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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
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COURT OF CHANCERY, lAscput's Ins,
tiarusoAY, Ausun 4.


The LORD CHANCELLott came into Court at
halfspast ten o'clock.
This is the second seal day after Terns.
THE EARL of SHAFTESBURY •ND OTHERS v. THE
DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND OTHERS.
Mr. SRADVIELL stated, that it was with regret lie
was compelled to meution this case again to his •
Lerdship. it Would be in the recollection of the
Court that the Noble Phiiutiff, some time back, up- 4-
plied for a curios to be appointed to the estote.tif
Blenhern, as the Noble Darinlatd 1.0
posed ‘nf several articles, in which he ILA .story
a life i`ii4trest, as they belonged to the estate
of Blenheim, for the purpose of supporting the
dignity of the title .of the Duke of Millbarough
in the house of Blenheim. tits Lordship, weiegi
the case was before him, directed that the ordis
appointing the castor should issue, it the Nouh:
Duke did not make • sufficient affidavit to skew
that the appointment was unnecessary, on or befure
the first seal after Term. this Grace had le,t
thought proper to make that attfidavn, tuiA coot
nued his spoliations of the estate. thew
circumstances, he trusted that Kra Lords.iip would
direct the order for the appointment of the castor
to issue.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—t' Take the nroe,, if
in the cour.e of the day Mc. Rae, the Coue.e: fur
the ruble Duke, does not *hew cause against it."

POLICI.

MaxonCr•Rorts.
Saturday • Swede, who tailed himself firms thrash,
Brock, was brought before the Lord Mayor on a charge of
having obtained money under false Faience*. It *Ls p
stated by two Swedish merchants, what the PONlime had
come to them, representing himself Is • native or ter;ea,
in Norway, aged 'hat he hail, in curncqueoce oft. aeries of
misfortunes, returned &ovule from St. Thoevania; Nat
he had Out • teething to comae) hint home, and was in want
of present wecesierieres. Under Rome representation's they
were induced to Ire him bate sums of 41. and W. to enable
hint to get home, besides other ailbidiallCP. They found
him long after the time appos toted fur his departure skulk-
ing about, awl making' similar attentpla Upon other me,
chants, when they thought pope, to have him secured. lie
was remand. d fur further examination.
oaten ALL..
&dimity Mrs. Gordis!, whose linshand is a 'intscniata in
?delegate market, charged a 'wing ineb With haring off red
bee • -forged doe pound note in payrneut id a piece of
beef. She stated that she di•l not give the beef, or
fur the note, but she had suffered so muds, as wren us to •
neighbours, by the great tom her of fbegertet 'that ere ea.,.
straitly passing in the marker, that •beffitalght it dole
to endeavour, by every means in her fo cheek their
circulation. The sitting Magliarate, Alderman Schur. y,
cent In the Bank for so or-pectin, Slab mine, Med proved that
the note wage forgery in all respects. Thr permit chore. .1
said he had taken the note the day' b. Lure in' pa}mom fYtaw
Messrs. Day and Martin, whose names he had endirided on it
al the time. It was stored by the .hllreistrate, Chat vrlrea
a forged note was offered to a person who did not give any
valor, fur it, the usual course of pareeediwic was Id have it to
the Rank to prostrula the utterer or nut, ai they'rliirehl
think fit. The inspector, uu the part of the Dank, declined
proticcuting.
The Macidtrate then said; that for the silken, ibe
he thought the inspector 'borsht go with' the person' charcen,
and an officer, to Messrs. Day and Martin, to inipiar wire.
thee they bad paid him the note in question, or airy pound
note.
The inspector wail be should make inquiry of the Bank
before he could do so. The person charged 'was' thaiihird
awhile the inspector went to the Rank to make, the inquiry ;
' on his return, he stated that he mei iloected buy that fo•
would attend in any Court of Justice to prove the orate a
forgery, brit the Rank would riot make any inquiries. The
'speirots charged was in coaserprenct discharged.
BfbirialtErlr.
s.. DARING ROBBERY AND OUTRAGE.
t On Satorialey Jewess Parse was latoweht to the shave
Mike, and ondetweat ow examination before George Mm-
Esq charged wish a darting ruisleery and o•tracearos
attack upon • ferasic ire the slay-time in the town of Green-
wich. Tire rierommurreew are as fritkrae:a—

