The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1820-01-24 00:00:00

TO TH EDITOR OF THE DRITISO PRESS. SIR—In answer to a Idles is a Morning Paper of Satur. illy lest, about a Gentleman leciug rein:est admission in the siress circle at Drury-lane 'Theatre, iu cousegeenca of wear. ing a black handkerchief on hi• sleek, (Ise writer perhaps sloes sof recollect, but 1 slu , when iseiilwr Lady sow Gristle. r➢an could be Admitted, toile.% full *lrv...ea—llse latter its bag and sword; aid it is scandalous l hat the etiquette is mil krill up. The same reigned.• prevailed in Ilse pit ut the Opera house.—l am, Sir, your rottslant itea.kr, ONE OF THE 01.1) scooot.. —if people dressed e, teed,. would Id liarioh—but keep f:oct foreigu ArliCkS. TI/t: FUN DS. The settlement of the account at the Stuck Exthauge on Tuesday last produced • trial of strength between both parties. The speculators for a rice base hitherto been com pletely tisoniphatit ; the 111114%, %OM! Okla irver:es except ed, having cower ned progressively improving the whole woks The abundance of money, and the difficult yof ploy . nig it, which are, if possible, greater than ever, give great ads aiitage to their transactions. Exchequer bills, in costae r, t.11:1:11 has e been Likely at a dl.couul of ten shillings, ate now e e prelllitllll of hose shilliogs. This abundance was obsimis, too, isi the ehfistli pa) meld on the last loam wkeli was paid on Friday, well t producing the sin idlest 1,01'14.1,1"U. Tinier dC6111114'11: have base , .14:1Ailftti al the Stec k EN , hangv, on Itausarlions during t ' !.e 1...4 account, but :h. t are persona of inhume comities:llion. The bight st c of th• (Of tile ilfetllllll wag utl Soti:rday morriii.g at the °twain: of the market, when the quotation was but wnur unusually heavy sale a of stuck fur !floury, aced tar NVt durtla, wbidl is the lust 1,1.t . 11 ti milder day, taking WA( ?, a Ittllifit gum( dee hott. ul f; per cent. tKCllfittl, mid the ...atisaettuns of the day I bad at (Mi, and though out su low as 0:1 Wednesday, the market lett oil extremely LC7ll'a. E.TJWIL•I7'/(IY. On the 1:111 inst. sailed the Slentar, from Liverpool, for the Cape of Good llope, with the family of the late C rptsin Gri flit It, el' he Royal Marion I, and formerly 4.f Pe nproopren, in Coalt nishire, on board, com4ist Mg of three enter!). isinz young men, with their sisters, three foie atm ible :coon; woolen. They left their native country in ;rood [width and spirit%, an.l with the anxious solicitude of their filen& t'.. their balminess nnil prosperity. They have taken with them in vernt •rtifteers and agricoltor.sts from th, neje h• boat: mod of N. wtown, Moutt:omrry,hire , as settlers. The nu iither of persons who have a trendy sailed front the port of London for the Cape of Good (lope, under the new arrange ment ut Government, amounts to ht !wren 4,000 and 5,000. The active benevolence of the Marquis sod Marchioness of SA EMU ay hag been greatly felt ht_ imor iu the neighbourhood of flaifield ; two hundred persons ii.iviiig tweii tupplied with excel -1 it terry Wednesday and Friday, since the I•efttouii.g of November last. Canis cf iiivitation are circulating for a chilli tabk assembly at the Lincoln City Hoomi, oh Moiithy, the 3110 instant, tinder tile vitronage of Lily SI:1,T110111.2 and the Mayor, for the benefit briitvoleut and useful institution, the City Cliati , y. "I • he inhabitants of Theme, agt•i=led by the kind of the Earl of A BINGIMN arid Hiss ‘Xytti. it.t 31, the first e•f ahem librr.,llv remitted 3 1 /. .iid the latter .20/., have been endlArt s . to rake of tool. to relieve the wants of the vuor, during the present rigorou, A I liirsham, '2,500 pour (including men, women, . . and el,ildien) weer on Thursday lust supplied with 11,ilf-quarierai loaf of bread each person, a n d a wont of excellent beef soup to each grown person, and Dirt to each child, making a total of loaves of bread, 2,500; quarts of soup, I,Blo—families re bus. On Thursday next a similar disttibu lion will he made, and it is expected the food will admit of the like quantity beitig given away in the week following. Uu Friday the Commercial Clerks' Society held its anniversary, iii Liver! I. The Doke of