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LAW IN7.IIILLIGJEZICX.

COURT OF CRAACERT-41ason M.

UM J'AN. 10*P V. JACOBI.

This was an arbutitionfor an iniuoidnei ~s
strain proceed in s on a Post OW Beads 114 1.3001.
The circuinstances of this case were as follow :
The Plaintiff. in the year 1801, was under peen,.
unary embarrassment, and °Bitted, if lea could
pro..it tu,oool. payable on. the delft of his
brother, Ceuil.,e Bowes, to give Post Obit Beads
tar treble the amount, chargeable on Scotch estates,
which *out,' come to him in reversion, on the do.
cease of his brother withoht issue; but this earns he
was not able to obtain. The Defendant, at that dine,
purchased a life annuity of the Plailitiff. of 401.
a-year, afterwhich lfe did not see him until the year
tuoti, the Plaintiff having gone to the late of Man,
to avoid his creditors, Where he resided two "years.
On his return to London, in 140 U, the Defendant
had him arrested for 801. the amount of the two
year's annuity, and he became an actual resident
of the King's Be.uch. He served the Petrodant
wish a notice, that he would apply to the Court of
King's Bench for a dieclie, tieing the ground of
an informality iu the deedrectinug die annu:ty.
This was found 'upon examination to be the
fact, and Defendant offered to give him his
discharge, on the payment of the costs
of the suit, and securing the orig'mal thirchitse
money. The Plaintiff proposed to him to add the
costs, the two years annuity, and the purchase
money, and he would hive Inns the same combr
Lions that he offered in the 7ear ltlo4, vii. to give
a pssevddi timid; for three titnefirbusittibuut;
alik if he came iuto possession of the Scotch estates.
These terms were accepted by the Defendant, cad
the bond was executed accordingly. The biother
of the Plaintiff was only '37 years of age at the
time of the execution Otte bona, and' had been
married only six uvoollis to a young lady.
Sir SADIVICL UOSILLY, on the port of the
Plaintiff, argued, that the bond tvn. extorted from
him, and adtantiire taken of' his distressed situa-
tion wheikbe was conflued in a gaol, without the
hopes of a release, and it was preposterous to con-
ever, that under any other circumstances but
penury and want, any man would have made
such an agreement, as his client wits coufideut at
the time that his brother could nut live 10ng,., he
being then in a consumption.
It was argued by Mr. litteithatte, Counsel for
the Defendant, that it was a fair agreement, it visa
like a lottery, the Defiudaiit *night ucver have got
his prindipal, the brother George was only 37 years
of age, and b moutha' married to a young woman.
who at the time might b' pry gaunt, and might
have borne him many children, which would leave
barred his Client's claim. It mu-something new
to coil on the Court of Cluukeeri to philomphiseou
the works of nature, to say it was not possible that
Mrs. George Bowes might not huv,i chltdreu ; for
his part he did not see how the Court could in-
terfere.
The Lotus Cuaticni,Loa Observed, that it Wad
been a rule always olseervettin that Court, silicfci-
forced by Lord Hardwieke on that Bench, that it
was Dot the duty of dud !;ourt to interfere in aims
of that nature, where oven were of full ape, as the
Plaintiff was at the time ofitiw making the jirol;o-
-att. He thought it was wise that tho-Court should
mat bitedbre,, "ip pidyrucouroWng the viektiri.tif
rtond-strcet to ruin thems,tves by extrataganca ;
and it would 'often be disinfiantegeous to them, if
it was known they could not raise money on rever-
sions.' Under those circumstances he would not
g.rant the Injunction. He thought the Defendant
had a right to have the full benefit of his agrceminit
us to the principal and the two years annuity, hitt
as to the costs. be did not see what right the:Plain.
tiff had to pay them thrice, ;et it 'was the flidlihof
the Defendant, three was an intormality in t 6 an-
nuity deed, and if there bud been 1143060 s cues
to the Court of Bench, the Dr-Paint,
won have been obliged to pay the coital.

POLICE.

SO7r4TIMIT.
CHAR* OF MURDER.

