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REUBEN APSLEY. the sales aeb than ions Ja -Bd., 31 .eewardo Congoo ince the ad, and -orth re en offer- en made n exten -Bacon r Tallow it of the >r prices I yeSter prices. cargo of , average )arcels of and 2Sa. 295. a at a late ttion. :ornpany has pro- Ai of the ►t 1000 ere con- on sale dy ; the 00 bags i47s. Od. 4/. 10s. 4/. 18s. 4/. 4s. 81. Ifs. 51. ss. 41. 2s. 31. 10s. 31. 16s. d. to d. 12 15 15 20 18 23 24 26 21 23 18 19 I. to s. d. 0 2 4 D each. r 2i. 2d. g. I'7. . las. Od. . 82s. Od. . 86s. Od . 20s. Od. ss. Od. 17. .2s. Sid. lows Ss. 6d. to a. 64 5'4 4.8 54 56" s: () 7Ei 0 12 0 11.1111•••• 211arles ady of straet o . Blake, to Mr. White eldest aryle. L}mh wood, re, ttA EyreP No. 10,901. pCONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE 11 A SOCIETY, No. 34, Bridge-street, Blackfriare. DIRECTORS. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, M.P. Chairman. THOMAS FRANKLAND LEWIS, Esq. M.P. Deputy Chairman. Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq. Capt. George Harris, R.N. Stephen Nicholson Barber, C.B. Esq. Francis Kemble, Esq. Robert Biddulph, Esq. John Knowles, Esq. F.R. S. Thomas Fenn, Esq. Thomas Meux, Esq. Adam Gordon, Esq. Henry Frederick Stephen- _ I son, Esq. AUDITORS.-111. W. Clifton, Esq. ; John Kymer, Esq. ; Whishaw, Esq., F. R. S. PHYSICIAN.--John Paris, M.D. F.R.S. 28, Dover-street. Scan EON. —Benjamin Travers, Esq. F. R. S. 12, Bruton-st. SOLICITOR.—Henry Young, Esq. Essex-street, Strand. ACTUART.-Mr. John Naylor. ADVANTAGES BELONGING TO THIS INSTI- TUTION :- PREMIUMS on young and middle-aged Lives consider ably lower than those generally required. Three-fourths of the present savings and profits, and eventually the whole profits, divided among the assured. Policy Holders (if assured to the extent of 5001. for the whole term of Life) entitled, after five anneal payments, to vote at all General Meetings ; the Members of which have absolute controul over the affairs of the Society. Fall particulars are stated in the Prospectus, which, with every requisite information, may be obtained by ap plication at the Office. ?II CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFIT IL • TING WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WEST INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND. Officers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gen tlemen proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe, will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Appointments, Swords, Chacos, Sashes, Belts, Pdstols, &c. together with a large and well -manu factured stock of Sea Cots, Couches, and Bedding ; Cabin Wash-hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps ; Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every other description of Travelling Equipage. AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted with the necessary requisites for India and other tropical climates ; likewise a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives aid Forks, suitable for families going abroad ; Military and Hindostannee Books, Maps, &c. A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Curricle, Tandem, Phmton, Stanhope and Chaise HARNESS, with every description of Saddlery, &c. &c. for home use, East and West Indies, and South America, which merit inspec tion from their excellent quality, first style of workman ship, and moderate prices. All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered to, of asking one Ready Money Price, but from which no abatement is made. CABINET-MAKERS' SOCIETY. CHEAP -CABINET & UPHOLSTERY, at the LONDON REPOSITORY for the CA. BINET-MAKERS' SOCIETY, being the only real one now existing in London, No. 71, corner of LEADEN HALL-STREET, opposite Aldgate Pump, and which has been established upwards of Six years. For Ready Money, and no Abatement. The Trustees and Committee respectfully inform the Nobility and Gentry, that they still conduct the above Establishment for the Benefit of industrious and ingenious Mechanics (who have large families), by offering their Manufactured - Articles in the Cabinet Line of the best workmanship, and cheaper than by. any House in London, no other profit being required than to satisfy the warehouse rent and incidental expenees ; being satisfied with constant employment to enable them to support their families, the number of whom appear by the Boeks of the last Quarterly Meeting to be 145. From the great patronage the Com mittee have received, they are in hopes of increasing that number. The following is a Specimen of the Low Prices asked ; all Goods warranted : Five feet Mahogany Bedstead, four-post £4 10 0' Tent ditto 1 6 0 Bordered Mattress to fit - 1 1 0 Mahogany Drawers with solid ends - 3 5 0 Eight Mahogany Chairs - 610 0 Mahogany Pembroke Table 2 0 0 Feather Bed free from dust and smell, from £2 12 0 to 8 8 0 Drawing-room Sofa, from £5 5 0 to 7 7 0 Sofa Bedstead - 3 8 0 Mahogany Horse-Hair Sofa - - 6 10 0 A quantity of Paper Hangings for Bed, Dining, Ind Drawing-rooms, at nearly Half-price. The Trade will find it worth their attention. Houses Furnished at a few days' notice, and Apartments in a few hours.—Goods packed free of expence except the matting. THURNELL, Agent. J. HASLER, Secretary. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1827. By the Author of " Brambletye House," " The Tor Hill," &c. " Fie on ambition ! Fie on myself ! that have a sword, and yet am ready to famish. These five days have I hid Ine in these woods, and durst not peep out, fur all the country is laid for Me. " -SIiAKSPEARE. Printed for H.r,ry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street. VERY FAST AND SAFE TRAVEL LING to BIRMINGHAM and LIVERPOOL, Day and Four-inside Coaches, which keep good Time, FROM THE SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNER-STREET, SNOW-HILL, LONDON, The following Light Post Coaches, Mails, &c. set out from the above Inn : Birmingham Tally Ho ! in 13 hours (driven through with two Coachmen only), Morning, through Redburn, Market -street; Dunstable, Brickhill, Fenny Stratford, Sto ney Stratford, Towcester, Weedon, Daventry, Dunchurch, Coventry, and Stone Bridge, to the Castle Hotel, Birming ham, to Shiffnall, Wellington, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, Shelton, Oswestry, Nantwich, Tarporley, Bangor, Chester, and Holyhead. Birmingham Royal Express, in 15 hours and only two coachmen, every Afternoon, four Inside, through War wick, Leamington, Southam, Daventry,Weedon, Towcester, and Stoney Stratford, to the Saracen's Head, Birmingham, early the next morning. Barnstaple, Southmolton, Crediton, Cholmley, Tiverton, North Lawton, Hatherleigh, Oakhampton, Torrington, Chumleigh, Ilfracomb, and Bideford, every Morning. Bath and Bristol, through Chippenham, Caine, Marl borough, Hungerford, Newbury and Reading, every After noon at one; arrives at the Greyhound Inn, Bath ; and Landon Tavern, and Swan, Bristol, early next Morning. Boston Mail, to Louth, through Royston, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Stilton, Peterborougb, Deeping, Spalding, Spilsby, Alford, and Great Grimsby. Evening, at half-past Seven, Sunday, at a quarter before seven. Cambridge Mail, through Ware, Buntingford, Buckland, and Royston. Evening, at half-past seven, Sunday, at a quarter before seven. Carlisle Express, only one night on the road, to Penrith, and Whitehaven, with a Guard all the way ; through Ap pleby, Brough, Bowes, Barnard Castle, Greta Bridge, Richmond, Catterick, Boroughbridge, Ferrybridge, Don caster, Newark, Bawtry, Grantham, Greetham, Stamford, Stilton, Biggleswade, and Baldock. Morning. The only direct Coach to Carlisle. Chester, through Newport, Wlaitchurch, Nantwich, Tar porley, Middlewich, and Northwich, Morning & Afternoon. Coventry Tally Ho ! every Morning at half-past six, through Redburn, Dunstable, Stoney Stratford, Towcester, Weedoa, Daventry, and Dunchurch. Dover and Paris, Morning by Canterbury and Chatham. Dorchester, in 14 hours only, through Egham, Bagshot, Blackwater, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, Salisbury, Woodyats Inn, and Blandford, at a quarter past five and eight in the Morning. Dartmouth, Morning, to Newton Bushel, Paignton, Brixham, Kingswear, and Torquay. Exeter Umpire, Morning, through Honiton, Axminster, Charmouth, Bridport, Dorchester, Blaudford, Woodyats lan, Salisbury, Stockbridge, Sutton, Basireptoke, Black- Water, Bagshot, and Egham. Glasgow, Longtown, Gretna Green, Annan, Dumfries, t rownhill, Thornhill, Sanquhar Kiln, Kilmarnock, Kings- Well, and all parts of Scotland, Four Inside. Holyhead, through Shiffnall, Wellington, Shrewsbury, and Salop, Morning and Afternoon. Hu': Express, through Northcave, Howden, and Don "'ter, Morning, to the Cross Keys, Hull, and also the "Rockingham" in the Afternoon at two. Kendal, by Lancaster, Preston, Kirkby Lonsdale, Bolton, Chorley, Ormskirk, and Garstang, Morning and Afternoon. Leeds Rockingham, Afternoon at two; through Baldock, I liggieswade, Eaton, St. Neets, Buckden, Stilton, Wands. ford, Stamford, Greetham, Grantham, Newark, Tuxford, Markham-Moor, East Retford, Bawtry, Doncaster, and Ferrybridge ; arrives at the Golden Lion Inn, Leeds, next Afternoon, at three o'clock, in time for the Bradford, Hali fax, Skipton, and Huddersfield Coaches. With four Coach men only.—Luggage and Packages only 2d. per lb. Liverpool and Staffordshire Potteries o t Morning at half. Vast six. With four coachmen only. Liverptiol Umpire, in 27 Hours only, Daily at One ; and arrives at Liverpool next Afternoon, through Woburn, Newport Pagnell, Lathbury, Northampton, Welford, Lut terworth, Hinckley, Atherstone, Tamworth, Litchfeld, Rudgeley, Sandon, Stone, Newcastle, Congleton, Knuts ford, Warrington, and Prescot. Liverpool Royal Express, in twenty-six hours, with four coachmen only, through Prescot, Warrington, Knutsford, Congleton, Newcastle, Stone, Rudgeley, Lawton, Litchfield, and Stafford (only one night on the road), every afternoon ; arrives at the Saracen's Head, Liverpool, next afternoon. Manchester and Altringham, morning to the Moseley Arms and Swan Inns. Manchester to Congleton, Newcastle, Walsall, Wolver hampton, and Knutsford, light four inside Coaches. Marlborough and Swindon, through Maidenhead, Read ing, Newbury, Hungerford, Ramebury, and Albourne, with one coachman enly. The nearest conveyance to Lambourn, Purton, Wootton Baseett, and Pewsey. Newcastle-upon-Tyn e and Under-Line, Morning and Afternoon. Only one night on the road. Plymouth Umpire, io Falmouth, Truro, Bodmin, Ash burton, Penryn Totness, & Newton Bushell, morning at 7. Ramsgate Tie, al Teleg ra ph, t o Ma r gate, Dover, Deal, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Fevereham, and Sandwich, morn ing at half-past seven. Sheffield Express, and also the Rockingham, through Rotbersm, morning and afternoon. Southampton Union, to Lymington, Lyndhurst, and Winchester, through Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black- Water, and Bagshot, every morning, and arrives at the Coach and 'gorses, and Vine Inn, Southampton, by five, a delightful conveyance to the Isle of Wight, Jersey, Guern "3', St. Maloes, Havre de Grace, &c. &c. Staffordshire Potteries, Afternoon, to Lane-end, Stoke, Shelton, Burslem, Tunstall, Lawton, Hanley and Holmes Chapel. The only a Coach direct to the Potteries. Warwick and Leamington Day and Night, through Da ventry, Weedon, Towcester, and Stoney Stratford. Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, Falmouth, and Devonport Coaches, and to all parts of the West of England. Wolverhampton and Dudley Day, through West Brom wich, Meriden, and Coventry, Morning and Afternoon. Worcester Aurora, every Morning, through Oxford, Woodstock, Eustone, Bourton, Bengeworth, Chipping Nor ton, Moreton in the Marsh, Hampton Parva, Evesham, Broadway, and Pershore ; arrives at Worcester early in the same Evening, from whence there arc Coaches to Ludlow, Hereford, Tenbury, Kington, Leominster, Bromyard a and to all parts of South Wales. York Express, to carbovough, Whitby, Shields, Sun derland, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, with a guard through out; Morning, by way of Newark, Retford, Doncaster, Ferrybridge, Tadcaster, Northallerton, Darlington, Rush ford, Durham, Morpeth, and Berwick, arrives at York early next Mor n i ng . • At /Induced Fares to Ramsgate and Margate. S. A. MOUNTAIN an d Co. sp F r i en ds and th e Public, that th fi e e yw ec il t l full no y t b ix e cq a u c a c in ou t n t ta h b e l i e r for any Parcels, Pas sengers ' Luggage Wri • g ordamaged, Plate &c. of more than Five Poun V ds alue, if l o st, ln stole at the SARACZN 's Hz" I" u n l e ss entered as such, and the Insurance paid n accordingly, , Skinner -street, Snow-hill London. BUTLER'S FLUID EXTRACT or SARSAPARILLA IN this Preparation are concentrated all the Medicinal Properties of the Sarsaparilla Root, even to perfect saturation of tke Menstrual with which it is pre pared. T o su ch persons , therefore, who, fr om various causes, would expe r i e nce great inconve n i ence, or with whom it would be utterly impossible to prepare the Decoc tion, the Fluid Extract, which possesses the advantages of Portability and of keeping in a ny cli m ate, will he found a most desirable mode of employing this much-esteemed Me dicine. _ _ The Diseases in which it has proved most beneficial are those of the Skin, such as the Scorbutic Affection s , Erup_ tive Di seaees, Secondary Symptoms, &c. arising from a di._ eased state of the Sy s tem at large. It is taken in Water, renderin g i t of the same strength as the Decoction. Sold in Bottles at 4s. 6d. ; 7s. 6d. ; and 20s. ; by Messrs. Butler, demists, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London; 54, Sackville-street, Dublin; and 73, Princes street, Edinburgh ; Savory and Co., 136, New Bond- Street, and 220, Regent-street; and by the principal Me dicine Venders in the Kingdom. Of whom may be Lad B UTLER'S CITRATED KALI, a Preparation for P for its Saline Draughts , recommended b y the Profession its convenience and certainty. In Bottle s, at 2 s. 9 d. , 4: 6 d., and Si. Bl. 6d. 14. B. A4k )3ntloc'o 110 gatrAct vi On Thursday last, GEORGE FERGUSON, Lord HEADLAND, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, died at his country res:;lence, near West Calder. He re tired last year from the arduous duties of his office, after a service of twenty-seven years. He was, we believe, up wards of eighty years of age.—Edinburg4 Paper. The'Statue of the late Field Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Yonx, which is to be presented to the United Service Club, by Members belonging to it, has been contracted for, and a suitable place for its reception is preparing in the superb edifice now building for that Club on the site of Carlton Palace. The Subscriptions for this Statue, as well as Subscriptions for the Monu ment to be erected at Edinburgh, to the memory of his late Royal Highness, are now receiving by Mr. CAM!- BELL of Regent-street. At a Meeting of the Creditors of JAMES HENTY, it was unanimously resolved—t , That the failure of James Henty has been the most iniquitous that has ever occurred in the Stock Exchange. That it has been attended by unusual circumstances of concealment, falsehood, and dishonesty, and that his subsequent con duct, in refusing to] deliver up to his creditors (with out stipulation)sproperty which he had faithfully pro mised, in the presence of three individuals, to surrender unconditionally, has only confirmed the opinion of his character expressed at the former meeting.—Resolved— That the Committee for General Purposes be requested to take such measures as will most effectually expose such conduct, and express in some peculiar manner the marked send which the House entertains of the base ness and dishonesty of his.behaviour." CUSTOM OF THE GREEKS.—It does not seem to be generally known that the studious among the ancient Greeks were always accus tomed to walk into the fields or gardens with a tablet and stylus suspended by a cord or ribbon from their neck. When any new thought or image came over. their mind, their waxen me morandum-book and iron pencil were ever ready to register it, and prevent oblivion. Euripides, a man df strong passions but severe manners, was one day looking intently upo n one of th e se tablets, in the public gardens, when a ce l e b rated courtezan, who was passing, inquired what he saw there to fix his attention so ? " Something," he replied, " more beautiful than your face. London Weekly Review. Upon the descent of Mr. Green's balloon last week, near Canterbury, an old woman, em ployed in a field, observing a huge body making towards her, dropped her burden, and ran off as quick as her enfeebled limbs would allow.—The balloon going in a direct line with the poor crea ture, soon overtook ber—Mr. Green told her not to be alarmed, which only increased her terror, :and she tried to escape through a hedge, tearing her clothes and person in the attempt ; and finding flight by this means difficult, she offered up a prayer to the Fountain of Mercy, horribly affrighted at the " monstrous thing." PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST. We have, in a former number, made several extracts from this work, and shall now submit a few more to the judgment of our readers, accom panied with some observations on the merits of the work in general. The novel title which has been given to it by the author is calculated to raise the expectation, and lead the reader to hope for something, not only uncommon, but unusua4ly instructive and amusing. To avoid the disappointment of these expectations needs talents of no common stamp, and such has the writer shown are his, having, in short, more than equalled the hopes raised by the perusal of his title-page. Few, if any, are the works which can be said to be wholly free from fault ; and, though we cannot take upon -our.selves to say this is entirely faultless, we can, without partiality, assert, that it has as few faults as any we have ever read, and contains far more instruction, as well as a.muse ment, than any work of a similar nature. The first extract we shall make is from a lu dicrous part of the work. Miss Kitty Ryland, the heroine of the scene, and one of a coterie of maiden ladies residing in the village of Overton, visits