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LAW REPORT. COURT OF \ CHANCERY, Atm. tB. 71 - ILTORIt LORD ERSKINS. CHANCELLOR, AND Si IS 11014. THE MASTER 07 THE ROLLS PUZCELL V. WN AMAR ESQ. WE are at length-enabled to acquit our promise to our Readers, by presenting them with a summary of. this extraordidary and important Case. The transac tions, which we shall briefly describe as they have • been proved in the progress of the cause, will be found to develope the highest degree of honour 'and liberality on the part of the Defendant. The Plain tiff, le-slices Purcell, now upwards of - 56 years of age, is the eldest daughter of the late John Pur cell, Esq. formerly Deputy Governor of the Islandof. Tortola, and the Defendant, John M‘Namara, Esq. a Gentleman of Very considerable property 'in• this. country. As long ago as the year 1771 Mr. Pur cell died, having previously, by his will, bequeathed. the sum of 70001 to each of his daughters, Frances Purcell, the Plaintiff, and Margaret Purcell, her sister.- He devised his estate, consisting of a plan tation in Tortola, to his son, John Purcell, for life; subject to the above legacies. He appointed Michael M' Tamara, Esq. then residing in Great George -street, Westminster, .the near relation of the present .Defendatit, and also Sir John Boyd, And two other Gentlemen, his Executors. His daughters' then lived tat the West end of the town, and were frequently at the house of Mr. Michael M'Namara, who took them under his protedion. Mr. Purcell and his sisters were at that time, or very soon after all of age. The Defendant was a youth jtist frOm school, and under the guardianship of his relation, Mr. ?Michael Nl' Namara, who had adopted him with the intentien of making him heir to his property. ,At this - period young MeNamara of course contracted a very cloSe intimacy with the two Ladies, who were in the constant habieof visiting his relation. .In that friendship all the .Proreedings of this cause. originated. :The Ladies :pees:44 into a course of faShionable extravagance infinitaly beyond their for tunes ; and the Defendant, whose expeetations from . his relation were generally known, availed himself of his credit, though a minor, to borrow large sums of money, which he from time to time advanced them, and frequently to relieve them from arrests for debts. Ile was equally la eish of hisp€cuniary assistance to the brother; who resided with his sisters, on his- arrival irons Tortola, where hr had married a woman from whom-he afterwards separated.. Between this:period and the year 1776, Mr.-Trevanion, an eminent Mer , thant, and Consignee of the West India estate, who had been indebted to-old Purcell in 11,0001. was in advance to his - children, so unbounded had been their extravagance, in upwards ofooool. and the inherit ance of the whole estate was not worth,. according to the valuation made eof it upon oath, above 33,0001. Mr. TreVanion, therefore, was desirous - ef closing his connection with the concern, and the house of Mr. Alexander Grant undertook the ma nagement of it. A mortgage of the estate was exe cuted by,Purcell and his sisters to Mr. Alexander Grant, as a security to him foi paying off Mr. Tre vanion's debt, and the annuities with which the estate was charged, as well as various other incum brances. Mr. Grant'contirwed to be the Consignee till 1782, when he died. By this time the Defend ant, who had inherited hiS 'relation's fortune, and married a Lady of, great wealth, was largely , in ad, vance to the Purcell family. . Their joint securities to the De.....