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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MONDAY, Nov. 7.

TRI.4L OF MRS. HORNE.

THE [IWO V. EOTFAWT.

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Mr. BARRAID—Have you got the books here?
Witness—No; I was not required to bring them.
Mr. BARNARD—ReaIIy this is quite a surprise upon me. I
know it is not mentioned in the bankers' book that the money is in
the names of those individuals, and I den their responsi-
bility. The account is merely on account of the trustees, with.
cut naming them.
Mr. HOLLAND—Suppose what you state to be the fact, I con-
t.:A, that the defendants are responsible, and that the money can
be attached. lam willing to give you the utmost latitude. Arho
are to draw the money ? Messrs. Vero and Want must, when the
tompany was about to open its account, have asked and arranged
in whose name it wits to be drawn, if it were fot no other purpose
t t; an t hat of presenting forgery.
Mr. HARPAND—oentlemen of the Jury, I am, as you per.
metre, In the greatest of difficulties ; but I shall submit the cast to
judgrecnt and espericnce. It is obviate. that, if three of
Directors signed a check, the money could be drawn ; but
then the Secretary must countersign the check. When the ac-
count was opened it was opened in the name of the British
Steam Navigation Cornea:ly. ' dated to the credit of the trua:e.-

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apany, and pi. tses,
whose number was not known. Ido not. at the same time that I
state this, accuse the clerk of intential misrepresentation.
The Radom:ma—The plaintiff? witnesses have sworn that the
money lies in the banking-house, in the names of those five di-
vectors. whatever may he their character. They were not within
tie jurisdiction no be served with a process, and therefore resort
want bad to this Court, whose privileges made them liable. There
is nothing more positive than the proof. The Learned Counsel
Las cernainly impugned it; but I am sure that he would not give
Lis arab to the truth of his contradiction.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
Aft
l•ONDON, OPORTO. AND LISBON STEAM-PACKET
NAVIGATION CO3I PAM!.
WILLIAMS V. CURTIS.
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Samuel Abraham came up this morning to be heard upon his
petition. Ilia discharge was opposed by several creditors, and par-
ticularly by a Mr. James Ilulme, on the ground of his having con-
cealed a horse and other things, which ought to bate been given
up to the Court for the benefit of his creditors.
This creditor was severely cross-examined by Mr. HEATH
(Counsel for the insolvent), who elicited that he had, since the filing
of the petition, applied to the insolvent, by an agent of the name of
Thorley, to endeavour to obtain two leases in the insolvent's right,
but which it appeared he had assigned over to some other of his
creditors before.
Mr. HEATH contended that a creditor could not, after he bad
received a notice of an insolvent's intention of applying for the
benefit of the Act, take advantage of getting an available security
into his own private hands against his bona fidc creditors.
The CounT said they agreed with the Learned Counsel, and,
that when the insolvent's attorney had completed his services, be
should be discharged.
Adjourned accordingly.

ROYAL COURT, GUERNSEY, SATURDAY, Ocr. 29.

This was an action instituted against Mrs. Cecilia C. E. Zoffany,
wife of the Rev. Mr. Ilome, far having concealed Laura E. Horne,
her youngest daughter, against the sentence of the Court, which or-
dered that the said L. E. Horne snould be given up on the lit of
September last, to the said Mr. Horne, her father.
On Saturday, the 22(1 inst. Mrs. Home was produced at the bar
to be tried, but owing to the absence of two of the witnesses. the
Crown Officers demanded a week's delay.
This day the prisoner re-appeared ; the Court was crowded to an
excess, in order to hear this novel and interesting trial.
• The following witnesses were then called and sworn :
Illrs. Lihou.—Mrs. Home lived at my house. The police placed
two guards to watch over the child that it might not be taken away.
I heard the child's voice on the night of the 30th of August. The
child was to be given up to the police on the following day. It was
impossible for the child to abscond without the knowledge of the
mother. Mrs. Horne has never offered me any thing to conceal the
child.
S. Toy and A. Gallienne, who were placed as guards over the
child, could not account fur its absence.
Peter Lihou said he was offered DOI. by Mrs. Horne to conceal
the child. which he refused. He went to Sark at the request of the