Yetitti Las graciously become its Patron ; and the Lords (.;nyNVII.I.F. and llatioT, and Sir It. Sir AlosTyst, the :•u. 11. G. Ifs.nnt.Tr, &c. air announced honorary members. The Criminittr e 1,4:1,1111111- oil that the counties ut Stafford and Derby Le included in the otlitinsion On Monthly week a most re.pectalde and select 'only of the Itieorls anti admirers (chiefly Caledu rims') of RottooT Bu RISS celebrate/1 iii.. nionrcroory nl hats birth, ut the George Inn, iii Huddersfield. )r. TURNBULL in the chair, supported by Dr. I II'NLLR, of Leeds, Mr. DUNLOP, Croupit r. It the first anniversary lit Id In Yorkshire In honour of Buono. The Journal des Delnds contains au extract of a hit ter from llaniburgir, from which it aplie.as that f;otittrimiD hiss now t.• add to his other ih-..suers that being crossed ui lute ;" and what more mortifying, being shut up in prison fur challetignig his successful rival, who has iron the • field clear to himself. I: ICILV..I):ON, GOOLVLOCK, BIM Co. respectfully ir(queiiit that the State Lottery will tooa liras. in: NEXT SATURDAY, the 29th hist The tyi s.l contain". Two Prizes of 20,400/. Mousey, &c. Tickets ao,l Slow., warranted 'indrawn, are on Sale by RICH Alt D. yl IN, GOO DEUCE, and CO. at their Offices, Bank.bitild. Cennhill, and Charing-crow, who Sold, last August, No 710, a Prize of 36,000!. Consuls. lllGney has been termed the sinews of wur.—lt may also he called the marrow of pence; iuid ilio nc h at al! times a scarce commodity, may be had in I o e t 14101, for a mere trifle, by purchasing • Ticket or Share ../ lASI', 4, Cunthill, or 9, Charing-Cross, who recommends n o ...sly purchase before SATURDAY NEXT, the 29th iu • when Two of 20,000/. and all the ot her Capitals, must be di awn. he whole will be paid in Sterling Money, Bauk Note., or Gold Bars, et the optiun of the holders. HAZARD and Cu., who sold Two Prizes of , 21),000/. m the last Lottery, raspecifully acquaint the Public. that the Lottery will Web Drawing NEXT NA't t./ RDA Y.—The Wheel contours Two Prizes of 20,0001. iloney, be &c.—HAILARD and Co. gratefully acknowledge the praerenre gives to their 01J Establishment, and regret • Supply of Tickets and Sharer previous to die lass flay 's' dr.iiiing was not adequate to their isereased daniand.—A continuance of Public Patronage is respectfully solicited at their OBicer, Royal Exchange-gate, 26, Casrubill, and 324, I.NtariLatreet, CUrha of &renew-street. QUICR SUCCESSION OF FORTUNATE EYBNTS.— hbs First-drawn Prize in the last Lottery, entitled no 20,000/. Money and Cowards, was sold in Shares by tc EBB ;—The First-drawn Prize in tlw pretest Lottery, en t.tind tr 20,000/. Comeols, was also sold in Share' by WEBB. sirs, Two Twenty Thousands hare beeu distributed at Ins Offices 'Min Two Months; wild in the course of the last Eight Years, in parportion to this number of Tickets sold, mote Capital Priam base been oblaioed at his W eir.. than at any usher in the World. NEX'r SA TURDAY the Lottery will *sally elute—Two Prizes of 2 / 1 ,04.101. Sterling Money, sad every other Prize, will be diaws ors that day. Tickets sad Shares, warranted ma draws, sni Sala at emirs cusces, 9, Corabill, aud 17, lAidptesdred. SIIEFFIRLD CUTLERS. oat Tura+lay an application was made to the Bench of 111ag►rtrntes at Sheffield, by the overseers of the parish of Sheffield, 16186,44. that a large number of uneniplose.l workmen in the spring knife trade hail applied fur parochial relief. The enure ayrigned by these per.omi wai, that the re strictive s,see err Adopted 16y the union of the master manufdeturers in the above braiieli, had Ile , . !amtsd them of the mean* of employment, and thee• were, coma quently, necessitated to refer to parish aid, as their only alirriiiitkr. liir.S•ru oT iVottTLEY (ofl the Resseh) declared, that the " Uoloo A•-ochatoot Wa% tlecolydl)• Illegal uceortho4 to the t.hitute." Mr. 110MsFiE1.D, ina.ter cutler, said, that au ale. plictt;on had been made to him by the " Luuin Society" for hiliapproval and aid, winch lie lard de r:hoed giving. He conaiderril that the measures adopted by the Union had it very cruel trodency, inasinuch ;is they deprived a cioniiilerable number of poor men of dime meal's of employment which, heroic -tech measures exited, they possessed. Ma. ItOCINsON, 1/Ile of the Spring-knife Cutler'. Committee, offered to bring forward, I r, A case to prove that many single famtlies were in iutaiord wholly by the palish, and were, at the same time, manntac!uring as twiny goods as would, if manu factured iii 14 ITglll4l . lii r, mannishn two fami lies; •I,i', A C,se to prove that the part•li WAS 411. voiutely made a maciiiiie for reducing men's sages; 3,1, Ca.es to prove th•it some of the men thrown upon the parish, as was alleged, by the measures of the Umini, were not earning, though in full ein pl ov, the rate of parish pay; and at furs tier case, to prove that the parish was prying relief to a M4ll who was not only working angularly, but leaving part of ilia earnings a, re-payment of a debt owing to his employer. The Committee of the Union proposed, that three month. should be allowed for the trial of the restrictive measurer they hail adopted the affordisig parochial aid, in the interval, to make up the deficiency of wage.). wild they engaged that there would ultimately he a revival of the trade, and a considerable reduction of the poor. rates. The BeIICII of Magistrates having consulted for some time, Mr, IVoa NAY declared that they could not give an order fur tile relief of these pour applicants fur the term proposed by the l' 111011. Some of the turners in Paisley, who, in collar (livelier of the non-rinployinent of the weavers, have within{ to do Its tin ir own trade, have direct ed their attei.lion to the fabrication of toys, and 'live r it is mid, outdone the I)utcli enlists. The Committer of the Stork Exchange have lately passed some sew law on the subject of cle f:tubers, which will temd greedy to *wires:: the dif f iculty of re-admission of lame Darks into that preserve, by rewleriog the members ttttt re cauti,,us in their speculations. The sale of the I-1 inipshire Bank property did not produce much to henerit the baoltriiiits' estate. There were S 9 lots offered, and II of them wily found purchasers; which, we troilerstend, will not reelise 8.000/. The estate of Stakes Farm was par. chased try %V. TAY IMR. E.o. of Purbrook, for $,020/. mid that of Strikes MB by JOHN SPICE I I VI.BEIIT, Ev(l. for 1.-2001. The Grove and the late Portsea !bulk were bought iu ; the former at 4,200/. the latter ut 690 i. A Treasury Journal has attacked Sheriff PA lI KYNS, who, it says, has incurred the ilisplea•ure of the Grand Jury of the County of Nliddlesex, for having withheld the usual ellowances of entertain ment. A correspoodrot asserts, that the charge t be false, us he has oriels served mi the Grew! Jury for many )eals, and they have uniformly sup plied thentselvel4. At eight o'clock on Saturday afternoon the mill coaches trims places to the north of N c.ssi let: pot,- Ty sir, and ah. 0 those from Manchester, hail not ar rived at the Post-office. As this precluded all pus silailcy of itehveriog the letters brought by them, no tic e was gi v e n that they would he delivered till three o'clock in the ulternoon of yeiorrilay, on ala idicatioii at the window of the Post-lace io Loot bard-strut. little maiine asrint it or worm, lately found in a coil-fish at 1111 l th. Dock, mild described in our Paper, is called Hphtudita (wake's, or sea mouse, which has lot lit•eti noticed by LINNAiLIo. A few days vi ice, r. J. Sale eRs, pliopkerper, Brightling, discovered its the curlier of it drawer, adjoining his till, the ne%t lit it mouse, completely formed of a one pound ll istiogs note, which the little animal haul drawn from the till, and torn tutu a great smother ut pieces for that purpose. The Rev. Dr. JAMES DROUGUT, many years Senior Fellow, and Professor of Divinity of Tiitilly College, Dahill', died a few days ago at Bath, In the 8 ; 0 year of his age. On Mondry last, two men went into ti barn at Southwater. iii the parish of 1101'611111y for the pur pose of destroying, rats, when they hearth a groan from some straw at one end of the harts—out going to the spot they found a pour man lying, who had taken shelter there, umd whose feet were so frozen, that lie could hot get away. lie was removed to a public-house, arid, by receiving proper nourish ment, he recovered. The poor