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PL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MT.:SPOOL, S*IVRDAY, llatca 11, 1826. Tbe demand for British Plantation Sugar has been steady this so g, but at a reduction of about lc The Salmi ha 7 ve amounted to ft got 00 t Olds, and about 200 begs of Bengal at Is. 6111. for so oi ,„ a nd 71s. a 7.i'. for fair to good white. In Foreign Sugar r , ,tog done. In Rum about 100 puncheons have been sold at prices. A sma ll quantity of Dernarara Molasses have been .nayat 24r. In Coffee the sales are confined to small lots to the wee r, at former prices. In Cocos, Ginger, or Pimento nothing done. to Drewoods the low prices have induced more disposition ia buy. 35 tons Jamaica and St. Lucia 'Arwood, at 51. 13. a 61. tans Cubs Fustic, at Al. and 20 tons Spanish at 61. 35 tons si tora gas Wood, at 211. a 221. and 40 tons small, at 01. le TU. Tutpentine, or Rice nothing done, except 60 bags ilast India, at 20s. In Hides one thousand Buenos Ayres as so d Os, sold at 914. Three hundred salted at 5.1.; and 700 si h o d 1100 e at ss. 2,1. each. In Flax Seed 236 Mids. has been old 4s„„ s 30,. per hhd. A public sale of 20 chests Indigo t6•agsl), and 13 bales of S.lll..wer. The Indicts was forced tf at a eartous frmn previous rates ; the ual ty was from slams to go od, bioken consuming sorts but t mixed, and ave. raged bs. 31 per lb. The Sittlintrer was - withdrawn. Sumac, Madder, and Madder Room are neglmted. In Olive Oil the s oly sale was a parcel of Levant at 335. a 345. 10.1.; and others we offering, and lower rites than last prices. Brimstone and Saltpetre arc dull. The demand for Cotton has been stesdy during toe week, sod prices are a little higher , from from i toper lb. ; Y sales amount to about 15,400 bees, of which 300 Permans, . ot t two Uncycle, have been taken on speculation, and 1.000 Brasile and 500 Americanshmte been taken for export. viz.-11.400 bales Uplands, at bid. a ad; 110 Sea Island*, at 2itd. a 22d. 1.400 Pernambuco', at 10d. • laid. : 830 Bahia, at Bid. a ; 1.009 Marnhanic at hid. a hid; 130 Alin. Novas, at old ; 30 Para, at o{d; 6111 Demerara, at 914. a 1041. ; 40 Carthagena at 400 Sumas, at bid. a (lid ; 10 Madras at bid ; and 10 Bengal at id. The Government offices still discontinue 'emitting large sums of money for the payment of the officers and men employed in Dock-yards and other public establohments, through country bankers. On Saturday, t( Stli instant, a Messenger belonging to the Navy Pay-Office, left town with between fifty and sixty thousand pounds, for the payment of the public officers and others, at the Pembroke Dock•yarl, &c. The Messenger deposited his wealth safely, and returned to London the Thursday following. The Messenger was impeded from making his accustotnee speed by contrary winds in crossing the Bristol Channel. Itxtract from a Charloton Paper of Bth February 1826: —The experiment made in the island of Trinidad by order o f the British Government, to establish a colony of free negroes on that island, is stated, by .he St. Vincent paper, to have completely failed. Those carried to the island have become more immoral, and less industrious as lshourers; that they are conAeler. d by the planters as a nuisance, and very commonly are looked down upon by the slaver themselves: We have reeeived (by the pack.•t) the following extract from a letter from Lisbon, describing a serious fire, which broke out in the Portuguese Naval Arsenal at Belem, on the 17th ult.:— Tat:sus, Fes. 17.—1 am sorry to sty that a fire broke oat this morning, between nine ard ten o'clock, at the Pottuguese Naval storehouses at Belem, which burnt obit great fury for about two hints and a half, destroying every thing that came in its way, consisting of cordage, cables , pitch , and tar ; in shor t, all the read y mode cordage for the Portuguese navy Is destroyed. lam happy to say that only two lives are lost, poor soldiers , who were in the interior of the building, aid not being aware of the progress of the flames, were buried beneath the burning fragments of the roof. which fell upon them. The loss sustained by the Portuguese Is very serious. As scan as the calamity was observed by the Commander.in.Chisf of the English squadron. be promptly ye paired to the spot, attended by the f 'spume of the ships under his orders, with their boats ard fire-ergines, as well as three from the Portuguese frigate Ptir , cess Royal ; and by their united exertions much valuable property was removed front that part of the build. lags that the flames bad not reached, Ind by their pulling down a part of the storehouse between the wing on fire and that which must inevitably have been destroyed had they not had recourse to this measure, the Mutes were confined to a much smaller space than there was reason to apprehend from the formidable appear ance the fire first assumed. The cause of this melancholy event was the boiling over of some pi , ch, the flame occasioned by which acrid Int instantly communicated to some Inflammable articles lying near. The Oceset (fis.7), Albion, Aurora, and Glasgow. are lying here. The Lively is expected, to relieve the Aurora. No political news h.ve—all is quiet.--Ilampshlre Tckgraph. Peerious to the Ganges being paid off, all standing for the rec Talon of Rear-Admiral Otway's flag, the ward-room °leers solicited their Captain (Capt. P. Campbell, C. 8.) would do them the favour and honour of accepting a part aos dinner, which he did, to their great gratification • and nothing het the sorrow and regret so strongly evinc ed by every individual at being separated, could exceed the pleasure that prevailed on the occasion.—Lfantpshire Telegraph. Lieutenants W. F. Bond and C. A. Barlow are appointed to the Forte; Mr. Peter Parker. Master; Major II ull and Lieut. G. T. Appleton. Royal Marines ; Messrs. R. Gour ley, John James, and John Gray (d), Assistant. Surgeons, are appointed to die Ganges.—llawsprhire 7'elegraph. Lieut. W. M. Smith is appointed to command the Ports mouth Semaphore signal station, rice Lieut. Spencer Smyth, appointed to the Vietorv.—llampshire Telegraph Notwithstanding the general depression of business in the neighbourhood of litulderaflekl, we learn that at the half-ytarlv audit of Thomas Thornhill, Esq. held last week for I'ixhy, Lindley, Itaistricle, and Lockwood, the rams of the tenantry were paid universally well, and that of the whole number of tenants, exceeding 9.50, there were not more than half-a-dozen defaulters. At Calverley, this week, the return was less favourable ; but even there the nuir, XT of defaulters one hundred and eight tenants disk not exceed twelv n the Huddersfield district the payments were chiefly in gold and Bank of England notes; at Calverley in bills of exchange and provincial notes. Sir George Armitage's rents from his tenantry at Mirfield, &c. have also been extremely well paid this week, never better, and the payment has been principally in specie. The quantity of silver received was very ulumal ; one of the tenants paid 231. in shillings and half-crowns.