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, LATE. REPORT: COURT OF CHANCERY, Au a. 7. LORD CIIEDVVORTH's WILL. - . ' WILSON V. WRIGHT. • , ' - Two motions, in thiscasee came on to be argued i• • to-day. 'l_ he former for a new issue to the •Odurt of. 41 • Elieg's Bench to try the validity of LerdChedworth's 1 . , will, on the point, I.ole.ther his Lordship was in 1• . sound_ Miod at the time of ex6eetiug it. The latter I forgiving a preference to the case, and putting it at the head of the paper fur further dire4ion, that it i might come on to be disposed of on Monday next. . , , - . Mie PERCIVAL, Mr. RICHARDS, and MreLEAGH, in support of the application, for a new trial, produc . . ed thteaflichwits of Dr. Parr and of the heireatalaW, . ' Col.- Wright. The affidavit of Dr. Pare., after ex , ."-! 'pi-easing the reluaance with which -he had yielded so • flu-to his ideas ofeustice as to bear evidence on. theio , 1 , • • sanity• of a person with .whorn he had lived on the 1 ' most intimate terms of friendship, and for Whom he , bad the most sincere regard,, went on 'to state, that with the greatest talents, the greatest attainments, , . - • and the - greatest virtues, •the -Do for firmly.believed that his Lafdship did not possess a peekally-aaiind 7iiintl, in consequence of a propensity to insapity ; , . - commencin , g pisbabiy, with his,birth,, and.,increa sed 0 ty a calamity in life which his Lordship Aqd. cape,- . _ ri6tce.7l. The affidavit of Col, Wright wenttaa;atate his unaeratanding and belief of what : could be 'sworn to by a•Mr.l\lackie., who was intirnately acquainted with Lord Chedworth, and who, as well as Dre Parr, . , ~ • . wnald prove that his Lordship was not iii sound mind. These affidavits e the Learned 'Counsel cona• tented, placad. the matter in a very different . light , a - from that in which it stood on the - former trial, when . . the Delendaiit• had been unprepared with any -evie dente. it now appeared; that in the opinion of Dr. il Parr the Ntibie :Lord was not of sound - mind, and il - , the fa6ts and circumstances on ,which thatludgment was foutided, would enable his Lordship,. when -- they 1'• • . ‘ahould be niure fully before him, to•form au opihion bow far the it tereoce drawn from-them' wascorteote Tee Learned Counsel (lid not pretend to. say e that. his Lordship was already in posse: pion •of .stieff' evi dence as -ought to induce him to direatea new issue tube tried ; but the affidayirs now filed; -Lclearly shewel., that the heir-atelaw had still_ evidence-to bang tor.vard which .waiuld give to the caSe. a very different complexion from that. which it had:hitherto • . bOrne, in this situation, they . submitted that his - Lordship, at feast, would-not he itaalineoo-listen to ~. the aeplieat - ioo of 'the I hunt*, fur expediting, out. Of Its course, tile present -ease,- by , placing it at the . . bead Of the paper bur Mather. directions, .by which ' the heir-areia a• would be altogether excluded from' - -his tight to call the validity of .the will in question ; . while, on the other hand, sheuld'the cause, wait its cotirse, the legate's under the will wouldmot regular. 0 experience the smallest injustice. r 7 -: • ' - • The ATTORNEY GENECIL, SOLICITOR GENERAL, • , Mr. YONBLANQUE, Mr: BELL, and Mr. WtsnAw,, •f % • •fur toe Plaint if' - ', contended t hat the.evidencein -this - cast,; was so cler as no pUssible proof that ,might be l - - . attempted to be adduced could overturn. - But, .be -1 • ' sickes the 'affidavit of Pr. Parr, if taken even by itself, 0 . k . unaccompanted by such a host of, contending•evi- Aencea adlottuted to nothing. He admitted„that Lord II :. a • ' Chedworth possessed the greatest abilities, attain ments and vii tues ; but .that he had a propensity to 0 ' insanity. Had such evidence been given on the• i• ; • trial, could it have had . the effeet of shaking the be !l, ; .ea lief of the Jury in the testianonyof bord'Eldan, Earl - . • Moi.ra, Mr. %Jekyll, Mr. Mills; &c.. all. of :whom - - . sgereed in representing the Noble Lord as being not , ; , only a person of extraordinary -talent, but of great • • acuteness as a Magistrate, and even one whom, above 1 ': Others, they Would have consulted.in .the making of 1— . , their own wills? The eviaenCe expected from an other person e Mr. Mackie, even supposing it should • ' • ' • laave,,ainourted to .the same with Dr. I'arr's,:could .