prisoner, to ask Joe to take the child, for which journey he recvived
20s. from Mrs. Horne.
Mitt Lihou deposed to having heard the child's voice on the night
of the 30th of August. She apprehended something, and warned
the guards, as the latch of Mrs. Horne's bed-room door had been
taken off: She does not know how the child was carried away, but
the mother must have assisted.
(Mrs. Home, during the evidence of the witnesses, made several
remarks, and was repnmanded by the President.)
Advocate Carrft, who pleaded fur Mrs. Home, stated that this
Case was novel and solitary on the records of this island—that a
tlsw appeared in the action, as it should have been entered differ-
ently, and hoped the Court would take the whole into consideration
—and that the evidence produced was not to the point, no person
having seen Mrs. Horne assist in the child's flight.
Mr& Home then addressed the Court in the following manner:—
" Gentlemen—lt is not as a guilty woman, nor as a supplicant
for mercy, that I appear at your bar this day. I present myself
before you with that tranquillity of soul, which ever accompanies
those who are void of offence ! The officers of the King have
charged me with crime as guilty of contempt towards this honour..
able Court. This, in fact, is the foundation of the present action
against me ; bdt I trust to prove, in a few words, the falsity of this
accusation. In fact, Gentlemen, so far from a failure of respect,
I protest I feel towards you the greatest deference; for can I be
iguorant that, as representatives of our Most Gracious Sovereign.
you are here to hold, with impartial balance, the scales ofJustice !
But I must be allowed to inquire of this Cour Royale how they
could possibly construe into a disrespect towards themselves th
firm refusal of a mother to submit to a separation from her child
The law of God—the law of nature--forbids it ! Are they not
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be allowed their irresistible claims? Gentlemen, had the KIN
my master and yours, demanded at my hands so cruel a sacrific
I had refused to obey ! AVithout doubt you are too equitable I
mistake, for contempt of your laws, that maternal affection whit
is written by the hand of Nature, in inefiecible characters upon ti
heart of a fond mother ! It commands her to sacrifice all spool
than suffer her child to be torn from her anus ! I trust I hat
now proved I am guiltless of this supposed crime; and I al
satisfied that this Court will feel happy in being spared the painfi
as well as novel situation of finding itself at once the accu
and judge ! I now proceed, Gentlemen, upon the same grout.
to prove tati I did not violate my word; and that you cannot, win
Out injus cc, punish me for the disappearance of my little sit
Surely, Gentlemen, you cannot forget, when pitying my distrei
you did honour to your own kindly feelings by assuring me that
should be free from the surveillance of the police, if I only pledge
my honour for the safe delivery of my child oil the day you shim]
appoint. When I look around this crowded Court—when I rcca
to my mind the false representations which some (to answer the
own mercenary purposes) have industriously.circulated—l feel
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an iniper:- listi to-again repeat theanswer _ you
it wa,. 10 this eliect t—• Gentlemen, 1 thank you for the confident
you are willing to place in my word of honour. 1 will instantl
prove to you 1 deserve your good opinion. 1 will not forfeit ni
integrity : though, by so doing, I might secure to myself the chil
I 'alto more than my life ! Ask your own hearts—look hack
history. —and tell me, did you ever hear, or read, of a woman wt
deserved that name, that would not for her lover !—husband !—(o
what is tar more dear, her child)—brave all dangers? Plac
tbezeforc, what guard you please; for as I live. were it in my powe
1 would wit • my way with her through ten thousand guards!!
Such was is •y honest answer, Gentlemen, in the hour of distres
anguish, and agitation. You know it was. It is not only of Tot
but of the put .he, I demand if my oath on this subject can now I
doubted ? 11 ut Ido not wish to dwell logger upon this incontr
vertible point. I feel the conviction, that what I have offered

