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MODERN ELOQUENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. SIR—An incorrect report of the speech deliver. ed by a celebrated Dentist at • dinner given on the 13th instant, in honour of his Royal linemen the Prince Regent's hirthetlay, having found ad saission into several of the Newspapers, in order to correct the misrepresentation. I transmit you a cot. rect copy of that eloquent and able address. The CHEVALIER. in proposing the health of his Royal li t gliness, said-- (;entlemen, you will permit me, I hope, to preface the toast I sin about to give, with a few o bsertainis. I assure you, I would not venture to trespass on your atteotion, under ordinary circuit). stances ; hot, being placed in the chair on this su spicious occasion. and myself and my father having Lad, fur thirty years, the care of the Prince Re gent's teeth, no doubt can be entertained but that we kid ass opportunity of duly appreciating his 1-bgliness'a character—and I think it neces sow at this period of sedition and disloyalty, to lay b:fure you the result of our united observation. " G e ntlemen, those who imagine that his Royal Highness ha. nut yet cut his denies sapientier —who believe that he has only got a colt's-tooth its his bead—w;ll, in the end, 'find themselves miserably disappointed. His Royal Highness's late procla mation ,hews that he has his " wise teeth" about hum—sod the manner in which he delivered is part of his ,penis front the throne, at the close of the S.l.biOli, proves that his Royal Highness has got los dentes canister, in perfection, and that be will use Owns, if it be found necessary. _ •' Geht!ripen, I am sure you will excuse me, if, iN spenkiiig of the Reformers—of those who attris hale the pressure of the times to the supineness of the Pritice Regent and his Governmeut-1 do not defief)ice•• Those individuals who wander snout disseminating sedition, deserve our severest censure. For my own part, I wish they were all stilieteil with • lucked-jasv. My skill, depend upon it, should not be exerted for their recovery. If, however, they strive to carry their treasonable machinations into effect, they will find armies spring rp to oppose them as fierce and as numerous as those which were generated by the dragon's-teeth, *lnch were sown by Cadmus. They have thrown insults in the teeth of their Sovereign, which i.o loyal subject can think of without horror. Hot, Gentlemen, la ua thew them, that, in sloe of their teeth, we will support the existing ►r,tem—which, fur int strength, plainness and ►rtuplictly, may be accounted a beautiful ape- cienen of the Tusk-an order. When the coon try exhibits so awful an aspect, we ought not to stand idly picking our teeth, but ought immedi ately to i-dfut-thy ourselves with the tried friends of I Lis ernment, for the purpose of devising some biting remedy for the evil. The proceediti6e in differeeit parts of the country by no means suit my pulae —and it makes my teeth chatter in my head with fear, when I hear that the female sex, at whom toy teeth weed formerly only to water, are taking an ticitse pert at public meetings. The demagogues by whom those meetings are convened, declare that their intentions are peaceable; but, depend upon it, those de chiretions are merely from the teeth out words—nett her the head nor the heart has any thing to do with them. It is our duty therefore to beon the sleet, tied to take measures for immediately snap ping at all those who appear to be tainted with the pilection• doctrines of vitro reform. That the Prince Ite-getn, whose heath!' I now propose, is friendly to moderate reform, cannot be denied by any man who has witnessed the alteration of the streets is the neighbourhood of Cailton-hosise— who has viewed the trunsformations which the Pavi lion at has undergone—or who has re marked the improvements which distinguish the dresses of the horse guard and hussar regiments." • The Chevalier probably meant a " dainty phrase." A General Meeting throughout the kingdom of all tiattrpfrt.ibitd imitple • oil the ddy after Cliiists niss-ilay next, is talked of, as the time fixed fur re turning urw members to the Commons ! It is deluded by some of the legal advisers