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London, England, 1807-06-17 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

A Court of Aldermen was held, yesterday, a.
Guild.ted, at which the Lord Marx, several Al-
dermen, trio Recorder, and City Officers, attended.
Samuel Birch, Sig. was sworn int t tl.a ni
Alderman, for the Ward of Candlewick, in the
room of the Late Mr. llankey,
Tie Court, after inspeaing the Retorns or e
Mealweightrs, ordered the price of Bteal rr be
continued at 11:d. the quartetn 16.4.
A dividend of 21. per cer.r. to the Ot plmiss and
other Creditors of the City, doe the ,Lts of duty
next, was ordered to commenc: payment the 14th
id the same month.

1 he Thanks of the Court were unanimously •oted
to the Rev. P. Dodd, M A. Chaplain to ti.e Lord
Mayor, fur his excellent bermAn, prearlied before his
Lordsf.ip, ti•eJu fges, Alcerrurns rtc. the first Su:.das
in Trinity Term, and hr was request-A to paint the
1111171 e.

Messrs. Harrison, Helm, Yates, and Johnstone,
were . idled Hea±les or the Coon f Requ-szs.

Benjamin Spencer, (:e-rge Sloe, Daniel °Fie,
David Wilton, William Chapman, Thomas Black-
stone, Thema& Stoat, and WiLirm Lott, were
eleOed Water Rulers, aad John Ham:r, George
Talton, and FlArsC;s Theodore Hay, Ligliter Rulers,
for the Watermeu and I-tighten:saes Company, for
the year ensuing.

THE BLANII6IIII AND JAV.I.

E•aatt from • 17tter frwm officer on board the liar,kr

.loop, date t fable U. Ittar:ll t 3.

" On the Ist of February, off Mauritius, in
Lind. 64. 11. le. 20. `2l. we esper;ei.ced m,,st
dreadful weather, which 1 fear has proved fatal to
the l'saistio and
.7,,ras Early in the m-rning of
the Ist, it came on to blow fresh, and increased to
a hard gale; about tour o'clock in the afterlicr.a,
we Inst sight of the Blenheim and Java, which
were not snore than a mile from us. The night
was dreadful b.yonit description. It blew a
perfea hurricane, with a most tremend.nis sea.
—We shipped A great quainity of water ; every
sea broke direaly over the vessel, and she ruled
so much, that it was won d.tSculty the people
could .tand on the deck. If we attempted to s..ew
an i^eh of sail. it was blown from the yard. Out
p3Ot fellow was blown over in the afternoon t we
saw him at intervals, a lung way astern. strugglikis
with the waves. During the night, the ports
were stove in, and washed away, and great quan-
tities of wafer ran Wow. A little before daylight,
a sea struck her, and iminediatAy after another,
waich laid her dead its the water. She had
broached-to, and was going down a-head. She re-
m linel wrei•logged tor some minutes, and bad
she been steak a third time, she must have gone.
We threw overboard four guns and sonse stores,
which lightened her. During the time she was
water-logged, the water increased in the well, in
the space of three seconds, from 12 to 3d inehes.
We had continued bad weather afterwards, but ar-
rived here on the 28th February, and were much
disappointed in not finding either the Mtge .-in, or
JAVJ ; and as they have not since been herd of,
whilst other woods that were In the glee have ar-
' rived, there is now no hope• of their saftty. The
I Wehbrim was in a very decayed state, and much
Ist:nh:red with stores ; the Jere badly manned,
and extremely erauk. There were between seven
and eight hundred souls on board the Biel:wain.
with many pasiengers. Most of the Mide.ipnien
were young men of the fist families Ls England,
and some very worthy fellows, who wonid at a
tuture time have done honour to their country."

