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~. 7 - Apo COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, a Court of Common Council held in the Coaled Chamber, Goil.;hall. before' Right HonouraAe the Loin MAY OR, ten ALE MEN, SMILRIFFs, RECORDER, CMASIBLRI.RIN, ether City Officers. Previous to proceeding to hiisinecs, the 1 4 MAYOR addressed the Court, as u•ual. The Thanks of the Court were unanimously tot ed to the Right Hon the late Lotus MAYOR (fur which see eldwroisemelt in the front of the Paper). The Lotto MAYOR, attended by the Atote act:, &c. then proceeded to the Council Chamber, to hold the Court of Corrirnon Council ; which being the first Court held before the present Loa MA r us, his Lordship, on tilting the Chair, address. ed the Council in . a very neat speech, expressive of hi: firm determination to devote himself entirely to the interest of the city; and always, in cases of emergency, to t ike 'he opinien of the Curt. Ai -r the olinotes of the last Court were read, Mr. SAMUEL Dixte rose, and, after briay corn rne:aing on the late glorious events, and the merits of the departed Hem, who devoted his whole life to its: service of his country, and died bravely in her c ense, concluded by moving, " that a Committee Should be appointed to frame an Address cf Coe. ratulation to His MAJESTY, and that it should be s' presented as speedily as circumstances would per- Mr. Deputy Kee at c seconded the motion ; and it was carried unanimously. A Committee was then appointed, consisting of all the ALDERMEN pre.ellt, and a COMMONER out of each Ward, to withdraw, immediately, and prepare the Address, which they accordingly did ; and, having retired for nearly two hours, Alderman Newit•sr, on their ret ern, informed the Court, that he was desired by the Committee to express their wish, that, during the reading of the Address, strangers ehoold wi- I, draw f - tom the bar. The worthy Alderman strengliened his motion. by reminding she Court, that i the kloltse of Commons, it a single !Member desired it, the gallery wi uld be clear, d of strangers. No oppositian ',eing made to the motion, the bar was cleared by order of the Lo RD MAYOR . The Address was then, we undersiar.d, twice read, and finally approved of; and it W 46 ordered, th the same should he fairly transcribed and sign e : by the ['own Clerk, and presented to llis iVIA- Jtsry by the whole Court Aril tile SHERIFFS, attended by the casm- DRANGER. w .re &sire to watt upon His NI Air sr Y. t kuow his Royal wiii ant pleasure when the Court may attend him with the said Address. No other business whatever was transaaed. The Court was numerously attended. THE LORD ,Vl.ll-OR. His Lordship has not yet slept at the Mansion- House, the Committee not having inspeB.•d the fur niture. or the necessary preparations mad. for his Lordship's reception. The dispatches en Monday morning, sent at seven o'clock, by the Admiralty, were forwarded to his Lordship. at his house, us America-squice, who immediately went to the ,tiiansion•llouw, had a copy sent to Llityd's Coffee 1-lodse, another posted there, before 9 o'clock. At one a Messenger was sent front the Admiralty to inf-rm his Lorhship, that the Public Offi.es wauld not be illuminated that night ; and, it is sop pos .d, it was this circumstance which gave rise to the upon of a third vial ry. LORD NELSON'S COFFIN. The coffin in which Lord Viscount Nelson'‘ body be depo;itrd, now he at Mr. Pc.islison':, in Brewer-street. It is made entirely of plank, ot fit, not more than half an inch thick, which were rut out of the mast of the French Admir.il'; ship L'Orient, that blew up in the glorious b.ittle of Aboukir. The lid i• the only part at present un covered, and the win kmen were obliged to piece it at the sides and end. The outside is covered with fine black cloth, and the inside lined with while silk, stuff:A with cotton. and trimmed round the top with a quilling of milted silk. Tads collin is six fort long, but narrow. When the body is deposited in this, it is to be placed in a leaden coffin, ►ined with thick planks of oak, which also lies ready at she same house. The outside Coffin is not yct finished, it is to be covet-ed with black velvet, and richly mounted. The Grleze, SPITT A r.L., from Grangemouth, for the Baltic, is Ist near Kalil. It is understood that the Corporstion of Norwich i%terid going into mourning, next Sunday, for one ....Ir. for their lamented hero and countryman, I Netsoa. The citizens in general will, doubt -1 join in this respeEtful mark of solemn and :..tfedionate regard. Earl Nersow and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Bot.