of these Alertiogs, that there is and law for regulating the is.ue of writs. Advice* have been received et Sheerness for the • b4rltait tttt of liemmeit, the stealer or 31r. f Innsuor's child, nn hoard the Dromedary store-rlap, which i. nitwit to .ail with cootie's for New Smith %Vales. /trough/ow. whip war convicted of r robbery the White litme lon. Fetter-lane, proceed. by thi. cots veyaoce. The Dromedary, sf•e► lansitsiK the con vict. at Port lickiion, veils to Norfolk blood fur a supply of timber for the dock-yards. The eueridion of Edward Broadbent, at Horsham, on Friday, fur she murder of Serjeant Watson, at Brighton, uutireil in nor Paper of yesterday, was acrompassied with the following distressing eircemstatiee:—Wiwn the wretched 1113311 dropped his bandkerehief as a sierra, that he was pre. pared, Mr. Femur., the gaol-keeper, ordered the mein who us. at the head of the bogie, to move on, which be did not appear to suderstaird, sod the eufertsnate luau find let use altemme paid to his sigoal, threw himself from she earl, okra, dreadful to relate, the 1111410/P helot 'twistingly formed, the rope slipped, and lowered the poor fellow so, that his toes rested on the musad. The gaoler row proposed to oldie bins, adjust the rope, and lure the sufferer of *gaits ; bet owe of the officers of the Sheriff calkd aloud fur a spade, which could out Li procured fur some =Mutes, bat 1 was at lowish brought, wheel the ground was deg trent trader his feet, •Ilich sere held up by the honer, done' the overs hoe, sod al this period the acute sufferiogs of the dyne' Ira were made twaoiket by a DUFF GROAN. The mewirourse .:_iteciatoes epos the metesichuly occasion was lly r."oa number sot mien dials a belated, conmstiog chicly I " I '4l lad girls. PRINCE REGEN7'S EXCURSION. MOUS. PLYMOUTH. ♦UOUIT 14. Oar local readers will lir sorry so learn that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has deferred his visit to this port for the present. Ili. Rny.l High item arrival in Coats Road, on Sunday afternoon last, at three o'clock, in his yawls., where fie still lelllBlll%. We were never ►anguine in our hopes or the Royal visit, hut public report was so sarong in favour of its taking place, that we could tint du less shalt notice it. The disappointment on this occasion will be great to ninny, who have tirade preparation► In aistieipati AAAA of the emperors! visit. IRIGHTON, •UGU9T 15. It is confidently biped mill expected that the Prince Regent will ditemltark at this place Irina the royal yacht, after his present cruise, but on what particular day, of court,, it is impossible to decide. Het Royal Highness's carriages and tre vellutK reillitle remain here, apparently awaiting their Royal Nlatier's return. The Pavilion at this time is so toterrly under improvement, that it can only afford accommodations for servauts. CURIOUS A DV R N TURK IN THE GRAND STAND AT YORK. A singular scene occurred in the steed on Friday last. Just as Lord Fiisarillimn had introduced Prince Leopold to the stand in which were the Archbishop of York, his daughter, and many of the su►roaudiog Nubility and Gentry, an at tack was made on Mr. U—, a gentleman of foi tune (who occasionally spurts money on racing), by an step of and well dressed female, in terms not so feminine as might have been expected from her appearance. She was ac companied by another young lady of prepotoessing ap pearance, and whose apparent grief excited much sym pathy. Every eye was on the females, and the gentleman contrived to gel from the stand, followed by the ladies, to both of wham it turned out hr had lately been married. The husband remained iiirag. that night at York, and left by the Higheyer roach. lu the mean time the following state ment of the affair became public:— The Gentleman married his first wife between two an three years since, and she had one child, and was far advan rd in pregnancy with the other, when a familiarity took place between the hu•baud and the child's maid, who became pregnant also. and on a diuvve►y being made, the Lady re tired to her friends in toe of Eoglitiail, and all attempts on the side of her family and that of Mr. U.'s to reconcile her proved fruitless. He retired into Norfolk, and after a lapse of time he married a second wife, an amiable young Lady of the highest respectability, at Yarmouth. The first wife iliacoverol the second marriage, and Mr. U Aed, and thought himself in concealment mail surprised at York. The ladies traced his departure by the Highliyer coach, and they pursued in a chaise and four to overtake the each, but the gentleman left it fur safety at Greta, near Stamford, and thus eluded pursuit. The affair was lie prin cipal topic of couversalims at York. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES IN GLOUCESTER. SHIRE. The clothiers of Gloucestershire have been lately robbed of wool to an immense 'mount. Such prodigious gismo lilies have disappeared in a moment, that the depredii. lions could not be attributed to any but a well disci. plined and numerous gang. By the activity of Henry Burgh, F..q. a Magistrate, of ►tug's Stanley, sod of one of the Bow-street officers, ten persons who are sup posed to be the principal conductors of this peed& 'my enterprise have been apprehended, and were lately committed to Gloucester gaol to take their trials Ave for having committed a robbery upon the premises of Messrs. Lloyd's, opulent clothiers at Ureley, and live toe having re ceived the stolen property and ,aerated it. Two other meet were al.o taken into custody, but they have been examined as King's evidence. One of them was the prime mover of the plot, which has been most tremendously successful throughout the country, sod their evidence is to form the ground-work of the charges. DREADFUL EFFECTS OP NIGHTSHADE. As Inquisition was taken yesterday, in the Workhouse of Si. Mai y, Kensington, liefore Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coro ner fur the County of Middlesex, on the body of John Golder, a child two years a•d a half old, whose death was caused by eating the berries of night-shade, nut knowing them to be of a poisonous nature. It appeared from ilre evidence of Susannah Hill sad Mar tha Lindsay, both of James-street, Kensington, next-door neighbours to the parents of the deceased, that they saw the deceased the preceding morning in good health, and that shot four u cluck in the afternoon he was at play in the field, iu company with his little sister, ten years of age, and some odor children. The deceased gut lout the hedge, soil began to pick the red berries of the night-shade, and shortly after he became in • slate of suffocation, from hauling ate of the berries, as was supposed, from some of diem having been found in his hands. He was carried to the nearest cottage, medical assistance sent for, and Mr. Merriman, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. George, came and ren dered all the asi.istalice to their power, but to no effect ; he sonic/4 d only about an hour and three quarters, and expired in the greatest agony. Henry Grurge, of Kensington, Surgeon, deposed, he sari the berries ; they are narcotic, and he hail no doubt bat the dreg mord died in cussequence of his having ate the berries of utght•shade. Verdict—`• That the deceased came to his death frogs eatiog the !mime berries n/ night-shade, stop hatotoiNg they were poi.ionous in their nature." AGUICULTUICE. A correspondent suggests that great advantage would be &tired to the public from a chaste set crops, mid lbal murk grass land, pal secularly in the mighbourhoold of large turrus, which is now cuisquiratively strril, might by this memos be made to yield I•rgr crops, and In afford abstudasece of em ployment to thee poor. The system of husbandry, reroute. mended by our correspondent, is this—*. lu the autumn, after the hay C.Vp is reaped, dig up the field with • spade, and plant putatues•t the ptopn•. reamile, from which you will have a cross of the valise of front 45/. to Mit an acre. After the pot...twee are gathered, deg up the land again and mew it with wheat in drill at the proper 11C11.110. In the fullueing opting, while the wheat is growing, mew the held with haw acrd,'; •t the proper time, reap the crop of curie, which will be worth lilt an :Mr; and the next year, and for seven years to ensue, you will, by manuring in the usual tray, have luxuriant crops of grass. Al the end of Skid period, the same peeress must In• repeated. arid the laud