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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA I Ll' Extracts from the Morning rvers,Jan.2l, 1525. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The'opponents of M. de \Titlele are, we per teire, not very scrupulous with respect to the means they employ to injure him. Among our extracts from the Paris Papers of Tuesday, will be found an article of the Journal des Mbals, the the organ of De Chateaubriand, the object of which seems to be to excite a hostile feeling in France against this country, on account of the diplomatic manoeuvring at Lisbon, and the re cognition of the independence of South America. We trust the French have too much good sense to renounce the advantages they now enjoy, and to pick a quarrel with us, on account of any sup posed ascendancy we may possess at the Court of Lisbon. Surely, they have enough of ascen dancy in the Peninsula ; and it might be well to extricate themselves from the embarrassment in which their conquest of Spain has involved them, before embarking in other magnificent projects.— If Messieurs the Ultras have any sense, they will avoid troubling the peace of Europe ; for though they are quite secure at present, if war, and the 'calamities Khich follow in its train, were to agi tate once more the people of the Continent, cer tain opinions might find partizans once more, much sooner than they dream of. The prosperity of the. people is the best guarantee for their obedience. An apprehension, we learn, is entertained hi the best informed quarters, that the Dutch have been before-hand with us in occupying the part of New Holland nearest to the Indian Islands, which we had it in our view to colonize for com mercial purposes.—(Mid.) It is again confidently asserted, that Lord Am herst is to be recalled, and to he succeeded by Lord William Bentinck.—(Thid.). `MORNING POST.] We received last night, by I;:xpress, French Papers to the 19th instant, and the :toile of Wednesday. The proceedings of the Chambers have been unimportant, and will continue to be sc!until after the Commissions appointed to ex amine the Projects of law for indemnifying the Emigrants and reducing the Rents, shall have made their reports. It is stated in the illoniteur,' but of, course not officially, that the Duke of Nor-, thumberland is to be the Ambassador Extraordi nary sent to represent his Britannic Majesty at the Coronation of the King of France, andthat his • Grace will display great magnificence on the oc casion. This is the first time that the rumour has reached us, but no part of it is difficult of be lief, considering the liberal spirit in which many appointments have been made by his Majesty's Government, and the splendid disposition of the Noble Duke. The Journal des Dards contains an article from Constantinople, dated the 17th of December, which throws some light on the dis sections which broke out some time since in the Korea, and which have been terminated by the death of the younger Colocotroni, who fell in an engagement against the troops of the Senate. It is said in this article, and with no small appear ance of probability, that the contemplated expe dition of Ibrahim Paella against the i\iorea was not so rash as it had been imagined. Colo cotroni, still powerful, and seduced by foreign agents, is represented as having agreed to rise as soon as Ibrahim should have effected a land ing, in order to co-operate with him in at tacking and overthrowing the Greek Government established at Napoli di Romania. lie is stated, however, to have betrayed his designs too early, and to have lost his son in consequence, hostili ties having been commenced on his part with ina dequate means, About the same period, too, Ibrahim Paella experienced a defeat in the waters of Candia : his fleet. was dispersed by a storm, but afterwards rallied in the Gulf of Macri. lie set sail a second time on the 25th of November, but only to sustain a fresh defeat, after which it is said that he retired, with the loss of seventeen vessels and 2,000 prisoners, back to Alexandria. The article adds, that the title of Ilospodar was to be given to Colocotroni, had his enterprise been crowned with success . , but that it would only have been a snare that he would soon have fallen victim to the jealousy and perfidiousness of the Divan. The Captain Pacha, who has preserved in a most wonderful =neer both his head and the favour of the Sultan, had received orders to. collect his squadron, or rather to form a new one, and to sail to the Archipelago to protect the Ottoman Flag, which since the retreat of Ibrahim Pacha to Egypt remained without sup port in the Seas of Greece and Asia. The Journal dee Debuts remarks on the contents of this article, that the assertions respecting the elder Coloco troni are unfounded, and that he took no part in a plot so disgraceful to a Christian and a Greek. It also contends that the short hostilities between Patio Colocotroni (the son) and the Central Government,' which ended with the death of the for Mer, bad no connection whatever with the Egyptian expedition,and were merely a revival of those which had occurred the year before. The Capitanis, or hereditary military Chiefs, it main tains, have never proved traitors, " though they may be ambitious and turbulent, vices which hut too often accompany courage." The Greek official accounts of the various encounters with the Egyptian fleet have. been published. Their details correspond with those which we have al ready given, we, therefore do not repeat them.