lice,

Mr. BOLLAND stated that this action was brought to obtain the Your xonsweratt." has penetrated all beans, and 1 an confuse
sung of ht. 7s. W. which hail been obtained in rather an extraordinay and shame coveting the countenances of my calumniating *la
way. Mr. IVilltatns was a stockbroker, and Mr. Curtis was one deters. In fact, G'untremen tmerely by way of argument), we wi
of those gentlemen who occasionally did business in Capel-court„ suppose, for an tmtant, that an all-merciful and divine Provident
which is better known by the name of the Alley. By some means granted to my earnest eirnym an ark of safety, in which the chit
et other Mr. Curtis got into his possession a letter directed to the af my tenderest affection wits wafted to a land of security, could yen
Slade Exchange. to a gentleman named Sweettnan. This letter WWI any semblance of just ice, punish me? Did I accept the chilli
communicated the intelligence that five shares were allotted to Mr. of. her? No; yon know I did not. Gentlemen. By your order
:il.ftlllllol in the abovenained Company, and was signed by the bath me and sty daughter were surrounded night and day by II
beeretazy. 111 r. Norton. Mr. Curtis sold this letter in the market, politer. If, therefore, you deem me worthy of punishment, for hat
and it was afterwards ascertained that he was not justified in doing so. int so well fulfilled my duty as a mother, why do you not rewa
Art Williams applied to Mr. Curtis upon the subject, and a cot. tht we who so carelessly performed the character et-guardians?
respondence commenced, in which Mr. Curtis observed, "he hoped tea tot that there needs no furthevargumeut to prove, Ist, that Int
Mr. WlMams and lie would walk up Capel-mart together, arm in ag :red to part with my child ;''ldly, that 1 never offered the sligl
RFn", es friends, and then the world would see that they were !Si disrespect to this Court ; and 'idly, shove all. lam sure there
trle,!ds; that Al r. Williams bad done his credit much injury in no t the slightest occasion to remind you. that I have already, on
City, but that he hoped sad misted all would be right again." oo suspicion, suffered above two months' inearerratiori! I ant cc
Tltis letter concluded with an appointment, upon which occasion tai n there is not one present who does not feel that the punishms
the amount of the money received fur the letter was to be paid. ha a far exceeded the supposed fault. 1 will no: state to you wl
The farts wire proved by Mr. 1 ralcrick Williams. the plaintiff's I I tate endured in the past two horrible months of imprironme
brother and Mr. berseunan. M f aim is not to excite your pity, much less rout compassion.
The itgeogv•s, in his charge, MC that no cue could be moth ash
TOO favour ; I claimonly justice. Gentlemen, 1 doubt
palpable than this. Whether there wersevershares in this compel: r ell ill find it."
euula not be ascertained from what had taken plats, but it wit
evident that the plaintiff bad, The ATTOINCY•OEXEMAL could not avoid stating that tl
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manner. and produced several precedents in support of his argu-
ments ; but declared that Mrs. Horne could, notwithstanding, be
'tied on the accusation which was clearly proved against her. The
Learned lientleman then proceeded to examine the evidence, and
declared that the prisoner was fully convicted of disobeying the
order of the Court ; but that, under all circumstances of the case.
taking into consideration the lnrg incarceration she had already
sustained, concluded that she should be confined a fortnight, and
condemned to the costs.
The Coatp•rnoLLEß, in a long and able speech, which lasted
upwards of one hour, produced several laws which forbad the
taking awsy of children from the hands co` justice; that the child in
question was is the hands of the Court, but that at the request of
Vie prisoner, the Court granted her indulgence, and ordered that
the child should be given up on the Ist of September last ; that he
was not for granting that indulgence. as the Court should have
given up the child to Mr. Horne, the fisher, but the Court did not
think proper to adopt his conclusions. Ile therefore contended that
Mrs. Horne was guilty of contempt of Court; that the evidence
produced was very satisfactory and beyond doubt—and concluded
that Mrs. home should be imprisoned for a fortnight and con.
donned to the costs. . . .

The PRESIDENT having summed up the evidence, and dwelt
upon the nature of the offence of which Mrs. Home was guilty,
the Court condemned her to fifteen days' imprisonment, and to the
costs.

SALFORD QUARTER SESSIONS, Nov. 3.

