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'A t [ll! , ~i ..,4/ • , 7 14. x r o . . E U T •-•,.. A ..... ?. ~ 15, ‘ • 0 ett,l4/,/,-; ~ ,~; -s , • eY '• 2 `A 70, I A .C/15' 4 NUMBER 10,060. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, MM. PillCr SAVENTPENCE. This Day is published, price 2s. A REVIEW of.the WAREHOUSING SYS TEM, as connected with the Port of London, taken from Parliamentary Reports (and Official Documents. BY HENRY LONGLANDS, Esq. Published ky John Richardson, Royal Exchange : Rod well and Martin, Bond -street; and Wheatley and Adlard, 103, Strand. In the Press, in One Volume, Bro. I.ORD BYRON rrA.LiE et en GRECE, .54 ou Apercu de sa Vie et de ses Ourrages d'apres des !?Orces authentiques, accompagne de Pieces inedites, et d'un litteraire et politique de ces dent Contr4es. Par Le MARQUIS de SALVO. Printed for Treuttelattd Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter, 4() LI o-square. SWAN WITH TWO NECKS, LAD-LANE GENERAL COACH OFFICE. ROVER, DEAL, RAMSGATE, MARGA TE, and CANTER BURY PATENT COACHES DAILY. IIE followina ROYAL MAILS and POST COACHES depart from and arrive at the above Inn : NeW HOLYHEAD Mail, through Stoney Stratford, Tow teiter,.Daventry, Dunchurch, Coventry, Birminham, Wol terhameton, shift-mil, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Llangollen, torwen and Bangor, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays excep!erl, 7 o'clock. • .LIVERPOOL Royal Mail Coach, through Dunchurch, Co. 'entry, Coleshill, Lichfield, Newcastle antiCongleton, every Evening at half past 7, Sunday's excepted, 7 o'clock. • BRISTOL Royal Mail, through ReadinF, Newbury, Marl. borough, Caine and Chippeuham,,every Evening at half past 7 , Sundays excepted, 7 o'clock. BATH and EXETER Royal Mail, through Devizes, Melli sh:no Wells, Brid gewater , Taunton, and CoUtuopton, every EVening at half past 7, Sundays excepted, 7 o'clock. „-P LYMOUTH Royal Mail, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays excepted, 7 o'clock. . EXETER Royal Mail, through Salisbury. Blandford, and B orchester, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays excepted, 7 o'clock. FALMOUTH Royal Mail, every . Evening at half past 7, Sundays excreted, 7 o'clock* MANCHESTER Royal Mail, through Northampton, liar tiorough,Leicestec, DerhY, Ailibourne, Leek,and.Macclealield. eve' y Evening at half past 7, Sundays excepted, 7. o'clock. 11111.NIINGLIAM New Mail Coach, (in 14. hours), through t° II VY Stratford, Davent ry and Covent FY. .(the nearest Road 110 miles), ever y Evening at half past 7, Sundays excepted, 7 o'clock. C ARLISLE and EDINBURGH Royal Mail, through Chor , Ty, Preston, Garstang, every Evening at half past 7, Sun. 44 Ys excepted, 7 o'clock. cHEsTpt Mail, throu g h &oi l ), Ellesmere, and w rexham, every Evening at halt past 7, Sundays excepted, 7 o'clock. • b New KIDDERMINSTER Royal Mail, through Diming an', Dudley and Stourhridge, every Exerting at half past 7, s "daYs excepted, I o'clock. N ORWICH: Royal Mail, through Chelmsford, Colchester a " 1 1 , swicli, every Evening at half past .7, Sundays excepted, o'cl oo k. • • . • POST COACHES., N IANCIIEstEn. New Light Post. Coach,. The Regulator, Danstable, Woburn, Newport, Northampton, Hair- V iro ugh, Leicester, Loughborough , Derby, Ashbourrieand . tuston, at a quarter before 3 o'clock. HOLYHEAD New-Light Post Coaches, through Birming. 1141 u, Wolverhampton, Sbiffual, Shrewsbury, °sweat ry, Cur wen, and-Bangor, every Morning at half past, 5, and Everting /I t a quarter before 5 o'clock. GLASGOW and EDINBURGH Post Coach, The Defiance, t hrough Manchester, Garstang, Kendal, Carlisle, Annan and b uitifries, at 5 o'elock. THANIPTON Light Coach, through Staines, Hartford ' , ridge, Basingstoke and Winchester, every Morning at half 1 1 4st?'.. • 'I.I 7 ERPOOL Light Post Coach, The Royal Champion, n 23 hours, and driven through by Four Coachmen only), through Stoney, Stratford„ Coventry, Lichfield, Stone and •t o'clock. _ 'congleton, every Day a WINDSOR and ETON C:onches MANCHESTER Royal Defiance, (in 44 hours), throng'' , l unstable, Northampton, Haroorough ' Leicester, Cavendish Iltidg t •Derby Ashbourne, Leek, , Macclesfield and Stuck- Port, every Day at 5. EXETER New Light Four-inside Post Coach, 'rite Regu lator, (with a Guard, and out One Night only), through Ba tingstuke, Overton, Andover, Salisbury, tilandford, Dorches ter, Brldport„ Axminster, and Honiton, every Day at e O'clock. Passengers travelling by this conveyance proceeds " 110 14 delay to Plymouth and Falmotith. EDINBURGH and GLASGOW New Post Corlett, The "tatipiOn, ihr '1 Newcastle, Lancaster, Kendal, Carliile oug Dunifrfes, at 4 o'clock. hitisToL Regent Post Conch, through Reading, Newbury, alarlhortingli and Bath,. every Afternoon at a quarter before e'eloak. BIRMINGHAM., Light Post Coach, The Tia:loon, through Money Stratford, briventry, Coventry and Stone Bridge, t very Afternoon at half past 4. P ALMOIITH and PLYMOUTH Light Post Coaches, every Afternoon at 2 o'clock. • WEYMOUTH and DORCHESTER Magnet Day.Coacb, • itl!fs'lll:mrs,. at '5 every Morning, and from the Gloucester louse, Piccadilly, at. 6- • C OVENTRY LigliC Four-inside Post Coach, every After -4'oll, at ti quarter before 5. The Prince Cobourg tp MANCHESTER through Coven• A.theritone;TarnwOrth, Lichfield, Stone, Newcastle and -011gleton, every Day at 4 o'clock. ti NOTTINGHAM New Light Post 'Coach, (in 18 hours), hi l nugli St. Alban's Dimstahle, ‘Voburti, Newport Pagnel, .4rket Ilarborougli, Leicester and Loughborough, at' 