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LORD- REDESDALE. o . ,t . .Tnesdav se' unight this Nobleman sat for the last tithe in the Qourtoi Chancery ; the day was occu pied in discuSsingi a motion of importance, upon which.his Lordship delivered , his opinion at some length ; immediately- after which he addressed a very numerous assembly of the Gentlemen of the Pro fession as follows: " I must now take my leave.- `'hen I cane to this Country I thought 'that I should probably have passed the remainder of my days here ; with that view I formed an establishment, and I proudly hoped to [lave lived amongst you and to have died amongst.. you. But that has not been permitted. •- • " To the Gentlemen of the Bar I have the greatest obligations. I carne amongst. them a stranger; I have experienced from them every kindness, and I Must say, that I-could not have left a Bar with whom I could have lived in habits of more cordial inter course. Perhaps I may (on some occasions lam aware - that I must)' haVe used expressions which have appeared harsh- at the 'moment 5 but I trust they were only such as were suited• to the occasion. My desi . 2ll was not to hurt the . feeling of any, and if I have done so,. lam truly sorry'for it. I wish to depart in pace and good will with all. " To the Officers and Pra&icers of the Court I must say, that though with respeCt to a very few of the latter I have had occasion to animadvert with some severity; their' condua in general has been highly satisfactory. A to the Officers of the Court, they have all, in their several stations, endeavoured to' assist me to the utmost of their power ; they have materially done so ; and I owe them sincere thanks. It would have been my wish to have continued to sit until the Gentleman who has been named to succeed me should have arrived. I believe it was wish also, and I have every 'reason to think so ; and from him I have experienced every degree of politeness and attention. lam sorry that other per sons should have thought me unworthy to ,be in trusted with the Seal during the interval. What Can occasion this (which I cannot but consider as a personal insult) I am unable. to guess ; but I have been informed that a peremptory order has - come to the Lord Lieutenantnot to suffer a moment to elapse in preventing the Great Seal . from longer remaining in my hands. I know not whence this jealousy of me has arisen, or how my continuing to sit in the • Court of Chancery (for 1 could make no other use of the Seal but under the warrant of His Excel-. lency) 'could interfere with any views of His Ma jesty's Ministers. lam proudly conscious of having discharged the duties of my station with honesty and integrity to the utmost of my'abilities. For the office I care not, except so far as it afforded me the opportunity of discharging conscientiously an im portant publii duty. It was unsought for by me ; I came here much against my will; I came from a high situation in England, where I was living amongst my old friends, and in the midst of family. But I was told that I owed it to public duty and to private friendship to accept the office ; and I yielded : I yielded to the solicitations of some of those who have concurred in my removal. This, 1 own, is what I did not expea, and what I was not prepared to bear. " But I feel most of all that so little consideration has been had for the public business and -the inte rests of the suitors of this Court. You must all know the avocations of those who have been named as Commissioners : the Master of the Rolls has al ready as much business as he can conveniently dis charge ; the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron have their several avocations, which must pre vent their attendance in the Court of Chancery. I am extremely sorry that a great deal of business will in consequence be left undone which ought to have' been disposed of before the rising of the Court—but so it has been thought fit. . " And now I have only to say, that in returning to the Country from whence I came, I shall be-most happy if it, should ever be in my power to be of ser vice to Ireland.