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'1 117, COLON' ES. (From the Quebec Gazette of Nov. 15) 517LLEDGEWILL.B., OCT..s.—Our Correspondent at Nashville, (Ten.) informs us, that Gen. JACK .69N has been for some time dangerously ill. Doubts are entertained of - his recovery. We also learn'through the same channel, that a work, vi►+dicating the peasures of the General Govern ment relative to the Seminole war, will short-ly he issued froth the prtss in that place (From " The Boston Patriot," Oct. 21.) It appears by,/ statement lately,pablished, that a capital of six. millions of Dollars is now vested in whale ships, owned in the three ports of New Bedford, Nantucket, and Moth Vineyard, which a War with Spain, or any other European power, would jeopardize. We sincerely hope, for the stke of our friends in those pl4Cet, : that the existing peace will not be interrupted. Cer tain it is, that this Government will never go to war, unless - urged to it by absolute' necessity and in that event, they adopt every possible precautionary measure for the security Of our co amerce. COURT OF OYER AND TERNIINEtt, • For the District of Quebec and the !idiom Territories. Opened by Commission under the Gi,.ar dated 29th April, 1818, and contino ,, d by ,arl- Journment to the 21st of Octohet, 1819. It appeared in the cpurse of this 86sion under 'tlrat - Coinmistion, that' in November, 1818, a Me morial was pi et.ented to his. Grace' th - f , Duke ' of Richmond. on•the part of the North IVesi - Com. piny, praying that a special Court of Oyer owl 'Terminer should take place, - .. the trial of of fences charged to have been comotitted in t he Indian Tervitotita; An early rPply veas• given tha; a Court would open Tor that purpose on the - 21st of October, 1.819, and that the Crown world in doe time give . notice to ►be 'r. , rtiei. On 'flit: '24th of. MAy kit, the etarvo gau!, notice; tltttt 4Cosirt wolild be held for t h at ptirposn'at Q4etee, the 2d of November instant, This nutire was immediately acted upon by the North West Com pant.; was forth,vith dispatched into 044.?, r et i or , an d those ivaplieated iu the 'accusations *bronght by-the Earl of Selkirk, apprised thereof, ,as far as time and. .distance would allow.. It ap peared, however, also, that „some time after the notice had been given to the North West Com pany, tbe_akent of *the Zarl of Selkirk, noc,..ith standing Isis Lordship isarl„ as appeared by his printed memorial produced' in Court, also peti tioned iovernment in October, 1818, - that a coin mission should* i,sue* ‘ fi'sr the Same purpose, had explicitly 'Stated to *GovernMent that the private prosecutor was not ready, and that probably lit — earliest time - when he would he'ready, might he the autumn of 1820. An intimation 'to this effect was in consequvnce given on the 20 , 15 of June, to the principal agent of the North West Company, then absent from thr,. province, .and actually itr the Indian Territories.) at a period when it was much-too' late even had the thing- been in it st It reasonable ; and the -preparations - for the tiiT. poaching expected trials necessarily went on, pursuant to the first notice. However, on the 24 of October, the parties accused found . it ex pedient to lay a memorial before the President, against any furtber.protraction of their trials, in reply to which his Hontiur staled, that a Commis= sion of Oyer and Terminer for the trials of of fences committed in the, Indian Territories had issued on the 29th of.• April, 1818,' and was c o ts . tinned by adjournment to the 21st of October, 1819, and would open - on that clay, " where legal course and redress mist be • sought •for by the parties interested therein." • Accordingly several gentlemen belonging to the North West 'Company, with upwards of- 20 witnesses, collected front 'distances of from two to five thousand miles appeared on the opening of the Court, when the names of the accused, viz. Archibald Norman NPLPod, James Leith, Alex ander WCallum, Hugh M'Gillis, Simon Fraser, and Job() Severight, were recorded by consent: The Court continued by adjournment till Thurs day last, when the Counsel of the North West Company stated the circumstances above set forth, from