- o•. and Mr. and Mrs. MATCIIANI, are all assem bled at Mertms-place. The last will of the Noble Lord has been opened; Its Executors are, his brother, Earl NeLsoa, and Mr. I lazotw000; but his will was Elude under the impression of his having little to bestow, except the fame he had so glotiously ac quire:l. The letter horn hint is dated the 13th ult. If he made any additional codicil (for there are two er three) ert! , ei Intim e the baztie, or after receiving his fatal it is not yet come to Eng -140.1; nor have lausei , ting family yet received any other accounts than CLOS2 contained in the rib lie dispatches. Fent LAPF.T.OTIFItt thinks that I e did not write airy thing after the wound, his tiled being occupied, while breath remained, in the discharge of his i!taty. On Monday cv.'ning, a very large borrfire was Itclued up, is die bottom of the great East India Dock, now excavated at Blackwell, upon the occa sion of the late In ill:ant vi Buries gained by our navy, over the Preach and Spanish fleets. Three buts of beer weic pi ncidcri, at the joint expcnee of tha pro pihnors of the Blackwall ship yard, and tee East India Ihwlt Company, wnich were served out amongit the shipwrights, and the wilds:nen em ployed :.t the Oncics, who werecolleard to express their rejoicirgs, and their gratitude to our gallant tars, who, by their br• , had secured to us the superiorly of the seas, without which the• e would neither b- occasion for the building of ships, nor for ducks to nicsive thaws ye their cargoes. ~. • • CEYLON. coetruao, rte. 27, 1895. ;ant, after hovering for a considerable e 11 direetions nn our frantiers, h a ve at l est lk entered our country. On the Bth of February, they crossed the Kaymellee. River, at Allogelle, and pene trated a small way into toe Hien and liappitigam Corte% with the inteetion, as they gave out, of at tecking the post of Wilmot lupin y. Ensign Boyd, of the Cat Free Corps, who com manded there, went out to disperse them, and, with a small force of thirty Natives, drove them back into the Seven Corks. Soon after this event, Lieutenant aiamley e pf the Ceveli y, we t ) was stationed with his ismall.troop at Hangsvel:e, having ctessed the Calursa Gang*, with the Cavalry, and one Sniseltern, and fifty Inieritry, and passed the Poogodde along the limits of the I lens Cute, arrived et Moogurempilly, and, crossing the Keymellee, destroyed many batteries, drove away all the Candians, who were assembled in great numbers within a reeve of twelve miles from the piece svkere he crossed the River, and, having burned their magazines, returned with one man only wounded. This irruption was followed, nn the 15th, by one commanded by Captain Blackd', who left Negumbo with 30 Europeans, and 50 Natives ; and, heieg joined by the Cavalry, and 50 Native Infantry. at Moogarompilly, passed the kaymellee, at Ginooly, and detaching fleetenant Pecker to the N.W. with one half of the detachment. m itched to the Eestward, with the intention of attacking the head qu triers of the Candians, at Galgamowa, in the lour Codes, lie met with some resistance et Belli gelle t but, having overcome it, heard that the ene my had fled in all directions; and, having destroyed their magazines, taunted to Miaogorempilly, and thence to Negumbee with no casualty, but two coolies wounled, and two horses kiiled : he was soon after joined by Lieutenant Parker, who hest succeeded equally well in driving the enemy front the neighbourhood of our territories. Since these ezpeditiiiis. the Candians have not appeered on our frontier, from Putlend to Galle. They, however, entered with a great force at the sane: time, on the 18th of this month, into the Mature Disttiet, near Catoone, and into the Maha gampattoo. . . Ia the latter distrift,Ceptain Arthur Johnston, as ' soon as he heard of their approach. under the com mand of the ')essave of Ouva, set out from alfil bangtotte, with a