— It appears, however, that the frigate of 45 guns, which was said ! c , h a ve escaped after ha v i ng h a d . its sails burnt, only escaped total destruction, and fell into the hands of the Greeks, to whose navy it cannot fail to prove an important addition. [NEW TIN ES.J It iS stated, that a capital of three millions ster. ling is about to be raiiied for the establishment of cotton manufactories in Ireland. Several other un. dertakings of, a similar nature are likely to be soon set on foot : and ,we may therefore hope to See British capital eltteusively, directed to the im provement of the state of the sister kingdom. Steam-boats and railways may perhaps effect a revolution more beneficial to that country than any political laws which could be enacted. There is at present a greater demand for cottton goods, than all the English and Scotch manufactories together, with all their advantages of machinery, experience, and capital, can supply : and it is not without reason conjectured, that the recognition of the South American Republics will lead to a still farther ex tension of this trade. We perceive that in Ireland, as well as in England, Joint Stock Companies are spreading in every direction. There are the Hi bernian Banking Company, the Hibernian Gas Company, and various others. The Bank of Ire land have reduced their discounts from five to four per Cent. on English bills, and will give bills on London payable at the Bank of England at 21 days instead of 30. All these measures are indisputably favourable to the developement of industry; and we may reasonably hope that with industry will come its natural concomitants, or der and tranquillity—unless they are impeded by the efforts of factious men, who are in effect th►e worst enemies of their country. rTIIE TIMES.] We have received a regular life of the Mexican Paper called the Su/, from September 21 to No vember 4. They contain no intelligence beyond that which we have already communicated to our readers. 'Before the publication of the Constitu tion, it would appear that some warm, if not angry discussions, had arisen in the Constituent Congress of the province or state of Mexico, re specting the article of the general Constitution, which converted the capital of Mexico into the seat of the Supreme Legislature and Executive of the Union. As it would be absurd to see two manufactories of laws at work in the same city, and at the same time, and two Presidents with their quota of civil and military officers appointed to execute these general and provincial enact ments, it seemed necessary to suppress the local or provincial authorities, both legislative and execu tive•, of the city selected as the residence of the su preme Government. To this decision the inha bitants of Mexico would appear to have been very averse. In this, as in nearly every case, the disputants referred to the laws of the North American Union. The North Americans had felt the difficulty ; and in order to remove it, had converted Washington into a federal city, common to all, hot dependent on none of the dif ferent States. This policy was recommended for Mexico, but no decision was' finally adopted. Our Paris letter contains some curious and amusing gossip. The Duke of Orleans, we should think, would make a had exchange, should he throw away whatever of popularity or public esteem he may possess, for the sake of increasing his fortu►►e out of the funds granted to emigrants. If this be his aim, we sincerely wish he may fail of attaining it, and on the very account intimated in our own letter—namely, because he is the son of M. Egalite. We are inclined to insert from some one or other of the cotemporaneous writers, the account which is given of that person's voting for the death of Louis XVI, and of the effect which the fra tricidal act had even upon the horrid assembly who witnessed it. We recur with horror to the French project of law for making it death with torture, the hand being to be first cut off, to offer an insult to the consecrated wafer, upon the infal lible verity, no doubt, that the piece of meal and water is God. The Protestants, we hear, are in considerable alarm at the ►neasure. To the Ca tholics, we should think, it must appear strange that the consecrated wafer cannot protect it self. They must know, if they have any faith, that many a consecrated wafer has pro tected itself, and proved its divinity—that is, if infallible Popes and semi-infallible Cardinals are (as no doubt they are) to be credited.— The Cathedral Church of St. Gudule, at Brus sels, is hung round with tablets of a miracle of this nature. A Jew stole the host, but having got it, he found it a more troublesome guest than the Spartan boy found the fox. When he at tempted to boil •it, it jumped out of the pot ; if he cut it, it bled ; till at last the poor Jew was detected in his impious practices, and either suf fered death, or was obliged to turn Christian. But, perhaps, the experience which the Catholics have had of late years, that the host was rather too much disposed to put up with ill treatment, or at least was unable to defend itself against tl►e French Jacobins, may have rendered some mea sures necessary for its defetice.