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From the statement and deposi tions of these, in the present and former instances, and from the allegations of the Bill, it appeared that the Petitioner, Mr.;.Tesisis ' married with Mr. Frede. kr, rick Teush, of the City of London, merchant. in July 17!"t; t:!rit they lived and cohabited together, as sou ea.! wife. uutil February 1798, is which in- terval their issue was two daughters, both since dead ; that Mr. Teush, having formed. an adul terous intercourse and connexion with one Sarah Evans, began to absent himself frequently from his wife, and, in the year 1796, began to live with the said Sarah Evans, a; man and wife, under the assumed name of Mr. and Mrs. Thorley, and in Feb. 179 S entirely left Mrs. Tensh, and declared his intention of never recurring to Iris family again, though he admitted he had no ground for complaint against her. From that time she has lived apart from Mr. Teush, and has had no intercourse with him, but lived ever since in the Parish of Cheshunt, where, from her good conduo, she has entitled her self to, and received the countenance and protection of a respectable neighbourhood, and from snmeof the relatives of her husband ; that Mr. Teush, in De cember 1798, obtaitind a sentence of divorce a mensa rt thoro, against her husband, in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of London, in consequence of his adultery with Sarah Evans ; and the Court also decreed to Mrs. Teush, the suns of two hundred pounds per ann. as alimony, during the joint lives of Mr. and Mrs. Tensh ; that Mr. Teush has ever since lived with Sarah Evans, and resided, at different places, as a Wife ; that she has, for some time past, gone by the name of Mr. 'Fetish, and is considered by many persons as his wife ; they have three children; that Mr. Teush has been far from pundual in the payment of the alimony to his wife, who frequently has been obliged to recur to the Ec clesiastical Court, in order to insure payment. Towards the end of last year, Mrs. Tenth was un der the necessity of applying, through the process of the Ecclesiastical Court, for three quarters of a year's alimony, due up to the 2ith of Oaober, 1804, in consequence of which. Mr. Tends petitioned for a reduaion of alina , ny, alleging his situation and reduced circumstances, and stating that he had withdrawn himself and his capital from trade ; that however, the circumstances of Mr. Tenth, and his quitting his partnership, have not arisen from losses in trade, or unforeseen misfortune, but in conse (pence of Mr. 'I eusn's pursuing the same course of life, that compelled the Petitioner to apply fax a di vorce to the Consistory Court ; that under these circumstances, Mts. Teush has no proved but that of being reduced to a comparative state of indi gence, having, beyond the said alimony, barely the means of existence; and that the condet and situ ation to which Mr. Tenth is reducing himself, pre chided every hope of reconciliation, and chance of Mrs.Teush continuing to enjoy the only benefit that remained to her of her marriage contraq, namely, the aforesaid means of subsistence ; and on these grounds, the Petitioner prayed their Lordships as sent to i Bill for divorcing he: husband. After the necessary preliminary fags of the mar riage, &c. were duly proved, several witnesses were brought forward to substantiate the allegations of the adultery of Mr. Teush, and his cohabitation with Sarah Evans ; these were principally female , domestic servants, who had lived with the parties. One of these stated that she had seen them several times together in bed ; and another, who not long since had lived with them as cook, at Godscone, stated they had three children. Another witness stated, that she livedwith Mr. and Mrs. 'tenth, about three years ; their town residence was then at No. 141, Fenchurchostreet : this was about nine years ago ; the latter part of the time of her living with them, Mr. Teush frequently ab sented himself from home, and often staid out late at night; that she observed Mrs. 'Fetish frequently in tears ; that Mr. Teush in general behaved kihti manly to her ; that she behaved herself very well to him, and did every thing she thought' would please him; that she observed Mr. Teush more than once take wine out of the cellar, and..send it out. - _ _ -- Another witness stated. that she lived with Mr. and Mrs. 'fetish about the same length of time ; it was after the former witness had lived with them. She had o! served the behaviour of Mr. Teas!' to his wife ; in general, he appeared very cross to her. The LORD CHANCELLOR here observed, that this kind of evidence had nothing to do with the case ; there was no allegation of cruel behaviour in the bill. 