fellow stated that he bad lain in that state three days and two without a morsel of fund. He has since been re moved to his settlement. The Quarter Sess . ut Aylesbury commenced on Thursday, the IS•h, Hod finished late on the Suturday evening. Notwithstanding the severe weather, there wus u numerous iossemblage of Magistrates, uteirsiscst wl o we observed the Mar quis of BUCKINGHAM. Earl TEMPLE. Lord Nu- GENT. rod Colonel I'IOOTT (who left the festivi ties at Stowe, to attend their duties at the Session►), the Rev. Sir GEoIiGE LEK, Burt.; Sir Jous DASH- WouD KING, sud Sir EDMUND CaIIeMING TON (who ably tilled the Chair un Friday evening, after the Marquis left the Sew ' s). There were •hoot seventeen appeals against reinov.sls of wi pers, hut none of thew of any public interest ; and righters& bills of indictments fur felonies. assaults, miuor offeror/4., were tried. A very interesting report of the visiting Justices of the gaol will pre- Muted to th e Court, pointing out the satisfactory results of the system or loud labour, winch bus lately livco adopted au tits prim!. • • L4W INTELLIGIIIVCR. - COVET OF CHANCERY. lAncours SATURDAY. JANIMILT 22. CONTEMPT OF COURT. CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. IN THE MACTER U►' ANTHONY .1. üBANI. ESQ. A MINOR, AND A WARD U 1 CHANCERY. Mr. WETHERELL proceeded to comment upon the affidavit*, inferring from then the participation of a footmen of the name of Mallard, and of the other dimie.ties implicated in the course of the pro. ceeding. Ile stilted the law of the case to the effect, that where there was al elopement with a ward, it was the ditty of the Court Pinedy to to. quire iota all the circumstances. Adverting to whist hid been done in former eases of a .iinilar notate, lie observed, that one mode of proceedin g wars t o send the papers to the Attorney-General—and the other to stool time case to the Master's office fur hin► to make the necessary inquiries. Looking at this ruse u s a contempt of Court, or as a question' of the legality of the mar winch had takru place, it was, sn either point of view, of the Inglie.t tintroit. duce. Ile contended. that if a waid of the Court was by coon v..nce carried out of the country, and by dmine oi. or any thong that constituted a fraud on the free will, or what, in kgal construction, fraud o t the lire agency of the married, such marriage was sit itself void. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed. that in the case of • marriage w Flanders. or in any foreign C ry. or us Scotland, the Court could nut say whether there WAS a Sand marriage Of not, except by inquiring into the matters of fact which had Nettraliy bikers place. 'lbis Court could nut know what the law of Scotland was upon the subject of marriage. but by an inquiry. Mr. WETHERELL Aaiit, that considering the sub. ject under all its circumstances, admitting that the marriage had taken place according to the laws of Scotlaud, the parties could not have been ignorant that they were acting in violation of the order of his Louisll . p. They knew that the tsinur was a ward of Court ; and, therefore, couteitiplating this AS II leg•il marriage, but at the same tune a marriage. with regard to which a contempt of the Court had been committed, he bad thought it his duty to trouble the Court with a very minute examioution into all the facts i 1.4 detailed ill the several affidavits. Mr. DOWDESWELL, en the saint side, remarked, that where an elopement took place with a female ward of the Court, every thiug which could possibly be done to legalise the marriage ought to be resort ed to, but it was not so where the elopement was with a male w trtl, who was a minor ; fur instance, if u you tig man of high rank and fortune was se duced into a clandestine marriage by a woman of no character, would not the Court prevent, if pos sible, the confirmation of such a marriage ? Ile was far from meaning to infer that such a case at all resembled the present nue. The LORD Cu A N CET. LOR sail, that question lay hi a narrow cumin's+ u ward was to marry only with the leave of the Court. No ward could be allowed to marry in this country merely because there might have been a ceremony performed in another place without