—(/bid.) [BRITISH PRESS., Although our warnings may have considerably abated the absurd rage for mining speculations, it is still strong enough to make us blush for the simple credulity of our countrymen ; and to induce us to persevere in exposing the ruinous infatuation that is now abroad, and saving, as far as we are able to save, those who have not yet become the dupes of it. We really seem, on a sudden, to be whirled hack a century or two, and to live at a period when wisdom was in its infancy, instead of living, as we do, in an age when fraad has well nigh exhausted its stratagems, and experience, in the way of de ception, has left us nothing to learn. But the world MIS a blockhead from the beginning, and we fear it will so continue to tl►e end of the chapter. In the mean time we shall go on to address ourselves to the " thinking public," and to see whether there is any thing in these mining projects which can at all justify the avidity with ►which they are sought after. FroM a variety of circumstances, which we have not leisure to detail at length, there arises a very strong presumption, that the projectors of these various Mining Companies have actually no mines in their possession ! ! that they have, as yet, to send out agents to South America, to commence their geological survey, for not an acre of earth, or an ounce of ore, have they at present in occupation ! ! ! What, then, we would ask, have the sub scribersi, in the shape of value received, for the immense sums which have found their way into the pockets of those who first broached these attractive saremes ? •I'he shareholders must him at leaSt presumed, on paying down their deposits, that they were part proprietors of a mine somewhere; they never could suspect that they had parted with their solid cash to become joint-holders of a bag of moonshine ! On the con trary, they conceived themselves about to realize the pastime of their infancy, and that they should speedily say in good truth— _ " Here we are, on TOM TICKLER'S ground, Picking up gold and rilver !" It never certainly could occur to them to sus pect for a moment that the ground was as yet covered with high grass in which their shares were buried ; and that the riches out of which the profits of their capital was to be returned, had no more of tangible existence in the bed of the earths than in the bed of the ocean 1 . We are disposed to speak with all due respect of many whose names are attached to these specu lations;—we have done so already ; but we shall never be restrained from putting the public on their guard against delusive and ruinous schemes of wealth, from any undue courtesy towards the individuals with whom they originated. If our representation of facts is incorrect, let those whose interest it is to support the credit and stability of their schemes disprove them. We affirm that these mines, the shares of which are selling at this madly-advanced price, have no existence. If this assertion exceeds the truth, if they do exist, and if the quantity of the precious rvetals to be pro , duced from them has been at all ascertained by any one person skilled in the art of mining, let the fact be averred on authority, and we will most willingly withdraw our statement. In the mean while let the adventurers pause till they are better informed. If they have a favourable opi nion of the future prosperity of South America— an opinion, by the way, in which we think they are abundantly supported--surely their safest and most prudent investment is South American Stock, which puts them immediately into the re ceipt of an interest of five or six per cent. ; while the mines, even when reduced into possession, will yield no return for four or five years at least, and the greater likelihood is, that not one in ten of them will ever yield any return at all ; or they may find investments in canals, rail-ways, and other commercial and -highly productive im provements, going on in their own country, in which their capital would he to the full as eligi bly embarked as in the Independent States of Mexico or Colombia. A very great advantage, no doubt, belongs to any speculation of the kind we are speaking of, that is to be carried on in the vicinity of coal and iron mines, and which ad vantage excepts the Chilian Mining Company from the general scope of our remarks : we advert to this cirumstance, because we know, from the au thority of one who left Colombia within the last 12. months, that, previous to his departure,fron was sel ling in the principal towns in that State, at a price exceeding one shilling per lb., and, consequently, the Su perior advantage which those mines must possess, which are contiguous to iron and coal, are manifest. We believe a Peruvian mine spe culation has either just started, or is about to start ; and so long as the d-afts on public credu lity are duly honoured, so long, we may be sure, will they continue to be drawn. We have much more to say on this prolific subject, and shall bring it again under the public attention in a day or two. [MORNING HERALD.] The French, es a nation, have undoubtedly their fair share of intelligence, courage, and the more generous elements of human character. But they are full of pretension, and of pretension much too obtrusive. The tone in which they claim superiority for themselves, and depreciate their neighbours, is not merely idle, but imperti nent. It looks as if they writhed under the consciousness that the world does not value them as they value themselves—or even as if they doubted