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LOP' INTELLIGENCE.

":OIJATOFCHisNICERY. Loacosse.-two gait, kessi. 11.
PHILIPS,. lIIADAN4 DC LUNIVILLI.
Ti,'. was an aoplicitinn by S'f SAM 1.10111,1 EV,
on thepart of the Plintiff, in support of as i- jii-m-
-tion t restrain U•e Defendant from proceraing to
enter j•idgment u,,0.1 a Warrant of Afiorne toe
40001. in the course of which a variety of sin • i!ar
and etc ranid:nat 1 cocumsrances were disci ~ed.
From the sratem • t of the Learned C"tin.el, it
appeared the Madame de Lon rifle was a French
Lady -I some notoriety. acid d sierilsed • . b. 4 per-
son :if family in that cluntty, and of or.. it p-rarrne
al accomplishments ; but from the ;esinerai R-vole-
tim throughout all ranks of penpk in th., kingdom.
about ISO 2. she kept a coffee•house in far s I
die Plaintiff, Mr. Philips, was a fishmonger in Care
nahy Market, and, during the •htort interval of peaty
in the year 130 g, made a v;,it to Pills, where h was
introduced to, and b. came intimately acco onted
with, this lady. In the course of this intimacy, she
ferv.tnily observed, that he was thotightful and air.
dtratt. d; and she was convinced something heavy
preyed nies; hie mind;—she sought an eittplaiwinit,
and (as she assert,) food that an advance of 5.001.
• would greatly assist him in his butane's, w,ieh.
upon her statement. it appeared, he had represented
in a very 9 wrishing situation, as yielding him a
profit of 100(41. per annum. The (nitrify was ad-
vanced, and she afterwards followed hiviitoEnglendi
a house was taken in Great Cumberland Place, (the
West end of rhetown),and furnished in an elegant .nd
fashionable styles and here are parties lived tore
tiler for some rime, in the utmost harmony, and
strißest few/444; but the Lady revolted at the
idea, that auy thing of a crimi •al nature should be
thought to exist between them; it was no more
than that sort of platonic alleluia which we hear *es
often described, but is so seldom realised. During
this period, Madame de Luneirillv advanced various
sums of money to the Plaintiff. amou .ing alt.ige-
Vier to ote slim of 40001 for which she obtained
Pram him a Warrant of Attorney, as a security for
there-payment, and an iujunthon was afterwards cnne
ditio•ially grattted,ts restrain her from any law pre-
ceedmg upon such Warrant, on the grounds of i 1
Mvalldity. In the course of inquiry in this equity -Mr.
Mad. de'Luneville was called opts by interrogatoree
to answer how she became possessed of Sir c ms.-
.derable a prope-ty, as to ell.thi! her to lend the
Plain, flu) mob money in bai.k notes and sa.,l,
She sia•ed, in answer, that having at 6111" th
some time ago, she met, and bezame int re wit'
an Enylith Nnblernan, who turned cut to .e
late Lord Camelford. Soon after, and previ sto
her acquaintance with the Pianitiff, at Patis, ate
had /seen in England ; and one Jay, as she walked
through Pali Man, the fancied a pilur- of Bola-
parte, which hang up for sale at a print shop, aid
went in and pur.haseJ it. She was immccliasety
followed by a gentleman, whom she recogli-sed in
he Lord C..maltord, and th-ir ai•quaintance was
renewed in a whimsical manner. He politely
begged the piSure from her as a favour, observing,
that as be had had the pleasure of meting bee at
brussels, and other pans of the Conti:wet, he wish.
ed to keep it for her sake. She accordingly gave
him the print, and he presented her asith 501. in
batik notes. A mares iest • aster afterwards trick
place, and he gave her large soma of mm.ey at dif-
ferent times; at one time a 10iKai. bank note, at
another $OOl., until she had received (Tom hies up-
wards of 40001. in bank notes, itliot %chic!. ;he car-
ried with her to Fiance, and sill had them nn bi r
return to England, when she advanced them to the
Plaintiff:

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Sir SASIVILL Routcce contended, that in this
account the lady must have sworn erroneously ;
having stated the Warrant of Attorney to have
been executed in the year 1402 or lauS ; whereas it
was evident, from the paper mark upon which it
was written, that the paper itself was not many-
fatlured until Ido4. lie further argued npoa tl e
improbability of such a story as this lady bad
made out.
MI. KiDD, for the Defendant, ac!rnitted the dig.
culty he flit with respell to the ese, ution of the
warrant, sad the date of the paper mark ; hut, in
order to shrw that this was a Zane
_AV, transaction.
he proceeded to state, that his client had been in-
troduced to the Plaintiff, the-ugh the melium f
her apothecary at Patis. Thy in doriff had rept(
tented his bostars to be in a Bourishing slate, at d
propo.ed mai riage to her ; which never took plait
He had told her at Paris. that he had letters to fon.
Payne and Dr Priestly, whom be Would tollow to
America. The Learned Counsel said, he sticuid be
able to skew an acknowledgment of the debt, tinder
the Plaintiff's own hand writing ; for which purpose.
several lettets ern had passed between these
parties, were pri.duceil ; all of which were
written in a singular allegorical and poetic strait,.
The Plaintiff uttiformly styled himself Alot as. aa
if in the the charafter of a gardeoas, while ;he lat'y
is denominated Madame Cartier,. lie complain. tt:at
his genie. is grgag to wreck, for want of phantaa
lions, and tcquests she will send him some true.—
The fair ire consents to supply his Eden with four
trees, (which is construed as 41100 i.) but afterwards
desires to have then, back again ; ton Abase
declines doing; and, wi:h a ktna of threat, he d•
hides to some stow. which are fr.quently mentioned
in the course of the correspondence, but implying
something uointelligible to any one but the patties
themselves. •
Lord ELl:roe—ft Why, Mr. Kidd, this kind
allegory and metaphor is very unlike the psodt;c•
tion of fraisenser.
Mr. Kroh —" Yes, mt•lnr3, but Mr. Pnilips
pert as weil as a itbearroyer. ' .
Lord Etoos thought, from so mach eontradic
tion of 1.4 d., he could not iremediateiy decide
caws. but direlled an issue to be used in a Cow
olLaw, wheth!' any and what consideiation w.
given fur the Warrait of Artornei. and sento t'
same was executed? His Lord,hip also direfte.i that
the patties should dpemielves uc suannuest upon
oats.

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