the leave of the Court. His Lordship proceeded to state his opinion that the servant named Ballard had been guilty of a con tempt, that Miss Stables had been guilty of a con tempt, and that the maid-servant had been guilty of a contempt. It hail been decided over and over again, that if !parties engaged ill a elaniltotilie iiiarriii4e. it was tiothiaig to the Court that they did mint not know they were acting illegally—they 'were bound to know. It was u different question with what degree of animadversion the Court was to look at a contempt committed without knowledge; but that it was a contempt of the Court to be at all cmicerned in such a marriage was without all ()ora tion. Ile need not riot go further than to observe, that where a clergyman married a ward without knowledge of her being such. this Court always or dered him to attend. With respect to the rest of the case, the question was, whether the circum stances untrcedrist to the marriage did or did not prove that the parties were participant ? Mr. HEALD addressed the Court ou behalf of the parties who stood accused. It was impossible, he said. for any manta to view this ease, under all its bearings, without looking with the most scruptdour nicety into all the circumstances. It was neces sary, therefore, that the 'is hole case should be sifted to the bran, in order that if there was any person really guilty, the party might be punished to propor tion to Ina or her ciferice. lie admitted that the ig norance of the parties as to the law. ought nut to ex cow ally one ; but that when this Court had made an order, it was to be taken for grouted that it was understood by all description of persons. The Court would, however, make a distioction between those who wilfully rod flagitiously violated the law, and those who transgressed it through ignorance. As to the young lady herself, there were marry ob ►ervations, more than he should think it necessary to make, calculated to extenuate, or rather to excuse her conduct. With regard to theservants of the family, if it should appear to his Lordship, as he was certain it would, that they had acted w complete ignorance, he was persuaded, from what he knew of the muds in which his Lordship admiiiistered justice, that their case would meet every indulgence. As the ques tion regarded Mr. and Mrs. Stables, there was nothing tii affect them, except that they must, as honourable persons, be anxious how their conduct and characters were viewed by hi. Lordship. The Learned Counsel represented Mr. Stables as n So licitor who, throughout his life, had sustained a high reputatiuu, arid had uniformly conducted him- Pelf as an honourable Minh Sure lie was, that his feelings of propriety, Una what was due to the authority of his Lordship, would have urged hits to have prevented, to the utmost of his power, the marriage which had taken pli:ce. He then justified the camluct of Mrs. Stably*, attribut ing the part she bad taken to the oratorsl anxiety of a mother to see her daughter honourably married to a young gentlernair of character and for time, who It.id succeeded in gaining her affections. The young couple hail been acquainted from in famy ; their families had been intimate. Mrs. Stables. fad permitted this young lady, and two of her sisters, to visit a family in Devonshire, near the residence of the ward's mother. Miss Stables wee every where moused and esteemed for her beha viour ; she was Moiled to every family of &seine. tuns ; and had so deported herself, that she was nut• xersally reapectrd. Was it then to he woitilered at, that this young geritlelLtais. srrws(a female so WC. Coosplinherl, *Mould have bacustie eon 00000 tired of her ? Their attachment had proceeded a consider*• lile length before the bill was tiled Isy which he was made a ward of the Court. What could the utother der ? She could nut shut her door upon the person who lied SD won the ilfreeti 4444 b of her daugh ter. It was sufScient that she It vl in no reSpret stetesl 111 coistravesstioss of the order of the Lend Chai n Site hail, at least, acted with that degree of 04.111011, that, subsequent lia her I,Clllg Mlopflsrfl of nil 1.111 . 