London for the purpose of answering an advertisement for a wife, and there meets with a disappointment, which wounds her tenderest feelings, and shocks her delicacy. Not having room for the whole, we shall pass by the pre vious sighings, faintings, and palpitations of the lady, described with admirable wit and humour by the author, and proceed to the introduction of the advertiser in the following manner : The door opened, and the stentorian voice of Becky bellowed forth " X. Z., if you please, ma'am." Miss Kitty instinctively retreated to the farther end of the diminutive apartment, and the stranger pausing at the door left ample room between them for the insertion of all the intermediate letters from A. to Z., provided, indeed, that they had not exceeded in size the usual proportion of a child's alphabet. - "" X. Z., for by those initials is he only yet known to the reader, was diminutive in stature, and his lower ex tremities having received an unfortunate bias in the nur sery, might be said, like the feet of the curule chairs, to re semble the X., which he had chosen as his first represen tative letter; while his whole person, during the operation of an obsequious bow, with which he greeted our heroine, described a zigzag, not unlike his second initial, or the concluding letter of the alphabet. His head had been liberally powdered, but the rebellious colour of his hair still blazed beneath the surface, and imparted a tinge which might be compared to that of the red snow de scribed by Captain Ross in his Voyage of Discovery ; nor was his countenance, perhaps, exactly that which Miss Kitty's imagination had depicted ; but she had so often de clared that where the gem was of the first water it signified little whether it were set in gold or pinchbeck, that we do not, for a single moment, believe the first view of his per son made the least unfavourable impression." The writer proceeds in his description with admirable wit, but we cannot admit more at present into our limited • columns ; we will, therefore, pass over - the interview to which the author has not failed to give great interest and humour, and conclude this extract by the horror of the lady when apprised by the stranger of his vile intention of obtaining the consent of 30 at Once. " Of thirty !—oh the Turk—the deceiver !" ejaculated Miss Kitty, as she fell back in her chair, so violently agi tated as to alarm her companion. Why, my dear madam, my dear madam,—good gracious, she is in hysterics—what am I to do ? Here, Betty, Betty, help ! help !" " La! la! what can the matter be ?" cried Becky, as she popped in her head at the door. " Grace defend us ! why, if Miss Ryland ben't in the sterricks !" " So saying, the humane girl rushed towards the afflicted damsel, and by the flapping of her duster raised a wind that would have worked a mill; but, Unluckily for Miss Kitty's face, not only the air but the dust as set in motion by the operation, and the pallor of RTr counte nance was) exchanged for the hue of soot." We will now leave Miss Ryland, after her re covery, to her own concerns with X. Z., and pur sue our extracts, making another short one of a scientific nature—not so much for interest as be cause it is short, and will, therefore, better suit our limited columns, and because, being a philo sophic disquisition on the' simple and elegant game of the shuttlecock, it will afford an excellent proof of the possibility of extracting useful in ', formation from the most trifling toys and amusements. , " Papa," exclaimed Tom, " I hare been considering whether there is any philosophy in the game of shuttle cock." " There are two circumstances connected With ite flight," replied his father, " which certainly will ad m it o f explassation upon scientific principles ; and I should much like to hear whether you can apply them for that purpose. The first is its spinning motion in the air ; the second, the regularity with which its base of cork always presents it self to the battledore ; so that, after you have struck it, it turns round and arrives at your sister's battledore in a posi tion to be again struck by her, and sent back to you." " I perfectly understand what you mean ; but I really am not able to explain the motions to which you allude," said Tom. " The revolution of the shuttlecock, about its axis, en tirely depends upon the impulse of the wind on the oblique surfaces of its feathers ; so that it is often necessary to trim the feathers of a new shuttlecock before it will spin." " I understand you, papa; the force of the wind, by striking the oblique feathers, is resolved into a perpendi cular and parallel force, as you explained to us when we considered the action of the wind upon the kite." " Exactly ; every oblique direction of a motion is the diagonal of a parellelogram, whose perpendicular and pa rallel directions are the two sides. Having settled this point, let us consider the second, via, bow it happens that the cork of the shuttlecock always presents itself to the battledore ?" _ " I should think," said Tom, that the cork points the battledore for the same reason that the weathercock always points to the wind." ,t Admirably illustrated," exclaimed his father, " the cork will always go foremost, because the air must exert a greater force over the lighter feathers, and therefore retard their progress." We might extract many other passages equally amusing and instructive ; but we think enough .has been done to convince any ogle of the use fulness of the work, and shall therefore only add a few general observations. In introductory works of, science, dryness and obscurity are frequently a disadvantage, and too often disgust the mind of the young student instead of giving him a taste for scienti fic studies and pursuits. The author, however, of the work now unaer our notice has happily avoided this, by blending the delighful with the instructive—and' so admirably has he disposed his resting places,, as we may style those portions of his book which are not employed in scientific diSqUisitions, that no sooner does the mind begin to flag and become weary of study, than it finds its