A charge of murder has been, for several days,
before Mr. Its*u, which is enveloped in much
mystery, under the following circumstances:--4u
Wednesday, Olt
.loth Awned, shoot hal&pait two
o'clock, * yeses woman, respectably dressed,
called at the Ship puiAlie-house. in Ogle-sues,
Mary-la-boane, end asked Mrs. Fleming, who was
in the bar, to give her change Per a gh note. Mes.
Fleming, suppasing her to he a customer, very rea-
dily• complied with her request. The woman lip.
peered pale and unwell, andtuked Mrs. F. to let her
go down stairs; who replied, that she could not
go immediately, as souse men were there pack-
nig some wine; the woman said, " don't deny
me," appeared much agitated, and offered a six-
pence to Mrs. F. who rcfused to Like that or uny
thing, but *stied the WO4IIIILI In which
she did ihthe bey for a few minutes, till the men
who were packing the wipe came op stairs, when
Mrs. Fleming sent a girl, one of her servants, about
twelve years of age, to chew the woman the way ;
when she had foetid the place she gave the
girl sixpence for her trenble, sad told her she need•
not watt, as she could find her way up stairs again.
She went out of the house without le•iiig seen by
Mrs. F. or the girl wile i.bewed her down
stairs ; but another servant, who wits in the kit-
chen, saw her come (loan stairs with a
bundle in a white napkin, and alien she returned
up stairs, she had no bundle as she perceived.
About half pest eleven o'clrivk on the same night,
Mr. Field, who was at the Ship, and bad occasion
to go down stairs, took a candle With him, and by
mere accident saw in the prixy a whit:: bundle; in
consequence of which he called Mr. Flemiug, the
landlord ; they got a pair of tongs and pulled it
up, and on opening the bundle, it was found to
contain a new-horn fernale lava ; the ',events
washed it and hid it oat. On one df the etrvante
taking the clothes end linen in which the chilli was
wrapped, she found a letter, dated neer two years
since, the contents of which did riot lead' to any
disenvery : but, however, very ;huh-doubt was an-
tevoihej but Coat the wemno who had sat change
for the sl. tour had dropped the clnlu. The fo
lowioK slat' the Coven's Jury ~at open the body,
and the Corouer *poked to Mr. 'frtives, a "ir,sea,
to eLiflaillt it, which he accorchogly did; and mold

that It had not been beeeedong; he examined the
body externally very carefully. and did not find
any marks of violence ; he fouud a little to irk
a /tier one of the ears. but did nut think it was
done by violence, or could it have been we cause
of deatie He then proceeded to open the body,
and find every thing quite right. He took test
the lungs, pot Brent into wae•r. and they ogees.
On h s being asked, upon tie; ciretunetenee Of the
I un,,e swiim iang, whether he did net consider the
child was born Oise? •he replied,' certalitly not;
as it might, in being born. by •giviug a single
seep. so inflate its lungs with air, would elecii4loll
the►s to swim when pat, 4bto water, even
if the child wet born dead. blr. Flossing in con-•
sequence attended et the (Mee, related the above
circumstances, and Mr. Pa, dispatched Laven-
der to trace oat the IA olnan, to whom the letter was
directed, and he found her to be a et:trout out of
plisse, hedging at Nlr. Siceate, in Charlotte-street.
Portland-place ; he told lime the.cuee ; she appeared
quite composed, det.ted any knowledge of the I,u.
*mese, and otiered to attend before the Magistrates;
*lie voluntarily attended Itefore Mr. !lean, when he
chewed her the letter found among the clothes of the
infant, which she, without the least hesitation.
ti-kuowledged to be hers, and which she had
loot, but did not kuuw how, and very firmly denied
arty knowledge -of dropping the (had. She was
not detained, and has attended at the Office several
times. but Thursday .eveaing awe n uttended
pt the ()Ike., as did Mrs. Pleasing. the landlady,
May Itsewell, her servant.
• OnAllia:Fleiniug being cutled upon to say wile-
. thee tifiVeteepu prevent was the %eines or not? she
heeitatlel gyp, south. Mary ItuetioUt however, who
was us the kitelsion at the time her fellow-servant
sheered her down Min; *aiffetsitive es to lire Ptr•
son, haviug had a full view o► her face. After this
Mrs. Pietism; spoke in more positive terms as to
her knowledge of the woman's person.
In consequence of her ;metal being identified,
Mr. Items did not think himself permitted in let-
ting the WORldlt go at large. and ilea since had her
kept ut the Brown Boar •wiblic-house.
Yesterday she underwent another'
when, in audition to the above evidence, Elizabeth
Vise, the girl who chewed the woman down stairs,
identified the person of the Prisoner.
• On the other hand, all these Witnesses have
described the woman who was at the Ship public.
house, to have been dressed in tegown, and other
clothes, of a very different deseeiption to any the
Prisoner possesses.
Mni. Skeet., with whom the Prisoner lodged,
pooitivoli asserted, that en the 16th instant, the
Oar the infant was dropped, the Prisoner was at
!mime with her working at her fteedie; however. en
going hems to inquire into some circumstances,
she corrected her evidence, and tslieved the Pri.•
Oen./ to have been out en the 16th instant, but had
not the lewd suopicioe of her being prescient.
IVood, apothecary, -of Titelifield-street,
Illteteda-bone. said he was attending the Prifentre
about the time the child was dropped at the Ship
public-house; he sew her two days previous to the
dry en which it was dropped, arid did not suspect
her to be pregnant.
The Prisoner remains in custody at the Brown
Sear.