force. consisting of twenty Sepois and about thirty invalid Malays, at eight in the evening, and surprised one of the advance) parties. after a march of eight tales. He found the enemy's camp, however, apprised of his intention; but,atteck ing them immediately with his small force, defeated them, and obliged them to fly, after a long tesist 'ince, and a considerable loss of lives. ['he Desserts of Ouva was nrariy taken ; a brass one-pounder fell into our hands ; and, had the age and fatigue of the brave Malay veterans alliieed it, the pursuit would have been more fatal to the Candians than the battle. Captain Johnston was himself nearly killed by a Candian, hut saved by the spirited and timely succour of the Sub-Assistant Engineer, Riley. ' A reinforcement of Europeans, which has gone to ilambangtotte since this brilliant and decisive ac tion. will; it is hoped, secure that valueble Jistriet. The rat tck of the other branch of the Candian forces, which entered the Mature distriet, under the cowl tad of the first Adtgar, and relation of the King, wa., at first, more successful. They surmised the fort of esteem!, and took pos session of it ; b e t Capt. Bredish, elm was proceed ing fur Meter.' to that piece, with a detachment of fusty-sin Europeans and tights-two natives. on hear ing thet unpleasant intelegence, hastened his m.trch, and found the place evacuated, on his arrival ; bu', a co ho t n, with some ammunition, and eighty hap of rice, which had been lodged there, were carried off by the enemy. He succeeded, however, in overtaking some parties of Candians, in the neighbeurhood, of whom Mail,' were killed by his detachment, and twenty eight Madras Artillery Lascars, one Bengal Volun teer, and eight Malays, of those taken at Candy, came over to him. These successes, as well as the jiebeinus measures taken by Colonel Vincent, for the protettion of the distriels of Galle and Metura, have obliged the enemy to retire in all direetions from the southern province., where they seem to have intended their principal attack. They have also entered the Wenny, near Pan nengammie but a force has been sent from Jaffana patens, fully sufficient, with that aheady stationed at Milner and Moletivo, to repel them ; and the gar. risons of Trincomale and Batticeles, being fully adequate to the defence of those (fibulas, we may fairly hope, that this desperate effort of the Candian government will be frustrated. C01.0%450, APRIL 3, 1805. CIVIL APPOIN DAENTS. The Honourahle George M•slyille Legitd, to be a Member of the Court of Justice of the Peace, for the district of Co lombo. John George Kerby, Esq to b' Deputy Paymaster and Garrison storekeeper, at Trincomalee. Alexander Johnston, Esq. t . be Agent of Revenue and Commerce, for tie district of Tri:recnualee. William Erskine Campbell. Esq. t o be Agent of Revenue and Commerce, for the district of &mall°. MADRAS, APRIL, 1905. The following are the particulars of the capture of the brig La Qum:we:— His Majesty's ship Caroline, Captain Peter Rai nier, arrived in the Roads the 7th of April, accom. ponied by her prize, the French privateer La Gus ta,:e, of 20 guns, and 120 men. Captain Rainier fell in pith the La Gram off Sadras, on Friday last, the sth of April. On find- Mg herself chased by f lis Majesty's ship, the priva teer stood to the northward, tiring her stern-chace i guns with some effete ; as she carried away two of the Caroline's yard-Atm:, and some of the running rigging, and damaged the sails considerably. The chece continued to the northward of Pulicats when the C'arefate's superiority of sailing brought her nearly alongside of the pi iveteer ; and, after re ceiving several shot in her hole she struck the tri col• ured flag to His Majesty's ship. n e le Gnitooo is a handseme vessel, brig-rigged, a II manned : she had made but one capture during her cruise, the ship lan, Captain Gibson, at Sossoo. IRD A • tune of 50,0001. a-year ; yet, when it was CO'. • that it was new subje'l to tee elainte of so COURT dF CHANCERY, Nev. 13. needy cr"diro:s, the I idy in ipiettier, more,: - ing deeined unworthy Af. ~ioh an alliareee •!. BREACH Oft A MARRIAGE CONTRACT. perhaps, at this 1 ewl:4 reeser to color/rosier,: NH. TURNER 04 (hr' part of JULIANA FR ANCEI. herself on being M. s. Miner. instead