will in this way, if our friend be not too sanguine in his calculations, be made duality pioductive " The benefit of this ay.trm set husbandry to the poor will, hr conceives, be incalculable— the produce will do much mitre than reward the extra la bour—the parish lofiketil might take a good portion of land up easy terms—distresaml rowdies might be lieneficially ployed upon the soil—aud the experiment might be made with beds ur nu risk, soul with a moral ( whimsy o f ,'omens. This seggeatiun is wet ussde to supersede Mr Owen's peso, but to impuly its place till it Call he tertitied tutu uptriitios. Leeds Mercury DISTRIBVIIODI 01? PRIZE-MONEV. _ . The T)tre, fur she e;wriaer and N. plow-, on IVedneeday, she 16111 gaoling, al Nu. 3, New Goers, Itrimel...irrri. Retells ►aar pi ll ar, ....wry Wealaremlay auL Thei.s.lay, for three sesossilas _ . . _ . _ . The Wrangler, fur Our deirutiou of the Swedish vessels los, kr,i*h►J.u , Livs, rod nrgaitu, at der Iteyal Gayer of# • LAW tNTEILLICENCE. COURT OP CHANCERY, Luecourclinr, Manitair, Auaun JUDGMENT. GARAY GORDON N. JAMES GORDON. The LORD CHANCIMLOR, on enrniug into Court this mor g. delivered a most elali.irate judgment in this distrrs.ing and long-protracted cause to the following effect This cast, in every view. is certainly one of the must important. and. at the sane time. nicia distressingly tondol that ever has come under my consideratiM). 1 have with the most heartfelt anxiety devoted every attenti to it. and it is HOW my duty to state the cuticluviuti have come to on the facts laid before me ; at the same time 1 most lo.g to be understood as liable to be corrected if 1 ►hould unintentionally inmate any of the facts. This bill, it minivans, wts tiled in th e l ama h of April. 1809, by the Plaintiff, against the Defendant, his brother. end two per. sons claiming on interest under hue, praying that certain agreements entered into between the Plains tiff and the Defendant, limps, might he vet aside. I.ld that ao onssulty btipulated to be granted by the i'loiustilf to the Defendant, Jamey, aught be decreed by the Court to be null and void, sod that the Dc . . Pendent. Janieti, •nd the two ailments under him. might be restrained by an injunction from proceed. log in • Court of Liar to veinier► the sum of 4,5001„ with interest, from the Plaintiff. Such is the prayer of the bill, and before 1 go into • detail of its contents, I must be allowed to say, that much of the difficulty I have had to encounter has arisen from the want of proper information in the plead ing. o► both sides. It is to be regretted that such is the case ; but as it now strolls, I will proceed first by stating the allegations in the bill, and then the admissions and Loa disclosed in the answer. According to the platement in the bill the two Gordon., the Plaintiff and the Defendaot, are sous of Harry Gordon. deceased—sod it appears that he the father wade • will in the 'ear 1786, by which lie devised to Peter Gordon, his Bois. and the elder brother of the Plaintiff and the Defendant, the whole of his real and tormet! estates, bequeathing legacies to his three other sons, Harry, James. and Adam, and also to his daughter Hannah. He provided, that, if Peter should die without male issue, that the estates should pass to his. the testator's, next son—and in the event of his dying intestate. without heir male, it was to de wend to the next son, and so on. The testator charged the estates with an annuity of 900/. per amnions, to be paid to his wife. the mother of the Plaintiff amid time Defendant, Go her life, amid he appointed her executrix to his will. The testator di-d in the year 1787, and the will was proved in Doctors'-Commons, by his wife amid a person of the name of Margaret Buchanan. It was, however, afterwards discovered, that the testator had made another will, of a later date, on ship-board, by which he constituted his son Peter his sole heir, and bequeathed to each of his other children 2.0001. which Peter was to pay, and in consideration of his so doing, he appointed him his residuary legatee. Peter of course them. was entitled to the real estate. It is obvious that if he died without heirs male, and if he was, us alleged, a natural sou, or. in plain speaking, a