----qreland, will always have a Claim upon me ; had I continued in the Commons House of Parliament, I might have been able to do much service : in the 'other House that power is much lessened, but, such as it is, this Country may ever command it. " To this Country I have the highest sense of ob ligation ; I do not know that in- a single instance. I have experienCed • any thing but kindness—l have experienced it • from all ranks of people without exception. " Under these circumstances 'I retire with a firm conviction that you will do the the justice to say that I have discharged my duty with honest and conscientious zeal to the extent of my abilities, and that on this head - I have nothing with which to re- . -preach myself." - This Address„ pronounced in a manner extremely feeling and dignified, excited strong and universal sympathy. -Atter a pause of a few moments, the Attorney-General arose, and in the name and by the direEtion of the Bar, - addressed his Lordship in these words : " Thus called upon, and having had an oppor tunity of communicating with a great majority'of the Gentlemen of the Bar, who have practised in the Court of Chancery during the term that your Lord sh:p has presided, I feel myself authorised to express their sentiments on this occasion. " We have a just sense, my Lord, of "those en dowments which have so eminently qUalitied you to preside in a Court of Equity. " Whilst your impartial attention has secured to the honest suitor the full investigation of his claims, your sagacity and patience have taken away liom fraud all hope of impunity and all pretext for complaint. We return your Lordship our - thanks for the instruct ion which we have received in attending to the series of decisions, by which, during a period, of tour years, you have advaneedlhe„ science which we profess... "'.But most peculiarly and from our heafts we beg leave to make our grateful acknowledgments for the uniform courtesy and kindness which we have experienced from you in the discharge of your duty At your Lolidship's Bar. " Under these impressions we take leave of your Lordship ; the consciousness of has in thus well discharged the duties of an elevated and important situation must render yoU independont‘ of our praise Ave trust, however, that this sincere tribute of esteem and gratitude which is now offered to, your Lord ship will not be deemed unacceptable." LONDON :' t rated by R I CBAR HARRIS, of No. 4; m art iept.court, Pow-street ; and Pjblished b) !Lc.' Am At NIIC SCR it es, of South Mol". At the Suzvbi•-riCE, No. 1 11?, • Strand ; where Advertisxients ()niers: for the Puter,Latrrs for the Editor, &c. (lost paid), HOME CIRCUIT. HERTFORD, MONDAY . , MARCH lo.—This morn ing, about twelve' o'clock, Mr. Justice HEATH ar rived, and read his Commission for holding the As-' sizes for this County; After hearing Divine 'Ser vice, the Learned Judge proceeded to the business of the County. There were only four causes on the Civil Side, but the gaol is heaver than usual. DYSON V. TRISBY. This was an action by one horse-dealer against another for slandering his charaeler, in saying he always bought unsound horses, and that he would expose him to the Regiments which he served with horses. Mr. Scrjeant BEST, for the Plaintiff, expatiated on" the value of every man's charade, particularly in those points connected with :his trade ; for, to slan der a man in his trade was not only to injure his re-. putation, but went also to deprive him of his living. The Plaintiff and Defendant, he observed, were both horse-dealers, and the Defendant had sold the Plain tiff a horse, .which proved to be unsound, but he did not for that-reason traduce his character.. He returned the horse, and said no .more. It happened, however, that meeting the Plaintiff's son at Barnet Fait, he (the son) told him to send for the horse home again : upon this the Defendant poured out a volley of abuse against the Plaintiff, called him by several abusive names, too grass to repeat ; said he always bought lame, blind, and spavined cattle ; that lie was i rogue and a - thief, and cheated every body, which he would prove ; and added, that he would go to Woolwich and expose him to all the regimentS which he served ; and the consequence of this was, not only the general loss of char-atter, but also the loss of customers, as he should prove to the Jury, who would no doubt give ample damages in return. To prove this case, he called Thomas Milton, who proved the abusive words, and stated, that he left off dealing with the Plaintiff for above a month in con Sequence of it. The next witness was the Plaintiff's son, to whom the words were spoken. He stated that, be ing at Barnet fair, he told the Defendant to fetch away the broken-winded. horse which he had sold them ; upon which the-- Defendant broke out, and uttered all the abuse stated in the declaration, and swore he would go to Lord Paget, whose Regiment they furnished with horses, and expose the Plaintiff; and that he would go to Woolwich, and let the Ar tillery knoW that he dealt in nothing but unsound horses. - On cross'-exatnination, he said, that he had'said nothing to provoke this abuse, though he admitted he had called him rascal and scoundrel, &c. He