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Mr. Robert, Warilunat - 2t Themar Roan - 17

CORDWAINKRS' WARD.

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AidernsinCNlOSTatMlß SWITN, held thisWard-
mote in Mow Church, when the following Candi-
dates were nominated, and demanded • poll upon
shew of hands, at the char of which the-num-
bers were, for—
Mr Smith . 0 nimS7 - 34
Ila..sala - 33 rh,-npsork - 33
Jones AG I Nicks . 17
A1:047 - -35 I Watson 1111 F 11
14•-.010 - 34 Make Candinano 13
kw, - - 35 .4.- Jalis •

CANTLE: Fi.% TSAR U AND ORIPPLEttATE WARDS.

.111 were demanded in both these Wards. They
wilt open Jt 11 o'clock this day.

F ARINGDON.

The oLi Officers were ale Red without opposition.

DUANE'S paper, The dhow", et Philadelphia, can.
tains A n Address of a Committee, iapersuaace.of a
Resolution of the Hibernian PrOvident Society of
New' York, to Mrs. Itlsi Toes, the widow
of rtICOSA LD Wotas Toss, to whom they pre.r
'anted, at the sem time, a Medallion, with an op.
propriate devise. and to ker son, I youth of 16, •
Sword.--The Rama of the Committee are. D 41111)
Barsoss,Gllolloll. WIL L 14114 .1 AMY *Ns-
els, Trossas Aunts LIS IMETT, anti GlOll4llll
leo. The Address, as wallas Mi.. Toss's Ammer,
'pre clenched in sentiments associated wish the an-
fortunate trsasaaiess of a few years ago is Ireland.

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ensisitorost cosroa•rilm .f autorari".
Its this calve an application was made on Ore
part of the Defendants to dissolve theinjonEtir.r.
previously granted to the Plaintiff, against ilsth
proceeding in their att.on of eisament. Ibe
riff had been the sehn &natter tsndat that eorpo.a-
lion, and had held the nsdal }lassie which far ce--
'uric:: /Ltd been attached to that office, under a !rase
for years, now expired. '1... Defendants, on the
expiration of the demise. endeav -.sled to der rive
him of the dnrelling-house, and on Lis refiisai to
surrender, had incitund an affirm of ojeCtiorru.
The present motion was rqiipoied on tile ground that
the house was attached to the,ofsceof scnoolniaster,
and that the Phii.ititi hadibeen proprrly coniiiiated
and licensed by the Bishop of the Diocese. :.tier
a variety of observations by the respeftiva Coo nr.ri,
The Lotto LtIANCILLL7II expressed his opinion,
that it was impassible for the Court, with only such
partial information as was then before it, to with-
draw front tre Plaie iu its equitable protettim.
He was awate that there existed oo many cases. .
where the endowed school-masters were kept in such ,
a state of subserviency to corporatetodies,thar, sob-
thud by their necessities, they were made satisfied
with even a causal enjoyment of those iiitetestseo
which, by nature of their dffice, they were eltitled
toe life. Stich a systems. from its abuses, was preg-
nant with a variety of evils, in such a degree,
that he felt mimed. were the gross misapplication
of those fends which nosy prevails removed, it
would be found, that there were provided in this
country ample means for the diffusion of a salutary
education. A serious investigation of this subject
was now oh foot, and lre was confident, its result
would jucily his conclusion. On the present mo-
tion, be4dit it his duty to continue the Injunetion.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Gus , Dtc. RI.

Sistiuse hPre Lard E L LSN NO Rayon aid Special
Juries.

