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SEAMEN'S HOSPIT4I. 84c1t:7Y.

Yesterday the Friends of the above institution held their .Inetni
Meeting at the rociety's Rooms in itt,horsyote-street. At nne
o'clock the Chair was taken br 11'17.1.1a .11V tl. t. I sr:, Esq. M.P.
t Ise.Treasurcr. _

Mr. I! AR LEY, the Stecretsrv, read the Report for the last year.
It comments.' by sitting the distni <IA state whieh s. amen no. ic
it-slimed to hr the want of the aid and attention, iurri ssss
thefonuation r 7 this Msbbli.hment, and the emit wezantam s a
large pollen of that inclustrines nod • ithiehle class of men hail
rived from thc medical assistance they hail received. Fro the
rommermner.t e'.* the institution, entry Noblemen aril kntlemen
o f the hiAhtot resist.. 'ability had riven their ruiprawt to the under.
taking, and in the s'oort petted it Pan horn inethuted it has acquir-
ed an ow, (.I,tiett of slip:meets i•hiett fully demonstrated its value
and importance. The Report upon the necessity of ar-
fording an ssylion in the time of sichneos and distress to those
breve and valan':ln fellows, eta enernilitered dargere in all the
earions forms ;!le'idnit to a 14.11 life, and stated further, that the
tirammis hrl been emnmodientely fitted up as an ilespitnl, into
svio;ch every silt seaman, of whatever nation he belorg,d, a 94 re-
seined on presenting himself alongside the vessel, and provided in
every shave with such alit and relief as his situation required, with.
.eat tieing ..',!iqed to product a recommendatory letter. or any other
aarhothy than thrt which the condition of his health Kest owed.
The total rondo! of patients rho had been reetievl in tae Ilespi-
tal ditrieg the hot year KM 14021, and there now retrained foully
whi were sthl Ts:Making of the benefits of the Institution.
The which had been received in aid of the Charity
cec,:e.i of the fernier years. but the relief aliorded to di,
!Trawl' sealer,, 1110 been sn ostensive, that the fund. were found to
be inedenuate to the gmwirg 4:amines that were d made on
them ; n•-it it 1934 therefore necessary that the friends tithe( hari-
le shone,' noi•e their elfin/ to advance and make permanent an
timististiment that lied been found to &Moe the most solid ad-
vantee/ e to our sick oral hitherto reelected seamen.
Mr. Alderman Vt. I %REM' said he had witnessed the pelmet of
the institution, and had great pleasure in informing the Meeting,
that ke had eves found it productive of the greatest advantages to
those unfortunate seamen whom it had taken under its protection,'
and saved train becoming the miserable victims of neglected dis-
enee. He that sailors in general were bred up to their'
occupation from early youth, and attained few of the habits of per.'
sons employed An shore. They had no conception d.f the approach
of misery, 31141 if informed rf, or direct. d to hospitals or other, '
pieces of relief on share, they were lin willlnc to approach, and
were to cc driven to such receptacles only by Citrert!eallgili4ll owl
miszty. lie entreated of every friend to the distrbaszd seaman to
whit the hc spite', and via convinced that no visitor would have it
wiehern hecomin4 a contributor to its funds.
Mr. 1 1.43• r slid, from the observations he had trade since
the etabblibment of the inattention, he was quite conriLeed of is
great importsr ee aid utility ; indeed, he thought it was a disgrace
tatip nation that the seamen hid born so long neglected, ar.d ?air-
fares.' to pine away their lives in rain and disease, without having a
friendly hand to assist them. Opinions were 11160111 as to the
propriety of having the hospital alinat or on land; but all yore
vatted in thinking that some place of refuge ought to Lc provided
Se our motors in the time of aiekress and distr.—a. Ile was it'.
dosed to hope that a Committee of the Dome of Commie.% would
take rip the subject, and provide some efficient mOe of relieving
their distresses; fur it was well known that numbers of our sea-
men, during the temporary agitations of the last two yeses. had left
the country nutter than risk their 'tenths, and then return to Eng.
laid, where they wetild he unprovided for. Ile also hoped that no
appeal would be made to Lord Liverpool to maintain those men, to
whom we were all so much iudebted, upon some principle hodt-
pendent of that of charity.
The thanks of the Meeting were most sespeetfolly offered to his
Majesty, fur hie continued patronage of the Ihistittilion. Thanks
were also voted to Lout Melville, the Vice Presidents, the Com-
mingle of Management, the Treasurer, and many other flea.lemen
dbo had distinguished themselves by their seal in the advance-
ment of the obj eels of the Society.
At the clot of the Meeting the ('hainran informed the compa-
ny that the Anniversary Dinner would be held on the atith inst.
on which 00'31491 the Right lion. laird Viscount Melville would
peatide.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEL 4.
ENTERED INWARDS.