—Leettr • lbecury. /dim of our r..aders, we apprehend, are not aware of a ' very laudable arrangement at Somerset-house, awl with which Ist! only became acquainted on passing in a friend's carriage andtr the archway a day ter two ago. instead of the folding gates being thrown open for the egress of the carriage, as we should have expected, one half Is always elostd by the porter till the vehicle approaches, and the horses are stopped. This, which we at first supposed was a proof tither of ill-manners or neglect on the part of the porter, we found, on explanation, to be a systematic regu lation; and one, as we thick, worthy of imitation as well as Praise. The object is to prevent the sutitbri irruption of a vehicle, so as to cross the line of the crowded pulllic thoroughfare in the Strand. We should like to see a similar regulation applied to the exit gates of many other public buildings, and especially some of the palaces.— Sseday ever. A G ENV-RU.l74.—Th. boundaries of gentility, per sonally considered, are very tamales, as will be seen by the following definition edema by Storm in his treatise De liepubl. :—" Whose etudieth the laws of the realm—who stuttieth at the University—who prolemeth the liberal scit neva—and, to be short, AO can lire u Weald ?mutual luioarr, and will bear the part, charge, a nd counte nance of a Gentleman, shall be called ' :11as•ri..u,' and shall he taken for a GE srt Ens N." SwlrT begins one of his letters to Dr. SHERIDAN Willi the following whimsical designation of the different days in the week:—" Here is a very ingenious observation upon the days of the week, and very proper for the information of lea's and girls, that they may Lot forget to reckon them --Sunday's a Pun-day, Monday's a Dan-day, Tuest!ay's a News day, Wednesday's a Friends-day, Thurday s a. fr.-se-thio. Friday's a Dry-day, Saturday's the Laitrr-day.' I intend (continues the facetious llzati) something of equal use upon the months---as January, women-vary. I shall likewise in due time make some observations upon each year as it result." CERMANY.—Races have been established at the celelaated baths of Oehherau, since the year 162'2; and sums to a large amount are annually subseri tied by the noblemen and gentlemen of this part of Germany, for the encouragement of the breed of thorough-bred horses, am! for the imProvetmlit of the breed of the country horses. Count Ples)atn, the father of the Prussian Atnhassador in London, has t h e 1, private stud in civilise:a Europe. p-sseet.ing one bithdre:d and thirty brood mares. The stud of the Grand Doke of lilecilesiburk-cliwerin, at Itectofin , it a magnificent establishment, atal cost upwards of three Imndrtd thousbnd dolt Is. HE CHURCH. Paer•eansn.—ltcv. IlevryAnion, M.A. hes been li censetl to the Perpetual Curacy of lavlaugh, Norfolk. Rev. George Norman, of St. Pet Pr's College, Catobriden, to be Head Master of Stafford Free Gtaininar School. _ 00 Thursday se'nnight a vestry meeting was held in Saint Peter's M ancroft Church, Norwich, fur the purpose of electing a gentleman to fill the situation of First Minister of that parish, become vacant by the death of the Rev. C. J. Chapman. Upwards of 100 parishioners attended, when the Rev.J. Bowman was una'nioualy elected. The Earl of Stirling has appointed the Rev. Joseph Charles Helm, M.A. to be one of his Lordship's domestic Chaplains. His Grace the Archbishop of Cashel has appointed the Rev. Richard French Laurence, M.A. late Fellow of Pem broke College, Precentor of Cashel. The Rev. John Williams ' B.D. and Fellow of Exeter College, is instituted to the Vicarage of St. Probus, Corn wall, vacant by the death or the late Incumbent. The Rev. Geo. Chisholm, M.A. of Worcester College, Curate and Lecturer of Hammersmith, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Bristol, to the Rectory of Ashmore, the county of Dorset, vacant by the death of his father, the Rev. George Chisholm. D.D. The Rev. John Bo,:d, B.A. of Wadham College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Vicarage of Weston, near Bath, on the presentation I , of the Lord Chancellor. UN'IVE'RSITY INTE L LIGE ATE. The Examiners appointed to elect a Scholar on Dean Ireland's Foundation have signified their election of Mr. Ilassartl Hume Hodgson, Student of Christ Church. On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred : Racily Loa AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY (BY ACCUM 0 LA TION )—R... Hobert %Vllliams, Christ Church. BACHELOR IN DI VI NIT Y.--BeV. William Evans, Fellow of Jesus College. - I MASTER OT ARTS.—Rev. Christopher Darby. St. Mary Hill, grand compounder: Rev. William Airy, Ts!xidstr of Queen's College; Thomas Henry Sutton Buekluill Estenutt. Oriel College; Rev. Thomas Brooksbsilk Sherlock, Universit• College. BACHELOR or ARYL—MUSD.' Hume Dodson, Student of Christ Church. On Wednesday, the Ist inst. Mr. Thomns Shann and Mr. Charles Croft, Commarcra of University College, were elected Scholars on the Yorkshire Foundation in that Society. At an ordination recently held in the Chapel within the Palace, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, the following persona were admitted into Holy Ord , rs :-- DEACONs.—John Hartland Worgan, M.A. Pembroke CnPeg!, Oxford ; Cleorge Radcliffe, M.A. St. Mary Hal!. (Wad ; Francis Eduard Arney, M A. Brasent.ose College. Oxford. Pants.—Willisus Douglas Veitch, B.A. BOW College, Oxford. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGIIAAI RACES. The appointments for these excellent races hate just been de clared, and it will be seen that the noble Stewards, his Grace the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of 31ountclaarles, have not ne glected to provide an amplebill of fare. FIRST DAY. A Oold Cup (the winner to be pa i d in specie), by subscription. of ID sore. each. The owner of the second harm to receive beck his stake. For three year olds and upwerds. The winner to be sold for bUO, &c. Two miles and a half. To close on the VAL inst. Present subscribers—Doke of Richmond, Earl of Alountcharles. Earl of Egremont, Col. Wuod, Messrs. Whiteside, Ramsbottom, and Denison. A Sweepstakes of 25 tors. each ; For three yr olds, 7st. :31b., and four years, list. 71h. About a mile and three quarters. Fillies and geldings al:owed .11b. The Noblemen's Plate of :A goys. for horses that never won or re ceived forfeit; for all ages (two year olds excepted). heats one mile. Fillies and geldings allowed 31b. SECOND DAY. The Sure y and Middlesex Stakes of 26 soots. each ; 13 forfeit. and only sif declared on or before 20th July. Three to remain in or no twee. To dose on the Monday after Epsom, and the horses to be named on or before the Moeda, after Ascot., The weights to be axed on or before Ist Italy. Two ALES and a distance. ' Present Subscribers..-fluke of Richmond, Earls of Egrement and Slountchalles, kiir J. Gibbons, Captains Wood and Berkeley, Messrs. 