3 clock in the Afternoon. ~CARLISLE. GLASGOW, and EDINBURGH, Four - inside 'flaelies, Daily at 2 and 5 'o'clock. •, WESTER arid PARK G AT E N ew C oac h, eve ry After 'l° 'in at 5, and Miirning at, 6 o'clock. t WoRCESTErt Coaches, th roug h O x f or d, Chi p pi n g Nor- Persliore and Broadway, every Morning at 6. pve t ting a WARWt 5 o'clock. ICK and LEAMINUTON SPA Post estery ' „TAM WORTH, 'ATHERSTONE, and HINCKLEY Coach, • gy bay at, 4 o'clock. taoo Eitny New Light Post Coach, The Regulator, (in 18 through Northampton, Market I - Who:trough and Lei— j•v:very'Day at J. t t v Light' Potrr-inside . Post Coach to DUDLEY and BIIIDGE, every Afternoon at 5 o'clock. C A DA YEB Nion Coaches,through Rochester, Chatham, 4,clitclerintry, Margate and Ramsgate, at half pass 7 and 11 p„v,k ivery , Morning, and hall past 6 in the Evening. 414 14 ,US New Light Diligence, by way of Dover, every T r i lunt at 7, and half past 6 Evening. h,..IUNTON, through Cross to Bridgewater , every After -1,4,1,1tt half past S o'clock, at reduced Fares. O,rtNIINGHAM Light Post Coach, The Courier, through .Stratford-on. Avon and Henley Arden, ,41orning at past 5. e4,'.IELTENHAM and 'GLOUCESTER Light Post Pot Coach, ii&l.l,4•lttsirle, through Oxford, every Morning . %, PON and BUN'IINGFORD Post Coach, every After lialUpast o'clock, to the George, Busitingford, 1 711 Inn, ROystan. llpu r e , 841 01 Day Times Post Coach to NORWICH, Tin,l•3, 111 driven through by one Coachman only, at 5 in the )44 4 CAMt • t RIDGE, Tally Ho ! Fast Coach, in 5 hours, at P ut l'at 2 o'clock rem Afternoon, and from the Flower , 13isl to r „,,n 3 pgate-street,.acti quarter before 8: hew v., II 4IURY Fast Coach, The Tally Ho ! every After. 10 7,et, H a ir past 2, in 7 hours. , ei,;IGLITON Coaches at half -past B, and half past 10 * t c t' e revY Morning. t!,141 Parcels and Luggage conveyed daily to !lbw Parts of the hia gi l l and tit every City and Manufacturing nin the , .11.7 4 n n. • W, WATERHOUSE and Co. Proprietors. PrOPrietori of the above Carriages beg . I'eave 4r ce i,e Public, that they will not be accountable fur any l;ag„ a rbor Paekrige whatever, nor for any Passenger's Lug-, std I,rVe',.the value : of ' 5l, unless the saw be entered and ritk e ry accordingly at the time of the delivery of any such 4 tvot: 134 , 1 44 g, or Passenger's Luggage, to them or their lowed at 4 moderate Rate. t it her tiler r to NEXT THURSDAY. ARROLL, the Contractor, presents the ILI Public with the most advantageous offer ever submitted to their notice. The Two First-drawn Tickets on the 16th of December will have £20,000 each,—One Thousand other Prizes will also be Drawn on the 16th December, which may include Both the £30,000, and all the other Capitals in the Scheme.—Now, every Purchaser - may return his Ticket or Share afterthat Day's Drawing is 'over, and receive back for ft at the rate of £10; therefore, he cannot lose more than the trifling difFerence between what he pays and what he may to a certainty get back any time before the 26th of December. For this insignificant Risk he has the chance of 1,000 Prizes to be drawn on the 16th December, among which there will-be to a certainty Two Prizes of £20,000, and perhaps Two Prizes of £36,000 !! ! . • The following are the Prices, and : aptinsi each what may be received back for it after the Drawing on the 16th Decem ber Ticket . X 22 19 o...May . receive , back £l9 0 0 Half -• . 12 5 0.../Hay receive hack 9 0 quarter - 6 3 6,..11dy receive back 4la Light - - 3 3 0...31ay receive back 25. 0 Sixteenth - 112 0...111ay receive back 1 2 , 6 The greatest variety of Numbers are on Sale at CAR ROLL'S, the Contractor's, Offices, No. 19, CORNHILL ; 7, CHARINU CROSS ; and 26;OXFORD-STREET. ' HAMPSHIRE GENERAL•BENEFIT SOCIETY. I T being extremely desirable to avoid any A. tuldition to the Monthly Contributions of the Ordinary Members, beyond the Sums calculated upon the Sou TII WE I. L TAIILEs ' the liberal and benevolent Inhabitants of this County, are invited to unite in raising a Fund ; to defray the expences • of Management, which are not considered in the above Tables, as sogreat an increase in the payments of the Insurers may exceed the means. of the pourer Labourers, and defeat the ob jects of the' Institution. . • The following are the names .of the Noblemen and Gentle men who have 'already signified their intention of subscribing for this purpose :: ' . . Don, Ann. Sub. The Duke of Wellington.(Patren) £3OO X. 5 • Right Hon. •LOrd. Belton ' - 209 -- ' Lord Viscount Palmerston . - 100 1 Sir Thoinas Herithcote - - . 100 ' ' 1 Sir Thomas Baring - - 109 1 john Fleming, Esq. M.P. ' . . - 100 1 0. P. Jertroi , m?, Esq. M.P. - 100 • 1 Andrew Drtiontiond, Esq. - 100 1 • body Holland - - 109 T. l'histlWiWayte . ,. Esq. - ..- 100 George Ward, Las t. - - 100 -- ', The Bishop.of Winchester - 100 . ' Right Hon. )Villiatn Sturges Bourns 199 ' _ • Alexander goring, Esq. -, - 109 _ Sir Charles ill - = - 100 Sir.Tohn Posen - - -• 50 1 '' • Sir CharleS Ogle - . - - • SO 1 . 'Rev. W. Gamier - : :- , -.. • 50 1 • , E; Knight, Esq - ' • * ' 1,,1;:-59 . 1 - Henry liati 4 ng,.llsq. ... ~, . ~ %;",..;ity ' 11. Wall, Esq. .. '. ' • .. ' .1.4 • -___ • - , Wm. Chute, Eig.• - - --.. . SO -- .1. Scott, Esq. - - - 5 O 5O Lady Mildinay - - - : 60 . ' Sir Samuel Jervoise - . 60 IL . P. Ddme, - Esq. - • -.. 50 Wiekham Martin, Esq. r - 80 A sit ct on Smith, Esq. - - • 50' -7-. . Sir J.. W. Gardiner - - 3 O 3O 1 ' Colonel Serge - - - 2 31) •• 1 George Woad, .E.:q. - -, . .00 — Rev. - Walter White - 30 . - - Sanders, Esq. - . 