attention diverted from the abstrus,eness of science to the lighter incidents of the novel, by which he is refreshed and supplied with new vigour to peruse the philosophical pages of the . next chapter, and is carried forward as it were. by short stages and long baits to the end of journey, without being fatigued by the occasional roughness and difficulty of the road. It is not, however, to the method alone that our praise is due—the style, too, demands our admiration. The whole is written with ease and elegance ; and while the author, in his scientific lectures and antiquarian disputes, displays the depth of his erudition—he proves by the well arranged incidents of his novel, that he is an ac complished scholar, an enlightened moralist, and an expert and skilful novelist, well read in the weaknesses and foibles of human nature, and possessed of great knowledge of the world and its manners in general. Such is our opinion of the work and its author, and we feel convinced that every unprej•tdiced and candid reader will agree with us in the com mendations we have thought it but just to be stow upon him, and own that he has honourably and fairly won the ineed of praise allotted by the poet to him who succeeds in instructing while he amuses— " Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci, Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo Hic meret sera fiber Sosiis ; hic et mare transit, Et longum noto scriptori prorogat MUM." SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—SHREWSBURY, Auo. 17. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN this morning took his seat at nine o'clock ; but in consequence of only two special jurymen 'appearing, the commencement of business was delayed till ten o'clock, the parties be ing anxious for a full Special Jury. Mr. Baron Vaughan inquired for the summoning officer; but it appeared that he was gone out to summon a Jury on a commision of lunacy. A third special jury man having appeared, a tales was then prayed, and the following interesting trial proceeded : DOE, LEM. LLOYD, V. EVANS. Mr. CROSS opened the pleadings, stating that this was an actien of ejectment to recover the pos session of the manor and estate of Hendwr, in the county of Merioneth. Mr. TAUNTON (with whom was also Mr. CAMP BELL and Mr. RICHARDS), in commencing his ad dress, stated he attended them on behalf of Richard Walmsley Lloyd,Esq., a young gentleman only a few years of age, to recover the possession of a manor and estate, called Hendwr, situated in the county of Merioneth. He preferred his claim under the will of Mrs. Catherine Lloyd. The property now in dispute belonged formerly to a gentleman named Giwn Lloyd, a person not only of considerable pro perty, but of an ancient and respectable family. He died in 1774, having been in possession of the estate in question during the whole of his life. He had married in the year 1746 Miss Sarah Hill, a member of that highly esteemed and respectable fa mily, the Hills, of Hawkestone, in this county. By her he had no issue; and when he died a monu ment was erected to his memory, in which. his mar riage was commemorated, and hi was stated to have died without issue. On his death he was suc ceeded in the possession of his estate by hie . two maiden sisters, Catherine and Mary Lloyd. Cathe rine died in 1787, when in possession of the estate (having received the rents, and (lone other acts suffi cient to prove leer seizin), leaving a rill, ,l.)y which she bequeathedber moiety of the property to J. Lloyd as tenant for life, with remainder to R. IL Lloyd, with remainder in tail to the sons of that Richard Hughes Lloyd ; and the present lessor of the plaintiff claimed as the son of the person last mentioned. These estates for life to John Lloyd and Richard Hughes Lloyd did not expire till December, 1825, because John Lloyd, the first tenant for life, did not die till that period, and on his death the remainder in tail came first into possession ; and it was not possible for the plaintiff to assert his title till the estate was vested for life. As soon, however, as it did vest, ,the present ejectment was instituted. The lessor of the plaintiff claimed as remainder man under the will of Catherine Lloyd, not the whole, but the undivided moiety, as Catherine Lloyd could only give away by her will her portion of the pro perty. Having thus briefly stated the claim of the plaintiff, he (Mr. Taunton) thought it necessary to state against whom this ejectment was brought, and by what means possession of this estate had been transferred from the family of the Lloyds to the fa mily of the Passinghams—the substantial defendant being Colonel John Passingham, and the other de fendants his tenants, with whom he had joined (very properly) to defend these ejectments. After the death of Mrs. Catherine Lloyd, a claim was pre s ferred on behalf of Colonel Passingham and his bro ther, on the ground that Mr. Giwn Lloyd had been married before he became the husband of Miss Hill, and that there was lawful issue by that prior marriage, a daughter, who afterwards married the father of Colonel Passingham, and his brother. Their parents were dead, and they claimed as heirs at law in the character of the grand sons of Mr. Giwn Lloyd. The sole question being whether Mr. Giwn Lloyd had been married previous to his marriage with Miss, Hill, and whe ther the mother of the Passinghams was the lawful issue of that marriage. In order to assert that claim, an ejectment was brought and tried in that very court, in the year 1794. It was brought against Mrs. Mary Lloyd; and defended by her. The late Lord Erskine and the present Mr. Baron G ar . row, two of the ablest advocates of the (lay, were retained for the respective parties : the cause was tried, and a verdict found for Colonel Passingham and his brother Robert, who both asserted their se parate claims. It would be necessary now (the learned counsel said) for him to explain by what means it happened that this verdict was given in favour of the Passinghams, and how it happened dint the verdict was not attempted to be set aside. In those days applications to the Court