-„, not:have overturned such a phalanx. of proof on the other side. The affidavit of Dr. Parr, the Learned Counsel ebaerved, seemed to the - , Plaintiff in this case rather stranee and inconsistent, when he com pared • pared it With certain letters - from the Dr. to Lord . • Chedworth, . found in -his Lordship's. repositories. i i , ' In one of these, being .an answer to an offer . by Lord ' . i Chedworth of a livitigin his Lordship's gift, the Dr. i after himself declining the faVour, and recommend ing another person as worthy of the Noble Lord's - proceeds e atrana , oceeds to state, that the opinion 1 ) g • ex pressed of him by his Lordship should be a gratified- • , tion to him o the latest momenCeof his life,..:aild a ! a tolace to-him in death.; and-that he - should never e. cease to pride himself in, the friendship of a man so eminent for .his talents, his acquirements, his dis cernment, and his virtues. How far the-testimony . . of Dr. Parr, as to the insanity of Lord, Chedworth, ~ could be received in a Court of Justice e in oppositioh • to -hia own written - testimony, thus. spontaneously • gived, the Learned Counsel would not pretend to say; bUt this they were convinced of, that, when his , . • Lordship attended to the peculiar caution with,which• f • . the affidavit was worded that, if taken at all to imply:on the part of D ' r. Parr, a. belief of Lord Chethvorth's insanity; it was contrary -to. the senti . ea . . ments expressed by hint in his letters ; and that it was_ diret.tly in the face of all the evidence adduced t • one he trial, by many of the first characters _in this' I e country, who had been intimate with the Noble Leed •'" • fiom his earliest youth ; 'his Lordship could 'never . . - 1 , esteem it a sufficient ground on which to Order a new - ; I • issue to be tried., If such was his Lordship's opinion . the Learned Counsel submitted, the So.ener the af- I I _ - . fairs were allowed to get out of Court the.better. t ai , The LORD Caratacitheou remarked, howadesirable 0 it would be, and how advantageous toci i • to . the ends. . 0 of justice, if it were possible that those whd admini stered it should be unacquainted with theparties who came. laelhre them. It was this made the ,tr;al hy jltry so truly the peculiar boast of this eountry, where 1'.2 • • inch whose nathea were promiscuously drawn froin amongst a mrtain given,,nunaller, aided by the advice of the Judge, were to du justice hetween: the parties. The person princip•.liy interested iu this case,, in set .•: tile; i!tide the Vv iii, . it. happenedvtbat his. Lordship knew well,. and highly. regarded. Their fathers had '.- • been friends, drid, if he could do ,the -Defendant a; .. . sera ice it would give him pleasure to do so. The '. • .ers'on principally interested on the °thee side, - it• ~; . *as W,elif•kneWri,'•avaa aisoode whom he- highly es- :. • . ' feeMede--his Own Secretarye-ean'office which :he had kiadly accepted of, not op account of ,the situation itselt, but at the request of, and its,an obligation, conferred on:, his Lordship. The Worthy' and Rev. Gentleman too, •who had made - the afiidaVitin this. case, it teas also his Lordship's goOd fortune,to know, and to admire and esteem him. for his many great and elscellent, qualities. With every' good .wish, therefore, to every person concerned, Ibis bUsiness. was to . endeavour to- adhere to thejustice and'equity of the case. His - Lordthip then proceeded to lake a general view pithe evidence necessary in an ailedged case of insanity,. which he thought had been happily and clearly laid down, by Lord Thurlow, in the 'ease of the Attorney-General and' . Pantlier—hamely e that where a persoh had, time, been the subje& Of a commission of lunacy, .or of any public or even private reStraint, the onus p:obandi.that the Will or Deed sought to be supported had been - executed in a lucid interval 