Affidavits, which were filed in Court, and moved, that those of the accused who were under recognizance should be discWarged from their hail, and those not under recognizance, by proclamation, as the Crown had declared that there was nothing to object against any one of them. After a discussion of some length, the Court- adjourned to consider of these motions tdl the following day.; when, with the exception of one of the accused (Mr. M`Lellan) who happened to he under recogniz'ance in that Court, the Bench decided that the applicants should take nothing by their motions. In the course of the anima& versio.ns that fell front the Bench, and from the SoliciOr-Genesal, it appeared, that they consider ed that the Court had no jurisdiction to interfere with offences alleged t 6 have been committed in the Indian Territories, unless brought forward by the Crown. Early in the Session two Bills of Indictment were preferred `by 'the Crown, and found - by the Grand Jury,-_ against Mr. Mr. John Clarke, Mr. John M(Leod, Captain Matthey, Ser jeant Vitchey, and several Menroto soldiers, ail in the service of the Eat I of .Selkirk .or of the flud ion's Bay Company, for the assault and false im prisonment, in the month of June last, at the Grande Rapid, in the Indian Territories, of Mr. thaw, Mr. M'Tavish, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Fro bkher, and Mr. M‘lntosh, .partners - of the North West Company, and several of their head canoe men.— - On Friday the 29th October the Court adjourn ed till the 24th of January next. MONTREAL, Ovf. 30f 1919. , - • FIRES —This week has been particularly fertile in aeciffents by this formidable elerneut. We had only time, in oqr last Wedneiday's half-sheet, to sketch the more prominent features of the disaster of that morning.—Since then we have made every inquiry that. might . enable us in pre- 8800 LOSS BY THE TWO FIRES. By the Phoenix Office,: By the Montreal Office, •l Houses of Mr. Bertbelet estimated at 8450 3800 2000 Total LO'ss k 14250 In this -statement we have not included Mr. Russange'sloss in moveables, the amount of which we have not been able to rivet rain, but have heard estimated at about 2001, so that the grand total of losses sustained by the two fires, may. be fairly 'stated at 14,5001. The latter'disaster is said to have been occasioned by a lighted candle . having 'Erten left unwatclied in the back store. Many inhabitants of this city assert that, on Thursday. last about• 25 minutes past 7 o'clock A. M. they perceived in their, houses a tremulous motion„similae to that caused by ati,eartliqviake ; the .duration of which tves sor 6 seconds, Ati our •informants resided in various parts ,of the pity and. its Kitinity, and as a partial cause would not, probably, have produced the general sensa tion, .we are inclined to believe it such as it, has been supposed. Its course appeared to be from the South 7 West to North-East. kletter, the authenticity of which we, moy depend upon, there appears to have been several shocks of ,an earthquake , felt at La-chine, ou Thutsdaylast. Our inforniant states, that,it hap ! pened about halfpast 7 o'clock in the morning, and that there. were four or five shocks dis tinctly felt. They were so, violent as to move !hose 'lying in bed, and produced a tretnying,mo lion; and noise, among be furniture in the room. We have not beard of any, injury., it had done; nor that it had been perceived in any other place. [to be continued.] LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFF'S COURT, BEDFORD-ROW. •BREACH OF PROMISE - OF MARRIAGE. CObIPTON V. WINKWORTEI. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for a Breach of Promise of Marriage. The "action Was originally brought in the" Court of King's Bench, kit the defendant had suffered judizioersi to go by default. . Mr. ADpi-PHUS rose to Address the Jury on the art of the plaintiff. They were, he said, as sembled for the purpose of inquiring what de= usages ought to be 'assessed in the present case. It was a. "subject which, though not uncommon, was still, very fortunately, neither so frequent as to hi stale from repetition, nor so uninteresting as to•deaden the sis tit of inquiry.