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rim COUR?. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock. His Martell, arrived at the Quetre's Palace from Windsor. -where he was reecived by the Dukes of YORE, RENY. COMMEILLAND, la d CAMBRIDGE. At two o'clock His MAJLSTY held u private Levee, which was attended by— The Archbishop of Canterbury; the I.nril Chmaciallae; the Lcs4 President of th- Council ; the Lord Privy Seal ; the Phut Lewd of the Treasury ; the three ‘etretaries of. State ; the First Lord of the rithairolty ; the Matter-General a the Minutia ; the Chats-eller of the Exchequer; the Doke of Montrose ; the Bishop of Worcester, and Bishop of Prieto! elect; Earl of firkins/raw • Lords Heathfield and C. Spencer ; Gerleroll Gordon, Ca irraft, Sir Samuel Aeh misty, and Fraser; Colosiel Hawker; the Rev. Mr. Cook sem the Recorder of Loaded. 'the following bad the honour of being present .d to llis 11r.vry : Lisatessotilseseal Calcrstt apps his promotion. colonel Hawke, upon his being appointed Aid-as-Char to His Majesty. !ltocr-General Sir Sur eel Achaisty, epos his being a•lsonsted to the coesseed of the Pisgah Garrison Sam lion. the Rev. Dr. Mewl, spin hie being elected to the Bi.bopric of _Bristol. Cr. Common, the biee Sieber of Hereford, upon his trans %Mims to the l+abooek of Worcester; upon which ices sioo be did homage Were Has Merteer. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council. for public businm. and a•terwards aa•ther, to receive th e Recommit of Lour:ma's report of the convicts under sentence of death, in Wewgate, whet' His MAJESTY was plensed to respite them during his Royal pleasure. His MAJESTY gave audiences to the Cabinet Ministers, Lord FtErritrtei., and Mr. Reuse, the Judge-Advocate, who laid before His MAJESTY the pmeeedings of several Courts- Martial. DUBLI .V, Jt I.T 9. W e hest, with much en .'ern, that the Marquis of Ely's house, in Elysptice, is immediately to be couverted into a Military Barrack, ...wwithstandiug that all the inhabitauts have crieu.o,...led Govern lila* against a measure which must prove so very esslegoitsva to the neighbourhood. We really mo ist mks any reason why so many respectsule abgengtors as now made in that part should be thu s 1111110 1111 qf tittle kisses. unless Government ha,e Wilibilnd to purr base the beans, as well as the bilessi*O. of all the Nettie Leeds who voted fur the Miss. It was expeetei the expedition would be ready to leave Cove on Tuesday evoning. Sir Artnur Wellesli left town on Me". ay morning to take the consaouxi in chief. Colooel Torres. accom panies Sir Arthur Wellesley as his Military Secre tary, and Sir Arthur's nephew, Mr. Pole, also goes with him. Aionagot the recent arrivals, •we have to notice that of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan. He wio scams kd from England hr o ,• of tits sons, and the packet with tr.. Itight Hon. George ' . • end Lady '•:„. r0..-ouby. C.IMSI7IIDGE, JLIA 11. _ The Commenc:•nent Tbf/i, on Moodily eveniug. ' was numereii-.,v attended, oad given iu a stile of elegance rarely 4-quailed, under the direction of the Earl of At.TAstosit, the Steward of the evening. The Boor was chaikeli from the beautiful design of the dyer temples at Pzstuni, in WILLI Ns . S splen did Allatiquiltaw of Megaa Cream. Egyptian lamps were suspended from the ceiling by fillets of finwera, with wreaths of which, also, the • . whole Irail-r“noi was oecoreted. The supper was slentifully supplied a ith every rarity of the s ..an ices, pioea, peaches, nectarines, and grapes, were itiprolision. On Tuesday eveuiag Mrs. EDWARD CLARIS gave an sl freseo file, which was attended by all the nobility and get;:ry of consequence in the, trii veraty and Amongst the very nu merous cuireminy w•t. the Mar.pus of TON, Part of ALTAIAJNY, Lord ISt avatiten, Lord Pahaitavros, Lord and Lady Jona TOW NA RIND and their dau;hters, the Floe. NC-sv, NS TILLS and 'rateets, Sir Twom.is and La It Lsta i li4RD Sir Wahl.t.in and Lady Itcen. Se. The girtlens were almost magically lighted by wariv wed lamps, interspersed atneng the trees and shrubs. 