denied that he had accused the Defendant of having cheated his father, by selling him a bloken-winded horse. They did hot call that cheating in their profession ;- . it was only deceiving. He added, that his father dealt horses to the amount oft 0,0001. a-year. • Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, for the Defendant, ad dressed the Jury in a very pleasant speech. He read the declaration, in which the Plaintiff' set out, that by the slander, he 'had been injured in the opi nion of our Sovereign Lord the King, and of divers Officers of Cavalry of our Sovereign Lord the King, - who used to buy horses of him, and r ridiculed the nation to which the Defendant had. resorted to give importance to his cause. If, he said,'all the squab bles among horse-dealers at I3,arnet Fair were to pro duce anions, and be tried at Hertford; instead of a beggarly list of poor causes they would have a sheet full, and it would be a most glorious harvest for the Lawyers. Words of heat and anger, like the pre sent, were . never considered as matter for serious da mages, for they did no serious injury to the charader - • of any man, ,-and he had the authority of a late Learned Chief Justice for this assertion., He recolleded a cause in which the Defendant accused the Plaintiff of having committed perjury in a former cat si This was certainly a most serious accusation, and the witness clearly proved the words. It oecurred•to the acuteness of Lord Kenyon, to ask what else the Defendant said; to which the witness replied, " Why, my Lord, he added, that you were a rascal, and all the Jury d—d fools." Upon which that Learned Judge told the Jury, that the Defend ant, by adding him and- the Jury who tried the for mer cause, eVidently spoke in such blind passion, that he was not likely to be seriously believed, con. sequently could not injure the charader of the Plain tiff to any alarming extent; so this was, the case here; the Defendant .had dealt in much unmeaning abuse, and it was not likely it had injured the Plain tiff. As • for the special damage alledged, that Mr. - Milton did not deal-with him, it was too farcical to be for a :moment believed • Mr. Justice HEATH told the Jury that the words were um! . uestianably,aEtionable, but that the special damage alledged was ridiculous. It was like the case of an assault where an apothecary was called in to curb a wound, which any old woman in the parish would manage as well. It was like bolstering up a falling - wall, and deserved no credit. They would consider whether they would give one shilling or forty, the latter of which would carry costs. • Verdia for the Plaintiff—Damao - es is. The two other causes tried to-day were uninte resting, CRIMINAL SIDE. HERTFORD, MARCH L—William Clarke and Robert Ray, two very young men of decent appear-, anee, were indiEted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of George Sheriff, at St. Alban's, and stealing therein 20 yards of lace, 200 yards of cotton, - and a variety of other articles,' of the value of 3001. The Prisoners, as will be seen in the following detail of the evidence, were. convicted entirely on circumstances, as none of the property was ever found on, or traced to them,, nor was there any proof of their having been on the premises. George Sheriff, the Prosecutor, stated, that he kept a haberdasher's sllop at St. Alban's. On the 4th of 06tober last he retired to bed with his family, be . - tween eleven and twelve o'clock. He saw the doors and windows - fast; but, about six 'o'clock in the morning, h *ag alarmed *llll an aceount that his house had been robbed. On examination, he found that a grating s which lighted into the cellar, had been forced up, frame and all, and after the thieves liad thus entered,the house, they .had, with 'a turn-s Crew, taken bff . the boxes of the bolts and locks, and thus got into the shop, which they nearly stripped. He had never heard any thing more of the articles stolen. • Hester Paste deposed, that her .