above were not so frequent as they were now ; a trial even of minor importan ce se ld om now occurre d without appliea stijoonn, particular ma d e t o t h e C ou rt above, either on the ground o f m i s di rect i on b y t he Judge, or the admis - Nhi h Andpre vented - admis sion or n on - a d m i ss i on o f evidence. On that occa aarntyicualpaptlicelarteitrn circumstances theanees occurred Court above.v he (Mr. T aun t on ) would undertake to satisfy the Jury th at t h e ver dict that was then obtained was obtained by means of fraud and forgery, He did not mean to say that Colonel Passingham was im plicated in the slighest degree in that fraud or for gery, but he must say, that in the contrivance of that fraud and forgery, his brother, Robert Passingham, was the principal agentind assistant. The question to be tried at that day was, whether Mr. Giwn Lloyd was ever married to one Elizabeth Taylor, the grand mother of the Passinghams. In order to prove her marriage, recourse was had to a species of evidence always discountenanced, and now not received by the. courts,—viz. an entry in a register supposed to be kept in the Fleet;inLondon,which,prior to the Marriage Act, had received some sanction ; but those registers being long found to be the instruments of fraud and impos ture, the courts of law came to the conclusion that they should not be received in evidence. To such an extent was the imposition in these registers car ried, that they 'were even bought and Sold as a spe cies of merchandise, and could be brought forward at any time, or by any one, to prove a marriage or le gitiniacy. On the trial in 1794 a register of that description was offered and received in evidence by one of the most Learned Judges who ever presided on the Bench (Mr, Justice Heath); but the ge nuineness of that register was supp:ted by attested copies of the register of the parish of St. Pancras. Those copies were produced and put in the usual way on a slip of paper, by a person iwho alleged he had examined them ; and as they betrayed no marks of suspicion, no objection was made, and they were received in evidence. In summing up to the Jury, Mr. Justice Heath stated that if the case stood on the register of marriage only, it would not be entitled to credit, but (laying the whole stress of the case,on the copies of the register) he said, when strengthen ed by them, the case came to their consideration with,strong recommendations of credit. He (Mr. Taunton) should now be able to show to the jury, that the copies of the register of St. Pancras, then produced, although copies of that register, were but copies of forgeries, inserted in that rcgieter. He had this day got the original register here, that he should produce before the jury, and they would find, al though the register was attested by the signature of the vicar and church Wardens, that the lea, o7t which the entries in question were made, and copied from in 1794, was scraped all over, from top to bottom. The gentle Man who concerted this forgery had first copied its contents, recopied the whole upon the same leaf, with the addition of these words under the bead of christenings, " Elizabeth, daughter of Giwn and Elizabeth Lloyd, Sept. 1741." So that if this entry was to be considered a genuine one, it afforded an indisputable - belief that Giwn Lloyd had been married to Elizabeth Taylor, the grandmother of the present defendant, Colonel Passingham ; and a few leaves further on was found another page scraped in the same way and written in the same handwriting, containing under the head of burials the following words :—" A. D. 1742, Elizabeth Lloyd," meaning to have it understood that she wag; the wife of . Giwn Lloyd. The Jury would find that the handwriting on both these leaves was dif ferent from all the rest in the book ; and on inspec tion of the book they would immediately perceive, that the leaves in question were thinner than the rest, and had been altered. The Learned Counsel then went on to detail,that at the time the alteration in the register was effected, Robert Passingham,the brother of the defendant, was in the office of an at torney as clerk, with a person of the name of Kendry; that they went to the curate of St. Pancras, named Sawyer, and by means of his connivance obtained possession of the register while this fraud was accomplished ; and that while Kendry effected it, Passingham waited for him in the field opposite St. Pancras Church. (The Learned Counsel then continued.) In consequence of the forged entries in this book, the present de fendants, in 1794, as plaintiffs, succeeded in ob taining a verdict; but it was most extraordinary that on the home circuit of that very year, while the cause was tried at Shrewsbury, Lord Kenyon re jected a register of one of those Fleet marriages as evidence. The plaintiffs on that, finding that their verdict might be disturbed, entered into an agree ment with Mrs. Mary Lloyd, by which it was agreed, that in consideration of a considerable sum of money, which she undertook to pay, Colonel Passingham should forego all claims for by-gone rents, on receiving quiet possession of the estate, the old lady, Mrs. Mary Lloyd, who was near 90, being glad . enough to compound in any way to get out of the turmoil and vexation of a'law-suit. It happened that in 1806, the forgeries which had been so successfully practised in 1794 were discover. ed by means of a kind of day-book, or foul register, in which the registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, were entered as they occurred. On com paring the books, it was found that it corresponded word fof word withl the register, except in the entries which he bad already mentioned, and which had been added, as he should prove, in the handwriting of Kennedy. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to detaifthe promises which had been made by Mr. Robert Passingham to several subordinate agents in the suit of 1794, and stated, that Kendry had gone to America. The learned counsel then went on.to say, that Elizabeth Taylor, the mother of the Pas singhams, and the issue of the connexion between Mr. Giwn Lloyd and Elizabeth Taylor, (her mother) was born in 1741; instead of being educated as the legitimate daughter of Mr. Giwn Lloyd, she was committed to the care of a poor man named Honi well, residing at Teddington, in the county of Mid dlesex, who was the village barber, where she .con tinued from the age of two or three years, till she was twelve years old, when she removed to a school at Heston. Previous to that she had received only such education as that village barber, who joined to his occupation that of a labouring man, and who kept in the winter only an evening school,.could afford to give her. At Honiwell's it would appear she was known by the name of "Bet Taylor. He (Mr. Taunton) did not know how she became acquainted with the father of Colonel Passingham; but she was, subsequent to her marriage with him, found keeping • a boarding-house at Bath, and latterly re siding in the humble situation of housekeeper to a gentleman of the name of Birt, then a surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital. He (Mr. Taunton) should show that during that time she acknowledged (to a most respectable gentleman of the name of Blount) that she was the natural daughter of Mr. Giwn Lloyd, and had great expectations from him. That gentle man would also relate the melancholy catastrophe, by which it would appear that on hearing that her father, Mr. Giwn Lloyd, had died intestate, such was the effect on her mind that a fever was occa sioned; and during the delirium thereby produced, she threw herself from the two pair of stairs win dow, and was killed on the spot. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to detail, that on the disco very, in 1806, of the fraud that had been practised, a bill in Chancery was filed by the tenants for life, to set aside the agreement entered into by them jointly 4 Lloyd after the verdict of gentle men a t the bar, of high eminence, one of them the presentj with Chief B s. aroM questionn ay , r was referred to three and another of them one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. They made an award, but the Lord Chancellor being of opinion that they had therein exceeded their autho rity, set it aside, and discharged the bill, but with out costs. The Learned Counsel then stated, that on Colonel Passingham's succeeding to the pro perty, the inscription en Mr. Giwn Lloyd's monu ment was erased, .and another one put up to the same effect, but omitting the words that he died without issue; and concluded, by observing, that when he had substantiated by evidence the case he had opened, the Jury would be ,satisfied that the judgment obtained in 1794 was obtained on the most fraudulent grounds, and find a verdict for the plaintiff. The will of Catherine Lloyd, under which the plaintiff claimed, having been produced and read, Mr. John Pownell stated, he had been attorney for Mr. John Lloyd and Mr. Richard Hughes Lloyd for 21 years. In 1807, he received an abstract of the defendant's title now produced from his solicitor ; the object was to, effect an arrangement between the parties by arbitration. ,The award was afterwards set aside and the bill dismissed. The witness was present at the trial here in 1794, and on that occ..- sion papers were produced by a witneso, purport in Q to be examined copies of the register s of ba p tisms and burials, atSt. Pancras Church ; the y described the baptism of Elizabeth Lloy d, and the burial of Elizabeth Lloyd; they were pro duced b y th e lessor of the Mr. Charles Knowles proved, that having examined the entries in the register, he found some of the leaves had been rubbed With pumice -stone; . , - • _ and the - entries riade thereon containing the re gisters of bkitisni and burial in question, were made in a different handwriting from the rest of those in the book. The book' termed the " foul register," was then produced, and proved to correspond with the other in every respect, except that the registei contained the entries of the baptism of Elizabeth Taylor, and the burial of her mother, which the foul register did not. The deposition of James Young, taken in the Court of Chancery, was then read. It stated that he was assistant - clerk to St. Pancras, in 1791: that he remembered a person named Kendry coming to search the register; and that not finding what he wanted, he returned the next morning, having ob seined from the curate, Mr. Sawyer, the key of the register', end in the presence of the deponent, after transcribing the entries, on two of the leaves in the register, he rubbed the whole out with pumice -stone, and then re-copied'the entries, inserting in addition the names of Elizabeth Lloyd, as having been chris tened there in 1741, and her mother, as having been buried there in 1742. The deponent further said, that he followed Kendry after this was done, to Mr. Sawyer's, and saw him give him the key; and that, while the alteration was effected, Robert Passing ham was waiting for Kendry in the field 'opposite the church. The deponent also said that he men tioned what had occurred to Mr. Sawyer, who was very angry with him for mentioning it, and gave him money several times after. Proof was then given that Mr, Sawyer was curate of St. Pancas at the time, and the register having been produced, it was evident that two of the leaves bad been reduced by pumice -stone, and that the entries on these leaves were iir a different hand-writing. Evidence was then given by several witnesses that Robert Passingham conducted the action of eject ment in 1794. Mr. Halley, a watchmaker, in London, 79 years old, knew Wm. Kendry, an attorney's clerk, and also Robert Passinghans. The witness was present at the trial in 1794, being interested as a friend of Passingham in the result. He remembered a wit ness of the name of Emanuel Williams being exa mined at the trial. After that, till the day of his. death, the witness paid him, by order of Robers. Passingham, a weekly stipend of a guinea or guinea , and a half per week, and on his death buried him. Cross-examined.