30 ' Henry Budd, Esq. - - 20 2 Rov. Sir Henry 'Rivers - - 10 2 Walter Long, Esq. - - 10 1 • • Dr. Quarrier •• -, - .. - 10 1 W. Grant, Esq. : - • - - to I ' ' • Thu lion. and tv. Chancellor Legge 10 1 . Jorge Purvis; 'sq. - 7 It) I Major 'Ridge , - - 10 1 'Rev. .51r.• Poulte - ' - •r . • 111 • • John Placid, Esq. - ,'ir 10 Rev. 11. Dampier - ,i- 10 Itetr'.'F. Beadon, , - - 10 -- , Rev. T. Gamier : - Dr. Jones - - - i,7 10, - ltev.,ll. Thompsia; - . 10_ 'George Eyre, 'Esq., - - '-. • 10 —. • Messrs. J. F. and T. Burrell . - 5 2 ' - William Thresher Esq.. - . . • 6 1 Liettt. G. PUrvis, R.N.• .•-• '- -- 5 1 • A Lady (by the Hey. W. Ilarwootp , . 5 .... 7 , Mr, Barney, ' - 'Mr. Padtlon : - - • -' • 5 - '••••-. - The Reic James. Dodges - - 1 .....- 11. W. Missing, 14 1 :4;liecorderof Ramsey —' 1 Rev. Dr. XVilatiis - - . 1 ' Dr. Burney • ;: -'2 Rev. C. A. North' -•- - 4-- ' 2 • Williarn Deacon, F.sq. . - - I ' Robert Cruickshank, Esq. • - 1 AIL W. Jellicoe ' - - - 1 Robert Curry, Esq. •- - I Mr. T. harper - I Mr. Thomas Hoskins ' - - I Mr. 'Betts - . . i Mr. Green ~ . - 1 James Westmore, .Esq. - . 1 Dr. Wilson . . .. ' _ I - Captain Holies, R. N. _ _ ___ 1 Captain Woodriffe,. It. N. .. 1 D. W. Weddell, Esq. _ - 1 Mr. Beddome . - _ _ 1 • Mr. W. Sharp • - - - 1 AIL james Aldridge - - 1 Mr. W. C. 11aman : - • - 1 - Mr. T. B. Winter Mr. Thomas Coleman - . I Mr. W. Footner 4 - - 1 Mr. Isaac Purchase - - 1 'Rev. John Lewis - . 1 1 Rev. John Reynolds - . I Mr. Thomas T. Sharp . . 1 Mr. Charles Knight - . I • - Mr. James Judd ' • • Mr. Josiah George - - . 1 1 Rev. Thomas. Penton Mr. James Sharp . - • Rev. Dr. Newbolt - - 1 . Mr. Henry Holmes - The Rev. John Baynes - - 1 The Rev. Robert Wright - .- 7-. 1 Thomas Woodhant, Esq. --. ' - 1. Matthias March, Esq. .- - . 1. . The Rev. John Harwood - - -- I The Rev. John Haygarth - - .--I , The Rev. John Orde - - 1 Mr. John Budd - . — 1 Mr. Edward Prior - . I Mr. James Thresher .. • - ...- 1 Mr. John Nicholl , _ • - 1. Mr. Robert Porter - - 7.-.. I Mr. Joseph White - - 1 The • liberal' donations already received, and the additional , support derived front annual Subscribers, are in the highest degree satisfactory to the Committee; as, howeyer, the tables of monthly payments by the ordinary Members will be calm lated solely with reference to the income resulting from the in, vestment of the donation funds, and must, not he left depend. eat upon the uncertainty of annual Subscriptions, the Commit. tee beg to recommend DcinationS under present circumstances as most acceptable, to enable them to complete their calculti tionsond prepare the Tables and Reglilations for the final 'sanction of the Magistrates at the Epiph:any . Sessions.—Th ose Gentlemen disposed` to aid the undertaking with Dentitions or annual Subscriptions, and.form Committees of Honorary Mena. hers in. their several Districts, arc requestod to commumcate th e result of their benevolent exertions to John Fleming, E'sq.M.P. Stoneham Park, the Prerident:of the Institution. • - • N.B,—Agents will be appaintedin• the several: Towns and Districts of the County, previous to. tire next General Quarter Sessions; to receive the SubscriptiOr,s, and remit the amount to the -Treasurers of the Society. A. rionatien of 101. 4 . or an' an - nusliSuOrriPtion of 11. constitutes•rin• Honorary Member. ' JOHN FORD. (of Ramsey), Secretary., LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 0: REDrEARN V,ATTWOOD.—JUDGMENT. The subject here was mines and iron. works which the plain-. tiff held of the defendant, under powers of re-entry which had been exerted against him (the plaintiff), while the right of bringing actions at law was also secured to the defendant by the contract, The Vice Chancellor had affirmed the breach of covenant, and had given the costs of all the.pwceediogs to the defendhnt. • The LORD CHAT4CELLO .now confirmed the decree of the Vice Chancellor Upon the breach of covenant; but ins Lord ship thought that the decree went to a length which the. prac tice of the Court would not justify in giving the costs of all the other' proceedings. The petition. and appeal prayed in the second instance to restrain the defendants from proceeding with their action at law ; and though • there wits no, proof that they had commenced any , such 'action, his L o rdship thought that his order must have the effect of restraining them at least till the blaster shall have reported the state of the accounts. IN' HE ELEPHANT AND e A s TLF , CHA RITY. An original grant of 6/- a-year-copyholdlands, made by the Dean and Chapter Of Canterbury to the overseers of Newing ton parish . in trust, has reached ar-Length the value of 600/. a. 'year. The Master of the Roll s had directed the Master to re port a plan for an improved distribution of the funds. l'ionie difficulty arose upon the words of an Act of Parliament which vested this trust in certain parish officers " for the time being." The LORD CHANCELLOR. • bad promised judgment, but felt himself oppressed by doubts ; first, as to whether the official character of the parish officers with whom the trust was to vest had not changed so greatly, as to be totally at variance with the nature of the - trust ; and next, if the bill could, with a proper regard to the Act of Parliament, be entertained at all. So that the case must necessarily stand over. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Disc. 8. ATTORNEY-GENERAL 2'. PIE CORPOIIATIONT OF WINCAIr:B I. ER• . . The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that this cause came on before his Honour for further directions on the, Master'e report. —The facts of the case, as they. appeared front the soceclies of Counsel, were as fellows:—The Corporation of Winchester had been for a lonl period in the possession of certain eetetes e _ the proceeds of which they applied in various ways, as they saw fit. Some portions of the money arising from. these estates were distributed for charitable purposes. It being, however, be lieved'hy some persons who were interested for the cityof Win chester, that thesemonies were disposal of ley the Corporation ' in an improper manner, an inquiry was set on foot, for.the pur pose of ascertaining from what sources they proceeded, and upon what trusts they had originally been vested in the hands of the Corporation. This inq u i r y not being satisfactorily an. swered, two suits were commenced in Chancery. One of these was brought by the Attorney-Cenerar's information at the rat_ tioh of an individual, and sought a discovery front the Corpora tion:of the property they hail received, in trust for the mainte. stance of the Hospital of St. John, in the city of Winchester, • - and under the will of one ltelidi letufo. The second inferma tion was alko at the relation of an individual, : and demanded a general discovery of all the charitable trust property in the hands of the Corporation, and the purposes to which the pro ceeds were applied. These two. Milts had since been'connoli dated. The answer of the defendants admitted that there had been a charitable institution in the' city of Winchester, called' the Hospital of St. John, but that it Intl been dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII., since which they had no traces •of its existence. • They ralmitted that, by the will of one. Ralph lamb, in the year 1550, certain tcnetnenta had been devised to the Corporation, of which they believed thephatl come into possession, axtd that these lands} were charged with a trust to pay •30s. neyear to t h ree p ers ons, therein naMed, and after their deceasee- the remainder to be applied to repair and main tain the church , -St. Clement's. They stattal,. howeVer, that no such enure' ' , Was „we, iu existence, and that they had no means of intlemoir y4l4 , the lands devised, or of distinguish- I- in.. them rum the ni nes , ds they. held. • The answers disclosed moreover, tint there Wes; , i, -2 ,C4lolparteitadWbeydto: predecessor s o f the of vations rious de. scriPtions - re" in the 'urpo•eution. the proceeds of which Were.distributed in the : tanner 4 Corporation ; and the present- denied that they possessed any: information, or-the means of acquiring any such inform.ation, as to the trusts upon which the donations were originally .con fided to them. 1 here were, however, two par ticular donations, respecting which, it was arg ue d b y the Co u nsel for the relators sonic more explicit answer should be gle e' ' ' . thie- of these was under the will of a Mr. Ashton, detail,' At this period the Corporation distrib u t e d a sum of Gs, qua rt e rly to each of 1 . 5 poorpersons, and this was called . a Ashton's.Nahles." It was therefore cle ar t h at some fund MUst exist for the payment of this Kum, and on thun.. the r } . Court, it was ho v els, would now charge such a t rust al i t s h ou ld think right. Another donation was under the will of a M r . Si mmons, respect i ng which the defendants' answer alleged that they could . give no explanation, the will having been lo st . The Comnuesioners appointed by Parliament to inquire into charitable institutions, however, thought fit to visit Winchester since the filims.the answer, and they had been aide to hunt up the lost will, by which it appeared that, Simmons devised the whole of his real estate to the Corporation for charitable purposes. A petition had. been filed in the nature.of a supplement to the original in formation, and brought these facts before the Court. The re. port of the Master had verified the facts•now stated, but it did not point out either what particular estates in the possession of the Corporation of Winchester were charged with the satisfae. 'lion of charitable uses, .nor what were these uses, because the Corporation, who alone could give that Information, profeseett to be unable to furnish it. It was, therefore, now prayed, that the Court would refer the matter latch to the Master, with such further direetions as should enable hint to pursue satisfactorily the inquiry to which the relators were entitled. - Mr. Hunter and Mr. Tiltxt: Y were heard on the same side. The. VICE-CHANCELLOR, upon rising, directed that this case should be resumed on Friday (to-morrow being the seal day); but he said he did not at present see how any further inquiry could be made in the hope of its procuring an adds= don of the subject. The answer of the Corporation was, that they had followed the footsteps of their predecessors, and that they possessed no means of satisfying the inquiries of' the re lators, who did not impute any misconduct to them,- or any wilful misapplication of the trust monies. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 8. IVESTMACOTT v. irtIWAJT.EB. • This was an action by Charles Molloy Westinacott, author of A Critical and Descriptive 'taigas qf the Exhibition, against the Proprietor and Publisher of the. Norlling for a libel. The paragraph complained of clostal n article on ihe Exhibition, in the Herald of the 13th of May, and. was in the following terms " We here warn tbe public against the purchase of any cata logues outside the walls of. the Academy. These catalogues are necessarily imperfect, since, if- thy were otherwise,. they would be subject .to a legal prosecution by the Royal Aca demy. But the reason of this notice is, they present notes ' descriptive and critical,' scarcely intelligible from bad gram visitors, and are totally igtio- Mar ; but the writers of which are hirelings, who extort money r i tt n o t f h t e h a e r s ti u s b ut j;c i r they h o a n ve U t le he.presumpti on to handle." - - - - - - ki T. WIGHT MAN opened'the pleadings, by stating that this was an action for a libel, td which the defendant had pleaded the general issue. Mr. GURNEY opened the case on behalf of the plaintiff, whom he described as gentleman of consider a bl e li terary at tainments, the natural brother of Mr. Westmacott, the artist. The occasion which the defendants took to libel this gentleman was the publication by him of an annual descriptive and ciiti. cal.eaudogue Of the pictures exhibited at the Royal A ca d em y. There was no doubt that pictures publicly!exhibited became the •subjects of fair and temperate criticism, which tended to di scoura ge bad taste, and to procure for merit the honour and reward which were its due. The catalogue in question was sold near Somerset-house, not for theporpose of forestalling the ca talogue published by the Academy, whi c h contained no ob servations, but to amuse and instruct those who might be will ing to assist their Own judgment with that of another. Yet , innocent as this purpose was, ft called f ort h an article, in which the writer, not content with representing the work as unintel ligible on account of grammatical errors, and manifesting a total ignorance of the subject on which it treated, but added the fbul-and false charge that the author ivaA a hireling, w h o ea. toned m oney fr om artists. hoe this c a l umnious e garge , there was not the slightest pretence or foundation; had not -dared to allege its truth ; yetthey t h e defendants had neither offered a public apology, nor disclosed the name of 'the anonym-us libeller. Th e ir j ournal had a large circul at i on , anonalntainett a respectable character ; but this only increased the evil .for which Mr. Weittnacott now sought redress. Joseph Shackell, who printed the Descriptive Cate:brie, proved that Mr. Charles Westniacott was the author of that work: The second edition was delivered to the publisher on the 7th of May, Mr. Sherwood, of Patemoster-row, proved that he pub. lished the catalogue for Mr. Westinacott, befdre the publi. cation of the article. It was sold by :11r. Onwhyn, of Ca therine-street. -Mr. Onwhyn, who sold the catalogue, stated. it was sold in the street opposite Somerset-house, and the sale was consider able. Ile recollected the appeerancoof the article in the Morn. ing Hirald about a fortnight after the publication. The sale was not so good in the latter part of the season as in the beginning. It was not so good after the appearance of the article. Cross-examined,-;-The catalogues were - ofrered for sale at the door of Somerset-botise by the plaintiff'. - desire. He slid . not know who corrected the grammar fur the second edition. The second edition was on smaller paper titan the first. He did not think the second edition was sent to bins till the end of May. Mr. Charles Trevor, from the Stamp-office, produced_the affidavit, proving that the defendants were publisher and pro- Prietor of the rliurtai n H era ld. • "rho article with which the paragraph in question concluded . was then read. By desire of Mr. ScaItLETT, some papers ox the first edition were read, and 'compared with tan'resPoll.4l4 passages in the .second edition. Th e re were several of grammar, which were generally corrected in the second edition,' and one error oho corrected in which a picture of the young l4ord Clanwilliayn was described as a portrait of " the vener-. able Earl Fitzwillitun." The general style of the 'remarks appended to the pictures; and read'in Court, appeared, twthe unlearned in the art, very bombastic and unmeaning ; and " A Pindarie.Ode" excited occasional laughter. It was not clear from the evidence whether the second editiOn appearedbe !lire or after the article. Mr. Shackell said it was delivered be fore; but Mr. Oriwityn thought he did not receive it till the end of May. Mr. Scaur.sm: addressed the Jury or the defendants. It was a little strange, that while his learned friend regarded .pie tures as fair objects of criticism, he did not seem to Consider books as subjected to the same censure. It surely 'did 'not be come an author, and especially one who.writes on-the Merits:of others, to betray so much sensibility when he,. in his turn, fa beneath the lash of criticism. Was not the 'censure applied to him amply justified by the book on which it was founded?. Was this plaintiff competent to bestow praise or administer re proof? True lie praised some men of undoubted genius; but this showed their fame, not his diseernment ; for they were too conspicuous fo.be omitted in the eulogies of any man who pre tended to r know ledgeof art ? He obviously did not uoderstand the language in which lie wrote, or .the subjects on which he professed to expatiate. The Learned Counsel here gave in stances of breaches. of granimar, and ridiculed in pointed terms the " Pindaric 'Ode:" What, he asked; must that' critic. be, who could mistake the portrait of the young Lord Clan william for " the venerable Earl Fitz without," who was undoubt edly venerable, but whom Sir Thomas Lawrence never paint-- eil What could he be who talked of a portrait, as " fleshy hi tone and firm in pencil!" Had he said fleshy In toe," there. might. have been ',tome meaning in the-phrase; bin it was, the mere alliteration ".fleshy 'and-firm ;" and why not ." firm in tone, and fleshy in pencil ?" And was' it not trite that this catalogue was likely to iniporte cm 'Visitors —yoUngladies and gentlemen from the country--4ho would Writ, thinking they had procured thegenuine catalogoe published by audio.... rity of the Academy ? . 