'Whiteside, Ramsbottom, Parker. Wightwick, Gibbons, Taylor, Jones, Theobeld,Alfred, Smith, Sparkes, and E. Gibbons. A Hunters ' Sakes of II sore. each. The winner to be sold fur 130, &c. Heats two miles. To dose and name the Monday after Asem.• • • The Magna Charts Slakes of 50 sore. each, for three year olds. New nide. The winner of the Derby, Oaks. or 2,000 p. Stakes, 71h. extra. To close and name on or before 516th March. • The Town Plate of 601. for three year olds and upwards. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Heats two miles and a half. The win ner to be sold for I &c. Toe time as for the Noblemen's Plate. The Egham Stakes of 5 ems. each, and added for three year olds and upwards. New Mile. THUM DAY. A Sweepstakes of 30 soya. each for two year olds. Winners once in 1825 31b., twice 51b. extra. T.Y.C. To close and name as for Magna Charta. The Siunninghill Stakes of 5 son. each (Hindi:am, for three year olds and upwards. bast three quarters of the New Mile. To close on the Monday after Ascot, and the horses to be named by six of the evening of Tuesday in the race week. The Lattice' Plate of 50 tams. for three year olds and upwards. Heats two mike and a half. To name as for the Noblemen's Plate. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Ears of Derby's stag hounds will meet to•motrrow at Walton Heath. at ten. _ ___ _. K. Jolliffe, Esq.'s fox-hounds to-tnorrowst Box Bill, on Thurs.. day at Chaldnw , and on Saturdsv at Windmi I Walton—at eleven. The Surrey fox-hounds this day at Fe.lrish Green. on Thurs day at I.tovatield, and on Saturday at Pratt's liottorn—at half put ten. TIIE CIIACE.-At Lttee Low Foment', last week, a greyhound tan a hate tour miles outright, and both were vo much exhausted asto be vcarely able to move. Puss was taken alive by some men who met them in a lane. _ _ STEEPLE MATCH.—The great steeple chase match, for 1,009 sovereigns, between Lord Kennedy and Captain Ross, front Barkby Hill to Billesdon Copiuw, Leicestershire. excites wry great interest in the sporting world, particularly at 3lelton Mowbray and neigh. bourhood. where very heavy sums are depending. It is expected to take place on the last day of this month. Capt. Douglas rides for Lord Kennedy, end Capt. Russ for himself. A match for 200 sovereigns is made between two horses belonging to Sir Jacob Astley and Sir idwanl Mastyn, to be run over th e race course near Leicester. Saturday last was the day appointed for its decision. Both horses are backed freely, and a good race is andelpated. On Thursday last the Captain of his Grace the Duke of New castle's yacht (the Lincoln) discovered a pike floating on the Lake at Mother, which was found to contain in its throat a carp weigh. ing nine pounds, which it had attempted to gorge. The length of the pike was four feet tour inches, the jaw twenty-seven inches, and ha weight twenty-three pounds. So great has heen the destruction of late amongst the small fish by these fresh-water sharks, that his grace ordered the Lake to be dragged, when • large quantity of pike was taken, some weighing Irotri forty to forty-seven pounds end upwards, carp fourteen pounds,• and perch from seven to ten pounds each. DIU APTU r. Suirine.—On Monday evening an Inquest was held at the Bristol Infirmary, on the body of Henry Heighting ton Roberts, who was brought to the house on the preceding day, with a mortal wound from a pistol ball, which, entering his head beneath the left side of the chin, Ind pawed upwards through the brain and skull. He had also discharged another pistol, it is supposed in falling, the ball of which hail entered his leg, and he had previously cut his throat. The deceased was a good-looking respectable man, of about 35 years of age. The tollowing was the principal evidence advanced :—(ieorge Appleby is a carpenter, and on St. Michael's.hill. Dad known the deceased more than a twelvemonth; he had lodged in t:eponent's house. On Sunday heard an alarm from some chit ten that something hail hoppened to Mr. Roberts. Went immediately to a man named Young, and then to the bootie of his !deponent's) sister (Mrs. Haynes). Found the door of the room on the laten ; went in and saw deceased on his back, one pistol on one side and the other on the opposite: the nom of both were opened, and both had been discharged. The man was not dead, but bleeding nrofurely. Untied his handkerehief, and ran immediately for a a medical man, lint could not find one. Then went to High street. to tell deceased's mother, who was gone to church. Did not see her. but told Mr. Attwootl, to whom the deceased war clerk. Returned to the house, and found 111 r. Macdonald and Mr. Simpson. sorgeons, there, who advised decease* being carried to the Infirmary : helped to take him there. Deponent halt known deceased some time; he was generally of a melancholy and unhappy torn of mind ; was often talking of his cruise to America, and of his being confined in St. Peter's hospital for insanity, which he said he did not lea•eve. On one occasion a man came to colour deponent's house. wham deceased recognis,.d sod gave money to ; depnnent afterwards learned that deceased gave the money that the man might not tell how long he was in St. Peter's hospital. Dmeased, when coming from London some time since, got out of the window and climbed on the top of the coach, whilst it was going on, to the alarm and fright of the passengers. The general impression on the mind of deponent via+. that the dece laboured under mental aberration, and ikponcnt was not at all surprised at the event. Verdict, •• /inanity."--'f his is the third in. stance of self.destruc.ion in the parish of St. 31teltael within the Wail weeks. THE BRITISH PRESS 4A IV NOTICES. COURT OF CHANCERY. The Lord Chancellor does nut sit this day, having to attend the House of Lurch. VICE. CH ANC LI. LOBS' COURT. 11•01111 Till VICII7I7II•NCELLOIL VIII* R•V, AT UALP-?AN TIN. Exceptions and Further Directions. Drat v. Anderson—petitions pet I Payne V. Tilton—Purifies directions order and costs aUvwell V. Collin*--part heard I 'Fitton v. Payne ditto Grittlth v. Lloyd—exceptions and Tracey v. Vickem—ditto further directions—put beard Attorney-Grams! v. Westwood — Freaks v. Walters—ditto ditto Hartley v. litin--ditte Smith v. 14m - Inm—ditto Same v. name—two nets , Damun v. Smith—ditto Durtieid v. Elwe.—Purther Direct. (triple v. Damnii—ditto S.: ev. Burrell—ditto Toulmin v. Ciiiiload—Ezeeptions Farnsworth v. Yeomans—ditto and ditto Same V. same—ditto Illett v. Bawden—Further diree. Breeds v. Breeds—Exceptions and Hoot. directions ROLLS COURT. The Master of the Roily will alt this Evening, at Six o'clock. Manning v. Rom-- I Haininond v. Parker Waller v. Paley Judgment Howell v. Johnwou Jonew v. Ingest itttmpod, v. Wortbam Cowlack v. Tell Reed v. Itluod —ditto. Eiliw v. Erns Pace) v. shepheard Rentield v. Ralcarraw— Smith v. King Bryant v. Busk Further directiunv Long v. Tbornpwon and ro<t General Petition day, at the Rolls, on Wedi at wiz in the evening. Petitlona moat be wet down, and lunges let two o'clock, to-morrow, the 14th inst. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ly nest, the 15th Inst. lth the Seeretstry, before COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, 111.tacw 11. When the LORD CHANCrt.LOR took his seat, Mr. HEALD applied to his Lordship upon a point of form, connected with the manner in which a case was directed to be sent tor trial by a Jury in Cumberland, where the parties at issue were two his• ten, and the cause of diference the impteed abstraction by one of them of two bags of guiocas from an rierutoire, on the death of their father, and without accounting for it in the family set. tletnent, The LORD CNANCELLOR suggested, whether it would not be u well for these sit., rs to come to en amicable understand. fog upon the subject...ad so shake heads over their differences ? Mr. HEALD said that his client had no objection, but her sister must come with tour hundred.gutoeaa In the hand that is to be shaken. Mr. Hotter declined this golden condition. In a conversation between Counsel as to the time of the Spring Cumberland Assizes, The Lotto CHANCIELLoR incidentally remarked, that the Spring Northern Circuit had been, as well as he could learn, pro ductive of real additional expense and lnigation, without, he be lieved, any accompanying profit to the puolie. Mr. Hoax applied for a writ of Habeas Corpus, to bring up a person named Lorne., who had been committed to Lancaster gaol by the Commissioners of Bankrupt, on account of their discrediting his answers. The LORD CNA REELED* complained that such an application should be made to him, while there were now on the spot, in !ammeter, two Judges (Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr. Baron Bul lock) who could more promptly administer the remedy which was now snuaht for in the Court of Chancery. The writ was granted with the understanding that in the course of next week the bankrupt should be allowed to make his application to the Judges on the spot. NR. LONG POLL WI/MLR/WM V. TILE TIGRE OF BEAUFORT. The further hearing of this cause being fixed for this day, when Mr. HART VIA expected. on the part of the plaintiff, to reply to the case stated by the family of his late wife (the great heiress of the house of Taney), why he should not be entrusted with the guardianship of his infant children, but that they should remain under the guardianship of bit, Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the Court was crowded at an early hour ; but when the case 'was called on, Mr. HART rose and said—" My bowl, when, last Tuesday, you appointed this day for the further hearing of this petition, I had thought, and rationally hoped. that my brief, as to affidavits in the cause, was then complete, and that the duty I had to dis charge was plainly pointed out from the facts then before site ; but I grieve to say, that what has occurred since last Tuesday has entirely disappointed me ; and I now begin to despair of ever being instructed by . my brief to act for my client ; for only see, my Lord, what has occurred since last Tuesday, when we thought all the facts were prepared for this day's consideration ; why, since that day, no fewer than fifty odd sheets of additional affidavits have been filed against my client, and it was only this Morning that it was possible for me to have them embodied in my brief ; 1 am, therefore, obriously unprepared to reply to what I •hare not yet' had the opportunity of reading. This case bad al. ready been six times before the Court. and on each successive time, 4 f . and not before, when it ail the eve of being finally beard, a fresh volcanic of a ffi davits * T own in, which delayed the pro ceedings, and at length ma sham consist of su ch a mass of mat. ter, that the reading of the ida4ite alone became most laborious. Under these circumstances 1 'am tumble at this moment to use my privilege of bringing on my client's reply ; 1 claim, therefore, the indulgence of the Court till next Friday, in tee reasonable con fidence that it will be then in my power to discharge my duties to My etlent. lof course dope make the tome ihat Ma op pasha patty have now done with filing affidavits, and that I now know what I am really to reply to." The Soateivoit-GEKEnat disclaimed any intention of em. harrassing his Learned Friend with affidavits to come upon bins the very morning when his argument was expected. He thought these affidavits had been filed several days ago. On inquiry of the Solicitor he found this was not the case, and that the y had been only tiled since Tuesday, as Mr. Hart had said. But he added, that any share of lateness 111 tiling affidavits did not tome with a good grace frnm the petitioner, who, no Eater than last night, had sent one himself whirlt would require to be answered. Mr. Ilanv.—Well, titer, to put an end to further delay, I shall advise my client not to file another affidavit, if you will do the same to yours. The SOLICITOR•GENERAL—You know I am bound to meet your case. We have overturned, by our affidavits, the statements of yours. I cannot therefore say, beforehand, what you may com pel us to answer. The LORD CHANCRLEOIt—What objeetion can you both have to hear the petition on the affidavits now filed, unless it should be advisable in the fur:her hearing for the Court to require more by war of particular elucidation ? . Mr. HART—Be it PO ; then we are to understand that no more affidavits are to be filed ? The Soxterroa-GEargaat —I do not know that till I see your case. (A laugh) . Mr. HART—Then before Friday next, if your Lardship pleases. I shall prepare to go through my brief, for the purpose of seeing how far I can compress the substance of what I may have to say, by a proper selection of the materials. I shall then have line to see what is relevant and what is not, in such a mass of peptit4. The further hearing was then ordered to sued over until Fri day next. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. cliELNistoit - 6, SlARcii 11. r Before Mr. Baron GRAHAM and a Special Jury.] THE Kinn C. W. BAnt.EE. 7Stl. AND OTHERS. This was an indictment against Charles William Berke, Esq., the Rev. Fdwarti Barley, and Chucks Clarke, Esq. for • conspi racy, falsely to charge Frances Sarah flatter, the wife of the Sod named defendant, with being a lunatic, or person of unsound mind, and to take proceedings that a commission in the nature of his Ma jesty's writ de lnnalico ialuirrndo should issue against her, the de. fendants intending thereby, falsely and unjustly, to obtain from her divers large sums of money. The overt acts laid were. that the defendants had made certain affidavits in support of a petition to the Lord Chancellor, by the husband, Inc a commission of lunacy. statirg, that for a We tgeoe . ef time Mr.. ltarlee had been labouring under great delltsions relative to herself, bee pecuniary concerns and connexions, emit was, as thedeponents verily believed, of unsound mind, and trainable of taking proper care of herself and her concerns. To this indictment the defendant, C. W. liar. lee had not pleaded. Tke other defendants had pleactcd Not The indictment had been found by the Grand Jury for the coun ty of Suffolk at the last Summer Assizes. It was afterwards re moved by eertibreri into the King's Bench. and in consequence of the existence of strong feelings and prejudices in the county of Suf. folk on the Fit bject of the prosecution, the Conrt awarded a retire for the trial of the indictment in the county of Easex. The trial of this cause, which excited most extraordinary interest throughout, commenced on Thersday morning, and after two adjournments, ended only on Saturdast afteronon, from the anxiety expressed by the Jury that, the cot shoal be fully investigated. The prosecution sibs conducted by Mr. uRN II r. NO I.A , Mr. Kwox, Mr. ADOI.PUtia. Mr. ',sty, and Mr. S. G. Patue. The defence of the defendant Mr. Clarke was conducted by Mr. Maaavvr and Mr. BROD Ettica ; and of the Rev. E. Barlee by Mr. Sergeant l'Antsy and Mr. CHITTY. It is impossible to detail with minuteness a trial of Finch unusual length, and embracing such a vent body of evidence of both sides ; all that can be attempted is to make the case intelligible to the reader. The opening of the ease for the prosecution occupied nearly two hount. The prosecutrix. Mrs. Make, was the daugh ter of an eminent solicitor, named Mitchell, of Deptford, who at his death bequeathed her a fortune of about lifk9/. per annum, at her own disposal. arising from money in the funds, and freehold and copyhold estates in Suffolk and Essex. Many years time the defendant. C. W. Barlee. the son of a respectable clergyman in the county of Sußbik, offered her his hand in marriage, bet it was then declines', as was supposed in consequence of a prepossession in favour of another cemletitan. The rejected suitor then went into the Stithilk Militia. and thence into a regiment of the line, and went on foreign service. In 1111.1 lie renewed his proru i of m arriage, representing that he had retired from the army in consequence of ill health, and was accepted. In •he month of July, 1814, the marriage was solemnized, in St. George's, ilanover.s var e. Previous to the marriage, is settlement 0 11 w as n T e t p l a e ra g r il us 3. e l . ".Barlee, and of the bulk of her 'intone, to her her own suggestion the Rev. Mr. E. Barlee, her husband's brother , a r es p ectabl e cler gy man and magi*• trate for Suffolk, residing " IV°lrlingw"rll,, in that county, was appointed trustee on her huslatnea behalf, sod Mr. Clarke, the other dentlant, a gentleman of fortune. residing at Bender, a rela tion of her own, was appointed her lustre, at her ewn requiem. An annuity of 1001. was also settled upon her by the matriage out of an estate belonging to her husband's father, and it was earn• dated that her receipt aloof should be a discharge to the trustees for payments under the settlement. Before the marriage was eolenutuieed. 31re. Bader had established her intended husband in the bueineee ut a brewer, in Vineattreet, Lambeth, wed had advanced him money for that tairtmee, to thetunnunt oihetween five and six thnusand pounds. Almost immediately after quitting the altar, Mee. Barlee conceived a decided dislike to her husband, in consequence, as was insinuated, of his having then declared that he had only 'marled her for her money. She resided n short time at her husband's house in Vine street, and the marriage appeared to he productive of mutual un happiness. Mrs. Blake discovered that she had been deceived as to the character and conduct of her husband previous to the mar riage; that instead cf retiring frnm the army, an he alleged, In consequence of indisposition he had been tried by a Court Martial under an sesumed name and .la:ride:lel the service. A laity was introduced into the house in Vine-street, between whom and Mr. Barlee an improper intercourse was supposed to subsist. It mat also alleged that whilst living with hint, Mrs. Melee was subject to cruelty and ill-treatment. and at length she (patted his house, and retired to the residence of her trustee. Mr. Clarke, at Bemire a pa role agreement for separation having been entered into. The hue band afterwards became emb a set' in his afaare, and a propel don was made to .plea. Bailee to induce her to give up part of her settled property for his benefit. This she declined. It was alleged that the husband then insisted upon the restitution of conjugal rights, and for the purpose of obtaining possession of her person, he contrived to inveigle her to his house in Vine-street, where he placed her under restraint. After a short time she left the house, and went to reside at an ir.n st Iteceles. Until the year 1819, an ac . count had been opened at a Suffolk bank in her name, upon which the was allowed to draw without restraint.. Being dissatisfied with her trustees, she filed a bill in equity against them for an Recount,' complaining of irregularities.' Upon the tiling of this bill, the trustees transferred the banking account into their awn names, sda gesting that as Mrs. Barlee refused to give them acktunwletigments for money paid to her, they were constrained to adopt this step for their own security. Pending the suit in equity against the arcs-1 tees, 3lr. Barlee, the husband. instituted a suit in the Eocluametical Court, for a restitution of conjugal rights, it being alleged. among Other matters, that Mrs. Barlee had clandestinely absconded from his house, and that she hail refueetl the consummation cf marriage. In answer to the libel, Mrs. Beare alleged adultery and cruelty, but by the advice of her proctors, the latter ground only was relied upon on her behalf. Sir John Nicholl pronounced a decree In the husband's favour and airs. Barlee having refused to obey the monition. she was declared in contempt, and fatally committed to the gaol at Ipswic h, where she was kept in confinement, on the felon's side, for the space of three years, and ultimately liberated by an order of 31r. Justice Bayley, before whom she was brought by Habeas Corpus , . it being discovered that there was a defect in the form of the ecclesiastical proceeding. This suit instituted by Mrs. Barlee against her trustees, becoming ripe for a decree in 1824, it was alleged that then the defendants formed the conspi racy which was the subject of this indictment, in order to avoid be ing called on to account for the trust funds. In 1823 the trustees had paid Mrs. Barlee 100!. nut of the trust moneys, which it was said they ought not to have done, if they really supposed her in be insane. In June, 1824, 3lr. Brake, the husband, presented a pe tition to the Lord Chancellor for a commission of lunacy against his wife. This petition was supported by the affidavits of all the tle fentlants, alleging that from expressions in letters written by Mrs. Bailee to them respectively, and to other persons, during her confinement in Ipswich gaol, and