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jeant eonterojra that the dame •atest face es.
sated in the animals before they came into posses.
siou of the Plaintiff, and that the Jury had drama
i mow conclusion to finding., verdict for the Eht.
&millet. It waw a ease which required further ish
treatigotion. w
The CHIRP Jorrocs said the Judges would .peak
to Boron Grahour on the subject, and if that
Learned Jodge wag satisfied with the verdict
the Court would not eiaturb it ; hut if he was die-
satisfied, a new trial might be granted.
CONSISTORY COURT, FRIDAY, Novi:mom D.
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NULLITY OF MARRIAGE.
Dammam, owtsaftwun DOODIN, ItAEaltLl' CALLED criame
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a. CAILLU.
This was a suit of wollity brought by the wife against the.
jraahml4l, rpm Os groom/ of her owe illegitimacy, minority,
AMA aesnwiwywht of geeralisejnetwithatautliag the consent of
bee sambeakytbe was present at the rawriate), there being Do
legal gemdisa apweieted by the Court of Chancery.
It appwared frasa aM evidence in the cause, that Fraser,
.siiirlesteihinvise Davidson. otberwee Boodru, the party pro-
-mein dikaaell, was Mae illegitimate daughter of Margarelie
klegMillealla4Bloo, erienler, who lived as housekeeper with
Major Eimples. of East 'Machetes, its emirs ; that on or about
the year 1,79.. she said lieswekeeper was obseuredby the weigh-
boors to inerepsei• bulk, and on the Bth Augment that year
was delivered,' a female chi Id, which was a fterwards achnoer-
ledgval hy Major Boielrn as his daughter, and brought up in
his bode make his owu eye. By the will of the deceased
Major ^B. which was proved in 1798, be bequeathed the
whole of his property to Augusta Davidson, spinster, and in
reversion to his uatural daughter by the said Augusta, the
whole of his Creel:nil awl pewee/sal estates, appointing the.
mother sole executrix and administratrix.
The marriage in partition ear solemiiiril by license at
St. George's Choice, He square, iu 171/8, between Mr.
Cartel and Frances flooden (the mother, Augusta Davidson,
being present), upon Die ■tfiilawil of the mother and husband
that the wife was theta under uineteen years of age. Tie
parties, it appeared, had cohabited together for 23 years, but
it did oat appear that there had area any issue of the
marriage.
Dr.dreeta cantrudcd, that here was unfilled proof of
minority, illegilimsey, and non-congeal of lawful guardian,
so as to establish the requisite fasts Shat such marriage was
contrary to the• Act of Parliament, and therefore prayed a
declaratory sentence of the Conn, that such mania=c ac-
cording to law was mill and void.
Dec Swaney and I'EtLI.IIIIOEII took objections to a awls.
twisty sentence being parsed, me the grown/ Out the mother
was tersest consentsug to the marriage, sad which she be-
lieved to have been solemnised under every legal requisite.
It was. further cudeadrd that the ideality of she party pro-
wining the suit was not sufficiently peeved.
Sir C Rosinsoa was of alpinism that she facts *ere suffi-
ciently established in evidence toeall for •deetaratory eesiesee
of the Coen, which was, that the marriage in question being
without cadent of lanfol guardian arid with 11s illiginsuale
minor, was, by the provisidis of of Parliement, of
no validity, aad therefore the CrwilEs4esmossamel Msawaid
marriage mull and void. ed in a weeper :LAI intr.,
4.ll9'ithton
,ridits4 milli Smelt
POLICE. 1-.4r

BON-STREET.
OurSaterday Mr. nadwerth Sharp, honorary Secretary to
the Nridge•etreet gawp, applied in person for a warrant to
brine up the boJy of Mr. Phipps, the proprietor of Tim
Newt, for the purpose of his, the said Mr. Phipps, petting
in lull to snorer certain charges of libel, which Sharp
annonnred his intention of preferring against him rat the
sittine of the next Middlesex Grand jury.
There mere live Maeiatretes on the bench, Including Sir
Richard Birnie, Mr. Monahan, and Mr. Hall, all of-whom

that swell an experiment oe lbs
seeiect should lot be made.
DUFFERS..
The practice of defrsirding Ignorant perm** of mew of
money, by inducing them to porches!. witches under • pro
trace of their being very vainalde, and eviller the. leery
cheap, w►ereas they ace only marts for sale and sot *Reg%
by a descriptio•,of persons called Defiers, bee *gaits bete
revived.
Levi Sivemovere was charged with defrauding Mr. Samuel
Dillon, lately from the country. of the sum ore,. who stated
that on Th•rsday, shone twelve o'clock, as be was pasting
•long the Strand sear Somerset Home, he was accosted by
• person in the dms of a sailer, who be had every rums
to believe ties the Prisouer, but then in a very disguised
• state, when the Prisoner touched him on hisses', and desired
tuns to follow, which he did, leaving his sister ih the street ;
when he got into • turner the Prisoser pulled out of his fob
a watch which he represented as a particularly good one, and
was worth ten guineas, big being is great dist mai, was obliged
to dispose of it cheap. While he was looking at the watch a
Jew emote up and offered to boy it, but the Prisoner refused
to deal with him, saying, he would cheat him some way or
other. The Jew whispered to him, and said that he must have
it if he gave 101. for it, as he wanted it for • Captain go-
ing ho sea, fur whom it was well adapted; and if he would
purchase it, he would give hitu 81. 10a. fur it. He then
agreed with the Prisoner for the purchase of the watch, cud
out having sufficient cash oboist him, be went and borrow.
cd fire sovereigns of Isis sister. The Primmw thee went
off, and not finding the Jew, to give him 81. Ins. Ise began
to suspect that he had been defrauded, which he was very
soon convinced of by inquiring of a watchmaker the value
of the watch, and it turned out that it was only worth about
tweaty.eigbt or thirty shillings.
The Prisoner defiled being the man ; but the Prosecutor's
evidence was confirmed by his sister, who positively identi-
fied the person of the Prisoner, though' metamorphosed by
dress; a common practice, it seems, with these worthies,
who sometimes appear with sari other times without wigs;
false whiskers are also found couvenitat iu their personation
of ssilvirs, Jews, Jac. which gives them the double idrimtsge
of facility of frond iu the first place, and render. it difficult
for those defrauded to identify their person when app.-
beaded.

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