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world, On" tttlp iwL6tlo.ll be permitted to exc7-
rise hta I)lVis rellLClOri 151111,11.11 11111111'111g ally penalty
from the law. It at. the hoist of lingfand
that rJo lisd a flee 2101 h ,ppy Constitution, It mot
tome for Iter then to hliate 11 with parts of her own
subjects. Ile Bored ;IA trusted the Jay ass not
far tiktalit %diet, the of irclasiiit would be
restored to the full k-it tits of the privileges of free-
men. .T winch so many of diem woe now de-
prival. 11-concluded by
The Health% of the Huu. C. H. Hotchinson, asd the
ether Intteraittrut Metilien of the Sister !kingdom."
Mr. fluvcsismos.ll6 returoing thanks, observed.
that after the able speeches of the Gentlemen who
sat around hins, and particularly the brilliant dis-
play of talent made in the course of the evening
from the Chair. he wee stile it was quite sources- •
sore for lusts to trestrees upon them with more then
• few observation% lie laid the honour of being
present at the former celebration here of the Friends
of the Independent Livery, and would have also
been at that which had since intervened. bad •
he been in the country. He rejoiced that they had
at length succeeded is returning certainly three,
and perhaps four independent popular Members to
Parliament. who were likely to watch their interests
and assert their rights. Of the present Isrrlirweut
Itts would say little; it would be bad taste of him,
a Member of it. to depreciate or undervalue its
labours; but he must lie permitted to ray.
that there appeared to 1:1111 Isometlmig
radt-
eally wrong iii the composition of that body,
The lionoisrable Gentlemen then enlarged upon
the edventages who It the Liver) men of Lou-
don derived over oily other body of constituents,
from having their Representatives always under
their own eye, and milord to be acted upon by
their own smilimesits. lu one of the songs that had
been sung to-night. they had heard the words
" Confound their knavish trieks"—so he would
say—rout out the knaves ut house, and see whit
can be done without them. If Saint Stephen.
Chapel acre filled fly Members like those sent
by the City of London, no part of the people
of the empire would hare long to complain of
the grievances they at tomtit endure. He Im-
plored of them not to let their policy disgrace tiler
species, by proscribing a large number of their fel-
low-subject% England, in the 19th century, should
adopt a wirer and safer policy, and not suffer her-
self to be persecuted at the same time that she is
made the medium of persecuting others. To the
land of his birth he felt an affectionate attachment,
and lie deplored the evils to which she was so un-
justly nod miworthily exposed. He drew an elo-
quent picture of the state of Ireland. and hoped
the policy of England would soon see the necessity
of drawing the connexion between the two coun-
tries closer than it now was, from the injurious ope-
ration of the Penal Code.—(Applause.)
The eve g gas spent in the utmost conviviality.
Mr. WEBB, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. BROADHURST, amid
several other excellent snigers, favoured the com-
pany in the course of the evening with many of
their best songs and glees.
Th. re were nearly 300 persons present at the
dinner.

tr.,l4portoimi. A,•r Form emit: ‘1..1- 6.1 born
ligotiog .sway 0u..1.1t0100t
vocurtql by sormoi of lo.i,ong forged
and W 44.4 at Iriogth 'kir{ 1111 1111.1114 LAIC
uutr to (1911411 M to It till, 1,00111.

VlPlili ASSIZES.

IllUltsllAY, M %MAI 18.
Bejure the LORD Ciii Et: BARON, und u S lariat
Jury.

CI.F.RICAL AssAris.
TUTIN n. Fox.
Mr. SCARY FTT tamed the case on the part of the
Plaintiff. This was an i.ctiou to recover a Coin-
pessaal sou in damages for an assault, comn►tttetl
under very bingular circumstances, by the Clergy-
man m one of his pari•ltioners, in the church,
I II rill 4 the time lie was performing divine service.
The Plaintiff is a young man, residniq, in the
parish of Kirhv Sigstosi, near Northallertiiii, in the
Nord) Riding, and of which the Defeffilaist was
the Ilaving thus shortly stated the nature
of the cause, we Ahull detail the further particulars
from the ettai 1111 l ation of the witnesses.. . _ .