their being really what they pretended to be. It is in this spirit that, with reference to the recognition of South America by l►is Ma• jesty's Govermnent, they call the English a trading, money-getting nation, actuated only by selfish policy and sordid interest, whilst the French sacrifice interest to public honour and chivalrous good faith. Without stopping to vindi cate from the charge of selfishness what needs no such vindication, let us see with how much frank ness and good faith the Fretich Government has acted in even its more recent transactions—in the very transaction ❑pon which the French can raise the slightest reputation since the return of the Bourbons. Every body remembers the first corps d'armee placed on the Spanish frontier. It was generally asserted that it was destined for hostile-invasion. No, said the Freiv:ll Govern ment, it is a sanitary cordon, to keep out the yellow fever. And through what organ was this declaration made? Why, by the mouth of their King, in a speech to the assembled Chambers. And then what followed ? This innocent Sanitary Cordon, after secretly stirring and aiding the factious, at last, when clandestine aid would not do, threw off the mask, and passed the frontier ; and thus the King of France appeared in the eyes of all Europe palpably convicted of having ut tered, at least having been made the vehicle of a most gross piece of duplicity. NVeli—the French entered Spain, and obtained successes— such as they were—proclaiming protection and security on all sides, and entering into formal capitulations with the Spanish Generals, in the name and by the immediate authority of the then heir presumptive, and now heir apparent to the throne. And what followed ? Not only were protection and security never given, but the very capitulations were broken in the most un blushing manner, the Duke of Angouleme having the grace to make the best of his way to France, and the men who relied upon his faith and honour expressly pledged to treaties, were left exposed, and victims to persecution, imprisonment, and death. And these are they who talk of bad faith and dissimulation. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received New York Papers to the 25th ult. They contain, however, no news worth noticing, but such as has reference to local mat ters. A Bill has been introduced into the Se nate, and read twice, without oppostion, granting to General La Fayette, the sum of 200,000 dol lars, six per cent. stock, besides a complete and entire township of land, out of the unsold public lands. There are two things that strike us in this grant : first, its splendour, and next the contrast which it forms with the severe economy that characterizes the pro ceedings of Congress in the disposal of the money of their Constituents. We, therefore, see that the thrifty habits of that Body are based upon a noble principle ; for, otherwise, they could not be generous when an occasion like the present required it ; wl►ereas a spendthrift Go vernment, like an extravagant individual, is obliged to he unjust and ungrateful in conse quence of its profusion. The latter too is lavish towards the worthless, while it suffers merit to pine in neglect, and even services to go often unrequited. It is extraordinary too, that in the case of the individual, in whose favour the American Legislature have departed so widely from their general rule, the pub lic voice has unanimously sanctioned it ; and who will venture to say, after this, that the excess of freedom generates selfishness ? To judge from the tone of the Papers, the choice of President is likely to fall on General Jackson, as the House of Representatives, upon whom the selec tion has now fallen, will, it is presumed, be regu lated by public feeling, which has clearly decided in his favour. We are astonished at the tone of de precation which some of our Contemporaries have thought proper to use in the anticipation of this appointment. The Americans are not so ignorant of the merits of their public men, or so indifferent to the public interests, as to deserve the imputa tion which is thus meant to be conveyed. They have exercised for fifty years the important pri vilege which has again devolved on them, without having, in a single instance, abused it. On the contrary, they have, upon every occasion, selected the worthiest of the worthy, as the names of their past Presidents attest; and the choice of so con siderate a people having fallen upon Jackson, is the best of all evidence that he is worthy of the honour. As to the supposition that his ap pointment may give an unusual tone to the policy of the United States, it is at best a gratuitous as sumption ; and it is absurd to imagine that a man who stands so high in favour of his countrymen would so ill requite their confidence as to try to divert the course of their affairs from the quiet, secure, and prosperous channel in which they now move. But if he were to make the attempt, would not the Congress disconcert it ? LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 20. GREY v. GREY. In this case, his Lordship determined that the heirs represen tative of the deceased legatee should take a full interest in the 15,0110/., the subject of litigation : costs to be paid out of the estate. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAY. 20. 