13u: then there was the assertion, that the writer extorted money from artists; this did not mean ex., totting money feloniously, but that their proceeding might in duce than to give Money to the author. . Watt not this the na, tural tendency of the work? • Here it was sold at the door; thrust in theface of the visitors, and a threat held out that the same course would be annually pursued. • What was-this but holding out to young artists the .fear, that they would. be )ire,- judieed in their course by the endeavours of the writer, on less they. propitiated him With .money ? The writers .who exposed such attempts deserved only • the thanks of the pub lic; they came within the,eases • which decided that fair eriti. cisin should be protected; and were entitled to the verdict 'in their favour. The Lout) Cams after reading the passage. al. )(wed to belibollonsobserved, that it was- founded oil . a pub. lieation by the Phintiff, whichhetotildnot forbear to remark i was circulated, n a manner calculated to induce visitors of the l!lxhibition to purchase it as the genuine catalogue of the tiCa, tlemy.: When= :author laid his work betbre the public, he gavo to every man aright fairly to criticise its merits ;• but it did not therefore follow that, the'critic might extend his ob. servations to the Moral character of the writer,. unless that cha. meter Vas exhibited in the book. If the defentlants . hatlmere, ly asserted that the catalogue was almost uniutelligible,i. front its bad grammar; that it was calculated to impose on. visitors ; and that its authors were wholly incompetent to the task they professed to execute,. it would have been for. the. Jury to decide whether this was Just and legitimate criticism.. There were -errors in grammar,. • there were, .at the least, in, stances. of b:ut taste; and perhaps, if the article had gone no Ibrther, the jury might with considerable propriety have timid a verdict for the defendants. -But it did go further ; it assert ed that " the writers were hirelings who extortedmoney from the artists—a very grave and serious imputation, and one which nothing in the publication itself would justify, and which was wholly unsupported by evidence. It had been urged .by.the Learned. Counsel for the defendants, that the obvious tendency of the work was to induce young artists to avert the severity. of the writer by prpsents ;- but this did not appear ; on the eon« trary, young artists seemed rather farourites, of the author, who reserved his censures for those who had already acquired suc cess and fame. It, then, the. Jury thought Ibis insinuation to. tally unjustified by the mark itself, they ought to iltid a :verdict fur the plaintiff; with such damages as the circumstances of the case would justify. • . . The Jury, after a short consultation, rot' mil .4 verdict for the' damages One . Sir T, Lawrence, Mr. Mee, and several other artists, were in Court. COU•JRT OF COMMON PM AS, DEC. 8 (J-kjbrc. the itqltD IJ!I*E and - Com SINCLAIR V. WeEVENBON. This was an action Of trover, brought by , tho plaintiffit, Messrs. Sinclair and Routledge, to recover the value of certain goods from.the defendants,ln which they claimed to .be entitled as assignees of a bankrupt, named Proctor. The def i endant pleaded $' not Guilty,'' and upon that issue was joined: . The circumstances out of which this case, whi c h occup i e d the attention of they. Court fur two days, a r ose , we r e s i mp l y these. At the close of the year 1023, th e d e f endant, Mr. Ste . , venson, was desirous of parting with the premises a nd the ma chinery with which he had corn e d on t h e b us i ness of t at to. 71, Wardour-street,. S o h o . A person of the name of Ireetor entered into ne goc i at i on to purchase thetn, a nd 1 , 2 00/., it was stated by the plaintiff's counsel, was the sum at which the defendant was ready to sell theta.' Proctor not having capital sufficient to spare that sum at once, offered to pay 1,5001. for them, of which 300/. should lie paid ,at the time of his taking possession of the premises, end the remaining 1,201. by eight diff e r ent half.yearly instalnients. This offer was.accepted by Stevenson; an t i an indenture was drawn up and executed by hum and Proctor, whereby Stevenson, in consideration of 300/. then paid to hint by Proctor, and of certain rents and reserva. dons therein der exPressed, demised and leased to Proctor all that messuttge, tenement, &c., known as No. 71, Vs ardour. street, and all and every tamper, vat, boiler; plant, &c. therein, far the full end and term of four years, and covenanted that in case Proctor should truly pay. the rents as they became due, lie would, at the expiration of. the.said terms, make over t he said premises, coppers, vats,. plant, &c., to Proctor, as being his property, under his own absolute controul and owner ship. -Now, the rents and resenation alluded to in this inden. tore amounted oath halryear to a sum of 1501. plus the