The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-03-18 00:00:00

ST. PATRICK'S

the Anniversary of the Benevolent Society of St.
Patrick, w; s yesterday celebrated at the Crown and
Anchor, in the Scram:, with unusual splendour.
Upwards of 500 of the patrons and friends of this
laudable Institution sat down to dinner ; and, from
the previous arrangements, all inconvenience and
contusion were avoided. Dinner was announced
at halt past six o'clock, when

His i.oyal Highness the Duke of Sussex took the
Ch

After dinner—

The Ruip—the Queen ; and Royal Family-4W the Prince
sr VV“lei,

were severally drank with enthusiastic applause.
After this last toast—the Earl of BeseonouGH
roe, and in a most impressive and animated speech
addressed the Meeting; he acid he had had the.honour
to attend five meetings previous to the present one,
and he felt be should he wanting to himself and to
the As,ernhly in duty, if he did not pav that respell
to the beneficence of his Royal Highness the n ince
of Wales, who had so long continued his bounty to
this Society. He congratulated the Meeting on the
happy :ma tmtunnte change in his Majesty's Coun-
cils ; a change, which, he observed, united all the
spit ddid talents, integrity, and honour of the
country.
The following toasts were then given, and drank
with great applause
:
The Duke nt York anti the Amy.
Tne Deke of Claten r and the Nave.
The Duke of Kent, the Patron of dirt Society.
The Intrioria: Merao•v of Lend Nelson.

The children of the charity, consisting of 70
girls and upwards of 100 boys, then peramhul nett
the room, according to annuAl custom. The girls
were dressed in gret:n, and the boys in blue, with
green capes.—They looked very well —The

Benevolent Society of St. Patrick

was then drank, with three am-s three.—Then

The Lord Lieutenant of Ire:ant, his Grace the Duke oflirdfoid,
with three times three.
Viscount Dose ANNON then read a letter front his
Grace to his Royal Highness the Duke of Soviet,
expressing his regret at not being able to attend the
meeting, and inclining a donation if 1001.
The Earl of Mot k A observed. that the bounty
of the Royal Family had excited an emnlation in
the breasts of others, and from the liberality and
fostering care of His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, he conceived him to be an Irishman. Ile
though him so, as the charafteristic of an Irishman
was a generous warmth of soul. He appealed to
the whole course of the Prince's past late, nhirh
had infused that spirit of benevolence into all his
brothers; and, like the sun, his inittence shone on no
limited spot, hut pervaded 411 things. Ile con-
cluded by proposing the health of Ilia Royal High-
ness the Duke of Sussex.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex rose,
and after a panegyric upon the present Adminis-
tration, declared that the fuln-ss of his heart de-
prived him of speech He congratulated the So.
eiety %soon die change of Ministry, and declared, lie
felt himself an Irishman in every respeel, but that
of not having been born in that country. Ha beg-
ged leave to quote a circumstance which occurre.i
in his travels. When in Rome, he went to visit an
Irish Convent, and was a'ked, WAS he an Irishman?
harlot- answered, •• Ni)," 1e was conduCted to a
soot where they had aetually grit mane Irish mould,
he was made to stan I upon it ; and they swore
by J—s he stood upon Irish ground. From
that period he always hoped to be looked upon as
an Irishman. His Royal Highness, in conclusion,
proposed to give the Earl of Moira, .1: a man at-
tached in his King and Constitution, and worthy of
a blessing for his services.
The Earl of Mots A expressed his thanks for the
honour confined upon him. The interests of this
country finned the first principles of his political
life. It had been said that they had met without
party prejudices, arid should not proceed to any
party discussion. He hoped that whatever their
approbation of the new Administration might be,
the old one would not be wholly condemned. It
they had incurred blame, lie wished ;redraw a veil
of oblivion over it. The English Constitution had
certainly been made sore, from past sufferings ; but
when the Irish were called upon, they were calling
to make every sacrifice ; they were capable of it;
there was no magnanimity in this ; they were pos-
sessed of a true dignity of soul ; and it was only to
call it forth in an extrem:ty, to insure forgiveness for
the past. All Ireland would look to these meetings.
K. therefore entreated,rhat no party matter might be
agitated. but that, like Rome, their little native soil
might be suffered to grow into maturity ; and while
these countries were united, it was impossible for
any foe to prevail against them. Ile rejoiced in
the temper of the present evening, which was the
,nkfra of promoting charity to a great number of
Has I+l3j:sty's suhjetts ; and by a well-exercised
benevolence. secure to the worla is, many objeCts,
to b- useful members of society.
This speech drew down thunders of applause.
The Secretary then announced the collation of
the day, which, together with the various dona-
tions from the Royal Family, and several of the
first nobility and gentry in the kingdom, amounted
to near 20001.