11W/11 to snake a Mandl of Ilse Court, else. had ANA eI to Air. COI. the Solicitor. anti into of his Lord.. Olio's officers, to knots a hillier ihr parties welt. to be permitted to are each other again ; and that gentleman had returned fur auswer, that *lsere could be no harm in their ineetiog that evening. Lie had, nu doubt s allowed of such turetnig, tin the following morning to uIJI4IIIIII4ICII sn order us would effectually preveiit their repeating their meeting. In fact, the under hr oloatised was of such a witUre. that he verily believe* there had never b.en one like it before. It prolithited these youtot persons from Perlll4 eJell tither, hear log (tom each other, to, or rV , II 111111k iiug ul each other ; if they had ventured to dis course accoot the way, by ineaits of their fill gets, it woulf have been a Vt01..11011 of the orticr.— Tun Leariseil Comisel, in el most argumentative and ingent 000 ettserse of reasmilitg, exculpated the par. nett num ail wilful contempt. It hull beet. urged as a csrviiiii.tance of auspici in that one of Mr. Stables' family had been found at Carlisle, soon after the marriage at Gretna Green. The fact was, a brother of Mr. Siables had settled at Newcastle, as a solirttor, and Mr. Deane, alter his marriage, hat:lll4 had the whole of his money extorted from lo in by the Gretna Green parson, besides a pro missory note fur 60/., 6ts then wife load writteo to her tel ,tiou to come Over to Carlisle to supply them. 1111.1 was the wry it. which :he presence of one of Mr. Stables' f ly at Carlisle was accounted for. The Learned Counsel, under all the circumstances, ousted that this was a case it. which his Lor..l,liip would feel dispoited to act with Irony, and attri bute the contempt which had been committed to ignorance sod inexperietice. Mr. SHADWI:LI. followed on the same side. Mr. Wirrittils:ht. made an animated reply, in sisting that be hail nuide out a case of gross con tempt, that the parties merited the severe animail versioti of his Lordship, and that the marriage ought to he adjudged void. The LORD CUANCELLDR then observed, that the duty lie had now to perform was one of 110 curt:gown iitiroftallee, when It Wad Considered how arrious the caosequelices might be to the par ties, aud that he for one had to deride it without tin. aid of a Jury. lie was ready to say, that thougo he had so long as righter,' years maw pat 111 that chair, he hail never been so touch distressed as lie was by caves of that kind coming 'rehire him. When a ward of this Court Wail married a ithout the leave of the Court, utiquettionably a,' otl'eucr was committed, but Oleo the punishment to he awarded would be modified, or otherwise, as cruse was {hewn. 11 . lien parties married front a sordid view of lucre, to he obtained by the fortune of a young ward of the Court, dun such comfort would be seveirly visited, but then there might again be Caiwit wlwre the motives of both parties unglit be purely moral and iirsiiiterested, snitl then the Court would know how to act. In this cave the parties were on an equal footing iii and be hail "notliitig to do with any thing ill the present case, except so far air the cootritipt of Court was 1:011CerlIrd. He would forbear at pre sent saying one word oil the propriety of w hat Iced taken place previous to the I lilt of December last, but he did not like the idea of this yrillisg mru being seduced to c to town from Osfaid, and lodgings bring taken fur him in Maddox street, without Ally communication with the young 111411 . 41 mother. it was 1111p0aellde to look to the cactinistunce of the banns bring stopped by the mother of the lady, without taking into coriaider -411011 the cotiversatiors which took place between her and the Rev. Dr. Moore, Vicar of Si. P.m. eras, and how far inch conversion'', had a bearing nu the future part of the transactions ; for it was important to (smolder whether alr. Carr and Mrs. Deatie knew what this et/sierra:lnuit wa♦ when they tiled the bill on the 1 I th. lied the bill been tiled earlier in Court, and lied it tined out that this lady, after the banns had been to ice published, wished the marriage still to go on ; mid had such a stater:mut been made to him in that Court, lie certainly world have been bound, in the discharge of his duty, and purstrunt to the