'ANTON V. MARSHALL. Mr. THESLOVE moved for an injunction to restrain the de fendant from sending to India twelve gunbarrels and locks, which were now packed up for exportation, on which were in scribed certain marks and inscriptions, the right to use which was solely vested in the plaintiff by his Majesty's letter.patent. The guns were stated to be packed in two cases, on one of which was inscribed " Joseph Manton, London :" and on the other, " Joseph Manton." The bill prayed also that the de fendant should be restrained from using in future these marks and inscriptions.—The injunction was granted of course. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 20. ISANCE.-SALMON V. lIENSLEY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who resides in Gough-square, to recover from the defendant, who is a printer in Bolt-court, Fleet-street, compensation in damages fir an in jury sustained by him in consequence of the defendant's hav inv erected, for the purposes of printing, in his premises, which are adjoining to the plaintiff's, a steam engine, the noise, smoke, and heat issuing from which rendered the plaintiff's house un inhabitable. Several witnesses residing in the neighbourhood, deposed that previous to March last the smoke and heat issuing from the defendant's steam engine were extremely unpleasant ; and that in that month the defendant had made some alteration in the engine, the noise produced by which was intolerable. The plaintiff's house was dreadfully shook by the percussions of a wheel which the defendant had latterly added to the engine. TheA•rronNEYGEtiERAL (with whom were Mr. Brougham and Mr. Scarlett) addressed the Jury for the defendant. He begged to assure them that the defendant was unwilling to do any thing which would annoy ; and that he, having had occasion for the more effectually carrying on his busi ness to erect a steam engine, had at a great expense erect ed one on the principle of that very respectable and able en g ineer, Mr. Watt—a principle whi c h was a pp rove d o f b y a Committee appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into such matters. Of the utility of such ma. chines the Jury could not for a moment doubt ; and the si, tuation in which this engine was placed aflhrded peculiar ad vantages, by the ready communication whi c h it afforded between publisers and printers. Unless it was to be contended that the use of steam, which had conferred so many benefits on society, must be discontinued, he could not see how a verdict could be found for the plaintiff: But it had been said the smoke and heat issuing from this engine were disagreeable.— He would admit that the neighbourhood of a steam-engine was not one which many people would choose for their residence ; but that was no reason why the many steam engines which abounded in this Metropolis should be disused. He need not repeat that which was well known to every Gentlemen on the Jury, that the smoke and heat issuing from a steam engine constructed upon Mr. Watt's principle were considerably less than the heat and smoke issuing from any other steam engine. One of the Jury here intimated to the Learned Counsel that the minds of the Jury were made up as to the heat and smoke, and wished him to confine himself to the noise made by the new additions to the engine. The Learned Counsel resumed. The argument which he had applied to the heat and smoke equally applied to the noise, and any person who chose to fix his residence where commerce could be most conveniently carried on, had no right to corn. plain of those annoyances which in such places must for the advancement of commerce unavoidably exist. That the situa tion of this engine was one the best fitted for the purposes of commerce of any in the Metropolis, could not for a moment be doubted ; and he therefore trusted that the Jury would b e o f opinion with him, that the annoyance complained of was under such circumstances unavoidable, and that their verdict ought to pass for the defendant. His Lounsrin. in summing up observed, that by law no man was at liberty for his own benefit to erect in the neigh bourhood of any other man's premises any building which would render those premiSes uninhabitable. The Jury having consulted together for a few minutes, found a verdict for the plainriff—Damages One Shilling; thereby establishing the fact of this engine being a nuisance. wziss v. nnynox. Mr. Por.t.ocz stated that this was an action to recover da mages from the defendant, for a false representation which he gave of the character and circumstances of one Miller, by which the plaintiff was induced to give him goods to th e amo u nt o f 1601. This sum he lost,. as Miller became insolvent. Mr. SCAR LETT stated the case, as it will be found in the evidence, but admitted that unless he could shew a fraudulent intention on the part of the defendant, the action was'not main. tainable. He believed that he was in a situation to shew that the defendant gave a false representation of Miller's circuit'. stances for the purpose of getting him into credit, and thus ob taining the payment of a debt which Miller owed to him. In September, 1821, Mr. Miller having applied, by letter, to Mr. Weiss, a surgical-instrument-maker in the Strand, for the delivery of some goods on credit, referred for his respectability to Mr. Brydon. The latter gentleman, on being waited upon by a person from Mr. Weiss, represented Miller as a good man, who could be safely trusted, and goods were accordingly de livered to the amount of 3201., as . :hiller had directed, to the East-India Shipping agents, for the parpOse of b e i ng ' sent abroad. Half the money was paid, and for the remainder he pre a bill at eighteen months. This bill was dishonoured. Miller had twice behire this been a bankrupt, And had only a short time before absconded, in consequence of writs being sued out.against him by his creditors. Froth different circumstances, it was evident that this was fully known to Mr. Brydon. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant, and contended that, at the time the repre sentation was made, Mr. Brydon was ignorant of in solvency, and had not given it with an intention to prejudice the plaintiff: _ _ _ The CHIEF-JUSTICE left the question to the Jury, who immediately returned a verdict for the defendant. ARCHES' COURT, JAN. 20. JOHN V. JOHN. This was a suit of divorce, by reason of adultery brought by Samuel John, Esq., late High Sheriff of Cornwall, against Ms wife, Mary John. Sir Jolts Nrcnot said, there were circumstances in the cape which induced him to give it much greater attention than had been anticipated, and for that purpose he had deferred his judgment until to-day. In delivering his opinion, it was ne cessary to state, at some length, the evidence and the state of the proceedings, owing to the time that had elapsed since the case was first before the Court. The parties were married in Cornwall on the 23d Jan. 1810, and on the 24th March, only two months afterwards, they separated. A deed was executed in March, 1811, by which a separate provision was made for her, by Mr. Grimwood, her father, and her husband was se , cured against all claims for the support of his wife and a child, the result of the two months' cohabitation. Immediately on the separation she went to reside with her father, but soon after he procured her a residence in the family of the Rev. Mr. Palmer, Rector of Redburn, in Lincolnshire, where she re mained from June, 1810, until the year 1814. In the latter part of 1813, Mr. Grimwood died, and by his will he left his daughter (Mrs. John) an annuity of 1301. a year, and 501. a year for the support and education of her child, and after her death the sum of 2,0001. was secured to this child. He also bequeathed Mr. John a legacy of 1001. She had a servant named Margaret Green, who accommonied her from Cornwall, and who was married while at Mr. Palmer's to a carpenter named Smith, residing at Kirton, a small distance from Red burn. Smith took a house, and Mrs. John went to reside there in October, 1814. This haute had formerly been yeti large, but was then divided into two tenements, one of which was occupied by Mr. Smith, and the other by a butcher named Huddlesdon. She remained there until the year 1818, and then came to London. In the course of the year 1821, the husband made inquiries concerning the wife's conduct, and in 1824, the present suit was instituted. The reason Mr. John gave for deferring the commencement of this suit until so late a period was, that it was not until 1821 he heard of the reports concerning his wife's criminality, and that he employed solicitors to seek out the necessary evidence, which was laid before Counsel as it was collected, until the whole of the evidence was obtained. Now upon a review of the evidence it was necessary to examine into the manner in which it was collected, and what sort of colouring was given to induce the persons to give their testimony, The two prin cipal witnesses were Smith and his wife, the latter of whom had been Mrs. John's serv a nt. M rs . Smith said, that 31r.John and the two Solicitors had seen her at .Gainsborough, and had given her to understand, it was not only Mr. John's wish, but also Mrs. John's, that a separation should take place ; that it would be an act of compassion to the parties, and would en. able each other to be married again—so that the impression on her mind was that her late mistress was anxious that she should be divorced from her husband ; she (the witness) believed they wished her to say more than she knew, and pressed her very closely, notwithstanding she declared that she never knew her mistress to have been guilty of any bad conduct; they also hinted to her " that money or ex pence was no object." Mr. Smith's testimony was to the same effect; the same impressions were given, the same co louring was exerted. In January, 1824, the libel was given in preferring charges that were said to have t a ken pl ace in 1814, 1815. and 1816. The separation had existed for 14 years, and during the years preceding 1814, and subsequent to 1816, ao imputation whatever was attempted to be cast on Mrs. John's conduct. On the whole transaction, she was certainly entitled to the justice of the Court, that she should not be proclaimed guilty, unless upon the clearest evidence ; and if front the lapse of time and the generality of the evidence she had failed to reply to the whole of the charges, the fault was not hers, but in her husband's neglect in not stating the charges more specifi cally. It had been said that the witnesses were unwilling to give their evidence, but they were the husband's witnesses, and must be taken as such. He charged her with committing adul tery with Mr. George Robert Foster, who was a surgeon, in part nership with his . father, in the neighbourhood of Redburn, and also with a clegyman, the Rev. Mr. Weyland, who resided in the neighbourhood. That while