Julia Ferriday (a deaf and dumb man), JollaKeethars, and
Abraham nuelary, were indicted for riotously assaulting Robert
Ashworth, at (Alban), on the 49th of August last.
Before the defendant Ferriday was arraigned, Mr. COLTMAN,
who conducted the prosecution, begged to mention to the Court
some authorities, showing that deaf and dumb persons might be
tried, though it might be impossible to make them comprehend the
nature of the proceedings )I,2:ain't them. One of these was in Bale's
Pleas of the Crown, vol. 27, page 81, and was as follows:—" A
man that is males rt stirring a antivitate, is in presumption of law
an ideot, and the trailer, because lie bath no possibility to under-
stand what is forpidden by law to be done, or under what penalties;
but if it can appbar that he bath the use of understanding, which
many of that condition discover by signs to a very great measure,
then he may be tried, and suffer judgment and execution, though
great caution Is to be used therein."
The defendant was then arraigned, and asked whether he was
guilty or not guilty. Of conrse he made no reply. A jury was
therefore sworn to inquire wherefore he stood mute. The only wit-
ness examined was his mother, who stated that he had been deaf
and dumb from his birth. She said he could he made to under-
stand many things; he was married, and could get his own living.
Be worked as a collier, and earned 41. 641. a day.
Mr. Nonwts-1 think that will be suffieent.
Mr. Butellabt—Gentlemen of the Jury, do you find that the
prisoner stands mute of malice or by the visitation of God ?
The Jury consulted for a moment, and the Foreman then said,
" We find by the visitation of God, and pally!" (A loud laugh.)
Mr. Bt RCIIA LL—Gentlemen, you are not trying that yet.
A plea of Not Guilty was then entered, and as Ferriday had no
Counsel, Mr. Armstrong, at the request of the Court, undertook
his defence.

The trial of the three defendants then proceeded, and occupied
the Court for a very considerable time. It appeared from the evi-
dence, that the assault arose out of the turn-out of' the spinners of
Messrs. Cussons, Bradley, and Wilde, at Oldham; but, contrary
to the usual course in such cases, the charge was preferred by one
of the turn-outs against two of the persona who had supplied their
places. It appeared that on the 29th of August the defendants
Buckley and Kershaw were drinking at a public•liouse in Oldham,
when the prosecutor and other turn-out spinners came in. A quir-
rel arose between them, the origin of which was differently repre-
sented by the different parties; and on leaving the house, the pro-
secutor was attacked by Buckley, Kershaw, and another man, who
has absconded ; one of them also made a signal to the deaf and
dumb defendant, who immediately joined in the attack. though it
did not appear that lie could have known any thing of the origin of
the quarrel. The prosecutor was most dreadfully kicked and
beaten, and was thrown into a pond, where he was kept for some
time.

On the part of the defendants, an attempt was made to show that
they acted merely in self-defence, but it failed entirely.
they were all found Gnilly, and sentenced to two years' impri-
sonment in Lancaster Castle.--ManchertcrTer.

Ls:QUEST UN COUNT WORONZOTV'S CO4CIIMAN

On Saturday a Jury was impanelled by THOMAS STIRLING,
Esq. the Coroner, at the sign of the Wagon and Horses IR Brent-
ford, at the foot of Kew Bridge, to inquire into the circumstances
of the lamentable death of William Findlay, aged est years, nearly
forty years upper coachman to the Count Woronzow. The melan.
eholy affair produced the deepest interest, and during the inveatiga.
Lion the house was much crowded.