obligations of the oath he had taken, to have for ever prevented Mrs. Stables from having, in any way, any communi cation with the young man, and fr even seeing him. However, that had out been done. Ile now came to the fact of the marriage, and when lie look ed into all the particulars, hr r'id not see bow it was possihle for him to exempt the young lady from a charge of contempt, because she must be presumed to know that the young Marl was a ward of the Court. Aa to the conduct of John Ballard, who had been so busy on the occasion of the mar riage, it was impossible not to feel that that per son had beets grossly guilty of a very aggravated contempt of the Court. Cook-11141d was also in the satue situation ; but lie would not at pre sent say what order he would hereafter make about them, neither would lie make any further observant:ma on the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Stables mid their sons, for a few days, though he certainly thought that there hail been a want of vigilance iu the whole transact/me on t h e p ut t of those where the young man resided, previous to his elopement to Gretna Green. lie would gladly avail himself of the offer which Dr. Moore bad made re►pecting his willingness to file a new affi davit, relative to the specific language and conduct of Mr. and Mrs. S•ahles at the interview which these persons had wish the Doctor on the 7th of December. Ile would also allow Mr. and Mr.. Stables to file VII affidavit if they wished, or thought it was in their power to give ally further informa tion to the Court. The order lie How made was this —"s Let it be forthwith referred to the Master to inquire aud report whether the alleged Gretna Green marriage was a valid aloe." Ori Thursday the ease would positively be decoded on his catalog into Court. During the whole cloy tbt Court woo extremely crowded. The me laded from . ten o•ciock till wanly four. A SUI 111 CHILD. BIRD V. BIRD AND OTHERS. Mr. Roans stated that this was the nettling, of Charles Herries Clarke Dicks, ass torrid, by his next friend, praying that it might be referred to the Master to inquire and report who was a proper persoll to be eppointed his guards iii, awl what stiff& ought to be allowed the infant fur liis eau. 451u0 rag,' maintenance. He moved this petition in the C4llso of Ilird a. Iliad, the bill Besse• tile I i•y the beet of km of the test:ator. who was a grentrinaowl ilia wive of [Jerrie', who h►d bequeathed by his will, of er giving some legacies, all his real and personal pro. petty to the petitioner. his illeginin,te ...is (se de. aerilwtl in his will), by Mary Dicks, who cohabited with him without the form of the tnarrhige cereissony !►eiug performed, as lie could not here as•rsied tier„ her husband at the tune being alive, *IA: a ;invite soldier in one of the rettnirents stationed in the %Vest Indies. The tertator by lit* will appointed • Mr. James 1111111 another gratlernaii, of Bristol, his executors, to tr.:rry it non r tYttt, and by its do. rectum they were to allow the prt;tioiler a bier. iicierit slim out of the produce of the estates for 11, s educatiosi and support (luring his minority, winch would expire in the month of August, 18!4. it wee slot disputed Out the reliismier was the peistin described 111 the will of tl►e testator, but a question arose its the c.itn,e whtther. as the 06011.04/e ►ms of Ilia testator, he could hike the real es t a t e . ; b ut that was not a gwratiuu for his Lordship to deiVr. tome, as the Plaintiff in the tense, who was the next of kin of the testator, might hare it decided by hringii , his ejectment in one of the Courts of Law. The Mound, however, had raised so uther question by his bill, which went to doubt 'het the Petitioner was the son of the, testator. }f charged by his hill that the Petitioner w as the sou of some other person, by his mother, Mary Dicke. and that she had imposed him on the testator as his child, and therefore alleged that the Petitioner could not take under the will, a, the bequest oar made by the Imitator, lie lielirvitiA him to be his illegitimate sun. The Defendairts to the bust, the executors, the Petitioner, and his her, lead put in their answers negativing tbi. allegioion. begged