Cheltenham is filling fast, the Earl of En as storri.
Sir ELIJAH and Lady hirer. Mr. GOO!. D and
Lady CIiNaLOTTS, GOOLD, M.A. T•VLOII, Esq.
Mrs. TA rime, Lord ADAIR, Lord GRORSt STUART,
MT. and Lady Cecata • Coe Lev, f:c. a:a the pri:-.-
eipal of the late arrivals. Mrs. H. J UHNSTO is a
complete strostat ej all work On Monday she played
Juliet and Roesstaisa, at Cirencester; and this night
will perform .thiail and Lady Cowrie, at Glouces-
ter, under the patronage of Moiler., M.P.
Mrs. Jonasecor's Lady Teazle is well spoken of.
She was very well supported by the veteran &co-
•is os, in .Stse Peter; and K AAAAA T. Of Coveat-Gar-
den, in J...frk. Mr. KENT displayed much spirit
and ease in Gawks, and was very well received in
Decimal. The celebrated Racily's comes forward,
this night, very properly, under the patronage of
Lady LNALLOTTL GOOLD. Mrs. MOUNTAIN. to.
morrow, at the Lower Rooms, appears as the' Lyle
Korehet, accompanied by Mr. MutiNT•IN, OD the
violin. We should suppose Cheltenham abounded
with tabbies, the Manage: sof the Theatre so warmly
denounce card parties.
We feel infinite pleasure In recording good and
benevolent actions. Immediately on hearing of the
late dreadful conflagration at Chudleigh, in Uevon-
shire, the first regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia,
quartered at barter, not only seat the whole of
their camp equipage to shelter the unfortunate in-
habitants, but the officers made a liberal se:scrip,
lion, and the non-consonisioned I Seers and pri.
Yates gave each a day's Feb to alleviate the dis-
tresses ot the poor sufferers. This instance of phi-
lanthropy is truly cbaracterivic of the waives of
that great and populous county.
On Monday, an inquest was beta, before CHARLES
J soarer, Esq. Coroner fir the county of Surrey,
on Mrs. ANN Scam of Hawkesbury.place, Wal-
worth ; when it appeared, that between one and
two o'clock, on Friday last, a grooth, described as a
tall slim lad, in a fustian stable jacket and trowsers
or overalls, on a dark cbesnot or bay horse, and
Paten Modes, servant to Mr. Hennes, butcher, of
Walwortb, were riding full gallop towards Camber.
well, nearly opposite West-lane, the horse on which
the groom rode struck the Deceased ; she never
spoke, and died in about an hoar. The groom
rode through the turnpike, and towards Denmark-
bill. The Jury brought in their verdict ALcideaas
Death ,and Parma Moose, who bad been appre-
hended.) nd committed, was discharged. It is hoped,
that say gentlernini. in that neighbourhood, who
may have a groom and horse et that description,
will make inquiry if their servant was out at that

MW 111TILL10314CE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, kits

PENN r. SAICLAY OTHIRS.

The Plaintiff fill.' his B.li in this cAse, against fits
own brother, and the other Leetet.d.ris, the trust-et
und.-r the will of his uncle. Jit:in na, deceAnri,
praying, that a sum of I0,(XY11. St mty 'oe It ins-
tn-red. and applied to Cie PlAii.tiff't asuordnig
to the exprts. provisions of the wilt. John Per.n,
wishing to pt rpetuate real .lt d personal itrooerty to
his own h-trz and tami!:, in I: 4G d:v.seci and be-
queathed so hh. tight hear, ooe moiety, in sovereign-
ty, of the l'euvirce of ifeir.ylvania, in North Ante-
which he was seized and onsvesved of rootlet
And by virtue of a grant (fern l lis NlAjerty Kirk
George the Second. to him and his heirs in tail,
mAle, for ever ; wishing likewise to provide for the
next heir, or heir ex;eitt tot to such heir, he direeted
by Its win, that a putcha-e should be mad.: of
1.,,0001. stock in the funds, In; sure :be of such heira
presumptiv. , NO long as Lim sliuul2, cash of them sit
snoce.ann, continue in such a staterr rut::
that none of them shnuld suffer a move, y, or by an,
al clack or bar the intail ; but is case any of such
heirs shoui,l, at any time, bar the intail, then, t:.at i,•te
stock And disitle..ds accruing thereon, shotf.d go and
inure Cc the ue an benefit of the person ottt en-
titled to the d ninni:.ration of such heir presumptive,
in succes.inn in such preceding heir apparent, et all
for ever. 'l. t ••tator made his brother&
ffichar dr n Jot.n Pert., his first heir, by and under
such w. i, pes..in;.t hy the testatr.r's eftlest brother,
Vs'i;, Am, woo left r.n ; he had likewise a
b-uther n ten d JJ:.n. John attetwarde had issue,
sub.eitirn. to tike making the will is queEinn ; anti
John, the Testator's nephew, came into poesession
of the moiety of Pensylvaina, after the rest ttoe,a
death, and continued seized thereof until the sirs)e
was. in 1777, confiscate,: by the Act of liTsurpat;net,
which suhjettea it to the plater cf the Legislatnfe
of the United States of America. The Englieh
GovernrAmt afterward: passed an Ad of Parlia-
ment, granting to this family a perpetual annuity of
40001. a year, and making that annuity an estate of
freeholl in tail Mary yeats after the American
Ad of Confiscation, this annuity wit, by the Aft,
constituted an ert.4.e of feeehol2, like those io the
county of Miielesex, and a common recovery bud
been suffered of I °Ali. thereof. It was conten‘ed
for the Plaintiff, that tke AA of Conascatiou
amounted to a bar of the intail, and, under the pros
vision.: of the will, did let in the Plaintiff as heit
expellant to the 101/001. stock.
l'ae Defendant: submitted to the Court, vnd were
willing to all as dire3ed, being only trustees, Cl.
cept the broth:r, whn was a necessary party, but
who had no real difference with his brother, thsf
Plaintiff; the object of both being, by this bill. to
take the Cnancellor's judgment, as to the censtroc•
tion of the will, and to learn whether either brother
could obtain or transfer the stock.