Mr. John lives in the parish of Kirby
Sigirtuti, of which the Rev. Mr. Fox, the Defeo&
ant, IA the Rector. IVitiiess wits ut the parish
church ou Sunday, the sth of Jolt' last, when Mr.
Fox performed the service. IVitiless sat under the
pulpit, which was on one side of the reading-tlibk ;
he saw the come into the church, accom-
panied h) two of his rioters ; the service had then
begun ; the Plaintiff having put his sosterA into ii
pew occupied by Mr.-Bell, proceeded towards the
chancel ; alien he arrived opposite to the readitig-
desk, the Defendant, who was reading the lessons,
extended Ins arms and seised the Plaintiff by the
waistcoat, and gave hiin a pull, and said "Go
back." Witness at this moment turned his lieud
round towards the congregation, and did not see
what further occurred.

Witness was cru.sx.evamitied by Mr. RAISE at
con•ideruble length. Ile stated in los cross-exa-
mination, that the chancel had boated), been the
place where the singers had seats, and which the
Rector, u shun tone hcfure this traosaction took
place, kid converted Into pews for the use of his
own lankly. Witness did nut see the Defendant
extend his arm to wake any signal lii the Plaintiff
to go bock, except when he seized low by the
waistcoat.

Richard Sherwood, churt liwarden at Kirby Sign.
ton, fully entail toed the preceding evidence.
After the Learned Judi. had ',kindly re-dated
the evidence, the July found a verdict fur the
Plaintiff—Dainages 15/.
DOE, on the demise of BLEGBoßoucii,

KILBURNE.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by
the lessor of the Plaintiff, Maria Blegborough, to
Ohtani possession of an estate, ►ituate within the
parish cf Kuky Mil, otherwise Kirby Ravens-
county of York. The demise was
laid oil the I,ith of September, 1818.
It appeared in evidence, that Francis Carter be-
ing, ill the year 1810, possessed of the estate in
question, mortgaged the same to the lessor of the
Plaintiff; by an indenture of demise of the 14th
September, 1810, for 3,000 years, to secure the re-
payment of 1,000!. and legal interest. That the
estate was 'previously to, sun on the day of the date
of the mortgage security, in Carter's occupation,
but afterwards the assignees of Carter (he becom-
ing insolvent) sold the estate to the Defendant,
Gibson Kilbuine, who was put into possession by
the assignees, and was in "'obsession on the day of
the demise. It was further proved, that on the
Illth September, 1818, a demand was made to the
I)elendant, for payment of the principal and inte-
rest then due, and Miss Blegborough would, upon
payment of the same, and all expenses, assign her
estate in the pretnibes; that the Defendant replied,
" I have nothing to do with the interest; I have
paid my purchase-money into the bank at three per
cent. ; Miss Bleghorough is welcome to receive
such interest as the bank will allow ; 1 will pay
none." The Defendant's Counsel (Williams) con-
tended that the Defendant had purchased Carter's
interest, and could prove a tender of principal and
interest in June, lAIB, but caged BO witnesses.
The Judge directed the Jury to find a verdict
for the lessor of the Plaintiff which they did accord-

SUSSEX LENT ASSIZES.

HOR6HAM. SA FURDAY, MARCH 27.
FORGERY.

ytlia Astell, cyprian, was indicted
for having in her possession a forged Bank of &g-
-lomd note, fur the paiment of 5/. without lawful
excuse, knowing it to he forged. The Bank of
England had preferred an indictment against her
for a capital offeuce, iu 'rutin% a forged mite
knowing it to be forged ; lint, in consideration of
her sex, nod the peculiar circumstances of her
case, it was thought advisable to eh:indult that
charge, and rrocerd upon the indictment for the
motor offence of forged note iu her pas-
*C%l.loll, without lawfrl excuse. Her impearerice
was very striking; she was in full dress; her hair
in the first style of covered with a hand-
some black veil, and the rest of her costume suited
more to the gaiety of a ball-room, than the awful
solemnity of a court of criminal justice; iihe was
youog and beautiful, and her carriage marked the
demeanour of A person iomustomed to polished
life. On coming to the bar,
Mr. ANDREWS, her Counsel, applied to the in-
dulgence of the Court on her behalf to be per-
mitted to retract her plea of Noe and plead
Guilty to the minor offence.
The Counsel for the Crown consented to this
proceeding, and accordingly a plea of Guilty was
recorded.