of Met e hir Ivo?, e." 1•111; jut itql:lS Or DONNLG; AL. chiotiess of Donneg4. The plea •ffi tiott v ,Dnue This exception'fo"tidt Master's report. disallowing nevi being now cot of ti:e oratory, ' no the claim of the Plaintiffs, on a bond for 2,50e1. I more avail against this, thee any othen e hrhte ppd he was opened by Mr. Roots.ev, upon the affidavits could not give the' poblemen much credinke eis of Mrs. Touter, Mr. Bellamy, her f a the r , a nd Mr. good inteetions, when - be rat...del, that. et s thp -no- Bryant, who, in this teansaflion. was the agent of the matt of his traasafling this business with Mr. K Marquis of' Donnegal. From these it appeared. and of his cancelligig elle. bond, he was eetdal .•that, on the 2 0 th of February, 1794 , the lady in treaty with Miss t enemy and her, father. question was on a visit to the Countess of Lanes- The LORD Cirescaernea did nee leiek the ale. borough, and Mr King, her ladyship's husband, sence of the Marquis ,from this country any bar where see received the addresses of the present Mar- to thesdereend ; sued. e as the bond gives the lady quis of Donsiegel, ev:to proposed marriage to her. was not satisied to her, if King delivered to the As he was, at that time. on the point of leaving Marquis, he should ha,ve considered hinisvl4* Oolcle England, he was very solicitous to enter into an ing it in trust for her. He owned. tuaestho cir agreement, or contrael, between them, which would curnstance of her entering into a b na l tiee.pee ilty s-care their marriage at a convenient time. Mr. of which she would be wielde to discharge. was King eadertook to prepare an instrument for this liable to suspicion ; but courts of jitsticee eotelsl not purpose ; and, on the 40th of February, in . the year trust themselves with any thing so dengesrou eas already mentioned, she, and the Marquis, being in. making their decisions depend upon sespesinus er. • trisduced into Mr. King's closet, signed a p o c. o e it cumstances, or what they might have hear. .n other bond, in a penalty of 40,0001 each, if their mar- cases, or in another place. Vie differeeee id the si •riage comma not be performed on the death to ition in life of the two parties, did sae inveliaste of his Lordship's father ; she, of course. signed, the contra'!, nor reduce 'he vivito* of the com under her maiden mime of Juliana Frances Bellemy ; I nervation ; for breaches aed disepe...intaseets or this end, as Mr. King was the trustee, it was agreed, I kind were likely to do most injury te those ni middling that the bond should r em a i n i n his ponession. In I s:arians. It appeared, that ertn. lees merrtage with the month of August, 1795, finding, by the news. Miss May, the Met quis aelolowlpelged th e papers, that hie Lord s hip was serially married to ' jestice of this l,idy's cleit 1 , and expleseeni.hie disep- Miss May, the applied to King to deliver up the pointment at King's not send), log it. The t- ins bond, but he eveded doing so. She since leerned, eftien between the latter and the Marquis was enn thet he had sold the original bond to Mr. May, fer fined to thernielves, and slid not le tee henthedess a another of 2,5001. which hi appropriated to his creditor, thotreh it might give him a deepens' on own purposes. She did not know, however, that K . 1114. I ie. therefore, eedeted, that the exception the latter bend was given for her use and benefit. siaotili be allowed. and as a cempensation for the breach of 'canteen, wetteeeeer THE IitARQUIS OV 01111111011 L. till the Marquis himself wrote to that dial, in a This was an exception te the repeat of tee Master, letter to her father. Bat she swore, that she never u, s eeer the folk-.shag eireumetarees :It will be re ! empowered King to net in that manner for 'her. colleffed, that the present Marqvis set Dennegal. on The effidevit of Mr. Bellamy, her father, corro. the death of his father, blued bionselt so much em horded most parts of the above statement, and berrassed by nu cross, claims and oblicinote, hit added, that when he found the Marquis had cone- which }motes priors Artie a debtor, to sue , . *sex ant. mined a breach of cono all, in marrying another, be that he was %leder the necessity of executinga. deed demanded the bind of Mr. King ; but the latter