'should be on' the party setting iteup. In - every other case, sanity heihg to be presumed, that the onus of proVing the insanity lay with the party alledging it. He admitted that there might. be cases where. a person, even where executing with ability and acuteness, every relatiofe in life, even that a Magistrate, might have -swine Morbid cause lurk ing - in his mind, which, when awakened, would ren der him incapable' of executing his. Will. recol-, le&ed, however, in his,long praCtice, only one in stance of this kilrd. It vas the case of Mr. Green , wood,' an eminent lawyer,' who on the occasion of his-father's death, when he , was seized with a sudden indisPosition, had - a glass of warm brandy-and water administered to him by his brother, in eonsequence of:rtvllich a dlirirum ensued, which eontiAed for nsiderable time.. He afterwards:, however, - reco vered, so far as to he able to do businesS as whale. :but a morbid touch remained, 6y which; he was in 'eapable'ever afterwards of separating the ate - of his brother ; end his own sticeeeding malady - , freheeack other; and , it even:appeared that such feeling hefted itself Keith thee 'execution of his Will, by whieh he disinhorited his h . rother. On a trial of the - validity of this Will, it. was at first .set aside, but on a new trial,. the Judge insisted so strongly in.fiivobr - of the presumption arising frOmfrgeherashundness of mind, that after a great deal of litigation, the mat ter was coniproinised7by the parties dividing the'pro perty..• Butwas there any allegation of such a tier . bid cause beep ? _ That was notieven allede - ed. So sti-&ng- a ease of perfect soundness-Of niiedlie could :hardly conceive; and with all' that confidence which; while at the Bar, he felt in behalf of any Cause &n,, trusted to him, he should almost have been ashamed to , defend i theaCtion ivhielr had been tried.; for what did ;the proof of insanity amount to, but that, when cold; the Npble Lord put-a cloak about his should ers, : which; When ;cvarin, 'he threw Of: ? 'Was it pos, sable for him tothit'yle that the - affidavits now before, him altered the ease? Or'onght, he now to order Dre Parr into the Wittiesses' Box in the Court :of King's Bench, .under any expeaation that his opi-' n kin would overturn that of LordEldon,Mr.Cooper, Mr. Jekyll, Mr: Mills, &C. Ought he,"particularly, to .do .so - whet, Dr. Parr's parole testimony must be' 'met by his own written evidence ? Would Dr. Pare think a persOn who; accordieglo'his present state. meat; should not hitt'r., the disposal of 101." a fit dis poser of the most sacked of all trusts.? „Would be wish it to be iffiderstood that it' was the friendship of a lunatiC which- he po highly prized ? Or that . the notice'and regard of such a man was to be his grati fication through life, and his.solaCe indeath ? His ' Lordship declared, ,that a 6 eVidence.which . 610 J -host romantic' imagination could deviseshould ever-con vine 6 him that a new trial should be granted. 'He therefore , hoped e that. the. Defendant -would not per severe, or use the opportunity which he should al low him, in not granting the,other Motion; again to: bring forward, this application.. .The e Defendant might calculateon the Chande of another person fill ing that place with contrary sentiments from his' Lordship; but be assured him there-was no possibi lity of his changing iis. opihion: , l s, to, the other Motion, he shouldhot grant that., that he might not' . do any thing contrary, even to what might he sup posed strid usage. He saw great hardship, how ever; in keeping property in that Court over which rthe.party claiming it ,could have no possible right; and he warned litigants iu this 'situation, 'and who pertinaciously - insisted- on" keeping ,their adversaries in Court till their'. cases should conic on of course, that he' should. visit them accordingly ; in jtidgihg of the costs.. . The Solicitor for the Defendant expressing a belief that after. what bad f4lle.n front his, Lordship, he should be authorised to agree to the Plaintiff's Mo tion; the case was allowed, to be napntlotied again in' a few days. . following . Letters, which were read in Court, -coming from, a Arian ot• coniiderable political and.literafy crcles, may be very acceptable to our neaders': " Hatton; Sept. -6-, t3a r. " My Loan.