'Ark, Chibitian (Laugh and to. 1;0lien), imm Sierra Leone.
Wtley, Vlvens (Ray, broker), from Messina.
aterloo, Kembcr (Coe, broker), from Ostend.

FALMOUTH, FEM. 2.—Arrived the Perthshire, Sangster, from
London for St. 3lichaers. Sailed the Lady Mary Pelham packet,
lot the Islands.
POZTIIMOUTH, FEM. 3.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Medina,
from When/tar in nine days; and Liberty, Aldndge, trout 31es-
sits. Sailed the Medway. Hammon, for Rio Janewo; the l'o3t-
humus, Spencer, from London to Jamaica, came into harbour to
repair a leak.
Cow as, Fan. 3.—The following outward-hound vessels remain
wind bound, via-I:nstle Mundy, Drummond, for India; Sneatnn
Castle, Brown; Marquis of Anglesea. Williams; Gamey Hu:-
gess; William Henry, Southworth ; Volant, and Juno,
Tuit.

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DEAL, Fcs. 3.—Arrived the Royal George. Rllerby, from
Bombay. The collaring outward-bound vessels remain, viz.—
ilenry Davidson; Salacia; LOIXIDO Packet, Tracey; Topaz, and
Clarkson. _ _

RAM/GATE, FEW 3.—The wreck of the Swedish brig Mart-
s:Me Hentiette, bat drifted off the Goodwin Sand, and been towed
ow shore near Brusdstairs.
Okay zazx Frs. 3.—Arrived the Floriday, llodgeon, from
Smyrna.—Sailed the Marianne, Gardner, for the South Whale
Fishery; Viscounteas Down, Arnold, for lliunburgh ; and
Minable Elite. Granden, for Rouen.
Ltvitroot., YES. 2.—Arrived the Mediterranean, Bully, front
Pernambuco; sailed 24th December; Tolson, Simpson, from Per-
.namboco; sailed 16th December; Blandford, Soper, from New-
foundland, in 17 days= Flambe, Mathewson, front Cbarleaton;
sailed 26th December ; Kitty, from Charleston • eerier, A ikcn-
bead, from Marseilles. Sailed the Mansion, Petrie, for Charleston.
BompAy, A tic. 16.—The Honourable Company's ship Bridg.
*stet will sail for China in the course of a few days.
Atm. XL—The Royal Charlotte, a ship of this port, is loading
for England d but her day of departure, we believe, is not de-
cided on. _ .

CAP! or Goon lioec, Nov. 11.—Captain Sbutticworth. the
Supercargo, and crew, of the lEclip‘c, were all saved, and ha%e
proceeded for the Mauritius.

The Ridley, Whyte, from London, for Trieste, hu put into
Malta leaky. Cargo discharging.
The next packet forJaniatca is detained until Saturday next.
The Provident* Vanderstein, front Antwerp to Tester'We, put
into Dartmouth on Sunday, with loss of bowsprit, rigging, top.
me" sails,
The Vrow Drent, from Rot erdam to Lyon, wen
hilly lest on the Galloper Sand the 22d or 23t1 Derembie.
saved. _ _ -

The Comets, ---, from Pernambuco to Macao, fa totan'ttioSi
rear the latter platy, part of the cargo saved in a damaged agate.
The Ineomparavel, Alyea, from Lisbon, arrived at Pernambuco
2.oth December, taken in the Bay by the Brazilian brig of war
WIZ', and ber specie transhipped to the Later.

Sr. PaTsatintitcm, JAN. 9.-" It is "mid soon
hare a new Italian ()pert here, and that an e'er ha. been
trade to Madame .Nlainville Fodor, the celebrated per-
t .rmer in London, of an annual salary of 60,0n0 rubles in
paper currency, and fire benefits. if she will come litre.
The Italian Opera established at Moscow, in 18V1, conti-
nues to prosper."