bastard, the family. by the law of the land, would have no claim whatever 011 the pro perty ; but if he was the legitimate sun of his fa ther, they would lie clearly entitled to it. Peter. it appears, did not long survive his father, as he died in the mouth of October 1787, the "woe year that the testator died. On his decease the Plaintiff claimed the property so next heir at law, he being the second son of the testator, amid bring put into possession, lie began to exercise the rights of owner ship. by receiving the rents and profits of the estates, which wr.e, however, soon claimed by the Defendant, James, who alleged that he was time le gitimate heir to the property. as Peter and the Plaintiff were born previou- to the public marriage of their parents, and of COW'Se that they were ille gitimate. The Plaintiff was, as might be expect ed, very much astonished at this information, but on the certificate of the public marriage being pro •duced to him, which was dated alter his birth, he was induced to believe that the siatement of the Defendant, James, was true ; wider that per suasion he entered into articles of agreement with the Defendant, James, in March. 1789, which Hr ticks recited. that the estates were mortgaged for 1,050/. which the Plaititiff was to pry off, and was to continue in the possession of the property on the c lotion that he pant to the Defendant, James, the annual ruin of 4001. for five years, amid after wards the sum of 300/. (or 350/. by the way of an. swim) , for his life, and at the •opiraition of ten years, to pay I he blllll of 4 5901. with interest. in ad dition to the annuities, which was to be secured on the estate-a. I may be allowed here to observe, that if the Defendant, James, could assert to the Plaintiff, as he has done, that lie„ Harry, was nut the legal heir, but that lie, James, was, might 110 t Harry have said to him. on the very nine prin ciple, amid on as good a foundation, if Peter was not the legitimate child of our father, as you allege, you cannot possibly be his, Pe ter's, heir. Such, in truth. is the natural con clusion from the whole premises. The mortgagees appear to have acted throughout most kindly to both ;niftier of the family, for according to the al legit. of the Defreidani, James, one half are le giiimate and the other half are not, and I cannot help regretting that the persons who appeared out behalf of the mortgagees had not been examined in the cause. At the same time I must say. that the whole transaction. as it relates to the property, proves that the parties felt some conviction ash) the Clllllll of the Crown ; that is, they were aware they were dealing with a property which the Crown might sweep away from them if Peter was not legi timate. It appeared that time annuity was paid up to the year 1808, and that the Plaintiff had also ;raid the mortgage of 1,090/. oft. In consequence of au insurrection in time orbital of Grenada, where the estates in question are situated. the rents amid prof.* of them became much reduced. But there being ass estate is the Oohed Slates of America which belonged to thi testator, the Plaintiff was iodated to eater into articles of agreemmmrut with the Defendant. James, ims the year 1805, by which it woe agreed that it the estates could he mold. that the Defesidwit, James, we. HI CCCCIaa Out lentils of the imagt;heee mewl. The Minting bill then *Wee, that shortly after this latter agreement. he dears/peered that a private mar. ridge had takes place between his parents previous to the public marriage •rwl hoe birth, and that of his Imbiber Peter. •nd to ODOM (pICIICe of which be •trplted to the Dekledant. James, to cancel the deeds of agreement. by which the annuities were secured ; but the Defendosit. .lames. Instead of cousplytog with his request. brought au action inmost the Plaintiff in the Court of Session in Scotland. to recover four hundred pounds. anti also a similar acteon in one of the Courts of I.IW ut %Vv.' eeeeee *ter Hall. for the recovery of the Novara of the weiwaily. The boll filially state*, that the private marriage was celebrated by • chaplain of the arm•. and that the tole reason far • public - - - - marriage was a wish expressed by Mrs. Gordusa's mistime* to have every doubt out their minds re. moved es to the validity of the first marriage by their being again publicly married. The Plaint',it Isa• also set forth o certificate of his being christen. . . ed iii St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, 1 . 