subsequently thereto, and from the opinions of divers individuals who had been in the habit of seeing and conversing with her. deponent* verily believed that she wan then, and had been for some time past, labouring under great mental delusion, and was of unsound nand relative to herself, her pecuniary concerns, marriage, and connexions, and was then, as deponents severally verily believed, of unsound mind, and inca pable of taking proper care of herself and her concerns. The Lord Chancellor, after hearingg, the matters of the petition, and the affi davits on both sides, and hearing the report of Mr. Warburton and Sir George Tuthill, gentlemen eminently skilled in mental disor ders, was pleased, on the Pith of February, 1823, to make an order that the petition should be dismissed. Under these circumstances the present indictment was preferred. An affecting appeal wits made to the Jury upon the wrongs, the suffering:. and the cruelties practised upon Alec Barlee, from the hour of her marriage until the date of the present proceedieg. Much stress was laid upon the severity of her confinement in Ipswich gaol, and the deprivations to which she was then sehjected ; she having for a considerable por tion of the time subsisted upon gaol allowance and the charitable donations of her friends. During her confinement it was suagemed that the trustees had offered to make her advaneas of - utoney, but under such terms as she could nut with propriety accept ; and it was pressed as a topic of great aggravation that neither of them had once visited her in gaol to see how she was treated, or had attempted to rescue her front the crutch imprisonment she was suffering, at the instance of a husband whom they knew she loathed and deteeted. It was proposed to give decisive evidence that she was a person of perfectly sound mind, and that the sup. posed aberrations of intellect breathing in all her letters and con versation, were no mere than the natural expression of a deep sense of thews sufferings to which she had been exposed. No fact, hew ever, was opened to connect the defendants in a conspiracy to effete the object imputed, or to show that time trusters were in concert with the itueband with any undue motive. One tact opened was after. wards disproved. namely, that the defendant, Mr. Edward Barlee, had accompanied the husband to Mr. Justice Bayley's chambers, foe the purpose of foreleg 3lrs. Berke to return to her husband. The prominent tareenteriateeaehed upon aa atingimg the defendants now on trial within the scope tel the indictment, was the fact of their having made affidavits in support of the husband's petition to the Chancellor, without any jolt ground for believing that Mrs. Barlee was insane. After the formal and documentary evidence necetsary to support the averments in the Indictment had been produced, the Counsel for the prosecution proposed to examine 31rs. Barlee as a witness ; whereupon it was objected by the defendant's Counsel, that her evidence was inadmissible, upon the general principle that the evi dence of a wife cannot be received ehher for or egatnst a husband, except in certain cases, and this, it was subatiatu, was not one of the excepted cases. After an argument which lasted three hours. Mr. Baron linAilAU expressed a decided (minim that the wife could not be a witueues un this issue, and therefore rejected her ustitnony. Susan Annstead, formerly a servant io the employment of Mts. Barlee, when she was single, proved; that after the matrituge site lived, in July 1814, with Mr. and Mrs. B. in Vine-street, Narrow. wall, Lambeth. About it foramialit after the marriage they Went into Suffalk, and Mr. Itarlee returned Moab. - Before they went into Suffolk a widow lady, about forty, who had several children, visited in Vine-street. She sometimes slept in the house. This witness veered eircumstabces which left time room to doubt that a criminal intercourse subsisted between the lady and Mr. Barlee. Witness was dismissed by ale. Barlee from his service, because she was supposed to say that he had married her mistress 011 account of her property. • Mrs. M. Calumet proved that in 1815, she occupied a house No. 26, Mount-street, Grovenor-square, and that Mr. Barlee hired apartments of her for Mrs. Barlee, understanding from hint that they had verbally agreed to live separate, and that he had agreed not to molest her. Mrs. Barlee took the apartments for three menthe. About a fortnight after they were taken, Mr. Bar lee came there and made a " row" in the house, insisting upon hiking Mrs. Berke away, which she resisted. At length Mrs. Barlee agreed to dine with him nest day. provided -wittiest' was allowed to accompany her, to which he assented. After dinner oh the following evening, Mr. Barlee refused (o let his wife return to her lodging, saying he was her master. and would not let her go, and witness was obliged to return without her. In a few days afterwards he allowed her to dine once at her lodgings, but sent a man-strvant to bring her home, with which she was obliged to comply. Several months afterwards Mr. Bailee called upon wit ness, and inked her. if in case Mrs. B. sent for her (witness) against him, what she had to say, and whether she cola I say that she had seen him heat Mrs. B. aVitnerasaid she had not seen tarn best her. Ile then said, " I took care of that," and added, " Let her give me her money, and let her do as ihepleattee." Witnesses were then called to prove the hand-writing of the two defendants to several letters. These persons being asked, on cross examination, as to the characters of Mr. E. Barlee and Mr. Clarke, seal they were both gentlemen of the highest honour, in tegrity, seal respectability. Aun Wincomb proved that she was in Mrs. Barlee 's service when that lady was living at Beecles, in 1320 and 1821. In Nov. 1320 3lr. Clark called upon Mrs. Barlee. Mrs. Barleefelased to to see him, but he forced his way into the house. Witness was present at the interview, which lasted about half an hour. Ile wished nee to shake hands with him and be friends. He said it was hey duty as a Christian to forgive him. She saki. an a Christian it was, but she would seek redress for the injuries she had sustained." Mrs. Barlee was afterwards taken to Ipswich gaol, and budged it the Infirmary, where she remained during the whole time of lure imprisonment. Her window looked into the felon's yard. A clerk in the office of Mr. Mangles, a solicitor, proved that he heard Mr. Bailee, the huebard, say, that it his -site allowed him 1001. a year, be did not care where the devil she went. This was about die time of the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court. Mary Crow proved that she was servant to Mrs. Bader whilst she was in gaol, in 1822. She was with her from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, but was not allowed to sleep with her. Witness aceompanied Mrs. Barlee to wan, in December 1824, when she was taken to Mr. Justice Bayley's. house, to be