-.ndant for monies paid on their account amounted to no less a sum than 22,2061. and up- Watsls. The brother had nearly ruined his fortune W)re his arrival in England, and hesthen partici pated in all the extravagance- of his sisters, princi paliyat the expence of the Defendant,. whose ill paced friendship prompted him to relieve them, and save them from perishing in a prison. TheDefend an haying thus tar involved himself, was advised by itte late Lord Kenyon, and other Professional Gen tlemen, to take every possible joint security from the Plaintiff, her sister, and brother ; and acCording lv certain deeds were prepared by Michael Bray, and Isarles Butler, Esqrs. and other, eminent Conveyans -tern, fbr securing the debt due to the Defendant, as :well as all ulterior advances. Upon Mr. Grant's deathit appeared there was 14,3001. due to him, and 'his representatives would have sold and dismantled, and, of course, have destroyed the estate, had not the Defendant, thteugh the medium of Jas. Baillie e Esq. t considerable .West India Merchant, - paid 'olf that , debt - also. The.result of all these transactions was, that the Purcells became ultimately indebted to the Defendant in the enormous sum 0f42,5 141. for which 'be accepted the estate, valued only at 33,0001. as a . security, and at the same time. agreed to allow John 'Purcell an annuity of 6001. and his sisters annuities of 2501. each. It appeared that John Purcell died in • 1795, insolvent, and considerably indebted to the Dee -fendant exclusive of the sums already mentioned. The several conveyances refered to, our limits will not ads -mit of.' our enumerating. It is only necessary to say, they were settled by the first Counsel on behalf of Ike Purcells, and the principal one, dated Nov. 4, 1786, conveying the estate to the Defendant its 'fee, was signed by the Plaintiff at Calais,whither she had - retired. It also appeared, that at the, time she executed 'this deed she expressed the utmost gratitude to the -Defendant for having made an arrangement which -alone could save her from the miseries of a gaol in a foreign land. A number of letters were exhibited, 'containing the warmest acknowledgments on the pert of Miss Purcell, for the disinterested kindness shewn by the Defendant to her and her family.— Such - is the general outline of the fa& proiede The Plaintiff instituted this suit at the instigation, as the Defendant alledged in his answer, of her attorney, and Robert Lincoln, a discarded steward of the-De fendant's. The Plaintiff, Miss Purcell, although they had 'acquiesced for upwards of twenty years, in the - adjustment made, with .an immediate view to' her best interests, inferred by her bill, that the Defend ant bad exercised an undue influence-and controul "over I.er, to induce her to sign the deeds of convey ance, and therefore prayed that they might be set aside.—The Defendant, by his answer, and the proofs and vouchers in support of it, verified the whole of his accounts, and proved all - the particulars we have stated. The facts received further confir mation from the answer of Margaret' Purcell, the sister of. the Plaintiff, who not only gratefully ac knowledged her own and her sister's and brother's pecuniary obligations to tile - Defendant, but dis,, tinaly swore that she did hot believe her sister would. haye been capable of so ungrateful a-proceeding as filine , this unless she had bees: induced to do so by p some improper influence and advice. The evidence produced on each side was extremely vo luminous. Upon the cause being heard, the late Chancellor (Lord ELDoN) ordered the several deeds to be set aside, and an account to be taken between the- parties. The Defendant, conceiving himself . aggrieved by this decree, which, he had reason to had been principally sounded on certain parts of the testimony of Robert Lincoln, his discarded, steward, and since discovered to be materially ineor red, petitioned the Chancellor fir a re-hearing. His petit on was sanCtioned by the precious opimoAs of Mr. FONBLANO.UE, MI% THOMSON', and Mr. Acait, who severally stated their object ions to Lord anotz's decree in writing, and gave their reasons. They considered