The Casino st.son seemed decidedly of oriniol
that the Plaintiff cannot possibly claim it with any
pr spri of slice-'s; and upon his constration of ii:11
dottrine and law of limitations, this case is a coils'
tingency too remote, and subjed to too many con.
tiogencies is legal possibility (although they have
not aaually occurred in this family) to admit this
remainder ever to take died. The Testator, lid
said, intended a perpetuity, or long intail to his
family ; his meaning was obvious ; but the law on
the suhjed, sit laid down, was agaii-m this cantina
gent )rnainder. The limitation cannet, at its
creation, extend further than to one or more lite or
lives in being at the time, and 21 years after the
death of sucn file or lives. Here was no cert.ds
fi:ed p^i d 01 time when the remainder rent vest
in any party ; there were too many po.,sibilities, and
they were indefinite; the words (he said) •• so long
as su:h ~errs presu-uptiv t shall can.:uc, trom tiwie
to time, in SeCh a S!410," weft reducible to no
finite er determinate pa iod, it was all urcertairslys
From t. sr iraporar.c: and difficulty of the caw,
however, be would talcs time, until to-morrow
morning, to deliver his judgment at the situng of
the Court.

COURT OF LING's BENCH, Via,VgiNS7l2, ions 16.
MINIM

TUSKING 7. SARAN SEAL.

Tbis ern the case o: the ciinviiitiun of the Dee
fendant one of tine Divisional Magistrates,
f>r keeping a Little-Ge, or P.ivate Lottery, to
which Mr. Ai•aity rr objeded on a former days
spots the grounds that the conviaion did not solli•
ciently set out the nature of the crime, together
with the names and description of the persons who
were entitied to the penal.), under the Aft of Par-
liament. fhis application was to quash the con.
vial." and discharge the Defendant out of custody,
as stated in a forma Paper.
Mr. Common Set was afterwards heard
at great length in support of the conviction. and
the Court pronoun:ed their final judgment tti:l
day..

heir Lordships were unanimously of opinion,
that the Asft of Parliament bad expressly laid down
certain forms to be observed in casas of this manse*
and the 1/W 'OW siusio be supplied by argument or
inference. The ecovialun would have fully set
out the nature of the crime upon which the Defend-
ant stood charged, the *mown of the penalty to Le
recovered, and the names and descriptions of the
pawns entitled thereto. The grounds of uncertain*
ty which arpeared upon the face of the convietion
itself, were sulizient to set it aside. In all thew
reaped' it lie completely deledive, and could not
be &amebae4. The convittion was accordinFlT
quashed, and the Detendant ordered so bi; stir
charged opt of custody.
The ATToRNCV-tasete•L applied fot • rule.
telling on Mr. Robert Dawson :Neal. an Attorney
of this Court. to answer the matte.s ei an aflisboit.,
The Learned Cotwist observed, that
case of all abets .w.lich should. induce

ships not to suffer leis Geatkatari's na.
any looser upon the. roll of Anal n tys
His application was tattooed opus the
James Chattle, toe Keeper of llodroit
Cornwall, sad upon the letters ut sir. N.
wl:o, living in Londcn, applied is a Geolel
wall, offering tins • stare in the walls'
reap, by hia sooting' •li•n •••••••••• •

It this wo a
e their •
MIS tO Mb& 1 1
of this Cou•:.
lia alLeava of
Dia so
Neal hitiv•ei r.
.uler to f.,.:con.
mita he alwairl