The first witness examined was John Chapvies, the footman ; he
appeared very ill from the injuries he had received. Ile stated
that he was footman to Count Woronzow ; the deceased was the
Count's upper coachman. was shout C 1 years of age, and had been
many years in that Nobleman's employ. He was remarkably
steady and sober in his habits, and was also considered an experi-
enced coachman. The Count had, for the last week or two, been
on a visit to Lady Pembroke, at her mansion at Richmond, and on
Thursday night, about nine o'clock, he left in his travelling chariot
for his town residence. in company with his secretary. The night
was very dark, and, although the lamps were alight, they were of
very little service. Witness sat on the box with the deceased.
They had proceeded as far as Kew lane, when witness told the de-
coaxed that he feared he was getting ton near the footpath. The
latter persisted he was going right, and the next moment, by a vio-
lent concussion, he was thrown oft' the box, and fell with such
violence that he was quite insensible; his right arm was fractured,
and his shoulder put out. As soon as he recovered himself, he fol-
lowed the chariot, as well as he was able, and found it at this house,
and the coachman quite dead. Witnrsa has had his arm set since
by Dr. Ralph, and he is now doing well.
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CoaowiLLAre you sure the deceaThed was not in liquor ?
Witness—l am certain he was not tipsy ;we had very little to
drink before we left her Ladyship's house; the coachman knew
well what he was ;Mow.

Joror—Are you aware what caused the concussion you Ppenk of?
Witness--I was not at the time, but I have since ascertained that
it was caused by the wheel coming in contact with a small bridge
by the side of the road, over a drain leading to a gentleman's fore-
court.

One of the Jurymen here explained—He said that the drain
alluded to is a sort of gutter by the side of the road, and a small
road was made over it from the carriage way, and at either side is a
post about a foot high, and since the dark nights had commenced
they had been whitened to prevent accidents. It is supposed that
the wheels must have come against one of the posts, and produced
the melancholy consequence.
%%Intern Taylor stated that he lived at this house (the Wagon
and Horses), and on the night in question, about ten minutes be-
fore ten o'clock, he was standing at the door with a chaise cart, and
saw a gentleman's chariot, with the Imps alight, coming sharply
round the corner from Kew Bridge. Witness fearing that it would
come against the chaise Mt, called out to the coachman, but re-
ceived no answer. Presently the Count Woronzow put his head
out of the window, and called out, " For God's sake, stop the
horses ! stop the homes!" Witness pursued as fast as possible,
and the animals turned on to a large heap of flints, on the near side
of the road, and witness, seizing the reins, prevented them going
any further. Mr. Pope, the landlord, came up with a light, and
the Count sod his secre'ary were taken out of the chariot, and
assisted to the Star and Garter Inn. The Count, on getting out of
the carriage, cried out, " Where is my poor coachman ! my poor
coachman !" and seemed till then unaware of what had taken place.
Tne deceased was found hanging between the horses, between the
pole and the splinter-bar, with his heels upwards, and entangled in
the reins of the off-side horse. He was quite dead, and bleeding
from his mouth and nose in a most drearlfid manner. Ile was ex-
trleated, and carried into the house, and 111 r. Ralph, the surgeon of
Old Brentford, sent for, but his assistance was unnecessary. Pre-
sently after, the footman came up with the deceased's hat. He had
his nrm broken, and his wrist and shoulder put out.
Mr. Henry Ralph, surgeon, at Old Brentford, stated that when
he saw the deceased he was quite dead. His jaw-bone was broken,
Mt scull fractured, and Wright foot was tom away from the leg,
and hanging by only two or three tendons, which injuries were the
cane of bin death.

It was here (deserved that the spot where the concussion took
place was about three quarters of a mile from where carriage was
stopped, which distance the unfortunate coachman was dragged.
The horses passed over the bridge, and the toll collector threw
open the gate in the regular way, but did net perceive the situation
of the deceased, nor did the Count himself know what had taken
place till he saw the horses, on reaching the Star and Garter turn to
the left instead of the right, and then he called oat.
The Cozener said the accident was truly lamentable, particularly
as thr deceased had left a wife and family to deplore his loss.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."