14 the son of Il4rry and 114ishali Curitiba—awl allegro, that he never received any tr►u.ulerahon fur the deeds which lie had executed to the Defendant, Janata, Mud that walling but the btairmesst of the latter. that be (the l'ldiutiff) WIWI illegilinsate, would have 'seduced I to here eercuted them. Such are the allegations in the bill, auil tt is now proper we slopuld see how they are answered by the Defendant. The answer of that gentleman ',hoes the will of his roller, made in the year 1786. when the testator was at Portsmouth, -- --- in which ore these memorable word•—' I give to my dollar'''. by Hannah my wile, who were born before the birth of my third sox, a third shore of my property. mill another t!iiril to my wife Hannah. and at her demise to be divided among our chil dren, whether legitimate or illegitimate.' These certainly are worths of com . rlerable importance. and which ignitor he overlooked or decidissg such a case as this. The Deferolsort admits the drills of his father, hut after hi. death he discovered from his moth; the 'wither his brother Ptttr nor the Plaits- tiff were legitimate, but that he war the eldest legi timate mil of his parents, and that the Plaintiff was well aware it war the case, and that lie urither knew or believed that a private marriage had taken place bete/reit his parents, and that on account of the payment of the •ty being stopped he was obliged to bring his action in 'Court of Law for the recovery, as the deeds by which it was secured were valid instruments. Such were the contents of the bill •1111 answer, on which it is necessary I should make n few ohservatiosis. This cause came on to be beard first before Sir William Grant, the late Mins ter of the Rolls, and lie directed an issue to try whether the Plaintiff was or was not the legitimate son of the testator, it being an undisputed fact, that a public marriage was celebrated after the births of Peter and the Plaintiff. This issue was most properly directed by that great and Learned Judge. The Jury found that the testator had burro privately married to the Plaintiff's mother before his birth, sod of course decided he was les getimate. The cause was then set down before me for further directions. My nptninu is, that if on the death of a person seised of an estate in fee, and a disisute arises in his family relative to which of his offspring are legitimate, and which are wit, and the parties make a fair and full dia• closure to each other. relative to what they se verally know on the subject, and if a distribn lion of the property takes place, as if one of the family were illegitimate, this Court will not dis turb such errausgeseweit, because a circumstance turned out that was not apprehended. I am bound by the verdict of the Jury to consider the Plaintiff as the eldest legitimate son of his parents, notwithstanding all I have since heard. My attention hes been repeatedly called by the Defendaid. James, to that p.m of his answer, where he swears that lie never knew or be. !Weed that • private marriage had taken place. I have no doubt but he acted from his conscieure in swearing that ; hut it does not follow, although he has sworn so, that no such marriage did take place. nor is it a reason that she Plaiiiitlf is not en. titled to relief. 1 will now allude to the evidetice in the case. The first is that Oven by the yeller. able President of the Royal Academy, but as it only relates to the public marriage. I nerd not state it. The most interestnig affidavits are the follow ing :—a Mr. Thornton deposes that lie knew the testator mid his w,fe. and that their eldest 6011 Peter (since deceased) lived with them, and was as much beloved by them as any legitimate child could be. Toot be. the deponent. was in the island of Gre nade. where he saw the Defeatism. James, who said lie came to take possession of his brother's (the Plaintiff's) properly, as he was illegitimate, whirls caused the deponent to feel strong feelings of au ger. and