- They were to determine what damages a young and .vittuous woman was to receive at their hands for being kept by constant, warm, and frequently renewed promises; in expertation'of mutriniony ; and then, without any cause givenasn.her part—without any reason assigned .on the other---wit hunt the slight est pretence for such conduct, rejected, thrown back upon society as a slighted woman, with her peace for ever broken, .her hopes blasted, her heart withered, and left to langoisii under all the painfol feelings 'that Were the natural and un avoidable consequences 'of her situation. The intoortaot facts of the case, as he should state hem, being ad.itted on the record, rendered.it utinecessary that be should, go, into any great length of proof. - It was not decried ihar promises of matrimony- were made by the defendant---.that he so tar acted upon. them as to make, : prepare tionkfor the event—and that subseverrly, with out any reason 'assigner:, without a shadoW ' of preteoee,..he sod:let - 1K broke off .he engAgeme..t, and f-nleted i to raa'rimon , .4 connexion tvidi another person. Ti,ere was no s ,, bject which regtrrrrd more carts tins and serious consider's itiois• on the part of a Jut y than this, nor was less eaution necessary 09 khe- part of those who addressed them. To treat it as a•matter only pecuni'al consideration—as a mere affirir of business, in which feeling or senti ineot waa to have no share, from . which every thing 'connected with the heart should be - ex; chided, this would be to descend from its real importance. It tvouirl, on th e other hand; be equally iniudiciotis 7 —it would he. unworthy of any . person, placed is his situation,' to attempt to in-' serest the' jodgment thrfwg . h the ittliaetire_ of the iina'ginatiou, by • the empty . 11,i;fera rhetorie, by the language •:.f 'leclaiwitioW, or by romantic aplieal to sliOitr , :' 7)uSding love. A cat)l address to their reason, to the sense' which, as lath rs, 31 4 litotilers', as men, they most entertain of such an' iiijury,Was all'he should 'attempt. It was, in his Hand, the most indielons 'w a y :of s o_ "pealiog io aYauryonder circumstances of 'this kind. But fholigh reason should govern, it nett, ii; he expected that the interference' .erffeelitrgcOuld be etareci shut nut. It was not necessary, for the purptises ofJutice„ that they should enter into all the romantic . misery of situation in which a young female must be placed whose' heart has been interested—Wbose hopes have been raised to prospects Ofliappiness by the promises of one to 'whom her nosuspecting innocence has given, core fidenee—whb'haS been led to think that the day cif » their union Was at 'hand," and then suddenly castOff,''plOnged'into the agottieoif despair, and field' ntrto the scorn of the world ai'an object Os Worthy of that connexion fo"wliich `site had bOuud.. ed her prospects in life. Here was a youngWottan filled with pleasing and virtuous anticipations; all at once, and Without cause, thrOWn into the froien region of bitter contempt, to bewisil that most ,painful 'Of all slights; Which' fem . aleorforgei:Wifti ,most di ffi culty—which, in truth, they' never cease to remember. Sirch was the effect it Its < upon her mind that had it not beers for the•vigilance of her friends, sits would ha a succeeded in ter minating by suicide hated'iLxisrence. She irai obliged to leave the country, and was sent to some distance, to avoid the shame of being point... ed.at as a 'person rejected and scorned by the man •whom all that knew them . 16oked upon as her fu ture husband." But change 'of place Would not change her feelings ; could not cure th . e wound so wantonly and cruelly inflicted: She still bore about her the pain of ,rejection, of withered hopes, of remembered love ; the sense of riled contempt, and the recollection of - perfidious promises. 