SisaULAR A a assr.—A circumstance of rather a novel
nature occurred on Saturdey last, at the church of St. Mary
Somerset, Upper Thames-street. A sermon had been an-
nounced to be preached there on thattlay (being the Anni-
versary of the Gunpowder Plot), by the Rev. Thomas
Dixon, formerly a Popish Priest, but!now a Minister of the
Established Cliurch. The congregation was tolerably nu-
merous, and the piayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Jer-
grove (ItActor), when, all on a sudden, a huge brawny
arm was stretched over into the pew where sat the Rev.
Mr. I)ixon, and a hand of corresponding size and iron
nerve displayed for one instant that terrific article "a writ"
and in the next popped on the shoulder of the thundrstruek
divine, with a touch like that of a magician's wand, while
a voice whispered three wants of ominous import—" I
arrest you as my prisoner !" A trifling hubbub took place,
and the parson. marshalled by a brace of bailiffs, entered
the vestry room, where, it would seem, some arrangement
took place, for he soon after returned, and mounted the
pulpit. If the arrest was made by his Papist enemies--or
no matter by whom—it was a mean and malignant mode
of taking revenge. There was nothing to prevent the exe-
cution of the writ before or after divine service; it was a
violation of all common decency to select such a time and
such a pace wantonly and unnecessarily —3ferninc raper.