told him, James, that all the children of Isis parents were legitimate, and iii strong terms re buked him for his conduct. on which he seemed much ashamed, and made no reply. Tlw deponeut afterwards issformed Adam C 14 0 ,14 1, ,, Site younger bristlier of the Plaintiff and the Defessdaut, of what hail passed on that occa.iou, who said that lw, Adam. was in possession of the estates, and would keep them in trust for the Plaintiff. This took. place in 1788. The nest Admit is that of the Rev. Mr. Hogg, who was esamiised in Scotland under a commission. on which uccasioli lie produced • letter which lie received from the Defeudisio..lailles, in which he states, ' I have been long attached to you fur your virtue, isiteerity. goodness of heart, atc. but I lament you have bees. exalutesed at all, as you have hero quite inconsistent in your evidei Dr. Hogg then in lii* 'valence says, that he was told by the testator of his haviug been privately tnirried, and that lie was forced to do so, afraid of offending Judge Gordon, who wished him to marry a Miss Erskine, who lived in Aberdeen. she bring • rich heiress ; and he further deposed. that he had been informed of the private marriage by the mother of the testator, by a Mrs. Ogelhy and a Mr. Jo!ns Gordon, deceased, and that the Defendant, James. hail told luau that he wasaware of the private mar riage. but that the regular semeiotic's& to the estate would depend entirely on the public suarriege. Tile nest affidavit is that of Major-General A4looi , Gordon. the younger brother of the Plisiusiff rod the Drleedent. James. in which be swears that he literst his father, the tesitstor, say that fwd be ism manned his (Me depoussit'a) modtarr privet/4v. the he would have bed kis twosher`v (Jade* Outdo..) forturse ; but that UM Learned Judge wee •• angry ma Imaging of Me marriage. tam he attests the testator on the !seed with a stick. sad declined that by G-4 he would dieinhent him ; andLL that tfli testator slit ' t....141 . 1,i,,, 'diet the sue.ricle tip afterwards puhltcly celebrated. at the r.qiii at of his mother'. relatious. That the devour.. .aw ii,,' Defendant, Jasitea, in the year 171118. at GillOae• when he slated ha cause there for the potpioprit• taking pomeasian of the rotates, 11. the 1 ' 141.110 1... illegitimate; uis which the depot.ead total him i.e had come OH u fool's eirnind. as he had taken e ..... session of them, anal would keep them iii l•a• , 1.. r his elder brother, the Plaintiff. Tile U. t. oda. , James, then mid, that the estate's hail totter t,i. sold. and for the deponent and him to .noises 'i.e proceeds between them. as the Plaititiff world be entitled Jo tint estates in Scotland ; ' use •ho• • the deponent thiswered. 4 You want to make me as great a scoundrel as plume& ; mail if v.v. do not leave the Wood forthwith, I 4 aill lOrfre you to do so,' tali which the Dr&ud itr...hiliti-r e left the ishosid, and came to England. .0.1 ._. _ T ., sinew& . davits on the part of the Defendant. it asitioaleitllfest an actionotrait Itsught in Scotland, ifs vel , ,Olii d'el6ka the Outer, Hoare. before Lord Armaii.d., Utah. usury. as it hi de ttttt nitiated in the tictit• Coors., in 1908, wisest the claims of the Drfeeidaht, James. were put th *4 the Pursuer, riot attri.•r.t• the answer of the Plaintiff as Defender; 4•11 M&lll'it UV.* 0611 . 100 the wife of the testator, the mother of the Plaionff and the Derehdeet, was ettnitst..e , l, astie , • she stated the reesou why the public martia l (' was celebrated, and that the private one would artier I have taken place only that her retain/p.*4lW Irwasu. objected to her marrying en officer in the •11611, and that it was to quiet their fears that the litCOOti 1 marriage took place ; she stated that tile usighast family bible, in which the first marriage had Ibees. entered. was lost in a voyage hush Poill.- delphia to England ; but on their arrival 111 Wk. country O new bible was purchased. in winch it was entered, with the births and baptioat of the children. In a letter written by her to the Plaiii. tiff site soya, • Why do you conceal your suffetiritt. i from me ? I am the only surviving parent you have to blame, anti you. are an innocent victim. James. my son (meaning the Defendant). It done his worst. 