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with Mr. Fox or Mr. Train! on the Itbject. Thp
`first
commonicatiol liras made to me by4hle. Felt
'on the 26th.of Novitnber; I have never Rivera oily
thing to him, nor has be required any Wog Irma
me.
Mr. Serjeaut Cross—" The is my case, my
Lords."
The Arroatteir-Gstruat. remand said, it be-
came his duty to mate. that there piss no imputa-
tion ever meant to apply throughout the whole
course of the proceedings to Mr. U ppleby —the spe-
cial pleader had merely put it upon the plea, that
the bargain was simoniscal. The Learned Serjeant
had doge do mare than justice to the exalted cha-
racter of the Bishop of 'Chester, and he believed
Mr. Fox and Mr. Trafford -were both highly re-
:apectable Gentlemen. He charged them with no
personal fraud ; but in the legal construction of the
ugreerWent, it certainly was a simonises, one, and
many honourable men had been guilty of it. The
statute of Elisabeth had been adverted to by the
Counsel on the other aide, but lie (the Attorney-
General) never pretended to insinuate that Mr.
Uppleby ever gave any money to Mr. Trafford as
a gratuity for the presentation; lie did not wish to
Moth at all on that part of the act; he did not
assert there wits any thing corrupt in the presenta-
tion ; but he did assert, shirt the purchase of the
presentation, the party being dead, or his life de-
*spatted of, NHS cull and void to all intents and par-
Poses, and the next turn of presentation fell to the
Crown. Indeed, his Learned Friend. Mr. Cross, had
admitted, that a purchase tinder such circumstances
would be simony ; hat he also inserted, that a pur-
chase might be made, although the incumbent
should theu be on his death-bed, which he (the At-
torney-General) decidedly deiiied. Mr. Cross slopes r.
eel to argue. that if the spark of life in the incum-
bent was not completely extinct, there was a c po-
tency to purchase; but it was no such thing. lti the
case of Seldon and Brett, Winches fteporis, p. 69,
it was adjudged, that the grant of the next avoid-
slice, when the incumbent was sick in his bed and
ready to die, was simony. The Attorney-General
insisted that the contract in the present case was
simonise:Al—that it war made with the full know.
ledge of bath buyer and seller. The principal
question for the Jury then would be, whether Mr.
Bradshaw was in imminent danger when the con-
tract was made ? and this was pretty well ewer-
seined from the evidence of the Physician, Dr.
Hull. Could there be a doubt of his danger ?
Se.jetint Caoss—" The issue is, not whether
he was iii danger, bat whether his life was actually
despaired of ?"

ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Very good ; there are
some labiles with it, and some without it ; and it
were absurd to cavil on what was merely special
pleuding verbiage. Tile going to Leamington was
a pretty strong proof of the anticipation of the
p:nrti•a on this point ; they were cominced Mr.
Bradshaw could not live many bouts, and never was
there a harder ►ace between four horses and death
in this world! Mr. Cooke satisfactorily proved that
lie had a conveyance of the living actually prepared
and testily engrossed, and, with this in his pocket,
lie travelled at the rate of 11 or 12 miles an hour,
■ud told Mr. Trafford that lseing a Catholic, the
presentation would devolve Oa one of the Uaiver-
allies, unless the bargain was then concluded. All
the witnesses had proved there all. a great danger,
and he, the Learned Attoruey-Gentral, thought the
case was proved to a demonstration. Why had not
the opposite Counsel called the two Surgeons, who
were in Court, to speak to the facts? they dared
not to do so, because their testimony would serve
to confirm his case.
Mr. PARK—A patron of a living may grant the
advosison for a iCIRIS of years--
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—And that point we will
debate alter dinner.
The CHIEF JUSTICE did not think it necessary
to slim up the evidence to the Jury—the case prin-
cipally rested on the fact, whether Mr. Bradshaw
was in extreme danger ?
Mr.Cnoss—There is another, my Lord ; whether
his life was actually despaired of.
After a long consultation, the following issues
were agreed to be pat to the Jury :
let, Whether Mr. Trafford and Mr. Fox, or
either of them, knew that 'Mr. Bradshaw was in
great danger at the time of the execution of this
deed Verdict— 7 hat they both knew it.

2J, Whether Mr. Bradshaw was afflicted with
a mortal disease, and us extreme danger ? Verdict
—Yes.

3d, Whether Mr. Trafford and Mr. Fox, or
either of them, believed that Mr. Bradshaw's life
was despaired of at the ►ime of the execution of the
deed ? Verdict—flat his lift was despaired of by
both of them.
4111, Whether the life of Mr. Bradshaw was ac-
tually desixiirrd of at the time of the execution of
the deed ? Verdict—That it was.

The points, that the conveyance was intended as
the means of coovrying the next presentation, and
that only ; and that Mr. Upplrby was not privy, to
he added in the SpectalAteadict. Verdicts were
1611 entered fur the Bishop of Chester on those

Last wed:, u vessel was launched at New Quay,
Catiligusishire, when about 300 people went üboard,
and were taken a mile from ►bore, where the vessel
anchored. l'hutte on board were under the neces-
sity of retur gto land in a small Lost,
being overladen, was cui.sised, and unfortunately
three isms and a woman sunk to rise no snore !

At the Pembrokeshire Gri-lai Srioions, Wtlliutrt
Roblin, o small firmer neor iiiiverforthrest. mod
who olio kept an isle-I se, was found guilty of
the wilful mord. r of D•VIES. a young Mall
who formerly lived with him us* servant, but had
left his place in COloseiluture of the bad habits of
the Prisoner, and hi. 11. quell :mil beat-
ing his wile. In she mouth of Sepieinher la•t;the
&craned and his new employer, T. THOMAS. were
returning home front their work, rod oveitook
ItoptlN on the road, near his own bowie ; when a
violent quarrel arose between the liiirotter and the
deceased, which Irioonalrd in the former peocur-
ing h inert.' from his own house, with which lie shot
I)ssits through the firma, who died of the wound
shout three weeks afterwards. The frets appeared
so clear against the l'iisoiler, that the Jury pro-
tiounced bin Greilly ; and on Monday last ht
fend she ea fill penalty of the Isw. '