—On Friday night t had the honour of receiv iitg from IVarntick... your LortishiP's letter.. Ott Saturday there; wasno pOst; and; therefore, I could not have the sails faction of sending any ansiV.n. before to-day. My Lord,. I tell yoti the real sentiments of frik soul, when I declare to you, that stfarcely any event in my life gave me such exnui.: - : :size delight, of so tench hiriest triomnit as I felt frbrn the - perusal - of your . Lordship's'letter.. The importance of the oiler itself, the gracious manner its which it is conveyed to me, the.courteouS and friendly spirit which pervades eery sentence and eVerV expressioo; demand my niost - unfeigned and respectful acknowledgments ; to the latest moment of my. eiistenee I shall remember your kindness' and in that remembrance I shall find a pure and perpetual source of gra 7 tification to my best moral feelings, and of solace under the infirmities of approaching old age. At present, my Lord, 'I, have only the living of_ Wederton, ,in Northamptonshire. The yearly profits of it, after varibus deductions ; are sonic.. what ItSs than ;.but frofn the legal conditions-of eds-. ,tance, the Rectory of" Wederton cannot be ',Olden, even by 'dispensation, With the Vicarage of IVinterborne, and, tintre foie, lam undcr"the painful necessity of conlessin my in ability to avail iny,self. of YOU/ in.).,t geozrons,intentions in my, favour n but the merit of those intention§ has no depeod- - ence on the unto Ward circumstances of my situation ; and, therefore, I will once more intreat your Lordship to accept my sincere and cordial thanks... To your injinc.'.lion of secrecy, I Will pay a temporary, but I am quire incapable of ing an- unqualified: and unlimited 'obedience. My grati tude, my'pride,•my- sense of propriety and justice, will not suffer nie to conceal from the world, for ever, that Lord liedworth' has been pleased.tO consider me - as not unworthy of his protection ; and permit- mei-. my Lord, to onortO youi yet farther, that in the account -which they who survive 'me . may 'probably beinclined - to give of inT pursuits as a Scholar, of My principles as . a Religi4hist,• 'and tny'fortune as an Ec-. clesiastic, I shall not only be deirouS, but arnbitibus, of hav ing it 'recorded th.dt yOlt were my Patron. - Pardon meter , serving_ this it - Untie to the disinterested friendship, to the in-' telledual attainments, to the 'literary, pdlitical, - and Moral sympathies of a Nobleman wiloml . have long been aco.:l=l: i timed to r ‘ esped ; and he asson:d.. that I Will not distress Your delicacy, nor 'obstrud. you: - •eves in the dispOsal of, the living now vacant, by proclair thr....cOntents i of your let ter, till you have made choice of some other incumbent. - -- . Thus far, my , Lord, I have been d:sehargiog a sacred duty to your-friendship, and it 1,; with mingled feelings of reludance. and confidence that I "JCR tore to throw . myself upon your candour; for excusing the Se& great and'very.tmusual liberty: which I arri about to take, in subtnitting to your Lordship's considetation'that which fellOwSn Inv truth, my Lord, I• should not presutrie to riik the Toss of : g6Cid opinion arid gbod Willifroth . .any human being bysnchfa . coinninnicatiOn; unless: my mind were deePlY hnpressed with the convigion :of stet : : ling good Sense and radiEal godd nature, in the 'persOUto wham it is made.: I c';! -- t.lia.ve:little tionbt that Your Lord shiP will in the circh; of your Ott ii accniaintance, find a Pro per objed forYcntr patronage ; nothing, indeed, can be more adverse to what.PoUght to do, or more ; remote . from what I wish to tin;' than•interfere in any Ineasure yo'y Mean to take about the living.of WinterbOrne, You will, therefore, have the goodness..to_ consider me not .as urging a request, but as stating a'case, when 1 , say that in mKneighbourhood there is a Clargyman, whose personal deserts andpersAnal misfortunes have long interested me in' his worldly concerns. • fle