'Where could a person in her situation . seek for consolation Not in the society of friends whOm she tonarb.e ashamed to meet—not in the anticipation of a new attachinent, for an indignity' like this, withoet carise,or excuse, would naturally, in her mind, give every profes sion,; however sincere, the colour of a falsehood. She would naturally suspect that every man was like him by whom she was so cruelly deceived. Under these circumstances, he looked to the Jury for large., and liberal damages. sls Englishmen, as•fathers and brothers, he called upou them to say what they would award to a _young woman upon whom so much pain had been inflicted with. out .cause or excuse. , • • Mrs. Compton,—l am the mother of the Plait). tiff in this action ; she. was one and twenty last . !lay; ; the Defendant paid his addresses to her ra ther more than . two ycars ago;, at that time my daughter was living with me; I am a widow, and carry on-the farm that .was my husband's ; the defendant wrwe to my daughter, :and Isaw the letter; I thought him a very-respectable young man, rind had no objection to, her receiving his addresses; I; knew that my daughter received many letters,; he came often to my house ; his addresses were perfectly sanctioned by the ; he never made any .complaint of my daughter's conduct ; lie said. he • should: .make her his wife as soon as he was in business; my daoghter. aml he continued -acqoainted, upon those terms for . a • year and a half ; at the end of• that, time he called upon my daughter, and. I understood he wished to break off the match; I asked him the reason, and he said,he had no, reason, and might again visit my dasighter ; lie .has since married another person. The effect produced upon my daughter was very serious ; she was very much krill she could not be left by herself; her mind was so' distracted that I less afraid she would make Away with'herself; she was obliged to leave that part'of the country; and now lives in Lonclon-i the ring produced was given by the defendant .to my daughter. Cross-examined by Mr. DENMAN-4 lost my husbaml four years ago ; I was the head of.the family, and gave my f u ll a PprobatiO n to the:ad.. dresses of the defendant. It was. about a twelve . month last June he talked of breaking off the cote section ; he was then about 21 -; I did not knogr . the defendant's father ; I have seen him,A3ilf never spoke to him on the subject of his ion'i marrlige with my, daughter ; my daughter told me that the defendant bad asked for his letters and his ring; I asked the defendant what reason he hid for breaking . o ff th e matc h ? I b e lie ve h e spoke softie-. thing of his friends having some objection; that was in June twelvemonth; he was married iu Sepiernher, last ; my daughter now 'lives its Lon dots,. and keeps a haberdasher's shop, and I Jiiie with her. She had learnt that business. The 'following letters, spoken to by the irst witness, Were now put in and read. They ate li teral. copies " Guildford, April it, 1817, (Friday Evening-.) My ririktt Ilitrire'ri , — . -Hope you will excuse the liberty - 1 hareaarken•by writing these few Hoes to you, .which. twist ,express the'real meaning cif my heart ; that is, I really am very much in love with you, and have been ever !mice I 'saw you first as Air. St rad wiek's ; and hope • the next time L see you we shall, settle one way or the other-=- whether you %I'd! accept of my offer or not; shall want a tVite by and by, and have not the least doubt belt what you will make me a very good one—Ami , hle, Charming. and eoucere Wife. My .dear_ H. it's my wish to set. into your Fa mily, and have .not the least ,doubt hot what rove should lire very happy together and it I thought we should trot, I etrtainly would not offer myself to you. I really do *not know what to.do with myself and shall nor until I hear or see you, which hope will be in a day or two, and then hope you will ease the numpink of my heart. ,Vcio not mean tor you stop ,the bumping till* ever, but to bump, bump, stump easy. My Dear are you engaged next Sunday ? If not, I will do. my self (t, e 'pl ea , ore of coating to see you infthe after-. .I),'if it is agreeable ; it not, please send word by Butler, and I'll call tor it 10-1110TtOtt evening; and if you do not send word, I shall c. one. 1-I pa you did not increase your cold last Mondiy , 4l,ght, your - mothet got loipe quite safa the next morning. I should have gone with her had I known she meant to have gone so soon in the moruitig; it Was my intention to have cared.the coat borne myself yesterday morning, .but. found it was sent by Butler ; hope we shall agree in the tray I wish, if not I shall' make op my mind to be a fusty old hacihelor-; I shall not try another yoking Lady, and that. have told you before. Please give my best respects to your mother and Caroline, and tont you will accept my love.