'rite Leading Counsel (Mr. ADAM) observed, the present case, under all its circumstances, and con sidering them all together, was, he thought, such a case, as would entitle the lady to the relief she prayed for; they therefore thought it May be pro per to go into a proof of general conduit and be haviour from the commencement to the lama pe riod. Such was done in the case of the divorce 'lowa et r 4 The LORD CHANCELLOR said the evidence must be in proof of the allegations of the Bill. A Gentleman was then brought forward, who lived in the neighbourhood of the tormer residence of Mr. and Mrs. Trust], near Cheshunt, and of that in which Mrs. Teush at present resided. He ' stated. that Mr. Teush left his wife in the year 1798 ; that she lived since in a house, other than that she occupied with her husband ; that she behaved with thrgvernest propriety t which Mr. Teush, who had mace up his mind not to live with her, acknow ledged ; and also espressed a desire, that an inter course may be kept up between his Family and her. Another Gentleman, a Mr. Oliver Cromwell, stated, that he knew Mrs. Teush seven or eight years. She lived in a small house, near Cheshunt, with a limited establishment suitable to it. Some observations were here interchanged be tween the Learned Counsel and the Lost) Cli A N. , cettoe, respeeing the necessary line of evidence. After which the farther consideration of the Bill was adjourned till Wednesday. A Message was received from the Commons, im porting-that the House had ranted permission to Sir John and to Sir James Stewart, Baronets, to attend their Lordships' Committee., if the said Monthers thought fit. A second message was received from the Com mons, prevnted by Sir JOHN STEWART ; Bart.; th.: was of some length, and included an exposition of the grounds on which the CoMmittee of that House (to whom the consideration of the affair of Sir H. R. Popham was referred) required the at teadance of the Earl of St. Vincent to be examined berme them. Stveral private and local Bills were brought up by Mr. SAXER, Sir J. Asrtay. Mr. JoHnsione, and other Genderaen, and which were severally read a first time. Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH shortly addressed their Lordships, relative to the last message from the Commons, to the purport, as we could colic& that he was authorised by his Noble Friend, the Earl of Sr. VINCLNT, to deckle that he was ready and willing to attend the Committee of the Commons, should their Lordships please to permit him. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE moved the first reading of the Bill for authorising the PaLment of a Salary to the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Lancaster; on which The Earl of RADNOR rose, and expressed his decided disapprobation of the measure. He observ ed, that the office to which the Bill applied was one of antient institution, greatly conducive to the pub lic welfare ; and the more so, as it was always per formed gratuitously. He was willing to admit that some strong and plausible arguments would apply in the present case. Let their Lordships consider the duties which were imposed on jurymen, to be gratuitously performed, and who were liable to be fined if they did not attend ; in that respe& what difference should there be between the county of Lancaster and other counties ? that part of the country was very populous, but was highly pro sperous ; why should it possess the advantages of prosperity, without at the same time suffering some of the disadvantages which resulted from it? Were the Bill in question passed, there would be appli cations of a similar kind from other quarters. He had several other objeliions, but he now objeCted to the principle of the Bill ; and, under his impressit,n of it, would move to amend the Noble Earl's Mo tion, by substituting for the word " Now," " this day three months." The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE said, he was aware of several objections which may be made to the Bill ; but the truth was, that all those, whom he had consulted on the occasion, were impressed with the necessity of the measure. and were of opinion, that it was impossible to carry on the busi ness to which the Bill referred, without a provision of the kind; so much so, that he thought he only dis. charged his duty to the public in supporting ; the part of the county of Lancaster affeeted by the bill contained an immense population, a great part of whom were manufacturers. I•'or the three last years, the office in question was executed by a per son who resided thirty miles from the place ; the measure under conskleration was necessary in the opinion of many conversant with the business of the Courts ofJustice. His Lordship went into a state ment of the number of cases tried in the year 1800, and the fbur following years, and adverted to the serious inconveniences which must ensue, were these, or the greater part of them, left to be tried at the Assizes. The salary was to be given only in the event of a person duly qualified for the office not being found willing to aa without it. In short, from the opinions of all those he had consulted ; from those most conversant with these things in that part of the country, he was convinced it was an innovation rendered neceesary by the peculiar cir cumstances of the case. Ths Earl of BRIDGEWATER made a few ob servations in favour