Oa the morniate of the 111 k Jury, Hrs.• Anne I'Valding. who
keeps the honor No. 11, Halfuedi-boildnigs, Honn-stra4t,
Greenwich, answered a knock at her dear, when she footed
: • s•as atm made ale inquiry for a person Indictee' there.
He then askril her for ►oste roomy, saylnS, be lima is peat
distress, &e. to wheel, shereplied, she had none to gave away.
He then renewed his applicati•u ia•ilesiantliair i i e,sod on
her refusing to give him any, be forced himself into her hues,
and proceeded to the atom barbarous and inhuman attack.
upon ht., by knuckle% her demo, end contrasted 'fdr
time farming and ilttreatieg her tat she became a. neetrar.
He thee fo.ctil her ear.riugs front her ems in the mast
brutal manner, emptied her pockets, and having amide luta-
self master of her keys, he 'wort-A...1 in unlock and search
all her drawers, and it is lee let regretted In. Gained gond
booty in cash and mars, to thiamine, uf 4.31. with a brooch
and sun.. linen, with which be made hi.. crespr, leaving
Mrs. Wittsiox nn the ground /rum the wounds anti tiresome
Ire lad indicted us her. She, however, recovered, •nd is
still living. Ow her coining to iterself sad mucurisig as-
sistance, she: gave au account elf the attack tepee her, •ad a
fell deorript:on of the man, who was about 5 fret 10 inc hes
high, pate emnplexion, riot Idollis • dark mark like • large
red wort at the comer of the kit eye, and dimmed in a black
coats He dot not appear like • labouring man. hirsoit
was made after him to every direction but withnut *IKON!' ;
be less suppemeal to leave continued in Mat part of the
country till the Sunday evening following, as a man c.artly
resenehling him was then seen at the Rosemary Brandi
public-house.

Inforntat. having been sent to the Office with a ilcsrt op.
tiou of the oreurnmenera and of the robber, the patrol at
length found him on Saturday at the •White Hart pahlie-
•heeute in Brook's-market, Hotboro, end hawirg learnt lEs
hedging to be on Seffroo-Mil, they proceed,sl there mud
smirched it, bet slid not find any thinC to 104,11,in or
tstrmigthen the ground of surpieion against him.
On ho being bruucht hef•re Minstioll, the Marl-
'Orate, he denied the charge, and asserted that he bad news r
been at Greenwich.

The Magistrate observed, ils It if he pas an in nta.,
he was one of the must utifortusiate nun that eve; exJ,:ted.
as he folly answered the deseriptiun of the rubber in rvery
respect, even to dress. To put the matter beyond a 1i.,1111t,
1113 worthy Magadrate directed that the Prisoner should ire
taken hi Greenwich for Mm. Wattling to ace km, as she is
not sufficieutly receverrd front her wounds awl lwattses to
be able to attend the Office to give her evideuce.

Mr. GREEN, the aeronaut, whilst inflating his
balloon on %Vedu.sday lasi, previous to his ascen-
sion Irwin the Ilrlvidere rea-gastlens, at l'entonville,
stripped off his coat and threw it across the railing
which surrounded the place, when some of the
14066Np:red gentry that crowded round fur the
purpose of plunder, contrived to steal his pocket-
book, a hich, fortunately fur him, contained no-
thing but black paper and wilting materials, with
which he was prosidid for the purpose of taking.
minutes during his aerial ractaision: the lo's of
which Mr. Gutsy severely felt on his voyage, as
he hud to depend entirely on memory ha any re.
marks he bad to make.