About eleven o'cl •7k his Royal Eliqhness the
Doke of Sussex retired, accompanied by the Earl
of flcsborough, Lord I)uncannon, Mr. Sheridan,
and several other noblemen and gentlemen.
Mr. THOMAS Stick:oAm was then called to the
and the evening terminated in the utmost
harmony and good humour.
Among the numerous Noblemen and Gentlemen
pre'ent, we observed, besides the Chairman—

The Earl of lirbburougli, Earl Mountnorrit, Lord Donran-
non, the Earl of Moira t Mr 41.4. attn.', Robert, and
Latouchr, the Knight of Kerry, Right !lon. R'el d R.
Nhervlan, Hon. C. Rrad.haw, llun. A. Dillun, l'etnbzrtt.n
Rude% Lot. &Z. &c.

On Thursday last, a most distressing accident
happened at the Flax Mills at Purdie's-burn, near
Belfast :—A young woman, of the name of BOYD,
about Id years of age, daughter of one of the
workmen, who had gone to assist her father, inad-
•ertently vanding too near the machinery, it caught
her clothes, and diew the untoitunate girl upon the
cog-wheel, by which she was instantly crushed to
death, in the presence of her father.

pigtitrerpir•

LAW INTEI IGI.NCE.

COURT OF Cli INCERY, LINCOLN', kr, MARC* IT.

DARRtTT O. DOUGLAS and tII Eta:

Thu cause came on to be heard upon demurrer
to the Plaintiff's bill.

The Plaintiff. as the heir-at-law of one Widow
Barrett, filed his bill against the Defendants, Messrs.
Douglas, Barnard. and Valley, as trustees named
in the will of the Testator, `raying a discovery of
their trusts under said will, for an ac;:ount, and that
the leasehold property of the Testator should be de-
clared to Le legally vested in him. The deceased
died possessed of a considet Ale estate, called Pot
Valley, in the West Indies, which, by his wiil, he
vested in the Defendants, as his trustees, to support
and maintain a Roman Catholic clergyman upon
that estate; he was also posse:srd of a ptoperty in
Sr. Pancras. in the county of Middlesex, nut of
which he ordered all his just debts to be dischasged.
The Sutter-roe-Gee tea n, in support of the
demurrer, contended, that the Plaintiff had no in-
terest in the premises in question, inasmuch as the
devise had been made for a superstitions use ; and
dirt 'Amt., by the oth of George 11. commonly
the S.AILIte of Mottmain, all devisees of lease-
hold premises for superstitious or charitable pur-
poses, became vested in the Crown, and were void
to the neat of kin. Upon these grounds, he argued
that the party had a right to demur. They might
also demur own the grounds of there root being all
the proper parties before the Court ; as, under the
statute alluded to, His Majesty's Attorney-General
should be made a party, in order to support the in-
wrests of the crown.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. HART for
the Plaintiff, contended, that the 'Testator had
given these Defendants a secret trust, which it was
necessary should be discloses' to the heir-at-law, or
next of kin. The first ground of demurrer was,
that' the Plaintiff was not interested, and it was
allowed that the funds were to be applied to some
charitable purposes; The Plaintiff had paid off a
large portion of the Testator's debts out of his per-
sonal estate, and, since his death, discovered that
this was a secret trust for the support of a Roman
Catholic Clergyman ; or, as the Bill further charg-
ed, for some other charitable purpose; and therefore
they insisted that the Plaintiff. being the eldest son
of the Testator. had a right to have an answer;
and the question for the Court was, whether they
were bound to answer ? This, in a very recent de-
cision, had been positively laid down by the late
Lord Chancellor Eldon. It was, therefore, for
the Court to eleEl, whether the mischief, which
i. intended to be avoided by this statute, shall be
done or no ?