it a decree absolUtely against evidence, manifestly unjust, and such as the COurt would be induced to vary upOn a re-hearing. The cause came on a second time last-Tenn, before thepresent Chan cellOr, Lord ERSKINE. Mr. VONBLANQUE first addressed his Lordship on behalf of the Defendant. He spoke at great length, and with much force and eloquence. He took an ample and detailed review of all the faEts alledged by the bill, and, denied by the answer, and particularly pointed his remarks,at the erroneous and biassed im pression produced on the mind of his Lordship's noble predecessor, by the false testimony of the Defendant's unfaithful steward, Lincoln. A-most material part of that testimony related to a ledger, containing the De fendant's accounts with the Purcells, out of '.vhich certain leaves had been cut, and others pasted toge-: ther.—Lincoln's evidence had insinuated, that these mutilations of the ledger were for the purpose of pre senting the accounts ig an' imperfect shape but by a copy taken by Lincoln himself ; -before the original -was del►vered to the Defendant, and since fortunate ly discovered, it appeared that they had been made with a view to conceal his own errors. The Learned Counsel, with a degree of candour which his Lord-, Ship could not avoid ex pressing his approbation of, of fered, in this stage of the cause, to let the Plaintiff go into any additional proof that might be thought likely to develope the . accounts of the Defendant, and he consented that her Agents and Counsel should have access to every private paper, letter, and memoran dum in his handi, or in the hands of any other per- Son. He shetd by a series of the clearest deduc tions, that all the, deeds between the parties, from the first to the last, were cautiously prepared by the ablest- conveyancers of the day, with' a view to the interest of the Purcells; . that they had been executed with eveiyrequisite formality ; that they had been nearly. 20 years acquiesced in, and would still have continued to have operated to the advantage of the Plaintiff, had it not been for an infamous conspiracy against the Defendant, of which she had suffered berself . to 'b: made the instrument. Mr. iktoistpsont and Mr. AGAR followed on the same side. They expressed their confidence that the event of the trial would establish the upright conduct of the Defendant throughout the whole of his trans at-lions with the PurCells, and terminate in the com plete exposure of the artful and wicked machinations of the Plaintiff and her confederates, The SOLICITOR GENERAL. argued the case for ,the Plaintiff. He assumed that all the allegations con tained in tbe Plaintiff's bill were true, and that the evidence on the part of the Defendant, by whi6h they hal been contradi&ed and disproved, was not entitled to credit. Mr. HART adopted the same course of argument, and endeavoured to discredit 'the testimony on behalf of the Defendant, which, however, if his Lordship believed, he admitted was decisive in his favour. Mr. FONBLANQUE replied. He maintained,. as he had done before that the whole proceeding was the result of a concerted plan and premeditated scheme, between Miss Purcell, her Attorney, and Lincoln, to sully the character of hef benefactor, and to im pute to him a&s of injustice, of which the whole tenor of hiS condtia through life, and towards her in particular, had proved him incapable. • Haying thus distinctly, and, we ark: persuaded, accurately, detailed ail the leading points df7this singular Cause, we 'have only to add that Judg ment which, after an interval of several weeks,- was this day pronounced. The MASTER of the ROLLS delivered his opinion. He observed that, after the full discussion the case - had undergone at the Bar, he did not apprehend it .would be . necessary to enter into any very detailed Statement of the various fa6t s which had been