'I he trees, for the ev g. bon a rich burden of oranges and lemons. The tables were Tread with as much elegance as plenty, in various partsof thus delightful little spot; and the groupes of dancers between gore all the cZect whidi pre nt and pleasure cite produce. Tbe C . .:11(111PY had not entirely quitted tlhs enchanted scene till five o'clock 0.) Weibiesalev morning. The spirit of iratrasteon continues to spread through Portugal. The fottnwing is an extract of a ietter from V tani, a tows in the worth of that king tom. It is dated the i:Jth of last month : .. We have this day freed ourselves from the Freer !t yolv-, and have declared in fasnur of nor Prince, in .hose tense every one is in arms. A similar cc clirrcnce took pkice at Oporto, yesterdas , and Lisboa only noir retnaius is the hands of the Preneh. .t flag of trove is, this day. seat to the feet off Lis ten', to eadeavonr to communicate with that city, wrth tit. tbe's and Alga,-va. Nose of the French lb Portugal a.ll escarp." The Csmniittee of Merehantw, to wEcen it was re lef..ed by the Nystrom:it ANSAIISADOR to answer nettaio trestle's*, and to solve some difficalties which his Escebe tcy felt upon the subject of the Portuguese wad Proration property, made their re p:.7t ohmic three wr-ks since: Lut still his Excel- Leo' Y has not yet decided ; ar.d mail he decides, be ta' .w.n so :Ira! 60 vessels are *Aged to he useless, sal prop—rtr of n-i lea seine than 3,5004001. must remain to‘ Crl a t , flora its rightful owners. A nr.sate lvt.r hate Bontdeamt, dated the 29th last, ierntion%, thug the suspension of the embargo, sthich :Ind been gratitel tome time ago in favour of A alvican vessels, *at altogether door away on the V.4.th ult. hyipe. IA order from Bayonne. The sus pens:set was 0-irstriliv meant to extend only to Asnerieare locitod for the United States. But it bin; ow•rivere.l that several vessel availed them *lee, of tltis lad'o'fence to %ail for England, the Liulgt:t ft• rao re%oked, mad the Americans ore Row stuyect to the tame rigid interdict that °pe tit!' sr, .hest the vessels of all other nations. Collection?, we iseer, are to lie made at . ....,.tr of mdse bar:* ttd , - it Chapels is S:tt•Sttri, for til^ relief of swoh °rifle poor of that I.' tee a% :l.'s acts sutler log for want 0: employusent. LAW INTILLICSNCE. COURT or EXCHEUUEIR, Jac , / 13. Nothing either itaportda or interesting to the public occurred in this Court. It was occupied in the disposal of uudefendeu causes, generally upon ioforinations laid at the suit of the CIOWiI unqualified persons for violations of the Game Laws. COURT OF KlMss BRIM!, WLsyyntrrya, JULY 13. •. CUMBSII3 V. GULLAN. The parties in this action were both horse dealers, and it was brought by Mts. Cumbers, to recover ieL the value of a mare hired from her by the Defendant, which had died, as was alleged, by being over-ridden. It appeared, that a Mr. Foster, of the. Audit Office, Sotnerset-house, had been in the habit of hiring horses, occasionally, from the Defendant, who, alien unable to accommodate has customers, hail authorised his hostler to get horses from the Plaintiff. Upon Thursday, the sth of August last, this case accordingly happened ; Mr. Foster caned at Gullail'e, wishing a horse to go to Woolwich, to visit a brother belot.,,,aing to the Navy; 'but the hostler not being able to fisonsh one, went to the Plaintiff, and procured the mare in questiod. From the evidence it appeared, that this mare We, apparently in perfect health when it set off to Woolwich, bat on its return it was evidently overheated, and Mrs. Cumbers having considera ble skill in the veterinary art, thought proper to administer to her (arca Sall Or two of Fier own preparation, together with a tankard of ale. This remedy, which was intended to cool her, had not, hem e er , the desired elect, for the mare languished unit. the Sunday morning following, when she died. Mr. Foster's evidence shewed that he not having met leis orother at Woolwich, he rode to General Hurst's, about three miles beyond that place, where he understood he was upon a visit.— There not being rosin to at commodute the mare at the General's, the coachman took her to a neigh-. bouriug inn.