-husband. was in. partnership with a man of the name of .Graves, as 'a livery-stable keeper, at Battle-bridge. She - iecol leaed, that, early in 06tober last, she let a horse and chaise-cart to the Prisoner Clarke, who, when he hired it, said his name was Thomas Humphries. The horse was a dark horse, and the cart was a dark green. He said he wanted it to go to Croydon Fair. He went out about ten o'clock in the morn ing, but lie did not return till six the next morning. Paste, the husband of the last Witness, stated, that 'William Clarke brought the - horse and cart home the morning after he had hired, it, at about half-past six. The Witness told him he must pay for another day's hire, as he had kept it so long. This he readily agreed to, saying, - that they had been delayed by a wheel coming off, the consequence of which was, that his companion bad broken his arm • but as he was to pay for that day, he said he Should.come and have a ride in the afternoon. This the Witness agreed to, and they parted. . . After several other witnesses were examined, the Jury found the Prisoners both .Guilty. Thomas Copland was indided 'for 'ravishing - Ann Baker. The Prosecutrix, aged 18, stated, that she went to the Pri:4oner's house on the) 2th Sept. to buy some bread, which he sold. He asked her to walk in the garden and pick some plumbs; which she did. He went with her, and after they had picked some plumbs he threw her down on the grass and ravished her. On cross-examination, she " said, she did not tell any body of it, nor should she, if somebody else bad not first told her mother. - The Learned Judge immediately diree - ied the'Jury. to Acquit the Prisoner. John Lawrence was indi&ed for a highway•rob-. bery, and taking from John Lincoln two ii. notes, a 2]. note, a half-guinea and some 'silver. . • The Prosecutor,, Lincoln, stated, that he was a farmer's servant, and was returning froM town, where he had sold a load of hay for his master. .It was about two o'clock in the morning, as he passed over Hodde - sdon Common, he was stopped by two men, one of whom came into the cart to him, and rifled his pockets. - He attempted to run away, but the other knocked him down and cut his head. He was positive to the . person of the Prisoner, whose nose was remarkably fiat, as though 'beaten in, and he saw his face distinaly. Edward Parker, the _master of the last witness, stated, that froin the description Lincoln gave of the persons and dress of the two men who robbed him, he, the next morning, went in pursuit of them ; and finding the Prisoner-and another, who,answered the description, at he Spread Eagle, at Ware, he caused them to be apprehended. The Prosecutor immedi ately - recognized- the Prisoner. For the Prisoner, it was proved by several witt. nesses, that he was a bargeman, .and servant to. a. Mr. Wallis, at - Ware ; that at the time of the rob bery, he was coming from London with •a barge,' and slept on board, that night, at Waltham Abbey. Young Wallis was with him, and was awoke at five o'clock by a barge passing; at that time .the Prisoner was asleep. The people in the other barge were also called to prove they saw him. The Learned Judge •observed to the Jury„ that there was no doubt of the robbery ; but this was one of those cases' which sometimes happened, that oi!e person so much resembled another, as to be mistaken for him, and advised the Jury to acquit - the Prisoner. Verdict—Not The other cases in the Calendar were for petty . thefts, &c. • POLICE. GUItDHALL.---Tuesday James M'Guire, a con stable of the night, was brought before. the Sitting Alderman, charged by Mr. Alderman .SMITH, and the Common Council of Bridge Ward, with drunk enness and neglect of his duty. It appeared_ the De fendant; in several instances, absented himself from the watch-house, and had behaved with insolence, in a state of intoxication, when reproved for his mis condu&. Mr. Alderman SMITH,' and the Gentlemen who preferred the charge, intimated that it was necessary the Defendant should be severely punished, in order, to deter other constables from neglect of duty, and to have the business of the watch-house conducted properly. The Aldernian also .requested the Sitting . Magi strate to decide whether a constable could dismiss a charge after . the same had been entered' in the watCh house book, which had been done by the Defendant.: On being answered in the negative, he directed. every constable belonging to his ward in future not to suffer any persons to go, after the charge had been made, but to send them to the Compter. The constable, in the present instance, was fined 20 s. for neglect of duty, and ss. for drunkenness. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. — On Tuesday a dashing Cyprian charged one of the frail Sisterhood with A Violent assault,' destroying her furniture, &c. It appeared that the Defendant, wild had formerly been on very intimate terms with the Complainant, and an inmate in the same house, was joined in wedlock to a Dissenting Minister, a few weeks since, • and the intimacy between the parties at that time ceased to subsist. The wife had been informed that her husband was inconstant, he being fascinated by the irresistible charms of her acquaintance the Com plainant ; and she 'consequently took pains to as certain the truth of the rumour. A servant at the house where the Complainantresided, in Margaret street, was promised a reward to give information, and 'by her aid the Cleigymki was dete&ed in the arms of her mistress. The wife became frantic, beat the destroyer of her domestic happiness un- thercifully, and spread devastation throughout the Whole house. The assault being proved, the Defendant_ was held to bail. FR 7'n. undat everting, the Wife - pr Mr. Crane, hatter; Maidstone', was safely delivered of three liting Male children. On Thursday week, a woman of the name of Eliiabetti Frown ; after travelling 18 miles, was delivered of a child at the Globe Inn, in Carlisle,.though she had not arrived an hout before t and on Monday se'nnight lane Irving, about eleven at night, walked to the workhouse without assistance, and was there, in less than an hour, delivered of a fine boy . ; imme diately after which, notwithstanding every persuasion. she.: 'walked home to -hop lodgings, in English street, a quarter of a mile distant. 114/IRRMD, Yesterday, at Mary-le-bone Church, Capt. Wirt Spratt Rainier, of the Royal Navy,. to Miss Eliza Deare, one of the daughters of Philip Deare, Esq. of Nottingham-place. On Monday, at St. Alban's, Mr. Miles, of Holborn, W Eliza lane Willson i (laughter of Geo. Willson, Eq. of Butz terwick, Berks. Lately, Mr. John Bristowe, Ship-broker, .to Miss Leer, both of Poole. DIED On Saturday last, in Osborn-street, Whitechapei, William Pycroft, Esq. _ On Tuesday, at Holyport, in the County of Berks, Joseph Cobb, Esq. brother of Mr. Cobb, Banker in Lombard-street: . Same day, Mrs. Violette Booth, wise of Mr. Booth, Sur. geon, of Devonshire• street, Golden-square. Last week, Mrs. Bayley, wife of Mr. John Bayley, of St: Martin's. lane. PRICE OF YESTE ' STOCKS. RDAY. India Stock, shut India Bonds, Is. zs. pr. Old Ann. shut Exchequer Bills, 2S. pr. Omnium, 3 per Cent. deferre, Imperial 3 per Cent.,6ok Ditto Ann. 9 Cons.for April [5,64 6t 6G sank Stock, shut Navy S per Cent 92m -5 per Cent. 1797, shut Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per Cent. shut 3 per Cent. Red. shut 3 per Cent Con. soi 6oaii Bank L. Ann. shut Ditto Short Ann. shut To T. TAYLOR, Surgeon, No. 9, New Bridge-street, • London SIR, Edinburgh, May 2, Igoe. N the Spring of 1794 I vide - affliaed with . a Venereal Complaint, which , l treated with indiffer ence \for five month,; but was then obliged to apply to a regular Physician, who put a' temporary stop to the viru lence of the Disease (by mercurial applications) for -some time; but growing, in spite of all medicine and the advice of the first Gentlemen of the Faculty here, worse and worse for two years, I was reduced to a state almost un paralleled and beyond description, being an entire leper, and ulcerated from head to foot.—My head, throat, mouth, nos; legs, arms, &c. have been alternately in danger of becoming useless; in short, I have had from twenty to thirty eating ulcers on my body, and nearly, totally do. prived of sight. It would be voluminous to particula rize all my case—suffice it to say, there never was, or ever will be, one of a more dangerous, or of a more compli cated nature. was long looked upon by my friends, and imagined myself, beyond all hopes of recovery; and, in• deed, in my then condition, death was preferable to my More than miserable state. In this dreadful situation did I drag a most miserable existence, till Divine Providence threw in my Way a Newspaper containing the case of a Mr. B. of- Plymouth—my friends read it, t could not. —I sent and procured some of your LEAKE's PATENT PILLS, which, by using from time to time, am now, and have long been, (after more than four years indescribable distress), in as good a state of health as ever I enjoyed; as a proof of this, I hada fine, thriving, healthy child, born to me a few months ago. In gratitude to God, and in hopes of rendering my fellew-creature. service, I. request you to publish this ; and you may at ally time refer persons whet wish to be satisfied of the truth of this, or further parti culars*, to me or my friends, by letter or person. Asfew cases for badness NNill ever equal mine, and none exceed it, 1 have from experience every reason to assure mankind, that in' your LEAKE's PILLS they will find a sure, .speedy, safe, and radical cure, fie thae most dread ful slur of the Venereal Disease, which is :ailed a Coe- FIRMEPLUES. 