of the measure, and, after a few words in explanation from the Earl of RaDNOrt, the question was put, and the amendment of the latter negatived; after which the Bill was read a first time. S'l'. PANCRAS POUR RILL. The Bishop of s . r. ASAPH rose to make his promised motion relative to this Bill. Ile observed, the small mistake which gave rise to a precipitate reading of the Bill a second time on that day fort night, had prevented those Lords who disapproved the measure from delivering their sentiments, or those who petitioned against it from being beard by their Counsel at the bar. For his own part, he greatly disapproved of the Bill, so much se, that be should presently move that the order for • a committee sitting on the Bill to-mormw be discharged, in order to follow it up, should he succeed in it, with another motion for commit ing the Bill on that day three months.—This he was induced to do, by his objeCtions to the principle of the Bill ; which, in fad, was totally to repeal she An passed towards the end of last session ; a Bill, which had much time and labour bestowed on it by several of their Lordships, in a Committee, and in which it was considerably amended and improved ; this, the petitioners for the present Bill, say, they find from experience ; from the experience of not more than half-a-year, to be irisu(ficierst to irs purposes, and they new desire its total repeal as ' the best means to carry its provisions into &feet— /a hree/a). Who were the persons to be called upon for this? Not the parish of St. Pancras. They were a select body or number of men, who styled themselves the guardians or direElors of the poor. The objet was to take the administration of such affairs fr o m the vestry at large, the churcbw4rdeng, Ste. and to vest it in the said seleEt body. The Rev. Prelate then went into the history of the original Bill, which came before their Lordships towards the latter end of the session of 1803, and described the powers which the promoters of the Bill required should be vested in them. They were to be selr-Hefted ; they were to assess the rates ; A the vacancies were to be filled sip by them ; they were to produce no vouchers ; they were to be their own auditors, &c. All these improper provisions were amended by their Lordships. The result was, that the Bill, on account of the late period of the session, was lost for that year. The Bill of last year, ameliorated and improved, as he had alluded to. followed ; and this Bill, the parties in qaestion say, is insufficient to its purposes. because it did not give them power enough. The present Bill went to du away all the amendments made by their Lordships to the l a s t t ut ; in fad, it repealed the original Bill, of which, with out meaning to offend the aristocracy of the parish of St. Pancras, he must express his disapprobation. It reminded bins of a bill, not long since, and very properly, thrown out by their Lordships; the pro fessed object of which was, the improvement of the art and mystery of chimney sweeping —(e laugh). The objet of that measure was, to place more power in the bands of a sele/t body of opulent chins acy sweepers. Were the Bill under consideration suffered to go to a Committee, the long and tedious discussions and hearing of Counsel, who would have to argue that black was white and white was black ; for the worse the cause was, the more sub tle should the distinetions necessarily be—.-(a tersek). In concluding, his Lordship adverted to the late period of the Session. and expressed himself decid edly against the farther progress of the Bill s and „ moved "that the order for the Commitiee to sit the Bill to-morrow, be di.charged.” The Earl of SUFFOLK approved of what from the Right Rev. Prelate, and added. that th bill in questim proposed to relieve the poor, up qa principle, that those of the parish of Mary.L.L onn were better regulated—a position which he ni t , deny ; for, in Mary-la-Bonne parish, there w e ; upwards of 10,0001 raised, tor the maintenance 1,013 poor persons; whereas, in the parish ul ;i1 Pancras, only 10,5001. were raised for the supp er of about half the number ; there were some oche detailed considerations, he obs.2rved, to be collcaL.i from the report of the other !louse of Parliam eni which would lead him to decide against the pre seu bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after shortly re ferring to what had been said by the Rev. preia•e relative to the proceedings on the former bills and jocularly alluding to what was said o n hearing of Counsel, deprecated all hasty d e ,i sions on bills of such a nature as the present. adverted to the scenes of confusion and animosity and the numerous litigations which resulted frnn a certain popular parochial eleftions, more especially in large parishes. He argued in favour of ;F at bill's going to a Committee, and at:vet ted to cn, tain legal difficulties, which had arisen with respce to the operation of the existing Mt. After some further observations from the Noble and Learned Lord, as to the merits of the partor. lar question