—Next morning, Mr. Feiner and hi, brother set off for Woolwich, the one walking and the other riding. When they reached Woolwich Common, the artillerymen were Erin at a mark across the road, which started the mare considera bly, and in order to get her to pain than, Mr. Foster had to apply his spurs and his whip with some degree of violence, sad leaving his brother at Woolwich, he pushed on towards London, and reached Mrs. Cumbers at twelve o'clock. The mare, after its decease, was opened by two far riers, in the presence of several others, in order to ascertain the real cause of its sudden death. As Doctor. often differ in opinion, it so happened the present instance, ter the one farrier attributed the inflammation, which had evidently takeu place upon the lungs, to it, having been over-ridden.-- and the other to an indispositiou of lotig quoting. The matter thus depended upon the weight of the corroborating evidence upon each side, to strength en either of these assertions. The Jury gave a verdict for the Plaintiff. WHIT rINGICILY V. DUFFY. This was as action brought by a journeyman carpenter against a masker builder, tor an assault. It appeared - that the Defendant emploi ed the Plaintiff and his father to do some work for him, at a bons• upon the Hackney Road. Upon his vetoing to the premises, on the bah a hieeeisdeee last, Ending some par. of the work had been wrong execute:, . Ludy flew into • violeut and poi,beil the Plaintiff out of doors. Upon this toe father and a..other workman interfered, and in the... turn assaulted Defendant. It thus ap , .s..etl. that there w • errors upon both sides, .. ..ceordingly, by the anretition of Lord ELLllN soitogas, a Jaror was s r t drawn. HARWOOD e• LOVAS. This a..a an feline treog:it by the Assignees of a baakrapt. named Odell, to recover 4004. the amount of a Loud due by the I Nffendant to tle Bankrupt, not upon the ground tied the money had not been 1 aid, but because the Defendant was, at the tune he did pay it to Odell, is the knowledge of his crtditre being insolvent, e a • bankrupt.— A legal point arising upon the construction of the Act of the luth of Geo. 11. a was reserved for a subsequent case ; and the Jury being of opinion that the Defendant had no reason to think Odell , was a bankrupt, merely an account of his having brought a writ of error, to gas.. time in an action brought against him, which was the reason alleged why he. (the Defendant should have known of the bankruptcy, found a Verdict for the Defendant. COVRT OF COMMON PLUS, lots 33. gatings at Nisi Prima befare Lord Mir jus tice 3141 , 61171L1.D. sad s Special Jury. CRIB(. CON. FOWIAR e. HODGES. Mr. Serjeant O: snow stated the case, and said, this was an action for damages, brought by the Plaintiff, so Attorney of that Covirt, a respectable man, end of irreproachable character, against the Defendant, his articled clerk, for a criminal con s emation with Mrs. Fowler, his wife. He then proceeded to state that the Defendant was not so young a man as the Jury might suppose from his being an articled clerk ; he was twenty-one years of age when recommended to the Plaintiff, and it was singular that he was recommended by the in a with • horn the Plaintiff served his clerkship. The Plaintiff had been married to Mrs. Fowler eser since the year 1787 ; he had had four children by her, three of wheat were dead. and one we. living, a Lieutenant in the Royal Marines. During the whole lapse of time since the marriage of the Plaintiff and MM. Fowler, they lived in the greatest harmony, she having acted with the utmost prudence, until the time the Defendant became the Articled Clerk of the Plaintiff s except in one instance that she chewed symptoms of being were extravagant. on which the Plaintiff withdrew from her the management of his household affairs except in that one instance there never had been the least disagreement between them. Unfortu nately, the Plaintiff, though only a man of 40 years of age. had, in a great measure, lost the use of his from s nail cold caught about eight setts ago. en the kiities birth-day, ;t haring owned site a:.oie of the day, and he being a 'Volunteer. wits 'i4cd in be nut. His Physician had ordered him tat !race a sits: ate bel from his wife for Seale yea:s past. He awls water. from that tnenced iJetw, He did not evideuce would his Lordship gituted at 1- give, As not give thoeght it , lie did not Lewned Counsel lady was they dent to shew ducer, the In the case . - Cregson, against hiss:oachinaa,and another case io yorkblaire, a gentleman against his groom. where Judgment went by default, said the dainsges were assessed before the Sheriff; althouiji it was proved the mistress was the