. CROERVORD O. WINTER.
This was au salon brought to recover 'the sum
of 5001. stock, which had been bequeathed by a
Mrs. Watson. the grandmother of Lai Defendant,
oa the footing of his being an illegitimate child.—
It appeared that the testatrix herself, and every
other person who pilaw the Defendant's mother, for
many years back, considered that her daughtet,
Mrs. Winter, bad been lawfitilyasarried to the De-
fendant's father, William Winters schoolmaster. in
London ; and formerly an assistant or usher in an
academy within 30 miles rf Newcastle-upon-r,ne.
Wier!, however, the young mats had attained the
age of 21, and was entitled to receive the money so
'left him, a difficulty had occurmi which his father
had never before looked to, namely, that he (the
father) should give in a regular certificate of his
marriage and the baptism of this child. Accordinp-
ly, when the period arrived, means were taken.to
procure these sacessory doettetefiti ; but certain cir-
'cumsiances occurred. which prevented them from
being credited. William Winter. sen. had be. n mar-
ried to a Miss WAMITI, the reacher of the Defend-
ant, at the church of Ail 524.11., at Nrweastle-
upoo- fyne, under the feigned names of William
Hastings end Ann Wilon. The reason assigned for
this was that he (Mr. William Winter.ses.) had,
in 1732, when kni marriage took place, been aa
usher' in the academy of a Mr. gorge, w'io tint
wish that any Married man should raisupy tilat
situation ; but, that soon afterwards. his marlin.°
being diseoverai. his employer sent him his trunks
arid a £Ol. ante, and he never villaged to him.
but came to "reside in London. When the met:-
sity of obtainirg these cellificatei occurred, it ap-
peared that this Mr. Winter, the father, used mo.t
unpardonable means to procure them for the tem-
porary satisfaelion of these requiring them. He
returned to Newcastle, and in.peard the Records
of the Church where this alleged marriage was
said to have taken pl ice, and procured a certificate
of the marriage of two persons named Hastings
and Wilson, who had been married mach about
the time be stated his to hare taken place, which he
afterwards crpied, altering the name to Winter
and Watson ; and to the 1.4% of such a marriage
having, taken place, he afterwards made affidavit
before the Lord Mayor of this city. In addition
to this he procured an old woman of the name
if Margaret Kilpatrick, alias Wood. to swear
udon this occasion as to bee having been a witness
the said maniage of William Hastings end Ann
',.Vilson, and to corroborate the circumstance as to
ills concealing the marriage. and their assuming
hese WARS. Although this story appeared plats.
•ihle as to his assuming a feigned name, yet there
did not appear to be any good reason for his wife
doing so ; and besides tins. every ciratmstance
tended to show, that Tarbes artifices had teen had
recourse to to c aroborate his testimony, and that
of this old woman; but certain inconsistencies in a
correspondenze with she Clergyman of that Church,
rendered the deception evident, It was argued,
that there was au fault on the part of
stile Defend-
ant, that it entirely lay with his father, and that,
therefore, although be had bad recourse to inch
means of prod of his marriage, ender web circum-
stances, it ought! not to deprive the son of the lc-
' gacy bequeathed to him.
Lord Eat. en Boeotian observed to the Jury, that
the principal point for their consideration was,
whether the father had been lawlully married or
not f In his opinion he had been guilty, not only
of perjury, both upon occasion of the original mar-
riage, by miming a false same, and latterly. be-
tthe laced Mayor, by swearing to his haviug
married tinder his reel name. besides the
crime of uttering the certificate.
The Joey, without any hesitations- ffiebirlievi3g
all this story of the • in question, rye it
Verdie ter the PWntiff with coats.

o. caelearoa,
This wee an aeioti epos • policy of fow+•aae
epos the ship • Goatee for 1001. boat London fat the
Smith Sees.

Mr. Peet stieted, that this question had best
formerly Wine the Court. The ' had bees
captured by die Freech wiry war the sad
the Caftan seeded to Verdes. where be was kept
bit a osemeirside time. . The Defied**, as nadir•
wriest of part of the ow, had ateelly adjusted