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OXFORD, Putt 4:
• fla Thomlay but Georxe Berate, Seq. B.A. sea George
"main Serno", Ent. B.A. of Merton Colley; Clereoes
Pupa,: Esq B.A. of Quist Church; and Beery Wm. Beet•
I.y, E.q. B A. of Braseonose Callers Were elected Fellows
of Merton College.
Oxroßo Utstratorry issateritur.—We understood t►at
Sir John Sewell bu mode ►wwe betention of with/knit.
tog from the risen canyon.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Arourr I.

tALMOUTW, AVOW! 1.

*VAL, ♦t•Vfl 3.

- 41,"...1,..C.1

wassinasoav, mimeo 1.
His Majesty's Plate of Use Hundred Guineas.;
Lord Euentost's gr. h. Little Jobe, S yrs old
Mr. Davey's blk. g. Steel, aged
Hack Stakes for Fifty POOOdle. Oat mile heifis.
Peke of Rifismond's Wk. sa. ... I 2 1
Mr. Field's gr. 0. .te 4 1
Mr. Coorthope's ch. .. 9 de.
Mr. Stillher's br. g. 3 dr.
Mr. Harvey's I. at.
esitasesay.
A Ihrupetakes of Sgs. each, wills 40p, aided by the Tows
aid its Vicinity. Ow mile aid tiff beats.
lord Ferentriat's g. e. by 'fuse Girlies% 3 yrs old.. 1 1
Lord G. H. Caireadish's c. f. by Soothsayer, 3 yrsold.. 1
PERSEVERANCE ILLUSTRATED.
Rig IMAM React, the Restorer of the Scottish Meier-
ehy, beige eat ear day reissioiltie the clierol, lay at sight
in a bare beleogieg to a loyal cottager. In the storming,
atilt reidialng hi head on the pillow of straw be beheld a
spider elfholdog up a beam of the root Theta:eel to the
growerkbiatiwimadiatoltmaieaseetendricay to ',rend. This
annual the satire of the hero, who, with regret, saw the
spider fall a sirecied time from the same eminence. It made a
third normecessfel attempt. Nut without a mixture of cosier*.
and ~laity, the Monarch twelve times beheld the insert
Datiled in its aim • het the thirstiest' essay wee crowned with
sawmill; it gained the summit of the barn, whets the
airtime from his eolith, exclaimed, ." thie despienhle tweed
hie taught me pereevermace; I will follow its example. Have
.st I not btu twelve times defeated by the enesny's superior
foie? Oa sac light more hemp the iedepeedeace of my
esietry." la a few days his aatiripetioes were tally reel-
fliffs by the glorious result to Stalked of the Battle of Bee.
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VOLCANO IN TAR ISLE OF BOURBON.
ACCOOOT OW • LATE IMO• 11011. BY MI
Oi that'll, of February, at tem o'clock ie the moruing,
the weather beteg eloody, a frightful noire was heard like
that era teed clap of thunder, produced by the explosion of
a COMO of {resod mole from the crater of the vuleamo,
The, eleareess of the rest of the day pretested a fell •
ascot OC this billiset horror ; hut om the arrival of
pillar was perceived, formed of muses of See and i
matter, sheeting majestically to • prodigious height, sad fell.'
lug with a crash which inspired terror. The brightness whiob
it diffused was such, that over all the 'steel of ibis queries
a letter could be read by the light of ibis prodigy. Toward.'
the middle of the sight three rivers of Are were discovered
epeming a rump sear the summit of the etoaataiu, a kola
below the eraser snit taking a direetiou perpendicular M
high reed. Om the 9th of March one of them had pit,
leaving a lime et lava 6 feet high by 20 broad, soilsolla oip
the sea over an talent of 30 poles, threwiug up Hi oral" la
such a height, that it fell slows is the shape of raik
At the moment of the eruption, a shower, esapersj
blackish ashes, of goid-eseloweed glass,selphureene particle%
felt is the vicinity of the voltam). It rained than fur two
' bosses. 0. the fib of March we experienced an earthigeski,
which was of so sheet a duration that we could not door.
seise imilinction. From the first moment of the erupts..
to the du es which I write, the volesno, hu mot ceased to
born. On the Ist of this month, it threw owl such a qua-
tity of smoke, that the higher parts of the island were co-
vered by it. Om the 2d the raid was so abundant, that the
rem of the lava ruching to the sea was extinguished, sad
en the 451 it could be passed without mesh danger.
An observer, whom I plated in such a manner as to seise
the most inionte circumstances which the volcano in activity
might present, tells me that at this moment the amid arm
of the lava has reached the high road on a base double the
cubit of the former, or 00 poles and that the third is ISO.
Having lug resided ill Naples and Sicily, I have ascer-
tained that the lava produced by the volcano of Benrboa
does sot at all resemble that produced by Vesuvius sad
Ewa : the lava of the two latter volcaaos is compact, bard,
and nut primes : triekets and snuff-boxes are made of it,
which take a polish finer than marble. The pavement of
Maples it, made of square blocks from Mount Vesuvius, arid
is so slippery that in time of rain we might skate *pea it
as oo ice. The lava of Soothes Is • species of scoria., of a
black colour, and presents the aspect of iron dross.
of
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The Mayor of St. Rue, PREYNE DE RALLERGOE.
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Suited the Matilda, Mauritian, for Calcutta ; Golden Grave,
Stasie, for Melbas; Peresevcrauce, Huggins, for Bourdesuat ;
Vent% C.audier, for New York; and Tartar, Pottinger, for
Nero South Stottlaud.