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&n. e. ear.—The /Ridden disappearance of a young
lady, whose expectations are very considerable, has furnished mat.
ter for much speculatioo in the higher circles at the west end of the
toga. The gentleman and lady who form the leading characters
in the present affair are both of high condition--the former being a
near relative of a Noble House, and a l'olonel in the Army, to
which rank he was raised chiefly by his own achievements in the
service of his country, having been actively engaged in the Penin.
sula, and in many other pars of the world. The young lady is, it
is said, the only daughter of a wealthy commoner, whole meatus lie
in one of the border counties on the northern frontier, and possessed!
firmest personal and mental attractions. The parties met at Pane
fo Pre. and the Colonel became a constant visitor at the Hotel of
the wealthy borderer, which wits distinguished by all the comforts
and hospitality of an English mansion. Here, it is presumed, flint
torn matte its first impression on the heart of our faircountry woman,
and when the gallant officer was compelled to return to England
by prcssirg family arrangements, his fait inamorata soon became
tired of the French capital. In the year the family returned
to England, and the Colonel soon after paid • visit to his Parisian
Irked. Its the North, where he was received with the acme cor-
diality, respect, and lave. Two or three mnoths passed rapidly
away, .. and a • Winter in London" being decided upon by di:
iadu ent parent. for the gratification of bit fatally, the Colo-
nel Lad an unnilling farewell, and set off for London. In No-
vember the lovers met once more at an elegant town residence,
is flimcvenm.street, which was exchanged for the rustic solitude of
Smile ; all the
.ealeties of the metropolis were visited
in turn, and the gay and gallant aim was elected master of the
revel, On Tuesday week, after the concluelen of the Opera, the
party returned to tirosvenne-sneet, and after partaking of a pent
umworr, and discussing a bottle or two of choice Burgundy, the
Colonel withdrew, and the family retired to rest. On the following
meeting, however, it was discovered that the young lady hail Mat
occupied her bed—her travelling apparatus had quitted her dress-
itigeroom. and every thing meowed strongly of being 0 absent
widiout leave." In this distressing dilemma, her, filk de ehambre
was applied to, but in vain. The Colonel was sought at his usual
quarters, get here they were coually foiled, that gentleman having
quieted them conic days previous. and the impenetrable valet, who
appeared as his r. eresentat ire, not aftheding any clue to a discovery
of his present ;darn cif abode. In the evening of the same day,
however, the mystevy was cleared up by a repentant letter written
at an inn on the Northern mad by the fair fugitive, explaining
every eircomiesnee. It was conceived that Mi., trip would have
afforded employment to the gentlemen of the long robe, as it mut
asserted that the Colonel was already married : that report was in
part true; inserted he certainly had been, but wives do not live roe
ever, sod his first lady has, we learn, been long since numbered
teltbsbe dead. An accommodation is, therefore, likely to be

irctad, whichwiiimake the matter agreeable to all. The lady is
yeti, bar teens; the gentleman is said to be thirty or forty years
tiktmouth NV/ lie ►etwao.

SCOTCH NATIONALITY :-A VISIOA •

London : C. Stocking, 3, Paternoster-row.