re- to some trustees, • mpaiwarou by a. Dense of Chan fused to give it up, and, at last. said, he had de- eery, to enquire into. liquidate, .';td arra .7,61: the strayed it. It recited several letters from the Mar- just el rims upon hint. Ameugst these was the quis biniolf; in reply to I.is applications, calling e rese it bond for 3,0301. given to ts Crete*. for upon him for compensation for the injury he h id the p•ir• base of an estate, farm, heiisr, derelitt , re, done to his daughter. In all of these, his Lordship and sonic brood mares, at Kgbsm Hitleoffere they constantly acknowledged the justice of the demend, were ef.erwards sold in exit-tertian for soseworither of and promised to make compensation, as soon as he his leirdthip'e debts I was Agreed, that tnerseese•ey was able. The first we, d a ted on the 18th of 1k- was not to be paid till after les r's de.olie ember, Viet), in which the Marquis promised that in the mean time, Mr. Co. le having • become the demand should be settled as sown as possible. bankrupt, this bond, with a lieu of 5001. came i There was another on the 6th of Febru try, 1800, the hands of Mr. Warrel. one of the assigrz s tf while Miss Bellamy was still s in g le, i n w hi c h t h e bankruptcy. Crooke, in his affiJavit, Marquis again confessed the claim to be just, and what he received the bond in consideratiou said, he had instrueled his agent to make out deben- worth the money charged on it ; but the Isf titres for the payment. There were many other being satisfied with the account given of. nee 1 tters, to the same etTra, in which he cemplained adion, refused to admit the claim. Several doe that his trustees had b. hayed very ill to him, and wits were produced in support of the jeseice 'of the promised, upon his hon. tar, that this should be the claim, and • first debt paid, when his affiirs :fould be put in any Mr PICIOT and Mr. Rommel( contended. that it train of settlement. At la.t, however, the Marquis ought to be Allowed ; es, even supposing the original informed him, that King had received the money transefiion between Crooke and the Marquis to have from one of his agents, which was meant for core- been vicious, it ceuld not ati...a this assignee, who, pensation, and that the original hind was cancelled ; without any question, received it for a valuable eon. but, that he considered himself siiil answerable, and sideration. would take no advantage of the circumstance, Mr. El Ait r, for the borafide creditor", maintained, whether King should pay back the money or net. that the nature and terms of the deed of trust, pre- Mr. Bryant's affidavit stated him to have le en eluded the trustees from admitting any claims, in Agent for Lord Donnegal, in this and other trans- which the valuable consideration was not proved, actions ; that, by his direetions, he made out De- otherwise the trust would be no proteftion at ail to bentures to King, for 12,0001 upon his giving uP the Marquis, who, in his thoughtless • other bon is, which he held ef his Lordship, fur induced to execute ine raiment., wl 36,5001. ; amongst the former, was one for the sum fraudulently or delusively obtained. of eal,Sool. for Miss Bellamy. That immediete.y could get no satisfeelory account after this was executed, Mr. King gave a parcel to of what was called an estate ; thous the Marquis. containing his letters to Miss Bellamy, to he only the leese:sold perhaps and the bond fur the marriage-contract. He thougln, and of the farm, brood mares, 3te at that time, the Lady had placed the iltiriOst conti• no better information. He Also ' deuce in Mr. King, and the debenture was made out slid, that this claim upon Crooke's in the names of Juliana F. Bellamy, and the Hon. chased by Mr. Warrel, ter the sum Geo. Augustus Butler ; that, at a subsequent time, 'sees. the Marquis expressed to him his disappointment, at The Loom CHANCELLOR said, se King's not having paid her the compensation, as the the present instance, the Court had bond was given for her use and benefit. These, the with the consideration ; but, as it 7 Learned Counsel said, were the grounds upon which whole of the trammel' in was not. this claim rested. l'he question was, Whether the been, sifted to the bottom, he ordered Marquis of Donnegal had ever given