interest at 10 per cent. , on that part of the principal sum of 1,2001. which then remained unpaid. On the Ist of J an. last„ Proctor took pos session of the premises thus demised to him; and . oo the flih May had comniistoon oh bankruptcy opened against him. Thede fendan t immediately went upon the premises, anti in porsuaice Of ai clause in the indenture, stating, that in case of Proctor's insol vency the whole tour punts' rent should be considered as pre sently due - ' and giving him liberty to tak e p o Ssession of the pre. mixes, rind sell the boilers, vat s , plaatc4;Ate.: tO pay it, seized Inothe machinery which he found there.' The assignees of the btthitrupt elaiintsi : it, however, upon• two grounds---first, that the *poly wini the bankrupt' s ; gold out and out to hint by the in. (16titurei.which purported to be a lease; which, they said; was ilathink,else but, an ingeniotis device to get rid of the, ties of the usury laws ; and secondly, that if it was not his pro perty, it was property- in his order and disposition nc• the time of LOliruptcy, 'And 'therefbre available to OW, purposes of his estattrunder the statute of James 1.. The chief points in the cas4therefore, turned upon the construction of this deed, which Mr. Sergeant PE L L for the plaintiff's, eentended was usurious, and tlierefore null and void. On the part.of litedefendants.,lt was maintained. by Sergeant Vaughan, that the plant and other machinery were fistureS belonging to the freehold, and therefore trover would not lie for them ; that even if it Would, the tiff's were out of court in consequence. of there being a des Gciency of proof as to any act of bankrupte,y having been - 611)1s , mitted by Proctor, or any conversion of the roper!), having been effected by Stevenson ; and last of all, that the ihtlentnrc, which had been described as usurious by the plaintiff's copse!, was a tuna fide lease, and that the def e nd a nt had a right to. enter into, possession of the premises, as a fiirleiture of the lcaae had ot-rurred by the insolvency of Pro :6r or that -if it - was not a lease, but a deed of gale, Proctor had been guilty of such a gross Misrepresentation of his circumstances to Stevenson. to entitle.him to repossess himself of his 'ploperty•Whehever• he could. (r 1 vast mass of conflicting 6 , 4le:ice was heard during the progress of the cause.) The lonD CHIEF JtrsTrcit summed it up with great care to the .3 tiry, and left it to them to say whether the, plant act( miter machinery were in the possession of the b an k rupt , P roctO i, at tit r eetime of . his bankritptcy, and witcrintr"the indenture - be• t wer him and Steven Son was for a lease (T'saie of it. ft they found high points in the affirmative, there most be a verdict:for the Plaintiils as-there must be if they' battle rapt had fraudulently even dulently misrepresented his tirouratances to the difendant, for the fraud on one side P.r ii been fully met by the tummy on the other. !.The 'Juni found a verdict for the plaintiff's on both the ''r4o Value of the plant, Stc. is to be decirled out of Uourt: PREROGATIVE COURT, Dix: 8. 11111 FORE SIR JOHN DART.] TELFORD V. THOMAS. In this case s - a creditor of the deceased had called upon the widow, to exhibit the effects of her late husband. The widow, instead of putting in an inventory, had put in, a declaration, to which an objection was made, on the ground of id not specify ing the whole of the property. . On the part of Mr. Telford, Dr. JENNEtt argued that the Court had thejurisdietion. Sir .1011 x IS:remora. said, the qireStiott'caMebefore him in , the form of a motion, and it involVed aat fitter very tionsitler able importance. 'lt had appeared - that AM), - Tbotiels was the widow and sole executrix of John Thontas, late '4l livettSed vies ttialler near Drury-lane, and she waS cited by Mr. 'John Tel. ford, a creditor, to exhibit an inventory of her.deceased fiia band's property. She had exhibited a declaration, instead of an inventory, and prayed to be dismissed frti'rn the suit.. The creditor objected to the dismissal, and prayul to be liei , irt! . on ,Iris . petition. The grounds Of the creditor's 'objectioris' Were these :—She had not set forth the 'oloi:id:as of certain effects of the d. ceased, nor by whom they were . aqrai,a-tl. - It appear ed she still carried on the business, and lease of the house was mach greater than idle had stated . - it to be, and • that the inventory was not a full and • pert's:o4 . .o6e. It had been argued on behalf of the widow, that the'C t iiiit had no jurisdic tion to object to an inventory at the Suit tO creditor, and, that it had been so decided in eases at conntion i tw, partieularlyin there ent cases of IlenderSon and 'FrCricli, in .;11:itiLi and S'el. wyn'teltep. which also . referred to fermerticeisiops, and the - case of If einiersmi and nand), which - had', been • Mainly re. lied upon, was decided probably on the Enidfe rnier cusps. ut'airmer cases. It was to be regretted that S. iptestion t,tf tlie,juridic. Lien of , the 'Ecclesiastical Courts, long tieret.svit. should bit •a Iteen'tleeided without the ttrertimeins of Civilians, . Who,;frttni. their Miperience .in the Ecclesiiistici:tt Law, were Much tier infOrnital in that respect than Advocates in other I,oitrta:' it was a Matter of great convenience that,sktlitors and•legateea should be able to ascertain what the deceased ii.ictl pms;:asted•of. before. going to the expence of proaecotiog sea in these Cohrts. A disclosure of assetaahe executor wsis lttnnttl fObtike