Poetical Fatire is generally the production of a bid ar
vitiated taste. There arc many brilliant exceptions ; bat
the observation will be found to apply with truth to the
greater nember of those who have so distinguished them-
Is lets. I. is a common weapon, and is never drawn in any
came but that of warfare ; like all oilitrs, it is as likely to
!turn its edge against justice as against oppression ; and
I bet too oaen rankles the wounds it creates. We are
.refore inclined to be hostile, rather• than friendly, to
any peblicatien v:hieh has no other aim than to ridicule a
ju.l:4i or a nation ; more particularly if we perceive a feel-
ing which we know inuet have arisen from spleen, or a
worse motive. Such was the observation that suggested
itself to es, when we had read the work which now lies
on cur table; a work on which much talent has been ex-
pended ; but Expended to very little purpose indeed.—'
Scotland is the mark at which the arrows of the author of
Scotch Nationality are levelled—Scotland, which has for
so many gener.tinns been the butt of all, from the beggar
to the Peer—Scotland, which, notwithstanding the slicers
of those who dwell to intently on " the fidge, the boo, and
the grip," must call forth the warmest eulogy of him who
&heists to see the human mind rapidly advancing in its I
erte.;rees to perfection, and watches with joy the sereadlng
or the " thinking. principle" over the civilized world.
The Preface to the Poem will give, at a glance, thc sen-
timeat and feelings of the author, when he seated himself
for the purpose of placing before the public a poem of ,
fifteen hundred lines in length, end scattered throngh #I
seme of the meet beautiful Mewl and poetical images we •
have cvt r met w ith. " The author of this poem (so says the 1
Preface), is descended from gentlemen of the Northern
Border : tradition still whispers that his pate nial grand-
mother wore breeches ; she was, nevertheless, most cer-
tainly a Scotchwoman. Zealous for the honour of her
enquiry, he celehratest the heroic virtues of Scotehamen in
suitable Iludibrastics. For, though Scotch praise is by no
means scarce, and though' Scotland and &otchinen are
(as they ought to be) the sole subjects of it, yet—with,
perhaps, the single exception of breekete—Sawi.ey praises
hie country for imaginary excelb ocies, leaving all that
cytistitines true Scotch merit unrecorded. What author,
been north of the Tweed, has written in praise of the
edge, the boo, and the grip?" If this be the best speci-
men of his prose, it falls far short of the author's poetry.
As an example, we select the opening passage of his book,
which, although not the lest, may be read as a faithful
specitnen of its style and matter :
I've bought of 11hsrdarorth,—not thoughts deep
As truth i' th' bottom of a well,
Nor wings of power to soar, and sweep
o'et summits, inneazsible
IV idiom. such aid ;_but, for a penr
I've bought a hero, one worth many
A genuine pedlar. IVhat he said,
Or dream'd, shall in Three nooks be penn'd.
e'er your true Epie must, I've lead,
I lave a beginning, middle, end :
So said the Saitehman, Aristotle,
So prov'tl his pupil, Autos Cottle.
In modern, as in ancient, days,
What have not mortals done for prelate?
Thou, who to th' sarluting skies
I.ink*st ashes, by an empty name,
With Time, and two Eternities!
Shadow of dust ! humorist) Fame!
Thou only deathless where all die!
Priz'd nothing 1 sole reality!
Pride, that unbow'd can pass the shrine
Of Glry's God, yet bends at thine;
And well may man love trifles here,
If e'en their shadow thus is dear!
But who, alas ! will dribble forth
My praises front the grateful North ?
small praise need he expect, in Booth,
11'60 praises Sawery with the truth.
nut wile I laud the booing nation,
I have this common consolation,
That when I shall be lowly laid,
And turn'd to dust, which casts no shade,
The loftiest' Scot, that lives a slave,
Would boo, fa sixpence, o'er my grave.

The hero of the poem, is a " Sawney," " Mac Whisky
hight," who has wandered free the North, all in a deep
vision of the night, and paid a visit to the much-talked-of
region, which " some saints could ill sppre," yclep'd Hell.
Here he meets a variety of clerical sad political characters,
and an opportunity is taken to give them and their prohs-
skins some merciless hits. Here also he encounters the
monarch of the place, who is pictured in very vigorous
'slue. A long converaatidh 'manes between his majesty et
the lower world and the Scot, which teems with allusions
to, and reflections on, the nation of which Sawney is a
child, until the hero of the piece awakes from his vision,
and the poem terminates. We must notice, among its
faults, the glaring one of an occasional departure from the
paths of delicacy, which not even the lludibrastic style of
the production ;an warrant.
The following passage is not in keeping with the cha-
racter of the Arch-fiend, as he has drawn it, when he
describes him as terrified at the shriek of Sawney—
From whom a yell
Arose, at which the Prince of Hell,
Lihe ajlower withering on the stalk,
Trembled.
We must conclude our observations with the following
extract from the body of the poem :
Last, with heart-wrung, heart-breaking air,
And long loose locks, and banded head,
Came one, ' who bad no business there,'
Ssd, silent, as the beauteous dead.
Taxation, war, and waste, had clothed
Iler husband in the rags he loathed ;
Ile, infant on her breast had died,
Because that fount was unaupplicd ;
Four other babes to her for food,
l.nok'd up in vain. With culling blood,
• The note her Edward forg'd. she paid,
tura. And kiss'd her babes! then, undismay'd,
And hand in hand, and side by side,
While thousands aobbsl„ with him she died ;
And thousands in the breathless air,
lllix'd with mounted curses pray'''.
Now, pale as snow, but not appall'd,
She gated on scenes so strange : and call'd
On lleav'n, to aid the orphan'd for,
Who uc'er would see her sorrow mare !