she resided at Mr. Palmer's she became acquainted with Mr. G. It. Foster and his father ; that she often expressed great anxiety for the company of young Foster; frequently spoke of him in terms of affection ; would feign illness that he might be sent for; would refuse to eat all day, in order to give a colouring to her indisposition, an d wou ld get up in the night, when the family were asleep, and get her food ; that on one occasion when Mrs. Palmer refused to send for Mr. Foster she flew in a violent passion, and broke several glasses. These charges, which certainly, if proved, exhibited the appearance of an intercourse between the parties, but on looking at the evidence, the whole of those circumstances were not only not proved, but entirely disproved by Mrs. Painter herself. It therefore threw a cloud over the transaction, and caused a distrust in the evidence. 3lrs. Palmer added, and she was corroborated by Mrs. Smith, that she never witnessed any improper attachment in Mrs. John towards Mr. Foster; they admitted that Mrs. John was in a delicate state of health, and often required medical aid, but, on those occasions, Mr. Foster, sen. always attended her. Mr. Foster, jun. on one occasion attended her before she was up in the morning, but she was then ill with a sore throat. Sir John Nichol there fore thought that there was no truth whatever of her having formed an improper attachment for Mr. Foster, jun. up to the time when she quitted Mr. Palmer's family and went to reside at Mr. Smith's, but that she so conducted herself during that period as to obtain the friendship of 3lr. Palmer's family and the most respectable persons in the neighbourhood. The libel then charged, that Mr. Foster frequently visited her when she resided at Mr. S.'s house; that he remained there until a late hour in the morn. ing, and that they on those occasions committed the crime of adultery. The Learned Judge, upon a review of the evidence, found no one circumstance substantiated by proof. Thus, then, there was an end to the charges of adultery, as commit. ted by Mrs. John with Mr. Foster, who was married in 1815. The libel went on to charge, that Mrs. John committed adul tery. with the Rev. Mr. Weyland, while she resided at Mr. Smith's house • that Mr. Weyland used, on various occasions, to go to Mrs. John's bed-room at night, and remain there for a considerable time; and that on one occasion he was found by Margaret Smith in such a situation as to leave the inference that the parties had contracted a criminal intercourse. Now the evidence entirely confuted that charge; for it appeared that Mr. Weyland used frequently to call on Mrs. John, who was confined to her bed, and at her request, in the presence of most respectable persons, would administer the Sacrament to her, and . would pray to her. It appeared also, that during the time she resided at Smith's, she was much respected by the neighbour hood, and that she was not only visited by Mr. Weyland, but by Mrs. Weyland, which would infer that that Gentleman had only a religious motive in visitir , her. The Learned judge,. after a considerable time occupied in his comments, pronounced against the divorce. BIRTH. Lately, at Park-house, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the rife of Mr. Alderman Cookson, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Wednesday, the 19th inst., at Kelvedon, the Rev. John, Bridges Stony, vicar of (heat Tey, Essex, to Martha, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Romaine, Castle-hill-lodge, Reading, Berks. • - On the 10th inst., at Bath, Samuel B. Barnett, Esq., youngest son of the late Hon. S. W. Barnett, of Jamaica. to Louisa, second daughter of the late Christopher Senior Lawrence, of 'l'ripoly, in the same island. On the 20th inst., at Greenwich, L. Leake, Esq., of Stoke Newington, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of George Walpole, Esq., of Croom's-hill. MED. On Tuesday, the 18th, Mrs. Powell, of Little Snoring, Nor folk, leaving a husband and eleven children to lathent the los* of an excellent wife and most affectionate mother. At her house, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the 9th inst., very highly respected, Mrs. l3arras, aged 81, relict of the late John Barras, Esq., of Gateshead. . , On the 11th inst., at the house of his son-in-law, the Rev. B. Kennicot, Monkwearmotith, much and deservedly respected, Nathan Horn, Esq.. of Bishop-\Vcarmouth. His death was occasioned by being thrown out of a gig on the preceding day at Monk wearmouth Shore. On Wednesday, the 19th inst., Sarah Hurry, the wife of Mr. Joseph Gifford, druggist, of the Strand, in her 36th year. On Sunday last, at Gloucester, Caroline, second daughter of John Wedgwood, Esq., of Kingscote, in Gloucestershire. On the 17th inst , in her 45th year, Madame Follett Cho pard, of Conduit-street, Hanover-square. On Nirednesday, the 19th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Stride, wife of Mi. John Stride, of Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields,_ aged 42. Died at Cockermouth, on Saturday week, a singular female, known by the appellation of Mary-with-the-Jackets —we Nay fe male, though it was difficult, from her appearance, to tell whe ther she was mait•or woman. Her age is supposed to have been at least 100 years.—( Tyne Mercury.) • Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, At the SVN. • Orrzcx, No. 112, by lup