The L 3413 CH wctitoft observed, that when a
right was vested in the. Crown, the words of the
will must not be general, but special ; and if it
were clear that a right was in the Crown, which
could take from the heir-at-law, laud devised to
superstitious uses, it was necessary that the Crown
should be made a parry in the cause. As the
Plaintiff had paid a great part of the Testator's
dtbt', he had a tight to have the answer of
these Trustees as to the nature of tl:eir trusts. His
Lordship therefore ordered, that the demurrer
should be over-ruled, and the Plaintiff be at liberty
to ameiid his bill, and His Majesty's Attorney -
General, made a party to the same.

411 COIF. N, FALCONER. and OTHERS.
Mr. On Ei &sailed the ohj,ict and ground of this
bill. It was an application, praying the Court to
order certain deeds of conveyance, which had been
executed by the Plaintiff, of valuable estates in the
counties of Nottingham, Sussex, and Bedford, and
which had been subsequently interchanged between
several persons who were Respondents to this bill,
should he delivered up, and declared fraudulent,
null, and void. The Plaintiff had been an idlier
in the Bedfordshire militia, and, in the year 1796,
was arrested in London, and lodged in the Fleet
prison. Whilst under confinement, he was visited
by some persons, who proffered him pecuniary as-
sistance, and through their medium he became
acquainted with the several persons, who were, by
the bill, charged with concert and collusion, and
with having taken undue advantage of his distress,
to procure him to relinquish and convey to them
his interest in considerable reversionary property,
for very inadequate consideration ; in consequence
of which he had been reduced to great indigence,
and " had been many days without a dinner, and
without the means of obtaining one." One of the
transactions by which part of his property had
been transferred, was his acceptance of five guineas
from one of the Defendants (of the name of
Whaley) under an engagement to return five
hundred guineas if he ever again played at back-
gammon, which he did, and paid the penalty by
a bond ; ind other similar contracts were recited in
elucidation of the means by which the Plaintiff had
lost his property.
The So icrroa-G isms t, for one of the Defend.
ants, Thomas Chipping Falconer, demurred to
the bill, on the ground, that it mined together (in
a recital, which extended to between three and
four hundred folios, and embraced almost every
occurrence of the Plaintiff's life, in which he had
surered himself to become a dupe) a number of
transactions in which this Defendant was not at
all concerned, and cited a case horn Lord Redes-
dale's Practice, 146, where it was Lid down, that
the Court will net permit a Plaintiff, in one bill,
to embrace matter of several different natures,
and against various panics, by which each would
be subjected to an unnecessary extension of ex-
pence, and protraction of proceedings in a court
of justice.
Mr. Ross ILLY contended, that in consonance
to this established and long-approved do:trinit,
there ought to be.a distinet bill against-each dis-
til& Defendant, and he thought, from the attention
he had at present given to the case, it could not be
made to appear that his client had any concert or
conue.ftii.n with the other Defendants, in a way
that would warrant the Plaintiff to proceed against
them in one common bill.

The Loa D CIIANCLI.I.OII inclined to t!ie opinion
of the Solicitor-General. but deferred the further
hearing of the arguntents until this day.

The tat A'est York Regiment of Militia, Earl
Firnvit.Ll•m, C.,lonel, now at Yjaley barracks,
are expeac.l at [lull in the course of the present
1710110, as are also the East Kent.

NAPAL InTri.LICLNCE.

fORT,6IOI;TN. MARCH IC.
The leaf-rd, of SO pin. Capt. Kaggett, it ap.
poioted a c,invoy for the East Indies
The 11, rex sloop of war is appointed cenvo; for
Nertoundtaisd.