JAII ES T Fl RST.—This king's eloquence only served
to excite the severity of criticism, nor did his subjects
pay all that justice to his erudition which he thought it
deserved. Henry the Fourth of France used to call him
Muster James; nor did his own subjects give him more
'flattering titles. In one of his speeches to both Houses
he made use of these words:—" I hare piped unto
,you,
wed los hare not glanced ; I hare mourned, and you hare
sat !absented." Thus bringing his prerogative into ques-
tion by idle speeches, which were but ill-received, he
seldom obtained the subsidies he demanded. His pro-
finites Innt Ittrinints obliged hint, like a great many
other princes, to make a sale of dignities and titles, for
which the vanity of mankind pays dear. He created two
howbeit baronets, each of whom paid two thousand
pounds for this trifling honour. Their whole privilege
'consisted in having the presiedescy of knights; but neither
of them could sit in the House of Lords, and the rest of
the nation had but a slight opinion of this new tide.
'hat alienated the minds of the English from him
more thau anything else was his giving himself up to
avouria.s.

thiaxn Moores Ttinoxr.—The throne of the Grand
Mogul, Aurengzehe, is estimated by Terniver, in his travels,
at three hundred and sixty millions of litres. Twelve
columns of massy gold, which supported die throne, were
covered with large pearls, the canopy was also of pearls
and diamonds, mounted by a peacock with a tail of pre-
cious stoney; every thing else was proportioned to this
astoui..hin•; magnificence. The g►eatest solemnity in the
year was, when the Emperor used to be weighed in golden
scales before all the people, on which occasion he con-
stantly received above fifty millions of lines in presents.

Nine children were Many alive in the courhe of the last
fortnilit, in the southern district of this county !
Sl4/Ltdaiire Advertiser.
11aa sure c AC C IDL T.—Tuesday evening, as some men
were euga„-ed in unroofing the Haberdasher,' Almshouses, at
bosu", &considerable portion of the wall and some of the beams
fell with a tremendous crash. and buried several of the workmen in
the rains, and many sustained serious injury. We lament to add,
that two of the labourers had their thighs broken and were other-
wise dreadfully muti!ated. They were conveyed to St. Banho-
lomew's Hospital on litters, in an almost lifeless state.
A singular circumstance occurred at the Old Church, in
berets. on Sunday week. A child being given into the arms of
the Vioir, far the purpov of christening, he discovered. no doubt
*his great surprise, that the infant ass lifeless !—York ^per.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNESDAY, FEL 4.

ISTOLEN MARRIAGE.
Mr. If AMT.—YOU Lordship may remember that I applied to
you before the hat vacation, for an order too Clergyman inlVales,
end others, to appear before the Court, that they nugbt account for
• contempt of Court and breach of a previous order of the Court,
! inhibiting the solemnization of marriageand is of a certain
retry with the Ward in question. The tOO% were these, my Lord I
• The infant is a young lady whose mind certainly appears to have
outgrown her person ; her mental maturity seems to be quite pre-
' mature.. She was domiciled in a respectable family of the name of
j Byers, for the purpose of receiving a proper education. She arrived
at her 11th ylear. A beneficed clergyman, Mr. John James, lived
jin the neighbourhood. His daughter frequented the same school.
His younger beefier, dlr. James James, visited there; became
j acquainted with the Ward, and after some time they thought pro-
per to elope, and get married by a 'Welch clergyman, Mr. Evans.
It appeared that the Rev. Mr. John James had lent his horse to his
! younger brother on the occasion of his elopement. 31y instructions
!on my former application were, that he and the Welch clergyman
had knowingly and willingly conspired and assisted in bonging
about the marriage. lam happy now, my Lord, to say that nei-
ther of the gentlemen have Alcod culpably or improperly. .Mr.
John James has made an affidavit, in which he swears that he eer.
tainly did lend his horse to his brother on that occasion, but with.
out knowledge of the use to which it was to be applied ; that he
was previculdy in the habit of assisting his younger brother with
money and other matters ; that he met the parties on their way,
; remonstrated with them on the impropriety of their conduct, and
requested the young lady to return to her school. She, however, 1
with a peremptoriness not, I hope, very common among young ;
ladies of her age, declared her positive determination to proceed on I
he..! hopeful journey. I have also an affidavit of Mr. John James's .
dsugl.ter. Der schoolfellow, who left it with the pieties; but, as she'
sweat., without a knowledge of their intention of eloping. They met j
her father on the road, who took her away from them, and after that
period she had no communication with them whatever. The Rev.!
Mr. Evans swears that the young lady wes represented to him as
of the age or eighteen yam; that they requested him to publish this
bans of their carriage; that he did publish the bans of marriage
on three several times with the usual public ceremonies, and
,Mined
the parties in marriage according to the established regular rues of
the Church. The witnesses to the marriage also stated that they
had nu previous knowledge or concerted connection with the par-
ties; one was the clerk, and the others persons who happened,
through accident, to be ip the Church at the moment of solonniz.
ation. lioder these eircuffistances I am happy to remove unmerited
inculpation from the parties to whom I alluded. The husband, in
order to escape the power of the Court, left the kingdom and went •
to France, where he now is; the wife is at present domiciled with',
her guardian. My present application to 3 our borfiship is for re-
ference to the Mower, to ascertain what SUM is sufficient for the se-
parsec maintenance of the lady. This sum is to be paid out of
12,We'. her property, now icing in the hands of the Court.
The Lon t) CIIAN C E1.1.0H —%Vial not the Ward's mother pee-
sent, and cossetting to the niar-iage ?
Mr. Hanr—My Lord, no; she has no mother.
The LORD CHAN cELio R—What ! had she no mother?