—And remain, Dr. IL your`S'sincevely. • g , W. VINKWORTH." • ' In the followin'ilie addressed her as his wife-.-- " Guildford, May 11, 1815. "MY DEAR WIFE---I write these few lines to inform you I got borne quite safe last,Evg. by . a little pest ten O'clock'. I am very unwell, its deed, to•day; have a very heavy ,pain itt my - sto% mach'; hope you are well, and hope you will ark go to fair to-morrow, has I think you will over fatigue 'yourself. think ,you ought to stay at liOnhe a little more, and not run about so ultr a ; - have sent some plaister, which forgot to leers Evg, with rove from your Intended Hui-. hand. Ido not care bow soon. • " W. WINICWORTH." [Several other letters, written in the tame cis gant'style, were also read.) After some other'witnesies were examined (one of whOM proved that the 'stock which was pure chased by 'lie defendant of his uncle, was worth upwards of 20001. ; and that the business was rather increasing than diminishing),. 11r. D 3.11 14 A addressed or Jury in behalf at the defendant.. He observed, that from the law' gnage of this young man, Which was of the 01131, , t absurd description, it would seem that he was himself extremely incompetent to judge of'what sort of connexion might ultimately hr for his owa adven , age. The letters which had.beets read, it was trae, bad been written by him when in his minority ; and even allowing that, they were ter-. tainly beneath the usual run of the human mind at that age. Wlicti such a declaration as this—. " If you loves I, has I loves you, No kiiife shall cut our loves in two." was made—and whe.n, in another letter, he talked of his heart going "bnmp, hump, bump," and. " that he did not know what , to do for love," were considered, but a poor evimate indeed could be formed' of such a lover ; and in his opinion, the young lady had riot mnch to regret in having been relieved froth . his importunities; at least he thought such a suitor was extremely ill-suited to a deli.. sate minded young lady. • ••• Mr. IletiCtibrArt, the Under• Sheriff, now pro l • ceedcd to sum pp thecase to the Jury; . in doing which, he remarked; that the defendant's Counsel. had that clay, found an excuse for his conduct, which he had been unable himself to find whets he cruelly hrblie,off his connexion with the plain!. tiff without:the slightest misconduct on her part. The defendant had acknowledged his offence, and the Jury had only to estimate the damages, to which the plaintiff, for the very. serious injury which she had received, .was entitled, In doing this, they - wdold• look to the- property of the dr fendant, who, :it would seem from the eyideucc brought forward, was worth at least.3ooo/. The Jury. retired, and after a short absence" re` turned and stated, -that they had assessed - the "aa' mages at Three Hundred Pounds. . . . On ''Friday evening between seven and eight o'clock, Eliza Johnson-, a woman who stood com mitted from Bow-street to Bi idewell tor behaving disorderly at St: Martin's -Workhouse, was folifol' hanging in the Strong: Boom attached to the office: It appeared tiiat the unfOrtunate woruari had tied herself up to . one .of the iron rails of th 6 window, and Was mened from impending - ilealb . by an officer who happened to be in attendance. LONDON: Printed by.). B. CARS'r AIRS, of No. 29, Great Orniond-street, Quern-squire; and published by SCRIPPS, of No. 7, Smith Alolton-street, at THE Sub Office, No. 112, Strand ; where Adveitisements, atders,..! Leiters, etc. (post-Paid) must be aJdressrd. I sent out' - readers Vt-ith an acenrCe Accoutits are contradictory respecting the part. of the buildings in >which the fire commenc ed.. The first report was, that it :had ori ginated—in Mr..Girard's bakehouse,; - hut his fa mily. desty this,.and aflirm.that they first perceived it in their garret, between which and that.of Mr, Kanntz there is nnly a slight wooden pprtition; and that it, therefore, might have begon that of Mr. Kaunt . z. (hi , it may, there were in Mr. Giesard's