0 ! may God forgive latin. I have only to say of him. in the language of Eve. the mother of us all, Curse him not, 0 G• 4. corm• not my son ! He has done his worst. but may Guy, forgive him! I have erred, but not from the p.m. of honour ; nor have I deviated front virtue.' SOLI, were some of the contents of her letter which hail been commented on by the bar. as if her letter implied that she had cohabited with her list.- band before marriage. It is but jii.tice tt•r me to say, that her conduct did hot warrant any each conclusion. 1 must repeat what I Cut, merly alluded to, that, when a dispute eri.wr to a family respecting legitimacy, and that they Oral together tilt 'heir inheritance. there mod he yowl faith mid honest intention, and a full •liiicitotite of all the circutustaticer, otherwise this Court will 18.- leder,. I sin of opinion that the defeintent. j aili t.., when he was dealing with the Plaintiff. knew that there was a private marriage, yet be dean with I ' al if the public one was the only marriage to pies hon. He certainly swears that he did not kin,* of any such private marriage. But how two tbe pi.- tified in believing that is the fact ? stud if 1 did be lieve it, the natural consequeoce would he. that l must impute the most infamous perjury to most respectable witnesses, who have sworn he did know it, and kept it from the knowledge of the Pli.intitl. My decided judgment therefore is, thet the eve.- turns' are hot valid, and cannot stand. If I ISM wrong in the opinion I have formed, it is email to the parties to have it corrected." The prayer of the bill granted. The Court was crowded to teem.. POLICE. A mat of the saute of Grebe was brought ■p tr;ioreMe Lord Mayor, yesterday movie& charged with leaving robbed his employer, Mr. Wood. Mr. Weod is • le-ot and s►e - worker ; the Prisoner was his s►epnsn. Mr. Wuo•l on din. ferret occasioss received anoopisoos Wien, describing she Prisoner as • diahussest prison, sad cart:onine Mr Wood against ►lm. These Miters, wit► other mutters, isdrice Mr. Wood at tenth to suspect t►e inte`►ity of his shimmer'. so d be dogmatised to put it to a trial. He prevailed rot • fricod of his, a Mr. Ferguson, whoa the Pr;sosoe did s o t boo*, to all at t h e shop in the abeam, of Mr. Wood, in order to purchase some goods. Mr. Ferguson riecoritioftv called sad purcbeard two pair of shoes of the Prisoner, for which he paid bins les. aid left the shop. Mr. Wood. who veil intentionally out of the way, returned to the @Mir so half so boor sifter. He asked dee Prisoner whether say per. son bad been i•quiring fur him. The Prisoner rephett, tb them vas rot. He them as►ed the Prisoner whether be had ould soy slimes in his absence. The Prisoner •aid be ha.. sot. Mr. Wood tiara writ out • mama time, cad vow., be retuned be questioned the Privity r again. 'I he Prisower •ride • similar reply. Alr. Wood ;Ara went to ow of the Lord Mayor's olicetee wino remt far t►• Prisoner on pretence of taking his tn►ssirr far a par of boots. The Prie,iiirr took she 015(14 tnthr , art, Mad about to retire, when the officer cs,il he hie{ a few to ask bits. He then asked him whether he lord 4.44 us, shoes that day. He said be had aut. Hesitated him wte slier be bad any 'mosey about kiln. The Prisoner mid be had. bet it was bus own mosey. The Primmer was the• taken into emitody. The IS.. which Mr. Ferguson bed paid (or the shoes, soil *loch ti lted previously morked, were &rod on Ills permit N.d better vw afterwards searched, sod lime leash.'t cud *hwy., t►e property of Mr. Wood, wire fumed there, se 111.ki a. MOM doplitates of shoes whirls bad beers pawned by the Promisees wife, avid whirls Mr. Woos, ms osproti t io, ►den. tried as Me property. The Prisoner, is his defence, denied that 04 VW / frit4 fOllll4l is his bums were the property of Mr. Week - admitted that hr sold the •bates to Mr. Femmes ; but i.e said I. did out iutrad to keep the money He sent 1040 stairs two different tones to bated over the meaty to M.G. Wood, but did mat Arid ker. •When brought NW* the sdiMes. be *Med ►aving sold the shoes. is • minim elf saspruo sod forpitutoess.e—He was maisseitted for sriai. eenStlinaLS. 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