—Williams, he believed, sup ported Passingham's mother, when her father for sook her. The depositions of several witnesses were then read; stating, that they resided near lioniwell's, at Teddington, and about the year of the ward frost remembered an infant being brought to Mrs. Honi well to nurse. The child was called Bet Taylor, and remained at Honiwell's till she was 12 years old, when she was removed to a school at Heston. One of the deponents stated, that she remembered, previous to the trial in 1794, that Robert Passing ham came and told her, there was no occasion for her to wash any longer if she could remember that the child had any other narne than " Bet Taylor." The deponent replied, that if he was sure of his cause, he did not want their evidence. John Blount, Esq., said, I am in my 73d year.— I formerly carried on the profession of a surgeon at Birmingham. In 1774, I was an assistant with Messrs. Birt and Ward, surgeons in High-street, in the Borough. While I was with them, Mrs. Pas singham, the mother of the defendants, resided there, in the capacity of housekeeper, or something better, as she always dined at the table with Mr.. Burt, Colonel Passingham and his brother Robert used to come and see her. I frequently heard her say she bad offended her father by marrying Mr. Passingham • he bad discarded her, but knew he had a regar d for her, and would provide for her.— She said she was the natural daughter of a Welch gentleman; she continued at Mr. Birt's to the time of her death. When she heard that her father died intestate, she lost her spirits and fell into despair, that brought on a fever; and in a fit of delirium, she threw herself from a two pair of stairs window, and was killed on the spot. She was about 32 years of age at the time. Mr. Sergeant RUSSELL (with whom was Mr. Whately and Mr. P. Williams), on the part of the defendants, objected that the lessor of the plaintiff must be nonsuited, as the seisin of Catherine Lloyd was not proved. By a deed of settlement executed in 1746, on the marriage of Mr. Giwn Lloyd with Miss Hill, the estates in question were vested in trustees for certain purposes therein mentioned. — On the death of Mr. Lloyd in 1787, and his widow subsequently, the legal estate not having been re conveyed by the trustees, was still outstanding. Mr. TauseroN having been heard in reply, and Mr.. Baron VAUGIIAN having taken a note of the objection, Mr. Sergeant RUSSELL, in addressing the Jury for the defendant, said that never was there a case more calculated to create prejudice against a defendant than that opened by his learned friend; but lie trusted they would suspend their judgment till they had •heard the case he had to lay before them. The whole of the case on the part of the plaintiff rested on the supposition, that in consequence of the production of forged documents in 1794, a lerdict had been found for Colonel Passingham; and that now on the discovery of that fraud they were to find a verdict for the plaintiff. But what would be the surprise of the jury when he proved to them, that instead of those Pancras registers being the founda tion of the verdict at that trial,—instead of the proof of Mr. Giwn Lloyd's marriage with the mother of Mrs. Passingham, depending on the register of a Fleet marriage, he should lay before them the evi dence of several respectable witnesses which would put the, legitimacy of Mrs. Passingham beyond all doubt. The Learned Counsel, in continuation, said, his Learned Friend had truly observed that the only question in this cause was, whether a marriage ever took place between Mr. Giwn Lloyd and Elizabeth Taylor, the mother of Mrs. Passingham. He said also, that the conduct of Mr. Lloyd to his daughter was conclusive evidence against such a presumption ; but what would the jury say, when, instead of the treat ment described in the depositions produced by his Learned Friend, he should prove to them, by the evidence produced on the trial of 1794, that Mr. Giwn Lloyd had acknowledged his marriage in the Fleet with Elizabeth Taylor ; and that her daughte r , on being sent to Honiwell's to nurse, was supplied with handsome clothes, was treated with the greatest affection during the life of her mother, and at no one time had es'& gone by any other name than Elizabeth Lloyd. The fact was, that Mr. Giw* Lloyd had been a very gay man ; he had sown his wild oats rather widely, and having been introduced to Miss Elizabeth Taylor, he became enamoured with her, and married her in 1740. In 1741 Mrs. knowledge Passingham was born, and shortly after Mr. Lloyd had the misfortune to lose her mother. He (Mr. Sergeant Russell) said the misfortune, for he under stood that she was exquisitely beautiful, and to a man so great an admirer of the fair sex it-must have been a severe affliction. In 1746, tieing of a pretty ma ture age, Mr. Lloyd thought he would establish but the Learned himself by marriage with a family (the family of the ,itwa3sirn.oLt Lloyd was Hills) which must have been the object of hi s . ambi tion. It was then that the: affidavit (which his elusive in his case) was made; Learned Friend had fi p u r e o d du u c Counsel would put it to the Jury from their knowledge of the world, Whether any great degree • of accuracy was likely to be, observed . in a document theothr a t Jury was observation mostb el i voe likely f t 4rr hat . M Lloyd. It time to one jnaccuracy, for It he was' in that a ffi davit d wi an tbo d u d t e t e h rn e e k d n o s : described to be about 30 years of age, and would actually 47 years of ? The age . f act was, that Mr . Lloyd, being about to enter into an alliance whic h be greatly coveted, `Wes unwilli ng that it should be known that he had be previously married lest 'n - quiries should be made resPectin' ' I• g the family of his former wife; and for the same reasons he was de sirous of concealing that there had been any issue by that marriage. From that moment his unfortunate child was neglected ; but when he found that by his second marriage he was unlikely to have any family, his heart relented, and his daughter was taken from 1 that obscurity in which she had - bleu suffered to re- PRICE 7n. 'EEK. 3eans. J, SOU Isaac itain q., of ckin— F. K. year, itock ?ing. n his =lc the