has the careof-a small 'Country School, with a toler ' able house,• and an annual salary of! about Sot. • He was educated at Oxford. Ile is more 'than-fifty yeambld. He 'ha's 'foronany,years - - served two Curacies, very-distant - from each other, for a. stipend • Which, with the surplice fees, artiOu»ts . to nearly - 601. a year. He has 'no Patron, and, in consequence, partly of'chatity; and partly, of. sentiments more congenial to the trite spirit of the constitution than the' miserable and Merciless 'prejudices of the' day, he has no chapce of preferpent. But he is. a Very good Scholar. He is a very - Sensible Man. His principles are honest, his appli_ cation to'books'is extensive; andliisleondud quite ineproach... able. He has - on - eicellent wife and six children, and is :not unlikely to have more; with an income So scanty as' that for which hq toils, it is utterly . impossible : for him to make . the smallest provision for so numerous a family at his death ; .' and, with an aching heart, ,have I known that, during the late seasbn.Of general distress, he has' foundit very difficult to procure food and raiment-'for the passing day, My Lord, I. '' alp doing an a 6,1 of homage to your wisdom and humanity, in 'that which I have thusovritten about a belOved friend. But I once more boseech your Lordship to acquit: me.of all in tention to embarrass you by solicitation"; and once more I will implore your pardon for troubling 3;ouWit h a statement, which neither the experience I have hld of your kindnesi, nonthe trust I can repose inYoUr liberalitY,,,would permit ine to suppress. Pray do inc the favour of presenting my best compliments and best •NiShes to` our enlightened fiiend; Mr-G teen. 10 a year or two I shalli in all probability, vi. • sit Norfolk ;. and happy shall' I be in obtaining your leave.to partake of tliat refreshment . to 'thy spirits, and that eNercise toony 'understanding, whichthe conversation of Mr. G.' and LordChetiworthwill abundantly supply. A Petition, in Lunacy, prayed that 2801. per'ann: might be allowed for the maintenance of the Luna tic; and.stated further,-that the chara&er of the dis ease. Was imbecility, approaching to idiotcy, whiCh required 'government - - and 'restraint, as' the patient Was frequently violent and unruly, and that she was in aTrivate receptacle for LORD CHANcELLoR.---The allowance prayed iof• is highly to b 9 approved, if it be properly applied, for comfort and enjoyment._ Petition states the disease to be iinnecility, approaching to idiotcy, yet' accompanied with such Paroxysms of fury as to call; for the restraint and discipline of a receptacle, for. lunatics : these are incongruous,, and I - apprehend, most uficornnion symptoms to be combined in the site perpon. "Receptacles for lunatics are, in n7..ttry "MYLa s n---After many scruples and much considera - cases, of the highest 'Convenience, - and even of ne- tion; I have determined to lay before ,you my wishes ; and CeSSity, as where the lunacy, requires absolute re- • as they are founded on my respect t for you, and my gratitude straint, or where •the means of the lunatic are not\ : towards you, I:c.sOnfide in your .gorid sense,and your ca,nclotir stiffiei,eilt to procure thOse advantages in a private . to excu s e unreserved communication of them. as- . custody, which can be provided .at a much lower slued, my Lure',, that to the latest hour of my life I shall re 'rate from the arrangements ofilarge-establishment; member with joy your intended patronage to 'myself, 4ml but where the estate of a lunatic will .bear such a , your noble protethon of the man whom I reecitninended to large allowance as is here most properly prayed for,. your.favour. He, his wife, his children-, his relations, his it is ibuclr fitter, if the case will at all allow it, that well-wishers, and eminently among them the writer of this heshould be privately taken care of by those who.: letter, sill often recolleEl and often proifounce,• with heart are bound by eyeryprinciple of humanity to Mitigate; felt satisfaaion, the honoured name of Lord Cliedworth. his sufferings. I knew it is not a pleasant office