by the oath' taken on the party, .taking' upon ,them,ielVele cliife• an., executor or „administrator ,could a ...disclosore of the assets 'by the mere . prod Urtit):l of, atiy paper they' , thought proper to exhibit. tt ale icy it ,tie .pro priety. of,. enforcing a more correct .stattaa ,talterwise the purposes of this , practice . would be. iu tr. great :Mea sure defeated, as it frequently happened that the p:u ties call e.d upon to make. a, disclosure,. were, little to Make a The case Of Henderson FITIIIII, the Ring's Bench, appeared to be argil in 'ieil-ran.Ote. the l i :ll m i...i t :l e y, of qn t -I l e i : t i t ry st re atute. Al'! rile are;uments a}aprtired j s i a t v et u t lied reference to that particular statute. The cases cited sup posed the jurisdiction of this Court as regarded inventories to be merely ministerial, for they qttoted that part of the clause which .ordered an inventory to be given upon oath to the . Bishop' or - Ordifiary, and inflicted a penalty of ten upon the Bishop or Ordinary refusing to rectave , an inventory. It was much 'to he doubted If the Court of Einii'slifeneh had Been attended by Advocatea of' the Ecclesiastical Ceitr4' Who would have, argued upon what the Ecclesiastical law was, pre vious to the passing of that statute,.whether that (Inuit would ant. • have come to a different decision. - Before the' 'stewed ..flenry Linwood, who wrote at that time, admitted the full jurisdiction of-the Ecclesiastical Courts in enrolling a eon: - plete disclosure of the deceased's 'effects from alto Ea t tatar s , Administrators, &c. Switiborne,.ancalier writer on the' Eerie siastical Law; confirmed what Linwood stated ; •he :arid; that.if any executor had more gooda''of the, testator's than were men tioned in the inventory, the same must be fully arid . .disitnctly stated. • Such had been the old ecclesiastical-law, and the.con thmed practiCe before and 'idler the passingof - the statute' of • Itenry the Eighth. The 'object of this statute' was to litirit the amount of fees to be taken for probe& of testairientsand the whole preamble declared the limitation of tees. The only part respecting inventories was in .. the Middle of the fourth •• chum., and appeared to have occurred incidentally. The',chitise • stated, " that the executor or executors, or two itimegt 'Aen, should make or cause to be Made tt true and perfect. - inventory of all .the effects, goods and chattels, wares, merchandiser;, Moveable or not moveable, and clink thcin td be ilellietett on oath, taken before a Bishop of Ordinary, and the eettittet alert to remain in the hands of•the executors or adroinistritters." It also statcd the teas, and concluded by inflicting a penalty of ID/. on the Bishop or Ordinary refusing to receive the invert.. . tory.; This act did little more than confirm. the former. prac tice, besides regulation of the fees, a 'tatter of serious int. penance. The eighth Clause of this statute • reserved' to the Ecclesiastical Court all their jurisdiction, and express ly regulated that they should do any thing coricc,rhing the same on or before the passing of the Act. The Act did. not make the jurisdiction of the Court merely ministerial. in re. ceiving possession of an inventory, but - by 13 purport, gitve power to enforce. a full-and complete inventory. ff the„Statate of Henry VIII. had been rightly explained in the Court, of King's Bench, it would have been the duty of this CoUrt to have paid obedience to it, as that Court was the most proper tribunal for defirdng jurisdiction. The case of Shackleton v. Lurch .11arryorore (which was argued by Lord Stowell), decided in-1794, ~waS deddcd on parallel grounds to the present case. The Learned Judge adverted to other eases, and gave it AS his opinien, that the jurisdiction of the Court m issue, rpecting the titres don at was fully established previous to the ptediing of the Statute of Henry VIII., and also retognized bythe Statute,. Ile therefore decided that Mrs.. Thomas, the widow, had nor given a full and complete inventory, containing every rettoiaite information of the Meets of her late husband. • CAmettil)6t, Dix. 7.—We understand that the Sheriff of the County of Huntingdon has just received a war tant for the execution- of Thomas Savage the younger, who was convicted of arson at the last Assizes: The day of txectition fixed for Saturday, the nth inst. • FATAL Acutnr.NT.—Between the hours of Obe and two o'clock, on the Mernitig of Sunday last, - as J..Trigg, o f gorge-yard, Batton-wall, :driver of the backney-thuriot, ; No, 614, was returning to town, after having set down afire a little beyond NewingtOn.green, thie horses, terrified ,by .the force of.the storm,. which .then raed with tremendou s f ury, started off the main road, and plunged the carriage into a dyke ; the driver was. thrown-, off the box into a coni., &rabic pool of water\ from which; • being an 'elderly %ma infirm roan, he was unable to extricate himself, and. th ee remaining in this deplorable state for several hours, hit.itsittl being scarcely above .water, he WAS dJscavered by some, carnien, who dragged him out, in a state of total insensibility.„ The chariot, which was completely shattered,. WAS draggidthily,A few yards farther. The unfortunate man u n o re d in great * goy until yestettlaY morning, when'tle,ata put period - to bis'ettirer• the Eseulaj)lanikrt,,waS generally legs. tiewas-Aiovants of sixty.years-old,and ftront hitr in known amongst his brellircn of the whip, by the title.vf ", Doctor Trigg:` I. ,