The Urania, Weeseh,of arid form Hambiargh for Bahia,
vsn on above, in a thick fog, at Kymen's Cove, near the
Lizard, yesterday, hut was as.isted off by a revenue caller
anti other craft, after unloading 64 cheats of sugar, and
brought in here very leaky, both pampa being at work ; her
ca►go (nearly 1,000 chests of sugar) will be taken oat to re.
pow the damage.
apova! B.
Tke Joseph and Dorothy. Merton, from M. Petembergh
for London. has been brought in here by a mirage .mock
leaky, and with loss of ■oeliur and cable, baying been on the
aiha pwasl• Saud.
Arrived the Load Nelson packet with a mail from Hollered
cowls, •nlluat Z.
Bailed the tsabefa, Waller, for New South Wales.

Arrived lied sailed for the River the leabell;t, We tell, (ruin

Mirsmichi ; Mary, Brice., front 'Make Kimble, Dem
front Grenade ; Honor, Barber, from Cadiz; St. Mary, Bar-
ton, from Jamaica; Dorothy, Taylor, from Quebec; Mat-
thews, Gordon, (rum Oporto; Francis Henrietta, Dickinson,
from New Broostrick fur Hotiordam ; and Prince uf Water-
loo, Gray, from Bahia—the latter remain..
Sailed the Martha and Pomona for New Booth Shetland
and Nautilus, 'iripe, fur the Cape of Good Hope.

On Wednesday evening the privates of the South.
ern crgunent of York yeatosnry cavalry Rove a
hall at the Mansuon-hose, York, whirl' was at-

tended by Colonel WORTLEY. Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir EDWARD DODIWORTH. slid the other Officers
of the, regiment ; se‘eral officers of the Yorkshire
I.ossara. Colonel Dißuts and the Officers of the
tit West York militia, and a numerous assemblage
of ladies and gentlemen of the town and neigh-
boorhood. It Must have been grutifyisig to Co-
lonel Wormer's feelings in see the aril which
the donors of the bell manifested iu evincing
their respect to him. The moment the Colonel
entered, the eight Stewards, with their Wpm;
of distinction, were ready to receive him. and
the full band of the regiment *track op •' See
the ethegrerleg hero comes." Colonel Worri.av
expressed himself highly gratified at the compli-
ment paid him. 'I he reg►ment assembled Friday
seernieg is EDif chi% order, sod were dismissed.

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