DURHAM ISSIZILS.

Mr. Justice BAT LET. in passing the sentence of
the law, addressed the Prisoner in an impressive
mariner, and told her, that it was by no means of
course that the Bank of England had forborne to
prosecute her for a capital offence, and it was
owing to their indulgence that she had beets per-
'flitted to ['had to the minor utfeoce. It was their
duty, before they made such a concession, to inves-
tigate the cire unistances of her ease, and having
found that she was a lit object of mercy, they .
had forborne going to the extremity in winch
they would have been warranted by law,—
A young wothan of her appearance being brought
to the bar to receive 'evidence fur such an °pence,
was a circuniatance calculated to excite the deepest
regret, as there was but too much reason to believe,
that she bad been the elope of more artful offenders.
Ile hoped that reflection would bring her to a con-
trite sense of her past crimes, and he trusted that
she would endeavour hereafter to conduct herself
properly. The sentence of the law was, that she
should be triUstported fur the term of fourteen
years.
The Prisoner' was deeply affected, and retired
froth the bite isi a pitiable state of wretchedness.—
We understand that this unhappy (sera lure was the
daughter of resptctable parents at Horsham ; that
during the residence of the military in that neigh-
bourhood she had been seduced, and taken op to
London, where slit lived in a state of concubinage
with her seducer, by whose means she acluired a
knowledge of musk, and after she had been aban-
doned, she got an ilsigngerhent as a singer It Ast-
ley's Amhht lieutre, %rttle she performed for a. con-
siderable time malt appl ewe. Since then she had
fallen into a muse discregivible mode of Ivelihood,
and latterly had ikon lisiog ender the protection
of a pre tligate horse jockey, at whose instigation, in
rime of youth and 111151., al ariestrieee, she
subjected herself to the iguennioious punishuseut of

THURSDAY, 3IARCH 25.

Thomas Gamble, guard of the Shields and Sun-
derland moil, was charged on three indictments ;
the list and second with having passed or uttered
a forged ur counterfeit note, purporting to be of•
the Bank of England, and of the value of one
pound; and the third indictment charged him
with having the note in his possession, knowing the
same to be forged. To the greater offence lie
pleaded Not Gosilty, to the lesser Guilty.
Mr. COUKSON, as Counsel for the Batik of Eng.
land, said, that as the Nrisouer had plearltd guilty
to the minor offence, of knowingly having a forged
note in his possession, lie was instructed not to
offer any evidence ill support of the other charges,
which wire punishable with death.
The Learned JUDGE, iu pas•tug sentence, ob-
served, that the offence to which the Prisoner had
just pleaded guilty, subjected him to fourteen
years transportation beyond the sea•, agreeably to
an especial Act of Parliament, and the pilot/diluent
could not be mitigated. lied lie not pursued the
course he had adopted, and been loni.►l guilty of
uttering a forged note, sentence of death tut have
been passed upon him.

L. 401 INTELLIGEACE.

COtitT 011 CIIANCLItY, I igeoues.bm,

T 1; MAY, MARL II JO.

lath, FrAILT VOIR TLIIIr EST mad Lord STEWART.
li.r ARTHUR Pmuirnr, ■t the sitting of the Court. moved,
on the part of the Countess of Antrim, that on the Mut riage
Set thesientx as ■pnrevrd of by Ibe Muster in this case, being
executed by the 'groper parties, co much of his Lordship's
outer of the 15111 of Joly last, as went to restrain the [pat-
riot" between Lord Nu•wert and Indy E V.Tetionest, should
be rtisch3rzed Ile understood the mot.. 4 was not optee..d.
Mr. Men 11x .ald, h. ods Counsel 1... 11 rot. Tay!ur ; tie
not appear 1.• 0pp0...14 die motion, but the poi p,,se ur
drehrilig. ti :1 his client's objectivii. to the masa tage acre
molt. ',able

1-ou.o Cii.tucci,Log—" Take your motion, Sir
Authui."