before them— The House divided on the motion of the Bishop of Sr. ASA tit, when there appeared— For that proceeding 7—Against it 31—Majority for the Bill 24. MR. JUSTICE FOX A copy of the evidence taken before Ow (Lae committee of their Lordships, to whom 17 nas oe, ferred to investigate the truth of the leged in charge against Mr. Justice Fos, bei: laid on the table ; Lord MINI . ° moved- 4 That the same Le printed lit the use of the Members of the lieu:e." LO Ci I .V24::,ILLLOR, after adverting to what had been thrown out by a Noble and Learned Lord the other night on the subjed, observed, he had anxiously enquired wi th respvO to the proceed. ings then alluded to, and found, that the House had been, in these instances, so cautious, that some degree of restriction prevailed with regard to the inspeEtion of these documents, even by Peen them selves ; and, the order, in which their Ltsdvhips then expressed the Parl,amcntary us,tge of the Hoar., stated, that the evidence (in the case of Mr. Hastings), printed from day to day, was Vr the use of Members of the !louse Witia th;s pr.!. cedent, and under his own conviCtions upon the case, he would beg leave to amend the N, , ble Baron's Motion, by the addition of the, woad so that it would appear on the Journals, that thmv with whom perhaps it most partictVarly lay, hal not forgotten to do what they thought their doty. Lord HAW KESBUftY stated that his idea was,l that the same degree of publicity ought to be given to the evidence taken before the Committee. as to that given at the bar of the House. He wished for no niore, nor could he take len. The LOall CHANCKLI OR agreed no far with the Noble Secretary of State; ! but repeated his opinion of the imprcpriety, injustice, and probable mischievous consequences of suffering general pub lications of unfinished trials to go forth. Lord hIINTO oluerving that his tv.lA objea was the attainment of substani ial jos::ce, he had no ob. jeftion to the Noble and Learned Lord's Amend. !sent; but alluded to the difference between the case of Mr. Hastings and the present, where the patty had no possible means of learning v•lia transpired in evidence on the former occasioc, es. cept through a proceeding of this kill The question was then put, and the motion. as amended by the Lo ao Ce ASCE I. LO te, was agreed tv. STIPENDIARY CURATES. The order for Isamu:toping their Lordships being read ; The Bishop of LONDON rose to move tbe* cond rtading of this Bill. He described the lead ing provisions of the measure (which have been re peatedly before our readers), contended for the ne cessity of a regulation of the kind, and expatiatal on the beneficial efrefts which would result front it. He described with great feeling and effal the miserable and degraded situation in which num bers of the Curates of the Church of Erg• land are now placed, languishing in pove,:y and obscurity on their present paltry and in adequate ripends. He contended that e.e Bill could not involve an invasion of private property, as that species to which it re Bred was not as a freehold property, but including serious and important duties which the incumbent was bound to perform, or to provide a substitute at an adequate salary ; and he argued that no we:l -founded ohjetions could apply as to the discre tionary powers of the bishops. He insisted on the propriety and justice of allowing the curate obe performed the duties, a stipend proportionate to the amount of the living ; and concluded by recom mending, in pathetic terms, the cause of the oakr• tunate curates to the peculiar care and protedlies of a British House of Peers! The Key. Prelate thea moved, that the Bill be now read a second time. The Earl of SUFFOLK took the opportunity to state. that according to information on which he could rely, the small addition lately granted to ; the salaries had not bona fi de been paid to th et a even the full amount of the poor 751. a year. kit related an anecdote of a lady, who some years since' bequeathed an addition or 201. per annum to t!,e 501. which the rotate of a certain parish was {old; but, instead of paying di: poor man this ansuitl in addition, the incunilsent docked his salary do equal amount ; he hoped no such pretices wand prevail in the cases under consideration ; that should be some degree of publicity in transaAiousti the kind, and the value of livings, &e. should br reported to some official quarter. He was glad n understand something of that kind was pro vida for in the Bill. But, he observed, the situat ion d the Curates alone should not be at:ended to; 15511' hers of the poorer order of beneficed Clergy wef g equally objeAs of considerations and. of which ~... Lordship related a striking instance, which he tot witness to in the North or England. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after deistic! himself a warm advocate for the übjea of Eke BA 0 The planatil The of voioo BM; WGiih arls_r•d eirle was bit 71 abasir There serum valid !MOM able, 1 Lti~;~ the 1 tioq Tfi , a fe^ fir; be r turn Ad, —,C Pde 1 Cee die eery dere I fern