dischatged. Mr. Barlee had a coach at the door, wi;h three pro. teseionel gentlemen and two police officers. Mr. Berke was in the hall of the house with witness when Mee. Bader was discharged. airs. Bailee was in some part of the house with Lady Bayley, on account of Mr. Bathe being there. After Mr. Barlee and his solicitor went away a tipetaff was sent to take care of Mrs. Berke. Mr. Shadwell and Mr. Whitntsreh attended. Mr. A. Murray, one of the solicitors for the proved that Mr. Melee, the husband. came to 3lr. Justice Ilaylay's house with two Bovrattreet officers. lie said he came there to ta k e hi s wife awa y, sad that he had a right to do so. That was stated to the Learned Judge, who sent in for the solicitor'', and told them that Mr. Barlee would subject himself to a contempt it . he took his wife away by force . Mr. peace was then called in. I a Magistrate of auffalk, and High aheriff of that c . A auoln.t, in 1623 . , and 111a4. Ile conversed with her frequently, I y L it B ;l72 9 27;troved that he frequently saw Mrs B. in Ips end s he appealed to be perfectly competent to the management ot her *Waite. Cross-examined—Wten he first saw her in 18±2, site complained of the gaol allowance, and that she was in danger of being starved. Waimea rectunntetaled h r to use her money, which he understood she had at her command. Her answer was, " Would you have me compound's' felony ?" flee answer appeared *nod*, that, a conaiderable time, lie thnaght her under a delusion of mind, b* he afterwards found' it was perteraeness and tobstinary. This Kw concluded front the rational arowers she gave on other athletic , . She appeared ntiwitiaie. paver's. and extremely provoking ISelleres she might have aid. that the hlegistrateri were league I with the trustees egoism's her. Witnewo repeatedly told ber tha the had mormy at her corrogisad end she always said, " Would you have roe orompound • felony ?" She complainalo of her eccommodations in the pir:Odia. Meat assuredly she *Mod ' the best apartments in -the gad. The Iklag;sttoites had ri I authority to increase her allowance,/ food. She had bread. theebe and water. No other maim in the prison was allowed to have IL servant. She was generally well dresSal in gaol. She (Ni.veroed rationally on the subject of her trustees. her husband. du. She complained that her trustees hod robbed Frt. Knew nothing of the merits of her complaints against hoc t to u t o r ee and a e „h ee ,t. She had every accommodation that weld possibly be gives to ha by the I,lsuistrates. Edward Bacon, a banker. e Istswieh. prevved, that in ICTI: h► bad frequent communications with Mn. 0., atd'lle believed bet intellects to be as sound and perfect as ane person'a. abe npeneti, an account with him in March, 142.1. Witness is not a triettic:.l: m*n. The Rev. J. bong, a visiting Ju.tify of Suffolk, peeved that her saw Mrs. B. three or four time. daring het confinement, and she appesied to be a woman of perfectly sound intellect. Mr. T. li. Weston. a visiting Magintsate of Ipswich gaol, proved thit Mrs 11. treqttently sent for him, and from his comma.- ninitions pith her, he thought h.-r quite capable of manngine her own &Faint. She had sent to the Justice* on the subject of the horsey business, and, in November, Ifl 3. &aired en applica tion to he made to a Judge, to be edmi *Ted to boil. He found. her to be a person Of perfectly sound mind on every occasion he had tai see her. Mr. C. Berner., an acting Magistrate for Suffolk., saw Mrs. Be about three times whilst she wan in gaol, and she seemed perfectly' coMpeterit t'J the management of her affairs. Tlte.interaiews lambi about ten minutes. Knows the defendant, the Rev. Mr. Barbee and helieven hint to be a highly honourable man. Mr. Dorlfrey, a .Magistrate of StifFolk, had, he believed, macs Mrs. B. once in 11524, anti conversed with her. She wan* person competent to the management of her affahs. Mr. P. Derbyshire, a retired surgeon, who had been-In practice twenty-seven years, and tolerably well acquainted with lunacy cast*, proved that in August, 11124, he ancolupanied Mr. Sprate to Ipswich tined. and saw Mrs. If. He wan introttered as a and not as a medical friend. Mr. Murray mentioned the petition to her, and a great many papers were read. hhe made comments an they went on. They appeared to ba the comments of a person in the full possession of her mental faculties. The hitt-ivies; betted about two bourn. Witness went down preprneessid wish an nni nion that she was insane from the articievita he hail mad- lie lia. tened attentively to her conversation, and watelitd her countenance- She wee rather short sighted. In his judgment she was a person of perfectly setuid mind. Saw her again the next day, and tho eo:onek interview confirmed his that opinion. Mr. Pullen, a sorgeon, of lestwith. saw Mrs. B. for the' first time In August. 1814. She scot for him in consequence of an affi r davit made by the surgeon of the gaol. He saw her again maw times in December. 11325. Hi 'nide It his business to ascertain the state of her mind, and in his opinion she was of a perfectly sound mind. lie sate her eight or nine times ; wonetimen an hour at a time, never less than half an hour. Ile had a fair share of pease tice in lunacy cases. Imprisonment itu certainly likely to mouse mental excitement. Sarah Parsley was called to prove the' in an Interview whb Mr. Clarke, In the autumn of Nee, witness silted him if he was pane to put Mrs. B. into a mail.huu.e. • Ho slid s` hi , no means," but wind, 't` lit put her to too it you like." Winnow' raid, if fie could pay her well enough, she should Iliac her servants. Red rooms to herself. Not a word passed abont affidavits. %Veneta ' had before been employed to take care of a lomnic patient. Title was in substance the case for the Cecile. Aber the case IST the prosecution was closed, Alr. Baron GSAHAPt interposed, and intimated his opltfon the Jury that, however blameable the imputed conouto of Mr. Berle° might be, them seemed to he no just reason for saying that the trustees wore influenced by the motives charged in the indictment. The question in this case was not whether the trustees formed a correct judgment al to the state of Mrs. Settee's mind, but wlsother they acted Loma fide,Mitd ender a than persuasion that she laboured under mental delusion, and Can in capable of managing her own affairs. It was perfectly clear that the imstees•coeld have *to personal Emmet in establistiing.a cum mission of lunacy. Their interest, if they had any, lay the other way; fee had a commission issued, it was more than probable thee tee Lord Chancellor would have appointed other wens as the Committees; and if Mrs. B. was really of unsound mind, it was for her benefit that her interests should be taken care of •by the Court of Chancery. Personal benefit could never have arltea to tea trustees from the success of the proceeding; and eta !be high character given of these gentlemen, it was too „d *ay that they were guilty of the foul crime