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, 1.111C0L,1 S.INN,

TUCSDAY, MARCIII

111 Me natter of TAvLoß's CHARITY.
Mr. MILL stated, that this was the Petition of ILe Rev.
Edward Mansfield, Krctor of the Pariah of Bristol, in the
Oisiolly of Gloucester, pra)lng that it might he referred to
the Master to approve of four trustees to be appointed lry the
Vestry of the Parish, to receive and administer the Charity
Fund, 'raider the following circitinstairces :—The testator be-
queathed certain land, to the Parish, for the support of cer-
tain poor persons, Which he vested in trusteee, but forgot to
provide for the •ppoinitneot of other truster a at the decease
of those he had appoint. d. A Mr. Clicker was the only
surviving ti mat e under the i. stator's will, and lie was de-
sirous of relinquishing his trout.
M►. Cuutm I for the 'owl of kin of the Ire.
tator, said lie was undructed to consent to the prayer of the
Petition. . _ _

The VICE CIIANCFLLOR—" lit it be referred to the Mae.
ter, cud at the ample t .. let a t.ticunt: be laid befure hint fur
the condtit tin( ut the Charity."
Prayer ut the PCIIIII.III go 41111 d.

MONDAY, MARCH 29.
CAUSE PETITIONS.

♦LG/KNOW TOOL. a• Want and a !Yard of Court, by

his next Fried, his rATIIER r HAM and vicrruca.

Mr. (.tome stated, this was the Petition of the father of
the infant, prating that she 'Wendell's, the trustees and
guardians of the ialfitut, might be shricied to enlarae the
allowance fur his (the Petitioner's) support, under the fol.
lowing circumstances:—The Petitioner married Harriet, the
nioiher of the infant, who MRS possessed of a large turtuue
in her own right, which, on her marriage with the retitioner,
was settled on her and her children. Harriet, the wifeolied,
and the infant was the uuly issue of that marriage. After
the decease of hi, mother, the Court had appointed the De-
fendants his trustees and guaranties, and directed that the
sum of 8501. a year should be allowed fur the maintenance
and education of the infant, out of which sum the Defen-
dants paid the Petitioner 350/. per annum, for his own sup-
port. He (the Learned Counsel) made the present applica-
tion to have that sum increased, on the same principle that
the Lord Chancellor acted in lunatic cases, to give the
lunatic an ample allowance to enable him to support those
whittle had a 'sutural right to maintain. Then, as lie Pett.
ti (((( er was the parent uf the infant, it Via the natural duty
of the latter to support him. The Petition stated what lie
(Mr. Cooper) did nut think bore on the present case—that
the Petitioner, on executing the marriage settlement, was
not aware that he hail parted with his life interest in the
fortune of his wife. Under those considerations, hr trusted
that his HORORI would grant the prayer of the Petition.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR—" The principle that is acted
on in the MICR of lunacy is grounded on equity, to entails.
the lunatic to kuppurt those that airs of 'were would oldiTe
him to du, if lie was of d mind. Put where is I:.e
equity in what the Petition prate fur ?—'flie Court allows
6501. per annum for the education and maintenance of the
infant, mud the Dr Pedants wit of that sum pay the Peti-
tioner 3501. per annum for his own support. This eel-
taiuly is most liberal on the part of the Defendants, parti-
cularly as I find the Court dismissed the Petitioner from
being the gnat dem uf the iiifant."
Mr. VI INGFIELD, Counsel fur the Defendants, said, that
his clients had not only acted with the greatest I.herality,
but with the greatest forbealance towards the Petitioner.
It would he, however, fur them nose to consider, after this
application, whether they ought nut to curtail the allow-
ance to the Petitioner. . .

Tlu VICF-CIIANCaI.LOII—r' It is a must ungracious Peti-
tion. It ought siestr to have been prrscuted. 1 Ottawa
dismiss it"

FRI EN DIN SOCIETY, CIIEIITSEY.