Arrived La Ce•.dae-e frigate, Capt. Griffiths,
from Guernsey, latvirg spi ung her bowsprit.
Remain at St. Helen'► the Mature and Qari,c fri-
gates ; and at the Motherbank, the Feere,
manrecno, lard N,h,n, and Asia, Last 1 ndiameii.
Arrived the Forward gun-brig from a cruise ;
Lady fa, tr,s, Gouil.ty ; Crearterlasd, Simpson ; Per.
suit. Montgomery ; and Kiepston, Reissue, Irons
Leith, bound to Jamaica.—Wind W.
PLYMOUTH, MANCH 15.
On Thursday evenirg arrived, from St. Helen's,
His Majesty's ship rid, rem, of 110 guns, Admiral
Earl St. Vincent, ACC, iriplaied by the rile de Par:,
of 110 guns. His l.redsliip was greeted by dm Nit
Admiral, on his entrance iri!o the Bay, by a dis-
charge of fifteen guns from the s ; and, this
morning. his Lordship sailed vain to take
mend of the Channel Hee:, with a fine breezes: S.E.
Sailed also Ili' Maj •sty's ship Vdledr Paris, Capt.
Hillier, Kent, Capt. Garrett, IViahr frigate, Cipt„
Luring, Dipolar brie, Capt. Rawlins, aid
Pr,•&!e schooners, Froarisiip tender, and Acid gun-
brig.
Arrived Mis Majesty's shi • s nimbus age:, pg
guns, Capt. Boyle; Li>, 32, C.lpt Abnerrn,
32, Capt. Collier; Savor., sloop; Eadrayisar and her.
irawil hired armed ships; Piper akcier ; and Cavta
gun•brig.
TORBAY, stance 13.
Arrived yesterday, from Poi ismotith, His .h.
jesty's ships Alas, 74, guns ; A. mesh, 28 gam;
arid the .Nira•od cutter.
The Nimrod sailed again in the afternoon ; and
the Mars this morning, to join the fle.it off Ushaat.
The A'etee.iis still remains, to tak•• the ships for New-
foundland under convoy.
DEAL, MANCH 16.
Sailed the Rqulrs man of war, for nest.
Arrived La Herbe sloop of war, front the West-
ward ; and rerrEHß in the Downs, w;th the rest of
the ships a, per last.—Wind E.N.E. squally.
CONE, MARCH, 10.
Eleven transports, with the Second Ilat.alions et
the 39th, CI st, and 69th regiments on board, have
arrived at Cove, under convoy of the Mtge,. bomb.
The warps will not be disembarked until orders to
that cilia are received from Dublln. The Meese
and her convoy fell ir. with a carter privateer of
Guernsey, mounting ten gunk. littween that Island
and the Land's End. She had been captured by a
French ship privateer, which relinquished her upon
the Meese. appearing in sight. Ihe cutter is ono
lying at Cove.
THE iIIARKLTS.

CORN-EXCIFIANGE, Maede 17.
The arrivals us WI eat to-day, are rath.•r short in number.
Early in the thy, it had the appearance of an advance; b..t
sales in general, are nearly u our last. Barl.i a Free sup-
ply, and but few sample, of prime qual ty. Malt has rather
better sal than of late In Peas or Bean., trot little atterathan.
Having very few fre.h arrivals of 1.1 its, thus trader quoted,
fur the best sample:, Is. and 24. per quarter dearer. la nigh
no alteration.
CURRENT PRICE OF GRAII.
Wheat........ 43.. 56.. 65.. Means (OA) ....50._ 36.
Fiore ..70s 7J.. Od. T.ck Beans .... 42. VI-. Oa.
Rye 561. Os. fed. Oats 24. 27. Ids.
Earley
0.1 Rape Seed. 3lll. 451 Od.
White PrAi.... li.. 40s. 01. Foie Four 60. re.
Grey Stns 046. 0.1. seconds 604 Id.

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Hay.... 51 06 a 41 12$ W
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