for. • • Now I will not dissemble from you. the anxiety I feel to. relations 'to undertake, but Ave ought -to be prepared possess some permanent and visible mark . of the distinguish. to carry, the . burthens which PrOvidence imposes ' ed good will you bear towards me, and will you forgive me; .and it is the duty of this Court to take care thlt.they • rity Lord, for i addini, tha! I should be delighted to se are properly supported. Ithrow out this al a gene a piece of plate II: with the, name, of my Noble Friend ral .observation, and. not ..at all as any .censure upon and Patron; •In this ` way - already posses:S. some 'memorials , the parties now before rue; but I wish the'state of . this person to: be - inquired into. ".1 have the honour to be, my Lord, ' •' With great Tesped- and great thankfulness, • ." Your Lordship's most obliged and " Obedient faithful Servant, • . 61 S. P.,) " Right lion. ; f)RI ChedwOrth, &c. LONDON Printcti by RI CU- 11) HARRIS, of Na. 4, Martlett-court,tow-street ; and h) W S L. 1.1 A!t XRMIGILR SCRIZr s, :of South Moltoi At the SLIN.OFFIcx, No. 1 1(..!; Strand ; where Alvertis•pnents Orders for the Paper, tellers for tilt: kdit4r, c. (tost-paid), to be. not wholly diSregarcled—Mr. Coke, of NOrfolk; gave me. a precious cup, the late Ldrtl Dartmouth gave me an espergoe, and several of my pupils .have given me other marks of their estes:n, lod their names are recorded on their pre.sentsi.,;. Upon such a-delicate subjea as this, and to such an:- - xcellent*Tpan as your .Lordshii - ‘, nil extra nunicrum faces.re moduniqne, said . a wise observer of humarlife; and surely I should be very deficient in judgment, anal very coarse in manners - , if I were to presume to point : Out any article as preferable to another, in the way of Tiner.e convenience —No, my Lord, it is not. the intrinsie,value of the thing rests my pride ---it is the shirt" of the giver Which I regard, and the solicit Ode. I feel to- have. some becoming memento . of Lis f leaf kinrinesa, on ‘yltich I may cast my owirtycs in sea. sons of festivity, and op which my children may look here, after with sympathetic joy and - thankfulness. More I need not say, and for saying's() much I have no other excuse then the courage and mind with which I am' animated by my re ted,dx perience of yOur disinterested and generous friend: 7 shlitowardS Me—you will be glad, aye, my Lord, you will be very glad to hear, that part of my errand to town was yr; make•arrangnnents about a prebend estate, which nest yeai ,will come into my possession, and add considerab:y tm the comforts of declining rife. I have been Much - harassed by bpsineSs,,and sorely afilieled with the academical I leave town on Monday,-and shall hope to be indifiged with a letter from you; dire6ted to me; at the Rev. Dr. koutlys; President of Nlagdaline college, oxford. lam much vexed -at not having seen you here during my stay. It is an awful time, but • I have not yet abandoned ill hope:: of peace—Pray _present my best corlaplithents to: Mr; Green—his Bonk is safe, and 'I will return it as soon as I can ;wit hara'rd. My, house at Grittleton Will be fitted up for summer resi deuce, So as to receive me ill igo4, and I hope to have the henoUr of seeing You: Cordship there-and Mr. Green. haps I shall make repriSalsbYa•trip to Ipswich. ".1 have the honour to he,•tny Lord, ",Your Lordship's much obliged and sincere Friend; and veirrespeelful,obidient Servant, " S. Piatlt." March Ig, Friday, No. 33, Carey-street." "MY 1;6 R. ei,---ACCcp c "my: very -best thanks for your last 'very - obliging letter-1 inclose tor your perusal g little soription which I lately wrote for a Temple of. Libertr, he .. . gan by thelate.D4ke of Bedford, and. completed, according toliis dying instru6tions, by the present Duke. • I think that - your Lordship and Mr:. Green Will -like it for. its plainness and conciseness, and you - Will have the goodnesSto let it be -transcribed,. as I have no other copy. Yam .