A fatal and melancholy accident happened, yes-
tents!, in Wych-street. The wheel of a coal-
seamen Crag ht a ladder au which a man was re-
pairing the front of a hoses, and, by the turning of
the ladder, he was precipitated on the pavement
from the third story. The poor sufferer was car-
ried to the Hospital, but survived a very short time.
Ile has left a wife arid fkidr thildren, who had no
support but his industry.. co
/reeled is arrived At Portsmouth which sailed
froniutf Lisboa on Wedoesdhy se'nuight, with a
nuather of Portuguese refugees and others, who
had *coped, on board. Commissioner Duncan
and hie daughter are among the passengstrs, and
are the tatest from Lisbon.

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On 'rurality morniieg, the 15th instants as the
Rev. Jades PALMIER. Curate of Htlhngdon, Miri-
am*, and bite of I teadington, near Oxford, was
riditig in company with 'attend friends upon Ux-
bridge Common, his home ran away, and threw him
with great violence against a stone, and fractuied
his head ea much as to rause his innisodiate death.
General WIFIETRAM, Lieut.-Governor of Ports-
mouth Garrison, arrived there on Thursday, and
assumed the command of the (hrrivion. Captain
THORNTON, iarth Regiment. Brigade-Major, and
Captain Ntinsti, 13th Regiment, Aid-du-Camp,
are also arrived.
The Diasswal, Nesatrr, from London, for
Leith, is lost, near Dunbar.
Mr. Rost: has sent a letter of thanks toped, per-
son for his exertions n entitiguishing the tire at
Cuffnells. To the firemen '. ruts given a guinea
earls; and, en Friday night, t.+e three public-houses
in Lyndhurst were opened to regale those who as.
si.tcrl, to an stalitaited expeiise. A few years ago,
Mr. Rosa gave a guinea to the waternsen who saved
him from itraw,ting in the Thames.
The Id and id divagoas of the lot gomerget
Re Orient of Militia, marched on Friday and Sa-
t iry iota Podoniontli, from the barracks at Part-
s•nt, for Bristol—Tie last Oiviviori march this day.
Two divisions of the Wercester Militia have marili-
.4l into Forties, to *apply their place; and tier. di-
visions of the Fifesliire Militia have marched into
Gosport.—The bist divismos arrive this day.—The
Darhain Militia will come into that garrsor, en
the 4th all sth of lie vt motith.—The 2d battalion
of the tlyth regiment, Colonel EUVIITOS, are re-
moved from Fort Mosikton to Ibises.
We understaml that IA of the dafortunate y rot aft
men, belonging to Illi7.uolo's enterprise, who Acre
ruptured by the l4pinliards, lately mule their es-
cape from the prison at Carthageua. Of this num-
ber, 15 *ere unhappily retaken.' The remaining
three, *e are informer!, have fortunately reached
the lliiitedStates iu good health. •
" We learn." soya a Now-York Paper, from an
atithentie miurt:e, " that applieatimis for office kw.
been numerous, beyond parallel, at the pent of
tinieriiment. Toe the single app!iiittnelit ed
Marshal or the district of Orleans, it is stated that
there are, at this time, sixteen hundred and mixteiiii
apptieatite ! (tier country a an crowded, and the
pursuit. of private life have loreomo so intolerably
that e are obligee) to dy to executive
favour wive relieved front our liurtle.a."