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Mr. B , foe the defendants, asked in whose names the ignorant that, as representatives of our Most Gracious Sovereign.
account of the British Steam Navigation Company stood ? Adding• you are here to hold, with impartial balance, the scales of Justice !
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that he knew it did not stand in the names of those individuals, But I must be allowed to inquire of this Cour Royale how they
roe in the names of any individuals at all. could possibly construe into a disrespect towards themselves the
The witness said, it stood in the names of the five individuals firm refusal of a mother to submit to a separation front her child ?
sr:entioned as trustees.
Mr. BAR WARD—Hare you got the books here? be allowed their irresistible claims? Gentlemen, had the King,
Witness—No; I was not required to bring them. The law of find—the law of nature—forbids it ! Are they not to
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my master and yours, demanded at my hands so cruel a sacrifice,
Mr. BARNARD—ReaIIy this is quite a surprise upon me. I I had refused to obey ! AVithout doubt you are too equitable to
know it is not mentioned in the bankers' book that the money is in mistake, for contempt of your laws, that maternal affection which
' i vie names of those individuals, and I deny their respond- is written by the hand of Nature, in ineffacible characters upon the
.1" haity. The account is merely on account of the trustees, with- heart of a fond mother ! It commands her to wallet all sooner
eat naming them. titan suffer her child to be torn from her ants ! I trust I have
I! Mr. HOLLAND—Suppose what you state to be the fact, I con- now proved I am guiltless of this supposed crime; and I am
tend, that the defendants are responsible, and that the money can satisfied that this Court will feel happy in being spared the painful
he attached. lam willing to give you the utmost latitude. l{ 'ho as well as novel situation of finding itself at once the accuser
are to draw the money ? Messrs. Vere and Want must, when the and judge ! I now proceed, Gentlemen, upon the sante grounds,
I ompsny was about to open its account, have asked and arranged to prove Qat I did not violate my word; and that you cannot, with.
ii whose name it wee to be drawn, if it were for no other purpose out injueke. punish me for the disappearance of my little girl.
• than that of preventing forgery. Surely, Gentlemen, you cannot forget, when pitying my distress,
. Mr. BA/USA:lD—Gentlemen of the Jury, I am, as you per. you did honour to your own kindly feelings by assuring me that I
1 ceive, in the greatest of difficulties ; but I shall submit the case to should be free from the surveillance of the police, if I only pledged
.oar judgment and experience. It is obvious, tat, if three of my lissomr for the safe delivery of my child oil the day you should i..e Directors signed a cheek, the money could be drawn; but appoint. When I look around this crowded Court—when I recall,
then the Secretary must countersign the check. *Viten the ac- to my mind the false representations which some (to answer their
errant WU opened, it was opens[ in the name of the British own mercenary, purposes) have imlustriously.eirculaied-1 feel it
Steam Navigation Company, and placed to the credit of the trustees, an imperious ditty to again repeat the answer 1 then matte to you ;
whose number was not known. Ido not, at the same time that I is wa, to this efl'eet :—.• Gentlemen, I thank you for the confidence
state this, accuse the clerk of intential misrepresentation. you are willing to place in my word of honour. 1 will instantly
The Rscoanea—The plaintiffs' witnesses have sworn that the prove to you I deserve your good opinion. I will not forfeit my
. money lies in the banking house, in the names of those live di- integrity : though, by so doing, I might secure to myself the child
rectors. whatever may he their character. They were not within I 'alto more than my life ! Ask your own hearts—look hack to
the jurisdiction to be served with a process, and therefore resort history. and tell me, did you ever hear, or read, of a woman who
tows bad to this Court, whose privileges made them liable. There deserved that name, that would not for her lover !—husband !—(or, I
is nothing mere positive than the proof. The Learned Counsel what is far more dear, her child)—brave all dangers? Place.',
.• ass certainly impugned it; but lan sure that be would not give therefore, what guard you please; for as I live, were it in my power,
Lis aath to the truth of his contradiction. I would wit • my way with her through tett thousand guards !! '
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
An. I Is. Such was le.Y honest answer, Gentlemen, in the hour of diatress,
anguish, anti agitation. You know it was. It is not only of you,
i LONDON, OPORTO. AND LISBON STEAM-PACKET but of the VAL •lie. I demand if my oath on this subject can now be
NAVIGATION COMPANY. doubted? II at Ido not wish to dwell longer upon this ineontro-
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r. BOLLAND stated that this action was brought to obtain the lveourbcle point. 1 feel
onsiderat I.onta the conviction, thst what I have offered to
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penetrated all hearts, andl see confusion '
sum of W. 7s. W. which hail been obtained in rather an extraordinay and shame covet ing the countenances of my calumniating scan.
way. Mr. IVilltatus was a stockbroker, and Mr. Curtis was one deters. In fact, Gentlemen tmerely by way of argument), we will
of those gentlemen who occasionally did besiness in Capel-court, suppose, for an instant, that an all-merciful and divine Providence
which is better known by the name of the Alley. By some nitains granted to my earnest straym an ark of safety, in which the child
ter other Ale Curtis got into his possession a letter directed to the af my tenderest affection wits wafted to a land of security, could you,
Stmt Exchange. to a gentleman named Sweetnian. This letter with any semblance of justice, punish me? Did I accept the charge
. communicated the intelligence that five shares were allotted to Mr. of. her? No; you know I did not, Gentlemen. By your orders,
:.weetman in the abovenamed Company, and was signed by the bath me and my daughter were surrounded night and day by the
beeretazy. )1 r. Norton. Mr. Curtis sold this letter in the market, politer. lf, therefore, you deem me worthy of punishment, fur hay.
and it was afterwards ascertained that he was notjustified in doing so. ini ;so well fulfilled my duty as a mother, why do you not reward
Jr. Williams applied to Mr. Curtis upon the subject, and a cot. tilt we who so carelessly performed the character of guardians? I
respondence commenced, in which Mr. Curtis observed, "he hoped to out that there needs no furtherargumeut to prove, Ist, that I never
Mr. Williams and lie would walk up Capel-anin together, arm in ag :red to part with my child ;''ldly. that 1 never offered the slight-
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arm, as friends, and then the world would see that they were eat disrespect to this Court ; and 'idly, shove all. lam sure there is
friends; that Al r. Williams bad done his credit much injury in no t the slightest occasion to remind you. that I have already, only
ii ,e City, but that he hoped sad trusted all would be right again." on suspicion, suffered above two months' inearteratiou! lam cer-
Ttis letter awarded with an appointment, upon which occasion tai n nMete is not one present who does not feel that the punishment
the amount of the money received for the letter was to be paid. ha a far exceeded the supposed fault. 1 will no: state to you what
The fart,' were proved by Mr. Inderiek Williams, the plaintiff '► I I tate endured in the past two horrible months of imprisomnect.
brother and Mr. bowman. M f ales is not to excite your paw, much les+ rur compassion. I
The Retrieves, as
trieves, in his charge, sail, that no case could be more 3., al
:nn favour ; I claim only justice. Gera emelt, 1 doubt not I
palpable than this. Whether there wasievershares in this compai: s spa ill find it."
could not be rainedrom what had taken place, but it win The Aevoawev-Owstreaa could not avoid stating that the
'. evident tbat the plaintiff had, upon the belief that JHr. Curtis* ant ion sonnet Mrs. Horne should have been eraered in a djffetent
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