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the petiey, sad the el.:esti:Al Would tin tipise. 411
paint of wh-ther r,r not triere h.d iii•e3 a suilfffinst ' o'
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commtchleation of the eireenrunces int. n ;ir.g t •
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I situari,m of the erste! prreinus to such an adj ,-1-
menr ? 'the vlrdift having. been formerly given itt 1
favour of ' the Defenclan:. on turf:tett cf terse not 4
having been a suili :rent .carnumsnicaii.in prey; ifs tel : •I :•'
'elepii.g C.e insiirar.ce and sAtc&ting the i7,o:ictr.
- When the policy we, tgaderwritter, it had nn't beers
sta:cd that she was fl touch at IPortsmonth tor '
cnnvoy. nor that s!.c, previously; had brat
driven tram her e,rneny, at .rg with mane
teller yowls, in a violent storm, and had Iry sit • I
Is c!I hosed at. He slintild prove. I oveirm. filet
C' s.' ;rad every other fad ha& been enenteunicated
to tl:is De:endant, and should 'a--...:-, that it P, („0•••
Defendant) did not look into and ern /tine the ! • .ta
detailed in the corresponden7e th.n Laid bef.'re bin ,
he had himself only to blame.
Several letters. and the articles of sucTrement,
• signed with the initial' of the Vet:its:apt. were read ;
end a M. Millet It iseri was czamine I, and de.
based es us such a signature being a sufficient and'
until warrant to the brokers to pay the' amount tJ
the insured.
, IV: As TO. rs k Ir 4 !Pea A 1., nn behalf oTt'ietsfpe•
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fintlant, stated: that he relied °a thelesint tferfaere.4 l"---
et firmerly laid down by the Ccurt of King's Bench
in Bailey. 1. Lumley, is Last's Ripest,, 469. kr. •,
Champion, it was evident. had a;;reed to the 'ad.
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justment in question, under an ignors••ce of the
fade of the case ; but even if be had known Olen,. .
* his acquiescence in that adjitstmmt wutild ' .
not prevent him from a legal remedy. Had
he a.flu illy known the whole circumstances, II
certainly would never have agreed' 12 i:T.• its
never understood thit the vested was' to proceed
from the Downs to Portsmauth, to wilt for convoy.
and far less did he know that the con4y of the Yarn
brig had been dispersed in stormy weather, an *
among others, bad been scattered ad over the Chalk.
nel. The vessel had been represented' to the De.
fondant as having Banally sailed from die Down.*
to the Sauth Sea fishery, ,end he was kept entirety
ignoratit of her having toeched at Portsmouth, and '
out hating been since need nf. •
Mr. PARK, in reply. ohsereed. that every satite
faftory informahou had been given Cr the De-
fendant previous to his signing the adinsttner•.
and therefore, unless he could show grass fraud
in the representations made to him, or that
any information bad been withheld from hire
on that occacon. whleb had sine, transpi•ed.
he '
etaght to be rendred liable i 3 the sante
mtnner as if he had aCtuallygivm a bill for the
money, the signing of the adjumment being, in the
usual course of trade, looked up rts as so order kr
payment. N's less than two whole days had/
elapsed hehre he chose to make any objeaion. ,
lie again submitted to the Jury, that from the
evidence he had shewn, every necessary doeu-
rneLt had been put into the hymns pt the Defendant,
and it was no fallt of his client, that he, (the D.
iendant), did• not use them. He desired lite leer .
to bean It was stated by the Attorney-General, be- •
cause it such was the law of the land, no reliance I
could be placed upon any adjpstusent, howle-r
deliberately and conscientian.ty effeSeci. Lori
Kenyan had held that there was no round tar seek
an amen, atter an undn writer had s-a expressly
'hewn that he thought himself Ira. le. He should
menann anAher c...e. Law e Hislop, whe,e
an underwriter had signed, an a:tint:tient without
making any obje.,inn, and the l'i ont4 recovers d.
--Much about the sameriree, anu•her •...on was
tried against an co.:dative's/sr ups-n the same vessel.
woo bad I.l:it subscrilhd the adjai in lit, ,ln accost:at:
'of there nit having bees a statics-.t disclosure of
feffs at the time of s•gnierc, the 4 policy... 4'6s
tatter underwrite* was hot held liable, while the
former was.
Lord ELLLIIIIHRoIiGH observed, that wherever a
party ckuoses to pay a Stlia of money, ihe could toe
get it back again. unless he laid at statement cf
tads betere the Court. tending in thew that soars
fraud had been practised upon him. What was as
adjastment, lent an admission of the troth 4 teas,
asserted on the part of the insured, and that the
Defendant knew nothing to prevent the money bei g
paid ?—Therefore the matter came to this. warts.. .
the letters that were coammnicated ett the De-:
fendant, did afford him a sufficient reason to with,
hold that payment. It was no excuse, that the
Defendant had not read the documents which were
put into his possession.
The Jury alter retiring for a short time, returned
a verdift fur the Plaintiff for 801. the sum of 201.
having been previously paid into Court.
!AJAR 5. MRsTIAII. 1
This was an anion brought to recover damages
frotn the Detendant, for an injury sustained by a
vessel named the iiii:o”, the property of the Plain-
tiff, while repairing in the dry duck of this Deign&
an-, at lfotherhithe.
It appeared, that upon the 2Gth of December
last, during an extraordinary tide, the water had
broken down the gates of the D. J.:11440v 's dock,
owing to their ihantficiency, by which accident ano-
ther vessel then in the ricer bad been driven. agatest
the Ato,aa, end had damaged her hulk cansideredy.
Tr,e testimony of Thomas Brown, formerly Mute
of the Albtan, sheered that this event had taken piece
daring a period when all the workmen se:re 6i/tie; ••
and only a watchman and himself to take ea:e I
the vessel and the dock : and thatan a coneet sett, a
be had that evening with the Defendant, :se, the Di.
lantern. invested all the blame of this to the absent •
of his workmen: surd hid, that this a..ridet It
had arisen from giving them holkays. Ilse*
Defendant, on that same occasion. tweed a
his watchman for negir.esoce. ItiP.-es rat the
gate, and of its supporters, upon tn. day eta'
laded to, were produced in Court, dud we...! am*.
featly in a very rotten and infirm state. The I.X.
far •tcat, fry Lis observations on tnat "courier°, at SO
this negligence of his servants, her:Pada llyriveia
' a vtroict against hiniSett, and, upon that point, the
quesiion seemed riot:Tally to turn.
Previous to trot rnvestiganim tieing closed, the
parties agreed that the ~romans bi damages ...sontes.
srdle due to t..e Plaintiff, shotold be scission Its the
determination of one of the Jury.
lime the Special Jury caines closed. and Ile
following was steJ:Dltted to the jungtnita. tat • a
common Jury :
SISAS.I,„ yotING v. WRIGHT.
This was an action up.n a bill of exchange for

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