aki li tic'storV aboni : 4o(l coin-brooms, 'which s:trpliedytQ the fi:tmes such 'fuel that the root o i tt;ekly fell in, and the three hotiacs were consumed with that rapidity that allowed but-a smali portion- of the moveables to. withdraWn. The following day (Thursday) the-opposite house (occupied by Mr. llossange, and the' property of Mr. I.3 . resse of Charuhty) which, being fire-pfoot,, had, otr..,the preceding day; only lost its roof, wets discoverci: to be on fire in the lower story ; the4l : ittes having either insinuated themselves be— tween the c.hinhs of the flagged ceiling, or heated the thgs to such a -degree as to ignite the, sup- , portiEg beams, and was also reduced to ashes.: Of 'Me three other hones, those occupied by the Miss llowardsand Mr. Girard belonged, to the elder Mr. Ilrthelet, and were not, insured ; the other was the property of Mr. Kauntz, and was insured. The following is a statement of the: ;Isurance BY THE PHCENIX 'OPTICS. Mr. Katantz'sfionse, for ,1000 . -- Fur nitur e ; ' for ------ Stocl, for 330 1500 Mr. Girard's Stock, for . . 750 - MiwHowartl's tutniture, - for 13resse's House, fur Tutal ,C 345 0 We understand that some toss of 'wive:l.l;les o sustained hy Mr_ RosSan*e', the occupant of Nir. O'resse's house, but 'we have not been able to a retain its ainottiq. They 'were insures:l'la both the l'i;oeliix and Niontre.4l V: . Mt' public duty and an attachment to truth, us to observe thai; in the crowd assembled. on Hie occasion, there Were many inclividitals whO appeared veil , indifferent to the loss of thr-ir' low-creatures'' property, and very disinclined to any rifort. for its preservation. • Notwith standi tare laudable exertions of many respect able Gwhtlemett of this city, and more particolarly of the Fire Club and the Police, it' tkas a length 1)1 tinte•before a line wils formed, ant even then' a very inritFrfect one. As usual nu snch occa !inns. some -thefts nen: committed, by persons who scented, (one would imagioe) to think that tke best,time to rob a man,., was when he ~was losing his in overly, Some - literary citsiacters modefree with Nit.. Bussange's hooks—and some Aotaries of 14m:chits appeared not, by any means dissatisfied with Air. Girard!s.wine.. To those in the habit of exercising their risible muscles, it was Ito small treat to behold, at 6 o'clock on Weflnc,sday morning,. a dp m ,In di to on the opposite sides or a cask of tHe above lignid, the bead of which had' been titakeit irl, drinking sociably to eR 1i v, it r oils cif rusty tin cans', find elOgnently"lescanting ttli the "seene bA tote theM, in language as oniatelligible to each as Hebrew to Arabic. Scarcely hal the ashes ceased to smoke, when, at Aunt seven'o'cloek in the evening, the 'tocsin w.s - agttiti pealed . . This new alarm bronglit al most :011 the male population into 'the streets. Honied 'all'hpg: With the current, we were at length st;,pped by the grand reservoir 61: pe4le who bail' collected opnosire the houie of thelate Mr. .I,,acOli occupied - by. Messrs. StetiVart, Holroyd,'and Co. and Mr: Levenue. dint column of smoke was_ issuing from every aper ture,'and apparently proCeeded 'from the cellar. Bylfegrees tt assumed a lighter colour, till - at length .the re - d'flame burst forth in all the fierce ness of - cOnflagraiion. Lines were formed ; en gines 'plied ; and here again The Fire Club and many respecitiWe individuals distinguished them - - selves by their disinterested and humane exc.''. dons . ; 1 .but the fire, nourished: by the 0'0146- sle contents of a wholesale and dry-goods ware house, overcame all 'resistance, and, beforelwelVe, the building was consumed. Fortutvitely the pro. ;:lress of. the fkmes .was so far checked as to be . prevented from extending to the contiguous houses.—The following a statement, of the property insured,. and the amount of the in surance ,BY TILE MONTFtERL OFFICE. The late Mr. J. Hall's House,' Goods of Messrs. Stewart, Holroyd & Co l2OO Ditto of Mr. Levequo, —2OOO 3800 , - • BY VIE PMENIX OFFICE. Goods of Messrs. Stewart, Ho'coy(' & 5000 Total t • • fen ( The 01,/ 044 att, fr. ! In c Sto A, OW -10 r • s4i Pal f6 t ti oi tin 4 Chi I to, 10 giv Ca, 3rd. 11, ) all h( Co w, t . . Nal Pr (!e cii St;