Mr HORNZ stated, this was the Pi tition of a committee
of a friendly society held at the Crown Inn at Cher tsey. It
was founded by Art of Parliament, for the porpo.e of as.
Rioi lug its members in cues of casualties. lu the month of
September, 1817, there was a general meeting of the soci-
ety, for the purpose of appointing a trustee in the room of
Sir Joseph Mawbey, deceased, and Mr. tiObell Porter was
chosen ; since which time an application had heel, made by
the stewards of the society to the trustees for y, which
they refused, slitting,, that they would not part with any
looney without they were compelled by an order of that
Court. On whirls a general meeting was called and stew
trusters appointed, by a majority of 130 to 13, said the
petitioners were •ppointril a committee to take proceed.
lags against the former trustees. to oblige them to give up
their trust. What be, therefore, had to ask of his Honour
was, that lie would direct the Gilmer trustees to hand titer to
the new trustees the host money of the society.

The Vica•CitaNcetton—‘• State the Act of Parliament ?"
Mr. HORNE—" I am nut furnished with it i therefore 1 our
unable to state the rules of the mien ty "
Mr. BANKS, Counsel for the old trustees, Hid, that the ob-
ject of appointing the new trustees was
Mr. HORNE-4 My Learned Friend might an well have
stated the 1111i1111, of the illegal object. The new trustees
were appointed for the purpose of preventing feasting."
The VIC E-CIIAN CULL6Iit Are nut the new trusties le-
gally appount it'!"
Mr Hoatre—u The Act of Parliament has just been put
into my build, arid I nee they are nit ; fur the Art says
they must he toranimunnly chums, and tiny arse shown
only by a majority. With your Honour's' permission I will
withdraw the Petition. and 1 dare say the Court will not
bear of the case
Pelittoa withdrawn.

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We are repte.ted to iorttroo our Reader* that
hle!,rs. Coo PIAt 411,4 Siirgosiov, of ch..rtnit.-
Goat Chnrkiite.Strei I, tbs. lifliais.ronit, have, in
eons. queure of their extent.ive piaci anil for the %cents-
noolution tit patients ut the Wei., End ut the Tuts it, etiablithed
a Medical ltuurd io Wutalsitwk•street, Oxford-street, • few
doors Isom Boaihstreet, where • Physician of 40 years expt ri-
t ace, and a Surgeon of great eminence, ri s;ile, and where
041 thr Board •Iternstrly attend the *hole of shuns ale
. .

Alembsis of the Royal Colleges. That Thousands have been
resiored to perfect health by then united talents is iiniver-
toed SliDlyt.rins'a bounds conclude limning on Misnitlii
sally acknowledged, many of volmin bail hi coo discharged
next ; since the sealant commenced they have kil:cd auJ
from Hospitals, and otherwise improperly treated.—Tlwy
accounted for 041 fuses in ttl days being out,
Oft consulted at W Nitwit-house, Wiiiirlootock-street, from
An Inquest was held at she sign of the Blank Dug, Droorys, Eight 111 the Morning until Eight at Night : and at the
lane, on the 'cooly of Peter Puirliley,,a young moo, who, it Medical Board, Char, biste-house, Placktriarsseortil, (flow
•pprwreil, was in the habil of visiting a ?toting woman re- Twelve till Eight iii the Lvvalwg —Michaalea have *dales
siding in Strwart`s-rents, Drui v-lane, fur winos, lie hail a re- gratis every Evening froth Six till Eight, at buth busses,
gar& On Saturday rails Bing's, he paid her lois last visit, whin and 4,11 51114414, MOIIIIIIirg nsitil Twelve n'Cluck.—N.B.
they cfaiarrellvd, 'mill the ilteraiell was id x violent passion. .Meseta COOPER sad (U. beg to 'Awry', the, have aw
The female quit ii ol the 'twig, and his ii,".4",,i Hussy bigs• connexion with any New Coucein ; therefore all letters are
is lion the bed aud hoped boy 'night In found dead OM bitf I fir be directed to Clisilotte-linourr, adjoining Blackfoiare-ruad.
mural. She terminal, away about ten ;Muffles, and on kg ' Lrritires en Rupture., red slim nu the To i aliment of a
entering her apartment, she found the deceased I).lig 644 I Ce maim Disease, will be &livered a; !•clli boosts every Spins
on the 09ur.--iverdiet—Died by ne risitatiwil Geil. I awl Autualv
i