leave to suggest to his Lordship that the %faster could report as to tile gusrdsauship and inanitellatlee of the petitioner without iitriadiln to tills qUetllloll, uul Ws the mantel'. np..rt bring brought before the Court to lie confirmed. the Plaintiff would hove the op;sortuoi•c ot ',Flown% it, and trying the gleesome of the pentiosier 'mug a supposititious child. The petitioner hid Isithrttla brew atippurted at the expense of the r k eict i t uri ., soil It WA. a great Skein that tin acre was made 14 his education “nii mat Men ace. The LORD CHANCEI.I.OR—" I do slot see bake I can get at it, at, as to make sll ruder to the Master thrungls the present suit. I think the Infant must tile u bill. The charge here a not that the infant is nut di.: perroa de,csilie.l by the testator its his will, or that there v. il/1 kW) flausi sit rosins.: the will, but that there wits a tr.tasl Its i the relationship, the moths., 114riog intuited into the mind of the testator that ilie prti , io. Sr was his illegitimate son when he was 01,1. Lord liesiyuts went so far its the case of Felloars as to duvet its issue, nut to try the question of le :4 0111.44 1 fir illea gitionacy, hut whether the itsfaut us that cue was the person who he was described to be, and when the ' , resent cause cornies mi to be lurid on sus merits, and there is sufficient twitle out to sue to doubt tile petitioiser bring the sins of the teossiu:. I think would be bound to direct a similar issue, fur the testator gave the 'novelly to the peithuner nos the supposition that Ise was Ins son, %sheltie, legitimate or 111,gituriate is of 1111 I:oll , ttpirlaCe, if i.e was un posed tin by the fraud of the mother of the tarot. I do not kIIVIW wind report the Ma•ler could make as to gnattlimship and niamtrisaisce 111 this shape of Ilse cause." Jr. lIORN6 arid, he was instructed by his client to say, he Ira trashy 10 try a bloitil.r IsbUr its that bt4zvraled by lii• Lord•litis. The LORD CHANCEI.I.O/1—" I only threw it out, that, uu aso tliciesst case brin g Simla out, it would be my duty to direct such ass issue; but I would be doing ass injustice to tio• infant to all .w him to try such au issue without it sail wasrant,...l by the iriture of the case, and none i•ticli loss heels made out yet. The infant must institute a suit to obtain what he seeks." Mr. Hotta lie el:all tile a bill." PARKER. Coul,3rl for Ilie Pfmitiff in the cutoff.. said, that the isdant uni.,l,t the bit) 6.11 a, and lie would not he Iketirlittd by than. Mr. HORN': —" You *ern' hold." Mr. P•itkic.--`• Btedutie you hook your C.irot koOws better whose sou the ta.laot Ii thw....t. u. i.. tlitr."—Petatimi llis/lll~st 11. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, JANU4RY 22. Sittings is Buse 41—Setae...Ws In*-hull, 114-scery. lute. SETTING or SPRING GUNS. iLiaTT C. WILILLS, ►sq. This was an actiiiis un the eiti , e aieinti.t the De. Ireodaut, t'r setting a spring-gui., ‘.1.-.1 wish powder and shot, in an enclosure cal;i d Chrishull Wood, whatreby the Plall,lltrwas iteverrly in one of his legs, in consequence of his 'leading oa the wire connected with the gum Tiie rleclr anon contains seven counts, all uf which, except the fifth and seventh, 'versed a right of way tli•ongla the wood in question. and dirt the bp: rug kuts had bten set thetein without *i.fliviti.t notice s At the. trial, before Mr. Baron Cii.rrow, at 11,e last Assize* fur the county of Essex, Use c4-e proved in evidence was in substance this :-1 - he was the ..on of a respectable farmer, a neighbour of the Defendant, who is the High 5:84 , 6W of the county of Essex. residing tit Wt 'Atm Lefts, near Elunlen. The wood itt gni annns cuiii.nned an area or about sixty sears of extent, eiirrnunderl by a very low fence, imperfect and titokeit many places, having open bars in ilithirent parts for the ingress mid egress of cart*, brought for the purpie.e of carrying away fallen timber.— For a considerable time previous to she mouth of September. 1818. when this accident happened. there had beta several spring gun.. to the nuir s u e r of nine. pLiced is she wood by the exprestorders of the Delendaot, loaded with shut, rod kept so night end day. with notices stuck op iu three of ~' I 1 4 • 6