- own eruditicn and taste will suggest to you, that in Latin InscriptiOns all pomp of phraseology should he avoided, as having no =err-• rant from antiqUity ; and, inconformity to this rule, I sii:111 prepare what is to be eugraien on the' present which your Lordship intends for myself. May I take the liberty of ask. ing your Christian naive ? There is a struggle between my re. sped and delicacy for, your Lordship on the one hand, and Illy. regard, to classical prnpriet„y on the ether. 1 cannot quite de termine on the form of %Lords till I kbOw., the kind of thing for which they, arc to be used,.. and when I. do know it, per haps my judgment may not Induce, me to specify it: you, my Lord, are well aware of the numberless and inexpressi, bledifficulties which a 'man of letters must feel - in adapting his' ideas 'and Ns - Ords , 'foi Moder n.objeeis to the cncient itodt.ds• for hicriptions. You see the source of my scruple anl fears, and you, wiil ekercise your own discretion in-removing them. " 1 have the Honour to be, with great respell, and with' • " a truly thankful sense of your' indness, my-Lord, " Your Lordship's very faithful Friend, and • Obedient - htimble Servant, " Hatton, Aprils, • "S. PARR." "Right lien. Lord ChedWorth,lpswich, Suffolk." • TROTTING AGAINST*TIE. : --A wager has beerx held. between. Messrs. FREETII and CURZON, two Gentlemen of Sporting. celebrity in the• vicinity or Birmingham, that the latter ." did not find a horse or mare that would trot, 36 miles in three successive hours." Mr. C. seleaecl a mare belonging- to a friend in BirminghaM, who, trotted the required disf tance, witWease, in 2 hours 46 minutes and a balf. She carried 12 stone 81b.... Lieut. FAIRMAN, wel . ear, has accepted' Captain BARCLAY'S late challenge: against all England, to walk 100 miles. FroM the` tried bottom of both 'Gentlemen, the contest will, ‘doubtless, - ,b very' sharp one; but "from the superior physical..poweri of the Captain, and the, great lent;th of the distance, it is thought that he will win,. The terms of the match are not yet decided 'upon: We-understand, however, that" it is intended to take place. some time in cialober, and at a great distance from town. ' Mr. Fox, one'.or the most Ifsefhl men in the • world, and for whom the people grieve.— vVhat ,a pity would it be to loSe bitirat this period, by th t ' subtile malady piopsy, :which; after tappinf.T . , is selciorn cored 'Coe common way of treatment. But Mr. - 13-inm; Oerkenwell, after being three thne's, tapped,. and akll..d CO, W3S ,safelv / shred, 1805, ti) Dr. GARDNER, Long Aere.—P. S. The Dr.. i;.€4;.Wy consulted on the mosc&iticat . eases of Worms, &e.---The Rev. Mr. Eizatis knows the aboVe'to 1)6 a faLl. IIRIfI ' On Sunda'y last, at Dalhousie Castle, th'e Right Hon. the Countess of Dalhousie, aa Son and Heir. • On - the iSt ult. at Gordon - Llidge, the Lady oPIZ - tigrldier. C,ia Cordon Cumming; of a Sin.' - --• DIED. Yesterday, in .child-bilt.h, in the 29th year of her age, at, her father's house, Cumbridgefstreet, Sr. James's, Mrs. licit, wife of John 13e11, Esq. of lir‘g , k,green, -1-I:inunersmirb. • same mprning, at his -house in 131kr . i.v6- Leo, after a long, indisposition, Mt. - Henry-Turner: • On Saturday the 24 inst. .at.her nowt: I.olver Green, Bristol, Mrs. Erances Flotehkin, in the 7.1 t year of tier 14 , 4% On Sunday last, at F3irytter-1-lOnst, Ttinton, Remnant, E.sq; • - On Tuesday the 29th ult. in Guy's-inn, Le . ),vis . ,Cliiibrtli E Lately, at the. ilig.)t Wells, Bristol, Mrs. Roper; wife 6f Edward Koper, Esq. of Ba,ltypild6r, 'County • Roscommon, Ireland. • • • , , • .. . , On the :loth of August last, at 'conk, in the Eist Indies, Captsin folna Bute,- of the Win: East-indi-a Conipany's 7 ttt Regiment of Native Infantry, Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces under General Jones. FRi(..E YT: ATOCKS RI) A. V. . . . Bank St:ooc, 224 a. 1 Inctia St o ck,. Havy.i per Ct 97 S 981 98' i l v India Bqnds, 13. 2S. dis. i per Cent. 1 797, New Ann. I risk 5 per Cent. - - Exehgqter.l3ith s 2S. p:. ra. 4- itar Cent. 84 ii• - ' dis. par , . ; per Cent. Rt.:0.05;1 1 1i Oirniiurn, to ii i per Ct. Con 64 i. a - ./ 1 n pc: ri aI 3 per Cedt. 64i Bank I... Ann. 1`61'13-16ths 1-1 Ditto Ann. : _ Ditto Short Ann. j•cons. for a6tbAug. 642 6; 641 ros must be addressed: