The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-05-30 00:00:00

WesTlll RATA,

The LORD CRANCSLLOR—" This case came be-
fore me oil motion on the behalf of the Noble
tiff, praying for an injunction to restrain the Noble
Defendant from levying on his estates in Ireland
for the amount of an annuity granted by him to
her, under certain conditions. It came into Court
on a bill filed by the Plaintiff against the Countess
of Westmeath, his wife, and it prayed that two in.
dentures. executed by the Plaintiff to her in the
years 1817 and 1818, might be &creed by the
Court to be cancelled; and it also vayeil, if the
Court should not think proper to order them to be
cancelled, that it would consider the undue means
they were obtained by, and decree that they should
not be acted on. The bill, after stating the mar-
riage settlement of the Noble Parties, sets out the
deed of the 17th of December 1817, which reciter,
that differences bad arisen to such a height between
the Eat' mid Countess of Westmeath that they
were hound to separate, but that she (the Countess),
by the interference of mutual friends, agreed to
continue to cohabit with the Earl. her husband, on
condition that he executed the deed, which vested
in trustees certain parts of the Noble Earl's estates
io Ireland, for the payment of 1.300/. a yrur to the
Countess, with the remainder, 1011 her decease, to
her infant daughter ; and that on the renewal sr
any ill treatment on the part of the Noble Earl.
they should cease to cohabit, and that the trustees
should raise so much money as might be agreed oft
by the mutual friends of the panics, to be paid to
the Countess; and iii case of such separation tatt-
ing place,
.that the Earl should execute a deed to
facilitate the payment, and that the children of
the marriage should be educated under the sole
care of the Countess, the Earl snaking a pro..
vision for that purpose, and the provision not
to cease on account of any sutnetinent recoti-
ciliation that might take place between the Eett
end Countess. 1 can uuderstand why this 'pity.
viso was introduced ; it was to meet the
trine which has been laid down for cases %%tits
deeds of separation have been executed, that if re-
conciliation takes place there Iva end of the deed.-
The proviso that if, on gross abuse by the
Noble Each,. a separation took place, was thrown in •
to give the Countess the power of trying the goes-
tion of cruelty in a Conn of Law or Equity,
without being obliged to go to the Spiritual Court.
The Noble Earl had thought proper,. by lauhae-
quent deed. dated in May, 1818, slier a draft of a
similar deed had beensent to a law statioweeostrich
be (the Noble Earl) destroyed, to vest certain Wilda
in Lord Cranborn and Mr. Wood; in yaw for
.99 years, as the deed expresses, At she elapses* de-
sire of the gountess; and. for die ciottlidoration of
10r. to raise the sum of 1,300/. per annual. for six
years, to be paid to the Country, wifhllie addition
of 300/. Poe the remainder or the tertri, if she shoo Id
so lang five. Ile,siovenailis dart be Nlll 1111 y tht
Countess these sunny sod that he would not inter•
fere with them after they came into her p• ssesuou ;

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