this bond? and be referred back to tha Master, if so, whether his Client had ever been satisfied for report. it ? These, he thought, could admit of no atgu- BLORAIi real °Timm.. TH4 meat; though he could not produce either the bond DUNNEUA L. or his Lordship's letters, as they were delivered up In this case it appeared, that the . to him by Mr. King, and consequently cancelled. had edvenced large sums of money, He, therefore, submitted. that the Marquis was of bends given by the Marquis - of • • LAV AtkititEscE. still indebted to her in this compensation or 2,5001. which was all she now demanded ; and for which King could never be admitted a creditor, as he never gave any consideration for it. Mr. H ART, for the creditors, contended, that it was contrary to the praelice of the Court to make a decree in favonr of this demand, in the absence of the Marquis of Dennegal, who was not now in this country, and of Mr. King, who was the other party. It was evident. that Mr. King was the Agent and Trustee for the Lady in the whole trans. anion. The Marquis was a young nobleman, of one of the most splendid fortunes and distinguished families in the kingdom ; and there was nothing to :hew that the Lsdy was of a rank, e1:141441,T, or fortune. that could entitle her to such a match as w as contrafted for in Mr. King's closet, without any other witnesses. Miss Bellamy, at that time, bound herself in a penalty of 40,0001. to perform a condi tion, which, had she refused to do, there could be no danger of her ever paying. The confidenze she placed in Mr. King was evide,,t, by her making him a trustee, and entrusting the bond to his cus tody; and he trusted that his Lordship would not encumhet the lawful creditors with the payment of such a demand as this, and especially, as, if the Lady found herself injured in this breach of pro mise, she had the other Courts open to redress her. Mr. Row r t.t.v readied, that if the objeCtions to this demand should he deemed valid, they must equally apply to all the other debts contraCted by this in considerate Nobleman, under similar circumstances; and consequently to those very creditors, in whose behalf Mr. lint had opposed it. Though that Nobleman was represented as having a splendid for 2y Mr. May, his father-in-law. trust had been executed, some di, fore the. Master in the admission Marquis and Mr. May gave them . fur the debt. and the question was, whether the trustees were not precluded from the payment of the first security to the Plaintiffs, by thee having ac- 4 cepted of a second ? The Loan Cuartcrt.t.oe observed, that the terms of the trust deed must determine whether it pre cluded the trustees from the payment of bonds to panics who should accept of ocher securities. There fore, before he made any decision on the case, be must inquire farther of the Master. 1- —eme.-- # tt , -- et COURT OF KING's BENCH. Wearasimeas, ?UV 13. EFtIt.,LES. Jame, Atuocl, Jihu Sahh, and Henry Rickets, I were brought up to receive the Judgment of the Court, for a riot in the town of Te wkesbury. These defendants, together with one Wawa Mar(is, were indified for creating a mob, and car rying the effigies of two men of tire names of liaw kids and klolland, who were turveyor, of tazes, through the streets and highways of the town of : Tewkesbury, tending, to breed a riot. and disturb --, the j)eaer, &c. They were t r i e d at the hat .rashes .' of trloucester. before Lord EL teseoaoccu, when the above three Defendants were convided, and .- William Martin acquitted. 11 It appeared from the Learned Judge's notes upon the trial, that, on the 15th of February last, Manila was summoned before the assessors of taxes. for a surcharge of eighteen or twenty window lights, and I also a surcharge for keeping a male ma vita r to ' 1 ties+ moment*, was ;, which had been fined The Mater it of the real -alas iou,th it turned out tps rat A rack-rent, Ice. he could obtain 4 1,0 understood, he e's bo:td, was pur- ;um of elevva gui- that be thought, in ad but hole to do t appeared that the .111 nought to have dered that tt should tar, to review his sa MAILQO3 Of the house of Biota= ney, on the security of Doitneqal, tar After the deed of Vficutty arising Ise- ' of the demand, the cn a fresh security Ural th. I 1 di d. 7 iedK— e;y