brought before the Court. His Honour adverted to the fans nearly in the terms we have already stated them. He considered that the principal question was,Whether, under the circumstances' of the case, Miss Purcell was bound by the deeds of conveyance she had ex ecuted for the purpose of securing to Mr. McNamara her own and her sister and brother's debts. To de termine this question he thought it necessarTto ex amine what had been the relative situation of the par ties at the time when the transaalious His Honour observed, that Mr. M‘Namara's admit .sion left nothing doubtful on this part of the case. He bad candidly stated, that he stood in the relation of a friend and proteetor to them The whole of His Honour's remarks were confined to this single consideration : he thought that the deeds, however ad vantageous the arrangements under them might have been to the interest of the Purcells, could not be al lowed to stand, if the Plaintiff, who was a principal party, thought proper to institute a suit for the purpose of setting them aside, because, regularly and formally as they had been executed, she was at the time she signed them to a certain extent under the influence of the Defendant. His Honour having taken this ground as his principle of reasoning, proceeded to comment upon the several deeds of conveyance. He observed, that the consideration which had in ' duced Miss Purcell to sign them was, the debt con tra6ted by her brother, though materially increased by what she and her sister had at different times obtiin ed from the friendship of the Defendant,. This debt, so due from her brother, he was ofopinion, she could not, according to the stri& rules of law, becharged with, ex cept as far as thp late decree bound her. His Honour concluded by saying, - that the Plaintiff was not lia ble for her brother's debt, although she had affixed her hand to deeds by which she professed to secure to .the Defendant the advances he had made to her and het family. : lie s sltteettdstiest .eltsVefts.fiseny f the topics enlarged upon by the Counsel e partieula.•- ly the Mutilated state of the ledger:- 'lt tiid,:tiot‘ ae pear to him, according to the view. he took of the case, that the book was at all ~material. The evi e detice upon which he proceeded was that which was furnished by the deeds, combined with the situa tion of the parties ;, end for these reasons he eub e .nutted to his Lordship that the deeds had-been pro perly set aside, so. far as they , bad, by. the decree, been brought under review e but -as the Defendant was an incumbrancer to - a very large amount, he would of course retain possession of the estate till be was paid. . . Lord ERSKINE began by remarking, that he had not sat a week as Chancellor before this Petition was presented to him to re-bear , this important cause. When lie recollected that the cause had been heard . at great length before his Noble Predecessor, and had been pleaded with great ability on the part. of Mr. M'Nainara, by a Learned Counsel since by His Ma jesty's favour raised to the Bench, he thought it in cumbent on him to pursue that course which some of the greatest men who had sat as Chancellors had-fre quently adopted; namely, to avail himself of that as sistance to which he was legally and constitutionally entitled. It had been the pra&ice during a series of `years, for Chancellors to be assisted by the Judges. But independent of the importance of the -present question, he was ;satiated by anotherenotive in re quiring the assistance of the Master of the . Rolls. It was impossible that a Judge, could always be a stranger to the contesting parties in a suit, and iewas that which rendered the trial by Jury of such-inesti mable vacue. With respea to-the-Plaintiff, she was an entire stranger to him. The Defendant he .had intimately known all his life, and he had the highest opinion of his honour