Mr. lIANT—My Lord, 1 mean ahe has no legal mother; the
Wart' is illegitimate. rt would be a novelty indeed if a young
lady_ could exist without the suutiatance of a mother.
The Loan en ANCELLon—True. I have no objection to grant
her u separate maintenance., but in ouch a manner that her husband
shall have no control over it.

31r. heat-1 have also to apply far an order to the husband to
appe..r before your Lordship on a certain day. Ile is at present
out of the kingdom, through the notion that by remaining out at
the jurisdiction of the Court until his wife shall be twenty-one
years ofd, he may, after that time, return secure from any punish-
ment for his contempt of Court. This is a gross mistake. How.
ever long he may remain away, whenever he cornea back he will be
liable to any punishment which the Court may think just to inflict
on him. It is better he should rctum as soon as convenient, sad'
try whether, by making a proper settlement on his wife, be can
appease the justice of the Court.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—Take an order for his appearance
oa the second day of neat Term.

COWS? V. 11/11118,

The LORD LHANCEITCOII: after aosnedisettsiion on the effect
which the deed of 1012 may have on the deed of 1822, relative to
the Lessees of Covent-garden, gave notice of hie intention of giv-
ing judgment on the ciao finally to-morrow morning.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, LINCOLN'S INN HALL,
WEDNESDAY, Fts. 4.

MIDDY v. LORD WESTMORLAND.
Mr. Rosa, who was Counsel for the plaintiff, stated the we,
from which it appeared that the present was a question as to the
validity of the tide on which Lord Westmorland held certain
landed preperty. Two pleas of objection to his title were set up ;
the insufficiency of the consideration, and secondly, that the
plaintiff had a reversionary interest in the property. The father of
the present plaintiff had, it appeared, in the year 1777. mortgaged
the estate in question for the sum of 8001. and upwards, to which
deed the present plaintiff had solisegibed hie name. In the year
1781, the father paid off the former mortgage, and re-mortgaged it
Ito the present defendant, Lord Westmorland, to whom he subset-
qtiondy deigned over the property in acquittance of the mortgage.
dead, and in consideration of a further sum of money that recent'.
ed. It was now argued, that as the present plaintiff was seised
with a teversionary Interest, the ti of the Earl could net be pod,
inasmuch as the plaintiff's in& had only a temporary inter-
' est in the estate, and, therefore, could not make over to him a
good title.
Itlr. HE•LD, as Counsel for Lord Westmorland, passed over
the plea of insufficieney, observing, that even if it were truly aver-
red, it could not by itself be a good ground of objection. In respect
to the reversionary interest set up, he contended, if the present
plaintiff had ever been possessed of it he had consigned it over to
his father.
The Vicr-Citaxer tato a inquired if the deeds of 1777 and
1781 were in Court, and learning that they were not, he oboerved,
that looking at the extracts from them, which were tn COurt, he
could not but be of opinion, that the deed of 1777 left the sole equi-
ty of redemption in the possession of the plaintiff's father, and
that if his conjecture were correct, the title of Lord Westmorland
was certainly good.
It was afterwards mutually agreed to between the Counsel, that
the deeds should be b ght into Court, and that the decision
should stand subject to the matter fact.
COURT OF ICING'S BENIEII, WEDNESDAY, Frs. 4.