191-IN Tl-lOMI'SON. * Insunnountable - fatuity, reasons prevent making my name and address publice but creditables persons really wanting information may also be referred. to me and my friends by Mrs. S. Clark,. Ramsay-Gardens, Edinburgh. Prepared and Sold by the Sole Proprietor, . T. TAYLOR, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, at his house, No. 0. New Bridge-street, Where he will give Advice withoiit a 'fee, to persons talc- - Mg these Pills, and will answer patients letters, if post paid, on the same terms, observing in all cases the most inviolable secrecy, no person's name or case having been mentioned, but at their own particular request, by the Pro prietor, during the course or more than thirty-six year; that he has had the conducing of an extensive sale of the above Medicine, and the praetice arising therefrom. They are also sold by his Appointment, for the conve.. nience of those living at .a distance, by Mr. Baxter, South-bridge, Edinburgh; Mr, Macdonald, Printer, Glas gow, to whom also •Mr. T...reters for his address; at the Perfumer's, No. 35, St. Alban's-street, Pall-mall; Robertson's Toy-shop, No. 103, Oxford-Street; Mr. pis. borough% No. 7, Fish-street-hill, nearly opposite the Mo nument; Mr. Steel's, Bookseller, No, 1, Union-row, Little Tower-hill; Mt. Callwell's, Dublin; and by one person in every considerable town in Great-Britain and Ireland, itoxes of only zs. gd. each, sealed up with full and plain directions, whereby persons of either Sex may cure them selves with ease and secrecy, N. "B. Every Bok sold in' Great Britain is sealed up with a Stamp, on which, by. favour of the Commis sioners, is printed, at the Stamp-0 flice—" T.' Taylor, No. 6, New Bridge-street,"' to imitate which is felony, and all others ire cotinrerfeir VAiIiEN • Professional Men of Education and . • • V-V Responsibility deviate from the general System by the seleCtion of a .pecitliar branch, the sanction of long con firmed success is the best criterion of superiority. Eight years have 1, devoted my practice to the exclusive treatment of Three Disorders and the successful result of my plan gives me additional ardor to oppose, as far as 1 am able, the ravages j ot those Complaints which are the most important in the .Catalogue of Human Infirmities. After initiation into every Branch, as an Army Surgeon, t formed a wish at an early period of -PraCtice to rescue in dividuals froin the ignorance of uneducated men, or the equally'danger6us'precipitaney of general Pratlitioner. The , Three Disorders, to the Cure of which I have de. voted . my Attention, comprise every species of VEN E. REAL INFECTION', whether *Of a recent or long du ration idly, All kinds of debility, whether arising frons the. habits of school-boys, or the indulgences of mature age: And, lastly, - f.nit derangement of the system in wo. men which is called BARRENNESS, or STERILITY. • Numerous Diseases are the result of ignorance, or haste in the treatment .of a simple Gotarrhoea; and it not un. frequently h:ippens th;,,it_tlie seeds of Lite are poisoned by the indiscretion of tin unguarded hour.—lty a superior me. that such Complaints are easily cured; and, even where others have failed,' I trust that l may presume to offei radical re-establishment. Few, however. , are the cases of complicated distresr in this disorder, compared with the calamitous .situations of Mcn, who, from an indti!gence in'a solitary vice, or the prevalent gaieties of a •fashionablz life, acquire that state of Debility, which is the unavoidable consequence of such pernicious habits.. - Where the unhappy sufferer broods over his misery, but carefully conceals nis Mistbrtune; it may be some conso lation for him to know, that although it be an objea of doubt or uncertainty with other practitioners, the removal of these Deficiencies by the gradual progress of Renovas tion, is the acquirement of tiny Experience. If the rites of Bacchus or enus have began to reduce' Manly vigour, much anxiety will be prevented by an early Counterac tion of this languid State ; and in these cases, no great di!fictilty will occui:. But where this Deficiency has for years existed, a proper perseverance is indispensably •equisite to revive the slum bering Sparks of Lite, and to re-animate the Constitution. M A RRI E D :)MEN, who have long been disappointed in their expedations of a Family, may be assured, that in most instances, such deleas are curable by Medical skill. The secresy which is so essential to my undertaking, and the qualifications which have presumed to state, form the basis of my •pretensions, and in coincidence with such this 'intimation is given, that Mr. Ilree may be consulted personally, or by Letters (inclosing a small Note), at his house, No. 29, Arundel 'street, Strand, near Temple Bar, IVY There is an additional Entrance in Water street. adjoining, and the same is Drib oth the doors. Martin !tree, Member al tile Royal College of Surgeons. T-street, Crdsvenor-square ; ( lust be addressed.