and integrity. sle wes e tbe* fore he was anxious for the assistance of the Mister of the Rolle, conceieing it would preclusieebsepeesii)ilitss of any imputation on the character of the, Const,:in case he should have found it necessary-toe lavgsq-, versed the decree. His Lordship then 7 fssiloesed nearly the course of argument,- pr either of. elespe vation, upon which the opinion of the.Nlester eif.the Rolls had been founded. His Lordship ,cepressed himself perfealy assured that the Defendant e had made the arrangement which was now sseught set aside with no other view than that s of thesintee , rest o'f the Plaintiff and her sister- and brother 3. and • he was equally convinced that if the e ls/s4nsleux had deemed it to have been an arrangement : prejudicial t,o them, he would never have advised it, - .er have been concerned in the transaction... The prieeeiple upon which he decided was the confid4tiel rele tion which subsisted between the parties.. - .He - gave the Defendant full credit for having advanced all the sums which he charged against the Purcelise but he considered that the greater proportion of . such ad vances applied to the brothere and not to the Plain tiff, provided she thought proper to, dispute the liability she had - by her deeds imposed on herself to . answer jointly for her brother's, debts.. Had this been a deed executed between debtor and creditor, in the ordinary degree of relationship, it could not have been set aside. The creditor Might, have said, that he would not advance' another fart Wong unless A security was. given him. His Lordship desired to have it understood, that the ground upon, which he determined was that of relationship solely. He there fore was of opinion the decree ought to be affirmed,. and that for all the sums Mr. M‘Narriare had - ad- Yanced he should have credit given him, and receive ample justice s . Mr. M‘Namara immediately rose and addressed his Lordship in these words My Lord, I can not have the slightest objeaion implicitly to abide by the late decree, confirmed by what your Lord ship has now prenounceds It is neither my interest or my- wish that any of these deeds should stand, except as a security for what I have aaually advanc ed. But if the Master should report that I am not entitled to the advantage of being the Assignee of Alexander Grant, the , Plaintiff would disencumber her moiety of the estate from her mortgage to him, of 'the right to which no Court of Justice can divest me. My Lord, as to one moiety of the estate being de- ' creed to the Plaintiff, Miss Purcell, I not only sub- Mit it without appeal, but I am also willing 'to re linquish the other -moiety, which is iedisputably • "milles, and to give 'up the- whole ,estate," provided, what cannot be denied, is decreed, that I am the re presentative of .Alexander Grant. If this. is under stood; I have no objeaion to the Plaintiff having the whole estate. I shall 'then be extremely benefited ; by the decree, I shall be a creditor instead of aesur chaier, and shall be released from the annuity of 2501. which my humanity induced" me .fobind my self personally' to pay the Plaintiff during her life . ." LORD CHANCELLOR.—" I have done nothing With 7 the decree. All that I have done. is -to declareelsat the decree is pot reversed. lam ignorant -of the , proceedings in the Master's Office ; but if the. Master makes an improper report, come before me with ex ceptions to it, and I will put it to rights." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied, in a very sir gent manner, ter costs against the 'Defendant; but his Lordship peremptorily refused -to give them. We scarcely ever saw the Court so extremely crowded. Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a young man was drowned while bathing in the Thames, near Bankside ; the body was dragged for and brought up about half an hour after it sunk; it was carried to an adjoining public-house, where every means was tried to restore animation, but inef feetually. At the time of dragging for the above, the body of a boy about fourteen years of age was brought up, which appeared to have been some days in the water. The town and neighbourhood of New York were lately agitated with reports about a dreadful worm which has appeared upon the Lombardy poplar, whose bite and sting were said to be venomous. — The circumstance was at length deemed worthy of the notice of the Faculty, who made various experi ments with the worms upon kittens and puppies. They applied them to the nostrils of the animals, which they bit in the manner of leeches : they, how - ever, produced no effea, except a propensity to sleep, and a slight degree of local pain. One of the . puppies swallowed a worm, without any etre& ; and the Physicians have, in consequence, decided , that they are harmless in their nature. • The worm, how ever, is of a new species. • PRWE'-0121_,EA:I'llEit.(per lb.) AT LEADENHA Li.: Antes; sq 1x.1361b: each • 220. to z4d. Ditto, t to 6.511).. each - - - 2.71. 10 VA. Merchants', liacKs, t- 2.iikt. to 2211. Oressing - • - 191. to zd. Fine Coach Hides, • .• - zits. to :d. cutting,, . 210. to 24(1. 'Flat Ordinary - - - aid. to NO. -t.3a.ll6kins, 3o to 4olb. per Dozen Sod. to 4od. per lb. Ditto, so , to 70lb: 3od. to 42d. per lb. Ditto, . 70 to tiolb. AO. to 35d. per lb. 'Small Seals (C; Neniand). 39d. to 4 zd. per'lb. .I.:argeditto, - 19os. to toos. per Dozen. -"l'imsted liorSe Kides, aos. to Os. per LONDON : Printed by R CHAR!) HARRIS, of No. 4, Martlett.court, Buw-stieei • and I'Jblished b} \V IL Li AMm Scaurs, tot South Mnlvi At the Su N .O F Ficr, No. 11e, Strand ; wilttre ddvertiternents Orders' for the Paper, Letters for the liditnr, (siost-paid); F.eVer it - was necessary to Offer adwite•to the Ph lie, to be tT'eir purchase of Tick is nd. Sha:es, it '.s.in the H esentState Lottery, w 64. Le gin-; drawing t;:qh oaoher nuit. The Sehnnelat a prior c;aint to any prodaced for many !vit. te.iThOusand Vot.vlds First-drawn Ticket; all other Capitalsalioa:, ma !y of which may be, drawn the 'First Day, and on ;y 20,000 Tickets. SHIP NEIPS. CRPVIPSEND. AUCtrgy 17. Passed by—the Nits Del Cartnair., from South Amos rit.a ; l'rogr,ss, Swain, from St. Kitt' s; Cit)ralt:ar, Craige; from Moittsetr.n. ; Drysdale, from Antigua ; Fo- Toka.. luodleoake, from Leghorn ; Vltatina, De. Unite, from Rochelle ; Nereus, Spiiter, from Bremen; longe Ruth, La.: 'more, and Oithdos, Clawson, from Varca. Sailed—the Goldhunter, Vose, - tor New-YOrk ; Wash-: ingtun, Actons, for Ncw ; Gibraltar; and Hamilton Moore, Cable, tor Challe.tituwit. lIIIi7#I On the Bth inst. the Lady of the Rev. W. G. Phillips.; Vicar of Eking, near Southaaipton, of a Son. Al ARP lAD On Saturday last, Ralph Clarke, Esq. of Ftiikley, itt Northumberland, to Miss Mount. o► Merton, Surrey. Yesterday, at Edgware, Richard Blown, Esq. or Lowet Tooting, to Miss - Williams. eldest daughter of John Wily hams, Esq. Commissioner of His fvlajrSry's Customs. On the sth inst. at Hanley, StaMrd, john Hatherly, Esq: of Fishwick, Devon, to- Miss Martha Wilson, daughter of David Wilson, Esq. of Hanley, Stathint. •On Friday last, Mr. Charles R. Aikin, of 13road-street. buildings, to Miss Wakcfijd, daughter of the late Gilbert . Tuesday last, John Manners, Esq. M. P. and brother of Sir tV. Manners , Bart . to her Grace the Duchess of Rox- -burgh.. Lately, at -ICirbygrindlalythe, in Yorkshire, William Saw.. don, Esq. of West Lutton, to Miss Isabella Snowball, eldut daughter of Robert Snowball, Esq. of the former place. DTBD. ''.l..atcly, tfre stst. ?ear of his age, George Parris, Esq. of Quicithury,. in the . Parish of Sheering, Essex. Yr .- Amt.:ly. Morning, at Hai:kney, Mrs. Hardy. wife of .Williatri;Hardy; Esq. afters painful and lingering illness. the tath inst. Miss ,Clare Latham; aged 16, third daughter of Dr. Thomas Latham; of Bexley. in Kent. On Thursday, at New Town,, Eccles, Mrs. Hogarth, F - lid of the late Mr. t ames Hogarth. PR/C'e'o IESTE 7- STOCKS RDAY. Amnia Stock, India Bonds, is. 2s. dis. New Min. ' iii,xcliegllef 431115, par, 2S. dii. •Omnur, 6 Llnperial 3 per Cent. Ditto'An:l.• CO:nr. for - 26tb•Aug. 62* 6z .Batik Stock.; 24k per ,L 94ii •s per rpt. 1197, hlsh s per evr , 92:l Lent. • 3.. per (:ant. Kea. 6zji , '3 per et. 'Cott: 6„z 6z 'Bank L. Ann; 171 . • -Ditto Siloft Ann.. • " LONUON , RK:E 6 l'S, &c. . . RETURN O'l , WEI EAT - .IN MARK-LANE,_ • , By Messrs. Cul I. 6 and. M 6:I:PAS, •Meal Weighers, . inbludinwonly frodi the-4th of August, to the yth of August ~ agreeatill to the new Ad. 93 Quarters at 90s od ";..'.* t 68 Quarters at 79s ad. s r7s -- at 83s od ' - 646 at 78S od • 333 -- , --'—r----- at .87s od , , ----- rks —;---- at 77. s cd 2 , 70 - at 76s "1. •32. ' at Bss od 2.00 86 ' at F4s od 143 -- 36 - 219 ---,--7- at tzs od I 30 71 ...:.--... at 8 1s od 6 I - 33 2 - at 86s ad 2.9 --- And so Quarters at 6.:,s Total 3449 Q:zaiters.--Avcrage 78s. 91d. ii. 6,lrt. lower than last Return. at 7 .- 2 s od - at 68s ail at 6is - uct A RETURN OF FLOUR, From Aug. z t WAIT. 8, from the Cocket-Office: Sacks. s. d. Sacks. s. d. Sacks. 6 So o 5 6 9 75 a 1 5 1 74 ° 4) 6 73 0 Tutal-74 os. 3-1 s. d. 272 - 72, 0 1 13 - 67-o 55 - 7 1 0 1 4 - Cie 0 445 - - 70 0 43 - 6i.e 35 - 63 0 . 45 Sacks.-Average 745. 2'41. qt . lower than last return. WESTERN COUNTRY MARKETS (Jrits Week) per Ws .. _... W heat. Barley.. Oats. Newbury I 66s to 845 I 36s yd. to 39-5 od t 235- od to 35,5 Saiisbury I 68s to 78.5 I 32s od to 4os od 1305 od to 34 5 Basingstoke I 71s to Bos I 34s od to 375 ad i 29s od to 324 Wincdte.ster 1 72$ to 76s 1 36s od to 38s od j 28s od tv 325 Devizes I 64$ to 80s i 365 od to 4os od 3os od to . 1 23 Warminster 1 68s to 806 I 38s 041 to 42. s ott 1.32 s 0,1 to 35s AVERAGE PRLCE Wi ENGLAND AND Ending Aug 9. Wheat Sas 9d I Barley 39s rod Beans 4ss 8i Rye 47s *d tats 3os od 1' Pease 44. 3a VICILL'Uk 1 - LUl's. _ sAcs. POCILATS. Kent, 51. os. w 61. 6s. i Kent, 51. ss. to 61. los. ,Susselt„sl. os. to 51. 16s. Sussex, 51. Ss. to 61. 6s. Essex, 51. es. to 51. t6s. FarithAnt, 71. OS. to Si. us. Old Duty 10,0001. ' NEWGATE and LEADENIiALL By the Carcase. Beef, 3S. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Veal, 4s. oci. to Ss. 4 1 . Mutton, 4s. od. to 43. Bd. `York, 4s. Bd. to ss. bd. • Lamb, 43. 6d. to Ss. 6d. RAW H WES. Best Heifers and Steers (p. st.) Ordinary, 2s. 4d. to 25. M. 3S. zd. to 3s. 4d. Market Calf,. 12.5. 6d. ea 5.14,.. Middling, 29. 10:1.10 3s. , od-. Eng.fiorse iss. to 17 . 5.. glitch. . Sheep Skins - - - os od to is 6d . • Lunn Skins - - •is od to 39 6d I'ALLOW. TownTatiow—s. ocl.6ss.oel Yellow Russia 6ss.od —s.ort White do. 635. od. 645. od. Soap do. -s. 625. cat. Melting Stuff —s. 532. od. Dittd rough —s. 365. od. Graves I is. od. Good Dregs ios. od. Yellow Soap, 72s.—Mottled, 88s.—Curd, 925. Price of Candies per dozen, I is. od.—Moulds, i zs. od. - PRICE OF St.' James's Market 3s. 9d. Clare Market 3s. 91. Wltitechapel Market 3s. Sd per stone ofBlb. r rs. td. i Average price 3s. 80.. St. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, Aug. O. Hay, 31. os. od. to 41. t6s. od.—Aver. 31. ins. od. Straw, tl. 13s. od. to al. os. od.—Aver. ii. its. 6d. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. Hay, 31. Los. od. to 51. os. od.—Aver. 41.-ss. ad. Clover, 41. 4s. od. to 51. ss. od.—Aver. 41. 145.6(1, Straw. 11. 49. Od. to 21. as. od. —Aver. 11: xis. 'OAL.MARKET. Sold, 22 at OS 6d 495 jd 4 at 43s cd --►s cd It at goS . 3d 43s 6c% I at 723 Od 26 at 40s gd 493 64 3 at 4;s. 9tt 4js Q`A Ships at Market. • Aug. It. 28 Newcastle 4 Sunderland 13. 19 Newcastle t £tone Coal xs. 3 t Newcastle 3 Sunderland Gra,;vc:l9r.hl,uara must bc