seducer, and that the crimi nal act tool; place in a park near a foot-path com mon to the Inhabitants of the whole country, the Jury gave the gentleman damages for £31.100. and he trusted that the Jury would, in this instances give cleavages equal to what a fond husband must sustain from being robbed of the atfections of hie .wife, and more particularly so as the Plaintiff's conduct and character were unimpeachable. He then proceeded to call the Witnesses. Mr. Joseph Ashmore, parish-clerk of St. Diaries,. _ret's,.Westininster. prowsd.Vmeiagisirf of the mat. Wage betviesa the Plaintiff a Cecilia Franeet M'Guire, his present wife,en the 4th of' November, 1787 Mrs. Maria Begg, and her daughter, Mrs. Jane Croker, both refatioas of Mrs. Fowler, peeved, that the Plaintiff and Mrs. Fowler always appeared to live happily together, and that the Plaintiffs conduct was completely atlietianate towards Mrs. Fowler, and that fte lead nearly lost the use of his limier, through cold. for the la.t eight years. Anne Aubrey. a pretty lookiog girl, about 18 years of age, deposed, that she lived with Mrs. Fowler, and at . present was servant to the Plaintiff; that during eight months, she heed in the family before her master went to Margate, be and her mistress lived on the most happy terms.— The Defendant was living with the Plaintiff, es his clerk, when she came to the house, but did not diet or lodge there. On the 11th of Aug. last, the Plaintiff went to Margate; he and her mistress break-fisted before he sweat. The Defendant se corn him to the boy. Abqut eight o'clock the Defendant rs.• ,-aed, when Mr 2. Fowler asked him to breakfast ; they hieakfaited in the drawing room,- he stopped the whole of . the day. After this she began to hare some Suspicions ; they ewe almost always together in the drawing-room, and the blind of the window was always pulled down ; they used to have luncheon and tea up stairs. Mrs. Fowler used to send the Wituese out lOr brandy.— they drank tea generally about six, and Defendant used to stop until' ten at night. About a fortnight after the Plaintiff went to Margate, the witness went up to the drawing-room, the Defendant and her mistress were sitting very close together—wit. ness told them she thought they had been asleep as they had aot row the bell for candler—Mre. Fowler said " No, bet they bad been talking about old times." Two evenings they went out at six sirdec.k. and did oat Return uutiltwo is the morn lug; one of the Moorings Mrs. Foa ler prtased the Defendant to sleep in the house—he acquiesced, and slept in the Plaintiff's bed, he having a sepa rate bed from her mietress. The Platuutf returned from Margate in September, after which time, whenever he went oat, the Deiendaut was either with Mrs. F. in the drawing-mum, or Mrs. F. was with him in the office. Every evening Mrs. F. used to give the witness tea and sugar to make tea for Defendant, which she did, and gave it to him in the office. OO the 21st of December, the Plaintiff briez from home, between five and six o'cloAt in the evening, a black beaver hat came home for her mistress ; having heard her go into the beck Ace some time before, sloe wedf there and - was enn ',laced of the ennaimility of the birfeadant and Idea Forster, who wavily a curious situation; : e being stated on an off re stool. When they _per ceiver! the witness, tbe) • si4ocated themselves from the situation they were in Mrs . Fowler took the witness by the shoulde r, and sad desired her to go down stairs and get tea ready. She went to the kitchen and burst into tears, newer having wit nessed such a scene before. Mrs. Fowler continued half an hour in the office afterwards. On the Christmas duy following, Mrs. Fowler came down into the kitchen, naked, except her shift end a flannel petticoat, at which time the Defendant was in the office. Mrs. Fowler called hint down to put in her ear-rings; he came down, and the wi'ness left the kitchen and went up stairs. The Plaintiff was not then at home. A few even ings afterwards, %he was telling a 3frs. (4lover, a charwoman, of the indecent conduct of her mis tress, when Mrs. Fowler ciime i nto the kitchen without bei winced, and overheard their con versation, s oon that niVt she gave the witness warning, who le ft her in ebruary, a month after wards./Sirs.Fowkr made the Defendaut two shirts. —The witness earned several letters from Mrs. Fowler to the Dtfeodant, and answers from him to her, but did not know the ft content ;. About a week before she left Mrs. Fowler, she seat her sat for about two hours ; when she returned she found her master's bed very much tumbled; there was no one in the house but the Defeudant and Mrs. Fowler. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjespit PELt. Mrs. Fowler was 45 years of age ; she was very lame, and had been so from the time she first knew her. The Defendant was about ti or #2 year• of age ; she did net go to service after leaving Mrs. Fowler, hut bred with her father; Maria Will succeeded her. Mr. Fowler asked her to go back again, and live with him, after Mrs. Fowler left the house, and gave as a reason, that it would not' he proper for Mary Wild to be iu the house without another female with her. The witness and Mary Wild had slept together ever sinee. Maria Wild deuclited that she had lived servant with the Plaintirtihtiat four months. Sloe .wei hired by Mn.a Fowler en the 4th of lahruary, the day following 4(4 iitistrautent her for smile brandy, which she took np stays to the dra‘vrils=l rpm. When she went lute the room, fOw - .42 • :asps con., eltulny . genies belied Mb. Fowler say to the Defending, "Myoh .a Choler, how use yea ?" He replied, he was very po.rly. and almost dettf. She said, she wait lorry she wes like him , for her leg was much samln and she be + tiered be was the cause of it. On win ch be said, it could riot be, for he was perfectly Fier from :.!re ur chapitaition.—She apologised, and *ant .he we- bitty jesting. He said. w damn ark je• te, ht diction, Eke them." On the Ist of %who the Witeees informed the Plaintiff of bee somoi..ons, whiseleeketiberteleL, oil the watch. She bored a hole through deliver, fro. the hed-reom ions the•drairring-reosa. with a gime let ; she looked theough the hole, acid low Mr.. Fowler sitting eta the sofa-bed, and the Defeedeat standing 10414 her. She put pi r ar i as mo d al Ms week and kissed Wok. flea kit the day iskrwards reduces letter to the Delo admit. and my," My dear Clucks, w- must be ou our guard, for s lady next doer hes reset this letter to me, saying. that Lase Aubrey. (the wittiesi4, and Mrs. Glover, ars OW spiiiug against irk, and tryliig to slie ate my hus band's assertions from her.' The Defeating said •." hes would be d—d if he cared, for he had dope noatinv that he was aslism.d erf." Sarah Glooir, widow, cornitiorated the evident* of the last ague's. Mr. Serjaust Oristow observed that here his case closed. Mr. Serjeont Petri thee erldreseel the Betels end the fury. and observed, that the fiort question for the Jury to consider was. whether the Defend ant had been guilty of the entities! conversation charged against him ? If they found be was. the 'next question for them to ceusider wart, whet do. magea they would give against the Defendant. a. ening man just of age, an arti.iled Clerk to the atilt; an inexperienced young man. just from the rouutry ? He would ask them if the Mint. if had any right to corr.lain of tie lea of such a woman as represented by the Wits/sots ? —This unfortunate young man. unfortunate, es living in a house where such a woman was de mistress, and hy being placed in a house with suds servants as the witnesses, front their te-tirautty. ap peared to be. he would not ofead the Jury by saying they would behave the whole of the evi dence given by thews. He would be Gerry to cast an improper resection on those young females, bet from their own evidence they appeared teethe par den of the lust of Mrs. Fowler. is to the evidence of the Arse wit lies', relative is the situation she foamd them in, en tee Q tat Dee. she asserts. she cried—l be lieve, if she did, it was Tether frees lust than front shame. On the scene on Christie m.day. lobes Mrs. Fowler appeared naked in the kitchen, with the ex ception of her_fleanelpetticest, sad the topfertunate Defending was called down to put in her ear-rings. the modest Witless, who has re-capitulated these circumstances to you, Geutlemen of the Jury, ieft • the kitchen, although as she asserts. she was wit ness of the criminality before. Why did not she tell her master w hat • eicions woman he was nur turing? Why i.ot inform her fa:her ? For if one were a girl of character, after witnessing the scene she has represesented to you, stn would have called on her father. to have takers her from that place. Why did net Mrs. Glover. of whom we have heard .so, much, open the circuntstatice. • liken her inedeety could not here been 'Pet to tli- Masi?? She took letters between de parties. the baobab/I in the house, and she did not Anesaaunieete ~ It is for ;on to rounder whet credit you will give to such a ogee's. What was the object winch ildured this '<meg man to form a criminal connection with a woman of forty-five, lame, and with • Imola kg ?--Cah you believe that the defendant would bethesedocer? I feel conlident that you cannot—sad if there was any erimical intercourse between the parties, too will take into consideration the poverty of this younj man, - plied by Mrs. Fowler ago neeeireari , a and acrow.- modations that his own funds world not afford Shim, with Lrandy, with eggs, with tee, i b luncheons, and with other articles, which base ant been adduced in evidence. There was Dot beauty, there was not youth to entice thr Det admit ; it wit 'iliferent—ehe was agcd and derrzpid, and riot only bee, but had an infirmity or disorder in the Moot. that would disgust the greatestappeute for I test, - amity did nut olilige Son to acquiesce. He vont:lad ed by observing, thgt, if the Jury thought that the criminel intercourse had been pruned. they ought only to consider how much thumps' ought to to given to the wee who had lore such Itiffeetons cores panion. His Learned Friend wise Waled the (Ira had brought forward peredetits, tie of Mr. Grew sem, a respectable Solicitor, against his coact:map. which was tried in the Kling's keireciy in.d he fti reeved damages of two hundred minds ; he knew not Mr. Gregsun, except by character, and he believed it to be perfectly rooperrahte. The der!. in that case, gave a verdict of two hundred pounds &usages, akhmerh, it was ascertained that the v.- duction from the affection' of the husband had taken place before the crianmilitet, of the De fending in that cause. H.- trusted thst the prr.mt Jury would never eke damages *bete the wife of the Plaintiff had put her-elf on a level with an actual prostitute. As to tut r sae in York, he knew nothing of it ;he reonected the mare tier state as much as any man ; 'it'd as ea ado , - *lle at that bar, he would feel seers to oay • word tint would throw a partial. of .nano on it ; and he loopirt. that there never ars an Eh/filth Bar i litter that wcold stand fo-aard to deferd the • leseentinirc that se ot,id disturb the 1 , 4,- beams or pewit of the marriage state. TI e tkelendout alai root eer.uce the Plainitiirs wife. sl e hind egkitri him; poverty oblige:! bias so put :to *ifh tn.- :matt•-. i.e. task toot het-ic! to . -rearm. fie leftrittft it: Jury to wlit•rer tiry "7th . • • e was also recommended to bathe la the I ler Was sitting on a sofa bed. and the littedendeit 4u August he went to Margate. sad ; was tet:tildi n 1 before her in a snopicititie ' posture.t period the criminal connection eeili Whin she waiiierceised, the Defendant wesit,ovet ,etweeti Mrs. Feeler otid the Defendhst : ~Ciriside..lioart, - and pretended to he main.: it lot wish to trive a statement of einmak .Reelapir n ,•'' Mtal Foolcsr got up; she ten d for would be to prove the fact, es.4,liskieved • irf fecelifiiitiiciTiler clothes were mach rumpled. lisp and the Just would be siskjelybritliee Sh e pII to the/Withal* " I suppose opals were bore hearing the account the Wifwacswoulld in the a," tuie , F eufthed het out of t.iv reem •t. e i he expected hila liarivornericf it 911 4 1, iiit;ssis 'Arden, and Mrs. Fowler ordered him an oppoittenita• . of tepllping, he.; ,lif . to t em I Nome water and sogitr, which she t his duty to sayreohnektishig as is &Magas, „d ;' . was not at home* On the sot doubt but .it, mask be said by the U . • ' 4 _,.fefirivring, she was pessing the Counsel ins the opposite side, that the beetli .. „'athen she heard Mr*. Fowler say to • the seducer ; but ergo so, he had were- the Added. "My dear Charles. you must bare 'hew, where even the female was the se- this- 1464:i. delivered ;" but he refused end the se Jury gave very con.idvrable tlamages. 'Vrituess did out wait to hear the remainderef the case of that. respectable Attoroey, Mr, conversation. Oe Friday the Witness beard Mn. of • 1