of conspiracy. The Counsel for the prosecution said that if thin was the ire. menial on els Lordship's mind, they certainly had no wish to press the ease any further; they would how to the slightest tart ' enatieb reining from the-filwaeb. , Two er three, however, of the Jttry said they took a different view of the use from the hemmed • Jedge; and observed that that were some particularn in the conduct of the trustees which rt quired explanation. There wasnn proof yet before them to justify the ening out a commission of lunacy. it (lid not yet appear upon what information they had acted in melting the effidaeito -instep= of the commission. At the desire of the Jury, theretore, the case for the defence proceeded. MARHYAT and Mr. Sergeant TA pm" severally addressed the Jury on behalf of Mr. Clarke and Mr. L. Barice respectively. They contended, in the first place. that there wan not a shadow of evidence to anthill% the charge of conspiracy, even if their clients had an adequate motive for committing so infamous a crime. Nei. thee of the trustees appeared to have done inviting whaterer in concert with Mr. Berlee, the husband beyond sweering to the affi davits filed in support of the commission. Bat their conduct in thin respect was lowa ple, and in the foil persuasion thra they Were tieing the halt that could be dons for the interests of Mrs. Bathe, whose whole deportment manifested that she was acting under a de lusion of mind, at least as respected her trustees. Mrs. Barlee's letter were full of the most decisive indications of delusion, mai to such a morbid extent had this delusion teen tarried, that she fan cied the whole world in conspiracy against her happiness aid in. tercets. It was this coraaet on the part of the unhappy lads that induced her trustees to believe that her mind was so much sift eted as to di uglify her for the conduct of her own affairs. The ques. tion in this case was not whether in fact Mrs. Berke was intone: but whether the trustees believed her to he so at the time they swore the affidavits in support of the petition to the Chancellor. Hee letters bore internal evidence of derangement, And it was upon their contents, as well as the informs don of other persona, dirt the trustee"' came to the conclusion upon which they aged. It should be reehllected that the preparation of the petition was not the joie' act of all the decadent,. The petition to tee.Chaocellor was pre. seated by Mr. C. Barlee only and therefore it could not be im puted to the trustees that they had conspired to effect the &eject al. legal. The trustees could have no improper motive whatever for suing out a commission of lunacy. Their interest. Wilsey had any lay iu still retaining the coutroul over her property but all levet tights in them would have been divested by a comminsion of lunacy and placed under the doniinion of the Lord Chancellor. No moos was ever committed without some ostensible motive. Here the trustees could have none but what was for the benefit of their easel gee truss, if they really believed that her ntind was unsound. That such was their belief would be demonstrated. The Learned Conn. eel complained in strong terms of want of candour on the part of the prosecutor's Counsel in withholding from the Jury evidence which they knew wen; directly to the exculpation of the twitters. Among the affidavits filed in support of the petition, was that et Mr. Stabbing, surgeon to the Ipswich gaol, which was decisive to show that the trustees were at least justified in doubting the sanity of Mrs. Barlee's mind. Tltin affidavit was withheld, and theretitte It became necessary that the defendants shonld produce it in est. dente. The prosecutor's Counsel also knew that Sir teeorge Tuthill and Mr. Warburton had reperted uport the state of the tun e happy lady's mile& These gentlemen had not been celled. 1 t them this prosecution was really meant to be conducted on pulite grounds, fur the purpose of punishing the defentlants—if really guilty, and of demonstrating the ptirity of that, conduct, if inno cent, surely there could be tio just reason for withholding cridee,os of surivvast importance. Why throw upon the defendants the bur den .of doing that, which the prosecutor, •in • common candour ought to do in the outset ? The sole point for tine consideration of the Jury was, whether the trnstees had reasonable and probable cause for the part they had acted in this transaction ? They judged from the whole of the lady's conduct and correspondence; they took the beet medical advice on the state of her mind, and in the result they were satisfied that it was the best thing which could ha done fur her, to place her interests in the hands of the Lord Chao cellar. It was objected to the trustees that they had not allotted Mrs. Backe money whilst she remained in custody. This was rfr fault of theirs. The trustees had ino motive or wish to retain a farthing of her money ; but the lady having made a voluntary oath with herself, never to give the trustees any acknowledgment for money advanetwl to her, she declined taking any from then, lest she Pliould break her oath. This tact alone was decisive of the lady's unsoundness of mind, By the terms of tee marriage sear. nient the trustees were not to be discharged but by receipts under the lady's own hand. If she would give none, the trustee, had a b authority to pay. and had they paid without any acknowledgment, they must have done so on their own personal responsibility. The Learned Counsel pointed out to the Jury the deep importance ui this case as it affected the character* of the trustees, tad the titter improbability that they should have lout themselves to the sioo of so foal a conspiracy, 1141.11 were gentlemen of the highest honour, and moat irreproachable integrity. Was it then to tu- be. lieved that, without any earthly motive, they should knit that:. selves to a crime, which, if satisfactorily made out, must render them infamous for ever in the eyes of the world The affidavit oh Mr. Stehbing (since deceased who hail boot surgeon to Ipswich gaol for thirty-eight items. Wits then pot in and read. This affidavit was tiled in support of the is'thiert no the lord Chancellor, and it expressed the decide.; opibion of the diva nent to be after a most attentive observance of Mr. Barite's con. duct whilst she was in Ipswich gaol, that she was of unsound mired, and incapable of forming a right judgment of her own aflsirs, and that she laboured under a mentol delusion as to the conduct of her husband, of her trustees, sod of every person connected with her affairs. The affidavit related severe' acts of eccentricity committed by Moe llarlee whilst in prison. *itch a.voatintarilv pc rtortittrg th, most menial offices in the gaol, selli.ag to her fellow prisoners tit s daily allowance-of bread, an writing to different penes.. in the neighboureood soliciting charitabledon.inions. The affidavit Amine Vaud that various co:nplaints made by 5!:5. S. in prime., suet r • teee , .