spencer retired from Mauchester to eatr avoirrhisctedirtors he wat.accompeniedin his flight 4t 7 by , the Plainti ff ) ; ,o'nd they - carried along with them 1 ----..-....------- As tv , -1- 'lllll the books of *o4l*--re141114 **Mg failscdal -.---- 'AIN MTN/ Pritgati sod l'Aigittil by U. 100110. ' I/ ih • -.},/ , fin (d . . ..- ..: ~ : .11 " IS' , ak —.•, " , . - 1 r 'mous ogitcs. Si. ficel.stvec - „.. v • . . ' • ' . . ~ . • r A. •2; rAliial6.o•ll 1701111 EMS. • COURT OF• CRANORRY, Dec 2S. LUNATIC PETITIONS, CALVERT AND CO. IN TIM NATTER OF lIIICPIRLAD ) A • LUNATIC. Mr..Rezireu. stated, this was the Petition of * Messrs. Calverts, brewers, praying that they might he reimbursed in the sum of 3341. which they had lent to the wife (the Committee), of the Lunatic, to enable her to carry on the business cg a vintner. The Lunatic Reid a house in Glass-house-lane, on' a lease from the City of London ; at the period when the CoMmission of Lunacy issued against him, the lease' had uearly expired. The Plaiutitis lent she ' money to the wife to put the house in repair, which enabled her to get the lease renewed. The wife was willing to 'repay the Petitioners out of the assets of the Lunatic, but could not without the directions of his Lordship. The LOUD CHANCELLOR observed it was not set forth in the petition what property the lunatic had to meet the demand. Mr. itourtr.r." He has ather leasehold property, my Lord, besides the house in questiod.” The LORD Cirascntoa—" ft may be So, bat 1 there.is nothing before me that shows it. I thought had ! explained myself sufficiently yesterday on this kind of omission. You, may however, amend your! . Petition dismissed. . MAZY TEWLIND IN THE MATTER OP JOAN TRW;. I IIG, • 7 LUNATIC. 'Mir SAMMIE.' RosiaLsor stated, this was the petition of the Committee, the mother nf the lunatic, pray. ing that his Lordship would order Jane Phillipsto deliver, up whatever property was in her possession of the lunatic's, and that he would direct some pro- ceedings to take place in the Ecclesiastical Court, for the purpose of making the marriage between Miss , Phillips and the lunatic null and void.. He moved this ander the following circumstances :—A com mission of lunacy was taken out against Mr. Te.w= ling, in the year 1804, by his father, who soon after, died, and by his will bequeathed him 7,0001. and after the death of his mother, the present Cota. miltee, 10,0001. In the face •of this commission of lunacy, Miss 'Phillips,' who kept a boarding-house, entered into the- matrimonial state with him. By the Act of 'Geo. 11. such a marriage was declared 'I null and void; but his Lordship's predecessori thocight it necessary to have the judgment of the Ec clesiastical Court. The lady had possessed herself of the lunatic's property, to what amount the Pe titioner could not state, but, as the Committee, it was her duty to see it restored, and to be appropri ated for. the benefit of the lunatic. . - Mr. Coos followed . on the same side. Sir ARTHUR P/OGOTT said, he was &ousel for :the unfortunate lady in this case—he must call her o, for,site.entered into the state of matrimony with out the knowledge that a commission had issued against the lunatic ;- she had been completely de'-' ceived, for it was impossible for herto have knoWn he was a lunatic, when she knew that . ice had been to the Fist Indies, and lately to Spain, on a mis sion from Governenent,eanployed in business Of . grist trust, which .;e had tilled most honeurabli, and - not only to the satisfaction of the Administration, bot to the country at large., They were . married ac cordiug to law, by bans, in June last, at let. Miry le.bonne Church ; on the folldwing day he was ar rested under the comMissiow of .lunacy,: and put un der the charge of Mr. Newington, in the county of 4ussex. His unfortunate Client was so much affect.: ed, that - she immediately Lift to we; in fact, de-. serted her house in Manchester-street, but left di irections where she might be written to, and all en tpiries after her would be answered' by Mrs. Lacon, No. 19, Berkeley-square. On one pert of the prayer of the petition,: it was not necessary for' his Lordship to make any order, hh meant as to pro ceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court, for bythe Act of George ii. the marriage was ipse facto void. On the other part of , ahe prayer of the petition she was willing to give up every thing in her custody, on con. alition that she was paid 1401. which was clue to het by the lunatic for board hod lodging. If she was not his. wife, she svas entitled to the payment of`her demand. Under which consideration, he thought' ' his 'Lordship could, not do more than refer it to the Master, for him to report on the merits of the case. S.l' SAMUEL Ilosirtwir replied, and observed, that the situation this Lady was placed in, an action of ' Troyer would oblige her to surrender the property, without the interference or his Lordship. • The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that he Would' ' refer the matters in question to the Master, for him• •to report what sum was due to Miss Phillips, and whither anyproceediugs were necessary •to be in. stitutecLis the Ecclesiastical.court. Although the Act of Parliament was positive, yet his Lordship's predecessors were -of- o pinion, that- the oentietee-wf r the BcaeSiaaticat Coen was necessary to *Raul the